β Scribed by Richard Nelson
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Goodnight Children Everywhere
"Richard Nelson's new play announces itself almost as if it were Chekhovian . . . the play, like all plays of discovery and purgation, has a translucency and a density that nag, hurt and heal."--London Sunday Times
New England
"Smart, sharp, acridly funny . . . in the sweetest of all ironies, it's an American writer at the peak of his form who has given London's RSC the major new play that has eluded them all year."--Variety
Some Americans Abroad
"A sequel to The Innocents Abroad , Mark Twain's caustic view of pretentious Americans abroad: both works indict the well-educated American middle-class for its supine and superficial relationship to Old World culture."--New York Times
Two Shakespearean Actors
"Nelson's provocative account of the deadly rivalry between two great 18th-century actors."--Variety
Franny's Way
"Boundaries warp and melt in the dense...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Anthology of eight plays by Raymond J. Barry. - Once in Doubt - Back Home - Park Encounter - MotherβSon - Back When Back Then - Foul Shots - Pornographic Panorama - A Piece of Cake / Raymond J. Barry is a veteran of both screen and stage work. In theatre, he began with such legendary companies as th
With a Foreword by the Author _"Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even with the business of moving people from room to room. I was more interested in the sound of people talking to each other,
"These shockingly insightful stories, riddled with breathtaking observation, are also, frequently, laugh out loud funny. Wisdom and hilarity are such a gorgeous couple, and Miriam Cohen makes the absolute most of this pairing. Evocative of Lorrie Moore at her sharpest best, Cohen's is still an entir
"Nearly everything about David Adjmi's _Stunning_ has an original ring to it, from the setting . . . to the brassy bleat of the dialogue." -_Time Out New York_ This volume of distinctive work includes _Stunning_ , set in an insular Syrian Jewish community, where a teenage bride's world is disrupted
Can someone honestly love a person whom they have deceived for thirty years? This is the central question behind _Wrecks_ , Neil LaBute's latest foray into the dark side of human nature. Meet Edward Carr: loving father, successful businessman, grieving widower. In this concise powerhouse of a play,
This volume combines some of Craig Lucas' best known work, including *Reckless* ("a bittersweet fable for our time"βFrank Rich, *The New York Times*) and *Blue Window* ("...the clarity of a Mozart quintet. And it is faultlessly spun."βDan Sullivan, *The Los Angeles Times*) with his newest play, *Str