β Scribed by David Mamet
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In these two moving early plays, David Mamet displays the humor, sensitivity, and ear for language that have made him one of the most celebrated playwrights in American theater today.
Reunion depicts the awkward, tender meeting between a father and a daughter drawn together by their loneliness after twenty years of separation. Their cautious small talk, filled with evasion and clichΓ©, gradually exposes the terrifying isolation in which they live, and ultimately, their great need for each other.
In the short vignette Dark Pony, a father tells a favorite bedtime story to comfort his young daughter as they drive home late at night. A foray into the realm of legend, the story of a young Indian brave and his trusty horse, Dark Pony has been called βa lovely, tiny moment of a play" by Julius Novick of The Village Voice.
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The Final Conflict...The Last Deadly Kiss **Elena** Now she rises from the dead to recreate the powerful vampire trio. **Stefan** Summoned by Elena, he keeps a promise to her and fights the most terrifying evil he's ever faced. **Damon** Joining the brother he once called enemy, Damon battles
The Final Conflict...The Last Deadly Kiss **Elena** Now she rises from the dead to recreate the powerful vampire trio. **Stefan** Summoned by Elena, he keeps a promise to her and fights the most terrifying evil he's ever faced. **Damon** Joining the brother he once called enemy, Damon battles
**From a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the twentieth-century drama that was called "the finest verse play since the Elizabethans" (*The New York Times*).** This modern verse play by the author of *The Waste Land*, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and other modern masterpieces
Dare To Play (Dare Nation, Book 3)
Elena rises from the dead and awakens the vampire brothers, Stefan and Damon, to help her save her beloved town from an inexplicable evil.
"Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about," says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson's plays, _Hellhound on My Trail_ and _Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames_.The character could be speaking for his creator, because human imperfection is