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A View From the Bridge

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
The play is set in 1950s America, in an Italian American neighbourhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It employs a chorus and narrator in the character of Alfier
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Days of Wine and Roses

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
Joe Clay is a rising young public relations executive when he meets Kirsten Arnesen, a pretty secretary, at a business party. Joe and Kirsten are both ambitious, and they are on the road to success when they fall in love and marry. Soon after, however, Joe coaxes Kirsten to begin drinking with him on a regular basis. Eventually, they are both dependent on alcohol. Their marriage deteriorates, and their lives spiral into disaster, as a result
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Death of a Salesman

Category: Plays
Genre: Tragedy
The story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness.
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The Crucible

Category: Plays
Genre: Tragedy
The story focuses upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife's arrest for witchcraft. The farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie and it is here that the monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. The farmer, instead of saving his wife, finds himself also accused of witchcraft and ultimately condemned with a host of others
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Cross Country

Category: Plays
Genre:
Seven one-act plays, set in a variety of locales all over the world. The collection includes the following plays: Clara and the Gambler, Class of '77, Life After Elvis, Money Talks, The Quality of Boiled Water, Road Trip and Shore Leave.
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Room Service

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
A nimble-witted producer, living on credit with several actors in a Broadway hotel, is desperately in need of a good script. He finds one, and, by great good luck, he also finds an angel with $15,000. During a hectic few days, the producer plays hide-and-seek with the angel who wants to withdraw his financial support, manages to outwit creditors, and at the very last moments puts over his play in spite of the most ludicrous and unexpected obstacles.
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The Rainmaker

Category: Plays
Genre: ComedyRomantic
Set in a drought-ridden rural town in the West in Depression era America, the play tells the story of a pivotal hot summer day in the life of spinsterish Lizzie Curry and her all male family. Languishing under the devastating drought, Lizzie's family worry about her marriage prospects more than about their dying cattle. A charming confidence trickster named Starbuck arrives, promising to bring rain in exchange for $100. His arrival sets off a series of events that enable Lizzie to see herself in a new light
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
A British couple are struggling to save their marriage whilst trying to raise their only child, a small girl with cerebral palsy. She uses a wheelchair and is unable to communicate. Caring for her has occupied nearly every moment of her parents' lives since her birth, taking a heavy toll on their marriage. Sheila, her mother, gives Josephine as much of a life as she can while Bri wants the child institutionalised and has begun to entertain chilling fantasies of killing himself and Josephine.
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Night, Mother

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
The play opens with Jessie calmly telling Mama that by morning she will be dead, as she plans to commit suicide that very evening (she makes this revelation all while nonchalantly organising household items and preparing to do her mother's nails). The subsequent dialogue between Jessie and Mama slowly reveals her reasons for her decision, her life with Mama, and how thoroughly she has planned her own death, culminating in a disturbing yet unavoidable climax.
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Ruined

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
A haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war. Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life?
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Golden Boy

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
The play focuses on Joe Bonaparte, whose dream of becoming a violinist could become a reality when prizefight promoter Roxy Gottlieb offers to sponsor him as a boxer. He finds himself torn between the lure of big money and the distinct possibility of injuring his hands, thereby destroying his musical career. Among those offering him advice are his Italian immigrant father, his manager Tom Moody, and Tom's girlfriend Lorna Moon, with whom Joe falls in love.
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