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The Country Girl

The hard-drinking Frank Elgin, is a once-popular Broadway star whose glory days have passed. When director Bernie Dodd gives Elgin a role in his new musical, he must also deal with the actor's sour and ever-present wife, Georgie, who Dodd believes is the cause of her husband's failure. However, as Dodd spends more time around Georgie, the truth about her husband becomes clear.
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Waiting for Lefty

Consisting of a series of related vignettes, the entire play is framed by the meeting of cab drivers who are planning a labour strike
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The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics and misfits who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams
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Look Back In Anger

The play is about an angry young man, Jimmy Porter, who looks back because he has so little incentive to look ahead. In Jimmy Porter's boiling resentment at not being able to find himself in his own generation, he makes life impossible for those he most cherishes. Living with Jimmy in a poor attic apartment is his wife, Alison. A friend, Cliff, is a no-man's land upon which some of their pain can be visited.
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Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them

Three kids: Kenny, his sister Edith, and their friend Benji, are all but abandoned on a farm in remotest Middle America. With little adult supervision, they feed and care for each other, making up the rules as they go. But when Kenny's and Benji's relationship becomes more than friendship, and Edith shoots something she really shouldn't shoot, the formerly indifferent outside world comes barging in whether they want it to or not.
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Topdog/Underdog

The play chronicles the adult lives of two African American brothers, Lincoln and Booth, as they cope with women, work, poverty, gambling, racism, and their troubled upbringings.
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Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?

The story is a racially charged drama about teen drug addicts at a rehabilitation center, located on an island in a river bordering a large industrial city.nnAn English teacher tries to make a difference in his students' lives. He encounters barriers in trying to do thisu2014the same barriers created by the system that hinders the addicts' development and keeps them coming back
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Betrayal

A quartet of strangers in a sexual square dance in which partners are constantly swapped, caught between desire and betrayal.
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The Homecoming

In an old and slightly seedy house in North London there lives a family of men: Max, the aging, crude patriarch, his ineffectual brother Sam and two of Max's three sons, both unmarried- Lenny, a small-time pimp and Joey, who dreams of success as a boxer. Into this sinister abode comes the eldest son Teddy, now a successful professor of philosophy in America and his wife Ruth who is to meet the family for the first time leading up to insidiously bizarre accusations and proposals by the men to Ruth
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Eight Plays by Ovidia Yu

Ovidia Yu dissects all things female from breasts to virginity, motherhood to lesbian love and lays them bare in this omnibus collection of her finest works, including The Woman In A Tree, Three Fat Virgins, Playing Mothers, Love Calls, Breasttissues, Life Choices, The Silence of The Kittens, Hitting (on) Women.
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