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Lovers and Other Strangers (Five Comedies)

A series of one act plays including Brenda and Jerry in a planned seduction gone wrong, Johnny and Wilma in a marriage so long that they can't remember who starts what. With Mike and Susan, on the eve their wedding, he's getting cold feet and she must gently talk him down the aisle. In the last play, Bea, Frank, Richie and Joan, a long-married couple who have fought for over thirty years try to save their son's marriage by confessing to their own failures.
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Miss Julie

Miss Julie has power over Jean because she is upper-class. Jean has power over Miss Julie because he is male and uninhibited by aristocratic values. The count, Miss Julie's father, has power over both of them since he is a nobleman, an employer, and a father. Over the course of the play, Miss Julie and Jean battle for control, which swings back and forth between them.
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Moonchildren

The play explores the rootless 60's generation of free-love and protest. Five male college seniors and their housemates have no purpose in their lives. They march against the status quo and taunt the "pigs". One feels genuine emotion at his mother's death from cancer, one romance dies and another is aborted. Ultimately, they realise their lives are as empty as the establishment they protest so vehemently against.
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No Fear Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

Viola has been shipwrecked in a violent storm off the coast of Illyria; in the process she has lost her twin brother, Sebastian. She disguises herself as a boy and assumes the name Cesario for protection. Thus disguised, Viola becomes a page in the service of Orsino, the Duke.
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Now There’s Just The Three of Us

Frank and Perry are roommates who are coming into manhood and focused on losing their virginity. The centrepiece is a large poster of their hero and bad boy, Jimmy Dean, which neither of them measures up to. Yet, when a bad-boy stranger barges in uninvited, a cascade of events occurs, which changes their lives.
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Of Mice and Men

Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with grand delusions have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place. When accidental disaster strikes thanks to Lennie, George is faced with a moral question: how should he deal with Lennie before the ranchers find him and take matters into their own hands.
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Oscar and Felix

America's comic mastermind has updated his classic comedy: The Odd Couple, bringing the trials and tribulations of Felix Unger and Oscar Madison to the present day. Those who love the original version will laugh all over again at the classic characters in an all-new setting.
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Our Town

The story follows the small town of Grover's Corners through three acts: "Daily Life," "Love and Marriage," and "Death and Eternity." Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre, die.
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Proposals

This elegiac memory play delightfully recalls the last time the Hines family gathered at their retreat in the Poconos. The summer of 1953 brings romantic entanglements that coalesce one idyllic afternoon.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's eye-view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world were echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.
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