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Far Away

In the first scene of Far Away, a girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar. By the end of the play, several years later, the whole world is at war -  including birds and animals. The girl has returned to her aunt’s and is taking refuge. She describes her journey. There were piles of bodies and if you stopped to find out there was one to by coffee or one killed by pins, they were killed by heroin, petrol, chainsaws, hairspray, bleach, foxgloves, the smell of smoke was where we were burning the grass that wouldn't serve.
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THE PILLOWMAN

With echoes of Stoppard, Kafka, and the Brothers Grimm, THE PILLOWMAN centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the gruesome consent content of his short stories and their similarities to a series of child murders. The result is an urgent work of surgical bravura and an unflinching examination of the very nature and purpose of Art.
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COCK

When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out… Mike Bartlett’s punchy new story takes a playful, candid look at one man's sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realize you have a choice.
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Romeo and Juliet

As Romeo and Juliet come from opposing families, their love must be concealed until after their marriage. But Romeo has been banished for avenging the death of Mercutio and, despite the well-meaning intervention of Friar Laurence, fate ensures that theirs is a wedding that will never take place.
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Reasons To Be Pretty

In Reasons To Be Pretty, Greg's tight social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remarks about a female co-worker’s pretty face and his own girlfriends Steph’s lack thereof get back to Steph. But that's just the beginning. Greg’s best buddy Kent, and Kent’s wife, Carly, also enter into the picture, and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. As their relationships crumble, the four friends are forced to confront a sea of deceit, infidelity, and betrayed trust in the journey to answer that oh-so-American question, How much is pretty worth?
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THE GOAT or Who is Sylvia?

In the play, Martin - a hugely successful architect who has just turned fifty- leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son. But when he confides to his best friend that he also in love with a goat (named Sylvia), he sets in motion events that will destroy his family and leave his life in tatters. A shockingly entertaining Parable that plumbs the deepest questions of social constraints on the individual expression of love, The goat is also the consummate theatrical expression of the themes and ideas that have made Albee ‘’one of the few great living American dramatists.’’  
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Chinglish

Chinglish is a hilarious comedy about the challenges of doing business in a country whose language - and underlying cultural assumptions - can be worlds apart from those of the West. The play tells the adventures of Daniel, an American business-everyman from the Midwest, who hopes to establish his family's sign-making business in China, only to learn what is lost and found in translation.
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Pulp Fiction

Winner of Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Connes Film Festival, Pulp Fiction exploded on to the screen in 1994 and transformed the direction of contemporary cinema. This trio and masterfully interwoven crime stories is witty, gritty and shamelessly violent, displaying Tarantino's visceral approach to character and plot. Tarantino has spawned a whole host of wannabes in the wake of this, the defining movie of the decade. But none has demonstrated the elegant style of compassion that make his scripts so compellingly readable.
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13 by Shanley

A collection of plays The Big Funk, Savage in Limbo, Beggars in The House of Plenty, Women of Manhattan, Danny and The Deep Blue Sea, Italian American Reconciliation, Welcome to The Moon, The Red Coat, Down and Out, A Lonely Impulse of Delight, Out West, Let Us Go Out Into The Starry Night, and The Dreamer Examines His Pillow.
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Selected Plays 1984-1987

The plays in this volume, which compliments Selected Plays 1963-1983, are Largo Desolato, Temptation and Redevelopment in versions by Tom Stoppard, George Theiner and James Saunders respectively. Their themes are freedom of thought, Faustian opportunism and town planning as metaphors of life in Eastern Europe before the collapse of Communism, all handled with their author's characteristic wit and irony, and written before he was translated from a prison to the highest office of state.
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A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays

Tennessee William's sensuous, atmospheric plays transformed the American stage with their passion, exoticism and vibrant characters who rage against their personal demons and the modern world. In A Streetcar Named Desire fading southern belle Blanche Dubois finds her romantic illusions brutally shattered; The Glass Menagerie portrays an introverted girl trapped in a fantasy world; and Sweet Bird of Youth shows how we are unable to escape 'the enemy, time'.
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Waiting for Godot

In Waiting for Godot, two wandering tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait by a lonely tree, to meet up with Mr. Godot, an enigmatic figure in a world where time, place and memory are blurred and meaning is where you find it. The tramps hope that Godot will change their lives for the better. Instead, two eccentric travellers arrive, one man on the end of the other's rope. The results are both funny and dangerous in this existential masterpiece.
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