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Hedda Gabler

Ibsen's most beguiling antiheroine is given a new twist in Jon Robin Baitz's acclaimed adaptation of Hedda Gabler: She's no longer the chilly, inscrutable manipulator but a woman with, as the New York Times put it, a context and a persuasive raison Ibsen's classic play here emerges with renewed vitality and newfound dramatic resonance.
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Bus Stop

In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travellers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse, a twenty-one-year-old cowboy, the proprietor of the cafe, the bus driver, a middle-age scholar, and a young girl who works in the cafe.
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Picnic

The play takes place on Labor day Weekend in the joint backyards of two middle-aged widows. Set in a small town in Kansas, Picnic details the lives of Americans, from hopeful widows and embittered spinster to idealistic teenagers and restless wanderers.
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The Dark Side at the Top of the Stairs

The play centers on Rubin Flood, who loses his salesman job. While searching for a new job, he must deal with his wife, Cora, who shuns intimacy and mistakes his joblessness for stinginess, his shy daughter who prepares for her first dance and his pre-teen son who runs to his mother instead of dealing with bullies.
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Rhinoceros

The sublime is confused with the ridiculous in this savage commentary on the human condition, a staple of every theatre classroom and 20th century drama. A small town is besieged by one roaring citizen who becomes a rhinoceros and proceeds to trample on the social order.
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Brilliant Traces

The place is a remote cabin in the wilds of Alaska. As a blizzard rages outside, a lonely figure, Henry Harry, lies sleeping under a heap of blankets. Suddenly, he is awakened by the insistent knocking of an unexpected visitor who turns out to be Rosannah DeLuce, a distraught young woman who has fled all the way from Arizona to escape her impending marriage.
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The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project is a play by Mois Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.
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Orphans

Broadway and Off Broadway audiences gave this moving drama standing ovations. Orphans as been an international success throughout the world. Two brothers, Phillip, sensitive, reclusive, never venturing out of his North Philly home and Treat, a violent pickpocket and thief who kidnaps a mysteriously wealthy businessman who turn the table on the two brothers and in strange, hilarious and moving way, becomes their long lost father figure.
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East is East

It is set in Salford, Lancashire in 1971, in a mixed-ethnicity British household headed by Pakistani father George and an English mother, Ella. George expects his family to follow Pakistani ways, but his children, who were born and grew up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and reject Pakistani customs of dress, food, religion, and living in general, leading to a rise in tensions and conflicts in the whole family.
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