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Six Degrees of Separation

Inspired by a true story, the play follows the trail of a young black con man, Paul, who insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy New York couple, Ouisa and Flan Kittredge. Soon, Ouisa and Flan discover that friends of theirs have had a similar run-in with the brash con artist. Intrigued, they turn detective and piece together the connections that gave Paul access to their lives. Meanwhile, Paul's cons unexpectedly lead him into darker territory and his lies begin to catch up with him.
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The Girl on the Via Flaminia

Robert is an American soldier in occupied Rome during the final months of World War II. Lisa is a young woman obliged to work in Mamma Adele on the Via Flaminia. The passion they feel for one another is fuelled by their separate, and equally desperate, needs. But can love between victor and vanquished ever blossom?
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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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Once A Catholic

It concerns a retrospective view of the values of 1950s Catholic convent schools and the female adolescent response to those values.
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The Owl and The Pussycat

In a San Francisco loft, aspiring author Felix focuses his binoculars on a prostitute plying her trade. He complains to the landlord, has her evicted, and finds he has trouble pounding on his door in the form of Doris, not a prostitute but an aspiring model and actress, thank you very much. She figures he owes her a bed for the night, an arrangement that leads to hilarity.
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Closer

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 Cripple of Inishmaan

Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934, The Cripple of Inishmaan is a strange comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling. As word arrives on Inishmaan that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island of Inishmore to film Man of Aran, the one person who wants to be in the film more than anybody is young Cripple Billy, if only to break away from the bitter tedium of his daily life
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Laundry and Bourbon (A Comedy in One Act)

The setting is the front porch of Roy and Elizabeth's home in Maynard, Texas, on a hot summer afternoon. Elizabeth and her friend Hattie are whiling away the time folding laundry, watching TV, sipping bourbon and Coke, and gossiping about the many open secrets which are so much a part of small-town life. While the ensuing conversation is increasingly edged with bitter humor, from it emerges a sense of Elizabeth's inner strength and her quiet understanding of the turmoil in which has beset her husband since his return from Vietnam. He is wild, and he is unfaithful, but he needs her, and she loves him. And she'll be waiting for him when he comes home no matter what others may say or think.
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The Rainmaker

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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An Enemy of the People

Ibsen wrote it in response to the public outcry against his play Ghosts, which at that time was considered scandalous. Ghosts had challenged the hypocrisy of Victorian morality and was deemed indecent for its veiled references to syphilis.
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