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Whose Life is It Anyway?

Ken Harrison, a successful sculptor, is paralysed in a car accident and kept alive by support systems in a hospital. As the play begins, he is coming to the decision that if he can't live as a man, he does not want to exist as a medical achievement. His physician, however, is utterly determined to preserve Ken's life, regardless of its quality. Finally, despite the pleas of the doctor and his involved nurse, Ken invokes the law of habeas corpus and a judge joins the battle to determine his fate.
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Clippings

Eight high school students share stories from newspaper articles they were assigned to clip. Memories are triggered and personal values and biases as well as intensely private issues (sexual harassment, parental abuse, abortion, teen pregnancy, suicide, homosexuality, drugs, sibling relationships and guilt) surface. Mimes dramatise the dilemmas teenagers face as they struggle with the voices of their hearts, minds and souls.
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A Hatful of Rain

This striking drama of love and addiction broke new ground for the depiction of realism in the theatre. Celia and Johnny Pope live in a New York tenement with his brother
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Fish Head Soup and Other Plays

A collection of four full-length plays about Japanese Americans at different stages of their lives -Fish Head Soup, Yankee Dawg You Die, The Wash, A Song for a Nisei Fisherman
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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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In Arabia We’d All Be Kings

It chronicles the demise of a group of individuals living in New York's Hell's Kitchen around the time of before Rudy Giuliani's efforts to clean up the city. Out of work and strapped for money, the lives of these individuals revolve around a local bar and their misguided hopes and dreams.
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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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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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