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The Skin of Our Teeth

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
Meet George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, New Jersey, a suburban, commuter-town couple (married for 5,000 years), who bear more than a casual resemblance to that first husband and wife, Adam and Eve: the two Antrobus children, Gladys (perfect in every way, of course) and Henry (who likes to throw rocks and was formerly known as Cain); and their garrulous maid, Sabina (the eternal seductress), who takes it upon herself to break out of character and interrupt the course of the drama at every opportunity ("I don't understand a word of this play!")
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9 Parts of Desire

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
A portrait of the extraordinary (and ordinary) lives of a whole cross-section of Iraqi women: a sexy painter, a radical communist, doctors, exiles, wives and lovers. This work delves into the many conflicting aspects of what it means to be a woman in the age-old war zone that is Iraq.
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A Streetcar Named Desire

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject so far as possible the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and extremely "real" young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness.
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American Blues

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
One act plays written by Tennessee Williams including Moony's Kid Don't Cry, The Dark Room, The Case of The Crushed Petunias, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, The long Stay Cut Short and The Unsatisfactory Supper.
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An Enemy of the People

Category: Plays
Genre: ComedyDark ComedyDrama
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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Balm in Gilead

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
Centers around a cafe frequented by heroin addicts, prostitutes (both male and female) and thieves. It features many unconventional theatrical devices, such as overlapping dialogue, simultaneous scenes and largely unsympathetic lead characters. The plot draws a parallel between the amoral, often criminal activity that the cafe's denizens engage in to provide temporary relief from their boredom and suffering, and the two main characters' becoming a couple in order to escape from their lives.
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Blackbird

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
An uneasy reunion between a woman and a middle-aged man fifteen years after he sexually abused her when she was twelve.
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Burn This

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
The play opens within the shadows of a sudden, accidental death: Robbie, a brilliant young dancer who was one of Anna's roommates and her artistic inspiration, has died with his lover in a boating accident. Anna mourns Robbie, a homosexual, as if he had been her own lover. The mysterious arrival of Pale, Robbie's heterosexual and somewhat homophobic brother, as a sexually fulfilling substitute for the dead man promises to explode that fascinating choreography of love, gender and sex.
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Cuba and His Teddy Bear

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
Cuba is a small time cocaine and marijuana dealer whose pride and joy is his 16 year old son Teddy. Cuba has great hopes for his son; what he doesn't know is that the boy has already succumbed to the lure of the streets and is fast becoming a heroin junkie.
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Danny and the Deep Blue Sea

Category: Plays
Genre: DramaRomance
The setting is a rundown bar in the Bronx, where two of society's rejects, Danny and Roberta, strike up a halting conversation over their beer. He is a brooding, self-loathing young man who resorts more to violence than reason; she is a divorced, guilt-ridden young woman whose troubled teenage son is now being cared for by her parents.
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Democracy

Category: Plays
Genre: Drama
The play, based on actual events, deals with the decision West German chancellor Willy Brandt had to make about exposing the Communist spy Günter Guillaume who worked as his secretary and had heard some of the state's most important secrets.
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