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The Laramie project

2001
A play by Moises Kaufman which chronicles life in the town of Laramie, Wyoming, in the year following the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, who was killed because he was gay.

The maids

and, Deathwatch : two plays
1982
Contains two plays by twentieth-century French author Jean Genet, including "The Maids, " the story of two domestic workers who attempt to destory their employer; and "Deathwatch, " in which two convicts go to great lengths to impress a fellow prisoner who has become a legend in criminal circles.

Oedipus the King

1994
Sophocles' play of a king prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother is here presented in a translation designed to be used on stage.

Love-lies-bleeding

a play
2005
Alex Macklin's son, new wife, and ex-wife gather at Alex's bedside after his second stroke and struggle to decide, without legal or medical guidance, what they should do and what Alex might want.

The Playwrights' Center monologues for men

2005
Presents more than fifty monologues for men by Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis playwrights such as Carlyle Brown, Jeffrey Hatcher, Naomi Wallace, and Diane Glancy.

The Playwrights' Center monologues for women

2005
Presents approximately seventy monologues for women by Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis playwrights such as Lisa D'Amour, Kira Obolensky, Melanie Marnich, Jeffrey Hatcher, and Carlyle Brown.

Valley song

1996
A coming-of-age story about a young girl seeking the courage to accept the future while her grandfather searches for the wisdom to let go of the past.

Big river

the adventures of Huckleberry Finn : a musical play
1986

M. Butterfly

1988
Presents the text of the 1988 Tony Award-winning play in which diplomat Rene Gallimard, a captive of the French government, relives his twenty-year affair with a beautiful, elusive Chinese actress who turned out to be not only a spy, but a man in disguise, and includes comments by the author.

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