drama

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a story of women and war
2001
A play by award-winning author Eve Ensler in which two American women travel to Bosnia to help women confront their memories of war.

Beauty's daughter

Monster ; The gimmick : three plays
2000
Contains three plays by award-winning writer and performer Dael Orlandersmith in which she explores the lives of young African-American women.

Readings on Our town

2000
An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the twentieth-century play "Our Town, and its author Thornton Wilder.

Great scenes from minority playwrights

Seventy-four scenes of cultural diversity
1997
A collection of scenes from Hispanic as well as Native American, African-American, Jewish American, and Asian-American theater; background information and discussion/analysis follow each scene.

The homecoming

[a play]
1966
A family of men live together in a seedy house in North London. Into this slightly sinister atmosphere the eldest son brings his wife Ruth for a visit.

Mother courage and her children

a chronicle of the Thirty Years' War
1991
A translation of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht's work in which a seventeenth-century woman, "Mother Courage, " accompanied by her children, pulls a trading wagon throughout wartorn Europe and becomes a symbol of human suffering and endurance.

A soldier's play

a play
1982
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, 1982. A black army captain investigates an apparently racially motivated murder of a black sergeant in 1944.

The Heidi chronicles and other plays

1991
Contains the texts of three plays about women dealing with issues of friendship, loneliness, independence, and achievement, written in the 1970s and 1980s by American playwright Wendy Wasserstein, including "Uncommon Women and Others, " "Isn't It Romantic, " and "The Heidi Chronicles.".

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