drama

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Othello

1988
Presents the text of the play, accompanied by explanatory notes, an introduction to Shakespeare's life and theater, and a look at how the play has been staged.

Fires in the mirror

Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and other identities
1993
A collection of performance pieces based on interviews conducted with people involved in the riots that erupted in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1991.

A midsummer night's dream

1985
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

King Lear

1986
Presents original and modern English versions of "King Lear, " Shakespeare's drama about an aging regent who foolishly disinherits his favorite daughter and splits his kingdom between his other two daughters who are secretly plotting against him.

Romeo and Juliet

1988
Two lovers are destroyed by the hatred of their families for one another.

The Caine mutiny court-martial

a play
1954
Recreates in the stage classic the courtroom trial of Lieutenant Maryk for having taken over command of a mine sweeper from Captain Queeg.

A raisin in the sun

a drama in three acts
1959
A three-act play concerned with the tensions in an African-American middle-class family in Chicago.

Show time at the Polk Street School

plays you can do yourself or in the classroom
1992
Three plays featuring the students in Ms. Rooney's class: "The Candy Corn Contest, " "The Secret at Polk Street School, " and "Fancy Feet.".

Picture book theater

the mysterious stranger, the magic spell
1982
In these two plays about magic, a wicked witch imprisons a princess and a wizard transforms a boy into a cat.

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