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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.

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.

Jeffrey

1994

All in the timing

fourteen plays
1995
A collection of fourteen plays by David Ives that portray the idiosyncrasies that exist in American society.

The crucible

a play in four acts
1995
Against the backdrop of the seventeenth-century Salem witch trials, a woman extracts revenge against her married paramour by charging that he and his wife are sorcerers.

Lady Windermere's fan

1998
Presents the text of the 1893 comedy of manners in which a woman of perceived low morals shows social paragon Lady Windermere the difference between true morality and its semblance.

Spinning into butter

a play
2000
Presents the script of the drama in which the posting of anonymous, racist letters on the door of an African-American college student sets dean Sarah Daniels on a quest to find the perpetrator, and forces her to confront her own feelings about racism.

Anna in the tropics

2003
A Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Nilo Cruz set in 1929 Florida in a Cuban-American cigar factory, where a new lector unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners.

The beauty queen of Leenane and other plays

1998
Presents three plays by Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, each set in a Galway town blighted by rancor, ignorance, and spite.

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