The Skriker - A variation of the folktale about the malevolent, magical being that tries to trick a young woman out of her firstborn, this play by Caryl Churchill is rich, beautiful, and moving, though it may frustrate those who like their theatre plain and simple.The worlds he creates are brand new and hilarious, yet each contains an ancient horror we all know and cannot escape and have never been able to hang one definitive word on. Three Plays of the Absurd - In this collection of plays, Walter Wykes creates a series of modern myths, tapping into something in the strata of the subconscious, through ritualism and rich, poetic language.Marisol and Other Plays - A collection of plays by José Rivera filled with surrealism, magic, and poetry.Son of an Engineer - David Greenspan's witty and slightly crazed play in which a young man returns "home" to discover that his parents have been replaced by Tom (a large bear), his wife Phoebe, and their almost invisible daughter Diane.
The Other Shore - This collection of plays by Nobel Prize-winning Chinese playwright Gao Xingjian illuminates the realities of life, death, sex, loneliness, and exile with original imagery and beautiful language.The Dumb Waiter - Reminiscent of Waiting for Godot, this play by Harold Pinter concerns two hired killers waiting around for their next assignment.Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett's classic tragicomedy is known for its lack of plot-"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!" Two old tramps beneath a single tree make jokes to pass the time and reflect on the state of human existence while they wait for Godot-who never comes.Rhinoceros - Demonstrates Ionesco's anxiety about the spread of inhuman totalitarian tendencies in society as the entire population of a small, provincial French town turn into savage pachyderms.As the masqueraders warm to their roles, they convince even the revolutionaries that the illusion created in the bordello is preferable to reality. After the city's royal palace and rulers are destroyed, the bordello's costumed patrons impersonate the leaders of the city. The Balcony - Influenced by the Theater of Cruelty, this play by Jean Genet is set inside the Grand Balcony bordello, a brothel and repository of illusion in a contemporary European city aflame with revolution.Ten 10-Minute Plays - An exciting and diverse collection of 10-minute plays-a new sub-genre of the one-act play that came into its own near the end of the 20th century.Man and Superman - A powerful drama of ideas in which George Bernard Shaw explores the role of the artist, the function of women in society and his theory of Creative Evolution.In this carnival of human outcasts, Andreyev fashions a meaningful portrait of an intellectual's struggle to exist in a world ruled by Fate, Chance, and the almighty dollar. He Who Gets Slapped - Leonid Andreyev's best-known play tells the story of a famous writer who takes a job as a circus clown in order to escape his past.Death of A Salesman - Arthur Miller's classic tale of Willy Loman, an all-American dreamer who can't accept the failure that is his life.Accidental Death Of Anarchist - Dario Fo's sharp and hilarious satire on police corruption, concerning the case of an anarchist railway worker who falls to his death from a police headquaters window.Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard weaves this fabulously absurd tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play.Buried Child - Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a young man who brings his girlfriend home to the squalid farmhouse of his hard-drinking grandparents, who seem to have no idea who he is.