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 Dancock's Dance
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Shell-shocked, judged unfit for society and haunted by the sins of war, Lieutenant
John Carlyle Dancock finds himself commited to an insane asylum where he cannot
escape the confines of righteous authority or his own conscience, which visits
him in the ghostly apparition of a dead soldier. M-5, F-1. Softcover, 128 pp.
$16.95.
 Bhopal
Rahul Varma
Bhopal, 1984: With the presence of the Karbide International Pesticide factory,
the city begins to claw its way out of endemic poverty. But what is to be made
of the deformed babies born to women living near the factory? And the poison
gas explosion that will leave three thousand people dead in just a few minutes
-- and will kill tens of thousands more in the years to come. This play -- a
pitiless analysis of the stakes of globalization -- explores how this happens.
Softcover, 71 pp. $16.95.
Counter Offence
Rahul Varma
103 pp. $11.95.
 Camera, Woman
R.M. Vaughan
In 1943, Dorothy Arzner, one of Hollywood's few women directors, walked off the set
of an unfinished film. She never returned. Based on a true story, this play explores
Arzner's complicated relationship with Golden Era studio politics, her openly lesbian
lifestyle and how the two worlds collided in her art. M-1, F-5. 71 pp. $17.95.
 Another Country & Bloom
Guillermo Verdecchia
Published together here for the first time, these two plays constitute an unsparing interrogation of a world perpetually at war--the Argentina of Guillermo Verdecchia's youth has blossomed into our contemporary global reality. Softcover, 143 pp. $17.95.
 Fronteras Americanas
Guillermo Verdecchia
Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence, and wit, Fronteras Americanas re-creates
one person's struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the
images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin Americans. 1-person 79 pp.
$15.95.
 Citizen Suarez
Guillermo Verdecchia
Verdeccia speaks in these stories with the fatalistic lyricism of Lorca, the philosophical
ambiguity of Paz, and the emotional scalpel of Marques. 15.7 pp. $17.95.
 Living Curiosities or What You Will
Mary Vingoe
This play is inspired by the story of Anna Swan, the nineteenth-century Nova Scotia giantess who was sent to exhibit at P.T. Barnum's famed American Museum in NYC at the height of the American Civil War. 5m, 6f. Softcover, 81 pp. $16.95.
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