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 Last Easter
Byrony Lavery
June has a terrible secret. Gash has an outrageous plan. Leah is open to possibilities. And Joy is drinking to forget. When June's best friends unravel her mystery, the whisk her from London to Lourdes where she is thoroughly dunked in the reputedly healing waters. The four friends' lunatic pilgrimage is filled with laughing, singing, a drag act and more than a few bottles of good red wine. Last Easter is a funny, moving and provocative play about the true nature of friendship. Softcover, 126 pp. $19.00.
 The Gist of It
Rodney Lee
Film student Orla, eccentric and upopular, is under pressure to finish shooting her precious masterpiece, featuring a reluctant butterfly. But her lovesick lead and her neurotic father seem determined to sabotage her genius... Well, that's the gist of it. Softcover, 86 pp. $22.95.
 Ecstasy
Mike Leigh
1979. The winter of discontent is over and Margaret Thatcher's regime is about to transform the country. Old friends come together in a Kilburn bedsit for a drunken celebration of their mutual affection. Softcover, 112 pp. $24.95.
 Shoreditch Madonna
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
A derelict space. Three urban cowboys. Two jaded bohemians. One woman, alone
in pain. Their lives collide and, in an attempt to connect with each other, their
conflicts unfold. A modern tale of love and loss set against the underground
art world of London's East End. M-4, F-2. Softcover, 85 pp. $21.00.
 The Night Season
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
A funny, modern, intoxicating tale of love and loss. M-3, F-4.
Softcover, 107 pp. $21.95.
 The Pull of Negative Gravity
Jonathan Lichtenstein
Wounded in the war in Iraq, a farmer's boy turned soldier returns home with injuries that have extraordinary consequences for his fiancee and his family. 2M, 2W. Softcover, 55 pp. $10.99.
 Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off
Liz Lochhead
Here is the familiar tale of the enmity between Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots, retold with ferocious iconoclasm and boundless wit by Scotland's most popular playwright. 4m, 4w. Softcover, 78 pp. $22.95.
 Blood and Ice
Liz Lochead
Summer 1816. A house party on the shores of Lake Geneva. Eighteen-year-old Mary and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, along with Mary's half-sister Claire and the infamous Lord Byron, take part in a challenge to see who can write the most horrifying story. Mary's contribution is to become one of the most celebrated Gothic novels of all time. 2m, 3w. Softcover, 64 pp. $21.95.
 Thebans: Oedipus Jokasta Antigone
Liz Lochhead
In Thebans, Liz Lochhead, working from the great dramas
of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus, re-tells in a single play
the ancient stories of the Kingdom of Thebes: of Oedipus the King,
of Jokasta his mother/wife, and of their children, the warring
brothers Polyneikes and Eteokles and the sisters Ismene and Antigone,
who dies rather than obey Oedipus's successor, King Kreon, her
uncle, and leave her brother's corpse unburied. 9M, 3W, Chorus
(flexible casting). Softcover, 88 pp. $19.95.
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