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American Plays
American plays by playwright: F
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 Oedipus at Palm Springs
The Five Lesbian Brothers (Maureen Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, Lisa Kron)
This play follows the dark adventure of two couples on a retreat to a resort in Palm Springs. While new parents Fran and Con try desperately to jump-start their sex life, May-December love bunnies Prin and Terri can't keep their hands off each other. What begins as a hilarious, boozey weekend takes a horrific turn after a secret is revealed. Softcover, 89 pp. $11.99.
 Zap
Paul Fleischman
This wildly entertaining post-modern play achieves the seemingly impossible: Zap is
seven plays in one act. Ideal for high schools, who demand fresh inventive
material -- with a large cast, no less -- Zap brings together seven disparate
genres (The English Mystery, Shakespeare, The Comedy, The Russian Play, The
Performance Art Monologue, The Avant-Garde Play, and The Southernn Play) in
one unforgettable theatrical event. Softcover, 83 pp. $23.99.
 Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins
Nick Flynn
Four strangers meet on a New York City sidewalk during a blackout. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded on the street with nothing but a television and the company of three individuals, each mysterious in his or her own way.Unable to make sense of their predicament, let alone alter it, the four float aimlessly in and out of seeming reality only to find themselves even more lost when the electricity finally comes back on. Softcover, 65 pp. $14.50.
 Hannah and Martin
Kate Fodor
Hannah and Martin is based on the relationship between the
Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt and the renowned philosopher
Martin Heidegger. Their dissimilar political sympathies comes to
the fore, when they are re-united in post-war Germany. M-4, F-4
(doubling). Softcover, 56 pp. $9.99.
Dividing the Estate
Horton Foote
Matriarch Stella Gordon is determined not to divide her 100-year-old Texas estate, despite her family's declining wealth and the looming financial crisis. But her three children have another plan. Old resentments and sibling rivalries surface as the members of this hilariously dysfunctional family go head to head to see who might claim the biggest piece of the pie. 4m, 9w. Softcover, 67 pp. $11.99.
 Three Plays: Dividing the Estate, The Trip to Bountiful, and The Young Man From Atlanta
Horton Foote
Three unforgetable plays from two-time Academy Award winning writer Horton Foote, sometimes called the American Chekhov. Softcover, 208 pp. $31.00.
 The Shape of the River
Horton Foote
Softcover, 170 pp. $24.95.
 The Carpetbagger's Children & The Actor
Horton Foote
Softcover, 92 pp. $22.50.
 Bad Boy Nietzsche! and other plays
Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman has been leading the theatrical avant-garde in the United States and throughout the world since 1968, when he founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theater Company. This volume of plays includes: Bad Boy Nietzsche!, Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty!, Maria del Bosco, Bad Behavior, Panic! (How to Be Happy!) and King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe. Softcover, 237 pp. $19.95.
 The O'Conner Girls
Katie Forgette
The warm and amusing story of The O'Conner Girls takes place
in 1997 in Minnesota following the death of Mr. O'Conner. As his wife Sarah
and their children begin to excavate his mountain of personal effects, clues
to the quiet patriarch's life are discovered and the children are forced to
reconsider their long-held opinions of their parents. 1M,4W. Softcover, 59
pp. $9.99.
 What of the Night?
Maria Irene Fornes
Maria Irene Fornes has written over 40 plays, musicals, and adaptations, and bilingual works for the stage. Featured in this volume are: Abingdon Square, What of the Night?, Enter THE NIGHT, and The Summer in Gossensass. This collection is an ideal introduction to her work. Softcover, 218 pp. $23.00.
 Summer
of '42
Hunter Foster & David Kirshenbaum
This nostalgic musical recreates the summer of 1942 -- America
is at war and men line up by the thousands to join the army. On a
tiny island off the coast of Maine, three fifteen-year-old boys begin
a summer that they will never forget. This coming of age story is
poignant and charming tale of life, love and the scope of human compassion.
M-5, W-4. Softcover, 70 pp. $12.95.
All in the Faculty
William Fowkes
Ned Jenkins arrives at bucolic Humbert College in upstate New York hoping to achieve his life ambition to become a tenured professor. Quickly embraced by faculty and students alike, the 'golden boy' can't help making romantic and political missteps that complicate his life, threaten to sidetrack him from his goal, and divide the whole campus in the process. Through it all, he discovers that he may be an expert in philosophy and aesthetics, but he's a rank amateur when it comes to self-knowledge. 6m, 3w. Softcover, 75 pp. $11.99.
 Coming Home
Athol Fugard
Years ago, Veronica Jonkers departed for the big city in the brave New South Africa, set on making her dreams of fame and fortune come true. In Coming Home, Veronica returns to Nieu Bethesda several years later to die of AIDS, but she is determined to first secure a future for her child, bright word-loving little Mannetjie. 4m, 1w. Sotcover, 50 pp. $11.99.
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