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 Savoy
Eugene O'Brien
On closing night of Edenderry's Savoy cinema, three men have gathered for an
unusual wake to remember the life of the cinema and its place in their lives.
By turns comic and elegiac, Savoy is a compelling picture of the life of a
provincial Irish town. M-4, F-1. Irish. Softcover, 83 pp. $23.95.
 US and Them
Tasmin Oglesby
Oglesby has written a modern day transatlantic comedy of manners in which old
Europe and the New World struggle to understand each other. In US and Them,
a chance meeting in a Manhattan restaurant between an English couple and a
New York couple carries the promise of friendship, but are they speaking the
same language? m:4 f:3. Softcover, 140 pp. $23.00.
 Spy For Love
87 Raps from The Warp
Neil Oram
Softcover, 181 pp. $29.95.
 Is This About Sex?
Christian O'Reilly
Is This About Sex? is a modern relationship comedy about the serious matter of sex and what it means to be a man or a woman in a world that's just not as simple as it used to be.... Softcover, 94 pp. $16.50.
 From Both Hips: Two Plays
Mark O'Rowe
In From Both Hips, Paul is bitter and self-pitying after being
accidentally shot in the hip by a policeman. He is also two-timing his
wife. Then the policeman appears with an apology, a gun, and an extraordinary
suggestion. M-2, F-4. In The Aspidistra Code, violence is threatened
when two old friends meet under less than perfect circumstances, and
they each have to protect their "tough-guy" reputations. M-5,
F-1 Softcover 184 pp. $20.95.
 Orwell: A Celebration|
Dominic Cavendish
This acclaimed monologue adaptation of George Orwell's Coming Up For Air forms the first half of this unprecedented theatrical homage to Orwell created to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the novel and the 60th anniversary of his masterwork Nineteen Eighty-Four. This volume also includes two of Orwell's best loved essays -- "Shooting an Elephant" and "A Hanging" -- in a theatrical context. Softcover, 80 pp. $22.99.
 Before Anger
John Osborne
Here are two early play by John Osborne, written before the overwhelming success of Look Back in Anger in 1956. The Devil Inside Him (1950) concerns a young Welshman, Huw, at odds with the hypocrisy and imaginative poverty of his community. Personal Enemy (1955) is set in small-town America during the summer of 1953, at the height of the anti-Communist witchhunts. The play tells the story of a family torn apart by a country's political, and sexual paranoia. Softcover, 191 pp. $27.95.
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