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Annie Baker
A surprisingly funny inquiry into the complexity of suffering, and what it means to desire in a body that's failing you. UK premiere at the National Theatre, London.
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Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about three cinema attendants - ‘Wondrous, devastating, hilarious, and infinitely touching. A play to be treasured’ New York Times.
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Amy Muse
In the first book-length study of Annie Baker, one of the most critically acclaimed playwrights in the United States today and winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship…
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A funny and profound meditation on the complexity of chronic illness and the ache of desire.
At a clinic in Northern California, five women recline on patio lounge chairs. They…
Chekhov’s tragicomedy, replete with the kinds of characters we have now come to know as Chekhovian , incorporates unrequited loves and a murder plot, while exploring the social roles of…
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Anni Baker
Offers an exploration of life in the armed forces, as it has been experienced by millions of men, women, and children. This work examines the factors that shape military service…
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Echoes from the Soul, is an insightful collection of poetry
that speaks of experiences, which connects us all.
Themes of love, loss, hope and nature convey the universality of emotions
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Over the past 60 years, the US armed forces have created a web of military bases all over the world, from Australia to Iceland to Saudi Arabia.
Professional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski outside back of a coffee shop in Vermont. Seventeen-year-old Evan is eking out his summer…
2m, 2f, Comic Drama / Interior and Areas It’s Body Awareness week on a Vermont college campus and Phyllis, the organizer, and her partner, Joyce, are hosting one of the…
The antipodes is a play about people telling stories about telling stories.
Part satire, part sacred rite, a play that asks what value stories have for a world in crisis.
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2014.
The week after Thanksgiving. A bed & breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A cheerful innkeeper. A young couple struggling to stay together. Thousands of inanimate objects, watching –Page 4 of cover.
The debut collection of a celebrated new American playwright.
‘A disarming surprise . remarkably open-minded in its supple, low-key way, shifting from the preposterous to the poignant, the tender to the silly, with a sharply observant but uncensorious spirit.’…
An Obie Award-winning playwright’s passionate ode to film and the theater that happens in between.
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A passionate ode to film and the theater that happens in between.
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A haunting and quietly devastating new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Flick.
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The highly anticipated new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of The Flick.
Anton Chekhov
A refreshingly intimate and modern spin on a Chekhov classic.
Mary Baker
Marcie Ellis, a Seattle high school student, encounters a strange little bag lady who claims to be an elf. Before she knows it, Marcie and her friends are helping little…
Annie Dam
A how-to guide to elegant sugar techniques, with 16 original projects.
Jenny Baker,Annie Besant
This volume explores the ways in which both theosophy and yoga base spiritual progress on the deepest possible understanding of the nature of life - that it exists as a…
Louise Labe
Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. This bilingual edition features the translations of Labe’s sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme…
One of the most important medieval writers studied in historical and literary context.
