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Dramatic Plays

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In the Blood

It would be reductive to call In the Blood simply a modern adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s...

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In the Red and Brown Water

The first play in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Brother/Sister Plays Trilogy, In The Red and Brown Water...

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The Insanity of Mary Girard

Based on a true story, The Insanity of Mary Girard is a dark, brooding drama depicting Mary Girard...

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Iphigenia in Tauris

The young princess Iphigenia is being sacrificed to the gods at the hands of her own father,...

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Ivanov

A 35-year-old Russian man named Nikolai Ivanov is having a midlife crisis. He has fallen out of...

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Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Barney Cashman is forty-seven, happily married, the father of three children, a successful...

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Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger is a searing, jolting look at class, sex, politics, and the stifling conventions ...

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Lovers

Lovers consists of two parts: Winners and Losers. In Winners, two commentators speak without...

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Lovesong

Abi Morgan’s Lovesong is inspired by the T.S. Eliot's poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock....

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Miss Julie

Miss Julie is perhaps the most famous play in the style of naturalism. It focuses on Miss Julie, a...

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Mojada

Devoted wife and mother Medea will make any sacrifice in order to support her husband, Hason, in...

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Mud

Hopeful, hard-working Mae lives in bleak rural poverty, but she is going to school, and plans to...

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