Oberon Books, 2019

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (12), Female (4), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...A respectable bourgeois tries to change his fiery sexual affair with a morbid self-destructive sex worker into a decent marriage. Their stratagem to appear as a respectable couple does not hold together and precipitates an array...">

...A respectable bourgeois tries to change his fiery sexual affair with a morbid self-destructive sex worker into a decent marriage. Their stratagem to appear as a respectable couple does not hold together and precipitates an array...

Oberon Books, 2019

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (8), Female (5), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Ismael, a succesful black doctor, and Virginia, his white wife, are continuously split between opposing impulses towards spiritual elevation and self-debasement, symbolized respectively by the metaphors of “whiteness” and “blackness...">

...Ismael, a succesful black doctor, and Virginia, his white wife, are continuously split between opposing impulses towards spiritual elevation and self-debasement, symbolized respectively by the metaphors of “whiteness” and “blackness...

Oberon Books, 2019

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (17), Female (9), Male (7), Unassigned (1)

...Inside the microcosm of a single family, father, mother, sons, daughter and sister-in-law are bound by ties of love, hate, sexual attraction and murderous impulses. Their actions suffer neither restraint nor guilt: everything is possible...">

...Inside the microcosm of a single family, father, mother, sons, daughter and sister-in-law are bound by ties of love, hate, sexual attraction and murderous impulses. Their actions suffer neither restraint nor guilt: everything is possible...

Oberon Books, 2019

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (15), Female (8), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Glorinha is orphaned as a teenager and sent to live with her uncles when she befriends Madam Luba and becomes a sex worker.  Thoroughly realistic as it may seem, Forgive Me For Your Betrayal rekindles the mythical idea...">

...Glorinha is orphaned as a teenager and sent to live with her uncles when she befriends Madam Luba and becomes a sex worker.  Thoroughly realistic as it may seem, Forgive Me For Your Betrayal rekindles the mythical idea...

Oberon Books, 2019

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (11), Female (6), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...An underemployed father, a sexually frustrated mother and four daughters also with low jobs devise a fantasy scheme to compensate for their dismal lives. The girls prostitute themselves in order to make extra money to provide...">

...An underemployed father, a sexually frustrated mother and four daughters also with low jobs devise a fantasy scheme to compensate for their dismal lives. The girls prostitute themselves in order to make extra money to provide...

Oberon Books, 2019

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (1), Female (1), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...A fifteen-year-old girl called Sônia gradually retrieves her memories and identity through the reenactment of the circumstances that led to her tragic demise in this monologue play by one of Brazil's most celebrated playwrights...">

...A fifteen-year-old girl called Sônia gradually retrieves her memories and identity through the reenactment of the circumstances that led to her tragic demise in this monologue play by one of Brazil's most celebrated playwrights...

Oberon Books, 2019

Methuen Drama Play Collections

playtext

Acts: 3, Roles: Total (23), Female (8), Male (7), Unassigned (8)

...A play that takes place in the traumatized psyche of the heroine, Alaíde, who agonises in hospital after being run over by a car. The accident happened as the result of a succession of vicious conflicts involving jealousy and betrayal...">

...A play that takes place in the traumatized psyche of the heroine, Alaíde, who agonises in hospital after being run over by a car. The accident happened as the result of a succession of vicious conflicts involving jealousy and betrayal...