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Lenin's Embalmers

Vern Thiessen

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LA Theatre Works

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...After Vladimir Lenin’s death, Stalin orders two Jewish scientists to preserve Lenin’s body for all time. If they succeed, the rewards will be considerable. If not, it’s the gulag – or worse. Based on real events, Vern Theissen’s nimble dark...

An Enemy of the People

Henrik Ibsen

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Rebecca Lenkiewicz

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LA Theatre Works

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...When a small town relies on tourists flocking to its baths, will a report of dangerously polluted waters be enough to shut them down? Henrik Ibsen weighs the cost of public health versus a town’s livelihood in An Enemy of the People...

Lobby Hero

Kenneth Lonergan

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LA Theatre Works

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...Playwright Kenneth Lonergan has made a career of creating characters whose considerable flaws often get in the way of their good intentions. In Lobby Hero, two menial security guards are embroiled in an unexpected family fiasco...

Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers: 2008 Tour Edition

Geoffrey Cowan

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Leroy Aarons

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LA Theatre Works

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...A timely docudrama about The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public...

The Best Man

Gore Vidal

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LA Theatre Works

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...This darkly satirical drama by Gore Vidal finds two presidential contenders seeking the endorsement of an aging ex-president, and explores how personal agendas can change the course of a nation's destiny. The political intrigues rampant...

On the Waterfront

Budd Schulberg

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LA Theatre Works

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...Terry Malloy, the “seemingly soulless street survivor,” unwittingly lures a rebellious longshoreman to his death in Budd Schulberg’s searing drama about the New York waterfront, the racketeering unions controlling it, and the kid who...

The Mill: Part I: Now We Are Brody

Written by

Matthew MacFadzean

~playauthor~Written by~ Matthew MacFadzean

Playwrights Canada Press, 2011

Playwrights Canada Press

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

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...It’s 1854 at the start of Now We Are Brody. The mill is boarded up as the townsfolk attempt to bury a dark shame from their past, but the arrival of a young woman with the deed to the mill threatens to unearth its secret...

Cordon

Written by

Nebojsa Romcevic

~playauthor~Written by~ Nebojsa Romcevic

Aurora Metro Books, 2000

Aurora Metro Books

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (8), Female (2), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

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...A group of Special Police in Belgrade incite a riot at a peaceful protest, maliciously beating a student. A harsh indictment of the brutality and corruption of the Milosevic regime. Banned throughout Yugoslavia...

Knuckle

Written by

David Hare

~playauthor~Written by~ David Hare

Faber and Faber, 1996

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (10), Female (2), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

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...Knuckle combines surrealism and satire in a breathlessly fast-moving plot when Curly Delafield, mercenary soldier and gun-runner, returns to Guilford to find out what has happened to his sister Sarah...

Language Rooms  

Written by

Yussef El Guindi

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Michael Malek Najjar

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Michael Malek Najjar

~playauthor~Written by~ Yussef El Guindi , Michael Malek Najjar ~playauthor~Edited by~ Michael Malek Najjar

Methuen Drama, 2019

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (4), Female (0), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

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...A dystopian reflection of the vast network of black site/secret prisons established by the Central Intelligence Agency after 9/11 with the aim of confidentially detaining those deemed terrorists and subjecting them to indefinite detention...