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 Stuart's hilarious satire of the male-dominated workplace is set in a baby formula company, where the men even determine the feeding and care of infants. But when Gina, a mother who breast-feeds, joins the staff, things -begin to change: The company falls under political sabotage, orders are rerouted, the building is shut down. The boss begins to see devil shadow child assassins. A wonderful play. ... |  In the inimitable Custer and Hoose style, here are twelve short scripts about Family and Friends, Family and Seasons, and Other Spiritual Matters. ... |  Based on historical people and real events, Miller's classic play about the witch hunts and trials in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts, is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror which Miller uses to reflect the anti-Communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the U.S. ... |  Banana Boots is a one-man-show / memoir in which Fennario recounts, with astonishing insight and wit, the phenomenon of taking his famous bilingual play, Balconville, to Belfast on a British / Canadian cultural mission. Given the subject of Balconville, that the real problem in Quebec is not one of language or culture, but one of British imperialism and the class structure it imposes on its "colonials", the ironies of such an event are, of ... |  "The Duke of Palermo" is a comedy about American academic life which is an intergral part of Edmund Wilson's work and will be enjoyed by the admirers of literary chronicles, as well as by those who know his fiction.<BR> ... |  Playwrights from the South have always figured largely in the Actors Theatre of Lousiville's contribution of new work to the repertoire of American dramatic literature. What better way to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Humana New Festival of American Plays. ... |  Two amorous actresses are out to capture the affections of a wealthy Paris producer. The wily Micheline spreads the rumor that Rafaella is being courted by a murderously jealous Brazilian. But her plot backfires when instead of cooling his passions down, the producer's interest heats up. Micheline is non-plussed when the tempestuous Brazilian suitor actually shows up at Rafaella's house. The mad improvisation which follows is a romp in the best ... |  Corker uses the familiar but difficult and treacherous nineteenth century device of representing the family as a microcosm of the nation state. Opening with the extended family's awkward attendance at "Serena", aging flower child of the sixties' funeral, the symbolic conflicts build quickly. Serena's sister "Merit", the hard driving, social program budget slashing female political aparatchik and her husband "Leonard", a lion of free enterprise, ... |  Here for the first time are collected in Spanish three of the best-known plays of Carlos Morton, one of the most celebrated and widely produced Hispanic-American playwrights living today.<P>Rancho Hollywood: Sueno de California (translated by Iona Weissberg) pointedly satirizes film stereotypes of Latinos.<P>Johnny Tenorio: Acto teatral chicano (translated by Eduardo Rodriguez Solis) places the centuries-old Don Juan legend into a ... |  These plays explore different facets of the human experience: the dilemma of the mojado, human vulnerabilities in the search for a way to overcome death, the alienation of the Hispanic family amidst economic hardships and personal crises, and the existential conflicts of Mexico's most celebrated feminist thinker, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. ... |
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