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Prelude to a Kiss
Peter and Rita are two young, happy lovers who are getting married. On their wedding day, after the...
The Real Inspector Hound
It is a foggy and foreboding day at Muldoon Manor. This charming, but isolated, English country hou...
Rebel Without a Cause
Jim Stark is once again the new kid in town. He feels detached from everyone, especially his own fam...
Richard II
William Shakespeare’s Richard II chronicles the end of one king’s reign and the rise of another. In...
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The River
On a moonless night in August when the sea trout are ready to run, the Man brings his new girlfriend...
stretchmarks
Stretchmarks is a hilarious, heartfelt play about the journey of a lifetime: motherhood It is the s...
Stupid F#%*ing Bird
Kind, hopeful Dev suffers from an unrequited love for Mash, who composes cleverly despairing songs o...
The Sun
In The Sun, a soldier returns from the WWI front to reunite with his fiancée, only to discover that...
Tis Pity She's a Whore
A brother and sister and their forbidden love - this is the premise of John Ford’s dark revenge trag...
Top Girls
Set in the early 1980s, Top Girls depicts the lifestyle and life choices of its central character, M...
The Whale
In a run-down apartment in rural Idaho, surrounded by screens and food containers, a six-hundred pou...
William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead
It’s a rough day for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the most prestigious acting company in the city of...
