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A Ryan Interlude
There is a reason why, when I discovered William Flannery's family nestled next door to the household of Edward and Johanna Ryan, it pulled me up short. Perhaps it is because when we research our family's surnames, it is as if we obsess on one goal with tunnel vision. As if dumpster diving into separate surname silos, we lose sight of the connectedness of our families' neighborhoods—of their lifelong associations.
Now, I'm researching my father-in-law's Flannery line. Then—years ago—I was in search of Ryan relations. I really hadn't expected them to become next door neighbors. Apparently they did.
As a little background, here are some details on the Ryan family—at least, what I've been able to find, so far. Keep in mind, I have yet to plug that line into the home turf, back in County Tipperary—though I have oral tradition (and DNA matches) urging me to leave that possibility open.
The Ryan family who showed up next to the 1871 census entry for the widowed William Flannery included a Tully sibling whose descendants, for decades afterwards, kept in touch with my father-in-law's family. Because that connection was still alive in the memory of my in-laws, I've been keen to trace it for the longest time. In fact, I wrote about it shortly after launching this blog in 2011. And kept working at extending the line of these Ryan descendants, from their 1871 home in the former McKillop Township in Huron County, Ontario, all the way to their homesteading attempt in Dakota Territory, and beyond that, returning to Canada and settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Since I set aside that research project years ago, there is, of course, much work still to be done on that Ryan line. Yet here they were, popping up right in the path I was tracing to locate the William Flannery who, presumably as brother to Margaret Flannery, had years ago stood in as godfather to her son, Michael Tully.
It was unmistakably the right Ryan family. Despite the rather common surname, there was not much problem tracing their family. Johanna Tully had married Edward Ryan somewhere in Ontario—though I have yet to locate the verification for that detail—before the birth of their eldest son, James, in 1852. From that point followed three more children in stairstep fashion: Dennis, Margaret, and Mary.
If one were to say this family ascribed to the naming pattern of their parents' homeland, this set of four children would have provided me the Rosetta Stone leading to the names of their grandparents. On Johanna's behalf—as we've become more than aware in this past month—those two parents would have been Denis and Margaret. The Irish naming tradition would have designated the second Ryan son to be named after the mother's father—Johanna's father, Denis Tully—and the first daughter to be named after the mother's mother. This, indeed, was what appeared in the census listings.
Could that mean, then, that Edward Ryan's father's name was James? And his mother, Mary? There was, after all, a widowed Mary Ryan in the 1851 census—including an unmarried son by the name of Edward—in Huron County. But proximity to similarly named people, while a possible start, is not the specific goal of our pursuit this month.
Piecing together all the possible family connections for Margaret Flannery is, however. Although the discovery of a possible Flannery sibling right next to our Tully-Ryan relatives was startling, we need to retain that detail in a safe place, and get back to the chase at hand.
Labels: Census Records, County Tipperary, Flannery, Ontario Canada, Tully
A Flannery Wrap
The Disappearing Neighbor
Off the Shelf: The Talent Code
A Birthday Unawares
Two More Neighbors
Floating Toward an Answer
Circling the F.A.N. Club Drain
Comparing Records for Repeating Details
Collateral Line Research Demonstrates its Worth
Read Book, Take Action
Connecting the Dots From Shore to Shore
Knowing Their Place
In Theory . . .
The Flannery Connections
Read a Book — Any Book
When the Same Surnames Keep Showing up
About John and Kitty
Going Back to the Beginning
The Other Dennis and Margaret
Nice Thought . . .
A Brush with History
A Tully - Flannery Two - fer
Checking Old Records with New Eyes
Why it's Good to Revisit old Research Tasks
Meet Margaret
A New Month, a New Ancestor
Postscript on the Irish


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Wellman, a two-time Obie Award winner, is one of America's leading avant-garde playwrights. This collection of his most important plays includes "Cellophane," a language experiment based on "a debased idea of slang." Also included is Wellman's essay on the theater "A Chrestomathy of 22 Answers to 22 Wholly Unaskable and Unrelated Questions Concerning Political and Poet Theater."
by Lucy Kirkwood
Two retired nuclear scientists in an isolated cottage by the sea as the world around them crumbles. Then an old friend arrives with a frightening request. "A richly suggestive and beautifully written piece of work, provoking questions that will continue to nag and expand in your mind . . . The genius of the play is to embed its pressingly topical preoccupations in a humane, tragicomic scenario that is never, despite the circumstances, portentous or clangingly apocalyptic in tone . . . The Children consolidates my view that Kirkwood is the most rewarding dramatist of her generation." — Independent. "[Kirkwood] has . . . written a genuinely disturbing play: one not simply about nuclear power but about the heavy price we may pay in the future for the profligacy of the present. Whether you are a parent or not, the play leaves you an abundance of ideas on which to ruminate." — Guardian
Chimerica: West End Edition
Winner, 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Play. Tiananmen Square, 1989. As tanks roll through Beijing and soldiers hammer on his hotel door, Joe – a young American photojournalist – captures a piece of history. New York, 2012. Joe is covering a presidential election, marred by debate over cheap labour and the outsourcing of American jobs to Chinese factories. When a cryptic message is left in a Beijing newspaper, Joe is driven to discover the truth behind the unknown hero he captured on film. Who was he? What happened to him? And could he still be alive? A gripping political examination and an engaging personal drama, Chimerica examines the changing fortunes of two countries whose futures will shape the whole world.
The Christians: A Play
A big-little play about faith in America?and the trouble with changing your mind. Pastor Paul does not believe in Hell, and today, he's going to preach a sermon that finally says what he really believes. He thinks all the people in his church are going be happy to hear what he has to say. He's wrong.
Griffiths turns her darkly comic vision toward the elusive mind/body connection. In the age of the virus, Petra is struck with a mysterious disease, which both infects and illuminates her relationships with her boyfriend, boss, co-workers and doctor. Bruised by the medical establishment, Petra battles the Virus, a compelling, fantastical personality who may or may not be the source of the crisis.
Churchill: Plays Four
by Caryl Churchill
Published to mark Caryl Churchill's 70 birthday, this volume includes "Cloud Nine," "Bliss," "Hotel," "This is a Chair," "Blue Heart," "Far Away,| "A Number," "Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?," and "A Dream Play."
City Stage: Hong Kong Playwriting in English
by Mike Ingham (Editor), Xu Xi (Editor)
The collection reflects the fast-developing multiculturalism of the Hong Kong scene. All of the plays are contemporary in that they were written in the last ten years. Mike Ingham is a founding member of Theatre Action, a Hong Kong-based drama group that specializes in action research on more literary drama texts. Xu Xi, a Chinese-Indonesian native of Hong Kong, is one of Asia's leading English-language writers.
A Civil War Christmas
by Paula Vogel
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel, has crafted what The New York Times has declared "an ambitious, richly detailed and beautiful new seasonal offering." Set on a chilly Christmas Eve during the latter days of the Civil War, A Civil War Christmas weaves a tapestry of fictional and historical characters, such as President and Mrs. Lincoln — together with holiday music, marches, hymns and spirituals of the period—to tell a story of companionship and communal hope arising from one of our nation's darkest hours. This volume features a conversation between the author and noted historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, commentary on the music of the Civil War and its singing soldiers and excerpts from historical journals such as that of Walt Whitman.
Class Acts: High School Plays by High School Writers
by Magnet Theatre Company (Editor), Randy Lee Hartwig
The Clean House and Other Plays
by Sarah Ruhl
This volume is the first publication of Sarah Ruhl, "a playwright with a unique comic voice, perspective, and sense of theater" (Variety), who is fast leaving her mark on the American stage. Sarah Ruhl received the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004 for her play The Clean House, which has been produced at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC. Her play Eurydice has been produced at Madison Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
by Bruce Norris
Bruce Norris is a writer and an actor whose Pulitzer Prize- and Olivier Award-winning play "Clybourne Park" premiered at Playwrights Horizons in January 2010. Other plays include "The Infidel," "Purple Heart," "We All Went Down to Amsterdam," "The Pain and the Itch," and "The Unmentionables," all of which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre. Norris is the recipient of the 2009 Steinberg Playwright Award and the Whiting Foundation Prize for Drama. He currently resides in New York. "Norris's elegantly structured play nails marital tensions as much as it does racial disharmony in an evening of ebullient provocation." –Lyn Gardner, The Guardian. "Superb, elegantly written, and hilarious." –John Lahr, The New Yorker
The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage
by Tom Stoppard
The Coast of Utopia comprises three sequential plays that chronicle the story of a group of friends who come of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term "intelligentsia" was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the masses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman's son and the first self-proclaimed socialist in Russia, who becomes the main focus of this drama of politics, love, loss, and betrayal.
by Mike Bartlett
Mike Bartlett's punchy play takes a lively, candid look at one man's sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realize you have a choice. With carefully poised dialectics, Cock explores ambivalence in love and human nature through a nexus of emotions, relations and choices. Stripping back the whole drama to its essential language only, this is a masterpiece of strong characters and well-crafted dialogue. When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out…
The Collected Plays of Edward Albee 3 (1978-2003)
by Edward Albee
The Collected Plays: Volume 3
by Steven Berkoff
The third collection by Berkoff, comprised of three history plays. "Ritual in Blood" looks at the persecution of the Jews; "Messiah" pits Christ's transcendent goodness against the evil of his detractors; and "Oedipus" is a speakable adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy.
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama
by Xiaomei Chen
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama's excellent selection, colloquial and stage-friendly translations, and illuminating introduction undoubtedly make the volume the authoritative choice in teaching and reading modern Chinese drama for the foreseeable future.
Comic Potential
A sci-fi comedy-thriller, Comic Potential is set in a TV studio in the near future, where a director — an alcoholic has-been — and his assistants are making a daytime soap opera of the usual appalling sort. The difference is that they are using actoids — robots programmed to act — and there are no scriptwriters. Into this situation comes the idealistic Adam, nephew of the millionaire station owner, who wants to write comedy of the quality that Chaplin and Keaton once embodied. But when Adam falls in love with Jaycee Triplethree (JC333), one of the actoids on the show, everything is turned upside down.
The Complete Talking Heads
by Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett's award-winning series of solo pieces is a classic of contemporary drama, universally hailed for its combination of razor-sharp wit and deeply felt humanity.
by Nick Payne
In the beginning Marianne and Roland meet at a party. They go for a drink, or perhaps they don't. They fall madly in love and start dating, but eventually they break up. After a chance encounter in a supermarket they get back together, or maybe they run into each other and Marianne reveals that she's now engaged to someone else and that's that. Or perhaps Roland is engaged. Maybe they get married, or maybe their time together will be tragically short. Nick Payne's Constellations is a play about free will and friendship; it's also about quantum multiverse theory, love, and honey. "Who knew that higher physics could be so sexy, so accessible–and so emotionally devastating? Constellations, Nick Payne's gorgeous two-character drama, starring a perfectly matched Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, may be the most sophisticated date play Broadway has seen." (Ben Brantley, The New York Times)
Contemporary Greek Theatre
by Paulos Matesis (Editor), Pavlos Matesis (Editor), Athan H. Agnew (Translator), Fred A. Reed (Translator)
Two plays by Paulos Matesis, one of Greece's leading contemporary playwrights and novelists. Nurseryman won the Municipality of Athens Award while Towards Eleusis is based on the Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying
Contemporary Scottish Plays: Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin'
by Alistair Beaton(Author), Rob Drummond (Editor), Morna Pearson (Author), Kieran Hurley (Author), Anthony Neilson (Author), Patricia Reid (Editor), Trish Reid (Editor)
To paraphrase Alistair Beaton's Caledonia – the first play in this collection – 'The English have anthologies, the Spanish have anthologies, the French have anthologies . . . why should not Scotland have its anthology?'
Continental Divide: Daughters of the Revolution and Mothers Against
by David Edgar
Copper Thunderbird
by Marie Clements
Copper Thunderbird is a play on canvas based on the life of Norval Morriseau. Inside the power-lines which Morriseau boldly defined in his art were the colors he experienced between his Ojibwa cosmology, his life on the street, and his spiritual and philosophical transformations to become the Father of Contemporary Native Art and a Grand Shaman. Appearing simultaneously in this multi-layered drama as a small boy, a young warrior, and an old man, Morriseau confronts his many selves over the Faustian deal he made during his vision quest–a trick that led to a life wracked by both triumph and ordeal, drawing his vibrant colors, both luminous and dark, from the life force within him.
The Cordelia Dream
by Marina Carr
Haunted by her dream of Cordelia and Lear, a woman confronts an elderly man, her lifelong antagonist and rival. During their passionate altercation he dismisses her success as a composer and demands she make the ultimate sacrifice: for him to flourish she, his protegee, must be silent. Five years later, she returns for a final and devastating encounter. Marina Carr's "The Cordelia Dream" premiered in December 2008 at Wilton's Music Hall, London, in a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Corpus Christi: A Play
by Terrence McNally
The New Yorker has called Terrence McNally "one of our most original and audacious dramatists and one of our funniest." He is the author of such critically acclaimed plays as "Love! Valour! Compassion!", "Master Class," "The Lisbon Traviata," and "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune." In "Corpus Christi," McNally gives us his own unique view of the story of Christ, and in doing so provides us with one of the most vivid and moving passion plays written.
by Martyna Majok
Cost of Living deftly challenges the typical perceptions of those living with disabilities and delves deep into the ways class, race, nationality, and wealth can create gulfs between people, even as they long for the ability to connect. Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, and his estranged ex-wife, Ani, find themselves unexpectedly reunited after a terrible accident leaves her quadriplegic. John, a brilliant PhD student with cerebral palsy, hires Jess, a first-generation recent graduate who has fallen on desperate times, as his new aide. Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. "By toppling old prejudices, Majok forces us to revisit our easy assumptions about people who really don't want to be called 'differently abled' and caregivers who could use a little love themselves." – Variety
Country Northwestern: and other plays of the Pacific Northwest
by Charles Deemer
Five plays by Charles Deemer: Country Northwestern, Christmas at the Juniper Tavern, Varmints, Waitresses, The Half-Life Conspiracy.
The Country Wife
by Tanika Gupta (Adapter), William Wycherley
A new contemporary version of William Wycherley's most famous classic by Tanika Gupta, one of Britain's leading playwrights. Following Hardeep's return to London, he begins broadcasting his newly invented celibate state in a bid to attract women. With this deception more than successful, he turns to the naive country wife, Preethi, to settle some unfinished business between old friends.
The Cripple of Inishmaan
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been grazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank.
by Simon Stephens (Adapter), Mark Haddon (Author)
Simon Stephens's adaptation of Mark Haddon's bestselling, award-winning novel offers a richly theatrical exploration of this touching and bleakly humorous tale. "A curiously successful case of a hit novel turned into a play … This is a profoundly moving play about adolescence, fractured families, mathematics, colours and lights — Michael Coveney, The Independent
'da Kink in My Hair
by Trey Anthony
Set in a West Indian hair salon in Toronto, 'da Kink in My Hair introduces us to a group of women who tell us their unforgettable, moving, and often hilarious stories.
Damsels in Distress: An Ayckbourn Trilogy: Game Plan / Flat Spin / Role Play
Days of Significance
by Roy Williams
Days of Significance is the new work by Roy Williams commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and staged at the Swan Theatre in January 2007. Roy Williams was the first recipient of the Alfred Fagon Award for Starstruck in 1997, which also won the John Whiting Award in the same year. His other plays include Josie's Boys, Night and Day, Home Boys, which was broadcast on Radio 4, and Lift Off (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs). His more recent work includes The Gift.
Dead Man's Cell Phone
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man-with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play The Clean House. A work about how we memorialize the dead-and how that remembering changes us-it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
by Steven Levenson (Author), Benj Pasek (Composer), Justin Paul (Composer)
A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed could be his. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to belong. Deeply personal and profoundly universal, Dear Evan Hansen is a groundbreaking American musical about truth, fiction, and the price we're willing to pay for the possibility to connect.
Death and the King's Horseman: A Play
by Wole Soyinka
Soyinka both entertains and asks subtle questions about mass psychology, individual psychology, and universal human struggles of the will.
Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams
Four-time Tony Award-winning author Terrence McNally returns with a powerful new play about how far one will go for one's love of the theater. In a small upstate New York town, Lou, a speech and drama teacher, and Jessie, a dog groomer at The Dapper Dog, bring joy to their community through running an amateur theater company. They become obsessed with buying a derelict movie theater and turning it into Captain Lou and Miss Jessie's Magic Theater for Children of All Ages. The only obstacle in reaching their dream is Annabelle Willard — a terminally ill and manipulative widow who owns half the town. Will these naive dreamers be able to grasp the brass ring, and at what cost?
"As thoughtful and probing as its predecessor, Defiance [is] filled with the provocative questions and bristling dialogue for which Mr. Shanley is known . . . as it wonders about its big, knotty subjects."-Ben Brantley, The New York Times
by Michael Frayn
In Democracy, Michael Frayn once again creates out of the known events of twentieth-century history a drama of extraordinary urgency and subtlety, reimagining the interactions and motivations of Willy Brandt as he became chancellor of West Germany in 1966 and those of his political circle, including Gunter Guillaume, a functionary who became Brandt's personal assistant-and who was eventually exposed as an East German spy in a discovery that helped force Brandt from office.
Den of Thieves
by Stephen Adly Guirgis
by Lisa D'Amour
"Detroit is a brilliantly observed piece of art about a particular time and place. That time is now — and by now I mean the current post-recessionary America. That place is a pair of backyards in the suburb of a great American city that has been rocked on its heels." –Chris Jones, The Chicago Tribune
Devil Inside
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Ding Dong the Wicked
"Churchill implies that all societies today seethe with a paranoia that turns every knock at the door into a threat, and that we all-too-easily translate our private range into public violence." – The Guardian
Dirty Story
Disgraced
by Ayad Akhtar
"[A] blistering social drama about the racial prejudices that secretly persist in progressive cultural circles." – Variety
The Distance from Here
With little to occupy their time other than finding a decent place to hang out — the zoo, the mall, the school parking lot — Darrell and Tim are two American teenagers who lack any direction or purpose in their lives. When Darrell's suspicion about the faithlessness of his girlfriend is confirmed and Tim comes to her defense, there is nothing to brake their momentum as all three speed toward disaster.
Dogeaters: A Play About the Philippines (Adapted from the Novel)
by Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
Jessica Hagedorn has transformed her bestselling novel about the Philippines during the reign of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos into an equally powerful theatrical piece that is a multi-layered tour de force.
A Dog's Life
by Diane Grant
George Mercer has problem. Unless he can pay the rent by 5 pm, his landlord will lock the doors and throw his small, but dedicated, troupe of actors out of their theatre.
Dolly West's Kitchen
by Frank McGuinness
Set in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland, during World War II, Dolly West's Kitchen is centered on a family struggling to come to terms not only with the effects of war on their country and their family but also with their own inability to respond to one another as situations — and they themselves — change. As the characters talk of love, sex, war, the English, de Valera, and the Yanks, Dolly West's Kitchen becomes a deeply moving evocation of the fantasy and the reality that was Ireland in the 1940s, filled with the richness of character and sense of place that have always marked Frank McGuinness's writing.
Doubt: A Parable
Chosen as the best play of the year by over 10 newspapers and magazines, Doubt is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, where a strong-minded woman wrestles with conscience and uncertainty as she is faced with concerns about one of her male colleagues.
DramaContemporary: Germany
by Carl Weber (Editor)
DramaContemporary: India
by Erin B. Mee (Editor)
India has one of the world's richest theater traditions. Written and performed in a number of India's myriad languages and dialects, its recent plays reflect the diversity of experiences, outlooks, and histories that both unite and divide the people of the subcontinent. In DramaContemporary: India, Erin Mee gathers six modern plays from across the country that demonstrate the vitality of Indian theater today.
Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?
Jack would do anything for Sam. Sam would do anything. And around this simple premise, Caryl Churchill slyly crafts her new play depicting a deeply dysfunctional gay relationship — which is actually all about America. Premiering in fall 2006 at London's Royal Court Theatre, this is Churchill's first work since A Number and is another speedy, taut, two-hander that shows off her uncanny ability to write both topically and elliptically at the same time. With this play Churchill — who has taken on everything from Thatcherism to human cloning — continues her more than thirty-year tradition of producing "studies of a world quaking under constant siege in which style somehow always uniquely mirrors content." (The New York Times)
Dublin Carol
by Conor McPherson
Dumb Show
by Joe Penhall
Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice: Five South African Plays
by Ashwin Singh
"An anthology of five engaging and eclectic South African plays by award-winning playwright Ashwin Singh."
Dying City
by Christopher Shinn
In Christopher Shinn's new play Dying City, a young therapist, Kelly, whose husband Craig was killed while on military duty in Iraq, is confronted a year later by his identical twin Peter, who suspects that Craig's death was not accidental. Set in a spare downtown-Manhattan apartment after dark, scenes shift from the confrontation between Peter and Kelly, to Kelly's complicated farewell with her husband Craig. Shinn's creepy, sophisticated drama-infused with references to 9/11 and the war in Iraq-explores how contemporary politics and recent history have transformed the lives of these three characters.
by Danai Gurira
Civil war is raging in Liberia. Four young women – members of the rebel army – are struggling to survive. Yet sometimes, the greatest threat comes not from the enemy's guns, but from the brutality of those on your own side. With the arrival of a new girl, who can read, and an old one, who can kill, how might this transform the future of this hard-bitten sisterhood?
Einstein's Gift
by Vern Thiessen
A scientist who enhances life with his work and knowledge but discovers too late that knowledge in the wrong hands brings death. Chance, pride, ego, and passion collide in this piece based on the life and work of Nobel Laureate Dr. Fritz Haber, who risked everything for a country that never accepted him but used his work to murder millions.
Elizabeth Rex
by Timothy Findley
William Shakespeare and the formidable Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I, are brought together in a remarkable encounter on the night of April 22, 1616.
Elmina's Kitchen
by Kwame Kwei-Armah
This first major play by a young, British, black writer is a portrait of a one-parent family struggling to stay within the law amidst a sea of thievery, protection rackets and yardie violence on Hackney's Murder Mile.
Enron
By Lucy Prebble
"Lucy Prebble's hugely ambitious play, covering the rise and fall of the Texan energy company, Enron, is an exhilarating mix of political satire, modern morality and multimedia spectacle." Michael Billington, Guardian
Ensemble Works: An Anthology
by Ferdinand Lewis (Editor)
This major collection includes plays by the most important ensemble theatre companies working today, including Roadside Theater (Whitesburg, KY), Pregones Theater (Bronx, NY), Junebug Productions (New Orleans, LA), and A Traveling Jewish Theatre (San Francisco, CA). Each play is accompanied by a preface which discusses the company's personal (and practical) approach to the collaborative ensemble process.
Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout
by Tomson Highway
Escaped Alone
"A light-on-its-feet, elliptical view of apocalypse …. It foresees that when we are poisoned by chemical leaks, private patients will be able to buy gas masks in assorted colours. That when a wind developed by property developers starts turning heads inside out, the army will fire nets to catch flying cars. That the obese will sell slices of themselves …. Let's pretend for a moment that all this is routine. That it is normal to assume that older women can get together without talking about the menopause, and that their experience might be seen as central rather than an inflection of men's. The effect is revolutionary. Like looking at a sexually reversed photo of world leaders. Instead of a crowd of men and Angela Merkel in a trouser suit, you see a host of women. And David Cameron in a skirt." – The Guardian
Ethnicities: Plays from the New West
by Anne Nothof
Anthology of plays by western Canadian writers of colour
Exits and Entrances
by Athol Fugard
This new play about life and art by renowned playwright Athol Fugard is based on his early friendship with actor Andrew Huegonit, considered the finest classical actor of their native South Africa. Athol Fugard has been working in the theater as a playwright, director, and actor since the mid-1950s in South Africa, England, and the United States. His major works for the stage include Blood Knot, Master Harold…and the boys, My Children! My Africa!, A Lesson From Aloes, The Road to Mecca, Valley Song, and The Captain's Tiger. He has been widely produced in South Africa, London, Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theaters in the United States.
The Exonerated
by Jessica Blank, Erik Jensen
"Both compelling and deeply moving… This documentary-style presentation relating the true stories of people exonerated of their crimes while serving on death row is a riveting theatrical experience." –Frank Scheck, Hollywood
An Experiment With an Air Pump
by Shelagh Stephenson
The Faber Book of Monologues: Men
by Jane Edwardes (Editor)
The Faber Book of Monologues: Women
by Jackie Sibblies Drury
Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doomed from the start: the silverware is all wrong, the carrots need chopping and the radio is on the fritz. What at first appears to be a family comedy takes a sharp, sly turn into a startling examination of deep-seated paradigms about race in America. Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. "A glorious, scary reminder of the unmatched power of live theater to rattle, roil and shake us wide awake." — Ben Brantley, New York Times
The Fall of Don Juan
by Valentin Krasnogorov
A beguiling, mysterious comedy by one of Russia's leading dramatists. Circumstances force a bride and groom, also successful business partners, to ask a total stranger — an aging, oddly behaving man — to be the witness at their wedding. Their chance meeting dramatically changes all three.
The macabre business of blight and death, of wakes and murder, of poisoned love and lost hope, and the scandal of an emigration policy that was in effect one of transportation, and include some of the modern Irish theatre's most powerful and poetic scenes.
The Farnsworth Invention
by Aaron Sorkin
From the creator of "The West Wing." It's 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device called "television." Separated by two thousand miles, each knows that if he stops working, even for a moment, the other will gain the edge. Who will unlock the key to the greatest innovation of the 20th century: the ruthless media mogul, or the self-taught Idaho farm boy? "Vintage Sorkin and crackling prime-time theater . . . breezy and shrewd, smart-alecky and idealistic." –Newsday
Fat Pig
Cow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus sized-and then some. Forced to explain his new relationship to his shallow (although shockingly funny) friends, finally he comes to terms with his own preconceptions of the importance of conventional good looks. Neil LaBute's sharply drawn play not only critiques our slavish adherence to Hollywood ideals of beauty but boldy questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves.
The Ferryman
by Jez Butterworth
Armagh, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of feasting and celebrations lie ahead. But this year they will be interrupted by a visitor. "A richly absorbing and emotionally abundant play … an instant classic." — Independent. "Jez Butterworth is back — and how … his new play is a mighty affair, sending stories, characters, history, politics and love skittering across the floor with the flair of a gambler rolling dice … a magnificent play that uses, brilliantly, the vitality of live theatre to express the deadly legacy of violence." — Financial Times
Finished from the Start and Other Plays
by Juan Radrigan, Ana Elena Puga (Translator), Monica Nunez-Parra (Translator)
This collection of plays comes from one of Chile's finest voices of the voiceless: Juan Radrigkn. A history marked by personal and political hardship has equipped Radrigkn to tell the stories of those his nation left behind. Seven years old when his father abandoned his family, he was forced to work from an early age. As an adult, he worked as a manual laborer during a very dark time for Chile: the demise of Salvador Allende and the rise of General Augusto Pinochet. In a time of torture, exile, and political "disappearances," his plays stood as quietly powerful anti-regime statements that mourned the country's loss. Translator Ana Elena Puga's introduction places Radrigkn's work in its historical and cultural context and provides ample background for the six pieces.
The Fire This Time: African-American Plays for the 21st Century
by Harry Justin Elam (Editor), Robert Alexander (Editor)
A major new anthology of African-American plays by writers including August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Lynn Nottage, Robert O'Hara, Robert Alexander, Brian Freeman, Oni Faidi Lampley, Kamilah Forbes and The Hip Hop Junction, and Stephen Sapp and Universes.
Fish in the Dark
by Larry David
The astonishing playwriting debut of Larry David, the multiple Emmy-winning star of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and co-creator of "Seinfeld." This sidesplitting play, a testimony to David's great writing talent, is also his first time on Broadway — in fact, his first time acting on stage since eighth grade. He stars as Norman Drexel, a man in his fifties who is average in most respects except for his hyperactive libido. As Norman and his family try to navigate the death of a loved one, old acquaintances and unsettled arguments resurface with hilarious consequences.
Set against the inexorable march of progress in contemporary black London culture, Kwame Kwei-Armah's second play for the National Theatre explores race and roots with an assured verve and comic wit. Kwame Kwei-Armah lives in London. He is the author of Bitter Herb and Elmina's Kitchen. He is also an actor, and has also appeared in films such as Cutthroat Island and Three Kings.
Fleabag: The Special Edition
by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's debut play is an outrageously funny monologue — the foul-mouthed, hysterically funny, rip-roaring account of Fleabag, a twentysomething female struggling with being a modern woman. "Funny, vibrant, and blunt as a hammerhead." (New York Magazine)
The Flick
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, the tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks of three underpaid employees play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world. "Funny, heartbreaking, sly, and unblinking . . . . The Flick may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity, and profound uniqueness, of theater."- New York Times
The Flu Season
by Will Eno
Forbidden Acts: Pioneering Gay and Lesbian Plays of the 20th Century
by Ben Hodges (Editor)
This well-selected anthology chronologically examines 10 plays that "are notable for having explored gay or lesbian themes in what might be loosely termed a 'pioneering' way." Encompassing genres from drama and tragedy to romance and comedy, the compilation — which includes three out-of-print plays — deftly shows how the 20th-century stage progressed from burying and implying homosexuality to showing gay characters with an "unapologetic, happenstance presentation."
by Kevin Elyot
Don still carries a torch for Diana, but Howard stole her away. Fifteen years later, Don shows up on their doorstep, his mother's ashes in a plastic bag. Meanwhile, Howard and Diana's 14-year-old daughter Hermia is the spitting image of her mother. Here we are in Elyot-land, where the wish to re-live the past can threaten normal moral constraints.
Four by Sondheim: A Little Night Music / Sweeney Todd / Sunday in the Park with George / A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler, James Lapine, Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart
Frank McGuinness Plays 2: Mary and Lizzie; Someone Who'll Watch Over Me; Dolly West's Kitchen; the Bird Sanctuary
A Free Man of Color
by John Guare
John Guare's new play is astonishing, raucous and panoramic. Before law and order took hold, and class, racial and political lines were drawn, New Orleans was a carnival of beautiful women, flowing wine and pleasure for the taking. At the center of this Dionysian world is the mulatto Jacques Cornet, who commands men, seduces women and preens like a peacock. But, it is 1801 and the map of New Orleans is about to be redrawn. The Louisiana Purchase brings American rule and racial segregation to the chaotic, colorful world of Jacques Cornet and all that he represents, turning the tables on freedom and liberty. "A Free Man of Color just might be a masterpiece . . . one of the three or four most stirring new plays I've seen." –Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
Frontline Drama 6: New French Plays
by David Bradby
Five recent plays presented at the French Theatre Season, London "Agnes", Catherine Anne; "Le Renaud du Nord", Noelle Renaud; "Mickey La Torche", Natacha de Pontcharra; "Une Envie de Tuer sur le Bout de la Langue", Xavier Durringer; and "Encore une Annee pour Rien", Christopher Pellet.
by Bryony Lavery
One evening, ten-year-old Rhona goes missing. Her mother, Nancy, retreats into a state of frozen hope. Agnetha, an academic, comes to England to research a thesis entitled "Serial Killings: A Forgivable Act?" Then there's Ralph, a loner with a bit of a record who's looking for some distraction . . . Drawn together by horrific circumstances, these three embark upon a long, dark journey that finally curves upward into the light. "[A] big, brave, compassionate play about grief, revenge, forgiveness and bearing the unbearable." –The Guardian
Fuddy Meers
Fuddy Meers revolves around an amnesiac, Claire, who wakes up every morning as a blank slate, on which her family must imprint the facts of her life. On this particular day, the shenanigans begin with Claire being abducted by a limping man who claims to be her brother trying to save her from her evil husband. They drive to the home of her mother, who has had a stroke that left her aphasic (her attempt to say funny mirrors provides the play's title. The ensuing mayhem is both deliriously funny and oddly touching.
by Terrence McNally, David Yazbek
The hit musical based on the hit movie.
Full Moon in Summer
by Michel Tremblay
On six moonlit Montreal balconies on a sultry summer's evening, eleven people tell their stories of love. Each pieces together the landscape of an affair, tracing the graduations between intoxication highs and heartbreaking lows. Inspired by the discovery of a lost mass by Berlioz, A Full Moon in Summer dispenses with religious themes but uses the ritual of a traditional mass to lay bare the characters' overpowering emotions.
Further Than the Furthest Thing
by Zinnie Harris
Gary Owen Plays 1: Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco / The Shadow of A Boy / The Drowned World / Cancer Time / Fags
by Gary Owen
The first volume of collected plays by one of Wales' most talented young writers. Introduction by Vicky Featherstone, director of the Scottish National Theatre. Gary Owen is the author of Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco, The Island of the Blessed, and Ghost City. His last play, The Drowned World, won the 2002 George Devine Award.
by Michael Healey
From the author of The Draqwe Boy
Gethsemane
Nothing is more important to a modern political party than fund-raising. But the values of the donors can't always coincide with the professed beliefs of the party. And family scandal within the cabinet has the potential to throw both the money-raisers and the money-spenders into chaos. This richly imagined ensemble play about British public life looks at the way business, media and politics are now intertwined to nobody's advantage, as, in an unforgiving world, one character after another passes through Gethsemane.
Getting Frankie Married and Afterwards and Other Plays
by Horton Foote
Booklist: All six plays, most of them produced in the last five years, are, thanks to Foote's careful, evocative character development, as moving on the page as onstage.
Girl at her Mirror
by Alan Rossett
Two actresses, one young, one old, trace the journey of Olivia, from her conventional beginnings in the French provinces, through her tumultous collisions with the art world, her marriage to a portraitist specialising in beautiful women, and the Paradise that turns into Hell for both of them. "Light, funny and utterly charming . . . the essence of Alan Rossett." – FR 3
Give Me Your Answer, Do!
by Brian Friel
Author of the Tony Award-winning Dancing at Lughnasa, Friel is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent dramatists. His latest work, the rich and haunting play, Give Me Your Answer, Do!, is already an international success. "Gripping! A play of surpassing beauty and complexity, a lyrical and mysterious creation by a great playwright." –The Wall Street Journal
Gizmo Love
by John Kolvenbach
Gizmo Love is a hilarious black comedy thriller that delves into the cutthroat world of Tinsel Town-Hollywood at its most ruthless.
Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine
by Warren Leight
Warren Leight burst onto Broadway with the Tony Award-winning play Side Man. Now Leight returns to the broken lives of jazzmen with Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine, which Donald Lyons in the New York Post declared "a marvelous … play … of jazzmen who made a mess of their lives, and a new generation without their demons."
The Glory of Living
by Rebecca Gilman
Set in the rural Deep South, Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living received critical acclaim rare for a new American play when it had its British premiere in 1999, garnering the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. Set to open in New York in the fall of 2001, this work focuses on fifteen-year-old Lisa, the daughter of a prostitute, and Clint, the car thief she runs away with to escape the misery of life with her mother. But the happier times that sullenly childlike Lisa yearns for never materialize, as Clint orders her to procure young runaways for him. No one notices that these teenage girls are missing until an anonymous call to the police reports their murders. Could the caller — and the killer — be Lisa? Rebecca Gilman has created a riveting, unsentimental portrait of a young woman whose most striking quality is not her capacity for evil but the depth of her emptiness, in an environment as harsh and unyielding as the contours of her life.
The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee's most provocative, daring, and controversial play since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martin, a successful architect who has just turned fifty, leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son. But when he confides to his best friend that he is also in love with a goat (named Sylvia), he sets in motion events that will destroy his family and leave his life in tatters.
A God in Need of Help
by Sean Dixon
It's 1606 and Europe is at war over God. At the behest of Rudolf II of Austria, Venice's four strongest men are charged with transporting a holy painting — Albrecht Dürer's The Brotherhood of the Rosary — across the Alps to Prague. In the small Alpine village of Pusterwald, they are set upon by Protestant zealots; their escape is attributed to a miracle.
The God of Carnage
by Yasmina Reza
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums, and tears before bedtime?
The God of Hell
by Sam Shepard
"A robust new farce that shows Mr. Shepard's gift for finding deadpan surrealism in bucolic speech." – The New York Times
The Goodman Theatre's Festival Latino: Six Plays
by Henry D. Godinez (Editor) , Ramón H. Rivera-Servera (Editor)
Drawn from the first ten years of the Goodman Theatre's renowned biennial festival of Latino plays, the works in this collection expand the definition of Latino theater, resisting the confines of a particular language, locale, or assumed audience.
"Good People" is set in South Boston, the blue-collar neighborhood where Lindsay-Abaire himself grew up: Margie Walsh, let go from yet another job and facing eviction, decides to appeal to an old flame who has made good and left his Southie past behind. Lindsay-Abaire offers us both his "quiet three-dimensional depth" (Los Angeles Times) and his carefully observed humor in this exploration of life in America when you're on your last dollar.
by Liz Lochhead
Liz Lochhead is a poet, playwright, performer and broadcaster. She was born in Motherwell in 1947, studied at Glasgow School of Art and now lives in Glasgow. She first attracted notice with her play Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, and susequently with Perfect Days, Misery Guts and her adaptation of Medea.
The Graduate (adapted for the stage)
by Terry Johnson
Graeae Plays 1: New Plays Redefining Disability
by Jenny Sealey
Grasses of a Thousand Colors
by Wallace Shawn
This poetic epic about a scientist, his wife, and his two mistresses as they fend for their lives in a world savagely close to extinction raises issues of redemption, forgiveness, and responsibility.
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
by Betsy Kelso, David Nehls
by Charles Dickens (Author), Neil Bartlett (Adapter)
Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: Three Plays
by Rajiv Joseph
This volume gathers together for the first time three major works by one of today's most acclaimed young playwrights. Included herein are his latest play, Gruesome Playground Injuries, which charts the intersection of two lives using scars, wounds, and calamity as the mile markers to explore why people hurt themselves to gain another's love and the cumulative effect of such damage; Animals Out of Paper, a subtle, elegant, yet bracing examination of the artistic impulse and those in its thrall, which follows a world-famous origamist as she becomes the unwitting mentor to a troubled young prodigy, even as she must deal with her own loss of inspiration; and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a darkly comedic drama that looks on as the lives of two American soldiers, an Iraqi translator, and a tiger intersect on the streets of Baghdad.
The Guys: A Play
by Anne Nelson
From her experience helping a New York fire captain prepare eulogies for the men in his command who died on 9/11, Nelson distilled this two-person play.
The Habit of Art
Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, "Death in Venice," seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. Auden. Alan Bennett's new play is as much about the theater as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion's spent: ultimately, on the habit of art. "A multi-levelled work that deals with sex, death, creativity, biography and much else besides . . . beautifully written . . . deeply moving." –Michael Billington, The Guardian
Mapleview Lanes – address of "The Canadian Dream." The newest resident – a group home for troubled teens. There goes the neighborhood. Disturbing and touching, funny and heartbreaking, this is classic Judith Thompson.
by John Mighton
Paparback
Two nursing home residents rekindle what might have been a wartime romance. The award-winning author of Possible Worlds brings us this poetic and moving meditation on identity, aging and the nature of memory. What shines through when memory fades away? John Mighton is a Dora, Chalmers and Governor General's Literary Award for Drama winner.
The Hallway Trilogy
by Adam Rapp
Multi-talented artist and provocateur Adam Rapp shocks and disturbs, weaving themes of love, suffering, and redemption throughout this alarming yet heartening critical examination of societal change. Spanning one hundred years in one Lower East Side tenement hallway, this series of connected plays—Rose, Paraffin, and Nursing—is a dark and compelling exploration of what binds people together and drives them apart. Packed with searing dialogue and harrowing narratives, The Hallway Trilogy "bristles with humor" and "contains some of Rapp's most sensitive and mature writing" (The New York Times).
Hamilton: The Revolution (includes libretto)
Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B, and the best traditions of theater, this once-in-a-generation show broadens the sound of Broadway, reveals the storytelling power of rap, and claims our country's origins for a diverse new generation. Hamilton: The Revolution gives readers an unprecedented view of both revolutions, from the only two writers able to provide it. Miranda, along with Jeremy McCarter, a cultural critic and theater artist who was involved in the project from its earliest stages — "since before this was even a show," according to Miranda — traces its development from an improbable performance at the White House to its landmark opening night on Broadway six years later. In addition, Miranda has written more than 200 funny, revealing footnotes for his award-winning libretto, the full text of which is published here.
Handke Plays One
by Peter Handke
Hangmen
I'm just as good as bloody Pierrepoint. In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars, dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, a peculiar stranger lurks, with a very different motive for his visit.
The Hard Problem
The Hard Problem is a tour de force, exploring fundamental questions of how we experience the world, as well as telling the moving story of a young woman whose struggle for understanding her own life and the lives of others leads her to question the deeply held beliefs of those around her.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript
by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany
It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: Sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places. "Fans can breathe easy knowing this play has been respectfully and lovingly wrought. Tensions thrum, spells fly but at center stage, as always in the Potterverse, is the overriding importance of love and friendship, especially in the face of danger." — Booklist "Whether encountered on stage or on the page, this trip back into the magical world of Hogwarts is thrilling." — Telegraph
"Pure Shepard. . . . There are great, tantalizing lines like, 'Another fable in the Los Angeles canon of hysterical imaginings,' which may be a description of the play itself." — The Philadelphia Inquirer
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
by John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, John Guare (Introduction)
On Valentine's day, 1998, Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened to rave reviews, and the phenomenon that is Hedwig was born. This fierce rock musical, with its central metaphor inspired by Plato's Symposium, tells the story of Hedwig Schmidt, a "fourth wall-smashing, German rock & roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a gruesomely botched sex-change operation" (Time Out). This unique and outrageous story, dazzlingly recounted by Hedwig (n Hansel) in the form of a sleazy lounge act and backed by the rocking band "The Angry Inch," begins in the former East Berlin when Hansel meets Luther, an American GI who promises to take the young man back to the States on the condition that he change his sex and become Hedwig. This spectacular tale of abject love has been "knocking the socks off New York theater-goers with a much-needed jolt of twisted bathos and wigged-out histrionics" (The Advocate).
Herb Gardner: The Collected Plays
by Herb Gardner
Sebastian Barry examines the personal and public risks involved in making political advances on a national scale. Weaving modern history in with the life story of a man and his family, Barry has created another searching drama of the uneasy balance between heroism and roguery in Irish politics.
His Dark Materials: New Edition
by Philip Pullman (Author), Nicholas Wright (Adapter)
His Greatness
Three men — a great American playwright named Tennessee Williams, his trusted and loyal assistant, and a young Canadian street hustler –find themselves together for two days in a Vancouver hotel room. This is the story about the nature of life in a created world.
The History Boys
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university, generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim, of their schooling. "Nothing could diminish the incendiary achievement of this subtle, deep-wrought and immensely funny play about the value and meaning of education . . . In short, a superb, life-enhancing play." — The Guardian
Hitchcock Blonde
A media lecturer and his female protege find some deteriorated Hitchcock footage. It would appear they had discovered some early rushes but what film were they for and who is the mysterious blonde?
Hollywood Arms
by Carol Burnett
Homebody/Kabul (Final revised version)
Set in Kabul, this play examines current day Afghanistan, its history, its long tortured relationship with the West and its current political and humantarian crisis. The play centers around the disappearance of an eccentric British woman (the Homebody) and the search for her by her husband and daughter. In their quest for the truth and closure, the lines between real and unreal, the political and the personal are intentionally blurred and are fully ambiguous.
The Home Place
The year is 1878. The widowed Christopher Gore, his son David and their housekeeper Margaret, the woman with whom they are both in love, live at The Lodge in Ballybeg. But in this era of unrest at the dawn of Home Rule, their seemingly serene life is threatened by the arrival of Christopher's English cousin, who unwittingly ignites deep animosity among the villagers of Ballybeg.
Horton Foote Collected Plays Volume III
Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams
A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy
by Tennessee Williams (Author), Gregory Mosher (Foreword), Thomas Keith (Editor)
Two plays — designed to be performed simultaneously and involving the same characters — set in the same English country house on the same cloudy August day, are Alan Ayckbourn's vehicle for a sharp and hilarious scrutiny of the destructive nature of human behavior and emotions. "An audacious, crazy, altogether brilliant achievement." Richard Zoglin, Time magazine.
House Arrest and Piano: Two Plays
by Anna Deveare Smith
From the award-winning actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, two teeming, pungent cross-sections of the American experience.
Humana Festival 2017: The Complete Plays
by Amy Wegener (Editor), Jenni Page-White (Editor)
The Humana Festival 2017 anthology brings together all nine scripts from the 2017 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 41st annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. This compilation features extraordinary work by some of the most inventive voices in American theatre, including the full-length plays I Now Pronounce by Tasha Gordon-Solmon, We're Gonna Be Okay by Basil Kreimendahl, Cry It Out by Molly Smith Metzler, Recent Alien Abductions by Jorge Ignacio Cortinas, and Airness by Chelsea Marcantel. The book also includes The Many Deaths of Nathan Stubblefield, written by Jeff Augustin, Sarah DeLappe, Claire Kiechel, and Ramiz Monsef in collaboration, as well as the ten-minute plays The New Line by Will Eno, Home Invasion by Krista Knight, and Melto Man and Lady Mantis by Eric Pfeffinger.
The Humans
by Stephen Karam
"A middle-class family seems to be spiraling toward perilous entropy in The Humans, the blisteringly funny, bruisingly sad and altogether wonderful play by Stephen Karam . . . . The Humans is a major discovery, a play as empathetic as it is clear-minded, as entertaining as it is honest. For all the darkness at its core — a darkness made literal in its ghostly conclusion — a bright light shines forth from it, the blazing luminescence of collective artistic achievement." –Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
The Hyphenated American: Four Plays — Red, Scissors, a Beautiful Country, and Wonderland
by Chay Yew, Craig Lucas, David Roman (Introduction)
Chay Yew has been hailed by Time magazine as "a promising new voice in American theater." In this collection of four new plays, Yew continues to explore issues of artistic expression, self-identity, and the immigrant experience.
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PREMIER LEAGUE teams have been on rollercoaster rides since last season.
The Premier League can be a merciless land where last season's acheivements mean next-to-nothing and form can flip in an instant.
Leicester and Chelsea's fortunes have entirely switched around but how does your top flight side compare to last season?


Revolutions and their legacies shape the world we live in today, on tour of Russia students will explore consequences of the Russian Revolution and the profound effect they had. From Moscow to St Petersburg, students will embark on guided city tours and visit iconic attractions such as the Red Square, Lenin's Mausoleum and Yusupov Palace.
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Specifically, she believes there are three areas in the consumer Internet space that are ready to be re-imagined: your ear and body, the car and the TV. New devices and services like Siri, Spotify and Soundcloud are already changing the way we interact with our devices and music, but there is still a lot that is left to be done in Meeker's view. The car, where Americans spend an average of 54 minutes per day, also remains largely unchanged today (though it's worth noting that connected cars are quickly coming to the mainstream market now).
Then, of course, there is the TV. With over 50 million Internet-enabled TVs in U.S. households today (and more if you count those connected to Internet-enabled set-top boxes), that's definitely an area that's ripe for disruption and the fact that so many people are clamoring for Apple to announce its own TV shows how many consumers want a different TV experience.


Welcome to one of Canada's fastest growing cities—Leduc! The community of Southfork is a brand new neighbourhood only ten minutes south of Edmonton on Highway 2. Leduc's Southfork community offers all of the housing and amenities for a family-friendly lifestyle. Southfork boasts both single and multi-family properties, along with plenty of recreational spaces. Residents can enjoy miles of pathways, an abundance of parks and green space, and a beautifully landscaped pond for multiple outdoor activities. Southfork provides easy access to Leduc's multitude of businesses in its business park, along with its new community recreation centre, multiple trails, and quick access to Rabbit Hill Ski Resort. Enjoy an active lifestyle in Southfork!


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Westeloosheid is een neologisme voor de geopolitieke toestand, die gekenmerkt wordt doordat de Westerse wereld daar geen dominante politieke, diplomatieke, militaire en economische rol meer speelt.

Het is een leenwoord, ontleend aan het Engelse Westlessness. De term was de titel van het rapport van het Munich Security Report 2020.

Dit rapport schetste een wijdverbreid gevoel van onbehagen in het licht van bezorgheid om de teloorgang van de positie van het Westen, met een overzicht van de belangrijkste uitdagingen van het internationale veiligheidsbeleid.
Het analyseerde de actuele ontwikkelingen van het veiligheidsbeleid in China, Europa, Rusland en de Verenigde Staten en onderzocht de regionale dynamiek in het Middellandse Zeegebied, het Midden-Oosten en Zuid-Azië. Daarnaast werd aandacht geschonken aan problemen met ruimte en klimaat, evenals de bedreigingen die voortvloeien uit nieuwe technologieën en in toenemende mate "transnationaal rechtsextremisme".

De Munich Security Conference Foundation werkte bij het opstellen van het rapport samen met onder meer het Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), The Brookings Institution, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, de International Crisis Group, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), het Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), McKinsey & Company, het Pew Research Center, het Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) en het Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS). REPORTS"Westlessness": Munich Security Report 2020

Zie ook
 Geschiedenis van de westerse beschaving
 De ondergang van het Avondland - Oswald Spengler, 1922-1923.

Externe links
 Woord van de Dag op Taalbank.nl
 Interview met     filosoof Haroon Sheikh op NRC.nl
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New York Yankees trade for Baltimore Orioles pitcher Zach Britton
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Former Baltimore Orioles relief pitcher Zach Britton (53) and catcher Welington Castillo. File photo by David Tulis/UPI
The New York Yankees have agreed to a deal to acquire Baltimore Orioles closer Zach Britton.
Sources told the New York Post and MLB.com that New York is sending Dillon Tate, Josh Rogers and Triple-A reliever Cody Carroll to Baltimore in the deal.
The trade is pending physicals.
[post_ads]Britton, 30, has a 3.45 ERA and four saves in 16 appearances this season. He had a 2.89 ERA and 15 saves in 38 appearances during the 2017 season. The two-time All-Star led the American League with 47 saves in 2016. He also led the league in games finished in 2015 and 2016.
The 6-foot-3, 195-pound southpaw is due $12 million in 2018, the final year of his contract. The Yankees will pick of the remainder of Britton's salary this season -- about $5 million -- according to MLB.com.
Tate is the Yankees' No. 9 prospect while Carroll is ranked No. 15 in the Yankees' system. Tate, 24, was the No. 4 overall pick in the 2015 MLB June Amateur Draft. He has a 3.38 ERA and a 5-2 record in 15 starts in Double-A this season. Carroll, 25, had a 2.38 ERA and nine saves in 32 games in Triple-A this season. Rogers, 24, had a 3.95 ERA and a 6-8 record in 19 starts this season in Triple-A.
Sports - U.S. Daily News: New York Yankees trade for Baltimore Orioles pitcher Zach Britton
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How The United States And Europe Can Punish Russia For Ukraine Ship Attack
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Last weekend's maritime dust-up between Russia and Ukraine — in which the Russian navy fired on Ukrainian ships in the Sea of Azov — caught Western capitals by surprise. Predictably, the skirmish has elicited condemnations from a host of nations worried about the possibility of further escalation in the four-and-a-half-year-old conflict between Moscow and Kiev. But a resolute Western response to Russia's renewed aggression has been far slower to materialize.
This, however, hasn't been because of a lack of policy options. To the contrary, U.S. and European policymakers currently have a broad range of ways by which they can ratchet up the costs to Russia for the recent hostilities. Jakub Janda of the Prague-based European Values think tank has offered up a good preliminary list of such potential counter-moves, from ousting Russian intelligence officials from Europe to publishing data on the financial assets of oligarchs currently residing in the EU.
Such initial steps can and should be followed by others — beginning with a concrete military response. While NATO has increased its operations and presence in the Black Sea substantially since 2014, the Alliance has the ability to do still more. NATO's new mission should be robust, visible and built around two key goals: safeguarding the free flow of maritime traffic in the region (something that Russia's actions have threatened), and bolstering Ukrainian sovereignty by augmenting the military assistance already being provided to the country by the U.S. and Europe.
Sanctions have proven effective
More sanctions must also be part of the mix. The start of Russian aggression against Ukraine back in 2014 generated multiple rounds of escalating European and American economic pressure. These measures, despite Moscow's denials, are having a real effect. A recent study by Bloomberg Economics found that sanctions have had a substantial and "prolonged" effect on Russia's economy, which is now a full ten percent smaller than it was projected to be back in 2013. Additional economic penalties have the power to exacerbate this trend further – particularly if they target major Russian banks or key projects like the Nord Stream II pipeline (which Russia has come to view as its energy lifeline to Europe).
American and European policymakers also possess the power to dramatically expand direct pressure on Russian officials themselves.
Back in 2012, the U.S. Congress passed the Magnitsky Act to punish Russian officials for their role in the untimely death of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who had died in a Moscow prison after uncovering massive official graft and corruption. In 2016, the Magnitsky Act went global with a new, expanded version that authorized the U.S. government to enact visa bans and targeted sanctions against human rights violators anywhere in the world. These measures, in turn, have proven extremely effective in penalizing Russia because, with much of their wealth located abroad, Russia's elites require steady access to foreign jurisdictions and international banking.
Other countries are following America's lead
Other countries, in turn, have followed the American example. So far, in addition to the United States, Canada, several European countries and the European Parliament have all passed Magnitsky-type legislation — with Russian elites and officials remaining the principal targets. Many other foreign jurisdictions are currently considering implementing similar measures. By throwing their weight behind a fast tracking of the emerging "Global Magnitsky" regime, Washington and Brussels can dramatically turn up the heat on key Kremlin decision-makers.
The bottom line, then, is that the West has plenty of potential leverage that it can marshal against Russia's government in order to punish it for its most recent provocation — and to deter future ones. All that is necessary is for the United States and its partners in Europe to find the political will to use it.