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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	The Exonerated A Play Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen Faber and Faber, Inc. "[A] stark, spellbinding play [and] a profoundly moving excursion through the cracks in the justice system."—Peter Marks, The Washington Post

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Wit

A Play

Margaret Edson Faber and Faber, Inc.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“Among the finest plays of the decade . . . An original and urgent work of art.”—David Lyons, The Wall Street Journal

Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Drama

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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins A Play Nick Flynn; With an afterword by the author Faber and Faber, Inc. "Flynn's talents are considerable—he has a compelling voice and a wry sense of humor."—Vendela Vida, The New York Times Book Review

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Wrecks And Other Plays Neil LaBute Faber and Faber, Inc. "LaBute . . . continues to probe the fascinating dark side of individualism . . . [His] great gift is to live in and to chronicle that murky area of not-knowing, which mankind spends much of its waking life denying."—John Lahr, The New Yorker

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	In a Dark Dark House A Play Neil LaBute Faber and Faber, Inc. "[LaBute's] view of modern men and women is unsparing . . . [He] is holding up a pitiless mirror to ourselves. We may not like what we see, but we can't deny that—if only in some dark corner of our souls—it is there."—*Jacques le Sourd, The Journal News* (White Plains, New York)**

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Reasons to Be Pretty A Play Neil LaBute Faber and Faber, Inc. "Like a giant, mischievous child poking a dog with a stick, [LaBute] delights in seeing what he can get away with . . [He's] the bad boy of American theater . . . Devastating and dangerously funny."—Jumana Farouky, Time

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Frost/Nixon

A Play

Peter Morgan Faber and Faber, Inc.

"A smash London and Broadway play about [Nixon's] famous post-presidential interviews with the British television-talk-show impresario David Frost . . . Nixon's odd attractiveness in Frost/Nixon should come as no surprise. All of Morgan's recent scripts—notably The Queen, about Elizabeth II in the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death, in 1997, and The Last King of Scotland, about the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin—have portrayed their historical protagonists as more complex and substantial than their prevailing public images.”—Michael Nelson, The Chronicle of Higher Education

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Four of Us A Play Itamar Moses Faber and Faber, Inc. "[Moses's] story goes where you expect it to and where you don't, along the way pondering the dilemmas of an artistic life and the ever-shifting nature of even the closest friendships."—Daryl H. Miller, Los Angeles Times

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Back Back Back; Celebrity Row; Outrage Three Plays Itamar Moses Faber and Faber, Inc. “To call Itamar Moses ‘promising’ no longer makes sense. He is already one of America’s most accomplished playwrights.”—Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Conversations in Tusculum A Play Richard Nelson Faber and Faber, Inc. Set in the village of Tusculum in 45 B.C., Richard Nelson's Conversations in Tusculum reimagines the intense interaction among Brutus, Cassius, and Cicero leading up to the assassination of Julius Caesar. It is a story about power—and the abuse of power—in ancient Rome that has startling resonance with our age.

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Betrayed

A Play

George Packer Faber and Faber, Inc.

"A Sunni who has worked for years as a translator for the Americans in Iraq, [Adnan] has been denied a visa to immigrate to the United States . . . His plight is one of three heart-rending tales woven together in Betrayed, a new play by George Packer about the suffering of Iraqis who have risked everything to help the American government and military in Iraq—and have, all too often, received insufficient protection in return. The play . . . explores its subject with a clean focus that draws out the emotional power of the material with clinical precision."—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

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Essential Self-Defense

A Play

Adam Rapp Faber and Faber, Inc.

"Rapp . . . is a gifted storyteller. He makes demands on his audience, and he rewards its close attention with depth and elegance."—John Lahr, The New Yorker

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Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Overwhelming A Play J. T. Rogers Faber and Faber, Inc. "I loved how messy the play's structure is, and Rogers’s great ambition as a writer . . . the Third World is seen in the harsh glare of a bare light bulb—the author's intelligence . . . [Rogers] explores a kind of anthropology of the self, making a narrative out of his own disenfranchisement."—Hilton Als, The New Yorker

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	God's Ear A Play Jenny Schwartz Faber and Faber, Inc. "This ode to love, loss, and the routines of life has the economy and dry wit of a Sondheim love song . . . Schwartz is a real talent and she is trying something ambitious . . . In [her] very modern way, [she is] making a rather old-fashioned case for the power of the written word."—Jason Zinoman, The New York Times

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Proof

A Play

David Auburn Faber and Faber, Inc.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"Auburn has taken on some biggies here: what the link may be between genius and mental instability, why it is that lives get stuck, and how elusive the truth can be . . . [Proof's] level of accomplishment and the realness of its characters show that Auburn has both depth and a voice."—The New Yorker

Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Drama

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Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	A Soldier's Play Charles Fuller Hill and Wang A black sergeant cries out in the night, "They still hate you," then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Spinning into Butter A Play Rebecca Gilman Faber and Faber, Inc. Set on a college campus in Vermont, Spinning into Butter is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Boy Gets Girl A Play Rebecca Gilman Faber and Faber, Inc. What is a stalker? And what kind of life can a woman lead when she knows she is being followed, obsessively and perhaps dangerously, by one? This is the...

Trade Paperback : $11.00 Buy	The Glory of Living A Play Rebecca Gilman Faber and Faber, Inc. The award-winning, "viscerally powerful" (The Guardian) early play by the author of Spinning Into Butter and Boy Gets Girl Set in the rural Deep South,...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Blue Surge A Play Rebecca Gilman Faber and Faber, Inc. Curt is a small-town cop in the Midwest; Sandy is the nineteen-year-old prostitute he first tries to arrest, then attempts to help, at the cost of his badge....

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Take Me Out

A Play

Richard Greenberg Faber and Faber, Inc.

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

"Mr. Greenberg brings his gymnastic verbal skills to bear on the subject of the all-American pastime . . . An enchanting and enchanted take on baseball . . . [It is] the story of Darren Lemming, a god among baseball players and the star of a team called the Empires, who sets off a complicated chain of ultimately tragic events when he publicly announces that he is gay. This allows Mr. Greenberg to consider . . . big, big subjects like sexual and racial prejudice, moral responsibility, public versus personal identities and the inability of people to ever truly know one another."—Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Violet Hour A Play Richard Greenberg Faber and Faber, Inc. In this new play by the Tony Award-winning playwright of Take Me Out, a fledgling (and upper-class) World War I-era publisher is trying to decide which work to...

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Our Lady of 121st Street

Jesus Hopped the A Train; In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings

Stephen Adly Guirgis Faber and Faber, Inc.

Short-listed for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing

"[Guirgis] may be the best playwright in America under 40 . . . [He] belongs on the list of accomplished young [playwrights] that includes Suzan-Lori Parks and David Auburn . . . Our Lady of 121st Street [is] a knockout."—Bruce Weber, The New York Times Magazine

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	The Last Days of Judas Iscariot A Play Stephen Adly Guirgis; With an introduction by the author Faber and Faber, Inc. "An ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud religious debate."—Toby Zinman, The Philadelphia Inquirer