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The Mercy Seat

A Play

Neil LaBute Faber and Faber, Inc.

"Though set in the cold, gray light of morning in a downtown loft with inescapable views of the vacuum left by the twin towers, The Mercy Seat really occurs in one of those feverish nights of the soul in which men and women lock in vicious sexual combat, as in Strindberg's Dance of Death and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"—Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Autobahn A Short-Play Cycle Neil LaBute Faber and Faber, Inc. "Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works...Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Fat Pig A Play Neil LaBute Faber and Faber, Inc. "LaBute [is] the dark shining star of stage and film morality."—Linda Winer, Newsday

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	This Is How It Goes A Play Neil LaBute Faber and Faber, Inc. "Seldom has [LaBute's] heart expressed itself as ambitiously or compellingly as it does in This Is How It Goes, the most frank, fearless look at race relations from a white dramatist since Rebecca Gilman's Spinning into Butter."—*USA Today*

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Some Girl(s)

A Play

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

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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

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Trade Paperback : $14.00 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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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

A Play

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Hill and Wang

A reissue of a now classic American drama. If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the...

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Ziegfeld

The Man Who Invented Show Business

Ethan Mordden St. Martin's Press

Any girl who twists her hat will be fired! – Florenz Ziegfeld And no Ziegfeld girl ever did as she made her way down the gala stairways of the Ziegfeld...

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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

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Bach at Leipzig

A Play

Itamar Moses; With a preface by Tom Stoppard Faber and Faber, Inc.

Leipzig, Germany, 1722: Johann Kuhnau, revered organist of the Thomaskirche, suddenly dies, leaving his post vacant. In order to fill the position, the city...

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 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	'night, Mother A Play Marsha Norman Hill and Wang 'night, Mother is a taut and fluid drama that addresses different emotions and special relations. By one of America's most talented playwrights, this play won...

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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

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Short Eyes A Play Miguel Piñero; Introduction by Marvin Felix Camillo Hill and Wang Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award This powerful drama of prison life is set in a house of detention where a group of young...

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Nocturne

A Play

Adam Rapp Faber and Faber, Inc.

"A startling, unnverving work of art that fiercely pushes the boundaries of theater . . . Rapp is an original—a distinctive voice . . . Nocturne will haunt you for a long time."—Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press

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Saroyan Writing Prize - Finalist - Drama

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Stone Cold Dead Serious

And Other Plays

Adam Rapp Faber and Faber, Inc.

Recent plays from "one of the more daring young stylists working today" (David Cote, Time Out New York) Adam Rapp's plays have captivated audiences across...

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Red Light Winter A Play Adam Rapp Faber and Faber, Inc. "Riveting . . . A clever portrait of sexual obsession that never quite shows its hand . . . With one foot in the buddy comedy of Sideways and another in the macho diabolism of Neil LaBute . . . for sure, this will be Rapp's deserved breakthrough play."—Chris Jones, Variety

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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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The Metal Children

A Play

Adam Rapp Faber and Faber, Inc.

“[Rapp] shows an exuberant love for the written word . . . [He] tells stories that encase classical themes—class and envy, ambition and alienation—in blunt terms and in modern settings.” —Jesse McKinley, The New York Times

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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

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No Applause--Just Throw Money

The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous

Trav S.D. Faber and Faber, Inc.

"Exuberant . . . Trav S.D. makes grand claims for vaudeville . . . His well-researched excursions into vaudeville's prehistory, and his arguments for its influential role in American culture, make his book something more than a fast-moving tour of popular entertainment and long-forgotten stars . . . By turns shrewd and amusing."—William Grimes, The New York Times

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