"Caryl Churchhill plays with the idea of her parallel between colonial and sexual oppression. Act I takes place in Victorian Africa, whilst Act II is set in modern London. Much interplay is made of gender and colour: for example, Clive, the white settler, has a black servant, Joshua, who is played by a white because he wants to be what the whites want him to be"--Back cover.

Four plays dramatize the trials of Horace Robedaux, whose father's sudden death places Horace between his father's and his mother's families.

The life and times of Jose Antonio Hierro, his wife of 25 years, Elena, and their three children Sebastian, Sandy, and Wicho are followed.

The slow, horrifying deterioration of Kirsten and Joe's life due to alcohol is a terrifying thing to witness. Everything they once were, things they held precious, all crumble under the weight of their addiction. Alcohol has destroyed them, and now it is the only thing keeping them together.

"In 1967, sisters Juliet and Evangeline are abandoned by their mother at their unsuspecting grandparents' farm in the small southern town of Fireside. Stunned by their sudden arrival, tender-hearted Walt and champion fiddler Ruby graciously stand in for the missing parents and create one blue-ribbon recipe for a loving family. Fireside, home of radio Station KOFF, kept secrets, broken promises and to-die-for sundaes serves as the backdrop for this...

"The Waverly Gallery is about the final years of a generous, chatty, and feisty grandmother's final battle against Alzheimer's disease. Gladys is an old-school lefty and social activist and longtime owner of a small art gallery in Greenwich Village. The play explores her fight to retain her independence and the subsequent effect of her decline on her family, especially her grandson. More than a memory play, The Waverly Gallery captures the humor and...

A trilogy of plays that follows the Avery family, their friends and acquaintances through 37 years of life in a North Carolina town, from pre-World War II until the Vietnam era. Through their terse, elegant, often poetic speech, a certain melancholy at its base, readers gradually know these people and enter their world.

The Lover is a 1962 one-act play by Harold Pinter. Pinter leads the audience to believe that there are three characters in the play: the wife, the husband and the lover. But the lover who comes to call in the afternoons is revealed to be the husband adopting a role. He plays the lover for her: she plays the whore for him. The play contrasts bourgeois domesticity with sexual yearning. --Wikipedia.com.

During the dust and heat of a long Kansas summer, William Inge's A Loss of Roses is a tale set in a Depression both economic and emotional. Lila Green, a tent show actress who' traveling troupe has folded, finds refuge with old friends in a small town. Helen Baird, a respectable widowed nurse and former neighbor, looks on her with motherly affection, and son Kenny has fond memories of the "Aunt Lila"who used to babysit him. But Kenny is now a full-grown...