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Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A one-act satirical comedy about four white people trying to devise a politically correct First Thanksgiving play for Native American Heritage Month to be done in the schools. The director, Logan, hires a Native American actor to be their cultural compass. As Logan, Jaxton, and Caden defer to her for guidance, it is revealed that she is white and only plays Native American when she isn't playing other ethnicities. Without the Native voice, these four...
62) Torch song
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French, Inc
Pub. Date
20190501
Language
English
Description
"In Torch Song - the two-act revival of Harvey Fierstein's award-winning Torch Song Trilogy - the life of Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing, Jewish drag queen living in New York City, is dramatized over the span of the late 1970s and 1980s. Told with a likable, human voice, Arnold struggles through love, heartbreak, and the challenges of child-rearing. But, a visit from his overbearing mother reminds him that he needs one thing more: respect."--...
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As lines between characters and actors--as well as observers and observed--blur, a dizzying series of vignettes builds to a climactic moment in which performance and reality collide, highlighting the absurdity of anti-Blackness in our society. Through facilitation and dialogue we must decide how to cope, resist, and move forward"--Page [4] of cover.
64) Mud Row
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Two generations of sisters navigate class, race, love and family on "Mud Row," an area in the East End of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Elsie hopes to move up in the world by marrying into "the talented tenth," while her sister Frances joins the fight for Civil Rights. Decades later, estranged sisters Regine and Toshi are forced to reckon with their shared heritage and each other, when Regine inherits granny Elsie's house"--Back cover
65) Fucking A
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French, Inc
Pub. Date
20220328
Language
English
Description
Fucking A is an otherworldly tale involving a noble mother, her wayward son and others. Hester Smith, the revered and reviled local abortionist, hatches a plan to buy her jailed son’s freedom—and nothing will deter Hester from her quest. In this violent and wild-eyed blend of story and song, which harkens to Brechtian and Jacobean structure, Hester’s branded letter A becomes a provocative emblem of vengeance, violence and sacrifice. --
66) English
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French [an imprint of Concord Theatricals]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's 2008, and four Iranians assemble triweekly in a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) class in Karaj, Iran. The students are led by Marjan, an anglophile who abolishes Farsi from her classroom. They translate Ricky Martin and endure major preposition confusion; they discover how to be funny in English and ponder what they will lose in the process. As the class slowly devolves into a linguistic mess, some students cling tighter to their...
67) Legacy of light
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
20230503
Language
English
Description
"Two women scientists, living hundreds of years apart, explore the meaning of love. motherhood, family, art, and science in this contemporary comedy. Legacy of Light juxtaposes the story of Emilie du Chatelet, a mathematician, scientist, and lover of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Voltaire, who became unexpectedly pregnant at forty-two, and that of a twenty-first-century physicist desperately trying to conceive a child."-- back cover.
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