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John
takes place in a spooky bed and breakfast that may or not have a life of its own, complete with flickering lights, forbidden rooms, and a secretive innkeeper. In this mysterious drama, a young couple struggles to stay together while ominous forces seem to work against them. A warning: if you are attached to your dolls, you may never look at them the same way again.
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Adapted by Bryony Lavery and Lisa Evans
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If you are new to horror and need help knowing where to begin, this title is the perfect starter kit. Oberon Books published this double volume of horror in 2012. From Bram Stoker's and Mary Shelley's terrifyingly renowned novels, these spooky adaptations of
Dracula and Frankenstein by Bryony Lavery and Lisa Evans are best read under the covers in the middle of the night.
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A playwright known for his expertly crafted ghost stories, a Conor McPherson play is a perfect choice for a stormy Halloween eve.
The Weir is set in a remote country pub in Ireland, where newcomer Valerie arrives and becomes spellbound by an evening of ghostly stories told by the local bachelors who drink there. Soon the tales turn dark and drift into the realm of the supernatural. Then, Valerie reveals a startling story of her own....
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As an adaptation from the beautifully creepy Swedish novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist (also a famous film),
Let the Right One In is the perfect modern horror story. A spate of sinister killings rocks the small town where the young, lonely Oskar lives. Eli is the young girl who has just moved in next door. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two become devoted friends. What Oskar doesn't know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time.
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If you prefer a mysterious, cerebral nail-biter when it comes to scary stories, Jez Butterworth's
The River is a perfect fit. "A magnetically eerie, luminously beautiful psychodrama," (
Time Out New York
)
this dark, intimate play is set in a remote fishing cabin on a moonless night. A man and woman struggle to come to terms with their past, and we ask ourselves, when we find each other, are we trying to recapture someone we once lost?
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by Craig Lucas
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Adele is an aspiring painter with three complicated lovers: Bill, Mala, and alcohol. Over the course of fifteen years,
Ode to Joy
follows Adele as she attempts to navigate the tumult, heartbreak, and ultimate redemption of both the relationship with these lovers, and with herself. A vulnerable exploration of the interplay between art, love, and addiction,
Ode to Joy
is an affecting new play from renowned playwright Craig Lucas.
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by Robert O'Hara
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A dual volume from the imaginative and innovative mind of Robert O'Hara,
Barbeque
and
Bootycandy
are both
plays that eagerly dispose of traditional play structure while simultaneously relishing in the medium's inherent theatricality. Both of these subversive, uproarious plays crash headlong into the intersection of family confrontation and self-actualization, reminding us of the fine, fuzzy line between pain and pleasure.
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-- all of whom are distributed by TCG and can be found in our
online bookstore
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King Lear in Brooklyn
from Oberon Books is Michael Pennington's account of playing the infamous king in 2014
. Kenneth Branagh describes the book as "a page turning artistic journey to an undiscovered country on the map, and in the mind. It brings with it all the touchingly complex humanity that the author finds in King Lear itself... I thoroughly recommend it."
An Incomprehensible Mother Tongue is a new release from Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publicatio
ns.
This volume contains two new American translations of works by Valère Novarina, one of the major voices in avant-garde theatre of the past forty years.
Fleabag
fro
m Nick Hern Bo
oks
is a
rip-roaring account of some sort of female living her sort of life.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's debut play is an outrageously funny monologue for a female performer. It premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performed by Phoebe herself, before transferring to Soho Theatre, Lo
ndon, for several successful runs, followed by a UK tour. In 2016 it was turned into a wildly successful and "utterly riveting" (
Guardian
) BBC television series, available on Amazon Video!
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TCG
Bestsellers
(September 2016)
8.
Doubt
by John Patrick Shanley
by Suzan-Lori Parks
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TCG Titles Currently in Production
Outside Mullingar
by John Patrick Shanley,
The Model Apartment
by Donald Margulies,
Shipwrecked!
by Donald Margulies,
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Named "Genius"
Soon-to-be-published TCG author Branden Jacobs-Jenkins recently received a 2016 MacArthur "Genius" Grant. Keep an eye out for TCG's upcoming anthology of his work, Appropriate and Other Plays.
In this tumultuous election season, no one is immune to the strain and stress of not knowing what lies ahead for the United States -- including playwrights. You can listen to Sarah Ruhl's take on it here in "The Scene," a Clyde Fitch Report podcast. Another dramatist, Richard Nelson, has decided this election is so fraught, he wrote a four-part play cycle on the topic.
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