The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Author: Kristoffer Díaz

Publisher: Concord Theatricals

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0573699674

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The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity follows the life of wrestler Macedonio Guerra. As a lifelong fan, he has followed wrestling only to become a "jobber," one who is paid to lose to bigger-name stars in the ring. Macedonio meets Vigneshwar Paduar, a young Indian man from Brooklyn, who he wants to team up with. The wrestling execs go for it, but pitch them as "terrorists" in the ring. Macedonio and Vigneshwar find a way to push the personas to the limits and say what needs to be said. Unspoken racism, politics, and courage are all woven into this play that leaves it all on the mat.

Welcome to Arroyo's
Welcome to Arroyo's

Author: Kristoffer Diaz

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780822225232

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THE STORY: Alejandro Arroyo owns the newest (and cleanest) lounge in New York City's Lower East Side. His sister, Molly, has a nasty habit of writing graffiti on the back wall of the local police precinct. Officer Derek is a recent NYC transplant w

Pipeline
Pipeline

Author: Dominique Morisseau

Publisher: Concord Theatricals

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 0573706816

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Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.

Sports Plays
Sports Plays

Author: Eero Laine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-19

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1000429059

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Sports Plays is a volume about sports in the theatre and what it means to stage sports. The chapters in this volume examine sports plays through a range of critical and theoretical approaches that highlight central concerns and questions both for sports and for theatre. The plays cut across boundaries and genres, from Broadway-style musicals to dramas to experimental and developmental work. The chapters examine and trouble the conventions of staging sports as they open possibilities for considering larger social and cultural issues and debates. This broad range of perspectives make the volume a compelling resource for students and scholars of sport, theatre, and performance studies whose interests span feminism, sexuality, politics, and race.

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Author: Stephen Adly Guirgis

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0571211011

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Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's most notorious sinner.--[book cover].

Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Author: Rajiv Joseph

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2010-10-04

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1593763891

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Rajiv Joseph is one of today’s most acclaimed young playwrights. The winner of numerous awards, including an NEA Award for Best Play and a Whiting Writers Award, he is an artist to watch. This volume gathers together for the first time his three major works to date. Included herein are his latest play, Gruesome Playground Injuries, which charts the intersection of two lives using scars, wounds, and calamity as the mile markers to explore why people hurt themselves to gain another’s love and the cumulative effect of such damage; Animals Out of Paper, a subtle, elegant, yet bracing examination of the artistic impulse and those in its thrall, which follows a world-famous origamist as she becomes the unwitting mentor to a troubled young prodigy, even as she must deal with her own loss of inspiration; and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a darkly comedic drama that looks on as the lives of two American soldiers, an Iraqi translator, and a tiger intersect on the streets of Baghdad.

Monologues for Actors of Color
Monologues for Actors of Color

Author: Roberta Uno

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780878300716

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"This collection features 45 monologues excerpted from contemporary plays and specially geared for actors of color. Robert Uno has carefully selected the monologues so that there is a wide-range of ethnicities included: African American, Native American, Latino and Asian American. Each monologue comes with an introduction with notes on the characters and stage directions to set the scene for the actor."--Publisher.

The Invisible Hand
The Invisible Hand

Author: Ayad Akhtar

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 0316324507

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A "tense, provocative" play (Seattle Times) from the author of Homeland Elegies and the Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced -- a chilling examination of how far we will go to survive and the consequences of the choices we make. In remote Pakistan, Nick Bright awaits his fate. A successful financial trader, Nick is kidnapped by an Islamic militant group, but with no one negotiating his release, he agrees to an unusual plan. He will earn his own ransom by helping his captors manipulate and master the world commodities and currency markets.

An Empty Plate in the Café Du Grand Boeuf
An Empty Plate in the Café Du Grand Boeuf

Author: Michael Hollinger

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9780822217909

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THE STORY: No menu necessary at the world's greatest restaurant, the Café du Grand Boeuf in Paris. Why? Because we have everything, headwaiter Claude admonishes waiter-in-training Antoine. On this hot July night in 1961, the two join waitress Mim