The Whale / A Bright New Boise
The Whale / A Bright New Boise

Author: Samuel D. Hunter

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Published: 2014-08-18

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1559367768

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Acclaimed for his gentle, complex characterizations, Samuel D. Hunter's bighearted and funny plays explore the quiet desperation running through many American lives. The Whale tells the story of a six hundred-pound shut-in's last chance at redemption and of discovering beauty in the most unexpected places when he reaches out to his long-estranged—and severely unhappy—daughter. Hunter's second piece, the Obie Award-winning A Bright New Boise, is a philosophical investigation of faith and search for meaning in rural Idaho where a disgraced evangelical is forced to take a minimum-wage job at the local Hobby Lobby craft store in an effort to reunite with his estranged son.

Lewiston / Clarkston
Lewiston / Clarkston

Author: Samuel D. Hunter

Publisher: Concord Theatricals

Published: 2019-09-02

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0573707960

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Alice and Connor sit by their roadside stand selling cheap fireworks while developers swallow the land around them. Promised a condo in the new development, their future is secure. Enter Marnie, Alice’s long-lost granddaughter, proposing to buy the land to save her family’s legacy. Marnie and Alice will become reacquainted with each other’s deeply held secrets, uncertain pasts, and hopeful futures. Hunter, a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, explores the emotional frontiers of a family struggling to make a home in the vastness of the American landscape with affection, poignancy, and a profound sense of empathy.

The Harvest
The Harvest

Author: Samuel D. Hunter

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780573706080

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In the basement of a small evangelical church in southeastern Idaho, a group of young missionaries is preparing to go to the Middle East. One of them - a young man who has recently lost his father - has bought a one-way ticket. But his plans are complicated when his estranged sister returns home and makes it her mission to keep him there.

The Few
The Few

Author: Samuel D. Hunter

Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780573704000

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Four years ago, Bryan abandoned his labor of love, a newspaper for truckers. Now he's returned - with no world of where he's been - and things have changed. His former lover is filled with rage, his new coworker is filled with incessant adoration, and his paper is filled with personal ads. As he considers giving up for good, Bryan searches for what he couldn't find on the road: a way to keep faith in humanity.

Wakey, Wakey (TCG Edition)
Wakey, Wakey (TCG Edition)

Author: Will Eno

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1559368934

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Will Eno's latest work is an existential meditation on the way human beings tend to labor through life forgetting to appreciate the smaller things -- moments of laughter, the natural beauty of the world, and especially one other. In Wakey, Wakey, the joyful and moving new play by master of seriocomedy Will Eno, a man in hospice care resolves to spend the remainder of his dwindling days on Earth discovering ways to celebrate his life.

Greater Clements
Greater Clements

Author: Samuel D. Hunter

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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Typescript, dated [Draft 5.1] 12/5/19. Typescript lightly marked with pencil by videographer. Used by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive on Jan. 19, 2020, when videorecording the Lincoln Center Theater stage production in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater,150 West 65th Street, New York, N.Y. Set in Greater Clements, Idaho, the drama opened Dec. 9, 2019, directed by Davis McCallum.

A Great Wilderness
A Great Wilderness

Author: Samuel D. Hunter

Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9780573704017

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"Drama / 3m, 3f / interior set"--Back cover.

Daphne's Dive
Daphne's Dive

Author: Quiara Alegría Hudes

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 0822236109

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In a tucked away corner of North Philly, six regulars gather at a neighborhood watering hole. Over twenty years, they turn their collective memories into a vivacious mythology. The tales they’d rather forget, however, keep sneaking up and tapping them on the shoulder. At Daphne’s Dive, an aloe plant, a girl’s sneaker, a stiff drink, and mounds of trash become talismanic treasures to a group of outsiders trying to be “in” together.

And I and Silence
And I and Silence

Author: Naomi Wallace

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2011-05-19

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 0571280293

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Two imprisoned young women, one African American and the other white, form a perilous bond. As they serve time they forge a plan for survival. They practice hard. If they don't get it right they'll lose everything: the outside world is even more dangerous to their friendship than the jail itself. Exploring the fierce dreams of youth and the brutal reality of adulthood in 1950's segregated America, Naomi Wallace's And I and Silence premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London, in May 2011.

Five Plays
Five Plays

Author: Samuel D. Hunter

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781559365017

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Five plays by a major American playwright, all set in the author's home state of Idaho, demonstrating his extraordinary knack for exposing, without condescension or easy moralizing, the pathos in marginalized lives. The plays included in this volume are: Pocatello The Few A Great Wilderness Rest A Permanent Image Samuel D. Hunter's plays are populated with characters from the bleak side of the American economy. Laced with poetic images yet drawn with meticulous realism, Hunter's plays linger in franchise restaurants, retirement facilities, mountain camps, and struggling businesses.