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The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring...
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The Paris Letter
by Jon Robin Baitz
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Jon Robin Baitz has been praised as one of America's foremost playwrights on themes of conscience.
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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
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In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town.
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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
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The tragic romance of Verona's two too-young star-crossed lovers, loving each other in spite of their parents' spite, told in beautiful imagery and poetry.
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Tartuffe
by Moliere
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Initially banned in France by King Louis, Molière's celebrated social satire Tartuffe exposes false piety and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church. When a pious fraud worms his way into a wealthy family
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Antigone
by Jean Anouilh
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The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigone defies the law, sealing her fate.
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The Rivalry
by Norman Corwin
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Academy Award-nominees Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn star in Norman Corwin's electrifying dramatization of the historymaking Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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Broken Glass
by Arthur Miller
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Though safe in Brooklyn, Sylvia suddenly becomes partially paralysed when reading about the events of Kristallnacht.
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Breaking the Code
by Hugh Whitemore
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Simon Templeman stars as brilliant mathematician Alan Turing, the man who cracked the German Enigma code and enabled the Allies to win World War II.
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
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Jane Austen’s classic romantic comedy is the sparkling tale of the Bennets, a family blessed with five daughters and a mother desperate to marry them off.
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Broadway Bound
by Neil Simon
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YA The final play in Simon's autobiographical trilogy, this is nothing short of brilliant. The story is both rib-tickling and heart-wrenching; the Jerome family is troubled, warm, and funny.
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A Bradbury Binary: Riabouchinska and The Toynbee Convector
by Ray Bradbury
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Two tales from the master of science fiction...
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Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby's is a Friend of Mine
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Starring Nancy Cartwright and David Ogden Stiers. Nothing out of the ordinary happens in Green Town, Illinois. That is, until a mysterious stranger claiming to be Charlie Dickens arrives.
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Mary Stuart
by Friedrich Schiller
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Set in 16th century England, Mary Stuart follows the tale of Elizabeth I who is threatened by the survival of her Catholic cousin, Mary, who has been a prisoner for 19 years.
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Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
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In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian reference...
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The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit, is a peaceful sort who lives in a cozy hole in the Shire, a place where adventures are uncommon--and rather unwanted.
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
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In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years - you would have to go back to the Greek dramatists of 5th century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity.
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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
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There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece.
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western movement of one family and a nation in search of work and human dignity. Stars Jeffrey Donovan and Shirley Knight.
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All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
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A classic Arthur Miller drama about the terrifying journey towards truth when a devastating family secret is uprooted.
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Arcadia
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Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe’s influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present.
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Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
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Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories, but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady....
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Othello
by William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's legendary tragedy is revisited in this spirited and entertaining production that ran in London from November 2007 to February 2008. The flawless, talented cast features Ewan McGregor as the conniving Iago, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello (whose performance won him the Olivier Award as best actor) and Kelly Reilly as Desdemona.
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King Richard III
by William Shakespeare
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Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays...
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Twelve Angry Men
by Reginald Rose
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Over the course of a steamy and tense afternoon, twelve jurors deliberate the fate of a 19-year-old boy alleged to have murdered his own father....
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