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Some slight marks to outside cover. Pages in clean and unmarked condition. A few corner pages slightly bent. Very Good Copy.

Like New. Clean, unmarked, cover is very little shelf wear apparent.
Smith & Kraus, 1993-07-01. Paperback.

Very Good copy. Pages clean and unmarked. Some slight bends/marks to outside cover.Behind the scenes of a tempestuous hit television sitcom, a no holds barred confrontation pits movie turned television star Deanna Denniger against her show's creator producer Isaac Brooks. After this explosive opening the scene shifts backward through time to the show's well intentioned origins. Shifting allegiances and surprising layers of interlocking relationships surface to provide constantly surprising revelations. Diva was a hit at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and at La Jolla Playhouse.

Good Copy. Pages are clean and unmarked. Numerous production photos throughout.Some shelf wear apparent. (Slight damage to outside, upper spine -see photos- book still tight) "The trip itself, like a spooky show in a carnival tunnel, is full of bright, surprising images, scary and funny. --The Village VoiceFunny, rich, erudite, playful, assured. --Soho NewsFew playwrights have Jenkin's skill at theatrical sleight-of-hand … it supplies an ingenuity which cannot fail to stimulate both the theatre and the theatregoer. --The New York Daily News

Good Copy. Pages are clean and unmarked. Some shelf wear to outside cover. ...A corrosive critique of two opposed social classes still very much alive in Great Britain today; the play is a kind of parable on the seven deadly sins: gluttony, sexual greed, public school debauchery, cruelty in the hunt, fashion slavery, drunkeness and snobbery.

Good copy. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover shows some shelf wear. Translated by John Mortimer. Raymonde suspects her husband, Victor Emmanuel, of infidelity and she turns to her best friend, Lucienne, to help her gain proof. They concoct a play-based on a perfumed letter-to trap him at the Hotel Coq d'Or in Montretout. In true Feydeau fashion the plan misfires, the plot is complicated by confused identities, revolving beds, a great many doors and the fact that the stupid hotel port, Poche, is the exact double of Victor Emmanuel. 5 women, 9 men.Period: the early 1900s.

"Based on Goethe's Elective Affinities"Very Good. VG++, Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2000 Production Official Script. Comb binding, pages very clean, Like New - no markings. Steven Dietz is an American playwright and theatre director. Called "the most ubiquitous American playwright whose name you may never have heard", Dietz has long been one of America's most prolific and widely produced playwrights. In 2019, Dietz was again named one of the 20 most-produced playwrights in America.

Very Good Copy. Some slight marks and bends to outside cover, otherwise pristine pages. Barry thought enough of the play to have lines from it carved on his tombstone: "All things are turned to a roundness. Wherever there is an end, from it springs a beginning." Many critics regard "Hotel Universe" as Barry's best play. The two-hour piece is unusual in that Barry wrote it to be performed without an intermission. Written in 1929 while Barry was in Cannes, the play is set in a small seaside village in southern France.

Very Good+ Copy. Some minor shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked.

Like new. Unread/pristine clean pages. Very slight shelf wear apparent to cover."THE STORY: The play follows the romance of Betsy and Michael, a pair of twenties/early thirties, bright, ambitious downtowners who meet at a play and experience instant, overwhelming chemistry-the magic and misery of the wound that can only be healed by the sword that inflicted it. We not only watch the romantic heroes interact, but their thoughts are revealed as well - their insecurities, fears, and dreams about relationships."

Clean and unmarked pages. Some slight shelf wear on outside cover. Small whiteout over initials on 2nd inside page.from Royal Court Writers Series launched in 1981.

Very good - like New copy. Only a mark on back cover from a sticker pulled off (see photo) Pages clean and unmarked.Introduction by Jerey Sams (Translator)This comedy presents a group of rich, clever aristocrats saturated with sexual experience and expertise. The count and countess permit one another's infidelities with the understanding that affairs must be restricted to their own artificial milieu. But when the count falls in love with an unsullied young woman, his wife and former mistress seal a bizarre alliance to destroy the girl.

Very Good copy. Pages clean and unmarked. Only slight shelf wear apparent."The intrigues of such aptly named characters as Lady Sneerwell, Sir Joseph Surface, Lady Candour, and Sir Benjamin Backbite have amused theater audiences for more than two centuries. They are the invention of the Irish-born playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and they unfold, collide, and backfire hilariously in his masterpiece, The School for Scandal, a play still considered by many the best comedy of manners in English."

Very good copy. Some marks on outside cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Two plays in which the entertaining character of Sganarelle appears: in The School for Husbands as a guardian, and in Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold as a duped and jealous husband. Translated into English Verse and Introduced by Richard Wilbur. [RICHARD WILBUR, one of America's most beloved poets, has served as poet laureate of the United States. He has received the National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes, the National Arts Club medal of honor for literature, and a number of translation prizes, including two Bollingen Prizes and two awards from PEN.]