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Ruined (2008) is an American play by Lynn Nottage. The play premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago , and won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The play explores the plight of women during the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo .
J.B. is a 1958 play written in free verse by American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish, and is a modern-day retelling of the story of the biblical figure Job.The play is about J.B. (a stand-in for Job), a devout millionaire with a happy domestic life whose life is ruined.
The play was originally a co-production and co-commission between Center Stage, Baltimore, Maryland, and South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California. The play is set in New York City in 1905 and concerns a young African-American woman who travels to New York to pursue her dreams, becoming an independent woman as a seamstress .
Sweat is a 2015 play by American playwright Lynn Nottage. [1] It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [2] The play premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015; it was produced Off-Broadway in 2016 and on Broadway in 2017. The play is centered on the working class of Reading, Pennsylvania.
The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller.It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized [1] story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693.
Professor Plum – a super genius, author, and imposter whose family fortune was ruined by Mr. Boddy. Miss Scarlet – a former Las Vegas lounge performer and former lover of Mr. Green. Mrs. White – a fun-loving chief domestic of Boddy Manor, played by a man in the tradition of English pantomime and music hall. Piano Player – the murderer.
Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic is a 2015 original comedy play by New York–based playwright Matt Cox. [1] The play is a parody of the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling, but from the perspective of the "Puffs": that is, members of the Hogwarts house, Hufflepuff.
Poster for the Riverside Shakespeare Company's production of Edward II. New York, 1982.. The Life of Edward II of England (German: Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England), also known as Edward II, is an adaptation by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht of the 16th-century historical tragedy by Marlowe, The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England ...