Jean Claude Van Itallie

THE STORY: Based on the classic Buddhist text, the play deals with the transmigration of the soul and the choices to be made as the spirit hovers in suspended animation. Brilliantly theatrical in concept and execution, the piece blends music, mime,

A Play

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Or, How Not to Do it Again

Alan Sillitoe

Joyce Carol Oates

Leonard Michaels

John McPhee

John Banville

William Trevor

John Updike

Paul Bowles

Malcolm Bradbury

Bruce Jay Friedman

Jerome Charyn

William Goldman

Austin Clarke

Sol Yurick

Thomas Bridges

Jay Neugeboren

George Garrett

Daniel Spicehandler

Penelope Gilliatt

Harry D. Miller

Alfred Chester

Victor Sawdon Pritchett

Frank Tuohy

Irvin Faust

Morris Lurie

Asa Baber

Paul Breslow

Hugh Allyn Hunt

Edward Franklin

Norma Meacock

Virginia Moriconi

Shirley Schoonover

Walter Clemons

Stories from the Transatlantic Review

Karma-gliṅ-pa

A poetic adaptation of traditional Tibetan passages describing the stages experienced after death and during the transition into the next life

The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Reading Aloud

THE STORY: The Boston Herald Traveler comments: While most of the work is choreographed movement, pantomime, human sounds and music made by bells, horns, whistles, tambourines and other hand-held instruments, there is an accompanying text from the

A Ceremony

The Serpent

THE STORY: The action begins, once upon a time, in the village of People Who Fish in the Lake, where everyone longs nostalgically for the Golden Time, when happiness and harmony reigned supreme. In quest of what has been lost, the haughty king send

A Fable

Anton Chekhov

The setting is the estate of the wealthy Sorin, where a group of family and friends are spending the languid summer months. Included are Madame Arkadina, Sorin's sister and famous actress; her sensitive would-be-writer son, Treplyev; and the charming, successful author Trigorin. The action concerns the interweaving of their lives with the others, and all the romance, intrigue, hopes and disappointments that this life leads to.

A Comedy in Four Acts

Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull

THE STORY: The scene is a country estate in the declining days of Czarist Russia, the home of an old and ailing professor, his young wife, and various other family members. For years the estate, under the management of Uncle Vanya, brother of the p

Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts

Uncle Vanya

THE STORY: Trapped in a provincial Russian town after the death of their father, three sisters lament the passing of better times and long for the excitement of Moscow. One of them has married a local high school teacher; another has become a teach

A Drama in Four Acts

Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters

America hurrah. Drama about "a world of fragmented experience so speeded up past human endurance that a man must either die laughing or go mad".--back cover.

America Hurrah and Other Plays

VAN ITALLIE JEAN CLU

THE STORIES: INTERVIEW. As Norman Nadel describes: Four masked, smiling interviewers interview a scrubwoman, a house painter, a banker and a lady's maid. It is commonplace and familiar enough, except that suddenly, the most innocent statements are

America Hurrah

Jean Claude Van Itallie

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