Theatre Communications Group, 1993

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (12), Female (2), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...In 2, Linney scrutinizes Hitler's infamous second-in-command Hermann Goering, behind the scenes at the Nuremberg trials. April, 1945. The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials against the leaders of Nazi Germany are about to begin...

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...Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940’s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder...

Theatre Communications Group, 1993

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Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Set among SoHo literati, April Snow, is a deeply felt study of love and loneliness involving an aging writer and the women who have figured most significantly in his life—one of his four ex-wives, and a young protégé, forty years his...

Theatre Communications Group, 1993

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...In Childe Byron, the dying daughter of the notorious Lord Byron conjures a confrontation with the father she never knew.  As the play begins, Ada, the Countess of Lovelace, who was Byron’s only legitimate daughter, is writing...

Theatre Communications Group, 1993

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Roles: Total (4), Female (3), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...In FM, a creative writing teacher is at first appalled and then awed by the earthly brilliance of one of her pupils - a whiskey-guzzling, dirty-mouthed, vagabond - whose primitive genius puts his dilettante classmates to shame...

Theatre Communications Group, 1993

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Romulus Linney’s haunting southern epic is set in the 1840s where the action of the play centers on the desire of the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina to bring the word of God to a valley so remote and untamed that brothers marry sisters...

Theatre Communications Group, 1993

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Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Tennessee celebrates the indomitability of early Appalachian mountain settlers. Set in the mountains of North Carolina in 1870, the play deals with a frontier family; father, mother and son, who work long hours to wrest a living...