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George....the Hero    by Martin Alcock
Price: $2.99 USD. 22320 words. Language: English. Published on May 15, 2013. Fiction » Children’s books » Performing Arts / Theater.

Meet George.She’s feisty, good natured and has the knack of walking into trouble. And at the moment, there’s plenty of trouble to go round. Bigg City is alive with rumors, there’s a smell of burning coming from the woods. Well...you know what it’s like with Dragons. They’re so cute and then they grow up....and grow...and grow..
Germanicus    by Jo-Marie Claassen
Price: $10.00 USD. 43330 words. Language: English. Published on May 10, 2013. Plays » Ancient & Classical.

This is the first translation into English of the verse drama Germanicus by the Afrikaans poet N.P. Van Wyk Louw. The work was based on the first three chapters of the Annales of the Roman historiographer Tacitus. The drama has been considered a highlight in Afrikaans literature since its publication in 1956.
Lol :/ and Other Modern Devised Plays    by Terry Fletcher
Price: Free! 33970 words. Language: English. Published on April 14, 2013. Plays » American / African American.

lol :/ is a comical investigation into how we miscommunicate with technology as revealed by the story of two women reconnecting through Facebook. Also included in this edition: "Truth in Advertising", an emotional commentary on our twisted relationship with advertisements and "Wild World", the journey of two New Yorkers through a harsh city where you are the most alone when surrounded by others.
New Plays IV    by Plan-B Theatre Company
Price: $5.00 USD. 40320 words. Language: English. Published on April 2, 2013. Plays » Gay & Lesbian.

Plan-B Theatre Company, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has developed and produced unique and socially conscious theatre since 1991. Plan-B champions the work of local playwrights. This is our fourth anthology of our work published since 2008.
The Goddess & The Devil    by Anthony DeGregorio
Price: $2.99 USD. 368950 words. Language: English. Published on April 1, 2013. Plays » Ancient & Classical.

This book covers a broad range of issues discussed between Marcus and the Prisoner against the backdrop of the Salem Witch hysteria of 1692. As the despotic Marcus issues writs of accusations against "witches" in his employer's absence, his latest Prisoner makes a profound request that forces Marcus to confront the Devil within himself and the evil that plagues Salem Village.
Adam Mickiewicz's Forefathers' Eve, Parts II and III. A New English Translation    by Charles Kraszewski
Price: $5.99 USD. 30810 words. Language: English. Published on March 27, 2013. Plays » Russian & Former Soviet Union.

Gustaw, a love-suicide, is called forth from the grave during the semi-pagan celebration of Forefathers' Eve to confront his faithless lover. Later, his selfish romantic love is turned outward, toward his suffering nation, as he takes on a new persona: the Messianic Konrad. Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady, the greatest expression of Polish literature, is presented here in a new English translation.
Zygmunt Krasiński: The Undivine Comedy. A New English Translation    by Charles Kraszewski
Price: $5.99 USD. 23180 words. Language: English. Published on March 25, 2013. Plays » European / French.

Count Henryk is a Byronic poet. So devoted is he to ideal beauty, that he neglects his very real wife and son, and is led near his own death by Poetry Incarnate, who is nothing more than the diabolically reanimated corpse of a whore. From poetry, Henryk moves on to politics; the Undivine Comedy predates Marx by decades in its prophecy of coming class warfare, which nothing can solve but charity.
Interview with the Sphinx    by Jack Matthews
Price: $2.99 USD. 36920 words. Language: English. Published by Personville Press  on February 28, 2013. Plays » American / African American.

This witty philosophical comedy imagines the ancient Sphinx being interviewed today -- as though she were another pop celebrity. She is a talkative, flirty & mysterious person who likes to talk about anything -- except the question being asked! Part Tom Stoppard, part Monty Python, part Oscar Wilde, this play by Jack Matthews combines philosophical paradoxes with fast-paced verbal pyrotechnics.
Lucretia: A Play In Verse | 'An Historie of the Roman Borgias and their Daughter Lucretia'    by David Krae
Price: $2.99 USD. 33370 words. Language: English. Published by Aquila Media on February 26, 2013. Plays » European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

A play in five acts, written as an Elizabethan-style, historical drama, Lucretia is the story of the infamous Borgias, focusing on the life of Lucretia Borgia, the daughter of Pope Alexander VI. It is the precursor to the Novel 'Lucretia' also by David Krae. *With a special foreword by the author.
The Dabawis and the Shargawis    by Faysal Mikdadi
Price: $5.00 USD. 36900 words. Language: British English. Published on February 4, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Drama.

These are short stories written during various visits to Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah. Many of them were inspired by real experiences during meetings with interesting people and during long solitary walks in both cities and their surrounding countryside. Mikdadi tries to make sense of a hilariously disordered world. These stories are memorable and could not help but move readers, as Maeve Binchy said.