Product Description: The Ballad of Yachiyo is a tale of illicit passion by Guggenheim-winning playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, set in 1919 among the lush cane fields of Hawaii. Inspired by true events in the playwrights family, The Ballad of Yachiyo follows 16-year-old Yachiyo as she reluctantly leaves her impoverished parents to live with sophisticated relatives...read more

Product Description: A turbulent and triumphant tale of a totally troubled teen. 

Product Description: It is 1897, and word of gold on the Klondike has spurred a frantic rush of miners to cash in on the riches rumoured to be found there. But by the time the prospectors arrive, all the claims have been staked. Without enough supplies or expertise to endure the harsh conditions of the north, hundreds of lives are devastated by starvation, exhaustion, and disease...read more

Product Description: "You will come back though won't yere, Darren? Yer will come back? Say yer'll come back. Come back." Lucy is 17. She dreams of love, security and a bright future. Butfirst she must confront reality - and reality means deciding who totrust...read more

Product Description: Fifteen-year old Charlie is determined to make her mark, but how? Front a gang? Ride a motorbike? Or take piano lessons? School Play is a fast funny play about potential.

Product Description: The award-winning, "viscerally powerful" (The Guardian) early play by the author of Spinning Into Butter and Boy Gets GirlSet in the rural Deep South, Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living received critical acclaim rare for a new American play when it had its British premiere in 1999, garnering the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright...read more

Product Description: Marie and Boo are both teenage tough girls -- yard gals, in the slang of the Hackney ghetto they come from -- but that only makes their dreams that much harder for them to envision, much less attain. In this two-woman play, which is by turns scalding and hilarious, deeply moving and brutally angry, they talk about their love of music and drugs and the men who bring them as well as about the exhilaration -- and terror -- of fighting rival gangs...read more

In 'Cuba,' Barbara and Bernadette decide to launch a school protest against the Cuban Missle Crisis, while in 'Dog House,' romance in Cork City is initially unaffected by the appearance of new neighbors. (view table of contents)

Lochhead's 'Cuba' is written for a cast of 20, plus extras. It traces the decline of a friendship between two girls who decide to mount a school protest at the time of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Moxley's 'Dog House', for a cast of 13, also treats young friendship, this time in Ireland. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Angela and Maxine want to make it to the "Top of the Pops." Everything is going according to plan until Angela is diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Her coming to terms with death, desertion, casual sex, substance-dependence and family make Like a Virgin a touching piece of realism that will strike a chord in everyone's heart...read more