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Mizna
The Palestine Issue
by George Abraham, Lina Alsharif, Janan Alexandra, Zaina Alsous, Hala Alyan, Zeina Azzam, Bryonn Bain, Jehan Bseiso, Kevin Coval, Najwan Darwish, Natalie Diaz, Summer Farah, Nathalie Handal, Marc Lamont Hill, Fady Joudah, Ed Bok Lee, Hisham Matar, Khaled Mattawa, Sahar Mustafah, Eileen Myles, Naomi Shihab Nye, Donal O'kelly, Bao Phi, Joe Sacco, Najla Said, Mandy Shunnarah, Ahdaf Soueif, Fargo Tbakhi, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Naomi Wallace, Yazan Khalili
136 Pages, Published 2019
ISBN-13: 978-1-73370-179-2, ISBN: 1-73370-179-6

"Marking seventy years of displacement and occupation in Palestine, Mizna presents The Palestine Issue, centering the Palestinian struggle for liberation and the rich literature it has spurred, guest edited by playwright and poet Ismail ..."

Audition Speeches Ser.
Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women : Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Break Theatre Company
by Alice Birch, Linda Brogan, Deborah Bruce, Katherine Chandler, Sarah Daniels, Suhayla El-Bushra, Sonya Hale, Katie Hims, Theresa Ikoko, Bryony Lavery, Laura Lomas, Sabrina Mahfouz, Winsome Pinnock, Danni Brown, Annie Caulfield, Lin Coghlan, Raina Dunne, Vivienne Franzmann, Jacqueline Holborough, Daisy King, Lucy Kirkwood, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Morgan Lloyd-Malcolm, Natasha Marshall, Chloe Moss, Chinoyerem Odimba, Rena Owen, Rebecca Prichard, Ursula Rani Sarma, Anna Reynolds, Somalia Seaton, Shelley Silas, Sandrine Uwayo, Naomi Wallace
120 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-09751-3, ISBN: 1-350-09751-9

"The Garden Girls by Jacqueline Holborough, Mary Killers by Jacqueline Holborough, The Prisoner FKA Queens by Theresa Ikoko, Ngozi Firm by Daisy King, Stevie it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now by Lucy Kirkwood, ..."

"Lin Coghlan Age: Early 20s Ethnicity: Black British Accent: London PRODUCTION HISTORY Apache Tears was first performed at the Battersea Arts Centre, London, on 6 September 2000, directed by Nancy Diuguid. The original cast were ..."

Rebel Voices
Monologues for Women by Women: Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Break Theatre Company (Audition Speeches)
by Roisin Mcbrinn, Alice Birch, Linda Brogan, Deborah Bruce, Katherine Chandler, Sarah Daniels, Suhayla El-Bushra, Sonya Hale, Katie Hims, Lauren Mooney, Theresa Ikoko, Bryony Lavery, Laura Lomas, Sabrina Mahfouz, Winsome Pinnock, Danni Brown, Annie Caulfield, Lin Coghlan, Raina Dunne, Vivienne Franzmann, Jacqueline Holborough, Daisy King, Lucy Kirkwood, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Morgan Lloyd-Malcolm, Natasha Marshall, Chloe Moss, Chinoyerem Odimba, Rena Owen, Rebecca Prichard, Ursula Rani Sarma, Anna Reynolds, Somalia Seaton, Shelley Silas, Sandrine Uwayo, Naomi Wallace
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2019 by Methuen Drama
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-09750-6, ISBN: 1-350-09750-0

"Drawn together from over 40 years of writing from Clean Break theatre company, this collection features the unheard voices in the criminal justice system. Offering a diverse set of monologues representing a range of characters in age, ethnicity and lived experience, Monologues for Women by Women is just that: an opportunity for female performers to celebrate the opportunities inherent in allowing women to represent themselves. The theme ..."

Returning to Haifa
by Naomi Wallace, Ismail Khalidi
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34782-7, ISBN: 0-571-34782-7

"You haven't asked, but yes, you both may stay in our house for the time being. And use our things. I figure it'll take a war to settle it all. A compelling story of two families - one Palestinian, one Israeli - forced by history into an intimacy they didn't choose. In 1948, Palestinian couple Said and Safiyya fled their home during the Nakba. Now, in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War, the borders are open for the first time in twent ..."

Returning to Haifa
by Naomi Wallace, Ismail Khalidi
96 Pages, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34783-4, ISBN: 0-571-34783-5

"The Steam Industry was founded by Phil Willmott in 1992. It comprises two strands to its work: the Finborough Theatre (under Artistic Director Neil McPherson); and The Phil Willmott Company (under Artistic Director Phil Willmott ) which ..."

In the Heart of America
(Paperback)
by Naomi Wallace
Published 2018 by Broadway Play Publishing Inc, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-88145-793-3, ISBN: 0-88145-793-0

Slaughter City
by Naomi Wallace
Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2018 by Broadway Play Publishing Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-88145-779-7, ISBN: 0-88145-779-5

" “It’s not just the blood-spattered slaughterhouse setting that makes the Royal Shakespeare Company’s SLAUGHTER CITY an unusually meaty (you’ll forgive the expression) new play. Aligning issues of class and race and labor dynamics to a surrealist aesthetic as elusive as her politics are straightforward, American writer Naomi Wallace shows a willingness to embrace topics once treated by the likes of Clifford Odets and Sophie Treadwell. ..."

Night is a Room
(TCG Edition)
by Naomi Wallace
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by Theatre Communications Group
ISBN-13: 978-1-55936-518-5, ISBN: 1-55936-518-8

""Strange, surprising, often funny." - "New York Times" "Naomi Wallace commits the unpardonable sin of being partisan, and, the darkness and harshness of her work notwithstanding, outrageously optimistic. She seems to believe that the world can change. She certainly writes as if she intends to set it on fire."Tony Kushner"Wallace is that unfashionable thing - a deeply political US playwright who unashamedly writes about ideas rather than ..."

The Liquid Plain
(TCG Edition)
by Naomi Wallace
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2016 by Theatre Communications Group
ISBN-13: 978-1-55936-514-7, ISBN: 1-55936-514-5

"“American theater needs more plays like Naomi Wallace’s The Liquid Plain—by which I mean works that are historical, epic and poetic, that valorize the lives of the poor and oppressed.”—Time Out New YorkOn the docks of late eighteenth-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves find love and a near-drowned man. With a motley band of sailors, they plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. As the mysteries of their identities come to light, ..."

Night Is a Room
by Naomi Wallace
Paperback, Published 2016 by Broadway Play Publishing Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-88145-671-4, ISBN: 0-88145-671-3

"Liana and Marcus have a marriage others envy. DorE has grown accustomed to an isolated existence in her modest flat. After a surprise reunion on Marcus's 40th birthday, their worlds are shattered by an unexpected turn of events. NIGHT IS A ROOM is a searing exploration of love's power to both ruin and remake our lives. "In NIGHT IS A ROOM, Naomi Wallace's strange, surprising, often funny finish to her three-play residency at Signature ..."

No Such Cold Thing
by Naomi Wallace
Paperback, 36 Pages, Published 2016 by Broadway Play Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-88145-653-0, ISBN: 0-88145-653-5

"In this lyrical, searing one-act, an American soldier has an unexpected encounter with two Afghan sisters who are ready to embark on a new life. Their fates-and his-become entangled as the lines between their divergent realities become dangerously blurred. "NO SUCH COLD THING unsettles the ground beneath our feet much as [Wallace's] characters have found it vanishing beneath their own. The characters are pitched, dreamlike, somewhere be ..."

The Liquid Plain
(TCG Edition)
by Naomi Wallace
96 Pages, Published 2016 by Theatre Communications Group
ISBN-13: 978-1-55936-841-4, ISBN: 1-55936-841-1

"... projection and video design were by Alex Koch; the dramaturg was Julie Felise Dubiner and the stage manager was D. Christian Bolender. The cast was: adjua June Carryl dembi Kimberly Scott cranston Danforth Comins balthazar/william blake Armando Durán liverpool joe Kevin Kenerly bristol Bakesta King james de wolfe Michael Winters nesbitt Josiah Phillips gifford Richard Elmore ensemble June Carryl, Kevin Kenerly The New York prem ..."

The Liquid Plain
by Naomi Wallace
Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2015 by Broadway Play Publishing Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-88145-636-3, ISBN: 0-88145-636-5

"On the docks of late 18th-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves, Adjua and Dembi, plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. When a chance encounter triggers an unexpected collision of worlds, painful truths are uncovered, and the brutality of past crimes spills into the next generation. "American theater needs more plays like Naomi Wallace's THE LIQUID PLAIN - by which I mean works that are historical, epic and poetic." -Time Out N ..."

Inside/Outside
Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora
by Ismail Khalidi, Naomi Wallace, Nathalie Handal
Digital, 400 Pages, Published 2015 by Theatre Communications Group
ISBN-13: 978-1-55936-798-1, ISBN: 1-55936-798-9

"rajib: A worthless lot the kings and queens, I agree. (Beat) You owe me a pound O'Donegal. miChaeL: I don't have it Rajib, but I'll pay you back Friday, I swear. rajib: Fine. Just don't go gambling away more money you don't have. At least until after you've paid me. miChaeL: Fuck, at this rate I'll never escape back to Ireland. rajib: It was your idea to change the bloody rules, Michael; Bolshevik poker was your idea! miChaeL: Oh c ..."

Twenty One Positions(2nd Edition)
by Naomi Wallace, Abdelfattah Abusrour, Lisa Schlesinger
Paperback, 94 Pages, Published 2015 by Broadway Play Pub
ISBN-13: 978-0-88145-629-5, ISBN: 0-88145-629-2

"Subtitled "Three Short Visions of the Middle East," this collection includes three thematically related short plays, A STATE OF INNOCENCE, THE RETREATING WORLD, and BETWEEN THIS BREATH AND YOU, collectively entitled THE FEVER CHART. Vision One, A STATE OF INNOCENCE, is set in Rafah, Palestine, and features a Palestinian woman, an Israeli architect, and an Israeli soldier. Vision Two, THE RETREATING WORLD, concerns an Iraqi bird keeper f ..."

The Hard Weather Boating Party
by Naomi Wallace
Paperback, Published 2014 by Broadway Play Publishing Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-88145-590-8, ISBN: 0-88145-590-3

The Fever Chart
Three Short Visions of the Middle East
by Naomi Wallace
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-282-46885-6, ISBN: 1-282-46885-5

And I And Silence(1st Edition)
by Naomi Wallace
Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 2013 by Broadway Play Pub
ISBN-13: 978-0-88145-570-0, ISBN: 0-88145-570-9

"Two imprisoned young women, one African American and the other white, form a perilous bond. As they serve time they forge a plan for survival. They practice hard. If they don't get it right they'll lose everything: the outside world is even more dangerous to their friendship than the jail itself. Exploring the fierce dreams of youth and the brutal reality of adulthood in 1950's segregated America. "Unmissable ... an exquisitely understa ..."

And I and Silence
(Paperback)
by Naomi Wallace
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2011 by Faber & Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-28028-5, ISBN: 0-571-28028-5