TCG Publishes MARJORIE PRIME, BOOTYCANDY and More

Theatre Communications Group has just published an exciting line-up of new plays from playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Tracy Letts, and Robert O'Hara. Scroll down for details!

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Here We Go/Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill

The prolific repertoire of Caryl Churchill gains two thrilling new entries with Here We Go and Escaped Alone, both exemplary of her notoriously dark, witty work. Creeping and ruminative, Here We Go "acts as a chilling reminder of our own mortality" (The Guardian), with a three-part examination of death and its aftermath.

Marjorie Prime by JorDan Harrison

Harrison burrows into troubling questions of the digital age: What would we remember, and what would we forget, given the power of authorship? Will we be any less human once computers know us better than we know ourselves?

Five Plays by Samuel D. Hunter

The five plays collected here, all set in Hunter's home state of Idaho, demonstrate this writer's knack for exposing, without condescension or easy moralizing, the pathos in marginalized lives.

Mary Page Marlowe by Tracy Letts

In a series of elegant, non-chronological scenes spanning the years from 1946 to 2015, the play hopscotches through Mary Page Marlowe's quiet existence as an accountant from Ohio-complicating notions of what it means to lead a "simple life."

Three Sisters by Tracy Letts

A cruder, gruffer outline of the plight of the wistful Prozorov sisters serves to emphasize the anguish of their Chekhovian stagnation. This latest work from Letts envisions the revered classic through a fresh lens that revives the passionate characters and redoubles the tragic effect of their stunted dreams.

Ode to Joy by Craig Lucas

Adele is an aspiring painter with three complicated lovers: Bill, Mala, and alcohol. Over the course of fifteen years, Ode to Joy follows Adele as she attempts to navigate the tumult, heartbreak and ultimate redemption of both the relationship with these lovers, and with herself.

Barbecue/Bootycandy by Robert O'Hara

Both of these subversive, uproarious plays crash headlong into the intersection of family confrontation and self-actualization, reminding us of the fine, fuzzy line between pain and pleasure.

The Liquid Plain by Naomi Wallace

On the docks of eighteenth-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. As the mysteries of their identities come to light, painful truths about the past and present collide.

Night is a Room by Naomi Wallace

This story of a seemingly ideal married couple is torn apart when the husband's previously unknown birth mother makes a surprise visit for his fortieth birthday. Night is a Room examines the intimate challenge love can create, romantic or otherwise.

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