Back of Book: 

Welcome to Almost, Maine, a place that's so far north, it's almost not in the United States. It's almost in Canada. And it's not quite a town, because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it almost doesn't exist. One cold, clear, winter night, as the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night's dream.

Book Number: Stand Alone 

Genre: Drama | Contemporary | Fantasy | Romance 

Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Back of Book: 

Revised from the rather long original complete works of Shakespeare, this abridged version is written by three Americans, with no qualifications worth speaking of. The playtext is reproduced here with footnotes which will be of no help to anyone and a letter from the authors to the Queen.

Book Number: Stand Alone 

Genre: Drama | Comedy 

Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Back of Book: 

In Strindberg’s A Dream Play, written in 1901, characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessively recurrent image. As Strindberg himself wrote in his Preface, he wanted “to imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist.” 

Book Number: Stand Alone 

Genre: Drama | Fantasy 

Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Back of Book: 

Hamlet is the story of the Prince of Denmark who learns of the death of his father at the hands of his uncle, Claudius. Claudius murders Hamlet's father, his own brother, to take the throne of Denmark and to marry Hamlet's widowed mother. Hamlet is sunk into a state of great despair as a result of discovering the murder of his father and the infidelity of his mother. Hamlet is torn between his great sadness and his desire for the revenge of his father's murder. 

Book Number: Stand Alone 

Genre: Drama | Tragedy 

Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Back of Book: 

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.

Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the "rivals" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!

Book Number: Stand Alone 

Genre: Drama | Contemporary | Farce 

Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Back of Book: 

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city under cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, unbeknownst to the mortals, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the faeries) are having a spat over a servant boy. The plot twists up when Oberon's head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking. Throw in a group of labourers preparing a play for the Duke's wedding (one of whom is given a donkey's head and Titania for a lover by Puck) and the complications become fantastically funny.

Book Number: Stand Alone 

Genre: Drama | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance 

Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Back of Book: 

Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock.

After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery. They are delighted that neither casting issues nor technical hitches currently stand in their way. However, hilarious disaster ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production back on track before the final curtain falls?

The Play That Goes Wrong is a farcical murder mystery, a play within a play, conceived and performed by award-winning company Theatre Mischief. It was first published as a one-act play and is published in this new edition as a two-act play.

Book Number: Stand Alone 

Genre: Drama | Contemporary | Farce

Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Back of Book: 

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.

Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America—and changed American theater forever.  The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."

Book Number: Stand Alone 

Genre: Drama | Historical 

Review: 🌟🌟

Back of Book: 

Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble, threatening to destroy her sanity and her one chance of happiness.

Book Number: Stand Alone 

Genre: Drama | Contemporary 

Review: 🌟🌟 

Back of Book: 

 In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.

In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers.

Book Number: Stand Alone 

Genre: Drama | Tragedy 

Review: 🌟🌟🌟

Back of Book: 

At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore house on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by the Kirbys, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores, however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it hard to realize her point of view. Meantime, Tony, who knows the Sycamores are right and his own people wrong, will not give up on her, and in the end Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during a visit by the ex-Grand Duchess, earning her living as a waitress. No mention has as yet been made of the strange activities of certain members of the househld engaged in the manufacture of fireworks; nor the printing press set up in the parlor; nor of Rheba the maid and her friend Donald; not of Grandpa's interview with the tax collector when he tells him he doesn't believe in the income tax. 

Book Number: Stand Alone 

Genre: Drama | Comedy 

Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

"You Can't Take It With You" is a fun and comical play that hits on important societal issues.

Despite the fact that this play was written in the 1930s, I still feel like it is still just as funny and relevant today. There are a few parts that aged poorly and I would modify for an actual theatre production, but it is a great historical piece as is.

The Sycamore family is such a fun group of people and I couldn't help but love them despite their quirks. The fact that the Sycamores show the Kirby's that there is more to life than work and money is so true, and it reminded me of "The Addams Family: The Musical" in that matter. Everyone needs hobbies and a little fun in their lives and I think this is something that is often forgotten in American society.

Overall, "You Can't Take It With You" is a fun and quirky comedy starring an unusual group of people you will not soon forget. It was a blast to read and watch, and I am sure it will be just as fun to perform live.