Our Town - takes place in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, Long Day's Journey into Night - produced three years after Eugene O'Neil's death. Characters Edmund Tyrone and his family. The father is a miserly actor, mother a morphine addict, brother is a drunk. They argue and cut each other down., Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Martha and George invite another couple over, they bicker about flawed marriages. The title has little to do with author named in the title., A Streetcar Named Desire - Characters - Blanche DuBois, Stanely Kowalski, Stella. Made into a movie - Breakthrough performance by Marlon Brando, A Raisin in the Sun - Younger family, attempts to move into an all white Chicago suburb., The Crucible - Characters - Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail Williams. allegorical protest against McCarthy anti- Communist witch hunts, Death of a Salesman - Characters - Willy Loman, His sons Biff and Happy. Willy commits suicide in an attempt to leave insurance money for Biff., Mourning Becomes Electra - A trilogy ( Homecoming, The Hunted, and The Haunted) post Civil War New England. Poisoning, Killing in revenge, guilt leads to suicide. Lavinia is left alone., The Glass Menagerie - Laura has glass animals, the horn on the glass unicorn breaks bringing Laura into reality. Jim O'Conner tells Laura he is engaged to another women causing Laura to return to her fantasy with the glass animals. Laura's Brother is Tom Wingfield, The Iceman Cometh - A portrait of drunkenness and hopeless dreams. Theodore "Hickey" Hickman implores patrons of the End of the line Cafe to give up their dreams and lead productive lives. (The iceman is "death"), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Centers on a fight between brothers Gooper and Brick over their father (Big Daddy Pollitt) estate. Brick is an ex-football star turns to alcohol, his wife Maggie ( she is the cat) attempt to force a reconciliation., The Little Foxes - Set on a plantation in 1900. Title taken from Old Testament Song of Solomon. Regina and her two brothers scheme to earn vast riches at the expense of other family members., Hedda Gabler - Title Character burns Eilert Lovborg's manuscript after her honeymoon with Jorgen Tesman. Not an American Play. Written by Henrik Ibsen,

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