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  • Book cover of Fifty Words

    THE STORY: While their nine-year-old son is away for the night on his first sleepover, Adam and Jan have an evening alone together, their first in years. Adam's attempt to seduce his wife before he leaves on business the next day begins a suspensef

  • Book cover of Five Plays

    Long-unavailable, Michael Weller's Five Plays is the definitive look at the generation which came of age in the '60s.

  • Book cover of Spoils of War

    Drama chronicles desperate attempts of sixteen-year-old boy to reconcile his divorced parents.

  • Book cover of Moonchildren

    Sometimes described as the definitive play about the young people of the 1960s , a generation that no longer believes in traditional values but has not yet found values of its own.

  • Book cover of Tira Tells Everything There Is to Know about Herself and the Bodybuilders

    THE STORIES: TIRA TELLS EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT HERSELF. At the outset Tira awaits the arrival of her lover, Edward, who, she admits, bores her. When he goes off to retrieve the present he forgot to bring her, she is visited, in turn, by

  • Book cover of Loose Ends

    A study of a failed romance.

  • Book cover of What the Night Is For

    Ten years after the end of their affair in New York, two lovers meet in a hotel room far from their homes. Both are now married, both have children and both have been wondering about the road not taken. What begins as a casual meal and an evening of catching up turns into a painful, hilarious, passionate and moving voyage towards a moment that could change both their lives forever. Uncompromising in its attitude to modern marriage and infidelity, What the Night is For poses timeless questions - Am I with the right person? Or is my real soul mate still out there, living another life?

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  • Book cover of Loving Longing Leaving

    "Fifty Words has a gimlet eye, providing meticulously chosen, artfully integrated details that let us understand why its characters so love and loathe each other. Like Mr. Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? it understands how closely hate and love can be linked in marriage."—The New York Times In Fifty Words, a Brooklyn brownstone becomes a marital battleground for Adam and Jan; Do Not Disturb dramatizes Adam's infidelity at a hotel with former lover Melinda; and in Side Effects, Melinda and her husband Hugh come to terms with their broken relationship. Michael Weller has written over forty dramatic works, including the plays Moonchildren, Fishing, Loose Ends, and Beast, and the screenplays for Hair and Ragtime.