A Random House play

In an American Embassy somewhere behind the Iron Curtain, a vacationing caterer from Newark becomes involved in some hilarious misadventures.

Mrs. Mary Prescott, the U.S. delegate to the U.N., has presented proposals that a U.N. committee should discuss the areas of agreement between the member countries, rather than the differences. On the night Mary is to make an important speech on the proposals, the Czech delegate, with whom she had once had a romantic affair, comes to her home, where he dies of a sudden heart attack. A few minutes after this, the English, French, Russian and Pakistani delegates arrive at Mary's apartment for cocktails. The four delegates remove the body to the Czechoslovakian headquarters where it can be found without compromising Mary or her proposals and they all pledge secrecy. However, one of the four delegates breaks his oath and phones the police. The resulting international complications threaten to wreck the proposals and the lives of those involved, until the guilty delegate reveals his basic humanity and vindicates Mary. There is also a romance between Mary and a radio commentator who has reserved judgment on her proposals, and during the course of the play she wins both the commentator and his approval of her political action.

Dans cette collection on fait revivre, à partir de matériaux littéraires et historiques, des héroïnes fabuleuses et des figures mythiques de légende. La plume élégante de l'auteure donne un souffle nouveau et captivant à ces légendes issues du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance. Les illustrations, nourries de plusieurs références artistiques, évoquent bien l'univers féerique. [SDM].

When the man from the draft board arrives to take country bumpkin Will Stockdale to Callville for induction into the army, Will's father chases him off. But even hastily erected barbed wire cannot prevent Uncle Sam from claiming this draftee, and soon Will is on a bus to Fort Thompson, Georgia. In the barracks, our hapless hero meets little Ben Whitledge, a fellow trainee who thinks he deserves a medal simply because his grandfather fought under Stonewall Jackson. This odd duo is assigned to the elite air force, though they would rather serve in that most glorious and revered branch of the army - the infantry. Sergeant King, Will's nemesis, is determined to dampen the young soldier's enthusiasm, but Will - even in his long stint as latrine orderly - consistently prevails and unknowingly confounds the gruff sergeant at every turn.

Two poker buddies, one a hyper-neurotic, the other an incurable slob, suddenly find themselves bachelors again and decide to share a New York City apartment. This classic comedic play was later adapted into two motion pictures and a successful television series.

Harrowing story about an escaped convict who breaks into a suburban home and takes a family hostage.

Neil Simon's hilarious comedy follows three brief encounters in the same suite at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City.

A breakthrough Broadway musical in 1970, Company remains fresh, acerbic and original today. The musical's themes - marriage and commitment, friendship and loneliness - and its innovations in form mark it as a landmark of modern American musical theatre. Company's 25th anniversary was commemorated by two major revivals: in New York, at the Roundabout Theatre Company and in London at the Donmar Warehouse. This edition incorporates all revisions and additions made for these productions.

Based on Irish mythology and folklore and written in the invented Kiltartan dialect, this play tells the story of Rury, a prince who braves the Wood of Wonders, the Giant's castle, the Mountain of Flame, and the Hill of the Pointed Spears in order to win a golden apple that can save his dying father, the King of Ireland.

Play - First published in 1966. It is about war revolving around the unknown soldier whose fate is always to go to war leaving his wife at a moments notice without any regard for his own situation. But this time in his play- Ustinov gives the soldier the decision to make:" If we don't find an enemy to share our common interests... then we don't deserve to survive...". The common interest is "living".

Last of the Red Hot Lovers is one of the most amusing of Neil Simon?s comedies. It focuses on Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old owner of a seafood restaurant who is afraid that the sexual revolution of the 1960?s is passing him by. Over the space of nine months, he invites three different women to his mother?s Manhattan apartment in an attempt to have an afternoon of extramarital sex. None of the affairs is consummated, however, and Barney decides after the last one that he would prefer a romantic afternoon with his wife, Thelma.

Comedy of a mind-reading act cast in Communist Prague in March, 1948.

Allan Felix has this thing about Humphrey Bogart. If only he had some of Bogart's technique... Bookish and insecure with women, Allan's hero, Bogey comes to the rescue, with a fantastic bevy of beauties played out in hilarious fantasy sequences. Fixed up by friends with gorgeous women, he's so awkward that even Bogey's patience is tried. Allan mostly resembles a disheveled, friendly dog and this is what ultimately charms his best friend's wife, Linda into bed. It's a tough life, making it in the world of beautiful people but if you can't be a hero it helps to have one...

A stage play, set in the late 60's, about sisters struggling after the death of their mother.

An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.