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The Female Gamester: A Tragedy

Gorges Edmond Howard

The moral decay born of obsessive gambling leads a once-prosperous household to ruin, claiming lives and reputations in a downward spiral of secrecy and betrayal.

Plays/Films/Dramas6 min read

John Gabriel Borkman

Henrik Ibsen

A fallen financier locked in self-imposed exile faces the bitter winter air and the unresolved loves of his past. He must choose between clutching his grand illusions and confronting the devastating human cost of his ambition.

Plays/Films/Dramas7 min read

The Romancers: A Comedy in Three Acts

Edmond Rostand

Two idealistic young neighbors fall in love across a garden wall, unaware that their fathers' bitter feud is a sham engineered to push them together.

Plays/Films/Dramas6 min read