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Of Mice and Men follows two migrant ranch workers—George and Lennie—who dream of owning land while struggling with the hardships of the Great Depression; their friendship is tested by tragedy.

Ernest Hemingway’s classic follows an old Cuban fisherman and his young companion as they battle a massive marlin, exploring themes of endurance, solitude, and the human struggle against nature.

A nonfiction novel chronicling the adventures of a group of friends on their cross-country journey of discovery, featuring characters like Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty as real-life friends Neal Casady.

Arthur Miller's tragic tale of a salesman who wanted more for his sons than he could give them, focusing on his ill-fated relationship with his sons and the lessons he learned in the end. A cornerstone of American drama, 'Death of a Salesman' explores the complexities of father-son relationships and the price one pays for ambition and the American Dream. It's a story of the American dream and the human condition, touching on themes of family, ambition, and the unfulfilled promise of the American Dream. The play has resonated with audiences for decades and is universally recognized as one of the greatest plays of the 20th century.

Upton Sinclair’s *The Jungle* exposes the harsh realities of Chicago's stockyards, highlighting the exploitation of immigrants and workers in the early 20th century and sparking reforms such as the Pure Food and Meat Inspection Act.

Tennessee Williams’s debut hit, *The Glass Menagerie*, earned the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and saw a long Broadway run with Laurette Taylor in the lead. It remains a staple of American community‑theater repertoire.

Ernest Hemingway’s Louisiana‑born narrator takes readers through the 1920s Lost Generation—expatriates on Paris’s Left Bank, bullfights in Spain, and the era’s moral and spiritual unraveling.

A Raisin in the Sun is a seminal American drama about the Younger family's hopes and struggles on Chicago’s South Side as they confront race, housing discrimination, and generational conflict.

A comedic drama about the Jerome family during the Depression, centered on fifteen‑year‑old Eugene and his youthful preoccupations.

The Good Person of Szechwan (German: Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, first translated less literally as The Good Woman of Szechwan) is a play written in collaboration with Margarete Steffin and Ruth Berlau. The play was begun in 1938 but not completed until 1943, while the author was in exile in the United States. It was first performed in 1943 at the Zürich Schauspielhaus in Switzerland, with a musical score and songs by Swiss composer Huldreich Georg Früh. Today, Paul Dessau's composition of the songs from 1947–48, also authorized by Brecht, is the better known version. The play is an example of Brecht's "non-Aristotelian drama", a dramatic form intended to be staged with the methods of epic theatre. The play is a parable set in the Chinese "city of Sichuan". Mother Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) is a play written in 1939 with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin. After four very important theatrical productions in Switzerland and Germany from 1941 to 1952—the last three supervised and/or directed by Brecht—the play was filmed several years after Brecht's death in 1959/1960 with Brecht's widow and leading actress, Helene Weigel. Mother Courage is considered by some to be the greatest play of the 20th century, and perhaps also the greatest anti-war play of all time. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, (German: Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches) , also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, is one of Bertolt Brecht's most famous plays and the first of his openly anti-Nazi works. It was first performed in 1938. The production employed Brecht's epic theatre techniques to defamiliarize the behaviour of the characters and to make explicit the play's underlying message.

Wombat auditions for the Nativity play, but has trouble finding the right part.