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Drama

A merry-go-round spins in the darkness.

I Shall Live in the Night

By Olivia Duchesne

I say: I’m lying for you, Lisé. You say: You’re lying for your mother, Nesta.

Translated from French by Siân Robyns

A close up of the corner of stacked papers and folders on a table.

Photo by Isaac Bowen on Flickr licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

The Myth of Gravity: A Small Act of Social Defiance

By Xavier Stanziola

One day you’re a revolutionary, and the next you’re a civil servant.

Translated from Spanish by Alexander Aguayo

A row of building windows facing another row of windows in front of it

Photo by Sabri Tuzcu on Unsplash

Parentheses

By Felipe Franco Munhoz

The vinyl record turns three thousand four hundred and fifty-six degrees. I counted.

Translated from Portuguese by Alison Entrekin

Soumaila Sacko: Story of the Good Life

But if you drink and breathe and sweat and love in a country that is no longer yours, then you are not a migrant. You are a man.

Translated from Italian by Candice Whitney

The Colonel’s Wedding

By Wajdi Muhammad Abduh al-Ahdal

“Did my bodyguard not explain to you that I asked him to stand in for me during the wedding ceremony . . . ?”

Translated from Arabic by Katherine Hennessey

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Condolences

By Mishka Lavigne

Gabrielle Sauriol lies in the Pacific Ocean now.

Translated from French by Neil Blackadder

A Gambling World

By Koh Choon Eiow & Mok Sio Chong

I tell you, people at these casinos only think of winning.

Translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang

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Please Enter Destination

By Tereza Semotamová

That piece of junk is driving me crazy!

Translated from Czech by Barbora Růžičková

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The Veil: An Extremely Short Play

By Mansour Bushnaf

The men pull dollar bills out of their pockets and throw them at the women’s heads.

Translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Number Six

By José Ignacio Valenzuela

“Why don’t you ask someone else for help?”

Translated from Spanish by Aurora Lauzardo, Sofía García Deliz & Edil Ramos Pagán

No Direction

By Miguel Alcantud & Santiago Molero

“You make everything I do seem so senseless.”

Translated from Spanish by Sarah Maitland

Grandmother’s Little Hut

By Andrei Platonov

“No one in our family lasts long. And I’m no different—I only look like I’m doing OK . . . ”

Translated from Russian by Jesse Irwin

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Visitors from on High

By Roberto Athayde

“Believing in flying saucers . . . is one thing. What is difficult is believing concrete facts.”

Translated from Portuguese by the author

Love Thy Savior

By Jerzy Lutowski

“Do you want me to humiliate myself and you?”

Translated from Polish by Kevin Windle

Hey, Wake Up!

We are not a run-of-the-mill company. We do not engage in run-of-the-mill business.

Translated from Chinese by Dan Feng Tan

From “Lampedusa Snow”

I stand like an African at the door of an entrance / that doesn’t exist.

Translated from Italian by Nerina Cocchi

From “Qibla”

By Shen Wan-ting

“I’m sorry. I’ll change your pants right away.”

Translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang

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The Seed of Evil: Sarajevo 1995

By Sonia Ristic

You don’t become a war correspondent by accident or by chance.

Translated from French by Paul Romano

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Heldenplatz

By Antonio Fian

The nerve. Everyone cheers for him on the Heldenplatz and then he goes and cuts deals with the Russians.

Translated from German by Tess Lewis

His Majesty: The Stomach

By Sony Labou Tansi

Doctors, Poinçon, I want doctors! Specialists.

Translated from French by Kristin Prevallet & Raymond G. Hounfodji

Texterminators

By Mai Ghoussoub

As far as Bullet and his companions were concerned, these volumes were made of paper, and paper is good for warming their feet.

From “Little Stain”

By Koffi Kwahulé

I am the son of lightning, I've come to burn down this house.

Translated from French

From “The Scent of Wheat”

By Zdenka Becker

What kind of part can a writer play in a war? Exactly the same one as during peace.

Translated from German by Eugene Sampson

A person lies on a pink couch in a dim theater

Photo Credit: Jim Baldassare, photo of Louis Cancelmi in the US Premiere production of Night Sings Its Songs by Jon Fosse, directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde, set by Lauren Helpern, lighting by Roma Flowers.

From “Night Sings Its Songs”

Leading Norwegian playwright and winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature Jon Fosse takes us deep into one fateful night where a young couple tries to reconnect.

Translated from Norwegian by Sarah Cameron Sunde

From “Canary”

My God, that's some stone. I've never held a diamond this big in my hands.

Translated from German by Lucie Pohl

From “A Peace of Women”

By Lenin El-Ramly

This is a time of sex strikes, and women are in such a short supply.

Translated from Arabic by Hazem M. Azmy

From “Alive in the Mortuary”

By Chong Mui Ngam

25 years of war, aren't you sick and tired of it?

Translated from Chinese by Candace Chong

From “The Ascetic and The Courtesan”

By Buddhadeva Bose

Cropless the fields, childless the wives, day after day an emptiness—no rain.

Translated from Bengali by Sankalpo Ghose & Jyotirmoy Datta

From “Soul of a Clone”

By Philip Boehm

Many of you probably debated whether I should exist at all...

From “The Moon and the Leopard”

Why should I give up the light that I've held?

Translated from Persian by Zara Houshmand

From “The Eighth Voyage of Sindbad”

By Bahram Beyzaii

We are going to seek happiness for you and your children. All of us! Because one hand alone is useless. Are you ready?

Translated from Persian by Zara Houshmand & Bella Warda