Introduction A Catch-22 is a “no-win situation”—a paradox where escaping a problem is impossible because of conflicting rules or conditions. The term itself has become part of everyday language, symbolising life’s frustrating contradictions. Interestingly, it originated not from a dictionary but from...

Introduction August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson is part of his famous “Pittsburgh Cycle.” This ten-play series explores African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. In this play, Wilson focuses on the 1930s, showing how the legacy of slavery and Jim...

Introduction Sam Shepard’s Buried Child is not the America of white picket fences, cheerful families, and fertile cornfields we often imagine. Instead, it pulls us into a decaying farmhouse in Illinois, where the once‑glorious American Dream has collapsed into silence, denial, and moral rot. The...