Title: 26 Miles in - American Theatre Vol. 26, No. 6 / PER Author: Hudes, Quiara Alegria Publisher: Miscellaneous 2009
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
Eight years after a Cuban mother loses custody of her Jewish daughter she is given a second chance. At 4:30 in the morning she kidnaps the sick teenage girl and the two drive west in search of a remedy and their divergent American dreams.
Title: 4 A.M. (open all night) in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Krakower, Bob Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy relationships four characters three male; one female one act
'Play set in all-night diner. Man and woman, both lonely, fear making contact with each other.'
Title: 4000 Miles in - American Theatre Vol. 29 No. 4 / PER Author: Herzog, Amy Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female one act
After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other. 4000 MILES looks at how two outsiders find their way in today's world.
Finalist! 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Winner! 2012 Obie Award, Best New Play; Winner! 2012 Title: 6:15 on the 104 in - Three Short Plays / COL Author: Jones, Elinor Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1989
Description:
roy women - relationships all female cast; four characters four female one act
suggested for high school.
'Chance encounter on New York City bus, where four women, all strangers, begin sharing confidences.'
Title: A.M. Sunday in - American Theatre (July 02) / PER Author: Hairston, Jerome Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002
Description:
roy family relationships five characters two male; two female; one boy one act
'Black father, white mother, and their two sons. A family in quiet crisis, with many secrets.'
Title: A.M. Sunday in - Humana Festival 2002 / COL Author: Hairston, Jerome Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2002
Description:
roy drama - family - inter-racial relationships five characters (three youth) three male; two female six scenes
"Sunday morning should be a safe space, full of comforting rituals of family life; however, this is right where the ties that bind begin to fray. Helen, R.P. and their 2 adolescent boys have built a life together, defying the odds against their mixed-race home—until the mysterious calls and unexplained silences start the anxious drumbeat of doubt. What secrets do we hide even from ourselves? Can any bonds really bridge the gulfs that separate us? The play probes our most hopeful assumptions with its frank look at contemporary life along the racial divide." Title: A.M.L. in - Manhattan Class Company Class 1 Acts 1991-1992 / COL Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1992
Description:
roy drama all female cast five female one act
"The five characters in A.M.L. represent the thoughts and feelings of a single woman who is trying to cope with her boyfriend's Leukemia. Each of the women depict a different stage of the illness and the relationship. By the end we realize that the boyfriend has survived, the woman is stronger, but the relationship is over; and her five separate parts have grown into one."
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois in - Plays to Remember / COL Author: Sherwood, Robert E. Publisher: MacMillan 1967
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female one act (scene V from the full length play)
'And how far do you think you will go with anyone like Abe Lincoln, who is lazy and shiftless and prefers to stop constantly along the way to tell jokes?', asks Elizabeth Edwards her sister, Mary Todd, when Mary reveals that she intends to marry Abraham Lincoln. This is an excerpt from a three-act, biographical play, 'Abe Lincoln in Illinois'. In the play, which covers Lincoln's life from his youth until he is inaugurated as President in 1861, Sherwood tries to give a realistic rather than a heroic picture of Lincoln.
Title: Abraham and Isaac in - Medieval Mysteries, Moralities and Interludes / COL Author: Publisher: Barron's Educational Series 1962
Description:
non-roy mystery play - drama five characters four male; one female one act
1 setting.
The Brome version of the play. Bible. Old Testament. Genesis. 15th century English mystery play about Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. Verse play in Middle English with modernized spelling. Title: Acapulco in - Kvetch and Acapulco / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: Faber and Faber 1986
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"A group of film actors on location in a Mexican holiday resort try to find ways of filling their spare time".
Title: Acapulco in - Steven Berkoff: Volume 2: The Collected Plays / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: Faber and Faber 1986
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"A group of film actors on location in a Mexican holiday resort try to find ways of filling their spare time".
Title: Accidental Death of a Salesman in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Mitchell, Nick Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
Willy, a businessman, confronts Arthur Miller in a restaurant and rewrites Willy Loman's death as an accident, foreshadowing the last event in the play. Title: Action in - Fool for Love and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Bantam Books 1984
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
1 set.
"Psychological drama. Two passive American couples illustrate gaps existing between action, meaning, and self".
Title: Action in - Fool for Love and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Dial Press 2006
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
1 set.
"Psychological drama. Two passive American couples illustrate gaps existing between action, meaning, and self".
Title: Adult American Males in - Best Student One Acts Volume 4 / COL Author: Gordy, Graham Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act
'Four all-American, hard-drinking, tough-talking guys have a suprising discovery.' Title: Adult Entertainment in - Suburban Motel / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1997
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - relationships four characters two male; two female five scenes
A bitter lawyer and a cop resume their relationship after calling it quits, and are interrupted by dreams and realities.
Title: After in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2012 / COL Author: Beckim, Chad Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2012
Description:
roy drama seven characters four male; two female (doubling) fourteen scenes
How does man re-enter this world after being released from prison after serving 17 years for a crime he did not commit?
Title: After All in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 118 Spring 2004 / PER Author: Anderson, Carol Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004
Description:
roy family relations four characters one male; one female; two male or female one act
Description not available. Title: After Baba's Funeral in - After Baba's Funeral / Sweet and Sour Pickles / CCO Author: Galay, Ted Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations - Manitoba five characters three male; two female one act
"A Ukrainian family gathers in Manitoba for their grandmother's funeral. Confronting cultural and generational differences, Baba's memory helps them to overcome their fear of death and to re-establish family ties.
Winner, 1981 Drama Award, Canadian Author's Association."
Title: After The Crash: A Play About Brain Injury in - Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 146, Spring 2011 / PER Author: Gray, Julia Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
Elliott’s life changes drastically as he runs an errand one night. Elliott struggles to negotiate his new life after a major car accident. He discovers that the most devastating circumstances can also be riddled with unforeseen gifts and rewards. ‘After the Crash’ is the story of a man finding his new way in the world.
Title: Agamemnon in - Greek Tragedies Vol 1 / COL Author: Aeschylus translated by Richmond Lattimore Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1960
Description:
roy Greek drama - verse play five characters; extras; chorus three male; two female one act
'First play in the trilogy "Oresteia". Greek classical drama in verse. Based on legend of murder of Agamemnon by his wife and her lover after the Trojan war.' Title: Agamemnon in - The Oresteia / COL Author: Aeschylus translated by Gilbert Murray Publisher: George Allen and Unwin 1981
Description:
roy Greek drama - verse play five characters; extras; chorus three male; two female one act
'First play in the trilogy "Oresteia". Greek classical drama in verse. Based on legend of murder of Agamemnon by his wife and her lover after the Trojan war.'
Title: Agamemnon in - Aeschylus I / COL Author: Aeschylus translated by Richmond Lattimore Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy Greek drama - verse play five characters; extras; chorus three male; two female one act
'First play in the trilogy "Oresteia". Greek classical drama in verse. Based on legend of murder of Agamemnon by his wife and her lover after the Trojan war.'
Title: Agamemnon in - The Oresteian Trilogy / COL Author: Aeschylus translated by Philip Vellacott Publisher: Penguin Books 1959
Description:
roy Greek drama - verse play five characters; extras; chorus three male; two female one act
"First play in the trilogy "Oresteia". Greek classical drama in verse. Based on legend of murder of Agamemnon by his wife and her lover after the Trojan war." Title: Agamemnon in - The Oresteia / COL Author: Aeschylus translated by David Grene and Wendy Doniger Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1989
Description:
roy Greek tragedy - verse play six characters; chorus five male; one female one act
1 set; speaking chorus. Translated by David Grene and Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. Contains translation and acting versions.
Contemporary adaptation of Aeschylus' tragedy.
Title: Alchemy of Desire / Dead-man's Blues in - Out of the Fringe - COL Author: Svich, Caridad Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000
Description:
roy drama six characters one male; five female nineteen scenes
1 setting. Music, singing.
A newly widowed woman's love for her late husband brings him back as a ghost. Bayou country setting.
Title: Alien Bait in - New Canadian Drama 8 - Speculative Drama / CCO Author: Green, Michael Brooker, Blake Publisher: Borealis Press
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - alien abduction - science fiction many characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
A One Yellow Rabbit production. Alien Bait meditates on the alien abduction phenomenon. Characterised by a constant switching back and forth between "experts" and "victims". Aside from being a pleasing challenge for actors, the work places ideas concerning abduction in revealing contrast. From the panel's perspective, the audience is presented with a spectrum of current theoretical views, from the abductees, we see the other, perhaps more human side. In the end what is conjured is the loneliness of those afflicted: their isolation, the stunned surprise, and the Title: Alienor in - Angels & Anger / CCO Author: Chiasson, Hermenegilde translated by Glen Nichols Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy rape six characters three male; three female one act
'The play revolves around Etienne who removed himself and his daughter, Alienor, from progressive encroachments of the world to live deep in the woods until a violent encounter with four hunters forces him back into the world on charges of having sexually abused his daughter. In order to protect Alienor's honour, he holds out against the arguements of his lawyer that he might escape prosecution through a plea of mental incompetence. In the end though, it is Alienor who has the courage to insist on revealing the truth, that it was the hunters who raped her, not
Title: Alligators, The in - Rosemary - The Alligators / COL Author: Kazan, Molly Publisher: Samuel French 1959
Description:
roy drama - gangsters five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior.
"Gangster's widow, involved in film about late husband, is threatened by his successor."
Title: Allison's Lad in - Nine Modern Plays / COL Author: Dix, Beulah Marie Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1926
Description:
roy drama - war all male cast; six characters six male one act
Description not available. Title: American Hwangap in - American Theatre Vol. 26 No. 10 / PER Author: Suh, Lloyd Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - Korean-American five characters three male; two female eighteen scenes
running time: 90 minutes.
Min Suk Chun is turning 60, and he's back in West Texas after leaving his family almost 15 years ago. As his ex-wife and three adult children wrestle with their broken past in preparing this American hwangap (a 60th birthday ritual celebrating the completion of the Eastern zodiac), an aging Korean would-be cowboy is back at the head of the table. But before the end of the night,
Title: American Hwangap in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2009 / COL Author: Suh, Lloyd Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
roy drama - Korean-American five characters three male; two female eighteen scenes
running time: 90 minutes.
Min Suk Chun is turning 60, and he's back in West Texas after leaving his family almost 15 years ago. As his ex-wife and three adult children wrestle with their broken past in preparing this American hwangap (a 60th birthday ritual celebrating the completion of the Eastern zodiac), an aging Korean would-be cowboy is back at the head of the table. But before the end of the night,
Title: Ana's Shadow in - CTR, Vol. 151 / PER Author: Goldstein, Tara Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama six characters six female; all female one act
A play about love, loss and coming of age in an adoptive same-sex family. Title: And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens... in - Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2005
Description:
roy drama - American - 20th century - LGBTQ+ all male cast; four characters four male one act (two scenes)
1 interior set; music.
"Candy Delaney is a successful New Orleans interior decorator and also a drag queen approaching "her" 35th birthday. On the rebound from a seventeen-year relationship, Candy has picked up a rough sailor, Karl, on whom she lavishes money. On the day of the dreaded birthday, Karl walks out and it's left to the two queens who live upstairs, Alvin and Jerry, to comfort Candy."
Title: And Yet... in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL Author: Feffer, Steve Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters two male; one female; one male or female one act
Takes Shakespeare's famous sonnet on love unvarnished ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") and utilizes video technology to probe the mysteries of performed behavior in love relations. "Acting" is a central component to all human behavior but seems even more intensified and concentrated where love is involved. A television is a character in the play. Hyper self-conscious as we all are today about the mediating influences of technology, Feffer's play takes a unique approach by literalizing the idea that out lives are like television.
Title: Andante un Poco Mosso in - The Best Short Plays 1983 / COL Author: Johnston, Jennifer Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1983
Description:
roy tragedy - Irish play five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior set; background music.
"Chamber music group caught up in war-torn Belfast". Title: Andre's Mother in - Andre's Mother and Other Short Plays / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; two female sketch
"At Andre's memorial, his lover tries one last time to get through to Andre's mother, an imposing figure in Andre's life. Not realizing her hidden emotions, he tells her everything he can before leaving her alone, as she is left to deal with her own sense of grief and loneliness."
Title: Andre's Mother in - The Way We Live Now / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; two female sketch
"At Andre's memorial, his lover tries one last time to get through to Andre's mother, an imposing figure in Andre's life. Not realizing her hidden emotions, he tells her everything he can before leaving her alone, as she is left to deal with her own sense of grief and loneliness."
Title: Andre's Mother in - Telling Tales / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; two female sketch
"At Andre's memorial, his lover tries one last time to get through to Andre's mother, an imposing figure in Andre's life. Not realizing her hidden emotions, he tells her everything he can before leaving her alone, as she is left to deal with her own sense of grief and loneliness." Title: Angel's Trumpet in - Sharon Pollock: Three Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy biographical - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act
'In (this play) the turbulent relationship between Scoot and Zelda Fitzgerald is encapsulated in a meeting with Zelda's psychiatrist. Scott, on the verge of a mental breakdown himself, demands a diagnosis of Zelda's literary ambitions as evidence of her escalating mental deterioration. While the psychiatrist attempts to mediate, the couple squares off against each other while using as their weapons the events of their past, present and eventually their projected future. The struggle between these two passionate and talented individuals is underscored by the tapping of a
Title: Angel's Trumpet in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy biographical - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act
'In (this play) the turbulent relationship between Scoot and Zelda Fitzgerald is encapsulated in a meeting with Zelda's psychiatrist. Scott, on the verge of a mental breakdown himself, demands a diagnosis of Zelda's literary ambitions as evidence of her escalating mental deterioration. While the psychiatrist attempts to mediate, the couple squares off against each other while using as their weapons the events of their past, present and eventually their projected future. The struggle between these two passionate and talented individuals is underscored by the tapping of a
Title: Anniversary in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 37th Series / COL Author: Bonds, Rachel Publisher: Samuel French 2013
Description:
roy drama - grief - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
While grappling with a significant loss, Penelope embarks on a new relationship, attempting to function in a world that seems to speed ahead without her. Title: Another Country in - Another Country / bloom / CCO Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy drama - war five characters two male; three female forty-four scenes
(Originally Final Decisions [War]), this play was his response to his home country Argentina’s Dirty War in 1976–83, when leaders of the military junta held that their campaign against “leftist subversives and terrorists” was the beginning of the third world war. The scale of their undertaking was defined by their statement: “First we will kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, those who are undecided.” The public relations firm Burson-Marsteller was hired to make
Title: Après Opéra in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Dixon, Michael Bigelow Smith, Valerie Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy relationships four characters two male; two female one act
'Young woman and her narcoleptic fiance meet her former lover at a restaurant.'
Title: April in - Best Student One Acts Volume 4 / COL Author: Fields, Alison Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000
Description:
roy drama - relationships six characters four male; two female one act
'Eve struggles to find commitment within her love relationships.' Title: Architruc in - Modern French Theatre / COL Author: Pinget, Robert translated by Michael Benedikt Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1966
Description:
roy drama - avant garde all male cast; four characters four male one act
'Bored King Architruc is killed by Death, who is disguised as his Prime Minister.'
Title: Aria Da Capo in - Fifteen American One Act Plays / COL Author: Millay, Edna St. Vincent Publisher: Washington Square Press 1961
Description:
roy poetic - fantasy five characters four male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"Under the prompting of Cothurnus, a masque of tragedy, two shepherds interrupt a harlequinade, innocently kill each other, and are again superseded by the harlequinade".
Title: Artefacts in - Plays: 1 / COL Author: Bartlett, Mike Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2011
Description:
roy drama - British - family relations⌦five characters one male; four female one act (three parts) " 'Artefacts' depicts a father-daughter reunion which, after 16 years, crosses between the world of a British teenager and an Iraqi expert in antiquity, and is complicated by the ambivalent gift of a precious Mespotamian vase." - Publisher Title: As Angels Watch in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Sixteenth Series) / COL Author: MacNerland, Jim Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
'Surrogate couple refuse to abort baby afflicted with Down's Syndrome.'
Title: Asshole Murder Case, The in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Hample, Stuart Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy theatre four characters three male; one female one act
'Drama students present skit about composing scene for class.'
Title: At the Hawk's Well in - An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays / COL Author: Yeats, William Butler Publisher: National Textbook Company 1992
Description:
roy dance - tragedy all male cast; six characters six male one act
Verse Play. Legendary Drama from the Irish heroic age. The guardian of the well speaks to three musicians. Title: Atlas' Cigar in - Best Student One Acts Volume 7 / COL Author: Breitanbach, Betsy Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2002
Description:
roy drama - violence five characters three male; one female; one male voice one act
''Looks at the phenomenon of school violence while following a high-school student questioning the American educational system through his relationship with a student teacher.'
Title: Atlas's Equal in - Dramatics (Oct 2015) / PER Author: Hughes, Austin Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy historical drama - American six characters four male; two female one act (five scenes)
"A historical drama of female liberation set in the American colonies circa 1775." - schooltheatre.org
Title: Aurora Leigh in - Plays by Women Volume One / COL Author: Wandor, Michelene Publisher: Methuen Drama 1982
Description:
roy drama - women - verse play five characters one male; four female one act
Dramatization of Elizabeth Browning's poem about a 19th century English woman who wants a life and career independent from men. Title: B'Hoys Do Macbeth in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Ward, Jonathon Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - Shakespeare - politics - New York City five characters four male; one female one act (two scenes)
"1849, an African-American entrepreneur caught between rival gangs of New York and the Upper Ten Percent gets entangled in a Shakespearean-sized conflict that leads to the Astor Place Riot, one of the bloodiest in New York City's history."
Title: Baby Stain (La P'tite Souillure) in - Voices from France / COL Author: Kwahulé, Koffi translated by David Homel Publisher: Banff Center Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - family relations four characters two male; two female one act
This play is a "family drama" like no other. The stranger shows up for dinner the night of an anniversary celebration has come to settle a score of symbolic dimensions that the three members of the household refuse to recognize. As they project their respective fantasies onto the intruder, the rhythms and rituals of African masks and dances lurk in the well-groomed garden of this bourgeois couple whose only daughter longs to see their house, her prison, burn to the ground. Skeletons burst out of the closets when this avenging angel barges into their home and confronts
Title: Back Bog Beast Bait in - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Random House 1986
Description:
roy fantasy six characters; extra three male; three female one act
music, singing.
"Two men hired to kill man-eating beast, widow, unscrupulous priest, and sorceress turn into animals, predisposed by their natural instincts." Title: Bait, The in - Artists' Theatre: New York / COL Author: Merrill, James Publisher: Grove Press 1960
Description:
roy relationships - contemporary verse play five characters four male; one female one act
'Love affair involving people so introspective that they do not understand each other at all.'
Title: Bartok as Dog in - The Best Short Plays 1984 / COL Author: Tovatt, Patrick Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1982
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
1 set; background music.
"Photographer, a perennial dreamer, faces harsh realities as he attempts to secure 'mainstream' job".
Title: Bathhouse Suite, The in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: Brand, Ken Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - LGBTQ+ - men - monologues all male cast; five characters five male one act
Set in a gay bathhouse, the men tell stories of memorable sexual encounters, the police raids, lost lovers missed and celebrate the bathhouse as a place where love, lust, camaraderie, friendship and political solidarity can be expressed and nurtured. Title: Bay at Nice, The in - The Secret Rapture and Other Plays / COL Author: Hare, David Publisher: Grove Press 1998
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
interior.
Drama set in 1956 Leningrad about attempt to authenticate a painting.
Title: Beauty Queen of Leenane, The in - The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays / COL Author: McDonagh, Martin Publisher: Vintage Books 1998
Description:
roy Irish - drama four characters two male; two female one act
Portrays ancient, manipulative Meg and her virginal daughter, Maureen, whose mutual loathing may be more durable than any love.
Title: Beer Room in - Some Angry Summer Songs / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy drama - men - relationships all male cast; six characters six male one act
1 interior.
"An actor, painter and young man discuss the value of friendship." Title: Being at Home with Claude in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 50, Spring 1987 / PER Author: Dubois, Rene-Daniel Publisher: Miscellaneous 1987
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act
"A young man is interogated about killing a trick who has asked to die in a moment of ecstasy."
Title: Being at Home With Claude in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Dubois, Rene-Daniel Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act
"A young man is interogated about killing a trick who has asked to die in a moment of ecstasy."
Title: Bellavita in - Best Short Plays of the World Theatre: 1958-1967 / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Crown Publishers 1968
Description:
roy drama six characters; extras five male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"Concern over a young boy and his education, splits into arguments. Pirandello's message denounces the bearer of false gifts". Title: Bellavita in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama - revenge - Italian six characters; extras five male; one female one act
1 exterior.
Baker revenges himself upon dead wife's former lover by excessive courtesy.
Title: Bellies, Knees and Ankles in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO Author: Hamilton, Wendy A. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy women - self awareness all female cast; four characters four female one act
'Women talking to women. The conversations just emerge, encircle, probe, embrace the similarities and analyze the differences. Everyone in the play has secrets, and over the course of the play the audience discovers that each of these four women in her own search for her personal self.'
Title: Bereft in - Best Student One Acts Volume 6 / COL Author: Woods, Nick Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2001
Description:
roy relationships - drama four characters three male; one female voice one act
'(This play) explores the relationship of two men serving time for hate crimes.' Title: Bermondsey in - Come As You Are! / COL Author: Mortimer, John Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"Takes place in the living room behind the Purvis' bar, on Christmas Eve, after closing time. Iris gains a helper in Rosemary and tries not to lose her husband because of it".
Title: Better Looking Boys in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Trochim, Dennis Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; four characters four male one act
An examination of a time of change for two gay couples.
Title: Between Then and Now in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Rintoul, Harry Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy relationships - drama four characters one male; three female one act
A madcap tour through connected relationships. Title: BIOBOXES in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Theatre Replacement Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - immigration - culture six characters two male; four female six scenes
languages and cultures represented are Cantonese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Serbo-Croatian.
A collection of short one-person shows for one-person audiences that take place in a very intimate theatre: a box worn on the actor's shoulders. Through an interview process with first-generation Canadians, six artists created tiny shows that are performed in both English and
Title: Birds, The in - Plays: Three - Conor McPherson / COL Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2013
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act (fifteen scenes)
Mysterious flocks of birds have begun to attack at high tide, driving strangers Nat and Diane to take refuge in an isolated, abandoned house by the sea. They quickly form a bond as they attempt to survive in their new circumstances. But with no electricity and a scarcity of food, the tension is palpable and hope is waning. The sudden arrival of a mysterious young woman, Julia, ruffles feathers in the house and quickly threatens to destroy their so-called sanctuary.
Title: Birth of Theatre, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Tasca, Jules Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act
From the playwright: 'Theatre began when humanity began. It has its roots in the mimetic urges that are a part of our species. When I was a college student I was told that it is conjecture that theatre commenced with the imitation of the hunt for tribal members who, because of our youth or old age or gender, could not participate in the most dangerous and exciting activity of the primitive world. In the conceit of the play, I tried to capture, in their nescient state, the advent of what an actor feels, what a director does, and what a theatrical ensemble experiences. These Title: Bishop's Candlesticks, The in - Nine Modern Plays / COL Author: Mckinnel, Norman Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1926
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
'Based on an incident from Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables". A benevolent bishop clothes and warms a convict who in turn steals the bishop's candlesticks.'
Title: Black Bird, The in - New Plays From the Black Theatre / COL Author: X, Marvin Publisher: Bantam Books 1969
Description:
roy black theatre six characters one male; two girls; three dancers one act
1 setting.
Loyalty to whites means that you, too, will BURN BABY BURN.
Title: Black Friday in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Butler, Alec Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian play - LGBTQ+ - Toronto five characters one male; four female four scenes
A classic coming-out story, it also mirrors the coming out of Toronto as an urban centre with a lesbian subculture.
The 1989 production was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English Drama in 1990. Title: Black Friday? in - Radical Perversions / CCO Author: Butler, Audrey Publisher: Women's Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - family relations five characters one male; four female one act
Woman writing about her trade-unionist father returns home with her girlfriend.
Title: Black Lion in - Take Ten / COL Author: Slater, Ian Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1981
Description:
roy realism - Irish play - political all male cast; six characters six male one act
No abstract available.
Title: Black Ranch, The in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: Hill, Gary Leon Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy drama - mental institution six characters three male; three female one act
1 setting.
Inmates of state-run mental institution fight for dignity. Title: Blade in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - murder - Native peoples five characters one male; three female (doubling) one act
Woman reviews her murder after she has died.
Title: Blade in - Blade / Job's Wife / Video / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: ArtBiz Communications 1995
Description:
roy drama - murder - Native peoples five characters one male; three female (doubling) one act
" 'Blade' is based on an incident in the playwrights life. It explores the consequences when a young woman is . . . mistakenly murdered by a psychopath who specializes in knifing prostitutes. . ."
Title: Blade in - Blade and Job's Wife; or, The Delivery of Grace / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama - murder - Native peoples five characters one male; three female (doubling) one act
published in Theatrum Magazine (Nov/Dec/Jan 1992/93).
Woman reviews her murder after she has died. Title: Blind Men, The in - 7 Plays / COL Author: Ghelderode, Michel De translated by George Hauger Publisher: Hill and Wang 1960
Description:
roy parable all male cast; four characters four male one act
'Three Flemish blind men on pilgrimage to Rome perish because greed and distrust leads them to refuse offers of help. A dramatic interpretation of Pieter Breughel the Elder's painting: the parable of blind men.'
Title: Bliss (Félicité) in - Once More, With Feeling / CCO Author: Choiniere, Olivier Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - French-Canadian - fantasy four characters two male; two female one act
translated by Caryl Churchill.
'From the other side, you're looking at me. I'm looking at you. We smile at each other.' Welcome to Wal-Mart. On their break, a cashier and her fellow workers flick through celebrity gossip magazines. 'See you later, Celine,' says a headline. What's wrong with Celine? Why is she turning her back on her glamorous public life, her adoring fans? And how is her story connected to the
Title: Blue Concerto in - Best Short Plays of 1955-1956 / COL Author: Seiger, Marvin L. Publisher: Beacon 1956
Description:
roy drama - marital relations four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior; trumpet music in background.
"Young woman's decision to remain with crippled husband, releasing trumpet playing lover." Title: Boom, Baby, Boom! in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Rubess, Banuta Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Toronto - Ontario six characters; a band of four musicians three male; three female one act; fourteen scenes
'Clem Hambourg. . . runs an after-hours jazz club and is considered a patron saint of the growing Toronto scene. "Boom, Baby, Boom!" is a study of how people confront a painful past and an ominous future within that world of the 1959 Toronto Jazz scene.'
Title: Boom, Baby, Boom! in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 58, Spring 1989 / PER Author: Rubess, Banuta Publisher: Miscellaneous 1989
Description:
roy Canadian drama six characters; a band of four musicians three male; three female one act; fourteen scenes
'Clem Hambourg. . . runs an after-hours jazz club and is considered a patron saint of the growing Toronto scene. "Boom, Baby, Boom!" is a study of how people confront a painful past and an ominous future within that world of the 1959 Toronto Jazz scene.'
Title: Borderline in - Public Lies and other plays / CCO Author: Fothergill, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canadian - Africa four characters three male; one female one act
In April, 1994, nearly a million Rwandan Tutsis are massacred by the majority Hutu. In July, when the Tutsi-led Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) gains control of the capital, Kigali, thousands of Hutu are prompted to flee across the border to UN refugee camps. In Borderline, a Canadian aid worker encounters her former student and lover who, as a prominent Hutu, is now in danger of Tutsi reprisal. Title: Botticelli in the Fire in - Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom / CCO Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2017
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canadian playwright six characters four male; two female one act (twelve scenes)
While painting The Birth of Venus, famed artist and bon-vivant Sandro Botticelli becomes entangled in sexual and political brinkmanship that puts a lot more than his masterpiece at stake.
Title: Box2 - a show in a diner in - Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2006) / PER Author: Fanconi, Kendra Laurenson, Andrew Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006
Description:
roy drama - site specific theatre - diner four characters three male; one female one act
The creation of Box began as an exploration of feelings of uncertainty about the future, contextualized by the awareness of the end of this millennium (the familiar) and the beginning of the next (the unknown). A further development of the themes and ideas behind Box, Box2 returned to the the Templeton diner to offer up a whole new menu, well mostly. This new production included a video segment that followed the busboy down Granville Street and into a XXX shop video booth where he gets transported 'outside the box' into a strange and distant forest before
Title: Boy Dudgeon in - Playbill Three / COL Author: Jenkins, Ray Publisher: Hutchinson Educational 1969
Description:
roy drama - prisoner all male cast; four characters four male one act
A gang of hooligans had been terrorizing the younger children at the author's comprehensive school. He persuaded the ringleaders to talk about themselves into a tape-recorder after school. One boy was almost incoherent. Ray Jenkins wondered what would happen to such a boy if he ever found himself in serious trouble. How could he defend himself? Would anyone have the skill and patience to communicate with him? Out of this idea came 'Boy Dudgeon'. Dudgeon, a teenager found guilty of the callous murder of an old woman, is already in prison when Mr Cliffe, Title: Boy in the Basement, The in - Summer Brave and Eleven Short Plays / COL Author: Inge, William Publisher: Random House 1962
Description:
roy tragedy four characters three male; one female one act
'46-year-old undertaker, tied to domineering mother, must embalm body of youth he admired.'
Title: Boy in the Treehouse, The in - The Boy in the Treehouse; Girl Who Loved Her Horses / CCO Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples four characters three male; one female one act
"It deals with the dilemma of being from mixed parentage, specifically Native and non-Native, and the issues that involves. In this increasingly multicultural world, it's a matter that will become more and more relevant to our children as the years pass. Add to that the death of a parent and the world truly does become a confusing place for poor Simon."
Title: Boy on Blacktop Road in - Open Secrets / COL Author: Wasserman, Dale Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy drama - American five characters two male; three female; one boy one act
"Boy on Blacktop Road" may be joined with "The Stallion Howl" to make a full theatre evening, or may also be performed separately. If together, there is almost a complete overlap of cast.
An investigation into the appearance — and subsequent disappearance — of a mysterious Boy who speaks no language and has apparently never before seen a human being. A strange story emerges as the ‘respectable people’ being interrogated break down and confess their relationship Title: Brainscrew in - Second Playbill Three / COL Author: Livings, Henry Publisher: Hutchinson Educational 1973
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
Description not available.
Title: Breakdown in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Werry, Wilfred Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975
Description:
roy drama - life four characters three male; one female one act
interior set (breakfast room).
"John Bridgman has had a breakdown and is now trying to re-establish himself in the business world. He despairs of his chance of success and contemplates suicide. His wife's faith in him is affirmed when John is offered a job with his old company, in compensation for having been the unknowing victim of a colleague's deception."
Title: Breeding Drum Majors: A Post Mortem Dream of Betrayal in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Ross, Nadia Cave, Diane Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy death five characters three male; two female one act.
A group of scenes from history where Marie repeatedly gets killed. Title: Brothers In Arms in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Denison, Merrill Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
interior set (cabin).
"Major Brown and his wife Dorothea are in the north and must return to the city quickly but their taxidriver is on a deer hunt. After an exasperating discussion with Syd, another backwoodsman, regarding the driver's whereabouts, Syd's military service, and deer hunting, the Major learns Syd could have taken him but did not offer to do so because he was not asked."
Title: Brownsville song (b-side for tray) in - Humana Festival 2014: The complete plays / COL Author: Lee, Kimber Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama - African-American six characters two male; two female; one girl (doubling) one act (fourteen scenes)
"Set in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, BROWNSVILLE SONG (B-SIDE FOR TRAY) is a powerful tale of resilience in the face of tragedy. Moving fluidly between past and present, this bold new play tells the story of Tray, a spirited African-American 18-year-old and his family, who must hold on to hope when Tray's life is cut short. Kimber Lee's lyrical social drama about the shocking death of a young African-American teenager is a poignant story for our time, and demands the attention of audiences far and wide."
Title: Bunny Comes to Town in - Plays for Great Occasions / COL Author: DuBois, Graham Publisher: Plays, Inc. 1951
Description:
nonroy Christmas - American drama - youth five characters two male; two female; one boy one act
1 interior set.
No abstract available. Title: Burial of Esposito, The in - Passing Through from Exotic Places / COL Author: Ribman, Ronald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970
Description:
roy tragedy four characters three male; one female one act
'Frenzy of a father who has just lost a son in Vietnam.'
Title: Burning of the Cruise, The in - The Burning of the Cruise: Three one act plays / CCO Author: Williamson, Hector Publisher: Hillhurst Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - social criticism six characters three male; three female three scenes
An idealistic 17-year-old young lady takes action against the US Government's testing of the Cruise Missile over Northern Alberta in 1984.
Title: Burnt Remains in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Sharplin, Scott Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - history, Edmonton playwright four characters two male; two female thirty-four scenes
'When a software consultant arrives in a basement library with the job of scanning the books which have been carefully sheltered or hoarded by the octogenarian German librarian, uneasy discoveries about the programmer and librarian emerge.' Title: Bus Riley's Back in Town in - Summer Brave and Eleven Short Plays / COL Author: Inge, William Publisher: Random House 1962
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female one act
'In bar, girl meets lover who had been jailed for her pregnancy.'
Title: Bushed in - Operators and Bushed / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - relationships six characters two male; four female one act
"Two elderly men, one Finnish and the other Ukrainian, seek shelter in a laundromat. They reminisce about their past exploits and make futile plans for sexual conquest."
Title: Can Can in - Pops / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1987
Description:
roy romance - LGBTQ+ four characters one male; three female one act
'Experimental drama weaves two love stories together, one heterosexual, one lesbian.' Title: Canadian Gothic in - Canadian Gothic and American Modern / CCO Author: Glass, Joanna McClelland Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1977
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
"A moving and imaginatively conceived study of love and loss. Presented on a virtually bare stage, with characters speaking sometimes to the audience and sometimes to each other, the play illuminates its tale of an ill-fated love affair and the family it destroys. It begins with the memories of the mother and then goes on to explore the love which blossoms between their daughter and a young Indian. Sadly the romance results in tragedy rather than happiness, leading to the conception of a child out of wedlock, and a bittersweet accommodation between father and
Title: Catch a Tiger in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Boisvert, Nathalie translated by Bobby Theodore Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - identity - Canadian - women playwrights four characters one male; three female one act (thirty five short scenes)
Original title: L'histoire sordide de Conrad B.
Conrad B. is 34 years old, and eats, sleeps, works and watches TV under his dominating mother's glare. Each and every night, he locks himself in the garage and plays " G.I. Joe ", his boiling inner rage just waiting for a spark to burst into flame. Will Lynda, a new employee at the shop he works for, succeed in saving him from his self imposed slavery?
Title: Cathleen ni Houlihan in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL Author: Yeats, William Butler Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
Roy Drama - Irish theatre, symbolism Six characters; extras Two male; three female; one boy One act
1 interior set.
'Symbolism in the image of an old woman in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Singing.' Title: Cathleen ni Houlihan in - W B Yeats : Selected Plays / COL Author: Yeats, William Butler Publisher: Macmillan and Company 1964
Description:
roy drama - Irish theatre - symbolism six characters; extras two male; three female; one boy one act
1 interior set; singing.
Symbolism in the image of an old woman in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.'
Title: Caught in - American Theatre (February 2016) / PER Author: Chen, Christopher Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - Chinese - culture six characters flexible casting one act (five scenes)
"An art gallery hosts a retrospective of the work of a legendary Chinese dissident artist who was imprisoned in a Chinese detention center for a single work of art. Recently profiled in The New Yorker, the artist himself is present, and shares with patrons the details of an ordeal that defies belief. A labyrinthine exploration of truth, art, social justice and cultural appropriation, where nothing is as it first appears." - christopherchen.org
Title: Cavalier for Milady, A in - The Traveling Companion and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2008
Description:
roy drama - American - 20th century - short play five characters one male; four female one act (two scenes)
" 'A Cavalier for Milady' is a psychological and sexual fantasy in which two late-middle-aged women go off for an evening in New York City with male escorts from agencies such as "Companions for Madam" and "Cavaliers for Milady." The women leave behind an adult daughter, Nance, in the care of a hostile "babysitter." Nance, however, dressed in the clothes of a Victorian child, quickly drives off the unhappy babysitter and spends the evening with a Greek statue "come to life" as an apparition of the great Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky." - Samuel French Title: Chien, Le in - Lucky Lady and Le Chien / CCO Author: Dalpé, Jean Marc translated Maureen Labonté Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragedy - family - Ontario five characters three male; two female one act
Jay returns to his northern Ontario hometown, seeking reconciliation with a father, a family, and a life he left seven years ago. The world he returns to is one of anger and violence, a world raw with hurt, and love. Jean Marc Dalpé's Le Chien is a modern tragedy set in the desolation and beauty of the North about the fine line between love and hate, and the impossibility of burying the past.
Winner of the 1988 Governor General's Literary Award.
Title: Child of Her Spirit in - Plays for Great Occasions / COL Author: DuBois, Graham Publisher: Plays, Inc. 1951
Description:
nonroy biographical - American drama six characters three male; three female one act
1 interior set.
"Abraham Lincoln and his mother".
Title: Chris Axelson, Blacksmith in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright all male cast; five characters four male; one boy one act
'Swedish blacksmith in Western Canada has ambition to send adopted son to school, but boy prefers working in garage.' Title: Christians, The in - American Theatre (09/1/14) / PER Author: Hnath, Lucas Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - faith five characters three male; two female one act
"Twenty years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was nothing more than a modest storefront. Now he presides over a congregation of thousands, with classrooms for Sunday School, a coffee shop in the lobby, and a baptismal font as big as a swimming pool. Today should be a day of celebration. But Paul is about to preach a sermon that will shake the foundations of his church’s belief. A big-little play about faith in America—and the trouble with changing your mind." - actorstheatre.org
Title: Christians, The in - Humana Festival 2014: The Complete Plays / COL Author: Hnath, Lucas Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama - religion five characters three male; two female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"Ten years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was a modest storefront. Now it houses thousands, with a coffee shop in the lobby and a baptismal font as big as a swimming pool. But Paul is about to preach a sermon that will shake the foundation of his congregation’s beliefs. Backed by a live choir, The Christians is both epic and unexpectedly intimate, an unflinching look at faith in
Title: Circus Lady in - Three One-Act Plays / COL Author: Miller, Jason Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000
Description:
roy drama five chacracters three male; two female one act
The "Circus Lady" of the title is a grossly fat, slatternly woman who has been reduced to living in squalor, and on welfare, while beset with fears that the rapist-killer who has terrorized the area is coming for her next. Her son, fed up with their slovenly existence, is about to go off to join a government training program; the welfare investigator wants to move her to a furnished room and arrange for psychiatric treatment; and her sister refuses to take her into her own home. Ultimately she confesses to her son that his father did not desert them as she had always claimed but, Title: City of Shadows in - Coyote City and City of Shadows / CCO Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Imago Press 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female one act
"A play of voices, haunted by love, a theatrical seance that calls up the spirits of a half dozen urban Indians, including Lena and Johnny, to revisit the scenes of their happiness. In the process, they come home again."
Title: Clara in - Danger: Memory! / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Grove Press 1986
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one girl one act
1 interior set.
"Confrontation between father of dead girl and detective investigating her murder".
Title: Clod, The in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Beach, Lewis Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"One evening in 1863 in the kitchen of a farmhouse on the border between the Northern and Southern states, Mary is confronted with the greatest experience of her life. A Northern soldier, hunted by two Southern soldiers, seeks refuge in her household. The two Southern officers insult Mary to the point of murder. She endures many moments of horror and then turns on the two Title: Closer Look, A in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 26th Series / COL Author: Hutton, Arlene Publisher: Samuel French 2002
Description:
roy drama - television all female cast; five characters five female one scene
Here is a behind the scenes look at the host and crew of a daytime television talk show as they spar for position during a break between taping segments.
Title: Closet, The in - Set the Stage for Eight / COL Author: Halman, Doris F. Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1923
Description:
roy drama all female cast; four characters four female one act
No abstract available.
Title: Coal Diamond, The in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Lauro, Shirley Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - women - relationships all female cast; four characters four female one act
"The time is 1955, the place, a Missouri insurance company office on the hottest day of the year. It is lunchtime, and four women employees gather for their daily session of gossip and bridge. The senior member of the group, a wisecracking supervisor who is deferred to by the others, is scornful of an absent colleague, but affable towards the new employee who has volunteered to makeup a fourth for their game." Title: Code Word: Time in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO Author: Bowen, Leah Simone Publisher: NeWest Press 2001
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters three male; one female one act
"Bowen's play is a horrific vision of our culture's ubiquitous surveillance technology combined with a seemingly limitless hunger for celebrity, violence, and misogyny. The play presents our culture as fundamentally immoral and that vision is backed up by the reality of "Reality TV", the Internet's niches of dark human behaviour, and our compliant daily acceptance of corruption."
Title: Cold Water in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy war four characters three male; one female one act
'College student burns and discards all possessions before going to war.'
Title: Collection, The in - Three Plays / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press 1962
Description:
roy drama - marital relations four characters three male; one female one act
1 setting.
"Wife tells husband story she has made up about being unfaithful to him while on a trip." Title: Collection, The in - Complete Works: Two (Harold Pinter) / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press 1977
Description:
roy drama - marital relations four characters three male; one female one act
1 setting.
"Wife tells husband story she has made up about being unfaithful to him while on a trip."
Title: Come Down Burning in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL Author: Corthron, Kia Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy drama - American, 20th century five characters three female; one boy; one girl one act
'Drama portraying how prejudice and poverty affect the lives of three African-American women and their children.'
Title: Conduct of Life, The in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Fornes, Maria Irene Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female nineteen scenes
1 setting.
Latin American lieutenant, obsessed with gaining power, intimidates wife and servants while torturing prisoners. Title: Conduct of Life, The in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Fornes, Maria Irene Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female one act (nineteen scenes)
1 setting.
Latin American lieutenant, obsessed with gaining power, intimidates wife and servants while torturing prisoners.
Title: Construction of Boston, The in - Bertha and Other Plays / COL Author: Koch, Kenneth Publisher: Grove Press 1966
Description:
roy drama six characters; extras five male; one female one scene
"Verse play. Building of City by three artists:one contributes people and weather; the second, buildings; and the third, art.' This is a play within a play. The play that the actors are going to produce concerns the construction of Boston. Throughout the play a brick wall is being built, alluding to the building of Boston. The climax is when the wall is completed, which completely separates the stage from the audience. In the end, three people rush in from the audience and fire at a white plaster copy of a painting of the Venus de Milo, situated on the brick wall. This causes
Title: Cowboy Boots and a Corsage in - Voices of the Land / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: AU Press 2012
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female eleven scenes
The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In "Cowboy Boots and a Corsage" a woman refuses to sell her mother's land for development. Title: Cowboy, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012 / COL Author: Holland, Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2013
Description:
roy drama - American - short play four characters one male; three female one act
... haunting in its own way. The work is perfectly crafted to present a collection of improbabilities leading to a fantastic accident that generates the feeling that the accident was no accident at all. The messy lives of three women come together in an unexpectedly appropriate manner, overseen by the silent hand of a character known as the Cowboy, begging the question: What forces lie beneath daily events beyond our control and even understanding?
Title: Crave in - Complete Plays by Sarah Kane / COL Author: Kane, Sarah Publisher: Methuen 2001
Description:
roy drama - British four characters two male; two female one act
"Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire."
Title: Crib, The in - Dramatics (October 2013) / PER Author: Rathje, Steve Publisher: Miscellaneous 2013
Description:
roy drama five characters one male; three female (doubling) one act
presented in a staged reading as part of the Thespian Playworks program at the 2013 Thespian Festival.
Heather is being confronted by her fears and her yearnings while she's deep in a coma (perhaps). The Crib is an intense psychological drama centered on a mother-daughter relationship and making decisions for yourself. Title: Crime Against Humanity in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO Author: Billette, Geneviève translated by Bobby Theodore Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; one female; one girl one act
In an industrialists office, over the course of two hours, a scene is played out which will determine the fate of his company's growth. Wanting to expand his factory and maximize production - and create 300 much-needed jobs - the industrialist attempts to buy his neighbour (and employee) Kalr's land. But Kalr isn't easily convinced and the ensuing negotiations turn sour destroying the Industrialist's family unit.
Title: Crime at the Tennis Club in - Only Prostitutes Marry in May / COL Author: Maraini, Dacia Publisher: Guernica Editions 1994
Description:
roy adaptation - murder five characters four male; one female one act
"A retelling, from a woman's point of view, of Alberto Moravia's story about the murder of an older woman by four young men."
Title: Criminal Genius in - Suburban Motel / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1997
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two scenes
A story about criminals and their crime going awry. Title: Cuba Si in - Cuba Si!; Bringing It All Back Home; Last Gasps / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970
Description:
roy drama six characters one male; five female one act
1 exterior set.
"Cuba, a Cuban revolutionary, fails in her attempt to start anarchy and revolution in the United States from her Central Park encampment".
Title: Customs in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters three male; two female one act
'On the surface, this play is about a young professor returning to Canada from a sojourn abroad trying to "find himself". But when he passes through "customs" (a word which itself has several meanings), he discovers that he isn't the person he thought. It is, therefore, a play about identity, the customs that help to shape us, the conflict between truth and self-image - and probably a lot of other things the author hasn't noticed.'
Title: Customs in - Discovering Mavor Moore / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters three male; two female one act
'On the surface, this play is about a young professor returning to Canada from a sojourn abroad trying to "find himself". But when he passes through "customs" (a word which itself has several meanings), he discovers that he isn't the person he thought. It is, therefore, a play about identity, the customs that help to shape us, the conflict between truth and self-image - and probably a lot of other things the author hasn't noticed.' Title: Cut, The in - Plays: 2 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Publisher: Methuen Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female one act (three scenes)
Paul is an ordinary man with a shocking secret. At home, he is a loving husband and father. At work, he administers the cut. In a society sickened by his profession, Paul struggles with his conscience and longs to tell the truth.
Title: Cut! in - Five from the Fringe / CCO Author: Albert, Lyle Victor Publisher: NeWest Press 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - Edmonton Fringe Festival five characters three male; two female one act
No abstract available.
Title: Dancing Turtle in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 38th series / COL Author: Atkinson, Thomas M. Publisher: Samuel French 2014
Description:
roy drama - disability - Native Peoples - coming of age eight characters one male; three female (doubling) one act
"Dancing Turtle" invites the audience into the inner life of a girl – damaged at birth – that is both painful and glorious, as she navigates the first longings of adulthood during a Native American stomp dance at a local Appalachian Festival. Title: Dark Play or Stories for Boys in - Humana Festival 2007 / COL Author: Murillo, Carlos Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2008
Description:
roy drama - identity sixteen characters three male; two female (doubling) eleven scenes
A teenage boy's fictional Internet identity begins as a harmless game. But the game takes on a frightening reality when real emotion overtakes his online relationship. When Nick's virtual world online collides with the real one, his fantasies of love, intimacy, obsession and betrayal spiral into consequences that lead him to the brink of death.
Title: Day on Which a Man Dies, The in - The Traveling Companion and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2008
Description:
roy drama - American - 20th century - suicide - Japanese culture - short play three characters two male; two female one act (two scenes)
1 interior set.
"Does life have room for death?" asks the Japanese narrator of this play about an American artist and his mistress ending their volatile relationship in a Japanese hotel. As the artist takes his life, the narrator examines his suicide from both Eastern and Western points of view." - Samuel French
Title: Days May Be Long, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright four characters one male; three female one act
1 set.
'Mother tries emotional blackmail on grown son and daughter when they attempt to lead their own lives.' Title: Dead Liberty, A in - Playbill Three / COL Author: Gosling, Alan Publisher: Hutchinson Educational 1969
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
'Jack and Ginny Flint can't even tell the truth to save their lives. They are so appallingly ignorant they do not realize what trouble they are in. They say funny things and do stupid things. This is because they were only taught to read and add. The Flints are pitiable victims of half-knowledge. What little they know about the laws of society has been picked up from popular newspapers, TV serials and pub chat. Funny though the Flints are, it is with horror that we listen to their final words of self-congratulation. Unaware of the trouble they have lied themselves into, they indulge
Title: Dead Trees in - The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 / COL Author: Pulos, Rick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009
Description:
roy drama - American - family relations four characters three male; one female eight scenes
The story of a Malawian carpenter turned coffin maker. Citseko was once the designer of items for the living (chairs, tables, beds, etc.). He abandons this work for the more lucrative business of making coffins, much to the chagrin of his son. He feels deeply that by creating a profitable and sustainable business for his son (and his son's future family) that he is providing the love and security required of a father. Unfortunately, his son sees the business as something that has come between them and created a distance too great to overcome.
Title: Dearest of Friends, The in - The Roads to Home / COL Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1983
Description:
roy drama - short play four characters two male; two female one act
The continuation of A NIGHTINGALE.
"It is several months later, and Vonnie is facing the crisis of a husband who is involved with another woman and who wants a divorce. Mabel and her husband, Jack, are sympathetic to Vonnie's plight but, again, cannot bring themselves to face its disturbing implications." Title: Death at Film Forum in - Plays and Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Bland, Eric Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - satire - film six characters three male; three female one act (fourteen scenes)
Aspiring filmmaker/auteurs compete a la Project Runway in this very funny mixed media satirical drama.
Title: Death Seat in - Take Ten / COL Author: Hurley, Joan Mason Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1981
Description:
roy fantasy - symbolism six characters two male; three female; one boy one act
No abstract available.
Title: Death Tax in - Humana Festival 2012 / COL Author: Hnath, Lucas Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2013
Description:
roy drama - American - thriller - death four characters one male; three female one act (five scenes)
Maxine is rich. Maxine is dying. Maxine thinks Nurse Tina is trying to kill her. When the patient confronts her caretaker, her accusations have unforeseen—and irrevocable—consequences, in this tightly-wound thriller about money, power and the value of a human life. Title: Deathwatch in - The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays by Jean Genet / COL Author: Genet, Jean Publisher: Grove Press 1954
Description:
roy drama - murder all male cast; four characters four male one act
1 interior set.
"Set in prison. Three cell mates quarrel over status and one is wantonly murdered".
Title: DeBoom: Who Gives This Woman? in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Medoff, Mark Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - family relationships four characters two male; two female one act
The plot of DeBoom reveals Geoffrey DeBoom, defrocked film and theatre critic, teaching at the University of New Mexico film school. His estranged wife, Cassandra Rosenblum DeBoom, is a research professor 200 miles away at New Mexico State University. Cass informs Geoffrey that their daughter Maxine has just become engaged and is arriving in Las Cruces with her affianced that evening. Geoffrey flies to Las Cruces, remembering and bridling. He has a great deal of difficulty coming to grips with what he perceives as the loss of his daughter to another - and
Title: Deidre in - W B Yeats : Selected Plays / COL Author: Yeats, William Butler Publisher: Macmillan and Company 1964
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - verse play five characters three male, two female one act
singing.
'Legendary Irish verse play. Tragedy built around love old king feels for bride of a young king.' Title: Delling Shore, The in - Humana Festival 2013 / COL Author: Marks, Sam Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2014
Description:
roy drama - friendships - relationships - literary criticism - family relations four characters two male; two female one act
"From the moment Frank Bay and his daughter Adrianne arrive at Thomas Wright’s secluded lake house, Thomas and his daughter are out to get them. Thomas’ writing has brought him fame and fortune, but fellow novelist Frank still struggles to find a foothold in the literary world for himself and for Adrianne, also an aspiring author. Over the course of one fraught evening, as the men confront their professional jealousies and personal failures, their offspring are drawn inexorably into the fray—and words become weapons." - actorstheatre.org
Title: Dershowitz Protocol, The in - Public Lies and other plays / CCO Author: Fothergill, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - terrorism four characters three male; one female one act
If the judicially-sanctioned torture of suspected terrorists might actually forestall a repeat of 9/11, why not use it? In its starkest form, this is the question posed in his book, Why Terrorism Works, by Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz. This play dramatizes the first actual use of "rigorous interrogation" of a ticking-bomb terror-suspect by court-appointed US officials under newly established Department of Justice rules.
Title: Deuce in - Some Men and Deuce / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Grove Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - tennis - women five characters two male; three female one act
A play about two former champion tennis doubles partners who are reunited at a U.S Open match at which they are being honored for their contribution to the game. Bringing these racquet wielding pioneers out of retirement presents an opportunity to combine their personal stories and ruminate on the changes in professional sports, specifically, the game of which these women were an integral part for thirty years. Title: Diamond in - Crossing and Other Plays / CCO Author: Gatchalian, C. E. Publisher: Lethe Press
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters; voice five male or female one act
Diamond is an elliptical, metatheatrical dissection of one woman's intimate story.
Title: Difficult Border, The in - Set the Stage for Eight / COL Author: Halman, Doris F. Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1923
Description:
roy fantasy five characters two male; three female one act
No abstract available.
Title: Dinner Party in - Women Write For Theatre Volume One / CCO Author: Sarossy, Via Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters two male; three female one act
Description unavailable. Title: Disgraced in - American Theatre (July/August 2013) / PER Author: Akhtar, Ayad Publisher: Miscellaneous 2013
Description:
roy drama - discrimination five characters three male; two female one act
Emily (a white woman) and Amir (a muslim man) host Jory (a black woman) and Issac (a white man) for a fateful dinner party. "It is a problematic, complex, deeply troubling play. The play begins with a Western consciousness representing a Muslim subject. The play ends with the Muslim subject observing the fruits of that representation. In between the two points lies a journey, and that journey has to do with the ways in which Muslims are still beholden on a an ontological level to the ways in which the West is seeing them."
Title: Dispatch Goes Home, A in - Miniature Plays for Stage and Study / COL Author: Mansur, Frank L. Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1958
Description:
nonroy drama four characters three male; one female one act
Description not available.
Title: District of Centuries in - AWOL / CCO Author: Dixon, Sean Publisher: Coach House Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - contemporary - fables five characters four male; one female one act
An urban fable of adventure and love, as one brother searches for his long lost sibling. When he finally finds him he discovers that he is in the cursed district of centuries, a place created by a mysterious architect where anything can happen, and usually does. Title: Domino Courts in - Comanche Cafe and Domino Courts / COL Author: Hauptman, William Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
Four years later, at a tourist cabin in the Oklahoma dust bowl, Floyd (now married to waitress Ronnie) and Roy, former bank robbers and self-proclaimed "Hot Grease Boys", meet up for an ill-fated reunion.
Title: Double Solitaire in - Solitaire / Double Solitaire / COL Author: Anderson, Robert Publisher: Random House 1972
Description:
roy drama - relationships seven characters four male; one female one act
"'Double Solitaire' concerns an older couple about to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary and their son and daughter-in-law, whose marriage is pulling apart. The action is a series of sharp, short confrontations, which lay bare the lives of all concerned - their failures, their loneliness, their quiet desperation in searching for something to bring them alive again. Subtle and compassionate, yet unfailingly honest, the play shows its people both as they are and as they want to be, and illuminates the interior truths in which must lie the deeper meaning of human
Title: Down to Earth in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: De Graff, Rosemary Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy drama - family relationships four characters two male; two female one act
A son tells the story of his mother's farm, and her fierce resistance to change, even when her husband has an affair. Title: Doze Ease in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Sinclair, Carol Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary six characters three male; three female one act
A woman has discussions with her consciences while her husband tries to get some sleep.
Title: Dreams of Home in - The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL Author: Cruz, Migdalia Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1991
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female ten scenes
'Love between homeless man and woman in New York City Subway Station is not enough to save them from despair.'
Title: Dreamy Kid, The in - Six Short Plays of Eugene O'Neill / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1951
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female one act
interior.
"A brilliant dramatic scene for mature groups. A murderer, pursued by the police, goes to see his dying mother, and is captured." Title: Dreamy Kid, The in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 1, The / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1955
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female one act
interior.
"A brilliant dramatic scene for mature groups. A murderer, pursued by the police, goes to see his dying mother, and is captured."
Title: Dry Land in - American Theatre (Dec 2015) / PER Author: Spiegel, Ruby Rae Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - adolescence - friendship - bullying - abortion five characters two male; three female one act (nine scenes)
Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat. Amy is curled up on the locker room floor. "Dry Land" is a play about abortion, female friendship, and resiliency, and what happens in one high school locker room after everybody’s left.
Title: Duck Blind in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Barrie, Shirley Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary four characters and a duck one male; one female; two girls ages (8 &14) one act
A young girl temporarily hides from her family on an outing and relates her story to a duck. Title: Early Hours of a Reviled Man, The in - A Hard Heart; The Early Hours of a Reviled Man / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1992
Description:
roy drama five characters; extras four male; one female one act
1 set.
"Drama portraying one night in life of virulently anti-semitic doctor and novelist".
Title: Earthbound in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Fréchette, Carole translated by John Murrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - Quebec - women playwrights five characters two male; three female one act
Original title: Violette sur la terre.
No one knows exactly when Violette appeared. No one knows where she comes from. She's standing next to the abandoned mine shaft, silent. Paul, Étienne, Marie-Jeanne and Judith come to see her and share their disappointments, their doubts, their hopes, their strong desire for life…
Title: East in - Berkoff: East; Agamemnon; The Fall of the House of Usher / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1977
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
1 set; background music, singing, and mime.
"Set in London's East End, illustrates anarchic response to frustration and waste in contemporary society utilizing cockney rhyming slang and Shakespearean allusions." Title: East in - Steven Berkoff: Plays One / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: Faber and Faber 1994
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
1 set; background music, singing, and mime.
"Set in London's East End, illustrates anarchic response to frustration and waste in contemporary society utilizing cockney rhyming slang and Shakespearean allusions."
Title: Edison/Tesla: Brian/Dave in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 37th Series / COL Author: Miller, Darren Mead, Kevin Publisher: Samuel French 2013
Description:
roy drama - friendship - high school six characters three male; three female one act
“The War of the Currents” between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla becomes the backdrop to Brian and Dave’s unraveling friendship during their final presentation of high school.
Title: Edward Curtis Project, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Clements, Marie Leistner, Rita Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - Canada - USA - Native playwright ten characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
Edward Curtis saw his job as that of creating a photographic record of "the vanishing race of the North American Indian". His work therefore became as much a projection of colonial attitudes upon aboriginal peoples as it was an authentic record of their lives. This project began when Presentation House Theatre commissioned Marie Clements to write a play that would stage the issues raised by Curtis' monumental but controversial achievement - to dramatize not only the creation of his twenty-volume photographic and ethnographic epic and the enormous Title: El Nogalar in - American Theatre (July/August 2011) / PER Author: Saracho Tanya Publisher: Miscellaneous 2011
Description:
roy drama five characters one male; four female eleven scenes
A fast paced riff on Chekov's 'The Cherry Orchard', set against the backdrop of Mexico's drug-cartel wars.
Title: Elephant Calf, The in - The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt Bentley, Eric Publisher: Grove Press 1965
Description:
roy allegory all male cast; four characters; extras four male one act
1 interior set.
"An Elephant accused of matricide is found guilty although mother in question is alive and not his. A play within a play".
Title: Elephant Calf, The in - Baal, A Man's A Man and The Elephant Calf / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt Publisher: Grove Press 1963
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters; extras four male one act
Allegory. Elephant accused of matricide is found guilty although mother in question is alive and not his. Play within a play. Title: Ella in - The Best American Short Plays 2009-2010 / COL Author: Madden, Dano Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
Ella is on the run after a life changing tragedy. She is an artist who no longer knows how to sculpt. She is desperate to leave her past behind. A nineteen-year-old, white, gator-hunting farm boy named Cutter is the last person she needs to help get her life back on track. At least that's what she thinks.
Title: Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue in - The Best American Short Plays - 2005-2006 / COL Author: Hudes, Quiara Alegria Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama - war - Iraq four characters three male; one female fourteen scenes
prequel to "Water by the Spoonful".
Young Hispanic American Marine comes to terms with his service in Iraq and his father's service in Vietnam.
2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Title: End of Civilization, The in - Suburban Motel / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1997
Description:
roy drama - murder five characters three male; two female four scenes
A pair of detectives unravel homicides and missing persons surrounding a couple living in a hotel room. Title: End, The in - Dramatics, May 2008 / PER Author: Wilner, Sheri Publisher: Miscellaneous 2008
Description:
roy friendship six characters three male; three female one act
On the eve of their college graduation, six friends gather at a lakeside cabin to read the final installment of a hugely popular book series about fledging superheroes. As they try to predict the fates of their favorite characters, their hopes and fears about post-college life emerge. Before trading in their superhero costumes for caps and gowns, they spend one last weekend avoiding the real world by inventing their own.
Title: Eris in - Eris and Home at Six / COL Author: Falk, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1971
Description:
roy drama - thriller all male cast; four characters four male one act
1 exterior set.
"It is late at night on a high bridge over the Hudson, where a lone man watches the dark river slide silently by. A stranger appears, whistling for his lost dog, and a conversation, casual at first, begins. Enigmatically the man tells the stranger that he has been waiting for him, and then relentlessly, his probing, taunting questions and revelations drive the shaken stranger perilously
Title: Erros - Love is Deaf in - The Best of American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL Author: Vogelstein, Cherie Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama - love six characters three male; three female one act
An exploration fo people's fantasies of love that preclude them from experiencing the reality of it. Through six interlocking scenes, three men and three women blindly pursue unrequited love while failing to see the love right before their eyes. Title: Estate Hunters, The in - New English Dramatists 14 / COL Author: Finlay, Ian Hamilton Publisher: Penguin Books 1970
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act
No abstract available.
Title: Eumenides in - The Oresteia / COL Author: Aeschylus translated by Tony Harrison Publisher: Rex Collings 1981
Description:
roy Greek drama - verse play six characters; extras; speaking chorus three male; three female one act
"Greek classical tragedy in verse. Oresteia part III. Based on legend of Orestes and the Furies (Eumenides) the goddesses of retribution, who refused to absolve him of murder of his mother."
Title: Eumenides in - Aeschlus I / COL Author: Aeschylus translated by Richmond Lattimore Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy Greek drama - verse play six characters; extras; speaking chorus three male; three female one act
"Greek classical tragedy in verse. Oresteia part III. Based on legend of Orestes and the Furies (Eumenides) the goddesses of retribution, who refused to absolve him of murder of his mother." Title: Eumenides in - Greek Tragedies - Vol. 3 / COL Author: Aeschylus translated by Richmond Lattimore Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1991
Description:
roy Greek drama - verse play six characters; extras; speaking chorus three male; three female one act
"Greek classical tragedy in verse. Oresteia part III. Based on legend of Orestes and the Furies (Eumenides) the goddesses of retribution, who refused to absolve him of murder of his mother."
Title: Eumenides, The in - The Oresteian Trilogy / COL Author: Aeschylus translated by Philip Vellacott Publisher: Penguin Books 1959
Description:
roy Greek drama - verse play six characters; extras; speaking chorus three male; three female one act
"Greek classical tragedy in verse. Oresteia part III. Based on legend of Orestes and the Furies (Eumenides) the goddesses of retribution, who refused to absolve him of murder of his mother."
Title: Ever! That Nanabush! in - Stories from the Bush / CCO Author: Odjig-Beavon, Daphne De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - folk tales large cast; chorus flexible casting (doubling) one act
originally performed with six actors
An adaptation of traditional stories as retold by Daphne Odjig-Beavon. The 9 stories teach lessons about how best to survive and thrive. Beware, they say: much trickery occurs; and, know your limitations. Animals and plants are given their traits as protection (roses) or as reminders of betrayal (rabbits, raccoons). Mutual sustenance despite weather, lack of food or aging results Title: Exit the King in - Exit the King, The Killer, and Macbett / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene translated by Charles Marowitz and Donald Wat Publisher: Grove Press 1985
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female one act
interior set.
The world is in a terrible conflagration, and the prognosis is that the king will not live out the day. A great fault has riven the earth; the sun has diminished, and snow has fallen on its northern pole. The king does not want to die, fights desperately against the inevitable truth... translated by Charles Marowitz and Donald Watson and beautiful in its action and symbolism.
Title: F.M. in - The Best Short Plays 1984 / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1981
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female one act
1 interior set.
"Prim creative writing teacher is appalled and then awed by rough, whiskey-drinking author".
Title: F.M. in - Laughing Stock / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1984
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female one act
1 interior set.
"Prim creative writing teacher is appalled and then awed by rough, whiskey-drinking author." Title: Fall Forward in - Plays and Playwrights 2008 / COL Author: Reitz, Daniel Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2008
Description:
roy drama - American four characters two male; two female one act
A play about choices and figuring out what really matters, originally performed in a Methodist Church two blocks from the World Trade Center.
Title: Fall From Grace in - Best Student One Acts Volume 7 / COL Author: Martin, Jason D. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2002
Description:
roy drama at least six characters flexible casting one act
'A dying climber fights demons, real and imagined, on the icy flanks of a dangerous Alaskan mountain.'
Title: Fall of the House of Usher, The in - East, Agamemnon, and The Fall of the House of Usher / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1977
Description:
roy drama four characters flexible casting one act
1 set.
Based on Poe's classic horror story. "Through utilization of mime, dance, light and sound, man is depicted as paranoid and schizoid". Title: Far Away in - Plays: 4 / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2008
Description:
roy drama - war four characters one male; three female one act
In the first scene of 'Far Away', a girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar. By the end of the play, several years later, the whole world is at war - including birds and animals. The girl has returned to her aunt's and is taking refuge. She describes her journey. 'There were piles of bodies and if you stopped to find out there was one killed by coffee or one killed by pins, they were killed by heroin, petrol, chainsaws, hairspray, bleach, foxgloves, the smell of smoke was where we were burning the grass that wouldn't serve...
Title: Fathom in - Canadian Theatre Review Vol. 131 / PER Author: Essery, Jodi Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - historical - Victorian five characters four male; one female one act
A magical tale of nature and adaptability set in the nineteenth-century penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, where the desire for scientific knowledge competes with the desire simply to be oneself and free.
Title: Feast In Time of Plague, A in - Boris Godunov: The little tragedies / COL Author: Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich Publisher: Oberon Books 2002
Description:
roy drama - tragedy five characters: extras three male; two female one act (one scene)
Verse drama based on scene from John Wilson's tragedy "The City of the Plague" about frightened survivors of the black death. Title: Featuring Loretta in - Suburban Motel / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1997
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female five scenes
A young woman, pregnant and running away, entangles herself with two very different men.
Title: Final Refuge, The in - Miniature Plays for Stage and Study / COL Author: Tomita, Kojiro Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1958
Description:
roy Japanese six characters three male; three female one act
"A Japanese play adapted from the original text".
Title: Finer Noble Gasses in - Humana Festival 2002 / COL Author: Rapp, Adam Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2002
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female one act
"Finer Noble Gasses follows the life of band members that have fallen into obscurity and now just slack off in a dump of an apartment while being entranced by technology. Strong language and nudity." Title: Finer Noble Gasses in - Stone Cold Dead Serious / COL Author: Rapp, Adam Publisher: Faber and Faber 2004
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female one act
"Finer Noble Gasses follows the life of band members that have fallen into obscurity and now just slack off in a dump of an apartment while being entranced by technology. Strong language and nudity."
Title: First Communion in - Modern Spanish Theatre / COL Author: Arrabal, Fernando translated by M. Benedikt Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1969
Description:
roy drama - crime - necrophilia - Spanish play five characters three male; one female; one girl one act
"While young girl is being dressed for first communion by her grandmother, she witnesses a necrophiliac scene. Later, she stabs the necrophiliac."
Title: Fitting Rooms in - The Best American Short Plays 1995-1996 - COL Author: Cinoman, Susan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy relationships - drama all female cast: six characters six women one act
Three pairs of women converse in fitting room of tony boutique. Title: Five Kinds of Silence in - The Memory of Water & Five Kinds of Silence / COL Author: Stephenson, Shelagh Publisher: Methuen Drama 1997
Description:
roy drama - abuse eleven characters three male; three female (doubling) one act
Billy controls his wife and two adult daughters to the extent that they can't leave the room without asking permission. He runs his family as a personal fiefdom, and the women are there to service him and his madness. He is violent, disturbed and sexually controlling. But he is also tragic, sad, a lost soul. One day his family shoots him dead. The play shows us a distorted world of madness, control and despair through the eyes of dead Billy and those of his family, struggling to understand reality outside their stifling tomb.
Title: Fix in - Canadian Theatre Review (Fall 2015) / PER Author: Bulmer, Alex Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - education - artist - disabled - social issues six characters; extras three male; three female one act
This play is written to be recorded and played to an audience using surround sound technology.
In this "audio-provocation" and workshop for young artists concerning artists and inclusion, playwright Alex Bulmer's script follows an emerging disabled artist as she navigates transport inaccessibility on London's underground to reach an important audition.
Title: Flesh and Blood in - Making, Out / CCO Author: Thomas, Colin Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy drama - AIDS - relationships four characters three male; one female eighteen scenes
'. . . a play about AIDS that doesn't moralize of simplify. . . The economical, episodic script centres on the relationship between two brothers - Jim a gay man diagnosed with AIDS, and Allan, a troubled high-school student. The script is full of humour. . . the dialogue is smart and snappy. . .it's a refreshingly honest and complex look at human relationships.' Title: FM in - Six Plays - Romulus Linney / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1993
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female one act
Prim creative writing teacher is appalled and then awed by rough, whiskey-drinking author.
Title: Fool for Love in - Fool for Love / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: City Lights Books 1983
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior set; background music.
"Love, hate and myths of the Old West are evidenced in violent confrontation between half-brother and half-sister, who happen to be lovers".
Title: Fool for Love in - Fool for Love / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: City Lights Books 1983
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior set; background music.
"In a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, transient lovers May and Eddie spin around the room in a relentless struggle for power and truth. Through recollections and dreams, multiple versions of a fierce and fatal love story are told." Title: Fool for Love in - Fool for Love and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Dial Press 2006
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior set; background music.
"Love, hate and myths of the Old West are evidenced in violent confrontation between half-brother and half-sister, who happen to be lovers".
Title: Fool for Love in - Fool for Love and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Bantam Books 1984
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior set; background music.
"Love, hate and myths of the Old West are evidenced in violent confrontation between half-brother and half-sister, who happen to be lovers."
Title: For Tiger Lilies Out of Season in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 22nd series / COL Author: Green, Andrea Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy drama six characters one male; five female one act
'Drama about woman who interacts with family and doctors, in order to cope with breast cancer.' Title: Forensic and the Navigators in - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Random House 1986
Description:
roy drama - experimental play five characters four male; one female one act
"Experimental theatre drama about the paranoia of our times. Two men revolutionaries attempt to liberate inmates of a concentration camp despite 'exterminators' symbolizing the establishment's victims."
Title: Fourteen Hundred Thousand in - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Random House 1986
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
"Guilt over unfinished bookcase and fourteen hundred thousand unshelved books stand in way of holiday at cabin in woods".
Title: Fractaland in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Pink, Andrea Sloan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama all male cast; five characters; chorus five male one act
Five men discuss their lives and lies they have lived. Title: Fragments in - Five One Act Plays / COL Author: Schisgal, Murray Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1965
Description:
roy drama - friendship four characters three male; one female one act
1 set.
"We see three futile young men, lifelong friends (and enemies), who lash out at each other and alienate the young social worker who visits them in their cluttered room".
Title: Francis Brick Needs No Introduction in - Off-Off-Broadway Festival Plays - 23rd Series / COL Author: Hoffman, Jeff Publisher: Samuel French 1999
Description:
roy family relations all male cast; four characters four male one act
'Four competitive brothers at father's wake; revelations about the old man.'
Title: Franny's Way in - Goodnight Children Everywhere and other plays / COL Author: Nelson, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama - family relations - love six characters one male; four female (doubling) one act (seen scenes)
The streets of Greenwich Village sizzle with the insistent rhythm of jazz. Accompanied by their grandmother, two teenage sisters from the country visit their married cousin in the city. Soon, the young women have embarked on their own private missions involving love, a forgotten child, and a lost mother. Set against the bustling backdrop of New York at mid-century, FRANNY'S WAY is a sensual, provocative ode to desire, longing, and the bittersweet collision of youth and adulthood. Title: Freedom Fighters in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian four characters flexible casting one act
An opinionated Senator and his idealistic young assistant define democracy.
Title: French Gold in - Rat Wives and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy drama - American - aging - love - marriage - memory - family four characters one male; three female one act
exterior set; period - 1950; running time: 30 min.
It's 1950, and David Armitage, an old poet, sitting in the tangled and overgrown garden, has been left alone in the huge old wreckage of the Pendragon house by the death of his housekeeper and long time friend Sarah. His half-sisters Lizzy and Molly keep fussing at him, but the unexpected connection he makes is with his troubled and lost niece Becky, who's considering abandoning her
Title: Friends in - The Burning of the Cruise: Three one act plays / CCO Author: Williamson, Hector Publisher: Hillhurst Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - social criticism - friendship six characters three male; one male or female (doubling) one act
A play about friendship and how it is suspect in Canada with our fast paced lives bent on materialism. Title: Frosted Glass Coffin in - Dragon Country / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1970
Description:
roy drama - aging - seniors six characters four male; two female one act
The Frosted Glass Coffin reveals a group of elderly people in a retirement hotel, dying off one by one in the intense zinc-white light of Miami.
Title: Full Moon in March, A in - W B Yeats : Selected Plays / COL Author: Yeats, William Butler Publisher: Macmillan and Company 1964
Description:
roy drama - legend, verse play four characters two male; two female one act
'Verse play based on Gaelic legend of queen and the swineherd whose severed head sang.'
Title: Game of Chess, The in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy political - murder all male cast; four characters four male one act
1 interior.
"Political murder in Czarist Russia." Title: Gappo and His Daughter Tsuji (Sesshu Gappo Ga Tsuji) in - Japanese Theatre / REF Author: translated by Faubion Bowers Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company
Description:
nonroy Kabuki play six characters three male; three female one act
" 'Gappo Ga Tsuji' tells the story of Gappo who renounced his samaurai life, became a priest, and retired to the country with his wife, O-Toku. Their only daughter, O-Tsuji, married one of the ruling lords of the country, and her name became Tamate Gozen, Her Ladyship Tamate. She falls in love with the younger of her two handsome stepsons. . . .As the play opens, Gappo and his wife are seen offering services for their daughter, who after the scandal of making love to her stepson is considered dead."
Title: Gas in - Gas / Dust / CCO Author: Maghanoy, Jason Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011
Description:
roy drama - war - Canadian all male cast; five characters five male one act
"Gas" follows two American soldiers who kill two Iraqis and dump their bodies in a bombed-out building. This story is inter-cut with that of Rocky, a young soldier who goes AWOL after refusing to escort a tanker full of contaminated diesel to another military base. The play examines the collision of these two stories, the tragic aftermath.
Title: Gem in - Gimme Shelter / COL Author: Keeffe, Barrie Publisher: Grove Press 1977
Description:
roy drama - English - political four characters three male; one female one act
1 exterior set.
"A group of politically conscious working-class background employees of a large insurance firm attempt to submarine the company's annual holiday and cricket match". Title: German Skerries in - German Skerries and Mud / COL Author: Holman, Robert Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1977
Description:
roy drama - English four characters three male; one female one act
'While bird watching, Jack has conversation with wife and with fellow birdwatcher and friend. Dialogue centers upon character's attempts to come to grips with the ordinariness of their lives.'
Title: Getaway in - Gimme Shelter / COL Author: Keeffe, Barrie Publisher: Grove Press 1977
Description:
roy drama - English four characters three male; one female one act
1 exterior set.
"Kev, from the play 'Gem', is now a successful mid-level manager who meets the young rebel (Kid) of 'Gotcha' who is resigned to his life as a gardener".
Title: Gift, The in - Playbill Three / COL Author: Duncan, Ronald Publisher: Hutchinson Educational 1969
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
'Bank clerk who gave up job to promote poetry and love permits family who consider him crazy to put him in deep-freeze - his birthday present.' Title: Girl Who Loved Her Horses in - The Boy in the Treehouse; Girl Who Loved Her Horses / CCO Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Native playwright five characters three male; two female one act
"Some consider this an adult memory play, but at its core, it's a story of a little girl whose imagination is her only friend and the power that such a friend can give. In some unfortunate cases, it's the only thing that keeps us alive. I think we all have a little Danielle in us."
Title: Girl Who Loved Her Horses in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright five characters three male; two female one act
"Some consider this an adult memory play, but at its core, it's a story of a little girl whose imagination is her only friend and the power that such a friend can give. In some unfortunate cases, it's the only thing that keeps us alive. I think we all have a little Danielle in us."
Title: Girls!girls!girls! in - Exposure / CCO Author: MacArthur, Greg Publisher: Coach House Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - teenagers five characters one male; four female one act
Splitz 'deserved' to win. Missy 'stole' first place. Set in the cutthroat world of high school gymnastics, this play follows the Friday night exploits of four teenage chums as they seek revenge for a loss on the vaulting horse. Told in a hypnotic, rap-meets-nursery-rhymes style, this play, which takes its cue from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, the Reena Virk murder and the Columbine massacre, is a brutally violent exploration of what happens when emptiness becomes the norm. Title: Gisele's Wedding Dress in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Vincent, Julie translated by Maureen LaBonté Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - love - women - theatre - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian twelve characters two male; three female (doubling) one act (twelve parts)uu
Original title: La robe de mariée de Gisele Schmidt.
This play is a tribute to one of Quebec's most admired actors, Gisele Scmidt (1921 - 2005). Composed of six fictitious scenes - anecdotally, geographically, and historically separate but thematically linked - that could have been played by Schmidt, but were not. While none of the characters find the grand love they seek, the play as a whole is a great, theatrical love story
Title: Glamorgan in - Glamorgan and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy drama - mental illness five characters two male; three female one act
'Gothic drama, 18th century woman's heritage of madness and passion throiugh three generations.'
Title: Glass Knives in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Almendarez, Liliana Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - family relations six characters three male; three female six scenes
In GLASS KNIVES, a student goes home after one semester of college. She finds it difficult tot re-acclimate to her home environment after being on her own for the first time. Daughter and family struggle to find some middle ground in order to relate to one another once again. Title: Glory in the Flower in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL Author: Inge, William Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
roy drama six characters; extras five male; one female one act
1 interior
"Re-kindling of old love in Midwestern town, but the spark dies."
Title: Going Down the River in - Canadian Mosaic / CCO Author: Longfield, Kevin Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1995
Description:
roy drama - racism four characters two male; two female one act
"Racial tension underlies the discussions of a black principal, a young white teacher, and the black mother of a problem son. The principal's father acts as her conscience."
Title: Good Life, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 113, Winter 2003 / PER Author: Brooks, Daniel Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003
Description:
roy love six characters three male; three female one act
' A meditation on love based on Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage" and Plato's "Symposium".' Title: Goodbye, Howard in - Laughing Stock / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1984
Description:
roy drama - short play six characters two male; four female one act
unit set.
"GOODBYE, HOWARD, is set in a North Carolina hospital, where three aging (and rich) spinster sisters wait for news of their brother's death. They are worried about how their mother (who must be 100) will react to the sad tidings an eventuality which is ameliorated by the intrusion of a brash young man who seems to lack the proper respect for the aged, and the dying."
Title: Gotcha in - Gimme Shelter / COL Author: Keeffe, Barrie Publisher: Grove Press 1977
Description:
roy drama - English four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"A schoolboy (the Kid) going nowhere bluffs his way into tormenting a headmaster and two teachers in a school that doesn't even know his name".
Title: Governor's Lady, The in - Best Short Plays of the World Theatre: 1958-1967 / COL Author: Mercer, David Publisher: Crown Publishers 1968
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female one act
A play dealing with social alienation in terms of psychological alienation. This is manifest in the portrait of Lady Harriet Boscoe who resorts to hallucinatory episodes when she no longer can accept the fact that her glory, like her husband, has departed, and the African colony he had governed had been given its independence. Title: Graceland in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2010 / COL Author: Fairey, Ellen Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2011
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family - life choices five characters three male; two female eight scenes
A brother and sister come together after the death by suicide of their father. GRACELAND is about the stresses of life, the consequences of lousy choices, the difficulty of making connections in the big city. And, ultimately, this simple, brief and unpretentious little play is about finding bits of happiness where you can.
Title: Gramsci 2: Finding Tatiana in - Plays at the Iron Bridge / CCO Author: Watson, Wilfred Publisher: NeWest Press 1989
Description:
roy experimental theatre five characters; extras two male; three female fourteen scenes
'Gramsci leaves Moscow and wife, returns to Italy to find her sister Tatiana and to speak out about Mussolini's brutal regime.'
Title: Grand Design, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004 / COL Author: Miller, Susan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2006
Description:
roy drama four or five characters one male; one female; two or three male or female one act
A young poet-scientist is chosen to find the next ‘message’ to be sent into space to reach out to other potential civilizations. Title: Grand Tirade at the Town Hall in - Three Plays: Tankred Dorst / CCO Author: Dorst, Tankred Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy Canadian - drama four characters three male; one female one act
"A woman comes to the walls of an occupied town to demand the return of her husband, one of the occupying soldiers. A translation."
Title: Grass Is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome, The in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Albert, Michael Ross Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ five characters three male; two female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"When a painter tears the artwork off the walls of a struggling independent gallery, the relationships between a group of emerging artists are also torn apart. A comedy about envy, friendship, sex, art, and our constant search for something better."
Title: Great Labor Day Classic, The in - The Great Labor Day Classic; The Former One-on-One Basketball Champion/COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1982
Description:
roy drama - morality play six characters three male; three female one act
"A group of runners, of various ages and backgrounds are discovered midway in a marathon race. As they pull abreast of each other they chat amiably; renewing old friendships; introducing themselves to new participants; and discussing their lives beyond the world of racing. All complete the course, and while the competitive spirit quickens as the end of the race nears, it is also clear that in their shared enthusiasm each is rooting for the others as much as for themselves. It is how the race is run which matters most and, in the final essence, all who Title: Green man, The in - Green Man and other plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy drama - murder five characters two male; three female one act
In a frigid Christmas landscape in a Civil War year, a young Union soldier goes after a horse thief, is shot in a mysterious chapel in the Maryland woods, and wakes to an eerie delirium involving an innocent young girl, her seductive and dangerous mother, a cackling, half mad crone and a bloody hunter sharpening an ax. An American retelling of an ironic medieval masterpiece, this haunted Gothic play of desire, past betrayal and murder is an intriguing addition to the Pendragon series.
Title: Group in - Manhattan Class Company Class 1 Acts 1991-1992 / COL Author: Silverman, Ethan Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1992
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female one act
"A therapy session like GROUP could drive you crazy! In this short piece, four self-absorbed people, with petty problems, vie for their therapist's attention, while a newcomer to the group looks on in horror."
Title: Growin' Into Blackness in - New Plays From the Black Theatre / COL Author: Salimu Publisher: Bantam Books 1969
Description:
roy black play all female cast; five characters five female one act
1 setting.
Life dedicated to building the Black nation. Title: Grown-Up, The in - Humana Festival 2014: The complete plays / COL Author: Harrison, Jordan Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - fantasy eighteen characters four male; two female (doubling) one act (eighteen scenes)
"Ten year old Kai is given a magical crystal door-knob by his grandfather that enables him to travel through space and time to see future events in his life. The further along he goes, the less he feels like he's seeing into his future, but more that he is living life as most people do; all too quickly."
Title: Grumplestock's in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO Author: Jesuino, Kevin Lorenz, Trish Publisher: NeWest Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters three male; one female one act
"The play's title refers to the four principal characters. They are marionettes but are played by human actors. These four characters, being performers, take on the task of presenting all other characters in their story who are - with the exception of Grumplestock - residents of Bowble. Bowble is organized by a rigid caste system."
Title: Hail in - Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, The / CCO Author: Riche, Edward Publisher: Breakwater Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - crime - friendship all male cast; four characters four male two acts
Four friends gather together to discuss their fifth friend, who has been arrested. The men fear that he has been caught for a crime they committed nearly two decades ago. Title: Handbag in - Plays: 1 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Publisher: Methuen Drama 2001
Description:
roy drama - family relations - gay - British - LGBTQ+ eleven characters three male; three female (doubling) one act
From Victorian wet nurses to 90s sperm banks, Mark Ravenhill's new play examines the role of parenting in an age of diverse sexualities, biological engineering and Tinkly Winky's handbag.
Title: Hangs Over thy Head in - Best Short Plays of 1955-1956 / COL Author: Purkey, Ruth Angell Publisher: Beacon 1956
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female one act
1 interior.
"Playwright reads to actors unfinished play about end of world by H-bomb."
Title: Hanksylvania in - Off-Off Broadway Plays - 36th Series / COL Author: Helwig, Travis Publisher: Samuel French 2012
Description:
roy drama - biographical - football all male cast; four characters four male one act
Hanksylvania is the story of a professional football coach and the halftime speech that changed his life. Title: Hard Heart, A in - A Hard Heart; The Early Hours of a Reviled Man / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1992
Description:
roy drama five characters; extras three male; two female twenty scenes
1 set.
"Drama about gulf between knowledge and self-knowledge. Woman, through sheer intellect, attempts to save city from barbarians".
Title: Hassan and Sylvia in - Plays and Playwrights 2011 / COL Author: Igrejas, Manuel Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2011
Description:
roy drama - sexuality - relationships seven characters four male; two female (doubling) one act
A glamorous and mysterious couple draw our hero—a young gay man recovering from the death of his longtime lover—into a spicy soup from which he may or may not emerge unscathed.
Title: Having in - Magpie; Having; Hunger Striking / COL Author: Brennan, Kit Publisher: NuAge Editions 1999
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female one act
"David Dafoe, an entrepreneur on the rise, is managing his business, his daughter, his widowed mother and her finances, as well as a new romance. Can he have it all without paying a big price? Erin, his teenage daughter, feels marginalised by her father's ambition and her own recurring seizures, until a stranger from another era- a highwayman - appears in her bed." Title: He Ain't Heavy in - Da-Show Must Go On / COL Author: Dashow, Ken Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1996
Description:
roy drama - family relationships all male cast; four characters four male one act
"At the funeral for their brother, two men are at odds as to who he was, and who they are. With the help of an old friend, and the strong arm of the oldest, the youngest brother learns to say goodbye."
Title: Heart of a Distant Tribe in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Ross, Ian Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters two male; four female one act
Native group of people make their way in modern day Winnipeg.
Title: Heartbreak Tour, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 15th / COL Author: Morris, Peter Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy American - drama four characters two male; two female one act
singing.
'Drama about loneliness of gay actor on tour in children's play about Stephen Foster.' Title: Helen in - The Greek Plays / COL Author: Euripides McLaughlin, Ellen Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2005
Description:
roy tragedy - Greek - Euripides - adaptation five characters one male; four female one act
"HELEN anachronistically imagines what this woman's life was like, holed up in a four-star hotel overlooking the grand pyramids. After 17 years of bad foreign TV with absolutely no coverage of the siege of Troy and its chaotic aftermath, Helen waits for her husband to both retrieve and redeem her. It's bad enough having to put up with a recalcitrant servant, but worse knowing a copy of your very being has been fashioned out of thin air by Hera, making every lie said of you an apparent truth."
Title: Helena's Husband in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Moeller, Philip Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy Trojan War five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior.
No abstract available.
Title: Hello From Bertha in - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1953
Description:
roy drama all female cast; four characters four female one act
1 interior
"Prostitute, mentally ill tries to muster enough courage to write to a man with whom she had once lived." Title: Hello Out There in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Saroyan, William Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
interior set.
"Hello, Out There" reveals the adventure of Photo Finish, an itinerant gambler, who is arrested and jailed in a small Texas town and charged with rape. The charge is a lie, but the only one who hears Photo's call for justice and understanding is Ethel, a young girl who cooks for the prisoners. Photo gives all his money to Ethel before a mob breaks into the jail and the lying
Title: Heracleidae (The Children of Heracles) in - Euripides I / COL Author: Euripides translated by Ralph Gladstone Publisher: Washington Square Press 1967
Description:
roy Greek tragedy - verse play six characters; extras; chorus four male; two female one act
'Eurystheus, king of Argos, was given control over his cousin Heracles through the contrivance of Hera. He persecuted Heracles throughout that hero's life, sending him on the famous and perilous 'Labours'. After Heracles had died and been transformed into a god, Eurystheus continued to persecute the family, wherever they went. In Attica the Heracleidae finally found a state willing to defend their rights; and when Eurystheus invaded Attica to claim them by force, he was defeated and killed.'
Title: Heracleidae (The Children of Heracles) in - Euripides I / COL Author: Euripides translated by Ralph Gladstone Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1955
Description:
roy Greek tragedy - verse play six characters; extras; chorus four male; two female one act
"Eurystheus, king of Argos, was given control over his cousin Heracles through the contrivance of Hera. He persecuted Heracles throughout that hero's life, sending him on the famous and perilous 'Labours'. After Heracles had died and been transformed into a god, Eurystheus continued to persecute the family, wherever they went. In Attica the Heracleidae finally found a state willing to defend their rights; and when Eurystheus invaded Attica to claim them by force, he was defeated and killed." Title: Here Will I Nest in - One-Act Plays From Canadian History / CCO Author: Hooke, Hilda Mary Publisher: Longmans Canada 1962
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical six characters four male; two female one act
'The story of the arrival of female settlers to Talbot Settlement on Lake Erie.'
Title: Hero Dad in - Humana Festival 2012 / COL Author: Jacqmin, Laura Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2013
Description:
roy drama - American - short play - fatherhood - abortion - birth control six characters three male; one female (doubling) one act
running time: 10 min.
Three different women encounter three different dads: one in her apartment building; one on her daily run; and one on the other end of the phone line as she waits in a doctor’s office. A play about flirting, fathers and failure.
Title: Hide and Seek in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO Author: Carnwath, Drew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - women - friendship all female cast; four characters four female one act
The unresolved disappearance of one of their childhood friends causes three women to continually return to that day. Beautifully lyrical and hauntingly poetic, Hide and Seek reminds us about those who are left behind. Title: High Sign in - Two Short Plays / COL Author: Carlino, Lewis John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1962
Description:
roy drama - men all male cast; five characters five male one act
'Tragedy. In bar, derelict's search for God ends in suicide.'
Title: High-Gravel-Blind in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 115, Summer 2003 / PER Author: Dunn, Paul Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
Description not available.
Title: Highwayman, The in - The Best American Short Plays - 2005-2006 / COL Author: Jarcho, Julia Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama - fantasy six characters two male; two female; two male or female; one guitarist one act
Inspired by Alfred Noyes's romantic ballad - "The Highwayman". In the original poem Bess is the beloved of the Highwayman, a notorious bandit. When a jealous admirer of Bess informs the authorities of this relationship, soldiers come to the inn and tie Bess up, waiting for the Highwayman in ambush. So that she won't move, they fasten a rifle to her heart. When she hears her love approaching, Bess realizes the only way to save him is to set off the gun herself so he'll realize something is up and ride away to safety. She does so, killing herself. In this play, Bess is a Title: Holy Ghostly, The in - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Random House 1986
Description:
roy drama - ghosts four characters; extra three male; one female one act
singing.
"Confrontation between spiritually dead but mechanically alive father who unsuccessfully resists ghost of death and disaffected son who fears the same fate."
Title: Home for Heroes, The in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Bowering, George Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975
Description:
roy drama - men all male cast; four characters; one loudspeaker four male one act
interior set (bare room)
"A 'parable' in which the rigidly conventional and unquestioning role of the hero is explored. The play deals with the pathetic inadequacy of pop-culture heroes."
Title: Honour in - Dramatics, vol. 77, no. 7 / PER Author: Swanson, C. Denby Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006
Description:
roy drama - war - honour five characters; eight to sixteen characters possible two male; three female (flexible casting) fifteen scenes
"A young woman named Honour hangs out behind the local big-box store and does nothing with her two best friends, Fib and Tryla - until one day Fib decides to play a joke on the local military recruiter and fake-enlist. This flippant act draws their small group into a whirlwind of intimate betrayals, but Honour has more than that on her mind - she's been having visions of Joan of Arc since she was twelve, and now Joan's urging Honour into battle. Meanwhile, a chorus of Cardinals is putting Joan on trial for heresy. (And because they're in St. Louis, they also play baseball.) What Title: Hope Deferred in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 3 / CCO Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: CTR Publications 1980
Description:
roy Canadian - drama four characters three male; one female one act
Interior representative set (apt. in Chateau St. Louis); late 17c costumes.
"The clergy blocks Count Frontenac's proposal to stage Moliere's 'Tartuffe', using the talents of a young Indian actress. To have her art appreciated the young lady has to go to Paris. Hope that art will come to Canada must be deferred."
Title: Horse Latitudes, The in - The Pokey and The Horse Latitudes / COL Author: Black, Stephen Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1976
Description:
roy drama - women four characters two male; one female; one boy one act
1 interior.
"Set in a partially abandoned railroad station. Woman, trying to get through another day, fluctuates between fantasies and reality."
Title: Hot 'N' Throbbing in - The Baltimore Waltz and other plays / COL Author: Vogel, Paula Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1996
Description:
roy drama - domestic violence six characters three male; three female one act
"Drama about domestic violence. Feminist who writes erotica to support herself and her teenage children is murdered by husband after obtaining restraining order against him." Title: Hot Godly Wind, A in - Second Playbill Three / COL Author: Dyer, Charles Publisher: Hutchinson Educational 1973
Description:
roy drama - morality play - modern all male cast; six characters; female extras six male one act
"A modern morality play set around a hole. Harry has dug hundreds of holes not knowing why. George is living evidence of the shortness of life, but as a senior citizen he wonders what the old folk can do to improve the lot of those who have suffered so much? Eric, the trumpeter of Truth, has a mission to 'show people the way and make them happy'. Tom, lustful and virile, wonders whether he and his companions stand on the edge of the hole as if in balance between Heaven and Hell. The Postman disagrees with everyone. He stands for Argument, and helps to nudge the
Title: How an Intellectual Can Aspire to Savagery! in - The Earth is a Witch, The Witch is a Saint, The Saint is Applause / CCO Author: Waits, Death Publisher: Exile Editions 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - radio play six characters five male; one female one act
"Takes the form of a panel discussion in which six prominent young actor/intellectuals explore with insightful and often hilarious results, the important (but often neglected) issue of how to live in an immoral world."
Title: Hungry Spirit, The in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - historical - feminism - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female one act
'Drama set in 1930's Canadian West. Young woman, to the dismay of family, opts to attend university rather than marry.' Title: Hurrah for the Bridge in - Balls and Other Plays / COL Author: Foster, Paul Publisher: Calder and Boyars 1967
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female one act
"A touching picture of an old man, beset by hoodlums, carrying with him his world of illusion".
Title: I in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 110, Spring 2002 / PER Author: Ng, John Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002
Description:
roy relationships - drama - Chinese five characters two male; three female one act
'The first play in the "Panda Trilogy" by John Ng, "I" focuses on three siblings and their relationship with an illegal immigrant.'
Title: I Spy in - The Dock Brief and Other Plays / COL Author: Mortimer, John Publisher: Grove Press Inc. 1958
Description:
roy drama - mystery⌦five characters three male; two female one act
Mr. Frute, private detective, who will stop at nothing in the pursuit of his job, is hired by Capt. Morgan to produce evidence against Mrs. Moragan. Frute doggedly tracks Mrs. Morgan in hopes of discovering The Other Man, the cause of her leaving her husband. Or so Frute has been led to believe. Failing to obtain evidence and threatened with the loss of his job, Frute himself doubles as The Other Man. The report is written, and Frute gets high praise. Alas, though, Frute's success turns sour on him, for he loves Mrs. Morgan. The detective charmingly solves his dilemma. Title: I'll do it Tomorrow in - The Best of American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL Author: Roderick, Michael Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama five characters one male; four female (doubling possible) one act
A man finds out that his procrastination has angered God and that he will age ten years for every day of the coming week. He then seeks out his friend, a waitress, to accompany him on a journey to make things right with the people he wronged as a result of his procrastination.
Title: Icaria in - CTR No. 135 / PER Author: Number Eleven Theatre Publisher: CTR Publications
Description:
roy drama - family drama four characters two male; two female one act
Icaria focuses on a woman's return to "the exquisite and terrifying wreckage of [her] childhood. The piece creates a world where living and dead can co-exist and Daphne can confront her "dangerously brilliant brother… who dreamed of flight.
Title: Icarus in - Humana Festival '97 / COL Author: Sanchez, Edwin Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1997
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
1 exterior.
Beauty, ugliness, reality, dreams, and symbolism motifs in drama about group of dysfunctional individuals seeking redemption. Title: Icarus's Mother in - The Unseen Hand and other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Random House 1986
Description:
roy drama - nuclear war five characters three male; two female one act
"Play about fear, specifically of the nuclear present. Concerns five friends on a picnic watching a plane circle in the air, a symbolic threat".
Title: Icarus's Mother in - Under 30 / YCL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Vintage Books 2004
Description:
roy drama - nuclear war five characters three male; two female one act
"Play about fear, specifically of the nuclear present. Concerns five friends on a picnic watching a plane circle in the air, a symbolic threat".
Title: Ice land in - Hot Thespian Action! / CCO Author: Seinen, Jonathan Publisher: AU Press 2008
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
[ice land] is a brutal and disturbing incursion into the extreme depths of torture and human suffering. Coming upon a bunker in the basement of a house in prairie Saskatchewan some time after a nuclear holocaust, Iris finds herself held hostage by three "desperate, dangerous" men bent on survival and growing "mad" by the day: the blind and controlling Frederick, the aggressive Luther, and the simple Pluto. As Luther contemplates shooting and eating campers in a nearby settlement, Frederick is consumed by his own sexual appetite (primarily for Pluto), and Pluto, Title: Ile in - The Long Voyage Home / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Modern Library 1946
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female one act
Description not available.
Title: Ile in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 1, The / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1955
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female one act
Description not available.
Title: Ile in - Seven Plays of the Sea / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Vintage Books 1972
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female one act
Description not available. Title: Illegal Playwriting Class, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary drama four characters two male; two female one act
A doctor teaches a woman about scriptwriting on office time.
Title: Impromptu in - Fifteen American One Act Plays / COL Author: Mosel, Tad Publisher: Washington Square Press 1961
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
suggested short play for high schools.
'Actors and actresses ordered on stage to improvise play forced to discover and reveal themselves.'
Title: Improvisation; or, The Shepherd's Chameleon in - The Killer and Other Plays by Eugene Ionesco / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene Watson, Donald Publisher: Grove Press 1960
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"Ionesco himself appears as the chief character who is writing a play." Title: In Camera in - Three European Plays / COL Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul translated by Stuart Gilbert Publisher: Penguin Books 1956
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
An obsessive intellectual drama. A study of three of life's victims, who come to realize that 'hell is other people'.
Title: In Dreams in - New Canadian Drama 4 / CCO Author: Williams, Alan Publisher: Borealis Press 1986
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
Description not available.
Title: In Full Light in - 5 Hot plays / CCO Author: Karasik, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - relationships five characters three male; two female one act
Ben's teenaged daughter Claire is hit by a car. To ease his conscience, Leon, the driver, approaches Ben with a cheque. Which Ben takes. But now why is Leon calling Ben at work and showing up on his front lawn? And what's going on with Claire, now recovered, throwing rocks at the window of the boy who lives across the street? "In Full Light" is a riveting exploration of obligation, obsession and desire. Title: In Full Light in - The Crossing Guard; and, In Full Light / CCO Author: Karasik, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - relationships five characters three male; two female one act
Ben's teenaged daughter Claire is hit by a car. To ease his conscience, Leon, the driver, approaches Ben with a cheque. Which Ben takes. But now why is Leon calling Ben at work and showing up on his front lawn? And what's going on with Claire, now recovered, throwing rocks at the window of the boy who lives across the street? "In Full Light" is a riveting exploration of obligation, obsession and desire.
Title: In the Face of Death in - Strindberg's One Act Plays / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Arvid Paulson Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy tragedy six characters three male; three female one act
'A father, who is facing incredible debts and the contempt of his three daughters, finds a solution to his life of misery.'
Title: In the Shadow of the Glen in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior set.
No description available. Title: In With Alma in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Twenty-first Series) / COL Author: Packard, Steven Publisher: Samuel French 1997
Description:
roy drama - relationships five characters four male; one female one act
'Drama set in small Midwestern town. Sterile husband tries to keep wife's pregnancey secret.'
Title: Informer, The in - The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt Bentley, Eric Publisher: Grove Press 1965
Description:
roy drama - World War II four characters one male; two female; one boy one act
1 interior set.
"Set in Nazi Germany. Parents fear their son, a member of the Hitler Youth, will betray them".
Title: Intermission in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Meltzer, Daniel Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy romance six characters two male; four female one act
'During intermission of opening night of Broadway play, playwright meets attractive young woman.' Title: Invitation, The in - Plays and Playwrights 2010 / COL Author: Parks, Brian Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2010
Description:
roy drama - friendship five characters two male; three female one act
In an elite city apartment, a birthday dinner celebration among a group of highly successful friends takes an abrupt, peculiar turn in a play that veers maniacally and sardonically through the worlds of politics, art, and revenge.
Title: Island in - Oscar Mandel Collected Plays Vol I / COL Author: Mandel, Oscar Publisher: Unicorn Press 1970
Description:
roy tragedy - Greek all male cast; five characters; extras five male one act; four scenes
1 setting; speaking chorus.
"Greek classical tragedy derived from Sophocles' Philoctetes. Greeks send Odysseus and Demodocus to bring the abandoned Philoctetes to their aid in the siege of Troy."
Title: Island of Demons, The in - Two Plays / CCO Author: Woodcock, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1977
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical - exile six characters; extras four male; two female thirteen scenes
4 interiors; 3 exteriors.
"Historical romance in verse. Banished to uninhabitable island off Canada in mid-16th century, Marguerite de Roberval is beset by allegorical Demons of Doubt, Discord and Regret, but still survives the deaths of her lover, newborn child and faithful servant." Title: Issues of the Night Time in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 112, Fall 2002 / PER Author: King, Charles Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002
Description:
roy drama six characters; extras three male; three female one act
'A moody and contemplative play with blues music set in residential Vancouver in the summer leading up to Expo.'
Title: It's an Earthquake in My Heart in - Ensemble Works / COL Author: Goat Island Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2005
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female three parts
"Original writing is combined with words from the television show My Mother the Car and the Spanish ventriloquist Señor Wences: a man shouts driving commands; an elderly dancer recalls his turbulent youth on a farm; a father tries to convince his son that his dead mother talks to him through a car radio; a man (portrayed by a woman) delivers a radio eulogy for his brother; two people tell a story of a phantom child who never existed; 'Don't be afraid'. The piece derives its structure from the three-part time displacements of Swann's Way (in search of Lost Time, Part 1) by
Title: It's Only Hot for Two Months in Kapuskasing in - Endangered Species / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1988
Description:
roy drama - relationships - Canadian four characters two male; two female one act
designed to be presented with 'The House that Jack Built'.
A woman goes to help a friend who she thinks is being abused by her lover. Title: Jacksonian, The in - American Theatre (February 2014) / PER Author: Henley, Beth Publisher: Miscellaneous 2014
Description:
roy drama - murder five characters two male; three female one act (twelve scenes)
Set in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, "The Jacksonian" tells the story of respectable dentist Bill Perch, who moves into the seedy Jacksonian Motel after his wife kicks him out. His downward spiral is punctuated by encounters with his teenage daughter, a gold-digging motel employee, a treacherous bartender and his now estranged wife. Revolving around the night of a murder, "The Jacksonian" unearths the eerie tensions and madness in a town poisoned by racism. - Broadway.com
Title: Jennifer Klem; or, Comfort and Misery of the Last Germans in - German Plays / COL Author: Rust, D. translated by Rosee Riggs Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1997
Description:
roy drama - Germany - contains monologues and duologue six characters (flexible casting) three male; three female one act (ten short scenes)
Ten sentences from contemporary German life, with notes for the stage.
Title: Jest of Hahalaba, The in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL Author: Dunsany, Lord Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act
1 interior set.
Hoping to become wealthy through advance information conjured up by genie, a man reads of his own death. Title: Jest of Hahalaba, The in - Plays to Remember / COL Author: Dunsany, Lord Publisher: MacMillan 1967
Description:
roy drama four characters flexible casting one act
"Did you ever make a wish and then have it come true? Perhaps you blew out all the candles on your birthday cake. Or maybe you broke off the big half of the wishbone. Or happened to see a shooting star. Usually we associate such wish-making with children, but in 'The Jest of Hahalaba' the person who makes a wish is a rich old man. As a matter of fact, he pays money for the opportunity to make a wish. If you are familiar with the behaviour of the genies and jinn who fulfill wishes, you should be able to predict whether Sir Arthur Strangways' paid-for wish will
Title: Jewels of the Shrine, The in - Plays from Black Africa / COL Author: Henshaw, James Ene Publisher: Hill and Wang 1968
Description:
roy drama - Africa five characters four male; one female one act
Nigerian man spends final days in bliss and gets decent burial by tricking conniving grandsons.
Title: Johnny Mangano and His Astonishing Dogs in - La Duchesse de Langeais and Other Plays / CCO Author: Tremblay, Michel Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy Canadian - Quebec - drama four characters three male; one female one act
"Carlotta forces Johnny to confront what he is: the inept trainer of a third-rate dog act." Title: Jouliks in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Le-Huu, Marie-Christine translated by Crystal Beliveau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - family relationships - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian five characters two male; two female; one girl one act (eighteen parts)
Jouliks is a darkly tender drama exploring the vast, bumpy, and treacherous terrain of love. The play dramatizes a few days in the life of a family; grandparents, parents child, and neighbour. The grandparents, Mam and Pappy, have come for a visit after seven years of estrangement, in which time they did not see their daughter, Vera, her partner Zak, or The Little One. From the very moment of her arrival, Mam sets to work reconstituting her daughter's home and family so they conform to her extremely conventional sense of propriety. As the clash between the conflicting
Title: July 7, 1944 in - Two Days / COL Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female one act
A haunting hour-long exploration of a day in the life of a female physician working in an inner-city health clinic.
Title: July 7, 1994 in - Humana Festival '95 / COL Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy biography six characters two male; four female one act
2 settings; slide projections.
Examination of female inner-city doctor's life and work. Title: July 7, 1994 in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy biography six characters two male; four female one act
2 settings; slide projections.
Examination of female inner-city doctor's life and work.
Title: Kafka in - Prism International / COL Author: Shein, Brian Publisher: University of British Columbia 1968
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female one act
music.
"Experimental play, partly in verse, partly mimed, which suggests a tormented quality of Franz Kafka's life."
Title: Kafka in - Theatrical Exhibitions / CCO Author: Shein, Brian Publisher: Pulp Press Book Publishers 1971
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female one act
music.
"Experimental play, partly in verse, partly mimed, which suggests a tormented quality of Franz Kafka's life." Title: Kharkiv Letters, The in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Gilker, Alexa Publisher: Signature Editions 2011
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - marriage - Ukrainians - civil rights four characters two male; two female one act
Vlad and Masha have been together for seven years, but Masha refuses to say yes to Vlad's proposals. Katya, Masha's mother, is desperate to get her daughter out of the Ukraine and out of poverty. Katya finds Masha a husband through Heavenly Hearts International Marriage Agency and Masha is forced to make a decision about her future and her freedom.
Title: Komagata Maru Incident, The in - Six Canadian Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright - racism - British Columbia six characters three male; three female one act
The true story of the ignorance and racism which, in 1914, prevented a ship carrying East Indian immigrants from docking in Vancouver harbour.
Title: Komagata Maru Incident, The in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act
The true story of the ignorance and racism which, in 1914, prevented a ship carrying East Indian immigrants from docking in Vancouver harbour. Title: Komagata Maru Incident, The in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works: Volume One / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act
The true story of the ignorance and racism which, in 1914, prevented a ship carrying East Indian immigrants from docking in Vancouver harbour.
Title: Krapp, 39 in - Plays and Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Laurence, Michael Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - multi-media four characters; prerecorded material three male; one female one act
Haunted by Krapp, a 39-year-old actor throws himself a birthday party. Unsparing confessions culminate in a multi-media recording for an imagined production of "Krapp's Last Tape" in 2038. a deeply personal window on the last moments of youth. (www.fringenyc.org)
Title: Kyrie Eleison in - 1984 B.C. Young Playwrights Search / COL Author: Kozak, Romy Publisher: Association of B. C. Drama Educators 1984
Description:
roy war - Latin America - drama - Canadian - political all male cast; six characters six male one act
The local army has captured a terrorist/spy/rebel and they have the Father talk to him. The rebel and the minister have a heated argument about war and God's role in the situation and in belief of what is God's intent. In the end, the rebel kills the minister and escapes. Title: Labor Day in - Dramatics (Sept 2000) / PER Author: Wilner, Sheri Publisher: Miscellaneous 2000
Description:
roy drama six characters one female; five male or female one act
Six characters play a bizarre word game.
Title: Labyrinth, The in - Guernica and other plays / COL Author: Arrabal, Fernando translated by Barbara Wright Publisher: Grove Press 1986
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female one act
"Theatre of the absurd. Manacled prisoner cannot escape from vast maze of blankets in public park."
Title: Ladies Should Be in Bed, The in - Let Me Hear You Whisper and The Ladies Should Be in Bed / COL Author: Zindel, Paul Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1973
Description:
roy drama all female cast; six characters six female one act (two scenes)
"Having invited some old friends for bridge, Elinore provides them with drinks while she attends to her ill and aged mother. But while she is gone their conversation reveals their real focus of interest-the mysterious man who occupies the abandoned building next door and who reputedly engages in sordid sexual doings with neighborhood young people. As the talk grows looser, hidden animosities and frustrations emerge, climaxing in a mindless, even cruel prank, which more than words, reveals the true natures of the ladies. And raises disturbing questions about Title: Lady Anne in - Set the Stage for Eight / COL Author: Halman, Doris F. Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1923
Description:
roy fantasy four characters two male; two female one act
No abstract available.
Title: Land Called Morning, The in - Five from the Fringe / CCO Author: Selkirk, John Publisher: NeWest Press 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - Edmonton Fringe Festival four characters two male; two female one act
No abstract available.
Title: Land of Heart's Desire , The in - Three Irish Plays / COL Author: Yeats, William Butler Publisher: International Pocket Library Corporation 1936
Description:
roy Irish play six characters two male; three female; one child one act
No abstract available. Title: Last Rites in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 75, Summer 1993 / PER Author: Hamson, Leslie Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - death six characters one male; five female one act
"Charlotte and Rachel, lesbian women, have taken refuge in the trapline cabin of Native friends who provide support. Charlotte is dying and makes contact with the daughter that her sister raised as her own. Eventually, all the women come together."
Title: Last Tuesday in - American Theatre - (July / August 2003) / PER Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003
Description:
roy drama five characters five male or female one act
The happenings on a train - the 8:07 from Grand Central to New Haven.
Title: Last Tuesday in - Two Days / COL Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female one act
The play finds commuters on a train from New York to New Haven absorbed with the sometimes comical, quotidian details of their lives as the horror of the outside world insistently—and shockingly—intrudes. Title: Last Walk of Adolfo Ich, The in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2015) / PER Author: de Vries, Marion Publisher: Miscellaneous 2015
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - documentary - legal - civil rights eight characters two male; three female one act
"The Last Walk of Adolfo Ich" is a verbatim play that documents the atrocities committed by a Canadian mining company in Guatemala as well as the historic and unprecedented legal case that is bringing a Canadian company to justice for human rights abuses committed against a foreign national in another country.
Title: Last Yankee, The in - The Penguin Arthur Miller / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Penguin Books 2015
Description:
roy drama - relationships five characters two male; two female; one male or female one act (two scenes)
The LAST YANKEE takes place in a present-day state mental hospital, located somewhere in New England. Patricia Hamilton is recovering from depression, and this may be the day she feels strong enough to go home. But a visit from her husband Leroy, a descendant of one of America's founding fathers (but referred to as a "Swamp Yankee"), coincides with that of a successful businessman, John Frick, who has come to see his newly admitted wife, Karen. A clash of values and emotions upsets them all. It is a play in two parts which focuses on the relationships of two
Title: Lava in - Unbalancing Acts / COL Author: Foreman, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1992
Description:
roy experimental theatre five characters four male; one female one act
'Experimental theatre piece about nature of language.' Title: Leader of the People, The in - Plays to Remember / COL Author: Steinbeck, John Publisher: MacMillan 1967
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female one act
"Time can be cruel to yesterday's heroes. The man who sets a record by hitting 61 home runs in one season is just another ballplayer the following year. In 'The Leader of the People,' Grandfather is one of yesterday's heroes. He led a group of wagons westward when Indians and starvation threatened the wagon trains. Now he is an old man living with his memories. When Grandfather comes to the home of his married daughter for a two-week stay, his visit causes a conflict within the family. As you read the play, look for reasons why."
Title: Learning To Live With Personal Growth in - New Canadian Drama 5 / CCO Author: Milner, Arthur Publisher: Borealis Press 1987
Description:
roy Canadian - political - drama four characters two male; two female one act
'Jeff's relationship with his wife is going nowhere and his job has become more boring and more difficult, but then he makes two new friends who change his life forever.'
Title: Leaving Tangier in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (28th series) / COL Author: Johnston, David Publisher: Samuel French 2004
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters three male; one female one scene
Oswin Everett Pickett was a writer who lived a bohemian lifestyle and has recently died in Tangier. As executor of Oswin's will, a friend has returned with the ashes to Oswin's birthplace in Muddy Brook, USA to bury them. Oswin's headstrong, opinionated niece intercepts the friend at the graveyard and will bury him according to her grandmother's wishes. Title: Leo in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: Laborde, Rosa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - love-triangle - politics - Chile - Latina/o playwrights four characters two male; two female one act
running time: 67 min.
"Set in Santiago, Chile, three young friends form a bittersweet love triangle during the political upheaval surrounding President Salvador Allende's assassination. Told through Léo's memories, the play travels through childhood, first friends and first loves. Passion and poetry weave together
Title: Let the Big Dog Eat in - Humana Festival '98 / COL Author: Wong, Elizabeth Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1998
Description:
roy drama - friendship all male cast; four characters four male one act
1 exterior.
Four wealthy friends discuss business and life during round of golf.
Title: Letters to a Student Revolutionary in - Women on the Verge / COL Author: Wong, Elizabeth Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1993
Description:
roy women - prejudice six characters three male; three female one act
'Chinese woman and Chinese-American woman chafe against societies that confine them.' Title: Liars Club in - Wrecks and other plays / COL Author: LaBute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 2007
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
bare stage.
Four actors tell stories and ask the audience to spot the liars, coming to an unexpected ending.
Title: Life of Lady Godiva, The in - The New Underground Theatre / COL Author: Tavel, Ronald Publisher: Bantam Books 1968
Description:
roy drama six characters; extras three male; three female one act
"An hysterical drama... what history leaves out - and no wonder".
Title: Life Under Water in - The Best Short Plays 1987 / COL Author: Greenberg, Richard Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1985
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female one act
1 exterior set
"Portrayal of mores and morals of beautiful people who summer on Long Island". Title: Lillie Meant Murder in - The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012 / COL Author: Barnett, Claudia Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2013
Description:
roy drama - American - short play - deception five characters three male; one female (doubling) one act
"Lillie Meant Murder" is based on a true story where a man pretends to marry a woman and secure all the rights and privileges of such a union. The deception is unearthed with grave consequences in this play, generating an engaging play where form and theme impressively converge.
Title: Lincoln Says Farewell in - Plays for Great Occasions / COL Author: DuBois, Graham Publisher: Plays, Inc. 1951
Description:
nonroy biographical - American drama five characters one male; four female one act
1 interior set.
"Last visit to Springfield".
Title: Little Airplanes of the Heart in - The Best American Short Plays 1997-1998 / COL Author: Feffer, Steve Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy drama six characters; extras two male; two female; one boy; one girl one act
1 interior.
Young boy obsessed with building own plane and flying same route as pilot's fatal flight. Title: Little Duck in - The Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 / COL Author: Aronson, Billy Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers
Description:
roy relationships - drama - sexuality five characters two male; three female twelve scenes
This play is about people at a children's television company struggling to work together and at the same time, they impose their various weird sexual energies on one another.
Title: Little Guy Napolean in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Pluta, Leonard Publisher: Alive Press
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters four male; one female one act (six scenes)
Interior (schoolhouse, farmhouse); and exterior (farmyard) sets.
"In Poland, at the end of the Second World War, Martha, a school teacher and collaborator, and her son Augustine are mentally tortured for the role they played in the execution of four boys for stealing a horse."
Title: Living Thing, A in - Women Write For Theatre Volume One / CCO Author: Hamer, Maimie Lustig, Helen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all female cast; four characters four female one act
Mrs. Gold Can't cope with the fact her husband left her and two other women can't dispel her depression. Happily, Mrs. Gold discovers she can find joy in life again. Title: Lonesome West, The in - The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays / COL Author: McDonagh, Martin Publisher: Vintage Books 1998
Description:
roy drama - Irish four characters two male; two female one act
Two brothers have no sooner buried their father than they are resuming the vicious and utterly trivial quarrel that has been the chief activity of their lives.
Title: Long Ago and Far Away, a Winter's Tale in - Long Ago and Far Away and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1999
Description:
roy drama - American four characters two male; two female one act
"A domestic drama of a troubled young wife who finds herself crossing through time - and identities - on a fateful winter evening in an empty apartment."
Title: Long Ago and Far Away, a Winter's Tale in - All in the Timing (Fourteen plays) / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Vintage Books 1995
Description:
roy drama - marriage - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
"A domestic drama of a troubled young wife who finds herself crossing through time - and identities - on a fateful winter evening in an empty apartment." Title: Looking for a Job in - A Collection of Canadian Plays: Volume 5 / CCO Author: Roussin, Claude Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - Quebec - drama - french six characters three male; three female one act; six scenes
No abstract available.
Title: Lord Byron's Love Letter in - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1953
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female one act
1 interior.
"Spinster shows tourists letter supposedly written by Lord Byron to her grandmother. Set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras."
Title: Lord Byron's Love Letter in - The Mentor Book of Short Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New American Library 1969
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female one act
1 interior.
"Spinster shows tourists letter supposedly written by Lord Byron to her grandmother. Set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras." Title: Love and Anger in - The East End Plays: Part 2 / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1999
Description:
roy drama - legal - women six characters three male; three female one act
1 interior set.
Drama set in Canadian city. Once successful lawyer defends poor black woman against wealthy publisher of redneck tabloid.
Title: Love Song of Rotten John Calabrese, The in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Leeds, Charlie Publisher: Alive Press
Description:
roy Canadian - drama four characters three male; one female one act
No abstract available.
Title: Love Suicides at Sonezaki, The in - Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu / COL Author: Chikamatsu, Monzaemon translated by Donald Keene Publisher: Columbia University Press 1961
Description:
non-roy puppet play - Japan - tragedy five characters; extras four male; one female one act (three scenes)
1 interior; 2 exteriors.
Cheated by a false borrower and therefore unable to pay his own debts, Tokubel is joined by his mistress in a suicide pact of honor. Singing. Title: Love Talker, The in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: Pryor, Deborah Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy drama - sisterhood four characters one male; three female one act
1 setting.
Drama incorporating legend, folklore, myth and the supernatural focusing on two sisters in rural Virginia.
Title: Lovers and Others of Eugene O'Neill, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 / COL Author: Del Collins, Marla Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers
Description:
roy drama - biography - Eugene O'Neill all female cast; five characters five female one act
Profiles the life and times of Eugene O'Neill from the perspective of the predominant women in his life. Educates audiences about O'Neill and his innovative style with a somewhat 'tongue in cheek' tribute to O'Neill's thematic and theatrical innovations. Based on historical research, the play presents a more complicated perspective on O'Neill's personality and temperament in relationship to the women in his life and female characters in his plays.
Title: Lovesick in - Shorts / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1993
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female radio play
Psychiatrist reveals his five patients. Title: Loyalties in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Guyer, Murphy Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy family relations four characters two male; two female one act
'Family party turns into fistfight between two brothers-in-law, one a soldier and the other a poet when conversation turns to patriotism.'
Title: Madwoman and the Fool: A Harlem Duet, The in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Sears, Djanet Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
'This is a play about Shakespeare's Othello and his first wife, Sybil (Billie), before he married Desdemona. It is set in contemporary Harlem. The other characters include Magi, the landlady of the building where Othello and Billie live, and Canada, Billie's father.'
Title: Magnet, The in - Three Women / CCO Author: Garner, Hugh Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1974
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - romance - relationships five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior; 1 exterior.
"Farmer's widow hires carefree young virile man to work her land, and is attracted to him deeply. Eventually plans to marry are cancelled because of young woman who claims he made her pregnant." Title: Magnet, The in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Garner, Hugh Publisher: Bastet Books 1973
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - romance - relationships five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior; 1 exterior.
"Farmer's widow hires carefree young virile man to work her land, and is attracted to him deeply. Eventually plans to marry are cancelled because of young woman who claims he made her pregnant."
Title: Mail-Order Annie in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO Author: Cashin, Carl C. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - relationships - historical drama five characters three male; two female (some doubling possible) one act
'During the 1900's, thousands of Canada's "Lonely Hearts" hoped to find companionship, love and a future through advertisements in a national magazine. Many a prosperous young farmer used this, along with the cost of a train fare, as a vehicle to find himself a hard-working wife and companion.'
Title: Maison Rouge, La in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Beaudoin, Manon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama four characters; voice; extras one male; three female one act
'The story unfolds in the family home, which embodies their past lives. Rose and Rostand return to the family home after a twenty-five year absence. Their mother is dying. Blanche's spirit has come too; she drowned 25 years earlier. Rose, who stays at her mother's bedside, is desperately trying to share her secret. Rostand who never enters the house is waiting for Rose. He is struggling with the memory of Blanche's death.' Title: Man You Mus' in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Jacob, Bianca Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - relationships five characters two male; three female scenes one and three of act one
'Act one, Scene One estalishes the relationship between Jean, Gloria and Kemba and gives a peep into village politics and small-place gossip. This scene also establishes the character of Jean who is a nice, good church girl and Gloria who is somewhat of a vamp. We also learn about Pernel who is apparently trying to swindle Jean - his fiancée.'
Title: Masks of Angels in - The New Theatre of Europe / COL Author: Peryalis, Notis translated by Leslie Finer Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1962
Description:
roy symbolic play six characters; extras three male; three female one act
1 exterior set.
"Two central characters, a forlorn prostitute and a middle-aged peddler, selling carnival masks in front of a tavern, finally accept their own identities, death, and each other".
Title: Mature Young Adults in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Colford, Wesley J. Publisher: Signature Editions 2011
Description:
roy drama - young adult - romance - relationships - Canadian four characters two male; two female one act
"This story of innocence and discovery begins when two ex-lovers from Cape Breton are reunited in the park where their relationship bloomed, beginning a regression through time as the teens struggle with societal stigmas, repressed sexuality, and the peaks and precipices that surround first love. Can you escape the container your community places you in? And how do give yourself to someone without losing your identity?" - aimforthetangent.com Title: Me Mackenna in - Second Playbill Three / COL Author: Shaw, Don Publisher: Hutchinson Educational 1973
Description:
roy drama all male cast; five characters five male one act
"Mackenna is a vicious, foul-mouthed barrack-room bully: there is no place in his mean understanding for a young man like Moore who wants to leave the Army for the Church. Smouldering inside Mackenna is a burning resentment against authority. He sets out to expose Moore as a sham. Aided by Davo and Bucker, whom he dominates, he ties Moore to a hot stove. To be released, Moore has to deny the existence of God. As he is tormented with the heat, Mackenna, Davo and Bucker play cards beneath his tortured body like the soldiers beneath the
Title: Meadow, The in - Plays to Remember / COL Author: Bradbury, Ray Publisher: MacMillan 1967
Description:
roy drama all male cast; six characters six male one act
"Some of civilization's best friends are dreamers. The men who first dreamed up the wheel and those who envisioned people hurtling through the air faster than the speed of sound have contributed to progress. Usually dreamers are confronted by practical men who say, 'Your idea will never work.' Practical men look at dreams in terms of nuts and bolts and dollars and cents. In 'The Meadow,' a dreamer and a practical man face each other on an appropriate battlefield. The setting is Hollywood, where dreams and dollars often clash."
Title: Meaning of Enchantment: A Ghost Fable, The in - Dramatics Vol. 81 No.2 / PER Author: Coffey, Zak Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
Four lost souls are brought together in this play. Whether by dream, memory, magic or happenstance the spirits of two men, a woman, and a young girl collide in a;n old house, their words giving only hints as to their shared, sad history. Title: Medea in - The Modern Theatre Volume 5 / COL Author: Anouilh, Jean Publisher: Doubleday 1957
Description:
roy Greek tragedy six characters; extras four male; two female one act
2 exterior sets.
Based on the Greek legend of a jealous woman' s revenge.
Title: Medeaplay in - Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage / COL Author: Muller, Heiner Publisher: Performing Arts Journal Publications 1984
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female three scenes
"Experimental theatre piece about sex, birth and death".
Title: Melodrama Play in - Fool for Love and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Bantam Books 1984
Description:
roy melodrama six characters; extras five male; one female one act
1 interior set; music; singing; dancing.
"Violence surfaces in the corrupt behind-the-scenes world of popular music industry." Title: Melodrama Play in - Fool for Love and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Dial Press 2006
Description:
roy melodrama six characters; extras five male; one female one act
1 interior set; music; singing; dancing.
"Violence surfaces in the corrupt behind-the-scenes world of popular music industry."
Title: Meridian, Mississippi Redux in - Off-Off-Broadway Festival Plays - 23rd Series / COL Author: Wilhelm, Le Publisher: Samuel French 1999
Description:
roy drama - racism four characters two male; two female one act
'A visitor to the site of bloody confrontations during the Civil Rights era discovers that she may be more bigoted than the polite Southern lady who befriends her.'
Title: Method Gun, The in - Humana Festival 2010 / COL Author: Lynn, Kirk Mechs, Rude Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2010
Description:
roy drama - acting ten characters two male; three female (doubling) one act
"The Method Gun explores the life and techniques of Stella Burden, actor-training guru of the 60s and 70s, whose sudden emigration to South America still haunts her most fervent followers. Ms. Burden’s training technique, The Approach (often referred to as "the most dangerous acting technique in the world"), fused Western acting methods with risk-based rituals in order to infuse even the smallest role with sex, death and violence. A play about the ecstasy and excesses of performing, the dangers of public intimacy and the incompatibility of truth on stage and sanity in Title: Midnight at World's End in - Dramatics Vol. 77, No. 1 / PER Author: Miyares, Gabriella Publisher: Miscellaneous 2005
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female short Play
At the remote, old-fashioned World's End Diner, a woman named Jill is about to commence work on her first, life-changing assignment: to manage the fate of Emily Hulse. But nothing in Fate Management is easy, and Jill must rely on her colleagues and her instincts to work against fate's unpredictability and make Emily's future a success. Florida Teen Playwright Festival winner (2005) International Thespian Playworks winner (2005)
Title: Miserly Knight, The in - Boris Godunov: The little tragedies / COL Author: Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich Publisher: Oberon Books 2002
Description:
roy drama - Russia - tragedy - family relations all male cast; six characters six male one act (three scenes)
Verse drama portraying clash between miserly father and impecunious son.
Title: Mistake in - The Garden and Other Plays / COL Author: Havel, Vaclav translated by George Theiner Publisher: Grove Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Czechoslovakia all male cast; five characters five male one act
'Prisoners turn on new cell mate.' Title: Monkey's Paw, The in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Jacobs, William Wymark Parker, Louis N. Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy supernatural five characters four male; one female one act
adapted by Louis N. Parker; 1 interior
"Supernatural. Tragedy stalks owner of evil charm."
Title: Morning in - Morning, Noon and Night / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Samuel French 1969
Description:
roy black play five characters three male; two female one act
"We meet a black family the morning after they decide to take the pill that will make them white. As everyone discovers from this, color is only skin deep. Enter an irate white father looking for the black boy who got his daughter with child. Not only are there no black folks in this house, but the white father turns out to be 'basic black' himself"
Title: Mother Tongue in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Quan, Betty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations four characters two male; two female one act
"Weaves together Cantonese, English, and American Sign Language. About family loyalties, youthful dreams, and generational and cultural differences."
Nominated for the 1996 Governor General's Award for Drama Title: Mother Tongue in - Love + Relasianships / CCO Author: Quan, Betty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations four characters two male; two female twelve scenes
"Weaves together Cantonese, English, and American Sign Language. About family loyalties, youthful dreams, and generational and cultural differences."
Nominated for the 1996 Governor General's Award for Drama.
Title: Mother's Day in - Life Support / COL Author: Steele, Donald Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy drama - family relations four characters one male; three female one act
When it looks like neither of Margery's two sisters or her husband will be able to make the annual pilgrimage to their mother's gravesite, she's determined to keep her date. When the two sisters figure out what is driving Margery, an old guilt is put to rest and a new ritual to honor their mother is put in place.
Title: Motherlove in - Strindberg's One Act Plays / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Arvid Paulson Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy drama all female cast; four characters four female one act
'Former prostitute selfishly manipulates daughter's life.' Title: Moving Pictures in - Sharon Pollock: Three Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy biography - Nell Shipman - Alberta playwright nine characters three male; two female (doubling) one act
'This play is a theatrical tracing of the life of Nell Shipman, who as an actress sang, danced and hummed her way across North America in the early 1900's... "Moving Pictures" explores the meaning of story-telling in our lives, and the artists addiction to creation whatever the cost.'
Title: Moving Pictures in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy biography - Nell Shipman - Alberta playwright nine characters three male; two female (doubling) one act
'This play is a theatrical tracing of the life of Nell Shipman, who as an actress sang, danced and hummed her way across North America in the early 1900's... "Moving Pictures" explores the meaning of story-telling in our lives, and the artists addiction to creation whatever the cost.'
Title: Mr. Tucker's Taxi in - Later Encounters / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
composite interior/exterior set.
"Mr. Tucker drives his taxicabs all over Manhattan with his wife sitting next to him. He is dying of a terminal disease. A desperate young lady hails them down, wanting to be rushed to the nearest hospital. At a red light they are hijacked by a young man with a gun who has just robbed a bank. Mr. Tucker obeys the hijacker until, finally, everything is out of control". Title: Mute, The in - Odd Sequence / COL Author: Worsley, Eleanor Publisher: New Playwrights' Network 1976
Description:
roy supernatural four characters; extras one male; three female one act
exterior.
"Spanish widow's unwillingness to remarry stems from guilt at having poisoned her unfaithful husband whose ghostly visits provide solace."
Title: My Brother's Keeper in - Dramatics, vol. 79, no. 1 / PER Author: Sheldon, Katie Publisher: Miscellaneous 2007
Description:
roy drama - Ireland six characters; extras four male; two female twelve scenes
setting: Belfast, 1972.
"The play examines the moral questions surrounding the conflict between the Irish Republican Army and British loyalist forces in Northern Ireland. The story unfolds through the eyes of two brothers."
Title: My Heart's a Suitcase in - My Heart's a Suitcase and Low Level Panic / COL Author: McIntyre, Clare Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1994
Description:
roy drama - British six characters two male; four female ten scenes
"This play about fear and materialistic longing compares an angrily impoverished waitress and a philosophical ceramics teacher in the early stages of multiple sclerosis who are sharing a borrowed, run down seaside apartment for the weekend. Visitors include the shopaholic wife of the landlord, a drunken misfit and two spectral intruders: Pest, a bad memory and Luggage, the Patron Saint of Heavy Burdens." Title: My Mother's Eyes in - Playwrights of Exile / COL Author: Sebbar, Leila translated by Stephen J. Vogel Publisher: UBU Repertory Theater Publications 1997
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female one act
"...the young protagonist is wholly surrounded by the French language, which is both a trap and an escape. She can only tell her story in French, the language of a culture that has assigned her to second-class citizenship. She looks warmly to the language of her mother, but the culture of that language reflects everything she is. Suspended like a wounded bird between languages and cultures, the girl does the only thing she can: speak as violently and as freely as she can."
Title: My One and Only in - Harvest and Other Plays / CCO Author: Cameron, Ken Publisher: NeWest Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
running time: 90 minutes.
Marilyn Monroe comes to Banff in 1953 to shoot a movie and has an affair with Scout, a fifteen-year-old boy; meanwhile in 1962, Scout has been stopped by the side of the road and is clearly hiding something. Fall in love with the Rockies and Marilyn Monroe!
Title: Mysteries and Smaller Pieces in - The Great American Life Show / COL Author: Living Theatre, The Publisher: Bantam Books 1974
Description:
roy American - Avant Garde - experimental theatre flexible characters flexible casting one act
audience participation; no set; no costumes.
"Lit by a single spotlight, a gray-haired actor rigidly stands at attention at the edge of the stage. Staring out at the audience, he says nothing. He does nothing. And so the audience waits - for what seems like an eternity - and grows increasingly restless. Soon the man is pelted with insults, crumpled playbills, and paper airplanes. So begins the Living Theatre's production of its Title: Mysteries of the Castle of the Monk of Falconara, The in - The Best American Short Plays - 2005-2006 / COL Author: Armstrong, James Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama six characters the male; three female (doubling possible) one act
The plot begins on All Hallow's Eve 1793, as three strangers come to the castle of Falconara in response to a mysterious letter. They are Ann Radcliff, Horace Walpole and Matthew G. Lewis, three of the great Gothic novelists of the late eighteenth century. As their host has warned them, each has a dark secret capable of destroying everything. Their secrets, however, are not what they think, and the three writers end up battling the personal nightmares that haunt their fiction.
Title: Naked Old Man in - The Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 / COL Author: Schisgal, Murray Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers
Description:
roy drama - friendships - monologues - men all male cast; four characters four male (only one speaking part) one act
An eighty-two year old man invites three of his closest friends, all recently deceased, all specters conceived in the matrix of his imagination, to spent the evening with him.
Title: Navigator, The in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2012 / COL Author: Antar, Eddie Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2012
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
"Dave is lost. Unemployed, stocks crashing, a marriage on the skids, and a teenage daughter who's getting high, he needs direction. But Dave gets more than a few right turns when his GPS voice also starts to steer his major life decisions." - nytheatre.com Title: Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom in - Humana Festival 2008 / COL Author: Haley, Jennifer Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - addiction - horror sixteen characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
Tale of a subdivision where the appearance of control - of manicured lawns, identical houses and suburban serenity - belies a creeping sense of dread. Some local teens have become alarmingly addicted to an online horror video game that sends them running around the neighborhood that looks just like there own, butchering zombies in order to reach the Last Chapter. In tense encounters, with foreboding pitted against denial - and a good deal of dark humor - Haley deftly reveals her character's dawning realization that the boundaries between the suburban world and
Title: New Margo, The in - Dramatics - (Nov. 2012) / PER Author: Gregg, Stephen Publisher: Miscellaneous 2012
Description:
roy drama - mystery all female cast; five characters five female three scenes
The characters are friends who are four days away from starting their freshman year of college. They believe one of the friends has been done away with and replaced with someone else.
Title: New Play, The in - An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays / COL Author: Saroyan, William Publisher: National Textbook Company 1992
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female one act
Mingles reality and imagination. No description available. Title: New Tenant, The in - Eugene Ionesco: Three Plays / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene Translated by Donald Watson Publisher: Grove Press 1958
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act
"A somber gentleman moves into his new apartment. After deflecting his relentlessly gossipy landlady with stern silence, he instructs his hired help to bring up the boxes. The lugging seems endless, not only because of the huge number of belongings, but because of how carefully the owner wants to choreograph their delivery. Eventually settling into a centrally positioned armchair, he allows himself to be entombed by his material goods."
Title: New Tenant, The in - Plays for the Theatre (2nd ed.) / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene translated by Donald Watson Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1974
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act
"A somber gentleman moves into his new apartment. After deflecting his relentlessly gossipy landlady with stern silence, he instructs his hired help to bring up the boxes. The lugging seems endless, not only because of the huge number of belongings, but because of how carefully the owner wants to choreograph their delivery. Eventually settling into a centrally positioned armchair, he allows himself to be entombed by his material goods."
Title: Night in - CTR Vol. 148 / PER Author: Morris, Christopher Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - Inuktitut five characters two male; three female one act
Tells the story of a Torontonian museum worker who at the request of an individual in a Northern community has taken it upon herself to return something of value to that community. Her effort is an attempt to reconcile a historical crime, but her naivety results in a series of culture shocks. Title: Night Alive, The in - American Theatre (December 2013) / PER Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Miscellaneous 2013
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female one act
"The Night Alive" features Tommy, a middle-aged, divorced loner. One day, he takes in Aimee, a woman he finds battered and bloodied by her ex-boyfriend. Through their relationship, they find a small measure of hope, while dealing with their respective tumultuous pasts.
Title: Night Before the Trial, The in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko Publisher: Green Integer 140 2005
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
No description available.
Title: Nightingale and Not the Lark, The in - The Best Short Plays 1981 / COL Author: Johnston, Jennifer Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1981
Description:
roy drama - theatre four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"Aged actress, caretaker of old provincial auditorium, converses bitterly with the ghost of her dead Irish actor husband who abandoned her long ago. Her reveries are interrupted by a visit from young actress who seems headed for similar fate". Title: Nightingale, A in - The Roads to Home / COL Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1982
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female one act
unit set.
"Mabel, and Vonnie, two Houston neighbors and best friends, both refugees from small Texas towns, are forbearing and patient about the protracted and uninvited visits of Annie Long, a girlhood acquaintance of Mabel's who is slipping inexorably into insanity. As uncomfortable as Annie makes them, Mabel and Vonnie are more concerned with silencing her vivid recounting of
Title: No Exit in - No Exit and Three Other Plays / COL Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul Publisher: Random House 1955
Description:
roy fantasy four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"Two women and a man consigned to windowless room in hell torture each other with their confessions".
Title: Nor the Cavaliers Who Come with Us in - CTR No.135 / PER Author: Cox-O'Connell, Frank Tellez, Marc Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters three male; one female one act
A present day visitor to Mexico and Cortez conquest. Title: Norma's Rest in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Morille, Jordan Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - cancer - LGBTQ six characters three male; three female one act (one scene)
1 exterior set.
"Cancer-ridden Norma runs a sober house that has caught the attention of the local Pastor, who offers to purchase the property in the name of the Church. Norma must choose the fate of the property and determine the path to redemption her beloved residents will follow upon her impending death."
Title: Northern Storm in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female three scenes
A school teacher, on the eve of her departure, makes comments to the father of one of her students with disasterous results.
Title: Now We are Brody in - The Mill / CCO Author: MacFadzean, Matthew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; two female; one voice one act
It’s 1854 at the start of Now We Are Brody. The mill is boarded up as the townsfolk attempt to bury a dark shame from their past, but the arrival of a young woman with the deed to the mill threatens to unearth its secret.
Part 1 of "The Mill" roy Title: Nowhere on the Border in - Plays and Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Lacamara, Carlos Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - immigrants - Mexico six characters five male; one female one act (fifteen scenes)
A Mexican father searches the Arizona desert for his missing daughter and is detained by an American Minuteman. Through a day's long interaction, the play explores the fear and anger surrounding the issue of immigration. The characters learn that their lives have more in common than they thought, revealing that human suffering and compassion transcend all boundaries. (Press Release)
Title: Old Blues in - The Best American Short Plays 1995-1996 / COL Author: Levy, Jonathan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy drama - death all male cast; four characters four male one act
1 interior; singing.
Singing group, composed of old college chums, reacts to death of one of its members.
Title: Oldest Profession, The in - The Baltimore Waltz and other plays / COL Author: Vogel, Paula Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1996
Description:
roy drama - feminism all female cast; five characters five female one act
"Social drama about the feminization of poverty set in 1980 New York. Four prostitutes in their 70's and their madam discuss their fees, clients and cost of living." Title: On Baile's Strand in - W B Yeats : Selected Plays / COL Author: Yeats, William Butler Publisher: Macmillan and Company 1964
Description:
roy tragedy - Irish - drama - verse play all male cast; five characters; extras five male one act
1 set; singing.
'Legendary Irish verse play. Tragic drama about Cuchulain and other kings as told by a blind man to a fool.'
Title: On Baile's Strand in - Eight Great Tragedies / COL Author: Yeats, William Butler Publisher: New American Library 1957
Description:
roy tragedy - Irish - drama - verse play all male cast; five characters; extras five male one act
1 set; singing.
'Legendary Irish verse play. Tragic drama about Cuchulain and other kings as told by a blind man to a fool.'
Title: On Baile's Strand in - Landmarks of Irish Drama / COL Author: Yeats, William Butler Publisher: Methuen 1988
Description:
roy tragedy - Irish - drama - verse play all male cast; five characters; extras five male one act
1 set; singing.
"Legendary Irish verse play. Tragic drama about Cuchulain and other kings as told by a blind man to a fool." Title: On the Dock of the Bay in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: McBurney, Phil Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all male cast; four characters four male one act
Three fishing buddies at a cabin, fishing.
Title: Once Upon a Greek Stage in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: McMaster, Beth Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama - family relationships - young adult four characters; chorus two male; two female one act
Based on "Antigone". '(The play) is about conflict: conflict between generations - children against their elders, both firm in the points of view, both sure of the justification of their arguments. It's about duty: how far should duty push us? It's about loyalties: where do they belong? with family? with country? And it also concerns classical tragedy: how a character flaw or weakness can cause the downfall of an important person. The play doesn't answer all these questions but it does reassure us that these problems are universal and timeless.'
Title: One Beautiful Evening in - Five from the Fringe / CCO Author: Small Change Theatre Publisher: NeWest Press 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - Edmonton Fringe Festival five characters three male; two female one act
No abstract available. Title: One For The Road in - Other Places / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1984
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; one female; one boy one act
"A powerful statement about the abuse of human rights by totalitarian governments. The play finds an unctuous and 'civilized' interrogator humiliating the doomed members of a family who have become enemies of the state."
Title: One Lane Bridge in - Dramatics, January 2011 / PER Author: Gregg, Stephen Publisher: Miscellaneous 2011
Description:
roy drama five characters one male; one female; three flexible one act
may be performed with up to thirteen characters.
A scary new play by Gregg.
Title: One Man's House in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Christmas - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act
1 set.
'Polish family in Canada cannot understand father's involvement in labour politics, which threatens his job.' Title: One Spring Morning in - One Spring Morning and Elevator / CCO Author: Stewart, Cherie Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1973
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
An old man and woman's experiences at a bus stop.
Title: Other People's Garden Gnomes in - Dramatics Vol. 81 No. 2 / PER Author: Goldstein, Aliza Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
Teen-aged Ophelia ends up in an ER waiting room after a bad night stealing garden ornaments and a bad year on the family front. Shipped off to Florida to live with her estranged mom after the death of her father, Ohelia makes an unlikely friend. Whether she can make peace with her situation is left to time, and one well-traveled garden gnome, to decide.
Title: Out West in - 13 by Shanley / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy drama - western five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior.
"Classic, abbreviated story of cowboy facing good and evil in Western town." Title: Outlanders in - Zones of the Spirit / COL Author: Gray, Amlin Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
This play set in a small failing cafe, whose embittered megalomaniac owner hopes to create a new liqueur which will lure back the customers who have been lost to a rival establishment. Harassed by his invalid wife, who bangs impatiently on the ceiling to gain his attention, and bedeviled by the townspeople, who have turned against him, Askanius retreats increasingly into his delusions and the dream of the triumph which his magical elixir will bring. In the end his creation turns out to be poisonous—but Askanius, in a final act of desperate defiance, willfully drinks it down.
Title: Over Gardens Out in - Peter Gill: Plays 1 / COL Author: Gill, Peter Publisher: Faber and Faber 2002
Description:
roy drama - friendship - family six characters four male; two female one act (twelve scenes)
Frustrated with the tedium of suburbia, mummy’s boy Dennis is drawn to Borstal boy Jeffry in a camaraderie that veers into volatile and unarticulated eroticism. Deftly depicting the frustrations of 1960s living, Over Gardens Out is a finely tuned sketch of friendship and family life.
Title: Over Martinis, Driving Somewhere in - American Theatre Vol. 28, No. 7 / PER Author: Linney, Romulus Cooney, Eleanor Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female one act
A play about alzheimers disease. Title: Over My Shoulder in - Dramatics - (Oct 1998) / PER Author: Russel, Dakota Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
The story of a travel writer, taking place over four nights in different hotel rooms.
Title: Overtones in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Gerstenberg, Alice Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy drama all female cast; four characters four female one act
1 interior.
"Psychological. Jealousy between two women."
Title: Overtones in - Plays By and About Women / COL Author: Gerstenberg, Alice Publisher: Vintage Books 1974
Description:
roy drama all female cast; four characters four female one act
1 interior.
Psychological drama. Conversation of two women, each with two selves, reveals jealousy of one, poverty of other. Title: Pacific Coast Tragedy, A in - Plays of the Pacific Coast / CCO Author: Fairbairn, A. M. D. Publisher: Samuel French 1935
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - tragedy - Native peoples five characters three male; two female one act
"Ernest Hopwood has been ministering to the spiritual needs of the Indians in a native coastal village for twenty-six years. As a young man he married an Indian girl. Disillusionment followed. His two older daughters married badly; his only son is serving time in jail and his Indian wife has reverted to the primitive life. Unknown to her father, his youngest daughter, Mary, is also in trouble. Ernest's older brother is dying in England and sends out his solicitor to induce Ernest to come home. Ernest is explaining the utter impossibility of this when he learns of Mary's trouble..."
Title: Painting, The in - Modern French Theatre / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene translated by George E. Wellwarth Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1966
Description:
roy avant garde four characters two male; two female one act
'Avant garde in the manner of puppets. "Artist" brother tries to make his ugly sister look like a painting of a woman he has just bought.'
Title: Paper SERIES in - Love + Relasianships vol. 2 / CCO Author: Yee, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters three male; three female six parts
six scenes that are related, but not a series.
"Paper Series is a collection of six short pieces using paper as a linking device. One revolves around the writing of a Dear John letter, another concerns tampering with fortune-cookie fortunes, a third skit uses paper dolls to tell a foster child’s story, and so on. It’s a clever means for Yee to showcase his own diversity as a young playwright, jumping from crime thriller to Title: Paper Wheat in - In Character / CCO Author: Twenty-Fifth Street House Theatre Publisher: Nelson Canada 1992
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - ethnic - immigration five characters three male; two female excerpts from act one
A collective creation about the sod-busting immigrants to the Prairies and the Saskatchewan Co-operative Movement that followed, drawn from discussions and interviews with the pioneers themselves.
Title: Parade; or, Approaching the End of a Summer, The in - The Traveling Companion and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2008
Description:
roy drama - American - 20th century - short play - love - LGBTQ+ five characters three male; two female one act
" 'Love makes some people charming but it makes me dull.' In the summer of 1940 Williams lived in Provincetown, Mass., where he fell in love for the first time - the man was Kip Kiernan, a dancer and Canadian draft dodger. Their affair lasted most of the summer, until Kip broke it off and left with a woman. Williams immediately drafted "The Parade", which he finished in the 1960s. This play, which is related to the full-length "Something Cloudy, Something Clear", not only presents a completely unguarded story about gay men, but also a portrait of passions unrequited and
Title: Parents' Day in - Canadian One Act Plays For Women / CCO Author: Hurley, Joan Mason Publisher: A Room of One's Own Press 1975
Description:
roy Canadian - women all female cast; five characters; five female one act
1 interior.
"Set in a private girls' boarding school, with conflicts between teachers of older strict standards and modern teachers with laxity in both discipline and scholarship." Title: Partners in - The Best Short Plays 1984 / COL Author: Higgins, David Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1982
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act
1 interior set.
"Three young dope dealers become murderous rivals".
Title: Partners in - Humana Festival 2014: The complete plays / COL Author: Fortenberry, Dorothy Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters three male; one female one act (eight scenes)
3 interior sets; 1 exterior set.
"Clare has big plans with her best friend Ezra—starting a food truck, making him marry his boyfriend—until an unexpected windfall forces them to face how they truly feel about money and commitment. A witty, incisive look at two young couples struggling with personal finance, the meaning of marriage, and the deeply human capacity for self-sabotage—as they decipher the
Title: Pearl Divers in - Some Angry Summer Songs / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ four characters one male; three female one act
1 interior.
"A homosexual looking for a job in a restaurant is discriminated against. Singing." Title: Pelican, The in - The Chamber Plays / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Evert Sprinchorn Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1962
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female one act
'Symbolic tragedy attacking mother who loves daughter's husband. Mother's, son's, daughter's dream worlds shattered by suicide.'
Title: Pelican, The in - Strindberg's One Act Plays / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Arvid Paulson Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female one act
'Tragedy. Cruel mother, who mistreats son and daughter, and loves daughter's husband, is tricked into suicide by her son. The brother and sister also die in a fire, which symbolizes attempts to destroy evil.'
Title: Pen of My Aunt, The in - Short Plays for Reading and Acting / COL Author: Daviot, Gordon Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1970
Description:
nonroy drama four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior.
"Two courageous French women scheme to help French soldier escape, after he has been stopped by German corporal." Title: Perfect in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Gallagher, Mary Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy relationships four characters two male; two female one act
'Two women discuss romance potential of male dinner guest.''
Title: Perfect in - The Best American Short Plays - 2003-2004 / COL Author: Gallagher, Mary Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2006
Description:
roy relationships four characters two male; two female one act
Two women discuss romance potential of male dinner guest.
Title: Perfection City in - Playbill Two / COL Author: Shellan, David Publisher: Hutchinson Educational 1969
Description:
roy morality play all male cast; four characters four male (possibly variable) one act
"'Perfection City' is a modern morality play. It's two principal characters, Homber and Deadbeat, appear at first to be a music-hall double-act, but as the play develops it is clear that they symbolize mankind, and have much in common with the tramps Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot'. Homber is the idealist, Deadbeat the common man. They live in an imperfect world, and though Deadbeat would be content with a few modest comforts (such as new boots and regular meals) he is prepared to be led by Homber, whose vision is greater and whose Title: Pericles in - Bertha and Other Plays / COL Author: Koch, Kenneth Publisher: Grove Press 1966
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female six scenes (one act)
"Blank verse drama of Pericles' search for earthly paradise."
Title: Permit in - The Vanek Plays / COL Author: Kohout, Pavel translated by Jan Drabek Publisher: University of British Columbia 1987
Description:
roy drama - Czech five characters two male; three female one act
No abstract available.
Title: Persians, The in - Prometheus Bound and Other Plays / COL Author: Aeschylus translated by Phillip Vellacott Publisher: Penguin Books 1961
Description:
roy Greek tragedy - verse play four characters; speaking chorus; extras three male; one female one act
1 exterior.
Greek tragedy in verse. Defeat of Xerxes and Persians by Greeks at Salamis, 480 B.C. Title: Persians, The in - Aeschylus II / COL Author: Aeschylus translated by Seth G. Benardete Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1991
Description:
roy Greek tragedy - verse play - historical - war four characters; speaking chorus; extras three male; one female one act
1 exterior.
Greek tragedy in verse. Defeat of Xerxes and Persians by Greeks at Salamis, 480 B.C.
Title: Philoctetes in - The Complete Plays of Sophocles / COL Author: Sophocles translated by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb Publisher: Bantam Books 1967
Description:
roy greek tragedy - Odysseus all male cast; five characters five male one act
1 exterior.
Greek tragedy in verse. Greeks send Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring the banished Philoctetes to their aid in the siege of Troy.
Title: Philoctetes in - Sophocles II / COL Author: Sophocles translated by David Grene Publisher: Washington Square Press 1967
Description:
roy Greek tragedy - verse play all male cast; five characters; extras five male one act
1 exterior.
'Greek classical tragedy in verse. Greeks send Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring the banished Philoctetes to their aid in the siege of Troy.' Title: Philoctetes in - Greek Tragedies - Vol. 3 / COL Author: Sophocles translated by David Grene Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1991
Description:
roy greek tragedy - Odysseus all male cast; five characters five male one act
1 exterior.
Greek tragedy in verse. Greeks send Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring the banished Philoctetes to their aid in the siege of Troy.
Title: Philoctetes in - Sophocles II / COL Author: Sophocles translated by David Grene Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1969
Description:
roy Greek tragedy - verse play all male cast; five characters; extras five male one act
1 exterior.
'Greek classical tragedy in verse. Greeks send Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring the banished Philoctetes to their aid in the siege of Troy.'
Title: Picnic on the Battlefield in - Guernica and other plays / COL Author: Arrabal, Fernando translated by Barbara Wright Publisher: Grove Press 1986
Description:
roy drama - war four characters, extras three male; one female one act
"Theatre of the absurd. Completely oblivious to the surrounding war, a soldier and his proper middle-class parents set up picnic on battlefield." Title: Pipeline in - American Theatre (December 2017) / PER Author: Morisseau, Dominique Publisher: Miscellaneous 2017
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female one act (ten scenes)
A high-school teacher in a New York City public school, wrestles with the realization that her teenaged son, though enrolled in a private school in upstate New York, may be in danger of straying into the 'school-to-prison pipeline' that ensnares so many young men of color.
Title: Pitching to the Star in - Pitching to the Star and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1993
Description:
roy drama five characters (flexible casting) two male; three female one act
"When Peter finally gets a good break for his Hollywood script, he finds himself PITCHING TO THE STAR of the pilot show. Promised control over something he's worked long and hard on, he finds his integrity and his storyline attacked every time the star makes a suggestion to completely change his script and make the lead character exactly like herself."
Title: Pizza in - West Coast Plays 6 / COL Author: Linfante, Michele Publisher: West Coast Plays 1980
Description:
roy drama six characters one male; five female one act
No abstract available. Title: Plantation in - Contributions / COL Author: Shine, Ted Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970
Description:
roy drama - family relations - racism - discrimination five characters three male; two female one act
1 exterior.
When a rich and racist plantation owner awaiting the birth of his first son discovers his son to be black, he kills his wife and commits suicide.
Title: Play of Robin Hood and Friar Tuck, The in - Folk Playtexts / COL Author: Publisher: Harrap 1980
Description:
roy action adventure five characters, extras four male, one female one act
"This play was first printed in 1560. Stage directions have been added to make the action clear; some of the sixteenth-century words and phrases are explained in the brackets.
Don't let the old language get in the way of your enjoyment of the action, particularly the moment when Friar Tuck drops Robin Hood in the stream, and the final battle between the hounds and the merry men. It is always the action that is important in (this) play."
Title: Playroom, The in - Set the Stage for Eight / COL Author: Halman, Doris F. Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1923
Description:
roy fantasy six characters two male; four female one act
No abstract available. Title: Pool (No Water) in - Plays: 2 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Publisher: Methuen Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama four characters flexible casting one-act
The original production had four speakers - A, B, C, D. Other productions don't have to follow this.
A famous artist invites her old friends out to her luxurious new home and, for one night only, the group is back together. However, celebrations come to an abrupt end when the host suffers a horrific accident. As the victim lies in a coma, an almost unthinkable plan starts to take shape:
Title: Poppycock in - Endangered Species / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1988
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - relationships four characters one male; three female twelve scenes
Three of the most powerful men of the century, Pablo Picasso, Adolf Hitler and Ezra Pound, are examined in relationships with one woman who is featured in each of their lives.
Title: Portrait of a Madonna in - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1953
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female one act
1 interior
"Middle aged, genteel spinster's delusions concerning a youthful girlhood disappointment in love finally culminate in insanity. Some phonograph music." Title: Practical Magic in - The Best Short Plays 1987 / COL Author: Kelly, Shannon Keith Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1985
Description:
roy family relations - children growing up four characters two male; two female one act
Examines contrast of reactions between a young couple with a healthy new baby and another couple whose infant needs intensive medical care, in order to examine the need for faith, and rituals which confirm that faith, in a society pre-occupied with material comforts.
Title: Prairie du Chien in - The Shawl and Prairie du Chien / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Grove Press 1985
Description:
roy drama - murder - violence all male cast; six characters six male one act
"A railroad car speeding through the Wisconsin night is the setting for a violent story of obsessive jealousy, murder, and suicide punctuated by the camaraderie of a friendly card game exploding into a moment of menace."
Title: Prelude and Liebestod in - Andre's Mother and Other Short Plays / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ five characters three male; two female one act
'Orchestra conductor recalls sexual experiences with man and woman.' Title: Prelude and Liebestod in - The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ five characters three male; two female one act
'Orchestra conductor recalls sexual experiences with man and woman.'
Title: Price of Coal, The in - Nine Modern Plays / COL Author: Brighouse, Harold Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1926
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female one act
'An accurate and sympathetic observation of character, convincing realism and tense drama woven from the everyday lives of 'commonplace' people.'
Title: Prim and Duck, Mama and Frank in - Endangered Species / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1988
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female four parts
A mother, her two adult children and a mysterious uncle struggle with questions of self-identity, social acceptance and perceptions of reality. Title: Princess of the Snows, The in - One-Act Plays From Canadian History / CCO Author: Hooke, Hilda Mary Publisher: Longmans Canada 1962
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical five characters three male; two female one act
"Some of Talbot's biographers attribute his abrupt withdrawal from the Army and subsequent settlement in Canada to a love affair with the Princess Amelia. Whether or not this was so, there was undoubtedly a friendship between the young Talbot and the little princess, and it is known that he was often received at Buckingham House, having served in Quebec with the Duke of Kent and in Flanders with the ill-fated army headed by the Duke of York."
Title: Prisoners Song, The in - The Tears of My Sister, The Prisoner's Song, The One-armed Man and... / COL Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1993
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
In THE PRISONER'S SONG, Mae tries to boost the confidence of her out-of-work husband, John, while he waits for the "right" job. Finally admitting he can't support them, he realizes he must take what is offered from an old friend of Mae's family, whose grief over the death of his daughter masks his own understanding of the hardships around him.
Title: Private Life of the Master Race, The in - A Treasury of the Theatre Volume 2 / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Eric Russell Bentley Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1963
Description:
roy drama four characters; extras, chorus one male; one female; one boy; one voice three parts
A documentary presentation of German life under National Socialism. Title: Privilege in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Hodgson, Corrina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LBGTQ+ four characters one male; three female (doubling) fourteen scenes
"Hodgson revisits the 'coming-out' story of the 'disturbed' adolescent school girl by having her protagonist Ginny expose the prejudices which still surface when girls are discovered engaging in same-sex acts. Riffing on the ongoing denial of the existence of female-female sexual desire, Hodgson uses Ginny's situation to interrogate the stereotypical reactions to sexual activities that fall outside heteronormativity. However, she also makes it clear that Ginny's hallucinatory reactions are aimed at breaking down any kind of restrictive labelling that would explain away
Title: Problem Child in - Suburban Motel / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1997
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female seven scenes
Part of 'Suburban Motel'. A couple endeavors to get their baby back from the social welfare agency.
Dora Award Winner 1998
Title: Problem Child in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fourth Edition / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 2001
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female seven scenes
Part of 'Suburban Motel'. A couple endeavors to get their baby back from the social welfare agency.
Dora Award Winner 1998. Title: Problem Child in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female seven scenes
Part of 'Suburban Motel'. A couple endeavors to get their baby back from the social welfare agency.
Dora Award Winner 1998.
Title: Props in - The Best American Short Plays - 2005-2006 / COL Author: Roderick, Michael Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama - love - relationships five characters one male; four female one act
The plot begins after a brutal breakup that forces a properties artist to dive desperately into his work. His friends begin to worry as he becomes more and more obsessed with his newest project: a woman. When the prop he's working on comes to life, he is forced to make some painful decisions about love and relationships before everything starts burning up around him.
Title: Protest in - Short Plays for Reading and Acting / COL Author: Williams, Norman Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1970
Description:
roy drama - Japanese four characters one male; three female one act
1 interior
"Elderly Japanese woman kills herself in protest against her granddaughter's disbelief in traditional way of life. Set in Japan in 1900." Title: Protest in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Williams, Norman Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975
Description:
roy drama - Japanese four characters one male; three female one act
1 interior.
"Elderly Japanese woman kills herself in protest against her granddaughter's disbelief in traditional way of life. Set in Japan in 1900."
Title: Provincetown Playhouse, July 1919 in - Quebec Voices / CCO Author: Chaurette, Normand translated by William Boulet Publisher: Coach House Press 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - Quebec - drama - mental institution - mental illness all male cast; four characters four male (doubling possible) nineteen scenes (one act)
'Play within a play. 38-year-old actor confined to mental institution forces himself to confront truth concerning his role in murder of child onstage 19 years earlier.'
Title: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung in - Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung / COL Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1969
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
'Three alternating monologues delivered on deck of ocean liner; Mao quotes himself, one woman recites a poem, and a minister listens to another woman talk about her family.' Title: Rappaccini's Daughter in - Latin American Plays / COL Author: Paz, Octavio translated by Sebastian Doggart Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1996
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female one act (prologue; 9 scenes; epilogue)
1 setting; translated by Sebastian Doggart.
Poetic drama about love, death, and loss of innocence based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story.
Title: Reading Hebron in - Modern Jewish Plays / CCO Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Jewish - historical five characters three male; two female one act
A Toronto Jew named Nathan Abramowitz investigates the Hebron Massacre - in which a Jewish settler murdered 29 Muslims at prayer - as a way of questioning his own responsibility for the oppression of Palestinians.
Title: Reading List in - The Best of American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL Author: Miller, Susan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama seven characters three male; three female (doubling) one act
In face of paranoid attacks on intellectual freedoms, a librarian aids patrons hunting for their existential truths. Music. Title: Red Address, The in - Polish Joke and Other Plays / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Grove Press 2004
Description:
roy drama - business - murder - sex - American nine characters four male; two female one act (eight scenes)
In a radical departure from comedy, David Ives writes a searing, disturbing drama about a middle-American businessman whose company and whose very life and sanity stand under attack. E. G. Triplett leads an outwardly respectable, all-American-male existence until a mysterious business rival, Driver, comes to town and threatens not only to take over E.G.'s business, but to reveal his sexual secret: that in the privacy of his own home, with the aid of his loving wife, Lady, E.G. dresses in women's clothing. When Lady is brutally murdered, E. G.'s world collapses and he
Title: Request, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL Author: Delaney, Vincent Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012
Description:
roy romance - drama five characters; voices four male; one female one act
Revolves around contemporary technology. In this case, technology creates a completely unexpected by-product in the virtual realm of Facebook and 'internet immortality'. Plays on the hauntings of past loves and lovers that we all experience in our lives, this time with a uniquely contemporary, sadly modern twist.
Title: Respectful Prostitute, The in - No Exit and Three Other Plays / COL Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul Publisher: Random House 1955
Description:
roy drama six characters; extras five male; one female one act
"Woman's unsuccessful attempt to prevent a southern lynching". Title: Revolt of the Giant Animals, The in - Bertha and Other Plays / COL Author: Koch, Kenneth Publisher: Grove Press 1966
Description:
roy sketch; animals six characters flexible casting sketch
Giant Animals revolt against Yellowmay.
Title: Revolutions in - Willie and the Watchers and Revolutions / CCO Author: Theissen, Cherie Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1978
Description:
roy social issues four characters flexible casting one act
'While watching clouds pass overhead, four physically handicapped people find the courage to discuss their social alienation.'
Title: Riders to the Sea in - Three Irish Plays / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: International Pocket Library Corporation 1936
Description:
roy drama four characters; extras one male; three female one act
"Tragedy. Relentless malignity of the sea toward Irish fisherfolk and the relief which comes when it can do no more harm." Title: Riders to the Sea in - The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: George Allen and Unwin 1962
Description:
roy drama four characters; extras one male; three female one act
"Tragedy. Relentless malignity of the sea toward Irish fisherfolk and the relief which comes when it can do no more harm."
Title: Riders to the Sea in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy drama four characters; extras one male; three female one act
"Tragedy. Relentless malignity of the sea toward Irish fisherfolk and the relief which comes when it can do no more harm."
Title: Riders to the Sea in - Plays / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 1970
Description:
roy drama four characters; extras one male; three female one act
"Tragedy. Relentless malignity of the sea toward Irish fisherfolk and the relief which comes when it can do no more harm." Title: Riders to the Sea in - Plays, Poems and Prose / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Dent 1958
Description:
roy drama four characters; extras one male; three female one act
"Tragedy. Relentless malignity of the sea toward Irish fisherfolk and the relief which comes when it can do no more harm."
Title: Riders to the Sea in - The Mentor Book of Short Plays / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: New American Library 1969
Description:
roy drama four characters; extras one male; three female one act
"Tragedy. Relentless malignity of the sea toward Irish fisherfolk and the relief which comes when it can do no more harm."
Title: Riders to the Sea in - Nine Modern Plays / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1926
Description:
roy drama four characters; extras one male; three female one act
"Tragedy. Relentless malignity of the sea toward Irish fisherfolk and the relief which comes when it can do no more harm." Title: Riders to the Sea in - Four Plays and The Aran Islands / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Oxford University Press 1962
Description:
roy drama four characters; extras one male; three female one act
"Tragedy. Relentless malignity of the sea toward Irish fisherfolk and the relief which comes when it can do no more harm."
Title: Riders to the Sea in - 15 International One-Act Plays / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy drama - tragedy⌦four characters; extras one male; three female one act
"Relentless malignity of the sea toward Irish fisherfolk and the relief which comes when it can do no more harm."
Title: Rising of the Moon, The in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Gregory, Lady Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
nonroy drama - Irish all female cast; four characters four male four acts
singing.
"Escaping Irish Nationalist, disguised as ballad-singer, convinces sympathetic policeman to abet his escape." Title: Rising of the Moon, The in - Short Plays for Reading and Acting / COL Author: Gregory, Lady Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1970
Description:
nonroy drama - Irish all male cast; four characters four male one act
singing.
"Escaping Irish Nationalist, disguised as ballad-singer, convinces sympathetic policeman to abet his escape."
Title: Rising of the Moon, The in - The Mentor Book of Short Plays / COL Author: Gregory, Lady Publisher: New American Library 1969
Description:
nonroy drama - Irish all male cast; four characters four male one act
singing.
"Escaping Irish Nationalist, disguised as ballad-singer, convinces sympathetic policeman to abet his escape."
Title: Risk Everything in - Suburban Hotel / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1997
Description:
roy drama - crime four characters two male; two female four scenes
An older woman and her daughter in a battle of wills over getting out of crime. Title: River, The in - Friday Night / COL Author: Elward, James Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1969
Description:
roy drama five characters; extra two male; three female one act
"Two unmarried ladies meet in a cafe to lament the fact that one of them just reached the dangerous age of 30 - which the other (a far more philosophic sort) has long since sailed safely past. Brooding on the finality of it all, and the broken romances which have embittered them, the two find their attention drawn to the couple at the next table - a sweet young thing in her 20's and the older man with whom she is obviously having an affair. They don't mean to eavesdrop, but it is as if they were seeing themselves just a few years earlier, and their knowledge of what the
Title: Rivers Under the Earth in - American Theatre (Mar 97) / PER Author: Wilder, Thornton Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997
Description:
roy drama - family drama four characters two male; two female one act
'Family drama about relationship between father and daughter.'
Title: Road to Ruin, The in - In Character / CCO Author: Dresser, Richard Publisher: Nelson Canada 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - mystery five characters three male; one female one act
"In a mystery drama, the setting - and the staging - are everything. Unusual of bizarre-looking scenery, eerie music, and dim lighting are some of the elements used to create a mood of menace and mystery. As the curtain opens on 'The Road to Ruin,' the darkness and the sound of a rainstorm, followed by lights-up on a run-down gas station, are all calculated to give us, the audience, a sense of foreboding." Title: Road to Ruin, The in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Dresser, Richard Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy Canadian - mystery five characters three male; one female one act
'Pair of stranded motorists are trapped into indentured servitude by garage owner.'
Title: Rock, Paper, Jacknife... in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Perreault, Marilyn translated by Nadine Desrochers Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - teens - immigration - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian five characters two male; three female one act (thirteen parts)
Original title: Roche, papier, cousteau.
The teens of the play take us into the experience of forced emigration when the country of their origin has exploded in violence, their parents are dead, their crossing was unbelievably difficult, and they find themselves in exile in a new country where they do not know the language, they are without means, and the reception in the community is one of distaste and distrust. Along with
Title: Rocks in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993
Description:
roy music four characters two male; two female one act
Description not available. Title: Room, The in - Complete Works: One / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press 1960
Description:
roy drama - mystery six characters four male: two female one act
'Security of room for old woman living in dilapidated rooming house is threatened by a couple seeking the room and by sudden arrival of blind Negro with message for her.'
Title: Room, The in - The Room and The Dumb Waiter / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Methuen 1960
Description:
roy drama - mystery six characters four male: two female one act
'Security of room for old woman living in dilapidated rooming house is threatened by a couple seeking the room and by sudden arrival of blind Negro with message for her.'
Title: Room, The in - Celebration and The Room / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press 1999
Description:
roy drama - mystery six characters four male: two female one act
'Security of room for old woman living in dilapidated rooming house is threatened by a couple seeking the room and by sudden arrival of blind Negro with message for her.' Title: Room, The in - The Birthday Party and The Room / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press 1960
Description:
roy drama - mystery six characters four male: two female one act
'Security of room for old woman living in dilapidated rooming house is threatened by a couple seeking the room and by sudden arrival of blind Negro with message for her.'
Title: Room, The in - Plays: One / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Methuen 1960
Description:
roy drama - mystery six characters four male: two female one act
'Security of room for old woman living in dilapidated rooming house is threatened by a couple seeking the room and by sudden arrival of blind Negro with message for her.'
Title: Rope, The in - The Long Voyage Home / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Modern Library 1946
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
Description not available. Title: Rope, The in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 1, The / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1955
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
Description not available.
Title: Rope, The in - Seven Plays of the Sea / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Vintage Books 1972
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
Description not available.
Title: Running: Our Lives and Struggle on Stage in - Canadian Theatre Review - No. 99, Summer 1999 / PER Author: Heather, Jane Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999
Description:
roy drama - historical eight characters two male; four female (doubling) one act
Commissioned by CUPE Locals 30 and 474, Edmonton, Alberta, August, 1995.
'In 1995 two Edmonton locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) launched an ambitious project of cross-cultural work and popular theatre aimed at representing the effects of Alberta's politics of privatization and contracting out on our members lives.' Title: Sacred Dance of Yellow Thunder, The in - The Best Short Plays 1985 / COL Author: Ensana, Joel Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1985
Description:
roy drama - racism - prejudice five characters four male; one female one act
'Drama about racial prejudice based on actual conflict in Gordon, Nebraska, American Legion Hall between veteran members and native American Indians.'
Title: Sailor's Song in - Dirty Story and Other Plays / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2007
Description:
roy American drama - relationships six characters three male; three female one act
90 minutes.
"An extravagant romantic seaside story decorated with dance. In the tradition of Gene Kelly and Eugene O’Neil, who should have worked together but never did, this stylistically daring love story gives us a cynical man and a true believer who battle over beautiful women and the power of love."
Title: Salome's Clothes in - Performing Back: Post-Colonial Canadian Plays / CCO Author: St. Bernard, Donna-Michelle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015
Description:
roy tragedy - African four characters one male; three female one act (seventeen scenes)
Inspired by events unfolding in Cote d’Ivoire, "Salome’s Clothes" symbolically illuminates the potential cost of our globalized demand for short-term material comfort. Are we selling our future for worthless trinkets? Title: Salon Automaton, The in - Once More, With Feeling / CCO Author: Claude, Nathalie King, Moynan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - fantasy - burlesque four characters flexible cast one act (eleven scenes)
translated by Nathalie Claude in close collaboration with Moynan King.
Welcome to "The Salon Automaton"… a literary salon, a burlesque confrontation, an infernal 'huis-clos' between a sublime hostess and her three distinguished guests: The Dandy Poet, The Cabaret Artist and The Drinking Patroness. Three authentic human size automatons, fill an ultra modern solitude with their conversation, talent and wit.
Title: Salvador Dali's Unspeakably Comic History of the Twentieth Century in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Millan, Jim Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
A brief visit with Salvador Dali and his world.
Title: Sand in - The New Underground Theatre / COL Author: Mednick, Murray Publisher: Bantam Books 1968
Description:
roy drama - family relations five characters four male; one female one act
1 set.
"A ferocious fantasy of Mom, Dad and their man-eating, war-breeding System". Title: Sandbox, The in - The Sandbox and The Death of Jessie Smith / COL Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1960
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
suggested for high school.
"A man in a spotlight, and in swimming trunks, is doing his daily dozen silently. A couple appear and the woman orders a clarinetist out onto the stage and commands him to play. The couple exit, return carrying the woman's eighty-six year old mother, and dump her in a sandbox. Grandma begins to weave her own rather dismayed history between the cool, indifferent patter of
Title: Sandbox, The in - The Zoo Story and The Sandbox / COL Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1960
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
suggested for high school.
"A man in a spotlight, and in swimming trunks, is doing his daily dozen silently. A couple appear and the woman orders a clarinetist out onto the stage and commands him to play. The couple exit, return carrying the woman's eighty-six year old mother, and dump her in a sandbox. Grandma begins to weave her own rather dismayed history between the cool, indifferent patter of
Title: Sandbox, The in - Today's Drama / YCL Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: McClelland and Stewart 1964
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
suggested for high school.
"A man in a spotlight, and in swimming trunks, is doing his daily dozen silently. A couple appear and the woman orders a clarinetist out onto the stage and commands him to play. The couple exit, return carrying the woman's eighty-six year old mother, and dump her in a sandbox. Grandma begins to weave her own rather dismayed history between the cool, indifferent patter of Title: Sans-culottes in the Promised Land in - Humana Festival 2004 / COL Author: Greenidge, Kirsten Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005
Description:
roy drama - family relationships six characters two male; three female; one girl one act
A commentary on the nature of the family, specifically the African-American family in the white dominated world. Greg is an out of work Architect with a penchant for lechery and Carol is a lawyer about to hit the glass ceiling at her firm. Their daughter Greta just wants some attention and to fit in at school. As their nanny Lena attempts to explain her illiteracy to Carol, and Greta’s teacher Charlotte attempts to expose her to her heritage, the world that they live in begins to fall apart. Trees start growing in their house (literally) and their laundry room becomes possessed.
Title: Savage in Limbo in - 13 by Shanley / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female one act
1 interior.
"Drama set in seedy Bronx bar. Exploration of hopes and dreams of group of rootless young 'losers'. "
Title: Scenes from a Marriage in - Ingmar Bergman: A Project for the Theatre / COL Author: Bergman, Ingmar Publisher: Continuum Publishing Company 1994
Description:
roy drama - women six characters two male; two female; two girls one act
'A taut, reworked version of Bergman's successful film that illuminates the earlier classics in (the collection).' Title: Search for a Friend in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 73, Winter 1992 / PER Author: Tunooniq Theatre Publisher: Miscellaneous 1992
Description:
roy script outline - Canadian - Inuit - drama - Native peoples all male cast; six characters six male one act
'Tunooniq's script outline for a play concerning ways of dealing with and overcoming substance abuse individually and as a community.'
Title: Second Shepards' Play, The in - Plays for the Theatre (4th ed.) / COL Author: Anonymous Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1984
Description:
roy English - medieval play five characters four male; one female one act
The story of Abraham and Isaac, set forth in Genesis 22.
Title: Secrets in - Not So Dumb / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - youth - relationships - social issues four characters two male; two female one act
"Lazarus' newest play initiates his characters, now teenagers, into the mysteries of trust, love, and sex." Title: Seduced in - Fool for Love and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Bantam Books 1984
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set; background music.
"Parody of American dream with wealthy, aging recluse trapped by his own delusions".
Title: Seduced in - Fool for Love and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Dial Press 2006
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set; background music.
"Parody of American dream with wealthy, aging recluse trapped by his own delusions".
Title: Seven Against Thebes in - Prometheus Bound and Other Plays / COL Author: Aeschylus translated by Phillip Vellacott Publisher: Penguin Books 1961
Description:
roy Greek tragedy four characters; speaking chorus; extras two male; two female one act
1 exteriors.
Battle between sons of Oedipus for sovereignty of Thebes. Title: Seven Against Thebes in - Aeschylus II / COL Author: Aeschylus translated by David Grene Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1991
Description:
roy Greek tragedy four characters; speaking chorus; extras two male; two female one act
1 exteriors.
Battle between sons of Oedipus for sovereignty of Thebes.
Title: Sextet (Yes) in - The Sand Castle and Three Other Plays / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970
Description:
roy drama - life six characters three male; three female one act
open stage.
"Written in a striking, contrapuntal form, this imaginative and haunting short play is compromised of the thoughts and recollections of six characters, who sit at random, answering each other's revelations with a quiet 'yes'. Out of the pattern of their memories, the interviewing of their destinies, emerges a sense of their frailty, and humanity, and the disquieting vulnerability of life
Title: Shakes versus Shav in - The Portable Bernard Shaw / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1977
Description:
roy drama - puppet play in verse six characters five male; one female one scene
has been performed with actors playing the parts written for the puppets; running time: 20 min.
Shaw's last play to be performed in his lifetime was requested from him by the puppeteer Waldo Lanchester. "Shakespeare challenges Shaw as an upstart, quoting lines from his own plays. Shaw claims that Macbeth has been bettered by Scott's novel Rob Roy, and "proves" the point by staging a fight between the shades of the two Scots, which Rob Roy wins. Shaw then asserts that Adam Title: Shards in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO Author: Roy, Emmanuelle translated by Don Druick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - women six characters one male; five female one act
running time: 1 hour 30 min.
The play is set in a decrepit bar somewhere on the edge of a northern reserve. It’s summer and it’s hot. Time seems to have stopped for the four characters who are bound together by the painful memories they share. Memories haunt them and the place, Nothing seems to have budged in this bar for years. There is no music, no customers. There are only these people frozen in their
Title: Shari Says in - Under 30 / YCL Author: Fols, Craig Publisher: Vintage Books 2004
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female thirteen scenes
No further description available.
Title: Shining City in - Plays: Three - Conor McPherson / COL Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2013
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female one act (five scenes)
Ian has left the priesthood and is starting a new career as a therapist in Dublin. John is one of his first clients. John’s wife, Mari, has been killed in a horrible car accident, and he keeps receiving visits from her ghost. John, with Ian’s help, starts to recover. Meanwhile Ian is struggling with a dilemma of his own: his estranged fiancée, Neasa, with whom he has a baby, wants him to come home; but Ian isn't yet ready – or able – to commit to married life. Title: Shoes in - Contributions / COL Author: Shine, Ted Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970
Description:
roy drama - racism - discrimination all male cast; five characters five male one act
1 interior.
Three black boys have flamboyant plans for spending the money they have earned during summer employment at a Texas country club.
Title: Shoeshine in - Short Plays and Monologues / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1981
Description:
roy drama all male cast; six characters six male one act
"Discussions between two black men operating shoeshine business and four of their customers."
Title: Shopping and F***ing in - Plays: 1 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Publisher: Methuen Drama 2001
Description:
roy drama - violence - relationships - British five characters one male; four female one act
"... a blackly humorous play for today's twentysomethings..." - Evening Standard
"...plunges you into a world of disposibility, disconnection and dysfunction, where relationships to be trusted have to be reduced to transactions..." - The Independent Title: Sicilian Limes in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama - Italy - relationships five characters; extras two male; three female one act
1 interior.
Man who has sacrificed all for famous singer's voice training and visits her during party is slighted. Piccolo.
Title: Simple Kind of Love Story, A in - The Pushcart Peddlars, The Flatulist & Other Plays / COL Author: Schisgal, Murray Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
"'A Simple Kind of Love Story' is a brilliantly inventive riches-to-rags saga in which a young writer is overwhelmed with flattery, gifts and promises of fortune by a high pressure agent and then, just as quickly, reduced to quivering uncertainty and suicide when it appears that his creative juices have run dry."
Title: Singapore Spider, The in - Miniature Plays for Stage and Study / COL Author: Finnegan, Edward Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1958
Description:
nonroy thriller five characters three male; two female one act
'Description not available.' Title: Skull in Connemara, A in - The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays / COL Author: McDonagh, Martin Publisher: Vintage Books 1998
Description:
roy drama - Irish four characters three male; one female one act
Mick Dowd is hired to dig up te bones in the town churchyard, some of which belong to his late and oddly unlamented wife.
Title: Sleep of Prisoners, A in - Three Plays: Christpher Fry / COL Author: Fry, Christopher Publisher: Oxford University Press 1960
Description:
roy verse play - mystery all male cast; four characters four male one act
1 interior set.
"Modern mystery play in verse. Four men, in series of dreams wrapped in Biblical lore review man's struggle against outer and inner conflicts."
Title: Small Domestic Acts in - Amazon All Stars / COL Author: Lipkin, Joan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy lesbian - drama - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; two female one act
''Small Domestic Acts' focuses on the friendship between two couples, one heterosexual and one lesbian, the difficulties in each relationship, and the ensuing romance between the straight woman and the femme lesbian.' Title: Small Room at the Top of the Stairs, The in - Small Room at the Top of the Stairs; and, Thinking of Yu / CCO Author: Frechette, Carole translated by John Murrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2012
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - relationships five characters one male; four female one act
In "The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs" Grace finds herself irresistibly drawn to the mystery of the room her husband has forbidden her to enter. She stumbled into a fairy-tale marriage, complete with her own Prince Charming and resplendent mansion, but it could all come apart if she chooses to defy his wishes. Will she let her curiosity get the best of her and encounter the secret life of the man she loves?
Title: Snails in - The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1991
Description:
roy drama - allegory five characters two male; three female one act
'Naturalist's lecture on insect behavior vehicle for commentary on role of black women in contemporary society.'
Title: Sniffer, The in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Francis, Marvin Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters three male; one female one act
'A dingy alley. It is the 90's. Jake, a businessman, Halley, a preacher, and Delores, an academic come upon Julius, who is sniffing glue out of a plastic bag.' Title: So Shines a Good Deed in - Plays for Great Occasions / COL Author: DuBois, Graham Publisher: Plays, Inc. 1951
Description:
nonroy Memorial Day six characters three male; three female one act
1 interior set.
"U.S. Civil War. Kindness to an enemy".
Title: Social Success, A in - The Modern Theatre Volume 6 / COL Author: Beerbohm, Max Publisher: Doubleday 1960
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female one act
Drama unfolds at a poker game.
Title: Some Are So Lucky in - Three Women / CCO Author: Garner, Hugh Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1974
Description:
roy drama - romance - relationships six characters; extras four male; two female one act
1 interior; 1 exterior.
"Accidental meeting of bachelor and the woman whom he had a youthful crush on, turns out to be disillusioning, but quite salutary for the man, after he invites her to have a drink in a bar." Title: Some Are So Lucky in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Garner, Hugh Publisher: Bastet Books 1973
Description:
roy drama - romance - relationships - Canadian six characters; extras four male; two female one act
1 interior; 1 exterior.
"Accidental meeting of bachelor and the woman whom he had a youthful crush on, turns out to be disillusioning, but quite salutary for the man, after he invites her to have a drink in a bar."
Title: Some Explicit Polaroids in - Plays: 1 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Publisher: Methuen Drama 2001
Description:
roy drama - British - love - AIDS six characters four male; two female one act
After 15 years inside, political activist Nick emerges to find that the old causes of the 80s have become the lost causes of the 90s. As he struggles to get to grips with this new world, he collides with the new generation. Bonded by a love of pills, parties and therapy-speak, Nadia, Tim and Victor take Nick on a search for the happy-ever-after. Sharp, satirical and pulsating with energy, "Some Explicit Polaroids" weaves an engaging urban fairytale for today. In an age where political change seems a distant memory, Ravenhill asks ‘how did we get from there to here?’ and ‘where
Title: Some People in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Kitcher, Bill Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary fantasy three characters; voice overs two male; two female one act
Two cats and a dog deal with the realities of the pound. Title: Somebody Somebody's Returning in - Testifyin: Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Ward, Frederick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy tragicomedy four characters one male; three female thirteen scenes
2 interiors.
Tragicomedy about black Canadians. Depicts familial tension, disrupted relationships, fratricide, and love betrayed.
Title: Someday in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations - Native peoples four characters one male; three female one scene
"Anne Wabung's daughter was taken away by children's aid workers when the girl was only a toddler. It is Christmas-time 35 years later, and Anne's yearning to see her now-grown daughter. When the family is finally reunited, however, the dreams of neither woman are fulfilled. The setting for the play is a fictional Ojibway community, but could be any reserve in Canada, where thousands of Native children were removed from their families in what is known among Native people as the "scoop-up" of the 1950s and 1960s. 'Someday' is an entertaining, humorous, and
Title: Someplace Warm in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 26th Series / COL Author: Macklin, Peter Publisher: Samuel French 2002
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
A rape survivor who finds she is pregnant must decide if she wants to raise the child with help from her best friends, a gay couple who long for a child of their own. Title: Something I'll Tell You Tuesday in - Something I'll Tell You Tuesday and The Loveliest Afternoon of ... / COL Author: Guare, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967
Description:
roy drama - relationships five characters two male; three female one act
'Story of two couples, one old, one young, each at a point of crises in their lives.'
Title: Son of America, A in - Plays for Great Occasions / COL Author: DuBois, Graham Publisher: Plays, Inc. 1951
Description:
nonroy Armistice Day - American drama six characters one male; four female one act
1 interior set.
"Unknown soldier".
Title: Song of a Goat in - Plays from Black Africa / COL Author: Clark, John Pepper Publisher: Hill and Wang 1968
Description:
roy drama - relationships - Africa six characters; extras three male; two female; one boy four scenes
Tribal family life in which man is dishonored by his wife and younger brother, because wife wants wants children and husband is sterile. Title: Song of Extinction in - Dramatics Vol. 81, No 5 / PER Author: Lewis, E M Publisher: Dramatics
Description:
roy drama - science - family relations - environment - music six characters five male; one female twenty-six scenes
Max, a musically gifted high school student, is falling off the edge of the world — and his biology teacher is the only one who's noticed. A play about the science of life and loss, the relationships between fathers and sons, Cambodian fields, Bolivian rainforests and redemption.
Winner! 2009 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award. Winner! 2008 Ted Schmitt Award for the world premiere of an Outstanding New Play (LA Drama Critics Circle). Winner! 2008
Title: Spring Dance in - The Roads to Home / COL Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1982
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
unit set.
The continuation of 'The Dearest of Friends'.
"Several years have passed, and Annie is now confined to a sanatorium. She and her fellow patients are scrupulously polite and considerate of each other and, obviously, totally divorced
Title: St. Matilde's Malady in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL Author: Schmidt, Kyle John Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012
Description:
roy drama - relationships six characters two male; four female one act
Set in a pre-industrial brothel and speaks to the continuum of love. Title: Stairwell, the in - Cinzano / COL Author: Petrushevskaya, Ludmila translated by Stephen Mulrine Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1991
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
Two friends try to get acquainted with a young woman in the stairwell outside her apartment door.
Title: Still Stands the House in - Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Methuen 1973
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act
'Set in rural Canada. Woman is so obsessed with keeping her childhood home intact, she knowingly sends her brother and his wife to their deaths in a blizzard.'
Title: Still Stands the House in - The Prairie Experience / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: MacMillan 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act
'Set in rural Canada. Woman is so obsessed with keeping her childhood home intact, she knowingly sends her brother and his wife to their deaths in a blizzard.' Title: Still Stands The House in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act
1 set.
'Set in rural Canada. Woman is so obsessed with keeping her childhood home intact, she knowingly sends her brother and his wife to their deaths in a blizzard.'
Title: Stone Girls Dreaming in - Dramatics, vol. 82 , no. 3 / PER Author: Railsback, Lisa Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama-war six characters four female; two male; extras one-act
Based on a true story, “Stone Girls Dreaming” takes place over three days in March 2002 in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although war is an element of this play, its real focus is on humanity and hope as it examines the cultural pressures placed on two young girls.
Title: Stone Guest, The in - Boris Godunov: The little tragedies / COL Author: Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich Publisher: Oberon Books 2002
Description:
roy drama - tragedy six characters; extras four male; two female one act (four scenes)
Verse drama about Don Juan's return from exile. Title: Stones and Bones in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: McClinton, Marion Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy relationships - drama four characters two male; two female one act
Two African American couples struggle to relate.
Title: Stop! in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Lewis, Donna Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary drama four characters flexible casting one act
A meditator has trouble controlling his thoughts.
Title: Straight Stitching in - New Canadian Drama 5 / CCO Author: Barrie, Shirley Publisher: Borealis Press 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - women all female cast; five characters five female one act
Immigrant women working in the garment industry juggle the demands of children, husband, relatives and a new and bewildering society as they work for a better future. Title: Strains of Triumph, The in - Summer Brave and Eleven Short Plays / COL Author: Inge, William Publisher: Random House 1962
Description:
roy drama - romance six characters five male; one female one act
'During college athletic meet, student learns that another has won the girl he loves.'
Title: Stranger's House in - German Plays / COL Author: Loher, Dea translated by David Tushingham Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1997
Description:
roy drama - Germany - relationships six characters three male; three female one act (18 scenes; prologue; epilogue)
Yanne Sokolov immigrates from Macedonia in his twenties. Impending war and economical crisis have made him move to Germany, where he asks Hristo for shelter. Hristo is an old friend of the family, a dissident communist who himself escaped from former Yugoslavia twenty years ago. But Yanne is greeted with mistrust because his presence leads to disturbances in Hristo’s family. Hristo’s daughter Agnes feels attracted to Yanne, which provokes her husband’s jealousy. Catastrophe follows: Terese, Hristo’s wife, commits suicide. Hristo is forced to accept his
Title: Strangest Kind of Romance, The in - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1953
Description:
roy drama four characters; extras three male; one female one act
1 interior
"In a rooming house, the landlady throws out to starve the pet cat of poor man who had been away because of illness." Title: Strawberry Preserves in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 13th series / COL Author: Wilhelm, Le Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters three male; one female one act
Lyman, Badge and Trevor, partners in a successful landscaping company, are having a few beers on a rainy day, served by a laconic waitress named Molly, who is engaged to be married for the fifth time and has heard, and seen, it all. Lyman, the brains of the operation, has unwelcome news for his two buddies: He is quitting. Badge and Trevor are at a loss to understand Lyman's decision, which has a lot to do with a man who is asking himself the Big Questions and a little to do with strawberry preserves.
Title: Stroke Static in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO Author: Price, Lindsay Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - mental illness ten characters two male; three female (doubling) one act
Suffering from dementia, Russ is taken from the present to the past and back again in a split second. A sobering look at the loss of control that accompanies this disease from the inside.
Title: Strong Man's Weak Child in - New England Blue / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy drama - death four characters three male; one girl one act
Father and stepfather, both weight lifters, struggle to come to terms with daughter's terminal illness. Title: Subterranean Homesick Blues Again in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Reardon, Dennis Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
'Tour guide in underground cavern takes tourists prisoners.'
Title: Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda's in - The Best of American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL Author: El Guindi, Yussef Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama - Islam - women five characters; extras three male; two female one act
Dramatization of a short story by Salwa Bakr. Drama set in an Islamic society where a woman singing can bring dishonor to family and herself.
Title: Summer in Gossensass, The in - What of the Night? / COL Author: Fornes, Maria Irene Publisher: PAJ Publications 2008
Description:
roy drama - feminism - theatre - historical - women five characters two male; three female one act (ten scenes)
" 'The Summer in Gossensass' follows two American actresses as they travel to London to perform the controversial play 'Hedda Gabler'." - Move Magazine Title: Sunday in Sodom in - Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom / CCO Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2017
Description:
roy drama - historical - biblical - mythological - Canadian playwright six characters four male; two female one act
Sunday in Sodom: In the Bible, she goes unnamed, known only as Lot's Wife: the impertinent woman who was turned to a pillar of salt for looking back to behold God's destruction of her hometown. In Sunday in Sodom, Edith recounts how her husband Lot welcomed two visitors into their house and the destruction that followed.
Title: Sunstroke in - Passing Through From Exotic Places / COL Author: Ribman, Ronald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
'Idealistic Peace Corps volunteer inherits plantation system established by previous volunteers on Pacific Island.'
Title: Supernova in Hamlet in - The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Presents / COL Author: Leach, Kristina Publisher: Back Stage Books 2006
Description:
roy drama - romance - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
"A play about two couples on the verge of change. Emily and Derek have been together a long time. Derek is happy with the status quo. Emily wants more. Lynn and Will are knee deep in an affair. Will can't leave his current situation and Lynn will not be a fling any longer. Both couples are going to learn more than they expected about each other in this short piece about love, sex and astronomy." Title: Swamp Dwellers, The in - Wole Soyinka: Collected Plays 1 / COL Author: Soyinka, Wole Publisher: Oxford University Press 1973
Description:
roy drama six characters; extras five male; one female one act
"The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the spiritual and the social, with belief and ritual as integrating forces for social cohesion."
Title: Symphony of Rats in - Unbalancing Acts / COL Author: Foreman, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1992
Description:
roy experimental theatre six characters five male; one female one act
'Experimental theatre piece about political power and human imperfection.'
Title: Taking Liberties in - Taking Liberties and Into / CCO Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female one act
Taking liberties examines five critical moments in the life of a city, when ordinary citizens are forced to make extraordinary choices. The play moves back through five decades, showing how the morals of one era can impact on the events of another. Title: Tales From the Hospital in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Schmidt, Trevor Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Alberta - Canadian - Alberta playwright - historical all female cast; four characters four female one act
'The production of Trevor Schmidt's "Tales From the Hospital" in May 1998 served as a timely reminder for Edmonton audiences that the painful effects of the Alberta sterilization act that was enforced between 1927 and 1973 could not easily be forgotten.' The play is a tour of a such a hospital where the stories are told as monologues by two patients, a nurse and a laundry woman, all composites of many real people.
Title: Tall Tales form the Kentucky Cycle in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL Author: Schenkkan, Robert Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy drama - historical, American six characters three male; three female one act
Taken from the series of short plays entitled 'The Kentucky Cycle.' "Sixth play in cycle is set in 1890, this episode involves mineral rights to Rowen land and dire consequences for the beautiful valley."
Title: Task, The in - Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage / COL Author: Muller, Heiner Publisher: Performing Arts Journal Publications 1984
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female one act
1 set.
"Experimental collage for theatre about the nature of revolution". Title: Tea in - Plays for Actresses / COL Author: Houston, Velina Hasu Publisher: Vintage Books 1997
Description:
roy drama - history - war brides - women all female cast; five characters five female one act
TEA tells the story of five Japanese women, all war brides who emigrated to the United States with the American servicemen husbands. Teruko, Chizue, Setsuko and Atsuko come together at the home of Himiko who has committed suicide. They have volunteered through the local Buddhist chapter to clean up Himiko's house because she lived alone. In the course of the play they prepare and drink tea together and come to know each other and Himiko, who is in the play as a restless spirit. Each of the women reflect and share their traumatic experiences of living in a
Title: Tears of My Sister, The in - The Tears of My Sister, The Prisoner's Song, The One-armed Man and... / COL Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1993
Description:
roy drama - love six characters two male; four female one act
THE TEARS OF MY SISTER follows Cecilia as she watches her sister Bessie try, and fail, to avoid marrying a man she doesn't love. Both young girls come of age in their own way as they learn that life is not always fair.
Title: Teaser's Taxi, The in - Later Encounters / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
composite interior / exterior set.
"Teaser the taxi-driver is a total innocent who dreams of being a pop singer. On this rainy New York City day he picks up a contessa and her cat, a young male hustler and a wandering young woman with a suitcase. Teaser wants to protect them all from the rain, but, in the end, everything backfires on him". Title: Teenage Moms in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: Smillie, Ruth Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations four characters one male; three female one act
"Two teenaged girls are thrust into adulthood when they both become single mothers."
Title: Tennessee in - Six Plays - Romulus Linney / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1993
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; three female; one boy one act
A young couple and their son are visited on their Appalachian mountain farm in North Carolina by an old woman who slips into her youth and acts out her wedding trip to Tennessee and her painful return to the present time and place.
Title: Terminating in - Death & Taxes / COL Author: Kushner, Tony Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000
Description:
roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior.
Inspired by Shakespeare's sonnet 75. Lesbian psychoanalyst has a final session with a gay patient who has fallen in love with her. Title: Terror and Erebus in - Staging the North / CCO Author: MacEwen, Gwendolyn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act
"Terror and Erubus deals with the Franklin expedition of 1845, its fatal conclusion and the reasons for the outcome. Rasmussen's voice frames the story, his search frames Franklin's search, his view frames the Arctic. When Franklin and his second-in-command, Crozier, speak, what they say appears through Rasmussen's consciousness, so that the listener experiences a depth of focus: the immediacy of one man's actual experience, and, simultaneously, the reflective overlay of someone else's mediation."
Title: Thanks in - Da-Show Must Go On / COL Author: Dashow, Ken Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1996
Description:
roy family relations six characters three male; three female one act
"This may be the 'Thanksgiving from Hell', or one where a family may actually be saved. The prodigal son returns to find a hilarious and unhappy group - exactly as he left them. His determination to change things touches them all. Well, maybe one."
Title: That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play in - American Theatre (April 2009) / PER Author: Callaghan, Sheila Publisher: Miscellaneous 2009
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; three female (doubling) one act
An anarchic exploration of the male psyche. Title: This is for You, Anna in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Anna Project, The Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996
Description:
roy drama all female cast; four characters four female one act
"A spectacle of revenge."
Title: This is for You, Anna in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 43, Summer 1985 / PER Author: Anna Project, The Publisher: Miscellaneous 1985
Description:
roy drama all female cast; four characters four female one act
"A spectacle of revenge."
Title: This is How it is in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 22nd series / COL Author: Moses, Bryan Patrick Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy relationships four characters three male; one female one act
'College student tries to impress young lady.' Title: This Is the Rill Speaking in - Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994
Description:
roy drama - life - small town six characters three male; three female one act
"...is a poetic, mosaic-style evocation of small town life told through multiple voices which shift and blend from identity to identity."
Title: Three Actors and Their Drama in - 7 Plays / COL Author: Ghelderode, Michel De translated by George Hauger Publisher: Hill and Wang 1960
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female one act
'Play within a play. Triangle situation among cast of a play is not resolved as playwright had planned.'
Title: Three More Sleepless Nights in - Shorts / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - marital relations four characters two male; two female one act
Three conversations held in the night where we learn about the break up of two relationships and the creation of one. Title: Three Tables in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 26th Series / COL Author: Remmes, Dan Publisher: Samuel French 2002
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships six characters; extra three male; three female one act
Three couples at various stages of their relationships are dining at a restaurant. By the end of the evening, all three relationships have altered.
Title: Through a Glass Onion in - Best Student One Acts Volume 6 / COL Author: Stuart, Jason Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2001
Description:
roy drama - suicide six characters three male; two female; one girl one act
'A portrait of a young man returning to the war zone of his family following his sister's suicide attempt.'
Title: Throwing Your Voice in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Lucas, Craig Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior.
Two New York couples debate morality of owning diamond which may have been mined in South Africa. Title: Thursday Evening in - Fifteen American One Act Plays / COL Author: Morley, Christopher Publisher: Washington Square Press 1961
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female one act
"Mr. Morley opposes the common mother-in-law stereotype with two very likable and charming women. Even more, he makes the young married couple equally responsible in maintaining a happy home. It may seem difficult for the reader to accept a housewife who can afford a cook but who has to keep house with an old-fashioned icebox and an oil stove. When this play was written, however, such conditions were the rule, not the exception. In any case, oil stoves give way to electric ranges and iceboxes are replaced by colorful refrigerators, but young couples still have
Title: Ti Jean Blues in - Humana Festival '98 / COL Author: Akalaitis, JoAnne Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1998
Description:
roy biographical five characters three male; two female one act
1 set
Performance piece adapted from the writings of Jack Kerouac, and loosely following the trajectory of his life.
Title: Tiny Closet, The in - Summer Brave and Eleven Short Plays / COL Author: Inge, William Publisher: Random House 1962
Description:
roy drama four charcters one male; three female one act
'Inquisitive landlady finds women's hats in roomer's locked closet.' Title: Toddy's Taxi in - Later Encounters / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
composite interior/exterior set.
"Toddy likes to listen to 'The Firebird Suite' in his taxi. On this day he picks up a drunken out-of-town businessman accompanied by two 'ladies of the night', who are seeing him off at Kennedy Airport. You meet all kinds driving a tax!"
Title: Tragedy of Tanoo, The in - Plays of the Pacific Coast / CCO Author: Fairbairn, A. M. D. Publisher: Samuel French 1935
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - tragedy - Native peoples five characters three male; two female one act
"A play about the tragedy which almost wiped out the Haida Indian tribe in 1863. Tian, a young Haida girl, is in love with Kungaas, a chief's son, but is also attracted to Skelu. Small-pox which has broken out amongst the Indians. Kungaas is going on a fishing expedition. Tian, afraid, wants to go with him. Kungaas promises to go away with her upon his return. He leaves. Skelu then makes love to Tian. She repulses him. He attempts to assault her. Six weeks later Kungaas returns to find the village a city of the dead. Tian is lying ill...
Title: Trees in - Trees and Leader / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1963
Description:
roy drama - environmental four characters; extras three male; one female one act
open stage.
"Ostensibly concerned with a family innocently debating which tree to chop down for Christmas, the play becomes a parable both of man's mindless destruction of his environment and of his callousness towards other living things as the 'trees' cry out in anguish when the axes strike again and again, severing the tenuous thread, which sustains their lives - and perhaps ours as Title: Trial of a Ladies' Man in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters one male; four female one act
Four women discuss and explore their relationships with the same man.
Title: Trickster Visits the Old Folks Home in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Shorty, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy drama all female cast; four characters four female one act
"Anna, the protagonist, is an aging Tlingit woman who has to make the transition from her traditional way of life in the bush to a senior citizens home, a non-native institution, in Whitehorse."
Title: Trifles
Author: Glaspell, Susan Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1951
Description:
roy melodrama - murder five characters three male; two female; one act
1 interior set.
"Unusually powerful and effective, and gives fine roles for two good actresses".
"The wife of a strangled farmer is arrested on suspicion. While officers and neighbors are searching the old farmhouse for evidence, two women friends discover a slain canary and a Title: Trifles in - Fifteen American One Act Plays / COL Author: Glaspell, Susan Publisher: Washington Square Press 1961
Description:
roy melodrama - murder five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"The wife of a strangled farmer is arrested on suspicion. While officers and neighbors are searching the old farmhouse for evidence, two women friends discover a slain canary and a broken cage. This evidence can prove the wife guilty, but by keeping her secret, they free her."
Title: Trifles in - Short Plays for Reading and Acting / COL Author: Glaspell, Susan Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1970
Description:
roy melodrama - murder five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"The wife of a strangled farmer is arrested on suspicion. While officers and neighbors are searching the old farmhouse for evidence, two women friends discover a slain canary and a broken cage. This evidence can prove the wife guilty, but by keeping her secret, they free her."
Title: Trifles in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL Author: Glaspell, Susan Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
roy melodrama - murder five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior set. "Unusually powerful and effective, and gives fine roles for two good actresses".
"The wife of a strangled farmer is arrested on suspicion. While officers and neighbors are searching the old farmhouse for evidence, two women friends discover a slain canary and a broken cage. This evidence can prove the wife guilty, but by keeping her secret, they free her". Title: Trifles in - An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays / COL Author: Glaspell, Susan Publisher: National Textbook Company 1992
Description:
roy melodrama - murder five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"The wife of a strangled farmer is arrested on suspicion. While officers and neighbors are searching the old farmhouse for evidence, two women friends discover a slain canary and a broken cage. This evidence can prove the wife guilty, but by keeping her secret, they free her."
Title: Trifles in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Glaspell, Susan Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy melodrama - murder five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"The wife of a strangled farmer is arrested on suspicion. While officers and neighbors are searching the old farmhouse for evidence, two women friends discover a slain canary and a broken cage. This evidence can prove the wife guilty, but by keeping her secret, they free her."
Title: Tripper's Taxi in - Later Encounters / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
composite interior/exterior set.
"Tripper is always on drugs. His taxicab is a special world in itself. When a well-to-do older man, his wife and their teenaged daughter start an incestuous affair in the back seat, Tripper needs a fast catalyst-a drug induced suicide". Title: Trojan Women, The in - The Greek Plays / COL Author: Euripides McLaughlin, Ellen Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2005
Description:
roy tragedy - Greek - Euripides - historical six characters; chorus (minimum six women) two male; four female one act
"Inspired by Euripides’ classic anti-war tragedy, THE TROJAN WOMEN, vividly recounts the final moments of Trojan civilization in the aftermath of the city’s sacking by the invading Greeks. Queen Hecuba, the slave-concubine Andromache, and the mythic Helen, meet in the ruins and together find victory in the female spirit amid the horrors visited upon them by both gods and men."
Title: Troubleshooter, The in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Payne, Alicia Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters flexible casting one act
'Old school discipline meets New-Age understanding and a student with capital 'A' attitude. With the help of a guidance counsellor, a principal tries to resolve a conflict between a teacher and a student.'
Title: Twelve-Pound Look, The in - An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays / COL Author: Barrie, James M. Publisher: National Textbook Company 1992
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
On the eve of his knighthood, Harry Simms is full of the great things he considers he has achieved. A typist has been hired to answer the messages of congratulation. She turns out to be his former wife, Kate, who was so oppressed by his hardness and petty-mindedness that she secretly learned to type and left him as soon as she had earned 12 pounds, the price of a typewriter. She is quite contented with her lot, and her fearlessness and humour contrast strongly with the cowed and joyless expression of the second Lady Simms who, when Kate has gone, asks Title: Twelve-Pound Look, The in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Barrie, James M. Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
On the eve of his knighthood, Harry Simms is full of the great things he considers he has achieved. A typist has been hired to answer the messages of congratulation. She turns out to be his former wife, Kate, who was so oppressed by his hardness and petty-mindedness that she secretly learned to type and left him as soon as she had earned 12 pounds, the price of a typewriter. She is quite contented with her lot, and her fearlessness and humour contrast strongly with the cowed and joyless expression of the second Lady Simms who, when Kate has gone, asks
Title: Two Conversations Overheard on Airplanes in - Humana Festival 2013 / COL Author: Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2014
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters three male; one female one act (two scenes)
Witness conversations between strangers on an airplane.
Title: Undercurrent, The in - Fifteen American One Act Plays / COL Author: Ehlert, Fay Publisher: Washington Square Press 1961
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female one act
1 interior set.
The plays "has to do with Annie Fishyer, whose tyrannical father comes near to wrecking her life and happiness. A tense and dramatic story reveals the very human characteristics of Ma and Pa Fishyer, their son and daughter, a meddlesome neighbor, and Miss Page, an investigator for the Morals Court". Title: Unseen Hand, The in - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Random House 1986
Description:
roy drama - futuristic play - men all male cast; five characters five male one act
"Set in surrealistic wasteland of the nightmare future, three former 19th century desperadoes are summoned by single oppressed thought-controlled individual to help fight dehumanized system."
Title: Valiant, The in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Hall, Holworthy Middlemass, Robert Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female one act
1 interior set.
A man to be hanged for murder refuses to reveal his identity. Takes place in the Warden's office in the State's Prison at Wethsfield, Connecticut.
Title: Valiant, The in - Plays to Remember / COL Author: Hall, Holworthy Middlemass, Robert Publisher: MacMillan 1967
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female one act
"If you decided to write a recipe for courage, would you include a few spoonfuls of stubbornness? Most people probably would not, since courage is a good trait where as stubbornness is not. As you read the first few pages of 'The Valiant,' see whether you think Dyke is a courageous man or a stubborn man. When you finish reading the play, try to decide which came first, his courage or his stubbornness. Imaging yourself sitting in a theatre, looking at a stage that has been transformed into the warden's office in a state prison. the opening comments on the weather Title: Victims of Duty in - Eugene Ionesco: Three Plays / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene Translated by Donald Watson Publisher: Grove Press 1958
Description:
roy pseudo-drama six characters four male; two female one act
"The inspector comes to the flat to find out what happened to the previous tenant. Was he killed? The present tenant doesn't know. Being of no help, he is kept silent by stuffing his mouth while the inspector engages a playwright in an argument about the theatre. No one makes more than jibberish out of the subject."
Title: Vint in - Orchards / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 1987
Description:
roy Anton Chekhov dramatization all male cast; six characters six male one act
interior set.
"Dramatization of Chekhov's short story. Offended by discovery of card-playing clerks, official becomes intrigued by their explanation."
Title: Violinist and the Flower Girl, The in - Mousetown / The Violinist and the Flower Girl / CCO Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974
Description:
roy Canadian - melodrama - relationships five characters; extras three male; two female one act; twenty-five scenes
"1920's silent movie with music. Heiress loses fortune, hits the skids, poor violinist saves her from lecherous attacker. They fall in love, get married. But when the violinist falls for a rich enchantress, tragedy ensues." Title: Vise, The in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama - Italy - tragedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior.
Unfaithful wife commits suicide when husband orders her to leave home.
Title: Visiting Oliver in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Eighteenth Series) / COL Author: Nave, Bill Publisher: Samuel French 1994
Description:
roy family relations four characters three male; one female one act
'Woman visits mentally retarded son in institution.'
Title: Wake-up Call in - Dramatics (November 2001) / PER Author: Gregg, Stephen Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001
Description:
roy high school relationships four characters - chorus one male; one female; one boy; one girl one act
Description not available. Title: War Drums of Skedans, The in - Plays of the Pacific Coast / CCO Author: Fairbairn, A. M. D. Publisher: Samuel French 1935
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - men all male cast; four characters four male one act
"At nightfall four men, a Spaniard, an old Haida Indian, his middle-aged son, and his young grandson, are gathered around a fire of drift-logs on a beach fronting a deserted and ruined Indian village on an island off the coast of British Columbia. The old Indian instinctively hates the Spaniard who is the descendant of a Spanish Captain who, one hundred and fifty years previously, had with his crew, despoiled the women of the village during the absence of the men of the tribe."
Title: Warner Bros. in - The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012 / COL Author: Pink, Andrea Sloan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2013
Description:
roy drama - American - short play - film industry - dreams - love four characters two male; two female one act (fourteen scenes)
setting: a summer in the 1980s; the play is part of Sloan's Hollywood Trilogy which includes "Les Hollywood Hills", "Warner Bros.", and "The Golden Age".
A cast of simple people struggling to achieve their dreams in the epicenter of the modern world's dream factory. Pink observes of her work, "This play is a polemic against Hollywoord's siren song. Behind the glamour and romanticism, the film industry's brutality makes it a place where humans
Title: Watercolor in - Criss-Crossing and Watercolor / COL Author: Magdalany, Philip Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female one act
1 exterior set.
"Various characters on a beach engage in a series of dialogues about love, age, and death." Title: Way Deep in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Sixteenth Series) / COL Author: Burger, Katherine Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
'Discouraged by parents, teenage lovers run away.'
Title: Way We Live Now, The in - The Way We Live Now / COL Author: Sontag, Susan Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990
Description:
roy drama - AIDS five characters flexible casting fifteen scenes
'Dramatic adaptation of Sontag's short story about effect AIDS has on homosexual man and his close friends.'
Title: We Three, You and I in - The Factory Lab Anthology / CCO Author: Greenland, Bill Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy Canadian - drama four characters two male; two female one act
Non representative set.
"The play deals with the concept of charity and explores the motives of the charity worker." Title: Weir, The in - The Weir and Other Plays / COL Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: TCG Books 1999
Description:
roy drama - tragedy five characters four male; one female one act
'Drama set in rural Irish bar. Tables are turned on local men swapping spooky stories in attempt to impress young woman.'
Title: Welcome to the Moon in - 13 by Shanley / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy drama - suicide - romance five characters four male; one female one act
1 interior; suggested for high school.
"Two friends saved from suicide pact by their true loves."
Title: Weldon Rising in - Plays by Women: Ten / COL Author: Nagy, Phyllis Publisher: Methune 1994
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female one act
'A bitterly funny and chillingly surreal look at the soulless poverty of urban life... It's daring stuff, written with an understanding for the subtle power and violence of language.' Title: Whale, The in - American Theatre (02/01/13) / PER Author: Hunter, Samuel D. Publisher: Miscellaneous 2013
Description:
roy drama - mortality five characters two male; three female one act
running time: 1 hour and 50 min.; the play is served much better by being performed without an intermission; however, if absolutely necessary an intermission can be taken in between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
Samuel D. Hunter's rumination on mortality, via a 600-pound protagonist and 'Moby Dick.'
Title: What I Meant Was in - Humana Festival '96 / COL Author: Lucas, Craig Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; two female one act
'Set in Columbia, Maryland 1968. Gay man makes peace with his parents.'
Title: What Where in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press 1984
Description:
roy experimental theatre all male cast; five characters five male one act
"Experimental play about passage of time and futility of action." Title: White Embers in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 35th series / COL Author: Stanescu, Saviana Publisher: Samuel French 2011
Description:
roy drama - adoption four characters one male; three female one act
simple set.
In White Embers, the East confronts and comforts the West in this play about international adoptions and how can they impact a child’s life in major and painful ways.
Title: White or the Muskox Play in - The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012 / COL Author: Fitts, Jonathan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2013
Description:
roy drama - American - short play four character three male; one female one act
"White or the Muskox Play" was invoked by a series of events surrounding the death of the author's grandfather, who was the most influential man in Fitts' life. This play is in many ways an exorcism for Fitts, but in its way it presents the hauntings that affect us all in our daily lives. Life rarely exists in our twenty-four-hour, sunup to sundown world, but is governed by currents flowing beneath worldly surfaces. And they require our attention. This play reminds us of the multiple dimensions of reality - often thought of as mere illusion - at work in our lives.
Title: Wife Shop in - The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012 / COL Author: Hall, Angela C. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2013
Description:
roy drama - American - short play six characters three male; two female (doubling) one act
"Wife Shop" is Angela C. Hall's response to what she calls "the ubiquitous media portrayals of women as commodities". She reports that her play uses a strategy similar to that employed by Luis Valdez (Los Vendidos), "to 'send up' a number of stereotypes that have dogged women in general, and to address the highly racialized and sexualized imagery that has plagued African American women in particular". The discomfort among the hilarity generated by presenting the racialized/sexualized stereotypes results in yet another layer of truth generation, the layer that Title: Wilderness in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 3 / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: CTR Publications 1980
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragedy five characters three male; two female one act
"Mary, a young school teacher, begins her work in a lonely village on the north shore of Lake Superior. She boards at the house of Mrs. Martin. She roams over the hills with Blake Martin, and from him catches a glimpse of the fierce vigor and autocratic grandeur of the country. Blake goes away to a lumber camp for the winter. On his return he is lost in a blizzard and dies. The play deals with Mary's realization of his fate and her loss and with her spiritual transformation through her recollections of Blake's visions. The glory of the North transcends the smaller human figures,
Title: Wilderness in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragedy five characters three male; two female one act
"Mary, a young school teacher, begins her work in a lonely village on the north shore of Lake Superior. She boards at the house of Mrs. Martin. She roams over the hills with Blake Martin, and from him catches a glimpse of the fierce vigor and autocratic grandeur of the country. Blake goes away to a lumber camp for the winter. On his return he is lost in a blizzard and dies. The play deals with Mary's realization of his fate and her loss and with her spiritual transformation through her recollections of Blake's visions. The glory of the North transcends the smaller human figures,
Title: Will O' The Wisp in - Set the Stage for Eight / COL Author: Halman, Doris F. Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1923
Description:
roy fantasy all female cast; four characters four female one act
No abstract available. Title: Willy Wallace Chats... with the Kids in - Southern Exposures / COL Author: Milligan, Jason Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy drama - racism five characters four male; one female one act
Willy Wallace is a kindly, middle aged gentleman who spends his time on the porch of his small home in rural Mississippi carving wooden birds. One afternoon, three college kids wander up. They are conducting a survey on race relations in the Southern school system. Willy claims that he has nothing to say, but the truth slowly comes out: years ago Willy was a violent Ku Klux Klan member. His activities brought disaster to one of the student's family and he is seeking revenge. Willy attempts to teach a lesson he painfully learned: violence and hate do good to no man.
Title: Windows in - Five One Act Plays / COL Author: Schisgal, Murray Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1965
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
1 set.
"Introduces us to a not-so-young couple who, starting over again in a new neighborhood, rent an old house with too many windows - windows which peer disturbingly on the frantic and disjointed lives of those around them."
Title: Winged Man, The in - Plays for Actresses / COL Author: Rivera, José Publisher: Vintage Books 1997
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female one act
suitable for High School performances.
The only thing that's certain in The Winged Man is that Daysi, a beautiful Latina high school girl, is pregnant. Is she just another teen statistic – or is this conception something quite different? Daysi's sharp-tongued mother claims the child is the result of a one-night stand, and her best friend, Allysha, ridicules her story. Yet Daysi insists that hers is no ordinary baby, but the Title: Wolfboy in - The Wolf Plays / CCO Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1993
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roy drama - mental illness - relationships - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act
'Relationship between two troubled young men in psychiatric hospital ends in violence.'
Title: Woman's Representative, The in - Modern Drama from Communist China / COL Author: Sun, Yu translated by Tang Sheng Publisher: University of London Press 1970
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roy drama - communism - China five characters one male; four female one act
'Dramatizing the necessity for communism this play emphasizes the role of youth and women of the breaking up of the old feudal family system.'
Title: Wormwood in - The Best Short Plays 1987 / COL Author: Gray, Amlin Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1984
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roy drama - blackmail four characters three male; one female one act
Marika, the wife of a famous but burnt-out writer, Ossian Borg, is invited by a fellow art student to visit the dingy back room of a disreputable tavern where her husband had created his most celebrated works. The owner of the tavern (who had shared in the royalties from Borg's writings) senses a way to revive Borg's creative energies by summoning him with an invented story of an affair between the young student and Borg's wife. But their confrontation has a different result when it is Marika who comes to realize that it is she who must escape their failing marriage and Title: Wormwood in - Zones of the Spirit / COL Author: Gray, Amlin Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
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roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
Marika, the wife of a famous but burnt-out writer, Ossian Borg, is invited by a fellow art student to visit the dingy back room of a disreputable tavern where her husband had created his most celebrated works. The owner of the tavern (who had shared in the royalties from Borg's writings) senses a way to revive Borg's creative energies by summoning him with an invented story of an affair between the young student and Borg's wife. But their confrontation, oddly enough, has a different result when it is Marika who comes to realize that it is she who must escape their failing
Title: Y2K in - Humana Festival '99 / COL Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1999
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roy drama - relationships five characters four male; one female one act
"This drama propels an unsuspecting couple into their worst nightmare - a world with no secrets - with results that prove alarming, sinister and erotic. For this couple, the future has arrived, and they are among the first casualties."
Title: Yankee in - The Theatre of Sabina Berman / COL Author: Berman, Sabina translated by Adam Versenyi Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press 2003
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roy drama five characters three male; one female; one baby one act
The physicalization of what it means to be interrogated and to interrogate. Bill, a US citizen, suddenly appears to offer his services as a handyman to a young couple living on the outskirts of Puerto Vallarta. Title: You're Human Like the Rest of Them in - New English Dramatists 14 / COL Author: Johnson, B. S Publisher: Penguin Books 1970
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roy drama six characters; extras four male; two female one act
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Title: Young Marrieds at Play in - Four Short Plays / COL Author: Kass, Jerome Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967
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roy drama - marital relations four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"Biting and explosively treated, the subject here is an evening spent together by two boyhood friends and their wives - an evening which starts with a game of Monopoly and ends with the relentless exposure of the bitter antagonisms which are undermining both marriages".
Title: Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline in - Shared Anxiety / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1994
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roy melodrama - Canadian six characters four male; two female ten scenes
A revenge melodrama inspired by Shelley's novel in which Zastrozzi, the Satan of Europe, engages in a never-ending quest of retribution against his double, the saintly, deluded Verezzi. Title: Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (rev. ed.) / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1986
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roy melodrama - Canadian six characters four male; two female ten scenes
A revenge melodrama inspired by Shelley's novel in which Zastrozzi, the Satan of Europe, engages in a never-ending quest of retribution against his double, the saintly, deluded Verezzi.
Title: Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (5th ed.) / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
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roy melodrama - Canadian six characters four male; two female ten scenes
A revenge melodrama inspired by Shelley's novel in which Zastrozzi, the Satan of Europe, engages in a never-ending quest of retribution against his double, the saintly, deluded Verezzi.