Title: 1837: A History
Author: Salutin, Rick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical five characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
A lively, humorous and ultimately tragic look at Canada's ill-starred revolution for national independence.
Title: 1837: The Farmer's Revolt
Author: Salutin, Rick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical five characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
A lively, humorous and ultimately tragic look at Canada's ill-starred revolution for national independence.
Title: 2000
Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 1997
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts
"The relationships of the young, the aging and the middle-aged, and between urban life and nature at the end of the millenium. . . 'I am intrigued by the notion of the wild invading the city and the city invading the wild, by the idea of things being not quite right in the nature and the reproach of the millenium.' - Joan MacLeod." Title: 99 Histories
Author: Cho, Julia Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2005
Description:
roy drama - family relations six characters (doubling) two male; four female two acts
setting: suburb of Los Angeles; approx. 100 min.
What is remembered is made up. The only homelands that exist are imaginary. Love is nothing; there is only 'chung'. Eunice, a former prodigy, comes home to decide what to do with the baby that has unexpectedly taken root inside her. But before she can move forward she must first confront the ghosts of a difficult past. 99 Histories is a play about memory, legacy and the
Title: Acre of Time: The Play, An
Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy drama - historical fiction - Canada - family relations large cast three male; three female (doubling) two acts
A surveyor uncovers the history of an acre of land near the Ottawa River, a barren rectangle that contains the memories of all who passed through it, from the last native hunter to the first white settler. But the one person she most wants to bring back from the dead remains the most elusive - her daughter.
Title: Aforesaid Bates
Author: Tarver, Ben Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy drama - Albertan six characters five male; one female two acts
The views and philosophies of a pioneer rancher are aired when he takes his stand, refusing to leave his spread on a missile range in New Mexico. Title: Alice in Wonderland
Author: Gregory, Andre created by the Manhattan Project Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1972
Description:
roy drama - fantasy six characters four male; two female one act
Everyone is familiar with Alice's antic adventures, and they are all here—but with an arresting difference. From the presumed innocence of the original is drawn a caustic and giddy revelation of the human psyche and the dark, unsettling shadows which can linger there. Freud and Jung, Kafka and Dali, all make their presences felt, in a piece of pure theatre that is full of truth, fun, terror and uncanny pertinence to our own topsy-turvy times.
Title: All Other Destinations Are Cancelled
Author: Murphy, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters one male; three female two acts
2 exterior sets.
In an isolated northern town, a family rages against the past and each other, in a struggle for love and forgiveness.
Title: American Days
Author: Poliakoff, Stephen Publisher: Eyre Methuen ltd. 1979
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
Three young English singers are put in the position of competing against each other for a contract with a major recording company. Title: Amigo's Blue Guitar
Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Summerhill Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - ethnic five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior sets and 1 exterior set.
Sander's life is given meaning when he chooses to sponsor a Salvadoran refugee for his sociology class. He never really thinks Elias will make it to Canada, and when he does, Sander and his family must learn what it means and feels like to be a refugee, and how to best relate to someone who has endured such intense personal grief. The warmth and humour of the
Title: Anagram of Murder
Author: Matthews, Seymour Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy thriller - drama six characters three male; three female two acts
Beautiful Veronica enlists the help of a former lover to murder her writer husband, Gus, while all the time plotting to run away with her current lover. She becomes alarmed when Gus discusses the plot of his new novel and she finds it uncomfortably close to her murder plans. She goes ahead with her scheme, but things do not run entirely smoothly, and the next day the police report the finding of a body - but is it Gus?
Title: Angel of Death
Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy drama - Albertan five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
The year is 1916 and the war is dragging on. When Alice McCauley returns home she has more on her mind than mourning her dead cousin. She has to come to terms with the tyrannical father who drove her from home, and who drove her young cousin to his death. She must also deal with the housekeeper who raised her, a woman who talks to spirits and speaks of worlds other than our Title: Apart From George
Author: Ward, Nick Publisher: Oberon Press 1988
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
1 exterior set.
Description not available.
Title: Archbishop's Ceiling, The
Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy drama - political - relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
"Setting: An ornate room in a former Archbishop's palace in an Eastern European capital, a room which has probably been bugged by the secret police. Central characters: A middle-aged author Sigmund, who, having embarrassed the current regime, is faced with the choice of detention and punishment or defection to the West. He is encouraged in the latter by two of his former friends, his compatriot Marcus, an ex-political prisoner now in favor with the regime, and Adrian, a visiting American with strongly liberal ideals. The situation is complicated by the presence of
Title: Art of Murder
Author: DiPietro, Joe Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2007
Description:
roy drama - mystery four characters two male; two female two acts
In a remote estate in the countryside of Connecticut, Jack Brooks, one of the most accomplished and eccentric painters of his generation, awaits the imminent arrival of his art dealer. But the visit is not a standard one, for Jack feels wronged, and he is intending to kill the man. As Jack lays out his intentions for the evening, his wife, Annie, calmly paints. She is reluctant to go along with the plan, until Jack’s threat of violence convinces her otherwise. Harried and annoyed, Vincent, Jack’s flamboyant art dealer, arrives. Will Jack carry out his plan? Will Annie help him? Or is something Title: Aspern Papers
Author: James, Henry adapted by Michael Redgrave Publisher: Samuel French 1959
Description:
roy melodrama six characters two male; four female three acts
1 interior set; period - Late Nineteenth century.
An American publisher rents some rooms in Venice from an old woman and her niece in hopes of getting letters, papers and anecdotes about an obscure American poet whom his company is publishing. The woman is the only survivor of the poet's peers but is reticent about her knowledge of him.
Title: Audition, The
Author: Daniels, Dan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1965
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - theatre six characters four male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
A super-naturalistic or surrealist treatment of man's relationship to man. There is an inner contradiction between the action and the dialogue and each act is a complete unit in itself with its own value. Collectively the play brings about another value.
Title: Balm in Gilead
Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1993
Description:
roy drama - homosexuality twenty-four characters sixteen male; eight female two acts
"A vivid illumination of the bleak world of exiles and outcasts." Title: Bea's Niece
Author: Gow, David Publisher: Canadian Playwrights 1997
Description:
roy drama - women four characters one male; three female (doubling) two acts
"Anne Hirsch, a famous novelist, battles to regain her sense of place, time and reality. She is surrounded by characters and happenings which challenge our understanding and perception."
Title: Beautiful For Ever A play for women Author: Jones, Glyn Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy drama all female cast; five characters five female three acts
'Having known poverty and outlived three husbands, Madame Rachel has found a lucrative occupation which she has no intention of losing. Making use of knowledge gained from one husband, a chemist's assistant, she makes up worthless potions and elixirs, gives them romantic names, and battens on the desire of foolish, ignorant women to remain "beautiful forever"; aided - with increasing concern by her elder daughter, Leonte.'
Title: Beautiful Lake Winnipeg
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
1 exterior set.
When a man accompanies his fiancee to her cabin, only to find her ex-husband waiting for them, the web of deceit grows thick enough to chop with an axe. Who's lying? Who's telling the truth? Is there a body? Title: Benefactors
Author: Frayn, Michael Publisher: Methuen & Co 1984
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
'Set in 1960's London. Two neighborly couples turn relationship from friendly to bitterly rivalrous.'
Title: Bites
Author: Adshead, Kay Publisher: Oberon Modern Plays 2005
Description:
roy drama twenty-six characters two male; three female (doubling) seven parts
Moving from the biggest democracy on the planet to the newest, Bites takes us back to Afghanistan via Texas. In the last diner at the end of a world ravaged by war, a menu of love, death and revenge is served by the ⇠hired help'. Seven courses make for a poetic feast of universal tales looking back to the forgotten war and forward to a nightmarish future.
Title: Blessed Art Thou Among Women
Author: Werner, Hans Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
Description not available. Title: Blue Denim
Author: Herlihy, James Leo Publisher: Samuel French 1958
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female three acts
unit set.
A young high school boy learns that he is to become a father but the young couple is afraid to tell their parents about their problem. Abortion seems to be the only way out. When his family learns of his secret, after the fact, they give him the support he was afraid he would not get if they ever knew.
Title: Bodies
Author: Saunders, James Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1979
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
When two couples get together after a nine year separation in their friendship, they discuss, in a round about way, the effects of the affairs they had had between themselves has had on their marriages and their friendship and their outlooks on life.
Title: Book of Jessica, The A theatrical transformation Author: Griffiths, Linda Campbell, Maria Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1989
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - women six characters three male; three female two acts
"Imagine one woman acting out another woman's life before that woman's eyes. Imagine that the woman improvising is white, and the woman watching is Metis. Imagine that the two women collaborate on a play; fight over the play; do not speak to each other for years, and finally reconcile, recording their tempestuous journey in a book which ends with the play." Title: Book of Murder, The
Author: Cowen, Ron Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1974
Description:
roy mystery - drama six characters two male; four female one act
Henry T. Aythecliff, a much married and once successful writer, now heavily in debt, summons his three ex-wives to his mansion, his plan being to extort a sizable amount of money from each of them. He has a secret meeting with each in turn, and when he is discovered murdered, the clues indicate that each of his wives (including his present one) could have done the deed—and had a strong motive to do so. Patiently and resourcefully, the young detective assigned to the case sifts through the ingeniously devised evidence—until, in a surprise ending, the truth is finally
Title: Book of Ruth, The
Author: Frockt, Deborah Lynn Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2001
Description:
roy holocaust - relationships five characters three male; two female one act
'Celebrating faith and community, family and continuity, "The Book of Ruth" is a poignant tale of love between generations. Separated from the rest of their family, Hannah and her granddaughter Ruth, sit imprisoned in a Nazi internment camp, struggling each day to care for each other, to avoid the transports East and to stave off starvation. Amidst the despair of war, the two struggle to preserve their humanity, their culture - - and each other.'
Title: Boy
Author: Jordan, Julia Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2005
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
A seventeen-year old boy with a gift for storytelling comes from rural Iowa to the Twin Cities in search of a new home and start in life. Unbeknownst to them, he has idealized and seized on an educated family through an internet correspondence with their son. He seduces each in turn, with his stories. One of which is horrific and true. Title: Breaking the Prairie Wolf Code
Author: Mueller, Lavonne Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1986
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female two acts
In 1866 a wagon train moves slowly and perilously westward across the American frontier. Helen, the pampered young widow of an army colonel, and her fourteen-year-old daughter, Amy, are hoping for a better life in California. Helen tries bravely to adapt to the rigors of the journey, but their misfortunes multiply as they lose some of their precious food supply and Amy falls ill with ague. As she grows weaker it is clear that she and her mother can no longer keep up with the others and they are left behind in the vast emptiness of the frontier, stoically facing the slim hope
Title: Brimstone and Treacle
Author: Potter, Dennis Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female four acts
"This play revolves around Mr. and Mrs. Bates, a dull, middle- aged couple whose only daughter, Pattie, has been reduced to a vegetable following a car accident two years previously. Suddenly, a polite, helpful and clean-cut but satanic young man walks into their lives with startling results."
Title: Broken Glass
Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1994
Description:
roy drama - relationships six characters three male; three female two acts
"Brooklyn, New York. The end of November 1938. Sylvia Gellberg has suddenly, mysteriously, become paralyzed from the waist down. As the play opens, her husband, Phillip, and her doctor, Dr. Hyman, meet to discuss the prognosis and test results. The doctor assures Phillip that physically, nothing is wrong with his wife and she is not insane, but advises the only way to discover the cause of her paralysis is to probe into her psyche. At this point, the author begins to peel away all the layers of the characters' lives in this stunning, deeply effective exploration of Title: Bug
Author: Letts, Tracy Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2005
Description:
roy thriller five characters three male; two female two acts
"The story of a lonely, middle-aged waitress, victimized by her abusive ex-husband, and tortured by the kidnapping of her child in a supermarket almost ten years ago; a mysterious, timid stranger with a military past and psychotic tendencies; and the romance and paranoia that develops between them in a cramped, trashy motel room in Oklahoma City. An unforgettable exploration of the madness and fear that plague conspiracy theorists."
Title: Bush-Ladies: In Their Own Words
Author: Thom, Molly Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canadian all female cast; four characters four female two acts
" 'The Bush-Ladies: In Their Own Words' is adapted from the writings of Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, Anne Langton, and Anna Jameson. In the 1830's, these four well-born, highly-educated British women came to Canada - and the accounts of their lives have made them the First Ladies of Canadian literature. In this clever play, Molly Thom uses the Bush-Ladies' own words to illuminate the immigrant experience. It is a spirited and dramatic romp through a vivid era in our history."
Title: Cabale
Author: Cormann, Enzo translated by Gideon Y. Schein Publisher: UBU Repertory Theater Publications 1983
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female nine scenes
A lonely young woman seeks the companionship of a middle-aged Irish terrorist on an assassination mission. Title: Call of the Whipperwill, The
Author: Dufresne, Guy Publisher: New Press 1972
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
exterior set.
Godfrey Dechenes is motivated less by his greed for the sale money from his farm, or by his anger at the modern Boston pirates' who hope to buy it, than by his love for his beautiful daughter, Gabrielle. In a play that is both quick-paced and evocative, Dufresne gives us another view of Quebec - earthy, emotional, and full of a rage that is at times articulated, at times powerfully
Title: Can You Hear Me At The Back?
Author: Clark, Brian Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1979
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
unit set.
A middle-aged architect begins to question the validity of a Utopian town he designed and built twenty-five years earlier and as he examines his feelings about his art, he realizes that he is also unhappy with his marriage and himself.
Title: Capture Me
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
Juxtaposing lived and imagined realities of hate and love, fear and hope, quirky humour and bitter knowledge, Capture Me takes the kind of risks that keeps theatre powerfully alive and kicking. Connecting the lives of a kindergarten teacher, the traumatized Islamic immigrant with whom she falls in love, the insanely abusive former husband who is stalking her, and the icy, mortally ill mother whom she struggles to understand, Thompson achieves an intensity that owes as much to the jagged poetry of her writing as to the stark conflicts she stages. Title: Carmela's Table
Author: Rossi, Vittorio Publisher: Talonbooks 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - immigrants five characters two male; three female two acts
"In Rossi's second play of his Carpenter's Trilogy, his dramatic portraits of the decorated Italian war hero Silvio's manipulative mother, Filomena, his inexplicably loyal wife Carmela, and the extended family's understanding and supportive neighbours Neva and Dave, are finely drawn variations on what have become pop-culture stereotypes of Italian immigrants. They clearly exist to allow Rossi to peel back the complex layers of Silvio's psyche to reveal all the classic symptoms of what we now know as post-traumatic stress disorder..."
Title: Castrato
Author: Nelson, Greg Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters three male; one female two acts
At the center of Castrato is the tragic and sensational suicide of an abusive father and preacher. Haunted by their father's death, his surviving sons come to a less than perfect reunion after their twelve-year estrangement. Amidst the clash of liberal and fundamentalist religious views, Nelson's charged characters and tightly crafted dialogue bring to the forefront the experience of heartfelt struggle, psychological ramifications and long simmering rage.
Title: Cherish
Author: Duncum, Ken Publisher: Victoria University Press 2004
Description:
roy drama - parenthood - gay - lesbian - family relations five characters two male; two female; one girl two acts
The tale of two couples - Jess and Maeve, William and Tom - and the children they share. What happens when good intentions run up against the hard realities of human need?
"The dramatic reverberations of a surrogacy dispute between a gay couple and a lesbian couple, whose parental instincts threaten to tear them apart." Title: China Doll
Author: Chan, Marjorie Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004
Description:
roy drama - Chinese - historical four characters one male; three female two acts
20th century China.
"In China Doll, Marjorie Chan's first play, Ibsen is a catalyst for a young woman who comes to see her future in terms other than those laid out for her by the patriarchal society in which she lives. As Su-Ling grows into womanhood, she makes choices that lead her toward independence, and which have consequences for everyone in her world."
Title: Chronic
Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - illness six characters three male; three female two acts
Ostensibly about CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) and the virus that may or may not cause it, Chronic puts one woman’s disease under the theatrical microscope along with various other pathologies of modern life. At first Petra seems familiarly neurotic, a Woody Allen character refracted through George F. Walker. But as Griffiths examines the psychological, social and sexual dimensions of Petra’s experience in her desperate pursuit of a cure, as well as her medical treatments, her dreams, and the peculiarities of her post-industrial workplace, the stage becomes
Title: Clara's Play
Author: Olive, John Publisher: Samuel French 1982
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two acts
Clara, an aging spinster, lives alone in a remote farmhouse. She is the last surviving member of one of the area's most prominent families. It is summer, 1915. Enter an immigrant, feisty soul named Sverre looking for a few days' work before moving on. But Clara's farm needs more than just a few days' work, and Sverre stays on to help Clara fix up and run the farm. It soon becomes clear unscrupulous local businessmen are bilking Clara out of money and hope to gain control of her property. Sverre agrees to stay on to help Clara Keep her family's property. Title: Clay
Author: Whelan, Peter Publisher: Methuen & Co 1983
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
When old friends arrive from West Germany at a family's remote country farm in England, awkwardness abounds as the two couples try to re-establish their friendship. The situation becomes even more tense when the country family's sixteen year old son and the appearance of cruise missiles remind everyone that even in remote England it is impossible to escape the
Title: Closer
Author: Marber, Patrick Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2000
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
"Dan, meets Alice, after an accident in the street. Eighteen months later, they are a couple, and Dan has written a novel inspired by Alice. While posing for his book jacket cover, Dan meets Anna, a photographer. He pursues her but she rejects his advances despite their mutual attraction. Larry "meets" Dan in an internet chat room. Dan, obsessing over Anna, pretends to be her and has cybersex with Larry. They arrange to meet the next day at an aquarium. Larry arrives and so too, coincidentally, does the real Anna. This sets up a series of pass-the-lover scenes in which this
Title: Club Chernobyl
Author: Warren, Dianne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters three male; three female two acts
"Dallas MacKenzie's new nightclub has a nuclear-meltdown concept, but it's not turning out to be the hot-spot he'd hoped for. He's coping with a troubled marriage, a violent rainstorm, a flooded basement, a stranded motorist, and the dead body of tattooed woman on what just might be the night that ends the world." Title: Colonial Tongues
Author: Robinson, Mansel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy drama five Characters three male; two female two acts
In 1967 in a small Northern Ontario town, Edna Barnett finds her family in moral jeopardy. Her youngest son returns home - to a ghost town. Moving back and forth 30 years, "Colonial Tongues" enacts the disintegration of family and the struggle to rebuild community.
Title: Colours in the Dark
Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Talonbooks 1971
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - childhood six characters; extras (children); chorus three male; three female two acts
Set in a magical toy box, a series of images, poems and memories evoke the terrors and delights of childhood.
Title: Colours in the Storm
Author: Betts, Jim Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy biography - Canadian, drama five characters three male; two female two acts
'About the life and mysterious death of one of Canada's most famous painters, Tom Thomson, it tells the story of his life with a variety of colorful characters, a number of whom have been implicated in his possible "murder".' Title: Corker
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1998
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters three male, three female two acts
"Uses the familiar but difficult and treacherous nineteenth-century device of representing the family as a microcosm of the nation state. It is Wendy Lill's great skill as a playwright that actually makes this symbolism work by unraveling it into a devastating conclusion that is seen in two completely different ways by the characters and the audience."
Title: Crabdance
Author: Simons, Beverley Publisher: In Press 1969
Description:
roy tragicomedy - Canadian four characters three male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
A tragicomedy in which a lonely woman plays elaborate, ritualistic games with three men forced to play her son, her husband, and her lover.
Title: Crackwalker, The
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
This remarkable play about a mentally disabled woman and her friends explores the psyche of those living outside of "normal" society. Title: Crimes of the Heart
Author: Henley, Beth Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1982
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female three acts
1 set.
When a crisis hits a family of three sisters, the sisters are finally able to resolve their differences and stand together in the face of community disapproval.
Title: Crossing the Line
Author: Craig, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - women five characters one male; four female two acts
"Women caught in the web of South African politics. Ann is a political artist. Paula and her would-be lover Rosie are young white activists. Hannie is an aspiring model and grace is the black domestic worker who forces each character to cross the line separating truth from self-delusion."
Title: Days Between, The
Author: Anderson, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1961
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
unit set.
A university professor who always wanted to be a writer, must come to grips with the fact that he has a talent for teaching but not for writing before he destroys himself and the members of his family. Title: Dead Together
Author: Rideout, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - mystery - thriller five characters two male; three female two acts
"Five ex-student radicals reunite 25 years after their occupation of a university records office. The 'Big Chill' gone wrong."
Title: Deathtrap
Author: Levin, Ira Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1979
Description:
roy thriller five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A broadway thriller playwright stages a murder to shock his wife to death. His accomplice / lover moves in and begins to write a play telling the story of the wife's death.
Title: Delicate Balance, A
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Samuel French 1966
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female three acts
1 interior set.
A husband and wife, who harbour the wife's alcoholic sister, are forced to examine the loneliness of their existence when their daughter and their best friends take refuge in their home because they can no longer face the terror of wasted lives. Title: Dial "M" For Murder
Author: Knott, Frederick Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1954
Description:
roy thriller six characters five male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
A man's plan to have his wife murdered backfires, but he is able to get her convicted for murder and sentenced to death.
Title: Different Moon, A
Author: Watson, Ara Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1983
Description:
roy drama - women - American four characters one male; three female two acts
An eloquent and affecting study of three women coming to terms with a crisis not of their own making."
Co-winner of the Great American Play Contest at the Festival of New Plays of the Actors Theatre of Louisville
Title: Dinner with Friends
Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
Drama about the breakup of one couple's marriage and its effect on their best friends. Title: Distance from Calcutta, A
Author: Barry, P. J. Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy dramatic comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
Part of author's Jericho cycle. Comic drama set in 1923. Catholic woman's love for younger learning-disabled boarder leads to heartbreak.
Title: Doc
Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - Albertan five characters two male; three female two acts
Catherine returns home to visit her aging father, a doctor revered and honoured by his community. She confronts, through a series of flashbacks, her thwarted need for his love and her late mother's decline into alcoholism, finally realizing that it is time for a reconciliation with her father.
Winner of the Governor General's Literacy Award for Drama.
Title: Dr. Cook's Garden
Author: Levin, Ira Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1968
Description:
roy melodrama five characters three male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
When a young doctor returns to visit his hometown and his mentor, the town doctor, he learns that one of the reasons the town is so idyllic is that the doctor has been killing off the undesirables. Title: Drawer Boy, The
Author: Healey, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female one act
A haunting tale of love and obsession in which the varieties of both are explored.
Finalist, the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 1982 Dora Award Winner 1999
Title: Dreaming and Duelling
Author: Lazarus, John Lazarus, Joa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
Fantasies and love for the same girl lead two fencing students to "play" with the safety tips off and the points sharpened. A look at adolescent role-playing.
Title: Dreary and Izzy
Author: Beagan, Tara Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female two acts
1975, Lethbridge Alberta. When the Monoghan sisters lose their parents in a car accident, Deirdre remains as the sole caregiver to her older sister, Isabelle. Adopted as an infant from the neighbouring Blood Indian Reserve, Isabelle is loving, joyous, and severely affected by fetal alcohol syndrome in a time before the disorder had a name. Just as Deirdre is poised to enter university and begin exploring her own future, she must choose how much of her life she will sacrifice for the love of Isabelle. Deirdre is barely staying afloat under the strain of this reality Title: Drift
Author: Deverell, Rex Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
A portrait of a young woman who comes to Canada during the thirties and marries a Canadian farm boy, and the struggles of a writer of the next generation trying to recreate this portrait.
Title: Dusa, Fish, Stas And VI
Author: Gems, Pam Publisher: Samuel French 1977
Description:
roy drama all female cast; four characters four female two acts
1 interior set.
Four women who share a house have their own problems which they cope with in their own individual ways.
Title: Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension
Author: Piatigorsky, Anton Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
'Two exiled travellers head west on an abandoned desert road, searching for the promised land. Encountering a lonely old rancher and his strangely scarred wife, they glimpse the dreams and dangers of their quest. A mystical journey exploring the mythology of western expansion, Jewish history and ancient religious traditions.' Title: Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology
Author: Aidman, Charles Masters, Edgar Lee Publisher: Samuel French 1966
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
1 set; bare stage.
Based on the poems by Edgar Lee Masters, the play depicts the various people that make up a small town.
Title: Edwina Black
Author: Dinner, William Morum, Wiliam Publisher: Samuel French 1951
Description:
roy mystery four characters two male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
A woman poisons herself to avenge herself on her husband and his mistress by arranging her death to look like murder.
Title: Effect of Gamma Rays On Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Author: Zindel, Paul Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1970
Description:
roy drama all female cast; five characters five female two acts
1 interior set.
The young daughter of a bitter and vindictive widow is able to break through her mother's domination and find hope in life when she finds beauty in the miracle of atoms and their place in the world. Title: Emerald City
Author: Williamson, David Publisher: Currency Press 1987
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female two acts
Emerald City is a fast-moving, wise cracking commentary on contemporary urban mores and morals, and the rivalries and passions to be encountered on the road to success. Colin, a screenwriter, and Kate, a publisher, move to the Emerald City, where fame and fortune are available for the taking, but there are surprises in store for them both.
Title: Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout A "String Quartet" for four female actors Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Talonbooks 2005
Description:
roy drama - historical - native four characters all female; four female two acts
"Based on a deposition signed by 14 Chiefs of the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout is a ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia lost their fishing, hunting and grazing rights, their lands, and finally their language without their agreement or consent, and without any treaties ever having been signed."
Title: Eve
Author: Fineberg, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy drama - aging six characters four male; two female two acts
An older woman leaves her ailing husband and family to discover how she became trapped. Moving to a rooming house, she has an affair and re-examines her life.
Chalmers Award winner. Title: Ever Loving
Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
Three war brides from England, Scotland and Italy travel to Canada in 1945. The lives of the three women and their relationships with their husbands weave together the fabric of the Canadian experience - the hopes, fantasies, disappointments and the grim reality of starting a new life in a new land.
Title: Evidence to the Contrary
Author: Pedneault, Helene translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female three parts
A riveting interrogation of a woman who has been arrested for the murder of her mother.
Title: Extremeties
Author: Mastrosimone, William Publisher: Nelson Doubleday Inc. 1978
Description:
roy drama - violence - women four characters one male; three female two acts
"A searing play about rape. It is also about the breaking point, the extremity in all of us over which, when pushed hard enough, we tumble into violence. A young woman is attacked in her home by a rapist. She manages to overpower him, and imprisons him, bound, inside her fireplace grate. She then proceeds to exact her revenge. When her roommates return she is so crazy they wonder who to believe - their wild-eyed roommate or the guy in their fireplace who claims he was attacked when he stopped by to use the phone. Eventually, the roommates have to try to talk the Title: Farewell Heart
Author: Tidler, Charles Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy tragedy - Canadian six characters four male; two female seven scenes
Set on an imaginary island off the coast of B.C., "The Farewell Heart" marks the transition from the 1960's to the 1970's. The small community on Madras Island is about to lose its leader. A promising spring day sours into death and destruction... and rebirth for some players.
Title: Farm Show, The
Author: Thompson, Paul Theatre Passe Muraille Publisher: Coach House Press 1976
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
Written by collective creation.
Theatre Passe Muraille spent a summer in the farming region around Clinton, Ont. to gather the material for this delightful portrayal of rural living.
Title: Featherland
Author: Clarke, Denise Publisher: Red Deer College Press 2004
Description:
roy Canadian - fantasy - love-triangle five characters two male; three female two acts
Cecil and Adele Hyndman are completely devoted to each other and their collection of live birds. They open an avian menagerie in rural British Columbia, and when a magnificent golden eagle arrives, an erotic attraction between Cecil, Adele and the eagle develops into a bizarre love triangle. Title: Fighting Days, The
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1985
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - women - history - Nellie McClung four characters one male; three female two acts
"The polarities of public and private lives and issues of racism and pacifism in the suffragette movement."
Title: Fire
Author: Ledoux, Paul Young, David Publisher: Summerhill Press 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - musical six characters (doubling) five male; one female two acts
Inspired by the lives of cousins Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Lee Swaggart, "Fire" tells the story of two Razorback, Arkansas brothers who follow different branches of the same road of pride, lust and greed. Cale sells his soul to rock and roll, Herchel to TV evangelism. Both love Molly, who loves both of them.
Chalmers and Dora Mavor Moore Award winner.
Title: Five Finger Exercise
Author: Shaffer, Peter Publisher: Samuel French 1958
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A German tutor for an English family is used by various members of the family as a pawn in their continual battle of contempt and disrespect for one another. Title: Five of Us
Author: Jenkin, Len Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1986
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
'Tragedy strikes when two New York tenement dwellers decide to rob mentally deficient neighbour.'
Winner - Obie Award
Title: Flesh and Blood
Author: Hanley, William Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1968
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female five scenes
unit set.
A family that is falling apart tries to hold itself together when the youngest daughter disappears for a day and a half after her uncle has confessed to her that he is her real father.
Title: Footprints on the Moon
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts
2 interior sets.
A woman's struggle to prevent her teenaged daughter from leaving home evolves into a struggle to understand the past. A play about loving and losing, constancy and change. Title: For Love and Money
Author: Wyatt, Rachel Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2002
Description:
roy drama - marital relations - middle age five characters three male; two female two acts
"Howie and Jane have been married for thirty-three years. On this particular evening, Howie is going to tell Jane that he is leaving her. Jane, determined to keep him, has arranged a party for his friends. During the evening, she looks back on scenes from the marriage. She sees good times and also times when drinking and violence took over. And it is an act of violence that brings Jane to a place where she must think her way through to a future on her own."
Title: Fortune and Men's Eyes
Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1967
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all male cast; five characters five male two acts
1 interior set.
'Four young men in Canadian reform school brutalized by system and other inmates.'
Title: Foxfire
Author: Cooper, Susan Cronyn, Hume Publisher: Samuel French 1979
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
1 set.
An old woman who loves her farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains comes to terms with her age and her isolation, and through a series of flashbacks, says goodbye to the land before moving to Florida with her son. Title: Fresh Kills
Author: Wilder, Elyzabeth Gregory Publisher: Methuen & Co 2004
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two acts
Eddie's restless; his wife is anxious for him to finish their new kitchen cabinets. Since he discovered Arnold, a teenager on-line, he's become distracted. And when they meet, it's soon clear that Arnold's interest in him goes beyond their night-time encounters.
Title: Frozen
Author: Lavery, Bryony Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama - thriller - monologues four characters two male; two female thirty-one scenes
'Ten-year-old Rhona goes missing. Her mother, Nancy, retreats into a state of frozen hope. Agnetha, an American academic, comes to England to research a thesis: "Serial Killing—A Forgivable Act?" Then there's Ralph, a loner who's looking for some distraction. Drawn together by horrific circumstances, these three embark on a long, dark journey which finally curves upward into the light. Angry, humane and compassionate, 'Frozen' entwines the lives of a murderer, his psychologist and the mother of one of his victims to explore our capacity for
Title: Fugitive Pieces
Author: Svich, Caridad Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2005
Description:
roy drama ten characters two male; two female (doubling, flexible casting) three parts
A play with original songs that charts the violent journey of two vagrants, as they make their way through the rural and industrial wastelands of the United States. An accumulation of simultaneous glimpses as these troubled souls grasp for the coordinates of what was once a sensible world. Title: Gas Light A Victorian thriller in three acts Author: Hamilton, Patrick Publisher: Samuel French
Description:
roy drama - Victorian thriller five characters two male; three female three acts
This mystery involves manipulation, madness and a search for lost rubies.
Title: Genesis The Mary Shelley play Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1998
Description:
roy drama - horror - historical five characters three male; two female two acts
"A theatrical re-creation of the emotional events surrounding Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley-- events that inspired the literary births of our two most famous monsters Frankenstein and Dracula."
Title: Geometry in Venice
Author: Mackenzie, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
A young Canadian is hired by a British family in Venice as a tutor for their son. He uncovers a household trying to marry off the only daughter to a wealthy American author to revive the family fortunes. When he finally tries to break away he becomes entangled with his student's worldly and fascinating mother... Title: Ghosts
Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by William Archer Publisher: Samuel French 1937
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
Ghosts of a woman's past return when her son arrives home ill with syphilis which he had inherited from his father.
Title: Glace Bay Miners' Museum, The
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
"The Glace Bay Miners' Museum is the story of an ill-fated love between a wandering musician/ social idealist and a Cape Breton coal miner's daughter whose dreams are reawakened by their passion - a play of the all consuming brightness of dreams and memory, overshadowed by absentee greed, callousness, exploitation. A tragedy that is hard as nails, totally unsentimental, yet full of love and humour."
Title: Glass Menagerie, The
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1945
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts (seven scenes)
1 set.
A domineering mother who only wishes for success for her two children, tries to force her son to be more ambitious and tries to use him to find gentlemen callers for his shy, crippled sister. Title: Glenn
Author: Young, David Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - biography all male cast; four characters four male two acts (30 variations)
"The music, ideas, and remarkable life of the iconoclastic and celebrated pianist. Gould's early and late recordings of the Goldberg Variations serve as a structural template for the dramatic action."
Title: Going To See The Elephant
Author: Hensel, Karen Johns, Patti Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1983
Description:
roy drama - women - relationships - family relations five characters one male; four female two acts
"The action takes place before a sod hut in the Kansas wilderness of the 1870s, where four frontier women wrest a living from the stubborn soil. The matriarch of the group is Ma, a feisty, resourceful survivor whose wanderlust is still strong and who inspires the others with her homespun wisdom and strength. With her are her daughter-in-law Sara, a hardworking young wife and mother who is content with life as she knows it..."
Title: Goodness
Author: Redhill, Michael Publisher: Coach House Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - genocide sixteen characters three male; three female (doubling) two acts
"A playwright, Michael, stands in front of an audience. He tells us someone else's story - the story of events surrounding a genocide and subsequent murder trial in the homeland of a character named Althea. Althea was a prison guard. Her prisoner, an old man, was thought to have orchestrated a genocide. At his trial, though, he claims to have Alzheimer's. Michael promises Althea never to repeat the terrible tale she tells him. He lies. GOODNESS dances with the idea of what "responsibility" is and what telling a powerful story does, not only to the story, but to those Title: Guilty Conscience A play of suspense in two acts Author: Levinson, Richard Link, William Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy drama - suspense four characters two male; two female two acts
A brilliant and ruthless criminal attorney plots to kill his wife and tests each scenario in the courtroom of this mind. He creates an imaginary prosecutor and he pits himself against this alter ego in a series of witty, sometimes hostile exchanges. Again and again he is frustrated, unable to formulate the ultimate alibi. He is shocked when he learns that his wife and someone else are simultaneously planning to kill him.
Title: Gwendoline
Author: Nichol, James W. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters four male; two female two acts
Life in a small Ontario town is disrupted when a travelling shoe salesman arrives to pay court to a wealthy and eccentric young woman.
Title: Gyroscope
Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
Spinning images; a model for the loose threads, empty caves, war memorials...dreams, confrontations that living with other people involve. Title: Habitat
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female two acts
'Janet and her mother both live on Mapleview Lanes - the perfect neighbourhood with the perfect neighbours, until Lewis Chance buys a house on their street to open up a group home for troubled adolescents. Raine, unable to respond emotionally when her mother dies, finds herself at this group home, in a community that has little tolerance for its newest residents. The ensuing battle - over whether the group homes stays or not - allows Raine to re-awaken her emotions through rage, and a political will she didn't know existed in her.'
Title: Harlem Duet
Author: Sears, Djanet Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - ethnic - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
"A rhapsodic blues tragedy...It is the prelude to Shakespeare's Othello, and his first wife Billie (yes, before Desdemona). Set in contemporary Harlem at the corner of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X boulevards, the play explores the space where race and sex intersect. Harlem Duet is Billie's story."
The Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Award Winner. Also winner of the
Title: Heart As It Lived, The
Author: Robinson, Mansel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
"Annie is a cranky, puritanical spinster who has never questioned the status quo - until the night her solitude is invaded by a charming young hustler named Zak who breaks into her house. When Annie discovers that Zak is the grandson of her estranged sister, she is forced to confront the events surrounding the Regina Riot of 1935 and face the consequences of decisions she made more than sixty years ago." Title: Hitler Dances
Author: Brenton, Howard Publisher: Methuen & Co 1982
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female twenty-four scenes
1 set.
Using the games of children and stories of World War II, the play explores different attitudes towards the myths of war.
Title: Hollow Crown, The An entertainment by and about the Kings and Queens of England Author: Barton, John Publisher: Samuel French 1962
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two parts
requires 4 singers/musicians; concert stage.
An entertainment by and about the Kings and Queens of England - music, poetry, speeches, letters and other writings from the chronicles, in the Monarch's own words; also music concerning them and by them.
Title: Home
Author: Storey, David Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
1 exterior set.
The play opens with two old men having a morning conversation in a park and as the play develops, it is realized that the men and their two women friends are patients in a mental institute. The play traces the daily companionship of the four characters. Title: Home of the Brave
Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1946
Description:
roy drama all male cast; six characters six male three acts
representative set.
A Jewish-American soldier, on a suicide mission with four other soldiers, develops amnesia and paralysis when he feels glad that his best friend was killed because he thinks that the friend was secretly prejudiced against Jews.
Title: Homecoming, The
Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Samuel French 1965
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
A professor in an American university returns to visit his family in England with his wife only to have his father and brothers propose that his wife stay on as their wife and as a prostitute to increase their income.
Title: Hooking for Paradise
Author: Stearns, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters one male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
Set in a brothel in Moose Jaw in 1912, the play explores the power struggle between men and women, looking at one woman's attempt to create a matriarchy in a traditionally male-dominated society. Title: How it Works
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006
Description:
roy drama - marital relations - divorce four characters one male; three female two acts
"In How It Works, Daniel MacIvor enters the world of an awesomely articulate teenage girl whose world has fallen apart after her parents divorce. What breaks a family apart and what can bring them back together? How It Works is a tremendously witty and moving play that looks at parenting and how we can re-create the idea of family in the modern world."
Title: Humble Boy
Author: Jones, Charlotte Publisher: Faber and Faber 2001
Description:
roy drama - family relations six characters three male; three female two acts
'Following sudden death of his father, thirty-five-year-old Cambridge astrophysicist returns to his middle England home and his difficult and demanding mother.'
Title: Humpty, Dumpty
Author: Bogosian, Eric Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2005
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
Four friends gather for a holiday at a mountain getaway where unforeseen events bring them to the brink of the end of the world. Title: Hunter of Peace
Author: Stearns, Sharon Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1993
Description:
roy drama - biography five characters two male; three female twenty scenes
Mary Schaffer, one of the first women to explore the Rocky Mountain wilderness on horseback, journeys through the Banff and Jasper area in 1907. She was explorer, botanist and naturalist.
Title: I Have Been Here Before
Author: Priestley, J. B. Publisher: Samuel French 1937
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female three acts
Priestley suggests a theory that we repeat our lives constantly in a sort of spiral, but we are able to change them in certain respects by the proper understanding of the forces that govern us. He turns his argument on a triangle of a British wife, an elder husband, and a younger lover, all of whom meet at an Inn, in Yorkshire. An Exiled German Professor joins them there and begins to ask probing questions. He finds that they are unhappy and confused. The three have played out their scene many times, always ending in suicide and poverty, and the professor warns them that
Title: I Knock At The Door
Author: O'Casey, Sean adapted by Paul Shyre Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1958
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
bare stage.
The autobiographical account of Sean O'Casey as a young boy suffering from cataracts. Title: I'll Be Back Before Midnight
Author: Colley, Peter Publisher: Baker International 1985
Description:
roy horror - thriller - ghost story four characters two male; two female two acts
"Jan, who's recovering from a nervous disorder, and her husband rent a remote cabin from an odd farmer who tells gruesome ghost tales. When the husband's hateful sister arrives, frightening events transpire. What happens to the fragile wife as the bodies appear and disappear gives this classic thriller its horrifying impact."
Title: If We Are Women
Author: Glass, Joanna McClelland Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - relationships - family relations - women all female cast; four characters four female two acts
"Two grandmothers, a daughter, and a granddaughter gather on the deck of a beach house. The three older women discuss their pasts, their present, and they are confounded with the granddaughter's decision to disregard all that she's heard."
Title: Illustrated Woman, The
Author: Kiefer, Nancy Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1995
Description:
roy drama - mental illness - abuse six characters two male; four female two acts
"This powerful adult drama deals with the issues of sexual abuse and Dissociative Identity Disorder. Jane Ellen Whitman is a 19 year old woman living with her parents, Frank and Darla, in a small rural Ohio town in the 1930s. Her strange behavior fluctuates between intellectual and passive to flippant and vindictive. Those around her, including her former teacher, Maureen McCall, have long noted her erratic behavior. Frank and Darla attribute their daughter's peculiarities to insanity and even demonic possession. Maureen is baffled by Jane Ellen's Title: Impromptu of Outremont, The
Author: Tremblay, Michel translated by John Van Burek Publisher: Talonbooks 1981
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian all female cast; four characters four female two acts
interior set.
The four Beaugrand sisters meet once a year. Three of them live in their native Outremont, trapped by time, the choices they have not dared to make, and by the position that society has foisted upon them.
Title: In Gabriel's Kitchen
Author: Antonio, Salvatore Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - family relations five characters four male; one female two acts
The Montesano family attempts to navigate through the storm of grief and denial, following the suicide of its youngest member; the vibrant Gabriel. The surviving son, Marco, dutifully returns to the childhood home to spend Christmas with his mother and father. This year’s visit is almost over, but something snaps Marco’s restraint. He confronts his mother, unleashing a torrent of unexpected emotions. Years of rage, neglect, and fierce blame come to surface as mother and son try to piece together a new existence, without Gabriel.
Title: In The Bar Of A Tokyo Hotel
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1969
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two parts
1 interior set.
A woman is isolated in a Tokyo hotel with her artist husband who is suffering from angst over his inability for creative expression. Title: In The Lobster Capital Of The World
Author: Hannah, Don Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
Emma is a recent widow and hard pressed to make sense of her family: Michael, her almost manically reclusive son who stayed with her in New Brunswick; Ed, the older son, a cynical gay man from Toronto, never able to deal with relationships and now wrestling with a lover 15 years his junior, and Pat, Michael's ex-wife who finally admits, after a litany of her own failed relationships, that it is Ed she loves. They've all gathered to celebrate Emma's birthday but also to try to surmount the effects of their disastrous choices - to reconcile.
Title: In White America A documentary play Author: Duberman, Martin B. Publisher: Samuel French 1964
Description:
roy drama - black play six characters four male; two female; requires two black actors and one black actress. two acts
1 set.
A docu-drama tracing the history of the blacks in America and their fight and right to freedom from the mid-18th century to the early 1960's.
Title: Indian Heart
Author: Schroeter, Edward Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - native indians - biographical eight characters three male; one female (doubling) two acts
"Archie Belaney masqueraded as an Indian naturalist. After making his reputation as an international lecturer, best-selling author, and pioneer wildlife-conservationist during the 1930s, he was unmasked as an impostor." Title: Inexpressible Island
Author: Young, David Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1998
Description:
roy drama - exploration, Antarctica all male cast; six characters six male three acts
'In 1912 a Royal Navy scientific expedition was stranded in the Antarctic without supplies or shelter. The winter was approaching with months of total darkness, hurricane force winds and bottomless cold. Their situation seemed entirely hopeless. Being Royal Navy, the group did not capitulate. They killed seals for food, dug a cave in the snow and crawled inside. Three officers and three men, a miniature society, trapped in total degradation at the end of the world, at the end of an heroic age. "Inexpressible Island" explores the survival mechanisms that carries this group
Title: Innocents, The
Author: Archibald, William Publisher: Samuel French 1950
Description:
roy melodrama - thriller six characters two male; four female; requires two children two acts
1 interior set; period - 1860's.
Based on the story " Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. A new governess arrives at a house where the two children are possessed by the evil spirits of the former governess and her lover, the caretaker, both of whom are dead. The new governess attempts to save the souls of the children but learns that they are inseparable from the souls of the spirits.
Title: Insignificance
Author: Johnson, Terry Publisher: Methuen & Co 1982
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
A famous actress, who is being chased by her famous baseball player husband, invades a well known physicist's home in the early hours of the morning to talk metaphysically with an intelligent person, an opportunity which she rarely gets. Title: Intimate Apparel
Author: Nottage, Lynn Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2005
Description:
roy drama - African-American - historical - romance six characters two male; four female two acts
"The time is 1905, the place New York City, where Esther, a black seamstress, lives in a boarding house for women and sews intimate apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. Her skills and discretion are much in demand, and she has managed to stuff a goodly sum of money into her quilt over the years. Her plan is to find the right man (husband) and use the money she’s saved to open a beauty parlor where black women will be treated as royally as the white women she sews for."
Title: Inventing Van Gogh
Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female two acts
'A haunting and hallucinatory drama about the making of art, (the play) is the story of the final Van Gogh self-portrait, painted just before the artist's death, which has never been seen . . . until now. Patrick Stone, a contemporary painter is hired to forge this final masterpiece - and finds himself squaring off, across the years, with Van Gogh himself. The result is a compelling mystery about the obsession to create and the fine line that separates truth from myth.'
Title: Invisibility of Eileen, The
Author: Brennan, Kit Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female two acts
Eileen feels she's become invisible, to her son, her ex-husband, and even her colleagues at work. When a strange older woman shows up one morning, sleeping in her flowerbed, Eileen welcomes in more than a seemingly confused bag lady. She welcomes in a new life. Title: J.J. Farr
Author: Harwood, Ronald Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1988
Description:
roy drama all male cast; six characters six male two acts
Description not available.
Title: Jennie's Story
Author: Lambert, Betty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
Jennie consults a doctor about her inability to become pregnant. She discovers that years before during an abortion, she was also sterilized. Consent was given by her mother and by the priest who impregnated her. Jennie chooses never to be victimized again.
Title: Jesus Hopped the ' A ' Train
Author: Guirgis, Stephen Adly Publisher: Methune 2002
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female two acts
'The young and impressionable Angel Cruz is in jail in New York pending trial for the shooting of born-again Reverend Kim. During his routine exercise he meets Lucius Jenkins, a fellow inmate, whose pride and religious zeal defy the bars that hold him prisoner. This play is about an emotionally devastating search for morality and grace within the harsh reality of the American criminal justice system.' Title: Keely and Du
Author: Martin, Jane Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy drama - abortion five characters; extras two male; three female two acts
"...here is a volatile drama about abortion. Du, a radical right-to-life activist, and Keely, a pregnant rape victim she is confining, transcend their circumstances and the ideological issues that separate them. 'Keely and Du' is a mind-probing issue play with a gripping human face, not a schematic political view of abortion. Who is accountable? What is the extent of individual freedom? What are a rape victim's rights? What is a Christian's duty? The characters confront the physical, emotional and spiritual realities of procreation. Their stories are deeply passionate and
Title: Kennedy's Children
Author: Patrick, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1976
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female one act
1 interior set.
Five people in a New York bar in the mid-seventies, give separate accounts of their idealism and personal heroes of the sixties and of how everything they believed in died and has left them in despair.
Title: Kilt
Author: Wilson, Jonathan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy drama - comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
"The 'kilt' in question belongs to Mac, a young Scots soldier fighting in Africa during the second world war, and is later worn by his grandson Tom for his act as a table dancer in a Toronto gay club. This break with tradition upsets Tom's Scottish dancing teaching mother, and the rift in their relationship comes to a touching and hilarious head when they travel to Scotland for Mac's funeral." Title: King Hedly II
Author: Wilson, August Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2005
Description:
roy drama - America - African American six characters four male; two female two acts
Set in 1985 in two tenement backyards in Pittsburgh's Hill District, King Hedly the II continues Wilson's monumental cycle of plays chronicling African American life in twentieth century America. An epic tragedy of the common man and the crushing weight of everyday life and our ultimate struggle to regain our sense of community and culture in a crumbling urban society.
Title: Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - friendship five characters three male; two female two acts
A thirty-five year old man with the mental capacity of a seven-year old, meets a pregnant young woman in crisis, and the two form a lasting friendship. A story about people finding the nerve to take responsibility, and about persevering against the odds.
Title: Knock, Knock
Author: Wyatt, Rachel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - psychological - relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
"When Harold Fryer knocks at the door of the Lacoste house, he only wants to explain his policies and leave a few leaflets with the occupants. Inside, however, he is welcomed as a friend of the family. The two women who greet him are mourning their sister who has just died. Little by little they take away his identity. They speak to him of a past which begins to seem very much like his own. He joins the family in an unusual ritual and when he leaves the house a few hours later, he knows he will never be quite the same." Title: Labor Day
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1999
Description:
roy drama - life five characters three male; two female two acts
'Tragicomedy set in Connecticut country home over Labour Day Weekend. Cancer-stricken playwright wrestles with script based on his own family.'
Title: Ladies At The Alamo
Author: Zindel, Paul Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1977
Description:
roy drama all female cast; five characters five female two acts
The setting is the lavish reception room of the new multi-million dollar Alamo Theatre, a regional theatre complex which has grown from a small operation in a converted church to one of the glories of Texas culture. As the action begins we learn that the leadership of Dede Cooper, founder and artistic director of the Alamo, is being challenged, and the Chairman of the Board, a lady of great wealth and lust for power, is scheming to replace Dede with a fading Hollywood star. As the board meeting nears, verbal battles and shocking revelations build to a fever pitch. In the
Title: Ladyhouse Blues
Author: O'Morrison, Kevin Publisher: Samuel French 1979
Description:
roy drama - war - family drama all female cast; five characters; extras five female two acts
singing.
'Mother and four daughters in 1919 St. Louis react to news of death of son and brother in European War.' Title: Landscape with Weapon
Author: Penhall, Joe Publisher: Methune 2007
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male three acts
To his family's horror, Ned reveals he's the brains behind a new military technology so sophisticated, so extraordinary, it will revolutionise the nature of warfare. It's only when the Ministry of Defence demands intellectual ownership that Ned begins to question himself, resisting the might of the weapons industry with frightening consequences. LANDSCAPE WITH WEAPON is a wry account of private anguish, public responsibility and a problem with no solution.
Title: Last Bus, The
Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
The death of a childhood friend brings Robert back to his home town where he forms an uneasy relationship with his dead friend's outcast girlfriend. Together they try to come to terms with past, present and future.
Title: Last Supper Restoration, The
Author: O'Brien, Dan Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy drama - psychological - historical five characters four male; one female two acts
"The deathbed delusions of Bob Sarafin, a contemporary New York shirt designer and artist manque, are portrayed in dream-like narrative that weaves the imagined story of Leonardo de Vinci with that of Sarafin's father, an art restorer in Milan during WWII. As the nucleus of contemporary characters, people who are close to Sarafin, are called on to inhabit an eclectic selection of historical figures ranging from Sigmund Freud to Ezra Pound, The Last Supper Restoration becomes a mediation on the power of secrecy, betrayal, and the possibility for human Title: Laundry, The
Author: Guerdon, David adapted by Howard Richardson Publisher: Samuel French 1965
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female three acts
This version of the Minotaur myth is a mixture of comedy, satire and melodrama, set in a laundry in a French provincial town. Pasiphae is now Madame Yvonne, a laundress whose deformed son Daniel is the modern Minotaur. He's been hidden for years until Laurent, an opportunistic son-in-law talks the family into selling him to a sideshow. A mesmeric circus impresario states monsters are the true heroes of modern times and proceeds to instruct Daniel in the ways of being a god...A haunting mixture of melodrama and mythology.
Title: League of Nathans, The
Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; four characters four male two acts
" Ten years after their last meeting, three Jewish friends reunite in a Spanish synagogue, where they finally face a past they wish both to embrace and escape."
Winner of the 1997 CAA Literary Award for Drama and the Chalmers Play Award.
Title: Liar
Author: Drader, Brian Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2004
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two acts
'Liar' examines the power and influence of human interaction and the perils of assumption. Mark is a young man who is anything you want him to be - a chameleon. Jeremy meets Mark in a gay bar, and, shortly after, the two men end up on the roof of an office building where Jeremy mysteriously falls to his death. After the "accident", Jeremy's estranged sister befriends Mark. Effortlessly gaining her confidence, he insinuates himself into her life and her home. Her husband is soon brought under the spell of the mysterious drifter. After knowing the brother only a matter Title: Lion in the Streets
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
A young girl, Isobel, delves into the secret lives of her neighbors as she searches for her killer.
Title: Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against The Eunuchs
Author: Halliwell, David Publisher: Samuel French 1966
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female three acts
1 interior set; play uses dialect.
An angry young man who has been expelled from art school, tries to inspire anti-establishment anger in his friends but his fanaticism and his violence ultimately scares everybody off.
Title: Little Years, The
Author: Mighton, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters one male; four female two acts
"From the playwright who brought cybersex, virtual reality, dog suicide and necrophilia to the stage, comes a new play about the passing of time, our own immortality, and the way in which our lives are extended in the bodies and minds of others. A recipient of the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, a philosopher and a mathematician, John Mighton leads is on another intriguing journey which explores the passionate connection between science, philosophy, and human nature and emotions." Title: Lobby Hero
Author: Lonergan, Kenneth Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 2002
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - mystery four characters three male; one female two acts
Nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, this play tells the story of Jeff, a luckless young security guard trying to get his life together after being thrown out of the navy. But the lobby proves to be no sanctuary from the world, as Jeff is drawn into a local murder investigation involving his supervisor, a tightly wound young man called upon to bear witness against his troubled brother, and an overzealous rookie policewoman who is in over her head with her unscrupulous hero-cop partner.
Title: Lokkinen
Author: Sapergia, Barbara Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
A man's obsession with his Finnish ancestry and his fantasies about a northern farm almost destroy the four women with whom he lives. "Lokkinen" is also about the separate visions of these women, who range in age from adolescence to old age.
Title: Long Day's Journey Into Night
Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Yale University Press 1955
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female four acts
1 interior set.
Members of a family try to escape the failures in their lives but the more they try to escape, the more hellish their lives become. Title: Look Back In Anger
Author: Osborne, John Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1957
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
Angry young Jimmy Porter looks back because he has so little incentive to look ahead. The words pour out of him, a flood of satire and invective. The words are often cruel, but they are also vibrant and colorful. They sting the characters of the play as well as the audience. In Jimmy Porter's boiling resentment at not being able to find himself in his own generation, he makes life
Title: Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur, A
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1978
Description:
roy drama all female cast; four characters four female two scenes
A young woman almost forfeits the regular Sunday picnic at Creve Coeur as well as her friendship with her roommate as she pins all her hopes on a better life on an anticipated phone call from the principal of the high school where she teaches and with whom she has fallen in love.
Title: Maggie's Last Dance A play Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - life six characters three male; three female two acts
"A high school reunion brings together old friends and nemeses to relive the past. Old crushes are revisited along with regrets and hopes. The play jumps between the present-day reunion when people are wiser and more experienced, and the high school hey days when youthful exuberance and naivete ruled." Title: Magic Act, The
Author: Klavan, Laurence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy drama - murder five characters two male; three female two acts
"As the play begins Mona Kale, an exuberant and good-natured sort, is in the dock, accused of murdering her lifelong friends, Alan and Annabelle. The prosecution claims that Mona did away with her friends because they were too happy and in revenge for her own, crushing loneliness, but Mona's defense is that it was love, not she, which killed them."
Title: Magic And The Loss, The
Author: Funt, Julian Publisher: Samuel French 1954
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
A successful career woman has to re-examine her priorities when her son runs away, her promotion falls through and her lover decides to drop her.
Title: Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr, The
Author: Marchessault, Jovette translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Talonbooks 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters two male; four female ten tableaux
Emily Carr lived in magical place that she had christened 'The House of All Sorts'. In this House which is open to all that is vital on Earth, Emily Carr, with all her greatness and her imperfections, receives visitors from her planet: Lizzie, her sister, is greeted with war whoops and rebuffs, for Lizzie is the adversary, as is all Victorian society; Sophie, her Amerindian friend, who brings messages, reminders and lessons from life; Lawren Harris, her young painter friend from the Group of Seven, who wants to free painting from dogma and revolutionize art in Canada; the Soul Title: Maltese Bodkin, The
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - murder - mystery - historical six characters two male; four female two acts
"Times were tough for hard boiled detective Birnam Wood. He never asked to be in London. Especially in 1605. When Wood's Partner is killed, he has to find the killer amongst a cast of suspects that includes Richard III, Falstaff, Iago, Mercutio and a merchant from Venice. The worlds of film noir and Shakespeare collide in this 'who hath done it'."
Title: Marion Bridge
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Talonbooks 1999
Description:
roy drama - family five characters one male; four female two acts
"In 'Marion Bridge', three women in their thirties come 'home' to Cape Breton to be with their dying mother. Each in her own way tries to deal with the painful loneliness of the lives they have chosen for themselves - each is trying to reconcile what they have become with what they thought they wanted out of life and with what they thought their parents wanted for them. Nothing, of course, has turned out exactly the way anyone imagined it would."
Title: Mark
Author: Wylie, Betty Jane Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
2 interior sets.
A doctor and his family must learn to face the fact of his terminal illness. Tackles the subject of death with uncompromising honesty. Title: Martin Yesterday
Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1998
Description:
roy drama - homosexuality - relationships five characters four male; one female two acts
"At thirty-something, Matt suddenly finds himself looking for more than reckless flings with younger partners. He wants maturity and commitment - someone to know through and through. Martin Yesterday, a middle-aged city councillor appears to be the end of Matt's pursuit. Martin, however, is not always forthcoming about his private affairs, and holds some very dark secrets."
Title: Mary Shelley Play, The
Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - Albertan five characters three male; two female two acts
2 interior sets; 1 exterior set.
Shelley, Byron and Polidori talk about ghosts. Mary Shelley is entranced by the tales and in her own imagination devises mystery and terror that affects them all.
Title: Master Class
Author: Pownall, David Publisher: Faber and Faber 1983
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male two acts
The setting is an anteroom in the Kremlin during the 1948 Soviet Musicians' Union Conference in Moscow. Stalin is formulating his policy for the arts in the Soviet Union and has summoned Shostakovich and Prokofiev, the leading Russian composers of the day, in order that he can discuss, with the aid of his cultural minister, Zhdanov, their place as artists in Soviet society. Needless to say, the discussion is conducted on Stalin's terms, but its course is far from predictable. Title: Masterpieces
Author: Daniels, Sarah Publisher: Methuen & Co 1984
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female sixteen scenes
'Masterpieces' is about pornography.
Title: Memories of You
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Summerhill Press 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters one male; four female two acts
various interior sets.
Based on the romantic and literary entanglements of the late great Elizabeth Smart, the play explores one woman's passions as she struggles to be a lover, a mother and a writer.
Title: Messiah
Author: Sherman, Martin Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1982
Description:
roy drama six characters; extras two male; four female two act
representative set; period - Poland and Turkey, 1665.
Although a Jewish woman doubts the validity of Sabbatai, she takes her mute mother and follows her nephew to Turkey to await the Messiah's release from prison - the sigh that will free the Jewish people from the pogroms and persecutions of centuries. Title: Molly's Veil
Author: Bajer, Sharon Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2005
Description:
roy comic drama - Canadian history - romance five characters one male; four female two acts
"Set in Ottawa in 1952, it explores the relationship between Canada's first female mayor Charlotte Whitton and her lover of thirty years Margaret Grier."
Title: Monday After the Miracle
Author: Gibson, William Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1983
Description:
roy drama - biographical - Helen Keller five characters three male; two female three acts
Place: Boston, 17 years after the events of 'The Miracle Worker'. Helen is now an honor student at Radcliffe, and she and Annie are writing a book about their remarkable experiences. A young instructor of English from Harvard, John Macy, is engaged to help them, and Annie, soon falls in love with him. Their marriage, and the disruptive domestic triangle that results, leads to the compelling crisis of the play. After years of dedication to her charge, Annie finds her loyalties divided, and Helen, herself aware of strong sexual stirrings, contributes to the growing discord
Title: Moon For The Misbegotten, A
Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Samuel French 1958
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female four acts
1 exterior set.
A large farm woman plots with her father to trick the only man she loves to help save the family farm but the woman's love for the man wins out. Title: Moon over the Brewery
Author: Graham, Bruce Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1990
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - coming of age four characters two male; two female two acts
A touching, gently humorous study of a precocious teenager's "coming of age," in which fantasy and reality are deftly juxtaposed to heighten the affecting message of the play.
Title: More Stately Mansions
Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Yale University Press 1967
Description:
roy tragedy six characters four male; two female three acts
'Love, jealousy, power struggle among mother, son, daughter-in-law drives son insane.'
Title: Murder Assured
Author: Clayton, Tony Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy thriller six characters four male; two female two acts
Problems arise when tough financial times hit previously successful murder-mystery writer, Stephen Ryder, forcing him to auction his very large and expensive insurance policy. This presents his wife, Sheila, with the opportunity to cash in by plotting Stephen's death with their accountant, Gordon Crawford. They do so by blackmailing Sheila's old flame, Harry Manley. Sheila and Gordon seem to be forgetting, however, that the apparently unsuspecting Stephen is familiar with concocting such Title: Murder Game
Author: Ross, W. E. Dan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy mystery - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
When Beth moves into an old Ontario farmhouse, she is disturbed to find that the former tenant was murdered. After several mysterious visits and revelations, she begins to suspect that she, too, is marked for murder.
Title: Murder Game, The
Author: Cox, Constance Publisher: Samuel French 1976
Description:
roy thriller four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A man complies with a vagrant's wish to kill the man's wife but has to live with the consequences when the vagrant returns to blackmail him.
Title: Murder in Green Meadows A psychological thriller for the stage Author: Post, Douglas Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1996
Description:
roy thriller four characters two male; two female two acts
Thomas Devereaux and his wife, Joan, have just moved into Green Meadows and are visited by their new neighbors, Carolyn and Jeff Symons. A friendship quickly develops. A previous sexual relationship between Joan and a teenage lawn-boy is revealed, as is the fact that Thomas learned of the infidelity and may have murdered his wife's lover. Also, an affair has begun to develop between Joan and Jeff Symons. One summer evening, Thomas lets Joan know that he is aware of this new deception, and his violent, possessive nature surfaces. He makes two demands of his Title: Murder in the Empress
Author: Wagner, Phillip C. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy mystery - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
Description not available.
Title: Murder Without Crime
Author: Thompson, J. Lee Publisher: Samuel French 1943
Description:
roy thriller four characters two male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
A man who thinks he has killed his mistress becomes a victim of his landlord's sadistic plays upon his guilt and his conscience.
Title: Murderer
Author: Shaffer, Anthony Publisher: Marion Boyars Ltd. 1979
Description:
roy thriller four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A man who recreates famous murders for a hobby accidently kills his mistress when he intended to kill his wife. Title: My mother said I never should
Author: Keatley, Charlotte Publisher: Methuen & Co 1988
Description:
roy drama - historical - relationships - women all female cast; four characters four female three acts
Methune student edition with commentary and notes.
"Drama about mothers and daughters set in Manchester, Oldham and London England at various times during the 20th century."
Title: My Sister In This House
Author: Kesselman, Wendy Publisher: Samuel French 1988
Description:
roy drama all female cast; five characters five female fifteen scenes
The play is about a celebrated 1930's French murder case, in which two maids (sisters) were convicted of murdering their employer and her daughter. This cinematically-structured work explores the motivations which led the sisters to commit murder.
Title: New Anatomies
Author: Wertenbaker, Timberlake Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1984
Description:
roy drama all female cast; five characters five female two acts
area staging.
The story of the dramatic and eventful life of Isabelle Eberhardt, a turn-of-the-century, fiercely independent European adventurer who disguised herself as an Arab boy and travelled with Nomadic tribes in Northern Africa. The play begins at the end of Eberhardt's life (at age 27) as she relives her diverse experiences, including being the only woman at the time allowed to participate Title: New World Order, The
Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Talent Group Ltd. 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters five male; one female two acts
A dinner conversation between Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae (a Canadian doctor who wrote In Flanders Fields), Salvador Allende (former president of Chile), Jan Masaryk (former foreign minister of Czechoslovakia), Mohammed Mossadegh (former president of Iran), and Jacobo Arbenz (former president of Guatemala). The dialogue works at two levels - for theatregoers out to enjoy themselves and for gameplayers and students of history. The characters, very sophisticated in life and with the advantage of being dead, are extraordinarily knowledgeable and don't bother
Title: Next Time I'll Sing To You
Author: Saunders, James Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1963
Description:
roy drama - identity - psychological five characters four male; one female two acts
"What is the relationship to his fellow men of the alienated Jimmy Mason, who cut himself off from the world and lived in solitude for half a century, but left a diary behind...and the implications [on others] of this secret creature who has determined to sever all connection with human society and remain in brooding loneliness?"
Title: No Man's Land
Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1975
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male two acts
1 interior set.
Two old writers, one successful, one not, meet for drinks in the home of the successful one and play on each other's needs and fears. Title: Not Waving...
Author: LeRoy, Gen Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1988
Description:
roy drama - family relationships four characters one male; three female two acts
'Not Waving' … which focuses on the relationship between a retired widow and her recently deinstitutionalized adult daughter … is at times sharply funny, at other times nervously funny…And while there is considerable distance between the retiring personality at the beginning of the play and the empowered being that Gabby becomes at the end, the development rings true.
Title: Odd Fish
Author: Boyd, Pamela Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters four male; two female two acts
'Czech woman living comfortably in Canada with her husband and two children forced to confront past when old lover pays unexpected visit.'
Winner of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Premiere Production Award.
Title: Of the Fields, Lately
Author: French, David Publisher: New Press 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations four characters three male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
Ben Mercer comes home to Toronto in 1961 for his aunt's funeral, only to learn of his father's recent heart-attack. The complexities of family loves, loyalties and hurts are revealed as Ben learns that "you can't go home again". Title: Old Country, The
Author: Bennett, Alan Publisher: Faber and Faber 1978
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female two acts
1 set.
An English couple, now citizens of the U.S.S.R., pass the time by recreating a little England of their own in their home and when an opportunity arises to go back to England, they take it.
Title: Omniscience
Author: Carlson, Tim Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy modern murder mystery five characters; voices three male; two female two acts
'Omniscience' is much more than a murder-mystery set in a quasi-familiar contemporary landscape of high-tech urban warfare. The plot is redolent with untrustworthy “embedded” journalists manufacturing positivist pseudodocumentaries about the ongoing victories of our military forces over any and all stripes of vaguely defined terrorists, hell-bent on destroying the “wellness” of our contemporary “free society.” We recognize immediately the storyline’s seamless meld with everyone’s favourite post-9/11 reality TV show, the Evening News.
Title: One Day in May A play in two parts Author: Light, Greg Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations five characters three male; two female two parts
open stage.
An exploration of family relationships, observing the emotional isolation of five characters, their limitations and the disintegration of the very language which they use to communicate. Title: Onionheads
Author: Miller, Jesse Publisher: Samuel French 2001
Description:
roy drama - depression four characters two male; two female two acts
A raw, poetic look at the plight of onion farmers on the edge in the 1935 Oklahoma Dust Bowl. The Tidwell brothers and the Bumpinmeyer sisters explore young love, hard times and loss of family as the sky turns black and the onions die. When the sisters leave for Califor nee, a shocking truth hits the Tidwell farm and the boys are left with the relentless dust. Devastated, they follow the girls to the "land of milk an' honey" where, months later in a migrant camp in the grip of the Great Depression, they find the sisters buried in poverty and prostitution. Winner of the 1999
Title: Only An Orphan Girl A soul-stirring drama of human trials and tribulations in four acts Author: Nelms, Henning Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1958
Description:
roy melodrama seven characters three male; four female four characters
multiple sets.
An evil man plots to commit bigamy by attempting to marry his orphaned niece to gain control of her large inheritance but the hero comes to the rescue in the nick of time.
Title: Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 1998
Description:
roy drama - native people - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts
"The emotional story of a woman's struggle to acknowledge her birth family. Grace, a native girl adopted by a white family, is asked by her birth sister to return to the Reserve for their mother's funeral. Afraid of opening old wounds, Grace must find a place where the culture of her past can feed the truth of her present." Dora Mavor Moore Award 1996 Title: Only The Heart
Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1944
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
A domineering business woman loses everyone she loves because she insists on controlling their lives and refuses to allow them the right to their own happiness.
Title: Orchidelirium
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
A university professor fights to maintain her orchid conservatory, against an institution hell-bent on selling out to a pharmaceutical multinational.
Title: Our Own Particular Jane
Author: Hurley, Joan Mason Publisher: A Room of One's Own Press 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - biography six characters flexible casting two acts
Based on the life, letters and literature of Jane Austen. Title: Outlaw
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy drama - western all male cast; four characters four male two acts
A young Canadian homesteader travelling far from home, finds himself accused of murder in the state of Kansas in 1871. With only his wits to defend himself, he turns the law of the land – and the men hell-bent on enforcing it – upside down. This authentic western is a unique take on the days when guns were the law.
Title: Oxygen
Author: Djerassi, Carl Hoffmann, Roald Publisher: Wiley-VCH 2001
Description:
roy drama - science eleven characters three male; three female (doubling) two acts
"What motivates a scientist? One key factor is the pressure from the competition to be the first to discover something new. The moral consequences of this are the subject of the play "Oxygen", dealing with the discovery of this all-important element. The focus of the play is on chemical and political revolutions, as well as the Nobel Prize, which will be awarded for the 100th time in 2001. The action takes place in 1777 and 2001."
Title: Paper Wheat
Author: Twenty-Fifth Street House Theatre Publisher: Western Producer Prairie Books 1982
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical five characters three male; two female two acts
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: Paradise
Author: O'Malley, Glyn Publisher: Samuel French 2003
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female thirteen scenes
Set during the height of the current Mid-East Conflict, PARADISE is a passionate, unflinching drama about two teenage girls (a Palestinian and an Israeli) trapped at the height of the Intifada.
Title: Parents Terribles, Les
Author: Cocteau, Jean Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1995
Description:
roy drama - relationships five characters three male; two female three acts
"Cocteau returns to the theme of incest, but this time the diseased love is infecting a bourgeois family in 1930s Paris and provides the basis for a bruising melodrama."
Title: Party to Murder, A
Author: Kash, Marcia Hughes, Douglas E. Publisher: Samuel French 1999
Description:
roy mystery - thriller six characters three male; three female two acts
Six people have come in secret on Halloween to play a murder mystery game at a rustic island cottage. Invited by writer Charles Prince, they appear set for a weekend of fun until ghosts from the past begin to haunt the proceedings and it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. The game takes on a sinister dimension when guests begin to die and the remaining players realize that they are playing for their lives. Tension rises. Secret passageways, incriminating letters, hidden compartments, bodies in the window seat and a twenty five year old unsolved mystery twist and Title: Patience
Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - biblical six characters three male; three female two acts
"Reuben has it all. Then with almost biblical abruptness - think of the story of Job - Reuben's universe tumbles, and almost everything he has come to count on turns to dust."
Opening night edition and collector's edition.
Title: Perfect Ganesh, A
Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1994
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
'Comic drama about prejudice, AIDS and suffering. Two middle-aged American women of means travel to India on spiritual journey accompanied by Hindu god Ganesha.'
Title: Perfect Pie
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy drama - women all female cast; four characters four female two acts
"In the course of an afternoon's reunion between two long-estranged women, a buried memory, and two teenager's wild secret, slams into the present. A potent drama." Title: Photographic Moment, The
Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975
Description:
not available for production drama - Albertan five characters two male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
A deceptively simple play that focuses on family, people and the human comedy. "It is convincing in its psychology and in its narrative structure, and its concerns are important and valid... The play is a valuable addition to Prairie dramatic literature."
Title: Pictures In The Hallway
Author: O'Casey, Sean Shyre, Paul Publisher: Samuel French 1956
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
1 set.
Based on the autobiography of Sean O'Casey, the play depicts a young man's transition from being a spectator in life to being a participant.
Title: Piece Of My Mind, A
Author: Nichols, Peter Publisher: Samuel French 1988
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
Ted Forrest is a playwright with writer's block. When we first meet him, bitter, disillusioned and consumed with envy of Miles Whittier, a younger, more successful playwright, he has retreated to the country in an attempt to stimulate his creative block by writing an autobiographical novel. In a mosaic of flashbacks, dream sequences and theatrical devices, Ted takes a tour of his life, from his early struggles in the swinging sixties, through his years as a successful writer and finally to his disillusionment in the eighties. Title: Pillowman, The
Author: McDonagh, Martin Publisher: Faber and Faber 2003
Description:
roy drama - mystery six characters five male; one female three acts
A writer in totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders that are happening in his town.
Title: Plainsman, The
Author: Mitchell, Ken Publisher: Coteau Books 1992
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Metis four characters three male; one female two acts
"The Plainsman focuses on the Metis people, their struggles during the North West Resistance of 1885, and the pivotal role played by Gabriel Dumont."
Title: Poor Super Man
Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1995
Description:
roy drama - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
"Frustrated by the lack of love and affection in his life, celebrated gay painter David McMillan returns to his humble beginnings as a waiter where he hopes to find his lost creativity. He finds that and more in the arms of his married male employer, Matt. Matt inspires David to paint the best pictures of his life. However, the affair forces David to face new realities about himself and his world when he re-examines his long-time friendship with a straight female gossip columnist, and when he watches his transsexual roommate live with being HIV positive." Title: Prayer For My Daughter, A
Author: Babe, Thomas Publisher: Samuel French 1977
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male two acts
An old woman's been killed for a mere $26.15. The suspects are a nervous middle-aged homosexual and his pathetic street waif friend who's on drugs. At the police station these two are grilled by a bull-like sergeant and his assistant. They keep shifting and revealing themselves - in many ways the cops are as reprehensible as the culprits. As the accusers take turns grilling each of the accused, we come to know the four intimately and to comprehend the traumas and emotional short circuits that have led them to their individual predicaments.
Title: Price, The
Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Bantam Books 1969
Description:
roy drama up to four characters three male; one female two acts
1 interior set; recommended for college and community groups.
A father's death and the disposal of his belongings brings out a mutual bitterness in two brothers who each believes he was shafted in his life.
Title: Prodigal Daughter, The
Author: Turner, David Publisher: Samuel French 1976
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
When a young girl, who wants to atone for her abortion, begins work at a Catholic rectory as the housekeeper, the three resident priests must deal with questions that arise about their faith and their commitment to the Church. Title: Promised Land, The
Author: Strong, Mark Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - adolescents - family relations - pregnancy five characters three male; two female two acts
"Two teenagers decide to deal with a pregnancy by moving in together, but the girl's mother is determined to prevent this."
Title: Proof
Author: Auburn, David Publisher: Faber and Faber 2001
Description:
roy drama - family relations - self realization four characters two male: two female two acts
"On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert, must deal not only with his death but the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire, and with the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that Robert left behind."
Winner - Pulitzer Prize
Title: Quills
Author: Wright, Doug Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1996
Description:
roy drama - historical six characters four male; two female two acts
'Black humor and grotesque exaggeration used to depict Marquis de Sade's final years in Charenton Asylum.' Title: Rabbit Hole
Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2006
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female two acts
"The Corbetts have everything a family could want, until the day their world is turned upside down. In the aftermath of a life-shattering accident, a young husband and wife find themselves drifting perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places… and a path that will led them back up into the light of day."
Title: Real Estate
Author: Page, Louise Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy drama - family relations four characters two male; two female two acts
Pregnant career woman returns to home of mother and step-father she abandoned twenty years earlier.
Title: Reasons to be Pretty A play Author: Labute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 2008
Description:
roy comic drama - American - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
"America's obsession with physical beauty is confronted headlong in 'Reasons to Be Pretty'. Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhanded remarks about a female coworker's pretty face (and his girlfriend's lack thereof) get back to said girlfriend. But that's just the beginning. Greg's best buddy Kent, and Kent's wife, Carly, also enter the picture, and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. As their relationships crumble, the four friends are forced to confront a sea of deceit, infidelity and betrayed trust in their journey to Title: Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad
Author: Lee, Mark Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy drama - African four characters two male; two female two acts
"The place is Nairobi, Kenya, where Dove, a brittle, aging correspondent for Reuters, the British news agency, brings home a young American "stringer" named Neal, who has been expelled from neighbouring Uganda for reasons not yet fully explained. Worried about his own position, because of previous negligence, Dove hopes to use the story of Neal's expulsion to his own advantage."
Title: Red Angel
Author: Bogosian, Eric Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2005
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters two male; two female two parts
A celebrated novelist is guest lecturer at a small elite college. He becomes sexually involved with a student, who also happens to be his biggest fan, only to find that there’s more to this young woman than meets the eye. Bogosian’s riff on Von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel.
Title: Rememberance
Author: Reid, Graham Publisher: Faber and Faber 1985
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female twenty-two scenes
Drama about love between two old people set against sectarian violence in Belfast. Title: Respectable A play Author: Chambers, Ron Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters four male; one female two acts
"Hork and Saul finally have a job that puts some coin in their pockets, some beer on the table, and might even make them respectable. It's like taking candy from a baby until they discover their boss is the brains behind a sinister plot that might just explode in their faces."
Title: Restoration Of Arnold Middleton
Author: Storey, David Publisher: Samuel French 1967
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female three acts
1 interior set.
A history teacher on the verge of a nervous breakdown finally cracks one night at a drunken party where he takes advantage of his mother-in-law, the consequences of the act being that he finally seeks help.
Title: Righteousness
Author: Deverell, Rex Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
"The last days of St. Augustine's life were spent in solitude and penance. The ghosts of his past helped him to find a distinction between morality and moralism. Set in exotic fifth century North Africa, amid the crumbling remains of the Roman Empire." Title: Rinse Cycle
Author: Crossland, Jackie Lavalle, Rudy Publisher: Talonbooks 1972
Description:
roy drama - adolescent - nostalgia - 1950's six characters four male; two female twelve scenes
Rinse Cycle is a late 50's nostalgia play, like all the old rock movies. Ideally, it needs a naturalistic approach from costumes to slang and personal mannerisms to re-create the aura of the time.
Title: Riot
Author: Moodie, Andrew Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1997
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters four male; two female three acts
"Andrew Moodie's Riot is a dramatic and often humorous look at six black Canadians of diverse backgrounds who share a Toronto house. Their lives unfold against a backdrop of civil unrest which erupted when the Los Angeles police officers on trial for the beating of Rodney King were acquitted. The fracas outside keeps intruding as characters clash, collide and swap jokes about everything from racism to the status of Quebec as a distinct society, from Malcolm X to 'The Road to Avonlea'."
Title: Rivers of China, The
Author: De Groen, Alma Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1988
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
Two plots interweave, both involved with the life and death of New Zealand born writer Katherine Mansfield, and both concerned with the place of women and artists in a patriarchal society. In 1923 Katherine went to the Russian mystic Gurdjieff that he might 'cure her soul'. In the 1980's a young man awakens in a Sydney hospital to find a world dominated by women. As each struggles to discover their true identity, the separate narratives are interwoven. Katherine's journey is related to a wish once made by her mother, that instead of marrying she had gone exploring "the Title: Room with Five Walls, The The trials of Victor Hoffman Author: Barclay, Byrna Publisher: NeWest Press 2004
Description:
roy drama - historical - biographical - schizophrenia six characters; extras; chorus five male; one female (doubling possible) two acts
Barclay thrusts an audience inside the disordered mind of Victor Hoffman several decades after the Peterson murders (Canada's first mass murder). Hoffman, now an inmate in a maximum security institute for the criminally insane, is confined to a dark and dingy room reminiscent of an underground prison vault. The play's "fifth wall" is a surreal wormhole accommodating projections, entrances and exits. By reliving his crime's prelude and the subsequent trial, Older Victor engages a resisting young Victor in a daily search for "the right question" that was never
Title: Rope Enough
Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy psychological murder mystery five characters four male; one female two acts
Ichabod and Dylan are two young effeminate gay party boys whose sybaritic existence is abruptly interrupted when they are charged with the murder of Ichabod’s parents. In prison, they are interviewed by right wing-journalist Cecilia Wainscott, who quickly discovers that Ichabod is a complex character—both a theoretical mathematician and an exuberantly dark misanthrope. In the end, Cecilia learns a little bit about herself, gay men, theoretical mathematics and the nature of the universe. Are Dylan and Ichabod evil cold-blooded killers turned on by a perverse cocktail of
Title: Rosmersholm
Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Norman Ginsbury Publisher: Samuel French 1961
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female three acts
2 interior sets.
A free-thinking woman who has insinuated herself into the home of a pastor causes the suicide of the pastor's wife, the loss of his friends and his ideals and has planted doubt into his state of contentment. Title: Rough Magic
Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two acts
Description not available.
Title: Running Dog, Paper Tiger
Author: Johnston, Simon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters four male; two female two acts
"Set in Hong Kong in 1967, when Communist Chinese riots rocked the stability of the British Colony. A mixed-race family is forced to choose between loyalty to their British roots and to their race."
Title: Saints and Apostles, The
Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
The Saints and Apostles is a contemporary love story, complicated by the age of HIV infection. This is as warm and moving tale about the ultimate fear of intimacy which re-examines modern relationships, and the power and the limitations of love. Title: Saucy Jack
Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters three male; one female two acts
"Pollock, implicates the most upper echelons of British society in the brutal murders of London's prostitutes. In a stately Victorian drawing room, two old friends, James Kenneth Stephen, a scholar, and his former pupil, Prince Albert Victor, dance around the truth of the identity of London's most notorious killer, and while a tale of psychological intrigue is played out, an unraveling of tested friendship, betrayal, duplicity, and motive is revealed. With the single female character of Kate, an actress hired by James to re-enact the death throes of the prostitutes, Pollock
Title: Scandal Point
Author: Patrick, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1969
Description:
roy thriller four characters three male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
When her husband is paroled earlier than was expected, a woman and her lover, the man's lawyer and best friend, plot his murder. Their plan fails and it is the lover who dies.
Title: Scary Stories
Author: Armstrong, Gordon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy drama - horror five characters three male; two female two acts
'Jules Chaykin is an expert in the field of blood and gore stories, like the ones found in the classic 'Tomb of Doom' comics, and the survival of his art is in the hands of his publisher, Wally Hoverton. With the 1954 senate committee's investigations into the effect of horror comics on juveniles and the newly imposed Comics Code Authority as a backdrop, Gordon Armstrong's Scary Stories matches pleasure and pain with exquisitely ghoulish twists and a subtle commentary on the state of censorship and freedom of the artist.' Title: Science and Madness
Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy melodrama - Canadian six characters four male; two female twelve scenes
A melodrama set in a mansion on the Scottish Isle of Mull.
Title: Seascape
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1975
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
1 exterior set.
A middle-aged couple on a beach picnic are joined by another couple who happen to be sea creatures. Once the four have overcome their initial fear of each other, they commiserate together.
Title: Serenading Louie
Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1976
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
unit set.
Two couples, who are also friends, have reached crisis points in their lives and go through a period of near destruction of all that they have before attaining a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships. Title: Serpent in the Night Sky
Author: Warren, Dianne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
Joy, a runaway from Montana, travels with Duff to his northern Saskatchewan home. There she finds a family filled with anger, a mentor who believes in the power of good walking shoes and a dreamer who believes he can catch the serpent if he can just keep his eye on the night sky.
Title: Serpent Kills
Author: Millan, Jim Brooker, Blake Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
In the late 1970's, twenty tourists become murder victims to a gang of petty swindlers. A young Canadian woman falls in love with the leader, and becomes an accomplice in an international crime spree.
Title: Seven Hours to Sundown
Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1977
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters four male; two female; (doubling is possible) three acts
A play about the nature of power in small communities - designed to be adapted for specific audiences. Title: Shakers
Author: Godber, John Thornton, Jane Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1993
Description:
roy drama all female cast; four characters four female two acts
Four struggling waitresses try to have a go of it against their customers, bosses and dates alike, using humor, role playing and all out rage to ward off the hopelessness that was Thatcher's London.
Title: Shakespeare's R & J
Author: Shakespeare, William adapted by Joe Calarco Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy tragedy all male cast; four characters four male two acts
suitable for High School performance.
Four young prep school students, tired of going through the usual drill of conjugating Latin and other tedious school routines, decide to vary their governed lives. After school, one breaks out a copy of William Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, and they take turns reading the play aloud. The Bard's words and story are thrilling to the boys and they become swept away, enmeshed in the
Title: Shining City
Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004
Description:
roy drama - Irish four characters three male; one female five scenes
"In Dublin a man comes to a counsellor seeking help. He claims to have seen the ghost of his recently deceased wife. But what begins as just an unusual encounter becomes a desperate struggle between the living and the dead - a struggle which will shape and define both men for the rest of their lives." Title: Shooting Stage, The
Author: MacLennan, Michael Lewis Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy drama - relationships all male cast; five characters five male two acts
Twenty years ago, Len took a photograph. Now that the nude portrait has resurfaced in an obscenity trial, Len's childhood friend Malcolm re-enters his life to confront him. At the same time, teenage Elliot pursues his secret "sissy boy" ambitions while bullied by Derek, a troubled schoolmate who himself is mired in a web of lies. Eliot's friend Ivan may be able to stop the inevitable disaster - but only if he can find the courage to transform himself. A thrilling puzzle weaving two generations, this play explores how boys become men, and how the fortunate
Title: Shout Across The River
Author: Poliakoff, Stephen Publisher: Eyre Methuen ltd. 1979
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
representative set.
An agoraphobic woman must learn to cope with her problem in order to cope with her violent fourteen year old daughter who has been suspended from school because of her sexual promiscuity and her vicious attacks on students and teachers.
Title: Silent Night, Lonely Night
Author: Anderson, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1958
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A man and a woman staying in a hotel on Christmas Eve, each for their own reasons, spend the night together and their brief friendship gives them each the courage to face their problems. Title: Silver Dagger
Author: French, David Publisher: Talonbooks 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
Steve Marsh is a mystery writer. Soon after his third novel is published, Marsh's wife receives a series of phone calls that threaten to destroy their marriage. Adultery, blackmail, murder, a figure lurking in the rain - all these classic elements of Marsh's fiction soon become part of his life. French delivers a thriller guaranteed to have audiences perched on the edge of their seats.
Title: Simpatico
Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1995
Description:
roy drama - relationships five characters two male; three female three acts
"Vinnie's been hiding out, leading a low-profile life in Cucamonga, California, after being involved in a shady deal with his friend, Carter. About to be caught in a race-track scam, the two set up and blackmailed the local commissioner, Simms, into silence. To add insult to injury, Carter then ran off with Vinnie's wife, Rosie and his Buick. Simms is now a blood-stock agent in Kentucky, satisfied to let sleeping dogs lie. Carter became a successful horse breeder there and sends monthly checks to buy Vinnie's silence. Vinnie has grown tired of his lonely life in hotel rooms
Title: Sister Jude
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters two male; three female two acts
"Wesley, an introverted young man, sets out on the rocky road to maturity, with help from his sister, a bit of divine guidance, and any number of run-ins with the powers-that-be in his conservative hometown." Title: Sisters
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - native indians six characters two male; four female two acts
Sisters is a tough uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. While the play chronicles in graphic detail the by now well-documented agenda of cultural genocide which motivated the establishment of Native residential schools in Canada, the daring triumph of this play is that it reveals the far less well documented cultural infrastructure and values of the society which created those schools - the church and the state of white, colonial, paternalist Canada.
Title: Sky
Author: Gault, Connie Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters one male; three female two acts
2 interior sets.
A 16-year-old girl becomes pregnant by her father and is then married off. She tells her naive young husband that she's carrying God's child, and he believes her.
Title: Sleuth
Author: Shaffer, Anthony Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy thriller all male cast; five characters five male two acts
1 interior set.
In a cozy English country house owned by a famous mystery writer, a young guest walks in and they begin a convivial round of scotch and dialogue. Suddenly the host says, I understand you want to marry my wife, and from that moment the two are locked in a mortal encounter. The games that are devised, the murders plotted, and subverted, add up to increasing suspense and Title: Smoke Damage
Author: Banuta, Rubess Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all female cast; five characters five female two acts
A vacation in Europe becomes a quest as five women visit the landmarks where nine million women perished as witches between the 15th and 17th centuries. Wicked humour is blended with fact, fairy tale and quotes from the Church's handbook for witch hunters.
Title: Snakebit
Author: Grant, David Marshall Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2000
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - friendship - marriage four characters three male; one female two acts
A study of modern friendship when put to the test, the play centers on Jonathan and his wife, Jennifer, while they visit their oldest friend, Michael, at his home in Los Angeles. Jonathan, an actor, is in L.A. auditioning for a film and he's dragged Jennifer with him for support. Jennifer has become ill. Michael is distracted as his boyfriend has left him. At first the focus is on the universal questions we all face at one point or another, specifically self-doubt, and our selfish need for support. With the arrival of a guest, the play becomes deeper and forces us to see how ugly we
Title: Someday
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Fifth House 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations four characters one male; three female two acts
"Anne Wabung's daughter was taken away by children's aid workers when the girl was a toddler. It is Christmas time 35 years later, and Anne's yearning to see her now-grown daughter is stronger than ever. 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. An entertaining, humorous, and spirited Title: Something Red
Author: Walmsley, Tom Publisher: Miscellaneous 1978
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
'Bobby and Christine live downstairs from their friends Alex and Elizabeth. Bobby is a poet with a bitter past and is currently being hunted by a variety of vicious people. His girlfriend is in a dead-end job and, too, has a past. Alex, however, who wandered with Bobby before, now wants to settle down, works and is even working on a novel. The catalyst for catastrophe, however is Elizabeth; she is a student, from money, with a taste for Bobby's dark side. The foursome get together for an evening which turns violent. Revelations explode in everyone's face and the
Title: Sound Of Murder, The
Author: Fairchild, William Publisher: Samuel French 1960
Description:
roy mystery six characters four male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
A sadistic man who learns of the plans of his wife and her lover to murder him, decides to fake his death at the time of the murder and give false hope to the couple.
Title: Speaking in Tongues
Author: Bovell, Andrew Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2003
Description:
roy psychological thriller nine characters two male; two female (doubling) two acts
"Two couples in unstable marriages inadvertently exchange partners in a night of adulterous encounters. The situations in the separate hotel rooms are so similar that at times both couples speak the same words. While Leon and Jane go through with the infidelity, Pete and Sonja do not, and the repercussions for both marriages are profound. Then we are introduced to a psychologist and her husband. The psychologist has disappeared on a deserted road after her car broke down. As the play progresses and revelatory details accumulate, these two seemingly disparate stories Title: Spider Island
Author: Spalding, Joseph Publisher: Samuel French 1942
Description:
roy drama - mystery all female cast; six characters six female three acts
'In an abandoned lighthouse off the New England coast live Abbie and Salem Mayo, two spinsters. Abbey is slightly pixilated and believes her dead brother is living in the lighthouse tower. Salem encourages her delusions. To this queer household comes Star Mayo and her friend, Pat Casey. They do not know of the two aunts, and the girls are plunged into a series of hair-raising events... Six women - and an axe - have the power to chill the blood and raise hackles on the neck of the strongest man.'
Title: Spoon River Anthology
Author: Aidman, Charles Masters, Edgar Lee Publisher: Samuel French 1966
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
1 set; bare stage.
Based on the poems by Edgar Lee Masters, the play depicts the various people that make up a small town.
Title: Steel Kiss
Author: Fulford, Robin Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - homosexuality all male cast; four characters four male thirty-seven scenes
Based on an actual "gay-bashing" murder by a group of teenagers, this disturbingly realistic look at society's conditioning of the modern male, and the homophobia it tolerates and condones, will leave readers everywhere questioning age-old values of machismo. Title: Steel Magnolias
Author: Harling, Robert Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1988
Description:
roy drama - women all female cast; six characters six female two acts
"The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle, the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town's rich curmudgeon, Ouiser; an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth; and the local social leader, M'Lynn, whose daughter Shelby, is about to marry a "good ole boy." Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play
Title: Steward of Christendom, The
Author: Barry, Sebastian Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1998
Description:
roy drama - Irish four characters two male; two female two acts
'Drama set in 1932 County Wicklow old age home. Ex-superintendent of Dublin police tries to break free of history.'
Title: Still the Night
Author: Tova, Theresa Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1998
Description:
roy drama - historical all female cast; five characters two female (doubling) two acts
'(This play) is a celebration of survival - the story of two young women who were separated from their parents during the Second World War, and wander through Poland, pretending not to be Jewish. Theresa Tova has fashioned from true stories a moving, heart-rending and uplifting drama of survival against all odds, and punctuated it with songs from the Holocaust era.'
Winner Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1997 Title: Stragglers
Author: Martin, Eric Roland Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - Albertan all male cast; five characters five male two acts
1 interior set.
The victorious of war are no less its victim than the defeated. Five Canadian veterans of WWII and Korea have experienced horror in the cause of Freedom, but their final reward is neglect and obscurity.
Title: Strangers
Author: Yellen, Sherman Publisher: Samuel French 1979
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
unit set.
A depiction of the marital relations of the novelist Sinclair Lewis and his renowned journalist wife, Dorothy Thompson.
Title: Substance of Fire, The
Author: Baitz, Jon Robin Publisher: Samuel French 1992
Description:
roy drama - business five characters three male; two female two acts
2 interiors.
'Drama revolving around conflict between three young adults and their father, a domineering publisher and Holocaust survivor.' Title: Sufficient Carbohydrate
Author: Potter, Dennis Publisher: Faber and Faber 1983
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
The families of two senior executives, who differ on company policy, are holidaying together in Greece. As the holiday wears on, patience wears thin as the men quarrel over the company, an affair between one of the men and one of the wives is exposed, and the brooding of an adolescent son is revealed to be due to his love for his stepmother.
Title: Summer
Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1982
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female seven scenes
representative set.
Present day Eastern European country setting for drama exploring war, guilt, death and class hatred, focusing on relationship between two women, one a sole survivor of disposed landowning family and terminally ill former family servant, president resident of estate.
Title: Summertree
Author: Cowen, Ron Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1968
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; two female; one boy three acts
The hero of the story is dreaming in the backyard and the action of the play is mostly what happens in his head as he surveys his life up to this particular afternoon. Going backward and forward in time, we see the young man's relationships with his well-meaning but obtuse father, his loving but possessive mother, his compliant but unsentimental girlfriend. A neighbor boy is in effect the hero's little brother and sometimes in effect the hero as a kid. A soldier helps spell out the true location of the friendly summertree, which is, ultimately, Viet Nam, and a battle from Title: Tanned
Author: Wade, Bryan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - comedy - relationships six characters three male; three female three acts
"Three women at a summer cottage attempt to deal with themselves and the men in their troubled lives."
Title: Taste Of Honey, A
Author: Delaney, Shelagh Publisher: Eyre Methuen ltd. 1959
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female; requires one black actor two acts
1 set.
A pregnant young girl is left to her own resources when her alcoholic mother abandons her to marry a man ten years younger than herself.
Title: That Championship Season
Author: Miller, Jason Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1972
Description:
roy drama all male cast; five characters five male three acts
1 interior set.
A coach and four members of his ex-basketball team meet for their annual reunion which starts off on a light note but as the pathos of the men's individual lives begins to creep in, the reunion takes on a different tone. Title: That Summer That Fall
Author: Gilroy, Frank D. Publisher: Samuel French 1966
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female two acts
representative set.
A man's wife falls in love with the man's illegitimate son who has found his father after twenty years. The wife kills herself rather than hurt or shame her husband.
Title: There Are No Dragons
Author: Siminovitch, Elinore Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - aging all female cast; four characters four female two acts
Two younger women, one an attendant and one a visitor in a nursing home, consider old people to be ungrateful and burdensome until they find themselves sharing a room and discover that human frailty is not unique to the old.
Title: Third Ascent, The
Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1990
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - men all male cast; six characters six male two acts
This is a drama of Henry Stimson, Triuman's Secretary of War, his decision to drop the atomic bomb, and his spiritual quest for the Thunderbird... Title: Thirteen Hands A play in two acts Author: Shields, Carol Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993
Description:
Roy Canadian - women - drama All female cast; four characters Four female Two acts
This play creates a voice for a whole generation of women often overlooked. The women in Thirteen Hands welcome a once-a-week gathering at a bridge club as a time to momentarily suspend feelings of loneliness, isolation and fear, and begin to indulge, reveal and celebrate in the wonderful intimacy they form. An intimacy that gets passed on, like an exquisite heirloom, to a next generation of bridge players.
Title: This Is How It Goes
Author: Labute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 2005
Description:
roy drama - American - life - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
"The play is set in small town America, where an interracial love triangle sets off a fierce drama of manipulation, exploitation, infidelity, and passion. Cody, once the star of the high school track team, has become a successful businessman while his wife Belinda, a former cheerleader, stays at home with the baby. When a high school acquaintance returns to town and rents the room over their garage, he upsets the delicate balance of their relationship, raising questions about who they want to be, who they are, and what made them that way."
Title: This Year, Next Year
Author: Harding, Norah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - war - women - British six characters one male; five female two acts
"Step back in time to Bournemouth, England, 1944 and meet three high-spirited sisters, Ivy, Norah, and Sheilah, and their Mum as they struggle to survive together while bombs whistle overhead. In a richly-textured and truly moving script, Morah Harding recreates the hardships and profound effects of war on their lives and their loves, and the great courage, compassion, and humour these wonderful characters draw on to overcome those trials." Title: Those the River Keeps A drama in two acts Author: Rabe, David Publisher: Samuel French 1994
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
A haunting drama about trying to escape the past. A former mob hitman, Phil is in Hollywood trying to make it as a television actor. He's had a few bit parts but is hardly a success, and he is largely supported by his wife Susie, a waitress. Unfortunately, Susie desperately wants something in return, something Phil is not prepared or eager to give: a child. Phil is going nowhere fast when Sal, a mysterious man from his past, appears and offers him the chance to return to an exciting life of crime. Sal is in town to hit a guy and he wants Phil to be his partner. Phil is
Title: Three Tall Women
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1994
Description:
roy drama - life four characters one male; three female two acts
unit set.
'Dowager, her secretary, and her lawyer depict one woman at three stages in her life.'
Title: Thriller of the Year
Author: Jones, Glyn Publisher: Samuel French 1968
Description:
roy drama - thriller all female cast; five characters five female three acts
Gillian has been sent a copy of her own novel, "The Lady Is Dead". There follows a series of accidents which convince her that someone is trying to murder her by one of the methods described in her book. Although successful, Gillian is bored and bad tempered, and more than one of the women who visit her flat during the evening could have motive for murdering her. Irene, whose husband is having an affair with Gillian; Madge, her undervalued secretary; or Edith, who blames Gillian for the break-up of her son and Gillian's marriage. Finally alone, Gillian calls Title: Tiger And The Horse, The
Author: Bolt, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1961
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female three acts
3 sets.
A university professor who is up for the position of Vice-Chancellor, decides, after decades of practising non-commitment, to take a stance on certain issues when his family begins to fall apart around him.
Title: Tiny Alice
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1965
Description:
roy drama - allegory five characters four male; one female three acts
2 interior sets.
'Tragic allegory in which a Catholic lay brother's faith is tested by a wealthy woman, her lawyer, butler and a cardinal.'
Title: Total Abandon
Author: Atlas, Larry Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy drama - death - abuse all male cast; four characters four male two acts
1 interior.
Father fights state's decision to remove son from life support following beating child suffered at his hand. Title: Tower
Author: Jeffery, Lawrence Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters four male; two female two acts
Explores the personal consequences of power brokerage among three business partners on Bay Street and its effect on the losing partner's family.
Title: Transit of Venus
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1992
Description:
roy drama - relationships five characters two male; three female three acts
"France, 1760. Astronomer Guillaume de Gentil sets sail for India. He leaves behind three women: his mother, his housekeeper and his young fiance. Hoping to chart the transit of Venus, le Gentil travels half the world - only to finally take the measure of his own heart."
Title: Traps
Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Pluto Press ltd. 1978
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
Playing with perceptions of reality, this play presents six people in a room and the traps they have unwittingly built for themselves with their lives. Title: Turista, La
Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company 1968
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
Using exotic diseases as a metaphor for the joke that kills, this play examines the apathy of modern man and his disregard of the cure of the disease because there seems no reason to get well.
Title: Veronica's Room
Author: Levin, Ira Publisher: Samuel French 1974
Description:
roy drama - thriller four characters two male; two female two acts
'Coed is induced to impersonate long dead look-alike to solace an addled relative, living in the past. She assumes role to find herself trapped with insane pair trying to relive their own incestuous relationship.'
Title: Vertical Hour, The A play Author: Hare, David Publisher: Faber and Faber 2006
Description:
roy drama - war - family relations - politics five characters three male; two female two acts
A young American war reporter turned academic who teaches political studies at Yale. With her faith in academia beginning to erode and memories from her time in the Balkans and the Middle East haunting her, Nadia travels with her boyfriend, Philip Lucas, to rural England to visit his father, Oliver, who has his own past to reckon with. The challenge of Nadia's encounter with Oliver forces decisions on her that will affect her for the rest of her life. Title: Vincent in Brixton
Author: Wright, Nicholas Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female four acts
"A dramatisation of the time that Van Gogh spent in Brixton in the 1870's- a period before he became a painter and one which changed him completely."
Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play 2002.
Title: Vinci
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2002
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
"Set in an Italian village in the fifteenth century, Vinci revolves around the struggle for custody of a gifted child, a "golden boy" - Leonardo da Vinci. In his efforts to mediate the dispute between the da Vinci family and Leonardo's defiant unwed mother, Padre Barolomeo comes to a new understanding of the nature of forgiveness and love."
Title: Visit to Cal's Mother, A
Author: Procunier, Edwin R. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations four characters two male; two female two acts
"When Ted visits his lover's mother, many personal and family relationships are finally explored." Title: Voices A play for women Author: Griffin, Susan Publisher: Samuel French 1975
Description:
roy verse play all female cast; five characters five female one act
Feminist verse play. Five speakers express American female experiences, aspirations and restrictions, dealing with various lifestyles and attitudes toward love, marriage, family, work, politics, etc.
Title: Wawatay
Author: Gummerson, Penny Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - family relations - native peoples six characters three male; three female two acts
According to Cree legend, when the Northern Lights (Wawatay) dance, they have come to take the souls of the newly-departed to the Spirit World. When Lois is unexpectedly hospitalised, her husband and four children are forced to come together and confront family demons. They seem to have their dysfunctional lives under control until estranged younger sister Jaz shows up from Vancouver. The black sheep of the family, Jaz disrupts the family balance by challenging it. She has embraced her Native heritage and as her mother lies in a coma and the Northern Lights dance,
Title: Wedding of the Siamese Twins, The
Author: Cohen, Burton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy drama - weddings six characters three male; three female two acts
"Having amassed a considerable fortune through their world tours, Chang and Eng, the renowned Siamese twins decide to settle in North Carolina, where they buy a prosperous farm. They are also hopeful of finding suitable wives, and when the Yates sisters, Sally and Adelaide, appear on the scene, the two brothers are smitten." Title: Westray The long way home Author: O'Neill, Chris Schwartz, Ken Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian history five characters three male; two female twenty-one scenes
'When the Westray Mine exploded the human tragedy and suffering which resulted were chilling proof of the age-old price paid for coal in human blood. After the dead were laid to rest the bureaucratic backstabbing and corporate refusal of responsibility were all too familiar to followers of the history of mining and labour. In "Westray: The Long Way Home", Chris O'Neill and Ken Schwartz give a human face to the lives and families of the community that has suffered North America's worst mine disaster of the era.'
Title: What Glorious Times They Had - Nellie McClung
Author: Grant, Diane Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1974
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - women six characters two male; four female (may use several more men and women if available). two acts
The play traces the efforts of the suffragists to win the vote in pre-World War I Manitoba. The play combines the themes of politics, prohibition and suffrage, but treats them with liberal amounts of humour, music and vitality. The result makes for a fast-moving, free-wheeling evening's entertainment. A play about the life of Nellie McClung.
Title: White Biting Dog
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
A suicidal young man is rescued by a white dog who gives him a mission: to save his father from death. His mission flounders until the dog's owner helps him by bringing his reluctant mother back into the family.
Winner, Governor-General's Literary Award for Drama, 1984 Title: White Buffalo A play in two acts Author: Zolidis, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy drama - spirituality five characters; chorus three male; two female; four chorus members two acts
When Carol discovers that one of the buffalo on her farm is born white in colour, she soon learns that this is the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy believed by the Sioux to bring peace on earth and unity to all mankind. Her little farm is quickly overwhelmed with religious pilgrims, bringing her into contact with a culture and faith that is wholly unfamiliar to her. When a mysterious businessman offers to buy the calf for two million dollars, Carol is thrown into doubt about whether to profit from the religious beliefs of others or to keep true to a spirituality she knows
Title: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1962
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
A drunken professor and his wife entertain a younger professor and his wife after a party and the older couple uses the younger one as a means to attack each other.
Title: Winter 1671
Author: Ritter, Erika Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian four characters three male; one female two acts
A 1671 Quebec law demands that all bachelors select brides from among the filles du roi sent to New France by King Louis. Difficulties arise when the young men and their intendeds confront one another. Title: Wintersong
Author: Libman, Carol Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
2 interior sets.
Old dreams battle new realities in a Montreal ghetto in the early 1970's. A woman dreams of her old life in pre-World War II Europe while her daughter struggles to build a life in Canada. The conflict escalates when two men enter the daughter's life.
Title: Wreckage
Author: Stubbs, Sally Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006
Description:
roy drama - mystery five characters three male; two female two acts
It’s 1924. Rose disappears from a train wreck without a trace. Twenty-five years later her suitcase arrives anonymously and mysteriously, triggering her daughter Violet’s search for the truth and unlocking a bizarre chain of events. A haunted railway detective, gourmet gangster-chefs, a Puccini-singing ghost, and a host of Dickensian characters populate Vancouver’s underbelly. Wreckage is a stylish ‘gangster’ play with a dark and wicked sense of humour and the theatrical punch of a speeding train.
Title: Yiddish Trojan Women, The
Author: Braverman, Carole Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1996
Description:
roy drama - Jewish - women five characters one male; four female two acts
"Set in Brooklyn in the 1980s, the play concerns itself with personal and political dilemmas as they are lived by four strong-willed Jewish women - Devorah, and ex-Yiddish torch singer and a refugee from the Polish pogroms, and her three grand daughters: Brenda, a stand-up comic; Abby, a passionately committed union organizer; and Tess, a teacher of Greek mythology, and ultimately, bearer of the legacy of her grandmother's stories." Title: You're Gonna Be Alright Jamie Boy
Author: Freeman, David E. Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
After suffering a nervous breakdown at college, Jamie returns home. His attempts to recover are threatened by his family's insensitivity. The play offers a biting look at people living what they watch on TV.
Title: Zastrozzi The master of discipline Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
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.