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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.