Title: 2 Lives in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents - COL Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Back Stage Books 2004
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - relationships eight characters four male; four female two acts
Matt Singer, a playwright and his long term partner Howard Thompson, a landscape gardener, are celebrating Howard's birthday. But tragedy strikes.
Title: 2-2-Tango in - Making, Out / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy relationships - LGBTQ+ - men all male cast; two characters two male one act
'. . . a highly stylized presentation that features clipped, overlapping dialogue and rigidly choreographed gestures. . . (MacIvor's) observations about the eternal struggle in relationships between emotional, physical and spiritual need and the assertions of independence easily exceed the gay context in which they are being played out.'
Title: Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Author: Loeb, Aaron Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2011
Description:
roy comedy - prejudice - LGBTQ+ - homophobia - history nineteen characters four male; three female (doubling) three acts
Illinois schoolteacher Harmony Green has told her fourth grade class that Menard County's most beloved homegrown hero, Abraham Lincoln, was gay. When Honest Abe is "outed" in a reimagined Christmas pageant, controversy and chaos engulf the town. As the trial of the century begins, big-city reporters and Congressional candidates descend, and family skeletons are forced out of the closet. Top hats and beards abound in this hilarious, poignant, and timely look at prejudice past and present. Title: Adam and the Experts
Author: Bumbalo, Victor Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 1990
Description:
roy drama - AIDS - LGBTQ+ seven characters five male; two female two acts
"ADAM AND THE EXPERTS ... deals with the AIDS crisis in gay society. Bumbalo's play expresses a mood of exhaustion, fatalism and embattled determination that, as the decimation continues, has become an overshadowing fact of homosexual life. It has, at least, become possible, the play suggests, to find some bitter humor amid the tragedy. ADAM AND THE EXPERTS is quite funny in a dry satiric way. Most of the humor is situational, deployed by the playwright to reveal the pathetic, ludicrous defenses that people adopt to shield themselves from terrifying realities...."
Title: Adam and the Experts
Author: Bumbalo, Victor Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 1990
Description:
roy drama - AIDS - LGBTQ+ seven characters five male; two female two acts
"ADAM AND THE EXPERTS ... deals with the AIDS crisis in gay society. Bumbalo's play expresses a mood of exhaustion, fatalism and embattled determination that, as the decimation continues, has become an overshadowing fact of homosexual life. It has, at least, become possible, the play suggests, to find some bitter humor amid the tragedy. ADAM AND THE EXPERTS is quite funny in a dry satiric way. Most of the humor is situational, deployed by the playwright to reveal the pathetic, ludicrous defenses that people adopt to shield themselves from terrifying realities...."
Title: Age of Minority 3 solo plays Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy - collection - one-acts - Canadian - drama - solo performance - Jordan Tannahill - LGBTQ+
Winner! Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 2014.
includes: Get Yourself Home Skyler James rihannaboi95 Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Agokwe in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Fobister, Waawaate Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - LGBTQ+ - Native playwright - monologues all male cast; five characters one male (doubling) one act
"Mike is a hockey player and Jake is a dancer. The boys notice each other at the Kenora Shoppers Mall and ultimately connect through a mutual love of movement — when Mike is skating and Jake is dancing, "like grass blowing in the wind." Playing these and many more characters through the iconic, multifarious persona of Nanabush, the trickster, Waawaate Fobister intertwines the boys' attraction to each other through activities that traditionally separate gender and orientation. "Agokwe" (pronounced "agoo-kway; meaning "wise woman" or "Two-Spirited") is a remarkable and
Title: ALIENation of Lizzie Dyke in - Voices from the Landwash / CCO Author: Packard, Liz Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997
Description:
roy fantasy - drama - feminism - LGBTQ+ all female cast: one character one female two acts
'A world of the future where aliens are a part of the everyday landscape. A fantasy of love and betrayal with a fairy-tale happy ending, it squarely challenges society's vision of lesbianism and single parenthood and places political motherhood at center stage.'
Title: All of Us
Author: Brooks, Laurie Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2012
Description:
roy drama - young adult - high school - LGBTQ+ - bullying eleven characters five male; five female; one flexible casting one act
bare stage with seating; running time: 65 min; intended for a high school audience.
How do we combat the current epidemic of prejudice and bullying of gay high-school students? One way is to use the power of storytelling to humanize the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teens. Designed to be performed by and for high-school students, All of Us raises awareness of the discrimination, hatred and violence LGBT students face in their schools and Title: All That's Left
Author: Salmon, Liam Publisher: Miscellaneous 2014
Description:
roy drama - Edmonton - family relations - LGBTQ+ - Alberta playwright - full script online three characters two male; one female one act
setting: Edmonton, present day, living room; running time: 50 min.
Three siblings, Kevin, Adam, and Viviane, try to come to terms with the potential loss of their parents and what that means for their fractured sense of family. In this uncertainty, is there anything that can be salvaged or have their bonds forged by blood run dry? "All That's Left" is a three-hander between three siblings (two men in their mid twenties and a woman in her late teens
Title: Amazon All Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays with Essays and Commentary Author: Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
Roy - collection - women - lesbian plays - LGBTQ+
This collection includes: The Quintessential Image - Jane Chambers I'll Be Home Para La Navidad - Jannis Astor Del Valle The Postcard - Gloria Joyce Dickler Springtime - Maria Irene Fornes Amazon All-Stars - Carolyn Gage and Sue Carney A Lady and A Woman - Shirlene Holmes Small Domestic Acts - Joan Lipkin Nasty Rumors and Final Remarks - Susan Miller Sisters - Patricia Montley
Title: Amazon All-Stars in - Amazon All Stars / COL Author: Gage, Carolyn Carney, Sue Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy musical - women - comedy all female cast; many characters twelve female (doubling) two acts
'The title of Gage's musical comes from the fantasy life of one characters in the play, who, like many lesbians, prefers the symbolism of sisterly utopia to the reality of personal and team relationships.' Title: And Baby Makes Four in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Farmer, Frank Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ three characters one male; two female one act (three scenes)
A young lesbian's decision to have a child by a father of her choice is thwarted when he refuses to donate to a sperm bank, nearly forcing her to conceive 'conventionally,' much to the annoyance of her older partner.
Title: And Baby Makes Seven in - The Baltimore Waltz and other plays / COL Author: Vogel, Paula Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1996
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ three characters one male; two female two acts
"Timid gay man shares an apartment with two lesbians, one of whom is expecting his child."
Title: And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens... in - Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2005
Description:
roy drama - American - 20th century - LGBTQ+ all male cast; four characters four male one act (two scenes)
1 interior set; music.
"Candy Delaney is a successful New Orleans interior decorator and also a drag queen approaching "her" 35th birthday. On the rebound from a seventeen-year relationship, Candy has picked up a rough sailor, Karl, on whom she lavishes money. On the day of the dreaded birthday, Karl walks out and it's left to the two queens who live upstairs, Alvin and Jerry, to comfort Candy." Title: Andre's Mother in - Andre's Mother and Other Short Plays / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; two female sketch
"At Andre's memorial, his lover tries one last time to get through to Andre's mother, an imposing figure in Andre's life. Not realizing her hidden emotions, he tells her everything he can before leaving her alone, as she is left to deal with her own sense of grief and loneliness."
Title: Andre's Mother in - The Way We Live Now / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; two female sketch
"At Andre's memorial, his lover tries one last time to get through to Andre's mother, an imposing figure in Andre's life. Not realizing her hidden emotions, he tells her everything he can before leaving her alone, as she is left to deal with her own sense of grief and loneliness."
Title: Andre's Mother in - Telling Tales / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; two female sketch
"At Andre's memorial, his lover tries one last time to get through to Andre's mother, an imposing figure in Andre's life. Not realizing her hidden emotions, he tells her everything he can before leaving her alone, as she is left to deal with her own sense of grief and loneliness." Title: Angels in America: Part I The Millennium Approaches Author: Kushner, Tony Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1992
Description:
roy drama - sex - politics - religion - LGBTQ+ twenty-one characters thirteen male; eight female three acts
"The most ambitious American play of our time: an epic that ranges from earth to heaven; focuses on politics, sex, and religion; transports us to Washington, the Kremlin, the South Bronx, Salt Lake City and Antarctica; deals with Jews, Mormons, WASPs, blacks; switches between realism and fantasy, from the tragedy of AIDS to the camp comedy of drag queens to the death or at least the absconding of God."
Title: Angels in America: Part I The millennium approaches Author: Kushner, Tony Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1993
Description:
roy drama - sex - politics - religion - LGBTQ+ twenty-one characters thirteen male; eight female three acts
"The most ambitious American play of our time: an epic that ranges from earth to heaven; focuses on politics, sex, and religion; transports us to Washington, the Kremlin, the South Bronx, Salt Lake City and Antarctica; deals with Jews, Mormons, WASPs, blacks; switches between realism and fantasy, from the tragedy of AIDS to the camp comedy of drag queens to the death or at least the absconding of God."
Title: Angels in America: Part I - a scene from in - The Way We Live Now / COL Author: Kushner, Tony Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990
Description:
roy drama - sex - politics - religion - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one scene
'Roy's doctor informs him he has AIDS.' Title: Angels in America: Part II Perestroika Author: Kushner, Tony Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ eight characters five male; three female five acts
"A gay fantasia on national themes. Perestroika is essentially a comedy, in that issues are resolved, mostly peaceably, growth takes place and loss is, to a certain degree, countenanced".
Title: Angels in America: Part II Perestroika Author: Kushner, Tony Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1994
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ eight characters five male; three female five acts
"A gay fantasia on national themes. Perestroika is essentially a comedy, in that issues are resolved, mostly peaceably, growth takes place and loss is, to a certain degree, countenanced".
Title: Arigato, Tokyo
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy drama - erotic thriller - love - LGBTQ+⌦four characters three male; one female one act
running time: 90 min.
On a publicity tour in Japan, Carl, a Canadian author, finds himself falling in love amidst the sacred stages of Noh theatre and the seedy dance clubs in Tokyo, wired on cocaine and sake. His object of affection is the young, seductive actor, Yori, but the affair becomes complicated when Carl's translator and Yori's sister, Nushi, becomes entranced with him. As his tour continues, he straddles the fragmentary place between two cultures - one of individuality and directness, the Title: As Is in - The Way We Live Now / COL Author: Hoffman, William M. Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990
Description:
roy drama - AIDS - LGBTQ+ fourteen characters; extras ten male; four female one act
'Portrayal of young homosexual dying of AIDS.'
Title: Bad Panda
Author: Gogerty, Megan Publisher: Original Works 2015
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - family relations three characters two male; one female two acts
They’re the last two pandas on earth. It’s mating season. One of them falls in love with a crocodile. Who is gay. And then the baby comes. In this sweet celebration of non-traditional families, Gwo Gwo the panda must balance his newfound desire for Chester the crocodile with his obligations to his prescribed panda mate, Marion. The animals eat, mate, splash around in identity politics, meditate on their impending extinction, and love one another as only families can.
Title: Balm in Gilead in - Balm in Gilead and Other Plays / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Hill and Wang 1965
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ twenty-four characters sixteen male; eight female two acts
"A vivid illumination of the bleak world of exiles and outcasts." Title: Balm in Gilead
Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1993
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ twenty-four characters sixteen male; eight female two acts
"A vivid illumination of the bleak world of exiles and outcasts."
Title: Bash'd A gay rap opera Author: Craddock, Chris Cuckow, Nathan Publisher: Talonbooks 2011
Description:
roy comedy - music - Alberta playwright - LGBTQ+ - men all male cast; many characters two male eleven parts
When Jack becomes the victim of a gay-bashing, Dillon sets out on an indiscriminate rampage of revenge. Realizing too late that two wrongs don't make a right, these star-crossed lovers, wrapped in each others arms, die in a hail of bullets. Condemned to wander the earth and tell their cautionary tale forever, their angelic personae TBAG and FEMINEM have enthralled wildly enthusiastic audiences all over North America with the rap opera rhymes of this tragic tale ever since.
Title: Bathhouse Suite, The in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: Brand, Ken Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - LGBTQ+ - men - monologues all male cast; five characters five male one act
Set in a gay bathhouse, the men tell stories of memorable sexual encounters, the police raids, lost lovers missed and celebrate the bathhouse as a place where love, lust, camaraderie, friendship and political solidarity can be expressed and nurtured. Title: Bathory
Author: King, Moynan Publisher: Broken Jaw Press 2000
Description:
roy comedy - dark - historical - LGBTQ+ all female cast; four characters four female two acts
" 'Bathory' is a darkly comic portrayal of the life and crimes of the 17th Century's infamous "Blood Countess," Erzsebet Bathory (Elizabeth Bathory) of Hungary. King's hit play blends gothic wonder with black humor while exposing contemporary obsessions with power, female sexuality, and the lure of magic. 'Bathory was both applauded and reviled for laying bare the truth of female violence. Then there's the play's romantic core - a beautifully constructed lesbian love triangle. 'Bathory', like it's
Title: Bearclaw in - Gay Plays / COL Author: Mason, Timothy Publisher: Methuen 1986
Description:
roy drama - friendship - LGBTQ+ four characters three male; one female ten scenes
1 interior set.
"Friendship develops between dying nursing home patient and gay, Native American orderly."
Title: Beautiful Thing An urban fairytale Author: Harvey, Jonathan Publisher: Methune Drama 1994
Description:
roy drama - coming of age - LGBTQ+ five characters three male; two female two acts
Jamie and Ste (short for Steve) are teen-age neighbours in a working-class housing project in London. Jamie is bookish and shy while Ste is more athletic. Neither one has an ideal home life: Jamie's mother Sandra is bitter over her financial situation and her romantic life, but she's willing to settle for a bloke named Tony and cover up her disappointment with scathing humour; Ste's father and brother abuse him in the form of escalating domestic squabbles and actual beatings. After one such fight, Ste asks Sandra if he can stay at her house and she lets him and Jamie bunk Title: Bed and Breakfast in - Stag and Doe / Bed and Breakfast / CCO Author: Crawford, Mark Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2015
Description:
roy comedy - rural - LGBTQ+ - relationships twenty-two characters two male (doubling) two acts
Brett and Drew want to move out of their tiny downtown condo and into a house, but they just lost their seventh bidding war in Toronto. When Brett unexpectedly inherits the historic family home, the couple moves out of the quick-paced city to set up a B & B in a quiet little tourist town. Facing friction in their new community, the guys discover the simple life is anything but simple. With dozens of hilarious characters all portrayed by two men, "Bed and Breakfast" is a heartfelt comedy about "being out" in small town Canada, skeletons in the closet, and finding a place to call home.
Title: Benedetta Carlini: Lesbian Nun of Renaissance Italy!!! in - NextFest Anthology / CCO Author: Rowe, Rosemary Publisher: NeWest Press 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - women - comedy - feminism - LGBTQ+ seven characters one male; six female one act
"Two modern young women, Clare and Gwen, are engaged in rival Women's Studies projects. Clare is absorbed in her vindication of Bernadetta Calini, a lesbian nun and religious visionary of tarnished reputation. Gwen, the jealous skeptic, is fixated on her own "post-feminist deconstruction" of the Anglo-Saxon epic 'Beowolf' into "Beowolfa, the Need for Mead". Lesbian in inclination herself, Gwen serves in part as a comic foil to the groping visionary yearnings of Clare, a lapsed Catholic once-removed whose meagre spiritual resources include a newly
Title: Bent
Author: Sherman, Martin Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - holocaust all male cast; fourteen characters fourteen male two acts
representative set; period - Germany, 1930's
A homosexual, put in Dachau in the mid-1930's, lives by his wits in his attempt to survive his imprisonment. He can no longer accept his lies however, when he witnesses the death of a fellow prisoner, a man who proclaimed his love for him. Title: Bent
Author: Sherman, Martin Publisher: Avon Books 1979
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - holocaust all male cast; eleven characters eleven male two acts
4 interiors and 3 exteriors; singing.
"Dramatizes plight of homosexuals in Nazi Germany."
Title: Better Looking Boys in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Trochim, Dennis Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; four characters four male one act
An examination of a time of change for two gay couples.
Title: Birds of a Feather
Author: Acito, Marc Publisher: Samuel French 2013
Description:
roy comedy - animals - LGBTQ+ twenty-five characters three male; one female (doubling possible) two acts
cast can be enlarged up to twenty-two actors.
"Birds of a Feather" recounts the story of Roy and Silo, the two Central Park Zoo male chinstrap penguins who partnered, adopted an egg, hatched and raised a chick together.
Winner of the 2012 Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play. Title: Black Friday in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Butler, Alec Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian play - LGBTQ+ - Toronto five characters one male; four female four scenes
A classic coming-out story, it also mirrors the coming out of Toronto as an urban centre with a lesbian subculture.
The 1989 production was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English Drama in 1990.
Title: Black Friday? in - Radical Perversions / CCO Author: Butler, Audrey Publisher: Women's Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - family relations five characters one male; four female one act
Woman writing about her trade-unionist father returns home with her girlfriend.
Title: Book of Esther, The
Author: Brodie, Leanna Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy drama - coming of age - Canadian - LGBTQ+ five characters three male; two female two acts
It’s June 1981. Farmers face a debt crisis with interest rates as high as 20 percent. More than three hundred men are arrested after police sweeps of Toronto bathhouses, yet Pride Toronto launches its first gay-pride parade. Everything’s changing, including fifteen-year-old Esther, who escapes the family farm and runs away to the city. With the help of a brash young hustler and a gay activist who shelters street kids, she confronts her conservative-Christian parents—farmers on the brink of financial ruin—and begins to find her way home. Acclaimed playwright Leanna Title: Bootycandy
Author: O'Hara, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 2014
Description:
roy satire - dramatic comedy - LGBTQ+ twenty-two characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
unit set; period - 1970s to present day.
Robert O'Hara's semi-biographical subversive comedy tells the story of Sutter, who is on an outrageous odyssey through his childhood home, his church, dive bars, motel rooms, and even nursing homes. O'Hara weaves together scenes, sermons, sketches, and daring meta-theatrics to create a kaleidoscope that interconnects to portray growing up gay and black. Robert O'Hara’s
Title: Boy Bishop in - Canadian Theatre Review - No.12, Fall 1976 / PER Author: Gass, Ken Publisher: Miscellaneous 1976
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ seventeen characters fourteen male; three female two acts
Description not available.
Title: Boys in the Band, The
Author: Crowley, Mart Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1968
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ all male cast; nine characters nine males two acts
"This dramatization of a gay birthday party with its bitterness, corrosive humour and vicious party games opened in New York in 1968 and changed the way the theatre portrays homosexuals and homosexuality. . . .The Greenwich Village host of the party receives an an odd telephone call from his old college roommate, who then follows up with an unexpected visit. Surprised to find himself in a room of "pansies", the straight interloper is drawn into a "truth" game. The results are harrowing as the men level with each other and themselves." Title: Boys in the Band, The in - The Band Plays - COL Author: Crowley, Mart Publisher: Alyson Publications 2003
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; nine characters nine male two acts
1 interior.
Eruption of personal frictions among a group of homosexuals giving a birthday party for one of their number.
Title: Boys In the Band, The in - Famous American Plays of the 1960's / COL Author: Crowley, Mart Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1972
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ all male cast; nine characters nine male two acts
"This dramatization of a gay birthday party with its bitterness, corrosive humour and vicious party games opened in New York in 1968 and changed the way the theatre portrays homosexuals and homosexuality. . . .The Greenwich Village host of the party receives an an odd telephone call from his old college roommate, who then follows up with an unexpected visit. Surprised to find himself in a room of "pansies", the straight interloper is drawn into a "truth" game. The results are harrowing as the men level with each other and themselves."
Title: Boys In the Band, The
Author: Crowley, Mart Publisher: Samuel French
Description:
roy dark comedy - LGBTQ+ all male cast; nine characters nine males two acts
"This dramatization of a gay birthday party with its bitterness, corrosive humour and vicious party games opened in New York in 1968 and changed the way the theatre portrays homosexuals and homosexuality. . . .The Greenwich Village host of the party receives an an odd telephone call from his old college roommate, who then follows up with an unexpected visit. Surprised to find himself in a room of "pansies", the straight interloper is drawn into a "truth" game. The results are harrowing as the men level with each other and themselves." Title: Brave Hearts in - Making, Out / CCO Author: Rintoul, Harry Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act
After one man punches out another at a party, a third man talks him down and . . .'the relationship that gradually develops between the two men is complex, difficult and convincing. . . '
Title: Breakfast and Bed in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Fox, Amy Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ all female cast; two characters; voice two female one act
In the spirit of experimentation, a woman who considers herself straight, goes home with another woman she met at a party. She wakes up in an apartment with the mother of the woman she picked up.
Title: Breakfast and Bed in - Outstanding Short Plays / COL Author: Fox, Amy Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2012
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ ⌦all female cast; two characters; voice two female one act
In the spirit of experimentation, a woman who considers herself straight, goes home with another woman she met at a party. She wakes up in an apartment with the mother of the woman she picked up. Title: Breaking The Code
Author: Whitemore, Hugh Hodges, Andrew Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy drama - biography - LGBTQ+ nine characters seven male; two female two acts
Turing was responsible for the success of the Allies in the Second World War. It was he who broke the immensely complex German code called "Enigma", enabling the Allied Forces to foresee all German war maneuvers. This intellectually brilliant but emotionally retarded man, to whom we owe not only our freedom from Nazism but also the computer was convicted of the criminal act of homosexuality and was sentenced to undergo highly dubious hormone treatments for the purpose of curing him. This play is about who he was, about what happened to him, and why.
Title: Cage aux Folles, La The Broadway musical Author: Herman, Jerry Fierstein, Harvey Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy musical - American - Little Theatre - LGBTQ+ ten characters; chorus of ten; extras seven male; three female; chorus of ten male two acts
various sets.
Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Book by Harvey Fierstein. "Winner of the 1984 Tony Award. One of the all time biggest Broadway hits, La Cage aux Folles adds new dimensions to the boulevard comedy about homosexuals whose twenty years of domestic tranquility are shattered when a son, fathered during a one night fling, decides to marry the daughter of a bigoted politician. Albin and
Title: Camera, Woman
Author: Vaughn, R.M. Publisher: Coach House Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - biography - Hollywood - Canadian - LGBTQ+ six characters one male; five female five acts (two parts)
In 1943, Dorothy Arzner, one of Hollywood's few women directors, walked off the set of an unfinished film. She never returned. Based on a true story, (this play) explores Arzner's complicated relationship with Golden Era studio politics, her openly lesbian lifestyle and how the two worlds collided in her art. Title: Can Can in - Pops / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1987
Description:
roy romance - LGBTQ+ four characters one male; three female one act
'Experimental drama weaves two love stories together, one heterosexual, one lesbian.'
Title: Casa Valentina
Author: Fierstein, Harvey Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - historical nine characters seven male; two female two acts
Nestled in the Catskills—1962's land of dirty dancing and Borscht Belt comedy—an inconspicuous bungalow colony catered to a very special clientele: heterosexual men who delighted in dressing and acting as women. These white-collar professionals would discreetly escape their families to spend their weekends safely inhabiting their chosen female alter-egos. But given the opportunity to share their secret lives with the world, the members of this sorority had to decide whether the freedom gained by openness was worth the risk of personal ruin. Based on real events and
Title: Cerveau Félé 101 / Broken Brain 101 in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Claude, Nathalie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - solo performance - women all female cast: one character one female one act
Running time: 22 minutes; text in both French and English.
Claude experiments with a straitjacket, a loaf of bread, and an imaginary alter ego. Title: Cherish
Author: Duncum, Ken Publisher: Victoria University Press 2004
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - family relations - relationships 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: Choir Boy
Author: McCraney, Tarell Alvin Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2015
Description:
roy drama - men - LGBTQ+ - historical - coming of age all male cast; seven characters seven male one act (prologue, epilogue)
The Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys is dedicated to the creation of strong, ethical black men. Pharus wants nothing more than to lead the school's legendary gospel choir, but finding his way is not easy if he sings in his own key. Set against the sorrowful sounds of hymns and spirituals, this is a stirring portrait of a young gay man finding the courage to tell the truth about himself. Tarell Alvin McCraney cannily explores race and sexuality and the graces and gravity of history.
Title: Christina, the Girl King
Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Talonbooks 2014
Description:
roy drama - 17th century - lesbian - philosophy - feminism - LGBTQ+⌦ten characters six male; four female three acts
Bouchard’s latest play tells the story of Queen Christina of Sweden. An enigmatic monarch, a flamboyant and unpredictable intellectual, a woman eager for knowledge, and a feminist before her time, Christina reigned over an empire she hoped to make the most sophisticated in all of Europe. In 1649, Christina summoned René Descartes to her court in Uppsala. His ideas about free will and reason appealed to her, who was struggling to reconcile tensions between her rational, thinking self and emotions she dared not name – including her love for a woman. Rather than bow to pressure to conform to the expectations of a nation, she abdicated her throne to Title: Chronicles of a War Child in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Kamal. Jazz "Nari" Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - solo performance all female cast; one character one female one act (three parts)
Her work as an intersectional feminist of Egyptian descent finds itself at the searching centre of speaking truth to power. In these emotional and sometimes angry works, Nari tackles the insidious regularity of racism, the ongoing burden of sexism, and the cross-cultural experience of homophobia.
Title: Claposis in - Radical Perversions / CCO Author: Butler, Audrey Publisher: Women's Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - Canadian all female cast; three characters three female one act
Intertwining lives of 3 women - told in reverse.
Title: Close Friends in - Some Angry Summer Songs / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 interior.
"A homosexual couple who could not live together, can also not live apart from each other." Title: Cock
Author: Bartlett, Mike Publisher: Bloomsbury 2009
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - LGBTQ+⌦four characters three male; one female one act (three scenes) When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out… Mike Bartlett's punchy new story takes a playful, candid look at one man's sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realize you have a choice. With carefully poised dialectics, Cock explores ambivalence in love and human nature through a nexus of emotions, relations and choices.
Winner! 2010 Laurence Olivier Award, Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.
Title: Cock in - Plays: 1 / COL Author: Bartlett, Mike Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2011
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - LGBTQ+⌦four characters three male; one female one act (three scenes) When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out… Mike Bartlett's punchy new story takes a playful, candid look at one man's sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realize you have a choice. With carefully poised dialectics, Cock explores ambivalence in love and human nature through a nexus of emotions, relations and choices.
Winner! 2010 Laurence Olivier Award, Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.
Title: Coming Clean in - Kevin Elyot: Four plays Author: Elyot, Kevin Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - LGBTQ+ all male cast; five characters five male one act (seven scenes)
A very funny and acute comedy about the gay life. Looks at the breakdown of a gay couples relationship and examines complex questions of fidelity and love. The play is set in a flat in Kentish Town, north London, in 1982. Struggling writer Tony and his partner of five years, Greg, seem to have the perfect relationship. Committed and in love, they are both open to one-night stands as long as they don’t impinge on the relationship. But Tony is starting to yearn for something deeper, something more like monogamy. When he finds out that Greg has been having Title: Coming of Age in Soho in - Best Plays of Albert Innaurato - COL Author: Innaurato, Albert Publisher: Gay Presses of New York 1987
Description:
roy farce - fantasy - LGBTQ+ seven characters four male; one female; two boys three acts
"The scene is a loft in the Soho section of Manhattan, where a blocked writer named Bartholomew Dante (but called Beatrice) has fled to escape his wife of fourteen years and to come to terms with his art and his homosexuality. But his eagerly sought tranquility is interrupted by a series of unexpected visitors: first a young runaway, Di, who is escaping from prep school and uptight family; then an astonishingly precocious teenager with a German accent (Puer) who informs Beatrice that he is his son by a German terrorist with whom Beatrice had a brief but intense fling;
Title: Corpus Christi
Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Grove Press 1998
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roy drama - faith - LGBTQ+ all male cast; thirteen characters thirteen male one act
An unorthodox version of the New Testament life of Christ, from the Nativity to the Crucifixion. The modern-day protagonist grows up in Texas, is called Joshua, and is homosexual. Music singing, dancing.
Title: Courageous
Author: Healey, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - LGBTQ+ nine characters seven male; two female two acts
Brian and his partner Martin seek a civil ceremony, but are stopped when Tom, the city official, won’t perform a homosexual marriage. While Tom fights for what he believes, his lover finds the battle a little too much to bear. Todd and Tammy do get married, but their life together quickly begins to unravel. From a chance meeting at City Hall, three couples are forever altered. Courageous is a wicked comedy that pits character against character, and exposes the hot-button issues of gay marriage, religious freedom, and liberal immigration policy as battlegrounds for Title: Cracks in - Gay Plays - COL Author: Sherman, Martin Publisher: Methuen 1986
Description:
roy satire - LGBTQ+ - murder mystery nine characters five male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
"Trendy California party setting for murder mystery with elements of satire".
Title: Dada Woof Papa Hot
Author: Parnell, Peter Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2016
Description:
roy drama - family relations - LGBTQ+ seven characters five male; two female one act (eight scenes)
flexible set.
It’s a fall night in New York City, and two couples who recently met at a parents group are out to dinner at the hot new restaurant. The foursome share photos of their kids, trade war stories from preschool applications, and discuss their work. Alan and Rob & Scott and Jason find plenty of common ground as gay couples raising kids in the city, and a play-date with their children is set.
Title: Dadshuttle, The in - The Beginning of August and Other Plays / COL Author: Donaghy, Tom Publisher: Grove Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - family relations - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act
A young man makes a futile attempt to come out and disclose his partner's HIV status to his elderly father. Title: David For Queen
Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Miscellaneous 1988
Description:
roy Canadian - high school - drama - LGBTQ+ six characters four male; two female two acts
various interior sets.
When a high school senior decides to come out of the closet by satirically running for Queen of the Prom, he finds out who his friends really are.
Title: Death and Dancing in - Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? and Other Stand-Up Theatre Plays / COL Author: Dowie, Claire Publisher: Methuen Drama 1996
Description:
roy British - comedy - sexuality - love - LGBTQ+ two characters one male; one female two acts
"In a spiky, angry duologue between ‘She’ and ‘He’, Dowie interrogates the labels with which society constricts everyone – gay, lesbian, straight, man, woman. ‘He’ has come over from America to study at a London University, and is out and proud, but he might fancy ‘She’ a bit. Particularly when ‘She’ is wearing a leather jacket, and making him wear a dress, because ‘She’ is determined to be anything she wanted to be, and wants to show him that you don’t have to be feminine or be masculine or wear a costume or buy a suit. "Death and Dancing" is about two
Title: Decades Apart: Reflections of Three Gay Men in - The Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 / COL Author: Pulos, Rick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; three characters three male (doubling possible) one act
Examines the attitudes and mores of three gay men living in different places and times in the United States. The first character lives in 1970's San Francisco and is a relatively carefree soul. The second man lives in 1980's New York City and is conservative to the core. The final character lives in 1990's Los Angeles and represents a return to a more carefree and possibly careless existence. Upon a closer look, Decades Apart asks: Has anything changed for gay men and women in the United States? Have you changed? Title: Destiny of Me, The in - The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me / COL Author: Kramer, Larry Publisher: Grove Press 1993
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roy drama - AIDS - LGBTQ+ seven characters five male; two female three acts
sequel to "The Normal Heart".
'The Destiny of Me' focuses on Ned Weeks, a character introduced in The Normal Heart, as he checks into the National Institutes of Health to undergo an experimental treatment for AIDS. Much of his story is told in flashback, as Ned recalls growing up as Alexander in a Jewish household where, as a hardcore theatre aficionado, he imitates Cornelia Otis Skinner and Mary Martin and
Title: Difference of Latitude in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Walter, Lisa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ two characters all female cast; two female one act
England, 1811.
Walter wrote the play after being inspired by the real-life accounts of nineteenth-century women who had carried on successful careers as military men over extended periods of time. Walter creates a composite character, Frances, who arranges to be pressed into service and sent off to serve in the War of 1812 as a mizzen-man on His Majesty's frigate Courageous.
Title: Dirty Plötz in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Tigchelaar, Alex Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy comedy - solo performance - cabaret - women - Canadian - LGBTQ+ all female cast; many characters one female (doubling) two acts
A cabaret monologue contextualized here with brief descriptions of th acts that were included in the show. This is a publication experiment in bringing the cabaret stage to the page. Title: Dog Opera
Author: Congdon, Constance Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - relationships - friendship eighteen characters five male; two female (doubling) two acts
Peter and Madeline have been friends since they were teenagers in Queens. They have Manhattan apartments and separate unsatisfactory sex lives. Though more loving than most couples and searching for partners, they are incompatible: he is gay. Maddi is overweight and drawn to men who treat her badly. He hides behind snappy retorts and skepticism. Maddie's alcoholic mother, Peter's father, lovers, pickups, and friends with AIDS move through their lives. A homeless teenager, a thief and a poet who would rather be called a whore than a hustler because he doesn't
Title: Drag Act in - Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? and Other Stand-Up Theatre Plays / COL Author: Dowie, Claire Publisher: Methuen Drama 1996
Description:
roy British - monologue - drama - LGBTQ+ all female cast; one character one female one act
"Drag Act" is a proud and punchy monologue spoken by Rose, a fifty-two year old lesbian who can’t stand being told how she should dress. She was told by her mother that she should be more girly and feminine, and now she finds she’s being told that she’s letting down ‘the Cause’ by wearing trousers; she’s sick of people thinking she’s trying to be a man. So she’s reluctant when her new younger girlfriend Sarah insists they go to a drag club for her birthday, until she realises that among the sequins and the feathers are people just like her.
Title: Drag Queens in Outer Space in - Painted, Tainted, Sainted / CCO Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drag queens - surrealism - LGBTQ+ all male cast; three characters three male one act
'Three drag queens discuss the meaning of life, love and self-realization when one of them decides to to put on a masculine image to survive in the "outside world".' Title: Drag Queens on Trial in - Painted, Tainted, Sainted / CCO Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy comedy - drag queens - LGBTQ+ all male cast; three characters three male two acts
'On the witness stand the Drag Queens reveal fantastic romantic lives; in their dressing room they are cruelly oppressed by straight culture. Which is real?'
Title: Drag Queens on Trial in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (5th ed.) / CCO Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy comedy - drag queens - LGBTQ+ all male cast; three characters three male two acts
'On the witness stand the Drag Queens reveal fantastic romantic lives; in their dressing room they are cruelly oppressed by straight culture. Which is real?'
Title: Duchesse de Langeais, La in - La Duchesse de Langeais and other plays (CCO) Author: Tremblay, Michel Publisher: Talonbooks
Description:
roy monologue - Canadian - drama - LGBTQ+ all female cast; One character one female two acts
" 'Duchesse de Langeais' is a brilliant two-act monologue set in a southern resort in which the duchesse, an ageing tapette, bares her proud and suffering soul to the audience, scotch bottle in hand." Title: Dykes and Dolls in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Lowe, Lisa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ one character all female cast; one female one act
Coming-out, coming-of-age solo performance. Location: A girls bedroom.
Reflecting the precarious existence of the child who refuses to perform her gender properly, Lowe's fantastic recuperation of the female-gendered icons and symbols for her own perverse purposes calls attention to the coercive ways in which female children are enculturated to be child-bearers. Full of grotesque exaggerations, Dykes and Dolls works theatrically by carrying
Title: Enclave, The
Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1974
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ nine characters six male; three female two acts
A group of congenial friends have restored several adjoining houses in one of New York's more attractive neighborhoods, and plan to move in en masse—setting up a sort of urban commune. However, one of their number, a confirmed bachelor, has resolved to confront the others with the fact of his long-concealed homosexuality and to bring along his young male lover as a permanent addition to the group. Although his friends have always prided themselves on their tolerance and openmindedness, they are outraged, and the enclave itself is imperiled. But as, in
Title: Enclave, The in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents / COL Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Back Stage Books 2004
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ nine characters six male; three female two acts
A group of congenial friends have restored several adjoining houses in one of New York's more attractive neighborhoods, and plan to move in en masse—setting up a sort of urban commune. However, one of their number, a confirmed bachelor, has resolved to confront the others with the fact of his long-concealed homosexuality and to bring along his young male lover as a permanent addition to the group. Although his friends have always prided themselves on their tolerance and openmindedness, they are outraged, and the enclave itself is imperiled. But as, in Title: Epiphany in - Young Playwrights Festival Collection / YCL Author: Litt, Jennifer A. Publisher: Avon Books 1982
Description:
roy children - youth - playwrights - LGBTQ+ twenty-three characters; extras twenty boys; three girls three acts
A play about "a homosexual affair between two boys, and how it is changed by the appearance of a beautiful girl. The play contrasts the down-to-earth ordinariness and self-assurance of the love between Richard and Perry with the brittle, rarefied relationship between Richard and Georgina. Even the way the two sets of couples kiss each other is carefully contrasted: the one relaxed and warm, the other frantic and impassioned. The play is set in 1912! The differences between the three teenagers are thrown into high relief as we observe an adult world of stiff conventionality
Title: Epiphany in - Cages: Snowangels and Epiphany / COL Author: Carlino, Lewis John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1964
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
interior; originally produced in tandem with Carlino's other play "Snowangel".
This is a play about a man who has failed so miserably as a man, that he decides to become a chicken, a rooster. His wife, a successful advertising executive, taunts him with memories of his failures, memories that include a homosexual experience she witnessed between her husband and another man. Years have gone by since this occurrence and her husband, driven by his inability
Title: Faust is Dead in - Plays: 1 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Publisher: Methuen Drama 2001
Description:
roy drama - gay - British - LGBTQ+ all male cast; three characters; chorus three male one act
The world's most famous philosopher arrives in Los Angeles and is greeted as a star. In a round of chat show appearances, he announces the Death of Man and the End of History. When he meets up with a young man who is on the run from his father, a leading software magnate, they embark on a hedonistic voyage across America. But in the play's bloody conclusion, they discover that not all events are virtual. Title: Fertile Imagination, A in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Cole, Susan G. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ three characters all female cast; three female (one black female) ten scenes
"The story of a lesbian couple's quest for recognition of their rights to live as equal, if separate, members of society. In keeping with its aim of carving out a lesbian space, the play capitalizes on the seductive powers of stage naturalism to legitimize the existence of an idealized lesbian couple seeking to have a child."
Title: Fortune and Men's Eyes
Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Grove Press 1967
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ 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: Fortune and Men's Eyes in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ all male cast; five characters five male two acts
'Four young men in Canadian reform school brutalized by system and other inmates.' Title: Fortune and Men's Eyes in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ 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: Fortune and Men's Eyes in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (3rd ed. ) / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ 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: Fortune and Men's Eyes in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (rev. ed.) / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1986
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ 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: Fortune and Men's Eyes
Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Grove Press 1967
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ 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: Forty-deuce
Author: Bowne, Alan Publisher: The Sea Horse Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - prostitution - men all male cast; seven characters seven male two acts
Alan Browne's searing portrait of boy hustlers, their pimps, johns and power plays. An unflinching attack on the consumerist society and topsy-turvy world of American values, where a dead child is as authentic a commodity as a Madison Avenue product. Browne's most impressive achievement, however, is the richness of language he has invested in his Forty-second Street denizens - a language as textured, nuanced and poetic as the Elizabethans'.
Title: Fred and Harold in - Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks - COL Author: Patrick, Robert Publisher: Winter House 1972
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - skits - sketches all male cast; two characters two male one scene
1 interior
"Anxieties at meeting between two homosexuals." Title: Freda and Jem's Best of the Week
Author: Fine, Lois Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - LGBTQ+ - love - family - divorce four characters one male; three female twenty-six scenes
Jem is a self-described butch dyke from Montreal who always imagined spending her life in bars and having multiple flings. When she meets Freda, a woman who exposes Jem’s vulnerabilities, her preconceived notions of who she is become moot as she finds herself partnered in a long-term relationship with kids. Which she surprisingly loves—most of the time. But that’s all changing as Jem and Freda’s marriage shifts from one of love and lust to one of gripes and grumbles. "Freda & Gem's Best of the Week" is a love story that explores the struggle for identity as
Title: Fresh Brewed: Tales from the coffee bar
Author: Meyerson, Henry Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy - collection - one acts - Henry Meyerson - betrayal - friendship - LGBTQ+ - love - comedy
Fresh Brewed is a collection of eleven plays, all of which take place in a coffee bar, all of which use the same set of two small tables and four chairs, and all of which can be performed by two male and two female actors in various combinations from a monologue to two quartets.
Includes: No Prune Morning Coffee Hierarchy Him Betty
Title: Friend's Story, A in - Collected Plays in Translation / COL Author: Tendulkar, Vijay Translated by Gowri Ramnarayan Publisher: Oxford University Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - love - LGBTQ+ five characters; extras three male; two female three acts
"A FRIEND'S STORY is a stark commentary on the nature of both heterosexual and homosexual love." Title: Fugue in a Nursery in - The Torch Song Trilogy / COL Author: Fierstein, Harvey Publisher: Gay Presses of New York 1979
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ four characters three male; one female one act
1 set.
"A continuation of the fortunes of the mismatched lovers in a more complex comedy."
Title: Furies, The in - Filthy Talk for Troubled Times and Other Plays / COL Author: LaBute, Neil Publisher: Soft Skull Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ three characters two male; one female one act
"Barry has some bad news for his sullen younger lover, Jimmy. He’s facing two people instead of one, though: Jimmy brought his sister, Jamie, to the lunch meeting." - New York Post
Title: Galatea
Author: Aronovitch, Lawrence Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2016
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - relationships all male cast; four characters four male two acts
running time: 95 mins.
A modern re-telling of the Pygmalion story that explores the dynamics of relationships and touches on themes such as love, loyalty, infidelity, marriage, class and art. Harry, a painter, invites a young model, Eli, to pose for him. Harry’s attraction to Eli disturbs both Harry’s longtime partner Georgie and Eli’s boyfriend Freddie. The play draws on the parallels and contrasts Title: Gay Deceiver, The
Author: Patrick, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1988
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ seven characters five male; two female three acts
"Having decided to come out of the closet, David returns to his parents' Florida home with his lover, Butch, determined to reveal his homosexuality. But while his mother, Julia, and his dotty grandmother, Bunny, seem unruffled by his declaration, his father, Filmore, a rich and very conservation Bible publisher, may be another matter."
Title: Gay Gene, The in - The Gay Gene and Other Plays / CCO Author: Wallace, Dale Publisher: Late Bloomers
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - ethics - canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
The gene for homosexuality has been discovered. In the play ethical dilemmas are ripe and choices must be made. Mankind must decide wether to sell its soul to science or to God.
Title: Gay Monologues and Scenes An anthology Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
Description:
Scenes – monologues – LGBTQ+
For those men who are naturally effeminate, and would rather work from their strengths than their weaknesses, these monologues and scenes provide an opportunity for acting training. Of course not all gay men are effeminate, and masculine men of all persuasions may be interested in stretching their acting muscles. And for those passionate about exercising their ability to experience (as actors) all aspects of the human condition, these scenes and monologues will be welcome addition to the canon and an opportunity to move aesthetically speaking that is - beyond the missionary position.
Contains the following works and playwrights: Title: Gay Plays v. 2
Author: Publisher: Methuen
Description:
roy collection - LGBTQ+
includes: - Quaint Honour... Roger Gellert - Lies About Vietnam... C. P. Taylor - Bearclaw... Timothy Mason - Cracks... Martin Sherman
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Gemini
Author: Innaurato, Albert Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1977
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - identity seven characters four male; three female two acts
1 exterior set.
A young man of Italian working class background is paid a surprise visit by two friends, a brother and sister of wealthy WASP upbringing. The visit comes at a crisis point in the man's life where he is trying to understand whether he is gay or heterosexual because he thinks he loves the brother more than the sister with whom he has had and affair.
Title: Gemini in - Best Plays of Albert Innaurato / COL Author: Innaurato, Albert Publisher: Gay Presses of New York 1987
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ seven characters four male; three female two acts
1 exterior set.
A young man of Italian working class background is paid a surprise visit by two friends, a brother and sister of wealthy WASP upbringing. The visit comes at a crisis point in the man's life where he is trying to understand whether he is gay or heterosexual because he thinks he loves the brother more than the sister with whom he has had and affair. Title: Get Yourself Home Skyler James in - Age of Minority / CCO Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - gender roles all female cast; one character one female one act
suggested for TYA touring.
Based on a true story, "Get Yourself Home Skyler James" follows the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by fellow soldiers.
Winner! The play is in a collection that won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama,
Title: Getting Lucky in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: Lloyd, Christian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - LGBTQ+ - relationships - drama - one acts all male cast; two characters two male one act
On Tuesday, September 7th, 2004, at roughly 9:00 a.m., Christian Lloyd found himself waking up in the most dangerous neighbourhood in New Orleans with someone he didn't remember meeting. Anything can happen during Southern Decadence weekend! Inspired by true events.
Title: Ghost Story in - Ravenhill Plays:3 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Publisher: Bloomsbury 2013
Description:
roy drama - breast cancer - spirituality - LGBTQ+ all female cast; three characters three female one act
running time: 40 mins.
Lisa has breast cancer. Meryl is a healer who believes in the power of positive thinking. As time folds back on itself and then forwards, Lisa and Meryl trade roles as the healer and the healed, discovering that the world is full of ghosts. Title: Graceful Rebellions in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Latif, Shaista Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - solo performance - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian all female cast; three characters three female (doubling possible) one act (four parts)
Running time: 50 minutes
Love is a sacred act of grace. Rebellion is the refusal of obedience. Joy is a state of divinity and destruction. Power is given to those who take. Can a queer Afghan woman identify herself in a occupied land? Part storytelling, part folklore and myth. Tradition is history repeated. Contains four monologues: A Wedding for Leili; One Hundred Poppies; What's in a Name?; and Leili in
Title: Greetings from a Queer Señorita in - Out of the Fringe / COL Author: Palacios, Monica Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000
Description:
roy monologues - women - comedy - LGBTQ+ all female cast; one character one female one act
music, singing; 1 setting.
Performance piece combining the author's Latin lezbo comic and Confessions... a sexplosion of tantilizing tales. Depicts world of lesbian comic.
Title: Growing Up Suites, Parts I and II and Object/Subject of Desire in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Dempsey, Shawna Millan, Lorri Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ one character all female cast; one female eleven vignettes
The experiences that Dempsey and Millan went through growing up in the bleak suburban landscapes of Scarborough and Etobicoke in the 1960s and 1970s. Title: Handbag in - Plays: 1 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Publisher: Methuen Drama 2001
Description:
roy drama - family relations - gay - British - LGBTQ+ eleven characters three male; three female (doubling) one act
From Victorian wet nurses to 90s sperm banks, Mark Ravenhill's new play examines the role of parenting in an age of diverse sexualities, biological engineering and Tinkly Winky's handbag.
Title: Haunted Host, The in - Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks / COL Author: Patrick, Robert Publisher: Winter House 1972
Description:
roy drama - self realization all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 interior; 3 scenes.
"Two playwrights, one a young houseguest and the other a homosexual, obsessed by ghost of dead friend, come to self-realizations."
Title: Heaven in - The Hang of the Gaol / Heaven - COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1982
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ twenty-two characters nineteen male; three female fifteen scenes
"Perhaps the irreligious and improper account of the activities of a homosexual double agent and his establishment colleagues has too many direct parallels for comfort. Yet the play remains a hilarious debunking of the backwardness of the English village tribe and the self-protective terror of those who govern in the public eye". Title: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Author: Mitchell, John Cameron Trask, Steven Publisher: Overlook Press 1998
Description:
roy musical - contemporary - relationship - LGBTQ+ three characters; a rock band two male; one female one act
'Inspired by Plato's 'Symposium', Hedwig tells the story of 'internationally ignored song stylist' Hedwig Schmidt, the victim of a gruesomely botched sex-change operation, and is dazzlingly recounted by Hedwig (nee Hansel) in the form of a sleazy lounge act, and backed by the rocking band, 'The Angry Inch'.'
Title: Hiding Words (For You) in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Wong, Gein Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian playwright - China - relationships eight characters five male; three female two acts
The play takes us to nineteenth-century China and into the heart of the private relationship of two women that is facilitated by a secret phonetic (and feminine) adaptation of Chines script called Nüshu. Hiding, here, becomes an act of rebellion that creates new means of communicating and new ways of achieving intimacy among women. Wong's play will surprise and move you with its nuanced images and loving attention to the historical tools of feminist freedom.
Title: Hir in - American Theatre (December 2014) / PER Author: Mac, Taylor Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy - family relations - identity - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; one female; one transgender (f to m) two acts
Isaac, a marine working in Mortuary Affairs, comes home from the war to take care of his father, who has recently suffered a debilitating stroke. But will Isaac's newly radicalized mother and transgender sibling make it easy for him? "Hir" is a comedic tragedy about the way we care for and bury our dying ways of life. Title: Hosanna in - Heroines: Three Plays / CCO Author: Tremblay, Michel Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1992
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male two acts
Homosexual transvestite, humiliated by practical joke, assesses his life and relationship with lover.
Title: Hosanna
Author: Tremblay, Michel Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male two acts
1 interior set; translated by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco.
Homosexual transvestite, humiliated by practical joke, assesses his life and relationship with lover.
Title: Hosanna
Author: Tremblay, Michel translated by John Van Burek and Bill Gl Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male two acts
1 interior set.
Homosexual transvestite, humiliated by practical joke, assesses his life and relationship with lover. Title: Hot 'n' Soft in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Miguel, Muriel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - solo performance - Native peoples - LGBTQ+ - Native playwright all female cast; one character one female one act
"Hot 'n' Soft" is a lesbian erotica/trickster story created by Muriel Miguel (Kuna-Rappahannock). After encountering only male trickster stories, Miguel decided to build a piece around a female lesbian coyote trickster (the Coyote often plays the role of trickster and is usually male). Adding erotica to the mix, Miguel bases her tale on taboos not normally spoken of in the Native lesbian community, hair, two-timing, being uncomfortable, and getting older.
Title: Hungry Woman: a Mexican Medea, The in - Out of the Fringe / COL Author: Moraga, Cherríe Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ many characters seven female; one boy (doubling) two acts
7 interiors, 1 exterior.
In a balkanized America of the future, Medea lives in the outcasts' territory with her son and her woman lover, for whose sake she has accepted exile.
Title: I Have AIDS!
Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - black comedy - LGBTQ+ - AIDS all male cast; seven characters five male (doubling) two acts
Sky Gilbert's controversial black comedy about AIDS and the gay community. "Prodon is an out-of-the-closet gay stand-up comic whose career has seen better days. His lover Vidor is an interior designer. One day Prodon tells Vidor that he has AIDS. An unflinching examination of modern AIDS politics and of the way AIDS operates not only as a disease but as a cultural force in the socio-political scene today, I HAVE AIDS! will force audiences to not only question their ideas about gay men and AIDS but will start people talking about the current state of gay romance, love Title: I Promised Myself to Live Faster:a queer space opera in the decadent style in - Humana Festival 2015 / COL Author: Moss, Gregory S Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2016
Description:
roy musical comedy - LGBTQ+ - identity - allegory large cast flexible casting
Developed by: Pig Iron Theatre Company
'I Promised Myself to Live Faster' is an intergalactic gay extravaganza featuring closeted extraterrestrials, high-stakes pursuits, and nuns from outer space. In this wild work, Tim’s out trolling for a good time when an order of intergalactic nuns charge him with a quest: retrieve the Holy Gay Flame from the clutches of the evil emperor to save the race of Homosexuals and restore the balance of power in the universe. But when he’s captured by the fabulously androgynous
Title: III in - The Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 / COL Author: Salvatore, Joe Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - relationships all male cast; three characters three male one act
Taken from parts of a fifteen year relationship between George Platt Lynes, Glenway Wescott and Monroe Wheeler. The relationship between these great artistic icons of the twentieth century has strong cultural implications for an early-twenty-first-century society wrestling with gay marriage, monogamy, and relationship construction. Westcott and Wheeler met in 1919 at the University of Chicago, and they continued to be lifelong companions until Westcott's death in 1987. Wheeler died in 1988. Throughout this long relationship, lovers entered and exited for both Westcott and
Title: Immoralist, The
Author: Goetz, Ruth Goetz, Augustus Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1962
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ eight characters six male; two female three acts
2 interior sets.
Based on the novel of the same title by Andre Gide. A young man desperately marries a childhood friend in hopes that a homosexual encounter of his youth was not a permanent indication that he is homosexual. However, as he comes to know and accept his homosexuality, he begins unintentionally to destroy his wife's self-respect as he becomes increasingly alienated from her. Title: In the Blue in - Peter Gill: Plays 1 / COL Author: Gill, Peter Publisher: Faber and Faber 2002
Description:
roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act (three scenes)
When Stewart, a hedonistic drifter, and Michael, a timid hospital auxiliary, embark on a love affair, the odds are set against them. For as much as Stewart is assertive and streetwise, Michael is introverted and awkward. In this two-hander Peter Gill explores the simultaneous attraction and incompatibility of two social worlds.
Title: In the Heights The complete book and lyrics of the Broadway musical Author: Hudes, Quiara Alegria Miranda, Lin-Manuel Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2006
Description:
roy musical - Latin America - LGBTQ+ twelve characters; extras six male; six female two acts
book by Quiara Alegría Hudes, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
"In the Heights" is an exciting musical about life in Washington Heights, a tight-knit community where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. ... "In the Heights" is an authentic and exhilarating journey into one of Manhattan's most vibrant communities. And with its universal
Title: In the Jungle of Cities in - Collected Works: One / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Gerhard Nellhaus Publisher: Methuen 1970
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - relationships fifteen characters; extras twelve male; three female one act (eleven scenes)
"Savage quarrel of two masochistic homosexuals in Chicago, that endures for three years until one dies." Title: International Stud in - The Torch Song Trilogy / COL Author: Fierstein, Harvey Publisher: Gay Presses of New York 1979
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ three characters two male; one female one act
platform set; cyclorama and wings.
No abstract available.
Title: Jeffrey
Author: Rudnick, Paul Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995
Description:
roy comedy - romance - AIDS - LGBTQ+ eight characters seven male; one female two acts
Jeffrey, a gay actor/waiter, has sworn off sex after too many bouts with his partners over what is "safe" and what is not. In gay New York, though, sex is not something you can avoid. Jeffrey finds the pursuit of love and just plain old physical gratification to be the number one preoccupation of his times - and the source of plenty of hilarity. Suddenly, just after he's reconciled himself to celibacy, Jeffrey's flamboyant friends introduce him to the man of his dreams, who also happens to be HIV positive. What follows is a romantic comedy with a difference - where humor prevails
Title: Jim Dandy in - Painted, Tainted, Sainted / CCO Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - LGBTQ+ thirteen characters six male; seven female one act
'A history of the "dandy", (Oscar Wilde, Andy Warhol, etc.) interspersed with Warholesque home movies of sexually naturalistic grotesquerie.' Title: Jungle of Cities in - Jungle of Cities and Other Plays / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Anselm Hollo Publisher: Grove Press 1966
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ fifteen characters; extras twelve male; three female eleven scenes
7 interior and 1 exterior set.
"Savage quarrel of two masochistic homosexuals in Chicago, that endures for three years until one dies"
Title: Jungle of Cities in - Jungle of Cities and other plays / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Anselm Hollo Publisher: Grove Press 1966
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ fifteen characters; extras twelve male; three female one act (eleven scenes)
7 interiors; 1 exterior; translated by Anselm Hollo.
Savage quarrel of two masochistic homosexuals in Chicago, that endures for three years until one dies.
Title: Just Say No A play about a farce Author: Kramer, Larry Publisher: St. Martin's Press 1989
Description:
roy farce - LGBTQ+ - politicians eight characters five male; two female two acts
1 interior.
Homosexual attempts to blackmail powerful First Lady who has hidden her son's homosexuality. Title: Justice of the Piece in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Monkman, Kent Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - Native peoples - drag queen all male cast; one character one male one act
Kent Monkman returns as his cheeky alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Miss Chief dons the judicial robes to hold court over a new inclusive nation in this deconstruction of blood quantum, ethnicity and sovereignty. ImagineNATIVE
Title: Karla and Grif
Author: Laxdal, Vivienne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ three characters one male; two female two acts
'Haunted by the explosive love of her obsessive father and the memories of a friendship crossing emotional and physical boundaries, Karla holds Grif hostage one suspenseful night in an attempt to alleviate her pain and confusion.'
Winner! Full length Category - Canadian National Playwriting Competition.
Title: Karla and Grif
Author: Laxdal, Vivienne Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1991
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ three characters one male; two female two acts
'Haunted by the explosive love of her obsessive father and the memories of a friendship crossing emotional and physical boundaries, Karla holds Grif hostage one suspenseful night in an attempt to alleviate her pain and confusion.'
Winner! Full length Category - Canadian National Playwriting Competition. Title: Karla and Grif in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Laxdal, Vivienne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
'Haunted by the explosive love of her obsessive father and the memories of a friendship crossing emotional and physical boundaries, Karla holds Grif hostage one suspenseful night in an attempt to alleviate her pain and confusion.
'Winner! Full length Category - Canadian National Playwriting Competition.
Title: Kiss Me Outside the Box in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Cartterfield, Carmen Publisher: Signature Editions 2011
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - romance - LGBTQ+ - relationship all female cast; two characters two female one act
"Kiss Me Outside the Box" follows Nico and Riley's friendship and more-than-friendship during their first year of college.
Title: Kong in - The Best American Short Plays - 2005-2006 / COL Author: Sneed, Pamela Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy political satire - monologue - LGBTQ+ one character one male or female three parts
A political tapestry that weaves together current events and trends in cinema, and retells the important history of black lesbian and gays in New York City in the early 1990's, who formed a literary movement akin to the Harlem Renaissance. Title: Lady and A Woman, A in - Amazon All Stars / COL Author: Holmes, Shirlene Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy black theatre - women - LGBTQ+ all female cast; two characters two female two acts
'Focusing on the blossoming relationship between a butch and a femme, Holmes' play melds the southern folklore of early Black theatre with the exploration of sexual roles, desires and discovery that so often informs queer and lesbian theatre.'
Title: Lapine-Moi / Rabbit-I in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Claude, Nathalie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - women - LGBTQ+ - identity - solo performance - Canadian all female cast; five characters one female (doubling) one act (five parts)
Running time: 16 minutes; text in both French and English
A dream-like excavation of the fragmentary nature of identity within the overlapping sphere of life art. Claude plays a rabbit, a hunter, herself, and herself as an omnipotent narrator in a metatheatrical interrogation of reality and fantasy where the artist realizes that she is both hunter and hunted, both the object of desire and the source of desire.
Title: Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, The
Author: Kaufman, Moises Fondakowski, Leigh Publisher: Vintage Books 2014
Description:
roy - collection - Moisés Kaufman - drama - full lengths - LGBTQ+
includes: The Laramie Project The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, The
Author: Kaufman, Moises Fondakowski, Leigh Publisher: Vintage Books 2014
Description:
roy - collection - Moisés Kaufman - drama - full lengths - LGBTQ+
includes: The Laramie Project The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Laramie Project, The
Author: Kaufman, Moises The Members of the Theatre Project Publisher: Vintage Books 2001
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - death - historical tragedy large cast flexible casting three acts
"On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal. The play chronicles the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder, using eight actors to embody more than sixty different people in their own words - from rural ranchers to university professors. The result is a complex portrayal that dispels the simplistic media stereotypes and
Title: Laramie Project, The in - The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later / COL Author: Kaufman, Moises Publisher: Vintage Books 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - LGBTQ+ - death - historical tragedy large cast flexible casting three acts
"On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal. The play chronicles the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder, using eight actors to embody more than sixty different people in their own words - from rural ranchers to university professors. The result is a complex portrayal that dispels the simplistic media stereotypes and Title: Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, The in - The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later / COL Author: Kaufman, Moises Fondakowski, Leigh Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - historical - death - LGBTQ+ - tragedy many characters four male; four female (doubling, flexible casting) two acts
On November 6, 1998, gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard left the fireside Bar with Aaron McKinney and Russel Henderson. The following day he was discovered on a prairie at the edge of town, tied to a fence, brutally beaten, and close to death. Six days later Matthew Shepard died at Poudre Valley Hospital in Ft. Collins, Colorado. On November 14, 1998, ten members of Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming and conducted interviews with people of the town. Over the next year, the company returned to Laramie six times and conducted
Title: Last Rites
Author: Hamson, Leslie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - death - LGBTQ+ six characters one male; five female one act
"Charlotte and Rachel, lesbian women, have taken refuge in the trapline cabin of Native friends who provide support. Charlotte is dying and makes contact with the daughter that her sister raised as her own. Eventually, all the women come together."
Title: Last Rites in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 75, Summer 1993 / PER Author: Hamson, Leslie Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - death six characters one male; five female one act
"Charlotte and Rachel, lesbian women, have taken refuge in the trapline cabin of Native friends who provide support. Charlotte is dying and makes contact with the daughter that her sister raised as her own. Eventually, all the women come together." Title: Late Show, A in - 2 from Chambers / COL Author: Chambers, Jane Publisher: T 'n' T Classics 1998
Description:
roy drama - American - 20th century - LGBTQ+ - all female cast; five characters five female two acts
single set.
A woman is stranded in a blizzard with her first, last, current and next lover!
Title: Lavender Railroad, The
Author: Aronovitch, Lawrence Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ four characters two male; two female two acts
"Imagine a world in which homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death. “The Lavender Railroad” is a play in two parts that mirror each other (science and faith; male and female) as they address common themes of hope and redemption in the face of impossible moral choices. In Part 1 (“Safe House”), a gay fugitive, Sebastian, has been rescued by a mysterious older man who calls himself Mother Courage. Sebastian is a brilliant young mathematician whose research into “fractal logic” holds the key to bringing down a totalitarian government intent on
Title: Leaking from Every Orifice in - Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? and Other Stand-Up Theatre Plays / COL Author: Dowie, Claire Publisher: Methuen Drama 1996
Description:
roy British - drama - monologue - family relations - LGBTQ+ all female cast; one character one female one act (two parts)
"Leaking from Every Orifice" is a forthright monologue about motherhood, told by a woman who thinks womanhood is crap, and being a mother is insufferable. The story begins, she tells us, when she was performing Dowie’s own earlier play about gender, "Why Is John Lennon Wearing A Skirt?", and she met an old friend who hated the play. Being a mother and having the capacity to nurture, said the old friend, made everything else unimportant. So "Leaking from Every Orifice" is the story of how a lesbian became pregnant with a gay man, and struggled through nauseating Title: Lesbian Plays Coming of age in Canada Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy - collection - lesbian - LGBTQ+ - drama
includes: Black Friday - Alec Butler Growing Up Suites I and II; Object/Subject of Desire - Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan Dykes and Dolls - Lisa Lowe Karla and Grif - Vivienne Laxdal A Fertile Imagination - Susan G. Cole Difference of Latitude - Lisa Walter Swollen Tongues - Kathleen Oliver Life and a Lover - Natalie Meisner
Title: Lies About Vietnam in - Gay Plays / COL Author: Taylor, C. P. Publisher: Methuen 1986
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - war all male cast; three characters three male one act
1 interior set.
"Male lovers' (one British, one American) inability to solve intimate personal problems, reflects challenge to survive in face of horrors of war".
Title: Life and a Lover in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Meisner, Natalie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ all female cast; three characters three female (doubling) two acts
Meisner uses letters and other historical documentation to tell a version of the story of Virginia Woolf's love affair with Vita Sackville-West.
Winner of the Canadian National Playwriting Award. Title: Life in Three Acts, A in - Ravenhill Plays:3 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Bourne, Bette Publisher: Bloomsbury 2013
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - biography - Mark Ravenhill two characters one male; one female three acts
With honesty, humour and occasional anger, performer Bette Bourne tells the playwright Mark Ravenhill about his brave and flamboyant life. Crafted from transcripts of a series of long, private conversations, Bette reminisces and replays scenes from his life, from a post-war childhood, a stint as a classical actor in the late 1960s, to living in a drag commune in Notting Hill and being an active member of the Gay Liberation Front. Bette talks about touring with the New York-based Hot Peaches cabaret group and founding his own cabaret troop, the Bloolips, which redefined gay
Title: Lilies
Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - romance - LGBTQ+ all male cast; nine characters nine male seven episodes
'The revival of a romantic drama. Simon Doucet re-enacts for Jean Bilodeau, now a Catholic bishop, their past as lovers while rehearsing The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian.'
Title: Lilies
Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - romance - LGBTQ+ all male cast; nine characters nine male seven episodes
'The revival of a romantic drama. Simon Doucet re-enacts for Jean Bilodeau, now a Catholic bishop, their past as lovers while rehearsing The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian.' Title: Lot's Daughters in - The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Presents / COL Author: Basham, Rebecca Publisher: Back Stage Books 2006
Description:
roy drama - American - historical - LGBTQ+ eight characters four male; four female; three to five extras three acts
"Lot's Daughters explores Christian dogma and its historical repression of homosexuals. Using the Biblical story of Lot and his family who are forced to flee Sodom as a metaphor, the play is the story of two young women who fall in love with each other during the summer of 1944. Gertie and Susanna are left behind in eastern Kentucky when Gertie's brother - Susanna's new husband - leaves the mountains of Appalachia to serve his country. Set in a region where it is difficult to be gay or lesbian today - and was almost impossible sixty years ago - Lot's Daughters dramatizes
Title: Love Valour Compassion
Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995
Description:
roy drama - men - relationships - LGBTQ+ - AIDS all male cast; seven characters seven male three acts
'Eight gay men spend three summer holiday weekends at country house in Duchess County, New York.'
Title: M. Butterfly
Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1988
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ sixteen characters seven male; three female three acts
3 of the men are non-speaking roles.
Based on a true story. Bored with his routine posting in Beijing, and awkward with women, Rene Gallimard, a French diplomat, is easy prey for the subtle, delicate charms of Song Lyling, a Chinese opera star who personifies Gallimard's fantasy vision of submissive, exotic oriental sexuality. He begins an affair with "her" which lasts for twenty years, during which time he passes Title: M. Butterfly
Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: Plume Books 1989
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ sixteen characters seven male; three female three acts
3 of the men are non-speaking roles.
Based on a true story. Bored with his routine posting in Beijing, and awkward with women, Rene Gallimard, a French diplomat, is easy prey for the subtle, delicate charms of Song Lyling, a Chinese opera star who personifies Gallimard's fantasy vision of submissive, exotic oriental sexuality. He begins an affair with "her" which lasts for twenty years, during which time he passes
Title: M. Butterfly in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ sixteen characters seven male; three female three acts
3 of the men are non-speaking roles.
Based on a true story. Bored with his routine posting in Beijing, and awkward with women, Rene Gallimard, a French diplomat, is easy prey for the subtle, delicate charms of Song Lyling, a Chinese opera star who personifies Gallimard's fantasy vision of submissive, exotic oriental sexuality. He begins an affair with "her" which lasts for twenty years, during which time he passes
Title: Madness of Lady Bright, The in - Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994
Description:
roy drama - life - LGBTQ+⌦three characters two male; one female one act
"...traces the mental breakdown of Lesley Bright, an aging homosexual whose past returns to haunt him with the emptiness of the choices he made." Title: Madness of Lady Bright, The in - Eight Plays from Off-Off Broadway / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1966
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+⌦three characters two male; one female one act "...traces the mental breakdown of Lesley Bright, an aging homosexual whose past returns to haunt him with the emptiness of the choices he made."
Title: Magic Hour, The in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Dobkin, Jess Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - solo performance - Canadian - LGBTQ+ - women all female cast; one character one female one act (four parts)
The playwright engages the tipping point between life and art by asking what constitutes performance to begin with. Invoking the question of when and where things begin and end makes Dobkin's practice a balancing act between the real and the performed as she recollects and re-collates the time of her own lived experience.
Title: Mahmoud
Author: Grammy, Tara David, Tom Arthur Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015
Description:
roy drama - racism - identity - LGBTQ+ - Toronto three characters one female (doubling) one act (seventeen scenes)
Mahmoud is an exuberant, if overwhelmingly passionate, Iranian engineer-cum-taxi driver who relishes the chance to regale his passengers with his love of Persian culture. Emanuelos, a fabulously gay Spanish perfume salesman, can talk a mile-a-minute about his boyfriend, Behnam. And then there’s Tara, an awkwardly charming Iranian Canadian preteen who just wants to be “normal,” whatever that means. When the three strangers find themselves crossing paths in the busy streets of Toronto, their experiences with racism, sexism, homophobia, homesickness, and Title: Making, Out Plays by Gay Men Author: Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy Canadian playwrights - collection - LGBTQ+ - drama - comedy
This collection contains: - Touch; David Demchuk - Beuys Buoys Boys; Ken Garnhum - Capote At Yaddo; Sky Gilbert - 2-2-Tango; Daniel MacIvor - Brave Hearts; Harry Rintoul - Flesh and Blood; Colin Thomas
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Marco Polo Sings a Solo
Author: Guare, John Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - film eight characters five male; three female two acts
1999; an island off the coast of Norway.
Stony McBride, a young movie director and adopted son of an aging Hollywood star, is writing a film about Marco Polo, in which, it is hoped, his Father will make a comeback. Stony is also attempting to deal with his attractive wife, a former concert pianist and his lover, his mother, a friend named Frank, a maid, and another friend, Larry. There is also an earthquake; the discovery
Title: Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet
Author: McCraney, Tarell Alvin Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2013
Description:
roy drama - coming of age - LGBTQ+ - self identity ten characters five male; four female (doubling) two acts
Marcus is sixteen and "sweet." Days before Hurricane Katrina strikes the projects of Louisiana, the currents of his life converge, overflowing into his close-knit community and launching the search for his sexual and personal identity on a cultural landscape infused with mysterious family creeds. The provocative, poignant, and fiercely humorous coming-of-age story of a young gay man in the South, MARCUS is the stirring conclusion of The Brother/Sister Plays. Title: Martin Yesterday
Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1998
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - relationships - Canadian 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: Marvelous Shrine in - Plays and Playwrights 2008 / COL Author: Brumm, Leslie Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2008
Description:
roy drama - American - LGBTQ+ three characters two male; one female one act
17-year-old Marvelous isn't sure if he's gay, but he knows he wants to play music. His parents battle over his destiny, and nobody wins in this moving drama.
Title: Men from the Boys, The in - The Band Plays / COL Author: Crowley, Mart Publisher: Alyson Publications 2003
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ all male cast; nine characters nine male two acts
1 interior; singing.
Homosexual friends introduced in "The Boys in the Band" assemble again to celebrate life of one of the original 'boys' who had died. Title: Mistaken Identity in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Cooper, Sharon E. Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ two characters one male; one female one act
Set in a pub in Leicester, England, a Hindu lesbian and a disarmingly clueless American discuss their needs and desires.
Title: Mothers and Sons
Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2014
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; one female; one boy one act
At turns funny and powerful, MOTHERS AND SONS portrays a woman who pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son's partner, who is now married to another man and has a young son. Challenged to face how society has changed around her, generations collide as she revisits the past and begins to see the life her son might have led.
Title: My First Time
Author: Davenport, Ken Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy comedy - sex four characters two male; two female one act
MY FIRST TIME features four actors in hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences written by real people. In 1998, a decade before blogging began, a website was created that allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their 'First Times'. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 40,000 stories poured in from around the globe that were silly, sweet, absurd, funny, heterosexual, homosexual, shy, sexy and everything in between. And now, these true stories and all of the unique characters in them are brought to Title: My Husband in - Plays for Two / COL Author: Rudnick, Paul Publisher: Vintage Books 2014
Description:
roy comedy - marriage - LGBTQ+⌦two characters one male; one female one act
A Jewish mother wants to marry off her gay son.
Title: My Night with Reg in - Kevin Elyot: Four plays Author: Elyot, Kevin Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - AIDS - relationships all male cast; six characters six male one act (three scenes)
Sharply witty and humanely wise drama about gay manners and morals in the age of AIDS. 'My Night with Reg' follows the ups and downs of a circle of gay friends in London over a period of several years, and tackles with brutal honesty the impact that AIDS/HIV had on the gay community during its height in the 1980s, as well as examining the pain of unrequited love and the joy of friendship.
Title: My Own Private Oshawa in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 100, Fall 1999 / PER Author: Wilson, Jonathan Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999
Description:
roy LGBTQ+ - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act
'On a GO train from Toronto to Oshawa, a young man returns to memories of growing up gay and the liberation of his friendship with the Flamboyant Gordon. First produced at the Toronto Fringe Festival.' Title: My Perfect Heaven in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Christenson, Jonathon Tremblay, Joey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy monologues - men - Canadian drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; one character one male one act
'(The play) takes us on a journey of such endlessly expanding imaginary spaces that it eludes easy categorization. Written originally for a Loud n' Queer festival, "My Perfect Heaven" caves out a fantasy space where a queer little farmboy might exist in a new version of prairie gothic. Performed by Joey alone on stage, "painted pale blue from head to toe" and sitting up high over the stage "in a ,arge barbed wire nest", the piece depends heavily on the images and emotions created through the intense lyricism of the spoken lines which recount the adventures of the
Title: Nasty Rumours and Final Remarks in - Amazon All Stars / COL Author: Miller, Susan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy relationships - drama - LGBTQ+ seven characters three male; four female two acts
'Unlike her 'Confessions of a Female Disorder', Susan Miller's 'Nasty Rumours and Final Remarks' does not dramatize a lesbian coming out or anybody dealing with her sexual orientation. Rather, Miller presents Max's lesbianism and Raleigh's bisexuality as givens, the writes about human relationships as well as the person serving as the fulcrum of those, a beautiful, witty, talented, lively woman who experiences a cerebral hemorrhage.'
Title: Nazi\Jew\Queer in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: Achtman, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - LGBTQ+ - monologues all male cast; three characters three male (doubling possible) one act
Told in three monologues - a gay man, a neo-Nazi and a Jew tell their stories. Title: Next Fall in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2010 / COL Author: Nauffts, Geoffrey Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2011
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ six characters four male; two female two acts
"Geoffrey Nauffts' NEXT FALL takes a witty and provocative look at faith, commitment and unconditional love. While the play's central story focuses on the five-year relationship between Adam and Luke, NEXT FALL goes beyond a typical love story. This timely and compelling new American play forces us all to examine what it means to "believe" and what it might cost us not to." - Dramatists Play Service
Title: Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me, The Two plays Author: Kramer, Larry Publisher: Grove Press 2000
Description:
roy - collection - Larry Kramer - LGBTQ+
contains: The Normal Heart The Destiny of Me
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Normal Heart, The
Author: Kramer, Larry Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy drama - AIDS - LGBTQ+ nine characters eight male; one female two acts
A searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man's lonely fight to awaken the world to the crisis. Produced to acclaim in New York, London and Los Angeles, The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the indifference of public officials and the gay community. While trying to save the world from itself, he confronts the personal toll of AIDS when his lover dies of the disease. Title: Normal Heart, The in - The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me / COL Author: Kramer, Larry Publisher: Grove Press 1985
Description:
roy drama - AIDS - LGBTQ+ nine characters eight male; one female two acts
A searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man's lonely fight to awaken the world to the crisis. Produced to acclaim in New York, London and Los Angeles, The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the indifference of public officials and the gay community. While trying to save the world from itself, he confronts the personal toll of AIDS when his lover dies of the disease.
Title: Norman, Is That You?
Author: Clark, Ron Bobrick, Sam Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
When a man's wife runs off with his brother, he drops in on his son, now living in New York, only to discover that his son is gay.
Title: Oedipus at Palm Springs A five lesbian brothers play Author: Angelos, Maureen Dibbell, Dominique Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy dark comedy - LGBTQ+ - relationships all female cast; five characters five female one act (full length)
bare stage; simple set; written by Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, Lisa Kron.
Irreverent theater group The Five Lesbian Brothers get their greasy prints on a classic. "Oedipus at Palm Springs" follows the dark adventure of two couples on a retreat to the desert resort town. While new parents Fran and Con try desperately to jump-start their sex life, May-December love bunnies Prin and Terri can't keep their hands off each other. What begins as a hilarious, boozey Title: Okay Kids, The in - Dramatics (Sept 2015) / PER Author: McKenzie, Hunter Publisher: Miscellaneous 2015
Description:
roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ - friendship eight characters four male; four female one act (four scenes)
"There’s a bad breakup, a bad girl back in town, and a really bad party, but it’s all… okay." - schooltheatre.org
Title: Organic Divide in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Fulford, Robin Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy drama - marital relations - LGBTQ+ two characters one male; one female one act
Woman in her perfect world discovers her husband is gay.
Title: Orlando in - Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando / COL Author: Woolf, Virginia Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: TCG Books 2013
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - history twenty characters flexible casting five acts
adapted by Sarah Ruhl.
The story describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the story has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies. Title: Our Country in - Plays and Playwrights 2010 / COL Author: Asaro, Tony Collins, Dan Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2010
Description:
roy musical - drama - LGBTQ+⌦all male cast; three characters; five member band two male (doubling) one act
Outed in a public restroom, country music sensation Tommy Dautry has gone from darling to derelict overnight. But now, in this exciting and heartfelt musical, Tommy is back and ready to prove that gay or straight, left or right… it's Our Country, too.
Title: Outside
Author: Dunn, Paul Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - young adult - bullying - mental health - LGBTQ+ three characters two male; one female one act
Inspired by the kinds of real-life stories that prompted the It Gets Better campaign, Paul Dunn’s play for middle-grade and high-school students brings the discussion around homophobia, bullying, mental health and gay-straight directly to the young people who are on the front lines.
Daniel’s ready to talk. And his friends Krystina and Jeremy are ready to help. But is it too late? Set in separate but simultaneous lunch periods at two different high schools, the teenagers are faced
Title: Outspoken A Canadian collection of lesbian scenes and monologues Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
Scenes - monologues - Canadian – women - LGBTQ+
Touching on gender, sexuality, family, pop culture, and history, these pieces range from the hilarious to the poignant, the sexy to the sincere, the truthful to the tongue-in-cheek. Collected by writer and journalist Susan G. Cole from poetry, prose, theatre, and even a graphic novel, the scenes and monologues found in this collection reflect personal, political, and cultural complexities in the Canadian lesbian community. Intended for study or auditions and infinitely readable on its own.
Contains scenes and monologues from the following works and authors: The Sweet Girl Graduates – Sarah Anne Curzon ; Growing Up Suites – Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan ; Skim – Mariko Tamaki ; The ALIENation of Lizzie Dyke – Liz Packard ; androgyne – d’bi.young.anitafrika ; Yellow Title: Parade; or, Approaching the End of a Summer, The in - The Traveling Companion and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2008
Description:
roy drama - American - 20th century - short play - love - LGBTQ+ five characters three male; two female one act
" 'Love makes some people charming but it makes me dull.' In the summer of 1940 Williams lived in Provincetown, Mass., where he fell in love for the first time - the man was Kip Kiernan, a dancer and Canadian draft dodger. Their affair lasted most of the summer, until Kip broke it off and left with a woman. Williams immediately drafted "The Parade", which he finished in the 1960s. This play, which is related to the full-length "Something Cloudy, Something Clear", not only presents a completely unguarded story about gay men, but also a portrait of passions unrequited and
Title: Paris Letter, The A play in two acts Author: Baitz, Jon Robin Publisher: Grove Press
Description:
roy drama - American - LGBTQ+ - relationships nine characters four male; one female (doubling) two acts
An absorbing new play about power and money and the ruinous effects it can have on friendship, love, marriage, and ultimately oneself. In this modern tragedy set in urban New York City, Wall Street powerhouse Sandy Sonenberg finds his personal and professional life threatened by the unraveling secrets of his past. After burying his true sexual identity, a lethal affair with a young male associate forces Sonenberg to confront a lifetime of unrequited love and betrayal.
Title: Pavane in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 20th series / COL Author: Wiener, Sally Dixon Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy family relations - LGBTQ+⌦four characters two male; two female one act
'Child forever alters lives of two gay couples.' Title: Pearl Divers in - Some Angry Summer Songs / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ four characters one male; three female one act
1 interior.
"A homosexual looking for a job in a restaurant is discriminated against. Singing."
Title: Perfectly Abnormal Seven gay plays Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy - collection - Canadian - LGBTQ+ includes: The Convergence of Luke - Harry Rintoul Getting Lucky - Christian Lloyd Sir Richard Wadd, Pornographer - Sawn Postoff The Rise and Fall of Peter Gaveston - Greg MacArthur The Bathouse Suite - Ken Brand Nazi/Jew/Queer - Michael Achtman Cancun - Greg Kearney
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes in - Age of Minority / CCO Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - monologues - LGBTQ+ - Germany all male cast; one character one male one act
"Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes" chronicles the last hour of Peter Fechter’s life, a teenager in East Berlin shot while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall in 1962 with his companion.
Winner! The play is in a collection that won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 2014. Title: Postcard, The in - Amazon All Stars / COL Author: Dickler, Gloria Joyce Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy relationships - lesbian - self awareness - LGBTQ+ seven characters one boy; five female; one girl two acts
' 'The Postcard' features two New York Jewish women, lovers, in the 1990's who gain insight into their personal struggles when they buy a postcard showing two children in the Warsaw ghetto in the 1940's.'
Title: Poster of the Cosmos, A in - The Way We Live Now / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990
Description:
roy drama - AIDS - monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one act
'Homosexual man suspected of killing AIDS afflicted lover makes taped statement in police station.'
Title: Poster of the Cosmos, A in - The Moonshot Tape and A Poster of the Cosmos / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1991
Description:
roy drama - AIDS - crime - monologue - man all male cast; one character one male one act
1 interior.
Homosexual man suspected of killing AIDS afflicted lover makes taped statement in police station. Title: Prelude and Liebestod in - Andre's Mother and Other Short Plays / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ five characters three male; two female one act
'Orchestra conductor recalls sexual experiences with man and woman.'
Title: Prelude and Liebestod in - The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ five characters three male; two female one act
'Orchestra conductor recalls sexual experiences with man and woman.'
Title: Pride, The
Author: Campbell, Alexi Kaye Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2008
Description:
roy drama - sexuality - identity - LGBTQ+ four characters three male; one female two acts
"Somewhere inside me a kind of betrayal. There's an expected behaviour. People telling you who you are. And you believe them. And then of course, you become that very person." Alternating between 1958 and 2008, The Pride examines changing attitudes to sexuality, looking at intimacy, identity and the courage it takes to be who you really are. The 1958 Philip is in love with Oliver, but Married to Sylvia. The 2008 Oliver is addicted to sex with strangers. Sylvia loves them both. Title: Privilege in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Hodgson, Corrina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LBGTQ+ four characters one male; three female (doubling) fourteen scenes
"Hodgson revisits the 'coming-out' story of the 'disturbed' adolescent school girl by having her protagonist Ginny expose the prejudices which still surface when girls are discovered engaging in same-sex acts. Riffing on the ongoing denial of the existence of female-female sexual desire, Hodgson uses Ginny's situation to interrogate the stereotypical reactions to sexual activities that fall outside heteronormativity. However, she also makes it clear that Ginny's hallucinatory reactions are aimed at breaking down any kind of restrictive labelling that would explain away
Title: Progress
Author: Lucie, Doug Publisher: Methuen 1985
Description:
roy comedy - satire - LGBTQ+ eight characters six male; two female two acts
The play is set in the London home of Will, a handsome, well-educated television-documentary researcher, and his attractive, social activist wife, Ronee, who runs a community center in South London. anxious to match his wife's liberal concerns, Will has taken over most of the household chores, and has formed a male consciousness-raising group, whose principal interest seems to be a close examination of pornography. Ronee, however, is now involved with a female lover, and her unwillingness to expand the relationship to a menage a trois (as Will would like) has driven a
Title: Pronoun
Author: Placey, Evan Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2014
Description:
roy young adult - drama - relationships - LGBTQ+⌦seventeen characters three male; four female (doubling) one act (eighteen scenes)
audience: ages 15+.
A love story about transition, testosterone, and James Dean. Josh and Isabella are childhood sweethearts. They were meant to spend their gap year together, they were meant to be together forever. But Isabella has now become a boy. Title: Pronoun in - Connections 2014 / YCL Author: Placey, Evan Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2014
Description:
roy young adult - drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ seventeen characters three male; four female (doubling) one act (eighteen scenes)
audience: ages 15+.
A love story about transition, testosterone, and James Dean. Josh and Isabella are childhood sweethearts. They were meant to spend their gap year together, they were meant to be together forever. But Isabella has now become a boy.
Title: Quaint Honour in - Gay Plays / COL Author: Gellert, Roger Publisher: Methuen 1986
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; five characters three male; two boys three acts
1 interior set.
"Depiction of sexual relationship between British public school boys in the 1950's."
Title: Queer Play An anthology of queer women's performance and plays Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy - Canadian collection - LGBTQ+ women
contains: Graceful Rebellions - Shaista Latif Lapine-Moi / Rabbit-I & Cerveau Félé 101 / Broken Brain 101 - Nathalie Claude Dirty Plotz - Alex Tigchelaar Chronicles of a War Child - Jazz Kamal "Nari" She Mami Wata & The Pussy WitchHunt - d'bi.young anitafrika The Magic Hour - Jess Dobkin Trapped! - Hope Thompson Sister Mary's a Dyke? - Flerida Peña Hiding Words (for you) - Gein Wong Title: Quintessential Image in - Amazon All Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays with Essays and Commentary / COL Author: Chambers, Jane Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy women - lesbian plays - LGBTQ+ all female cast; two characters two female one act
An award-winning photographer, Lacey Lanier, "comes out" in a TV interview with the closeted Margaret Foy. The play uses the apparatus of photography as a symbolic mirror for lesbian (in)visibility. What the famous Lacey was seeing through her pinbox camera, and throughout her career, was not what photojournalist judges were seeing when they gave her prizes and scholarships. Lacey is heroic in speaking the truth of her vision, although some readers may question the ethics of her "outing". The self-hating Margaret's glibness trips her and unmasks her
Title: Radical perversions 2 dyke plays by Audrey Butler Author: Butler, Audrey Publisher: Women's Press 1990
Description:
roy - Canadian - collection - Audrey Butler - LGBTQ+
includes: Black Friday? Claposis
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Random Acts in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Flacks, Diane Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ one character all female cast; one female (doubling) one act
Using the persona of the Oprah-like feminist talk-show guru, Antonella Bergman, Flacks invites us to engage with her in the search for meaning in a random universe. To suggest Antonella's prophetic qualities, Flacks opens the play with an apocalyptic appearance of the Jewish matriarch Sarah who became pregnant at the age of ninety. As she morphs into a pre-accident Antonella, we are invited to listen in on one of her inspirational talks and thus become directly implicated in participating in her journey. Title: Remember Me
Author: Tremblay, Michel translated by John Stowe Publisher: Talonbooks 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act
It has been some time since Luc and Jean-Marc have seen each other, but the wounds from their 7-year love affair are only partially healed. Each of them has current worries as well: Jean-Marc has realized that he will never be the great novelist he had hoped to become. Luc's father is dying. During this evening at Jean-Marc's house, the two men dredge up the good and the bad memories; they confront each other about past injustices; they examine each other's grey hairs; finally, they confess their fears and disillusionments and they comfort each other.
Title: Remember Me
Author: Tremblay, Michel translated by John Stowe Publisher: Talonbooks 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act
It has been some time since Luc and Jean-Marc have seen each other, but the wounds from their 7-year love affair are only partially healed. Each of them has current worries as well: Jean-Marc has realized that he will never be the great novelist he had hoped to become. Luc's father is dying. During this evening at Jean-Marc's house, the two men dredge up the good and the bad memories; they confront each other about past injustices; they examine each other's grey hairs; finally, they confess their fears and disillusionments and they comfort each other.
Title: Rent The complete book and lyrics of the Broadway musical Author: Larson, Jonathan Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2008
Description:
roy musical - American - AIDS - LGBTQ+ fifteen characters; extras, band ten male, five female (doubling possible) two acts
'A modern update of Pucinni's 'La Boheme' set in New York's East Village. Offers a testament to lives lived on the edges of creation and death.'
Pulitzer Prize winner - Jonathan Larson; Tony Award winner. Title: Rent
Author: Larson, Jonathan Publisher: William Morrow and Company 1997
Description:
roy musical - American - AIDS - LGBTQ+ fifteen characters; extras, band ten male, five female (doubling possible) two acts
'A modern update of Pucinni's 'La Boheme' set in New York's East Village. Offers a testament to lives lived on the edges of creation and death.'
Pulitzer Prize winner - Jonathan Larson; Tony Award winner.
Title: Rent in - The New American Musical / MUS Author: Larson, Jonathan Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2003
Description:
roy musical - American - AIDS - LGBTQ+⌦fifteen characters; extras, band ten male, five female (doubling possible) two acts ⌦A modern update of Pucinni's 'La Boheme' set in New York's East Village. Offers a testament to lives lived on the edges of creation and death. ⌦Pulitzer Prize winner - Jonathan Larson; Tony Award winner.
Title: Reverend Jonah
Author: Ciufo, Paul Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2008
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Canadian - morality - LGBTQ+⌦seven characters; chorus two male; five female two acts
To a conservative church in a south-western Ontario town comes Jonah Arias - a troubled, left-leaning, pill popping United Church minister. Jonah is also young and idealistic, with courage enough to challenge the power-brokers in his small community. When Reverend Jonah starts an affair with a young woman in the congregation, and then decides to repatriate a former member of the church expelled for being in a lesbian relationship, the ensuing battle threatens to derail Jonah's career and fracture the church. Title: Rihannaboi95 in - Age of Minority / CCO Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - young adult - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ all male cast; one character one male one act
The award-winning "rihannaboi95" centres around a Toronto teen whose world comes crashing in when YouTube videos of him dancing to songs by his favourite pop heroine go viral.
Nominee! 3 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, 2013. Winner! Best New Play in the Theatre for Young Audiences division. Winner! The play is in a collection that won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 2014.
Title: Ritz, The
Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Samuel French 1976
Description:
roy American - comedy - LGBTQ+ seventeen characters fourteen male; three female two acts
"When a straight guy on the lam from the Mafia hides out in a gay bathhouse, comic mistaken identities, bizarre chases abd unusual confrontations result. Procio, the chubby middle-aged 'hero' finds almost anywhere else would be a safer hideout as he is chased by Mafia types, a chubby lover, and a handsome falsetto-voiced detective who in turn is being chased by towel-clad gays. Close on their heels is a broken-down Peurto Rican bathouse singer with dreams of making it Bette Midler-style who latches on to anyone who she thinks looks like a
Title: S/He in - Plays and Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Mwaluko, Nick Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ nine characters; chorus one male; eight female; chorus (female) one act
The journey from Samantha to Sam: a young African American biological female struggles with gender and becomes a man. Title: Sacred Time in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Webb, Brian Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - monologue one character; dancers; musicians one male one act
'Through the media of solo and ensemble dance, live music, voiced narrative and large screen video projection, Brian Webb's "Sacred Time" relates two parallel stories of predatory, brutalizing space. Profound and disturbing connections link the first story of an elk hunt west of Rocky Mountain House and the second, the stalking of a gay would-be lover in a large city, possibly Edmonton.'
Title: Safe Sex in - The Way We Live Now / COL Author: Fierstein, Harvey Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act
'Second play in trilogy entitled Safe Sex is comic argument between two male lovers one of whom believes the other's safe sex stance is attempt to avoid intimacy.'
Title: Say de Kooning in - Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994
Description:
roy drama - life - LGBTQ+ - relationships three characters one male; two female one act
"...pits an artist and two female lovers against the very strains of modern life they hoped to escape by summering at the beach. Not even there, though, can they avoid the pitfalls of their own demanding personalities." Title: Séance in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Monkman, Kent Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - Native peoples all male cast; one character one male one act
"Séance" was performed on October 19, 2007 by Kent Monkman at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, Ontario. Monkman created the piece in response to being censored from the First Peoples Gallery at the ROM during the Shapeshifters exhibition. In her conversations with the spirits of nineteenth-century painters Eugene Delacroix, Paul Kane and George Caitlin, Miss Chief's costumes grow increasingly larger and more outlandish as the responses of each successive artist draws more of her ire.
Title: She Mami Wata and the Pussy Witchhunt in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Anitafrika, D'Bi.Young Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - women eleven characters three male; eight female one act (thirteen scenes)
Part of the Orisha Trilogy. The play centres on gender, sexuality, and the erotic through the life of four friends growing up in present-day Jamaica, who are challenged to re-negotiate their complex relationship under "buggery" laws. Raised in the violence and silence of misogyny and homophobia, Niki lives on the margins of church, the burlesque pole and womxn's thighs.
Title: Sir Richard Wadd, Pornographer in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: Postoff, Shawn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+⌦all male cast; five characters five male one act
Sir Richard Wadd is a fun-loving, law-abiding, genre-defying showman; an intelligent, proud and unapologetic producer of home-made gay porn with a decidedly literary flair. Assisted by Tristan and Troy, his two dashing and loyal performers, Sir Richard takes his voyeuristic web-cam audience on a wide-ranging romp through the anals [sic] of modern-day cyber-erotica. But when Kevin, a 14 year-old runaway, shows up on his doorstep looking for work (not to mention validation, compassion, and love), Sir Richard’s humanity is suddenly put to the test: the law makes it extremely dangerous for the pornographer to have underage kids anywhere near him, yet Title: Sister Mary's a Dyke?! in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Peña, Flerida Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - women - religion - Canadian - solo performance all female cast; one character one female one act (sixteen scenes)
A playful attack on the church and the oppressive educational systems it has spawned. Peña uses high theatricality ro illustrate her queer vision and empower her characters to be as fully rebellious as she can dream them. What seems at first to be a coming out story quickly turns into a fantastical rebellion of comic book proportions. This action-packed play is a fun foray into the triumph of imagination in the face of oppression - one that culminates in nothing less that a dramatic overthrow of the Vatican.
Title: Sisters in - Amazon All Stars / COL Author: Montley, Patricia Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy women - drama - religion - LGBTQ+ all female cast; seven characters seven female two acts
'A play about seven ex-nuns. Joanna has invited Carol, Leslie, Rosalie and Helene to join her for a twenty-year reunion of select members from their noviate class because . . . Joanna believes that she and they share a sisterhood not only as nuns (or former nuns), but also as lesbians. This latter bond/identity is especially important to Joanna, as she recently has been censured by her Bishop for her work in gay ministry.'
Title: Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
Author: Alfieri, Richard Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comedy - friendship - religion - LGBTQ+ - aging two characters one male; one female two acts
running time: 120 min.
This extremely popular two-character comedy/drama has enjoyed tremendous success both nationally and internationally since it premiered with Uta Hagen and David Hyde Pierce. Lily, an aging but formidable retiree, hires Michael, an acerbic dance instructor, to give her dance lessons in her condo in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. Antagonism between a gay man and the wife of a Title: Small Domestic Acts in - Amazon All Stars / COL Author: Lipkin, Joan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy lesbian - drama - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; two female one act
''Small Domestic Acts' focuses on the friendship between two couples, one heterosexual and one lesbian, the difficulties in each relationship, and the ensuing romance between the straight woman and the femme lesbian.'
Title: Smudge in - Lesbian Plays : Coming of Age in Canada / CCO Author: Bulmer, Alex Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ three characters all female cast; three female (doubling) thirty-three scenes
'Powerful play about a woman's farewell to her sight.'
Title: Social Darwinism
Author: Gant, Angela Publisher: Samuel French 2012
Description:
roy comedy - racism - LGBTQ+⌦ten characters five male; five female two acts
simple set or multiple settings; running time: 90 min.
From the author: "To anyone who has ever gotten a beat down for looking like a woman, being a woman, looking like a queer, being a queer, not being manly enough, being too manly, or having the audacity to be any race other than Caucasian, here's the last laugh!" "Social Darwinism" is a socio-political absurdist comedy that follows a familial group: an Alpha Male, Alpha Female, Second Banana (Subordinate Male), Subordinate Female, Adolescent Male, Adolescent Female, Title: Some Men in - Some Men and Deuce / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Grove Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - historical all male cast; many characters nine male (doubling) two acts
The play marks a first for the prolific McNally in the use of a non-linear structure. Framed by the present-day scenes at the gay wedding, the play moves back in time in a non-chronological order, capturing moments in gay life during the last century as portrayed by eight actors. The Waldorf is used again as the setting for a scene from the 1950s where a married men arranges a hook-up with a hustler - a Columbia student working his way through college. The 1970s finds a soldier jokingly proposing to another man in a gay bathhouse. A scene from the 1920s, between
Title: Spare Parts A serious comedy Author: Page, Elizabeth Publisher: Samuel French 1988
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ five characters two male; three female two acts
The plan is for an unwitting college student to impregnate Lois and then disappear, leaving Lois and her female lover, Jax, with a baby. But young Henry is smitten. What began as a private compact between two lesbians becomes a five way struggle as the characters jockey for position around the baby to be until they become a family.
Title: Spin in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Parry, Evalyn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy musical - LGBTQ+ - feminism - biography eight characters five male; three female one act
The play begins with a bicycle and collates a history of feminist self-performance through music and play. Beginning amidst the first wave of feminism, SPIN moves through a trans-historical journey, telling the story of Annie Londonderry, an accidental feminist icon and a cyclist with global aspirations. Two endings are provide; the one that became its ultimate ending and then the original ending added as an appendix. Title: St. Francis of Millbrook
Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - young adult - LGBTQ+ ten characters six male; four female two acts
time: 1994; setting: yard in front of the barn of the Simcoe farm in Millbrook, just outside Peterborough, Ontario.
A coming-of-age story about a misunderstood teenager on the verge of a sexual awakening. Being a teenager is hard, especially if you're questioning your sexuality and growing up in rural Ontario in the mid '90s. Add to that a temperamental, homophobic father and a tenacious love for
Title: Staircase
Author: Dyer, Charles Publisher: Grove Press 1966
Description:
roy tragicomedy - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male two acts
'Two lonely aging homosexuals, hair dressers, cling to last hope for companionship and affection in their relationship despite tensions and conflicts of differing natures.'
Title: Standing on Ceremony
Author: Gaffney, Mo Harrison, Jordan Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2013
Description:
roy comedy - marriage - relationships - LGBTQ+ six characters (flexible) three male; three female (doubling) nine short one-acts
Two little words, and suddenly your whole world changes. An A-list lineup of writers offers unique takes on the moments before, during and after "I do." Witty, warm and occasionally wacky, these plays are vows to the blessings of equality, the universal challenges of relationships and the often hilarious power of love.
Contains: Title: Steel Kiss
Author: Fulford, Robin Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ 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 Kiss
Author: Fulford, Robin Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ 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: Stop Kiss in - American Theatre (07/01/99) - PER Author: Son, Diana Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - LGBTQ+ seven characters three male; four female twenty-three scenes
'The story of "Stop Kiss" is deceptively simple: two young women in New York meet, talk about their boyfriends, feel a growing, unspoken attraction for each other, and finally kiss. And that one innocent kiss sets off a savage gay-bashing. But even as "Stop Kiss" confronts the reality of physical violence, Diana Son's imaginative, moving, and surprising comedy brings audiences - and her principal characters - to unexpected places.' Title: Strange Fruit in - Plays for Two / COL Author: LaBute, Neil Publisher: Vintage Books 2014
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - marriage⌦all male cast; two characters⌦two male one act
The story of two men in love whose plans to get married “the old-fashioned way” are stymied when reality rears its ugly head. - www.zachtheatre.org
Title: Strawberry Fields in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 25th series / COL Author: Brofsky, Kevin Publisher: Samuel French 2001
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+⌦all female cast; three characters three female one act
'In a small, hostile Florida town, the nother of a murdered gay is interviewed by a network celebrity in preparation for an appearance on her show. Unexpected solidarity.'
Title: Streamers in - The Vietnam Plays: Volume two Author: Rabe, David Publisher: Grove Press 1993
Description:
roy drama - war - LGBTQ+ all male cast; ten characters; extra ten male two acts
1 interior set; requires two black actors.
American soldiers about to be sent to Vietnam get involved in dispute over homosexuality in which one of them is killed. Title: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Author: Gilliatt, Penelope Publisher: Bantam Books 1971
Description:
roy screenplay - LGBTQ+ - relationships large cast flexible casting nine parts
It tells the story of a free-spirited young bisexual artist and his simultaneous relationships with a female recruitment consultant and a male Jewish doctor.
Title: Super Hot Raven and Raven II: The Ravening in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Gogerty, Megan Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy LGBTQ+ - spoof all female cast; two characters two female one act (three scenes)
1 interior set.
"A sexy, silly spoof of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," "Super Hot Raven and Raven II: The Ravening" are two ten-minute plays reimagining the famous poem as a hot lesbian love story between a poet and a mysterious plumber in a Baltimore Ravens jersey."
Title: Suzie Goo: Private Secretary in - Painted, Sainted, Sainted / CCO Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy musical - comedy - drag queens - LGBTQ+ five characters; extras four male; one female (doubling possible) three acts
'Suzie Goo starts work for Corporeal Can Inc. in the early 1960's. She kills her boss who tried to rape her. At the trial, realizing she will be convicted as a woman, she reveals herself to be a man and is aquitted. Suzie returns back to work at Corp Can., dissolves the company and the liquids flow.' Title: Swollen Tongues in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Oliver, Kathleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - poetic - comedy - LGBTQ+ four characters one male; three female two acts
"Thomas and his sister Catherine are both receiving instruction on the powers of poetry by their tutor Dr. Wise. While Thomas is more prolific than skilled in his praise of his beloved, Sonja, Catherine is strangely mute. The problem? Catherine is secretly in love with Sonja too, and has taken the liberty of improving her brother's verses and giving them to Sonja under the assumed name - Overripe. The characters discover that no one is without secrets, and that poetry can unlock the door to love in unexpected ways."
Title: Taffy's Taxi in - Later Encounters / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ six characters two male; four female one act
composite interior/exterior set.
"Taffy is a lesbian New York cab driver. Some of her fares on this particular day include two small-town-honeymooners who become entranced with her life-style, a city couple ready for a sexual threesome and a fellow-lesbian who makes a romantic proposition despite Taffy's open confession of loyalty to her somewhat sadistic lover. It is all up to Taffy".
Title: Take Me Out
Author: Greenberg, Richard Publisher: Faber and Faber 2003
Description:
roy comedy - baseball - LGBTQ+ all male cast, thirteen characters thirteen male two acts
'Darren Lemming is the star center fielder for the New York Empires. When he makes the matter-of-fact announcement that he is gay, he throws his team into turmoil and confusion. Darren's announcement brings to the fore the confused and twisted hostilities of the Empires' brilliantly talented but deeply racist and homophobic pitcher, Shane Mungitt - from whose rage tragic consequences arise.' Title: Taxonomy of the European Male in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Monkman, Kent Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - Native peoples all male cast; one character one male one act
The description is found in "The noble savage was a drag queen" by Kerry Swanson and refers to a performance at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, ON: "In this performance, Share [Miss Chief Eagle Testickle] arrives on the back of a white horse, resplendent in elaborate headdress, Louis Vuitton and Hudson Bay Company accessories, and cartoonish drag-queen heels. On her way into the gallery space, she entices two young white men dressed in loincloths, who become the subjects of her "taxonomy of the European male." Bringing
Title: Telling Moments Fifteen Gay Monologues Author: Reinhart, Robert C. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1994
Description:
scenes – monologues – men – LGBTQ+
Seventeen men are caught in the limelight of defining moments that range from poignant to crazily funny. Among this vivid cast are a priest sliding towards heresy, a self-styled aristocrat, a hustler looking for security, an enraged abandoned lover, and an overwrought porno director.
Contains the following monologues by Robert C. Reinhart: Tuning Up ; The Trouble with Beaches ; Packing Turtles ; A Prayer for What? ; I Could Stay ; Your Loving Son ; Epics Aren’t Easy ; Three Men at the Edge ; The Perils of Print ; Memorial Armoire ; We’ll be Eighty-five ; Late ; One More Windbag ; Three Men at a Bar ; Codas.
Title: Terminating in - Death & Taxes / COL Author: Kushner, Tony Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000
Description:
roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior.
Inspired by Shakespeare's sonnet 75. Lesbian psychoanalyst has a final session with a gay patient who has fallen in love with her. Title: This Unknown Flesh
Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Coach House Press 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - collection - drama - LGBTQ+ - Gilbert Sky
Collection contains: - Pasolini/Pelosi, of The God in Unknown Flesh: A Theatrical Enquiry into the Murder of Filmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini - Theatrelife - In Which Pier Paolo Pasolini Sees His Own Death in the Face of a Boy: A Defacement in the Form of a Play - My Night with Tennessee - Hester: An Introduction - More Divine: A Performance for Roland Barthes
Title: Torch Song Trilogy, The
Author: Fierstein, Harvey Publisher: Gay Presses of New York 1979
Description:
Collection - LGBTQ+
includes: International Stud Fugue in a Nursery Widows and Children First!
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Total Eclipse
Author: Hampton, Christopher Publisher: Samuel French 1969
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ fifteen characters ten male; five female three acts
representative set.
This play depicts the relationship between the poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine and their destructive, all consuming need for each other. Title: Total Eclipse
Author: Hampton, Christopher Publisher: Samuel French 1969
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ fifteen characters ten male; five female three acts
representative set.
This play depicts the relationship between the poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine and their destructive, all consuming need for each other.
Title: Total Eclipse
Author: Hampton, Christopher Publisher: Samuel French 1969
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ fifteen characters ten male; five female three acts
representative set.
This play depicts the relationship between the poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine and their destructive, all consuming need for each other.
Title: Touch: A Play for Two in - Making, Out / CCO Author: Demchuk, David Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act
Two male lovers discuss pornography in bed. Title: Trapped! in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Thompson, Hope Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy comedy - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - relationships all female cast; three characters three female one act (five scenes)
A play that inhibits the film noir genre to tell the story of a beleaguered and bedridden newlywed. A critique of gay marriage that stages a camp representation of the regulatory structures it imposes. Progressive mainstream concepts of freedom result here in a state of mutual entrapment. Trapped! is a tale of menace and murder in a queer comedic frame.
Title: Trash in - Out of the Fringe / COL Author: Monge-Rafuls, Pedro R. Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000
Description:
roy monologue - men - drama all male cast; one character one male one scene
In this monologue, a Cuban Marielito describes his struggle to survive in the United States, culminating in a lethal encounter with a homosexual priest.
Title: Traveling Companion, The in - The Traveling Companion and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2008
Description:
roy drama - American - 20th century - short play - LGBTQ+ - relationships all male cast; three characters three male one act (two scenes)
1 interior set.
"It not incidental that Williams was seventy when he wrote a short play about the relationship between a younger and an older man - an inexperienced hustler full of sexual potency named Beau, and an older, insecure writer named Vieux. Emotional and personal compromise can be assumed in a relationship in which one person is a paid "assistant", "secretary"; or "companion", Title: Trevor in - Little Boxes / COL Author: Bowen, John Publisher: Methuen 1968
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - family relations eight characters four male; four female one act
Part of 'Little Boxes' (see also 'The Coffee Lace').
"Lesbian couple hire an actor as lover of one, fiance of the other, when parents come to visit."
Title: Two-Spirit Acts Queer Indigenous Performances Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy - collection - Canadian - solo performance - Native peoples - LGBTQ+
includes: Hot 'n' Soft - Muriel Miguel Taxonomy of the European Male - Kent Monkman Séance - Kent Monkman Justice of the Piece - Kent Monkman Agokwe - Waawaate Fobister
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Under Wraps A spoke opera Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - LGBTQ+ - love all male cast; two characters two male two acts
"The moment Mark meets David his world is thrown off balance. Who could have predicted finding love in a furniture store, or finding it with an unemployed lifeguard? But despite their immediate connection, Mark isn’t sure if David is gay. Mark isn’t even sure if Mark is gay. As he falls deeper in love, Mark works desperately to make David nothing more than a friend and to make that enough. Filled with hopeful exhilaration and devastating missed opportunities, Under Wraps nimbly tracks one man’s tumultuous quest to finally love himself and let it all out." Title: Under Wraps A spoke opera Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - LGBTQ+ - love all male cast; two characters two male two acts
"The moment Mark meets David his world is thrown off balance. Who could have predicted finding love in a furniture store, or finding it with an unemployed lifeguard? But despite their immediate connection, Mark isn’t sure if David is gay. Mark isn’t even sure if Mark is gay. As he falls deeper in love, Mark works desperately to make David nothing more than a friend and to make that enough. Filled with hopeful exhilaration and devastating missed opportunities, Under Wraps nimbly tracks one man’s tumultuous quest to finally love himself and let it all out."
Title: Vietnamization of New Jersey, The in - Complete Full-Length Plays,1975-1995 - COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1997
Description:
roy satire - war - LGBTQ+ eight characters six male; two female two acts
"Satiric view of post-Vietnam America incorporating suicide, adultery and homosexuality. Eccentric New Jersey family awaits return of Vietnam veteran son and his native wife."
Title: Vito on the Beach in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Schwartz, Samuel Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 exterior.
Homosexual boxer and portrait artist reveal they are HIV positive. Title: Wanderers, The
Author: Ada, Kawa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - family relations - Canadian playwright six characters three male; three female one act (five episodes)
As the Soviet army invades Afghanistan, Aman and Mariam flee to Canada in hopes of putting an ocean between themselves and the daily horrors of war. A championship chess player in Kabul, Aman finds himself working in a pizzeria just to get by. Their fresh start continues to prove difficult as they navigate the trauma and displacement that follows them at every turn, and when their son Roshan is born, their curse of displacement is passed on to the next generation. The family’s only hope for a peaceful future might be Mariam’s past, as her family mythology becomes
Title: Warm Wind in China in - Canadian Theatre Review No.57, Winter 1988 - PER Author: Stetson, Kent Publisher: Miscellaneous 1988
Description:
roy drama - family relations - LGBTQ+ - AIDS four characters three male; one female two acts
A man's parents and his lover deal with the fact that he is dying with AIDS.
Title: Whale Riding Weather
Author: MacDonald, Bryden Publisher: Talonbooks 1994
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; three characters three male one act
"One day, sitting in a tiny little bar, I noticed a man sitting alone - an elegant old queen with snowy hair perfectly sculpted around his face. His eyes could have been any colour - they were empty. He remained very still, holding a brandy snifter with great reverence while a steady stream of tears flowed down his cheeks. I found myself inventing his history, wondering what it must have been like for him growing up gay. Had he been ridiculed by his peers? Disowned by his parents? This beautiful, unapproachable man had literally conjured Lyle, and that day Whale Title: Whale Riding Weather in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 71, Summer 1992 / PER Author: MacDonald, Bryden Publisher: Miscellaneous 1992
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; three characters three male one act
"One day while sitting in a basement bar I noticed a man sitting alone - an elegant old queen with snowy hair perfectly sculpted around his translucent face. His eyes were empty. He remained very still, holding a brandy snifter while a steady stream of tears flowed down his cheeks. I found myself inventing his history, wondering what it must have been like for him growing up gay - maybe in a small village on the east coast. Had he been ridiculed by his peers? Disowned by his parents? This beautiful, unapproachable man at the bar had literally conjured Lyle, and that day
Title: What I Meant Was in - Humana Festival '96 / COL Author: Lucas, Craig Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; two female one act
'Set in Columbia, Maryland 1968. Gay man makes peace with his parents.'
Title: Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? in - Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? and Other Stand-Up Theatre Plays / COL Author: Dowie, Claire Publisher: Methuen Drama 1996
Description:
roy British - monologue - comedy - LGBTQ+ all female cast; one character one female one act (two parts)
Claire Dowie's award winning "Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?" takes us on a comic journey through female roles and dress codes via "The Knicker Factor", the hell of school discos and errant sperm in the bedroom - all through the eyes of one young woman wishing to be a Beatle, or at least a boy. Cleverly dissecting society's attitude to differing sexes Claire Dowie's understated oratory portrays a forceful plea for understanding and tolerance. Title: Why We Have a Body in - Here to Stay / COL Author: Chafee, Claire Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy comedy - women - family relations - sexuality all female cast; four characters four female two acts
"At the nucleus is a family of women at odds with the world around them. Private investigator Lili is a lesbian who stalks guys cheating on their wives and romances confused straight women, in this instance, a paleontologist, Renee, headed toward divorce. Lili's sister Mary is mentally unhinged, sublimating all of her Joan of Arc and Ophelia fantasies by holding up 7-Elevens and directing traffic. Their mother, Eleanor, has traded in her maternal hat for the rugged life of an archaeologist-historian specializing in the female brain."
Title: Widows and Children First! in - The Torch Song Trilogy / COL Author: Fierstein, Harvey Publisher: Gay Presses of New York 1979
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ four characters three male; one female one act
interior; exterior.
"Even more astonishing was this sequel, the story of Arnold and Ed, their lovers, the family they unmake, and the new one they bravely make."
Title: Willa-Willie-Bill's Dope Garden in - Amazon All Stars / COL Author: Terry, Megan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy comedy - women - lesbian - LGBTQ+⌦all female cast; four characters four female one act
Four lovers search for the exact spot where Willa Cather wrote in order to 'make love on that hallowed ground.' Title: Wines of Tuscany, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 97, Winter 1998 / PER Author: Alexandrowicz, Conrad Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998
Description:
roy relationships - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act
'A one-act dance-theatre duet for male performers.'
Title: Winterplay in - New Plays USA 1 / COL Author: Shank, Adele Edling Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1982
Description:
roy family drama - LGBTQ+ eight characters four male; four female two acts
1 interior set; singing.
Contemporary suburban California setting for play examining preoccupations of family members as they gather for Christmas dinner and welcome the oldest son and his male lover."
Title: With Bells On
Author: Hagen, Darrin Publisher: Miscellaneous 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - Christmas - comedy - Alberta playwright - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male (one tall, one normal height) one act
running time: 60 min.; setting: an elevator in an urban high-rise, a few days before Christmas.
"With Bells On" is an unconventional Christmas comedy about two neighbours - one a mild-mannered accountant, the other a giant drag queen on her way to a pageant - who get stuck in their high-rise apartment elevator. He is a mild-mannered accountant with persistent bad luck who heads out for his first night of Title: Wolf Within, The in - Twenty Years at Play / CCO Author: Brown, Alex Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - religion six characters five male; one female two acts
'Powerful study of a dedicated priest in torment, wrestling with his temptations.
Title: Wrestling Season, The in - American Theatre (Nov 00) / PER Author: Brooks, Laurie Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - children - LGBTQ+ nine characters four male; four female; one male or female one act
meant for audience 13 and up.
'The play focuses on two high school wrestler who are rumored to be gay lovers and examines the effect of peer disapproval on other characters as well. After the play is over, the actors remain onstage, in character, to respond to questions from the audience.'
Title: Yodellers - a one act comedy in eighteen scenes in - The Road to Hell / CCO Author: Healey, Michael Lynch, Kate Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
"'Yodellers' is a one-act comedy in which a male golf reporter falls in love with a lesbian professional golfer. Will they build a relationship, or will things just turn 'caddy'? "