Title: 1940s Radio Christmas Carol
Author: Jones, Walton Greenberg, Faye Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy Christmas - dramatic comedy - musical - friendship - war eleven characters six male; three female; two male or female (flexible casting) two acts
105 minutes; interior set; can be performed by children; lyrics by Faye Greenberg.
The long-awaited sequel to the popular The 1940's Radio Hour. It's Christmas Eve, 1943, and the Feddington Players are now broadcasting from a hole-in-the-wall studio in Newark, NJ, and set to present their contemporary "take" on Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Whether it's the noisy plumbing, missed cues, electrical blackouts, or the over-the-top theatrics of veteran actor, but
Title: 1984
Author: Icke, Robert Macmillan, Duncan Publisher: Oberon Modern Plays 2013
Description:
roy drama - science fiction eight characters six male; two female one act
Adapted from the novel by George Orwell.
April, 1984. Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye.
Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell's fiction is often said to be our reality. This radical
Title: 1984 Dalmar Biker War, The
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Chris McKerracher
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright - Canadian eight characters three male; five female three acts
Running time: 90 minutes; 1 simple set.
The staff of a small rural town must fend off an attack by a biker gang.
The 1984 Dalmar Biker War is a great play for small town theatre troupes as it features characters and dialogue instantly recognizable by audiences in rural communities. This single-set play Title: 45 Minutes from Broadway
Author: Rogers, June Walker Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1973
Description:
roy musical comedy - young adult thirteen characters; extras; chorus seven male; six female two acts
Approximate running time: 80 minutes; George M. Cohan's musical adapted by June Walker Rogers.
The irresistible excitement of George M. Cohan's music and the period charm of his most enjoyable libretto are put into a modern school situation and with this you have the best of all (musical) worlds! "Let's do a musical!" is the cry from the members of the school's drama club. The
Title: 99 Histories in - Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas / COL Author: Cho, Julia Publisher: Duke University Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Korea - family relations eight characters five male; three female two acts
Cho tells us what is, in many ways a classic mother-daughter relationship story. When Eunice, the daughter shows up pregnant long after running away from home, the mother, Sah-Jin encourages her to look forward and to rebuild her life. But the daughter cannot move on without finding out about the past, especially about her mother's life in Korea and her father, who died abruptly in Los Angeles. By immigrating to the United States, Sah-Jin attempted to forget both her personal past and Korea's history, and Eunice ran away from her mother in order to escape her
Title: Abracadabra, Aladdin!
Author: Kelly, Tim Hughes, Pam Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1992
Description:
roy children - musical - fantasy large cast flexible casting one act
Music and lyrics by Pam Hughes.
"Adventurous fun and engaging music are all part of this easy-to-stage adaptation. Aladdin’s mother and sister are trying to get him to stop tricking everybody. Then one day, Aladdin meets Princess Jasmine and vows to marry her. He’s visited, however, by evil Jammal and his wicked sister. The greedy siblings know that only Aladdin can enter a secret cave which houses a Title: Abstinence
Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female one act
1 interior.
Comedic look at Manhattan's "smart set". Chaos reigns at charity party for Liars Anonymous.
Title: Accidental Friends
Author: York, Y Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1996
Description:
roy comedy - young adult - children - bullying four characters two male; two female one act "Twelve-year-old Jonathan, temporarily blinded by a head injury, sits alone in his hospital room wondering why his best friends haven't come to see him. Enter Hilda, a classic over-achiever geek, who has come to see why Jonathan hasn't answered the witty letter she was made to write in class. With Hilda's relentless encouragement, Jonathan realizes that he can get around his room quite well without his sense of sight. He also discovers that although Hilda may be unusual, she is also interesting and funny as she regales him with stories about herself and her twin sister, Holly. Still, when Jonathan gets back to school, he renounces her to his friends,
Title: Accrington Pals, The in - Plays: 1 - Peter Whelan / COL Author: Whelan, Peter Publisher: Methuen Drama 2003
Description:
roy drama - historical - biography - 20th century - war - Britain ten characters five male; five female two acts
1 setting.
The fate of the "Accrington Pals," a battalion of working-class volunteers from Lancashire decimated at the battle of the Somme in 1916, is linked to private lives of the women they left behind. Title: Acquiesce
Author: Yee, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - self - family - spirituality ten characters three male; one female (doubling) two acts
A moving story of tradition, family, and pain passed down through generations. Plagued by the success of his first book and haunted by his past, Sin Hwang arrives in Hong Kong with some unusual cargo and a lot of emotional baggage. Featuring a surreal cast of characters, from a foul-mouthed Paddington Bear to a wisecracking Buddhist monk, this sharply comedic and heartbreakingly poignant tale of self, familial, and spiritual discovery reflects the cycles from which we must all break free as we find our way.
Title: Adam's Apple
Author: Gralley, Jean Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1981
Description:
roy comedy - satire eight characters one male; seven female (flexible) one act
Approximate running time: 35 minutes.
God creates fem in Her own image and then She decides fem needs a playmate, and so She creates male-fem. This witty satire has fun with the roles and attitudes of men (male-fems) and women (fems). Adam's Apple is a lively, hilarious jaunt through an inverted world. Adam, our poor protagonist, must learn his place in this society through three arenas of life: the Sunday School
Title: Admirable Bashville; or, Constancy Unrewarded, The in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy romantic farce eleven characters; extras nine male; two female three acts
3 interiors; 1 exterior.
Farcical romantic comedy in Shakespearean blank verse based on Shaw's novel Cashel Byron's Profession. British prizefighter falls in love with noblewoman. Title: Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, The in - Up the Garden Path and The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God / Author: Codrington, Lisa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy Canadian playwright - women - God fifteen characters eleven male; four female (doubling possible) one act (five scenes)
Running time: 45 - 60 mins
Based on Bernard Shaw’s short story, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God follows a black girl who is abandoned by a white missionary for asking too many questions. Taking matters into her own hands, the Black Girl sets off to find out who or what God really is. Along the way she meets a number of characters who have very different views on God, but the
Title: Agatha Christie Made Me Do It
Author: Cope, Eddie Publisher: I. E. Clark 1975
Description:
roy comedy - spoof - playwriting - murder mystery eleven characters six male; four female three acts
Police Officer Hootspah, tired of being a cop, decides the quickest way to riches and life of ease is to write a murder mystery. Never having written anything before, he seeks help from a hypothetical book which analyzes Agatha Christie's methods as a mystery writer. In spite of his bumbling manner, his obvious ineptness for the task, and the fact that his people frequently get out of hand, Hootspah manages to put together a play with a barrel full of laughs, enough suspense to trigger the interest of any audience and a cast of high-calibre characters. He blithely
Title: Airness in - Humana Festival 2017 / COL Author: Marcantel, Chelsea Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2018
Description:
roy comedy seven characters five male; two female one act
Running time: approximately 100 minutes.
When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she thinks winning will be easy. But as she befriends a group of charismatic nerds all committed to becoming the next champion, she discovers that there’s more to this art form than playing pretend; it’s about finding yourself in your favorite songs, and performing with raw joy. Will Nina be able to let go and set herself free Title: Aladdin
Author: Porter, Robert Neil Perry, Jack Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1979
Description:
roy musical - young adult - fantasy eleven characters four male; seven female one act
Music and lyrics by Jack Perry.
"This is the classic story of Aladdin and his magic lamp. Aladdin discovers a magic lamp and, with the aid of the Genie, wins the hand of the lovely Princess Balmyra. But the evil Turkish Magician gains control of the lamp and instructs the Genie to bring the Princess to him in his palace. Aladdin (with the help of Balmyra’s cat, Tiger Lily) finds the magician and rescues the
Title: Aladdin A pantomime Author: Morely, John Publisher: Samuel French 1981
Description:
roy comedy - pantomime nineteen characters; extras; dancers; chorus twelve male; seven female (flexible casting) two acts
Aladdin is a comedy-adventure pantomime for nineteen principals, dancers and chorus. The pantomime includes a Palace that flies to Egypt, adventures with a sinister Mummy and a Ghost, a haughty Spirit and a hint of Ali-Baba - as well as set pieces such as a Magic Show and a "slosh-hurling" laundry episode. It offers opportunities for elaborate and imaginative staging, but can be produced quite simply if facilities are limited.
Title: Aladdin A tale from the Arabian Nights Author: Glennon, William Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 56
Description:
roy comedy - fantasy twelve characters; extras seven male; four female (flexible casting) three acts
Aladdin and his friends, including the dancing monkey, Toodle-de-Toos, have an eye for adventure. Zorah, the mysterious stranger from the East, has an eye on Aladdin's old lamp. Darkana Nightglade, a flamboyant sorceress, has an eye on her clouded crystal ball. The beautiful Princess has an eye on Aladdin. The Sultan thought he had an eye on his great palace until it vanished! And the two genies from the lamp and the ring have an eye on each other's talents. There are spells, potions, and reversals of fortune as Aladdin discovers the magic of the lamp and Title: Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Author: Cornicelli, Carol Lee, Craig Publisher: Contemporary Drama Service 1984
Description:
roy children - musical - fantasy ten characters; extras; narrator six male; four female one act
Book by Carol Cornicelli; music by Craig Lee; lyrics by Katherine Lench.
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp is written in the style of Chamber/Story Theatre- following the classic tale of Aladdin.
Title: Alcestiad, The; or, A Life in the Sun in - The Alcestiad; or, A Life in the Sun, with A Satyr play; The Drunken Sisters / COL Author: Wilder, Thornton Publisher: Samuel French 1977
Description:
roy drama - mythology twenty-two characters; extras eighteen male; three female; one boy three acts
Dramatization of the Greek myth of Alcestis, wife of King Admetis of Thessaly, who died in place of her husband and was brought back from the land of the dead by Hercules.
Title: Alice in Wonderland in - Plays for Children, Volume II Author: Marvin, Blanche Publisher: Merri-Mimes Press 1991
Description:
roy folk tale - musical twelve characters flexible casting two acts
This version is in the Commedia dell'arte style. The Chessboard is the floor and the well-known characters (White Rabbit, Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Red and White Queens, Mock Turtle, Dormouse, Duchess, etc.) move, dance and sing their way through Wonderland in the tradition of the Italian street players. When Alice drinks the ink, the table gets taller and taller so Alice looks smaller and smaller. Title: All Over
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - seniors - death - family relations ten characters six male; four female two acts
In an alcove of a town house a great man lay dying. In the anteroom, awaiting his death are his wife, his mistress, his best friend, his feckless son and daughter. An elderly physician and a nurse amend the family portrait, while newsmen eager for the latest updates and television crews clamour off stage. They who stand the deathwatch recollect past loves, rekindle old wars and await word that it is "all over".
Title: All the World's a Stage
Author: Schaller, Mary W. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1983
Description:
roy children - Shakespeare large cast flexible casting one act
This play is ideally suited for classroom production.
This sampler of Shakespearean scenes revolves around the theme of Elizabethan theatre and staging techniques. A central character, the Modern Theatre Student, narrates between scenes and keeps order amid chaos. Her rival for attention is Jacques from As You Like It, who continually wants to "get on with it." Scenes include the plays-within-plays from Hamlet and A Midsummer
Title: All this Intimacy
Author: Joseph, Rajiv Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy comedy - 21st century - friendship - sex six characters two male; four female two acts
unit set; setting - Brooklyn and Manhattan; suggested for Little Theatre/advanced groups.
Ty Greene is a normal guy with three very big problems. In an unprecedented (for him) run of promiscuity, Ty has managed to impregnate three women in the span of one week: his ex-girlfriend, his 40-something, married next-door neighbor, and his 18-year-old student. In this edgy comedy by playwright Rajiv Joseph, Ty's problems illuminate every triumph and failure Title: Almost Like Being in - America Hurrah and other plays / COL Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude Publisher: Grove Press Inc. 1978
Description:
roy comedy - spoof - television five characters; narrator three male; two female one act
flexible set
A delightfully acerbic spoof of the unreal world of show business and the fraudulent sentiment from which it is contrived.
Title: Almost the Pioneer Brewing Company
Author: Edwards, Linda Wood Publisher: Linda Wood Edwards 2018
Description:
roy comedy - family relations - Alberta Playwright - Canadian all female cast; two characters two female one act
Running time: approximately 10 mins.
Family drama is on tap as the town gathers to witness Tina break ground for her new business. But a microbrewery doesn’t fit into the plans of Tina’s 104 year old grandmother who invokes her status as former President of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and unearths some long held family secrets. The laughs flow and the surprises come to a head in this little piece.
Title: American Trade
Author: McCraney, Tarell Alvin Publisher: Faber and Faber 2011
Description:
roy contemporary restoration comedy twenty characters thirteen male; seven female (flexible) five acts
When New York gets too hot to handle, charismatic hustler Pharus escapes the clutches of rap star Jules and moves to London. A funny, uncompromising play about surviving in the big city that challenges our assumptions about racial and sexual identity, 'American Trade' celebrates twenty-first century London in all its extravagant diversity. Title: Amish Project, The
Author: Dickey, Jessica Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy drama - historical - solo performance all female cast; seven characters one female (doubling) one act
Approximate running time: 90 mins.
The Amish Project is a fictional exploration of the Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting in an Amish community, and the path of forgiveness and compassion forged in its wake.
Title: Amulets Against The Dragon Forces
Author: Zindel, Paul Publisher: Dramatists 1989
Description:
roy drama - self awareness twelve characters nine male; three female (doubling possible) two acts
"Play about a dying widow, alcoholic gay longshoreman, ex-hustler, kleptomaniac itinerant nurse and her misfit adolescent son."
Title: Androcles and the Lion
Author: Barton, Dave Bond, Matt Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1978
Description:
roy musical eighteen characters; extras; chorus flexible casting two acts
Approximate running time: 90 minutes; several simple sets.
As the legend goes, Androcles removed a thorn from the Lion's paw and the Lion returned the favor by not eating Androcles in the Roman arena. From this story, Barton and Bond have woven one of the most enjoyable pieces of musical theatre this side of Broadway. Androcles and his nagging wife, Hermione, are captured by slave-traders and sold into the service of Caesar. When Title: Angels Fall
Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Noonday Press 1983
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
"The play is set in an impoverished Catholic mission in rural New Mexico where a group of disparate individuals gather due to an accident at a nearby nuclear facility. Included among them are a burnt out college professor, his much younger wife, the elderly parish priest, his brilliant half-Indian foster son, a middle-aged art gallery owner and her much younger boytoy lover. Confined within the church, they begin to reveal their stories to each other - their trials and
Title: Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress - a revolutionary romancelet in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy farce - Russia three characters; extras two male; one female one act
1 interior.
Daughter of former ruling family agrees with aims of revolution and decides to provide needed leadership herself.
Title: Anne Boleyn
Author: Brenton, Howard Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2012
Description:
roy drama - historical - England - family relations - politics seventeen characters thirteen male; four female (doubling possible) two acts
period - the Court of King Henry VIII (1527-1536) and the Court of King James I (1603-1604).
A celebration of a great English heroine, 'Anne Boleyn' dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII’s notorious second wife, who helped change the course of the nation’s history. Traditionally seen as either the pawn of an ambitious family manoeuvred into the King’s bed or as a predator manipulating her way to power, Anne – and her ghost – are seen in a very different light in Title: Anne of Avonlea
Author: Montgomery, Lucy Maud Robinette, Joseph Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1997
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - adaptation large cast flexible casting two acts
Casting - 9-12 male; 14-24 female; extras if desired; approximate running time: 120 minutes.
This delightful, enchanting sequel to Anne of Green Gables continues the exciting adventures of one of literature's most enduring characters, Anne Shirley. From her first days as a young teacher to her departure for Redmond College, we are reacquainted with such old friends as Marilla Cuthbert, Rachel Lynde, Diana Barry and Gilbert Blythe. We also meet many new ones: a
Title: Anne of Green Gables
Author: Robinette, Joseph Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - adaptation large cast flexible casting two acts
From the novel by L.M. Montgomery.
This new dramatization captures the charm and excitement of L.M. Montgomery's enduring classic about an orphan girl, Anne Shirley, from her first encounter with her austere guardian to her thrilling graduation from Queen's Academy. The play faithfully recreates the memorable events and characters from the brilliant novel. All the tragedies and triumphs that mark Anne's growth
Title: Annie Jr.
Author: Meehan, Thomas Charnin, Martin Publisher: Music Theatre International 1997
Description:
roy musical - comedy - children - family relations large cast flexible casting one act
Book by Thomas Meehan; music by Charles Strouse; lyrics by Martin Charnin; based on "Little Orphan Annie".
"With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone's hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Title: Annie Jr. - score
Author: Meehan, Thomas Charnin, Martin Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997
Description:
Vocal score for the Annie Jr. musical.
Book by Thomas Meehan; music by Charles Strouse; lyrics by Martin Charnin.
Based on "Little Orphan Annie".
Title: Annie Jr. Chorus Book - score
Author: Meehan, Thomas Charnin, Martin Publisher: Music Theatre International 1997
Description:
Vocal score for the chorus in the musical.
Book by Thomas Meehan; music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin.
Based on "Little Orphan Annie".
Title: Another Tree Dance
Author: Syers, Karinne Keithley Publisher: 53rd State Press 2015
Description:
roy solo performance - drama - artistic creation all male or all female cast one character one act
Another Tree Dance is a poet's essay, an essay for a room, for the mouth, the hand, the ear, a philosophy housed not in concepts but in sentences, gestures, slides, songs, visible and invisible things. With additional essays on performance. Created as the oblique cousin to her dissertation on Emerson, Karinne Keithley Syers's Another Tree Dance mines the images of her personal and creative history, coaxing from private recursions the abyssal dives and uncertain floats of thinking through a life that swims and glitters. Title: Antipodes, The
Author: Baker, Annie Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2018
Description:
roy drama - satire nine characters seven male; two female one act
A group of people sit around a table telling, cataloguing, and theorizing stories. Their purpose is never clear: are they brainstorming ideas for a TV show? A film? A mythology? This is a world where ghostly fables co-exist with mundane discussions of snacks and sexual exploits, where vague instruction to tell stories about "something monstrous" though "it might not be a literal monster" becomes maddeningly impossible. Part satire, part sacred rite, THE ANTIPODES asks what value stories have for a world in crisis.
Title: Any Night in - Summerworks / CCO Author: Arnold, Daniel Hahn, Medina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - thriller six characters one male; one female (doubling) thirty-nine scenes
Anna is a modern dancer who is looking for a new place to live. Technophile Patrick just happens to have put up a sign for a newly available basement suite at her dance studio. These two disparate individuals will meet, get to know each other, fall in love and become so entwined that their destiny, eerily foretold by their pseudo-psychic neighbour, will ultimately provide us with some clarity as to why they were put together in the first place.
Title: Arabian Nights in - Plays for Children, Volume II Author: Marvin, Blanche Publisher: Merri-Mimes Press 1991
Description:
roy children - folk tale - Kabuki theatre eighteen characters; narrator seven male; four female (doubling) three acts
In Kabuki style, this version of Arabian Nights tells the story of Scherezade, who in turn spins her tales to save her life. Animals and birds are interchanged with humans. Symbolic use of scenery, as well as dance movement, defines the style. Sinbad the Sailor's adventure is told through the curse of the three oranges. Title: Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Author: Bleasdale, Alan Publisher: Faber and Faber 1985
Description:
roy drama - American - 20th century fourteen characters ten male; four female two acts
1 setting; singing.
This powerful new play counterpoints the last days of Elvis Presley - popping pills at Gracelands, eating gargantuan breakfasts in the middle of the night - with his early career as 'the white boy who sang like a Negro' and who swiftly became an international twentieth-century cult hero.
Title: Arts and Leisure
Author: Tesich, Steve Publisher: Samuel French 1997
Description:
roy dark comedy - relationships five characters one male; four female one act (six scenes)
Self absorbed drama critic confronted by alienated women in his life.
Title: As You Like It
Author: Shakespeare, William Clark, I. E. Publisher: I. E. Clark 1967
Description:
roy comedy thirteen characters eight male; five female (doubling possible) one act
Approximate running time: 35 minutes.
One-act adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy. A glimpse into the Forest of Arden finds teenagers of Shakespeare's day much like our own - interested in the opposite sex. Rosalind disguises herself as a boy to win Orlando, and what a tangled web she weaves. Title: Augustus Does His Bit - a true-to-life farce in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy farce - satire - war three characters two male; one female one act
1 setting.
Farce satirizing British governing class during World War I. Lady wins bet by stealing defense secrets from self-important colonel.
Title: Auschwitz Quintet, The
Author: Arn, Gordon Publisher: Samuel French 1967
Description:
roy drama - World War II - Germany all male cast; six characters six male one act
A prisoner in a Nazi extermination camp makes a terrifying discovery about himself. He and his fellow workers know they are to be shot and replaced at the end of four months. He devises a plan of escape and reveals it to four of his fellow workers, but they turn away from him one by one. Alone, he soon realizes that not only they, but also he is imprisoned by not by the guards, the electrified fences, the watchdogs, the searchlights, the trenches, but his inability to act, by his own psychological inertia, that he will continue working, obeying, like a dumb animal, up to the
Title: Avenue A
Author: Steen, David Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy dark comedy four characters three male; one female two acts
"Avenue A is the gripping tale of an ex-con struggling to create his own family of misfits as an old prison buddy mysteriously returns for one final visit. It is a carefully crafted and mordantly funny look at rebirth amidst urban decay." Title: B.J.
Author: Zaget, Bill Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada
Description:
roy dark comedy - murder - vampires - Canadian playwright four characters three male; one female two acts
"Jamie, a male nurse with a Bette Davis fixation, shares a townhouse with Aggie, a film set hairdresser. Into their lives come a teen-aged punk-satanist-skateboarder and a bisexual video performance artist. Will their friendship survive? Murder, Hollywood fantasy, and vampirism interweave in this wonky dark dramatic comedy."
Title: Babel of Circular Labyrinths, The in - The Great Gromboolian and Other Plays - COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy dark comedy two characters one male; one female one act
Running time: 10 minutes.
Someone is going to die in this unusual play about art, time and the relationship between fiction and flesh.
Title: Ballerinas in - The Great Gromboolian and Other Plays - COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy dark comedy all female cast; three characters three female one act
Running time: 10 minutes.
A funny take on the transformational magic of art. Title: Barber of Seville, The
Author: Beaumarchais Clark, I. E. Publisher: I. E. Clark 1968
Description:
roy comedy ten characters six male; four female one act
Simple set; approximate running time: 40 minutes.
A classic play with a modern message, it's about Figaro, who has little chance at fame and fortune because he was born a second class citizen. So he gets revenge against his masters in his own way - by outwitting them. His employer, crotchety old Dr. Bartolo, intends to marry beautiful young Rosina. But Count Almaviva shows up with a heart full of love for Rosina and a pocketful of
Title: Battle of Angels
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1974
Description:
roy drama - relationships twenty-two characters eleven male; eleven female three acts
Revised version of play first produced in 1940. Another version, Orpheus Descending, was staged in 1957. Symbolic drama set in Southern town about storekeeper, unhappily married to invalid, who takes in handsome young hobo writer.
Title: Beach Club, The in - Saving America and Other Plays / COL Author: Bollow, Ludmilla Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy five characters two male; three female one act
Humor and pathos meet on the beach where an eclectic assemblage encounters the first snow of the season.
Winner! Best Play - National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan). Title: Bear, The in - Seven Short Plays / COL Author: Tchekov, Anton translated by Julius West Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1956
Description:
roy farce three characters two male; one female one act
'Landowner tries to collect debt from neighbour in Czarist Russia, but collects young widow instead.'
Title: Beautiful Lake Winnipeg in - Three Plays - Maureen Hunter / CCO Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2003
Description:
roy drama - relationships - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
A riveting tale about adults who play dangerous games as a young man accompanies his fianceé to her lakeside cabin only to find her ex-husband waiting for them.
Title: Beauty and the Beast
Author: Gray, Nicholas Stuart Publisher: Samuel French 1951
Description:
roy children - fantasy seven characters seven male or female three acts
The classic story of a repulsive Beast who inhabits a strange and magical castle, and of the beautiful girl who is caught in the castle whose innocence and sympathetic affection for the Beast breaks a wicked spell and releases a handsome prince. Title: Beginner's Guide to Floating, A
Author: Moeller, Nicole Publisher: Miscellaneous 2017
Description:
roy drama - relationships - Alberta playwright - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act
A man and his wife, who has been debilitated by a stroke, struggle to find each other again.
Shortlisted for the 2017 Alberta Playwriting Wards.
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Title: Beirut
Author: Bowne, Alan Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 1985
Description:
roy drama - death - sex - relationships three characters two male; one female one act
Set in an apocalyptic future where a young man named Torch has been quarantined to a dark, squalid room on the Lower East Side of New York City, after testing positive for a nameless, sexually transmitted disease. In his grimy cell which the locals refer to as “Beirut,” Torch passes the time alone, forbidden from contact with the moral population of the outside world. His uninfected girlfriend, Blue, makes the dangerous journey across the quarantine line to be with him. Torch tries to keep her at room’s length and for the next hour, they argue lovingly, jokingly,
Title: Believe! A play with traditional Christmas music Author: Reeves, Faye Couch Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 2006
Description:
roy Christmas thirty-three characters; extras eight male; seventeen female; eight male or female one act (eight scenes)
Approximate running time: 45 minutes.
This play is the perfect opportunity to combine traditional Christmas music with a sweet, contemporary story. Its ten days before Christmas, and 15-year-old Alex Norton is struggling. He’s always loved Christmas, but the shine has left his favorite holiday. He sees Christmas as nothing more than an over-hyped, greedy, present-grabbing time of year. Where is the peace in Title: Bench 18
Author: Miesle, F. Lee Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1961
Description:
roy comedy nine characters five male; four female one act
Approximate running time: 20 mins.
Sammy is waiting at Bench 18 with a white carnation in his buttonhole, eager to propose to the girl he's corresponded with for over a year. A footsore policeman urges caution on Sammy. Marriage can be grim. A tramp eager to snooze on Bench 18 has to be bought off. The tramp's advice: Marriage? Phooey! The girl with the white corsage comes on, ready to meet Sammy. A
Title: Beowulf A rock musical Author: Pickering, Ken Cole, Keith Publisher: I. E. Clark 1986
Description:
roy musical comedy fifteen characters; extras; chorus flexible casting two acts
1 unit set; approximate running time: 100 minutes; adapted from the Anglo-Saxon Epic. Music by Keith Cole.
Beowulf is the oldest literary work in the English language. Pickering follows the epic poem closely, but with amusing anachronisms to make it meaningful and entertaining for modern theatre goers. As King Hrothgar and his thanes revel in the mead hall, Heorot, the monster
Title: Beside Herself
Author: Daniels, Sarah Publisher: Methuen Drama 1990
Description:
roy drama - sexual abuse - women - mental illness thirteen characters four male; five female (doubling) one act (eleven scenes)
St. Dymphna's is a halfway house for people with mental illness. On the board of management there sits Evelyn, an MP's wife, who is struggling desperately to make people like her; helping her father round the house, acceding to colleagues' requests and absorbing the stress she is quite obviously feeling, her innermost thoughts voiced to the audience by the otherwise unseen Eve. For it seems that Evelyn is also not well, the spectre of mental illness dogging her as she puts on a timid, polite manner and faces the world as though nothing is the matter. Named after the patron Title: Best Men's Stage Monologues 2017, The
Author: Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2017
Description:
monologues - men - auditions
contain monologues from:
Alive and Well - Kenny Finkle / Alligator - Hilary Bettis / Amazing - Brooke Berman / The Arsonists - Jaqueline Goldfinger / Barbecue Apocalypse - Matt Lyle / Bar by the F - Sheila Callaghan / The Belle of Belmar - Nicole Pandolfo / Big City - Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros / Birds of a Feather - June Guralnik / Breathing Time Beau Willimon / Cal in Camo - William Francis Hoffman / Carbon-Based Life Form Seeks Similar - Andrew Biss / Chill - Eleanor Burgess / Consider the Oyster - David MacGregor / The Coward - Kati Schwartz / Daniel's Husband / Michael McKeever / Deer - Aaron Mark / Dinner at Home Between Deaths - Andrea Lepcio / Draw the Circle - Mashuq Mushtaq Deen / Empathitrax - Ana Nogueira / A Funny Thing Happened on
Title: Best Women's Stage Monologues 2017, The
Author: Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2017
Description:
monologues - women - auditions
contains monologues from:
Alive and Well - Kenny FInkle / The Arsonists - Jacqueline Goldfinger / Bed - Sheila Callahan / The Belle of Belmar - Nicole Pandolfo / Big City - Barbara Blumenthal-Erlich / Birds of a Feather - June Guralnick / The Blameless - Nick Gandiello / Blue Lila Rising - Sheila Callahan / breathing Time - Beau Willimon / Byhalia, Mississippi - Evan Linder / Caught - Christopher Chen / Charm - Philip Dawkins / Closed Windows, Open Doors - Glen Alterman / Confederates - Suzanne Bradbeer / The Coward - Kati Schwartz / Darn It! Darla! - Lavinia Roberts / Daughters of the Sexual Revolution - Dana Leslie Goldstein / Dinner at Home Between Deaths - Andrea Lepcio / Draw the Circle - Mashuq Mushtag Deen / Ellery - Jennifer O'Grady / The Etruscan Lovers - C. S.
Title: Between Breaths
Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy drama - Newfoundland - Canadian Playwright three characters two male; one female one act ⌦"Dr. Jon Lien is a risk-taker and respected researcher, working for over twenty years in the dangerous waters off Newfoundland to rescue massive humpback whales and save the fishing gear in which they’re trapped. With his head down in freezing waters and armed only with a snorkel and knife, Lien saves the lives of over five hundred animals and earns the hard-won respect of Newfoundland’s fishermen. But his toughest battle comes at the end, as his body is slowly conquered by a relentlessly progressing paralysis and dementia." Title: Beyond the Pole Episodes 1 - 6 Author: Warhurst, Neil Barnhill, Paul Publisher: Samuel French 2017
Description:
roy comedy - radio plays - England eight characters five male; three female six acts (episodes)
Mark Bark-Jones and Brian Tongue are two ordinary men who want to do extraordinary things despite a few tiny problems: debt, failed relationships, frightened partners, boredom, blind ambition, awful beards, ghost fathers, polar bears, frostbite, brilliant Norwegian rivals, shotguns, lunacy and the constant life threatening challenges of the Pole. ... But maybe Mark and Brian can get beyond all that and finally conquer it.
Title: Billboard
Author: Vukadinovich, Michael Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships three characters two male; one female two acts
Approximate running time: 90 mins.
Andy, a recent college graduate weighed down by student loans, gets paid a great deal to tattoo a corporate logo on his forehead. His artist girlfriend Katelyn is not impressed, his liberal best friend thinks he is crazy, and now he has to live with it. The decision has both tragic and comic consequences as he comes to learn that the logo is more than just ink on his skin. But Katelyn
Title: Bingo
Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1976
Description:
roy drama - Shakespeare - high school - biography twelve characters seven male; five female two acts
Approximate running time: 70 mins
Concerns the last days of Shakespeare when he has retired to Stratford and is tormented by the cruelties to his family and his own achievements. Title: Birds and the Bees, The
Author: Crawford, Mark Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - family relations - life - love four characters two male; two female two acts
Sarah’s marriage is over, and she’s just moved back home to the farm with her beekeeper mother, Gail. As the women try to adjust to the many changes in their world, their lives are complicated by the community’s last-ever Turkey Days celebration, beehive troubles, an eccentric neighbour, and a handsome young researcher. "The Birds and the Bees" is a laugh-out-loud comedy with a huge, honeyed heart.
Title: Black Elk Speaks
Author: Neihardt, John Sergel, Christopher Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1996
Description:
roy Indigenous peoples - drama - tragedy large cast flexible casting two acts
Approximate running time: 120 mins; based on the book by John G. Neihardt, adapted by Christopher Sergel.
This uniquely colorful and entirely authentic play has had highly successful productions at the Denver Center Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum. At every performance, without exception, it received a standing ovation. One critic described it as "A shattering evocation of the American
Title: Blind in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 40th Series / COL Author: Kellet, Gloria Calderon Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy comedy - romance two characters one male; one female one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
While a man waits for his blind date to show, a female stranger catches his eye and ends up being exactly who he was looking for. Title: Blue Hour, The
Author: Hehir, Michele Vance Publisher: Michele Vance Hehir 2018
Description:
roy Canadian - Alberta playwright - prairies - family relations - abuse seven characters two male; three female; one boy; one girl one act (28 scenes)
Set in the late 1940's in Southern Alberta, a young girl practices singing for her mom, and then soon their pastor which leads to a relationship with the latter. Meanwhile, her younger brother works hard to make ends meet, and finds a father figure in their neighbour named Hank.
Winner - 2017 Alberta Playwriting Competition Awards.
Title: Blue Stockings
Author: Swale, Jessica Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2017
Description:
roy drama - historical - women - Britain - education twenty characters; extras nine male; nine female (doubling) two acts
with the exception of two female characters, all parts can be doubled and the play can be staged with approximately twelve actors; setting - 1896 Girton College, Cambridge, home to Britain's first female university students.
A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage. 1896. Girton College,
Title: Blue Stockings: Guide for Studying and Staging the Play
Author: Swale, Jessica Jeary, Lois Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2017
Description:
reference - study and teaching - production
Jessica Swale's 'Blue Stockings' is the empowering and surprising story of four young women fighting for their right to a university education in a world that assumed women belonged at home. First produced professionally at Shakespeare's Globe in 2013, and a sell-out success, it is now regularly performed by theatre groups in the UK and beyond, and widely studied by GCSE Drama students. This 'Page to Stage' guide, written by the playwright, who also directed the first production at RADA, along with her assistant director Lois Jeary, is packed with contextual information, scene-by-scene and character breakdowns, and personal insights into the world of the play and the real lives that inspired it. An invaluable resource for those studying and staging the play, it takes you through the entire production process, considering each of the elements in turn, from sound and music to design and rehearsals. You'll also find notes from the original Title: Boeing Boeing
Author: Camoletti, Marc Publisher: Samuel French 2012
Description:
roy comedy - farce - romance six characters two male; four female three acts
Translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans; approximate running time: 120 minutes.
This 1960’s French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent “layovers.” He keeps “one up, one down, and one pending” until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris, and Bernard’s apartment, at the same time.
Title: Book Club
Author: Da Silva, Kristen Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - friendship - romance six characters three male; three female two acts
running time: 80 min.
Josh joined Book Club to get close to Annie. Small issue: Annie is oblivious to Josh's feelings for her... and she's engaged to another man. When Josh's two buddies - a womanizing trainer and a heartbroken nerd - realize book club is a novel place to meet women, the ensuing gathering makes for a fast-paced comedy about friendship, first impressions, and figuring out what we
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: Botticelli in the Fire in - Botticelli on the Fire and Sunday in Sodom / CCO Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canadian playwright six characters four male; two female two acts
Painter Sandro Botticelli is an irrepressible libertine, renowned for his weekend-long orgies as much as he is for his great masterpieces of the early Renaissance. But things get complicated when Lorenzo de’ Medici commissions Botticelli to paint a portrait of his wife, Clarice. What emerges is the famed The Birth of Venus and a love triangle involving Botticelli’s young assistant Leonardo that risks setting their world alight. For while Florence of 1497 is a liberal city, civil unrest is stoked by the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola who begins calling for sodomites to
Title: Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The
Author: Boyne, John Jackson, Angus Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2006
Description:
roy drama - holocaust - children fourteen characters five male; six female; two boys (doubling) two acts (parts)
Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a heart-wrenching tale of an unlikely friendship between two innocent boys. Bruno has a friend called Shmuel. Like Bruno, Shmuel is nine years old. But Shmuel lives on the other side of a fence, and he's always wearing striped pyjamas ...
Title: Brave New Play Rites 20 Years of dramatic engagement from UBC's creative writing program Author: Publisher: Anvil Press 2006
Description:
roy - collection - Canadian - one-acts - British Columbia - monologues
includes:
Monologues: Mrs. Frank - Meah Martin / Life of the Party - Sara O'Leary / Day Shift - Meredith Bain Woodward / I'd Like to Throw a Party
Comedies: Spanish Fly - Maureen Medved / An American Drama - David Mackay / Chow Baby - Tiffany Stone / Courting - Dan Hershfield / Iraqi Karaoke - Sherry MacDonald / Fistfight with God - Kevin Chong / The Reinvention of Minister Thorne - Tim Carlson / W.V. - Andrew Westoll / Wilson's Leg Title: Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays v. 1, The
Author: Publisher: Breakwater Books 2016
Description:
roy - Canadian - collection - Newfoundland
includes: Isle of Demons - Robert Chafe Scratch and Pull - Amy House The Double Axe Murders - Berni Stapleton The Death of Balder - Aiden Flynn No Sweat - Anne Chislett Kingdom - Meghan Greely
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Brendan Behan: The Complete Plays
Author: Behan, Brendan Publisher: Grove Press 1978
Description:
roy - collection - Brendan Behan - Ireland
includes: The Quare Fellow The Hostage Richard's Cork Leg Moving Out A Garden Party The Big House
See separate entries for further description of play.
Title: Brother Sun in - Seven Short Plays / COL Author: Housman, Laurence Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1956
Description:
roy religious all male cast; seven characters; extras seven male one act
A duologue between a Soldan (a mohammedan ruler) and St. Francis about God. Title: BU21
Author: Slade, Stuart Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2016
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - terrorism - young adult - monologues six characters three male; three female one act (five scenes)
'So you know how on the news these days there's just this endless stream of horrendous shit going down, like every single night? Suicide bombs, mass shooting, genocide, drone strikes, school massacres - it's like the end of the world or something... And you're kind of like - 'Could I even cope, if that happened to me?"
BU21 follows six young people in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in the heart of London. By
Title: Buckets
Author: Barnard, Adam Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2015
Description:
roy comedy - monologues flexible characters flexible casting one act
How to fill what’s left of your day. How to fill the rest of your days. Sick buckets, bucket rattling, bucket lists, buckets of love. Wry, emotive, funny and heartfelt, buckets is a play with a unique perspective on a universal dilemma: how do you deal with the fact that time always runs out? Across thirty-three interconnected scenes – some just a few lines, others mini-plays in their own right – buckets swings through a kaleidoscopic world of sadness and happiness, illness and health, youth and experience, kissing and crying, singing and dying. Adam Barnard's open-ended
Title: Burger Love in - A Certain William / CCO Author: Tremblay, Larry translated by Keith Turnbull Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy comedy - Quebec - Canadian playwright - Shakespeare - adaptation eleven characters; voice; extras seven male; four female one act
Burger Love by Larry Tremblay shows us a world where Shakespeare stands to lose his cultural pre-eminence unless he can be repackaged for today’s youth. Tremblay fills his Romeo and Juliet-inspired adaptation with tattoo artists, gay and straight couples, and even Shakespeare himself in this wildly reconfigured modern "midsummer night’s fantasy." Title: Burnin' Love
Author: Bajer, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy comedy - prairies - family relations - Canadian playwright four characters two male; two female two acts ⌦"15 year old Mary is comatose due to a near fatal car accident. Tina, her mother, is her palliative care nurse. On the eve of Mary's 16th birthday Tina decides to find Mary's father so he can meet her for the first time...before she takes her off life support. Wade is an Elvis impersonator in a seedy prairie bar. When Tina shows up in disguise one night in a blizzard, he is moved by the story of her daughter but has no idea he is talking to his ex girlfriend and that Mary is his daughter. He offers to drive Tina to the hospital but on the way they get into a terrible car accident. Wade meets Mary up in Limbo and with the help of the "real" Elvis they must try to get
Title: Cain: a mystery
Author: Gordon, George Publisher: I. E. Clark 1970
Description:
roy drama - mystery - Biblical eight characters four male; three female; one male or female one act
Running time: 35-40 minutes.
The world's first murder was motivated by the same problems that motivate violence today.
Title: Caligula in - Caligula and Cross Purpose / COL Author: Camus, Albert translated by Stuart Gilbert Publisher: Penguin Books 1965
Description:
roy drama - historical fifteen characters thirteen male; two female two acts
'A study in tyranny. Caesar demands the impossible from his subjects and meets his death.' Title: Caligula and Cross Purpose
Author: Camus, Albert translated by Stuart Gilbert Publisher: Penguin Books 1965
Description:
roy - collection - Albert Camus
contains: Caligula Cross Purpose
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Calpurnia
Author: Dwyer, Audrey Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2018
Description:
roy comedy - satire - racism - Canadian ⌦six characters three male; three female two acts
"Calpurnia is a satirical comedy, which features Julie Gordon, a young Jamaican-Canadian writer who is in the middle stages of adapting Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird into a screenplay from the perspective of Calpurnia, the Finch family servant. Julie, a writer and budding activist, suffers from writer’s block as her father, brother and brother’s white girlfriend celebrate her brother’s success as a law graduate. He’s taken on a difficult case and is making the papers. Julie’s father asks her to keep a secret: He has invited a high profile lawyer over for dinner to help move her brother’s career forward. In an argument, her brother informs her that she has no right to write
Title: Cardboard Piano in - Humana Festival 2016 / COL Author: Jung, Hansol Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2017
Description:
roy drama seven characters two male; two female (doubling) two acts (parts)
Northern Uganda on the eve of the millennium: The daughter of American missionaries and a local teenage girl steal into a darkened church to seal their love in a secret, makeshift wedding ceremony. But when the surrounding war zone encroaches on their fragile union, they cannot escape its reach. Confronting the religious and cultural roots of intolerance, Cardboard Piano explores violence and its aftermath, as well as the human capacity for hatred, forgiveness and love. Title: Cat Among the Pigeons
Author: Feydeau, Georges translated by John Mortimer Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy farce twenty characters thirteen male; seven female three acts
The lady has two lovers: a ne'er do well who is secretly affianced to a Baroness' daughter and a flamboyant Spanish general who challenges to a duel any man who comes near her. An amateur composer who hopes the lady will sing his song places his card in a bouquet sent anonymously and thereby seals his fate: the ne'er do well uses him to divert the general's flashing sword. Meanwhile, the ne'er do well is trapped in his skivvies outside his apartment. When the cops come to arrest him for indecent exposure, you can be sure it is the songwriter who goes to jail. The
Title: Certain William, A Adapting Shakespeare in Francophone Canada Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy - collection - Quebec - Shakespeare adaptations
contains: Hamlet Prince of Quebec - Robert Gurik - translated by Leanore Lieblein Lear - Jean-Pierre Ronfard - translated by Linda Gaboriau Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice in Auschwitz - Tibor Egervari - translated by Annick Leger Saved from the Waters - Daphne Thompson The Maleceet Hamlet - Yves-Sioui Durand & J.F. Messier - translated by Henry Gauthier Burger Love - Larry Tremblay - translated by Keith Turnbull
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: Chanticleer and the Fox
Author: Robinette, Joseph Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2004
Description:
roy young adult - verse play - fable - comedy seven characters four male; three female one act
This classic tale from Chaucer tells of a poor widow whose modest possessions include several barnyard animals, most notably the radiant—and conceited—rooster, Chanticleer, and his beautiful wife, Pertelote. All is peaceful on the little farm until Chanticleer is caught off guard by a flattering fox who beguiles the cocky rooster, then captures and carries him away, much to the chagrin of the widow and the other animals. Through his own wits, and with some help from his barnyard friends, Chanticleer turns the tables on the fox's deception and escapes a dreaded fate
Title: Charlie Horse
Author: Dart, M. L. Publisher: M. L. Dart 2018
Description:
roy drama - family relations - Alberta playwright - Canadian five characters two male; two female; one boy or girl one act
An abandoned child describes his version of home life including 'adventures' with his brother's girlfriend, his 'uncle', and mother.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Alberta Playwriting Competition Awards.
The digital copy of the play will download automatically through Google Drive when you click the
Title: Charlotte's Web
Author: White, E. B. Robinette, Joseph Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1983
Description:
roy children - animals - young adult - fantasy⌦eleven characters; extras flexible casting two acts ⌦"Joseph Robinette, working with the advice of E.B. White, has created a play that captures this work in a thrilling and utterly practical theatrical presentation. The costumes and unit set may be simple or as colorful and elaborate as you wish; it's the story and relationships that make the show. All the enchanting characters are here: Wilbur, the irresistible young pig who desperately wants to avoid the butcher; Fern, a girl who understands what animals say to each other; Templeton, the gluttonous rat who can occasionally be talked into a good deed; the Zuckerman family; the Arables; and, most of all, the extraordinary spider, Charlotte, who proves to be “a true friend and a good writer.” Determined to save Wilbur, Charlotte begins her campaign with the Title: Chekhov Sketchbook, The
Author: Kadison, Luba Buloff, Joseph Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy drama - comedy - storytelling eight characters seven male; one female (doubling possible) three acts
A dramatization of three stories by Anton Chekhov: The Vagabond; The Witch and In a Music Shop.
The Vagabond: Prisoner being taken to Siberia seduces guards with fantastic tale of his boyhood and then returns to his role of captive.
Title: Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas
Author: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company 1924
Description:
nonroy - historical - dramas - A selection of plays illustrating the history of the English drama from its origin down to Shakespeare. Includes english translations.
includes: I. Sources of the Liturgical Drama - The Wordless Alleluia Sequence / The Quem Quæritis Trope / The Easter Sepulchre (Depositio Crucis; Elevatio Crucis) / Semi-dramatic Trope
II. Liturgical Plays Dealing with the Story of Christ Sepulchrum (The Visit of the Marys) / Sepulchrum (The Visit of the Marys, The Race of Peter and John) / Sepulchrum (The Visit of the Marys, The Race of Peter and John, and the Appearance to Mary Magdalene) / Peregrini / Pastores / Magi / Herodes / Prophetæ
Title: Children of God
Author: Payette, Corey Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2018
Description:
roy musical - Canadian - Indigenous peoples - residential schools twelve characters four male; five female (doubling) two acts
'Children of God' is a powerful musical about an Oji-Cree family whose children are taken away to a residential school. The impact of this experience on the lives of Tommy, Julia, and their mother Rita is profound and devastating, yet the story moves toward redemption. 'Children of God' offers a thrilling blend of ancient traditions and contemporary realities, celebrating resilience and the power of the indigenous cultural spirit. Title: Children, The
Author: Kirkwood, Lucy Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2016
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - aging - older adults - science fiction three characters one male; two female one act
Retired people are like nuclear power stations. They like to live by the sea. Two ageing nuclear scientists in an isolated cottage on the coast, as the world around them crumbles. Then an old friend arrives with a frightening request.
Winner! 2018 Writers' Guild Awards (Britain) Nominated - 2018 Tony Award for Best Play
Title: Christmas Carol, A
Author: Dickens, Charles Youngs, Michael A. Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 2006
Description:
roy Christmas - young adult large cast flexible casting two acts
Here is a delightfully refreshing version of Charles Dickens’s classic Christmas tale told from a new perspective — a young boy’s grandfather. Thomas enjoys spending time at his grandfather’s prominent London business, but has trouble understanding why his grandfather would give his hard-earned money to the poor. This gives Grandfather the perfect opportunity to tell the story of Ebenezer Scrooge as he recalls it, and a traditional retelling of A Christmas Carol comes to life onstage as a play-within-a-play. As the story goes, of course, revelations brought by visiting his
Title: Christmas Carol, A
Author: Dickens, Charles McDonough, Jerome Publisher: I. E. Clark 1976
Description:
roy drama - Christmas large cast flexible casting one act
Presented in Jerome McDonough's exciting 'Living Cyclorama' style: people flowing from one scene to another take the place of scenery; a shawl, a hood, a hat replace the elaborate Victorian costumes of other versions. Scrooge is still Scrooge, and Tiny Tim is still a pathetic figure. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come still chill the air. But it's all done with an ease and smoothness that make this simple to stage but eminently successful adaptation a favorite for all groups. 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: Cinderella
Author: Newton, Ruth Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy children - fairy tales twelve characters; extras three male; nine female one act
This version of the ever-loved story of Cinderella places emphasis on audience participation. The Fairy Godmother resorts to help from the audience in working all her magic - mainly because she is out of practice and not at all certain anything is going to work properly. Cinderella's slipper is tried on youngsters in the audience, and they are consulted as to whether the wicked Stepmother and Stepsisters (Matilda, Griselda, and Frump) should be turned into happy people. At the end of the play, the audience meets all of the characters at the back of the theatre, and each child
Title: Cinderella in - Plays for Children, Volume II Author: Marvin, Blanche Publisher: Merri-Mimes Press 1991
Description:
roy children - comedy - fairy tale seven characters two male; five female three acts
This 'Cinderella ' is a comedy of manners á la Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' The Ugly Sisters are played by men who take one lump or two of sugar in their tea. The Fairy Godmother is Britannia, who rules the waves but who is only a part-time Fairy Godmother with part-time magic, although she's cousin to Columbia the Gem of the Ocean. There's a Prince and the class struggle of snobbery and élitism as Cinderella rises from rags to riches. Title: Cipher
Author: Close, Ellen Griffiths, Braden Publisher: Ellen Close 2018
Description:
roy drama - mystery - Alberta playwright - Canadian seven characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
A professor and a young man form a romantic relationship as they bond over the mysterious case of Tamam Shud. How did he die, and what's with the cipher that was left behind?
Winner - 2018 Alberta Playwriting Competition Awards.
The digital copy of the play will download automatically through Google Drive when you click the
Title: Circe and Bravo
Author: Freed, Donald Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1986
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female two acts
Set in the President of the United States' lodge at the Camp David Mountain Retreat. The First Lady - code name 'Circe' - has become a high security risk. A top Secret Service agent - code-name 'Bravo' - is assigned to guard her.
Title: Circle, The
Author: Brown, Geoffrey Simon Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - dark comedy - drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female one act
Amanda is a genius. Ily is a drug dealer. Kit is a runaway. Mutt is a mess. Will is a shit disturber. Daniel doesn’t know what he’s doing there. It’s a high school garage party. Everyone’s a bit too drunk and a bit too stoned and a bit uncomfortable in their own skin. It’s an explosive combination, but it’s better than being alone on a Friday night in suburbia. Title: City of Conversation, The
Author: Giardina, Anthony Publisher: Samuel French 2014
Description:
roy drama - politics - historical - American - family relations ten characters four male; four female; one boy (doubling) two acts
Approximate running time: 120 minutes
In 1979, Washington D.C. was a place where people actually talked to each other...where adversaries fought it out on the Senate floor and then smoothed it out over drinks and hors d'oeuvres. But it was all about to change. In this play spanning 30 years and six presidential administrations, Hester Ferris throws Georgetown dinner parties that can change the course of
Title: Clarity in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 41st Series / COL Author: Tuttle, Korde Arrington Publisher: Samuel French 2017
Description:
roy drama - solo performance all male cast; one character one male one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
Cameron enjoys rough sex. Which is fine. However, in the final moments leading up to his picturesque wedding on the Georgia state coastline, one particular sexual encounter with his fiancé demands that he questions his marriage, racial identity, and sexual preferences altogether.
Title: Cleaners, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 41st Series / COL Author: Joy, Lindsay Publisher: Samuel French 2017
Description:
roy comedy - love - death two characters one male; one female one act
Approximate running time: 30 mins.
Lower East Side. Right now. It’s Rita and Jerry’s job to clean up the stuff no one else will: death. Title: Clippings
Author: Fuson, Deni Publisher: Samuel French 1997
Description:
roy drama - young adult - social issues nine characters; mimes four male; five female one act (seventeen parts)
Eight high school students share stories from newspaper articles they were assigned to clip. Memories are triggered and personal values and biases as well as intensely private issues (sexual harassment, parental abuse, abortion, teen pregnancy, suicide, homosexuality, drugs, sibling relationships and guilt) surface. Mimes dramatize the dilemmas teenagers face as they struggle with the voices of their hearts, minds and souls. Love, acceptance and forgiveness are offered as values that make life worth living.
Title: Clowns' Play
Author: Bain, Reginald F. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1981
Description:
roy children - participation play eight characters four male; four female one act
Approximate running time: 40 minutes.
"Show Today" and "Jack and the Beanstalk" read two signs placed at the proscenium on the otherwise bare stage. Clown ushers escort the young people to their seats in anticipation of a performance of the age-old classic. But it's time for the show and the group that was supposed to present the play has phoned to say that their van has broken down and they are not going to
Title: Coarse Acting Show 2, The Further plays for coarse actors Author: Green, Michael Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy collection - comedy twenty characters; extras twenty male or female four acts (parts)
Contains four short plays - 'Moby Dick', 'The Cherry Sisters', 'Last Call for Breakfast', 'Henry the Tenth (part Seven)'. Plays may be performed together or separately.
In each of these masterpieces from the authors of Four Plays for Coarse Actors sets collapse, actors fail to appear and props fall to pieces while the casts carry on, believing that the audience won't notice. Moby Dick is an ambitious attempt to reduce the epic novel to a series of quick-fire Title: Cobb
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1991
Description:
roy drama - biography - baseball - American all male cast; four characters four male one act
The character of controversial baseball legend Ty Cobb is split into three differently aged versions of himself: The Peach, aged nineteen, at the beginning of his long career with the Detroit Tigers; Ty, in his early forties, at the end of his playing days; and Mr Cobb, in his early seventies, at the point of death from cancer. The play floats freely in time, moving back and forth among the Cobbs as they contend with each other, and the audience, over whom Ty Cobb really was and what he represented. Invading this self-imposed "argument in limbo" is Oscar Charleston, a black
Title: Cobbler, Stick to Thy Last in - Transitions I: Short Plays / CCO Author: Hill, Kay Publisher: Commcept Publishing Limited 1978
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Nova Scotia five characters two male; three female one act
divided interior set.
Though his wife Faithful isn't quite dead, Standfast, the cobbler, knowing she can't last long, has advertised for a new bride. In Nova Scotia in the 1780's, it is the only practical way to get one. Besides, winter is coming and he has a house and six children to be looked after. But Faithful takes a turn for the better just as the local postman arrives with Susannah Comfort, a pleasant lass
Title: Cock-Ups
Author: Moss, Simon Publisher: Faber and Faber 1984
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships - biographical eight characters seven male; one female two acts
"First seen at the 1981 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Simon Moss's play about the last hours in the lives of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell has since been performed in Manchester and London. 'Time Out' called it a chilling study of (their) declining relationship... The rows are so intimate and compelling that it's like eavesdropping on private grief. Intercut with this is a gloriously farcical investigation of the circumstances of Orton's death in which characters blatantly lifted from his plays disport themselves in Ortonesque manner'. Title: Coffee Break in - Humana Festival 2016 / COL Author: Gordon-Solmon, Tasha Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2017
Description:
roy comedy - romance four characters two female; two male or female (expandable) one act
Running time: approximately 10-15 mins.
Is love written in the stars? Is it written in the coffee foam? Sometimes, it can be so hard to read the signs.
Title: Collected Stories
Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1998
Description:
roy drama - women all female cast; two characters two female two acts
The conflict between the established artist and the adulatory fan who becomes a protégé, disciple, colleague and friend—and finally threatening rival—is one of those great topics… It resurfaces in COLLECTED STORIES, which confronts the prominent short-story writer Ruth Steiner with her student turned confidante turned competitor Lisa Morrison. What is new here is that the women are teacher and student both in academia and in life, that they come from different social milieus, and that for her first novel, Lisa has also cannibalized Ruth's experiences, to wit her youthful,
Title: Complete Gilbert and Sullivan, The Librettos from all fourteen operettas Author: Gilbert, W. S. Sullivan, Arthur Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal 1960
Description:
roy - musical collection - Gilbert - Sullivan
includes: Thespis; or, The Gods Grown Old Trial by Jury The Sorcerer H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor The Pirates of Penzance Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri Princess Ida; or, Castle Adamant The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu Title: Complete Plays of John M. Synge, The
Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Vintage Books 1960
Description:
roy - collection - John M. Synge
includes: The Playboy of the Western World Riders to the Sea In the Shadow of the Glen The Well of the Saints The Tinker's Wedding Deirdre of the Sorrows
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Conference of the Birds, The
Author: Carriere, Jean-Claude Brook, Peter Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1982
Description:
roy drama - allegory - fable large cast variable casting one act
Allegorical fable based on 12th century Persian poem. Birds seek solution to world's conflicts by undertaking search for true king (God).
Title: Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A
Author: Twain, Mark Fuller, John G. Publisher: Baker's Plays 1941
Description:
roy comedy - legend - fantasy twelve characters six male; six female; or: four male; eight female three acts
In this dramatization, the Yankee from Connecticut is a young engineer just out of college and anxious to try his hand at every kind of mechanical device. He is knocked out cold by one of his experiments and wakes up to find himself in the Court of King Arthur. From then on, the striking contrasts between the old and the new develop onto a series of ludicrous events which will satisfy those audiences wanting side-splitting humor combined with just a small undercurrent of elemental truths. Television, radio, aviation, football and even the corner drugstore find their way Title: Connections 2017 New plays for young people Author: Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017
Description:
roy - young adult - British theatre - one-acts
includes: Three - Harriet Braun #YOLO - Matthew Bulgo FOMO - Suhayla El-Bushra Status Update - Tim Etchells Musical Differences - Robin French Extremism - Anders Lustgarten The School Film - Patrick Marber Zero for the Young Dudes! - Alistair McDowall The Snow Dragons - Lizzie Nunnery
Title: Contemporary Scenes for Contemporary Kids
Author: Sawyer-Young, Kat Publisher: Baker's Plays 1986
Description:
scenes - for children and young adults
contains: Elementary school - Slumber Party / Campout / Divorce / Movie Junior High School - Fishing / Crush / Brotherly Love / Shopping High School - Registration / Best Friends / Break-Up / Reunion
Individual titles are not catalogued.
Title: Cost of Living
Author: Majok, Martyna Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2018
Description:
roy drama - disabilities - relationships four characters two male; two female one act (nine scenes - prologue)
(This play) deftly challenges the typical perceptions of those living with disabilities and delves deep into the ways class, race, nationality, and wealth can create gulfs between people, even as they long for the ability to connect. Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, and his estranged ex wife, Ani, find themselves unexpectedly reunited after a terrible accident leaves her quadriplegic. John, a brilliant Phd student with cerebral palsy, hires Jess, a first-generation recent graduate who has fallen on desperate times, as his new aide. Title: Crimson Cap Ladies Bare it All, The
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Chris McKerracher 2017
Description:
roy comedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta playwright ten characters; extras three male; seven female three acts
Running time: 90 mins; 1 set.
The Crimson Cap Ladies end up accidentally booked into a nudist resort on a secluded island off the coast of British Columbia with no way back to the mainland for a week. Complications abound as they try to keep a virginal nice raised by her Mom in the wilds of northern Alberta away from seeing anything scandalous.
Title: Crimson Cap Ladies Catch a Con, The
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Chris McKerracher 2015
Description:
roy comedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters one male; seven female three acts
Running time: 90 minutes; one set.
The second Crimson Cap Ladies episode finds their club infiltrated by a violent escaped con disguised as an older woman from the UK. Great physical comedy and hilarious dialogue provide the laughs. The play is ideal for amateur theatre groups who attract a large segment of seniors, especially, "Red Hat Ladies."
Title: Crimson Cap Ladies Save the Day, The
Author: Mckerracher, Chris Publisher: Chris McKerracher 2014
Description:
roy comedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta Playwright seven characters two male; seven female three acts
This is the first of the quadrilogy which features four older women in a small town social club, known as the Crimson Cap Ladies. On one of their monthly excursions, they get trapped in the seedy town bar fearing for their lives as people go missing, then return acting like zombies! Of course, an alien invasion is blamed.
The digital copy of the play will download automatically through Google Drive when you click Title: Crimson Cap Ladies take on Vegas, The
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Chris McKerracher 2016
Description:
roy comedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta playwright fourteen characters two male; seven female (doubling) three acts
Running time; 90 minutes; 1 set.
The feisty Crimson Cap Ladies head to Vegas for the Crimson Cap International Convention and Bake Sale and get mixed up with a gang of jewel thieves after Millie gets kidnapped. Lots of laughs with twists and turns in the mystery to keep audiences guessing. This is a wonderful third addition to the Crimson Cap Ladies saga.
Title: Cross Purpose in - Caligula and Cross Purpose / COL Author: Camus, Albert translated by Stuart Gilbert Publisher: Penguin Books 1965
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female three acts
Emphasizes the obstacles confronting a man's desire for happiness. A traveler returns to his own country and stays at an inn run by a mother and daughter. But by concealing his identity he knowingly brings tragedy into all their lives.
Title: Crowd You're in With, The A play Author: Gilman, Rebecca Publisher: Northwestern University Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - American - parenthood - friendship - family seven characters four male; three female one act
running time: 85 min.
In it, a Fourth of July backyard barbecue is the setting for a comic, thought-provoking, ultimately disquieting exploration of the question of whether to have children. Melinda and Jasper, the hosts, are deeply divided by the issue; Tom and Karen, their landlords, decided long ago to remain childless; Windsong and her husband, Dan, are expecting a baby. As the play progresses, Title: Crowning Glory in - Plays for Children, Volume II Author: Marvin, Blanche Publisher: Merri-Mimes Press 1991
Description:
roy religious - children - drama thirteen characters seven male; six female (doubling possible) three acts
This play is set in a classical Biblical style and story. It is the story of Esther and how she became Queen of Persia. By her growing courage, she saved the life of her uncle Mordecai and all the Jews of Persia. Eventually the celebration of Purim was created to honour that event.
Title: Cry It Out in - Humana Festival 2017 / COL Author: Metzler, Molly Smith Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2018
Description:
roy comedy - parenthood four characters one male; three female one act (seven scenes)
Approximate running time: 95 minutes.
Cooped up on maternity leave and starved for conversation, Jessie invites her funny and forthright neighbor Lina, also a new mom, for coffee on the patio between their duplexes. Despite their vastly different finances, they become fast friends during naptimes—while someone watches from the mansion on the cliff overlooking Jessie’s yard. This comedy with dark edges takes an honest
Title: Cure for Death by Lightning
Author: Cloran, Daryl Publisher: Talonbooks 2018
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters; puppets four male; three female two acts
Adapted from the novel by Gail Anderson-Dargatz.
The fifteenth summer of Beth Week's life is full of strange happenings: a classmate is mauled to death, children go missing, and an unseen predator pursues Beth. Not to mention Beth becoming aware that there is darkness in her own home... While her mother retreats into her memories and her father battles his own demons, Beth discovers unlikely allies fro the nearby reserve: a first Title: Cure, The in - The Last Laugh / COL Author: Hardstark, Michael Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy farce - theatre five characters four male; one female one act
Approximate running time: 30 minutes.
Set in a theatre dressing room in turn of the century Cleveland, this frenetic farce is about the efforts of a troupe of Yiddish actors to sober up Yossel Terrifimenschsky, a great star and a hopeless drunk. A young actor claims he knows a sure fire cure for drunkenness. He will help them out if they will present his realist drama The Kesslers of Hester Street.
Title: Cymbeline Refinished - a variation on Shakespeare's ending in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Shakespeare eleven characters ten male; one female one act
1 setting.
In this version of act 5, Cymbeline's sons refuse the throne.
Title: Cyrano
Author: Dewey Jr., Talbot Friedman, David Publisher: The Freelance Press 1981
Description:
roy musical large cast flexible casting one act
A musical adaptation of Edmund Rostand's classic. Cyrano is a great swordsman. poet and philosopher, cursed with a large nose that prevents him from expressing his love to his cousin Roxane. Instead, Cyrano helps handsome, illiterate Christian by writing letters for him. The play, with its wit and humor, confronts prejudice, falsehood, vanity honor, and the intriguing relationship between Roxane, Christian and Cyrano. A delightful musical score and clever lyrics offer many ballads and light moments. Title: Cyrano De Bergerac
Author: Rostand, Edmond Clark, I. E. Publisher: I. E. Clark 1968
Description:
roy romantic comedy eleven characters five male; five female (doubling) one act
Simple set; approximate running time: 40 minutes.
Probably the best-loved romance on all the world's theatre. Long-nosed Cyrano has a sharp sword and a barbed wit; and beneath it all is a tender heart which yearns for Roxanne. But Roxane loves Christian.
Title: Daisy
Author: Devine, Sean Publisher: Talonbooks 2017
Description:
roy drama - advertising - American - Canadian playwright six characters five male; one female two acts
One commercial - maybe one man - fundamentally changed how we elect our leaders. 'Daisy' presents the moment in TV history when the age of negative advertising was dropped into our lives. As a nation contemplates war, distracted by the packaging of a seemingly peaceful U.S. President, the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency is immersed in a crisis of its own. At the nexus of it all sits the eccentric sound man and legendary communications guru Tony Schwartz. Set during the 1964 U.S. presidential election, while brutal race riots erupted across America, a
Title: Dalliance in - Dalliance and Undiscovered Country / COL Author: Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Faber and Faber 1986
Description:
roy drama - relationships eleven characters; extras eight male; three female two acts
2 interiors; music.
Drama adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's 'Liebelei' about tragic consequences of casual male pleasure seeking. Title: Dalliance and Undiscovered Country
Author: Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Faber and Faber 1986
Description:
roy - collection - full length - drama - relationships - Tom Stoppard
includes: Dalliance Undiscovered Country
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Dance Lesson, A
Author: Wiltse, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama - family relations six characters five male; one female two acts
1 interior.
The Hauser family of Cascade, Nebraska, lives in idyllic 1950s small-town, middle-class life until Jack, the handsome, charming, athletic son of a neighbor comes home from the big city and becomes emotionally involved in separate ways with Mrs. Hauser, Mr. Hauser and Jay, their teenage son. Mr. Hauser uses his position of authority as the town attorney to discover some of
Title: Dance of Death, The in - August Strindberg - Plays: Two / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Michael Meyer Publisher: Methuen Drama 1982
Description:
Includes both Part 1 and Part 2
Part 1
roy drama - marital relationships five characters; extras two male; three female two acts
Frustrated army captain, stationed on isolated Swedish island, and his once-promising ex-actress wife, approach silver wedding anniversary with mutual hatred. New officer's arrival precipitates Title: Dangers of VD (Valentine's Day), The
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Chris McKerracher
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright - romance - relationships - Canadian six characters two male; four female three acts
Running time: 90 minutes.
Uproarious laughs mixed with social commentary against the background of Valentine's Day. Gramps and Gran yearn for the romance of yesteryear while their daughter-in-law, Paulette, and her husband deal with his lack of interest in sex. Meanwhile, Paulette's daughter is being coached to dress trampily to attract men by her Aunt Jean. A device for great comedy in The Dangers of VD
Title: Dark Am I, Yet Lovely
Author: MacDormand, Becky Publisher: Becky MacDormand 2018
Description:
roy drama - mental illness - marital relations - Alberta playwright - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act
Jason reflects on some old memories of him and his wife, and ultimately comes to accept that fact that her death wasn't his fault. Playwright Becky MacDormand shows us that even though someone seems fine, depression can still lay dormant- and sometimes the signs aren't clear enough until it's too late.
Winner! 2017 Alberta Playwriting Competition Awards Novitiate prize.
Title: Dark Lady of the Sonnets - an interlude, The in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Shakespeare four characters two male; two female one act
1 exterior.
Shakespeare, on way to romantic rendezvous, encounters Queen Elizabeth from whom he requests endorsement of national theatre. (New prologue) Title: Dark Vanilla Jungle in - Dark Vanilla Jungle and other monologues / COL Author: Ridley, Philip Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2014
Description:
roy drama - solo performance - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
Andrea is seemingly a normal girl. She has her hopes and dreams, spends lots of time thinking about boys and has a complex relationship with her mother. But she’s certainly not lucky, partly down to bad decision making but mainly down to the complete selfishness of those who surround her. A beautiful and breathtaking new drama about one girl's craving for family and home...and the lengths she will go to achieve them.
Title: Dark Vanilla Jungle And other monologues Author: Ridley, Philip Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2014
Description:
roy - collection - drama - solo performance - monologues - women
contains: Now Okay Wound It Killer Dark Vanilla Jungle
Dark Vanilla Jungle is catalogued. All other monologues are not catalogued.
Title: Day After Forever, The
Author: Emery, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 1949
Description:
roy comedy five characters one male; four female one act
An excellent play, a sure-fire contest winner. Julie Preston has completed a twenty year sentence for embezzlement. Prior to the sentence, Julie's baby daughter, Diane, was handed over to Verna Clayton to be brought up as Verna's own child. The one promise made by Verna was that Julie would be permitted to see Diane on her wedding day. Unknown to the girl as her mother, Julie arrives as a "Mrs. Vale" to help with the wedding, whereby she meets and talks with the girl she surrendered years ago. A tender and deeply perceptive play about a secret that was kept forever. Title: Day of Reckoning in - Elizabethan Evening / YCL Author: Holland, Norman Publisher: Performance Publishing 1973
Description:
roy drama - Queen Elizabeth I - young adult all female cast; six characters six female one act
May be performed in conjunction with 'Queen's Token.'
Queen Elizabeth awaits news of the execution of the Earl of Essex, her love, Robert Devereux.
Title: Day Room, The
Author: DeLillo, Don Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1986
Description:
roy drama - mental illness eighteen characters six male; three female (doubling) two acts
flexible set.
The play opens in a brightly lit hospital room occupied by two men. One, the amiable Budge, does Tai Chi exercises while trying, without much success, to strike up a conversation with his taciturn roommate, Wyatt. Then, slowly but inexorably, their world begins to spin away from reality as they are visited by a series of fellow patients and hospital staffers, all of whom, it turns out, may not be
Title: Dear Chuck
Author: Dorf, Jonathan Publisher: Youth Plays 2014
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - young adult large cast flexible casting one act
Teenagers are typically caught in the middle - they're not quite adults, but they're definitely no longer children. Through a series of scenes and monologues, we meet an eclectic group of teen characters who are trying to communicate with that wannabe special someone, coping with the loss of a classmate, battling controlling parents, swimming for that island of calm in the stormy sea of technology - and many others. What they all have in common is the search for their "Chuck," that elusive moment of knowing who they are. Title: Death of Balder, The in - The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays / CCO Author: Flynn, Aiden Publisher: Breakwater Books 2012
Description:
roy drama - solo performance - mythology - Canadian playwright all male cast; several characters one male (doubling) one act
Based on a Norse myth, this one-man show offers a journey into the world of gods, giants, and warriors. The tale is delivered by a timeless storyteller named Munin, as he awaits an epic battle which will herald the end of days. As evening sets in the dead of winter, he conjures up a story to deliver him through the dark night that is about to fall. It is the tale of Balder, the apparently invulnerable hero who nevertheless is killed through the deceit of Loki, the Norse trickster.
Title: Decent Birth, a Happy Funeral, A
Author: Saroyan, William Publisher: Samuel French 1949
Description:
roy drama - relationships sixteen characters eleven male; five female three acts
Two enlisted men cross paths then continue on to their respective destinies. Ernest goes to war and meets death so that others may live. August takes a wife and is blessed with a child, born on the day of Ernest's death and, keeping his promise to the dead man, conducts a celebratory funeral.
Title: Declarations
Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Coach House Books 2018
Description:
roy drama - mortality - Canadian playwright five characters five male or female one act
A deeply personal new play by Jordan Tannahill about mortality and the fragments that constitute a life. This is a paper cut. This is Greta Garbo. This is the smell of Windex. Declarations, by acclaimed playwright Jordan Tannahill, is an ode to mortality — that of the playwright's mother, his own, humankind's — a joyful and moving attempt to capture the objects, sensations, and experiences that make up a life. Through a lyrical and iterative text, five performers chronicle a life pulled through time, encountering meteorological phenomena, mythology, political calamity, Title: Deirdre of the Sorrows in - The Complete Plays of John M. Synge / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Vintage Books 1960
Description:
roy tragedy - Ireland eleven characters eight male; three female three acts
1 interior; 3 exteriors.
Murder and suicide. The High King of Ulster wishes to marry a girl who loves another man.
Title: Derailed in - Dramatics (December 2018) / PER Author: Goudsmit, Jared Publisher: Miscellaneous 2018
Description:
roy comedy - young adult three characters two male; one female one act
Set in a western desert, on a single set of railroad tracks. Story of a hero who comes to rescue damsel tied to railway tracks - with a twist.
Title: Destiny in - Plays: One - David Edgar / COL Author: Edgar, David Publisher: Methuen 1987
Description:
roy political satire - England large cast flexible casting three acts
Midlands by-election setting for author's comments on race relations and politics in present day England with focus on unscrupulous tactics of fascist extremists. Music. Title: Devil He Did, The
Author: FitzGibbon, Constantine Publisher: Performance Publishing 1972
Description:
roy comedy - fantasy twenty characters flexible casting three characters
A convention held in heaven before, during, and after creation.
Title: Diagram of a Paper Airplane in - The Javier Plays / COL Author: Murillo, Carlos Publisher: 53rd State Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - relationships five characters three male; two female three parts
The tragic death of playwright Javier C. and his mysterious final play forces a group of his estranged friends and followers to reunite after twenty years. Will they uncover the deep mystery that both brought them together and made them mortal enemies?
Title: Die Mommie Die!
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy parody - mystery - thriller - spoof - family relations six characters three male; three female two acts
running time: 120 minutes; interior set.
A comic melodrama that evokes the 1960’s "grande guignol" films that featured aging stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner. Ex-pop singer, Angela Andrews, is trapped in a hateful marriage with film producer Sol Sussman. Desperate to find happiness with her younger lover, an out of work TV actor, Tony Parker, Angela murders her husband with the aid of a 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: Doctor In Spite of Himself, The
Author: Molière, Jean-Baptiste Clark, I. E. Publisher: I. E. Clark 1969
Description:
roy farce nine characters six male; three female one act
Approximate running time: 35 minutes.
Sganarelle, a ne're-do-well woodcutter, beats his wife. For revenge she tells strangers that he is a great doctor but must be beaten into admitting his skill. The strangers flog him until he agrees to treat a rich man's daughter. One of Moliere's funniest and a contest favorite, for all groups and ages.
Title: Doors
Author: Zeder, Suzan L. Publisher: Anchorage Press 1985
Description:
roy drama - family relations four characters one male; one female; two boys one act
1 interior.
Eleven-year-old boy attempts to cope with disintegration of his parents marriage.
Winner! 1985 Children's Theatre Association of America Distinguished Play Award Title: Double Axe Murders, The in - The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays / CCO Author: Stapleton, Berni Publisher: Breakwater Books 2012
Description:
roy Canadian playwright - murder mystery - drama three characters two male; one female two acts
Although inspired by true events, the play is not intended to be an accurate historical depiction. What is central to this play is the terrifying tale of three people trapped in an isolated cabin while a winter storm rages. of course, that is not all. Soon it becomes clear that more than the storm has them trapped. Stapleton shows what is found here, three carefully drawn characters set within an explosive situation.
Title: Down the Road
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1991
Description:
roy drama - writing - crime - serial killers three characters two male; one female one act (twenty-two scenes)
DOWN THE ROAD centers on a convicted serial killer and the husband and wife writing team hired to help him write an account of his crimes. The killer, Bill Reach, has admitted to the murders of nineteen women, but there may have been more. Over many weeks of interviews, the couple—Dan and Iris Henniman—grow more and more uncertain of the ethics of what they are doing. Are they simply relating terrifying events, or are they helping readers consume rape, murder and mutilation as if they are consuming any other product of our society? Are they, in fact, helping to
Title: Dragonsong
Author: McCaffrey, Anne Elliott, Irene Publisher: Anchorage Press 1991
Description:
roy fantasy - children thirteen characters; puppets; extras five male; four female; two boys; two girls one act (nine scenes)
Single flexible set.
Dramatized by Irene Elliot from the popular book by Anne McCaffrey. A fantasy with integral music and puppets, the story is one of young people's successful struggles to become what they know they can be. Actors double as puppeteers. Title: Dream Play, A in - August Strindberg - Plays: Two / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Michael Meyer Publisher: Methuen Drama 1982
Description:
roy drama large cast flexible casting three acts
Expressionistic play which symbolizes humanity's struggle amidst life's agony and evil. Scenery changed frequently on darkened stage.
Title: Dreams in Captivity
Author: Davis, Gabriel Publisher: gabrieldavis.com 2018
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
After being kicked out of culinary school, aspiring chef Pax returns to his hometown to regroup. There he happens upon an old friend from high school, Livi, who he learns has forgone a promising acting career to work in a retirement home. Meanwhile Livi's sister-in-law Reina enrolls in a class about space at the local community college and, much to her husband Barry's dismay, becomes fixated on the unlikely dream of becoming an astronaut. Pax supports Reina's aspirations and encourages Livi to revive hers - all while pursuing his own far-fetched dream of
Title: Dreamwalk
Author: Kennedy, Eddie Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1983
Description:
roy drama - family relations - death four characters two male; two female one act
Approximate running time: 40 minutes.
Both Elizabeth and David are young cancer patients, and during their hospital stay they have developed a close and tender friendship. At a time when Elizabeth feels that her family and friends have become distant, she turns more and more to David for talk, understanding and companionship. During a visit from her sister and the minister's son, there is a dramatically Title: Drunken Sisters, The in - The Alcestiad; or, A Life in the Sun, with A Satyr play; The Drunken Sisters / COL Author: Wilder, Thornton Publisher: Samuel French 1977
Description:
roy drama - mythology four characters one male; three female one act
Satyr play written to follow the author's work on the life of Alkestis. Apollo, god of the sun tricks the three sisters of fate into releasing death-hold on King Admetus.
Title: Earthly Delights A day in the life of Colette Author: Wagner, Elisabeth Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2012
Description:
roy musical - French - Canadian playwright five characters three male; two female; singers; one pianist one act
"This musical play introduces the audience to Colette, the renowned French writer, and some of her colourful friends. It is a day when the composer Francis Poulenc comes to call. The story line integrates French songs written over her lifetime from late 19th Century to mid-20th Century by composers such as Faure, Debussy, Satie and Poulenc."
Title: Easter Island
Author: Van Belle, David Publisher: David van Belle 2018
Description:
roy solo performance - female - Alberta Playwright - Canadian one character one male; two female (doubling) one act (three parts)
Draft 6; May 2018; post-premiere draft.
In this play one actor assumes three different characters: Nowikcx, a mid-70's male, Vish, a 32 year old female 'artist', and Pati, a 45 year female who is an oil and gas prospector.
Shortlisted for the 2017 Alberta Playwriting Competition Awards. Title: Edgar Allan Poe Live On-Stage Theatrical stage adaptations of some of Poe's classic tales Author: Ballantyne, Jr., J. E. Poe, Edgar Allan Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy - collection - Edgar Allan Poe - J. E. Ballantyne, Jr. - American - full-length - horror - biography
includes: Poe - Quoth the Raven...Nevermore Edgar Allan Poe's: The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe's: The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe's: The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe's: The Tell Tale Heart The Tell-Tell Poe Edgar Allan Poe's: The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe's: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Title: Edwin in - Edwin and Other Plays / COL Author: Mortimer, John Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy dramatic comedy three characters two male; one female one act (two scenes)
Set in post war England. Retired judge questions friend and wife on paternity of son.
Title: Edwin and Other Plays
Author: Mortimer, John Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy - collection - one act - dramatic comedy - John Mortimer
contains: Edwin Bermondsey Marble Arch The Fear of Heaven The Prince of Darkness
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Elizabethan Evening Two Plays About Queen Elizabeth I Author: Holland, Norman Publisher: Performance Publishing 1973
Description:
roy - collection - Queen Elizabeth I - Norman Holland - young adult
contains: Day of Reckoning Queen's Token
May be performed as a full length play.
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Emperor's New Clothes, The in - Plays for Children, Volume II Author: Marvin, Blanche Publisher: Merri-Mimes Press 1991
Description:
roy children - comedy - fairy tale - mediaeval morality play six characters four male; two female three acts
This version of The Emporer's New Clothes was written as a parody of a mediaeval morality play ranging from an elaborate madrigal mocking the Emporer to the imaginary weaving of a hypocritical Court. The French traditions of comedy are incorporated from Moliere to Giraudoux.
Title: Enchanted Sleeping Beauty The legend of Briar-Rose Author: Morris, Vera Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1999
Description:
roy children - musical - fairy tales - fantasy large cast flexible casting two acts
Music and lyrics by Bill Francoeur.
"The king and queen of Never Nod have a new baby, Princess Briar Rose. The witch Evilina, who lives with a giant spider, sets a terrible curse on the poor young princess. Sixteen years later, it’s up to Prince Alexander to come to Briar-Rose’s rescue and the court’s too... for they are all asleep! The prince must fight a Wall of Thorns, a False Princess, and, most frightening of all, the Title: Engaging Shaw
Author: Morogiello, John Publisher: Samuel French 2013
Description:
roy comedy - Irish - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
"The hilarious true story of Irish playwright Bernard Shaw’s relationship with wealthy heiress Charlotte Payne-Townshend. According to her, “no man can resist a woman once she has set her sights upon him, unless thwarted by another woman.” But confirmed bachelor Shaw may prove to be more than she bargained for."
Title: Et-y-mol-o-gy in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 39th series / COL Author: Jasper, Jennifer Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy two characters one male; one female one act
Approximate running time: 10 min.
Seven words map the course of Susan Anne and Calvin's journey through life.
Winner! 39th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival
Title: Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 40th Series / COL Author: Edwards, Greg Roninson, Andy Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy musical - dramatic comedy three characters two male; one female one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
Evelyn Shaffer, an indie game designer, has landed an interview for her dream job at Moonbeam Studios. Even better, that interview is with her childhood hero, veteran designer Tim Beck. But as the interview progresses, Evelyn realizes just how quickly dream can turn to delusion. A ten-minute musical infused with a 32-bit score, Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime shows Title: Evelyn Strange
Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
"A beautiful amnesiac wanders into the world of publishing and high society in 1950's New York and, as she seeks her identity, unravels a tangled web of deceit, betrayal and murder. Hilarity and suspense go hand in hand as the perplexed and perplexing Evelyn leads three urban sophisticates on a mad dash from the Metropolitan Opera to Grand Central Station, and in and out of the offices, apartments and hotel rooms of mid-town Manhattan."
Title: Evening at the Talk House
Author: Shawn, Wallace Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2017
Description:
roy dark comedy eight characters five male; three female one act ⌦"At Ted's instigation, the old gang gather once more at the almost legendary club The Talk House. Ten years on and presided over still by the kindly Nellie, there's the same genteel atmosphere, familiar drinks, unchanging special snacks. But the era of Walter Barclay is long gone."
Title: Failure, The in - Transitions I: Short Plays / CCO Author: Milne, W. S. Publisher: Commcept Publishing Limited 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations - romance five characters three male; two female one act
Three brothers. One is soon to be successful playwright; the second a successful businessman; and the third the failing shopkeeper who put the first one through school. On the night the playwright returns home, all three propose to the girl their mother has taken in to live with them. Who does she accept the proposal from? Title: Farewell to Galatea
Author: Ainsworth, Ford Publisher: I. E. Clark 1978
Description:
roy comedy - mythology - love six characters two male; four female one act
Approximate running time: 30-35 minutes.
Here is another play in the same inspired manner as the author's great "Persephone." In this one, Pyggy is the resident artist in a modern high-society resort. Thalia is his sweetheart and business manager (he needs one; he cares nothing about money). When this modern Pygmalion creates his own Galatea, he shakes up the slumbering Olympian gods, and the excitement becomes frantic.
Title: Farinelli and the King
Author: van Kampen, Claire Publisher: Oberon Modern Plays 2018
Description:
roy drama - history - Spain ten characters; singers; musicians nine male; one female (doubling possible) two acts
It tells the true story of Philippe V (Rylance), a Spanish monarch on the brink of madness.
Nominee! 2018 Tony Awards Best Play
Title: Fatboy
Author: Clancy, John Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy political satire eleven characters four male; one female (doubling) two acts
Fatboy is a brutal comedy inspired by Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi. This satire on modern America's insatiable appetites - from gobbling up 72oz. steaks to small nations - is presented as a live-action Punch and Judy show. In this fast-moving, shocking, profane, dead-on, funhouse mirror reflection of the world today, the brutish allegory known as Fatboy, along with his monstrous wife, Queen Fudgie the First, stands trial for war crimes. Despite overwhelming evidence the court refuses to convict and succumbs to Fatboy's "persuasive" tactics. Title: Father Comes Home From the Wars Parts 1, 2, and 3 Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori Publisher: TCG Books 2015
Description:
roy drama - war - slavery - music large cast flexible casting three acts (parts)
Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A devastatingly beautiful dramatic work, 'Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)' is the opening trilogy of a projecting nine-play cycle that will ultimately
Title: Fear of Heaven, The in - Edwin and Other Plays / COL Author: Mortimer, John Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy dramatic comedy seven characters five male; two female one act
1 interior.
Two English gentlemen in Italian hospital think they are in heaven, due to mural on ceiling.
Title: Femme Playlist, The / I Cannot Lie to the Stars That Made Me
Author: Hernandez, Catherine Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy - collection - Catherine Hernandez - one act - feminism
includes: The Femme Playlist I Cannot Lie to the Stars That Made Me
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Film Chinois
Author: Chua, Damon Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy drama - noir mystery - China ten characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
Unit set; running time: 120 minutes; setting: Peking, China; period - 1947.
An uneasy time between WWII and the Communist takeover two years later. Randolph, a fresh-faced American operative, has been sent to the Raymond Chandler-esque Imperial City with an important mission. He makes progress, but soon chances into a staunch Maoist named Chinadoll, his would-be adversary and lover. A cat-and-mouse game ensues. As Randolph
Title: Final Dress Rehearsal
Author: Frakes, Jack Publisher: Samuel French 1960
Description:
roy farce - young adult all female cast; thirteen characters thirteen female one act
Approximate running time: 40 minutes.
An amateur theatrical group's final dress rehearsal of Cinderella is a disaster: Cinderella is late, the prompter wants to play all the parts, the sassy stage crew is noisy, the author feels her brainchild is being ruined and the director is distraught. The stepsisters miss cues, sound effects are played at the wrong speed, the messenger crashes her bicycle and the fairy godmother can't
Title: Five and Ten Minute sketches and blackouts for small stages Author: Taggart, Tom Publisher: Samuel French 1964
Description:
roy - sketches - scenes - Tom Taggart - young adult
contains: The Man on the Curb / Criminal Lawyer at Home / Two Boys Meet Girl / It's Colossal! / Meet Mrs. Stuckoff / Haunted / Mr. and Mrs. Love is Blind / Making Hey Hey! / Shipmates / Blackout in Black / If Shakespeare was Writing Today / Table Service / Bad Boy / Lights Out / Saved! / The Board Meeting
Individual titles are not catalogued. Title: Flickering Fireflies in - Saving America and Other Plays / COL Author: Bollow, Ludmilla Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy comedy - fantasy four characters two male; two female one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
Meet the Firefly Family and the night of the teens first mating party. Magical and whimsical for all ages.
Winner! Wisconsin Council for Writers Drama Award
Title: Flight of the Queen, The in - Seven Short Plays / COL Author: Dunsany, Lord Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1956
Description:
roy fantasy eight characters six male; two female one act (four scenes)
The author treats the behavior of bees accurately and yet poetically, in terms of human life, so that the whole play is a kind of metaphor. The language contributes to the atmosphere of the 'golden idle hours", the restlessness of love and the sense of doom. It raises by implication questions about the purpose of life.
Title: Flopsie In - Dramatics (June/July 2018) / PER Author: Krentel, Nick Publisher: Miscellaneous 2018
Description:
roy dark comedy - fantasy - family relations eight characters four male; four female one act
After her overbearing parents move her to a seemingly haunted house, young Mary meets a dragon. Title: Flowers For Algernon
Author: Keyes, Daniel Rogers, David Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1965
Description:
roy drama - high school five characters four male; one female (flexible casting) one act
Running time: approx. 35 min.
This hit play is also available in this approved one-act cutting that makes it an ideal choice for contest and school production. This is the compelling story of Charlie, a mentally challenged man, and the strange interweaving of his life with that of Algernon, a mouse. Experimental surgery has been performed on Algernon increasing his intelligence fourfold. The operation is tried on
Title: Flying Machine, The
Author: Bradbury, Ray Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1953
Description:
roy drama all male (or female) cast; three characters three male (or three female) one act
Presently safe behind China's Great Wall, the Emperor is told of a new discovery: a kite that allows men to fly. The Emperor decides to execute the "flying man" whose new invention, though miraculous, threatens the security of China. The inventor pleads for his life and for the life of his new machine. The Emperor is now forced to decide whether he should risk supporting the advancement of knowledge or maintain the security of China. The audience is drawn into problems, and they must help make this difficult decision.
Title: Fool, The
Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1978
Description:
roy drama - biographical - England large cast flexible casting one act (eight scenes)
Running time: approx. 100 minutes.
Depicts exploitation of working class in early 19th century England. Centers on John Clare, farm laborer turned poet, who ends life in an insane asylum. Title: Footloose
Author: Pitchford, Dean Bobbie, Walter Publisher: RNH Theatricals 2007
Description:
roy musical - vocal score - American large cast flexible casting two acts
Book by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie; music by Tom Snow; lyrics by Dead Pitchford.
"When Ren and his mother move from Chicago to a small farming town, Ren is prepared for the adjustment to his new high school. What he isn't prepared for are the local laws - including a ban on dancing - which are the brainchild of a local preacher bent on exercising control over the town's youths. When the Reverend's rebellious daughter sets her heart on Ren, her boyfriend tries
Title: Footprints on the Moon in - Three Plays - Maureen Hunter / CCO Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2003
Description:
roy drama - family relations - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts
Tells the story of a woman's attempt to prevent her teenage daughter from leaving home and escalates into a struggle to understand the loves and losses that have shaped her life.
Finalist! 1988 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
Title: For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday in - Humana Festival 2016 / COL Author: Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2017
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relations six characters four male; two female one act (three movements)
Running time: 90 mins.
When Ann thinks of her father, she immediately remembers playing Peter Pan in her hometown theater in Iowa, particularly when he used to bring her flowers after her performance. Her memory is jogged by the fact that she and her four siblings are in their father’s hospital room during his final moments. His death sparks a conversational wake that includes everything from arguments 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: Found a Peanut
Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - greed eight characters six male; two female one act
The setting is the backyard of a Brooklyn tenement on the last day of summer vacation, where a group of children aged five to fourteen (portrayed by adult actors) are at play. Finding a dying bird they decide to have a ritual burial, which leads to the discovery of a bag of money, probably buried by a reclusive miser who had recently died in the adjacent building. This discovery, in turn, results in squabbles and bitterness among the children, as the microcosm of their games gradually yields an awareness of greed, betrayal and violence—elements of life heretofore
Title: Frogs, The
Author: Aristophanes Clark, I. E. Publisher: I. E. Clark 1982
Description:
roy comedy - Greek mythology ten characters; extras five male; five female (flexible casting) one act
Suitable for high school or adults.
Nauseated by the sleazy contemporary literature, now that the great poets are all dead, Bacchus decides to travel to Hades and bring back Euripides. The trip os a fearful one and Bacchus, one of the less godly gods, dies a thousand comic deaths on the journey. This version updates the satire by poking fun at popular music and TV programs (only Greek scholars understand the 5th Title: Fugitive Kind
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2001
Description:
roy drama - American - 20th century - social issues - romance twenty-three characters; extras nineteen male; four female two acts
"Fugitive Kind", one of Tennessee Williams’s earliest plays, is one of his richest in dramatic material. Written in 1937 when the playwright was still Thomas Lanier Williams, "Fugitive Kind" introduces the character who will inhabit most of his later plays: the marginal man or woman who, through no personal fault, is a misfit in society but who demonstrates an admirable will to survive. Signature Tennessee Williams characters, situations and even the title (which was used as "The Fugitive Kind" for the 1960 film based on Orpheus Descending) have their genesis here. At
Title: Full Circle
Author: Breslow, Maurice Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2016
Description:
roy comedy - mystery - Canadian Playwright five characters three male; two female two acts "This unique Holmes adventure is based on facts and chronology in the life of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. "
Title: Gasping
Author: Elton, Ben Publisher: Sphere Books Limited 1990
Description:
roy satire - business six characters three male; three female two acts
Satire on heartlessness of market forces. British company sells designer packaged air. Title: Gay Heritage Project, The
Author: Atkins, Damian Dunn, Paul Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - history all male cast; many characters three male (doubling) five acts
Also written by Andrew Kushnir. Contains essays and explanatory notes.
This isn’t your ordinary history project. In what has become an important piece of contemporary queer theatre, three of Canada’s most gifted performers—Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir—go on a search way past Google in order to find the history of gay people. The trio start their quest by looking back at their own lineages and move along to the library, the
Title: Gertrude and Alice
Author: Chatterton, Anna Parry, Evalyn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian playwright - LGBTQ+ all female cast; two characters two female one act ⌦"Visiting the audience in the present day, Gertrude and Alice come to find out how history has treated them. The couple recounts stories of their forty-year relationship; of meetings with iconic artists and writers; and of Alice’s overwhelming, consuming devotion to Gertrude’s genius. Before they leave, they want to find out what has become of their artistic and cultural influence, and how their lives and work are - or are not - remembered."
Finalist - 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
Title: Get Away Old Man
Author: Saroyan, William Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1944
Description:
roy comedy - romance eleven characters eight male; three female two acts
Here again is the inimitable Saroyan. As always there is the tender searching in the hearts of characters, and some incisive glances into the sick souls of our time. "Get Away Old Man" is a title taken from a pathetic rhyme that goes: "For an old man he is old/ And an old man he is gray/ But a young man's heart is full of love/ Get away, old man, get away." The young man refers to a brilliant, pure-in-heart writer who is caught up in the carnivorous jowls of Hollywood; while the old man is the infinitely wealthy producer who can buy and despoil the flesh of the young, but Title: Ghost of Jerry Bundler, The in - Seven Short Plays / COL Author: Jacobs, W. W. Rock, Charles Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1956
Description:
roy thriller - ghost story all male cast; seven characters seven male one act
"A few words on the context within which this story is placed. For the modern audience it teems with charm and dread, but for a Late Victorian readership, the story is a giant (albeit delectable) cliché: it is set at Christmastime, the traditional English setting for ghost stories (Hallowe’en reigns supreme in America, but the English revel in Yuletide frights, hence the lyric “there’ll be scary ghost stories / and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago”), and the ghost represented is a stock figure of late Gothic and early Victorian supernatural lore: an 18th century
Title: Gibberish vs. Genius
Author: Edwards, Linda Wood Publisher: Linda Wood Edwards 2018
Description:
roy comedy - business - Alberta playwright - Canadian two characters flexible casting one act
Approximate running time: 10 minutes.
The mandatory psychological assessment of a corporate CEO does not go according to plan. The playwright is unashamed about her love of the Teletubbies. She thinks organizations would run better (and life in general would be more pleasant) if people followed a Teletubbies lifestyle. This short play shows how it might impact a large corporation. Big hug!
Title: Girl Who Swam Forever, The in - Talker's Town and The Girl Who Swam Forever / CCO Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Talonbooks 2018
Description:
roy drama - Indigenous peoples - coming of age - Canadian - Indigenous playwright four characters two male; two female one act
Companion piece to 'Talker's Town' by Nelson Gray.
The central action in both plays involves an Aboriginal girl, Roberta Bob, who escapes from a residential school and hides out by the river. In Marie Clements’s The Girl Who Swam Forever, the action unfolds from the perspective of the girl, who – to claim her past and secure her future – must undergo a shape-shifting transformation and meet her grandmother’s ancestral spirit in the Title: Glass Slipper, The
Author: Morris, Vera Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1991
Description:
roy children - young adult - fantasy large cast flexible casting two acts
Suitable for high school students.
Cinderella works and works in her nasty stepmother’s house. Her silly stepsisters, Brunhilda and Cleopatra, think they’re so beautiful that the prince will marry them both, but the prince spends most of the evening at a palace ball trying to escape from them! This delightful version introduces us to some playful, new characters: a fearless mouse, a timid cat, and the amazing
Title: Glimpse of Reality, The in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy parody - melodrama four characters three male; one female one act
1 exterior.
Innkeeper turned professional murderer agrees to kill nobleman to earn daughter's dowry but he decides it would be more profitable to become nobleman's bodyguard instead.
Title: Gloria's Guy
Author: Burrows, Joan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy romantic comedy - Canadian playwright⌦six characters one male; five female two acts "It’s been over twenty years since Guy ditched his high-school sweetheart Gloria at the prom, and they haven’t spoken since. Now he’s a failed LA lawyer, divorced, and working at his brother’s resort in the Muskokas. When a wedding conveniently brings Gloria to the resort for a weekend, Guy is determined to keep his distance. But their high-school friends Eva, Leslie, and Peggy, and Peggy’s mom Jessie—the crew’s former teacher—decide to play matchmakers and reconnect the long-split pair." Title: Goodbye Charles
Author: Davis, Gabriel Publisher: gabrieldavis.com 2018
Description:
roy dark comedy - mystery five characters two male; three female one act
Jill's husband Charles mysteriously disappears after she refuses to grant him a divorce. Concerned something has happened to her husband, Jill follows a string of clues to try and find out the secret Charles was keeping from her.
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: Gracie
Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 2018
Description:
roy drama - coming of age - polygamy - Canadian playwright - solo performance all female cast; fourteen characters one female (doubling) five acts
Gracie is a dramatic monologue telling the story of child brides in polygamist communities in Canada and the United States. The play is a work of fiction, but is inspired by the history of polygamist groups, and its timeliness is uncanny - two days after 'Gracie' premiered, three members of Canada's largest polygamist community went to trial for transporting child brides. As the play opens, Gracie is eight years old and moving with her mother, brother and sisters from the southwestern United States to a community in British Columbia, Canada. In five acts, Gracie Title: Graffito
Author: Lahr, Jeff Publisher: Contemporary Drama Service 1989
Description:
roy comedy - mystery - social issues thirteen characters eight male; five female (flexible) one act
This one-act play is ideal for middle schools. It addresses many issues that young adolescents face: such as public acceptance, peer pressure and social responsibility. The play is set up as a humorous mystery as a class tries to solve who is vandalizing the school.
Title: Grandioso
Author: Zaget, Bill Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2018
Description:
roy drama - tragicomedy - opera - music - Hungary nine characters six male; three female three acts
"Hungary, 1914. Victor Orlak, a world-famous orchestra conductor, is arthritic. Shandor, a doctor of Roma (“gypsy”) origin, transplants the hands of a Balkan anarchist onto Orlak in exchange for the orchestra fronting a terrorist organization. The doctor manipulates Orlak and his family (and even the terrorist organisation) to his own ends. He has a keen insight into all their wants and needs and uses it to his advantage. Orlak and his family become increasingly broken as members of government are assassinated wherever his orchestra tours. Tragi-comedy,
Title: Grandpa and the Gay Rabbi in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 41st Series / COL Author: Josephson, Jonathan Publisher: Samuel French 2017
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - aging - LGBTQ+ all male cast; 2 characters two male one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
After a hate crime shocks their community, newly instated Rabbi Gold will try to help Grandpa widen his world view. This ain't gonna be easy. Title: Great Catherine (whom glory still adores) in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy farce eight characters four male; four female one act (four scenes)
1 interior.
Farce about an English officer meeting Queen Catherine in her highly uninhibited Russian court.
Title: Great Gromboolian Plain and Other Plays, The
Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy - collection - comedy - one-act - Don Nigro
contains: The Great Gromboolian Plain The Sin-Eater Ballerinas The Lost Girl The Babel of Circular Labyrinths Seance The Dead Wife Wonders of the Invisible World Revealed
Title: Great Gromboolian Plain, The in - The Great Gromboolian and Other Plays - COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy romance - family relationships five characters two male; three female one act
Running time: 40 minutes.
This long one act by the author of many popular plays is a love story that takes place on the grounds of a mental institution. A young girl who believes she can time travel meets a man who is not what he seems. Institutionalized by her sister to coerce her into revealing the location of their father's last poems, Dinah is protecting a deep secret. Magellan's attempts to understand her send Title: Great Pandemonium, The
Author: Cook, Pat Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1996
Description:
roy comedy - high school - Shakespeare nine characters four male; five female one act
"Now is the winter of our discontent," quotes high-school drama coach Jarred Nusthorp. "Shakespeare probably wrote that because he had to direct this play!" The play in question is Richard III, and now, the night before it opens, the cast and crew are having to run what is laughingly known as a tech rehearsal. Already on edge, Mr. Nusthorp has to contend with a militant assistant director, several missing actors who were grounded for teepeeing the principal's house and a prop lady who quits every chance she gets. Lights go up and down, actors fall off
Title: Great Peace Part three of the War plays Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989
Description:
roy drama - nuclear war sixteen characters eleven male; five female one act (twenty parts)
Approximate running time: 180 mins.
Concluding play fo the author's War plays trilogy set in post nuclear holocaust future. Military orders are issued that children be killed to save vital resources.
Title: Great Whorehouse Fire of 1921, The
Author: Edwards, Linda Wood Cheoros, David Publisher: Linda Wood Edwards 2018
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Alberta playwright - historical all female cast; two characters two female one act
Running time: approximately 60 minutes.
From the December 29, 1921 Big Valley News: Big Blaze near Big Valley A house occupied and owned by a woman named Hastings who was living a mile and a half north of town was totally destroyed by fire at 4:30am on Monday morning. The cause of the fire is unknown. The occupants had a very narrow escape, as when they awoke the house was full of Title: Greetings!
Author: Dudzick, Tom Publisher: Samuel French 2011
Description:
roy Christmas - comedy - family relations five characters three male; two female one act
Approximate running time: 105 minutes.
Andy has a sweet Catholic mother, a sour Catholic father and an intellectually disabled younger brother named Mickey. When he brings his Jewish atheist fiance to meet the folks on Christmas Eve, his worst fears about family blow-ups are realized. But when Mickey, whose entire vocabulary has been limited to "oh boy" and "wow," suddenly spouts the word "Greetings!" the entire family's
Title: Gross Misconduct
Author: Gardiner, Meghan Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2016
Description:
roy Canadian drama - prison four characters three male; one female one act
"Welcome to Millhaven, Canada's oldest penitentiary and the only one in the country that puts all the inmates in assessment together, before they reach their final destination. Gross Misconduct centres around the character of Deke, a man in his early fifties who has been in Millhaven's assessment unit for twenty years. He has not had a cellmate since he first arrived, so he is surprised and annoyed to learn that Corey, a "newbie", will be joining him in his 6 x 9 foot cell…Over the next several days, a bond forms between the two and the days look a little less
Title: Grown Ups
Author: Feiffer, Jules Publisher: Samuel French 1982
Description:
roy comedy - relationships seven characters two male; four female; one girl two acts
An acerbic comedy by the famed cartoonist and author of Knock Knock and Little Murders. It's about a middle-aged journalist who has, at last, grown up only to find he's trapped in a world of emotional infants. Title: Gulf, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 40th Series / COL Author: Cefaly, Audrey Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - friendship all female cast; two characters two female one act
Approximate running time: 30 mins.
The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing abyss. On a quiet summer evening, somewhere down in the Alabama Delta, Kendra and Betty troll the flats looking for red fish. After Betty begins diagnosing Kendra’s dead-end life with career picks from What Color is Your Parachute, their routine fishing excursion takes a violent
Title: Hamlet
Author: Foster, Cass Shakespeare, William Publisher: Five Star Publications
Description:
roy Shakespeare - tragedy - drama twenty-two characters; extras twenty male; two female five acts
Approximate running time: 60 mins.
"The Prince of Denmark committed to revenge his father's murder by his own brother who has married the dead man's widow. Hamlet pretends to be mad, kills his uncle's counsellor while he is eavesdropping, rebukes his mother, is sent to England under the escort of two retainers who bear orders that he be put to death on arrival, finds the letter containing the orders and alters it so that
Title: Hangashore, The in - Transitions I: Short Plays / CCO Author: Russell, Ted Publisher: Commcept Publishing Limited 1978
Description:
roy folk tales - comedy - Canadian seven characters five male; two female one act
A yarn from the fictional Pigeon Inlet. Solomon Noddy steals three holes in the ice on Lige Bartle and the result is a court case where a hole is defined as "nothing" and he can't be convicted for stealing nothing. Title: Hansel and Gretel
Author: Chorpenning, Charlotte Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company
Description:
roy young adult - fantasy - fairy tales large cast flexible casting three acts
"Charlotte Chorpenning has taken the Grimm Brothers' story and given it a poetic beauty that brings a value to its young audience. Her treatment of the stepmother does not accent the cruelty—an outlook important today. The evil witch is portrayed as a comedy character, but the teaching value is there - teaching through a comedy device rather than fear. Hansel and Gretel's safe return to their father and mother gives the child a sense of security. Read an Excerpt."
Title: Happy Place
Author: Sinha, Pamela Mala Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - mental illness - mental health - women - friendship all female cast; eight characters seven female (doubling) two acts
Seven women living in an inpatient-care facility try to find a way to fit into a world that can’t respond to their pain. But these broken women are the ones who can teach one another how to live. "Happy Place" is a glimpse into lives filled with courage, compassion and startling surprise, lives which - in many ways - are not so different from our own.
Title: Happy Prince, The in - Favorite Plays for Classroom Reading / CHC Author: Wilde, Oscar Dooley, Caroline Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy children - musical - fairy tales sixteen characters; extras eight male; four female; four male or female one act (nine scenes)
running time: Approx. 80 mins; Music by David Perkins; adaptation, book and lyrics by Caroline Dooley and David Perkins.
A touching musical based on the well-loved story by Oscar Wilde... the golden stature of the Happy Prince stands high above the city looking down on the misery and poverty beneath him. Desperate to bring hope and happiness to the poor people, he asks a swallow to distribute his Title: Happy Valley High
Author: Fendrich, Shubert Fendrich, Steven Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1988
Description:
roy musical - young adult fourteen characters; optional chorus six male; eight female two acts
Simple interior and exterior sets; running time: approximately 90 minutes.
If you love the authentic music from the fifties - forever popular classics such as ’Lollipop,’ ’Dungaree Doll,’ and ’Cindy, Oh, Cindy’ - then Happy Valley High is perfect for your next full length musical. No other show has so many authentic hits from the 1950s. And no other show brings you so much fun with so few production problems. When Al Barbella gives up his career as
Title: Hark, Harold the Angel Sings A Lamb's Tale Author: McDonough, Jerome Publisher: Miscellaneous 1985
Description:
roy Christmas - children many characters flexible casting one act
Approximate running time: 25 minutes; simple area setting; flexible cast of 4 major characters plus an ensemble of 4 - 20 extras.
Bosheep, Woolworth and Lambster are three lambs with a mission: find Christmas, then report back to Miss Ewe and the flock. The three lost sheep are aided in their quest by Harold, an angel who is trying to make a new name for herself. Their search is fraught with unexpected and
Title: Harlequin Jones
Author: Frome, Shelly Publisher: Performance Publishing 1978
Description:
roy comedy - Commedia Dell'Arte - young adult twelve characters six male; six female one act
The infectiously joyful spirit of the Commedia Dell'Arte Troupe is transferred to this modern and delightful play. Their camaraderie and heightened love of performing literally transform the actors. Green and Jones leave their everyday life and concerns behind and 'fly' with the actors. Title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Author: Thorne, Jack Tiffany, John Publisher: Scholastic Inc. 2017
Description:
roy drama - fantasy large cast flexible casting four acts
Based on the story by J.K. Rowling.
The eighth story. Nineteen years later. It was always difficult being Harry Potter, and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworld employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As
Title: Hat Tricks
Author: Appel, Dori Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy seniors - comedy - scenes - monologues - women all female cast; seventeen characters three female (doubling) two acts
Approximate running time: 105 mins.
Hat Tricks is an exciting compilation of six scenes and three monologues designed for performance by mature actresses. Covering a range of women's experiences in the second half of life, these nine pieces range from the purely comedic to those that combine humor with thoughtful and sometimes poignant explorations. This is a richly varied collection featuring a
Title: Heart of a Dog
Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail Galati, Frank Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1985
Description:
roy comedy - satire - Soviet Union fourteen characters nine male; five female (doubling possible) two acts
Adapted by Frank Galati.
The action centers on the difficulties encountered by Professor Preobrajansky, an innovative medical practitioner who specializes in sexual rejuvenation (by organ implantation), in his running battle with the management committee of his apartment house who want the Professor to give up some of his many rooms. Fortunately, the professor (who counters their demands by Title: Hell's Bells in - Transitions I: Short Plays / CCO Author: Spensley, Philip Publisher: Commcept Publishing Limited 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - mime nineteen characters flexible casting one act
Non representative set.
"A mime. Two loner figures, one meek and one self-confident, are eventually forced into the mould of society."
Title: Hemingway Monologues - Part One: Sunrise, The An epic drama of love, genius and eternity Author: Sinclair, Brian Gordon Publisher: The New Atlantian Library 2014
Description:
roy solo performance - biography - Ernest Hemingway - drama - Canadian playwright all male cast; one character one male two acts
'The Hemingway Monologues: An epic drama of love, genius and eternity' reads like an intimate memoir. A fascinating blend of fact and fiction, the monologues reveal a tender, compassionate side of Hemingway that most people never encountered. 'Sunrise' is the first in this seven-play series that traces Hemingway's chronology from birth to death. (These plays) give an intimate insight into the circumstances which shaped the famed author's life and inspired him in his writing.
Title: Herbal Bed, The in - Plays: 1 - Peter Whelan / COL Author: Whelan, Peter Publisher: Methuen Drama 2003
Description:
roy drama - biography - historical - Britain - Susanna Hall eight characters five male; three female two acts
1 setting.
Historical drama about William Shakespeare's daughter, Susanna Hall, being accused of having an affair with married neighbor, Rafe Smith, resulting in a scandal in Stratford-upon-Avon. Title: Hey Diddle Diddle! The rhymes and riddles of Mother Goose Author: Miller, Marilee Hebert Publisher: Anchorage Press 2004
Description:
roy children - nursery rhymes - music six to twelve characters (may be expanded to include child actors) flexible casting one act
Setting variable; approximate running time: 40 mins.
The timeless rhymes and riddles of the Mother Goose tradition are woven into an orbiting celebration of action songs and games. The actors assemble to entertain - much like singing commedia troupes of old - bringing to astonishing life the characters of childlike fantasy. Humpty Dumpty, Little Miss Muffet, The Grand Old Duke of York, and many others - evoking the joyful
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: High School Musical
Author: Publisher: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
Description:
Disney's High School Musical: Encore Edition - run time approx. 98 minutes - DVD ⌦Troy, the popular captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella, the brainy and beautiful member of the academic club, break all the rules of East High society when they secretly audition for the leads in the school's musical. As they reach for the stars and follow their dreams, everyone learns about acceptance, teamwork, and being yourself. And it's all set to fun tunes and very cool dance moves!
Also available: Disney's High School Musical Soundtrack featuring music from the DVD - see separate entry for further description. Title: High School Musical
Author: Publisher: Walt Disney Records 2006
Description:
Musical soundtrack from the Disney Channel original movie 'High School Musical'. ⌦Contains tracks: Start of Something New / Get'cha Head in the Game / What I've Been Looking For / What I've Been Looking For (Reprise) / Stick to the Status Quo / When There Was Me and You / Bop to the Top / Breaking Free / We're All in This Together / I Can't Take my Eyes Off of You / Get'cha Head in the Game performed by B5 / Start of Something New Karaoke Instrumental / Breaking Free Karaoke Instrumental ⌦Also available: Disney's High School Musical DVD - see separate entry for further description.
Title: High School Musical
Author: Publisher: Music Theatre International
Description:
High School Musical CD containing music from the theatre production. ⌦contains tracks: School Bell (#3) / Gabrielle's Phone (#5) / School Bell (#6) / Sharpay Dials (#13) / School Bell (#4) / School Bell (#20) / School Bell (#28) / Taylor's Cell (#31) / Gabriella's Phone (#35) / Meltdown (#43) / Game Buzzer (#48)
Title: Hits for Misses A baker's dozen of character sketches for teen-aged girls Author: Ingalls, Joyce R. Publisher: Baker's Plays 1949
Description:
monologues - young adult - female - Joyce R. Ingalls
contains: Business Ability / Calico Out of Disaster / Check and Double Check / The Christmas Angel / Everything I Ever Am or Hope to Be / "Gold" is Where You Find It / High Heels - or Low? or None? / How Little We Know / I, the Tragedienne / The Little Darlings / Oh, Mother! / Spare-time Work / When Choosing a Career
Individual titles are not catalogued. Title: Hongbu and Nobu: The Tale of the Magic Pumpkins in - Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas / COL Author: Yoon, Jean Publisher: Duke University Press 2017
Description:
roy ⌦folklore - Korea - children twelve characters; extras four male; four female; four male or female (doubling possible) one act (twenty-two scenes)
An adaptation of one of the most commonly known Korean folklores. Children in Korea grow up hearing about the two brothers, Hongbu and Nolbu, whose story teaches them to be kind and honest. From one perspective, the play tells a simple and innocent mythical story, but from another, it is a meta-theatrical extravaganza full of bizarre fantasies and dark humour.
Title: House on Middagh Street, The
Author: Wagner, Elisabeth Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010
Description:
roy musical play - cabaret four characters one male; one female ; one singer ; one pianist two acts ⌦"Can you imagine W.H.Auden, Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten and Gypsy Rose Lee all living under one roof? Its true. This musical play tells the story of a 1941 Brooklyn boarding house, one of the most colourful artistic salons of all time. Auden and Britten had left England at the outset of World War 2 and were writing an opera together, Carson McCullers had just published The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and Gypsy Rose Lee had abandoned burlesque and was turning her hand to writing, assisted by George Davis, an editor at Harpers, who created this unique household.The play integrates the cabaret music of Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill and others
Title: How He Lied To Her Husband in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy satire three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior.
Husband is insulted when wife's lover denies relationship in order to protect woman's reputation. Title: How to Get a 5 on the AP Test (Without Really Trying) in - Dramatics (February 2019) / PER Author: Huntley, Mitchell Publisher: Miscellaneous 2019
Description:
roy musical - young adult seven characters; ensemble four male; three female one act
Musical surrounding a high school world history classroom.
Title: Human Cannon
Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1985
Description:
roy drama - war - Spain large cast flexible casting two parts
Set in Spain at the time of the Spanish Civil War, this unflinching play is as agonizing as the event. Agustina is in the house with her dead child preparing the body for private disposal. Her husband, Nardo, states the argument of the story - "When someone else owns the machines you use to earn your living, then you are owned." Agustina's daughter asks her to name the dead child. Agustina answers, "No. It wasn't born into a human world, it was born in this world." There is bitterness with the landowners, and then their world is overwhelmed with the violence of the
Title: Humana Festival 2016
Author: Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2017
Description:
roy - collection - American
contains: This Random World - Steven Dietz Coffee Break - Tasha Gordon-Solomon This Quintessence of Dust - Cory Hinkle Residence - Laura Jaqmin Cardboard Piano - Hansol Jung Trudy, Carolyn, Martha, and Regina Travel to Outer Space and Have a Pretty Terrible Time There - James Kennedy Wellesley Girl - Brendan Pelsue For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday - Sarah Ruhl Title: Humana Festival 2017
Author: Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2018
Description:
roy - collection - American - Actor's Theatre
contains: Recent Alien Abductions - Jorge Ignacio Cortinas The New Line - Will Eno I Now Pronounce - Tasha Gordon-Solmon Home Invasion - Krista Knight We're Gonna Be Okay - Basil Kreimendahl Airness - Chelsea Marcantel Cry it Out - Molly Smith Metzler Melto Man and Lady Mantis - Eric Pfeffinger The Many Deaths of Nathan Stubblefield - Jeff Augustin, Sarah DeLappe, Claire Kiechel, and Ramiz
Title: Humbug
Author: Wooten, John J. Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy Christmas comedy twelve characters six male; six female one act
As A Christmas Carol with a modern day twist, Humbug follows the story of Eleanor Scrooge, a ruthlessly ambitious Wall Street executive who has an aversion to Christmas and an insatiable appetite for power. Locked in her office on a snowy Christmas Eve, Eleanor is determined to finish a corporate-takeover proposal until three "advisors" provide her with an eye-opening new appreciation for the holidays and the spirit of Christmas. An upbeat and moving adaptation of Dickens' holiday classic, Humbug is one for the ages. With a contemporary flair, it is a tale the
Title: Hunter and the Bird, The in - America Hurrah and other plays / COL Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude Publisher: Grove Press Inc. 1978
Description:
roy comedy - absurdist two characters one male; one female one act
no set required.
Humorous, fantastic, and yet telling in its perceptions, this brief but arresting exercise in absurdist style delights and intrigues both by what is said and what is left unsaid. Title: I Licked a Slag's Deodorant
Author: Cartwright, Jim Publisher: Methuen Drama 1996
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships - monologues two characters one male; one female two acts
in this grimy but often comical tale of a streetwalker and her luckless client, the play is a series of monologues segued together to create a picture of life at its most ugly. Man is a loner, he lives in a crummy bedsit with only the TV for company. Occasionally, he’ll venture out to the pub or the disco, but he doesn’t interact, he merely observes. Slag is a hyperactive drug-head, she walks the streets chanting her mantra to the punters. Despite the huge gulf between them, Slag and Man meet and forge a bizarre intimacy.
Title: I Now Pronounce in - Humana Festival 2017 / COL Author: Gordon-Solmon, Tasha Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2018
Description:
roy comedy - relationships eleven characters four male; three female; three girls (doubling) one act (two parts)
Approximate running time: 95 minutes.
After Adam and Nicole’s wedding culminates in an awkwardly timed fatality, the reception spins into an increasingly strange evening that leaves the bride and groom questioning just what it is they’re celebrating. But there’s no stopping the festivities: the flower girls are running amuck, the bridal party members are more preoccupied with their own flailing relationships, and everyone
Title: Identifying Mavor Moore A historical and literary study Author: Boss, Allan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
reference - Canadian theatre - biography - Mavor Moore - history
A cultural giant, Mavor Moore had his hands in some of the greatest achievements on the construction of Canada's theatrical identity, and yet he is relatively unknown to the Canadian theatre community. The enigmatic, obscured figure behind many of the most important moments in the development of Canada's cultural landscape has been largely ignored by history. In this groundbreaking study of his work, Allan Boss relocates Moore in Canada's cultural history. Moore may be a jack of all trades, but Boss exposes a historical record that seems to conceal Moore's work, challenging the conventions of recorded theatre history in Canada along the way. Title: Ik, The
Author: Higgins, Colin Cannan, Denis Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1984
Description:
roy drama - cultural anthropology - native peoples nineteen characters flexible casting one act
Dramatization of Colin Turnbull's book, The Mountain People, about the Ik of Uganda.
Title: Importance of Being Earnest, The
Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: I. E. Clark 1965
Description:
roy comedy nine characters five male; four female one act
Adapted from Oscar Wilde's play for young adults; approximate running time: 35-40 minutes; 2 settings.
Sophisticated Gwendolyn is in love with Jack. But she thinks his name is Earnest. Naive little Cecily is in love with Algy, but she thinks his name is Earnest. Each swears she could never love anyone who isn't named Earnest. And stern Aunt Augusta doesn't want anyone to love anybody. Only a
Title: In Spirit
Author: Beagan, Tara Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - social issues - murder - native playwright - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female one act
Twelve-year-old Molly was riding her new bicycle on a deserted road when a man in a truck pulled up next to her, saying he was lost. He asked if she could get in and help him back to the highway, and said he could bring her back to her bike after. Molly declined, out of interest for her own safety. The next things Molly remembers are dirt, branches, trees, pain, and darkness. Molly is now a spirit. Mustering up some courage, she pieces together her short life for herself and her Title: In Sundry Languages in - Canadian Theatre Review 177 / PER Author: Babayants, Art Toronto Laboratory Theatre Publisher: Miscellaneous 2019
Description:
roy drama - multiculturalism - Canadian fourteen characters five male; three female; six male or female (doubling possible) one act (eleven scenes)
A play composed of several multilingual vignettes that tell stories of immigration, displacement, hybrid identities, and adaptation, foregrounding the question, "Where are you from?" to critically interrogate the idea of Canadian inclusivity.
Title: In the Cemetery in - The Last Laugh / COL Author: Hardstark, Michael Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy comedy - betrayal - death - friendship all male cast; three characters three male one act
Approximate running time: 30 minutes; adapted from a story by Anton Chekov.
Set in a Jewish cemetery, this poignant and funny play is about a harried young businessman who has hired a rabbi to say prayers over his father's grave. They meet an out of work actor who is paying his respects at the grave of a Yiddish theatre star. The actor thinks of the star as a father figure, but he blames him for the failure of his career. The businessman also has unresolved
Title: In the Shadow of the Glen in - The Complete Plays of John M. Synge / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Vintage Books 1960
Description:
roy drama - Ireland four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior.
Old Irish peasant pretends to be dead, revives to drive his frustrated wife out of his house in company of carefree tramp. Title: Inca of Perusalem, The in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female one act
1 interior.
English archdeacon's daughter, posing as princess selected to marry son of world conqueror, succeeds in revealing the man behind the conqueror's mask.
Title: Incredibly Improbable Interviews
Author: Majeski, Bill Publisher: Contemporary Drama Service 1986
Description:
roy comedy - high school - satire fifteen characters flexible casting one act (five parts)
Five satirical interviews with comical celebrities: Christopher Columbus; Dracula; Brutus; the Chairman of the Fun City Olympics; and a Top TV Network Executive.
Title: Indecent
Author: Vogel, Paula Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2017
Description:
roy drama - Judaism - LGBTQ+ seven characters four male; three female (doubling) three acts
"When Sholem Asch wrote God of Vengeance in 1907, he didn’t imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach. Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play’s subject matter wasn’t deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of an amorous affair between two women. Paula Vogel’s newest work traces the trajectory of the show’s success through its tour in Europe to its abrupt and explosive demise on Broadway in 1923 - including the arrest of the entire Title: Indian Act Residential school plays Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy - collection - Canadian playwrights - Indigenous - Residential schools
includes: Nohkom by Michael Greyeyes Bunk #7 by Larry Guno They Know Not What They Do by Tara Beagan God and the Indian by Drew Hayden Taylor A Very Polite Genocide or The Girl Who Fell to Earth by Melanie J. Murray Kihew by Curtis Peeteetuce Dear Mr. Buchwald by Yvette Nolan
See seperate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Indian Ink
Author: Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Samuel French 1995
Description:
roy romantic comedy eighteen characters fourteen male; four female two acts
The play is set in two periods, 1930 (in India) and mid 1980s (in England and India).
"Flora Crewe, an unconventional, young English poet living in India in 1930, is having her portrait painted by local artist Nairad Das and writing letters home to her sister Nell. Intermittent scenes, which are set in England in 1980, focus on Nell as she sorts through the cherished letters to aid Flora's would be biographer, Eldon Pike. Within this context, Indian Ink weaves a
Title: Instant in - Mistatim / Instant / CHC Author: Shields, Erin Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy children - bullying - friendship - Canadian playwright three characters one male; two female one act
In Instant, three teens find out how far they’ll go in their quest to be seen and heard. Meredith is a singer-songwriter who makes YouTube videos of covers in an attempt to gain Internet fame. But her friend Jay, a rising hockey star, can’t understand why she won’t post her original songs. When their classmate Rosie suddenly goes viral after a video is posted of her singing to raise money for her father’s medical bills, Meredith’s jealousy takes over and she pushes Rosie too far, triggering a near-deadly response. Title: Interview with God
Author: Cervantes, Madolin Publisher: Baker's Plays 1977RE
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
1 setting.
Upon his death a young black agnostic is interviewed and convinced that God does exist.
Title: Invasion!
Author: Khemiri, Jonas Hassen translated by Rachel Wilson-Broyles Publisher: Samuel French 2013
Description:
roy dramatic comedy eighteen characters three male; one female (doubling) one act
Approximate running time: 90 minutes.
Invasion! is a tornado of words, images and ideas, all centered around a magical name: Abulkasem. The play assaults our deepest prejudices about identity, race and language. At once hilarious, disturbing and poignant, this deeply subversive play deconstructs a threatening identity - the Arabic male - and forces us to confront our own cultural identity. Contains material
Title: Isle of Demons in - The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays / CCO Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Breakwater Books 2012
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical biography three characters one male; two female two acts
The story of Marguerite de Roberval - marooned by her uncle on an island off northern Newfoundland in 1542 for daring to love a sailor. Nevertheless, she persisted… A moving drama revolving around the desolate isolation of the unhappy Marguerite, abandoned on a remote island and doomed to watch her companion, her lover, and her child die. Title: Issa's Humble Hut
Author: O'Toole, Maureen A. Publisher: Performance Publishing 1977
Description:
roy children - Japan fifteen characters; extras; musicians flexible casting one act
A tale of a Japanese Haiku poet.
Title: It's a Scream!
Author: DeBoy, David Publisher: Samuel French 1983
Description:
roy comedy - mystery five characters three male; two female three acts
Spencer has just inherited his father's film studio and thinks he knows better than his late father how to produce movies, The studio specializes in horror films and their biggest star is Alexander Moreau, a Karloff/Price/Carradine sort in whose mansion this comedy takes place. Spencer has come to inform Moreau that he is not renewing his contract. Moreau offers to demonstrate that he is still one scary guy. His proposition: if he can scare Spencer out of his wits, he gets a contract and creative control. Moreau pull it off in wacky thriller style.
Title: It's Later than You Think
Author: Anouilh, Jean translated by Lucienne Hill Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1970
Description:
roy comedy eleven characters; extras seven male; four female five acts
2 interiors.
Successful commercial poet, fearing death, is briefly troubled by results of selfishly lighthearted life and loves, but resumes pursuit of self gratification after doctors' mistaken reassurances. Title: Jabberwock Improbabilities lived and imagined by James Thurber in the fictional city of Columbu Author: Lawrence, Jerome Lee, Robert E. Publisher: Samuel French 1974
Description:
roy comedy - family relations forty-three characters twenty-six male; seventeen female two acts
Here are the thoroughly wonderful comings and goings, the doings and undoings of the Thurber family in Columbus, Ohio, on one evening as chronicled by James Thurber. It is a perfectly nutty family evening, with burglars and cops and Thurbers and neighbors.
Title: Jack and the Magic Beans
Author: Morris, Vera Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1991
Description:
roy drama - fairy tales - fantasy nineteen characters; extras flexible casting two acts
1 exterior; 1 exterior.
Dramatization of fairy tale about boy who trades a cow for magic beans.
Title: Jack the Ripper Monster of Whitechapel Author: Dickinson, Joe Publisher: Baker's Plays 1995
Description:
roy comedy - melodrama - horror fourteen characters six male; eight female three acts
Various settings.
A comical but scary treatment of the serial killer who terrorized London in the 1800s. Jack's reign of terror has begun, and Sir Charles Warren, a totally inept British Lord, has been appointed Commissioner of Police to apprehend him. The author has selected a theory (which some actually believed at the time) that the murders had an occult connection. Jack, it seems, practices black Title: Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, The in - Plays: One - David Edgar / COL Author: Edgar, David Publisher: Methuen 1987
Description:
roy drama - biography - Apartheid all male cast; eighteen characters eighteen male two acts
1 setting.
Dramatization of white South African lawyer's diary. Held without trial in solitary confinement in the 1960s, he resisted interrogation about activities in anti-apartheid movement.
Title: Javier Plays, The
Author: Murillo, Carlos Publisher: 53rd State Press 2016
Description:
roy - collection - Carlos Murillo
contains: Diagram of a Paper Airplane A Thick Description of Harry Smith (Vol. 1) Your Name Will Follow You Home
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Jill and Ted's Biblical Adventures The Scavenger Hunt Author: Dorn, Patrick Rainville Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1992
Description:
roy religious - Bible stories - music - young adult seven characters five male; two female (flexible casting) one act
Approximate running time: 30 minutes; bare stage with minimal props or platforms.
Join ”excellent” teen angels Jill and Ted as they travel through time on a scavenger hunt of Biblical proportions! It’s side-splitting adventure for these radical angels as they meet Abraham and Isaac just in time for a hair-raising sacrifice. Watch them get caught between a rock and a hard place while David battles Goliath. Two favorite Bible stories are given a new spin when seen through Title: John, Who's Here From Cambridge in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 39th series / COL Author: Majok, Martyna Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - friendship two characters one male; one female one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
Overworked, under-qualified, and broke, Jess takes on another job to make ends meet - as a personal caretaker for a graduate student named John. John has cerebral palsy. John is beautiful. And John is here from Cambridge. That is, Massachusetts. Where he went to undergrad, just in case you were wondering. One Friday night after the timesheet has been put away, music is
Title: Jonas and Barry in the Home
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy comedy - seniors - Canadian playwright three characters two male; one female two acts
Norm Foster’s quick wit is strong in this lighthearted buddy comedy about living life to its fullest.
Barry is annoyed that he’s already living in a seniors’ home at sixty-seven, but it’s worth it to live near his daughter, Rosie. Rosie, who works at the home, brought him in so he wouldn’t be alone in case he has a heart attack like his father, brother, and uncle did before they were sixty-five. So
Title: Josephine Knot, The
Author: Braem, Meg Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters one male; one female (doubling)⌦one act
Both actors weave in and out of playing the other characters that make up the world of the play. "After Samantha’s baba dies, her fractured family is summoned to pick through the house full of belongings and trash, leaving taped notes on whatever they want to take. Between old napkins, a closet full of ketchup packets, and a freezer full of rotting meat are gems like a grandfather clock and plastic deer statuettes that hold more sentiment. While her father David sifts through his own memories, all Samantha wants is to find a simple object that could represent her place in the family. When other family members arrive, tug of wars and passive-aggressive conversations Title: Judgement
Author: Collins, Barry Publisher: Faber and Faber 1974
Description:
roy drama - solo performance - war - men all male cast; one character one male one act
In this powerful and disturbing dramatic monologue, Andrei Vukhov, a Russian army captain, addresses his judges. The man, Vukhov, is a fiction: so, broadly, is the story he tells. Certain details, however, are factual: they relate to an episode of the second world war. The location was a hilltop monastery in southern Poland. What happened there is described, briefly, in George Steiner's book, The Death of Tragedy. Abandoning the monastery, the Germans left a number of captured Russian officers locked in a cellar. Two of the prisoners managed to stay alive by killing
Title: Jungle Book, The
Author: Robinette, Joseph Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1995
Description:
roy drama - fantasy large cast flexible casting two acts
Adaptation of Rudyard Kiplings' 'Mowgli Stories.'
One of literature's most enduring classics is brought vividly to the stage in this exciting adventure of Mowgli, the Indian boy, raised by caring wolves, befriended by Bagheera, the Panther, and Baloo, the Bear, and threatened by Shere Kahn, the evil tiger. Also present are an array of other jungle creatures who inhabit this action-filled play. Interspersed with the Mowgli
Title: Jungle Book, The
Author: Kipling, Rudyard Morris, Vera Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1996
Description:
roy drama - fantasy - children twenty-two characters; extras flexible casting two acts
Approximate running time: 60 minutes.
Come hear the incredible tale of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves. With the help of his friends - the bear Baloo, the panther Bagheera and the python Kaa - Mowgli learns the ways of the jungle. Some of the jungle boy’s adventures are gripping, like the time he encounters the hooded cobra who guards the treasure vault in the Deserted City. Others, like the coconut-tossing Title: Just One Day
Author: Kennedy, Eddie Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1983
Description:
roy drama - teenage pregnancy - high school three characters one male; two female one act
This highly acclaimed drama deals honestly and frankly with the dilemma of teenage pregnancy. The Kentucky Educational Television movie of this script received both the Eudora Welty Americana Award and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Award. Emily and Mary are waiting for someone, and it is apparent that tension surrounds the expected visit. Then Michael arrives and Mary leaves to allow Emily time alone with him. When she tells him she is pregnant, the two frightened young people begin to face the unwanted situation. This play presents a realistic,
Title: Kabuki Plays
Author: Brandon, James R. Niwa, Tamako Publisher: Samuel French 1966
Description:
roy - collection - Kabuki Plays
Genuine classical Japanese drama combining both farcical and melodramatic, are offered respectively in The Zen Substitute and Kanjincho. Liberal staging and acting instructions, details on makeup and costumes, a glossary and suggestions for adapting to American theatres are offered. What debts western drama owes to Japanese theatre shine through with pristine clarity in these excellent renditions.
contains: Kanjincho The Zen Substitute
Title: Kanjincho in - Kabuki Plays / COL Author: Brandon, James R. Niwa, Tamako Publisher: Samuel French 1966
Description:
roy drama - Kabuki play ten characters ten male or female one act
A classic of Kabuki theatre, this is the tensely dramatic story of Benkei, devoted retainer of Yoshitsune, the hero. Benkei uses all means to overcome the barrier set up by Yoshitsune's treacherous brother, Japan's ruler. The barrier guard sees through the ruse; but deeply impressed, he allows the group to pass. A superbly theatrical piece with contrasts between vigorous, stylized action and moments of delicate sadness. Title: Killers, The
Author: Hemingway, Ernest Harnetiaux, Bryan Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1990
Description:
roy drama eleven characters nine male; two female (flexible) one act
Approximate running time: 20 minutes; adapted by Bryan Harnetiaux.
Perhaps Hemingway's most famous short story which he wrote almost entirely in dialogue form, the Killers goes to the essence of his lean, muscular style, helping establish him as a new force in literature and ultimately leading to his Nobel Prize. Perfectly capturing this essence in theatrical form, Harnetiaux's brilliant adaptation begins, as does the story, in the small town lunchroom
Title: King Kirby
Author: Skillman, Crystal Van Lente, Fred Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy American - docu-drama - comics thirty-eight characters three male; one female (doubling) twelve scenes
"King Kirby" is a play by the husband-and-wife team of New York Times bestselling comics writer Fred Van Lente and NYIT award-winning playwright Crystal Skillman about the life and times of Jack Kirby, the great comic book artist who created or co-created some of your favorite heroes on the page and screen, Captain America, the Avengers, Thor, Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, Young Romance, the New Gods, Darkseid, The Demon… the list goes on and on. From the Jewish ghetto of New York's Lower East Side to the battlefields of France to the Senate hearings of 1950s,
Title: Kingdom in - The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays / CCO Author: Greeley, Meghan Publisher: Breakwater Books 2012
Description:
roy Canadian playwright - drama three characters one male; one female; one girl one act
A nightmarish world where Nora and Scout are held as prisoner by Sir, described as a 'gentle kind of monster.' Scout and Nora are young women who keep each other company as they pass their days locked in a bedroom. Greeley explores rituals and trust issues, but what at first appears to be merely odd is soon revealed to be a type of living hell. The strength and power of ritual lies at the heart of this play. Sir, the villain, believes he has created a three-dimensional world governed by the daily routines that he has imposed. Greeley effectively explores the psychological Title: La Ofrenda (The Offering)
Author: Casas, José Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2006
Description:
roy drama - family relations three characters two male; one female one act
Approximate running time: 70 minutes
Alex Smith, a young boy who has recently lost both his parents in the tragedy of 9/11, is forced to move to Los Angeles to live with his only living relative, his grandmother: a strong-willed Chicana named Marta Torres. Both Alex and Marta struggle to navigate their feelings after this loss. Alex must deal with starting a new life in a strange place as well as being immersed in a
Title: Lac/Athabasca
Author: Falkenstein, Len Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2018
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - environment eighteen characters twelve male; six female (doubling) one act
This play can be performed by a cast of five or more.
"A nineteenth-century fur trader and his Métis guide are harrowingly pursued by an unseen monster on the Athabasca River. Two freshwater biologists in present-day Fort McMurray investigate pollution downstream from the oil sands, until one becomes obsessed with his discovery of a centuries-old skeleton. A young man comes to work in the Alberta oil sands, but is
Title: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Author: Robertson, Lanie Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy musical drama - jazz two characters one male; one female one act
Approximate running time: 90 minutes; period - 1950s; 2 additional musicians required.
The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness one of Billie Holiday’s last performances, given four months before her death. More than a dozen musical numbers are interlaced with salty, often humorous reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of the lady and her music. Title: Lady from Dubuque, The
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1977
Description:
roy drama eight characters four male; four female two acts
Three young couples are playing Twenty Questions. The drinks have been flowing, so the mood has gone from good to bad in a very short time. As it happens, the hostess, who has the most abrasive tongue of all, is dying of cancer, and the party ends when her pain becomes so intense her husband must carry her to bed. After the stage is empty, a handsome, mysterious woman, accompanied by an equally handsome man, enter the house and settle in for the night. In the morning they are still there to greet the baffled young husband and his ailing wife when they
Title: Lady in Question, The
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy comedy - parody - spoof nine characters five male; four female two acts
running time: 120 minutes.
A free wheeling satire of patriotic 1940’s thrillers such as Notorious and Escape, The Lady in Question tells the suspenseful tale of Gertrude Garnet, the most glamorous concert pianist on the international stage. On tour in 1940 Bavaria, her colossal self-absorption is challenged when a handsome American professor engages her aid in rescuing his mother from a Nazi prison.
Title: Lake Street Extension
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1993
Description:
roy drama - family relationships - men all male cast; three characters three male one act (thirteen scenes)
The estranged son of a middle-aged man returns home to find that his father has taken in a young refugee from El Salvador. Not only has the refugee moved in, but he's been given the son's room and is sleeping in his bed. As this explosive situation tests the already strained father son relationship, we discover that the son is a male prostitute and was sexually abused on a regular basis by his average, working-class father. Throw in the secretive young man from El Salvador and the mix becomes deadly in this play rife with recriminations, secrets, seductions, hypocrisy, 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)
Approximate 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 meta-theatrical 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: Last Laugh, The
Author: Hardstark, Michael Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy - collection - Chekhov - Michael Hardstark - one act
contains: In the Cemetery The Cure
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Last Stop till Christmas
Author: Cook, Pat Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 2001
Description:
roy Christmas - comedy twenty characters; extras flexible casting one act
Exterior set; running time: 30 mins.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... ’ sings Angela as she waits for a bus. The only other person on the bench looks at her as if she’s lost her mind. But Angela knows the true meaning of the holiday. Others arrive, all waiting for the bus and all dealing with their own problems. Mr. And Mrs. Loudmouth constantly argue; the shopper has way too many presents left Title: Last Sunday in June, The
Author: Tolins, Jonathan Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2004
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - LGBTQ+ eight characters seven male; one female one act (three scenes)
1 interior.
Comic drama set in Greenwich Village. Friends watch Gay Pride Parade from apartment window.
Title: Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft, The
Author: Leonard, Hugh Publisher: Evans Plays 1968
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
A light comedy with a dithering wife at the VIP lounge at the airport attempting to run away.
Title: Latina/o Canadian Theatre and Performance
Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
reference - Latina/o playwrights - theatre - Canadian
Featuring exciting and provocative new essays by leading and emerging scholars in Canada and the US, this foundational collection begins a conversation about Latina/o theatre and performance in Canada. The essays query the contours and characteristics of latinidad in Canada's performance spaces within a complex network of hemispheric relations and transnational migrations. While the discipline has witnessed a 'hemispheric turn' in the study of theatre and performance in the Americas, Canada has had limited inclusion in this body of scholarship. In their examinations of the groundbreaking work of companies and artists such as Alberto Kurapel, Guillermo Verdecchia, Carmen Aguirre, Aluna Theatre, and PUENTE Theatre, these essays invite us to think more inclusively about the hemisphere and the plurality of the Americas that lie beyond US borders. Title: Lear in - A Certain William / CCO Author: Ronfard, Jean-Pierre translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - Quebec - Canadian playwright - Shakespeare adaptation eight characters four male; four female one act
This rewriting of Shakespeare's King Lear's grotesque and derisory, influenced by Samuel Beckett and Antonin Artaud, presents a Lear stripped of its grandeur, but where the absurd and cruelty of the old king's fate are brought to light. While two of his daughters are in power, Lear and his mistress Corneille are forced to roam. His third daughter, disguised as a madman, accompanies him in this descent into hell, while the bastard Hector finally takes power.
Title: Leaving Iowa The comedy about family vacations Author: Clue, Tim Manton, Spike Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2008
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female (may be expanded to 26 actors) two acts
The spark behind 'Leaving Iowa' comes from being children of parents from the now dubbed "greatest generation." The story is a toast to their idealism and character and a little roast of their undying dedication to the classic family road trip. More specifically, it is the story of Don Browning, a middle-aged writer, who returns home and decides to finally take his father's ashes to his childhood home, as requested. But when Don discovers Grandma's house is now a grocery store, he begins traveling across Iowa searching for a proper resting place for his father. This
Title: Liberation Days
Author: Van Belle, David Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2016
Description:
roy Canadian - historical drama - romance - war - Alberta playwright⌦eight characters six male; two female (doubling possible) two acts ⌦"It's May 1945, liberated Holland. The war is over, but because of a shortage of troop ships the Canadian Army remains in the Netherlands. Emma, an independent Dutch woman, meets Alex, a young Canadian private from rural Alberta. Emma has lived through five harrowing years of German occupation that ended in the 'hunger winter' of 1944-45, and wonders how she can put her life back together after everything she's experienced and everything she's lost. Emma sees in Alex the chance for a new life, to leave the expectations of her mother, the village and the church, to leave the horrors of the war. But she has to make a choice--to make peace with what's happened in the past, or to flee to a future in Canada." Title: Little Dickens on the Air, A
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Chris McKerracher 2017
Description:
roy comedy - Christmas - Canadian - Alberta playwright nine characters three male; five female; one male or female three acts
Running time: 90 mins; setting - a radio station sound stage in 1940s New York.
A hybrid of regular play and "Radio Play for the Stage," this fun to perform Christmas yarn concerns a cast of voice actors doing the Scrooge story in the 1940s who must carry on despite missing half of their cast, or lose their jobs. Lots of room for comedic, pre-planned "ad-libs" to keep things rolling during narration.
Title: Little Dragon in - Summerworks / CCO Author: Loughran, Keira Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - identity - China - comedy six characters one male; four female (doubling) one act; twenty-three scenes
The story of Jen McDonald, a Chinese-Canadian student at Queen's University who discovers her Eastern roots. While Jen explores her previously unknown Chinese heritage, she invents a whole mythology for herself to draw strength from; she becomes convinced that she's the illegitimate daughter of Bruce Lee.
Title: Little Man, The in - Seven Short Plays / COL Author: Galsworthy, John Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1956
Description:
roy farce - satire eleven characters nine male; two female (one baby) one act (three scenes)
Brotherly love - a farcical morality in three scenes. Title: Little Match Girl, The
Author: Ammann, Herman Publisher: I. E. Clark 1970
Description:
roy fairy tale - drama twenty characters; extras flexible casting one act
Approximate running time: 30 minutes.
A touching dramatization of Hans Christian Anderson Andersen's tragic story. Ragged, hungry little Maggie tries to sell matches on the icy streets of a cold city, but no one will buy them. In desperation Maggie lights her matches to warm herself. She doesn't get warm, but somehow, her pitiful little flame lights up the world around her.
Title: Little Mermaid, The
Author: Glennon, William Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1994
Description:
roy children - fairy tale - comedy - high school fifteen characters; extras; music eight male; seven female (flexible casting) two acts
Approximate running time: 80 mins; based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen.
You'll love following the Little Mermaid, who in this brand-new version is a strong-willed but endearing innocent, on her first journey to the Top of the Sea. There she meets the painfully shy but quietly funny Ollie, reluctantly in training to be king and not exactly her idea of a storybook prince. Their ensuing friendship is the special and perceptive core of the play. Also on hand are
Title: Little Mermaid, The
Author: Nursey-Bray, Rosemary Publisher: I. E. Clark 1982
Description:
roy drama - fairy tale seventeen characters; extras six male; eleven female two acts
1 setting.
Dramatization of Andersen's fairy tale about mermaid who falls in love with a prince, gives her voice to witch in exchange for becoming human. Singing. Title: Little Princess, A
Author: Morris, Vera Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy children - England large cast flexible casting two acts
"Sara Crewe, heiress to a large fortune, is enrolled at Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies in Victorian England. At first her life is happy, but news arrives that her father has died and her fortune is lost. Sara is forced to become a servant, scrubbing cobblestones and washing cooking kettles. She must live in a miserable attic room that seems no better than a prison cell. When a mysterious gentleman from India takes the house next door, some strange and curious things begin to happen. In time, Sara even discovers that her fortune has been
Title: Little Red Schoolhouse, The
Author: Crosby, Millard Publisher: Samuel French 1969
Description:
roy comedy - children - school - young adult fourteen characters one male; two female; five boys; six girls one act
May be performed on a platform with drapes.
The zany cast of characters that attend and work at the little red schoolhouse are sure to leave audiences in stitches! You'll meet tough boy Butch who delights in picking on sweet Mayberry, the stuck up daughter of the head of the School Board; the teacher's pet; the simpering flirt; the dumb Dutch girl; the lazy boy who sleeps most of the time; the poor teacher who is nearly driven out of
Title: Little Women of Orchard House
Author: Longest, David Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1998
Description:
roy drama - family relations - high school twenty-six characters six male; sixteen female; four girls (expandable to forty-six characters) two acts
Approximate running time: 130 mins; based on the book "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott.
Playwright David Longest has taken the classic Louisa May Alcott novel and expanded it into a sweeping historical tale. The play begins with Louisa May recalling her own childhood. We quickly meet the real Alcott sisters and the many literary greats who visited Orchard House, their home in Concord, Mass.: Henry David Thoreau, once Louisa May's teacher; Thomas Niles, her Title: Littlest Tailor, The in - Plays for Children, Volume II Author: Marvin, Blanche Publisher: Merri-Mimes Press 1991
Description:
roy children - comedy - fairy tale six characters two male; two female; two male or female two acts
This version of 'The Littlest Tailor' is in the comic minstrel style, using the shuffle and soft-shoe dances, the Mr. Bones routine, the post-Civil War period of America, the southern swamps and plantations, to tell the story of how the little tailor who by killing seven flies at one blow is led to the conquest of the Giants. But who are the Giants in this version? That's where the fun lies.
Title: Lo; or, Dear Mr. Wells
Author: Napoli, Rose Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - feminism - sexuality two characters one male; one female one act
"It was ten years ago that Laura was Alan Wells student at Northwood Catholic School. She was uncharacteristically intelligent for fifteen years old -perceptive and vulnerable - a dream student for an uninspired English teacher. Now, at twenty-five years old, Laura has written her first book. She calls it ‘Dear Mr. Wells’ and Alan is the first person she wants to read it. A feminist retake on a student / teacher relationship, that wrestles with burgeoning sexuality and consent, literature and passion, right and wrong."
Title: Logic, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 39th series / COL Author: Arbery, Will Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy drama - friendship all male cast; two characters two male one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
Evan and Andrew reconnect on Facebook. While Evan is starting a career in publishing in New York, Andrew is incarcerated in a Texas prison. As their childhood friendship starts to resurface, Andrew tries to push through the banality of digital communication to fulfill a plan they had when they were kids. Title: Lookin' for a Better Berry Bush
Author: Toddie, Jean Lenox Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - aging - friendship all female cast; two characters two female one act
Approximate running time: 30 minutes.
A humorous and touching tale about finding real friendship and human connection in the most unlikely of places. The plot follows a hard working waitress and a street woman who have vastly different life experiences as they clash on a city street, only to find themselves sitting together in front of a brownstone and tentatively reaching out for understanding.
Title: Lost Girl, The in - The Great Gromboolian and Other Plays - COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy dark comedy all female cast; three characters three female one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
Mala, a young tourist lost in a strange country with an erroneous map, sees Lara sitting on a bench reading a black book. Mala manages to communicate her situation and ask Lara for directions. Strangely, she understands Lara's foreign language more and more as the play progresses.
Title: Love, Lies and the Doctor's Dilemma
Author: Parker, Michael Parker, Susan Publisher: Samuel French 2017
Description:
roy farce six characters three male; three female two acts
Approximate running time: 90 mins.
Joan Scheller lives with the great love of her life, Sandy. In an effort to hide their relationship from her overbearing sister-in-law, the former movie star Olivia St. Claire, she introduces him as her psychiatrist. One little white lie leads to another. Before long, Vinny the Enforcer, a quintessential Italian mobster, masquerades as her security guard, while her son, Chris, is forced to wear a Title: Love's Comedy A play in three acts Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by C. H. Herford Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2016
Description:
roy drama - Norwegian - society - marriage - politics - 19th century ten characters five male; five female three acts
Two students - Falk and Lind - are staying at the country house of Mrs. Halm, romancing her two daughters Anna and Svanhild. Lind has ambitions to be a missionary, Falk a great poet. Falk criticises bourgeois society in his verse and insists that we live in the passionate moment. Lind's proposal of marriage to Anna is accepted but Svanhild rejects the chance to become Falk's muse, as poetry is merely writing, and he can do that on his own and without really risking himself for his beliefs.
Title: Luce
Author: Lee, JC Publisher: Samuel French 2014
Description:
roy drama - teenagers - family relations - racism five characters two male; three female one act (nine scenes)
Approximate running time: 90 mins.
JC Lee's probing play about a suspicious teenager addresses issues of privilege, race, and trust. When a teacher makes an alarming discovery about Luce, an all-star high school student, Luce's parents are forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted years ago from a war-torn African country. Told primarily from the perspective of the adults, Luce also raises
Title: Macbeth
Author: Foster, Cass Shakespeare, William Publisher: Five Star Publications 2003
Description:
roy Shakespeare - tragedy - drama large cast flexible casting five acts
Approximate running time: 60 mins.
"A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia." Title: Macbeth A kid's cautionary tale concerning greed, power, mayhem and other current events Author: Charles, Nancy Linehan Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1999
Description:
roy children - Shakespeare - satire large cast flexible casting one act "This dramatic adaptation, sprinkled with comedic commentary, is a winner for elementary, middle, and early high school. Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy is told within a lively and humorous story-theatre frame. Macbeth and his Lady covet the crown while witches, ghosts, kings and soldiers sweep across the landscape, carving out the battle between good and evil. Shakespeare characters speak the Bard's words, while storytellers fill in plot and comment wryly on the escalating action."
Title: Mad Woman's ESL Poetry in - Canadian Theatre Review 177 / PER Author: Lee, Minah Publisher: Miscellaneous 2019
Description:
roy drama - performance piece - language - immigration - Canadian all female cast; one character one female one act (ten scenes)
In this performance text, Lee grapples with a hostile Canadian immigration program and the dislocation and disorientation of navigating unfamiliar language, laws, and protocols. Regardless, she utters fearlessly, not because her language is correct and direct, but because her language is doomed to be corrected and redirected.
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: Magic Video in - In Character / CCO Author: Siamon, Jeff Publisher: Nelson Canada 1992
Description:
roy comedy - romance - Canadian playwright eight characters; extras five male; three female one act
Traditional 'boy meets girl' plot set in a video store.
Title: Malceet Hamlet, The in - A Certain William / CCO Author: Durand, Yves Sioui Messier, Jean-Frederic Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - Quebec - Canadian playwright - Indigenous peoples - Shakespeare adaptation seven characters; extras five male; two female four acts
Translated by Henry Gauthier.
Yves-Sioui Durand and J.F. Messie’s The Maleceet Hamlet tackles the extinction of linguistic identity on the First Nations Reserve of Kinogamish. Shakespeare speaks to Maleceet Dave, an outsider who is the "product of métissage and ‘too white to play an Indian."
Title: Malcolm
Author: Albee, Edward Purdy, James Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1966
Description:
roy drama twenty-three characters sixteen male; seven female (doubling possible) two acts
Adapted by Edward Albee from the novel by James Purdy.
In the words of Stanley Kauffmann, the play, "…which is a fantasy of the corruption of innocence, concerns a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old boy, well-dressed and well-spoken, who—when we meet him—has been sitting daily on a bench in front of a hotel in a nameless American city. He is observed by an elderly astrologer named Cox, who speaks to Malcolm one day and learns that the Title: Man in the Bowler Hat, The in - Seven Short Plays / COL Author: Milne, A. A. Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1956
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations - burlesque six characters four male; two female one act
interior.
"A terribly exciting little affair happens in the humdrum life of John and Mary, a tempest in a teapot, but while it lasts - well, it's high comedy, at least for the audience."
Title: Man with Connections, A
Author: Gelman, Alexander translated by Stephen Mulrine Publisher: Miscellaneous 1989
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female two acts
Andrei is a construction-site supervisor; his wife Natasha is a socially ambitious librarian. Their son has recently lost both his hands in an industrial accident while working for Andrei's concern. As recriminations fly between husband and wife, a powerful - yet bitterly humorous - portrait emerges of a marriage and a society straining after questionable values.
Title: Mandala a celebration Author: Frisch, Jack E. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1974
Description:
roy drama - young adult - experimental theatre flexible casting one act
Free-style interpretation of episodes including the discovery of being human, of loneliness, of hate and fear. Background music. Title: Mandarin Oranges II
Author: Deverell, Rex Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2000
Description:
roy comedy - satire - politics - Canadian⌦eight characters four male; four female two acts
Some of the material is specific to the time and region.
"A Regina small time politician - innocent and naive - goes to Ottawa where he finds love and power politics"
Title: Mandate in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 39th series / COL Author: Younger, Kelly Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy comedy - friendship all male cast; two characters two male one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
Forced into a guy’s night out by their wives, a stay-at-home dad and a stay-in-his-cubicle accountant go on a disastrous ‘first date’ only to learn that friendship really is magic.
Title: Many Deaths of Nathan Stubblefield, The in - Humana Festival 2017 / COL Author: Augustin, Jeff DeLappe, Sarah Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2018
Description:
roy comedy - stories large cast flexible casting one act (eleven parts)
Also written by Claire Kiechel and Ramiz Monsef.
The mysterious demise of a Kentucky inventor - and other stories of visionaries from the Bluegrass State - inspire a play that explores the nature of innovation and the myths we tell about it. Writing for the nineteen actors in this season’s Professional Training Company, four playwrights boldly celebrate unsung dreamers, unlikely breakthroughs, and the beauty (and Title: Map of the Land, Map of the Stars in - Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2018) / PER Author: Gwaandak Theatre Publisher: Miscellaneous 2018
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Indigenous peoples seven characters three male; four female one act
By Christine Clarke, Genevieve Doyon, Patti Flather, Andrameda Hunter, Leonard Linklater, Yvette Nolan, Michelle Olson, and Aimee Dawn Robinson.
Several snippets and stories from Indigenous culture.
Title: Marble Arch in - Edwin and Other Plays / COL Author: Mortimer, John Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior.
Ex-actress, mistress of prominent personality, believing him dead in her bathroom arranges with janitor for removal of body.
Title: Marigraph Gauging the Tides of Drama from New Brunswick-Nova Scotia and PEI Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy - Canadian collection - Maritimes
This collection of ten contemporary plays from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island features prize-winning works that have been produced across the country, as well as regionally staged plays that deserve national attention. The list of authors includes many of Canada's most celebrated playwrights as well as new writers whose works continue to define the form and potential drama on Canada's East Coast. Spanning genres from domestic and historical drama and traditional comedy through biting satire and opera libretto, the collection demonstrates the distinctive breadth, originality and vitality of contemporary work in Canada's Maritime region.
contains: Title: Mark Twain: Live in Bombay!
Author: Emanuel, Gabriel Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2015
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian Playwright - India - solo performance⌦all male cast; one character one male two acts ⌦"One man play based on the historical visit of Mark Twain to India in 1896. Laced with sardonic humour, the play captures Twain's fascination for the magical and mystical land and at the same time provides a marvellous setting for the author and raconteur to engage the audience with his uniquely entertaining stories and comedic insights."
Title: Marriage of Figaro, The
Author: Beaumarchais Clark, I. E. Publisher: I. E. Clark 1968
Description:
roy comedy thirteen characters; extras eight male; five female (flexible casting) one act
This is an adaptation of the play upon which Mozart's opera is based. It was one of the prime causes of the French Revolution because it champions the common man and belittles the aristocracy. The plot revolves around Figaro's desire to marry Suzanna, and the many problems which stand in his way - hilarious for the audience but not for Figaro. A 35-40 minute costume play for advanced groups. A sequel to "The Barber of Seville"; the two plays are a natural for a Night of Short Plays.
Title: Mary Barnes in - Plays: One - David Edgar / COL Author: Edgar, David Publisher: Methuen 1987
Description:
roy drama - mental illness - biography - Mary Barnes thirteen characters seven male; six female three acts
1 setting.
Drama about mental illness based on book describing the real case of Mary Barnes written in collaboration with her therapist Joseph Berke. Title: Mary's Wedding (revised edition)
Author: Massicotte, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - romance - Canadian - young adult - history three characters one male; one female (doubling) one act
On the night before her wedding, Mary dreams of a thunderstorm, during which she unexpectedly meets Charlie sheltering in a barn beside his horse. With innocence and humour, the two discover a charming first love. But the year is 1914, and the world is collapsing into a brutal war. Together, they attempt to hide their love, galloping through the fields for a place and time where the tumultuous uncertainties of battle can’t find them. A play with a heart as big as the skies that serve as its stage, Mary's Wedding is an epic, unforgettable story of love, hope, and survival.
Title: Master Builder, The
Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Edmund Gosse and William Arche Publisher: DeWitt Publishing House` n.d.
Description:
roy drama seven characters; extras four male; three female three acts
2 interior and 1 exterior set; new edition with a biographical note by Edmund Gosse and an appendix for critics by William Archer.
"Solness had won success as an architect at the expense of his wife and associates, but his conscience still bothers him. A fascinating girl, Hilda Wangel, encourages him to do great things still. He climbs to the top of a tower, becomes dizzy, and falls to his death."
Title: Matador Love in - Summerworks / CCO Author: Brebner, Morwyn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - romance two characters one male; one female one act
The blind date from hell. Title: Matt and Ben
Author: Kaling, Mindy Withers, Brenda Publisher: Overlook Press 2004
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; two characters two female one act (ten scenes)
It's the story Hollywood has glamorized, publicized, and bombarded us with - how it all began for the two young men, now famous for the tabloid coverage of their on-again-off-again romances, their big-budget smashes and flops, and their "Project Greenlight." It started with a script for the film that became Good Will Hunting, slaved over by the bright young dreamers (portrayed in this play's premier by the female playwrights) in their run-down apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1996 - or was it? This hilariously scathing play takes us back to the pivotal
Title: Memory of Harold, A
Author: Miller, Ev Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1980
Description:
roy drama - high school eleven characters six male; five female one act
Simple interior set; running time: approximately 30 minutes.
Sometimes a simple prank turns into a cruel incident. A young man, recalling his high school years, remembers Harold as, "Double ugly, wearing... thick glasses that covered eyes so weak a person got dizzy looking at him." As a joke, Harold’s classmates make him believe one of the girls in their group is interested in him. When Harold arrives to take her to the prom, the whole
Title: Metamorphosis, The
Author: Dizenzo, Charles Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1977
Description:
roy drama - fantasy nine characters five male; four female one act (five scenes)
A dramatization of the Kafka story.
Everyone is familiar with Kafka's macabre tale of a man who has suddenly, and unaccountably, turned into a giant cockroach. But here, thanks to the skill of the adaptor, the humor and pathos of the situation are heightened through their theatrical setting - and the irony of Gregor's plight becomes even more eloquently clear. It is not only the story of a man fallen victim to a cruel fate, Title: Midsummer Night's Dream, A
Author: Foster, Cass Shakespeare, William Publisher: Five Star Publications 2003
Description:
roy Shakespeare - comedy - fantasy twenty-one characters thirteen male; eight female five acts
Approximate running time: 60 mins.
"It is the magical story of star-crossed lovers, overly ambitious homespun clowns and misadventures with fairies. The fun can be multiplied by mixing and matching the male/female roles. The action begins at the beautiful court of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and later moves to mystical forest inhabited by Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies."
Title: Mina in - Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas / COL Author: Park, Kyoung H. Publisher: Duke University Press 2017
Description:
roy Korea - solo performance - women all female cast; one character one female one act
Mina struggles with a life that has spiraled out of control. Mina is utterly lost between four cultures: Peruvian, Korean, Japanese and American. She speaks three different languages in the short piece, which reads like a long confessional purging. She is a victim of colonialism and globalization, a survivor who imagines finding herself at the end. She may have no roots she can claim, but she can dream of happiness and hope for the future.
Title: Ministry of Grace, The
Author: Beagan, Tara Publisher: Miscellaneous 2018
Description:
roy drama - Indigenous peoples - relationships - Indigenous playwright - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
"Our protagonist, Mary, finds herself in a great deal of trouble and very far from home. She has departed the Interior of BC and fled to California. Powerless to the law requiring First Nations children to attend Indian Residential Schools, now unable to see her children while they are in the institution, Mary leaves the painful reminder of what was formerly their shared home for foreign climes. Our play opens when Mary has been terminated from her position as a harvest hand on a Title: Mirrors
Author: O'Brien, John Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1982
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female one act
This play, which scored impressively in several major play contests, begins with a man spending an ordinary evening in his ordinary home with his ordinary family. Then a psychiatrist enters. The man, it seems, is not at home but in a hospital. His family, we learn, is dead … or are they? After the doctor leaves, the man's wife returns to ask if he is still fantasizing that his family is dead. His wife, it seems, is real … or is she? When she leaves - at play's end - the man and the audience must decide which reality is the real one.
Title: Miss Margarida's Way Tragicomic monologue for an impetuous woman Author: Athayde, Roberto Publisher: Samuel French 1977
Description:
roy dark comedy - power - monologues - female - solo performance all female cast; one character (extra) one female two parts
Estelle Parsons created a sensation in New York as the title character, a teacher who runs her classroom with an iron fist, velvet glove not included! Banned, then censored in Brazil, the playwright's homeland, Miss Margarida's Way is a searing drama that looks deeply into the heart of power. Audiences and critics in over 50 countries have cheered this allegory about totalitarianism which uses as its' central metaphor a classroom. Miss Margarida teaches, teases and taunts her eighth grade class through mathematics, geography, history and her own private
Title: Mistatim in - Mistatim / Instant / CHC Author: Shields, Erin Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy children - Canadian playwright - friendship - communication three characters two male; one female one act
In Mistatim, which is based on a concept from Sandra Laronde of Red Sky Performance, two eleven-year-olds strike up an unlikely friendship at the fence between one’s reserve and the other’s ranch. On Speck’s side, she’s carved names of family members into the wooden posts as she tries to piece together her identity. On Calvin’s side, he’s trying to train a horse in order to prove himself to his father. When Speck realizes she can communicate with Calvin’s horse Mistatim, the pair work to liberate the animal, and in the process learn about one another’s Title: Mistatim / Instant
Author: Shields, Erin Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy - collection - children - Erin Shields
contains: Mistatim Instant
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Mixed Company
Author: Franklin, Clay Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
monologues - Clay Franklin
contains: The Telephone and Sally / Mr. Ray of Sunshine / The Show Stopper / Cedric Quackenbush / Mrs. Winthrop Requests / Doorstep Salesman / Show Girl / Fourscore and Ten / Lady of the Morning / Sailor, Behave / Minerva Dingle / Prodigal Nephew / Venus with a Label / Pop Singer / Miss Prunella Thatcher / Father has a Problem / Strange Sister / Actor Summer-Style / The Lady is Taurus / Short Acquaintances: Sight-Seeing Guide; Miss Stage-Struck; Truck Driver on Foot; Lady, East Side; Five an' Dime Doll
Title: Mixed Emotions
Author: Muschell, David Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1990
Description:
roy comedy six characters two male; four female one act
Approximate running time: 30 mins.
Here's a comedy with a kaleidoscope of emotions all blended with a touch of magic. It seems simple enough: a young man wants to impress a woman at the office costume party by coming up with some kind of creative, unusual attire. When he meets a strange gypsy woman in a weird costume shop, she shows him "the mask of Jirad, the spirit of passion." He can't see anything, but Title: Moliére's the Imaginary Invalid
Author: Turner, Kenneth Weston Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989
Description:
roy comedy - high school twelve characters flexible casting three acts
Approximate running time: 80 mins.
Cranky M Argan imagines he has every ailment there is. He plans to marry his daughter to a dull young doctor so he will always have a physician handy. But Angelique swears she will enter a convent first, for she is in love with the young, handsome Cleante, and so we're off into the Molière world of humorous extravaganzas!
Title: Monkey's Paw, The
Author: Jacobs, W. W. Parker, Louis N. Publisher: Samuel French 31
Description:
roy mystery - thriller five characters four male; one female one act
This cautionary tale begins when Major Morris, of the British army in India, shares the tale of a troublesome monkey’s paw with a married couple, Mr. and Mrs. White, and their only son, Herbert. Morris says the superstition is that the paw’s possessor is granted three wishes but that meddling with fate can get quite tricky. Mr. White disregards the old soldier’s warning, and becomes set on retrieving the monkeys paw after Morris has pitched it into a fire. Once in his possession, Mr. White wishes for $200, and shortly thereafter Mr. Sampson appears with the news
Title: Monologues They'll Remember You By 80 unique and compelling monologues that leave a lasting impression Author: Biss, Andrew Publisher: Entr'acte Editions 2017
Description:
Finding the right monologue can often be a frustrating task. Too frequently, monologue books rely on time-worn staples that have been heard a million times before, or are padded out with aimless, insipid pieces that often aren't even taken from actual plays. In Monologues They'll Remember You By you'll find 80 (40 male, 40 female) fresh, engaging monologues that will allow you to create memorable character portraits of depth and vitality for that all-important moment in the spotlight. Divided into male and female comedic, dramatic, and serio-comic categories, this book also provides a useful guide on how to look beyond age and gender in many of these monologues in order to broaden your performance options. Additionally, each monologue is preceded by a brief summary of the plot, setting, and character profile.Whether a professional or a student actor, you'll find this book an invaluable resource for landing that coveted role or winning that competition. Title: Monsoon Season in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 41st Series / COL Author: Vieh, Lizzie Publisher: Samuel French 2017
Description:
roy drama - solo performance all male cast; one character one male one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
It’s monsoon season in Phoenix, and Danny hasn’t had a decent night’s sleep in weeks. Between his recent divorce, his mind-numbing job in technical support, and the neon sign from the strip club that glows through his window all night, his grasp of reality is slipping. And things only get weirder when a decapitated body is found near Danny’s job, and Danny develops a fascination
Title: Monstrum, The in - National Theatre Connections / YCL Author: Smith, Kellie Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - Britain - gothic melodrama - adolescence eleven characters; chorus seven male; four female one act
suitable for any age.
In a cold village on the edge of nowhere, a disease has broken out, infecting the young and transforming them into monstrous creatures. The villagers fearfully watch their children for symptoms of the disease, whilst the Mayor has adopted tough measures for dealing with those who are infected. When Bolek, the local scholar, makes a breakthrough in finding a cure, few are
Title: Mouthpiece
Author: Nostbakken, Amy Sadava, Norah Publisher: Coach House Books 2017
Description:
roy drama - music - women - feminism - Canadian all female cast; two characters two female one act (twenty scenes)
'Mouthpiece' follows one woman, for one day, as she tries to find her voice. Two performers express the inner conflict that exists within a modern woman's head: the push and pull, the past and the present, the progress and the regression. Interweaving a cappella harmony, dissonance, text, and physicality, Mouthpiece is a harrowing, humorous, and heart-wrenching journey into the female psyche. Music included. Title: Mr. Easter Bunny in - Plays for Children, Volume II Author: Marvin, Blanche Publisher: Merri-Mimes Press 1991
Description:
roy children - Easter - comedy five characters three male; two female three acts
This is a contemporary comedy based on the play 'Harvey.' Two children uncover the real basis of Easter, the rites of Spring, as pagan as ever was, and manage to convert their parents with the help of Mr. Easter Bunny.
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Author: Foster, Cass Shakespeare, William Publisher: Five Star Publications 2003
Description:
roy Shakespeare - comedy eighteen characters; extras fourteen male; four female five acts
Approximate running time: 60 mins.
"One of Shakespeare's more popular comedies. Much of its appeal lies in its two stories of romantic love with their quite different journeys to comedy' s happy ending."
Title: Murder Inn A murder mystery dinner theatre Author: Anderson, Jonah Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2016
Description:
roy comedy - farce - murder - mystery - Canadian playwright six characters two male; two female (doubling) three acts
"It's a dark and stormy night where 6 different strange and interesting people are staying at an Inn. Some are strangers, one works there and one owns it. In this hilarious farce there is everything from gut wrenching laughter to mysterious laid plans as multiple murders are committed as the audience laughs their way to the conclusion. The plot twists will keep you guessing while the laughter will keep you in stitches." Title: Murder Mansion An abundantly amusing and baffling mystery comedy in three acts Author: Snapp, Orville Publisher: Samuel French 1942
Description:
roy murder - mystery - comedy ten characters four male; six female three acts
When a lovely young Carlotta Cramer, through the death of her Uncle Ewing, inherits a lonely old mansion off the coast of Maine, she can hardly wait to get to the mansion and look it over. So, Accompanied by her maid, Ophelia , and her Aunt Mimi Spalding, she arrives at the mansion early on fall evening. The instant Carlotta and her party are inside of the mansion, they are subject to a set of highly mysterious and baffling incidents. By the time they succeed in locating Mary Marley, the housekeeper in charge, they are in a state of near collapse. The housekeeper adds to their
Title: Music-Cure, The in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy comedy - romance three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior; music.
Love affair between meek young socialite and domineering woman pianist.
Title: Musical Differences in - National Theatre Connections / YCL Author: French, Robin Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - British - music - love - high school multiple characters variable size ensemble one act
Ages 14+.
In the summer of Year Ten, Alex Stokes takes the fateful step of buying an electric guitar and forming his own rock group. He teams up with a mysterious young singer by the name of Joel Lawrence. What follows could well be the most incredible saga in the school’s musical history. The band survives different line-ups, impossible love affairs and brutal school politics. By Year Title: Mustard
Author: Sandler, Kat Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy comedy - family relations - fantasy - Canadian playwright six characters four male; two female one act
Mustard shouldn’t still be here, but he is. Imaginary friends don’t normally stay with their Person until that Person is a troubled teenager, exhibiting strangely violent behaviour. Imaginary friends don’t suddenly become visible to their Person’s mom and then go on a date with them, either. But Mustard is special. At least that’s what he thinks. And he’s not ready to leave his best friend, Thai, even though he’s in deep trouble with some unsavoury characters who are ready to enforce some serious rules. And, oh yeah, he’s falling in love with Sadie, Thai’s recently separated,
Title: Nanawatai
Author: Mastrosimone, William Publisher: Samuel French 1981
Description:
roy drama - war eleven characters; female chorus ten male; one female two acts
Bare stage; simple set.
Shortly after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, a man managed to get himself smuggled into that beleaguered country via Pakistan. There he spent several weeks with the Afghan rebels, observing their often futile attempts to resist the Russians. He also observed the capture and execution of a Soviet tank crew. It was this incident which inspired Nanawatai (an Afghan word
Title: Narrators in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 40th Series / COL Author: Henriques, Simon Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy comedy - theatre all male cast; four characters four male one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
Bill is a narrator. Walter is a narrator, too. Stephen is a stagehand for narrators, but he wishes he were a narrator. Being a narrator is the best job in the world. But as these narrators’ myopic world begins to fold in on itself, and all they talk about is talking (and talking about talking), it becomes increasingly unclear which stories are worth telling - or worth living. Title: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 - vocal selections
Author: Malloy, Dave Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Description:
Piano/vocal selections from the musical.
contains: Prologue / Pierre / Moscow / No One Else / Dust and Ashes / Charming / The Ball / Letters / Sonya and Natasha / Sonya Alone / Balaga / The Abduction / Pierre and Andrey / Pierre and Natasha / The Great Comet of 1812
Title: Nest, The
Author: Wilkins, Alan Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004
Description:
roy drama - relationships five characters three male; two female one act (three parts)
The Nest is a bothy close to Sgurr Mor in the West Highlands of Scotland, providing sanctuary for climbers and walkers in its warm, welcoming embrace. But when the weather turns famously Scottish, the Nest will also trap them, and not let them go. For Colin and Helen, Sgurr Mor is their final Munro (number 284, on their list, of Scottish mountains over three thousand feet). They have spent five years ticking them off, five years saving their marriage, and now they have to find out what completion really means. The Nest is also where Mac and Jackie meet for the first time: he in
Title: New Line, The in - Humana Festival 2017 / COL Author: Eno, Will Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2018
Description:
roy drama - monologues all female cast; two characters two female one act
Approximate running time: 10 minutes.
Where’d you get that jacket? You seem pretty good at being human - are you? When you think of the world, what do you think of? Come one, come all, for these and other questions. Title: Nice Fish
Author: Rylance, Mark Jenkins, Louis Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2016
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female three acts
On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It's the end of the fishing season, and two old friends are out on the ice, angling for something big; something down there that is pure need. Something that might just swallow them whole.
Nominee! 2017 Olivier Award
Title: Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1990
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - romance five characters two male; two female; one boy two acts
Eve Wilfong, who lives over the "Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music Bar," is paid a visit by her niece Catherine Empanger, a novice nun who's been asked to leave her convent. It seems Catherine suffers from a curious compulsion to yell obscenities at the wrong moment, and even, on occasion, bark like a dog. Roy, an honest if simple fellow from the bar downstairs, wants to court Catherine whether she's a nun or not. Eve feels she should give her niece the benefit of her experiences with men before allowing her to venture back into the mad modern country world.
Title: Night of the Tribades
Author: Enquist, Per Olov translated by Ross Shideler Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1975
Description:
roy drama - historical - biographical - relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior.
Set in 1889 Copenhagen. Reunion after long separation of August Strindberg, his ambitious ex-wife Siri von Essen, and her alcoholic lesbian friend at a rehearsal of Strindberg's one - act play "The Stronger". Title: Nightwood Theatre A woman's work is never done Author: Scott, Shelley Publisher: AU Press 2010
Description:
reference - Canadian Theatre - feminism - history - women
Nightwood Theatre is the longest-running and most influential feminist theatre company in Canada. Since 1979, the company has produced works by Canadian women, providing new opportunities for women theatre artists. It has also been the “home company” for some of the biggest names in Canadian theatre, such as Ann-Marie MacDonald.
In 'Nightwood Theatre', Scott describes the company’s journey toward defining itself as a feminist theatre establishment, highlighting its artistic leadership based on its relevance to diverse communities of women. She also traces Nightwood’s relationship with the media and places the theatre in an international context by comparing its history to that of like companies in the U.K. and the U.S.
Title: Nine Dragons
Author: Sy, Jovanni Publisher: Talonbooks 2018
Description:
roy drama - murder - mystery - Canadian playwright - racism six characters five male; one female two acts
1920s Hong Kong. A killer is on the loose. Chinese detective Tommy Lam, the city's most brilliant sleuth, is called in to investigate. Battling racism and his own reputation, Tommy follows clues to the glamorous Nine Dragons nightclub and into the haze of the opium trade... In true noir fashion, someone's hiding something, everyone's a double-crosser, and it's always a good time for a few fingers of Scotch. Faced with corruption and the prejudice of his superiors, how far will Tommy go in the pursuit of justice? In his relentless quest to prove himself and protect his
Title: O Fair Jerusalem in - Plays: One - David Edgar / COL Author: Edgar, David Publisher: Methuen 1987
Description:
roy political drama large cast; extras flexible casting three acts
1 setting.
Political drama posting notion that civilization tends to promote plague, hunger, and war. On eve of enactment of public health bill, group of British physicians stage play about 14th century plague. Title: O Holy Knight A mirthful, Medieval Christmas comedy Author: Dorn, Patrick Rainville Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 2006
Description:
roy Christmas - children - comedy large cast flexible casting one act
Approximate running time: 60 minutes; flexible cast of 27-42 (8-9M, 18-32F, 1 M or F).
In this mirthful, medieval Christmas story, a blizzard has brought a motley mix of commoners, merchants and courtiers together in a castle’s banquet hall. Farm animals have taken over the dungeon, the ladies-in-waiting are becoming impatient, Christendom’s oldest squire has the hiccups and Jabber the Jester’s outrageous antics aren’t helping. To pass the time, they all agree
Title: O'Flaherty V. C. - a recruiting pamphlet in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Ireland four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior.
Experiences of Irish war hero of World War I on leave reveal why he prefers fighting abroad to home life in Ireland.
Title: Of Human Bondage
Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - relationships - Canadian playwright fourteen characters; extras flexible casting four acts
Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham; approximate running time: 130 minutes.
When Philip meets Mildred, a disarming tea-shop waitress, he finds his yearning for art and experience consumed by his intense attraction to her. Mildred, for all her teasing, isn’t all that interested in Philip, but rather in flattery, possessions, and security. Yet Philip, in a powerful haze of passion and pride, obsessively pursues Mildred despite the anguish and emotional carnage Title: Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 39th series
Author: Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy - collection - one-act
includes: et-y-mol-o-gy - Jennifer Jasper John, Who's Here from Cambridge - Martyna Majok The Logic - Will Arbery Mandate - Kelly Younger Taisetsu Na Hito - Leah Nanako Winkler A Wake for David's Fucked -Up Face - Skylar Fox
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 40th series
Author: Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy - collection - one-act
includes: Blind - Gloria Calderon Kellett Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime - Greg Edwards and Andy Roninson The Gulf - Audrey Cefaly Narrators - Simon Henriques Seabird is in a Happy Place - James Gordon King Throws of Love - Amy Staats
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 41st series
Author: Publisher: Samuel French 2017
Description:
roy - collection - one-act
contains: Clarity - Korde Arrington Tuttle The Cleaners - Lindsay Joy Grandpa and the Gay Rabbi - Jonathan Josephson Monsoon Season - Lizzie Vieh Risen from the Dough - France-Luce Benson Wedding Bash - Andrew Leeds and Lindsey Kraft
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Oldtimers Game
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1980
Description:
roy comedy - baseball - men all male cast; nine characters nine male two acts
1 interior.
The place is the locker room of the Northshore (Minnesota) Otters, a Triple-A baseball club struggling through a lackluster season. It's the day of the annual Oldtimers Game, and several former Otters are on hand, including "Old John" Law, a Hall of Famer; Dave Pearl, now a star center fielder in the big leagues; Jim Nealy, a once promising player who retired early because of injury;
Title: Oliver Twist
Author: Dickens, Charles Way, Brian Publisher: Baker's Plays 1977
Description:
roy drama - high school twenty-one characters eighteen male; three female (doubling possible) two acts
A straightforward version of Dickens' classic, set in 19th Century London, in which young Oliver runs away from an orphanage and is taken by the Artful Dodger to Fagin's den, where he joins in a series of adventures with Fagin's street gang until he is befriended by Mr. Brownlow.
Title: On Blindness
Author: Cannon, Glyn Publisher: Methuen Drama 2004
Description:
roy drama - love - relationships six characters four male; two female two acts
3 interiors.
Two love affairs, one beginning and the other ending, played simultaneously.
"I hadn't seen Dan in years when we got together. Within twenty-four hours, we'd seen everything. We'd made love together, bathed together, slept together. He'd seen my body. I'd seen his. Which Title: On Freedom Powerful polemics by supporters of Belarus Free Theatre Author: Publisher: Oberon Books 2015
Description:
reference - freedom - theatre
Freedom to act. Freedom to take responsibility. Freedom to lift up those bent down. Freedom to shout where others have been silenced.
An anthology of short essays on the concept of freedom, curated by Belarus Free Theatre, and published to coincide with their 10-year anniversary celebrations.
On Freedom collects powerful polemics from 34 contributors – artists, directors, activists, politicians - all of whom have worked with or supported Belarus Free Theatre over the last decade. Each essay is between 300 and 500 words. With cover artwork by Ai Weiwei, On Freedom is a timely manifesto on what the changing definition of freedom looks like today, from the UK to
Title: On with the Shrew!
Author: Van Horn, Bill Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1983
Description:
roy comedy - young adult - Shakespeare eleven characters; extras five male; six female one act
Approximate running time: 30 minutes. Adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
It's five minutes before curtain time for the drama club's "cool," upbeat adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and all is not well. The stars, Ron (Petruchio) and Terri Ann (Kate) refuse to go on stage and Bernie (Baptista) has lost his shoes. The harried director insists that the show go on. Rich, old Baptista has two daughters: "Bianca is the nicer of the two; Kate, the older, is Kate,
Title: One Night in Miami...
Author: Powers, Kemp Publisher: Oberon Modern Plays 2016
Description:
roy drama - history - African-American all male cast; six characters six male one act
Approximate running time: 90 minutes.
The world would come to know him as Muhammad Ali, but on 25 February 1964, a twenty-two-year-old Cassius Clay celebrated his world heavyweight title not by hitting the town, but in a hotel room with his three closest friends: activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke and American football star Jim Brown. To the outside world, they were American icons. But in that Title: Only Kidding!
Author: Geoghan, Jim Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; five characters five male two acts
In this Off Broadway hit, an over the hill comic who is desperate for a shot on a late night TV show has invited a hip young writer to his cottage in the Catskills to help him update his act. They might as well be talking in tongues about what is funny! The second act moves to a seedy club where the mafia connected owner wants aspiring comics to sign a contract giving him a commission on their future earnings. Then the play goes to comedy heaven: backstage at that late night TV show. The older comedian awaits his last chance at the big time and one of the comics
Title: Open and Shut Case, An
Author: Mattera, John Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company
Description:
roy comedy - farce - melodrama - satire - mystery ten characters five male; five female one act
Approximate running time: 35 minutes.
Young, handsome Harold is married to elderly, wheelchair-ridden Elizabeth because of that age-old attraction - money. So naturally, Harold plans to murder her and inherit all that glorious money. He convinces Elizabeth that he can no longer tend to the big house by himself, and she reluctantly agrees to let him hire the people he claims are so urgently needed: a
Title: Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo
Author: Rame, Franca Fo, Dario Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 1985
Description:
roy - monologues - women
This collection includes nine monologues concerned with sexual and domestic issues and female oppression: A WOMAN ALONE, MAMMA FRICCHETONA (THE FREAK MOMMY), WAKING UP, WE ALL HAVE THE SAME STORY, DIALOGUE FOR A SINGLE VOICE, MEDEA PROLOGUE, MEDEA, MONOLOGUE OF A WHORE IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM, and IT HAPPENS TOMORROW. Dario Fo and Franca Rame are Italy's best-known performers, playwrights, and political activists. Award-winning actress and director Estelle Parsons toured this version of ORGAMSO ADULTO ESCAPES FROM THE ZOO, concluding with a triumphant run at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York. A WOMAN ALONE: Maria, a housewife, has been locked up at home by her jealous husband. Come to think of it, all the men in her life have been oppressing her. Good thing she has a gun. MAMMA FRICCHETONA (THE FREAK MOMMY): A mother becomes a gypsy in order to pursue her son who has joined a Title: Our Father in - Summerworks / CCO Author: Brebner, Morwyn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - family relations four characters one male; one female (doubling) one act
Siblings journey to the dying father who abandoned them.
Title: Our Leading Lady
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - spoof - biography nine characters four male; five female two acts
Running time: 120 minutes; interior unit set; period costumes.
April, 1865. Laura Keene, a famous actress/manager, is performing in Washington, DC during the week the civil war ends. Despite a madcap scramble of backstage squabbles, the ambitious Laura does everything she can to get President Lincoln to attend her closing night performance. Her great plans go awry, as Laura and her theatrical troupe collide with history.
Title: Our Miss Brooks
Author: Mann, R. J. Sergel, Christopher Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1962
Description:
roy musical comedy twenty-one characters seven male; fourteen female two acts
Adapted from the original material by R. J. Mann; lyrics by David Rogers; music by Mark Bucci; 4 interiors.
High school english teacher runs school play, which interferes with her hopes of romantically ensnaring the athletic coach. Title: Our Winnie in - Rolling Home / COL Author: Bennett, Alan Publisher: Faber and Faber 2003
Description:
roy drama - learning disabilities eleven characters flexible casting one act
"Alan Bennett's drama revolves around Winnie, a woman with learning difficulties who lives with her elderly mother Cora and Aunt Ida. While visiting the cemetery where Winnie's father is buried they meet two art students, one of whom, Liz, asks if she can take a photograph of the three women. She takes it while they are not prepared, making them look ridiculous. Cora is angry, so Liz takes another of them properly posed. But she enters the first photograph for a competition, where it wins a prize."
Title: Overruled - a demonstration in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy farce - marital relations four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior.
Two men fall in love with each other's wives.
Title: Pardon Me, is this Planet Taken? A musical space trip Author: Martin, Gilbert M. Jakes, John Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1973
Description:
roy musical comedy - parody - science fiction - young adult thirteen characters; chorus eight male; five female (expandable) two acts
5 interiors; 3 exteriors.
Musical parody of television show Star Trek. Captain in charge of jinxed starship has task of capturing notorious space pirate. Title: Party, The
Author: Flaherty, Robert J. Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy comedy - aging - seniors four characters one male; three female one act
This thoroughly charming play is about a successful woman executive who is planning to retire and move into a beach front community. Old friends are planning a party for her and she has some surprises in store for them. The first is that she is getting married. The second is that she is marrying a multi millionaire. The toper is that he happens to be the local handyman whom they are always ordering about-- "You mean, our Henry?" All four roles come through with a splendid flourish.
Title: Pass Over in - American Theatre (September 2018) / PER Author: Nwandu, Antoinette Publisher: Miscellaneous 2018
Description:
roy drama - American all male cast; four characters four male two acts (no intermission)
Two young black men hang out on a purgatorial street corner, alternatively anticipating and plotting an escape from their circumstances, with occasional visits from an oblivious white man, Mister, and an aggressive white cop, Ossifer. But like the tramps in Waiting for Godot, their hopes are unrealized.
Title: Passion, Poison and Petrifaction; or, the Fatal Gazogene in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy burlesque seven characters; chorus five male; two female one act
1 interior; singing.
Husband poisons wife's lover and his remorseful attempt to apply quicklime antidote turns victim into statue. Title: Passionate Muse, The The life and music of Pauline Viardot-Garcia Author: Wagner, Elisabeth Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2013
Description:
roy musical - Canadian playwright - solo performance all female cast; one character; singers; pianist one female two acts
"This musical play is an imagined final recital by the famed 19th Century singer-composer, Pauline Viardot-Garcia. In the play, Pauline reflects on her life, loves, and music. Few people today know her fascinating story, but she was the toast of the town in mid-19th C Paris and an inspiration to many of the great artists of her day -- Chopin and George Sand, Berlioz and Gounod, and Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev. She was called the most intelligent woman of the century by her friend, novelist George Sand, but “people of genius have no time for
Title: Penitent, The
Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2018
Description:
roy drama - ethics - LGBTQ+ four characters three male; one female one act (eight scenes)
"A renowned psychologist, Charles, is asked to testify on behalf of one of his former patients who has committed a shooting. At first he is hesitant, and as his lawyer and his wife begin to tell him how he should handle the situation, Charles clings more fervently to his morals and his ethics. However, the tighter he clings, the more his reputation and career hang in the balance, especially as more truths are revealed about his relationship to his patient."
Title: Peter and the Wolf in - Plays for Children, Volume II Author: Marvin, Blanche Publisher: Merri-Mimes Press 1991
Description:
roy folk tale - music - children thirteen characters four male; three female (doubling) two acts
This version is a parody of Chekhov's 'Cherry Orchard'. It shows the child's confusion when faced with the adult world, particularly the selling of their house at auction. In Act II one proceeds to retell the story, but in terms of the child's point of view. Adults become the animals, matching their colors and disposition from human to animal. How many duck-like, wolf-like, bird-like people do you know? The Prokofiev score is kept in its entirety throughout the second act. Title: Peter Pan
Author: Barrie, J. M. Publisher: Dover Publications 2000
Description:
roy fantasy - adventure large cast flexible casting five acts
The story of Peter Pan has thrilled young and old alike since it first premiered on the London stage in 1904. The tale of a boy who runs away to Never-Never Land to avoid growing up, the drama draws upon a number of characters and events that figured prominently in James Barrie's own life. His mother's solicitous care of her younger brother provided the germ for the character of Wendy, and Barrie's participation in a school play as part of make-believe pirate crew helped give birth to the notorious Captain Hook and his shipmates; while a special fondness for his
Title: Phaedra
Author: Racine, Jean Clark, I. E. Publisher: I. E. Clark 1966
Description:
roy drama - tragedy eight characters; possible extras three male; five female one act
For adults or high schools.
Phaedra is the young, lonely wife of Theseus, king of Athens. She is secretly in love with Hippolytus, the king's son by a former marriage. Keeping the secret tightly locked in her breast has nearly ruined her health. But now, suddenly, the accidental death of her husband is reported; she is set free at last to reveal her secret love. Then Theseus appears, very alive and full of
Title: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Author: Lindsay, Lady Joan Shamas, Laura Annawyn Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - mystery - Australia - suitable for young adult performers twenty-six characters eight male; eighteen female two acts
Adapted by Laura Annawyn Shamas from the novel by Lady Joan Lindsay; area staging; approximate running time: 120 mins.
For a group of Australian schoolgirls, a romantic Valentine's Day outing ends in an intriguing mystery. What has happened to the three seniors and the mathematics teacher on top of the jagged peaks of Hanging Rock? Based on the Joan Lindsay runaway bestseller Picnic at Hanging Title: Pigeon! In - Dramatics (June/July 2018) / PER Author: Garrett, Ryan M. Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama twelve characters; extras seven male; five female one act
A social outcast with an abusive mother finds comfort in feeding pigeons.
Title: Pinocchio
Author: Morley, John Publisher: Samuel French 1982
Description:
roy musical - fairy tales large cast flexible casting two acts
The play is suitable for Christmas and all other times of the year. "This delightful dramatization of Collodi's story of Pinocchio the Puppet has all the charm of the original tale. Gepetto's finding of his son, the guidance of Mr Cricket and the Blue Fairy, the gullibility of Pinocchio and his luring away by the mysterious Coachman to Funland, where he and Lampwick become donkeys. The Famous lie-telling resulting in his long nose, his rescue of Gepetto from the Whale and his eventual transition into a real boy."
Title: Pinocchio
Author: Baldwin, John Jr. Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1970
Description:
roy children - folk tale seventeen characters flexible casting two acts
Approximate running time: 60 mins; adapted for Children's theatre from the Carlo Collodi classic.
From the moment Pinocchio wrecks Mastroni’s puppet show until he becomes a real boy for rescuing his father from the great fish, the excitement never abates in this charming adaptation. The Blue Fairy and her three wood elves introduce the story, set the scenes and work Title: Placebo in - Dramatics (December 2018) / PER Author: Brewster, Tan'yeasia Publisher: Miscellaneous 2018
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - high school ten characters three male; five female (doubling) one act
Parents have a hard time understanding their art student daughter.
Title: Playboy of the Western World, The in - The Complete Plays of John M. Synge / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Vintage Books 1960
Description:
roy comedy - Ireland twelve characters; extras seven male; five female three acts
1 interior.
Young Braggart who thinks he killed his father is made much of in remote village to which he flees, but is ultimately deflated.
Title: Playing Hardball
Author: Kukla, Don Publisher: Baker's Plays 1990
Description:
roy drama - substance abuse - young adults all male cast; two characters two male one act
Set in the competitive atmosphere of a basketball court, this inventive and powerful drama pits two brothers against each other as they battle the substance abuse that threatens to tear apart their family. Introverted Dan, 16, confronts his 20-year old brother Dave about his and their father's drinking problem. The athletically inept Dan finds himself in a fiercely competitive game of one-on-one with his drunken brother, who was a high school basketball star. A bet is made, and if young Dan wins, Dave must confront their father about seeking help. And the game is on. Title: Playing the Palace
Author: Rogers, June Walker Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989
Description:
roy musical comedy - young adult large cast flexible casting two acts
Approximate running time: 90 minutes.
Everybody wanted to play the Palace. It represented glamour and excitement and home to the greatest talent of its day. All that remains is an empty theatre and its "ghost light," which gives a glow that is a constant reminder of the stars who performed on its stage. Rosie and her friends are determined to restore the Palace to its former splendor, but they must find a way to stop the
Title: Plays for Children Volume II Author: Marvin, Blanche Publisher: Merri-Mimes Press 1991
Description:
roy - collection - children - Blanche Marvin - stylized fairy tales
contains: The Emporer's New Clothes Sleeping Beauty Cinderella The Littlest Tailor The Arabian Nights Peter and the Wolf Alice in Wonderland Pinocchio The Red Dragon
Title: Plays: 1 - Peter Whelan
Author: Whelan, Peter Publisher: Methune Drama 2003
Description:
roy - collection - Peter Whelan - Great Britain
includes: The Accrington Pals The School of Night The Herbal Bed
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Plays: One - David Edgar
Author: Edgar, David Publisher: Methuen 1987
Description:
roy - collection - David Edgar
contains: Destiny Mary Barnes The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs Saigon Rose O Fair Jerusalem
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Plays: One - Harold Pinter
Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Methuen 1960
Description:
roy - collection - Harold Pinter
includes: The Birthday Party The Room The Dumb Waiter A Slight Ache The Hothouse A Night Out The Black and White - short story; not catalogued The Examination - short story; not catalogued
Title: Plays: Three - Caryl Churchill
Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1998
Description:
roy - collection - Caryl Churchill
contains: Icecream Mad Forest Thyestes The Skriker Lives of the Great Poisoners A Mouthful of Birds
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Plays: Two - Strindberg
Author: Strindberg, August translated by Michael Meyer Publisher: Methuen Drama 1982
Description:
roy - collection - August Strindberg
contains: The Dance of Death A Dream Play The Stronger
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Poe - Quoth the Raven...Nevermore in - Edgar Allan Poe Live On-Stage / COL Author: Ballantyne, Jr., J. E. Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - biography - horror large cast twelve male; four female; two boys (doubling) two acts
Numerous simple interiors.
"Poe tells the life story of American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. Scenes from specific points and moments in his life combined with dramatic presentations of some of his most well known stories which is capped off at the end with a full cast staged reading of The Raven. Perfect Halloween entertainment." - J&B Theatrical Promotions
Title: Poe! Poe! Poe! The life and writing os Edgar Allan Poe Author: Miller, Kathryn Schultz Publisher: I. E. Clark 1981
Description:
roy drama - biographical - Edgar Allan Poe - literature four characters two male; two female one act
Bare stage; approximate running time: 40 minutes.
Presented by four (or more) actors in a modified Reader's Theatre staging, the play puts Poe himself on stage to relate some of the horrendous moments in his life and to dramatize some of his greatest works, including 'The Tell-Tale Heart', 'The Masque of the Red Death', 'Annabel Lee', 'The Raven" and others. Title: Pollyanna
Author: Pargman, Susan Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 2001
Description:
roy drama - children twenty-two characters; extras ten male; twelve female (doubling possible) two acts
Approximate running time: 90 minutes.
This is the delightful, classic tale of the greatest optimist of all time... Pollyanna. But it’s much more than that. It’s the story how a little girl’s faith in her father’s promise — that you can find something good about anything that happens — guides her steadfastly through circumstances that most adults would find formidable. Pollyanna becomes an orphan, and she is placed into the
Title: Popcorn Elder
Author: Peeteetuce, Curtis Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2018
Description:
roy drama - Indigenous peoples - Indigenous playwright - Canadian - family relations eleven characters four male; seven female (doubling possible) two acts
One of the conditions of Darren's release from prison is that he must live with his father Wally, on the rez - and that means that the two men must begin to deal with their fraught history. 'Popcorn Elder' looks at a community working to face its demons and heal past trauma. At the Heart of the play is the story of a father and son, filled with anger, guilt, and pain, seeking connection and reconciliation. Through flashbacks, a combination of Cree and English, and an unforgettable cast of characters, 'Popcorn Elder' tells the story of one family's journey toward hope.
Title: Power of Ignorance, The
Author: Dawe, T J Gibbs, Chris Publisher: Brindle & Glass 2006
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - solo performance - men all male cast; one character one male one act
In the tens of thousands of seminars he has given all over the world - speaking to successful people, wealthy people, good-looking people, and people just like you - Vaguen, one of the world's select few Master Ignoramuses (or, ig-masters), has helped thousands of people to unlock their very own Power of Ignorance. 'You don't know what isn't possible', teaches Vaguen. 'Therefore, anything isn't possible...Confusion is the Boulevard to Ignorance.' Confused? Good. This smash hit Fringe Festival play will lead you down the Boulevard to Ignorance so you can join Title: Premium Content
Author: Walker, David Gagnon Publisher: David Gagnon Walker 2018
Description:
roy dark comedy - friendship - sexuality - Alberta playwright - Canadian five characters five male or female one act (prologue; three parts; epilogue)
A couple opens up their relationship to their artsy roommate, however things go sour when said roommate doesn't pay their share of rent and posts personal and risque information about their group relationship on the internet in order to win an art grant. Another couple who is close to the group also gets involved in this dark comedy.
Shortlisted for the 2017 Alberta Playwriting Competition Awards.
Title: Prince and the Pauper, The
Author: Twain, Mark Martens, Anne Coulter Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1998
Description:
roy children - fairy tales - fantasy twenty characters; extras twelve male; eight female two acts
When Tom Canty and Prince Edward change clothes they end up changing positions, too. Nothing Tom can say will convince the Court that he isn't their lawful prince and heir, and poor Prince Edward finds life as a beggar-boy pretty rough.
Title: Princess Ascending
Author: Holland, Norman Publisher: Performance Publishing 1976
Description:
roy drama - historical - biographical - England all female cast; twelve characters twelve female two acts
A Salute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her Silver Jubilee 1952 - 1977. Title: Production Handbook
Author: Publisher: Music Theatre International 1998
Description:
reference - handbooks, manuals, etc. - teaching
This book is designed to help you assemble your production step by step, and has been created for educators and directors of all levels of experience. Theatre novices will learn how a theatrical production is mounted, form the ground up; seasoned professionals will find many helpful hints and timesaving resources, and might even learn something new.
Title: Prologue in - Transitions I: Short Plays / CCO Author: Simons, Beverley Publisher: Commcept Publishing Limited 1978
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - theatre three characters one male; two female one act
A Brechtian politically-minded diatribe on the status of the playwright.
Title: Psycho Beach Party
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 1986
Description:
roy parody - comedy - spoof - 1960s eleven characters five male; six female (two female roles may be played by males) one act (ten scenes)
running time: 90 minutes; contains alternate beginning.
“Gidget”, Frankie and Annette beach party epics, and Hitchcock psychological suspense thrillers such as “Spellbound” and “Marnie” are given a shotgun marriage. Chicklet Forrest, a teenage tomboy, desperately wants to be part of the surf crowd on Malibu Beach in 1962. One thing getting in her way is her unfortunate tendency towards split personalities. Among them is a black Title: Quare Fellow, The in - Brendan Behan: The Complete Plays / COL Author: Behan, Brendan Publisher: Grove Press 1978
Description:
roy tragicomedy - prison all male cast; twenty-six characters twenty-six male (doubling possible) three acts
"Set in an Irish prison - 'The Quare Fellow' highlights the use of capital punishment then in use in Ireland."
Title: Queen's Token in - Elizabethan Evening / YCL Author: Holland, Norman Publisher: Performance Publishing 1973
Description:
roy drama - Queen Elizabeth I - young adult - love all female cast; six characters six female one act
May be performed in conjunction with 'Day of Reckoning.'
Queen Elizabeth I visits Catherine, the Countess of Nottingham on her deathbed. Catherine confesses that she had the ring that would have spared the life of the Earl of Essex.
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: Quiver
Author: Chatterton, Anna Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy family relations - coming of age - young adult - solo performance - Canadian playwright all female cast; one character one female one act
“She doesn’t care about me; she doesn’t even want to see me; she just pretends she does.” Shy, fourteen-year-old Maddie wasn’t expecting to have to worry about taking care of herself just yet. Her sixteen-year-old party-girl sister Bea has scandalously moved in with their mom’s ex-boyfriend, and in turn their brassy mother Sheila has run straight to the comfort of another lover. Maddie is finding that an empty apartment is quiet and lonely, even though her time is normally spent reading comics in her closet. Feeling abandoned and vulnerable, she turns to her
Title: Rabbit
Author: Foxton, David Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy young adult - drama fifteen characters flexible casting one act
This perceptive play for young adults, set "ten years after the bomb", portrays with frightening clarity the destruction of the human character, as compassion and social standards become lost in the struggle for power and survival. Set in the ruins of a large, abandoned building a group of fifteen teenage survivors struggle to make sense of their world's desolation. Ironically, despite the bitter nature of their inheritance, thay soon begin to repeat their parents' mistakes, with the play ending on a thought-provoking clash of personalities.
Title: Ralph Roister Doister
Author: Udall, Nicholas Clark, I. E. Publisher: I. E. Clark 1965
Description:
roy farce ten characters two male; four female; four male or female one act
Adaptation of Nicholas Udall's play.
The parasite, Merygreeke, depends upon his patrician, Ralph for food, clothing, entertainment, and all the other necessities of life. To earn these things, he does Ralph's spying and less savory errands... and most of all he activates Ralph's highly active ego. It's his business to make himself indispensable. Title: Reborning
Author: Dohrn, Zayd Publisher: Samuel French 2013
Description:
roy dark comedy - family three characters one male; two female one act
Approximate running time: 90 minutes.
Art and life become disturbingly interchangeable when a sculptor of baby dolls meets a woman desperate to recreate the past. This dark comedy takes an unsettling look at work, latex, and the power of creation.
Title: Recent Alien Abductions in - Humana Festival 2017 / COL Author: Cortiñas, Jorge Ignacio Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2018
Description:
roy drama - family relations eight characters two male; four female (doubling) three acts
Running time: approximately 100 minutes, no intermission.
Álvaro is searching for a lost episode of The X-Files that he swears has been mysteriously altered since its original broadcast, but nobody believes him. Could the missing episode be proof of a larger conspiracy? Years later, when a friend arrives in Puerto Rico hoping to preserve Álvaros stories, she must face the family from whom he vanished long ago. A darkly compelling tale about
Title: Red Black and Ignorant Part one of the War plays Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989
Description:
roy drama - nuclear war nine characters four male; five female one act (nine parts)
Approx. running time: 55 mins.
First part of the author's War plays trilogy. Symbolic depiction of how abuse of freedom produces debased life and near-certainty of nuclear war. Music, singing. Title: Red Dragon, The in - Plays for Children, Volume II Author: Marvin, Blanche Publisher: Merri-Mimes Press 1991
Description:
roy children - Christmas - drama - music five characters two male; three female three acts
This is a contemporary drama based on a miracle at Christmas through St. George. No fairy tale, only a credible miracle centered on a one-parent family and a handicapped boy.
Title: Red Plaid Shirt, A
Author: Wilmot, Michael G. Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2018
Description:
roy comedy - aging four characters two male; two female two acts
"Two friends fill the void left by retirement in different ways; Marty decides he wants to explore the open road on a Harley while Fred decides to pay more attention to his health, inventing many new ailments along the way. With a little "subtle redirection" from their wives and a creative solution to a very unusual problem (which may or may not include a homemade coffin) they find the right track... eventually."
Title: Red Rose, The
Author: du Rand, le Clanché Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989
Description:
roy fairy tales five characters two male; one female (doubling) one act
Here is an entertaining and innovative treatment of the Beauty and the Beast story. The play is both elegantly simple using a bare stage and minimal props, and highly theatrical in its use of masks, mime, and sound. The ageless themes of finding beauty beneath the surface of people, and learning how to love makes this a delightful and touching play for all audiences. Title: Red Scare on Sunset
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy comedy - parody - spoof nine characters five male; four female two acts
Running time: 120 minutes.
The time: the fifties; the place: Hollywood, where film star Mary Dale finds the Red Menace invading her own Beverly Hills backyard. When she discovers that her husband has been lured into the local Communist party by way of a method acting class and that there is a left wing plot afoot to abolish the star system, Mary wages a private war to save her husband, her country and
Title: Redwood Curtain
Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1995
Description:
roy drama - family relations - identity three characters one male; two female one act (three scenes)
Successful 17-year old concert pianist, daughter of GI and Vietnamese woman, searches for biological father among Vietnam veterans living in northern California redwood forest.
Title: Regeneration
Author: Barker, Pat Wright, Nicholas Publisher: Samuel French 2017
Description:
roy drama - war thirteen characters; extras eight male; one female (doubling) two acts
Craighart, Scotland, 1917. In a hospital for shell-shocked officers, a brilliant doctor provides the cures required to send his patients back to War. Under his tolerant reign, two young officers form a passionate comradeship. Each is a poet, one unknown, the other privileged and successful. Mentored by the older man, the younger falls in love; his genius flowers and he becomes the greater writer. But as his health is restored, he must face a return to battle. Title: Requiem
Author: McDonough, Jerome Publisher: I. E. Clark 1977
Description:
roy drama - war eight characters; chorus four male; three female one act
Bare stage.
Requiem is a war statement. It is written while we are not at war but while one of the bloodiest in history still lives in millions of memories, particularly those of 56,000 families which will never be complete again, thanks to that most recent carnage. The message has been repeated since man first murdered his brother, but we still refuse to listen. Requiem is the death of your children.
Title: Residence in - Humana Festival 2016 / COL Author: Jacqmin, Laura Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2017
Description:
roy dark comedy - horror five characters; voice two male; three female one act (thirteen scenes)
When new mom and medical supply saleswoman Maggie moves into an extended-stay hotel in Tempe, Arizona, she brings a troubled history and tenuous grasp on the future with her. While trying to secure her first sale since returning to work, she befriends two hotel employees whose careers and life paths are nearly as shaky as her own.
Title: Richardthesecond in - Summerworks / CCO Author: MacFadzean, Matthew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - monologues - drama - men all male cast; one character one male two acts
A modern version of Shakespeare's 'Richard II'. MacFadzean's 'Richardthesecond' is the tale of an inveterate raver seduced into an experiment that could shatter both his self-image and the makeup of society. Its springboard, in part, is the Bard's work about the king who was a pretty good poet but a pretty bad ruler. Title: Riders to the Sea in - The Complete Plays of John M. Synge / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Vintage Books 1960
Description:
roy tragedy - Ireland four characters; extras one male; three female one act
1 interior.
Relentless malignity of the sea toward Irish fisherfolk and the relief which comes when the sea can do no more harm.
Title: Risen from the Dough in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 41st Series / COL Author: Benson, France-Luce Publisher: Samuel French 2017
Description:
roy dramatic comedy all female cast; two characters two female one act
Approximate running time: 30 mins.
In a small, rustic bakery located in the heart of “Little Haiti” Miami, FL, two Haitian-American sisters grapple with grief, identity, and the complicated realities of immigrant life. Previously hit with several code violations, they prepare for the Miami Dade Health Department’s next inspection, and find themselves speeding toward an explosive culture collision. Leonide
Title: River, The
Author: Butterworth, Jez Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2012
Description:
roy drama - thriller three characters one male; two female one act
On a moonless night in August when the sea trout are ready to run, a man brings his new girlfriend to the remote family cabin where he has come for the fly-fishing since he was a boy. But she's not the only woman he has brought here - or indeed the last. Title: Riverside Drive in - Three One-Act Plays / COL Author: Allen, Woody Publisher: Random House 2003
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations three characters two male; one female one act
"Companion play to Old Saybrook, Woody Allen's other half of Writer's Block. These absurdist plays take on marital infidelity, in this instance on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where Fred Savage, a homicidal, paranoid, schizophrenic vagrant ex-copywriter, has been stalking a screenwriter for weeks, convinced that his prey stole his idea - in fact, his life - to create a successful movie plot."
Title: Road
Author: Cartwright, Jim Publisher: Methuen 1986
Description:
roy dramatic comedy large cast flexible casting two acts
During one wild night, a drunken guide conducts a tour of Road, his derelict Lancashire street, where sharp and comic scenes jostle viciously to expose a population driven mad by despair. Beneath the gags, the playwright's rumbling sense of lost dignity resulting from unemployment, chauvinism or from simply getting paralytically pissed, give this stunning debut a perceptive and frightening reality.
Title: Robin Hood
Author: Kelly, Tim Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1988
Description:
roy folk tales - high school - drama sixteen characters; extras flexible casting two acts
Approximate running time: 60 mins.
Robin Hood, the outlaw of Sherwood Forest, leads a merry life with his followers. Anyone who is hungry or who has no place to live is welcome in the greenwood. The citizens of the forest oppose wicked Prince John. He’s taken the place of King Richard the Lion-Hearted, who has gone to the Holy Land on a crusade. One day a caravan cuts through the wood. In the convoy is Title: Robin Hood
Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1983
Description:
roy comedy - fairy tales - love - politics many characters fourteen male; eight female (doubling) two acts
Approximate running time: 120 minutes; music.
In a land where the rich get richer and the poor are starving, Prince John wants to cut down Sherwood Forest to put up an arms manufactory, a slaughterhouse and a tennis court for the well to do. This bawdy epic unites elements of wild farce and ancient mythologies with an environmentalist assault on the arrogance of wealth and power in the face of poverty and hunger
Title: Rolling Home
Author: Bennett, Alan Publisher: Faber and Faber 2003
Description:
roy - collection - Alan Bennett - one act
includes: Our Winnie All Day on the Sands One Fine Day Marks Say Something Happened Rolling Home Intensive Care
See seperate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Romeo and Juliet
Author: Foster, Cass Shakespeare, William Publisher: Five Star Publications 2002
Description:
roy Shakespeare - drama - tragedy - romance twenty-five characters; extras twenty-one male; four female five acts Approximate running time: 60 mins.
"The play which is set in Verona is a story about a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families. This feud causes tragic results for the main characters in the play, Romeo and Juliet." Title: Romeo and Juliet or The Old "You-Know-I-Love-You-But-My-Father-Really-H
Author: Charles, Nancy Linehan Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2004
Description:
roy melodrama - young adult - Shakespeare - tragedy twenty-nine characters four male; four female; twenty-one male or female one act
Adapted from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; approximate running time: 45 minutes.
Teenagers. What are ya gonna do. They fall in love at the drop of a hat—always with the very person Mom and Dad can't stand. And in the case of Romeo Montague and Juliette Capulet, their families have hated one another for as long as anyone can remember. Except …no one actually remembers why. Grownups act that way sometimes, huh. This fast-paced adaptation of
Title: Runaway
Author: Lualainen, Mika Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2015
Description:
roy drama - Canadian Playwright - grief - family relations - environment three characters one male; two female one act ⌦"Sixteen year old Sam Stewart values the environment - she doesn’t even eat fish. She’s gone under the radar and organized a rally led by David Suzuki… who hasn’t shown up! Sam now needs to convince his supporters to help her save the world from a devastating fate. But her concerns are much more imminent than global warming, threats of a pipeline, or the need to embrace veganism. With frantically little time, Sam will take any help for her campaign, even from a mysterious stranger who may be more than they appear to be. Sam’s story takes us on a journey from crazed activism to a place of real heart. A bittersweet slice of life with a dash of humour and
Title: Runaways
Author: Christopher, Jay Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1980
Description:
roy drama - young adult - social issues nineteen characters seven male; twelve female two acts
Approximate running time: 100 mins.
Runaway House is a haven for young people in distress, and it is the setting for this play that deals dramatically and constructively with the growing problem of runaways. It is also the story of Bill and Linda, two young social workers, who work in the program. For them, Runaway House provides a common purpose in life which strengthens the deepening bond between them. This Title: Saigon Rose in - Plays: One - David Edgar / COL Author: Edgar, David Publisher: Methuen 1987
Description:
roy drama nine characters five male; four female three acts
3 interiors; 1 exterior.
Set in 1970s Edinburgh. Local outbreak of virulent strain of gonorrhea "Saigon Rose" equated with corrupting influence of American social values and ecology-transforming technology.
Title: Salt and Pepper
Author: González, José Cruz Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2002
Description:
roy drama - family relations - friendship - literacy (also suitable for adult performers) five characters three male; two female one act (eleven scenes)
Approximate running time: 55 minutes.
Salt & Pepper explores family, friendship and illiteracy. Salt's grandfather can't read or write. He's ashamed to tell anyone, and his silence has had a devastating effect on the entire family. Salt can barely read, and Pepper, his new friend, reads voraciously. Together they discover a past, the secrets of which are revealed in an old box of mysterious postcards.
Title: Sarah Ballenden
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Metis people⌦fourteen characters nine male; five female (doubling possible) two acts ⌦"When gossip about her spreads like wildfire through the Red River Settlement, the independent-minded Métis wife of a Chief Factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company decides to fight back. Based on actual 19th century events, Sarah Ballenden is a vivid portrait of one woman’s struggle for acceptance and respect in an age of colliding cultures and shifting social values." Title: Saved from the Waters in - A Certain William / CCO Author: Thompson, Daphne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - Quebec - Canadian playwright - Shakespeare adaptation - monologue ten characters flexible casting one act
Initially written as a monologue, and still could be performed as such.
Saved from the Waters by Daphne Thompson appears to be "constructed not by a single author, but by many voices." The piece insists upon and historicizes the writing of Ophelia - by Shakespeare, and by his readers and viewers. Each of their versions of Ophelia is channelled through and gendered by the body of the performer, whose quest is both to understand and to
Title: Saving America in - Saving America and Other Plays / COL Author: Bollow, Ludmilla Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - satire - aging four characters; voice two male; two female one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
Strangers are brought together in mysterious gathering to "Save America", with savage finale.
Winner! Eileen Heckart Short Drama for Seniors
Title: Saving America and Other Plays
Author: Bollow, Ludmilla Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy - collection - one-act - Ludmilla Bollow
Four short plays depicting various aspects of the American scene. These award-winning productions will take you cross country - to a group on the beach, to a selective animal shelter, a Firefly get-together in the woods, and a secret government gathering. All can be presented in one evening, or each performed separately.
includes: Saving America Flickering Fireflies The Beach Club Shelter Skelter Title: School of Night, The in - Plays: 1 - Peter Whelan / COL Author: Whelan, Peter Publisher: Methuen Drama 2003
Description:
roy drama - historical - biography - Britain eleven characters; extras nine male; two female two acts
2 exteriors; 5 interiors.
Drama about events leading up to the 1593 death of dramatist Christopher Marlowe.
Title: Scratch and Pull in - The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays / CCO Author: House, Amy Publisher: Breakwater Books 2012
Description:
roy comedy - solo performance - Canadian all female cast - ten characters one female (doubling) one act
Set in a local corner store, this play introduces us to store clerk Priscilla, who works for Mini, the proprietor of the little shop called Mini Millie's Mini Mart. As it turns out, gambling is both the theme of the play and the favorite activity that many of the customers enjoy. While all the customers want to play, what they really want to do is talk and gossip with Priscilla, and this is finally the real strength of this charming comic portrait of local eccentrics.
Title: Seabird is in a Happy Place in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 40th Series / COL Author: King, James Gordon Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy drama - solo performance - women - death all female cast; one character one female one act
Approximate running time: 30 mins.
Seabird is in a Happy Place is the fast-paced, energetic testimony of Seabird, a young woman who purports to have died and come back to life under the condition that she die once again as soon as the rain stops. Seabird explains how her resurrection coincided with an accidental encounter - a sudden romance that complicated her inevitable return to the state of being dead - and how, as Title: Seance in - The Great Gromboolian and Other Plays - COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy drama - romance three characters one male; two female one act
Running time: 10 minutes.
This twisted love story about how desire subverts understanding is based on a true story.
Title: Secret Garden, The
Author: Norman, Marsha Simon, Lucy Publisher: Samuel French 1992
Description:
roy musical - fantasy twenty-two characters twelve male; ten female; one boy; one girl two acts
Music by Lucy Simon; book and lyrics by Marsha Norman; based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
This enchanting classic of children's literature is reimagined in brilliant musical style. Orphaned in India, 11 year-old Mary Lennox returns to Yorkshire to live with her embittered, reclusive uncle Archibald and his invalid son Colin. The estate's many wonders include a magic garden which
Title: Secret Life of the American Musical, The How Broadway shows are built Author: Viertel, Jack Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
Description:
reference - musical theatre
In (this book) Jack Viertel takes (musicals) apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next - by design or by accident, by emulation or by rebellion - from Oklahoma! to Hamilton and onward. Title: Selected Short Plays
Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy - collection - Bernard Shaw
Contains descriptive prefaces about most of the plays.
includes: The Admirable Bashville How He Lied to Her Husband Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction The Glimpse of Reality The Dark Lady of the Sonnets Overruled The Music-Cure
Title: Sense and Sensibility
Author: Austen, Jane Barnard, Ashley J. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2005
Description:
roy dramatic comedy fourteen characters seven male; seven female (doubling possible) two acts
Adaptation by Ashley J. Barnard; also suitable for performance by young adults.
At the dawn of the Regency, two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are thrust into poverty by their brother's scheming and manipulative wife. Reduced to living with their mother in a tiny cottage, their prospects for marriage nearly ruined, the sisters are nevertheless courted by three dynamic men, each with a dark secret. The shy and awkward Edward Ferrars wins Elinor's heart, neglecting
Title: Serious Bizness
Author: Allen, Jennifer Babcock, David Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy comedy - satire four characters two male; two female two acts
Book and lyrics by Jennifer Allen, David Babcock, Winnie Holzman, and Don Perman; music by David Evans and David Babcock.
Up to the minute social satire is the hallmark of this clever, easily staged revue. A score of sketches and songs parody modern manners and morals at a machine gun pace. It covers everything from the problems of using the telephone in the age of divestiture, to explaining the Title: Serious Money
Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Methune 1987
Description:
roy satire - finance twenty characters; extras fourteen male; six female (doubling possible) two acts
1 setting.
'Satire set in contemporary London financial world. Cartel's efforts to obtain control of company go awry when murder occurs.'
Title: Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas
Author: Publisher: Duke University Press 2012
Description:
roy - collection - Korea
includes: History K - Edward Bok Lee 99 Histories - Julia Cho American Hwangap - Lloyd Suh Hongbu and Nolbu: The Tale of the Magic Pumpkins - Jean Yoon Yi Sang Counts to Thirteen - Sung Rno Satellites - Diana Son Mina - Kyoung H. Park
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Seven Short Plays
Author: Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1956
Description:
roy - collection - one act plays
contains: The Storm - John Drinkwater Brother Sun - Laurence Housman The Bear - Anton Tchekov The Little Man - John Galsworthy The Man in the Bowler Hat - A. A. Milne The Ghost of Jerry Bundler - W. W. Jacobs The Flight of the Queen - Lord Dunsany
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Seven to One
Author: York, E. Westny Publisher: Samuel French 1923
Description:
roy comedy - farce all female cast; eight characters eight female one act
Takes place in a sitting room in the Alpha Delta Sorority house at Freemont College, a co-educational institution somewhere in New Jersey, in the late afternoon and early evening of the day of the Princeton Glee Club Concert at Freemont College.
Title: Shades
Author: Macdonald, Sharman Publisher: Faber and Faber 1992
Description:
roy drama - Scottish four characters one male; two female; one boy two acts
time period - 1950s; setting: Glasgow.
Pearl, a young widow, bitterly resents her husband for dying and leaving her with the prospect of a lonely old age and her mother for being unable to provide her with the affection she craved as a child. Frightened by the onset of middle age, she fiercely prepares for a rather special night out - one which could change her fortunes completely. Ten-year-old Alan jealously watches her
Title: Shakespeare for One: Women The complete monologues and audition pieces Author: Publisher: Heinemann Drama 2002
Description:
scenes and monologues - Shakespeare - women
At some point in their careers, all actors have to face the task of working up a classical monologue - preferably one that's accessible, compelling, and not done to death. This volume collects virtually all of the monologues for women from Shakespeare's 37 plays. Not only actors, but directors and teachers, too, will find this book a treasure trove off the famous soliloquies plus many unfamiliar gems.
Arranged alphabetically by play title, the monologues are presented in an actor-friendly format, beginning with a thumbnail sketch of the story's key developments and a streamlined cast of characters.Exhaustive explanatory notes offer up a wealth of helpful tips - from definitions of archaic words and expressions to comments on both setting and accompanying action. Title: Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice in Auschwitz in - A Certain William / CCO Author: Egervari, Tibor translated by Annick Leger Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - Quebec - Canadian playwright - Shakespeare adaptation twelve characters; voice nine male; three female two parts
"Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in Auschwitz is anchored in and Egervari's own experiences, when as a six-year-old living in Hungary, both his brother and father were taken by the Nazis (they did not survive). Egervari's work fuses his own experience as a Hungarian Jew with the unthinkable evil of Auschwitz filtered through Shakespearean theatrical contexts. A further important context for understanding the play is that in 1933, the Nazis staged the Merchant of Venice 20 times. As a theatrical adaptation, then, Egervari's work compounds and collides
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 women's thighs.
Title: Shel's Sister
Author: Ortwein, Terrence Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1994
Description:
roy drama - teenagers - family relations - abuse five characters one male; one female one act ⌦Elizabeth can go for hours without speaking at all. Father, mother, and older sister Shelly all talk at her, around her, and worst of all, about her as if she weren't even there. Wounded by her family's indifference, Elizabeth wears her sister's new dress, trying to literally become the daughter her parents love. This simple desperate act leads to tragic consequences in this powerful and moving story. Title: Shelter Skelter in - Saving America and Other Plays / COL Author: Bollow, Ludmilla Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy comedy three characters two female; one male or female one act
Homeless person seeks residence at the Sidney Shelton Animal Shelter. Wealthy patron, seeking a new dog, decides to adopt Annie as her pet.
Semi-Finalist! Actors Theatre of Louisville and Fire Rose Theatre
Title: Short Order Stories
Author: Calarco, Joe Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2014
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relations - love seven characters four male; three female two acts
Approximate running time: 120 minutes.
It's late August 2001, and Larry's Diner is packed with jangly parents and their poker-faced kids who are making their annual drives to the colleges and universities in southern New York state. Lou and Fran Petrillo, newcomers to this ritual, are smoothing the way for their daughter, Jenn, as best they can -not that Jenn thinks she needs any help. She's desperate to leave her blue-collar
Title: Silver Arrow, The The untold story of Robin Hood Author: Ouchi, Mieko Workman, Hawksley Publisher: Miscellaneous 2018
Description:
roy musical - legend - fantasy - Alberta playwright - Canadian many characters seven male; nine female (doubling) two acts
Music written by Hawksley Workman.
An adventurous, musical re-telling of the legend of Robin Hood with a female twist.
Shortlisted - 2018 Alberta Playwriting Competition Title: Sin-Eater, The in - The Great Gromboolian and Other Plays - COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy dark comedy - death three characters one male; two female one act
Running time: 10 mins.
First produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, this intense, darkly comic play tells of an outcast whose life's work is to eat a symbolic meal off the chests of the dead to take their sins upon himself before they are buried.
Title: Singkil
Author: Hernandez, Catherine Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - family relations - self-awareness five characters two male; three female two acts
Set in present-day Scarborough, Singkil tells the story of the Perez family, from the separate lives Mimi's parents led in their native Manila to the lives they adjusted to together once they moved to Canada. Bridging the Perez's past and present is the Singkil, the dance of a Muslim Filipina princess who cleverly escapes the debris left after a violent earthquake. Caught in the relentless grip of the past and forced into the unfamiliar terrain of forgiveness, Mimi must find her own way out of the tangled mess her life has become and gracefully step into a new one, making her way
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: Six of Calais - a medieval war story, The in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy comedy eleven characters; extras eight male; two female; one boy one act
1 exterior.
Queen Philippa intercedes with her husband, King Edward III of England, to save lives of some burgesses condemned to die as part of terms of surrender of Calais to British in 1347.
Title: Sleeping Beauty in - Plays for Children, Volume II Author: Marvin, Blanche Publisher: Merri-Mimes Press 1991
Description:
roy children - comedy - fairy tale seventeen characters; extras six male; ten female (doubling) three acts
This version of Sleeping Beauty is a restoration comedy with a shy and absent-minded Prince who is browbeaten into marrying the Sleeping Beauty, 100 years his senior. The children in the audience lend him a hand while good and bad fairies deal with the politics of the day and the gossips of the court vie with each other in telling scandal.
Title: Sleeping Beauty, The
Author: Way, Brian Publisher: Baker's Plays 1977
Description:
roy children - fairy tales - fantasy - young adult large cast flexible casting two acts "A lively, creative version of the famed story featuring such diverse characters as the good and wicked godmothers, Prince Simple, a hilariously wild foreign chef and an entire sleeping kingdom! Script includes a beautiful candle dance sequence and a wild sword fight on a pirate ship." Title: Sleeping Policemen
Author: Brenton, Howard Ikoli, Tunde Publisher: Methuen 1984
Description:
roy dramatic comedy six characters two male; four female two acts
(The play) is the result of an exciting and innovative collaboration between the playwrights and director Roland Rees. Commissioned by Foco Novo, the brief was for each writer to create a play set in Peckham in 1983, using the same six characters but written from his own point of view. Following a series of regular meetings and finally a workshop with six actors, they separated, each to write his own play. When the scripts were complete, the writers met again and, together with the director, intercut and amalgamated them into one play.
Title: Slice of the Blarney, A
Author: Burns, Kitty Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy dark comedy seven characters three male; four female two acts
Shannon O'Leary is on his death bed. He is a multi-millionaire who knows that his family is just waiting for him to die to see who inherits his fortune. One by one the 'faithful' relatives show up and circle like vultures. Shannon knows this, but still hopes that there is at least one of them who really loves him. His last request is for an authentic Irish wake, a wish that gets fulfilled in Act Two - sort of.
Title: Slut
Author: McFarlane, Brenda Publisher: Original Works 2013
Description:
roy comedy - solo performance - women all female cast; one character one female one act (sixteen scenes)
Matilda McHartle would describe herself as a perfectly ordinary person and her behavior as completely normal for a single woman in her thirties. She'd admit to being a little quirky for an accountant but she'd never guess what other people might call her if they knew the details of her sex life... that is until she is arrested for running a brothel and taken downtown for formal questioning. Title: Small Actors
Author: Gregg, Stephen Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1997
Description:
roy comedy - young adults ten characters; chorus; extras four male; four female; two male or female one act
Approximate running time: 35 mins.
Emily desperately wants to play the lead in her high school's production of Romeo and Juliet. Instead, she gets a one-line, four-word role. None the less, she tells her parents (who will be out of town during the performance) that she got the lead, and suddenly, things spin way out of control. Mom and Dad cancel their vacation plans and invite every relative they can round up to
Title: Small Craft Warnings
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1972
Description:
roy drama nine characters seven male; two female two acts
"Monk's Place, a bar somewhere on the Pacific coast of California, provides the setting in which a group of ordinary, sometimes defeated, and often courageous castoffs grapple with existence and survival."
Title: Small Mouth Sounds
Author: Wohl, Bess Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2017
Description:
roy drama - communication seven characters three male; three female; one male or female one act
Flexible set.
In the overwhelming quiet of the woods, six runaways from the city life embark on a silent retreat. As these strangers confront internal demons both profound and absurd, their vows of silence collide with the achingly human need to connect. Filled with awkward humor, this strange and compassionate new play asks how we address lifes biggest questions when words fail us. Title: Small Talk
Author: Frechette, Carole translated by John Murrell Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - communication - Canadian twenty-six characters flexible casting one act (twenty-five scenes)
Translated by John Murrell.
Everyday conversation has always been a challenge for Julie, a lonely and anxious researcher who spends her days bent over a microscope in a basement laboratory. She struggles through lunchtime discussions with co-workers and one-sided exchanges with her withdrawn father and mute stepmother, attempts to understand her aphasic mother, and feels steamrolled in
Title: Somebody's Children
Author: Casas, José Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2009
Description:
roy drama - young adult five characters two male; three female one act
Approximate running time: 90 minutes; unit set.
'Somebody's children' introduces us to five teenagers who are part of a subculture that isn't shown or explored in the media in any depth. These kids are homeless, and they, along with their families, stay in a rundown motel known as the El Dorado, which is one of many such motels in horrific condition in their area of the city. All the residents deal with issues such as gang
Title: Something Cloudy, Something Clear
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1995
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - relationships - biography eight characters five male; three female two acts (parts)
This play is, as Tennessee Williams stated, "one of the most personal plays I have ever written." Set in Provincetown, Cape Cod, in 1940, the play records Williams' experiences during that "pivotal summer when I took sort of a crash course on growing up."On the brink of becoming a successful playwright, Williams was also to come thoroughly out of the closet" and meet Kip, his first great love. 'Something Cloudy, Something Clear' brilliantly re-imagines that long ago time, now recollected through the filter of all the playwright's successes and failures, joys and regrets. Title: Space Between Stars, The
Author: Lesiak, Christine Publisher: Christine Lesiak 2018
Description:
roy fantasy - Canadian - Alberta playwright two characters one female; one boy one act
An adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince, featuring a brilliant astronomer and her 6 year old son.
Novitiate Prize - 2018 Alberta Playwriting Competition Awards.
The digital copy of the play will download automatically through Google Drive when you click the
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 provided; the one that became its ultimate ending and then the original ending added as an appendix.
Title: Square One
Author: Tesich, Steve Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy comedy two characters one male; one female two acts "Loveable, zany Dianne escapes from the tiny apartment she shares with hordes of screaming elderly relatives by marrying Adam. He is an Artist Third Class host of the Patriotic Variety Hour and lives in the spacious artist complex. Living with complacent Adam turns out to be like life in the hermetically sealed, icy and inhuman apartment and Dianne eventually finds she must escape from the spiritual numbness." Title: Stage Combat Arts An integrated approach to acting, voice and text work + video Author: Duval, Christopher Publisher: Methuen Drama 2016
Description:
reference - stage combat
The art of armed and unarmed stage combat thrills actors and audiences alike the world over. This book details many of the foundational techniques used by actors studying stage combat and actor-movement disciplines. A variety of specific training exercises are described that connect the actor's imagination to a cohesive and meaningful actor-training curriculum - integrating stage combat with the actor's process of developing a fully embodied awareness of the physical life of the character.
Developing physical awareness and dexterity is an essential component of an actor's training and rehearsal processes. Engagement, connection, the ability to listen and respond with authenticity, clarity, flexibility, intentionality, tactical response, variety are all helpful aspects for the actor
Title: Stages
Author: McDonough, Jerome Publisher: I. E. Clark 1979
Description:
roy drama - theatre - history many characters flexible casting one act
Approximate running time: 35-40 minutes.
Jerome McDonough's ability to condense mankind into one tiny package is revealed again in this play. He depicts the entire history of the theatre in one 35-minute play. 'Stages' begins with Greek ritual and ends with the current avant-garde ritual (is the cycle complete?). In between are most of the other great periods of drama development. A play for players, 'Stages' reveals the emotions of
Title: Starting Here Starting Now - vocal selections
Author: Maltby Jr., Richard Shire, David Publisher: Warner Bros. Publications
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical.
includes: Autumn / Barbara / Crossword Puzzle / Flair / I Don't Remember Christmas / I Hear Bells / I Think I May Want to Remember Today / A Little Bit Off / One Step / Song of Me / Starting Here, Starting Now / Today is the First Day of The Rest of My Life / Travel / Watching the Big Parade Go By / What About Today? Title: State Fair - vocal selection
Author: Rodgers, Richard Hammerstein, Oscar Publisher: Williamson Music 2004
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical. Includes songs from the 1945 film, the 1962 film, and the 1996 Broadway version. Also contains a Rogers and Hammerstein biography, plot synopsis, and a history of the show.
includes:
All I Owe Ioway; Boy and Girls Like You and Me; Isn't it Kinda Fun; It Might as Well Be Spring; It's a Grand Night for Singing; It's the Little Things in Texas; The Man I Used to Be; More Than Just a Friend; Never Say "No"; The Next Time It Happens; Our State Fair; So Far; That's The Way It Happens;l This Isn't Heaven; When I Go Out Walking with My Baby; Willing and Eager; You Never Had It So Good
Title: States of Shock
Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1992
Description:
roy drama - family relationships - war five characters three male; two female one act
Allegorical drama set during future war. Friction between Colonel and disabled veteran reflects failed relationships between fathers and sons.
Title: Steamboat
Author: Jenkins, Charles M. Boyd, Yvonne Publisher: Contemporary Drama Service 1989
Description:
roy musical - melodrama - comedy fourteen characters six male; eight female three acts
Story by Charles M. Jenkins; music and lyrics by Yvonne Boyd and Charles M. Jenkins; score by Lily Hultgren.
A true comic melodrama where a villain holds the deed to a riverboat. Narrated by Mark Twain. Title: Sticks and Stones
Author: Kukla, Don Publisher: Baker's Plays 1993
Description:
roy children - substance abuse three characters two male; one female one act
A T.V. remote control and a few talented actors are all you need to produce this lively and cunningly educational play! It treats substance abuse quite seriously, but it makes sure a young audience has plenty of fun along the way. The ensemble plays several roles each, doing skits full of wise cracks and questions about abusing cigarettes, drinking, drugs, and guns. There's mime, and a remote control that can make actors go fast forward, slow-motion, or speak in rewind! Toured by the Missoula Children's Theatre with great success.
Title: Stop Sending in the Clowns
Author: Cook, Pat Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 2001
Description:
roy comedy - children twenty-one characters flexible casting two acts
’You never know what’s going to happen in a circus!’ ballyhoos Ringmaster Burnum at the Burnum and Bailout Traveling Circus-and on this particular day, that statement rings truer than ever. Beulah Von Schmellie, the overbearing and overdressed old dowager, shows up to rain on Burnum and Bailout’s parade of circus acts as she attempts to foreclose on the show. When the local sheriff arrives on the scene, the circus performers scramble for a quick solution, attempting to sell the circus to seemingly naïve tourists Jethro and Dixie before the foreclosure takes
Title: Storm, The in - Seven Short Plays / COL Author: Drinkwater, John Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1956
Description:
roy drama - England - verse play five characters two male; three female one act
A woman, her sister and an elderly neighbor wait out a violent storm and worry about the fate of the woman's husband. Title: Stronger, The in - August Strindberg - Plays: Two / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Michael Meyer Publisher: Methuen Drama 1982
Description:
roy comedy - women - monologues all female cast; three characters three female one act
1 interior.
Social comedy. Wife versus 'the other woman.'
Title: Stunt Plays for your club night Author: Kelley, Owen Publisher: Samuel French 1930
Description:
roy - collection - short one acts - Owen Kelley
contains: Betrayed / To Meet the Duke / The Scandal / Mademoiselle Tania / It Happens Everyday / A Maiden in Distress / Bless our Home / A Lá Carte / The Interview / His First Case / An Evening of Bridge / The Thirteenth Trump / The Proposal / The First of May
Individual titles are not catalogued.
Title: Stupid Fucking Bird
Author: Posner, Aaron Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2016
Description:
roy comedy - music seven characters four male; three female two acts
An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother’s generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. And everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be. In this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. Original songs composed by James Sugg draw the famously subtextual inner thoughts of Title: Subfertile
Author: Mardirosian, Tom Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1988
Description:
roy comedy - infertility - men five characters two male; three female one act
There is no room for delicacy or modesty when Tom, on the brink of his fortieth birthday, learns that he and his wife's childless condition is a result of his low sperm count. Determined to have a child, and haunted by the dinosaurs he visits at the Museum of Natural History, Tom pursues the dream of fatherhood through the expensive and painful avenues of modern medicine. The situation is hard on his masculinity and his marriage, and the solutions become increasingly bizarre. Should Tom opt for surgery, insulated diapers, or the good, old-fashioned remedy
Title: Sugar Witch, The
Author: Sanders, Nathan Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy drama - southern gothic - death - illness - health - family - parenting six characters three male; three female two acts
The Bean family in Sugar Bean, Florida live under an ancient family curse. The surviving members of the town's founding family have reached the end of their rope. Just when things can't possibly get any worse, tragedy strikes as a mysterious and brutal murder takes place in the Bean family home. The crime places "Moses" and "Sisser" in grave danger as "Annabelle", the last in a long-line of so-called "Sugar Witches", attempts to end the curse placed on their heads by the dying words of her very own grandmother. Dark family secrets are revealed and unusual passions are ignited
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: Sunday in Sodom in - Botticelli on the Fire and Sunday in Sodom / CCO Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2018
Description:
roy drama - biblical - Canadian playwright six characters four male; two female one act
In the Bible she is unnamed, referred to simply as “Lot’s wife. In Sunday in Sodom, Edith recounts how her husband welcomed two American soldiers into their house, the fury this sparked in their village, and the chain of events that led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. But most importantly, Edith sets the record straight as to why, after being told not to, she looked back upon the destruction of her hometown and turned into a pillar of salt.
Title: Sundown Alley
Author: Kelly, Tim Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy - farce - western⌦large cast flexible casting two acts ⌦"Long before Norma Desmond of Sunset Boulevard fame, there was Norma Desperate of Sundown Alley, out west in the tiny town of Lizard Gulch. Norma retired from the stage because the audiences diminished, but she plans a sensational comeback once her version of "Cinderella" is complete. She’s been working on it for forty years. Norma owns the Desperate Rooms Hotel, and she allows downhearted actors without a role in life to stay there rent free. As a rental requirement, however, they must applaud and yell "Bravo!" almost continuously. Into Norma’s dream world crawls Sly Vester, our seedy villain, who convinces Norma he’s a playwright with the ability to polish the "Cinderella" clinker. Before long, Norma is writing checks for a production
Title: Super Sidekick
Author: Krafts, Gregory Shapiro, Michael Gordon Publisher: Samuel French 2013
Description:
roy musical - children - fantasy eighteen characters four male; two female; two male or female (doubling) one act (ten scenes)
Approximate running time: 60 mins.: book by Gregory Crafts; music and lyrics by Michael Gordon Shapiro.
When famous superhero Blackjack the Bold is kidnapped by an evil sorcerer, it's up to his assistant Inky to step up and save the day! Little does he know that he'll also have to contend with Ninja Koalas, dark caves, secret weapons, and an abducted princess who's considerably braver Title: Taisetsu Na Hito in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 39th series / COL Author: Winkler, Leah Nanako Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy dark comedy - relationships three characters one male; two female one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
Bethany and Charles, a wholesome American couple, become owners of Android Minami, a Japanese robo-maid. As Minami becomes integrated into their mundane lives, repressed emotions arise and the line between servitude and fetishism begin to collide.
Title: Takeoff, The (version 2.2) Author: Doyle, Collin Publisher: Miscellaneous 2017
Description:
roy relationships - comedy - Alberta playwright ten characters six male; four female one act (10 scenes)
'The Takeoff' travels through three generations of one family, following the couplings and un-couplings of new love, old love, and broken love.
Shortlisted - 2017 Alberta Playwriting Competition
The digital copy of the play will download automatically through Google Drive when you click the
Title: Taking Flight
Author: Nichols Sevahn, Adriana Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - solo performance all female cast; one character one female one act
"First there was Mary and Rhoda, then Thelma and Louise, and now Adriana and Rhonda, two loveable and unforgettable friends. One, searching for the goddess and her shamanic roots, the other, planning her epic "Godfather meets the Mists of Avalon" wedding, until 9/11 changes everything, leaving one in a hospital bed and the other intent on doing whatever it takes to save her friend." Title: Tales from the Arabian Nights
Author: Dixon, Michael Bigelow Cole, Jan Publisher: I. E. Clark 1985
Description:
roy folk tales - fantasy - musical - comedy large cast flexible casting one act (four scenes)
Approximate running time: 75 minutes.
The sultan, bewitched by a magic scimitar, decrees that he will marry a new bride every evening and chop off her head the next morning. To save her pretty neck, clever Scheherazade tells her husband a tale which isn't quite completed by the dawn's early light. So he postpones the execution a day. Scheherazade keeps up this parade of stories for a thousand and one nights,
Title: Talk Radio
Author: Bogosian, Eric Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy comedy - radio nine characters; voices seven male; two female one act
Barry Champlain, Cleveland's controversial radio host, is on the air doing what he does best: insulting the pathetic souls who call in the middle of the night to sound off. Tomorrow, Barry's show is going into national syndication and his producer is afraid that Barry will say something that will offend the sponsors. This, of course, makes Barry even more outrageous. Funny and moving, off beat, outrageous and totally entrancing, Talk Radio had a long run at New York's Public Theatre starring the author.
Title: Talker's Town in - Talker's Town and The Girl Who Swam Forever / CCO Author: Gray, Nelson Publisher: Talonbooks 2018
Description:
roy drama - Indigenous peoples - coming of age - transformation six characters five male; one female one act
Companion piece to 'The Girl Who Swam Forever' by Marie Clements.
The central action in both plays involves an Aboriginal girl, Roberta Bob, who escapes from a residential school and hides out by the river. In Nelson Gray’s 'Talker’s Town,' the story is conveyed by a teenage non-Indigenous boy whose friend has had a relationship with the girl and whose attempts to hush up the affair lead to disastrous consequences. Title: Talker's Town and The Girl Who Swam Forever
Author: Gray, Nelson Clements, Marie Publisher: Talonbooks 2018
Description:
roy - collection - Canadian - Indigenous peoples
Published together, these plays form a fascinating diptych that reveals rifts between Indigenous and colon settler histories and provides a vehicle for cultural change. The two one-act plays in Talkers Town and The Girl Who Swam Forever are set in a small northern B.C. mill town in the 1960s. They portray identical characters and action from entirely different gender and cultural perspectives. In many ways, the two separate works are inter-related coming-of-age stories, with transformation as a key theme. As a starting point for trans-cultural dialogue, this set of plays will be of interest to educators, theatre directors, and the general reader interested in the current discourse arising from Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Idle No More, and the Indigenous Rights Movement happening throughout North America. Read as a set, these two plays also invite conversations about negotiating creative boundaries, particularly with respect to
Title: Tell-Tale Heart, The
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan McMahon, Luella E. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1967
Description:
roy drama - horror all male cast; six characters six male (flexible casting) one act
A slow uncovering of a murder.
Title: Terre Haute
Author: White, Edmund Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy drama - crime - politics all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A famous author comes face-to-face with America's most notorious terrorist. One has a story to write, the other has a story to tell. As the clock ticks on death row, a strange bond grows between the two men." Title: Thanksgiving Play, The in - American Theatre (Feb. 2019) / PER Author: FastHorse, Larissa Publisher: Miscellaneous 2019
Description:
roy comedy - Thanksgiving - Indigenous peoples - theatre - American four characters two male; two female one act (eight scenes)
A troupe of white theatremakers in an unnamed American town attempt to devise a play about the holiday's origins that will give due respect to the continent's Native peoples, often erased by its celebration, only to find their efforts thwarted by competing interests, creative differences, and crippling liberal guilt.
Title: Theatre in Atlantic Canada
Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
reference - Canada - plays and playwriting - Atlantic Canada
Theatre in Atlantic Canada celebrates the artists, plays, theatre companies, and festivals of New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, highlighting the social and political contexts of the theatre of this region. This collection of essays, dating from 1978 to 2009, demonstrates the invention, complexity, and vitality of the theatre of eastern Canada.
Title: Theatres of Affect
Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
reference - Canadian - theatre - studies - performance
What is it to think feeling, to put the affective dimensions of theatrical experience and its production centre stage? As theatre people, we are well equipped for the challenges of this task, for we labour expressly, consistently, and consciously with emotion, feeling, mood, and affect. In essays by seasoned and emerging scholars, 'Theatre of Affect' takes the temperature of Canadian performances, ranging from a verbatim theatre piece on the emotional labours and costs of kin care, to the Canadian military's 'theatre of war,' to disability arts performances of sexuality, to the affecting role of intercultural music theatre in reconciliation proceedings. Contributors assess the deployments of various emotional registers in theatrical performance and explore how and where the 'affective turn' in contemporary humanities scholarship affects theatre studies in Canada. Title: Theory
Author: Yeung, Norman Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2017
Description:
roy drama - thriller - Canadian Playwright seven characters four male; three female one act ⌦"Isabelle is a young professor of film theory. She creates an internet discussion board for her class as a learning tool and encourages them to speak freely. A mysterious student posts questionably offensive comments and videos, testing Isabelles open-mindedness. Isabelle abides by her principles and refuses to censor. Amid backlash from her students and urging from her wife, Isabelle must decide on whether to take action against the online offender. She becomes obsessed with this game of cat-and-mouse where she and her tormentor blur the lines between predator and prey. The harassment becomes increasingly vicious and bizarre, attacking Isabelles
Title: Thick Description of Harry Smith (Vol.1), A in - The Javier Plays / COL Author: Murillo, Carlos Publisher: 53rd State Press 2016
Description:
roy biography - music many characters five male; two female (doubling) two parts
subtitle: Do What You Wilt Shall Be the Whole of the Law
A THICK DESCRIPTION OF HARRY SMITH, a proto-psychedelic medicine show, takes a wild ride through the life, work and times of filmmaker, musicologist, painter, anthropologist, collector, occultist and fabulist, Harry Everett Smith. Best known for editing the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music, Smith's peculiar life is an emblem of American bohemian life in the 20th
Title: Third Story, The
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy comedy - family relations six characters four male; two female two acts
running time: 120 minutes.
A faded screenwriter in the 1940s woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on a screenplay. The gangster/sci-fi B-movie in their imagination unfolds before us, involving a chic crime czarina, a beautiful but icy lady scientist, and her failed and understandably bitter human cloning experiment. A third story is a Russian fairy tale the screenwriter told her son as a child Title: This Quintessence of Dust in - Humana Festival 2016 / COL Author: Hinkle, Cory Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2017
Description:
roy dark comedy three characters two male; one female one act
Running time: approximately 10-15 mins.
A play about that time when Jane went on vacation to Los Angeles to meet up with friends, but in a moment of weakness had coffee with her ex-boyfriend Chip . . . and then the end of the world happened.
Title: This Random World (The Myth of Serendipity) in - Humana Festival 2016 / COL Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2017
Description:
roy comedy eight characters three male; five female one act
When the play begins, a feisty but ailing elderly woman named Scottie is planning a trip to the Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto, Japan - a fact she keeps secret from her adult children, Tim and Beth. Meanwhile Beth is planning a trip of her own: a dangerous and expensive adventure to Nepal that she believes will help her avoid the 'fate' of her shut-in mother. And Tim - well, Tim's life has been off-course for a while, and even a chance encounter with his former soulmate can't seem to put him back on track. As the web of characters expands by bad timing and incomplete
Title: Three in - National Theatre Connections / YCL Author: Braun, Harriet Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - Britain - love - friendship twelve characters; narrator four male; eight female; one flexible seven scenes
For ages 14+.
It’s a long, hot summer. Six teenagers are in various states of lust, longing and unrequited love. A boy has a crush on the girl next door; only she’s going out with the school heartthrob. Two teenagers meet for a blind date but they’re both thinking about someone else. A shy girl with a secret makes friends with the most popular girl in her class. Only these are love stories with a Title: Three Hotels
Author: Baitz, Jon Robin Publisher: Samuel French 1992
Description:
roy drama - family relations - monologues two characters one male; one female three parts
interior set.
Monologues set in hotel rooms, two by an American businessman who sells defective baby formula in third world markets and one by his wife, portray a former 1960's idealist, Hoyle, who has succumbed to the corruption so endemic to modern America. His wife talks about him, their marriage and their son who was murdered for his cheap but expensive looking wristwatch as she
Title: Three One-Act Plays
Author: Allen, Woody Publisher: Random House 2003
Description:
roy - collection - one acts - Woody Allen
contains: Riverside Drive Old Saybrook Central Park West
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Three Pills in a Bottle
Author: Field, Rachel Publisher: Samuel French 1917
Description:
roy fantasy eight characters four male; three female; one boy or girl one act
When little Tony Sims catches a fever, the Widow Sims uses up three full years worth of savings buy medicine for her son. She arrives back from the doctor's office with three magical pills to aid his recovery: one to take the pain away from his head, one to relieve the ache from his eyes and one to make him grow big and strong. Little does the Widow Sims know who her son enthusiastically offers the pills to. This lovable fantasy tale demonstrates the value of altruism and childhood imagination. Title: Three Plays - Maureen Hunter
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2003
Description:
roy - collection - Canadian playwright - Maureen Hunter - full length
includes: Footprints on the Moon Beautiful Lake Winnipeg Transit of Venus See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Throws of Love in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 40th Series / COL Author: Staats, Amy Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; four characters one female; three girls one act
Approximate running time: 30 mins.
Three thirteen year old girls on a late night adventure have an unexpected meeting with their former Girl Scout leader.
Title: Thumbelina
Author: Morris, Vera Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1997
Description:
roy children - fantasy twenty characters six male; fourteen female (flexible casting) two acts
Approximate running time: 60 minutes.
Once there was a girl no taller than a thumb, so she was called Thumbelina. Based on the classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen, this wonderfully imaginative production takes us into Thumbelina’s world, fraught with dangers for one so small. A water rat named Walter and an unpleasant family of toads are both determined to capture her. Plus, a grumpy old mole thinks Title: Thymus Vulgaris
Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1982
Description:
roy drama - family relations - women three characters one male; two female one act
1 interior.
Reunion between hard-living, long-suffering mother and her one-time prostitute daughter portrays life and dreams of two perennial losers.
Title: Tiger Country
Author: Raine, Nina Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2014
Description:
roy drama large cast flexible casting three acts
Nina Raine's Tiger Country is a hospital play that follows a tangle of doctors and nurses in a busy London hospital. Professionalism and prejudice, turbulent staff romances, ambition and failure collide in this swirling, action-packed drama about an overburdened health service that we all depend on and the dedicated individuals that keep it going. 'Tiger country' is where animal instinct stirs and an irrefutable eye opens. Where we make eye contact with the unknown.
Title: Times Square Angel A hard-boiled Christmas fantasy Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy Christmas - comedy - farce - fantasy twelve characters seven male; four female one act
running time: 75 minutes.
New York, 1948. Irish O’Flanagan is the tough as nails, red-headed headliner of the Club Intime. A lifetime of hard knocks has left her bitter and with a chip on her shoulder the size of Mount Rushmore. In the spirit of fantasies such as “A Christmas Carol”, “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “The Bishop’s Wife”, an angel in the form of a sexy vaudeville magician named Albert comes down to Title: Tin Can People, The Part two of the War plays Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989
Description:
roy drama - nuclear war seven characters three male; four female one act (three parts)
approx. running time: 70 minutes; the second play of the War Plays trilogy.
It is now seventeen years after the nuclear holocaust. A group of survivors has formed a peaceful commune living off some warehouses filled with tin cans of food. A stranger is warmly welcomed into their midst, but when one of the group drops dead, the stranger is assumed to be contaminated. As the deaths multiply the group leader determines this intruder must be hunted
Title: Tinker's Wedding, The in - The Complete Plays of John M. Synge / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Vintage Books 1960
Description:
roy comedy - Ireland four characters two male; two female two acts
1 exterior.
Comedy about a rough Irish peasant couple and the rascally priest who is to marry them.
Title: Tiny Tim's Christmas
Author: Hischak, Thomas Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1997
Description:
roy Christmas - drama fifteen characters: extras eight male; seven female (doubling possible) one act
Running time: approximately 75 mins.
Bound to become an annual favorite at your theatre, here is a delightful continuation of a Christmas classic. Timothy Crachit, formally known as Tiny Tim, has inherited Ebeneezer Scrooge’s moodiness. As he manages the local toy shop, he has become a regular ’Scrooge.’ As the store’s doors close for Christmas, Tim finds himself in a similar situation as Ebeneezer, but Title: To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Author: Brady, Michael Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama seven characters two male; five female two acts
A grieving widower must accept his wife's death to save himself and his relationship with his daughter. David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with her “ghost” during walks on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family problems crop up in the present. Brother and sister-in-law Paul and Esther visit to try to help David's daughter, Rachel. She has lost her mother and needs her father to snap back into the real world for her sake.
Title: Tracers
Author: DiFusco, John Caristy, Vincent Publisher: Hill and Wang 1983
Description:
roy drama - war - Vietnam all male cast; eight characters eight male (doubling possible) two acts
Also written by Richard Chaves, Eric E. Emerson, Rick Gallavan, Merlin Marston, Harry Stephens, and Sheldon Lettich.
Eight American soldiers recount their experiences before, during and after the Vietnam war.
Title: Transitions I: Short Plays A source book of Canadian literature Author: Publisher: Commcept Publishing Limited 1978
Description:
roy - Canadian - one acts
Also contains abstracts of the plays and biographies of the playwrights.
includes: Overlaid - Robertson Davies Chester, You Owe My Bird an Apology - John Lazarus Mathematics - Hrant Alianak Still Stands the House - Gwen Pharis Ringwood The Hangashore - Ted Russell Prologue - Beverly Simons Hell's Bells - Philip Spensley 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: Treasure Island
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis Caruso, Joseph George Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1979
Description:
roy children - adventure - fantasy - pirates nineteen characters twelve male; seven female (doubling possible) two acts
"Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island in 1881. It is set in the days of sailing ships and pirates and tells of the adventures of Jim Hawkins and his search for the buried treasure of an evil pirate, Captain Flint."
Title: Treasurer, The in - American Theatre April 2018 / PER Author: Posner, Max Publisher: Miscellaneous 2018
Description:
roy drama - family relationships fourteen characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
This play follows the aching, awkward final throes of a relationship between a son and his aging mother Ida, whose sense of purpose and mental faculties both decline after the death of her second husband - a man for whom she 'd left her first husband when their son was just 13. In a series of transactions and negotiations, Ida and her son both struggle to connect across two lifetimes of guilt and silence. Title: Trial of Goldilocks, The
Author: Robinette, Joseph Chauls, Robert Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy musical - children - fantasy fifteen characters; extras flexible casting one act
Libretto by Joseph Robinette; Music by Robert Chauls.
Guilty or Innocent? Was the young girl a selfish spoiled brat, intruding where she didn't belong? Or was she the victim of three conniving bears and their animal band of hoods in the woods? This exciting new retelling of the familiar fairy tale is full of mirth and melody as Goldilocks is brought to court to face charges of breaking and entering the Bear's cottage.
Title: Trip, The
Author: Kennedy, Eddie Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1983
Description:
roy drama - family relation - mental illness five characters three male; two female one act
Approximate running time: 25 minutes.
Vicky, a young girl suffering from mental illness, is confronted by some members of her family who have come to the institution where she's being treated to take her on a trip. During tension-filled moments, we discover the strain Vicky's illness has put on the family. Shocked by the confrontation, Vicky's sense of reality dramatically wavers. It is then that we learn the
Title: Trouble with Mr. Adams, The
Author: Rand, Gord Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - sexual abuse - marriage - love four characters one male; three female three acts
On the night volleyball coach Gary Adams leaves his wife, allegations of sexual misconduct surface regarding his sixteen-year old student. Gary defends his innocence - to his wife, to his lawyer, and finally, to the victim herself. Grappling with such themes as abuse of power, intergenerational love, and the stagnation of marriage, "The Trouble with Mr. Adams" exposes the crippling disaster of the male mid-life crisis. Title: Trudy, Carolyn, Martha, and Regina Travel to Outer Space and Have a Pretty T in - Humana Festival 2016 / COL Author: Kennedy, James Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2017
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; four characters four female one act
Running time: approximately 10-15 mins.
A crew of astronauts share the quiet beauty of infinite space and a peaceful reflection on our place in the universe. But it's been nineteen weeks. And that's just about long enough.
Title: Truth, The
Author: Zeller, Florian translated by Christopher Hampton Publisher: Faber and Faber 2016
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
Alice and Michel are having an affair. Michel's wife, Laurence, has been asking him difficult questions. Alice's husband, Paul, is Michel's best friend. As deceits intertwine, the two couples find themselves lost in a maze of who-told-who-what, where each loving lie seems more necessary and each confession more indiscreet. A brilliantly cruel comedy of the hypocrisies which hold society together.
Title: Tuck Everlasting
Author: Shear, Claudia Federle, Tim Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy musical - fantasy eleven characters; extras seven male; three female; one girl two acts
Approximate running time: 120 mins. Based on best-selling children’s classic by Natalie Babbitt and adapted for the stage by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle, Tuck Everlasting features a soaring score from Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen.
What would you do if you had all eternity? Eleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence, but not until she becomes unexpectedly entwined with Title: Turn Around
Author: Kukla, Don Publisher: Baker's Plays 1996
Description:
roy children - anger management three characters two male; one female one act
Yet another play from the author of Playing Hardball and Sticks and Stones. Like his other plays, Turn Around toured throughout the country as part of the renowned Issues and Awareness Tour of The Missoula Children's Theatre. This is a highly theatrical, easily produced play that revolves around the life of Andy, an angry, troubled ten year old boy. Andy physically and verbally strikes out at everyone - his parents, teachers, classmates - because this is the only way he knows to deal with the world around him. He even considers alcohol to ease his torment, but with the help
Title: Turning Points
Author: Rye, Mark S. Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service
Description:
roy drama - teenagers - high school - young adult⌦nine characters four male; five female one act
A detailed outline for an optional thirty minute audience discussion are included.
"Screeching tires. Twisted metal. Sirens. Silence. Poignant, insightful and thought-provoking, this one act drama provides a startling glimpse into teenage alcohol abuse. Bill and his friends portray the tremendous struggles and insecurities faced by high school students. While we can empathize with their plight, we cannot overlook the unintended but deadly consequences of their decisions."
Title: Twelfth Night
Author: Foster, Cass Shakespeare, William Publisher: Five Star Publications 2003
Description:
roy Shakespeare - comedy fourteen characters; extras eleven male; three female five acts
Approximate running time: 60 mins.
"Twins are separated in a shipwreck, and forced to fend for themselves in a strange land. The first twin, Viola, falls in love with Orsino, who dotes on Olivia, who falls for Viola but is idolised by Malvolio. Enter Sebastian, who is the spitting image of his twin sister..." Title: Twelve Opening Acts
Author: Tremblay, Michel translated by Sheila Fischman Publisher: Talonbooks 2002
Description:
reference - biography - Michel Tremblay - Canadian playwright
Alongside his fascinating and award-winning fictional oeuvre, Michel Tremblay has given his readers three magical keys to the secrets of his great literary achievements. The first of these, Bambi and Me, is a memoir of the movies that shaped his imagination as a child - those he watched in fascination and spent hours deconstructing with his mother, and those he watched on his own.
The second, Twelve Opening Acts, is an account of Tremblay's discovery of the theatre: from his first breathtaking recognition of how the imagination is always a public construct, while watching a performance of Babar the Elephant at the age of six; to his winning of the CBC drama competition with his first play, Le Train. Within these stories, Michel Tremblay offers the reader an entrance
Title: Twilight of the Golds, The
Author: Tolins, Jonathan Publisher: Samuel French 1992
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - homophobia - LGBTQ+ five characters three male; two female two acts
"If your parents knew everything about you before you were born, would you be here? That is the question posed in this entertaining drama. All is well when Suzanne Gold and her close New York family discover that she is pregnant, until a prenatal test reveals that the baby will most likely be homosexual. The news forces the entire Gold family to confront issues of bigotry, evolution and the limits of love."
Title: Twits, The A set of plays Author: Dahl, Roald Wood, David Publisher: Puffin Books 2003
Description:
roy - children - Roald Dahl - adapted by David Wood
There's a part to suit everyone in these plays from Roald Dahl's THE TWITS. Make Mr. Twit eat wormy spaghetti, stick a frog in Mrs. Twit's bed, or join in the cleverest prank of all - the great upside-down trick. These dramatizations of Roald Dahl's beloved book can be performed in school and at summer camp, acted out at home, or simply read together by a group of friends. WIth useful tips on staging, props, and costumes, the plays are easy to perform, have plenty of parts, and are sure to be great fun for everyone!
includes: Meet the Twits Meet the Muggle-Wumps Title: Twits, The
Author: Dahl, Roald Walsh, Enda Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2015
Description:
roy children - comedy nine characters five male; four female two acts
Adapted by Enda Walsh.
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are not very nice. In fact they're extremely nasty. They're nasty to each other, and they're vile to everyone else. They hold a family of monkeys hostage in a cage and force them to stand on their heads. ALL THE TIME. We told you they weren't very nice. Can the monkeys find a way to show those vicious Twits what for? Mischievously adapted from Roald Dahl's story, Enda
Title: Two Character Play, The
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1979
Description:
roy drama - experimental one male; one female two acts "Finding themselves deserted by their troupe and faced with an audience expecting a performance, actor/siblings Clare and Felice enact The Two-Character Play. As they dip in and out of performance, they find it difficult to differentiate themselves from their roles and reality from illusion."
Title: Two Rooms
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1990
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
The two rooms of the title are a windowless cubicle in Beirut, where an American hostage is being held by Arab terrorists, and a room in his home in the United States, which his wife has stripped of furniture so that, at least symbolically, she can share his ordeal. In fact the same room serves for both and is also the locale for imaginary conversations between the hostage and his wife, plus the setting for the real talks she has with a reporter and a State Department official. The former, an overly ambitious sort who hopes to develop the situation into a major personal accomplishment, Title: Undiscovered Country in - Dalliance and Undiscovered Country / COL Author: Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Faber and Faber 1986
Description:
roy drama - relationships twenty-nine characters flexible casting five acts
3 interiors.
Drama freely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's 'Das weite Land' in which both virtue and promiscuity lead to tragedy.
Title: Unforgetting, The in - Summerworks / CCO Author: Dilworth, Alan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female one act
Depression-era drama about a BC heiress and the secrets she discovers in her past.
Received the SummerWorks Jury Prize.
Title: Up the Garden Path in - Up the Garden Path and The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God / Author: Codrington, Lisa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy Canadian playwright - women - self discovery seven characters three male; four female three acts (parts)
In Up the Garden Path, Rosa, a young Barbadian seamstress, offers to pose as her brother to go to the Niagara Region in Ontario to work. There, she meets an aspiring actress obsessed with Joan of Arc, the ghost of a black Loyalist soldier who wants to die and a boss who can’t keep the starlings away from his failing vineyard. Finding it impossible to ignore their demands, but not wanting to be found out and sent home, Rosa has to stop and figure out what she really wants instead of what everyone around her needs. Title: Up the Garden Path and The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for Go
Author: Codrington, Lisa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
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roy - collection - Canadian - Lisa Codrington
contains: Up the Garden Path The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God ⌦See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Veldt, The
Author: Bradbury, Ray Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1972
Description:
roy drama - parenting - high school six characters three male; one female; one boy; one girl one act
Approximate running time: 40 mins.
Two doting parents provide their children with a fantasy playroom in which their dreams come true. Bradbury began this work by writing down a word around which he would build the play - and the word was "nursery." Then he decided it should be a nursery of the future and he tried to imagine what it would be like. Within a few hours he had devised the perfect playroom for the
Title: Victoria at 18
Author: Kelly, Tim Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1978
Description:
roy comedy - historical - Britain nine characters two male; seven female one act
Running time: approx. 35 mins.
It's a clash of wills between Victoria and her mother, the strong-willed Duchess of Kent, who has always refused to let her daughter grow up. Vicky must sleep in a cot by her mother's bed, let her mother make every decision - in effect, speak for her. But now she's 18, and the very next morning, without asking permission, she moves into a bedroom of her own! The next day, the Title: Vikings of Helgeland, The
Author: Ibsen, Henrik Publisher: Stage Door 2013
Description:
roy tragedy - Norwegian - historical - 10th century seven characters; extras four male; two female; one boy four acts
setting - the time of Erik Blood-axe (about A.D. 933) at and in the neighbourhood of Gunnar's house on the island of Helgeland, in the north of Norway.
"Henrik Ibsen is often referred to as the father of realism and ranked just below Shakespeare as Europe’s greatest ever playwright especially as his plays are performed most frequently throughout the world after Shakespeare’s. He was Norwegian and although set his plays in
Title: Village Wooing in - Selected Short Plays / COL Author: Shaw, Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1988
Description:
roy comedy - romance two characters; one extra one male; one female one act (three parts)
1 interior; 1 exterior.
Eager young woman's successful pursuit of uninterested man.
Title: Visiting Mr. Green
Author: Baron, Jeff Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1994
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - melodrama - friendship - men all male cast; two characters two male two acts
Mr. Green, an elderly, retired dry cleaner, wanders into New York traffic and is almost hit by a car driven by Ross Gardiner, a 29-year-old corporate executive. The young man is given a community service of helping the recent widower once a week for six months. What starts as a comedy about two men who do not want to be in the same room together becomes a gripping and moving drama as they get to know each other, come to care about each other, and open old wounds they've been hiding and nursing for years. Translated into 22 languages, with over 200 Title: Voices
Author: Lortz, Richard Publisher: Baker's Plays 1973
Description:
roy drama - grief - memory - parenting five characters two male; three female one act
"A young couple arrive at an old house just before a snowstorm isolates them. Since her child's death, the wife has been in a sanitarium and the guilt and tensions of the young couple's tragic loss have all but destroyed their relationship. They try to rebuild their mutual trust, but the wife hears voices and she and the audience see the pale figure of a girl. The husband sees nothing. As the snow and night falls, the voices of a happy family playing joyfully grow louder and more insistent until the dramatic climax in this stunning play."
Title: Voices from the High School
Author: Dee, Peter Welch, John B. Publisher: Baker's Plays 1982
Description:
scenes - monologues - young adult
Too many high school actors perform works unrelated to their age or their needs or experience. Their work is often forced to be "clever" rather than honest and meaningful. Finding this artistically unproductive, Baker's commissioned New York's Circle Rep playwright Peter Dee to develop a series of contemporary scenes and monologues suitable for production in secondary schools. Dee has brilliantly created vignettes reflecting the joys and troubles of growing up too quickly in America. The scenes are devastatingly honest, sometimes hilarious and always speak from and to the heart. The monologues and two character scenes cover such diverse subjects as alcoholism, love, drugs, teacher-student rapport, teen pregnancy, suicide, and much more.
Title: Wake for David's Fucked-Up Face, A in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 39th series / COL Author: Fox, Skylar Publisher: Samuel French 2015
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roy dramatic comedy three characters two male; one female one act
Approximate running time: 10 mins.
David did something stupid on the way home from prom. Now, Cal’s covered in blood, eating Funyuns in his room, and Cal’s mom doesn’t know what to do with him. Why doesn’t he seem sad? Are live-action role-playing fantasy games really the answer? And where is David’s head? Title: Wakey, Wakey
Author: Eno, Will Publisher: Oberon Books 2017
Description:
roy dramatic comedy two characters one male; one female one act
"What are we here for? Is time a friend or an enemy? Do we all eventually end up in the same place, but take different routes to get there? This funny, moving, and thought provoking new play by Drama Desk, Lortel Award, and Obie Award-winner Will Eno, challenges the notion of what really matters and recognizes the importance of life's simple pleasures and responsibilities."
Title: Waylen in - Dramatics (04/01/18) Author: Temshiv, Kayla Publisher: Miscellaneous 2018
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roy drama - children - change - young adult eight characters four male; four female one act (fourteen scenes)
This is a show about wanting more out of life. The children of Waylen do the same things every day. They spend all of their time focusing on games and dreams but never actually venture to do what they desire. Amid the boredom and consistency of their daily routines, only the small things change. After a disaster occurs, the children are forced to make a choice: are they really content with their lives, or do they need to make changes?
Title: We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia,...
Author: Drury, Jackie Sibblies Publisher: Bloomsbury 2014
Description:
roy comedy - historical - actors six characters four male; two female one act
full title: We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915
A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the twentieth century. As the full force of a horrific past crashes into the good intentions of the present, what seemed a far-away place and time is suddenly all too close to home. Just whose story are they Title: We're Gonna Be Okay in - Humana Festival 2017 / COL Author: Kreimendahl, Basil Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2018
Description:
roy comedy six characters one male; two female two acts
Running time: approximately 107 minutes.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, two average American families build a slapdash bomb shelter on their shared property line. With nuclear warfare looming, they wonder: is it the end? The end of baseball… and table manners… and macramé? But as they fret about the fall of civilization, they start to worry that something more personal is at stake. A slyly hilarious, compassionate look at
Title: Wedding Bash in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 41st Series / COL Author: Leeds, Andrew Kraft, Lindsey Publisher: Samuel French 2017
Description:
roy comedy - friendship - marriage four characters two male; two female one act
Approximate running time: 30 mins.
When a newly married couple invites their two friends over for a post-wedding rehash, things get tense when it becomes clear that maybe people didn't love the wedding as much as they said they did.
Title: Wellesley Girl in - Humana Festival 2016 / COL Author: Pelsue, Brendan Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2017
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roy satire - political nine characters; voices six male; three female (doubling possible) one act (fourteen scenes)
The year is 2465, and little remains of the United States. For the few survivors living inside a walled citadel, politics carries on as usual - with all the pageantry and partisanship of an old government that is now a distant memory. But when an opposing army shows up at their gates, the citizens of the new United States are confronted with the most important decision of their lives. With political grandstanding, personal sacrifice, and a love triangle with a robot, Wellesley Girl asks us all to confront the question: what if your vote could truly determine the future of the Title: Wenceslas Square
Author: Shue, Larry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - communism - Czechoslovakia many characters three male; one female (doubling) two acts
Drawn from the author's own experience, the play tells of the return to Czechoslovakia, in 1974, of a former college drama professor, Vince Corey, who is researching a book (begun during a visit five years earlier) on the explosion of artistic creativity that flowered under the now overthrown, liberal Dubcek government. Accompanied by a young student, Dooley, the professor is shocked to find that the free speech and artistic freedom that he encountered on his earlier visit have been crushed by the Soviet masters who have taken over the country. In a series of vivid, yet
Title: What are We Going to do With Mama?
Author: Fowler, Zinita Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1977
Description:
roy drama - family relations - aging eight characters three male; five female one act
Approximate running time: 40 minutes.
Poignant and powerful, this play raises a question that at one time or another will be relevant for every member of every family. What are the children to do with a parent whose usefulness has been outlived and who has become a burden? Through easily staged flashbacks, we see the mother help her various children at different times in their lives, but now none of them can take
Title: When the Wind Blows
Author: Briggs, Raymond Publisher: Samuel French - London 1983
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - nuclear war six characters four male; two female one act
This is an off-beat version of the famous English anti-nuclear cartoon parable. Jim and Hilda Bloggs hear that a nuclear strike is headed their way. Armed with government leaflets, they construct a refuge with the solid cheerfulness they felt during the blitz. Trusting in the powers that be, they emerge after the bombing and wait for government assistance. Radiation sickness takes them, still loving each other and uttering prayers. Title: White Christmas - movie vocal selections
Author: Berlin, Irving Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 2000
Description:
Vocal selections from the movie musical.
contains: The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing / Blue Skies / Choreography / Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep / Gee, I Wish I Was Back in the Army / Heat Wave / Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me / Mandy / The Old Man / Sisters / Snow / White Christmas
Title: Who You Callin Black eh?
Author: Deverell, Rita Shelton Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2017
Description:
roy⌦drama - Canada - coming of age - racism five characters; extras; narrator two male; three female one act
Ideally cast should be a rainbow of colours, from ebony black to lily white. Many ethnicities are good.
'Who you Callin Black Eh? is a coming of age play set in Canada’s largest, most multicultural, multilingual city, that is not about sexuality, but is about colour. Wherever Our Heroine goes, whatever she does, with whomever she relates, she is not Black Enough or White Enough to find her people. Shadism causes her to be shunned. Who is she? Where is she going? What is the
Title: Who's On First
Author: Abbott, Bud Costello, Lou Publisher: Baker's Plays 1975
Description:
roy comedy - baseball two characters; extra two male or female one act
No set; additional material written by Harold J. Gilles.
A reporter tries to get the line-up for the game from the Manager. "So, who's on first?' - and this immortal schtick is off and running! A classic, now easily accessible in script form. Title: Whodunit?
Author: Crosby, Millard Publisher: Samuel French 1942
Description:
roy comedy - murder mystery seven characters three male; four female one act
Walter Beardsley. a clever young novelist, has met and married a charming young widow and brought her with him to spend the summer at his country home on the New Jersey coast. Quite by accident (or so she claims) Walter's beautiful young, Eve, runs into Carey Fielding, a handsome young chap, at the summer hotel. Eve brings Carey home with her and introduces him to Walter as a close friend of her first husband's.Carey becomes a daily visitor at the Beardsley home and Eve spends most of her time with him. When the play opens it is evening and Walter has left home
Title: Wings
Author: Barnes, Linda J. Publisher: Baker's Plays 1974
Description:
roy drama - adolescence eleven characters eleven male or female (or boys and girls) one act
This innovative author has shown rare imagination and insight in providing an excellent opportunity for ensemble acting, plus plenty of room for improvisation and creative directing. The plot considers the serious conflict of dreams and reality in a light, modern way. Through a series of vignettes, the viewer sees the familiar, limiting faces of people and institutions seeking to blot out the beautiful dreams of youth.
Title: Winter's Gift, A
Author: Davis, Michelle R. Ward, David Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 2009
Description:
roy Christmas - comedy - music twenty-seven characters ten male; fourteen female; three male or female (flexible casting) two acts
Approximate running time: 75 mins.
Come be serenaded by a trio of medieval minstrels with original lyrics sung to the tune of well-known Christmas carols! Troubled times have befallen Canterbury - the king is absent, the queen is greedy and the people are hungry. To make matters worse, Vikings have been spotted. As Abbot Gregory ponders a potentially calamitous Christmas, news of a winter’s gift Title: Wonders of the Invisible World Revealed, The in - The Great Gromboolian and Other Plays - COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy dark comedy two characters one male; one female one act
Running time: 10 mins.
A young housemaid is fascinated by a bad tempered and impatient yet compelling lodger whose room is full of strange bottles. Wrapped in bandages with no flesh showing, he tells her he is invisible. She thinks he must be a dangerous lunatic until he describes some private moments in her bedroom.
Title: Wondrous Strange in - Humana Festival 2016 / COL Author: Majok, Martyna Miroshnik, Meg Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2017
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - ghosts large cast flexible casting one act (nine parts)
Also written by Jen Silverman and Jiehae Park.
A collection of nine pieces about hauntings in the Blugrass State and beyond. By turns meditative, funny and frightening, 'Wondrous Strange' depicts many different kinds of ghostly encounters, reflecting the variety of stories and legends shared while building the play.
Title: Writer, The
Author: Hickson, Ella Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2018
Description:
roy drama - playwriting six characters one male; one female; two male or female (doubling) four acts
A young writer challenges the status quo but discovers that creative gain comes at a personal cost. Title: WROK in the Big City, or The Hottest Sound Around
Author: Mauro, Robert A. Publisher: Contemporary Drama Service 1982
Description:
roy comedy - high school seven characters; extras three male; four female one act
Playing time: 25 minutes.
The first day for the new owners of a rock radio station.
Title: Yankee Sweetheart in King Arthur's Court, A
Author: Hamlett, Christina Publisher: Contemporary Drama Service 1987
Description:
roy young adult - fantasy - legend ten characters; extras four male; six female three acts
During a Peace March in Washington, D.C. Kate Jordan is knocked unconscious by a demonstrator's sign. She awakens in Merlin's chamber beneath King Arthur's castle. After a strange beginning, Ninian, Merlin's assistant, befriends her. But Ninian is soon killed by Arthur's evil half sister Morgause who seeks to destroy Camelot. Kate becomes King Arthur's advisor in the absence of Merlin, who has been enchanted away by the nymph, Nimue. To the wonder of it all, she predicts those events about Camelot that she knows from history. When Mordred comes to the
Title: You Don't See Me
Author: Miller, Kathryn Schultz Publisher: Miscellaneous 1986
Description:
roy children - death four characters two male; two female one act
'You Don't See Me' tackles the subject of death in the same way children naturally resolve hard issues - through creative play. Stephanie, whose brother has died, finds her way through it by creating a fantasy in which her brother appears, portrayed in mime. He sticks with her and helps her prepare for the science fair until she is ready to accept his loss, begins to feel the grief, and finds renewed confidence in herself to go on living without him. Performed for hundreds of elementary school audiences by ArtReach Touring Theatre, You Don't See Me brings both laughter Title: You Got Older
Author: Barron, Clare Publisher: Northwestern University Press 2017
Description:
roy romantic comedy - family relations - aging seven characters four male; three female (doubling possible) one act (many parts)
Approximate running time: 105 minutes.
Mae returns home to help take care of Dad and - maybe (a little) - herself. You Got Older is a tender and darkly comic new play about family, illness, and cowboys – and how to remain standing when everything you know comes crashing down around you.
Title: Your Name Will Follow You Home in - The Javier Plays / COL Author: Murillo, Carlos Publisher: 53rd State Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - biography - history - American eight characters five male; three female two acts
The young, reclusive novelist Danny Santiago came out of nowhere and took the literary world by storm. His novel, 'Famous All Over Town', was a gritty, authentic depiction of Chicano life in East LA told through the eyes of a troubled teenager. But is it authentic? And who is the real Danny Santiago? YOUR NAME WILL FOLLOW YOU HOME takes us on a wild, only-in-America odyssey to the darkest heart of these questions. Charlie Chaplin. Communists in Hollywood. HUAC. The Blacklist. 50 B-Monster Movies. Architectural Fantasias. Fake Latinos. Jesse James.
Title: Zen Substitute, The in - Kabuki Plays / COL Author: Brandon, James R. Niwa, Tamako Publisher: Samuel French 1966
Description:
roy farce - Kabuki play ten characters; extras possible ten male or female (expandable cast) one act
In this Kabuki farce, Lord Ukyo wishes to see his girlfriend so he persuades his wife to let him perform Zen meditation under a robe in the garden. He has his servant take his place while he slips off. Lady Tamanoi discovers her husband's trick and she takes the servant's place under the robe. Imagine what happens when Lord Ukyo comes home tipsy and tells his faithful servant about his amorous adventures. The play is full of stylized comic action. Title: Zero Sum Mind, The
Author: Gregg, Stephen Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1991
Description:
roy dramatic comedy seven characters flexible casting one act
Approximate running time: 15 minutes.
A man speaks to no one in particular. Another man chases his enemy with a copy of Alice in Wonderland. A woman washes her son with a brush and polishing wax. What's going on here? Finding out what's happening is the point of this 10-minute play about a world like ours, but with one very important difference.