Title: (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence, The
Author: George, Madeleine Publisher: Samuel French 2014
Description:
roy drama - mystery - Sherlock Holmes three characters two male; one female two acts
Watson: trusty sidekick to Sherlock Holmes; loyal engineer who built Bell’s first telephone; unstoppable super-computer that became reigning Jeopardy! champ; amiable techno-dweeb who, in the present day, is just looking for love. These four constant companions become one in this brilliantly witty, time-jumping, loving tribute (and cautionary tale) dedicated to the people—and machines—upon which we all depend.
Title: Agnes of God
Author: Pielmeier, John Publisher: Samuel French 1982
Description:
roy drama all female cast; three characters three female two acts
A psychiatrist attempts to find the truth behind a nun's pregnancy and subsequent murder of the child, while the nun's Mother Superior prays that the truth will not be found so that the innocence of the nun can be preserved.
Title: Agnes of God
Author: Pielmeier, John Publisher: Doubleday 1982
Description:
roy drama all-female cast; three characters three female two acts
A psychiatrist attempts to find the truth behind a nun's pregnancy and subsequent murder of the child, while the nun's Mother Superior prays that the truth will not be found so that the innocence of the nun can be preserved. Title: Aleola
Author: Charlebois, Gaetan Publisher: Talonbooks 1980
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian two characters one male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
"Aleola" is a play about people on the other end of the age spectrum - two old people who are celebrating their anniversary in the city, having given up their language and their land; have been forgotten by their children.
Title: Almighty Voice and His Wife
Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama - Native playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
A young Cree couple woo and wed, but it's 1885, the generation after the Riel Rebellion. It's hard for any Indian to live happily ever after, unless one goes into show business. A retelling of historic incidents to create a play about the place of Native people in Canada.
Title: Almost Perfect Thing, An
Author: Moeller, Nicole Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy drama - thriller - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts
Greg is a once-respected journalist searching for a high-profile story that will help revive his career. Chloe is the missing girl he wrote about six years earlier who has just returned home to a world she no longer recognizes. Instead of leading police to her captor, Chloe turns to Greg to share her story. But Chloe won't provide names or locations, and instead dictates exactly how the story should be told. Who is her kidnapper? Why is she protecting him? When Greg begins to question whether truth and fiction have collided, he takes matters into his own hands, even if that Title: American Buffalo
Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Grove Press 1976
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male two acts
1 interior set.
Three men's plans to steal a coin collection go awry as they fight among themselves, distrusting each other yet needing each other for companionship. Play may be offensive to some.
Title: Anna Jameson
Author: Carey, Pauline Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian history - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female two acts
A one-woman play based on the writings of Anna Jameson during her visit to Upper Canada in 1837.
Title: Aphra
Author: Cullen, Nancy Jo Patience, Alexandria Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - historical - women - drama all female cast; three characters three female two acts
"This is a play about Aphra Behn, the first English woman to earn her living by her pen, and who challenged the popular expectations placed upon seventeenth-century women." Title: API 2967
Author: Gurik, Robert Gelinas, Marc F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian two characters one male; one female two acts
"API 2967" is Robert Gurik's science fiction play. Two characters resemble Adam and Eve, citizens of a world 1,000 years in the future, relive the turmoils of humanity. Do they actually live or do their lives resemble an "elongated death?"
The form of the play allows complete integration of film, music, tv, slides.
Title: Apple
Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - relationships - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts
"Andy is in trouble. Downsized from his job, his marriage in crises, he meets a mysterious young woman who he looks to for salvation. But when his wife becomes seriously ill, Andy must make a choice: care for an estranged wife, or run away with a woman he knows little about. A haunting tale of sex, secrets and second chances."
Title: Architect and the Emperor of Assyria, the
Author: Arrabal, Fernando translated by Everard d'Harnoncourt Publisher: Grove Press
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two males two acts
"Two men thrown together on a desert island are forced to love and hate each other with intensity. Many situations arise culminating in one devouring the other to achieve complete unity." Title: Ashes
Author: Rudkin, David Publisher: Talonbooks 1978
Description:
roy drama - infertility - family / marital relations two characters; two extras one male; one female two acts
"A young couple who want but cannot have children and who have been denied the opportunity to adopt a child face the future childless."
Title: At Home At the Zoo
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2008
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female two acts
flexible set.
Edward Albee delves deeper into his play THE ZOO STORY by adding a first act, HOMELIFE, which precedes Peter's fateful meeting with Jerry on a park bench in Central Park. THE ZOO STORY may be performed independently. However, HOMELIFE may only be performed as part of the full length play AT HOME AT THE ZOO.
Title: At Home At the Zoo
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2008
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female two acts
flexible set.
Edward Albee delves deeper into his play THE ZOO STORY by adding a first act, HOMELIFE, which precedes Peter's fateful meeting with Jerry on a park bench in Central Park. THE ZOO STORY may be performed independently. However, HOMELIFE may only be performed as part of the full length play AT HOME AT THE ZOO. Title: Atlantis
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - relationships two characters one male; one female two acts
"A passionate encounter on the Greek island of Santorini illuminates this new play by Maureen Hunter. Ben is a Canadian in his fifties who has taken refuge on the sunny isle - thought to be the legendary Atlantis. He encounters Mircea, a mystical local woman and, in the words of Kevin Prokosh, theatre critic for the Winnipeg Free Press, their ensuing love affair provides "a badly needed hot spot for the soul."
Title: Attractions, The
Author: Marchant, Tony Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1988
Description:
roy drama - mystery - British three characters two male; one female two acts
setting: somewhere on the South Coast.
Sam Lawson runs a 'black museum' in a seaside town. There are some very strange exhibits on display, including a lot of nasty-looking murder weapons. But business is bad - until young Danny breezes in with some fresh ideas about what the public wants.
Title: Barrymore
Author: Luce, William Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy drama - biography all male cast; two characters one male; one male voice two acts
"John Barrymore is the master of one-character biographies for the stage. Each act begins with a stunning entrance onto a stage that the 60 year old legendary actor has rented to prepare for a comeback performance of Richard III. Barrymore jokes with the audience, spars with an offstage prompter, reminisces about better times and even does delicious imitations of his siblings Lionel and Ethel." Title: Battering Ram
Author: Freeman, David E. Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters one male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
Irene, a "professional volunteer," provides a room in her home for the handicapped Virgil. She and her daughter Nora, both sexually frustrated, try to use Virgil to satisfy their needs. All three search for love but find something much less.
Title: Beating the Bushes
Author: Bush, Steven Publisher: Talonbooks 2010
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - politics - monologues - male - American all male cast - one character one male two acts
Steven Bush is a man on a mission—to confront the skeletons in his family closet. Did his very own cousins rule a country that, even today, after electing its first African American president, still seems bent on world domination? What can he, a distant relation of the “Bushes” (so the story goes), do to end the madness and redeem the family name? Ever since the bloodless coup that felled the Republic (the controversial American election of 2000), Steven Bush has been hard at work to prove—or disprove—his blood ties to those bad Bushes in the White House. Drawing on
Title: Becoming Sharp
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright all female cast; three characters three female two acts
running time: 120 min.
Recruited as the ghostwriter to the author of the world's most famous mystery series, Judy Parker thinks she's won the chance of a lifetime. But secrets and mysteries surround her. And becoming the writer she dreams of might cost her everything she is. A drama of writing and rewriting who you are. Title: Belle of Amherst, The A play based on the life of Emily Dickinson Author: Luce, William Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company 1976
Description:
roy drama - monologue all female cast; one character one female two acts
1 interior set.
The poet Emily Dickinson, invites the audience to her home and tells the story of her life, the source of her poems and recites some of her poetry.
Title: Betrayal
Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female nine scenes
unit set.
The play begins in the present, with the meeting of Emma and Jerry, whose adulterous affair of seven years ended two years earlier. Emma's marriage to Robert, Jerry's best friend, is now breaking up, and she needs someone to talk to. Their reminiscences reveal that Robert knew of their affair all along and, to Jerry's dismay, regarded it with total nonchalance. Thereafter, in a
Title: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Author: Mayer, Nathan Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1992
Description:
roy drama - mystery three characters two male; one female two acts
What is the role of the justice system? Must justice be served without regard to human subtleties? Where is the line between establishing a standard and making sure the system is just, and relating to crime on a human level to see its roots and effects? Assistant prosecutor Kenneth Hayes has been assigned to the case of Ruth Ballard, an old flame and former law school classmate. The two could not have more differing views on the law. Both consider themselves crusaders for justice. In Ken's view, this is best done through vigorous and unemotional prosecution of those accused of Title: Bicycle Country, A
Author: Cruz, Nilo Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2004
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female two acts
Three characters whose lives seem to be moving nowhere set out to build a dream, even if that dream seems perilous. This stirring portrait of three Cuban exiles and their harrowing journey across the Caribbean Sea examines the universal themes of freedom and oppression, hope and survival.
Title: Blood Moon
Author: Kazan, Nicholas Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy drama - revenge three characters two male; one female two acts
Based on a true story. Manya, 19 and a college senior arrives with her sole surviving family (Uncle Gregory) at the swank New York apartment of Gregory's gangster friend Alan who is immediately attracted to Manya, and she's intrigued by him: an older man who's suave, cynical and charismatic. After a respectable interval, Gregory leaves. Alone with her, Alan cajoles Manya into revealing herself and then attacks her, first destroying her innocence and then raping her. A year later, Manya now in medical school, invites Alan to dinner and flirts with him, seemingly toying
Title: Blowfish
Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - drama - monologue - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male two acts
"What do food, funerals, the Edmonton tornado, and Mila Mulroney have in common? Join the caterer Lumiere as he serves you up a whole new eating experience." Title: Blue Dragons
Author: Armstrong, Gordon Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1993
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male two acts
Through memory and imagination, Simon searches for truth and the play explores relationships, the quality of living, and the nature of love in a world of cynicism, fear and AIDS.
Title: Blue Room, The
Author: Schnitzler, Arthur Hare, David Publisher: Faber and Faber 1998
Description:
roy drama - sex ten characters one male; one female (doubling) ten parts
Freely adapted by David Hare from Arthur Schnitzler's "La Ronde."
Arthur Schnitzler described REIGEN, his loose series of sexual sketches, as "completely unprintable," and indeed its premier in 1921 spurred an obscenity suit. It was only when Max Ophuls made his famous film on 1950 that the work became better known as La Ronde. Now David Hare has reset these circular scenes of love and betrayal in the present day, with a cast of two
Title: Blue/Orange
Author: Penhall, Joe Publisher: Methune 2001
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male three acts
'In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. An incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying NHS.'
Winner - Olivier Award for Best New Play - 2001 Evening Standard Best Play of the Year - 2000 Title: Boiler Room Suite
Author: Deverell, Rex Publisher: Talonbooks 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female two acts
"Deverall's play about two Skid Row winos who have climbed into the boiler room of an abandoned hotel on the Prairies to seek refuge from winter - and from the world, until it has turned more kind."
Winner, 1978 Canadian Authors' Association Award.
Title: Breath of Life, The
Author: Hare, David Publisher: Faber and Faber 2002
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female two acts
Gauguin's epithet serves as the motto for this moral tale of two women, both in their sixties, whose lives are interwoven in ways neither of them yet understands. Madeleine Palmer is a retired curator, living alone on the Isle of Wight. One day to her door comes Frances Beale, a woman she has met only once, who is now enjoying sudden success, late in life, as a popular novelist. The progress of a single night comes fascinatingly to echo the hidden course of their lives.
Title: Brindley Town A two-hander in three acts Author: Woolaver, Lance Gerrard Publisher: Gaspereau Press 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - Nova Scotia - drama all male cast; two characters two male three acts
When Bobby Langford arrives in Digby, Nova Scotia, looking for work as a cook on a fishing boat, he finds himself renting a room from Walter Letteney, a nervous eccentric and ne'er-do-well who occupies an old warehouse on the waterfront. What follows is a comic, compelling portrait of two men attempting to reconcile the contradictions of community life. The third play in his Digby County trilogy, 'Brindley Town' continues Woolaver's investigation of our society's racial and economic barriers and of the way in which the human spirit sometimes manages to overcome Title: Brothers Size, The
Author: McCraney, Tarell Alvin Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2013
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male two acts
In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison-mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.
Title: Busy World is Hushed, The
Author: Bunin, Keith Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2006
Description:
roy drama - family relations three characters two male; one female two acts
Hannah, a minister and Bible scholar, finds her faith at odds with that of Thomas, her estranged, wayward son. But when an inquisitive young writer hired to assist Hannah with her latest publication learns painful secrets from Hannah’s past, she spies a risky, unconventional opportunity for reconciliation.
Title: Cant and Canto A monodrama Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - monologue - biography - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male four acts
masks required.
A monodrama tracing the dramatic events in the controversial life of Ezra Pound [a poet]. Title: Careless Love
Author: Olive, John Publisher: Samuel French 1988
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female two acts
Here is a play about commitment and responsibility in love. Jack, an aspiring actor is serious about his career but not about his girlfriend Martha, an aspiring dancer. They drift along on a cloud of good times until Martha gets pregnant. By the time Jack realizes he wants to make an emotional commitment to Martha and their child, she has had the baby and put it up for adoption. Martha becomes a self sufficient contemporary woman; it is Jack who will hurt forever from the pain of eternal separation from his child.
Title: Caretaker, The
Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1963
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male three acts
1 interior set.
A tramp who has been taken in by a young man, sees the man's casual kindness and trust as a sign of simplicity and tries to gain control of the man's place. The arrival of the man's brother changes the picture drastically.
Title: Caretaker, The
Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1960
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male three acts
1 interior set.
A tramp who has been taken in by a young man, sees the man's casual kindness and trust as a sign of simplicity and tries to gain control of the man's place. The arrival of the man's brother changes the picture drastically. Title: Caribou
Author: Melski, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male eight scenes
'Set on a mountain, near an anonymous village along the Trans-Canada highway, 'Caribou' is a stark, unrelenting character study of two hunters in a savage October of the heart - Louis, a construction worker and his brother-in-law Duncan, mentally disordered since birth, and dependant on Louis and his wife Anne. One day, Louis and Duncan embark on a hunting trip. It is a last chance for both men, driven to the limit by love, each willing to kill for their right to exist. Loosely based on the myth of Isaac and Abraham, (the play) is about yearning and sacrifice, rites
Title: Catalpa
Author: O'Kelly, Donal Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1997
Description:
roy drama all male cast; one character one male two acts
In Massachusetts, 1875, Merchant Sea Captain George Anthony is pressed into rescuing Irish Fenian prisoners under the cover of a whaling expedition on the ship Catalpa. 120 years later, Matthew Kidd, demented, failed screenwriter is obsessed with his life's dream - making Catalpa, The Movie. In his bedroom, he rehearses his movie pitch, taking the audience on an epic adventure as he acts out every scene and plays every character.
Title: Cecil and Cleopaytra
Author: Libman, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female two acts
"An aged, formerly renowned, acting coach rekindles his interest in life when his day nurse becomes his next protege." Title: China Doll
Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama - political corruption all male cast; two characters two male two acts
"China Doll" is a play about a wealthy man, his young fiancé, and an airplane. The man has just bought a new plane as a wedding present for the girl. He intends to go into semiretirement, and enjoy himself. He’s in the process of leaving his office, and is giving last minute instructions to his young assistant. He takes one last phone call…
Title: Choke My Heart
Author: McBride, Celia Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2010
Description:
roy drama - family relations - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male two acts
Two brothers living on an isolated farm discover two giant artichokes. The "magic freak" of these gifts uncover dark family secrets buried in the past.
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: Closer and Closer Apart A play in two acts Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Miscellaneous 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts
"Born out of a one-act two-hander Stickland wrote in 1999, the play takes place entirely in Joe’s well-furnished high-rise condo. Joe's daughter, Melody, returns home from Vancouver on a stop-over to a new job in Arizona, coming to grips with her own divorce as she confronts not only her deteriorated father, but also her never-stop real estate agent brother Michael, a pragmatist whose day-to-day dealings with their dad have taken their toll, but whose cellphone is always ringing."
Title: Cold Storage
Author: Ribman, Ronald Publisher: Nelson Doubleday 1978
Description:
roy drama - friendships three characters two male; one female two acts
In hospital, friendship begins to grow between cancer patient and and emotionally scarred survivor of the Holocaust.
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: Come Good Rain
Author: Seremba, George Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Africa all male cast; thirty-one characters one male (doubling) two acts
Set in Uganda during the turbulent and murderous regimes of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, 'Come Good Rain' chronicles George Seremba's life as a young man growing up and witnessing the reckless abandon with which the "Pearl of Africa" becomes its own festering curse. While pursuing studies in literature and drama, he becomes swept up in the polarized tide of power struggles, living with a constant fear for his companions, contemporaries and most of all, his family. Combining African mythology, history, and dynamic narrative, this play emerges finally as a
Title: Compulsory Option
Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Miscellaneous 1970
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female three acts
Alberta Playwriting Competition, 1970, 2nd Prize.
No abstract available.
Title: Cryptogram, The
Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Vintage Books 1995
Description:
roy tragedy - short play three characters one male; one female; one boy two acts
In this gripping short play, David Mamet combines mercurial intelligence with genuinely Hitchcockian menace. The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing—the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a place full of dangers. On a night in 1959 a boy is waiting to go on a camping trip with his father. His mother wants him to go to sleep. A family friend is trying to entertain them—or perhaps distract them. Because in the dark corners of this domestic scene, there are rustlings that none of the players want to hear. And Title: Cryptogram, The
Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1995
Description:
roy tragedy three characters one male; one female; one boy two acts
In this gripping short play, David Mamet combines mercurial intelligence with genuinely Hitchcockian menace. The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing—the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a place full of dangers. On a night in 1959 a boy is waiting to go on a camping trip with his father. His mother wants him to go to sleep. A family friend is trying to entertain them—or perhaps distract them. Because in the dark corners of this domestic scene, there are rustlings that none of the players want to hear. And
Title: D'Arcy A docu-drama Author: Dempsey, Sandra Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1981
Description:
roy Canadian - monologues - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male two acts
1 setting; background music.
"One man play about life of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish by birth, a poet, rebel and journalist who became known as Father of Confederation in Canada."
Title: Dance of Death, The in - Plays: Three - Conor McPherson / COL Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2013
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female two acts
An adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1900 play The Dance of Death, about a titanic battle of wills between a husband and wife. On an isolated island, military captain Edgar and his wife Alice live a bitter life, their marriage soured by hatred. When the possibility of redemption and escape arrives for Alice in the shape of their former comrade Kurt, it seems that Edgar is prepared to use his very last breath to make their lives a living hell. Title: Dancing in Poppies
Author: Bowen, Gail Marken, Ron Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1992
Description:
roy drama - war three characters two male; one female two acts
Two young veterans and a nursing volunteer adjust to life after World War I. With growing confidence, they discover peace and love in a socially and politically dynamic Canada.
Title: Dangerous Obsession
Author: Crisp, N. J. Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female two acts
A man obsessed with pinning the blame for his wife's accident on someone enters the Driscoll home and shatters their marriage.
Title: Dazzle, The
Author: Greenberg, Richard Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003
Description:
roy drama - relationships three characters two male; one female two acts
In their Harlem mansion, during the early years of the twentieth century, the Collyer brothers share an eccentric life, still within reason. Langley is a concert pianist by profession but prefers his studies of the world's minutiae, all of which he considers collectible. His older brother, Homer, a former admiralty lawyer and aspiring intrigant, maintains the household and dreams of wilder times. These seem about to begin when the beautiful socialite Milly inserts herself into the Collyer ménage, bringing with her money, secrets and designs on Langley. As the first act Title: Dead Eye Boy, The
Author: MacLachlan, Angus Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2002
Description:
roy drama - relationships three characters one male; one female; one boy two acts
Fierce, mercurial Shirley-Diane met Billy, an ex-con, and fell in love with him at their Narcotics Anonymous meeting. Together the two of them are striving for a clean life, attempting to overcome rough youths, bouts with hard drugs and, for Billy, jail time and the marine corps. Soren, the self-described "Dead Eye Boy," is Shirley-Diane's fourteen-year-old son and the damaged reminder of her dark past, his eye having been malformed in childbirth. For Billy, Soren is not only a reflection of his own painful childhood but a chance for redemption.
Title: Deadly Murder
Author: Foley, David Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy drama - mystery - thriller three characters two male; one female two acts
1 interior; running time: 105 min.
Camille Dargus has fought her way up from humble beginnings to a glittering Manhattan lifestyle. She has beauty, brains, wealth, and a successful career as a jewelry designer for the leading lights of New York society. She also has a penchant for attractive young men. One night at a society gala she meets Billy, a handsome young waiter, and brings him back to her Soho apartment. But there's
Title: Dear Elizabeth A play in letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and back again Author: Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
Description:
roy drama - biography - poetry - friendship two characters one male; one female two acts
Between 1947 to 1977, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop exchanged more than four hundred letters. Describing the writing of their poems, their travel and daily illnesses, the pyrotechnics of their romantic relationships, and the profound affection they held for each other, these missives are the most intimate record available of both poets, and one of the greatest correspondences in American literature. The playwright Sarah Ruhl fell in love with these letters and set herself an unusual challenge: to Title: Dear Love
Author: Kilty, Jerome Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama - biography two characters one male; one female two acts
1 set.
Based on the poems and love letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, the play traces the two years of courtship prior to their marriage.
Title: Death and the Maiden
Author: Dorfman, Ariel Publisher: Penguin Books 1991
Description:
roy drama - thriller three characters two male; one female three acts
The time is the present and the place, a country that is probably Chile but could by any country that has given itself a democratic government just after a long period of dictatorship. The period is the immediate aftermath of the dictatorship. The events take place at a beach house on the night that the lawyer, Gerardo, is asked to investigate the crimes of the recent past. The wife, Paulina, was one such victim... And when Roberto gives her husband a lift after his tire blows out, she recognizes in his voice the suave menace of the doctor who raped her, who judged how much
Title: Designated Mourner, The
Author: Shawn, Wallace Publisher: Noonday Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - relationships three characters two male; one female two acts
"Woven out of three monologues in what one reviewer called "a triple sonata of oppression and incomprehension", Wallace Shawn's new play is a masterful drama about the self, politics, and the pursuit of aesthetic subtleties in brutal times. The three characters are the eponymous designated mourner, Jack; his wife, Judy; and Judy's erudite father, Howard. Despite a passionate bond with her father, Judy is drawn to Jack, whose taste in cultural forms follows a disturbing path. When abandons both Judy and Howard, he continues his riveting societal free-fall into a world of Title: Domino Heart, The
Author: Edison, Matthew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female four parts
Cara's husband is killed in a car accident. Mortimer is sleepless in his hospital room. Leo is camped out in his office at Lucas, Triggs & Berkoff. In the night sky above, a helicopter carries the organ that will connect them all.
Title: Double Double
Author: Elice, Eric Rees, Roger Publisher: Samuel French 1986
Description:
roy drama - mystery - thriller - romance two characters one male; one female two acts
Phillipa James has plucked down and out Duncan McFee from London's Embankment and installed him in a luxury apartment, purely as a business arrangement based on Duncan's uncanny resemblance to her late husband Richard who unfortunately died just prior to his forty fifth birthday when he would inherit a million pounds. All Duncan has to do for a half share is impersonate Richard at a birthday party and convince the family solicitor that Richard is alive, well and still married to Phillipa. But Phillipa didn't expect to fall in love with Duncan and has she told
Title: Duet for One
Author: Kempinski, Tom Publisher: Samuel French 1981
Description:
roy drama - psychology two characters one male; one female two acts
background music.
Several emotionally tense sessions between psychiatrist and woman violinist confined to wheelchair lead to significant psychological revelations on both their parts. Title: Dumb Show
Author: Penhall, Joe Publisher: Methuen 2004
Description:
roy drama - American three characters two male; one female two acts
"Courted at the end of his show by bankers John and Jane, TV star Barry believes he is to get the 5-star treatment that he deserves. However urged to provide a candid account of his off-stage life and views, the Barry that emerges is the least of the surprises in the tense game of power and manipulation that ensues."
Title: Duo For Obstinate Voices
Author: Pelletier, Maryse Publisher: Guernica Editions 1990
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian three characters two male; one female six acts
This psychological drama explores the relationship between a man in his thirties and a woman some ten years younger who are unable to love without hurting each other. This difficult relationship lasts five years, during which Catherine becomes increasingly self-reliant and Philippe flounders in increasing self-contradictions. The first in a trilogy of more personal plays, Duo examines contemporary love relationships in the West. It is more experimental in structure and style than the playwright’s previous plays.
Title: Echoes
Author: Nash, N. Richard Publisher: Samuel French 1973
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
A young man and woman build a low-keyed paradise of happiness within an asylum, only to have it shattered by the intrusion of the outside world. The two characters search, at times agonizingly, to determine the difference between illusion and reality. The effort is lightened by moments of shared love and pretend games. Title: Eleemosynary
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1987
Description:
roy drama all female cast; three characters three female seven scenes
'Family drama examines subtle relationship between young girl, her mother and grandmother.'
Title: Elvis and Mavis - Full Length Version
Author: Pitcher, Jeff Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragicomedy three characters one male; two female two acts
running time: 105 min.
An unemployed Newfoundlander sits atop the Churchill Falls Hydro Dam in Labrador threatening to blow it up unless the contract between Newfoundland and Quebec over rights to the falls is renegotiated. His wife, Mavis, sits at home trying to figure out if it was something she said – “a very human drama.”
Title: Espresso
Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2002
Description:
roy drama - family relations - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
'Espresso is a shot of caffeine, Italian family, death and Catholic erotic mysticism. Rosa unfolds the story of her father's car accident and how it affects the lives of the three women who love him the most: his daughter, his mother and his wife. Meanwhile, Amante, the second uninvited narrator, bursts into the story when Rosa avoids the truth, skips over parts, or is unable to continue.' Title: Everythings Turning into Beautiful
Author: Rosenfeld, Seth Zvi James, Jimmie Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy romance - drama two characters one male; one female two acts
songs by Jimmie James.
This play with music takes place late one Christmas Eve in lonely New York City, when a couple of down-on-their-luck songwriting partners, hitless, loveless, and facing their forties, come together for a night of composing and soul-searching. This “musical story” finds Sam and Brenda facing the light of a new day and confronting a practical matter: they don’t want to mess up their
Title: Exercise, The
Author: Carlino, Lewis John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1968
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female two acts
bare stage.
An actor and actress rehearsing out scenes together for the play they are in wind up doing improvisations that delve into their personal problems and the past that they had shared together.
Title: Exile
Author: Crail, Archie Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1990
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Africa - black - women three characters one male; two female two acts
Two South African women meet after a separation of twenty years. Sarah, seeking a rekindling of her activist youth, searches out Elizabeth, an exiled fiery labour leader, only to find her fallen into solitary obscurity, numbed by alcohol, and living in a shack on the outskirts of Soweto.
1989 winner of the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild Literary Competition Title: Faith Healer
Author: Friel, Brian Publisher: Faber and Faber 1980
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female four parts
"In the course of four monologues the story unfolds of the travelling healer Frank who has gone all over Wales and Scotland with his wife Grace, and his manager Teddy. In their respective monologues, Frank, Grace and Teddy tell their differing versions of the healer's performance and of a terrible event that slowly comes into focus."
Title: Faith Healer
Author: Friel, Brian Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy drama - monologues three characters two male; one female four parts
"In the course of four monologues the story unfolds of the travelling healer Frank who has gone all over Wales and Scotland with his wife Grace, and his manager Teddy. In their respective monologues, Frank, Grace and Teddy tell their differing versions of the healer's performance and of a terrible event that slowly comes into focus."
Title: Falling out of Place
Author: Stearns, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003
Description:
roy drama - western three characters two male; one female two acts
running time: 110 minutes.
'A Cowboy tale of love and intrigue. Takes place in 1912, during a January winter. Guy McCauley is found dead, lying in a snow bank beside his broken sleigh. His widow, a young and lovely actress, is left alone with the hired hand. An old friend comes to visit, a cowboy musician who's spent too many years drifting in the saddle. As the play unfolds, it becomes clear that all three of Title: Famous
Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - friendship - murder all female cast; two characters two female two acts
running time: 110 min.
Kit's best friend is accused of a series of shocking murders, and the TV talk shows are calling. They say she'll be "famous for friendship".
Title: Faraway Nearby, The
Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1995
Description:
roy drama - biography - relationships - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female three parts
'In John Murrell's "The Faraway Nearby", Georgia O'Keefe resigns herself to an old age spent in the auburn and tawny light of her beloved Faraway mountains without the company of others until a stranger enters her life. Juan Hamilton, a young artist and handyman, befriends the elderly O'Keefe, becoming the eyes for the almost-blind artist, and the cushion between her and the outside world. Hamilton remained O'Keefe's companion for over a decade, and it is in the complexities of this friendship that John Murrell explores the uncompromising nature of the artist
Title: Fen
Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy drama - life seven characters one male; six female twenty-one scenes
1 set.
"The play looks at the work situation and their private lives and dreams. In particular, we follow the story of Val, who leaves her husband and children to live with a farmworker, Frank. Other characters include Angela, the outsider who torments her stepdaughter Becky; Alice, who has turned to religion; Nell, who tries to assert her rights against the farmer; Shirley, who prides Title: Fires in the Mirror Crown Heights, Brooklyn and other identities Author: Smith, Anna Deavere Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1997
Description:
roy drama - American - solo performance - woman all female cast; One character one female sketches
Theatre piece about racial tension following 1991 death of black child and Hasidic scholar in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Title: First Night of Pygmalion, The
Author: Huggett, Richard Publisher: Faber and Faber 1970
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female two acts
Making full use of contemporary letter.
Title: Flytrap
Author: Freeman, David E. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters two male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
Ruthie and Bobby bring Stanley into their already troubled relationship to see how far they can push each other. They end up pushing Stanley over the edge, but manage to keep their menage-a-trois together. Title: Four Seasons, The
Author: Wesker, Arnold Publisher: Johnathan Cape 1971
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female two parts
'Man and woman once disillusioned in love seek happiness with each other and fail again.'
Title: Fox, The
Author: Miller, Allan Publisher: Samuel French 1982
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female three acts
Based on the short novel by D.H. Lawrence. 'Two English women in their 30's are struggling to run an isolated farm, but the hens have stopped laying and the hen-house is being raided by a fox. Enter a young soldier who is such an engaging and capable fellow that he is invited to stay on as a hired hand. Who is this mysterious man who eventually dominates on the farm?'
Title: Fronteras Americanas American Borders Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Coach House Press 1993
Description:
roy drama - geography all male cast; two characters two male two acts
A meditation and critique of geography and cartography. A struggle to construct a home between two cultures.
Governor General's Drama Award Finalist, 1993. Title: Fronteras Americanas (revised) American Borders Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy drama - geography - Canadian all male cast; one character one male two acts
Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence and wit, "Fronteras Americanas" recreates one person’s struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. This one-person play works through bold juxtapositions and satiric reference points: Simón Bolívar and Speedy Gonzales; Columbus and Fodor’s travel guides; Ricky Ricardo and the Latin Lover; La Bamba and Placido Domingo; Carlos Fuentes and American drug-war movies. Verdecchia twirls stereotypes and clichés, offers
Title: Gertrude and Ophelia As published in Theatrum Magazine (April/May 1993) / PER Author: Clarke, Margaret Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama - theatre - Alberta playwright six characters one male; two female two acts
A rehearsal for the play, "Gertrude and Ophelia".
Title: Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein A one-character play Author: Martin, Marty Publisher: Random House 1980
Description:
roy drama - monologue all female cast; one character one female two acts
An imaginary monologue by Gertrude Stein set on the eve of her eviction from the famous studio at 27 rue de Fleurus. Title: Get Away
Author: MacArthur, Greg Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005
Description:
roy drama - thriller three characters two male; one female two acts
Everyone's an animal - but only some are predators. A remote getaway. A cabin in the woods. Peace of mind. Or so David thinks, until he invites two young drifters to stay, in this spooky tale about danger and desire by one of Canada's freshest, most compelling young playwrights.
Title: God and the Indian
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - abuse - Native playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
setting: the assistant bishop's office, located in an old mansion that has been converted to offices; time: early 2000s.
While panhandling outside a coffee shop, Johnny, a Cree woman who lives on the streets, is shocked to recognize a face from her childhood, which was spent in a residential school. Desperate to hear the man acknowledge the terrible abuse he inflicted on her and other children
Title: Golden Age, The
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1979
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female two acts
The play takes place in a once elegant townhouse in Manhattan, the home of Isabel Hastings Hoyt, an aging but still charming recluse who had been a glittering figure in the literary salons of the 1920s. Now short of money, Mrs. Hoyt is concerned about the future of her granddaughter, Virginia, a twice-divorced near-alcoholic whom she hopes to see securely married before she herself, as she puts it, "kicks the bucket." In earlier years, Mrs. Hoyt was friend and confidante of many world figures, especially F. Scott Fitzgerald who, it is rumored, used her as the model of Title: Grandkid, The
Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy drama - family relations - Jewish two characters one male; one female two acts
Julius Rothstein and his granddaughter Abby have loved each other from opposite ends of Canada since Abby was born. But now Abby is moving in with him to be close to school and to keep her newly widowed grandfather company. The two must negotiate a new relationship as housemates and friends, which means dealing with issues of youth and age, work and play, activism and apathy, homework and heart attacks, and those three tricky topics: sex, politics, and religion.
Title: Haunting, The
Author: Dickens, Charles Janes, Hugh Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2011
Description:
roy mystery - ghost stories - terror three characters two male; one female (doubling possible) two acts
adaptation by Hugh Janes
In an ancient, crumbling mansion, sheltering from the howling winds that tear across the surrounding desolate moorland, two men stumble across a dark and terrifying secret that will change both of their lives. When a young book dealer, David Filde, is employed by a former associate of his uncle to catalogue a private library, he finds an incredible array of rare and
Title: Hello and Goodbye
Author: Fugard, Athol Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy drama - African - family relations two characters one male; one female two acts
"A South African is visited by his sister after a long absence. He says he and Dad have been getting along, but she can't talk to him because he's asleep. Sister has really come home because she believes Dad has secreted 500 pounds somewhere in the house and she wants to make a deal with her brother. Their memories work back and forth, and the brother tries to keep passions down so that father will not be awakened. But the terrible truths of this family drama develop into an image of the disastrous plight of South Africa. Father is dead; the only inheritance they have is Title: His Greatness
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - playwrights all male cast; three characters; two voices three male two acts
Three men, a great American playwright, his trusted and loyal assistant, and a young Canadian street hustler, find themselves together for two days in a hotel room in Vancouver. This is the story about the nature of life in a created world. Winner of the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script
Title: Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad
Author: Melski, Michael Publisher: Breton Books 2001
Description:
roy romance two characters one male; one female two acts
1 interior.
Divorced dad courts divorced mom as they watch their sons play hockey.
Title: Hosanna
Author: Tremblay, Michel Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male two acts
1 interior set; translated by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco.
Homosexual transvestite, humiliated by practical joke, assesses his life and relationship with lover. Title: I am A Woman
Author: Lindfors, Viveca Austin, Paul Publisher: Natalie Slohm Associates 1976
Description:
roy drama all female cast; one character one female two acts
1 set.
A collage of excerpts of works about women depicting their struggle and growth. It can be played be several women.
Title: I am my own Wife
Author: Wright, Doug Publisher: Faber and Faber 2004
Description:
roy drama - biography all male cast; one character one male two acts
A tour-de-force one-man show that explores, through the emergence of forty different characters, the extraordinary true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. An East Berlin transvestite and celebrated collector of Wilhelm II antiques, von Mahlsdorf successfully navigated the two most oppressive regimes of the twentieth century - the Nazi's and the Communists - while openly gay and defiantly in drag and was, incredibly, distinguished with Germany's Order of Merit after the wall came down. Winner - Pulitzer Prize.
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: Illegal Entry
Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; three characters three male three acts
Three teens escape from a group home for young offenders, intending to head out to the west-coast and freedom. To raise funds for this enabling enterprise, they attempt to burglarize a house. Things take an unexpected turn when they suddenly find themselves trapped in the garage. One of them happens upon an electric sander and they decide to sand their way to freedom.
Title: In a Blue Moon
Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Talonbooks 2016
Description:
roy drama - grief - family relationships - Canadian playwright three characters one male; two female two acts
When Frankie’s dad dies, her mom, Ava, can’t afford to live in the city anymore. The only asset they’re left with is a farmhouse situated on twenty acres of land far outside of town. Ava decides to move there and start an Ayurveda clinic on the property, giving her precocious and grieving daughter a new start. One problem presents itself, though: a squatter who won’t leave. Will, professional photographer, long-estranged brother-in-law to Ava, and uncle to Frankie, lives rent-free on the farm and isn’t eager to give up his space. While mother and daughter face the
Title: In a Dark Dark House Off-broadway edition Author: LaBute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 2007
Description:
roy drama - abuse three characters two male; one female three parts
On the grounds of a private psychiatric facility, two brothers confront each other. Drew has been court-confined for observation, and he has called his older brother, Terry, to corroborate his claim of childhood sexual abuse by a young man many summers ago. Drew's request releases barely hidden animosities between the two men: Is he using these repressed memories to save himself while smearing the name of his brother's friend? Through pain and acknowledged betrayal, the brothers come to grips with and begin to understand the legacy of abuse, both Title: In Confidence
Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1994
Description:
roy drama - monologues all female cast; two characters two female two acts
"In Confidence features two monologues by two different women in two different kitchens in two different cities three thousand miles apart - this simple conceit is all Hollingsworth needs to create a complex portrait of a friendship hampered by dark secrets in each woman's marriage."
Title: In the Sawtooths
Author: Madden, Dano Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy drama - friendship all male cast; three characters three male two acts
Oby, Nellie and Darin have been friends since high school. Now in their thirties, they have become busier in their lives, but one thing remains constant: their annual backpacking adventure in the mountains of Idaho. As their trip nears and they have made all of the necessary preparations to survive in the outdoors, their lives are suddenly shattered by tragedy. What ensues is a true test of an old friendship. Can Oby, Nellie and Darin remain friends as they desperately try to navigate through an immense and unexpected wilderness?
Title: In Their Nightgowns, Dancing A play Author: Armstrong, Michael Publisher: UNBC Press 2005
Description:
roy Canadian - drama two characters; chorus one male; one female two acts
" "In Their Nightgowns, Dancing" explores the diversity of the Canadian immigrant story through the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia." - University of Victoria, Alumni Title: Infinity
Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Kie, Njo Kong Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - music - relationships - time three characters one male; two female two acts
Sarah Jean is a mathematics prodigy who finds safety in numbers, in the reliability of their defined nature. Her affinity for unhealthy relationships, however, remains a complete mystery. Her flings turn into year-long relationships against her better judgment and her confusing emotional patterns are only now coming to light. It’s time for Sarah Jean to make sense of her past in terms she understands and to discover there is more to time than just its inevitable passing. Elliot is a theoretical physicist who spends most of his time thinking about time and how to unify all
Title: Intimate Admiration
Author: Epp, Richard Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical two characters one male; one female four acts
"Based on the correspondence between Anton Chekov and Olga Knipper, star of the Moscow Art Theatre, the play traces their relationship from an affectionate admiration of each other's work, to a passionate and often stormy marriage."
Title: John Brown's Body
Author: Benet, Stephen Vincent Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1961
Description:
roy drama - poem three characters; extras two male; one female two acts
1 set.
A stage adaptation of Benet's epic poem beginning with John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry and continuing through the Civil War, telling much of it from the points of view of Jack Ellyat, a Northern soldier, and Clay Wingate, a Southern soldier. The families and backgrounds of both men are woven into the action of the poem, as are their romances. Title: Jump/Cut
Author: Beber, Neena Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy drama - documentary - mental illness three characters two male; one female two acts
"Three bright urbanites want to make their mark on the world. Paul, a master of irony and distance, is a hardworking film maker on the rise. His girlfriend Karen, a grad student, must get on with her thesis or find a life outside of academia. Dave, a life long buddy whose brilliance is being consumed by increasingly severe episodes of manic depression, is camping on Paul's couch. Paul and Karen decide to turn Dave into a documentary. The camera is on 24 hours a day, capturing up close images of his jags and torpors and their responses. How far will love,
Title: Karla and Grif
Author: Laxdal, Vivienne Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1991
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ three characters one male; two female two acts
'Haunted by the explosive love of her obsessive father and the memories of a friendship crossing emotional and physical boundaries, Karla holds Grif hostage one suspenseful night in an attempt to alleviate her pain and confusion.'
Winner! Full length Category - Canadian National Playwriting Competition.
Title: Killing Time
Author: Stockwell, Richard Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999
Description:
roy thriller - murder two characters one male; one female two acts
"A chance meeting brings Rick and Jane together at Rick's house in this clever and challenging thriller. At first, their conversation seems innocent. Gradually the truth emerges: it is not Rick's house at all; he engineered their meeting; he knows about Jane's marriage to a violent and unsavoury man and he wants that man dead for his own reasons. Jane is happy with his plan, but she is not what she appears to be either. The encounter becomes combative as the characters alternate between predator and prey." Title: Kingdom of Earth; or, The Seven Descents of Myrtle
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female seven scenes
unit set.
A young man dying of tuberculosis returns to his ancestral home with his new bride, a girl with a dubious past and romantic ideas of love and marriage. The girl's ideals are shattered when she learns that the only reason she is there is to steal back the deed to the home which the man had sold to his half-brother in a moment of weakness.
Title: Kiss Of The Spider Woman
Author: Puig, Manuel Baker, Allan Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1987
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female two acts
'Set in Buenos Aires jail. Attempts by secretly pardoned homosexual offender to extract information from Marxist revolutionary cellmate dissolve when false friendship becomes real.'
Title: Known Soldier, The
Author: Pitcher, Jeff Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1982
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - life - Newfoundland all male cast; three characters three male two acts
running time: 100 min.
Follows the life of Sgt. Thomas Ricketts from Middle Arm, Newfoundland, from a boy in the small outport to his winning the prestigious Victoria Cross in WWI (the youngest ever to do so) to his final days as a reclusive war hero in St. John's. Title: Lake No Bottom
Author: Weller, Michael Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - love - marriage three characters two male; one female two acts
This comic drama involves a literary critic and his wife who have retired to an idyllic New England lake. Their weekend visitor, a promising novelist whose work was discovered by the critic, has just published a kiss and tell trashy best seller. Ostensibly, the young author is stopping by on his way to lecture at a nearby college. In fact, he has come to see the wife, his former lover whom he still desires. She is bored in the boondocks and willingly resumes the affair. When her husband finds out, he suggests that they settle the matter like gentlemen do in books with dueling
Title: Later
Author: Jacker, Corinne Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1979
Description:
roy drama all female cast; three characters three female two acts
2 sets.
A widow and her two daughters are finally able to resolve their feelings about their father and husband one year after his death.
Title: Lesson from Aloes, A
Author: Fugard, Athol Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1981
Description:
roy drama - relationships - politics three characters two male; one female two acts
Athol Fugard's uncanny ability to capture the nuances of intense interpersonal relationships ultimately illuminates issues of major social and political importance, In this play he depicts the reunion of two former political activists, Piet Bezuidenhout and Steve Daniels, on the eve of Steve's departure from South Africa to exile in England. Prodded by Piet's nervous wife, they confront each other and the events which led to their sudden falling out years ago. Fugard's poetic dialogue heightens the raw emotion of the characters, leaving readers and playgoers deeply Title: Letters in Wartime
Author: Brown, Kenneth Scriver, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - war - romance - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
"During World War II, Allan, a young RCAF pilot, and Moira, an auxiliary worker at the Blatchford Field in Edmonton, try desperately to maintain their long-distance relationship. But is the printed word enough to keep love alive in a world turned upside down?"
Title: Lillian
Author: Luce, William Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1986
Description:
roy drama - biography - solo performance - American - women all female cast; one character one female two acts
The setting is an austere waiting room in a New York hospital, where Lillian Hellman awaits the death of her longtime companion, Dashiell Hammett. As she maintains her vigil, Miss Hellman's mind is flooded with memories: her exciting but tempestuous years with Hammett; her girlhood in New Orleans and New York; reminiscences of her beloved parents; and her days of success and failure as an artist and a public figure committed to liberal causes (some of which brought her into sharp conflict with the powers-that-be). With occasional pauses to peer into the adjoining
Title: Lilly, Alta.
Author: Dyba, Kenneth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright three characters; extras one male; two female two acts
"When two lovers attempt to free themselves from the obsessive matriarch who rules Lilly, Alberta, they unleash a chain of events which forever alters this small prairie town. The play is set in 1952, underscored with song and music, and punctuated with the comic antics and dramatic entanglements of the town's forty-six colourful human, animal and bird characters." Title: Line in the Sand, A
Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Youssef, Marcus Publisher: Talonbooks 1997
Description:
roy drama - war - Canadian all male cast; three characters three male three acts
In the autumn of 1990, during Operation Desert Storm, two young men, one a troubled Canadian soldier, the other a teenage Palestinian black-marketeer, meet in the scorched Qatari desert. Breaching the divide of a profound cultural misunderstanding and against a backdrop of massive global conflict, these two become unlikely and secret friends. This tenuous friendship is severed by the torture and murder of the 16-year-old Palestinian inside the Canadian base—an act to which the Canadian soldier was at least a witness and perhaps a willing participant. Weaving
Title: Live With It
Author: Moore, Elise Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; two characters two male two acts
"Hurt, anger and rage permeate this chronicle of Joe Orton's rise to fame as a daring London playwright and the jealous frustration of his lover and murderer, Ken Halliwell."
Title: Lonely Planet
Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994
Description:
roy drama - AIDS all male cast; two characters two male two acts
"Jody is in his forties and runs a map store. Not one for the outside world, he stays in his store all the time. His friend, Carl is in his late thirties and has been bringing chairs of dead friends into Jody's store and leaving them there. When Jody needs to take an AIDS test, Carl tries to convince him it is not only okay to leave the store, but also that he must take responsibility for his life. If he doesn't he will join the set of chairs that Carl has taken great pains to place in the right spots around the store." Title: Love Letters
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1989
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female two parts
'Traces epistolary romance from grade school through middle age.'
Title: Lucky Strike
Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters two male; one female seven scenes
1 interior set.
On the run and holed up in a North African warehouse, a trio of B-movie renegades is trapped in a twilight zone of film noir. A desperate young gunman gasps out his last hours, blood oozing from his wound onto the grimy warehouse floor. Half-mad with pain, he recalls the events leading to this deadend retreat; he, his unfaithful moll, and his sinister partner-in-crime go through the
Title: Maggie and Pierre
Author: Griffiths, Linda Thompson, Paul Publisher: Talonbooks 1980
Description:
roy drama - political - relationships three characters two male; one female two acts
A fantasy of love, politics and the media. The play is "a tantalizing refresher course on the libido of Canada's most enigmatic politician".
Winner! Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, 1980. Title: Majority of Two, A
Author: Hibbert, Alun Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian two characters one male; one female two acts
John and Sophie have very different ideas about life after retirement. They lock horns in a battle of wits and wills. As the harsh winds of a Quebec in turmoil blow through their tidy Montreal rose garden, they are forced to reassess their dreams.
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: Marriage Play
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995
Description:
roy drama - marital relations two characters one male; one female full length
1 interior.
"Husband and wife discuss dissolution of 30 year marriage that has survived infidelity, familiarity and boredom." Title: Mass Appeal
Author: Davis, Bill C. Publisher: Plays in Process 1980
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male two acts
1 interior set.
The faith of a radical young seminarian recharges an older priest with a secure parish and motivates him to re-examine his own beliefs.
Title: Mass Appeal
Author: Davis, Bill C. Publisher: Avon Books 1981
Description:
roy drama - religious all male cast; two characters two male two acts
1 interior set.
The faith of a radical young seminarian recharges an older priest with a secure parish and motivates him to re-examine his own beliefs.
Title: McClure
Author: Scott, Munroe Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1988
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - biography all male cast; one character one male two acts
Set in China, "McClure" is the story of Doctor Robert Baird McClure's twenty-five adventurous, dangerous years there as 'dai fu', a doctor. McClure arrives in China in 1926 as a young bachelor. War is ever-present: the Nationalists fight the Communists, both parties fight the Japanese, and then Mao and the Communists take over the country. The story ends with the doctor's prayer to God for peace in this troubled land. This is a one-man play, with the actor playing not only McClure but also other characters, from a Scottish university registrar to a Chinese warlord. Title: Memoir A play about Sarah Bernhardt's last summer Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Avon Books 1978
Description:
roy Canadian drama - women - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
Sarah Bernhardt's seventy-seventh and last summer.
Title: Michel and Ti-Jean A play Author: Rideout, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; two characters two male two acts
"Michel and Ti-Jean" invites you into an imagined conversation between Jack Kerouac and Michel Tremblay set in 1969, a time when Tremblay has just achieved amazing success with "Les Belles-Soeurs", the first play to be performed in Québécois French, and Kerouac is deep in the bottle following the success of "On the Road", but at odds with critics over his newer work. Playwright George Rideout imagines a meeting where two inaccessible giants - Kerouac, a creator of the most dazzling sound movies and a voice of America, and Tremblay, the maker of the most
Title: Misery
Author: King, Stephen Moore, Simon Publisher: Samuel French 1999
Description:
roy thriller three characters one male; two female two acts
adapted by Simon Moore
Popular romance novelist Paul Sheldon retires each winter to Colorado to write another work featuring heroine Misery Chastain. Driving while inebriated, he loses control of his car. He regains consciousness in a dilapidated farmhouse that is cut off from the outside world by a blizzard. Annie, the schizophrenic occupant, is his number one fan and she insists she will nurse Title: Molly Sweeney
Author: Friel, Brian Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1996
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female⌦two acts
suggested for high school. Three points of view about a poignant drama are related by three characters addressing the audience directly. First there is Molly, blind since early infancy, who describes her world before and after an operation to restore some of her sight. Her husband, Frank, who pushed Molly into this operation, relates his view of his wife's journey into sightedness and his dealings with her doctor. Molly's once-famous eye surgeon, Mr. Rice, watches both Molly and Frank and reveals his opinion of them along with his own fears in handling the operation. Through it all we see each
Title: Mrs. Dexter and Her Daily
Author: Glass, Joanna McClelland Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2012
Description:
roy drama - women - aging all female cast; two characters two female two acts
A play about the very different lives of two women, each distinctly shaped by betrayal, money, love, and friendship. For the past ten years Edith Dexter has employed Peggy Randall as her housekeeper, but the time has come for them to part ways: Mrs. Dexter is moving after a difficult divorce. Before they can say goodbye, the women must prepare the house for potential buyers. As they go about their domestic tasks, both reflect on the hardships they have faced and on their fears of growing old alone. Though very different in class and culture, their lives have become
Title: My Children! My Africa!
Author: Fugard, Athol Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1989
Description:
roy drama - political - apartheid three characters two male; one female two acts
Generational conflict over the most effective means for ending apartheid in South Africa leads to an explosive confrontation between a gifted but impatient black township youth and his devoted but 'old-fashioned' black teacher in this deeply felt and richly imagined drama first presented in the United States in 1989 by the New York Theatre Workshop. The unexpected involvement of a young white woman who befriends and learns from both men strips away the political trappings to reveal the human trauma at the heart of South Africa's ongoing tragedy. Title: My Name is Asher Lev
Author: Potok, Chaim Posner, Aaron Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2010
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female four movements
adapted by Aaron Posner
MY NAME IS ASHER LEV follows the journey of a young Jewish painter torn between his Hassidic upbringing and his desperate need to fulfill his artistic promise. When his artistic genius threatens to destroy his relationship with his parents and community, young Asher realizes he must make a difficult choice between art and faith. This stirring adaptation of a modern classic
Title: My Sister's Keeper
Author: Allan, Ted Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1969
Description:
roy drama - mental illness two characters one male: one female two acts
"The play is set in London, England, flat of Robert, a university lecturer from Canada. His sister Sarah comes from Canada to visit. We learn she has a history of mental illness. We learn they have been deeply emotionally involved and that he feels guilty for her illness. We also learn to ask a question: which one of them is the mentally ill one?"
Title: My Zinc Bed
Author: Hare, David Publisher: Faber and Faber 2000
Description:
roy drama - romance - addiction three characters two male; one female two acts
"My Zinc Bed continues the run of work in which David Hare has sought to describe the atmosphere of contemporary Britain. A successful entrepreneur, Victor Quinn, employs young journalist and poet, recovered alcoholic Paul Peplow, to write advertising copy for his fast growing Internet business. However Paul is now addicted to Alcoholics Anonymous and with Victor’s sexy young wife, who has also conquered alcohol and cocaine only to deny Victor the children he craves, the three together make for a compelling ménage of romance and addiction." Title: Ned and Jack
Author: Rosen, Sheldon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all male cast; three characters three male two acts
1 interior set.
After his brilliant Broadway opening as Hamlet, actor John Barrymore climbs the fire escape for a late-night visit with playwright Edward Sheldon. The play captures both men at a moment when their personal and professional lives are faced with abrupt change.
Title: Noam Chomsky Lectures, The
Author: Brooks, Daniel Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Talonbooks 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - lecture all male cast; two characters two male two parts; lecture format
"Ordinarily, theatre relies on illusion in order to reveal truths; this play relies on truths in order to reveal illusion. Following the impetus of Chomsky himself, Brooks and Verdeccchia have recognized the mass media, mass spectacle, have trivialized and severed consciousness and conscience, separating both from a communal base. We collectively know little about what is done in our name by our elected governments and the business interests they serve. The play assumes not only that we do want to know, that our "knowing together" may change things, but it is also
Title: Nocturne A play Author: Rapp, Adam Publisher: Faber and Faber 2002
Description:
roy drama - family relations - monologue all male cast; one character one male; extras two acts
"Fifteen years ago I killed my sister." So begins Adam Rapp's highly acclaimed play "Nocturne", in which a thirty-two-year-old former piano prodigy recounts the tragic events that tore his family apart. With a keen eye for human relationships and a deft ear for language, Rapp explores the aftershock of this unimaginable event. The father is so incapable of forgiveness he puts a gun in his son's mouth; the mother so shattered, she deserts the family and eventually takes leave of her sanity altogether; the son - only seventeen years old at the time - sets out for New York City. Title: North of America
Author: Brown, Kenneth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts
"The time is the near future. Canada as a nation has ceased to exist, and the fundamentalist right is running the new America. A play about love, the faces of facism, and the importance of remembering who we are."
Title: Not About Heroes The friendship of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen Author: Macdonald, Stephen Publisher: Faber and Faber 1983
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male two acts
1 set.
This play depicts the strong friendship of the two World War I anti-war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen in 1917- 1918, the last year of Owen's life, who died one week prior to Armistice.
Title: Not God A play in verse Author: Straus, Marc J. Publisher: Northwestern University Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - verse play - illness two characters flexible casting two acts
"A journey through illness. Alternating words of a patient and doctor, these harrowing, eloquent poems for performance form a remarkable dialogue. They reveal the language of the hospital - the shuffle of nurses, the clicks and beeps of machines, the counting of pills, the measuring of words - unwillingly but painstakingly learned by the patient and evoke the delicate bond between a doctor struggling with limitations and a patient in search of clarity and dignity." Title: Odd Jobs
Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1986
Description:
roy drama - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts
1 set.
Tim has been laid off from his factory job and finds contentment in the employ of a retired professor. When Tim's wife is offered a job in another city, the hopes and needs of the three come into conflict.
Title: Old Ladies, The
Author: Walpole, Hugh Ackland, Rodney Publisher: Samuel French 1935
Description:
roy thriller all female cast; three characters three female three acts
1 interior set; adapted by Rodney Ackland
Adapted from a novel of the same name by Hugh Walpole. A greedy old woman terrorizes the other two old women who live in the same boarding house.
Title: Old Times
Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press 1971
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A husband and wife entertain an old friend of the wife's, whom she has not seen for twenty years. The visit begins easily enough, but it soon becomes evident that the friend and the husband are fighting for the wife's attention. Title: Oleanna
Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1993
Description:
roy sexual harassment two characters one male; one female three parts
interior set.
"A college student, Carol, drops by her professor's office in an effort to gain his help to do better in class. John, the professor, in the midst of buying a house to celebrate his nomination for tenure, at first seems distant. As the first meeting progresses the two discuss the nature of understanding and judgment in society, as well as their very own natures and places in our
Title: Oleanna A play Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Vintage Books 1992
Description:
roy sexual harassment two characters one male; one female three parts
interior set.
"A college student, Carol, drops by her professor's office in an effort to gain his help to do better in class. John, the professor, in the midst of buying a house to celebrate his nomination for tenure, at first seems distant. As the first meeting progresses the two discuss the nature of understanding and judgment in society, as well as their very own natures and places in our
Title: On a First Name Basis
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - relationships - life two characters one male; one female two acts
David, a successful novelist with writer’s block, has received some devastating news he’s kept to himself. Lucy, his housekeeper of twenty-eight years, has her own secret that she’s afraid to admit. As Lucy is getting ready to end her shift, David invites her to stay and have a drink, curious about the woman who’s been tending to his house all these years. But as the night sets in and the drinks start to flow, secrets reveal themselves, for better or worse. Title: One Crowded Hour
Author: Fielden, Charlotte Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1976
Description:
roy women - Canadian - drama all female cast; one character one female three acts
"Involves an "evocative journey into Arizona's scrubland and Mabel's personal inward journey toward her self-hood."
Title: Orphans
Author: Kessler, Lyle Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy comic drama - family all male cast; three characters three male two acts
interior.
Two brothers, Phillip, sensitive, reclusive, never venturing out of his North Philly home and Treat, a violent pickpocket and thief who kidnaps a mysteriously wealthy businessman who turn the table on the two brothers and in strange, hilarious and moving way, becomes their long lost father figure.
Title: Out Cry
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1969
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female two parts
'Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power in Tennessee Williams's latest dramatic work. Two actors on tour - brother and sister - find themselves deserted by their troupe in a decrepit "state theatre in an unknown state". Faced (perhaps) by an audience expecting a performance, they enact "The Two-Character Play" - an illusion within an illusion, an out cry from isolation, panic, and fear.' Title: Passion of Narcisse Mondoux, The
Author: Gelinas, Gratien translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Anansi Press 1992
Description:
roy drama - relationships - romance - Canadian two characters one male; one female two acts
In this play, Narcisse Mondoux sets out to woo the recently widowed Laurencienne Robichaud. When at last he thinks he has learned the secret to her heart, he discovers that Laurencienne is a liberated woman who intends to fulfil her secret ambition by herself. In a touching role reversal, Narcisse wins her love by agreeing to support her in her bid to become mayor of the village.
Title: Pavilion, The
Author: Wright, Craig Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female (flexible casting) two acts
"Hailed by critics as an "an Our Town for our time," this play is by turns poetic, comic, romantic and philosophical. Peter returns to his twenty-year high-school reunion with dreams of winning back Kari, the girl he left behind after an unexpected pregnancy ended their relationship. Standing in Peter's way is Kari's bitter-as-ever resentment, her husband and the fact that Peter still hasn't grown up. As the night progresses, both Peter and Kari are led, through their interactions with a host of characters all played by a virtuosic Narrator, to face the consequences of choices
Title: Petition, The
Author: Clark, Brian Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1986
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
" Everyone agrees that the world could, and should, be a safer and better place. But people have always disagreed over how we should achieve this. Now, at last, there's an approach to the problem that brings all reasonable people together. The Petition says, simply, enough is enough. Peace can and will break out - but only when enough voices are raised to demand it. Think about Title: Playland
Author: Fugard, Athol Publisher: Samuel French 1994
Description:
roy drama - Africa - men all male cast; two characters two male five scenes
"Written by the powerful dramatic voice of South Africa, 'Playland' is set on New Year's Eve outside a Karoo town where a small, shabby travelling amusement park is encamped in the red clay dust. Martinus Zoeloe, the black night watchman, is repainting a bumper car when Gideon le Rous wanders in. He is white, a former army noncom whose car has stalled outside the park. The park's bright lights will not go up till after dark. The bumper car is being refurbished; Gideon needs Martinus' help to get his car started. It's the eve of the final decade: the millenium approaches."
Title: Ploughmen of the Glacier
Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1977
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all male cast; three characters three male two acts
Conversations between an aged prospector and a retired newspaperman bring about an examination of the myth of men who made the West.
Title: Plum Tree, The
Author: Miyagawa, Mitch Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy historical - Canadian - Japanese internment three characters two male; one female two acts
The roof of Frieda's house leaks. Ever since her husband died, she’s struggled to keep her u-pick berry farm running. One morning, she finds a stranger under the old plum tree, and the roof of her world begins to collapse. For George, three years as an activist in the Japanese Canadian Redress movement have finally paid off. But what has the struggle cost him? Driven by the puckish spirit of his Uncle Mas, he’s come to the berry farm in search of a connection to his past. The Plum Tree is an exploration of ownership and justice. Most of all, it’s a story of how the perennial Title: Po Boy Tango
Author: Lin, Kenneth Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2011
Description:
roy drama - immigrants three characters one male; two female two acts
"A Taiwanese immigrant enlists an African-American soul food chef to help him recreate his mother's Great Banquet, as a wedding gift to his daughter. Though the two share a bond in their passion for food and love of their children, their connection also brings to light resentments from ten years past -- when a child was saved, but a friendship was lost."
Title: Prok
Author: Drader, Brian Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2003
Description:
roy drama large cast two male; one female (doubling) two acts
'Into a world of seemingly complacent conformity, Professor Alfred Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" exploded on to the scene and sparked off the sexual revolution. And Professor K, or "Prok", as he was known, had as many secrets as the subjects he interviewed for his groundbreaking studies... In this fascinating memory play, Kinsey's wife Clara recalls scenes from their lives: their first meeting, their wedding night, lovers, conflicts, and children. Kinsey emerges as a complex individual - a renowned scientist and outwardly conventional family man who
Title: Promise, The
Author: Arbuzov, Aleksei Nicolaeff, Ariadne Publisher: Oxford University Press 1967
Description:
roy drama - Russian three characters two male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
Three peoples' lives become inextricably entangled when they survive the siege of Leningrad and promise each other to make good lives because they survived. Title: Quint and Miss Jessel at Bly
Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy drama - relationships three characters two male; one female two acts
Peter Quint is sent by his lifelong employer, the Master of Bly, to be the servant in charge of a remote English country house where Miss Jessel has just arrived to be governess to the orphaned children of the master’s brother. The ultimately deadly love triangle that results forms a darkly funny and erotic Gothic love story. These are the lovers who haunt Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. Quint is brilliant, sardonic and angry, a man of great abilities trapped by birth into a subservient role he hates. Miss Jessel is beautiful, headstrong, troubled, and deeply infatuated
Title: Rap Canterbury Tales, The
Author: Brinkman, Baba Publisher: Talonbooks 25.00
Description:
roy one man show - Chaucer - rap all male cast; one character one male four parts
Rapper and MC Baba Brinkman brings his popular performance piece to the printed page, resurrecting Chaucer's brilliant stories from their vellum mausoleum into visible and audible contemporary forms that will once again delight and edify both live audiences and readers - a rebirth of what poetry should be in its essence, and once was. Since Chaucer has become an unassailable icon of print culture, and hip hop is an unassailable icon of contemporary digital cool, Brinkman saw this radical new fusion of content and style as the perfect medium to deliver
Title: Re:Union
Author: Devine, Sean Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2013
Description:
roy drama - political - American three characters two male; one female two acts
November 2, 1965. Norman Morrison drives to the Pentagon with his infant daughter, a jug of kerosene and a box of matches. With Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara looking on, the young Quaker carries out a final act of witness against the horrors of the Vietnam War. Thirty-six years later, in the wake of 9/11, his daughter returns to confront the aging McNamara, the memory of her father, and the costly legacy of sacrifice. Title: Red Light Winter
Author: Rapp, Adam Publisher: Faber and Faber 2006
Description:
roy relationships - drama three characters two male; one female two acts
"It's totally familiar but dreamlike at the same time", observes one American of Amsterdam's notorious Red Light District in this stunning work from Adam Rapp. Escaping their lives in Manhattan, former college buddies Matt and Davis take off to the Netherlands and find themselves thrown into a bizarre love triangle with a beautiful young prostitute, Christina. But the romance they encounter in Europe is eventually overshadowed by the truth they discover at home. Written with an unflinching poetic beauty, Red Light Winter is a play of sexual intrigue that explores the
Title: Red Priest, The (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye) Author: Ouchi, Mieko Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy Canadian - love story - monologues - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two parts
'This bittersweet love story features enchanting music, a mysterious countess, Antonio Vivaldi, and a violin. "The Red Priest" is a poignant variation on the themes of love and freedom by one of Alberta's most exceptional young artists.'
Title: Refugees
Author: Rintoul, Harry Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988
Description:
roy Canadian drama - relationships - abuse - poverty three characters two male; one female two acts
The action of the play takes place in the present, during the winter, over a duration of a week in a one bedroom apartment in an old house that has been converted into apartments. Title: Retreat from Moscow, The
Author: Nicholson, William Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2004
Description:
roy drama - marital relationships - family relationships three characters two male; one female two acts
Edward and Alice have been married for thirty-three years. Their thirty-year-old son, Jamie, visits them for the weekend, to find that this is the Sunday his father has picked to leave his mother for another woman. Jamie, unable to change his father’s mind, watches helplessly as his parents’ marriage crumbles, and his mother is overwhelmed with bewilderment and pain. Jamie, caught in the middle, tries to help and can’t, and slowly realizes that he’s not an impartial witness but one of the combatants. His struggle is to understand both his parents and, like them, to survive the
Title: Retreat from Moscow, The A play about your family Author: Nicholson, William Publisher: Anchor Books 2004
Description:
roy drama - marital relationships - family relationships three characters two male; one female two acts
Edward and Alice have been married for thirty-three years. Their thirty-year-old son, Jamie, visits them for the weekend, to find that this is the Sunday his father has picked to leave his mother for another woman. Jamie, unable to change his father’s mind, watches helplessly as his parents’ marriage crumbles, and his mother is overwhelmed with bewilderment and pain. Jamie, caught in the middle, tries to help and can’t, and slowly realizes that he’s not an impartial witness but one of the combatants. His struggle is to understand both his parents and, like them, to survive the
Title: Road to Mecca, The
Author: Fugard, Athol Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female two acts
"Focuses on Miss Helen, an old Boer woman who lives alone in the South African boondocks where she creates odd concrete sculptures which she calls her Mecca." Title: Robert Louis Stevenson - Appointment on Moloka'i
Author: Morris, Aldyth Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press 1995
Description:
roy drama - biography - monologue - men all male cast; one character one male two acts
Stevenson spent a lifetime journeying across the seas - in search of love, work, and always a milder climate to stave of "Bloody Jack," his nickname for the violent hemorrhages brought on by consumption. In this one-man play, we accompany Stevenson on his many journeys, including a visit in 1888 to the Hawaiian Island of Moloka'i - undertaken not for the sake of his fragile health but to pay his respects to Father Damien, the Belgian priest who had gone to Moloka'i to minister to the Lepers and who died as one of them. Inspired by stories of the priest's unfounded charity
Title: Sagouine, La
Author: Maillet, Antonine translated by Luis de Cespdes Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1985
Description:
roy biography - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female sixteen parts
'This is a true story. The story of La Sagouine, a scrubwoman, a woman of the sea, who was born with the century, with her feet in the water. Water was her fortune: the daughter of a cod fisherman, a sailor's girl, and later the wife of a fisherman who took oysters and smelts. A cleaning woman also, who ends up on all fours, with her bucket in front and her hands in the water.'
Title: Sea Horse, The
Author: Moore, Edward J. translated by Bernard Frechtman Publisher: Samuel French 1979
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female two acts
Set in a waterfront bar, the play is about Harry Bales, a seaman who, when on shore leave, usually heads for the "Sea Horse," the bar run by Gertrude Blum, the heavy, unsentimental proprietor. Their relationship is purely physical and, as the play begins, they have never confided their private yearnings to each other. Harry returns with a dream to buy a charter fishing boat and to have a son by Gertrude. She in turn, has made her life one of hard work. She has encased her heart behind a facade of toughness, utterly devoid of sentimentality, because of a failed marriage. Title: Sea Marks
Author: McKay, Gardner Publisher: Samuel French 1982
Description:
roy drama - life - relationships - romance two characters one male; one female two acts
"This is the touching story of a fisherman living on a remote Irish island who has fallen in love with a woman he's glimpsed only once. Unschooled in letter-writing, he tried his utmost to court by mail and after a year-and -a-half succeeds in arranging a rendezvous at which, to his surprise, she persuades him to live with her in Liverpool Their love affair ends when he is forced to return to a life he understands."
Title: Seascape with Sharks and Dancer
Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy romance - drama two characters one male; one female two acts
The play is set in a beach bungalow. The young man who lives there has pulled a lost young woman from the ocean. Soon, she finds herself trapped in his life and torn between her need to come to rest somewhere and her certainty that all human relationships turn eventually into nightmares. The struggle between his tolerant and gently ironic approach to life and her strategy of suspicion and attack becomes a kind of war about love and creation which neither can afford to lose. This is an offbeat, wonderful love story.
Title: Secret Mask, The
Author: Chafe, Rick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations three characters two male; one female two acts
George was a toddler when Ernie walked out on his family. Thirty-eight years later, George is contacted out of the blue to come help his father. Ernie’s stroke has left him with aphasia–a speech disorder–resulting in memory loss and garbled words. To make sense of their past, the two must work through mutual distrust, fractured memories and a broken looking glass of language. Title: Shadows on Oak Island
Author: Hirst, Garnet Preeper, Deborah Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy drama - thriller three characters two male; one female two acts
Shadows on Oak Island is a gripping, psychological thriller exploring the themes of guilt, betrayal and obsession. Haunted by the loss of their son, an affluent Toronto couple, Rene and Jackson, retreat to the island to save their crumbling marriage. Wally, a chatty local and guardian of the island helps them adjust to their new home. Rene is desperate to solve the mystery of the island as Jackson numbs his grief with alcohol. She is convinced the treasure (The Holy Grail) will reunite them with their son. Wally, a self-professed expert on Oak Island agrees to help Rene in
Title: Shakespeare for my Father
Author: Redgrave, Lynn Publisher: Samuel French 2001
Description:
roy drama - autobiography - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female two acts
The renowned actress's first foray into playwriting as family reminiscences developed into a complex, funny and moving portrait of a child's longing for the love of the inscrutable, daunting and charismatic Shakespearean actor who was her father. Acclaimed in America and Great Britain, Shakespeare for My Father weaves scenes from the Bard that delightfully coalesce with events in Ms. Redgrave's young life eliciting memories of Sir Michael and engaging impressions of the celebrated stars who frequented the Redgrave's home and lives.
Title: Shakespeare's Will
Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Shakespeare - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female series of vignettes
"Shakespeare's Will explores the extraordinary life of Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, from a very passionate and human point of view. In a mystically imaginative narrative, Anne reflects on a lifetime spent with, and without, her husband. From the moment they meet at the Faire, to the disapproving tone of her father when they marry, to the birth of their children, to their shared tragedy, this haunting story reveals a world of love, loss and longing. Title: Singing the Bones
Author: Hicks, Caitlin Publisher: PUC Play Service 1997
Description:
roy drama - feminism - musical all female cast; three characters three female two acts
" 'Singing the Bones' is the journey of the birth of twins, and the story of three women: Meg, the passionate midwife who believes in women's ultimate power in birth; Nicole, the strong and vulnerable mother searching for a birth experience uninterrupted by modern medicine; and Sara, the compassionate obstetrician whose "secrets are leaking from every pocket." As Nicole's pregnancy is considered to be high risk, Meg must answer the question: Is one woman's choice worth the chance that her babies may die at birth?"
Title: Skylight
Author: Hare, David Publisher: Faber and Faber 1995
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female two acts
"Kyra is a young teacher working and living in one of London‘s less attractive districts. Tom‘s wife has recently died of cancer: he is a wealthy entrepreneur and Kyra‘s former lover. On a cold winter night Tom‘s teenage son, Edward, calls on the young teacher to beg her to be reconciled with his father. Tom himself arrives, wishing to expiate his guilt and renew his lust. Kyra complies, sort of, until the debate soars and the insults fly in a way that makes you wish your own kitchen-table tiffs were half as brutal, half as civilised. David Hare‘s passionate play is an impassioned head-on
Title: Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
Author: Hanley, William Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1965
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
Description not available. Title: Sore Throats and Sonnets of Love and Opposition
Author: Brenton, Howard Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1979
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female two acts
1 set.
"A study, at times comic and at times savage, of the power of sex and money. In the debris of a divorce two women and a man start a perilous course of experiment with their lives"
Also included is a sequence of seventy-four poems, Sonnets of Love and Opposition.
Title: St. Anne's Reel
Author: Garratt, Gil Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relations three characters two male; one female two acts
Daniel has been trying to make it as a fiddle player for years down in Nashville, to the chagrin of his father Walter, who was once a fiddler of local renown in Wingham, Ontario. When Daniel returns to the family farm for his mother's funeral, the two men must confront some old wounds. As they come to terms with what divides them, they begin to discover what they share. This drama about a prodigal son and his cantankerous father is by turns darkly humorous and deeply moving.
Title: Steady Rain, A
Author: Huff, Keith Publisher: Samuel French 2011
Description:
roy drama - friendship all male cast; two characters two male two acts
A dark duologue filled with sharp storytelling and biting repartee, A Steady Rain explores the complexities of a lifelong bond tainted by domestic affairs, violence, and the rough streets of Chicago. Joey and Denny have been best friends since kindergarten, and after working together for several years as policemen in Chicago, they are practically family: Joey helps out with Denny’s wife and kids; Denny keeps Joey away from the bottle. But when a domestic disturbance call takes a turn for the worse, their friendship is put on the line. The result is a harrowing journey into a Title: Steps
Author: Wylie, Betty Jane Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - love story twelve characters one male; one female (doubling) two acts
"A woman's husband dies suddenly. She goes through the steps of recovery into a new life - with all the men in her life (undertaker, minister, insurance agent, young lover, gay friend, serious suitor) played by one man."
Title: Stevie From the life and work of Stevie Smith Author: Whitemore, Hugh Publisher: Samuel French 1977
Description:
roy drama - biography - autobiography three characters one male; two female two acts
A mixture of biography, autobiography and narration on the life of the poetess Stevie Smith. Stevie is living with her formidable elderly aunt in a small, semi-detached house in North London. From a chair which is placed to one side of the main set a man narrates and comments on the action. Stevie's tragic-comic life is portrayed by means of naturalistic dialogue scenes with these characters, by her own reminiscences and comments, and by numerous examples of her poems, spoken mainly by herself but sometimes by the man. The passage of time extends from the 1950's
Title: Still the Night
Author: Tova, Theresa Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1998
Description:
roy drama - historical all female cast; five characters two female (doubling) two acts
'(This play) is a celebration of survival - the story of two young women who were separated from their parents during the Second World War, and wander through Poland, pretending not to be Jewish. Theresa Tova has fashioned from true stories a moving, heart-rending and uplifting drama of survival against all odds, and punctuated it with songs from the Holocaust era.'
Winner Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1997 Title: Stories for a Winter Solstice
Author: Hicks, Caitlin Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1994
Description:
roy drama - monologues large cast one male or one female (doubling) eight stories
"A diverse collection of lively characters telling comedic and dramatic winter stories in the first person. Includes seasonal stories from the Pacific Northwest: Rachel is Born!, My First Christmas with Rachel, A Knock on the Door, Read Island Santa Clause, When I Think of Hanukkah, The Christmas Monster of Ripple Rock and Cornucopia, Land of Winter."
Title: Strange Snow
Author: Metcalfe, Stephen Publisher: Samuel French 1983
Description:
roy dramatic comedy three characters two male; one female two acts
It is 5 am. on the first day of the fishing season and Megs is determined to get his buddy up, but David has a terrible hang over that is not entirely from last night's drinking. Megs and David served together in Vietnam, and David still blames himself for the death of their pal Bobby. David lives with his sister Martha, a high school teacher who is enjoying a budding romance with the delightful Megs. Together, they endeavor to convince David he has to get past the war and get on with life.
Title: Sunday Father
Author: Pettle, Adam Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2003
Description:
roy family relations three characters two male; one female two acts
'Alan and Jed are struggling with what it means to be sons and fathers. After their parents divorced, their father became a "Sunday Father" a role Jed finds himself slipping reluctantly into as his own marriage disintegrates. Meanwhile, Alan, ensconced in the family firm, is having trouble living up to his father's expectations. As the brothers work their way through situations filled with pain and anger, Jed and Alan discover strengths they never knew they had, and a deepening bond that leads them toward hope.' Title: Sunsets
Author: Harville, Cliff Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy - collection drama four characters two male; one female two acts
3 interior sets, 1 exterior set.
An unusual look at those in their twilight years. A two-act play consisting of two monologues and two one act plays: "George L. Smith" and "Sara Hubbard" (the monologues) and "A Silent Catastrophe" and "Hand Me My Afghan" (the one act plays).
Title: Swimming to Cambodia
Author: Gray Spalding Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1985
Description:
roy drama - monologues all male cast; one character one male two acts
"With daring virtuosity, writor-actor-performance artist Spalding Gray takes us on an odyssey for our time - a dizzy escapade swerving and plunging between outrageous hilarity and chilling revelation - stretching all the way from Gulf of Siam to poolside Beverly Hills. Inspired by his experiences acting in the Academy Award-winning film "The Killing Fields", master storyteller Gray has enthralled audiences from coast to coast and in Europe with his solo performances to "Swimming to Cambodia".
Title: Tea at Five
Author: Lombardo, Matthew Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy drama - biography - Katharine Hepburn - monologues all female cast; one character one female two acts
'Tea at Five' captures the fiery spirit of Katherine Hepburn in a one-woman show that recounts her journey from a well-heeled Yankee childhood to winner of four Oscars. Ensconced at her beloved Fenwick home, Ms. Hepburn reflects on the dizzying heights and emotional lows of her upbringing, her adventures in show business and her heartbreaking romance with Spencer Tracy. Audiences leave with new memories of one of the most dearly loved ladies of an era. Title: Ten Times Two
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1999
Description:
roy drama - romance - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female (doubling) two acts
"When an evil-doer cursed with immortality falls for a barmaid in 1399, it is the start of romantic pursuit spanning the Middle Ages to Modern Times. But in order to believe in this reincarnating, the villain must learn to become a lover."
First produced in 1999 at the Edmonton Fringe, Alberta.
Title: Theme and Variations
Author: Alyoshin, Samuil translated by Michael Glenny Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1979
Description:
roy drama - relationships three characters two male; one female two acts
Two Moscow attorneys (one younger, one older) become entwined with an unhappily married tour guide who lives near the shores of the Black Sea.
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: Through the Eyes
Author: Druick, Don Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1995
Description:
roy drama - historical - monologue all male cast; one character one male two acts
'Set in Paris and Versailles in 1665, a climate of intrigue and violence. The story of Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini's visit to the court of Louis XIV. The resultant clash between these great egos is awesome. The story is told by an anonymous courtier, a witness to the passion and conflict about him. This story is his, for it is he whose life is unalterably changed.'
Title: To Ride in Triumph
Author: Abel, Douglas Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; one character one male two acts
"Elizabethan playwright, poet, and spy, Christopher Marlowe tells a tale of triumph and tragedy as he anticipates his assassination."
Title: Toyer An unavoidable tragedy Author: McKay, Gardner Publisher: Samuel French 1992
Description:
roy drama - thriller - psychological three characters one male; one female; one cat two acts
"Toyer doesn't kill. Instead, he leaves his victims with their physical beauty. And he leaves them cut off from their minds, their spirits, their hearts. Maude Garance is the neurologist trying to resurrect Toyer's victims. As she speaks to those who care for them, pleads with those who should be avenging them, her quest for justice spirals into obsession." Title: Trout Stanley
Author: Dey, Claudia Publisher: Coach House Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters one male; two female two acts
"What do fraternal twins, a man named after a fish, and a missing stripper who happens to be a Scrabble champion all have in common? According to playwright Claudia Dey, these seemingly haphazard items are intrinsically linked. Her play, Trout Stanley, is about two sisters and a mysterious stranger who threatens to split them apart."
Title: Trudeau Stories
Author: Johnson, Brooke Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2014
Description:
roy drama - biography - friendship - solo performance all female cast; one character one female one act (eleven scenes)
"In 1985, while she was a student at the National Theatre School in Montreal, Brooke Johnson became friends with Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Through reminiscences, journal entries and correspondence, Brooke gives us a personal insight into the man and the times that is “not to be missed”. At once vital and charming; poignant and very funny, "Trudeau Stories" is about friendship and loss… and about who the heck we think we are."
Title: Trying
Author: McClelland Glass, Joanna Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy drama - Canadian Playwright - politics - autobiographical two characters one male; one female two acts
Trying is a two-character play based on the author's experience during 1967-1968 when she worked for Francis Biddle at his home in Washington, D.C. Judge Biddle had been Attorney General of the United States under Franklin Roosevelt. After the war, President Truman named him Chief Judge of the American Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. The play is about a young Canadian girl and an old, Philadelphia aristocrat, "trying" to understand each other in what Biddle knows is the final year of his life. Title: Tuesdays with Morrie
Author: Albom, Mitch Hatcher, Jeffrey Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2002
Description:
roy drama - friendship - life all male cast; two characters two male one act (long)
unit set.
" 'Tuesdays With Morrie' is the autobiographical story of Mitch Albom, an accomplished journalist driven solely by his career, and Morrie Schwartz, his former college professor. Sixteen years after graduation, Mitch happens to catch Morrie’s appearance on a television news program and learns that his old professor is battling Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Mitch is reunited with Morrie, and what
Title: Two
Author: Elisha, Ron Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1985
Description:
roy World War II - Jewish - drama two characters one male; one female two acts
"It is a play about good and evil; not whether good will triumph or evil prevail, but about the concept of both forming a single inseparable entity. In 1948 in a German town, Anna comes to Rabbi Chaim Levi for language lessons. With energy, intensity, and a little humor the play examines some fundamental moral concepts as Anna and Chaim together study music, the nature of language, and humankind."
Title: Two Character Play, The
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1976
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female two acts
1 set.
Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power as two actors on tour - brother and sister - find themselves deserted by the troupe in a decrepit state theatre in an unknown state. Faced by an audience expecting a performance, they enact " The Two-Character Play" - an illusion within an illusion, an out cry from isolation, panic, and fear. Title: Two in the Morning As published in Theatrum Magazine (Summer 1993) Author: Bloom, David Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1993
Description:
roy relationships three characters one male; two female two acts
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Title: Two Small Bodies
Author: Bell, Neal Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female two acts
1 set.
A cocktail waitress and a policeman are attracted and repulsed by each other as the policeman investigates the murders of the waitress' two small children.
Title: Vagina Monologues, The
Author: Ensler, Eve Publisher: Villard 1999
Description:
roy drama - women; monologue all female cast; one character one female many parts
"A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities all across America and at hundreds of college campuses, and has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement-V-Day to stop violence against women. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real women's deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing Title: Vagina Monologues, The
Author: Ensler, Eve Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000
Description:
roy drama - women - monologue all female cast; one character one female many parts
"A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities all across America and at hundreds of college campuses, and has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement-V-Day to stop violence against women. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real women's deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing
Title: Walk In The Woods, A
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1988
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male two acts
1 exterior set.
The place is a pleasant woods on the outskirts of Geneva, where two superpower arms negotiators, a Russian and an American, meet informally after long, frustrating hours at the bargaining table. They continue their informal meetings as the talks drag on and the seasons change, and through their revealing conversations we become aware both of the deep
Title: Warriors
Author: Garneau, Michel translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Talonbooks 1990
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; two characters two male nine parts
Warriors enters the world of advertising where, even if the product is war, the product can be sold. Two ad men lock themselves in a room to work on a new slogan for The Canadian Armed Forces - the tension of creation is brilliantly and dangerously portrayed as they consider the morality of the war machine. Title: Whipping Man, The
Author: Lopez, Matthew Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy drama - slavery - Judaism all male cast; three characters three male two acts
Running time: 120 mins.
It is April, 1865. The Civil War is over and throughout the south, slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated. Into the chaos of war-torn Richmond comes Caleb DeLeon, a young Confederate officer who has been severely wounded. He finds his family's home in ruins and abandoned, save for two former
Title: Widow's Blind Date, The
Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1981
Description:
roy drama - revenge three characters two male; three female two acts
The scene is the wastepaper processing plant in a blue-collar Massachusetts town. Two workmen, Archie and George, are drinking beer and swapping stories, mostly about their apparently extensive sexual conquests. Archie mentions that Margy, a friend from high school and now a widow, has invited him to join her for a dinner. When she arrives to pick Archie up, the mood of the play shifts. Suddenly, the play's original macho bantering takes on new and dangerous meanings. Margy will subtly set the two men against each other while gradually revealing her
Title: Will the Real J. T. LeRoy Please Stand Up?
Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2007
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters two female; one male or female two acts
A woman novelist has written a memoir/novel about a transsexual (m to f) under a pseudonym. It's a secret. Suddenly the transsexual heroine of the woman's novels appears at her door, claiming her transsexual life was appropriated for the woman's art. Title: Woolgatherer, The
Author: Mastrosimone, William Publisher: Samuel French 1981
Description:
roy drama - love - monologues two characters one male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
Through the course of the evening the two lonely people begin to break down the barriers between them. Rose, a shy dimestore salesgirl whose life centers around reveries and daydreams, lives in a dreary Philadelphia apartment. Into her life saunters Cliff, a hard working, hard drinking truck driver. He is rough and witty and just as starved for love as she is.
Title: World of Carl Sandburg, The
Author: Corwin, Norman Publisher: Samuel French 1961
Description:
roy poetic or verse drama three characters two male; one female two parts
1 set.
A dramatic collage of the works of Carl Sandburg.
Title: Yellow House at Arles: Gauguin / van Gogh, The
Author: Hayes, Dennis Payne, Richard Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male two acts
1 interior set.
Paul Gaugin and Vincent van Gogh, two of the founders of Modern Art, spent two months living and working together in isolation in the South of France; their intent was to create a school of new painting which would bring commercial success for themselves and their fellow artists. The play deals with the impact of poverty, the art market, and technology on the artist, both as craftsman Title: Yellowman
Author: Orlandersmith, Dael Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2002
Description:
roy drama - racism two characters one male; one female four parts
flexible set.
YELLOWMAN is a multi-character memory play about an African-American woman who dreams of life beyond the confines of her small-town Southern upbringing and the light-skinned man whose fate is tragically intertwined with hers. The play explores the negative associations surrounding male blackness as well as the effect these racial stereotypes have on black women.