Title: 2 Lives in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents - COL Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Back Stage Books 2004
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Title: 2 Lives in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents - COL Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Back Stage Books 2004 Description: roy drama - LGBTQ+ - relationships eight characters four male; four female two acts Matt Singer, a playwright and his long term partner Howard Thompson, a landscape gardener, are celebrating Howard's birthday. But tragedy strikes. Title: 2-2-Tango in - Making, Out / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Coach House Press 1992 Description: roy relationships - LGBTQ+ - men all male cast; two characters two male one act '. a highly stylized presentation that features clipped, overlapping dialogue and rigidly choreographed gestures. (MacIvor's) observations about the eternal struggle in relationships between emotional, physical and spiritual need and the assertions of independence easily exceed the gay context in which they are being played out.' Title: Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party Author: Loeb, Aaron Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2011 Description: roy comedy - prejudice - LGBTQ+ - homophobia - history nineteen characters four male; three female (doubling) three acts Illinois schoolteacher Harmony Green has told her fourth grade class that Menard County's most beloved homegrown hero, Abraham Lincoln, was gay. When Honest Abe is "outed" in a reimagined Christmas pageant, controversy and chaos engulf the town. As the trial of the century begins, big-city reporters and Congressional candidates descend, and family skeletons are forced out of the closet. Top hats and beards abound in this hilarious, poignant, and timely look at prejudice past and present. Title: Age of Minority 3 solo plays Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013 Description: roy - collection - one-acts - Canadian - drama - solo performance - Jordan Tannahill - LGBTQ+ includes: Get Yourself Home Skyler James rihannaboi95 Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes See separate entries for further description of each play. Winner! Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 2014. Title: Agokwe in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Fobister, Waawaate Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013 Description: roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - LGBTQ+ - Native playwright - monologues all male cast; five characters one male (doubling) one act "Mike is a hockey player and Jake is a dancer. The boys notice each other at the Kenora Shoppers Mall and ultimately connect through a mutual love of movement — when Mike is skating and Jake is dancing, "like grass blowing in the wind." Playing these and many more characters through the iconic, multifarious persona of Nanabush, the trickster, Waawaate Fobister intertwines the boys' attraction to each other through activities that traditionally separate gender and orientation. "Agokwe" (pronounced "agoo-kway; meaning "wise woman" or "Two-Spirited") is a remarkable and Title: All of Us Author: Brooks, Laurie Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2012 Description: roy drama - young adult - high school - LGBTQ+ - bullying eleven characters five male; five female; one flexible casting one act bare stage with seating; running time: 65 min; intended for a high school audience. How do we combat the current epidemic of prejudice and bullying of gay high-school students? One way is to use the power of storytelling to humanize the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teens. Designed to be performed by and for high-school students, All of Us raises awareness of the discrimination, hatred and violence LGBT students face in their schools and Title: All That's Left Author: Salmon, Liam Publisher: Liam Salmon 2014 Description: roy drama - Edmonton - family relations - LGBTQ+ - Alberta playwright - full script online three characters two male; one female one act setting: Edmonton, present day, living room; running time: 50 min. Three siblings, Kevin, Adam, and Viviane, try to come to terms with the potential loss of their parents and what that means for their fractured sense of family. In this uncertainty, is there anything that can be salvaged or have their bonds forged by blood run dry? "All That's Left" is a three-hander between three siblings (two men in their mid twenties and a woman in her late teens Title: Amazon All Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays with Essays and Commentary Author: Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996 Description: roy - collection - women - lesbian plays - LGBTQ+ includes: The Quintessential Image - Jane Chambers I'll Be Home Para La Navidad - Jannis Astor Del Valle The Postcard - Gloria Joyce Dickler Springtime - Maria Irene Fornes Amazon All-Stars - Carolyn Gage and Sue Carney A Lady and A Woman - Shirlene Holmes Small Domestic Acts - Joan Lipkin Nasty Rumors and Final Remarks - Susan Miller Sisters - Patricia Montley Title: And Baby Makes Four in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Farmer, Frank Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015 Description: roy drama - LGBTQ+ three characters one male; two female one act (three scenes) A young lesbian's decision to have a child by a father of her choice is thwarted when he refuses to donate to a sperm bank, nearly forcing her to conceive 'conventionally,' much to the annoyance of her older partner. Title: And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens... in - Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2005 Description: roy drama - American - 20th century - LGBTQ+ all male cast; four characters four male one act (two scenes) 1 interior set; music. "Candy Delaney is a successful New Orleans interior decorator and also a drag queen approaching "her" 35th birthday. On the rebound from a seventeen-year relationship, Candy has picked up a rough sailor, Karl, on whom she lavishes money. On the day of the dreaded birthday, Karl walks out and it's left to the two queens who live upstairs, Alvin and Jerry, to comfort Candy." Title: Andre's Mother in - Andre's Mother and Other Short Plays / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995 Description: roy drama - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; two female sketch "At Andre's memorial, his lover tries one last time to get through to Andre's mother, an imposing figure in Andre's life. Not realizing her hidden emotions, he tells her everything he can before leaving her alone, as she is left to deal with her own sense of grief and loneliness." Title: Angels in America: Part I The Millennium Approaches Author: Kushner, Tony Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1992 Description: roy drama - sex - politics - religion - LGBTQ+ twenty-one characters thirteen male; eight female three acts "The most ambitious American play of our time: an epic that ranges from earth to heaven; focuses on politics, sex, and religion; transports us to Washington, the Kremlin, the South Bronx, Salt Lake City and Antarctica; deals with Jews, Mormons, WASPs, blacks; switches between realism and fantasy, from the tragedy of AIDS to the camp comedy of drag queens to the death or at least the absconding of God." Title: Angels in America: Part I - a scene from in - The Way We Live Now / COL Author: Kushner, Tony Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990 Description: roy drama - sex - politics - religion - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one scene "The most ambitious American play of our time: an epic that ranges from earth to heaven; focuses on politics, sex, and religion; transports us to Washington, the Kremlin, the South Bronx, Salt Lake City and Antarctica; deals with Jews, Mormons, WASPs, blacks; switches between realism and fantasy, from the tragedy of AIDS to the camp comedy of drag queens to the death or at least the absconding of God." 'Roy's doctor informs him he has AIDS.' Title: Angels in America: Part II Perestroika Author: Kushner, Tony Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Description: roy drama - LGBTQ+ eight characters five male; three female five acts "A gay fantasia on national themes. Perestroika is essentially a comedy, in that issues are resolved, mostly peaceably, growth takes place and loss is, to a certain degree, countenanced". Winner - 1994 Tony Award for Best Play Title: Arigato, Tokyo Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013 Description: roy drama - erotic thriller - love - LGBTQ+⌦four characters three male; one female one act running time: 90 min. On a publicity tour in Japan, Carl, a Canadian author, finds himself falling in love amidst the sacred stages of Noh theatre and the seedy dance clubs in Tokyo, wired on cocaine and sake. His object of affection is the young, seductive actor, Yori, but the affair becomes complicated when Carl's translator and Yori's sister, Nushi, becomes entranced with him. As his tour continues, he straddles the fragmentary place between two cultures - one of individuality and directness, the Title: Bad Panda Author: Gogerty, Megan Publisher: Original Works 2015 Description: roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - family relations three characters two male; one female two acts They’re the last two pandas on earth. It’s mating season. One of them falls in love with a crocodile. Who is gay. And then the baby comes. In this sweet celebration of non-traditional families, Gwo Gwo the panda must balance his newfound desire for Chester the crocodile with his obligations to his prescribed panda mate, Marion. The animals eat, mate, splash around in identity politics, meditate on their impending extinction, and love one another as only families can. Title: Bash'd A gay rap opera Author: Craddock, Chris Cuckow, Nathan Publisher: Talonbooks 2011 Description: roy comedy - music - Alberta playwright - LGBTQ+ - men all male cast; many characters two male eleven parts When Jack becomes the victim of a gay-bashing, Dillon sets out on an indiscriminate rampage of revenge. Realizing too late that two wrongs don't make a right, these star-crossed lovers, wrapped in each others arms, die in a hail of bullets. Condemned to wander the earth and tell their cautionary tale forever, their angelic personae TBAG and FEMINEM have enthralled wildly enthusiastic audiences all over North America with the rap opera rhymes of this tragic tale ever since.