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Title: 1837: A History Author: Salutin, Rick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976 Description: roy drama - Canadian - historical five characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts A lively, humorous and ultimately tragic look at Canada's ill-starred revolution for national independence. Title: 1837: The Farmer's Revolt Author: Salutin, Rick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976 Description: roy drama - Canadian - historical five characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts A lively, humorous and ultimately tragic look at Canada's ill-starred revolution for national independence. Title: 2000 Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 1997 Description: roy drama - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts "The relationships of the young, the aging and the middle-aged, and between urban life and nature at the end of the millenium. 'I am intrigued by the notion of the wild invading the city and the city invading the wild, by the idea of things being not quite right in the nature and the reproach of the millenium.' - Joan MacLeod." Title: 2nd Nature, A Hummer Opera As published in Theatrum Magazine (Feb/Mar 1991) Author: Taylor, Deanne Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1991 Description: roy fantasy all female cast; large cast six female (doubling) two acts 'The action of the play takes place in a realm where mind and body, sprit and flesh, culture and nature co-exist. In this realm, generation after generation, power is shared between VOLO, the wielder of the concept of "I" who acts in the social body, and AUTO, who rules the visceral affairs of the homebody with the first ministers - GUSTA (Agriculture), CARDIA (Circulation), DOC (Health and Defense), and OVARY (Immortality). Auto's and Volo's story begins in an older generation, in a distant and perhaps mythical time when human nature was a creature of its bio-culture, and gives Title: 99 Histories Author: Cho, Julia Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005 Description: roy drama - family relations six characters (doubling) two male; four female two acts setting: suburb of Los Angeles; approx. 100 min. What is remembered is made up. The only homelands that exist are imaginary. Love is nothing; there is only 'chung'. Eunice, a former prodigy, comes home to decide what to do with the baby that has unexpectedly taken root inside her. But before she can move forward she must first confront the ghosts of a difficult past. 99 Histories is a play about memory, legacy and the Title: Accomplice A comedy thriller Author: Holmes, Rupert Publisher: Samuel French 1991 Description: roy drama - mystery - thriller eight characters two male; two female; one flexible (doubling) two acts interior set; setting: mid-1970s England. Accomplice begins as a straightforward English thriller in a country house. A sex-starved wife and her lover plan to murder her stuffy husband. The husband is murdered on stage, but reappears this is actually a dress rehearsal for an out of town try out and the murder victim is the playwright and director. He, however, is plotting to murder his wife, the leading lady in his play, Title: Acre of Time: The Play, An Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001 Description: roy drama - historical fiction - Canada - family relations large cast three male; three female (doubling) two acts A surveyor uncovers the history of an acre of land near the Ottawa River, a barren rectangle that contains the memories of all who passed through it, from the last native hunter to the first white settler. But the one person she most wants to bring back from the dead remains the most elusive - her daughter. Title: Adventures of Ali and Ali and the Axes of Evil, The A divertimento for warlords Author: Youssef, Marcus Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Talonbooks 2005 Description: roy satire - Canadian all male cast; seven characters four male (doubling) one act (long) prequel to "Ali and Ali: The Deportation Hearings". "An elaborate agitprop theatrical collaboration where the internal contradictions and duplicitous double-speak of the "war on terror" are exposed as the propaganda vehicles for the neo-colonialism of the West that they are. Ali Hakim and Ali Ababwa, refugees from the imaginary country Agraba, attempt to seduce their audience into providing them with food, refuge, security, Title: Aforesaid Bates Author: Tarver, Ben Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982 Description: roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters five male; one female two acts The views and philosophies of a pioneer rancher are aired when he takes his stand, refusing to leave his spread on a missile range in New Mexico. Title: After You Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1995 Description: roy drama six characters (doubling) one male; four female two acts Adele is dying and Jean is helping her. The cousins have come back to the family cottage on Lake Kawartha so that the stroke-ravaged Adele may die with peace and dignity. Jean methodically administers the required drugs but memory refuses to release its hold on either woman. The cottage and lake conjure up the ghosts of their former selves, and of the young man who was, to their minds, the "fork in the road" that determined the path of their lives. Title: Age of Bees Author: Palmquist, Tara Publisher: Original Works 2015 Description: roy drama - futuristic four characters one male; three female two acts The bees have gone, disease and scarcity are rampant, but Mel, a young pollinator, finds refuge on an isolated farm. This place is fertile and safe, and Mel counts herself lucky to have a place where - even if it is not exactly happy - she has a purpose. When that purpose and safety are threatened, Mel faces an awful choice: will she risk leaving this relative safety, or will she hide from greater dangers, even if it means giving up some chance that something can grow in this ruined world? Title: All Other Destinations Are Cancelled Author: Murphy, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985 Description: roy drama - Canadian four characters one male; three female two acts 2 exterior sets. In an isolated northern town, a family rages against the past and each other, in a struggle for love and forgiveness. Title: Alternatives Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2000 Description: roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female two acts "A very liberal contemporary couple - Angel, an urban Native science fiction writer: and Colleen, a Non-practising Jewish intellectual who teaches Native literature - have a dinner party. The guests at this little soiree are couples that represent what by now have become the cliched extremes of both societies-Angels former radical Native activist buddies: and Colleen's environmentally concerned vegetarian/veterinarian friends. The menu is of course shorthand for the irreconcilable cultural differences about to come to a head: moose roast and vegetarian lasagna." Title: American Days Author: Poliakoff, Stephen Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1979 Description: roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts 1 interior set. Three young English singers are put in the position of competing against each other for a contract with a major recording company. Title: American Days Author: Poliakoff, Stephen Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1979 Description: roy drama - music five characters three male; two female two acts 1 interior set. Three young English singers are put in the position of competing against each other for a contract with a major recording company. Title: American Plan, The Author: Greenberg, Richard Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1991 Description: roy comedy - drama five characters two male; three female two acts "This thoughtful and mysterious play dissects a portion of upper-class American society at mid-century and finds a troubled young girl's dream of love shattered by her mother's definition of happiness." Title: Amigo's Blue Guitar Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Summerhill Press 1990 Description: roy drama - Canadian - ethnic five characters three male; two female two acts 1 interior sets and 1 exterior set. Sander's life is given meaning when he chooses to sponsor a Salvadoran refugee for his sociology class. He never really thinks Elias will make it to Canada, and when he does, Sander and his family must learn what it means and feels like to be a refugee, and how to best relate to someone who has endured such intense personal grief. The warmth and humour of the Title: Amy's View Author: Hare, David Publisher: Faber and Faber 1997 Description: roy drama - family relationships six characters three female; three male four acts Psychological drama about strained relationship between famous British actress and her dutiful daughter from 1979 - 1995. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter, Amy, with a new boyfriend sets in train a series of event which only find their shape sixteen years later. Title: Anagram of Murder Author: Matthews, Seymour Publisher: Samuel French 1984 Description: roy thriller - drama six characters three male; three female two acts Beautiful Veronica enlists the help of a former lover to murder her writer husband, Gus, while all the time plotting to run away with her current lover. She becomes alarmed when Gus discusses the plot of his new novel and she finds it uncomfortably close to her murder plans. She goes ahead with her scheme, but things do not run entirely smoothly, and the next day the police report the finding of a body - but is it Gus? Title: Ancient Lights Author: Stephenson, Shelagh Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2004 Description: roy drama six characters two male; four female two acts Hollywood actor Tom Cavallero and girlfriend Iona are spending Christmas in the English countryside with his oldest friends, Bea and Kitty.