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Title: '67 Author: Wallace, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974 Description: roy Canadian - drama eleven characters seven male; four female two acts "A professor tries to explain his philosophy of "no commitments" to his new male student in this lively portrait of the late '60's." Title: 1918 Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1987 Description: roy drama - family relationships thirteen characters six male; seven female two acts Having been exempted from military service in World War I, Horace Robedeaux is back home in Harrison, Texas. He and his wife, Elizabeth, along with their infant daughter, are now settled in a new house built for them by Elizabeth's father, Mr. Vaughn. While their fortunes have improved, the nation reels from a spreading flu epidemic that soon reaches Harrison and infects Mr. Vaughn and Horace. During Horace's illness his daughter also contracts the flu and dies bringing to the young parents a sadness that even the armistice can do little to allay. In time Elizabeth becomes Title: 1949 Author: French, David Publisher: Talonbooks 1989 Description: roy drama - Canadian - historical - Confederation fourteen characters six male; six female; two boys two acts Newfoundland is about to join Confederation. The Mercer family is reunited for the occasion-and sparks fly as some mourn the passing of an independent Newfoundland. Nominated for the 1988 Chalmers Award. Title: 1984 Author: Orwell, George Owens, Robert Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1963 Description: roy drama fourteen characters two male; two female; ten male or female three acts Robert Owens, Wilton E. Hall Jr. and William A. Miles Jr.'s adaptation of George Orwell's novel "1984". The times and the fact that we publish the authorized stage adaptation of this Orwell classic demand some comment, and we quote Orwell himself. "I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily will arrive, but I believe that something resembling it could arrive. The moral Title: 24 Hours - PM Author: Hailey, Oliver Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1983 Description: roy drama - humour up to twenty-seven characters flexible casting two acts suggested for high school. "In this second portion of 24 Hours, the plays deal with the events taking place during the hours of 1 pm to 12 midnight. Again, the range of subjects and people represented is as broad and diverse as the imaginations of the writers involved. Somehow, however, life seems brighter when the "wee hours" have been left behind and the result is a predominance of humour, much of it Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois Author: Sherwood, Robert E. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1937 Description: roy drama thirty-two characters twenty-five male; seven female three acts The play shows in a series of scenes the critical years of Lincoln's early manhood up to the moment of his election as President. We see the backwoodsman, a failure at shopkeeping, but a great favorite with friends and neighbors, slowly groping forward through the troubled years in Springfield, at last beginning to realize the great destiny before him. Title: Abraham Lincoln Introduction and study helps Author: Drinkwater, John Publisher: Copp Clark 1919 Description: roy drama thirty-four characters thirty male; four female six scenes Depicts the passage of Abraham Lincoln in government from the time that he is offered the nomination through the American Civil War to his assassination. Title: Adding Machine, The Author: Rice, Elmer Publisher: Samuel French 1956 Description: roy drama - business twenty-three characters fourteen male; nine female seven acts 5 interior and 2 exterior sets. "This constantly interesting play shows in outline the life history and, in its later scenes, the death history of Mr. Zero, a cog in the vast machine of modern business." Title: Adventure Story Author: Rattigan, Terence Publisher: Hamish Hamilton 1950 Description: roy drama - historical seventeen characters; extras ten male; seven female two acts representative set. An historical drama that depicts the career of Alexander the Great from his first campaign to his last. Title: Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, The Author: Sears, Djanet Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003 Description: roy self awareness eleven characters; chorus seven male; four female (doubling possible) two acts 'A remarkable love, an incredible heist, an extraordinary funeral, and an impassioned search for answers to the profound mysteries of being alive. From Governor General's award winning playwright Djanet Sears, comes a beautiful and deeply moving story set in present-day Negro-Creek, a 200-year-old Black community in Western Ontario. Rainey Baldwin-Johnson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter, the disintegration of her marriage, and an eccentric elderly father on an astonishing crusade.' Title: Advise and Consent Author: Mandel, Loring Publisher: Samuel French 1961 Description: roy American - political - melodrama thirty-four characters; twelve extras eighteen male; four female three acts "Here is a superb melodrama about backstage politics in Washington during a sub-commitee investigation of a man proposed for Secretary of State. Was the candidate a communist? A witness says yes, but comes apart at the seams. The next day, the senior members restore the traditions of probity and honour." Based on the Pulitzer Prize novel by Allen Drury. Title: Affaire Tartuffe; or, the Garrison Officers Rehearse Moliere Author: Ackerman, Marianne Publisher: NuAge Editions 1993 Description: roy Canadian - drama - French - historical ten characters seven male; three female two acts French and English speaking characters. "A young director wants to explore an odd historical incident from 1774. When a power failure suddenly plunges the dinner party into darkness, the candles come out and the scene segues seamlessly into the historical action of the director's script itself." Title: After Abraham Author: Chudley, Ron Publisher: Talonbooks 1980 Description: roy drama - Canadian - historical all male cast; fifteen characters; extras fifteen male two acts "After Abraham" is a play in which Ron Chudley examines events that took place on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 - and how they continue to haunt the two rival cultures of Canada. The protagonists in that fateful battle, Wolfe and Montcalm, both died without meeting but, in this play, they hold a continuing dialogue as ghosts or dream figures. "After Abraham" is a play that depicts the struggle of two great cultures for a continent. There are no heroes in either camp, simply a group of people caught up in the tangle of events, the echoes of which are reverberating Title: After Mrs. Rochester Based on the life of Jean Rhys Author: Teale, Polly Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2003 Description: roy drama - biographical large cast flexible casting two acts "Jean Rhys was fascinated with Jane Eyre - and more particularly with Bertha Mason, the first Mrs. Rochester and the 'madwoman in the attic'. Placing Bertha on stage throughout as Jean's alter ego, Polly Teale's remarkable dramatization of Rhys' life gives full vent to this obsession - which was to prove the catalyst for "Wide Sargasso Sea" - one of the works of genius of the 20th century." Title: After the Dance Author: Rattigan, Terence Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2007 Description: roy drama - tragedy thirteen characters; extras eight male; five female three acts Set in the Mayfair flat of a high-living, hard-drinking, successful writer, David, the play turns on his simultaneous involvement with two women, his wife Joan and an earnest minded younger woman, Helen. Joan commits suicide. David considers following her but instead returns to a life of parties and drinking. An attack on the moral vacuity of those 'bright young things', unknowingly poised on the brink of war. Title: After the Fall Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Viking Press 1964 Description: roy drama thirteen characters; extras six male; seven female two acts The action takes place in the mind, thought, and memory of Quentin, the protagonist. It is a man's inadvertent quest for some key to join together the elements of his experience in the world. Quentin seeks this key especially in his relations with his parents, his brother, and the three women he has loved. The scenes and characters "follow the dark rivulets of memory into unexpected confrontations" with politics, betrayal, the kept and broken promises of love, and finally with the placing of responsibility for those human acts which shape a life. Title: After the Fall Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Bantam Books 1967 Description: roy drama thirteen characters; extras six male; seven female two acts 1 set. The action takes place in the mind, thought, and memory of Quentin, the protagonist. It is a man's inadvertent quest for some key to join together the elements of his experience in the world. Quentin seeks this key especially in his relations with his parents, his brother, and the three women he has loved. The scenes and characters "follow the dark rivulets of memory into Title: After the Fall A play Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1992 Description: roy drama thirteen characters; extras six male; seven female two acts 1 set. The action takes place in the mind, thought, and memory of Quentin, the protagonist. It is a man's inadvertent quest for some key to join together the elements of his experience in the world. Quentin seeks this key especially in his relations with his parents, his brother, and the three women he has loved. The scenes and characters "follow the dark rivulets of memory into Title: Alfie Author: Naughton, Bill Publisher: Samuel French 1963 Description: roy drama eighteen characters nine male; nine female three acts composite set. With sublime amorality Alfie swaggers and philosophizes his way through the play, chattily allowing the audience to eavesdrop as he goes from one bird to another.