Title: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore in - Ford / COL Author: Ford, John Publisher: Hill and Wang 1957
Description:
roy tragedy - verse play - Elizabethan thirty characters; extras twenty-two male; eight female five acts
'Jacobean tragedy in verse. Set in Renaissance Italy. Disastrous consequences of young man's incestuous love for his sister.'
Title: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore in - Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays / COL Author: Ford, John Publisher: Random House 1950
Description:
roy tragedy - verse play - Elizabethan thirty characters; extras twenty-two male; eight female five acts
'Jacobean tragedy in verse. Set in Renaissance Italy. Disastrous consequences of young man's incestuous love for his sister.'
Title: 49 Dogs in the Meathouse in - Five Plays by E. P. Conkle / COL Author: Conkle, E. P. Publisher: Samuel French 1947
Description:
roy folklore twenty characters; extras seventeen male; three female three acts
Description not available. Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois in - Five Broadway Plays / COL Author: Sherwood, Robert E. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1938
Description:
roy drama - biography thirty-two characters twenty-five male; seven female three acts
7 interior and 3 exterior sets; period costumes.
"Episodes in his life from New Salem days up to his departure for Washington in 1861. Shows a maturing and apprehensive young man slowly realizing the great destiny before him. Presents Mary Todd's persistent pursuit and capture of a coming great man; his anti-slavery debates with Douglas; his desperate hope that he would not be elected; his dejected departure for Washington;
Title: Absolute Macbeth in - Antigone and Macbeth / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Engling, Richard Publisher: Polarity Ensemble Theatre 2006
Description:
roy drama - adaptation - Shakespeare large cast flexible casting two acts
Richard Engling's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Three witches cast a circle of magic to the beat of drums and wafts of incense. Like ritual priestesses, they draw in Macbeth, the ambitious warrior who would be King. They flatter his vanity and encourage the evil inside him. And helping it blossom, they allow it to be purged, purifying the Kingdom. Macbeth is the clang of weaponry, temptation followed by murder, more murder, revenge and retribution. The Polarity production takes place in ritual space, in a timeless zone where a soul acquiesces to its own destruction. This
Title: Accountable and Theatric Acts of Witness in - Canadian Theatre Review (147) / PER Author: Khaiat Kalanthe Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - fantasy large cast flexible casting five short plays
Queen's University DRAM 476 testimonial project pieces, 2010. Title: Adding Machine, The in - Three Plays About Business in America / COL Author: Rice, Elmer Publisher: Washington Square Press 1972
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: Adding Machine, The in - Theatre Guild Anthology / COL Author: Rice, Elmer Publisher: Random House 1936
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 in - The Deep Blue Sea / COL Author: Rattigan, Terence Publisher: Pan Books Ltd. 1955
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 in - Testifyin: Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Sears, Djanet Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy self awareness - drama 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: Affaire Tartuffe or the Garrison Officers Rehearse Moliere in - Canadian Theatre Review No.67, Summer 1991 / PER Author: Ackerman, Marianne Publisher: Miscellaneous 1991
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: African Medea in - New American Plays Volume 4 / COL Author: Magnuson, Jim Publisher: Hill and Wang 1971
Description:
roy greek tragedy ten characters; extras six male; two female; two boys two acts
1 exterior set; music; singing; dancing.
"Tragedy based on Greek legend of Medea's jealous revenge against Jason. Set in nineteenth century colonial West Africa." Title: After the Fall in - The Penguin Arthur Miller / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Penguin Books 2015
Description:
roy drama - American 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 Orchard in - Adapt or Die / CCO Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Russia - Toronto twelve characters seven male; five female four acts
"Inspired by Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard', 'After the Orchard' is at once a tribute to its namesake and a beautifully contemporary departure from the original. The play, commissioned by the National Arts Centre English Theatre, centers around the intimate negotiations that take place within a Toronto Jewish family, when a decision has to be made about whether or not to sell the family cottage near Peterborough. Perceptive, elegant, funny and very touching, this play is a timely, eloquent look at family, fathers and farewells."
Title: Albert Speer in - A Terrible Truth v. 1 / COL Author: Sereny, Gitta Edgar, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - holocaust - Germany - World War II large cast flexible casting two acts
"Based on Gitta Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography ALBERT SPEER: HIS BATTLE WITH TRUTH, Edgar's panoramic adaptation tells the epic story of a man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth-century. Plucked from obscurity to be Hitler's favourite architect and later promoted to Minister of Armaments and War Production, Albert Speer became the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, and the closest thing Hitler had to a friend." Title: Alkibiades Saved in - An Anthology of German Expressionist Drama / COL Author: Kaiser, Georg translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan Publisher: Doubleday 1963
Description:
roy expressionist drama thirteen characters; extras eleven male; two female three acts
5 interior and 3 exterior sets.
"New interpretation of life and death of Socrates who drinks hemlock thereby saving Alkibiades from death."
Title: All for Love in - Restoration Drama / COL Author: Dryden, John Publisher: Bantam Books 1968
Description:
nonroy Restoration - tragedy twelve characters; extras six male; four female; two girls five acts
1 interior set
"English Restoration tragedy. Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra done in blank verse."
Title: All for Love in - Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century / COL Author: Dryden, John Publisher: Modern Library 1960
Description:
nonroy Restoration - tragedy twelve characters; extras six male; four female; two girls five acts
1 interior set
"English Restoration tragedy. Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra done in blank verse." Title: All for Love in - Restoration Plays / COL Author: Dryden, John Publisher: Dent 1932
Description:
nonroy Restoration - tragedy twelve characters; extras six male; four female; two girls five acts
1 interior set
"English Restoration tragedy. Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra done in blank verse."
Title: All for Love; or, The World Well Lost in - Restoration Plays / COL Author: Dryden, John Publisher: Random House 1953
Description:
nonroy Restoration - tragedy twelve characters; extras six male; four female; two girls five acts
1 interior set
"English Restoration tragedy. Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra done in blank verse."
Title: All for Love; or, The World Well Lost in - Six Restoration Plays / COL Author: Dryden, John Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company 1959
Description:
roy restoration - tragedy - Shakespeare - adaptation twelve characters; extras six male; four female; two girls five acts
1 interior set
English Restoration tragedy. Adaptation of Shakespeare's "Anthony and Cleopatra" done in blank verse. Title: All for the Best in - Right You Are! (If You Think So) & Other Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Henry Reed Publisher: Penguin Books 1962
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters nine male; seven female three acts
'A man and his mother-in-law tell conflicting stories about their respective wife and daughter. Audience has to decide which is illusion and which is reality.'
Title: All My Sons in - Three Plays About Business in America / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Washington Square Press 1972
Description:
roy American drama ten characters six male; four female three acts
1 exterior set.
'A young man with high ideals finds his beliefs shattered when he learns that the father he admired is responsible for sending faulty equipment to the troops in World War II and for setting up his business partner as the responsible party for the crime.'
Title: All My Sons in - The Penguin Arthur Miller / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Penguin Books 2015
Description:
roy American drama ten characters six male; four female three acts
1 exterior set.
A young man with high ideals finds his beliefs shattered when he learns that the father he admired is responsible for sending faulty equipment to the troops in World War II and for setting up his business partner as the responsible party for the crime. Title: All the Way Home in - Best American Plays / COL Author: Mosel, Tad Publisher: Samuel French 1960
Description:
roy drama - family relations fourteen characters; extras six male; seven female; one child three acts
"The inspiration for this drama is a family's encounter with death. The family consists of a husband, expectant wife, and young son. The husband also has a brother, an undertaker, who fears that he carries the smell of formaldehyde with him constantly. The husband's father is very ill, and he goes alone to visit the old man. He never returns from his trip. Somewhere along the way he was killed. The news of his death stuns and shocks his family. The young wife had always depended greatly on her husband, and while the son is still quite young, he has reached an age
Title: American Clock, The in - The Penguin Arthur Miller / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Penguin Books 2015
Description:
roy drama - American - depression - vaudeville large cast flexible casting two acts
representative set.
A vaudeville based in part on Studs Terkel's HARD TIMES. The play employs a series of vignettes and short scenes, with the actors portraying some fifty-two characters, to capture the sense and substance of America in the throes of the Great Depression. The central figures are the Baums, a wealthy family whose fortune has vanished in the stock market crash, but their story is amplified
Title: And If That Mockingbird Don't Sing in - West Coast Plays 3 / COL Author: Whitehead, William Publisher: West Coast Plays 1978
Description:
roy drama eleven characters nine male; two female two acts
No abstract available. Title: Andersonville Trial, The in - America on Stage / COL Author: Levitt, Saul Publisher: Doubleday 1959
Description:
roy drama - legal - war all male cast; twenty-eight characters twenty-eight male (doubling possible) two acts
1 interior set.
"A courtroom drama about the trial of Henry Wirz, commander of the notorious Civil War prison at Andersonville. Wirz, a Swiss immigrant doctor who had been wounded in battle, insists he was just acting under orders but admits that a hundred Union soldiers died a day in his camp. The play raises the question of when individual responsibility transcends the power of authority."
Title: Andersonville Trial, The in - Four Contemporary American Plays / COL Author: Levitt, Saul Publisher: Vintage Books 1961
Description:
roy drama - legal - war all male cast; twenty-eight characters twenty-eight male (doubling possible) two acts
1 interior set.
"A courtroom drama about the trial of Henry Wirz, commander of the notorious Civil War prison at Andersonville. Wirz, a Swiss immigrant doctor who had been wounded in battle, insists he was just acting under orders but admits that a hundred Union soldiers died a day in his camp. The play raises the question of when individual responsibility transcends the power of authority."
Title: Anna Christie in - Anna Christie; The Emperor Jones; The Hairy Ape / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1921
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters; extras eight male; two female four acts
2 interior and 1 exterior set.
"With intense emotion and inspired realism unfolds the tragic story of the poor bewildered Swedish waif Anna, who, in the clutch of relentless fate, is dragged by circumstances through a sordid life as a prostitute, but is redeemed by the very sea her father Chris hates and by the love of the Irish sailor lad Matt." Title: Anna Christie in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 3, The / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1954
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters; extras eight male; two female four acts
2 interior and 1 exterior set.
"With intense emotion and inspired realism unfolds the tragic story of the poor bewildered Swedish waif Anna, who, in the clutch of relentless fate, is dragged by circumstances through a sordid life as a prostitute, but is redeemed by the very sea her father Chris hates and by the love of the Irish sailor lad Matt."
Title: Anna Kleiber in - The New Theatre of Europe / COL Author: Sastre, Alfonso translated by Leonard C. Pronko Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1962
Description:
roy tragedy seventeen characters; extras fourteen male; three female three acts
1 set.
"Actress who seeks release in self-degradation dies alone in hotel room the day before anticipated reunion with lover."
Title: Anna Sophie Hedvig in - Masterpieces of the Modern Scandinavian Theatre / COL Author: Abell, Kjeld translated by Hanna Astrup Larsen Publisher: Macmillan and Company 1967
Description:
roy tragedy twenty-one characters eleven male; ten female three acts
'When family learns cousin has committed murder, young relative defends her for acting with just motivation.' Title: Another Part of the Forest in - The Collected Plays Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1971
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters eight male; five female three acts
1 interior set; period - Alabama 1880.
After years of restriction under a tyrant father, an eldest son finally rebels successfully and gains control of the business and the family when he learns a dark secret in the history of his father's money making.
Title: Another Part of the Forest in - Six Plays by Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Random House 1979
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters eight male; five female three acts
1 interior set; period - Alabama 1880.
After years of restriction under a tyrant father, an eldest son finally rebels successfully and gains control of the business and the family when he learns a dark secret in the history of his father's money making.
Title: Anowa in - The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa / COL Author: Aidoo, Ama Ata Publisher: Longman 1985
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters five male; five female; two boys; one girl three acts
'Based on the old Ghanian legend, "Anowa" is the story of a young woman who decides, against her parents wishes, to marry the man she loves. After many trials and tribulations the couple amass a fortune - but Anowa realises that something, somewhere is wrong.' Title: Appointment With Death in - The Mousetrap and Other Plays / COL Author: Christie, Agatha Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1945
Description:
roy mystery fifteen characters; extras eight male; seven female three acts
1 interior and 1 exterior set.
"Dramatization of author's novel. Strangely assorted group of sightseeing travelers staying in Jerusalem hotel find themselves involved in death of domineering elderly invalid American whose stepchildren seem rather relieved at her demise."
Title: Archibald Cameron of Locheill in - The Drama of Our Past / CCO Author: de Gaspé, Philippe Aubert Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1997
Description:
roy historical fiction all male cast; thirteen characters thirteen male three acts
Full title: Archibald Cameron of Locheill, or: An Episode in the Seven Year's War in Canada
Adapted from the novel Les Anciens Canadiens (1896) by Monsieur Philippe Aubert de Gaspe.
Title: Arden of Faversham in - Elizabethan Drama / COL Author: Kyd, Thomas Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1990
Description:
roy tragedy seventeen characters; extras fifteen male; two female five acts
'Also known as the 'Lamentable and true tragedy of Master Arden of Feversham in Kent' and 'Tragedy of Master Arden of Feversham'.
Domestic tragedy ascribed to Thomas Kyd. Based on case history of murder of a husband by his wife and her lover, 1551, in which miscreants are brought to justice.' Title: Ascend as the Sun in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama ninteen characters; vocal chorus; dance chorus eight male; nine female; two male or female two acts
No description available.
Title: Ash Girl, The in - Timberlake Wertenbaker: Plays 2 / COL Author: Wertenbaker, Timberlake Publisher: Faber and Faber 2002
Description:
roy drama twelve characters six male; six female two acts
"With her mother dead and her father away, the Ash Girl lives huddled deep in the protection of the ashes with her stepmother and two stepsisters. When an invitation to the Ball, addressed to all the daughters of the house, arrives from Prince Amir, Ashie can't believe that she can go too."
Title: Autumn Garden, The in - The Collected Plays Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1971
Description:
roy drama - marital relations twelve characters five male; seven female three acts
"Most of the guests at Constance Tuckerman's hotel are unhappy. Sophie, Constance's niece, is engaged to a man whose mother will never permit the marriage to take place. General Grigg's wife will not divorce him; she uses her heart condition to hold him. Edward Crossman blames his alcoholism on Constance for marrying another man. But when she, long since a widow, asks him to marry her, he realizes he never loved her. Nicholas Denery and his wife are miserable together. All of the characters come to realize that they cannot revolt from their own past." Title: Autumn Garden, The in - Six Plays by Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Random House 1979
Description:
roy drama - marital relations twelve characters five male; seven female three acts
"Most of the guests at Constance Tuckerman's hotel are unhappy. Sophie, Constance's niece, is engaged to a man whose mother will never permit the marriage to take place. General Grigg's wife will not divorce him; she uses her heart condition to hold him. Edward Crossman blames his alcoholism on Constance for marrying another man. But when she, long since a widow, asks him to marry her, he realizes he never loved her. Nicholas Denery and his wife are miserable together. All of the characters come to realize that they cannot revolt from their own past."
Title: Bagdad Saloon in - Three Plays / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1978
Description:
roy fantasy eleven characters, extras eight male; three female two acts
'Gertrude Stein, Doc Halliday, Henry Miller, Aladdin, and other characters meet in a series of bizarre encounters in a fantasy bar. Singing, dancing.'
Title: Balm in Gilead in - Balm in Gilead and Other Plays / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Hill and Wang 1965
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ twenty-four characters sixteen male; eight female two acts
"A vivid illumination of the bleak world of exiles and outcasts." Title: Barretts of Wimpole Street, The in - Five Broadway Plays / COL Author: Besier, Rudolf Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1930
Description:
roy drama - biography seventeen characters twelve male; five female; one dog five acts
1 interior set; period costumes.
"A sentimentally moving recital of the romance of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning -- the immortal lovers. The invalid Elizabeth is virtually a prisoner to her father, whose affection is tyrannical. Life for her is brightened by the liveliness of her sisters and brothers. Her interest in poetry leads to correspondence with Robert Browning, who at last comes to call on her and courts
Title: Barretts of Wimpole Street, The in - Plays of the Thirties v. 2 / COL Author: Besier, Rudolf Publisher: Pan Books 1967
Description:
roy drama - biography seventeen characters twelve male; five female; one dog five acts
1 interior set; period costumes.
"A sentimentally moving recital of the romance of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning -- the immortal lovers. The invalid Elizabeth is virtually a prisoner to her father, whose affection is tyrannical. Life for her is brightened by the liveliness of her sisters and brothers. Her interest in poetry leads to correspondence with Robert Browning, who at last comes to call on her and courts
Title: Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, The in - The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Sticks and Bones / COL Author: Rabe, David Publisher: Penguin Books 1969
Description:
roy drama - Vietnam War nineteen characters; extras fifteen male; four female two acts
'Life and death of an American soldier with United States Army in Vietnam.' Title: Battles of Coxinga, The in - Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu / COL Author: Chikamatsu, Monzaemon translated by Donald Keene Publisher: Columbia University Press 1961
Description:
non-roy drama - war - Japan - puppet play twenty-two characters; extras fourteen male; six female; two boys five acts
3 interiors; 9 exteriors.
Coxinga of Japan recaptures the kingdom of China for its youthful crown prince from the Tartars who had been aided by a treacherous Chinese minister.
Title: Beard of Avon, The in - New Playwrights: The best plays of 2004 / COL Author: Freed, Amy Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005
Description:
roy drama - Shakespeare - biographical large cast flexible casting two acts
In the play, Shakespeare abandons his wife, Anne Hathaway in Stratford-on-Avon after a visit from a touring company of players. He makes his way to London, determined to be an actor, and seeks out the theater troupe. After an audition scene that is a sendup of how directors and actors can treat one another, he is offered a silent "spear shaker" role. Through the troupe, Shakespeare meets de Vere, who, as a nobleman, would be ostracized if it were discovered that he writes plays for performances by commoners before the public. A deal is struck and a writing partnership is
Title: Before Dawn in - Three German Plays / COL Author: Hauptmann, Gerhart translated by Richard Newham Publisher: Penguin Books 1960
Description:
roy drama - German nineteen characters ten male; nine female five acts
'Naturalistic drama. Idealistic young socialist is dismayed by corruption of newly wealthy peasant family. Although he loves their daughter, he abandons her to her grim future.' Title: Beggar, The in - An Anthology of German Expressionist Drama / COL Author: Sorge, Reinhard translated by Walter H. and Jacqueline Sokel Publisher: Doubleday 1963
Description:
roy expressionist drama fourteen characters; extras ten male; four female three acts
1 interior and 1 exterior set.
"Protagonist is poet-author who reveals his innermost conflicts and aspirations, while theme concerns father versus son, personifications of established order opposed by new generation."
Title: Bell In Campo in - Bell In Campo / Sociable Companions, The / COL Author: Cavendish, Margaret Publisher: Broadview Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - satire - marriage - war - women seventeen characters; extras ten male; seven female ten acts
A group of virtuous women follow their husbands to war and, refusing to remain docilely out of harm's way, form an army of their own.
Title: Belles Soeurs, Les in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (3rd ed. ) / CCO Author: Tremblay, Michel Publisher: Talonbooks 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - French all female cast; fifteen characters fifteen female two acts
Germain wins a million trading stamps and invites her friends and relatives over for a pasting party during which the frustration, bitterness and poverty of their lives is revealed. Title: Belles Soeurs, Les in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (5th ed.) / CCO Author: Tremblay, Michel Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - French all female cast; fifteen characters fifteen female two acts
Germain wins a million trading stamps and invites her friends and relatives over for a pasting party during which the frustration, bitterness and poverty of their lives is revealed.
Title: Bells, The in - Nineteenth Century Plays / COL Author: Lewis, Leopold Publisher: Oxford University Press 1956
Description:
roy drama - murder fourteen characters eleven male; three female three acts
3 interior sets.
"Psychological study of murderer haunted by his guilt."
Title: Best Man, The in - Best American Plays / COL Author: Vidal, Gore Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1960
Description:
roy drama seventeen characters; extras twelve male; five female two acts
2 interior sets.
When a nominee for the party candidacy in the presidential election decides to use underhanded tactics to guarantee his nomination, his opponent, an ethical man, tries to spare the country and his family any embarrassment without retaliating in a vengeful manner. Title: Best of All Possible Worlds, The in - The New Wave Spanish Drama / COL Author: Ballesteros, Antonio Martinez translated by H. Salerno & S. Gross Publisher: New York University 1970
Description:
roy drama twenty-four characters; extras twenty-one male; three female three acts
'Innocent man convicted of crime in totalitarian state.'
Title: Bethune in - On Stage 3 / COL Author: Langley, Rod Publisher: Globe/Modern Curriculum Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - biography - Quebec twenty-nine characters nineteen male; ten female (doubling) three acts
A chronicle of the passionate life and times of Dr. Norman Bethune. Set in the slums of Detroit, in 1930's Montreal, in Civil War Spain and in China, the play paints a larger than life portrait of a remarkable man.
Title: Bill and the Widowmaker in - Five Plays by E. P. Conkle / COL Author: Conkle, E. P. Publisher: Samuel French 1947
Description:
roy folklore sixteen characters thirteen male; three female three acts
Description not available. Title: Billy the Kid in - America's Lost Plays / COL Author: Woods, Walter Publisher: Indiana University Press 1964
Description:
roy melodrama - biography ten characters; extras eight male; two female four acts
"Son of a deserted mother grows up to be an outlaw after the death of the mother and stepfather."
Title: Bitter Fate, A in - Masterpieces of the Russian Drama Vol.1 / COL Author: Pisemsky, Alexey Feofilaktovich translated by A. Kagan and G. R. Noyes Publisher: Dover Publications 1961
Description:
roy tragedy - love nineteen characters fifteen male; four female four acts
'Tragedy set in 19th century Russia. Russian landowner falls in love with wife of one of his serfs.'
Title: Black Crook, The in - Nineteenth Century American Plays / COL Author: Barras, Charles M. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
Description:
roy fantasy fifteen characters; extras ten male; five female four acts
music; singing; dancing; puppets.
Farrago with spectacular effects as airy sprites and water creatures battle a demonic sorcerer for the soul of a young man cheated of his bride. Title: Black-Ey'd Susan in - Nineteenth Century Plays / COL Author: Jerrold, Douglas Publisher: Oxford University Press 1956
Description:
roy melodrama sixteen characters; extras fourteen male; two female three acts
5 interior and 6 exterior sets; incidental music.
"Wicked landlord and dishonorable naval officer victimize helpless sailor and sweetheart."
Title: Blancs, Les in - Les Blancs / COL Author: Hansberry, Lorraine Publisher: Random House 1972
Description:
roy revolution - Africa - drama eighteen characters; six extras including one child five black male; three white male; two white female; one black female (doubling) two acts
"Les Blancs" prophetically confronts the hope and tragedy of Africa in revolution. The setting is a white Christian mission in a colony about to explode. The time is that hour of reckoning when no one (of the guilty) can evade the consequences of white colonialism and imperatives of black liberation. Tshembe Matoseh, the English-educated son of a chief, has come home to bury his father. He finds his teenage brother a near-alcoholic and his older brother a priest and traitor. Forswearing politics and wanting only to return to his wife and child in England, Tshembe is
Title: Blood Wedding in - Three Tragedies / COL Author: Lorca, Federico Garcia translated by J. G. Lujan & R. L. O'Connell Publisher: New Directions 1947
Description:
roy tragedy eighteen characters; extras nine male; nine female two acts
"Ranking in tender pathos with 'Romeo and Juliet', it tells of The Mother who has lost, in feuds with the Felix family, all her manfolk except her youngest son, The Bridegroom. With many forebodings, The Mother arranges a wedding for her only remaining son with The Bride, beloved of Leonardo, son of the rival Felix family. Following the nuptials The Bride runs away with Leonardo. Guided by The Beggar Woman (Death) and The Moon (A Young Woodcutter), The Bridegroom overtakes the lovers. He and Leonardo fight and kill each other. The Mother is left Title: Blood Wedding in - A Treasury of the Theatre Volume 2 / COL Author: Lorca, Federico Garcia translated by R. L. O'Connell and J. G. Luján Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1963
Description:
roy tragedy eighteen characters; extras nine male; nine female two acts
"Ranking in tender pathos with 'Romeo and Juliet', it tells of The Mother who has lost, in feuds with the Felix family, all her manfolk except her youngest son, The Bridegroom. With many forebodings, The Mother arranges a wedding for her only remaining son with The Bride, beloved of Leonardo, son of the rival Felix family. Following the nuptials The Bride runs away with Leonardo. Guided by The Beggar Woman (Death) and The Moon (A Young Woodcutter), The Bridegroom overtakes the lovers. He and Leonardo fight and kill each other. The Mother is left
Title: Blood Wedding in - Spanish Drama / COL Author: Lorca, Federico Garcia translated by J. G. Lujan & R. L. O'Connell Publisher: Bantam Books 1962
Description:
roy tragedy eighteen characters; extras nine male; nine female three acts
"Ranking in tender pathos with 'Romeo and Juliet', it tells of The Mother who has lost, in feuds with the Felix family, all her manfolk except her youngest son, The Bridegroom. With many forebodings, The Mother arranges a wedding for her only remaining son with The Bride, beloved of Leonardo, son of the rival Felix family. Following the nuptials The Bride runs away with Leonardo. Guided by The Beggar Woman (Death) and The Moon (A Young Woodcutter), The Bridegroom overtakes the lovers. He and Leonardo fight and kill each other. The Mother is left
Title: bobrauschenbergamerica in - Humana Festival 2001 / COL Author: Mee, Charles L. Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2001
Description:
roy drama - sketches ten characters; extras six male; three female; one girl forty-three vignettes
music; singing.
"Sketches of contemporary American life. Theatrical equivalent of Robert Raushenberg artwork." Title: Bobrauschenbergamerica in - American Theatre (Sept 01) / PER Author: Mee, Charles L. Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001
Description:
roy sketches ten characters; extras six male; three female; one girl forty-three vignettes
music; singing.
'Sketches of contemporary American life. Theatrical equivalent of Robert Raushenberg artwork.'
Title: Bolsheviks, The in - The Bolsheviks and Other Plays / COL Author: Shatrov, Mikhail translated by Michael Glenny Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1990
Description:
roy political drama - historical - Lenin - Soviet Union - USSR twenty-eight characters twenty-four male; four female two acts
1 setting.
'Second play in trilogy about Lenin's rule in the Soviet Union. Depicts aftermath of nearly successful attempt on Lenin's life'. - Play Index
Title: Bousille and the Just in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theate 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Gelinas, Gratien Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1984
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian tragedy ten characters six male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
'Forced by unscrupulous relatives to perjure himself in Montreal murder trial, Bousille hangs himself.' Title: Braindead in - Stars in the Sky Morning / CCO Author: Innuinuit Theatre Company Nalujuk Players Publisher: Killick Press 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - addiction - drama - Native playwright seventeen characters five male; twelve female seven scenes
'The play, set in a native treatment center, dramatizes how the young people came to be there. 'Braindead' is optimistic in that the characters, without exception, seize the opportunity to overcome their problems by facing them squarely and by using whatever facilities are available for them to beat addiction.'
Title: Break of Day, The in - Timberlake Wertenbaker: Plays 2 / COL Author: Wertenbaker, Timberlake Publisher: Faber and Faber 2002
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters seven female; twelve male two acts
"In 'The Break of Day' Wernberger turns a sharp and beady eye on three women and their partners. The century is coming to an end and a feeling if dissatisfaction and unease seizes the group. Is it too late to have children? Were they wrong to focus so much on work? These questions force each of the to recast their future."
Title: Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy in - The Tony Winners / COL Author: McMahon, Frank Publisher: Doubleday 1977
Description:
roy drama - autobiography - Brendan Behan twenty-three characters; extras ninteen male; four female two acts
5 interiors; 2 exteriors; singing.
"Series of scenes from Brendan Behan's autobiography, recording experiences from day of his arrest in Liverpool as sixteen year old agitator for the I.R.A., his imprisonment, trial, remand to a boys' reformatory called a borstal, and final release." Title: British, The in - The History of the Village of the Small Huts / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Michael Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - history - drama large cast flexible casting four parts
No abstract available.
Title: Broken Heart, The in - Ford / COL Author: Ford, John Publisher: Hill and Wang 1957
Description:
roy tragedy - verse play nineteen characters; extras thirteen male; six female five acts
vocal and instrumental music and dancing.
'Jacobean tragedy in verse set at court of Laconia in Sparta. Revenge of Orgilus against ambitious Ithocles who forced his sister, Penthea into unhappy marriage.'
Title: Brothers Karamazov, The in - Adapt or Die / CCO Author: Sherman, Jason Dostoevsky, Fyodor Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - murder - mystery twenty characters; extras fourteen male; six female two acts
From the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Constance Garnett translation). "The Brothers Karamazov follows the four sons of Fyodor Karamazov: the disgraced soldier Dmitry, the writer Ivan, the novitiate Alyosha and the unacknowledged bastard son, Smerdyakov. Dmitry is accused in the murder of their father – but is he the only one who wanted the old man dead?" Title: Brutopia in - Howard Barker: Collected Plays Volume 2 / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: Calder and Boyars 1993
Description:
roy drama - family relations sixteen characters; extras eleven male; five female twenty-two scenes
'Explores alienation between Thomas More and daughter who has secretly composed counter-text to her father's classic Utopia.'
Title: Burning Vision in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - historical - political issues - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright seventeen characters twelve male; five female four movements
'Unmasks both the great lies of the imperialist power-elite (telling the miners they are digging for a substance to “cure cancer” while secretly using it to build the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki); and the seemingly small rationalisations and accommodations people of all cultures construct to make their personal circumstances yield the greatest benefit to themselves for the least amount of effort on their part. It is also a scathing attack on the “public apology” as yet another mask, as a manipulative device, which always seeks to conceal the
Title: Burning Vision in - Canada and the Theatre of War: Vol. 1 / CCO Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - historical - political issues - Native peoples - Native playwright seventeen characters twelve male; five female four movements
'Unmasks both the great lies of the imperialist power-elite (telling the miners they are digging for a substance to “cure cancer” while secretly using it to build the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki); and the seemingly small rationalisations and accommodations people of all cultures construct to make their personal circumstances yield the greatest benefit to themselves for the least amount of effort on their part. It is also a scathing attack on the “public apology” as yet another mask, as a manipulative device, which always seeks to conceal the Title: Caesar and Cleopatra in - Bernard Shaw Selected Plays / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1981
Description:
roy drama - historical thirty-two characters; extras twenty-eight male; four female five acts
2 interior and 3 exterior sets.
"Caesar, weary of war, finds Cleopatra in Egypt. She is a petulant charmer. He undertakes to establish her on the throne of Egypt. Her brother's adherents attack, he fights them off, scolds Cleopatra, and in leaving promises to send Mark Anthony. Shaw has endeavored to make Caesar more human than history has recorded him."
Title: Caesar and Cleopatra in - Nine Plays by Bernard Shaw / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1935
Description:
roy drama - historical thirty-two characters; extras twenty-eight male; four female five acts
3 interiors; 6 exteriors.
"Ageing Caesar teaches young Cleopatra to be queen while battling opponents in Egypt during Roman Civil War. Includes alternate prologue".
Title: Caesar and Cleopatra in - Three Plays for Puritans / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1946
Description:
roy drama - historical thirty-two characters; extras twenty-eight male; four female five acts
2 interior and 3 exterior sets.
"Caesar, weary of war, finds Cleopatra in Egypt. She is a petulant charmer. He undertakes to establish her on the throne of Egypt. Her brother's adherents attack, he fights them off, scolds Cleopatra, and in leaving promises to send Mark Anthony. Shaw has endeavored to make Caesar more human than history has recorded him." Title: Cage, The in - The Cage and L'Ile de la Demoiselle / CCO Author: Hebert, Anne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - women - Canadian - historical - Quebec large cast flexible casting three acts, prologue
A young “La Corriveau” is tried for murder in an unjust English court in Quebec City.
Title: Caitiline in - Early Plays of Henrik Ibsen / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Anders Orbeck Publisher: Forgotten Books 2012
Description:
roy drama - verse play thirteen characters; extras twelve male; one female three acts
Blank-verse historical drama in three acts.
The play sympathetically depicts Catiline, that much maligned figure of Roman antiquity, concentrating on his inner torments. Bitter and vengeful, rejected by his country and incited by a fallen vestal virgin, Furia, who seeks his destruction, Catiline leads an ill-fated band of malcontents in an abortive rebellion against the corrupt and authoritarian Roman Senate. Betrayed
Title: Caligula in - Caligula and Three Other Plays / COL Author: Camus, Albert Publisher: Vintage Books 1958
Description:
roy drama - historical fifteen characters thirteen male; two female two acts
'A study in tyranny. Ceasar demands the impossible from his subjects and meets his death.' Title: Camille in - Camille and Other Plays / COL Author: Dumas, Alexandre translated by E. Reynolds and N. Playfair Publisher: Hill and Wang 1957
Description:
roy drama - French eighteen characters eleven male; seven female five acts
'The erring woman and her relation to society: a beautiful courtesan is capable of an unselfish love. Set in France 1848.'
Title: Camino Real in - Six American Plays for Today / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Modern Library 1961
Description:
roy drama thirty-six characters; extras twenty-six male; ten female sixteen blocks
representative set.
A 'nice guy' American G.I. finds himself in a town populated with people from every time and place who are trapped there and trying to escape the ennui and angst that pervades the place.
Title: Can You Hear Their Voices? in - Plays by American Women 1930-1960 / COL Author: Flanagan, Hallie Clifford, Margaret Ellen Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1994
Description:
roy drama twenty-nine characters; extras seventeen male; twelve female seven scenes
music; dancing; slide projections.
'Based on story by Whittaker Chambers set during depression of 1930. American farmers facing starvation urged to consider communist alternative.' Title: Canadian Brothers, The in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1984
Description:
roy drama - war - family relations forty-one characters flexible casting three acts
singing.
'Sequel to Wacusta! Family curse impels brothers to survive both involvement in war of 1812, and romantic entanglements with their enemies.'
Title: Castle, The in - Howard Barker: Collected Plays Volume 1 / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: Calder and Boyars 1990
Description:
roy drama - war twelve characters ten male; two female two acts
'Crusading males return to a feminized feudal demesne in examination of contemporary confusions about war, gender knowledge and desire.'
Title: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in - Plays for the Theatre (8th ed.) / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 2004
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters ten male; seven female three acts
1 interior set.
The sixty-fifth birthday party of a wealthy Southern man brings out the worst in his family as their greed for his wealth pits them against each other in their maneuvers for his favour. Title: Caucasian Chalk Circle, The in - Parables for the Theatre / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Eric Bentley and Maja Apelman Publisher: Grove Press 1948
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters; extras eight male; four female; one boy one act (full length)
dancing; music.
'Based on a 14th century Chinese play: The Circle of Chalk by Hui-lan-ki. Concerns a woman's right to a child because of her devotion to it as opposed to an aristocratic mother's solely biological claims.'
Title: Caucasian Chalk Circle, The in - Collected Plays: Volume 7 / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Max Knight and Joseph Fabry Publisher: Vintage Books 1974
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters; extras eight male; four female; one boy one act (full length)
dancing, music.
'Based on a 14th century Chinese play: The Circle of Chalk by Hui-lan-ki. Concerns a woman's right to a child because of her devotion to it as opposed to an aristocratic mother's solely biological claims.'
Title: Caucasian Chalk Circle, The in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Eric Bentley Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama large cast flexible casting five acts
Written when Brecht was living in exile in the United States during World War II. For the Story, Brecht borrowed from an ancient Chinese Tale - echo in the biblical account of the judgement of King Solomon - in which two women both claim the same child, but he subverted it into a parable advocating the idea that resources should go to those best able to make use of them. Thanks to the rascally judge Azdak, natural - though not biological - justice is rendered, and the peasant Grusha, rather than the mother, gets to keep the child she loves. The editors provide an Title: Ceremony of Innocence, The in - Five Plays by Ronald Ribman / COL Author: Ribman, Ronald Publisher: Avon Books 1968
Description:
roy drama - historical twelve characters; extras nine male; three female two acts
unit set; period - England, eleventh century.
King Ethelred's peace negotiations with Denmark are destroyed by his hot-tempered son's continuous attacks on the Danes in England, climaxed by the son's murder of the Danish King's daughter who was sent to England in a gesture of good faith.
Title: Changing Room, The in - Three Plays by David Storey / COL Author: Storey, David Publisher: Samuel French 1972
Description:
roy drama - British - sports all male cast; twenty-two characters twenty-two male three acts
1 interior set.
'This play depicts the life in a changing room of a rugby team before, during and after a major game.'
Title: Changing Room, The in - Home; The Changing Room; and Mother's Day / COL Author: Storey, David Publisher: Penguin Books 1978
Description:
roy drama - British - sports all male cast; twenty-two characters twenty-two male three acts
1 interior set.
'This play depicts the life in a changing room of a rugby team before, during and after a major game.' Title: Chavez Ravine in - American Theatre (Nov. 03) / PER Author: Culture Clash Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003
Description:
roy drama - history - baseball large cast; includes children flexible casting two acts
'A brief look at the history of an area known as Chavez Ravine and its connections with professional baseball.
Title: Cherry Orchard, The in - Masterpieces of the Russian Drama Vol. 2 / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by C.C. Daniels & G.R. Noyes Publisher: Dover Publications 1961
Description:
roy drama fifteen characters, extras ten male; five female four acts
'Naive and unrealistic Russian landed gentry fail to comprehend approaching financial collapse.'
Title: Chicken Soup With Barley in - The Wesker Trilogy / COL Author: Wesker, Arnold Publisher: Penguin Books 1960
Description:
roy drama - working class struggles - British ten characters six male; four female three acts
2 interiors.
"First play of the Roots' trilogy. Disillusionment of East End family over twenty year period." Title: Children's Hour, The in - The Collected Plays Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1971
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters two male; twelve female three acts
2 interior sets.
The story has to do with two women who run a school for girls. A malicious youngster starts an entirely unfounded scandal about them which precipitates tragedy for the women. Later it is discovered that the gossip was pure invention, but by that time irreparable damage has been done.
Title: Children's Hour, The in - Six Plays by Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Random House 1979
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters two male; twelve female three acts
2 interior sets.
The story has to do with two women who run a school for girls. A malicious youngster starts an entirely unfounded scandal about them which precipitates tragedy for the women. Later it is discovered that the gossip was pure invention, but by that time irreparable damage has been done.
Title: Children's Hour, The in - Plays By and About Women / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Vintage Books 1974
Description:
roy drama - tragedy fourteen characters one male; twelve female; one boy three acts
2 interior sets.
Tragedy results when boarding school pupil spreads story that two young women teachers have an abnormal attachment for each other. Title: Class Photo in - Playwrights of Exile / COL Author: Visdei, Anca translated by Stephen J. Vogel Publisher: UBU Repertory Theater Publications 1997
Description:
roy drama ten characters five male; five female ten scenes
"The French language, for the Romanians, was a sister Latin language which stood for true culture in this largely francophile region. In Anca Visdei's Class Photo, this is evident in the envy of her classmates when she returns to her high school class reunion. They envy her presumed affluence, but in truth they envy her escape into the a priori superior France where they have been taught to believe all culture comes from. The protagonist knows better, but she will not abandon her only ace-in-the-hole: the national superstition."
Title: Claw in - Howard Barker: Collected Plays Volume 1 / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: Calder and Boyars 1990
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters ten male; four female three acts
'Ruthless leftist struggles for power using everyone in his path while pursuing career as a pimp and blackmailer. Establishment retaliates by confining him to mental institution where he meets "accidental" death.'
Title: Cloud Nine in - Plays: One / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Methune 1985
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters eight male; eight female; some gender switching in roles two acts
representative set; play may be offensive to some.
Explores sexual role conditioning and sexual repression by spanning generations and by juxtaposing radically different historical periods. The result shows patterns repeating themselves, men suffering as much as women and everyone's identity warped by conforming to 'unnatural norms'. Title: Cockcrows and the Gulls in - Plays at the Iron Bridge / CCO Author: Watson, Wilfred Publisher: Longspoon Press 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian eleven characters; extras five male; six female five acts
music; singing.
'Young man searches for his father in seedy neighborhood in West Coast Canadian seaport.'
Title: Colleen Bawn, The in - Nineteenth Century Plays / COL Author: Boucicault, Dion Publisher: Oxford University Press 1956
Description:
roy Irish play - drama - marriage fifteen characters; extras nine male; six female three acts
6 interior and 6 exterior sets; incidental music.
"Nineteenth century Ireland. A man rues his rash first marriage when he realizes a better one with an heiress could have been made."
Title: Colour the Flesh the Colour of Dust in - A Collection of Canadian Plays, Volume 1 / CCO Author: Cook, Michael Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1972
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Newfoundland twenty-one characters; extras fifteen male; six female two acts
singing, dancing.
"Corrupt English magistrate merchants arrange surrender to French in 1762 of St John's, Newfoundland, while diverting lower class Irish hostilities toward homesick English soldiers. Lieutenant resisting surrender, rescued briefly by Irish prostitute, dies tragically." Title: Comrades in - Seven Plays by August Strindberg / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Arvid Paulson Publisher: Bantam Books 1960
Description:
roy drama - family relations eleven characters four male; seven female four acts
1 interior.
"Artist husband of a painter rebels against wife's feminism."
Title: Confederation and Riel in - The History of the Village of the Small Huts / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Michael Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - history large cast flexible casting two acts
No abstract available.
Winner 2004 Dora Award
Title: Conspiracy of Feelings, The in - Avant-Garde Drama: Major Plays and Documents Post World War I / COL Author: Olyesha, Yurii Publisher: Bantam Books 1969
Description:
roy social class - drama twenty-one characters; extras fifteen male; six female four acts
4 interiors and 1 exterior.
Vulgar philosopher-clown rebels against stifling restrictions and glories in traditional bourgeois feelings prohibited by Communist materialism. Title: Contractor, The in - In Celebration and The Contractor / COL Author: Storey, David Publisher: Penguin Books 1971
Description:
roy drama twelve characters nine male; three female three acts
'Infrequently employed workmen are hired by contractor to erect (and later dismantle) nuptial tent on lawn. Revelations of nouveau riche employer's predicament and their own sordid empty lives are developed, as the tent is readied for contractor's daughter's wedding.'
Title: Contractor, The in - Three Plays by David Storey / COL Author: Storey, David Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama twelve characters nine male; three female three acts
'Infrequently employed workmen are hired by contractor to erect (and later dismantle) nuptial tent on lawn. Revelations of nouveau riche employer's predicament and their own sordid empty lives are developed, as the tent is readied for contractor's daughter's wedding.'
Title: Coriolanus in - Collected Plays, volume 9 (Bertolt Brecht) / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Brecht, Bertolt Publisher: Random House 1959
Description:
roy drama - adaptation thirteen characters; extras nine male; four female five acts
translated by Ralph Manheim.
'Adaptation of Shakespeare's play about Roman military leader emphasizing class struggle and arrogance of the powerful.' Title: Corpus in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2013) / PER Author: Teitel, Darrah Publisher: Miscellaneous 2013
Description:
roy drama - holocaust - history ten characters; one voice five male; five female two acts
The play focuses on contemporary efforts to document and interpret events of the Holocaust, and in doing so, interrogates our post modern relationship to the past, atrocity and in memory. Tracing the research efforts of a graduate student of genocide studies to uncover and engage with testimonies about the Nazi Genocide, the play asks difficult questions about the proliferation of academic work on the Holocaust and the public fascination with it, as well as the varied motivations of belated witnesses and those who witness for them.
Title: Corruption in the Palace of Justice in - The New Theatre of Europe / COL Author: Betti, Ugo translated by Henry Reed Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1962
Description:
roy tragedy ten characters; extras eight male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
"During the investigation into the corruption of the chief justice in a court, two aging judges and rivals for the prospective vacant post come face to face with their own hypocrisy and corruption."
Title: Counsellor Extraordinary in - A Collection of Canadian Plays, Volume 1 / CCO Author: Boston, Stewart Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1972
Description:
roy Canadian - historical - drama - Alberta playwright sixteen characters; extras fifteen male; one female two acts
5 interiors; music; singing.
"Historical drama about Francis Bacon's role in downfall and treason trial of patron. Robert Deveruex, Earl of Essex, whose defiant pride lost him Queen Elizabeth I of England's favour." Title: Counsellor-At-Law in - Awake & Singing / COL Author: Rice, Elmer Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2004
Description:
roy drama - Jewish - legal - historical twenty-eight characters flexible casting three acts
"It's the Great Depression. Ruined businessmen are jumping from the upper stories of Manhattan skyscrapers, and at the law offices of Simon & Tedesco, the whole joint is jumping, though it's only ethics, courtesies, and marriages that occasionally go out the window. Elmer Rice wrote Counsellor-at-Law, a juicy casserole of Manhattan legal life in 1931, when actors were cheaper and ethnic barriers higher; the former condition explains why his taut, shrewdly observant, sardonically funny work is so rarely revived."
Title: Crazy Locomotive, The in - The Madman and the Nun and Other Plays / COL Author: Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy translated by D.C. Gerould and C.S. Durer Publisher: University of Washington Press 1968
Description:
roy drama eleven characters; extras six male; five female two acts
'The challenge of mechanization in today's world and the worship of the machine, of futurism and the cinema.'
Title: Crucible, The in - America on Stage / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1954
Description:
roy drama twenty characters ten male; ten female four acts
4 sets; period - Salem, Mass., 1692.
A young servant-girl, in love with her married ex-master, precipitates the witchcraft hysteria that engulfs Salem and brings many good, innocent people to trial. Title: Crucible, The in - The Penguin Arthur Miller / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Penguin Books 2015
Description:
roy drama twenty-one characters eleven male; ten female four acts
4 sets; period - Salem, Mass., 1692.
A young servant-girl, in love with her married ex-master, precipitates the witchcraft hysteria that engulfs Salem and brings many good, innocent people to trial.
Title: Cry from the City of Virgins, A in - Canadian Theatre Review - No. 85, Winter 1995 / PER Author: Juro, Kara translated by Cody Poulton Publisher: Miscellaneous 1995
Description:
roy fantasy nineteen characters; extras thirteen male; six female eight scenes
Description not available.
Title: Cyber:\womb in - Prerogatives / CCO Author: Laxdal, Vivienne Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy contemporary drama - infertility fifteen characters - voice overs four male; eleven female (doubling possible) two acts
Laxdal's play deals with a woman's response to infertility in the age of technology which is a force shaping all aspects of life, including fantasy. Title: Cyber:\womb in - Canadian Theatre Review - No. 82, Spring 1995 / PER Author: Laxdal, Vivienne Publisher: Laxdal 1994
Description:
roy contemporary drama - infertility - science fiction fifteen characters four male; eleven female (doubling possible) two acts
Laxdal's play deals with a woman's response to infertility in the age of technology which is a force shaping all aspects of life, including fantasy.
Title: Dalliance in - Plays Four / COL Author: Stoppard, Tom Schnitzler, Arthur Publisher: Faber and Faber 1999
Description:
roy drama - historical - relationships ten characters six male; four female three acts
"This version of Schnitzler's "Liebelei" play that caused a scandal when first produced in Vienna in 1895, focuses on how the sexual mores of a society are indicative of the whole social fabric. Dalliance is a bitter sweet drama about a young working class girl who falls in love with a military officer. She alone has not learned that love is temporal and trivial, a mere series of dalliances."
Title: Danton's Death in - The Modern Theatre Volume 5 / COL Author: Buchner, Georg Publisher: Doubleday 1957
Description:
roy tragedy thirty characters; extras twenty-four male; six female four acts
16 interior and 7 exterior sets.
"Historical tragedy. Conflict between Robespierre and Danton during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution." Title: Danton's Death in - The Complete Plays (Büchner) / COL Author: Büchner, Georg translated by Howard Brenton and Jane Fry Publisher: Methuen 1987
Description:
roy drama - historical tragedy large cast flexible casting four acts
Conflict between Robespierre and Danton during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution.
Title: Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The in - Six American Plays for Today / COL Author: Inge, William Publisher: Modern Library 1961
Description:
roy drama eleven characters six male; four female; one boy three acts
1 interior set.
The selfish overconcerned inspection of the problems of the members of a family become over-shadowed by the suicide of the daughter's date, a young man who seemed to have everything. The death is catalytic to the family members' realization that compassion and caring for others can help the problems.
Title: Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The in - Best American Plays 1957-1963 / COL Author: Inge, William Publisher: Crown Publishers 1958
Description:
roy drama eleven characters six male; four female; one boy three acts
The selfish overconcerned inspection of the problems of the members of a family become over-shadowed by the suicide of the daughter's date, a young man who seemed to have everything. The death is catalytic to the family members' realization that compassion and caring for others can help the problems. Title: Darker Face of the Earth in - American Theatre (Nov 96) / PER Author: Dove, Rita Publisher: Miscellaneous 1996
Description:
roy tragedy seventeen characters; extras ten male; seven female two acts
'Tragedy in blank verse based on Oedipus story set on plantation in antebellum South Carolina.'
Title: Days of the Turbins, The in - An Anthology of Russian Plays: Volume II 1890-1960 / COL Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail Publisher: Vintage Books 1963
Description:
roy drama - historical - Russia large cast flexible casting four acts
" 'Days of the Turbins' is a realistic historical play depicting the transition to the Soviet era. The moment of crisis is shown to be the time when a civilized bourgeois White family accepts the reality of defeat." - eNotes.com
Title: Days to Come in - The Collected Plays Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1971
Description:
roy drama eleven characters seven men; four female three acts
2 interior sets.
"Labor dispute brings to light contempt and hate of indebted factory owner, his wife, sister and others." Title: Days to Come in - Six Plays by Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Random House 1979
Description:
roy drama eleven characters seven men; four female three acts
2 interior sets.
"Labor dispute brings to light contempt and hate of indebted factory owner, his wife, sister and others."
Title: Death of a Salesman in - On Stage 3 / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Globe/Modern Curriculum Press 1984
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters eight male; five female two acts
unit set.
A middle-aged salesman is unable to cope with the changing world around him as he realizes more and more that he has been a failure as a salesman, a husband, and a father.
Title: Death of a Salesman in - The Art of Drama / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1976
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters eight male; five female two acts
unit set.
A middle-aged salesman is unable to cope with the changing world around him as he realizes more and more that he has been a failure as a salesman, a husband, and a father. Title: Death of a Salesman in - Plays for the Theatre (4th ed.) / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1984
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters eight male; five female two acts
unit set.
A middle-aged salesman is unable to cope with the changing world around him as he realizes more and more that he has been a failure as a salesman, a husband, and a father.
Title: Death of a Salesman in - Plays for the Theatre (2nd ed.) / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1974
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters eight male; five female two acts
unit set.
A middle-aged salesman is unable to cope with the changing world around him as he realizes more and more that he has been a failure as a salesman, a husband, and a father.
Title: Death of a Salesman in - The Penguin Arthur Miller / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Penguin Books 2015
Description:
roy drama - American thirteen characters eight male; five female two acts
unit set; subtitle: Certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem
A middle-aged salesman is unable to cope with the changing world around him as he realizes more and more that he has been a failure as a salesman, a husband, and a father. Title: Death of a Salesman in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters eight male; five female two acts
unit set.
A middle-aged salesman is unable to cope with the changing world around him as he realizes more and more that he has been a failure as a salesman, a husband, and a father.
Title: Death of Ivan the Terrible, The in - Masterpieces of the Russian Drama Vol. 2 / COL Author: Tolstoy, Alexey Konstantinovich translated by George Rapall Noyes Publisher: Dover Publications 1961
Description:
roy tragedy large cast flexible casting five acts
'Historical tragedy picturing 16th century Russian court life, the activities of Boris Godunov, and a despot's death.'
Title: Defeat, The in - Masterpieces of the Modern Scandinavian Theatre / COL Author: Greig, Nordahl translated by J. B. C. Watkins Publisher: Macmillan and Company 1967
Description:
roy tragedy large cast flexible casting four acts
'Oppressed poor revolt and capture Paris in 1871 but are defeated and executed by troops of President Thiers.' Title: Deirdre of the Sorrows in - Plays, Poems and Prose / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Dent 1958
Description:
roy tragedy - Irish play eleven characters eight male; three female three acts
1 interior; 2 exteriors.
"Tragedy based on Irish legend. Though promised to King, Deirdre marries Naisi and they live in self-exile. King tricks them into returning and slays Naisi. Deirdre commits suicide."
Title: Delectable Judge, The in - Five Plays by E. P. Conkle / COL Author: Conkle, E. P. Publisher: Samuel French 1947
Description:
roy folklore sixteen characters thirteen male; three female two acts
Description not available.
Title: Democracy in - Plays: 4 (Michael Frayn) / COL Author: Frayn, Michael Publisher: Methuen 2010
Description:
roy drama - historical - German politics all male cast; ten characters ten male two acts
"Frayn's play is an elegant fiction based on documented fact. It deals with the symbiotic relationship between Willy Brandt, West German chancellor from 1969 to 1974, and Gunter Guillaume, a Stasi agent who eventually became his personal assistant. We watch fascinated as Guillaume, a minor functionary with a Zelig-like gift for being in the right place at the right time, rises in the Social Democrat hierarchy to become Brandt's confessor and ultimate destroyer. The double irony is that he is enamoured of the man he betrays and that his disclosure ruins Brandt's Title: Desperate Hours, The in - 10 Classic Mystery and Suspense Plays of the Modern Theatre / COL Author: Hayes, Joseph Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1973
Description:
roy drama - thriller fourteen characters ten male; three female; one boy three acts
Based on author's novel.
Three escaped convicts take over the Hillard home in Indianapolis and hold family hostage.
Title: Detaining Mr. Trotsky in - Public Lies and other plays / CCO Author: Fothergill, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - biographical ten characters; voices seven male; three female (doubling possible) two acts
Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, returning to Petrograd from New York in April 1917, is arrested by British authorities in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and sent to an internment camp at Amherst. His turbulent presence threatens the authority of the commandant and creates a crisis of loyalty for the young lieutenant who falls under his spell.
Winner of the Chalmers New Play Award in 1988.
Title: Detective Story in - Three Plays about Crimes and Criminals / COL Author: Kingsley, Sidney Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1962
Description:
roy drama thirty-two characters twenty-four male; eight female three acts
1 interior set.
This play depicts life in a New York detective precinct with the focus on one detective who sees crime in terms of black and white. Title: Devil and the Good Lord, The in - The Devil and the Good Lord and Two Other Plays / COL Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul translated by Kitty Black Publisher: Random House 1960
Description:
roy drama twenty-one characters; extras seventeen male; four female three acts
2 interior and 6 exterior sets.
"Set in Germany in the middle Renaissance, it deals with man's relationship to God and problems of good and evil."
Title: Devil's Law-Case, The in - John Webster: Three Plays / COL Author: Webster, John Publisher: Penguin Books 1972
Description:
roy tragicomedy sixteen characters twelve male; four female five acts
1 setting.
Jacobean tragicomedy. Rich merchant who attempts to force sister into unwanted marriage and secure fortunes of rival suitors is brought to trial.
Title: Diary of Anne Frank, The in - The Tony Winners / COL Author: Goodrich, Frances Hackett, Albert Publisher: Doubleday 1977
Description:
roy drama ten characters five male; four female; one thirteen year-old girl two acts
1 interior set.
The dramatization of the two years a young Jewish girl spent in hiding from Nazis with her family in an attic over a shop in Amsterdam. Title: Dido, Queen of Carthage in - Christopher Marlowe: Complete Plays / COL Author: Virgil Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Penguin Books 2003
Description:
roy tragedy - play in verse seventeen characters; extras thirteen male; three female five acts
An adaptation by Christopher Marlowe of Virgil's narrative in the Aeneid of Dido's tragic passion for the Trojan exile Aeneas.
Title: Dilemma of a Ghost, The in - The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa / COL Author: Aidoo, Ama Ata Publisher: Longman 1985
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters three male; eight female; one boy; one girl five acts
'When Ato returns to Ghana from his studies in North America he brings with him a sophisticated black American wife. But their hopes of a happy marriage and of combining the sweetness and loveliest things in Africa and America are soon shown to have been built on an unstable foundation.'
Title: Dinosaur in - West Coast Plays 6 / COL Author: Hopkins, Glenn Lindberg, Wayne Publisher: West Coast Plays 1980
Description:
roy drama twenty characters fourteen male; six female two acts
No abstract available. Title: Dirty Hands in - No Exit and Three Other Plays / COL Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul Publisher: Random House 1955
Description:
roy tragedy twelve characters ten male; two female seven acts
"Young intellectual, a Communist Party worker in mid-European country during World War II, caught between theories and actions."
Title: Doctor Faustus in - The Genius of the Early English Theatre / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: New American Library 1962
Description:
roy tragedy thirty-three characters; extras thirty-one male; two female five acts
speaking chorus; music.
'Also known as 'The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus', 'The tragical history of Dr. Faustus' and 'The tragical history of the life and death of Dr. Faustus'.
Elizabethan tragedy in verse based on Faust legend of man who sold his soul to the devil.'
Title: Doctor Faustus in - Elizabethan Drama / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1990
Description:
roy tragedy thirty-three characters; extras thirty-one male; two female five acts
speaking chorus; music.
'Also known as 'The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus', 'The tragical history of Dr. Faustus' and 'The tragical history of the life and death of Dr. Faustus'.'
Elizabethan tragedy in verse based on Faust legend of man who sold his soul to the devil. Title: Doctor Faustus in - Christopher Marlowe: Complete Plays / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Penguin Books 2003
Description:
roy tragedy thirty-three characters; extras thirty-one male; two female fourteen scenes
speaking chorus; music.
'Also known as 'The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus', 'The tragical history of Dr. Faustus' and 'The tragical history of the life and death of Dr. Faustus'.'
Elizabethan tragedy in verse based on Faust legend of man who sold his soul to the devil.
Title: Doctor Faustus in - Christopher Marlowe: Five Plays / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Hill and Wang 1956
Description:
roy tragedy thirty-three characters; extras thirty-one male; two female five acts
speaking chorus; music.
'Also known as 'The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus', 'The tragical history of Dr. Faustus' and 'The tragical history of the life and death of Dr. Faustus'. Elizabethan tragedy in verse based on Faust legend of man who sold his soul to the devil.'
Title: Doll's House, A in - Eight Plays by Henrik Ibsen / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Eva Le Gallienne Publisher: Modern Library 1989
Description:
roy drama eleven characters four male; four female; three children three acts
1 interior set.
A woman who committed forgery to save her husband's life realizes at the time of the revelation of the crime that she must leave her husband and children to regain her self-respect. Title: Doll's House, A in - Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Rolf Fjelde Publisher: New American Library 1978
Description:
roy drama eleven characters four male; four female; three children three acts
1 interior set.
A woman who committed forgery to save her husband's life realizes at the time of the revelation of the crime that she must leave her husband and children to regain her self-respect.
Title: Doll's House, A in - Ibsen: Four Major Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Rolf Fjelde Publisher: New American Library 1965
Description:
roy drama eleven characters four male; four female; three children three acts
1 interior set.
A woman who committed forgery to save her husband's life realizes at the time of the revelation of the crime that she must leave her husband and children to regain her self-respect.
Title: Doll's House, A in - The Art of Drama / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Eva Le Gallienne Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1976
Description:
roy drama eleven characters four male; four female; three children three acts
1 interior set.
A woman who committed forgery to save her husband's life realizes at the time of the revelation of the crime that she must leave her husband and children to regain her self-respect. Title: Doll's House, A in - On Stage 3 / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Michael Meyer Publisher: Globe/Modern Curriculum Press 1984
Description:
roy drama eleven characters four male; four female; three children three acts
1 interior set.
A woman who committed forgery to save her husband's life realizes at the time of the revelation of the crime that she must leave her husband and children to regain her self-respect.
Title: Doll's House, A in - Plays: Two / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Michael Meyer Publisher: Methune 1984
Description:
roy drama eleven characters four male; four female; three children three acts
1 interior set.
A woman who committed forgery to save her husband's life realizes at the time of the revelation of the crime that she must leave her husband and children to regain her self-respect.
Title: Doll's House, A in - Plays for the Theatre (8th ed.) / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Eva Le Gallienne Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 2004
Description:
roy drama eleven characters four male; four female; three children three acts
1 interior set.
A woman who committed forgery to save her husband's life realizes at the time of the revelation of the crime that she must leave her husband and children to regain her self-respect. Title: Dollar Woman, The in - New Canadian Drama 2 / CCO Author: Nowlan, Alden Learning, Walter Publisher: Borealis Press 1981
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - nineteenth century twelve characters nine male; three female two acts
"'The Dollar Woman' carries us further back in time to the late nineteenth century, but the disturbing ulcer on our history which it reveals forces the audience to reconsider its current attitudes to social welfare in general. Although 'The Dollar Woman' is rich in local detail with special meaning for a New Brunswick audience, the Sussex community described is universal in its bigotry and love, its prudishness and carnality, its self-centredness and conscience."
Title: Don Carlos in - The Classic Theatre: Volume II / COL Author: Schiller, Friedrich von translated by James Kirkup Publisher: Doubleday 1959
Description:
roy German - historical tragedy - classic eighteen characters; extras eleven male; five female; one boy; one girl five acts
setting: 16th century Spain; 12 interiors, 2 exteriors.
"Psychological study of Don Carlos and his conflict with father, King Philip."
Title: Doña Rosita, the Spinster in - Five Plays by Lorca / COL Author: Lorca, Federico Garcia translated by J. G. Lujan & R. L. O'Connell Publisher: New Directions 1963
Description:
roy verse - drama twenty characters; extras eight male; twelve female three acts
3 interior sets; music; singing; dancing.
"Years of waiting for her fiance's return to Granada turn gentle Rosita into a grotesque spinster." Title: Donnellys, The in - Popular Performance Plays of Canada, Volume I / CCO Author: Colley, Peter Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1976
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - murder large cast flexible casting two acts
"The memory of the Donnellys dies hard. The legend has painted the Donnellys very black, although recent evidence indicates that they could not have committed all the crimes of which they were accused. However, this much is fact: the townspeople of Lucan, Ontario rose up against the Donnelly family and murdered as many of them as they could find and proceeded to burn the Donnelly farmstead to the ground. In death, the Donnellys assumed proportions which they had not managed to attain in life, and the arguments about the justification of the killing rage on even
Title: Down and Out in - Masterpieces of the Russian Drama Vol. 2 / COL Author: Gorky, Maxim translated by Henry Burke Publisher: Dover Publications 1961
Description:
roy drama - Russian⌦seventeen characters; extras thirteen male; four female four acts
1 interior and 1 exterior set; singing; song with musical score; same as "The Lower Depths". Philosophical. Life among outcasts, murderers, thieves, prostitutes, etc. in a Russian cellar lodging.
Title: Dragon Beard Ditch in - Modern Drama from Communist China / COL Author: Lao, Sheh translated by Liao Hung-ying Publisher: University of London Press 1970
Description:
roy melodrama - China - historical fifteen characters; extras ten male; four female; one girl three acts
'Melodrama set in Peking before and after the communist take-over. Proletariat find living conditions vastly improved after "liberation".' Title: Dragon, The in - Three Soviet Plays / COL Author: Schwartz, Yevgeny translated by M. Hayward and H. Shukman Publisher: Penguin Books 1966
Description:
roy drama - Soviet twenty-four characters, extras fifteen male; nine female three acts
"Schwartz's most outspoken and most hilarious debunking of political tyranny. His earlier despots - kings, ministers, and imitations of men - are replaced by the traditional nightmare creature of legend, the dragon, who can also assume human and 'humane' form, and is succeeded by the all too humanly villainous Mayor. The play was written in 1943, and ... it was promoted as an anti-fascist, anti-war 'pamphlet.' It was, none the less, attacked for its allegedly pessimistic note, its critics detecting in it the message that it was not worth fighting tyranny because one
Title: Drifting Apart in - America's Lost Plays / COL Author: Herne, James A. Publisher: Indiana University Press 1964
Description:
roy melodrama - romance fourteen characters; extras six male; seven female; one girl five acts
3 interiors; 2 exteriors; music; chorus.
"A first happy marriage ends after the husband disappears at sea. A second marriage is interrupted by the return of the first husband."
Title: Drum Song in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - tragedy - Alberta playwright twenty-nine characters seven male; twenty-two female (doubling possible) three parts
Trilogy contains: Lament for Harmonica (Maya) The Stranger The Furies Title: Drums in the Night in - Collected Plays: One / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by John Willet Publisher: Methune 1970
Description:
roy drama - World War I fifteen characters; extras nine male; six female five acts
3 interior and 2 exterior sets.
"A World War I German veteran, who returns home to find his girl engaged to another man, considers joining radical revolution."
Title: Drums in the Night in - Jungle of Cities and other plays / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Frank Jones Publisher: Grove Press 1966
Description:
roy drama - relationships fifteen characters; extras nine male; six female five acts
3 interiors; 2 exteriors; translated by Frank Jones.
World War I German veteran, who returns home to find his girl engaged to another man, considers joining radical revolution.
Title: Duchess of Malfi, The in - Classic Theatre: The Humanities in Drama / COL Author: Webster, John Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1975
Description:
roy drama - murder fifteen characters; extras twelve male; three female four acts
7 interior and 2 exterior sets; period costume.
"The widowed Duchess secretly marries her steward Antonio, thus giving offense to her brothers. In revenge, the brothers kill her and her children; the betrayer, de Bosola, kills the brothers and Antonio. In the end, all are wiped out: a total of 10 slain, one poisoned, and one going mad." Title: Duchess of Malfi, The in - Plays / COL Author: Webster, John Seng, Peter J. Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 1970
Description:
roy tragedy - Elizabethan fifteen characters; extras twelve male; three female five acts
representative set; period - early seventeenth century.
Two brothers who do not want their widowed sister to remarry, murder her and her second family when they learn they have been disobeyed and are in turn, murdered by the spy they hired who is tired of all the corruption and death that has transpired at the hands of the brothers.
Title: Duchess of Malfi, The in - Collected Plays: Volume 7 / COL Author: Webster, John Brecht, Bertolt Publisher: Vintage Books 1974
Description:
roy tragedy - Elizabethan fifteen characters; extras twelve male; three female five acts
representative set; period - early seventeenth century.
Two brothers who do not want their widowed sister to remarry, murder her and her second family when they learn they have been disobeyed and are in turn, murdered by the spy they hired who is tired of all the corruption and death that has transpired at the hands of the brothers.
Title: Duchess of Malfi, The in - Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays / COL Author: Webster, John Publisher: Random House 1950
Description:
roy tragedy - Elizabethan fifteen characters; extras twelve male; three female five acts
representative set; period - early seventeenth century.
Two brothers who do not want their widowed sister to remarry, murder her and her second family when they learn they have been disobeyed and are in turn, murdered by the spy they hired who is tired of all the corruption and death that has transpired at the hands of the brothers. Title: Duchess of Malfi, The in - John Webster: Three Plays / COL Author: Webster, John Publisher: Penguin Books 1972
Description:
roy tragedy - Elizabethan fifteen characters; extras twelve male; three female five acts
representative set; period - early seventeenth century.
Elizabethan tragedy of revenge. Brother's family pride and avarice versus sister's marriage to commoner in 16th century Italy constitutes action of verse play.
Title: Dusty Bluebells in - Fancy Footwork / COL Author: Gallagher, Miriam Publisher: Society of Irish Playwrights 1997
Description:
roy drama - Irish - prisoner eleven characters three male; eight female two acts
"Dusty Bluebells uses a Women's prison as microcosm."
Title: Dybbuk, The in - The Great Jewish Plays / COL Author: Anski, S. Publisher: Horizon Press 1972
Description:
roy drama - Jewish thirty-two characters (extras; children) twenty-five male; seven female four acts
2 interior and 1 exterior set; Russian costumes.
"The Dybbuk is believed to be an evil spirit which enters into a person. As a Russian Jew sect is worshipping in a synagogue, Sender, a wealthy merchant announces that he has found a bride-groom for his daughter Leah. When Channon, who had been betrothed to Leah at birth, drops dead, Sender is held responsible. The Dybbuk is exorcised, but Leah hears the call of the Title: Earth Worms in - Bizarre Behavior / COL Author: Innaurato, Albert Publisher: Grove Press 1960
Description:
roy family relations twelve characters six male; six female two acts
The time of the play is in the mid-1950s. The play opens in Virginia, but most of the scenes occur in the Italian section of South Philadelphia.
Title: Earth Worms in - West Coast Plays 4 / COL Author: Innaurato, Albert Publisher: West Coast Plays 1979
Description:
roy family relations - drama twelve characters six male; six female two acts
The time of the play is in the mid-1950s. The play opens in Virginia, but most of the scenes occur in the Italian section of South Philadelphia.
Title: Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (3rd ed. ) / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female two acts
open stage.
A lyrical documentary of a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violent and paternalistic attitudes towards Native people. Title: Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The in - The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: General Publishing 1971
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female two acts
open stage.
A lyrical documentary of a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violent and paternalistic attitudes towards Native people.
Title: Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female two acts
open stage.
A lyrical documentary of a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violent and paternalistic attitudes towards Native people.
Title: Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (rev. ed.) / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1986
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female two acts
open stage.
A lyrical documentary of a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violent and paternalistic attitudes towards Native people. Title: Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (5th ed.) / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female two acts
open stage.
A lyrical documentary of a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violent and paternalistic attitudes towards Native people.
Title: Edgar Allan Poe's: The Cask of Amontillado in - Edgar Allan Poe Live On-Stage / COL Author: Poe, Edgar Allan Ballantyne, Jr., J. E. Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - horror thirteen characters; extras eight male; five female two acts
adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.
Montresor wants to exact revenge on Fortunato for insults Montresor has suffered at his hand. He decides to use Fortunato's claimed expertise as a wine expert to identify what could pass for Amontillado, a light Spanish sherry, that Montresor has sequestered in the catacombs of his home. Montresor, in a mask and full costume acosts Fortunato, who is in full jester regalia,
Title: Edgar Allan Poe's: The Masque of the Red Death in - Edgar Allan Poe Live On-Stage / COL Author: Poe, Edgar Allan Ballantyne, Jr., J. E. Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - horror large cast fourteen male; eight female; extras two acts
adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.; several interiors; doubling and tripling possible.
"Prince Prospero rules the land with an iron hand. No one is free from his tyranny and no one is free from the menacing shadow of his castle. But a new fear has gripped the region. A horrifying and agonizing death has invaded the countryside killing people by the hundreds. Death comes rapidly with very little warning. In an attempt to save his most loyal subjects from this horrifying Title: Edge of the Earth is too Near, Violette Leduc, The in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO Author: Marchessault, Jovette translated by Suzanne de Lotbiniére-Harwood Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - biographical - Canadian twenty-one characters twelve male; nine female (doubling possible) eleven parts
Up until her untimely death in 1972, Violette Leduc was a protégée of Simone de Beauvoir and one of France’s most controversial women writers. In this play, Leduc is surrounded by her ex-husband, her woman lover, her mother and several luminaries of French literary circles, including Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Genet. Another, albeit invisible, presence in Leduc’s life is the "vampire" who prevents her from writing, and who refuses and censors her manuscripts. But
Title: Edward II in - Elizabethan Drama / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1990
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - historical - verse play twenty-three characters twenty-two male; one female many scenes
'Historical tragedy based on Christopher Marlowe's "Edward the Second". In thirteenth century England, King's infatuation with young man starts war and results in murder of both.'
Title: Edward the Second in - Classic Theatre: The Humanities in Drama / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1975
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - historical - verse play twenty-three characters twenty-two male; one female many scenes
'Historical tragedy based on Christopher Marlowe's "Edward the Second". In thirteenth century England, King's infatuation with young man starts war and results in murder of both.' Title: Edward the Second in - Christopher Marlowe: Complete Plays / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Penguin Books 2003
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - historical - verse play twenty-three characters twenty-two male; one female many scenes
'Historical tragedy based on Christopher Marlowe's "Edward the Second". In thirteenth century England, King's infatuation with young man starts war and results in murder of both.'
Title: Edward the Second in - Christopher Marlowe: Five Plays / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Hill and Wang 1956
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - historical - verse play twenty-three characters twenty-two male; one female many scenes
'Historical tragedy based on Christopher Marlowe's "Edward the Second". In thirteenth century England, King's infatuation with young man starts war and results in murder of both.'
Title: Egmont in - The Classic Theatre: Volume II / COL Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von translated by Michael Hamburger Publisher: Doubleday 1959
Description:
roy German - tragedy - classic - historical drama nineteen characters; extras fifteen male; four female five acts
6 interiors, 3 exteriors.
"Historical drama of Count Egmont who led 16th century Flemish revolt in the Netherlands." Title: Electra in - The Modern Theatre Vol. 1 / COL Author: Giraudoux, Jean translated by Winifred Smith Publisher: Doubleday 1955
Description:
roy tragedy - Greek seventeen characters; extras seven male; seven female; three girls two acts
'Based on Greek legend of Orestes and Electra, son and daughter of Agamemnon, who avenged their father's murder.'
Title: Eleonora Duse in - Eleonora Duse; Victim; Originality / COL Author: Fratti, Mario Publisher: Samuel French 1967
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters eight male; eight female two acts
Description not available.
Title: Elgar's Rondo in - The Composer Plays / COL Author: Pownall, David Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd. 1993
Description:
roy drama - music - biographical fifteen characters; musicians ten male; five female two acts
Captures the depth of the great composer's despair as he wrestles with growing feelings of artistic failure. Title: Emma's Child in - Women Playwrights the Best Plays of 1995 / COL Author: Thatcher, Kristine Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy drama - family drama eleven characters three male; eight female three acts
"Couple in their 40's arrange to adopt teenager's baby but when child is born with severe hydrocephalus all their lives change."
Title: Enemies in - Adapt or Die / CCO Author: Gorky, Maxim Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Russia large cast flexible casting two acts
"It’s summer, around 1900, and the beautiful people are sitting around swilling tea. This is one of those sprawling Russian households: the factory owner and his wife, the drunken brother, the factory manager, his brother who is a lawyer, an actress, a niece, a maid, and more. A sycophantic creep arrives to complain that somebody is stealing his cucumbers. Then comes word that the factory employees are threatening to strike at noon. Somebody wonders: could it be the heat that’s causing all this turmoil? Welcome to Enemies, Jason Sherman’s intriguing adaptation of Maxim
Title: Enemies in - Five Plays / COL Author: Gorky, Maxim translated by Margaret Wettlin Publisher: Foreign Languages 1956
Description:
roy Russian - drama twenty-five characters; extras seventeen male; eight female three acts
1 interior, 1 exterior.
"Set in Russia in the early part of the twentieth century. The play depicts the conflicting reactions of two factory owners to their worker's discontent." Title: Enemy of the People, An in - Eight Plays by Henrik Ibsen / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik Miller, Arthur Publisher: Modern Library 1989
Description:
roy drama eleven characters; extras nine male; two female; two boys three acts
translated by Eva Le Gallienne; 3 interior sets.
Adapted by Arthur Miller. A doctor who believes he is doing good when he discovers and reports that the water in the local Baths are poisoned is attacked and ostracized by the town which feels he is destroying its main source of income.
Title: Enemy of the People, An in - Seeds of Modern Drama / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik Miller, Arthur Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1963
Description:
roy drama twelve characters; extras nine male; two female; one boy five acts
adapted by Arthur Miller; 4 interiors.
Social reform. Doctor who advocates community sanitation regarded as a radical. Norway, late 19th century.
Title: Erik the Fourteenth in - The Plays of Strindberg Vol. 1 / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Michael Meyer Publisher: Vintage Books 1964
Description:
roy historical tragedy twenty-four characters; extras seventeen male; four female; one boy; two girls four acts
'King Erik of Sweden's struggle with his stepbrothers Duke Yohan and Duke Charles to keep control of the throne.' Title: Ermine, The in - Five Plays: Volume 1 / COL Author: Anouilh, Jean translated by Miriam John Publisher: Hill and Wang 1958
Description:
roy tragedy fifteen characters eight male; seven female three acts
3 interior sets.
"Impoverished young Frenchman murders his sweetheart's wealthy aunt."
Title: Eurydice in - Five Plays: Volume 1 / COL Author: Anouilh, Jean translated by Kitty Black Publisher: Samuel French 1944
Description:
roy drama - French fifteen characters; extras ten male; five female three acts
2 interior sets.
"Modernized version in French setting of legend of Orpheus who failed to fulfil the necessary condition for bringing wife, Eurydice, back from the dead."
Title: Execution of Justice in - New Plays USA 3 / COL Author: Mann, Emily Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1986
Description:
roy docu-drama - crime - LGBTQ large cast flexible casting two acts
1 set; period - 1978-1980's.
Docu-drama portraying the trial of Dan White for the murders of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, and Harvey Milk, the city's first openly gay supervisor. Title: Exile in the Cradle in - The Theatre of Genocide / COL Author: Shirinian, Lorne Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - war - genocide - Armenia thirteen characters seven male; six female four acts
"The characters in 'Exile in the Cradle' are confronted with the looming threat of loss through death, assimilation, and acculturation. The play begins during the early moments of the Armenian Genocide in April 1915 then moves to the present in Toronto, where several generations of Armenians cope with the imminent break-up of their family. Faced with the forces of assimilation, some individuals willingly yield to claim their future, while others out of fear cling to a past that is becoming more and more distant. The characters choose their form of exile, either from the past
Title: Far as the Eye Can See in - Showing West / CCO Author: Wiebe, Rudy Publisher: NeWest Press 1982
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright - Alberta seventeen characters thirteen male; four female three acts
various interior and exterior sets.
A contemporary (1977) look at Alberta inspired by the struggle of the Dodds-Round Hill farming community with Calgary Power over an enormous thermal power-plant development just outside of Edmonton.
Title: Farther West in - Farther West / New World / CCO Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Coach House Press 1985
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters seven male; four female two acts
"Set in the late 1800's, this erotic and violent odyssey centres around a prostitute who is driven relentlessly westward in her attempts to reconcile her sexual freedom and her quest, as a woman, to create her own rules and environment."
Winner, 1986 Chalmers Canadian Play Award Title: Fast and Loose in - Humana Festival 2004 / COL Author: González, José Cruz Greenidge, Kirsten Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005
Description:
roy drama - morality twenty-four characters twelve male; twelve female (doubling) four parts
If you found out a secret that might hurt a loved one, would you expose it? That was one four questions that this collaboration of four playwrights had to work with. Four vignettes intertwine in this 90-minute play.
Title: Fatal Ring, The in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 2 / CCO Author: Cushing, Eliza Lanesford Publisher: CTR Publications 1979
Description:
roy Canadian - drama thirteen characters; extras seven male; six female three acts
"'The Fatal Ring's' theme of woman destroyed by contact with a corrupt society is echoed in many of Cushing's prose and dramatic works. Nowhere else is this process of victimization more convincingly portrayed, however."
Title: Faust, part 1 in - The Romantic Influence / COL Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von translated by George Madison Priest Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1963
Description:
roy tragedy - fantasy large cast flexible casting twenty-eight scenes
contains part 1 only.
Based on Faust's legend of man who sold his soul to the devil, and at long last find a way to redeem his soul. Title: Felix Poitre in - The Drama of Our Past / CCO Author: Frechette, Louis-Honore Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1997
Description:
roy historical drama all male cast; fifteen characters fifteen male four acts
Based on the memoirs of the same, a bestseller of 1862 entitled 'Escaped from the Gallows: Souvenirs of a Canadian State Prisoner in 1893.
Title: Female Consistory of Brockville, The in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 1 - The Nineteenth Century / CCO Author: Candidus, Caroli Publisher: CTR Publications 1978
Description:
roy Canadian melodrama - nineteenth century plays twelve characters four male; eight female three acts
"...based on the dismissal of John Whyte, a Brockville Presbyterian minister, through pressure from his congregation...By bribing a number of servant girls to lie about the manner in which the minister has governed himself and his house, the women of the consistory succeed in bringing the minister before a Presbytery inquisition where, on further trumped up evidence, he is found guilty and relieved from his office."
Title: Fights, The in - The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays v. 2 / CCO Author: Pittman, Benedict Publisher: Breakwater Books 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations all male cast; ten characters; extras ten male two acts
3-6 burlesque dancers/female extras.
Based on a true story. A tale of ambition and prizefighting as two brothers struggle together to reach their dreams.
Winner! 2008 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award for Best Dramatic Script. Title: Flies, The in - No Exit and Three Other Plays / COL Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul Publisher: Random House 1955
Description:
roy drama - symbolic play - Greek legend twelve characters; extras seven male; five female three acts
"Symbolical treatment in modern idiom of the Greek legend of Orestes and Electra."
Title: Flies, The in - A Treasury of the Theatre Volume 2 / COL Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul translated by Stuart Gilbert Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1963
Description:
roy symbolic play - Greek legend fourteen characters; extras seven male; six female; one boy three acts
2 interior and 2 exterior sets.
"Symbolical treatment in modern idiom of the Greek legend of Orestes and Electra."
Title: Flight into Danger in - Four Plays of Our Time / COL Author: Hailey, Arthur Sergel, Christopher Publisher: MacMillan 1960
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters; extras nine male; ten female three acts
adapted by Christopher Sergel; representative set
When the pilot and the co-pilot of a charter plane become incapacitated by severe food poisoning, a passenger has to take over the controls of the plane and land it. Title: Flight Into Danger in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Hailey, Arthur Sergel, Christopher Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters; extras nine male; ten female three acts
adapted by Christopher Sergel; representative set
When the pilot and the co-pilot of a charter plane become incapacitated by severe food poisoning, a passenger has to take over the controls of the plane and land it.
Title: Football in - Modern Spanish Theatre / COL Author: Bellido, Jose-Maria translated by D. Turner Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1969
Description:
roy drama - Spanish play - allegory large cast flexible casting two acts
1 interior scene, 1 setting.
"Allegory about Spanish Civil War, world politics, and religion delineated in story of competing football teams."
Title: For Services Rendered in - Plays: Two (W. Somerset Maugham) / COL Author: Maugham, W. Somerset Publisher: Methuen 1999
Description:
roy drama - historical - British - social class twelve characters six male; six female three acts
FOR SERVICES RENDERED sheds a harrowing light on provincial middle-class England after the First World War. Title: For Services Rendered in - Three Dramas of W. Somerset Maugham / COL Author: Maugham, W. Somerset Publisher: Washington Square Press 1968
Description:
roy drama - historical - British - social class twelve characters six male; six female three acts
FOR SERVICES RENDERED sheds a harrowing light on provincial middle-class England after the First World War.
Title: Fountain, The in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 1, The Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1955
Description:
roy historical drama large cast flexible casting three parts; eleven scenes
The story of a 17th century conquistador. "The futile search of Ponce de León to find eternal youth is O'Neill's subject in this symbolic drama, which ultimately affirms the life-enhancing "eternal becoming" and the idea that "there is no gold but love."
Title: From Morn till Midnight in - Plays for the Theatre (2nd ed.) / COL Author: Kaiser, Georg translated by Ulrich Weisstein Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1974
Description:
roy drama large cast flexible casting two parts
The Cashier is silently and mechanically working in a provincial bank, when a suspiciously elegant lady is refused the facility to cash a cheque. He steals a large amount of cash from the till and rushes to the lady's hotel. He declares that he has stolen the money for her and pleads with her to run away with him. A respectable woman, she rejects his ludicrous advances. Deciding that there is no turning back, he returns home to reassure himself that he must put his bourgeois existence behind him. Title: Fuente Ovejuna in - Spanish Drama / COL Author: De Vega, Lope translated by Angel Flores & Muriel Kittel Publisher: Bantam Books 1962
Description:
roy Spanish play - drama twenty-two characters; extras eighteen male; four female three acts
In 1476 the peasants of Fuente Ovejuna, a village in Cordoba, rose against their feudal overlords, represented by Fernan Gomez de Guzman. As Comendador, of Knight Commander, of the Order of Calatrava, Fernan Gomez derived his authority from the Master of that Order, the young Rodrigo Tellez Giron. The larger political background is sketched in Lope's opening scene where the Comendador champions the King of Portugal's claim to the Spanish throne. The rival claimant was Ferdinand of Aragon who had married Isabela of Castile: it is to these "Catholic Princes" that the
Title: Fuente Ovejuna in - The Classic Theatre Volume III: Six Spanish Plays / COL Author: De Vega, Lope translated by Roy Campbell Publisher: Doubleday 1959
Description:
roy Spanish play - drama twenty-two characters; extras eighteen male; four female three acts
In 1476 the peasants of Fuente Ovejuna, a village in Cordoba, rose against their feudal overlords, represented by Fernan Gomez de Guzman. As Comendador, of Knight Commander, of the Order of Calatrava, Fernan Gomez derived his authority from the Master of that Order, the young Rodrigo Tellez Giron. The larger political background is sketched in Lope's opening scene where the Comendador champions the King of Portugal's claim to the Spanish throne. The rival claimant was Ferdinand of Aragon who had married Isabela of Castile: it is to these "Catholic Princes" that the
Title: Fuente Ovejuna in - Lope de Vega - 5 Plays / COL Author: De Vega, Lope translated by Jill Booty Publisher: Hill and Wang 1967
Description:
roy Spanish war drama twenty-three characters; extras eighteen male; four female; one boy three acts
includes songs.
'Revolt of Spanish peasants against ruler of their village during reign of Ferdinand V.' Title: Gallows Glorious in - Penguin Plays / COL Author: Gow, Ronald Publisher: Penguin Books 1958
Description:
roy drama - biography large cast flexible casting three acts
"Gallows Glorious" takes place in America, 1859, prior to the election of Lincoln and the outbreak of the Civil War. It chronicles the last year of John Brown's life.
Title: Gayden Chronicles, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No.13, Winter 1977 / PER Author: Cook, Michael Publisher: Miscellaneous 1977
Description:
roy Canadian - drama thirteen characters nine male; three female three acts
"William Gayden is a British sailor who loves the poor, the oppressed, women and the sea. Awaiting execution for mutiny and murder, he recreates his life and the events which led to his sentence."
Title: Ghashiram Kotwal in - Collected Plays in Translation / COL Author: Tendulkar, Vijay Translated by Jayant Karve and Eleanor Zelliot Publisher: Oxford University Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - politics - India large cast flexible casting two acts
"Set in Maharashtra in the late eighteenth century, GHASHIRAM KOTWAL recounts the power game played out in terms of caste ascendancy in politics. It is an analysis of the making and breaking of power, with its attendant forces of sex and violence." Title: Ghetto in - A Terrible Truth v. 1 / COL Author: Sobol, Joshua Jenkins, Ron Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - holocaust - World War II large cast flexible casting two acts
"A story of the Vilna ghetto theatre, during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania. Written by the Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol, Ghetto was inspired by an actual historical theatre which operated in the Jewish ghetto from 1941 until 1943. Despite the protests claiming "No theatre in a graveyard", the Vilna ghetto theatre responded to despair with song, satire, and - amazingly - criticism of the Nazi regime, proving that theatre can provide courage and hope even amidst atrocity."
Title: Ghetto in - Plays of the Holocaust / COL Author: Sobol, Joshua Viertel, Jack Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1987
Description:
roy drama - Holocaust twenty characters; extras eighteen male; two female three acts
Singing; adapted by Jack Viertel.
'Depicts the creation of theatre in Vilna Ghetto prior to ghetto's destruction in 1943.'
Title: Ghost Dance in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Arkeketa, Annette Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy drama - native playwright - Native peoples - historical - repatriation twenty characters eleven male; five female; one boy, two girls; one male or female two acts
'Ghost Dance is about the repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural patrimony items. It is a story with ancient roots and a contemporary beat that weaves a tragic drama into an ending with hope for the future. This play was created to show all communities how disturbing the robbing of our ancestors' graves is and how it affects Indian people'. Title: Go Back for Murder in - The Mousetrap and Other Plays / COL Author: Christie, Agatha Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1960
Description:
roy mystery - murder eleven characters six male; five female two acts
1 set.
"Dramatization of the author's novel: Murder in Retrospect. Young woman posthumously vindicates mother who had been convicted of murdering painter father sixteen years before."
Title: Goat Song in - Theatre Guild Anthology / COL Author: Werfel, Franz translated by Ruth Langer Publisher: Random House 1936
Description:
nonroy drama twenty-five characters; extras twenty male; five female five acts
Description not available.
Title: God of Vengeance in - The Great Jewish Plays / COL Author: Asch, Sholem Publisher: Horizon Press 1972
Description:
roy drama - Jewish twelve characters five male; seven female three acts
"The drama of a deluded father who believes he can raise his virgin daughter to chaste maidenhood under the same roof as his brothel." Title: Goin' a Buffalo in - New Black Playwrights / COL Author: Bullins, Ed Publisher: Avon Books 1970
Description:
roy drama - black theatre twelve characters nine male; three female three acts
music.
A look at the life of Los Angeles junkies, prostitutes and musicians. Predominantly black cast.
Title: Gold in - Six Short Plays of Eugene O'Neill / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1951
Description:
roy tragedy - greed eleven characters nine male; two female four acts
2 interiors; 1 exterior; 1 setting.
"Greed for gold results in murder, a sea captain's insanity, and his family's ruin."
Title: Gold in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 2, The / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1955
Description:
roy tragedy - greed eleven characters nine male; two female four acts
2 interiors; 1 exterior; 1 setting.
"Greed for gold results in murder, a sea captain's insanity, and his family's ruin." Title: Golden Boy in - Six Plays of Clifford Odets / COL Author: Odets, Clifford Publisher: Grove Press 1979
Description:
roy tragedy nineteen characters seventeen male; two female three acts
4 interiors; 1 exterior.
"Young Italian violinist turned prizefighter, is torn between love for his art and desire for wealth and fame."
Title: Golden Door, The in - Canadian Mosaic II / CCO Author: Towle, W. Ray Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - historical - drama twelve characters eight male; four female two acts
"This play recounts the discrimination against the Japanese community during World War II. Although loyal to Canada, they are treated as enemy aliens and are ousted from their homes in a country they called home for forty years. This episode has left enduring scars on the community which subsequent generations continue to bear. The author relates historical events in detail while dramatically portraying one family's plight, the dynamics of a community and its traditions."
Title: Golem, The in - The Great Jewish Plays / COL Author: Leivick, H Publisher: Horizon Press 1972
Description:
roy poetic drama - Jewish large cast flexible casting eight scenes
"The renowned drama of the robot who becomes invested with life... A tremendous parable of the human condition, the materials for this shattering play derive from legends of the Middle Ages." Title: Good in - A Terrible Truth v. 2 / COL Author: Taylor, C. P. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - tragedy thirteen characters; extras nine male; four female two acts
representative set.
The plays depicts the moral compromises and adjustments made by a professor of German literature as he is swept into the Nazi party in its glory during the Thirties.
Title: Good for Otto in - American Theatre (April 2016) / PER Author: Rabe, David Publisher: Miscellaneous 2016
Description:
roy drama - mental health - mental illness fifteen characters six male; eight female; one girl two acts
"Haunted by his own childhood, a psychologist tries to minister to the distressed souls who find their way to the doors of the health center he runs in rural Connecticut." - thegifttheatre.org
Title: Good Woman of Setzuan, The in - Parables of the Theatre / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Eric Bentley and Maja Apelman Publisher: Grove Press 1948
Description:
roy drama twenty-five characters; extras sixteen male; nine female ten scenes
same as 'Good Person of Setzuan'; representative set.
A prostitute is given money by the gods for her charity towards them and uses the money to open a tobacco store so that she can continue to be good. However, her charity attracts people who take advantage of her and in order to survive she must become strict. Title: Good Woman of Setzuan, The in - Plays for the Theatre (8th ed.) / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Eric Bentley Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 2004
Description:
roy drama twenty-five characters; extras sixteen male; nine female ten scenes
representative set.
A prostitute is given money by the gods for her charity towards them and uses the money to open a tobacco store so that she can continue to be good. However, her charity attracts people who take advantage of her and in order to survive she must become strict.
Title: Good Woman of Setzuan, The in - Plays for the Theatre (2nd ed.) / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Eric Bentley Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1974
Description:
roy drama twenty-five characters; extras sixteen male; nine female ten scenes
representative set.
A prostitute is given money by the gods for her charity towards them and uses the money to open a tobacco store so that she can continue to be good. However, her charity attracts people who take advantage of her and in order to survive she must become strict.
Title: Gorboduc in - Medieval and Tudor Drama / COL Author: Norton, Thomas Sackville, Thomas Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1963
Description:
roy tudor tragedy - verse play seventeen characters; chorus fifteen male; two female five acts
'Gorboduc, King of Britain, divided his realm in his lifetime to his sons, Ferrex and Porrex. The sons fell to dissension. The younger killed the elder. The mother, that more dearly loved the elder, for revenge killed the younger. The people, moved with the cruelty of the fact, rose in rebellion, and slew both father and mother. The nobility assembled, and most terribly destroyed the rebels; and afterwards, for want of issue of the Prince, whereby the succession of the crown became uncertain, they fell to civil war, in which both they and many of their issues were slain, Title: Gorboduc in - Two Tudor Tragedies / COL Author: Norton, Thomas Sackville, Thomas Publisher: Penguin Books 1992
Description:
roy drama - Tudor tragedy - English - Elizabethan - verse play seventeen characters; extras; chorus fifteen male; two female five acts
Alternative title "Ferrex and Porrex".
Elizabethan tragedy in verse. Dissent between two sons of Gorboduc, legendary King of Britain, results in war, royal murders, and rebellion of populous.
Title: Gotami, the Frail in - A Tenth of an Inch Makes the Difference / COL Author: Forsberg, Rolf Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1961
Description:
roy drama - Zen thirteen characters; extras eight male; five female ten scenes
Description not available.
Title: Grass and Wild Strawberries in - The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: General Publishing 1971
Description:
roy Canadian - drama thirteen characters nine male; four female three acts
non-representative set; music; dance; songs.
"Allan is caught between alternative attitudes, between the disenchanted radicalism of his Uncle Ted and the childish mysticism of his lover, Susan, and the Group. Gradually, he rejects the extremes of each view, but accepts the necessity for individual social responsibility." Title: Grass and Wild Strawberries in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy Canadian - drama fifteen characters eleven male; four female three acts
non-representative set; music; dance; songs.
Allan is caught between alternative attitudes, between the disenchanted radicalism of his Uncle Ted and the childish mysticism of his lover, Susan, and the Group. Gradually, he rejects the extremes of each view, but accepts the necessity for individual social responsibility.
Title: Great Cultural Revolution, The in - Rebels in Time / CCO Author: Mitchell, Ken Publisher: NeWest Press 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - political eleven characters; extras eight male; three female two acts
"At the height of the Great Proletarian Revolution in 1966, a playwright faces destruction as a result of his political statements. Political drama is combined with acrobatics, mime and music."
Title: Great God Brown, The in - Nine Plays by Eugene O'Neill / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Modern Library 1941
Description:
roy symbolic drama fourteen characters; extras nine male; five female four acts
5 interior and 1 exterior set.
"Symbolic drama about conflict between artistic and materialistic ambitions of an architect." Title: Great God Brown, The in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 3, The / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1954
Description:
roy symbolic drama fourteen characters; extras nine male; five female four acts
5 interior and 1 exterior set.
"Symbolic drama about conflict between artistic and materialistic ambitions of an architect."
Title: Great War, The in - The History of the Village of the Small Huts / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Michael Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - historical large cast flexible casting two acts
No abstract available.
Title: Greek in - Steven Berkoff: Plays One / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: Faber and Faber 1994
Description:
roy drama - British ten characters two male; two female two acts
"The present London: a deadening war zone, a cesspit, full of violent riots, poverty, bombings, football lunatics, a scum hole dense with the drabs who prop up corner pubs. Into this world is born the ill-fated Eddy - an ordinary young man with a passion for life who faces the ultimate challenge to overcome his destiny and find true love." Title: Hamlet in - Plays for the Theatre (4th ed.) / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1984
Description:
roy Shakespeare - tragedy twenty-two characters; extras twenty male; two female five acts
The Prince of Denmark committed to revenge his father's murder by his own brother who has married the dead man's widow. Hamlet pretends to be mad, kills his uncle's counsellor while he is eavesdropping, rebukes his mother, is sent to England under the escort of two retainers who bear orders that he be put to death on arrival, finds the letter containing the orders and alters it so that it is the retainers who are executed, returns to Denmark, and kills the King.
Title: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in - Plays for the Theatre (8th ed.) / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 2004
Description:
roy Shakespeare - tragedy twenty-two characters; extras twenty male; two female five acts
The Prince of Denmark committed to revenge his father's murder by his own brother who has married the dead man's widow. Hamlet pretends to be mad, kills his uncle's counsellor while he is eavesdropping, rebukes his mother, is sent to England under the escort of two retainers who bear orders that he be put to death on arrival, finds the letter containing the orders and alters it so that it is the retainers who are executed, returns to Denmark, and kills the King.
Title: Handcuffs in - The Donnellys / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Press Porcepic 1983
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragedy fourteen characters; extras nine male; five female three acts
"Like slowly closing handcuffs people (priests, bishops, constables, farmers, tavern keepers, traitors, threshers, among others) openly and secretly, legally and illegally fasten the disturbing Donnelly family still so that it can murder them...Tuesday, 3 February, 1880. Although no one was ever legally punished for this crime, there are stories still told of how almost a year later the ghosts of Mr. and Mrs. Donnelly managed to execute four or five of their enemies. Where the Donnelly house once stood the remaining family place four stones; it's hard to handcuff wheat." Title: Handcuffs in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragedy fourteen characters; extras nine male; five female three acts
"Like slowly closing handcuffs people (priests, bishops, constables, farmers, tavern keepers, traitors, threshers, among others) openly and secretly, legally and illegally fasten the disturbing Donnelly family still so that it can murder them...Tuesday, 3 February, 1880. Although no one was ever legally punished for this crime, there are stories still told of how almost a year later the ghosts of Mr. and Mrs. Donnelly managed to execute four or five of their enemies. Where the Donnelly house once stood the remaining family place four stones; it's hard to handcuff wheat."
Title: Hang of the Gaol, The in - Hang of the Gaol / Heaven / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1982
Description:
roy drama twelve characters ten male; two female two acts
'The Hang of the Gaol' is a study in guilt and collusion. With its topicality undiminished, it takes the lid off one of the most enclosed institutions in this or any society - the prison. When a fire demolishes the Governor's pride, subsequent investigation turns up more shame than the authorities deem acceptable. A cover-up is required, and George Jardine, the most unconventional of civil servants, near retirement and hungry for a knighthood, is recruited for the task.
Title: Happy Haven, The in - Three Plays / COL Author: Arden, John Publisher: Grove Press 1964
Description:
roy drama - age fourteen characters eight male; six female three acts
1 setting.
"A picture of old age hospital, the inmates, the doctors who care for them, and basic conflict between the two." Title: He Who Gets Slapped in - Great Russian Plays / COL Author: Andreyev, Leonid translated by Judith Guthrie Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1967
Description:
roy drama - Russian - fantasy thirty-three characters twenty male; thirteen female two acts
1 interior set; circus costumes.
"To cover his personality, a lonely intellectual joins a circus and becomes an absurd clown who amuses as a butt for blows, welcoming the slaps as preferable to suffering in the outside world. He worships the lovely bareback rider, Consuelo. When he thinks she is being sacrificed by her money-seeking guardian through marriage to a degenerate baron, he saves her from a living
Title: He Who Gets Slapped in - Theatre Guild Anthology / COL Author: Andreyev, Leonid Publisher: Random House 1936
Description:
roy drama - Russian - fantasy thirty-three characters twenty male; thirteen female two acts
1 interior set; circus costumes.
"To cover his personality, a lonely intellectual joins a circus and becomes an absurd clown who amuses as a butt for blows, welcoming the slaps as preferable to suffering in the outside world. He worships the lovely bareback rider, Consuelo. When he thinks she is being sacrificed by her money-seeking guardian through marriage to a degenerate baron, he saves her from a living
Title: He Who Gets Slapped in - An Anthology of Russian Plays: Volume II 1890-1960 / COL Author: Andreyev, Leonid Publisher: Vintage Books 1963
Description:
roy drama - Russian - fantasy thirty-three characters twenty male; thirteen female two acts
1 interior set; circus costumes.
"To cover his personality, a lonely intellectual joins a circus and becomes an absurd clown who amuses as a butt for blows, welcoming the slaps as preferable to suffering in the outside world. He worships the lovely bareback rider, Consuelo. When he thinks she is being sacrificed by her money-seeking guardian through marriage to a degenerate baron, he saves her from a living Title: Heartbreak House in - Bernard Shaw's Plays / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company 1970
Description:
roy crime - social - political issues ten characters six male; four female three acts
1 interior and 1 exterior.
At Heartbreak House a group of social parasites are assembled, among them Boss Mangan, a business executive. They discuss social and political affairs which might lead to war, as they did in 1914. A burglar intrudes and passes the hat. Bombs fall; Mangan and the burglar are the only ones killed.
Title: Heartbreak House in - Bernard Shaw Selected Plays / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1981
Description:
roy drama - Russian ten characters six male; four female three acts
1 interior and 1 exterior set.
"At Heartbreak House a group of social parasites are assembled, among them Boss Mangan, a business executive. They discuss social and political affairs which might lead to war, as they did in 1914. A burglar intrudes and passes the hat. Bombs fall; Mangan and the burglar are the only ones killed."
Title: Heartbreak House in - Plays: A Wadsworth Handbook and Anthology / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 1970
Description:
roy drama - crime - political - social issues ten characters six male; four female three acts
1 interior and 1 exterior.
At Heartbreak House a group of social parasites are assembled, among them Boss Mangan, a business executive. They discuss social and political affairs which might lead to war, as they did in 1914. A burglar intrudes and passes the hat. Bombs fall; Mangan and the burglar are the only ones killed. Title: Heartbreak House in - The Portable Bernard Shaw / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1977
Description:
roy drama - Russian ten characters six male; four female three acts
1 interior and 1 exterior set.
"At Heartbreak House a group of social parasites are assembled, among them Boss Mangan, a business executive. They discuss social and political affairs which might lead to war, as they did in 1914. A burglar intrudes and passes the hat. Bombs fall; Mangan and the burglar are the only ones killed."
Title: Hecuba in - Euripides III / COL Author: Euripides translated by William Arrowsmith Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1958
Description:
roy tragedy - Greek eleven characters seven male; four female five acts
speaking chorus.
''After Troy falls, women become captive of Greeks who seek further vengeance by killing children of Priam and Hector."
Title: Hecuba in - Euripides III / COL Author: Euripides translated by William Arrowsmith Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1958
Description:
roy tragedy - Greek eleven characters seven male; four female five acts
speaking chorus.
''After Troy falls, women become captive of Greeks who seek further vengeance by killing children of Priam and Hector." Title: Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin, The in - Eric Overmyer Collected Plays / COL Author: Overmyer, Eric Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1993
Description:
roy drama - biography - music eleven characters six male; five female two parts
Running time: approx. 85 minutes; multiple sets.
A dreamy, meditative telling of the story of the father of ragtime Scott Joplin's rivalry with fellow musical genius Louis Chauvin.
Title: Henry IV in - Right You Are! (If You Think So) & Other Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Frederick May Publisher: Penguin Books 1962
Description:
roy tragedy thirteen characters eleven male; two female three acts
2 interiors.
"Tragedy. Man who has masqueraded as insane for many years commits crime, compelling him to continue his pretended madness."
Title: Henry IV in - Naked Masks: Five plays by Luigi Pirandello / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi Translated by Edward Storer Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1950
Description:
roy tragedy thirteen characters eleven male; two female three acts
2 interiors.
"Man who has masqueraded as insane for many years commits crime, compelling him to continue his pretended madness." Title: Henry IV in - Collected Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Robert Rietty and John Wardle Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1987
Description:
roy drama - Italian - tragedy thirteen characters eleven male; two female three acts
also known as 'Enrico IV'; setting: an isolated country villa in Italy during the 1920s.
'Man who masqueraded as insane for many years commits a crime compelling him to continue his pretended madness.' - Play Index
Title: Henry IV: Part 1 in - Histories: William Shakespeare / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Collins 1966
Description:
roy historical drama twenty-two characters; extras nineteen male; three female five acts
6 interiors and 6 exteriors.
"England's Henry IV is aided in struggle against rebelling barons by formerly irresponsible son."
Title: Henry IV: Part 2 in - Histories: William Shakespeare / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Collins 1966
Description:
roy historical drama large cast; extras flexible casting five acts
"The lengthy title for the 1598 printing was "The History of Henrie the Fourth, With the Battell at Shrewsburie, between the King and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henrie Hotspur of the North, with the humorous conceits of Sir John Falstaffe". "This play is the dramatization of a struggle for a kingdom, but it is equally the story of Hal's wild and reckless youthful adventures with Falstaff and other disreputable companions." Title: Henry Lumper in - New England Blue / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy drama - life twenty-four characters, extras eighteen male; six female two acts
"Drama about social and moral decay in small New England village caused by collapse of local fishing industry. Characters and themes parallel those found in Shakespeare's Henry IV."
Title: Henry V in - Histories: William Shakespeare / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Collins 1966
Description:
roy drama forty-one characters; extras thirty-eight male; three female five acts
"England is at war with France. This is the story of Henry V . . .'star of England' and Shakespeare's most heroic warrior king, but like his predecessors, he has an introspective side, and is aware of the crime by which his father came to the throne.'"
Title: Henry VI: Part 1 in - Histories: William Shakespeare / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Collins 1966
Description:
roy historical drama large cast; extras flexible casting five acts
"The play offers a clear account of aristocratic sedition and a portrait of internal dissension and seditious squabbling among the nobility that damaged England's power and authority abroad. The reign of Henry VI was not a peaceful one nor was it dominated by the personality of the monarch. It centred on personal ambition rather than any desire for reform." Title: Henry VI: part 2 in - Histories: William Shakespeare / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: New American Library 1966
Description:
roy historical drama large cast; extras flexible casting five acts
"The play offers a clear account of aristocratic sedition and a portrait of internal dissension and seditious squabbling among the nobility that damaged England's power and authority abroad. The reign of Henry VI was not a peaceful one nor was it dominated by the personality of the monarch. It centred on personal ambition rather than any desire for reform."
Title: Henry VI: Part 3 in - Histories: William Shakespeare / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: New American Library 1966
Description:
roy historical drama large cast; extras flexible casting five acts
"The play offers a clear account of aristocratic sedition and a portrait of internal dissension and seditious squabbling among the nobility that damaged England's power and authority abroad. The reign of Henry VI was not a peaceful one nor was it dominated by the personality of the monarch. It centred on personal ambition rather than any desire for reform."
Title: Henry VIII in - Histories: William Shakespeare / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: New American Library 1966
Description:
roy historical drama - Shakespeare large cast; extras flexible casting five acts
"Queen Katherine of Aragon is upright and virtuous and married to King Henry VIII. Henry was a proud and wilful monarch who defies Rome's ban on divorce to marry Ann Bullen (Boleyn). Cardinal Wolsey the Powerful Lord Chancellor of England and accomplished politician attempts to bend Rome to the king's wishes in the Bullen matter. Later, near death, he repents his unpriestly activity. Katherine is divorced and sent to Kimbolton Castle and Anne marries King Henry VIII to become his queen." Title: Here Comes Santa Clause in - Three Plays from the Yale School of Drama / COL Author: Oliansky, Joel Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1964
Description:
roy tragedy twelve characters nine male; three female three acts
'A disc jockey, half ruined by his disturbed wife, accepts a repugnant assignment to save his dying father's reputation.'
Title: Heresy in - The Theatre of Sabina Berman / COL Author: Berman, Sabina translated by Adam Versenyi Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - religion - historical - Mexico large cast flexible casting three parts
HERESY depicts a family of 'conversos' (jewish converts to Catholicism) who secretly continue to practice Judaism. Journeying to New Spain, they establish a new life in Mexico only to be denounced to the Holy Inquisition by the spurned suitor of one of the female members of the family. The play's focus is the interplay between the family's exterior mask of Christian respectability and it interior commitment to Judaism.
Title: Hernani in - The Genius of the French Theater / COL Author: Hugo, Victor translated by Linda Asher Publisher: New American Library 1961
Description:
roy tragedy - love - Spain twenty-one characters; extras eighteen male; three female five acts
3 interiors and 2 exteriors.
"Young Spanish woman betrothed to uncle loves nobleman plotting against Charles I of Spain. Verse play." "Hernani played a pivotal role in the famous battle in French literature between classicism and Romanticism. In writing the play, Hugo violated the artificial rules of classicism, including the Title: Hernani in - The Romantic Influence / COL Author: Hugo, Victor translated by Linda Asher Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1963
Description:
roy tragedy - love - Spain twenty-one characters; extras eighteen male; three female five acts
3 interiors and 2 exteriors.
"Young Spanish woman betrothed to uncle loves nobleman plotting against Charles I of Spain. Verse play." "Hernani played a pivotal role in the famous battle in French literature between classicism and Romanticism. In writing the play, Hugo violated the artificial rules of classicism, including the
Title: Hero, The in - The New Wave Spanish Drama / COL Author: Ballesteros, Antonio Martinez translated by Robert Blue Publisher: New York University 1970
Description:
roy drama eighteen characters; extras sixteen male; two female three acts
'Coward in underground movement kills another member and is declared a hero by government in power.'
Title: Herod and Mariamne in - Herod and Other Plays / COL Author: Hebbel, Friedrich translated by L. H. Allen Publisher: Everyman's Library
Description:
roy tragedy - Germany large cast flexible casting five acts
Treats the themes of jealousy and trust in marriage. Title: High Tor in - Five Broadway Plays / COL Author: Anderson, Maxwell Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1937
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters; extras fourteen male; two female three acts
1 exterior set.
"The Hudson river headland, High Tor, owned by Van Dorn, is threatened with removal for trap rock by unimaginative realtors. He doesn't wish to sell. In a storm he is visited there by Henry Hudson's ghostly crew and the maid Lise. Van realizes next morning he will be forced to sell."
Title: Highway Ulysses in - American Theatre (Sept 03) / PER Author: Eckert, Rinde Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003
Description:
roy drama - modern treatment of classic twenty-three characters; voices; extras sixteen male; seven female two acts
Musical retelling of the Odyssey - a vision of Homer's Odyssey in contemporary American.
Title: Him in - Avant-Garde Drama: Major Plays and Documents Post World War I / COL Author: Cummings, E. E. Publisher: Bantam Books 1969
Description:
roy drama large mixed cast flexible casting three acts
1 setting; music; singing.
Avant-garde drama with elements of expressionism and surrealism about a playwright writing a play about a playwright writing a play. Title: Hollow, The in - The Mousetrap and Other Plays / COL Author: Christie, Agatha Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1952
Description:
roy mystery twelve characters six male; six female three acts
1 interior set.
"When a house guest is murdered at an English country home, everyone is suspect."
Title: Holy Ghost in - The Trustus Plays / COL Author: Tuttle, Jon Publisher: Intellect 2009
Description:
roy drama - war - music large cast flexible casting two acts
Portrays the plight of German POW's kept in camps in the American South.
Title: Home and Beauty in - Plays: Two (W. Somerset Maugham) / COL Author: Maugham, W. Somerset Publisher: Methuen 1999
Description:
roy drama - British - marital relations - war twelve characters four male; seven female; one boy three acts
HOME AND BEAUTY treats the marital complications of a returning war hero with Mozartian "joie de vivre". Title: Hostile Witness in - 10 Classic Mystery and Suspense Plays of the Modern Theatre / COL Author: Roffey, Jack Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1973
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters; extras fourteen male; two female two acts
1 setting.
Courtroom drama. Distinguished barrister clears himself of murder charge.
Title: House of Bernarda Alba, The in - Three Tragedies / COL Author: Lorca, Federico Garcia translated by J. G. Lujan & R. L. O'Connell Publisher: New Directions 1947
Description:
roy tragedy all female cast; ten characters; extras ten female three acts
"The greatest of modern Spanish tragedies, one of the most realistic and lyric of the stage. Bernarda is the stern matriarch obsessed with family honor. Widowed as the play opens, she announces to her five daughters that they will enter a traditional 8-year period of cloistered mourning. Each daughter desires love and affection but with the doors of their emotions clamped shut, they silently turn to other pursuits. All except one, who manages to have a secret tryst with a scurrilous suitor. When it is discovered the man is the same who has been betrothed to the eldest
Title: Humanity in - An Anthology of German Expressionist Drama / COL Author: Hasenclever, Walter translated by Walter H. and Jacqueline Sokel Publisher: Doubleday 1963
Description:
roy expressionist drama large cast flexible casting five acts
12 interior and 2 exterior sets.
"Expressionistic play representing how cross-sections of humanity live, think and act." Title: Hunted, The in - Three Plays of Eugene O'Neill / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf 1958
Description:
roy trilogy - family drama twelve characters seven male; five female five acts
1 set.
"Second play in trilogy about tragic history of New England family beset by murder and suicide."
Title: I Remember Mama in - Four Plays of Our Time / COL Author: Forbes, Kathryn Van Druten, John Publisher: MacMillan 1960
Description:
roy drama - family relations twenty-two characters nine male (including boys); thirteen female (including girls) two acts
1 unit set showing interior and exterior
Adapted by John Van Druten from Kathryn Forbes' book "Mama's Bank Account". "A heartwarming study of American family life with a Norwegian background. Presents several episodes showing Mama, with the help of her husband and Uncle Chris, bringing up children in a modest San Francisco home. Mama is a sweet and capable manager, gets her children educated, starts one of
Title: I'm Talking About Jerusalem in - The Wesker Trilogy / COL Author: Wesker, Arnold Publisher: Penguin Books 1960
Description:
roy drama - working class struggles - British thirteen characters nine male; four female three acts
1 setting.
"Final play in Roots' trilogy. Moving away from mass living of city does not solve all problems of young couple." Title: Iago in - The National Black Drama Anthology / COL Author: Jackson, C. Bernard Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy drama - Shakespeare - racism large cast flexible casting two acts
'Revisionist look at Shakespeare's Othello in racial terms.'
Title: Icecream in - Plays: Three / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1998
Description:
roy drama - relationships thirteen characters (flexible casting) five to eight males; five to eight females two acts
Set half in the UK and half in the US, Icecream tells the story of two couples – an American man and wife and an English brother and sister. Implicated in each other's lives more than any of them would wish, their respective love affairs with each other's countries prove difficult to explain. An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa.
Title: Iceman Cometh, The in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 3, The / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1954
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters sixteen male; three female four acts
1 interior set.
The down and out patrons of a waterfront saloon are disturbed in their pipe dreams when an old friend, who has reformed, tries to force them to face themselves and act on their dreams. Title: Ile de la Demoiselle, L in - The Cage and L'Ile de la Demoiselle / CCO Author: Hebert, Anne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - women - Canadian - historical large cast flexible casting two parts
L’Île de la demoiselle focuses on Marguerite de Nontron, a woman banished to the uninhabitable island known as L’Île des Démons in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence.
Title: In the Summer House in - Plays by American Women 1930-1960 / COL Author: Bowles, Jane Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1994
Description:
roy family relationships, women fifteen characters; extras five male; ten female two acts
'Surrealistic look at mother-daughter relationships.'
Title: In the Wine Time in - The Great American Life Show / COL Author: Bullins, Ed Publisher: Bantam Books 1974
Description:
roy American - drama - Avant Garde fourteen characters seven male; seven female three acts
requires black actors.
"Sex, drink and dreams provide an escape from the sordid reality of Philadelphia slums." - Doollee.com Title: In Time To Come in - America on Stage / COL Author: Koch, Howard Houston, John Publisher: Doubleday 1942
Description:
roy drama - World War I twenty-one characters twenty male; one female seven scenes
5 interior sets.
"The story of Woodrow Wilson's inability to sell the idea of a lasting peace for the World after WWI, to be guaranteed by a League of Nations... We see Wilson go to Europe himself against all counsel, have his noble ideas for a peace treaty compromised by traditional European nationalism, and watch his political foes led by Sen. Lodge win the minds of the American people,
Title: Including Shooter in - Dramatics (January 2015) / PER Author: Pappas, Nicholas C. Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - high school - American - gun violence - grief thirty characters eleven male; five female (doubling) three acts
"Including Shooter" looks at the epidemic of gun violence in schools throughout the country. - smhs.org
Title: Inherit the Wind in - America on Stage / COL Author: Lawrence, Jerome Lee, Robert E. Publisher: Doubleday 1955
Description:
roy drama thirty characters twenty-one male; six female; two boys; one girl (doubling possible) three acts
"The play is based on the famous Scopes 'Monkey Trial' in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925. Bertram Cates, the Scopes figure, has been arrested for teaching the theory of evolution in the public school, and is being defended by an important ACLU lawyer, Henry Drummond, who is against not religion but ignorance. The prosecution will be led by fundamentalist and nationally known politician Matthew Brady, who is a narrow-minded bigot. Though the figures represent the famous real players in the drama, the play takes on significance beyond that specific battle, representing Title: Inherit the Wind in - Plays on a Human Theme / COL Author: Lawrence, Jerome Lee, Robert E. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson 1967
Description:
roy drama thirty characters twenty-three male; seven female three acts
1 set.
The arrest of a small town school teacher for teaching Evolutionist theory in his classroom, brings two great men in to argue, one for the defense and one for the prosecution, at the trial which becomes international news.
Title: Insect Play, The in - R.U.R. and The Insect Play / COL Author: Capek, Karel Capek, Josef Publisher: Oxford University Press 1961
Description:
roy fantasy - allegorical large cast flexible casting three acts
Translated by P. Selver. "Allegorical fantasy. Views of insect life in dream of dying tramp satirize human beings."
Title: Inspector General, The in - Great Russian Plays / COL Author: Gogol, Nikolay translated by B. G. Guerney Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1967
Description:
roy drama - Russian twenty-one characters; extras fourteen male; nine female three acts
Same as "The Government Inspector". "An impoverished clerk, Ivan Khlastakov, finds himself stranded in a small Russian village where all the officials are grafters. Mistaking Ivan for an Inspector General whom they are expecting and thinking he is incognito and to cover their guilt, the officials fete him handsomely and feed him generously. Ivan has a thoroughly good time and escapes from town just before the real Inspector General arrives." Title: Iphigenia in - The Complete Plays of Jean Racine Vol. 2 / COL Author: Racine, Jean translated by Samuel Solomon Publisher: Modern Library 1967
Description:
roy tragedy ten characters; extras five male; five female five acts
'Tragedy in verse. Adaptation of Euripedes' Iphigenia at Aulis. Based on Greek legend. Conflict of Agammemnon over oracle-prophesied death of daughter whom Achilles rescues, in time.
Title: Iron Harp, The in - Three Irish Plays / COL Author: O'Conor, Joseph Publisher: Penguin Books 1959
Description:
roy tragedy - Ireland eleven characters ten male; one female three acts
1 interior
Ireland in the 1920's, during political trouble and bloodshed. Love of girl and soldier cannot transcend terror of their times.
Title: It is No Desert in - The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Presents / COL Author: Stroeh, Dan Publisher: Back Stage Books 2006
Description:
roy drama - American twenty-one characters flexible casting two acts
"A story of acceptance and triumph, IT IS NO DESERT documents playwright Dan Stroeh's battle with neurofibromatosis, examining the effects that this incurable disease has had on his life. A sensitive, poignant, and often humorous play that celebrates the vibrancy and terror of living. It is a story about learning how to live with disease, but - ultimately - it is a story about learning how to live." Title: It IS So! (If You Think So) in - Naked Masks: Five plays by Luigi Pirandello / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi Translated by Arthur Livingston Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1950
Description:
roy drama - Italian fourteen characters seven male; seven women; extras three acts
2 interior sets.
"Sicily, summer 1916. The women gather to harvest old Simone’s almond crop. He’s the richest landowner in the district but he has no heir. Local lad Liolà, untroubled by convention, has fathered three boys, each with a different mother. When another of the girls falls pregnant, Simone is persuaded he might recognize the baby as his own, much to his young wife, Mita's, despair. But
Title: Ivanov in - Chekhov: The Major Plays / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by Ann Dunnigan Publisher: Penguin Books 1964
Description:
roy drama eighteen characters; extras thirteen male; five female four acts
Social tragedy. Idealistic, intellectual landowner in Czarist Russia depressed by failure to realize his youthful ambitions, commits suicide.
Title: Ivanov in - Five Plays (Chekhov) / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by Ronald Hingley Publisher: Oxford University Press 1980
Description:
roy drama - Russian - classics eighteen characters; extras thirteen male; five female four acts
Social tragedy. Idealistic, intellectual landowner in Czarist Russia depressed by failure to realize his youthful ambitions, commits suicide. Title: Jew of Malta, The in - Christopher Marlowe: Complete Plays / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Penguin Books 2003
Description:
roy tragedy - verse play large cast; extras flexible casting five acts
The plot centers around Barabas, a wealthy Jewish merchant on the island of Malta. Persecuted because of his religion and betrayed by those closest to him, Barabas embarks on a calculated scheme of revenge, turning one rival against another and destroying numerous innocents in the process.
Title: Jew of Malta, The in - Christopher Marlowe: Five Plays / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Hill and Wang 1956
Description:
roy tragedy - verse play large cast; extras flexible casting five acts
The plot centers around Barabas, a wealthy Jewish merchant on the island of Malta. Persecuted because of his religion and betrayed by those closest to him, Barabas embarks on a calculated scheme of revenge, turning one rival against another and destroying numerous innocents in the process.
Title: John Ferguson in - Theatre Guild Anthology / COL Author: Ervine, St. John G. Publisher: Random House 1936
Description:
nonroy drama eleven characters; extras nine male; two female four acts
Description not available. Title: Johnny Appleseed in - Five Plays by E. P. Conkle / COL Author: Conkle, E. P. Publisher: Samuel French 1947
Description:
roy folklore twenty-six characters sixteen male; ten female three acts
Description not available.
Title: Journey of the Fifth Horse, The in - Five Plays by Ronald Ribman / COL Author: Ribman, Ronald Publisher: Avon Books 1978
Description:
roy drama - fantasy sixteen characters; extras ten male; six female two acts
2 settings.
Zoditch, the chief reader of a Moscow publishing company, is a lonely man without courage or authority, except in his dream world.
Title: Joy Plays: First series Author: Galsworthy, John Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons 1916
Description:
roy drama - British ten characters four male: six female three acts
period - the present.
The action passes throughout mid-summer day on the lawn of Colonel Hope's house, near the Thames above Oxford. No further description available. Title: Justice Without Revenge in - Lope de Vega - 5 Plays / COL Author: De Vega, Lope translated by Jill Booty Publisher: Hill and Wang 1967
Description:
roy Spanish tragedy fourteen characters; extras ten male; four female three acts
'Tragedy of illicit love between duke's wife and illegitimate son. Duke plots to have son kill his stepmother, so he can have son killed in turn for murder.'
Title: Kelly's Eye in - Kelly's Eye and other plays / COL Author: Livings, Henry Publisher: Methuen 1964
Description:
roy drama ten characters seven male; three female two acts
singing, band music.
'Murderer escapes detection for three years when victim's body found in fire is identified as his.'
Title: Kendo, or: Way of the Sword in - A Tenth of an Inch Makes the Difference / COL Author: Forsberg, Rolf Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1961
Description:
roy drama - zen thirteen characters ten male; three female eleven scenes
Description not available. Title: Killdeer, The in - The Killdeer & Other Plays / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: MacMillan 1962
Description:
roy Canadian - drama fourteen characters seven male; seven female three acts
interior representative sets (cottage, court room, parlour, cell)
"This play is built around the macabre situation of the survivors of a large family slaying. It explores the complexity of love-hate relationships in a small south-western Ontario farm community."
Title: Killdeer, The in - Reaney Days in the West Room / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1960
Description:
roy Canadian - drama fourteen characters seven male; seven female three acts
interior representative sets (cottage, court room, parlour, cell).
"This play is built around the macabre situation of the survivors of a large family slaying. It explores the complexity of love-hate relationships in a small south-western Ontario farm community."
Title: Killer, The in - Exit the King, The Killer, and Macbett / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene translated by Charles Marowitz and Donald Wat Publisher: Grove Press 1983
Description:
roy satire - drama sixteen characters; extras fourteen male; two female three acts
1 interior.
Satire on artificiality and regimentation of modern life, set in lovely housing development where a killer is slowly disposing of inhabitants. Title: Kind Lady in - Three Plays about Crime and Criminals / COL Author: Chodorov, Edward Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1962
Description:
roy melodrama fourteen characters six male; eight female three acts
1 interior.
"Aristocratic middle-aged woman's home invaded by clever crooks who systematically victimize her until help finally arrives."
Title: Kind Lady in - 10 Classic Mystery and Suspense Plays of the Modern Theatre / COL Author: Chodorov, Edward Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1973
Description:
roy melodrama fourteen characters six male; eight female three acts
1 interior.
"Aristocratic middle-aged woman's home invaded by clever crooks who systematically victimize her until help finally arrives."
Title: King John in - Histories: William Shakespeare / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Collins 1966
Description:
roy drama - Shakespeare twenty-two characters; extras eighteen male; four female five acts
The life and death of King John. Title: King Lear in - Eight Great Tragedies / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: New American Library 1957
Description:
roy tragedy twenty characters; extras seventeen male; three female five acts
"At the age of 80, Lear, King of Britain, turns his realm over to his two flattering daughters, Goneril and Regan, disinheriting the youngest, Cordelia, since she says she loves him only as becomes a daughter to love her father. Cordelia goes to France, where she marries the King. Meanwhile Lear is being so ill-treated by his two ungrateful daughters that he goes out into the stormy night. Cordelia returns from France to try to solace her father, but he has gone mad and dies of grief. Cordelia is defeated and dies in prison; Goneril poisons her sister Regan and takes
Title: King Lear in - Plays for the Theatre (2nd ed.) / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1974
Description:
roy tragedy twenty characters; extras seventeen male; three female five acts
"At the age of 80, Lear, King of Britain, turns his realm over to his two flattering daughters, Goneril and Regan, disinheriting the youngest, Cordelia. Cordelia goes to France, where she marries the King. Meanwhile Lear is being so ill-treated by his two ungrateful daughters that he goes out into the stormy night, attended only by his faithful fool and the Earl of Kent. Cordelia returns from France to try to solace her father, but he has gone mad and dies of grief. Cordelia is defeated and dies in prison; Goneril poisons her sister Regan and takes her own life. Her
Title: Kitchen, The in - New English Dramatists 2 / COL Author: Wesker, Arnold Publisher: Penguin Books 1960
Description:
roy allegory thirty characters eighteen male; twelve female two parts; interlude
1 interior set; background music; singing; dancing.
"Set in restaurant's kitchen reveals meaningless lives of staff." Title: Knight from Olmedo, The in - Lope de Vega - 5 Plays / COL Author: De Vega, Lope translated by Jill Booty Publisher: Hill and Wang 1967
Description:
roy Spanish tragedy thirteen characters; extras nine male; four female three acts
singing.
'Tragedy about love intrigue in which gallant knight was murdered by rival for his lady's hand. Set in fifteenth century Spain.'
Title: Kongi's Harvest in - Wole Soyinka: Collected Plays 2 / COL Author: Soyinka, Wole Publisher: Oxford University Press 1974
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters; extras flexible casting two acts
"This second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays traces the ironic development and consequences of 'progress.'"
Title: Korczak's Children in - Dramatics (Jan 2004) / PER Author: Tagore, Rabindranath Hatcher, Jeffrey Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004
Description:
roy drama - historical large cast flexible casting two acts
adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
'Play within a play adapted from "The Post Office" by Rabindranath Tagore, originally produced in 1913. Takes place in a Warsaw ghetto, July 18-20, 1942.' Title: Lady of the Camellias, The in - Mirrors for Man / COL Author: Dumas, Alexandre translated by L. R. N. Ashley Publisher: Winthrop Publishers 1974
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters, extras ten male; six female five acts
'Based on Dumas' romantic novel, drawn from personal experience. Parisian courtesan scorns her wealthy former liason and escapes with penniless lover. At request of his family, she abandons this true love and returns to former life. The pair are tragically reunited as she lies dying.'
Title: Lady Precious Stream in - Penguin Plays / COL Author: Hsiung, S. I. Publisher: Penguin Books 1958
Description:
roy drama ten characters; extras five male; five female four acts
various sets.
The play tells, in varied scenes, of the devotion of a wife for her adventurous husband, of his prowess as a warrior and his ultimate return. It is in every respect an authentic play written and performed in the Chinese manner, with the delightful and charming conventions of the ancient institution. It is a beautifully romantic drama of love, fidelity, treachery and poetry.
Title: Laramie Project, The in - The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later / COL Author: Kaufman, Moises Publisher: Vintage Books 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - LGBTQ+ - death - historical tragedy large cast flexible casting three acts
"On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal. The play chronicles the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder, using eight actors to embody more than sixty different people in their own words - from rural ranchers to university professors. The result is a complex portrayal that dispels the simplistic media stereotypes and Title: Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, The in - The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later / COL Author: Kaufman, Moises Fondakowski, Leigh Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - historical - death - LGBTQ+ - tragedy many characters four male; four female (doubling, flexible casting) two acts
On November 6, 1998, gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard left the fireside Bar with Aaron McKinney and Russel Henderson. The following day he was discovered on a prairie at the edge of town, tied to a fence, brutally beaten, and close to death. Six days later Matthew Shepard died at Poudre Valley Hospital in Ft. Collins, Colorado. On November 14, 1998, ten members of Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming and conducted interviews with people of the town. Over the next year, the company returned to Laramie six times and conducted
Title: Lark, The in - The Collected Plays Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Anouilh, Jean Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1971
Description:
roy drama twenty characters fifteen male; five female two acts
adapted by Jean Anouilh; movable platforms (no scenery)
"The story of Joan of Arc, the country girl who heard voices which told her to lead the French armies against the invading British. In this version, an attempt has been made to divorce the drama from the limitations of time, sequence, and space. There is no scenery per se, merely platforms and lighting effects. Thus the story can move backward and forward in story line
Title: Lark, The in - The Genius of the French Theater / COL Author: Anouilh, Jean translated by Christopher Fry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1961
Description:
roy drama twenty characters fifteen male; five female two acts
1 set.
This play takes place at the trial of Joan of Arc, her story being in flashbacks. Title: Last Days of Lincoln, The in - America on Stage / COL Author: Van Doren, Mark Publisher: Doubleday 1959
Description:
roy drama - political twenty-eight characters; extras twenty-four male; four female six scenes
'Last few weeks before Lincoln's death when paramount issue facing the union was terms of the surrender - should they be harsh or generous.'
Title: Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812 in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 2 / CCO Author: Curzon, Sarah Anne Publisher: CTR Publications 1979
Description:
roy Canadian - drama large cast flexible casting three acts
"Although 'Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812' is a poetic drama intended for reading rather than stage production, the treatment of its characters, rapid exposition and development of action and plot is theatrically effective. Curzon attempts to transform the historical Secord (who throughout her life was exceedingly modest about her deed) into a traditional literary heroic character. Curzon attempts to achieve this transformation not only by enlarging the concept of heroism but also through the first use of gender role reversal in English-Canadian drama."
Title: Laurier in - The History of the Village of the Small Huts / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Michael Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - historical - comedy - satire large cast flexible casting two acts
No abstract available. Title: Lazarus in - Collected Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Frederick May Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1987
Description:
roy drama - Italian eleven characters eight male; three female three acts
also known as 'Lazzaro'; 2 exteriors.
'Young seminarian has his faith restored to him through his father's resurrection.' - Play Index
Title: Lazarus Laughed in - Nine Plays by Eugene O'Neill / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Modern Library 1941
Description:
roy drama large cast flexible casting four acts
4 interior and 3 exterior sets; speaking chorus.
"Pageant-like drama focusing on the risen Lazarus who is defied throughout Roman Empire. When executed by burning, Lazarus' laughter rises above flames in reaffirmation of life."
Title: Lazarus Laughed in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 1, The / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1955
Description:
roy drama large cast flexible casting four acts
4 interior and 3 exterior sets; speaking chorus.
"Pageant-like drama focusing on the risen Lazarus who is defied throughout Roman Empire. When executed by burning, Lazarus' laughter rises above flames in reaffirmation of life." Title: Lead Me Home in - The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays v. 2 / CCO Author: Major, Kevin Publisher: Breakwater Books 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - war - Newfoundland fourteen characters; extras ten male; four female two acts
setting: the night of October 13 to the early morning hours of October 14, 1942.
"Lead Me Home" is a story set against the pre-dawn events of October 14, 1942 in the Cabot Strait, between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. At approximately 3:40 am the passenger ferry S.S. Caribou was sunk by German u-boat 69.
Title: Leonce and Lena in - The Complete Plays (Büchner) / COL Author: Büchner, Georg translated by Anthony Meech Publisher: Methuen 1987
Description:
roy romantic comedy twelve characters; extras nine male; three female three acts
4 interiors, 5 exteriors.
Romantic comedy exploring social and moral conventions. Romance of prince and princess who met while each was seeking to escape arranged marriage.
Title: Let's Murder Clytemnestra According to the Principles of Marshall Mcluhan in - Plays at the Iron Bridge / CCO Author: Watson, Wilfred Publisher: Longspoon Press 1989
Description:
roy experimental - drama - Canadian eleven characters five male; six female nine scenes
'Experimental drama about guilt, rationalism, modernity and madness incorporating characters from Greek mythology.' Title: Life and Times of MacKenzie King in - The History of the Village of the Small Huts / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Michael Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - history - comedy - satire large cast flexible casting two acts
No abstract available.
Title: Life and Times of Malcolm X, The in - Moon Marked and Touched by Sun / COL Author: Davis, Thulani Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1994
Description:
roy biography - African-American - Malcolm X - drama large cast flexible casting three acts
'Portrays events in life of prominent black activist.'
Title: Life of Galileo, The in - Bertolt Brecht: Collected Plays Vol. 5 / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Wolfgang Sauerlander and Ralph Publisher: Vintage Books 1972
Description:
roy drama - biography large cast flexible casting fourteen scenes
10 interiors, 3 exteriors; singing.
Life and work of the Italian inventor, astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Title: Life Without Instruction in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (5th ed.) / CCO Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - drama eleven characters (doubling possible) eight male; three female two acts
Based on a true story and a real trial. Artemisia's father, the late-Renaissance painter Orazio Gentileschi, has his daughter trained in the art of painting under the instruction of his friend, Agostino Tassi. Tassi rapes Artemisia, and is taken tor trial by both Artemisia and Orazio. As usual, the person really on trial is the woman, who is publicly humiliated and forced to endure the torture of thumb screws. Yet through this ordeal Artemisia not only emerges as a strong and independent women: she comes into her own as talented painter.
Title: Light Shining in Buckinghamshire in - Plays:1 / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Methune 1985
Description:
roy drama - political twenty-five characters twenty-one male; four female two acts
"Historical drama set in 17th century England examines merits of democracy in light of the millennialest fervor caused by social upheaval."
Title: Listen to the Wind in - Reaney Days in the West Room / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1966
Description:
roy drama - Canadian ten characters; extras five male; five female three acts
In a Perth County farmhouse sometime during the thirties, a boy named Owen decides to spend the summer putting on plays with the help of his cousins, his grownup relatives and the neighbourhood children. One of the plays they put on is their adaptation of a Victorian novel, "The Saga of Caresfoot Court". In James Reaney's "Listen to the Wind", we watch a double story unfold: we see Owen fighting illness and trying to get his parents back together again; we see Angela Caresfoot threading her way through a world of evil manor-houses and sinister Lady Title: Little Foxes, The in - The Collected Plays Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1971
Description:
roy drama ten characters six male; four female three acts
requires one black actor and one black actress.
"Sordid selfishness rules the Hubbard family in the deep South. Scheming Ben is arranging to build a bigger cotton mill but needs $75,000 more. Leo, Oscar's son, 'borrows' the bonds from Horace's safe deposit box. Horace, with a bad heart, discovers this but before he can carry out his will, dies on the stairs going up after his medicine and unaided by his wife Regina. Now she
Title: Little Foxes, The in - Six Plays by Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Random House 1979
Description:
roy drama ten characters six male; four female three acts
requires one black actor and one black actress.
"Sordid selfishness rules the Hubbard family in the deep South. Scheming Ben is arranging to build a bigger cotton mill but needs $75,000 more. Leo, Oscar's son, 'borrows' the bonds from Horace's safe deposit box. Horace, with a bad heart, discovers this but before he can carry out his will, dies on the stairs going up after his medicine and unaided by his wife Regina. Now she
Title: Little Foxes, The in - Plays by American Women 1930-1960 / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1994
Description:
roy drama ten characters six male; four female three acts
1 interior set; requires one black actor and one black actress; period - Southern U.S.A., 1900.
'Psychological study of greed. In small Southern town about 1900; two brothers and a sister attempt to swindle each other.' Title: Local Authority, The in - De Filippo / COL Author: de Filippo, Eduardo translated by Carlo Ardito Publisher: Methune 1998
Description:
roy drama - crime twenty characters fourteen male; six female three acts
2 interiors.
Mafia boss withdraws in favor of contender, who eventually kills him.
Title: London Merchant, The in - Six Eighteenth Century Plays / COL Author: Lillo, George Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company 1963
Description:
roy restoration tragedy ten characters; extras seven male; three female five acts
Mrs. Millwood is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious, but London gives her no means of support except to seduce men. Love for her leads eighteen-year-old Barnwell to deceit, theft, and murder. "What are your laws," she asks, "but the fool's wisdom and the coward's valor, the instrument and screen of all your villainies by which you punish in others what you act out yourselves, had you been in their circumstances? The judge who condemns the poor man for being a thief had been a thief himself, had he been poor. Thus you go on deceiving and being deceived, harassing,
Title: Look Homeward, Angel in - Best American Plays / COL Author: Frings, Ketti Wolfe, Thomas Publisher: Samuel French 1957
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters ten male; nine female three acts
2 sets; period - North Carolina, 1916.
Based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Wolfe. A young man is determined to break out of the entrapment of his family to move out on his own and pursue his dreams. Title: Lord Alfred's Lover in - Canadian Theatre Review No.18 Spring 1978 / PER Author: Bentley, Eric Publisher: Miscellaneous 1978
Description:
roy drama - biography large cast flexible casting two parts
A dramatization of the relationship between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas.
Title: Lord Halewyn in - 7 Plays / COL Author: Ghelderode, Michel De translated by Gerard Hopkins Publisher: Hill and Wang 1960
Description:
roy romance - drama sixteen characters; extras eleven male; five female fourteen scenes
'Based on Flemish romance about an insane young nobleman who used magic powers to lure young maids to their death.'
Title: Lorenzaccio in - The Modern Theatre Volume 6 / COL Author: de Musset, Alfred Publisher: Doubleday 1960
Description:
roy tragedy - Italy forty characters thirty-five male; five female five acts
A true version of the murder of Alessandro by Lorenzino. Title: Losing Venice in - Scot-Free / COL Author: Clifford, John Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1990
Description:
roy drama - Scottish - politics - war eighteen characters ten male; eight female (doubling possible) two acts
'When a Duke from Spain embarks on a military adventure to save Venice and his reputation, the consequences are not what he expects.'
Title: Lost Boys, The in - Canada and the Theatre of War: Vol. 1 / CCO Author: Thomson, R. H. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - history - World War I - monologues thirteen characters ten male; three female (doubling possible) two acts
The main character/narrator in 'The Lost Boys' undertakes a dream journey to bring to light the men hidden in a collection of 700 family letters - letters from five brothers who fought in the First World War. Not only does the actor step into the characters of these forgotten soldiers, but also into his own life as a child. The journey breathes life into these men of the battlefields, as well as gives voice to the women of the world; mother, cousin, French stranger. Based on the author's own life, and that of his five great uncles, the play becomes a search for the immensity of story
Title: Love After Death in - The Classic Theatre Volume III: Six Spanish Plays / COL Author: Calderón, Pedro Calderón de la Barca translated by Roy Campbell Publisher: Doubleday 1959
Description:
roy Spanish plays - drama fifteen characters eleven male; four female three acts
From the time that Spain had been liberated from the Moorish yoke by Ferdinand and Isabella, the descendants of the Arabs had continued to live upon the same soil...until the 1st of January, 1567, when the edict of Philip II which had for its object the extirpation of all Moorish customs was published at Granada... The principal Moors...sent addresses and petitions to...the king; but all in vain. Every day they saw themselves exposed to every species of...annoyance; until at length they resolved to have recourse to arms...and in the month of December, 1568, the insurrection Title: Love is Strange in - Canadian Theatre Review No.44, Fall, 1985 / PER Author: Ledoux, Paul Young, David Publisher: Miscellaneous 1985
Description:
roy drama - Canadian thirteen characters; extras flexible casting two acts
'It can be argued that most modern love songs derive from a romantic tradition which goes back to the poetry of twelfth-century France. "Love is Strange" examines the way this tradition has been transformed by the electronic age. From Michael Jackson's glitter glove to Princess Di's hair, our contemporary understanding of love is shaped in the image of shared public fantasies. But how far into the communal fantasy is a citizen allowed to go before society deems him dangerous or insane?'
Title: Love Is Strange in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Ledoux, Paul Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian thirteen characters; extras flexible casting two acts
'It can be argued that most modern love songs derive from a romantic tradition which goes back to the poetry of twelfth-century France. "Love is Strange" examines the way this tradition has been transformed by the electronic age. From Michael Jackson's glitter glove to Princess Di's hair, our contemporary understanding of love is shaped in the image of shared public fantasies. But how far into the communal fantasy is a citizen allowed to go before society deems him dangerous or insane?'
Title: Love of a Good Man, The in - Howard Barker: Collected Plays Volume 2 / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: Calder and Boyars 1993
Description:
roy drama - war thirteen characters eleven male; two female three acts
'World War 1 drama showing how class attitudes affected both casualties and survivors.' Title: Love of the Nightingale, The in - The Love of the Nightingale, and the Grace of Mary Traverse / COL Author: Wertenbaker, Timberlake Publisher: Faber and Faber 1989
Description:
roy drama - women large cast; chorus flexible casting one act (21 scenes)
Drama based on Greek myth of Procne and Philomena depicting victimization of women.
Title: Love Suicides at Amijima, The in - Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu / COL Author: Chikamatsu, Monzaemon translated by Donald Keene Publisher: Columbia University Press 1961
Description:
non-roy tragedy - puppet play - Japan - relationships eleven characters; extras seven male; four female three acts
2 interiors; 4 exteriors.
Wife nobly tries to help husband buy his mistress out of bondage. Interfering father-in-law causes husband and prostitute to commit suicide. Singing.
Title: Love's Sacrifice in - Ford / COL Author: Ford, John Publisher: Hill and Wang 1957
Description:
roy tragedy - verse play sixteen characters; extras eleven male; five female five acts
'Jacobean tragedy in verse set in Renaissance Italy. Fatal outcome of a courtier's love for virtuous wife of elderly Duke of Pavia. Dancing with background music.' Title: Lower Depths, The in - Great Russian Plays / COL Author: Gorky, Maxim translated by Jenny Covan Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1967
Description:
roy drama - Russian seventeen characters; extras twelve male; five female four acts
1 interior and 1 exterior set. "The scene is a lodging house of outcasts, rather revolting in its setting, almost devoid of play (it is more a series of pictures), with no humor or romance. The grim biographies of the waifs are hinted at, and some of the derelicts are characterized. Into the group of wretched creatures comes the pilgrim, Luka, who still has hope - that he who seeks will find."
Title: Lower Depths, The in - A Treasury of the Theatre Volume 2 / COL Author: Gorky, Maxim translated by Jenny Covan Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1963
Description:
roy drama - Russian seventeen characters; extras twelve male; five female four acts
1 interior and 1 exterior set.
"The scene is a lodging house of outcasts, rather revolting in its setting, almost devoid of play (it is more a series of pictures), with no humor or romance. The grim biographies of the waifs are hinted at, and some of the derelicts are characterized. Into the group of wretched creatures comes the pilgrim, Luka, who still has hope - that he who seeks will find."
Title: Lower Depths, The in - An Anthology of Russian Plays: Volume II 1890-1960 / COL Author: Gorky, Maxim Publisher: Vintage Books 1963
Description:
roy drama - Russian seventeen characters; extras twelve male; five female four acts
1 interior, 1 exterior set.
"The scene is a lodging house of outcasts, rather revolting in its setting, almost devoid of play (it is more a series of pictures), with no humor or romance. The grim biographies of the waifs are hinted at, and some of the derelicts are characterized. Into the group of wretched creatures comes the pilgrim, Luka, who still has hope - that he who seeks will find." Title: Lower Depths, The in - Five Plays / COL Author: Gorky, Maxim translated by Margaret Wettlin Publisher: Foreign Languages 1956
Description:
roy drama - Russian seventeen characters; extras twelve male; five female four acts
1 interior, 1 exterior set; singing. "The scene is a lodging house of outcasts, rather revolting in its setting, almost devoid of play (it is more a series of pictures), with no humor or romance. The grim biographies of the waifs are hinted at, and some of the derelicts are characterized. Into the group of wretched creatures comes the pilgrim, Luka, who still has hope - that he who seeks will find."
Title: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander in - A Texas Trilogy / COL Author: Jones, Preston Publisher: Hill and Wang 1976
Description:
roy drama eleven characters eight male; three female three acts
2 interiors.
"Second play in trilogy collectively entitled: A Texas Trilogy, follows life of woman from her high school days and dreams of far-off places to divorce, middle-aged resignation over prospects of bleak future."
Title: Lupi, The Great White Wolf in - Stories from the Bush / CCO Author: Lewis, Larry E. Jacko, Esther Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - legend - Native peoples thirteen characters eight male; five female two acts
based on Ojibway legend as told by Annie Migwanabi; translated by Justine Enosse and Violet Naokwegijig; this edition is in both Ojibwe and English language.
As the Chief ages, he grows in wisdom and with good advice from his sister chooses to give his daughter in marriage not to the suitor with the biggest dowry but to the one with the truest heart. A vengeful grandmother, whose family had been killed by the Chief in war, intervenes, demanding Title: Luther in - The Tony Winners / COL Author: Osborne, John Publisher: Doubleday 1977
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters; extras twelve male; one female three acts
multiple sets.
This exciting play reveals the man beneath the cowl and the mind behind the dramatic split in Christianity. Through all Luther's self-doubts, bodily ailments and brilliant intellectual achievements, he is helped by the kind and rational superiors of his order. Here, then, is Luther the man, monk and mind in all its doubts, honesty and clarity of purpose.
Title: M. Butterfly in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ sixteen characters seven male; three female three acts
3 of the men are non-speaking roles.
Based on a true story. Bored with his routine posting in Beijing, and awkward with women, Rene Gallimard, a French diplomat, is easy prey for the subtle, delicate charms of Song Lyling, a Chinese opera star who personifies Gallimard's fantasy vision of submissive, exotic oriental sexuality. He begins an affair with "her" which lasts for twenty years, during which time he passes
Title: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom in - Plays for the Theatre (8th ed.) / COL Author: Wilson, August Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 2004
Description:
roy biography - American - racism ten characters eight male; two female two acts
The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her black musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager. What goes down in the session to come is more than music. It is a riveting portrayal of black rage... of racism, of the self-hate that racism breeds, and of racial exploitation... Title: Macbeth in - The Genius of the Early English Theatre / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: New American Library 1962
Description:
roy tragedy large cast flexible casting⌦four acts
representative set.
The ambitions to the throne of a Scottish Lord and his wife cause the Lord to murder the King of Scotland and wreak death and havoc throughout the land as he tries to protect his false position as the new King.
Title: Macbeth in - Plays / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 1970
Description:
roy tragedy thirty-four characters; extras twenty-eight male; six female four acts
representative set.
The ambitions to the throne of a Scottish Lord and his wife cause the Lord to murder the King of Scotland and wreak death and havoc throughout the land as he tries to protect his false position as the new King.
Title: Macbeth in - Mirrors for Man / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Winthrop Publishers 1974
Description:
roy tragedy large cast flexible casting four acts
representative set.
The ambitions to the throne of a Scottish Lord and his wife cause the Lord to murder the King of Scotland and wreak death and havoc throughout the land as he tries to protect his false position as the new King. Title: Machinal in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Treadwell, Sophie Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama - relationships - murder - biographical large cast flexible casting nine episodes
The play's title means "automatic" or "mechanical" in French. Sophie Treadwell wrote the play based loosely on the murder trial of Ruth Snyder and her lover, Judd Gray, who together murdered Snyder's husband. Convicted of murdering her husband, Snyder later received the electric chair. Out of this event came the powerful, demanding drama, Machinal.
Title: MacKenzie - Papineau Rebellion, The in - The History of the Village of the Small Huts / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Michael Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - historical - drama - satire - comedy large cast flexible casting two acts
No abstract available.
Title: Mad Forest in - Plays: Three / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1998
Description:
roy drama - Romania - political eleven characters seven male; four female two parts
interior and exterior sets.
An incisive portrait of a society in turmoil that focuses on two families to reveal what life is truly like under a totalitarian regime and what results when the regime collapses. The play's brief scenes are almost cinematic in their presentation of events as seen through the eyes of those most affected by the chaos - ordinary people trying to live in peace. Title: Madmen and Specialists in - Wole Soyinka: Collected Plays 2 / COL Author: Soyinka, Wole Publisher: Oxford University Press 1974
Description:
roy drama ten characters seven male; three female two acts
"This second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays traces the ironic development and consequences of 'progress'."
Title: Maid's Tragedy, The in - Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays / COL Author: Beaumont, Francis Fletcher, John Publisher: Random House 1950
Description:
roy Jacobean tragedy - Elizabethan - verse eighteen characters; extras eleven male; seven female five acts
1 setting.
Jacobean tragedy of revenge and murder set in Rhodes. Verse play with a brief masque in the first act.
Title: Man Better Man in - Three Plays from the Yale School of Drama / COL Author: Hill, Errol Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1964
Description:
roy drama - folk tales sixteen characters; extras twelve male; four female three acts
music, singing, dancing.
'Folk-drama in verse set in Trinidad. Young man, injured in stick fight, drives witch doctor from village.' Title: Man for All Seasons, A in - Three Plays / COL Author: Bolt, Robert Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1963
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
representative set.
When Henry VII puts forth the Act of Supremacy to enable himself to divorce his wife, Sir Thomas More cannot allow his conscience to condone the act and is, thus, executed as a traitor to the King.
Title: Man for All Seasons, A in - The New Theatre of Europe / COL Author: Bolt, Robert Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1962
Description:
roy tragedy fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
1 set.
"Sir Thomas More remains the devout Catholic in opposition to Henry VIII in sixteenth century England."
Title: Man for All Seasons, A in - New English Dramatists 6 / COL Author: Bolt, Robert Publisher: Penguin Books 1962
Description:
roy tragedy fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
1 set.
"Sir Thomas More remains the devout Catholic in opposition to Henry VIII in sixteenth century England." Title: Man Who Had All the Luck, The in - The Penguin Arthur Miller / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Penguin Books 2015
Description:
roy drama eleven characters nine male; two female three acts
running time: 2 hrs. 25 mins.
David Beeves is a young Midwestern automobile mechanic who discovers he is blessed with what appears to be almost supernatural good fortune that allows him to overcome every seemingly insurmountable obstacle that crosses his path while those around him fall in defeat. Like Midas, everything he touches is tinged with gold, leaving him to wonder if and when his luck will change
Title: Map of the World, A in - The Secret Rapture and Other Plays / COL Author: Hare, David Publisher: Grove Press 1998
Description:
roy drama eleven characters; extras seven male; four female two acts
This play is an ambitious work which brings together in heated discussion a young left wing journalist and right wing expatriate Indian novelist. The settings are a Bombay hotel conference and the British film studio where the Indian author's experiences are being turned into a film. Throughout the play, life and fiction overlap. One of the issues is the sexual jealousy that arises over the men's competition for the favors of a promiscuous American actress staying at the hotel. Also on the agenda: idealism vs. cynism; the West's arrogance in its handling of Third World
Title: Marat/Sade in - The Art of Drama / COL Author: Weiss, Peter translated by Geoffrey Skelton Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1976
Description:
roy drama thirty-three characters twenty-two male; eleven female two acts
1 interior set; play may be objectionable to some.
The persecution and assassination of Jean Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of charenton under the direction of the Marquis De Sade. Title: Margaret Fleming in - Nineteenth Century American Plays / COL Author: Herne, James A. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
Description:
roy tragedy - marital relations twelve characters five male; five female; two boys four acts
3 settings; music, singing.
Loving wife discovers husband's adultery and its dire consequences.
Title: Maria Magdalena in - Herod and Other Plays / COL Author: Hebbel, Friedrich translated by Barber Fairley Publisher: Everyman's Library
Description:
roy tragedy - Germany eleven characters seven male; three female; one boy three acts
2 interiors.
Pharisaical father's attitude drives his son to leave home and causes his daughter to commit suicide.
Title: Marisol in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Rivera, José Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters; extras nine male; five female two acts
Marisol Perez, a young Latino woman, is a copy editor for a Manhattan publisher. Although she has elevated herself into the white-collar class, she continues to live alone in the dangerous Bronx neighborhood of her childhood. As the play begins, Marisol narrowly escapes a vicious attack by a golf club-wielding madman while traveling home on the subway. Later that evening Marisol is visited by her guardian angel who informs her that she can no longer serve as Marisol's protector because she has been called to join the revolution already in progress against Title: Mary of Scotland in - Theatre Guild Anthology / COL Author: Anderson, Maxwell Publisher: Random House 1936
Description:
nonroy drama - historical thirty-one characters; extras twenty-five male; six female three acts
Description not available.
Title: Mary Stuart in - The Romantic Influence / COL Author: Schiller, Friedrich von Goldstone, Jean Stock Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1963
Description:
roy drama seventeen characters twelve male; five female two acts
representative set; period - England, 1586-87.
Jean Stock Goldstone and John Reich's play 'Mary Stuart' - derived from Friedrich Schiller's play by the same name. Indecisiveness on the part of Elizabeth I regarding her imprisoned sister Mary Stuart culminates in Elizabeth signing the execution warrant in a rage only to regret the deed too late.
Title: Mary Stuart in - The Classic Theatre: Volume II / COL Author: Schiller, Friedrich von Bentley, Eric Publisher: Doubleday 1959
Description:
roy German - classic - tragedy - verse play twenty characters; extras fourteen male; six female five acts
translated by Joseph Mellish and adapted by Eric Bentley; 4 interiors, 1 exterior.
"Last three days in the life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland." Title: Masks and Faces in - Nineteenth Century Plays / COL Author: Taylor, Tom Reade, Charles Publisher: Oxford University Press 1956
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters eleven male; five female; two boys; one girl two acts
3 interior sets.
"England, 19th century. The innocence of a country wife pitted against worldly, sophisticated men and women."
Title: Medea in - Ten Plays by Euripides / COL Author: Euripides Jeffers, Robinson Publisher: Bantam Books 1960
Description:
roy tragedy fourteen characters; extras five male; seven female; two boys two acts
1 set.
Adapted by Robinson Jeffers; translated by Moses Hadas and John McLean. The foreign wife of Jason avenges herself on her husband when he takes a new bride, by killing the bride, Jason's two sons and herself.
Title: Medea in - Five Great Greek Tragedies / COL Author: Euripides translated by Rex Warner Publisher: Dover Publications 2004
Description:
roy tragedy - Greek fourteen characters; extras seven male; seven female; requires two young boys. two acts
1 set.
The foreign wife of Jason avenges herself on her husband when he takes a new bride, by killing the bride, Jason's two sons and herself. Title: Medea in - Medea and Other Plays / COL Author: Euripides translated by James Morwood Publisher: Oxford University Press 1998
Description:
roy tragedy - Greek fourteen characters; extras seven male; seven female; requires two young boys. two acts
1 set.
The foreign wife of Jason avenges herself on her husband when he takes a new bride, by killing the bride, Jason's two sons and herself.
Title: Meninas, Las in - American Theatre (July 01) / PER Author: Nottage, Lynn Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001
Description:
roy drama - historical ten characters; extras four male; six female (doubling possible) two acts
A play about a French Queen and her illicit affair with a dwarf from Dahomey.
Title: Mephisto in - Plays by Mediterranean Women / COL Author: Mann, Klaus Mnouchkine, Ariane Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - historical - political large cast flexible casting two acts
adapted by Ariane Mnouchkine from Klaus Mann's novel; translated from the French by Timberlake Wertenbaker.
It deals with a particular period in modern European history, which had a devastating effect on the whole Mediterranean region, causing national boundaries to be re-drawn. It follows the life of a German actor who collaborates with the Nazi regime to secure fame and fortune and sets this Title: Mercy Killing or Murder: The Tracy Latimer Story in - Canadian Theatre Review Vol. 122 / PER Author: Decottignies, Michele Collective Artist-Community Publisher: Miscellaneous 2005
Description:
roy drama - murder - handicapped thirteen characters eight male; five female three acts
Description not available.
Title: Metastasis in - Metastasis and other plays / CCO Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: NeWest Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright twenty-four characters; cellist sixteen male; eight female (doubling possible) forty-five scenes
Named for the pathological spread of live rot through a system METASTASIS sets 25 characters in motion, rippling out from a random drive by shooting, to conjure a world of missed connections and crossed wires which tells the audience to look to malignancy and the way it grows fruitful and multiplies to see how we are bound together.
Title: Middle Finger in - American Theatre (Feb 01) / PER Author: Ong, Han Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001
Description:
roy drama - coming of age twenty characters flexible casting two acts
Based loosely on 'Spring Awakening' by Frank Wedekind. Title: Mindlands in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2002) / PER Author: Hamilton, Wendy A. Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002
Description:
roy drama - one man play sixteen characters one male; fifteen voices two acts
'A multimedia one-man play about a steel worker who suddenly finds that the skill in his hands and the strength in his body will no longer provide his family with a stable and comfortable life.'
Title: Minute Men of 1774-1775, The in - America's Lost Plays / COL Author: Herne, James A. Publisher: Indiana University Press 1964
Description:
roy drama - American history sixteen characters; extras thirteen male; three female five acts
1 interior, 4 exteriors.
"Early New England settlers' dealings with the British soldiers in the early days of the Revolution."
Title: Mister Roberts in - The Tony Winners / COL Author: Heggen, Thomas Logan, Joshua Publisher: Doubleday 1977
Description:
roy drama twenty characters; extras nineteen male; one female two acts
representative set.
An Executive Officer on a U.S. Navy cargo ship sacrifices his animosity towards the captain and his attempts for a transfer to a battleship, for better treatment of the men who work on the ship. Title: Month in the Country, A in - Masterpieces of the Russian Drama Vol. 1 / COL Author: Turgenev, Ivan translated by Richard Newham Publisher: Dover Publications 1961
Description:
roy drama - Russian thirteen characters seven male; five female; one boy two acts
2 interior and 1 exterior set; period costumes.
"Natalia is bored in an isolated community. Mikhail, a friend of her husband comes to visit but his platonic friendship does not suffice. Aleksei, a young tutor is engaged to teach her son, and the lonely woman falls in love with him. Because of jealousy of her ward, Vera, she confesses her love to Aleksei which frightens him away. Mikhail also leaves and she is left to her routine existence."
Title: Month in the Country, A in - Great Russian Plays / COL Author: Turgenev, Ivan translated by Emlyn Williams Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1967
Description:
roy drama - Russian thirteen characters seven male; five female; one boy two acts
2 interior and 1 exterior set; period costumes.
"Natalia is bored in an isolated community. Mikhail, a friend of her husband comes to visit but his platonic friendship does not suffice. Aleksei, a young tutor is engaged to teach her son, and the lonely woman falls in love with him. Because of jealousy of her ward, Vera, she confesses her love to Aleksei which frightens him away. Mikhail also leaves and she is left to her routine existence."
Title: Montserrat in - The Collected Plays Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Robles, Emmanuel Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1971
Description:
roy drama seventeen characters fifteen male; two female two acts
adapted by Emmanuel Robles; 1 interior set
"During the revolution in Venezuela in 1812 led by the great patriot Bolivar, the Spanish commander Izquiardo arrests Montserrat, a young Spanish officer who knows where Bolivar is hiding. He tortures him mentally and spiritually by ordering six passers-by to be shot if he doesn't reveal the hiding place. They plead in vain for their lives, but one of them realizes the Title: Moon Under Miami in - The War Against the Kitchen Sink / COL Author: Guare, John Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy drama - American - greed large cast flexible casting two acts
Miami now replaces New York as a microcosm of greed, fraudulence, and corruption - a lawless East Coast frontier town that epitomizes the decadence of modern American society. - "The Black Comedy of John Guare" by Gene A. Plunka
Title: Morning Star in - Awake and Singing / COL Author: Regan, Sylvia Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2004
Description:
roy drama - Jewish thirteen characters eight male; five female three acts
1 interior.
Jewish emigrant family in New York City.
Title: Mother Courage in - The Modern Theatre Volume 2 / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt Publisher: Doubleday 1955
Description:
roy drama twenty-six characters nineteen male; seven female two acts (twelve scenes)
Same as "Mother Courage and her Children"; 2 interior and 10 exterior sets; musical scores; and words and songs.
"The tragedy of war reflected in the experiences of a camp follower and her family during the Thirty Years' War." Title: Mother Courage in - The New Theatre of Modern Europe Vol. 2 / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Eric Bentley Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1964
Description:
roy drama twenty-six characters nineteen male; seven female two acts (twelve scenes)
Same as: "Mother Courage and her Children"; 2 interior and 10 exterior sets; musical scores; and words and songs.
"The tragedy of war reflected in the experiences of a camp follower and her family during the Thirty Years' War."
Title: Mother Courage and Her Children in - Plays for the Theatre (4th ed.) / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Ralph Mannheim Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1984
Description:
roy drama twenty-six characters nineteen male; seven female twelve scenes
representative set; period - Seventeenth Century Europe.
Same as "Mother Courage". A woman who is forced to make her living from war, tries to protect her children from war.
Title: Mother Courage and Her Children in - Bertolt Brecht: Collected Plays Vol. 5 / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Ralph Manheim Publisher: Vintage Books 1972
Description:
roy tragedy - war twenty-five characters; extras nineteen male; six female eight parts
1 setting; music; singing.
Commentary on man's struggle to survive. Tragedy of war experienced by camp follower and her family in Thirty Years' War. Title: Mother of Us All in - Plays by American Women 1930-1960 / COL Author: Stein, Gertrude Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1994
Description:
roy experimental piece large cast flexible casting two acts
singing.
'Experimental theatre piece about Susan B. Anthony.'
Title: Mother, The in - The Madman and the Nun and Other Plays / COL Author: Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy translated by D.C. Gerould and C.S. Durer Publisher: University of Washington Press 1968
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters; extras seven male; six female two acts
'Play within a play. Theatre of the absurd focusing on the role of a bourgeoisie Mother and her son, both a parody and extension of Isben and Strindberg.'
Title: Mother, The in - The Mentor Book of Short Plays / COL Author: Chayefsky, Paddy Publisher: New American Library 1969
Description:
roy family relations ten characters two male; eight female three acts
Married, self-sacrificing daughter tries to take care of aged mother who insists on independence. Title: Mouthful of Birds, A in - Plays: Three / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Lan, David Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1998
Description:
roy drama large cast flexible casting two acts
A collaborative piece written with David Lan, combining words and dance. Inspired by Euripides' Bacchae, the play explores modern experiences of 'possession, violence and other states where people feel beside themselves'.
Title: Mulatto in - Black Drama: An Anthology / COL Author: Hughes, Langston Publisher: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company 1970
Description:
roy black play - drama - tragedy thirteen characters; extras ten male; two female; one boy two acts
1 interior set.
"Tragedy of race relations set in Georgia. Problems and attitudes of children of white landowner and Negro housekeeper-mistress."
Title: Murder of Isaac, The in - Modern Jewish Plays / CCO Author: Lerner, Motti translated by Anthony Berris Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - historical - Israel - assassination twelve characters; musicians nine male; three female two acts
As part of their therapy at a clinic for post traumatic stress disorder a group of patients re-enact the assassination of Israel's Prime Minster Yitzhak Rabin. Title: Murders at Argos, The in - Murders at Argos and Cressida Among the Greeks, The / COL Author: Foley, David Publisher: Oberon Modern Plays 2003
Description:
roy drama - history - murder fifteen characters (doubling) five male; nine female two acts
"The Murders at Argos" retells the Oresteia story with Orestes and Electra as murderous teens.
Title: Music at Night in - Four Plays / COL Author: Priestley, J. B. Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1944
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters ten male; six female three acts
1 interior set.
"Psychological drama. Some life histories revealed at a concert."
Title: Music Lessons in - Cinzano / COL Author: Petrushevskaya, Ludmila translated by Stephen Mulrine Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1991
Description:
roy drama - family relations thirteen characters six male; seven female two acts
Abstract unavailable. Title: My Mother, My Father and Me in - The Collected Plays Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1971
Description:
roy drama - family relations twenty-eight characters fourteen male; fourteen female (doubling is possible) two acts
'Satire, based upon novel "How Much?" by Burt Blechman. Aged mother is put in into nursing home after three generations clash in Manhattan apartment.'
Title: Mysteries of Love, The in - Modern French Theatre / COL Author: Vitrac, Roger translated by Ralph Gladstone Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1966
Description:
roy drama - surrealism twenty-four characters; extras eighteen male; six female three acts, five tableaux
'Surrealistic drama. Plotless series of tableaux, with incessant lovers' quarrels, and attempts to involve audience in violent denouement.'
Title: Mystery-Bouffe in - Masterpieces of the Russian Drama Vol. 2 / COL Author: Mayakovsky, Vladimir translated by G. R. Noyes and A. Kaun Publisher: Dover Publications 1961
Description:
roy surrealistic mystery play in verse large cast flexible casting six acts
'Shows the salvation of the world according to communistic principles.' Title: Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America in - It Just Stopped / Myth Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and.. / COL Author: Sewell, Stephen Publisher: Currency Press 2007
Description:
roy thriller - drama - politics eleven characters; extras five male; four female; two male or two female two acts
This tough political thriller, based in the Liberal Arts department of New York University, is no play for the timid. But its violent language and extreme brutality, brilliantly choreographed, are essential elements for an enthralling study of a polarised world turned back-to-front - a Kafka-esque nightmare of state terrorism condoned by liberty lovers in defence of the Land of the Free.
Title: Napoli Milionaria in - De Filippo / COL Author: de Filippo, Eduardo Tinniswood, Peter Publisher: Methune 1998
Description:
roy drama - family relations large cast flexible casting three acts
adapted by Peter Tinniswood
Moral corruption of family involved in war-time black market activities.
Title: Native Son in - America on Stage / COL Author: Wright, Richard Green, Paul Publisher: Doubleday 1955
Description:
roy drama twenty-nine characters fifteen male; fourteen female (doubling possible) one act; ten scenes (full length)
adapted by Paul Green; various interior and exterior sets
"Ten scenes in the life of Bigger Thomas, beginning with the State's Attorney requesting the jury to return a death penalty verdict for 'this miserable human fiend' and then flashing back to his life in Chicago's South Side ghetto, where he learned to hate and fear white people. We see him exploited by the rich daughter of a slumlord, and watch him accidentally kill her, dispose of her Title: Native Son in - Black Drama: An Anthology / COL Author: Wright, Richard Green, Paul Publisher: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company 1970
Description:
roy drama twenty-nine characters fifteen male; fourteen female (doubling possible) one act; ten scenes (full length)
various interior and exterior sets.
"Dramatization of Richard Wright's novel. Frustrations and resentments of young Chicago Negro in the 1930's."
Title: Native Speech in - Eric Overmyer Collected Plays / COL Author: Overmyer, Eric Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1993
Description:
roy surreal drama - American eleven characters; extras eight male; three female two acts
"Down at the bottom of your radio dial is a station with a weak signal but a strong message. The man behind the message calls himself Hungry Mother, and he's a disc jockey with a difference. In 'Native Speech', the difference is playwright Eric Overmyer's chilling vision of a society about to go belly up.
Title: Nevermore in - Dramatics Vol. 80, No. 5 / PER Author: Orlando, Dominic Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - historical eleven characters eight male; three female nine chapters
Pertains to the life of Edgar Alan Poe. Title: New France in - The History of the Village of the Small Huts / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Michael Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - historical - comedy - satire large cast flexible casting five parts
No abstract available.
Title: New Way to Pay Old Debts, A in - Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays / COL Author: Massinger, Philip Publisher: Random House 1950
Description:
roy Jacobean drama - Elizabethan - verse twenty characters; extras fifteen male; five female five acts
2 interiors, 3 exteriors; period - 17th Century England.
Avaricious city money lender vs impoverished country gentleman.
Title: Newhouse in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Rose, Richard Kugler, D. D. Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian drama - AIDS twelve characters; chorus eight male; four female two acts
" 'Newhouse' is a speculation about possible, but avoidable, future events - the political and social effects a sexually transmitted disease, at epidemic levels, could have on the individual and society. Drawn on material from Moliere's 'Don Juan', Seneca's 'Oedipus Rex' and Diderot's 'Rameau's Nephew'." Title: Newhouse in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 61, Winter 1989 / PER Author: Rose, Richard Kugler, D. D. Publisher: Miscellaneous 1989
Description:
roy Canadian drama - AIDS twelve characters; chorus eight male; four female two acts
" 'Newhouse' is a speculation about possible, but avoidable, future events - the political and social effects a sexually transmitted disease, at epidemic levels, could have on the individual and society. Drawn on material from Moliere's 'Don Juan', Seneca's 'Oedipus Rex' and Diderot's 'Rameau's Nephew'."
Title: Night of the Iguana, The in - Best American Plays 1957-1963 / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Crown Publishers 1961
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters eight male; six female three acts
1 set.
A defrocked minister and a spinster painter meet in a rundown Mexican resort hotel where they recognize their loneliness and their need for a home and companionship but know that they cannot get it from each other.
Title: Night of the Iguana, The in - Three by Tennessee / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New American Library 1976
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters eight male; six female three acts
1 set.
A defrocked minister and a spinster painter meet in a rundown Mexican resort hotel where they recognize their loneliness and their need for a home and companionship but know that they cannot get it from each other. Title: Night Out, A in - Plays: One / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Methuen 1961
Description:
roy drama - family drama - family relations fifteen characters ten male; five female three acts
4 interiors; music.
"During one night out, a son tries unsuccessfully to break away from his possessive mother."
Title: Night Out, A in - A Slight Ache and Other Plays / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Methuen 1961
Description:
roy drama - family drama - family relations fifteen characters ten male; five female three acts
4 interiors; music.
"During one night out, a son tries unsuccessfully to break away from his possessive mother."
Title: Night Out, A in - Complete Works: One / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press 1961
Description:
roy drama - family drama - family relations fifteen characters ten male; five female three acts
4 interiors; music.
"During one night out, a son tries unsuccessfully to break away from his possessive mother." Title: Nil Carborundum in - New English Dramatists 6 / COL Author: Livings, Henry Publisher: Penguin Books 1963
Description:
roy drama large cast flexible casting three acts
No abstract available.
Title: No End of Blame in - Howard Barker: Collected Plays Volume 1 / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: Calder and Boyars 1990
Description:
roy drama large cast flexible casting two acts
'Hungarian artist emigrates to Russia and then England where he becomes cartoonist on London paper. In each country he clashes with government authorities and employers.'
Title: No Mother to Guide Her in - America's Lost Plays / COL Author: Mortimer, Lillian Publisher: Indiana University Press 1964
Description:
roy melodrama - criminal activity thirteen characters; extras eight male; five female four acts
"Villain who robs bank, kills the innocent and deceives the women." Title: None is Too Many in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 93, Winter 1997 / PER Author: Abella, Irving Sherman, Jason Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997
Description:
roy drama - Jewish - holocaust - World War II large cast flexible casting ten scenes
adaptation by Jason Sherman
"An adaptation of the book by Irving Abella and Harold Troper about Canada's refusal to admit Jewish refugees into the country before, during and after WWII."
Title: None is Too Many in - A Terrible Truth v. 2 / COL Author: Abella, Irving Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - Jewish - holocaust - World War II large cast flexible casting ten scenes
adapted by Jason Sherman
"An adaptation of the book by Irving Abella and Harold Troper about Canada's refusal to admit Jewish refugees into the country before, during and after WWII."
Title: None is Too Many in - Canada and the Theatre of War: Vol. 1 / CCO Author: Abella, Irving Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - Jewish - holocaust - World War II large cast flexible casting ten scenes
adapted by Jason Sherman
"An adaptation of the book by Irving Abella and Harold Troper about Canada's refusal to admit Jewish refugees into the country before, during and after WWII." Title: Noran Bang in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Kang, M. J. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - ethnic - family relations fourteen characters six male; eight female scenes one, two and three
"The death of a beloved grandmother, Halmonee, ignites a wave of explosive emotions within a Korean family in Canada."
Title: Noran Bang in - Love + Relasianships / CCO Author: Kang, M. J. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Asian - Canadian - drama - family relations fourteen characters six male; eight female two acts
"The death of a beloved grandmother, Halmonee, ignites a wave of explosive emotions within a Korean family in Canada."
Title: Nothing But a Man in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - relationships large cast flexible casting three acts
Adaptation of a teleplay written in 1965 for CBC's Festival anthology series. The second part in the tale of Duke Randomsky, who now energetically examines his roots and renegotiates his outdated social relationships. He is a complex figure, intended to initiate the construction of an elusive national character. Title: Occupational Hazard in - Women on the Verge / COL Author: Drexter, Rosalyn Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1993
Description:
roy experimental drama fifteen characters eleven male; four female two acts
'Experimental drama based on Kafka's fable. A hunger artist. Portrait of artist as suicide.'
Title: Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana, The in - Nineteenth Century American Plays / COL Author: Boucicault, Dion Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
Description:
roy melodrama - American twenty characters; extras fourteen male; six female five acts
3 interiors; 4 exteriors.
Melodrama set in pre-Civil War South. Octoroon daughter of bankrupt planter commits suicide when she is bought by scheming overseer.
Title: Oil Show, The in - Canadian Theatre Revew: No. 79-80, Fall 1994 / PER Author: Creative Collection Publisher: Miscellaneous 1994
Description:
roy collective - documentary large cast flexible casting two acts
Description not available. Title: Old Man in - Five Plays / COL Author: Gorky, Maxim translated by Margaret Wettlin Publisher: Foreign Languages 1956
Description:
roy Russian - drama eleven characters seven male; three female; one girl four acts
No further description available.
Title: On Borrowed Time in - Five Broadway Plays / COL Author: Watkin, Lawrence Edward Osborn, Paul Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1938
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
adapted by Paul Osborn
"Gramps is idolized by Pud, his grandson, who models his speech, behavior, and actions on the old man. Aunt Demetria, strait-laced and Puritan, does not approve. The action of the play consists of two conflicts: Aunt Demetria tries to take Pud away, and Gramps fights her. Death, in the person of Mr. Brink, tries to take Gramps away, and Gramps fights him, knowing that if he
Title: On the Frontier in - The Ascent of F.6 and On the Frontier / COL Author: Auden, W. H. Isherwood, Christopher Publisher: Faber and Faber 1936
Description:
roy melodrama fourteen characters; extras ten male; four female three acts
Description not available. Title: On the Shore of the Wide World in - Plays: 3 (Simon Stephens) / COL Author: Stephens, Simon Publisher: Methuen Drama 2011
Description:
roy drama - family relations ten characters six male; four female four parts
Something is about to happen that will change one family forever. Set over the course of nine months, On the Shore of the Wide World is an epic play about love, family, Roy Keane and the size of the galaxy.
Winner! 2006 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play.
Title: One Tiger to a Hill in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - prisoner - Alberta playwright ten characters eight male; two female two acts
"A compelling and compassionate examination of the complexities confronting both warden and inmate."
Title: One Tiger to a Hill in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works: Volume One / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - prisoner - Alberta playwright ten characters eight male; two female two acts
"A compelling and compassionate examination of the complexities confronting both warden and inmate." Title: One Tiger to a Hill in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - prisoner - Alberta playwright ten characters eight male; two female two acts
"A compelling and compassionate examination of the complexities confronting both warden and inmate."
Title: Onward, Onward, Onward! in - The Bolsheviks and Other Plays / COL Author: Shatrov, Mikhail translated by Michael Glenny Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1990
Description:
roy political drama - historical - Lenin - Stalin - Soviet Union - USSR twenty-four characters twenty male; four female two acts
1 setting.
'Third play in trilogy about problems facing Lenin following the October Revolution. Portrays Stalin's rule as bloody aberration from Lenin's policies.' - Play Index
Title: Orlando in - Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando / COL Author: Woolf, Virginia Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: TCG Books 2013
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - history twenty characters flexible casting five acts
adapted by Sarah Ruhl.
The story describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the story has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies. Title: Orphan, The in - The Vietnam Plays: Volume two Author: Rabe, David Publisher: Grove Press 1993
Description:
roy drama - war - Vietnam sixteen characters seven male; nine female two acts
1 setting.
Symbolic drama using Oresteia as framework. Links violence of Manson family members with American presence in Vietnam.
Title: Orpheus Descending in - Tennessee Williams: Four Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New American Library 1957
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - marital relations nineteen characters ten male; nine female three acts
"Transfers the Orpheus legend to a small Southern town. Val Xavier, a wandering guitar player, is given a job in the Tarrance Mercantile Store. The storekeeper is an invalid, and soon Val becomes the lover of the storekeeper's wife, Lady. The townspeople are outraged over the alliance, especially the sheriff, who orders Val to leave town. Later he organizes a lynch mob to take care of him. When Val embraces Lady in a goodbye scene, her husband appears and shoots her. Val runs away but is killed by the townspeople."
Title: Orpheus Descending in - Best American Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1957
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - marital relations nineteen characters ten male; nine female three acts
"Transfers the Orpheus legend to a small Southern town. Val Xavier, a wandering guitar player, is given a job in the Tarrance Mercantile Store. The storekeeper is an invalid, and soon Val becomes the lover of the storekeeper's wife, Lady. The townspeople are outraged over the alliance, especially the sheriff, who orders Val to leave town. Later he organizes a lynch mob to take care of him. When Val embraces Lady in a goodbye scene, her husband appears and shoots her. Val runs away but is killed by the townspeople." Title: Othello in - Tragedy: Plays, Theory, and Criticism / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Harcourt Brace Publishers 1960
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters; extras ten male; three female five acts
Story of a Moorish commander deluded by his ensign into believing that his young wife has been unfaithful to him with another soldier.
Title: Our Lady of Kibeho in - American Theatre (February 2015) Author: Hall, Katori Publisher: Miscellaneous 2015
Description:
roy drama - faith - religion - African - community seventeen characters seven male; ten female two acts
In 1981, a village girl in Rwanda claims to see the Virgin Mary. Ostracized by her schoolmates and labeled disturbed, everyone refuses to believe, until the impossible starts happening again and again. Skepticism gives way to fear, faith, and fate, causing upheaval in the school community and beyond.
Title: Our Town in - Three Plays By Thornton Wilder / COL Author: Wilder, Thornton Publisher: Bantam Books 1957
Description:
roy drama twenty-four characters; extras seventeen male; seven female three acts
bare stage; period piece.
The joys and sorrows of life as depicted by the citizens of a small town. Title: Our Town in - Three Plays / COL Author: Wilder, Thornton Publisher: Avon Books 1957
Description:
roy drama twenty-four characters; extras seventeen male; seven female three acts
bare stage; period piece.
The joys and sorrows of life as depicted by the citizens of a small town.
Title: Pair of Spectacles, A in - Nineteenth Century Plays / COL Author: Grundy, Sydney Publisher: Oxford University Press 1956
Description:
roy drama eleven characters eight male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
"Generous man, embittered by false friends, attempts to become like his miserly brother but finally recovers his faith in human nature."
Title: Pale Horse in - Plays:1 / COL Author: Penhall, Joe Publisher: Methuen Drama 1995
Description:
roy drama twelve characters seven male; five female (doubling possible) two acts
The story of Charles, who, disillusioned by the sudden death of his wife, propels himself into a world of urban alienation and self-destruction in an attempt to assuage the private demons that haunt him. Along the way he encounters the capricious Lucy and is forced to examine the nature of his own mortality, identity and beliefs. Title: Pantagleize in - The New Theatre of Europe / COL Author: Ghelderode, Michel De translated by George Hauger Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1962
Description:
roy tragedy - revolution large cast flexible casting three acts
6 interior and 3 exterior sets.
"Symbolic tragedy of an exemplary man, a philosopher and dreamer who inadvertently gives long-awaited signal for revolution and is there by destroyed."
Title: Pantagleize in - 7 Plays / COL Author: Ghelderode, Michel De translated by George Hauger Publisher: Hill and Wang 1960
Description:
roy tragedy - revolution large cast flexible casting three acts
6 interior and 3 exterior sets.
"Symbolic tragedy of an exemplary man, a philosopher and dreamer who inadvertently gives long-awaited signal for revolution and is there by destroyed."
Title: Papineau in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 4 / CCO Author: Frechette, Louis-Honore Publisher: CTR Publications 1982
Description:
roy Quebec - historical - drama - Canadian thirteen characters; extras twelve male; one female three acts
No abstract available. Title: Paradise Lost in - Six Plays of Clifford Odets / COL Author: Odets, Clifford Publisher: Grove Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - life during the Depression twenty-four characters nineteen male; five female three acts
1 interior; music.
"Members of family and their friends try to survive during Depression years."
Title: Paradise Restored in - Classic Theatre: The Humanities in Drama / COL Author: Taylor, Don Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1975
Description:
roy drama - biography eighteen characters; extras eleven male; seven female one act (fifty-two sequences)
1 exterior set.
"A dramatization of the life of John Milton."
Title: Patriots, The in - America on Stage / COL Author: Kingsley, Sidney Publisher: Doubleday 1943
Description:
roy drama - political twenty-three characters; extras eighteen male; five female three acts
"Deals with Thomas Jefferson in the early days of the Republic. There are two main struggles in the play: Jefferson's personal one to retire to private life, and the historical one between Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. These two statesman have a falling out when Jefferson learns that the economy measure he helped through the Congress had worked only for the benefit of Hamilton and his friends. At the end of the play, Jefferson's election to the presidency is being held up by congress. Hamilton wants to make a deal but Jefferson refuses. The two men understand that their Title: Peace of Brest-Litovsk, The in - The Bolsheviks and Other Plays / COL Author: Shatrov, Mikhail translated by Michael Glenny Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1990
Description:
roy political drama - historical - Lenin - Soviet Union - USSR large cast mixed cast two acts
1 setting.
'First play in trilogy about problems facing Lenin following the October Revolution. Political drama set in December 1917. Lenin sues for peace hoping to retain power in war-weary nation.' - Play Index
Title: Peribanez in - Lope de Vega - 5 Plays / COL Author: De Vega, Lope translated by Jill Booty Publisher: Hill and Wang 1967
Description:
roy drama - Spanish twenty-three characters; extras nineteen male; four female three acts
'When Comendador of Ocana attempts to seduce peasant Peribanez' wife, and sends peasant to Toledo as captain of army to have free reign, suspicious Peribanez foils plot, kills Comandador and is pardoned by King.'
Title: Perkin Warbeck in - Ford / COL Author: Ford, John Publisher: Hill and Wang 1957
Description:
roy tragedy - verse play twenty-four characters; extras twenty-one male; three female five acts
'Jacobean historical tragedy in verse. Chronicle play about Perkin Warbeck, pretender to English throne during reign of Henry VII.' Title: Petty Bourgeois, The in - Five Plays / COL Author: Gorky, Maxim translated by Margaret Wettlin Publisher: Foreign Languages 1956
Description:
roy Russian - drama - family relations fifteen characters eight male; seven female four acts
1 interior; setting: a small provincial town.
"This indictment of 19th century Russian middle class Philistinism revolves around family bitter over lack of understanding between parents and grown children."
Title: Pillar of Sand in - Three Plays by Eric Nicol / CCO Author: Nicol, Eric Publisher: Talonbooks 1975
Description:
roy Canadian - drama twelve characters; extras ten male; two female two acts
"Spirit meets intellect in a debate between a Christian Saint and a Roman soldier."
Title: Pillars of Society in - Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Rolf Fjelde Publisher: New American Library 1978
Description:
roy melodrama nineteen characters ten male; nine female four acts
1 interior set.
"Bernick, the genial philanthropist and supposed model for the community, is in reality dishonest in thought, hypocritical in action, murderous in will. His deeper nature is so stirred by the discovery that his son would have been lost at sea if the unseaworthy vessel had sailed, that he confesses his sins. The only pillars of society are truth and freedom." Title: Pillars of Society in - Hedda Gabler and Other Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Una Ellis-Fermor Publisher: Penguin Books 1965
Description:
roy melodrama nineteen characters ten male; nine female four acts
1 interior set.
"Bernick, the genial philanthropist and supposed model for the community, is in reality dishonest in thought, hypocritical in action, murderous in will. His deeper nature is so stirred by the discovery that his son would have been lost at sea if the unseaworthy vessel had sailed, that he confesses his sins. The only pillars of society are truth and freedom."
Title: Place de l'Etoile, La in - Modern French Theatre / COL Author: Desnos, Robert translated by Michael Benedikt Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1966
Description:
roy avant-garde drama large cast; extras flexible casting nine acts
'Avante-garde drama. Fantasy about man who has passion for collecting starfish.'
Title: Playing Double (Double Jeu) in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO Author: Loranger, Francoise translated by Louise H. Forsyth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama fourteen characters eight male; six female two acts
A play of protest against the stultifying impact on individuals and society of unexamined conformity to received ideas and conservative values. A group of adult night school students improvise on a short text previously handed out by their teacher. Title: Playing For Time in - A Terrible Truth v. 2 / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Fenelon, Fania Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - holocaust - World War II twenty-two characters; extras four male; eighteen female two acts
A harsh play set during World War II in the Auschwitz / Binkenau concentration camp where women play in an orchestra in exchange for their lives. Tania Tenelon, a French singer, is sought after to liven up a monotonous-sounding orchestra, along with her young friend Marianne, who will do anything with the male officers for food. They are at first glad to be saved, but humiliation and grossness set in when they are called to play for Jews being sent to the gas chamber. Alma Rose is the harsh orchestra director who tries to break Tania from her emotional ties, but it is all
Title: Plough And The Stars in - Three Plays / COL Author: O'Casey, Sean Publisher: MacMillan 1969
Description:
roy tragedy sixteen characters ten male; six female three acts
4 sets.
A portrayal of the Irish Rebellion during Easter Week of 1916 centering around its effects on the tenants of a house that is in the middle of it all.
Title: Poe - Quoth the Raven...Nevermore in - Edgar Allan Poe Live On-Stage / COL Author: Ballantyne, Jr., J. E. Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - biography - horror large cast twelve male; four female; two boys (doubling) two acts
numerous simple interiors.
"Poe tells the life story of American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. Scenes from specific points and moments in his life combined with dramatic presentations of some of his most well known stories which is capped off at the end with a full cast staged reading of The Raven. Perfect Halloween entertainment." - J&B Theatrical Promotions Title: Poison Tree, The in - Five Plays by Ronald Ribman / COL Author: Ribman, Ronald Publisher: Avon Books 1978
Description:
roy drama - prison all male cast; thirteen characters thirteen male two acts
6 interiors; 1 exterior.
A young inmate up for parole commits suicide. A look at prison life from the black point of view.
Title: Poor Bride, The in - Masterpieces of the Russian Drama Vol. 1 / COL Author: Ostrovsky, Alexander translated by J.L. Seymour and G.R. Noyes Publisher: Dover Publications 1961
Description:
roy drama - family relations fourteen characters six male; eight female five acts
'Russia. Girl sacrifices herself for mother by loveless marriage to drunken, dissolute official.'
Title: Poor of New York, The in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Boucicault, Dion Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy melodrama thirteen characters nine male; four female five acts
representative set.
An evil banker steals a captain's legacy to his wife and daughter, forcing them into poverty until the wealthy young hero saves the day. Title: Poor Relation, The in - Prism International / COL Author: Barlach, Ernst Publisher: University of British Columbia 1968
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters; extras ten male; four female five acts
No abstract available.
Title: Porgy in - Theatre Guild Anthology / COL Author: Heyward, Dubose Publisher: Random House 1936
Description:
roy drama twenty-four characters; extras eighteen male; six female four acts
1 interior; 2 exteriors.
"Negro folk-drama based on the novel by Du Bose Heyward. Musical background. Base for Musical - 'Porgy and Bess'. Semi - autobiographical."
Title: Portrait of Angelica in - Portrait of Angelica; A Letter to My Son / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Penguin Books 1966
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - immigration twenty-four characters; chorus ten male; ten female; four girls two acts
"A 'ballad play' set in a small Mexican town, and follows the interaction between Mexicans and a group of Canadian tourists. At its core is a portrait of a culture that, unlike our own, 'has withstood a thousand hurricanes.'" Title: Portrait of Angelica, A in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - immigration twenty-four characters; chorus ten male; ten female; four girls two acts
A 'ballad play' set in a small Mexican town, and follows the interaction between Mexicans and a group of Canadian tourists. At its core is a portrait of a culture that, unlike our own, 'has withstood a thousand hurricanes.'
Title: Pot of Gold, The in - Mirrors for Man / COL Author: Plautus translated by Paul Nixon Publisher: Winthrop Publishers 1974
Description:
roy drama - ancient Rome eleven characters, extras nine male, two female five acts
"A miserly old man named Euclio, on finding a pot full of treasure buried within his house, hides it away again in the ground, and keeps watch over it. His daughter has been wronged by Lyconides. Meanwhile an old gentleman, one Megadorus, asks the mise for his daughter's hand. The miser consents, and, fearing for his pot, takes it from the house and hides it in one place after another. The servant of this Luconides plots against the miser and Lyconides himself entreats his uncle, Megadorus, to give up the girl, and let him marry her. After a time Euclio, who
Title: Pot of Gold, The (Aulularia) in - The Pot of Gold and Other Plays / COL Author: Plautus translated by E. F. Watling Publisher: Penguin Books 1968
Description:
roy drama - Ancient Rome eleven characters, extras nine male, two female five acts
"A miserly old man named Euclio, on finding a pot full of treasure buried within his house, hides it away again in the ground, and keeps watch over it. His daughter has been wronged by Lyconides. Meanwhile an old gentleman, one Megadorus, asks the mise for his daughter's hand. The miser consents, and, fearing for his pot, takes it from the house and hides it in one place after another. The servant of this Luconides plots against the miser and Lyconides himself entreats his uncle, Megadorus, to give up the girl, and let him marry her. After a time Euclio, who Title: Potting Shed, The in - The Collected Plays of Graham Greene / COL Author: Greene, Graham Publisher: Penguin Books 1985
Description:
roy drama - family relations - death eleven characters six male; five female three acts
A young man did something in the potting shed when he was fourteen years old which makes him quite the pariah to his own family in this melodrama. Although his father is on his deathbed, the mother will not allow her son to see him. The boy's mind is a blank, and his mother refuses to tell him what he did. With the help of his uncle, a pastor, the son finally pieces together the truth about that dark event.
Title: Power of Darkness, The in - Masterpieces of the Russian Drama Vol. 2 / COL Author: Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich (Leo) translated by G. Z. Patrick and G.R. Noyes Publisher: Dover Publications 1961
Description:
roy tragedy twenty-two characters; extras eleven male; ten female; one girl five acts
'Tragedy set in 19th century Russia. Driven by conscience, peasant repents and confesses crimes of seduction and murder.'
Title: Power of Darkness, The in - Great Russian Plays / COL Author: Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich (Leo) translated by G.R. Noyes & G. Z. Patrick Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1967
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - Russian twenty-one characters thirteen male; seven female; one girl five acts
2 interior and 3 exterior sets.
"A peasant farmhand, Nikita, has wronged an orphan girl Marina, has caused a wife to murder her husband so as to marry him, and has taken his wife's young step-daughter as his mistress. When she gives birth to a child, Nikita, urged on by his evil-spirited mother, kills the baby by crushing it with a board in the barn. Haunted by the baby's cries, he takes to drink and tries to kill himself; Title: Power of Darkness, The in - A Treasury of the Theatre Volume 2 / COL Author: Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich (Leo) translated by G.R. Noyes & G. Z. Patrick Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1963
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - Russian twenty-one characters thirteen male; seven female; one girl five acts
2 interior and 3 exterior sets.
"A peasant farmhand, Nikita, has wronged an orphan girl Marina, has caused a wife to murder her husband so as to marry him, and has taken his wife's young step-daughter as his mistress. When she gives birth to a child, Nikita, urged on by his evil-spirited mother, kills the baby by crushing it with a board in the barn. Haunted by the baby's cries, he takes to drink and tries to kill himself;
Title: Prince of Homburg, The in - The Classic Theatre: Volume II / COL Author: Kleist, Heinrich von translated by James Kirkup Publisher: Doubleday 1959
Description:
roy German - classic - historical - drama - verse play - war fifteen characters; extras thirteen male; two female five acts
6 interiors, 3 exteriors.
"Mainly concerns the Prince of Homburg's fate in relation to Prussian ideals of heroism, discipline and courage in warfare."
Title: Professor Storitsyn in - Masterpieces of the Russian Drama Vol. 2 / COL Author: Andreyev, Leonid translated by I. Minkoff, G.R.Noyes and A. Kaun Publisher: Dover Publications 1961
Description:
roy tragedy twelve characters eight male; four female four acts
'Professor, respected for scholarship, ignores realities, is deserted by wife, and scorned by sons.' Title: Progress to the Park in - New English Dramatists 5 / COL Author: Owen, Alun Publisher: Penguin Books 1961
Description:
roy drama twenty-two characters sixteen male; six female two acts
"Progress to the Park is superficially a Romeo and Juliet story of young lovers torn apart by the religious antagonisms of middle-aged Papes and Prods in working-class Liverpool."
Title: Public Enemy, A in - Ghosts and Other plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Peter Watts Publisher: Penguin Books 1964
Description:
roy drama eleven characters; extras seven male; two female; two boys five acts
"The town in which the play is set has built a huge bathing complex that is crucial to the town's economy. Dr. Stockmann has just discovered that the baths' drainage system is seriously contaminated. He alerts several members of the community, including Hovstad and Aslaksen, and receives generous support and thanks for making his discovery in time to save the town. The next morning, however, his brother, who is also the town's mayor, tells him that he must retract his statements, for the necessary repairs would be too expensive; additionally, the mayor is not
Title: Pushkin in - New Canadian Drama I / CCO Author: Jonas, George Publisher: Borealis Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - historical - Pushkin - biography fifteen characters; extras ten male; five female three acts
Based entirely on the facts of Pushkin's life. "Russia's great poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) was descended from an African by the name of Hannibal, who was brought to Russia as a child from Ethiopia, and rose to become and officer in the army of Peter the Great. Pushkin had a fierce pride in his black ancestry. Great-grandfather Hannibal was a brilliant and willful man, and Pushkin inherited - along with his feature and complexion - his talent, his independent spirit and his violent temper." Title: Puzzle in - The Theatre of Sabina Berman / COL Author: Berman, Sabina translated by Adam Versenyi Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - Leon Trotsky - assassination - historical - Mexico large cast flexible casting three acts
In Puzzle, Berman explores the conundrum behind Leon Trotsky's death by assassination in Mexico in 1940. In the course of the play the actual assassination is reenacted twice, each time with different emphases and explanation for the events that take place.
Title: Quare Fellow, The in - Landmarks of Irish Drama / COL Author: Behan, Brendan Publisher: Methuen 1988
Description:
roy comedy - drama - Irish - capital punishment all male cast; twenty-two characters twenty-two male three acts
1 interior, 1 exterior; singing.
Comedy drama set in Dublin prison the day before scheduled hanging makes case for abolition of capital punishment.
Title: Quebec, Spring 1918 in - Canadian Theatre Review No 28, Fall 1980 / PER Author: Provencher, Jean LaChance, Gilles Publisher: Miscellaneous 1980
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical fiction twenty-four characters nineteen male; five female two acts
Description not available. Title: Queen and the Rebels, The in - Three Plays by Ugo Betti / COL Author: Betti, Ugo Publisher: Grove Press 1956
Description:
roy drama ten characters; extras seven male; three female four acts
'Symbolism. During revolution woman lets police think she is the hunted Queen, while real Queen suffers from fear.'
Title: Queen and the Rebels, The in - Three European Plays / COL Author: Betti, Ugo translated by Henry Reed Publisher: Penguin Books 1956
Description:
roy drama ten characters; extras seven male; three female four acts
'Symbolism. During revolution woman lets police think she is the hunted Queen, while real Queen suffers from fear.'
Title: R. U. R. in - R. U. R. and The Insect Play / COL Author: Capek, Karel translated by P. Selver Publisher: Oxford University Press 1961
Description:
roy fantasy - robots thirteen characters nine male; four female three acts
"Robots revolt against human masters." Title: R. U. R. in - A Treasury of the Theatre Volume 2 / COL Author: Capek, Karel translated by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1963
Description:
roy fantasy - robots thirteen characters nine male; four female three acts
"Robots revolt against human masters."
Title: R. U. R. in - Masterpieces of the Central European Theatre / COL Author: Capek, Karel Publisher: Collier Books 1967
Description:
roy drama - fantasy thirteen characters; extras ten male; three female three acts
1 set.
The administrators of the central office of a robot factory overextend their experiments and productions of robots to the point that the robots take over the world.
Title: Rain From Heaven in - Theatre Guild Anthology / COL Author: Behrman, S. N. Publisher: Random House 1936
Description:
roy drama ten characters six male; four female three acts
1 interior set.
An English aristocrat opens her home to friends and refugees of various political and social backgrounds and the group invariably clashes. Title: Rain-Killers, The in - Plays from Black Africa / COL Author: Hutchinson, Alfred Publisher: Hill and Wang 1968
Description:
roy tragedy - Africa twenty-nine characters; extras eighteen male; ten female; one boy four acts
South African village plagued by personal feuds and conflict of modern Christianity with superstitious native traditions.
Title: Red Roses for Me in - Three More Plays by Sean O'Casey / COL Author: O'Casey, Sean Publisher: MacMillan 1965
Description:
roy tragedy - symbolic play - Irish play twenty-one characters sixteen male; five female four acts
1 interior and 1 exterior; songs.
"Tragedy symbolizing Ireland torn by religious and political strife. Dublin during 1913 strike."
Title: Resounding Tinkle, A in - New English Dramatists 2 / COL Author: Simpson, N. F. Publisher: Penguin Books 1960
Description:
roy drama ten characters; extras six male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
No abstract available. Title: Reunion In Vienna in - Theatre Guild Anthology / COL Author: Sherwood, Robert E. Publisher: Random House 1936
Description:
roy drama thirty characters twenty-three male; seven female three acts
2 interior sets.
The Archduke of Austria, now a taxi driver in Nice, attends a reunion party in Vienna of members of the fallen Hapsburg Empire and hopes to find his ex-mistress there so that they can resume their affair. The ex-mistress, however, is happily married to a Viennese psychoanalyst and the reunion serves to sever the past for the Archduke and the mistress.
Title: Reverend Griffith Davenport, The in - America's Lost Plays / COL Author: Herne, James A. Publisher: Indiana University Press 1964
Description:
roy drama - American history - slavery forty-one characters twenty-eight male; thirteen female; three children five acts
A condensation of the play, based on a novel. One man's internal and external battles with slavery at the time of Abraham Lincoln's first election victory.
Title: Rhythm of Violence, The in - Plays from Black Africa / COL Author: Nkosi, Lewis Publisher: Hill and Wang 1968
Description:
roy drama - Apartheid eleven characters seven male; four female three acts
Johannesburg in the early 60's is scene of Kaffir protest against apartheid, in form of plot to blow up City Hall as National Party is scheduled to meet. Title: Richard II in - Histories: William Shakespeare / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Collins 1966
Description:
roy tragedy - historical - verse play twenty-five characters; extras twenty-two male; three female five acts
"Historical tragedy set in England in 14th century. Study of the downfall of the weak, vacillating English monarch."
Title: Richard III in - Histories: William Shakespeare / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: New American Library 1966
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - historical thirty nine characters; numerous extras thirty-four male; five female five acts
"Richard III is essentially a melodrama with the spectator's interest centered upon the arch-villainy of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, whose Machiavellian scheming at last gains for him the crown. Richard's wickedness is so complete, and he is so perfect in his role, that the spectator watches with morbid fascination as his misdeeds follow in logical sequence."
Title: Richard of Bordeaux in - Penguin Plays / COL Author: Daviot, Gordon Publisher: Penguin Books 1958
Description:
roy drama - historical⌦large cast flexible casting two parts
"The Black Prince, son of Edward III, who died before his father, had a son Richard, born at Bordeaux. In 1377, at the age of ten, he became Richard II of England, and is eighteen when the play opens. His uncles, the Dukes of Lancaster (John of Gaunt), York and Gloucester, are opposed to his ideals and his foreign policy, and are trying to control him in Parliament." Title: Riel in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 4 / CCO Author: Paquin, Elzear Publisher: CTR Publications 1982
Description:
roy Quebec - historical - drama - Metis - Canadian seventeen characters; extras fourteen male; three female four acts
"Paquin surveys the causes of the Riel Rebellion and its eventual outcome on a much greater scope. The drama quickly establishes the superiority of Metis culture over that of the native Indians settling their land for lard, flour and whiskey in the first act. The civilizing influence of Christianity is depicted through the figure of Father Andre resulting in the productive hunting and farming life of the Metis and their 'villages and cities dominated by the steeples of our churches'. Inspired by Riel, Goulet and Parisien express the Metis determination to resist the arrogance and
Title: Riel in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Coulter, John Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - Metis thirty-nine characters thirty-six male; three female two parts
19 century costumes; music.
'Set in the Canadian Northwest in the late 1800's, a historical reconstruction of Louis Reil's role as rebel leader of the Metis, people of both European and Indian descent.'
Title: Riel in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Coulter, John Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - Metis thirty-nine characters thirty-six male; three female two parts
19 century costumes; music.
'Set in the Canadian Northwest in the late 1800's, a historical reconstruction of Louis Reil's role as rebel leader of the Metis, people of both European and Indian descent.' Title: Right You Are (If You Think You Are) in - Collected Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Bruce Penman Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1987
Description:
roy drama - Italian sixteen characters; extras nine male; seven female three acts
also known as 'Cosi è, se ui pare'; 2 interiors.
'A man and his mother-in-law tell conflicting stories about their respective wife and daughter. Audience has to decide which is illusion and which is reality.' - Play Index
Title: Right You Are! (If You Think So) in - Right You Are! (If You Think So) & Other Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Frederick May Publisher: Penguin Books 1962
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters; extras nine male; seven female three acts
2 interiors.
"A man and his mother-in-law tell conflicting stories about their respective wife and daughter. Audience has to decide which is illusion and which is reality."
Title: Rip Van Winkle in - Nineteenth Century American Plays / COL Author: Jefferson, Joseph Boucicault, Dion Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
Description:
roy drama - fantasy twelve characters; extras seven male; three female; one boy; one girl four acts
Amiable sot wanders off into Catskills, drinks magic brew, and wakes up twenty years later to find the world much changed and his wife and daughter in need of rescue. Based on a story by Washington Irving. Title: Ritual in Blood in - Steven Berkoff: Plays Three / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: Faber and Faber 2000
Description:
roy drama - British theatre large cast flexible casting two acts
13th century England.
"Ritual in Blood looks at the persecution of the Jews and, by implication, the persecution of all peoples. One small incident frighteningly escalates and mob hatred is formented by the cool cynicism of the moneyed classes."
Title: Rivals, The in - Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century / COL Author: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Publisher: Modern Library 1960
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters nine male; five female five acts
5 interior and 4 exterior sets.
"A country squire, Bob Acres, is a willing rival to Capt. Jack Absolute for the hand of a romantic young lady, Lydia Languish. She wants to elope with Ensign Beverly, the lower rank which Capt. Jack assumes to win her. A duel is arranged, but when Acres finds that Beverly is his friend Capt. Jack, he calls the match off and relinquishes all claims to Lydia. Her aunt, Mrs. Malaprop, has
Title: Rivals, The in - Classic Theatre: The Humanities in Drama / COL Author: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1975
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters nine male; five female five acts
5 interior and 4 exterior sets.
"A country squire, Bob Acres, is a willing rival to Capt. Jack Absolute for the hand of a romantic young lady, Lydia Languish. She wants to elope with Ensign Beverly, the lower rank which Capt. Jack assumes to win her. A duel is arranged, but when Acres finds that Beverly is his friend Capt. Jack, he calls the match off and relinquishes all claims to Lydia. Her aunt, Mrs. Malaprop, has Title: River Niger, The in - The Tony Winners / COL Author: Walker, Joseph Publisher: Doubleday 1977
Description:
roy drama - black play eleven characters; extras eight male; three female three acts
1 interior; background bass music.
"Domestic drama set in Harlem. Tensions between generations, confrontations of social philosophy, and eventual tragedy develop within a black family when idealistic and thoughtful son returns from military service to face his militant neighborhood friends."
Title: Road Weeps, the Well Runs Dry, The in - The Methune Drama Book of New American Plays / COL Author: Gardley, Marcus Publisher: Methuen Drama 2013
Description:
roy drama - black history seventeen characters seven male; four female (doubling) two acts; prologue
Surviving centuries of slavery, revolts and The Trail of Tears, a community of self-proclaimed Freemen (Black Seminoles and people of mixed origins) incorporate the first all-black U.S. town in Wewoka, Oklahoma. But the very foundations of the town are rocked when the new religion and the old way come head to head, their former enslavers arrive to imprison them and the leader of the Freemen makes use of his brilliant, burning immortality.
Title: Rogue of Seville, The in - Spanish Drama / COL Author: Molina, Tirso de translated by Robert O'Neill Publisher: Bantam Books 1962
Description:
nonroy drama - Spanish plays ten characters; extras ten male; two female three acts
The first stage appearance of 'one of the most demonic and ubiquitous characters in world literature: Don Juan.' Title: Rokumeikan, The in - My Friend Hitler and other plays of Yukio Mishima / COL Author: Yukio, Mishima Publisher: Columbia University Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - historical - Japan - tragedy large cast flexible casting four acts
On 3 November 1886, the Emperor's birthday, a ball is to be held at the Rokumeikan, or Deer Cry Hall, in Tokyo. The guests include many foreign dignitaries. However, anti-government extremists are planning to crash the party.
Title: Rome in - Collected Plays Volume 2 (Howard Barker) / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: Calder and Boyars 1993
Description:
roy drama large cast flexible casting two parts
'Dramatic meditation on siege, pride, and sacrifice comprised of interwoven narratives, interludes, and digressions.'
Title: Romeo and Juliet in - Romeo and Juliet & West Side Story / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1965
Description:
roy Shakespeare - tragedy twenty-five characters; extras twenty-one male; four female five acts
"Lovers, separated by feuding families, commit suicide." Title: Romeo And Juliet in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy Shakespeare - tragedy twenty-five characters; extras twenty-one male; four female five acts
"Lovers, separated by feuding families, commit suicide."
Title: Ronde, La in - Masterpieces of the Central European Theatre / COL Author: Schnitzler, Arthur translated by Carl Richard Mueller Publisher: Collier Books 1967
Description:
roy scenes - dialogues - drama - romance ten characters five male; five female ten scenes
Same as: Merry-Go-Round; Round Dance
This collection contains: - The Whore and the Soldier - The Soldier and the Parlor Maid - The Parlor Maid and the Young Gentleman - The Young Gentleman and the Young Wife - The Young Wife and the Husband - The Husband and the Little Miss - The Little Miss and the Poet - The Poet and the Actress - The Actress and the Count - The Count and the Whore
Title: Rose Tattoo, The in - The Tony Winners / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Doubleday 1977
Description:
roy drama twenty-three characters nine male; fourteen female two acts
1 set.
A young widow still carries her all-consuming passion for her husband three years after his death but the revelation that her husband had a mistress turns the widow back to normal living. Title: Rose Tattoo, The in - Three by Tennessee / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New American Library 1976
Description:
roy drama twenty-three characters nine male; fourteen female two acts
1 set.
A young widow still carries her all-consuming passion for her husband three years after his death but the revelation that her husband had a mistress turns the widow back to normal living.
Title: Ross in - Plays of the Sixties / COL Author: Rattigan, Terence Publisher: Pan Books 1966
Description:
roy war - biography all male cast; twenty-two characters twenty-two male two acts
background music; 3 interiors; 3 exteriors.
As Ross, Lawrence of Arabia seeks anonymity in R. A. F. Flashbacks to 1916-1918 campaigns.
Title: Roswell in - New Canadian Drama 8 - Speculative Drama / CCO Author: Barton, Bruce Publisher: Borealis Press
Description:
roy Canadian - drama large cast flexible casting two acts
Description not available. Title: Royal Hunt of the Sun, The in - Plays of the Sixties / COL Author: Shaffer, Peter Publisher: Pan Books 1966
Description:
roy drama - historical up to twenty-five characters; extras twenty-two male; two female two acts
representative set; requires highly technical staging.
An interpretation of the conquest of the Incas of Peru by the Spanish Conquistadors.
Title: Royal Hunt Of The Sun, The in - On Stage 3 / COL Author: Shaffer, Peter Publisher: Globe/Modern Curriculum Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - historical up to twenty-five characters; extras twenty-two male; two female two acts
representative set; requires highly technical staging.
An interpretation of the conquest of the Incas of Peru by the Spanish Conquistadors.
Title: Royal Slave, A in - America's Lost Plays / COL Author: Bennett, Clarence Publisher: Indiana University Press 1964
Description:
roy melodrama eleven characters; extras eight male; three female five acts
"Mexican, about to marry the Countess' 'daughter' turns out to be the thief of the family's hidden treasure." Title: Sad are the Eyes of William Tell in - The New Wave Spanish Drama / COL Author: Sastre, Alfonso translated by Leonard C. Pronko Publisher: New York University 1970
Description:
roy political allegory seventeen characters; extras fifteen male; two female seven scenes
'Political allegory in which William Tell kills his son and and people rise up and overthrow dictator who had ordered Tell to shoot at apple on son's head.'
Title: Saint Joan in - Bernard Shaw's Plays / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company 1970
Description:
roy drama - historical twenty-six characters twenty-four male; two female six acts
Pictures the Maid of Orleans in successive episodes of her life of faith and disillusionment; before Baudrecourt, at the Dauphin's court, her victory of Orleans, the crowning at Rheims, her trial before judges who have fanatic faith in their system. Twenty-five years later her sentence is reversed by Charles VII. The epilog takes place in 1920 when she is canonized.
Title: Saint Joan in - Bernard Shaw Selected Plays / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1981
Description:
roy drama - historical twenty-six characters twenty-four male; two female six acts
6 interior and 1 exterior set.
"Pictures the Maid of Orleans in successive episodes of her life of faith and disillusionment: before Baudrecourt, at the Dauphin's court, her victory of Orleans, the crowning at Rheims, her trial before judges who have fanatic faith in their system. Twenty-five years later her sentence is reversed by Charles VII. The epilog takes place in 1920 when she is canonized." Title: Saint Joan in - Nine Plays by Bernard Shaw / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1935
Description:
roy drama - historical twenty-six characters twenty-four male; two female six acts
6 interior and 1 exterior set.
"Joan's rise to fame, inquisitorial trial and burning as heretic. Epilogue concerns 1456 rehabilitation, 1920 canonization and unwillingness of world to accept a live saint."
Title: Saint Joan in - Theatre Guild Anthology / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Random House 1936
Description:
roy drama - historical twenty-six characters twenty-four male; two female six acts
Pictures the Maid of Orleans in successive episodes of her life of faith and disillusionment; before Baudrecourt, at the Dauphin's court, her victory of Orleans, the crowning at Rheims, her trial before judges who have fanatic faith in their system. Twenty-five years later her sentence is reversed by Charles VII. The epilog takes place in 1920 when she is canonized.
Title: Saint Joan of the Stockyards in - Avant-Garde Drama: Major Plays and Documents Post World War I / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt Publisher: Bantam Books 1969
Description:
roy drama large cast flexible casting eleven scenes
4 interiors and 8 exteriors; speaking and singing chorus.
Anti-capitalist play, partly in verse, involving business manipulation and industrial strife in Chicago stock-days and ill-fated attempt by religious salvationist turned social reformer to aid workers. Title: Sammy's Follies : A Criminal Comedy in - A Terrible Truth v. 1 / COL Author: Lion, Eugene Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy dark comedy - holocaust - World War II fourteen characters thirteen male; one female three acts
No description available.
Title: Santiago in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 1 - The Nineteenth Century / CCO Author: Bush, Thomas Publisher: CTR Publications 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - drama twenty-four characters; extras twenty-one male; three female five acts
"...presents a serious attack on various forms of evil in the world, particularly breaches of faith and idolatry, with a warning that such transgressions are ultimately punished. The 'storm-ridden realm' we see in the drama, although given a note of contemporary realism by its association with the South American conflagration, is primarily a fictional world which serves as an instructional analogue to the real world of the time. This world is ruled by forces of evil - theft, murder, greed, insolent pride, blasphemy, idolatry and lack of faith are among the vices portrayed. But in Bush's
Title: Santos and Santos in - Plays by Octavio Solis / COL Author: Solis, Octavio Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 2006
Description:
roy drama - crime thirteen characters eight male; five female three acts
Tomas returns to El Paso to find his attorney brothers are deeply in bed with narcotics smuggling. He is torn between honoring the code of his Latino family and the code of American justice. Title: Saturday Night / Sunday Morning in - Plays: 1 / COL Author: Hall, Katori Publisher: Methuen 2011
Description:
roy drama - African-American ten characters two male; eight female (doubling possible) two acts
Set in a Memphis beauty shop/boarding house during the final days of WWII, a group of African American women struggle with the heartbreak of losing their men to the war and with the uncertainty of what the future may hold when - and if - their soldiers return. Rich with humor and history, it is a story about friendship and finding love in unexpected places.
Title: Savage Season, The (Le Temps sauvage) in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO Author: Hebert, Anne translated by Pamela Grant and Gregory Reid Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama ten characters three male; six female; one boy three acts
A mothers vain attempt to shield her children from the outside world.
Title: Scenes from the New World in - Notes from Underground and Scenes from the New World / COL Author: Bogosian, Eric Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1997
Description:
roy drama - one acts twenty characters; doubling possible fourteen male; six female three acts
A full length drama composed of three one-act plays - probes modern life on the eve of the millenium. Title: School for Scandal, The in - Mirrors for Man / COL Author: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Publisher: Winthrop Publishers 1974
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters twelve male; four female five acts
"Young Lady Teazle, married to older Sir Peter but quarreling with him, joins the scandal-mongers: Sir Benjamin Backbite, Lady Sneerwell and Mrs. Candour in their discussions of London high society. The two brothers, Joseph and Charles Surface, are contrasted: Joseph is hypocritical and making advances to Lady Teazle; Charles is good-natured but extravagant. When their uncle Sir Oliver returns from India and poses as needing help, Joseph refuses, alleging the stinginess of his rich uncle; Charles is willing to help by selling the family portraits, all save the
Title: Sea Gull, The in - Seeds of Modern Drama / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by Robert W. Corrigan Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1963
Description:
roy tragedy thirteen characters seven male; six female four acts
2 interiors; 2 exteriors.
Tragic outcome of young actress' love for selfish playwright.
Title: Seagull, The in - Plays Four / COL Author: Stoppard, Tom Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Publisher: Faber and Faber 1999
Description:
roy drama twelve characters seven male; five female four acts
"The Seagull, a spectacular failure on its first appearance, was the play that, on its second, established Anton Chekhov as an important and revolutionary dramatist. Here, amid the weariness of life in the country, the famous actress Arkadina presides over a household riven with desperate love, with dreams of success and dread of failure. It is her son, Konstantin, who one day shoots a seagull; it is the novelist Trigorin who will one day write the story of the seagull so casually killed; but it is Nina, the seagull herself, whose life to come will rewrite the story." Title: Searching Wind, The in - The Collected Plays Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1971
Description:
roy drama - World War II fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
"A probe into the people and events that brought on World War II, set in 1944 with flashbacks to Rome of 1922, Berlin of 1923, and Paris of 1938). Through these events we experience the lives of an American family made up of a former liberal journalist grandfather who stands aside and mocks; a father, who works for the State Department and compromises; a mother, who hobnobs with the European socially elite who play every end against the middle; and a son, whose leg is being amputated following combat in Italy. It is the son who exposes the appeasers and
Title: Sejanus in - Jonson - Three Plays Vol. 2 / COL Author: Jonson, Ben Publisher: Hill and Wang 1966
Description:
roy tragedy; verse play thirty-four characters; extras thirty-one male; three female five acts
'Jacobean tragedy of high treason in Rome during reign of Emperor Tiberius. Sejanus comes to violent end when Emperor discovers his plot to usurp the throne.'
Title: Selkirk Avenue in - Canadian Theatre Review No.66, Spring 1991 / PER Author: McManus, Bruce Publisher: Miscellaneous 1991
Description:
roy drama - American - minorities eleven characters three male; eight female two acts
"McManus has crafted a story whose broad reach is matched by its sure grasp. The history of Selkirk Avenue as a haven-cum-springboard for successive minorities is told in a complex but comprehensible and emotionally irresistible tale that winds back and forth through the 30's, 50's and the present." Title: Servant of Two Masters, The in - Plays for the Theatre (8th ed.) / COL Author: Dent, Edward J. Goldoni, Carlo Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 2004
Description:
roy drama - family drama - family relations - murder thirteen characters; nine male; four female two acts
Pantalone, a rich Venetian merchant, had arranged the betrothal of his daughter to the wealthy Federigo Rasponi of Turin whom he had never met. On learning of the death of Federigo in a duel Pantalone has reluctantly agreed to the betrothal of Clarice to Silvio, the son of his friend Doctor Lombardi. This is where the play opens--with the betrothal of Clarice and Silvio and its interruption by the arrival of Beatrice Rasponi disguised as her brother Federigo...
Title: Seven Lears: The Pursuit of the Good in - Seven Lears/Golgo / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1990
Description:
roy drama - tragedy twenty-three characters; chorus eighteen male; five female two parts
"Howard Barker's speculation on the history of King Lear prior to the events of Shakespeare's play takes as its subject the relations between a monarch of an acutely philosophical disposition and a wife whose commitment to honesty, morality and conscience leads to a catastrophic denouement. This also is a tragedy, but in keeping with Barker's practice as a dramatist, it is a tragedy without reconciliation and a preparation for further pain. The silence surrounding the mother of Lear's daughters in Shakespeare is interpreted as collusion and one which involves the entire range of
Title: Shadow, The in - An Anthology of Russian Plays: Volume II 1890-1960 / COL Author: Shvarts, Evgeny Lvovich Publisher: Vintage Books 1963
Description:
roy drama - fairy tales⌦large cast flexible casting three acts
"In 'The Shadow,' the hero knows that his life follows the plot of Andersen’s tale 'The Shadow,' in which the hero’s romantic idealism is destroyed by the cynicism of his worldly shadow or double. He attempts to change the outcome of the Andersen tale and maintain his idealism, while his shadow attempts to reenact the Andersen plot." - eNotes.com Title: Shenandoah in - Nineteenth Century American Plays / COL Author: Howard, Bronson Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
Description:
roy drama - romance twenty-one characters fourteen male; seven female four acts
2 interiors; 1 exterior.
Sentimental drama of Northern officer and his Southern sweetheart during the Civil War.
Title: Sheppey in - W. Somerset Maugham: Selected Plays / COL Author: Maugham, W. Somerset Publisher: Penguin Books 1963
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters ten male; six female three acts
The scene is Bradley's Hairdressing and Barber's Saloon in Jermyn Street. Description not available.
Title: Sheppey in - Plays: One - W. Somerset Maugham / COL Author: Maugham, W. Somerset Publisher: Methuen Drama 1997
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters ten male; six female three acts
Sheppey is the story of a hardworking hairdresser who generally considers himself to be a lucky man and then has that self-belief proved when he wins a considerable sum of money. Title: Shoemakers, The in - The Madman and the Nun and Other Plays / COL Author: Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy translated by D.C. Gerould and C.S. Durer Publisher: University of Washington Press 1968
Description:
roy drama ten characters; extras nine male; one female three acts
'The use of philosophical tirades, invented obscenities, and ironic parodies in an orgy of lust, madness, and cruelty to portray end of Western civilization.'
Title: Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat in - Ravenhill Plays:3 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Publisher: Bloomsbury 2013
Description:
roy drama - war - monologues - relationships large cast flexible casting eighteen parts
Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is an epic cycle of 16 short plays examining the personal and political effect of war on modern life. Each of the plays is named after an existing classical work as Ravenhill stages the intensity of individual pain against a glimpsed vast narrative of conflict. A child talks to a headless man, a woman is afflicted with mysterious intestinal pain, a couple talk about their garden bench, a soldier demands love from a woman whose country he has liberated.
Title: Shooting Magda (The Palestinian Girl) in - Modern Jewish Plays / CCO Author: Sobol, Joshua translated by Miriam Shlesinger Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama ten characters; singer seven male; four female three acts
The line between fact and fiction blurs during this marathon shooting of a film by Israeli and Palestinian artists. Title: Short Sharp Shock! in - Thirteenth Night & A Short Sharp Shock! / COL Author: Brenton, Howard Howard, Tony Publisher: Methuen 1981
Description:
roy experimental Play sixteen characters thirteen male; three female two acts
4 interiors; 3 exteriors.
"Experimental theatre portrays opposition of British Labour Party members to rule of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher."
Title: Siege of Numantia, The in - The Classic Theatre Volume III: Six Spanish Plays / COL Author: Cervantes, Miguel de translated by Roy Campbell Publisher: Doubleday 1959
Description:
roy drama - Spanish plays sixty characters forty-three male; seven female; nine boys; one girl four acts
When the Roman Senate resolved to destroy Carthage ("Delenda est Carthago!") the general to whom the operation was entrusted was Scipio, thereupon surnamed Africanus. A second surname, Numantinus, was accorded him by the Senate when in the year 134 B.C. he wrought the downfall of Numantia in Spain.
Title: Silence! The Court is in Session in - Collected Plays in Translation / COL Author: Tendulkar, Vijay Translated by Priya Adarkar Publisher: Oxford University Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - East Indian ten characters; extras eight male; two female three acts
"Performers come down to a village to screen a play on President Johnson's atomic expansion. To kill time, they decide to stage a mock court-session to educate a villager who is to take on a bit role in the play. Seizing the mock court as an excuse, the actors slyly trap a lead lady character as an accused in the trial. Under the garb of doing the play, they proceed to probe into her past and cast their judgment on her conduct. The play explores a world where the only virtue recognized is conformance. If not in a position to ensure conformance of members, society reacts strongly by Title: Silver Tassie, The in - Three More Plays by Sean O'Casey / COL Author: O'Casey, Sean Publisher: MacMillan 1965
Description:
roy drama - Irish play twenty-three characters eighteen male; five female four acts
3 interior and 1 exterior; music and singing.
"Crippled Irish veteran of World War I, formerly football hero, disillusioned by return home."
Title: Silver Tassie, The in - Landmarks of Irish Drama / COL Author: O'Casey, Sean Publisher: Methuen 1988
Description:
roy drama - Irish play - World War I twenty-three characters eighteen male; five female four acts
3 interior, 1 exterior; music and singing.
"Crippled Irish veteran of World War I, formerly football hero, disillusioned by return home."
Title: Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, The in - Plays Extravagant / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1981
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters nine male; five female two acts
In a British tropical port an emigration officer and a young woman without a passport meet a native priestess and priest and then two tourists. The six decide to live together to conduct an experiment in eugenics. Four children are born. Twenty years later, an angel appears to announce Judgement Day stating only those that are socially useful will remain. Title: Six Characters in Search of an Author in - Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Edward Storer Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 1970
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters; extras ten male; seven female; one boy; one girl three acts
'Play within a play. Director attempts rehearsal staging story of characters from unwritten play. Each character tells story from own viewpoint, complains that actors and director/author misrepresent them.
Title: Six Characters in Search of an Author in - A Treasury of the Theatre Volume 2 / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Edward Storer Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1963
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters; extras ten male; seven female; one boy; one girl three acts
'Play within a play. Director attempts rehearsal staging story of characters from unwritten play. Each character tells story from own viewpoint, complains that actors and director/author misrepresent them.
Title: Six Characters in Search of an Author in - The Art of Drama / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Edward Storer Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1976
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters; extras ten male; seven female; one boy; one girl three acts
'Play within a play. Director attempts rehearsal staging story of characters from unwritten play. Each character tells story from own viewpoint, complains that actors and director/author misrepresent them. Title: Six Characters in Search of an Author in - Mirrors for Man / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Edward Storer Publisher: Winthrop Publishers 1974
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters; extras ten male; seven female; one boy; one girl three acts
'Play within a play. Director attempts rehearsal staging story of characters from unwritten play. Each character tells story from own viewpoint, complains that actors and director/author misrepresent them.
Title: Skin Of Our Teeth, The in - Three Plays By Thornton Wilder / COL Author: Wilder, Thornton Publisher: Bantam Books 1957
Description:
roy fantasy thirty-five characters twenty-four male; eleven female three acts
2 sets.
Using a typical family as a metaphor for mankind, this play depicts a family surviving natural disasters, disease, and man-made disasters with amazing and often amusing tenacity.
Title: Skin Of Our Teeth, The in - Three Plays / COL Author: Wilder, Thornton Publisher: Avon Books 1957
Description:
roy fantasy thirty-five characters twenty-four male; eleven female three acts
2 sets.
Using a typical family as a metaphor for mankind, this play depicts a family surviving natural disasters, disease, and man-made disasters with amazing and often amusing tenacity. Title: Sleep Rock Thy Brain in - Humana Festival 2013 / COL Author: Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2014
Description:
roy American - sleep - science large cast seven male; six female (doubling) three acts
collection of one-act plays ("Comfort Inn" by Rinne Groff; "Dreamerwake" by Anne Washburn; "nightnight" by Lucas Hnath) to be performed together under the title "Sleep Rock Thy Brain".
Act 1: "Comfort Inn" is a moving madcap tale that unfolds over the course of one eventful night in a sleep lab (which appears to be housed within the walls of a popular chain hotel). As the evening wears on, the destinies of the lab technicians, their patients and several hotel guests intertwine, to
Title: Snapshot in - Humana Festival 2002 / COL Author: Barfield, Tanya Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2002
Description:
roy drama - comedy large cast flexible casting anthology - scenes and monologues may be performed individually
"A photograph captures and documents a single moment in time and space - a snapshot of history, of a reality bounded by the photo's frame. But what lies outside, beyond, behind the photograph? What stories, memories, or associations does an image of place inspire? A diverse assortment of playwrights encounter/transform Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, 1969, a compelling image of the monument by renowned photographer Lee Friedlander. Their thought-provoking scenes and monologues range from delightful comedy to utterly serious
Title: Snow in Midsummer in - Modern Drama from Communist China / COL Author: Kuan, Han-ching translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang Publisher: University of London Press 1970
Description:
roy drama - historical - China ten characters eight male; two female four acts
'Revised version of Yuan dynasty drama on the theme of justice, which though denied a deserving person, finally prevails.' Title: Sociable Companions, The in - Bell in Campo / Sociable Companions, The / COL Author: Cavendish, Margaret Publisher: Broadview Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - satire - marriage - women nineteen characters; extras fourteen male; five female five acts
Details the struggles of four women from impoverished Royalist families trying to survive in a rapacious marriage market at the war's end.
Title: SongCatcher: a native interpretation of the story of Frances Densmore in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Rendon, Marcie R. Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy native playwright - biographical - women - Native peoples eighteen characters eight male; ten female three acts
Marcie's play is about a collector named Frances Densmore. The setting is present day. A young Native man named Jack and his Native girlfriend Chris are the main characters. Chris was raised with her Native community. Jack was not. He knows he's Native, and he goes to powwows and hangs out with Native people. He wants to know more, though, about his own tribe, and he especially wants a song of his own. Bill is an older Native man who visits with Jack and Chris in their apartment. Both Chris and Bill tell Jack that the song will come to him, that he has to listen
Title: Sonnets for an Old Century in - References to Salvador Dalí Makes Me Hot and Other Plays / COL Author: Rivera, José Publisher: TCG Books 2003
Description:
roy drama - monologues twelve characters six male; six female twelve parts
'A series of monologues which examines what it means to be alive and the traces that each of us will leave behind.' Title: Spanish Tragedy, The in - Elizabethan Drama / COL Author: Kyd, Thomas Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1990
Description:
roy tragedy - Spanish large cast flexible casting four acts
"Elizabethan tragedy of revenge set in 16th century Spain and Portugal."
Title: Spanish Tragedy, The in - Two Tudor Tragedies / COL Author: Kyd, Thomas Publisher: Penguin Books 1992
Description:
roy drama - Tudor tragedy - English - Elizabethan - revenge large cast flexible casting four acts
8 interior sets; 4 exterior sets.
Elizabethan tragedy of revenge set in 16th century Spain and Portugal.
Title: Spanish Tragedy, The or: Hieronimo is Mad Again in - An Anthology of English Drama Before Shakespeare / COL Author: Kyd, Thomas Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1961
Description:
roy Elizabethan tragedy - verse play large cast; extras flexible casting four acts
'Elizabethan tragedy of revenge set in 16th century Spain and Portugal.' Title: Splendor in - New England New Play Anthology, The / COL Author: Greenidge, Kirsten Publisher: StageSource 2017
Description:
roy drama - family relationships ten characters four male; six female two acts
"On Thanksgiving eve in a town just north of Boston, Fran is determined to make a nice turkey dinner for her chain-smoking klepto mother, and her couch-surfing older brother. If only it were that simple. A vivid collage of local stories exposes a community where generations of families collide over far more than pumpkin pie and stuffing."
Title: Spring Song in - Boy Meets Girl and Spring Song / COL Author: Spewack, Bella Spewack, Samuel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1946
Description:
roy drama eighteen characters; extras eight male; eight female three acts
A tender and tragic drama of modern Jewish life.
Title: Spring's Awakening in - The Modern Theatre Volume 6 / COL Author: Wedekind, Frank Publisher: Doubleday 1960
Description:
roy drama - tragedy twenty-nine characters twenty-three male; six female three acts
'The action is set in a small German town in the 1890's where adolescent boys and girls grope their way towards knowledge and maturity against the blocks set up by parents and teachers in the name of 'morality'. Melchior, fearless in his pursuit of the truth, manages to retain his freedom of spirit, but his friends are not so lucky or so strong.' Title: St. Nicholas Hotel, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (3rd ed. ) / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Talonbooks 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragedy fifteen characters; extras eleven male; four female three acts
"The story of this play concerns a race, a race between the Donnelly boys and their enemies. The road the race takes place on has tollgates with signs on them saying: No Donnellys are to... run a stage line, marry my daughter, & c., & c.. 'Helped' by their brothers, William and Michael Donnelly smash through most of the tollgates, but their victories only drive their enemies to build stronger barriers until Michael is suddenly and brutally murdered. It is a tale of barrooms, wheels, horses, nuns, tops, convent yards, derailed trains, homeless boys, tavern brawls, refinements, squalors,
Title: St. Nicholas Hotel, The in - The Donnellys / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Press Porcepic 1983
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragedy fifteen characters; extras eleven male; four female three acts
"The story of this play concerns a race, a race between the Donnelly boys and their enemies. The road the race takes place on has tollgates with signs on them saying: No Donnellys are to... run a stage line, marry my daughter, & c., & c.. 'Helped' by their brothers, William and Michael Donnelly smash through most of the tollgates, but their victories only drive their enemies to build stronger barriers until Michael is suddenly and brutally murdered. It is a tale of barrooms, wheels, horses, nuns, tops, convent yards, derailed trains, homeless boys, tavern brawls,
Title: St. Nicholas Hotel, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (rev. ed.) / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Talonbooks 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragedy fifteen characters; extras eleven male; four female three acts
'The Donnellys Part Two'.
"The story of this play concerns a race, a race between the Donnelly boys and their enemies. The road the race takes place on has tollgates with signs on them saying: No Donnellys are to... run a stage line, marry my daughter, & c., & c.. 'Helped' by their brothers, William and Michael Donnelly smash through most of the tollgates, but their victories only drive their enemies to build stronger Title: St. Nicholas Hotel, Wm Donnelly Prop., The in - Reaney Days in the West Room / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragedy fifteen characters; extras eleven male; four female three acts
'The Donnellys Part Two'.
"The story of this play concerns a race, a race between the Donnelly boys and their enemies. The road the race takes place on has tollgates with signs on them saying: No Donnellys are to... run a stage line, marry my daughter, & c., & c.. 'Helped' by their brothers, William and Michael Donnelly smash through most of the tollgates, but their victories only drive their enemies to build stronger
Title: Stampede in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright twenty-four characters; extras sixteen male; eight female three acts
3 sets; requires music; singing.
'Camaraderie of ranch hands is broken by jealous man who reveals foreman as wanted outlaw.'
Title: State of Seige in - Caligula and Three Other Plays / COL Author: Camus, Albert Publisher: Grove Press 1958
Description:
roy drama eighteen characters, extras fourteen male, four female three acts (parts)
'Allegory. The people in a city are thrown into confusion by appearance of "The Plague" who arrives in person to become their leader.' Title: Sticks and Stones in - The Donnellys / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Press Porcepic 1983
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - Canadian eleven characters; extras eight male; three female three acts
"The play is based on the story of an actual family who came out from Ireland in 1844 to Biddulph Township 18 miles from London, Ontario, and were nearly annihilated by a secret society formed among their neighbours 36 years later. The complete story of the Donnelly tragedy is too large for one evening. This play gets you started and takes you as far as one of those moments after which things will never be the same again. When 'persons unknown' burnt down his barn in 1867, James Donnelly defied this invitation to get out of the neighbourhood. He swore
Title: Sticks and Stones in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 2 Spring, 1974 / PER Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Miscellaneous 1974
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - Canadian eleven characters; extras eight male; three female three acts
"The play is based on the story of an actual family who came out from Ireland in 1844 to Biddulph Township 18 miles from London, Ontario, and were nearly annihilated by a secret society formed among their neighbours 36 years later. The complete story of the Donnelly tragedy is too large for one evening. This play gets you started and takes you as far as one of those moments after which things will never be the same again. When 'persons unknown' burnt down his barn in 1867, James Donnelly defied this invitation to get out of the neighbourhood. He swore that he
Title: Sticks and Stones in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (5th ed.) / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - Canadian eleven characters; extras eight male; three female three acts
"The play is based on the story of an actual family who came out from Ireland in 1844 to Biddulph Township 18 miles from London, Ontario, and were nearly annihilated by a secret society formed among their neighbours 36 years later. The complete story of the Donnelly tragedy is too large for one evening. This play gets you started and takes you as far as one of those moments after which things will never be the same again. When 'persons unknown' burnt down his barn in 1867, James Donnelly defied this invitation to get out of the neighbourhood. He swore that he Title: Storm, The in - Four Plays - Alexander Ostrovsky / COL Author: Ostrovsky, Alexander translated by Stephen Mulrine Publisher: Oberon Books 1997
Description:
roy tragedy twelve characters: extras six male; six female five acts
The Storm is a work of social criticism, which is directed particularly towards the Russian merchant class.
Title: Straw, The in - Six Short Plays of Eugene O'Neill / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1951
Description:
roy drama - love twenty characters; extras eleven male; nine female three acts
4 interiors; 1 exterior.
"Hopeless love between two tubercular patients at sanatorium."
Title: Straw, The in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 3, The / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1954
Description:
roy drama - love twenty characters; extras eleven male; nine female three acts
4 interiors; 1 exterior.
"Hopeless love between two tubercular patients at sanatorium." Title: Streamers in - Plays for the Theatre (4th ed.) / COL Author: Rabe, David Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1984
Description:
roy drama all male cast; ten characters ten male two acts
1 interior set; requires two black actors.
Racial and sexual tensions run high in an Army barracks where recruits are awaiting their postings. The tensions culminate in violence and death, destroying the innocence of all involved.
Title: Streamers in - The Vietnam Plays: Volume two Author: Rabe, David Publisher: Grove Press 1993
Description:
roy drama - war - LGBTQ+ all male cast; ten characters; extra ten male two acts
1 interior set; requires two black actors.
American soldiers about to be sent to Vietnam get involved in dispute over homosexuality in which one of them is killed.
Title: Streetcar Named Desire, A in - Sweet Bird of Youth, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Penguin Books 1962
Description:
roy drama twelve characters six male; six female three acts
1 interior set.
The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject so far as possible the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and Title: Strife Plays: First series Author: Galsworthy, John Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons 1916
Description:
roy British - drama - 20th century large cast; extras twenty-one male; seven female three acts
3 interior sets; 1 exterior set.
Early 20th century strike at Welsh tin plate works becomes bitter battle between uncompromising leader of workers committee and company chairman determined to crush workers. Hardships force both workers and board of directors to reject leaders.
Title: Strong Breed, The in - Plays for the Theatre (8th ed.) / COL Author: Soyinka, Wole Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 2004
Description:
roy drama ten characters; extras seven male; three female one act
Village prepares for human sacrifice for the new year, choosing and tracking their victim.
Title: Such Great Hope or: The New Song of a Lost Country in - Playwrights of Exile / COL Author: Aba, Noureddine translated by Richard Miller Publisher: UBU Repertory Theater Publications 1997
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters six male or female five scenes
Description not available. Title: Suicide Prohibited in Springtime in - Modern Spanish Theatre / COL Author: Casano, Alejandro translated by A. D. Horvath Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1969
Description:
roy fantasy - Spanish play - suicide ten characters six male; four female three acts
"Mysterious doctor establishes sanatorium, ostensibly to encourage, but actually to discourage suicide."
Title: Summer And Smoke in - Tennessee Williams: Four Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New American Library 1950
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters eight male; six female two acts
unit set; period - Mississippi, 1916.
A liberal doctor and a conservative Southern girl are attracted to each other but their conflicting moral codes prevent them from marriage. They eventually realize to late that they were wrong.
Title: Summer Folk in - Five Plays / COL Author: Gorky, Maxim translated by Margaret Wettlin Publisher: Foreign Languages 1956
Description:
roy Russian - drama twenty-one characters; extras twelve male; nine female four acts
"In the early years of the century, Russians of every social class were beginning to see the onset of a great upheaval. Gorky's mighty naturalistic masterpiece shows us a diverse group of Russians meeting each year, at their summer holiday retreat. Some are frightened at the prospect of change, some are angry and some yearn for a new life. As they question the value of their work, their art and leisure, they're shocked by the response their disputes reveal. Relationships break under the strain and scandals of business and infidelity are laid bare." - Manchester School of Theatre, Title: Summertime in - Three Plays by Ugo Betti / COL Author: Betti, Ugo Publisher: Grove Press 1956
Description:
roy drama - romance eleven characters five male; six female three acts
'Girl pursues man, gets him out of scrape, wins him, and then almost decides he is too weak to be a good husband.'
Title: Sun and the Moon, The in - The Killdeer & Other Plays / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: MacMillan 1962
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Ontario twenty characters nine male; eleven female three acts
exterior and interior sets.
"A woman comes to a small Ontario town specifically to destroy the reputation of a minister."
Title: Sunrise At Campobello in - America on Stage / COL Author: Schary, Dore Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
roy drama - biography twenty-four characters nineteen male; five female three acts
representative set.
This play depicts Franklin Roosevelt's life from the time he is struck with infantile paralysis through his battle to convince all that he is still strong enough for politics - a battle which is won when he publicly nominates the 1924 Democratic candidate for the presidency. Title: Sunrise At Campobello in - Six American Plays for Today / COL Author: Schary, Dore Publisher: Modern Library 1961
Description:
roy drama - biography twenty-four characters nineteen male; five female three acts
representative set.
This play depicts Franklin Roosevelt's life from the time he is struck with infantile paralysis through his battle to convince all that he is still strong enough for politics - a battle which is won when he publicly nominates the 1924 Democratic candidate for the presidency.
Title: Sunrise on Sarah in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - women fourteen characters seven male; seven female two acts
"Sunrise on Sarah" presents us with a woman the exact opposite of the title character Ryga created in "The Ecstasy of Rita Joe". In place of the ideological conflict that is characteristic of his other plays, Ryga has set up a psychological dialectic between the central character and her opposite, known only as the Man. In "Sunrise on Sarah", Ryga displays complete mastery of his own particular brand of "liquid dramaturgy" and brings to the play the compassion and poetry that are hallmarks of his work.
Title: Surgeon of Honour, The in - Plays: One (Calderon) / COL Author: Calderón, Pedro Calderón de la Barca translated and introduced by Gwynne Edwards Publisher: Methune 1991
Description:
roy drama - classic - Spanish plays fourteen characters; extras nine male; five female three acts
"Described by Michael Billington as 'one of the most disquieting plays in all world drama ... a dark masterpiece'." Title: Sweet Bird of Youth in - Sweet Bird of Youth, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Penguin Books 1962
Description:
roy drama twenty-two characters fifteen male; seven female three acts
2 interior sets.
A young hustler, cashing in on a moment of weakness in an aging movie actress, takes her to his hometown so that he can see the girl he deserted years ago. His reception in the town is less than pleasant and soon even the actress leaves him.
Title: Sweet Bird of Youth in - Three by Tennessee / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New American Library 1976
Description:
roy drama twenty-two characters fifteen male; seven female three acts
2 interior sets.
A young hustler, cashing in on a moment of weakness in an aging movie actress, takes her to his hometown so that he can see the girl he deserted years ago. His reception in the town is less than pleasant and soon even the actress leaves him.
Title: Table By the Window in - Separate Tables / COL Author: Rattigan, Terence Publisher: Samuel French 1956
Description:
roy drama - hotel eleven characters three male; eight female two acts
"'Separate Tables' contains two separate plays: 'Table by the Window' and 'Table Number Seven', about life among the occupants of a shabby hotel in England." Title: Table Laid, The in - German Plays / COL Author: Langhoff, Anna translated by David Spencer Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1997
Description:
roy drama - Germany eleven characters five male; six female four parts
Set in a temporary shelter for asylum seekers, The Table Laid explores the lives of a group of refugees who have come to Germany in hope of a better life. An examination of the distrust and aggression engendered by a simple lack of communication.
Title: Table Number Seven in - Separate Tables / COL Author: Rattigan, Terence Publisher: Samuel French 1956
Description:
roy drama - hotel eleven characters three male; eight female two acts
"'Separate Tables' contains two separate plays: 'Table by the Window' and 'Table Number Seven', about life among the occupants of a shabby hotel in England."
Title: Tamburlaine the Great - Part One in - Christopher Marlowe: Complete Plays / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Penguin Books 2003
Description:
roy history - drama large cast; extras flexible casting five acts
Original title: The Conquests of Tamburlaine the Scythian Shepherd.
A history play about a fourteenth century Asiatic conqueror. The unstoppable rise of the hero from poverty and obscurity to 'the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.' Title: Tamburlaine the Great - Part One in - Christopher Marlowe: Five Plays / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Hill and Wang 1956
Description:
roy history - drama large cast; extras flexible casting five acts
original title: The Conquests of Tamburlaine the Scythian Shepherd.
A history play about a fourteenth century Asiatic conqueror. The unstoppable rise of the hero from poverty and obscurity to 'the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.'
Title: Tamburlaine the Great - Part Two in - Christopher Marlowe: Complete Plays / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Penguin Books 2003
Description:
roy history - drama - verse play large cast; extras flexible casting five acts
Original title: The Bloody Conquests of Mighty Tambulaine.
The continuation of Tamburlaine's rule of an empire until his death.
Title: Tamburlaine the Great - Part Two in - Christopher Marlowe: Five Plays / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Hill and Wang 1956
Description:
roy history - drama - verse play large cast; extras flexible casting five acts
original title: The Bloody Conquests of Mighty Tambulaine.
The continuation of Tamburlaine's rule of an empire until his death. Title: Teach Me How to Cry in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 2 / CCO Author: Joudry, Patricia Publisher: CTR Publications 1979
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - relationships ten characters; extras seven male; three female three acts
"In a small American town Melinda and Will struggle against their parents and society for the right to love each other."
Title: Tell-Tale Poe, The in - Edgar Allan Poe Live On-Stage / COL Author: Ballantyne, Jr., J. E. Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - horror ten characters seven male; three female (adjustable) two acts
minimal set.
"A collection of some of Edgar Allan Poe's most gruesome and most famous stories and poems. Beginning with a visitation from The Dark Phantom (the Poe Toaster based upon the real life strange and hooded figure that visited Poe's Baltimore grave for years), the play takes the audience on a whirlwind tour of the literature of the Master of Horror, Edgar Allan Poe. Tied together with
Title: Ten Dilemmas in - Howard Barker: Collected Plays Volume 2 / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: Calder and Boyars 1993
Description:
roy drama ten characters; extras six male; four female ten scenes
'Portrays collective wrath provoked by tragic passion of man and woman of conventionally opposed social viewpoints.' Title: Ten Little Indians in - The Mousetrap and Other Plays / COL Author: Christie, Agatha Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1944
Description:
roy mystery eleven characters eight male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
"Dramatization of the author's novel: And Then There Were None. Ten people are brought to an island off the English coast as guests of an unseen host and begin to be murdered one by one."
Title: Ten Little Indians in - 10 Classic Mystery and Suspense Plays of the Modern Theatre / COL Author: Christie, Agatha Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1973
Description:
roy mystery eleven characters eight male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
Ten people, spending an invited weekend on an island estate, find themselves being murdered one by one.
Title: Ten Lost Years in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Winter, Jack Smith, Cedric Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama with music ten characters six male; four female two acts
Jack Winter's musical adaptation based on Barry Broadfoot's "Ten Lost Years 1929-1939: Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression"; running time: 2 hr. and 30 min.; period - Canada, 1929-1939.
The Great Canadian Depression as seen by victims of it. Title: Ten Lost Years in - Canadian Theatre Review No.38, Fall 1983 / PER Author: Winter, Jack Smith, Cedric Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama with music ten characters six male; four female two acts
Jack Winter's musical adaptation based on Barry Broadfoot's "Ten Lost Years 1929-1939: Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression"; running time: 2 hr. and 30 min.; period - Canada, 1929-1939.
The Great Canadian Depression as seen by victims of it.
Title: Ten Lost Years in - My TWP Plays / CCO Author: Winter, Jack Broadfoot, Barry Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama with music ten characters six male; four female two acts
Jack Winter's musical adaptation based on Barry Broadfoot's "Ten Lost Years 1929-1939: Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression"; running time: 2 hr. and 30 min.; period - Canada, 1929-1939.
The Great Canadian Depression as seen by victims of it.
Title: Terrace of the Leper King, The in - My Friend Hitler and other plays of Yukio Mishima / COL Author: Yukio, Mishima Publisher: Columbia University Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - historical - Cambodia - Japanese playwright large cast flexible casting three acts
"Terrace of the Leper King” is the story of the construction of Bayon temple, one of the major temples within Angkor Archeological Park, along with Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom. The play follows King Jayavarman VII as he oversees construction while battling increasingly severe leprosy. He goes blind as the temple nears completion and dies just as the last stone is laid. In the play’s last scene, the soul of the dead king speaks with his younger body. The body says the soul itself is leprosy, while it, the untouched, beautiful, young body represents the timeless Title: Their Very Own and Golden City in - New English Dramatists 10 / COL Author: Wesker, Arnold Publisher: Penguin Books 1967
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters; extras thirteen male; three female two acts
"England, twentieth century. Traces deterioration of idealistic architect who 'succeeds' at price of compromising professional ideals."
Title: They in - The Madman and the Nun and Other Plays / COL Author: Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy translated by D.C. Gerould and C.S. Durer Publisher: University of Washington Press 1968
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters; extras ten male; six female two and one-half acts
'Deals in the bizarrely farcical terms with crushing of the individual and of art by mechanized totalitarian society.'
Title: Three Judgements in One in - Plays: One (Calderon) / COL Author: Calderón, Pedro Calderón de la Barca Publisher: Methune 1991
Description:
roy classics - drama - Spanish plays ten characters; extras six male; four female three acts
"One of Calderon's finest works." Title: Three Sisters in - Classic Theatre: The Humanities in Drama / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by Elisaveta Fen Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1975
Description:
roy drama - family relations fourteen characters nine male; five female four acts
2 interior and 1 exterior set.
"Life of the intelligentsia in 19th century Russia reflected in unhappy lives of a Moscow family stranded (financially) in a small city."
Title: Three Sisters in - Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: TCG Books 2013
Description:
roy drama - family relations fourteen characters nine male; five female four acts
Adapted by Sarah Ruhl.
"Life of the intelligentsia in 19th century Russia reflected in unhappy lives of a Moscow family stranded (financially) in a small city."
Title: Three Sisters, The in - Chekhov: The Major Plays / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by Ann Dunnigan Publisher: Penguin Books 1964
Description:
roy drama - family relations fourteen characters nine male; five female four acts
2 interior and 1 exterior set.
"Life of the intelligentsia in 19th century Russia reflected in unhappy lives of a Moscow family stranded (financially) in a small city." Title: Three Sisters, The in - Chekhov Plays / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Publisher: Penguin Books 1980
Description:
roy drama - family relations fourteen characters nine male; five female four acts
2 interior and 1 exterior set.
"Life of the intelligentsia in 19th century Russia reflected in unhappy lives of a Moscow family stranded (financially) in a small city."
Title: Three Sisters, The in - Five Plays (Chekhov) / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by Ronald Hingley Publisher: Oxford University Press 1980
Description:
roy drama - classics - Russian - family relations fourteen characters nine male; five female four acts
2 interior, 1 exterior set.
"Life of the intelligentsia in 19th century Russia reflected in unhappy lives of a Moscow family stranded (financially) in a small city."
Title: Three Top Hats in - Modern Spanish Theatre / COL Author: Mihura, Miguel translated by M. C. Wellwarth Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1969
Description:
roy fantasy - Spanish play sixteen characters ten male; six female three acts
"Dionisio almost comes to know what love is when he meets Paula, the dancer, but returns to the unattractive Margaret to whom he is betrothed." Title: Thunder on Sycamore Street in - The Mentor Book of Short Plays / COL Author: Rose, Reginald Publisher: New American Library 1969
Description:
roy drama eighteen characters eight male; ten female three acts
'Sycamore Street is a peaceful street, yet there's an underlying excitement. A new man in the neighborhood is not welcome. His neighbors have decided to force him out. There are a number of reasons why such things happen. In this case, it's because the man once served a brief term in prison. Also, though his daughter is a model student, the neighbors don't want their children to associate with her. They form a mob and plan to march on the Blake house. Only one man, Arthur Hayes, fights an inner battle. In a scene of tremendous power, Joseph Blake stands up to the
Title: Ticket-of-Leave Man, The in - Nineteenth Century Plays / COL Author: Taylor, Tom Publisher: Oxford University Press 1956
Description:
roy drama twelve characters; extras eight male; four female four acts
3 interior and 3 exterior sets.
"Innocent man, imprisoned, manages to expose real criminals, with help of faithful sweetheart."
Title: Tomorrow Will Be Sunday in - Voices from the Landwash / CCO Author: Walsh, Des Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997
Description:
roy drama ten characters; extras nine male; one female (doubling) two acts
'Structuring the play around a series of short scenes, Walsh economically and sensitively retells the painful story of broken trust and abuse of power when a teenager, Eli, finds those around him fail him.' Title: Tornado in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 89, Winter 1996 / PER Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Miscellaneous 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian twenty-eight characters five male; seven female (doubling) two acts
A stage version of the full-length radio drama. No abstract available.
Nelly award winner 1988 - Best Radio Drama.
Title: Total Eclipse in - Christopher Hampton: Plays One / COL Author: Hampton, Christopher Publisher: Faber and Faber 1997
Description:
roy drama fifteen characters ten male; five female three acts
representative set.
This play depicts the relationship between the poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine and their destructive, all consuming need for each other.
Title: Touch of the Poet, A in - Best American Plays 1958-1963 / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Crown Publishers 1957
Description:
roy Irish drama ten characters seven male; three female four acts
"Truculent, hard drinking, pretentious Irish immigrant in Massachusetts stands in way of daughter's marriage to an American.' Title: Towards Zero in - The Mousetrap and Other Plays / COL Author: Christie, Agatha Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1944
Description:
roy mystery eleven characters seven male; four female three acts
1 interior set.
"Invalid old lady who has invited odd assortment of guests to house-party is murdered. Family lawyer and Superintendent Battle prove this was inevitable."
Title: Toys in the Attic in - Four Contemporary American Plays / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Vintage Books 1961
Description:
roy drama - family relations eleven characters; extras seven male; four female three acts
"Two sisters live together in a southern town. Though they dream of going to Europe someday, they continue to spend their money bailing their brother out of trouble. This time brother returns rich. He pays off the home mortgage, buys them new clothes and fur coats, sends letters of resignation to his sisters' employers, and has $150,000 in cash left. Instead of being pleased, the sisters are disappointed that their assistance is no longer needed, and the younger one makes sure the secret deal the brother is pulling off does not succeed."
Title: Toys in the Attic in - Six American Plays for Today / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Modern Library 1961
Description:
roy drama - family relations eleven characters; extras seven male; four female three acts
"Two sisters live together in a southern town. Though they dream of going to Europe someday, they continue to spend their money bailing their brother out of trouble. This time brother returns rich. He pays off the home mortgage, buys them new clothes and fur coats, sends letters of resignation to his sisters' employers, and has $150,000 in cash left. Instead of being pleased, the sisters are disappointed that their assistance is no longer needed, and the younger one makes sure the secret deal the brother is pulling off does not succeed." Title: Toys in the Attic in - The Collected Plays Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1971
Description:
roy drama - family relations eleven characters; extras seven male; four female three acts
"Two sisters live together in a southern town. Though they dream of going to Europe someday, they continue to spend their money bailing their brother out of trouble. This time brother returns rich. He pays off the home mortgage, buys them new clothes and fur coats, sends letters of resignation to his sisters' employers, and has $150,000 in cash left. Instead of being pleased, the sisters are disappointed that their assistance is no longer needed, and the younger one makes sure the secret deal the brother is pulling off does not succeed."
Title: Tragedy of Macbeth, The in - Classic Theatre: The Humanities in Drama / COL Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1975
Description:
roy tragedy thirty-three characters; extras twenty-eight male; six female four acts
representative set.
The ambitions to the throne of a Scottish Lord and his wife cause the Lord to murder the King of Scotland and wreak death and havoc throughout the land as he tries to protect his false position as the new King.
Title: Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, The in - An Anthology of English Drama Before Shakespeare / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1961
Description:
roy tragedy thirty-three characters; extras thirty-one male; two female five acts
speaking chorus, music.
'Also known as 'The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus', Dr. Faustus' and 'The tragical history of the life and death of Dr. Faustus'. Elizabethan tragedy in verse based on Faust legend of man who sold his soul to the devil.' Title: Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, The in - Mirrors for Man / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Winthrop Publishers 1974
Description:
roy tragedy thirty-three characters; extras thirty-one male; two female five acts
speaking chorus, music.
'Also known as 'The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus', Dr. Faustus' and 'The tragical history of the life and death of Dr. Faustus'. Elizabethan tragedy in verse based on Faust legend of man who sold his soul to the devil.'
Title: Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, The in - The Marowitz Hamlet & The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Marowitz, Charles Publisher: Penguin Books 1968
Description:
roy tragedy large cast flexible casting one act (full length)
adapted by Charles Marowitz
'A modernized adaptation and condensation of Christopher Marlowe's play of the Faust legend.'
Title: Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, The in - Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays / COL Author: Marlowe, Christopher Publisher: Random House 1950
Description:
roy tragedy thirty-three characters; extras thirty-one male; two female five acts
speaking chorus, music.
"Also known as 'The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus', Dr. Faustus' and 'The tragical history of the life and death of Dr. Faustus'. Elizabethan tragedy in verse based on Faust legend of man who sold his soul to the devil." Title: Trelawny of the 'Wells' in - Classic Theatre: The Humanities in Drama / COL Author: Pinero, Arthur W. Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1975
Description:
roy romantic drama - theatre twenty-three characters fourteen male; nine female four acts
3 interior sets; costumes of 1860.
"Rose Trelawney, a beautiful actress from the Wells Theatre, becomes engaged to aristocratic Arthur Gower. His uncle and aunt oppose the match; ultimately their disapproval is overcome, and so they are married. But she is a born trouper; she can't go to bed at reasonable hours, she can't conform to his family's life; she returns to the theatre, her first love."
Title: Trial of Corporal Adam, The in - Plays at the Iron Bridge / CCO Author: Watson, Wilfred Publisher: Longspoon Press 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - allegory eighteen characters; extras flexible casting two acts
'Contemporary updating of Everyman in which soldier is accused of misappropriating Death's role.'
Title: Trickster of Seville in - The Classic Theatre Volume III: Six Spanish Plays / COL Author: De Molina, Tirso translated by Roy Campbell Publisher: Doubleday 1959
Description:
roy Spanish plays - drama twenty-one characters; extras nineteen male; two female three acts
The scene is laid in Naples, Tarragona, Seville, and Dos Hermanas. The time is the 14th Century but not consistently so. Title: Trojan Women, The in - Four Tragedies and Octavia / COL Author: Seneca translated by E. F. Watling Publisher: Penguin Books 1970
Description:
roy tragedy - verse play twelve characters; extras seven male; four female; one boy five acts
'Latin Tragedy based on Euripides' plays: Hecuba, and the Trojan Women. After Troy falls, women become captive of Greeks who seek further vengeance by killing children of Priam and Hector. Speaking chorus.'
Title: Truth Suspected, The in - Spanish Drama / COL Author: Alarcon, Juan Ruiz de translated by Robert C. Ryan Publisher: Bantam Books 1962
Description:
nonroy drama - Spanish plays - historical romance thirteen characters ten male; three female three acts
Description not available.
Title: Tutor, The in - Collected Plays, volume 9 (Bertolt Brecht) / COL Author: Lenz, Jacob Brecht, Bertolt Publisher: Random House 1959
Description:
roy drama - adaptation twenty characters ten male; ten female five acts
Brecht's adaptation of Jacob Lenz's work; translated by R. Manheim & W. Sauerlander
'Adaptation of Jacob Lenz' play. Moral collapse of German intellectuals is represented by tutor who is proclaimed the perfect teacher for Germany's youth only after he castrates himself.' Title: Twelve Women in a Cell in - Plays by Mediterranean Women / COL Author: el Saadawi, Nawal translated by Marion Baraitser and Cheryl Robs Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - women - autobiographical - political twenty characters four male; fourteen female; two girls two acts
About the imprisonment in Egypt by Sadat in 1980, of women of differing backgrounds and beliefs in the same cell. The situation is complicated by the prostitutes and criminals who are forced to wait on the political prisoners. The play is a celebration of the courage of disobedience of women in a culture which demands compliance.
Title: Twenty Years A Growing in - The Doctor and the Devils and Other Scripts / COL Author: Thomas, Dylan O'Sullivan, Maurice Publisher: New Directions 1966
Description:
roy drama - Irish play large cast flexible casting film script
Based on the story by Maurice O'Sullivan. "Describes O'Sullivan's boyhood spent in Ireland's Blasket Islands."
Title: Two Shakespearean Actors in - Goodnight Children Everywhere and Other Plays / COL Author: Nelson, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama - theatre - actors twenty-four characters seven male; fourteen female two acts
running time: approx. 100 mins.
Based on a true story. The year is 1849, the place New York City. Two arch rivals — the English star William Macready and the American matinee idol Edwin Forrest — tempt fate when both perform the Scottish Play on the same night in neighboring downtown theaters. Their feud helps incite the already-inflamed rage of anti-British theatergoers, who riot right outside Macready’s Title: Umiak: the Collective Boat in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 46, Spring 86 / PER Author: Le Théâtre du P'tit Bonheur Publisher: Miscellaneous 1986
Description:
roy drama - Inuit - children - historical large cast flexible casting three acts
A play to teach children about Inuit life and philosophy.
Title: Uncle Harry in - 10 Classic Mystery and Suspense Plays of the Modern Theatre / COL Author: Job, Thomas Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1973
Description:
roy drama fifteen characters nine male; six female three acts
4 interior sets.
A man who has committed the perfect murder cannot live with his conscience but is unable to convince anyone of his guilt.
Title: Undiscovered Country in - Plays Four / COL Author: Stoppard, Tom Schnitzler, Arthur Publisher: Faber and Faber 1999
Description:
roy drama - historical - relationships - social class large cast flexible casting five acts
Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's "Das Weite Land" focuses on 1890s Viennese society, demonstrating the effects of upper class codes of behavior on human relationships. The main character is a self-made businessman named Friedrich Hofreiter who manages to be both charming and chauvinistic. Stoppard's alterations to the play consist of adding humor while lessening the melodrama. The title of the play is a reference to the concept of the afterlife as the "undiscovered country" from the "to be or not to be" speech in Hamlet. Title: Universal Robots in - Plays and Playwrights 2008 / COL Author: Rogers, Mac Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2008
Description:
roy drama - sci-fi - robots numerous characters six male; four female (doubling) two acts
A riveting sci-fi cautionary tale inspired by the lives and works of Czech writer/activists Karel & Josef Capek, especially the play "R.U.R." which gave us the word robot.
Title: Unnatural and Accidental Women, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 101, Winter 2000 / PER Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Miscellaneous 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - British Columbia - Native playwright twenty characters; voice overs nine male; eleven female two acts
'This is a play based on a true murder case in Vancouver which resulted in the deaths of at least ten women and many more "mystery deaths" of women in the Hastings Street area, unofficially referred to as "Skid Row". All of the women were found dead with a blood alcohol reading far beyond normal human consumption, and all of them were last seen with a Gilbert Paul Jordan, a local barber who frequented the local bars preying primarily on middle-aged Native women.'
Title: Unnatural and Accidental Women, The in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - British Columbia - Native playwright twenty characters; voice overs nine male; eleven female two acts
'This is a play based on a true murder case in Vancouver which resulted in the deaths of at least ten women and many more "mystery deaths" of women in the Hastings Street area, unofficially referred to as "Skid Row". All of the women were found dead with a blood alcohol reading far beyond normal human consumption, and all of them were last seen with a Gilbert Paul Jordan, a local barber who frequented the local bars preying primarily on middle-aged Native women.' Title: Unnatural and Accidental Women, The in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - British Columbia - Native playwright twenty characters; voice overs nine male; eleven female two acts
'This is a play based on a true murder case in Vancouver which resulted in the deaths of at least ten women and many more "mystery deaths" of women in the Hastings Street area, unofficially referred to as "Skid Row". All of the women were found dead with a blood alcohol reading far beyond normal human consumption, and all of them were last seen with a Gilbert Paul Jordan, a local barber who frequented the local bars preying primarily on middle-aged Native women.'
Title: Uprooted Pine, The in - Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu / COL Author: Chikamatsu, Monzaemon translated by Donald Keene Publisher: Columbia University Press 1961
Description:
non-roy puppet play - Japan - drama - relationships twelve characters; extras eight male; four female three acts
1 interior; 2 exteriors; 1 setting.
Impressed by the love of courtesan for her lover, a young man tries to buy her contract and unite the two. Two other parties also want to buy the contract.
Title: Valley Forge in - America on Stage / COL Author: Anderson, Maxwell Publisher: Doubleday 1934
Description:
roy drama - political thirty-five characters;extras thirty-two male; three female three acts
4 interior sets.
A very human Washington is depicted in the dark winter of 1777/78 as he suffers with his men, rebels against the supercilious contempt of two fatuous Congressman, and takes pride in the loyalty of his frontiersmen who will continue to fight for freedom. Title: Vasco in - The New Theatre of Modern Europe Vol. 2 / COL Author: Schehade, Georges translated by Lucia Victor Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1964
Description:
roy tragedy - war twenty-eight characters twenty male; eight female six scenes
'A satirical tragedy of war. Without even his own knowing, a timid, totally naive barber is drafted into army intelligence.'
Title: Venice Preserv'd in - Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century / COL Author: Otway, Thomas Publisher: Modern Library 1960
Description:
nonroy Restoration - tragedy nineteen characters; extras seventeen male; two female five acts
"Restoration tragedy in blank verse set in 17th century Venice. Young nobleman who joins conspiracy to overthrow state brings disaster upon himself, fellow conspirators and his wife."
Title: Venice Preserv'd in - Restoration Drama / COL Author: Otway, Thomas Publisher: Bantam Books 1968
Description:
nonroy Restoration - tragedy nineteen characters; extras seventeen male; two female five acts
"Restoration tragedy in blank verse set in 17th century Venice. Young nobleman who joins conspiracy to overthrow state brings disaster upon himself, fellow conspirators and his wife". Title: Venice Preserved in - Restoration Plays / COL Author: Otway, Thomas Publisher: Dent 1932
Description:
nonroy Restoration - tragedy nineteen characters; extras seventeen male; two female five acts
"Restoration tragedy in blank verse set in 17th century Venice. Young nobleman who joins conspiracy to overthrow state brings disaster upon himself, fellow conspirators and his wife".
Title: Venice Preserved; or, A Plot Discovered in - Restoration Plays / COL Author: Otway, Thomas Publisher: Random House 1953
Description:
nonroy Restoration - tragedy nineteen characters; extras seventeen male; two female five acts
"Restoration tragedy in blank verse set in 17th century Venice. Young nobleman who joins conspiracy to overthrow state brings disaster upon himself, fellow conspirators and his wife".
Title: Venice Preserved; or, A Plot Discovered in - Six Restoration Plays / COL Author: Otway, Thomas Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company 1959
Description:
roy restoration - tragedy - verse play nineteen characters; extras seventeen male; two female five acts
Restoration tragedy in blank verse. Set in 17th century Venice, a young nobleman joins a conspiracy to overthrow the state and brings disaster upon himself, his fellow conspirators, and his wife. Title: Verdict in - The Mousetrap and Other Plays / COL Author: Christie, Agatha Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1958
Description:
roy mystery ten characters four male; six female two acts
1 interior set.
"Two women are in love with a professor. When his invalid wife is poisoned, the wrong woman is accused of murder."
Title: Veronica Franco: Courtesan and Poet in - Plays by Mediterranean Women / COL Author: Maraini, Dacia translated by Siân Williams and Marion Baraitse Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - feminism - sexuality ten characters seven male; three female two acts
About a sixteenth century Venetian courtesan who is shown to be a product exchanged in a political economy. Veronica cleverly uses her sexual servitude as experience which she turns into poetry for her own pleasure, but her sexuality is never allowed full expression, depriving her of equality and respect.
Title: Victory in - Howard Barker: Collected Plays Volume 1 / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: Calder and Boyars 1990
Description:
roy historical drama - women thirty-four characters flexible casting two acts
'Historical drama depicting attempts of Susan Bradshaw, wife of dead regicide, to accommodate herself to laissez-faire society and libertine court of Charles II.' Title: View From the Bridge, A in - The Penguin Arthur Miller / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Penguin Books 2015
Description:
roy drama - American fifteen characters; extras twelve male; three female two acts
1 set.
A man's jealousy and resentment forces him to inform on two illegal Italian immigrants when one of the immigrants falls in love with his host's niece.
Title: Vortex, The in - Coward - Plays: One / COL Author: Coward, Noel Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1979
Description:
roy drama - family relations ten characters five male; five female three acts
3 interiors.
Mother loses her young lover to the girlfriend of her drug-addicted son.
Title: Vultures, The in - A Treasury of the Theatre Volume 2 / COL Author: Becque, Henry translated by Freeman Tilden Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1963
Description:
roy drama eighteen characters twelve male; six female four acts
1 interior.
"When the father of a wealthy family dies, his business partner and attorney gather like vultures to enrich themselves on his estate." Title: Walsh in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (3rd ed. ) / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn.
Title: Walsh in - Sharon Pollack: Collected Works: Volume 1 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn.
Title: Walsh in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (rev. ed.) / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 1986
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn. Title: Watch on the Rhine in - The Collected Plays Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1971
Description:
roy drama eleven characters four male; four female; two boys; one girl three acts
1 interior set.
"An idealistic anti-Nazi German, Kurt, comes to America with his American wife and children, hoping for respite from his dangerous work in the underground in World War II. What he finds is Teck, a Nazi agent who blackmails him for the large amount of money Kurt has -- money to be used to free captured anti-Nazis. Kurt kills Teck, then leaves his family and returns to Germany, to
Title: Watch on the Rhine in - Six Plays by Lillian Hellman / COL Author: Hellman, Lillian Publisher: Random House 1979
Description:
roy drama eleven characters four male; four female; two boys; one girl three acts
1 interior set.
"An idealistic anti-Nazi German, Kurt, comes to America with his American wife and children, hoping for respite from his dangerous work in the underground in World War II. What he finds is Teck, a Nazi agent who blackmails him for the large amount of money Kurt has -- money to be used to free captured anti-Nazis. Kurt kills Teck, then leaves his family and returns to Germany, to
Title: Water Hen, The in - Avant-Garde Drama: Major Plays and Documents Post World War I / COL Author: Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy Publisher: Bantam Books 1969
Description:
roy spherical tragedy eleven characters; extras seven male; three female; one boy three acts
1 interior; 1 exterior.
Surrealistic fantasy which paints man against background of universe, state, society, revolution, time, sex and art. Title: Water Hen, The in - The Madman and the Nun and Other Plays / COL Author: Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy translated by D.C. Gerould and C.S. Durer Publisher: University of Washington Press 1968
Description:
roy spherical tragedy eleven characters; extras seven male; three female; one boy three acts
1 interior; 1 exterior.
Surrealistic fantasy which paints man against background of universe, state, society, revolution, time, sex and art.
Title: Waters of Babylon, The in - Three Plays / COL Author: Arden, John Publisher: Grove Press 1964
Description:
roy drama eleven characters eight male; three female three acts
1 setting.
"Dramatizes such social problems as prostitution, and local British political ethics, and has for anti-hero a pimp, who claims he was a Buchenwald prisoner, but in reality served in German army."
Title: Wayside Motor Inn, The
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1978
Description:
roy drama ten characters six male; four female two acts
The scene is a motel outside of Boston: a depersonalized, antiseptic environment into which, one after the other, come five sets of travelers. There is a well-to-do couple on a visit to their married daughter; a lonely salesman looking for a bit of romance to temper the boredom of a business trip; an overbearing father and his latently rebellious son en route to a Harvard interview; a pair of liberated college students intent on a weekend of passion; and an embittered doctor in the process of getting a divorce. Although the various occupants of the motel room are often on stage Title: We Bombed in New Haven in - Famous American Plays of the 1960's / COL Author: Heller, Joseph Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1972
Description:
roy drama - war twelve characters; extras eleven male; one female two acts
'Anti-war drama using device of play within play, in which actors are seen performing as military airmen.'
Title: We Righteous Bombers in - New Plays From the Black Theatre / COL Author: Bass, Kingsley B. Jr. Publisher: Bantam Books 1969
Description:
roy black play ten characters; nine male; one female three acts
two interiors
Black revolutionary drama. Black prisoners denounce American society and its attempts to imprison Black people.
Title: Weavers, The in - A Treasury of the Theatre Volume 2 / COL Author: Hauptmann, Gerhart translated by Mary Morison Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1963
Description:
roy tragedy large cast flexible casting five acts
5 interiors.
"Tragedy. Revolt of textile workers in mid-nineteenth century Germany." Title: Weavers, The in - Seeds of Modern Drama / COL Author: Hauptmann, Gerhart translated by Horst Frenz Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1963
Description:
roy tragedy large cast flexible casting five acts
5 interiors.
Revolt of textile workers in mid nineteenth century Germany.
Title: West Moon in - Voices From the Landwash / CCO Author: Pittman, Al Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997
Description:
roy drama ten characters six male; four female two acts
'Set in Newfoundland during the 1960's, an era of social upheaval, the play uses dead characters to explore serious political, moral and theological themes. Though the characters are dead they come alive with a unique blend of pathos and humor.'
Title: What of the Night? in - What of the Night? / COL Author: Fornes, Maria Irene Publisher: PAJ Publications 2008
Description:
roy drama - American - poverty - family relations large cast flexible casting four acts
Each act may be performed as a separate one act play ("Nadine", "Springtime", "Lust", "Hunger").
" 'What of the Night?' is a poignant saga chronicling the life of Birdie and her family as they traverse the moral and financial bankruptcy that is poverty. Destitute and isolated, a 14-year old Birdie makes the brave decision to leave her family. This decision propels Birdie, her family, and the viewer into a 60-year journey where estranged family and friends entwine and collide in Title: When George the Third Was King in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 2 / CCO Author: Merritt, Catharine Nina Publisher: CTR Publications 1979
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canadian thirteen characters; extras nine female; four female three acts
Mr. Fordyce, a gentleman, is living near Albany. Mr. Fordyce is suspected by the rebels of secretly working for the Loyalist Party, and being a strong opponent, they endeavor to have him brought to Philadelphia under the pretext of his presence being required for some legal business. During the rebellion, two British officers riding through the country take shelter in the house of Mr. Fordyce. The men have no sooner emerged from their hiding-place than a man comes to warn Mr. Fordyce that the rebels are returning to take him prisoner and have been ordered to leave a
Title: Where Do We Live in - American Theatre (Sept 02) / PER Author: Shinn, Christopher Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters twelve male; two female; two male or female three parts
A story evolving from the playwrights experiences after 9/11.
Title: Whiskey Six Cadenza in - NeWest Plays by Women / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 1987
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters seven male; four female (doubling) two acts
"Set in the town of Blairmore, nestled in the Crowsnest Pass, just after World War I, the play raises questions about the power of parents over the lives of their children, and about the ironies and attendant responsibilities of free choice." Title: Whiskey Six Cadenza in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters seven male; four female (doubling) two acts
Set in the town of Blairmore, nestled in the Crowsnest Pass, just after World War I, the play raises questions about the power of parents over the lives of their children, and about the ironies and attendant responsibilities of free choice.
Title: Whiskey Six Cadenza in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters seven male; four female (doubling) two acts
Set in the town of Blairmore, nestled in the Crowsnest Pass, just after World War I, the play raises questions about the power of parents over the lives of their children, and about the ironies and attendant responsibilities of free choice.
Title: White Devil, The in - John Webster: Three Plays / COL Author: Webster, John Publisher: Penguin Books 1972
Description:
roy tragedy - revenge twenty-two characters; extras seventeen male; five female five acts
Set in 16th century Italy.
Play in verse. Intrigue and revenge prevail in this Jacobean historical tragedy when a duke and noblewoman conspire to murder their respective spouses. Title: Wicked Cooks, The in - The New Theatre of Modern Europe Vol. 2 / COL Author: Grass, Gunther translated by James L. Rosenberg Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1964
Description:
roy drama ten characters seven male; three female five acts
'An analogy to Christ's Passion. Cooks harass Count for secret recipe and bribe him with happy life and true love which when achieved obliviates recipe from his mind.'
Title: Wild Duck, The in - Classic Theatre: The Humanities in Drama / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Rolf Fjelde Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1975
Description:
roy drama fifteen characters; extras twelve male; three female five acts
2 interior sets.
'Symbolic tragedy in which wealthy businessman's son exposes father's corruption to family ruined by his father's past actions. Theme explores confusion between idealism and illusions.'
Title: Wild Duck, The in - Eight Plays by Henrik Ibsen / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Eva Le Gallienne Publisher: Modern Library 1989
Description:
roy tragedy twelve characters; extras nine male; three female five acts
2 interior sets.
"The Ekdal family is living happily, their dreamy illusions symbolized by the crippled wild duck in the attic, adapting itself to its environment. A young idealist, Gregers Werle, believing that the truth should always be told and at all costs, brings tragedy to the once-happy family. He talks to Hedvig, the young daughter, about the joy of sacrifice, tells her she must kill her cherished pet, Title: Wild Duck, The in - Hedda Gabler and Other Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Una Ellis-Fermor Publisher: Penguin Books 1965
Description:
roy tragedy twelve characters; extras nine male; three female five acts
2 interior sets.
"The Ekdal family is living happily, their dreamy illusions symbolized by the crippled wild duck in the attic, adapting itself to its environment. A young idealist, Gregers Werle, believing that the truth should always be told and at all costs, brings tragedy to the once-happy family. He talks to Hedvig, the young daughter, about the joy of sacrifice, tells her she must kill her cherished pet,
Title: Wild Duck, The in - Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Rolf Fjelde Publisher: New American Library 1978
Description:
roy tragedy twelve characters; extras nine male; three female five acts
2 interior sets.
"The Ekdal family is living happily, their dreamy illusions symbolized by the crippled wild duck in the attic, adapting itself to its environment. A young idealist, Gregers Werle believing that the truth should always be told and at all costs, brings tragedy to the once-happy family. He talks to Hedvig, the young daughter, about the joy of sacrifice, tells her she must kill her cherished pet,
Title: Wild Duck, The in - Ibsen: Four Major Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Rolf Fjelde Publisher: New American Library 1965
Description:
roy tragedy twelve characters; extras nine male; three female five acts
2 interior sets.
"The Ekdal family is living happily, their dreamy illusions symbolized by the crippled wild duck in the attic, adapting itself to its environment. A young idealist, Gregers Werle, believing that the truth should always be told and at all costs, brings tragedy to the once-happy family. He talks to Hedvig, the young daughter, about the joy of sacrifice, tells her she must kill her cherished pet, Title: Wild Duck, The in - Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by James W. McFarlane Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 1970
Description:
roy tragedy twelve characters; extras nine male; three female five acts
2 interior sets.
"The Ekdal family is living happily, their dreamy illusions symbolized by the crippled wild duck in the attic, adapting itself to its environment. A young idealist, Gregers Werle, believing that the truth should always be told and at all costs, brings tragedy to the once-happy family. He talks to Hedvig, the young daughter, about the joy of sacrifice, tells her she must kill her cherished pet,
Title: Wild Duck, The in - Three Scandinavian Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik Yurka, Blanche Publisher: Washington Square Press 1962
Description:
roy tragedy twelve characters; extras nine male; three female five acts
2 interior sets; adapted by Blanche Yurka
Adapted from the translation by Frances Archer. "The moral and social insights of 'The Wild Duck,' with its 'life lies' ... and its marvelous handling of exposition, and ethical and psychological problems, make it our choice as (Isbens's) best work."
Title: Wild Duck, The in - Mirrors for Man / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Frances E. Archer Publisher: Winthrop Publishers 1974
Description:
roy tragedy twelve characters; extras nine male; three female five acts
"The moral and social insights of 'The Wild Duck,' with its 'life lies' ... and its marvelous handling of exposition, and ethical and psychological problems, make it our choice as (Isbens's) best work." Title: Wild Duck, The in - Plays for the Theatre (4th ed.) / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by William Archer Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1984
Description:
roy drama fifteen characters; extras twelve male; three female five acts
2 interior sets.
'Symbolic tragedy in which wealthy businessman's son exposes father's corruption to family ruined by his father's past actions. Theme explores confusion between idealism and illusions.'
Title: Wild Duck, The in - Plays for the Theatre (2nd ed.) / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by William Archer Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1974
Description:
roy drama fifteen characters; extras twelve male; three female five acts
2 interior sets.
'Symbolic tragedy in which wealthy businessman's son exposes father's corruption to family ruined by his father's past actions. Theme explores confusion between idealism and illusions.'
Title: Within an Inch of His Life in - America's Lost Plays / COL Author: Herne, James A. Publisher: Indiana University Press 1964
Description:
roy drama - tragedy sixteen characters; extras thirteen male; three female six acts
3 interiors, 2 exteriors.
"Man, about to be married, is convicted of crime for which he is innocent." Title: Witness for the Prosecution in - The Mousetrap and Other Plays / COL Author: Christie, Agatha Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1954
Description:
roy mystery thirty characters twenty-four male; six female three acts
2 interior sets.
"Dramatization of author's short story. Murder trial in which wife gives evidence against husband, then perjures herself to free him despite his actual guilt."
Title: Woman Killed with Kindness, A in - Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays / COL Author: Heywood, Thomas Publisher: Random House 1950
Description:
roy tragedy - family relations - verse twenty-four characters; extras eighteen male; six female eighteen scenes
'Elizabethan domestic tragedy. Husband forgives wife's infidelity before her death.'
Title: Woman Killed with Kindness, A in - Elizabethan Drama / COL Author: Heywood, Thomas Publisher: Miscellaneous 1990
Description:
roy tragedy - family relations - verse twenty-four characters; extras eighteen male; six female eighteen scenes
'Elizabethan domestic tragedy. Husband forgives wife's infidelity before her death.' Title: Women Beware Women in - Women Beware Women; Pity in History / COL Author: Middleton, Thomas Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1986
Description:
roy drama - historical - Civil War sixteen characters; extras ten male; six female two parts
1 set; music, singing, dancing.
"Jacobean verse tragedy about incest and social corruption."
Title: Women Beware Women in - Collected Plays: Vol 3 / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: Calder Publications 1996
Description:
roy tragedy twelve characters eight male; four female two parts
'Condenses Middleton's Jacobean tragedy while subverting the social context in terms of violence and eroticism.'
Title: Wonder Tale: The Moonbow, A in - My Friend Hitler and other plays of Yukio Mishima / COL Author: Yukio, Mishima Publisher: Columbia University Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Japan - legends - Kabuki play large cast flexible casting five parts
Running time: 165 minutes
Based on an original tale by Kyokutei Bakin about the life of Tametomo, a Japanese warrior. Title: Woyzeck in - Three German Plays / COL Author: Buchner, Georg translated by John Holmstrom Publisher: Penguin Books 1960
Description:
roy tragedy thirteen characters ten male; three female (doubling possible) twenty-five scenes
representative set.
The story is about a soldier driven mad by jealous frenzy and acute social deprivation. He is unable to cope with his confusion about sin, so he murders the mother of his child. This material may be offensive to some. Not recommended for inexperienced actors.
Title: Woyzeck in - The Modern Theatre Vol. 1 / COL Author: Buchner, Georg translated by Theodore Hoffman Publisher: Doubleday 1955
Description:
roy tragedy thirteen characters ten male; three female (doubling possible) twenty-five scenes
representative set.
The story is about a soldier driven mad by jealous frenzy and acute social deprivation. He is unable to cope with his confusion about sin, so he murders the mother of his child. This material may be offensive to some. Not recommended for inexperienced actors.
Title: Woyzeck in - Mirrors for Man / COL Author: Buchner, Georg translated by Walter Sorell Publisher: Winthrop Publishers 1974
Description:
roy tragedy thirteen characters ten male; three female (doubling possible) twenty-five scenes
Here is the stark story of a simple barber from Leipzig who murders his mistress in a jealous fit; a poor and insignificant man who looks good only in comparison with the unfeeling persons who surround him and who, despite their 'superiority,' offer neither help nor sympathy. Title: Woyzeck in - The Complete Plays (Büchner) / COL Author: Büchner, Georg translated by John Mackendrick Publisher: Methuen 1987
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters ten male; three female one act
Series of related incidents portray simple soldier's inner torment and disintegration leading to murder of his faithless common law wife.
Title: Woyzeck in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Buchner, Georg translated by Carl Richard Mueller Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy tragedy large cast flexible casting one act (twenty-five scenes)
representative set.
The story is about a soldier driven mad by jealous frenzy and acute social deprivation. He is unable to cope with his confusion about sin, so he murders the mother of his child. This material may be offensive to some. Not recommended for inexperienced actors.
Title: Wu-Feng in - A Collection of Canadian Plays, Volume 1 / CCO Author: Scott, Munroe Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1972
Description:
roy Canadian - drama nineteen characters; extras seventeen male; two female two acts
1 setting; singing, dancing, chanting.
"Drama about Formosan folk-hero Wu-feng, appointed governor-general of his mountain tribe by Chinese emperor, who sacrifices himself to appease rebellion in 1769 which seeks to restore ancient Taiwanese culture." Title: Year in Edna's Kitchen, A in - Grassroots / CCO Author: Conrad, Sandy Burbidge, Ian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
roy drama - Canadian ten characters; musician five male, five female two acts
music and lyrics by Ian Burbidge.
The play traces a year in the life of a farming family leading up to the Walkerton tainted water tragedy. Songs and comic vignettes explore many aspects of rural life.
Title: Year of Pilar, The in - Four Plays by Lynn Riggs / COL Author: Riggs, Lynn Publisher: Samuel French 1947
Description:
roy tragedy - American fourteen characters; extras nine male; five female eight scenes
"The tragedy of an upper-class Yucatecan girl, and through her, a whole class - who, trying to restore a lost era, go down to defeat and the grave... The play is massive and colorful, rich in character and incident, and written with poetic revelation and power."
Title: Yerma in - Three Tragedies / COL Author: Lorca, Federico Garcia translated by J. G. Lujan & R. L. O'Connell Publisher: New Directions 1947
Description:
roy tragedy twenty-three characters six male; seventeen female three acts
2 interiors; 3 exteriors.
"The whole tragic burden of Yerma is measured by the deepening of her struggle with the problem of frustrated motherhood." Title: You Can't Get Here From There in - My TWP Plays / CCO Author: Winter, Jack Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Chile twenty-seven characters six male; six female (doubling) two acts
running time: 2 hours and 30 min.; setting - Santiago, Chile, September 1973.
Asylum seekers occupy the Canadian Embassy in Santiago, and struggle to enter Canada.
Title: Z : A Meditation on Oppression, Desire and Freedom in - A Terrible Truth v. 1 / COL Author: Szumigalski, Anne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - holocaust - World War II ten characters seven male; three female two acts
"An astonishing first stage play by award-winning poet Anne Szumigalski. When the concentration camps were liberated at the end of the Second World War, she worked as a Red Cross translator – it changed her life. In Z, Szumigalski translates that profound and disturbing experience into an amazing theatrical event - a blend of drama, poetry, music and dance."
Saskatchewan Book Award - Book of the Year 1995
Title: Zamorna! And the House by the Churchyard in - Reaney Days in the West Room / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - drama large cast flexible casting two acts
Play about the Brontë children.