Title: Abigail's Party in - Abigail's Party and Goose-Pimples / COL Author: Leigh, Mike Publisher: Penguin Books 1977
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
'Leigh and his actor's take a long, unflinching look at the chromium-plated, leather-upholstered nastiness of the nouveau riche: an exercise made bearable by the terrifying accuracy of their observation and their lethal sense of comedy.'
Title: Absent Friends in - Three Plays / COL Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Penguin Books 1979
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior.
"Social comedy. Former friends having tea party to extend sympathy to man whose fiancee drowned discover he has cheerful attitude toward life while they are experiencing marital discord and unhappiness."
Title: Absurd Person Singular in - Three Plays / COL Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Penguin Books 1979
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female three acts
Three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. First, the lower-class but very much up-and-coming Hopcrofts in their bright new kitchen anxiously giving a little party to their bank manager and his wife, and and architect neighbor. Then, the architect and his wife in their neglected untidy flat. Lastly, the bank manager and his wife in their large, slightly modernized kitchen. Running like a darker thread through the wild comedy of behind-the-scenes disasters at Christmas parties is the story of the advance of the Hopcrofts to Title: Act a Lady in - Humana Festival 2006 / COL Author: Harrison, Jordan Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2007
Description:
roy comedy - gender roles nine characters three male; three female (doubling) two acts
setting: 1927 - a very small town in the Midwest; accompanied by accordian.
"When the men of a small Prohibition-era town decide to put on a play dressed in "fancy-type, women-type clothes," the whole community is affected: gender lines blur, eyebrows raise, identities explode, and life and art are forever entangled. A thoughtful and exuberant Midwestern fable about the woman in every man, the man in every woman and the power of theatre to uncover
Title: Affections of May, The in - The Motor Trade & The Affections of May / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
After being deserted by her husband, a woman suddenly finds herself the centre of attention in a small town.
Title: After Ashley in - Humana Festival 2004 - COL Author: Gionfriddo, Gina Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005
Description:
roy political satire six characters four male; two female two acts
This play is a blatant attack on the media and its tendency to glorify victims of tragedy. After the brutal murder of Ashley Hammond by a homeless man her husband hired to work in their house, her son Justin and husband Alden try to rebuild their lives. Their tragedy has thrown them into the public light, and each of them deals with it in a different way. Alden has written a bestselling book about the tragedy, and Justin is now known as “The 911 Kid” because of his heart-wrenching 911 tape reporting his mother’s murder, which has been made public (and later Title: Afternoon of the Big Game in - Deverell of the Globe / CCO Author: Deverell, Rex Publisher: NeWest Press 1989
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy seven characters five male; two female two acts
"The two most popular weekend pastimes in Saskatchewan are watching the Roughriders play and arguing politics. East vs. west, old vs. young, male vs. female, ideals vs. apoliticism - all take turns being the football in this witty and telling play."
Title: Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls in - Humana Festival '99 / COL Author: Iizuka, Naomi Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1999
Description:
roy serio-comedy eleven characters five male; two female (doubling) two acts
"The lives of strangers and friends, lovers and acquaintances collide in New York, Alaska, and Hawaii. A fantastical picaresque featuring a komodo dragon, a hula dancer, an Incan mummy, many piñatas, and one wild dog."
Title: Alphabetical Order in - Alphabetical Order and Donkey's Years / COL Author: Frayn, Michael Publisher: Eyre Methuen ltd. 1977
Description:
roy comedy seven characters four male; three female two acts
"Set in the library of a provincial newspaper where battle is joined between the forces of order and chaos, between arid organisation in the person of the new library assistant, Leslie, and humane confusion in the person of Lucy, the much-loved resident librarian". Title: Ambush at Tether's End in - The Factory Lab Anthology / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - comedy five characters four male; one female two acts
"...develops the serious game of one-upmanship. Here the superior being is Max, the corpse, who has demonstrated his intellectual supremacy through an artfully arranged suicide. His rival, Jobeo, tries to outwit Max by preparing the stage for a rational homicide. Our real concern, however, is with the two pawns of the game, Galt and Bush, little men embodying only the stereotypes of businessman and sportsman. The comic interest lies in watching their patterns of evasion. They are outwitted in this aspect though by Max's parents, the Cranes. When Jobeo flees
Title: April in Paris in - Plays: 3 (John Godber) / COL Author: Godber, John Publisher: Methuen & Co 2003
Description:
roy comedy - British - travel two characters one male; one female two acts
"Bet and Al lead a quiet, humdrum life in their small Yorkshire home until Bet wins a 'Romantic Breaks' competition in a magazine. The prize, a holiday in Paris, represents their first experience abroad and has profound effects on the way they look at the world around them once they return home. They sort out French cuisine, wrestle with their phrase book, and fend off would-be muggers on the Metro in this hilarious depiction of the English abroad."
Title: Arms and the Man in - Eight Great Comedies / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: New American Library 1958
Description:
roy comedy - classics seven characters four male; three female three acts
2 interior; 1 exterior set.
"With the whimsical satire shows the romantic Sergius and 'the chocolate soldier' Bruntschi as without illusions concerning the nature of war. Bruntschi wins Raina; Sergius finds consolation in marrying the maid". Title: Baby with the Bathwater in - Complete Full-Length Plays,1975-1995 / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1997
Description:
roy satire five characters two male; three female two acts
"Satiric look at parenthood and sex roles in contemporary society."
Title: Back to Beulah in - Dramatic (CCO) Author: Mitchell, W. O. Publisher: Macmillan and Company 1982
Description:
roy comedy seven characters three male; four female two acts
'Christmas has come just halfway through the critical first year of the new halfway house that Beulah Mental Institute has allowed Dr. Margaret Anders to open on a trial basis. Dr. Anders feels that the healing power of a more normal life outside institution walls can better help the mentally ill Harriet and Betty and Agnes. The experiment has gone well so far and she has reason to be optimistic about what she considers her 'parable of hope'. The need for an infant Jesus for the creche under the Christmas tree shatters that optimism.'
Title: Baltimore Waltz, the - a scene from in - The Way We Live Now - COL Author: Vogel, Paula Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990
Description:
roy dramatic comedy three characters two males; one female one scene
"Dramatic comedy set in Baltimore, Maryland hospital. Imaginary trip to Europe shared by sister and brother vehicle for comments on attitudes towards AIDS." Title: Barefoot in the Park in - The Comedy of Neil Simon - COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Avon Books 1971
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female three acts
After a six-day honeymoon a spanking new lawyer and his young bride, move into a high-rent apartment that she has chosen. But, in order to enjoy the charming of the apartment, one has to climb six wheezing flights to get to it. Absolutely bare of furniture with bad paint job, there isn't room for a double bed, and an outlandish gourmet who lives in a loft on the roof uses it and the window ledge as the only access to his loft. The situation is enough to break the heart of any stylish lawyer; and indeed it does - on the night he flatly refuses to join his wife in a barefoot
Title: Beggars in the House of Plenty in - 13 by Shanley (COL) Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy comedy - dark, Irish six characters two male; four female three acts
1 interior.
"Black comedy about life in dysfunctional Irish Catholic family in New York City."
Title: Betty's Summer Vacation in - American Theatre (Dec 99) - PER Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy seven characters, group of voices four male; three female two acts
"Looking for a little rest and time by herself, Betty rents a summer share at the beach. But Betty's luck turns to delicious lunacy when this sensible Everywoman gets drawn into the chaotic world of some very unsavory housemates-her friend Trudy who talks too much; the lewd, semi-naked Buck, who tries to have sex with everyone; and Keith, a possible serial killer who hides in a room with a mysterious hat box. With sand between her toes, walking a thin line between sanity and survival, poor Betty will leave her summer vacation more terrorized than tan." Title: Beyond Therapy in - Complete Full-Length Plays,1975-1995 / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1997
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six characters four male; two female two acts
"Bruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy. Prudence's macho therapist is urging her to be more assertive while Bruce's wacky female therapist is urging him to meet someone of the opposite sex by placing a personal ad. She does not fully comprehend that Bruce has a male lover who is not pleased by Bruce's decision to date a woman."
Title: Big Soft Nellie in - Kelly's Eye and other plays (COL) Author: Livings, Henry Publisher: Methuen & Co 1964
Description:
roy comedy seven characters five male; two female two acts
'Dependable repairman rebels and steals his boss' television cabinet. Regional and British dialect.'
Title: Birthday Party, The in - The Birthday Party and The Room / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1960
Description:
roy tragicomedy six characters four male; two female one act
'After birthday party for their only lodger, old country couple watch disturbed lodger dragged away from the home by two mysterious visitors.' Title: Birthday Party, The in - Plays:One / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Methuen & Co 1960
Description:
roy tragicomedy six characters four male; two female one act
'After birthday party for their only lodger, old country couple watch disturbed lodger dragged away from the home by two mysterious visitors.'
Title: Birthday Party, The in - Complete Works: One / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1960
Description:
roy tragicomedy six characters four male; two female one act
'After birthday party for their only lodger, old country couple watch disturbed lodger dragged away from the home by two mysterious visitors.'
Title: Bordertown Cafe in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fourth Edition (CCO) Author: Rebar, Kelly Publisher: Talonbooks 2001
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
In a small family-run "bordertown" cafe, Jimmy faces the most important decisions of his life. Caught between his Canadian mother and his American father, he must decide where he wants to live - and who he really is. Title: Buffalo Jump in - Playwrights in Profile: Carol Bolt - CCO Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy comedy - depression era five characters four male; one female two acts
"A free-wheeling, irreverent and funny look at Canada during the Depression."
Title: Buffalo Jump in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Irwin Publishing Inc. 1984
Description:
roy comedy - depression era five characters four male; one female two acts
'Produced under title: 'Next Year Country'. Set in Canada during Depression, 1935. To protest poor conditions and minimal wages, relief camp inhabitants march on Vancouver, inciting riots, mass demonstrations, and support from general populace.'
Title: Butterflies Are Free in - Plays on a Comic Theme / COL Author: Gershe, Leonard Publisher: Random House 1969
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A blind young bachelor who is attempting to declare his independence to his overprotective mother by moving into his own apartment, is supported in his stand by his neighbor, a young divorced actress who believes in total freedom. Title: Candida in - Bernard Shaw Selected Plays / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1981
Description:
roy satire - mystery six characters four male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
'Domestic comedy. A clergyman is appalled to find his wife idealized by an 18-year-old poet.'
Title: Candida in - Nine Plays by Bernard Shaw / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1935
Description:
roy comedy - family relations six characters four male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
"Domestic comedy. Clergyman is appalled to find his wife idealized by an 18-year-old poet".
Title: Candida in - Plays Pleasant Bernard Shaw / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1965
Description:
roy satire - mystery six characters four male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
'Domestic comedy. A clergyman is appalled to find his wife idealized by an 18-year-old poet.' Title: Candida in - Classic Comedies / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: New American Library 1985
Description:
roy satire - mystery six characters four male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
'Domestic comedy. A clergyman is appalled to find his wife idealized by an 18-year-old poet.'
Title: Candida in - The Art of Drama / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1976
Description:
roy satire - mystery six characters four male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
'Domestic comedy. A clergyman is appalled to find his wife idealized by an 18-year-old poet.'
Title: Carving a Statue in - The Collected Plays of Graham Greene / COL Author: Greene, Graham Publisher: Penguin Books 1985
Description:
roy farce five characters three male; two female three acts
'Comedy about sculptor's obsession with carving biblical figures.' Title: Chapter Two in - The Collected Plays of Neil Simon / COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Random House 1979
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
"George Schneider, a novelist in his 40's, is trying to fit together the pieces of his life since his wife Barbara died. He has already collapsed, sought therapy, and toured Europe alone. He is ready for Chapter Two, which his brother Leo is helping out with, making sure that George keeps meeting eligible women. Jennie Malone, an actress getting over a divorce, receives the same kind of support from her friend Faye. Leo and Faye get George and Jennie together, and though both believe it is too early to become involved in a serious relationship, they fall in love and marry
Title: Circle, The in - Three Comedies / COL Author: Maugham, W. Somerset Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy social comedy - marital relations seven characters four male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
"Social comedy of English country life. Unmarried couple who eloped years before return to England and set example for similar situation to happen".
Title: Circle, The in - W. Somerset Maugham: Selected Plays - COL Author: Maugham, W. Somerset Publisher: Penguin Books 1963
Description:
roy social comedy - marital relations seven characters four male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
"Social comedy of English country life. Unmarried couple who eloped years before return to England and set example for similar situation to happen". Title: Clean House, The in - American Theatre (Nov. 2004) - PER Author: Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004
Description:
roy comedy - women - political issues seven characters one male; four female (doubling) two acts
A fantastical play about comedy and cleaning.
Title: Clean House, The in - The Clean House and Other Plays / COL Author: Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2006
Description:
roy comedy - women - political issues seven characters one male; four female (doubling) two acts
"Sarah Ruhl’s comedy about a physician with a cheating husband and a housekeeper who hates to clean."
Title: Colas and Colinette; or, The Bailiff Confounded in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 4 / CCO Author: Quesnel, Joseph Publisher: CTR Publications 1982
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Quebec five characters four male; one female three acts
No abstract available. Title: Cold Comfort in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 31, Summer 1981 - PER Author: Garrard, Jim Publisher: Miscellaneous 1982
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian three characters two male; one female two acts
"Cold Comfort" is the third in a quartet of plays. The play could take place anywhere along the Trans-Canada Highway, but it happens to be set in Saskatchewan, the geographic centre of the country. There are three characters in the play: Dolores, a fifteen year old girl who wants to know more about the world than the window and the household TV can tell her; Floyd, her father, with whom she lives in an abandoned service station, whose paternal misdeeds form the sinister backdrop for the play's action; and Stephen, the proverbial travelling salesman, who unwittingly
Title: Come Blow Your Horn in - The Comedy of Neil Simon / COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Avon Books 1971
Description:
roy comedy seven characters three male; four female three acts
1 interior set.
A swinging bachelor is forced to re-evaluate his lifestyle when his younger brother moves in with him and begins to emulate him; when his father fires him from the family business because he is too irresponsible; and when he realizes that he is truly falling in love with one of the many girls he dates.
Title: Coming of Age in Soho in - Best Plays of Albert Innaurato / COL Author: Innaurato, Albert Publisher: Gay Presses of New York 1987
Description:
roy farce - fantasy - homosexuality seven characters four male; one female; two boys three acts
"The scene is a loft in the Soho section of Manhattan, where a blocked writer named Bartholomew Dante (but called Beatrice) has fled to escape his wife of fourteen years and to come to terms with his art and his homosexuality. But his eagerly sought tranquility is interrupted by a series of unexpected visitors: first a young runaway, Di, who is escaping from prep school and uptight family; then an astonishingly precocious teenager with a German accent (Puer) who informs Beatrice that he is his son by a German terrorist with whom Beatrice had a brief but intense fling; Title: Cowboy Versus Samurai in - New Playwrights: The best plays of 2006 / COL Author: Golamco, Michael Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2007
Description:
roy romantic comedy - Asian American four characters three male; one female two acts
"A no-holds-barred romantic comedy, "Cowboy vs. Samurai" re-imagines the 'Cyrano de Bergerac' story with an asian twist. The lives of the only two Asian Americans in the tiny western hamlet of Breakneck, Wyoming are turned upside down when the beautiful Veronica Lee, a Korean American teacher from New York City moves to town. Through irony, humour, and social commentary, 'Cowboy vs. Samurai' cleverly exposes the struggle of Asian Americans to find their place in the vast American landscape...and with each other."
Title: Crabdance in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Simons, Beverley Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy tragicomedy - Canadian four characters three male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
A tragicomedy in which a lonely woman plays elaborate, ritualistic games with three men forced to play her son, her husband, and her lover.
Title: Craig's Wife in - Three Plays about Marriage / COL Author: Kelly, George Publisher: Washington Square Press 1962
Description:
roy drama - marital relations - tragicomedy seven characters two male; five female three acts
1 interior.
"Selfish wife's plans revealed by husband's possible implication in friend's murder." Title: Dead Funny in - Plays: 2 (Terry Johnson) / COL Author: Johnson, Terry Publisher: Methune 1998
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
"The death of Benny Hill prompts this comedy about impotence, sex therapy and the English sense of humour. Eleanor wants what Richard won't give her. Richard wants to be left in peace. Benny would rather rest in peace, but for tonight, at least, his fans won't let him."
Title: Dirt in - Three Really Nasty Plays / CCO Author: Chambers, Ron Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1997
Description:
roy drama - Albertan five characters three male; two female two acts
"[This play] is and unorthodox, early and original variation of a murder mystery crossed with a cop show. Its five characters both attract and repel us as they taunt one another and teeter on the edge of farce."
Title: Dirty Story
Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2007
Description:
roy American - satire - political four characters three male; one female two acts
"DIRTY STORY starts off as a play about a man and a woman in New York who engage in a deep literary conversation and quickly get involved in a volatile relationship. At one point, the woman pulls a gun on the man and declares, "Call me Israel". Yes, she's Israel; he's Palestine, and before long, a big-talking Texan (the United States) gets into the middle of the situation." Title: Dora: A Case of Hysteria in - Canadian Theatre Review No.65, Winter 1990 - PER Author: Morrissey, Kim Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1994
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - black - drama three characters two male; one female two acts
"A feminist play about Freud and his most famous patient."
Title: Double Infidelity in - Seven Comedies by Marivaux / COL Author: Marivaux Publisher: Cornell University Press 1967
Description:
roy romantic comedy six characters; extras three male; three female three acts
'Romatic comedy in pastoral setting. Young betrothed couple discover each loves someone else.'
Title: Drag Queens on Trial in - Painted, Tainted, Sainted / CCO Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy comedy, drag queens all male cast; three characters three male two acts
'On the witness stand the Drag Queens reveal fantastic romantic lives; in their dressing room they are cruelly oppressed by straight culture. Which is real?' Title: Earth is a Witch, The Witch is a Saint, The Saint is Applause, The in - The Earth is a Witch, The Witch is a Saint, The Saint is Applause / CCO Author: Waits, Death Publisher: Exile Editions 1994
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian all female cast; six characters six female two acts
"A fable about the trials and tribulations of six imaginary nuns in a decidedly historical convent. An intense, deeply comic exploration of why some nuns become saints, others become witches, and others are forgotten all together."
Title: East-West: A Dialogue in Suzdal in - Nose! Nose? No-se! - COL Author: Amalrik, Andrei Publisher: Harcourt Brace Publishers 1973
Description:
roy satire six characters three male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
"Absurdist satire. Chinese spy falls in love with student's aging mistress but is killed by patriotic Russian official who also desires her. Student falls in love with girl recruited by Chinese and C.I.A".
Title: Entertaining Mr. Sloane in - The Complete plays of Joe Orton (COL) Author: Orton, Joe Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1977
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
The arrival of a good looking young boarder brings on the seductiveness of the landlady, the morality of her brother and the murder of their father who recognizes the young man as his boss' murderer. Title: Ethan Claymore in - Marigraph - CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters five male; one female two acts
'With a lot of nudging from a well-meaning friend, and a visit from his recently-deceased brother, a young widower re-enters the world and finds love and laughter.'
Title: Evelyn Strange in - Cocktails at Pam's & Evelyn Strange - CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
'A beautiful amnesiac wanders into the world of publishing and high society in 1950's New York and, as she seeks her identity, unravels a tangled web of deceit, betrayal and murder. Hilarity and suspense go hand in hand as the perplexed and perplexing Evelyn leads three urban sophisticates on a mad dash from the Metropolitan Opera to Grand Central Station, and in and out of the offices, apartments and hotel rooms of mid-town Manhattan.'
Title: FareWel in - Beyond the Pale - (CCO) Author: Ross, Ian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - drama six characters four male; two female scene seven of a two act play
"Life is tense on the Partridge Crop Reserve. The Chief is in Las Vegas (again), the band is in receivership, and there's a move on to unilaterally declare self-government. And now that the welfare cheques have gone missing, the people of this fictional First Nation are forced to take control of their lives." Title: Fashion, Power, Guilt and the Charity of Families in - Thirteen Hands and Other Plays - CCO Author: Shields, Carol Publisher: Random House 1995
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Canadian - family relations seven characters four male; three female (doubling possible) two acts
"Explores the social and private worlds of the modern family in this funny, poignant, and gently challenging play. When a department of government bureaucrats begins to receive widespread complaints of loneliness, it attempts to legislate a remedy by creating a "family unit" which appears, on the surface at least, to be a stereotypical suburban family. But it is not until the "family unit" looks inward and addresses its problems - including the unspoken secret which has haunted the parents for years - that they become a real family. A uniquely contemporary
Title: Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage in - Humana Festival 2001 / COL Author: Martin, Jane Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2001
Description:
roy comedy - western - horror seven characters four male; three female two acts
"It’s Zane Gray meets Stephen King in this spoof of grade B westerns of the 50’s combined with low-budget horror films. This hit of the 2001 Humana Festival mixes hilarity with horror as a Modern day monster faces off against the Cowboy Code of the Wild West. Big 8 has retired from the rodeo circuit and now uses her “healin’ hands” on young injured rodeo wannabes. Her current “inductee” is recuperating when Shedevil, a pierced pink-haired punk arrives being chased by Black Dog, a Hell’s Angel who won’t quit..."
Title: For Whom the Bell Chimes in - The Collected Plays of Graham Greene / COL Author: Greene, Graham Publisher: Penguin Books 1985
Description:
roy comedy seven characters six male; one female three acts
'Comedy thriller about mistaken identity and murder.' Title: Four PP, The in - Five Pre-Shakespearean Comedies / COL Author: Heywood, John Publisher: Oxford University Press 1966
Description:
roy farce- tudor verse play all male cast; four characters four male one act
'Tudor farcical interlude in verse. Four quacks settle arguement about which of their professions is most important in lying contest.'
Title: Fourposter in - The Tony Winners / COL Author: de Hartog, Jan Publisher: Doubleday 1977
Description:
roy comedy two characters one male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
This play depicts twenty-five years of marriage from the wedding night to the day the couple moves to a new place after their children have grown up.
Title: Fuddy Meers in - American Theatre (July 00) - PER Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David Publisher: The Overlook Press 1999
Description:
roy comedy seven characters four male; three female two acts
"Claire has a rare form of amnesia that erases her memory whenever she goes to sleep. This morning, like all mornings, she wakes up a blank slate. Her chipper husband comes in with a cup of coffee, explains her condition, hands her a book filled with all sorts of essential information, and he disappears into the shower. A strange man in a ski mask pops out from under her bed claiming to be her brother, there to save her. Claire's info book is discarded, and she's hustled off to her mother's country-house. Every twist and turn in this fun-house plot brings Claire closer to Title: Fulgens and Lucrece in - Five Pre-Shakespearean Comedies / COL Author: Medwall, Henry Publisher: Oxford University Press 1966
Description:
roy comedy - romance - verse play seven characters five male; two female two acts (parts)
'Early Tudor Play in Verse. Roman senator's daughter chooses noble commoner instead of worthless patrician as husband.'
Title: Game of Love and Chance, The in - Seven Comedies by Marivaux / COL Author: Marivaux Publisher: Cornell University Press 1967
Description:
roy comedy - romance seven characters five male; two female three acts
'Parents arrange marriage of couple who have never met. Unbeknowst to each other, the couple disguise themselves as servants to test their love.'
Title: Garrison's Garage in - Canadian Theatre Review No.45, Winter 1985 - PER Author: Johns, Ted Publisher: Miscellaneous 1985
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female two acts
'A comic poke at revenue Canada.' Title: Gemini in - Bizarre Behavior / COL Author: Innaurato, Albert Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1960
Description:
roy comedy romance seven characters four male; three female two acts
The story takes place in the backyard of adjoining houses in South Philadelphia: one house occupied by Fran Geminiani, a laborer, and his son, Francis, a Harvard student; the other by a boisterous, earthy divorcee named Bunny and her fat, asthmatic son, Herschel. It is the eve of Francis' twenty-first birthday, and suddenly he is paid a surprise visit by two friends from college, a brother and sister named Hastings, who set up a tent in the backyard. The friends, Randy and Judith, are wealthy, attractive and from an elevated social background which contrasts painfully
Title: General Confession in - Hunting Stuart & Other Plays / CCO Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: New Press 1972
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy seven characters five male; two female three acts
interior representative set; 18 century costume.
"Comedy. Casanova, a librarian in his old age, conjures up Voltaire, Cagliostro and the Ideal Beloved (all aspects of himself) in order to judge his life."
Title: Gingerbread Lady, The in - The Collected Plays of Neil Simon / COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Random House 1979
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
"Evy Meara is a pop singer, gone to pot from too much alcohol and sex. When the play opens, she is nearing the end of a ten-week 'drying out' period. A lady friend, a homosexual actor, a daughter, and a former lover all try to help her adjust to her new sober life, but they leave her worse off than before, and by the end of the play Evy Meara is definitely off the wagon". Title: Give Me Shelter in - Woman Playwrights : The Best Plays of 1998 / COL Author: Weiner, Wendy Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2000
Description:
roy comedy - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
'Chronicles young woman's desparate, hilarious search for a livable New York apartment.'
Title: Good Doctor, The in - The Collected Plays of Neil Simon / COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Random House 1979
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
various sets.
"A play made up of vignettes from the short stories of Anton Chekhov: a scolding woman who berates a bank manager for his gout and lack of money, a father who takes his son to a place where he can be initiated into the mysteries of sex but then loses his nerve and abandons his son there, a man who offers to drown himself for three rubles. The principal role is that of Writer - a
Title: Goodbye People, The in - Herb Gardner: The Collected Plays / COL Author: Gardner, Herb Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy comedy - American six characters five male; one female three acts
"Old Max Silverman has a dream - he wants to open a hot dog stand, on Coney Island, in February. Max is obsessed with recapturing the glory years of tube steak history, for one last grand hot-dog hurrah. He's enlisted his wayward daughter and a beachcombing stranger to help in the crazy venture. This quirky, madcap comedy is out to prove that it's never too late to go after your dreams." Title: Goose-Pimples in - Abigail's Party and Goose-Pimples / COL Author: Leigh, Mike Publisher: Penguin Books 1981
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
'A vicious comedy that is funny even when it hurts.'
Title: Gravel Run in - Theatrum (Dec/Jan 1989/90) - PER Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Miscellaneous 1991
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
A wildly dysfunctional family plans a small-town wedding for a prodigal daughter who returns home after a five-year absence.
Title: Grendelmaus in - The Eldritch Plays / CCO Author: Woolfe, Eric Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004
Description:
roy comedy - puppet show - horror - romance two characters one male; one female nineteen scenes
puppets required.
"Two co-workers have to deal with an evil mouse made immortal by eating the dead flesh of Grendel ... as well as a finicky work supervisor, and eccentric mother, an ancient book of spells, and, naturally, love." Title: Guide to Mourning, The in - Two Plays / CCO Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1999
Description:
roy dark comedy - Canadian - family relations six characters four male; two female two acts
"This play is a dark comedy whose backdrop is the death of a father and husband. The widow deals with her loss in a series of practical and bizarre acts, which include laying tissue paper all over the house. Her children return home, and as funeral arrangements proceed, events become more fantastic - from the arrival of the minister, who's drunk, to the theft of a pair of running shoes."
Title: Hey You, Light Man! in - Three Plays from the Yale School of Drama - COL Author: Hailey, Oliver Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1964
Description:
roy drama - theatre seven characters three male; four female two acts
"Ashley Knight, a leading man, has decided to live onstage in the set of his current hit. The play being a sophisticated comedy, the set is quite lavish. As he is settling down, brandy in hand, a woman comes out of the empty orchestra and asks directions for getting out of the theatre. She has fallen asleep during the performance and now the doors are locked. This is Lula Roca, a rather plain and frumpy young widow whose husband, a stagehand, was recently killed by a falling sandbag."
Title: High Bid, The In - London Assurance and Other Victorian Comedies / COL Author: James, Henry Publisher: Oxford University Press 2001
Description:
roy comedy - Victorian six characters; extras four male; two female three acts
"This three-act play was written in 1907. It's the expanded version of the author's one-act play SUMMERSOFT - a romantic comedy about a wealthy American woman who buys an old English house." Title: Hothouse, The in - Plays:One / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Methuen & Co 1980
Description:
roy black comedy seven characters six male; one female two acts
5 interiors.
"Black comedy set at a government-run mental institution managed by corrupt, inept bureaucrats, where patients are referred to only by number. Tensions among staff lead to murder."
Title: Human Remains in - Four Plays by Larry Fineberg / CCO Author: Fineberg, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act
Billy, Olive and Jeremy have all loved one another. It has left them confused, lonely and intensely vulnerable. In the aftermath of Billy's failed suicide, they are forced to recognize their mutual needs and individual capacities.
Title: Hunting Stuart in - Hunting Stuart & Other Plays / CCO Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: New Press 1972
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy seven characters three male; four female three acts
interior representative set.
"'Comedy' in which a minor civil servant in Ottawa is discovered to be a direct descendant of Bonnie Prince Charlie. With the aid of a new drug, he relives episodes from the life of his famous ancestor, to the consternation of his family." Title: Hurray For Johnny Canuck in - Six Canadian Plays / CCO Author: Gass, Ken Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - high school - superheroes six characters four male; two female two acts
"Based on the popular wartime comic book series, this freewheeling romp through the nostalgia and nationalist fantasies features clean-cut Johnny Canuck, Superhero, as he deals telling blows to the fascist war machine. Suitable for high-school audiences."
Title: Hysteria in - Plays: 2 (Terry Johnson) / COL Author: Johnson, Terry Publisher: Methune 1998
Description:
roy farce four characters three male; one female two acts
"In HYSTERIA one of Freud's earliest "cases" returns to haunt the psychoanalyst but finds Salvador Dali hiding in the cupboard. It is "one of the most brilliantly original and entertaining new plays I have seen in years: wild, weird and funny, serious, compassionate and shocking, blasphemous and reverential, intellectual and frivolous, a factual fantasy, a demented farce, a black nightmare. (Sunday Times)"
Title: I'm Not Rappaport in - Herb Gardner: The Collected Plays / COL Author: Gardner, Herb Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy comedy - American seven characters five male; two female two acts
"Set in a secluded spot in New York's Central Park, the play is about two octogenarians determined to fight off all attempts to put them out to pasture. Talk about an odd couple! Nat is a lifelong radical determined to fight injustice, real or imagined, and is also something of a spinner of fantasies. The other half of this unlikely partnership is Midge, a black apartment super who spends his days in the park hiding out from tenants, who want him to retire." Title: Idler, The in - Twenty Years at Play / CCO Author: Weir, Ian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy comedy seven characters five male; one female (doubling) two acts
'The play is based on a newspaper article about a father's grudging admiration for his educated sons who were all on welfare, none of them doing anything formally useful. It takes a comic view of self-delusion, the crassness of modern life, and the personal myths we create to help sustain our sense of dignity of worth.'
Title: Imagine Drowning in - Plays: 2 (Terry Johnson) / COL Author: Johnson, Terry Publisher: Methune 1998
Description:
roy comedy - mystery - suspense seven characters four male; three female two acts
"A journalist disappears while covering a protest at Sellafield. When his wife sets out to find him two weeks later, she stays at the same guesthouse and encounters the same bizarre collection of characters including the wife of a mass murderer, an ex-astronaut beach bum and a wheel-chair bound activist."
Title: Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow in - American Theatre Vol. 23, No. 7 - PER Author: Jones, Rolin Publisher: Miscellaneous 2005
Description:
roy comedy - science six characters three male; three female two acts
"Twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Marcus has an IQ that is off the charts. But it is of little help in understanding her driven, trade show-organizing mother, Adele, or her father Marshall, a former fireman who was forced to retire due to stress. Nor does it help break the grip of an obsessive-compulsive disorder that has her trapped in her house. Fortunately, she has two avenues to the outside: her pizza-delivering friend Todd and the internet. Through them, and "Jenny Chow," a fully functioning replica she builds of herself, she will make the breakthroughs Title: Internationalist, The in - American Theatre Vol.24.No.1 / PER Author: Washburn, Anne Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy-enigmatic six characters four male;two female full length
Lowell, an American on a business trip, is met at the airport by a beautiful colleague. They spend the night together and he thinks he's in one of those great American movies where you go to a foreign land and there's romance and adventure and the experience changes you. The next day at the office he discovers that he's not in one of those movies, he's in one of those foreign films where nothing is as it seems, where there is no moral, and most importantly: no subtitles.
Title: Invalids, The in - The West of All Possible Worlds - CCO Author: Hunka, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy absurdist comedy six characters two male; one female (doubling) three acts
In the first of three acts, a highly dysfunctional couple, Gothard and Vera, come to a deserted café to celebrate their anniversary. Their waiter, Maximilian, has injuries suffered in a recent fall, but he nevertheless insists on providing perfect service. In Act 2, Vera arrives at the same café a few months later with Gustav, an old friend of Gothard who is recovering from surgery to correct a lifelong limp. Their waiter is Schmarr, who stammers and wears an eye patch. In the third act, several months on, Gustav and Gothard come to the café and are waited on by Maria, who is in the
Title: Iphigenia and Other Daughters in - The Greek Plays / COL Author: McLaughlin, Ellen Euripides Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2005
Description:
roy tragedy - Greek - Euripides - historical - women five characters; chorus (minimum five young women) one male; four female three acts
"Years ago, the Greeks told stories of war: the murders, the fathers who sacrificed, the sons who avenged deaths, and the women who waited for them. Iphigenia and Other Daughters is Ellen McLaughlin's fascinating retelling of these stories. With biting and lyrical dialogue, set in a timeless, war-torn home, this play violently and tenderly explores these women: the daughters sacrificed, the mothers left childless, and the others left pondering their places in a man's world of war, a world destined to become his story." Title: Italian American Reconciliation, An in - 13 by Shanley / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy comedy - romance five characters two male; three female two acts
1 setting.
"Romantic comedy. Vagaries of love Italian-American style, as man attempts to win back ex-wife."
Title: Jack Goes Boating in - American Theatre, vol. 24, no. 6 / PER Author: Glaudini, Bob Publisher: Miscellaneous 2007
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
"Laced with cooking classes, swimming lessons and a smorgasbord of illegal drugs, Jack Goes Boating is described as a story of date panic, marital meltdown, betrayal and the prevailing grace of the human spirit."
Title: Kafka's Dick in - Two Kafka Plays / COL Author: Bennett, Alan Publisher: Faber and Faber 1987
Description:
roy comedy seven characters five male; two female two acts
2 interiors.
"Comedy. Franz Kafka, his parents, and Max Brod visit home of besotted British insurance agent in contemporary England." Title: Kvetch in - Steven Berkoff: Volume 2: The Collected Plays / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: Faber and Faber 1986
Description:
roy comedy - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
"Black comedy about the deepest hates, fears and anxieties that lie beneath the surface of a typical American family".
Title: Kvetch in - Kvetch and Acapulco / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: Faber and Faber 1986
Description:
roy comedy - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
"Black comedy about the deepest hates, fears and anxieties that lie beneath the surface of a typical American family".
Title: Land of Cockaigne, The in - The Land of Cockaigne and English Made Simple / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1995
Description:
roy comedy - drama six characters two male; four female three scenes
unit set.
"Three poignant scenes depict a small family birthday party in a Midwestern yard on a summer day. Each scene presents a different angle on the group, what they say and who they may be. Is this the ideal American family, exactly the opposite, or something in between?" Title: Last Call in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male two acts
A provocative, witty, spell-binding black comedy set in the post-nuclear ruins of a large North American city.
Title: Late : A Cowboy Song in - The Clean House and Other Plays / COL Author: Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2006
Description:
roy comedy - women three characters one male; two female four parts
"Ruhl calls 'Late: A Cowboy Song' a "romantic western" about a married modern woman outside Pittsburgh who runs off with "a lady cowboy."
Title: Late Blumer, The in - Four New Comedies / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters; extras three male; two female two acts
"Vancouver 1967. Blumer takes the ultimate acid trip and sleeps for seventeen years, waking up to find himself in 1984. Can he adjust? Can Vancouver?" Title: Laughing Wild in - Complete Full-Length Plays, 1975-1995 / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1997
Description:
roy satire three characters one male; one female two acts
"Satirical sketches on contemporary life."
Title: Leader, The in - Rhinoceros and Other Plays / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1961
Description:
roy satire - political six characters four male; two female three acts
1 exterior.
"Satire on mass adulation of political leaders."
Title: Like Father Like fun in - Three Plays by Eric Nicol / CCO Author: Nicol, Eric Publisher: Talonbooks 1975
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
"A father arranges for a woman to seduce his son in the hopes that the son will learn to appreciate the finer things in life." Title: Living Together in - The Norman Conquests / COL Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1975
Description:
roy comedy - trilogy six characters three male; three female two acts
"Annie, the Cinderella of the family, lives in the shabby Victorian vicarage-type house where the family was brought up. Reg, her brother, and his wife Sarah come to stay for a week-end so that she may go away for a rest. The general idea is that Annie ought to pair off with Tom. But for this week-end it is Norman, the raffish assistant librarian husband of Annie's sister Ruth, with whom she planned to go. They were to meet secretly but Norman turns up early. When Annie calls the whole thing off Norman decides to stay on at the house and gets roaring drunk".
Title: Lloyd's Prayer in - American Theatre (Nov 88) - PER Author: Kling, Kevin Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1988
Description:
roy comedy - parable four characters three male; one female two acts
1 setting.
"...a hilarious comic parable about Bob, the Racoon Boy, and what happens to him when he is rescued from the raccoons who raised him and taught what it means to be human... He is taken from his cage at Mom and Dad's house by an ambitious ex-con named Lloyd, who sees the racoon boy as his ticket to fame and fortune..."
Title: Lola Starr Builds her Dream Home in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - fringe six characters; extras four male; one female (doubling) two acts
An aging 'star' is talked into murdering her current boyfriend by her daughter. Title: Lola Starr Builds her Dream Home in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 59, Summer 1989 - PER Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Miscellaneous 1989
Description:
roy Canadian - fringe six characters; extras four male; one female (doubling) two acts
An aging 'star' is talked into murdering her current boyfriend by her daughter.
Title: Look Back In Anger in - Three Plays By John Osborne / COL Author: Osborne, John Publisher: Criterion Books 1958
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
Angry young Jimmy Porter looks back because he has so little incentive to look ahead. The words pour out of him, a flood of satire and invective. The words are often cruel, but they are also vibrant and colorful. They sting the characters of the play as well as the audience. In Jimmy Porter's boiling resentment at not being able to find himself in his own generation, he makes life
Title: Loot in - The Complete Plays of Joe Orton / COL Author: Orton, Joe Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1977
Description:
roy satire - mystery, comedy six characters five male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
An old woman's death provides an opportunity for her nurse to propose to her husband; her son and lover to hide the money they have stolen in her coffin; her husband to indulge in his love for roses; and the police to exhibit their corruptness. Title: Maid to Marry in - The Killer and Other Plays by Eugene Ionesco / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene Watson, Donald Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1960
Description:
roy farce three characters one male; two female one scene
1 interior set.
"Short comical farce with no plot about modern civilization"
Title: Man and the Fly, The in - The New Wave Spanish Drama / COL Author: Ruibal, Saul translated by José Ruibal Publisher: New York University 1970
Description:
roy satire all male cast; two characters; extras two male three acts
'Ruler of country for seventy years creates his double to continue on in an attempt to achieve immortality.'
Title: Maritime Way of Life, The in - Marigraph - CCO Author: Rhindress, Charlie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy comedy - satire seven characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
A ripping satire on the "maritime way of life". Title: Mary, Mary in - Best American Plays / COL Author: Kerr, Jean Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1961
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations five characters three male; two female three acts
"Mary is witty and clever, a condition which caused her marriage with Bob to fail. When she returns to Bob's apartment at the request of his attorney, to help her former husband with his income tax problems, her sense of humor has not waned. Bob is on the verge of marrying Tiffany Richards, a rich, beautiful health fiend. When Dirk Winston, a movie idol, offers Mary love, passion, and a weekend together in Florida, Bob realizes his need for Mary and locks her in the bathroom so that she can't make the Florida trip. After a disgruntled Dirk Winston leaves, we
Title: Mayonnaise in - Popular Performance Plays of Canada, Volume 2 / CCO Author: Ibbitson, John Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1981
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy three characters; extras two male, one female two acts
1 interior.
"Comedy. Two cartoonists, trapped in London apartment by snow storm, become rivals for the attentions of attractive neighbour."
Title: Me and Matroni in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 100, Fall 1999 - PER Author: Martin, Alexis translated by Wanda Romer Taylor Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999
Description:
roy dramatic comedy five characters four male; one female five scenes
'A comic confrontation between the worlds of academic philosophy and violent crime, first produced in French by the Groupement Forestier du Theatre, published here in a new English version.' Title: Mean Tears in - Mean Tears/In the Blue / COL Author: Gill, Peter Publisher: Oberon Press 1987
Description:
roy comedy - tragedy - relationships five characters two male; three female sixteen scenes
"The story of a love affair between two men, and some women. Peter Gill's gifts have rarely been seen to better advantage than in this lyric yet painful study of desperate entanglement".
Title: Melancholy Play in - The Clean House and Other Plays / COL Author: Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2006
Description:
roy farce - American six characters three male; three female two acts
"This contemporary farce concerns Ruhl’s distinction between depression and melancholy — the latter, she postures, can be a beautiful, even healthy, thing — but that’s not to say this is heavy material. After all, one character is so melancholic she turns into an almond. And the almond, as Ruhl writes in her notes for the play, is shaped the very same as the amygdala, the part of the human brain that processes emotion."
Title: Minutes from the Blue Route in - The Beginning of August and Other Plays - COL Author: Donaghy, Tom Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 2000
Description:
roy comedy - domestic relations four characters two male; two female two acts
'This play begins when a 30-year-old son arrives home for a brief visit to his parents' house. We soon learn that he has AIDS, that he is gay and in love with a man named Jonathan who sells holiday knickknacks but is unable to make a commitment to the relationship. His younger sister is being pressured to go back to finish her business degree at college, partly because her parents want her to move out so they can sell their house. She doesn't want to go, mainly because she is in love with an unseen guy who works nights. The mother is frantic with worry about the future; Title: Mirandolina in - The Classic Theatre Volume 1: Six Italian Plays / COL Author: Goldoni, Carlo Gregory, Lady Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
roy comedy - Italian plays six characters five male; one female three acts
English version by Lady Augusta Gregory. Description not available.
Title: Miss Orient(ed) in - Canadian Theatre Review vol. 125 / PER Author: Aquino, Nina Villasin, Nadine Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006
Description:
roy comedy - satire - culture - beauty - racism five characters all female; five female seventeen scenes
"The authors explore the charged atmosphere of the Filipina Canadian Beauty pageant as three "friends", one born in the Philippines, one second-generation Filipina Canadian and one "fresh-off-the-boat", compete for the title."
Title: Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl in - Canadian Mosaic II / CCO Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1996
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
"A Chinese son must tell his parents he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called Wrath of the Yellow Claw."
Winner of the 1998/99 Elizabeth Stirling Haynes Award for Best New Work. Title: Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
"A Chinese son must tell his parents he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called Wrath of the Yellow Claw."
Winner of the 1998/99 Elizabeth Stirling Haynes Award for Best New Work.
Title: Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl in - Ethnicities: Plays from the New West / CCO Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
"A Chinese son must tell his parents he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called Wrath of the Yellow Claw."
Winner of the 1998/99 Elizabeth Stirling Haynes Award for Best New Work.
Title: Monkeyshines in - Four New Comedies / CCO Author: Finlay, Suzanne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - relationships three characters two male; one female two acts
"Stuart has secretly been in love with Dorothy for forty-five years. As she is now apparently a widow, he returns to her doorstep with hopes of finally winning her heart. Their new-found romance rejuvenates the bloom of their faded youth." Title: Monogamist, The in - American Theatre (Mar 96) - PER Author: Kyle, Christopher Publisher: Miscellaneous 1996
Description:
roy comedy - drama - satire five characters two male; three female two acts
Dennis, a forty-something poet, has just written a collection of poems concerned with the new relevance of monogamy in 1960s America. In a testament to his new philosophy, he's married his longtime companion, Susan, a professor of women's literature at Princeton. So imagine his surprise when he finds Susan in bed with one of her students, the morally ambiguous Tim. Thrown into a mid-life crisis, Dennis ends up in the arms of Sky, a confused twenty-year-old who voted for George Bush because she's frantically pro-choice on abortion. As the liberal Dennis
Title: Motor Trade, The in - The Motor Trade & The Affections of May / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
Phil Moss is a car sales man who's got the tax people on his back, a partner threatening to quit and become a shoe salesman, and a wife who's left him for a rival car dealer. And it isn't even noon yet.
Title: Mousetown in - Mousetown / The Violinist and the Flower Girl / CCO Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - detectives six characters three male; three female one act; twelve scenes
"'Hoods' and 'Dames' love, cheat on and shoot each other in this 1920's detective flick with lots of music and action." Title: Mr. Pim Passes By in - Theatre Guild Anthology - COL Author: Milne, A. A. Publisher: Random House 1936
Description:
roy comedy seven characters three male; four female three acts
1 interior set.
A man who is merely passing through, unwittingly brings a bit of news from Australia that throws a couple into a quandary when the wife learns that she is not a widow who has remarried, but a bigamist.
Title: Mrs. Warren's Profession in - Plays Unpleasant / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1931
Description:
roy satire - social comedy six characters four male; two female four acts
2 interiors; 2 exterior sets.
"Satirical social comedy. Daughter, learning mother heads successful syndicate of international brothels, opts for completely separate life".
Title: Mrs. Warren's Profession in - Classic Theatre: The Humanities in Drama / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1975
Description:
roy satire - social comedy six characters four male; two female four acts
2 interiors; 2 exterior sets.
"Satirical social comedy. Daughter, learning mother heads successful syndicate of international brothels, opts for completely separate life". Title: Mrs. Warren's Profession in - Nine Plays by Bernard Shaw / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1935
Description:
roy satire - social comedy six characters four male; two female four acts
2 interiors; 2 exterior sets.
"Satirical social comedy. Daughter, learning mother heads successful syndicate of international brothels, opts for completely separate life".
Title: Mrs. Warren's Profession in - Mirrors for Man / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Winthrop Publishers, Inc. 1974
Description:
roy satire - social comedy six characters four male; two female four acts
2 interiors; 2 exterior sets.
"Satirical social comedy. Daughter, learning mother heads successful syndicate of international brothels, opts for completely separate life".
Title: New World in - Farther West / New World / CCO Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Coach House Press 1985
Description:
roy comedy - drama - Canadian seven characters four male; three female two acts
"Three siblings, all transplanted Brits, are reunited at the west coast cottage of the eldest brother. Frayed nerves and waspish humour degenerate into nastiness as an array of lovers and hangers-on contribute to the clash between the 'Old' world and the 'New'." Title: Night in November, A in - Stones in His Pockets: Two Plays - COL Author: Jones, Marie Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2000
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - monologue all male cast; one character one male two acts
'(The play) follows Kenneth McCallister, family man and Ulsterman, on the fateful night in November in Belfast when the republic of Ireland qualifies against Northern Ireland for the World Cup, and Kenneth finds himself watching the sectarian hatred of the crowd rather than the football.'
Title: Of Angels and Eskimos in - Oscar Mandel Collected Plays Vol II / COL Author: Mandel, Oscar Publisher: Unicorn Press 1972
Description:
roy farce - marital relations seven characters; extras five male; two female four acts
1 interior.
"Set in an imaginary-like world where men swap wives without hesitation and widows remarry three days after their husbands' deaths. Singing."
Title: Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad in - Best American Plays / COL Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Samuel French 1961
Description:
roy comedy - family relations five characters three male; two female three scenes
2 interiors.
'Surrealistic farce satirizing relationship between wealthy, possessive mother and pathetic overprotected son.' Title: Orphan Muses, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fourth Edition / CCO Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc Publisher: Talonbooks 2001
Description:
roy comedy - French - Canadian - family relations four characters one male; three female three acts
"Four siblings gather with the idea of "settling" family matters - some of which turn out to be not what they expected. They prepare for their mother to return who abandond them twenty years ago. She is coming on Easter Sunday, which lends a powerful dynamic to this odd assembly in Lac-Saint-Jean. There is a rich replaying of family tradition and rural Quebec religious celebration, modulated by the contributions of four eccentric individuals. The play is set in 1965, in Quiet Revolution of Quebec, offers yet another reminiscence another note of re-play."
Title: Parisienne, La in - Boulevard Comedies / COL Author: Becque, Henry Marowitz, Charles Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2000
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female three acts
"Although a comedy, takes a cold hard look at French immorality and didn't recoil from what it saw. Becque lifted the veil of romance from illicit love and, in the process, made many husbands and wives squirm in their seats."
Title: Passion and SIn in - Canadian Theatre Review No.19, Summer 1978 - PER Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Miscellaneous 1978
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female twelve scenes
"A surrealist, satirical gangster drama set in a dilapidated shack on a Havana beach." Title: Passion and Sin in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female twelve scenes
"A surrealist, satirical gangster drama set in a dilapidated shack on a Havana beach."
Title: Perfect Pitch in - Plays: 3 (John Godber) / COL Author: Godber, John Publisher: Methuen & Co 2003
Description:
roy comedy - British - marital relations four characters two male; two female two acts
"Ron, a prematurely retired headteacher and his wife Yvonne, a middle-aged would-be marathon runner, have bought their first caravan and are trying it out on the Yorkshire Moors. Later that evening an elderly caravan appears next to theirs and the subsequent sounds of wild sex cause Ron and Yvonne to blush. And when they meet young working-class couple Steph and Grant, Steph invites Yvonne to a male strip show ...
Title: Philanderer, The in - Plays Unpleasant / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1931
Description:
roy comedy - romance - satire seven characters; extras four male; three female three acts
3 interior sets.
"Satirical romantic comedy. Pursued by adamant woman, philanderer manipulates an engagement for her to another person". Title: Philanthropist, The in - Christopher Hampton: Plays One - COL Author: Hampton, Christopher Publisher: Faber and Faber 1997
Description:
roy comedy seven characters four male; three female six scenes
1 interior set.
A professor of philology, who cannot commit himself to anything, loses everyone in his life because he is so obliging.
Title: Play called the Four PP, The in - Medieval and Tudor Drama - COL Author: Heywood, John Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1963
Description:
non-roy interlude - farce - verse four characters flexible casting one act
Discussions between a Palmer, a Pothecary, a Pardoner and a Pedlar.
Title: Play's The Thing, The in - Masterpieces of the Central European Theatre - COL Author: Molnar, Ferenc adapted by P.G. Wodehouse Publisher: Collier Books 1967
Description:
roy comedy seven characters; extras six male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
A pair of playwrights bring their young composer on a surprise visit to the Italian castle where the composer's fiancee is staying, only to have the composer overhear a compromising conversation between the fiancee and her ex-lover. To save the play they are working on and to save the engagement, one of the playwrights works the conversation into a play and rehearses the two in a Title: Pogie in - New Canadian Drama 2 / CCO Author: Heide, Christopher Macdonald, Al Publisher: Borealis Press 1981
Description:
roy Canadian - satire seven characters six male; one female two acts
"Pogie's light touch appeals both to the blue jeans and three piece suit crowds. What could be ruthless satire in the portrayal of various U.I.C. officials is diminished - yet paradoxically made more cutting - by their translation into puppets. The plight of the individual confronted by a soulless bureaucracy is not peculiar to the Maritimes. Canadians everywhere, and from every walk of life, can find enjoyment in Pogie's irreverant look at the contemporary economic power structure."
Title: Popular Mechanicals, The in - Contemporary Australian Plays - COL Author: Robinson, Keith Taylor, Tony Publisher: Methune 1992
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female two acts
'Comedy based on passage from William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Rustic players present play about Pyramus and Thisbe.'
Title: Possible Worlds in - Possible Worlds & A Short History of Night / CCO Author: Mighton, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy black comedy - Canadian six characters four male; two female two acts
"George believes he lives in an infinite number of worlds at the same time. As detectives race to solve a series of murders in which the victims' brains are removed, George falls in love with different incarnations of the same woman." Title: Prisoner of Second Avenue, The in - The Collected Plays of Neil Simon / COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Random House 1979
Description:
roy comedy six characters two male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
A man who is suffering from high anxiety and mid-life crisis begins to find absurdities in everything around him. He suffers a nervous breakdown and with the support of his wife is able to survive it in the face of cloying and clucking relatives.
Title: Private Eyes in - Human Festival '97 / COL Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1997
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female or: three male; two female two acts
'(The play) is a comedy of suspicion in which nothing is ever quite what it seems. Matthew's wife, Lisa, is having an affair with Adrian, a British theatre director. Or perhaps the affair is part of the play being rehearsed. Or perhaps Matthew has imagined all of it simply to have something to report to Frank, his therapist. And, finally, there is Cory - the mysterious woman who seems to shadow the others - who brings the story to its surprizing conclusion. Or does she? The audience itself plays the role of detective in this hilarious "relationship thriller" about love, lust
Title: Refrigerators, The in - Mario Fratti's The Cage, The Academy and The Refrigerators / COL Author: Fratti, Mario Publisher: Samuel French 1969
Description:
roy comedy - mystery seven characters four male; three female three acts
"Penny, charming heiress to a huge fortune lives in a bizarre house surrounded by mysterious, untouchable refrigerators - allegedly 'family heirlooms' - and actually they're refrigerated coffins. Penny tries convincing her servant, Nicola, an amorous Italian - that her twin sister, Inez, is 'identical'. Nicola - suspicious and frightened - discovers 'Inez' is actually a male scientist and Penny's lover. In the night he experiments with half-thawed 'beauties' in the refrigerators. Nicola calls in a short-sighted police inspector and there's a fast, funny, unpredictable ending in the Title: Rembrandt's Gift in - Humana Festival 2002 / COL Author: Howe, Tina Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2002
Description:
roy comedy - romance - art three characters two male; one female four scenes
"Walter Paradise and Polly Shaw are in their sixties and have been married forever. She's a world-class photographer; he's a former actor turned hoarder. Their Soho loft is disappearing under stacks of old costumes that block the windows and doors, creating a fire hazard. The landlord is on his way to evict them when the great Dutch painter Rembrandt suddenly appears in full 17th century regalia. The three then spend the day together testing the limits of art, love and old age."
Title: Resident Alien in - Humana Festival '98 / COL Author: Spencer, Stuart Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1998
Description:
roy science fiction comedy six characters four male; one female; one boy two acts
4 interiors; 1 exterior.
Sci-fi comedy about space alien in small Wisconsin town.
Title: Rest I'll Whistle, The in - Two Plays / COL Author: Powell, Anthony Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. 1971
Description:
roy comedy six characters six male; six female three acts
2 interiors.
"Complications ensue when a wife who had abandoned her husband, his daughter who has written a sensational novel, and a scholar in search of material all appear at the manor of which the husband is the custodian." Title: Resurrection of John Frum, The in - The Courier and Other Plays / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - religion two characters flexible casting two acts
"For Issac, the key to hope lies in the teachings of Christ. Syd worships an obscure Melanesian cargo cult. What happens when they try to convert each other? An off-center look at the nature of faith, hope and salvation."
Title: Rexy in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Stratton, Allan Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - political - biography five characters four male; one female two acts
1 exterior set.
An astute and witty look at PM Mackenzie King, spiritualist and politician.
Co-winner, 1981 Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Winner, 1981 Dora Mavor Moore and Canadian Author's Association awards for best new play.
Title: Road to Nirvana in - American Theatre (Mar 91) - PER Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Miscellaneous 1991
Description:
roy black comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
'Washed up Hollywood producers degrade themselves so that rock superstar will allow them to film her autobiography.' Title: Robin, Bachelor of Love in - Seven Comedies by Marivaux / COL Author: Marivaux Publisher: Cornell University Press 1967
Description:
roy romantic comedy seven characters; extras four male; three female five scenes
'Romantic comedy in pastoral setting. Youth abducted by beautiful witch falls in love with shepardess.
Title: Romantics, The in - The Genius of the French Theater / COL Author: Rostand, Edmond translated by Barrett H. Clark Publisher: New American Library 1961
Description:
roy comedy - French seven characters; extras five male; one female; one flexible three acts
Based on Romeo and Juliet, The Romantics was produced in Paris, 1894. The play has since been adapted as the highly successful musical comedy, The Fantasticks.
Title: Rough Crossing in - Rough Crossing and On the Razzle / COL Author: Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Faber and Faber 1985
Description:
roy comedy - British six characters five male; one female two acts
"The co-authors, the composer and most of the cast of a musical comedy destined for Broadway are simultaneously trying to finish and rehearse the play while crossing the Atlantic on an ocean liner." Title: Round and Round the Garden in - The Norman Conquests / COL Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1975
Description:
roy comedy - trilogy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 exterior set.
Part 3 of a trilogy. "In this play Sarah's desperate attempts to have a nice, civilized week-end culminate, not surprisingly, in disaster. Ruth, Norman's wife, is summoned but Norman still contrives to cause havoc involving, finally, all three women. Matters are not helped by such events as the slow-thinking Tom mistaking Ruth's intentions during a conversation they have
Title: Rug Merchants of Chaos, The in - The Rug Merchants of Chaos and Other Plays / COL Author: Ribman, Ronald Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1992
Description:
roy comedy - American five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior and 1 exterior set.
"Comedy about frenzied quest for riches set on ship off coast of South Africa. Two couples willing to risk everything for another shot at success."
Title: Scene, The in - Humana Festival 2006 / COL Author: Rebeck, Theresa Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2007
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
"An out-of-work New York actor, married to a news producer, has an affair with a fresh-faced young woman from Ohio and finds himself more morally and spiritually lost than he was before." Title: Shocker's Delight! in - A Teatro Trilogy - CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press 2004
Description:
roy comedy - relationships three characters two male; one female two acts
'A trio of questing college kids find themselves in a love triangle and rise above it with grace and good humour.'
Title: Shockers Delight! in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 77, Winter 1993 - PER Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993
Description:
roy comedy three characters two male; one female two acts
'The lives of a ballroom dancer, a golfer, and a Biedermeier historian intertwine on the campus of the University of North America in Stewart Lemoine's comic hit from Edmonton's Teatro la Quindicina.'
Title: Short History of Night, A in - Possible Worlds & A Short History of Night / CCO Author: Mighton, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy comedy - drama - Canadian seven characters six male; one female two acts
"Based on the lives of Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe, an astronomer who discovered a supernova and lost his nose in a scientific duel. Set in a time of witch-hunts and religious wars, the play explores the parallels between medieval and modern thought." Title: Shyllag in - Fancy Footwork / COL Author: Gallagher, Miriam Publisher: Society of Irish Playwrights 1997
Description:
roy love all female cast; one character one female three acts
"A lyrical piece for solo performance that operates on several levels, a woman opens a Pandora's Box releasing tales of love and courage."
Title: Silver Cord, The in - Theatre Guild Anthology - COL Author: Howard, Sidney Publisher: Random House 1936
Description:
roy comedy - family relations six characters two male; four female three acts
2 interior sets.
A possessive mother has such control over her two sons that she is able to manipulate them into working against anyone who may come between the mother/son relationship. One son, however, manages to break free when he realizes that he will lose his wife but the other breaks off his engagement to stay with his mother.
Title: Sitting on Paradise in - Two Plays / CCO Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1999
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
"In this play, a business man, and Wolf, his spiritual mentor, develop plans for Synchronicity Ridge, a commune for the millenium, a gated cooperative in the wilderness. All is well until Roy's wife, Dotty, hears of it. She won't stand for any of it. This play pokes fun at rampant materialism and our relationship to our 'stuff'." Title: Skull Riders in - Skull Riders & Blue Hands / CCO Author: Bodyan, Jesse Glenn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy black comedy - Canadian all male cast; five characters five male two acts
"Gravediggers of the Wild West sell their wares to a bone china company. With a bounty hunter hotly in pursuit, they visit their last graveyard."
Title: Spot, The in - Humana Festival 2004 - COL Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005
Description:
roy comedy - politics six characters two male; two female; two male or female one scene
A crew is working on a "truthful" TV spot for a political candidate.
Title: St. George in - New Canadian Drama 7: West Coast Comedies / CCO Author: Weir, Ian Publisher: Borealis Press 1994
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
'A gently ironic study of a naive academic whose life is framed by his devotion to English literature.' Title: Star-Spangled Girl, The in - The Comedy of Neil Simon / COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Avon Books 1971
Description:
roy comedy three characters two male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
Two radical roommates, who live in near poverty in order to fund their political newspaper, quarrel over a mutual interest in their new neighbor, a wholesome All-American girl.
Title: Stones in His Pockets in - Stones in His Pockets: Two Plays - COL Author: Jones, Marie Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2000
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; two characters two male two acts
"Stones in His Pockets" is a sad, hilarious and irresistable two-man show about the filming of a Hollywood epic in rural Ireland. A pair of extras, Charlie and Jake, tell the story by taking on all the roles themselves - including that of the know siren playing the lead."
Title: Stop Kiss in - American Theatre (07/01/99) - PER Author: Son, Diana Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999
Description:
roy comedy - relationships seven characters three male; four female twenty-three scenes
'The story of "Stop Kiss" is deceptively simple: two young women in New York meet, talk about their boyfriends, feel a growing, unspoken attraction for each other, and finally kiss. And that one innocent kiss sets off a savage gay-bashing. But even as "Stop Kiss" confronts the reality of physical violence, Diana Son's imaginative, moving, and surprising comedy brings audiences - and her principal characters - to unexpected places.' Title: Subject Was Roses, The in - The Tony Winners / COL Author: Gilroy, Frank D. Publisher: Doubleday 1977
Description:
roy tragicomedy three characters two male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
When a couple's only son returns home from the war a changed man, the couple's hopes of patching up their marriage through the son's return fall flat, and they learn to talk to one another rather than talk through their son.
Title: Sunshine Boys, The in - The Collected Plays of Neil Simon / COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Random House 1979
Description:
roy comedy seven characters five male; two female two acts
An ex-vaudevillian's son tries to reunite his father with his old partner to do a television show on vaudeville but he has a difficult time because the partners have not spoken to each other for eleven years.
Title: Suzie Goo: Private Secretary in - Painted, Sainted, Sainted / CCO Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy musical comedy, drag queens five characters; extras four male; one female (doubling possible) three acts
'Suzie Goo starts work for Corporeal Can Inc. in the early 1960's. She kills her boss who tried to rape her. At the trial, realizing she will be convicted as a woman, she reveals herself to be a man and is aquitted. Suzie returns back to work at Corp Can., dissolves the company and the liquids flow.' Title: Swollen Tongues in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Oliver, Kathleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - poetic - comedy - lesbian play four characters one male; three female two acts
"Thomas and his sister Catherine are both receiving instruction on the powers of poetry by their tutor Dr. Wise. While Thomas is more prolific than skilled in his praise of his beloved, Sonja, Catherine is strangely mute. The problem? Catherine is secretly in love with Sonja too, and has taken the liberty of improving her brother's verses and giving them to Sonja under the assumed name - Overripe. The characters discover that no one is without secrets, and that poetry can unlock the door to love in unexpected ways."
Title: Table Manners in - The Norman Conquests / COL Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1975
Description:
roy comedy - trilogy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
Part I of a trilogy. "Annie has arranged to spend an illicit weekend with her sister Ruth's husband Norman, and for this reason, suitably disguised, has asked her elder brother Reg and his wife Sarah to look after their widowed mother and the house. As it happens the seduction, thought or planned, by each of the six characters never takes place either".
Title: Tale of the Allergist's Wife, The in - Tale of the Allergist's Wife and other plays, The / COL Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 2001
Description:
roy satire five characters two male; three female two acts
'Satire on Jewish foibles and midlife malaise set on New York's Upper West Side.' Title: Tales Of The Lost Formicans in - American Theatre (May 89) - PER Author: Congdon, Constance Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1989
Description:
roy satire - aliens seven characters four male; three female (doubling) two acts
2 settings; singing required.
"Aliens observe foibles of human behavior."
Title: Talking Dirty in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Snukal, Sherman Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female three scenes
1 interior set.
A comedy of manners in Vancouver's trendy Kitsilano area. Basic human emotions and traditional needs are examined.
Winner, 1983 Chalmers Canadian Play Award.
Title: Theatre of the Film Noir in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 34, Spring 1982 - PER Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female twelve scenes
Film noir intrigue in Paris, 1945. A murder that occurred during the liberation of Paris is under investigation. Title: Theatre of the Film Noir in - Somewhere Else / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1999
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female twelve scenes
Film noir intrigue in Paris, 1945. A murder that occurred during the liberation of Paris is under investigation.
Title: Thousand Clowns, A in - Herb Gardner: The Collected Plays / COL Author: Gardner, Herb Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy comedy - American six characters five male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
A non-conformist bachelor, who has raised his nephew for seven years, is suddenly confronted by Social Services. They want to take the boy away from him because he does not qualify as a good guardian.
Title: Thousand Clowns, A in - Best American Plays / COL Author: Gardner, Herb Publisher: Samuel French 1962
Description:
roy comedy six characters five male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
A non-conformist bachelor who has raised his nephew for seven years, is suddenly confronted by Social Services. They want to take the boy away form him because he does not qualify as a good guardian. Title: Thousand Clowns, A in - Plays on a Comic Theme / COL Author: Gardner, Herb Publisher: Random House 1962
Description:
roy comedy six characters five male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
A non-conformist bachelor who has raised his nephew for seven years, is suddenly confronted by Social Services. They want to take the boy away form him because he does not qualify as a good guardian.
Title: Tinker's Wedding, The in - Plays, Poems and Prose / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. 1958
Description:
roy comedy - Irish four characters two male; two female two acts
1 exterior.
"Comedy about Irish tinker couple and rascally priest who is to marry them."
Title: Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie, The in - Bizarre Behavior / COL Author: Innaurato, Albert Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1960
Description:
roy black comedy five characters three male; two female twelve scenes
Benno Blimpie is an enormously fat, and desperately unhappy, young man who is literally eating himself to death. Rejected by his coarse family, and a world which holds him in contempt, Benno watches bitterly as the history of his life is played out in scene after scene around him. His foul-mouthed, unloving mother; his gross, derisive father; his sex-obsessed grandfather, who courts disaster with a teenaged nymphet--all subject him to derision and scorn. Trapped beneath Benno's gross exterior there is a sensitive and feeling person, with needs which cry out for Title: Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie, The in - Best Plays of Albert Innaurato / COL Author: Innaurato, Albert Publisher: Gay Presses of New York 1987
Description:
roy black comedy five characters three male; two female twelve scenes
"Benno Blimpie is an enormously fat, and desperately unhappy, young man who is literally eating himself to death. Rejected by his coarse family, and a world which holds him in contempt, Benno watches bitterly as the history of his life is played out in scene after scene around him. His foul-mouthed, unloving mother; his gross, derisive father; his sex-obsessed grandfather, who courts disaster with a teenaged nymphet - all subject him to derision and scorn. Trapped beneath Benno's gross exterior there is a sensitive and feeling person, with needs which cry out
Title: Treats in - Christopher Hampton: Plays One - COL Author: Hampton, Christopher Publisher: Faber and Faber 1997
Description:
roy comedy - relationships three characters two male; one female nine scenes
'Comedy about a love triangle. Ann has decided to live with Patrick instead of Dave, but Dave returns unexpectedly and complications arise.'
Title: Two for the Seesaw in - Best American Plays / COL Author: Gibson, William Publisher: Samuel French 1958
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
A bittersweet comedy wherein a lonely man and woman have a romance for a few months. The affair gives each a new self-confidence even though the man returns to his wife from whom he had separated. Title: Underground in - Blitzkrieg and Other Plays / CCO Author: Wade, Bryan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Lone Ranger three characters two male; one female three scenes
1 interior.
"A triangle of two men and one woman takes us through many levels of eroticism and ends in a ritualistic suicide."
Title: Underpants, The in - The Modern Theatre Volume 6 / COL Author: Sternheim, Carl Publisher: Doubleday 1960
Description:
roy comedy - social class six characters five male; one female four acts
Description not available.
Title: Up 'n' Under in - Plays: 3 (John Godber) / COL Author: Godber, John Publisher: Methuen & Co 2003
Description:
roy comedy - sports - British six characters five male; one female two acts
"The Cobblers Arms have been the best and most feared Amateur Rugby League team for the past ten years. Ex-pro Arthur bets their boss that he could train a bunch of deadbeats to defeat them in a local rugby sevens tournament. But to do so he must first get them into shape with the help of the very attractive Hazel Scott." Title: Urlicht in - Bizarre Behavior / COL Author: Innaurato, Albert Publisher: Avon Books 1960
Description:
roy comedy - drama - family relations two characters one male; one female one act
There is a young man, about twenty-five, plump, sloppy-looking, in a tattered suit coat and an ugly tie, and a nun about fifty. She is husky, beefy. She uses, more often or not, a tough, lower-class accent. She behaves a lot like a truck driver, but can change and act like a nun or a pathetic old lady. These two meet at a subway platform. They began to talk and the boy talked to the nun about an opera that he had written. He described it to her (it was modeled after the disappearance of his mother) and she recognized it and mother and son were reunited.
Title: Victim in - Eleonora Duse; Victim; Originality / COL Author: Fratti, Mario Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy comedy - thriller four characters three male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
"A beautiful woman, talking on the phone to her lover, is intruded upon by a man who claims to be the gas-man. In fact, he has recently murdered someone on her front door-step. She is intrigued by him, and a fascinating contest of wills develops, which is added-to when her husband shows up. We find out only at the last who the real victim was".
Title: Vladivostok Blues in - Women Playwrights the Best Plays of 1995 / COL Author: Beard, Jocelyn Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy satire seven characters four male; three female full length
"Mexican soap opera star kidnapped in Vladivostok by man who has her confused with her television role." Title: Westmount in - New Canadian Drama I / CCO Author: Ouzounian, Richard Publisher: Borealis Press 1979
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - farce six characters three male; three female two acts
"The original version of the play was called 'British Properties' after the exclusive residential area in West Vancouver where it was set. Essentially it is a light farce in the tradition that goes back, via Gilbert and Sullivan, to Roman comedy. Into his venerable dramatic bottle, however, Ouzounian has poured a few drops of new satiric wine. The original had a few jabs at British Columbia institutions and personalities (removed from the Montreal version), and a collection of relatively modern comic types such as the eccentric English matron, and the American-style mobster."
Title: What The Butler Saw in - The Complete Plays of Joe Orton / COL Author: Orton, Joe Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1977
Description:
roy farce six characters four male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
When a psychiatrist is surprised by his wife in the midst of his attempt to seduce an applicant for a secretarial position, he goes to great extremes of re-interpreting the situation in order to cover up his behaviour.
Title: When a Girl Says Yes in - Spanish Drama / COL Author: Moratin, Leandro Fernandez de translated by William M. Davis Publisher: Bantam Books 1962
Description:
nonroy farce - Spanish - romance seven characters four male; three female three acts
"These are the assurances that parents and tutors give, and how far they should be trusted when a girl says yes." Act III Title: Where's My Money?
Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2007
Description:
roy American - comedy - marriage six characters three male; three female five scenes
"Celeste is a temp secretary and struggling NYC actress. Celeste is having an affair with Sidney. Sidney is married to Marcia-Marie. Marcia-Marie is an emotionally exhausted trophy-wife. Sidney is a partner in the law firm which employs Henry. Henry is a young and idealistic divorce lawyer. Henry is having difficulties in his marriage to Natalie. Natalie is an accountant who once worked with Celeste. Things are looking really good for Natalie. She has only one problem: she can’t get rid of her former boyfriend, Tommy. Oh, yeah, one more thing ... Tommy is a ghost."
Title: Widowers' Houses in - Plays Unpleasant / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1931
Description:
roy comedy - romance five characters four male; one female three acts
2 interior; 1 exterior sets.
"Romance of young doctor and a widower's daughter is interrupted by widower's business (landlord) but also resolved by same".
Title: Wife in the Hand, A in - Popular Performance Plays of Canada, Volume I / CCO Author: Crisp, Jack H. Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1976
Description:
roy farce - Canadian seven characters three male; four female three acts
No abstract available. Title: Wisdom Amok in - Bizarre Behavior / COL Author: Innaurato, Albert Publisher: Avon Books 1960
Description:
roy comedy - drama - family relations two characters one male; one female nine scenes
There is a young man, about twenty-five, plump,sloppy-looking, in a tattered suit coat and an ugly tie, and a nun about fifty. She is husky, beefy. She uses, more often or not, a tough, lower-class accent. She behaves alot like a truck driver, but can change and act like a nun or a pathetic old lady. These two meet at a subway platform. They began to talk and the boy talked to the nun about an opera that he had written. He described it to her (it was modeled after the disappearance of his mother) and she recognized it and mother and son were reunited.
Title: Wizard of Hip, The in - Black Comedy: 9 Plays / COL Author: Jones, Thomas W. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy comedy - monologue all male cast - one character one male two acts
'African American man expounds on what constitutes "hipness".'
Title: Woman of Paris in - The Modern Theatre Vol. 1 / COL Author: Becque, Henry translated by Jaques Barzun Publisher: Doubleday 1955
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female three acts
'Social comedy in 19th century Paris. Government official's wife uses lover's influence to secure husband's promotion.' Title: Wonderful World in - Humana Festival 2001 / COL Author: Dresser, Richard Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2001
Description:
roy comedy - family relations five characters two male; three female two acts
"Wonderful World is about a family, two brothers and their wives and the mother of the brothers. It's a comedy about the way we handle and mishandle the truth, the way we reveal and don't reveal how we truly feel about each other."