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Title: 1000 Airplanes on the Roof in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Glass, Philip Publisher: New American Library 1990

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Title: 1000 Airplanes on the Roof in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Glass, Philip Publisher: New American Library 1990 Title: 1000 Airplanes on the Roof in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Glass, Philip Publisher: New American Library 1990 Description: roy music - drama - monologue all male cast; one character one male four parts 90-minute monologue. A science-fiction music-drama realized by Philip Glass, David Henry Hwang, and Jerome Sirlin. Title: 2-2-Tango in - Making, Out / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Coach House Press 1992 Description: roy relationships - LGBTQ+ - men all male cast; two characters two male one act '. a highly stylized presentation that features clipped, overlapping dialogue and rigidly choreographed gestures. (MacIvor's) observations about the eternal struggle in relationships between emotional, physical and spiritual need and the assertions of independence easily exceed the gay context in which they are being played out.' Title: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Doubleday 1958 Description: roy drama three characters; extras two male; one female one act 1 exterior set. "Southern degenerate gets work for his cotton gin by burning rival's plantation facilities." Title: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton in - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1953 Description: roy drama three characters; extras two male; one female one act 1 exterior set. "Southern degenerate gets work for his cotton gin by burning rival's plantation facilities." Title: 3:59 AM: A Drag Race for Two Actors in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Ramirez, Marco Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009 Description: roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act 10 minute play. Award-winning play about a behind-the-wheel encounter between two men on the edge. Title: 3:59 AM: A Drag Race for Two Actors in - Plays for Two / COL Author: Ramirez, Marco Publisher: Vintage Books 2014 Description: roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act 10 minute play. Award-winning play about a behind-the-wheel encounter between two men on the edge. Title: 4-H Club in - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Random House 1986 Description: roy drama - social change - men all male cast; three characters three male one act "Three psychologically crippled roommates revert to meaningless actions and dialogues in face of social change." Title: 4.48 Psychosis in - Complete Plays (Sarah Kane) / COL Author: Kane, Sarah Publisher: Methuen 2001 Description: roy drama - British three characters variable cast one act "What happens to a person's mind when the barriers which distinguish between reality and different forms of imagination completely disappear." Title: 7 Stages of Grieving, The in - Contemporary Australian Plays / COL Author: Enoch, Wesley Mailman, Deborah Publisher: Methune 1995 Description: roy death all female cast; one character one female one act 'Grief at death of Grandmother is catalyst for Australian Aboriginal woman to consider family and friends who have died young and under unnatural circumstances.' Title: 90 Days in - Plays for Two / COL Author: Meriwether, Elizabeth Publisher: Vintage Books 2014 Description: roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act Abby phones her boyfriend Eliot in rehab. Title: A3 in - New Theatre for Now / COL Author: Bridges, James Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1971 Description: roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act Description not available. Title: Abby's Place in - Voices of the Land / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: AU Press 2012 Description: roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright - Alberta three characters two male; one female fifteen scenes The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In "Abby's Place" a dying woman draws emotional strength from a lake that she understands as her final resting place. Title: Account Balanced in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Bunce, Valorie Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994 Description: roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act As her younger female neighbor completes her taxes for her, an older woman settles her other 'accounts'. Title: Acetylene in - Award-Winning Plays: Volume 2 / COL Author: Ramsey, Erik Publisher: Samuel French 1995 Description: roy American - drama three characters two male; one female one act interior. A poorly educated woman is enthralled by a rigid, righteous husband who expects precision in everything and an apple in his lunch box when he leaves for his welding job. The day she forgets the apple he has a fatal accident. When visited by her pastor, she wanders in and out of sanity as she blames herself for her husband's death and hallucinates about being tortured by an acetylene Title: Acorn in - Dramatics (Nov 1998) / PER Author: Graziano, David Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998 Description: roy drama two characters one male; one female one act Description not available. Title: Acorn in - Humana Festival '98 / COL Author: Graziano, David Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1998 Description: roy romance two characters one male; one female one act 1 setting. An unemployed carpenter and high school graduate share a clothesline and fall in love. Title: Act of Devotion, An in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL Author: Tannen, Deborah Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995 Description: roy drama - Jewish two characters one male; one female one act 'Elderly Jewish man and daughter visit Warsaw and explore family history.' Title: Act Without Words I in - Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press 1958 Description: roy pantomime one character play one male or female one act 1 set. "Mime for one player. A man is alternately successful and frustrated in attempts to perform certain actions". Title: Act Without Words I in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press 1984 Description: roy pantomime one character play one male or female one act "Mime for one player. A man is alternately successful and frustrated in attempts to perform certain actions". Title: Act Without Words I: a mime for one player in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Pearson Education 2006 Description: roy pantomime - solo performance one character play one male or female one act "Mime for one player. A man is alternately successful and frustrated in attempts to perform certain actions". Title: Act Without Words II in - Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press 1958 Description: roy pantomime all male cast; two characters two male one scene 1 set. "Mime for two players. Contrasts actions of the two". Title: Act Without Words II in - The Art of Drama / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1976 Description: roy pantomime all male cast; two characters two male one scene 1 set. "Mime for two players. Contrasts actions of the two". Title: Act Without Words II in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press 1984 Description: roy pantomime all male cast; two characters two male one scene 1 set. "Mime for two players. Contrasts actions of the two". Title: Actors in - Actors - Two Short Plays / COL Author: Bromberg, Conrad Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1975 Description: roy drama - acting three characters two male; one female one act 'An encounter between old professional actors and dedicated young novice.' Title: Adult Child/Dead Child in - Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? and Other Stand-Up Theatre Plays / COL Author: Dowie, Claire Publisher: Methuen Drama 1996 Description: roy British - monologue - drama - mental health all female cast; one character one female one act written without gender in mind and can therefore be performed by either sex. "A powerful and moving account of the passage of a woman's life from young child - clumsy and emotionally out of place in a spotless well-ordered household - to her years of maturity, as she progresses from home to lonely bedsit to psychiatric treatment to what's laughingly termed social adjustment, still baffled by the rules and values of the adult world ... a strangely exhilarating Title: Affidavit, The in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL Author: Tiger, Janet S. Publisher: Meriwether Publishing 1987 Description: roy drama - World War II - anti-semetism - historical two characters one male; one female one act In the late 1930s and early 1940s, an affidavit was required of a person wanting to enter the United States as a permanent resident. The affidavit was used to obtain a visa from the United States, which then entitled the visa holder to apply for an exit visa from his home country. A young Jewish woman wishes to pawn her authentic family heirloom ruby ring worth $10,000 to a pawnbroker who will only purchase the ring and pay $650, the exact amount she needs (and he knows it). She needs the money to purchase an affidavit and the pawnbroker purposely holds her Title: Afrika Solo in - Afrika, Solo / CCO Author: Sears, Djanet Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011 Description: roy drama - Canadian - women - African many characters two male; one female (doubling) one act In Afrika Solo, Djanet Sears follows her roots back 400 years to Africa to find a missing link. In a piece that changes time frames, sings, dances, and collides with pop-culture references, Sears explores home, heritage, and identity, in this fast-paced, potent play. A Canadian present, an African past; Sears finds herself in both. Title: Afrocentric in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Odhiambo, David Nandi Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996 Description: roy Canadian drama two characters one male; one female scene one and four of a one act 'The play examines the social, economic and cultural forces which bring a black woman of mixed heritage and a black man together, and the issues which subsequently tear their relationship apart.' Title: After Antietam (or Incident After Antietam) in - After Antietam / Isadora and G.B.
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