Title: 1918
Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1987
Description:
roy drama - family relationships thirteen characters six male; seven female two acts
Having been exempted from military service in World War I, Horace Robedeaux is back home in Harrison, Texas. He and his wife, Elizabeth, along with their infant daughter, are now settled in a new house built for them by Elizabeth's father, Mr. Vaughn. While their fortunes have improved, the nation reels from a spreading flu epidemic that soon reaches Harrison and infects Mr. Vaughn and Horace. During Horace's illness his daughter also contracts the flu and dies bringing to the young parents a sadness that even the armistice can do little to allay. In time Elizabeth becomes
Title: 1984 Dalmar Biker War, The
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright - Canadian eight characters three male; five female three acts
Running time: 90 minutes; 1 simple set.
The staff of a small rural town must fend off an attack by a biker gang.
The 1984 Dalmar Biker War is a great play for small town theatre troupes as it features characters and dialogue instantly recognizable by audiences in rural communities. This single-set play
Title: 2 in - Six Plays - Romulus Linney / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1993
Description:
roy drama - war eight characters; extras six male; two female two acts
Hitler's second-in-command, Hermann Goering, at the Nuremburg trials.
Title: 2 Lives in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents - COL Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Back Stage Books 2004
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - relationships eight characters four male; four female two acts
Matt Singer, a playwright and his long term partner Howard Thompson, a landscape gardener, are celebrating Howard's birthday. But tragedy strikes.
Title: 20th Century Decorating, Architecture and Gardens 80 years of ideas & pleasure from House & Garden Author: Seebohm, Caroline Denhof, Miki Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1980
Description:
reference - American - interior decoration - landscape architecture - architecture - 20th century
This enthralling panorama of the way we have lived for the past eighty years is a history of taste since the birth of House & Garden at the beginning of the century. (This book) presents the most dramatic and important developments in interior design, architecture, and gardens as they first appeared to American and European readers. It brings to life most vividly the changing styles and fashions of each decade, from the richly ornate rooms in the Lewisohn and Roosevelt Houses in the 1910s, to the spare, natural designs of Michael Taylor and John Dickinson in the 1960s and 1970s. '20th-Century Decorating, Architecture & Gardens' is not only a dazzling visual document about decorating ideas that can be put into practice today, but, like looking through a window, it also reveals the intimate changes in the way people have lived in our extraordinary century.
Title: 21: Growing Up Down A new one act musical play Author: Miller, Michele Makrouhi Publisher: Dizzy Emu Publishing 2015
Description:
roy musical play - musical theatre - romance - disabilities - Down syndrome - Alberta playwright eight characters; voice doubles; extras three male; five female; two female singing voice doubles; one male singing voice double one act
running time: approx. 85 min.
Jane is a young woman with Down syndrome who dreams of a career on the stage. She lives with her devoted mother, Elaine, who thinks Jane's goals are unrealistic. New to town is Bob, the newly widowed, alcoholic father of Max, who is also a young man with Down syndrome. Jane meets Max at the musical theatre class she attends weekly, along with eight other Down syndrome students. A Title: 4th Graders Present An Unnamed Love-Suicide, The
Author: Graney, Sean Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2010
Description:
roy drama - suicide seven characters two male; five female one act (one scene)
1 interior setting.
"When 4th grader Johnny shoots himself, he leaves behind a play as a suicide note that the kids in his class are forced to perform as a memorial. As friends and bullies assume the roles of Johnny and his classmates, a heartbreaking, darkly curious story emerges, offering a glimpse into the motivation behind Johnny's actions."
Title: 9 Worst Breakups of All Time, The
Author: McWethy, Ian Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2014
Description:
roy comedy - relationships large cast flexible casting one act (ten scenes)
Minimal set.
"You think your breakup was bad? Eve Tonsil, an employee of the nonprofit company "Relationships for a Better Tomorrow" is here to take you on a tour of the nine worst breakups of all time, from the Cro-Magnon era to the Civil War, to a smattering of modern-day breakups. A comedy that proves that no matter how hard someone has stomped on your heart...it could always
Title: 99 Histories in - Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas / COL Author: Cho, Julia Publisher: Duke University Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Korea - family relations eight characters five male; three female two acts
Cho tells us what is, in many ways a classic mother-daughter relationship story. When Eunice, the daughter shows up pregnant long after running away from home, the mother, Sah-Jin encourages her to look forward and to rebuild her life. But the daughter cannot move on without finding out about the past, especially about her mother's life in Korea and her father, who died abruptly in Los Angeles. By immigrating to the United States, Sah-Jin attempted to forget both her personal past and Korea's history, and Eunice ran away from her mother in order to escape her Title: Abucuck A one-act stage drama Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright all male cast; two characters two male one act (nine scenes)
In 1617 Abacuck Prickett faces death by hanging for the pivotal role he played in the tragic, final voyage of Henry Hudson.
Title: Accordion Shop, The in - Connections 2015 / YCL Author: Jumbo, Cush Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2015
Description:
roy drama - young adult seven characters flexible casting one act
age suitability: 15+
Mister Ellody has quietly kept his accordion shop going on his local high street for generations. One day, he steps out of his door and witnesses an extraordinary incident: hundreds of young people are surging on to the street, and they've all received the same text message on their phones which simply says: 'RIOT - THE ROAD - 7 PM TONIGHT'.
Title: Acquiesce
Author: Yee, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - self - family - spirituality ten characters three male; one female (doubling) two acts
A moving story of tradition, family, and pain passed down through generations. Plagued by the success of his first book and haunted by his past, Sin Hwang arrives in Hong Kong with some unusual cargo and a lot of emotional baggage. Featuring a surreal cast of characters, from a foul-mouthed Paddington Bear to a wisecracking Buddhist monk, this sharply comedic and heartbreakingly poignant tale of self, familial, and spiritual discovery reflects the cycles from which we must all break free as we find our way. Title: Act of God, An
Author: Javerbaum, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2016
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; three characters three male one act
The One with the first and last word on everything has finally arrived to set the record straight. After many millennia, and in just 90 minutes, God (assisted by His devoted angels) answers some of the deepest questions that have plagued mankind since Creation.
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: Acting in Musical Theatre A comprehensive course Author: Deer, Joe Dal Vera, Rocco Publisher: Routledge 2016
Description:
reference - acting - musical theatre
This book remains the only complete course in approaching a role in a musical. It covers fundamental skills for novice actors, practical insights for professionals, and even tips to help veteran musical performers refine their craft. Title: Actor in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Maruzzo, Joe Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters one male; three female one act
A man shows up at a casting office to get a part in a television production, and provides a stellar audition.
Title: Actor, The in - The Carpetbaggers' Children and The Actor / COL Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Overlook Press 2003
Description:
roy comedy - acting five characters three male; two female one act
This play tells the hilarious and moving story of a young man, bitten by the acting bug, who'll make any sacrifice to keep his dream of a theatrical career from being crushed under the weight of his parents' expectations for him. It's a charming exploration of artistic ambition from one of modern theatre's greatest artists.
Title: Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, The in - Up the Garden Path and The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God / Author: Codrington, Lisa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy Canadian playwright - women - God fifteen characters eleven male; four female (doubling possible) one act (five scenes)
Running time: 45 - 60 mins
Based on Bernard Shaw’s short story, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God follows a black girl who is abandoned by a white missionary for asking too many questions. Taking matters into her own hands, the Black Girl sets off to find out who or what God really is. Along the way she meets a number of characters who have very different views on God, but the Title: Afore Night Come
Author: Rudkin, David Publisher: Oberon Books 2001
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters twelve male; two female two acts
The harvest is ripe in a black country pear orchard. Seasoned hands settle to familiar tasks and the ritual education of newcomers. But corrupted land yields a bitter crop. The weather turns, friction mounts and pesticide begins to fall... 'Afore Night Come' is a magnificent insight into human nature and a dark warning of our inability to avoid reaping what we have sown.
Title: Ages of the Moon
Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - friendship all male cast; two characters two male one act (one scene)
"A gruff, affecting and funny play by Sam Shepard. Byron and Ames are old friends, reunited by mutual desperation. Over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love, friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a gun."
Title: Albert in - Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, The / CCO Author: Jones, Andy Publisher: Breakwater Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - solo performance all male cast; one character one male one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
A man at home alone with his budgie tells a story. Title: All in Little Pieces in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL Author: Yearly, John Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy dramatic comedy all female cast; two characters two female one act
Molly's trying to sell a house to Mary, but it soon becomes apparent that Mary not there to buy. The play becomes very engaging as the women talk and get to know each other. It almost seems as if they're made for each other, but the action twists and suddenly Molly realizes that Mary is perhaps not as stable as she seems, in fact, that she's actually rather frightening.
Title: All Over
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - seniors - death - family relations ten characters six male; four female two acts
In an alcove of a town house a great man lay dying. In the anteroom, awaiting his death are his wife, his mistress, his best friend, his feckless son and daughter. An elderly physician and a nurse amend the family portrait, while newsmen eager for the latest updates and television crews clamour off stage. They who stand the deathwatch recollect past loves, rekindle old wars and await word that it is "all over".
Title: All the Bees and All the Keys in - Scripts / CCO Author: Reaney, James Beckwith, John Publisher: Coach House Books 2004
Description:
roy story - music - children - Canadian one narrator; musicians one male or female one act
Music by John Beckwith.
Concert work for children, for narrator, and symphony orchestra. Title: All the Little Animals I Have Eaten in - Animals / CCO Author: Hines, Karen Publisher: Coach House Books 2017
Description:
roy comedy - women all female cast; many characters four female one act
In this play, we follow Frankie, a sleep-deprived grad student and server on the toughest shift of her life, slinging hyper-local food to insurance adjusters, well-heeled plagarists, equine masseuses and other famished professionals. Inspired by the Bechdel-Wallace Test, this play features an all female cast that includes dead writers, lionhearted lambs, and all manner of female organisms. As Frankie tries, between tables, to finish her term paper entitled 'Why Women Aren't Funny", she finds herself haunted by them all in this comedy that is as dark as blackened fugu and
Title: All the Ways to Say I Love You in - All the Ways to Say I Love You / COL Author: LaBute, Neil Publisher: Overlook Duckworth 2016
Description:
roy drama - solo performance - women all female cast; one character one female one act
Mrs. Johnson is a high school English teacher in a loving marriage. As she recounts her experiences with a favored student from her past, Mrs. Johnson slowly reveals the truth that is hidden just beneath the surface details of her life, in this riveting solo play about love, hard choices, and the cost of fulfilling an all-consuming desire.
Title: All this Intimacy
Author: Joseph, Rajiv Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy comedy - 21st century - friendship - sex six characters two male; four female two acts
unit set; setting - Brooklyn and Manhattan; suggested for Little Theatre/advanced groups.
Ty Greene is a normal guy with three very big problems. In an unprecedented (for him) run of promiscuity, Ty has managed to impregnate three women in the span of one week: his ex-girlfriend, his 40-something, married next-door neighbor, and his 18-year-old student. In this edgy comedy by playwright Rajiv Joseph, Ty's problems illuminate every triumph and failure Title: Almost Like Being in - America Hurrah and other plays / COL Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude Publisher: Grove Press Inc. 1978
Description:
roy comedy - spoof - television five characters; narrator three male; two female one act
flexible set
A delightfully acerbic spoof of the unreal world of show business and the fraudulent sentiment from which it is contrived.
Title: Alt-Visions, Kiss Before Clouding in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Levin, Daniel F. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy comedy - solo performance all male cast; one character one male one act
Man in binary coded relationship.
Title: Always a Bridesmaid
Author: Jones, Jessie Hope, Nicholas Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2013
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; six characters six female two acts
Also written by Jamie Wooten.
In this hilarious comedic romp, four friends have sworn to keep the promise they made on the night of their Senior Prom: to be in each other's weddings…no matter what. More than thirty years later, these Southern friends-for-life are still making "the long walk" for each other, determined to honor that vow. Libby Ruth, the hopeful romantic with the perfect marriage, believes—in spite of Title: American Bagpipes in - Plays: 1 - Iain Heggie Author: Heggie, Iain Publisher: Methune Drama 2003
Description:
roy comedy - family relations four characters two male; two female two acts
Sandra Michigan has returned home to Glasgow from New Jersey. She wants to take her mother Rena Nauldie away with her. Her Father Willie is a blokish police constable who bellows offstage for his tea and calls his wife 'Bridget' to his but nobody else's amusement. Her brother Patrick comes home after seven years in prison and a brief stint in southern England. He wants to see if he can stay in the same room as his father without hitting him.
Title: American Notes
Author: Jenkin, Len Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1988
Description:
roy drama ten characters seven male; three female one act
Surrealistic view of contemporary America.
Title: American Tales
Author: Stone, Ken Powell, Jan Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy musical - dramatic comedy - relationships ten characters; chorus four male; one female (doubling) two acts
running time - 90 mins. Book and lyrics by Ken Stone; music by Jan Powell.
American Tales features two classic American stories by Mark Twain and Herman Melville.
Act I, 'The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton,' is from Mark Twain's story of two people falling in love at a great distance with the aid of that brand-new invention, the telephone. Title: American Theatre Book of Monologues for Women
Author: Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2003
Description:
Monologues – American – women – auditions
Since 1984, America Theatre magazine has published more than 100 of the best new American plays by our most important playwrights. These plays, many of which were printed first in AT, provide actors with original and challenging material for their most rigorous auditions.
Contains monologues from the following plays and playwrights: Marisol – Jose Rivera ; A Question of Mercy – David Rabe ; Miss Evers’ Boys – David Feldshuh ; The Darker Face of the Earth – Rita Dove ; Abingdon Square – Maria Irene Fornes ; An American Daughter – Wendy Wasserstein ; The Gimmick – Dael Orlandersmith ; The Marriage of Bette and Boo – Christopher Durang ; Tongue of a Bird – Ellen McLaughlin ; Buried Child – Sam Shepard ; The Colored Museum – George C. Wolfe ; The Waiting Room – Lisa Loomer ; In the Blood – Suzan-Lori Parks ; Reckless – Craig
Title: Amy's View
Author: Hare, David Publisher: Faber and Faber 1997
Description:
roy drama - family relationships six characters three female; three male four acts
Psychological drama about strained relationship between famous British actress and her dutiful daughter from 1979 - 1995. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter, Amy, with a new boyfriend sets in train a series of event which only find their shape sixteen years later.
Title: Anastasia - vocal selections
Author: Ahrens, Lynn Flaherty, Stephen Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical - vocals - piano. Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty.
contains: A Rumor in St. Petersburg In My Dreams Learn To Do It My Petersburg Once Upon a December Stay, I Pray You We'll Go From There Still Title: Ancient Comedians and What They Have to Say to Contemporary Playwrights,
Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
reference - comedy - playwrights - playwriting
Nobody invented a sense of humour; that's inherent. People have always laughed, joked, and shared comic stories. What the Ancient Greeks and Romans did, however, was to develop ways to express that comic sensibility in the theatre. Useful for those writing comedy for the theatre today, 'The Ancient Comedians' explores the strategies used by the innovators who navigated the terrain thousands of years ago and made their mark on the craft.
Title: And Baby Makes Four in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Farmer, Frank Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ three characters one male; two female one act (three scenes)
A young lesbian's decision to have a child by a father of her choice is thwarted when he refuses to donate to a sperm bank, nearly forcing her to conceive 'conventionally,' much to the annoyance of her older partner.
Title: And Bella Sang With Us
Author: Stubbs, Sally Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2014
Description:
roy drama - historical - biography - crime ten characters one male; four female (doubling, flexible casting) one act (sixteen scenes)
Flexible set.
"AND BELLA SANG WITH US by Playwright Sally Stubs is a stylish ‘cop’ play with a dark and wicked sense of humour and a shot of song, celebrates two of Canada’s unsung pioneers: Constables Lurancy Harris and Minnie Miller, Vancouver’s first women police officers. It’s 1912. Constables Harris and Miller arrive in the area now known as Vancouver’s Downtown Title: And Then Come The Nightjars
Author: Roberts, Bea Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - farming all male cast; two characters two male three acts
"A tender, frank and funny play about a West Country farm struggling to survive the Foot and Mouth pandemic. South Devon, 2001. Disease ravages the countryside, pyres are lit on the horizon, and dairy herdsman Michael is trapped as his farm becomes a battleground for his business, his heritage, and his friendship with local vet Jeff. Ten years on and the battle scars are as evident on their relationship as they are on the landscape."
Title: Angel at My Door in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Franceschini, John Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act
A young woman shows up at a bookstore to prevent the unsuspecting owner's suicide in an unusual way.
Title: Annapurna
Author: White, Sharr Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2013
Description:
roy drama - love two characters one male; one female one act (five scenes)
Flexible set.
After twenty years apart, Emma tracks Ulysses to a trailer park in the middle of nowhere for a final reckoning. What unfolds is a visceral and profound meditation on love and loss with the simplest of theatrical elements: two people in one room. A breathtaking story about the longevity of love. Title: Anne Boleyn
Author: Brenton, Howard Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2012
Description:
roy drama - historical - England - family relations - politics seventeen characters thirteen male; four female (doubling possible) two acts
period - the Court of King Henry VIII (1527-1536) and the Court of King James I (1603-1604).
A celebration of a great English heroine, 'Anne Boleyn' dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII’s notorious second wife, who helped change the course of the nation’s history. Traditionally seen as either the pawn of an ambitious family manoeuvred into the King’s bed or as a predator manipulating her way to power, Anne – and her ghost – are seen in a very different light in
Title: Another Country
Author: Mitchell, Julian Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1982
Description:
roy drama all male cast; ten characters ten male two acts
running time: 2 hours
Another Country is set in an English public school in the early 1930's where future leaders are being prepared for their roles in the ruling class. Two of the central characters are outsiders: Guy Bennett is coming to terms with homosexuality and Tommy Judd is a committed Marxist. Judd wants to abolish the whole system of British life; Bennett wants a successful career within it. The
Title: Antigone in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Sophocles translated by Nicholas Rudall Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy Greek tragedy eight characters; chorus six male; two female one act
1 exterior; verse; speaking chorus.
Greek tragedy in verse. Disaster follows refusal of Creon, King of Thebes, to permit burial of his enemy, Antigone's brother. Title: Apple Cart, The
Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1956
Description:
roy comedy fifteen characters ten male; five female two acts
Subtitled A Political Extravaganza, this is Shaw's meditation on the nature of power as King Magnus defeats an attempt by his popular Prime Minister Proteus to reduce his royal influence. Rather than become a cipher, he abandons his throne and runs for the office of Prime Minister himself.
Title: Approaching Zanzibar
Author: Howe, Tina Publisher: Samuel French 1988
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relations nine characters two male; four female; two boys; one girl two acts
This play by the author of Pride's Crossing, among others, follows the Blossom family as they travel cross country to see Aunt Olivia, who has cancer. She is a renowned environmental artist who creates enormous sculptures out of kites. The family camps along the way, having various adventures and meeting relatives and strangers. When they arrive in Taos, New Mexico, Olivia is fading in and out of reality, or is she?
Title: April Snow in - Six Plays - Romulus Linney / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1993
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six characters four male; two female one act
Bittersweet comedy about aging writer and women who have figured prominently in his life. Title: Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Author: Bleasdale, Alan Publisher: Faber and Faber 1985
Description:
roy drama - American - 20th century fourteen characters ten male; four female two acts
1 setting; singing.
This powerful new play counterpoints the last days of Elvis Presley - popping pills at Gracelands, eating gargantuan breakfasts in the middle of the night - with his early career as 'the white boy who sang like a Negro' and who swiftly became an international twentieth-century cult hero.
Title: Aristophanes' Women in Congress Ecclesiazusae in a modernized version Author: Tasca, Jules Publisher: Samuel French 1986
Description:
roy comedy eight characters two male; six female one act (seven scenes)
simple set.
Hilarious version of Aristophanes' Greek classic. Praxagora, the leader of the women of Athens, plots to take over the government which is run by men and replace it with a new order run by women. Praxagora has the women of Athens dress up as men and vote in congress to turn over the reins of leadership to the women. When this measure is passed, the women unanimously vote
Title: Around The World In 80 Days
Author: Eason, Laura Verne, Jules Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2015
Description:
roy comedy - adventure - historical large cast five male; three female (doubling); flexible casting two acts
"The fabulously wealthy Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg wagers his life's fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Along with his hapless valet Passepartout, he sets out on a dazzling escapade that takes him from the misty alleys of London to the exotic subcontinent and on to the Wild West as they race against the clock on a dizzying succession of trains, steamers, a wind-propelled sledge and an elephant." Title: As the Beast Sleeps
Author: Mitchell, Gary Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2001
Description:
roy drama seven characters six male; one female one act (ten scenes)
Ulster Defence Association members Kyle and Freddie help the cause by robbing cigarette warehouses and distributing the fags to selected clubs. With the UDA's push toward political acceptance under way, this sort of scam is now taboo. Freddie goes his own way and launches a masked raid on their local club. Kyle is recruited to carry out a punishment beating of his former friend.
Title: Assembled Parties, The
Author: Greenberg, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2014
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relationships nine characters; voice five male; three female (doubling) two acts
THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES welcomes us to the world of the Bascovs, an Upper West Side Jewish family in 1980. In a sprawling Central Park West apartment, former movie star Julie Bascov and her sister-in-law Faye bring their families together for their traditional holiday dinner. But tonight, things are not usual. A houseguest has joined the festivities for the first time and he unwittingly—or perhaps by design—insinuates himself into the family drama. Twenty years later, as 2001 approaches, the Bascovs' seemingly picture-perfect life may be about to crumble. A
Title: At Home At the Zoo
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2008
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female two acts
flexible set.
Edward Albee delves deeper into his play THE ZOO STORY by adding a first act, HOMELIFE, which precedes Peter's fateful meeting with Jerry on a park bench in Central Park. THE ZOO STORY may be performed independently. However, HOMELIFE may only be performed as part of the full length play AT HOME AT THE ZOO. Title: At the Exit in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama - fantasy - Italian seven characters; extra three male; two female; one boy; one girl one act
Translated by William Murray; 1 exterior.
Apparitions of dead persons talk at cemetery entrance. They leave earth when they lose last illusions.
Title: Attacks on the Heart in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents - COL Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Back Stage Books 2004
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act (seven scenes)
This new one-acter focuses upon an unlikely encounter between an American screenwriter and an attractive Turkish widow in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Title: B'Hoys Do Macbeth in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Ward, Jonathon Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - Shakespeare - politics - New York City five characters four male; one female one act (two scenes)
"1849, an African-American entrepreneur caught between rival gangs of New York and the Upper Ten Percent gets entangled in a Shakespearean-sized conflict that leads to the Astor Place Riot, one of the bloodiest in New York City's history." Title: Baby Anger
Author: Hedges, Peter Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1999
Description:
roy comedy - family relations - parenting nineteen characters three male; two female; two boys (doubling) two acts
"Bringing up baby" takes on new meaning for a successful young couple who start living their lives through their baby boy when he is cast in an award-winning commercial—as a girl! Their lives are turned upside down and the spoils of success bring unexpected results in this surprising, twisted comedy. Told in twenty-seven scenes, beginning in the present and spanning ten years, BABY ANGER presents a timely discourse on the trend of casting our children in the all-too-bright limelight.
Title: Bach at Leipzig
Author: Moses, Itamar Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy farce - music - historical all male cast; seven characters seven male two acts
running time: more than 2 hours
Leipzig, Germany — 1722. Johann Kuhnau, revered organist of the Thomaskirche, suddenly dies, leaving his post vacant. The town council invites musicians to audition for the coveted position, among them young Johann Sebastian Bach. In an age where musicians depend on patronage from the nobility or the church to pursue their craft, the post at a prominent church in a cultured city is
Title: Bea
Author: Gordon, Mick Publisher: Oberon Books 2010
Description:
roy comedy three characters one male; two female one act (eight scenes)
Bea is lively, naughty and full of life. When she asks something of her mother that no parent would want to be asked, and of her only friend ‘Not Gay Ray’, they are both forced to challenge the boundaries of their own compassion. Title: Becoming Cuba in - New England New Play Anthology, The / COL Author: Lopez, Melinda Publisher: StageSource 2017
Description:
roy drama - historical - Latin America seven characters three male; three female; one boy two acts
1 interior set; period - 1897.
"In 1897 Cuba on the eve of the Spanish-American War, spirited widow Adela runs a pharmacy, indifferent to the mounting conflict around her. But when the rebellion comes home to Havana, she must choose between loyalty to country or to family."
Title: Beirut
Author: Bowne, Alan Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 1985
Description:
roy drama - death - sex - relationships three characters two male; one female one act
Set in an apocalyptic future where a young man named Torch has been quarantined to a dark, squalid room on the Lower East Side of New York City, after testing positive for a nameless, sexually transmitted disease. In his grimy cell which the locals refer to as “Beirut,” Torch passes the time alone, forbidden from contact with the moral population of the outside world. His uninfected girlfriend, Blue, makes the dangerous journey across the quarantine line to be with him. Torch tries to keep her at room’s length and for the next hour, they argue lovingly, jokingly,
Title: Bellavita in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama - revenge - Italian six characters; extras five male; one female one act
1 exterior.
Baker revenges himself upon dead wife's former lover by excessive courtesy. Title: Belly Up in - Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, The / CCO Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Breakwater Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - disabilities - solo performance all male cast; one character one male one act (eighteen scenes)
1 interior set.
"A blind man is terrified of leaving his home. But he has a little mouth to feed, and he is quickly running out of fish food. Digital video and an original score play backdrop to this one-man audio visual feast."
Title: Below the Belt
Author: Dresser, Richard Publisher: Samuel French 1995
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; three characters three male two acts
Dobbitt has been posted to a dismal, distant place, a grim industrial compound that uncomfortably resembles a prison where his quarters have bunks (one freezing cold and the other boiling hot), a table, and an ancient typewriter. He is a checker; he checks though he has no idea what is being made with an irascible coworker who has been in this place for years. Their inept boss possesses a singular talent for fomenting dissent. The comic interplay among these men, one bullying and truculent, one ambitious and evasive, and the third a trembling mass of
Title: Bend in the Road A one act stage play Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - relationships - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior set.
To widen a road, the City is determined to expropriate a duplex, the two halves of which have occupants who dislike each other as much as they dislike the City.
Winner! Alberta Culture Award for one-act plays, 1983. Title: Bert Brecht
Author: Haas, Willy Publisher: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1970
Description:
reference - Bertolt Brecht - history - criticism
In this insightful study, the well-known drama critic and journalist, Willy Haas, examines Brecht's stated aims in relation to the works themselves as well as to Brecht the man. Through the author's personal knowledge of Brecht, and of the environment which so greatly affected him, the reader gains a new and important perspective on this complex figure.
Title: Beside Herself
Author: Daniels, Sarah Publisher: Methuen Drama 1990
Description:
roy drama - sexual abuse - women - mental illness thirteen characters four male; five female (doubling) one act (eleven scenes)
St. Dymphna's is a halfway house for people with mental illness. On the board of management there sits Evelyn, an MP's wife, who is struggling desperately to make people like her; helping her father round the house, acceding to colleagues' requests and absorbing the stress she is quite obviously feeling, her innermost thoughts voiced to the audience by the otherwise unseen Eve. For it seems that Evelyn is also not well, the spectre of mental illness dogging her as she puts on a timid, polite manner and faces the world as though nothing is the matter. Named after the patron
Title: Best Monologues from the Best American Short Plays volume 1
Author: Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2014
Description:
monologues
"Best Monologues from the Best American Short Plays, Volume One" is for actors of all ages - beginners as well as seasoned veterans - and belongs in the libraries of all theatre teachers looking for new and exciting material for their students. The monologues in this volume are excerpted from the outstanding series 'The Best American Short Plays', an archive of works from many of the best playwrights active today, presenting taut, engaging single-character pieces that range from zany comedy to poignant tales of love and loss. Each monologue includes a reference identifying where to locate the entire play, should anyone choose to pursue production beyond the monologue. Long or short, serious or not, this collection is must-have material for anyone interested in acting. The monologues also succeed as excellent companions for the casual reader. Title: Best Monologues from the Best American Short Plays volume 2
Author: Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2014
Description:
monologues
This second volume of monologues from The Best American Short Plays series features a diverse selection drawn from outstanding works by many of today's best American playwrights. In these monologues, the playwrights capture much of the flavors, feelings and thoughts of American culture over the past several decades. The result is a collection of taut, compelling monologues offering fascinating perspectives. They are written with an eye toward the stage that makes them exceptional source material for actors, young and old alike. And they offer a freshness and directness that make them excellent companions for readers attracted to good, often quirky, and always engaging contemporary literature.
Title: Best Monologues from the Best American Short Plays volume 3
Author: Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2015
Description:
monologues
This is a collection of monologues drawn from the popular Best American Short Play series, an archive of works from many of the best playwrights active today. Long or short, serious or not, excerpts or entireties, the monologues in this collection abound in speech acts that may trigger physical reactions and almost certainly will transform an attitude or two, drawing out lost memories, creating new ones, and definitely entertaining, engaging, amusing us all along the way.
Title: Between in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Guare, John Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama two characters flexible casting one act
Two people share a meal and a past crime. Title: Between East and West in - New Plays USA 3 / COL Author: Nelson, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1986
Description:
roy drama - immigrants two characters one male; one female one act (eighteen scenes)
1 interior; period - 1983.
A Czech theatre director and his actress wife find difficulties in adapting to new life in the United States.
Title: Between Riverside and Crazy
Author: Guirgis, Stephen Adly Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2015
Description:
roy dark comedy - American - life seven characters four male; three female two acts
"City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the Landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed, and the Church wont leave him alone. As ex-cop and recent widower Walter Pops Washington struggles to hold on to one of the last great rent stabilized apartments on Riverside Drive, he must also contend with old wounds, new houseguests, and a final ultimatum. It seems the old days are dead and gone — after a lifetime living between Riverside and Crazy." - Publisher
Title: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Author: Mayer, Nathan Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1992
Description:
roy drama - mystery three characters two male; one female two acts
What is the role of the justice system? Must justice be served without regard to human subtleties? Where is the line between establishing a standard and making sure the system is just, and relating to crime on a human level to see its roots and effects? Assistant prosecutor Kenneth Hayes has been assigned to the case of Ruth Ballard, an old flame and former law school classmate. The two could not have more differing views on the law. Both consider themselves crusaders for justice. In Ken's view, this is best done through vigorous and unemotional prosecution of those accused of Title: Big Knife, The
Author: Odets, Clifford Publisher: Samuel French 1976
Description:
roy drama - success - morals twelve characters eight male; four female three acts
We witness the last few days of Charlie Castle, a top movie star and an idealist, whose years of compromise with his beliefs for the sake of a Hollywood career have resulted in the slow destruction of his personality. We see his struggles to escape from the net of insincerity and falsehood in which he has trapped himself, and his ultimate defeat.
Title: Bingo
Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1976
Description:
roy drama - Shakespeare - high school - biography twelve characters seven male; five female two acts
Approximate running time: 70 mins
Concerns the last days of Shakespeare when he has retired to Stratford and is tormented by the cruelties to his family and his own achievements.
Title: Bingo Ladies (score)
Author: Tilly, Grant Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2015
Description:
Musical score for Bingo Ladies. Title: Birds and the Bees, The
Author: Crawford, Mark Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - family relations - life - love four characters two male; two female two acts
Sarah’s marriage is over, and she’s just moved back home to the farm with her beekeeper mother, Gail. As the women try to adjust to the many changes in their world, their lives are complicated by the community’s last-ever Turkey Days celebration, beehive troubles, an eccentric neighbour, and a handsome young researcher. "The Birds and the Bees" is a laugh-out-loud comedy with a huge, honeyed heart.
Title: Birds, The in - Plays: Three - Conor McPherson / COL Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2013
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act (fifteen scenes)
Mysterious flocks of birds have begun to attack at high tide, driving strangers Nat and Diane to take refuge in an isolated, abandoned house by the sea. They quickly form a bond as they attempt to survive in their new circumstances. But with no electricity and a scarcity of food, the tension is palpable and hope is waning. The sudden arrival of a mysterious young woman, Julia, ruffles feathers in the house and quickly threatens to destroy their so-called sanctuary.
Title: Black Dog: 4 vs The World
Author: Heiti, Matthew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - mental illness five characters three male; two female one act (nine scenes)
Simple set.
"The Breakfast Club meets Shirley Jackson in a fusion of live theatre and technology that tells a darkly comic but hopeful story of four teenage outsiders struggling with death, depression and the shadow of a black dog. Two is fraught. While dealing with the impossible expectations of her parents, she is trying to understand why her brother, a bright and talented teenager, has taken his Title: Black Powder Estevan 1931 Author: Deverell, Rex Ursell, Geoffrey Publisher: Coteau Books 1981
Description:
roy Canadian - Saskatchewan - History - coal mining ten characters six male; four female two acts
"A forceful and controversial look at the famous Estevan strike of 1931."
Title: Blood Moon
Author: Kazan, Nicholas Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy drama - revenge three characters two male; one female two acts
Based on a true story. Manya, 19 and a college senior arrives with her sole surviving family (Uncle Gregory) at the swank New York apartment of Gregory's gangster friend Alan who is immediately attracted to Manya, and she's intrigued by him: an older man who's suave, cynical and charismatic. After a respectable interval, Gregory leaves. Alone with her, Alan cajoles Manya into revealing herself and then attacks her, first destroying her innocence and then raping her. A year later, Manya now in medical school, invites Alan to dinner and flirts with him, seemingly toying
Title: Blood Relations in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters four male; four female two acts
"Lizzie Borden is driven to desperation by family pressure and the ambiguous complexities unfold as Lizzie's actress friend helps act out the crucial scenes with Lizzie's directions." Title: Blue Stockings
Author: Swale, Jessica Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2017
Description:
roy drama - historical - women - Britain - education twenty characters; extras nine male; nine female (doubling) two acts
with the exception of two female characters, all parts can be doubled and the play can be staged with approximately twelve actors; setting - 1896 Girton College, Cambridge, home to Britain's first female university students.
A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage. 1896. Girton College,
Title: Blue Stockings: Guide for Studying and Staging the Play
Author: Swale, Jessica Jeary, Lois Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2017
Description:
reference - study and teaching - production
Jessica Swale's 'Blue Stockings' is the empowering and surprising story of four young women fighting for their right to a university education in a world that assumed women belonged at home. First produced professionally at Shakespeare's Globe in 2013, and a sell-out success, it is now regularly performed by theatre groups in the UK and beyond, and widely studied by GCSE Drama students. This 'Page to Stage' guide, written by the playwright, who also directed the first production at RADA, along with her assistant director Lois Jeary, is packed with contextual information, scene-by-scene and character breakdowns, and personal insights into the world of the play and the real lives that inspired it. An invaluable resource for those studying and staging the play, it takes you through the entire production process, considering each of the elements in turn, from sound and music to design and rehearsals. You'll also find notes from the original
Title: Bluebirds in - Vimy and Bluebirds / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - war - women all female cast; three characters three female one act
Thiessen brings to light the stories of three Canadian nurses who crossed oceans to take care of others in the war. Bonding over their duties and patients, the nurses keep up a positive atmosphere, even as the front line draws closer to their field hospital. Title: Bolsheviks, The in - The Bolsheviks and Other Plays / COL Author: Shatrov, Mikhail translated by Michael Glenny Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1990
Description:
roy political drama - historical - Lenin - Soviet Union - USSR twenty-eight characters twenty-four male; four female two acts
1 setting.
'Second play in trilogy about Lenin's rule in the Soviet Union. Depicts aftermath of nearly successful attempt on Lenin's life'. - Play Index
Title: Bombay Black in - Bombay Plays, The / CCO Author: Irani, Anosh Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - dance - India three characters one male; two female two acts
"Apsara, Bombay's most infamous dancer, lives with her iron-willed mother Padma in an apartment by the sea. Padma takes money from men so they watch her daughter perform a mesmerizing dace. Apsara's extraordinary beauty and erotically charged dancing cast a powerful spell over her wealthy and famous clientele. One day, a mysterious blind man named Kamal visits for a private dance. His secret link to their past threatens to change each of their lives forever. At turns lyrical and brutal, BOMBAY BLACK charts the seduction of Apsara by Kamal, and Padma's violent enmity
Title: Boogie Woogie Landscapes in - Three Pieces / COL Author: Shange, Ntozake Publisher: Penguin Books 1981
Description:
roy black theatre - drama - verse seven characters three male; four female one act
1 interior.
Explores in poetry, dance, music, and song the feelings and fantasies of a young black woman who is visited in her bedroom by nightlife companions representing dreams and memories. Title: Book Club
Author: Da Silva, Kristen Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - friendship - romance six characters three male; three female two acts
running time: 80 min.
Josh joined Book Club to get close to Annie. Small issue: Annie is oblivious to Josh's feelings for her... and she's engaged to another man. When Josh's two buddies - a womanizing trainer and a heartbroken nerd - realize book club is a novel place to meet women, the ensuing gathering makes for a fast-paced comedy about friendship, first impressions, and figuring out what we
Title: Book of Grace, The
Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2016
Description:
roy drama - family relations three characters two male; one female one act (ten scenes)
1 interior set.
"Encouraged by his stepmother to return home to South Texas, a young man reunites with his abusive father, unearthing an explosive combination of deep-seated passion and ambition."
Title: Bootlegger Blues, The
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Fifth House 1991
Description:
roy young adult - comedy - Canadian - Native peoples six characters three boys; three girls two acts
'This comedy is about love, family, and what to do with too much beer. Set on a reserve, it follows the plight of Martha, a church-going, teetotaling woman who finds herself stuck with 143 cases of beer after a church fundraiser fails. She decides to bootleg the beer, to the horror of her son Andrew, nicknamed Blue, who is a special constable on the reserve. Meanwhile, Andrew has fallen for a young woman he thinks is his cousin, and his sister Marianne is bored with her "Indian Yuppie" husband and finds herself attracted to a handsome dancer at the powwow. The pace is Title: Bootycandy
Author: O'Hara, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 2014
Description:
roy satire - dramatic comedy - LGBTQ+ twenty-two characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
unit set; period - 1970s to present day.
Robert O'Hara's semi-biographical subversive comedy tells the story of Sutter, who is on an outrageous odyssey through his childhood home, his church, dive bars, motel rooms, and even nursing homes. O'Hara weaves together scenes, sermons, sketches, and daring meta-theatrics to create a kaleidoscope that interconnects to portray growing up gay and black. Robert O'Hara’s
Title: Boris Godunov in - Boris Godunov: The little tragedies / COL Author: Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich Publisher: Oberon Books 2002
Description:
roy drama - Russia - history - tragedy large cast flexible casting one act (twenty-three scenes)
Pushkin's great history play recounts the tragic conflict between Tsar Boris and the pretender Dimitri. Following the death of Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov became regent for the feeble-minded Tsar Fyodor. Dmitri, the heir to Fyodor's throne, died mysteriously, and Boris was suspected of murdering him. When a renegade monk later claims to be Dimitri, he soon becomes a focus for widespread revolt. Pushkin's dramatic account is filled with dazzling poetry and an earthy realism.
Title: Bosoms and Neglect
Author: Guare, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980
Description:
roy comedy three characters one male; two female two acts
3 interior sets.
A middle-aged man who is trying to deal with the impending death of his mother from cancer picks up a fellow patient of his psychiatrist's to help him through the crisis and ends up taking out his frustrations out on her. Title: Botticelli in the Fire in - Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom / CCO Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2017
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canadian playwright six characters four male; two female one act (twelve scenes)
While painting The Birth of Venus, famed artist and bon-vivant Sandro Botticelli becomes entangled in sexual and political brinkmanship that puts a lot more than his masterpiece at stake.
Title: Boulevard of Broken Dreams in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Bolen, Lynne Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; one female one act (seven scenes)
A teacher and underage student on a date flee to avoid another student. Later, they fail to provide this student's alibi for a murder he is accused of, and twenty years later, the teacher and the convicted student meet.
Title: Bound East for Cardiff in - Seven Plays of the Sea / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Vintage Books 1972
Description:
roy drama all male cast; eleven characters eleven male one act
Description not available. Title: Boy Preference, The in - Connections 2015 / YCL Author: Cook, Elinor Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2015
Description:
roy drama - young adult large cast flexible casting one act (fifteen scenes)
Age suitability: 13+.
in an affluent suburb in the near future, the birth of a boy is welcomed with shouts and firecrackers, but when a girl is born the neighbours say nothing. One night, Joey looks out of his bedroom window and sees many young women with a strange glow around them - are they the 'missing women'? Why have they come back?
Title: Boys in the Band, The in - The Band Plays - COL Author: Crowley, Mart Publisher: Alyson Publications 2003
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; nine characters nine male two acts
1 interior.
Eruption of personal frictions among a group of homosexuals giving a birthday party for one of their number.
Title: Broadway and Hollywood Costumes designed by Irene Sharaff Author: Sharaff, Irene Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold 1976
Description:
reference - costumes - designs and plans
The only costume designer who has worked equally on Broadway and Hollywood, Irene Sharaff has a unique record. Her prodigious output over the last forty years - some 56 Broadway shows, 28 major Hollywood films, and 17 ballets for the leading US companies has helped to shape the costume designer roles as we know it. This remarkable account of her star-studded career leads readers backstage and into the dressing rooms of a dazzling array of such stage and screen notables as Gypsy Rose Lee, Judy Garland, Yul Brenner, Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, Gertrude Lawrence, Gene Kelly, Barbara Striesand, and many others. Presented here are Miss Sharaff's personal and professional notes on her apprenticeship to Aline Berstein and first steps to Broadway in the thirties and Hollywood in 1942, and on the training of eye, mind, and hand in metier of costume designing - from drawing board to choosing materials, from fittings to the final Title: Brownsville song (b-side for tray) in - Humana Festival 2014: The complete plays / COL Author: Lee, Kimber Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama - African-American six characters two male; two female; one girl (doubling) one act (fourteen scenes)
"Set in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, BROWNSVILLE SONG (B-SIDE FOR TRAY) is a powerful tale of resilience in the face of tragedy. Moving fluidly between past and present, this bold new play tells the story of Tray, a spirited African-American 18-year-old and his family, who must hold on to hope when Tray's life is cut short. Kimber Lee's lyrical social drama about the shocking death of a young African-American teenager is a poignant story for our time, and demands the attention of audiences far and wide."
Title: Buddies
Author: Gallagher, Mary Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1983
Description:
roy drama - relationships - coming of age six characters three male; three female one act
The setting is the cluttered living room (and front porch) of an old frame house near the campus of a Catholic men's college in the Midwest. It is a summer night in the pre-Vietnam sixties, and the occupants of the house, three laid-back male students are filling in their time with beer and rock music while waiting for classes to begin. They are visited by several young local ladies of their acquaintance, and while the resulting repartee is lively and often hilarious, deeper concerns are soon revealed. One of the girls, shy and a bit awkward, is unable to convey her feelings to one of
Title: Bunked! The musical Author: Kunin, Alaina Proctor, Bradford Publisher: Samuel French 2011
Description:
roy musical - comedy - coming of age five characters three male; two female one act (sixteen scenes)
Simple set.
"A touching coming of age comedy about five summer camp counselors during that pivotal summer before the beginning of college. With easily relatable characters experiencing their first tastes of independence and a catchy pop score, Bunked! taps into the uncertainty of trying to find oneself while forging first adult relationships. Exploring themes of first loves, growing up, and Title: Buyer and Cellar
Author: Tolins, Jonathan Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2014
Description:
roy comedy - friendship - fame - solo performance all male cast; one character one male one act (one scene)
Simple set.
"Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in L.A., he takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar. One day, the Lady Herself comes downstairs to play. It feels like real bonding in the basement, but will their relationship ever make it upstairs? BUYER & CELLAR is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs."
Title: Caitiline in - Early Plays of Henrik Ibsen / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Anders Orbeck Publisher: Forgotten Books 2012
Description:
roy drama - verse play thirteen characters; extras twelve male; one female three acts
Blank-verse historical drama in three acts.
The play sympathetically depicts Catiline, that much maligned figure of Roman antiquity, concentrating on his inner torments. Bitter and vengeful, rejected by his country and incited by a fallen vestal virgin, Furia, who seeks his destruction, Catiline leads an ill-fated band of malcontents in an abortive rebellion against the corrupt and authoritarian Roman Senate. Betrayed
Title: Caligula
Author: Camus, Albert Publisher: Samuel French 1961
Description:
roy drama - historical fifteen characters thirteen male; two female two acts
'A study in tyranny. Caesar demands the impossible from his subjects and meets his death.' Title: Camberwell House in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL Author: Roper, Amelia Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy comedy - aging - seniors - solo performance all female cast; one character one female one act
Elderly neighbors Annie and Olive have been friends since they were children. At twenty, they agreed to "knock each other off" if they were still alive at seventy-five. Now they are seventy-five and one of them has changed her mind. A tale of old age, murder, and ginger nut biscuits.
Title: Canada and the Theatre of War v. 2 Contemporary wars Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy - collection - Canadian - war
This second volume of Canadian war drama focuses on plays about contemporary warfare.
includes: Game of Patience - Abla Farhoud (translated by Jill Mac Dougall) A Line In the Sand - Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef The Monument - Colleen Wagner Palace of the End - Judith Thompson Scorched - Wajdi Mouawad (translated by Linda Gaboriau) Man Out of Joint - Sharon Pollock
Title: Canada Dash, Canada Dot in - Scripts / CCO Author: Reaney, James Beckwith, John Publisher: Coach House Books 2004
Description:
roy music - Canadian - Canada four characters; singers two male; one female; one boy one act (three parts)
music by John Beckwith.
Intended for radio a collage where disparate musical and poetic ideas are juxtaposed and superimposed, operating in real' time yet traversing freely along a continuum that includes past and present. The resulting mosaics are more than just sound experiences they are also eloquent and compassionate interrogations of Canadian identity. In the second section of Canada Dash, Title: Canada's Playwrights A biographical guide Author: Publisher: CTR Publications 1980
Description:
reference - Canada - playwrights - playwriting
A totally unique guide to Canada's major playwrights put together by the editors of the Canadian Theatre Review. Documenting some 70 writers, the volume includes basic biographical material, a listing of each writer's plays to date including date of composition, date of first performance and date of composition, date of first performance and date of publication as well as full bibliographic information on each writer's non-dramatic material. The first such guide of its type to be published in Canada. An essential reference for anyone dealing with Canadian dramatic literature of the last half century.
Title: Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies New Essays on Canadian Theatre; volume 7 Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
reference - theatre - Canada - Acting
As Canada celebrates its 150th centenary in 2017, 'Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies' asks what currently defines the field of theatre and performance history in Canada?
Challenging the idea of a singular narrative of Canadian theatre history and centering on questions of historiography and methodology, the essays in this collection investigate performances that have been excluded from mainstream theatre histories and re-evaluate well-known theatre movements to explore cultural memory. This collection asks, how do we remember performances of the past and why do some stories survive while others have been largely forgotten? Contributors draw on recent critical developments in performance studies,
Title: Cant and Canto A monodrama Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - monologue - biography - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male four acts
masks required.
A monodrama tracing the dramatic events in the controversial life of Ezra Pound [a poet]. Title: Careless Love
Author: Olive, John Publisher: Samuel French 1988
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female two acts
Here is a play about commitment and responsibility in love. Jack, an aspiring actor is serious about his career but not about his girlfriend Martha, an aspiring dancer. They drift along on a cloud of good times until Martha gets pregnant. By the time Jack realizes he wants to make an emotional commitment to Martha and their child, she has had the baby and put it up for adoption. Martha becomes a self sufficient contemporary woman; it is Jack who will hurt forever from the pain of eternal separation from his child.
Title: Carnival, The
Author: Galin, Alexander translated by Tom Cole Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1993
Description:
roy comedy seven characters one male; six female two acts
This play is a rare mix of farce and pathos presenting an extraordinary cross section of humanity. Two trios of women meet in Venice as an evening of Carnival begins. Three are sticking with Soviet life for better or (much) worse, the others have opted for the 'carnival' in the West. Off stage fireworks, gondoliers and seductive music accompany this wild, often funny mingling of human types and motives united only by their Russian origins. Yet, out of this chance encounter at what is momentarily the border between two worlds, something quite wonderful occurs. In the grand
Title: Carpetbagger's Children, The in - The Carpetbagger's Children & The Actor / COL Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Overlook Press 2003
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relationships - women - monologues all female cast; three characters three female one act
In funny, moving, engaging monologues, three sisters spin the tale of their family and an era. Their father, the eponymous carpetbagger, was a former Union soldier who used his post as county treasurer and tax collector to amass a Texas plantation of twenty thousand acres. Preserving that plantation through the vicissitudes of their lives becomes a central issue for his daughters, Cornelia, Grace Anne and Sissie. With echoes of The Three Sisters and King Lear, THE CARPETBAGGER'S CHILDREN explores the bonds of a family to the land that has shaped their Title: Casseroles of Far Rockaway, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL Author: Bauer, P. Seth Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comedy - family relationships four characters one male; three female one scene
Mass confusion reigns as a family finds out just what happens to those casseroles a daughter brought over for her widowed father.
Title: Cat Among the Pigeons
Author: Feydeau, Georges translated by John Mortimer Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy farce twenty characters thirteen male; seven female three acts
The lady has two lovers: a ne'er do well who is secretly affianced to a Baroness' daughter and a flamboyant Spanish general who challenges to a duel any man who comes near her. An amateur composer who hopes the lady will sing his song places his card in a bouquet sent anonymously and thereby seals his fate: the ne'er do well uses him to divert the general's flashing sword. Meanwhile, the ne'er do well is trapped in his skivvies outside his apartment. When the cops come to arrest him for indecent exposure, you can be sure it is the songwriter who goes to jail. The
Title: Catch a Tiger in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Boisvert, Nathalie translated by Bobby Theodore Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - identity - Canadian - women playwrights four characters one male; three female one act (thirty five short scenes)
Original title: L'histoire sordide de Conrad B.
Conrad B. is 34 years old, and eats, sleeps, works and watches TV under his dominating mother's glare. Each and every night, he locks himself in the garage and plays " G.I. Joe ", his boiling inner rage just waiting for a spark to burst into flame. Will Lynda, a new employee at the shop he works for, succeed in saving him from his self imposed slavery? Title: Catch Me If You Can - vocal selections
Author: Shaiman, Marc Wittman, Scott Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical.
Music by Marc Shaiman; lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.
Includes:
Live in Living Color / The Pinstripes Are All That They See / Someone Elses's Skin / Jet Set / Don't Break the Rules / Butter Outta Cream / The Man Inside the Clues / Christmas is My Favorite Time of Year / Doctor's Orders / Don't Be a Stranger / Little Boy, Be a Man / Seven Wonders / (Our) Family Tree / Fly, Fly Away / Goodbye / Stuck Together (Strange But True) / Fifty Checks
Title: Cats The book of the musical Author: Webber, Andrew Lloyd Publisher: Faber and Faber 1981
Description:
reference - musical - costume - set design - Cats
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical 'Cats,' based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, has been acclaimed for every aspect of its production - music, choreography, staging and design. This unique book stunningly sums up the experience of 'Cats.' As well as extracts from the libretto there are written contributions by the composer himself, and by Valerie Eliot, Trevor Nunn, Gillian Lynne and John Napier. The pages are lavishly illustrated with Mr. Napier's photographs, specially take for the book, and with some of his original costume designs.
Title: Cavedweller
Author: Ryan, Kate Moira Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama - family relations eighteen characters two male; six female (doubling) two acts
Adapted from the bestselling novel by Dorothy Allison, CAVE DWELLER follows Delia Byrd, the forty-year-old lead singer of the group Mud Dog whose rock-star boyfriend has just died in an accident, as she decides to leave Los Angeles and return home to rural Georgia with her teenage daughter, Cissy, in tow. Back in Georgia is the ex-husband, now dying of cancer, and the two daughters, Dede and Amanda, that Delia abandoned fourteen years ago. Dede, who seems most like her mother, is the wild and rebellious one, fast on the road to becoming an alcoholic and the Title: Cell
Author: Klass, Judy Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy drama - mystery six characters four male; two female two acts
"Cell is a murder mystery - to about the same extent that Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is a murder mystery. It is not a dinner theater kind of cozy murder mystery; it is a drama, with some humor, about brothers, one a Gen Xer and one a Baby Boomer, and the whodunit aspect is part of the painful war of wills and the cat and mouse game between them. Lieutenant Rodriguez questions Dennis Kadman about his older brother Michael, who has OD'd on heroin in Dennis' apartment. Dennis wants to know: who gave Michael the drugs? Michael was a cunning, manipulative addict.
Title: Cerceau
Author: Slavkin, Viktor translated by Fritz Brun and Laurence Mason Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1980
Description:
roy drama seven characters five male; two female three acts
In this wryly melancholic drama, a Moscow engineer named Rooster invites a group of his contemporaries to spend a weekend in the country at the dacha he's just inherited. They philosophize and flirt and dance. They don old clothes from the attic, and when th attic yields up the implements of cerceau -- hoops to be tossed in the air and wooden swords to catch them -- they try their hand at the old French game, too. By the end of the weekend, they've all behaved a little foolishly, desperately even, and the smiles of a late summer's night have begun to harden.
Title: Cerveau Félé 101 / Broken Brain 101 in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Claude, Nathalie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - solo performance - women all female cast: one character one female one act
Running time: 22 minutes; text in both French and English.
Claude experiments with a straitjacket, a loaf of bread, and an imaginary alter ego. Title: Changes of Heart (The Double Inconstancy)
Author: Marivaux Wadsworth, Stephen Publisher: Samuel French 1999
Description:
roy comedy - romance seven characters four male; three female three acts
translated and adapted by Stephen Wadsworth.
Marivaux's fabulous Harlequin pursues his country love Silvia to the palace, where the lovelorn Prince holds her against her will. Flaminia, an intriguer at court, attempts to reroute the affections of both Silvia and Harlequin, whose take no prisoners belligerence is softened and transformed. None expect such huge and costly changes of heart and, at the end of a hilarious day full of
Title: Changing Room, The in - Home; The Changing Room; and Mother's Day / COL Author: Storey, David Publisher: Penguin Books 1978
Description:
roy drama - British - sports all male cast; twenty-two characters twenty-two male three acts
1 interior set.
'This play depicts the life in a changing room of a rugby team before, during and after a major game.'
Title: Chee-Chee in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy comedy - Italian three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior.
Philanderer elaborately tricks prostitute to avoid paying her. Title: Chekhov Sketchbook, The
Author: Kadison, Luba Buloff, Joseph Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy drama - comedy - storytelling eight characters seven male; one female (doubling possible) three acts
A dramatization of three stories by Anton Chekhov: The Vagabond; The Witch and In a Music Shop.
The Vagabond: Prisoner being taken to Siberia seduces guards with fantastic tale of his boyhood and then returns to his role of captive.
Title: Childe Byron in - Six Plays - Romulus Linney / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1993
Description:
roy drama - family relations - fantasy eight characters four male; four female two acts
Dying of cancer and stimulated by drugs, Lord Byron's daughter summons her father to life in attempt to find the truth behind the myth. Background music. Prologue.
Title: Children
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1977
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relations five characters two male; three female two acts
The action takes place in the summer home of a wealthy "WASP" family on a resort island off the New England coast. In residence are a middle-aged but still attractive widow; her divorced daughter; and her prep school teacher son and his wife. Their pleasant regimen is interrupted by two jarring events: the mother's announcement that she plans to marry an old family friend (which means that the house will then pass to her children); and the unexpected arrival of her younger son and his family. The younger son, "Pokey," has always been out of step with the rest of the Title: Children's Plays from Favorite Stories Royalty-free dramatizations of fables, fairy tales, folk tales, and legends Author: Publisher: Plays, Inc. 1970
Description:
Collection - children - royalty-free
contains: The Silver Coffeepot - Karin Asbrand / Pandora's Box - Karin Asbrand / Old Mother Hubbard - June Barr / Rapunzel - June Barr / The Three Little Kittens - June Barr / The City Mouse and the Country Mouse - Rowena Bennett / Rumplestiltskin - Rowena Bennett / The Toungue-Cut Sparrow - Loretta Camp Capell / The Girl Whose Fortune Sought Her - Patricia Clapp / The Dancing Princesses - Caroline H. Corey / The Emporer's Daughters - Cena Christopher Draper / The King Who Wouldn't be Fooled - Josef A. Elfenbein / Puss-In-Boots - Josef A. Elfenbein / A Dish for the King - Mildred Hark and Noel McQueen / The Girl from the Sea - Dorothy Heiderstadt / The Golden Goose - Ruth Vickery Holmes / The Heir of Linne - Ruth Vickery Holmes / The King and the Miller - Ruth Vickery Holmes / The Crowded House - Eva Jacob / Robin Hood Tricks the
Title: Chimerica
Author: Kirkwood, Lucy Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2013
Description:
roy drama - politics large cast flexible casting five acts
"Tiananmen Square, 1989. As tanks roll through Beijing and soldiers hammer on his hotel door, Joe – a young American photojournalist – captures a piece of history. New York, 2012. Joe is covering a presidential election, marred by debate over cheap labour and the outsourcing of American jobs to Chinese factories. When a cryptic message is left in a Beijing newspaper, Joe is driven to discover the truth behind the unknown hero he captured on film. Who was he? What happened to him? And could he still be alive? A gripping political examination and an engaging
Title: Chinese Portrait of an Imposter in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Parenteau-Lebeuf, Dominick translated by Crystal Beliveau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy comedy - identity - women - Canadian - Quebec - women playwrights six characters; voices one male; five female one act (eight scenes)
Original title: Portrait chinois d'une imposteure.
A dramatization of a decisively turning moment in the life of a vibrantly creative artist who must rid herself of delusions and fears and take control of her own ideas, values, visions, and practice. A joyous and compelling theatrical exorcism of many of the demons that beset women working and creating in today's theatre. Title: Christians, The in - Humana Festival 2014: The Complete Plays / COL Author: Hnath, Lucas Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama - religion five characters three male; two female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"Ten years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was a modest storefront. Now it houses thousands, with a coffee shop in the lobby and a baptismal font as big as a swimming pool. But Paul is about to preach a sermon that will shake the foundation of his congregation’s beliefs. Backed by a live choir, The Christians is both epic and unexpectedly intimate, an unflinching look at faith in
Title: Christmas Carol, A Every man has the power to do good Author: Dickens, Charles Hutchison, James Publisher: Miscellaneous 2015
Description:
roy Alberta playwright - comedy - Christmas large cast flexible casting two acts
Adapted by James Hutchison, running time: approx 120 minutes.
In this fresh, fun and lively adaptation of A Christmas Carol you’ll meet Mr. Bentley, learn about the letters Scrooge wrote to his sister Fan, and find out who Mr. Newbury is. You’ll still find all the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future along with Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, the Ghost of Jacob Marley, Old Fezziwig, Scrooge’s nephew Fred, and the love of Scrooge’s life, Belle. There are
Title: Christmas Carol, A
Author: Barlow, Patrick Dickens, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy Christmas thirty characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
"Patrick Barlow, writer of the Broadway and West End hit The 39 Steps, has retold Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, A Christmas Carol. This thrilling adaptation uses only five actors to bring some of Dickens' most beloved characters to life. From Scrooge and Tiny Tim to Bob Cratchit and Mrs. Fezziwig, Barlow's A Christmas Carol uses nothing more than some simple props, fresh physicality, and the power of imagination to convey this timeless story of redemption. Witness Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation from a stingy miser to a man who generously celebrates the Title: Chronicles
Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2003
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relationships nine characters four male; five female two acts
running time: 2 hours.
In 1920 the Pendragons gather for the first time in years at the crumbling family mansion in Ohio where Matt Armitage lies dying. As his daughter Dorothy, who can neither hear nor speak, provides a running commentary which is heard only by the audience, her wild sister Jessie chases their half brother John Rose from room to room and tries to fathom what betrayal is behind her
Title: Chronicles of a War Child in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Kamal. Jazz "Nari" Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - solo performance all female cast; one character one female one act (three parts)
Her work as an intersectional feminist of Egyptian descent finds itself at the searching centre of speaking truth to power. In these emotional and sometimes angry works, Nari tackles the insidious regularity of racism, the ongoing burden of sexism, and the cross-cultural experience of homophobia.
Title: Cinders
Author: Glowacki, Janusz translated by Christina Paul Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters eight male; eight female (doubling possible) two acts
The New York Shakespeare Festival had quite a success with this penetrating allegory about a totalitarian police state by a Polish dissident playwright and novelist. In a reform school for girls, near Warsaw. A documentary film director plans to do a film of their production of the classic "Cinderella". The authorities of the school welcome his arrival, as they believe his film will show the world how enlightened the state can be in its institutions of social welfare. The director plans to create a documentary whose theme is how innocent children are rescued from the web of Title: Circe and Bravo
Author: Freed, Donald Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1986
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female two acts
Set in the President of the United States' lodge at the Camp David Mountain Retreat. The First Lady - code name 'Circe' - has become a high security risk. A top Secret Service agent - code-name 'Bravo' - is assigned to guard her.
Title: Circle, The
Author: Brown, Geoffrey Simon Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - dark comedy - drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female one act
Amanda is a genius. Ily is a drug dealer. Kit is a runaway. Mutt is a mess. Will is a shit disturber. Daniel doesn’t know what he’s doing there. It’s a high school garage party. Everyone’s a bit too drunk and a bit too stoned and a bit uncomfortable in their own skin. It’s an explosive combination, but it’s better than being alone on a Friday night in suburbia.
Title: Circus Fire
Author: Munsil, Janet Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003
Description:
roy drama - circus many characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
"Hungry for a diversion from the events of WW2, the people of Hartford, Connecticut escape a scorching summer afternoon to lose themselves in the magic and excitement of “The Greatest Show on Earth.” When unexpected disaster strikes and six-thousand circus-goers race to evacuate the flaming big-top, the death defying feats, animal instincts, and heroic acts normally reserved for the centre ring erupt in the panic-stricken audience. Based on a true story, this text for physical theatre is a moving, imaginative experience for audiences, and an exhilarating Title: Clearing in the Woods, A
Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1988
Description:
roy fantasy ten characters five male; four female; one girl two acts
Virginia reviews her life to discover why she cannot find peace.
Title: Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick in - Terry Johnson - Plays:3 / COL Author: Johnson, Terry Publisher: Methune Drama 2004
Description:
roy comedy - biographical six characters three male; three female four acts
A sharp and hilarious biographical play based on the life of Carry On star Sid James. Filming's not as glamorous as it's cracked up to be. It's a bit of a miserable business of your caravan leaks, your co-star's a manic depressive, and those younger women aren't so young anymore. Carrying on in the great tradition of British comedy, (this) new play takes some familiar faces and gets a bit familiar with them.
Title: Closet, The in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL Author: Stratford, Aoise Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy comedy three characters two male; one female (flexible casting) one act
Kevin's dad has thrown his favorite toy, Bart Sponge, into the back of a closet. There, Bart meets a toy dinosaur and another toy he can't even begin to identify. Does a supposedly gay toy have a chance of making it out of the closet? Title: Closing Bell in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents / COL Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Back Stage Books 2004
Description:
roy comedy nine characters six male; three female (doubling possible) one act (12 scenes)
Set in a world of affluence, this play illustrates the harm wealth can do to its beneficiaries.
Title: Closing Costs in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL Author: Hutton, Arlene Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act
After viewing four hundred apartments, has Harris finally found the right co-op, or simply the right real estate agent—Alice? Harris must decide if it's time to trade in his artificial fish—and finally grow up.
Title: Clothes for a Summer Hotel A ghost play Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1983
Description:
roy drama - biography - historical - F. Scott Fitzgerald - American large cast flexible casting two acts
"(This play) is about the relationship between novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. A critical and commercial failure, it was Williams' last play to debut on Broadway during his lifetime. The play takes place over a one-day visit Scott pays the institutionalized Zelda at Highland Mental Hospital in North Carolina, with a series of flashbacks to their marriage in the twenties. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, often seen as symbols of the doomed youth of the jazz age, become two halves of a single creative psyche, each part alternately feeding and then devouring the other. This Title: Cobb
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1991
Description:
roy drama - biography - baseball - American all male cast; four characters four male one act
The character of controversial baseball legend Ty Cobb is split into three differently aged versions of himself: The Peach, aged nineteen, at the beginning of his long career with the Detroit Tigers; Ty, in his early forties, at the end of his playing days; and Mr Cobb, in his early seventies, at the point of death from cancer. The play floats freely in time, moving back and forth among the Cobbs as they contend with each other, and the audience, over whom Ty Cobb really was and what he represented. Invading this self-imposed "argument in limbo" is Oscar Charleston, a black
Title: Cock-Ups
Author: Moss, Simon Publisher: Faber and Faber 1984
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships - biographical eight characters seven male; one female two acts
"First seen at the 1981 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Simon Moss's play about the last hours in the lives of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell has since been performed in Manchester and London. 'Time Out' called it a chilling study of (their) declining relationship... The rows are so intimate and compelling that it's like eavesdropping on private grief. Intercut with this is a gloriously farcical investigation of the circumstances of Orton's death in which characters blatantly lifted from his plays disport themselves in Ortonesque manner'.
Title: Coffin in Egypt, A
Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2015
Description:
roy drama - women - monologues all female cast; three characters three female one act
Myrtle Bledsoe, a ninety-year-old Texas widow, looks back on the dramatic events that caused a small Southern town, and her own relationships, incredible strife. This almost-monologue by American master Horton Foote is a haunting tale of how men and women, blacks and whites, rich and poor are all entangled in the chaos of life. Title: Cold Air in - New Plays USA 3 / COL Author: Pinera, Virgilio translated by Maria Irene Fornes Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1986
Description:
roy tragicomedy - Latin America nine characters four male; two female; one boy; two girl three acts
1 interior set; period - 1940's to 1950's. A seamstress struggles to support her family in Cuba between the end of World War II and the rise of Fidel Castro.
Title: Cold Storage in - Five Plays by Ronald Ribman / COL Author: Ribman, Ronald Publisher: Avon Books 1978
Description:
roy drama - friendships three characters two male; one female two acts
In hospital, friendship begins to grow between cancer patient and and emotionally scarred survivor of the Holocaust.
Title: Collected Stories
Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1998
Description:
roy drama - women all female cast; two characters two female two acts
The conflict between the established artist and the adulatory fan who becomes a protégé, disciple, colleague and friend—and finally threatening rival—is one of those great topics… It resurfaces in COLLECTED STORIES, which confronts the prominent short-story writer Ruth Steiner with her student turned confidante turned competitor Lisa Morrison. What is new here is that the women are teacher and student both in academia and in life, that they come from different social milieus, and that for her first novel, Lisa has also cannibalized Ruth's experiences, to wit her youthful, Title: Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canada - biography large cast flexible casting three acts
Based on the classic novel by Wayne Johnston, 'The Colony of Unrequited Dreams' is a fictionalized portrait of Joseph R. Smallwood, the controversial political figure who ambitiously led Newfoundland into Confederation with Canada, and became its first premier. Spanning two decades, Smallwood’s story is anchored and propelled by one of Johnston’s most memorable creations: the fictitious Sheilagh Fielding, a caustic newspaper columnist whose own battles with the past and alcohol addiction find full vent and expression in her tireless dogging of
Title: Color Struck: A Play in Four Scenes in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Hurston, Zora Neale Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006
Description:
roy drama - race - relationships seven characters; extras; musicians four male; three female one act (four scenes)
Hurston's one-act play in four scenes "Color Struck" was published in 1925. Using deep south vernacular, the play starts out with "walkers" heading to a Cakewalks contest in a St. Augustine, Florida dance hall. John Turner, a light brown-skinned man and Emmaline, a black woman, are to compete in the cakewalk. Emma becomes over-dramatic as she thinks John prefers light colored skin over her dark skin. As her and John are announced to enter on the floor, Emma refuses to go out with him. So Effie, a mulatto girl volunteers to dance with John and they win the contest. The
Title: Colored Museum, The
Author: Wolfe, George C. Publisher: Grove Press 1988
Description:
roy satire - black - sketches five characters; one extra three male; two female (flexible casting) one act (eleven parts)
1 set; singing required.
"Series of satirical sketches comment on contemporary blacks." Title: Coming Clean in - Kevin Elyot: Four plays Author: Elyot, Kevin Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - LGBTQ+ all male cast; five characters five male one act (seven scenes)
A very funny and acute comedy about the gay life. Looks at the breakdown of a gay couples relationship and examines complex questions of fidelity and love. The play is set in a flat in Kentish Town, north London, in 1982. Struggling writer Tony and his partner of five years, Greg, seem to have the perfect relationship. Committed and in love, they are both open to one-night stands as long as they don’t impinge on the relationship. But Tony is starting to yearn for something deeper, something more like monogamy. When he finds out that Greg has been having
Title: Coming in to Land
Author: Poliakoff, Stephen Publisher: Methune 1986
Description:
roy drama - immigration seven characters four male; three female two acts
Drama depicting attempt by Polish woman to deceive immigration official and remain in England.
Title: Common Pursuit, The
Author: Gray, Simon Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female two acts
The story begins at Cambridge University, where a group of talented undergraduates decide to start a high-minded literary magazine to be called The Common Pursuit, in honor of their mentor F.R. Leavis, a famed professor of English. Stuart, the initiator of the project, is to become editor, aided by his inamorata (and future wife) Marigold, while the others will contribute their literary or management skills. The action of the play then moves ahead, in a series of deftly constructed scenes, to follow the fates of the characters over the next twenty years, as the magazine falters Title: Community Theatre Global perspectives Author: van Erven, Eugene Publisher: Routledge 2001
Description:
reference - history - community theatre
Community theatre is an important device for communities collectively to share stories, to participate in political dialogue and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalized groups. It is practiced all over the world by growing numbers of people. Eugene van Erven, one of the world's foremost experts on Asian political theatre, has put together the first comparative study of the work and methodological traditions which have developed in community theatres around the world. It is a wide ranging study based on van Evren's experiences working with community theatre groups in six very different countries. 'Community Theatre" provides: a sociological impression of each country; a brief history of the community theatre there; a guide to each country's arts scene; background to the featured artists; and a case study of a specific community theatre project.
Title: Conduct of Life, The in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Fornes, Maria Irene Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female one act (nineteen scenes)
1 setting.
Latin American lieutenant, obsessed with gaining power, intimidates wife and servants while torturing prisoners.
Title: Conference of the Birds, The
Author: Carriere, Jean-Claude Brook, Peter Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1982
Description:
roy drama - allegory - fable large cast variable casting one act
Allegorical fable based on 12th century Persian poem. Birds seek solution to world's conflicts by undertaking search for true king (God). Title: Confessional in - Dragon Country / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1970
Description:
roy comedy nine characters seven male; two female one act (two scenes)
Confessional presents the "regulars" of a California beachfront bar: an aging beautician celebrating her brother’s "death day," an alcoholic doctor who botches a difficult childbirth, and two men who give us new insight into the unique sadness of the "gay" world.
Title: Container, The
Author: Bayley, Clare Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2007
Description:
roy drama - immigration six characters three male; three female one act
Enclosed in a freight container somewhere in Europe, five people huddle together with a common aim. Reach England. Start a new life. Can they rely on each other? And how far will each of them go to get what they want?
Winner! Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2007
Title: Corpus Christi
Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Grove Press 1998
Description:
roy drama - faith - LGBTQ+ all male cast; thirteen characters thirteen male one act
An unorthodox version of the New Testament life of Christ, from the Nativity to the Crucifixion. The modern-day protagonist grows up in Texas, is called Joshua, and is homosexual. Music singing, dancing. Title: Costumes of the Greeks and Romans
Author: Hope, Thomas Publisher: Dover Publications 1962
Description:
reference - costume
From headdress to sandals, from warrior's armors to priestess's robes, the authentic costumes of people from all walks of life in the Roman and Greek civilizations are here pictured comprehensively and clearly. 300 finely drawn, detailed engravings show you just what was worn by the poets, philosophers, priests and priestesses, peasants, Bacchanalians, emporers, generals, Amazons, and virgins of a bygone age. Carefully copied from ancient vases and statuary by Thomas Hope, a British collector and designer, these engravings combine an unusual clarity of style with unquestioned authenticity. Their range, too, is unusually great, for besides the many plates on the costumes of the Greeks and Romans, there are representative illustrations of the typical dress of such other civilizations as the Phyrgian, Egyptian, Parthian, Etruscan and Persian. In addition, scores of engravings are devoted to such now-forgotten objects as ancient musical
Title: Cougar - the Musical
Author: Moore, Donna Publisher: Samuel French 2014
Description:
roy musical - comedy four characters one male; three female one act (eighteen scenes)
simple set; music by Donna Moore, Meryl Leppard, Mark Bakkan, Arnie Gross, John Baxindine, and Seth Lefferts; additional lyrics by Meryl Leppard and Mark Bakkan.
"Cougar - The Musical unleashes three divine but disillusioned women who develop a taste for hot, young men. They let their inner cougar roar and purr, finding self-love and empowerment in the process. The sexy, ferocious cast of three fabulous-over-forty women and one multi-talented
Title: Country House, The
Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - actors - family relations six characters three male; three female three acts
A brood of famous and longing-to-be-famous creative artists have gathered at their summer home during the Williamstown Theatre Festival. When the weekend takes an unexpected turn, everyone is forced to improvise, inciting a series of simmering jealousies, romantic outbursts, and passionate soul-searching. Both witty and compelling, THE COUNTRY HOUSE provides a piercing look at a family of performers coming to terms with the roles they play in each other’s lives. Title: Crawlspace in - Animals / CCO Author: Hines, Karen Publisher: Coach House Books 2017
Description:
roy dark comedy - monologues - home ownership all female cast; two characters two female two acts
A writer attempts to evade precarity and buys the smallest house for sale in a property-mad Toronto - only to learn it's a money pit of nightmarish proportions. Inspired by true events, this comic, Kafkaesque monologue about the darker side of home ownership embraces the metaphorical 'squirrels in the attic' and ups the ante, animal-wise, as it snakes through the brutal battlegrounds of real estate, decorative twig orbs, and the state of the human soul.
Title: Crazy Money in - Four Plays - Alexander Ostrovsky / COL Author: Ostrovsky, Alexander translated by Stephen Mulrine Publisher: Oberon Books 1997
Description:
roy comedy twelve characters; extras eight male; three female; one boy five acts
Description not available.
Title: Crazy Sexy Cool Girls' Fan Club in - Connections 2015 / YCL Author: Solemani, Sarah Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2015
Description:
roy satire - young adult ten characters five male; five female (flexible casting) one act
age suitability: 13+.
What makes a 'fan' girl? Who are they? What do they want? Who are the band? What are they in it for? And at £200 a ticket, who is the band's fan base? Surely not the girls aged nine to sixteen? This riotous satire explores the teen politics of a 'friendship group' and the chaos and torment that can come with stardom at an early age. A play about desire, fantasy, and worship with a Title: Crazy to Kill in - Scripts / CCO Author: Reaney, James Beckwith, John Publisher: Coach House Books 2004
Description:
roy mystery - opera - Canadian large cast flexible casting one act
music by Jon Beckwith.
The libretto is based on the mystery novel Crazy to Kill by the Stratford, Ontario writer Ann Cardwell. The opera is set in the late 1930s, and takes place in Elmhurst, a fictional southern Ontario private asylum for wealthy mental patients. The story involves a series of murders at Elmhurst which are investigated by Detective Fry with the aid of Agatha Lawson, a 'model patient'
Title: Creating Claire
Author: DiPietro, Joe Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2014
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female two acts
Employed as a docent at a natural history museum, nice, middle-aged Claire comes under fire when her tour-guide patter deviates from the strict scientific beliefs of her formidable supervisor and heads down a path that espouses intelligent design. Claire's spiritual slant attracts extra visitors but soon leads to legal action. A powerful exploration of the supernova that results when science, faith and politics collide.
Title: Creative Theatrical Makeup
Author: Arnink, Donna J. Publisher: Prentice-Hall 1984
Description:
reference - make-up
This book can help you develop the techniques you need to design and apply more convincing, more creative stage makeup. Sprinkled with pertinent history and theory, this book explains how to achieve striking and original makeup effects with a simple palette of three colors, a sponge, and a brush. Here, you'll learn and practice: mixing pigments; shading; facial analysis; character analysis; from race to temperament; the effects of lighting; creating illusions; aging; color scheme selection and much more. Also includes tips on using traditional makeup and tools - from pancake and pencils to hair, teeth, and scars. Title: Crimson Cap Ladies Bare it All, The
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous 2017
Description:
roy comedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta playwright ten characters; extras three male; seven female three acts
Running time: 90 mins; 1 set.
The Crimson Cap Ladies end up accidentally booked into a nudist resort on a secluded island off the coast of British Columbia with no way back to the mainland for a week. Complications abound as they try to keep a virginal nice raised by her Mom in the wilds of northern Alberta away from seeing anything scandalous.
Title: Crimson Cap Ladies Catch a Con, The
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous 2015
Description:
roy comedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters one male; seven female three acts
Running time: 90 minutes; one set.
The second Crimson Cap Ladies episode finds their club infiltrated by a violent escaped con disguised as an older woman from the UK. Great physical comedy and hilarious dialogue provide the laughs. The play is ideal for amateur theatre groups who attract a large segment of seniors, especially, "Red Hat Ladies."
Title: Crimson Cap Ladies Save the Day, The
Author: Mckerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous 2014
Description:
roy comedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta Playwright seven characters two male; seven female three acts
This is the first of the quadrilogy which features four older women in a small town social club, known as the Crimson Cap Ladies. On one of their monthly excursions, they get trapped in the seedy town bar fearing for their lives as people go missing, then return acting like zombies! Of course, an alien invasion is blamed.
The digital copy of the play will download automatically through Google Drive when you click Title: Crimson Cap Ladies take on Vegas, The
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous 2016
Description:
roy comedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta playwright fourteen characters two male; seven female (doubling) three acts
Running time; 90 minutes; 1 set.
The feisty Crimson Cap Ladies head to Vegas for the Crimson Cap International Convention and Bake Sale and get mixed up with a gang of jewel thieves after Millie gets kidnapped. Lots of laughs with twists and turns in the mystery to keep audiences guessing. This is a wonderful third addition to the Crimson Cap Ladies saga.
Title: Crossing Jerusalem in - Crossing Jerusalem and other plays / COL Author: Pascal, Julia Publisher: Oberon Modern Plays 2003
Description:
roy drama - family relationships eight characters four male; three female; one boy two acts
Description of twenty-four hours in the life of an Israeli family in March 2002, as they cross Jerusalem at the beginning of the latest intifada. During this single day, personal and political history burst into the present. A complex family drama explodes in the most politically tense city in the world.
Title: Crowd You're in With, The A play Author: Gilman, Rebecca Publisher: Northwestern University Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - American - parenthood - friendship - family seven characters four male; three female one act
running time: 85 min.
In it, a Fourth of July backyard barbecue is the setting for a comic, thought-provoking, ultimately disquieting exploration of the question of whether to have children. Melinda and Jasper, the hosts, are deeply divided by the issue; Tom and Karen, their landlords, decided long ago to remain childless; Windsong and her husband, Dan, are expecting a baby. As the play progresses, Title: Crystal and Fox
Author: Friel, Brian Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama ten characters eight male; two female one act
This play is about Irish fit up theaters offering shows from simple plays to performing dogs. Fox Melarkey is the proprietor and Crystal is his adored wife. At the height of success, Fox inexplicably began to drop the variety acts. The show is down to two: an Irishman (billed as Pedro once of the Moscow Circus) with a trained dog and El Cid and Tanya, an acrobatic team. Fox insures the latters' resignation by insulting them. Then their lost son returns whom Fox drove off years ago. He is now a drifter wanted by the English police. Fox does his best to kill all hopes for
Title: Dada Woof Papa Hot
Author: Parnell, Peter Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2016
Description:
roy drama - family relations - LGBTQ+ seven characters five male; two female one act (eight scenes)
flexible set.
It’s a fall night in New York City, and two couples who recently met at a parents group are out to dinner at the hot new restaurant. The foursome share photos of their kids, trade war stories from preschool applications, and discuss their work. Alan and Rob & Scott and Jason find plenty of common ground as gay couples raising kids in the city, and a play-date with their children is set.
Title: Daffodils in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Guyton, Daniel Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
A woman helps a man come to terms with his father's memory in a field of daffodils. Title: Dalliance in - Plays Four / COL Author: Stoppard, Tom Schnitzler, Arthur Publisher: Faber and Faber 1999
Description:
roy drama - historical - relationships ten characters six male; four female three acts
"This version of Schnitzler's "Liebelei" play that caused a scandal when first produced in Vienna in 1895, focuses on how the sexual mores of a society are indicative of the whole social fabric. Dalliance is a bitter sweet drama about a young working class girl who falls in love with a military officer. She alone has not learned that love is temporal and trivial, a mere series of dalliances."
Title: Dance of Death, The in - Plays: Three - Conor McPherson / COL Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2013
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female two acts
An adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1900 play The Dance of Death, about a titanic battle of wills between a husband and wife. On an isolated island, military captain Edgar and his wife Alice live a bitter life, their marriage soured by hatred. When the possibility of redemption and escape arrives for Alice in the shape of their former comrade Kurt, it seems that Edgar is prepared to use his very last breath to make their lives a living hell.
Title: Dancing Lessons
Author: St. Germain, Mark Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2015
Description:
roy romantic comedy two characters one male; one female one act
DANCING LESSONS centers on Ever, a young man with Asperger’s syndrome, who seeks the instruction of a Broadway dancer to learn enough dancing to survive an awards dinner. The dancer, Senga, however, is recovering from an injury that may stop her dancing career permanently. As their relationship unfolds, they’re both caught off-guard by the discoveries—both hilarious and heartwarming—that they make about each other and about themselves. Title: Dangers of VD (Valentine's Day), The
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright - romance - relationships - Canadian six characters two male; four female three acts
Running time: 90 minutes.
Uproarious laughs mixed with social commentary against the background of Valentine's Day. Gramps and Gran yearn for the romance of yesteryear while their daughter-in-law, Paulette, and her husband deal with his lack of interest in sex. Meanwhile, Paulette's daughter is being coached to dress trampily to attract men by her Aunt Jean. A device for great comedy in The Dangers of VD
Title: Dark Pony in - Reunion & Dark Pony / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld 1979
Description:
roy drama - legend - storytelling two characters one male; one female one act (one scene)
In the short vignette 'Dark Pony' a father tells a favorite bedtime story to comfort his young daughter as they drive home late at night. A foray into the realm of legend, the story of a young Indian brave and his trusty horse.
Title: Dark Rapture in - Eric Overmyer Collected Plays / COL Author: Overmyer, Eric Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1993
Description:
roy drama nine characters six male; three female two acts
Play revolves around morally corrupt characters scheming to get their hands on parcel of cash. Title: Dark Vanilla Jungle And other monologues Author: Ridley, Philip Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2014
Description:
roy drama - solo performance - monologues all female cast; one character one female one act
Andrea is seemingly a normal girl. She has her hopes and dreams, spends lots of time thinking about boys and has a complex relationship with her mother. But she’s certainly not lucky, partly down to bad decision making but mainly down to the complete selfishness of those who surround her. A beautiful and breathtaking new drama about one girl's craving for family and home...and the lengths she will go to achieve them.
Title: Day I Stood Still, The in - Kevin Elyot: Four plays / COL Author: Elyot, Kevin Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships six characters six male; two female (see note below) one act (three scenes)
three characters to be played by two actors each, two characters to be played by one actor only, and the last character to be played by one actor.
What begins apparently as a very English comedy about avoiding the issue...ends as something both tragic and heartening. 'The Day I Stood Still' is a comedy drama about the heartbreak of unrequited love and the power of memories. The play is set in a North London mansion block.
Title: Day Room, The
Author: DeLillo, Don Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1986
Description:
roy drama - mental illness eighteen characters six male; three female (doubling) two acts
flexible set.
The play opens in a brightly lit hospital room occupied by two men. One, the amiable Budge, does Tai Chi exercises while trying, without much success, to strike up a conversation with his taciturn roommate, Wyatt. Then, slowly but inexorably, their world begins to spin away from reality as they are visited by a series of fellow patients and hospital staffers, all of whom, it turns out, may not be Title: De Donde?
Author: Gallagher, Mary Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1991
Description:
roy drama - immigration - America forty characters eight male; five female (doubling; flexible casting) two acts
Freely translated as "Where are you from?" the title of the play refers to the increasing tide of illegal aliens who flee north to the United States from the economically and politically oppressed countries of Latin America. Seeking jobs and freedom from persecution, the refugees are, more often than not, met with indifference and even hostility, regardless of their circumstances, and deported back to their home countries—which can often mean certain death. In a series of sharply drawn scenes and monologues, with thirteen actors portraying more than forty characters, the
Title: Dead Ringer
Author: Dilorio, Gino Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy mystery - dark comedy - western three characters two male; one female two acts
"Tyrus Cole, a horse trainer, lives on a ranch with his invalid sister Mary. Because he can't watch her during the day, Tyrus has Mary confined to a root cellar. When Dwight Foley arrives at the ranch seeking help with his horse, he and Mary fall in love and begin plotting the demise of Tyrus and their eventual escape. Their plan escalates and in the end, the three find themselves trapped in a complex web of greed and secrets."
Title: Dear Evan Hansen - vocal selections
Author: Pasek, Benj Paul, Justin Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 2017
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical - voice - piano. Music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
contains: Anybody Have a Map? Waving Through a Window For Forever Sincerely, Me Requiem If I Could Tell Her Disappear You Will Be Found To Break In a Glove Title: Death of Papa, The
Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1979
Description:
roy drama twelve characters four male; seven female; one boy two acts
The play begins by introducing the next generation of Robedauxs in the person of Horace's son, Horace Jr., who comes home from school to find that his maternal grandfather, Henry Vaughn, has died suddenly of a heart attack. From this point, two main storylines are traced in the play. One deals with young Horace's coming to terms with the concepts of life, death and familial relationships. He finds that his mother, Elizabeth, is expecting another baby; he listens to, and asks many questions about, the widely contrasting accounts of his two grandfathers; and he
Title: Decline and Fall of the Suzaku, The in - My Friend Hitler and other plays of Yukio Mishima / COL Author: Yukio, Mishima Publisher: Columbia University Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Japan - family relations five characters three male; two female four acts
This late-period work by Mishima Yukio depicts the decline of a noble family in the waning days of World War II, in a play based on Herakles by Euripides. It is a story of magnificent decline, that of a man whose loyalty to the nation and the emperor blinds him to reality, and a woman firmly rooted in the real world.
Title: Diana and Tuda
Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Marta Abba Publisher: Samuel French 1950
Description:
roy tragedy - melodrama - relationships twelve characters three male; nine female three acts
Tuda is a model who is posing for Sirio's statue of Diana, which is to be the acme of the art of sculpture. Tuda falls in love with Sirio, and to force his hand in marriage threatens to pose also for Sirio's rival. Faced with this, Sirio sacrifices his bachelorhood for his art. But his old mistress still has a key to his quarters, and still makes regular calls on him. Jealously, Tuda at last offers her services to Sirio's rival. Sirio not only ruins his rival's work of art, but scars him in a duel; and then assaults Tuda. The old sculptor who has been like a father to Sirio now seizes him, and Sirio Title: Diana of Dobson's
Author: Hamilton, Cicely Publisher: Broadview Press 2003
Description:
roy romantic comedy - women thirteen characters four male; nine female four acts
Diana is an under-paid worker in an Edwardian department store in Clapham and, when she inherits £300 unexpectedly, she spends it on a holiday at a holiday resort in Switzerland. Pretending to be a wealthy widow, she finds herself pursued by an impecunious ex-guardsman and his predatory aunt.
This Broadview edition also includes excerpts from Hamilton’s autobiography Life Errant (1935)
Title: Dib and Dob and the Journey Home
Author: Craig, David S. Morgan, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2013
Description:
roy children all male cast; two characters two male one act
running time: 55 mins.
Dib and Dob are two very different brothers who have been searching for home their whole lives. Always together, they communicate in a form of 'twinspeak' that is both comic and touching. Having faced the monster under the tree, they discover the true meaning of home.
Title: Die Mommie Die!
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy parody - mystery - thriller - spoof - family relations six characters three male; three female two acts
running time: 120 minutes; interior set.
A comic melodrama that evokes the 1960’s "grande guignol" films that featured aging stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner. Ex-pop singer, Angela Andrews, is trapped in a hateful marriage with film producer Sol Sussman. Desperate to find happiness with her younger lover, an out of work TV actor, Tony Parker, Angela murders her husband with the aid of a Title: Diminished them Augmented in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Gallant, Daniel Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
A mob interrogator confronts a thief and challenges the rules of organized crime.
Title: Dirty Plötz in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Tigchelaar, Alex Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy comedy - solo performance - cabaret - women - Canadian - LGBTQ+ all female cast; many characters one female (doubling) two acts
A cabaret monologue contextualized here with brief descriptions of th acts that were included in the show. This is a publication experiment in bringing the cabaret stage to the page.
Title: Discourse as Performance
Author: Issacharoff, Michael Publisher: Stanford University Press 1989
Description:
reference - criticism - language
(This book) is an investigation into theatrical discourse - the specifically theatrical use of language in the broadest sense, from verbal utterance to non-verbal uses comprising the visual elements of gesture, facial expression, movement, costume, players' bodies, properties and decor.
In the first part, the author deals with theatrical discourse proper and distinguishes between its two main modes: dialogue and stage directions. Both modes address the problem of the specificity of theatrical discourse in contrast to other types of discourse, both literary and nonliterary. The dialogue raises the questions of who speaks in a play (author, characters, actors) and to whom; the stage directions raise the question of reading a play, as opposed to seeing it Title: Doctor's Duty, The in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama - Italian eight characters five male; three female one act
1 interior.
Tommaso shoots himself after killing wronged husband in self defense. Murderer then berates doctor for saving his life.
Title: Dolor in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Corley, Hal Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act (one scene)
simple set.
Two grad students play a game in the bar.
Title: Done Up Like A Kipper
Author: Harmon, Ken Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2002
Description:
roy drama seven characters four male; three female one act (six scenes)
1 interior set.
"Dublin taxi driver Gino is in the wars. His wife, Dolores, thinks he's having an affair, his daughter, Kim, is seeing the Invisible Man and his son, Eugene, is wrecking his head with voodoo. And if that isn't enough, somebody's gouged his car and nicked his cone." Title: Doorman of Windsor Station, The
Author: Vincent, Julie translated by Hugh Hazelton Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - identity - Canadian Playwright twenty characters thirteen male; seven female (doubling possible) one act (thirty-two scenes)
The mirrored realities of Montevideo in 1973 and Montreal in 2005 fuse together in a time-travelling story about one man who escaped a harrowing coup d’état in order to find a better life, but instead finds further struggles as an immigrant. Francisco will forever be haunted by the sight of his best friend Juan lying on the floor of a train station, pierced by five bullets. He’ll remember that sight as he flees the political uprising in Uruguay that night. He’ll remember when he’s holding a dying homeless man in Windsor Station in Montreal eight months later. He’ll
Title: Dot in - Humana Festival 2015 / COL Author: Domingo, Colman Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2016
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relations - aging seven characters four male; three female one act (five parts)
running time: 120 minutes.
The holidays are always a wild family affair at the Shealy house. But this year, Dotty and her three grown children gather with more than exchanging presents on their minds. As Dotty struggles to hold on to her memory, her children must fight to balance care for their mother and care for themselves. This twisted and hilarious new play grapples unflinchingly with aging parents,
Title: Double Trouble A play with music Author: Craig, David S. Schubring, Marc Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2016
Description:
roy children's musical - family relations - adventure - Canadian large cast flexible casting two acts
running time: 70 mins. Based on the novel Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kastner. Adapted by David S. Craig.
An adventure for all ages, Double Trouble is the story of identical twin sisters who, while still babies, are separated by their divorced parents and never told of the others existence. By coincidence, they are sent to the same summer camp where they discover they are sisters and Title: Down the Road
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1991
Description:
roy drama - writing - crime - serial killers three characters two male; one female one act (twenty-two scenes)
DOWN THE ROAD centers on a convicted serial killer and the husband and wife writing team hired to help him write an account of his crimes. The killer, Bill Reach, has admitted to the murders of nineteen women, but there may have been more. Over many weeks of interviews, the couple—Dan and Iris Henniman—grow more and more uncertain of the ethics of what they are doing. Are they simply relating terrifying events, or are they helping readers consume rape, murder and mutilation as if they are consuming any other product of our society? Are they, in fact, helping to
Title: Drama from Ibsen to Brecht
Author: Williams, Raymond Publisher: Penguin Books 1968
Description:
reference - drama
This book is fully revised and expanded successor to Drama from Ibsen to Eliot. It is an uncompromising reappraisal of Europe's foremost dramatists, and the author aims to provide not so much a history of the drama between the years 1850 and 1960 as a critical account and a revaluation. 'What I have defined', he writes, 'is what I believe to be the meaning of the dramatic tradition in the modern theatre: a record of difficulty and trouble; but still primarily, from that first major generation to its many successors, from Ibsen To Brecht' - and it might be added, from Pirandello to Pinter - 'one of the great periods of dramatic history.' Raymond Williams' study is authoritative and important, both for its critical conclusions and for the way in which it succeeds in establishing an objective standard by which to judge the theatre today.
Title: Drama Today A critical guide to British drama 1970-1990 Author: Wandor, Michelene Publisher: Longman 1993
Description:
reference - criticism - theatre - Britain
'Drama Today' provides a concise, accessible and stimulating guide to key themes, writers and works in contemporary British drama since 1970. The abolition of theatre censorship in 1968 revolutionized British theatre, opening the doors to an extraordinary variety of theatrical entertainment. Michelene Wandor examines the subsequent changes in the theatrical landscape which were themselves part of a wider social and cultural transformation. These changes not only produced new plays, but created a climate in which many of the traditional assumptions about the way theatre was made were challenged.
The core discussion of this book consists of the work of key playwrights, including Caryl Churchill, Neil Dunn, Mustapha Matura, Harold Pinter, Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Bond and David Title: Drama, Baby in - Connections 2015 / YCL Author: Brittain, Jamie Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2015
Description:
roy comedy eight characters; chorus four male; four female one act (seven scenes)
running time: approx 60 mins.; age suitability : 15+.
It's the final rehearsal before the practical A Level theatre studies exam, and Neil wants everything to be just perfect. Two competing groups of teenage students attempt to achieve that ever elusive 'A' grade, soon finding the competing forces of sex, alcohol and Artaud threatening to destroy their hopes of a good university place. As egos clash and new relationships are formed and
Title: Dramatic Arts and Cultural Studies, The Acting against the grain Author: Berry, Kathleen S. Publisher: Falmer Press 2000
Description:
reference - culture - education - study and teaching - drama
"In her book, Kathy Berry has begun to rethink the role of dramatic arts and its place in the curriculum. She begins with samples of authentic classroom experiences and interweaves the theory past and present that now drives drama educators into moving beyond what has been done to a postmodern context of what could be done. Teachers and teachers-to-be who are concerned with educational change through the arts will be strengthened by the support in theory and practice the author offers in this excellent resource".
Title: Dream Life of Teresa Harris, The
Author: Kemp, Penn Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2017
Description:
roy drama - music - historical - biographical - Canadian five characters one male; two female; two male or female one act
running time: 60 minutes
The Dream Life of Teresa Harris celebrates the life of an intrepid Victorian woman from Upper Canada. Teresa tells her amazing story from her home, now Eldon House Historical Museum in London ON. How does a young woman escape the confines of colonial London and become one of the great explorers of her time? Marriage offered Teresa escape from the ordinary domestic Title: Drift in - The Trustus Plays / COL Author: Tuttle, Jon Publisher: Intellect 2009
Description:
roy dark comedy - marital relations nine characters two male; four female (doubling) two acts
A dark comedy about marriage and divorce.
Title: Dublin Carol
Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2003
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act (three scenes)
DUBLIN CAROL centers on John Plunkett, an undertaker in his late fifties. The play is divided into three scenes, all of which take place in John's office in Dublin on Christmas Eve. In the morning we see John interacting with Mark, a twenty-year-old boy who is helping John while the boss, Noel, is in hospital having tests. John regales Mark with stories from his past, and of how he met Noel, who is, incidentally, Mark's uncle. Noel saved John from a life of alcoholism and gave him a job here. John seems anxious for Mark to keep him company this morning, and he only allows
Title: Dumb Show
Author: Penhall, Joe Publisher: Methuen 2004
Description:
roy drama - American three characters two male; one female two acts
"Courted at the end of his show by bankers John and Jane, TV star Barry believes he is to get the 5-star treatment that he deserves. However urged to provide a candid account of his off-stage life and views, the Barry that emerges is the least of the surprises in the tense game of power and manipulation that ensues." Title: Early Days in - Early Days / Sisters / Life Class / COL Author: Storey, David Publisher: Penguin Books 1980
Description:
roy drama - aging - family relations seven characters five male; two female one act (four scenes)
Early Days is an intrinsically poignant lament on loneliness and abandonment. Desolate yet full of gentle humour, the play is an astute study on the realizations of old age by one of England's greatest contemporary writers, David Storey. Kitchen, a retired MP, is placed in the care of his daughter and son-in-law for his own safety. Paranoia and fear set in as his isolation forces him to reflect on his life, the passing of time, loss and remembered love. All the while his family and the people around him lose patience and faith in his ability to speak truth.
Title: Early one Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille
Author: Graham, Bruce Publisher: Miscellaneous 1979
Description:
roy comedy - fantasy seven characters five male; two female two acts
This is a wonderful, off beat variation on the saloon situation comedy. Nuclear bombs have destroyed much of the U.S. and various denizens of this working class bar are trying to decide what to do. Enter a travelling salesman who turns out to be God, come to offer the bartender immortality if he will write a new Bible and get it right this time.
Title: Earthbound in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Fréchette, Carole translated by John Murrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - Quebec - women playwrights five characters two male; three female one act
Original title: Violette sur la terre.
No one knows exactly when Violette appeared. No one knows where she comes from. She's standing next to the abandoned mine shaft, silent. Paul, Étienne, Marie-Jeanne and Judith come to see her and share their disappointments, their doubts, their hopes, their strong desire for life… Title: Eastern Standard
Author: Greenberg, Richard Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
Four Manhattan yuppies strike up a friendship in a chic uptown restaurant after a bag lady involves them in an altercation. A month later, the four self-involved Manhattanites (three men and one woman), having fallen instantly in love with one another, converge at a seaside residence, hoping to alleviate their shared sense of alienation and purposelessness with a misguided attempt at rehabilitating May, the bag lady who brought them all together. In their pretense at public mindedness, they all seek either an escape from their own problems or redemption from the lives
Title: Edelweiss Pirates, The in - Connections 2015 / YCL Author: Din, Ayub Khan Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2015
Description:
roy drama - young adult - war - history large cast; chorus; singing flexible casting one act (ten scenes)
Age suitability: 13+.
Germany, 1943. The Second World War rages into its fourth year. All internal opposition has been viciously silenced and the population follows blindly behind Adolf Hitler and his policies of total war and domination. Though the majority of young Germans have been brainwashed into Nazi Party policies from an early age, others are becoming disgruntled by the lack of basic freedoms,
Title: Eden End
Author: Priestley, J. B. Publisher: Oberon Books 2001
Description:
roy drama - family relations - self awareness seven characters four male; three female three acts
Stella Kirby spent nine years running away, leaving home to find her freedom as an actress. Now she has decided that the only role left to play is the prodigal daughter returned, hoping to rediscover herself amongst the familiar surroundings of her childhood home, Eden End. Priestley has a special tenderness for Eden End and for it he created some of his most fragile, gentle characters. The stoical Dr. Kirby, his younger son Wilfred, desperate to prove himself as a man of the world, and Lilian, the daughter who stayed at home, are a sharply observed and instantly Title: Edgar Allan Poe's: The Black Cat in - Edgar Allan Poe Live On-Stage / COL Author: Poe, Edgar Allan Ballantyne, Jr., J. E. Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - horror seven characters five male; two female two acts
adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.; several interiors.
"Franklin and his wife Marguerite have recently inherited a house from Franklin's father. A desolate place which also brings with it a strange servant named Reginald. To brighten the house up Franklin brings a stray cat home to which both Franklin and Marguerite become very attached. The cat, however, forms a violent dislike to Franklin and torments him endlessly. Finally, in a drunken
Title: Edgar Allan Poe's: The Cask of Amontillado in - Edgar Allan Poe Live On-Stage / COL Author: Poe, Edgar Allan Ballantyne, Jr., J. E. Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - horror thirteen characters; extras eight male; five female two acts
adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.
Montresor wants to exact revenge on Fortunato for insults Montresor has suffered at his hand. He decides to use Fortunato's claimed expertise as a wine expert to identify what could pass for Amontillado, a light Spanish sherry, that Montresor has sequestered in the catacombs of his home. Montresor, in a mask and full costume acosts Fortunato, who is in full jester regalia,
Title: Edgar Allan Poe's: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar in - Edgar Allan Poe Live On-Stage / COL Author: Poe, Edgar Allan Ballantyne, Jr., J. E. Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - horror seven characters five male; two female two acts
adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.; 1 interior.
"M. Ernest Valdemar and Dr. Pontier have been friends for years. But this most recent visit by Pontier is not out of friendship. Valdemar is terminally ill and Pontier visits him in the hopes of convincing him to take part in a relatively new use for mesmerism. Pontier explains that this new use for mesmerism could postpone death and leave the afflicted patient in a suspended state Title: Edgar Allan Poe's: The Fall of the House of Usher in - Edgar Allan Poe Live On-Stage / COL Author: Poe, Edgar Allan Ballantyne, Jr., J. E. Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - horror six characters three male; one female; two young boys two acts
adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.; a couple of small interiors.
"One of Edgar Allan Poe's stangest tales, "The Fall of the House of Usher", takes the audience on a strange journey to a very desolate location where all plant life ceases to exist and all human life is very tentative. Living in a huge family mansion eaten away by centuries of time, Roderick Usher and his sister Madeline are visited by an old school friend, who hopes to convince them to leave
Title: Edgar Allan Poe's: The Masque of the Red Death in - Edgar Allan Poe Live On-Stage / COL Author: Poe, Edgar Allan Ballantyne, Jr., J. E. Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - horror large cast fourteen male; eight female; extras two acts
adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.; several interiors; doubling and tripling possible.
"Prince Prospero rules the land with an iron hand. No one is free from his tyranny and no one is free from the menacing shadow of his castle. But a new fear has gripped the region. A horrifying and agonizing death has invaded the countryside killing people by the hundreds. Death comes rapidly with very little warning. In an attempt to save his most loyal subjects from this horrifying
Title: Edgar Allan Poe's: The Tell Tale Heart in - Edgar Allan Poe Live On-Stage / COL Author: Poe, Edgar Allan Ballantyne, Jr., J. E. Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - horror eight characters seven male; one female two acts
adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.; 1 main set with a couple small locations.
"Perhaps Poe's most famous story about an old man who is cared for by a caretaker that is obsessed by the old man's strange eye. Even though he loves the old man, the eye drives him mad to the point that he must kill him to rid himself of the eye's perceived "evil." Told in a backstory type of format the suspense builds to a breathtaking finale. An old character-type cleaning woman Title: Edmond
Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Grove Press Inc. 1983
Description:
roy American - drama twenty-seven characters seven male; four female (doubling; requires at least one black actor) one act (twenty-two scenes)
A man, who suddenly leaves his wife, travels through a city's underworld on a quest for the meaning of life. The quest becomes increasingly nightmarish and the man finally ends up in prison. Play may be objectionable to some.
Title: Effect, The
Author: Prebble, Lucy Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2012
Description:
roy drama - relationships - morality - sexuality four characters two male; two female one act (one scene)
"The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw the trial off-course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved. This funny, moving and perhaps surprisingly human play explores questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine, alongside ideas of fate, loyalty and the inevitability of physical attraction."
Title: El Salvador
Author: Lima, Rafael Publisher: Samuel French 1988
Description:
roy drama - Latin America seven characters six male; one female one act
This brilliant drama takes place in a hotel in El Salvador that is home base for a disillusioned gaggle of journalists. Title: Elegant Beast, The
Author: Lubin, Leonard Publisher: Viking Press 1981
Description:
reference - costume
Leonard Lubin has drawn three and a half dozen costumes to illustrate the most "fashionable" epochs of history - from the Gothic period to the 'flapper' era, a good five hundred years of dressing up. The Lubin costumes - historically accurate in every pencilled stitch and brushstroke of color - take on an exuberant whimsy as they are modeled with flair by a host of furry and feathered creatures. Each beautifully colored drawing is accompanied by a page of text, encapsulating the social, political, and sometimes religious goings-on of the era and describing the costume itself. For those who firmly believe that 'clothes make the man,' THE ELEGANT BEAST offers a wonderfully amusing yet substantially different viewpoint.
Title: Elf - The Broadway Musical - vocal selections
Author: Sklar, Matthew Beguelin, Chad Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing Co. 2010
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical. Music by Mathew Sklar and lyrics by Chad Beguelin.
contains: Christmastown / World's Greatest Dad / In the Way / Sparkljollytwinklejingley / I'll Believe in You / Just Like Him / A Christmas Song / Nobody Cares About Santa / Never Fall in Love (With and Elf) / There is a Santa Clause / The Story of Buddy the Elf
Title: Elgar's Rondo in - The Composer Plays / COL Author: Pownall, David Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd. 1993
Description:
roy drama - music - biographical fifteen characters; musicians ten male; five female two acts
Captures the depth of the great composer's despair as he wrestles with growing feelings of artistic failure. Title: Elgar's Third in - The Composer Plays / COL Author: Pownell, David Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd. 1993
Description:
roy drama - music - radio play - biographical twenty-two characters; musicians eleven male; five female (doubling) one act (fifty-one scenes)
Illuminates the composer's final, losing battle to write a third symphony in the face of impending death.
Title: Elmina's Kitchen
Author: Kwei-Armah, Kwame Publisher: Methuen 2003
Description:
roy drama - mystery - family relations six characters five male; one female two acts
"Deli is trying to revive the fortunes of his mother’s restaurant in Murder Mile, Hackney. But where does his son disappear to on the night of the re-opening? And why does his friend Digger offer him protection? Elmina’s Kitchen is a thrilling, engaging portrait of a one-parent family struggling to stay within the law while the Yardies are carving up the neighbourhood."
Title: Emperor of the Moon, The: A Farce in - Rover and Other Plays, The / COL Author: Behn, Aphra Publisher: Oxford University Press 1995
Description:
nonroy comedy - Restoration large cast flexible casting three acts
Restoration farce set in Naples combining commedia dell' arte techniques with spectacle. Title: Enclave, The
Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1974
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ nine characters six male; three female two acts
A group of congenial friends have restored several adjoining houses in one of New York's more attractive neighborhoods, and plan to move in en masse—setting up a sort of urban commune. However, one of their number, a confirmed bachelor, has resolved to confront the others with the fact of his long-concealed homosexuality and to bring along his young male lover as a permanent addition to the group. Although his friends have always prided themselves on their tolerance and openmindedness, they are outraged, and the enclave itself is imperiled. But as, in
Title: Enclave, The in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents / COL Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Back Stage Books 2004
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ nine characters six male; three female two acts
A group of congenial friends have restored several adjoining houses in one of New York's more attractive neighborhoods, and plan to move in en masse—setting up a sort of urban commune. However, one of their number, a confirmed bachelor, has resolved to confront the others with the fact of his long-concealed homosexuality and to bring along his young male lover as a permanent addition to the group. Although his friends have always prided themselves on their tolerance and openmindedness, they are outraged, and the enclave itself is imperiled. But as, in
Title: Encounter, The
Author: Complicite McBurney, Simon Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2015
Description:
roy drama - biographical - solo performance - cultures four characters; voices one male or female one act (fourteen parts)
The play is performed by a single actor working with sound technicians to create a range of voices and aural effects conveyed to the audience via headphones. It tells the story of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre, who, in 1969, found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his life, as he began to explore, through the indigenous culture in which he was immersed, the limits of human consciousness. The play traces McIntyre’s journey and experiences through a constantly shifting Title: End of the Dream Season in - Plays by Mediterranean Women / COL Author: Kainy, Miriam translated by Helen Kaye and Miriam Kainy Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1994
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - feminism - social realism six characters three male; three female two acts
The play takes a humanist, feminist viewpoint that ensures women's equality with men and is about the inheritance of an old house in Tel Aviv which has been left by the grandmother, not to the male line, or to her own daughter, but to Yosefa, her granddaughter - a high-powered doctor, and the only member of the Amsalem family who the grandmother regards as spiritually worthy of the inheritance. Yosefa learns to resist the pressure from her lover, her brother and her mother to sell the house, and to abort her child.
Title: End of the World
Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Hill and Wang 1984
Description:
roy comedy twelve characters; extras nine male; three female three acts
A mysterious stranger of seemingly enormous wealth commissions a playwright to write a play that will save the world from impending doom. The playwright turned detective, pursuing his research right into the secret labyrinth of the Pentagon, confronts the bizarre world of Nukespeak, and makes some startling discoveries about the shape of things to come and about himself. 'End of the World' blends the awesome reality and the hilarious absurdity of its subject.
Title: Enemies
Author: Gorky, Maxim translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair and Jeremy Broo Publisher: Methune Drama 1972
Description:
roy drama - historical large cast flexible casting three acts
1905. Russia is at a turning point. Zakhar Bardin is from the landowning class, but is now the uneasy owner of a factory. His managing director is determined to face down militant workers on a point of principle. But the shutting of the business has tragic consequences for everyone concerned. Title: English Drama a cultural history Author: Shepherd, Simon Womack, Peter Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 1996
Description:
reference - England - history - theatre - drama
The book provides a comprehensive account of the cultural history of English drama. Drawing upon new empirical research and the latest theoretical models, Shepherd and Mack show how the character of a given theatrical 'age', as traditionally described, is packed with contradictions and uneven in development. Focusing on key historical moments and modes, they offer chapters on Medieval Drama, Renaissance Drama, Restoration Comedy, Melodrama, and Naturalism, and conclude with accounts of Post-war Theatre and the State, and Drama in the Age of Television.
For each of the main topics chosen, there are two chapters. The first in each in pair tells how the drama of a particular era or kind was produced, describing its cultural context, and explaining how contemporary conditions and practices of dramatic production changed. The second chapter
Title: Ensemble Theatre Making A practical guide Author: Bonczek, Rose Burnett Storck, David Publisher: Routledge 2013
Description:
reference - acting
Ensemble Theatre Making: A practical guide is the first comprehensive diagnostic handbook for building, caring for, and maintaining ensemble. Successful ensembles don't happen by chance; they must be created, nurtured, and maintained through specific actions. Achieving common goals in rehearsal and performance requires group trust, commitment, and sacrifice. Ensemble Theatre making is a step-by-step guide to these processes.
Title: Everythings Turning into Beautiful
Author: Rosenfeld, Seth Zvi James, Jimmie Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy romance - drama two characters one male; one female two acts
songs by Jimmie James.
This play with music takes place late one Christmas Eve in lonely New York City, when a couple of down-on-their-luck songwriting partners, hitless, loveless, and facing their forties, come together for a night of composing and soul-searching. This “musical story” finds Sam and Brenda facing the light of a new day and confronting a practical matter: they don’t want to mess up their Title: Execution of Justice
Author: Mann, Emily Publisher: Samuel French 1986
Description:
roy docu-drama - crime - LGBTQ large cast flexible casting two acts
1 setting. Docu-drama portraying the trial of Dan White for the murders of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, and Harvey Milk, the city's first openly gay supervisor.
Title: Experiment, The in - Ravenhill Plays:3 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Publisher: Bloomsbury 2013
Description:
roy drama - solo performance one character one male or female one act
running time: 30 mins.
If you could cure thousands of a fatal disease by experimenting on a single child, would you do it? That’s the question posed by the narrator of this story, their personal complicity in the experience a slippery possibility.
Title: Experimental Theatre From Stanislavsky to today Author: Roose-Evans, James Publisher: Discus Books 1970
Description:
reference - Avant Garde - experimental
In tracing the major experiments in theatre over the last one hundred years, James Roose-Evans brings extraordinary insight to both past and present. His accounts of the work of such key figures as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Craig, Appia, Artaud, Piscator, and Brecht elucidate the main lines of interdependence and development that have led to the most exciting and creative efforts of today. Roose-Evans, a leading experimentalist in his own right, also covers Allen Kaprow's Happenings, the Activities of Ann Halprin's Dancers' Workshop Company in San Francisco, Yayoi Kusama's nude forays on the streets of New York, Peter Schumann's Bread and Puppet Theatre, and more. Title: Extremism in - National Theatre Connections / YCL Author: Lustgarten, Anders Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - British - extremism - social issues - high school ten characters five male; five female (some gender changes possible) one act
ages 15+.
The police just took Jamal away. Because Miss Tomlinson called them. Because she had to. Because of Prevent. But now Miss Tomlinson and the police are gone, and all that’s left is a shell-shocked class. Who knew Jamal? What did he do? And what is gonna happen next? A play about fear, friendship and the creeping polarisation of our society.
Title: Fair Maid of the West, The A girl worth gold Author: Heywood, Thomas Publisher: Methune 1986
Description:
roy comedy - adventure large cast flexible casting one act (twenty-two scenes)
A programme/text with commentary by Simon Trussler.
'The Fair Maid of the West" was so successful when it was first played that the same company followed up with 'Fair Maid II." Both picaresque plays document the adventures of Bess Bridges, a Plymouth barmaid who becomes the scourge of the Barbary Coast as the captain of a pirate ship, while searching for her lost love. In this version Part I and Part II of The Fair Maid are combined
Title: Fall From Light in - Three Plays - Jonathan Moore / COL Author: Moore, Jonathan Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 2002
Description:
roy drama eleven characters ten male; one female (doubling possible) one act (seventeen scenes)
A young working-class composer writes a new opera. The Director of the Opera House rejects it. His Lover, a young Diva, takes him on a Dantesque journey to the council estate where she grew up. There they meet Girly and his gang.... A tale of art savagery and redemption. 'Fall from Light' weaves together the lives of two young artists struggling to gain acceptance in the world of opera, juxtaposed with the violent encounters of youth gangs on the estate where they both live. Title: Fall of the House of Usher, The
Author: Hoppe, Gip Hagenbuckle, Jay Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy drama nine characters six male; three female two acts
music by Jay Hagenbuckle; adapted from the short story by Edgar Allen Poe.
A comfortable, suburban family man receives a desperate call from a forgotten childhood acquaintance. Thus starts a journey into madness that takes Ed Allen to the House of Usher and its terrible secrets and temptation. This modern adaptation of the classic short story by Edgar Allen Poe transports Gothic horror into the 90s, questioning the definition of sanity in the same way
Title: Family Affair, A
Author: Ostrovsky, Alexander Dear, Nick Publisher: Absolute Classics 1989
Description:
roy satire eight characters three male; four female; one boy four acts
adapted by Nick Dear.
Scathing 1850 satire on the gullibility and greed of Moscow's merchant class. Bolshov, a cunning merchant, decides the best way to evade his demanding creditors is to transfer the title deeds of his shops and house to his assistant, Lazar. But Lazar, instead of handing everything back once his master has filed for bankruptcy and suffered a spell in jug, sets up in business on his own.
Title: Family Reunion, The
Author: Eliot, T. S. Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 1967
Description:
roy drama - guilt twelve characters; speaking chorus six male; six female two acts
2 interiors
Psychological study of guilt. British eldest son home for mother's birthday seeks release from thoughts of his earlier crime. Verse play. Title: Fashion
Author: Lucie, Doug Publisher: Methuen 1987
Description:
roy satire - advertising nine characters six male; three female two acts
A successful advertising agent in Thatcherite Britain tries to land the Tory Party account.
Title: Fashion Parade, A The Seeberger Collection Author: Dars, Celestine Publisher: Blond & Briggs 1979
Description:
reference - historical - French - costume - women
The Seeberger Brothers, working in Paris from the start of the 1900s, took over 60,000 photographs of twentieth-century high fashion. What makes this anthology of fashion unique is that haute couture is shown as worn by the haute monde - by the clients themselves; duchesses, princesses, actresses, dancers, demi-mondains and poules de luxe in the settings for which the great designers created their models - the races at Chantilly, the beach at Deauville, the casino at Monte Carlo, the Promenade des Anglais at Nice. Photographs from 1909 - 1950.
Title: Father, The in - The Mother and The Father / COL Author: Zeller, Florian translated by Christopher Hampton Publisher: Faber and Faber 2015
Description:
roy tragedy - farce - memory six characters three male; three female one act (fifteen scenes)
A wonderfully peculiar, quietly stunning depiction of dementia... A controlled, unforgettable portrait of losing your memory.
Winner! 2014 Moliere Award for Best Play Nominated! 2015/16 Tony Award for Best Play Title: Feast In Time of Plague, A in - Boris Godunov: The little tragedies / COL Author: Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich Publisher: Oberon Books 2002
Description:
roy drama - tragedy five characters: extras three male; two female one act (one scene)
Verse drama based on scene from John Wilson's tragedy "The City of the Plague" about frightened survivors of the black death.
Title: Feathers in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Silverman, Judd Lear Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - fantasy two characters one male; two female one act (one scene)
A couple deals with the departure of their child.
Title: February in - Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, The / CCO Author: Moore, Lisa Publisher: Breakwater Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - death - family relations eleven characters flexible casting one act (twenty-four scenes)
"The story tells of a widowed mother, Helen, living with the death of her husband Cal nearly 30 years after he died in the sinking of an oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland." Based on the novel of the same name. Title: Feet of Clay in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL Author: Caudle, David Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; two characters two male one scene
Two men sit out a rainy day in a remote mountain cabin while their wives shop in the town. Vaughan has been a welcome benefactor to the down-on-his-luck Clay since their recent meeting at a public pool. But Vaughan's benevolence is motivated by something beyond his desire to help his fellow man, and he just can't keep it a secret a moment longer. Will Clay have the same desire? If not, will he at least have a price? And if so, can Vaughan afford to pay it?
Title: Festival of Our Lord of the Ship, The in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama - Italian ten characters; extras seven male; two female; one boy one act
1 setting.
Man's thoughtless bestiality at annual hog slaughter desecrates religious festival. Drums, accordions, bells.
Title: Fighting Season, The
Author: Oliver, Sean Harris Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada
Description:
roy drama - war three characters two male; one female one act
running time: 75 mins.
Inspired by his father’s deployment in Afghanistan, Sean Harris Oliver’s searing new play investigates the Afghan war through the eyes of a Canadian field medic, a doctor, and a recovery room nurse. Title: Film Chinois
Author: Chua, Damon Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy drama - noir mystery - China ten characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
unit set; running time: 120 minutes; setting: Peking, China; period - 1947.
An uneasy time between WWII and the Communist takeover two years later. Randolph, a fresh-faced American operative, has been sent to the Raymond Chandler-esque Imperial City with an important mission. He makes progress, but soon chances into a staunch Maoist named Chinadoll, his would-be adversary and lover. A cat-and-mouse game ensues. As Randolph
Title: Film Society, The
Author: Baitz, Jon Robin Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - South Africa - social issues six characters four male; two female two acts
1 set.
A dramatic comedy set in South Africa. Tensions in provincial private school reflect those of society at large.
Title: Film Society, The in - New Plays USA 4 / COL Author: Baitz, Jon Robin Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1988
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - South Africa - social issues six characters four male; two female two acts
1 set.
A dramatic comedy set in South Africa. Tensions in provincial private school reflect those of society at large. Title: Finding Neverland - vocal selections
Author: Barlow, Gary Kennedy, Eliot Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 2015
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical. Book by James Graham. Arranged for piano, voice, and guitar.
contains: Prologue / If the World Turned Upside Down / All of London is Here Tonight / The Pirates of Kensington / Believe / We Own the Night / All that Matters / Sylvia's Lullaby / Neverland / Circus of Your Mind / Live by the Hook / Stronger / The World is Upside Down / What You Mean to Me / Play / We're All Made of Stars / When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground / Something About This Night / Neverland (reprise) / Finale / Play (ensemble version)
Title: First Law, The
Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - science - Alberta playwright all male cast; three characters three male one act
A one-act stage drama based on the tragic attempt of Robert Julius Mayer to establish what eventually became the First Law of Thermodynamics.
Title: Flick, The
Author: Baker, Annie Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2014
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - theatre - friendship five characters three male; one female (doubling) two acts
Running time: 120 mins +; setting - a movie theatre in Worcester, Massachusetts. Summer 2012.
In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a Title: Flowering Peach, The
Author: Odets, Clifford Publisher: Samuel French 1954
Description:
roy drama - religious fifteen characters nine male; six female one act (nine scenes)
As described by Atkinson is: "the story of mankind living out its destiny under the benevolent eye of God. There were giants on the earth in those days of the Deluge. In spirit Noah was the greatest. It is Mr. Odets' mood not to put him on a pedestal but to characterize him as the worried head of a family of ordinary individuals—a peevish though loving hero who feels himself close to God…the story of how Noah persuades his skeptical family that God has given all of them a mission, how they bicker, yet do the job obediently, how God helps them solve the most
Title: FM in - Six Plays - Romulus Linney / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1993
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female one act
Prim creative writing teacher is appalled and then awed by rough, whiskey-drinking author.
Title: Follow, Follow in - Connections 2015 / YCL Author: Douglas, Katie Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2015
Description:
roy drama - young adult eight characters four male; four female one act
Age suitability: 15+.
After an Orange Order march through the town where they live, Al, Billy, Stacey, Kelly-Anne and Big Mikey head to the local park with a gaggle of younger kids, ready to drink, flirt, and have a laugh. But when one of their group is robbed and the others assume they know who is to blame, a group becomes a gang. Events spiral out of control, ending in an act of violence that some of Title: FOMO in - National Theatre Connections / YCL Author: El-Bushra, Suhayla Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - British - love - social media nine characters five male; four female; ensemble thirty-four scenes
ages 14+.
Dani and Josh are the perfect high school couple. Their friends look on in envy as their love story unfolds on social media. But when the government switches off the internet for reasons of national security, the truth of their relationship is revealed. Told almost entirely through tweets, texts and status updates, FOMO takes a light, humorous look at the futility of comparing your own
Title: Fool, The
Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1978
Description:
roy drama - biographical - England large cast flexible casting one act (eight scenes)
Running time: approx. 100 minutes.
Depicts exploitation of working class in early 19th century England. Centers on John Clare, farm laborer turned poet, who ends life in an insane asylum.
Title: Foreigner, The
Author: Shue, Larry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1985
Description:
roy comedy seven characters five male; two female two acts
Suggested for high school.
The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" LeSeuer, a British demolition expert. This time "Froggy" has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So "Froggy," before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie speaks no English. Once alone the fun Title: Forty Winks
Author: Elyot, Kevin Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004
Description:
roy drama - relationships seven characters four male; three female one act (four scenes)
In 'Forty Winks' Kevin Elyot explores the realm of thwarted desire, while playing on the painful comedy that can ensue from the gulf between social decorum and the turbulent emotions that lie just beneath. From the back row of a local cinema to an anonymous hotel room, Don’s obsession will not let him rest. He’s still carrying a torch for Diana, his childhood sweetheart stolen away by Howard. He unexpectedly drops in on Howard and Diana having not seen them for fifteen years only to discover they now have a daughter, Hermia, who is the spitting image of Diana when Don
Title: Forty-deuce
Author: Bowne, Alan Publisher: The Sea Horse Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - prostitution - men all male cast; seven characters seven male two acts
Alan Browne's searing portrait of boy hustlers, their pimps, johns and power plays. An unflinching attack on the consumerist society and topsy-turvy world of American values, where a dead child is as authentic a commodity as a Madison Avenue product. Browne's most impressive achievement, however, is the richness of language he has invested in his Forty-second Street denizens - a language as textured, nuanced and poetic as the Elizabethans'.
Title: Found a Peanut
Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - greed eight characters six male; two female one act
The setting is the backyard of a Brooklyn tenement on the last day of summer vacation, where a group of children aged five to fourteen (portrayed by adult actors) are at play. Finding a dying bird they decide to have a ritual burial, which leads to the discovery of a bag of money, probably buried by a reclusive miser who had recently died in the adjacent building. This discovery, in turn, results in squabbles and bitterness among the children, as the microcosm of their games gradually yields an awareness of greed, betrayal and violence—elements of life heretofore Title: Fractaland in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Pink, Andrea Sloan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama all male cast; five characters; chorus five male one act
Five men discuss their lives and lies they have lived.
Title: Franny's Way in - Goodnight Children Everywhere and other plays / COL Author: Nelson, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama - family relations - love six characters one male; four female (doubling) one act (seen scenes)
The streets of Greenwich Village sizzle with the insistent rhythm of jazz. Accompanied by their grandmother, two teenage sisters from the country visit their married cousin in the city. Soon, the young women have embarked on their own private missions involving love, a forgotten child, and a lost mother. Set against the bustling backdrop of New York at mid-century, FRANNY'S WAY is a sensual, provocative ode to desire, longing, and the bittersweet collision of youth and adulthood.
Title: Freedom of the City, The
Author: Friel, Brian Publisher: Samuel French 1973
Description:
roy drama - Ireland seventeen characters sixteen male; one female two acts
Set in Londonderry in 1970, this gripping drama by the acclaimed author of 'Faith Healer' and 'Translations' explores the ongoing Irish “troubles” that plague the country to this day. An unauthorized Civil Rights March has been dispersed, and three demonstrators, two young men, and a middle-aged mother of eleven take refuge in the Town Hall. Hysterical rumor inflates the trio to forty armed rebels, and they are besieged. When they surrender, they are shot. Title: Freefalling in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL Author: Squire, Aurin Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy comedy three characters two male; one female one act
Two passengers and a stewardess on a falling plane give their moment-by-moment account of what happens when tomorrow is no longer certain.
Title: Friends, The
Author: Wesker, Arnold Publisher: Jonathan Cape 1970
Description:
roy drama - mortality seven characters four male; three female two acts
A brilliant group of friends from working-class backgrounds have become very successful interior designers, and opened many shops selling their designs. They find their success hollow because their designs were not bought by the working-class people whom they hoped would respond to 'things of beauty'. Now they are gathered round one of their number, ESTHER, who is dying of leukaemia. Death makes them reassess both who they are and what they imagined they had achieved. It also forces them to confront their own mortality.
Title: Fronteras Americanas in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: Verdicchia, Guillermo Adams, Rachel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy drama - solo performance - geography - Latina/o playwrights - Canadian all male cast; two characters one male (doubling) two acts
A meditation and critique of geography and cartography. A struggle to construct a home between two cultures.
Governor General's Drama Award Finalist, 1993. Title: Frosted Glass Coffin in - Dragon Country / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1970
Description:
roy drama - aging - seniors six characters four male; two female one act
The Frosted Glass Coffin reveals a group of elderly people in a retirement hotel, dying off one by one in the intense zinc-white light of Miami.
Title: Fucking Men
Author: DiPietro, Joe Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2014
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ all male cast; ten characters ten male one act (ten scenes)
Adapted from "La Ronde" by Arthur Schnitzler
"FUCKING MEN is a free-wheeling adaptation of the 19th century play La Ronde, in which ten men in ten scenes sleep with and seduce one another; each encounter subtly, sometimes radically, changing their lives. The search for emotional fulfillment—the thread that connects the episodes in La Ronde—is given fresh resonance in Tony Award-winning playwright Joe DiPietro’s hilarious
Title: Fugitive Kind
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2001
Description:
roy drama - American - 20th century - social issues - romance twenty-three characters; extras nineteen male; four female two acts
"Fugitive Kind", one of Tennessee Williams’s earliest plays, is one of his richest in dramatic material. Written in 1937 when the playwright was still Thomas Lanier Williams, "Fugitive Kind" introduces the character who will inhabit most of his later plays: the marginal man or woman who, through no personal fault, is a misfit in society but who demonstrates an admirable will to survive. Signature Tennessee Williams characters, situations and even the title (which was used as "The Fugitive Kind" for the 1960 film based on Orpheus Descending) have their genesis here. At Title: Fun in - Fun and Nobody / COL Author: Korder, Howard Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1998
Description:
roy comedy seven characters six male; one female one act
FUN deals with the determination of two bored teenagers, Casper and Denny, to seek out a good time in their small city environment of tacky shopping malls and fast-food outlets. Told in a series of short, fast-moving scenes, with biting, staccato dialogue that subtly captures both the laid-back, pseudo-sophistication of the boys and the ennui which underlies this, the action of the play follows them, boom-box in hand, as they move from one suggested locale to another in search of excitement, sex, booze, drugs, or whatever might move their lives off dead, boring
Title: Ga Ting (Family)
Author: Ly, Minh Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy drama - immigrants - suicide - LGBTQ three characters two male; one female one act (one scene)
"Ga Ting, which means “family” in Cantonese, is a powerful and emotionally charged story about an immigrant Chinese couple trying to come to terms with the suicide of their son, Kevin. When they invite Kevin’s Caucasian boyfriend for dinner after the funeral, the evening devolves into a fiery cultural and generational clash. Minh Ly’s poignant play explores one family’s struggle to accept their son as he was, not as they wished him to be."
Title: Galatea
Author: Aronovitch, Lawrence Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2016
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - relationships all male cast; four characters four male two acts
running time: 95 mins.
A modern re-telling of the Pygmalion story that explores the dynamics of relationships and touches on themes such as love, loyalty, infidelity, marriage, class and art. Harry, a painter, invites a young model, Eli, to pose for him. Harry’s attraction to Eli disturbs both Harry’s longtime partner Georgie and Eli’s boyfriend Freddie. The play draws on the parallels and contrasts Title: Gasping
Author: Elton, Ben Publisher: Sphere Books Limited 1990
Description:
roy satire - business six characters three male; three female two acts
Satire on heartlessness of market forces. British company sells designer packaged air.
Title: General from America, The
Author: Nelson, Richard Publisher: Samuel French 2003
Description:
roy drama - historical - American fourteen characters; extras eleven male; three female one act (thirteen scenes)
running time: 120 mins.
Richard Nelson draws an iconoclastic portrait of America's quintessential traitor, Benedict Arnold. The focus is on how and why a military hero who nearly gave his life for the cause of American freedom ended up disclosing vital information to the British. The circumstances necessarily reveal some of the founding fathers' less than heroic machinations. First produced the Royal
Title: Generations in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female two acts
"The attitudes of three generations towards the family homestead are examined in this naturalistic evocation of a prairie farm kitchen in the 1980's."
Title: Gentleman Clothier, The
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
Experienced tailor Norman Davenport has barely opened the doors to his new clothing store in downtown Halifax when Sophie, an exuberant young woman, barges in looking for work, followed by Patrick, a single father who claims to be handy. Hesitantly Norman hires them both to tie up the last few threads before the grand opening. And whether Norman realizes it or not, he needs help getting into the twenty-first century to cater to the current tastes of his customers. When the shop’s first customer, Alisha Sparrow, a friendly, attractive woman, drops in looking for a suit for
Title: Ghost Dance in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Arkeketa, Annette Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy drama - native playwright - Native peoples - historical - repatriation twenty characters eleven male; five female; one boy, two girls; one male or female two acts
'Ghost Dance is about the repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural patrimony items. It is a story with ancient roots and a contemporary beat that weaves a tragic drama into an ending with hope for the future. This play was created to show all communities how disturbing the robbing of our ancestors' graves is and how it affects Indian people'.
Title: Ghost Story in - Ravenhill Plays:3 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Publisher: Bloomsbury 2013
Description:
roy drama - breast cancer - spirituality - LGBTQ+ all female cast; three characters three female one act
running time: 40 mins.
Lisa has breast cancer. Meryl is a healer who believes in the power of positive thinking. As time folds back on itself and then forwards, Lisa and Meryl trade roles as the healer and the healed, discovering that the world is full of ghosts. Title: Ghosts in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Rolf Fjelde Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
Ghosts of a woman's past return when her son arrives home ill with syphilis which he had inherited from his father.
Title: Ghosts of Lote Bravo, The in - American Theatre (February 2018) / PER Author: Bettis, Hilary Publisher: Miscellaneous 2018
Description:
roy drama - Mexico eight characters four male; four female one act (twenty parts)
In 'The Ghosts of Lote Bravo', Juanda, who works long hours for little pay in a border town maquiladora, goes searching for her missing daughter, Raquel, and begins to uncover the truth about the murderous exploitation that entangles them.
Title: Gift From Heaven, A
Author: Steen, David Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy drama - family relations - poverty four characters one male; three female two acts
1 simple set.
"Set in a poverty stricken shack in the hills of North Carolina this story follows the Samuals family as they struggle in their daily existence. Ma Samuals is a hard woman whose pain filled childhood helped form her twisted view of love and religion. Charlie Samuals, the brooding, more reticent sibling and the object of Ma's affections, is a simple man with innate wisdom who dreams of life Title: Gisele's Wedding Dress in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Vincent, Julie translated by Maureen LaBonté Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - love - women - theatre - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian twelve characters two male; three female (doubling) one act (twelve parts)uu
Original title: La robe de mariée de Gisele Schmidt.
This play is a tribute to one of Quebec's most admired actors, Gisele Scmidt (1921 - 2005). Composed of six fictitious scenes - anecdotally, geographically, and historically separate but thematically linked - that could have been played by Schmidt, but were not. While none of the characters find the grand love they seek, the play as a whole is a great, theatrical love story
Title: Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine
Author: Leight, Warren Publisher: Grove Press 2001
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - jazz - family relations five characters three male; one female (doubling) two acts
In the 1950s, twin brothers Martin and Daniel Glimmer, along with Eddie Shine, briefly formed the "Glow-in-the-dark" trumpet section of Glimmer, Glimmer & Shine. In 1955, on the seeming brink of success, Daniel Glimmer abruptly quit the music business and cut off all contact with his brother, Martin. Thirty-five years later, Martin's protégé, Jordan Shine (Eddie's son), meets Delia Glimmer at a wedding in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is Daniel's daughter, works for her parents' very successful garment business, yet knows nothing of his past, nor even of her Uncle Martin's
Title: Glory of the World, The in - Humana Festival 2015 / COL Author: Mee, Charles Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2016
Description:
roy satire - biographical all male cast; nine characters; chorus nine male one act
running time: approx. 80 minutes
A series of toasts to Thomas Merton on the occasion of his 100th birthday erupts into a raucous party. Inspired by myriad points of view on the Kentucky-based Trappist monk, writer and social activist—or pacifist, Buddhist, Catholic, Communist, and more, depending on who you ask—Mee’s exuberant play considers how we can live fully in all our contradictions, and leap into the Title: Golden Age, The
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1979
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female two acts
The play takes place in a once elegant townhouse in Manhattan, the home of Isabel Hastings Hoyt, an aging but still charming recluse who had been a glittering figure in the literary salons of the 1920s. Now short of money, Mrs. Hoyt is concerned about the future of her granddaughter, Virginia, a twice-divorced near-alcoholic whom she hopes to see securely married before she herself, as she puts it, "kicks the bucket." In earlier years, Mrs. Hoyt was friend and confidante of many world figures, especially F. Scott Fitzgerald who, it is rumored, used her as the model of
Title: Golden Six, The
Author: Anderson, Maxwell Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1961
Description:
roy drama - Roman history twenty-five characters sixteen male; nine female two acts
"THE GOLDEN SIX is a colorful and cynical account of the four Caesars who ruled from 27 B.C. to 54 A.D., stopping short of Nero…The 'golden six' are the grandsons and step-grandsons of Augustus Caesar, who hopes to choose one as his heir. All but the limping and stuttering Claudius are handsome and heroic, and all six are staunch outspoken republicans opposed to their grandfather's consolidation of power and emergence as Emperor. Augustus' wife, Livia, plays the doting grandmother and the loyal spouse…By the end of Act I we know Livia for what she is.
Title: Golden State, The
Author: Spewack, Samuel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1951
Description:
roy comedy eleven characters eight male; three female three acts
1 setting
Effect, upon tenants, of the discovery of a supposedly valuable mine in the yard of a Los Angeles boarding house. Title: Goldfish
Author: Kolvenbach, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2010
Description:
roy drama - identity four characters two male; two female one act (twelve scenes)
A young man raises his father. Then he leaves home. He meets a young woman who undoes him. The young woman has her own story: a mother who is a force of nature. It's a play about legacy—how do we become who we are?—and it's about leaving home. We raise our children to leave us, to walk out into the world. But then they do.
Title: Golem, The in - Crossing Jerusalem and other plays / COL Author: Pascal, Julia Publisher: Oberon Modern Plays 2003
Description:
roy children - legends four characters; puppet two male; two male or female one act
The Golem is inspired by the medieval Yiddish legend. This story, set in Prague, explores what happens when a monster is constructed to defend his community.
Title: Gonna Need To See Some ID in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Latham, Donna Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy comedy - crime five characters three male; one female; one male or female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"Sizzurup? Bombs? A suspicious cashier interrogates customers as they attempt to make purchases." Title: Good Boys
Author: Martin, Jane Publisher: Samuel French 2003
Description:
roy drama all male cast; five characters five male one act
A fierce encounter between fathers, one black and one white, opens a deeply disturbing chapter in their lives. The men relive the school shooting in which their sons died, one a victim and the other the shooter. When racial issues threaten to derail all hope for understanding and forgiveness, the black father's other son takes matters into his owns hands. He pushes the confrontation to a dangerous and frightening climax. Good Boys explores the pressures of modern family life and the breaking points of men and boys, and it raises the question: To what
Title: Good Bride, The
Author: Rowe, Rosemary Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2016
Description:
roy comedy - solo performance - women - coming of age - religion all female cast; one character one female one act
running time: 90 mins.
Every night from 3pm to midnight, 15 year old Quiverfull Christian Maranatha Graham puts on her wedding dress and hopes that today will be the day her 28 year old groom Pete comes to claim her. Daddy, the paster, sent her to the Pullmans’ house to wait until God tells him it’s time for her marriage. Maranatha is so excited to submit to Pete's godly leadership in marriage and fill his
Title: Goodnight Children Everywhere in - Goodnight Children Everywhere and other plays / COL Author: Nelson, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama - family relations seven characters three male; four female one act (eight scenes)
The play is set in 1945 just after the end of World War II. Three sisters reunite with their brother who had been sent to live in the United States during the period of evacuations of civilians during the London bombings. Title: Goodnight Lovin' Trail in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Bray, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act (two scenes)
This subtle and touching drama takes place at a truck stop diner in West Texas, where two desperate and lonely strangers find redemption in each other's eyes while discussing a stolen guitar. The play explores raw human emotions and consequences while these two desperate characters navigate and come to terms with the choices they've made on the road of life.
Title: Graceful Rebellions in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Latif, Shaista Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - solo performance - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian all female cast; three characters three female (doubling possible) one act (four parts)
Running time: 50 minutes
Love is a sacred act of grace. Rebellion is the refusal of obedience. Joy is a state of divinity and destruction. Power is given to those who take. Can a queer Afghan woman identify herself in a occupied land? Part storytelling, part folklore and myth. Tradition is history repeated. Contains four monologues: A Wedding for Leili; One Hundred Poppies; What's in a Name?; and Leili in
Title: Graduate, The in - Terry Johnson - Plays:3 / COL Author: Johnson, Terry Publisher: Methune Drama 2004
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - coming of age large cast flexible casting two acts
California in the 60s. Benjamin's got excellent grades, very proud parents and, since he helped Mrs Robinson with her zipper, a fine future behind him... A cult novel, a classic film, a quintessential hit of the 60s, now Benjamin's disastrous sexual odyssey is brought vividly to life in this world stage premiere production. Title: Grass Is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome, The in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Albert, Michael Ross Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ five characters three male; two female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"When a painter tears the artwork off the walls of a struggling independent gallery, the relationships between a group of emerging artists are also torn apart. A comedy about envy, friendship, sex, art, and our constant search for something better."
Title: Grease : School Version
Author: Jacobs, Jim Casey, Warren Publisher: Samuel French 2004
Description:
roy musical - American - high school eighteen characters nine male; nine female two acts
"The 50's rock 'n' roll musical. Rydell High's spirited class of 59' - gumchewing, hubcap-stealing, hot-rod loving boys with D.A's and leather jackets and their wise-cracking girls in teased curls, bobby sox, and pedal pushers - capture the look and sound of the 1950's in a rollicking musical that salutes the rock 'n' roll era. While hip Danny Zuko and wholesome Sandy Dumbrowski resolve the problems of their mutual attraction for each other, the gang sings in the burger palace, and the drive-in-movie."
Title: Great Lakes Suite, The in - Scripts / CCO Author: Reaney, James Beckwith, John Publisher: Coach House Books 2004
Description:
roy poetry - solo performance - music - Canadian one character one male or female (flexible casting) one act (six parts)
Music by John Beckwith.
A series of poems set to music. Originally performed as a radio broadcast. Title: Great Peace Part three of the War plays Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989
Description:
roy drama - nuclear war sixteen characters eleven male; five female one act (twenty parts)
Approximate running time: 180 mins.
Concluding play fo the author's War plays trilogy set in post nuclear holocaust future. Military orders are issued that children be killed to save vital resources.
Title: Greece! is the Word
Author: Mastel, Ken Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy musical comedy - Alberta playwright - high school twenty characters eight male; eight female (doubling) one act
Running time: 70 minutes; 1 setting.
A parody, the 50's musical "Grease" set in Ancient Greece. Medusa is the beauty school teacher, a chariot become "greece lightning". Teenage hi-jinx started a long time ago! Two modern teens David and Mandy, are in the detention room. David bad mouths Zeus, but Zeus was listening. He transports them back in time to ancient Greece, to Athens Pi High. There they meet all the classic
Title: Grown Ups
Author: Feiffer, Jules Publisher: Samuel French 1982
Description:
roy comedy - relationships seven characters two male; four female; one girl two acts
An acerbic comedy by the famed cartoonist and author of Knock Knock and Little Murders. It's about a middle-aged journalist who has, at last, grown up only to find he's trapped in a world of emotional infants. Title: Grown-Up, The in - Humana Festival 2014: The complete plays / COL Author: Harrison, Jordan Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - fantasy eighteen characters four male; two female (doubling) one act (eighteen scenes)
"Ten year old Kai is given a magical crystal door-knob by his grandfather that enables him to travel through space and time to see future events in his life. The further along he goes, the less he feels like he's seeing into his future, but more that he is living life as most people do; all too quickly."
Title: Gulf, The in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Cefaly, Audrey Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ - relationships two characters; all female cast two female one act (one scene)
1 exterior set.
"The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing abyss. On a quiet summer evening, somewhere down in the Alabama Delta, Kendra and Betty troll the flats looking for red fish. After Betty begins diagnosing Kendra’s dead-end life with career picks from What Color is Your Parachute, their routine fishing excursion takes a violent
Title: Hactivists in - Connections 2015 / YCL Author: Ockrent, Ben Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2015
Description:
roy drama - young adults twelve characters six male; six female one act (four scenes)
Age suitability: 13+
When Eloise is tasked with showing new girl Beth around the school she takes her to the 'hacker space' where she and her gang of nerdy friends hang out - a disused Portakabin they've turned into a student-run IT lab. Although the gang call themselves hackers, their activities are entirely harmless... until their self elected leader, Archie, is humiliated by the school bully and Beth Title: Hagoromo in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Zeami translated by Arthur Waley Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy Japanese Noh play - fantasy three characters; chorus two male; one female one act
One spring morning, a fisherman named Hakury?, sets out to go fishing with his companions and finds a beautiful robe hung on a pine branch at Miho-no-Matsubara. When he attempts to take it home as a family heirloom, a celestial maiden appears and asks him to return the robe to her. At first, Hakury? refuses to return it. However, he is moved by the celestial maiden, who laments that she cannot go home to heaven without it. He therefore decides to give her the feather robe in return for seeing her perform a celestial dance. As the celestial maiden in the feather robe
Title: Hail in - Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, The / CCO Author: Riche, Edward Publisher: Breakwater Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - crime - friendship all male cast; four characters four male two acts
Four friends gather together to discuss their fifth friend, who has been arrested. The men fear that he has been caught for a crime they committed nearly two decades ago.
Title: Half of It, The Almost a comedy Author: Krizanc, John Publisher: Anansi Press 1990
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy thirteen characters three male; four female (doubling) two acts
When her wealthy father dies, the idealistic Jill Ashe must decide with her socialite mother and real-estate agent sister what to do with the property left them, in particular a woods that Jill has loved since childhood. Both her mother and sister want to sell to developers for a huge sum, but Jill hesitates. Enter a greedy speculator with a plan to save the woods and turn a profit for the family. Jill's quandary over whether to sell out signals the play's underlying theme: how to make choices in an immoral world. Title: Hamlet in Everyday English
Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Coles Publishing Company 2011
Description:
reference - Shakespeare
The full text of Hamlet written in contemporary english.
Title: Hammerstone, The in - The Trustus Plays / COL Author: Tuttle, Jon Publisher: Intellect 2009
Description:
roy comedy - aging six characters three male; three female two acts
An academic comedy about two professors aging gracelessly.
Title: Happy Place
Author: Sinha, Pamela Mala Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - mental illness - mental health - women - friendship all female cast; eight characters seven female (doubling) two acts
Seven women living in an inpatient-care facility try to find a way to fit into a world that can’t respond to their pain. But these broken women are the ones who can teach one another how to live. "Happy Place" is a glimpse into lives filled with courage, compassion and startling surprise, lives which — in many ways — are not so different from our own. Title: Happy Prince, The in - Favorite Plays for Classroom Reading / CHC Author: Wilde, Oscar Dooley, Caroline Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy children - musical - fairy tales sixteen characters; extras eight male; four female; four male or female one act (nine scenes)
running time: Approx. 80 mins; Music by David Perkins; adaptation, book and lyrics by Caroline Dooley and David Perkins.
A touching musical based on the well-loved story by Oscar Wilde... the golden stature of the Happy Prince stands high above the city looking down on the misery and poverty beneath him. Desperate to bring hope and happiness to the poor people, he asks a swallow to distribute his
Title: Hard Feelings
Author: Lucie, Doug Publisher: Methuen 1985
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female two acts
Thatcher's Britain, Brixton, 1981. As tensions mount on the streets, a group of Oxford University graduates barely notice what's happening on the streets outside as police and rioters clash, shops are looted, and buildings are set on fire. In both worlds there is a fight for rights... a fight for respect ... a fight for control. Who will win? Who will lose? Who will make the strongest cocktail? And when the dust finally settles the question remains... Will things ever change?
Title: Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party and Other Works
Author: Gale, Steven H. Publisher: Monarch Press 1972
Description:
reference - Harold Pinter - commentary
Considers the thematic relations between The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, and other Pinter plays. Offers scene-by-scene analysis of the action, characterization, symbolism, dialogue, imagery, and setting of The Birthday Party. Indicates possible connections between Pinter's own life, his published theories of drama, and his own plays. Title: Harry, Noon and Night in - Five Plays by Ronald Ribman / COL Author: Ribman, Ronald Publisher: Avon Books 1978
Description:
roy black comedy seven characters five male; two female one act (three scenes)
2 interiors; music.
Harry, American misfit in Germany, thrives on exerting power in relationships with American soldier and homosexual roommate.
Title: Harsh Angel in - Plays by Mediterranean Women / COL Author: Avraamidou, Maria translated by Rhea Frangofinou Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - feminism eight characters three male; five female two acts
Against the background of a divided country, this gentle Chekhovian play is about the lives of two sisters whose 'harsh angel' has forced them to watch the carnival of life as outsiders 'to the forest of men.'
Title: Have
Author: Hay, Julius Hay, Peter Publisher: Talonbooks 1969
Description:
roy drama - historical - Hungary - women twenty-two characters; extras eleven male; eleven female one act (fourteen scenes)
translation of the Hungarian version - Tiszazug by Peter Hay. Originally written in German with title: Haben.
HAVE is about historical events which took place in Hungary earlier in the twentieth century in which dozens of peasant women were tried for the time-honoured practice of poisoning their husbands in order to inherit a few acres of land. Title: Heart of a Dog
Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail Galati, Frank Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1985
Description:
roy comedy - satire - Soviet Union fourteen characters nine male; five female (doubling possible) two acts
Adapted by Frank Galati.
The action centers on the difficulties encountered by Professor Preobrajansky, an innovative medical practitioner who specializes in sexual rejuvenation (by organ implantation), in his running battle with the management committee of his apartment house who want the Professor to give up some of his many rooms. Fortunately, the professor (who counters their demands by
Title: Heathen Valley in - Six Plays - Romulus Linney / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1993
Description:
roy drama - religion six characters four male; two female two acts
Based on author's novel of same title. In 1840s North Carolina, Episcopal bishop attempts to bring religion to isolated Appalachian valley filled with violence, wantonness and poverty.
Title: Heisenberg
Author: Stephens, Simon Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female one act (six scenes)
running time: approx. 80 minutes.
Amidst the bustle of a crowded London train station, Clare spots Alex, a much older man, and plants a kiss on his neck. This electric encounter thrusts these two strangers into a fascinating and life-changing game. Simon Stephens's play brings to blazing, theatrical life the uncertain and often comical sparring match that is human connection. Title: Hell of a Mess, A
Author: Ionesco, Eugene translated by Helen Gary Bishop Publisher: Grove Press 1975
Description:
roy satire large cast flexible casting one act (fifteen scenes)
4 interiors.
Avant garde play. Young office worker who inherits money quits job and, while momentous events swirl around him, spends most of his time eating and reading.
Title: Henry IV in - Collected Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Robert Rietty and John Wardle Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1987
Description:
roy drama - Italian - tragedy thirteen characters eleven male; two female three acts
also known as 'Enrico IV'; setting: an isolated country villa in Italy during the 1920s.
'Man who masqueraded as insane for many years commits a crime compelling him to continue his pretended madness.' - Play Index
Title: Hiding Words (For You) in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Wong, Gein Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian playwright - China - relationships eight characters five male; three female two acts
The play takes us to nineteenth-century China and into the heart of the private relationship of two women that is facilitated by a secret phonetic (and feminine) adaptation of Chines script called Nüshu. Hiding, here, becomes an act of rebellion that creates new means of communicating and new ways of achieving intimacy among women. Wong's play will surprise and move you with its nuanced images and loving attention to the historical tools of feminist freedom. Title: History K in - Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas / COL Author: Lee, Edward Bok Publisher: Duke University Press 2017
Description:
roy solo performance - women - drama - Korea - prostitution all female cast; one character one female one act
A haunting monologue of an Asian prostitute named K who allegorically embodies the military occupation in Asia. While she could be of any Asian nationality, K's story can be read as a chronicle of the US involvement in Korea's modern history. Written in the style of Samuel Beckett's one woman plays such as "Not I" and "Rockaby," (this play) shows a woman painfully victimized by the West's military aggression in Asia. Unable to articulate her existence, K can only show fragmented glimpses of westernization forced onto her both physically and emotionally.
Title: Holes in the Skin
Author: Holman, Robert Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2003
Description:
roy drama - relationships eight characters; voices five male; three female two acts
Robert Holman's play Holes in the Skin is about a group of troubled teenagers, and their equally disturbed adult counterparts, struggling to connect with one another on a deprived housing estate in North Yorkshire. The play begins in a council house in Stokesley, North Yorkshire. Fifteen-year-old Kerry and her mum Hazel have recently moved to the estate. Kerry hates it. She also hates Dennis, Hazel’s slimy new boyfriend. When she meets Luke, an ex-offender and heroin addict, in the playground, a spark of something is ignited between them. They are soon joined by
Title: Holy Ghost in - The Trustus Plays / COL Author: Tuttle, Jon Publisher: Intellect 2009
Description:
roy drama - war - music large cast flexible casting two acts
Portrays the plight of German POW's kept in camps in the American South. Title: Holy Terror, The
Author: Gray, Simon Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - fantasy ten characters four male; three female (doubling) two acts
This work by a pre-eminent dramatist begins as a lecture being delivered by Mark Melon to an English women's club wherein he recounts how he took over a respected but financially shaky publishing house and ruthlessly streamlined by firing everyone in sight. The events described then come to life. Melon, who appears at first to be just another ruthless businessman, is actually insane. He has a breakdown and is committed to an institution where he undergoes shock and other therapies. He loses his stature in publishing and his wife and family, but he may have found
Title: Home
Author: Wagner, Colleen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2014
Description:
roy drama - language - culture five characters two male; three female two acts
""Home" is the story of an aging man, Tooman, exiled from his homeland, who through repatriation efforts, can now return and reclaim his home and property. However, fifty-five years have passed and the home has been inhabited by three woman, who, caught in the shifting tides of a new world of globalization, find themselves threatened with expulsion when Toomas and his son, Wendall, return to reclaim the land and house. The women who have lived in this adopted country and in this house for so long, feel suddenly rootless. "Home" explores our deep
Title: Home in - Home; The Changing Room; and Mother's Day / COL Author: Storey, David Publisher: Penguin Books 1978
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - British - friendship - mental health five characters three male; two female two acts
1 exterior set.
The play opens with two old men having a morning conversation in a park and as the play develops, it is realized that the men and their two women friends are patients in a mental institute. The play traces the daily companionship of the four characters. Title: Home of the Brave
Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1946
Description:
roy drama - prejudice all male cast; six characters six male three acts
representative set.
A Jewish-American soldier, on a suicide mission with four other soldiers, develops amnesia and paralysis when he feels glad that his best friend was killed because he thinks that the friend was secretly prejudiced against Jews.
Title: Home of the Brave in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents - COL Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Back Stage Books 2004
Description:
roy drama - prejudice all male cast; six characters six male three acts
representative set.
A Jewish-American soldier, on a suicide mission with four other soldiers, develops amnesia and paralysis when he feels glad that his best friend was killed because he thinks that the friend was secretly prejudiced against Jews.
Title: Hongbu and Nobu: The Tale of the Magic Pumpkins in - Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas / COL Author: Yoon, Jean Publisher: Duke University Press 2017
Description:
roy folklore - Korea - children twelve characters; extras four male; four female; four male or female (doubling possible) one act (twenty-two scenes)
An adaptation of one of the most commonly known Korean folklores. Children in Korea grow up hearing about the two brothers, Hongbu and Nolbu, whose story teaches them to be kind and honest. From one perspective, the play tells a simple and innocent mythical story, but from another, it is a meta-theatrical extravaganza full of bizarre fantasies and dark humour. Title: Hood in - Connections 2015 / YCL Author: Chandler, Katharine Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2015
Description:
roy drama - young adult eight characters; puppets; extras; chorus flexible casting one act
age suitability - 13+
Hood's mam has run off with a bacon-licking vegetarian, while her dad spends his days and nights lost in a chair, feeding his addiction to the Waterboys. There's no money left, there's five struggling kids to feed, and interfering Father Tuck just won't let them be. But our modern-day hero Robyn Hood is determined to keep her family together, whatever it takes... a modern day tale
Title: Hospital Food in - Connections 2015 / YCL Author: O'Hare, Eugene Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2015
Description:
roy drama - young adult - cancer ten characters six male; six female one act (five scenes)
Age suitability: 15+
Set in the present day, ten teenagers from the ages of fourteen to seventeen are the residents of a cancer unit in a city hospital. All of them (a mix of boys and girls) are undergoing various conventional treatments for different cancers at different stages of progression. Their shared illness bonds them and they support each other as they reveal their fears and hopes for the future
Title: Hour, The in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Goodell, Susan Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - crime five characters two male; one female (doubling) one act (one scene)
A suspect and a cop in an interrogation room on the first day of daylight savings time. Title: House Not Meant to Stand, A A gothic comedy Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2008
Description:
roy dark comedy fourteen characters; one voice nine male; two female; two boys; one girl two acts
Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return one stormy night from the funeral of their older son to a house and a life literally falling apart - daughter Joanie is in an asylum and their younger son Charlie is upstairs having sex with his pregnant, Holy Roller girlfriend as the McCorkles enter. In this dark, expressionistic comedy, which he calls his 'Southern Gothic Spook Sonata' Williams brilliantly chronicles the fragile state of our world.
Title: How Black Mothers Say I Love You
Author: Anthony, Trey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relations - Canadian playwright all female cast; four characters four female two acts
From the author of the blockbuster da Kink in my hair comes an emotional and raw look into family dynamics, trust, resolution and change.
Claudette still can’t forgive her mother for leaving. For six years of her childhood, Claudette and her sister Valerie were left with their grandmother while their mother, Daphne, moved from Jamaica to the United States to start a new chapter for their family. But in that time, Daphne
Title: Huff in - Huff & Stitch / COL Author: Cardinal, Cliff Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - Native playwright - family relations - solo performance many characters one male (doubling) one act (one scene)
"Brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father’s abusive whims and their mother’s recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pull destructive pranks. Preyed upon by Trickster and his own fragile psyche, Wind looks for a way out, one that might lead him into his mother’s shadow." Title: Hughie
Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1987
Description:
roy drama - death all male cast; two characters two male one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"Originally produced on Broadway, revived to sellout houses in 1996 starring Al Pacino, HUGHIE was one of O'Neill's last works. It was originally intended as part of a series of short plays, but it became the lone survivor when O'Neill destroyed the others. It did not receive its American premiere until twenty years after its composition and ten years after the author's death. HUGHIE is
Title: Hughie
Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1959
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
HUGHIE was one of Eugene O’Neill’s last works. It was originally intended as part of a series of short plays, but it became the lone survivor when O'Neill destroyed the others. HUGHIE is set in the lobby of a seedy Times Square Hotel early one morning in the late '20s. Its characters are the hotel's gray, withdrawn night clerk, and "Erie" Smith, a penny-ante gambler who has spent most of his last fifteen years at the hotel between periods of drunkenness. His most recent bender was prompted by the death of the title character who was the night clerk's predecessor. Erie babbles
Title: Human Cannon
Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1985
Description:
roy drama - war - Spain large cast flexible casting two parts
Set in Spain at the time of the Spanish Civil War, this unflinching play is as agonizing as the event. Agustina is in the house with her dead child preparing the body for private disposal. Her husband, Nardo, states the argument of the story - "When someone else owns the machines you use to earn your living, then you are owned." Agustina's daughter asks her to name the dead child. Agustina answers, "No. It wasn't born into a human world, it was born in this world." There is bitterness with the landowners, and then their world is overwhelmed with the violence of the Title: Hunger and Thirst
Author: Ionesco, Eugene Publisher: Samuel French 1968
Description:
roy drama - religion large cast flexible casting three acts
A man flees from his family and wanders about the world seeking answers. Finally he comes to a monastery whose monks act out the game of existential freedom, forcing them to confess belief in God to receive food. Religion is shown as a matter of habit or force, devoid of freedom, constructed to fill voids in the human heart.
Title: Hunter and the Bird, The in - America Hurrah and other plays / COL Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude Publisher: Grove Press Inc. 1978
Description:
roy comedy - absurdist two characters one male; one female one act
no set required.
Humorous, fantastic, and yet telling in its perceptions, this brief but arresting exercise in absurdist style delights and intrigues both by what is said and what is left unsaid.
Title: I Can't Imagine Tomorrow in - Dragon Country / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1970
Description:
roy drama - friendship - aging - death two characters one male; one female one act
The characters "One" and "Two" are the only friends of one-another. They carry out the same evening ritual of card playing and watching the news on TV in an effort to avoid any real confrontation. "One's" physical deterioration and approaching death forces her to prepare for the inevitable. "Two" resists this change and his consuming fear of losing "One" leads to an emotional breakdown. Title: I Didn't Want a Mastodon in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Feiffer, Halley Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships - monologue two characters one male; one female one act
A couple wrangle over a blown glass mastadon.
Title: I Had A Job I Liked, Once.
Author: Vanderhaeghe, Guy Publisher: Fifth House 1992
Description:
roy drama - crime - Canadian five characters four male; one female two acts
1 setting
'I Had a Job I Liked, Once' explores the ideas of justice and the law, innocence and experience, and social hierarchies. Set in a police station, the action centres on the interrogation of a young man accused of a crime involving a beautiful and wealthy teenage girl. The events leading up to the incident unfold in flashbacks as the boy tells his story to the interrogating officer, a
Title: I Licked a Slag's Deodorant
Author: Cartwright, Jim Publisher: Methuen Drama 1996
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships - monologues two characters one male; one female two acts
in this grimy but often comical tale of a streetwalker and her luckless client, the play is a series of monologues segued together to create a picture of life at its most ugly. Man is a loner, he lives in a crummy bedsit with only the TV for company. Occasionally, he’ll venture out to the pub or the disco, but he doesn’t interact, he merely observes. Slag is a hyperactive drug-head, she walks the streets chanting her mantra to the punters. Despite the huge gulf between them, Slag and Man meet and forge a bizarre intimacy. Title: I Promised Myself to Live Faster:a queer space opera in the decadent style in - Humana Festival 2015 / COL Author: Moss, Gregory S Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2016
Description:
roy musical comedy - LGBTQ+ - identity - allegory large cast flexible casting
Developed by: Pig Iron Theatre Company
'I Promised Myself to Live Faster' is an intergalactic gay extravaganza featuring closeted extraterrestrials, high-stakes pursuits, and nuns from outer space. In this wild work, Tim’s out trolling for a good time when an order of intergalactic nuns charge him with a quest: retrieve the Holy Gay Flame from the clutches of the evil emperor to save the race of Homosexuals and restore the balance of power in the universe. But when he’s captured by the fabulously androgynous
Title: I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix in - Dragon Country / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1970
Description:
roy drama - biography - D.H. Laurence three characters one male; two female one act
A play about D.H. Lawrence. There are three characters, Lawrence himself, Frieda and Bertha Brett, and the scene is a sun-porch at a small retreat in the Alpes Maritimes. We see Lawrence at the very end of his career, in fact the very day he dies, and recognize him as the erratic, inspired, ill-tempered genius who was never able to come to terms with life. Yet he stands revealed here as the man who, in Mr. Williams' words, "felt the mystery and power of sex, as the primal life urge, and was the life-long adversary of those who wanted to keep the subject locked away in cellars of
Title: I Shave My Toes Monologues for the ethnically diverse female Author: Miller, Michele Makrouhi Publisher: Dizzy Emu Publishing 2016
Description:
original monologues - Alberta playwright - ethnic theatre - women
Contains monologues written specifically for the ethnically diverse female.
The monologues and scenes in the Breathtakingly Original Series were written specifically for the age ranges and genders specified. That said, many have been adapted for both genders, and adapted for the handicap-able actor as well. They may be used, studied, performed in Universities, High Schools, Junior Schools, Senior Centers, and Acting Schools, private or public. Title: I Will Be Gone in - Humana Festival 2015 / COL Author: Courtney, Erin Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2016
Description:
roy dramatic comedy eight characters four male; four female one act (fifteen scenes)
Seventeen-year-old Penelope goes to live with her Aunt Josephine in a small town in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains after her mom dies. Everyone in this small town—built right next door to a ghost town—is haunted by something or someone, and no one knows how to behave. Filled with apparitions, earthquakes, and strange attempts to mourn, this play explores the beauty and awkwardness of living with the knowledge that everything ends.
Title: I'm Dreaming, But Am I? in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama - relationships - Italy three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior.
In a dream, the true feelings and suspicions of two lovers are revealed.
Title: I'm Not Rappaport
Author: Gardner, Herb Publisher: Nelson Doubleday 1986
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: IBaby in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Cunningham, Laura Shaine Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy comedy two characters one female; one male or female one act
Woman gives birth to an iphone.
Title: Identifying Mavor Moore A historical and literary study Author: Boss, Allan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
reference - Canadian theatre - biography - Mavor Moore - history
A cultural giant, Mavor Moore had his hands in some of the greatest achievements on the construction of Canada's theatrical identity, and yet he is relatively unknown to the Canadian theatre community. The enigmatic, obscured figure behind many of the most important moments in the development of Canada's cultural landscape has been largely ignored by history. In this groundbreaking study of his work, Allan Boss relocates Moore in Canada's cultural history. Moore may be a jack of all trades, but Boss exposes a historical record that seems to conceal Moore's work, challenging the conventions of recorded theatre history in Canada along the way.
Title: Ides of March, The
Author: Kilty, Jerome Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy drama - historical sixteen characters; extras ten male; six female two acts
Based on the novel by Thornton Wilder.
The action spans the year before and up to Caesar's assassination, introducing us to Cleopatra on her visit to Rome. Caesar has given some strict prescriptions; but all the same he falls in love with her again. This infuriates a patrician woman of Rome. Title: Idiot, The
Author: Gray, Simon Publisher: Methuen & Co 1971
Description:
roy dramatic comedy large cast flexible casting two acts
In creating a stage play based upon Dostoievsky's original novel, the playwright has taken some of the most vivid and contrasting episodes recounting the strange involvement between Prince Myshkin, the good natured 'Idiot', and the beautiful Natasya Filippovna and her desperate lover and husband, Rogozhin. The ambiguity of these episodes and the paradoxical atmosphere of Dostoievsky's novel - hovering between sombre tragedy and grotesque farce - is heightened by the use of a strange , sinister commentator, the character Ferdyschenko. The result is a haunting
Title: If Truth Be Told
Author: Cooper, Beverley Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2016
Description:
roy drama - censorship eight characters two male; six female two acts
"It's 1977, and successful writer Peg Dunlop has returned to her small Ontario hometown to look after her ailing mother. When an eager young English teacher decides to teach one of Dunlop's books to the town's Grade 13 class, a group of parents and the local pastor start a movement to have the book banned. Based on real-life events, Cooper's balanced look at the issues on both sides raises important questions: Who decides what we can and cannot read? How do we tell stories? How do we fight for what we believe in? And how do we coexist when we have opposing
Title: Ile in - Seven Plays of the Sea / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Vintage Books 1972
Description:
roy drama six characters five male; one female one act
Description not available. Title: Imbecile, The in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama - politics - Italy nine characters eight male; one female one act
1 interior.
Italian political party worker criticizes suicide for not first killing hated politician.
Title: Immoralist, The
Author: Goetz, Ruth Goetz, Augustus Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1962
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ eight characters six male; two female three acts
2 interior sets.
Based on the novel of the same title by Andre Gide. A young man desperately marries a childhood friend in hopes that a homosexual encounter of his youth was not a permanent indication that he is homosexual. However, as he comes to know and accept his homosexuality, he begins unintentionally to destroy his wife's self-respect as he becomes increasingly alienated from her.
Title: In a Little World of Our Own in - Tearing the Loom and In a Little World of Our Own / COL Author: Mitchell. Gary Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1998
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - family relations - Ireland five characters four male; one female four acts
Domestic tragedy focusing on family of three brothers living in North Belfast. Title: In a Pig's Valise
Author: Overmyer, Eric Darnell, August Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 1987
Description:
roy musical - comedy ten characters six male; three female (doubling) two acts
In Eric Overmyer's hilarious send-up of private-eye pulp fiction, Shrimp Bucket and his brother, Gut, are stealing the sexy Dolores Con Leche's dreams. It's Taxi's task to find out why. From the ubiquitous fog to the cheap bedrooms at Heartbreak Hotel to Con Leche's legs, which are described as “gams that could raise goose flesh on a tossed salad,” IN A PIG'S VALISE pokes fun at and pays homage to the hardboiled detective novels we all know and love.
Title: In a Pig's Valise in - Eric Overmyer Collected Plays / COL Author: Overmyer, Eric Darnell, August Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1993
Description:
roy musical - comedy ten characters six male; three female (doubling) two acts
1 setting.
In Eric Overmyer's hilarious send-up of private-eye pulp fiction, Shrimp Bucket and his brother, Gut, are stealing the sexy Dolores Con Leche's dreams. It's Taxi's task to find out why. From the ubiquitous fog to the cheap bedrooms at Heartbreak Hotel to Con Leche's legs, which are described as “gams that could raise goose flesh on a tossed salad,” IN A PIG'S VALISE pokes fun at
Title: In Care
Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy drama - native peoples - Native playwright - Canadian four characters one male; three female one act
The latest script by Cree playwright Kenneth T. Williams, In Care is a four-character play about a mother’s struggle to get her children out of foster care. Janice Fisher has not had an easy life. She worked the streets as a teenager, had her first daughter taken when she was just 15, and was addicted to cocaine. That was 12 years ago and she’s turned her life around and is the mother of three happy girls, until a false accusation gets them apprehended by foster care. Now, Janice is trapped in a system like a butterfly in a spider’s web: the more she struggles to get out, the more Title: In Celebration
Author: Storey, David Publisher: Grove Press 1969
Description:
roy drama - family relations six characters four male; two female two acts
"As the Shaw sons gather to celebrate their parents’ fortieth wedding anniversary, the tensions of their family history come to the surface. Their father, who’s spent his life on his back down the mines, has always been proud of the grammar school and university education he provided for his sons. Now, however, he sees that education betraying the very work ethic he hoped to instil in them, as his working-class sons become middle-class professionals."
Title: In Defence of Theatre Aesthetic practices and social interventions Author: Publisher: University of Toronto Press 2016
Description:
reference - theatre
(This book) brings together a 'who's who' of respected and innovative Canadian scholars and theatre-artists to articulate the critical importance of theatrical endeavor. Sections include: A Politics of Place in a Global Age; Antidote for an Ailing Modernity; (En)Gendering Change; Breaking down Barriers; and Why Theatre Always.
Title: In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe
Author: Overmyer, Eric Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 1989
Description:
roy black comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
Eric Overmyer’s cosmic comedy probes the world of international conspiracy, political paranoia, and intergalactic connections. Title: In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe in - Eric Overmyer Collected Plays / COL Author: Overmyer, Eric Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1993
Description:
roy black comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
Eric Overmyer’s cosmic comedy probes the world of international conspiracy, political paranoia, and intergalactic connections.
Title: In Praise of Love
Author: Rattigan, Terence Publisher: Samuel French 1973
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters three male; one female two acts
Deception is the linchpin of this sophisticated comedy drama about a fatally ill wife and her ineffectual husband.
Title: In Spirit
Author: Beagan, Tara Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - social issues - murder - native playwright - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female one act
Twelve-year-old Molly was riding her new bicycle on a deserted road when a man in a truck pulled up next to her, saying he was lost. He asked if she could get in and help him back to the highway, and said he could bring her back to her bike after. Molly declined, out of interest for her own safety. The next things Molly remembers are dirt, branches, trees, pain, and darkness. Molly is now a spirit. Mustering up some courage, she pieces together her short life for herself and her Title: In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel in - Dragon Country / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1970
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two parts
1 interior set.
A woman is isolated in a Tokyo hotel with her artist husband who is suffering from angst over his inability for creative expression.
Title: In the Blue in - Peter Gill: Plays 1 / COL Author: Gill, Peter Publisher: Faber and Faber 2002
Description:
roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act (three scenes)
When Stewart, a hedonistic drifter, and Michael, a timid hospital auxiliary, embark on a love affair, the odds are set against them. For as much as Stewart is assertive and streetwise, Michael is introverted and awkward. In this two-hander Peter Gill explores the simultaneous attraction and incompatibility of two social worlds.
Title: In the Zone in - Seven Plays of the Sea / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Vintage Books 1972
Description:
roy drama all male cast; nine characters nine male one act
1 interior set.
"Seamen on board British merchant marine vessel in World War I suspect fellow worker of being a spy." Title: In Vogue Sixty years of celebrities and fashion from British Vogue Author: Howell, Georgina Publisher: Penguin Books 1978
Description:
reference - England - history - costume - 20th century
A collection of photographs and commentary on British fashion from 1916-1975.
Title: Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito, The
Author: Highway, Tomson illustrated by Sue Todd Publisher: Fifth House 2016
Description:
roy musical - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright one character one female one act
illustrated by Sue Todd.
"This is the story of Mary Jane Mosquito, the only female mosquito, in the history of the world, to be born without wings."
Title: Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers, The in - New Plays USA 3 / COL Author: Metcalfe, Stephen Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1986
Description:
roy drama eighteen characters six male; three female twoacts
1 setting
A rock star is pressured to make a stage comeback after being seriously wounded by fan in assassination attempt. Title: Indian Arm
Author: Kanagawa, Hiro Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - disabilities six characters two male; three female (doubling) two acts
"In this modern adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf, award-winning author Hiro Kanagawa explores the uneasy intersection of privilege and birthright. Rita and Alfred Allmers live in an isolated family cabin on native leasehold land overlooking Indian Arm, a still untamed glacial fjord just north of Vancouver, BC. With Alfred—a formerly promising novelist—now struggling with his latest work, Rita has been tasked with caring for their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations teen who has been designated as “special needs for much of his life. Rita’s resentments
Title: Indians
Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1970
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples twenty-four characters; extras twenty-one male; three female thirteen scenes
1 set.
Using techniques of vaudeville and the circus, this play explores the white man's conquering and extermination of the Native American Indian.
Title: Infinity
Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Kie, Njo Kong Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - music - relationships - time three characters one male; two female two acts
Sarah Jean is a mathematics prodigy who finds safety in numbers, in the reliability of their defined nature. Her affinity for unhealthy relationships, however, remains a complete mystery. Her flings turn into year-long relationships against her better judgment and her confusing emotional patterns are only now coming to light. It’s time for Sarah Jean to make sense of her past in terms she understands and to discover there is more to time than just its inevitable passing. Elliot is a theoretical physicist who spends most of his time thinking about time and how to unify all Title: Innocent as Charged in - Four Plays - Alexander Ostrovsky / COL Author: Ostrovsky, Alexander translated by Stephen Mulrine Publisher: Oberon Books 1997
Description:
roy comedy - melodrama - farce twelve extras six male; six female four acts
In the first act, Lyubov implores her lover Murov to marry her and take responsibility for their son, who has been secreted away to avoid scandal. Murov offers vague excuses and mentions a last-minute trip to St. Petersburg and is about to escape when his exit is blocked by the arrival of Lyubov’s flighty, newly rich friend Taisa. Murov is forced to hide behind a screen. The fluttery Taisa, is full of news about her wedding plans; no prizes for guessing who the groom is to be. A desolate Lyubov is bidding a bitter farewell to Murov when an old woman arrives announcing the
Title: Interesting Times
Author: Pratchett, Terry adapted by Stephen Briggs Publisher: Methuen Drama 2002
Description:
roy comedy - fantasy large cast flexible casting two acts
The Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from the Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help some well-intentioned rebels overthrow the Emperor. He's assisted by toy-rabbit-wielding rebels, an army of terracotta warriors, a tax gatherer and a group of seven very elderly barbarian heroes led by Cohen the Barbarian. opposing him though, is the evil and manipulative Lord Hong and his army of 750,000 men. Oh... Rincewind is also aided by Twoflower - Discworld's first tourist and the author of a subversive book, about his visit to
Title: Intervention, An
Author: Bartlett, Mike Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2014
Description:
roy comedy - friendship two characters flexible casting one act (five scenes)
Simple set.
"A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend. One of them went on the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeringly drunk. The other stayed at home, watched TV for a bit, and thought about the future. Title: Irish Stew in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Pepper, Cary Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy comedy - aging - memory - seniors two characters one male; one female one act
An elderly couple have adventures looking for their "Irish Stew", which in reality is an Irish sweater.
Title: Jacques Plante and the Parkdale Knitting League
Author: McLaughlin, Paul Publisher: Miscellaneous 2000
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - romance seven characters four male; three female one act
Play combines drama, comedy and real events to tell the story of a Toronto woman who falls in love with the legendary hockey goalie, Jacques Plante, through their mutual love of knitting.
Title: Jane Eyre
Author: Jerome, Helen Publisher: Samuel French 1935
Description:
roy drama - romance - literature large cast flexible casting three acts
Adapted from the novel by Charlotte Bronte.
Condensing the dramatic action of the classic novel, playwright Helen Jerome, as in her acclaimed adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, produces a thrilling and compelling stage version. Young Jane Eyre comes to Thornfield, the estate of the brooding Rochester, to be a governess to Adele, his child-ward. Rochester is an unhappy man with lunatic wife whom he must Title: Jar, The in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy comedy - Italy eleven characters seven male; three female; one boy one act
Translated by William Murray; 1 setting.
Sicilian countryside. When a tinker traps himself inside a jar, its owner has legal problems. Singing and dancing.
Title: Jew from Three Rivers, The
Author: Aronovitch, Lawrence Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2013
Description:
roy drama - Jewish - politics - historical - biography eight characters four male; one female (doubling) one act (fourteen scenes)
"The true story of Ezekiel Hart, the first Jew elected to public office in the British Empire in 1807. When a seat becomes vacant in the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, both the French (personified by the newspaper editor Pierre-Stanislas Bédard) and the English (personified by the colonial governor, Sir James Craig) must decide whether to support Hart's candidacy."
Title: Johnny and Rosie in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Long, Quincy Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
An emotional mobster and his commonsensical moll discuss the possibility of the existence of naked pictures of her. Title: Johnny Guitar
Author: van Hoogstraten, Nicholas Silvestri, Martin Publisher: Samuel French 2004
Description:
roy musical - comedy eight characters; four musicians six male; two female two acts
Book by Nicholas van Hoogstraten; music by Martin Silvestri; Lyrics and Music by Joel Higgins.
Based on the Republic motion picture Johnny Guitar. This laugh-filled musical based on the legendary Joan Crawford cult western embraces and sends up fifties-style movie acting, melodramatic romance and rough-and-tumble cowboy action. Featuring a sensational score with echoes of doo-wop and steamy southwestern ballads, Johnny Guitar tells the story of a sultry
Title: Johnson Over Jordan
Author: Priestley, J. B. Publisher: Oberon Books 2001
Description:
roy drama - fantasy large cast flexible casting three acts
JB Priestly described 'Johnson over Jordan' as an adventure in theatre. Robert Johnson, a timid , meek man lives the most ordinary of lives - until he dies. Suddenly he is catapulted into the strangeness of his afterlife and begins a frightening, lurid and emotional journey. Past memories, secret desires and present regrets and longings mingle with the real, surreal and sublime, threatening to overwhelm him. The play is an ambitious, dreamlike piece of theatre and ultimately a deeply moving account of a very ordinary man's life.
Title: Jolson Sings Again in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents / COL Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Back Stage Books 2004
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters three male; one female two acts
Though the play is framed by two short scenes that take place in 1962, its main action takes place between 1947 and 1952, the height of the House Un-American Activities Committee's investigations into supposed Communist infiltration of the Hollywood Studios. The action of the play is a series of personal and professional negotiations among four friends, three of whom are former members of the Communist Party. As the hearings drag on and the prospect of being blacklisted becomes more of a threat to their professional lives, each is forced to make difficult Title: Joshua Consumed an Unfortunate Pear in - Humana Festival 2015 / COL Author: Yockey, Steve Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2016
Description:
roy comedy three characters; chorus one male; two female one act
A man has procured and is eating an pear that brings immortality, to the consternation of his partner, and death.
Title: Jouliks in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Le-Huu, Marie-Christine translated by Crystal Beliveau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - family relationships - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian five characters two male; two female; one girl one act (eighteen parts)
Jouliks is a darkly tender drama exploring the vast, bumpy, and treacherous terrain of love. The play dramatizes a few days in the life of a family; grandparents, parents child, and neighbour. The grandparents, Mam and Pappy, have come for a visit after seven years of estrangement, in which time they did not see their daughter, Vera, her partner Zak, or The Little One. From the very moment of her arrival, Mam sets to work reconstituting her daughter's home and family so they conform to her extremely conventional sense of propriety. As the clash between the conflicting
Title: Journey of the Fifth Horse, The in - Five Plays by Ronald Ribman / COL Author: Ribman, Ronald Publisher: Avon Books 1978
Description:
roy drama - fantasy sixteen characters; extras ten male; six female two acts
2 settings.
Zoditch, the chief reader of a Moscow publishing company, is a lonely man without courage or authority, except in his dream world. Title: Journey to Mapu in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: de Guevara, Lina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy drama - Latina/o playwrights - Canadian - native peoples - identity large cast flexible casting one act
A series of recollections by Lautaro/Tato, a Chilean Mapuche immigrant, of the struggles of his childhood as the root source of his current day activism in connecting issues concerning both the First Nations and South American Indigenous groups. These memories challenge questions of identity, nationalism, historiography, a sense of place, and indigeneity.
Title: Journeys in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Peay, Austin Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
One young girl about to run away from home waits at a bus stop/diner for the next bus. While she waits, a man returns to this same diner that he ran away from eighteen years previous for the the same reasons as her.
Title: Joy of Going Somewhere Definite, The
Author: Long, Quincy Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1999
Description:
roy dramatic comedy ten characters flexible casting two acts
Three out-of-work loggers, fueled by alcohol, God and song, set forth from a northwoods bar one night on a misguided errand of mercy. Raymond, Merle and Junior have met a stranger in the bar even drunker and lonelier than they are, and, after accidentally shooting him, decide to reunite the poor fellow with his estranged wife somewhere north of the border in Canada. Hampered at every turn by misunderstanding, confusion, stupidity, drunkenness, desire and mistaken identity, the chivalrous loggers resolutely attempt to do the right thing, while achieving Title: Judgement
Author: Collins, Barry Publisher: Faber and Faber 1974
Description:
roy drama - solo performance - war - men all male cast; one character one male one act
In this powerful and disturbing dramatic monologue, Andrei Vukhov, a Russian army captain, addresses his judges. The man, Vukhov, is a fiction: so, broadly, is the story he tells. Certain details, however, are factual: they relate to an episode of the second world war. The location was a hilltop monastery in southern Poland. What happened there is described, briefly, in George Steiner's book, The Death of Tragedy. Abandoning the monastery, the Germans left a number of captured Russian officers locked in a cellar. Two of the prisoners managed to stay alive by killing
Title: July 7, 1944 in - Two Days / COL Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female one act
A haunting hour-long exploration of a day in the life of a female physician working in an inner-city health clinic.
Title: Jump/Cut
Author: Beber, Neena Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy drama - documentary - mental illness three characters two male; one female two acts
"Three bright urbanites want to make their mark on the world. Paul, a master of irony and distance, is a hardworking film maker on the rise. His girlfriend Karen, a grad student, must get on with her thesis or find a life outside of academia. Dave, a life long buddy whose brilliance is being consumed by increasingly severe episodes of manic depression, is camping on Paul's couch. Paul and Karen decide to turn Dave into a documentary. The camera is on 24 hours a day, capturing up close images of his jags and torpors and their responses. How far will love, Title: Jumping Mouse
Author: de Vries, Marion Bobb, Columpa C. Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1999
Description:
roy children - friendship - comedy - adventure - Canadian four characters two male; two female one act
In this adaptation of a traditional story, young Curious Mouse and her best friend Companion set off on a brave journey to the Sacred Mountains, meeting a host of lively characters along the way, and discovering the true meaning of courage and friendship.
Title: Just Say No A play about a farce Author: Kramer, Larry Publisher: St. Martin's Press 1989
Description:
roy farce - LGBTQ+ - politicians eight characters five male; two female two acts
1 interior.
Homosexual attempts to blackmail powerful First Lady who has hidden her son's homosexuality.
Title: Keeper
Author: Taitt, Tanisha Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2016
Description:
roy drama - relationships all female cast; two characters two female one act (five scenes)
1 interior set.
"KEEPER takes place during an evening in the lives of Avalon and constance, two extraordinary women who have been bonded and blistered by death, doubt and distance. As the details of their shared history emerge, long-buried feelings and hidden truths rise to the surface. Stirring, humorous and resonant, KEEPER is one part cat-and-mouse, and one part long lost love." Title: Kick for Touch in - Peter Gill: Plays 1 / COL Author: Gill, Peter Publisher: Faber and Faber 2002
Description:
roy drama - relationships three characters two male; one female three acts
Kick for Touch tells, in jumbled fragments, the story of a love triangle between two brothers, Joe and Jim, and Joe's wife Eileen. A difficult childhood has left the brothers loving, jealous and incredibly close, so close that – ultimately – they crush Eileen between them.
Title: Killing Game
Author: Ionesco, Eugene translated by Helen Gary Bishop Publisher: Grove Press 1974
Description:
roy comedy large cast flexible casting one act (seventeen scenes)
1 setting.
Theatre of the absurd, set in a peaceful village, where people speak only in clichés. Plague strikes town and points up raw emotions, hypocrisy, treachery, and other human flaws.
Title: Kind Ness in - New Plays USA 4 / COL Author: Chong, Ping Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1988
Description:
roy comedy - coming of age fourteen characters three male; three female (doubling) one act (twelve scenes)
"A poignant but surreal coming of age comedy that follows the friendships of six characters from their elementary school days through their college years. Ordinary enough—except that one of the six is a gorilla named Buzz." Title: King and the Condemned, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL Author: Brenner, Larry Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female one act
Comedy ensues when a troop of actors refuse to perform their poorly written, low budget production, holding the audience captive. When one audience member, Daniel, attempts to leave, the actors force him onstage where he enters their world. Here he must contend with a lustful princess, a brutish guard, an obnoxious clown and an egotistical king. If he can defeat their characters, he will go free; but if he fails, he will be trapped onstage with them forever.
Title: King Charles III
Author: Barlett, Mike Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2014
Description:
roy drama - politics - royalty large cast flexible casting five acts
"Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule? Drawing on the style and structure of a Shakespearean history play, Mike Bartlett's controversial ‘future history play’ explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain’s most famous family."
Winner! - Best New Play, Olivier Awards; Best New Play. Critics' Circle Theatre Awards; South Bank
Title: King Kirby
Author: Skillman, Crystal Van Lente, Fred Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy American - docu-drama - comics thirty-eight characters three male; one female (doubling) twelve scenes
"King Kirby" is a play by the husband-and-wife team of New York Times bestselling comics writer Fred Van Lente and NYIT award-winning playwright Crystal Skillman about the life and times of Jack Kirby, the great comic book artist who created or co-created some of your favorite heroes on the page and screen, Captain America, the Avengers, Thor, Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, Young Romance, the New Gods, Darkseid, The Demon… the list goes on and on. From the Jewish ghetto of New York's Lower East Side to the battlefields of France to the Senate hearings of 1950s, Title: Kissing Christine in - Missing / Kissing / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1997
Description:
roy comedy - relationships three characters one male; two female one act
Larry and Christine meet at a Thai restaurant for dinner. It's a first date, and they know nothing about each other. In the course of conversation, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary couple. Christine is a reconfigured person. A couple of years before she fell through an open trapdoor in a store and landed on her head. As a result of this accident, her face had to be reconstructed. So she looks different. Pretty, but a different pretty. Even more significantly, she received a severe concussion which, among other things, changed her personality. She has
Title: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Author: Robertson, Lanie Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy musical drama - jazz two characters one male; one female one act
running time: 90 minutes; period - 1950s; 2 additional musicians required.
The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness one of Billie Holiday’s last performances, given four months before her death. More than a dozen musical numbers are interlaced with salty, often humorous reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of the lady and her music.
Title: Lady from Dubuque, The
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1977
Description:
roy drama eight characters four male; four female two acts
Three young couples are playing Twenty Questions. The drinks have been flowing, so the mood has gone from good to bad in a very short time. As it happens, the hostess, who has the most abrasive tongue of all, is dying of cancer, and the party ends when her pain becomes so intense her husband must carry her to bed. After the stage is empty, a handsome, mysterious woman, accompanied by an equally handsome man, enter the house and settle in for the night. In the morning they are still there to greet the baffled young husband and his ailing wife when they Title: Lady in Question, The
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy comedy - parody - spoof nine characters five male; four female two acts
running time: 120 minutes.
A free wheeling satire of patriotic 1940’s thrillers such as Notorious and Escape, The Lady in Question tells the suspenseful tale of Gertrude Garnet, the most glamorous concert pianist on the international stage. On tour in 1940 Bavaria, her colossal self-absorption is challenged when a handsome American professor engages her aid in rescuing his mother from a Nazi prison.
Title: Lake No Bottom
Author: Weller, Michael Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - love - marriage three characters two male; one female two acts
This comic drama involves a literary critic and his wife who have retired to an idyllic New England lake. Their weekend visitor, a promising novelist whose work was discovered by the critic, has just published a kiss and tell trashy best seller. Ostensibly, the young author is stopping by on his way to lecture at a nearby college. In fact, he has come to see the wife, his former lover whom he still desires. She is bored in the boondocks and willingly resumes the affair. When her husband finds out, he suggests that they settle the matter like gentlemen do in books with dueling
Title: Lake Street Extension
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1993
Description:
roy drama - family relationships - men all male cast; three characters three male one act (thirteen scenes)
The estranged son of a middle-aged man returns home to find that his father has taken in a young refugee from El Salvador. Not only has the refugee moved in, but he's been given the son's room and is sleeping in his bed. As this explosive situation tests the already strained father son relationship, we discover that the son is a male prostitute and was sexually abused on a regular basis by his average, working-class father. Throw in the secretive young man from El Salvador and the mix becomes deadly in this play rife with recriminations, secrets, seductions, hypocrisy, Title: Lapine-Moi / Rabbit-I in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Claude, Nathalie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - women - LGBTQ+ - identity - solo performance - Canadian all female cast; five characters one female (doubling) one act (five parts)
Running time: 16 minutes; text in both French and English
A dream-like excavation of the fragmentary nature of identity within the overlapping sphere of life art. Claude plays a rabbit, a hunter, herself, and herself as an omnipotent narrator in a metatheatrical interrogation of reality and fantasy where the artist realizes that she is both hunter and hunted, both the object of desire and the source of desire.
Title: Last Call in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Pless, Weldon Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
A young female PhD tries to get her noisy, good ol' boy, beer-drinking neighbors to quiet down.
Title: Last Tuesday in - Two Days / COL Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female one act
The play finds commuters on a train from New York to New Haven absorbed with the sometimes comical, quotidian details of their lives as the horror of the outside world insistently—and shockingly—intrudes. Title: Late Nite Comic
Author: Gari, Brian Knee, Allan Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy musical - comedy many characters one male; one female; six male or female (flexible casting) two acts
music and lyrics by Brian Gari; book by Allan Knee; orchestrations by Larry Hochman.
David Ackerman, a young pianist working at a piano bar in New York City, wants nothing more than to stand on stage and make people laugh. He meets Gabrielle, an attractive and slightly eccentric young woman who yearns to be a professional ballerina. These two hungry dreamer climb the shaky ladder of success from seedy bars to comedy clubs to the stage of the
Title: Latina/o Canadian Theatre and Performance
Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
reference - Latina/o playwrights - theatre - Canadian
Featuring exciting and provocative new essays by leading and emerging scholars in Canada and the US, this foundational collection begins a conversation about Latina/o theatre and performance in Canada. The essays query the contours and characteristics of latinidad in Canada's performance spaces within a complex network of hemispheric relations and transnational migrations. While the discipline has witnessed a 'hemispheric turn' in the study of theatre and performance in the Americas, Canada has had limited inclusion in this body of scholarship. In their examinations of the groundbreaking work of companies and artists such as Alberto Kurapel, Guillermo Verdecchia, Carmen Aguirre, Aluna Theatre, and PUENTE Theatre, these essays invite us to think more inclusively about the hemisphere and the plurality of the Americas that lie beyond US borders.
Title: Laugh
Author: Henley, Beth Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2016
Description:
roy comedy - romance many characters three male; three female; one male or female (doubling) two acts
The West. The 1920s. Mabel’s had a hard few weeks. A dynamite accident at a gold mine has left her wealthy but orphaned; she’s shipped off to a calculating aunt, whose nephew is charged with seducing her to control Mabel’s fortune. This hapless courtship reveals a shared love of silent movies and a plan for greater things. A story of mishaps and moxie, the romance of Hollywood and ultimately a Hollywood-caliber romance. A slapstick comedy from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Crimes of the Heart. Title: Lavender Railroad, The
Author: Aronovitch, Lawrence Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ four characters two male; two female two acts
"Imagine a world in which homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death. “The Lavender Railroad” is a play in two parts that mirror each other (science and faith; male and female) as they address common themes of hope and redemption in the face of impossible moral choices. In Part 1 (“Safe House”), a gay fugitive, Sebastian, has been rescued by a mysterious older man who calls himself Mother Courage. Sebastian is a brilliant young mathematician whose research into “fractal logic” holds the key to bringing down a totalitarian government intent on
Title: Lazarus in - Collected Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Frederick May Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1987
Description:
roy drama - Italian eleven characters eight male; three female three acts
also known as 'Lazzaro'; 2 exteriors.
'Young seminarian has his faith restored to him through his father's resurrection.' - Play Index
Title: League of Youth, The
Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by William Archer Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2015
Description:
roy comedy - farce - politics eighteen characters: extras twelve male; six female five acts
The League of Youth is a play by Henrik Ibsen finished in early May 1869. It was Ibsen's first play in colloquial prose and marks a turning point in his style towards realism and away from verse. It was widely considered Ibsen's most popular play in nineteenth-century Norway. Though rooted in serious events of the time, the play was lauded for its natural and witty dialogue, cynical humour and farcical intrigue. Taking a different tack than Ibsen's earlier political play The Pretenders, The League of Youth features a protagonist Stensgaard, who poses as a political Title: Lear
Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1978
Description:
roy drama large cast flexible casting two acts
Taking as its starting point the story of an autocratic monarch deposed by his two power-hungry daughters, the play presents a parable of the ruthless cruelty imposed on us by the assumptions of modern society. Lear, his daughters and their conquerors too, have all suffered and are shown suffering hideously, caught in the trap. But freed at last from his sufferings, Lear perceives and gives voice to the urgent need both for an awareness of man's trapped state and for pity as a corrective.
Title: Left Hand Singing, The
Author: Lebow, Barbara Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1997
Description:
roy drama - historical - USA seven characters two male; five female two acts
Amidst the idealism and violence of Freedom Summer in 1964 Mississippi, three college students vanish, seemingly without a trace. As the parents of Honey, Linda, and Wes cope with their loss, they become inescapably linked—the heirs of their lost children's dreams. Throughout the next three decades, the connections among these people with very disparate backgrounds are tested against the fire of the country's social and political turbulence. The structure of the play mixes naturalism with a surprising time curve that evokes the whirl of events surrounding the parents'
Title: Leo in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: Laborde, Rosa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - love-triangle - politics - Chile - Latina/o playwrights four characters two male; two female one act
running time: 67 min.
"Set in Santiago, Chile, three young friends form a bittersweet love triangle during the political upheaval surrounding President Salvador Allende's assassination. Told through Léo's memories, the play travels through childhood, first friends and first loves. Passion and poetry weave together Title: Lesson, The in - Bald Soprano, The and The Lesson / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene translated by Tina Howe Publisher: Grove Press 2006
Description:
roy comedy - absurdist three characters; extras one male; two female one act
"Bizarre lesson ends with elderly teacher murdering his young student."
Title: Let Rise in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Hopkins, I. B. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama - family relations - alcoholism all female cast; three characters three female one act
A mother, sister-in-law and daughter discover similarities in their lives.
Title: Libration in - Plays by Mediterranean Women / COL Author: Cunillé, Lluisa translated by Lola Lopez Ruiz Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1994
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - feminism all female cast; two characters two female two acts
The play is a deliberate comment on the way women in Spain are trapped in a male-dominated society. It is open-ended, dramatizing the uncertainty of the intense, sometimes comic meetings in a park at night, between a down-to-earth mother and a suicidal dreamer. Their shifting encounter on a rocking-horse involves a strange exchange of stolen gifts and a barking dog. Whether the play is an understated celebration of woman's ability to adjust and learn from ne another despite the context of a threatening world, or whether it is about loneliness, is up to the Title: License, The in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama - Italian seven characters six male; one female one act
1 interior.
Indigent worker intends to capitalize in false accusation that he possesses evil eye.
Title: Life in Three Acts, A in - Ravenhill Plays:3 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Bourne, Bette Publisher: Bloomsbury 2013
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - biography - Mark Ravenhill two characters one male; one female three acts
With honesty, humour and occasional anger, performer Bette Bourne tells the playwright Mark Ravenhill about his brave and flamboyant life. Crafted from transcripts of a series of long, private conversations, Bette reminisces and replays scenes from his life, from a post-war childhood, a stint as a classical actor in the late 1960s, to living in a drag commune in Notting Hill and being an active member of the Gay Liberation Front. Bette talks about touring with the New York-based Hot Peaches cabaret group and founding his own cabaret troop, the Bloolips, which redefined gay
Title: Life is a Dream in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: de la Barca, Calderón translated by John Clifford Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama - Spanish play - classics seven characters; extras; musicians five male; two female three acts
Calderon spins a metaphysical tale about Segisimund, who is imprisoned by his father, the King, because it is prophesied that Segisimund would become a tyrant. One day the King relents and Segisimund awakens from his nightmare to find himself crown prince. His actions prove the prophesy correct, and he is banished once again, where he convinces himself that everything that has happened to him is but a dream. He subsequently escapes and learns to rule wisely. Title: Life of Galileo, The
Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Howard Brenton Publisher: Methuen 1980
Description:
roy drama - biographical - Galileo fifty-one characters; extras; doubling possible forty-one male; ten female one act (fifteen scenes)
The National Theatre version.
Galileo confirms Copernicus' theories by the use of a telescope but, afraid that a rational approach to science might spread to religion, the Inquisition puts Copernicus' teachings on the index. After eight years of silence, Galileo continues his research on his own theories, but the Inquisition's threat of torture frightens him into abjuring them. The Church allows him to write a
Title: Lilac Ticket, The in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Ehrlich, C.J. Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - seniors - relationships two characters one male; one female one act (one scene)
simple set.
"At the medical group, Sam and Barb confront two secrets that threaten their 50-year marriage: one happening now, in the waiting room, and the other, a long-buried secret."
Title: Lillian
Author: Luce, William Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1986
Description:
roy drama - biography - solo performance - American - women all female cast; one character one female two acts
The setting is an austere waiting room in a New York hospital, where Lillian Hellman awaits the death of her longtime companion, Dashiell Hammett. As she maintains her vigil, Miss Hellman's mind is flooded with memories: her exciting but tempestuous years with Hammett; her girlhood in New Orleans and New York; reminiscences of her beloved parents; and her days of success and failure as an artist and a public figure committed to liberal causes (some of which brought her into sharp conflict with the powers-that-be). With occasional pauses to peer into the adjoining Title: Lily Dale
Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1979
Description:
roy drama - family relations seven characters four male; three female two acts
After the death of his alcoholic father, and his mother's remarriage, young Horace Robedaux remained in Harrison, Texas, clerking in a dry goods store. When his mother invites him to visit her and his teenage sister, Lily, in Houston, Horace eagerly accepts, hoping to resettle and find more promising employment. Once in Houston, Horace is confronted by his gruff, surly stepfather, who dotes on his spoiled sister, Lily, but dislikes Horace intensely—and shortly orders him to leave. Horace's departure, however, is delayed by a sudden bout of illness, which forces
Title: Limbo Tales
Author: Jenkin, Len Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1981
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters; voices three male one act (three parts)
Play in three parts: 1) Highway: Man creates miniature highway as he tells his story about driving on highway to find girlfriend. 2) Intermezzo: Master of ceremonies informs audience of unusual acts theatre tried to hire. 3) Hotel: Man in hotel room tells about his life, while listening to the conversations of the people in the rooms next to his.
Title: Liola in - Naked Masks: Five plays by Luigi Pirandello / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi Translated by Eric Bentley and Gerardo Guerrier Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1952
Description:
roy comedy - Italian fourteen characters two male; nine female; three boys three acts
3 exterior sets.
"Sicily, summer 1916. The women gather to harvest old Simone’s almond crop. He’s the richest landowner in the district but he has no heir. Local lad Liolà, untroubled by convention, has fathered three boys, each with a different mother. When another of the girls falls pregnant, Simone is persuaded he might recognize the baby as his own, much to his young wife, Mita's, despair. But Title: Lionel Touch, The
Author: Hulme, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1980
Description:
roy comedy ten characters two male; two female; one boy; five male or female three acts
Goerge Hulme's stylish comedy about a painter con artist who, with his bohemian family, defy bailiffs and bureaucracy with high humour and superb aplomb.
Title: Little Dickens on the Air, A
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous 2017
Description:
roy comedy - Christmas - Canadian - Alberta playwright nine characters three male; five female; one male or female three acts
Running time: 90 mins; setting - a radio station sound stage in 1940s New York.
A hybrid of regular play and "Radio Play for the Stage," this fun to perform Christmas yarn concerns a cast of voice actors doing the Scrooge story in the 1940s who must carry on despite missing half of their cast, or lose their jobs. Lots of room for comedic, pre-planned "ad-libs" to keep things rolling during narration.
Title: Little Thing, Big Thing
Author: O'Kelly, Donal Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2014
Description:
roy dramatic comedy two characters one male; one female one act
In Nigeria, a frightened child puts an old roll of film into the hands of Dublin-bound teacher Sister Martha. In Dublin, ex-con Larry, with a wounded backside, has to get out of the city to rob a convent. Meanwhile, Scarab Oil plans to unleash its new clean fuel of the future. The film roll Martha is carrying attracts the urgent interest of some very powerful and ambitions people. A play written for two actors and filled with memorable characters, this is the latest production from the innovative and outstanding Irish theatre company Fishamble. Title: Living Quarters
Author: Friel, Brian Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy drama nine characters five male; four female two acts
This drama employs an unusual structure: a narrator named Sir instructs the characters on how to reconvene and reconstruct a day several years previous. Eventually the characters plead with Sir to alter the point of no return which changed all their lives. The story which the characters act out concerns their father, an ordinary army officer who has suddenly become a hero in late middle age as a result of his brave leadership of a U.N. peacekeeping force. When he returns to his hometown in Ireland, he discovers that his young second wife has had an affair with a dissolute
Title: Lizardboy in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: Gómez, Víctor Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy drama - Latina/o playwrights - Canadian large cast flexible casting one act (three scenes)
Depicts the struggles of a family coping with the fears and uncertainties of their living conditions through the eyes of Hector Fernando, a lively nine-year-old rascal known as Lizardboy for his unique ability to climb walls (as well as his inability to hold his tongue). It is an exploration of the cultural dimensions of violence encountered in everyday life in Columbia of the 1980s and a look at the erosion of social values brought about by changes in the economic, political, and social fabric of the country.
Title: Loman Family Picnic, The
Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1990
Description:
roy black comedy - Jewism five characters three male; two female two acts
music.
The setting is a new "luxury" high-rise apartment with Spanish décor in Coney Island, the home of a middle-class Jewish family struggling to put up a good front even though continually short of cash. The father, Herbie, who sells lighting fixtures, is chronically overworked and underpaid; his wife, Doris, tells herself (and whomever may be listening) that she loves her life—even though, as Title: London Cuckolds, The in - Terry Johnson - Plays:3 / COL Author: Johnson, Terry Publisher: Methune Drama 2004
Description:
roy comedy - farce - sex large cast flexible casting five acts
A young rake sexually plunders and pillages his way through London leaving a dozen angry cuckolds in his wake.
Title: Long Time Coming in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Rusiecki, David Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy comedy - relationships all male cast; two characters two male one act (three scenes)
simple set.
Two friends, both stand-up comics, discuss one of the friend's new girlfriend.
Title: Long Trip, A in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: McGeehan, Dan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama - aging - romance - family relations four characters two male; two female one act
An elderly man desperately attempts to connect with his wife one last time before he loses her completely to dementia. He tells her the story of when they fell in love and does it so vividly she can almost see it. Title: Losing My Marbles How an actor learnt the hard way Author: Faulkner, Trader Goodwin, John Publisher: Oberon Books 2003
Description:
roy comedy - solo performance - monologues - men - actors all male cast; one character one male one act (ten parts)
'Losing My Marbles' is a series of hilarious true stories from Trade Faulkner's varied life describing his extraordinary encounters with the great and famous, including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Vivian Leigh, his involvements with the tearaway, womanising Peter Finch, his poignant meeting with Picasso and his unforgettable appearance on stage with the great flamenco dancer Antonio.
Title: Losing Sight in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Ferguson, Kevin D. Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - disabilities - relationships three characters two male; one female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"Sometimes we lose sight of what matters the most. An artist races the clock to finish a painting before going blind. Haunted by the ghost of his grandfather, he must confront the lost relationships of his past before he can face his future."
Title: Love Alone
Author: Smith, Deborah Salem Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama - death six characters two male; four female two acts
When Helen’s lesbian partner of twenty years dies unexpectedly in minor surgery, Helen and her daughter want answers. Confused by the hospital’s silence around the death, they bring a lawsuit against the doctors. Now Dr. Becca Neal must confront her feelings about losing her patient while she juggles the demands of a lawsuit. LOVE ALONE tracks the fallout in both the patient’s and the doctor’s homes, as both households navigate uncharted waters of anger, humor, and longing. This powerful story of how we grieve and how we heal speaks to an essential truth: We will all be Title: Love Minus
Author: Gallagher, Mary Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
Karla, a would-be novelist, and Nick, a soap opera actor, meet by chance in a park overlooking the Hudson River. Their encounter leads on, in short order, to a rendezvous at Karla's apartment, and the exciting possibility that true love might have come along at last for both of them. But Nick, cautious that real friendship and mutual respect might be dashed on the shoals of physical passion, begins to retreat—leaving Karla confused and hurt. She gets little comfort from her brittle, man-hungry friend, Lydia, who sees sex as an end in itself, and prefers the clandestine
Title: Love, Love, Love
Author: Bartlett, Mike Publisher: Methuen Drama 2010
Description:
roy drama - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts
Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, one couple journeys forty years from initial burst to full bloom. This play questions whether the baby-boomer generation is to blame for the debt-ridden and adrift generation of their children - now adults, but far from stable and settled.
Title: Love's Comedy A play in three acts Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by C. H. Herford Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2016
Description:
roy drama - Norwegian - society - marriage - politics - 19th century ten characters five male; five female three acts
Two students - Falk and Lind - are staying at the country house of Mrs. Halm, romancing her two daughters Anna and Svanhild. Lind has ambitions to be a missionary, Falk a great poet. Falk criticises bourgeois society in his verse and insists that we live in the passionate moment. Lind's proposal of marriage to Anna is accepted but Svanhild rejects the chance to become Falk's muse, as poetry is merely writing, and he can do that on his own and without really risking himself for his beliefs. Title: Lovers Winners and losers Author: Friel, Brian Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1968
Description:
roy comedy eight characters three male; five female two parts
bare stage w/platform.
Two commentators on either side of the stage speak without emotion about a seventeen year old girl and a boy a half year older who are on their way to study before examinations and, perhaps, talk about marriage. Dispassionately, as the power and beauty of this love scene develop, the commentators tell us that the young lovers will soon be in a fatal accident.
Title: Loyal Women
Author: Mitchell, Gary Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2003
Description:
roy drama - women - Ireland ten characters two male; seven female; one girl (infant) one act (nine scenes)
Brenda is under siege in her Belfast home. Daughter Jenny's baby is crying upstairs, her mother-in-law is sleeping in the front room and her husband is back after years away. And now the women of the Ulster Defence Association want to hold meetings there as well.
Title: Luann Scenes in a teen's life Author: Evans, Greg Publisher: Samuel French 2012
Description:
roy musical - young adult - comedy seventeen characters; extras three male; five female (doubling) two acts
simple set.
"Luann and her school mates are stoked - it's the last day of school! Summer vacation's here! But will the high expectations soar or crash? Luann's big dream is to hook up with Aaron Hill. But she'll have to compete with hot cheerleader, Tiffany. Luann's doofus brother Brad desperately wants to impress beautiful Toni. But he keeps acting like a moron. A series of hilarious scenes Title: Lucky Chance, The; or, An Alderman's Bargain in - Rover and Other Plays, The / COL Author: Behn, Aphra Publisher: Oxford University Press 1995
Description:
nonroy comedy - Restoration nineteen characters; extras twelve male; seven female five acts
9 interior sets; 2 exterior sets.
Restoration comedy revolving around clandestine affairs, infidelities, love and marriage.
Title: Lucky Guy
Author: Ephron, Nora Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2014
Description:
roy drama - biography - American fourteen characters twelve male; two female two acts
LUCKY GUY marks a return to Nora Ephron's journalistic roots. The charismatic and controversial tabloid columnist Mike McAlary covered the scandal- and graffiti-ridden New York of the 1980s. From his sensational reporting of New York's major police corruption to the libel suit that nearly ended his career, the play dramatizes the story of McAlary's meteoric rise, fall and rise again, ending with his coverage of the Abner Louima case for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, shortly before his untimely death on Christmas Day, 1998.
Title: Lydie Breeze
Author: Guare, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1982
Description:
roy drama eleven characters seven male; four female four acts
companion piece to 'Gardenia'.
Many of the characters return to site of former Nantucket commune to sort out truth behind event which ruined all their lives. Action centers around Lydie Breeze, named for her mother who committed suicide over death of lover. Title: Lysistrata
Author: Aristophanes Publisher: Dover Publications 1994
Description:
roy comedy - classic ten characters; extras; chorus five male; five female one act - verse play (full length)
"A woman's powerful weapon strike for peace using the most in the feminine arsenal forms the core of this most popular of Aristophanes' plays. Under the leadership of the determined Athenian, Lysistrata, the women of the warring city-states of Greece unite in refusing their husbands all sexual favors until all arms are laid aside. The resulting men's dismay and counterattack, the women's valiant defense of their temporary citadel of virtue, and the final victory of the female cause represent a sexual comedy without peer in the history of theatre - as
Title: M. Butterfly in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ sixteen characters seven male; three female three acts
3 of the men are non-speaking roles.
Based on a true story. Bored with his routine posting in Beijing, and awkward with women, Rene Gallimard, a French diplomat, is easy prey for the subtle, delicate charms of Song Lyling, a Chinese opera star who personifies Gallimard's fantasy vision of submissive, exotic oriental sexuality. He begins an affair with "her" which lasts for twenty years, during which time he passes
Title: Macbeth
Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Modern Library 2009
Description:
roy tragedy large cast flexible casting four acts
representative set.
The ambitions to the throne of a Scottish Lord and his wife cause the Lord to murder the King of Scotland and wreak death and havoc throughout the land as he tries to protect his false position as the new King. Title: Machinal in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Treadwell, Sophie Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama - relationships - murder - biographical large cast flexible casting nine episodes
The play's title means "automatic" or "mechanical" in French. Sophie Treadwell wrote the play based loosely on the murder trial of Ruth Snyder and her lover, Judd Gray, who together murdered Snyder's husband. Convicted of murdering her husband, Snyder later received the electric chair. Out of this event came the powerful, demanding drama, Machinal.
Title: Mackerel
Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Talonbooks 1979
Description:
roy satirical comedy five characters; cat; voices two male; three female two acts
singing.
250,000 pound mackerel crashes into home of squabbling family on Massachusetts coast. Father's profit schemes lead to a worldwide disaster when he markets rotting fish.
Title: Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre, The
Author: Kilroy, Thomas Publisher: Methuen Drama 1991
Description:
roy comedy - theatre twelve characters; extras eight male; four female (doubling possible) two acts
This is a hugely entertaining, funny play about an English theatre company which gets stuck without petrol in a small southern Irish town in the middle of the Second World War. The play tells several stories, of young love, of the painting of a greyhound to win a race, a young child lost and found. But most of all it tells of the wonderful Madame MacAdam and her troupe and of the comic and tragic effects that they have upon an isolated community. Title: Maderati, The
Author: Greenberg, Richard Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1987
Description:
roy comedy nine characters five male; four female two acts
Focusing on the self-centered concerns of a rather inbred group of Manhattan "yuppies," the action of the play deals with the ultimately hilarious misunderstandings which arise when one of their number, a frustrated, somewhat overweight and definitely suicidal poet named Charlotte, is temporarily detained in a mental hospital. The news of Charlotte's plight is misunderstood by the couple to whom it is reported (Dewy, an ambitious would-be photographer, and Ritt, her stockbroker husband, who is given to sudden "epiphanies") and assuming that Charlotte has died
Title: Madhouse in Goa, A
Author: Sherman, Martin Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1989
Description:
roy comedy ten characters four male; two female (doubling) two acts
"Webs of personal, political, sexual, social and artistic deception unfold in the indigo nights and bright days of the Greek islands in this two part play. In A Table for a King, which can also be produced as a one act, a writer helps blackmail an unpleasant and uncompromising woman who refuses to relinquish her table on the terrace of a Corfu hotel for the King of Greece. Part Two, Keeps Rainin' All the Time, moves to Santorini where a disparate group of expatriates, including a famous author, face nuclear rain, terrorism and the impending eruption of the volcano. The same
Title: Madre in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: Pizano, Beatriz Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy drama - Alzheimer's - women - Canadian - Latina/o playwrights ten characters; voices three male; seven female three acts
Madre is a complex story that, among other themes, touches on issues of motherhood, memory, and forgetting in a country at war. Julia, an old woman living alone in Medellín, Columbia, remembers every day of her life the moment when her husband went out to the bank and never came back. Each time she snaps back into reality, she is unable to distinguish dreams from memories. Title: Magic Hour, The in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Dobkin, Jess Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - solo performance - Canadian - LGBTQ+ - women all female cast; one character one female one act (four parts)
The playwright engages the tipping point between life and art by asking what constitutes performance to begin with. Invoking the question of when and where things begin and end makes Dobkin's practice a balancing act between the real and the performed as she recollects and re-collates the time of her own lived experience.
Title: Maid's Tragedy, The
Author: Beaumont, Francis Fletcher, John Publisher: Manchester University Press 1988
Description:
roy drama - tragedy large cast flexible casting five acts
Text includes lengthy introduction and commentary.
Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy (first published 1619) is a sensational Jacobean sex tragedy. When gentleman soldier Melantius returns to Rhodes, he finds his dear friend Amintor is recently married - but not to his troth-plight love Aspatia (the maid of the title). Instead, the King has arranged a match between Amintor and Melantius' sister, the beautiful Evadne. On his
Title: Making of St. Jerome, The
Author: Badian, Marie Beath Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Asian Canadian Theatre - family relations - truth - murder all male cast; two characters; chorus two male one act (seventeen scenes)
When Jason De Jesus discovers his younger brother Jerome was the victim of a senseless shooting, his world is filled with questions surrounding Jerome’s death. Was his brother a threat or a casualty of racial profiling? Was he an innocent bystander or someone other than his family’s shining star? Internalizing his survivor’s guilt while reflecting on their strained relationship, Jason’s quest for truth and justice is tainted as he discovers there are no simple answers. Title: Malcolm
Author: Albee, Edward Purdy, James Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1966
Description:
roy drama twenty-three characters sixteen male; seven female (doubling possible) two acts
Adapted by Edward Albee from the novel by James Purdy.
In the words of Stanley Kauffmann, the play, "…which is a fantasy of the corruption of innocence, concerns a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old boy, well-dressed and well-spoken, who—when we meet him—has been sitting daily on a bench in front of a hotel in a nameless American city. He is observed by an elderly astrologer named Cox, who speaks to Malcolm one day and learns that the
Title: Man of Letters, A The selected dramaturgical correspondence of Urjo Kareda Author: Kareda, Urjo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
Reference - correspondence - Urjo Kareda - dramaturges - producers and directors - directing - producing
The late Urjo Kareda was renowned for his commitment to respond personally to the hundreds of mostly unsolicited scripts received by Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, where he served as artistic director for almost two decades, from 1982 to 2001. His letters—the bulk of which were, by necessity, rejections—became infamous for their detailed dramaturgical content and characteristic critical candour; they became the stuff of legend among Canadian theatre practitioners and scholars. Comprised of a carefully selected range of Kareda’s dramaturgical correspondence, 'A Man of Letters' makes public for the first time over three hundred responses, including rejection letters and ongoing communication with playwrights whose work Kareda developed for production at Tarragon. Recipients range from unknown playwrights to many of Canada’s most
Title: Man who Shot Liberty Valance, The
Author: Compton, Jethro Johnson, Dorothy M. Publisher: Miscellaneous 2015
Description:
roy drama - western seven characters; narrator; extras six male; one female two acts
Based on the short story by Dorothy M. Johnson.
Journey into the Wild West, 1890 in this classic story of good versus evil, law versus the gun, one man versus Liberty Valance. A tale of love, hope and revenge set against the vicious backdrop of a lawless society. When a young scholar from New York city travels west in search of a new life he arrives beaten and half-dead on the dusty streets of Twotrees. Rescued from the plains, the town Title: Man with Connections, A
Author: Gelman, Alexander translated by Stephen Mulrine Publisher: Miscellaneous 1989
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female two acts
Andrei is a construction-site supervisor; his wife Natasha is a socially ambitious librarian. Their son has recently lost both his hands in an industrial accident while working for Andrei's concern. As recriminations fly between husband and wife, a powerful - yet bitterly humorous - portrait emerges of a marriage and a society straining after questionable values.
Title: Man with the Flower in his Mouth, The in - Collected Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Gigi Gatti and Terry Doyle Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1987
Description:
roy fantasy - Italian three characters two male; one female one act
also known as 'L'uomo dal fiore in bocca'.
'Man soon to die tries to view life as silly and vain but fails.' - Play Index
Title: Man with the Flower in his Mouth, The in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Miscellaneous 1970
Description:
roy fantasy - Italian three characters two male; one female one act
1 exterior.
Man soon to die tries to view life as silly and vain but fails. Title: March Madness - Shhhhhh! in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Tasca, Jules Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; three characters three male one act
What the assistant basketball coach found the head coach doing would destroy their careers....
Title: Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet
Author: McCraney, Tarell Alvin Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2013
Description:
roy drama - coming of age - LGBTQ+ - self identity ten characters five male; four female (doubling) two acts
Marcus is sixteen and "sweet." Days before Hurricane Katrina strikes the projects of Louisiana, the currents of his life converge, overflowing into his close-knit community and launching the search for his sexual and personal identity on a cultural landscape infused with mysterious family creeds. The provocative, poignant, and fiercely humorous coming-of-age story of a young gay man in the South, MARCUS is the stirring conclusion of The Brother/Sister Plays.
Title: Marisol in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Rivera, José Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama fourteen characters; extras nine male; five female two acts
Marisol Perez, a young Latino woman, is a copy editor for a Manhattan publisher. Although she has elevated herself into the white-collar class, she continues to live alone in the dangerous Bronx neighborhood of her childhood. As the play begins, Marisol narrowly escapes a vicious attack by a golf club-wielding madman while traveling home on the subway. Later that evening Marisol is visited by her guardian angel who informs her that she can no longer serve as Marisol's protector because she has been called to join the revolution already in progress against Title: Marriage An absolutely incredible event in two acts Author: Gogol, Nikolai Field, Barbara Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1987
Description:
roy comedy ten characters six male; four female two acts
Adapted by Barbara Field. English version from the original by Nikolai Gogol.
Deciding that it is time he was married, Podkoliosin, a long-time bachelor (and minor court councillor), engages a matchmaker, Fiolka, to find him a wife of suitable social status—not to mention fortune. Fiolka comes up with Agafya, the spinster daughter of a wealthy merchant, who is seeking a husband of demonstrably higher social position. Podkoliosin deigns to visit the
Title: Mary of Scotland
Author: Anderson, Maxwell Publisher: Samuel French 1960
Description:
roy drama - historical - England - biography twenty-seven characters twenty-two male; five female three acts
The author has chosen the six years that began when nineteen year old Mary set foot on her unruly land as queen and ended when the last ray of hope faded with the sunset she watched from the window of her prison. It presents her as more than a puppet moving through a pedant's world. Mary is portrayed as a star crossed girl seeking only to live and love and rule and worship as she pleases, bewildered by the intrigue which closed slowly in on her. Elizabeth is pictured as an older, crafty and ambitious queen seeking to remove from her path a gracious, romantic and
Title: Masked
Author: Hatsor, Ilan Taub, Michael Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy drama - war - family relations all male cast; three characters three male one act (three scenes)
running time: 90 minutes.
An explosive Israeli play about three Palestinian brothers. Set during the Intifada with the Israeli-Arab struggle as its backdrop, Masked depicts the tragedy of one family torn between duty, kinship, principles and survival. Title: Master Class in - The Composer Plays / COL Author: Pownall, David Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd. 1993
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male two acts
1 interior set; period - Moscow, 1948.
The setting is an anteroom in the Kremlin during the 1948 Soviet Musicians' Union Conference in Moscow. Stalin is formulating his policy for the arts in the Soviet Union and has summoned Shostakovich and Prokofiev, the leading Russian composers of the day, in order that he can discuss, with the aid of his cultural minister, Zhdanov, their place as artists in Soviet society.
Title: Match, A in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Bolen, John Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations two characters one male; one female one act
Married couple rediscovers love after argumentative date night.
Title: Materials and Craft of the Scenic Model
Author: Payne, Darwin Reid Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press 1976
Description:
Reference - model making - scenery
Discusses and demonstrates in detail the craft and materials involved in preparing one of the designer's most important presentations - the scenic model. Contains: basic preparation; craft of scenic-model making; experimental techniques in scenic models; and photographing scenic models. Title: Math for Actors
Author: Snyder, Emily C.A. Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010
Description:
roy comedy - teaching - relationships two characters one male; one female one act (one scene)
simple set.
"Math meets mayhem when studious Kate agrees to tutor Keith, an arrogant actor who's more interested in Kate than in calculus. He shows up late, he's still in costume, and he doesn't know or care what the angle of inclination is. Answering such burning questions as how many actors it takes to screw in a light bulb, Math for Actors explores the relationship between art and algebra,
Title: Matka King, The in - Bombay Plays, The / CCO Author: Irani, Anosh Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - gambling - prostitution - India five characters two male; two female; one girl two acts
"A story that pits human nature against love and chance. A landscape of betrayal and redemption comes to life in the red-light district of Bombay, India. One very powerful eunuch, Top Rani, operates an illicit lottery through his brothel, and when a gambler who is deeply in debt makes an unexpected wager, the stakes become life and death. Can a fortune teller and a ten-year-old girl beat Top Rani at his own game?"
Title: Matter of Wife and Death, A in - A Slap in the Farce and A Matter of Wife and Death / COL Author: Labiche, Eugène translated by Norman R. Shapiro Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1988
Description:
roy farce four characters two male; two female one act
Eccentric millionaire's proposals of marriage are perpetually frustrated. Title: Mean Tears in - Peter Gill: Plays 1 / COL Author: Gill, Peter Publisher: Faber and Faber 2002
Description:
roy tragedy - comedy - relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
When privileged and affected Julian is cast off into the world by his parents, he is left to negotiate the various power struggles within his love affairs and friendships. The result is a tale of romantic excess, set within the pervading callousness and despair of the late 1980s.
Title: Medieval Structure The Gothic Vault Author: Acland, James H. Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1972
Description:
Reference - historical - Europe - architecture
'Medieval Structure' traces the development of the Gothic style. The author's approach is unique: he focuses not on Gothic decoration but on the logic and development of Gothic architectural structure. Discarding the aesthetics of much art history, he analyses the problems faced by the builders and explains the interplay of tensions, force, and stress. He concentrates on the roof ('the essential element. No roof ... no building'), on which the best energies of architects and craftsmen have been lavished, and which has always been a major structural problem.
The book begins with a description of the most primitive building form, the simple hut, which in northern lands where wood was plentiful was made of framed timber, and around the Mediterranean was made of various forms of baked earth. The theme is original: the
Title: Melody
Author: Kinahan, Deirdre Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female one act (eight scenes)
"Two lonely souls, a bachelor and a widow, discover that they share many common interests including classical music, ham and cheese sandwiches and massage parlours." Title: Men from the Boys, The in - The Band Plays / COL Author: Crowley, Mart Publisher: Alyson Publications 2003
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ all male cast; nine characters nine male two acts
1 interior; singing.
Homosexual friends introduced in "The Boys in the Band" assemble again to celebrate life of one of the original 'boys' who had died.
Title: Mephisto in - Plays by Mediterranean Women / COL Author: Mann, Klaus Mnouchkine, Ariane Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - historical - political large cast flexible casting two acts
adapted by Ariane Mnouchkine from Klaus Mann's novel; translated from the French by Timberlake Wertenbaker.
It deals with a particular period in modern European history, which had a devastating effect on the whole Mediterranean region, causing national boundaries to be re-drawn. It follows the life of a German actor who collaborates with the Nazi regime to secure fame and fortune and sets this
Title: Mermaid
Author: Teale, Polly Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2015
Description:
roy drama - fairy tales large cast flexible casting two acts
"A bold reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's tale of love, loss and desire, transported to a contemporary setting. Beneath the ocean's waves there is no death or pain or separation. Above, the modern world is beset with war, poverty and desire. On her sixteenth birthday, a mermaid rises up to the surface, leaving her childhood behind for ever when she falls in love with a mortal prince. She knows that she can no longer live at the bottom of the ocean - but must she destroy herself in order to be loved?" Title: Message, The
Author: Davis, Drew Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2011
Description:
roy comedy - romance - relationships twelve characters five male; seven female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"An accidental mix-up at a Parisian ring shop causes a divide between not one, not two, but three bewildered couples in this witty adaptation of Thornton Wilder's playlet The Message and Jehanne. Jealous fiances and clever plot twists abound in a delightful ode to the old-fashioned romantic comedy. Will love triumph? Qui sait?"
Title: Messenger
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 2017
Description:
roy drama - politics - climate change four characters three male; one female two acts
simple set.
"It is a memory play, set both in the present day and in 1990, when the Progressive Conservative government of the day, contrary to the public record, in fact set lofty goals of joining – if not leading – the world in tackling climate change. The mechanism by which that goal was lost is played out primarily between two brothers. One brother, Peter, is the Prime Minister’s chief of
Title: Millionairess, The in - Plays Extravagant / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1981
Description:
roy comedy nine characters six male; three female four acts
3 interior sets.
A woman finds her millions to be a curse on her relationships with other people until she meets her match in a doctor whose faith in Allah, charity, and independence wins her admiration. Title: Mina in - Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas / COL Author: Park, Kyoung H. Publisher: Duke University Press 2017
Description:
roy Korea - solo performance - women all female cast; one character one female one act
Mina struggles with a life that has spiraled out of control. Mina is utterly lost between four cultures: Peruvian, Korean, Japanese and American. She speaks three different languages in the short piece, which reads like a long confessional purging. She is a victim of colonialism and globalization, a survivor who imagines finding herself at the end. She may have no roots she can claim, but she can dream of happiness and hope for the future.
Title: Miser of Middlegate, The
Author: Gray, Carolyn Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2014
Description:
roy comedy - farce five characters three male; two female two acts
"Set in modern day Winnipeg, Gray's inspired version of Moliere's classic satire is part sex farce and part screwball comedy. Exploring family, love and money, THE MISER OF MIDDLEGATE sharply critiques our culture obsessed with acquisition and never loses its sense of humour. A cheeky and irreverent romp into the lives of one entrepreneurial Winnipeg family."
Title: Miserly Knight, The in - Boris Godunov: The little tragedies / COL Author: Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich Publisher: Oberon Books 2002
Description:
roy drama - Russia - tragedy - family relations all male cast; six characters six male one act (three scenes)
Verse drama portraying clash between miserly father and impecunious son. Title: Miss Bruce's War
Author: Palmer, Jean Duce Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2016
Description:
roy drama - teaching - German - historical eighteen characters six male; six female; one boy; five girls one act (eighteen scenes)
"An 18 year-old trainee teacher, Miss Bruce, sweeps into a German community in wartime Alberta to supervise a one-room schoolhouse in the dead of winter. Beyond her ability to ride a horse and "play by ear", she brings few skills and little training, but she is determined to instill patriotism, forbid the use of German, and do a good job. Her young, defiant charges are won over by her songs and "dancing at noon" while a handsome fiddle player and a string of courting farm boys bedazzle Miss Bruce."
Title: Missing Marisa in - Missing / Kissing / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1997
Description:
roy comedy - relationships all male cast; two characters two male one act
Terry and Eli are friends with a woman in common: Marisa. Marisa was Eli's wife. Then she ran off with Terry. Now she has abandoned Terry as well. Terry comes to Eli's apartment looking for Marisa. Did she return to Eli? Eli is not forthcoming. The two men circle each other, combative and vulnerable. Eli wants friendship. Terry just wants Marisa back. Neither man can get what he wants. The phone rings. Is it Marisa? Eli won't pick it up. Terry grabs the receiver and says hello. But the caller hangs up. Eli is baking a chicken. Terry wants to know who's coming to dinner. Eli will not
Title: Mizlansky / Zilinsky or "Schmucks"
Author: Baitz, Jon Robin Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1999
Description:
roy dramatic comedy seven characters; voices seven male; one female two acts
Set in the ever-so-sleek and slick Hollywood of the '80s, this dizzily funny, yet jarringly sober play revolves around the manic film producer Davis Mizlansky who is on the brink of being done in by the IRS. Desperate to save himself, and morals be damned (if he ever had any to begin with), he comes up with a scheme he's sure will save the day—and might just make him some money to boot. In order to make his idea work, he must convince his former partner, Sam Zilinsky, to come on board with the businessman who can make the deal to produce celebrity-narrated Bible stories Title: Molly has her say in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Bruchac, Margaret Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy drama - native peoples - native playwright - spirituality - history all female cast; two characters; one voice two female one act (three scenes)
The pieces of paper that make up this play are an attempt to record only the smallest fraction of the vital and complicated lives of Abenaki people in contact and conflict with Euro-Americans over the last 300 years. A woman attempts a research project, with her spirit guide trying to communicate to her as she does so. The writer responds to her 'spirit - guide' without hearing her. The spirit is a character from the past, brought into the present to convince Molly Marie to acknowledge how her personal history has been shaped by the past.
Title: Money Matters
Author: Parker, Michael Parker, Susan Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy comedy - farce six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set; running time: 2 hrs.
"The late Mr. Hammond spent twenty years printing $20 bills on a printing press he built in the basement of Monet Manor. After his death ten years ago, his faithful retainer George and his daughter Annie, continued the family business for Mr. Hammond’s widow who recently passed away. Contrary to her promise to leave the manor and all her assets to George and Annie, she has
Title: Monk, The in - Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, The / CCO Author: Flynn, Aiden Publisher: Breakwater Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - religion - historical two characters two male one act (seven scenes)
1 interior set.
"Tells the story of an ancient Norse town in the throes of an ideological upheaval. The arrival of a Christian monk and all his crazy, new-fangled beliefs upsets the placid old-world settlers, who are perfectly content with their old gods." Title: Monstrum, The in - National Theatre Connections / YCL Author: Smith, Kellie Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - British - gothic melodrama - adolescence eleven characters; chorus seven male; four female one act
suitable for any age.
In a cold village on the edge of nowhere, a disease has broken out, infecting the young and transforming them into monstrous creatures. The villagers fearfully watch their children for symptoms of the disease, whilst the Mayor has adopted tough measures for dealing with those who are infected. When Bolek, the local scholar, makes a breakthrough in finding a cure, few are
Title: Moon of the Caribbees, The in - Seven Plays of the Sea / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Vintage Books 1972
Description:
roy drama twenty characters seventeen male; three female one act
2 interior sets.
An occupied town resists its captors in spite of the fact that each act of resistance results in more death.
Title: Moors, The in - American Theatre July/August 2017 / PER Author: Silverman, Jen Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy - satire six characters four female; two male or female one act (fifteen scenes)
Two sisters in the gothic moors vie for power when a governess arrives. Title: Morocco in - New Plays USA 3 / COL Author: Havis, Allan Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1986
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters three male; one female three acts
2 interiors.
A stay in Morocco exposes cracks in the marriage of a Jewish American architect and his promiscuous part-European, part-Middle Eastern wife.
Title: Mother Teresa is Dead
Author: Edmundson, Helen Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2002
Description:
roy drama - British - family relationships four characters two male; two female three acts
Helen Edmundson's play Mother Teresa is Dead explores the thorny issue of Western guilt towards the Third World. Mark arrives in a village near Madras to try and find his wife, Jane. He doesn't understand what could have driven her to abandon their young son. India is hot, dusty and poor, and a long way from their comfortable life in London. But Jane can't explain why she needed to escape or how she ended up looking after children in India – or what is in the white plastic bag she’s been holding on to since she got there.
Title: Mother, The in - The Mother and The Father / COL Author: Zeller, Florian translated by Christopher Hampton Publisher: Faber and Faber 2015
Description:
roy drama - parenting four characters two male; two female four acts
Anne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each morning for her two young children. Years later, spending hours alone, Anne convinces herself that her husband is having an affair. If only her son were to break-up with his girlfriend. He would return home and come down for breakfast. She would put on her new red dress and they would go out.
Winner! 2011 Moliere Award for Best Play. Title: Mother's Day in - Home; The Changing Room; and Mother's Day / COL Author: Storey, David Publisher: Penguin Books 1978
Description:
roy satire - British - family relations eleven characters six male; five female three acts
1 interior.
'Satiric view of English family life in government housing project.' - Play Index
Title: Motherhouse
Author: Lodato, Victor Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy drama - African-American - poverty - family relations four characters two male; two female two acts
"The play follows an African-American family in a low-income neighborhood whose lives are ultimately ruined by their surroundings. Clive arrives unexpectedly at the house of his mother and his sister. He says that he is fleeing from the police - but perhaps it's another one of his delusions. Unbeknownst to him, he has shown up on a tragic anniversary. Three years prior, his sister's child was killed in a brutal shooting. As fate seems bent on shattering the walls, mother Mae valiantly attempts to keep house."
Title: Mothers and Sons
Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2014
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships - LGBTQ+ four characters two male; one female; one boy one act
At turns funny and powerful, MOTHERS AND SONS portrays a woman who pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son's partner, who is now married to another man and has a young son. Challenged to face how society has changed around her, generations collide as she revisits the past and begins to see the life her son might have led. Title: Mouth to Mouth in - Kevin Elyot: Four plays Author: Elyot, Kevin Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004
Description:
roy drama seven characters five male; two female one act
Kevin Elyot's Mouth to Mouth is an intricately plotted drama about a man haunted by feelings of guilt and shame over an incident in his past. Playwright Frank is suffering from AIDS. Having just been through a rather nasty eye operation, the play opens with him talking to his close friend, Laura. The serenity of the scene is interrupted by the ominous sound of a motorbike revving in the distance, before flashing back to Frank’s lunch the day before with his preoccupied doctor, Gompertz. He tries to confess to an incident from his past that is haunting him but can’t quite
Title: Mozart and Salieri in - Boris Godunov: The little tragedies / COL Author: Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich Publisher: Oberon Books 2002
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - musicians - monologues all male cast: three characters three male one act (two scenes)
Verse drama depicts how Mozart's unpredictable genius affected Antonio Salieri.
Title: Muscles in Our Toes, The
Author: Belber, Stephen Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy dark comedy six characters five male; one female one act
In this dark comedy, four friends meet at their high school reunion and ponder a plan to free their old friend who’s been kidnapped by a radical political group. Absurdity, intensity, and plain ole weirdness ensue when this inebriated, stoned, adolescently arrested, religiously confused group of friends attempts to tackle the task at hand and, at the same time, debate the forces of international terrorism. Title: Music to Murder By in - The Composer Plays / COL Author: Pownall, David Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd. 1993
Description:
roy drama - music - philosophy five characters three male; two female two acts
The 20th century composer, Peter Warlock, summons up the 16th century madrigal composer and wife killer, Carlo Gesualdo, to persuade a critic that all must be sacrificed for music.
Title: Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, The
Author: Bishop, John Publisher: Warner Chappell 1989
Description:
roy comedy - murder mystery ten characters five male; five female two acts
suggested for high school. The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious "Stage Door Slasher") assemble for a backer's audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy "angel." The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways and a German maid who is apparently four different people—all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem which follows when the infamous "Slasher" makes his
Title: Musical Differences in - National Theatre Connections / YCL Author: French, Robin Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - British - music - love - high school multiple characters variable size ensemble one act
ages 14+.
In the summer of Year Ten, Alex Stokes takes the fateful step of buying an electric guitar and forming his own rock group. He teams up with a mysterious young singer by the name of Joel Lawrence. What follows could well be the most incredible saga in the school’s musical history. The band survives different line-ups, impossible love affairs and brutal school politics. By Year Title: My Fat Friend
Author: Laurence, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 1974
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female two acts
Vicky, who runs a book shop in Hampstead, is a heavyweight. Inevitably she suffers, good humoredly enough, the slings and arrows of the two characters who share the flat over the shop, a somewhat glum Scottish youth who works in an au pair capacity, and her lodger, a not so young homosexual. When a customer, a handsome bronzed man of thirty, seems attracted to her she resolves she will slim by hook or by crook. Aided by her two friends, hard exercise, diet and a graph, she manages to reduce to a stream line version of her former self only to find that it was
Title: My Friend Hitler in - My Friend Hitler and other plays of Yukio Mishima / COL Author: Yukio, Mishima Publisher: Columbia University Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - war - Japan all male cast; four characters four male three acts
The play takes place over the summer of 1934 at the Berlin chancellery. The play begins with Hitler giving a speech to the people of Germany, during which his two friends Krupp and Röhm come in to watch the speech. They talk to each other and discuss the "iron bouquet" Krupp metaphorically used to set into motion great advancements in human history, including shaping Hitler into a better leader. Later in the play, Strasser enters the scene. He has a bad relationship with Röhm. Krupp describes their relationship as that of a "cat and dog". Strasser then argues that
Title: My Good Name in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents / COL Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Back Stage Books 2004
Description:
roy satire - comedy seven characters three male; four female two acts
A satirical comedy of greed, honor and power. Title: My Mother Dog in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Bombardier, Louise translated by Leanne Brodie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - death - family relations - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian nine characters three male; six female one act (forty-two scenes)
Original title: Ma mére chien.
Dramatizes the final thirty-six hours in the life of a seventy-year-old woman who is dying of cancer. Her oldest daughter, an aspiring novelist, is with her throughout this time. Despite her pain and difficulty in breathing, the mother is determined to hang on until the arrival from Mexico of her other daughter, an aspiring actor.
Title: My Night with Reg in - Kevin Elyot: Four plays Author: Elyot, Kevin Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - AIDS - relationships all male cast; six characters six male one act (three scenes)
Sharply witty and humanely wise drama about gay manners and morals in the age of AIDS. 'My Night with Reg' follows the ups and downs of a circle of gay friends in London over a period of several years, and tackles with brutal honesty the impact that AIDS/HIV had on the gay community during its height in the 1980s, as well as examining the pain of unrequited love and the joy of friendship.
Title: My Night With Reg
Author: Elyot, Kevin Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2014
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ - AIDS all male cast; six characters six male one act (three scenes)
1 interior set.
"At Guy's London flat, friends old and new gather to party through the night. This is the summer of 1985, and for Guy and his circle the world is about to change forever. Deliciously funny and bittersweet, Kevin Elyot's comedy captures the fragility of friendship, happiness, and life itself." Title: My Uncle Sam
Author: Jenkin, Len Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1983
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters seven male; four female (doubling) two acts
Picaresque quest by nephew to piece together the story of his larger than life uncle's life.
Title: My Wife's Coat in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL Author: Overbey, Kellie Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one scene
Peter comes into the bedroom at his bon voyage party to get his wife's coat from the pile on the bed, only to discover his mistress wearing it. She wants him to stay with her, but he's packing up his kids and wife and moving across country for his new promotion. She asks him for one last request before she'll relinquish the coat, not for sex, but simply for him to lie on top of her. He does so for a brief, sad moment, then takes the coat and leaves, as she continues to lie on the pile of coats in despair.
Title: N-Town Passion, The
Author: Schell, Edgar Publisher: University of California Press 1990
Description:
roy verse play - religious - Easter large cast flexible casting one act
The text is based on plays 29 through 32 of the N-Town cycle, edited by Katherine Block for the Early English Text Society under the title 'Ludus Coventriae' or the 'Plaie Called Corpus Christi'. An edited version of the story that begins with Jesus' presentation before Annas and Caiphas and ends with the resurrected Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene. Title: Nanawatai
Author: Mastrosimone, William Publisher: Samuel French 1981
Description:
roy drama - war eleven characters; female chorus ten male; one female two acts
Bare stage; simple set.
Shortly after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, a man managed to get himself smuggled into that beleaguered country via Pakistan. There he spent several weeks with the Afghan rebels, observing their often futile attempts to resist the Russians. He also observed the capture and execution of a Soviet tank crew. It was this incident which inspired Nanawatai (an Afghan word
Title: Napoleon's Cavalry
Author: Bukhari, Emir Publisher: Osprey Publishing Limited 1979
Description:
reference - costume - historical - France
Contains plates which describe uniforms and equipment as worn and used in Napoleon's era.
Title: Narrow Road to the Deep North
Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Methuen 1968
Description:
roy comedy - historical - Japan ten characters; extras nine male; one female two acts
'Comedy set in Japan several centuries ago. Basho, the Japanese poet, witnesses the rise and fall of a dictator.' Title: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
Author: Malloy, Dave Publisher: Samuel French 2014
Description:
roy Musical - Russian - Tolstoy adaptation thirteen characters; extras five male; five female two acts
"An electropop opera based on a scandalous 70 page slice of Leo Tolstoy’s “War & Peace.” Young and impulsive, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the return of her fiancé from the front lines. When she falls under the spell of the roguish Anatole, it is up to Pierre, a family friend in the middle of an existential crisis, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation."
Tony Award Winner 2017 - Best Lighting Design of a Musical and Best Set Design of a Musical
Title: National Health, The
Author: Nichols, Peter Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama twenty-three characters sixteen male; seven female two acts
In a men's hospital ward the patients come and go. Some linger, some die, some face illness with fortitude, others with boredom. The beautifully detailed documentary background is juxtaposed with richly satirical scenes in which the staff become the romanticized characters of a TV series of hospital life.
Title: Native Speech in - Eric Overmyer Collected Plays / COL Author: Overmyer, Eric Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1993
Description:
roy surreal drama - American eleven characters; extras eight male; three female two acts
"Down at the bottom of your radio dial is a station with a weak signal but a strong message. The man behind the message calls himself Hungry Mother, and he's a disc jockey with a difference. In 'Native Speech', the difference is playwright Eric Overmyer's chilling vision of a society about to go belly up. Title: Necessary Monsters in - New England New Play Anthology, The / COL Author: Kuntz, John Publisher: StageSource 2017
Description:
roy dark comedy twenty-one characters four male; four female (doubling) one act (one scene)
“Necessary Monsters is (at least) five different over-lapping stories, all called “Necessary Monsters”. In the first scene you meet two people on a blind date, and discover that one of them is a film editor, working on a low-budget horror film called Necessary Monsters. In the next scene, you meet two people in a club, and you realize that they are characters from the film mentioned in the first scene. All the stories live inside each other like a set of Russian dolls. As the play progresses, the stories begin to overlap and entwine. The characters are all connected by
Title: Neon Psalms
Author: Strelich, Thomas Publisher: Samuel French
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
The setting of this off beat play is an isolated trailer near Boron, California: site of the world's largest open pit Borax mine. A fragile truce between Luton Mears, a retired heavy equipment operator, and his born again wife Patina is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of their daughter Barbara, a divorcee in her thirties. Lost and bottomed out, she moves home just to get back on her feet and finds herself trapped in a comic but progressively brutal cross fire between Luton who wants her to stay and Patina who wants her to go. This wasteland receives a blast of hilariously
Title: New England in - Goodnight Children Everywhere and other plays / COL Author: Nelson, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Inc. 2004
Description:
roy black comedy - family relations eight characters four male; four female one act (eight scenes)
This play is about an English family living in America. Brought together by tragedy, they find comfort in attacking their adopted country and ridiculing its crude ways. "This dark comedy begins, quite literally, with a bang: A man sitting in the book-lined den of his Connecticut farmhouse puts a revolver to his head and, as his girlfriend, Alice, walks into the room, pulls the trigger. Next 85 of the play’s 90 minutes detail a gathering of the clan as the man’s adult children, among others, argue away a tension-packed night on the eve of the memorial service." Title: Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1990
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - romance five characters two male; two female; one boy two acts
Eve Wilfong, who lives over the "Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music Bar," is paid a visit by her niece Catherine Empanger, a novice nun who's been asked to leave her convent. It seems Catherine suffers from a curious compulsion to yell obscenities at the wrong moment, and even, on occasion, bark like a dog. Roy, an honest if simple fellow from the bar downstairs, wants to court Catherine whether she's a nun or not. Eve feels she should give her niece the benefit of her experiences with men before allowing her to venture back into the mad modern country world.
Title: Night-blooming Cereus in - Scripts / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Coach House Books 2004
Description:
roy Canada - fantasy - opera eight characters two male; six female one act
interior rep sets; dance; running time - approximately 60 mins. Music by John Beckwith.
'This chamber opera in one act is a typically wonderful flight of fancy. The libretto, a strangely beautiful story, tells of a golden-age Ontario village where people gather to see magic flowers bloom.'
Title: No Home But the Heart: an assembly of memories in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Daystar Jones, Rosalie M. Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - native people - dance - historical nine characters; narrator; dancers eight female; one male or female one act (twelve scenes)
From an early age, Daystar was intrigued by her mother’s stories of growing up in the Blackfeet Reservation. The tales were random yet intense in their revelations about family and tribal life on the reservation, from the smallpox epidemic through the turn of the century to today. In creating "No Home But The Heart", Daystar has drawn from selected events in the lives of her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother and tied them to historical events affecting the resettlement of native peoples in the late 19th century. Because the family ancestry includes Title: No One Knows How
Author: Pirandello, Luigi Publisher: Samuel French 1949
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - relationships five characters three male; two female three acts
Translated by Marta Abba.
'No One Knows How' deals with events that occur in ways no one understands or can explain. Ginevra Vanzi and Romeo Daddi succumb to a moment's passion, although they deeply love their respective mates. To add to the complications, the two couples are extremely close. The original act of passion leads to a final act of violence which destroys four lives.
Title: Nobody in - Fun and Nobody / COL Author: Korder, Howard Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1998
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters eleven male; two female one act
NOBODY, examines another aspect of our troubled times when Denny's father, Carl, loses his well-paying factory job. The playwright uses the technique of short, interrelated scenes to follow Carl's downward spin as his self-respect is steadily eroded—his family life plunged into turmoil, he finds himself falling in with a group of bitter malcontents, and his growing despair leads to drinking, violence, and the eventual destruction of his marriage. In the end he does find another job but, by this time, his dreams are shattered—and, sadly, all it can mean to him now is the
Title: Norma's Rest in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Morille, Jordan Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - cancer - LGBTQ six characters three male; three female one act (one scene)
1 exterior set.
"Cancer-ridden Norma runs a sober house that has caught the attention of the local Pastor, who offers to purchase the property in the name of the Church. Norma must choose the fate of the property and determine the path to redemption her beloved residents will follow upon her impending death." Title: North Star A drama in two acts Author: Clunie, Gloria Bond Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1998
Description:
roy drama - African-American - civil rights - family twelve characters seven male; five female (6 male with doubling, multiracial) two acts
unit set, running time: 135 minutes.
Set in North Carolina in the 1960s, 'North Star' is the story of Relia, an African-American girl, searching for her place to shine in both society and her personal life. The joyous innocence of Relia's summer is transformed by the rising tensions of the growing civil rights movement. Relia's parents are hotly divided between letting her participate in the demonstrations and shielding her
Title: Not About Nightingales
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1998
Description:
roy drama - prison nineteen characters; extras sixteen male; three female three acts
Written in 1938 and based on an actual newspaper story, the play follow the events of a prison atrocity which shocked the nation: convicts leading a hunger strike in a Pennsylvania prison were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. Its sympathetic treatment of black and homosexual characters may have kept the play unproduced in its own time.
Title: Notebook, The
Author: Kesselman, Wendy Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc.
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters one male; one female; one boy; one girl (flexible casting) one act
THE NOTEBOOK follows the relationships of two students with each other and with their fabled English teacher, Miss Thorne, at a private school in Manhattan. Warren lives to read, and his enthusiasm and literary talent make him Miss Thorne's favorite. But when Jennie, a Russian immigrant, arrives at the school, Miss Thorne's allegiance shifts. Jennie, a brilliant literature student, passionate beyond her years, is the student Miss Thorne has sought her whole life. Jennie idolizes Miss Thorne, who showers her with compliments, including one she almost never Title: Notes on Falling Leaves
Author: Khan-Din, Ayub Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
As his mother fades away, a son returns to the house where he grew up. It is empty, but full of reminders of how she once was. She, meanwhile, has her own foggy memories and feelings about wy they try, but just can't communicate.
Title: Notes on The Tempest
Author: Harding, S.A. Publisher: Forum House Publishing Company 1968
Description:
Reference - Shakespeare
General notes for William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest.' Includes general notes on the play, Elizabethan theatre, and character studies.
Title: Octoroon, An
Author: Jacobs-Jenkins, Branden Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy comedy - slavery - African American sixteen characters four male; five female (doubling) five acts
"Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own." Title: Ode To Joy
Author: Lucas, Craig Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama - relationships - addiction six characters one male; two female (doubling) one act (ten scenes)
"Adele, hard at work on a large triptych, looks back on the two major loves of her life, which somehow managed to provide her with everything she needed to know about the art of living. Through these two tumultuous loves, Adele discovered both the limits of her powers and the true depths of her gifts. The road to redemption remains before her with the return of both loves to her side."
Title: Olaf Liljekrans in - Early Plays of Henrik Ibsen / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Anders Orbeck Publisher: Forgotten Books 2012
Description:
roy drama - Norway - relationships seven characters; extras five male; two female three acts
Poetic play in three acts set in mediaeval Norway and based on the folktale The Grouse in Justedal. Betrothed by compact to the vain and shallow Ingeborg of Guldvik, the knight Olaf Liljekrans falls deeply in love with the innocent Alfhild, an unworldly child of nature. His mother Lady Kirsten intrigues to effect the more profitable marriage, but Olaf, at first weakly acquiescing, eventually asserts his rights and claims Alfhild in marriage. Ingeborg ends by wedding her actual favourite, the ineffectual page Hemming.
Title: Old Boyfriend in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: LaBute, Neil Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy solo performance all female cast; one female one female one act
A sighting of an old boyfriend reminds a young girl of a tragic text. Title: Old Friends, The
Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2015
Description:
roy drama - friendship nine characters three male; six female two acts
Matriarch Mamie Borden and the remaining members of two longtime Texas farming families await a visit from Mamie's son Hugo and his wife, Sybil. When Sybil arrives, alone, with alarming news, old friends on opposing sides must confront the issues surrounding legacy, loyalty, and the meaning of happiness that have hounded them for generations. THE OLD FRIENDS is an absorbing and vital chapter in Foote's beloved and distinctly American body of work.
Title: Old Neighborhood, The
Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Vintage Books 1998
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - autobiographical five characters three male; two female three parts
In these three short plays, a middle-aged Bobby Gould returns to the old neighbourhood in a series of encounters with his past that, however briefly, open windows on his present. In "Disappearance of the Jews," Bobby and an old buddy fantasize about finding themselves in a nostalgic shtetl paradise while revealing how lost they are in their own families. In the comfort of her kitchen, Bobby's sister "Jolly" unscrolls a list of childhood grievances that is at once painful and hilarious. And the old girlfriend in "Deeny", faced with a man she once loved, finds herself
Title: Oldest Boy, The A play in three ceremonies Author: Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
Description:
roy drama - Tibet - Buddhism - family relations five characters; chorus four male; one female two acts
Setting: Any North American city with a large Tibetan community. Then, in Act 2, a monastery in India; music; dance; puppetry (1 of the male actors speaks for and moves a puppet).
In this moving exploration of parenthood, an American mother and a Tibetan father have a three-year-old son believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama. When a Tibetan lama and a monk come to their home unexpectedly, asking to take their child away for a life of spiritual Title: Oldtimers Game
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1980
Description:
roy comedy - baseball - men all male cast; nine characters nine male two acts
1 interior.
The place is the locker room of the Northshore (Minnesota) Otters, a Triple-A baseball club struggling through a lackluster season. It's the day of the annual Oldtimers Game, and several former Otters are on hand, including "Old John" Law, a Hall of Famer; Dave Pearl, now a star center fielder in the big leagues; Jim Nealy, a once promising player who retired early because of injury;
Title: On Blindness
Author: Cannon, Glyn Publisher: Methuen Drama 2004
Description:
roy drama - love - relationships six characters four male; two female two acts
3 interiors.
Two love affairs, one beginning and the other ending, played simultaneously.
"I hadn't seen Dan in years when we got together. Within twenty-four hours, we'd seen everything. We'd made love together, bathed together, slept together. He'd seen my body. I'd seen his. Which
Title: On The Open Road
Author: Tesich, Steve Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - civil war six characters four male; one boy; one girl two acts
"While fleeing a civil war, Al comes across Angel trussed up and waiting to be hung. Al is pulling a cart loaded with art treasures he has salvaged from bombed out churches and museums. He hopes to barter his way into The Land of the Free with them, but the cart has become too heavy for Al to pull. He rescues the brutish Angel to help. On the open road Al teaches Angel about literature, music and art history so that he will make a good citizen. When they reach the border, they are told they must execute a troublemaker named Jesus Christ to earn their freedom. He has Title: On The Verge; or, The Geography Of Yearning in - Eric Overmyer Collected Plays / COL Author: Overmyer, Eric Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1993
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female two acts
Three Victorian lady explorers set out on an adventure that takes them to darkest Africa, highest Himalaya and Terra Incognita... Heroines to their heart, the explorers can accommodate themselves to any emergency, although they are momentarily disoriented as they approach modern times.
Title: One Block Radius
Author: Quan, Elyne Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2002
Description:
roy drama - murder - documentary - solo performance eleven characters one female (doubling) one act
'"After a woman is stalked and attacked, her female neighbours are interviewed about the event to share what they know."
Title: One More River to Cross A verbatim fugue Author: Nottage, Lynn Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2015
Description:
roy drama - historical - slavery - America many characters; chorus; musician four male; four female (doubling, flexible casting) one act (five movements)
Between 1936 and 1938, the Federal Writers’ Project gathered over 2,300 interviews with former slaves. Pulitzer-winner Lynn Nottage has collected and condensed these interviews into a theatrical exploration of the history of slavery in the United States. By resurrecting these slaves’ stories onstage, Nottage resurrects the voices of people who for so many years had none, and she creates a space for the contemplation of the enduring effects of slavery in America. Music. Title: One on One: The best women's monologues for the 21st Century
Author: Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2007
Description:
Monologues – women – contemporary
This book of monologues for actresses is edited by three theatre experts who have carefully selected the strongest bravura pieces for auditions, acting classes, and study, in the process revealing the pulse of the millennial theatrical scene. Comic or serious—or both—the monologues, written by veteran playwrights and up-and-coming talents depict young, middle-aged, and older characters, obscure and famous, from a variety of cultures, and deal with highly relevant contemporary issues.
Contains monologues from the following plays and playwrights: Are You Ready? – David Auburn ; At the Vanishing Point – Naomi Iizuka ; Bad Dates – Theresa Rebeck ; The Beginning of August – Tom Donaghy ; Boys and Girls – Tom Donaghy ; Boxing It – Christine Emmert ; Bunny’s Last Night
Title: One Thing More or: Caedmon construed Author: Fry, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1986
Description:
roy drama - biography - England - Caedmon fourteen characters ten male; four female (doubling possible) one act
First presented at England's soaring Chelmsford Cathedral, and then broadcast on the BBC, the play blends music, poetry and heightened prose in telling the story of Caedmon, Britain's first known poet. Set in seventh century England, the action of the play is commented on by the Venerable Bede, who acts as narrator and describes the arrival of the stuttering, withdrawn Caedmon at Whitby Abbey, where he is spellbound by the singing of the chapel choir. Given a job as a stableman, Caedmon finds it difficult to communicate with his fellow workers, and unable to
Title: One Tiger to a Hill in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - prisoner - Alberta playwright ten characters eight male; two female two acts
"A compelling and compassionate examination of the complexities confronting both warden and inmate." Title: Only Kidding!
Author: Geoghan, Jim Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; five characters five male two acts
In this Off Broadway hit, an over the hill comic who is desperate for a shot on a late night TV show has invited a hip young writer to his cottage in the Catskills to help him update his act. They might as well be talking in tongues about what is funny! The second act moves to a seedy club where the mafia connected owner wants aspiring comics to sign a contract giving him a commission on their future earnings. Then the play goes to comedy heaven: backstage at that late night TV show. The older comedian awaits his last chance at the big time and one of the comics
Title: Onward, Onward, Onward! in - The Bolsheviks and Other Plays / COL Author: Shatrov, Mikhail translated by Michael Glenny Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1990
Description:
roy political drama - historical - Lenin - Stalin - Soviet Union - USSR twenty-four characters twenty male; four female two acts
1 setting.
'Third play in trilogy about problems facing Lenin following the October Revolution. Portrays Stalin's rule as bloody aberration from Lenin's policies.' - Play Index
Title: Opening Night
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - theatre eight characters five male; three female two acts
"The madcap antics start as Jack and Ruth Tisdale celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with an evening at the theatre. It's a dream come true for Ruth and an imposition for Jack who would rather be at home watching the World Series. However, after the events both on and off the stage that fateful night, their lives and those of all of those involved are irreparably altered." Title: Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo
Author: Rame, Franca Fo, Dario Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 1985
Description:
roy - monologues - women
This collection includes nine monologues concerned with sexual and domestic issues and female oppression: A WOMAN ALONE, MAMMA FRICCHETONA (THE FREAK MOMMY), WAKING UP, WE ALL HAVE THE SAME STORY, DIALOGUE FOR A SINGLE VOICE, MEDEA PROLOGUE, MEDEA, MONOLOGUE OF A WHORE IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM, and IT HAPPENS TOMORROW. Dario Fo and Franca Rame are Italy's best-known performers, playwrights, and political activists. Award-winning actress and director Estelle Parsons toured this version of ORGAMSO ADULTO ESCAPES FROM THE ZOO, concluding with a triumphant run at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York. A WOMAN ALONE: Maria, a housewife, has been locked up at home by her jealous husband. Come to think of it, all the men in her life have been oppressing her. Good thing she has a gun. MAMMA FRICCHETONA (THE FREAK MOMMY): A mother becomes a gypsy in order to pursue her son who has joined a
Title: Oslo
Author: Rogers, J. T. Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2017
Description:
roy drama - historical - political thriller - Israel - Palestine seventeen characters fourteen male; three female; extras three acts
A darkly funny and sweeping new play, 'Oslo' tells the surprising true story of the backchannel talks, unlikely friendships, and quiet heroics that led to the 1993 Oslo Accords between the Israelis and the Palestinians. As he did with such wit and intelligence in 'Blood and Gifts", J. T. Rogers presents a deeply personal story set against a complex political canvas.
Title: Other Side, The
Author: Dorfman, Ariel Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - war - identity - love three characters two male; one female one act
From the provocative author Ariel Dorfman, comes a powerful, timely new play. In a country at war for many years, a man and a woman wait. They pass their days confirming the identity of dead bodies at a hut near the border of the two fighting countries. When peace and a border guard arrive, chaos ensues. This moving and strangely comic work raises potent questions about war, identity, and love in our times. Title: Our Betters in - Plays: One - W. Somerset Maugham / COL Author: Maugham, W. Somerset Publisher: Methuen Drama 1997
Description:
roy comedy - satire eleven characters seven male; four female three acts
2 interior sets.
Comedy of manners satirizing snobbery of expatriate American title hunters in London and mores and manners of the English leisure class and the international set.
Title: Our Leading Lady
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - spoof - biography nine characters four male; five female two acts
Running time: 120 minutes; interior unit set; period costumes.
April, 1865. Laura Keene, a famous actress/manager, is performing in Washington, DC during the week the civil war ends. Despite a madcap scramble of backstage squabbles, the ambitious Laura does everything she can to get President Lincoln to attend her closing night performance. Her great plans go awry, as Laura and her theatrical troupe collide with history.
Title: Outlanders in - Zones of the Spirit / COL Author: Gray, Amlin Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
This play set in a small failing cafe, whose embittered megalomaniac owner hopes to create a new liqueur which will lure back the customers who have been lost to a rival establishment. Harassed by his invalid wife, who bangs impatiently on the ceiling to gain his attention, and bedeviled by the townspeople, who have turned against him, Askanius retreats increasingly into his delusions and the dream of the triumph which his magical elixir will bring. In the end his creation turns out to be poisonous—but Askanius, in a final act of desperate defiance, willfully drinks it down. Title: Outside
Author: Dunn, Paul Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - young adult - bullying - mental health - LGBTQ+ three characters two male; one female one act
Inspired by the kinds of real-life stories that prompted the It Gets Better campaign, Paul Dunn’s play for middle-grade and high-school students brings the discussion around homophobia, bullying, mental health and gay-straight directly to the young people who are on the front lines.
Daniel’s ready to talk. And his friends Krystina and Jeremy are ready to help. But is it too late? Set in separate but simultaneous lunch periods at two different high schools, the teenagers are faced
Title: Over Gardens Out in - Peter Gill: Plays 1 / COL Author: Gill, Peter Publisher: Faber and Faber 2002
Description:
roy drama - friendship - family six characters four male; two female one act (twelve scenes)
Frustrated with the tedium of suburbia, mummy’s boy Dennis is drawn to Borstal boy Jeffry in a camaraderie that veers into volatile and unarticulated eroticism. Deftly depicting the frustrations of 1960s living, Over Gardens Out is a finely tuned sketch of friendship and family life.
Title: Over There in - Ravenhill Plays:3 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Publisher: Bloomsbury 2013
Description:
roy drama - family relations - ideologies all male cast; two characters two male one act (five parts)
Over There is an intense drama of synchronous disconnection, an allegory of competing ideologies set across the Berlin Wall. When the mother of identical twins, Franz and Karl, defects to the West, she escapes only with Franz, leaving Karl behind. Twenty-five years later, Karl crosses the border from East Germany to West Germany to find his other half. The two men have shared experiences, know scraps of each other’s lives and talk at the same time, but the gulf of ideology and upbringing between them is impossible. When the Berlin Wall comes down, the Title: Pack of Lies
Author: Whitemore, Hugh Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - morality eight characters three male; five female two acts
The Jackson are a nice middle aged English couple. Their best friends are their Canadian neighbors, the Krogers. All is blissful in their world until a detective from Scotland Yard asks to use their house as an observation station to try and foil a Soviet spy ring operating in the area. The Jacksons become more and more put out as Scotland Yard's demands on them increase. They are really put to the test when the detective reveals that the spies are the Krogers and he asks them to help set a trap. Should they betray their friends?
Title: Page and Stage An approach to script analysis Author: Longman, Stanley Vincent Publisher: Pearson Education 2004
Description:
reference - script analysis
'Page and Stage' narrows the gulf between printed page and performance to make script analysis for production of academic study more effective, efficient, and insightful. This text discusses a method for script analysis based on the idea that plays consist of 'organized tension' that involves the audience and organizes their response. It examines the many forms of tension in plays - between actor and character, between the stage and the world of the play, between the present and the past, and between characters - by looking at stage space and time and a wide range of plays from ancient Greece to the present. Features: examples of script analysis throughout the book, and two full analyses included as appendices, show how ideas taught in the book may be applied to specific scripts; diagrams throughout the text illustrate and clarify conceptual relationships that can be difficult to understand; the conciseness of the text makes it ideal as a companion for
Title: Parade - vocal selections
Author: Brown, Jason Robert Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 1999
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical - voice - piano.
contains: The Old Red Hills of Home What Am I Waiting For? Big News You Don't Know This Man Come Up to My Office My Child Will Forgive Me That's What He Said It's Hard to Speak My heart Do It Alone Title: Paradise
Author: Flather, Patti Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - mental illness - addiction - family relations four characters three male; one female one act (thirty-nine scenes)
"After a traumatic assault in Central America, Rachel returns home, but it isn’t the reprieve she expected. She comes back to turmoil between her parents, and a part-time job in her dad’s medical office. Her father, George, full of endearing blunder, tries unsuccessfully to connect with his daughter, who seems to be reeling. Her childhood friend Khalil isn’t around to provide support. He’s in Afghanistan travelling and volunteering when he is wrongfully arrested. On the periphery is Wally—off work because of a logging injury—who spends a great deal of time in
Title: Paradise Hotel
Author: Feydeau, Georges translated by Nicholas Rudall Publisher: Elephant Paperbacks 1990
Description:
roy farce - relationships large cast flexible casting three acts
In this consummate farce, a middle aged man arranges a rendezvous in a seedy little hotel with the beautiful young wife of his best friend. Through a series of intricate machinations and twists, the agonies and foolishness of the characters are resolved to their relief - and sometimes - dismay - and to the delight of the audience.
Title: Partners in - Humana Festival 2014: The complete plays / COL Author: Fortenberry, Dorothy Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters three male; one female one act (eight scenes)
3 interior sets; 1 exterior set.
"Clare has big plans with her best friend Ezra—starting a food truck, making him marry his boyfriend—until an unexpected windfall forces them to face how they truly feel about money and commitment. A witty, incisive look at two young couples struggling with personal finance, the meaning of marriage, and the deeply human capacity for self-sabotage—as they decipher the Title: Patron Saint of Sea Monsters, The
Author: Meyer, Marlane Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2015
Description:
roy comedy - romance large cast; puppets flexible casting one act (twenty scenes)
Aubrey, a very determined romantic, believes she's met her soul-mate in Calvin, a boozing womanizer. But in this tilted, thoughtful comedy, true love is an even more tangled predicament. Peopled by an assortment of eccentrics, mystics, and front porch philosophers, Marlane Meyer's play is a sweet polemic, an unexpected love story, and a deliciously cockeyed view of the sustaining—and destructive—power of belief.
Title: Peace of Brest-Litovsk, The in - The Bolsheviks and Other Plays / COL Author: Shatrov, Mikhail translated by Michael Glenny Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1990
Description:
roy political drama - historical - Lenin - Soviet Union - USSR large cast mixed cast two acts
1 setting.
'First play in trilogy about problems facing Lenin following the October Revolution. Political drama set in December 1917. Lenin sues for peace hoping to retain power in war-weary nation.' - Play Index
Title: Penguin Dictionary of the Theatre, The
Author: Taylor, John Russell Publisher: Penguin Books 1970
Description:
reference - theatre
A world guide to past and present in the theatre. Compiled by the well-known theatre writer and critic John Russell Taylor, this invaluable and informative dictionary includes entries on: plays; players; playwrights; dramatic theory and critics; dramatic schools, academies, leagues and clubs; dramatis personae; theatres; theatre companies, directors and managers; theatre terms; stage history; stage machinery, lighting and layout; stage designers, decor and props. Title: People
Author: Bennett, Alan Publisher: Faber and Faber 2012
Description:
roy comedy - relationships thirteen characters; extras eight male; five female two acts
"After centuries a traditional family estate lies in a state of disrepair; desperately requiring financing to keep the once grand residence restored and maintained. Lady Dorothy, our world-weary, beleaguered central character, would rather sell off the contents of the house or even allow explicit films to shoot at the residence in order to save the property from the grips of the National Trust. However her rather more proper sister wholeheartedly disagrees. This central conflict enables Bennett to examine the philosophical and ethical dilemmas of restoration, in an
Title: Pericles Prince of Tyre Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1998
Description:
roy drama - Shakespeare large cast flexible casting five acts
This edition includes lengthy introduction, list of abbreviations and conventions, notes on the text, supplementary notes and textural analysis.
Pericles correctly guesses that the daughter of Antiochus is involved in an incestuous affair with her father. Antiochus knows that Pericles knows, and Pericles knows it. His life in peril, Pericles prudently flees Antioch for Tyre. Antiochus won't let mere distance stand in the way of killing him,
Title: Persephone, or Slow Time
Author: Haidle, Noah Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - allegory seventeen characters two male; two female (doubling) two acts
"Meet Demeter, an exquisite statue of the Greek goddess, as she's being created during the Italian Renaissance. Those who admire her see only stone and fortitude, but her thoughts and desires are all too real; she pines for her lost daughter's return and for the love of her sculptor, Giuseppe. Giuseppe, however, is too busy lusting after the city's most popular artist's model to notice Demeter's pain. Fast forward five hundred years: Demeter stands in a present-day American city park. She has become a symbol of hope amidst illicit activity and a target for more than just Title: Peter Pan
Author: Barrie, J. M. Publisher: Dover Publications 2000
Description:
roy fantasy - adventure large cast flexible casting five acts
The story of Peter Pan has thrilled young and old alike since it first premiered on the London stage in 1904. The tale of a boy who runs away to Never-Never Land to avoid growing up, the drama draws upon a number of characters and events that figured prominently in James Barrie's own life. His mother's solicitous care of her younger brother provided the germ for the character of Wendy, and Barrie's participation in a school play as part of make-believe pirate crew helped give birth to the notorious Captain Hook and his shipmates; while a special fondness for his
Title: Petra in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Yarbrough, John Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - travel four characters two male; two female one act (one scene)
What happens when a couple can't agree on whether they once went to Petra? That's the question this dark comedy tries to answer.
Title: Photograph 51
Author: Ziegler, Anna Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama - biography - science six characters five male; one female one act (one scene)
simple set.
"A humorous and moving portrait of Rosalind Franklin, one of the great female scientists of the twentieth century, and her fervid drive to map the contours of the DNA molecule. A chorus of physicists relives the chase, revealing the unsung achievements of this trail-blazing, fiercely independent woman. A play about ambition, isolation, and the race for greatness." Title: Photograph: Lovers in Motion, A in - Three Pieces / COL Author: Shange, Ntozake Publisher: Penguin Books 1981
Description:
roy black theatre - drama five characters two male; three female two acts
1 interior.
Explores a black photographer's conflicting desires for fame and honesty and his often abusive relationships with three women: a nymphomaniac model, a lawyer who has helped support him, and a dancer who makes him confront his true feelings.
Title: Pictorial History of the Russian Theatre, The
Author: Marshall, Herbert Publisher: Crown Publishers 1977
Description:
reference - theatre - Russia - history
A comprehensive account of all aspects of the major theatres of Russia from the Middle Ages until today, including plays and other dramatic presentations, actors, dramatists, directors, designers, costumes and much more. Over 500 rare illustrations.
Title: Pipeline in - American Theatre (December 2017) / PER Author: Morisseau, Dominique Publisher: Miscellaneous 2017
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female one act (ten scenes)
A high-school teacher in a New York City public school, wrestles with the realization that her teenaged son, though enrolled in a private school in upstate New York, may be in danger of straying into the 'school-to-prison pipeline' that ensnares so many young men of color. Title: Play that Goes Wrong, The
Author: Lewis, Henry Sayer, Jonathan Publisher: Bllomsbury Methuen Drama 2015
Description:
roy comedy - murder - mystery eight characters; extras six male; two female two acts
Also written by Henry Shields.
After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitions 1920s murder mystery. They are delighted that neither casting issues nor technical hitches currently stand in their way. However, disaster ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production
Title: Play Yourself
Author: Kondoleon, Harry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2004
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships four characters one male; three female two acts
Jean, an ex-movie star who left Hollywood some time ago, lives with Yvonne, her daughter. Their main activities together involve reenacting moments from Jean's old movies, in which she always seemed to play the "other woman." After placing an ad seeking more information about Jean, Selma is invited into their lives. Selma is obsessed with Jean—not with the real one, but with the one on screen—to the point that she hopes to learn how to become Jean. When not submerged in Jean's past, Selma works with Brother Harmon, also a fan of Jean, running a shelter for "the hopeless."
Title: Plays of Anton Chekhov, The
Author: Wexford, Jane Publisher: Monarch Press 1965
Description:
reference - play analysis
A critical guide to appreciation of themes, structure, and style: detailed plot summaries; in depth commentaries; character analysis; Chekhov's methods; Russian system of names; survey of criticism; and review questions and model answers. Title: Po Boy Tango
Author: Lin, Kenneth Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2011
Description:
roy drama - immigrants three characters one male; two female two acts
"A Taiwanese immigrant enlists an African-American soul food chef to help him recreate his mother's Great Banquet, as a wedding gift to his daughter. Though the two share a bond in their passion for food and love of their children, their connection also brings to light resentments from ten years past -- when a child was saved, but a friendship was lost."
Title: Poe - Quoth the Raven...Nevermore in - Edgar Allan Poe Live On-Stage / COL Author: Ballantyne, Jr., J. E. Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2014
Description:
roy drama - American - biography - horror large cast twelve male; four female; two boys (doubling) two acts
numerous simple interiors.
"Poe tells the life story of American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. Scenes from specific points and moments in his life combined with dramatic presentations of some of his most well known stories which is capped off at the end with a full cast staged reading of The Raven. Perfect Halloween entertainment." - J&B Theatrical Promotions
Title: Point of No Return
Author: Osborn, Paul Marquand, John P. Publisher: Samuel French 1950
Description:
roy comedy twenty-three characters fourteen male; seven female; two boys or girls three acts
Based on the novel by John P. Marquand.
Point of No Return is Marquand's popular story of a junior bank official who has bent himself toward creeping up the financial ladder until he now is within reach of the almost ultimate goal, a vice-presidency. When he reaches this point he discovers that it isn't really what he wanted at all-but it is too late for him to do anything but go on; in the ocean fliers' phrase, he has reached Title: Poison in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy comedy three characters one male; two female one act
Kenny has seen the depths of Kelly's self-hatred, and he'll never date her again—unless he drinks a fortune-teller's mysterious potion, which will kill his soul as dead as Kelly's. Can Kelly convince him to drink the potion? Can she convince herself?
Title: Poison Tree, The in - Five Plays by Ronald Ribman / COL Author: Ribman, Ronald Publisher: Avon Books 1978
Description:
roy drama - prison all male cast; thirteen characters thirteen male two acts
6 interiors; 1 exterior.
A young inmate up for parole commits suicide. A look at prison life from the black point of view.
Title: Poor Bitos
Author: Anouilh, Jean translated by Lucienne Hill Publisher: Samuel French 1964
Description:
roy drama - fantasy fourteen characters ten male; three female; one boy or girl two acts
The French master of time and its illusions presents us with a group of patricians gathered for a party in the vaulting room of an old chateau. We are quickly disabused of any notion that this is to be just another gay party a la dolce vita. For also invited is a literal, by the numbers, and intransigent prosecutor named Bitos whom they all detest. He is to them the reincarnation of Robespierre; and through a change of coats and the dramatic legerdemain of Anouilh the party recreates the time of Robespierre and the French Revolution before returning to the humiliating Title: Poor of New York, The in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Boucicault, Dion Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy melodrama thirteen characters nine male; four female five acts
representative set.
An evil banker steals a captain's legacy to his wife and daughter, forcing them into poverty until the wealthy young hero saves the day.
Title: Poor Shem in - Humana Festival 2014: The complete plays / COL Author: Hischak, Gregory Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act (one scene)
simple set; running time: 10 min.
"Of all the things you give in life, none is more precious than your labor. A tiny play about three characters and a photocopier."
Title: Prairie Nurse
Author: Badian, Marie Beath Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy comedy - immigrants seven characters three male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
"A comedy about two Filipino nurses who come to work at a small-town Saskatchewan hospital in the late 1960s. Cultural clashes, personality differences, homesickness, and the amorous but dim-witted goalie from the local hockey team complicate the women’s lives. Based on the true story of her mother’s immigration to Canada, Badian’s play is part romantic comedy, part farce, Title: Prescott Proposals, The
Author: Lindsay, Howard Crouse, Russel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1954
Description:
roy drama - romance - melodrama fifteen characters twelve male; three female (doubling possible) three acts
Mrs. Mary Prescott, the U.S. delegate to the U.N., has presented proposals that a U.N. committee should discuss the areas of agreement between the member countries, rather than the differences. On the night Mary is to make an important speech on the proposals, the Czech delegate, with whom she had once had a romantic affair, comes to her home, where he dies of a sudden heart attack. A few minutes after this, the English, French, Russian and Pakistani delegates arrive at Mary's apartment for cocktails. The four delegates remove the body to the Czechoslovakian
Title: Pretenders, The
Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by William Archer Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor 2015
Description:
roy drama - Norway - historical twenty characters; extras fifteen male; five female five acts
The Pretenders was written in bursts during 1863, but Ibsen claims to have had sources and the idea back in 1858. It is a five-act play in prose set in the thirteenth-century. The play opened at the old Christiania Theatre on the 19th of January 1864. The plot revolves around the historical conflict between Norwegian King Hakon Hakonsson and his father-in-law; Earl Skule Bardsson. It has been commonly ascribed to the rivalry between Ibsen and Bjornstjerne Bjornson, who had succeeded Ibsen as director of the Norske Theater in 1857.
Title: Prince and Mr. Jones, The
Author: Spewack, Samuel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1961
Description:
roy comedy - historical - Russia eighteen characters fifteen male; three female three acts
1 interior
A comedy about Potemkin's lust for power based on events involving Catherine the Great and John Paul Jones during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787. Title: Prodigal Son
Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2016
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female one act (ten scenes)
flexible set.
A 17-year-old boy from the Bronx suddenly finds himself in a private school in New Hampshire. He’s violent, gifted, alienated, and on fire with a ferocious loneliness. Two faculty members wrestle with the dilemma: Is the kid a star or a disaster? A passionate, explosive portrait of a young man on the verge of salvation or destruction.
Title: Progress
Author: Lucie, Doug Publisher: Methuen 1985
Description:
roy comedy - satire - LGBTQ+ eight characters six male; two female two acts
The play is set in the London home of Will, a handsome, well-educated television-documentary researcher, and his attractive, social activist wife, Ronee, who runs a community center in South London. anxious to match his wife's liberal concerns, Will has taken over most of the household chores, and has formed a male consciousness-raising group, whose principal interest seems to be a close examination of pornography. Ronee, however, is now involved with a female lover, and her unwillingness to expand the relationship to a menage a trois (as Will would like) has driven a
Title: Progressive Architecture - October 1965 The changing practice: theatres Author: Publisher: Reinhold Publishing Corporation 1965
Description:
reference
An issue of the journal Progressive Architecture with a focus on theatre (as a building) design. Title: Prometheus Bound According to Alberto Kurapel, the Guanaco Gaucho in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: Kurapel, Alberto translated by Hugh Hazelton Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy drama - mythology - Latina/o playwrights - Canadian nine characters; chorus flexible casting one act
A play which takes place in the spaces of the classic tragedy.
Title: Psychic, The A murder mystery of sorts Author: Bobrick, Sam Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy comedy - murder mystery - thriller six characters four male; two female two acts
running time: 90 mins.
'The Psychic' follows the chaotic life of Adam Webster, a down-on-his-luck writer, who has put a sign in his apartment window, in desperation to make the rent: "Psychic Readings $25." The sign soon draws the interest of the lovely and conflicted Laura, her shady husband, Roy, Roy's mistress, Rita, a gangster named Johnny Bubbles, and ace Detective Norris Coslow. In the
Title: Psycho Beach Party
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 1986
Description:
roy parody - comedy - spoof - 1960s eleven characters five male; six female (two female roles may be played by males) one act (ten scenes)
running time: 90 minutes; contains alternate beginning.
“Gidget”, Frankie and Annette beach party epics, and Hitchcock psychological suspense thrillers such as “Spellbound” and “Marnie” are given a shotgun marriage. Chicklet Forrest, a teenage tomboy, desperately wants to be part of the surf crowd on Malibu Beach in 1962. One thing getting in her way is her unfortunate tendency towards split personalities. Among them is a black Title: Public Disorder in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: de la Cheneliere, Evelyne translated by Morwyn Brebner Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian large cast flexible casting one act (twenty-three scenes)
Original title: Désordre public.
The character who serves as the focal point in this story is a young unemployed actor, who does not understand why he no longer has work, is never invited to auditions, and does not even have the opportunity of doing commercials. He uses public transportation. The public disorder arises on the bus from the ability he suddenly develops, and from which he cannot escape, to share the
Title: Punch Up
Author: Sandler, Kat Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy tragicomedy - relationships - mental illness - suicide three characters two male; one female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"The Most Pathetic Guy Ever kidnaps the Funniest Man Alive to make the Saddest Girl in the World laugh. Duncan has always been a pretty boring guy, leading a simple life while working at a bread factory. Then he stumbles upon Brenda, a sad young woman who’s about to end her life. Convinced he’s fallen in love, Duncan strikes up a desperate deal: if he can get her to laugh, she'll
Title: Quartermaine's Terms
Author: Gray, Simon Publisher: Samuel French 1983
Description:
roy dramatic comedy seven characters five male; two female two acts
Never has the celebrated author of 'Butley' and 'Otherwise Engaged' been more amusing and more touching than in this thoroughly delightful portrait of a mediocre but lovable English schoolteacher named St. John Quartermaine and his fellow faculty at a small school in Cambridge which teaches English to foreigners. Title: Rabbit Hole
Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2006
Description:
roy drama - grief - family relations five characters two male; three female two acts
"Becca and Howie Corbett have a picture perfect family life in the suburbs of New York until a random, tragic accident takes the life of their four-year old son. Soon after, Becca’s younger, irresponsible sister, Izzy, announces that she is pregnant: there will now be a new child in the family. As Becca and Howie grow apart, Becca’s mother, Nat, badgers Becca about her grieving process, and Jason, the young driver who killed their son, continually shows up to ask forgiveness, the group is on a bumpy road to healing with no road map in sight. Rabbit Hole
Title: Radiant Vermin
Author: Ridley, Philip Publisher: Bllomsbury Methuen Drama 2015
Description:
roy satire three characters one male; two female one act
Jill and Ollie want to tell you about their dream home. Some of the tings they did to get it, you might find...horrible. Some of the things, you might find ...shocking. But they want you to know they did it all... for their baby.
This play is a wickedly funny satire about a young couple's desire to give their child everything. Playfully provocative and viciously sharp, it is a brutal exploration of greed and consumerism,
Title: Radical Mystique, The
Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy comedy of manners five characters three male; two female two acts
Running time: 120 minutes
In the New York of the late 60's when the term "radical chic" was coined by Tom Wolfe, friends Josie and Janice are arranging a party to aid the Black Panthers' Self Defense Fund. In the process, their complacency is shaken and they are forced to confront things they would prefer to leave alone. Title: Rainmaker, The
Author: Nash, N. Richard Publisher: Samuel French 1654
Description:
roy comedy - romance seven characters six male; one female three acts
At the time of a paralyzing drought in the West we discover a girl whose father and two brothers are worried as much about her potential future as an old maid as they are about their dying cattle. For the truth is, she is indeed a plain girl. The brothers try every possible scheme to marry her off, but without success. Nor is there any sign of relief from the dry heat, when suddenly from out of nowhere appears a picaresque, sweet-talking man with quite the sales pitch. Claiming to be a "rainmaker," the man promises to bring rain, for $100. It's a silly idea, but the rainmaker is so
Title: Reader
Author: Dorfman, Ariel Publisher: Samuel French 1995
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
A censor discovers that the subversive novel he is about to ban is describing his own life and hinting that a terrible fate awaits his son. He must hunt down the author before it comes true...
Title: Reckoning
Author: Beagan, Tara Moro, Andy Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2016
Description:
roy drama - Canada - native peoples four characters; voices two male; two female one act (three parts)
'Reckoning' is an ode to the irreconcilable. A triptych in movement, video and text, 'Reckoning' is an incendiary theatrical presentation of three separate experiences with Indian Residential Schools, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the fallout that has already reverberated across the country. Title: Red Black and Ignorant Part one of the War plays Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989
Description:
roy drama - nuclear war nine characters four male; five female one act (nine parts)
Approx. running time: 55 mins.
First part of the author's War plays trilogy. Symbolic depiction of how abuse of freedom produces debased life and near-certainty of nuclear war. Music, singing.
Title: Red Scare on Sunset
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy comedy - parody - spoof nine characters five male; four female two acts
Running time: 120 minutes.
The time: the fifties; the place: Hollywood, where film star Mary Dale finds the Red Menace invading her own Beverly Hills backyard. When she discovers that her husband has been lured into the local Communist party by way of a method acting class and that there is a left wing plot afoot to abolish the star system, Mary wages a private war to save her husband, her country and
Title: Refugee Hotel, The in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: Aguirre, Carmen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy dark comedy - refugees - Latina/o playwrights - Canadian twelve characters six male; five female; one boy two acts
A dark comedy about a group of Chilean refugees who arrived in Vancouver in 1994 and were put up in a modest hotel. An uncompromising look at exile, torture, guilt and betrayal. The Refugee Hotel is ultimately about love and its power to heal. Title: Remittance Man, The
Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - immigrants - television play - Alberta playwright seventeen characters; extras thirteen male; four female one act
A train carrying European immigrants slowly comes to a full stop at Strathcona Station, the end of steel. It is the mid 1890's. Charles Algernon Carrington, travelling with his valet, Freddy Dubbins, is jerked to a halt. Carrington, dressed in a tweed cape and small top hat, looks every bit the English aristocrat he is. Dubbins' bowler hat labels him lower class: he is a servant "above stairs". Carrington and Dubbins sit on opposite seats of an otherwise empty compartment. Both were dozing and are suddenly jolted awake by the train coming to rest...
Title: Remix 38 in - Humana Festival 2014: The complete plays / COL Author: Drury, Jackie Sibblies Goodwin, Idris Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama large cast flexible casting one act (nine parts)
also written by: Basil Kreimendahl, Justin Kuritzkes and Amelia Roper.
Five young writers, ready to add their fresh voices to the Humana Festival's nearly four decades of history. Eight iconic plays of the Festival's storied past. Mix the two together and what do you get? Every year, Actors Theatre commissions a group of playwrights to pen a show for our Acting Apprentice Company, to be peformed during the Humana Festival. This year (2014) that show was
Title: Remote in - Connections 2015 / YCL Author: Smith, Stef Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2015
Description:
roy drama - young adult seven characters; chorus two male; four female; one male or female (flexible casting) one act
Age suitability - 13+
A girl called Antler steps out of her front door and throws her phone on to the ground. She stamps on it. She then climbs the tallest tree in the park. She doesn't want to be found, not by anyone. The lives of seven teenagers all intertwine over the course of a single evening as they make their way through the park in a seemingly normal autumn's night. REMOTE is a play about Title: Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui, The A gangster spectacle Author: Brecht, Bertolt Tabori, George Publisher: Samuel French 1972
Description:
roy drama thirty-five characters thirty male; five female sixteen scenes
representative set; adapted by George Tabori; Music by Hans-Dieter Hosalla.
A dramatic parallel is drawn between the rise to power of Adolph Hitler and the power-hold of the Chicago gangsters. Brecht's shudderingly accurate parallel between Hitler and his henchmen on the one hand and the old crime lords of Chicago on the other is a vigorous eye opener that was produced on Broadway with Christopher Plummer. The Cauliflower Trust in Chicago is in need of
Title: Rest
Author: Hunter, Samuel D. Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy drama - aging - death - friendship - health issues seven characters four male; three female two acts
interior set; running time: 120 min.
A retirement home in northern Idaho is being shut down, and only three residents and a bare-bones staff remain. When a record breaking blizzard blows into town and an elderly resident disappears into the storm, everyone is brought to face their own mortality.
Title: Reunion in - Reunion & Dark Pony / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld 1979
Description:
roy drama - family relations two characters one male; one female one act (fourteen scenes)
"Reunion" depicts the awkward, tender meeting between a father and daughter drawn together by their loneliness after twenty years of separation. Their cautious small talk, filled with evasion and cliché, gradually exposes the terrifying isolation in which they live, and ultimately their great need for each other. Title: Revenger's Tragedy, The
Author: Tourneur, Cyril Publisher: Chandler Publishing Company 1962
Description:
roy drama - Jacobean tragedy fourteen characters; extras eleven male; three female five acts
Verse play set in Italy. Murder of a young man's sweetheart, by the old duke who has failed to seduce her, creates a web of hatred and revenge.
Title: Right Sensation in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Orloff, Rich Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
A woman reveals feelings about her breasts after a mastectomy as she is about to become more intimate with a new lover.
Title: Right You Are (If You Think You Are) in - Collected Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Bruce Penman Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1987
Description:
roy drama - Italian sixteen characters; extras nine male; seven female three acts
also known as 'Cosi è, se ui pare'; 2 interiors.
'A man and his mother-in-law tell conflicting stories about their respective wife and daughter. Audience has to decide which is illusion and which is reality.' - Play Index Title: Road
Author: Cartwright, Jim Publisher: Methuen 1986
Description:
roy dramatic comedy large cast flexible casting two acts
During one wild night, a drunken guide conducts a tour of Road, his derelict Lancashire street, where sharp and comic scenes jostle viciously to expose a population driven mad by despair. Beneath the gags, the playwright's rumbling sense of lost dignity resulting from unemployment, chauvinism or from simply getting paralytically pissed, give this stunning debut a perceptive and frightening reality.
Title: Road to Nirvana
Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Samuel French 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: Rock, Paper, Jacknife... in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Perreault, Marilyn translated by Nadine Desrochers Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - teens - immigration - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian five characters two male; three female one act (thirteen parts)
Original title: Roche, papier, cousteau.
The teens of the play take us into the experience of forced emigration when the country of their origin has exploded in violence, their parents are dead, their crossing was unbelievably difficult, and they find themselves in exile in a new country where they do not know the language, they are without means, and the reception in the community is one of distaste and distrust. Along with Title: Rokumeikan, The in - My Friend Hitler and other plays of Yukio Mishima / COL Author: Yukio, Mishima Publisher: Columbia University Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - historical - Japan - tragedy large cast flexible casting four acts
On 3 November 1886, the Emperor's birthday, a ball is to be held at the Rokumeikan, or Deer Cry Hall, in Tokyo. The guests include many foreign dignitaries. However, anti-government extremists are planning to crash the party.
Title: Romance Language
Author: Parnell, Peter Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy comedy - fantasy - literature fifteen characters ten male; five female two acts
The author of Sorrows of Stephen turns a modern eye on the romance of American nineteenth century literature in this surreal comedy. The play begins with Huck Finn climbing through Walt Whitman's bedroom window. Since Whitman's male lover has just died, he decides to go on a picaresque journey with Huck down the river of American culture. They encounter Custer, Thoreau, Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Cushman and Emily Dickinson. The craziness reaches a climax at the Battle of the Little Big Horn where everyone is killed and goes to literary
Title: Roommate, The in - Humana Festival 2015 / COL Author: Silverman, Jen Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2016
Description:
roy dark comedy - aging - feminism - identity all female cast; two characters two female one act (eleven scenes)
running time: 105 minutes
Sharon, in her mid-50s, is recently divorced and needs a roommate to share her Iowa home. Robyn, also in her mid-50s, needs a place to hide and a chance to start over. But as Sharon begins to uncover Robin's secrets, they encourage her own deep-seated desire to transform her life completely. A dark comedy about what it takes to re-route your life - and what happens when Title: Rope, The in - Seven Plays of the Sea / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Vintage Books 1972
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female one act
Description not available.
Title: Roses From the South
Author: Shea, Martin Publisher: New World Theatre 2001
Description:
roy drama ten characters six male; four female two acts
Description not available.
Title: Rough Crossing in - Plays Four / COL Author: Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Faber and Faber 1999
Description:
roy comedy - British - theatre six characters five male; one female; extras 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."
Adapted from Ferenc Molnar's "Play at the Castle." Title: Rules of Comedy in - Humana Festival 2015 / COL Author: Cotter, Patricia Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2016
Description:
roy comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
Caroline is really, really not funny. Which is why she hires Guy, a stand-up comedian with some hang-ups of his own, to teach her how to tell jokes. But it turns out that they both have things to learn from one another, about life as well as laughter.
Title: Rules of the Game, The
Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1919
Description:
roy drama ten characters eight male; two female three acts
Translated and adapted by William Murray
Pirandello shows that by the mere act of living, the fact of existence, a man cannot help but affect the lives of others. In this play, it is Leone who wants to remain completely out of the action from the start, but the crisis of the play occurs as a direct result of his separateness.
Title: Rum For The Money in - Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, The / CCO Author: Stapleton, Berni Publisher: Breakwater Books 2016
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - crime - bootlegging all male cast; three characters three male one act (one scene)
"Set in the 1960s in a small dory on the waters between Newfoundland and St. Pierre & Miquelon, three Newfoundland men are on a rum running mission in the middle of the night escaping and dodging French bullets and then evading RCMP cutters. An eerie night ensues as our three rum runners question their lot in life as inexplicable happenings engulf them. A Rum for the Money melds comedy and drama to perfection." Title: Rx
Author: Fodor, Kate Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2012
Description:
roy comedy - romance seven characters four male; three female one act (twenty-four scenes)
Phil is a researcher entrusted with the first major trial of Thriveon, Schmidt Pharma's experimental treatment for workplace depression. Meena is a study subject who is depressed by her workplace. Can Thriveon cure Meena? Can Meena cure Phil? A comedy about big love, big dreams and Big Pharma.
Title: Safety
Author: Thorpe, Chris Unlimited Theatre Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2002
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act (twenty-one scenes)
SAFETY is the story of a war photographer who is celebrated as producing some of the most iconic images of conflict from the late 20th century. Now in his mid 40s and on the eve of a major retrospective of his work, Michael is being forced to reconsider his roles as a reporter who has come to be thought of as an artist, a husband who's never there and a father who hesitated when his daughter needed him most.
Title: Saint Joan of the Stockyards
Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Frank Jones Publisher: Indiana University Press 1969
Description:
roy drama - revolution large cast flexible casting eleven scenes
4 interiors and 8 exteriors; speaking and singing chorus.
Anti-capitalist play, partly in verse, involving business manipulation and industrial strife in Chicago stock-days and ill-fated attempt by religious salvationist turned social reformer to aid workers. Title: Salonika
Author: Page, Louise Publisher: Methuen 1983
Description:
roy drama - fantasy five characters four male; two female three parts
On the beach sit and English mother and daughter. In a nearby war cemetery is the grave of the husband and father, a soldier with the British Expeditionary Force who died in 1918. Will this visit to Salonika help them to lay his ghost at last; or will the dead past hold its grip? And what of the future offered by others on the beach?
Title: Satellites in - Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas / COL Author: Son, Diana Publisher: Duke University Press 2017
Description:
roy Korea - drama seven characters four male; three female one act (twelve scenes)
This play shows a Korean American character whose ethnic identity is only one of multiple facets of her existence. The protagonist, Nina, is a successful architect in her thirties. She is driven, ambitious, and focused on success. She is also a new mother who moves to Brooklyn to start a family lifestyle with her African-American husband, Miles, who was adopted by a white family and had graduated from a prestigious university with a degree in computer engineering. Nina is overwhelmed with motherhood and hires a Korean woman, Mrs. Chae, as a nanny. As her
Title: Saved
Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1982
Description:
roy drama ten characters seven male; three female thirteen scenes
'Monosyllabic speeches portray South London alum dwellers living on the fringes of criminality in a world almost subhuman.' Title: Savin' Up For Saturday Night The honky-tonk musical Author: Goode, Jeff Levinson, Richard Publisher: Samuel French 2012
Description:
roy musical - comedy - country western five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
"Lovin’ ain’t easy in this one-honky-tonk town, so when the bartender and the bandleader fall for the same dance hall girl, you’re in for an evening of showstoppers and toe-tappers, cat fights, and love quadrangles that’ll keep any joint jumpin’ till way past last call."
Title: Saving Kitty in - New England New Play Anthology, The / COL Author: Smith, Marisa Publisher: StageSource 2017
Description:
roy comedy - family drama four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
"Kate and Huntley Hartley, atheist Manhattanites, anxiously await the arrival of their daughter, up-and-coming television news producer Kitty, and her new beau Paul, for dinner—and much, much more. When Paul turns out to be an Evangelical Christian educator—the liberal, cultured Kate’s worst nightmare—everything is turned upside down as Kate tries to scuttle the budding
Title: Savoy
Author: O'Brien, Eugene Publisher: Methuen 2004
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - movies - relationships five characters four male; one female two acts
On the closing night of Edenderry's Savoy cinema, three men have gathered for an unusual wake to remember the life of the cinema and its place in their lives. From the spectre of the multiplex that has sounded the death knell of the local cinema, to the town's inhabitants and 'A Fistful of Dollars', Eugene O'Brien creates a compelling picture of the life of a provincial Irish town. By turns comical and elegiac, the men's shared memories finally exposes the fiction and frailty that lie at the heart of their relationships. Title: Scenarios of the Commedia dell'Arte Flaminio Scala's Il Teatro delle favole rappresentative Author: Scala, Flaminio translated by Henry F. Salerno Publisher: Limelight Editions 1992
Description:
Commedia dell'Arte scenarios translated into english.
Includes scenarios from: The Old Twins; Flavio's Fortune; Isabella's Fortune; Isabella's Trick; Flavio Betrayed; The Jealous Old Man; The Lady Who was Believed Dead; The Fake Madwoman; The Husband; The Betrothed; The Captain; The Dentist; The Desperate Doctor; The Faithful Pilgrim Lover; The Trials of isabella; The Mirror; The Twin Captains; The Tragic Events; The Three Loyal Friends; The Two Faithful Notaries; The Fake Magician; He Who Was Believed Dead; The Postman; The Fake Tofano; The Jealousy of Isabella; The Alexandrian Carpets; The Faithless One; Flavio the Fake Magician; The Faithful Friend; The Disguised Gypsies; The Four Fake Spirits; The Fake Blind Man; Flavio's Disgrace; Isabella, the Astrologer; The Hunt; The Madness of Isabella; The Picture; The Just Punishment; The Mad Princess; The Comical, Pastoral, and Tragical Events; Alvida; Rosalba,
Title: Scene Painting Tools and techniques Author: Veaner, Daniel Publisher: Prentice-Hall 1984
Description:
reference - scenery
A complete step-by-step guide to painting theatrical scenery for professional, amateur, and school dramatic productions.
Title: School Film, The in - National Theatre Connections / YCL Author: Marber, Patrick Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - British multiple characters variable size ensemble of any size or age one act
suitable for any age.
"What are great expectations?" "It means he's going to be rich. And a gentleman" The whole school assemble in the hall to watch 'the school film' which turns out to be an old British classic from the 1940s, in black and white no less. As the young viewers absorb the adventures of the characters in the old story they begin to Title: Scream Queens - the musical "They Sing! They Dance! They Die!" Author: Martin, Scott Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy musical - comedy - science fiction - parody all female cast; six characters six female two acts
music and lyrics by Scott Martin.
"They sing - they dance - they die!" A hotel ballroom, 1998, and six voluptuous B-movie "Scream Queens" revive their fading acting careers by presenting a musical revue for their fans at a science fiction and horror film convention. From young newbie to seasoned grand dame, the Queens strut their stuff in song and dance to prove "I Got All of the Talent I Need." For 90 minutes of hilarious
Title: Se Llama Cristina
Author: Solis, Octavio Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
"A man and woman awaken from an apparent drugged-out night to find their baby missing. The pair relive their history in order to remember their way back to their child and to try to set things right. This haunted, poetic journey moves through time from past to present to future, and from darkness and doubt to the glimmer of miraculous light. "
Title: Sea, The A full-length play Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1974
Description:
roy comedy fourteen characters; extras seven male; seven female eight acts
4 sets.
The Sea is a comedy set in an East Coast Village in 1907. The action centres round the drowning of a young man and the repercussions, emotional and political, it has on the tight, inward-looking village community. Title: Seafarer, The in - Plays: Three - Conor McPherson / COL Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2013
Description:
roy drama all male cast; five characters five male two acts
It’s Christmas Eve and James 'Sharky' Harkin, an erstwhile fisherman/van driver/chauffeur now in his fifties, has returned to Dublin to look after his ageing, irascible brother, Richard, who’s recently gone blind. Two old drinking buddies, Ivan and Nicky, are also holed up at the house, hoping to play some cards. But with the arrival of Mr Lockhart, an acquaintance of Nicky's, the stakes are raised ever higher. In fact, Sharky may be playing for his very soul.
Title: Seagull, The in - Plays Four / COL Author: Stoppard, Tom Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Publisher: Faber and Faber 1999
Description:
roy drama twelve characters seven male; five female four acts
"The Seagull, a spectacular failure on its first appearance, was the play that, on its second, established Anton Chekhov as an important and revolutionary dramatist. Here, amid the weariness of life in the country, the famous actress Arkadina presides over a household riven with desperate love, with dreams of success and dread of failure. It is her son, Konstantin, who one day shoots a seagull; it is the novelist Trigorin who will one day write the story of the seagull so casually killed; but it is Nina, the seagull herself, whose life to come will rewrite the story."
Title: Second Man, The
Author: Behrman, S. N. Publisher: Samuel French 1956
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female three acts
The play has to do with Clark Storey, novelist, with whom two women are in love. He is determined to marry one of them, and though attracted to the other, he throws her over. The second woman then accuses him of playing her false. The play is essentially a brilliant comedy and is treated in a clever and sophisticated fashion. Title: Secret Keeper, The in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Meyers, David Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - war - death two characters one male; one female one act (one scene)
"Ahmad is the groundskeeper at a cemetery in Afghanistan. When a local mother visits the cemetery, she befriends Ahmad and unearths a troubling secret that unites them both."
Title: Self Torture and Strenuous Exercise in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL Author: Kondoleon, Harry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
Carl tells Alvin that he's in love with another woman. "Good for you," says Alvin, who refuses to accept that Carl's wife, Adel, only attempted suicide—she's still alive. The woman Carl loves is Alvin's wife, Beth. But right now, Beth is so drunk she can't get up off the floor, much less run off with Carl, and Adel comes in with bandaged wrists saying Carl has been trying to kill her. These four have some issues to work out.
Title: Separate Peace, A
Author: Knowles., John Gilsenan, Nancy Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1988
Description:
roy drama - tragedy all male cast: seven characters seven male two acts
adapted by Nancy Gilsenan; approximate running time: 90 mins.
John Knowles' classic tale of two high-school boys standing on the threshold of war and adulthood comes to the stage. Gene Forrester is a careful, studious young man, full of fear of the future. As America is about to enter World War II, Gene attends summer school at Devon in New England. There he meets a remarkable young man whose love for life defies the reality of draft Title: Serinette in - Scripts / CCO Author: Reaney, James Somers, Harry Publisher: Coach House Books 2004
Description:
roy opera - Canada - historical large cast flexible casting two acts
Music by Harry Somers.
Reaney's libretto is based on characters and events of Upper Canada in the early 1800s. The Family Compact conflicts (political and religious), the Ridout-Jarvis duel, and the establishment of a utopian farm community at Sharon by David Willson are all historical, but the story's central figure, Colin Jarvis, 'younger brother' of the historical Samuel Jarvis, is fictitious. The mechanical
Title: Serious Money
Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Methune 1987
Description:
roy satire - finance twenty characters; extras fourteen male; six female (doubling possible) two acts
1 setting.
'Satire set in contemporary London financial world. Cartel's efforts to obtain control of company go awry when murder occurs.'
Title: Serpent, The in - America Hurrah and Other Plays / COL Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1969
Description:
roy drama - American - Avant-Garde - religious fourteen characters seven male; seven female one act
1 set; dancing, singing and a speaking chorus.
The play traces the development of man, good and evil, through explorations of Biblical stories and American history. Title: Shades
Author: Macdonald, Sharman Publisher: Faber and Faber 1992
Description:
roy drama - Scottish four characters one male; two female; one boy two acts
time period - 1950s; setting: Glasgow.
Pearl, a young widow, bitterly resents her husband for dying and leaving her with the prospect of a lonely old age and her mother for being unable to provide her with the affection she craved as a child. Frightened by the onset of middle age, she fiercely prepares for a rather special night out - one which could change her fortunes completely. Ten-year-old Alan jealously watches her
Title: Shakers
Author: Godber, John Thornton, Jane Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1993
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - satire all female cast; four characters four female two acts
In a not-so-chic London bar called Shakers, we meet Carol, Adele, Nicky and Mel, four friends who have taken to waitressing in desperation but who also have wit and resilience enough to never let any of the colorful characters they come across escape their satire unscathed. In theatrically heightened moments, the women play the roles of men and women alike, covering not only their nights at Shakers but also the lives of four other working women in London. Always at the source of their satire are the men who take them for granted or, worse, abuse them. Against
Title: Shakespeare for One: Women The complete monologues and audition pieces Author: Publisher: Heinemann Drama 2002
Description:
scenes and monologues - Shakespeare - women
At some point in their careers, all actors have to face the task of working up a classical monologue - preferably one that's accessible, compelling, and not done to death. This volume collects virtually all of the monologues for women from Shakespeare's 37 plays. Not only actors, but directors and teachers, too, will find this book a treasure trove off the famous soliloquies plus many unfamiliar gems.
Arranged alphabetically by play title, the monologues are presented in an actor-friendly format, beginning with a thumbnail sketch of the story's key developments and a streamlined cast of characters.Exhaustive explanatory notes offer up a wealth of helpful tips - from definitions of archaic words and expressions to comments on both setting and accompanying action. Title: Shakespeare in Love
Author: Norman, Marc Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Grove Press 2014
Description:
roy comedy twenty-nine characters; extras flexible casting two acts
Adapted for the stage by Lee Hall; based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard.
A stage adaptation of the film - a masterful story of love and drama. Plagued by debt, tormented by writer's block and in desperate need of a new hit, promising new playwright Will Shakespeare finds his muse in the form of a passionate young noblewoman Viola De Lesseps. Their forbidden love soon draws everyone, including Queen Elizabeth, into the drama, and inspires Will to write
Title: Shape of the River, The The lost teleplay about Mark Twain Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2003
Description:
roy teleplay - biography nineteen characters ten male; nine female one act
A drama about the last 15 years of Mark Twain's life; adapted from his letters of this time. Contains bibliography, history and analysis by Mark Dawidziak.
Title: She Mami Wata and the Pussy Witchhunt in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Anitafrika, D'Bi.Young Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - women eleven characters three male; eight female one act (thirteen scenes)
Part of the Orisha Trilogy. The play centres on gender, sexuality, and the erotic through the life of four friends growing up in present-day Jamaica, who are challenged to re-negotiate their complex relationship under "buggery" laws. Raised in the violence and silence of misogyny and homophobia, Niki lives on the margins of church, the burlesque pole and womxn's thighs. Title: Sheppey in - Plays: One - W. Somerset Maugham / COL Author: Maugham, W. Somerset Publisher: Methuen Drama 1997
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters ten male; six female three acts
Sheppey is the story of a hardworking hairdresser who generally considers himself to be a lucky man and then has that self-belief proved when he wins a considerable sum of money.
Title: Shine! The Horatio Alger musical Author: Seff, Richard Anderson, Roger Dean Publisher: Samuel French 2011
Description:
roy musical - dramatic comedy - historical nineteen characters thirteen male; six female two acts
"Lower Manhattan, 1876. Join Dick as he rises from penniless bootblack to budding entrepreneur with a little bit of luck, a little bit of charm, and a whole lot of hard work. Based on Horatio Alger’s beloved tale, Dick’s adventures bring him face to face with scheming ex-convicts, vicious comic villains, kind benefactors, and a host of colorful characters in this rags-to-riches romp for the whole family."
Title: Shining City in - Plays: Three - Conor McPherson / COL Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2013
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female one act (five scenes)
Ian has left the priesthood and is starting a new career as a therapist in Dublin. John is one of his first clients. John’s wife, Mari, has been killed in a horrible car accident, and he keeps receiving visits from her ghost. John, with Ian’s help, starts to recover. Meanwhile Ian is struggling with a dilemma of his own: his estranged fiancée, Neasa, with whom he has a baby, wants him to come home; but Ian isn't yet ready – or able – to commit to married life. Title: Shivaree, The in - Scripts / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Coach House Books 2004
Description:
roy black comedy - opera - Canada - historical twelve characters eight male; four female two acts
Music by John Beckwith.
According to the libretto, 'the action of the opera takes place in a farming district of Southwestern Ontario in the early years of the 20th century. The characters are fictitious, but the custom of the shivaree (a mock wedding serenade played on homemade percussion instruments) is an actual custom of the area'. The Shivaree is a black comedy, combining elements of farce and tragedy.
Title: Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat in - Ravenhill Plays:3 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Publisher: Bloomsbury 2013
Description:
roy drama - war - monologues - relationships large cast flexible casting eighteen parts
Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is an epic cycle of 16 short plays examining the personal and political effect of war on modern life. Each of the plays is named after an existing classical work as Ravenhill stages the intensity of individual pain against a glimpsed vast narrative of conflict. A child talks to a headless man, a woman is afflicted with mysterious intestinal pain, a couple talk about their garden bench, a soldier demands love from a woman whose country he has liberated.
Title: Sicilian Limes in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama - Italy - relationships five characters; extras two male; three female one act
1 interior.
Man who has sacrificed all for famous singer's voice training and visits her during party is slighted. Piccolo. Title: Sienna Red
Author: Poliakoff, Stephen Publisher: Methuen Drama 1992
Description:
roy comedy - romance eight characters five male; three female two acts
Cecilia, a woman who has taken refinement in her life to its very limits, has an affair with a man who, by being uniquely himself, is able to exert control over those around him. A startling love story and a fascinating comedy of opposites, 'Sienna Red' transforms the seemingly ordinary into the extraordinary where the mundane environment of a DIY emporium becomes a place of surprising riches and disturbing passions.
Title: Silver's Secret
Author: Nixon, Charlotte Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 2015
Description:
roy comedy - children - Alberta playwright large cast flexible casting one act (five scenes)
This goofy pirate play is a treasure chest full of silliness with cheerleader mermaids, ghosts, smugglers, and lobsters as comic stagehands! As the famous pirate Long John Silver lies on his deathbed, he sends for his sons, Red Beard and Black Beard, and his daughter, No Beard. Alas, his offspring didn’t inherit their father’s pirating skills! Luckily, each bumbling pirate has a “smee” as an assistant, because their father sends them off to find the three keys to the treasure chest that holds his life’s treasure. The children and their respective smees dash off to adventures, for
Title: Singular Kinda Guy, A in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy comedy - solo performance - relationships - monologue all male cast; one character one male one act
Mitch is a young guy talking to a girl in a bar. She's nice, but he's got this sort of confession, see. There's something she ought to know—on the inside, he isn't really a guy at all. He's an Olivetti electric self-correcting typewriter. Title: Sir Thomas More
Author: Munday, Anthony Publisher: Manchester University Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - biography - Elizabethan - Tudor large cast flexible casting five acts
Revised by Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood, and William Shakespeare.
A dramatic biography based on the life of Catholic martyr Thomas More, who rose to become the Lord Chancellor of England during the Reign of Henry VIII.
Title: Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia in - Hedda Gabler & Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Canadian Playwright - family relations - war sixteen characters nine male; seven female one act (twenty-six scenes, prologue, epilogue)
Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia is a gripping story about the horrors of collective and personal wars as a family torn apart by death and destruction becomes their own worst enemy. When a deal between Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus goes awry, Iphigenia becomes the blood sacrifice leading to truths her sister Elektra can no longer hide from. Against the backdrop of a family drama, Judith Thompson gives voice to the women who were silenced during the Bosnian War, examining a cultural trauma and its place in our collective history.
Title: Sister Mary's a Dyke?! in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Peña, Flerida Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - women - religion - Canadian - solo performance all female cast; one character one female one act (sixteen scenes)
A playful attack on the church and the oppressive educational systems it has spawned. Peña uses high theatricality ro illustrate her queer vision and empower her characters to be as fully rebellious as she can dream them. What seems at first to be a coming out story quickly turns into a fantastical rebellion of comic book proportions. This action-packed play is a fun foray into the triumph of imagination in the face of oppression - one that culminates in nothing less that a dramatic overthrow of the Vatican. Title: Sister Virtue A one-act drama exposing the perils of puberty Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - disabilities - religion - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
A woman struggles to deal with her mentally disabled son, her religious daughter, and the hired hand on the farm.
Title: Sisters on the Ground in - Dramatics (December 2017 / January 2018) / PER Author: Posner, Max Publisher: Miscellaneous 2017
Description:
roy drama - family relations ten characters one male; nine female one act (three parts)
A patch of dirt. In the Northeast USA. 1825. Six sisters. Some neighbors. Cholera (maybe). A fire. The stars.
Title: Ski Lift in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Holbrook, Chris Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act
A man tries to commit suicide while riding a ski (chair) lift. Title: Slab Boys, The
Author: Byrne, John Publisher: Samuel French 1982
Description:
roy comedy - Scottish eight characters six male; two female two acts
1 interior setting.
"Comedy set in 1957 detailing working day of three Slab Boys (apprentice designers) in Glasgow carpet factory."
Title: Slap in the Farce, A in - A Slap in the Farce & A Matter of Wife and Death / COL Author: Labiche, Eugène Martin, Édouard Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1988
Description:
roy farce five characters two male; three female one act
translated by Norman R. Shapiro.
On a dark tram, artist thinks he is petting his dog, but strokes lady's foot, leading to further misunderstandings.
Title: Sleepers Den, The in - Peter Gill: Plays 1 / COL Author: Gill, Peter Publisher: Faber and Faber 2002
Description:
roy drama - family relations six characters two male; four female two acts
Set in 1950s Cardiff, The Sleepers Den presents the struggle of the desperate Shannon family who, vulnerable and powerless, live in squalor and must fend for themselves in this story of everyday survival. Title: Sleeping Policemen
Author: Brenton, Howard Ikoli, Tunde Publisher: Methuen 1984
Description:
roy dramatic comedy six characters two male; four female two acts
(The play) is the result of an exciting and innovative collaboration between the playwrights and director Roland Rees. Commissioned by Foco Novo, the brief was for each writer to create a play set in Peckham in 1983, using the same six characters but written from his own point of view. Following a series of regular meetings and finally a workshop with six actors, they separated, each to write his own play. When the scripts were complete, the writers met again and, together with the director, intercut and amalgamated them into one play.
Title: Small Change in - Peter Gill: Plays 1 / COL Author: Gill, Peter Publisher: Faber and Faber 2002
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
Small Change is about two mothers and two sons, their attachments and emotional complexity, the endeavour of the two sons to make sense of their complicated inheritance and their adolescent friendship later in life.
Title: Smokey Joe's Cafe - vocal selections The songs of Leiber and Stoller Author: Leiber, Jerry Stoller, Mike Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical.
contains: Stand By Me / Jailhouse Rock / On Broadway / Hound Dog / Love Potion #9 / Yakety Yak / Kansas City / I'm a Woman / Searchin' / Young Blood / Treat Me Nice / I (Who Have Nothing) / Loving You / Ruby Baby / Fools Fall in Love / D.W.Washburn / Saved / Don Juan / Pearl's a Singer / Baby, That is Rock & Roll Title: Snow Dragons, The in - National Theatre Connections / YCL Author: Nunnery, Lizzie Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - British - World War II - Norway eight characters; extras; chorus four male; four female eight scenes
suitable for any age.
"The Snow Dragons" is an imagined story based on actual events.
Raggi and her friends spend their free time in the woods and mountains around their sleepy fjord town playing games of Vikings, dragons and war. When soldiers occupy the town, they watch
Title: So Unnatural a Level in - Humana Festival 2015 / COL Author: Winter, Gary Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2016
Description:
roy comedy six characters; puppet three male; three female one act
A woman writes a novel in the midst of insurance employees frantically dealing with the aftermath of a storm.
Title: Social Security A play in two acts Author: Bergman, Andrew Publisher: Nelson Doubleday 1986
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A young married couple who are both art dealers are disrupted upon the arrival of the wife's goody-goody nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband and her Archetypal Jewish mother. They are there to try to save their college student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. The comic sparks really begin to fly when the mother his it off with the elderly minimalist artist who is Title: Social Studies
Author: Cooper, Trish Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2016
Description:
roy comedy - immigrants - family relations four characters one male; three female two acts
"When Jackie comes back to her childhood home after separating from her husband, she thinks her biggest problem will be readjusting to life on a smaller bed. She’s surprised to learn, however, that her mother has given that bed away to a Sudanese refugee! Cultural differences, language barriers, and the self-conscious earnestness of good intentions combine to deliver a scathingly comic look at Canadian values."
Title: Solstice Mutiny, The A radio play Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright all male cast; five characters five male three acts
A radio play based on the mutiny which led to the death of Henry Hudson.
Title: Some Americans Abroad in - Goodnight Children Everywhere and Other Plays / COL Author: Nelson, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Inc. 2004
Description:
roy comedy eleven characters six male; five female two acts
When a group of American professors gathers in London to teach a theatre course, the sparks fly as they squabble over academic politics, with egos, reputations, and careers at stake. Title: Some Kind of Love Story
Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1983
Description:
roy dramatic comedy two characters one male; one female one act
Angela, a hard-bitten call-girl, is visited by Tom, a private detective of long acquaintance, who is convinced that she can supply information about a murder case which, some years earlier, resulted in a miscarriage of justice. As Tom plays on their former closeness, trying to draw out the facts he seeks, Angela withdraws behind a schizophrenic screen of multiple personalities ranging from a brazen creature named Leontyne, to a shrinking violet called Emily, to a haughty English-woman named Renata. Doggedly persistent, Tom does, in the end, break through the
Title: Some Men Need Help
Author: Noonan, John Ford Publisher: Samuel French 1983
Description:
roy comedy - friendship all male cast; two characters two male two acts
This off beat comedy about male friendship begins with Harley T. Singleton III face down on his suburban kitchen floor dead drunk. His neighbor, an ex mafioso, is determined to save Harley from himself.
Title: Some Prepared Remarks (A History in Speech) in - Humana Festival 2014: The complete plays / COL Author: Platt, Jason Gray Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama one character flexible casting one act (one scene)
"Colored construction paper. Index cards. A Post-it note. Follow one speaker's life across the speeches, presentations and toasts recorded on these scraps of paper. Every year seems to go by a little faster, so we promise to keep things brief." Title: Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends (a Final Evening with t
Author: Larson, Larry Lee, Levi Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1986
Description:
roy comedy - religion all male cast; eleven characters two male (doubling) two acts
2 interiors.
The setting is the bombed-out, post-holocaust sanctuary of a church, where the Reverend Eddie (clad in long underwear) prepares to deliver his final sermon: "Life Is Like a Basketball Game." Abetted by his faithful helper, the hunch-backed Brother Lawrence, Reverend Eddie first embarks on a series of wildly funny skits in which Saint Paul and Saint Timothy discuss the shaky position
Title: Something from Nothing in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL Author: Reidy, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy comedy three characters two male; one female one act
A stranger's intimate gesture on a New York subway causes a couple to reexamine their relationship, and it causes one person to get punched in the face. Told from all three characters' wildly different perspectives.
Title: SongCatcher: a native interpretation of the story of Frances Densmore in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Rendon, Marcie R. Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy native playwright - biographical - women - Native peoples eighteen characters eight male; ten female three acts
Marcie's play is about a collector named Frances Densmore. The setting is present day. A young Native man named Jack and his Native girlfriend Chris are the main characters. Chris was raised with her Native community. Jack was not. He knows he's Native, and he goes to powwows and hangs out with Native people. He wants to know more, though, about his own tribe, and he especially wants a song of his own. Bill is an older Native man who visits with Jack and Chris in their apartment. Both Chris and Bill tell Jack that the song will come to him, that he has to listen Title: Sound of Cracking Bones, The in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Lebeau, Suzanne translated by Julia Duchesne & John Van Burek Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - war - children - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian three characters one female; one girl; one boy one act (ten scenes)
Original title: Le bruit des os qui craquent.
A piece of reality theatre addressing an issue of international importance and compelling actuality - child soldiers. It traces the flight of two children from the tropical forest where they were being held and used by a group of rebels - Elikia, thirteen years old, and Joseph, eight years old - and their arrival, after an extremely difficult trek, to relative safety at the childrens hospital in Joseph's
Title: Souvenirs of Home
Author: Quan, Elyne Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005
Description:
roy drama - immigrants - relationships - historical - Alberta playwright all female cast; three characters three female one act
simple set.
"The lives of three Chinese women intersect in the 1960s on the Canadian Prairies as each of them search for the meaning of "home"."
Title: Spare Parts A serious comedy Author: Page, Elizabeth Publisher: Samuel French 1988
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ five characters two male; three female two acts
The plan is for an unwitting college student to impregnate Lois and then disappear, leaving Lois and her female lover, Jax, with a baby. But young Henry is smitten. What began as a private compact between two lesbians becomes a five way struggle as the characters jockey for position around the baby to be until they become a family. Title: Spell #7 in - Three Pieces / COL Author: Shange, Ntozake Publisher: Penguin Books 1981
Description:
roy black theatre - drama nine characters four male; five female two acts
1 interior.
Black performers gathered in a bar act out fantasies, memories, hopes, and fears in poetry, mime, song, and dance, exploring black experiences, relations with the white world, and the situation of black women.
Title: Spin in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Parry, Evalyn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy musical - LGBTQ+ - feminism - biography eight characters five male; three female one act
The play begins with a bicycle and collates a history of feminist self-performance through music and play. Beginning amidst the first wave of feminism, SPIN moves through a trans-historical journey, telling the story of Annie Londonderry, an accidental feminist icon and a cyclist with global aspirations. Two endings are provide; the one that became its ultimate ending and then the original ending added as an appendix.
Title: Splendor in - New England New Play Anthology, The / COL Author: Greenidge, Kirsten Publisher: StageSource 2017
Description:
roy drama - family relationships ten characters four male; six female two acts
"On Thanksgiving eve in a town just north of Boston, Fran is determined to make a nice turkey dinner for her chain-smoking klepto mother, and her couch-surfing older brother. If only it were that simple. A vivid collage of local stories exposes a community where generations of families collide over far more than pumpkin pie and stuffing." Title: Squawk
Author: Coles, Megan Gail Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - young adult - Canadian playwright - Indigenous peoples three characters two male; one female one act
This daring new play from Newfoundland playwright Megan Gail Coles showcases a bold and refreshing approach to theatre for young audiences. Coles deftly interweaves Canada's colonial history with online gaming as our Indigenous protagonist struggles to understand and reconcile her past, present and future. Annie Runningbird doesn’t have time for the games boys want her to play. She’s aging out of foster care on her next birthday. The system has decided she is an adult, so Annie must make adult decisions. Where will she live? How will she make money? Demanding
Title: St Joan in - Crossing Jerusalem and Other Plays / COL Author: Pascal, Julia Publisher: Oberon Modern Plays 2003
Description:
roy drama - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female (flexible casting) one act (twenty-two monologues)
Joan of Arc has, for over five centuries, proved an irresistable and enduring icon for an extremely diverse group of people both within and without France. St Joan sets the heroine against a remarkable sweep of world history, wittily highlighting the paradoxes and culminating in the Parisian National Front rally of 1995.
Title: Standing on my Knees
Author: Olive, John Publisher: Miscellaneous 1983
Description:
roy drama - schizophrenia - mental illness four characters one male; three female two acts
Catherine, a young and promising poet affected with schizophrenia, returns home to her cluttered apartment after a stay in the hospital. Urged on by her publisher she struggles to pursue her art, but the very intensity of thought that this demands brings on her attacks and the imaginary voices that bedevil her. At a party she meets Robert, a young stockbroker, and as their relationship deepens she relies ever more heavily on Thorazine pills to control her illness and maintain a semblance of normalcy. Ironically, while the pills block her "voices" they also stifle her creative Title: Staple of News, The
Author: Jonson, Ben Publisher: Manchester University Press 1988
Description:
nonroy satire large cast flexible casting five acts
"This is a lively and ambitious satire in which Jonson takes a stand on various developments in late Jacobean society - particularly the emergence of an organized political journalism whose trade in news 'stories' he saw as undermining his own endeavour to educate public awareness through literary fictions."
Title: Stars in the Morning Sky
Author: Galin, Alexander translated by Elise Thoron Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1984
Description:
roy dramatic comedy seven characters two male; five female two acts
running time: approx 90 mins.
The play is concerned with a small group of prostitutes who have been evicted from Moscow just before the tourists arrive for the 1980 Olympics. They've been sent to some dilapidated barracks in a mental asylum. There is strong dramatic interaction among these "Olympic Girls"—in a sad love affair between one of them and an escaped patient, and in the demands of some offstage
Title: Status Update in - National Theatre Connections / YCL Author: Etchells, Tim Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - British - teenagers - growing up multiple characters variable size ensemble one act
suitable for any age.
We know facts. We know secrets. We have opinions, we have intuition and we have the stage. "Status Update" is an unflinching and funny catalogue of the things teenagers learn, believe and have sussed out about the world. From the ridiculous to the highly charged, all these truths and half-truths are laid bare before us, without the safety net of character or fiction. Title: Steel Hammer in - Humana Festival 2014: The complete plays / COL Author: Corthron, Kia Wolfe, Julia Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama - musical - American legends - storytelling ten characters flexible casting one act (four parts)
also written by: Carl Hancock Rux and Regina Taylor; music and lyrics by Julia Wolfe.
A story telling contest based on the question: What is the story of John Henry in the way you'd like to tell it? Four different versions of the American legend. Ultimately, the legend of John Henry does much more than provide this play with its source material; it also serves as a visceral example of how storytellers shape narratives to their own ends, be they political, cultural or practical. 'Steel
Title: Stitch in - Huff & Stitch / COL Author: Cardinal, Cliff Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Native playwright - solo performance many characters one female (doubling) one act (one scene)
"Kylie Grandview is a single mom struggling to make a living as a porn star while dreaming of being on the big screen. She’s painfully aware that she is among the many nameless faces on the Internet, the ones that blip across cyberspace, as her yeast infection, Itchia, reminds her at every turn. But when Kylie is offered the chance at a big break, a series of twisted events lead her down a destructive path, revealing a face no one will forget."
Title: Stone Guest, The in - Boris Godunov: The little tragedies / COL Author: Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich Publisher: Oberon Books 2002
Description:
roy drama - tragedy six characters; extras four male; two female one act (four scenes)
Verse drama about Don Juan's return from exile. Title: Storm, The in - Four Plays - Alexander Ostrovsky / COL Author: Ostrovsky, Alexander translated by Stephen Mulrine Publisher: Oberon Books 1997
Description:
roy tragedy twelve characters: extras six male; six female five acts
The Storm is a work of social criticism, which is directed particularly towards the Russian merchant class.
Title: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The
Author: Edgar, David Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1992
Description:
roy drama - science fiction - thriller - morality fourteen characters flexible casting two acts
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson s classic horror story, this dramatic adaptation shows the transformation of the mild-mannered Dr Jekyll into the fiendish Mr Hyde. When Jekyll discovers a drug that can transform him, he becomes able to unleash the dark side of his nature onto the streets of Victorian London. But he soon discovers the price of his double life.
Title: Stray
Author: Quan, Elyne Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005
Description:
roy drama - family relations - Alberta playwrights four characters two male; two female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"Eight years after Kim's older brother went missing, a stranger arrives at her family's door claiming to be him. Once he's invited in, he upends everything the family thought they knew about themselves and each other." Title: String Fever
Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2003
Description:
roy romantic comedy nine characters three male; three female (doubling) one act
In this comedy, Lily juggles the big issues: turning forty, artificial insemination and the elusive scientific Theory of Everything. Lily's world includes an Icelandic comedian, her wisecracking best friend, a cat-loving physicist, her no-longer-suicidal father and an ex-boyfriend who carries around a chair.
Title: Stroll in the Air, A in - Stroll in the Air, A & Frenzy for Two, or More / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene translated by Donald Watson Publisher: Grove Press 1965
Description:
roy comedy large cast flexible casting one act
A full length one act concerning Monsieur Berenger, who is the hero of many of Ionesco's plays, including Rhinoceros. What happens to Berenger, his wife and daughter - a French family living for unstated reasons in England - is the source and substance of the play, for Berenger one day discovers that he has the miraculous gift of freeing himself from the law of gravity. How the English react to this oddity also reveals Ionesco's feelings about that insular people with whom he has been fascinated since his earliest plays.
Title: Stuff Happens
Author: Hare, David Publisher: Faber and Faber 2004
Description:
roy drama - historical - politics large cast flexible casting two acts
The play outlines the political events of the last two years which led up to the war in Iraq and its aftermath. The main characters are the real life members of the Bush administration in the USA and Tony Blair’s Labor government in the UK. Hare presents a satirical and highly critical view of their actions, motivations and words and, as the majority of their lines are in their own words, it could be argued that the political figures in the play indict themselves by what they say. Title: Subfertile
Author: Mardirosian, Tom Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1988
Description:
roy comedy - infertility - men five characters two male; three female one act
There is no room for delicacy or modesty when Tom, on the brink of his fortieth birthday, learns that he and his wife's childless condition is a result of his low sperm count. Determined to have a child, and haunted by the dinosaurs he visits at the Museum of Natural History, Tom pursues the dream of fatherhood through the expensive and painful avenues of modern medicine. The situation is hard on his masculinity and his marriage, and the solutions become increasingly bizarre. Should Tom opt for surgery, insulated diapers, or the good, old-fashioned remedy
Title: Subterraneans, The in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Kraar, Adam Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - family relations - teenagers three characters one male; two female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
A teenage brother and sister have a conversation about life, family, and drugs.
Title: Sugar Witch, The
Author: Sanders, Nathan Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy drama - southern gothic - death - illness - health - family - parenting six characters three male; three female two acts
The Bean family in Sugar Bean, Florida live under an ancient family curse. The surviving members of the town's founding family have reached the end of their rope. Just when things can't possibly get any worse, tragedy strikes as a mysterious and brutal murder takes place in the Bean family home. The crime places "Moses" and "Sisser" in grave danger as "Annabelle", the last in a long-line of so-called "Sugar Witches", attempts to end the curse placed on their heads by the dying words of her very own grandmother. Dark family secrets are revealed and unusual passions are ignited Title: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Author: Gilliatt, Penelope Publisher: Bantam Books 1971
Description:
roy screenplay - LGBTQ+ - relationships large cast flexible casting nine parts
It tells the story of a free-spirited young bisexual artist and his simultaneous relationships with a female recruitment consultant and a male Jewish doctor.
Title: Sunday in Sodom in - Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom / CCO Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2017
Description:
roy drama - historical - biblical - mythological - Canadian playwright six characters four male; two female one act
Sunday in Sodom: In the Bible, she goes unnamed, known only as Lot's Wife: the impertinent woman who was turned to a pillar of salt for looking back to behold God's destruction of her hometown. In Sunday in Sodom, Edith recounts how her husband Lot welcomed two visitors into their house and the destruction that followed.
Title: Super Hot Raven and Raven II: The Ravening in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Gogerty, Megan Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy LGBTQ+ - spoof all female cast; two characters two female one act (three scenes)
1 interior set.
"A sexy, silly spoof of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," "Super Hot Raven and Raven II: The Ravening" are two ten-minute plays reimagining the famous poem as a hot lesbian love story between a poet and a mysterious plumber in a Baltimore Ravens jersey." Title: Supine Cobbler, The
Author: Connell, Jill Publisher: Coach House Books 2017
Description:
roy comedy - abortion - western all female cast; seven characters; musicians five female (doubling) one act
setting: a contemporary clinical abortion in the spirit of a Western.
The Doctor introduces the gang: The Supine Cobbler (wanted), her estranged sister (dead by hanging), her former best friend (missing, presumed dead) and her apprentice (a turncoat). Together they negotiate integrity in a lawless world. The Supine Cobbler is an unsentimental legend and a true story. It is a hero myth for girls.
Title: Sweat
Author: Nottage, Lynn Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Inc. 2017
Description:
roy drama - friendship - America nine characters six male; three female two acts
A sudden lock out at a metal tubing factory shakes up a group of close-knit friends. Their fragile bonds splinter, leading to a horrific crime that sends shock waves across two generations.
Nominated! 2017 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play and Outstanding Fight Choreography. Nominated! 2017 Tony Awards: Best Play and Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for both Johanna Day and Michelle Wilson. Winner! 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Winner!
Title: Sword Play in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Donaghy, Charlene A. Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - religion - racism three characters one male; one female; one boy one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"In 1962 the city of New Orleans, like many cities across the country, is both embracing and rebelling against racial integration. That fight permeates the Catholic Church, putting Maeve Quinn in the crosshairs. Her struggles are deepened both by her care for a young child and the intrusion of a new priest into the parish she loves. As swords clash, which fight will win: the one Title: Takeover of the Andrew Jackson Reading Room in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Adare, Sierra Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Native peoples - Native playwright - storytelling large cast flexible casting one act (nine scenes)
The play is intended as a bridge between Native and American cultural perceptions. A group of native writers gather in the Andrew Jackson reading room of a library to read their works aloud. As writers begin to read their work, it is then acted out downstage.
Title: Taking Sides
Author: Harwood, Ronald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1995
Description:
roy drama - war - music six characters four male; two female two acts
TAKING SIDES takes place in the American Zone of occupied Berlin, in 1946. It is here the American portion of the De-Nazification Tribunal has convened to take over the questioning of Wilhelm Furtwängler, one of the outstanding conductors of his time. Furtwängler was at the height of his career in 1933, eclipsing all other conductors, just as Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. As the terrors of Nazism spread, many of Furtwängler's colleagues fled the country, whether out of protest or persecution, but Furtwängler mysteriously chose to stay. Did he stay to
Title: Talk Radio
Author: Bogosian, Eric Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy comedy - radio nine characters; voices seven male; two female one act
Barry Champlain, Cleveland's controversial radio host, is on the air doing what he does best: insulting the pathetic souls who call in the middle of the night to sound off. Tomorrow, Barry's show is going into national syndication and his producer is afraid that Barry will say something that will offend the sponsors. This, of course, makes Barry even more outrageous. Funny and moving, off beat, outrageous and totally entrancing, Talk Radio had a long run at New York's Public Theatre starring the author. Title: Taptoo! in - Scripts / CCO Author: Reaney, James Beckwith, John Publisher: Coach House Books 2004
Description:
roy opera - Canada - history large cast flexible casting two acts
Music by John Beckwith.
Taptoo! rides the rift between Britain and the American colonies from the time of the Declaration of Independence to the founding of Upper Canada and the city of York, which would later become Toronto.
Title: Taste of Empire, A
Author: Sy, Jovanni Publisher: Talonbooks 2017
Description:
roy comedy - cooking - colonialism all male cast; one character one male one act (nine scenes)
1 interior set.
"Everything we eat tells a story. In A Taste of Empire, delectable samples from a real-time cooking demonstration offer food for thought about colonialism and the ethics of modern-day food systems."
Title: Tearing the Loom in - Tearing the Loom and In a Little World of Our Own / COL Author: Mitchell. Gary Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1998
Description:
roy drama - tragedy - Ireland seven characters five male; two female two acts
Drama about a man in Northern Ireland who puts community before family. The play is set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion and presents a searing portrait of a community divided against itself - with inevitably tragic consequences. Title: Ten Plagues in - Ravenhill Plays:3 / COL Author: Ravenhill, Mark Mitchell, Conor Publisher: Bloomsbury 2013
Description:
roy musical - solo performance one character one male or female sixteen parts
London is infected. The dead fall in the streets. As the plague pits fill, the people of London struggle to maintain a society in the face of overwhelming mortality. Based on eyewitness accounts from 1665 and drawing poetic parallels with modern epidemics, Ten Plagues relates one man’s journey through a city in crisis. Told entirely through a series of songs, Ten Plagues explores humanity’s struggle with sickness and death and celebrates our capacity for survival.
Title: Ten Unknowns
Author: Baitz, Jon Robin Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two acts
An explosive drama about what happens when art, fame, and integrity collide. Malcolm Raphelson is a painter who was at the top of the art world - until the critical vogue turned from realism to abstract expressionist work. He has been in self-imposed exile in Mexico for decades. But then Dealer Trevor Fabricant decides it's time for a retrospective. Trevor sends Judd, a talented and tormented young painter, to serve as Malcolm's assistant and unofficial minder. When they are joined by a beautiful young student, their tense equilibrium is upset.
Title: Tender Thing, A
Author: Power, Ben Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2009
Description:
roy drama - Shakespeare - romance two characters one male; one female one act (three scenes)
"Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story. Shakespeare's timeless poetry provides the backdrop for this delicate and moving account of old age, memory and the demands we make of those we love. When a married couple discover that their lifetime together is drawing to a close, they realise they cannot contemplate being apart." Title: Tennessee in - Six Plays - Romulus Linney / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1993
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; three female; one boy one act
A young couple and their son are visited on their Appalachian mountain farm in North Carolina by an old woman who slips into her youth and acts out her wedding trip to Tennessee and her painful return to the present time and place.
Title: Tent Meeting in - New Plays USA 4 / COL Author: Larson, Larry Lee, Levi and Rebecca Wackler Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1988
Description:
roy satire - religious three characters two male; one female two acts
1 setting.
A deluded evangelist believes that his grandson may be the Second Coming.
Title: Tent Meeting
Author: Wackler, Rebecca Larson, Larry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1987
Description:
roy comedy - religion - satire three characters two male; one female two acts
Convinced by written instructions from heaven that the poor misshapen creature to which his daughter has given birth is the Messiah, the Reverend Ed Tarbox kidnaps the baby from the Arkansas laboratory where it is being studied, christens it Jesus O. Tarbox, and, with his daughter and son in tow, heads off in their mobile home toward the promised land—which turns out to be Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The Reverend Ed is a bullying, Bible-thumping redneck preacher who may well be the father of the lamentably deformed baby; son Daniel is a slow-witted World War II Title: Terrace of the Leper King, The in - My Friend Hitler and other plays of Yukio Mishima / COL Author: Yukio, Mishima Publisher: Columbia University Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - historical - Cambodia - Japanese playwright large cast flexible casting three acts
"Terrace of the Leper King” is the story of the construction of Bayon temple, one of the major temples within Angkor Archeological Park, along with Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom. The play follows King Jayavarman VII as he oversees construction while battling increasingly severe leprosy. He goes blind as the temple nears completion and dies just as the last stone is laid. In the play’s last scene, the soul of the dead king speaks with his younger body. The body says the soul itself is leprosy, while it, the untouched, beautiful, young body represents the timeless
Title: That High Lonesome Sound in - Humana Festival 2015 / COL Author: Augustin, Jeff Grisanti, Diana Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2016
Description:
roy comedy - monologues large cast flexible casting one act (seven parts)
Also written by Cory Hinkle and Charise Castro Smith.
Bluegrass has a long and winding history, from Scottish ballads to African-American work songs, from Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys to the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. In a lively theatrical album of scenes created for the Acting Apprentice Company, four writers respond with playfulness and poignancy to the signature sounds, inherited stories, and cultural impact of this
Title: Theater of War, The What Ancient Greek tragedies can teach us today Author: Doerries, Bryan Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
Description:
Reference - Greek drama (Tragedy) - history and criticism - war in literature
Content: Learning through suffering - PTSD is from BC - American Ajax - Prometheus in solitary - Heracles in hospice.
This is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. For years, theater director Bryan Doerries has led an innovative public health project that produces ancient tragedies for current and returned soldiers, addicts, tornado and hurricane survivors, and a wide range of other at-risk people in society. The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and 'The Theater of War' — wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging — is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten. Tracing a path that links Title: Theatre Crafts Book of Make-up, Masks, and Wigs, The
Author: Publisher: Rodale Press 1974
Description:
reference - make-up
Profusely illustrated, it gathers into one volume the articles on makeup, masks, and wigs that were written by prominent designers and recognized authorities during Theatre Craft Magazine's first five years of publication. Covering a wide scope of design, application, fabrication, and maintenance, the discussion of makeup, masks, and wigs ranges from commercial and educational theatre to television and films, from circus and church theatre to children's and oriental theatre, from historical reconstructions to the newest environmental and street theatre, and from psychology and aesthetics to technological how-to.
Title: Theatre Games for Young Performers Improvisation and exercises for developing acting skills Author: Novelly, Maria C. Publisher: Meriwether Publishing Ltd. 1985
Description:
reference - improvisation - teaching
Provides: imagination-expanding exercises in pantomime, voice and improvisational acting that are easily adaptable to any selected subject or theme; enough specific drama activities to fill a semester-long drama course, a summer of recreational dramatics, or a year of once-a-week training sessions; and samples of worksheets for organizing group thinking about specific dramatic skills.
Title: Theatre in Atlantic Canada
Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
reference - Canada - plays and playwriting - Atlantic Canada
Theatre in Atlantic Canada celebrates the artists, plays, theatre companies, and festivals of New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, highlighting the social and political contexts of the theatre of this region. This collection of essays, dating from 1978 to 2009, demonstrates the invention, complexity, and vitality of the theatre of eastern Canada. Title: Theatre of Affect
Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
reference - Canadian - theatre - studies - performance
What is it to think feeling, to put the affective dimensions of theatrical experience and its production centre stage? As theatre people, we are well equipped for the challenges of this task, for we labour expressly, consistently, and consciously with emotion, feeling, mood, and affect. In essays by seasoned and emerging scholars, 'Theatre of Affect' takes the temperature of Canadian performances, ranging from a verbatim theatre piece on the emotional labours and costs of kin care, to the Canadian military's 'theatre of war,' to disability arts performances of sexuality, to the affecting role of intercultural music theatre in reconciliation proceedings. Contributors assess the deployments of various emotional registers in theatrical performance and explore how and where the 'affective turn' in contemporary humanities scholarship affects theatre studies in Canada.
Title: Theatre of Essence, The
Author: Kott, Jan Publisher: Northwestern University Press 1984
Description:
reference - criticism
Contains essays entitled: The Author of Comedy, or The Inspector General; Ibsen Read Anew; Witkiewicz, or The Dialectic of Anachronism; On Gombrowicz; Ionesco, or A Pregnant Death; Noh, or About Signs; Bunraku and Kabuki, or About Imitation; The Icon of the Absurd; Why Should I Take Part in the Sacred Dance?; After Grotowski: The End of the of the Impossible Theatre; The Theatre of Essence: Kantor and Brook; Tadeusz Borowski: A European Education; A Cage in Search of a Bird; The Serpent's Sting; and The Seriousness of Theatre.
Title: Theatre of Revolt, The An approach to the modern drama Author: Brustein, Robert Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 1962
Description:
reference - history - playwrights - playwriting
The roots of the modern theatre may be found in the soil of rebellion cultivated by eight outstanding playwrights: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill and Genet. Focusing on each of the playwrights in turn, Robert Brustein looks at the nature of their revolt, the methods employed in their plays, their influences on the modern drama, the playwrights themselves. Title: Theme and Variations
Author: Alyoshin, Samuil translated by Michael Glenny Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1979
Description:
roy drama - relationships three characters two male; one female two acts
Two Moscow attorneys (one younger, one older) become entwined with an unhappily married tour guide who lives near the shores of the Black Sea.
Title: Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL Author: Camp, Jennifer Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
Lillian and Ben are attracted to one another. The only trouble is they've never met. Or even spoken, for that matter. They've only seen each other in the lobby of the Museum of Natural History where each, for their own reasons, has been drawn. Once they notice each other, the unexpected possibility of love begins to take shape as they work up the nerve, over the course of four weeks, to speak to the other person. Through the use of monologues, imaginary conversations and a shared dream, this unlikely duo - a video game designer and a literature
Title: There's No Here Here in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Pospisil, Craig Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy comedy - parody - romance - relationships four characters two male; two female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"Lance moves to Paris to follow his dream of becoming a writer, but his work goes badly. As does his relationship with Juliette, a beautiful Parisian. But a strangely familiar woman at their local bistro forces Lance to dig deeper into himself." Title: There's No Here Here in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL Author: Pospisil, Craig Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
Lance moves to Paris to follow his dream of becoming a writer, but his work goes badly. As does his relationship with Juliette, a beautiful Parisian. But a strangely familiar woman at their local bistro forces Lance to dig deeper into himself.
Title: Therese Raquin
Author: Edmundson, Helen Zola, Emile Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2014
Description:
roy drama - relationships - murder seven characters; extras four male; three female four acts
adapted by Helen Edmundson.
"The beautiful but doomed heroine is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. Every Thursday evening she watches her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin, play dominoes... until one day her husband brings along an old friend, the alluring and athletic Laurent. As Laurent and Thérèse embark on an illicit affair, a turbulent passion is unleashed that drives them
Title: These Men
Author: Simon, Mayo Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1982
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; two characters two female two acts
running time: approximately 70 mins.
"The critic for the Los Angeles Times describes it this way: "There's a little jewel of a play filling the Los Angeles Actors Theatre. It's a diamond in the rough whose lowdown shine should glow from here to Malibu. Like Shakespeare's raunchy Audrey, it's not for all markets. Your antivulgarians will find offense in it (and may consider themselves fairly warned), but for the more Title: Third Story, The
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy comedy - family relations six characters four male; two female two acts
running time: 120 minutes.
A faded screenwriter in the 1940s woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on a screenplay. The gangster/sci-fi B-movie in their imagination unfolds before us, involving a chic crime czarina, a beautiful but icy lady scientist, and her failed and understandably bitter human cloning experiment. A third story is a Russian fairy tale the screenwriter told her son as a child
Title: This is How We Got Here
Author: Barker, Keith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - family relations - suicide - Canadian playwright four characters; one voice two male; two female one act (eighteen scenes)
Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, 'This Is How We Got Here' follows a close-knit family as they deal with an unexpected loss. A mother, father, aunt, and uncle must learn how to move forward after the trauma and re-learn how to interact with one another with forgiveness, humour, and love. It’s been a year since Paul and Lucille’s son Craig committed suicide, and their once-solid family bonds are starting to break down. While the now-separated couple tries to honour their son, Lucille’s sister Liset and her husband Jim refuse to discuss their nephew. The
Title: This Other Eden in - Three Plays - Jonathan Moore / COL Author: Moore, Jonathan Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 2002
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female (doubling possible) two acts
A story of passion. A wife and mother. Her son and daughter. Her Husband. The London Irish. Limbo-Land. The hunger for a sense of a real culture. The desire for freedom... A tough play about a woman's soul told with beauty, humour and hope. This Other Eden explores the dreams and desires of a woman wanting to break free from her family and routine existence in the suburbs of London. Title: This Side of New York in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Svich, Caridad Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama - relationships - monologue two characters one male; one female one act
Two people get lost in a first kiss. Contains two small monologues.
Title: Three in - National Theatre Connections / YCL Author: Braun, Harriet Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - British - love - friendship twelve characters; narrator four male; eight female; one flexible seven scenes
ages 14+.
It’s a long, hot summer. Six teenagers are in various states of lust, longing and unrequited love. A boy has a crush on the girl next door; only she’s going out with the school heartthrob. Two teenagers meet for a blind date but they’re both thinking about someone else. A shy girl with a secret makes friends with the most popular girl in her class. Only these are love stories with a
Title: Three Fingered Jack and the Legend of Joaquin Murieta in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: Nùnez, Marilo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy drama - legend - Canadian - Latina/o playwrights six characters four male; two female three acts
The story / legend of Joaquin Murieta written as a vehicle to articulate a history of women and a Canadian theatrical aesthetic that acknowledges the complications of transnational Latina/o formations. Title: Three Hotels
Author: Baitz, Jon Robin Publisher: Samuel French 1992
Description:
roy drama - family relations - monologues two characters one male; one female three parts
interior set.
Monologues set in hotel rooms, two by an American businessman who sells defective baby formula in third world markets and one by his wife, portray a former 1960's idealist, Hoyle, who has succumbed to the corruption so endemic to modern America. His wife talks about him, their marriage and their son who was murdered for his cheap but expensive looking wristwatch as she
Title: Three Tall Women
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994
Description:
roy drama - life four characters one male; three female two acts
unit set.
'Dowager, her secretary, and her lawyer depict one woman at three stages in her life.
Title: Times Square Angel A hard-boiled Christmas fantasy Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy Christmas - comedy - farce - fantasy twelve characters seven male; four female one act
running time: 75 minutes.
New York, 1948. Irish O’Flanagan is the tough as nails, red-headed headliner of the Club Intime. A lifetime of hard knocks has left her bitter and with a chip on her shoulder the size of Mount Rushmore. In the spirit of fantasies such as “A Christmas Carol”, “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “The Bishop’s Wife”, an angel in the form of a sexy vaudeville magician named Albert comes down to Title: Tin Can People, The Part two of the War plays Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989
Description:
roy drama - nuclear war seven characters three male; four female one act (three parts)
approx. running time: 70 minutes; the second play of the War Plays trilogy.
It is now seventeen years after the nuclear holocaust. A group of survivors has formed a peaceful commune living off some warehouses filled with tin cans of food. A stranger is warmly welcomed into their midst, but when one of the group drops dead, the stranger is assumed to be contaminated. As the deaths multiply the group leader determines this intruder must be hunted
Title: To Fool the Eye An adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 'Léocadia' Author: Hatcher, Jeffrey Anouilh, Jean Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2000
Description:
roy romantic comedy nine characters; gypsy band seven male; two female two acts
Translated by Stephanie L. Debner.
In this new adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1940 romantic comedy, Amanda, a poor hat maker from Paris, is invited to a chateau by an eccentric duchess to spend a weekend trying to make her suicidal nephew, Albert, forget about the death of his great love, the divine . Amanda, it turns out, is a dead ringer for the dead woman, and if she can convince Albert that she is his lost love for
Title: To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Author: Brady, Michael Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama seven characters two male; five female two acts
A grieving widower must accept his wife's death to save himself and his relationship with his daughter. David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with her “ghost” during walks on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family problems crop up in the present. Brother and sister-in-law Paul and Esther visit to try to help David's daughter, Rachel. She has lost her mother and needs her father to snap back into the real world for her sake. Title: Tom and Viv
Author: Hastings, Michael Publisher: Penguin Books 1985
Description:
roy drama - biography - T.S. Eliot eight characters - voices three male; three female (doubling) two acts
The play is based on the real life of T. S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot.The play begins with the beginning of the courtship between T.S. Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood in 1914 and ends with their separation in 1933 and Vivienne's gradual mental health decline until her death in 1947. The play also follows the early career of T.S. Eliot, the death of Vivienne's father, and how her mother Rose dealt with her daughter's failing marriage and mental health.
Title: Tomorrow's Monday
Author: Osborn, Paul Publisher: Samuel French 1986
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relations seven characters three male; four female three acts
This forgotten gem by the author of Morning's at Seven was originally produced in 1936 and revived in New York by the Circle Repertory Company in 1985. Set in a mid western living room, the play is about what happens when a man who has married a sophisticated woman and carved out a successful career in New York returns home believing his mother to be seriously ill. It's a false alarm, but Richard and his wife stay on to visit and the wife meddles with the lives of these simple people. She decides that John, a sophomore unhappy with college, should return to New
Title: Tonight We Improvise
Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Marta Abba Publisher: Samuel French 1960
Description:
roy drama - improvisation large cast flexible casting three acts
Translated and rewritten by Marta Abba.
The dramatic innovations in this play are legendary. Direct address, improvisations and in and out of character speeches are but a few of the techniques Pirandello originated. The play within the improvisation concerns the wooing of a wife by a man who finds her family quite crazy. The players actually live their parts, with strong physical effects to themselves. Narration, interludes, a Title: Too Clever by Half in - Four Plays - Alexander Ostrovsky / COL Author: Ostrovsky, Alexander translated by Stephen Mulrine Publisher: Oberon Books 1997
Description:
roy comedy - satire - social class sixteen characters; extras nine male; seven female five acts
The play focuses on the poor, sharp-witted social climber, Gloumov, determined to deceive his way to the top of Moscow society with a mixture of cunning and flattery.
Title: Too Good to be True in - Plays Extravagant / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1981
Description:
roy comedy ten characters seven male; three female three acts
One of Shaw's most unpredictable comedies begins in a sick room, with a monstrous microbe, a pale patient, an overbearing mother, and a peculiar nurse. Indeed, the nurse forthwith lets in her sweetie, a robber who is secretly ordained because his father is an atheist. Instead of just stealing the patient's pearls, they decide to kidnap the patient and she gaily assents. In Act II the nurse masquerades as a countess and the rich patient as a backward island native. We meet aristocracy and plebe alike. And it is the plebeian army private who takes command when the group find
Title: Tracers
Author: DiFusco, John Caristy, Vincent Publisher: Hill and Wang 1983
Description:
roy drama - war - Vietnam all male cast; eight characters eight male (doubling possible) two acts
Also written by Richard Chaves, Eric E. Emerson, Rick Gallavan, Merlin Marston, Harry Stephens, and Sheldon Lettich.
Eight American soldiers recount their experiences before, during and after the Vietnam war. Title: Trapped! in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Thompson, Hope Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy comedy - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - relationships all female cast; three characters three female one act (five scenes)
A play that inhibits the film noir genre to tell the story of a beleaguered and bedridden newlywed. A critique of gay marriage that stages a camp representation of the regulatory structures it imposes. Progressive mainstream concepts of freedom result here in a state of mutual entrapment. Trapped! is a tale of menace and murder in a queer comedic frame.
Title: Traveler in the Dark
Author: Norman, Marsha Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy drama - religion - science - medicine four characters two male; one female; one boy two acts
A brilliant surgeon and cancer researcher, Sam basks in the aura of success and adulation that his career has brought him. But suddenly his world is shattered when his longtime nurse and confidant, Mavis, dies on the operating table because he failed to detect the seriousness of her condition in time. Gathering up his neglected wife and possessively loved son, he returns to the home of his aging father, a revivalist preacher with whom he has long been at odds. Guilty about his relationship with Mavis, his childhood sweetheart whose love he never returned, and jealous
Title: Treatment in - Three Plays - Jonathan Moore / COL Author: Moore, Jonathan Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 2002
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
Liam is part of a violent street gang but wants to escape. Encounters with a young woman and a Catholic priest change his life. Trapped between two worlds, he has to choose between the dark allure of violence and the healing power of love. Title: Trifles in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Glaspell, Susan Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy melodrama - murder five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"The wife of a strangled farmer is arrested on suspicion. While officers and neighbors are searching the old farmhouse for evidence, two women friends discover a slain canary and a broken cage. This evidence can prove the wife guilty, but by keeping her secret, they free her."
Title: Trouble with Mr. Adams, The
Author: Rand, Gord Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - sexual abuse - marriage - love four characters one male; three female three acts
On the night volleyball coach Gary Adams leaves his wife, allegations of sexual misconduct surface regarding his sixteen-year old student. Gary defends his innocence – to his wife, to his lawyer, and finally, to the victim herself. Grappling with such themes as abuse of power, intergenerational love, and the stagnation of marriage, "The Trouble with Mr. Adams" exposes the crippling disaster of the male mid-life crisis.
Title: True
Author: Laborde, Rosa Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2016
Description:
roy drama - Alzheimer's disease - family relations - morality - Canadian five characters two male; three female one act
Sisters Marie, Cece, and Anita run a small coffee-and-clothes shop on Toronto's trendy Queen Street West. One evening their estranged father, Roy, wanders in, in his pajamas. He is clutching a note explaining that he has Alzheimer;s and admonishing his daughters for abandoning their parent in his time of need. But it quickly becomes clear that Roy was a drunk and a philanderer - and perhaps worse. Should his parental sins be forgiven just because he has now forgotten them? 'True', with its echoes of Shakespeare's masterpiece 'King Lear', examines the parent-child bond, Title: Trumpets and Raspberries
Author: Fo, Dario Publisher: Pluto Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy sixteen characters three male; two female; four male or female (doubling; flexible casting) two acts
A terrorist attack and a body needing plastic surgery are the ingredien's of another Fo farce. Here he pokes incisive fun at bosses, the police and the discipline of work and as always his medicine is bitter-sweet with a sardonic aftertaste.
Title: Trying
Author: McClelland Glass, Joanna Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy drama - Canadian Playwright - politics - autobiographical two characters one male; one female two acts
Trying is a two-character play based on the author's experience during 1967-1968 when she worked for Francis Biddle at his home in Washington, D.C. Judge Biddle had been Attorney General of the United States under Franklin Roosevelt. After the war, President Truman named him Chief Judge of the American Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. The play is about a young Canadian girl and an old, Philadelphia aristocrat, "trying" to understand each other in what Biddle knows is the final year of his life.
Title: Tuck Everlasting - vocal selections
Author: Miller, Chris Tysen, Nathan Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical.
music by Chris Miller; lyrics by Nathan Tysen.
includes: Live Like This / Good Girl Winnie Foster / Top of the World / Hugo's First Case / The Story of the Tucks / My Most Beautiful Day / Partner in Crime / Seventeen / Everything's Golden / Time / You Can't Trust a Man / The Wheel / Everlasting Title: Twelve Letters to a Small Town in - Scripts / CCO Author: Reaney, James Beckwith, John Publisher: Coach House Books 2004
Description:
roy drama - poetry - music - Canadian four voices one male; two female; one boy or girl one act (twelve parts)
Poetry to music about life and things in and around small towns. Originally performed as a radio broadcast. Music by John Beckwith.
Winner! Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry of Drama, 1962.
Title: Twelve Women in a Cell in - Plays by Mediterranean Women / COL Author: el Saadawi, Nawal translated by Marion Baraitser and Cheryl Robs Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - women - autobiographical - political twenty characters four male; fourteen female; two girls two acts
About the imprisonment in Egypt by Sadat in 1980, of women of differing backgrounds and beliefs in the same cell. The situation is complicated by the prostitutes and criminals who are forced to wait on the political prisoners. The play is a celebration of the courage of disobedience of women in a culture which demands compliance.
Title: Twisted
Author: Corbeil-Coleman, Charlotte Pierre, Joseph Jomo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - poverty - addiction two characters one male; one female one act (one scene)
"A fresh collaboration between Charlotte Corbeil–Coleman and Joseph Jomo Pierre, and in a style that’s part Dickens, part Drake, Twisted samples from Oliver Twist to create a vivid, urban story about disenfranchised youth in Toronto." Title: Two Guys Out O' Kelowna Based on Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - British Columbia - a play for television - Alberta playwright - Shakespeare adaptation eight characters; extra six male; two female three acts
setting: today in the West
Based on "Two Gentlemen of Verona" by William Shakespeare
Title: Two Shakespearean Actors in - Goodnight Children Everywhere and Other Plays / COL Author: Nelson, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama - theatre - actors twenty-four characters seven male; fourteen female two acts
running time: approx. 100 mins.
Based on a true story. The year is 1849, the place New York City. Two arch rivals — the English star William Macready and the American matinee idol Edwin Forrest — tempt fate when both perform the Scottish Play on the same night in neighboring downtown theaters. Their feud helps incite the already-inflamed rage of anti-British theatergoers, who riot right outside Macready’s
Title: Tyger A celebration based on the life and work of William Blake Author: Mitchell, Adrian Westbrook, Mike Publisher: Johnathan Cape 1971
Description:
roy musical large cast flexible casting two acts
Music by Mike Westbrook.
A time-travelling musical about a visionary 18th-century poet in today's fallen times. Title: Unnecessary Farce
Author: Smith, Paul Slade Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2008
Description:
roy comedy - farce - crime seven characters four male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
"Two cops. Three crooks. Eight doors. Go. In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's in which room, who's being videotaped, who's taken the money, who's hired a hit man, and why the accountant
Title: Unplugging, The
Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - aging - infertility - Native peoples⌦three characters one male; two female one act
In an instant, electricity all over the world stops flowing, and humanity is left in the dark. Bern and Elena, exiled from their village for being too old to bear children, trudge across the desolate, post-apocalyptic ruin. Relying upon traditional wisdom for their survival, they retreat from the remains of civilization to a frozen wooded landscape where they attempt to carry on after the end of the world. When a charismatic stranger from the village arrives seeking their aid, Bern and Elena must decide whether they will use their knowledge of the past to give the society that rejected them a chance at a future.
Title: Unsuitable Girls
Author: Dhingra, Dolly Publisher: Oberon Books 2001
Description:
roy comedy - relationships large cast flexible casting two acts
If you liked East is East you’ll love Unsuitable Girls! Meet Chumpa Chamelli – bored secretary at Concrete Weekly, twenty-something girlfriend of the laddish Ashok, and a woman who knows her own mind and expects more from life. With East End mates Mandy and Sab in tow, Chumpa sets off on a search for a better job – and an ending straight out of the movies. Classic Hollywood romance with full-on Bollywood song and dance. Asian dub meets East End push and shove. But can dreams really come true? Title: Up the Garden Path in - Up the Garden Path and The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God / Author: Codrington, Lisa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy Canadian playwright - women - self discovery seven characters three male; four female three acts (parts)
In Up the Garden Path, Rosa, a young Barbadian seamstress, offers to pose as her brother to go to the Niagara Region in Ontario to work. There, she meets an aspiring actress obsessed with Joan of Arc, the ghost of a black Loyalist soldier who wants to die and a boss who can’t keep the starlings away from his failing vineyard. Finding it impossible to ignore their demands, but not wanting to be found out and sent home, Rosa has to stop and figure out what she really wants instead of what everyone around her needs.
Title: Urban Tattoo in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy drama - native playwright - coming of age - healing - solo performance all female cast; one character one female one act
In telling the story of Rosemarie, a young Native woman who heads to the big city hoping to escape her destiny, Marie Clements draws on the traditions of the Amerindian storyteller and the ritual of healing. She revives the traditions by adapting them to a theatrical form where video, photos, music, words and performance beat a chaotic tattoo of a life of disillusionment and a wounded psyche.
Title: US and Them
Author: Oglesby, Tamsin Publisher: Faber and Faber 2003
Description:
roy comedy of manners - friendships nine characters four male; three female (doubling) two acts
The buffer zone between trust and suspicion proves fertile ground for this witty dissection of a special relationship. A chance meeting in a Manhattan restaurant for English couple Martin and Charlotte with affluent New Yorkers Ed and Lori carries the promise of a close friendship. But are they in fact speaking the same language? A transatlantic comedy of manners in which old Europe and the New World struggle to understand each other. Title: Valley Song
Author: Fugard, Athol Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Inc. 1996
Description:
roy drama - politics - South Africa three characters one male; one female (doubling) one act
Effects of political change in present-day South Africa as witnessed by colored tenant-farmer an his ambitious teenaged grand-daughter.
Title: Variations on a Composition in Blue in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Grob, Anne V. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy drama - marital relations two characters; voice over one male; one female one act (three scenes)
Older art professor and younger art student who married, review their first date during their last date.
Title: Veil, The in - Plays: Three - Conor McPherson / COL Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2013
Description:
roy drama eight characters three male; five female two acts
The action takes place in May 1822 in a fine old country house belonging to the widowed Lady Lambroke. Threatened by rural unrest and her own impoverishment, Lady Lambroke has arranged for her seventeen-year-old daughter Hannah to be married off to an English aristocrat to pay off her debts. A defrocked Anglican minister, the Reverend Berkeley, arrives at the house with his philosopher acquaintance Charles Audelle, tasked with chaperoning the girl to England. The two men, however, are enthralled by Hannah's reputation for extrasensory awareness, and intend to Title: Venus in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy drama - biographical - race - ethnicity eight characters; chorus; extras three male; one female (doubling) one act (many scenes)
Inspired by the true-life story of Sarah Saartjie” Baartman, 'Venus' provides a fictional account of her life abroad in 19th century London. She is lured away from her home in South Africa with the promise of riches and is put on display for British and Parisian audiences. After being sold to the owner of a sideshow known as The Mother-Showman, she is exhibited for her steatopygia and is given the stage name "The Hottentot Venus." Baartman's "act" leads to a prospering business, with Europeans all over traveling to see the display of her genitalia and buttocks. The Baron Docteur
Title: Veronica Franco: Courtesan and Poet in - Plays by Mediterranean Women / COL Author: Maraini, Dacia translated by Siân Williams and Marion Baraitse Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - feminism - sexuality ten characters seven male; three female two acts
About a sixteenth century Venetian courtesan who is shown to be a product exchanged in a political economy. Veronica cleverly uses her sexual servitude as experience which she turns into poetry for her own pleasure, but her sexuality is never allowed full expression, depriving her of equality and respect.
Title: Vertical Constellation with Bomb in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Suilebhan, Gwydion Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - historical - Second World War three characters one male; two female one act (one scene)
"New York during World War II. A nun, eagerly collecting scrap metal for the war effort, and Alexander Calder, desperate for raw material for a new sculpture, plead with a grieving mother, clutching a crushed tin airplane tightly to her chest. Will she let go? And for what?" Title: Vikings of Helgeland, The
Author: Ibsen, Henrik Publisher: Stage Door 2013
Description:
roy tragedy - Norwegian - historical - 10th century seven characters; extras four male; two female; one boy four acts
setting - the time of Erik Blood-axe (about A.D. 933) at and in the neighbourhood of Gunnar's house on the island of Helgeland, in the north of Norway.
"Henrik Ibsen is often referred to as the father of realism and ranked just below Shakespeare as Europe’s greatest ever playwright especially as his plays are performed most frequently throughout the world after Shakespeare’s. He was Norwegian and although set his plays in
Title: Vimy in - Vimy and Bluebirds / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - war - Alberta playwright eight characters seven male; one female (doubling possible) two acts
France, 1917. Four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge, waiting to find out where they’ll be sent next: back home or back to the front. Along with a young nurse from Nova Scotia, they share their stories, reasons for fighting, and treasured memories. In Vimy, Governor General’s Literary Award–winner Vern Thiessen brings us a classic play that is not about war, but a reflection of the everyday lives of soldiers—their hopes and their dreams—and how actions can define individuals and nations.
Title: Virgin Trial, The
Author: Hennig, Kate Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - historical seven characters three male; four female two acts
"In this gripping follow-up to The Last Wife, Kate Hennig continues her Tudor Queens Trilogy by cleverly exploring victim shaming, sexual consent, and the extraordinary ability of girls becoming women as she reimagines the scandalous and little-known story of Elizabeth the First before she was Queen."
Finalist! 2017 Governor General's Literary Award. Title: Vise, The in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama - Italy - tragedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior.
Unfaithful wife commits suicide when husband orders her to leave home.
Title: Visiting Mr. Green
Author: Baron, Jeff Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1994
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - melodrama - friendship - men all male cast; two characters two male two acts
Mr. Green, an elderly, retired dry cleaner, wanders into New York traffic and is almost hit by a car driven by Ross Gardiner, a 29-year-old corporate executive. The young man is given a community service of helping the recent widower once a week for six months. What starts as a comedy about two men who do not want to be in the same room together becomes a gripping and moving drama as they get to know each other, come to care about each other, and open old wounds they've been hiding and nursing for years. Translated into 22 languages, with over 200
Title: Vitals
Author: Small, Rosamund Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2016
Description:
roy drama - solo performance - Canadian all female cast; several characters one female (doubling) one act
Anna's daily routine is life, death, and bureaucracy. Every call she receives is an emergency. On a daily basis, she saves lives...but can she save her own? As Anna recounts stories that are by turns compelling, disturbing, hilarious, and heart wrenching, we begin to see the toll that these emergencies take on the people who respond to them.
Winner! Dora Mavor Moore Award - Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Production Title: Waiting Room
Author: Flacks, Diane Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - medical ethics - relationships - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
Chrissie and Jeremy have spent a great deal of time in shock, waiting—for news of their baby daughter’s post-operation recovery, for weekly scans to show that her tumor is gone, for robotic forty-five second updates from Dr. Andre Malloy, their brilliant but arrogant neuro-oncologist. The hospital waiting room has become a second home where they struggle separately as parents and as a couple, where they laugh inappropriately, lose tempers, and find resilience as they confront a roller coaster of hope and despair and a crisis of decision-making. And just beyond
Title: Waitress - vocal selections
Author: Bareilles, Sara Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical.
Words and music by Sara Bareilles.
includes:
What's Inside / Opening Up / The Negative / What Baking Can Do / When He Sees Me / It Only Takes a Taste / You Will Still Be Mine / Soft Place to Land / Never Getting Rid of Me / Bad Idea / I Didn't Plan It / You Matter To Me / She Used to Be Mine / Everything Changes
Title: Warrior's Barrow, The in - Early Plays of Henrik Ibsen / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Anders Orbeck Publisher: Forgotten Books 2012
Description:
roy drama seven characters; extras six male; one female one act (five scenes)
One-act dramatic poem that portrays an incident from the heroic age of Norse conquest. Landing on an island off the coast of Sicily, Gandalf, a young pagan chieftain who personifies the rough Viking tradition, confronts the tempering Mediterranean influence of Christianity in young, innocent Blanka. Sworn to avenge his father's death, Gandalf learns Blanka has in fact saved his life, and he subsequently returns to Norway with her so that her faith may be "transplanted in the north." Title: Was He Anyone?
Author: Simpson, N. F. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1973
Description:
roy comedy - spoof - satire many characters three male; four female (doubling) one act (nine scenes)
Multiple simple sets.
The London Times critic starts his review of this comic spoof/satire with, "Albert Whitbrace is alive and well drowning in the Mediterranean." The Evening Standard critic continues, "While Albert treads water and his lifebelt gets soggier, world rescue organizations set about their tasks. Questions must be answered, forms filled out. Mrs. Whitbrace has to prove that she can't afford to
Title: We Happy Few
Author: Stubbs, Imogen Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004
Description:
roy comedy - theatre - Britain - women - historical ten characters one male; eight female; one boy two acts
Inspired by the true story of the Osiris Players, imogen Stubbs' new comedy follow the adventures of a small group of women who come together to form a 'girls only' theatre company to take the plays of Shakespeare round a culture-starved Britain. While the men are fighting Hitler and the bombs are blitzing London, these hopelessly mismatched individuals from entirely different social backgrounds embark on a crazy adventure, crammed into their battered 1920s ROlls-Royce. Together and separately they are forced to discover what life is like without men, and, eventually,
Title: Wedekind Cabaret, The
Author: Bentley, Eric Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy musical revue - cabaret two characters one male; one female (expandable as required) two parts
Music by Arnold Black, William Bolcom, Lucas Mason and Peter Winkler.
For the Wedekind renaissance of the 21st century Eric Bentley has re-arranged the material and added to it. The piece consists of two cabaret programs which could be performed together in one long evening or separately. The first program is framed by two Bentley ballads telling the stories of Spring's Awakening and The First Lulu, respectively. Within that frame is a varied series Title: Wet Echo, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Chapman, Clay McLeod Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act
As wicked as it is witty and weird, Clay McLeod Chapman’s latest sordid story follows a journeyman who finds more than he bargained for when he explores towards intimate territory.
Title: When Books Come Tumbling Down in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Gagnon, Marie-Eve translated by Louise H. Forsyth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - love - family relations - self awareness - Quebec - women playwrights three characters one male; two female one act (twelve scenes)
Original title: La bibliothéque de Constance.
(This play) is the dramatic representation of a normal middle-class family at a moment of crisis. The three family members - parents and daughter- seem to possess everything that prevailing socio-cultural values tell us are needed to be happy and prosper; a stable relationship, good jobs, a nice home, a delightful child. Yet, love has difficulty showing itself and speaking inside
Title: When It Rains
Author: Black, Anthony Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2014
Description:
roy satire - relationships four characters two male; two female three acts
"When it Rains" is the story of four people, two marriages, and one increasingly improbable series of events. As misfortune mounts, communication fractures, relationships crumble, behaviour becomes absurd. People sing, get naked, give up, lose control, have sex with strangers. Some kind of God intervenes. Or observes. Or something. Or nothing. "When it Rains" is by turns blackly funny social satire, heartbreaking drama, existentialist graphic novel, and post-modern Job story. Title: When One is Somebody
Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Marta Abba Publisher: Samuel French 1956
Description:
roy drama - identity twenty characters; extras fourteen male; six female three acts
Translated by Marta Abba.
The central character is a famous poet, and hence, in the public's eyes, a public property. He tries to break away and goes to a different city. But when the true identity of the new poet is discovered, the public ridicule him and force him back into the mold.
Title: When the Wind Blows
Author: Briggs, Raymond Publisher: Samuel French - London 1983
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - nuclear war six characters four male; two female one act
This is an off-beat version of the famous English anti-nuclear cartoon parable. Jim and Hilda Bloggs hear that a nuclear strike is headed their way. Armed with government leaflets, they construct a refuge with the solid cheerfulness they felt during the blitz. Trusting in the powers that be, they emerge after the bombing and wait for government assistance. Radiation sickness takes them, still loving each other and uttering prayers.
Title: When We Dead Wake in - Ghosts and other plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Peter Watts Publisher: Penguin Books 1964
Description:
roy drama six characters; extras three male; three female three acts
2 exterior sets.
"Psychological symbolism. In 19th century Norway, sculptor meets woman who felt she had died after being the inspiration for his masterpiece many years before." Title: Where the Cross is Made in - Seven Plays of the Sea / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Vintage Books 1972
Description:
roy melodrama seven characters six male; one female one act
An old sea captain, who years before committed a crime in connection with a treasure hunt, is seen going mad when shadows from the past come to haunt him.
Title: Whipping Man, The
Author: Lopez, Matthew Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy drama - slavery - Judaism all male cast; three characters three male two acts
Running time: 120 mins.
It is April, 1865. The Civil War is over and throughout the south, slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated. Into the chaos of war-torn Richmond comes Caleb DeLeon, a young Confederate officer who has been severely wounded. He finds his family's home in ruins and abandoned, save for two former
Title: Whiskey Six Cadenza in - Blood Relations and Other Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters seven male; four female (doubling) two acts
Set in the town of Blairmore, nestled in the Crowsnest Pass, just after World War I, the play raises questions about the power of parents over the lives of their children, and about the ironies and attendant responsibilities of free choice. Title: Who Killed Spalding Gray?
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy dark comedy - solo performance - Canadian playwright all male cast; one character one male one act
Sit down, Daniel’s going to tell you a story. On the weekend of January 10, 2004, American monologist Spalding Gray killed himself by jumping off the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. That same weekend, Daniel MacIvor was in California, visiting a psychic surgeon who offered to save his life by removing a spiritual entity that had attached to him. But what if Spalding’s death had something to do with Daniel’s entity? Linking these two true parallel stories is fiction derived from Gray’s obsessions and MacIvor’s
Title: Wholly Healthy Glasgow, A in - Plays: 1 - Iain Heggie Author: Heggie, Iain Publisher: Methune Drama 2003
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; three characters three male two acts
Comedy set in Glascow health club. Idealistic new manager threatens scams run by two seedy, unethical employees.
Title: Widow Claire, The
Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1979
Description:
roy drama ten characters eight male, two female one act
After returning to Harrison, Texas, from his disastrous visit with his mother and sister (and his new stepfather) in Houston, Horace Robedaux has moved into a local boarding house prior to returning to Houston to take a six week business course. During his brief stay at home he falls suddenly and passionately in love with an attractive but rather self-centered young widow, Claire, who, as it happens, already has several suitors, not to mention two rather overactive small children. From the first it is apparent that Horace's hopes are futile, and the other Title: Widow's Blind Date, The
Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1981
Description:
roy drama - revenge three characters two male; three female two acts
The scene is the wastepaper processing plant in a blue-collar Massachusetts town. Two workmen, Archie and George, are drinking beer and swapping stories, mostly about their apparently extensive sexual conquests. Archie mentions that Margy, a friend from high school and now a widow, has invited him to join her for a dinner. When she arrives to pick Archie up, the mood of the play shifts. Suddenly, the play's original macho bantering takes on new and dangerous meanings. Margy will subtly set the two men against each other while gradually revealing her
Title: Wind Cries Mary, The
Author: Gotanda, Philip Kan Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama - women - Asian six characters three male; three female two acts
Loosely based on Hedda Gabler, THE WIND CRIES MARY is set on a college campus in the late '60s. Amidst the turbulent anti-war demonstrations and beginnings of Asian-American identity politics, we follow an extraordinary young woman, Eiko Hanabi, through the course of several days' events which in the end will alter her life forever. Eiko finds herself caught between life choices made during a different political and racial climate, and a newer emergent model that promises more freedom and choice. Eiko is a woman caught on the cusp of a world changing
Title: Windowmen in - New England New Play Anthology, The / COL Author: Barkhimer, Steven Publisher: StageSource 2017
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; five characters five male one act (seven scenes; can be presented as two acts if needed) 1 set; period - 1980's.
"Windowmen recalls New York in the early 1980s, when the sprawling fish market beneath the Brooklyn Bridge had yet to be "sanitized" by the City, and the pungent early-morning air was alive with quick deals, spicy repartee and big money. For a time, this macho world is a hilariously incongruous place for Kenny, a down-and-out young philosophy student, to be introduced to." Title: Wings
Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1979
Description:
roy drama - stroke nine characters four male; five female one act
Emily Stilson, seventy years old and a celebrated former aviatrix and stunt pilot, suffers a stroke and is plunged into a world of disorientation and grief. Memories flood in between painful attempts to relearn the basic functions of everyday life. Aided by a dedicated young therapist, Emily’s flights of memory and emotion create an evocative portrait of the ability of the human spirit to renew and survive. An actress' tour-de-force.
Title: Winnetou's Snake Oil Show from Wigwam City in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Mayo, Lisa Miguel, Gloria Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy comedy - native playwright - spirituality - native peoples many characters three female (doubling) one act
Also written by Muriel Miguel and Hortensia Colorado as part of Spiderwoman Theatre; running time - approx. 80 mins.
Winnetou's Snake Oil Show from Wigwam City is loosely based on the fictional Apache character Winnetou and his close friend Old Shatterhand, made famous by nineteenth century German author, Karl May. Spiderwoman Theater satirizes the stereotypes perpetuated by authors like May
Title: Winning in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Jenkins, Mercilee Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy drama - cancer all female cast; two characters two female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
A conversation between two friends, one sick with cancer, during an Academy Awards viewing party. Title: Winter Games in - Humana Festival 2014: The complete plays / COL Author: Bonds, Rachel Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2015
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act (one scene)
1 exterior set; running time: 10 min.
"It's the dead of winter in this small Pennsylvania town, a morning like all the others: the stray cats roam, and Jamie cheerfully prepares to open the bakery. But Mary was up all night. And she already needs a break."
Title: With A Bullet (Or, Surprise Me) in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Bray, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - religion - politics four characters three male; one female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"Refusing to surrender control of their lives, a staunch libertarian, a female Episcopal priest, and a wounded liberal walk into a bar on New Year's Eve in 1999 to debate love and loss; however, they learn that anyone can succumb to the phrase "it looks like rain."
Title: Within The Glass
Author: Chatterton, Anna Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - pregnancy four characters two male; two female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"Two very different couples meet after a critical mistake at a fertility clinic: a fertilized egg has been implanted into the wrong woman. Over the course of an awkward and absurd evening, they fight to determine the uncertain future of their IVF child. The situation forces each of them to reassess their relationships, the depths of their desire to parent, and their hopes for the future." Title: Wive's Friend, The
Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by Marta Abba Publisher: Samuel French 1949
Description:
roy drama - tragedy eighteen characters eight male; ten female three acts
Translated by Marta Abba.
"Dedicated to his friend and pupil Marta Abba. The heroine, like Marta, has auburn hair and is nobility personified. Her virtue is in contrast to the rest of society with its petty meanness and corruption. Marta by her noble nature dominates those wretched creatures of instinct. She arranges their marriages, prepares their homes, settles their quarrels and unites them when they
Title: Woman In Mind
Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Faber and Faber 1986
Description:
roy drama eight characters five male; three female two acts
exterior set.
The central character in the play is Susan, a parson's wife. While the parson lives for his great work - which is actually nothing more than a 60-page history of the parish for the civic society - he is ministered to by his wife and sister, an equally unhappy and unfulfilled widow. Susan's vitality is directed into an active fantasy life, peopling the play with an idealized family, invisible
Title: Woman Killed With Kindness, A
Author: Heywood, Thomas Publisher: A. & C. Black 1985
Description:
roy drama - sexuality - marriage - 17th century large cast flexible casting one act (seventeen scenes)
The play centers around the marriage between John Frankford and his new wife, Anne. The couple have a seemingly perfect marriage, until Frankford invites Wendoll into their home to stay as his companion. Increasingly ignoring his wife, to spend time with Wendoll, Frankford is unaware of his new companion’s growing attachment to Anne. Anne is overwhelmed and seduced by Wendoll, against her better judgement. However, their affair is brought to light by Frankford’s faithful servant, Nicholas, and the Frankford household is in disarray. Appalled and angered by his wife’s Title: Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance, The in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Glancy, Diane Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - native playwrights - women - spirituality all female cast; two characters two female one act
The play is a dialogue / monologue between a grandmother and her granddaughter, both arguing against the other for her own way of life. The grandmother talks about stories and the Spirits and the red deer dress she has made to feel more in tune with Ahw'uste, a mythological spirit deer. The granddaughter talks about the problems of a contemporary life, including her experiences with several men. The grandmother continues talking about Ahw'uste and the Spirits, who in the end, she realizes, let her down. The granddaughter says she has to look for work, which she can't
Title: Wonder Tale: The Moonbow, A in - My Friend Hitler and other plays of Yukio Mishima / COL Author: Yukio, Mishima Publisher: Columbia University Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Japan - legends - Kabuki play large cast flexible casting five parts
Running time: 165 minutes
Based on an original tale by Kyokutei Bakin about the life of Tametomo, a Japanese warrior.
Title: World and the Child, The in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Anonymous Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy medieval morality play nine characters flexible casting one act
Its source is a late 14th-century or 15th-century poem The Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life. Title: World Music
Author: Waters, Steve Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2003
Description:
roy drama seven characters four male; three female three acts
The troubled and bloody relationship between Africa and Europe spills into the personal lives and loves of two generations. The first part of the play is set in Brussels where MEP Geoff Fallon is entertaining his backpacking son, Tim. Having spent his gap year in Africa, Geoff feels an affinity for the continent. However, the reality of the consequences of an African genocide that has taken place in the fictional state of Irundi hit home when local community leader, Jean, seeks refuge in the European city having been exiled from his homeland. The second part of the play shifts the
Title: Wormwood in - Zones of the Spirit / COL Author: Gray, Amlin Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female one act
Marika, the wife of a famous but burnt-out writer, Ossian Borg, is invited by a fellow art student to visit the dingy back room of a disreputable tavern where her husband had created his most celebrated works. The owner of the tavern (who had shared in the royalties from Borg's writings) senses a way to revive Borg's creative energies by summoning him with an invented story of an affair between the young student and Borg's wife. But their confrontation, oddly enough, has a different result when it is Marika who comes to realize that it is she who must escape their failing
Title: Woyzeck in - Plays Onstage / COL Author: Buchner, Georg translated by Carl Richard Mueller Publisher: Pearson Education 2006
Description:
roy tragedy large cast flexible casting one act (twenty-five scenes)
representative set.
The story is about a soldier driven mad by jealous frenzy and acute social deprivation. He is unable to cope with his confusion about sin, so he murders the mother of his child. This material may be offensive to some. Not recommended for inexperienced actors. Title: Year Zero in - Crossing Jerusalem and other plays / COL Author: Pascal, Julia Publisher: Oberon Modern Plays 2003
Description:
roy satire - war large cast flexible casting one act (thirty-four scenes)
A bittersweet satire inspired by interviews conducted in the north of France, where Communists, Gaulists, collaborators and those who were children during the 1940's, provided the original source material. The play exposes the day to day experiences of the men and women who suffered or profited from those zero years.
Title: Yi Sang Counts to Thirteen in - Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas / COL Author: Rno, Sung Publisher: Duke University Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Korea - poetry three characters; chorus two male; one female one act (twenty scenes)
The play takes place in "Seoul as reflected through a certain Mr. Yi Sang's strange and twisted brain." The surrealist poet Yi Sang died in 1937 at the age of twenty-seven during the height of Japanese colonial rule in Korea. He is considered a poet genius who has received unprecedented posthumous recognition. Indeed, he is a mythic character in the Korean literary society. Sung Rno presents a surrealistic play inspired by translations of Yi Sang's poems that blur literary genres and defy structural rules. Like Yi Sang's poems, Rno's play is more about patterns, juxtapositions,
Title: You Have Arrived in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL Author: Ackerman, Rob Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy comedy - relationships three characters one male; one female; one undetermined one act
Dan and Kristin are navigating their first date, and fortunately, the other woman with them knows the way through the confusion into Brooklyn. That would be Cyndi, the GPS system in Dan's car. Title: Zero for the Young Dudes! in - National Theatre Connections / YCL Author: McDowall, Alistair Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017
Description:
roy young adult - British multiple characters variable size ensemble sixteen scenes
ages 14+.
The inmates at a bizarre summer camp are plotting a revolution. Or has it already happened? Spending a day watching their schedule of exercise, lessons and meals, a long history of unrest and injustice lies hidden, and as the day wears on, a violent future looms large on the horizon.
Title: Zero Positive
Author: Kondoleon, Harry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female two acts
As the play begins a young man, Himmer, is trying to console his father on the death of his long-estranged wife (and Himmer's mother) whom neither has seen for many years, but the older man, Jacob, is apparently more interested in his model trains. Himmer then conceives the idea of honoring his mother's memory by staging a verse play, The Ruins of Athens, which she had written in her youth, but, in the meantime, his friend Samantha, a compulsive lover of married men, arrives to inform him that both she and he have tested seropositive for HIV test—which