Title: 100 Saints You Should Know in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2008 / COL Author: Fodor, Kate Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2008
Description:
roy drama - faith five characters two male; three female two acts
A poignant drama about a single mom who is looking for something to believe in and a Catholic priest who has decided to leave the church because he has lost his faith.
Title: 1837: The Farmer's Revolt in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (3rd ed. ) / CCO Author: Salutin, Rick Publisher: Talonbooks 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical five characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
A lively, humorous and ultimately tragic look at Canada's ill-starred revolution for national independence.
Title: 1837: The Farmer's Revolt in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (rev. ed.) / CCO Author: Salutin, Rick Publisher: Talonbooks 1986
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical five characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
A lively, humorous and ultimately tragic look at Canada's ill-starred revolution for national independence. Title: 2nd May 1997 in - Plays: One / COL Author: Thorne, Jack Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2014
Description:
roy drama - relationships - politics six characters four male; two female three acts (parts)
A drama set over the course of the 1997 UK General Election in which the Labour Party under the leadership of Tony Blair won a landslide victory over the Conservatives. The play presents three separate personal stories from different points on the political spectrum as the scale of Labour's victory becomes clear. The action takes place in three bedrooms over the course of the night following the election, and the morning after. In Part One, set just before midnight, Tory MP Robert prepares to attend the electoral count. With defeat looming large, he fears becoming a
Title: 36 Views in - American Theatre (Feb 02) / PER Author: Iizuka, Naomi Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002
Description:
roy mystery - art world six characters four male; two female two acts
Influenced by Kabuki theatre. Other description not available.
Title: Absalom in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Kazan, Zoe Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - family relations six characters four male; two female four scenes
"At a Berkshires country house, the children of an aging literary giant gather for a party celebrating the release of their patriarch's tell-all autobiography. When an unexpected guest appears, this family — writers or editors all — must reckon with their stories and who owns them, and with the secrets, betrayals and deep bonds that define what they'll do for love." Title: AC/DC in - The Great American Life Show / COL Author: Williams, Heathcote Publisher: Bantam Books 1974
Description:
roy American - Avant Garde - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
"Five psychic revolutionaries dissect and counter-attack the suppression and corruption of individual sovereignty and will." - Doollee.com
Title: Advertisement, The in - Plays By and About Women / COL Author: Ginzburg, Natalia Publisher: Vintage Books 1974
Description:
roy tragicomedy five characters one male; three female; one boy three acts
1 interior.
Woman living alone, separated from husband seeks companionship and takes in student as boarder.
Title: Aerwacol in - AWOL / CCO Author: Dixon, Sean Publisher: Coach House Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters four male; two female two acts
The story of a husband and wife who abandon their home and their grief on a cross-Canada trek. Traveling by train jigger, they meet three strangers: an expelled Pearson College student, a disgraced mines inspector, and a Quebecois God-inspired Banff-bound catatonic waitress. Together through the grace of fate, they stumble upon a home where the necessity of commitment ignites their tragic lives. Title: After Darwin in - Timberlake Wertenbaker: Plays 2 / COL Author: Wertenbaker, Timberlake Publisher: Faber and Faber 2002
Description:
roy drama four characters one female; three male two acts
"A new play addressing the ruling metaphor of our times: the survival of the fittest. She does it in the most direct way plausible, by dramatizing the development of Darwin's ideas on the origins and survival of species during his voyage on the Beagle in the 1830's and the conflict between him and Fitzroy, his captain and a literalist believer in the Bible. But the metaphor is underlined by casting this as a play within a play, where the actor playing Darwin has no interest beyond personal survival and the actor playing Fitzroy is weakened by principle. Their rehearsals are
Title: Alexander the Great in - The Complete Plays of Jean Racine Vol.1 / COL Author: Racine, Jean translated by Samuel Solomon Publisher: Modern Library 1967
Description:
roy French tragedy - verse play six characters four male; two female five acts
'Deals with Alexander's magnanimity towards his defeated enemy, Porus, the Indian King.'
Title: All Hail Hurricane Gordo in - Humana Festival 2008 / COL Author: Mensch, Carly Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two acts
A tale of adult siblings abandoned by their parents long ago, and left to their own devices in the family home that has now become a kind of decrepit bachelor pad. Chaz looks out for his brother Gordo, initially to keep Child Protective Services away and keep them together, but also because Gordo's erratic behavior seems to indicate that he cannot function in the world outside. When caretaker Chaz decides to expand their small world by inviting a tenant into their house - India, a fierce young woman dealing with her own family issues - the delicate balance of brotherly love Title: America Play, The in - The American Play and Other Works / COL Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1993
Description:
roy American - drama six characters; extras flexible casting two acts
'Experimental theatre piece on black identity, theatre, and American history.'
Title: American Hwangap in - Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas / COL Author: Suh, Lloyd Publisher: Duke University Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Korea - family relations five characters three male; two female one act (18 scenes)
The Chun family has difficulty staying together. When the father returns from Korea after fifteen years, he is the physical reincarnation of the past memories the family has repressed and forgotten. The divorced wife and three grown children try to understand how they can - or would want to - function as a family. The oldest son, David, refuses to come home to celebrate his father's hwangap (the sixtieth birthday ritual celebrating the completion of the eastern zodiac). The wife, Mary, is described as a 'modern Asian-American woman' comfortably assimilated in
Title: Ameriville in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: UNIVERSES Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female fifteen scenes
"UNIVERSES puts the state of the Union under a microscope — race, poverty, politics, history and government — examining our country through the lens of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. Ameriville combines an innovative mix of poetry, music, movement and drama to get to the heart of this American tragedy." Title: Amigo's Blue Guitar in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fourth Edition / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 2001
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - ethnic five characters three male; two female two acts
Sander's life is given meaning when he chooses to sponsor a Salvadoran refugee for his sociology class. He never really thinks Elias will make it to Canada, and when he does, Sander and his family must learn what it means and feels like to be a refugee, and how to best relate to someone who has endured such intense personal grief. The warmth and humour of the fully-human characters invites us to embrace the situation, be moved by it, threatened by it, and to consider how we would react.
Title: Anniversary in - Thirteen Hands and Other Plays / CCO Author: Shields, Carol Publisher: Random House 1998
Description:
roy drama - marital relations five characters three male; two female two acts
'Ironic look at marriages of two upwardly mobile suburban Canadian couples.'
Title: Another Morning in - Canadian Theatre Review No.52, Fall 1987 / PER Author: Petch, Steve Publisher: Miscellaneous 1987
Description:
roy drama - romance - Canadian - historical - British Columbia six characters three male; three female two acts
'A love story set in Vancouver during World War II reveals the personal losses of a Canadian tragedy.' Title: Archbishop's Ceiling, The in - The Penguin Arthur Miller / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Penguin Books 2015
Description:
roy drama - political - relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
Setting: An ornate room in a former Archbishop's palace in an Eastern European capital, a room which has probably been bugged by the secret police. Central characters: A middle-aged author Sigmund, who, having embarrassed the current regime, is faced with the choice of detention and punishment or defection to the West. He is encouraged in the latter by two of his former friends, his compatriot Marcus, an ex-political prisoner now in favor with the regime, and Adrian, a visiting American with strongly liberal ideals. The situation is complicated by the presence of
Title: Are you Afraid of Thieves? in - A Collection of Canadian Plays: Volume 5 / CCO Author: Lavigne, Louis-Dominique Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - Quebec - drama six characters three male; three female two acts
No abstract available.
Title: August Snow in - American Theatre (Jan 90) / PER Author: Price, Reynolds Publisher: Miscellaneous 1990
Description:
roy drama - marital relations five characters two male; three female two acts
'First play in the author's "New Music" trilogy. Drama depicting marriage problems set in 1937 North Carolina.' Title: Batting Cage, The in - Humana Festival '96 / COL Author: Ackermann, Joan Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy drama - family relations four characters one male; three female two acts
"Set in Florida Holiday Inn. Two sisters grieving for dead sibling try to reconcile differences."
Title: Battle Fatigue in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 62, Spring 1990 / PER Author: Munday, Jenny Publisher: Miscellaneous 1990
Description:
roy drama - family relationships thirteen characters one male; four female (doubling) two acts
'Jenny Munday examines how a mother's experiences in World War II affect her relationship with her daughter in this play from Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre.'
Title: Be Aggressive in - Under 30 / YCL Author: Weisman, Annie Publisher: Vintage Books 2004
Description:
roy drama - American five characters; chorus one male; four female two acts
flexible set.
Vista Del Sol is paradise. Sandy beaches. Avocado-lined streets. But for seventeen-year-old cheerleader Laura, everything changes when her mother is killed in a car crash, and she is thrust into the role of caregiver for her precocious younger sister, Hannah, and her brittle father, Phil. Escape comes in the form of a ferocious fellow cheerleader. Leslie has a brochure about the Spirit Title: Beachwood Drive in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2009 / COL Author: Morris, Steven Leigh Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
roy drama - slavery - prostitution six characters two male; four female two acts
"Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman brought to America and enslaved as part of a prostitution ring. In this compelling tale based on an actual police case, a single mother, Nadya becomes squeezed between her Russian Mafia protectors and the LAPD detective who arrests her in a sting operation."
Title: Bearclaw in - Gay Plays / COL Author: Mason, Timothy Publisher: Methuen 1986
Description:
roy drama - friendship - LGBTQ+ four characters three male; one female ten scenes
1 interior set.
"Friendship develops between dying nursing home patient and gay, Native American orderly."
Title: Beast on the Moon in - Humana Festival '95 / COL Author: Kalinoski, Richard Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; one female; one boy two acts
1 interior.
Set in 1921-1933 Milwaukee. Armenian photographer and his mail-order bride's lives reverberate with sorrow of Armenian holocaust. Title: Beautiful Bodies in - Plays for Actresses / COL Author: Cunningham, Laura Publisher: Vintage Books 1997
Description:
roy drama - women all female cast; six characters six female two acts
6 long-term women friends, mid 30's, trade confidences and witty exchanges throughout a party to celebrate a friend's pregnancy from a one night love affair. Secrets surface and tensions flare - as the circle of friends reveal all, fight, and find comfort in this one night gala.
Title: Bee-luther-hatchee in - New Playwrights: The best plays of 2004 / COL Author: Gibbons, Thomas Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005
Description:
roy drama - racism eight characters two male; three female (doubling) two acts
Shelita Burns, an African-American editor, publishes Bee-luther-hatchee, the autobiography of a reclusive 72-year-old black woman named Libby Price. Shelita has never met Libby, and when the book wins a prestigious award she decides to deliver it to her in person. To her profound shock, the actual author of the book is a white man named Sean Leonard. Furious and resentful, Shelita accuses Sean of perpetrating a hoax, while he defends the book as a truthful work of imagination. Their confrontation, played out on the edge of the racial divide, builds to a jarring
Title: Before Compiègne in - My TWP Plays / CCO Author: Winter, Jack Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical - France six characters four male; two female three acts
running time: 2 hours; period - France, 1430-1431.
Joan of Arc's final days. Title: Beginning of August, The in - The Beginning of August and Other Plays / COL Author: Donaghy, Tom Publisher: Grove Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - family relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
'Jackie's life has just been turned upside down. His wife, Pam, disappeared one day without warning, leaving Jackie and their baby to fend for themselves. Now Jackie has to pick up the pieces and decide whether he will wait for Pam to return or start life fresh without her. In the old days, one of the only certainties in life was family. Now, maybe we just have to take what we can get. Tom Donaghy's "Beginning of August" paints a quintessentially modern American family portrait.'
Title: Beyond Batoche in - Deverell of the Globe / CCO Author: Deverell, Rex Publisher: NeWest Press 1989
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Metis six characters four male; two female two acts
"Matthew, the artist with good intentions, wants to write a film script about the Riel rebellion. Shane, the actor, wants the role of Riel, and Burns, the producer, wants to get rich. There's only one thing they've forgotten - the Metis point of view."
Title: Beyond Mozambique in - Shared Anxiety / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters four male; two female two acts
'On the porch of a decaying colonial house in the midst of Mozambique, six characters, including an ex-nazi doctor and a junkie priest, act out real and imaginary roles as the chaos of the surrounding jungle gradually engulfs them.' Title: Beyond Mozambique in - Three Plays / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters four male; two female two acts
'On the porch of a decaying colonial house in the midst of Mozambique, six characters, including an ex-nazi doctor and a junkie priest, act out real and imaginary roles as the chaos of the surrounding jungle gradually engulfs them.'
Title: Beyond Mozambique in - Somewhere Else / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters four male; two female six scenes
'On the porch of a decaying colonial house in the midst of Mozambique, six characters, including an ex-nazi doctor and a junkie priest, act out real and imaginary roles as the chaos of the surrounding jungle gradually engulfs them.'
Title: Big Funk, the in - 13 by Shanley / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy drama - spiritual - philosophical five characters three male; two female two acts
1 setting.
"Drama. Eccentric characters discuss possibility of God, happiness and life after death." Title: Blue Light, The in - Mieko Ouchi: Two Plays / CCO Author: Ouchi, Mieko Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - film industry - facism - biography - Alberta playwright twenty-two characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
"Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most remarkable and controversial women artists of the 20th century. Riefenstahl caught the eye of Adolf Hitler with her film The Blue Light. Her choice to direct Triumph of the Will got her blacklisted as a filmmaker until her death in 2003 at 101. Riefenstahl, 100 years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood Studio Executive to make a desperate pitch for her first feature film in fifty years. A thought provoking contemplation on art, politics and the seduction of fascism and an examination of a woman who danced one perfect
Title: Blues For an Alabama Sky in - American Theatre (July 96) / PER Author: Cleage, Pearl Publisher: Miscellaneous 1996
Description:
roy relationships - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
'Drama about friends living in 1930 Harlem, New York during the Harlem Renaissance.'
Title: BOB in - Humana Festival 2011 / COL Author: Nachtrieb, Peter Sinn Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2012
Description:
roy drama - American five characters three male; two female five acts
"Bob is born and abandoned in the bathroom of a White Castle in Louisville and rescued by a woman who believes her destiny is to raise a great man. Eventually, Bob is abandoned once again, this time at a highway rest stop. But he still believes his life’s path will lead to greatness – or, at the very least, to having his name engraved on a plaque. His journey is illuminated by four actors who form a sort of Greek chorus, portraying more than two dozen supporting roles." - Doollee Title: Bread and Butter in - New English Dramatists 10 / COL Author: Taylor, Cecil Publisher: Penguin Books 1967
Description:
roy drama - political four characters two male; two female two acts
'Taylor's two characters provide a running commentary on socialism: as they live out their private lives in Glasgow during the last thirty years, they discuss the great revolutionary crises of the century at length.'
Title: Broken Glass in - Awake & Singing / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2004
Description:
roy drama - relationships six characters three male; three female two acts
"Brooklyn, New York, November 1938. Sylvia Gellberg has suddenly, mysteriously, become paralyzed from the waist down. As the play opens, her husband, Phillip, and her doctor, Dr. Hyman, meet to discuss prognosis and test results. The doctor assures Phillip that physically, nothing is wrong with his wife and she is not insane, but advises the only way to discover the cause of her paralysis is to probe into her psyche. At this point, the author begins to peel away all the layers of the characters' lives in this stunning, deeply effective exploration of what it means
Title: Broken Glass in - The Penguin Arthur Miller / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Penguin Books 2015
Description:
roy drama - relationships - American - Jewish faith six characters three male; three female two acts
3 settings
Brooklyn, New York. The end of November 1938. Sylvia Gellberg has suddenly, mysteriously, become paralyzed from the waist down. As the play opens, her husband, Phillip, and her doctor, Dr. Hyman, meet to discuss the prognosis and test results. The doctor assures Phillip that physically, nothing is wrong with his wife and she is not insane, but advises the only way to Title: Brother Andre's Heart in - Sheer Nerve / CCO Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1999
Description:
roy crime four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior.
Montreal misfits steal holy relic.
Title: Bullet, The in - Plays: 1 / GFL Author: Penhall, Joe Publisher: Methuen Drama 1995
Description:
roy drama - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts
'The Bullet' is about the life of a suburban family - two lovers return from sun-kissed life in the Far East to suburban London family in crisis. In a wry exploration of personal politics and family values, Penhall exposes the shifting loyalties and power struggles that startingly follows.
Title: Calenture in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: McManus, Bruce Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy drama - mental illness - self identity six characters three male; three female two acts
A man recalls his journey into (?) madness. Title: Captain Jack's Revenge in - New American Plays Volume 4 / COL Author: Smith, Michael Publisher: Hill and Wang 1971
Description:
roy drama - war six characters five male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
"Disjointed lives and underlying friction surface when family and friends enact play about government-Indian relations during Modoc Indian Wars of 1873."
Title: Checkin' Out in - New Canadian Drama 3 / CCO Author: Rebar, Kelly Publisher: Borealis Press 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta - canadian playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
"Lindsay works out at the check-out counter of the Town and Country Mercantile in a small southern Alberta town. One day she decides to leave her husband Bob, the local hockey hero and make a name for herself in the big city."
Title: Children of the Night in - Einstein; and, Children of the Night: two plays / CCO Author: Emanuel, Gabriel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - war six characters; extras five male; one female two acts
"'Children of the Night' is the powerful and true story of Dr. Janusz Korczak, father to the orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto. Amidst the horrors of the Holocaust, Korczak carried on his personal mission of bringing decency and love to the lives of his young charges." Title: Chilean Holiday in - Humana Festival '96 / COL Author: Reyes, Guillermo Reyes Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy drama - family drama six characters three male; three female two acts
'Set in working class district of Santiago, Chile 1975. Second anniversary of Pinochet's coup exposes family's irreconcilable political differences.'
Title: China Doll in - Love + Relasianships v. 2 / CCO Author: Chan, Marjorie Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2009
Description:
roy drama - Chinese - historical - Canadian four characters one male; three female two acts
20th century China.
In China Doll, Marjorie Chan's first play, Ibsen is a catalyst for a young woman who comes to see her future in terms other than those laid out for her by the patriarchal society in which she lives. As Su-Ling grows into womanhood, she makes choices that lead her toward independence, and which have consequences for everyone in her world.
Title: Choice, The in - Plays by Women: Ten / COL Author: Luckham, Claire Publisher: Methune 1994
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
A play around the question "What would I do if after four months the doctor told me something was wrong with my unborn child?" Title: Clash of Symbols (La Nef des sorciéres), A in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO Author: Blackburn, Marthe Blais, Marie-Claire Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - monologues - women all female cast; six characters six female six parts
Because "personal is political", six women of different ages and backgrounds share with us a hidden, repressed part of their daily lives. Six monologues, six voices, six styles, six writers. Each monologue can also be performed individually.
Title: Closer in - Plays: 1 by Patrick Marber / COL Author: Marber, Patrick Publisher: Methune 2004
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
"Dan, meets Alice, after an accident in the street. Eighteen months later, they are a couple, and Dan has written a novel inspired by Alice. While posing for his book jacket cover, Dan meets Anna, a photographer. He pursues her but she rejects his advances despite their mutual attraction. Larry "meets" Dan in an internet chat room. Dan, obsessing over Anna, pretends to be her and has cybersex with Larry. They arrange to meet the next day at an aquarium. Larry arrives and so too, coincidentally, does the real Anna. This sets up a series of pass-the-lover scenes in which this
Title: Colonial Tongues in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Robinson, Mansel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy drama - canadian - Ontario five characters three male; two female two acts
In 1967 in a small Northern Ontario town, Edna Barnett finds her family in moral jeopardy. Her youngest son returns home - to a ghost town. Moving back and forth 30 years, 'Colonial Tongues' enacts the disintegration of family and the struggle to rebuild community. Title: Common man's guide to loving women, A in - Testifyin: Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Moodie, Andrew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy relationships all male cast; four characters four male two acts
1 interior.
Meditation on complicated lives of black thirty-something urban males.
Title: Corner, The in - Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2009) / PER Author: Maghnoy, Jason Publisher: Miscellaneous 2009
Description:
roy drama - teenagers - high school five characters; chorus four male; one female (cast doubles as chorus) two parts
A study of teenage friendship, insecurity, anger and violence, based on the real-life police shooting of a Filipino 17-year-old in Scarborough in 2004. by turns ironically detached and passionately engaged with its characters, as individuals and as groups, it reaches a very ambiguous conclusion that in no way dilutes its power.
Title: Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman he once Loved in the Soviet Union, T in - Plays: 1 / COL Author: Greig, David Publisher: Methune Drama 2002
Description:
roy drama many characters four male; two female; one male or female (doubling) two acts
Two Soviet cosmonauts, losing contact with the world they left behind; a Scottish civil servant in the throes of a midlife crisis; a Norwegian peace negotiator; a Russian erotic dancer; a French UFO researcher and an Edinburgh speech therapist in search of her missing husband are brought together through an extraordinary thread of connections, which bring us into contact with both the intimate and the epic. Title: Coyote City in - Coyote City and City of Shadows / CCO Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Imago Press 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters two male; four female two acts
"A play haunted by myth, unravels the love story of Lena and Johnny. Lena, at home in the bush, receives a call from Johnny who asks her to come to him in 'the city' - and she agrees. The is only one problem: Johnny has been dead for six months."
Nominated for the 1991 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.
Title: Crackwalker, The in - The Other Side of the Dark / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Coach House Press 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - disabilities five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
This remarkable play about a mentally disabled woman and her friends explores the psyche of those living outside of "normal" society.
Title: Crackwalker, The in - Late 20th Century Plays / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - disabilities five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
This remarkable play about a mentally disabled woman and her friends explores the psyche of those living outside of "normal" society. Title: Dancock's Dance in - Canada and the Theatre of War: Vol. 1 / CCO Author: Vanderhaeghe, Guy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - mental illness - identity - war six characters five male; one female two acts
"Shell-shocked, judged unfit for society and haunted by the sins of war, Lieutenant John Carlyle Dancock finds himself committed to an insane asylum where he cannot escape the confines of righteous authority or his own conscience which visits him in the ghostly apparition of a dead soldier."
Title: Dark Owl, or The Renegade Angel in - Angels & Anger / CCO Author: Goupil, Laval translated by Glen Nichols Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - rape six characters; two voices one male; four female (doubling) two acts
'When a good-looking stranger appears in the village, a dysfunctional family is forced to confront their involvement in a tragic rape that occurred in the neighborhood a few years earlier, triggering acts of revenge and a near repetition of the previous tragedy.'
Title: Death in the Family in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters two male; four female two acts
Description not available. Title: Death of Woyzeck, The in - My TWP Plays / CCO Author: Winter, Jack Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical⌦six characters four male; two female two acts
running time: 2 hours; period - Prussia, early 19th century.
An abused ordinary soldier murders his mistress.
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: Departures and Arrivals in - Thirteen Hands and Other Plays / CCO Author: Shields, Carol Publisher: Random House 1990
Description:
roy drama large cast three male; three female (doubling) two acts
'(This play) dramatizes how lives are heightened and enlarged when viewed within the frame of public spaces - airports, train stations, streets - so that we all become, in a sense, actors.' Title: Desert Highway in - Four Plays / COL Author: Priestley, J. B. Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1944
Description:
roy drama - war - religion - Jewish all male cast; six characters six male two acts
1 exterior set.
"Some British soldiers, cut off from main army, gain from Jewish sergeant a new insight into religion and war."
Title: Desire Under the Elms in - Eight Great Tragedies / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: New American Library 1957
Description:
roy tragedy five characters; extras four male; one female three parts
1 interior set.
"The New England Farmer Ephraim Cabot, at 70, marries Abbie, age 35. His 32-year-old son Eben is jealous of his step-mother, for he feels the farm should be his. Abbie seduces Eben and has a child by him. Eben believes that he has been tricked and that he is now completely disinherited. But Abbie strangles the baby to prove her love is greater than her greed for the farm."
Title: Desire Under the Elms in - Nine Plays by Eugene O'Neill / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Modern Library 1941
Description:
roy tragedy five characters; extras four male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
"The New England Farmer Ephraim Cabot, at 70, marries Abbie, age 35. His 32-year-old son Eben is jealous of his step-mother, for he feels the farm should be his. Abbie seduces Eben and has a child by him. Eben believes that he has been tricked and that he is now completely disinherited. But Abbie strangles the baby to prove her love is greater than her greed for the farm." Title: Desire Under the Elms in - Plays / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 1970
Description:
roy tragedy five characters; extras four male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
"The New England Farmer Ephraim Cabot, at 70, marries Abbie, age 35. His 32-year-old son Eben is jealous of his step-mother, for he feels the farm should be his. Abbie seduces Eben and has a child by him. Eben believes that he has been tricked and that he is now completely disinherited. But Abbie strangles the baby to prove her love is greater than her greed for the farm."
Title: Desire Under the Elms in - Three Plays of Eugene O'Neill / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf 1958
Description:
roy tragedy five characters; extras four male; one female three parts
1 interior set.
"The New England Farmer Ephraim Cabot, at 70, marries Abbie, age 35. His 32-year-old son Eben is jealous of his step-mother, for he feels the farm should be his. Abbie seduces Eben and has a child by him. Eben believes that he has been tricked and that he is now completely disinherited. But Abbie strangles the baby to prove her love is greater than her greed for the farm."
Title: Desire Under the Elms in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 1, The / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1955
Description:
roy tragedy five characters; extras four male; one female three parts
1 interior set.
"The New England Farmer Ephraim Cabot, at 70, marries Abbie, age 35. His 32-year-old son Eben is jealous of his step-mother, for he feels the farm should be his. Abbie seduces Eben and has a child by him. Eben believes that he has been tricked and that he is now completely disinherited. But Abbie strangles the baby to prove her love is greater than her greed for the farm." Title: Detroit in - American Theatre (02/1/11) / PER Author: D'Amour, Lisa Publisher: Miscellaneous 2011
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female full length
In a first-ring suburb just outside a city that might be Detroit, Ben and Mary see sudden signs of life at the deserted house next door and invite their new neighbors Sharon and Kenny over for a barbecue. As the action unfolds we learn that Sharon and Kenny met at rehab, neither is employed, and they don't own a stick of furniture. The quintessential American backyard party turns quickly turns into something more dangerous and filled with potential.
Title: Detroit in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2013 / COL Author: D'Amour, Lisa Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2013
Description:
roy drama - American - life five characters three male; two female full length
In a first-ring suburb just outside a city that might be Detroit, Ben and Mary see sudden signs of life at the deserted house next door and invite their new neighbors Sharon and Kenny over for a barbecue. As the action unfolds we learn that Sharon and Kenny met at rehab, neither is employed, and they don't own a stick of furniture. The quintessential American backyard party turns quickly turns into something more dangerous and filled with potential.
Title: Devil at Noon, A in - Humana Festival 2011 / COL Author: Washburn, Anne Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2012
Description:
roy drama - American ten characters five male; one female two acts
" "A Devil at Noon" features science fiction writer Chet, who is working on another book. His imagination runs wild, and the journey becomes addicting, powerful, and altogether dangerous." - Doollee Title: Dinner with Friends in - Humana Festival '98 / COL Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1998
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
Drama about the breakup of one couple's marriage and its effect on their best friends.
Title: Disintegration of Della Longstreet, The in - Women Laid Bare / COL Author: Beim, Norman Publisher: New Concept Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - family relations four characters two male; two female two acts
Della, a wealthy, intelligent woman, arrives in the isolated family cottage, planning to spend the summer with her husband, their son and daughter. As the family gathers that first day, it appears that the relationship between Della, her children and her husband seem odd, to say the least. She seems to have difficulty relating to, what appears to be, rather unorthodox behavior on their part. The suspicion arises...is there a plot to drive Della insane, or is she just overcome by what appears to be rampant immorality?
Title: District of Centuries, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 87, Summer 1996 / PER Author: Dixon, Sean Publisher: Miscellaneous 1996
Description:
roy contemporary - fables - Canadian - drama six characters five male; one female (doubling possible) two acts
An urban fable of adventure and love, as one brother searches for his long lost sibling. When he finally finds him he discovers that he is in the cursed district of centuries, a place created by a mysterious architect where anything can happen, and usually does. Title: Doc in - Modern Canadian Plays, Volume II (3rd ed) / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 1994
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts
Catherine returns home to visit her aging father, a doctor revered and honoured by his community. She confronts, through a series of flashbacks, her thwarted need for his love and her late mother's decline into alcoholism, finally realizing that it is time for a reconciliation with her father.
Winner, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 1986.
Title: Doc in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts
Catherine returns home to visit her aging father, a doctor revered and honoured by his community. She confronts, through a series of flashbacks, her thwarted need for his love and her late mother's decline into alcoholism, finally realizing that it is time for a reconciliation with her father.
Winner, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 1986.
Title: Dodo in - A Collection of Canadian Plays: Volume 5 / CCO Author: Sirois, Serge Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - Quebec - drama - family relations six characters four male; two female two acts
A working class family in a state of disintegration. A successful interweaving of personal relationships, the use of understatement, and 'of power relations which are felt yet never openly articulated, of submission and abortive revolt.' Title: Dream of a Common Language in - Here to Stay / COL Author: McDonald, Heather Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy drama - historical - women - sexism - artist six characters two male; three female; one boy two acts
2 exterior sets; period - 1874 France.
This intriguing work was inspired by an actual incident: women were banned from the artists' dinner to plan the first Impressionist painting exhibit in 1874, even though works by women were to be shown. In the play, the dinner is at the home of Victor, a successful artist, and Clovis, an artist who no longer paints. After helping with the preparations and being excluded from the
Title: Dreaming and Duelling in - Twenty Years at Play / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - young adults five characters three male; two female two acts
Fantasies and love for the same girl lead two fencing students to "play" with the safety tips off and the points sharpened. A look at adolescent role-playing.
Title: Dusa, Fish, Stas and VI in - Plays by Women Volume One / COL Author: Gems, Pam Publisher: Methuen Drama 1982
Description:
roy drama - women all female cast; four characters four female two acts
1 interior set.
Four women who share a house have their own problems which they cope with in their own individual ways. Title: Dutchman in - Dutchman and The Slave / COL Author: Jones, LeRoi Publisher: Perennial 1964
Description:
roy drama - racism four characters; extras three male; one female two scenes
LeRoi Jones is also known as Imamu Amiri Baraka; 1 interior.
"Friendship between white woman and Negro man ends in murder."
Title: Eagle with Two Heads (L'Aigle à Deux Têtes), The in - Jean Cocteau (Five Plays) / COL Author: Cocteau, Jean translated by Carl Widman Publisher: Hill and Wang 1961
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female three acts On the 10th anniversary of the assassination of the king, his reclusive widow, the Queen, arrives to spend the night at the castle of Krantz. Stanislas, a young anarchist poet who seeks to assassinate her, enters her room, wounded; he looks exactly like the dead king, and the Queen shelters him instead of handing him over to the police. She sees him as the welcome embodiment of her own death, calling him Azraël (the angel of death). An ambiguous love develops between them, uniting them in a bid to outwit the machinations of the court politicians. In order to remain true to their ideals and to each other, the Queen and Stanislas have to play their parts in a bizarre
Title: Easter Egg, The in - Masks of Childhood / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: New Press 1972
Description:
roy drama - family relations - life - canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
"...one of the clearest examples of Reaney's belief in the power of the written and spoken word, when written and spoken with love, over the demonic forces which constantly invade the real world. Structured with the powerful simplicity of the best folk tales, it reveals the struggles of a young man, traumatized at the self-chosen death of his father, to break free into life despite the restrictions imposed by relatives, rivals, and his own fears." Title: Eco Show, The in - Canadian Theatre Review vol. 144 (Fall 2010) / PER Author: Brooks, Daniel Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - environmental issues - family relations five characters three male; two female three acts
In this complex and nuanced play, ecological crisis finds expression in the daily struggles of a peculiar yet familiar household. The performance depicts domestic drama at the tipping point. The Eco show examines how the ecology of one family is changed by the ecology of the world.
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: Effect of Gamma Rays On Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds in - The Art of Drama / COL Author: Zindel, Paul Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1976
Description:
roy drama all female cast; five characters five female two acts
The young daughter of a bitter and vindictive widow is able to break through her mother's domination and find hope in life when she finds beauty in the miracle of atoms and their place in the world.
Winner! Pulitzer Prize. Title: End Dream in - Sharon Pollock: Three Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - Alberta playwright - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
'Vancouver, 1914. The death of a young Scottish nanny employed by a member of the political and social elite of the era raised questions of murder and suicide. The racism of 20's Vancouver made inevitable the accusation of murder against Wong Foon Sing, a Chinese servant in the household.'
Title: End Dream in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
'Vancouver, 1914. The death of a young Scottish nanny employed by a member of the political and social elite of the era raised questions of murder and suicide. The racism of 20's Vancouver made inevitable the accusation of murder against Wong Foon Sing, a Chinese servant in the household.'
Title: End of the Road. The in - Voices From the Landwash / CCO Author: Cook, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997
Description:
roy drama - relationships six characters three male; two female; one male or female two acts
'An exploration of the experiences of a Maritime couple who move to Toronto. Here the plight of the aged is set against the angst of youth but the exploration is handled with gentle humor and delicate sensitivity.' Title: End, The in - Four Plays / COL Author: Goldstein, Joshua Publisher: Solomon Press Publishers 1993
Description:
roy drama - marital relations six characters five male; one female two acts
1 setting.
Husband and wife struggle against infertility.
Title: Evangeline the Second (Evangeline deusse) in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO Author: Maillet, Antonine translated by Luis de Cespdes Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama four characters three male; one female two acts
Four people long past their prime; a Breton, a rabbi, a crossing guard, and Evangeline the Acadian, meet in a park and discover they have something in common: they are all living "in exile" in Montreal. It soon becomes obvious that the language of Acadia, like the pine tree Evangeline planted in the heart of the city, refuses to be uprooted. Evangeline embodies the spirit of her people and their will to survive any sort of exile and deportation.
Title: Ever Loving in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - women - war six characters three male; three female two acts
Three war brides from England, Scotland and Italy travel to Canada in 1945. The lives of the three women and their relationships with their husbands weave together the fabric of the Canadian experience - the hopes, fantasies, disappointments and the grim reality of starting a new life in a new land. Title: Ever Loving in - Willful Acts / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Coach House Press 1985
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
Three war brides from England, Scotland and Italy travel to Canada in 1945. The lives of the three women and their relationships with their husbands weave together the fabric of the Canadian experience - the hopes, fantasies, disappointments and the grim reality of starting a new life in a new land.
Title: Ever Loving in - Canada and the Theatre of War: Vol. 1 / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - women - war six characters three male; three female two acts
Three war brides from England, Scotland and Italy travel to Canada in 1945. The lives of the three women and their relationships with their husbands weave together the fabric of the Canadian experience - the hopes, fantasies, disappointments and the grim reality of starting a new life in a new land.
Title: Evidence to the Contrary in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO Author: Pedneault, Hélène translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - women - Quebec four characters one male; three female three parts
A riveting interrogation of a woman who has been arrested for the murder of her mother. Title: Excavations in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - relationships - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters four male; one female two acts
One day while walking along her own property, and across a field onto her neighbour Finn's property, Christina Fudge came across a fossilized bone sticking out of the face of a cliff. While she was quite accustomed to finding archaeological artifacts in these fields, this was a first for her. She dutifully contacted the provincial museum in the capital and they in turn sent out a paleontologist to investigate. He determined that the protruding bone was in fact a rib, a part of a much larger skeleton of a T-Rex and that it would serve the interest of science to excavate it.
Title: Eyes for Consuela in - The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World was Green / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Paz, Octavio Publisher: Vintage Books 2002
Description:
roy drama - American - relationships - violence four characters three male; one female two acts
adapted from the story "The Blue Bouquet" by Octavio Paz.
"A disheveled man wakes from a sweat-drenching nightmare, furiously shaking his shirt and pants free of possible small jungle creatures, and hastily dresses to face the utterly dreamlike reality of remote Mexico, a torpid limbo. Henry is a lost soul from the American middle-class, middle aged and unmoored, a superfluous stranger to a wife he left hundreds of scattered miles away in
Title: Eyes of Heaven, The in - Canadian Theatre Review 132, Winter 2007 / PER Author: Cooper, Beverley Publisher: Miscellaneous 2007
Description:
roy family relations - women - drama four characters one male; two female; one girl two acts
Fifteen-year-old Eloise Bernhardt is dealing with the recent death of her father. One night, she sees lights hovering over the fields near her home. People from the town mock Eloise's belief that she has encountered extraterrestrials, except her mother and the newly arrived teacher at the high school. A story of truth, betrayal and a mothers unshakeable love. Title: Faculty Room, The in - Humana Festival 2003 / COL Author: Carpenter, Bridget Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2004
Description:
roy drama - American - high school - teaching six characters four male; one female; one boy or girl nine scenes
"Bridget Carpenter's mordant and engrossing look at burned-out teachers at a high school in "an ugly small suburb in an ugly small city somewhere in the middle" of the U.S. Zoe, the speech and drama teacher, and Adam, the English teacher, who were once married and still teach at the school from which they graduated, play hurtful cat and mouse games with each other and with Carver, the idealistic new teacher of world history, who used to teach at a big-city school but left under mysterious circumstances."
Title: Faster in - Stone Cold Dead Serious / COL Author: Rapp, Adam Publisher: Faber and Faber 2004
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female two acts
Set in the putrid, dark, mattress-strewn basement of a building in an unnamed midwestern city. Living in that basement are two street hustlers: Kitchin, who despite his street talk is clearly of a spiritual bent, and Skram, who makes Eminem seem like a choir boy. Skram sniffs glue when he isn't masturbating, and beats his catatonic brother, Stargyl. Skram and Kitchin have kidnapped a girl and stashed her in a locked room; they're waiting for a mysterious stranger to pay them more cash than they can dream of to take her away. When he appears, you would not be wrong to
Title: Fasting Girl, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 100, Fall 1999 / PER Author: Genest, Michele Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female (doubling) seventeen scenes
'A compelling portrayal of one woman's attempt to escape conflict and loss by fasting in the solitude of her Yukon cabin, first produced by Nakai Theatre, Whitehorse.' 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: Fault Lines in - Plays and Playwrights 2011 / COL Author: Miller, Rebecca Louise Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2011
Description:
roy drama five characters one male; four female two acts
Twenty years after the disappearance of their childhood friend, three women are forced to confront the incident that reshaped their lives.
Title: Fighting Days, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No.42, Spring 1985 / PER Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1985
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - women - history four characters one male; three female two acts
"The polarities of public and private lives and issues of racism and pacifism in the suffragette movement." Title: Five in the Killing Zone in - WomensWork / COL Author: Mueller, Lavonne Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1989
Description:
roy Vietnam war all male cast; five characters five male two acts
'Experiences of five American soldiers in Vietnam war.'
Title: Flowers in - Flowers and No More Medea / CCO Author: Porter, Deborah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - women - drama - Ontario all female cast; five characters five female two acts
"A northern Ontario woman gives birth to quintuplets in 1934, and the resulting celebrity changes a whole family's life. Many years later, they return home to visit their dying mother. In a flood of memory and image, their lives as the women, through Sylvie, try to make sense of their fiveness."
Title: Footprints on the Moon in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters two male; three female; two acts
A woman's struggle to prevent her teenaged daughter from leaving home evolves into a struggle to understand the past. A play about loving and losing, constancy and change. Title: Fortune and Men's Eyes in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ all male cast; five characters five male two acts
'Four young men in Canadian reform school brutalized by system and other inmates.'
Title: Fortune and Men's Eyes in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ all male cast; five characters five male two acts
1 interior set.
'Four young men in Canadian reform school brutalized by system and other inmates.'
Title: Fortune and Men's Eyes in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (3rd ed. ) / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ all male cast; five characters five male two acts
1 interior set.
'Four young men in Canadian reform school brutalized by system and other inmates.' Title: Fortune and Men's Eyes in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (rev. ed.) / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1986
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ all male cast; five characters five male two acts
1 interior set.
'Four young men in Canadian reform school brutalized by system and other inmates.'
Title: Four to Four in - A Collection of Canadian Plays: Volume 5 / CCO Author: Garneau, Michel Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - Quebec - feminism - drama - women all female cast; four characters four female one act (full length)
"...putting into words the feeling of the modern feminist, oppressed by generations of oppressed women...these four women tell us things that are rough and abrupt about the meaning of life, love, the family."
Title: Friend's Story, A in - Collected Plays in Translation / COL Author: Tendulkar, Vijay Translated by Gowri Ramnarayan Publisher: Oxford University Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - love - LGBTQ+ five characters; extras three male; two female three acts
"A FRIEND'S STORY is a stark commentary on the nature of both heterosexual and homosexual love." Title: Garden of Delights in - Guernica and other plays / COL Author: Arrabal, Fernando translated by Helen Gary Bishop Publisher: Grove Press 1986
Description:
roy drama - sex four characters two male; two female two acts
film and slide projections.
"Experimental play involving sexual symbolism. Beautiful actress living with caged ape-man lover enacts psychodramas with figures representing memories and fantasies."
Title: Gas Heart, The in - Modern French Theatre / COL Author: Tzara, Tristan translated by Michael Benedikt Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1966
Description:
roy drama six characters flexible casting three acts
'Group of characters, named after parts of the head, carry on a conversation, generally at cross purposes.'
Title: Gay Gene, The in - The Gay Gene and Other Plays / CCO Author: Wallace, Dale Publisher: Late Bloomers
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - ethics - canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
The gene for homosexuality has been discovered. In the play ethical dilemmas are ripe and choices must be made. Mankind must decide wether to sell its soul to science or to God. Title: Ghosts in - Eight Plays by Henrik Ibsen / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Eva Le Gallienne Publisher: Modern Library 1989
Description:
roy drama - tragedy five characters three male; two female three acts
"Oswald Alving has inherited syphilis from his degenerate father. He returns home from his studies in Paris to be on hand for the dedication of an orphanage, built in honor of his deceased father. The orphanage, uninsured, is destroyed by fire. Oswald learns that the maid, with whom he desires an affair, is his half-sister. When he suffers a final attack from his dreadful disease, he begs his mother to kill him. Ibsen argues that Mrs. Alving should have left her husband, before Oswald's birth, when she discovered that the Captain was dissolute."
Title: Ghosts in - Eight Great Tragedies / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by William Archer Publisher: New American Library 1957
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 in - Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Rolf Fjelde Publisher: New American Library 1978
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 in - A Treasury of the Theatre Volume 2 / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by William Archer Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1963
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 in - Tragedy: Plays, Theory, and Criticism / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Eva LeGallienne Publisher: Harcourt Brace Publishers 1960
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 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 in - Ghosts and other plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Peter Watts Publisher: Penguin Books 1964
Description:
roy drama - tragedy five characters three male; two female three acts
"Oswald Alving has inherited syphilis from his degenerate father. He returns home from his studies in Paris to be on hand for the dedication of an orphanage, built in honor of his deceased father. The orphanage, uninsured, is destroyed by fire. Oswald learns that the maid, with whom he desires an affair, is his half-sister. When he suffers a final attack from his dreadful disease, he begs his mother to kill him. Ibsen argues that Mrs. Alving should have left her husband, before Oswald's birth, when she discovered that the Captain was dissolute."
Title: Glace Bay Miners' Museum, The in - 7 Canons / CCO Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
"The Glace Bay Miners' Museum is the story of an ill-fated love between a wandering musician/ social idealist and a Cape Breton coal miner's daughter whose dreams are reawakened by their passion - a play of the all consuming brightness of dreams and memory, overshadowed by absentee greed, callousness, exploitation. A tragedy that is hard as nails, totally unsentimental, yet full of love and humour."
Title: Glace Bay Miners' Museum, The in - Marigraph / CCO Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
"The Glace Bay Miners' Museum is the story of an ill-fated love between a wandering musician/ social idealist and a Cape Breton coal miner's daughter whose dreams are reawakened by their passion - a play of the all consuming brightness of dreams and memory, overshadowed by absentee greed, callousness, exploitation. A tragedy that is hard as nails, totally unsentimental, yet full of love and humour." Title: Glace Bay Miners' Museum, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
"The Glace Bay Miners' Museum is the story of an ill-fated love between a wandering musician/ social idealist and a Cape Breton coal miner's daughter whose dreams are reawakened by their passion - a play of the all consuming brightness of dreams and memory, overshadowed by absentee greed, callousness, exploitation. A tragedy that is hard as nails, totally unsentimental, yet full of love and humour."
Title: Glass Menagerie, The in - Mirrors for Man / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Winthrop Publishers 1974
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
A domineering mother who only wishes for success for her two children, tries to force her son to be more ambitious and tries to use him to find gentlemen callers for his shy, crippled sister.
Title: Glass Menagerie, The in - Sweet Bird of Youth, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Penguin Books 1962
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts (seven scenes)
1 set.
A domineering mother who only wishes for success for her two children, tries to force her son to be more ambitious and tries to use him to find gentlemen callers for his shy, crippled sister. Title: Goodbye, Picadilly in - Douglas Bowie: Two Plays / CCO Author: Bowie, Douglas Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - family relations five characters two male; three female two acts
Bess Brickley is bustling about her Canadian country inn in a flurry of excitement. She’s just learned that Brick, her husband of more than fifty years, is to be awarded the Order of Canada. But before this has time to sink in, she receives the news that Brick has been found dead on a bench in Leicester Square, London, England—an ocean away. This is especially shocking to Bess because she thought he was on a canoe trip in Algonquin Park. As layers are peeled away, secrets stretching back to World War II are uncovered. Full of heart, humour and surprises, Goodbye,
Title: Green Icebergs in - Women Playwrights the Best Plays of 1995 / COL Author: Fannon, Cecilia Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy drama - marital relations five characters three male; two female two acts
"Drama about modern marriage set in Tuscany. Two couples disentangle with each other and are rematched with surprising results."
Title: Ground in - Humana Festival 2010 / COL Author: Dillman, Lisa Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2010
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female two acts
When Zelda inherits her father's pecan farm, she discovers that the world at the border between the United States and Mexico has changed. As she faces hard choices about keeping or letting go of 'The Farm', Zelda's beliefs about family, home, community and civil rights are tested in the face of a shifting political and social landscape. Title: Gun-shy in - Humana Festival '97 / COL Author: Dresser, Richard Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1997
Description:
roy relationships - drama nine characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
Divorced couple unable to stay divorced.
Title: Gyroscope in - Reaney Days in the West Room / CCO Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
Spinning images; a model for the loose threads, empty caves, war memorials...dreams, confrontations that living with other people involve.
Title: Hand in Hand in - Modern Jewish Plays / CCO Author: Block, Simon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy relationships - drama six characters three male; three female two acts
Ronnie is fresh off the plane from Israel, looking to move back into his old room in Dave's flat and pick up where he left off. But life has moved on. And when his younger sister Cass and her new relationship with Dave become the target of Ronnie's interference, her belief that blood is thicker than water starts to crack under the strain. 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: Harlem Duet in - Testifyin' / CCO Author: Sears, Djanet Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - ethnic - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
"A rhapsodic blues tragedy...It is the prelude to Shakespeare's Othello, and his first wife Billie (yes, before Desdemona). Set in contemporary Harlem at the corner of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X boulevards, the play explores the space where race and sex intersect. Harlem Duet is Billie's story."
The Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Award Winner. Winner of the
Title: Harlem Duet in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fourth Edition / CCO Author: Sears, Djanet Publisher: Talonbooks 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - ethnic - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
"A rhapsodic blues tragedy...It is the prelude to Shakespeare's Othello, and his first wife Billie (yes, before Desdemona). Set in contemporary Harlem at the corner of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X boulevards, the play explores the space where race and sex intersect. Harlem Duet is Billie's story."
The Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Award Winner. Winner of the Title: Harlem Duet in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Sears, Djanet Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - ethnic - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
"A rhapsodic blues tragedy...It is the prelude to Shakespeare's Othello, and his first wife Billie (yes, before Desdemona). Set in contemporary Harlem at the corner of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X boulevards, the play explores the space where race and sex intersect. Harlem Duet is Billie's story."
The Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Award Winner. Winner of the
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: Hill-Land in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
speaking chorus; background music.
'Canadian immigrant family facing hardship and death, finds strength in the land.' Title: Hill-Land in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
speaking chorus; background music.
'Canadian immigrant family facing hardship and death, finds strength in the land.'
Title: Holy Terrors (Les Monstres Sacrés), The in - Jean Cocteau (Five Plays) / COL Author: Cocteau, Jean translated by Edward O. Marsh Publisher: Hill and Wang 1961
Description:
roy drama seven characters two male; five female three acts No description available.
Title: Home in - Three Plays by David Storey / COL Author: Storey, David Publisher: Samuel French 1971
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 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 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: Honey Brown Eyes in - American Theatre (02/1/09) / PER Author: Zadravec, Stefanie Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama-war six characters three male; three female two acts
Explores the impact of the Bosnian conflict on everyday citizens. Honey Brown Eyes takes war and makes it personal, forcing the audience not to deal with war in abstractions, or measured in body counts, but by seeing true disruption of innocent lives that should be separated from the devastating acts. Title: Hoodoo Love in - Plays: 1 / COL Author: Hall, Katori Publisher: Methuen 2011
Description:
roy drama - African-American four characters two male; two female two acts
music and lyrics by Katori Hall except where noted; music and lyrics included.
In a Southern tale of love, magic, jealousy and secrets, Toulou escapes from the Mississippi Delta cotton fields, to pursue her dream of singing the blues in Memphis. When she meets a rambling blues man, the notorious ace of Spades, this dream is realized in a way she could never have imagined.
Title: Hour of Feeling, The in - Humana Festival 2012 / COL Author: Mansour, Mona Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2013
Description:
roy drama - American - identity six characters three male; three female two acts
It’s 1967 and the map of the Middle East is about to change drastically. Fueled by a love of English Romantic poetry, Adham journeys from Palestine to London with his new wife, Abir, to deliver a career-defining lecture. As the young couple’s marriage is tested, Adham struggles to reconcile his ambitions with the pull of family and home. But what if seizing the moment means letting go of everything he knows?
Title: Humble Boy in - Plays One / COL Author: Jones, Charlotte Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001
Description:
roy drama - family relations six characters three male; three female two acts
'Following sudden death of his father, thirty-five-year-old Cambridge astrophysicist returns to his middle England home and his difficult and demanding mother.' Title: I am Yours in - Modern Canadian Plays, Volume II - 3rd ed. / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Talonbooks 1994
Description:
roy drama - relationships six characters three male; three female two acts
"A woman incapable of loving, wreaks havoc on her own life and the lives of the two men with whom she is involved. She becomes pregnant by one of them and an obsessive struggle to determine the fate of the baby ensues."
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama, 1989
Title: I am Yours in - The Other Side of the Dark / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Coach House Press 1989
Description:
roy drama - relationships six characters three male; three female two acts
"A woman incapable of loving, wreaks havoc on her own life and the lives of the two men with whom she is involved. She becomes pregnant by one of them and an obsessive struggle to determine the fate of the baby ensues."
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama, 1989
Title: I am Yours in - Late 20th Century Plays / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - relationships six characters three male; three female two acts
A woman incapable of loving, wreaks havoc on her own life and the lives of the two men with whom she is involved. She becomes pregnant by one of them and an obsessive struggle to determine the fate of the baby ensues.
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama, 1989. Title: I'll Be Back Before Midnight in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 27, Summer 1980 / PER Author: Colley, Peter Publisher: Miscellaneous 1985
Description:
roy horror - thriller - ghost story four characters two male; two female two acts
"Jan, who's recovering from a nervous disorder, and her husband rent a remote cabin from an odd farmer who tells gruesome ghost tales. When the husband's hateful sister arrives, frightening events transpire. What happens to the fragile wife as the bodies appear and disappear gives this classic thriller its horrifying impact."
Title: Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom in - The America Play and Other Works / COL Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1989
Description:
roy American - drama five characters flexible casting four parts
'Surreal experimental work addresses issues of black history and identity.'
Title: In Flame in - Plays One / COL Author: Jones, Charlotte Publisher: Faber and Faber 2004
Description:
roy drama - English six characters two male; four female two acts
"Funny and sparky play about lust, hope and dreams. Action takes place in Yorkshire, 1908, and London in the present." 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 Beginning in - The Portable Bernard Shaw / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1977
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
part of "Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch" which consists of a preface, "An Infidel Half Century" and a series of five plays: In the Beginning, The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas, The Thing Happens, Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman, and As Far as Thought Can Reach.
"Back to Methuselah" is Shaw's depiction of man's growing extension of his control over mortal life and what that generates. This first play in the series starts with Adam and Eve in the garden of
Title: In the Blood in - American Theatre (Mar 00) / PER Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori Publisher: Miscellaneous 2000
Description:
roy family drama six characters three male; three female nine scenes
'Drama about homeless single mother of five children living on inner city streets.' Title: Independence in - Plays for Actresses / COL Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Vintage Books 1997
Description:
roy drama - women all female cast; four characters four female two acts
suitable for High School performances.
The setting is the small town of Independence, Iowa, the lifelong home of Evelyn Briggs. Her oldest daughter, Kess, is a university professor in Minneapolis, but she has come home at the request of her sister, Jo who is concerned for Evelyn's mental health. Kess, a professed lesbian, wants to cut her family ties once and for all; Jo, an incurable romantic and longtime virgin, has
Title: Innocents, The in - 10 Classic Mystery and Suspense Plays of the Modern Theatre / COL Author: Archibald, William Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company 1973
Description:
roy melodrama - thriller six characters two male; four female; requires two children two acts
1 interior set; period - 1860's.
Based on the story " Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. A new governess arrives at a house where the two children are possessed by the evil spirits of the former governess and her lover, the caretaker, both of whom are dead. The new governess attempts to save the souls of the children but learns that they are inseparable from the souls of the spirits.
Title: Inquest in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Harrar, William Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - historical - drama - prairies four characters three male; one female two parts
"This play takes its topic from Winnipeg headlines and shows the Winnipeg police disintegrating after the fatal shooting of aboriginal leader J.J. Harper. It quietly lays out the racism and police sloppiness which brought the tragedy on in character-filled detail." Title: Intimate Apparel in - Intimate Apparel / Fabulation / COL Author: Nottage, Lynn Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2006
Description:
roy drama - African-American - historical - romance six characters two male; four female two acts
"The time is 1905, the place New York City, where Esther, a black seamstress, lives in a boarding house for women and sews intimate apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. Her skills and discretion are much in demand, and she has managed to stuff a goodly sum of money into her quilt over the years. Her plan is to find the right man (husband) and use the money she’s saved to open a beauty parlor where black women will be treated as royally as the white women she sews for."
Title: Intimate Apparel in - New Playwrights: The best plays of 2004 / COL Author: Nottage, Lynn Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005
Description:
roy drama - women six characters two male; four female two acts
Drama about a black seamstress in early twentieth century New York City. Esther, an African-American seamstress, makes an uncommon living for herself creating exquisite lingerie for wealthy socialites and ladies of the brothel alike. Plain and unsophisticated, she dreams of a better life and of finding a husband. As her long-distance correspondence with a laborer working on the great Panama Canal grows more and more intimate, Esther finds herself turning away from her old life for the dangerous love of a man she has never met. This acclaimed new drama tells the
Title: Intimate Relations (Les Parents Terribles) in - Jean Cocteau (Five Plays) / COL Author: Cocteau, Jean Publisher: Hill and Wang 1961
Description:
roy drama - relationships five characters three male; two female three acts
translated by Charles Frank.
"Cocteau returns to the theme of incest, but this time the diseased love is infecting a bourgeois family in 1930s Paris and provides the basis for a bruising melodrama." Title: Invested, The in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2012 / COL Author: Rothstein, Sharyn Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2012
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female two acts
"Catherine Murdoch is the head of wealth management at MetroBank - one of the largest and most powerful banks in the world - where she was just passed over for CEO. When the corruption of the new CEO threatens her world and her values, Murdoch must decide where her loyalties will lie - does she follow her ambitions or does she follow her conscience? Drawn from the financial crisis of 2008, "The Invested" shows the rivalries, betrayals and alliances that could bring the world to the brink of economic disaster." - nytheatre.com
Title: Jack in - The Way We Live Now / COL Author: Greenspan, David Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990
Description:
roy drama - AIDS four characters one male; three female seven scenes
'Abstract theatre piece employing experimental narrative technique to recall life of homosexual man now dead of AIDS.'
Title: Jacob's Ladder in - West Coast Plays 6 / COL Author: Graham, Barbara Publisher: West Coast Plays 1980
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
No abstract available. Title: Jennie's Story in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Lambert, Betty Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three female; two male two acts
"Jennie consults a doctor about her inability to become pregnant. She discovers that years before during an abortion, she was also sterilized. Consent was given by her mother and by the priest who impregnated her. Jennie chooses never to be victimized again."
Title: Jennie's Story in - Jennie's Story & Under the Skin / CCO Author: Lambert, Betty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
Jennie consults a doctor about her inability to become pregnant. She discovers that years before during an abortion, she was also sterilized. Consent was given by her mother and by the priest who impregnated her. Jennie chooses never to be victimized again.
Title: Jennie's Story in - Canadian Theatre Review No.40, Fall 1984 / PER Author: Lambert, Betty Publisher: Miscellaneous 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three female; two male two acts
"Jennie consults a doctor about her inability to become pregnant. She discovers that years before during an abortion, she was also sterilized. Consent was given by her mother and by the priest who impregnated her. Jennie chooses never to be victimized again." Title: Jeremiah's Place in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - music - family relations - farming five characters three male; two female one act
JEREMIAH'S PLACE has a familiar Ryga theme: the anguish over the loss of a homestead, especially as family relationships are seriously disrupted and questions are raised about the best use of the land. The play is set in the autumn, on the day when Don has sold the family farm to the faceless buyers of a holding company who have plans for building a lodge as a 'destination resort' for tourists. As coyotes howl and overgrown maples threaten, members of the family respond to the change, most notably Jeremiah, the aging patriarch who can no longer work the land and feels
Title: Jessica in - Sheer Nerve / CCO Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - biography - identity - Native peoples six characters three female; three male two acts
2 interiors.
Charts a Metis woman's search for personal identity.
Title: Jesus Hates Me in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2009 / COL Author: Lemon, Wayne Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
"Search for meaning by twenty-somethings beneath a Jesus mannequin on the New Testament themed Blood of the Lamb Miniature Golf course." Title: Joey in - Stars in the Sky Morning / CCO Author: Rising Tide Theatre Publisher: Killick Press 1981
Description:
roy biography - Newfoundland - political - Canadian - historical large cast five male; one female (doubling) two acts
'Joey is more than a dry history of "the only living father of Confederation" as Smallwood used to call himself. The play juxtaposes Joey's ambitions, plans, successes and failures with the lives of the people who bore the brunt of the changes he inaugurated.'
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: Jungle Out There, A in - New Canadian Drama 5 / CCO Author: Riordon, Michael Publisher: Borealis Press 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - political - drama twenty-two characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
'Jungle is a catalogue of topical issues that objectifies the author's struggle to clear his way through a jungle of issues: post-AIDS gay affirmation; women's emancipation; American colonization of Canada; Nicaragua and facism.' Title: Kabloona Talk in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male two acts
The Kabloona (White Man) thought to bring the Rule of Law to the North with the 1917 trial of Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, charged with the murder of two Catholic priests in the Arctic Barrens. But is innocence or guilt secondary to the Government’s sovereign and economic interests? A verdict is in, and a back room quickly replaces the Court Room. The gloves are off as a mysterious figure dictates strategy and manipulates Prosecutor, Defense and Judge as they square off in the interests of Justice as each sees it.⌦Will the clash of cultures determine innocence or national
Title: Kabloona Talk in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male two acts
The Kabloona (White Man) thought to bring the Rule of Law to the North with the 1917 trial of Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, charged with the murder of two Catholic priests in the Arctic Barrens. But is innocence or guilt secondary to the Government’s sovereign and economic interests? A verdict is in, and a back room quickly replaces the Court Room. The gloves are off as a mysterious figure dictates strategy and manipulates Prosecutor, Defense and Judge as they square off in the interests of Justice as each sees it. Will the clash of cultures determine innocence or national
Title: Kamala in - Collected Plays in Translation / COL Author: Tendulkar, Vijay Translated by Priya Adarkar Publisher: Oxford University Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - India - slavery - journalism - patriarchy six characters three male; three female two acts
"KAMALA was inspired by actual live events where a journalist was able to purchase a woman from a "rural flesh market". In "Kamala", Tendulkar grapples with the issues of morality and hypocrisy. Within the many layers of the play, he questions the current trends in journalism where sensationalism is given higher platform at the expense of human value and dignity. He explores the concept of slavery and it's mutations in urban society and examines the position of women in a male-centric society that is middle-class India." Title: Kanyadaan in - Collected Plays in Translation / COL Author: Tendulkar, Vijay Translated by Gowri Ramnarayan Publisher: Oxford University Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - India - marital relations five characters three male; two female two acts
"KANYADAAN explores the texture of modernity and social change in India through a marriage between two people of different castes and backgrounds."
Title: Karla and Grif in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Laxdal, Vivienne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
'Haunted by the explosive love of her obsessive father and the memories of a friendship crossing emotional and physical boundaries, Karla holds Grif hostage one suspenseful night in an attempt to alleviate her pain and confusion.
'Winner! Full length Category - Canadian National Playwriting Competition.
Title: Kid Simple, a radio play in the flesh in - Humana Festival 2004 / COL Author: Harrison, Jordan Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005
Description:
roy drama sixteen characters three male; three female (doubling) sixteen parts
'Kid Simple, a radio play in the flesh' is the story of Moll, a young girl who invents a device called the third ear, a device that is meant to hear imperceptible sounds, such as toenails growing on a field mouse. After winning a science prize for her invention, Moll receives a mysterious call from a man who wants her device. After her device is stolen, Moll goes on an odyssey to recover it. Kid Simple alternates between scenes with Moll’s family, the radio play that they listen to, and the evil syndicate that wants to steal Moll’s invention. The play is a fascinating blend of sound artistry. Title: King David and His Wives in - The Great Jewish Plays / COL Author: Pinski, David Publisher: Horizon Press 1972
Description:
roy drama - Jewish all male cast; five characters five male one act; five scenes (full length)
"Divided into five scenes which trace the changes in the complex character of the great king revered in Jewish tradition."
Title: Lady of Silences in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Favel, Floyd Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy murder - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright five characters two male; three female two acts
Tells the story of a man whose white lover is killed by his three Native lovers.
Title: Last Bus, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 51, Summer 1987 / PER Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Miscellaneous 1987
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
The death of a childhood friend brings Robert back to his home town where he forms an uneasy relationship with his dead friend's outcast girlfriend. Together they try to come to terms with past, present and future. Title: Late Show, A in - 2 from Chambers / COL Author: Chambers, Jane Publisher: T 'n' T Classics 1998
Description:
roy drama - American - 20th century - LGBTQ+ - all female cast; five characters five female two acts
single set.
A woman is stranded in a blizzard with her first, last, current and next lover!
Title: Let Me Hear You Whisper in - Let Me Hear You Whisper and The Ladies Should Be in Bed / COL Author: Zindel, Paul Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1973
Description:
roy drama five characters; extras flexible casting two acts
1 interior set; suggested short play for high school.
"A cleaning woman befriends a dolphin who is the subject of an animal communication experiment. He refuses to talk because scientists plan to use him for aggressive purposes."
Title: Letter to My Son, A in - Portrait of Angelica; A Letter to My Son / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Penguin Books 1966
Description:
roy Canadian - immigration five characters four male; one female two acts
A fascinating portrait of Ivan Lepa, an old Ukrainian Canadian farmer. Lepa confronts modern bureaucracy in the person of a young social worker, and his own haunted past. In between visits from Miss Dean the social worker, Lepa repeatedly drafts a letter to his son, a schoolteacher alienated from his robustly 'peasant' father.
1983 Best Play award from the German Academy of Performing arts. Title: Letter to My Son, A in - Canadian Theatre Review No.33, Winter, 1982 / PER Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy Canadian - immigration five characters four male; one female two acts
A fascinating portrait of Ivan Lepa, an old Ukrainian Canadian farmer. Lepa confronts modern bureaucracy in the person of a young social worker, and his own haunted past. In between visits from Miss Dean the social worker, Lepa repeatedly drafts a letter to his son, a schoolteacher alienated from his robustly 'peasant' father.
1983 Best Play award from the German Academy of Performing arts.
Title: Letter to My Son, A in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - immigration - memory play five characters; extras four male; one female two acts
A fascinating portrait of Ivan Lepa, an old Ukrainian Canadian farmer. Lepa confronts modern bureaucracy in the person of a young social worker, and his own haunted past. In between visits from Miss Dean the social worker, Lepa repeatedly drafts a letter to his son, a schoolteacher alienated from his robustly 'peasant' father.
Winner! 1983 Best Play award from the German Academy of Performing arts.
Title: Lighting Up the Two-Year Old in - Humana Festival '97 / COL Author: Aerenson, Benjie Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1997
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male two acts
1 setting.
Personal conflicts and shady dealings in horse racing circles. Title: Lion in the Streets in - 7 Canons / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
A young girl Isobel delves into the secret lives of her neighbors as she searches for her killer.
Title: Lion in the Streets in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fourth Edition / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Talonbooks 2001
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
A young girl Isobel delves into the secret lives of her neighbors as she searches for her killer.
Title: Lion in the Streets in - Late 20th Century Plays / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - mystery six characters two male; four female two acts
A young girl, Isobel, delves into the secret lives of her neighbors as she searches for her killer. Title: Lion in the Streets in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (5th ed.) / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
A young girl Isobel delves into the secret lives of her neighbors as she searches for her killer.
Title: Little Eyolf in - Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Rolf Fjelde Publisher: New American Library 1978
Description:
roy tragedy six characters two male; three female; one boy three acts
1 interior and 2 exterior sets.
"Psychological study of relations between husband and wife after the death of their child."
Title: Little Eyolf in - The Master Builder and Other Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik Publisher: Penguin Books 1958
Description:
roy tragedy six characters two male; three female; one boy three acts
1 interior and 2 exterior sets.
"Psychological study of relations between husband and wife after death of their child." Title: Long Mirror, The in - Four Plays / COL Author: Priestley, J. B. Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1944
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
Description not available.
Title: Look Back in Anger in - Three Plays By John Osborne / COL Author: Osborne, John Publisher: Criterion Books 1958
Description:
Roy Drama Five characters Three male; two female Three acts
One interior set.
Angry young Jimmy Porter looks back because he has so little incentive to look ahead. The words pour out of him, a flood of satire and invective. The words are often cruel, but they are also vibrant and colorful. They sting the characters of the play as well as the audience. In Jimmy Porter's boiling resentment at not being able to find himself in his own generation, he makes life
Title: Louisbourg in - Louisbourg / Growing Up in Louisbourg / CCO Author: Walsh, Patrick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters four male; two female (doubling) one act; twenty six scenes (full length)
"...traces the foundation and fall of the town through the fictional story of Jacqueline Rousseau, the wife of a French officer. The portrayal of her struggle to survive life in the new world is a testament to French culture in a young Canada." Title: Ma Rose in - WomensWork / COL Author: Medley, Cassandra Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1989
Description:
roy family relations - drama five characters one male; four female two acts
'Conflict of generations as experienced by elderly black woman, her daughter, and her granddaughter in small midwestern town.'
Title: Madman and the Nun, The in - The Madman and the Nun and Other Plays / COL Author: Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy translated by D.C. Gerould and C.S. Durer Publisher: University of Washington Press 1968
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female three acts
'Set in insane asylum, presided over by figures of religion and science in which leading characters, the madmen, go free, liberated from morality and laws of biology and physics.'
Title: Maggie's Last Dance in - Love + Relasianships / CCO Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1996
Description:
roy drama - Asian-Canadian - life - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
"A high school reunion brings together old friends and nemeses to relive the past. Old crushes are revisited along with regrets and hopes. The play jumps between the present-day reunion when people are wiser and more experienced, and the high school hey days when youthful exuberance and naivete ruled." Title: Magic Aster in - Modern Drama from Communist China / COL Author: Jen, Teh-yao translated by William C. White Publisher: University of London Press 1970
Description:
roy fantasy - China four characters; extras one male; three female three acts
'Bad lazy older sister aided by Old Cat drowns her good younger sister hoping to acquire Magic Aster and the happiness it gives, only to learn that happiness has to be self-created.'
Title: Maple and Vine in - Humana Festival 2011 / COL Author: Harrison, Jordan Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2012
Description:
roy drama - american seven characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
"Katha and Ryu have become allergic to their 21st-century lives. After they meet a charismatic man from a community of 1950s reenactors, they forsake cell phones and sushi for cigarettes and Tupperware parties. In this compulsively authentic world, Katha and Ryu are surprised by what their new neighborsand they themselvesare willing to sacrifice for happiness." - Doollee
Title: Marguerite Bonet in - Woman Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1998 / COL Author: Smith, Val Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2000
Description:
roy drama - death five characters four male; one female two acts
Takes place in England, 1920. This is a play about how people deal with death. It is also a play about survival -- spiritual in the face of personal holocaust and group guilt on a national scale. Title: Marion Bridge in - Marigraph / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy drama - family five characters one male; four female two acts
"In 'Marion Bridge', three women in their thirties come 'home' to Cape Breton to be with their dying mother. Each in her own way tries to deal with the painful loneliness of the lives they have chosen for themselves - each is trying to reconcile what they have become with what they thought they wanted out of life and with what they thought their parents wanted for them. Nothing, of course, has turned out exactly the way anyone imagined it would."
Title: Martin Night in - Four Plays / COL Author: Goldstein, Joshua Publisher: Solomon Press Publishers 1993
Description:
roy drama - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior.
Drama set in 1960s New York suburb about troubled family headed by self-hating German-Jewish refugee.
Title: Mary Stuart in - Only Prostitutes Marry in May / COL Author: Maraini, Dacia Publisher: Guernica Editions 1994
Description:
roy adaptation - Elizabethan drama all female cast; four characters four female two acts
"An evocation of the relationship between Elizabeth 1 of England and her cousin Mary Queen of Scots, whom she imprisoned and had put to death. It demonstrates vividly the price that women pay for holding power in a world dominated by men." 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: Matka King, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No.120 Fall 2004 / PER Author: Irani, Anosh Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama six characters three males; three females two acts
Description not available.
Title: Matka King, The in - The Bombay Plays / CCO Author: Irani, Anosh Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
In 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: Matka King, The in - The Arts Club Anthology / CCO Author: Irani, Anosh Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy drama - India five characters three male; two female two acts
2 settings.
In 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
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: Mean Tears in - Mean Tears/In the Blue / COL Author: Gill, Peter Publisher: Oberon Press 1987
Description:
roy comedy - tragedy - relationships five characters two male; three female sixteen scenes
"The story of a love affair between two men, and some women. Peter Gill's gifts have rarely been seen to better advantage than in this lyric yet painful study of desperate entanglement". Title: 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: Mercy Quilt, The in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Jensen, Lorre Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples all female cast; four characters four female Scenes 16, 22 and 23 from the play
'In (these) scenes from the radio play, Grace nurses some maternal grief that her only child, Lorraine, has never been asked and begins to explore the reasons for this oversight.'
Title: Mistress of Desires in - Latin American Plays / COL Author: Vargas Llosa, Mario translated by Sebastian Doggart Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1996
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
1 setting; translated by Sebastian Doggart.
Drama set in Peruvian bar. Fantasy and reality intermingle in play about love, desire, taboo, greed, and role of women in male-dominated society. Title: Misunderstanding, The in - Caligula and Three Other Plays / COL Author: Camus, Albert Publisher: Vintage Books 1958
Description:
roy tragedy - greed five characters two male; three female three acts
'Son returns to homeland after many years only to be murdered for his money by his mother and sister who do not recognize him.'
Title: Mojo and the Sayso, The in - Moon Marked and Touched by Sun / COL Author: Rahman, Aishah Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1994
Description:
roy drama - African-American - family relations four characters three male; one female two acts
'African American family drama portraying effects of police brutality upon victim's survivors.'
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: Mortal Ash, The in - Plays: 1 / Richard Cameron / COL Author: Cameron, Richard Publisher: Methune 1998
Description:
roy tragic comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
Takes place during the summer in a back yard and kitchen of a council house on an estate in a South Yorkshire town. Small scale clash of the generations.
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: Mud in - German Skerries and Mud / COL Author: Holman, Robert Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1977
Description:
roy drama - English five characters four male; one female seven scenes
'Produced under title "Taking Stock". Strange old man from London visits Northern England and encounters father and son and young engaged couple. Through listening to and and observing old man characters reevaluate own successes, failure and relationships.' 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: 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: Nathan Cohen - A Review in - Canadian Theatre Review No.30, Spring 1981 / PER Author: Salutin, Rick Publisher: Miscellaneous 1981
Description:
roy drama - biography large cast three male; one female (doubling) two acts
'A play about Canada's most controversial drama critic.' Title: New World Brave in - Stories from the Bush / CCO Author: De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples all male cast; fourteen characters five male (doubling) two acts
"New World Brave" is a piece with an almost continual soundtrack, one whose refrain is "heal the circle that was broken and you'll find your wounds will mend." Five young men search for ways to bring ancient teachings into their complex contemporary lives, on the reserve and in the city. Images - some authentic, some misleading, all powerful - frame the piece. To quote from it: "we are the images we create."
Title: Next Fall in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2010 / COL Author: Nauffts, Geoffrey Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2011
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ six characters four male; two female two acts
"Geoffrey Nauffts' NEXT FALL takes a witty and provocative look at faith, commitment and unconditional love. While the play's central story focuses on the five-year relationship between Adam and Luke, NEXT FALL goes beyond a typical love story. This timely and compelling new American play forces us all to examine what it means to "believe" and what it might cost us not to." - Dramatists Play Service
Title: Night Train to Bolina in - Out of the Fringe / COL Author: Cruz, Nilo Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000
Description:
roy drama five characters; extras one male; one female; one boy; two girls two acts
Latin American children dream of traveling to U.S. to start new life with new freedoms. Title: Night Zoo (Zoo de nuit) in - Voices from France / COL Author: Azama, Michel translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Banff Center Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters three male; one female three parts
Between sundown and dawn, in a squat in the deserted industrialized zone of an unnamed city, three desperate youths (two boys and a girl with an infant child) confront a middle-aged man who has come looking for his son, or any son to whom he can play father. The infant's life is at stake as the characters confront each other in a staccato ballet of rage and longing.
Title: Nora in - Ingmar Bergman: A Project for the Theatre / COL Author: Bergman, Ingmar Publisher: Continuum Publishing Company 1994
Description:
roy drama - women five characters three male; two female fifteen scenes
An adaptation of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" in which Bergman dismantles its naturalistic superstructure.
Title: Northeast Local in - The Beginning of August and Other Plays / COL Author: Donaghy, Tom Publisher: Grove Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - family relations four characters two male; two female two acts
'The play skillfully follows Mickey and Gi's lives from their meeting in late summer, 1963. He is a steel worker who cannot foresee the approaching end of that industry. She, sensing new possibilities for women, hopes soon to find her calling. By the end of the first scene they have already conceived their son Stefan, and over the next decades they will struggle to stay afloat as time - and the times - move more quickly than either would have imagined. Northeast Local is a remarkable elegy for a certain time, place and class in American history.' Title: O Guru Guru Guru; or why I don't want to go to yoga class with you in - Humana Festival 2013 / COL Author: Avidon, Mallery Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2014
Description:
roy drama - spirituality - commercialization all female cast; six characters six female three acts
"Lila grew up in an ashram, but she does not want to go to yoga class with you. Not because she doesn’t like stretching or has no discipline or worries she might be bad at it. Not because she doesn’t like you. The reason Lila doesn’t want to go to yoga class is not easy to explain—but let her try. A disarming look at the precarious process of becoming yourself." - actorstheatre.org
Title: Of the Fields, Lately in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: French, David Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations four characters three male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
Ben Mercer comes home to Toronto in 1961 for his aunt's funeral, only to learn of his father's recent heart-attack. The complexities of family loves, loyalties and hurts are revealed as Ben learns that "you can't go home again".
Title: Of the Fields, Lately in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre / CCO Author: French, David Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations four characters three male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
'Son returns home after father's heart attack and forced retirement. The approach of death forces each to a process of self examination.'
Winner, 1973 Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Title: Old Settler, The in - American Theatre (Feb 97) / PER Author: Redwood, John Henry Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997
Description:
roy drama - American historical four characters one male; three female two acts
'A finely crafted reminiscence of 1940's Harlem.'
Title: Omphale and the Hero in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 3 Summer, 1974 / PER Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Miscellaneous 1974
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two acts
Description not available.
Title: On Edge in - Stars in the Sky Morning / CCO Author: Malone, Beni Mercer, Rick Publisher: Killick Press 1989
Description:
roy murder mystery - Newfoundland twelve characters four male; two female (doubling) two acts
'The play is a tightly organized murder mystery based on the American television and movie violence to which we are all now routinely exposed as part of our cultural diet. It is set in a large unnamed American city and St. John's appears as the location of the orphanage, the purpose of which is veiled in mystery until the end of the play.' Title: One Flea Spare in - Humana Festival '96 / COL Author: Wallace, Naomi Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy drama - historical five characters three male; one female; one girl two acts
'Set in plague-infested 1665 London. Wealthy elderly couple quarantined with 12 year-year-old girl and young sailor.'
Title: Orange Lemon Egg Canary in - Humana Festival 2003 / COL Author: Groff, Rinne Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2004
Description:
roy drama - magic - relationships four characters; two extras one male; three female four acts
"A play about magic. Great is a magician who inherited his expertise in magic from his grandfather, also known as Great. The grandson, puts on shows while traveling with the old man's props and footlocker crammed with journals he kept. Old Great was known especially for his spectacular Hypnotic Balance illusion that stretched his female assistant/lover Henrietta atop a huge and dangerous spike. Henrietta walks and talks through the play as a ghost. She connects with Great's current and former assistants. The tables are turned when the women become
Title: Outlaw in - Triple Play / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy drama - western all male cast; four characters four male two acts
A young Canadian homesteader travelling far from home, finds himself accused of murder in the state of Kansas in 1871. With only his wits to defend himself, he turns the law of the land – and the men hell-bent on enforcing it – upside down. This authentic western is a unique take on the days when guns were the law. Title: Over the Moon in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 100, Fall 1999 / PER Author: Martin, Meah Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999
Description:
roy family relationships, Alzheimer's disease six characters one male; four female (doubling) thirty-five scenes
'An imagistic and poetic exploration of a family's encounter with a history exposed by the ravages of Alzheimer's disease, first produced by University of British Colombia's Frederick Wood Theatre.'
Title: Paper Wheat in - Canadian Theatre Review No.17, Winter 1978 / PER Author: Twenty-Fifth Street House Theatre Publisher: Western Producer Prairie Books 1982
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical five characters three male; two female two acts
A collective creation about the sod-busting immigrants to the Prairies and the Saskatchewan Co-operative Movement that followed, drawn from discussions and interviews with the pioneers themselves.
Title: Paphnutius in - Medieval and Tudor Drama / COL Author: Hrotsvitha translated by Sister Mary Marguerite Butler R.S. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1963
Description:
roy medieval drama five characters; extras four male; one female thirteen scenes
'Dressed in the disguise of a lover, the hermit Paphnutius goes in search of Thais, a harlot, that he may recall her from her evil ways. Moved by his pleading, Thais is converted. Paphnutius imposes a penance which confines her to a narrow cell for five years. Thais, by this worthy expiation, is reconciled to God, and fifteen days after the completion of her penance, she goes to sleep in Christ.' Title: Paracelsus in - Two Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Turnstone Press 1982
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - ethics four characters; extras three male; one female three acts
"The epic tale of the Swiss medic and alchemist who, during the Renaissance, attacked the quackery and greed of an enlightened medical establishment. A sub-plot examines 20th century medicine and its ethical dilemmas."
Title: Paracelsus in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - ethics - medicine four characters; extras three male; one female three acts
The epic tale of the Swiss medic and alchemist who, during the Renaissance, attacked the quackery and greed of an enlightened medical establishment. A sub-plot examines 20th century medicine and its ethical dilemmas.
Title: Peace Maker, The in - Double Exposure / CCO Author: Greenblatt, Natasha Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - Palestine - identity - Canadian playwright - music six characters; musicians four male; two female two acts
May be staged without intermission.
Two stories, or rather two of the same story, are juxtaposed. In one of them Sophie, a young Jewish-Canadian musician, goes on a guided tour of Israel as part of the Birthright program. In alternating scenes we follow Sophie when she stays behind, to find out for herself how the other, Palestinian, half lives. She persuades a West Bank music school to take her on as a teacher. She Title: Perfect Pie in - Late 20th Century Plays / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - women all female cast; four characters four female two acts
In the course of an afternoon's reunion between two long-estranged women, a buried memory, and two teenager's wild secret, slams into the present. A potent drama.
Title: Phaedra in - Four Tragedies and Octavia / COL Author: Seneca translated by E. F. Watling Publisher: Penguin Books 1970
Description:
roy tragedy - verse play five characters; extras three male; two female five acts
'Latin tragedy based on Euripedes' Hippolytus. Rebuffed by stepson Hippolytus, Phaedra falsely charges him with rape and his father Theseus orders his death.'
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: Play With a Tiger in - Plays By and About Women / COL Author: Lessing, Doris Publisher: Vintage Books 1974
Description:
roy relationships six characters three male; three female three acts
1 interior.
Independent widow, soured on marriage as an institution, gives up two lovers: one very conventional; the other a libertine.
Title: Play With a Tiger in - Plays of the Sixties / COL Author: Lessing, Doris Publisher: Pan Books 1966
Description:
roy relationships six characters three male; three female three acts
1 interior.
Independent widow, soured on marriage as an institution, gives up two lovers: one very conventional; the other a libertine.
Title: Please Do Not Touch the Indians in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Dandurand, Joseph A. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters four male; two female two acts
With Sister Coyote, Brother Raven, Mister Wolf, a tourist, and two wooden Indians, Dandurand’s tender and heart-wrenching tale portrays the struggles and dreams of Native Americans through history. His powerful storytelling style uses animal imagery and social stereotypes to create a strong and moving depiction of Native Americans and their ability to love, laugh, and survive despite tragic loss. Title: Possibilities, The in - Howard Barker: Collected Plays Volume 2 / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: Calder and Boyars 1993
Description:
roy sketches six characters three male; one female; one boy; one girl ten parts
'Ten short pieces on irrationality and limits of logic.'
Title: Prairie Church of Buster Galloway, The in - New Works 1 / CCO Author: Albert, Lyle Victor Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - men all male cast; five characters five male two acts
"When suspicion of fraud falls on Mac in his operation of the local grain elevator, his long-ago pact with Buster Galloway surfaces."
Title: Price, The in - The Penguin Arthur Miller / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Penguin Books 2015
Description:
roy drama - family relations - American four characters three male; one female two acts
THE PRICE is a 1968 play by Arthur Miller. It is about family dynamics, the price of furniture and the price of one's decisions. The play involves two brothers, Victor and Walter, and focuses on the distribution of their dead parents’ belongings, all housed in a ten-room brownstone. The secondhand furniture broker, Solomon, has offered a thousand dollars for these belongings, and Victor has reached a tentative agreement with him, although his wife and brother both urge him to hold out for three times the amount offered. Title: Private Fears in Public Spaces in - Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 3 / COL Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Faber and Faber 2005
Description:
roy drama - relationships six characters; one voice three male; three female four parts
'Private Fears In Public Places' has four stories, interwoven over 54 scenes.
'Nicola & Dan'⌦Nicola is flat-hunting but her partner, Dan, is late. Nicola leaves, unaware Dan is drinking at a hotel bar.⌦At their flat, Nicola is upset with Dan and tells him he has to find a job. Dan returns to the bar, served by Ambrose, revealing he was thrown out of the army. He eventually returns home drunk, Nicolas ignores him and he vows to sleep in the hall.
Title: Prodigals in a Promised Land in - Testifyin' / CCO Author: Bunyan, Hector Jay Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - relationships six characters two male; four female two acts
'Theo and Gloria leave the West Indies for the land of opportunity. In his struggle for a better life, Theo realizes that he has foolishly sacrificed his marriage for personal gains.'
Title: Public Lies in - Canadian Theatre Revew: No. 79-80, Fall 1994 / PER Author: Fothergill, Robert Publisher: Miscellaneous 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - political - drama twenty characters four male; two female (doubling) two acts
"Examines propaganda, political art and the complex career of NFB founder John Grierson." Title: Public Lies in - Public Lies and other plays / CCO Author: Fothergill, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical ⌦seventeen characters four male; two female (doubling) two acts
Who controls the way we see the world? John Grierson, the first Commissioner of the National Film Board of Canada, and Prime Minister Mackenzie King's "propaganda maestro" in the early 1940's declared that "public lies must not be told" - but they sometimes were. Back in Canada in the fall of 1970, an elderly Grierson is confronted with unfinished business both personal and political, by two of his wartime assistants, and is re-engaged in issues of media manipulation by the unfolding October Crisis.
Title: Quaint Honour in - Gay Plays / COL Author: Gellert, Roger Publisher: Methuen 1986
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; five characters three male; two boys three acts
1 interior set.
"Depiction of sexual relationship between British public school boys in the 1950's."
Title: Question of Mercy, A in - American Theatre (July/Aug 97) / PER Author: Rabe, David Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997
Description:
roy drama five characters; extras four male; one female two acts
'A provocative drama about the boundaries of compassion.' Title: Radio Golf in - American Theatre (November 2005) / PER Author: Wilson, August Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006
Description:
roy black theatre five characters four male; one female full length
Wilson’s final play revolves around a multi-million dollar revitalization project that will initiate a much-needed renaissance for the Hill District, beginning with the demolition of a crumbling old 19th-century house that has dominated the decrepit Wylie Avenue property for many years. In the course of this concluding addition to the saga, it becomes apparent that this now abandoned relic was the once stately home of Aunt Ester Tyler, the 285-year seer who was the leading lady of Gem of the Ocean, chronologically the first in the series of ten plays.
Title: Ramona and the White Slaves in - Three Plays / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1978
Description:
roy experimental drama five characters two male; three female fourteen scenes
'Ex-nun/prostitute living in Hong Kong (1919) is surrounded by and involved in white slavery, murder, and drug addiction.'
Title: Recovery in - Isolated / CCO Author: MacArthur, Greg Publisher: Coach House Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters four male; two female two parts
In RECOVERY, people around the world are addicted to a mysterious substance. Large recovery centers are set up, but all is not what it seems. Following three residents of a facility in Antarctica, RECOVERY is a subtle, quirky and unsettling play of Orwellian proportions about the commodification of fear, the oppression of the individual and the blinding consequences of a medicalized society. Title: Red Frogs in - American Theatre (Nov 02) / PER Author: Margraff, Ruth Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002
Description:
roy fantasy six characters one male; five female eight parts
"A burlesque mirror for the summer purgatorio."
Title: References to Salvador Dalí Makes Me Hot in - References to Salvador Dalí Makes Me Hot and Other Plays / COL Author: Rivera, José Publisher: TCG Books 2003
Description:
roy drama six characters flexible casting four acts
'A lyrical blend of poetry, passion and a woman's longing.'
Title: Restoration of Arnold Middleton, The in - New English Dramatists 14 / COL Author: Storey, David Publisher: Penguin Books 1967
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female three acts
1 interior set.
"Set in England. School teacher, on verge of breakdown, is torn between dependence on wife and attraction to mother-in-law." Title: Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The in - The Penguin Arthur Miller / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Penguin Books 2015
Description:
roy drama - marriage - relationships - American six characters two male; four female two acts
The play's central character is Lyman Felt, an insurance agent and bigamist who maintains families in New York City and Elmira in upstate New York. When he is hospitalized following a nearly fatal car crash on an icy mountain road, both wives—the prim and proper Theo, to whom he's been wed for more than thirty years, and the younger, more assertive Leah, whom he married nine years earlier—show up at his bedside. When confronted with his duplicity, Felt states that the two options in life are to be true to others (and to what he deems a hypocritical society) or to himself,
Title: Riot in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Moodie, Andrew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Toronto - Ontario six characters four male; two female three acts
this version only includes Act one, scene one.
"Andrew Moodie's Riot is a dramatic and often humorous look at six black Canadians of diverse backgrounds who share a Toronto house. Their lives unfold against a backdrop of civil unrest which erupted when the Los Angeles police officers on trial for the beating of Rodney King were acquitted. The fracas outside keeps intruding as characters clash, collide and swap jokes about
Title: Riot in - Testifyin' / (CCO Author: Moodie, Andrew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters four male; two female three acts
"Andrew Moodie's Riot is a dramatic and often humorous look at six black Canadians of diverse backgrounds who share a Toronto house. Their lives unfold against a backdrop of civil unrest which erupted when the Los Angeles police officers on trial for the beating of Rodney King were acquitted. The fracas outside keeps intruding as characters clash, collide and swap jokes about everything from racism to the status of Quebec as a distinct society, from Malcolm X to 'The Road to Avonlea'." Title: Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil in - The National Black Drama Anthology / COL Author: Harris, Bill Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy drama - biography five characters four male; one female two acts
music; singing.
'Drama about African American blues legend.'
Title: Rodeo Life in - Write On! / CCO Author: Butala, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations five characters one male; four female three acts
'Rodeo Life is resonant of Sam Shepard's work in its focus on a highly dysfunctional rural ranch family coming to terms with many demons from the past. The three McCarthy sisters and their “moderately mentally retarded” brother Drew have gathered together at the family ranch as their mother is dying. In the unraveling of tensions between and among these siblings, we see choices and compromises made in the face of physical, emotional and sexual parental abuse. The play veers dangerously toward melodrama at times and is verbose with little action, but it does gather
Title: Roosters in - Plays for the Theatre (8th ed.) / COL Author: Sanchez-Scott, Milcha Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company 2004
Description:
roy drama - family relationships six characters three male; three female two acts
Portrays mounting tension between Hispanic-American father and son in the Southwest. Title: Rooted in - Three plays by Alexander Buzo / COL Author: Buzo, Alexander Publisher: Currency Press 1973
Description:
roy tragicomedy - Australia five characters three male; two female three acts
Australian young man, who has achieved middle class status, loses his wife, his home, his possessions and finally his dignity.
Title: Rosmersholm in - The Master Builder and Other Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik Publisher: Penguin Books 1958
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female three acts
2 interior sets.
"Strong-minded emancipated woman influences politics of weak-spirited idealistic man. When she confesses her role in his wife's suicide, they commit suicide together."
Title: Rosmersholm in - Eight Plays by Henrik Ibsen / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Eva Le Gallienne Publisher: Modern Library 1989
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female three acts
2 interior sets.
A free-thinking woman who has insinuated herself into the home of a pastor causes the suicide of the pastor's wife, the loss of his friends and his ideals and has planted doubt into his state of contentment. Title: Rosmersholm in - Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Rolf Fjelde Publisher: New American Library 1978
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female three acts
2 interior sets.
A free-thinking woman who has insinuated herself into the home of a pastor causes the suicide of the pastor's wife, the loss of his friends and his ideals and has planted doubt into his state of contentment.
Title: Rough Waters in - Marigraph / CCO Author: Mullen, Melissa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy drama - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts
'Gordon, an independent fisher struggling to meet his mortgage and feed his family, resorts to selling "tinkers" (miniature lobsters) in order to pay his bills. An understandable and not uncommon (if illegal) response to a tough situation, Gordon's decision proves disastrous in that it costs him his daughter Carrie's respect and admiration - a priceless and never entirely retrievable commodity.'
Title: Rubber Dolly in - Shoreline / CCO Author: Hannah, Don Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1999
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - poverty seven characters one male; three female; one boy (doubling) twenty-two scenes
"Two sisters from Newfoundland battle poverty in Toronto's East End. Marie maintains a level of stability while Fern plunges into a world of crime and tragedy." Title: Sabra Falling in - Double Exposure / CCO Author: Khalidi, Ismail Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - war - Canadian playwright nine characters four male; two female (doubling) two acts
It is August 1982 and Beirut is under siege. In the Sabra refugee camp the specter of a massacre looms, and the Akawi family receives an unexpected and mysterious visitor who brings the past rushing back - and alters the course of events to come.
Title: Saddles in the Rain in - The West of All Possible Worlds / CCO Author: Bustin, Pam Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy family relations - drama five characters one male; two female; two girls three parts
Kathryn is a struggling artist trying to make it in the big city. A desperate phone call from her younger sister forces her to return to her wounded family and releases a lifetime of painful memories. An honest, hopeful look at facing your demons and forgiving your past.
Title: Safe House in - West Coast Plays 3 / COL Author: Kazan, Nicholas Publisher: West Coast Plays 1978
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female two acts
No abstract available. Title: Sakharam Binder in - Collected Plays in Translation / COL Author: Tendulkar, Vijay Translated by Kumud Mehta and Shanta Gokhal Publisher: Oxford University Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - East Indian five characters three male; two female three acts
"The story of Sakharam's seventh and eighth "birds" (as his envious friend Dawood calls Sakharam's women). Laxmi is shy, submissive and pious, whereas Champa, her successor, is brash, voluptuous and spoiled. Banned in India after its 1974 premiere, "Sakharam Binder'' is the most famous and influential drama by Vijay Tendulkar, India's foremost living playwright.
Title: Samson Agonistes in - The Genius of the Early English Theatre / COL Author: Milton, John Publisher: New American Library 1962
Description:
roy English - poetic drama six characters; chorus five male; one female one act (full length)
Description not available.
Title: Saucy Jack in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female two acts
Pollock implicates the most upper echelons of British society in the brutal murders of London's prostitutes. In a stately Victorian drawing room, two old friends, James Kenneth Stephen, a scholar, and his former pupil, Prince Albert Victor, dance around the truth of the identity of London's most notorious killer, and while a tale of psychological intrigue is played out, an unraveling of tested friendship, betrayal, duplicity, and motive is revealed. With the single female character of Kate, an actress hired by James to re-enact the death throes of the prostitutes, Pollock Title: Secret Rapture in - The Secret Rapture and Other Plays / COL Author: Hare, David Publisher: Grove Press 1998
Description:
roy drama six characters two male; four female two acts
The children of light and darkness battle in this brilliant play by the author David Hare. Gentle Isobel happily runs a small graphics design business with her husband until her sister Marion and her father's young widow Katherine demand to be taken into the company. Katherine is a destructive drunk and Marion is a Tory M.P. with the heart of a computer. Isobel accepts capital to expand and her business becomes high-tech and impersonal. She ultimately walks away-from her business and her marriage-in this fable about the corruption of art and heart by soulless,
Title: Seed Savers, The in - Voices of the Land / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: AU Press 2012
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - prairies - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In "The Seed Savers" farmers face pressure to purchase genetically modified seed.
Title: Serpent in the Night Sky in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 63 Summer 1990 / PER Author: Warren, Dianne Publisher: Miscellaneous 1990
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Saskatchewan six characters three male; three female two acts
Joy, a runaway from Montana, travels with Duff to his northern Saskatchewan home. There she finds a family filled with anger, a mentor who believes in the power of good walking shoes and a dreamer who believes he can catch the serpent if he can just keep his eye on the night sky. Title: Seven Hours to Sundown in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters four male; two female (doubling possible) three acts
A play about the nature of power in small communities - designed to be adapted for specific audiences.
Title: Silence of God in - The Theatre of Genocide / COL Author: Filloux, Catherine Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - war - genocide - Cambodia sixteen characters three male (two of them Asian); one female (doubling) two acts
" 'Silence of God' is a fictional account of Cambodia, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, imagined through the eyes of a journalist at the end of the Pol Pot leadership."
Title: Silent Night, Lonely Night in - Best American Plays / COL Author: Anderson, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1959
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A man and a woman staying in a hotel on Christmas Eve, each for their own reasons, spend the night together and their brief friendship gives them each the courage to face their problems. Title: Sister Cities in - Plays and Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Freedman, Colette Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; five characters five women two acts
Four sisters reunite following their mother's alleged suicide in this surprising and incisive comedy.
Title: Skaters in - West Coast Plays 4 / COL Author: Pezzulo, Ted Publisher: West Coast Plays 1979
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female two acts
No abstract available.
Title: Sky in - 7 Canons / CCO Author: Gault, Connie Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters one male; three female two acts
2 interior sets.
A 16-year-old girl becomes pregnant by her father and is then married off. She tells her naive young husband that she's carrying God's child, and he believes her. 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: Slide Glide the Slippery Slope in - Humana Festival 2003 / COL Author: Corthron, Kia Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2004
Description:
roy drama - cloning - family relations six characters four female; one boy; one girl two acts
"Identical twin sisters whose 15-year-old mother kept one and gave the other up to another woman. Now after almost 36 years the sisters meet again, and one wants to clone her dead 10-year-old daughter."
Title: Slow Eviction of Ruby Rosenholtz, The in - Prerogatives / CCO Author: Rodin, Toby Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy contemporary drama - mental illness - addiction - poverty four characters two male; two female thirteen scenes
This play deals with the lives of the marginalized suffering from severe depression - and its related illness, alcoholism - maladies which are exacerbated by poverty. 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: Smith in - Verity Bargate / COL Author: Quarell, Johnnie Publisher: Methuen 1987
Description:
roy drama - racism - corruption - prisoner all male cast; four characters four male two acts
"A young black man, John William Smith, is being held on remand in the hospital wing of a prison before returning to court for sentencing. He is supervised by two prison officers whose contrasting attitudes, combined with Smith's own mental instability, lead to harrowing consequences. A hard-hitting play about race prejudice and corruption in our prisons."
Title: Snowman in - Exposure / CCO Author: MacArthur, Greg Publisher: Coach House Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters two male; two female two parts
After years of wandering, Denver and Marjorie find themselves in a remote northern community at the edge of a glacier, chopping wood, renting out stolen videos and snorting cocaine with Jude, a young gay man whose parents have abandoned him. When Jude discovers the body of a prehistoric boy frozen in the glacier, everyone's lives begin to shift and thaw in unexpected ways. Title: Some Voices in - Plays: 1 / COL Author: Penhall, Joe Publisher: Methuen Drama 1995
Description:
roy drama - mental illness - relationships five characters four male; one female two acts
Ray has recently been discharged from a mental institution, where he was treated for Schizophrenia. He was prescribed medication to treat his condition and released into his brother Pete's, care. Well, with Pete being a guy run off his feet running his restaurant, Ray is left with little supervision, so, stops taking the meds he hates and wanders the streets looking for something to do. It is on one such occasion that he happens upon Laura and her boyfriend fighting. The boyfriend gets physical and Ray intervenes, getting beating up instead. Laura, a nurse, patches
Title: Something Red in - Twenty Years at Play / CCO Author: Walmsley, Tom Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
'Bobby and Christine live downstairs from their friends Alex and Elizabeth. Bobby is a poet with a bitter past and is currently being hunted by a variety of vicious people. His girlfriend is in a dead-end job and, too, has a past. Alex, however, who wandered with Bobby before, now wants to settle down, works and is even working on a novel. The catalyst for catastrophe, however is Elizabeth; she is a student, from money, with a taste for Bobby's dark side. The foursome get together for an evening which turns violent. Revelations explode in everyone's face and the
Title: Speed of Darkness, The in - American Theatre (July 89) / PER Author: Tesich, Steve Publisher: Miscellaneous 1989
Description:
roy drama - relationships - Vietnam war five characters three male; two female two acts
"...Joe, a successful businessman and pillar of society whose chickens come home to roost in the form of Lou, a deranged Vietnam War buddy who knows all the deep, dark secrets upon which Joe's success and his complacency are based. Lou is now an itinerant street person, a hobo who follows what he calls "Son of Wall" (touring Vietnam War Memorial) as it is hauled across the country. He has been incarcerated for having tried to scratch his name on it...Joe learns that his daughter is not his daughter...Lou can't face living anymore and kills himself..." Title: Spoils of War in - American Theatre (Mar 89) / PER Author: Weller, Michael Publisher: Miscellaneous 1989
Description:
roy drama - family relations - divorce six characters three male; three female two acts
"Drama chronicles desperate attempts of sixteen-year old boy to reconcile his divorced parents."
Title: Spunk in - American Theatre (Sept 90) / PER Author: Hurston, Zora Neale Wolfe, George Publisher: Miscellaneous 1990
Description:
roy drama, African-American six characters four male; two female two acts
Adaptation of three stories by Zora Neale Hurston: "Sweat", "Story in Harlem Slang" and "The Guilded Six-Bits".
Title: Steamie, The in - Scot-Free / COL Author: Roper, Tony Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1990
Description:
roy drama - Scottish - women five characters one male; four female two acts
singing.
'A celebration of women's work in a Glasgow wash-house set on Hogmanay.' Title: Story, The in - American Theatre (July/August 2004) / PER Author: Wilson, Tracey Scott Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004
Description:
roy drama six characters; female chorus two male; four female (requires actors of color) two acts
'A drama about truth, perception and journalistic scandal.'
Title: Straight White Men in - American Theatre (April 2015) / PER Author: Lee, Young Jean Publisher: Miscellaneous 2015
Description:
roy drama - family relations - identity - social issues five characters four male; one flexible (transgender or gender nonconforming, preferably person of colour) three acts
When Ed and his three adult sons come together to celebrate Christmas, they enjoy cheerful trash-talking, pranks, and takeout Chinese. Then they confront a problem that even being a happy family can’t solve: when identity matters, and privilege is problematic, what is the value of being a straight white man?
Title: Strength of Indian Women, The in - Two Plays About Residential School / CCO Author: Manuel, Vera Publisher: Living Traditions Writers Group 1992
Description:
roy Native peoples - historical - drama all female cast; six characters five female; one girl two acts
'Four elders prepare for a teenaged girl's coming of age feast. As they work together, the women reveal the secrets of their school years.' Title: Stunning in - American Theatre, vol. 25, issue 7 / PER Author: Adjmi, David Publisher: Miscellaneous 2008
Description:
roy drama - American six characters two male; four female three acts
"Sixteen year old Lily knows nothing beyond the Syrian-Jewish community in Brooklyn where she lives a cloistered life with her much older husband. Soon an unlikely relationship with her enigmatic African-American maid opens Lily’s world to new possibilities – but at a big price. David Adjmi’s daring new work shifts from caustic satire to violent drama as it exposes the ways we invent and defend our identities in the melting-pot of America."
Title: Stunning in - The Methune Drama Book of New American Plays / COL Author: Publisher: Methuen Drama 2013
Description:
roy drama - identity six characters two male; four female three acts
An eye-opening, intimate look into the world of sixteen-year-old Lily, who lives in a Syrian-Jewish community in Brooklyn with her much older husband - and what occurs when an unlikely relationship with her African-American maid begins to form.
Title: Sugar Daddies in - Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 3 / COL Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Faber and Faber 2005
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female two acts
Sasha, a young student, helps Father Christmas into her flat. Santa, actually an elderly man named Val, has apparently almost been deliberately run over. The two are properly introduced: Sasha having recently arrived from the country to study with hopes to run a restaurant; Val is a retired policeman. Sasha’s fraught sister Chloe returns, upset by being stood up by text by her boyfriend, Zak, and can’t believe Sasha has invited a stranger in. Sasha begins to spend more time with Val, who spoils and begins to change her both outwardly and inwardly. Title: Tallgrass Gothic in - Humana Festival 2004 / COL Author: Marnich, Melanie Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005
Description:
roy relationships - horror six characters four male; two female twenty-six parts
Part gothic romance, part gothic horror story, part Macbeth, Tallgrass Gothic was inspired by 'The Changeling', a 1622 Thomas Middleton play. In Tallgrass Gothic, Laura and Daniel are having a passionate affair, but Laura is unable to get away from her controlling, abusive husband. As Laura resists running away from her husband, Daniel becomes more frustrated and pulls away from her. Then the bloodshed begins.
Title: Tempting Providence in - Robert Chafe: Two Plays / CCO Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy Canadian biography - Myra Grimsley four characters two male; two female two acts
'In 1921 Myra Grimsley signed a two year contract, and boarded a steam ship from London, England to St. John's Newfoundland. Her charge: to serve as the sole health care provider for three hundred miles of the sparsely settled coast of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula. By the time her contract ran out two years later, Myra was married to local Angus Bennett, and had given birth to their first child, Grace. Based on the true story of Nurse Myra Bennett, (this) is a play about duty and sadness, love and change. Four strong characters drive this no frills drama about
Title: Tempting Providence in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy Canadian biography - Myra Grimsley four characters two male; two female two acts
'In 1921 Myra Grimsley signed a two year contract, and boarded a steam ship from London, England to St. John's Newfoundland. Her charge: to serve as the sole health care provider for three hundred miles of the sparsely settled coast of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula. By the time her contract ran out two years later, Myra was married to local Angus Bennett, and had given birth to their first child, Grace. Based on the true story of Nurse Myra Bennett, (this) is a play about duty and sadness, love and change. Four strong characters drive this no frills drama about Title: Then and Now in - The Monster of Karlovy Vary and Then and Now / COL Author: Mercer, David Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1979
Description:
roy politics - sex - World War II six characters three male; three female two acts
6 interior sets.
"Relationship between sex and politics examined as two lovers conduct passionate optimistic affair at end of WW II. Years later they reunite and reflect upon lost loves and failed dreams"
Title: Thimblerig in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Silver, Alf Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy contemporary drama six characters four male; two female two acts
A social urban realism play.
Title: Third in - American Theatre vol. 23, no. 4 / PER Author: Wasserstein, Wendy Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006
Description:
roy drama - education - self realizations five characters two male; three female two acts
"Laurie, a veteran professor at a private liberal arts college, and Woodson Bull III (as in "the Third"), her conservative, wrestling jock of a student, face off in a series of confrontations over politics, Shakespeare and campus culture. Meanwhile, Laurie fends off hot flashes as well a challenging relationship with her college-age daughter." Title: Third Ascent, The in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; six characters six male two acts
This is a drama of Henry Stimson, Triuman's Secretary of War, his decision to drop the atomic bomb, and his spiritual quest for the Thunderbird...
Title: Thirteen Hands in - Thirteen Hands and Other Plays / CCO Author: Shields, Carol Publisher: Random House 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - women - drama all female cast; four characters four female two acts
This play creates a voice for a whole generation of women often overlooked. The women in Thirteen Hands welcome a once-a-week gathering at a bridge club as a time to momentarily suspend feelings of loneliness, isolation and fear, and begin to indulge, reveal and celebrate in the wonderful intimacy they form. An intimacy that gets passed on, like an exquisite heirloom, to a next generation of bridge players.
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: 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 Sisters Who Are Not Sisters in - Around the World in 21 Plays / CHC Author: Stein, Gertrude Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy experimental theatre five characters two male; three female three acts
'Experimental theatre piece about murder.'
Title: Three Tall Women in - Plays for Actresses / COL Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Vintage Books 1997
Description:
roy drama - life four characters one male; three female two acts
unit set; suitable for high school performances.
Dowager, her secretary, and her lawyer depict one woman at three stages in her life. Title: Tiger and the Horse, The in - Three Plays / COL Author: Bolt, Robert Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1963
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female three acts
3 sets.
A university professor who is up for the position of Vice-Chancellor, decides, after decades of practising non-commitment, to take a stance on certain issues when his family begins to fall apart around him.
Title: Tiger of Malaya in - Canadian Theatre Review vol.129 / PER Author: Kanagawa, Hiro Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - historical five characters three male; two female full length
Hiro Kanagawa’s script examines the post–WWII trial of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita. Yamashita was military governor of the Philippines for the last year of the war. During that time, Japanese troops committed numerous atrocities against the Filipino population, and in the trial, Yamashita was held responsible for them. In Tiger of Malaya, Kanagawa makes a compelling case that the court proceedings were nothing but a trumped-up spectacle used to justify American general Douglas MacArthur’s desire for revenge against a defeated opponent.
Title: Tiger of Malaya in - Love + Relasianships vol. 2 / CCO Author: Kanagawa, Hiro Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
Hiro Kanagawa’s script examines the post–WWII trial of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita. Yamashita was military governor of the Philippines for the last year of the war. During that time, Japanese troops committed numerous atrocities against the Filipino population, and in the trial, Yamashita was held responsible for them. In Tiger of Malaya, Kanagawa makes a compelling case that the court proceedings were nothing but a trumped-up spectacle used to justify American general Douglas MacArthur’s desire for revenge against a defeated opponent. Title: Tongue of a Bird in - American Theatre (Mar 99) / PER Author: McLaughlin, Ellen Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999
Description:
roy drama all female cast; five characters five female two acts
'Drama about female rescue pilot in search for abducted child, is herself haunted by memories of being abandoned by her mother.'
Title: Toronto, Mississippi in - Modern Canadian Plays, Volume II (3rd ed) / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 1994
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - disabled four characters two male; two female two acts
'Jhana, a mentally handicapped teenager, lives with her mother and a cheerful morose poet. Jhana's estranged father - a professional Elvis impersonator - arrives unexpectedly. What follows is an exploration of fragmented identities and fractured understandings.'
Title: Toronto, Mississippi in - Toronto, Mississippi & Jewel / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - disabled four characters two male; two female two acts
'Jhana, a mentally handicapped teenager, lives with her mother and a cheerful morose poet. Jhana's estranged father - a professional Elvis impersonator - arrives unexpectedly. What follows is an exploration of fragmented identities and fractured understandings.' Title: Toronto, Mississippi in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (5th ed.) / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - disabled four characters two male; two female two acts
'Jhana, a mentally handicapped teenager, lives with her mother and a cheerful morose poet. Jhana's estranged father - a professional Elvis impersonator - arrives unexpectedly. What follows is an exploration of fragmented identities and fractured understandings.'
Title: Touch in - Humana Festival 2000 / COL Author: Press-Coffman, Toni Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2000
Description:
roy drama - violence - rape - abduction four characters two male; two female two acts
"An emotional story of despair and recovery. Kyle, an introverted astronomer, describes his marriage to a warm, colorful woman, Zoe. But in a 25-minute opening monologue, we sense something horribly wrong: We learn of her abduction, rape and murder. The play is Kyle's journey across the deep waters of grief and into some unexpected safe harbors."
Title: Training Wisteria in - The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Presents / COL Author: Smith Metzler, Molly Publisher: Back Stage Books 2006
Description:
roy drama - American - family relations - divorce five characters two male; two female; one girl two acts
"The story of a contemporary American family in shambles after a recent divorce. Lynn, the broken-hearted matriarch of the family, is busy preparing for son Dylan’s high school graduation party and works on sprucing up the backyard by digging up a decaying compost pile and nurturing a stubborn tree. It is when Stephen, the father, comes to the house for his weekly visits the children reveal how they really feel about his having left. Realizing how the divorce is affecting her children, Lynn pulls herself together and tries to keep Dylan, Rachel, and Kacie from Title: Transit of Venus in - 7 Canons / CCO Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1992
Description:
roy drama - relationships five characters two male; three female three acts
"France, 1760. Astronomer Guillaume de Gentil sets sail for India. He leaves behind three women: his mother, his housekeeper and his young fiance. Hoping to chart the transit of Venus, le Gentil travels half the world - only to finally take the measure of his own heart."
Title: Traps in - Plays: 1 / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Methune 1985
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
Playing with perceptions of reality, this play presents six people in a room and the traps they have unwittingly built for themselves with their lives.
Title: Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, The in - Humana Festival '98 / COL Author: Wallace, Naomi Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1998
Description:
roy tragedy six characters two male; one female; one boy; one girl two acts
1 setting.
Tragic coming of age tale set in 1936 Kentucky. Teenage boy and his girlfriend hatch dangerous plan to race locomotive across bridge. Title: Tricycle, the in - Guernica and other plays / COL Author: Arrabal, Fernando translated by Barbara Wright Publisher: Grove Press 1986
Description:
roy drama four characters; extras three male; one female two acts
'Theatre of the absurd. Four outcasts of society struggle to survive in a park until two are arrested for murder.'
Title: True West in - Seven Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Bantam Books 1981
Description:
roy drama - family relations four characters three male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
"Violence erupts when successful Hollywood screenwriter staying in mother's house is visited by drifting, drinking older brother."
Title: Turista, La in - Four Two Act Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Urizen Books 1968
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
Using exotic diseases as a metaphor for the joke that kills, this play examines the apathy of modern man and his disregard of the cure of the disease because there seems no reason to get well. Title: Turista, La in - Seven Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Bantam Books 1981
Description:
roy drama five characters four male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
Using exotic diseases as a metaphor for the joke that kills, this play examines the apathy of modern man and his disregard of the cure of the disease because there seems no reason to get well.
Title: Two O'Clock Feeding in - West Coast Plays 4 / COL Author: Puccioni, Madeline Publisher: West Coast Plays 1979
Description:
roy drama six characters three male; three female two acts
No abstract available.
Title: Two Sisters and a Piano in - Two Sisters and a Piano & other plays / COL Author: Cruz, Nilo Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2007
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
Set in 1991, during the Pan American Games in Havana and while the Russians are pulling out of Cuba, this play portrays two sisters, Maria Celia, a novelist, and Sofia, a pianist, serving time under house arrest. Passion infiltrates politics when a lieutenant assigned to their case becomes infatuated with Maria Celia, whose literature he has been reading. 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: Visiting Hours in - New Works 1 / CCO Author: McRae, Murray Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations six characters three male; three female two acts
"When Mother is confined to hospital for triple bypass surgery, an antagonistic family is forced to reunite."
Title: Warm Wind in China in - Canadian Theatre Review No.57, Winter 1988 - PER Author: Stetson, Kent Publisher: Miscellaneous 1988
Description:
roy drama - family relations - LGBTQ+ - AIDS four characters three male; one female two acts
A man's parents and his lover deal with the fact that he is dying with AIDS. Title: Washing Spider Out in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: McMillan, Ross Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
Roy Drama - tragedy Five characters Two male; three female Two acts
A reporter works to free a man from prison who she believes is innocent.
Title: Water's Edge, The in - Theresa Rebeck: Complete Full-Length Plays v. 2 / COL Author: Rebeck, Theresa Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2007
Description:
roy drama - American - family relations five characters two male; three female two acts
"Seventeen years after tragedy destroyed his family, Richard returns to confront his wife and grown children. This dark Chekovian exploration of time, memory, and the possibility of redemption ponders the question, "How do we achieve justice in a world gone awry?".
Title: Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnans' in - Playwrights of Exile / COL Author: Mouawad, Wajdi translated by Shelley Tepperman Publisher: UBU Repertory Theater Publications 1997
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roy Canadian - drama six characters four male; two female four acts
Description not available. Title: Welded in - Six Short Plays of Eugene O'Neill / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1951
Description:
roy drama - marital relations four characters two male; two female three acts
3 interiors.
"Moody playwright husband and temperamental actress wife find it impossible to separate in spite of the torment resulting from their obsessive grip on each other."
Title: Welded in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 2, The / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1955
Description:
roy drama - marital relations four characters two male; two female three acts
3 interiors.
"Moody playwright husband and temperamental actress wife find it impossible to separate in spite of the torment resulting from their obsessive grip on each other."
Title: What Glorious Times They Had - Nellie McClung in - Popular Performance Plays of Canada, Volume I / CCO Author: Grant, Diane Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1976
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roy drama - Canadian - historical - women - war six characters flexible casting two acts
The play traces the efforts of the suffragists to win the vote in pre-World War I Manitoba. The play combines the themes of politics, prohibition and suffrage, but treats them with liberal amounts of humour, music and vitality. The result makes for a fast-moving, free-wheeling evening's entertainment. A play about the life of Nellie McClung. Title: When We Dead Awaken in - Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays / COL Author: Ibsen, Henrik translated by Rolf Fjelde Publisher: New American Library 1978
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: 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: When You Cure Me in - Plays: One / COL Author: Thorne, Jack Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2014
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roy drama - romance - illness - recovery - teenagers five characters two male; three female four acts
The play's action is set in the bedroom of a teenage girl (Rachel), in Reading, over a period of three months. Rachel and Peter, both seventeen, have been going out for six months, but Rachel has been the victim of a brutal sexual attack that has left her scarred and bedbound. She doesn’t want her mum to fuss, she doesn’t want Alice to pretend she’s her best friend, and she certainly doesn’t want Alice’s boyfriend telling bad jokes at her bedside. The only person she wants is Peter, but Peter doesn’t know what he wants. Title: White Biting Dog in - Late 20th Century Plays / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
A suicidal young man is rescued by a white dog who gives him a mission: to save his father from death. His mission flounders until the dog's owner helps him by bringing his reluctant mother back into the family.
Winner, Governor-General's Literary Award for Drama, 1984.
Title: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in - Best American Plays 1957-1963 / COL Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Crown Publishers 1962
Description:
roy drama - mystery four characters two male; two female three acts
Mr. Albee tells his entire story during one drunken evening in the home of a professor in a small cottage. Him and his wife left a party and invited a couple in for a nightcap. The drinking continues. The hostess wants to have sex with the young man. The elderly couple has a very sad and despairing relationship which they try to keep within the limits of the most earthbound of alcoholic patterns, leads to psychological limbo in which these two distressed people have taken refuge.
Title: Wild Blessings: A Celebration of Wendell Berry in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Masterson, Marc Hansel, Adrien-Alice Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
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roy drama - poems four characters; one musician two male; two female thirty-six vignettes
from the writing of Wendell Berry; original music by Malcolm Dalglish.
"An exploration of the earth, its citizens and the impact of each on the other. This world premiere brings the work of nationally acclaimed poet, novelist and ecological visionary Wendell Berry to the stage in a celebration of words, music and a life well lived." Title: Wolf Within, The in - Twenty Years at Play / CCO Author: Brown, Alex Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - religion six characters five male; one female two acts
'Powerful study of a dedicated priest in torment, wrestling with his temptations.
Title: Woman's Comedy, A in - Canadian Theatre Review No.69, Winter 1991 / PER Author: Herst, Beth Publisher: Miscellaneous 1991
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
'A play inspired by the life of the restoration playwright Aphra Behn - the first woman to earn her living as a professional writer in English. It is not a history, biography or even a "period piece". It is not a recreation, but a reconsideration of one extraordinary woman's life story.'
Title: Yemaya's Belly in - The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Presents / COL Author: Hudes, Quiara Alegria Publisher: Back Stage Books 2006
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roy fantasy - American five characters two male; two female; one boy seventeen scenes
"An epic play about one boy's coming of age as he immigrates from his rural Cuban farm to a port city and finally to the United States. Yemaya’s Belly starts on a verdant island mountain and ends on the tempestuous ocean sailing towards the new world." Title: Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II (3rd ed) / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1994
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roy melodrama - Canadian six characters four male; two female ten scenes
A revenge melodrama inspired by Shelley's novel in which Zastrozzi, the Satan of Europe, engages in a never-ending quest of retribution against his double, the saintly, deluded Verezzi.
Title: Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline in - Somewhere Else / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1999
Description:
roy melodrama - Canadian six characters four male; two female ten scenes
A revenge melodrama inspired by Shelley's novel in which Zastrozzi, the Satan of Europe, engages in a never-ending quest of retribution against his double, the saintly, deluded Verezzi.
Title: Zero Positive in - The Way We Live Now / COL Author: Kondoleon, Harry Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990
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roy drama - mortality - AIDS six characters four male; two female two acts
1 set.
"Drama about mortality. Various characters react to knowledge that they are HIV positive." Title: Zero Positive in - American Theatre (Sept 88) / PER Author: Kondoleon, Harry Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1988
Description:
roy drama - mortality - AIDS six characters four male; two female two acts
1 set.
"Drama about mortality. Various characters react to knowledge that they are HIV positive."