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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

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