Title: 1000 Airplanes on the Roof in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Glass, Philip Publisher: New American Library 1990
Description:
roy music-drama - monologue all male cast; one character one male four parts
A science-fiction music-drama realized by Philip Glass, David Henry Hwang, and Jerome Sirlin. A 90-minute monologue.
Title: 2-2-Tango in - Making, Out / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy relationships - homosexuality all male cast; two characters two male one act
'. . . a highly stylized presentation that features clipped, overlapping dialogue and rigidly choregraphed gestures. . . (MacIvor's) observations about the eternal struggle in relationships between emotional, physical and spiritual need and the assertions of independence easily exceed the gay context in which they are being played out.'
Title: 26 Miles in - American Theatre Vol. 26, No. 6 / PER Author: Hudes, Quiara Alegria Publisher: Miscellaneous 2009
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female one act
Eight years after a Cuban mother loses custody of her Jewish daughter she is given a second chance. At 4:30 in the morning she kidnaps the sick teenage girl and the two drive west in search of a remedy and their divergent American dreams. Title: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
roy drama three characters; extras two male; one female one act
1 exterior set.
"Southern degenerate gets work for his cotton gin by burning rival's plantation facilities."
Title: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton in - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1953
Description:
roy drama three characters; extras two male; one female one act
1 exterior set.
"Southern degenerate gets work for his cotton gin by burning rival's plantation facilities."
Title: 3... 2... 1 in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: Cuckow, Nathan Craddock, Chris Publisher: Signature Editions 2006
Description:
roy tragicomedy all male cast; two characters two male one act
Two guys, Clint and Kyle, armed with several cases of beer, Jack Daniels, a cornucopia of pharmaceuticals and broken dreams, lock themselves in a Wetaskiwin garage the day of their friend Danny’s funeral. As the coke is snorted, the joints rolled and the booze chugged, the emotional walls, built up brick by brick over years come tumbling down as Clint and Kyle fumblingly begin to explore the emotions which have festered since childhood. Title: 3:59 AM: A Drag Race for Two Actors in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Ramirez, Marco Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
10 minute play.
Award-winning play about a behind-the-wheel encounter between two men on the edge.
Title: 4-H Club in - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Random House 1986
Description:
roy drama - social change - men all male cast; three characters three male one act
"Three psychologically crippled roommates revert to meaningless actions and dialogues in face of social change."
Title: 4.48 Psychosis in - Complete Plays by Sarah Kane / COL Author: Kane, Sarah Publisher: Methuen & Co 2001
Description:
roy drama - British three characters variable cast one act
"What happens to a person's mind when the barriers which distinguish between reality and different forms of imagination completely disappear." Title: 7 Stages of Grieving, The in - Contemporary Australian Plays / COL Author: Enoch, Wesley Mailman, Deborah Publisher: Methune 1995
Description:
roy death all female cast; one character one female one act
'Grief at death of Grandmother is catalyst for Australian Aboriginal woman to consider family and friends who have died young and under unnatural circumstances.'
Title: A3 in - New Theatre for Now / COL Author: Bridges, James Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1971
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
Description not available.
Title: Account Balanced in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Bunce, Valorie Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
As her younger female neighbor completes her taxes for her, an older woman settles her other 'accounts'. Title: Acorn in - Dramatics (Nov 1998) / PER Author: Graziano, David Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
Description not available.
Title: Act of Devotion, An in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL Author: Tannen, Deborah Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy drama - Jewish two characters one male; one female one act
'Elderly Jewish man and daughter visit Warsaw and explore family history.'
Title: Act Without Words I in - Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1958
Description:
roy pantomime one character play one male or female one act
1 set.
"Mime for one player. A man is alternately successful and frustrated in attempts to perform certain actions". Title: Act Without Words I in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1984
Description:
roy pantomime one character play one male or female one act
"Mime for one player. A man is alternately successful and frustrated in attempts to perform certain actions".
Title: Act Without Words II in - Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1958
Description:
roy pantomime all male cast; two characters two male one scene
1 set.
"Mime for two players. Contrasts actions of the two".
Title: Act Without Words II in - The Art of Drama / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1976
Description:
roy pantomime all male cast; two characters two male one scene 1 set.
"Mime for two players. Contrasts actions of the two". Title: Act Without Words II in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1984
Description:
roy pantomime all male cast; two characters two male one scene
1 set.
"Mime for two players. Contrasts actions of the two".
Title: Actors in - Actors - Two Short Plays / COL Author: Bromberg, Conrad Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1975
Description:
roy drama - acting three characters two male; one female one act
'An encounter between old professional actors and dedicated young novice.'
Title: Affidavit, The in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL Author: Tiger, Janet S. Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 1987
Description:
roy drama - World War II - anti-semetism - historical two characters one male; one female one act
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, an affidavit was required of a person wanting to enter the United States as a permanent resident. The affidavit was used to obtain a visa from the United States, which then entitled the visa holder to apply for an exit visa from his home country. A young Jewish woman wishes to pawn her authentic family heirloom ruby ring worth $10,000 to a pawnbroker who will only purchase the ring and pay $650, the exact amount she needs (and he knows it). She needs the money to purchase an affidavit and the pawnbroker purposely holds her Title: Afrocentric in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Odhiambo, David Nandi Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian drama two characters one male; one female scene one and four of a one act
'The play examines the social, economic and cultural forces which bring a black woman of mixed heritage and a black man together, and the issues which subsequently tear their relationship apart.'
Title: After Antietam (or Incident After Antietam) in - After Antietam / Isadora and G.B. / CCO Author: Angel, Leonard Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - war two characters one male; one female one act
"When a Confederate soldier meets a southern woman, the idealism of the Confederacy clashes with the brutal realities of war."
Title: After Miss Julie in - Plays: 1 by Patrick Marber / COL Author: Marber, Patrick Publisher: Methune 2004
Description:
roy tragedy three characters one male; two female one act
Adaptation of Strindberg's play 'Miss Julie'. "July 1945. A country house in England. Celebrations for the British Labour Party's election victory are in full swing. The lady of the house, Miss Julie, descends into the servants' kitchen to seek out John, her father's chauffeur. A passionate midsummer night turns to tragedy as they test the limits of their new freedom." Title: Afterglow in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: Boychuk, Peter Publisher: Signature Editions 2006
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
The play takes place near Tagish Lake in the Yukon Territory, January 2000. It revolves around the events after a meteorite landed near the lake.
Title: Air Talk in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Shields, Carol Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy relationships - drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
'A conversation between two men during an airplane flight about the mysterious Joanna.'
Title: Airswimming in - Plays One by Jones / COL Author: Jones, Charlotte Publisher: Faber and Faber 2004
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female sixteen scenes
"Based on a true story of two young women in 1920s England who have been incarcerated in a hospital for the "criminally insane" for having borne illegitimate children; and who were forgotten by their families and not released until the 1970s." Title: Alien Boy in - The Best American Short Plays 2001-2002 / COL Author: Scheffer, Will Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2007
Description:
roy monologues - men - drama all male cast; one character one male one act
A "coming out" story of a thirteen-year-old boy.
Title: Alien Creature in - Voice of Her Own / CCO Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - identity - historical drama - women all female cast; one character one female one act
'Monologue supposedly spoken by the Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwan, who died of alcoholism in 1987; draws on her writings to tell her life story.' Winner of 2000 Dora Award for Outstanding New Play
Title: All Men Are Whores: An Inquiry in - Short Plays and Monologues / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1981
Description:
roy drama - sexuality three characters two male; one female one act (seventeen scenes)
"Two men and a woman reflect on variety and meaning of male sexuality." Title: All Saints' Day in - A is For All / COL Author: Winters, Marian Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1968
Description:
roy drama - mystery - thriller - Halloween all male cast; two characters two male one act
"Two lonely derelicts have taken temporary shelter in an abandoned waterfront building on Halloween night. They talk about various ancient customs and meanings. Peter explains that the 'Lord of Death' appears at midnight on Halloween to exact retribution for misdeeds. Peter misses his wallet and accuses John of having stolen it. John denies it. In a struggle Peter attacks John and leaves him lying on the floor. He then discovers the missing wallet and goes to tell John, only to find him dead. Remorseful and troubled, Peter slides John's body from the window into the water
Title: All Things Being Equal in - Best Student One Acts Volume 4 / COL Author: Rianda, Lee Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000
Description:
roy drama - fantasy three characters one male; two female one act
'A writer has a life-changing conversation with a man she has just killed.'
Title: American Klepto in - Snapshot / COL Author: Moore, Alison Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003
Description:
roy monologue - women all female cast; one character one female one scene
A young woman and a piece of petrified wood. Title: American Modern in - Canadian Gothic and American Modern / CCO Author: Glass, Joanna McClelland Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1977
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
"A highly imaginative evocation of the numbing isolation which besets a couple as they struggle to adjust to urban life. Pat and Mike, an urban couple, find themselves ever more out of touch with the world in which they must live, and with ever less to hold onto and believe in. He toys with the prospect of suicide, and she with the notion of madness, as they reminisce about the events which have brought them to where they are. Their conversation grows ever more bizarre - and revealing - as they seek to 'fill the empty spaces', and to fight back, to survive, against the
Title: Anatomy Lesson in - Talking Bodies / CCO Author: Tremblay, Larry Publisher: Talonbooks 2001
Description:
roy drama - relationships - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
A professor dissects and re-examines her long relationship with her abusive, slick, lawyer-politician husband.
Title: And Then in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Arenas, Amelia Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - monologues - women all female cast; five characters one female five scenes
The five monologues in AND THEN stem from one question: is it possible to empathize with a character who has done the unthinkable? Hanadi is a twenty-eight year old Palestinian lawyer who decides to blow herself up along with twenty-two strangers in a Haifa restaurant. Mary Kay is a sixth-grade teacher who falls madly in love with one of her students. Lynndie is a young American soldier who becomes a torturer in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. Susan is a young housewife who drives her car into a lake and watchers her two children drown. Leonora is a rich, Title: Angel, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Nelson, Greg Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama two characters two male or female one act
Someone is late for a meeting with a friend because of an angel sighting.
Title: Angels, Laws and Miracles in - Special Days / COL Author: Kramer, Seth Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama - death two characters one male; one female one act
this play can also be performed as part of the full-length collection Special Days.
AJ, living out his final days in hospice care, must come to grips with how he will face death. With the aid of his nurse, Winny, AJ finally makes his peace with what's to come and how he will see it through.
Title: Annie Mae's Movement in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - biography - Canadian - First Nations seven characters one male; one female (doubling) one act
Annie Mae’s Movement explores what it must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man’s movement, a Canadian in America, an Aboriginal in a white-dominant culture at a time when it felt like we could really change the world. Dying under mysterious circumstances, it is still unclear as to what really happened to Anna Mae back in the late 70s. Instead of recounting cold facts, this play looks for the truth from examining the life and death of this remarkable Aboriginal woman; that we cannot know the consequences of our actions; that we live on in the Title: Anniversary in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL Author: Bishop, Conrad Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 1987
Description:
roy drama - anniversary - marital relations two characters one male; one female one act
The action takes place in the present in the home of a sophisticated young couple celebrating their first anniversary.
Title: Any Night in - Summerworks / CCO Author: Arnold, Daniel Hahn, Medina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - thriller six characters one male; one female (doubling) thirty-nine scenes
Anna is a modern dancer who is looking for a new place to live. Technophile Patrick just happens to have put up a sign for a newly available basement suite at her dance studio. These two disparate individuals will meet, get to know each other, fall in love and become so entwined that their destiny, eerily foretold by their pseudo-psychic neighbour, will ultimately provide us with some clarity as to why they were put together in the first place.
Title: Apple in the Eye, The in - Willful Acts / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Coach House Press 1985
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - marital relations two characters one male; one female one act
"Gemma's attempts to communicate with her husband are repeatedly rebuffed and she survives her unbearable reality by withdrawing into her own fantasy world." Title: Argument, The in - Six Plays by Mavor Moore / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Talonbooks 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act
"A domestic spat between a man and a woman, of indeterminate relationship, develops into a war between the sexes about different attitudes to the truth."
Title: Aria in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy one woman play - Canadian - First Nations all female cast; many characters one female (doubling) one act
Description not available.
Title: Arkadelphia in - The Best of American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL Author: Williams, Samuel Brett Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
Bobby returns to his hometown of Arkadelphia, Arkansas after a semester of college in Manhattan. Seeking refuge in two childhood friends, he ends up exposing a secret the small, religious town would rather keep buried. Title: Asleep on the Wind in - Graceland and Asleep on the Wind / COL Author: Byron, Ellen Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy drama/comedy two characters one male; one female one act
exterior setting.
"The time is ten years before the time of GRACELAND; the place, a small clearing in Bayou Teche, Louisiana, the "special place" that Rootie refers to in the other play. This is where Rootie and her favorite brother, Beau, a handsome, sensitive and restless young man of thirty come to talk in private and to escape her other brothers, two high-spirited hot rodders who seem to delight in
Title: Asteroid Belt in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Feldman, Lauren Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - family relations three characters one male; two female one act
This play reveals a college student and her parents grappling with fate's challenge of time and space. The plot takes us through that journey.
Title: At Home in - Actors - Two Short Plays / COL Author: Bromberg, Conrad Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1975
Description:
roy marital relations two characters one male; one female one act
'Script reading results in husband and wife arguing over their marriage and sex problems.' Title: At Home (Part 1) in - Five Plays by Michael Weller / COL Author: Weller, Michael Publisher: New American Library 1982
Description:
roy drama - marital relations two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"To their friends, Carol and Paul are the perfect couple, although at home their marriage is disintegrating".
Title: At Land's End in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Twenty-first Series) / COL Author: Steinour, Marcus L. Publisher: Samuel French 1997
Description:
roy relationships two characters one male; one female one act
'Dying woman wants assurances that husband will remarry.'
Title: Audition Piece in - Rattle in the Dash / CCO Author: Anderson, Peter Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one scene
"In a bar, a woman talks to a man about the losers she has dated." Title: Auto-Da-Fe in - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1953
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 exterior.
"In revolt against the degeneracy of his section of New Orleans, fanatical man sets fire to his mother's home."
Title: Autumn Leaves in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Sixteenth Series) / COL Author: Bernstein, Julianne Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
'Two sisters at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., try to come to terms with the death of their brother.'
Title: Back Story: a Dramatic Anthology in - Humana Festival 2000 / COL Author: Ackermann, Joan Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
"Based on characters created by Joan Ackermann. BACK STORY is a 2-character play written in 19 scenes by 18 playwrights. Set in the Berkshires, BACK STORY illuminates various episodes in the young lives of Ainsley and Ethan Belcher. When Ethan is born during the worst blizzard of the century, his 2-year-old sister Ainsley nearly sacrifices a toe trying to clear a path for the baby's arrival. That initial gesture of devotion blossoms into a tale of sibling loyalty, rivalry and love that spans two decades." Title: Back to Berlin in - The Courier and Other Plays / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - war - family relations one character all male cast; one male one act
Back to Berlin brings us a man who accompanies his aging father on a visit to the city of his youth, and confronts his own fears of his father's involvement with the Nazis during World War II.
Nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award for Best Original Script.
Title: Bad Bad Jo-Jo in - Stop, You're Killing Me / COL Author: Herlihy, James Leo Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1969
Description:
roy drama - horror all male cast; three characters three male one act
'Manic creator of nation's most popular film hero is protagonist who watches in horror as his creation comes violently to life in form of two fans.'
Title: Balloon Rat in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comic drama - monologue - aging all female cast; one character one female one act
Anna, a young German woman, tells us about the mysterious events that took place in her old apartment in Munich, where she lives with her little girl and a cat, when a large but demonically clever rat seems to be moving around at night among the blown up balloons left on the floor after her daughter's birthday party. In Anna's increasingly desperate efforts to discover if this rat is real or imaginary, she comes to believe that the appearance of this rat seems to be connected in some mysterious way to her own upcoming 30th birthday. A funny and touching monologue about a Title: Ballycastle in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Twenty-first Series) / COL Author: Cahill, Sylvia Publisher: Samuel French 1997
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
'American girl hitchhiking in Northern Ireland offered ride by Ulser boy.'
Title: Bank Street Breakfast in - One Man, One Woman / COL Author: Patrick, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy drama - marital relations two characters one male; one female one act
'Couple discuss money on morning when wife goes to work and husband keeps house.'
Title: Baptismal in - Touching Bottom / COL Author: Tesich, Steve Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
3 exteriors.
"'Baptismal' is an elegy in a country graveyard - told in flashbacks - about a widow and widower who repeat their marriages and marital mistakes to eternity. This is an excellent opportunity for dynamic acting." Title: Barefoot in Nightgown by Candlelight in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy drama - horror all female cast; three characters three female one act
A dim circle of light surrounded by darkness. Three young girls, barefoot in nightgown, speak in a glow like candlelight. Cath is an orphan, sent to a girls' boarding school in the country, a big old house where she is very lonely until two of the other girls, Alicia and Belle, creep into her room one night, blow on her face to awaken her, and initiate her into a dangerous midnight game of Mistress and Slave. They deal out cards, and the one who gets the Queen of Spades is the Mistress, the Queen of Hearts the Slave, and the third girl is the Witness. The Mistress gets to
Title: Basement, The in - Tea Party and The Basement / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1969
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
area staging
A spinsterish bachelor whose carefully furnished basement flat is invaded late one night by his former roommate with a young girl in tow. He is effusive in his welcome to his former roommate. The girl and former roommate strip naked and get into bed, as host, terribly rattled, continues to chatter. The intruders move in permanently, and soon the host's old pictures and bits of sculpture
Title: Basement, The in - Tea Party and Other Plays / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1969
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
area staging.
A spinsterish bachelor whose carefully furnished basement flat is invaded late one night by his former roommate with a young girl in tow. He is effusive in his welcome to his former roommate. The girl and former roommate strip naked and get into bed, as host, terribly rattled, continues to chatter. The intruders move in permanently, and soon the host's old pictures and bits of Title: Beatty in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary three characters; one voice on tape one male; two female one act
A telemarketer and her invalid mother try to hit the jackpot.
Title: Beautiful American Soldier in - The Best American Short Plays - 2005-2006 / COL Author: Madden, Dano Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama - war three characters one male; two female one act
Two sisters, unexpectedly lost along a quiet roadside in war-torn Iraq, find an unexpected friend in a man peddling junk. Together, their shattered hearts must find a way to deal with the consequences of war.
Title: Beautiful View, A in - I Still Love You / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all female cast; two characters two female twelve scenes
"A play about joy and misery, misunderstandings and connections, and how one moment can alter the whole world; in short, a play about love. A BEAUTIFUL VIEW plays out the story of the relationship between two women, Michelle and Liz—how they came together and how they’ve drifted apart. As Michelle and Liz embark on a journey to find new scenarios for the rest of their lives, the audience is drawn into their world." Title: Bedtime Story in - Special Days / COL Author: Kramer, Seth Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2004
Description:
roy monologues - men - parenthood all male cat; one character one male one scene
this play can also be performed as part of the full-length collection Special Days.
Jeff tells his baby daughter Ruby about what it means to become a parent.
Title: Before Breakfast in - Six Short Plays of Eugene O'Neill / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1951
Description:
roy drama - marital relations - monologues all female cast; one character one female one act
interior.
"A woman, while preparing breakfast for her husband (heard offstage), complains of her struggles to make ends meet. The husband, once considered a desirable catch, has steadily degenerated until he is no longer good for anything. When his wife has said everything hateful and bitter that is in her, she subsides into silence. A moment later we know that the desperate man in the next
Title: Before Breakfast in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 2, The / COL Author: O'Neill, Eugene Publisher: Random House 1955
Description:
roy drama - marital relations - monologues all female cast; one character one female one act
interior.
"A woman, while preparing breakfast for her husband (heard offstage), complains of her struggles to make ends meet. The husband, once considered a desirable catch, has steadily degenerated until he is no longer good for anything. When his wife has said everything hateful and bitter that is in her, she subsides into silence. A moment later we know that the desperate man in the next Title: Beggar or The Dead Dog, The in - Collected Works: One / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by Michael Hamburger Publisher: Methuen & Co 1970
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters; extras two male one act
'Blind beggar, concerned only with death of dog, unknowingly mocks greatness of Emperor who speaks with him.'
Title: Bete Blanche in - Bete Blanche / Tango Noir / CCO Author: Scollard, Rose Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1991
Description:
roy Canadian drama - surrealism two characters one male; one female (doubling) one act
'A figure in white brings Faye money every night, and a story of the white beasts of corruption that women are hitched to - Innocence, Frailty and Purity. Faye must get control of these beasts if she is to preserve the autonomy of her soul.'
Title: Betrayal, The in - Five from the Fringe / CCO Author: Gareau, Laurier Publisher: NeWest Press 1986
Description:
roy drama - Riel Rebellion - Edmonton Fringe Festival all male cast; two characters two male one act
No abstract available. Title: Betting on the Dust Commander in - The America Play and Other Works / COL Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1987
Description:
roy American - drama two characters one male; one female one act
'Experimental play about language and marriage. Slide projections.'
Title: Between Mothers in - The Waterhead and other plays / CCO Author: Bushkowsky, Aaron Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
A woman, drinking and waiting for the phone to ring, analyses her relationships with her mother, daughter and ex-husband who is abusing her daughter.
Title: Beuys, Buoys Boys in - Making, Out / CCO Author: Garnhum, Ken Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act
A young man builds his monument for the world. 'High art takes a tumble with schlock, and from their union a different mode of representation is born, a focal point for a new energy, a hopeful portent for the future.' Title: Beuys, Buoys Boys in - Alone, on Stage / CCO Author: Garnhum, Ken Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy monologues - men - Canadian all male cast; one character one male one act
A young man builds his monument for the world. 'High art takes a tumble with schlock, and from their union a different mode of representation is born, a focal point for a new energy, a hopeful portent for the future.'
Title: Big Blue Bird, The in - The Waterhead and other plays / CCO Author: Bushkowsky, Aaron Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - relationships all male cast; four characters three male (doubling) one act
Three generations of men - grandfather, father, and son - come to terms with the missing women in their lives and find love and compassion.
Title: Big face in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 92, Fall 1997 / PER Author: de Vries, Marion Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997
Description:
roy monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
'A poetic monologue about a big-faced woman from the prairies.' Title: Big Momma 'n 'Em in - Black Comedy: 9 Plays / COL Author: Stickney, Phyllis Yvonne Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
'One actress portrays five different African American Women.'
Title: Bindle Stiff in - Mickey's Teeth and Bindle Stiff / COL Author: Gray, Amlin Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1992
Description:
roy drama - curtain raiser three characters one male; two female one act
"Set in 1937, Bertha is a "BINDLE STIFF," or hobo. She has come into the theater in search of someone she calls "Perfessor" (an empty chair in the audience). The Perfessor, a social scientist, hired her for his social research on the lives and habits of hobos. First, Bertha was to relate her own life story: from her childhood in Kansas, to a socialist farm during World War I, to being a prostitute. But recently the Perfessor has asked her to go back on the road and the rails to gather more information for his book. After three more trips out, however, Bertha is feeling used..."
Title: Binnorie in - The Gypsy Woman and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1992
Description:
roy drama (monologues) all female cast; two characters two female one act
Nicole and Sarah are two young sisters in love with the same man in this strange, lyrical work that mirrors the tragic story told in the old Scottish ballad of the play's title. Jealousy, desire, murder and madness are the ingredients of this poetic, dark little play.
Excellent audition material for young actresses. Title: Birdbath in - Best Short Plays of the World Theatre: 1958-1967 / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc. 1968
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior set.
'Set in New York City. Poor poet employed in cafeteria becomes friendly with shy bus girl and makes a surprising discovery.'
Title: Birdbath in - Encounters / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1967
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior set.
'Set in New York City. Poor poet employed in cafeteria becomes friendly with shy bus girl and makes a surprising discovery.'
Title: Blind Dancers in - Straight Ahead and Blind Dancers / CCO Author: Tidler, Charles Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
"...we meet Louisa two years later on 'the morning after' with a travelling jazz trombonist."
-second play in series
1981 Chalmers Award winner Title: Blind Date with Mary, A in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 14th series / COL Author: Sura Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
This is a play involving a man named Bob who has a blind date with Mary, a supposedly beautiful woman with whom his friend set him up. But when he shows up at her apartment, he meets her roommate Susan. The two wait together for Mary’s arrival as Susan reveals to Bob all the not-so-wonderful things about his blind date. In the end, Bob and Susan go off together for a date while Mary enters alone only to discover that Susan stole her date and planned it from the beginning.
Title: Blind Harassment in - Best Student One Acts Volume 5 / COL Author: Sumlak-Langlois, Gordon Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; one female; one male or female one act
'(The play) deals with all levels of discrimination and the stereotypes of harassment found in society when a couple discuss a possible civil suit against men who have sexually harassed other men.'
Title: Blood Money in - New American Plays Volume One / COL Author: Jasudowicz, Dennis Publisher: Hill and Wang 1965
Description:
roy drama - allegory three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"Surrealistic allegory. Rich man's vengeance on his adulterous wife and companion who scornfully flaunt and then cringe before his wealth". Title: Blue Door in - American Theatre (December 2006) / PER Author: Barfield, Tanya Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006
Description:
roy drama - black history all male cast; two characters two male one act
singing.
"Lewis is a sleepless mathematics professor, who inadvertently conjures his ancestors during a restless night of personal and professional crisis. As they prod him with their stories of slavery, Black Power, and academia, he begins to understand what it means to be black, both then and now. Tanya Barfield’s play is a poetic depiction of one man’s exploration of his history."
Title: Blue Stars in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL Author: Spencer, Stuart Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
'Limousine driver offers lonely housewife free trip.'
Title: Blueberry Waltz in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (28th series) / COL Author: Amberly, Liz Publisher: Samuel French 2004
Description:
roy dramatic comedy two characters one male; one female one scene
One week after an accident in a Pennsylvania coal mine that trapped men underground, a miner's wife is afraid to move on with life even though her husband was uninjured. His playful, even silly attempts fail to alleviate her obsessive terror. When she shares what she really thought during his ordeal, her honesty strengthens their relationship. As a favorite song plays on the radio, they dance and know that they can face the future. Title: Blues For My Grandfather in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Providence, Tien Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy monologue one character flexible casting one scene
'A self contained monologue written for performance at an evening of Caribbean voices, then performed at the 1995 New Ideas Festival at the Alumnae Theatre. It is a story taken from the headlines, giving voice to the other side. It highlights the pain, the sorrow and the anger you feel when someone you love is shot down.'
Title: Body Blows in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Yhap, Beverly Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - marital relations two characters one male; one female one act
'Years earlier, Lydia betrayed herself for Jason, sacrificing all ties to her family and culture, exiling herself from the sources of her power. In this country, she is feared as different by everyone including her adolescent daughter. Lately, she has begun to suspect Jason of cheating. After lengthly avoidance, they are brought face to face with the rift in their marriage.'
Title: Body of Water, A in - American Theatre (July / August 2006) / PER Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
Lee Blessing’s dreamlike chamber piece A Body of Water examines the realities of life and love through a multi-leveled study of three people, two of whom are trying to reconstitute their memories. The play begins with the man and woman awakening in an unfamiliar house at the top of a hill and surrounded by water, with no idea of who they are or their relationship to each other. A younger woman soon enters and attempts to focus their memories, but she keeps changing her story, and in so doing alters the realities they are attempting to comprehend. Title: Bogus Babbling with an Elbow: Home on the Range in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Renders, Kim Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy monologue - drama one character one female one act
Wanda Cash (a.k.a., Ramona Sabone - Urban Jungle Hunter) delivers a lecture on the homeless.
Title: Bondage in - Trying to Find Chinatown and Bondage - COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1996
Description:
roy sexuality two characters one male; one female one act
'A look at race and sexual attraction set in Los Angeles S & M parlor.'
Title: Bondage in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy sexuality two characters one male; one female one act
'A look at race and sexual attraction set in Los Angeles S & M parlor.' Title: Bone Close to My Brain, A in - Humana Festival 2004 / COL Author: Dietz, Dan Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005
Description:
roy monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one scene
A man describes his brother and his tragedy.
Title: Book of Questions, The in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Chafe, Rick Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act
A couple discuss life's big issues in the bathroom.
Title: Born Ready a.k.a. Black on Both Sides in - BeatDown / CCO Author: Pierre, Joseph Jomo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - men three characters two male; one female one act
Two men, who could have been brothers, meet over a gun called Peggy Sue. Title: Bow of Ulysses, The in - Steven Berkoff: Plays One / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: Faber and Faber 1994
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
"Like James Joyce's Finnegans Wake the play is cyclical as it states at the end of the text: fading out as the story continues forever."
Title: Brave Hearts in - Making, Out / CCO Author: Rintoul, Harry Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy drama - gay men all male cast; two characters two male one act
After one man punches out another at a party, a third man talks him down and . . .'the relationship that gradually develops between the two men is complex, difficult and convincing. . . '
Title: Bread in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Backer, Andy Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy relationships two characters one male; one female one act
'Woman gives husband the last of their food.' Title: Break/s, the in - Humana Festival 2008 / COL Author: Joseph, Marc Bamuthi Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - dance - music all male cast; one character; musician; DJ one character one act
A travel diary recorded as a dream. A story that keeps circling back to begin 'in the middle', this play traces Joseph's journeys around the country and the world as a hip-hop artist crossing cultural lines, and grappling with questions of identity. He teaches in Wisconsin, Cuba and Bosnia, has an impromptu performance in Senegal, visits family in South Florida, attends the funeral of a former student in San Francisco, remembers meeting Jay-Z, and even imagines "chillin' with the Prince" in Minneapolis. With a poet's ear and dancer's grace, he details the struggles of
Title: Breakfast and Bed in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Fox, Amy Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - homosexuality all female cast; two characters; voice two female one act
In the spirit of experimentation, a woman who considers herself straight, goes home with another woman she met at a party. She wakes up in an apartment with the mother of the woman she picked up.
Title: Breaks in - Quebec Voices / CCO Author: Gingras, Rene translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Coach House Press 1986
Description:
roy Quebec - drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
"Pete is a loner in his thirties who wants to write music derived from a fusion of art and science. His quiet life is shattered by the intrusion of his landlord, Dupuis, a prosperous businessman, and Francois, an orphaned young punk who is epileptic and knows that Pete can help him to enjoy the ecstasy that he experiences during his seizures. Pete is forced to forge closer relationships with Dupuis and Francois, without the two of them meeting. When they do meet in the last scene, which ends with what may be a fatal confrontation between them, Pete is literally Title: Bricklayers Poet in - The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 / COL Author: Maruzzo, Joe Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009
Description:
roy drama - American - love three characters two male; one female one act
'Bricklayers Poet' is a play about longing for love. A bricklayer meets a writer in a Manhattan bar.
The play won Maruzzo 'Best Playwright' in the 2007 Turnip Short Festival.
Title: Bright.Apple.Crush. in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 32nd series / COL Author: Yockey, Steve Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy drama - monologues - murder three characters two male; one female one act
Three monologues intermingle, each character explains what drove them to murder. One man set fire to his house after finding his wife cheating on him in their bed. A woman (a teacher) gives poison apples to all of her students because she just can’t stand them anymore. Another man, physically abused by his lover, ultimately crushes his head in with his boot.
Title: Bucket of Moon in - Special Days / COL Author: Kramer, Seth Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
this play can also be performed as part of the full-length collection Special Days.
A "mutual" is a day where two firefighters agree to swap a day off. On September 11th, 2001, Jess Sullivan stayed home while his brother went in to work their mutual, and then disappeared in the ruins of the World Trade Center. Three days after the worst tragedy in New York's history, a thunderstorm forces Jess and other rescuers to go home for the first time since the twin towers Title: Burlap Bags in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 36, Fall 1982 / PER Author: Peterson, Len Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all male cast; three characters; extras three male (doubling is possible) one act
The re-enactment of a suicide's diary, describing the process by which his life becomes painfully absurd to him.
Title: Buses in - The National Black Drama Anthology / COL Author: Nicholas, Denise Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy drama - civil rights, biography, African American all female cast; two characters two female one act
'Dream play about civil rights revolving around Mary Ellen Pleasant and Rosa Parks.'
Title: Butler's Marsh in - Robert Chafe: Two Plays / CCO Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy drama two characters ne male; one female one act
'Thirty years ago Nora's mother disappeared into the small, dense forest of Butler's Marsh. She emerged three days later, covered in blood, badly shaken, and completely silent about what had happened. Having never been offered an explanation, Nora ventures to Newfoundland for the first time to explore Butler's Marsh for herself. She is accompanied by her partner Tim, who is adamant that she not be left alone. But as Nora's night in Butler's Marsh unfolds, and Tim's good humour wanes, the primary question of what happened to her mother becomes less troubling than Title: Buttonholes in Silk in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO Author: Fricker, Gail Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - family relations all female cast; three characters three female one act
'Daughter comes home to England in hopes of discovering and asserting her own identity, and to break her estrangement with her mother. The two have not spoken since her emigration to Canada, so she enlists the support of her Grandmother and pushes for a joint holiday and reconciliation.'
Title: Call, The in - Two Short Plays / COL Author: Inge, William Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1968
Description:
roy drama - phobias all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 interior.
"Man from provincial Billings, Montana comes to New York City and has phobic reaction to everything."
Title: Calm Down Mother in - Plays By and About Women / COL Author: Terry, Megan Publisher: Vintage Books 1974
Description:
roy women all female cast; three characters three female one scene
Avant-garde play. Three women undergo transformations in roles. Title: Cape Enrage in - Angels & Anger / CCO Author: Chiasson, Hermenegilde translated by Glen Nichols Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy teenagers - drama three characters two male; one female one act
'Patrick Leger, a teen with a troubled past, has been accused of murdering a buddy from school and must spend several days in jail while the detective assigned to his case, Victor, interrogates him and his girlfriend Veronica McLaughlin. The dead boy, Martin, was found at the bottom of the cliff and since Patrick was the last of the group of teens picnicing that day at the cliffs to see Martin alive, he is fingered as the guilty one pushing him. In the end it is revealed that Martin in fact committed suicide, but the prolonged interrogations effect important changes in the way
Title: Capricho in - Two Sisters and a Piano & other plays / COL Author: Cruz, Nilo Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2007
Description:
roy drama - monologue - actors all male cast; one character; voice one male one act
Tale of an actor who has been waiting a long time to perform. He is an understudy, who believes he is the star.
Title: Care - Level 4 in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Hillis, Doris Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary three characters one male; two female one act
Two nursing home aides get caught up in gossip whilst getting a nursing home resident ready for the day. Title: Carota, La in - Miniature Plays for Stage and Study / COL Author: Stahl, Max Edward Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1958
Description:
nonroyalty drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
'Description not available.'
Title: Cast Iron in - Canadian Theatre Review Vol. 123 / PER Author: Codrington, Lisa Publisher: Miscellaneous 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all female cast one female twenty-three scenes
"The story of Libya Atwell, a seventy-five-year-old woman who was originally from Barbados and now lives in a nursing home in Winnipeg."
Title: Cat Act, The in - Sally's Shorts / COL Author: Nemeth, Sally Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1995
Description:
roy d r a m a all female cast; two characters two female one scene
When you can no longer care for yourself, how do you feel about your caretaker? And how does she feel about you? Title: Catastrophe in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1984
Description:
roy experimental theatre three characters two male; one female one act
"Experimental play within a play about political defiance and uncontrollability of art."
Title: Chain in - The Best American Short Plays 1999 - 2000 / COL Author: Cleage, Pearl Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
Description:
roy addiction - monologues - women - drama All female cast; one character one female one act
'This one-woman drama uses physical captivity as a metaphor for psychological addiction in the life of an African-American teen. Rosa moved up to Harlem with her family from the Deep South. She fell into the wrong crowd and became addicted to crack. Her parents, driven to the point of desperation, turn to tough love. They chain Rosa to a radiator in her room. She stays there for seven days, ranting and raving, rationalizing and boasting, trying to charm and bully the audience into complicity.'
Title: Charismatic Death Scenes in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 98, Spring 1999 / PER Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999
Description:
roy monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one act
Description not available. Title: Chateau Rene in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays / COL Author: Ingraffia, Sam Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy American - drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
'Elderly former nightclub owner and small-time gangster, now impoverished, asks old friend and bodyguard to help end his life.'
Title: Cheesecake in - One Man, One Woman / COL Author: Patrick, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
'Young couple on drugs realize how different they really are.'
Title: Chemical Reactions in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: Foster, Andrew Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
1 exterior.
Two small time hoods discover their trip to dump means burying man alive. Title: Chicks ( a one woman show) in - Chicks and Other Short Plays / COL Author: McKeaney, Grace Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy growing up - advice - monologues - woman all female cast; one character one female one act
1 setting.
Kindergarten teacher lets class know what life will be like in adulthood.
Title: Child in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all female cast; two characters two female one act
'Two young women, Monica and Monique. Monica is a native, Monique white. Monica sits on the floor like a child, Monique stands apart from her. They are not aware of each other, but their stories take up from each other effortlessly, as if they were.'
Title: Cinzano in - Cinzano - 11 plays / COL Author: Petrushevskaya, Ludmila translated by Stephen Mulrine Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1991
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
'Cinzano' describes a spectacular drunken binge by three male friends in a derelict Moscow flat. Title: Citrus in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO Author: Craft, Janis Publisher: NeWest Press 2004
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters one male; two female one act
"When Richard and his new bride meet up with his twin sister in Spain at the end of their honeymoon, the three quickly find themselves in a sticky mess that, strangely, tastes kind of good."
Title: Citrus in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO Author: Craft, Janis Publisher: NeWest Press 2004
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters one male; two female one act
"When Richard and his new bride meet up with his twin sister in Spain at the end of their honeymoon, the three quickly find themselves in a sticky mess that, strangely, tastes kind of good."
Title: Claire in - The Best American Short Plays 1999 - 2000 / COL Author: Silver, Nicky Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
Description:
roy monologue - women - relationships all female cast; one character one female one scene
'CLAIRE finds a beautiful matron who might have walked out of a Noel Coward play. Claire is trying to recover from an incident that occurred in the morning, an incident that brought home, all too painfully, the reality that the beautiful world that she called home is gone forever. Shaken and frightened, she finds peace only while making love with a much younger man, a man who allows her to forget herself and retreat into a world where "we were children and easily pleased." Title: Clarisse and Larmon in - Humana Festival 2007 / COL Author: Margolin, Deb Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2008
Description:
roy drama - death three characters two male; one female one act
Two parents react to the news of their sons death, and to the picture that the soldier messenger brought them, a picture just of his leg.
Title: Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut in - Canadian Theatre Review 142 / PER Author: Long, James Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; one character one male twenty-two scenes
In the summer of 2005, James Long salvaged seven photo albums and travel journals from an alley near his East Vancouver home. The collection, complete with detailed captions and letters, documents a family's history between 1950 and 1987, and includes everything from birth notices to a full eulogy for the archivist's Toy Pomeranian, Mandy. Two years later, a team of collaborators traveled in search of the origins of these books, and ran into some serious questions surrounding the legality and morality of working with found materials.
Title: Claws in - Women Write for Theatre - Victims / CCO Author: Havard, Lezley Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
'Quarreling shrewish, bored wife of apparently weak husband finds his behavior frightening after he changes to cat, upon learning that the family cat is dead.' Title: Cleaning House in - One Man, One Woman / COL Author: Patrick, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy drama - adolescents - romance two characters one male; one female one act
'Boy and girl in city slum reverse courting roles in effort to deal with anxieties.'
Title: Cleaning, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Jonusas, Zilvinas Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - homophobia - suicide three characters; voice one male; two female one act
The plot of THE CLEANING reveals Vlad - also called Josef K. - who receives a strange message under his door. He brings this message to an unknown place. Suddenly he is caught in a spotlight and "The Voice" starts asking him questions. The witness Leni is called. Josef K. knows Leni as well as Leni knows Josef K. She says that Josef K. should be punished because he is a homosexual. Leni's accusation triggers Josef K.'s memory. He confesses why he was not able to give Leni her biggest wish in life, a child. Leni is not convinced, but it is too late. The decision by
Title: Close Friends in - Some Angry Summer Songs / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy drama - relationships - homosexuality all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 interior.
"A homosexual couple who could not live together, can also not live apart from each other." Title: Cloud Tectonics in - Humana Festival '95 / COL Author: Rivera, José Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy science fiction three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior.
Man picks up pregnant hitchhiker on stormy night in Los Angeles after which time stops and supernatural forces take over.
Title: Coax in - Wrecks and other plays / COL Author: Labute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 2007
Description:
roy relationships - drama two characters one male one female one act
A playwright on a blind date.
Title: Colette in Love in - Women Heroes / COL Author: Mueller, Lavonne Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1986
Description:
roy biography two characters on male; one female one act
'Set in 1910. Depicts conflict between Colette's emotional needs and her burning desire to write.' Title: Collapsible Model in - Dramatics (Oct 2002) / PER Author: Dragoiu, Georgeta Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002
Description:
roy historical drama three characters one male; two female one act
'Set in April-November 1917, during the Russian Revolution, when the provisional government is in charge. Olga, Nadia's mother, died in the April revolution.'
Title: Color of Heat, The in - The Best Short Plays 1983 / COL Author: Zachary, Saul Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1966
Description:
roy drama - marital relations two characters one male; one female one act
1 exterior set.
"Middle-aged couple try reviving marriage by observing activities of younger couple".
Title: Come and Go in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1992
Description:
roy drama all female cast; three characters three female one act
"Three women of indeterminate age remember school days and reaffirm friendship." Title: Come and Go in - Cascando and other short dramatic pieces / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1967
Description:
roy drama all female cast; three characters three female one act
"Three women of indeterminate age remember school days and reaffirm friendship."
Title: Come Rain or Come Shine in - The Best American Short Plays - 2005-2006 / COL Author: Mahoney, Jeni Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama - family relationships three characters two male; one female one act
A reflection on the "American Family" in the aftermath of the 2004 elections. The plot finds a mom who doesn't know why it's taken Luke so long to break the news. She's liberal after all. But she's thrilled that after years away Luke is finally coming home to tell her he's gay. He's even bringing his new boyfriend, Chris! Chris is his boyfriend, right?
Title: Coming For A Visit in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL Author: Josephson, Ben Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 1987
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
An old woman sees a passerby and drags him out of the rain. She begins talking to him and questioning him. She mentions that her son had promised to visit her but had not. He tells her that his mother wants him to come home for a visit, and like her son, was not considering the prospect. She begins to lecture him and he intends to leave her home, but he changes his mind and puts on her son's bathrobe and humors an old woman, who pretends that it is her son that is visiting her home. Title: Comrades in - The Drowning Girls / Comrades / CCO Author: Vlaskalic, Daniela Graham, Beth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters two male (doubling) one act
Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco dreamt of the land of the free. Leaving their small, Italian villages, they embarked on the long voyage to the United States, only to encounter a world they never could have imagined. Controversially imprisoned for murder, both men must fight for their lives amidst discrimination and public humiliation. Based on actual events, Comrades brings to life their seven-year imprisonment, and explores the struggles and agonies of two men, tried not for what they did, but for who they were.
Title: Confessions of an Indian Cowboy in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Kane, Margo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - First Nations - Metis - drama all female cast; eight characters one female (doubling) one act
'Confessions of an Indian Cowboy' is a probing, endearing and sometimes amusing look at the history of contact between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and at the communities that exist in Canada as a result of this contact. This one-woman musical show tells stories of the Indian and Métis, peoples of mixed heritage who have been pushed aside and ignored for well over a century. Through several distinct characters, Margo Kane explores how the apparent social and cultural contradictions inherent in being both “Indian” and “Cowboy” are reconciled. The
Title: Confessions of Many Strangers, The in - The Best American Short Plays 1997-1998 / COL Author: Mueller, Lavonne Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy monologues - men all male cast; one character; extras one male one act
1 interior.
Monologue by pilot of the Enola Gay. Title: Confinement in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Wyatt, Rachel Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
A mother, confined to a wheelchair, reveals her revenge on her daughter.
Title: Confluence in - The Best Short Plays 1983 / COL Author: Bishop, John Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1982
Description:
roy drama - sports three characters two male; one female one act
1 exterior.
"Two men, one an ex-football player, the other an older, ex-baseball player, meet in the park, reminisce and share how it felt to leave their sport".
Title: Consultation, A in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Chafe, Rick Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary drama three characters two male; one female one act
A judges wife comes back from the dead to inhabit the body of another man's wife, and is awaiting a fair trial for her own murder. Title: Correct Address in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Seventeenth Series) / COL Author: Silverman, Judd Lear Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
'Having been barred from funeral by deceased's mother, gay man converses with ghost of lover who died of AIDS.'
Title: Counting to Infinity in - Dramatics Vol. 77, No. 2 / PER Author: Posner, Max Publisher: Miscellaneous 2005
Description:
roy comedy - drama three characters one male; one female; one boy short play
"A boy finds himself stuck on the precipice between childhood and adulthood. As he attempts to break away from his loving but overprotective mother, he finds himself both intrigued and corrupted by the quintessential American male. Counting his way into the confusing world we live in, the boy embarks on a funny, surreal, and solitary journey." Young Playwrights Festival National Playwriting Competition finalist (2005) Blank Theatre Company Young Playwrights Festival semi-finalist (2005)
Title: Country, The in - Martin Crimp: Plays Two / COL Author: Crimp, Martin Publisher: Faber and Faber 2005
Description:
roy drama - British - relationships three characters one male; two female five scenes
Who is the comatose woman Richard has found on the roadside? Why has he brought her into his house? Exactly who is telling the truth and who is lying? Martin Crimp's play is a spare and glitteringly written dissection of desire and despair. Title: Courier, The in - The Courier and Other Plays / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - war - World War II all male cast; one character one male one act
"Spring 1945, occupied Czechoslovakia. David Dyck, a young courier in Hitler's army, must decide whether to open a restricted letter and face truth or remain ignorant and risk death."
Title: Courier, The in - The Best American Short Plays - 2005-2006 / COL Author: Mack, Carol C. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama - political all male cast; six characters two male (doubling) one act
The play takes place in the wake of 9/11. A professor undergoes interrogation.
Title: Courting Prometheus in - Dramatics (Sept 1998) / PER Author: Forbes, Charles Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998
Description:
roy relationships two characters one male; one female one act
A quick office date after the night before. Title: Cover in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Sweet, Jeffrey Johnson, Stephen and Sandra Hastie Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy marital relations three characters two male; one female one act
'Man asks friend to lie to his wife and say they were together the night before.'
Title: Cowboy Island in - Theatrical Exhibitions / CCO Author: Shein, Brian Publisher: Pulp Press Book Publishers 1972
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act
music.
A theatrical ritual juxtaposing American legend with pagan rite, climaxing with the killing of a king. A new perspective on the myth of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, portraying the pattern of betrayal, death and identification of the hunter with his victim.
Title: Cowboys #2 in - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Random House 1986
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
"Two aimless cowboys, at the end of their resources, make feeble attempts at communicating with each other." Title: Crack in - Canadian Theatre Review v. 134 / PER Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Miscellaneous 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - drug abuse two characters one male; one female one act
The play "addresses the addictions faced by two characters, Man and Woman, and the impact of addiction on their lives and the lives of those around them."
Title: Crates on Barrels in - Plays for One Person / COL Author: Pownall, David Publisher: Oberon Press 2003
Description:
roy biography - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act
'The disciple of the great Cynic, Diogenes, daily risks his life at the bidding of his masters ideas - and in order to preserve his independence from the Athenian state.'
Title: Credo in - Plays for Actresses / COL Author: Lucas, Craig Publisher: Vintage Books 1997
Description:
roy women - monologues - drama all female cast; one character one female one act
suitable for high school performances.
Searching for optimism in her darkest hour, CREDO is a woman’s declaration of faith, or what’s left of it. Title: Crooked in - The Best New Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Trieschmann, Catherine Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
roy drama - American all female cast; three characters three female twelve scenes
running time: 90 min.
"Coming-of-age drama with sideways glance at evangelical and Sapphic love. 'I mean, the fact that Jesus chose to turn the water into wine, rather than just decontaminating it, proves that drinking alcohol is not a sin.' Fourteen-year-old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi, an outsider with a twisted back and only her writing to keep her company. When she befriends the hapless
Title: Cubistique in - 3 Plays by Tom Cone / CCO Author: Cone, Tom Publisher: Pulp Press Book Publishers 1976
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - women all female cast; two characters two female one act
"Two women share and dispute their recollections of the past which we see, like a cubist painting, from several angles simultaneously."
Title: Cure, The in - Unbalancing Acts / COL Author: Foreman, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1992
Description:
roy experimental play three characters two male; one female one act
'Experimental play about conciousness.' Title: Curtains For A Crazy Old Lady in - Homework and Curtains / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama three characters one male; two female one act
Because of the impending death of his mother, Murray Greenspan is forced to come to terms with the fragility of life and previously unspoken thoughts about the relationship with his mother.
Title: Curve, The in - Three Plays: Tankred Dorst / CCO Author: Dorst, Tankred Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - men all male cast; three characters three male one act
"Absurdist drama. Two brothers' livelihoods depend on cars crashing on a certain curve. A translation."
Title: Daddy Violet in - Prism International / COL Author: Birimisa, George Publisher: University of British Columbia 1968
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
Description not available. Title: Daddy's Home in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 11th series / COL Author: Menchell, Ivan Publisher: Samuel French 1986
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
A teenager and his mother are packing to move out of their house. Daddy is not home. He has moved out, leaving his son and wife to deal with feelings of rejection.
Title: Dadshuttle, The in - The Beginning of August and Other Plays / COL Author: Donaghy, Tom Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 2000
Description:
roy drama - family relations - homosexuality all male cast; two characters two male one act
A young man makes a futile attempt to come out and disclose his partner's HIV status to his elderly father.
Title: Dance and the Railroad, The in - Dance and the Railroad and Family Devotions / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1983
Description:
roy drama - Chinese all male cast; two characters two male one act
"While on strike two Chinese railroad workers express their feeling in Chinese dance, song and playacting." Title: Dance and the Railroad, The in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: New American Library 1990
Description:
roy drama - Chinese all male cast; two characters two male one act
"While on strike two Chinese railroad workers express their feeling in Chinese dance, song and playacting."
Title: Dance Like a Butterfly in - Canadian Mosaic / CCO Author: Ravel, Aviva Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1995
Description:
roy drama - aging, Jewish, monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
"Tillie, a Jewish octogenarian, reveals vivid memories of her past, and looks forward to the fulfilling days ahead, in a journey that leads us to re-examine our conceptions of old age."
Title: Dancing on Checkers' Grave in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Lane, Eric Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - relationships all female cast; two characters two female one act
1 exterior.
Drama set in Long Island pet cemetery. Two teenaged girls - one black, one white - explore their feelings for each another. Title: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea in - 13 by Shanley / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
In a run down bar in the Bronx, two of society's rejects strike up a halting conversation over their beer. Danny is a brooding, self-loathing young man who resorts more to violence than reason; Roberta is a divorced, guilt-ridden young woman whose troubled teenage son is now being cared for by her parents. Danny seems incapable of tender emotion; while Roberta, is distrustful of men in general. And yet, as their initial reserve begins to melt, and they decide to spend the night together, the possibility of a genuine and meaningful relationship begins to emerge - the first for
Title: Dark Pony in - Two Plays / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1979
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one girl one act
1 exterior.
"Father relates a mythical tale to his young daughter as they drive home one night."
Title: Dark Room, The in - American Blues / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1948
Description:
roy family relations - social issues - mental health - teenage pregnancy - youth three characters; one male; two female one act
Tragic sketch about an Italian woman and a welfare worker. Title: Dark Room, The in - Cinzano / COL Author: Petrushevskaya, Ludmila translated by Stephen Mulrine Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1991
Description:
roy collection two characters two male / one male; one female / two female four one acts
a set of four short plays for two characters.
THE EXECUTION: Conversations that take place around the almost botched execution of a murderer. THE MEETING: Conversation between a mother and son about murders, those committed by the son and the abortion of his child. Both are slightly mad.
Title: Darling Family, The in - Sheer Nerve / CCO Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1999
Description:
roy drama - comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
"As they face the dilemma of a unplanned pregnancy, this one couple's decision to search beyond their trivial self-definitions, to face every thought, every option, becomes a path to healing, courage and growth."
Title: Date with a Stranger in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL Author: Vogelstein, Cherie Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy relationships three characters two male; one female one act
'Manhattan diner setting for exploration of contemporary relationships.' Title: Day Shift in - Escape Acts / CCO Author: Woodward, Meredith Bain Publisher: NuAge Editions 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
'Monologue by widowed waitress in small British Columbia Town.'
Title: Days Ahead in - Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1994
Description:
roy men - monologues all male cast; one character one male one scene
"...portrays the fraught psyche of a fastidious little man as he confronts the memory of an early love which he perceives as a dusty, crumbling wall through which he must dig."
Title: Dead Wife, The in - The Great Gromboolian and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
"On her wedding night Laura sits in her nightgown waiting for her husband. His dead first wife appears to warn her that her groom is a murderer and preying upon Laura's doubts, fears and terror of mirrors, she plants a deadly seed of suspicion. The husband, a celebrated hero praised for his socially approved acts of violence, is coming up the stairs. Laura must decide what is real in this Gothic battle of wills." Title: Deaf Day in - The Best American Short Plays 2001-2002 / COL Author: Ayvazian, Leslie Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2007
Description:
roy monologue - deafness one character one male or one female one act
A young mother encourages her deaf son to interact with other children by creating a practice day at the park. She has to help her son overcome his fear of others teasing him. At the end of the day, the son is charged with determination but still fears the hearing world and requests the next day be spent at home as a quiet day.
Title: Deal, The - from"Back Story" in - Jane Martin: Collected plays - Vol. 2 / COL Author: Martin, Jane Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2001
Description:
roy monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one scene
Monologue by a woman whose life and career have been subsumed by her brothers.
Title: Dealt With in - Thick as Thieves / COL Author: Marchant, Tony Publisher: Methuen & Co 1982
Description:
roy drama - adolescents - unemployment all male cast; three characters three male one act
1 exterior.
"Set in London. Three teenage boys voice anger and frustration over inability to get jobs." Title: Dearborn Heights in - The Best American Short Plays 1995-1996 / COL Author: Medley, Cassandra Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy drama - short play all female cast two female one act
" In a home-style diner, in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, two young African-American women discover the meaning of racism and friendship, all before lunch is served."
Title: Death Artist, The in - Are You Normal, Mr. Norman and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Wilson, David Henry Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
"After making his fortune, a miser is visited by a man assigned to kill him".
Title: Death of Bliss, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004 / COL Author: Tasca, Jules Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2006
Description:
roy drama - terrorism two characters one male; one female one act
A young Palestinian wife pleads with her husband not to become a suicide bomber. Title: Death of Off-Broadway, The; or: Money (Sieg Heil! ) (A Street Play) in - Tom Eyen: Ten Plays / COL Author: Eyen, Tom Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters; extras three male one act
This is actually a recipe for a demonstration that could and did occur during a theatre strike.
Title: Death of Von Horvath, The in - The Gypsy Woman and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1992
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
In the spring of the year 1938, the playwright Odon Von Horvath was killed in Paris when the tree he had taken shelter under during a storm was struck by lightening. No one else under the tree was hurt. He had gone to Paris to escape the Nazis, and was on his way to a movie theatre to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In this eerie play, Von Horvath's flight takes him first to a shabby little room in Amsterdam where a beautiful young gypsy girl reads his fortune, and gives him a choice. A very unusual and haunting play about fate.
Title: Desdemona: A play about a handkerchief in - Amazon All Stars / COL Author: Vogel, Paula Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy women; sexuality all female cast; three characters three female one act
"Revisionist version of Shakespeare's 'Othello' with feminist undertones. Desdemona portrayed as free-thinking strumpet." Title: Desdemona: A play about a handkerchief in - Plays for Actresses / COL Author: Vogel, Paula Publisher: Vintage Books 1997
Description:
roy women; sexuality all female cast; three characters three female one act
suitable for high school performances.
"Revisionist version of Shakespeare's 'Othello' with feminist undertones. Desdemona portrayed as free-thinking strumpet."
Title: Deserter, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays / COL Author: Beim, Norman Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy drama - war all male cast; three characters three male one act
'In deserted French chateau during WWII, young deserter guarded by seargent and visited by priest, awaits execution.'
Title: Despair in - Women Write for Theatre - Victims / CCO Author: Havard, Lezley Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
'The musings of a poverty-stricken, emotionally disturbed woman who has been hospitalized and has had an abortion.' Title: Despoiled Shore, Medeamaterial, Landscape with Argonauts in - Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage / COL Author: Muller, Heiner Publisher: Performing Arts Journal Publications 1984
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
1 set.
"Experimental theatre piece incorporating myth, history and autobiography".
Title: Devil's Parole, The in - Off-off Broadway Festival Plays - 27th Series / COL Author: Giancoli, Eric Publisher: Samuel French 2003
Description:
roy comedy two characters two male or female one scene
Simple set or bare stage.
Once every millennium the Devil has a parole hearing with God to see if he will be released from imprisonment in Hell. This time around the Devil believes he's found a loophole.
Title: Dialogue Between a Prostitute and Her Client in - Only Prostitutes Marry in May / COL Author: Maraini, Dacia Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc. 1994
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
"A blunt and revealing conversation between a man who seeks solace and fulfillment in the body of a woman he does not know, and the intelligent woman who confronts him with the meanings of his search." Title: Diamond Cutters in - Cabbagetown Plays / CCO Author: Tipe, David Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act
Two old diamond cutters about to be replaced by machines reflect upon and refine the memories of their youth.
Title: Difference of Latitude in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Walter, Lisa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian two characters all female cast; two female one act
England, 1811.
Walter wrote the play after being inspired by the real-life accounts of nineteenth-century women who had carried on successful careers as military men over extended periods of time. Walter creates a composite character, Frances, who arranges to be pressed into service and sent off to serve in the War of 1812 as a mizzen-man on His Majesty's frigate Courageous.
Title: Difficult Hour, The in - Masterpieces of the Modern Scandinavian Theatre / COL Author: Lagerkvist, Par translated by Thomas R. Buckman Publisher: Macmillan and Company 1967
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
'Expressionistic drama in which selfish man slowly realizes he, and former hunchback friend whose one love he stole, are dead.' Title: Dinosaur Dreams in - The River Lady and Other Plays / COL Author: Widdicombe, David Publisher: Icarus Press 2000
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male six scenes
"Memories of the past collide with hopes for the future as two brothers struggling to survive a cold winter have both their world and their dreams turned upside down with the arrival of their long lost father, who disappeared from their lives more than a decade earlier."
Title: Dinosaurs, The in - Some Angry Summer Songs / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters; one male; one female one act
1 exterior.
"A famous actress and an influential drama critic discuss the role of each in the theatre world and in each other's career."
Title: Dispatches from Hell in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 10th series / COL Author: Cooperman, Melvin I. Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy drama - World War II three characters two male; one female one act
Set in the central dispatching office for the German train system during World War Two, this riveting drama is about the bureaucratic mentality that makes Holocausts possible. A dispatcher is frightened to death when an S.S. officer comes to see him, but the officer explains that his job is secure-- if he can devise a plan to transport a large amount of waste product via rail to cleanse the Third Reich of toxins. The dispatcher draws up plans to carry thousands to their deaths, intent only on the logistical problems. Title: Dispossessed in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Ravel, Aviva Publisher: Irwin Publishing Inc. 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters two male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
'Verse play set in Montreal's Jewish section. Depicts love-hate relationships among quasi-family of elderly man, woman he has loved for forty years and her mentally handicapped illegitimate son.'
Title: Dissident, The in - Amazon All Stars / COL Author: Sam, Canyon Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy self -awareness - identity - monologue all female cast; twelve characters one female (doubling) one act
'In 'The Dissident', the Narrator's urge to return to the country of her ancestors is. . . an identity quest; she seeks to find not just a geographic place but a psychological, emotional, psychic, and spiritual place where she feels a deep sense of belonging. In China, she hopes to find the key to unlock some vital part of herself, rendered silent by a society that sees her as "other".'
Title: Doctor Galley in - Transfers / COL Author: Bromberg, Conrad Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1970
Description:
roy drama - monologue all male cast; one character one male one act
bare stage.
"The third play, 'Doctor Galley', is an acting tour de force in which a psychiatrist, substituting as a college lecturer, launches into a shattering revelation of his own torturing guilt as he acts out his complicity in the destruction of his wife and his professional honor." Title: Doctor's Visit, A in - Off-off Broadway Festival Plays - 27th Series / COL Author: Loewenstern, Mark Publisher: Samuel French 2003
Description:
roy drama - historical all male cast; two characters two male one scene
Based on historical legend, this intriguing play takes place in King Richard the Lionhearted's tent during the Crusades. Sultan Saladin, an adversary with whom Richard enjoys an unusually cordial relationship even as their armies clash, has sent his personal doctor, Moses Maimonides, to treat the malaria that is debilitating Richard. This recounting of the tale, one often used to illustrate the peaceful relationship between Islam and Jew, points to a sober lesson: the faith that nourishes and sustains us also drives us to war, and we have still not found a way to have one without the
Title: Dog Eat Dog in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL Author: Kelly, Tim Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 1987
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
The older man hates dog fights and is tired of the two others who are always bickering at each other. Therefore he threatens the two boys to fight each other while the dogs watch; reversal of a dog fight. If they will not fight each other he will sick the dogs on them.
Title: Dog, The in - Set the Stage for Eight / COL Author: Halman, Doris F. Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1923
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters; extras three male one act
No abstract available. Title: Dolorosa Sanchez in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Twenty-first Series) / COL Author: Taikeff, Stanley Publisher: Samuel French 1997
Description:
roy theatre two characters one male; one female one act
'Drama student's performance inadvertently dramatizes Aristotlean principles for professor.'
Title: Doomsday Show, The in - New English Dramatists 14 / COL Author: MacBeth, George Bingham, J. S. Publisher: Penguin Books 1970
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
singing and dancing.
No abstract available.
Title: Dot in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Waits, Death Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy drama - death three characters two male; one female one act
A cloudy glimpse of death. Title: Down and Out in - 13 by Shanley / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior.
"Poet is protected by his love, who saves his soul."
Title: Down Dangerous Passes Road in - Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2000) / PER Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc Publisher: Miscellaneous 2000
Description:
roy drama - AIDS - family relationships all male cast; three characters three male one act
"Fifteen years to the day after the death of their father, three brothers get together and drive out to the place where it happened. . . each is facing a crucial rite of passage. In voices that interweave, alternate and play off one another with the exquisite lyricism of chamber music, the brothers reveal themselves as trapped by their father's inability to let his boys grow up, and their own inability to accept him as an adult."
Title: Downtown in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Hatcher, Jeffrey Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
'Three authors make disparaging remarks about other authors.' Title: Drag Queens in Outer Space in - Painted, Tainted, Sainted / CCO Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drag queens - surrealism all male cast; three characters three male one act
'Three drag queens discuss the meaning of life, love and self-realization when one of them decides to to put on a masculine image to survive in the "outside world".'
Title: Dragonfly of Chicoutimi, The in - Talking Bodies / CCO Author: Tremblay, Larry Publisher: Talonbooks 2001
Description:
roy drama - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act
Forty years after a trauma-induced aphasia, a man loses his original maternal French and awakes from a dream reinventing his life in English word using French syntax.
Title: Dreamer examines his pillow, the in - 13 by Shanley / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy drama - love three characters two male; one female one act
1 setting.
"Surreal look at contemporary love between men and women. Three confrontations between ex-lovers, woman and her father and father and daughter's former lover." Title: Dreamkeeper in - Eureka ! / CCO Author: Sinclair, Bruce Publisher: Coteau Books 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act
'Series of dream sequences regarding past and future of Canadian Indians.'
Title: Drowning in - Orchards / COL Author: Fornes, Maria Irene Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 1987
Description:
roy Anton Chekhov dramatization all male cast; three characters three male one act
exterior.
"Inspired by Chekhov's short story. Person falls in love with news photo of a woman."
Title: Drummer, The in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Fugard, Athol Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy monologues - male all male cast; one character one male one act
'Homeless man finds a pair of drumsticks in a trash can.' Title: Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? in - Caryl Churchill - Plays: 4 / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2008
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
A man falls in love with America and leaves his wife and children for fifty years of love and adventure with Sam.
Title: Duck Pond, The in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Watson, Ara Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
'Students at religious university humiliate student for not losing weight.'
Title: Dumb Waiter, The in - The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1962
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 interior set; suggested for high school.
"Two professional killers, Ben and Gus, wait, argue, and worry in the windowless basement of an abandoned restaurant for their next assignment". Title: Dumb Waiter, The in - Plays: One / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Methuen & Co 1960
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 interior set; suggested for high school.
"Two professional killers, Ben and Gus, wait, argue, and worry in the windowless basement of an abandoned restaurant for their next assignment".
Title: Dumb Waiter, The in - The Room and The Dumb Waiter / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Methuen & Co 1960
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 interior set; suggested for high school.
"Two professional killers, Ben and Gus, wait, argue, and worry in the windowless basement of an abandoned restaurant for their next assignment".
Title: Dumb Waiter, The in - Complete Works: One / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1962
Description:
roy drama - murder - death all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 interior set; suggested for high school.
Two professional killers, Ben and Gus, wait, argue, and worry in the windowless basement of an abandoned restaurant for their next assignment. Title: Dust in - Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2009) / PER Author: Maghnoy, Jason Publisher: Miscellaneous 2009
Description:
roy drama - romance - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act
An unlikely and disturbing love story. At Abu Ghraib Prison, a female office worker and a male prison guard meet and fall in love. As her interest and then her work shifts from the office to cell blocks, he grows increasingly uncomfortable with the the prisoner abuse he has taken for granted.
Title: Dwarfs, The in - The Dwarfs and Eight Revue Sketches / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1965
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
divided interior set.
Avante-garde drama. A play without a plot, preoccupied with problem of identity.
Title: Dwarfs, The in - A Slight Ache and Other Plays / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Methuen & Co 1961
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
divided interior sets.
Avante-garde drama. A play without a plot, preoccupied with problem of identity. Title: Dwarfs, The in - Three Plays / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1962
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
divided interior sets.
Avante-garde drama. A play without a plot, preoccupied with problem of identity.
Title: Dwarfs, The in - Complete Works: Two (Harold Pinter) / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1977
Description:
roy drama three characters all male; three male one act
divided interior set.
Avante-garde drama. A play without a plot, preoccupied with problem of identity.
Title: Dwarfs, The in - The Dwarfs and Nine Revue Sketches / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1999
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
divided interior set.
Avante-garde drama. A play without a plot, preoccupied with problem of identity. Title: Dying To Be Thin in - Voice of Her Own / CCO Author: Carson, Linda Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - teenagers - eating disorders - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
1 set.
A look behind locked doors into the secret life of a young teenager battling with the eating disorder bulimia.
Title: Dykes and Dolls in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Lowe, Lisa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian play one character all female cast; one female one act
Coming-out, coming-of-age solo performance. Location: A girls bedroom. Reflecting the precarious existence of the child who refuses to perform her gender properly, Lowe's fantastic recuperation of the female-gendered icons and symbols for her own perverse purposes calls attention to the coercive ways in which female children are enculturated to be child-bearers. Full of grotesque exaggerations, Dykes and Dolls works theatrically by carrying her distorted reality to increasingly wild extremes which require the audience to rethink their
Title: Early Frost in - Miniature Plays for Stage and Study / COL Author: Stevens, Henry Bailey Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1958
Description:
nonroy drama three characters one male; two female one act
'Description not available.' Title: East of the Sun and West of the Moon in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - Twenty-fifth Series / COL Author: Handy, Peter Publisher: Samuel French 2001
Description:
roy war - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
music.
'A life altering correspondence between an English nurse and a Native American soldier, stemming from their meeting at a field hospital in Flanders during World War I.'
Title: Eating Out in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Dixcy, Marcia Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy eating disorders all female cast; three characters three female one act
'Three women discuss their eating disorders.'
Title: Ebb-Tide in - Plays of the Pacific Coast / CCO Author: Fairbairn, A. M. D. Publisher: Samuel French 1935
Description:
roy drama - native Indians three characters two male; one female one act
"In an isolated Indian village lives a young Canadian school teacher, Ann. There are no other white women in the village and but three white men. After three years in the village she yearns to return to her own kind but fears to. Billy, a young half-breed, seeks to marry Ann and she is tempted to accept him when the thought of becoming a squaw and forever abandoning all hope of returning to civilization impels her to turn to Dick (a derelict), one of the three white men, who, stirred by Ann's impassioned appeal to the spark of decency left in him, agrees to marry her and, Title: Education of Macoloco, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 34th series / COL Author: Silverman, Jen Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
Anessa has given her son Macoloco an arsenal of facts for every occasion, but now Macoloco must teach himself how to become an adult, and Anessa must confront the one thing she has failed to learn.
Title: Electric Roses in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Howard, David Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy marital relations three characters two male; one female one act
'Despite mutual love, wife leaves husband who has beaten her.'
Title: Elisa's Skin in - Carole Frechette: Three Plays / CCO Author: Frechette, Carole translated by John Murrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy monologues - women - love all female cast; one character one female one act
'Young woman tells delicate tales of love.' Title: Embedded in - Ludwig and Mae: Three plays / CCO Author: Leroux, Louis Patrick translated by Shelley Tepperman Publisher: Talonbooks 2009
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Francophone - relationships three characters two male; one female three scenes
part one of Leroux's trilogy about Ludwig and Mae.
Ludwig, trained as an engineer, hasn't been able to find work since graduating. The fact that he is sardonic, philosophically inclined, and suicidal hasn't helped in this regard. Mae, on the other hand, is an actress who has never been out of work. Caught in a relationship of co-dependency, she plays into Ludwig's constant mind games until one day she decides she's had enough.
Title: Emma Goldman in - Women Heroes / COL Author: Litwak, Jessica Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1986
Description:
roy biography - monologue - women all female cast; one character one female one act
'Scenes from Emma Goldman's life.'
Title: Encore in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: McLean, Dirk Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy romance two characters one male; one female act one, scene three
'Loners Adriel, and Sally, both in their late 20's, claim to have sworn off relationships, yet either of them would be willing to re-open their hearts if the right person were to come along - especially with an invisible spiritual guide ready to nudge them. They have both been invited to a Halloween party by mutual friends, Desmond and Carmen, but are bored there. This is their first encounter.' Title: Enemies in - Friends and Enemies / COL Author: Leokum, Arkady Publisher: Samuel French 1966
Description:
roy drama two characters all male; two male one act
"An imperious gentlemen dines daily in a restaurant and constantly complains to the waiter about everything. He considers the waiter indebted to him because he taught the man his profession. The waiter claims he is now part owner of the restaurant and has other investments. The diner begs him for financial help and, when the waiter says it was all a pipe dream, the diner is humiliated."
Title: Escape from Golf Camp in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Shaw, Rebecca Wreggitt, Andrew Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian three characters two male; one female one act
Two golf addicts connect at a golf camp.
Title: Essay in - The Russian Play and Other Short Works / CCO Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female two scenes
A female student is told to write an essay on an 18th Century military leader. She upsets her tutor by writing about a female leader. Title: Eukiah in - Dramatics - Vol.77, No.3 / PER Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama two male two characters one act
"The play takes place in an airplane hanger. Butch ran into the airplane hanger after Eukiah because Butch knows Eukiah heard him and Barry talking about setting the horse stable on fire. Butch tries to reassure Eukiah that he was only being a half wit, that no one would do something like that. At the end of the play Butch snaps Eukiah's neck and tells him never to trust people when dealing with horses."
Title: Eukiah in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters one male; one boy short play
"Butch's haunting call for Eukiah to come out of the shadows echoes through an abandoned airplane hangar. What does Eukiah know, and what does he think he knows about a plot to kill racehorses? This brooding exploration of power lures us into a dimly lit corridor where truth and trust lean precariously against one another."
Title: Evening Education in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - Twenty-fifth Series / COL Author: Elwell, Jeffrey Scott Publisher: Samuel French 2001
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
'Overbearing college professor gets a lesson from canny black janitor.' Title: Every Man in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 32nd series / COL Author: Niederman, Michael Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy drama - coming of age - relationships three characters one male; two female one act
A kind of coming of age dream play, Every Man explores the circular patterns of young love and abandonment. 15-year-old Savannah is so fascinated by the stars, she speaks to them. Her mother, Wendy, is concerned about Wendy’s pipe-dreamer behavior and her daughter's growing curiosity regarding boys. When a young man, Peter, finally shows up for Savannah, Wendy confronts the young couple, only to find an odd familiarity with Peter. He alludes to a past they may or may not have had, almost romancing Wendy again, but the painful memory of young
Title: Exhibition, The in - The Best Short Plays 1981 / COL Author: Gibbons, Thomas Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1978
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
two interior and two exterior sets.
Based on Treves' journal and other documentary material. "Drama of the relationship between John Merrick, the Victorian sideshow freak, known as the 'Elephant Man', and his benefactor, Sir Frederick Treves, the British surgeon.
Title: Fade to Black in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Gillies, David Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
An actor, very recently deceased, meets up with the 'stage manager' of the play of life.' Title: Fair Affair, A in - Best Student One Acts Volume 7 / COL Author: Polatin, Daria Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2002
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
'(This play) explores the "backwards" relationship of two secret lovers as they attempt to reconcile their romantic dreams. Based on Chekov's "The Lady With the Pet Dog", this bittersweet love story unfolds with a timely twist.'
Title: Fair Rosamund and Her Murderer in - Glamorgan and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy relationships - drama two characters one male; one female one act
'Romance develops between Henry II's mistress and murderer dispatched to slay her.'
Title: Falling in Like in - Wrecks and other plays / COL Author: Labute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 2007
Description:
roy monologues - women - drama all female cast; one character one female one act
A woman waits for the man she is dating. Title: Family Portrait or My Son The Black Nationalist in - New Plays From the Black Theatre / COL Author: Caldwell, Ben Publisher: Bantam Books 1969
Description:
roy black play three characters two male; one female one act
Otis Redding's plane crash plotted by white man.
Title: Family Voices in - Other Places / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy drama - monologues three characters two male; one female one act
"A series of parallel monologues between a mother and son in the form of letters probably written but never mailed, in which the facade of a happy family gradually disintegrates into a cauldron of recrimination."
Title: Famine and the Ghost in - Set the Stage for Eight / COL Author: Halman, Doris F. Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1923
Description:
roy fantasy three characters flexible casting one act
No abstract available. Title: Fancy Seeing You, Then in - Playbill Two / COL Author: Conn, Stewart Publisher: Hutchinson Educational Ltd. 1969
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
"The last play in the volume is 'Fancy Seeing You, Then' by Stewart Conn, a conversation piece that leads the eavesdropper up the garden path. Like Murray, we believe that Howatt's breezy flow of talk is based on a James Bond fantasy; we think he is trying to convince a provincial hick from Falkirk that he is big-time. Murray will never know what we, and the Waiter, know. The trick is done in a visual flash; a clever theatrical denouement."
Title: Fear in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Nelson, Greg Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian two characters flexible casting one act
A person shares philosophies with the other. Neither of them can figure out the results.
Title: Feeding the Moonfish in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Wiechmann, Barbara Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - teenagers two characters; extras one male; one female one act
1 exterior.
Young man, haunted by father's suicide, finds comfort with teenager whose mother killed father in self defense. Title: Ferryboat in - Encounters / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1967
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"Joey is searching out the Staten Island Ferryboat as it leaves Manhattan. He boldly sits down beside The Girl and tries to strike up a conversation. When he realizes he isn't getting anywhere he decides to continue on anyway. He tells her all about himself. When the ferryboat is almost ready to pull into the docks The Girl finally reacts to Joey, cooly insulting him. He lashes back at
Title: Fertile Imagination, A in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Cole, Susan G. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian play three characters all female cast; three female (one black female) ten scenes
"The story of a lesbian couple's quest for recognition of their rights to live as equal, if separate, members of society. In keeping with its aim of carving out a lesbian space, the play capitalizes on the seductive powers of stage naturalism to legitimize the existence of an idealized lesbian couple seeking to have a child."
Title: Field, The in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Spera, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy war - men all male cast; two characters two male one act
'Two American soldiers cross mine field.' Title: File, The in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: Nelson, Greg Publisher: Signature Editions 2006
Description:
roy drama - family relationships four characters one male; one female (doubling) one act
A woman travels to Ottawa after doing research on a Supreme Court Justice, and interviews his son.
Title: Film is Evil: Radio is Good in - Unbalancing Acts / COL Author: Foreman, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1992
Description:
roy experimental drama three characters one male; two female one act
'Experimental drama about how film effects society.'
Title: Fin & Euba in - The Best of American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL Author: Cefaly, Audrey Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
Fin and Euba are friends and co-workers at a paper mill in Cantonment, Florida. They also share space in a rooming house, which they are desperately trying to escape. Unbeknownst to Euba, Fin submits some of Euba's amateur photos to Life Magazine. Euba receives a reply from Life, but is reluctant to open it for fear or rejection, or worse . . . acceptance. Title: Final Placement in - Win/Lose/Draw / COL Author: Watson, Ara Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1983
Description:
roy drama - women all female cast; two characters two female one act
unit set.
"The scene is the Tulsa office of a child welfare caseworker. A mother guilty of child abuse is intent on regaining the custody of her son, even though he has been put up for adoption by the courts. Despite her poverty and ignorance she displays a touching eloquence - and a disquieting menace - as she attempts to stave off the inevitable".
Title: Final Placement in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Watson, Ara Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - women all female cast; two characters two female one act
unit set.
"The scene is the Tulsa office of a child welfare caseworker. A mother guilty of child abuse is intent on regaining the custody of her son, even though he has been put up for adoption by the courts. Despite her poverty and ignorance she displays a touching eloquence - and a disquieting menace - as she attempts to stave off the inevitable".
Title: Fireworks in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL Author: Terry, Megan Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 1987
Description:
roy drama - marital relations - World War II three characters one male; one boy; one girl one act
A father comes home from the Second World War, to find that his wife was living with another man. They are getting a divorce and he is explaining it to his two children. He also has found a woman and is going to marry her. Title: Fireworks in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: Terry, Megan Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy drama - marital relations - World War II three characters one male; one boy; one girl one act
A father comes home from the Second World War, to find that his wife was living with another man. They are getting a divorce and he is explaining it to his two children. He also has found a woman and is going to marry her.
Title: First Love in - The Best American Short Plays 1999-2000 / COL Author: Schisgal, Murray Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
Description:
roy romance two characters one male; one female one act
First Love Last. When Mike left Lucy in the middle of the night without a note or a good-bye, her faith in true love left with him. Twenty years later, Mike walks back into Lucy's life and the memories come flooding back. No matter how long it's been or how deep the scars are, you never forget your first love.
Title: First Miracle of the Boy Jesus, The in - The Pope and the Witch; The First Miracle of the Boy Jesus / COL Author: Fo, Dario Publisher: Oberon Press 1994
Description:
roy monologue - comic - drama one character flexible casting one act
'A companion piece to "The Tale of a Tiger".' Title: Flight of Fancy in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Twenty-fourth Series) / COL Author: Felder, Louis Publisher: Samuel French 2000
Description:
roy relationships two characters one male; one female one act
'Young MBA and middle-aged salesman meet in airport lounge in Portland, Oregon.'
Title: Flights in - Off-off Broadway Festival Plays - 27th Series / COL Author: Cameron, Susan Publisher: Samuel French 2003
Description:
roy relationships two characters one male; one female one scene
Maggie bumps into Carl at the airport. It's been many years and he doesn't even recognize her. Soon they are talking about old times, his several marriages and her one, mutual friends and current happenings. Underlying their banal encounter is Maggie's heart wrenching secret: she loves Carl and has for years.
Title: Florentine Tragedy, A in - Importance of Being Earnest and (6) Other Plays, The / COL Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: Penguin Books 2000
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
A fragment of a play, unfinished. Love intrigue, and violent death in a medieval Florence. Title: Florentine Tragedy, A in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
A fragment of a play, unfinished. Love intrigue, and violent death in a medieval Florence.
Title: Flyer (from Roots in Water) in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Nelson, Richard Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy monologue - men - war all male cast; one character one male one scene
First scene form Roots in Water. Monologue by Vietnam vet set in 1976.
Title: Follow the Leader in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Libman, Carol Publisher: Alive Press Limited
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - war - men all male cast; three characters three male one act
Non representative set.
"Three men, a leader and two followers, build an imaginary war and empire for righteousness." Title: Footfalls in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1992
Description:
roy experimental theatre all female cast; one character one female one act
"Invalid mother's offstage voice describes barren life of daughter shut up with her who paces floor seeking further meaning to existence in sound of her own footsteps. Daughter fictionalizes her life, investing it with sense of mystery."
Title: For Distinguished Service in - Miniature Plays for Stage and Study / COL Author: Knox, Florence Clay Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1958
Description:
roy drama all female cast; three characters three female one act
Description not available.
Title: Forfeits in - Women Write for Theatre - Victims / CCO Author: Havard, Lezley Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
'A reunion of two women who had been childhood friends and the husband of one of them, reveals the need for revenge by one of them. A game is played to obtain forfeit, and the forfeit is the vengence.' Title: Former One-on-One Basketball Champion, The in - The Best Short Plays 1981 / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1981
Description:
roy drama - sports - basketball all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 exterior set.
"On a city playground middle-aged ex-basketball pro and fourteen-year-old youth match skills in a game of 21 during which they unravel the ironic fate that brought them together".
Title: Former One-on-One Basketball Champion, The in - The Great Labor Day Classic; The Former One-on-One Basketball Champion /CO Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1982
Description:
roy drama - sports - basketball all male cast; two characters two male one act
open stage.
"A provocative and revealing study of a young boy and an older man whose shared interest in basketball leads on to deeper, and often startling, revelations about other ways in which their lives have touched, for better or worse, without their intention".
Title: Fourteen Years in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Nagle, Maggie Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary two characters one male; one female one act
A paralyzed woman tries desparately to communicate with her husband. Title: Fourth Prisoner, The in - Are You Normal Mr. Norman and other Short Plays / COL Author: Wilson, David Henry Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
"Drama about deprivation and judgement set in prison cell."
Title: Fragment in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993
Description:
roy scene two characters one male; one female one scene
'A study in stylized symbolism. A dramatization of a short story,'The Lady in a Green Dress'.'
Title: Free's Point in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Adams, Philip Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
"The play recreates the final moments in the life of Michael Oros, who tried to live alone in remote bush south of the British Columbia / Yukon border." Title: Friday, 6:32 p.m. in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Friesen, Patrick Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary all female cast; one character and extra voices one female one act
A woman battles with an answering machine and her life.
Title: Friends in - Friends and Enemies / COL Author: Leokum, Arkady Publisher: Samuel French 1966
Description:
roy drama two characters all male; two male one act
"A tutor lives by the sea and from his window he sees the yachts of the wealthy. His charge is a forlorn boy whose parents haven't time for him and who comes from his family's yacht to study. The boy doesn't need to learn; he's going to inherit millions, so why sweat? In truth, they need each other. The boy has learned to read while pretending otherwise and the tutor is dependent on the boy for the income to keep himself alive."
Title: From - "The Resurrection of the Daughter: Liliane" in - Moon Marked and Touched by Sun / COL Author: Shange, Ntozake Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1994
Description:
roy women - growing up - African American two characters flexible casting one act
' "The Resurrection of the Daughter: Liliane", a new novel by Ntozake Shange chronicles the journey of a visual artist from adolescence to womanhood. The prismatic composition of the novel is derived from two narrative lines (one from childhood and one from adult life); the Psalms, which are from her journal; and a series of dramatic scenes between Liliane and her psychoanalyst, entitled "Rooms in the Dark", of which dialogues II, IV, V, VI, and VII are included here.' Title: From: "Fires in the Mirror" in - Moon Marked and Touched by Sun / COL Author: Deaver Smith, Anna Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1994
Description:
roy monologues two characters (doubling) one male or female one act
A series of interviews presented in monologue form.
Title: Frugal Repast in - Frugal Repast & The Grand Hysteric / CCO Author: Rosen, Sheldon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act
The play brings to two harlequin figures of Picasso's famous painting to life.
Title: Frying Pan, The in - Three Hand Reel / COL Author: Mayer, Paul Avila Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1967
Description:
roy Irish play three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"The first part of a triple bill, this often amusing but revealing play captures the sense and spirit of the Irish soul as it tells of a guilt-ridden prude, the wife who represents his 'downfall', and the affable young priest who is admired by one and loved by the other". Title: Fugue For Female Voices in - Canadian One Act Plays For Women / CCO Author: Hurley, Joan Mason Publisher: A Room of One's Own Press 1975
Description:
roy Canadian - women - monologues all female cast; one character one female one act
1 interior.
"Play for woman to characterize five different types of women. In monologue form."
Title: Fur in - Out of the Fringe / COL Author: Cruz, Migdalia Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
singing.
Beneath a pet shop in the California desert, the owner keeps a feral woman in a cage.
Title: G.C. in - The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 / COL Author: Mann, Theodore Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009
Description:
roy drama - American - theatre three characters two male; one female one act
A short play about an encounter the playwright had with actor George C. Scott. Title: Gaggle of Saints, A in - Bash / COL Author: Labute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 1999
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
"A young mormon couple separately recount the violent events of an anniversary weekend in New York City."
Title: Game of Inches, A in - Sheer Nerve / CCO Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1999
Description:
roy drama - monologue - woman all female cast; one character one female one act
1 interior.
Woman reflects on Zen, baseball and sex.
Title: Game of Patience in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO Author: Farhoud, Abla translated by Jill MacDougall Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - women all female cast; three characters three female six scenes
Two worlds clash when Monique/Kaokab, a successful Canadian author who emigrated from Lebanon when she was a child, approaches her newly-arrived and embittered cousin, Miriam. Miriam has escaped the war-torn country, but she has lost her daughter. The daughter, Samira, appears frequently, perched on bookcases or on a swing above the audience. She reveals through the author's voice that she has killed herself in order to live. It is her vibrant spirit which eventually unites the two women. Title: Gap, The in - The Art of Drama / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene translated by Rosette Lamont Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1976
Description:
roy drama - social issues three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior.
"Theatre of the absurd. Though honored by an abundance of doctorates, academician's failure to pass second part of baccalaureate examination invalidates all his awards and destroys foundation of his existence."
Title: Garage Sale in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - seniors two characters one male; one female one act
"Elderly couple reflect on the loneliness of old age."
Title: Gentleman Caller in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Vaughn, R.M. Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
Young drag queen and old married woman share make-up and experiences. Title: Getting In in - Six Plays by Mavor Moore / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Talonbooks 1989
Description:
roy drama - men - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A man applies for admission into an organization. His facade and his confidence are shattered when the interview takes an unexpected direction."
Title: Getting it Straight in - Heroines: Three Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1992
Description:
roy monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
Thoughts of a woman suffering from mental illness.
Title: Getting it Straight in - Voice of Her Own / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy monologue - drama - women - mental illness all female cast; one character one female one act
Thoughts of a woman suffering from mental illness. Title: Getting it Straight in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
Thoughts of a woman suffering from mental illness.
Title: Getting Lucky in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: Lloyd, Christian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - gay relationships - drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
On Tuesday, September 7th, 2004, at roughly 9:00 a.m., Christian Lloyd found himself waking up in the most dangerous neighbourhood in New Orleans with someone he didn't remember meeting. Anything can happen during Southern Decadence weekend! Inspired by true events.
Title: Ghost Stories in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 11th series / COL Author: Evans, Annie Publisher: Samuel French 1986
Description:
roy drama all female cast; three characters three female one act
This poignant play is about three young women on a camping trip. Each has a truth to tell and each has her turn. Title: Ghost Story, A in - Haunted Lives / COL Author: Pielmeier, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy horror - ghost stories three characters two male; one female one act
1 setting; suggested for high school.
Two hikers stranded in an isolated Maine cabin in a blizzard, trade ghost stories with a mysterious girl.
Title: Gimmick, The in - American Theatre (Sept 99) / PER Author: Orlandersmith, Dael Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999
Description:
roy monologue - women all female cast; one character; extra one female one act
'Young Harlem woman dreams of becoming writer in Paris like James Baldwin.'
Title: Girl and The Soldier, The in - Seven Short and Very Short Plays / COL Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1973
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
open stage.
"A girl sings; a soldier speaks of love and war; and a sense of the very nature of our tortured universe is poignantly evoked". Title: Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah), The in - American Theatre Vol. 22, No. 4 / PER Author: Foreman, Richard Publisher: Miscellaneous 2005
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
"Two bizarre and bumbling lumberjacks find themselves at the edge of a psychic abyss, though they eagerly anticipate the good news that seems hidden in sweet drops of honey left by busy bees. As with all Foreman landscapes, however, there is dread hidden inside imagined pleasures, as they encounter a beautiful, irreverent princess who taunts them with the mysteries of sex, death and desire."
Title: Going to the Chapel in - Life Support / COL Author: Steele, Donald Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy dramatic comedy all female cast; two characters two female one act
Minutes before Julie is about to take her fifth walk down the aisle, she and her always at her side Matron of Honor Jan examine love and life and their friendship - each learning some things they didn't know about each other, or themselves.
Title: Golden Bull of Boredom, The in - New American Plays Volume One / COL Author: Yerby, Lorees Publisher: Hill and Wang 1963
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
1 interior set.
"Husband and wife make a pact with a young man to relieve them of their boredom as imaginatively as possible and, if thus successful, to murder them". Title: Good Book, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 32nd series / COL Author: Anton, Tiffany Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy dramatic comedy three characters one male; two female one act
In desperation, Robert turns to the ghost of his dead wife in a moment of great anxiety - his daughter's first period. He finds a gift his wife hid in the house for their daughter on just this occasion—a book his wife created for Robert and their daughter before she died, a sort of bible to womanhood. Robert talks to his wife in between the awkwardness of trying to do the "right thing," all while trying not to make his daughter even more embarrassed than she already is. A touching family drama about growing up, featuring three strong Hispanic characters.
Title: Good Thief, The in - The Weir and Other Plays / COL Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1999
Description:
roy drama, monologue all male cast; one character one male one act
'Monologue by small time Irish criminal.'
"The Good Thief" has a dramatic daring...The writing is terse, lucid and admirably dispassionate.
Title: Goods in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Sixteenth Series) / COL Author: Elias, Isadore Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters; extras two male one act
'Cut-throat businessman in garment industry buys cloth from old friend.' Title: Gothic Tale, A in - Haunted Lives / COL Author: Pielmeier, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy horror three characters two male; one female one act
1 setting; singing; suggested for high school.
A woman obsessed by the idea of being loved keeps a man prisoner in the tower of an island mansion.
Title: Graceland in - The Best Short Plays 1985 / COL Author: Byron, Ellen Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1985
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
background music; suggested short play for high school.
'Rivalry between two fanatic female Elvis Presley fans develops into exchange of confidences.'
Title: Graceland in - Graceland and Asleep on the Wind / COL Author: Byron, Ellen Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
background music; suggested short play for high school.
'Rivalry between two fanatic female Elvis Presley fans develops into exchange of confidences.' Title: Gramsci 3: The Doing-to death of Antonio Gramsci in - Plays at the Iron Bridge / CCO Author: Watson, Wilfred Publisher: NeWest Press 1989
Description:
roy experimental drama three characters two male; one female eleven scenes
'Struggle between Mussolini and Tatiana for Gramsci's freedom from prison are interwoven with scenes representing his calvary as the Stations of the Cross.'
Title: Grand Hysteric, The in - Frugal Repast & The Grand Hysteric / CCO Author: Rosen, Sheldon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act
A psychological drama centering on a young man's final meeting with his psychiatrist and a tug-of-war among various levels of reality.
Title: Grappa in - Theatrum (Feb/Mar 1994) / PER Author: McFarlane, Anita Publisher: Miscellaneous 1994
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
Description not available. Title: Great Falls in - Humana Festival 2008 / COL Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - family relationships two characters one male; one female one act
As the play begins, we find a middle aged man in the driver's seat of his car, waxing poetic about the scenery while his angry teenage passenger accuses him of kidnapping her. As it turns out, the man is the young woman's stepfather, no divorced from her mother. Hoping to retrieve something of their past together, he's striking out on the open road with his fuming companion. But she's not going to make it easy for him to find the brand of self acceptance or forgiveness that he hopes for, instead pushing them to traverse a much more difficult territory.
Title: Great Father, The in - Snapshot / COL Author: Lodato, Victor Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one scene
A couple discuss what they are seeing in the sky.
Title: Great Nebula in Orion, The in - The Great Nebula in Orion and Three Other Plays / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1973
Description:
roy drama - women - friendship all female cast; two characters two female one act
1 interior set.
"This fascinating and brilliantly inventive play details the chance meeting, after many years, of two girlhood friends. One has 'married well' and the other has achieved a successful career, but, for both, as their poignant and telling conversation reveals, there is an aching emptiness beneath the elegant veneer of their lives". Title: Growing Up Suites, Parts I and II and Object/Subject of Desire in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Dempsey, Shawna Millan, Lorri Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian play one character all female cast; one female eleven vignettes
The experiences that Dempsey and Millan went through growing up in the bleak suburban landscapes of Scarborough and Etobicoke in the 1960s and 1970s.
Title: Guernica in - Guernica and other plays / COL Author: Arrabal, Fernando translated by Barbara Wright Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1986
Description:
roy drama - war two characters one male; one female one act
"Set during the Spanish Civil War. Basque peasant couple are trapped in the rubble of their home, after airplane bombing."
Title: Gym Teacher in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1998
Description:
roy monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one act
"An overly macho gym teacher addresses a coed class of seventh graders, saying inappropriate things and eventually forcing the unlucky class to play a game of "bombardment" (hitting the members of the other team with volley balls), but this time played with bowling balls." Title: Haiku in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Snodgrass, Katherine Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - disabilities all female cast; three characters three female one act
The story concerns a woman who lives with her mentally challenged daughter, who has miraculously at brief intervals been "normal". In fact, the daughter, Louise, is sometimes super-normal, speaking in beautiful haiku poetry, which her mother has recorded and has had published under the mother's name. Then an older daughter, Billie, comes for a visit. Billie only knows her sister as hopelessly retarded, and refuses to believe that her mother's poetry has actually been composed by her sister.
Title: Halloween in - Encounters / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1967
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
"Luke, thirty, has finally broken away from his parents. He's living in a Manhattan cock-roach infested furnished room - and he's just been robbed of all his personal belongings, expensive gifts given him mostly by his family. Margaret is the building's cleaning lady and they meet because of the robbery and all the cock-roaches. This meeting turns into an afternoon of great revelations about each other - very painful and embarrassing truths. But it's an afternoon ending in a temporary form of comfort and understanding human contact".
Title: Hamletmachine in - Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage / COL Author: Muller, Heiner Publisher: Performing Arts Journal Publications 1984
Description:
roy drama - Shakespeare two characters; extras one male; one female one act
1 set.
"Experimental piece based on Shakespeare's Hamlet depicting history of communism in 20th century". Title: Hang Up in - Plays: 2 (Anthony Minghella) / COL Author: Minghella, Anthony Publisher: Methuen & Co 1997
Description:
roy drama - British - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
"A very brief telephone conversation between separated lovers."
Title: Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist in - Off-Off-Broadway Festival Plays - 23rd Series / COL Author: Gage, Carolyn Publisher: Samuel French 1999
Description:
roy drama - historical all female cast; two characters two female one act
'Therapist tries to dissuade the slave Harriet Tubman from attempting escape but ultimately provides advice on how to do it.'
Title: Haunted Host, The in - Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks / COL Author: Patrick, Robert Publisher: Winter House Ltd. 1972
Description:
roy drama - self realization all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 interior; 3 scenes.
"Two playwrights, one a young houseguest and the other a homosexual, obsessed by ghost of dead friend, come to self-realizations." Title: He Came Home One Day While I was Washing Dishes in - The Best of American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL Author: Biadaszkiewicz, K. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama - war two characters one male; one female one act
A young man hurries home to tell his mother the good news. It is the news she has dreaded. She does not hurry at all.
Title: Hearts and Minds in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Kraar, Adam Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
In HEARTS AND MINDS, an idealistic speech teacher strives to touch the conscience of a relentlessly practical student from Russia, by getting him to empathize with other students. Teacher and student end up educating each other about what they are willing to sacrifice for their values.
Title: Heights in - The Best of American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL Author: Fox, Amy Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama - sexuality three characters two male; one female one act
Three young New Yorkers face conflicts of sexuality and trust. Title: Helen's Necklace in - Carole Frechette: Two Plays / CCO Author: Frechette, Carole translated by John Murrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - Canadian two characters (can be played by up to six characters) one male; one female one act
"The necklace is irreplaceable. The city is a maze of danger and emotion. Time and reality are slipping through Helen's fingers."
Title: Her Name is Kathy in - The Best American Short Plays 2001-2002 / COL Author: de Matteo, Donna Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2007
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
A lawyer is sent to straighten out a young man's story about a car accident he was involved in.
Title: Here and Now in - Snapshot / COL Author: Yew, Chay Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003
Description:
roy monologue - men two characters one male; one female one scene
A man and woman gaze up at Mt. Rushmore as he reflects on his life. Title: Here Lies Henry in - One Voice / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; one character one male one act
An idyllic sort of miserable sort of nightmarish sort of story book sort of remarkable sort of regular sort of story. A man alone in a room with a mission to tell you something you don't already know.
Title: Here Lies Henry in - Alone, on Stage / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; one character one male one act
An idyllic sort of miserable sort of nightmarish sort of story book sort of remarkable sort of regular sort of story. A man alone in a room with a mission to tell you something you don't already know.
Title: Herringbone in - Twenty Years at Play / CCO Author: Cone, Tom Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - musical all male cast; eleven characters one male (doubling) one act
"An old trooper softshoes onto centre stage and recreates the 'living legend' of his vaudeville life." Title: Highwire in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Nineteenth Series / COL Author: Shields, Brian Publisher: Samuel French 1995
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
'Corrupt New York City cop leans on Irish bartender to recruit for IRA.'
Title: Hindsight in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Foon, Dennis Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy drama - Canadian two characters one male; one female one scene
A young woman accuses a man of using his glass eye.
Title: Home Free! in - Ludlow Fair and Home Free! / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1993
Description:
roy drama - family relations two characters one male; one female one act
'Incestuous brother and sister inhabit fantasy world.' Title: Home Free! in - Balm in Gilead and Other Plays / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Hill and Wang 1965
Description:
roy drama - family relations two characters one male; one female one act
'Incestuous brother and sister inhabit fantasy world.'
Title: Homebound in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Seventeenth Series) / COL Author: Callan, Lyndall Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy drama - monlogue - women all female cast; one character one female one act
'Monologue by young woman coping with sea of emotions as she escapes small Texas town and terminally ill father.'
Title: Homestead in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992
Description:
roy Canadian drama - relationships three characters two male; one female one act
'First performed with the title 'The Man Who Wouldn't Fight Back'. Revised version performed with title 'God made the Country'. Drama set in 1930 Canada. Married woman, unhappy with life of homesteading, has an affair with bachelor neighbor.' Title: Hope Slide, The in - 7 Canons / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Coach House Press 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
"An actress travels back in memory from the present to the mid-sixties, from North Vancouver to the Doukhobor prison outside the town of Hope, the site of a mountain collapse in 1965. Natural disaster becomes a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, and anarchy is examined both as a liberating social force and as a frightening presence in the natural world."
Title: Hope Slide, The in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
"An actress travels back in memory from the present to the mid-sixties, from North Vancouver to the Doukhobor prison outside the town of Hope, the site of a mountain collapse in 1965. Natural disaster becomes a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, and anarchy is examined both as a liberating social force and as a frightening presence in the natural world."
Title: Hopscotch in - Hopscotch and The 75th / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1977
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
"A young man and a young woman meet, apparently by chance, in a park playground overlooking Lake Quannapowitt. Their conversation, at first, is casual and impersonal - like strangers meeting for the first time. But gradually subtle hints emerge, suggesting that the two have indeed known each other before and, perhaps, better than either cares to remember. In the end the shattering truth of their past relationship is revealed - they are former lovers, now enemies, and both bearing the scars and bitterness of a shared loss which has done irrevocable damage to them Title: Hot Rod in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - Twenty-fifth Series / COL Author: Kareken, Jeremy Publisher: Samuel French 2001
Description:
roy relationships three characters one male; two female one act
'At the bridal registry in an upscale department store an engaged couple meet a saleswoman who takes a dim view of marriage, especially theirs.'
Title: House of Sleeping Beauties, The in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: New American Library 1990
Description:
roy tragedy two characters one male; one female one act
Yasunari Kawabata's visits to bizarre brothel in search of material for story end tragically.
Title: House that Jack Built, The in - Endangered Species / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1988
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
designed to be presented with 'It's Only Hot for Two Months in Kapuskasing'.
Jack builds a house on the outskirts of Toronto for Jenny, who is reluctant to leave the city. As she adjusts to their new home, their marriage undergoes a frightening change. Title: House Wife, The in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: White, Sherry Lawrence, Ruth Publisher: Signature Editions 2006
Description:
roy analogy - political - Newfoundland all female cast; two characters two female one act
An analogy of for Newfoundland in Confederation and what happened in a very short time. Two sisters have to learn to live together after one returns from the West Coast and moves in. The politics of the day come out in ordinary housework.
Title: How I Learned to Drive in - The Mammary Plays / COL Author: Vogel, Paula Publisher: TCG Books 1998
Description:
roy young adult - sexuality two characters; three choruses one male; one female one act
Paula Vogel's 'How I Learned to Drive' is a delicately told tale of the sexual awakening of a young girl under the tutelage of her uncle.
Title: How She Played the Game in - Women Heroes / COL Author: Cooper, Cynthia L. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1986
Description:
roy biography, women, monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
'Montage of famous and lesser known women athletes and their achievements.' Title: Hum of the Arctic in - Dramatics v. 80 no. 1 / PER Author: Hammond, Sarah Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
ten-minute play.
"While flipping through a scrapbook, Claire recounts the story of her deaf mother's intriguing meeting with a painter many years ago."
Title: Hunger Striking in - Magpie; Having; Hunger Striking / COL Author: Brennan, Kit Publisher: NuAge Editions 1999
Description:
roy drama all female cast; one character one female one act
"Sarah's student, Katie, has just died of anorexia. Her death propels Sarah into her own memories, taking her from her present day reality as a high school English teacher into multiple pasts: her own past as an anorexic girl twenty years earlier, her Celtic heritage with its vivid creatures and mythology passed on to her by her father, and the world of the hunger-striking suffragettes at the beginning of the last century. "
Title: I Chink in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 110, Spring 2002 / PER Author: Luu, Yung Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002
Description:
roy drama - monologue - male - Chinese all male cast; one characters one male one act
'Yung Luu's third play in his Fringe trilogy, "I Chink" focuses on the experience of an immigrant family.' Title: I Hate You on Mondays in - Prerogatives / CCO Author: Miles, Kate Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy contemporary drama three characters two male; one female fifteen scenes
This play is a gritty depiction of three young people living in downtown Toronto.
Title: I Wandered Lonely in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Schafer, Heldor Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary two characters one male; one female one act
A nurse and patient help the patient get over feeling sorry for himself.
Title: I'll Be Home Para La Navidad in - Amazon All Stars / COL Author: Astor del Valle, Janis Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy relationships all female cast; two characters two female one scene
'While chopping garlic and slicing onions, Cookie, a Puerto Rican lesbian, asks Mami, "Guess who's coming to Christmas Dinner?" ' Title: I'm Not Stupid in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Rodriguez, David E. Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - murder three characters two male; one female three scenes
2 interiors.
Woman murders mentally handicapped son and blames son's psychiatrist.
Title: I, Claudia in - Voice of Her Own / CCO Author: Thomson, Kristen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - monologue - women all female cast; four characters one female (doubling) one act
'Claudia is an official pre-teen, still reeling from her parent's divorce. Her father is getting re-married, she has a science fair project coming due, and she is in the physical and emotional throes of puberty. Finding refuge in the basement of her school, Claudia discovers the pain at the centre of her brimming child's heart. Some important adults in Claudia's life - her grandfather, her new father's new girlfriend, and the school custodian - shed light on her situation.'
Title: If Betty Should Rise in - Canadian Brash / CCO Author: Demchuk, David Publisher: Coach House Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - family relations - mental illness - tragedy all female cast; two characters two female one act
Monologue material. A young woman relates in bits and pieces the story of her abuse at the hands of her father. Title: If You Were My Wife, I'd Shoot Myself in - Three Short Plays / COL Author: Jones, Elinor Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy relationships two characters one male; one female one act
'Encounter in Rome between romantic young American actress and cynical bartender.'
Title: In Conclusive Woman in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Mollenkamp, Julie Rae (Pratt) Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - multimedia - monologues - women all female cast; one character (on video) one female one act
The plot takes us on a journey with award-winning artist/teacher Julie Rae through the contemporary cultural whirlwind of relationships and power, women and men, subject and object, love and chaos, as she reveals the life of a sexual survivor, fat chick, momma's child, beloved teacher, abandoned wife, failed mother, surgical crash test dummy, fabulous post-forty party girl, and twenty-first-century semi-wise woman.
Title: In Old Vermont in - Short Plays and Monologues / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1981
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
"Short theatre piece in which man and woman reminisce about time spent in Vermont." Title: In On It in - I Still Love You / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all male cast; many characters two male (doubling) one act
"A spiraling narrative about a dying man trying to make plans for the end, a pair of lovers trying to make it work and two men trying to make a play. A world where accidents happen. A story about control. A play that keeps its option open."
Title: In Place in - The Best Short Plays 1984 / COL Author: Jacker, Corinne Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1983
Description:
roy drama - marital relations three characters one male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"In Las Vegas to obtain divorces three losers stay on hoping for better days".
Title: In the Continuum in - New Playwrights: The best plays of 2006 / COL Author: Gurira, Danai Salter, Nikkole Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2007
Description:
roy drama - African American - AIDS two characters all female cast; two female (one African, one African American) fifteen scenes
"The play dramatizes the devastating problem of HIV/AIDS among African and African American women, which has reached an all-time high both in the US and in Africa. The two actresses portray numerous characters in two parallel stories that transform women with HIV/AIDS from statistical victims in news reports to real people who demand our compassion and attention. Specifically, the play explores the personal journeys of a married Zimbabwean woman and a 19-year-old girl from South Central Los Angeles." Title: Incident at Standish Arms, An in - Summer Brave and Eleven Short Plays / COL Author: Inge, William Publisher: Random House 1962
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
'After sexual relations with cab driver, divorcée fears detection.'
Title: Indian in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy Canadian drama - native peoples all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians."
Title: Indian in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975
Description:
roy Canadian drama - native peoples all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians." Title: Indian in - The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: General Publishing 1971
Description:
roy Canadian drama - native peoples all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians."
Title: Indian in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy Canadian drama - native peoples all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians."
Title: Indian in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing Ltd. 1993
Description:
roy Canadian drama - native peoples all male cast; three characters three male one act
"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians." Title: Indian Wants The Bronx, The in - Famous American Plays of the 1960's / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1972
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
open stage w/props.
A disturbing portrayal of the mindless cruelty of two teenage toughs towards a helpless stranger at a bus stop. The stranger is an East Indian who speaks little english.
Title: Instincts in - Southern Exposures / COL Author: Milligan, Jason Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy d r a m a all male cast; two characters two male one act
It's 3:00 a.m. on New Year's Day in a jail cell in a small Southern town. Frank and Andy are being held on drunk driving-- and possibly manslaughter-- charges. Andy grabbed the steering wheel while Frank was driving and purposely side swiped a college boy's sports car. Did he die? The atmosphere in the cell becomes increasingly tense. They argue and nearly come to blows before coming to terms with each other and the accident.
Title: Interview in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL Author: Kraus, Joanna Woodward, Greer Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 1987
Description:
roy interview - conversation two characters one male; one female one act
The action takes place in two university offices on the Eastern seaboard in the present. Title: Interview, The in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL Author: Oates, Joyce Carol Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
'Inept journalist interviews man he believes to be world renowned author.'
Title: Interview, The in - Canadian Theatre Review - No. 77, Winter 1993 / PER Author: Bick, Tamara C. Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993
Description:
roy monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
' "The Interview is about a single woman, who is an actress putting on a show. It takes place today, her twenty-seventh birthday. It is a series of six monologues.
Title: Intimacy in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO Author: Haché, Emma translated by Arthur Milner Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - women seven characters two male; one female (doubling) eleven scenes
running time: 1 hour 30 min.
A caustic portrait of how a couple, Frauke and Alex, met in Nazi Germany. Based on a true story, this sharp satire of the “responsible society” delivers a tale of two people who feel most alive when they are inches from death. In this context, illness becomes the best way to protect oneself… but also to reveal oneself. Title: Iphigenia in Orem in - Bash / COL Author: Labute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 1999
Description:
roy drama one character all male; one male one act
"A Utah businessman confides in a stranger in a las vegas hotel room, confessing to an especially chilling crime."
Title: Irene & Lillian Forever in - Escape Acts / CCO Author: Farmer, Bonnie Publisher: NuAge Editions 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - tragedy all female cast; two characters two female one act
'Tragedy set in Nova Scotia. Contentious relationship between poor black women.'
Won the Award for Best Director at the 1986 Quebec Drama Festival.
Title: Isadora and G. B. in - After Antietam / Isadora and G.B. / CCO Author: Angel, Leonard Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act
"G. B. Shaw visits Isadora Duncan's studio to see her dance in the nude. She tries to seduce him, but he warns 'what if the child were to have my beauty and your brains?" Title: Island, The in - Statements / COL Author: Fugard, Athol Kani, John Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1974
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
Celebrates the strength of man's connection to man, even within the dehumanizing confines of a prison cell on Robben Island.
Title: Islands in - Willful Acts / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Coach House Press 1985
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations all female cast; three characters three female one act
"Six months after "Alli Alli Oh!" Now living alone, Muriel receives a visit from her widowed mother and her new fiancé. Alli also arrives unexpectedly, and events climax when each woman discovers ways to relate to past events."
Title: It Ain't the Heat, It's the Humility in - The Best Short Plays 1983 / COL Author: Huey, Tom Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1982
Description:
roy drama - black play all male cast; two characters; extras two male one act
1 exterior set.
"Social differences in Southern speech patterns revealed in exchange between retired judge and black gardener". Title: It's all make believe, isn't it? - Marilyn Monroe in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama⌦all female cast; two characters two female one act
"Marilyn Monroe" and her companion prepare for a visitor.
Title: It's all make believe, isn't it? - Marilyn Munroe in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian all female cast; two characters two female one act
"Marilyn Monroe" and her companion prepare for a visitor.
Title: Je Me Souviens in - Voice of Her Own / CCO Author: Gale, Lorena Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy dramatic monologue - women, autobiography all female cast; one character one female twenty-six scenes
'In this powerful dramatic monologue, Lorena Gale remembers, by reconstructing for the audience, her childhood and coming of age as an African-Canadian in Montreal.' Title: Jewel in - Toronto, Mississippi & Jewel / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
"It's Valentine's Day and Marjorie reminisces aloud about the loss of her husband on the Ocean Ranger and her decision to begin her life anew."
Title: Jewel in - The Shape of a Girl / Jewel (CCO) Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 2002
Description:
Roy Canadian - drama - monologues - women All female cast; one character One female One act
"It's Valentine's Day and Marjorie reminisces aloud about the loss of her husband on the Ocean Ranger and her decision to begin her life anew."
Title: Jewel in - The Shape of a Girl/Jewel / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 2002
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
"It's Valentine's Day and Marjorie reminisces aloud about the loss of her husband on the Ocean Ranger and her decision to begin her life anew." Title: Jewish Wife, The in - The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt Bentley, Eric Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1965
Description:
roy Jewish - drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"Set in Nazi Germany. A Jewish wife of a German citizen anticipating trouble, prepares to leave husband and Germany".
Title: Joan of Arkansas in - Dramatics (April 2001) / PER Author: Wilner, Sheri Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001
Description:
roy relationships two characters one male; one female one act
'An encounter between two college students in the library.'
Title: Joseph Dintenfass in - No One Willl Be Immune and Other Plays and Pieces / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1994
Description:
roy American - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
"An older man and a younger woman meet and reflect on the small and constant things in life that loom large." Title: Joy in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO Author: Pelletier, Pol translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - women - Quebec all female cast; one character one female two parts
A two-part play for one person in which Pol Pelletier casts a retrospective eye on the years between 1975 and 1985 when she began her professional career as a theatre artist. Following the strands of her own career, Pelletier writes a particular kind of theatrical biography. History and fiction combine to form a stunning narrative driven by passionate creativity. 'Joy' is the vivid dramatization of a well-known woman artist's life on stage, a documentary testimony to the rise of a vibrant and distinctive Quebec culture, and an exhilarating theatrical invention.
Title: Judith: A Parting From the Body in - The Europeans; Judith / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1990
Description:
roy drama - sexuality three characters one male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"Drama about sexuality and betrayal of the body. Retelling of Apocryphal story of Judith and Holofernes".
Title: Judith: A Parting From the Body in - Collected Plays: Vol 3 / COL Author: Barker, Howard Publisher: John Calder Publishers 1996
Description:
roy drama - sexuality three characters one male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"Drama about sexuality and betrayal of the body. Retelling of Apocryphal story of Judith and Holofernes". Title: Julia in - Best Student One Acts Volume 4 / COL Author: Coates, Virginia Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000
Description:
roy drama - fatherhood all male cast; two characters two male one act
'Two men are in a hospital waiting room - one has just learned that his baby has died, the other is waiting for his to be born.'
Title: Jumping in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL Author: Borden, William Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 1987
Description:
roy conversation, marital relations two characters one male; one female one act
The action takes place on a Minnesota bridge in the middle of winter at the present time.
Title: June/Moon in - New Theatre For Now / COL Author: Larson, Jack Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1971
Description:
roy relationships two characters one male; one female one scene
Just after the first moon landing in 1969, a couple make love in their car. Title: Just in - Hot Thespian Action! / CCO Author: Schmidt, Trevor Publisher: AU Press 2008
Description:
roy monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
A tense yet delicate story told by a woman who comes to a home for young, pregnant girls to adopt a baby. By way of a sensitive dramatic monologue we gradually learn why she has been troubled for so long as she waits for her husband to meet her.
Title: Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place in - Viet Rock and Other Plays / COL Author: Terry, Megan Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1967
Description:
roy drama - men - prisoners all male cast; three characters three male one act
1 interior.
"Three men in prison for murder discuss experiences which may be interpreted as fantasy or reality."
Title: Kicked in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 97, Winter 1998 / PER Author: Healey, Michael Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998
Description:
roy monologue all male cast; four characters one male (doubling) one act
Description not available. Title: Killers Head in - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Random House 1986
Description:
roy monologue - men, drama all male cast; one character one male one act
"Monologue by prisoner awaiting execution."
Title: Kind of Alaska, A in - Other Places / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
Description:
roy drama - identity three characters one male; two female one act
"A masterly study of a middle-aged woman waking up after 30 years in a coma. In her mind, she is still 16 and her attempts to fathom the changed world into which she reemerges is not only poignant and emotionally charged but, in the end, devastatingly brilliant theatre as well."
Title: King, The in - New English Dramatists 14 / COL Author: Conn, Stewart Publisher: Penguin Books 1970
Description:
roy drama three characters two men; one female one act
No abstract available Title: Kong in - The Best American Short Plays - 2005-2006 / COL Author: Sneed, Pamela Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy political satire - monologue one character one male or female three parts
A political tapestry that weaves together current events and trends in cinema, and retells the important history of black lesbian and gays in New York City in the early 1990's, who formed a literary movement akin to the Harlem Renaissance.
Title: Krapp's Last Tape in - Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1958
Description:
roy drama all male cast; one character one male one act
1 interior set.
"Man thinks about meaning of Life and his own life as he listens to tape recordings of his memories".
Title: Krapp's Last Tape in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1984
Description:
roy drama all male cast; one character one male one act
1 interior set.
"Man thinks about meaning of Life and his own life as he listens to tape recordings of his memories". Title: Kuwait in - Humana Festival 2004 / COL Author: Delaney, Vincent Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005
Description:
roy drama - war three characters two male; one female one scene
Essentially a two-person play, it is a "captive drama", in which a young soldier holds a news-reporter prisoner, after she has left the unit where she was officially embedded in order to freely explore the battlezone. Blindfolded and bound, she is unable to see where she is or what they're doing (like the society to whom she reports).
Title: L.A. in - Pitching to the Star and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1993
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
In L.A. a washed-up young movie star explains to a willing fan in a bar how he went from a happy, married young novice to a wealthy, gambling, overnight sensation, and back to a hungry, divorced wannabe who only wants to recapture his original dream of having "enough", and being married for life.
Title: Land of the Dead in - Wrecks and other plays / COL Author: Labute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 2007
Description:
roy drama - abortion two characters one male; one female; one act
A couple part after a night together. He goes to the office, she visits a clinic. As events unfold, it becomes clear that this is not just any ordinary day. Title: Land, The Animals, The in - Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp and Other Plays / CCO Author: Brooker, Blake Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female one act
In an attempt to discover why a forlorn geologist committed suicide, three scientists investigate the land and the animals of a modern city in the future.
Title: Land, The Animals, The in - Theatrum (June/July/Aug 1991) / PER Author: Brooker, Blake Publisher: Miscellaneous 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female one act
In an attempt to discover why a forlorn geologist committed suicide, three scientists investigate the land and the animals of a modern city in the future.
Title: Landscape With Pigeons in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Owen, Mark Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian all female cast; two characters two female one act
Two mothers from distinctly different social classes, talk about their lives and their sons, who were lovers. Title: Last Cigarette, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Twenty-fourth Series) / COL Author: Fechter, Steven Publisher: Samuel French 2000
Description:
roy relationships two characters one male; one female one act
'Woman with a past and lonely man meet in last smoking bar in Santa Monica.'
Title: Last Kiss in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Foon, Dennis Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary two characters one male; one female one act
Two people share a moment and a kiss.
Title: Last Morning (Le Complexe de Thénardier), The in - Voices from France / COL Author: Pliya, José translated by Maureen LaBonté Publisher: Banff Center Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - relationships all female cast; two characters two female one act
Explores a moment of truth between two women, The Mother and Vido, the servant in her household. Their confrontation takes place in an unidentified country in the throes of civil war. The horror of genocide fills the air. How can generosity or goodness prevail in a world where neighbours or next of kin will betray one another in their struggle to survive? The two women in this play have needed each other for very different reasons. Now despite an obvious social hierarchy, suddenly the tables are turning. This complex situation defines the world in which The Title: Last of My Solid Gold Watches, The in - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1953
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
1 interior; Southern dialect.
"Aged traveling shoe salesman regrets the passing of his generation with its emphasis on good quality."
Title: Last Setting of the Sun, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 117, Winter 2004 / PER Author: Garcia, Freddy and Grant, Cynthia Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
" A bilingual piece that shows how a teenaged actor involved himself in theatre, an act that ultimately led to his exile. Beside his comrades, he established his career and a small theatre company in the middle of the civil war in El Salvador."
Title: Last Yankee, The in - The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL Author: Miller, Arthur Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1991
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 interior set.
'State mental hospital setting for encounter between two visiting husbands.' Title: Later in - Plays for One Person / COL Author: Pownall, David Publisher: Oberon Press 2003
Description:
roy biography - women all female cast; one character one female one act
'In "Later", an event consumes an individual seeking freedom, as Sonia justifies deserting her family to join the Russion revolution.'
Title: Laughs, Etc in - Stop, You're Killing Me / COL Author: Herlihy, James Leo Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1969
Description:
roy drama - violence, monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
'A lonely middle-aged, bitter denizen of New York's East Village, speaking to unseen friends and husband, reveals latent violence.'
Title: Laundry Service in - Dramatics, April 2008 / PER Author: Novick, Beth Publisher: Miscellaneous 2008
Description:
roy relationships two characters one male; one female one scene
A young man practices his magic act on an Polish cleaning woman who tries to get rid of a stain from her employer's dress. Title: Learning to Drive in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Peterson, Ellen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy drama two characters flexible casting one act
A student and teacher have very different recollections of the same set of driving lessons.
Title: Leash in - The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004 / COL Author: Maloney, Peter Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2006
Description:
roy drama - prisoner - Iraq - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
Cassie, an American military guard, handles/mishandles an Iraqi captive prisoner.
Title: Lena and Louie in - Later Encounters / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 exterior set.
"Lena and Louie are 'bag people' - bums who carry all their possessions around in shopping carts. They are also lovers who meet in Central Park. Tonight, they wait for a catastrophic act of nature to take place". Title: Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night in - 13 by Shanley / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
"Man and woman are transported to the stars during intensely serious conversation."
Title: Letters in Wartime in - The West of All Possible Worlds / CCO Author: Brown, Kenneth Scriver, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - war - romance two characters one male; one female seven scenes
"During World War II, Allan, a young RCAF pilot, and Moira, an auxiliary worker at the Blatchford Field in Edmonton, try desperately to maintain their long-distance relationship. But is the printed word enough to keep love alive in a world turned upside down?"
Title: Letters to My Grandma in - Pyaasa and Letters to My Grandma / CCO Author: Roy, Anusree Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - India - Canada - social issues - immigrants all female cast; five characters one female (doubling) thirteen scenes
"In the haunting "Letters to My Grandma", Malobee unearths letters detailing her grandmother’s fight to survive the 1947 partition of India, which resonates with Malobee’s own struggles to create a new life in present-day Toronto. A grand multi-generational tale of hatred, regret, love, and forgiveness, "Letters to my Grandma" weaves the remarkable stories of these two women together, inextricably linking their histories and delving into how the hatred bred between Hindus and Muslims in the Old World consumes families in Canada today." Title: Letty on a Bench in - The Best of American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL Author: Goldenthal, Jolene Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama - family relationships two characters one male; one female one act
The play takes place in the waiting room of a deserted train station. A conversation between a brother and sister ends with the final line of the play stating, "We thought... we thought... it would be...for always."
Title: Libretto in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 31st series / COL Author: Rothstein, Robin Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
In this tender drama about the transportive and unifying power of art, Douglas and Claire, two strangers from very different social backgrounds, meet at a performance of Verdi’s Rigoletto. As the story of the opera progresses and the beauty of the music overwhelms them, Douglas and Claire soon become the main characters in their own poignant love story, which, like the story of the opera before them, crescendos to a heartbreaking conclusion.
Title: Lies About Vietnam in - Gay Plays / COL Author: Taylor, C. P. Publisher: Methuen & Co 1986
Description:
roy homosexuality - war all male cast; three characters three male one act
1 interior set.
"Male lovers' (one British, one American) inability to solve intimate personal problems, reflects challenge to survive in face of horrors of war". Title: Life Support in - Life Support / COL Author: Steele, Donald Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy drama - family relations all female cast; two characters two female one act
With their father upstairs on life support, two sisters discover over lunch in the hospital cafeteria a connection they never knew they had, coming to understand and appreciate each other and their lives like never before as they come to their decision.
Title: Lighthouse (Le Phare), The in - Voices from France / COL Author: Fombelle, Timothée translated by Don Hannah and Glen Nichols Publisher: Banff Center Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - monologues - men - relationships all male cast; one character one male one act
A young man, referred to simply as "he", relates his last months on the island where his taciturn father was the lighthouse keeper. A powerful rendering of this tale of painful solitude, illuminated by hopeful and idealistic innocence.
Title: Lillian's Lament in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Palmer, John Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy contemporary - drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
An exploration of a mother/son relationship over many years. Title: Lily in - Sally's Shorts / COL Author: Nemeth, Sally Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1995
Description:
roy drama - women all female cast; two characters two female one scene
In a small town during World War One, two sisters are banished for the infidelities of a married man.
Title: Listening in - Counting the Ways and Listening / COL Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1975
Description:
roy drama - chamber play three characters one male; two female one act
"The play juxtaposes three characters - the 'Man', the 'Woman', and the 'Girl' - and sifts through the tangled relationship which they have evidently shared. The Man is amiable but distant; The Woman acerbic and bitter; The Girl is perhaps mad - a catatonic who has destroyed her own child. Elliptical in form and redolent with evocative overtones, the play weaves together its strands of conversation and soliloquy into a meaningful pattern of events - underscoring the inescapable fact that while we may listen we do not always hear, and our lives, for better or worse,
Title: Little Brother: Little Sister in - Little Brother: Little Sister / Out of the Frying Pan / COL Author: Campton, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1966
Description:
roy drama - science fiction three characters two male; one female or one male; two female one act
In the deep shelter where they escaped from the last spasm of global destruction, Sir and Madam (a teenage brother and sister) experiment with the first gropings of love, while Cook, their aged family servant and symbol of timeless authority, snores in her chair. Awakening suddenly she orders them apart, threatening to grind them up for "rissoles" if they don't behave. But the feelings stirring within them cannot be imprisoned indefinitely. When Cook falls asleep again Sir and Madam resolve to find the door leading outside, away from the restrictions of a life imposed by Title: Little Johnny in - The Pushcart Peddlars, The Flatulist & Other Plays / COL Author: Schisgal, Murray Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1980
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; one female; one male or female one act
"We meet two cemetery caretakers, Mary and Tom, who lament the death of their sailor son, Little Johnny, and decide to create a proper chapel for him by looting the graves in their care. The project soon takes them over, reviving the passion which has dwindled between them, and so absorbing them that when Johnny (who has not drowned) suddenly returns they can no longer accept him and must drive him away once and for all."
Title: Live Bird In Its Jaws, A in - Theatrum (Winter 1990/91) / PER Author: Delisle, Jeanne-Mance translated by Yves Saint-Pierre Publisher: Miscellaneous 1991
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian three characters two male; one female one act
'A Live Bird In Its Jaws' is about "nothing less than a complete meltdown of Freudian passions between three characters: the traditional love triangle bent, stretched and twisted into a kaleidoscope of sexual intrigues".
Title: Lola Shuffles the Cards in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: Brennan, Kit Publisher: Signature Editions 2006
Description:
roy biographical - Lola Montez two characters one male; one female one act
A short version of the playwright's longer work. Other description not available. Title: Long Stay Cut Short, or, the Unsatisfactory Supper, The in - American Blues / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1946
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"A moving sketch about an old servant".
Title: Looking Good in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Williams, John W. Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
'Astronauts try to cover up an error in space experiment.'
Title: Loss of Memory in - The Best Short Plays 1983 / COL Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1982
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
1 interior set.
"Lonely American's chance encounter with Israeli officer". Title: Love in - Cinzano / COL Author: Petrushevskaya, Ludmila translated by Stephen Mulrine Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1991
Description:
roy drama - marital relations three characters one male; two female one act
A couple return to her mother's house right after their marriage and discuss their 'non-relationship'.
Title: Love and Ladybugs in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Schroeder, Lora Kowalchuk, Tannis Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
A couple, both living in their own minds, meet each other in a berry patch.
Title: Love and Peace, Mary Jo in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Nicholson, James Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy drama two characters, extra one male; one female one act
'Woman dying of leukemia receives letters and visits from male teacher friend.' Title: Love at Twenty in - Wrecks and other plays / COL Author: Labute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 2007
Description:
roy drama - monologue - women all female cast; one character one female one act
A college student veers between idolatry and vengeance.
Title: Love Lace in - One Man, One Woman / COL Author: Patrick, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
'Using their imaginations, man and woman journey to historical and mythical locations in effort to enrich their relationship.'
Title: Love on the B-Line in - The Best American Short Plays - 2005-2006 / COL Author: Kraar, Adam Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama - romance two characters one male; one female one act
1 setting
Romance on the elevated subway platform in Brooklyn. Title: Low Level Panic in - My Heart's a Suitcase and Low Level Panic / COL Author: McIntyre, Clare Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1994
Description:
roy drama - British all female cast; three characters; two male voices three female eight scenes
"Here is a careful examination of the role of pornography in our society and the way it affects three young women in particular. Short scenes show how popular images of women influence the way they are seen by others and the way they see themselves."
Title: Low-lying Fog, A in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (28th series) / COL Author: Yearly, John Publisher: Samuel French 2004
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one scene
bare stage.
Brotherly love is put to a test as Phil and Greg try to determine what really happened on a day that forever changed their lives. This story of awful mistakes made by good people - and the love that redeems such errors - unfolds as the two men directly address the audience.
Title: Luckiest Girl in the World, The in - Best Student One Acts Volume 6 / COL Author: Jairell, Rian Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2001
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
'(This play) examines the people that we, as a society, do not want to acknowledge and the dementia found beneath our culture.' Title: Lullaby in - Southern Exposures / COL Author: Milligan, Jason Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy drama - family relations all female cast; two characters two female one act
Meg is staying with her older sister Eva because her husband left her when their son was born blind. It's taking Meg several months to get back on her feet and Eva has begun to resent supporting her and the baby on her grocery check out job. The lid of this pressure cooker blows: pent up anger, resentment, longing, and the wish for better lives is shared-- for perhaps the first time.
Title: Lunch in - Steven Berkoff: Plays One / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: Faber and Faber 1994
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
Brief encounter between strangers seeking excitement in their bored lives, but refusing commitment.
Title: Lunchtime in - Encounters / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1967
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
"Avis's bedroom of her duplex apartment in Greenwich Village. She is waiting for Rex to arrive. He comes at high noon ready to do his job. He is a furniture refinisher. Avis is rich and beautiful. Rex is poor and handsome. Avis is married and has no children. Rex is married, too; but he has a little boy. They are both unhappy and they are both lonely and so they decide to do something about it. A modern Beauty and Beast who convince themselves that even the brief memory of the afternoon is better than no memory at all. It is a sad-happy tale". Title: Lurker in - Something in the Basement and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy drama - obsession two characters one male; one female one act
2 chairs on a bare stage.
"A man catches a glimpse of a girl undressing in her bedroom window, and gradually becomes more and more obsessed with her. He lurks in her bushes in the morning, spies on her as she sunbathes in her garden, and one night finds an unlocked window in her house. Unfolding simultaneously from the points of view of both characters, this tale of obsession and terror was
Title: Madness of Lady Bright, The in - Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1994
Description:
roy drama - life - homosexuality three characters two male; one female one act
"...traces the mental breakdown of Lesley Bright, an aging homosexual whose past returns to haunt him with the emptiness of the choices he made."
Title: Magenta Shift, The in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL Author: Mack, Carol C. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
'Photographer encounters troubled female token clerk in New York City subway.' Title: Magpie in - Magpie; Having; Hunger Striking / COL Author: Brennan, Kit Publisher: NuAge Editions 1999
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
"Bernice is large, middle-aged, and prone to fantasies. Her small town life is disrupted by the arrival of a gifted dance instructor. He is everything she aspires to be, and everything that her upbringing has rejected as frivolous. As a result, her fantasy world escalates into a desperate, croaking lie."
Title: Maids in - The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays by Jean Genet / COL Author: Genet, Jean Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1954
Description:
roy tragedy all female cast; three characters three female one act
1 interior set.
"Two maids both love and hate their mistress against whom they conspire, even to attempting murder".
Title: Making Contact in - the Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL Author: Bosworth, Patricia Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1991
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
'Widowed author's suppressed feelings are released by photographer assigned to take her portrait.' Title: Man in a Case, The in - Seven One-Act Plays (Wasserstein) / COL Author: Wasserstein, Wendy Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2000
Description:
roy drama - romance - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
"Inspired by "The Man in a Case" by Anton Chekhov. This one-act play takes place in a garden in the village of Mironitski, Russia, in 1898. An engaged couple, Varinka and Byelinkov, meet in his garden on a beautiful afternoon and unfold their personalities and expectations a few weeks before they get married. One is inevitably tempted to ask if this couple will be successful in their married life."
Title: Man in the Case, The in - Orchards / COL Author: Wasserstein, Wendy Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 1987
Description:
roy Anton Chekhov dramatization two characters one male; one female one act
exterior set.
"Dramatization of Chekhov's short story. Conservative Russian schoolteacher is unnerved by fiancee's progressive ideas."
Title: Man Who Wouldn't Stop Crying, The in - The Best American Short Plays 1997-1998 / COL Author: Schisgal, Murray Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior.
Husband and wife attempt to cope with husband's compulsive crying. Title: Marina, the Blush of Life in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO Author: Magny, Michèle translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - women - drama three characters one male; two female ten scenes
Set in Paris in 1939, 'Marina' is the story of well-loved Russian poetess Marina Tsvetaeva: her struggles during the October Revolution and against the Communist regime, her exile, her work, her loves and friendships.
Title: Mary Agnes is Thirty-five in - Friday Night / COL Author: Elward, James Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1969
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"A couple arrive at the girl's apartment after an evening out - he bent on seduction, and she determined to preserve her honor. They have both reached the age where loneliness might seem to be a tempering influence, but he has (without really being aware of it) become the predatory bachelor and she (although she still has hopes) the frigid spinster. Their confrontation is
Title: Masada in - Modern Jewish Plays / CCO Author: Milner, Arthur Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy monologue - Israel - history one character one male or female one act
A visiting Israeli professor delivers a stunning and disquieting lecture about the history of Israel. Title: Masada in - Singular Voices / COL Author: Milner, Arthur Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - monologue - Israel - Zionism one character one male or female one act
A visiting Israeli professor delivers a stunning and disquieting lecture on the history of Israel and Zionism, and the troubles in the middle east.
Title: Massage in - Steven Berkoff: Plays One / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: Faber and Faber 1994
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
1 setting.
"Drama examining sexual politics of massage parlours."
Title: Mathilde in - Voices from France / COL Author: Olmi, Veronique translated by Morwyn Brebner Publisher: Banff Center Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - family relationships two characters one male; one female one act
Mathilde returns home to confront her husband after an awful three-month absence. Pierre, the successful oncologist, refuses to believe that their life together has come to an end, despite the scandal of Mathilde's recent affair with a fourteen-year-old boy. Mathilde, the rather self-involved writer, admits that a child would have grounded their childless marriage, but she prefers to "lift off". Can her longing to be swept away by desire be compatible with the need for a deep relationship that provides the emotional security and creature comforts that allow a writer to write Title: Maud Gonne Says No to the Poet in - West Coast Plays 3 / COL Author: Rivers, Susan Publisher: West Coast Plays 1978
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
No abstract available.
Title: Medea Redux in - Bash / COL Author: Labute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 1999
Description:
roy drama - relationships one character all female; one female one act
"A woman tells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her Junior High School English teacher."
Title: Meeting, The in - The National Black Drama Anthology / COL Author: Stetson, Jeff Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy African American - civil rights all male cast; three characters three male one act
suggested for High School.
'Meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.' Title: Meeting, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 110, Spring 2002 / PER Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
'An encounter between a writer and his editor.'
Title: Memoir in - Heroines: Three Plays / CCO Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1992
Description:
roy Canadian drama - women two characters one male; one female one act - two parts
Sarah Bernhardt's seventy-seventh and last summer.
Title: Memorial Day in - Five One Act Plays / COL Author: Schisgal, Murray Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1965
Description:
roy drama - marital relations two characters one male; one female one act
1 set.
"Shows us an unhappy couple bickering over the miseries of their marriage. They vie for the loyalties of the son they have consigned to the backyard well. When they haul him up, his is a final, uniting sadness - a straw dummy dressed in a soldier's uniform". Title: Memory of Summer in - Summer Brave and Eleven Short Plays / COL Author: Inge, William Publisher: Random House 1962
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
'After resort season, emotionally disturbed woman continues swimming until Coast Guard stops her.'
Title: Men and Angels in - Eureka! / CCO Author: Kirk, Lynn Publisher: Coteau Books 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act
'Wealthy young man and cleaning woman discuss price of not following one's dreams.'
Title: Men Without Dates in - Men Without Dates and Slam! / COL Author: Willis, Jane Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1985
Description:
roy drama - relationships - men all male cast; three characters three male one act
'Drama about two blue-collar workers whose relationship is at a crisis point.' Title: Meow in - Humana Festival '98 / COL Author: Smith, Val Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1998
Description:
roy drama all female cast; three characters three female one act
1 interior.
Two friends who work together meet after work on Fridays to discuss life.
Title: Merchant of Showboat in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy drama - contemporary all male cast; two characters two male one act
'A politician seeks to change the script of a play in a businessman's theatre.'
Title: Métis Mutt in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO Author: Elter, Sheldon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - one-man show one character all male; one male one act
"The hilarious and heartbreaking one-man show that reveals the coming of age of a young Metis actor and comedian growing up between two cultures. Earnest without losing its sense of humour, Metis Mutt is an intimate, personal tale that unravels racial issues, and embraces the choice of life." Title: Métis Mutt in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO Author: Elter, Sheldon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - one-man show one character all male; one male one act
"The hilarious and heartbreaking one-man show that reveals the coming of age of a young Metis actor and comedian growing up between two cultures. Earnest without losing its sense of humour, Metis Mutt is an intimate, personal tale that unravels racial issues, and embraces the choice of life."
Title: Millie in - Sally's Shorts / COL Author: Nemeth, Sally Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1995
Description:
roy drama - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one scene
The haunting story of one woman's journey through a post-apocalyptic landscape.
Title: Mine Sincerely (Bien à moi) in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO Author: Savard, Marie translated by Louise H. Forsyth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy monologue - Canadian - women all female cast; one character one female one act
Description not available. Title: Mint Juleps in - Best Student One Acts Volume 5 / COL Author: Pinkowski, James Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000
Description:
roy drama - friendship three characters one male; two female one act
'Two old friends meet for tea in an out-of-the-way cafe. Through a cryptic exchange, they uncover the personal mysteries and secrets that time and space have buried in their irretrievable past.'
Title: Mirage in - One Man, One Woman / COL Author: Patrick, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy drama - historical fiction - American two characters one male; one female one act
'Husband and wife during first year of homesteading in 1860's New Mexico.'
Title: Misreadings in - Humana Festival '97 / COL Author: Beber, Neena Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1997
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one scene
1 interior.
Short scene of student teacher confrontation. Title: Miss Julie in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Strindberg, August Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy tragedy three characters one male; two female one act
1 set.
'Social problems of class distinction in 19th century Sweden exemplified in the relations between wealthy young woman and her man servant.'
Title: Miss Julie in - Six Plays of Strindberg / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Elizabeth Sprigge Publisher: Doubleday 1955
Description:
roy tragedy three characters one male; two female one act
1 set.
'Social problems of class distinction in 19th century Sweden exemplified in the relations between wealthy young woman and her man servant.'
Title: Miss Julie in - Seven Plays by August Strindberg / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Arvid Paulson Publisher: Bantam Books 1960
Description:
roy tragedy three characters one male; two female one act
1 set.
'Social problems of class distinction in 19th century Sweden exemplified in the relations between wealthy young woman and her man servant.' Title: Miss Julie in - Mirrors for Man / COL Author: Strindberg, August Publisher: Winthrop Publishers, Inc. 1974
Description:
roy tragedy three characters one male; two female one act
1 set.
'Social problems of class distinction in 19th century Sweden exemplified in the relations between wealthy young woman and her manservant. Singing and dancing chorus.'
Title: Miss Kentucky in - Dramatics (Nov 2003) / PER Author: Williams, Allison Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003
Description:
roy family relations all female cast; two characters two female one act
A mother and daughter reconcile while the daughter is taking a smoke break from a beauty pagent.
Title: Molly and James in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 10th series / COL Author: Walsh, Sheila Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy drama - writing two characters one male; one female one act
James Joyce and one of his most famous characters, Molly Bloom, meet in her boudoir. Joyce has come to plead his case; he wants to use Molly as a character in Ulysses and he needs her cooperation. She refuses, then agrees for ten percent of his royalties. As the play ends, she is dictating the stream of consciousness monologue that ends Ulysses. Title: Monica in - Best Short Plays of the World Theatre: 1958-1967 / COL Author: Macaulay, Pauline Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc. 1968
Description:
roy drama - mystery all male cast; three characters three male one act
'Bachelor arranging fake suicide in attempt to impress married lover, gets caught in own trap by mysterious stranger.'
Title: Monk Who Wouldn't, The in - Oscar Mandel Collected Plays Vol II / COL Author: Mandel, Oscar Publisher: Unicorn Press 1972
Description:
roy Japanese - folklore three characters; extras two male; one female one act
1 exterior; 1 setting.
"Based on Japanese play Kohya-No-Hijiri. A beautiful witch seduces men and transforms them into animals, but when a young monk resists her advances, she changes him into an old man."
Title: Monument in - Snapshot / COL Author: Kane, Honour Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003
Description:
roy drama - 9/11 two characters two male or female one scene
Two operators log emergency phone calls during the disaster of 9/11. Title: Monument, The in - 7 Canons / CCO Author: Wagner, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - war - drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A young soldier is convicted of war crimes. Stetko is the boy next door who comes from respectable parents and has gotten caught up in the political events of a war he never understood. Like the good son, the good soldier, he obeys his superiors only to find that, at the conclusion of war, he has become the scapegoat for crimes 'everyone was doing'. He is 'rescued' by a woman from the enemy side. 'The Monument' examines the paradox of a soldier today, and the ambiguities of morality and justice."
Title: Moon People in - Six Canadian Plays / CCO Author: Ravel, Aviva Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1971
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - relationships - adoption - women all female cast; two characters two female one act
"An adopted teenager confronts her birth mother and through their mutual regret, pain, anger and love, the two women reach an understanding of one another."
Title: Mooncalf in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy dark comic drama - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
Rebecca, a woman in her seventies, is writing a letter to her son, Ben, although she speaks the letter to the audience. She tells him the increasingly grotesque and horrible story of the very cold night in which her cow gave birth to a calf, but because her husband Clarence says he won't go out in the cold for a cow, the calf freezes to death, and they are forced to engage in increasingly unhappy efforts to get the weak cow back into the barn. But the cow keeps staggering back out to be with the frozen calf, until Clarence, in a rage, goes out to shoot it. But the silver lining, says Title: Moonlodge in - Singular Voices / COL Author: Kane, Margo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - monologues - native peoples - women all female cast one character one act
As a child, Agnes, a native girl, was snatched from her home and family by the government and brought up in white foster homes. This is her story of separation and repatriation with her people, her culture, and spirituality - her quest for her identity.
Title: Moonshot Tape, The in - The Moonshot Tape and A Poster of the Cosmos / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1991
Description:
roy sexual abuse - monologue - woman all female cast; one character one female one act
1 interior.
In interview with unseen high-school journalist, author tells of her revenge upon stepfather who sexually abused her.
Title: Moony's Kid Don't Cry in - American Blues / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1948
Description:
roy family relations three characters one male; one female; one child (non-speaking part) one act
Short play about a worker, his wife, and child. Title: More Than Feathers and Beads in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Borst, Murielle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - First Nations - drama all female cast; four characters one female (doubling) eight scenes
'More than Feather and Beads' is Murielle Borst's semi-autobiographical one-woman show which examines contemporary issues of identity for Native American women. Borst is a champion shawl dancer and wrote this theatrical comedy about her experiences competing in pow-wows across the country. As the title implies she finds there's more than feathers and beads to the pow-wow scene.
Title: Morning Coffee in - Single and Proud and Other Plays / COL Author: Stroppel, Frederick Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
'Unmarried couple separates after five year relationship.'
Title: Mosaic in - Plays: 2 (Anthony Minghella) / COL Author: Minghella, Anthony Publisher: Methuen & Co 1997
Description:
roy drama two characters all female; two female one act
A dance text for two women. One speaks but doesn't dance; one dances but doesn't speak. Title: Motel in - America Hurrah / COL Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1966
Description:
roy Theatre of the Absurd three characters flexible casting one act
1 interior set.
"The action in this instance is set in a modern, antiseptically stark motel, and underscores the chilling irony of our mindless penchant for defacing and destroying the very advantages which affluence and technology have brought us".
Title: Mothers of Invention, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Laxdal, Vivienne Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary all female cast; three characters three female one act
Three nurses of the future, with no one left to nurse, try to take control of their situation.
Title: Muerte en la Menta (Death on My Mind) in - Best Student One Acts Volume 5 / COL Author: Castillo, Raul H. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
'After their truck crash, two friends who attempt to smuggle "illegals", now face their own struggle for life on the Mexico/U.S. border.' Title: Murder, A in - Two Short Plays / COL Author: Inge, William Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1968
Description:
roy drama - symbolism three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior.
"Symbolic drama about truth, centering around man who rents a room in a rooming house and discovers a murdered child in a bureau drawer."
Title: Murderer the Women's Hope in - An Anthology of German Expressionist Drama / COL Author: Kokoschka, Oskar translated by Michael Hamburger Publisher: Doubleday 1963
Description:
roy expressionist drama - tragedy two characters one male; one female one act
1 exterior set; speaking choruses of men and women.
"Expressionist tragedy about conflict between man and woman".
Title: My Left Breast in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL Author: Miller, Susan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy drama - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
'Monologue by gay woman about effects of breast cancer on her emotional well-being.' Title: My Own Private Oshawa in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 100, Fall 1999 / PER Author: Wilson, Jonathan Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999
Description:
roy homosexuality - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act
'On a GO train from Toronto to Oshawa, a young man returns to memories of growing up gay and the liberation of his friendship with the Flamboyant Gordon. First produced at the Toronto Fringe Festival.'
Title: My Perfect Heaven in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Christenson, Jonathon Tremblay, Joey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy monologues - men - Canadian drama - gay men all male cast; one character one male one act
'(The play) takes us on a journey of such endlessly expanding imaginary spaces that it eludes easy categorization. Written originally for a Loud n' Queer festival, "My Perfect Heaven" caves out a fantasy space where a queer little farmboy might exist in a new version of prairie gothic. Performed by Joey alone on stage, "painted pale blue from head to toe" and sitting up high over the stage "in a ,arge barbed wire nest", the piece depends heavily on the images and emotions created through the intense lyricism of the spoken lines which recount the adventures of the
Title: My Three Dads in - Stars in the Sky Morning / CCO Author: Taylor, John Publisher: Killick Press 1992
Description:
roy drama - relationships - monologues - men - Newfoundland all male cast; one character one male one act
'The play presents the autobiographical account by the son of Newfoundland-American parents of his journey to discover his estranged father who lives in the United States.' Title: My Wife's Coat in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL Author: Overbey, Kellie Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one scene
Peter comes into the bedroom at his bon voyage party to get his wife's coat from the pile on the bed, only to discover his mistress wearing it. She wants him to stay with her, but he's packing up his kids and wife and moving across country for his new promotion. She asks him for one last request before she'll relinquish the coat, not for sex, but simply for him to lie on top of her. He does so for a brief, sad moment, then takes the coat and leaves, as she continues to lie on the pile of coats in despair.
Title: Mystery School, The in - The Best American Short Plays 1995-1996 / COL Author: Selig, Paul Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy monologues - women all female cast; three characters three women one act
Three monologues by women on religion, alcoholism and mental illness.
Title: Napolean of the Nile in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Seremba, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters one male; one female; one boy one act
'The story of three individuals who are part of an exodus from the Sudan; Napolean, a boy of 13 who leaves his family and home town and joins up with Mama Aleur, a woman of great resources, and Old Man, whose wisdom and knowledge help them through their journey. Napolean eventually promises Old Man that he will tell the story of their crossing of the Nile.' Title: Narragansett in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy drama - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
In the year 1874, Ada looks over the rail of a boat in Narragansett Bay and tries to make sense of her life, obsessively returning in her mind to her experiences twenty years earlier, when she was governess for the children of Nathaniel Hawthorne on a trip to Italy. Memories of her love for their beautiful but doomed daughter Una, their demonic son Julian, and of a monstrous hairy creature like a huge badger that keeps crawling in her window at night, mix with eerie recollections of the ruins of Rome as she attempts to prepare herself for the cold water beneath her. A haunting
Title: Nazi\Jew\Queer in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: Achtman, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - gay men - monologues all male cast; three characters three male (doubling possible) one act
Told in three monologues - a gay man, a neo-Nazi and a Jew tell their stories.
Title: Necropolis in - Glamorgan and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy drama - war, relationships two characters one male; one female one act
'Drama set in Eastern European country torn by civil war. Journalist enamoured of young female sniper.' Title: Neils Bohr's Pre-amble to a Dramaturgical Theory in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 92, Fall 1997 / PER Author: Brask, Per Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997
Description:
roy monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act
'Per Brask's solo closet drama, a posthumous monologue by physicist Neils Bohr about "the whole quantum thing".'
Title: Nets and Snares in - Cinzano / COL Author: Petrushevskaya, Ludmila translated by Stephen Mulrine Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1991
Description:
roy monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
A woman considers the story surrounding her first pregnancy, spent with the father's mother.
Title: New Art Book in - Canadian Theatre Review No.91, Summer 1997 / PER Author: Garnhum, Ken Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997
Description:
roy monologue one character flexible casting one act
'A picture monologue.' Title: New Quixote, The in - The Two of Us / COL Author: Frayn, Michael Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
"We meet a women on the verge of middle-age who has spent the night in her flat with a 20-year old she met at a party the night before. Well, all right; but now it's Sunday morning and time for her to get on about the business of a new day. But not for a moment. The lad returns with all his recordings and books and announces that he has found happiness and has come to roost. He is so sincere and so transported that she is swept along by the tide of his new-found love."
Title: News Item, The in - Modern Spanish Theatre / COL Author: Olmo, Lauro translated by M. C. Wellwarth Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1969
Description:
roy drama - political - Spanish play three characters; extras three male one act
"In a totalitarian country, news vendor and his customers are afraid to discuss a news item."
Title: Night (L'Homme gris) in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO Author: Laberge, Marie translated by Rina Fraticelli Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations two characters one male; one female one act
This is a play about a tragic night in a garish motel room. It portrays an impossible dialogue between a father who says too much, too loudly and too late, and an anorexic daughter who takes refuge in silence. Title: Night Visits in - Dramatics (Mar 2000) / PER Author: Fill, Simon Publisher: Miscellaneous 2000
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
An intern deals with the last of his patients on a thirty-five hour shift.
Title: No One Will Be Immune in - No One Willl Be Immune and Other Plays and Pieces / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1994
Description:
roy American - drama - family relations all male cast; two characters two male one act
"One friend tries to explain to the other why he stopped a flight from taking off, claiming he left his baby behind."
Title: No, Please - in - NextFest Anthology / CCO Author: Callaghan, Sean Publisher: NeWest Press 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female one act
"...'So I wrote a play about a society or environment where the people have stretched so far away from any kind of self recognition that they have inverted and become cannibalistic. What happens when one of them breaks out of the shell to see herself?' For this he has created a rigidly regimented futuristic world where the retro '50's characters begin to crack under the strain of the imposed conformity of an "antiseptic" authoritarian society (as in George Orwell's '1984'). Facades crumble as husband, wife, and lover each give way to some degree of human passion, uncovering Title: Nobody Waltzes Carrying a Thirty-pound Underwood in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: O'Neil, Deborah Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian two characters one male; one female one act
The owner of a second-hand store ingeniously sets a dinner date with an irate customer.
Title: Northern Song in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male three scenes
'The play dramatizes discussions that the Group of Seven may have had together which led to their painting expeditions on the North Shore of Lake Superior.
Title: Not I in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1992
Description:
roy experimental theatre - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
" Monologue by woman witnessed by helplessly compassionate silent listener. Reveals loveless life from orphan childhood to solitary old age and inability to communicate with others." Title: Not I in - Ends and Odds / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1976
Description:
roy experimental theatre - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
"Monologue by woman witnessed by helplessly compassionate silent listener. Reveals loveless life from orphan childhood to solitary old age and inability to communicate with others."
Title: Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen in - Shorts / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1993
Description:
roy science fiction three characters two male; one female one act
Set in the future London, England, a man comes to see his father one last time before he self-combusts.
Title: Nothing in the World Like It in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Twenty-fourth Series) / COL Author: Galton, Frances Publisher: Samuel French 2000
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
'Drama about pregnant college junior, her senior boyfriend, and sympathetic cafeteria worker.' Title: Number, A in - Caryl Churchill - Plays: 4 / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2008
Description:
roy drama - family relations - monologues all male cast; three characters one male (doubling) one act
Salter, a man in his sixties, is visited by his 35 year old son, Bernard. Bernard is a clone. He was cloned from Salter's son when the son - also called Bernard - was killed in a car crash that also took the life of his wife. Bernard Number Two has discovered that the doctor who did the cloning made many more copies. Salter then has another visitor - it is the original Bernard who is now forty years old. Bernard did not die in the car crash. After the crash Salter became dissatisfied with him and had him cloned thinking that the new son would be better. This Bernard is somewhat
Title: Observatory, The in - 3 by E.S.T. / COL Author: Germann, Greg Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1997
Description:
roy drama - short play - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
"Running into an old, attractive paramour can cause mixed feelings when you find out she's the one who told your wife about the affair, causing your divorce."
Title: Occupation of Heather Rose, The in - Modern Canadian Plays, Volume II third edition / CCO Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1994
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all female cast; one character one female one act
'Nurse Rose goes north to work on an indian reserve. Her adventure turns to a painful exploration of her own fragile cultural identity.' Title: Occupation of Heather Rose, The in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all female cast; one character one female one act
'Nurse Rose goes north to work on an indian reserve. Her adventure turns to a painful exploration of her own fragile cultural identity.'
Title: Odyssey of Ulysses the Palimped, The in - Modern French Theatre / COL Author: Gilbert-Lecomte, Roger translated by Michael Benedikt Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1966
Description:
roy drama - surrealism all male cast; three characters; extras three male four scenes
'Surrealistic presentation of the imagined death of Ulysses.'
Title: Off the 401 in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 89, Winter 1996 / PER Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Miscellaneous 1996
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one scene
'Judith Thompson's scene from Stolen Lands, Ground Zero's 1995 multi-authored play on the legacy of 500 years of occupation and resistance.' Title: Oh Nest Honest Insanity in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Posno, Helen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy sketches two characters flexible casting one act
'Phase One' and 'Face Two' describe their thoughts about their encounter.
Title: Ohio Impromptu in - Rockaby and Other Short Pieces / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc.
Description:
roy experimental theatre all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A drama of the interdependency of the two characters, Reader and Listener, as they read and listen to the story of their relationship."
Title: Ohio Impromptu in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1984
Description:
roy experimental theatre all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A drama of the interdependency of the two characters, Reader and Listener, as they read and listen to the story of their relationship." Title: Old Jew, The in - Five One Act Plays / COL Author: Schisgal, Murray Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1965
Description:
roy drama - monologue all male cast; one character one male one act
1 set.
"An old Jew sits alone in his shabby room, an old man pouring out his anguish to a group of imaginary neighbors. Then removing his wig and makeup, reveals himself to be a young, embittered actor".
Title: One Short Sleepe in - Humana Festival 2008 / COL Author: Wallace, Naomi Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - monologues - men - war all male cast; one character one male one scene
An exploration of the human fallout of the Lebanon War of 2007 in the form of a college student's ode to spiders and his younger sister.
Title: One Word in - Canadian Theatre Review No.91, Summer 1997 / PER Author: Garnhum, Ken Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
' "Chairman" and "Walkman" are caught in a maze - trying to get from "a to b". They are in conflict about how to proceed. As the action progresses this conflict increasingly takes on the quality of one person arguing with himself. "Chairman" and "Walkman" are, in fact, two aspects of the same person.' Title: One-armed Man, The in - The Tears of My Sister, The Prisoner's Song, The One-armed Man and... / COL Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1993
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
When McHenry, THE ONE-ARMED MAN, comes back to his old job to reclaim his arm lost in an accident, his old boss, C.W., is unsympathetic. The accountant, Pinky, tries to convey just how serious McHenry is, but only when McHenry shows C.W. the loaded gun, and then shoots him, do we all know how far he will go to become whole again.
Title: Opening in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 32nd series / COL Author: Kelty, Matthew Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy drama - Hollywood - racism two characters one male; one female one act
An imagined conversation, inspired by real events. The producer of Gone with the Wind, David O. Selznick, asks Hattie McDaniel to politely decline to attend the premiere of the movie in Atlanta, making sure she’s aware that if she doesn’t comply, she’ll never work again, and hanging an Academy Award nomination over her head for good behavior. Ultimately, and painfully, she decides to go along with his request.
Title: Operators in - Operators and Bushed / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - women - relationships all female cast; three characters three female one act
"Three women are working a northern nightshift. The probing of the youngest leads to disturbing revelations about the fears and dependencies of the older two." Title: Ophelia in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Twenty-fourth Series) / COL Author: Sanford, Karen Publisher: Samuel French 2000
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
'Drama about religious girl who meets stranger with dubious intentions.'
Title: Organic Divide in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Fulford, Robin Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy drama - marital relations, homosexuality two characters one male; one female one act
Woman in her perfect world discovers her husband is gay.
Title: Originality in - Eleonora Duse; Victim; Originality / COL Author: Fratti, Mario Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
Description not available. Title: Other Player, The in - Two Short Plays / COL Author: Arno, Owen G. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1964
Description:
roy drama - psychological - thriller three characters three male; three female one act
"Corlin returns to the prep school where his son, Jeffrey, has drowned quite suddenly in a freak accident. Guilt-ridden over his possible rejection of his son, Corlin seeks not only to gather Jeffrey's belongings but to find out what his son was really like. He is assured by the school's headmaster that Jeffrey was popular and amiable and that he delighted the school with his athletic prowess. But then Corlin is visited in Jeffrey's old room by one of his son's classmates, a somewhat shy and strange boy named Peter Cross. Peter tells Corlin that he has come to the room
Title: Other Woman, The in - The Best Short Plays 1984 / COL Author: Kelly, Casey Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1982
Description:
roy drama - women three characters one male; two female one act
"Study of young girl's transformation to womanhood".
Title: Other Woman, The in - The Best American Short Plays - 2005-2006 / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
The plot reveals a man visited in the night by his sleepwalking wife. He has a love affair with her, unbeknownst to her rational, waking self. Title: Other World of David Wiseman, The in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Noble, Dennis Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; one female (doubling) one act
A young man who is subjected to his parents faulty attempts to raise him in neutral religious territory, imagines that his two grandfathers, one Jewish and one Italian Catholic, agree to a contract on his father's life.
Title: Our Dad is in Atlantis in - American Theatre Jul/Aug, 2008 / PER Author: Malpica, Javier translated by Jorge Ignacio Cortinas Publisher: Miscellaneous 2008
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two boys ten scenes
A deceptively simple two hander about two boys who are left behind to fend mostly for themselves when their father crosses the US - Mexico border. It is written in short, episodic scenes that charts how two brothers navigate the difficult terrain of everyday survival while they sustain dreams of the US, which seems as far away from them as Atlantis.
Title: Our Father Who Art in - Dramatists - (Oct 2000) / PER Author: Smith, Matt Publisher: Miscellaneous 2000
Description:
roy monologues - drama three characters two male; one female one act
'The play is structured as three interwoven monologues with brief passages of dialogue and answers the question: "What would happen if a man decided that he was God?".' Title: Out of Body in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Cooper, Beverley Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian all female cast; two characters two female one act
A woman who has developed out of body experiences, confronts her friend about her friends affair with her husband.
Title: Out the Window in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: Bell, Neal Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior.
Depicts relationship between wheelchair-bound man and his fiancée.
Title: Outside the Box in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (30th series) / COL Author: Wilson, Bo Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy drama - racism all male cast; three characters three male one scene
In a timely piece addressing issues of race and sports, a black father confronts prejudice in the form of a white umpire who earlier that day has ejected the man's son from a youth-league baseball game. Now the father holds some unexpectedly powerful cards, and the umpire must seek forgiveness. With a cast of three actors and a simple set, this powerful play is well-suited for the widest range of production circumstances. Title: Pagan Day in - Sally's Shorts / COL Author: Nemeth, Sally Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1995
Description:
roy scenes - women all female cast; two characters two female one scene
The wearing of gazes, the keeping of counsel. The art of seducing the seducer.
Title: Parallax in - Women Heroes / COL Author: Hamilton, Denise Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1986
Description:
roy American biography - monologue - women all female cast; one character; extras one female one act
'Key encounters of Daisy Bates's life juxtaposed with the life of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.'
Title: Pariah in - Strindberg's One Act Plays / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Arvid Paulson Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
'Drama of intellectual one-upmanship between murderer and blackmailer.' Title: Park Angel in - Best Student One Acts Volume 5 / COL Author: Perelson, Isaac N. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000
Description:
roy drama - family relations - self awareness three characters one male; two female one act
'When Josh's sister tries to reach out to him he avoids the issues she raises, yet allows a stranger to help him discover his sense of self and guide help him to understanding.'
Title: Pasque Flower in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 2 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: CTR Publications 1979
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - farming three characters two male; one female one act
"Besides its own considerable literary and dramatic merits, 'Pasque Flower' is of interest for its close thematic proximity to Gwen Pharis Ringwood's best known works, 'Still Stands the House' and 'Dark Harvest'. For the three plays were not only written and produced in chronological order; their depiction of the relationship between a struggling wheat farmer and his younger wife also progresses and develops from play to play. All three dramas are placed in a prairie depression setting."
Title: Pasque Flower in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - farming three characters two male; one female one act
'Set in Alberta farmhouse. Small gesture from woman's husband pulls her out of depression and anger.' Title: Passport in - Friday Night / COL Author: Elward, James Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1969
Description:
roy drama - middle age - monologue all male cast; one character one male one act
1 interior set.
"Deals with a lonely middle-aged newspaperman, a little worse for drink and sadly convinced of his ineffectiveness and failure as a person. Out of his monologue spoken perhaps with the aching desire that someone will miraculously hear, and care, comes a remarkable portrait of a man alone - wanting to feel alive again; but reconciled to an existence without real meaning or
Title: Path With no Moccasins in - Canadian Mosaic / CCO Author: Cheechoo, Shirley Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1995
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - monologue - self realizations - self awareness all female cast; one character one female one act
"A young Cree girl endures life at a residential school, and later heals herself. The play raises issues of identity, discrimination, and self-destruction, but ends positively."
Title: Path With no Moccasins in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Cheechoo, Shirley Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - First Nations - monologue - self-realizations - self-awareness all female cast; one character one female one act
"A young Cree girl endures life at a residential school, and later heals herself. The play raises issues of identity, discrimination, and self-destruction, but ends positively." Title: Patio in - Patio/Porch / COL Author: Heifner, Jack Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1978
Description:
roy drama - small town life all female cast; two characters two female one act
suggested for high school.
"Patio is set in the backyard of a middle-class Texas home. Pearl, the younger sister, is preparing a going-away party for her older sister, Jewel, a beautician who is bored with small town life and is heading off hopefully to the big city. As the two bustle about setting out food and puting up decorations, their conversation reveals progressively more and more of their differences and
Title: Peace in Our Time in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Eighteenth Series) / COL Author: Cadman, Larry Publisher: Samuel French 1994
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
'Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. scene of confrontation between veteran and draft dodger.'
Title: Peace Replaced, A in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 26th Series / COL Author: Maloney, Brian Publisher: Samuel French 2002
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one scene
A liver transplant recipient is compelled to have a meeting with the grieving Hispanic widow of his donor. Title: Penetration in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Russell, Lawrence Publisher: Alive Press Limited
Description:
roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female one act
Interior representative set (kitchen in western farmhouse)
"A mysterious woman arrives at the home of two bachelor brothers, and subtle, peculiar things begin to happen."
Title: People Are Horrible Wherever You Go in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Roche, David Bateman, David Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy contemporary all female cast; two characters two female one act
Two women in conversation.
Title: Perfect Medium, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 / COL Author: Fischer, Eileen Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009
Description:
roy drama - American three characters two male; one female one act
Oscar Wilde sends messages to Hester Dowden, an Irish journalist and psychic investigator. Mysteries abound - especially so since Oscar Wilde is dead. The play invites audiences to consider questions of faith, fame, life after death, and the authenticity of psychic investigations. 'The Perfect Medium' is very loosely based on Hester Dowden's pamphlet of essays, 'Oscar Wilde from Purgatory'. Title: Personality in - Women Heroes / COL Author: Wendkos, Gina Ratner, Ellen Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1986
Description:
roy monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
'Contemporary hip woman wryly observes New York's social milieu.'
Title: Phonecall From Sunkist in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL Author: Bert, Norman A. Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 1987
Description:
roy drama - death all male cast; three characters three men one act
The setting is in a gas station and garage. One of the foremen received bad news via the telephone. Two men dead, friends of his so he leaves the shop. The boss does not seem to care and all he thinks about is the money he will lose, the fact that he will have to replace the crew with a less qualified crew and the inconvenience of going to funerals. His son is appalled by his fathers cold and heartless attitude.
Title: Photographs: Mary and Howard in - Seven Short and Very Short Plays / COL Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1973
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
open stage.
"While their taped voices carry on a random, but revealing, conversation two people regard each other silently - as still as two photographs". Title: Picture in - New Theatre for Now / COL Author: Hailey, Oliver Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1971
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
"Enlisting the help of two fellow students, Jay attempts to re-enact a disconcerting episode from his past. The action centers on a photo of a back-country wedding party and the violence which erupts from the normally placid 'Little David' (impersonated by one of the other students) in reaction to Jay's cruel taunts about the bumpkins shown in the picture. But at the crucial moment, the person playing 'Little David' balks at attacking Jay - so the third student (who has been assuming the part of Al) steps into the role and sends Jay crashing to the floor."
Title: Picture in - Picture Animal Crisscross / COL Author: Hailey, Oliver Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1970
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
"Enlisting the help of two fellow students, Jay attempts to re-enact a disconcerting episode from his past. The action centers on a photo of a back-country wedding party and the violence which erupts from the normally placid 'Little David' (impersonated by one of the other students) in reaction to Jay's cruel taunts about the bumpkins shown in the picture. But at the crucial moment, the person playing 'Little David' balks at attacking Jay - so the third student (who has been assuming the part of Al) steps into the role and sends Jay crashing to the floor."
Title: Pillbox Hat, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
A dubious woman tries to sell her story and a hat supposedly worn by Jaqueline Kennedy on the day of the JFK assassination to a museum curator. Title: Pink in - Late 20th Century Plays / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - monologues - women - Canadian all female cast; one character one female monologue
A ten-year-old white girl speaks to her dead black nurse.
Title: Pischer in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 31st series / COL Author: Nusbaum, Ted Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
Devastated by the death of his older brother at the hands of a Palestinian suicide bomber, Elon, a simple-minded Yeshiva student, joins an underground Jewish terrorist cell in East Jerusalem to exact his revenge. Soon after his arrival at the group's secret hideout, Elon is reunited with Sasha, Russian bomb maker and former crony to his older brother, who is calmly wiring the explosive device they will use in the morning. However, when the group's charismatic leader – Avram - arrives, Elon slowly puts together the disturbing details of their impending reprisal attack: the
Title: Pitch, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
A fading movie director pitches an old movie idea to a Canadian production team. Title: Play in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1984
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
'A man, his wife, and his mistress, in funeral urns, recall their marriage triangle.'
Title: Play in - Cascando and other short dramatic pieces / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1967
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
"It's the story of man, his wife, and his mistress, and of the suspicions, discoveries, and desires of each as they become immured in their reciprocal experiences. Over all is the yearning for peace, for an end to it all."
Title: Play #3 in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 31st series / COL Author: Adams, Harley Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy dramatic comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act
Is it Ok to talk about your neighbor’s penis? What about his wife’s tits? These questions are explored in PLAY #3, a series of conversations that examine the nature of the heterosexual male relationship. Centered around the hallway conversations of neighbors Pete and John, we start at their initial meeting and end at their climactic fight, and watch them choke each other. By the end, the play will have you questioning who is crazy and who is sane, and if you yourself are crazy for laughing at it. The production requires no props or scenery, and the dialogue is a treat for Title: Playing With Angels in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Short, Donn Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian two characters one male; one female one act
Jess and Cal and their marriage.
Title: Pledge, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays #15 / COL Author: Norman, Victoria Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy drama - death all female cast; two characters two female one act
'Tragedy. Black female college student feeling betrayed by best friend commits suicide.'
Title: Pokey, The in - The Pokey and The Horse Latitudes / COL Author: Black, Stephen Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1976
Description:
roy drama - women two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior.
"Small town Texas jail scenes of famous female rock star's encounter with jailer, a self-contained young man immune to her taunts and unimpressed by her popularity." Title: Polygraph in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fourth Edition / CCO Author: Lepage, Robert Publisher: Talonbooks 2001
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian three characters two male; one female one act
'A metaphysical detective story. A murder mystery film-and-play-within-a-play. 'Polygraph presents a reality in which truths are layered within lies, mirroring and distorting one another in the deceptions that make up life, art and the technologies we use to help structure them both.'
Title: Polygraph in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 64, Fall 1990 / PER Author: Lepage, Robert Publisher: Miscellaneous 1990
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian three characters two male; one female one act
'A metaphysical detective story. A murder mystery film-and-play-within-a-play. 'Polygraph presents a reality in which truths are layered within lies, mirroring and distorting one another in the deceptions that make up life, art and the technologies we use to help structure them both.'
Title: Poster of the Cosmos, A in - The Way We Live Now / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990
Description:
roy drama - AIDS - monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one act
'Homosexual man suspected of killing AIDS afflicted lover makes taped statement in police station.' Title: Poster of the Cosmos, A in - The Moonshot Tape and A Poster of the Cosmos / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1991
Description:
roy drama - AIDS - crime - monologue - man all male cast; one character one male one act
1 interior.
Homosexual man suspected of killing AIDS afflicted lover makes taped statement in police station.
Title: Potato Girl in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL Author: Rusch, Christine Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 1987
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
Two women sort potatoes in a warehouse factory. They talk. The older woman leaves and her boyfriend enters and hits on the younger girl, who promptly tells the man that she has a boyfriend. The older woman returns and laughs when she hears the younger woman talking about her man. She doesn't believe her and goes on to say that it is a "crazy, outcast" man she is in love with, and calls the younger one "crazy."
Title: Potato Prayers in - Theatrum (Feb/Mar 94) / PER Author: McFarlane, Anita Publisher: Miscellaneous 1994
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
Description not available. Title: Power and the Glory, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Eighteenth Series) / COL Author: Wilhelm, Le Publisher: Samuel French 1994
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
Alternate title: Windows of the World
'Drama set in elevator. One woman helps another deal with her insecurities.'
Title: Pre-nuptial Agreement in - Sally's Shorts / COL Author: Nemeth, Sally Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1995
Description:
roy monologue - women all female cast; one character one female one scene
A merciful nurse, in white, like a bride. A soldier with unimaginable wounds and unimaginable requests.
Title: Prelude to Death in Venice, A in - New Plays USA 1 / COL Author: Breuer, Lee Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1982
Description:
roy experimental play all male cast, two characters two male one act
1 set.
"New York film agent projects aspects of his fragmented personality via puppet conversing simultaneously on 2 pay telephones. Abandoning puppet, he concludes with schizophrenic monologue". Title: Property in - Alone, on Stage / CCO Author: Diamond, Marc adapted by D. D. Kugler Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - monologues - men all male cast; many characters one male (doubling) one act
Description not available.
Title: Property of the Dallas Cowboys in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL Author: Smiley, Sam Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 1987
Description:
roy football - marital relations three characters one male; two female one act
A daughter is conversing with her mother in a laundromat and recollects how her husband beat her and their child. The daughter is very distressed and emotional. She has left her husband and taken her child to raise by herself. Her mother condones the wife battery because her daughter's husband has a steady paycheck. The mother refuses to allow her daughter and grandchild to move in and live with them. Her daughter flirts with man who comes into the laundromat, simply because he has a nice van. She talks to him and he wants to have a date but she refuses. She
Title: Protest in - The Vanek Plays / COL Author: Havel, Vaclav translated by Vera Blackwell Publisher: University of British Columbia 1987
Description:
roy drama - Czech all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 interior.
"Set in contemporary Prague. Writer uses logical linguistic evasions when dissident colleague asks for his signature on petition." Title: Protest in - The Garden and Other Plays / COL Author: Havel, Vaclav translated by Vera Blackwell Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1978
Description:
roy drama - Czechoslovakia all male cast; two characters two male one act
'Writer uses logical linguistic evasions when dissident colleague asks for his signature on petition.'
Title: Purgatory in - The Modern Theatre Volume 2 / COL Author: Yeats, William Butler Publisher: Doubleday 1955
Description:
roy fantasy - verse all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 exterior set.
"Fantasy in verse. Old man relates his life to the son he will murder".
Title: Pusha-Man a.k.a. The Seed in - BeatDown / CCO Author: Pierre, Joseph Jomo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - men three characters two male; one female one act
A place where placebos meet everyday needs - a woman is giving birth to a man's child. Title: Pyaasa in - Pyaasa and Letters to My Grandma / CCO Author: Roy, Anusree Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - India - social issues all female cast; four characters one female (doubling) nine scenes
set in present day Bengal, India.
"The story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables. When Chaya’s mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give Chaya a job at a local tea stall, Chaya’s journey from childhood to adulthood begins and ends over ten days. A moving and heartfelt play, Pyaasa illustrates with subtlety and nuanced truth the inequalities and
Title: Quartet in - Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage / COL Author: Muller, Heiner Publisher: Performing Arts Journal Publications 1984
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 set.
"Experimental dramatization of Choderlos de Laclos novel "Le liaisons dangereuses". Two aristocrats, obsessed with sex, indulge in masturbatory games in anticipation of their doom".
Title: Questioning of Nick, The in - The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays / COL Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Hill and Wang 1965
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
By playing on his insecure, narcissistic personality, two police officers get Nick to confess to throwing a basketball game and beating a fellow team member. Title: Quick & Dirty (A Subway Fantasy) in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (28th series) / COL Author: Riedy, David Publisher: Samuel French 2004
Description:
roy relationships two characters one male; one female one scene
A man meets his match when he attempts to pick up a quick-witted woman.
Title: Quiller in - Tiln & Other Plays / CCO Author: Cook, Michael Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - monologues all male cast; three characters one male (doubling) one act
"As he slowly dies, Quiller carries on a running conversation with God, recalling his life and struggles with his thwarted sexuality."
Title: Quintessential Image in - Amazon All Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays with Essays and Commentary / COL Author: Chambers, Jane Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy women - lesbian plays all female cast; two characters two female one act
An award-winning photographer, Lacey Lanier, "comes out" in a TV interview with the closeted Margaret Foy. The play uses the apparatus of photography as a symbolic mirror for lesbian (in)visibility. What the famous Lacey was seeing through her pinbox camera, and throughout her career, was not what photojournalist judges were seeing when they gave her prizes and scholarships. Lacey is heroic in speaking the truth of her vision, although some readers may question the ethics of her "outing". The self-hating Margaret's glibness trips her and unmasks her Title: Radio Rooster Says That's Bad: A Lecture in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: O'Donnell, Darren Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy contemporary two characters; mostly a monologue one male, one female one act
"If you're still at a loss as to the theme of my lecture I'll spell it out: Subjectivity is transparent, objectivity is fast."
Title: Ragnarok in - The Gypsy Woman and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1992
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
This chilling little nightmare play is not what it seems. A young man and woman dressed in white argue about the morality of experiments they are performing on certain less intelligent creatures. The young woman has begun to feel too much sympathy with the laboratory animals, and to worry about their suffering, a position the young man ridicules and eventually seems to talk her out of. But by then it has become apparent that the laboratory animals in question are in fact human beings, and the two speakers their alien conquerors.
Title: Random Acts in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Flacks, Diane Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian play - monopolylogue one character all female cast; one female (doubling) one act
Using the persona of the Oprah-like feminist talk-show guru, Antonella Bergman, Flacks invites us to engage with her in the search for meaning in a random universe. To suggest Antonella's prophetic qualities, Flacks opens the play with an apocalyptic appearance of the Jewish matriarch Sarah who became pregnant at the age of ninety. As she morphs into a pre-accident Antonella, we are invited to listen in on one of her inspirational talks and thus become directly implicated in participating in her journey. Title: Razed by Wolves in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: McBurney, Phil Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy drama - family relations three characters two male; one female one act
A son returns to his father's house to retaliate for the abuse his mother suffered.
Title: Realer Than That in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 34th series / COL Author: Lavoie, Kitt Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
After being reunited at a friend’s wedding, a pair of high school sweethearts return to a hotel room for one last romp – but their reunion is complicated by his recent stint on a reality show and the secret that he shared with the world.
Title: Recensio: a light and dark show in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 11th series / COL Author: De Santis, Eddie Publisher: Samuel French 1986
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
This inventive piece is about a couple who fell in love as teenagers. Some scenes take place when they were young, others portray them as adults. Occasionally, one plays a parent or one plays one of their children. Title: Recluse, The in - Balls and Other Plays / COL Author: Foster, Paul Publisher: Calder and Boyars ltd. 1967
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
"A frightening vision of crazed old age with a terrifying coupe de theatre in the climax".
Title: Red Cross in - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Random House 1986
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
"Surrealism. Various body ailments suffered by three characters in turn".
Title: Red Cross in - The New Underground Theatre / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Bantam Books 1968
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
"Surrealism. Various body ailments suffered by three characters in turn". Title: Red Flag At Evening in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982
Description:
roy Canadian - sketch three characters one male; two female one act
1 set.
'Spinster receives unusual response when she asks her beau of fourteen years his intentions.'
Title: Red Flag at Evening in - In Character / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Nelson Canada 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - sketch three characters one male; two female one act
1 set.
'Spinster receives unusual response when she asks her beau of fourteen years his intentions.'
Title: Releevo in - Verity Bargate / COL Author: Spencer, David Publisher: Methuen & Co 1987
Description:
roy drama - marital relations - relationships three characters two male; one female one act
"West Yorkshire, 1974. Though only in their twenties, Steven and Julie's marriage is disintegrating badly. A ceaseless optimist but also a ceaseless drinker, and unable to pull himself out of debt, Steven is driving Julie to the end of her tether. Then we see them six months earlier, when hope was still alive; but this insight only makes the eventual catastrophe all the more poignant and gruelling. A play that presents its working-class characters and their environment with extraordinary authenticity and humanity." Title: Requiem for August in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Posno, Helen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy sketches two characters one male; one female one act
Two people, her and him, take audience on a tour of images.
Title: Retreating World, The in - American Theatre (July / August 2003) / PER Author: Wallace, Naomi Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003
Description:
roy monologues - men - books all male cast; one character one male one act
Description not available.
Title: Reunion in - The Best Short Plays 1981 / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1973
Description:
roy drama - family relations two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"Fifty-three year old ex-alcoholic is visited in his apartment by his twenty-six year old daughter. In awkward, poignant conversation they seek to establish a relationship after 20 years separation". Title: Reunion in - Two Plays / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1979
Description:
roy drama - family relations two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"Fifty-three year old ex-alcoholic is visited in his apartment by his twenty-six year old daughter. In awkward, poignant conversation they seek to establish a relationship after 20 years separation".
Title: Right to Remain, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004 / COL Author: Marnich, Melanie Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2006
Description:
roy drama - family relations three characters two male; one female one act
Peter and Amy clash about their son’s eating a meal, but the subtext is about marital infidelity. While Josh focuses on his computer and Amy focuses on her dinner, Peter challenges them both. They have the stronger hands in this game. Josh has used his computer to locate the other woman in his father’s life, and Amy is ready for a showdown. Josh promises to resume the charade of a functional family if his father will just say the last digit of the other woman’s telephone number. The father caves in and says the number.
Title: River Lady, The in - The River Lady and Other Plays / COL Author: Widdicombe, David Publisher: Icarus Press 2000
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
"A drifter meets a dishwasher in an all-night diner. She collects marbles from every town she visits and longs for a better life. He's frustrated by the world he sees reflected back at him through television and wants to start a religion based on "Planet of the Apes". Together they desperately try to make sense of their lives as the night slowly closes in on them." Title: Road to Nineveh, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Seventeenth Series) / COL Author: Wilhelm, Le Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy relationships three characters two male; one female one act
'Lonely man and woman meet in snowbound Tennessee restaurant on Christmas Eve.'
Title: Road, The in - Touching Bottom / COL Author: Tesich, Steve Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
3 exteriors.
"Two hitch-hikers meet on the highway; a man leaving the city in disgust and despair and a woman going toward it with optimism and hope for a life she's never had. Just when she cuts through his deep-grained cynicism, life deals her a foul blow in this devastating yet humorous first act entitled 'The Road'."
Title: Roads that Lead Here, The in - Humana Festival 2003 / COL Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2004
Description:
roy drama three characters all male; three male one act
No description available. Title: Rock Garden, the in - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Random House 1986
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
"A woman reminisces about her husband, a man talks of making a rock garden, and a teenage boy describes his sexual encounters. The final scene was performed as part of Oh! Calcuttta!"
Title: Rockaby in - Rockaby and Other Short Pieces / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc.
Description:
roy experimental play all female cast; one character one female one scene
"A dramatic monologue of a woman sitting in a rocking chair and her recorded voice."
Title: Rockaby in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1984
Description:
roy experimental play all female cast; one character one female one scene
"A dramatic monologue of a woman sitting in a rocking chair and her recorded voice." Title: Room Inside the Room I'm In, The in - Dramatics vol. 81 no. 7 / PER Author: Fill, Simon Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010
Description:
roy drama-relationships two characters one male; one female one act
A young man and a young woman reunite in a Manhattan subway station, after a lengthy time apart. Suitable for school setting.
Title: Rooming House, The in - Transfers / COL Author: Bromberg, Conrad Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1970
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
simple interior.
"In the second play, 'The Rooming House', a lonely young woman, deserted by her husband, meets a seemingly sympathetic and attractive young man who, at first, appears to embody the warmth and love she so desperately needs. But the man is a compulsive and twisted liar, who systematically, and chillingly, sets about stripping her of all self-respect - and hope."
Title: Rosalie Sings Alone in - Canadian Brash / CCO Author: Demchuk, David Publisher: Coach House Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - identity - trans-sexuality all male cast; one character one male one act
A woman in a job interview gradually discloses who she is. Title: Rosary in - Seven Short and Very Short Plays / COL Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1973
Description:
roy drama all female cast; one character one female one act
open stage.
"A nun, riding home on the subway, says her Rosary - and the depth of her personal anguish is poignantly revealed".
Title: Rose in - A Terrible Truth v. 1 / COL Author: Sherman, Martin Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - holocaust - World War II one character all female; one female one act
"A portrait of a feisty Jewish woman and a reminder of some of the events that shaped the twentieth century. Rose is a survivor. Her remarkable life began in a tiny Russian village, took her to Warsaw's ghettos and a ship called 'The Exodus' and finally to the USA. We meet Rose sitting Shivah, mourning the death of a Palestinian child."
Title: Rough for Theatre 1 in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1984
Description:
roy experimental theatre all male cast; two characters two male one act
"Cripple in wheel chair encountering blind man suggests possible companionship. Despite mutual need and desire for human contact, displays of selfishness and cruelty intrude." Title: Rough for Theatre ll in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1984
Description:
roy experimental theatre all male cast; two characters two male one act
"Two men asked by another man to confirm his reasons for wanting to commit suicide examine documents relating to his life, personality and feelings."
Title: Rousseau's Tale in - Plays for One Person / COL Author: Pownall, David Publisher: Oberon Press 2003
Description:
roy biography - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act
'The revolutionary philosopher addresses the Royal Society and demands freedom from sexual guilt.'
Title: Running in Circles Screaming in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Mahoney, Jeni Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
Two women, Lou (Louise) and Heather, meet on the playground: watching the kids, sharing stories of mommy-hood and the workings of the universe, but when Heather shares her disappointment in having a boy rather than a girl, Lou turns out not to be the soul sister she was looking for. Heather ends up leaving the playground miffed and snubbed, knowing that her new friend Lou isn't a fellow mommy at all, but she wishes desperately that she were. Title: Runtkiller in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Bennett, Carolyn Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary three characters one male; two female one act
A woman attempts to get an arts grant from an agency that employs two people with very different views about art.
Title: Rupert's Birthday in - The Best Short Plays 1983 / COL Author: Jenkins, Ken Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1981
Description:
roy drama - monologue - farming all female cast; one character one female one act
1 interior set.
"Monologue by a farm woman, centering on her teenage experience of birthing a calf".
Title: Russian Play, The in - 5 Hot plays / CCO Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - love - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act
A bittersweet love story of a flower shop girl who falls in love with a gravedigger - but love does not run smoothly in Stalinist Russia. Title: Russian Play, The in - The Russian Play and Other Short Works / CCO Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - love three characters two male; one female one act
A bittersweet love story of a flower shop girl who falls in love with a gravedigger - but love does not run smoothly in Stalinist Russia.
Title: Rusty and Rico in - Later Encounters / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 exterior set.
"Rusty is a prostitute and Rico, her secret lover, is a successful New York politician. They meet on the sly in the same place each night in Central Park. On this particular night, however, tragedy, both romantic and violent, strikes".
Title: Sacred TIme in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Webb, Brian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - gay men - dance - stalking - monologue one character; dancers; musicians one male one act
'Through the media of solo and ensemble dance, live music, voiced narrative and large screen video projection, Brian Webb's "Sacred Time" relates two parallel stories of predatory, brutalizing space. Profound and disturbing connections link the first story of an elk hunt west of Rocky Mountain House and the second, the stalking of a gay would-be lover in a large city, possibly Edmonton.' Title: Sally's Rape in - Moon Marked and Touched by Sun / COL Author: McCauley, Robbie Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1994
Description:
roy drama - rape - racism - power all female cast, two characters two female one act
'Drama about race, privilege and power with audience participation. Two women, one white, one black explore history of rape as tool of oppression.'
Title: Sand, The in - Escape Acts / CCO Author: Fyffe, Laurie Publisher: NuAge Editions 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
'Wife of business executive learns to belly-dance.'
Title: Sandalwood Box, The in - The Best American Short Plays 1995-1996 / COL Author: Wellman, Mac Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy experimental drama all female cast; two characters; extras two female one act
Troubled woman reacts to human cruelty. Title: Sarah and the Sax in - Two Short Plays / COL Author: Carlino, Lewis John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1962
Description:
roy drama-relationships two characters one male; one female one act
1 exterior; saxophone music.
On a park bench, an old Jewish woman and an antagonistic Negro musician finally come to share their loneliness and compassion.
Title: Say de Kooning in - Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1994
Description:
roy drama - life - homosexuality - relationships three characters one male; two female one act
"...pits an artist and two female lovers against the very strains of modern life they hoped to escape by summering at the beach. Not even there, though, can they avoid the pitfalls of their own demanding personalities."
Title: Scarecrow in - Something in the Basement and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; one female one act
4 chairs on a bare stage.
"A lonely young girl lives with her eccentric mother in an old farmhouse on the edge of a cornfield. She meets a strange man under a tree by the creek, and is led step by step into a web of lust and betrayal. Scarecrows are supposed to frighten crows, but the scarecrow in this particular cornfield is something more. A frightening play about desire and recurring seasons of evil, a kind Title: Schoolyard Games in - Not So Dumb / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Coach House Press 1981
Description:
roy Canadian - family all female cast; three characters three female one act
An unflinching account of the power games that schoolgirls play. "Eleanor and Binnie are sisters and as different from each other as they can manage to be."
Title: Schreber's Nervous Illness in - Shorts / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - mental illness three characters and voices three male one act
Based on 'Memoirs of My Nervous Illness' by Daniel Paul Schreber, who spent ten years in mental institutions after being diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Title: Score in - Humana Festival 2002 / COL Author: Bogart, Anne Clarke, Jocelyn Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2002
Description:
roy drama - music - composer one character all male; one male one act
“Score is about a passionate relationship between a man and music. The man in the play is based upon the conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein. The object of his passion is the music he encountered, played, conducted, wrote, and loved. The conductor is found, perhaps in the middle of the night, amidst the detritus of hundreds of music stands, still in tails, and suddenly ready to engage. Is the audience his musicians? His audience? His friends? All of these? Score is a study of ecstasy, articulation, and genius. It lives in the glorious atmosphere of great music. It honors one Title: Seagulls in - Shorts / COL Author: Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - supernatural three characters one male; two female one act
A woman with the ability to move small objects with her mind is faced with losing her ability.
Title: Seance in - The Great Gromboolian and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
Sir William Crooks, a respected physicist in 1875, is investigating a beautiful young medium. He becomes convinced of the reality of her alter ego from the spirit world and she, seeing the great man falling under her spell, feels compelled to confess that the vision emerging from the cabinet during seances in merely her underwear. Crooks refuses to believe she is a fraud until the spirit appears to settle the argument."
Title: See Bob Run in - See Bob Run and Wild Abandon / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all female cast; one character one female one act
An emotionally disturbed young woman reflects on her life of abuse and confusion as she flees the scene where she shot her boyfriend. Title: Seeds in - Prairie Performance 3 / CCO Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: NeWest Press 1980
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - prairies two characters one male; one female one act
1 set.
"A married couple weaves a story in memory of a young traveller whom they hired for the harvest in the 1930's."
Title: Senetta Boynton Visits the Orient in - Escape Acts / COL Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: NuAge Editions 1990
Description:
roy Canadian three characters one male; two female one act
'Woman author, addressing church audience about her world travels, has surprise for congregation.'
Title: Shape of a Girl, The in - The Shape of a Girl & Jewel / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - women - bullying one character all female; one female one act
"Without directly mentioning the tragic 1997 beating and drowning of a 14-year-old Victoria girl, Reena Virk, by a group of teens, or the 2000 suicide of Dawn-Marie Wesley, another 14-year-old British Columbia girl, and the resulting criminal conviction of a fellow classmate on charges of harassing her, The Shape of a Girl shares the sorrow, guilt and fear of bullying. The angst is shared through the voice and experience of Braidie, the play's 15-year-old sole character and narrator, horrified by a 'monster in the shape of a girl'." Title: Shirt, The in - Encounters / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1967
Description:
roy drama - black play three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"Clarence, a young Southern gentleman, has come up for a weekend visit to New York. He meets Twila, a lovely Negro girl, and her boyfriend, Marcey a young good-looking boy. They become a friendly trio, and go up to Clarence's hotel room to drink. During the evening Clarence takes their pictures, watches them dance, and shows them a newspaper clipping and photograph of himself.
Title: Shoe Fly Blues in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: McNair, Rick Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary two characters; chorus one male; one female one act
A young woman celebrates her first job after high-school with a shoe company.
Title: Shona in - Shona/Lunch Girls/The Shelter / COL Author: Craze, Tony Publisher: Methuen & Co 1983
Description:
roy drama - schizophrenia three characters; five voices two male; one female one act
"'Shona' is a moving and deeply sympathetic case history of a schizophrenic girl, the man who tries to help her and the doctor in charge of her treatment."
1983 Verity Bargate Award-winning Short Play Title: Signifigant Betrayal, A in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Twenty-fourth Series) / COL Author: Wilhelm, Le Publisher: Samuel French 2000
Description:
roy drama - self-awareness two characters one male; one female one act
'Drama about woman who turns to uncle who might shed light on her own past.'
Title: Simon's Wife: A Black and Blue Comedy About Relationships in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: King, Moynan Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
Simon's wife loses herself by doing what Simon says.
Title: Simoon in - Strindberg's One Act Plays / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Arvid Paulson Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy drama - historical three characters two male; one female one act
'Set in Algeria ca. 1890. Arab girl destroys French soldier to avenge lover's death.' Title: Sing This in - Da-Show Must Go On / COL Author: Dashow, Ken Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1996
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
"Star of community theatre group coaxes talented black janitor to join them."
Title: Sing to Me Through Open Windows in - The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays / COL Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Hill and Wang 1965
Description:
roy drama - death - aging all male cast; three characters two male; one boy one act
music.
Allegory on death. Aging magician puts on a final performance for his friend the clown, and an erstwhile boy admirer.
Title: Sister Son / Ji in - New Plays From the Black Theatre / COL Author: Sanchez, Sonia Publisher: Bantam Books 1969
Description:
roy black play - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
1 setting.
Black woman recalls revolutionary struggles in her life. Title: Six Inch Adjustable in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - Twenty-fifth Series / COL Author: Warmflash, Stuart Publisher: Samuel French 2001
Description:
roy family relations all male cast; two characters two male one act
'Older brother tries to prepare younger brother for the future, as they work on an old motorcycle after their father's death.'
Title: Sizwe Bansi Is Dead in - Statements / COL Author: Fugard, Athol Kani, John Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1974
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
1 interior set.
Reveals the perversities of human identity in a country where a man is equal to his passbook.
Title: Slaughter in the Lake in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Rivera, José Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - friendship all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 exterior.
Drama set in Central Park about strained friendship between two middle-aged editors. Title: Slight Ache, A in - Complete Works: One / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1961
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
"Symbolic avant-garde play. Couple confide secret thoughts and feelings to silent match-seller"
Title: Slight Ache, A in - Plays:One / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Methuen & Co 1961
Description:
roy conversation three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior.
"Symbolic avant-garde play. A couple confide secret thoughts and feelings to silent match-seller."
Title: Slight Ache, A in - A Slight Ache and Other Plays / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Methuen & Co 1961
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
unit set.
"Symbolic avant-garde play. Couple confide secret thoughts and feelings to silent match-seller." Title: Slight Ache, A in - Three Plays / COL Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1962
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
unit set.
"Symbolic avant-garde play. Couple confide secret thoughts and feelings to silent match-seller."
Title: Slivovtz in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Twelfth Series / COL Author: Nash, Roberick Boyd. Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
"A young woman from Poland and a man from Latvia who thinks he knows who she is. He carries a bottle of Slivovitz in his camera case, and over drinks we learn some of the reasons why both have left their homelands."
Title: Small Things in - The Best American Short Plays - 2005-2006 / COL Author: Pepper, Cary Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
Hoyt has lost everything. With no job, no money, and no hope that things will are going to get better, he's given up and is sitting alone in his apartment cleaning a revolver. He's going to kill himself. But the bell rings, and there stands Drew, who's going door-to-door proselytizing for the Assembly of Hubristic Evangelicals. Hoyt steps aside and invites Drew in, which amazes Drew. No one's ever let him in before. As the two of them talk, they both find themselves deeply challenged, though in vastly different ways. They are each, in their own fashion, in crisis. And thematically Title: Smudge in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 108, Fall 2001 / PER Author: Bulmer, Alex Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters; extras two female one act
'Powerful play about a woman's farewell to her sight.'
Title: Smudge in - Lesbian Plays : Coming of Age in Canada / CCO Author: Bulmer, Alex Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - lesbian play three characters all female cast; three female (doubling) thirty-three scenes
'Powerful play about a woman's farewell to her sight.'
Title: Snow Birds in - Cabbagetown Plays / CCO Author: Tipe, David Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 exterior set.
Sid and Luke re-establish their friendship on a lonely park bench; a sense of the absurd is a key to their rapport. Title: Some People in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Kitcher, Bill Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary fantasy three characters; voice overs two male; two female one act
Two cats and a dog deal with the realities of the pound.
Title: Something Else in - One Man, One Woman / COL Author: Patrick, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
'Couple beginning as different aspects of author's personality fight for their existence.'
Title: Something Unspoken in - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1953
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
1 interior.
"Southern dowager tries to maneuver the regency in the Daughters of the Confederacy." Title: Son Who Hunted Tigers in Jakarta, The in - Passing Through from Exotic Places / COL Author: Ribman, Ronald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1970
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
'Fast-talking thief's lies lose credibility and he is shot by intended robbery victim.'
Title: Sound of a Voice, The in - The Best Short Plays 1985 / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1985
Description:
roy drama - Japanese - folklore two characters one male; one female one act
suggested for high school.
"The scene is an isolated house in the woods where a young woman lives alone. When a young samurai appears she offers him food and shelter, and they eventually become lovers. But while fascinated by his benefactress, the samurai cannot shake a mistrust of her; for she is also able to perform wonders of cookery, horticulture and even the martial arts. In the end it develops that the
Title: Sound of a Voice, The in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - Japanese - folklore two characters one male; one female one act
"The scene is an isolated house in the woods where a beautiful young woman lives alone. When a young samurai appears she offers him food and shelter, and when he decides to stay on they eventually becomes lovers. But while fascinated by his benefactress, the samurai cannot shake a superstitious mistrust of her; for all her delicacy and beauty she is also able to perform wonders of cookery, horticulture and even the martial arts (much to his wounded pride). In the end it develops that the woman is suspected of being a witch and the samurai has come to seek glory by Title: Sound of a Voice, The in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: New American Library 1990
Description:
roy drama - Japanese - folklore two characters one male; one female one act
suggested for high school.
"The scene is an isolated house in the woods where a young woman lives alone. When a young samurai appears she offers him food and shelter, and they eventually become lovers. But while fascinated by his benefactress, the samurai cannot shake a mistrust of her; for she is also able to perform wonders of cookery, horticulture and even the martial arts. In the end it develops that the
Title: Souvenirs in - 1984 B.C. Young Playwrights Search / CCO Author: Riml, Michele Publisher: Association of B. C. Drama Educators 1984
Description:
roy drama - family relations two characters one male; one female teenager one act
A sixteen year old girl goes to see her dying father on their old farm, in order to convince him to come home, and live out his days there.
Title: Space in - Pitching to the Star and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1993
Description:
roy drama - relationships two characters all male, two male one act
"The SPACE in this play of the same name covers what comes between couples, what is out in the universe and even time spent between friends. Relating the story of his break-up with his girlfriend, one friend reveals to another how space—in whatever form—invades all his thoughts about himself and his world." Title: Spades in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: Beaver, Jim Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy drama - war all male cast; three characters; extras three male one act
'Two marines in Vietnam receive a corpse for processing.'
Title: Spain in - 5 Hot plays / CCO Author: Rubenfeld, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - relationships three characters two male; one female one act
Two buddies test the limits of their platonic friendship, and discover the pitfalls of indecision.
Title: Spared in - Stage Directions and Spared / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1977
Description:
roy drama all male cast; one character one male one act
1 interior set.
"One of four plays comprising: The Quannapowitt Quartet. Man's life passes in review and he reflects on its high and low points as he keeps a gun to his head." Title: Spider's Feast, The in - Theatrum (Feb/Mar 1994) / PER Author: McFarlane, Anita Publisher: Miscellaneous 1994
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
Description not available.
Title: Spittin' Image in -The Best Short Plays 1987 / COL Author: Metcalfe, Stephen Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1986
Description:
roy drama - death all male cast; two characters two male one act
Man visits dead buddy's brother at college and both begin dealing with their grief and loss. Megs, a strung-out truck driver, invades the dormitory room of Bucky, a student at a small Pennsylvania college, to recount his wild adventures on the road. During the course of the narrative, however, Megs's fears about life surface as he recounts the death of Bucky's brother in Vietnam.
Title: Split Decision, The in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL Author: Moseley, William Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 1987
Description:
roy domestic relations two characters one male; one female one act
There is a man who takes for granted his female lover and companion, because he is caught up in his work. He is a workaholic. She warns him that one day he will call for her and she won't be there. He doesn't take her serious until it actually happens. Title: Sports Legend in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Patterson, James G. Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary - baseball all male cast; two characters two male one act
A coach cuts an outlandish ball player from the team.
Title: Springtime in - Amazon All Stars / COL Author: Fornes, Maria Irene Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy tragedy - relationships three characters one male; two female one act
'In 'Springtime' (set in 1958), Fornes focuses on the intersection of poverty with sexism and homophobia in the sad tale of Rainbow's love affair with Greta, a German lab technician.'
Title: St. George in - West Coast Plays 3 / COL Author: Porter, J. Paul Publisher: West Coast Plays 1978
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
No abstract available. Title: St. Valentie's Day Massacre, The in - The Best American Short Plays 1995-1996 / COL Author: Knee, Alan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy relationships - drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior.
Ex-lovers rendezvous in cafe on St. Valentine's Day.
Title: Stage Directions in - Stage Directions and Spared / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1977
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"One of the four plays of The Quannapowitt Quartet. Estranged brother and two sisters meet after parents' death; the only communication taking place is via the stage directions".
Title: Stand-up in - Wrecks and other plays / COL Author: Labute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 2007
Description:
roy monologues - men - drama all male cast; one character one male one act
A man attempts stand-up comedy. Title: Standard Time in - Dramatics (Mar 1999) / PER Author: Wallace, Naomi Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999
Description:
roy monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one scene
A working class man discusses stealing an old car and love.
Title: Standard Time in - Humana Festival 2000 / COL Author: Wallace, Naomi Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2000
Description:
roy monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one scene
A working class man discusses stealing an old car and love.
Title: Stars in - Humana Festival '97 / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1997
Description:
roy relationships - drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 exterior.
Present day Manhattan terrace setting for he-she encounter. Title: Statements After an Arrrest Under the Immorality Act in - Statements / COL Author: Fugard, Athol Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1974
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
Depicts the shattering of two lives under the harsh glare of South Africa's miscegenation laws.
Title: Statements After an Arrrest Under the Immorality Act in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Fugard, Athol Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
Depicts the shattering of two lives under the harsh glare of South Africa's miscegenation laws.
Title: Still Life in - Special Days / COL Author: Kramer, Seth Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2004
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
this play can also be performed as part of the full-length collection Special Days.
What do you do when your purpose in life has been stolen from you? One year after Michelle lost all her artwork and the use of her hands in an apartment fire, David must help the former artist find an answer to this question. Title: Still-Love in - Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks / COL Author: Patrick, Robert Publisher: Winter House Ltd. 1972
Description:
roy drama - love two characters one male; one female twenty-one scenes
1 setting.
"Ill-fated love affair between unemployed writer and woman, told in reverse order."
Title: Stoop in - The Sand Castle and Three Other Plays / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1970
Description:
roy drama - life all female cast; three characters three female one act
open stage.
"Both touching and disturbing, it centers on three aging ladies sitting on the stoop of a run down city brownstone, commenting quietly on the inexorable disintegration of the quality, and possibility, of life. Their mood is resigned-but terrifying as well-as they accept the ebbing away of freshness and beauty and the element of hopefulness which was once so easily taken for
Title: Story in Harlem Slang (from Spunk) in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Hurston, Zora Neale adapted by George C. Wolfe Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama two characters; extras one male; one female one act
1 setting.
Dramatization of episode in Zora Neale Hurston's story Spunk, about life in Harlem. Title: Story of a Sinking Man, The in - Singular Voices / COL Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - monologues - men all male cast one character one act
Nash inexplicably finds himself sinking into a bog with no way out - he is distinctly alone. He reviews his predicament and his life but he doesn't give up hope of rescue...
Title: Straight as a Line in - Out of the Fringe / COL Author: Alfaro, Luis Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - AIDS two characters one male; one female one act
1 setting.
Comical British expat moves her gay son to Las Vegas and tries to mother him as he dies of AIDS.
Title: Strawberry Fields in - The Factory Lab Anthology / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Michael Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all male cast; three characters three male one act
1 exterior set.
A play about two waifs and a schizoid. "Hollingsworth is a very gentle person, the play explores uncompromisingly the acid decadence of rock scene followers. Hollingsworth is a romantic nihilist exploring the aftermath of civilization. The circus is over, yet the barren surface of the play hides infinite energy and frustration. The play is a tour de force that demands daring Title: Strawberry Fields in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - Twenty-fifth Series / COL Author: Brofsky, Kevin Publisher: Samuel French 2001
Description:
roy homosexuality all female cast; three characters three female one act
'In a small, hostile Florida town, the mother of a murdered gay is interviewed by a network celebrity in preparation for an appearance on her show. Unexpected solidarity.'
Title: Street Talk in - Andre's Mother and Other Short Plays / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1995
Description:
roy drama - theatre two characters one male; one female one act
"...is a confrontational monologue pondering the changes in the American theatre from the sixties - when theatre itself sought to confront, challenge and educate - to today's theatre which seems only to give a bigger bang for the buck."
Title: Strip in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Hayes, Elliott Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one act
A man discusses his life and theories as a male stripper. Title: Struck Dumb in - The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude Chaikin, Joseph Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy drama - monologue all male cast; one character one man one act
'Man with aphasia describes his feelings and difficulties with language.'
Title: Studio Portrait in - Off-Off-Broadway Festival Plays - 23rd Series / COL Author: Hutton, Arlene Publisher: Samuel French 1999
Description:
roy relationships - drama two characters one male; one female one act
'Woman having her picture taken reveals that she met the photographer years ago; rueful acknowledgement of missed opportunities.'
Title: Suburban Tragedy in - Four Short Plays / COL Author: Kass, Jerome Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1967
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"The action here has to do with a middle-aged suburban housewife who is taking a summer college course, and the young instructor, also married, with whom she falls in love". Title: Suicide Notes in - Three on the Boards / CCO Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Signature Editions 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - drama three characters one male; two female nine scenes
"The story of a homeless woman who writes suicide notes for random passers-by on the street, the play explores that intense need that writers possess to create; and questions the assumptions of what actually constitutes credible literature."
Title: Suicide, The in - The New Theatre of Modern Europe Vol. 2 / COL Author: Fratti, Mario translated by M.Carra & L. Warner Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1964
Description:
roy drama - family relations three characters one male; two female one act
'A monstrous husband complains to his weak wife about the burden of supporting troublesome mother-in-law.'
Title: Summer Ghost, A in - New American Plays Volume One / COL Author: Fredericks, Claude Publisher: Hill and Wang 1961
Description:
roy drama - experimental play three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"Young woman, despairing of life without love, drinks poison when young Telemachus, originally materialized via spiritualism, leaves Daddy Jack, a mystic, and her". Title: Sunbeams in - Three One Act Plays / COL Author: Mason, Rosemary Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1979
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"Confrontation between prostitute and woman social worker results in reversal of roles".
Title: Surface Tension in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Quan, Elyne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy Canadian - monologue - women - Edmonton all female cast; one character one female one act
'Elyne Quan's "Surface Tension" is, as its title implies, an ironic exploration of surface appearances and the tensions created by the undue importance attached to them. In her particular case, it is about her growing up in the predominantly white Edmonton of the 1980's. Created specifically to address issues of Asian ancestry...'
Title: Surprise, Surprise in - La Duchesse de Langeais and Other Plays / CCO Author: Tremblay, Michel Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy Quebec - drama - women all female cast; three characters three female one act
"Jeannine has arranged a very surprising surprise party for Madeleine. Laurette phones the wrong Madeleine and ruins her plans." Title: Swan Song, The in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko Publisher: Green Integer 140 2005
Description:
roy drama - aging all male cast; two characters two male one act
Study of a life broken by old age.
Title: Sweet and Sour Pickles in - After Baba's Funeral / Sweet and Sour Pickles / CCO Author: Galay, Ted Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations - women all female cast; two characters two female one act
"Olenka, fifty-seven, defies custom when she invites the man she's been seeing since her husband's death to escort her to a family wedding. Her sister-in-law finds the courage to broach the subject and in the discussion that follows they reveal early dreams of breaking with tradition, in the process reviving their childhood friendship."
Winner, 1981 Drama Award, Canadian Author's Association.
Title: Sylvester the Cat Vs. Galloping Billy Bronco in - West Coast Plays 6 / COL Author: Lynch, Michael Publisher: West Coast Plays 1980
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
No abstract available. Title: Tale of the Johnson Boys, The in - Banana Man & Other Plays COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy drama - men - coming of age all male cast; two characters two male one act
In this powerful one act, two boys, John and Henry Johnson, tell the true story of their capture by Indians near the Ohio River in the late 1790s, and the bloody and terrible events that resulted. It is the defining experience of their lives, and the play is a haunting and complex allegory of violence, compassion, and ambiguous betrayal.
Title: Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen... in - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1953
Description:
roy drama two characters; extras one male; one female one act
1 interior; background mandolin music.
"Woman tries to make her paramour, a drunkard, understand her reasons for wanting to leave him."
Title: Talking Dog, The in - Orchards / COL Author: Guare, John Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 1987
Description:
roy Anton Chekhov dramatization two characters one male; one female one act
1 setting.
"Dramatization of Chekhov's short story 'A joke', in which a man whispers tantalizing phrases to woman, but never acknowledges that he spoke." Title: Tango Noir in - Bete Blanche / Tango Noir / CCO Author: Scollard, Rose Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1991
Description:
roy Canadian drama - surrealism two characters one male; one female (doubling) one act
'"One of us is dreaming and one of us is going to die." Writer Collette's mysterious and shifting dream encounter with Mata Hari underscores the danger but also the power inherent in appropriating the Shadow. Women must acknowledge the darker side of their nature if they are to have the freedom of action.'
Title: Tape in - Humana Festival 2000 / COL Author: Belber, Stephen Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2000
Description:
roy drama - rape three characters two male; one female one act
"About the long-term fall-out of a date rape."
Title: Target Marketing in - CTR No. 137 / PER Author: Dempsey, Shawna Millan, Lorri Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy performance piece one character one female monologue
The authors chart the evolution of news into a spectacle for consumption, taking aim at the mass media which presents pressing world issues as superficial entertainments rather than subjects for concern and debate. Main character is dressed as a human target. Title: Ten-Dollar Drinks in - The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004 / COL Author: Pintauro, Joe Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2006
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - actors - rivalry all female cast; two characters two female one act
Star, a recent Oscar-winning actress, has reluctantly agreed to meet her old acting friend Bete for a drink. Star knows her old friend is jealous of her success, and through the torturous afternoon, makes her confess it.
Title: Terrible Jim Fitch in - Stop, You're Killing Me / COL Author: Herlihy, James Leo Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1969
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
'A down and out disturbed cowboy vainly attempts to justify himself to his lonely, depressed, woman in a dingy New Mexico motel room.'
Title: Test, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 26th Series / COL Author: Caplan, Pauls J. Publisher: Samuel French 2002
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one scene
On death row, elder inmate Cleveland has taken young, mentally challenged Bradley under his wing and is trying to teach him to read. When word arrives that Bradley's new lawyer has arranged for him to take a mental competency test, Cleveland tries to convince Bradley that this is one test he does not want to pass. Title: Texas Boy in - Escape Acts / CCO Author: Rideout, George Publisher: NuAge Editions 1990
Description:
roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act
'Drama about adolescence set in 1964 Ontario. Canadian girl and teenager from Texas share confidences.'
Title: Thank You, Miss Victoria in - New American Plays Volume 3 / COL Author: Hoffman, William M. Publisher: Hill and Wang 1970
Description:
roy drama - monologue all male cast; one character one male one act
1 interior set.
"Telephone conversations of executive's son as he speaks to business callers, secretary, mistress, father, sexually disturbed woman, and others".
Title: That Time in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1992
Description:
roy experimental theatre all male cast; one character one male one scene
"Old man's face is visible on stage as recorded voices describe memories of childhood, a possibly invented love, rejection, loneliness, despair, and decay, ending with recognition of life's transitoriness." Title: That Time in - Ends and Odds / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1976
Description:
roy experimental theatre all male cast; one character one male one act
"Old man's face is visible on stage as recorded voices describe memories of childhood, a possibly invented love, rejection, loneliness, despair, and decay, ending with recognition of life's transitoriness."
Title: Theater I in - Ends and Odds / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1976
Description:
roy experimental play all male cast; two characters two male one act
'Cripple in wheel chair encountering blind man suggests possible companionship. Despite mutual need and desire for human contact, displays of selfishness and cruelty intrude.'
Title: Theatre II in - Ends and Odds / COL Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1976
Description:
roy experimental play all male cast; two characters two male one act
'Two men asked by another man to confirm his reasons for wanting to commit suicide examine documents relating to his life, personality and feelings.' Title: Then in - A Smell of Burning and Then... / COL Author: Campton, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1969
Description:
roy drama - nuclear warfare two characters one male; one female one act
"The hesitant meeting of the last two survivors of the nuclear holocaust. Sitting alone amid a wasteland of nuclear destruction, his head covered by a brown paper bag, Phythick laments the loss of all that was, and could have been. Then a girl walks by, her head also covered by a paper bag. They talk: he revealing that he was a science teacher; she that she was 'Miss Europe' . They fall in love, but cannot kiss, cannot remove their paper bags for fear of radiation. The bags are a crinkling barrier between them-and perhaps must always be so. Yet can there be hope? Do they
Title: Therese's Creed in - Tiln & Other Plays / CCO Author: Cook, Michael Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female two acts
"A middle-aged Newfoundland widow reminisces about her past as she observes the changing world of her children."
Title: This is a Play in - Never Swim Alone & This is a Play / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters one male; two female one act
'A play, about a play, about a play.' Title: This is for Aborelia Dominguez in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Mojica, Monique Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - verse - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
'On January 12, 1994, a photograph of a Mayan woman appeared on the front page of "The Toronto Star". Her name is Aborelia Dominguez. She comes from the same territory as my husband, I had been there, I had loved ones there who were afraid of the federal army. We are 'Indios', after all. As as Indigenous woman, my memory of genocide is long. It is a grief I cannot yet put down. The annihilation is happening now.'
Title: This Lime Tree Bower in - The Weir and Other Plays / COL Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1999
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
'Hard-boiled suspense yarn. Three men from small Irish seaside town tell overlapping tales of fateful night.'
"A touching ,marvelously entertaining play which tells a gripping tale with assured panache."
Title: This Property is Condemned in - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 1953
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
1 exterior.
"Problems of an orphaned teenage girl after death of her sister who had earned a living for them as a prostitute." Title: Thoughts on the Instant of Greeting a Friend on the Street in - Seven Short and Very Short Plays / COL Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1973
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
open stage.
"Two people meet by chance, their conversation moving on two levels: one of idle, surface comments; the other of deeper thoughts unspoken."
Title: Thousand Words, A in - Best Student One Acts Volume 5 / COL Author: Sexton-Kelley, Marianne Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000
Description:
roy drama seven characters three male; four female one act
'One character who cannot speak is the focus of love and concern in this portrait of life in a community where people care deeply about the fortunes of others.'
Title: Thread Men, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 33rd series / COL Author: Dunn, Thomas C. Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy drama - American all male cast; two characters two male one act
When a psychiatrist becomes trapped in an elevator with a man acting bizarrely, he quickly learns that his decisions may have life or death consequences. Title: Three Dogs Barking in - Three on the Boards / CCO Author: Barry, Frank Publisher: Signature Editions 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - thriller all male cast; three characters three male one act
"A cop, a crook, and a shrink, walk into an interrogation room… So opens the file of 3 Dogs Barking; a 70-minute thriller that pivots on a false confession and the complex relationship between a cop and a criminal. The drama plays out as ⌦psychologist Dr. John St. John tries to unravel the hideous circumstances of Jim Larkin’s past arrests and the link between him and his rival Constable “Big Ted” Coveyduck."
Title: Three Questions in - Off-off Broadway Festival Plays - 27th Series / COL Author: Martin, Maurice Publisher: Samuel French 2003
Description:
roy comic drama two characters one male; one female one scene
Franklin is horribly depressed and about to blow his brains out when he receives a call from Brenda, a 'research specialist" who wants to ask him three questions about his dry cleaning habits. James's recently deceased wife always handled such things, but Brenda is relentless. The two form an unusual, often hilarious, connection as they trade question for question, his delving into her remarkable ability to cope with a recent personal tragedy and hers to fulfill her employer's quota.
Title: Thucydides in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 34th series / COL Author: Elmegreen, Scott Fornarola, Drew Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy dramatic comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act
A young soldier and a college student meet at an airport in their hometown, and in learning about each other’s lives in Iraq and Princeton, each is lead to dramatic new conclusions about his own. Title: Thy Creature Blues in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Bunyan, Hector Jay Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy dramatic monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
'Dr. Jansen, a psychiatrist, is relating to a client the important role her son had played in her life and in the world he inhabited prior to his death.'
Title: Tickets, Please! in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 26th Series / COL Author: Sportiello, Anthony Publisher: Samuel French 2002
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one scene
An angel of death is accidentally sent to collect the wrong soul. When he realizes his mistake, he tries to convince his "almost" victim to take full advantage of her second chance.
Title: Ties that Bind, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 11th series / COL Author: Witten, Matthew Publisher: Samuel French 1986
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
Suppose you met a fascinating woman in a singles bar who invites you up to her apartment, where you meet her hostile roommate. The women are lovers who want a child and you have been chosen to father it. Would you say "thanks, but no thanks"-- or would you do the gentlemanly thing and help the ladies? Title: Time Out in - Da-Show Must Go On / COL Author: Dashow, Ken Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1996
Description:
Roy Drama All male cast; three characters Three male one act
"After spending four years on bench, basketball player dreams of on-the-court heroics."
Title: Tiny Baby in - Dramatics, vol. 77, no. 8 / PER Author: Pfeffinger, Eric R. Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006
Description:
roy drama - reunion three characters one male; two female one act
"Susan and Alec attend Susan’s high school reunion with their new baby in tow. An interaction with a former classmate has Susan wondering if, when it comes to babies, size really does matter."
Title: To Forgive, Divine in - Breakout / CCO Author: Aragon, Joseph Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004
Description:
roy relationships, drama three characters one male; two female one act
'"To Forgive, Divine" challenges the Christian principal of redemption as it affects a mother and daughter trying to find their way back to each other.' Title: Tone Clusters in - The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL Author: Oates, Joyce Carol Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1991
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female nine scenes
bare stage.
'Middle-American couple's lives are shattered when son is accused of murder.'
Title: Tone Clusters in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: Oates, Joyce Carol Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female nine scenes
bare stage.
'Middle-American couple's lives are shattered when son is accused of murder.'
Title: Too Hot to Handle in - Three One Act Plays / COL Author: Hawkins, Jim Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - marital relations three characters one male; two female one act
1 set; background music.
"Wife's discovery of pornography in husband's closet leads to confrontation and truth about feelings for each other." Title: Tooth or Dare in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Scollard, Rose Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary - monologues two characters one male; one female one act
A pair of entwined monologues from two older adults who find romance at the Golden Age center.
Title: Top of 16 in - Da-Show Must Go On / COL Author: Dashow, Ken Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1996
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
"At rehearsal for a new play, the scene is fairly physical and must be rehearsed over and over but it only gets worse and worse. When questioned about this, the director begs for commitment... that is until he gets a call saying he's wanted for a bigger show; then he's out the door in a flash and the actors commit to directing themselves."
Title: Totem Figures in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 141 / PER Author: Dawe, T J Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama one character one male monologue
An autobiographical account of the the author's history as a Fringe writer and performer. Title: Touch: A Play for Two in - Making, Out / CCO Author: Demchuk, David Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
Two male lovers discuss pornography in bed.
Title: Tough! in - The East End Plays: Part 2 / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama three characters one male; two female one act
'Young, single pregnant woman and her girlfriend confront father of child.'
Title: Tradition 1a in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 14th series / COL Author: Rice, Howard M. Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy monologues - men - drama all male cast; one character one male one act
A man recollects how good life has been to him. Oh, he's had some malignant spots from too much sun, but he just goes to the dermatologist again and again to get them cauterized. As little pieces of him are taken away, he looks into a shoe box of mementos and notes from his wife and children and is revivified. One day the doctor asks how long he's had the growth on the back of his neck. Be prepared for a heart wrenching experience. Title: Trail of the Otter in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Miguel, Muriel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - First Nations - drama all female cast; one character one female one act
multi-disciplinary piece incorporating storytelling, song and dance with set design and video projections.
"'Trail of the Otter' is a multi-dimensional, multi-layered story that creates contemporary Two-Spirited cultural heroes rooted in traditional cosmologies and teaching stories. This is important because the history of the Two-Spirited people has been largely ignored, omitted
Title: Train Driver, The in - American Theatre (Sept. 2010) / PER Author: Fugard, Athol Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
Two isolated characters in a desolate setting grappling with ghosts of the past, present and the future.
Title: Transfers in - Transfers / COL Author: Bromberg, Conrad Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1970
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
simple interior; suggested for high school.
"The first play 'Transfers' finds a glib radio newscaster interviewing an eye witness to a Harlem riot, only to find himself being held up at knifepoint - with the whole episode being tape recorded for all to hear. However, the robber is also an amateur songwriter, so the stickup is temporarily delayed while he and his cohort record one of his creations for posterity." Title: Transit in - Dramatics (Oct 1998) / PER Author: Kooistra, Alison Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998
Description:
roy relationships all female cast; two characters two female one act
Two old friends reunite while waiting separate departures in the bus station.
Title: Trash in - Out of the Fringe / COL Author: Monge-Rafuls, Pedro R. Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000
Description:
roy monologue - men - drama all male cast; one character one male one scene
In this monologue, a Cuban Marielito describes his struggle to survive in the United States, culminating in a lethal encounter with a homosexual priest.
Title: Trash Anthem in - Humana Festival 2003 / COL Author: Dietz, Dan Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2004
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
"A woman's off-the-wall dialogue with the cowboy boots of the faithless lover she killed - and the boots' rebuttal." Title: Travesty and the Fruit Fly, The in - Cabbagetown Plays / CCO Author: Tipe, David Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior set.
An ugly hag and a charming prince change costumes and argue jealously before putting brown bags over their heads and admitting how much they love each other.
Title: Troth in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Harrar, William Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
A husband and wife, on discovering their spouses are having an affair with each other, decide to blow the whistle.
Title: Trouble's Just A Bubble in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Oberman, Sheldon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary three characters; two voices two male; one female one act
A elderly woman's journey on a train. Title: True Confessions of A Go-Go Girl in - Woman Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1998 / COL Author: Morley, Jill Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2000
Description:
roy contemporary - women all female cast; eight characters two female (doubling) one act
True confessions started out as a journal writings when the author was a go-go girl, bikini dancing in New Jersey bars. The play began as a way to humanize the women who did this job-the women who commodified their sexuality for money.
'Dancer's lifestyle provides her with incredible power as well as destructive dependency.'
Title: Truth and Beauty in - American Theatre (Mar 01) / PER Author: Chong, Ping Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001
Description:
roy relationships - drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
Description not available.
Title: Trying to Find Chinatown in - Humana Festival '96 / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy drama - identity all male cast; two characters two male one act
"Lower east side confrontation between two men explores questions of race, ethnicity and identity." Title: Trying to Find Chinatown in - Trying to Find Chinatown and Bondage / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1996
Description:
roy drama - identity all male cast; two characters two male one act
"Lower east side confrontation between two men explores questions of race, ethnicity and identity."
Title: Tuesdays and Sundays in - NextFest Anthology / CCO Author: Arnold, Daniel Hahn, Medina Publisher: NeWest Press 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - historical romance two characters one male; one female one act
"Based on an actual love story that took place on Prince Edward Island in 1887. As poetically recreated by Daniel Arnold and Medina Hahn, the play effectively creates two worlds, the limbo in which young William and Mary awaken at opening, and the rural community of Margate where they met and fell in love in 1887. The two worlds are not wholly separate, however. Through language and memory, the pair recreate their courtship in an economical blend of poignancy and humour while still in dream or limbo state which could be one day, or one hundred years, after the story
Title: Two and Twenty in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Twelfth Series / COL Author: Parente, Paul. Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy comic drama two characters one male; one female one act
"A poetry-obsessed young man and the woman with whom he lived for two years and whom he still loves meet some time after their breakup and discuss 'Why It All Had To End'. Some scenes take place in the present, while other take place during a more happy time when they both were less than two and twenty." Title: Two of Us, The in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Melnyk, Doug Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian two characters one male; one female one act
Two people discuss life and their relationship with the audience, ignoring each other.
Title: Tyler Poked Taylor in - Snapshot / COL Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003
Description:
roy monologue - male all male cast one character one scene
In his annual ritual at the foot of Mt. Rushmore, an 18-year-old reveals his erotic presidential fantasies.
Title: Typists, The in - The Typists and The Tiger / COL Author: Schisgal, Murray Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1963
Description:
roy drama - life two characters one male; one female one act
"When Paul Cunningham reports for work addressing postcards for a mail order house, he makes it clear to his fellow worker, Sylvia Payton, that his employment is strictly temporary. Paul and Sylvia hit it off well, and as Paul's 'temporary' tenure stretches on from weeks to months to years they become involved in the shared experiences of close daily contact. And, within the short span of the play, they begin to age and grow gray. While they go on chattering of the important things that have happened to them and of the bright future which will be coming up any day, the futility Title: Under Control in - Three Short Plays / COL Author: Jones, Elinor Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy family relations three characters one male; two female one act
'Brother and sister encounter difficulties burying father's ashes.'
Title: Unforgetting, The in - Summerworks / CCO Author: Dilworth, Alan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female one act
Depression-era drama about a BC heiress and the secrets she discovers in her past.
Received the SummerWorks Jury Prize.
Title: Union Square in - Wrecks and other plays / COL Author: Labute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 2007
Description:
roy monologues - male - drama all male cast; one character one male one act
A man discusses getting back together with his ex-wife. Title: Universal Wolf, The in - Women on the Verge / COL Author: Schenkar, Joan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1993
Description:
roy fairy tales, feminism - experimental play three characters; extra one male; two female one act
'Feminist version of Little Red Riding Hood. Slide projections.'
Title: Unruly in - CTR No. 137 / PER Author: Dempsey, Shawna Millan, Lorri Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy performance piece three characters two female; one male one act
An aging superhero , with unusual powers wrestles the notion of super to the ground. The work features a spandex-clad hero, a multi media history of masked avengers and caped crusaders and astonishing feats of bravery.
Title: Upright in - Best Student One Acts Volume 4 / COL Author: Hilburn, James Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000
Description:
roy drama - crime all male cast; three characters three male one act
'Two homeless, small-time drug dealers who become entangled in a web of betrayal and violence.' Title: Valentine in - The Courier and Other Plays / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations one character all male cast; one male one act
setting: night, June 1963, Saskatchewan, a farmer's field, the edge of the wood running time: approx. 12-15 min.
"After a hard working but rich life with his wife, Victor finds himself unprepared for the domestic duty of raising his teenage son alone ..."
Title: Value of Names, The in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: Sweet, Jeffrey Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy drama - racism - actors three characters two male; one female one act
1 exterior.
Drama set in present about lingering effect of Hollywood blacklist on two performers; one testified against the other before House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Title: Vengeance in - Escape Acts / CCO Author: Ravel, Aviva Publisher: NuAge Editions 1987
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
'Holocaust survivor, posing as nurse to old woman, seeks to avenge parents' betrayal.' Title: Video in - Blade / Job's Wife / Video / CCO Author: Nolan, Madeena Publisher: ArtBiz Communications 1995
Description:
roy drama - weddings all female cast; one character and a male voice one female one act
A powerful commentary on the emphasis placed on a wedding ceremony.
Title: Visit, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy relationships three characters two male; one female one act
'A young lawyer's overbearing parents surprise him at work.'
Title: Vito on the Beach in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Schwartz, Samuel Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - homosexuality all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 exterior.
Homosexual boxer and portrait artist reveal they are HIV positive. Title: Vivien in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Granger, Percy Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy relationships - drama three characters two male; one female one act
1 setting.
Confrontation between mentally disturbed father and anxiety-ridden son.
Title: Wake in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Widdicombe, David Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all female cast; two characters two female one act
Two women have a conversation after a funeral, during which, one of them is healed through humour.
Title: Walking Through Seaweed in - New English Dramatists 14 / COL Author: Finlay, Ian Hamilton Publisher: Penguin Books 1970
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
No abstract available Title: Wall, The in - Are You Normal, Mr. Norman and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Wilson, David Henry Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
"A young couple encounter a wall on which is written 'Wall'. They erase the word and write their own. The wall becomes a tabula rasa for modern man."
Title: Walter in - The Pushcart Peddlars, The Flatulist & Other Plays / COL Author: Schisgal, Murray Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1980
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roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
"The scene is a funeral parlor, where Laura Katz has come to view the body of her late husband, Walter. As it happens, Walter was a chronic philanderer and Laura, as her cruelly funny comments make clear, deserted him. It also develops that the funeral director, Norbe, is not above 'playing around' a bit himself-which offers Laura a chance to repay Walter in his own coin."
Title: Wandering in - The Sand Castle and Three Other Plays / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1970
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roy drama - life - identity three characters two male; one female one act
open stage.
"This brilliantly inventive short play covers the span of a man's life in a matter of minutes. Striking harmonics of uncanny depth and pertinence through its rapid fire dialogue, the play not only constructs the outline of a human existence, but also catches and illuminates, the essentials of all that is, or can be." Title: Waterbabies in - Humana Festival '97 / COL Author: LeFevre, Adam Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1997
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roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
1 interior.
Mother investigates YMCA swimming program for her eleven month old son.
Title: Waterbabies in - Plays for Actresses / COL Author: LeFevre, Adam Publisher: Vintage Books 1997
Description:
roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
1 interior; suitable for high school performances.
Mother investigates YMCA swimming program for her eleven month old son.
Title: Waterhead, The in - The Waterhead and other plays - CCO Author: Bushkowsky, Aaron Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
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roy drama - monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one act
A monologue by a man reviewing his mother and father's relationship; in particular, a moment when his mother is in hospital after a kidney transplant and he discovers his father in a relationship with another woman. Title: Watermelon Boats in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL Author: MacLaughlin, Wendy Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 1987
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roy mime all female cast; two characters two female one act
The watermelon boats - hollowed out melons with candles as masts -as well as all other props be imaginary and that the actors mime the use of them. In rehearsal, however, you should occasionally use real, physical props (or substitutes) in order to keep the mimed business accurate.
The actors in this play will find it a real challenge to play three different ages believably in the
Title: Watermelon Boats in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: MacLaughlin, Wendy Publisher: Samuel French 1989
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roy friendship all female cast; two characters two female one act
'Two women who are lifelong friends share their thoughts at three stages of their lives.'
Title: Watermelon Boats in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: MacLaughlin, Wendy Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1987
Description:
roy mime all female cast; two characters two female one act
The watermelon boats - hollowed out melons with candles as masts -as well as all other props be imaginary and that the actors mime the use of them. In rehearsal, however, you should occasionally use real, physical props (or substitutes) in order to keep the mimed business accurate.
The actors in this play will find it a real challenge to play three different ages believably in the Title: Way to Miami, The in - Off-Off-Broadway Festival Plays - 23rd Series / COL Author: Steele, Donald Publisher: Samuel French 1999
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roy drama - death two characters one male; one female one act
'Wife reluctant to move because house is her last connection to dead son.'
Title: Way With Words, A in - The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL Author: Gilroy, Frank D. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1991
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roy drama three characters two male; one female three scenes
1 interior set.
'Man hopes friend will help him get his wife back.'
Title: Weird Sisters, The in - Glamorgan and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1996
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roy monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
'Monologue by woman who believes her unborn twin sister is living inside her skull.' Title: Whale Riding Weather in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 71, Summer 1992 / PER Author: MacDonald, Bryden Publisher: Miscellaneous 1992
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roy drama - homosexuality all male cast; three characters three male one act
"One day while sitting in a basement bar I noticed a man sitting alone - an elegant old queen with snowy hair perfectly sculpted around his translucent face. His eyes were empty. He remained very still, holding a brandy snifter while a steady stream of tears flowed down his cheeks. I found myself inventing his history, wondering what it must have been like for him growing up gay - maybe in a small village on the east coast. Had he been ridiculed by his peers? Disowned by his parents? This beautiful, unapproachable man at the bar had literally conjured Lyle, and that day
Title: Whale Watch in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
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roy Canadian two characters one male; one female one act
A photographer and a environmental activist come to terms whilst inside a whale.
Title: What Are You Doing in There? in - The Best American Short Plays 1999-2000 / COL Author: Silverstein, Shel Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
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roy drama - suicide three characters two male; one female one scene
A mother and father attempt to get their son out of the bathroom. Title: What Did He See? in - Unbalancing Acts / COL Author: Foreman, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1992
Description:
roy experimental three characters two male; one female one act
'Experimental play about importance of striving for goals even if they seem unattainable.'
Title: What She Found There in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: Glore, John Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
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roy fantasy two characters one male; one female one act
1 interior.
After having sex with young man, young woman reveals that a hundred and twenty years ago she traded places with Alice, who took her place in the Looking Glass World.
Title: What Use Are Flowers? in - Les Blancs / COL Author: Hansberry, Lorraine Publisher: Random House 1972
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roy drama - fable all male cast; two characters; extras one male; one boy five scenes
singing.
'Hermit, returning to the world after nuclear holocaust, finds the only survivors to be a group of children whom he tries to civilize.' Title: Wheat City in - Prairie Performance 3 / CCO Author: Mitchell, Ken Publisher: NeWest Press 1980
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roy Canadian - drama - prairies two characters one male; one female one act
No abstract available.
Title: Wheelchair in - Women Write For Theatre Volume One / CCO Author: Penman, Margaret Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
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roy Canadian - burlesque three characters two male; one female one act
'An old woman, confined to a wheelchair, is visited by two young men who act out their memories, briefly restoring her youth and helping her to come to terms with her life.'
Title: When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn't Want Me in - The Best American Short Plays 2001-2002 / COL Author: Oates, Joyce Carol Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2007
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roy drama - family relationships - recollections - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
A old woman recalls her past, and what happened after she was given away by her mother at an early age. Title: When it Comes Early in - The Best American Short Plays 1995-1996 / COL Author: Noonan, John Ford Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
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roy drama - brain injury two characters one male; one female one act
1 setting.
Husband's memories affected by brain surgery.
Title: Whispering Time, The in - Perfect Plastic and The Whispering Time / CCO Author: Snukal, Sherman Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
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roy drama - marital relations two characters one male; one female one act
"A young married couple, each obsessed with their own personal problems, wonder whether their marriage has come to an end."
Title: White Guy, The in - The Best American Short Plays 1997-1998 / COL Author: Hunt, Stephen Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act
Monologue about race and ethnicity. Title: White Kingdom, The in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993
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roy autobiographical drama three characters two male; one female one act
'It is an autobiographical play - it is a journey - that summer I satisfied my longing and went to Europe.'
Title: White Lies in - Best Short Plays of the World Theatre: 1958-1967 / COL Author: Shaffer, Peter Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc. 1968
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roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"A young man comes to a fortune teller, dragging along his friend. He doesn't want his fortune told, but he wants to bribe the fortune teller to frighten his friend so that he will give up his girl friend to him. The friend sees through the scheme, and both he and the fortune teller make a discovery about love."
Title: White Whore and the Bit Player, The in - Tom Eyen: Ten Plays / COL Author: Eyen, Tom Publisher: Samuel French 1971
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roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
'Flashbacks recall life of woman committing suicide in sanatorium. Self-image as nun and world's image of her as a whore are contrasted.' Title: Who Look in Stove in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Jeffery, Lawrence Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
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roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
"In 1928, the bodies of three men are discovered by prospectors. They had starved to death after misjudging the migratory patterns of caribou."
Title: Who Look in Stove in - Who Look in Stove and The Edgar Christian Diary / CCO Author: Jeffery, Lawrence Publisher: Exile Editions 1993
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roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
"In 1928, the bodies of three men are discovered by prospectors. They had starved to death after misjudging the migratory patterns of caribou."
Title: Wibbly, Wobbly, Wiggly Dance That Cleopatterer Did in - Andre's Mother and Other Short Plays / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1995
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roy drama - relationships all male cast; two characters two male one act
"...follows a lonely young man and a male hustler during their one night stand. Their meeting leads to a discussion, in detail, about the pros and cons of being with a man or a woman. Only one of them has any leanings towards true intimacy. Unfortunately, he isn't the one who is being paid, and after his rented partner leaves, he is left to mull over his bitterest feelings." Title: Widows' Scarlet in - One-Act Plays From Canadian History / CCO Author: Hooke, Hilda Mary Publisher: Longmans Canada Limited 1962
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roy Canadian - drama - historical three characters two male; one female one act
A widow has some fun with an older man who believes she is a witch.
Title: Wild Turkeys in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
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roy monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one scene
In this short, powerful, poetic monologue, Miranda, age 16, tells of being both fascinated and horrified by the grotesque wild turkeys that have been coming down from the woods on foggy mornings. She has a terrible premonition that they are messengers of death who've come to take the child that is growing inside her. But this terrifying vision is what helps her decide if she wants to keep her child.
Title: Window of Opportunity in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL Author: Augustine, John Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
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roy drama - relationships all female cast; two characters two female one act
'Unhappy wife learns her close friend and confidante had an affair with husband.' Title: Window, The in - Best Short Plays of the World Theatre: 1958-1967 / COL Author: Marcus, Frank Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc. 1968
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roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
'Blind recluse uses hired help to spy and report on activities in apartment of girl who once rejected him. Voyeurs report on girl's promiscuity sheer fabrication as girl in question has long since moved and this detailing of woman's infidelities is actually a homosexual's way of striking at the heterosexual.'
Title: Wines of Tuscany, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 97, Winter 1998 / PER Author: Alexandrowicz, Conrad Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998
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roy relationships - homosexuality all male cast; two characters two male one act
'A one-act dance-theatre duet for male performers.'
Title: Witch's Brew, A in - Haunted Lives / COL Author: Pielmeier, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1984
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roy horror three characters two male; one female one act suggested short play for high school
A boy, his sister and her boyfriend explore farmhouse basement for shallow grave they believe to be there. Title: Witness in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Maloney, Peter Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
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roy drama - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male five parts
An actor descends into madness.
Title: Woman Destroyed, The in - Plays by Women: Ten / COL Author: de Beauvoir, Simone adapted by Diana Quick Publisher: Methune 1994
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roy monologues - women - biography all female cast; one character one female fifteen parts
A monologue based on the life of Simone de Beauvoir.
Title: Woman in a Monkey Cage in - Voices from the Landwash / CCO Author: Stapleton, Berni Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997
Description:
roy drama all female cast; one character one female one act
'A disturbing story of entrapment and imprisonment. Moving from dancing to music and counting to ten, the play charts this prisoner's efforts to understand her predicament and her unseen watcher/s.' Title: Women in Motion in - Pitching to the Star and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1993
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roy drama - relationships two characters all female; two female one act
"Two 'women in motion' work together and take a tropical vacation together, surveying the territory and the men. When Monica reveals to Libby her crush on a co-worker, Mike, Libby takes little interest, but when Libby's island date sours, she interrupts Monica's fling to tell her Mike has no interest in Monica and, in fact, he gave Libby a long passionate kiss by the copy machine right before this trip. The women travel home in silence."
Title: Wonders of the Invisible World Revealed in - The Great Gromboolian and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1998
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roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
"A young housemaid is fascinated by a mysterious lodger whose room is full of strange bottles. He is wrapped in bandages with no flesh showing. Bad tempered and impatient yet compelling, the lodger torments her and then reveals his secret: he is invisible. She decides he is a dangerous lunatic until he describes some private moments in her bedroom. By turns funny and frightening, this dark love story reveals the wonder of of more than one sort of invisibility."
Title: Word Games in - Sally's Shorts / COL Author: Nemeth, Sally Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1995
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roy scene - women - comedy all female cast; two characters two female one scene
Two young women getting stoned, riffing on words and on the memories those words bring. Title: Work Play, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
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roy drama - contemporary all male cast; two characters two male one act
A young man has a questionable job interview.
Title: Wounded Do Not Cry, The in - The Best American Short Plays - 2003-2004 / COL Author: Mueller, Lavonne Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2006
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roy drama - war - nursing - biographical five characters one male; two female (doubling) one act
A play inspired by the life of Frances Slanger, forgotten hero of Normandy. Frances and Irene care for the wounded under fire. Frances nurses and dies with poetry.
Title: Wrecks in - Wrecks and other plays / COL Author: Labute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 2007
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roy drama - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act
A man in his mid-50s is mourning his wife's death. People often gossiped about the age difference between them - she was 15 years older - but Edward Carr didn't care, because "she was worth loving". He won her from her first husband after a fistfight, and they built a profitable business, which he calls his "kingdom", recovering and renting classic cars (the ostensible reason for the title). The sex was always mighty: he never tired of "being inside her". Yes, LaBute's taboo du jour is incest, and the play is a loose adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. (Karen Fricker, Title: Writing's On The Wall, The in - 1984 B.C. Young Playwrights Search / COL Author: Howatson, Rob Publisher: Association of B. C. Drama Educators 1984
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roy drama - Canadian political dialogue all male cast; two characters two male one act
There are two men, each belonging to a different radical group, and are fighting over who will write their message, in spray paint, on a wall.
Title: Yagayah:two.womyn.black.griots in - Testifyin: Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Young, Debbie Belvett, Naila Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
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roy friendship all female cast; two characters two female sixteen scenes
Traces friendship of two Jamaican women from 1984 to 1998.
Title: Yellow Wallpaper, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2001-2002 / COL Author: Kuritz, Paul Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2007
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roy drama - aging two characters one male; one female one act
In this adaptation of a Victorian short story, one woman struggles to overcome her growing unease and depression. Her husband's attentions as well as her mounting fear that an unseen "old woman" creeps to life behind the yellow wallpaper of her attic bedroom compound the situation as her frenzy feeds upon itself. Title: You Fancy Yourself in - Canadian Theatre Review 133, Winter 2008 / PER Author: Ardal, Maja Publisher: Miscellaneous 2008
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roy drama - friendship all female cast; eleven characters (doubling) one female one act
An imaginative girl tries to fit into her new country but discovers how hard it is to stay loyal to her friend in the process.
Title: Your Obituary is a Dance in - Humana Festival '95 / COL Author: Cummings, Benard Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
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roy drama - AIDS two characters one male; one female one act
1 setting.
African American man dying of AIDS returns to small East Texas Town.
Title: Yowl in - Dreams of a Drunken Quaker / CCO Author: Green, Michael Publisher: AB collector publishing 1992
Description:
roy monologue - male - Canadian all male cast; one character one male one scene
Experimental monologue. Title: Zac and Speth in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Chafe, Rick Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy relationships - drama two characters one male; one female one act
A couple relives their past relationship as runaways living in Vancouver.
Title: Zero Hour in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Milner, Arthur Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996
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roy drama - prisoner all male cast; three characters three male one act
Three men discuss their own dubious situation, drugs and the politcal state of things at a jail cell in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Title: Zero Hour in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 53, Winter 1987 / PER Author: Milner, Arthur Publisher: Miscellaneous 1987
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roy drama - prisoner all male cast; three characters three male one act
Three men discuss their own dubious situation, drugs and the politcal state of things at a jail cell in San Jose, Costa Rica. Title: Zimmer in - Pitching to the Star and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1993
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roy drama one character all male; one male one act
"We meet ZIMMER in the record store where he advises young buyers about the real rock and roll, before their time. He knows it all, and imparts his storehouse of knowledge while relating his experiences growing up: the expectations, his family, the friends who freaked out, the expectations, where he was when Kennedy died, his Bar Mitzvah, his girlfriend, and maybe a few more expectations. Always there is the music to tie it together, and tide him over."
Title: Zoo Story, The in - The American Dream and The Zoo Story / COL Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: New American Library 1958
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
suggested for high school.
"A man sits peacefully reading in the sunlight in Central Park. A second man enters, the antithesis of the first. He is young, unkempt and undisciplined vagrant, where the first is neat, ordered, well-to-do, conventional. The vagrant is a soul in torture and rebellion. He longs to communicate so fiercely that he alternately frightens and repels his listener. He is a man drained of all hope
Title: Zoo Story, The in - The Zoo Story and The Sandbox / COL Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1960
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roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A man sits peacefully reading in the sunlight in Central Park. A second man enters, the antithesis of the first. He is young, unkempt and undisciplined vagrant, where the first is neat, ordered, well-to-do, conventional. The vagrant is a soul in torture and rebellion. He longs to communicate so fiercely that he alternately frightens and repels his listener. He is a man drained of all hope who, in his passion for company, seeks to drain his companion. With ironic humour and unrelenting suspense, we see the young savage slowly but relentlessly bring his victim to his own