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1918

Foote, Horton

Dramatists Play Service Inc.

roydrama - family relationshipsthirteen characterssix male; seven femaletwo acts

Having been exempted from military service in World War I, Horace Robedeaux is back home inHarrison, Texas. He and his wife, Elizabeth, along with their infant daughter, are now settled in anew house built for them by Elizabeth's father, Mr. Vaughn. While their fortunes have improved,the nation reels from a spreading flu epidemic that soon reaches Harrison and infects Mr. Vaughnand Horace. During Horace's illness his daughter also contracts the flu and dies bringing to theyoung parents a sadness that even the armistice can do little to allay. In time Elizabeth becomes

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1984 Dalmar Biker War, The

McKerracher, Chris

Miscellaneous

roycomedy - Alberta playwright - Canadianeight charactersthree male; five female three acts

Running time: 90 minutes; 1 simple set.

The staff of a small rural town must fend off an attack by a biker gang.

The 1984 Dalmar Biker War is a great play for small town theatre troupes as it features charactersand dialogue instantly recognizable by audiences in rural communities. This single-set play

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Linney, Romulus

Theatre Communications Group

roydrama - war eight characters; extrassix male; two femaletwo acts

Hitler's second-in-command, Hermann Goering, at the Nuremburg trials.

in - Six Plays - Romulus Linney / COL

1993

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2 Lives

Laurents, Arthur

Back Stage Books

roydrama - LGBTQ+ - relationshipseight charactersfour male; four femaletwo acts

Matt Singer, a playwright and his long term partner Howard Thompson, a landscape gardener, arecelebrating Howard's birthday. But tragedy strikes.

in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents - COL

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20th Century Decorating, Architecture and Gardens

Seebohm, Caroline

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

reference - American - interior decoration - landscape architecture - architecture - 20th century

This enthralling panorama of the way we have lived for the past eighty years is a history of tastesince the birth of House & Garden at the beginning of the century. (This book) presents the mostdramatic and important developments in interior design, architecture, and gardens as they firstappeared to American and European readers. It brings to life most vividly the changing styles andfashions of each decade, from the richly ornate rooms in the Lewisohn and Roosevelt Houses inthe 1910s, to the spare, natural designs of Michael Taylor and John Dickinson in the 1960s and1970s. '20th-Century Decorating, Architecture & Gardens' is not only a dazzling visual documentabout decorating ideas that can be put into practice today, but, like looking through a window, italso reveals the intimate changes in the way people have lived in our extraordinary century.

80 years of ideas & pleasure from House & Garden

1980

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21: Growing Up Down

Miller, Michele Makrouhi

Dizzy Emu Publishing

roymusical play - musical theatre - romance - disabilities - Down syndrome - Alberta playwrighteight characters; voice doubles; extrasthree male; five female; two female singing voice doubles; one male singing voice doubleone act

running time: approx. 85 min.

Jane is a young woman with Down syndrome who dreams of a career on the stage. She lives withher devoted mother, Elaine, who thinks Jane's goals are unrealistic. New to town is Bob, the newlywidowed, alcoholic father of Max, who is also a young man with Down syndrome. Jane meets Maxat the musical theatre class she attends weekly, along with eight other Down syndrome students. A

A new one act musical play

2015

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4th Graders Present An Unnamed Love-Suicide, The

Graney, Sean

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - suicideseven characterstwo male; five femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior setting.

"When 4th grader Johnny shoots himself, he leaves behind a play as a suicide note that the kids inhis class are forced to perform as a memorial. As friends and bullies assume the roles of Johnnyand his classmates, a heartbreaking, darkly curious story emerges, offering a glimpse into themotivation behind Johnny's actions."

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9 Worst Breakups of All Time, The

McWethy, Ian

Playscripts, Inc.

roycomedy - relationshipslarge castflexible castingone act (ten scenes)

Minimal set.

"You think your breakup was bad? Eve Tonsil, an employee of the nonprofit company"Relationships for a Better Tomorrow" is here to take you on a tour of the nine worst breakups ofall time, from the Cro-Magnon era to the Civil War, to a smattering of modern-day breakups. Acomedy that proves that no matter how hard someone has stomped on your heart...it could always

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99 Histories

Cho, Julia

Duke University Press

roydrama - Korea - family relationseight charactersfive male; three femaletwo acts

Cho tells us what is, in many ways a classic mother-daughter relationship story. When Eunice,the daughter shows up pregnant long after running away from home, the mother, Sah-Jinencourages her to look forward and to rebuild her life. But the daughter cannot move on withoutfinding out about the past, especially about her mother's life in Korea and her father, who diedabruptly in Los Angeles. By immigrating to the United States, Sah-Jin attempted to forget both herpersonal past and Korea's history, and Eunice ran away from her mother in order to escape her

in - Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas / COL

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Abucuck

St. Maur, Gerald

Corpus Vocis Publications

roydrama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwrightall male cast; two characters two maleone act (nine scenes)

In 1617 Abacuck Prickett faces death by hanging for the pivotal role he played in the tragic, finalvoyage of Henry Hudson.

A one-act stage drama

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Accordion Shop, The

Jumbo, Cush

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

roydrama - young adultseven charactersflexible castingone act

age suitability: 15+

Mister Ellody has quietly kept his accordion shop going on his local high street for generations.One day, he steps out of his door and witnesses an extraordinary incident: hundreds of youngpeople are surging on to the street, and they've all received the same text message on theirphones which simply says: 'RIOT - THE ROAD - 7 PM TONIGHT'.

in - Connections 2015 / YCL

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Acquiesce

Yee, David

Playwrights Canada Press

roycomedy - Canadian - self - family - spiritualityten charactersthree male; one female (doubling)two acts

A moving story of tradition, family, and pain passed down through generations. Plagued by thesuccess of his first book and haunted by his past, Sin Hwang arrives in Hong Kong with someunusual cargo and a lot of emotional baggage. Featuring a surreal cast of characters, from afoul-mouthed Paddington Bear to a wisecracking Buddhist monk, this sharply comedic andheartbreakingly poignant tale of self, familial, and spiritual discovery reflects the cycles fromwhich we must all break free as we find our way.

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Act of God, An

Javerbaum, David

Dramatists Play Service

roycomedy all male cast; three characters three maleone act

The One with the first and last word on everything has finally arrived to set the record straight.After many millennia, and in just 90 minutes, God (assisted by His devoted angels) answers someof the deepest questions that have plagued mankind since Creation.

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Act Without Words I: a mime for one player

Beckett, Samuel

Pearson Education

roypantomime - solo performanceone character playone male or female one act

"Mime for one player. A man is alternately successful and frustrated in attempts to perform certainactions".

in - Plays Onstage / COL

2006

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Acting in Musical Theatre

Deer, Joe

Routledge

reference - acting - musical theatre

This book remains the only complete course in approaching a role in a musical. It coversfundamental skills for novice actors, practical insights for professionals, and even tips to helpveteran musical performers refine their craft.

A comprehensive course

2016

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Maruzzo, Joe

Applause Theatre Book Publishers

roydramatic comedy four charactersone male; three femaleone act

A man shows up at a casting office to get a part in a television production, and provides a stellaraudition.

in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL

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Actor, The

Foote, Horton

Overlook Press

roycomedy - actingfive charactersthree male; two femaleone act

This play tells the hilarious and moving story of a young man, bitten by the acting bug, who'llmake any sacrifice to keep his dream of a theatrical career from being crushed under the weight ofhis parents' expectations for him. It's a charming exploration of artistic ambition from one ofmodern theatre's greatest artists.

in - The Carpetbaggers' Children and The Actor / COL

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Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, The

Codrington, Lisa


royCanadian playwright - women - Godfifteen characterseleven male; four female (doubling possible)one act (five scenes)

Running time: 45 - 60 mins

Based on Bernard Shaw’s short story, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for Godfollows a black girl who is abandoned by a white missionary for asking too many questions.Taking matters into her own hands, the Black Girl sets off to find out who or what God really is.Along the way she meets a number of characters who have very different views on God, but the

in - Up the Garden Path and The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God /

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Afore Night Come

Rudkin, David

Oberon Books

roydramafourteen characterstwelve male; two female two acts

The harvest is ripe in a black country pear orchard. Seasoned hands settle to familiar tasks andthe ritual education of newcomers. But corrupted land yields a bitter crop. The weather turns,friction mounts and pesticide begins to fall... 'Afore Night Come' is a magnificent insight intohuman nature and a dark warning of our inability to avoid reaping what we have sown.

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Ages of the Moon

Shepard, Sam


roydramatic comedy - friendshipall male cast; two characters two maleone act (one scene)

"A gruff, affecting and funny play by Sam Shepard. Byron and Ames are old friends, reunited bymutual desperation. Over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love,friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a gun."

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Albert

Jones, Andy

Breakwater Books

roydrama - solo performanceall male cast; one characterone maleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

A man at home alone with his budgie tells a story.

in - Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, The / CCO

2016

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All in Little Pieces

Yearly, John

Samuel French

roydramatic comedyall female cast; two characters two femaleone act

Molly's trying to sell a house to Mary, but it soon becomes apparent that Mary not there to buy.The play becomes very engaging as the women talk and get to know each other. It almost seemsas if they're made for each other, but the action twists and suddenly Molly realizes that Mary isperhaps not as stable as she seems, in fact, that she's actually rather frightening.

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL

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All Over

Albee, Edward

Samuel French

roydramatic comedy - seniors - death - family relationsten characterssix male; four femaletwo acts

In an alcove of a town house a great man lay dying. In the anteroom, awaiting his death are hiswife, his mistress, his best friend, his feckless son and daughter. An elderly physician and anurse amend the family portrait, while newsmen eager for the latest updates and television crewsclamour off stage. They who stand the deathwatch recollect past loves, rekindle old wars andawait word that it is "all over".

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All the Bees and All the Keys

Reaney, James

Coach House Books

roystory - music - children - Canadianone narrator; musicians one male or femaleone act

Music by John Beckwith.

Concert work for children, for narrator, and symphony orchestra.

in - Scripts / CCO

2004

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All the Little Animals I Have Eaten

Hines, Karen

Coach House Books

roycomedy - womenall female cast; many charactersfour female one act

In this play, we follow Frankie, a sleep-deprived grad student and server on the toughest shift ofher life, slinging hyper-local food to insurance adjusters, well-heeled plagarists, equinemasseuses and other famished professionals. Inspired by the Bechdel-Wallace Test, this playfeatures an all female cast that includes dead writers, lionhearted lambs, and all manner of femaleorganisms. As Frankie tries, between tables, to finish her term paper entitled 'Why Women Aren'tFunny", she finds herself haunted by them all in this comedy that is as dark as blackened fugu and

in - Animals / CCO

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All the Ways to Say I Love You

LaBute, Neil

Overlook Duckworth

roydrama - solo performance - womenall female cast; one character one femaleone act

Mrs. Johnson is a high school English teacher in a loving marriage. As she recounts herexperiences with a favored student from her past, Mrs. Johnson slowly reveals the truth that ishidden just beneath the surface details of her life, in this riveting solo play about love, hardchoices, and the cost of fulfilling an all-consuming desire.

in - All the Ways to Say I Love You / COL

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All this Intimacy

Joseph, Rajiv

Samuel French

roycomedy - 21st century - friendship - sexsix characterstwo male; four femaletwo acts

unit set; setting - Brooklyn and Manhattan; suggested for Little Theatre/advanced groups.

Ty Greene is a normal guy with three very big problems. In an unprecedented (for him) run ofpromiscuity, Ty has managed to impregnate three women in the span of one week: hisex-girlfriend, his 40-something, married next-door neighbor, and his 18-year-old student. Inthis edgy comedy by playwright Rajiv Joseph, Ty's problems illuminate every triumph and failure

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Almost Like Being

Van Itallie, Jean-Claude

Grove Press Inc.

roycomedy - spoof - televisionfive characters; narratorthree male; two female one act

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A delightfully acerbic spoof of the unreal world of show business and the fraudulent sentimentfrom which it is contrived.

in - America Hurrah and other plays / COL

1978

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Alt-Visions, Kiss Before Clouding

Levin, Daniel F.


roycomedy - solo performance all male cast; one characterone maleone act

Man in binary coded relationship.


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Always a Bridesmaid

Jones, Jessie


roycomedyall female cast; six characters six femaletwo acts

Also written by Jamie Wooten.

In this hilarious comedic romp, four friends have sworn to keep the promise they made on thenight of their Senior Prom: to be in each other's weddings…no matter what. More than thirty yearslater, these Southern friends-for-life are still making "the long walk" for each other, determined tohonor that vow. Libby Ruth, the hopeful romantic with the perfect marriage, believes—in spite of

2013

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American Bagpipes

Heggie, Iain

Methune Drama

roycomedy - family relationsfour characterstwo male; two female two acts

Sandra Michigan has returned home to Glasgow from New Jersey. She wants to take her motherRena Nauldie away with her. Her Father Willie is a blokish police constable who bellows offstagefor his tea and calls his wife 'Bridget' to his but nobody else's amusement. Her brother Patrickcomes home after seven years in prison and a brief stint in southern England. He wants to see ifhe can stay in the same room as his father without hitting him.

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2003

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American Notes

Jenkin, Len


roydramaten charactersseven male; three femaleone act

Surrealistic view of contemporary America.

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American Tales

Stone, Ken

Samuel French

roymusical - dramatic comedy - relationships ten characters; chorusfour male; one female (doubling)two acts

running time - 90 mins. Book and lyrics by Ken Stone; music by Jan Powell.

American Tales features two classic American stories by Mark Twain and Herman Melville.

Act I, 'The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton,' is from Mark Twain's story of twopeople falling in love at a great distance with the aid of that brand-new invention, the telephone.

2008

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American Theatre Book of Monologues for Women


Monologues – American – women – auditions

Since 1984, America Theatre magazine has published more than 100 of the best new Americanplays by our most important playwrights. These plays, many of which were printed first in AT,provide actors with original and challenging material for their most rigorous auditions.

Contains monologues from the following plays and playwrights: Marisol – Jose Rivera ; AQuestion of Mercy – David Rabe ; Miss Evers’ Boys – David Feldshuh ; The Darker Face of the Earth– Rita Dove ; Abingdon Square – Maria Irene Fornes ; An American Daughter – Wendy Wasserstein; The Gimmick – Dael Orlandersmith ; The Marriage of Bette and Boo – Christopher Durang ;Tongue of a Bird – Ellen McLaughlin ; Buried Child – Sam Shepard ; The Colored Museum – GeorgeC. Wolfe ; The Waiting Room – Lisa Loomer ; In the Blood – Suzan-Lori Parks ; Reckless – Craig

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Amy's View

Hare, David

Faber and Faber

roydrama - family relationships six charactersthree female; three malefour acts

Psychological drama about strained relationship between famous British actress and her dutifuldaughter from 1979 - 1995. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the momentwhen the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter,Amy, with a new boyfriend sets in train a series of event which only find their shape sixteen yearslater.

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Anastasia - vocal selections

Ahrens, Lynn

Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation

Vocal selections from the musical - vocals - piano. Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by StephenFlaherty.

contains: A Rumor in St. Petersburg In My Dreams Learn To Do It My Petersburg Once Upon a December Stay, I Pray You We'll Go From There Still

Flaherty, Stephen

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Ancient Comedians and What They Have to Say to Contemporary Playwrights,

Martini, Clem


reference - comedy - playwrights - playwriting

Nobody invented a sense of humour; that's inherent. People have always laughed, joked, andshared comic stories. What the Ancient Greeks and Romans did, however, was to develop ways toexpress that comic sensibility in the theatre. Useful for those writing comedy for the theatre today,'The Ancient Comedians' explores the strategies used by the innovators who navigated the terrainthousands of years ago and made their mark on the craft.

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And Baby Makes Four

Farmer, Frank


roydrama - LGBTQ+three charactersone male; two femaleone act (three scenes)

A young lesbian's decision to have a child by a father of her choice is thwarted when he refuses todonate to a sperm bank, nearly forcing her to conceive 'conventionally,' much to the annoyance ofher older partner.


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And Bella Sang With Us

Stubbs, Sally

Scirocco Drama

roydrama - historical - biography - crimeten characters one male; four female (doubling, flexible casting) one act (sixteen scenes)

Flexible set.

"AND BELLA SANG WITH US by Playwright Sally Stubs is a stylish ‘cop’ play with a dark and wickedsense of humour and a shot of song, celebrates two of Canada’s unsung pioneers: ConstablesLurancy Harris and Minnie Miller, Vancouver’s first women police officers.It’s 1912. Constables Harris and Miller arrive in the area now known as Vancouver’s Downtown

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And Then Come The Nightjars

Roberts, Bea

Nick Hern Books

roydramatic comedy - farmingall male cast; two characters two malethree acts

"A tender, frank and funny play about a West Country farm struggling to survive the Foot andMouth pandemic. South Devon, 2001. Disease ravages the countryside, pyres are lit on thehorizon, and dairy herdsman Michael is trapped as his farm becomes a battleground for hisbusiness, his heritage, and his friendship with local vet Jeff. Ten years on and the battle scars areas evident on their relationship as they are on the landscape."

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Angel at My Door

Franceschini, John


roycomedytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A young woman shows up at a bookstore to prevent the unsuspecting owner's suicide in anunusual way.


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Annapurna

White, Sharr


roydrama - lovetwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (five scenes)

Flexible set.

After twenty years apart, Emma tracks Ulysses to a trailer park in the middle of nowhere for a finalreckoning. What unfolds is a visceral and profound meditation on love and loss with the simplestof theatrical elements: two people in one room. A breathtaking story about the longevity of love.

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Anne Boleyn

Brenton, Howard

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - historical - England - family relations - politicsseventeen charactersthirteen male; four female (doubling possible)two acts

period - the Court of King Henry VIII (1527-1536) and the Court of King James I (1603-1604).

A celebration of a great English heroine, 'Anne Boleyn' dramatises the life and legacy of HenryVIII’s notorious second wife, who helped change the course of the nation’s history. Traditionallyseen as either the pawn of an ambitious family manoeuvred into the King’s bed or as a predatormanipulating her way to power, Anne – and her ghost – are seen in a very different light in

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Another Country

Mitchell, Julian

Amber Lane Press

roydrama all male cast; ten characters ten maletwo acts running time: 2 hours

Another Country is set in an English public school in the early 1930's where future leaders arebeing prepared for their roles in the ruling class. Two of the central characters are outsiders: GuyBennett is coming to terms with homosexuality and Tommy Judd is a committed Marxist. Juddwants to abolish the whole system of British life; Bennett wants a successful career within it. The

1982

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Antigone

Sophocles

Pearson Education

royGreek tragedyeight characters; chorus six male; two femaleone act

1 exterior; verse; speaking chorus.

Greek tragedy in verse. Disaster follows refusal of Creon, King of Thebes, to permit burial of hisenemy, Antigone's brother.


2006

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Apple Cart, The

Shaw, George Bernard

Penguin Books

roycomedyfifteen charactersten male; five femaletwo acts

Subtitled A Political Extravaganza, this is Shaw's meditation on the nature of power as KingMagnus defeats an attempt by his popular Prime Minister Proteus to reduce his royal influence.Rather than become a cipher, he abandons his throne and runs for the office of Prime Ministerhimself.

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Approaching Zanzibar

Howe, Tina

Samuel French

roydramatic comedy - family relations nine characterstwo male; four female; two boys; one girltwo acts

This play by the author of Pride's Crossing, among others, follows the Blossom family as theytravel cross country to see Aunt Olivia, who has cancer. She is a renowned environmental artistwho creates enormous sculptures out of kites. The family camps along the way, having variousadventures and meeting relatives and strangers. When they arrive in Taos, New Mexico, Olivia isfading in and out of reality, or is she?

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Linney, Romulus


roycomedy - relationshipssix charactersfour male; two female one act

Bittersweet comedy about aging writer and women who have figured prominently in his life.


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Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Bleasdale, Alan

Faber and Faber

roydrama - American - 20th centuryfourteen charactersten male; four femaletwo acts

1 setting; singing.

This powerful new play counterpoints the last days of Elvis Presley - popping pills at Gracelands,eating gargantuan breakfasts in the middle of the night - with his early career as 'the white boywho sang like a Negro' and who swiftly became an international twentieth-century cult hero.

1985

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Aristophanes' Women in Congress

Tasca, Jules

Samuel French

roycomedyeight characters two male; six femaleone act (seven scenes)

simple set.

Hilarious version of Aristophanes' Greek classic. Praxagora, the leader of the women of Athens,plots to take over the government which is run by men and replace it with a new order run bywomen. Praxagora has the women of Athens dress up as men and vote in congress to turn overthe reins of leadership to the women. When this measure is passed, the women unanimously vote

Ecclesiazusae in a modernized version

1986

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Around The World In 80 Days

Eason, Laura

Nick Hern Books

roycomedy - adventure - historicallarge castfive male; three female (doubling); flexible casting two acts

"The fabulously wealthy Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg wagers his life's fortune that he cancircumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Along with his hapless valet Passepartout, he setsout on a dazzling escapade that takes him from the misty alleys of London to the exoticsubcontinent and on to the Wild West as they race against the clock on a dizzying succession oftrains, steamers, a wind-propelled sledge and an elephant."

2015

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As the Beast Sleeps

Mitchell, Gary

Nick Hern Books

roydramaseven characterssix male; one female one act (ten scenes)

Ulster Defence Association members Kyle and Freddie help the cause by robbing cigarettewarehouses and distributing the fags to selected clubs. With the UDA's push toward politicalacceptance under way, this sort of scam is now taboo. Freddie goes his own way and launches amasked raid on their local club. Kyle is recruited to carry out a punishment beating of his formerfriend.

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Assembled Parties, The

Greenberg, Richard


roydramatic comedy - family relationships nine characters; voicefive male; three female (doubling)two acts

THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES welcomes us to the world of the Bascovs, an Upper West Side Jewishfamily in 1980. In a sprawling Central Park West apartment, former movie star Julie Bascov and hersister-in-law Faye bring their families together for their traditional holiday dinner. But tonight,things are not usual. A houseguest has joined the festivities for the first time and heunwittingly—or perhaps by design—insinuates himself into the family drama. Twenty years later,as 2001 approaches, the Bascovs' seemingly picture-perfect life may be about to crumble. A

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At Home At the Zoo

Albee, Edward


roydramathree characterstwo male; one female two acts

flexible set.

Edward Albee delves deeper into his play THE ZOO STORY by adding a first act, HOMELIFE, whichprecedes Peter's fateful meeting with Jerry on a park bench in Central Park. THE ZOO STORY may beperformed independently. However, HOMELIFE may only be performed as part of the full lengthplay AT HOME AT THE ZOO.

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At the Exit

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydrama - fantasy - Italianseven characters; extrathree male; two female; one boy; one girlone act

Translated by William Murray; 1 exterior.

Apparitions of dead persons talk at cemetery entrance. They leave earth when they lose lastillusions.

in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL

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Attacks on the Heart

Laurents, Arthur

Back Stage Books

roydramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (seven scenes)

This new one-acter focuses upon an unlikely encounter between an American screenwriter and anattractive Turkish widow in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11.


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B'Hoys Do Macbeth

Ward, Jonathon

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

roydrama - Shakespeare - politics - New York City five charactersfour male; one femaleone act (two scenes)

"1849, an African-American entrepreneur caught between rival gangs of New York and the UpperTen Percent gets entangled in a Shakespearean-sized conflict that leads to the Astor Place Riot,one of the bloodiest in New York City's history."

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Baby Anger

Hedges, Peter


roycomedy - family relations - parentingnineteen charactersthree male; two female; two boys (doubling) two acts

"Bringing up baby" takes on new meaning for a successful young couple who start living theirlives through their baby boy when he is cast in an award-winning commercial—as a girl! Theirlives are turned upside down and the spoils of success bring unexpected results in thissurprising, twisted comedy. Told in twenty-seven scenes, beginning in the present and spanningten years, BABY ANGER presents a timely discourse on the trend of casting our children in theall-too-bright limelight.

1999

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Bach at Leipzig

Moses, Itamar

Samuel French

royfarce - music - historicalall male cast; seven characters seven maletwo acts

running time: more than 2 hours

Leipzig, Germany — 1722. Johann Kuhnau, revered organist of the Thomaskirche, suddenly dies,leaving his post vacant. The town council invites musicians to audition for the coveted position,among them young Johann Sebastian Bach. In an age where musicians depend on patronage fromthe nobility or the church to pursue their craft, the post at a prominent church in a cultured city is

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Bea

Gordon, Mick

Oberon Books

roycomedythree charactersone male; two femaleone act (eight scenes)

Bea is lively, naughty and full of life. When she asks something of her mother that no parentwould want to be asked, and of her only friend ‘Not Gay Ray’, they are both forced to challengethe boundaries of their own compassion.

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Becoming Cuba

Lopez, Melinda

StageSource

roydrama - historical - Latin America seven charactersthree male; three female; one boytwo acts

1 interior set; period - 1897.

"In 1897 Cuba on the eve of the Spanish-American War, spirited widow Adela runs a pharmacy,indifferent to the mounting conflict around her. But when the rebellion comes home to Havana,she must choose between loyalty to country or to family."

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Beirut

Bowne, Alan

Broadway Play Publishing

roydrama - death - sex - relationships three characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Set in an apocalyptic future where a young man named Torch has been quarantined to a dark,squalid room on the Lower East Side of New York City, after testing positive for a nameless,sexually transmitted disease. In his grimy cell which the locals refer to as “Beirut,” Torch passesthe time alone, forbidden from contact with the moral population of the outside world. Hisuninfected girlfriend, Blue, makes the dangerous journey across the quarantine line to be withhim. Torch tries to keep her at room’s length and for the next hour, they argue lovingly, jokingly,

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Bellavita

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydrama - revenge - Italiansix characters; extrasfive male; one femaleone act

1 exterior.

Baker revenges himself upon dead wife's former lover by excessive courtesy.


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Belly Up

Chafe, Robert

Breakwater Books

roydrama - disabilities - solo performance all male cast; one characterone maleone act (eighteen scenes)

1 interior set.

"A blind man is terrified of leaving his home. But he has a little mouth to feed, and he is quicklyrunning out of fish food. Digital video and an original score play backdrop to this one-man audiovisual feast."


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Below the Belt

Dresser, Richard

Samuel French

roycomedyall male cast; three charactersthree male two acts

Dobbitt has been posted to a dismal, distant place, a grim industrial compound thatuncomfortably resembles a prison where his quarters have bunks (one freezing cold and the otherboiling hot), a table, and an ancient typewriter. He is a checker; he checks though he has no ideawhat is being made with an irascible coworker who has been in this place for years. Their ineptboss possesses a singular talent for fomenting dissent. The comic interplay among these men,one bullying and truculent, one ambitious and evasive, and the third a trembling mass of

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Bend in the Road

St. Maur, Gerald


roydrama - Canadian - relationships - Alberta playwright three characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 interior set.

To widen a road, the City is determined to expropriate a duplex, the two halves of which haveoccupants who dislike each other as much as they dislike the City.

Winner! Alberta Culture Award for one-act plays, 1983.

A one act stage play

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Bert Brecht

Haas, Willy

Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.

reference - Bertolt Brecht - history - criticism

In this insightful study, the well-known drama critic and journalist, Willy Haas, examines Brecht'sstated aims in relation to the works themselves as well as to Brecht the man. Through the author'spersonal knowledge of Brecht, and of the environment which so greatly affected him, the readergains a new and important perspective on this complex figure.

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Beside Herself

Daniels, Sarah

Methuen Drama

roy drama - sexual abuse - women - mental illnessthirteen charactersfour male; five female (doubling)one act (eleven scenes)

St. Dymphna's is a halfway house for people with mental illness. On the board of managementthere sits Evelyn, an MP's wife, who is struggling desperately to make people like her; helping herfather round the house, acceding to colleagues' requests and absorbing the stress she is quiteobviously feeling, her innermost thoughts voiced to the audience by the otherwise unseen Eve.For it seems that Evelyn is also not well, the spectre of mental illness dogging her as she puts ona timid, polite manner and faces the world as though nothing is the matter. Named after the patron

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Best Monologues from the Best American Short Plays volume 1


monologues

"Best Monologues from the Best American Short Plays, Volume One" is for actors of all ages -beginners as well as seasoned veterans - and belongs in the libraries of all theatre teacherslooking for new and exciting material for their students. The monologues in this volume areexcerpted from the outstanding series 'The Best American Short Plays', an archive of works frommany of the best playwrights active today, presenting taut, engaging single-character pieces thatrange from zany comedy to poignant tales of love and loss. Each monologue includes a referenceidentifying where to locate the entire play, should anyone choose to pursue production beyondthe monologue. Long or short, serious or not, this collection is must-have material for anyoneinterested in acting. The monologues also succeed as excellent companions for the casual reader.

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monologues

This second volume of monologues from The Best American Short Plays series features a diverseselection drawn from outstanding works by many of today's best American playwrights. In thesemonologues, the playwrights capture much of the flavors, feelings and thoughts of Americanculture over the past several decades. The result is a collection of taut, compelling monologuesoffering fascinating perspectives. They are written with an eye toward the stage that makes themexceptional source material for actors, young and old alike. And they offer a freshness anddirectness that make them excellent companions for readers attracted to good, often quirky, andalways engaging contemporary literature.

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monologues

This is a collection of monologues drawn from the popular Best American Short Play series, anarchive of works from many of the best playwrights active today. Long or short, serious or not,excerpts or entireties, the monologues in this collection abound in speech acts that may triggerphysical reactions and almost certainly will transform an attitude or two, drawing out lostmemories, creating new ones, and definitely entertaining, engaging, amusing us all along the way.

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Between

Guare, John


roydramatwo charactersflexible castingone act

Two people share a meal and a past crime.


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Between East and West

Nelson, Richard


roydrama - immigrantstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (eighteen scenes)

1 interior; period - 1983.

A Czech theatre director and his actress wife find difficulties in adapting to new life in theUnited States.

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1986

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Between Riverside and Crazy

Guirgis, Stephen Adly


roydark comedy - American - life seven charactersfour male; three femaletwo acts

"City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the Landlord wants him out, the liquor store isclosed, and the Church wont leave him alone. As ex-cop and recent widower Walter PopsWashington struggles to hold on to one of the last great rent stabilized apartments on RiversideDrive, he must also contend with old wounds, new houseguests, and a final ultimatum. It seemsthe old days are dead and gone — after a lifetime living between Riverside and Crazy." - Publisher

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Mayer, Nathan

Dramatic Publishing Company

roydrama - mysterythree characterstwo male; one female two acts

What is the role of the justice system? Must justice be served without regard to human subtleties?Where is the line between establishing a standard and making sure the system is just, and relatingto crime on a human level to see its roots and effects? Assistant prosecutor Kenneth Hayes hasbeen assigned to the case of Ruth Ballard, an old flame and former law school classmate. The twocould not have more differing views on the law. Both consider themselves crusaders for justice. InKen's view, this is best done through vigorous and unemotional prosecution of those accused of

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Big Knife, The

Odets, Clifford

Samuel French

roydrama - success - moralstwelve characterseight male; four femalethree acts

We witness the last few days of Charlie Castle, a top movie star and an idealist, whose years ofcompromise with his beliefs for the sake of a Hollywood career have resulted in the slowdestruction of his personality. We see his struggles to escape from the net of insincerity andfalsehood in which he has trapped himself, and his ultimate defeat.

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Bingo

Bond, Edward


roydrama - Shakespeare - high school - biographytwelve charactersseven male; five femaletwo acts

Approximate running time: 70 mins Concerns the last days of Shakespeare when he has retired to Stratford and is tormented by thecruelties to his family and his own achievements.

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Bingo Ladies (score)

Tilly, Grant

Playwrights Guild of Canada

Musical score for Bingo Ladies.

2015

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Birds and the Bees, The

Crawford, Mark

Scirocco Drama

roycomedy - Canadian - family relations - life - lovefour characterstwo male; two femaletwo acts

Sarah’s marriage is over, and she’s just moved back home to the farm with her beekeeper mother,Gail. As the women try to adjust to the many changes in their world, their lives are complicated bythe community’s last-ever Turkey Days celebration, beehive troubles, an eccentric neighbour, anda handsome young researcher. "The Birds and the Bees" is a laugh-out-loud comedy with a huge,honeyed heart.

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Birds, The

McPherson, Conor

Nick Hern Books

roydrama four characterstwo male; two femaleone act (fifteen scenes)

Mysterious flocks of birds have begun to attack at high tide, driving strangers Nat and Diane totake refuge in an isolated, abandoned house by the sea. They quickly form a bond as they attemptto survive in their new circumstances. But with no electricity and a scarcity of food, the tension ispalpable and hope is waning. The sudden arrival of a mysterious young woman, Julia, rufflesfeathers in the house and quickly threatens to destroy their so-called sanctuary.

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Black Dog: 4 vs The World

Heiti, Matthew


roydrama - mental illnessfive charactersthree male; two femaleone act (nine scenes)

Simple set.

"The Breakfast Club meets Shirley Jackson in a fusion of live theatre and technology that tells adarkly comic but hopeful story of four teenage outsiders struggling with death, depression andthe shadow of a black dog. Two is fraught. While dealing with the impossible expectations of herparents, she is trying to understand why her brother, a bright and talented teenager, has taken his

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Black Powder

Deverell, Rex

Coteau Books

royCanadian - Saskatchewan - History - coal miningten characterssix male; four femaletwo acts

"A forceful and controversial look at the famous Estevan strike of 1931."

Estevan 1931

1981

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Blood Moon

Kazan, Nicholas

Samuel French

roydrama - revengethree characterstwo male; one female two acts

Based on a true story. Manya, 19 and a college senior arrives with her sole surviving family (UncleGregory) at the swank New York apartment of Gregory's gangster friend Alan who is immediatelyattracted to Manya, and she's intrigued by him: an older man who's suave, cynical andcharismatic. After a respectable interval, Gregory leaves. Alone with her, Alan cajoles Manya intorevealing herself and then attacks her, first destroying her innocence and then raping her. A yearlater, Manya now in medical school, invites Alan to dinner and flirts with him, seemingly toying

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Blood Relations

Pollock, Sharon

NeWest Press

roydrama - Canadian - Alberta playwrighteight charactersfour male; four femaletwo acts

"Lizzie Borden is driven to desperation by family pressure and the ambiguous complexitiesunfold as Lizzie's actress friend helps act out the crucial scenes with Lizzie's directions."

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Blue Stockings

Swale, Jessica

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - historical - women - Britain - educationtwenty characters; extrasnine male; nine female (doubling)two acts

with the exception of two female characters, all parts can be doubled and the play can be stagedwith approximately twelve actors; setting - 1896 Girton College, Cambridge, home to Britain's firstfemale university students.

A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education andself-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage. 1896. Girton College,

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Blue Stockings: Guide for Studying and Staging the Play

Swale, Jessica

Nick Hern Books

reference - study and teaching - production

Jessica Swale's 'Blue Stockings' is the empowering and surprising story of four young womenfighting for their right to a university education in a world that assumed women belonged athome. First produced professionally at Shakespeare's Globe in 2013, and a sell-out success, it isnow regularly performed by theatre groups in the UK and beyond, and widely studied by GCSEDrama students. This 'Page to Stage' guide, written by the playwright, who also directed the firstproduction at RADA, along with her assistant director Lois Jeary, is packed with contextualinformation, scene-by-scene and character breakdowns, and personal insights into the world ofthe play and the real lives that inspired it. An invaluable resource for those studying and stagingthe play, it takes you through the entire production process, considering each of the elements inturn, from sound and music to design and rehearsals. You'll also find notes from the original

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Bluebirds

Thiessen, Vern


roydrama - Canadian - war - women all female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

Thiessen brings to light the stories of three Canadian nurses who crossed oceans to take care ofothers in the war. Bonding over their duties and patients, the nurses keep up a positiveatmosphere, even as the front line draws closer to their field hospital.

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Bolsheviks, The

Shatrov, Mikhail

Nick Hern Books

roypolitical drama - historical - Lenin - Soviet Union - USSRtwenty-eight characterstwenty-four male; four femaletwo acts

1 setting.

'Second play in trilogy about Lenin's rule in the Soviet Union. Depicts aftermath of nearlysuccessful attempt on Lenin's life'. - Play Index

in - The Bolsheviks and Other Plays / COL

1990

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Bombay Black

Irani, Anosh


roy drama - dance - India three charactersone male; two femaletwo acts

"Apsara, Bombay's most infamous dancer, lives with her iron-willed mother Padma in an apartmentby the sea. Padma takes money from men so they watch her daughter perform a mesmerizing dace.Apsara's extraordinary beauty and erotically charged dancing cast a powerful spell over herwealthy and famous clientele. One day, a mysterious blind man named Kamal visits for a privatedance. His secret link to their past threatens to change each of their lives forever. At turns lyricaland brutal, BOMBAY BLACK charts the seduction of Apsara by Kamal, and Padma's violent enmity

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2017

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Boogie Woogie Landscapes

Shange, Ntozake

Penguin Books

royblack theatre - drama - verseseven characters three male; four femaleone act

1 interior.

Explores in poetry, dance, music, and song the feelings and fantasies of a young black womanwho is visited in her bedroom by nightlife companions representing dreams and memories.

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1981

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Book Club

Da Silva, Kristen


royCanadian - comedy - friendship - romancesix charactersthree male; three femaletwo acts

running time: 80 min.

Josh joined Book Club to get close to Annie. Small issue: Annie is oblivious to Josh's feelings forher... and she's engaged to another man. When Josh's two buddies - a womanizing trainer and aheartbroken nerd - realize book club is a novel place to meet women, the ensuing gatheringmakes for a fast-paced comedy about friendship, first impressions, and figuring out what we

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Book of Grace, The

Parks, Suzan-Lori


roydrama - family relationsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act (ten scenes) 1 interior set.

"Encouraged by his stepmother to return home to South Texas, a young man reunites with hisabusive father, unearthing an explosive combination of deep-seated passion and ambition."

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Bootlegger Blues, The

Taylor, Drew Hayden

Fifth House

royyoung adult - comedy - Canadian - Native peoplessix charactersthree boys; three girls two acts

'This comedy is about love, family, and what to do with too much beer. Set on a reserve, it followsthe plight of Martha, a church-going, teetotaling woman who finds herself stuck with 143 cases ofbeer after a church fundraiser fails. She decides to bootleg the beer, to the horror of her sonAndrew, nicknamed Blue, who is a special constable on the reserve. Meanwhile, Andrew has fallenfor a young woman he thinks is his cousin, and his sister Marianne is bored with her "IndianYuppie" husband and finds herself attracted to a handsome dancer at the powwow. The pace is

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Bootycandy

O'Hara, Robert

Samuel French

roysatire - dramatic comedy - LGBTQ+twenty-two charactersthree male; two female (doubling)two acts

unit set; period - 1970s to present day.

Robert O'Hara's semi-biographical subversive comedy tells the story of Sutter, who is on anoutrageous odyssey through his childhood home, his church, dive bars, motel rooms, and evennursing homes. O'Hara weaves together scenes, sermons, sketches, and daring meta-theatrics tocreate a kaleidoscope that interconnects to portray growing up gay and black. Robert O'Hara’s

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Boris Godunov

Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich

Oberon Books

roydrama - Russia - history - tragedy large castflexible castingone act (twenty-three scenes)

Pushkin's great history play recounts the tragic conflict between Tsar Boris and the pretenderDimitri. Following the death of Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov became regent for thefeeble-minded Tsar Fyodor. Dmitri, the heir to Fyodor's throne, died mysteriously, and Boris wassuspected of murdering him. When a renegade monk later claims to be Dimitri, he soon becomesa focus for widespread revolt. Pushkin's dramatic account is filled with dazzling poetry and anearthy realism.

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2002

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Bosoms and Neglect

Guare, John


roycomedythree charactersone male; two female two acts

3 interior sets.

A middle-aged man who is trying to deal with the impending death of his mother from cancerpicks up a fellow patient of his psychiatrist's to help him through the crisis and ends up takingout his frustrations out on her.

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Botticelli in the Fire

Tannahill, Jordan


roy drama - historical - Canadian playwrightsix charactersfour male; two female one act (twelve scenes)

While painting The Birth of Venus, famed artist and bon-vivant Sandro Botticelli becomesentangled in sexual and political brinkmanship that puts a lot more than his masterpiece at stake.

in - Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom / CCO

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Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Bolen, Lynne


roydramasix characterstwo male; one femaleone act (seven scenes)

A teacher and underage student on a date flee to avoid another student. Later, they fail to providethis student's alibi for a murder he is accused of, and twenty years later, the teacher and theconvicted student meet.


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Bound East for Cardiff

O'Neill, Eugene

Vintage Books

roydramaall male cast; eleven characterseleven maleone act

Description not available.

in - Seven Plays of the Sea / COL

1972

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Boy Preference, The

Cook, Elinor


roydrama - young adultlarge castflexible castingone act (fifteen scenes)

Age suitability: 13+.

in an affluent suburb in the near future, the birth of a boy is welcomed with shouts andfirecrackers, but when a girl is born the neighbours say nothing. One night, Joey looks out of hisbedroom window and sees many young women with a strange glow around them - are they the'missing women'? Why have they come back?


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Boys in the Band, The

Crowley, Mart

Alyson Publications

roydrama - LGBTQ+all male cast; nine characters nine maletwo acts

1 interior.

Eruption of personal frictions among a group of homosexuals giving a birthday party for one oftheir number.

in - The Band Plays - COL

2003

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Broadway and Hollywood

Sharaff, Irene

Van Nostrand Reinhold

reference - costumes - designs and plans

The only costume designer who has worked equally on Broadway and Hollywood, Irene Sharaffhas a unique record. Her prodigious output over the last forty years - some 56 Broadway shows,28 major Hollywood films, and 17 ballets for the leading US companies has helped to shape thecostume designer roles as we know it. This remarkable account of her star-studded career leadsreaders backstage and into the dressing rooms of a dazzling array of such stage and screennotables as Gypsy Rose Lee, Judy Garland, Yul Brenner, Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, GertrudeLawrence, Gene Kelly, Barbara Striesand, and many others. Presented here are Miss Sharaff'spersonal and professional notes on her apprenticeship to Aline Berstein and first steps toBroadway in the thirties and Hollywood in 1942, and on the training of eye, mind, and hand inmetier of costume designing - from drawing board to choosing materials, from fittings to the final

Costumes designed by Irene Sharaff

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Brownsville song (b-side for tray)

Lee, Kimber

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - African-Americansix characterstwo male; two female; one girl (doubling) one act (fourteen scenes)

"Set in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, BROWNSVILLE SONG (B-SIDE FOR TRAY) is apowerful tale of resilience in the face of tragedy. Moving fluidly between past and present, thisbold new play tells the story of Tray, a spirited African-American 18-year-old and his family, whomust hold on to hope when Tray's life is cut short. Kimber Lee's lyrical social drama about theshocking death of a young African-American teenager is a poignant story for our time, anddemands the attention of audiences far and wide."

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Buddies

Gallagher, Mary


roydrama - relationships - coming of age six charactersthree male; three femaleone act

The setting is the cluttered living room (and front porch) of an old frame house near the campusof a Catholic men's college in the Midwest. It is a summer night in the pre-Vietnam sixties, and theoccupants of the house, three laid-back male students are filling in their time with beer and rockmusic while waiting for classes to begin. They are visited by several young local ladies of theiracquaintance, and while the resulting repartee is lively and often hilarious, deeper concerns aresoon revealed. One of the girls, shy and a bit awkward, is unable to convey her feelings to one of

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Bunked!

Kunin, Alaina

Samuel French

roymusical - comedy - coming of agefive charactersthree male; two femaleone act (sixteen scenes) Simple set.

"A touching coming of age comedy about five summer camp counselors during that pivotalsummer before the beginning of college. With easily relatable characters experiencing their firsttastes of independence and a catchy pop score, Bunked! taps into the uncertainty of trying to findoneself while forging first adult relationships. Exploring themes of first loves, growing up, and

The musical

2011

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Buyer and Cellar

Tolins, Jonathan


roycomedy - friendship - fame - solo performance all male cast; one characterone maleone act (one scene)

Simple set.

"Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in L.A., he takes a job working in the Malibubasement of a beloved megastar. One day, the Lady Herself comes downstairs to play. It feels likereal bonding in the basement, but will their relationship ever make it upstairs? BUYER & CELLAR isan outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs."

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Caitiline

Ibsen, Henrik

Forgotten Books

roydrama - verse playthirteen characters; extrastwelve male; one femalethree acts

Blank-verse historical drama in three acts.

The play sympathetically depicts Catiline, that much maligned figure of Roman antiquity,concentrating on his inner torments. Bitter and vengeful, rejected by his country and incited by afallen vestal virgin, Furia, who seeks his destruction, Catiline leads an ill-fated band ofmalcontents in an abortive rebellion against the corrupt and authoritarian Roman Senate. Betrayed

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2012

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Caligula

Camus, Albert

Samuel French

roydrama - historicalfifteen charactersthirteen male; two femaletwo acts

'A study in tyranny. Caesar demands the impossible from his subjects and meets his death.'

1961

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Camberwell House

Roper, Amelia


roycomedy - aging - seniors - solo performanceall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

Elderly neighbors Annie and Olive have been friends since they were children. At twenty, theyagreed to "knock each other off" if they were still alive at seventy-five. Now they are seventy-fiveand one of them has changed her mind. A tale of old age, murder, and ginger nut biscuits.

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2015

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Canada and the Theatre of War v. 2


roy - collection - Canadian - war

This second volume of Canadian war drama focuses on plays about contemporary warfare.

includes: Game of Patience - Abla Farhoud (translated by Jill Mac Dougall) A Line In the Sand - Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef The Monument - Colleen Wagner Palace of the End - Judith Thompson Scorched - Wajdi Mouawad (translated by Linda Gaboriau) Man Out of Joint - Sharon Pollock

Contemporary wars

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Canada Dash, Canada Dot

Reaney, James

Coach House Books

roymusic - Canadian - Canadafour characters; singerstwo male; one female; one boyone act (three parts)

music by John Beckwith.

Intended for radio a collage where disparate musical and poetic ideas are juxtaposed andsuperimposed, operating in real' time yet traversing freely along a continuum that includes pastand present. The resulting mosaics are more than just sound experiences they are also eloquentand compassionate interrogations of Canadian identity. In the second section of Canada Dash,

in - Scripts / CCO

2004

Beckwith, John

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Canada's Playwrights

CTR Publications

reference - Canada - playwrights - playwriting

A totally unique guide to Canada's major playwrights put together by the editors of the CanadianTheatre Review. Documenting some 70 writers, the volume includes basic biographical material, alisting of each writer's plays to date including date of composition, date of first performance anddate of composition, date of first performance and date of publication as well as full bibliographicinformation on each writer's non-dramatic material. The first such guide of its type to bepublished in Canada. An essential reference for anyone dealing with Canadian dramatic literatureof the last half century.

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Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies


reference - theatre - Canada - Acting

As Canada celebrates its 150th centenary in 2017, 'Canadian Performance Histories andHistoriographies' asks what currently defines the field of theatre and performance history inCanada?

Challenging the idea of a singular narrative of Canadian theatre history and centering onquestions of historiography and methodology, the essays in this collection investigateperformances that have been excluded from mainstream theatre histories and re-evaluatewell-known theatre movements to explore cultural memory. This collection asks, how do weremember performances of the past and why do some stories survive while others have beenlargely forgotten? Contributors draw on recent critical developments in performance studies,

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2017

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Cant and Canto

St. Maur, Gerald


roydrama - Canadian - monologue - biography - Alberta playwrightall male cast; one characterone malefour acts

masks required.

A monodrama tracing the dramatic events in the controversial life of Ezra Pound [a poet].

A monodrama

2015

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Careless Love

Olive, John

Samuel French

roydrama - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaletwo acts

Here is a play about commitment and responsibility in love. Jack, an aspiring actor is seriousabout his career but not about his girlfriend Martha, an aspiring dancer. They drift along on acloud of good times until Martha gets pregnant. By the time Jack realizes he wants to make anemotional commitment to Martha and their child, she has had the baby and put it up for adoption.Martha becomes a self sufficient contemporary woman; it is Jack who will hurt forever from thepain of eternal separation from his child.

1988

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Carnival, The

Galin, Alexander


roycomedyseven charactersone male; six femaletwo acts

This play is a rare mix of farce and pathos presenting an extraordinary cross section of humanity.Two trios of women meet in Venice as an evening of Carnival begins. Three are sticking withSoviet life for better or (much) worse, the others have opted for the 'carnival' in the West. Off stagefireworks, gondoliers and seductive music accompany this wild, often funny mingling of humantypes and motives united only by their Russian origins. Yet, out of this chance encounter at whatis momentarily the border between two worlds, something quite wonderful occurs. In the grand

1993

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Carpetbagger's Children, The

Foote, Horton

Overlook Press

roydramatic comedy - family relationships - women - monologuesall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

In funny, moving, engaging monologues, three sisters spin the tale of their family and an era.Their father, the eponymous carpetbagger, was a former Union soldier who used his post ascounty treasurer and tax collector to amass a Texas plantation of twenty thousand acres.Preserving that plantation through the vicissitudes of their lives becomes a central issue for hisdaughters, Cornelia, Grace Anne and Sissie. With echoes of The Three Sisters and King Lear, THECARPETBAGGER'S CHILDREN explores the bonds of a family to the land that has shaped their

in - The Carpetbagger's Children & The Actor / COL

2003

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Casseroles of Far Rockaway, The

Bauer, P. Seth

Samuel French

roycomedy - family relationshipsfour charactersone male; three femaleone scene

Mass confusion reigns as a family finds out just what happens to those casseroles a daughterbrought over for her widowed father.


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Cat Among the Pigeons

Feydeau, Georges

Samuel French

royfarcetwenty charactersthirteen male; seven femalethree acts

The lady has two lovers: a ne'er do well who is secretly affianced to a Baroness' daughter and aflamboyant Spanish general who challenges to a duel any man who comes near her. An amateurcomposer who hopes the lady will sing his song places his card in a bouquet sent anonymouslyand thereby seals his fate: the ne'er do well uses him to divert the general's flashing sword.Meanwhile, the ne'er do well is trapped in his skivvies outside his apartment. When the cops cometo arrest him for indecent exposure, you can be sure it is the songwriter who goes to jail. The

1970

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Catch a Tiger

Boisvert, Nathalie


roydrama - identity - Canadian - women playwrightsfour charactersone male; three femaleone act (thirty five short scenes)

Original title: L'histoire sordide de Conrad B.

Conrad B. is 34 years old, and eats, sleeps, works and watches TV under his dominating mother'sglare. Each and every night, he locks himself in the garage and plays " G.I. Joe ", his boiling innerrage just waiting for a spark to burst into flame. Will Lynda, a new employee at the shop he worksfor, succeed in saving him from his self imposed slavery?

in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO

2010

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Catch Me If You Can - vocal selections

Shaiman, Marc


Vocal selections from the musical.

Music by Marc Shaiman; lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.

Includes:

Live in Living Color / The Pinstripes Are All That They See / Someone Elses's Skin / Jet Set / Don'tBreak the Rules / Butter Outta Cream / The Man Inside the Clues / Christmas is My Favorite Time ofYear / Doctor's Orders / Don't Be a Stranger / Little Boy, Be a Man / Seven Wonders / (Our) FamilyTree / Fly, Fly Away / Goodbye / Stuck Together (Strange But True) / Fifty Checks

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Cats

Webber, Andrew Lloyd

Faber and Faber

reference - musical - costume - set design - Cats

Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical 'Cats,' based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot,has been acclaimed for every aspect of its production - music, choreography, staging and design.This unique book stunningly sums up the experience of 'Cats.' As well as extracts from thelibretto there are written contributions by the composer himself, and by Valerie Eliot, TrevorNunn, Gillian Lynne and John Napier. The pages are lavishly illustrated with Mr. Napier'sphotographs, specially take for the book, and with some of his original costume designs.

The book of the musical

1981

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Cavedweller

Ryan, Kate Moira


roydrama - family relationseighteen characterstwo male; six female (doubling)two acts

Adapted from the bestselling novel by Dorothy Allison, CAVE DWELLER follows Delia Byrd, theforty-year-old lead singer of the group Mud Dog whose rock-star boyfriend has just died in anaccident, as she decides to leave Los Angeles and return home to rural Georgia with her teenagedaughter, Cissy, in tow. Back in Georgia is the ex-husband, now dying of cancer, and the twodaughters, Dede and Amanda, that Delia abandoned fourteen years ago. Dede, who seems mostlike her mother, is the wild and rebellious one, fast on the road to becoming an alcoholic and the

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Cell

Klass, Judy

Samuel French

roydrama - mysterysix charactersfour male; two femaletwo acts

"Cell is a murder mystery - to about the same extent that Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is a murdermystery. It is not a dinner theater kind of cozy murder mystery; it is a drama, with some humor,about brothers, one a Gen Xer and one a Baby Boomer, and the whodunit aspect is part of thepainful war of wills and the cat and mouse game between them. Lieutenant Rodriguez questionsDennis Kadman about his older brother Michael, who has OD'd on heroin in Dennis' apartment.Dennis wants to know: who gave Michael the drugs? Michael was a cunning, manipulative addict.

2009

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Cerceau

Slavkin, Viktor


roydramaseven charactersfive male; two femalethree acts

In this wryly melancholic drama, a Moscow engineer named Rooster invites a group of hiscontemporaries to spend a weekend in the country at the dacha he's just inherited. Theyphilosophize and flirt and dance. They don old clothes from the attic, and when th attic yields upthe implements of cerceau -- hoops to be tossed in the air and wooden swords to catch them --they try their hand at the old French game, too. By the end of the weekend, they've all behaved alittle foolishly, desperately even, and the smiles of a late summer's night have begun to harden.

1980

translated by Fritz Brun and Laurence Mason

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Cerveau Félé 101 / Broken Brain 101

Claude, Nathalie


roydrama - LGBTQ+ - solo performance - womenall female cast: one characterone femaleone act

Running time: 22 minutes; text in both French and English.

Claude experiments with a straitjacket, a loaf of bread, and an imaginary alter ego.

in - Queer Play / CCO

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Changes of Heart (The Double Inconstancy)

Marivaux

Samuel French

roycomedy - romanceseven charactersfour male; three femalethree acts

translated and adapted by Stephen Wadsworth.

Marivaux's fabulous Harlequin pursues his country love Silvia to the palace, where the lovelornPrince holds her against her will. Flaminia, an intriguer at court, attempts to reroute the affectionsof both Silvia and Harlequin, whose take no prisoners belligerence is softened and transformed.None expect such huge and costly changes of heart and, at the end of a hilarious day full of

1999

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Changing Room, The

Storey, David

Penguin Books

roydrama - British - sportsall male cast; twenty-two characterstwenty-two malethree acts 1 interior set.

'This play depicts the life in a changing room of a rugby team before, during and after a majorgame.'

in - Home; The Changing Room; and Mother's Day / COL

1978

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Chee-Chee

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roycomedy - Italianthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 interior.

Philanderer elaborately tricks prostitute to avoid paying her.


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Chekhov Sketchbook, The

Kadison, Luba

Samuel French

roydrama - comedy - storytellingeight charactersseven male; one female (doubling possible)three acts

A dramatization of three stories by Anton Chekhov: The Vagabond; The Witch and In a MusicShop.

The Vagabond: Prisoner being taken to Siberia seduces guards with fantastic tale of his boyhoodand then returns to his role of captive.

1980

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Childe Byron

Linney, Romulus


roydrama - family relations - fantasyeight charactersfour male; four femaletwo acts

Dying of cancer and stimulated by drugs, Lord Byron's daughter summons her father to life inattempt to find the truth behind the myth. Background music. Prologue.


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Children

Gurney, A.R.


roydramatic comedy - family relationsfive characterstwo male; three femaletwo acts

The action takes place in the summer home of a wealthy "WASP" family on a resort island off theNew England coast. In residence are a middle-aged but still attractive widow; her divorceddaughter; and her prep school teacher son and his wife. Their pleasant regimen is interrupted bytwo jarring events: the mother's announcement that she plans to marry an old family friend (whichmeans that the house will then pass to her children); and the unexpected arrival of her youngerson and his family. The younger son, "Pokey," has always been out of step with the rest of the

1977

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Children's Plays from Favorite Stories

Plays, Inc.

Collection - children - royalty-free

contains: The Silver Coffeepot - Karin Asbrand / Pandora's Box - Karin Asbrand / Old Mother Hubbard -June Barr / Rapunzel - June Barr / The Three Little Kittens - June Barr / The City Mouse and theCountry Mouse - Rowena Bennett / Rumplestiltskin - Rowena Bennett / The Toungue-Cut Sparrow- Loretta Camp Capell / The Girl Whose Fortune Sought Her - Patricia Clapp / The DancingPrincesses - Caroline H. Corey / The Emporer's Daughters - Cena Christopher Draper / The KingWho Wouldn't be Fooled - Josef A. Elfenbein / Puss-In-Boots - Josef A. Elfenbein / A Dish for theKing - Mildred Hark and Noel McQueen / The Girl from the Sea - Dorothy Heiderstadt / TheGolden Goose - Ruth Vickery Holmes / The Heir of Linne - Ruth Vickery Holmes / The King andthe Miller - Ruth Vickery Holmes / The Crowded House - Eva Jacob / Robin Hood Tricks the

Royalty-free dramatizations of fables, fairy tales, folk tales, and legends

1970

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Chimerica

Kirkwood, Lucy

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - politicslarge castflexible castingfive acts

"Tiananmen Square, 1989. As tanks roll through Beijing and soldiers hammer on his hotel door,Joe – a young American photojournalist – captures a piece of history. New York, 2012. Joe iscovering a presidential election, marred by debate over cheap labour and the outsourcing ofAmerican jobs to Chinese factories. When a cryptic message is left in a Beijing newspaper, Joe isdriven to discover the truth behind the unknown hero he captured on film. Who was he? Whathappened to him? And could he still be alive? A gripping political examination and an engaging

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Chinese Portrait of an Imposter

Parenteau-Lebeuf, Dominick


roycomedy - identity - women - Canadian - Quebec - women playwrights six characters; voicesone male; five femaleone act (eight scenes)

Original title: Portrait chinois d'une imposteure.

A dramatization of a decisively turning moment in the life of a vibrantly creative artist who mustrid herself of delusions and fears and take control of her own ideas, values, visions, and practice.A joyous and compelling theatrical exorcism of many of the demons that beset women workingand creating in today's theatre.


2010

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Christians, The

Hnath, Lucas

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - religionfive charactersthree male; two femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"Ten years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was a modest storefront. Now it houses thousands, with acoffee shop in the lobby and a baptismal font as big as a swimming pool. But Paul is about topreach a sermon that will shake the foundation of his congregation’s beliefs. Backed by a livechoir, The Christians is both epic and unexpectedly intimate, an unflinching look at faith in

in - Humana Festival 2014: The Complete Plays / COL

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Christmas Carol, A

Dickens, Charles

Miscellaneous

royAlberta playwright - comedy - Christmaslarge castflexible castingtwo acts

Adapted by James Hutchison, running time: approx 120 minutes.

In this fresh, fun and lively adaptation of A Christmas Carol you’ll meet Mr. Bentley, learn aboutthe letters Scrooge wrote to his sister Fan, and find out who Mr. Newbury is. You’ll still find allthe ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future along with Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, the Ghost ofJacob Marley, Old Fezziwig, Scrooge’s nephew Fred, and the love of Scrooge’s life, Belle. There are

Every man has the power to do good

2015

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Christmas Carol, A

Barlow, Patrick

Samuel French

royChristmasthirty charactersthree male; two female (doubling)two acts

"Patrick Barlow, writer of the Broadway and West End hit The 39 Steps, has retold Charles Dickens’holiday classic, A Christmas Carol. This thrilling adaptation uses only five actors to bring some ofDickens' most beloved characters to life. From Scrooge and Tiny Tim to Bob Cratchit and Mrs.Fezziwig, Barlow's A Christmas Carol uses nothing more than some simple props, freshphysicality, and the power of imagination to convey this timeless story of redemption. WitnessEbenezer Scrooge's transformation from a stingy miser to a man who generously celebrates the

2015

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Chronicles

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydramatic comedy - family relationshipsnine charactersfour male; five female two acts

running time: 2 hours.

In 1920 the Pendragons gather for the first time in years at the crumbling family mansion in Ohiowhere Matt Armitage lies dying. As his daughter Dorothy, who can neither hear nor speak,provides a running commentary which is heard only by the audience, her wild sister Jessie chasestheir half brother John Rose from room to room and tries to fathom what betrayal is behind her

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Chronicles of a War Child

Kamal. Jazz "Nari"


roydrama - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - solo performanceall female cast; one characterone femaleone act (three parts)

Her work as an intersectional feminist of Egyptian descent finds itself at the searching centre ofspeaking truth to power. In these emotional and sometimes angry works, Nari tackles theinsidious regularity of racism, the ongoing burden of sexism, and the cross-cultural experienceof homophobia.


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Cinders

Glowacki, Janusz

Samuel French

roydramasixteen characterseight male; eight female (doubling possible)two acts

The New York Shakespeare Festival had quite a success with this penetrating allegory about atotalitarian police state by a Polish dissident playwright and novelist. In a reform school for girls,near Warsaw. A documentary film director plans to do a film of their production of the classic"Cinderella". The authorities of the school welcome his arrival, as they believe his film will showthe world how enlightened the state can be in its institutions of social welfare. The director plansto create a documentary whose theme is how innocent children are rescued from the web of

1985

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Circe and Bravo

Freed, Donald

Amber Lane Press

roydrama two charactersone male; one femaletwo acts

Set in the President of the United States' lodge at the Camp David Mountain Retreat. The First Lady- code name 'Circe' - has become a high security risk. A top Secret Service agent - code-name'Bravo' - is assigned to guard her.

1986

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Circle, The

Brown, Geoffrey Simon

Scirocco Drama

royyoung adult - dark comedy - drama - Canadian - Alberta playwrightsix charactersfour male; two femaleone act

Amanda is a genius. Ily is a drug dealer. Kit is a runaway. Mutt is a mess. Will is a shit disturber.Daniel doesn’t know what he’s doing there.It’s a high school garage party. Everyone’s a bit too drunk and a bit too stoned and a bituncomfortable in their own skin. It’s an explosive combination, but it’s better than being alone ona Friday night in suburbia.

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Circus Fire

Munsil, Janet


roydrama - circusmany characterstwo male; two female (doubling)one act

"Hungry for a diversion from the events of WW2, the people of Hartford, Connecticut escape ascorching summer afternoon to lose themselves in the magic and excitement of “The GreatestShow on Earth.” When unexpected disaster strikes and six-thousand circus-goers race toevacuate the flaming big-top, the death defying feats, animal instincts, and heroic acts normallyreserved for the centre ring erupt in the panic-stricken audience. Based on a true story, this textfor physical theatre is a moving, imaginative experience for audiences, and an exhilarating

2003

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Clearing in the Woods, A

Laurents, Arthur


royfantasyten charactersfive male; four female; one girltwo acts

Virginia reviews her life to discover why she cannot find peace.

1988

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Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick

Johnson, Terry

Methune Drama

roycomedy - biographicalsix charactersthree male; three femalefour acts

A sharp and hilarious biographical play based on the life of Carry On star Sid James. Filming's notas glamorous as it's cracked up to be. It's a bit of a miserable business of your caravan leaks,your co-star's a manic depressive, and those younger women aren't so young anymore. Carryingon in the great tradition of British comedy, (this) new play takes some familiar faces and gets a bitfamiliar with them.

in - Terry Johnson - Plays:3 / COL

2004

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Closet, The

Stratford, Aoise


roycomedythree characters two male; one female (flexible casting)one act

Kevin's dad has thrown his favorite toy, Bart Sponge, into the back of a closet. There, Bart meets atoy dinosaur and another toy he can't even begin to identify. Does a supposedly gay toy have achance of making it out of the closet?


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Closing Bell

Laurents, Arthur

Back Stage Books

roycomedynine characterssix male; three female (doubling possible)one act (12 scenes)

Set in a world of affluence, this play illustrates the harm wealth can do to its beneficiaries.

in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents / COL

2004

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Closing Costs

Hutton, Arlene


roycomedytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

After viewing four hundred apartments, has Harris finally found the right co-op, or simply theright real estate agent—Alice? Harris must decide if it's time to trade in his artificial fish—andfinally grow up.


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Clothes for a Summer Hotel

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - biography - historical - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Americanlarge castflexible castingtwo acts

"(This play) is about the relationship between novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. Acritical and commercial failure, it was Williams' last play to debut on Broadway during his lifetime.The play takes place over a one-day visit Scott pays the institutionalized Zelda at Highland MentalHospital in North Carolina, with a series of flashbacks to their marriage in the twenties. Scott andZelda Fitzgerald, often seen as symbols of the doomed youth of the jazz age, become two halvesof a single creative psyche, each part alternately feeding and then devouring the other. This

A ghost play

1983

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Cobb

Blessing, Lee


roydrama - biography - baseball - Americanall male cast; four characters four maleone act

The character of controversial baseball legend Ty Cobb is split into three differently agedversions of himself: The Peach, aged nineteen, at the beginning of his long career with the DetroitTigers; Ty, in his early forties, at the end of his playing days; and Mr Cobb, in his early seventies,at the point of death from cancer. The play floats freely in time, moving back and forth among theCobbs as they contend with each other, and the audience, over whom Ty Cobb really was andwhat he represented. Invading this self-imposed "argument in limbo" is Oscar Charleston, a black

1991

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Cock-Ups

Moss, Simon

Faber and Faber

roydramatic comedy - relationships - biographicaleight charactersseven male; one femaletwo acts

"First seen at the 1981 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Simon Moss's play about the last hours in thelives of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell has since been performed in Manchester and London.'Time Out' called it a chilling study of (their) declining relationship... The rows are so intimateand compelling that it's like eavesdropping on private grief. Intercut with this is a gloriouslyfarcical investigation of the circumstances of Orton's death in which characters blatantly liftedfrom his plays disport themselves in Ortonesque manner'.

1984

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Coffin in Egypt, A

Foote, Horton


roydrama - women - monologuesall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

Myrtle Bledsoe, a ninety-year-old Texas widow, looks back on the dramatic events that caused asmall Southern town, and her own relationships, incredible strife. This almost-monologue byAmerican master Horton Foote is a haunting tale of how men and women, blacks and whites, richand poor are all entangled in the chaos of life.

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Cold Air

Pinera, Virgilio


roytragicomedy - Latin Americanine charactersfour male; two female; one boy; two girlthree acts

1 interior set; period - 1940's to 1950's.A seamstress struggles to support her family in Cuba between the end of World War II and therise of Fidel Castro.


1986

translated by Maria Irene Fornes

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Cold Storage

Ribman, Ronald

Avon Books

roydrama - friendshipsthree characterstwo male; one femaletwo acts

In hospital, friendship begins to grow between cancer patient and and emotionally scarredsurvivor of the Holocaust.

in - Five Plays by Ronald Ribman / COL

1978

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Collected Stories

Margulies, Donald


roydrama - womenall female cast; two characterstwo femaletwo acts

The conflict between the established artist and the adulatory fan who becomes a protégé, disciple,colleague and friend—and finally threatening rival—is one of those great topics… It resurfaces inCOLLECTED STORIES, which confronts the prominent short-story writer Ruth Steiner with herstudent turned confidante turned competitor Lisa Morrison. What is new here is that the womenare teacher and student both in academia and in life, that they come from different social milieus,and that for her first novel, Lisa has also cannibalized Ruth's experiences, to wit her youthful,

1998

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Colony of Unrequited Dreams

Chafe, Robert


roydrama - historical - Canada - biographylarge castflexible castingthree acts

Based on the classic novel by Wayne Johnston, 'The Colony of Unrequited Dreams' is afictionalized portrait of Joseph R. Smallwood, the controversial political figure who ambitiouslyled Newfoundland into Confederation with Canada, and became its first premier. Spanning twodecades, Smallwood’s story is anchored and propelled by one of Johnston’s most memorablecreations: the fictitious Sheilagh Fielding, a caustic newspaper columnist whose own battles withthe past and alcohol addiction find full vent and expression in her tireless dogging of

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Color Struck: A Play in Four Scenes

Hurston, Zora Neale

Miscellaneous

roydrama - race - relationshipsseven characters; extras; musiciansfour male; three femaleone act (four scenes)

Hurston's one-act play in four scenes "Color Struck" was published in 1925. Using deep southvernacular, the play starts out with "walkers" heading to a Cakewalks contest in a St. Augustine,Florida dance hall. John Turner, a light brown-skinned man and Emmaline, a black woman, are tocompete in the cakewalk. Emma becomes over-dramatic as she thinks John prefers light coloredskin over her dark skin. As her and John are announced to enter on the floor, Emma refuses to goout with him. So Effie, a mulatto girl volunteers to dance with John and they win the contest. The


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Colored Museum, The

Wolfe, George C.

Grove Press

roysatire - black - sketchesfive characters; one extrathree male; two female (flexible casting)one act (eleven parts)

1 set; singing required.

"Series of satirical sketches comment on contemporary blacks."

1988

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Coming Clean

Elyot, Kevin

Nick Hern Books

roycomedy - relationships - LGBTQ+all male cast; five charactersfive maleone act (seven scenes)

A very funny and acute comedy about the gay life. Looks at the breakdown of a gay couplesrelationship and examines complex questions of fidelity and love. The play is set in a flat inKentish Town, north London, in 1982. Struggling writer Tony and his partner of five years, Greg,seem to have the perfect relationship. Committed and in love, they are both open to one-nightstands as long as they don’t impinge on the relationship. But Tony is starting to yearn forsomething deeper, something more like monogamy. When he finds out that Greg has been having

in - Kevin Elyot: Four plays

2004

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Coming in to Land

Poliakoff, Stephen

Methune

roydrama - immigrationseven charactersfour male; three femaletwo acts

Drama depicting attempt by Polish woman to deceive immigration official and remain in England.

1986

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Common Pursuit, The

Gray, Simon


roydramasix charactersfive male; one femaletwo acts

The story begins at Cambridge University, where a group of talented undergraduates decide tostart a high-minded literary magazine to be called The Common Pursuit, in honor of their mentorF.R. Leavis, a famed professor of English. Stuart, the initiator of the project, is to become editor,aided by his inamorata (and future wife) Marigold, while the others will contribute their literary ormanagement skills. The action of the play then moves ahead, in a series of deftly constructedscenes, to follow the fates of the characters over the next twenty years, as the magazine falters

1984

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Community Theatre

van Erven, Eugene

Routledge

reference - history - community theatre

Community theatre is an important device for communities collectively to share stories, toparticipate in political dialogue and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalizedgroups. It is practiced all over the world by growing numbers of people. Eugene van Erven, one ofthe world's foremost experts on Asian political theatre, has put together the first comparativestudy of the work and methodological traditions which have developed in community theatresaround the world. It is a wide ranging study based on van Evren's experiences working withcommunity theatre groups in six very different countries. 'Community Theatre" provides: asociological impression of each country; a brief history of the community theatre there; a guide toeach country's arts scene; background to the featured artists; and a case study of a specificcommunity theatre project.

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2001

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Conduct of Life, The

Fornes, Maria Irene

Pearson Education

roydramafive characterstwo male; three femaleone act (nineteen scenes)

1 setting.

Latin American lieutenant, obsessed with gaining power, intimidates wife and servants whiletorturing prisoners.


2006

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Conference of the Birds, The

Carriere, Jean-Claude


roydrama - allegory - fablelarge castvariable castingone act

Allegorical fable based on 12th century Persian poem. Birds seek solution to world's conflicts byundertaking search for true king (God).

1982

Brook, Peter

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Confessional

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roycomedynine charactersseven male; two femaleone act (two scenes)

Confessional presents the "regulars" of a California beachfront bar: an aging beauticiancelebrating her brother’s "death day," an alcoholic doctor who botches a difficult childbirth, andtwo men who give us new insight into the unique sadness of the "gay" world.

in - Dragon Country / COL

1970

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Container, The

Bayley, Clare

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - immigrationsix charactersthree male; three femaleone act

Enclosed in a freight container somewhere in Europe, five people huddle together with a commonaim. Reach England. Start a new life. Can they rely on each other? And how far will each of them goto get what they want?

Winner! Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2007

2007

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Corpus Christi

McNally, Terrence

Grove Press

roydrama - faith - LGBTQ+all male cast; thirteen charactersthirteen maleone act

An unorthodox version of the New Testament life of Christ, from the Nativity to the Crucifixion.The modern-day protagonist grows up in Texas, is called Joshua, and is homosexual. Musicsinging, dancing.

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Costumes of the Greeks and Romans

Hope, Thomas

Dover Publications

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From headdress to sandals, from warrior's armors to priestess's robes, the authentic costumes ofpeople from all walks of life in the Roman and Greek civilizations are here picturedcomprehensively and clearly. 300 finely drawn, detailed engravings show you just what was wornby the poets, philosophers, priests and priestesses, peasants, Bacchanalians, emporers, generals,Amazons, and virgins of a bygone age. Carefully copied from ancient vases and statuary byThomas Hope, a British collector and designer, these engravings combine an unusual clarity ofstyle with unquestioned authenticity. Their range, too, is unusually great, for besides the manyplates on the costumes of the Greeks and Romans, there are representative illustrations of thetypical dress of such other civilizations as the Phyrgian, Egyptian, Parthian, Etruscan and Persian.In addition, scores of engravings are devoted to such now-forgotten objects as ancient musical

1962

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Cougar - the Musical

Moore, Donna

Samuel French

roymusical - comedyfour charactersone male; three femaleone act (eighteen scenes)

simple set; music by Donna Moore, Meryl Leppard, Mark Bakkan, Arnie Gross, John Baxindine, andSeth Lefferts; additional lyrics by Meryl Leppard and Mark Bakkan.

"Cougar - The Musical unleashes three divine but disillusioned women who develop a taste forhot, young men. They let their inner cougar roar and purr, finding self-love and empowerment inthe process. The sexy, ferocious cast of three fabulous-over-forty women and one multi-talented

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Country House, The

Margulies, Donald


roydramatic comedy - actors - family relationssix charactersthree male; three femalethree acts

A brood of famous and longing-to-be-famous creative artists have gathered at their summerhome during the Williamstown Theatre Festival. When the weekend takes an unexpected turn,everyone is forced to improvise, inciting a series of simmering jealousies, romantic outbursts,and passionate soul-searching. Both witty and compelling, THE COUNTRY HOUSE provides apiercing look at a family of performers coming to terms with the roles they play in each other’slives.

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Crawlspace

Hines, Karen

Coach House Books

roydark comedy - monologues - home ownershipall female cast; two characterstwo female two acts

A writer attempts to evade precarity and buys the smallest house for sale in a property-madToronto - only to learn it's a money pit of nightmarish proportions. Inspired by true events, thiscomic, Kafkaesque monologue about the darker side of home ownership embraces themetaphorical 'squirrels in the attic' and ups the ante, animal-wise, as it snakes through the brutalbattlegrounds of real estate, decorative twig orbs, and the state of the human soul.

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Crazy Money

Ostrovsky, Alexander

Oberon Books

roycomedytwelve characters; extraseight male; three female; one boyfive acts


in - Four Plays - Alexander Ostrovsky / COL

1997

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Crazy Sexy Cool Girls' Fan Club

Solemani, Sarah


roysatire - young adultten characters five male; five female (flexible casting)one act

age suitability: 13+.

What makes a 'fan' girl? Who are they? What do they want? Who are the band? What are they in itfor? And at £200 a ticket, who is the band's fan base? Surely not the girls aged nine to sixteen?This riotous satire explores the teen politics of a 'friendship group' and the chaos and tormentthat can come with stardom at an early age. A play about desire, fantasy, and worship with a


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Crazy to Kill

Reaney, James

Coach House Books

roymystery - opera - Canadianlarge castflexible castingone act

music by Jon Beckwith.

The libretto is based on the mystery novel Crazy to Kill by the Stratford, Ontario writer AnnCardwell. The opera is set in the late 1930s, and takes place in Elmhurst, a fictional southernOntario private asylum for wealthy mental patients. The story involves a series of murders atElmhurst which are investigated by Detective Fry with the aid of Agatha Lawson, a 'model patient'

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2004

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Creating Claire

DiPietro, Joe


roydramafour charactersone male; three femaletwo acts

Employed as a docent at a natural history museum, nice, middle-aged Claire comes under firewhen her tour-guide patter deviates from the strict scientific beliefs of her formidable supervisorand heads down a path that espouses intelligent design. Claire's spiritual slant attracts extravisitors but soon leads to legal action. A powerful exploration of the supernova that results whenscience, faith and politics collide.

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Creative Theatrical Makeup

Arnink, Donna J.

Prentice-Hall

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This book can help you develop the techniques you need to design and apply more convincing,more creative stage makeup. Sprinkled with pertinent history and theory, this book explains howto achieve striking and original makeup effects with a simple palette of three colors, a sponge,and a brush. Here, you'll learn and practice: mixing pigments; shading; facial analysis; characteranalysis; from race to temperament; the effects of lighting; creating illusions; aging; color schemeselection and much more. Also includes tips on using traditional makeup and tools - frompancake and pencils to hair, teeth, and scars.

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Crimson Cap Ladies Bare it All, The

McKerracher, Chris

Miscellaneous

roycomedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta playwrightten characters; extrasthree male; seven femalethree acts

Running time: 90 mins; 1 set.

The Crimson Cap Ladies end up accidentally booked into a nudist resort on a secluded islandoff the coast of British Columbia with no way back to the mainland for a week. Complicationsabound as they try to keep a virginal nice raised by her Mom in the wilds of northern Alberta awayfrom seeing anything scandalous.

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Crimson Cap Ladies Catch a Con, The

McKerracher, Chris

Miscellaneous

roycomedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta playwrighteight charactersone male; seven femalethree acts

Running time: 90 minutes; one set.

The second Crimson Cap Ladies episode finds their club infiltrated by a violent escaped condisguised as an older woman from the UK. Great physical comedy and hilarious dialogue providethe laughs. The play is ideal for amateur theatre groups who attract a large segment of seniors,especially, "Red Hat Ladies."

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Crimson Cap Ladies Save the Day, The

Mckerracher, Chris

Miscellaneous

roycomedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta Playwrightseven characterstwo male; seven femalethree acts

This is the first of the quadrilogy which features four older women in a small town social club,known as the Crimson Cap Ladies. On one of their monthly excursions, they get trapped in theseedy town bar fearing for their lives as people go missing, then return acting like zombies! Ofcourse, an alien invasion is blamed.

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McKerracher, Chris

Miscellaneous

roycomedy - seniors - Canadian - Alberta playwrightfourteen characterstwo male; seven female (doubling)three acts

Running time; 90 minutes; 1 set.

The feisty Crimson Cap Ladies head to Vegas for the Crimson Cap International Convention andBake Sale and get mixed up with a gang of jewel thieves after Millie gets kidnapped. Lots of laughswith twists and turns in the mystery to keep audiences guessing. This is a wonderful thirdaddition to the Crimson Cap Ladies saga.

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Crossing Jerusalem

Pascal, Julia

Oberon Modern Plays

roydrama - family relationshipseight charactersfour male; three female; one boytwo acts

Description of twenty-four hours in the life of an Israeli family in March 2002, as they crossJerusalem at the beginning of the latest intifada. During this single day, personal and politicalhistory burst into the present. A complex family drama explodes in the most politically tense cityin the world.

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Crowd You're in With, The

Gilman, Rebecca

Northwestern University Press

roydrama - American - parenthood - friendship - familyseven charactersfour male; three femaleone act


In it, a Fourth of July backyard barbecue is the setting for a comic, thought-provoking, ultimatelydisquieting exploration of the question of whether to have children. Melinda and Jasper, thehosts, are deeply divided by the issue; Tom and Karen, their landlords, decided long ago toremain childless; Windsong and her husband, Dan, are expecting a baby. As the play progresses,

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Crystal and Fox

Friel, Brian

Samuel French

roydramaten characterseight male; two femaleone act

This play is about Irish fit up theaters offering shows from simple plays to performing dogs. FoxMelarkey is the proprietor and Crystal is his adored wife. At the height of success, Foxinexplicably began to drop the variety acts. The show is down to two: an Irishman (billed as Pedroonce of the Moscow Circus) with a trained dog and El Cid and Tanya, an acrobatic team. Foxinsures the latters' resignation by insulting them. Then their lost son returns whom Fox drove offyears ago. He is now a drifter wanted by the English police. Fox does his best to kill all hopes for

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Dada Woof Papa Hot

Parnell, Peter


roydrama - family relations - LGBTQ+seven charactersfive male; two femaleone act (eight scenes)

flexible set.

It’s a fall night in New York City, and two couples who recently met at a parents group are out todinner at the hot new restaurant. The foursome share photos of their kids, trade war stories frompreschool applications, and discuss their work. Alan and Rob & Scott and Jason find plenty ofcommon ground as gay couples raising kids in the city, and a play-date with their children is set.

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Daffodils

Guyton, Daniel


roydramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A woman helps a man come to terms with his father's memory in a field of daffodils.


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Dalliance

Stoppard, Tom

Faber and Faber

roydrama - historical - relationshipsten characterssix male; four femalethree acts

"This version of Schnitzler's "Liebelei" play that caused a scandal when first produced in Vienna in1895, focuses on how the sexual mores of a society are indicative of the whole social fabric.Dalliance is a bitter sweet drama about a young working class girl who falls in love with a militaryofficer. She alone has not learned that love is temporal and trivial, a mere series of dalliances."

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1999

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Dance of Death, The

McPherson, Conor

Nick Hern Books

roydramathree characterstwo male; one femaletwo acts

An adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1900 play The Dance of Death, about a titanic battle of willsbetween a husband and wife. On an isolated island, military captain Edgar and his wife Alice live abitter life, their marriage soured by hatred. When the possibility of redemption and escape arrivesfor Alice in the shape of their former comrade Kurt, it seems that Edgar is prepared to use his verylast breath to make their lives a living hell.


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Dancing Lessons

St. Germain, Mark


royromantic comedytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

DANCING LESSONS centers on Ever, a young man with Asperger’s syndrome, who seeks theinstruction of a Broadway dancer to learn enough dancing to survive an awards dinner. Thedancer, Senga, however, is recovering from an injury that may stop her dancing careerpermanently. As their relationship unfolds, they’re both caught off-guard by thediscoveries—both hilarious and heartwarming—that they make about each other and aboutthemselves.

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Dangers of VD (Valentine's Day), The

McKerracher, Chris

Miscellaneous

roycomedy - Alberta playwright - romance - relationships - Canadiansix characterstwo male; four femalethree acts

Running time: 90 minutes.

Uproarious laughs mixed with social commentary against the background of Valentine's Day.Gramps and Gran yearn for the romance of yesteryear while their daughter-in-law, Paulette, andher husband deal with his lack of interest in sex. Meanwhile, Paulette's daughter is being coachedto dress trampily to attract men by her Aunt Jean. A device for great comedy in The Dangers of VD

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Dark Pony

Mamet, David

Grove Weidenfeld

roydrama - legend - storytellingtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (one scene)

In the short vignette 'Dark Pony' a father tells a favorite bedtime story to comfort his youngdaughter as they drive home late at night. A foray into the realm of legend, the story of a youngIndian brave and his trusty horse.

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Dark Rapture

Overmyer, Eric

Smith and Kraus

roydramanine characterssix male; three femaletwo acts

Play revolves around morally corrupt characters scheming to get their hands on parcel of cash.

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1993

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Dark Vanilla Jungle

Ridley, Philip


roydrama - solo performance - monologuesall female cast; one characterone female one act

Andrea is seemingly a normal girl. She has her hopes and dreams, spends lots of time thinkingabout boys and has a complex relationship with her mother. But she’s certainly not lucky, partlydown to bad decision making but mainly down to the complete selfishness of those who surroundher. A beautiful and breathtaking new drama about one girl's craving for family and home...andthe lengths she will go to achieve them.

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Day I Stood Still, The

Elyot, Kevin

Nick Hern Books

roydramatic comedy - relationshipssix characterssix male; two female (see note below)one act (three scenes)

three characters to be played by two actors each, two characters to be played by one actor only,and the last character to be played by one actor.

What begins apparently as a very English comedy about avoiding the issue...ends as somethingboth tragic and heartening. 'The Day I Stood Still' is a comedy drama about the heartbreak ofunrequited love and the power of memories. The play is set in a North London mansion block.

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Day Room, The

DeLillo, Don


roydrama - mental illnesseighteen characterssix male; three female (doubling)two acts

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The play opens in a brightly lit hospital room occupied by two men. One, the amiable Budge, doesTai Chi exercises while trying, without much success, to strike up a conversation with his taciturnroommate, Wyatt. Then, slowly but inexorably, their world begins to spin away from reality as theyare visited by a series of fellow patients and hospital staffers, all of whom, it turns out, may not be

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De Donde?

Gallagher, Mary


roydrama - immigration - Americaforty characterseight male; five female (doubling; flexible casting)two acts

Freely translated as "Where are you from?" the title of the play refers to the increasing tide ofillegal aliens who flee north to the United States from the economically and politically oppressedcountries of Latin America. Seeking jobs and freedom from persecution, the refugees are, moreoften than not, met with indifference and even hostility, regardless of their circumstances, anddeported back to their home countries—which can often mean certain death. In a series of sharplydrawn scenes and monologues, with thirteen actors portraying more than forty characters, the

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Dead Ringer

Dilorio, Gino

Samuel French

roymystery - dark comedy - westernthree characterstwo male; one femaletwo acts

"Tyrus Cole, a horse trainer, lives on a ranch with his invalid sister Mary. Because he can't watchher during the day, Tyrus has Mary confined to a root cellar. When Dwight Foley arrives at theranch seeking help with his horse, he and Mary fall in love and begin plotting the demise of Tyrusand their eventual escape. Their plan escalates and in the end, the three find themselves trappedin a complex web of greed and secrets."

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Dear Evan Hansen - vocal selections

Pasek, Benj


Vocal selections from the musical - voice - piano. Music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

contains: Anybody Have a Map? Waving Through a Window For Forever Sincerely, Me Requiem If I Could Tell Her Disappear You Will Be Found To Break In a Glove

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Death of Papa, The

Foote, Horton


roydramatwelve charactersfour male; seven female; one boytwo acts

The play begins by introducing the next generation of Robedauxs in the person of Horace's son,Horace Jr., who comes home from school to find that his maternal grandfather, Henry Vaughn, hasdied suddenly of a heart attack. From this point, two main storylines are traced in the play. Onedeals with young Horace's coming to terms with the concepts of life, death and familialrelationships. He finds that his mother, Elizabeth, is expecting another baby; he listens to, andasks many questions about, the widely contrasting accounts of his two grandfathers; and he

1979

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Decline and Fall of the Suzaku, The

Yukio, Mishima

Columbia University Press

roydrama - Japan - family relationsfive charactersthree male; two femalefour acts

This late-period work by Mishima Yukio depicts the decline of a noble family in the waning daysof World War II, in a play based on Herakles by Euripides. It is a story of magnificent decline, thatof a man whose loyalty to the nation and the emperor blinds him to reality, and a woman firmlyrooted in the real world.

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Diana and Tuda

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roytragedy - melodrama - relationshipstwelve charactersthree male; nine femalethree acts

Tuda is a model who is posing for Sirio's statue of Diana, which is to be the acme of the art ofsculpture. Tuda falls in love with Sirio, and to force his hand in marriage threatens to pose alsofor Sirio's rival. Faced with this, Sirio sacrifices his bachelorhood for his art. But his old mistressstill has a key to his quarters, and still makes regular calls on him. Jealously, Tuda at last offersher services to Sirio's rival. Sirio not only ruins his rival's work of art, but scars him in a duel; andthen assaults Tuda. The old sculptor who has been like a father to Sirio now seizes him, and Sirio

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Diana of Dobson's

Hamilton, Cicely

Broadview Press

royromantic comedy - women thirteen charactersfour male; nine femalefour acts

Diana is an under-paid worker in an Edwardian department store in Clapham and, when sheinherits £300 unexpectedly, she spends it on a holiday at a holiday resort in Switzerland.Pretending to be a wealthy widow, she finds herself pursued by an impecunious ex-guardsmanand his predatory aunt.

This Broadview edition also includes excerpts from Hamilton’s autobiography Life Errant (1935)

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Dib and Dob and the Journey Home

Craig, David S.


roychildren all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

running time: 55 mins.

Dib and Dob are two very different brothers who have been searching for home their whole lives. Always together, they communicate in a form of 'twinspeak' that is both comic and touching. Having faced the monster under the tree, they discover the true meaning of home.

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Die Mommie Die!

Busch, Charles

Samuel French

royparody - mystery - thriller - spoof - family relationssix charactersthree male; three femaletwo acts

running time: 120 minutes; interior set.

A comic melodrama that evokes the 1960’s "grande guignol" films that featured aging stars suchas Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner. Ex-pop singer, Angela Andrews, is trapped in ahateful marriage with film producer Sol Sussman. Desperate to find happiness with her youngerlover, an out of work TV actor, Tony Parker, Angela murders her husband with the aid of a

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Diminished them Augmented

Gallant, Daniel


roydramaall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

A mob interrogator confronts a thief and challenges the rules of organized crime.


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Dirty Plötz

Tigchelaar, Alex


roycomedy - solo performance - cabaret - women - Canadian - LGBTQ+all female cast; many charactersone female (doubling)two acts

A cabaret monologue contextualized here with brief descriptions of th acts that were included inthe show. This is a publication experiment in bringing the cabaret stage to the page.


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Discourse as Performance

Issacharoff, Michael

Stanford University Press

reference - criticism - language

(This book) is an investigation into theatrical discourse - the specifically theatrical use oflanguage in the broadest sense, from verbal utterance to non-verbal uses comprising the visualelements of gesture, facial expression, movement, costume, players' bodies, properties and decor.

In the first part, the author deals with theatrical discourse proper and distinguishes between itstwo main modes: dialogue and stage directions. Both modes address the problem of thespecificity of theatrical discourse in contrast to other types of discourse, both literary andnonliterary. The dialogue raises the questions of who speaks in a play (author, characters, actors)and to whom; the stage directions raise the question of reading a play, as opposed to seeing it

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Doctor's Duty, The

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

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Tommaso shoots himself after killing wronged husband in self defense. Murderer then beratesdoctor for saving his life.


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Corley, Hal


roydrama - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (one scene)

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Two grad students play a game in the bar.


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Done Up Like A Kipper

Harmon, Ken

Nick Hern Books

roydramaseven charactersfour male; three femaleone act (six scenes)

1 interior set.

"Dublin taxi driver Gino is in the wars. His wife, Dolores, thinks he's having an affair, hisdaughter, Kim, is seeing the Invisible Man and his son, Eugene, is wrecking his head withvoodoo. And if that isn't enough, somebody's gouged his car and nicked his cone."

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Vincent, Julie


roydrama - identity - Canadian Playwrighttwenty charactersthirteen male; seven female (doubling possible)one act (thirty-two scenes)

The mirrored realities of Montevideo in 1973 and Montreal in 2005 fuse together in atime-travelling story about one man who escaped a harrowing coup d’état in order to find a betterlife, but instead finds further struggles as an immigrant. Francisco will forever be haunted by thesight of his best friend Juan lying on the floor of a train station, pierced by five bullets. He’llremember that sight as he flees the political uprising in Uruguay that night. He’ll remember whenhe’s holding a dying homeless man in Windsor Station in Montreal eight months later. He’ll

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Domingo, Colman

Playscripts, Inc.

roydramatic comedy - family relations - agingseven charactersfour male; three femaleone act (five parts)

running time: 120 minutes.

The holidays are always a wild family affair at the Shealy house. But this year, Dotty and her threegrown children gather with more than exchanging presents on their minds. As Dotty struggles tohold on to her memory, her children must fight to balance care for their mother and care forthemselves. This twisted and hilarious new play grapples unflinchingly with aging parents,

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Double Trouble

Craig, David S.


roychildren's musical - family relations - adventure - Canadianlarge castflexible castingtwo acts

running time: 70 mins. Based on the novel Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kastner. Adapted by David S.Craig.

An adventure for all ages, Double Trouble is the story of identical twin sisters who, while stillbabies, are separated by their divorced parents and never told of the others existence. Bycoincidence, they are sent to the same summer camp where they discover they are sisters and

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2016

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Down the Road

Blessing, Lee


roydrama - writing - crime - serial killersthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act (twenty-two scenes)

DOWN THE ROAD centers on a convicted serial killer and the husband and wife writing team hiredto help him write an account of his crimes. The killer, Bill Reach, has admitted to the murders ofnineteen women, but there may have been more. Over many weeks of interviews, the couple—Danand Iris Henniman—grow more and more uncertain of the ethics of what they are doing. Are theysimply relating terrifying events, or are they helping readers consume rape, murder andmutilation as if they are consuming any other product of our society? Are they, in fact, helping to

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Drama from Ibsen to Brecht

Williams, Raymond

Penguin Books

reference - drama

This book is fully revised and expanded successor to Drama from Ibsen to Eliot. It is anuncompromising reappraisal of Europe's foremost dramatists, and the author aims to provide notso much a history of the drama between the years 1850 and 1960 as a critical account and arevaluation. 'What I have defined', he writes, 'is what I believe to be the meaning of the dramatictradition in the modern theatre: a record of difficulty and trouble; but still primarily, from that firstmajor generation to its many successors, from Ibsen To Brecht' - and it might be added, fromPirandello to Pinter - 'one of the great periods of dramatic history.' Raymond Williams' study isauthoritative and important, both for its critical conclusions and for the way in which it succeedsin establishing an objective standard by which to judge the theatre today.

1968

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Drama Today

Wandor, Michelene

Longman

reference - criticism - theatre - Britain

'Drama Today' provides a concise, accessible and stimulating guide to key themes, writers andworks in contemporary British drama since 1970. The abolition of theatre censorship in 1968revolutionized British theatre, opening the doors to an extraordinary variety of theatricalentertainment. Michelene Wandor examines the subsequent changes in the theatrical landscapewhich were themselves part of a wider social and cultural transformation. These changes not onlyproduced new plays, but created a climate in which many of the traditional assumptions about theway theatre was made were challenged.

The core discussion of this book consists of the work of key playwrights, including CarylChurchill, Neil Dunn, Mustapha Matura, Harold Pinter, Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Bond and David

A critical guide to British drama 1970-1990

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Drama, Baby

Brittain, Jamie


roycomedyeight characters; chorusfour male; four femaleone act (seven scenes)

running time: approx 60 mins.; age suitability : 15+.

It's the final rehearsal before the practical A Level theatre studies exam, and Neil wants everythingto be just perfect. Two competing groups of teenage students attempt to achieve that ever elusive'A' grade, soon finding the competing forces of sex, alcohol and Artaud threatening to destroytheir hopes of a good university place. As egos clash and new relationships are formed and


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Dramatic Arts and Cultural Studies, The

Berry, Kathleen S.

Falmer Press

reference - culture - education - study and teaching - drama

"In her book, Kathy Berry has begun to rethink the role of dramatic arts and its place in thecurriculum. She begins with samples of authentic classroom experiences and interweaves thetheory past and present that now drives drama educators into moving beyond what has been doneto a postmodern context of what could be done. Teachers and teachers-to-be who are concernedwith educational change through the arts will be strengthened by the support in theory andpractice the author offers in this excellent resource".

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2000

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Dream Life of Teresa Harris, The

Kemp, Penn


roydrama - music - historical - biographical - Canadianfive charactersone male; two female; two male or femaleone act

running time: 60 minutes

The Dream Life of Teresa Harris celebrates the life of an intrepid Victorian woman from UpperCanada. Teresa tells her amazing story from her home, now Eldon House Historical Museum inLondon ON. How does a young woman escape the confines of colonial London and become oneof the great explorers of her time? Marriage offered Teresa escape from the ordinary domestic

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Drift

Tuttle, Jon

Intellect

roydark comedy - marital relationsnine characterstwo male; four female (doubling)two acts

A dark comedy about marriage and divorce.

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2009

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Dublin Carol

McPherson, Conor


roydramathree characterstwo male; one femaleone act (three scenes)

DUBLIN CAROL centers on John Plunkett, an undertaker in his late fifties. The play is divided intothree scenes, all of which take place in John's office in Dublin on Christmas Eve. In the morningwe see John interacting with Mark, a twenty-year-old boy who is helping John while the boss,Noel, is in hospital having tests. John regales Mark with stories from his past, and of how he metNoel, who is, incidentally, Mark's uncle. Noel saved John from a life of alcoholism and gave him ajob here. John seems anxious for Mark to keep him company this morning, and he only allows

2003

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Dumb Show

Penhall, Joe

Methuen

roydrama - Americanthree characterstwo male; one femaletwo acts

"Courted at the end of his show by bankers John and Jane, TV star Barry believes he is to get the5-star treatment that he deserves. However urged to provide a candid account of his off-stage lifeand views, the Barry that emerges is the least of the surprises in the tense game of power andmanipulation that ensues."

2004

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Early Days

Storey, David

Penguin Books

roydrama - aging - family relationsseven charactersfive male; two femaleone act (four scenes)

Early Days is an intrinsically poignant lament on loneliness and abandonment. Desolate yet full ofgentle humour, the play is an astute study on the realizations of old age by one of England'sgreatest contemporary writers, David Storey. Kitchen, a retired MP, is placed in the care of hisdaughter and son-in-law for his own safety. Paranoia and fear set in as his isolation forces him toreflect on his life, the passing of time, loss and remembered love. All the while his family and thepeople around him lose patience and faith in his ability to speak truth.

in - Early Days / Sisters / Life Class / COL

1980

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Early one Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille

Graham, Bruce

Miscellaneous

roycomedy - fantasyseven charactersfive male; two femaletwo acts

This is a wonderful, off beat variation on the saloon situation comedy. Nuclear bombs havedestroyed much of the U.S. and various denizens of this working class bar are trying to decidewhat to do. Enter a travelling salesman who turns out to be God, come to offer the bartenderimmortality if he will write a new Bible and get it right this time.

1979

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Earthbound

Fréchette, Carole


roydrama - Quebec - women playwrightsfive characterstwo male; three femaleone act

Original title: Violette sur la terre.

No one knows exactly when Violette appeared. No one knows where she comes from. She'sstanding next to the abandoned mine shaft, silent. Paul, Étienne, Marie-Jeanne and Judith come tosee her and share their disappointments, their doubts, their hopes, their strong desire for life…


2010

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Eastern Standard

Greenberg, Richard


roycomedysix charactersthree male; three femaletwo acts

Four Manhattan yuppies strike up a friendship in a chic uptown restaurant after a bag ladyinvolves them in an altercation. A month later, the four self-involved Manhattanites (three men andone woman), having fallen instantly in love with one another, converge at a seaside residence,hoping to alleviate their shared sense of alienation and purposelessness with a misguided attemptat rehabilitating May, the bag lady who brought them all together. In their pretense at publicmindedness, they all seek either an escape from their own problems or redemption from the lives

1989

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Edelweiss Pirates, The

Din, Ayub Khan


roydrama - young adult - war - history large cast; chorus; singingflexible castingone act (ten scenes)


Germany, 1943. The Second World War rages into its fourth year. All internal opposition has beenviciously silenced and the population follows blindly behind Adolf Hitler and his policies of totalwar and domination. Though the majority of young Germans have been brainwashed into NaziParty policies from an early age, others are becoming disgruntled by the lack of basic freedoms,


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Eden End

Priestley, J. B.

Oberon Books

roydrama - family relations - self awarenessseven charactersfour male; three femalethree acts

Stella Kirby spent nine years running away, leaving home to find her freedom as an actress. Nowshe has decided that the only role left to play is the prodigal daughter returned, hoping torediscover herself amongst the familiar surroundings of her childhood home, Eden End. Priestleyhas a special tenderness for Eden End and for it he created some of his most fragile, gentlecharacters. The stoical Dr. Kirby, his younger son Wilfred, desperate to prove himself as a man ofthe world, and Lilian, the daughter who stayed at home, are a sharply observed and instantly

2001

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Edgar Allan Poe's: The Black Cat

Poe, Edgar Allan

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platfor

roydrama - American - horrorseven charactersfive male; two femaletwo acts

adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.; several interiors.

"Franklin and his wife Marguerite have recently inherited a house from Franklin's father. A desolateplace which also brings with it a strange servant named Reginald. To brighten the house upFranklin brings a stray cat home to which both Franklin and Marguerite become very attached. Thecat, however, forms a violent dislike to Franklin and torments him endlessly. Finally, in a drunken

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2014

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Edgar Allan Poe's: The Cask of Amontillado

Poe, Edgar Allan


roydrama - American - horrorthirteen characters; extraseight male; five femaletwo acts

adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.

Montresor wants to exact revenge on Fortunato for insults Montresor has suffered at his hand. Hedecides to use Fortunato's claimed expertise as a wine expert to identify what could pass forAmontillado, a light Spanish sherry, that Montresor has sequestered in the catacombs of hishome. Montresor, in a mask and full costume acosts Fortunato, who is in full jester regalia,


2014


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Edgar Allan Poe's: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

Poe, Edgar Allan


roydrama - American - horrorseven charactersfive male; two femaletwo acts

adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.; 1 interior.

"M. Ernest Valdemar and Dr. Pontier have been friends for years. But this most recent visit byPontier is not out of friendship. Valdemar is terminally ill and Pontier visits him in the hopes ofconvincing him to take part in a relatively new use for mesmerism. Pontier explains that this newuse for mesmerism could postpone death and leave the afflicted patient in a suspended state


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Edgar Allan Poe's: The Fall of the House of Usher

Poe, Edgar Allan


roydrama - American - horrorsix charactersthree male; one female; two young boystwo acts

adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.; a couple of small interiors.

"One of Edgar Allan Poe's stangest tales, "The Fall of the House of Usher", takes the audience on astrange journey to a very desolate location where all plant life ceases to exist and all human life isvery tentative. Living in a huge family mansion eaten away by centuries of time, Roderick Usherand his sister Madeline are visited by an old school friend, who hopes to convince them to leave


2014


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Edgar Allan Poe's: The Masque of the Red Death

Poe, Edgar Allan


roydrama - American - horrorlarge castfourteen male; eight female; extrastwo acts

adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.; several interiors; doubling and tripling possible.

"Prince Prospero rules the land with an iron hand. No one is free from his tyranny and no one isfree from the menacing shadow of his castle. But a new fear has gripped the region. A horrifyingand agonizing death has invaded the countryside killing people by the hundreds. Death comesrapidly with very little warning. In an attempt to save his most loyal subjects from this horrifying


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Edgar Allan Poe's: The Tell Tale Heart

Poe, Edgar Allan


roydrama - American - horroreight charactersseven male; one femaletwo acts

adapted by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.; 1 main set with a couple small locations.

"Perhaps Poe's most famous story about an old man who is cared for by a caretaker that isobsessed by the old man's strange eye. Even though he loves the old man, the eye drives him madto the point that he must kill him to rid himself of the eye's perceived "evil." Told in a backstorytype of format the suspense builds to a breathtaking finale. An old character-type cleaning woman


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Edmond

Mamet, David

Grove Press Inc.

royAmerican - dramatwenty-seven charactersseven male; four female (doubling; requires at least one black actor)one act (twenty-two scenes)

A man, who suddenly leaves his wife, travels through a city's underworld on a quest for themeaning of life. The quest becomes increasingly nightmarish and the man finally ends up inprison. Play may be objectionable to some.

1983

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Effect, The

Prebble, Lucy


roydrama - relationships - morality - sexualityfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act (one scene)

"The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part ina clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristanand Connie manage to throw the trial off-course, much to the frustration of the cliniciansinvolved. This funny, moving and perhaps surprisingly human play explores questions of sanity,neurology and the limits of medicine, alongside ideas of fate, loyalty and the inevitability ofphysical attraction."

2012

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El Salvador

Lima, Rafael

Samuel French

roydrama - Latin Americaseven characterssix male; one femaleone act

This brilliant drama takes place in a hotel in El Salvador that is home base for a disillusionedgaggle of journalists.

1988

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Elegant Beast, The

Lubin, Leonard

Viking Press

reference - costume

Leonard Lubin has drawn three and a half dozen costumes to illustrate the most "fashionable"epochs of history - from the Gothic period to the 'flapper' era, a good five hundred years ofdressing up. The Lubin costumes - historically accurate in every pencilled stitch and brushstrokeof color - take on an exuberant whimsy as they are modeled with flair by a host of furry andfeathered creatures. Each beautifully colored drawing is accompanied by a page of text,encapsulating the social, political, and sometimes religious goings-on of the era and describingthe costume itself. For those who firmly believe that 'clothes make the man,' THE ELEGANT BEASToffers a wonderfully amusing yet substantially different viewpoint.

1981

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Elf - The Broadway Musical - vocal selections

Sklar, Matthew

Alfred Music Publishing Co.

Vocal selections from the musical. Music by Mathew Sklar and lyrics by Chad Beguelin.

contains: Christmastown / World's Greatest Dad / In the Way / Sparkljollytwinklejingley / I'llBelieve in You / Just Like Him / A Christmas Song / Nobody Cares About Santa / Never Fall in Love(With and Elf) / There is a Santa Clause / The Story of Buddy the Elf

2010

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Elgar's Rondo

Pownall, David

Oberon Books Ltd.

roydrama - music - biographicalfifteen characters; musiciansten male; five femaletwo acts

Captures the depth of the great composer's despair as he wrestles with growing feelings of artisticfailure.

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1993

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Elgar's Third

Pownell, David

Oberon Books Ltd.

roydrama - music - radio play - biographicaltwenty-two characters; musicianseleven male; five female (doubling)one act (fifty-one scenes)

Illuminates the composer's final, losing battle to write a third symphony in the face of impendingdeath.


1993

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Elmina's Kitchen

Kwei-Armah, Kwame

Methuen

roydrama - mystery - family relationssix charactersfive male; one femaletwo acts

"Deli is trying to revive the fortunes of his mother’s restaurant in Murder Mile, Hackney. But wheredoes his son disappear to on the night of the re-opening? And why does his friend Digger offerhim protection? Elmina’s Kitchen is a thrilling, engaging portrait of a one-parent family strugglingto stay within the law while the Yardies are carving up the neighbourhood."

2003

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Emperor of the Moon, The: A Farce

Behn, Aphra

Oxford University Press

nonroycomedy - Restorationlarge castflexible castingthree acts

Restoration farce set in Naples combining commedia dell' arte techniques with spectacle.

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1995

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Enclave, The

Laurents, Arthur


roydrama - LGBTQ+nine characterssix male; three femaletwo acts

A group of congenial friends have restored several adjoining houses in one of New York's moreattractive neighborhoods, and plan to move in en masse—setting up a sort of urban commune.However, one of their number, a confirmed bachelor, has resolved to confront the others with thefact of his long-concealed homosexuality and to bring along his young male lover as apermanent addition to the group. Although his friends have always prided themselves on theirtolerance and openmindedness, they are outraged, and the enclave itself is imperiled. But as, in

1974

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Laurents, Arthur

Back Stage Books

roydrama - LGBTQ+nine characterssix male; three femaletwo acts

A group of congenial friends have restored several adjoining houses in one of New York's moreattractive neighborhoods, and plan to move in en masse—setting up a sort of urban commune.However, one of their number, a confirmed bachelor, has resolved to confront the others with thefact of his long-concealed homosexuality and to bring along his young male lover as apermanent addition to the group. Although his friends have always prided themselves on theirtolerance and openmindedness, they are outraged, and the enclave itself is imperiled. But as, in


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Encounter, The

Complicite

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - biographical - solo performance - culturesfour characters; voicesone male or femaleone act (fourteen parts)

The play is performed by a single actor working with sound technicians to create a range ofvoices and aural effects conveyed to the audience via headphones. It tells the story of NationalGeographic photographer Loren McIntyre, who, in 1969, found himself lost among the people ofthe remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his life, as he began toexplore, through the indigenous culture in which he was immersed, the limits of humanconsciousness. The play traces McIntyre’s journey and experiences through a constantly shifting

2015

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End of the Dream Season

Kainy, Miriam

Aurora Metro Press

roydramatic comedy - feminism - social realismsix charactersthree male; three femaletwo acts

The play takes a humanist, feminist viewpoint that ensures women's equality with men and isabout the inheritance of an old house in Tel Aviv which has been left by the grandmother, not tothe male line, or to her own daughter, but to Yosefa, her granddaughter - a high-powered doctor,and the only member of the Amsalem family who the grandmother regards as spiritually worthy ofthe inheritance. Yosefa learns to resist the pressure from her lover, her brother and her mother tosell the house, and to abort her child.

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1994

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End of the World

Kopit, Arthur

Hill and Wang

roycomedytwelve characters; extrasnine male; three femalethree acts

A mysterious stranger of seemingly enormous wealth commissions a playwright to write a playthat will save the world from impending doom. The playwright turned detective, pursuing hisresearch right into the secret labyrinth of the Pentagon, confronts the bizarre world of Nukespeak,and makes some startling discoveries about the shape of things to come and about himself. 'Endof the World' blends the awesome reality and the hilarious absurdity of its subject.

1984

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Enemies

Gorky, Maxim

Methune Drama

roydrama - historicallarge castflexible castingthree acts

1905. Russia is at a turning point. Zakhar Bardin is from the landowning class, but is now theuneasy owner of a factory. His managing director is determined to face down militant workers ona point of principle. But the shutting of the business has tragic consequences for everyoneconcerned.

1972

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English Drama

Shepherd, Simon

Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

reference - England - history - theatre - drama

The book provides a comprehensive account of the cultural history of English drama. Drawingupon new empirical research and the latest theoretical models, Shepherd and Mack show how thecharacter of a given theatrical 'age', as traditionally described, is packed with contradictions anduneven in development. Focusing on key historical moments and modes, they offer chapters onMedieval Drama, Renaissance Drama, Restoration Comedy, Melodrama, and Naturalism, andconclude with accounts of Post-war Theatre and the State, and Drama in the Age of Television.

For each of the main topics chosen, there are two chapters. The first in each in pair tells how thedrama of a particular era or kind was produced, describing its cultural context, and explaininghow contemporary conditions and practices of dramatic production changed. The second chapter

a cultural history

1996

Womack, Peter

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Ensemble Theatre Making

Bonczek, Rose Burnett

Routledge

reference - acting

Ensemble Theatre Making: A practical guide is the first comprehensive diagnostic handbook forbuilding, caring for, and maintaining ensemble. Successful ensembles don't happen by chance;they must be created, nurtured, and maintained through specific actions. Achieving commongoals in rehearsal and performance requires group trust, commitment, and sacrifice. EnsembleTheatre making is a step-by-step guide to these processes.

A practical guide

2013

Storck, David

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Everythings Turning into Beautiful

Rosenfeld, Seth Zvi

Samuel French

royromance - dramatwo charactersone male; one femaletwo acts

songs by Jimmie James.

This play with music takes place late one Christmas Eve in lonely New York City, when a couple ofdown-on-their-luck songwriting partners, hitless, loveless, and facing their forties, cometogether for a night of composing and soul-searching. This “musical story” finds Sam and Brendafacing the light of a new day and confronting a practical matter: they don’t want to mess up their

2007

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Execution of Justice

Mann, Emily

Samuel French

roydocu-drama - crime - LGBTQlarge castflexible castingtwo acts

1 se t t ing .Docu-drama portraying the trial of Dan White for the murders of San Francisco Mayor GeorgeMoscone, and Harvey Milk, the city's first openly gay supervisor.

1986

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Experiment, The

Ravenhill, Mark

Bloomsbury

roydrama - solo performanceone characterone male or femaleone act


If you could cure thousands of a fatal disease by experimenting on a single child, would you doit? That’s the question posed by the narrator of this story, their personal complicity in theexperience a slippery possibility.

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Experimental Theatre

Roose-Evans, James

Discus Books

reference - Avant Garde - experimental

In tracing the major experiments in theatre over the last one hundred years, James Roose-Evansbrings extraordinary insight to both past and present. His accounts of the work of such keyfigures as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Craig, Appia, Artaud, Piscator, and Brecht elucidate the mainlines of interdependence and development that have led to the most exciting and creative effortsof today. Roose-Evans, a leading experimentalist in his own right, also covers Allen Kaprow'sHappenings, the Activities of Ann Halprin's Dancers' Workshop Company in San Francisco, YayoiKusama's nude forays on the streets of New York, Peter Schumann's Bread and Puppet Theatre, andmore.

From Stanislavsky to today

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Extremism

Lustgarten, Anders


royyoung adult - British - extremism - social issues - high schoolten charactersfive male; five female (some gender changes possible)one act

ages 15+.

The police just took Jamal away. Because Miss Tomlinson called them. Because she had to.Because of Prevent. But now Miss Tomlinson and the police are gone, and all that’s left is ashell-shocked class. Who knew Jamal? What did he do? And what is gonna happen next? A playabout fear, friendship and the creeping polarisation of our society.

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Fair Maid of the West, The

Heywood, Thomas

Methune

roycomedy - adventurelarge castflexible castingone act (twenty-two scenes)

A programme/text with commentary by Simon Trussler.

'The Fair Maid of the West" was so successful when it was first played that the same companyfollowed up with 'Fair Maid II." Both picaresque plays document the adventures of Bess Bridges, aPlymouth barmaid who becomes the scourge of the Barbary Coast as the captain of a pirate ship,while searching for her lost love. In this version Part I and Part II of The Fair Maid are combined

A girl worth gold

1986

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Fall From Light

Moore, Jonathan

Aurora Metro Press

roydramaeleven charactersten male; one female (doubling possible)one act (seventeen scenes)

A young working-class composer writes a new opera. The Director of the Opera House rejects it.His Lover, a young Diva, takes him on a Dantesque journey to the council estate where she grewup. There they meet Girly and his gang.... A tale of art savagery and redemption. 'Fall from Light'weaves together the lives of two young artists struggling to gain acceptance in the world of opera,juxtaposed with the violent encounters of youth gangs on the estate where they both live.

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2002

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Fall of the House of Usher, The

Hoppe, Gip

Samuel French

roydramanine characterssix male; three femaletwo acts

music by Jay Hagenbuckle; adapted from the short story by Edgar Allen Poe.

A comfortable, suburban family man receives a desperate call from a forgotten childhoodacquaintance. Thus starts a journey into madness that takes Ed Allen to the House of Usher and itsterrible secrets and temptation. This modern adaptation of the classic short story by Edgar AllenPoe transports Gothic horror into the 90s, questioning the definition of sanity in the same way

1991

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Family Affair, A


Absolute Classics

roysatireeight charactersthree male; four female; one boy four acts

adapted by Nick Dear.

Scathing 1850 satire on the gullibility and greed of Moscow's merchant class. Bolshov, a cunningmerchant, decides the best way to evade his demanding creditors is to transfer the title deeds ofhis shops and house to his assistant, Lazar. But Lazar, instead of handing everything back oncehis master has filed for bankruptcy and suffered a spell in jug, sets up in business on his own.

1989

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Family Reunion, The

Eliot, T. S.

Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.

roydrama - guilttwelve characters; speaking chorussix male; six female two acts

2 interiors

Psychological study of guilt. British eldest son home for mother's birthday seeks release fromthoughts of his earlier crime. Verse play.

1967

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Fashion

Lucie, Doug

Methuen

roysatire - advertisingnine characterssix male; three femaletwo acts

A successful advertising agent in Thatcherite Britain tries to land the Tory Party account.

1987

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Fashion Parade, A

Dars, Celestine

Blond & Briggs

reference - historical - French - costume - women

The Seeberger Brothers, working in Paris from the start of the 1900s, took over 60,000photographs of twentieth-century high fashion. What makes this anthology of fashion unique isthat haute couture is shown as worn by the haute monde - by the clients themselves; duchesses,princesses, actresses, dancers, demi-mondains and poules de luxe in the settings for which thegreat designers created their models - the races at Chantilly, the beach at Deauville, the casino atMonte Carlo, the Promenade des Anglais at Nice. Photographs from 1909 - 1950.

The Seeberger Collection

1979

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Father, The

Zeller, Florian

Faber and Faber

roytragedy - farce - memorysix charactersthree male; three femaleone act (fifteen scenes)

A wonderfully peculiar, quietly stunning depiction of dementia... A controlled, unforgettableportrait of losing your memory.

Winner! 2014 Moliere Award for Best PlayNominated! 2015/16 Tony Award for Best Play

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2015

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Feast In Time of Plague, A


Oberon Books

roydrama - tragedyfive characters: extrasthree male; two femaleone act (one scene)

Verse drama based on scene from John Wilson's tragedy "The City of the Plague" about frightenedsurvivors of the black death.


2002

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Feathers

Silverman, Judd Lear


roydrama - fantasytwo charactersone male; two femaleone act (one scene)

A couple deals with the departure of their child.


2016

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February

Moore, Lisa

Breakwater Books

roydrama - death - family relationseleven charactersflexible castingone act (twenty-four scenes)

"The story tells of a widowed mother, Helen, living with the death of her husband Cal nearly 30years after he died in the sinking of an oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland." Based on the novelof the same name.


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Feet of Clay

Caudle, David

Samuel French

roycomedyall male cast; two characterstwo male one scene

Two men sit out a rainy day in a remote mountain cabin while their wives shop in the town.Vaughan has been a welcome benefactor to the down-on-his-luck Clay since their recent meetingat a public pool. But Vaughan's benevolence is motivated by something beyond his desire to helphis fellow man, and he just can't keep it a secret a moment longer. Will Clay have the same desire?If not, will he at least have a price? And if so, can Vaughan afford to pay it?


2005

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Festival of Our Lord of the Ship, The

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydrama - Italian ten characters; extrasseven male; two female; one boyone act

1 setting.

Man's thoughtless bestiality at annual hog slaughter desecrates religious festival. Drums,accordions, bells.


1970


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Fighting Season, The

Oliver, Sean Harris


roydrama - warthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act


Inspired by his father’s deployment in Afghanistan, Sean Harris Oliver’s searing new playinvestigates the Afghan war through the eyes of a Canadian field medic, a doctor, and a recoveryroom nurse.

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Film Chinois

Chua, Damon

Samuel French

roydrama - noir mystery - Chinaten charactersthree male; two female (doubling)two acts

unit set; running time: 120 minutes; setting: Peking, China; period - 1947.

An uneasy time between WWII and the Communist takeover two years later. Randolph, afresh-faced American operative, has been sent to the Raymond Chandler-esque Imperial City withan important mission. He makes progress, but soon chances into a staunch Maoist namedChinadoll, his would-be adversary and lover. A cat-and-mouse game ensues. As Randolph

2008

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Film Society, The

Baitz, Jon Robin

Samuel French

roydramatic comedy - South Africa - social issuessix charactersfour male; two femaletwo acts

1 set.

A dramatic comedy set in South Africa. Tensions in provincial private school reflect those ofsociety at large.

1989

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Film Society, The

Baitz, Jon Robin


roydramatic comedy - South Africa - social issues six charactersfour male; two femaletwo acts

1 set.

A dramatic comedy set in South Africa. Tensions in provincial private school reflect those ofsociety at large.


1988

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Finding Neverland - vocal selections

Barlow, Gary


Vocal selections from the musical. Book by James Graham. Arranged for piano, voice, and guitar.

contains: Prologue / If the World Turned Upside Down / All of London is Here Tonight / ThePirates of Kensington / Believe / We Own the Night / All that Matters / Sylvia's Lullaby / Neverland/ Circus of Your Mind / Live by the Hook / Stronger / The World is Upside Down / What YouMean to Me / Play / We're All Made of Stars / When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground /Something About This Night / Neverland (reprise) / Finale / Play (ensemble version)

2015

Kennedy, Eliot

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First Law, The

St. Maur, Gerald


roydrama - Canadian - historical - science - Alberta playwrightall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

A one-act stage drama based on the tragic attempt of Robert Julius Mayer to establish whateventually became the First Law of Thermodynamics.

2015

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Flick, The

Baker, Annie


roydramatic comedy - theatre - friendshipfive charactersthree male; one female (doubling)two acts

Running time: 120 mins +; setting - a movie theatre in Worcester, Massachusetts. Summer 2012.

In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floorsand attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles andnot-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster,second-run movies on screen. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a

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Flowering Peach, The

Odets, Clifford

Samuel French

roydrama - religiousfifteen charactersnine male; six femaleone act (nine scenes)

As described by Atkinson is: "the story of mankind living out its destiny under the benevolent eyeof God. There were giants on the earth in those days of the Deluge. In spirit Noah was thegreatest. It is Mr. Odets' mood not to put him on a pedestal but to characterize him as the worriedhead of a family of ordinary individuals—a peevish though loving hero who feels himself close toGod…the story of how Noah persuades his skeptical family that God has given all of them amission, how they bicker, yet do the job obediently, how God helps them solve the most

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Linney, Romulus


roydrama four charactersone male; three femaleone act

Prim creative writing teacher is appalled and then awed by rough, whiskey-drinking author.


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Follow, Follow

Douglas, Katie


roydrama - young adulteight charactersfour male; four femaleone act


After an Orange Order march through the town where they live, Al, Billy, Stacey, Kelly-Anne andBig Mikey head to the local park with a gaggle of younger kids, ready to drink, flirt, and have alaugh. But when one of their group is robbed and the others assume they know who is to blame, agroup becomes a gang. Events spiral out of control, ending in an act of violence that some of


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FOMO

El-Bushra, Suhayla


royyoung adult - British - love - social medianine charactersfive male; four female; ensemblethirty-four scenes

ages 14+.

Dani and Josh are the perfect high school couple. Their friends look on in envy as their love storyunfolds on social media. But when the government switches off the internet for reasons ofnational security, the truth of their relationship is revealed. Told almost entirely through tweets,texts and status updates, FOMO takes a light, humorous look at the futility of comparing your own


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Fool, The

Bond, Edward


roydrama - biographical - England large castflexible castingone act (eight scenes)

Running time: approx. 100 minutes.

Depicts exploitation of working class in early 19th century England. Centers on John Clare, farmlaborer turned poet, who ends life in an insane asylum.

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Foreigner, The

Shue, Larry


roycomedyseven charactersfive male; two femaletwo acts

Suggested for high school.

The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" LeSeuer, a Britishdemolition expert. This time "Froggy" has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young mannamed Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So"Froggy," before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie speaks no English. Once alone the fun

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Forty Winks

Elyot, Kevin

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - relationshipsseven charactersfour male; three female one act (four scenes)

In 'Forty Winks' Kevin Elyot explores the realm of thwarted desire, while playing on the painfulcomedy that can ensue from the gulf between social decorum and the turbulent emotions that liejust beneath. From the back row of a local cinema to an anonymous hotel room, Don’s obsessionwill not let him rest. He’s still carrying a torch for Diana, his childhood sweetheart stolen away byHoward. He unexpectedly drops in on Howard and Diana having not seen them for fifteen yearsonly to discover they now have a daughter, Hermia, who is the spitting image of Diana when Don

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Forty-deuce

Bowne, Alan

The Sea Horse Press

roydrama - LGBTQ+ - prostitution - menall male cast; seven charactersseven maletwo acts

Alan Browne's searing portrait of boy hustlers, their pimps, johns and power plays. Anunflinching attack on the consumerist society and topsy-turvy world of American values, where adead child is as authentic a commodity as a Madison Avenue product. Browne's most impressiveachievement, however, is the richness of language he has invested in his Forty-second Streetdenizens - a language as textured, nuanced and poetic as the Elizabethans'.

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Found a Peanut

Margulies, Donald


roydramatic comedy - greedeight characterssix male; two female one act

The setting is the backyard of a Brooklyn tenement on the last day of summer vacation, where agroup of children aged five to fourteen (portrayed by adult actors) are at play. Finding a dyingbird they decide to have a ritual burial, which leads to the discovery of a bag of money, probablyburied by a reclusive miser who had recently died in the adjacent building. This discovery, inturn, results in squabbles and bitterness among the children, as the microcosm of their gamesgradually yields an awareness of greed, betrayal and violence—elements of life heretofore

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Fractaland

Pink, Andrea Sloan


roydramaall male cast; five characters; chorusfive maleone act

Five men discuss their lives and lies they have lived.


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Franny's Way

Nelson, Richard

Theatre Communications Group, Inc.

roydrama - family relations - lovesix charactersone male; four female (doubling)one act (seen scenes)

The streets of Greenwich Village sizzle with the insistent rhythm of jazz. Accompanied by theirgrandmother, two teenage sisters from the country visit their married cousin in the city. Soon, theyoung women have embarked on their own private missions involving love, a forgotten child, anda lost mother. Set against the bustling backdrop of New York at mid-century, FRANNY'S WAY is asensual, provocative ode to desire, longing, and the bittersweet collision of youth and adulthood.

in - Goodnight Children Everywhere and other plays / COL

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Freedom of the City, The

Friel, Brian

Samuel French

roydrama - Irelandseventeen characterssixteen male; one female two acts

Set in Londonderry in 1970, this gripping drama by the acclaimed author of 'Faith Healer' and'Translations' explores the ongoing Irish “troubles” that plague the country to this day. Anunauthorized Civil Rights March has been dispersed, and three demonstrators, two young men,and a middle-aged mother of eleven take refuge in the Town Hall. Hysterical rumor inflates thetrio to forty armed rebels, and they are besieged. When they surrender, they are shot.

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Freefalling

Squire, Aurin


roycomedythree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Two passengers and a stewardess on a falling plane give their moment-by-moment account ofwhat happens when tomorrow is no longer certain.


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Friends, The

Wesker, Arnold

Jonathan Cape

roydrama - mortalityseven charactersfour male; three femaletwo acts

A brilliant group of friends from working-class backgrounds have become very successfulinterior designers, and opened many shops selling their designs. They find their success hollowbecause their designs were not bought by the working-class people whom they hoped wouldrespond to 'things of beauty'. Now they are gathered round one of their number, ESTHER, who isdying of leukaemia. Death makes them reassess both who they are and what they imagined theyhad achieved. It also forces them to confront their own mortality.

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Fronteras Americanas

Verdicchia, Guillermo


roydrama - solo performance - geography - Latina/o playwrights - Canadian all male cast; two charactersone male (doubling)two acts

A meditation and critique of geography and cartography. A struggle to construct a home betweentwo cultures.

Governor General's Drama Award Finalist, 1993.

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2013

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Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - aging - seniorssix charactersfour male; two female one act

The Frosted Glass Coffin reveals a group of elderly people in a retirement hotel, dying off one byone in the intense zinc-white light of Miami.


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Fucking Men

DiPietro, Joe


roycomedy - LGBTQall male cast; ten charactersten maleone act (ten scenes)

Adapted from "La Ronde" by Arthur Schnitzler

"FUCKING MEN is a free-wheeling adaptation of the 19th century play La Ronde, in which ten menin ten scenes sleep with and seduce one another; each encounter subtly, sometimes radically,changing their lives. The search for emotional fulfillment—the thread that connects the episodesin La Ronde—is given fresh resonance in Tony Award-winning playwright Joe DiPietro’s hilarious

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Fugitive Kind

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - American - 20th century - social issues - romancetwenty-three characters; extrasnineteen male; four femaletwo acts

"Fugitive Kind", one of Tennessee Williams’s earliest plays, is one of his richest in dramaticmaterial. Written in 1937 when the playwright was still Thomas Lanier Williams, "Fugitive Kind"introduces the character who will inhabit most of his later plays: the marginal man or woman who,through no personal fault, is a misfit in society but who demonstrates an admirable will tosurvive. Signature Tennessee Williams characters, situations and even the title (which was used as"The Fugitive Kind" for the 1960 film based on Orpheus Descending) have their genesis here. At

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Fun

Korder, Howard


roycomedyseven characterssix male; one femaleone act

FUN deals with the determination of two bored teenagers, Casper and Denny, to seek out a goodtime in their small city environment of tacky shopping malls and fast-food outlets. Told in a seriesof short, fast-moving scenes, with biting, staccato dialogue that subtly captures both thelaid-back, pseudo-sophistication of the boys and the ennui which underlies this, the action of theplay follows them, boom-box in hand, as they move from one suggested locale to another insearch of excitement, sex, booze, drugs, or whatever might move their lives off dead, boring

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Ga Ting (Family)

Ly, Minh

Scirocco Drama

roydrama - immigrants - suicide - LGBTQthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act (one scene)

"Ga Ting, which means “family” in Cantonese, is a powerful and emotionally charged story aboutan immigrant Chinese couple trying to come to terms with the suicide of their son, Kevin. Whenthey invite Kevin’s Caucasian boyfriend for dinner after the funeral, the evening devolves into afiery cultural and generational clash. Minh Ly’s poignant play explores one family’s struggle toaccept their son as he was, not as they wished him to be."

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Galatea

Aronovitch, Lawrence


roycomedy - LGBTQ+ - relationshipsall male cast; four charactersfour maletwo acts


A modern re-telling of the Pygmalion story that explores the dynamics of relationships andtouches on themes such as love, loyalty, infidelity, marriage, class and art. Harry, a painter,invites a young model, Eli, to pose for him. Harry’s attraction to Eli disturbs both Harry’s longtimepartner Georgie and Eli’s boyfriend Freddie. The play draws on the parallels and contrasts

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Gasping

Elton, Ben

Sphere Books Limited

roysatire - businesssix charactersthree male; three femaletwo acts

Satire on heartlessness of market forces. British company sells designer packaged air.

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General from America, The

Nelson, Richard

Samuel French

roydrama - historical - American fourteen characters; extraseleven male; three femaleone act (thirteen scenes)


Richard Nelson draws an iconoclastic portrait of America's quintessential traitor, Benedict Arnold.The focus is on how and why a military hero who nearly gave his life for the cause of Americanfreedom ended up disclosing vital information to the British. The circumstances necessarily revealsome of the founding fathers' less than heroic machinations. First produced the Royal

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Generations

Pollock, Sharon

NeWest Press

roydrama - Canadian - Alberta playwrightseven charactersfive male; two femaletwo acts

"The attitudes of three generations towards the family homestead are examined in thisnaturalistic evocation of a prairie farm kitchen in the 1980's."


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Gentleman Clothier, The

Foster, Norm


roycomedy - Canadian playwright four characterstwo male; two female two acts

Experienced tailor Norman Davenport has barely opened the doors to his new clothing store indowntown Halifax when Sophie, an exuberant young woman, barges in looking for work, followedby Patrick, a single father who claims to be handy. Hesitantly Norman hires them both to tie up thelast few threads before the grand opening. And whether Norman realizes it or not, he needs helpgetting into the twenty-first century to cater to the current tastes of his customers. When theshop’s first customer, Alisha Sparrow, a friendly, attractive woman, drops in looking for a suit for

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Ghost Dance

Arkeketa, Annette

UCLA American Indian Studies Center

roydrama - native playwright - Native peoples - historical - repatriationtwenty characterseleven male; five female; one boy, two girls; one male or femaletwo acts

'Ghost Dance is about the repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural patrimonyitems. It is a story with ancient roots and a contemporary beat that weaves a tragic drama into anending with hope for the future. This play was created to show all communities how disturbingthe robbing of our ancestors' graves is and how it affects Indian people'.

in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL

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Ghost Story

Ravenhill, Mark

Bloomsbury

roydrama - breast cancer - spirituality - LGBTQ+all female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act


Lisa has breast cancer. Meryl is a healer who believes in the power of positive thinking. As timefolds back on itself and then forwards, Lisa and Meryl trade roles as the healer and the healed,discovering that the world is full of ghosts.


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Ghosts

Ibsen, Henrik

Pearson Education

roydramafive charactersthree male; two femalethree acts

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Ghosts of a woman's past return when her son arrives home ill with syphilis which he hadinherited from his father.


2006

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Bettis, Hilary

Miscellaneous

roydrama - Mexicoeight charactersfour male; four female one act (twenty parts)

In 'The Ghosts of Lote Bravo', Juanda, who works long hours for little pay in a border townmaquiladora, goes searching for her missing daughter, Raquel, and begins to uncover the truthabout the murderous exploitation that entangles them.

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Gift From Heaven, A

Steen, David

Samuel French

roydrama - family relations - povertyfour charactersone male; three femaletwo acts

1 simple set.

"Set in a poverty stricken shack in the hills of North Carolina this story follows the Samuals familyas they struggle in their daily existence. Ma Samuals is a hard woman whose pain filled childhoodhelped form her twisted view of love and religion. Charlie Samuals, the brooding, more reticentsibling and the object of Ma's affections, is a simple man with innate wisdom who dreams of life

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Gisele's Wedding Dress

Vincent, Julie


roydrama - love - women - theatre - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadiantwelve characterstwo male; three female (doubling)one act (twelve parts)uu

Original title: La robe de mariée de Gisele Schmidt.

This play is a tribute to one of Quebec's most admired actors, Gisele Scmidt (1921 - 2005).Composed of six fictitious scenes - anecdotally, geographically, and historically separate butthematically linked - that could have been played by Schmidt, but were not. While none of thecharacters find the grand love they seek, the play as a whole is a great, theatrical love story


2010

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Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine

Leight, Warren

Grove Press

roydramatic comedy - jazz - family relationsfive characters three male; one female (doubling)two acts

In the 1950s, twin brothers Martin and Daniel Glimmer, along with Eddie Shine, briefly formed the"Glow-in-the-dark" trumpet section of Glimmer, Glimmer & Shine. In 1955, on the seeming brinkof success, Daniel Glimmer abruptly quit the music business and cut off all contact with hisbrother, Martin. Thirty-five years later, Martin's protégé, Jordan Shine (Eddie's son), meets DeliaGlimmer at a wedding in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is Daniel's daughter, works for her parents'very successful garment business, yet knows nothing of his past, nor even of her Uncle Martin's

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Glory of the World, The

Mee, Charles

Playscripts, Inc.

roysatire - biographical all male cast; nine characters; chorusnine maleone act

running time: approx. 80 minutes

A series of toasts to Thomas Merton on the occasion of his 100th birthday erupts into a raucousparty. Inspired by myriad points of view on the Kentucky-based Trappist monk, writer and socialactivist—or pacifist, Buddhist, Catholic, Communist, and more, depending on who you ask—Mee’sexuberant play considers how we can live fully in all our contradictions, and leap into the


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Golden Age, The

Gurney, A.R.


roydramathree characters one male; two femaletwo acts

The play takes place in a once elegant townhouse in Manhattan, the home of Isabel Hastings Hoyt,an aging but still charming recluse who had been a glittering figure in the literary salons of the1920s. Now short of money, Mrs. Hoyt is concerned about the future of her granddaughter,Virginia, a twice-divorced near-alcoholic whom she hopes to see securely married before sheherself, as she puts it, "kicks the bucket." In earlier years, Mrs. Hoyt was friend and confidante ofmany world figures, especially F. Scott Fitzgerald who, it is rumored, used her as the model of

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Golden Six, The

Anderson, Maxwell


roydrama - Roman historytwenty-five characterssixteen male; nine female two acts

"THE GOLDEN SIX is a colorful and cynical account of the four Caesars who ruled from 27 B.C. to54 A.D., stopping short of Nero…The 'golden six' are the grandsons and step-grandsons ofAugustus Caesar, who hopes to choose one as his heir. All but the limping and stutteringClaudius are handsome and heroic, and all six are staunch outspoken republicans opposed totheir grandfather's consolidation of power and emergence as Emperor. Augustus' wife, Livia, playsthe doting grandmother and the loyal spouse…By the end of Act I we know Livia for what she is.

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Golden State, The

Spewack, Samuel


royc o m e d yeleven characterseight male; three femalethree acts

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Effect, upon tenants, of the discovery of a supposedly valuable mine in the yard of a LosAngeles boarding house.

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Goldfish

Kolvenbach, John


roydrama - identityfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act (twelve scenes)

A young man raises his father. Then he leaves home. He meets a young woman who undoes him.The young woman has her own story: a mother who is a force of nature. It's a play aboutlegacy—how do we become who we are?—and it's about leaving home. We raise our children toleave us, to walk out into the world. But then they do.

2010

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Golem, The

Pascal, Julia

Oberon Modern Plays

roychildren - legendsfour characters; puppettwo male; two male or female one act

The Golem is inspired by the medieval Yiddish legend. This story, set in Prague, explores whathappens when a monster is constructed to defend his community.


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Gonna Need To See Some ID

Latham, Donna


roycomedy - crimefive charactersthree male; one female; one male or femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"Sizzurup? Bombs? A suspicious cashier interrogates customers as they attempt to makepurchases."


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Good Boys

Martin, Jane

Samuel French

roydramaall male cast; five charactersfive male one act

A fierce encounter between fathers, one black and one white, opens a deeply disturbing chapter intheir lives. The men relive the school shooting in which their sons died, one a victim and theother the shooter. When racial issues threaten to derail all hope for understanding andforgiveness, the black father's other son takes matters into his owns hands. He pushes theconfrontation to a dangerous and frightening climax. Good Boys explores the pressures ofmodern family life and the breaking points of men and boys, and it raises the question: To what

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Good Bride, The

Rowe, Rosemary


roycomedy - solo performance - women - coming of age - religion all female cast; one characterone femaleone act


Every night from 3pm to midnight, 15 year old Quiverfull Christian Maranatha Graham puts on herwedding dress and hopes that today will be the day her 28 year old groom Pete comes to claimher. Daddy, the paster, sent her to the Pullmans’ house to wait until God tells him it’s time for hermarriage. Maranatha is so excited to submit to Pete's godly leadership in marriage and fill his

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Goodnight Children Everywhere

Nelson, Richard


roydrama - family relations seven charactersthree male; four femaleone act (eight scenes)

The play is set in 1945 just after the end of World War II. Three sisters reunite with their brotherwho had been sent to live in the United States during the period of evacuations of civilians duringthe London bombings.


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Goodnight Lovin' Trail

Bray, John Patrick


roydramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (two scenes)

This subtle and touching drama takes place at a truck stop diner in West Texas, where twodesperate and lonely strangers find redemption in each other's eyes while discussing a stolenguitar. The play explores raw human emotions and consequences while these two desperatecharacters navigate and come to terms with the choices they've made on the road of life.


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Graceful Rebellions

Latif, Shaista


roydrama - solo performance - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadianall female cast; three characters three female (doubling possible)one act (four parts)

Running time: 50 minutes

Love is a sacred act of grace. Rebellion is the refusal of obedience. Joy is a state of divinity anddestruction. Power is given to those who take. Can a queer Afghan woman identify herself in aoccupied land? Part storytelling, part folklore and myth. Tradition is history repeated. Containsfour monologues: A Wedding for Leili; One Hundred Poppies; What's in a Name?; and Leili in


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Graduate, The

Johnson, Terry

Methune Drama

roycomedy - relationships - coming of agelarge castflexible castingtwo acts

California in the 60s. Benjamin's got excellent grades, very proud parents and, since he helpedMrs Robinson with her zipper, a fine future behind him... A cult novel, a classic film, aquintessential hit of the 60s, now Benjamin's disastrous sexual odyssey is brought vividly to lifein this world stage premiere production.


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Grass Is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome, The

Albert, Michael Ross


roydrama - relationships - LGBTQfive charactersthree male; two femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"When a painter tears the artwork off the walls of a struggling independent gallery, therelationships between a group of emerging artists are also torn apart. A comedy about envy,friendship, sex, art, and our constant search for something better."


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Grease : School Version

Jacobs, Jim

Samuel French

roymusical - American - high schooleighteen charactersnine male; nine femaletwo acts

"The 50's rock 'n' roll musical. Rydell High's spirited class of 59' - gumchewing, hubcap-stealing,hot-rod loving boys with D.A's and leather jackets and their wise-cracking girls in teased curls,bobby sox, and pedal pushers - capture the look and sound of the 1950's in a rollicking musicalthat salutes the rock 'n' roll era. While hip Danny Zuko and wholesome Sandy Dumbrowskiresolve the problems of their mutual attraction for each other, the gang sings in the burgerpalace, and the drive-in-movie."

2004

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Great Lakes Suite, The

Reaney, James

Coach House Books

roypoetry - solo performance - music - Canadianone characterone male or female (flexible casting)one act (six parts)


A series of poems set to music. Originally performed as a radio broadcast.

in - Scripts / CCO

2004

Beckwith, John

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Great Peace

Bond, Edward


roydrama - nuclear warsixteen characterseleven male; five femaleone act (twenty parts)

Approximate running time: 180 mins.

Concluding play fo the author's War plays trilogy set in post nuclear holocaust future. Militaryorders are issued that children be killed to save vital resources.

Part three of the War plays

1989

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Greece! is the Word

Mastel, Ken

Miscellaneous

roymusical comedy - Alberta playwright - high school twenty characterseight male; eight female (doubling)one act

Running time: 70 minutes; 1 setting.

A parody, the 50's musical "Grease" set in Ancient Greece. Medusa is the beauty school teacher, achariot become "greece lightning". Teenage hi-jinx started a long time ago! Two modern teensDavid and Mandy, are in the detention room. David bad mouths Zeus, but Zeus was listening. Hetransports them back in time to ancient Greece, to Athens Pi High. There they meet all the classic

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Feiffer, Jules

Samuel French

roycomedy - relationshipsseven characterstwo male; four female; one girl two acts

An acerbic comedy by the famed cartoonist and author of Knock Knock and Little Murders. It'sabout a middle-aged journalist who has, at last, grown up only to find he's trapped in a world ofemotional infants.

1982

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Grown-Up, The

Harrison, Jordan

Playscripts, Inc.

roydramatic comedy - fantasyeighteen charactersfour male; two female (doubling)one act (eighteen scenes)

"Ten year old Kai is given a magical crystal door-knob by his grandfather that enables him totravel through space and time to see future events in his life. The further along he goes, the lesshe feels like he's seeing into his future, but more that he is living life as most people do; all tooquickly."


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Gulf, The

Cefaly, Audrey


roydrama - LGBTQ - relationshipstwo characters; all female casttwo femaleone act (one scene)

1 exterior set.

"The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast andpolarizing abyss. On a quiet summer evening, somewhere down in the Alabama Delta, Kendra andBetty troll the flats looking for red fish. After Betty begins diagnosing Kendra’s dead-end life withcareer picks from What Color is Your Parachute, their routine fishing excursion takes a violent


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Hactivists

Ockrent, Ben


roydrama - young adultstwelve characterssix male; six femaleone act (four scenes)

Age suitability: 13+

When Eloise is tasked with showing new girl Beth around the school she takes her to the 'hackerspace' where she and her gang of nerdy friends hang out - a disused Portakabin they've turnedinto a student-run IT lab. Although the gang call themselves hackers, their activities are entirelyharmless... until their self elected leader, Archie, is humiliated by the school bully and Beth


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Hagoromo

Zeami

Pearson Education

royJapanese Noh play - fantasythree characters; chorus two male; one femaleone act

One spring morning, a fisherman named Hakury?, sets out to go fishing with his companions andfinds a beautiful robe hung on a pine branch at Miho-no-Matsubara. When he attempts to take ithome as a family heirloom, a celestial maiden appears and asks him to return the robe to her. Atfirst, Hakury? refuses to return it. However, he is moved by the celestial maiden, who laments thatshe cannot go home to heaven without it. He therefore decides to give her the feather robe inreturn for seeing her perform a celestial dance. As the celestial maiden in the feather robe


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Hail

Riche, Edward

Breakwater Books

roydrama - crime - friendshipall male cast; four characters four maletwo acts

Four friends gather together to discuss their fifth friend, who has been arrested. The men fear thathe has been caught for a crime they committed nearly two decades ago.


2016

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Half of It, The

Krizanc, John

Anansi Press

royCanadian - comedythirteen charactersthree male; four female (doubling) two acts

When her wealthy father dies, the idealistic Jill Ashe must decide with her socialite mother andreal-estate agent sister what to do with the property left them, in particular a woods that Jill hasloved since childhood. Both her mother and sister want to sell to developers for a huge sum, butJill hesitates. Enter a greedy speculator with a plan to save the woods and turn a profit for thefamily. Jill's quandary over whether to sell out signals the play's underlying theme: how to makechoices in an immoral world.

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1990

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Hamlet in Everyday English

Shakespeare, William

Coles Publishing Company

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The full text of Hamlet written in contemporary english.

2011

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Hammerstone, The

Tuttle, Jon

Intellect

roycomedy - agingsix charactersthree male; three femaletwo acts

An academic comedy about two professors aging gracelessly.


2009

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Happy Place

Sinha, Pamela Mala

Scirocco Drama

roydrama - Canadian - mental illness - mental health - women - friendshipall female cast; eight charactersseven female (doubling)two acts

Seven women living in an inpatient-care facility try to find a way to fit into a world that can’trespond to their pain. But these broken women are the ones who can teach one another how tolive. "Happy Place" is a glimpse into lives filled with courage, compassion and startling surprise,lives which — in many ways — are not so different from our own.

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Happy Prince, The

Wilde, Oscar

Samuel French

roychildren - musical - fairy talessixteen characters; extraseight male; four female; four male or femaleone act (nine scenes)

running time: Approx. 80 mins; Music by David Perkins; adaptation, book and lyrics by CarolineDooley and David Perkins.

A touching musical based on the well-loved story by Oscar Wilde... the golden stature of theHappy Prince stands high above the city looking down on the misery and poverty beneath him.Desperate to bring hope and happiness to the poor people, he asks a swallow to distribute his

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2007

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Hard Feelings

Lucie, Doug

Methuen

roydramasix charactersthree male; three female two acts

Thatcher's Britain, Brixton, 1981. As tensions mount on the streets, a group of Oxford Universitygraduates barely notice what's happening on the streets outside as police and rioters clash,shops are looted, and buildings are set on fire. In both worlds there is a fight for rights... a fightfor respect ... a fight for control. Who will win? Who will lose? Who will make the strongestcocktail? And when the dust finally settles the question remains... Will things ever change?

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Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party and Other Works

Gale, Steven H.

Monarch Press

reference - Harold Pinter - commentary

Considers the thematic relations between The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, andother Pinter plays. Offers scene-by-scene analysis of the action, characterization, symbolism,dialogue, imagery, and setting of The Birthday Party. Indicates possible connections betweenPinter's own life, his published theories of drama, and his own plays.

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Harry, Noon and Night

Ribman, Ronald

Avon Books

royblack comedyseven charactersfive male; two femaleone act (three scenes)

2 interiors; music.

Harry, American misfit in Germany, thrives on exerting power in relationships with Americansoldier and homosexual roommate.


1978

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Harsh Angel

Avraamidou, Maria

Aurora Metro Press

roydrama - feminismeight charactersthree male; five femaletwo acts

Against the background of a divided country, this gentle Chekhovian play is about the lives of twosisters whose 'harsh angel' has forced them to watch the carnival of life as outsiders 'to the forestof men.'


1994

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Have

Hay, Julius

Talonbooks

roydrama - historical - Hungary - women twenty-two characters; extraseleven male; eleven femaleone act (fourteen scenes)

translation of the Hungarian version - Tiszazug by Peter Hay. Originally written in German withtitle: Haben.

HAVE is about historical events which took place in Hungary earlier in the twentieth century inwhich dozens of peasant women were tried for the time-honoured practice of poisoning theirhusbands in order to inherit a few acres of land.

1969

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Heart of a Dog

Bulgakov, Mikhail


roycomedy - satire - Soviet Unionfourteen charactersnine male; five female (doubling possible)two acts

Adapted by Frank Galati.

The action centers on the difficulties encountered by Professor Preobrajansky, an innovativemedical practitioner who specializes in sexual rejuvenation (by organ implantation), in hisrunning battle with the management committee of his apartment house who want the Professor togive up some of his many rooms. Fortunately, the professor (who counters their demands by

1985

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Heathen Valley

Linney, Romulus


roydrama - religionsix charactersfour male; two femaletwo acts

Based on author's novel of same title. In 1840s North Carolina, Episcopal bishop attempts tobring religion to isolated Appalachian valley filled with violence, wantonness and poverty.


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Heisenberg

Stephens, Simon


roydramatic comedy - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (six scenes)

running time: approx. 80 minutes.

Amidst the bustle of a crowded London train station, Clare spots Alex, a much older man, andplants a kiss on his neck. This electric encounter thrusts these two strangers into a fascinatingand life-changing game. Simon Stephens's play brings to blazing, theatrical life the uncertain andoften comical sparring match that is human connection.

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Hell of a Mess, A

Ionesco, Eugene

Grove Press

roysatire large castflexible castingone act (fifteen scenes)

4 interiors.

Avant garde play. Young office worker who inherits money quits job and, while momentous eventsswirl around him, spends most of his time eating and reading.

1975

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Henry IV

Pirandello, Luigi

John Calder Publishers

roydrama - Italian - tragedythirteen characterseleven male; two femalethree acts

also known as 'Enrico IV'; setting: an isolated country villa in Italy during the 1920s.

'Man who masqueraded as insane for many years commits a crime compelling him to continue hispretended madness.' - Play Index

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1987

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Hiding Words (For You)

Wong, Gein


roydrama - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian playwright - China - relationshipseight charactersfive male; three femaletwo acts

The play takes us to nineteenth-century China and into the heart of the private relationship of twowomen that is facilitated by a secret phonetic (and feminine) adaptation of Chines script calledNüshu. Hiding, here, becomes an act of rebellion that creates new means of communicating andnew ways of achieving intimacy among women. Wong's play will surprise and move you with itsnuanced images and loving attention to the historical tools of feminist freedom.


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History K

Lee, Edward Bok


roysolo performance - women - drama - Korea - prostitutionall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

A haunting monologue of an Asian prostitute named K who allegorically embodies the militaryoccupation in Asia. While she could be of any Asian nationality, K's story can be read as achronicle of the US involvement in Korea's modern history. Written in the style of Samuel Beckett'sone woman plays such as "Not I" and "Rockaby," (this play) shows a woman painfully victimized bythe West's military aggression in Asia. Unable to articulate her existence, K can only showfragmented glimpses of westernization forced onto her both physically and emotionally.


2017

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Holes in the Skin

Holman, Robert

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - relationshipseight characters; voicesfive male; three female two acts

Robert Holman's play Holes in the Skin is about a group of troubled teenagers, and their equallydisturbed adult counterparts, struggling to connect with one another on a deprived housingestate in North Yorkshire. The play begins in a council house in Stokesley, North Yorkshire.Fifteen-year-old Kerry and her mum Hazel have recently moved to the estate. Kerry hates it. Shealso hates Dennis, Hazel’s slimy new boyfriend. When she meets Luke, an ex-offender and heroinaddict, in the playground, a spark of something is ignited between them. They are soon joined by

2003

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Holy Ghost

Tuttle, Jon

Intellect

roydrama - war - musiclarge castflexible castingtwo acts

Portrays the plight of German POW's kept in camps in the American South.


2009

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Holy Terror, The

Gray, Simon

Samuel French

roydramatic comedy - fantasyten charactersfour male; three female (doubling) two acts

This work by a pre-eminent dramatist begins as a lecture being delivered by Mark Melon to anEnglish women's club wherein he recounts how he took over a respected but financially shakypublishing house and ruthlessly streamlined by firing everyone in sight. The events describedthen come to life. Melon, who appears at first to be just another ruthless businessman, is actuallyinsane. He has a breakdown and is committed to an institution where he undergoes shock andother therapies. He loses his stature in publishing and his wife and family, but he may have found

1993

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Home

Wagner, Colleen

Scirocco Drama

roydrama - language - culture five characterstwo male; three femaletwo acts

""Home" is the story of an aging man, Tooman, exiled from his homeland, who throughrepatriation efforts, can now return and reclaim his home and property. However, fifty-five yearshave passed and the home has been inhabited by three woman, who, caught in the shifting tidesof a new world of globalization, find themselves threatened with expulsion when Toomas and hisson, Wendall, return to reclaim the land and house. The women who have lived in this adoptedcountry and in this house for so long, feel suddenly rootless. "Home" explores our deep

2014

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Home

Storey, David

Penguin Books

roydrama - tragedy - British - friendship - mental healthfive charactersthree male; two femaletwo acts

1 exterior set.

The play opens with two old men having a morning conversation in a park and as the playdevelops, it is realized that the men and their two women friends are patients in a mental institute.The play traces the daily companionship of the four characters.


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Home of the Brave

Laurents, Arthur


roydrama - prejudiceall male cast; six characters six malethree acts

representative set.

A Jewish-American soldier, on a suicide mission with four other soldiers, develops amnesia andparalysis when he feels glad that his best friend was killed because he thinks that the friend wassecretly prejudiced against Jews.

1946

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Home of the Brave

Laurents, Arthur

Back Stage Books

roydrama - prejudiceall male cast; six characterssix malethree acts

representative set.

A Jewish-American soldier, on a suicide mission with four other soldiers, develops amnesia andparalysis when he feels glad that his best friend was killed because he thinks that the friend wassecretly prejudiced against Jews.


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Hongbu and Nobu: The Tale of the Magic Pumpkins

Yoon, Jean


roy folklore - Korea - childrentwelve characters; extrasfour male; four female; four male or female (doubling possible)one act (twenty-two scenes)

An adaptation of one of the most commonly known Korean folklores. Children in Korea grow uphearing about the two brothers, Hongbu and Nolbu, whose story teaches them to be kind andhonest. From one perspective, the play tells a simple and innocent mythical story, but fromanother, it is a meta-theatrical extravaganza full of bizarre fantasies and dark humour.


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Hood

Chandler, Katharine


roydrama - young adulteight characters; puppets; extras; chorusflexible castingone act

age suitability - 13+

Hood's mam has run off with a bacon-licking vegetarian, while her dad spends his days andnights lost in a chair, feeding his addiction to the Waterboys. There's no money left, there's fivestruggling kids to feed, and interfering Father Tuck just won't let them be. But our modern-dayhero Robyn Hood is determined to keep her family together, whatever it takes... a modern day tale


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Hospital Food

O'Hare, Eugene


roydrama - young adult - cancerten characterssix male; six femaleone act (five scenes) Age suitability: 15+

Set in the present day, ten teenagers from the ages of fourteen to seventeen are the residents of acancer unit in a city hospital. All of them (a mix of boys and girls) are undergoing variousconventional treatments for different cancers at different stages of progression. Their sharedillness bonds them and they support each other as they reveal their fears and hopes for the future


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Hour, The

Goodell, Susan


roydrama - crimefive characterstwo male; one female (doubling)one act (one scene)

A suspect and a cop in an interrogation room on the first day of daylight savings time.


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House Not Meant to Stand, A

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydark comedy fourteen characters; one voicenine male; two female; two boys; one girl two acts

Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return one stormynight from the funeral of their older son to a house and a life literally falling apart - daughterJoanie is in an asylum and their younger son Charlie is upstairs having sex with his pregnant,Holy Roller girlfriend as the McCorkles enter. In this dark, expressionistic comedy, which he callshis 'Southern Gothic Spook Sonata' Williams brilliantly chronicles the fragile state of our world.

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How Black Mothers Say I Love You

Anthony, Trey


roydramatic comedy - family relations - Canadian playwrightall female cast; four charactersfour femaletwo acts

From the author of the blockbuster da Kink in my hair comes an emotional and raw look intofamily dynamics, trust, resolution and change.

Claudette still can’t forgive her mother for leaving. For six years of her childhood, Claudette andher sister Valerie were left with their grandmother while their mother, Daphne, moved fromJamaica to the United States to start a new chapter for their family. But in that time, Daphne

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Huff

Cardinal, Cliff


roydrama - Native peoples - Native playwright - family relations - solo performance many charactersone male (doubling)one act (one scene)

"Brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father’s abusive whims and theirmother’s recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pulldestructive pranks. Preyed upon by Trickster and his own fragile psyche, Wind looks for a wayout, one that might lead him into his mother’s shadow."

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Hughie

O'Neill, Eugene


roydrama - deathall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"Originally produced on Broadway, revived to sellout houses in 1996 starring Al Pacino, HUGHIEwas one of O'Neill's last works. It was originally intended as part of a series of short plays, but itbecame the lone survivor when O'Neill destroyed the others. It did not receive its Americanpremiere until twenty years after its composition and ten years after the author's death. HUGHIE is

1987

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Hughie

O'Neill, Eugene


roydramaall male cast; two characterstwo male one act

HUGHIE was one of Eugene O’Neill’s last works. It was originally intended as part of a series ofshort plays, but it became the lone survivor when O'Neill destroyed the others. HUGHIE is set inthe lobby of a seedy Times Square Hotel early one morning in the late '20s. Its characters are thehotel's gray, withdrawn night clerk, and "Erie" Smith, a penny-ante gambler who has spent most ofhis last fifteen years at the hotel between periods of drunkenness. His most recent bender wasprompted by the death of the title character who was the night clerk's predecessor. Erie babbles

1959

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Human Cannon

Bond, Edward


roydrama - war - Spainlarge castflexible casting two parts

Set in Spain at the time of the Spanish Civil War, this unflinching play is as agonizing as the event.Agustina is in the house with her dead child preparing the body for private disposal. Herhusband, Nardo, states the argument of the story - "When someone else owns the machines youuse to earn your living, then you are owned." Agustina's daughter asks her to name the deadchild. Agustina answers, "No. It wasn't born into a human world, it was born in this world." Thereis bitterness with the landowners, and then their world is overwhelmed with the violence of the

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Hunger and Thirst

Ionesco, Eugene

Samuel French

roydrama - religion large castflexible castingthree acts

A man flees from his family and wanders about the world seeking answers. Finally he comes to amonastery whose monks act out the game of existential freedom, forcing them to confess belief inGod to receive food. Religion is shown as a matter of habit or force, devoid of freedom,constructed to fill voids in the human heart.

1968

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Hunter and the Bird, The


Grove Press Inc.

roycomedy - absurdisttwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

no set required.

Humorous, fantastic, and yet telling in its perceptions, this brief but arresting exercise inabsurdist style delights and intrigues both by what is said and what is left unsaid.

in - America Hurrah and other plays / COL

1978

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I Can't Imagine Tomorrow

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - friendship - aging - deathtwo charactersone male; one female one act

The characters "One" and "Two" are the only friends of one-another. They carry out the sameevening ritual of card playing and watching the news on TV in an effort to avoid any realconfrontation. "One's" physical deterioration and approaching death forces her to prepare for theinevitable. "Two" resists this change and his consuming fear of losing "One" leads to an emotionalbreakdown.


1970

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I Didn't Want a Mastodon

Feiffer, Halley


roydramatic comedy - relationships - monologuetwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A couple wrangle over a blown glass mastadon.


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I Had A Job I Liked, Once.

Vanderhaeghe, Guy

Fifth House

roydrama - crime - Canadianfive charactersfour male; one femaletwo acts

1 setting

'I Had a Job I Liked, Once' explores the ideas of justice and the law, innocence and experience,and social hierarchies. Set in a police station, the action centres on the interrogation of a youngman accused of a crime involving a beautiful and wealthy teenage girl. The events leading up tothe incident unfold in flashbacks as the boy tells his story to the interrogating officer, a

1992

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I Licked a Slag's Deodorant

Cartwright, Jim

Methuen Drama

roydramatic comedy - relationships - monologuestwo characters one male; one femaletwo acts

in this grimy but often comical tale of a streetwalker and her luckless client, the play is a series ofmonologues segued together to create a picture of life at its most ugly. Man is a loner, he lives ina crummy bedsit with only the TV for company. Occasionally, he’ll venture out to the pub or thedisco, but he doesn’t interact, he merely observes. Slag is a hyperactive drug-head, she walks thestreets chanting her mantra to the punters. Despite the huge gulf between them, Slag and Manmeet and forge a bizarre intimacy.

1996

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I Promised Myself to Live Faster:a queer space opera in the decadent style

Moss, Gregory S

Playscripts, Inc.

roymusical comedy - LGBTQ+ - identity - allegorylarge castflexible casting

Developed by: Pig Iron Theatre Company

'I Promised Myself to Live Faster' is an intergalactic gay extravaganza featuring closetedextraterrestrials, high-stakes pursuits, and nuns from outer space. In this wild work, Tim’s outtrolling for a good time when an order of intergalactic nuns charge him with a quest: retrieve theHoly Gay Flame from the clutches of the evil emperor to save the race of Homosexuals and restorethe balance of power in the universe. But when he’s captured by the fabulously androgynous


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I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - biography - D.H. Laurencethree characters one male; two femaleone act

A play about D.H. Lawrence. There are three characters, Lawrence himself, Frieda and Bertha Brett,and the scene is a sun-porch at a small retreat in the Alpes Maritimes. We see Lawrence at the veryend of his career, in fact the very day he dies, and recognize him as the erratic, inspired,ill-tempered genius who was never able to come to terms with life. Yet he stands revealed here asthe man who, in Mr. Williams' words, "felt the mystery and power of sex, as the primal life urge,and was the life-long adversary of those who wanted to keep the subject locked away in cellars of


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I Shave My Toes

Miller, Michele Makrouhi

Dizzy Emu Publishing

original monologues - Alberta playwright - ethnic theatre - women

Contains monologues written specifically for the ethnically diverse female.

The monologues and scenes in the Breathtakingly Original Series were written specifically for theage ranges and genders specified. That said, many have been adapted for both genders, andadapted for the handicap-able actor as well. They may be used, studied, performed inUniversities, High Schools, Junior Schools, Senior Centers, and Acting Schools, private or public.

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I Will Be Gone

Courtney, Erin

Playscripts, Inc.

roydramatic comedyeight charactersfour male; four femaleone act (fifteen scenes)

Seventeen-year-old Penelope goes to live with her Aunt Josephine in a small town in California’sSierra Nevada Mountains after her mom dies. Everyone in this small town—built right next door toa ghost town—is haunted by something or someone, and no one knows how to behave. Filledwith apparitions, earthquakes, and strange attempts to mourn, this play explores the beauty andawkwardness of living with the knowledge that everything ends.


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I'm Dreaming, But Am I?

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydrama - relationships - Italythree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 interior.

In a dream, the true feelings and suspicions of two lovers are revealed.


1970


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I'm Not Rappaport

Gardner, Herb

Nelson Doubleday

roycomedy - Americanseven charactersfive male; two femaletwo acts

"Set in a secluded spot in New York's Central Park, the play is about two octogenarians determinedto fight off all attempts to put them out to pasture. Talk about an odd couple! Nat is a lifelongradical determined to fight injustice, real or imagined, and is also something of a spinner offantasies. The other half of this unlikely partnership is Midge, a black apartment super whospends his days in the park hiding out from tenants, who want him to retire."

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IBaby

Cunningham, Laura Shaine


roycomedytwo charactersone female; one male or femaleone act

Woman gives birth to an iphone.


2015

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Identifying Mavor Moore

Boss, Allan


reference - Canadian theatre - biography - Mavor Moore - history

A cultural giant, Mavor Moore had his hands in some of the greatest achievements on theconstruction of Canada's theatrical identity, and yet he is relatively unknown to the Canadiantheatre community. The enigmatic, obscured figure behind many of the most important momentsin the development of Canada's cultural landscape has been largely ignored by history. In thisgroundbreaking study of his work, Allan Boss relocates Moore in Canada's cultural history. Mooremay be a jack of all trades, but Boss exposes a historical record that seems to conceal Moore'swork, challenging the conventions of recorded theatre history in Canada along the way.

A historical and literary study

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Ides of March, The

Kilty, Jerome

Samuel French

roydrama - historical sixteen characters; extrasten male; six femaletwo acts

Based on the novel by Thornton Wilder. The action spans the year before and up to Caesar's assassination, introducing us to Cleopatra onher visit to Rome. Caesar has given some strict prescriptions; but all the same he falls in love withher again. This infuriates a patrician woman of Rome.

1971

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Idiot, The

Gray, Simon

Methuen & Co

roydramatic comedylarge castflexible casting two acts

In creating a stage play based upon Dostoievsky's original novel, the playwright has taken someof the most vivid and contrasting episodes recounting the strange involvement between PrinceMyshkin, the good natured 'Idiot', and the beautiful Natasya Filippovna and her desperate loverand husband, Rogozhin. The ambiguity of these episodes and the paradoxical atmosphere ofDostoievsky's novel - hovering between sombre tragedy and grotesque farce - is heightened bythe use of a strange , sinister commentator, the character Ferdyschenko. The result is a haunting

1971

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If Truth Be Told

Cooper, Beverley

Scirocco Drama

roydrama - censorshipeight characterstwo male; six femaletwo acts

"It's 1977, and successful writer Peg Dunlop has returned to her small Ontario hometown to lookafter her ailing mother. When an eager young English teacher decides to teach one of Dunlop'sbooks to the town's Grade 13 class, a group of parents and the local pastor start a movement tohave the book banned. Based on real-life events, Cooper's balanced look at the issues on bothsides raises important questions: Who decides what we can and cannot read? How do we tellstories? How do we fight for what we believe in? And how do we coexist when we have opposing

2016

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Ile

O'Neill, Eugene

Vintage Books

roydramasix charactersfive male; one femaleone act



1972

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Imbecile, The

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydrama - politics - Italynine characterseight male; one femaleone act

1 interior.

Italian political party worker criticizes suicide for not first killing hated politician.


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Immoralist, The

Goetz, Ruth


roydrama - LGBTQ+eight characterssix male; two femalethree acts

2 interior sets.

Based on the novel of the same title by Andre Gide. A young man desperately marries a childhoodfriend in hopes that a homosexual encounter of his youth was not a permanent indication that heis homosexual. However, as he comes to know and accept his homosexuality, he beginsunintentionally to destroy his wife's self-respect as he becomes increasingly alienated from her.

1962

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In a Little World of Our Own

Mitchell. Gary

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - tragedy - family relations - Irelandfive charactersfour male; one femalefour acts

Domestic tragedy focusing on family of three brothers living in North Belfast.

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1998

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In a Pig's Valise

Overmyer, Eric


roymusical - comedyten characterssix male; three female (doubling)two acts

In Eric Overmyer's hilarious send-up of private-eye pulp fiction, Shrimp Bucket and his brother,Gut, are stealing the sexy Dolores Con Leche's dreams. It's Taxi's task to find out why. From theubiquitous fog to the cheap bedrooms at Heartbreak Hotel to Con Leche's legs, which aredescribed as “gams that could raise goose flesh on a tossed salad,” IN A PIG'S VALISE pokes fun atand pays homage to the hardboiled detective novels we all know and love.

1987

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In a Pig's Valise

Overmyer, Eric

Smith and Kraus

roymusical - comedyten characterssix male; three female (doubling)two acts

1 setting.

In Eric Overmyer's hilarious send-up of private-eye pulp fiction, Shrimp Bucket and his brother,Gut, are stealing the sexy Dolores Con Leche's dreams. It's Taxi's task to find out why. From theubiquitous fog to the cheap bedrooms at Heartbreak Hotel to Con Leche's legs, which aredescribed as “gams that could raise goose flesh on a tossed salad,” IN A PIG'S VALISE pokes fun at


1993

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In Care

Williams, Kenneth T.

Scirocco Drama

roydrama - native peoples - Native playwright - Canadianfour characters one male; three femaleone act

The latest script by Cree playwright Kenneth T. Williams, In Care is a four-character play about amother’s struggle to get her children out of foster care. Janice Fisher has not had an easy life. Sheworked the streets as a teenager, had her first daughter taken when she was just 15, and wasaddicted to cocaine. That was 12 years ago and she’s turned her life around and is the mother ofthree happy girls, until a false accusation gets them apprehended by foster care. Now, Janice istrapped in a system like a butterfly in a spider’s web: the more she struggles to get out, the more

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In Celebration

Storey, David

Grove Press

roydrama - family relationssix charactersfour male; two female two acts

"As the Shaw sons gather to celebrate their parents’ fortieth wedding anniversary, the tensions oftheir family history come to the surface. Their father, who’s spent his life on his back down themines, has always been proud of the grammar school and university education he provided forhis sons. Now, however, he sees that education betraying the very work ethic he hoped to instil inthem, as his working-class sons become middle-class professionals."

1969

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In Defence of Theatre

University of Toronto Press

reference - theatre

(This book) brings together a 'who's who' of respected and innovative Canadian scholars andtheatre-artists to articulate the critical importance of theatrical endeavor. Sections include: APolitics of Place in a Global Age; Antidote for an Ailing Modernity; (En)Gendering Change;Breaking down Barriers; and Why Theatre Always.

Aesthetic practices and social interventions

2016

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In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe

Overmyer, Eric


royblack comedysix charactersthree male; three femaletwo acts

Eric Overmyer’s cosmic comedy probes the world of international conspiracy, political paranoia,and intergalactic connections.

1989

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Overmyer, Eric

Smith and Kraus

royblack comedysix charactersthree male; three femaletwo acts

Eric Overmyer’s cosmic comedy probes the world of international conspiracy, political paranoia,and intergalactic connections.


1993

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In Praise of Love

Rattigan, Terence

Samuel French

roydramatic comedyfour charactersthree male; one femaletwo acts

Deception is the linchpin of this sophisticated comedy drama about a fatally ill wife and herineffectual husband.

1973

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In Spirit

Beagan, Tara


roydrama - Canadian - Native peoples - social issues - murder - native playwright - Albertaplaywrightall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

Twelve-year-old Molly was riding her new bicycle on a deserted road when a man in a truckpulled up next to her, saying he was lost. He asked if she could get in and help him back to thehighway, and said he could bring her back to her bike after. Molly declined, out of interest for herown safety. The next things Molly remembers are dirt, branches, trees, pain, and darkness. Mollyis now a spirit. Mustering up some courage, she pieces together her short life for herself and her

2017

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In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydramafive charactersthree male; two femaletwo parts

1 interior set.

A woman is isolated in a Tokyo hotel with her artist husband who is suffering from angst over hisinability for creative expression.


1970

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In the Blue

Gill, Peter

Faber and Faber

roydrama - relationships - LGBTQ+all male cast; two characters two maleone act (three scenes)

When Stewart, a hedonistic drifter, and Michael, a timid hospital auxiliary, embark on a love affair,the odds are set against them. For as much as Stewart is assertive and streetwise, Michael isintroverted and awkward. In this two-hander Peter Gill explores the simultaneous attraction andincompatibility of two social worlds.

in - Peter Gill: Plays 1 / COL

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In the Zone

O'Neill, Eugene

Vintage Books

roydramaall male cast; nine charactersnine male one act

1 interior set.

"Seamen on board British merchant marine vessel in World War I suspect fellow worker of being aspy."


1972

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In Vogue

Howell, Georgina

Penguin Books

reference - England - history - costume - 20th century

A collection of photographs and commentary on British fashion from 1916-1975.

Sixty years of celebrities and fashion from British Vogue

1978

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Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito, The

Highway, Tomson

Fifth House

roymusical - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwrightone characterone femaleone act

illustrated by Sue Todd.

"This is the story of Mary Jane Mosquito, the only female mosquito, in the history of the world,to be born without wings."

2016

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Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers, The

Metcalfe, Stephen


royd r a m aeighteen characterssix male; three femalet w o a c t s

1 setting

A rock star is pressured to make a stage comeback after being seriously wounded by fan inassassination attempt.


1986

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Indian Arm

Kanagawa, Hiro


roydrama - Native peoples - disabilitiessix characters two male; three female (doubling)two acts

"In this modern adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf, award-winning author Hiro Kanagawaexplores the uneasy intersection of privilege and birthright. Rita and Alfred Allmers live in anisolated family cabin on native leasehold land overlooking Indian Arm, a still untamed glacialfjord just north of Vancouver, BC. With Alfred—a formerly promising novelist—now strugglingwith his latest work, Rita has been tasked with caring for their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive FirstNations teen who has been designated as “special needs for much of his life. Rita’s resentments

2016

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Indians

Kopit, Arthur

Eyre Methuen

roydrama - Native peoplestwenty-four characters; extrastwenty-one male; three female thirteen scenes 1 set.

Using techniques of vaudeville and the circus, this play explores the white man's conquering andextermination of the Native American Indian.

1970

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Infinity

Moscovitch, Hannah


roydrama - music - relationships - timethree charactersone male; two female two acts

Sarah Jean is a mathematics prodigy who finds safety in numbers, in the reliability of their definednature. Her affinity for unhealthy relationships, however, remains a complete mystery. Her flingsturn into year-long relationships against her better judgment and her confusing emotionalpatterns are only now coming to light. It’s time for Sarah Jean to make sense of her past in termsshe understands and to discover there is more to time than just its inevitable passing. Elliot is atheoretical physicist who spends most of his time thinking about time and how to unify all

2017

Kie, Njo Kong

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Innocent as Charged


Oberon Books

roycomedy - melodrama - farce twelve extrassix male; six female four acts

In the first act, Lyubov implores her lover Murov to marry her and take responsibility for theirson, who has been secreted away to avoid scandal. Murov offers vague excuses and mentions alast-minute trip to St. Petersburg and is about to escape when his exit is blocked by the arrival ofLyubov’s flighty, newly rich friend Taisa. Murov is forced to hide behind a screen. The flutteryTaisa, is full of news about her wedding plans; no prizes for guessing who the groom is to be. Adesolate Lyubov is bidding a bitter farewell to Murov when an old woman arrives announcing the


1997


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Interesting Times

Pratchett, Terry

Methuen Drama

roycomedy - fantasylarge castflexible castingtwo acts

The Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from the Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork tothe oppressive Agatean Empire to help some well-intentioned rebels overthrow the Emperor. He'sassisted by toy-rabbit-wielding rebels, an army of terracotta warriors, a tax gatherer and a groupof seven very elderly barbarian heroes led by Cohen the Barbarian. opposing him though, is theevil and manipulative Lord Hong and his army of 750,000 men. Oh... Rincewind is also aided byTwoflower - Discworld's first tourist and the author of a subversive book, about his visit to

2002

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Intervention, An

Bartlett, Mike

Nick Hern Books

roycomedy - friendshiptwo charactersflexible castingone act (five scenes)

Simple set.

"A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend. One of them went onthe anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeringly drunk. Theother stayed at home, watched TV for a bit, and thought about the future.

2014

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Irish Stew

Pepper, Cary


roycomedy - aging - memory - seniorstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

An elderly couple have adventures looking for their "Irish Stew", which in reality is an Irishsweater.


2015

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Jacques Plante and the Parkdale Knitting League

McLaughlin, Paul

Miscellaneous

roy dramatic comedy - romanceseven charactersfour male; three femaleone act

Play combines drama, comedy and real events to tell the story of a Toronto woman who falls inlove with the legendary hockey goalie, Jacques Plante, through their mutual love of knitting.

2000

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Jane Eyre

Jerome, Helen

Samuel French

roydrama - romance - literaturelarge cast flexible castingthree acts Adapted from the novel by Charlotte Bronte.

Condensing the dramatic action of the classic novel, playwright Helen Jerome, as in her acclaimedadaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, produces a thrilling and compelling stageversion. Young Jane Eyre comes to Thornfield, the estate of the brooding Rochester, to be agoverness to Adele, his child-ward. Rochester is an unhappy man with lunatic wife whom he must

1935

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Jar, The

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roycomedy - Italyeleven charactersseven male; three female; one boy one act

Translated by William Murray; 1 setting.

Sicilian countryside. When a tinker traps himself inside a jar, its owner has legal problems.Singing and dancing.


1970


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Jew from Three Rivers, The



roydrama - Jewish - politics - historical - biographyeight characters four male; one female (doubling)one act (fourteen scenes)

"The true story of Ezekiel Hart, the first Jew elected to public office in the British Empire in 1807.When a seat becomes vacant in the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, both the French(personified by the newspaper editor Pierre-Stanislas Bédard) and the English (personified by thecolonial governor, Sir James Craig) must decide whether to support Hart's candidacy."

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Johnny and Rosie

Long, Quincy


roydrama - relationships two charactersone male; one femaleone act

An emotional mobster and his commonsensical moll discuss the possibility of the existence ofnaked pictures of her.


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Johnny Guitar

van Hoogstraten, Nicholas

Samuel French

roymusical - comedyeight characters; four musicianssix male; two femaletwo acts

Book by Nicholas van Hoogstraten; music by Martin Silvestri; Lyrics and Music by Joel Higgins.

Based on the Republic motion picture Johnny Guitar. This laugh-filled musical based on thelegendary Joan Crawford cult western embraces and sends up fifties-style movie acting,melodramatic romance and rough-and-tumble cowboy action. Featuring a sensational score withechoes of doo-wop and steamy southwestern ballads, Johnny Guitar tells the story of a sultry

2004

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Johnson Over Jordan

Priestley, J. B.

Oberon Books

roydrama - fantasylarge castflexible castingthree acts

JB Priestly described 'Johnson over Jordan' as an adventure in theatre. Robert Johnson, a timid ,meek man lives the most ordinary of lives - until he dies. Suddenly he is catapulted into thestrangeness of his afterlife and begins a frightening, lurid and emotional journey. Past memories,secret desires and present regrets and longings mingle with the real, surreal and sublime,threatening to overwhelm him. The play is an ambitious, dreamlike piece of theatre and ultimatelya deeply moving account of a very ordinary man's life.

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Jolson Sings Again

Laurents, Arthur

Back Stage Books

roydrama - relationshipsfour charactersthree male; one female two acts

Though the play is framed by two short scenes that take place in 1962, its main action takes placebetween 1947 and 1952, the height of the House Un-American Activities Committee'sinvestigations into supposed Communist infiltration of the Hollywood Studios. The action of theplay is a series of personal and professional negotiations among four friends, three of whom areformer members of the Communist Party. As the hearings drag on and the prospect of beingblacklisted becomes more of a threat to their professional lives, each is forced to make difficult


2004

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Joshua Consumed an Unfortunate Pear

Yockey, Steve

Playscripts, Inc.

roycomedythree characters; chorusone male; two female one act

A man has procured and is eating an pear that brings immortality, to the consternation of hispartner, and death.


2016

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Jouliks

Le-Huu, Marie-Christine


roydrama - family relationships - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian five characterstwo male; two female; one girlone act (eighteen parts)

Jouliks is a darkly tender drama exploring the vast, bumpy, and treacherous terrain of love. Theplay dramatizes a few days in the life of a family; grandparents, parents child, and neighbour. Thegrandparents, Mam and Pappy, have come for a visit after seven years of estrangement, in whichtime they did not see their daughter, Vera, her partner Zak, or The Little One. From the verymoment of her arrival, Mam sets to work reconstituting her daughter's home and family so theyconform to her extremely conventional sense of propriety. As the clash between the conflicting


2010

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Journey of the Fifth Horse, The

Ribman, Ronald

Avon Books

roydrama - fantasysixteen characters; extrasten male; six femaletwo acts

2 settings.

Zoditch, the chief reader of a Moscow publishing company, is a lonely man without courage orauthority, except in his dream world.


1978

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Journey to Mapu

de Guevara, Lina


roydrama - Latina/o playwrights - Canadian - native peoples - identity large castflexible castingone act

A series of recollections by Lautaro/Tato, a Chilean Mapuche immigrant, of the struggles of hischildhood as the root source of his current day activism in connecting issues concerning boththe First Nations and South American Indigenous groups. These memories challenge questions ofidentity, nationalism, historiography, a sense of place, and indigeneity.


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Journeys

Peay, Austin


roydramatwo characters one male; one femaleone act

One young girl about to run away from home waits at a bus stop/diner for the next bus. While shewaits, a man returns to this same diner that he ran away from eighteen years previous for the thesame reasons as her.


2015

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Joy of Going Somewhere Definite, The

Long, Quincy


roydramatic comedy ten charactersflexible castingtwo acts

Three out-of-work loggers, fueled by alcohol, God and song, set forth from a northwoods barone night on a misguided errand of mercy. Raymond, Merle and Junior have met a stranger in thebar even drunker and lonelier than they are, and, after accidentally shooting him, decide toreunite the poor fellow with his estranged wife somewhere north of the border in Canada.Hampered at every turn by misunderstanding, confusion, stupidity, drunkenness, desire andmistaken identity, the chivalrous loggers resolutely attempt to do the right thing, while achieving

1999

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Judgement

Collins, Barry

Faber and Faber

roydrama - solo performance - war - menall male cast; one characterone male one act

In this powerful and disturbing dramatic monologue, Andrei Vukhov, a Russian army captain,addresses his judges. The man, Vukhov, is a fiction: so, broadly, is the story he tells. Certaindetails, however, are factual: they relate to an episode of the second world war. The location was ahilltop monastery in southern Poland. What happened there is described, briefly, in GeorgeSteiner's book, The Death of Tragedy. Abandoning the monastery, the Germans left a number ofcaptured Russian officers locked in a cellar. Two of the prisoners managed to stay alive by killing

1974

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July 7, 1944

Margulies, Donald


roydramasix characterstwo male; four femaleone act

A haunting hour-long exploration of a day in the life of a female physician working in aninner-city health clinic.

in - Two Days / COL

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Jump/Cut

Beber, Neena

Samuel French

roydrama - documentary - mental illness three characterstwo male; one femaletwo acts

"Three bright urbanites want to make their mark on the world. Paul, a master of irony anddistance, is a hardworking film maker on the rise. His girlfriend Karen, a grad student, must geton with her thesis or find a life outside of academia. Dave, a life long buddy whose brilliance isbeing consumed by increasingly severe episodes of manic depression, is camping on Paul'scouch. Paul and Karen decide to turn Dave into a documentary. The camera is on 24 hours a day,capturing up close images of his jags and torpors and their responses. How far will love,

2007

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Jumping Mouse

de Vries, Marion


roy children - friendship - comedy - adventure - Canadianfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act

In this adaptation of a traditional story, young Curious Mouse and her best friend Companion setoff on a brave journey to the Sacred Mountains, meeting a host of lively characters along the way,and discovering the true meaning of courage and friendship.

1999

Bobb, Columpa C.

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Just Say No

Kramer, Larry

St. Martin's Press

royfarce - LGBTQ+ - politicianseight charactersfive male; two female two acts

1 interior.

Homosexual attempts to blackmail powerful First Lady who has hidden her son's homosexuality.

A play about a farce

1989

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Keeper

Taitt, Tanisha

Scirocco Drama

roydrama - relationshipsall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act (five scenes)

1 interior set.

"KEEPER takes place during an evening in the lives of Avalon and constance, two extraordinarywomen who have been bonded and blistered by death, doubt and distance. As the details of theirshared history emerge, long-buried feelings and hidden truths rise to the surface. Stirring,humorous and resonant, KEEPER is one part cat-and-mouse, and one part long lost love."

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Kick for Touch

Gill, Peter

Faber and Faber

roydrama - relationshipsthree characterstwo male; one femalethree acts

Kick for Touch tells, in jumbled fragments, the story of a love triangle between two brothers, Joeand Jim, and Joe's wife Eileen. A difficult childhood has left the brothers loving, jealous andincredibly close, so close that – ultimately – they crush Eileen between them.


2002

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Killing Game

Ionesco, Eugene

Grove Press

roycomedylarge castflexible castingone act (seventeen scenes)

1 setting.

Theatre of the absurd, set in a peaceful village, where people speak only in clichés. Plague strikestown and points up raw emotions, hypocrisy, treachery, and other human flaws.

1974

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Kind Ness

Chong, Ping


roycomedy - coming of agefourteen charactersthree male; three female (doubling)one act (twelve scenes)

"A poignant but surreal coming of age comedy that follows the friendships of six characters fromtheir elementary school days through their college years. Ordinary enough—except that one ofthe six is a gorilla named Buzz."


1988

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King and the Condemned, The

Brenner, Larry

Samuel French

roycomedyfive charactersfour male; one femaleone act

Comedy ensues when a troop of actors refuse to perform their poorly written, low budgetproduction, holding the audience captive. When one audience member, Daniel, attempts to leave,the actors force him onstage where he enters their world. Here he must contend with a lustfulprincess, a brutish guard, an obnoxious clown and an egotistical king. If he can defeat theircharacters, he will go free; but if he fails, he will be trapped onstage with them forever.


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King Charles III

Barlett, Mike

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - politics - royaltylarge castflexible castingfive acts

"Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son ascends the throne. A future ofpower. But how to rule? Drawing on the style and structure of a Shakespearean history play, MikeBartlett's controversial ‘future history play’ explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwrittenrules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain’s most famous family."

Winner! - Best New Play, Olivier Awards; Best New Play. Critics' Circle Theatre Awards; South Bank

2014

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King Kirby

Skillman, Crystal


royAmerican - docu-drama - comicsthirty-eight charactersthree male; one female (doubling)twelve scenes

"King Kirby" is a play by the husband-and-wife team of New York Times bestselling comics writerFred Van Lente and NYIT award-winning playwright Crystal Skillman about the life and times ofJack Kirby, the great comic book artist who created or co-created some of your favorite heroes onthe page and screen, Captain America, the Avengers, Thor, Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man,Young Romance, the New Gods, Darkseid, The Demon… the list goes on and on. From the Jewishghetto of New York's Lower East Side to the battlefields of France to the Senate hearings of 1950s,

2014

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Kissing Christine

Shanley, John Patrick


roycomedy - relationshipsthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

Larry and Christine meet at a Thai restaurant for dinner. It's a first date, and they know nothingabout each other. In the course of conversation, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinarycouple. Christine is a reconfigured person. A couple of years before she fell through an opentrapdoor in a store and landed on her head. As a result of this accident, her face had to bereconstructed. So she looks different. Pretty, but a different pretty. Even more significantly, shereceived a severe concussion which, among other things, changed her personality. She has

in - Missing / Kissing / COL

1997

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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

Robertson, Lanie

Samuel French

roymusical drama - jazztwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

running time: 90 minutes; period - 1950s; 2 additional musicians required.

The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness oneof Billie Holiday’s last performances, given four months before her death. More than a dozenmusical numbers are interlaced with salty, often humorous reminiscences to project a rivetingportrait of the lady and her music.

1989

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Lady from Dubuque, The

Albee, Edward


roydrama eight charactersfour male; four femaletwo acts

Three young couples are playing Twenty Questions. The drinks have been flowing, so the moodhas gone from good to bad in a very short time. As it happens, the hostess, who has the mostabrasive tongue of all, is dying of cancer, and the party ends when her pain becomes so intenseher husband must carry her to bed. After the stage is empty, a handsome, mysterious woman,accompanied by an equally handsome man, enter the house and settle in for the night. In themorning they are still there to greet the baffled young husband and his ailing wife when they

1977

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Lady in Question, The

Busch, Charles

Samuel French

roycomedy - parody - spoofnine charactersfive male; four femaletwo acts


A free wheeling satire of patriotic 1940’s thrillers such as Notorious and Escape, The Lady inQuestion tells the suspenseful tale of Gertrude Garnet, the most glamorous concert pianist on theinternational stage. On tour in 1940 Bavaria, her colossal self-absorption is challenged when ahandsome American professor engages her aid in rescuing his mother from a Nazi prison.

1989

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Lake No Bottom

Weller, Michael

Samuel French

roydramatic comedy - love - marriagethree characterstwo male; one femaletwo acts

This comic drama involves a literary critic and his wife who have retired to an idyllic New Englandlake. Their weekend visitor, a promising novelist whose work was discovered by the critic, hasjust published a kiss and tell trashy best seller. Ostensibly, the young author is stopping by onhis way to lecture at a nearby college. In fact, he has come to see the wife, his former lover whomhe still desires. She is bored in the boondocks and willingly resumes the affair. When herhusband finds out, he suggests that they settle the matter like gentlemen do in books with dueling

1991

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Lake Street Extension

Blessing, Lee


roydrama - family relationships - menall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act (thirteen scenes)

The estranged son of a middle-aged man returns home to find that his father has taken in a youngrefugee from El Salvador. Not only has the refugee moved in, but he's been given the son's roomand is sleeping in his bed. As this explosive situation tests the already strained father sonrelationship, we discover that the son is a male prostitute and was sexually abused on a regularbasis by his average, working-class father. Throw in the secretive young man from El Salvadorand the mix becomes deadly in this play rife with recriminations, secrets, seductions, hypocrisy,

1993

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Lapine-Moi / Rabbit-I

Claude, Nathalie


roydrama - women - LGBTQ+ - identity - solo performance - Canadianall female cast; five charactersone female (doubling)one act (five parts)

Running time: 16 minutes; text in both French and English

A dream-like excavation of the fragmentary nature of identity within the overlapping sphere of lifeart. Claude plays a rabbit, a hunter, herself, and herself as an omnipotent narrator in ametatheatrical interrogation of reality and fantasy where the artist realizes that she is both hunterand hunted, both the object of desire and the source of desire.


2017

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Last Call

Pless, Weldon


roycomedyfour charactersthree male; one femaleone act

A young female PhD tries to get her noisy, good ol' boy, beer-drinking neighbors to quiet down.


2015

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Last Tuesday

Margulies, Donald


roydramasix characterstwo male; four femaleone act

The play finds commuters on a train from New York to New Haven absorbed with the sometimescomical, quotidian details of their lives as the horror of the outside world insistently—andshockingly—intrudes.

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2004

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Late Nite Comic

Gari, Brian

Samuel French

roymusical - comedymany charactersone male; one female; six male or female (flexible casting)two acts

music and lyrics by Brian Gari; book by Allan Knee; orchestrations by Larry Hochman.

David Ackerman, a young pianist working at a piano bar in New York City, wants nothing morethan to stand on stage and make people laugh. He meets Gabrielle, an attractive and slightlyeccentric young woman who yearns to be a professional ballerina. These two hungry dreamerclimb the shaky ladder of success from seedy bars to comedy clubs to the stage of the

2008

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Latina/o Canadian Theatre and Performance


reference - Latina/o playwrights - theatre - Canadian

Featuring exciting and provocative new essays by leading and emerging scholars in Canada andthe US, this foundational collection begins a conversation about Latina/o theatre and performancein Canada. The essays query the contours and characteristics of latinidad in Canada'sperformance spaces within a complex network of hemispheric relations and transnationalmigrations. While the discipline has witnessed a 'hemispheric turn' in the study of theatre andperformance in the Americas, Canada has had limited inclusion in this body of scholarship. Intheir examinations of the groundbreaking work of companies and artists such as Alberto Kurapel,Guillermo Verdecchia, Carmen Aguirre, Aluna Theatre, and PUENTE Theatre, these essays invite usto think more inclusively about the hemisphere and the plurality of the Americas that lie beyondUS borders.

2013

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Laugh

Henley, Beth


roycomedy - romancemany charactersthree male; three female; one male or female (doubling)two acts

The West. The 1920s. Mabel’s had a hard few weeks. A dynamite accident at a gold mine has lefther wealthy but orphaned; she’s shipped off to a calculating aunt, whose nephew is charged withseducing her to control Mabel’s fortune. This hapless courtship reveals a shared love of silentmovies and a plan for greater things. A story of mishaps and moxie, the romance of Hollywoodand ultimately a Hollywood-caliber romance. A slapstick comedy from the Pulitzer Prize-winningplaywright of Crimes of the Heart.

2016

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Lavender Railroad, The



roydrama - LGBTQfour characterstwo male; two femaletwo acts

"Imagine a world in which homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death. “The LavenderRailroad” is a play in two parts that mirror each other (science and faith; male and female) as theyaddress common themes of hope and redemption in the face of impossible moral choices. In Part 1 (“Safe House”), a gay fugitive, Sebastian, has been rescued by a mysterious older manwho calls himself Mother Courage. Sebastian is a brilliant young mathematician whose researchinto “fractal logic” holds the key to bringing down a totalitarian government intent on

2011

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Lazarus

Pirandello, Luigi


roydrama - Italianeleven characterseight male; three femalethree acts

also known as 'Lazzaro'; 2 exteriors.

'Young seminarian has his faith restored to him through his father's resurrection.' - Play Index


1987

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League of Youth, The

Ibsen, Henrik


roycomedy - farce - politicseighteen characters: extrastwelve male; six femalefive acts

The League of Youth is a play by Henrik Ibsen finished in early May 1869. It was Ibsen's first playin colloquial prose and marks a turning point in his style towards realism and away from verse. Itwas widely considered Ibsen's most popular play in nineteenth-century Norway. Though rootedin serious events of the time, the play was lauded for its natural and witty dialogue, cynicalhumour and farcical intrigue. Taking a different tack than Ibsen's earlier political play ThePretenders, The League of Youth features a protagonist Stensgaard, who poses as a political

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Lear

Bond, Edward


roydramalarge castflexible castingtwo acts

Taking as its starting point the story of an autocratic monarch deposed by his two power-hungrydaughters, the play presents a parable of the ruthless cruelty imposed on us by the assumptionsof modern society. Lear, his daughters and their conquerors too, have all suffered and are shownsuffering hideously, caught in the trap. But freed at last from his sufferings, Lear perceives andgives voice to the urgent need both for an awareness of man's trapped state and for pity as acorrective.

1978

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Left Hand Singing, The

Lebow, Barbara


roydrama - historical - USAseven characterstwo male; five femaletwo acts

Amidst the idealism and violence of Freedom Summer in 1964 Mississippi, three college studentsvanish, seemingly without a trace. As the parents of Honey, Linda, and Wes cope with their loss,they become inescapably linked—the heirs of their lost children's dreams. Throughout the nextthree decades, the connections among these people with very disparate backgrounds are testedagainst the fire of the country's social and political turbulence. The structure of the play mixesnaturalism with a surprising time curve that evokes the whirl of events surrounding the parents'

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Leo

Laborde, Rosa


royCanadian - drama - love-triangle - politics - Chile - Latina/o playwrightsfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act


"Set in Santiago, Chile, three young friends form a bittersweet love triangle during the politicalupheaval surrounding President Salvador Allende's assassination. Told through Léo's memories, the play travels through childhood, first friends andfirst loves. Passion and poetry weave together


2013

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Lesson, The

Ionesco, Eugene

Grove Press

roycomedy - absurdistthree characters; extrasone male; two femaleone act

"Bizarre lesson ends with elderly teacher murdering his young student."

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2006

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Let Rise

Hopkins, I. B.


roydrama - family relations - alcoholismall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

A mother, sister-in-law and daughter discover similarities in their lives.


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Libration

Cunillé, Lluisa

Aurora Metro Press

roydramatic comedy - feminismall female cast; two characterstwo femaletwo acts

The play is a deliberate comment on the way women in Spain are trapped in a male-dominatedsociety. It is open-ended, dramatizing the uncertainty of the intense, sometimes comic meetingsin a park at night, between a down-to-earth mother and a suicidal dreamer. Their shiftingencounter on a rocking-horse involves a strange exchange of stolen gifts and a barking dog.Whether the play is an understated celebration of woman's ability to adjust and learn from neanother despite the context of a threatening world, or whether it is about loneliness, is up to the


1994

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License, The

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydrama - Italianseven characterssix male; one femaleone act

1 interior.

Indigent worker intends to capitalize in false accusation that he possesses evil eye.


1970


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Life in Three Acts, A

Ravenhill, Mark

Bloomsbury

roydrama - LGBTQ+ - biography - Mark Ravenhilltwo charactersone male; one femalethree acts

With honesty, humour and occasional anger, performer Bette Bourne tells the playwright MarkRavenhill about his brave and flamboyant life. Crafted from transcripts of a series of long, privateconversations, Bette reminisces and replays scenes from his life, from a post-war childhood, astint as a classical actor in the late 1960s, to living in a drag commune in Notting Hill and beingan active member of the Gay Liberation Front. Bette talks about touring with the New York-basedHot Peaches cabaret group and founding his own cabaret troop, the Bloolips, which redefined gay


2013

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Life is a Dream

de la Barca, Calderón

Pearson Education

roydrama - Spanish play - classicsseven characters; extras; musiciansfive male; two femalethree acts

Calderon spins a metaphysical tale about Segisimund, who is imprisoned by his father, the King,because it is prophesied that Segisimund would become a tyrant. One day the King relents andSegisimund awakens from his nightmare to find himself crown prince. His actions prove theprophesy correct, and he is banished once again, where he convinces himself that everything thathas happened to him is but a dream. He subsequently escapes and learns to rule wisely.


2006

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Life of Galileo, The

Brecht, Bertolt

Methuen

roydrama - biographical - Galileofifty-one characters; extras; doubling possibleforty-one male; ten femaleone act (fifteen scenes)

The National Theatre version.

Galileo confirms Copernicus' theories by the use of a telescope but, afraid that a rationalapproach to science might spread to religion, the Inquisition puts Copernicus' teachings on theindex. After eight years of silence, Galileo continues his research on his own theories, but theInquisition's threat of torture frightens him into abjuring them. The Church allows him to write a

1980

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Lilac Ticket, The

Ehrlich, C.J.


roydramatic comedy - seniors - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (one scene)

simple set.

"At the medical group, Sam and Barb confront two secrets that threaten their 50-year marriage:one happening now, in the waiting room, and the other, a long-buried secret."


2016

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Lillian

Luce, William


roydrama - biography - solo performance - American - womenall female cast; one characterone femaletwo acts

The setting is an austere waiting room in a New York hospital, where Lillian Hellman awaits thedeath of her longtime companion, Dashiell Hammett. As she maintains her vigil, Miss Hellman'smind is flooded with memories: her exciting but tempestuous years with Hammett; her girlhood inNew Orleans and New York; reminiscences of her beloved parents; and her days of success andfailure as an artist and a public figure committed to liberal causes (some of which brought herinto sharp conflict with the powers-that-be). With occasional pauses to peer into the adjoining

1986

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Lily Dale

Foote, Horton


roydrama - family relationsseven charactersfour male; three femaletwo acts

After the death of his alcoholic father, and his mother's remarriage, young Horace Robedauxremained in Harrison, Texas, clerking in a dry goods store. When his mother invites him to visither and his teenage sister, Lily, in Houston, Horace eagerly accepts, hoping to resettle and findmore promising employment. Once in Houston, Horace is confronted by his gruff, surlystepfather, who dotes on his spoiled sister, Lily, but dislikes Horace intensely—and shortly ordershim to leave. Horace's departure, however, is delayed by a sudden bout of illness, which forces

1979

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Limbo Tales

Jenkin, Len


roydramaall male cast; three characters; voicesthree maleone act (three parts)

Play in three parts: 1) Highway: Man creates miniature highway as he tells his story about driving on highway tofind girlfriend. 2) Intermezzo: Master of ceremonies informs audience of unusual acts theatre tried to hire. 3) Hotel: Man in hotel room tells about his life, while listening to the conversations of the peoplein the rooms next to his.

1981

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Liola

Pirandello, Luigi

E. P. Dutton and Company

roycomedy - Italianfourteen characterstwo male; nine female; three boysthree acts

3 exterior sets.

"Sicily, summer 1916. The women gather to harvest old Simone’s almond crop. He’s the richestlandowner in the district but he has no heir. Local lad Liolà, untroubled by convention, hasfathered three boys, each with a different mother. When another of the girls falls pregnant, Simoneis persuaded he might recognize the baby as his own, much to his young wife, Mita's, despair. But

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1952

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Lionel Touch, The

Hulme, George

Talonbooks

roycomedyten characterstwo male; two female; one boy; five male or femalethree acts

Goerge Hulme's stylish comedy about a painter con artist who, with his bohemian family, defybailiffs and bureaucracy with high humour and superb aplomb.

1980

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Little Dickens on the Air, A

McKerracher, Chris

Miscellaneous

roycomedy - Christmas - Canadian - Alberta playwrightnine charactersthree male; five female; one male or femalethree acts

Running time: 90 mins; setting - a radio station sound stage in 1940s New York.

A hybrid of regular play and "Radio Play for the Stage," this fun to perform Christmas yarnconcerns a cast of voice actors doing the Scrooge story in the 1940s who must carry on despitemissing half of their cast, or lose their jobs. Lots of room for comedic, pre-planned "ad-libs" tokeep things rolling during narration.

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Little Thing, Big Thing

O'Kelly, Donal


roydramatic comedytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

In Nigeria, a frightened child puts an old roll of film into the hands of Dublin-bound teacherSister Martha. In Dublin, ex-con Larry, with a wounded backside, has to get out of the city to roba convent. Meanwhile, Scarab Oil plans to unleash its new clean fuel of the future. The film rollMartha is carrying attracts the urgent interest of some very powerful and ambitions people. A playwritten for two actors and filled with memorable characters, this is the latest production from theinnovative and outstanding Irish theatre company Fishamble.

2014

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Living Quarters

Friel, Brian

Samuel French

roydramanine charactersfive male; four femaletwo acts

This drama employs an unusual structure: a narrator named Sir instructs the characters on how toreconvene and reconstruct a day several years previous. Eventually the characters plead with Sirto alter the point of no return which changed all their lives. The story which the characters act outconcerns their father, an ordinary army officer who has suddenly become a hero in late middleage as a result of his brave leadership of a U.N. peacekeeping force. When he returns to hishometown in Ireland, he discovers that his young second wife has had an affair with a dissolute

1978

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Lizardboy

Gómez, Víctor


roydrama - Latina/o playwrights - Canadianlarge castflexible castingone act (three scenes)

Depicts the struggles of a family coping with the fears and uncertainties of their living conditionsthrough the eyes of Hector Fernando, a lively nine-year-old rascal known as Lizardboy for hisunique ability to climb walls (as well as his inability to hold his tongue). It is an exploration of thecultural dimensions of violence encountered in everyday life in Columbia of the 1980s and a lookat the erosion of social values brought about by changes in the economic, political, and socialfabric of the country.


2013

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Loman Family Picnic, The

Margulies, Donald


royblack comedy - Jewism five charactersthree male; two femaletwo acts

music.

The setting is a new "luxury" high-rise apartment with Spanish décor in Coney Island, the home ofa middle-class Jewish family struggling to put up a good front even though continually short ofcash. The father, Herbie, who sells lighting fixtures, is chronically overworked and underpaid; hiswife, Doris, tells herself (and whomever may be listening) that she loves her life—even though, as

1990

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London Cuckolds, The

Johnson, Terry

Methune Drama

roycomedy - farce - sexlarge castflexible castingfive acts

A young rake sexually plunders and pillages his way through London leaving a dozen angrycuckolds in his wake.


2004

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Long Time Coming

Rusiecki, David


roycomedy - relationshipsall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act (three scenes)

simple set.

Two friends, both stand-up comics, discuss one of the friend's new girlfriend.


2016

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Long Trip, A

McGeehan, Dan


roydrama - aging - romance - family relationsfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act

An elderly man desperately attempts to connect with his wife one last time before he loses hercompletely to dementia. He tells her the story of when they fell in love and does it so vividly shecan almost see it.


2015

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Losing My Marbles

Faulkner, Trader

Oberon Books

roycomedy - solo performance - monologues - men - actorsall male cast; one characterone maleone act (ten parts)

'Losing My Marbles' is a series of hilarious true stories from Trade Faulkner's varied lifedescribing his extraordinary encounters with the great and famous, including Laurence Olivier,John Gielgud and Vivian Leigh, his involvements with the tearaway, womanising Peter Finch, hispoignant meeting with Picasso and his unforgettable appearance on stage with the great flamencodancer Antonio.

How an actor learnt the hard way

2003

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Losing Sight

Ferguson, Kevin D.


roydrama - disabilities - relationshipsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"Sometimes we lose sight of what matters the most. An artist races the clock to finish a paintingbefore going blind. Haunted by the ghost of his grandfather, he must confront the lostrelationships of his past before he can face his future."


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Love Alone

Smith, Deborah Salem


roydrama - deathsix characterstwo male; four femaletwo acts

When Helen’s lesbian partner of twenty years dies unexpectedly in minor surgery, Helen and herdaughter want answers. Confused by the hospital’s silence around the death, they bring a lawsuitagainst the doctors. Now Dr. Becca Neal must confront her feelings about losing her patient whileshe juggles the demands of a lawsuit. LOVE ALONE tracks the fallout in both the patient’s and thedoctor’s homes, as both households navigate uncharted waters of anger, humor, and longing.This powerful story of how we grieve and how we heal speaks to an essential truth: We will all be

2015

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Love Minus

Gallagher, Mary


roydramatic comedy - relationshipsfour characterstwo male; two femaletwo acts

Karla, a would-be novelist, and Nick, a soap opera actor, meet by chance in a park overlookingthe Hudson River. Their encounter leads on, in short order, to a rendezvous at Karla's apartment,and the exciting possibility that true love might have come along at last for both of them. ButNick, cautious that real friendship and mutual respect might be dashed on the shoals of physicalpassion, begins to retreat—leaving Karla confused and hurt. She gets little comfort from herbrittle, man-hungry friend, Lydia, who sees sex as an end in itself, and prefers the clandestine

1989

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Love, Love, Love

Bartlett, Mike

Methuen Drama

roydrama - family relationsfive charactersthree male; two femaletwo acts

Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, one couple journeys forty years from initial burst tofull bloom. This play questions whether the baby-boomer generation is to blame for the debt-ridden and adrift generation of their children - now adults, but far from stable and settled.

2010

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Love's Comedy

Ibsen, Henrik


roydrama - Norwegian - society - marriage - politics - 19th centuryten charactersfive male; five femalethree acts

Two students - Falk and Lind - are staying at the country house of Mrs. Halm, romancing her twodaughters Anna and Svanhild. Lind has ambitions to be a missionary, Falk a great poet. Falkcriticises bourgeois society in his verse and insists that we live in the passionate moment. Lind'sproposal of marriage to Anna is accepted but Svanhild rejects the chance to become Falk's muse,as poetry is merely writing, and he can do that on his own and without really risking himself forhis beliefs.

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Lovers

Friel, Brian


roycomedyeight charactersthree male; five femaletwo parts

bare stage w/platform.

Two commentators on either side of the stage speak without emotion about a seventeen year oldgirl and a boy a half year older who are on their way to study before examinations and, perhaps,talk about marriage. Dispassionately, as the power and beauty of this love scene develop, thecommentators tell us that the young lovers will soon be in a fatal accident.

Winners and losers

1968

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Loyal Women

Mitchell, Gary

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - women - Irelandten characterstwo male; seven female; one girl (infant)one act (nine scenes)

Brenda is under siege in her Belfast home. Daughter Jenny's baby is crying upstairs, hermother-in-law is sleeping in the front room and her husband is back after years away. And nowthe women of the Ulster Defence Association want to hold meetings there as well.

2003

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Luann

Evans, Greg

Samuel French

roymusical - young adult - comedyseventeen characters; extrasthree male; five female (doubling)two acts

simple set.

"Luann and her school mates are stoked - it's the last day of school! Summer vacation's here! Butwill the high expectations soar or crash? Luann's big dream is to hook up with Aaron Hill. Butshe'll have to compete with hot cheerleader, Tiffany. Luann's doofus brother Brad desperatelywants to impress beautiful Toni. But he keeps acting like a moron. A series of hilarious scenes

Scenes in a teen's life

2012

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Lucky Chance, The; or, An Alderman's Bargain

Behn, Aphra

Oxford University Press

nonroycomedy - Restorationnineteen characters; extrastwelve male; seven femalefive acts

9 interior sets; 2 exterior sets.

Restoration comedy revolving around clandestine affairs, infidelities, love and marriage.

in - Rover and Other Plays, The / COL

1995

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Lucky Guy

Ephron, Nora


roydrama - biography - Americanfourteen characterstwelve male; two femaletwo acts

LUCKY GUY marks a return to Nora Ephron's journalistic roots. The charismatic and controversialtabloid columnist Mike McAlary covered the scandal- and graffiti-ridden New York of the 1980s.From his sensational reporting of New York's major police corruption to the libel suit that nearlyended his career, the play dramatizes the story of McAlary's meteoric rise, fall and rise again,ending with his coverage of the Abner Louima case for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, shortlybefore his untimely death on Christmas Day, 1998.

2014

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Lydie Breeze

Guare, John


roydrama eleven charactersseven male; four femalefour acts

companion piece to 'Gardenia'.

Many of the characters return to site of former Nantucket commune to sort out truth behind eventwhich ruined all their lives. Action centers around Lydie Breeze, named for her mother whocommitted suicide over death of lover.

1982

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Lysistrata

Aristophanes

Dover Publications

roycomedy - classicten characters; extras; chorusfive male; five femaleone act - verse play (full length)

"A woman's powerful weapon strike for peace using the most in the feminine arsenal forms thecore of this most popular of Aristophanes' plays. Under the leadership of the determinedAthenian, Lysistrata, the women of the warring city-states of Greece unite in refusing theirhusbands all sexual favors until all arms are laid aside. The resulting men's dismay andcounterattack, the women's valiant defense of their temporary citadel of virtue, and the finalvictory of the female cause represent a sexual comedy without peer in the history of theatre - as

1994

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M. Butterfly

Hwang, David Henry

Pearson Education

roydrama - LGBTQ+sixteen charactersseven male; three femalethree acts

3 of the men are non-speaking roles.

Based on a true story. Bored with his routine posting in Beijing, and awkward with women, ReneGallimard, a French diplomat, is easy prey for the subtle, delicate charms of Song Lyling, aChinese opera star who personifies Gallimard's fantasy vision of submissive, exotic orientalsexuality. He begins an affair with "her" which lasts for twenty years, during which time he passes


2006

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Macbeth


Modern Library

roytragedylarge castflexible castingfour acts

representative set.

The ambitions to the throne of a Scottish Lord and his wife cause the Lord to murder the King ofScotland and wreak death and havoc throughout the land as he tries to protect his false positionas the new King.

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Machinal

Treadwell, Sophie

Pearson Education

roydrama - relationships - murder - biographicallarge castflexible castingnine episodes

The play's title means "automatic" or "mechanical" in French. Sophie Treadwell wrote the playbased loosely on the murder trial of Ruth Snyder and her lover, Judd Gray, who togethermurdered Snyder's husband. Convicted of murdering her husband, Snyder later received theelectric chair. Out of this event came the powerful, demanding drama, Machinal.


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Mackerel

Horovitz, Israel

Talonbooks

roysatirical comedyfive characters; cat; voicestwo male; three femaletwo acts

singing.

250,000 pound mackerel crashes into home of squabbling family on Massachusetts coast.Father's profit schemes lead to a worldwide disaster when he markets rotting fish.

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Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre, The

Kilroy, Thomas

Methuen Drama

roycomedy - theatretwelve characters; extraseight male; four female (doubling possible)two acts

This is a hugely entertaining, funny play about an English theatre company which gets stuckwithout petrol in a small southern Irish town in the middle of the Second World War. The play tellsseveral stories, of young love, of the painting of a greyhound to win a race, a young child lostand found. But most of all it tells of the wonderful Madame MacAdam and her troupe and of thecomic and tragic effects that they have upon an isolated community.

1991

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Maderati, The

Greenberg, Richard


roycomedy nine charactersfive male; four femaletwo acts

Focusing on the self-centered concerns of a rather inbred group of Manhattan "yuppies," theaction of the play deals with the ultimately hilarious misunderstandings which arise when one oftheir number, a frustrated, somewhat overweight and definitely suicidal poet named Charlotte, istemporarily detained in a mental hospital. The news of Charlotte's plight is misunderstood by thecouple to whom it is reported (Dewy, an ambitious would-be photographer, and Ritt, herstockbroker husband, who is given to sudden "epiphanies") and assuming that Charlotte has died

1987

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Madhouse in Goa, A

Sherman, Martin

Amber Lane Press

roycomedy ten charactersfour male; two female (doubling)two acts

"Webs of personal, political, sexual, social and artistic deception unfold in the indigo nights andbright days of the Greek islands in this two part play. In A Table for a King, which can also beproduced as a one act, a writer helps blackmail an unpleasant and uncompromising woman whorefuses to relinquish her table on the terrace of a Corfu hotel for the King of Greece. Part Two,Keeps Rainin' All the Time, moves to Santorini where a disparate group of expatriates, including afamous author, face nuclear rain, terrorism and the impending eruption of the volcano. The same

1989

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Madre

Pizano, Beatriz


roydrama - Alzheimer's - women - Canadian - Latina/o playwrightsten characters; voicesthree male; seven femalethree acts

Madre is a complex story that, among other themes, touches on issues of motherhood, memory,and forgetting in a country at war. Julia, an old woman living alone in Medellín, Columbia,remembers every day of her life the moment when her husband went out to the bank and nevercame back. Each time she snaps back into reality, she is unable to distinguish dreams frommemories.


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Magic Hour, The

Dobkin, Jess


roydrama - solo performance - Canadian - LGBTQ+ - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act (four parts)

The playwright engages the tipping point between life and art by asking what constitutesperformance to begin with. Invoking the question of when and where things begin and end makesDobkin's practice a balancing act between the real and the performed as she recollects andre-collates the time of her own lived experience.


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Maid's Tragedy, The

Beaumont, Francis

Manchester University Press

roydrama - tragedylarge castflexible castingfive acts

Text includes lengthy introduction and commentary.

Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy (first published 1619) is a sensational Jacobean sextragedy. When gentleman soldier Melantius returns to Rhodes, he finds his dear friend Amintor isrecently married - but not to his troth-plight love Aspatia (the maid of the title). Instead, the Kinghas arranged a match between Amintor and Melantius' sister, the beautiful Evadne. On his

1988

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Making of St. Jerome, The

Badian, Marie Beath


roydrama - Asian Canadian Theatre - family relations - truth - murderall male cast; two characters; chorustwo maleone act (seventeen scenes)

When Jason De Jesus discovers his younger brother Jerome was the victim of a senselessshooting, his world is filled with questions surrounding Jerome’s death. Was his brother a threator a casualty of racial profiling? Was he an innocent bystander or someone other than his family’sshining star? Internalizing his survivor’s guilt while reflecting on their strained relationship,Jason’s quest for truth and justice is tainted as he discovers there are no simple answers.

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Malcolm

Albee, Edward


roydramatwenty-three characterssixteen male; seven female (doubling possible)two acts

Adapted by Edward Albee from the novel by James Purdy.

In the words of Stanley Kauffmann, the play, "…which is a fantasy of the corruption of innocence,concerns a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old boy, well-dressed and well-spoken, who—when we meethim—has been sitting daily on a bench in front of a hotel in a nameless American city. He isobserved by an elderly astrologer named Cox, who speaks to Malcolm one day and learns that the

1966

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Man of Letters, A

Kareda, Urjo


Reference - correspondence - Urjo Kareda - dramaturges - producers and directors - directing -producing

The late Urjo Kareda was renowned for his commitment to respond personally to the hundreds ofmostly unsolicited scripts received by Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, where he served as artisticdirector for almost two decades, from 1982 to 2001. His letters—the bulk of which were, bynecessity, rejections—became infamous for their detailed dramaturgical content and characteristiccritical candour; they became the stuff of legend among Canadian theatre practitioners andscholars. Comprised of a carefully selected range of Kareda’s dramaturgical correspondence, 'AMan of Letters' makes public for the first time over three hundred responses, including rejectionletters and ongoing communication with playwrights whose work Kareda developed forproduction at Tarragon. Recipients range from unknown playwrights to many of Canada’s most

The selected dramaturgical correspondence of Urjo Kareda

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Man who Shot Liberty Valance, The

Compton, Jethro

Miscellaneous

roydrama - westernseven characters; narrator; extrassix male; one femaletwo acts

Based on the short story by Dorothy M. Johnson.

Journey into the Wild West, 1890 in this classic story of good versus evil, law versus the gun, oneman versus Liberty Valance. A tale of love, hope and revenge set against the vicious backdrop of alawless society. When a young scholar from New York city travels west in search of a new life hearrives beaten and half-dead on the dusty streets of Twotrees. Rescued from the plains, the town

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Man with Connections, A

Gelman, Alexander

Miscellaneous

roydramatic comedy - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaletwo acts

Andrei is a construction-site supervisor; his wife Natasha is a socially ambitious librarian. Theirson has recently lost both his hands in an industrial accident while working for Andrei's concern.As recriminations fly between husband and wife, a powerful - yet bitterly humorous - portraitemerges of a marriage and a society straining after questionable values.

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Man with the Flower in his Mouth, The

Pirandello, Luigi


royfantasy - Italianthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

also known as 'L'uomo dal fiore in bocca'.

'Man soon to die tries to view life as silly and vain but fails.' - Play Index


1987

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Man with the Flower in his Mouth, The

Pirandello, Luigi

Miscellaneous

royfantasy - Italianthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 exterior.

Man soon to die tries to view life as silly and vain but fails.


1970


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March Madness - Shhhhhh!

Tasca, Jules


roycomedyall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

What the assistant basketball coach found the head coach doing would destroy their careers....


2015

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Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet

McCraney, Tarell Alvin


roydrama - coming of age - LGBTQ+ - self identityten charactersfive male; four female (doubling)two acts

Marcus is sixteen and "sweet." Days before Hurricane Katrina strikes the projects of Louisiana, thecurrents of his life converge, overflowing into his close-knit community and launching the searchfor his sexual and personal identity on a cultural landscape infused with mysterious familycreeds. The provocative, poignant, and fiercely humorous coming-of-age story of a young gayman in the South, MARCUS is the stirring conclusion of The Brother/Sister Plays.

2013

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Marisol

Rivera, José

Pearson Education

roydramafourteen characters; extrasnine male; five femaletwo acts

Marisol Perez, a young Latino woman, is a copy editor for a Manhattan publisher. Although shehas elevated herself into the white-collar class, she continues to live alone in the dangerousBronx neighborhood of her childhood. As the play begins, Marisol narrowly escapes a viciousattack by a golf club-wielding madman while traveling home on the subway. Later that eveningMarisol is visited by her guardian angel who informs her that she can no longer serve asMarisol's protector because she has been called to join the revolution already in progress against


2006

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Marriage

Gogol, Nikolai


roycomedy ten characterssix male; four femaletwo acts

Adapted by Barbara Field. English version from the original by Nikolai Gogol.

Deciding that it is time he was married, Podkoliosin, a long-time bachelor (and minor courtcouncillor), engages a matchmaker, Fiolka, to find him a wife of suitable social status—not tomention fortune. Fiolka comes up with Agafya, the spinster daughter of a wealthy merchant, whois seeking a husband of demonstrably higher social position. Podkoliosin deigns to visit the

An absolutely incredible event in two acts

1987

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Mary of Scotland

Anderson, Maxwell

Samuel French

roydrama - historical - England - biographytwenty-seven characterstwenty-two male; five femalethree acts

The author has chosen the six years that began when nineteen year old Mary set foot on herunruly land as queen and ended when the last ray of hope faded with the sunset she watched fromthe window of her prison. It presents her as more than a puppet moving through a pedant'sworld. Mary is portrayed as a star crossed girl seeking only to live and love and rule and worshipas she pleases, bewildered by the intrigue which closed slowly in on her. Elizabeth is pictured asan older, crafty and ambitious queen seeking to remove from her path a gracious, romantic and

1960

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Masked

Hatsor, Ilan

Samuel French

roydrama - war - family relationsall male cast; three charactersthree male one act (three scenes)


An explosive Israeli play about three Palestinian brothers. Set during the Intifada with theIsraeli-Arab struggle as its backdrop, Masked depicts the tragedy of one family torn between duty,kinship, principles and survival.

2009

Taub, Michael

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Master Class

Pownall, David

Oberon Books Ltd.

roydramaall male cast; four charactersfour maletwo acts

1 interior set; period - Moscow, 1948.

The setting is an anteroom in the Kremlin during the 1948 Soviet Musicians' Union Conference inMoscow. Stalin is formulating his policy for the arts in the Soviet Union and has summonedShostakovich and Prokofiev, the leading Russian composers of the day, in order that he candiscuss, with the aid of his cultural minister, Zhdanov, their place as artists in Soviet society.


1993

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Match, A

Bolen, John


roycomedy - marital relationstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Married couple rediscovers love after argumentative date night.


2015

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Materials and Craft of the Scenic Model

Payne, Darwin Reid

Southern Illinois University Press

Reference - model making - scenery

Discusses and demonstrates in detail the craft and materials involved in preparing one of thedesigner's most important presentations - the scenic model. Contains: basic preparation; craft ofscenic-model making; experimental techniques in scenic models; and photographing scenicmodels.

1976

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Math for Actors

Snyder, Emily C.A.

Miscellaneous

roycomedy - teaching - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (one scene)

simple set.

"Math meets mayhem when studious Kate agrees to tutor Keith, an arrogant actor who's moreinterested in Kate than in calculus. He shows up late, he's still in costume, and he doesn't know orcare what the angle of inclination is. Answering such burning questions as how many actors ittakes to screw in a light bulb, Math for Actors explores the relationship between art and algebra,

2010

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Matka King, The

Irani, Anosh


roy drama - gambling - prostitution - Indiafive characterstwo male; two female; one girltwo acts

"A story that pits human nature against love and chance. A landscape of betrayal and redemptioncomes to life in the red-light district of Bombay, India. One very powerful eunuch, Top Rani,operates an illicit lottery through his brothel, and when a gambler who is deeply in debt makes anunexpected wager, the stakes become life and death. Can a fortune teller and a ten-year-old girlbeat Top Rani at his own game?"

in - Bombay Plays, The / CCO

2017

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Matter of Wife and Death, A

Labiche, Eugène


royfarcefour characterstwo male; two femaleone act

Eccentric millionaire's proposals of marriage are perpetually frustrated.

in - A Slap in the Farce and A Matter of Wife and Death / COL

1988

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Mean Tears

Gill, Peter

Faber and Faber

roytragedy - comedy - relationshipsfive charactersthree male; two femaletwo acts

When privileged and affected Julian is cast off into the world by his parents, he is left to negotiatethe various power struggles within his love affairs and friendships. The result is a tale of romanticexcess, set within the pervading callousness and despair of the late 1980s.


2002

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Medieval Structure

Acland, James H.

University of Toronto Press

Reference - historical - Europe - architecture

'Medieval Structure' traces the development of the Gothic style. The author's approach is unique:he focuses not on Gothic decoration but on the logic and development of Gothic architecturalstructure. Discarding the aesthetics of much art history, he analyses the problems faced by thebuilders and explains the interplay of tensions, force, and stress. He concentrates on the roof('the essential element. No roof ... no building'), on which the best energies of architects andcraftsmen have been lavished, and which has always been a major structural problem.

The book begins with a description of the most primitive building form, the simple hut, which innorthern lands where wood was plentiful was made of framed timber, and around theMediterranean was made of various forms of baked earth. The theme is original: the

The Gothic Vault

1972

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Melody

Kinahan, Deirdre

Samuel French

roycomedy - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (eight scenes)

"Two lonely souls, a bachelor and a widow, discover that they share many common interestsincluding classical music, ham and cheese sandwiches and massage parlours."

2008

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Men from the Boys, The

Crowley, Mart

Alyson Publications

roycomedy - LGBTQ+all male cast; nine charactersnine maletwo acts

1 interior; singing.

Homosexual friends introduced in "The Boys in the Band" assemble again to celebrate life of oneof the original 'boys' who had died.

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2003

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Mephisto

Mann, Klaus

Aurora Metro Press

roydrama - historical - politicallarge castflexible castingtwo acts

adapted by Ariane Mnouchkine from Klaus Mann's novel; translated from the French by TimberlakeWertenbaker.

It deals with a particular period in modern European history, which had a devastating effect on thewhole Mediterranean region, causing national boundaries to be re-drawn. It follows the life of aGerman actor who collaborates with the Nazi regime to secure fame and fortune and sets this


1994

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Mermaid

Teale, Polly

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - fairy taleslarge castflexible castingtwo acts

"A bold reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's tale of love, loss and desire, transported to acontemporary setting. Beneath the ocean's waves there is no death or pain or separation. Above,the modern world is beset with war, poverty and desire. On her sixteenth birthday, a mermaidrises up to the surface, leaving her childhood behind for ever when she falls in love with a mortalprince. She knows that she can no longer live at the bottom of the ocean - but must she destroyherself in order to be loved?"

2015

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Message, The

Davis, Drew

Playscripts, Inc.

roycomedy - romance - relationshipstwelve charactersfive male; seven femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"An accidental mix-up at a Parisian ring shop causes a divide between not one, not two, but threebewildered couples in this witty adaptation of Thornton Wilder's playlet The Message andJehanne. Jealous fiances and clever plot twists abound in a delightful ode to the old-fashionedromantic comedy. Will love triumph? Qui sait?"

2011

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Messenger

Lill, Wendy

Talonbooks

roydrama - politics - climate changefour charactersthree male; one femaletwo acts

simple set.

"It is a memory play, set both in the present day and in 1990, when the Progressive Conservativegovernment of the day, contrary to the public record, in fact set lofty goals of joining – if notleading – the world in tackling climate change. The mechanism by which that goal was lost isplayed out primarily between two brothers. One brother, Peter, is the Prime Minister’s chief of

2017

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Penguin Books

roycomedy nine characterssix male; three femalefour acts

3 interior sets.

A woman finds her millions to be a curse on her relationships with other people until she meetsher match in a doctor whose faith in Allah, charity, and independence wins her admiration.

in - Plays Extravagant / COL

1981

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Mina

Park, Kyoung H.


royKorea - solo performance - women all female cast; one characterone femaleone act

Mina struggles with a life that has spiraled out of control. Mina is utterly lost between fourcultures: Peruvian, Korean, Japanese and American. She speaks three different languages in theshort piece, which reads like a long confessional purging. She is a victim of colonialism andglobalization, a survivor who imagines finding herself at the end. She may have no roots she canclaim, but she can dream of happiness and hope for the future.


2017

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Miser of Middlegate, The

Gray, Carolyn

Scirocco Drama

roycomedy - farcefive charactersthree male; two femaletwo acts

"Set in modern day Winnipeg, Gray's inspired version of Moliere's classic satire is part sex farceand part screwball comedy. Exploring family, love and money, THE MISER OF MIDDLEGATE sharplycritiques our culture obsessed with acquisition and never loses its sense of humour. A cheekyand irreverent romp into the lives of one entrepreneurial Winnipeg family."

2014

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Oberon Books

roydrama - Russia - tragedy - family relationsall male cast; six characterssix maleone act (three scenes)

Verse drama portraying clash between miserly father and impecunious son.


2002

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Miss Bruce's War

Palmer, Jean Duce


roydrama - teaching - German - historicaleighteen characterssix male; six female; one boy; five girlsone act (eighteen scenes)

"An 18 year-old trainee teacher, Miss Bruce, sweeps into a German community in wartime Albertato supervise a one-room schoolhouse in the dead of winter. Beyond her ability to ride a horseand "play by ear", she brings few skills and little training, but she is determined to instillpatriotism, forbid the use of German, and do a good job. Her young, defiant charges are won overby her songs and "dancing at noon" while a handsome fiddle player and a string of courting farmboys bedazzle Miss Bruce."

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Missing Marisa



roycomedy - relationshipsall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

Terry and Eli are friends with a woman in common: Marisa. Marisa was Eli's wife. Then she ran offwith Terry. Now she has abandoned Terry as well. Terry comes to Eli's apartment looking forMarisa. Did she return to Eli? Eli is not forthcoming. The two men circle each other, combative andvulnerable. Eli wants friendship. Terry just wants Marisa back. Neither man can get what he wants.The phone rings. Is it Marisa? Eli won't pick it up. Terry grabs the receiver and says hello. But thecaller hangs up. Eli is baking a chicken. Terry wants to know who's coming to dinner. Eli will not

in - Missing / Kissing / COL

1997

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Mizlansky / Zilinsky or "Schmucks"

Baitz, Jon Robin


roydramatic comedyseven characters; voicesseven male; one femaletwo acts

Set in the ever-so-sleek and slick Hollywood of the '80s, this dizzily funny, yet jarringly soberplay revolves around the manic film producer Davis Mizlansky who is on the brink of being donein by the IRS. Desperate to save himself, and morals be damned (if he ever had any to begin with),he comes up with a scheme he's sure will save the day—and might just make him some money toboot. In order to make his idea work, he must convince his former partner, Sam Zilinsky, to comeon board with the businessman who can make the deal to produce celebrity-narrated Bible stories

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Molly has her say

Bruchac, Margaret


roydrama - native peoples - native playwright - spirituality - historyall female cast; two characters; one voicetwo femaleone act (three scenes)

The pieces of paper that make up this play are an attempt to record only the smallest fraction ofthe vital and complicated lives of Abenaki people in contact and conflict with Euro-Americans overthe last 300 years. A woman attempts a research project, with her spirit guide trying tocommunicate to her as she does so. The writer responds to her 'spirit - guide' without hearingher. The spirit is a character from the past, brought into the present to convince Molly Marie toacknowledge how her personal history has been shaped by the past.


2003

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Parker, Michael

Samuel French

roycomedy - farcesix charactersthree male; three femaletwo acts

1 interior set; running time: 2 hrs.

"The late Mr. Hammond spent twenty years printing $20 bills on a printing press he built in thebasement of Monet Manor. After his death ten years ago, his faithful retainer George and hisdaughter Annie, continued the family business for Mr. Hammond’s widow who recently passedaway. Contrary to her promise to leave the manor and all her assets to George and Annie, she has

2015

Parker, Susan

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Flynn, Aiden

Breakwater Books

roydrama - religion - historicaltwo characterstwo maleone act (seven scenes)

1 interior set.

"Tells the story of an ancient Norse town in the throes of an ideological upheaval. The arrival of aChristian monk and all his crazy, new-fangled beliefs upsets the placid old-world settlers, whoare perfectly content with their old gods."


2016

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Monstrum, The

Smith, Kellie


royyoung adult - British - gothic melodrama - adolescenceeleven characters; chorusseven male; four femaleone act

suitable for any age.

In a cold village on the edge of nowhere, a disease has broken out, infecting the young andtransforming them into monstrous creatures. The villagers fearfully watch their children forsymptoms of the disease, whilst the Mayor has adopted tough measures for dealing with thosewho are infected. When Bolek, the local scholar, makes a breakthrough in finding a cure, few are


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Moon of the Caribbees, The

O'Neill, Eugene

Vintage Books

royd r a m atwenty charactersseventeen male; three femaleone act

2 interior sets.

An occupied town resists its captors in spite of the fact that each act of resistance results inmore death.


1972

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Moors, The

Silverman, Jen

Miscellaneous

roycomedy - satiresix charactersfour female; two male or femaleone act (fifteen scenes)

Two sisters in the gothic moors vie for power when a governess arrives.

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Morocco

Havis, Allan


roydrama - relationshipsfour charactersthree male; one femalethree acts

2 interiors.

A stay in Morocco exposes cracks in the marriage of a Jewish American architect and hispromiscuous part-European, part-Middle Eastern wife.


1986

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Mother Teresa is Dead

Edmundson, Helen

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - British - family relationshipsfour characterstwo male; two femalethree acts

Helen Edmundson's play Mother Teresa is Dead explores the thorny issue of Western guilttowards the Third World. Mark arrives in a village near Madras to try and find his wife, Jane. Hedoesn't understand what could have driven her to abandon their young son. India is hot, dustyand poor, and a long way from their comfortable life in London. But Jane can't explain why sheneeded to escape or how she ended up looking after children in India – or what is in the whiteplastic bag she’s been holding on to since she got there.

2002

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Mother, The

Zeller, Florian

Faber and Faber

roydrama - parentingfour characterstwo male; two femalefour acts

Anne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each morning for her two youngchildren. Years later, spending hours alone, Anne convinces herself that her husband is havingan affair. If only her son were to break-up with his girlfriend. He would return home and comedown for breakfast. She would put on her new red dress and they would go out.

Winner! 2011 Moliere Award for Best Play.

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2015

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Mother's Day

Storey, David

Penguin Books

roysatire - British - family relationseleven characterssix male; five femalethree acts

1 interior.

'Satiric view of English family life in government housing project.' - Play Index


1978

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Motherhouse

Lodato, Victor

Samuel French

roydrama - African-American - poverty - family relationsfour characterstwo male; two femaletwo acts

"The play follows an African-American family in a low-income neighborhood whose lives areultimately ruined by their surroundings. Clive arrives unexpectedly at the house of his motherand his sister. He says that he is fleeing from the police - but perhaps it's another one of hisdelusions. Unbeknownst to him, he has shown up on a tragic anniversary. Three years prior, hissister's child was killed in a brutal shooting. As fate seems bent on shattering the walls, motherMae valiantly attempts to keep house."

2010

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Mothers and Sons

McNally, Terrence


roydramatic comedy - relationships - LGBTQ+four characterstwo male; one female; one boyone act

At turns funny and powerful, MOTHERS AND SONS portrays a woman who pays an unexpectedvisit to the New York apartment of her late son's partner, who is now married to another man andhas a young son. Challenged to face how society has changed around her, generations collide asshe revisits the past and begins to see the life her son might have led.

2014

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Mouth to Mouth

Elyot, Kevin

Nick Hern Books

roydrama seven charactersfive male; two femaleone act

Kevin Elyot's Mouth to Mouth is an intricately plotted drama about a man haunted by feelings ofguilt and shame over an incident in his past. Playwright Frank is suffering from AIDS. Having justbeen through a rather nasty eye operation, the play opens with him talking to his close friend,Laura. The serenity of the scene is interrupted by the ominous sound of a motorbike revving inthe distance, before flashing back to Frank’s lunch the day before with his preoccupied doctor,Gompertz. He tries to confess to an incident from his past that is haunting him but can’t quite


2004

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Mozart and Salieri


Oberon Books

roydrama - tragedy - musicians - monologuesall male cast: three charactersthree maleone act (two scenes)

Verse drama depicts how Mozart's unpredictable genius affected Antonio Salieri.


2002

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Muscles in Our Toes, The

Belber, Stephen


roydark comedysix charactersfive male; one femaleone act

In this dark comedy, four friends meet at their high school reunion and ponder a plan to free theirold friend who’s been kidnapped by a radical political group. Absurdity, intensity, and plain oleweirdness ensue when this inebriated, stoned, adolescently arrested, religiously confused groupof friends attempts to tackle the task at hand and, at the same time, debate the forces ofinternational terrorism.

2015

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Music to Murder By

Pownall, David

Oberon Books Ltd.

roydrama - music - philosophyfive charactersthree male; two femaletwo acts

The 20th century composer, Peter Warlock, summons up the 16th century madrigal composer andwife killer, Carlo Gesualdo, to persuade a critic that all must be sacrificed for music.


1993

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Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, The

Bishop, John

Warner Chappell

roycomedy - murder mysteryten charactersfive male; five femaletwo acts

suggested for high school.The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls weremurdered by the mysterious "Stage Door Slasher") assemble for a backer's audition of their newshow at the Westchester estate of a wealthy "angel." The house is replete with sliding panels,secret passageways and a German maid who is apparently four different people—all of whichfigure diabolically in the comic mayhem which follows when the infamous "Slasher" makes his

1989

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Musical Differences

French, Robin


royyoung adult - British - music - love - high schoolmultiple charactersvariable size ensembleone act

ages 14+.

In the summer of Year Ten, Alex Stokes takes the fateful step of buying an electric guitar andforming his own rock group. He teams up with a mysterious young singer by the name of JoelLawrence. What follows could well be the most incredible saga in the school’s musical history.The band survives different line-ups, impossible love affairs and brutal school politics. By Year


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My Fat Friend

Laurence, Charles

Samuel French

roycomedyfour charactersthree male; one femaletwo acts

Vicky, who runs a book shop in Hampstead, is a heavyweight. Inevitably she suffers, goodhumoredly enough, the slings and arrows of the two characters who share the flat over the shop,a somewhat glum Scottish youth who works in an au pair capacity, and her lodger, a not so younghomosexual. When a customer, a handsome bronzed man of thirty, seems attracted to her sheresolves she will slim by hook or by crook. Aided by her two friends, hard exercise, diet and agraph, she manages to reduce to a stream line version of her former self only to find that it was

1974

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My Friend Hitler

Yukio, Mishima


roydrama - war - Japanall male cast; four charactersfour malethree acts

The play takes place over the summer of 1934 at the Berlin chancellery. The play begins withHitler giving a speech to the people of Germany, during which his two friends Krupp and Röhmcome in to watch the speech. They talk to each other and discuss the "iron bouquet" Kruppmetaphorically used to set into motion great advancements in human history, including shapingHitler into a better leader. Later in the play, Strasser enters the scene. He has a bad relationshipwith Röhm. Krupp describes their relationship as that of a "cat and dog". Strasser then argues that


2002

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My Good Name

Laurents, Arthur

Back Stage Books

roysatire - comedyseven charactersthree male; four femaletwo acts

A satirical comedy of greed, honor and power.


2004

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My Mother Dog

Bombardier, Louise


roydrama - death - family relations - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadiannine charactersthree male; six femaleone act (forty-two scenes)

Original title: Ma mére chien.

Dramatizes the final thirty-six hours in the life of a seventy-year-old woman who is dying ofcancer. Her oldest daughter, an aspiring novelist, is with her throughout this time. Despite herpain and difficulty in breathing, the mother is determined to hang on until the arrival from Mexicoof her other daughter, an aspiring actor.


2010

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My Night with Reg

Elyot, Kevin

Nick Hern Books

roycomedy - LGBTQ+ - AIDS - relationshipsall male cast; six characterssix maleone act (three scenes)

Sharply witty and humanely wise drama about gay manners and morals in the age of AIDS. 'MyNight with Reg' follows the ups and downs of a circle of gay friends in London over a period ofseveral years, and tackles with brutal honesty the impact that AIDS/HIV had on the gay communityduring its height in the 1980s, as well as examining the pain of unrequited love and the joy offriendship.


2004

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My Night With Reg

Elyot, Kevin

Nick Hern Books

roycomedy - LGBTQ - AIDSall male cast; six characterssix maleone act (three scenes)

1 interior set.

"At Guy's London flat, friends old and new gather to party through the night. This is the summerof 1985, and for Guy and his circle the world is about to change forever. Deliciously funny andbittersweet, Kevin Elyot's comedy captures the fragility of friendship, happiness, and life itself."

2014

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My Uncle Sam

Jenkin, Len


roydramanineteen charactersseven male; four female (doubling)two acts

Picaresque quest by nephew to piece together the story of his larger than life uncle's life.

1983

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My Wife's Coat

Overbey, Kellie

Samuel French

roydrama - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone scene

Peter comes into the bedroom at his bon voyage party to get his wife's coat from the pile on thebed, only to discover his mistress wearing it. She wants him to stay with her, but he's packing uphis kids and wife and moving across country for his new promotion. She asks him for one lastrequest before she'll relinquish the coat, not for sex, but simply for him to lie on top of her. Hedoes so for a brief, sad moment, then takes the coat and leaves, as she continues to lie on the pileof coats in despair.


2005

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N-Town Passion, The

Schell, Edgar

University of California Press

royverse play - religious - Easter large castflexible castingone act

The text is based on plays 29 through 32 of the N-Town cycle, edited by Katherine Block for theEarly English Text Society under the title 'Ludus Coventriae' or the 'Plaie Called Corpus Christi'. Anedited version of the story that begins with Jesus' presentation before Annas and Caiphas andends with the resurrected Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene.

1990

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Nanawatai

Mastrosimone, William

Samuel French

roydrama - wareleven characters; female chorusten male; one femaletwo acts

Bare stage; simple set.

Shortly after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, a man managed to get himself smuggled intothat beleaguered country via Pakistan. There he spent several weeks with the Afghan rebels,observing their often futile attempts to resist the Russians. He also observed the capture andexecution of a Soviet tank crew. It was this incident which inspired Nanawatai (an Afghan word

1981

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Napoleon's Cavalry

Bukhari, Emir

Osprey Publishing Limited

reference - costume - historical - France

Contains plates which describe uniforms and equipment as worn and used in Napoleon's era.

1979

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Narrow Road to the Deep North

Bond, Edward

Methuen

roycomedy - historical - Japanten characters; extrasnine male; one femaletwo acts

'Comedy set in Japan several centuries ago. Basho, the Japanese poet, witnesses the rise and fall ofa dictator.'

1968

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Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

Malloy, Dave

Samuel French

royMusical - Russian - Tolstoy adaptation thirteen characters; extrasfive male; five femaletwo acts

"An electropop opera based on a scandalous 70 page slice of Leo Tolstoy’s “War & Peace.” Youngand impulsive, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the return of her fiancé from the frontlines. When she falls under the spell of the roguish Anatole, it is up to Pierre, a family friend inthe middle of an existential crisis, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation."

Tony Award Winner 2017 - Best Lighting Design of a Musical and Best Set Design of a Musical

2014

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National Health, The

Nichols, Peter

Samuel French

roydramatwenty-three characterssixteen male; seven female two acts

In a men's hospital ward the patients come and go. Some linger, some die, some face illness withfortitude, others with boredom. The beautifully detailed documentary background is juxtaposedwith richly satirical scenes in which the staff become the romanticized characters of a TV series ofhospital life.

1970

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Native Speech

Overmyer, Eric

Smith and Kraus

roysurreal drama - Americaneleven characters; extraseight male; three femaletwo acts "Down at the bottom of your radio dial is a station with a weak signal but a strong message. Theman behind the message calls himself Hungry Mother, and he's a disc jockey with a difference. In'Native Speech', the difference is playwright Eric Overmyer's chilling vision of a society about togo belly up.


1993

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Necessary Monsters

Kuntz, John

StageSource

roydark comedytwenty-one charactersfour male; four female (doubling)one act (one scene)

“Necessary Monsters is (at least) five different over-lapping stories, all called “NecessaryMonsters”. In the first scene you meet two people on a blind date, and discover that one of themis a film editor, working on a low-budget horror film called Necessary Monsters. In the nextscene, you meet two people in a club, and you realize that they are characters from the filmmentioned in the first scene. All the stories live inside each other like a set of Russian dolls. Asthe play progresses, the stories begin to overlap and entwine. The characters are all connected by


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Neon Psalms

Strelich, Thomas

Samuel French

roycomedy - relationships four characterstwo male; two femaletwo acts

The setting of this off beat play is an isolated trailer near Boron, California: site of the world'slargest open pit Borax mine. A fragile truce between Luton Mears, a retired heavy equipmentoperator, and his born again wife Patina is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of their daughterBarbara, a divorcee in her thirties. Lost and bottomed out, she moves home just to get back on herfeet and finds herself trapped in a comic but progressively brutal cross fire between Luton whowants her to stay and Patina who wants her to go. This wasteland receives a blast of hilariously

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New England

Nelson, Richard


royblack comedy - family relationseight charactersfour male; four femaleone act (eight scenes)

This play is about an English family living in America. Brought together by tragedy, they findcomfort in attacking their adopted country and ridiculing its crude ways. "This dark comedybegins, quite literally, with a bang: A man sitting in the book-lined den of his Connecticutfarmhouse puts a revolver to his head and, as his girlfriend, Alice, walks into the room, pulls thetrigger. Next 85 of the play’s 90 minutes detail a gathering of the clan as the man’s adultchildren, among others, argue away a tension-packed night on the eve of the memorial service."


2004

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Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music

Blessing, Lee


roydramatic comedy - romancefive characterstwo male; two female; one boy two acts

Eve Wilfong, who lives over the "Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music Bar," is paid a visitby her niece Catherine Empanger, a novice nun who's been asked to leave her convent. It seemsCatherine suffers from a curious compulsion to yell obscenities at the wrong moment, and even,on occasion, bark like a dog. Roy, an honest if simple fellow from the bar downstairs, wants tocourt Catherine whether she's a nun or not. Eve feels she should give her niece the benefit of herexperiences with men before allowing her to venture back into the mad modern country world.

1990

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Night-blooming Cereus

Reaney, James

Coach House Books

royCanada - fantasy - operaeight characterstwo male; six femaleone act

interior rep sets; dance; running time - approximately 60 mins. Music by John Beckwith.

'This chamber opera in one act is a typically wonderful flight of fancy. The libretto, a strangelybeautiful story, tells of a golden-age Ontario village where people gather to see magic flowersbloom.'

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No Home But the Heart: an assembly of memories

Daystar


roy drama - Native peoples - native people - dance - historicalnine characters; narrator; dancerseight female; one male or femaleone act (twelve scenes) From an early age, Daystar was intrigued by her mother’s stories of growing up in the BlackfeetReservation. The tales were random yet intense in their revelations about family and tribal life onthe reservation, from the smallpox epidemic through the turn of the century to today. In creating"No Home But The Heart", Daystar has drawn from selected events in the lives of hergreat-grandmother, grandmother, and mother and tied them to historical events affecting theresettlement of native peoples in the late 19th century. Because the family ancestry includes


2003

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No One Knows How

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydrama - tragedy - relationships five charactersthree male; two femalethree acts

Translated by Marta Abba.

'No One Knows How' deals with events that occur in ways no one understands or can explain.Ginevra Vanzi and Romeo Daddi succumb to a moment's passion, although they deeply love theirrespective mates. To add to the complications, the two couples are extremely close. The originalact of passion leads to a final act of violence which destroys four lives.

1949

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Nobody

Korder, Howard


roydramathirteen characterseleven male; two female one act

NOBODY, examines another aspect of our troubled times when Denny's father, Carl, loses hiswell-paying factory job. The playwright uses the technique of short, interrelated scenes to followCarl's downward spin as his self-respect is steadily eroded—his family life plunged into turmoil,he finds himself falling in with a group of bitter malcontents, and his growing despair leads todrinking, violence, and the eventual destruction of his marriage. In the end he does find anotherjob but, by this time, his dreams are shattered—and, sadly, all it can mean to him now is the

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1998

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Norma's Rest

Morille, Jordan


roydrama - cancer - LGBTQsix characters three male; three femaleone act (one scene)

1 exterior set.

"Cancer-ridden Norma runs a sober house that has caught the attention of the local Pastor, whooffers to purchase the property in the name of the Church. Norma must choose the fate of theproperty and determine the path to redemption her beloved residents will follow upon herimpending death."


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North Star

Clunie, Gloria Bond


roydrama - African-American - civil rights - familytwelve charactersseven male; five female (6 male with doubling, multiracial)two acts

unit set, running time: 135 minutes.

Set in North Carolina in the 1960s, 'North Star' is the story of Relia, an African-American girl,searching for her place to shine in both society and her personal life. The joyous innocence ofRelia's summer is transformed by the rising tensions of the growing civil rights movement. Relia'sparents are hotly divided between letting her participate in the demonstrations and shielding her

A drama in two acts

1998

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Not About Nightingales

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - prisonnineteen characters; extrassixteen male; three femalethree acts

Written in 1938 and based on an actual newspaper story, the play follow the events of a prisonatrocity which shocked the nation: convicts leading a hunger strike in a Pennsylvania prison werelocked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. Its sympathetic treatment of black andhomosexual characters may have kept the play unproduced in its own time.

1998

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Notebook, The

Kesselman, Wendy


roydrama - relationshipsfour characters one male; one female; one boy; one girl (flexible casting) one act

THE NOTEBOOK follows the relationships of two students with each other and with their fabledEnglish teacher, Miss Thorne, at a private school in Manhattan. Warren lives to read, and hisenthusiasm and literary talent make him Miss Thorne's favorite. But when Jennie, a Russianimmigrant, arrives at the school, Miss Thorne's allegiance shifts. Jennie, a brilliant literaturestudent, passionate beyond her years, is the student Miss Thorne has sought her whole life.Jennie idolizes Miss Thorne, who showers her with compliments, including one she almost never

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Notes on Falling Leaves

Khan-Din, Ayub

Nick Hern Books

roydramatwo charactersone male; one female one act

As his mother fades away, a son returns to the house where he grew up. It is empty, but full ofreminders of how she once was. She, meanwhile, has her own foggy memories and feelings aboutwy they try, but just can't communicate.

2004

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Notes on The Tempest

Harding, S.A.

Forum House Publishing Company

Reference - Shakespeare

General notes for William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest.' Includes general notes on the play,Elizabethan theatre, and character studies.

1968

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Octoroon, An

Jacobs-Jenkins, Branden


roycomedy - slavery - African Americansixteen characters four male; five female (doubling) five acts

"Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsomenephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon.But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famousIrishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own."

2015

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Ode To Joy

Lucas, Craig


roydrama - relationships - addictionsix characters one male; two female (doubling)one act (ten scenes)

"Adele, hard at work on a large triptych, looks back on the two major loves of her life, whichsomehow managed to provide her with everything she needed to know about the art of living.Through these two tumultuous loves, Adele discovered both the limits of her powers and the truedepths of her gifts. The road to redemption remains before her with the return of both loves toher side."

2015

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Olaf Liljekrans

Ibsen, Henrik

Forgotten Books

roydrama - Norway - relationshipsseven characters; extras five male; two female three acts

Poetic play in three acts set in mediaeval Norway and based on the folktale The Grouse in Justedal.Betrothed by compact to the vain and shallow Ingeborg of Guldvik, the knight Olaf Liljekrans fallsdeeply in love with the innocent Alfhild, an unworldly child of nature. His mother Lady Kirstenintrigues to effect the more profitable marriage, but Olaf, at first weakly acquiescing, eventuallyasserts his rights and claims Alfhild in marriage. Ingeborg ends by wedding her actual favourite,the ineffectual page Hemming.


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Old Boyfriend

LaBute, Neil


roy solo performanceall female cast; one femaleone femaleone act

A sighting of an old boyfriend reminds a young girl of a tragic text.


2015

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Old Friends, The

Foote, Horton


roydrama - friendshipnine charactersthree male; six female two acts

Matriarch Mamie Borden and the remaining members of two longtime Texas farming families awaita visit from Mamie's son Hugo and his wife, Sybil. When Sybil arrives, alone, with alarming news,old friends on opposing sides must confront the issues surrounding legacy, loyalty, and themeaning of happiness that have hounded them for generations. THE OLD FRIENDS is an absorbingand vital chapter in Foote's beloved and distinctly American body of work.

2015

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Old Neighborhood, The

Mamet, David

Vintage Books

roydramatic comedy - autobiographicalfive charactersthree male; two female three parts

In these three short plays, a middle-aged Bobby Gould returns to the old neighbourhood in aseries of encounters with his past that, however briefly, open windows on his present. In"Disappearance of the Jews," Bobby and an old buddy fantasize about finding themselves in anostalgic shtetl paradise while revealing how lost they are in their own families. In the comfort ofher kitchen, Bobby's sister "Jolly" unscrolls a list of childhood grievances that is at once painfuland hilarious. And the old girlfriend in "Deeny", faced with a man she once loved, finds herself

1998

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Oldest Boy, The

Ruhl, Sarah

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

roydrama - Tibet - Buddhism - family relations five characters; chorusfour male; one femaletwo acts

Setting: Any North American city with a large Tibetan community. Then, in Act 2, a monastery inIndia; music; dance; puppetry (1 of the male actors speaks for and moves a puppet).

In this moving exploration of parenthood, an American mother and a Tibetan father have athree-year-old son believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama. When a Tibetan lama anda monk come to their home unexpectedly, asking to take their child away for a life of spiritual

A play in three ceremonies

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Oldtimers Game

Blessing, Lee


roycomedy - baseball - menall male cast; nine charactersnine maletwo acts

1 interior.

The place is the locker room of the Northshore (Minnesota) Otters, a Triple-A baseball clubstruggling through a lackluster season. It's the day of the annual Oldtimers Game, and severalformer Otters are on hand, including "Old John" Law, a Hall of Famer; Dave Pearl, now a star centerfielder in the big leagues; Jim Nealy, a once promising player who retired early because of injury;

1980

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On Blindness

Cannon, Glyn

Methuen Drama

roydrama - love - relationships six charactersfour male; two femaletwo acts 3 interiors.

Two love affairs, one beginning and the other ending, played simultaneously.

"I hadn't seen Dan in years when we got together. Within twenty-four hours, we'd seen everything.We'd made love together, bathed together, slept together. He'd seen my body. I'd seen his. Which

2004

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On The Open Road

Tesich, Steve


roydramatic comedy - civil war six characters four male; one boy; one girltwo acts

"While fleeing a civil war, Al comes across Angel trussed up and waiting to be hung. Al is pullinga cart loaded with art treasures he has salvaged from bombed out churches and museums. Hehopes to barter his way into The Land of the Free with them, but the cart has become too heavy forAl to pull. He rescues the brutish Angel to help. On the open road Al teaches Angel aboutliterature, music and art history so that he will make a good citizen. When they reach the border,they are told they must execute a troublemaker named Jesus Christ to earn their freedom. He has

1992

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On The Verge; or, The Geography Of Yearning

Overmyer, Eric

Smith and Kraus

roycomedyfour charactersone male; three femaletwo acts Three Victorian lady explorers set out on an adventure that takes them to darkest Africa, highestHimalaya and Terra Incognita... Heroines to their heart, the explorers can accommodatethemselves to any emergency, although they are momentarily disoriented as they approachmodern times.


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One Block Radius

Quan, Elyne


roydrama - murder - documentary - solo performanceeleven charactersone female (doubling)one act

'"After a woman is stalked and attacked, her female neighbours are interviewed about the event toshare what they know."

2002

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One More River to Cross

Nottage, Lynn


roydrama - historical - slavery - Americamany characters; chorus; musicianfour male; four female (doubling, flexible casting) one act (five movements)

Between 1936 and 1938, the Federal Writers’ Project gathered over 2,300 interviews with formerslaves. Pulitzer-winner Lynn Nottage has collected and condensed these interviews into atheatrical exploration of the history of slavery in the United States. By resurrecting these slaves’stories onstage, Nottage resurrects the voices of people who for so many years had none, and shecreates a space for the contemplation of the enduring effects of slavery in America. Music.

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One on One: The best women's monologues for the 21st Century


Monologues – women – contemporary This book of monologues for actresses is edited by three theatre experts who have carefullyselected the strongest bravura pieces for auditions, acting classes, and study, in the processrevealing the pulse of the millennial theatrical scene. Comic or serious—or both—themonologues, written by veteran playwrights and up-and-coming talents depict young,middle-aged, and older characters, obscure and famous, from a variety of cultures, and deal withhighly relevant contemporary issues.

Contains monologues from the following plays and playwrights: Are You Ready? – David Auburn ;At the Vanishing Point – Naomi Iizuka ; Bad Dates – Theresa Rebeck ; The Beginning of August –Tom Donaghy ; Boys and Girls – Tom Donaghy ; Boxing It – Christine Emmert ; Bunny’s Last Night

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One Thing More

Fry, Christopher


roydrama - biography - England - Caedmonfourteen charactersten male; four female (doubling possible) one act

First presented at England's soaring Chelmsford Cathedral, and then broadcast on the BBC, theplay blends music, poetry and heightened prose in telling the story of Caedmon, Britain's firstknown poet. Set in seventh century England, the action of the play is commented on by theVenerable Bede, who acts as narrator and describes the arrival of the stuttering, withdrawnCaedmon at Whitby Abbey, where he is spellbound by the singing of the chapel choir. Given a jobas a stableman, Caedmon finds it difficult to communicate with his fellow workers, and unable to

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1986

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One Tiger to a Hill

Pollock, Sharon

NeWest Press

roydrama - Canadian - prisoner - Alberta playwrightten characterseight male; two femaletwo acts

"A compelling and compassionate examination of the complexities confronting both wardenand inmate."


2002

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Only Kidding!

Geoghan, Jim

Samuel French

roycomedy all male cast; five charactersfive maletwo acts

In this Off Broadway hit, an over the hill comic who is desperate for a shot on a late night TV showhas invited a hip young writer to his cottage in the Catskills to help him update his act. Theymight as well be talking in tongues about what is funny! The second act moves to a seedy clubwhere the mafia connected owner wants aspiring comics to sign a contract giving him acommission on their future earnings. Then the play goes to comedy heaven: backstage at that latenight TV show. The older comedian awaits his last chance at the big time and one of the comics

1989

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Onward, Onward, Onward!

Shatrov, Mikhail

Nick Hern Books

roypolitical drama - historical - Lenin - Stalin - Soviet Union - USSR twenty-four characterstwenty male; four femaletwo acts

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'Third play in trilogy about problems facing Lenin following the October Revolution. PortraysStalin's rule as bloody aberration from Lenin's policies.' - Play Index


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Opening Night

Foster, Norm


roycomedy - relationships - theatreeight charactersfive male; three femaletwo acts

"The madcap antics start as Jack and Ruth Tisdale celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary withan evening at the theatre. It's a dream come true for Ruth and an imposition for Jack who wouldrather be at home watching the World Series. However, after the events both on and off the stagethat fateful night, their lives and those of all of those involved are irreparably altered."

2002

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Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo

Rame, Franca


roy - monologues - women

This collection includes nine monologues concerned with sexual and domestic issues and femaleoppression: A WOMAN ALONE, MAMMA FRICCHETONA (THE FREAK MOMMY), WAKING UP, WE ALLHAVE THE SAME STORY, DIALOGUE FOR A SINGLE VOICE, MEDEA PROLOGUE, MEDEA, MONOLOGUEOF A WHORE IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM, and IT HAPPENS TOMORROW. Dario Fo and Franca Rame areItaly's best-known performers, playwrights, and political activists. Award-winning actress anddirector Estelle Parsons toured this version of ORGAMSO ADULTO ESCAPES FROM THE ZOO,concluding with a triumphant run at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York. A WOMAN ALONE:Maria, a housewife, has been locked up at home by her jealous husband. Come to think of it, allthe men in her life have been oppressing her. Good thing she has a gun. MAMMA FRICCHETONA(THE FREAK MOMMY): A mother becomes a gypsy in order to pursue her son who has joined a

1985

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Oslo

Rogers, J. T.


roydrama - historical - political thriller - Israel - Palestine seventeen charactersfourteen male; three female; extrasthree acts

A darkly funny and sweeping new play, 'Oslo' tells the surprising true story of the backchanneltalks, unlikely friendships, and quiet heroics that led to the 1993 Oslo Accords between theIsraelis and the Palestinians. As he did with such wit and intelligence in 'Blood and Gifts", J. T.Rogers presents a deeply personal story set against a complex political canvas.

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Other Side, The

Dorfman, Ariel

Samuel French

roydramatic comedy - war - identity - lovethree characters two male; one femaleone act

From the provocative author Ariel Dorfman, comes a powerful, timely new play. In a country at warfor many years, a man and a woman wait. They pass their days confirming the identity of deadbodies at a hut near the border of the two fighting countries. When peace and a border guardarrive, chaos ensues. This moving and strangely comic work raises potent questions about war,identity, and love in our times.

2006

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Our Betters

Maugham, W. Somerset

Methuen Drama

roycomedy - satireeleven charactersseven male; four female three acts

2 interior sets.

Comedy of manners satirizing snobbery of expatriate American title hunters in London and moresand manners of the English leisure class and the international set.

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1997

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Our Leading Lady

Busch, Charles

Miscellaneous

roydramatic comedy - spoof - biographynine charactersfour male; five femaletwo acts

Running time: 120 minutes; interior unit set; period costumes.

April, 1865. Laura Keene, a famous actress/manager, is performing in Washington, DC during theweek the civil war ends. Despite a madcap scramble of backstage squabbles, the ambitious Lauradoes everything she can to get President Lincoln to attend her closing night performance. Hergreat plans go awry, as Laura and her theatrical troupe collide with history.

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Gray, Amlin


roydramafour charactersthree male; one femaleone act

This play set in a small failing cafe, whose embittered megalomaniac owner hopes to create a newliqueur which will lure back the customers who have been lost to a rival establishment. Harassedby his invalid wife, who bangs impatiently on the ceiling to gain his attention, and bedeviled bythe townspeople, who have turned against him, Askanius retreats increasingly into his delusionsand the dream of the triumph which his magical elixir will bring. In the end his creation turns outto be poisonous—but Askanius, in a final act of desperate defiance, willfully drinks it down.

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1984

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Outside

Dunn, Paul


roydrama - young adult - bullying - mental health - LGBTQ+three characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Inspired by the kinds of real-life stories that prompted the It Gets Better campaign, Paul Dunn’splay for middle-grade and high-school students brings the discussion around homophobia,bullying, mental health and gay-straight directly to the young people who are on the front lines.

Daniel’s ready to talk. And his friends Krystina and Jeremy are ready to help. But is it too late? Setin separate but simultaneous lunch periods at two different high schools, the teenagers are faced

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Over Gardens Out

Gill, Peter

Faber and Faber

roydrama - friendship - family six charactersfour male; two femaleone act (twelve scenes)

Frustrated with the tedium of suburbia, mummy’s boy Dennis is drawn to Borstal boy Jeffry in acamaraderie that veers into volatile and unarticulated eroticism. Deftly depicting the frustrationsof 1960s living, Over Gardens Out is a finely tuned sketch of friendship and family life.


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Over There

Ravenhill, Mark

Bloomsbury

roydrama - family relations - ideologies all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act (five parts)

Over There is an intense drama of synchronous disconnection, an allegory of competingideologies set across the Berlin Wall. When the mother of identical twins, Franz and Karl, defectsto the West, she escapes only with Franz, leaving Karl behind. Twenty-five years later, Karlcrosses the border from East Germany to West Germany to find his other half. The two men haveshared experiences, know scraps of each other’s lives and talk at the same time, but the gulf ofideology and upbringing between them is impossible. When the Berlin Wall comes down, the


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Pack of Lies

Whitemore, Hugh

Amber Lane Press

roydrama - moralityeight charactersthree male; five femaletwo acts

The Jackson are a nice middle aged English couple. Their best friends are their Canadianneighbors, the Krogers. All is blissful in their world until a detective from Scotland Yard asks touse their house as an observation station to try and foil a Soviet spy ring operating in the area.The Jacksons become more and more put out as Scotland Yard's demands on them increase. Theyare really put to the test when the detective reveals that the spies are the Krogers and he asks themto help set a trap. Should they betray their friends?

1984

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Page and Stage

Longman, Stanley Vincent

Pearson Education

reference - script analysis

'Page and Stage' narrows the gulf between printed page and performance to make script analysisfor production of academic study more effective, efficient, and insightful. This text discusses amethod for script analysis based on the idea that plays consist of 'organized tension' that involvesthe audience and organizes their response. It examines the many forms of tension in plays -between actor and character, between the stage and the world of the play, between the present andthe past, and between characters - by looking at stage space and time and a wide range of playsfrom ancient Greece to the present. Features: examples of script analysis throughout the book,and two full analyses included as appendices, show how ideas taught in the book may be appliedto specific scripts; diagrams throughout the text illustrate and clarify conceptual relationshipsthat can be difficult to understand; the conciseness of the text makes it ideal as a companion for

An approach to script analysis

2004

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Parade - vocal selections

Brown, Jason Robert


Vocal selections from the musical - voice - piano.

contains: The Old Red Hills of Home What Am I Waiting For? Big News You Don't Know This Man Come Up to My Office My Child Will Forgive Me That's What He Said It's Hard to Speak My heart Do It Alone

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Paradise

Flather, Patti


roydrama - mental illness - addiction - family relationsfour charactersthree male; one femaleone act (thirty-nine scenes)

"After a traumatic assault in Central America, Rachel returns home, but it isn’t the reprieve sheexpected. She comes back to turmoil between her parents, and a part-time job in her dad’smedical office. Her father, George, full of endearing blunder, tries unsuccessfully to connect withhis daughter, who seems to be reeling. Her childhood friend Khalil isn’t around to providesupport. He’s in Afghanistan travelling and volunteering when he is wrongfully arrested. On theperiphery is Wally—off work because of a logging injury—who spends a great deal of time in

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Paradise Hotel

Feydeau, Georges

Elephant Paperbacks

royfarce - relationshipslarge castflexible castingthree acts

In this consummate farce, a middle aged man arranges a rendezvous in a seedy little hotel withthe beautiful young wife of his best friend. Through a series of intricate machinations and twists,the agonies and foolishness of the characters are resolved to their relief - and sometimes -dismay - and to the delight of the audience.

1990

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Fortenberry, Dorothy

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - relationshipsfour charactersthree male; one femaleone act (eight scenes)

3 interior sets; 1 exterior set.

"Clare has big plans with her best friend Ezra—starting a food truck, making him marry hisboyfriend—until an unexpected windfall forces them to face how they truly feel about money andcommitment. A witty, incisive look at two young couples struggling with personal finance, themeaning of marriage, and the deeply human capacity for self-sabotage—as they decipher the


2015

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Patron Saint of Sea Monsters, The

Meyer, Marlane


roycomedy - romancelarge cast; puppetsflexible castingone act (twenty scenes)

Aubrey, a very determined romantic, believes she's met her soul-mate in Calvin, a boozingwomanizer. But in this tilted, thoughtful comedy, true love is an even more tangled predicament.Peopled by an assortment of eccentrics, mystics, and front porch philosophers, Marlane Meyer'splay is a sweet polemic, an unexpected love story, and a deliciously cockeyed view of thesustaining—and destructive—power of belief.

2015

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Peace of Brest-Litovsk, The

Shatrov, Mikhail

Nick Hern Books

roypolitical drama - historical - Lenin - Soviet Union - USSRlarge castmixed casttwo acts

1 setting.

'First play in trilogy about problems facing Lenin following the October Revolution. Politicaldrama set in December 1917. Lenin sues for peace hoping to retain power in war-weary nation.' -Play Index


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Penguin Dictionary of the Theatre, The

Taylor, John Russell

Penguin Books

reference - theatre

A world guide to past and present in the theatre. Compiled by the well-known theatre writer andcritic John Russell Taylor, this invaluable and informative dictionary includes entries on: plays;players; playwrights; dramatic theory and critics; dramatic schools, academies, leagues and clubs;dramatis personae; theatres; theatre companies, directors and managers; theatre terms; stagehistory; stage machinery, lighting and layout; stage designers, decor and props.

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Bennett, Alan

Faber and Faber

roycomedy - relationshipsthirteen characters; extraseight male; five femaletwo acts

"After centuries a traditional family estate lies in a state of disrepair; desperately requiringfinancing to keep the once grand residence restored and maintained. Lady Dorothy, ourworld-weary, beleaguered central character, would rather sell off the contents of the house oreven allow explicit films to shoot at the residence in order to save the property from the grips ofthe National Trust. However her rather more proper sister wholeheartedly disagrees. This centralconflict enables Bennett to examine the philosophical and ethical dilemmas of restoration, in an

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Pericles


Cambridge University Press

roydrama - Shakespearelarge castflexible castingfive acts

This edition includes lengthy introduction, list of abbreviations and conventions, notes on thetext, supplementary notes and textural analysis.

Pericles correctly guesses that the daughter of Antiochus is involved in an incestuous affair withher father. Antiochus knows that Pericles knows, and Pericles knows it. His life in peril, Periclesprudently flees Antioch for Tyre. Antiochus won't let mere distance stand in the way of killing him,

Prince of Tyre

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Persephone, or Slow Time

Haidle, Noah


roydrama - allegoryseventeen characters two male; two female (doubling)two acts

"Meet Demeter, an exquisite statue of the Greek goddess, as she's being created during the ItalianRenaissance. Those who admire her see only stone and fortitude, but her thoughts and desiresare all too real; she pines for her lost daughter's return and for the love of her sculptor,Giuseppe. Giuseppe, however, is too busy lusting after the city's most popular artist's model tonotice Demeter's pain. Fast forward five hundred years: Demeter stands in a present-day Americancity park. She has become a symbol of hope amidst illicit activity and a target for more than just

2009

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Peter Pan

Barrie, J. M.

Dover Publications

royfantasy - adventurelarge castflexible castingfive acts

The story of Peter Pan has thrilled young and old alike since it first premiered on the Londonstage in 1904. The tale of a boy who runs away to Never-Never Land to avoid growing up, thedrama draws upon a number of characters and events that figured prominently in James Barrie'sown life. His mother's solicitous care of her younger brother provided the germ for the characterof Wendy, and Barrie's participation in a school play as part of make-believe pirate crew helpedgive birth to the notorious Captain Hook and his shipmates; while a special fondness for his

2000

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Petra

Yarbrough, John


roycomedy - relationships - travelfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act (one scene)

What happens when a couple can't agree on whether they once went to Petra? That's the questionthis dark comedy tries to answer.


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Ziegler, Anna


roydrama - biography - sciencesix charactersfive male; one femaleone act (one scene)

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"A humorous and moving portrait of Rosalind Franklin, one of the great female scientists of thetwentieth century, and her fervid drive to map the contours of the DNA molecule. A chorus ofphysicists relives the chase, revealing the unsung achievements of this trail-blazing, fiercelyindependent woman. A play about ambition, isolation, and the race for greatness."

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Photograph: Lovers in Motion, A

Shange, Ntozake

Penguin Books

royblack theatre - dramafive characterstwo male; three femaletwo acts

1 interior.

Explores a black photographer's conflicting desires for fame and honesty and his often abusiverelationships with three women: a nymphomaniac model, a lawyer who has helped support him,and a dancer who makes him confront his true feelings.


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Pictorial History of the Russian Theatre, The

Marshall, Herbert

Crown Publishers

reference - theatre - Russia - history

A comprehensive account of all aspects of the major theatres of Russia from the Middle Ages untiltoday, including plays and other dramatic presentations, actors, dramatists, directors, designers,costumes and much more. Over 500 rare illustrations.

1977

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Morisseau, Dominique

Miscellaneous

roydrama six charactersthree male; three femaleone act (ten scenes)

A high-school teacher in a New York City public school, wrestles with the realization that herteenaged son, though enrolled in a private school in upstate New York, may be in danger ofstraying into the 'school-to-prison pipeline' that ensnares so many young men of color.

in - American Theatre (December 2017) / PER

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Play that Goes Wrong, The

Lewis, Henry

Bllomsbury Methuen Drama

roycomedy - murder - mysteryeight characters; extrassix male; two femaletwo acts

Also written by Henry Shields.

After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone CornleyPolytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitions 1920s murder mystery. They aredelighted that neither casting issues nor technical hitches currently stand in their way. However,disaster ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production

2015

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Play Yourself

Kondoleon, Harry


roydramatic comedy - relationshipsfour characters one male; three femaletwo acts

Jean, an ex-movie star who left Hollywood some time ago, lives with Yvonne, her daughter. Theirmain activities together involve reenacting moments from Jean's old movies, in which she alwaysseemed to play the "other woman." After placing an ad seeking more information about Jean, Selmais invited into their lives. Selma is obsessed with Jean—not with the real one, but with the one onscreen—to the point that she hopes to learn how to become Jean. When not submerged in Jean'spast, Selma works with Brother Harmon, also a fan of Jean, running a shelter for "the hopeless."

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Plays of Anton Chekhov, The

Wexford, Jane

Monarch Press

reference - play analysis

A critical guide to appreciation of themes, structure, and style: detailed plot summaries; in depthcommentaries; character analysis; Chekhov's methods; Russian system of names; survey ofcriticism; and review questions and model answers.

1965

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Po Boy Tango

Lin, Kenneth

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - immigrantsthree charactersone male; two femaletwo acts

"A Taiwanese immigrant enlists an African-American soul food chef to help him recreate hismother's Great Banquet, as a wedding gift to his daughter. Though the two share a bond in theirpassion for food and love of their children, their connection also brings to light resentments fromten years past -- when a child was saved, but a friendship was lost."

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Poe - Quoth the Raven...Nevermore



roydrama - American - biography - horrorlarge casttwelve male; four female; two boys (doubling)two acts

numerous simple interiors.

"Poe tells the life story of American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. Scenes from specific points andmoments in his life combined with dramatic presentations of some of his most well known storieswhich is capped off at the end with a full cast staged reading of The Raven. Perfect Halloweenentertainment." - J&B Theatrical Promotions


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Point of No Return

Osborn, Paul

Samuel French

roycomedytwenty-three charactersfourteen male; seven female; two boys or girlsthree acts

Based on the novel by John P. Marquand.

Point of No Return is Marquand's popular story of a junior bank official who has bent himselftoward creeping up the financial ladder until he now is within reach of the almost ultimate goal, avice-presidency. When he reaches this point he discovers that it isn't really what he wanted atall-but it is too late for him to do anything but go on; in the ocean fliers' phrase, he has reached

1950

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Poison



roycomedythree charactersone male; two femaleone act

Kenny has seen the depths of Kelly's self-hatred, and he'll never date her again—unless he drinksa fortune-teller's mysterious potion, which will kill his soul as dead as Kelly's. Can Kelly convincehim to drink the potion? Can she convince herself?


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Poison Tree, The

Ribman, Ronald

Avon Books

roydrama - prison all male cast; thirteen charactersthirteen maletwo acts

6 interiors; 1 exterior.

A young inmate up for parole commits suicide. A look at prison life from the black point of view.


1978

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Poor Bitos

Anouilh, Jean

Samuel French

roydrama - fantasyfourteen charactersten male; three female; one boy or girltwo acts

The French master of time and its illusions presents us with a group of patricians gathered for aparty in the vaulting room of an old chateau. We are quickly disabused of any notion that this isto be just another gay party a la dolce vita. For also invited is a literal, by the numbers, andintransigent prosecutor named Bitos whom they all detest. He is to them the reincarnation ofRobespierre; and through a change of coats and the dramatic legerdemain of Anouilh the partyrecreates the time of Robespierre and the French Revolution before returning to the humiliating

1964

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Poor of New York, The

Boucicault, Dion

Pearson Education

roymelodramathirteen charactersnine male; four femalefive acts

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An evil banker steals a captain's legacy to his wife and daughter, forcing them into poverty untilthe wealthy young hero saves the day.


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Poor Shem

Hischak, Gregory

Playscripts, Inc.

roydramathree characterstwo male; one femaleone act (one scene)

simple set; running time: 10 min.

"Of all the things you give in life, none is more precious than your labor. A tiny play about threecharacters and a photocopier."


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Prairie Nurse

Badian, Marie Beath

Scirocco Drama

roycomedy - immigrantsseven charactersthree male; four femaletwo acts

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"A comedy about two Filipino nurses who come to work at a small-town Saskatchewan hospital inthe late 1960s. Cultural clashes, personality differences, homesickness, and the amorous butdim-witted goalie from the local hockey team complicate the women’s lives. Based on the truestory of her mother’s immigration to Canada, Badian’s play is part romantic comedy, part farce,

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Prescott Proposals, The

Lindsay, Howard


roydrama - romance - melodramafifteen characterstwelve male; three female (doubling possible)three acts

Mrs. Mary Prescott, the U.S. delegate to the U.N., has presented proposals that a U.N. committeeshould discuss the areas of agreement between the member countries, rather than the differences.On the night Mary is to make an important speech on the proposals, the Czech delegate, withwhom she had once had a romantic affair, comes to her home, where he dies of a sudden heartattack. A few minutes after this, the English, French, Russian and Pakistani delegates arrive atMary's apartment for cocktails. The four delegates remove the body to the Czechoslovakian

1954

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Pretenders, The

Ibsen, Henrik


roydrama - Norway - historicaltwenty characters; extrasfifteen male; five femalefive acts

The Pretenders was written in bursts during 1863, but Ibsen claims to have had sources and theidea back in 1858. It is a five-act play in prose set in the thirteenth-century. The play opened atthe old Christiania Theatre on the 19th of January 1864. The plot revolves around the historicalconflict between Norwegian King Hakon Hakonsson and his father-in-law; Earl Skule Bardsson. Ithas been commonly ascribed to the rivalry between Ibsen and Bjornstjerne Bjornson, who hadsucceeded Ibsen as director of the Norske Theater in 1857.

2015

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Prince and Mr. Jones, The

Spewack, Samuel


roycomedy - historical - Russiaeighteen charactersfifteen male; three femalethree acts

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A comedy about Potemkin's lust for power based on events involving Catherine the Great andJohn Paul Jones during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787.

1961

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Prodigal Son



roydramafive charactersfour male; one femaleone act (ten scenes)

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A 17-year-old boy from the Bronx suddenly finds himself in a private school in New Hampshire.He’s violent, gifted, alienated, and on fire with a ferocious loneliness. Two faculty memberswrestle with the dilemma: Is the kid a star or a disaster? A passionate, explosive portrait of ayoung man on the verge of salvation or destruction.

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Progress

Lucie, Doug

Methuen

roycomedy - satire - LGBTQ+eight characterssix male; two femaletwo acts

The play is set in the London home of Will, a handsome, well-educated television-documentaryresearcher, and his attractive, social activist wife, Ronee, who runs a community center in SouthLondon. anxious to match his wife's liberal concerns, Will has taken over most of the householdchores, and has formed a male consciousness-raising group, whose principal interest seems tobe a close examination of pornography. Ronee, however, is now involved with a female lover, andher unwillingness to expand the relationship to a menage a trois (as Will would like) has driven a

1985

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Progressive Architecture - October 1965

Reinhold Publishing Corporation

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An issue of the journal Progressive Architecture with a focus on theatre (as a building) design.

The changing practice: theatres

1965

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Prometheus Bound According to Alberto Kurapel, the Guanaco Gaucho

Kurapel, Alberto


roydrama - mythology - Latina/o playwrights - Canadiannine characters; chorusflexible castingone act

A play which takes place in the spaces of the classic tragedy.


2013

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Psychic, The

Bobrick, Sam

Samuel French

roycomedy - murder mystery - thrillersix charactersfour male; two femaletwo acts


'The Psychic' follows the chaotic life of Adam Webster, a down-on-his-luck writer, who has put asign in his apartment window, in desperation to make the rent: "Psychic Readings $25." The signsoon draws the interest of the lovely and conflicted Laura, her shady husband, Roy, Roy'smistress, Rita, a gangster named Johnny Bubbles, and ace Detective Norris Coslow. In the

A murder mystery of sorts

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Psycho Beach Party

Busch, Charles

Samuel French

royparody - comedy - spoof - 1960seleven charactersfive male; six female (two female roles may be played by males)one act (ten scenes)

running time: 90 minutes; contains alternate beginning.

“Gidget”, Frankie and Annette beach party epics, and Hitchcock psychological suspense thrillerssuch as “Spellbound” and “Marnie” are given a shotgun marriage. Chicklet Forrest, a teenagetomboy, desperately wants to be part of the surf crowd on Malibu Beach in 1962. One thinggetting in her way is her unfortunate tendency towards split personalities. Among them is a black

1986

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Public Disorder

de la Cheneliere, Evelyne


roydrama - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadianlarge castflexible castingone act (twenty-three scenes)

Original title: Désordre public.

The character who serves as the focal point in this story is a young unemployed actor, who doesnot understand why he no longer has work, is never invited to auditions, and does not even havethe opportunity of doing commercials. He uses public transportation. The public disorder ariseson the bus from the ability he suddenly develops, and from which he cannot escape, to share the


2010

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Punch Up

Sandler, Kat


roytragicomedy - relationships - mental illness - suicidethree characterstwo male; one femaleone act (one scene)

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"The Most Pathetic Guy Ever kidnaps the Funniest Man Alive to make the Saddest Girl in the Worldlaugh. Duncan has always been a pretty boring guy, leading a simple life while working at a breadfactory. Then he stumbles upon Brenda, a sad young woman who’s about to end her life.Convinced he’s fallen in love, Duncan strikes up a desperate deal: if he can get her to laugh, she'll

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Quartermaine's Terms

Gray, Simon

Samuel French

roydramatic comedyseven charactersfive male; two femaletwo acts

Never has the celebrated author of 'Butley' and 'Otherwise Engaged' been more amusing and moretouching than in this thoroughly delightful portrait of a mediocre but lovable Englishschoolteacher named St. John Quartermaine and his fellow faculty at a small school in Cambridgewhich teaches English to foreigners.

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Rabbit Hole

Lindsay-Abaire, David


roydrama - grief - family relationsfive characters two male; three femaletwo acts

"Becca and Howie Corbett have a picture perfect family life in the suburbs of New York until arandom, tragic accident takes the life of their four-year old son. Soon after, Becca’s younger,irresponsible sister, Izzy, announces that she is pregnant: there will now be a new child in thefamily. As Becca and Howie grow apart, Becca’s mother, Nat, badgers Becca about her grievingprocess, and Jason, the young driver who killed their son, continually shows up to askforgiveness, the group is on a bumpy road to healing with no road map in sight. Rabbit Hole

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Radiant Vermin

Ridley, Philip

Bllomsbury Methuen Drama

roysatirethree charactersone male; two female one act

Jill and Ollie want to tell you about their dream home. Some of the tings they did to get it, youmight find...horrible. Some of the things, you might find ...shocking. But they want you to knowthey did it all... for their baby.

This play is a wickedly funny satire about a young couple's desire to give their child everything.Playfully provocative and viciously sharp, it is a brutal exploration of greed and consumerism,

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Radical Mystique, The

Laurents, Arthur

Samuel French

roycomedy of mannersfive charactersthree male; two female two acts


In the New York of the late 60's when the term "radical chic" was coined by Tom Wolfe, friendsJosie and Janice are arranging a party to aid the Black Panthers' Self Defense Fund. In the process,their complacency is shaken and they are forced to confront things they would prefer to leavealone.

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Rainmaker, The

Nash, N. Richard

Samuel French

roycomedy - romanceseven characterssix male; one female three acts

At the time of a paralyzing drought in the West we discover a girl whose father and two brothersare worried as much about her potential future as an old maid as they are about their dying cattle.For the truth is, she is indeed a plain girl. The brothers try every possible scheme to marry heroff, but without success. Nor is there any sign of relief from the dry heat, when suddenly from outof nowhere appears a picaresque, sweet-talking man with quite the sales pitch. Claiming to be a"rainmaker," the man promises to bring rain, for $100. It's a silly idea, but the rainmaker is so

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Dorfman, Ariel

Samuel French

roydramasix charactersfour male; two female two acts

A censor discovers that the subversive novel he is about to ban is describing his own life andhinting that a terrible fate awaits his son. He must hunt down the author before it comes true...

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Reckoning

Beagan, Tara

Scirocco Drama

roydrama - Canada - native peoples four characters; voicestwo male; two femaleone act (three parts)

'Reckoning' is an ode to the irreconcilable. A triptych in movement, video and text, 'Reckoning' isan incendiary theatrical presentation of three separate experiences with Indian ResidentialSchools, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the fallout that has already reverberatedacross the country.

2016

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Red Black and Ignorant

Bond, Edward


roydrama - nuclear warnine charactersfour male; five femaleone act (nine parts) Approx. running time: 55 mins.

First part of the author's War plays trilogy. Symbolic depiction of how abuse of freedom producesdebased life and near-certainty of nuclear war. Music, singing.

Part one of the War plays

1989

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Red Scare on Sunset

Busch, Charles

Samuel French

roycomedy - parody - spoofnine charactersfive male; four femaletwo acts

Running time: 120 minutes.

The time: the fifties; the place: Hollywood, where film star Mary Dale finds the Red Menaceinvading her own Beverly Hills backyard. When she discovers that her husband has been luredinto the local Communist party by way of a method acting class and that there is a left wing plotafoot to abolish the star system, Mary wages a private war to save her husband, her country and

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Refugee Hotel, The

Aguirre, Carmen


roy dark comedy - refugees - Latina/o playwrights - Canadiantwelve characterssix male; five female; one boytwo acts

A dark comedy about a group of Chilean refugees who arrived in Vancouver in 1994 and were putup in a modest hotel. An uncompromising look at exile, torture, guilt and betrayal. The RefugeeHotel is ultimately about love and its power to heal.


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Remittance Man, The

St. Maur, Gerald


roydrama - Canadian - historical - immigrants - television play - Alberta playwrightseventeen characters; extras thirteen male; four femaleone act

A train carrying European immigrants slowly comes to a full stop at Strathcona Station, the end ofsteel. It is the mid 1890's. Charles Algernon Carrington, travelling with his valet, Freddy Dubbins,is jerked to a halt. Carrington, dressed in a tweed cape and small top hat, looks every bit theEnglish aristocrat he is. Dubbins' bowler hat labels him lower class: he is a servant "above stairs".Carrington and Dubbins sit on opposite seats of an otherwise empty compartment. Both weredozing and are suddenly jolted awake by the train coming to rest...

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Drury, Jackie Sibblies

Playscripts, Inc.

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also written by: Basil Kreimendahl, Justin Kuritzkes and Amelia Roper.

Five young writers, ready to add their fresh voices to the Humana Festival's nearly four decades ofhistory. Eight iconic plays of the Festival's storied past. Mix the two together and what do you get?Every year, Actors Theatre commissions a group of playwrights to pen a show for our ActingApprentice Company, to be peformed during the Humana Festival. This year (2014) that show was


2015

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Smith, Stef


roydrama - young adult seven characters; chorustwo male; four female; one male or female (flexible casting) one act

Age suitability - 13+

A girl called Antler steps out of her front door and throws her phone on to the ground. Shestamps on it. She then climbs the tallest tree in the park. She doesn't want to be found, not byanyone. The lives of seven teenagers all intertwine over the course of a single evening as theymake their way through the park in a seemingly normal autumn's night. REMOTE is a play about


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Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui, The

Brecht, Bertolt

Samuel French

roydramathirty-five charactersthirty male; five femalesixteen scenes

representative set; adapted by George Tabori; Music by Hans-Dieter Hosalla.

A dramatic parallel is drawn between the rise to power of Adolph Hitler and the power-hold of theChicago gangsters. Brecht's shudderingly accurate parallel between Hitler and his henchmen onthe one hand and the old crime lords of Chicago on the other is a vigorous eye opener that wasproduced on Broadway with Christopher Plummer. The Cauliflower Trust in Chicago is in need of

A gangster spectacle

1972

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Hunter, Samuel D.

Samuel French

roydrama - aging - death - friendship - health issuesseven charactersfour male; three femaletwo acts

interior set; running time: 120 min.

A retirement home in northern Idaho is being shut down, and only three residents and abare-bones staff remain. When a record breaking blizzard blows into town and an elderly residentdisappears into the storm, everyone is brought to face their own mortality.

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Reunion

Mamet, David

Grove Weidenfeld

roydrama - family relations two charactersone male; one femaleone act (fourteen scenes)

"Reunion" depicts the awkward, tender meeting between a father and daughter drawn together bytheir loneliness after twenty years of separation. Their cautious small talk, filled with evasion andcliché, gradually exposes the terrifying isolation in which they live, and ultimately their greatneed for each other.

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Revenger's Tragedy, The

Tourneur, Cyril

Chandler Publishing Company

roydrama - Jacobean tragedyfourteen characters; extras eleven male; three femalefive acts

Verse play set in Italy. Murder of a young man's sweetheart, by the old duke who has failed toseduce her, creates a web of hatred and revenge.

1962

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Right Sensation

Orloff, Rich


roydramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A woman reveals feelings about her breasts after a mastectomy as she is about to become moreintimate with a new lover.


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Right You Are (If You Think You Are)

Pirandello, Luigi


roydrama - Italiansixteen characters; extrasnine male; seven femalethree acts

also known as 'Cosi è, se ui pare'; 2 interiors.

'A man and his mother-in-law tell conflicting stories about their respective wife and daughter.Audience has to decide which is illusion and which is reality.' - Play Index


1987

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Road

Cartwright, Jim

Methuen

roydramatic comedylarge castflexible castingtwo acts

During one wild night, a drunken guide conducts a tour of Road, his derelict Lancashire street,where sharp and comic scenes jostle viciously to expose a population driven mad by despair.Beneath the gags, the playwright's rumbling sense of lost dignity resulting from unemployment,chauvinism or from simply getting paralytically pissed, give this stunning debut a perceptive andfrightening reality.

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Road to Nirvana

Kopit, Arthur

Samuel French

royblack comedyfive charactersthree male; two female two acts

'Washed up Hollywood producers degrade themselves so that rock superstar will allow them tofilm her autobiography.'

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Rock, Paper, Jacknife...

Perreault, Marilyn


roydrama - teens - immigration - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian five characterstwo male; three femaleone act (thirteen parts)

Original title: Roche, papier, cousteau.

The teens of the play take us into the experience of forced emigration when the country of theirorigin has exploded in violence, their parents are dead, their crossing was unbelievably difficult,and they find themselves in exile in a new country where they do not know the language, they arewithout means, and the reception in the community is one of distaste and distrust. Along with


2010

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Rokumeikan, The

Yukio, Mishima


roydrama - historical - Japan - tragedylarge castflexible casting four acts

On 3 November 1886, the Emperor's birthday, a ball is to be held at the Rokumeikan, or Deer CryHall, in Tokyo. The guests include many foreign dignitaries. However, anti-government extremistsare planning to crash the party.


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Romance Language

Parnell, Peter

Samuel French

roycomedy - fantasy - literaturefifteen characters ten male; five femaletwo acts

The author of Sorrows of Stephen turns a modern eye on the romance of American nineteenthcentury literature in this surreal comedy. The play begins with Huck Finn climbing through WaltWhitman's bedroom window. Since Whitman's male lover has just died, he decides to go on apicaresque journey with Huck down the river of American culture. They encounter Custer,Thoreau, Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Cushman and Emily Dickinson. The crazinessreaches a climax at the Battle of the Little Big Horn where everyone is killed and goes to literary

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Roommate, The

Silverman, Jen

Playscripts, Inc.

roydark comedy - aging - feminism - identityall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act (eleven scenes)

running time: 105 minutes

Sharon, in her mid-50s, is recently divorced and needs a roommate to share her Iowa home.Robyn, also in her mid-50s, needs a place to hide and a chance to start over. But as Sharonbegins to uncover Robin's secrets, they encourage her own deep-seated desire to transform herlife completely. A dark comedy about what it takes to re-route your life - and what happens when


2016

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Rope, The

O'Neill, Eugene

Vintage Books

roydramafive charactersthree male; two femaleone act



1972

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Roses From the South

Shea, Martin

New World Theatre

roydramaten characterssix male; four femaletwo acts


2001

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Rough Crossing

Stoppard, Tom

Faber and Faber

roycomedy - British - theatresix charactersfive male; one female; extras two acts

"The co-authors, the composer and most of the cast of a musical comedy destined for Broadwayare simultaneously trying to finish and rehearse the play while crossing the Atlantic on an oceanliner."

Adapted from Ferenc Molnar's "Play at the Castle."


1999

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Rules of Comedy

Cotter, Patricia

Playscripts, Inc.

roycomedy - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Caroline is really, really not funny. Which is why she hires Guy, a stand-up comedian with somehang-ups of his own, to teach her how to tell jokes. But it turns out that they both have things tolearn from one another, about life as well as laughter.


2016

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Rules of the Game, The

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydramaten characterseight male; two femalethree acts

Translated and adapted by William Murray

Pirandello shows that by the mere act of living, the fact of existence, a man cannot help but affectthe lives of others. In this play, it is Leone who wants to remain completely out of the action fromthe start, but the crisis of the play occurs as a direct result of his separateness.

1919


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Rum For The Money

Stapleton, Berni

Breakwater Books

roydramatic comedy - crime - bootlegging all male cast; three charactersthree maleone act (one scene)

"Set in the 1960s in a small dory on the waters between Newfoundland and St. Pierre & Miquelon,three Newfoundland men are on a rum running mission in the middle of the night escaping anddodging French bullets and then evading RCMP cutters. An eerie night ensues as our three rumrunners question their lot in life as inexplicable happenings engulf them. A Rum for the Moneymelds comedy and drama to perfection."


2016

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Rx

Fodor, Kate


roycomedy - romanceseven charactersfour male; three femaleone act (twenty-four scenes)

Phil is a researcher entrusted with the first major trial of Thriveon, Schmidt Pharma's experimentaltreatment for workplace depression. Meena is a study subject who is depressed by her workplace.Can Thriveon cure Meena? Can Meena cure Phil? A comedy about big love, big dreams and BigPharma.

2012

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Safety

Thorpe, Chris

Nick Hern Books

roydramafour characterstwo male; two femaleone act (twenty-one scenes)

SAFETY is the story of a war photographer who is celebrated as producing some of the mosticonic images of conflict from the late 20th century. Now in his mid 40s and on the eve of a majorretrospective of his work, Michael is being forced to reconsider his roles as a reporter who hascome to be thought of as an artist, a husband who's never there and a father who hesitated whenhis daughter needed him most.

2002

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Saint Joan of the Stockyards

Brecht, Bertolt

Indiana University Press

roydrama - revolutionlarge castflexible castingeleven scenes

4 interiors and 8 exteriors; speaking and singing chorus.

Anti-capitalist play, partly in verse, involving business manipulation and industrial strife inChicago stock-days and ill-fated attempt by religious salvationist turned social reformer to aidworkers.

1969

translated by Frank Jones

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Salonika

Page, Louise

Methuen

roydrama - fantasyfive charactersfour male; two femalethree parts

On the beach sit and English mother and daughter. In a nearby war cemetery is the grave of thehusband and father, a soldier with the British Expeditionary Force who died in 1918. Will this visitto Salonika help them to lay his ghost at last; or will the dead past hold its grip? And what of thefuture offered by others on the beach?

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Satellites

Son, Diana


royKorea - drama seven charactersfour male; three femaleone act (twelve scenes)

This play shows a Korean American character whose ethnic identity is only one of multiplefacets of her existence. The protagonist, Nina, is a successful architect in her thirties. She isdriven, ambitious, and focused on success. She is also a new mother who moves to Brooklyn tostart a family lifestyle with her African-American husband, Miles, who was adopted by a whitefamily and had graduated from a prestigious university with a degree in computer engineering.Nina is overwhelmed with motherhood and hires a Korean woman, Mrs. Chae, as a nanny. As her


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Saved

Bond, Edward


roydramaten charactersseven male; three femalethirteen scenes

'Monosyllabic speeches portray South London alum dwellers living on the fringes of criminality ina world almost subhuman.'

1982

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Savin' Up For Saturday Night

Goode, Jeff

Samuel French

roymusical - comedy - country westernfive charactersthree male; two femaletwo acts

1 interior set.

"Lovin’ ain’t easy in this one-honky-tonk town, so when the bartender and the bandleader fall forthe same dance hall girl, you’re in for an evening of showstoppers and toe-tappers, cat fights,and love quadrangles that’ll keep any joint jumpin’ till way past last call."

The honky-tonk musical

2012

Levinson, Richard

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Saving Kitty

Smith, Marisa

StageSource

roycomedy - family dramafour characterstwo male; two femaletwo acts

1 interior set.

"Kate and Huntley Hartley, atheist Manhattanites, anxiously await the arrival of their daughter,up-and-coming television news producer Kitty, and her new beau Paul, for dinner—and much,much more. When Paul turns out to be an Evangelical Christian educator—the liberal, culturedKate’s worst nightmare—everything is turned upside down as Kate tries to scuttle the budding


2017

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Savoy

O'Brien, Eugene

Methuen

roydramatic comedy - movies - relationshipsfive charactersfour male; one femaletwo acts

On the closing night of Edenderry's Savoy cinema, three men have gathered for an unusual waketo remember the life of the cinema and its place in their lives. From the spectre of the multiplexthat has sounded the death knell of the local cinema, to the town's inhabitants and 'A Fistful ofDollars', Eugene O'Brien creates a compelling picture of the life of a provincial Irish town. By turnscomical and elegiac, the men's shared memories finally exposes the fiction and frailty that lie atthe heart of their relationships.

2004

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Scenarios of the Commedia dell'Arte

Scala, Flaminio

Limelight Editions

Commedia dell'Arte scenarios translated into english.

Includes scenarios from:The Old Twins; Flavio's Fortune; Isabella's Fortune; Isabella's Trick; Flavio Betrayed; The JealousOld Man; The Lady Who was Believed Dead; The Fake Madwoman; The Husband; The Betrothed;The Captain; The Dentist; The Desperate Doctor; The Faithful Pilgrim Lover; The Trials of isabella;The Mirror; The Twin Captains; The Tragic Events; The Three Loyal Friends; The Two FaithfulNotaries; The Fake Magician; He Who Was Believed Dead; The Postman; The Fake Tofano; TheJealousy of Isabella; The Alexandrian Carpets; The Faithless One; Flavio the Fake Magician; TheFaithful Friend; The Disguised Gypsies; The Four Fake Spirits; The Fake Blind Man; Flavio'sDisgrace; Isabella, the Astrologer; The Hunt; The Madness of Isabella; The Picture; The JustPunishment; The Mad Princess; The Comical, Pastoral, and Tragical Events; Alvida; Rosalba,

Flaminio Scala's Il Teatro delle favole rappresentative

1992

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Scene Painting

Veaner, Daniel

Prentice-Hall

reference - scenery

A complete step-by-step guide to painting theatrical scenery for professional, amateur, andschool dramatic productions.

Tools and techniques

1984

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School Film, The

Marber, Patrick


royyoung adult - Britishmultiple charactersvariable size ensemble of any size or ageone act


"What are great expectations?" "It means he's going to be rich. And a gentleman"The whole school assemble in the hall to watch 'the school film' which turns out to be an oldBritish classic from the 1940s, in black and white no less.As the young viewers absorb the adventures of the characters in the old story they begin to


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Scream Queens - the musical

Martin, Scott

Samuel French

roymusical - comedy - science fiction - parodyall female cast; six characterssix femaletwo acts

music and lyrics by Scott Martin.

"They sing - they dance - they die!" A hotel ballroom, 1998, and six voluptuous B-movie "ScreamQueens" revive their fading acting careers by presenting a musical revue for their fans at a sciencefiction and horror film convention. From young newbie to seasoned grand dame, the Queens struttheir stuff in song and dance to prove "I Got All of the Talent I Need." For 90 minutes of hilarious

"They Sing! They Dance! They Die!"

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Se Llama Cristina

Solis, Octavio

Samuel French

roydrama - relationshipsfour characterstwo male; two femaletwo acts

1 interior set.

"A man and woman awaken from an apparent drugged-out night to find their baby missing. Thepair relive their history in order to remember their way back to their child and to try to set thingsright. This haunted, poetic journey moves through time from past to present to future, and fromdarkness and doubt to the glimmer of miraculous light. "

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Sea, The

Bond, Edward


roycomedyfourteen characters; extrasseven male; seven femaleeight acts

4 sets.

The Sea is a comedy set in an East Coast Village in 1907. The action centres round the drowningof a young man and the repercussions, emotional and political, it has on the tight,inward-looking village community.

A full-length play

1974

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Seafarer, The

McPherson, Conor

Nick Hern Books

roydramaall male cast; five charactersfive maletwo acts

It’s Christmas Eve and James 'Sharky' Harkin, an erstwhile fisherman/van driver/chauffeur now inhis fifties, has returned to Dublin to look after his ageing, irascible brother, Richard, who’srecently gone blind. Two old drinking buddies, Ivan and Nicky, are also holed up at the house,hoping to play some cards. But with the arrival of Mr Lockhart, an acquaintance of Nicky's, thestakes are raised ever higher. In fact, Sharky may be playing for his very soul.


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Seagull, The

Stoppard, Tom

Faber and Faber

roydramatwelve charactersseven male; five femalefour acts

"The Seagull, a spectacular failure on its first appearance, was the play that, on its second,established Anton Chekhov as an important and revolutionary dramatist. Here, amid the wearinessof life in the country, the famous actress Arkadina presides over a household riven with desperatelove, with dreams of success and dread of failure. It is her son, Konstantin, who one day shoots aseagull; it is the novelist Trigorin who will one day write the story of the seagull so casuallykilled; but it is Nina, the seagull herself, whose life to come will rewrite the story."


1999

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Second Man, The

Behrman, S. N.

Samuel French

roycomedyfour characterstwo male; two femalethree acts

The play has to do with Clark Storey, novelist, with whom two women are in love. He is determinedto marry one of them, and though attracted to the other, he throws her over. The second womanthen accuses him of playing her false. The play is essentially a brilliant comedy and is treated in aclever and sophisticated fashion.

1956

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Secret Keeper, The

Meyers, David


roydrama - war - deathtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (one scene)

"Ahmad is the groundskeeper at a cemetery in Afghanistan. When a local mother visits thecemetery, she befriends Ahmad and unearths a troubling secret that unites them both."


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Self Torture and Strenuous Exercise

Kondoleon, Harry


roycomedy - relationshipsfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act

Carl tells Alvin that he's in love with another woman. "Good for you," says Alvin, who refuses toaccept that Carl's wife, Adel, only attempted suicide—she's still alive. The woman Carl loves isAlvin's wife, Beth. But right now, Beth is so drunk she can't get up off the floor, much less run offwith Carl, and Adel comes in with bandaged wrists saying Carl has been trying to kill her. Thesefour have some issues to work out.


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Separate Peace, A

Knowles., John


roydrama - tragedyall male cast: seven charactersseven maletwo acts

adapted by Nancy Gilsenan; approximate running time: 90 mins.

John Knowles' classic tale of two high-school boys standing on the threshold of war andadulthood comes to the stage. Gene Forrester is a careful, studious young man, full of fear of thefuture. As America is about to enter World War II, Gene attends summer school at Devon in NewEngland. There he meets a remarkable young man whose love for life defies the reality of draft

1988

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Serinette

Reaney, James

Coach House Books

royopera - Canada - historicallarge castflexible castingtwo acts

Music by Harry Somers.

Reaney's libretto is based on characters and events of Upper Canada in the early 1800s. TheFamily Compact conflicts (political and religious), the Ridout-Jarvis duel, and the establishment ofa utopian farm community at Sharon by David Willson are all historical, but the story's centralfigure, Colin Jarvis, 'younger brother' of the historical Samuel Jarvis, is fictitious. The mechanical

in - Scripts / CCO

2004

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Serious Money

Churchill, Caryl

Methune

roysatire - financetwenty characters; extrasfourteen male; six female (doubling possible)two acts

1 setting.

'Satire set in contemporary London financial world. Cartel's efforts to obtain control of companygo awry when murder occurs.'

1987

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Serpent, The



roydrama - American - Avant-Garde - religiousfourteen charactersseven male; seven femaleone act

1 set; dancing, singing and a speaking chorus.

The play traces the development of man, good and evil, through explorations of Biblical storiesand American history.

in - America Hurrah and Other Plays / COL

1969

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Shades

Macdonald, Sharman

Faber and Faber

roydrama - Scottishfour charactersone male; two female; one boytwo acts

time period - 1950s; setting: Glasgow.

Pearl, a young widow, bitterly resents her husband for dying and leaving her with the prospect ofa lonely old age and her mother for being unable to provide her with the affection she craved as achild. Frightened by the onset of middle age, she fiercely prepares for a rather special night out -one which could change her fortunes completely. Ten-year-old Alan jealously watches her

1992

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Shakers

Godber, John


roydramatic comedy - satireall female cast; four charactersfour femaletwo acts

In a not-so-chic London bar called Shakers, we meet Carol, Adele, Nicky and Mel, four friendswho have taken to waitressing in desperation but who also have wit and resilience enough tonever let any of the colorful characters they come across escape their satire unscathed. Intheatrically heightened moments, the women play the roles of men and women alike, covering notonly their nights at Shakers but also the lives of four other working women in London. Always atthe source of their satire are the men who take them for granted or, worse, abuse them. Against

1993

Thornton, Jane

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Shakespeare for One: Women

Heinemann Drama

scenes and monologues - Shakespeare - women

At some point in their careers, all actors have to face the task of working up a classicalmonologue - preferably one that's accessible, compelling, and not done to death. This volumecollects virtually all of the monologues for women from Shakespeare's 37 plays. Not only actors,but directors and teachers, too, will find this book a treasure trove off the famous soliloquies plusmany unfamiliar gems.

Arranged alphabetically by play title, the monologues are presented in an actor-friendly format,beginning with a thumbnail sketch of the story's key developments and a streamlined cast ofcharacters.Exhaustive explanatory notes offer up a wealth of helpful tips - from definitions ofarchaic words and expressions to comments on both setting and accompanying action.

The complete monologues and audition pieces

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Shakespeare in Love

Norman, Marc

Grove Press

roycomedytwenty-nine characters; extrasflexible castingtwo acts

Adapted for the stage by Lee Hall; based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard.

A stage adaptation of the film - a masterful story of love and drama. Plagued by debt, tormentedby writer's block and in desperate need of a new hit, promising new playwright Will Shakespearefinds his muse in the form of a passionate young noblewoman Viola De Lesseps. Their forbiddenlove soon draws everyone, including Queen Elizabeth, into the drama, and inspires Will to write

2014

Stoppard, Tom

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Shape of the River, The

Foote, Horton


royteleplay - biographynineteen charactersten male; nine femaleone act

A drama about the last 15 years of Mark Twain's life; adapted from his letters of this time. Containsbibliography, history and analysis by Mark Dawidziak.

The lost teleplay about Mark Twain

2003

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She Mami Wata and the Pussy Witchhunt

Anitafrika, D'Bi.Young


roydrama - relationships - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - womeneleven charactersthree male; eight femaleone act (thirteen scenes)

Part of the Orisha Trilogy. The play centres on gender, sexuality, and the erotic through the life offour friends growing up in present-day Jamaica, who are challenged to re-negotiate their complexrelationship under "buggery" laws. Raised in the violence and silence of misogyny andhomophobia, Niki lives on the margins of church, the burlesque pole and womxn's thighs.


2017

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Sheppey

Maugham, W. Somerset

Methuen Drama

roydramasixteen charactersten male; six femalethree acts

Sheppey is the story of a hardworking hairdresser who generally considers himself to be a luckyman and then has that self-belief proved when he wins a considerable sum of money.

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1997

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Shine!

Seff, Richard

Samuel French

roymusical - dramatic comedy - historicalnineteen charactersthirteen male; six femaletwo acts

"Lower Manhattan, 1876. Join Dick as he rises from penniless bootblack to budding entrepreneurwith a little bit of luck, a little bit of charm, and a whole lot of hard work. Based on Horatio Alger’sbeloved tale, Dick’s adventures bring him face to face with scheming ex-convicts, vicious comicvillains, kind benefactors, and a host of colorful characters in this rags-to-riches romp for thewhole family."

The Horatio Alger musical

2011

Anderson, Roger Dean

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Shining City

McPherson, Conor

Nick Hern Books

roydramafive charactersfour male; one femaleone act (five scenes)

Ian has left the priesthood and is starting a new career as a therapist in Dublin. John is one of hisfirst clients. John’s wife, Mari, has been killed in a horrible car accident, and he keeps receivingvisits from her ghost. John, with Ian’s help, starts to recover. Meanwhile Ian is struggling with adilemma of his own: his estranged fiancée, Neasa, with whom he has a baby, wants him to comehome; but Ian isn't yet ready – or able – to commit to married life.


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Shivaree, The

Reaney, James

Coach House Books

royblack comedy - opera - Canada - historicaltwelve characterseight male; four femaletwo acts


According to the libretto, 'the action of the opera takes place in a farming district of SouthwesternOntario in the early years of the 20th century. The characters are fictitious, but the custom of theshivaree (a mock wedding serenade played on homemade percussion instruments) is an actualcustom of the area'. The Shivaree is a black comedy, combining elements of farce and tragedy.

in - Scripts / CCO

2004

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Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat

Ravenhill, Mark

Bloomsbury

roydrama - war - monologues - relationshipslarge castflexible castingeighteen parts

Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is an epic cycle of 16 short plays examining the personal and politicaleffect of war on modern life. Each of the plays is named after an existing classical work asRavenhill stages the intensity of individual pain against a glimpsed vast narrative of conflict. Achild talks to a headless man, a woman is afflicted with mysterious intestinal pain, a couple talkabout their garden bench, a soldier demands love from a woman whose country he has liberated.


2013

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Sicilian Limes

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydrama - Italy - relationshipsfive characters; extrastwo male; three femaleone act

1 interior.

Man who has sacrificed all for famous singer's voice training and visits her during party isslighted. Piccolo.


1970


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Sienna Red

Poliakoff, Stephen

Methuen Drama

roycomedy - romanceeight charactersfive male; three femaletwo acts

Cecilia, a woman who has taken refinement in her life to its very limits, has an affair with a manwho, by being uniquely himself, is able to exert control over those around him. A startling lovestory and a fascinating comedy of opposites, 'Sienna Red' transforms the seemingly ordinary intothe extraordinary where the mundane environment of a DIY emporium becomes a place ofsurprising riches and disturbing passions.

1992

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Silver's Secret

Nixon, Charlotte

Pioneer Drama Service

roycomedy - children - Alberta playwrightlarge castflexible castingone act (five scenes)

This goofy pirate play is a treasure chest full of silliness with cheerleader mermaids, ghosts,smugglers, and lobsters as comic stagehands! As the famous pirate Long John Silver lies on hisdeathbed, he sends for his sons, Red Beard and Black Beard, and his daughter, No Beard. Alas, hisoffspring didn’t inherit their father’s pirating skills! Luckily, each bumbling pirate has a “smee”as an assistant, because their father sends them off to find the three keys to the treasure chest thatholds his life’s treasure. The children and their respective smees dash off to adventures, for

2015

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Singular Kinda Guy, A

Ives, David


roycomedy - solo performance - relationships - monologueall male cast; one characterone maleone act

Mitch is a young guy talking to a girl in a bar. She's nice, but he's got this sort of confession, see.There's something she ought to know—on the inside, he isn't really a guy at all. He's an Olivettielectric self-correcting typewriter.


2015

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Sir Thomas More

Munday, Anthony


roydrama - biography - Elizabethan - Tudorlarge castflexible castingfive acts

Revised by Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood, and William Shakespeare.

A dramatic biography based on the life of Catholic martyr Thomas More, who rose to become theLord Chancellor of England during the Reign of Henry VIII.

1990

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Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia

Thompson, Judith


roydrama - Canadian Playwright - family relations - warsixteen charactersnine male; seven femaleone act (twenty-six scenes, prologue, epilogue)

Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia is a gripping story about the horrors of collective and personal wars as afamily torn apart by death and destruction becomes their own worst enemy. When a deal betweenAgamemnon and his brother Menelaus goes awry, Iphigenia becomes the blood sacrifice leadingto truths her sister Elektra can no longer hide from. Against the backdrop of a family drama, JudithThompson gives voice to the women who were silenced during the Bosnian War, examining acultural trauma and its place in our collective history.

in - Hedda Gabler & Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia / CCO

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Sister Mary's a Dyke?!

Peña, Flerida


roycomedy - LGBTQ+ - women - religion - Canadian - solo performanceall female cast; one characterone femaleone act (sixteen scenes)

A playful attack on the church and the oppressive educational systems it has spawned. Peña useshigh theatricality ro illustrate her queer vision and empower her characters to be as fullyrebellious as she can dream them. What seems at first to be a coming out story quickly turns intoa fantastical rebellion of comic book proportions. This action-packed play is a fun foray into thetriumph of imagination in the face of oppression - one that culminates in nothing less that adramatic overthrow of the Vatican.


2017

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Sister Virtue

St. Maur, Gerald


roydrama - Canadian - disabilities - religion - Alberta playwrightfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act

1 interior set.

A woman struggles to deal with her mentally disabled son, her religious daughter, and the hiredhand on the farm.

A one-act drama exposing the perils of puberty

2015

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Sisters on the Ground

Posner, Max

Miscellaneous

roydrama - family relationsten charactersone male; nine femaleone act (three parts)

A patch of dirt. In the Northeast USA. 1825. Six sisters. Some neighbors. Cholera (maybe). A fire.The stars.

in - Dramatics (December 2017 / January 2018) / PER

2017

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Ski Lift

Holbrook, Chris


roydramatic comedyall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

A man tries to commit suicide while riding a ski (chair) lift.


2015

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Slab Boys, The

Byrne, John

Samuel French

roycomedy - Scottisheight characterssix male; two femaletwo acts

1 interior setting.

"Comedy set in 1957 detailing working day of three Slab Boys (apprentice designers) inGlasgow carpet factory."

1982

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Slap in the Farce, A

Labiche, Eugène


royfarcefive characterstwo male; three femaleone act

translated by Norman R. Shapiro.

On a dark tram, artist thinks he is petting his dog, but strokes lady's foot, leading to furthermisunderstandings.

in - A Slap in the Farce & A Matter of Wife and Death / COL

1988

Martin, Édouard

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Sleepers Den, The

Gill, Peter

Faber and Faber

roydrama - family relationssix characterstwo male; four female two acts

Set in 1950s Cardiff, The Sleepers Den presents the struggle of the desperate Shannon family who,vulnerable and powerless, live in squalor and must fend for themselves in this story of everydaysurvival.


2002

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Sleeping Policemen

Brenton, Howard

Methuen

roydramatic comedysix characterstwo male; four femaletwo acts

(The play) is the result of an exciting and innovative collaboration between the playwrights anddirector Roland Rees. Commissioned by Foco Novo, the brief was for each writer to create a playset in Peckham in 1983, using the same six characters but written from his own point of view.Following a series of regular meetings and finally a workshop with six actors, they separated,each to write his own play. When the scripts were complete, the writers met again and, togetherwith the director, intercut and amalgamated them into one play.

1984

Ikoli, Tunde

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Small Change

Gill, Peter

Faber and Faber

roydrama four characterstwo male; two femaletwo acts

Small Change is about two mothers and two sons, their attachments and emotional complexity, theendeavour of the two sons to make sense of their complicated inheritance and their adolescentfriendship later in life.


2002

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Smokey Joe's Cafe - vocal selections

Leiber, Jerry



contains:Stand By Me / Jailhouse Rock / On Broadway / Hound Dog / Love Potion #9 / Yakety Yak / KansasCity / I'm a Woman / Searchin' / Young Blood / Treat Me Nice / I (Who Have Nothing) / LovingYou / Ruby Baby / Fools Fall in Love / D.W.Washburn / Saved / Don Juan / Pearl's a Singer /Baby, That is Rock & Roll

The songs of Leiber and Stoller

Stoller, Mike

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Snow Dragons, The

Nunnery, Lizzie


royyoung adult - British - World War II - Norwayeight characters; extras; chorusfour male; four femaleeight scenes


"The Snow Dragons" is an imagined story based on actual events.

Raggi and her friends spend their free time in the woods and mountains around their sleepy fjordtown playing games of Vikings, dragons and war. When soldiers occupy the town, they watch


2017

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So Unnatural a Level

Winter, Gary

Playscripts, Inc.

roycomedysix characters; puppetthree male; three femaleone act

A woman writes a novel in the midst of insurance employees frantically dealing with the aftermathof a storm.


2016

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Social Security

Bergman, Andrew

Nelson Doubleday

roycomedysix charactersthree male; three femaletwo acts

1 interior set.

A young married couple who are both art dealers are disrupted upon the arrival of the wife'sgoody-goody nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband and her Archetypal Jewish mother. Theyare there to try to save their college student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. Thecomic sparks really begin to fly when the mother his it off with the elderly minimalist artist who is

A play in two acts

1986

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Social Studies

Cooper, Trish

Scirocco Drama

roycomedy - immigrants - family relationsfour charactersone male; three femaletwo acts

"When Jackie comes back to her childhood home after separating from her husband, she thinksher biggest problem will be readjusting to life on a smaller bed. She’s surprised to learn,however, that her mother has given that bed away to a Sudanese refugee! Cultural differences,language barriers, and the self-conscious earnestness of good intentions combine to deliver ascathingly comic look at Canadian values."

2016

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Solstice Mutiny, The

St. Maur, Gerald


roydrama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwrightall male cast; five charactersfive malethree acts

A radio play based on the mutiny which led to the death of Henry Hudson.

A radio play

2015

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Some Americans Abroad

Nelson, Richard


roycomedyeleven characterssix male; five femaletwo acts

When a group of American professors gathers in London to teach a theatre course, the sparks flyas they squabble over academic politics, with egos, reputations, and careers at stake.

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2004

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Some Kind of Love Story

Miller, Arthur


roydramatic comedytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Angela, a hard-bitten call-girl, is visited by Tom, a private detective of long acquaintance, who isconvinced that she can supply information about a murder case which, some years earlier,resulted in a miscarriage of justice. As Tom plays on their former closeness, trying to draw outthe facts he seeks, Angela withdraws behind a schizophrenic screen of multiple personalitiesranging from a brazen creature named Leontyne, to a shrinking violet called Emily, to a haughtyEnglish-woman named Renata. Doggedly persistent, Tom does, in the end, break through the

1983

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Some Men Need Help

Noonan, John Ford

Samuel French

roycomedy - friendshipall male cast; two characterstwo maletwo acts

This off beat comedy about male friendship begins with Harley T. Singleton III face down on hissuburban kitchen floor dead drunk. His neighbor, an ex mafioso, is determined to save Harleyfrom himself.

1983

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Some Prepared Remarks (A History in Speech)

Platt, Jason Gray

Playscripts, Inc.

roydramaone characterflexible castingone act (one scene)

"Colored construction paper. Index cards. A Post-it note. Follow one speaker's life across thespeeches, presentations and toasts recorded on these scraps of paper. Every year seems to go bya little faster, so we promise to keep things brief."


2015

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Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends (a Final Evening with t

Larson, Larry


roycomedy - religionall male cast; eleven characterstwo male (doubling)two acts

2 interiors.

The setting is the bombed-out, post-holocaust sanctuary of a church, where the Reverend Eddie(clad in long underwear) prepares to deliver his final sermon: "Life Is Like a Basketball Game."Abetted by his faithful helper, the hunch-backed Brother Lawrence, Reverend Eddie first embarkson a series of wildly funny skits in which Saint Paul and Saint Timothy discuss the shaky position

1986

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Something from Nothing

Reidy, David


roycomedythree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A stranger's intimate gesture on a New York subway causes a couple to reexamine theirrelationship, and it causes one person to get punched in the face. Told from all three characters'wildly different perspectives.


2015

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SongCatcher: a native interpretation of the story of Frances Densmore

Rendon, Marcie R.


roynative playwright - biographical - women - Native peopleseighteen characterseight male; ten femalethree acts

Marcie's play is about a collector named Frances Densmore. The setting is present day. A youngNative man named Jack and his Native girlfriend Chris are the main characters. Chris was raisedwith her Native community. Jack was not. He knows he's Native, and he goes to powwows andhangs out with Native people. He wants to know more, though, about his own tribe, and heespecially wants a song of his own. Bill is an older Native man who visits with Jack and Chris intheir apartment. Both Chris and Bill tell Jack that the song will come to him, that he has to listen


2003

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Sound of Cracking Bones, The

Lebeau, Suzanne


roydrama - war - children - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadianthree charactersone female; one girl; one boyone act (ten scenes)

Original title: Le bruit des os qui craquent.

A piece of reality theatre addressing an issue of international importance and compelling actuality- child soldiers. It traces the flight of two children from the tropical forest where they were beingheld and used by a group of rebels - Elikia, thirteen years old, and Joseph, eight years old - andtheir arrival, after an extremely difficult trek, to relative safety at the childrens hospital in Joseph's


2010

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Souvenirs of Home

Quan, Elyne


roydrama - immigrants - relationships - historical - Alberta playwrightall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

simple set.

"The lives of three Chinese women intersect in the 1960s on the Canadian Prairies as each of themsearch for the meaning of "home"."

2005

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Spare Parts

Page, Elizabeth

Samuel French

roycomedy - LGBTQ+five characterstwo male; three femaletwo acts

The plan is for an unwitting college student to impregnate Lois and then disappear, leaving Loisand her female lover, Jax, with a baby. But young Henry is smitten. What began as a privatecompact between two lesbians becomes a five way struggle as the characters jockey for positionaround the baby to be until they become a family.

A serious comedy

1988

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Spell #7

Shange, Ntozake

Penguin Books

royblack theatre - dramanine charactersfour male; five femaletwo acts

1 interior.

Black performers gathered in a bar act out fantasies, memories, hopes, and fears in poetry, mime,song, and dance, exploring black experiences, relations with the white world, and the situation ofblack women.


1981

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Spin

Parry, Evalyn


roymusical - LGBTQ+ - feminism - biography eight charactersfive male; three femaleone act

The play begins with a bicycle and collates a history of feminist self-performance through musicand play. Beginning amidst the first wave of feminism, SPIN moves through a trans-historicaljourney, telling the story of Annie Londonderry, an accidental feminist icon and a cyclist withglobal aspirations. Two endings are provide; the one that became its ultimate ending and then theoriginal ending added as an appendix.


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Splendor

Greenidge, Kirsten

StageSource

roydrama - family relationshipsten charactersfour male; six femaletwo acts

"On Thanksgiving eve in a town just north of Boston, Fran is determined to make a nice turkeydinner for her chain-smoking klepto mother, and her couch-surfing older brother. If only it werethat simple. A vivid collage of local stories exposes a community where generations of familiescollide over far more than pumpkin pie and stuffing."


2017

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Squawk

Coles, Megan Gail


roydrama - young adult - Canadian playwright - Indigenous peoples three characterstwo male; one femaleone act

This daring new play from Newfoundland playwright Megan Gail Coles showcases a bold andrefreshing approach to theatre for young audiences. Coles deftly interweaves Canada's colonialhistory with online gaming as our Indigenous protagonist struggles to understand and reconcileher past, present and future. Annie Runningbird doesn’t have time for the games boys want her toplay. She’s aging out of foster care on her next birthday. The system has decided she is an adult,so Annie must make adult decisions. Where will she live? How will she make money? Demanding

2017

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St Joan

Pascal, Julia

Oberon Modern Plays

roydrama - monologues - womenall female cast; one characterone female (flexible casting)one act (twenty-two monologues)

Joan of Arc has, for over five centuries, proved an irresistable and enduring icon for an extremelydiverse group of people both within and without France. St Joan sets the heroine against aremarkable sweep of world history, wittily highlighting the paradoxes and culminating in theParisian National Front rally of 1995.

in - Crossing Jerusalem and Other Plays / COL

2003

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Standing on my Knees

Olive, John

Miscellaneous

roydrama - schizophrenia - mental illnessfour charactersone male; three femaletwo acts

Catherine, a young and promising poet affected with schizophrenia, returns home to her clutteredapartment after a stay in the hospital. Urged on by her publisher she struggles to pursue her art,but the very intensity of thought that this demands brings on her attacks and the imaginary voicesthat bedevil her. At a party she meets Robert, a young stockbroker, and as their relationshipdeepens she relies ever more heavily on Thorazine pills to control her illness and maintain asemblance of normalcy. Ironically, while the pills block her "voices" they also stifle her creative

1983

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Staple of News, The

Jonson, Ben


nonroysatirelarge castflexible castingfive acts

"This is a lively and ambitious satire in which Jonson takes a stand on various developments inlate Jacobean society - particularly the emergence of an organized political journalism whosetrade in news 'stories' he saw as undermining his own endeavour to educate public awarenessthrough literary fictions."

1988

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Stars in the Morning Sky

Galin, Alexander


roydramatic comedyseven characterstwo male; five femaletwo acts

running time: approx 90 mins.

The play is concerned with a small group of prostitutes who have been evicted from Moscow justbefore the tourists arrive for the 1980 Olympics. They've been sent to some dilapidated barracksin a mental asylum. There is strong dramatic interaction among these "Olympic Girls"—in a sadlove affair between one of them and an escaped patient, and in the demands of some offstage

1984

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Status Update

Etchells, Tim


royyoung adult - British - teenagers - growing upmultiple charactersvariable size ensembleone act


We know facts. We know secrets. We have opinions, we have intuition and we have the stage."Status Update" is an unflinching and funny catalogue of the things teenagers learn, believe andhave sussed out about the world. From the ridiculous to the highly charged, all these truths andhalf-truths are laid bare before us, without the safety net of character or fiction.


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Steel Hammer

Corthron, Kia

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - musical - American legends - storytellingten charactersflexible castingone act (four parts)

also written by: Carl Hancock Rux and Regina Taylor; music and lyrics by Julia Wolfe.

A story telling contest based on the question: What is the story of John Henry in the way you'd liketo tell it? Four different versions of the American legend. Ultimately, the legend of John Henry doesmuch more than provide this play with its source material; it also serves as a visceral example ofhow storytellers shape narratives to their own ends, be they political, cultural or practical. 'Steel


2015

Wolfe, Julia

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Stitch

Cardinal, Cliff


roydrama - Native playwright - solo performancemany characters one female (doubling)one act (one scene)

"Kylie Grandview is a single mom struggling to make a living as a porn star while dreaming ofbeing on the big screen. She’s painfully aware that she is among the many nameless faces on theInternet, the ones that blip across cyberspace, as her yeast infection, Itchia, reminds her at everyturn. But when Kylie is offered the chance at a big break, a series of twisted events lead her downa destructive path, revealing a face no one will forget."

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2017

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Stone Guest, The


Oberon Books

roydrama - tragedysix characters; extrasfour male; two femaleone act (four scenes)

Verse drama about Don Juan's return from exile.


2002

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Storm, The


Oberon Books

roytragedytwelve characters: extrassix male; six femalefive acts

The Storm is a work of social criticism, which is directed particularly towards the Russianmerchant class.


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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The

Edgar, David

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - science fiction - thriller - morality fourteen charactersflexible castingtwo acts

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson s classic horror story, this dramatic adaptation shows thetransformation of the mild-mannered Dr Jekyll into the fiendish Mr Hyde. When Jekyll discovers adrug that can transform him, he becomes able to unleash the dark side of his nature onto thestreets of Victorian London. But he soon discovers the price of his double life.

1992

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Stray

Quan, Elyne


roydrama - family relations - Alberta playwrightsfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"Eight years after Kim's older brother went missing, a stranger arrives at her family's door claimingto be him. Once he's invited in, he upends everything the family thought they knew aboutthemselves and each other."

2005

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String Fever

Reingold, Jacquelyn


royromantic comedynine charactersthree male; three female (doubling)one act

In this comedy, Lily juggles the big issues: turning forty, artificial insemination and the elusivescientific Theory of Everything. Lily's world includes an Icelandic comedian, her wisecracking bestfriend, a cat-loving physicist, her no-longer-suicidal father and an ex-boyfriend who carriesaround a chair.

2003

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Stroll in the Air, A

Ionesco, Eugene

Grove Press

roycomedylarge castflexible castingone act

A full length one act concerning Monsieur Berenger, who is the hero of many of Ionesco's plays,including Rhinoceros. What happens to Berenger, his wife and daughter - a French family livingfor unstated reasons in England - is the source and substance of the play, for Berenger one daydiscovers that he has the miraculous gift of freeing himself from the law of gravity. How theEnglish react to this oddity also reveals Ionesco's feelings about that insular people with whom hehas been fascinated since his earliest plays.

in - Stroll in the Air, A & Frenzy for Two, or More / COL

1965

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Stuff Happens

Hare, David

Faber and Faber

roydrama - historical - politicslarge castflexible castingtwo acts

The play outlines the political events of the last two years which led up to the war in Iraq and itsaftermath. The main characters are the real life members of the Bush administration in the USA andTony Blair’s Labor government in the UK. Hare presents a satirical and highly critical view of theiractions, motivations and words and, as the majority of their lines are in their own words, it couldbe argued that the political figures in the play indict themselves by what they say.

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Subfertile

Mardirosian, Tom


roycomedy - infertility - menfive characterstwo male; three femaleone act

There is no room for delicacy or modesty when Tom, on the brink of his fortieth birthday, learnsthat he and his wife's childless condition is a result of his low sperm count. Determined to have achild, and haunted by the dinosaurs he visits at the Museum of Natural History, Tom pursues thedream of fatherhood through the expensive and painful avenues of modern medicine. Thesituation is hard on his masculinity and his marriage, and the solutions become increasinglybizarre. Should Tom opt for surgery, insulated diapers, or the good, old-fashioned remedy

1988

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Subterraneans, The

Kraar, Adam


roydrama - family relations - teenagersthree charactersone male; two femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

A teenage brother and sister have a conversation about life, family, and drugs.


2016

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Sugar Witch, The

Sanders, Nathan

Samuel French

roydrama - southern gothic - death - illness - health - family - parentingsix charactersthree male; three femaletwo acts

The Bean family in Sugar Bean, Florida live under an ancient family curse. The surviving membersof the town's founding family have reached the end of their rope. Just when things can't possiblyget any worse, tragedy strikes as a mysterious and brutal murder takes place in the Bean familyhome. The crime places "Moses" and "Sisser" in grave danger as "Annabelle", the last in a long-lineof so-called "Sugar Witches", attempts to end the curse placed on their heads by the dying wordsof her very own grandmother. Dark family secrets are revealed and unusual passions are ignited

2008

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

Gilliatt, Penelope

Bantam Books

royscreenplay - LGBTQ+ - relationshipslarge castflexible castingnine parts

It tells the story of a free-spirited young bisexual artist and his simultaneous relationships with afemale recruitment consultant and a male Jewish doctor.

1971

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Sunday in Sodom

Tannahill, Jordan


roy drama - historical - biblical - mythological - Canadian playwrightsix charactersfour male; two female one act

Sunday in Sodom: In the Bible, she goes unnamed, known only as Lot's Wife: the impertinentwoman who was turned to a pillar of salt for looking back to behold God's destruction of herhometown. In Sunday in Sodom, Edith recounts how her husband Lot welcomed two visitors intotheir house and the destruction that followed.

in - Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom / CCO

2017

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Super Hot Raven and Raven II: The Ravening

Gogerty, Megan


royLGBTQ+ - spoofall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act (three scenes)

1 interior set.

"A sexy, silly spoof of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," "Super Hot Raven and Raven II: TheRavening" are two ten-minute plays reimagining the famous poem as a hot lesbian love storybetween a poet and a mysterious plumber in a Baltimore Ravens jersey."


2016

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Supine Cobbler, The

Connell, Jill

Coach House Books

roycomedy - abortion - westernall female cast; seven characters; musiciansfive female (doubling)one act

setting: a contemporary clinical abortion in the spirit of a Western.

The Doctor introduces the gang: The Supine Cobbler (wanted), her estranged sister (dead byhanging), her former best friend (missing, presumed dead) and her apprentice (a turncoat).Together they negotiate integrity in a lawless world. The Supine Cobbler is an unsentimentallegend and a true story. It is a hero myth for girls.

2017

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Sweat

Nottage, Lynn


roydrama - friendship - Americanine characterssix male; three femaletwo acts

A sudden lock out at a metal tubing factory shakes up a group of close-knit friends. Their fragilebonds splinter, leading to a horrific crime that sends shock waves across two generations.

Nominated! 2017 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play and Outstanding Fight Choreography.Nominated! 2017 Tony Awards: Best Play and Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role ina Play for both Johanna Day and Michelle Wilson. Winner! 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Winner!

2017

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Sword Play

Donaghy, Charlene A.


roydrama - religion - racismthree charactersone male; one female; one boyone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"In 1962 the city of New Orleans, like many cities across the country, is both embracing andrebelling against racial integration. That fight permeates the Catholic Church, putting MaeveQuinn in the crosshairs. Her struggles are deepened both by her care for a young child and theintrusion of a new priest into the parish she loves. As swords clash, which fight will win: the one


2016

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Takeover of the Andrew Jackson Reading Room

Adare, Sierra


roydramatic comedy - Native peoples - Native playwright - storytellinglarge castflexible castingone act (nine scenes)

The play is intended as a bridge between Native and American cultural perceptions. A group ofnative writers gather in the Andrew Jackson reading room of a library to read their works aloud.As writers begin to read their work, it is then acted out downstage.


2003

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Taking Sides

Harwood, Ronald


roydrama - war - musicsix charactersfour male; two femaletwo acts

TAKING SIDES takes place in the American Zone of occupied Berlin, in 1946. It is here theAmerican portion of the De-Nazification Tribunal has convened to take over the questioning ofWilhelm Furtwängler, one of the outstanding conductors of his time. Furtwängler was at the heightof his career in 1933, eclipsing all other conductors, just as Hitler became Chancellor ofGermany. As the terrors of Nazism spread, many of Furtwängler's colleagues fled the country,whether out of protest or persecution, but Furtwängler mysteriously chose to stay. Did he stay to

1995

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Talk Radio

Bogosian, Eric

Samuel French

roycomedy - radionine characters; voicesseven male; two femaleone act

Barry Champlain, Cleveland's controversial radio host, is on the air doing what he does best:insulting the pathetic souls who call in the middle of the night to sound off. Tomorrow, Barry'sshow is going into national syndication and his producer is afraid that Barry will say somethingthat will offend the sponsors. This, of course, makes Barry even more outrageous. Funny andmoving, off beat, outrageous and totally entrancing, Talk Radio had a long run at New York'sPublic Theatre starring the author.

1987

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Taptoo!

Reaney, James

Coach House Books

royopera - Canada - historylarge castflexible castingtwo acts


Taptoo! rides the rift between Britain and the American colonies from the time of the Declaration ofIndependence to the founding of Upper Canada and the city of York, which would later becomeToronto.

in - Scripts / CCO

2004

Beckwith, John

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Sy, Jovanni

Talonbooks

roycomedy - cooking - colonialismall male cast; one characterone maleone act (nine scenes)

1 interior set.

"Everything we eat tells a story. In A Taste of Empire, delectable samples from a real-time cookingdemonstration offer food for thought about colonialism and the ethics of modern-day foodsystems."

2017

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Tearing the Loom

Mitchell. Gary

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - tragedy - Irelandseven charactersfive male; two femaletwo acts

Drama about a man in Northern Ireland who puts community before family. The play is set in aweaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion and presents a searingportrait of a community divided against itself - with inevitably tragic consequences.

in - Tearing the Loom and In a Little World of Our Own / COL

1998

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Ten Plagues

Ravenhill, Mark

Bloomsbury

roymusical - solo performanceone characterone male or femalesixteen parts

London is infected. The dead fall in the streets. As the plague pits fill, the people of Londonstruggle to maintain a society in the face of overwhelming mortality. Based on eyewitnessaccounts from 1665 and drawing poetic parallels with modern epidemics, Ten Plagues relates oneman’s journey through a city in crisis. Told entirely through a series of songs, Ten Plaguesexplores humanity’s struggle with sickness and death and celebrates our capacity for survival.


2013

Mitchell, Conor

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Ten Unknowns

Baitz, Jon Robin

Scirocco Drama

roydrama four charactersthree male; one femaletwo acts

An explosive drama about what happens when art, fame, and integrity collide. Malcolm Raphelsonis a painter who was at the top of the art world - until the critical vogue turned from realism toabstract expressionist work. He has been in self-imposed exile in Mexico for decades. But thenDealer Trevor Fabricant decides it's time for a retrospective. Trevor sends Judd, a talented andtormented young painter, to serve as Malcolm's assistant and unofficial minder. When they arejoined by a beautiful young student, their tense equilibrium is upset.

2004

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Tender Thing, A

Power, Ben

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - Shakespeare - romancetwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (three scenes)

"Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story. Shakespeare's timelesspoetry provides the backdrop for this delicate and moving account of old age, memory and thedemands we make of those we love. When a married couple discover that their lifetime together isdrawing to a close, they realise they cannot contemplate being apart."

2009

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Tennessee

Linney, Romulus


roydramasix characterstwo male; three female; one boyone act

A young couple and their son are visited on their Appalachian mountain farm in North Carolina byan old woman who slips into her youth and acts out her wedding trip to Tennessee and herpainful return to the present time and place.


1993

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Tent Meeting

Larson, Larry


roysatire - religiousthree characterstwo male; one femaletwo acts

1 setting.

A deluded evangelist believes that his grandson may be the Second Coming.


1988

Lee, Levi and Rebecca Wackler

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Tent Meeting

Wackler, Rebecca


roycomedy - religion - satirethree characterstwo male; one femaletwo acts

Convinced by written instructions from heaven that the poor misshapen creature to which hisdaughter has given birth is the Messiah, the Reverend Ed Tarbox kidnaps the baby from theArkansas laboratory where it is being studied, christens it Jesus O. Tarbox, and, with his daughterand son in tow, heads off in their mobile home toward the promised land—which turns out to beMoose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The Reverend Ed is a bullying, Bible-thumping redneck preacher whomay well be the father of the lamentably deformed baby; son Daniel is a slow-witted World War II

1987

Larson, Larry

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Terrace of the Leper King, The

Yukio, Mishima


roydrama - historical - Cambodia - Japanese playwright large castflexible castingthree acts

"Terrace of the Leper King” is the story of the construction of Bayon temple, one of the majortemples within Angkor Archeological Park, along with Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom. The playfollows King Jayavarman VII as he oversees construction while battling increasingly severeleprosy. He goes blind as the temple nears completion and dies just as the last stone is laid. Inthe play’s last scene, the soul of the dead king speaks with his younger body. The body says thesoul itself is leprosy, while it, the untouched, beautiful, young body represents the timeless


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That High Lonesome Sound

Augustin, Jeff

Playscripts, Inc.

roycomedy - monologueslarge cast flexible castingone act (seven parts)

Also written by Cory Hinkle and Charise Castro Smith.

Bluegrass has a long and winding history, from Scottish ballads to African-American work songs,from Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys to the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. In a livelytheatrical album of scenes created for the Acting Apprentice Company, four writers respond withplayfulness and poignancy to the signature sounds, inherited stories, and cultural impact of this


2016

Grisanti, Diana

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Theater of War, The

Doerries, Bryan

Alfred A. Knopf

Reference - Greek drama (Tragedy) - history and criticism - war in literature

Content: Learning through suffering - PTSD is from BC - American Ajax - Prometheus in solitary -Heracles in hospice.

This is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless powerof an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. For years, theater director Bryan Doerrieshas led an innovative public health project that produces ancient tragedies for current andreturned soldiers, addicts, tornado and hurricane survivors, and a wide range of other at-riskpeople in society. The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and 'The Theaterof War' — wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging — is a humane,knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten. Tracing a path that links

What Ancient Greek tragedies can teach us today

2015

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Theatre Crafts Book of Make-up, Masks, and Wigs, The

Rodale Press

reference - make-up

Profusely illustrated, it gathers into one volume the articles on makeup, masks, and wigs that werewritten by prominent designers and recognized authorities during Theatre Craft Magazine's firstfive years of publication. Covering a wide scope of design, application, fabrication, andmaintenance, the discussion of makeup, masks, and wigs ranges from commercial andeducational theatre to television and films, from circus and church theatre to children's andoriental theatre, from historical reconstructions to the newest environmental and street theatre,and from psychology and aesthetics to technological how-to.

1974

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Theatre Games for Young Performers

Novelly, Maria C.

Meriwether Publishing Ltd.

reference - improvisation - teaching

Provides: imagination-expanding exercises in pantomime, voice and improvisational acting thatare easily adaptable to any selected subject or theme;enough specific drama activities to fill a semester-long drama course, a summer of recreationaldramatics, or a year of once-a-week training sessions; and samples of worksheets for organizinggroup thinking about specific dramatic skills.

Improvisation and exercises for developing acting skills

1985

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Theatre in Atlantic Canada


reference - Canada - plays and playwriting - Atlantic Canada

Theatre in Atlantic Canada celebrates the artists, plays, theatre companies, and festivals of NewBrunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, highlighting the social andpolitical contexts of the theatre of this region. This collection of essays, dating from 1978 to2009, demonstrates the invention, complexity, and vitality of the theatre of eastern Canada.

2010

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Theatre of Affect


reference - Canadian - theatre - studies - performance

What is it to think feeling, to put the affective dimensions of theatrical experience and itsproduction centre stage? As theatre people, we are well equipped for the challenges of this task,for we labour expressly, consistently, and consciously with emotion, feeling, mood, and affect. Inessays by seasoned and emerging scholars, 'Theatre of Affect' takes the temperature of Canadianperformances, ranging from a verbatim theatre piece on the emotional labours and costs of kincare, to the Canadian military's 'theatre of war,' to disability arts performances of sexuality, to theaffecting role of intercultural music theatre in reconciliation proceedings. Contributors assess thedeployments of various emotional registers in theatrical performance and explore how and wherethe 'affective turn' in contemporary humanities scholarship affects theatre studies in Canada.

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Theatre of Essence, The

Kott, Jan

Northwestern University Press

reference - criticism

Contains essays entitled: The Author of Comedy, or The Inspector General; Ibsen Read Anew;Witkiewicz, or The Dialectic of Anachronism; On Gombrowicz; Ionesco, or A Pregnant Death; Noh,or About Signs; Bunraku and Kabuki, or About Imitation; The Icon of the Absurd; Why Should ITake Part in the Sacred Dance?; After Grotowski: The End of the of the Impossible Theatre; TheTheatre of Essence: Kantor and Brook; Tadeusz Borowski: A European Education; A Cage in Searchof a Bird; The Serpent's Sting; and The Seriousness of Theatre.

1984

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Theatre of Revolt, The

Brustein, Robert

Little, Brown and Company

reference - history - playwrights - playwriting

The roots of the modern theatre may be found in the soil of rebellion cultivated by eightoutstanding playwrights: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill and Genet.Focusing on each of the playwrights in turn, Robert Brustein looks at the nature of their revolt, themethods employed in their plays, their influences on the modern drama, the playwrightsthemselves.

An approach to the modern drama

1962

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Theme and Variations

Alyoshin, Samuil


roydrama - relationshipsthree characterstwo male; one femaletwo acts

Two Moscow attorneys (one younger, one older) become entwined with an unhappily married tourguide who lives near the shores of the Black Sea.

1979


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Camp, Jennifer

Samuel French

roycomedy - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Lillian and Ben are attracted to one another. The only trouble is they've never met. Or evenspoken, for that matter. They've only seen each other in the lobby of the Museum of NaturalHistory where each, for their own reasons, has been drawn. Once they notice each other, theunexpected possibility of love begins to take shape as they work up the nerve, over the course offour weeks, to speak to the other person. Through the use of monologues, imaginaryconversations and a shared dream, this unlikely duo - a video game designer and a literature


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There's No Here Here

Pospisil, Craig


roycomedy - parody - romance - relationshipsfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"Lance moves to Paris to follow his dream of becoming a writer, but his work goes badly. As doeshis relationship with Juliette, a beautiful Parisian. But a strangely familiar woman at their localbistro forces Lance to dig deeper into himself."


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There's No Here Here

Pospisil, Craig


roycomedy - relationshipsfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act

Lance moves to Paris to follow his dream of becoming a writer, but his work goes badly. As doeshis relationship with Juliette, a beautiful Parisian. But a strangely familiar woman at their localbistro forces Lance to dig deeper into himself.


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Therese Raquin

Edmundson, Helen

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - relationships - murder seven characters; extrasfour male; three femalefour acts

adapted by Helen Edmundson.

"The beautiful but doomed heroine is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille.Every Thursday evening she watches her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin, play dominoes...until one day her husband brings along an old friend, the alluring and athletic Laurent. AsLaurent and Thérèse embark on an illicit affair, a turbulent passion is unleashed that drives them

2014

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These Men

Simon, Mayo


roycomedyall female cast; two characterstwo femaletwo acts

running time: approximately 70 mins.

"The critic for the Los Angeles Times describes it this way: "There's a little jewel of a play fillingthe Los Angeles Actors Theatre. It's a diamond in the rough whose lowdown shine should glowfrom here to Malibu. Like Shakespeare's raunchy Audrey, it's not for all markets. Yourantivulgarians will find offense in it (and may consider themselves fairly warned), but for the more

1982

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Third Story, The

Busch, Charles

Samuel French

roycomedy - family relations six charactersfour male; two femaletwo acts


A faded screenwriter in the 1940s woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on ascreenplay. The gangster/sci-fi B-movie in their imagination unfolds before us, involving a chiccrime czarina, a beautiful but icy lady scientist, and her failed and understandably bitter humancloning experiment. A third story is a Russian fairy tale the screenwriter told her son as a child

2009

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This is How We Got Here

Barker, Keith


roydrama - family relations - suicide - Canadian playwrightfour characters; one voicetwo male; two femaleone act (eighteen scenes)

Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, 'This Is How We Got Here' follows a close-knitfamily as they deal with an unexpected loss. A mother, father, aunt, and uncle must learn how tomove forward after the trauma and re-learn how to interact with one another with forgiveness,humour, and love. It’s been a year since Paul and Lucille’s son Craig committed suicide, and theironce-solid family bonds are starting to break down. While the now-separated couple tries tohonour their son, Lucille’s sister Liset and her husband Jim refuse to discuss their nephew. The

2017

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This Other Eden

Moore, Jonathan

Aurora Metro Press

roydramasix charactersfour male; two female (doubling possible)two acts

A story of passion. A wife and mother. Her son and daughter. Her Husband. The London Irish.Limbo-Land. The hunger for a sense of a real culture. The desire for freedom... A tough playabout a woman's soul told with beauty, humour and hope. This Other Eden explores the dreamsand desires of a woman wanting to break free from her family and routine existence in thesuburbs of London.


2002

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This Side of New York

Svich, Caridad


roydrama - relationships - monologuetwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Two people get lost in a first kiss. Contains two small monologues.


2015

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Three

Braun, Harriet


royyoung adult - British - love - friendshiptwelve characters; narratorfour male; eight female; one flexibleseven scenes

ages 14+.

It’s a long, hot summer. Six teenagers are in various states of lust, longing and unrequited love. Aboy has a crush on the girl next door; only she’s going out with the school heartthrob. Twoteenagers meet for a blind date but they’re both thinking about someone else. A shy girl with asecret makes friends with the most popular girl in her class. Only these are love stories with a


2017

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Three Fingered Jack and the Legend of Joaquin Murieta

Nùnez, Marilo


roydrama - legend - Canadian - Latina/o playwrightssix charactersfour male; two femalethree acts

The story / legend of Joaquin Murieta written as a vehicle to articulate a history of women and aCanadian theatrical aesthetic that acknowledges the complications of transnational Latina/oformations.


2013

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Three Hotels

Baitz, Jon Robin

Samuel French

roydrama - family relations - monologuestwo charactersone male; one femalethree parts

interior set.

Monologues set in hotel rooms, two by an American businessman who sells defective babyformula in third world markets and one by his wife, portray a former 1960's idealist, Hoyle, whohas succumbed to the corruption so endemic to modern America. His wife talks about him, theirmarriage and their son who was murdered for his cheap but expensive looking wristwatch as she

1992

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Three Tall Women

Albee, Edward


roydrama - lifefour charactersone male; three femaletwo acts

unit set.

'Dowager, her secretary, and her lawyer depict one woman at three stages in her life.

1994

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Times Square Angel

Busch, Charles

Samuel French

royChristmas - comedy - farce - fantasytwelve charactersseven male; four femaleone act


New York, 1948. Irish O’Flanagan is the tough as nails, red-headed headliner of the Club Intime.A lifetime of hard knocks has left her bitter and with a chip on her shoulder the size of MountRushmore. In the spirit of fantasies such as “A Christmas Carol”, “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “TheBishop’s Wife”, an angel in the form of a sexy vaudeville magician named Albert comes down to

A hard-boiled Christmas fantasy

1985

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Tin Can People, The

Bond, Edward


roydrama - nuclear warseven charactersthree male; four femaleone act (three parts)

approx. running time: 70 minutes; the second play of the War Plays trilogy.

It is now seventeen years after the nuclear holocaust. A group of survivors has formed a peacefulcommune living off some warehouses filled with tin cans of food. A stranger is warmly welcomedinto their midst, but when one of the group drops dead, the stranger is assumed to becontaminated. As the deaths multiply the group leader determines this intruder must be hunted

Part two of the War plays

1989

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To Fool the Eye

Hatcher, Jeffrey


royromantic comedynine characters; gypsy bandseven male; two femaletwo acts

Translated by Stephanie L. Debner.

In this new adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1940 romantic comedy, Amanda, a poor hat maker fromParis, is invited to a chateau by an eccentric duchess to spend a weekend trying to make hersuicidal nephew, Albert, forget about the death of his great love, the divine . Amanda, it turns out,is a dead ringer for the dead woman, and if she can convince Albert that she is his lost love for

An adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 'Léocadia'

2000

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To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

Brady, Michael

Miscellaneous

roydramaseven characterstwo male; five femaletwo acts

A grieving widower must accept his wife's death to save himself and his relationship with hisdaughter. David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals withhis grief by continuing his romance with her “ghost” during walks on the beach at night. WhileDavid lives in the past, other family problems crop up in the present. Brother and sister-in-lawPaul and Esther visit to try to help David's daughter, Rachel. She has lost her mother and needsher father to snap back into the real world for her sake.

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Tom and Viv

Hastings, Michael

Penguin Books

roydrama - biography - T.S. Elioteight characters - voicesthree male; three female (doubling)two acts

The play is based on the real life of T. S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot.The playbegins with the beginning of the courtship between T.S. Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood in 1914and ends with their separation in 1933 and Vivienne's gradual mental health decline until herdeath in 1947. The play also follows the early career of T.S. Eliot, the death of Vivienne's father,and how her mother Rose dealt with her daughter's failing marriage and mental health.

1985

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Tomorrow's Monday

Osborn, Paul

Samuel French

roydramatic comedy - family relationsseven charactersthree male; four femalethree acts

This forgotten gem by the author of Morning's at Seven was originally produced in 1936 andrevived in New York by the Circle Repertory Company in 1985. Set in a mid western living room,the play is about what happens when a man who has married a sophisticated woman and carvedout a successful career in New York returns home believing his mother to be seriously ill. It's afalse alarm, but Richard and his wife stay on to visit and the wife meddles with the lives of thesesimple people. She decides that John, a sophomore unhappy with college, should return to New

1986

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Tonight We Improvise

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydrama - improvisationlarge castflexible castingthree acts

Translated and rewritten by Marta Abba.

The dramatic innovations in this play are legendary. Direct address, improvisations and in andout of character speeches are but a few of the techniques Pirandello originated. The play withinthe improvisation concerns the wooing of a wife by a man who finds her family quite crazy. Theplayers actually live their parts, with strong physical effects to themselves. Narration, interludes, a

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Too Clever by Half


Oberon Books

roycomedy - satire - social classsixteen characters; extrasnine male; seven femalefive acts

The play focuses on the poor, sharp-witted social climber, Gloumov, determined to deceive hisway to the top of Moscow society with a mixture of cunning and flattery.


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Too Good to be True


Penguin Books

roycomedyten charactersseven male; three femalethree acts

One of Shaw's most unpredictable comedies begins in a sick room, with a monstrous microbe, apale patient, an overbearing mother, and a peculiar nurse. Indeed, the nurse forthwith lets in hersweetie, a robber who is secretly ordained because his father is an atheist. Instead of just stealingthe patient's pearls, they decide to kidnap the patient and she gaily assents. In Act II the nursemasquerades as a countess and the rich patient as a backward island native. We meet aristocracyand plebe alike. And it is the plebeian army private who takes command when the group find

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Tracers

DiFusco, John

Hill and Wang

roydrama - war - Vietnamall male cast; eight characterseight male (doubling possible)two acts

Also written by Richard Chaves, Eric E. Emerson, Rick Gallavan, Merlin Marston, Harry Stephens,and Sheldon Lettich.

Eight American soldiers recount their experiences before, during and after the Vietnam war.

1983

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Trapped!

Thompson, Hope


roycomedy - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - relationshipsall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act (five scenes)

A play that inhibits the film noir genre to tell the story of a beleaguered and bedridden newlywed.A critique of gay marriage that stages a camp representation of the regulatory structures itimposes. Progressive mainstream concepts of freedom result here in a state of mutual entrapment.Trapped! is a tale of menace and murder in a queer comedic frame.


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Traveler in the Dark

Norman, Marsha


roydrama - religion - science - medicinefour characterstwo male; one female; one boytwo acts

A brilliant surgeon and cancer researcher, Sam basks in the aura of success and adulation that hiscareer has brought him. But suddenly his world is shattered when his longtime nurse andconfidant, Mavis, dies on the operating table because he failed to detect the seriousness of hercondition in time. Gathering up his neglected wife and possessively loved son, he returns to thehome of his aging father, a revivalist preacher with whom he has long been at odds. Guilty abouthis relationship with Mavis, his childhood sweetheart whose love he never returned, and jealous

1984

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Treatment

Moore, Jonathan

Aurora Metro Press


Liam is part of a violent street gang but wants to escape. Encounters with a young woman and aCatholic priest change his life. Trapped between two worlds, he has to choose between the darkallure of violence and the healing power of love.


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Trifles

Glaspell, Susan

Pearson Education

roymelodrama - murderfive charactersthree male; two femaleone act

1 interior set.

"The wife of a strangled farmer is arrested on suspicion. While officers and neighbors aresearching the old farmhouse for evidence, two women friends discover a slain canary and abroken cage. This evidence can prove the wife guilty, but by keeping her secret, they free her."


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Trouble with Mr. Adams, The

Rand, Gord

Scirocco Drama

roydrama - Canadian - sexual abuse - marriage - lovefour charactersone male; three femalethree acts

On the night volleyball coach Gary Adams leaves his wife, allegations of sexual misconductsurface regarding his sixteen-year old student. Gary defends his innocence – to his wife, to hislawyer, and finally, to the victim herself. Grappling with such themes as abuse of power,intergenerational love, and the stagnation of marriage, "The Trouble with Mr. Adams" exposes thecrippling disaster of the male mid-life crisis.

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True

Laborde, Rosa

Scirocco Drama

roydrama - Alzheimer's disease - family relations - morality - Canadianfive characterstwo male; three femaleone act

Sisters Marie, Cece, and Anita run a small coffee-and-clothes shop on Toronto's trendy QueenStreet West. One evening their estranged father, Roy, wanders in, in his pajamas. He is clutching anote explaining that he has Alzheimer;s and admonishing his daughters for abandoning theirparent in his time of need. But it quickly becomes clear that Roy was a drunk and a philanderer -and perhaps worse. Should his parental sins be forgiven just because he has now forgotten them?'True', with its echoes of Shakespeare's masterpiece 'King Lear', examines the parent-child bond,

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Trumpets and Raspberries

Fo, Dario

Pluto Press

roycomedysixteen charactersthree male; two female; four male or female (doubling; flexible casting)two acts

A terrorist attack and a body needing plastic surgery are the ingredien's of another Fo farce. Herehe pokes incisive fun at bosses, the police and the discipline of work and as always his medicineis bitter-sweet with a sardonic aftertaste.

1984

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Trying

McClelland Glass, Joanna

Samuel French

roydrama - Canadian Playwright - politics - autobiographicaltwo charactersone male; one femaletwo acts

Trying is a two-character play based on the author's experience during 1967-1968 when sheworked for Francis Biddle at his home in Washington, D.C. Judge Biddle had been AttorneyGeneral of the United States under Franklin Roosevelt. After the war, President Truman named himChief Judge of the American Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. The play is about a young Canadiangirl and an old, Philadelphia aristocrat, "trying" to understand each other in what Biddle knows isthe final year of his life.

2008

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Tuck Everlasting - vocal selections

Miller, Chris



music by Chris Miller; lyrics by Nathan Tysen.

includes:Live Like This / Good Girl Winnie Foster / Top of the World / Hugo's First Case / The Story of theTucks / My Most Beautiful Day / Partner in Crime / Seventeen / Everything's Golden / Time / YouCan't Trust a Man / The Wheel / Everlasting

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Twelve Letters to a Small Town

Reaney, James

Coach House Books

roydrama - poetry - music - Canadianfour voicesone male; two female; one boy or girlone act (twelve parts)

Poetry to music about life and things in and around small towns. Originally performed as a radiobroadcast. Music by John Beckwith.

Winner! Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry of Drama, 1962.

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Twelve Women in a Cell

el Saadawi, Nawal

Aurora Metro Press

roydrama - women - autobiographical - political twenty charactersfour male; fourteen female; two girlstwo acts

About the imprisonment in Egypt by Sadat in 1980, of women of differing backgrounds andbeliefs in the same cell. The situation is complicated by the prostitutes and criminals who areforced to wait on the political prisoners. The play is a celebration of the courage of disobedienceof women in a culture which demands compliance.


1994

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Twisted

Corbeil-Coleman, Charlotte


roydrama - poverty - addictiontwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (one scene)

"A fresh collaboration between Charlotte Corbeil–Coleman and Joseph Jomo Pierre, and in a stylethat’s part Dickens, part Drake, Twisted samples from Oliver Twist to create a vivid, urban storyabout disenfranchised youth in Toronto."

2017

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Two Guys Out O' Kelowna

St. Maur, Gerald


roydrama - Canadian - British Columbia - a play for television - Alberta playwright - Shakespeareadaptationeight characters; extrasix male; two femalethree acts

setting: today in the West

Based on "Two Gentlemen of Verona" by William Shakespeare

Based on Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare

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Two Shakespearean Actors

Nelson, Richard


roydrama - theatre - actorstwenty-four charactersseven male; fourteen femaletwo acts

running time: approx. 100 mins.

Based on a true story. The year is 1849, the place New York City. Two arch rivals — the Englishstar William Macready and the American matinee idol Edwin Forrest — tempt fate when bothperform the Scottish Play on the same night in neighboring downtown theaters. Their feud helpsincite the already-inflamed rage of anti-British theatergoers, who riot right outside Macready’s

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2004

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Tyger

Mitchell, Adrian

Johnathan Cape

roymusicallarge castflexible castingtwo acts

Music by Mike Westbrook.

A time-travelling musical about a visionary 18th-century poet in today's fallen times.

A celebration based on the life and work of William Blake

1971

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Unnecessary Farce

Smith, Paul Slade

Playscripts, Inc.

roycomedy - farce - crimeseven charactersfour male; three femaletwo acts

1 interior set.

"Two cops. Three crooks. Eight doors. Go. In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor issupposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next-door, two undercover copswait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's in which room,who's being videotaped, who's taken the money, who's hired a hit man, and why the accountant

2008

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Unplugging, The

Nolan, Yvette


royCanadian - drama - aging - infertility - Native peoples⌦three charactersone male; two femaleone act

In an instant, electricity all over the world stops flowing, and humanity is left in the dark. Bernand Elena, exiled from their village for being too old to bear children, trudge across the desolate,post-apocalyptic ruin. Relying upon traditional wisdom for their survival, they retreat from theremains of civilization to a frozen wooded landscape where they attempt to carry on after the endof the world. When a charismatic stranger from the village arrives seeking their aid, Bern andElena must decide whether they will use their knowledge of the past to give the society thatrejected them a chance at a future.

2014

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Unsuitable Girls

Dhingra, Dolly

Oberon Books

roycomedy - relationshipslarge castflexible castingtwo acts

If you liked East is East you’ll love Unsuitable Girls! Meet Chumpa Chamelli – bored secretary atConcrete Weekly, twenty-something girlfriend of the laddish Ashok, and a woman who knows herown mind and expects more from life. With East End mates Mandy and Sab in tow, Chumpa sets offon a search for a better job – and an ending straight out of the movies. Classic Hollywoodromance with full-on Bollywood song and dance. Asian dub meets East End push and shove. Butcan dreams really come true?

2001

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Up the Garden Path

Codrington, Lisa


royCanadian playwright - women - self discoveryseven charactersthree male; four femalethree acts (parts)

In Up the Garden Path, Rosa, a young Barbadian seamstress, offers to pose as her brother to go tothe Niagara Region in Ontario to work. There, she meets an aspiring actress obsessed with Joan ofArc, the ghost of a black Loyalist soldier who wants to die and a boss who can’t keep the starlingsaway from his failing vineyard. Finding it impossible to ignore their demands, but not wanting tobe found out and sent home, Rosa has to stop and figure out what she really wants instead ofwhat everyone around her needs.

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Urban Tattoo

Clements, Marie


roydrama - native playwright - coming of age - healing - solo performance all female cast; one characterone femaleone act

In telling the story of Rosemarie, a young Native woman who heads to the big city hoping toescape her destiny, Marie Clements draws on the traditions of the Amerindian storyteller and theritual of healing. She revives the traditions by adapting them to a theatrical form where video,photos, music, words and performance beat a chaotic tattoo of a life of disillusionment and awounded psyche.


2003

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US and Them

Oglesby, Tamsin

Faber and Faber

roycomedy of manners - friendshipsnine charactersfour male; three female (doubling)two acts

The buffer zone between trust and suspicion proves fertile ground for this witty dissection of aspecial relationship. A chance meeting in a Manhattan restaurant for English couple Martin andCharlotte with affluent New Yorkers Ed and Lori carries the promise of a close friendship. But arethey in fact speaking the same language? A transatlantic comedy of manners in which old Europeand the New World struggle to understand each other.

2003

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Valley Song

Fugard, Athol


roydrama - politics - South Africathree charactersone male; one female (doubling) one act

Effects of political change in present-day South Africa as witnessed by colored tenant-farmer anhis ambitious teenaged grand-daughter.

1996

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Variations on a Composition in Blue

Grob, Anne V.


roydrama - marital relationstwo characters; voice overone male; one femaleone act (three scenes)

Older art professor and younger art student who married, review their first date during their lastdate.


2015

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Veil, The

McPherson, Conor

Nick Hern Books

roydramaeight charactersthree male; five femaletwo acts

The action takes place in May 1822 in a fine old country house belonging to the widowed LadyLambroke. Threatened by rural unrest and her own impoverishment, Lady Lambroke has arrangedfor her seventeen-year-old daughter Hannah to be married off to an English aristocrat to pay offher debts. A defrocked Anglican minister, the Reverend Berkeley, arrives at the house with hisphilosopher acquaintance Charles Audelle, tasked with chaperoning the girl to England. The twomen, however, are enthralled by Hannah's reputation for extrasensory awareness, and intend to


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Venus

Parks, Suzan-Lori

Pearson Education

roydrama - biographical - race - ethnicityeight characters; chorus; extrasthree male; one female (doubling)one act (many scenes)

Inspired by the true-life story of Sarah Saartjie” Baartman, 'Venus' provides a fictional account ofher life abroad in 19th century London. She is lured away from her home in South Africa with thepromise of riches and is put on display for British and Parisian audiences. After being sold to theowner of a sideshow known as The Mother-Showman, she is exhibited for her steatopygia and isgiven the stage name "The Hottentot Venus." Baartman's "act" leads to a prospering business, withEuropeans all over traveling to see the display of her genitalia and buttocks. The Baron Docteur


2006

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Veronica Franco: Courtesan and Poet

Maraini, Dacia

Aurora Metro Press

roydrama - feminism - sexualityten charactersseven male; three femaletwo acts

About a sixteenth century Venetian courtesan who is shown to be a product exchanged in apolitical economy. Veronica cleverly uses her sexual servitude as experience which she turns intopoetry for her own pleasure, but her sexuality is never allowed full expression, depriving her ofequality and respect.


1994

translated by Siân Williams and Marion Baraitse

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Suilebhan, Gwydion


roydrama - historical - Second World War three charactersone male; two femaleone act (one scene)

"New York during World War II. A nun, eagerly collecting scrap metal for the war effort, andAlexander Calder, desperate for raw material for a new sculpture, plead with a grieving mother,clutching a crushed tin airplane tightly to her chest. Will she let go? And for what?"


2016

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Vikings of Helgeland, The

Ibsen, Henrik

Stage Door

roytragedy - Norwegian - historical - 10th centuryseven characters; extrasfour male; two female; one boyfour acts

setting - the time of Erik Blood-axe (about A.D. 933) at and in the neighbourhood of Gunnar'shouse on the island of Helgeland, in the north of Norway.

"Henrik Ibsen is often referred to as the father of realism and ranked just below Shakespeare asEurope’s greatest ever playwright especially as his plays are performed most frequentlythroughout the world after Shakespeare’s. He was Norwegian and although set his plays in

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Vimy

Thiessen, Vern


roydrama - Canadian - war - Alberta playwrighteight charactersseven male; one female (doubling possible)two acts

France, 1917. Four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battlefor Vimy Ridge, waiting to find out where they’ll be sent next: back home or back to the front.Along with a young nurse from Nova Scotia, they share their stories, reasons for fighting, andtreasured memories. In Vimy, Governor General’s Literary Award–winner Vern Thiessen brings usa classic play that is not about war, but a reflection of the everyday lives of soldiers—their hopesand their dreams—and how actions can define individuals and nations.

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2017

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Virgin Trial, The

Hennig, Kate


roydrama - historicalseven charactersthree male; four femaletwo acts

"In this gripping follow-up to The Last Wife, Kate Hennig continues her Tudor Queens Trilogy bycleverly exploring victim shaming, sexual consent, and the extraordinary ability of girlsbecoming women as she reimagines the scandalous and little-known story of Elizabeth the Firstbefore she was Queen."

Finalist! 2017 Governor General's Literary Award.

2017

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Vise, The

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydrama - Italy - tragedy - relationshipsfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act

1 interior.

Unfaithful wife commits suicide when husband orders her to leave home.


1970


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Visiting Mr. Green

Baron, Jeff


roydramatic comedy - melodrama - friendship - menall male cast; two characterstwo maletwo acts

Mr. Green, an elderly, retired dry cleaner, wanders into New York traffic and is almost hit by a cardriven by Ross Gardiner, a 29-year-old corporate executive. The young man is given acommunity service of helping the recent widower once a week for six months. What starts as acomedy about two men who do not want to be in the same room together becomes a gripping andmoving drama as they get to know each other, come to care about each other, and open oldwounds they've been hiding and nursing for years. Translated into 22 languages, with over 200

1994

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Vitals

Small, Rosamund

Scirocco Drama

roydrama - solo performance - Canadianall female cast; several charactersone female (doubling)one act

Anna's daily routine is life, death, and bureaucracy. Every call she receives is an emergency. On adaily basis, she saves lives...but can she save her own? As Anna recounts stories that are by turnscompelling, disturbing, hilarious, and heart wrenching, we begin to see the toll that theseemergencies take on the people who respond to them.

Winner! Dora Mavor Moore Award - Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Production

2016

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Waiting Room

Flacks, Diane


roydrama - medical ethics - relationships - Canadiansix characterstwo male; four femaletwo acts

Chrissie and Jeremy have spent a great deal of time in shock, waiting—for news of their babydaughter’s post-operation recovery, for weekly scans to show that her tumor is gone, for roboticforty-five second updates from Dr. Andre Malloy, their brilliant but arrogant neuro-oncologist.The hospital waiting room has become a second home where they struggle separately as parentsand as a couple, where they laugh inappropriately, lose tempers, and find resilience as theyconfront a roller coaster of hope and despair and a crisis of decision-making. And just beyond

2016

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Waitress - vocal selections

Bareilles, Sara



Words and music by Sara Bareilles.

includes:

What's Inside / Opening Up / The Negative / What Baking Can Do / When He Sees Me / It OnlyTakes a Taste / You Will Still Be Mine / Soft Place to Land / Never Getting Rid of Me / Bad Idea / IDidn't Plan It / You Matter To Me / She Used to Be Mine / Everything Changes

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Ibsen, Henrik

Forgotten Books

roydramaseven characters; extrassix male; one femaleone act (five scenes)

One-act dramatic poem that portrays an incident from the heroic age of Norse conquest. Landingon an island off the coast of Sicily, Gandalf, a young pagan chieftain who personifies the roughViking tradition, confronts the tempering Mediterranean influence of Christianity in young,innocent Blanka. Sworn to avenge his father's death, Gandalf learns Blanka has in fact saved hislife, and he subsequently returns to Norway with her so that her faith may be "transplanted in thenorth."


2012


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Was He Anyone?

Simpson, N. F.


roycomedy - spoof - satiremany charactersthree male; four female (doubling)one act (nine scenes)

Multiple simple sets.

The London Times critic starts his review of this comic spoof/satire with, "Albert Whitbrace isalive and well drowning in the Mediterranean." The Evening Standard critic continues, "WhileAlbert treads water and his lifebelt gets soggier, world rescue organizations set about their tasks.Questions must be answered, forms filled out. Mrs. Whitbrace has to prove that she can't afford to

1973

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We Happy Few

Stubbs, Imogen

Nick Hern Books

roycomedy - theatre - Britain - women - historicalten charactersone male; eight female; one boy two acts

Inspired by the true story of the Osiris Players, imogen Stubbs' new comedy follow the adventuresof a small group of women who come together to form a 'girls only' theatre company to take theplays of Shakespeare round a culture-starved Britain. While the men are fighting Hitler and thebombs are blitzing London, these hopelessly mismatched individuals from entirely different socialbackgrounds embark on a crazy adventure, crammed into their battered 1920s ROlls-Royce.Together and separately they are forced to discover what life is like without men, and, eventually,

2004

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Wedekind Cabaret, The

Bentley, Eric

Samuel French

roymusical revue - cabaret two charactersone male; one female (expandable as required)two parts

Music by Arnold Black, William Bolcom, Lucas Mason and Peter Winkler.

For the Wedekind renaissance of the 21st century Eric Bentley has re-arranged the material andadded to it. The piece consists of two cabaret programs which could be performed together inone long evening or separately. The first program is framed by two Bentley ballads telling thestories of Spring's Awakening and The First Lulu, respectively. Within that frame is a varied series

2008

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Wet Echo, The

Chapman, Clay McLeod


roycomedy two charactersone male; one femaleone act

As wicked as it is witty and weird, Clay McLeod Chapman’s latest sordid story follows ajourneyman who finds more than he bargained for when he explores towards intimate territory.


2015

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When Books Come Tumbling Down

Gagnon, Marie-Eve


roydrama - love - family relations - self awareness - Quebec - women playwrights three charactersone male; two femaleone act (twelve scenes)

Original title: La bibliothéque de Constance.

(This play) is the dramatic representation of a normal middle-class family at a moment of crisis.The three family members - parents and daughter- seem to possess everything that prevailingsocio-cultural values tell us are needed to be happy and prosper; a stable relationship, goodjobs, a nice home, a delightful child. Yet, love has difficulty showing itself and speaking inside


2010

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When It Rains

Black, Anthony

Scirocco Drama

roysatire - relationshipsfour characterstwo male; two female three acts

"When it Rains" is the story of four people, two marriages, and one increasingly improbable seriesof events. As misfortune mounts, communication fractures, relationships crumble, behaviourbecomes absurd. People sing, get naked, give up, lose control, have sex with strangers. Somekind of God intervenes. Or observes. Or something. Or nothing. "When it Rains" is by turnsblackly funny social satire, heartbreaking drama, existentialist graphic novel, and post-modernJob story.

2014

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When One is Somebody

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydrama - identitytwenty characters; extrasfourteen male; six femalethree acts

Translated by Marta Abba.

The central character is a famous poet, and hence, in the public's eyes, a public property. He triesto break away and goes to a different city. But when the true identity of the new poet is discovered,the public ridicule him and force him back into the mold.

1956


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When the Wind Blows

Briggs, Raymond

Samuel French - London

roydramatic comedy - nuclear warsix characters four male; two femaleone act

This is an off-beat version of the famous English anti-nuclear cartoon parable. Jim and HildaBloggs hear that a nuclear strike is headed their way. Armed with government leaflets, theyconstruct a refuge with the solid cheerfulness they felt during the blitz. Trusting in the powersthat be, they emerge after the bombing and wait for government assistance. Radiation sicknesstakes them, still loving each other and uttering prayers.

1983

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When We Dead Wake

Ibsen, Henrik

Penguin Books

roydramasix characters; extrasthree male; three femalethree acts

2 exterior sets.

"Psychological symbolism. In 19th century Norway, sculptor meets woman who felt she had diedafter being the inspiration for his masterpiece many years before."

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1964

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Where the Cross is Made

O'Neill, Eugene

Vintage Books

roymelodramaseven characterssix male; one femaleone act

An old sea captain, who years before committed a crime in connection with a treasure hunt, isseen going mad when shadows from the past come to haunt him.


1972

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Whipping Man, The

Lopez, Matthew

Samuel French

roydrama - slavery - Judaismall male cast; three characters three maletwo acts

Running time: 120 mins.

It is April, 1865. The Civil War is over and throughout the south, slaves are being freed, soldiersare returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated.Into the chaos of war-torn Richmond comes Caleb DeLeon, a young Confederate officer who hasbeen severely wounded. He finds his family's home in ruins and abandoned, save for two former

2009

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Whiskey Six Cadenza

Pollock, Sharon

NeWest Press

royCanadian - drama - Alberta playwrighteleven charactersseven male; four female (doubling)two acts

Set in the town of Blairmore, nestled in the Crowsnest Pass, just after World War I, the playraises questions about the power of parents over the lives of their children, and about the ironiesand attendant responsibilities of free choice.


2002

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Who Killed Spalding Gray?

MacIvor, Daniel


roydark comedy - solo performance - Canadian playwright all male cast; one characterone maleone act

Sit down, Daniel’s going to tell you a story.On the weekend of January 10, 2004, American monologist Spalding Gray killed himself byjumping off the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. That same weekend, Daniel MacIvor was inCalifornia, visiting a psychic surgeon who offered to save his life by removing a spiritual entitythat had attached to him. But what if Spalding’s death had something to do with Daniel’s entity?Linking these two true parallel stories is fiction derived from Gray’s obsessions and MacIvor’s

2017

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Wholly Healthy Glasgow, A

Heggie, Iain

Methune Drama

roycomedyall male cast; three charactersthree maletwo acts

Comedy set in Glascow health club. Idealistic new manager threatens scams run by two seedy,unethical employees.

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2003

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Widow Claire, The

Foote, Horton


roydramaten characterseight male, two femaleone act

After returning to Harrison, Texas, from his disastrous visit with his mother and sister (and hisnew stepfather) in Houston, Horace Robedaux has moved into a local boarding house prior toreturning to Houston to take a six week business course. During his brief stay at home he fallssuddenly and passionately in love with an attractive but rather self-centered young widow, Claire,who, as it happens, already has several suitors, not to mention two rather overactive smallchildren. From the first it is apparent that Horace's hopes are futile, and the other

1979

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Widow's Blind Date, The

Horovitz, Israel


roydrama - revengethree characterstwo male; three female two acts

The scene is the wastepaper processing plant in a blue-collar Massachusetts town. Two workmen,Archie and George, are drinking beer and swapping stories, mostly about their apparentlyextensive sexual conquests. Archie mentions that Margy, a friend from high school and now awidow, has invited him to join her for a dinner. When she arrives to pick Archie up, the mood ofthe play shifts. Suddenly, the play's original macho bantering takes on new and dangerousmeanings. Margy will subtly set the two men against each other while gradually revealing her

1981

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Gotanda, Philip Kan


roydrama - women - Asiansix charactersthree male; three femaletwo acts

Loosely based on Hedda Gabler, THE WIND CRIES MARY is set on a college campus in the late'60s. Amidst the turbulent anti-war demonstrations and beginnings of Asian-American identitypolitics, we follow an extraordinary young woman, Eiko Hanabi, through the course of severaldays' events which in the end will alter her life forever. Eiko finds herself caught between lifechoices made during a different political and racial climate, and a newer emergent model thatpromises more freedom and choice. Eiko is a woman caught on the cusp of a world changing

2004

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Barkhimer, Steven

StageSource

roycomedy all male cast; five charactersfive maleone act (seven scenes; can be presented as two acts if needed)1 set; period - 1980's.

"Windowmen recalls New York in the early 1980s, when the sprawling fish market beneath theBrooklyn Bridge had yet to be "sanitized" by the City, and the pungent early-morning air was alivewith quick deals, spicy repartee and big money. For a time, this macho world is a hilariouslyincongruous place for Kenny, a down-and-out young philosophy student, to be introduced to."


2017

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Kopit, Arthur

Eyre Methuen

roydrama - strokenine charactersfour male; five female one act

Emily Stilson, seventy years old and a celebrated former aviatrix and stunt pilot, suffers a strokeand is plunged into a world of disorientation and grief. Memories flood in between painfulattempts to relearn the basic functions of everyday life. Aided by a dedicated young therapist,Emily’s flights of memory and emotion create an evocative portrait of the ability of the humanspirit to renew and survive. An actress' tour-de-force.

1979

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Winnetou's Snake Oil Show from Wigwam City

Mayo, Lisa


roycomedy - native playwright - spirituality - native peoples many charactersthree female (doubling)one act

Also written by Muriel Miguel and Hortensia Colorado as part of Spiderwoman Theatre; runningtime - approx. 80 mins.

Winnetou's Snake Oil Show from Wigwam City is loosely based on the fictional Apache characterWinnetou and his close friend Old Shatterhand, made famous by nineteenth century Germanauthor, Karl May. Spiderwoman Theater satirizes the stereotypes perpetuated by authors like May


2003

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Jenkins, Mercilee


roydrama - cancerall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

A conversation between two friends, one sick with cancer, during an Academy Awards viewingparty.


2016

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Winter Games

Bonds, Rachel

Playscripts, Inc.

roydramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (one scene)

1 exterior set; running time: 10 min.

"It's the dead of winter in this small Pennsylvania town, a morning like all the others: the stray catsroam, and Jamie cheerfully prepares to open the bakery. But Mary was up all night. And shealready needs a break."


2015

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With A Bullet (Or, Surprise Me)

Bray, John Patrick


roycomedy - relationships - religion - politicsfour charactersthree male; one femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"Refusing to surrender control of their lives, a staunch libertarian, a female Episcopal priest, and awounded liberal walk into a bar on New Year's Eve in 1999 to debate love and loss; however, theylearn that anyone can succumb to the phrase "it looks like rain."


2016

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Within The Glass

Chatterton, Anna

Scirocco Drama

roydramatic comedy - pregnancyfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"Two very different couples meet after a critical mistake at a fertility clinic: a fertilized egg hasbeen implanted into the wrong woman. Over the course of an awkward and absurd evening, theyfight to determine the uncertain future of their IVF child. The situation forces each of them toreassess their relationships, the depths of their desire to parent, and their hopes for the future."

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Wive's Friend, The

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydrama - tragedyeighteen characterseight male; ten femalethree acts Translated by Marta Abba.

"Dedicated to his friend and pupil Marta Abba. The heroine, like Marta, has auburn hair and isnobility personified. Her virtue is in contrast to the rest of society with its petty meanness andcorruption. Marta by her noble nature dominates those wretched creatures of instinct. Shearranges their marriages, prepares their homes, settles their quarrels and unites them when they

1949


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Woman In Mind

Ayckbourn, Alan

Faber and Faber

roydramaeight charactersfive male; three femaletwo acts

exterior set.

The central character in the play is Susan, a parson's wife. While the parson lives for his greatwork - which is actually nothing more than a 60-page history of the parish for the civic society -he is ministered to by his wife and sister, an equally unhappy and unfulfilled widow. Susan'svitality is directed into an active fantasy life, peopling the play with an idealized family, invisible

1986

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Woman Killed With Kindness, A

Heywood, Thomas

A. & C. Black

roydrama - sexuality - marriage - 17th centurylarge castflexible castingone act (seventeen scenes)

The play centers around the marriage between John Frankford and his new wife, Anne. The couplehave a seemingly perfect marriage, until Frankford invites Wendoll into their home to stay as hiscompanion. Increasingly ignoring his wife, to spend time with Wendoll, Frankford is unaware ofhis new companion’s growing attachment to Anne. Anne is overwhelmed and seduced by Wendoll,against her better judgement. However, their affair is brought to light by Frankford’s faithfulservant, Nicholas, and the Frankford household is in disarray. Appalled and angered by his wife’s

1985

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Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance, The

Glancy, Diane


roydrama - Native peoples - native playwrights - women - spiritualityall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

The play is a dialogue / monologue between a grandmother and her granddaughter, both arguingagainst the other for her own way of life. The grandmother talks about stories and the Spirits andthe red deer dress she has made to feel more in tune with Ahw'uste, a mythological spirit deer.The granddaughter talks about the problems of a contemporary life, including her experienceswith several men. The grandmother continues talking about Ahw'uste and the Spirits, who in theend, she realizes, let her down. The granddaughter says she has to look for work, which she can't


2003

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Wonder Tale: The Moonbow, A

Yukio, Mishima


roydrama - Japan - legends - Kabuki playlarge castflexible castingfive parts


Based on an original tale by Kyokutei Bakin about the life of Tametomo, a Japanese warrior.


2002

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World and the Child, The

Anonymous

Pearson Education

roymedieval morality playnine charactersflexible castingone act

Its source is a late 14th-century or 15th-century poem The Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life.


2006

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World Music

Waters, Steve

Nick Hern Books

roydramaseven charactersfour male; three femalethree acts

The troubled and bloody relationship between Africa and Europe spills into the personal lives andloves of two generations. The first part of the play is set in Brussels where MEP Geoff Fallon isentertaining his backpacking son, Tim. Having spent his gap year in Africa, Geoff feels an affinityfor the continent. However, the reality of the consequences of an African genocide that has takenplace in the fictional state of Irundi hit home when local community leader, Jean, seeks refuge inthe European city having been exiled from his homeland. The second part of the play shifts the

2003

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Gray, Amlin



Marika, the wife of a famous but burnt-out writer, Ossian Borg, is invited by a fellow art student tovisit the dingy back room of a disreputable tavern where her husband had created his mostcelebrated works. The owner of the tavern (who had shared in the royalties from Borg's writings)senses a way to revive Borg's creative energies by summoning him with an invented story of anaffair between the young student and Borg's wife. But their confrontation, oddly enough, has adifferent result when it is Marika who comes to realize that it is she who must escape their failing

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1984

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Buchner, Georg

Pearson Education

roytragedylarge castflexible castingone act (twenty-five scenes)

representative set.

The story is about a soldier driven mad by jealous frenzy and acute social deprivation. He isunable to cope with his confusion about sin, so he murders the mother of his child. This materialmay be offensive to some. Not recommended for inexperienced actors.


2006

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Pascal, Julia

Oberon Modern Plays

roysatire - warlarge castflexible castingone act (thirty-four scenes)

A bittersweet satire inspired by interviews conducted in the north of France, where Communists,Gaulists, collaborators and those who were children during the 1940's, provided the originalsource material. The play exposes the day to day experiences of the men and women who sufferedor profited from those zero years.


2003

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Yi Sang Counts to Thirteen

Rno, Sung


roydrama - Korea - poetrythree characters; chorustwo male; one femaleone act (twenty scenes)

The play takes place in "Seoul as reflected through a certain Mr. Yi Sang's strange and twistedbrain." The surrealist poet Yi Sang died in 1937 at the age of twenty-seven during the height ofJapanese colonial rule in Korea. He is considered a poet genius who has received unprecedentedposthumous recognition. Indeed, he is a mythic character in the Korean literary society. Sung Rnopresents a surrealistic play inspired by translations of Yi Sang's poems that blur literary genresand defy structural rules. Like Yi Sang's poems, Rno's play is more about patterns, juxtapositions,


2017

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You Have Arrived

Ackerman, Rob


roycomedy - relationshipsthree charactersone male; one female; one undeterminedone act

Dan and Kristin are navigating their first date, and fortunately, the other woman with them knowsthe way through the confusion into Brooklyn. That would be Cyndi, the GPS system in Dan's car.


2015

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Zero for the Young Dudes!

McDowall, Alistair


royyoung adult - Britishmultiple charactersvariable size ensemblesixteen scenes

ages 14+.

The inmates at a bizarre summer camp are plotting a revolution. Or has it already happened?Spending a day watching their schedule of exercise, lessons and meals, a long history of unrestand injustice lies hidden, and as the day wears on, a violent future looms large on the horizon.


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Zero Positive

Kondoleon, Harry


roycomedysix charactersfour male; two female two acts

As the play begins a young man, Himmer, is trying to console his father on the death of hislong-estranged wife (and Himmer's mother) whom neither has seen for many years, but the olderman, Jacob, is apparently more interested in his model trains. Himmer then conceives the idea ofhonoring his mother's memory by staging a verse play, The Ruins of Athens, which she hadwritten in her youth, but, in the meantime, his friend Samantha, a compulsive lover of marriedmen, arrives to inform him that both she and he have tested seropositive for HIV test—which

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