Drama

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by Ben Elton (Author)Set in the Beverly Hills home of Oscar winning movie director Bruce Delamitri, Popcorn is a satirical comedy thriller with the firepower of a hit squad. When notorious killers Wayne and Scout interrupt Bruce's passionate introduction to Brooke Daniels, a nude model and actress, they want more than an autograph from their cinematic idol. Wayne intends to use Bruce's "art" as justification for murder. Events are disrupted by the arrival of Bruce's soon to be ex wife and spo...

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by Joseph Stein (Author)The semi-autobiographical, riotous account of stage-struck young David Kolowitz, originated on Broadway by Alan Arkin, working as a delivery boy in a sewing machine factory. Denying his parent's wishes for a druggist in the family, he leaves their dreams and his devoted girlfriend Wanda behind and is soon enlisted (and paying for) a slot as the "leading man" in a third-rate theatrical company while being vamped by the resident less-than leading lady, the daughter of th...

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by Kay Mellor (Author)A doting mother finds it hard to accept that her son is leaving the fold to get married. On the morning of the wedding, she retreats to the attic where she relives her long lost youth and a passionate affair she enjoyed before becoming bogged down in a listless marriage. This provocative and heartfelt play enjoyed a long run in London.-1 woman, 3 men Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2014

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by Woody Allen (Author)Farce / 12m, 4f / Int. A cascade of comedy and a solid hit on Broadway, this affair takes place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain. An American tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of spying and picture taking. It's not much of a refuge, for the ambassador is absent and his son, now in charge, has been expelled from a dozen countries and the continent of Africa. Nevert...

Dracula (Deane and Balerston) - Paperback

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by Hamilton Deane (Author), John L. Balderston (Author)Drama Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker's novelCharacters: 6 male, 2 female 3 Interior Scenes An enormously successful revival of this classic opened on Broadway in 1977 fifty years after the original production. This is one of the great mystery thrillers and is generally considered among the best of its kind. Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some myster...

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by Jim Leonard (Author), Jim Leonard Jr. (Author)Drama / 6m, 5f / Unit set w. platforms Winner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentu...

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by David Mamet (Author)Edmond, a man set morally adrift, leaves an unfulfilling marriage to find sex, adventure, companionship, and, ultimately, the meaning of his existence. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2017

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by Sue Townsend (Author)In the not-too-distant future, a radical government has come to power in Great Britain and the Royal family has been moved...to a housing estate in Leicester. Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 20, 2018

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by N. Richard Nash (Author) N. Richard NashFull Length, DramaCharacters: 2 male, 1 female Interior SetA young man and woman build a low keyed paradise of happiness within an asylum, only to have it shattered by the intrusion of the outside world. The two characters search, at times agonizingly, to determine the difference between illusion and reality. The effort is lightened by moments of shared love and "pretend" games, like decorating Christmas trees that are not really there. The t Number ...

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by Graham Greene (Author)Henry Miles, a civil servant, suspects that his wife Sarah is having an affair, and asks his writer friend Maurice Bendrix to contact a private investigator on his behalf. Maurice has a secret, however: he was once Sarah's lover, and is equally keen to find out whether she was unfaithful to him too... An economical and intense adaptation.1 woman, 4 men, 1 boy, 5 women or men Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 18, 2015

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by Neil Simon (Author)Ken and Chris have found their host Charley, a prominent Government official, in his bedroom, too dazed to speak, with a bullet wound in his ear lobe! Len and Claire arrive, themselves injured in a car crash, and are soon joined by Ernest and Cookie, Glenn and Cassie, each with their own problems. A second, accidental, gunshot leaves Ken temporarily deaf, the police arrive and Len has to pretend he is Charley, concocting a touching and fantastic explanation...5 women, 4 ...

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by Derek Benfield (Author)Bernard and Marion haven't seen each other in over twenty years when they meet by accident and get together to talk over old times and catch up on what has happened since they parted. And so begins a journey of memories: their first meeting, their love for each other, their marriages and children. All is underscored by a nagging question: why have they remained strangers for so long? Two actors portray Bernard and Marion at fifty and as younger people, as well as oth...

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by Irana Brown (Adapted by)The Lancre Witches, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, are the Discworld's only hope of rescue when elves threaten to take control with their hypnotic glamour. Standing stones; wizards; Morris men and Rude Mechanicals; country lore and ancient magic all feature in this adaptation. Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.27 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 18, 2011

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by Alan Bennett (Author) Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 01, 1991

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by Tim Kelly (Author)This laugh-oriented, old-fashioned melodrama is based on Wilkie Collins' classic, and it is wild, fast, and funny. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 07, 2017

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by Bernard Pomerance (Author)DramaCharacters: 6 male, 2 female w/ doubling Unit set The Elephant Man is based on the life of John Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A horribly deformed young man, victim of rare skin and bone diseases, he has become the star freak attraction in traveling side shows. Found abandoned and helpless, he is admitted to London's prestigious Whitechapel hospital. Under the care of celebrated young physician Frederick Treves...

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by William Nicholson (Author)Jack Lewis is smug in his convictions about God and His plan for the world until Joy and her young son enter his life and the bewildered theoretician of love in the abstract finally confronts its direct presence. Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 31, 2015

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by Daphne du Maurier (Author)In a Cornish house lives the widowed Stella, a woman of considerable gifts and beauty who regularly rejects proposals of marriage from her neighbour Robert Hanson. Cherry, Stella's daughter, brings home her artist husband Evan for the first time and Stella is shocked by the bohemian incompleteness of their marriage. She finds herself attracted to Evan and soon they are passionately in love: although much is left unspoken, Evan eventually compels Stella to admit he...

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by William Mastrosimone (Author)Drama / Characters: 1 male, 3 femaleScenery: InteriorThe Associated Press described Extremities as "a searing play about rape". This incredibly gripping drama portrays the act and it's aftermath as the victim turns the tables on her attacker, reaching a climax of fever pitch suspense. "A good, jolting evening."-N.Y. Daily News "A white knuckle psychological thriller."-USA Today Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8 x 5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: N...

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by Neil Simon (Author)Comedy / 7m, 3f / Int/ext. Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He's landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for 200 years and Leon's job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over 24 hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes Stupid. But, he has falle...

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by Tim Kelly (Author), Mary Shelley (Based on a Book by)Drama / Character: 4 male, 4 femaleScenery: InteriorVictor Frankenstein, a brilliant young scientist, returns to his Swiss chateau to escape a terrible pursuer. No one can shake free the dark secret that terrifies him: not his mother, nor his fiancee, nor his best friend. Even the pleading of a gypsy girl accused of murdering Victor's younger brother falls on deaf ears, for Victor has brought into being a creature made from pieces of the...

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by Wendy Wasserstein (Author)The sisters Rosensweig are three extraordinary Brooklyn-born Jewish women. Sara lives an ostensibly happy, man-free life in London with her intelligent daughter, Tess. Pfeni is an eccentric travel writer who pursues an unsatisfactory relationship with Geoffrey, a bisexual theatre director. And Gorgeous has the perfect husband and family in Massachusetts, where she pursues a 'funsy' career as a radio agony aunt. When they meet up at Sara's home in Holland Park reaw...

Tiptoe Through the Tombstones - Paperback

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by Norman Robbins (Author)Comedy Thriller Norman Robbins Characters: 4 males, 6 females Scenery: Interior Months have passed since the ghastly events in Monument House occurred that are related in A Tomb with a View. Mortimer Crayle, the crusty lawyer, and his secretary have gathered the remaining members of the Tomb family at the house, ostensibly to inform this off beat bunch about their inheritance. In reality, Crayle has designs on the estate that necessitate eliminating all Tombs. Fo...

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by Ben Hecht (Author), Charles MacArthur (Author)Comedy / Characters: 17 males, 5 females Set Requirements: InteriorAn irresistible comedy with thrills and derring do set in the news room. Hildy wants to break away from journalism and go on a belated honeymoon. There is a jailbreak and into Hildy's hands falls the escapee as hostage. He conceals his prize in a rolltop desk and phones his scoop to his managing editor. Their job is to prevent other reporters and the sheriff from opening the des...

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by Stephen Poliakoff (Author)The retiring professor in a university chemistry department chooses Al, a mediocre scientist but a brilliant administrator, to succeed him as department head. Al begins reorganizing the department, but finds that Christopher, his peer and rival, and Elinor, his one-time teacher, are unwilling to change the isolated way they work. Christopher announces a major breakthrough, which should assure prosperity - but has disastrous results.4 women, 4 men Number of Pages: ...

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by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)Four typical Ayckbourn misfits are playing a Dungeons and Dragons type game in a suburban living room. Stanley, Hazel, Warren and Rick make the weekly escape from their real life nightmares into a role-playing board game peopled by dragons and monsters. A safe world where the dangers are of their own imagining; where they are free to become heroes of their own devising. But how clear is the dividing line between what they choose to be and what they really are? What w...

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by Arnold Ridley (Author)Mystery/Thriller Arnold Ridley Characters: 7 male, 4 femaleInterior Set A long running success in London and on Broadway and packed with thrills, chills and laughter. In Maine near the Canadian border there's a legend of a phantom locomotive sweeping through a peaceful village leaving death in its wake. Rum and narcotic runners use this and the villagers' superstition to their advantage but a not as incompetent as he seems detective clears up the mystery of the sp Num...

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by Anita Loos (Author), Colette (Based on a Book by)Comedy / Characters: 2 male, 5 femaleScenery: 2 InteriorsThis is the classic story of a young girl who wins at the game of love. Gigi has been brought up by her Grandmama and Aunt Alicia, an old-school courtesan, to be a stylish coquette and set her sights on a rich man. When Gaston visits, he brings her candy and lets her cheat at cards, captivated by her girlish ways. Now 16, Gigi is ripe to put away childish things and prepare to become G...

The Girl on the Via Flaminia - Paperback

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by Alfred Hayes (Author)Tragedy Alfred Hayes, adapted from his best seller Characters: 7 male, 4 female Complete interior set Here is a merciless picture of hardened American conquerors abroad and their impact on pitifully defenseless people. A young American soldier takes on a pretty, fearful Italian girl to while away the tedious occupation. She consents with deep bitterness and restraint; the only jobs and bread are in the American kitchens. The country's pride is fiercely moral and the N...

We Found Love and an Exquisite Set of Porcelain Figurines Aboard the SS Farndale Avenue - Paperback

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by David McGillivray (Author)Flushed by their successes, the stalwart veterans of the Dramatic Society are poised to conquer yet another dramatic idiom: their current production sails the luxury ocean liner SS Farndale Avenue into the world of thirties musical comedy. The ladies prove that the age of elegance, glamour and enchantment is not dead... well, not quite. Circumstances almost beyond their control threaten to wreck the evening's entertainment but the ladies and Gordon, in true Farnda...

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by Neil Simon (Author)Genre: Dramatic Comedy Characters: 3 males, 3 females Scenery: Interior Maureen Stapleton won Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress for the role of Evy Meara, a popular singer who has hit the skids. After a short stay in rehab, her best friend age-defying Toby, her daughter Polly, and Jimmy Perry, a gay actor try to help her adjust to sobriety with a jolly birthday party. Enter Lou Tanner, a former lover, who ends up giving her a black eye. The party is a wash out, th...

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by Georges Feydeau (Author), Barrett Shaw (Translator)FarceCharacters: 4 male, 6 female Interior Set Dr. Moulineaux has been out all night in a futile attempt to meet his mistress Suzanne. He tells his wife he has been with Bassinet who is near death, but in walks Bassinet. He decides it is no longer wise to have Suzanne pretend to be a patient and rents an apartment that formerly belonged to a dressmaker. He and Suzanne are discovered in this hide away by her husband, so the doctor poses as ...