Drama

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Report copyright infringementby David Adjmi (Author), Will Butler (Composer)Winner of five 2024 Tony Awards, including Best Play An epic play with music that examines the human costs of the quest for artistic greatness. The place: Sausalito. The time: the mid-1970s. The carpet: brown shag. Stereophonic brings us inside the cloistered world of a recording studio as a rock band on the brink of superstardom attempts to create their sophomore album. The ensuing pressures open up cracks in the ban...

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Report copyright infringementby Terrence McNally (Author)The New Yorker has called Terrence McNally "one of our most original and audacious dramatists and one of our funniest." Now the four-time Tony Award-winning author of such classics as Love! Valor! Compassion! and Master Class returns with two heartrending and humorous plays about friendship, companionship, and love.In Some Men, Terrence McNally takes us on a multigenerational journey of gay life in America. In interwoven vignettes, McNa...

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Kelleher (Author), Orla Kelly Self Publishing Services (Created by), Christopher Kelleher (Cover Design by)In the shadow of heartbreak, new love blooms under the giant Irish sky.It's been decades since the Brandon Lodge was at its peak: the idyllic background for many Irish summers and the romantic seeds its planted. Thirty years ago, this iconic landscape was the backdrop for a chance meeting between Clodagh Kenny and James Murray. It was there that t...

The Keen Collection: One Acts by Contemporary Playwrights Vol. 7

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Report copyright infringementby Nsangou Njikam (Author), Kate Cortesi (Author), C. A. Johnson (Author)Keen Teens is a unique and free educational theatre program run by the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company. Keen Teens seeks to improve the quality of plays written for high school students by commissioning scripts from highly regarded playwrights and gives students the opportunity to work with professional artists in an Off-Broadway setting. This collection includes: Foreign Bodie...

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Report copyright infringementby Will Madden (Author)What's the worst thing you've ever done? Imagine having to reenact it night after night in front of a voracious audience.Impresario Randall "Rhadamanthus" Flynn has made this hellish punishment a reality at the Mountebank Theater. In a city descending into lawlessness, Flynn uses the onstage humiliation of criminals to legitimize seizing control of the underworld.The Mountebank's current headliner is the crooner, Rico Daggett, whose show por...

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Report copyright infringementby Thornton Wilder (Author)In this play which represents "Sloth" in Wilder's projected cycle on The Seven Deadly Sins Herb Hawkins a jovial New Jersey - New York City commuter with iron-bound habits has called to say he is coming home late. This news sets his wife and daughter on edge a condition heightened when a neighbor informs them that an unidentified man is hiding in the shadows of their front lawn staring in at them. The police arrive to arrest the supposed...

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Report copyright infringementby Jethro Compton (Author)1896. Canada. After the massacre of her tribe a child is rescued by an old huntsman. Torn from centuries of tradition struggling to find her path in the world she soon discovers hope in the friendship of an abandoned wolf - swiftly learning the customs of her ancestors becoming skilled in the ways of the wild. But when the time comes will these skills be enough to survive? Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8...

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Report copyright infringementby Thornton Wilder (Author)Diana Colvin 21 rich and "the finest girl in the world " is engaged to marry Roger Osterman 27 very rich and "the finest young fellow in the world." With the help of a mystified waiter Diana's uncle (her lawyer and guardian) sets up a play within a play to make sure Diana knows what she is getting into: marriage to a supreme tightwad who can give away millions to charity but can't leave a tip. The action--full of high-jinks as well as a ...

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Sheera Cutler (Author), Justin Krasner-Karpen (Author), Connor M. Foley (Author)Winners! 2012 Baker's Plays High School Playwriting Competition Baker's Plays has been an advocate for theater in schools for over one hundred years. In the spirit of that commitment we offer this playwriting competition for High School students. Plays may be about any subject and of any length. It is our hope that this competition will encourage aspiring high school authors t...

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Report copyright infringementby R. Johns (Author)Black Box 149 is a captivating thriller that is based on the true story of the grounding of British Airways Flight 149 at Kuwait International Airport during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Why was British Airways the only Western airline in the world that didn't realise something was amiss? Were the British responsible for putting nearly 400 passengers in harm's way? Experience the devastating effects of war and confinement on an innocen...

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Report copyright infringementby David Wiener (Author)Winner! The American Conservatory Theatre New American Play Prize 2010Winner! The LA Drama Critics Circle Award for the World Premiere of an Outstanding New PlayOvation Award Nominee. Best Production (Geffen Playhouse) and PlaywritingWhen Carter an American telecom executive brings his wife Mara on a business trip to Cambodia he never imagines that the ghosts of this beautiful country will find a way to haunt their lives. As business deals ...

If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Hahn (Author)How does Shakespeare remain Shakespeare when every word is changed? In this playful, meditative exploration of translating the world's most beloved playwright, Daniel Hahn guides us through the magic of bringing the Bard to a global audience. "For those who care deeply about language, and about Shakespeare. . . this will be a treasured book." --James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of Shakespeare "A deliciously fresh reading of S...

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Report copyright infringementby Carolyn Gage (Author)Five members of a play selection committee have gathered in the green room to choose the plays for their Festival of Poorly-Written Plays. The artistic director begins with a review of the more common criteria for a bad play: blatant exposition and contrived names for the characters. He then suggests that they all go around the table and introduce themselves and say a little something about themselves - blatant exposition if ever there was....

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Report copyright infringementby Thornton Wilder (Author)Walbeck a thoroughly hated man who cheated hundreds of people out of their money suddenly returns home from Joliet prison when his sentence is reduced. He is greeted by two people: his attorney who informs him that Walbeck's wife has fled to California taking his daughter with her and a new maid Bernice the self-proclaimed "best cook in Chicago" recently hired to keep the home going. Bernice it turns out served time for murder and the ad...

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Report copyright infringementby Zayd Dohrn (Author)A young female activist brings an older man - a famous political hacker and journalist - home to her Brooklyn apartment to spend the night. But as they start to expose each other's secrets personal and political desires collide testing the limits of privacy in the modern world. Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 07, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Andreas Litras (Author), John Bolton (Author)Andreas Litras' remarkable one-hander play Odyssey interweaves three narratives: Homer's Odyssey, the ancient tale, provides the template for an enactment of Litras' parents', Angelo and Paraskevi's migration to Australia; and the performer's personal search for a sense of identity and belonging as the son of Greek immigrants. Litreas weaves the stories of his family through the legend of Odysseus, the hero of the Tr...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Slade Newbound (Author)Matt returns from a break at work to the company lunch room where he meets new employee Melora. A spark ignites almost immediately but the blossoming friendship is still subject to life's realities of age responsibility and commitment. Meanwhile Matt's wife Arianne has plans for a celebratory evening at home that get interrupted by an unintentional spark of her own. Birthday Boy is about what happens when there's a sudden conn...

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Report copyright infringementby Carol Vogel (Author)Who better than a psychologist would know how to trigger his wife to commit suicide by mixing a "black label warning drug" with another drug that would create a deadly combination? Who better than a psychologist would know how to cover his tracks by lying to family and friends that his wife died by swallowing a bottle of Lithium, then washing it down with Vodka, knowing that she didn't like alcohol? Who better than a psychologist would know ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Romeril (Author)Miss Tanaka is the beautiful and enigmatic niece of Broome's former number one pearl diver. Newly arrived from Japan, she captures the hearts of the town's menfolk, but is promised in marriage to two brawling pearl divers. Who will uncover this mysterious young woman's true identity? Based on a story by Xavier Herbert, Romeril's play is a magical portrayal of 1930s Broome, weaving an astonishing blend of folk tale, magic and spectacle as it...

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Osborne (Author) Category: Comedy with Music Characters: 1 male 5 females Scenery: Interior In its heyday "Old Smokey" was more than a mountain-top country store...its porch was the scene of Saturday night musical jamborees that rivaled the Grand Ole Opry. As Emma prepares to reopen Old Smokey for her son Teddy - injured in Afghanistan and almost home - the store has fallen into disrepair. There to help are Jinks a playful friend and a Yankee wannabe; Oliv...

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Report copyright infringementby Jenn Strunge (Illustrator), Megan McShea (Contribution by), Mason Ross (Contribution by)A collection of plays performed as part of a ten minute play festival at the Bell Foundry Theater in Baltimore, Maryland in August, 2011. Number of Pages: 172 Dimensions: 0.37 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: August 01, 2011

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Report copyright infringementby Abdur Ali (Author)Familiar Pain is a nonfiction book about the trials, tribulations, and struggles that Abdur Ali went through. I also try to explain how, growing up in an abusive home, watching my father beat my mother, and vowing not to be like him, I became that monster in one single night, losing everything that I ever loved. The author is trying to inform readers not to overlook domestic abuse because it can affect the man in the relationship as well, so s...

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Report copyright infringementby J. P. Clark (Author)In the European scamble for Africa towards the end of the 19th century, Britain declared itself for the Oil Rivers Protectorate to gain monopoly of the palm oil trade in what is now part of the land it put together as a country. Later it formed the first Federation of Nigeria with the former Royal Niger Company as its principle commercial operator, and the indigenous people of tha area, the Niger Delta, the suppliers of raw materials that Br...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Mulvany (Author)Is a person still isolated if their friends are make-believe? Fred is a 16-year-old living on a farm without stock or crops in an Australian country town. When Travis, the charismatic head boy at their school, begins to take an interest in him, Fred gets lured into the intricate world of the web, where nothing, and nobody, is what they seem. A whodunit for the modern age, The Web is a fascinating exploration of isolation, friendship, and wh...

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Report copyright infringementby Freyda Thomas (Author)Characters: 7 male 3 female Comedy AdaptationUnit setThe Miser is a new adaptation of Molière's most famous prose play by celebrated Moliere adaptor Freyda Thomas (The Learned Ladies Tartuffe: Born Again). This side-splitting comedicclassic has all the hilarious elements of the original and is set in a pre-20th Century period where marriages could be forced upon one's children.In The Miser the elderly Harpagon obsesses over the feeling th ...

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Report copyright infringementby Billy Van Zandt (Author), Jane Milmore (Author), Nick DeGregorio (Author)Characters: 10 male 7 femaleUnit SetWelcome to the 30th Reunion of the Class of '79. Everyone you ever loved hated had a crush on or wanted to punch in the face will be there. They are just older fattier and angrier. Old scores will be settled old games will be replayed and new (or should we say old) love will be found. And they will all be singing and dancing to an amazing score by Van Za...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Wooll (Author)Sir Loddon MP is bringing a libel suit against a London newspaper that printed a story claiming he was neither a baronet nor a Loddon. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Frye (Author)The fourth and final volume of our popular melodramas series includes four new works from Tom Frye: FAST FOOD FRENZY - 3 male 3 female 1 non-gender dog / 1 Exterior & 3 InteriorThe restaurant business is booming for the Frye family of Rose Hill Kansas. There's only one problem - well maybe more than one - the neighbor is crazy and the dog talks! This wacky famly is facing a treacherous villain Mr. Sour Kraut who wants the mortgage but even ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Tolins (Author)Characters: 4 male 1 femaleMultiple SetsIn show business it's all about who you know. Or is it? Andy Lipman a smart ambitious kid from Long Island dreams of a career on Broadway and hopes that his idol theater legend Martin Kerner can give it to him. Will Kerner open Andy's door to success or will their complicated relationship force him to question a life in the theater?"A terrific ensemble cast...this bittersweet valentine to the world...

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Johnson (Author)A play with a plot full of warm sardonic wit and sentiment and with a twist so sensational it leaves the audience crushed and stunned. Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Rosary Hartel O'Neill (Author)Full Length Southern ComedyCharacters: 3 male 2 femaleInteriorThe Mississippi Gulf Coast estate of Irene Dubbonet is an unforgetable place to visit but who would want to live there? All of her relatives who hope to inherit it! This is a play about manipulation and what happens to family members' dreams when the odds are stacked against them. A cloud of doom hangs over Serenity Manor until at last virtue triumphs. Irene's son the ar...

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Report copyright infringementby David Mamet (Author)Comedy / 2m / Simple SetSchool is a brief comic discourse on recycling poster design and the transmission of information.Premiered with Keep Your Pantheon as Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet at the Atlantic Theater Company NYC in the fall of 2009."A textbook example of the style that made its author famous. Featuring characters identified only as A and B as if they were points on a diagram this merry little sketch moves with the show-off a...