Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Billy St John (Author)Melodrama Charceters: 6 male 9 female Extras if desired. Curtains and simple set pieces It's 1900 in New York. Villainous barber of German descent Herr Hans Kutter has set his sights on our heroine lovely Lorrie Ell niece and heir-to-be of wealthy society matron and cat lover Kitty Litter who owns numerous successful beauty salons. Kutter's plan is to marry Lorrie then knock off Kitty making his wife and him fabulously wealthy. He employ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Clark (Author)The title character is a singer about to try for a comeback in a nightclub on Staten Island. Her old friend and accompanist tries to help and another old friend a caterer also attempts to boost her morale with help from the teenager who lives in the same apartment building. Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Etan Frankel (Author)4m 2f / Drama / Unit SetWinner of the 2006 L. Arnold Weissberger AwardIt is three years since Lynne and Benjamin Montgomery's son Ben traveled to the Central American country of Cartuga in order to use his medical training to help the poor peasants. Soon after his arrival Ben disappeared. In a country of civil strife guerillas and mass executions by the army that can mean only one thing -- he was killed. So when Bishop Melinda calls to invi...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Crosby Wells (Author)Please add item description: Short Play Comedy / 3W /Unit SetSet in the formerly oil-rich desert Southwest this play explores the lives of two generations of women living under one roof. The story centers on Jo who after her father dies takes in her feisty mother. The dialogue between them and with a long-time neighbor is at once outrageously funny and heart-breakingly tragic. These women tear and rip into each other s psyche with re...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Kyle (Author)David a successful NY attorney in his 30s returns to Indianapolis for the funeral of his adopted brother whom he hasn't seen for years. David tries to make amends by helping his brother s troubled girlfriend LaShonda but is ill-prepared for the commitment that requires. His good intentions soon threaten his marriage and career and force him to examine a past he has long ignored. The show premiered at the Michael Weller Theatre in NYC.ÿ ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Eyen (Author)Genre: Comedy Characters: 10f 1m (to play several roles) Scenery: Unit set In this hilarious satire on B-movies of the 1950's Mary Eleanor an innocent duped into crime lands in the Greenwich Village Woman's House of Detention presided over by a massive matron with a taste for sadism and female flesh as our heroine now Caged in the Big House learns about life The Hard Way... "Sex is rampant and comically cheerful!...A delirious evening of Grade...

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Report copyright infringementby Maurice Valency (Author)Here is the quintessence of Giraudoux's extraordinary imagination and style. A shy girl applying for a job at the Office of Inventions learns from a nondescript man that she can have her way with any man if she declares that he is as handsome as the nonexistent statue of the Apollo of Bellac. The play is alive with wry and trenchant observations on the comical attitudes and truths that men assume in life. Number of Pages: 40...

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Report copyright infringementby Cyril Hume (Author), Richard Maibaum (Author)Drama Characters: 11 male 4 female Interior Set Two of Hollywood's top-drawer writers have here written a play that begins with an American family on any normal morning and culminates in one of the most chilling dilemmas in the literature of the theatre. Davie's father is a rich manufacturer who promises to help him build a tree-house when he comes home from school. But Davie does not come home today. From their worr...

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Report copyright infringementby Georges Feydeau (Author), Barnett Shaw (Author)Little Theatre Comedy Georges Feydeau Translated by Barnett Shaw Characters: 13 male 6 female 3 interior scenes The action revolves around a flirt who refuses lovers so long as her husband is faithful. A wild plot to entrap her stumblingly husband in flagrante delicto becomes so frenetic that the seducers angry husbands spying wives innocent maids pubescent bellboys and police inspectors lose track of who's in bed ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dick Poston (Author)Review / 2m 1f / Bare stageThree burlesque type performers (a straight man a comic and a talking lady) "demonstrate" newly adapted versions of 12 classic burlesque standards. Compiled from authentic skits the sketches have been edited and updated by Joey Faye's former straight man to retain the flavor of burlesque while catering to today's tastes and values. Individual sketches can be incorporated into vaudeville or musical variety shows or ...

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Report copyright infringementby Fred Carmichael (Author)Comedy / 5m 6f / Int. When produced in summer stock at Dorset Vermont this comedy broke all records. It concerns Stanley Nichols who writes successful children's stories under the pen name of Grandma Letty. He is voted "Grandmother of the Year" and his house is besieged by reporters and photographers. Afraid that exposure as a juvenile writer will jeopardize the chances of his serious new novel Stanley has to produce a Grandma. After all...

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Report copyright infringementby John Gary Long (Author)In his debut novel, Hope's Sunrise, John Gary Long delivers an inspiring story of love, betrayal, and second chances. At the heart of the novel is Dr. Hope Castillo, a brilliant psychologist and fierce advocate for young women, who is still haunted by a devastating betrayal: her fiancé left her for her sister, Rachel, shattering their once-unbreakable bond and driving Hope to the brink of despair. Years later, Hope is forced to face her ...

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Report copyright infringementby Eden Phillpotts (Author)Full Length Comedy Characters: 9 male 13 femlae Interior Set A delightful comedy of English country people. The story is concerned with Samuel Sweetland a Devonshire farmer and a widower who decides to marry again. Aided and abetted by his house keeper Araminta he makes out a list of the various eligible women in the count and proposes to them in turn. But they all refuse him and in the end he finds at home in Araminta the one woman. ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Kirkpatrick (Author)From the time Louise Vickers arrives at the shadowy old country house she notices a change in her secretary. Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Jellicoe (Author)Nancy is seventeen new to the city and loses herself on the way to the YWCA. She meets three young men of varying types: Tom a smallish nervous chap; Colin tall awkward and unsure; and Tolen a well-built hound dog on two legs. When they meet Nancy in swinging 60's London all three go about proving their skills. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Gary Scarpa (Author)Gary Scarpa looks back on his life in theater as a calling. In Lessons from the Stage, he traces how one pivotal audition as a college senior set him on a path that would shape the course of his life.In the fateful summer of 1973, Scarpa performed in a play for the first time and "fell in love with an art form and a girl, all in one fell swoop," as he so aptly puts it. And the rest is history.In Lessons from the Stage, he recounts an intrigu...

Naive HOPE - Setting The Record Straight: One Woman's Tale of Domestic Violence, a Tyrant 'Christian' Husband and Surviving Church Control. When Ruin,

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Report copyright infringementby Siri Eschel (Author)NAÏVE: Natural and unaffected; innocent; unsophisticated; ingenuous; having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information; absence of artificiality; HOPE: To want and expect something to happen or be true; grounds for believing that something good may happen NAIVE HOPE: The willingness to believe the best in and of people; tending to trust too easily. When you believe in the basic goodness of people, and you trust that God will ...

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Report copyright infringementby S. Wilbur (Author), B. J. Harris (Editor)Dr. Phillip Marksdale is a neurotic, self-absorbed, materialistic, and narcissistic psychiatrist who finds himself in quite the pickle. He tries desperately to keep hidden a deep dark secret while, at the same time, trying to corral a wild group of misfit patients he only agreed to take on while under pressure put upon him by a sinister college nemesis. Coming from all walks of life, each of his new patients brings with ...

Spirits Finely Touched: The Testing of Value and Integrity in Four Shakespearean Plays

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Report copyright infringementby Harold Skulsky (Author)Armed with a fresh analysis of Shakespeare's inherited resources for articulating anxieties rooted in philosophical doubt, Skulsky shows that in four plays--Hamlet, Measure for Measure, King Lear, and Othello--the drama of doubt in search of an exit gives its own kind of urgency to the more familiar Shakespearean drama of action and motive. From Skulsky's study, the four plays emerge as insidiously telling exercises in challenging our wor...

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Report copyright infringementby Larry Mitchell (Author) Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 05, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby David Laurance Chambers (Author)""The Metre of Macbeth: Its Relation to Shakespeare's Earlier and Later Work"" by David Laurance Chambers is an academic study that explores the unique metre and verse structure used in William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth. The book analyzes the iambic pentameter and other rhythmic patterns used in the play, comparing them to Shakespeare's earlier and later works. Chambers argues that the metre of Macbeth is distinct from Shakespe...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert L. Lippman (Author)The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert Lippman explores some of the feelings, fears, and beleifs that Freud may have privately harbored about his Jewish religious background, upbringing, and culture. This is done creatively through the five plays, and backed up with scholarly, academic research in the five essays. "A fascinating psychobiographic interweaving of Freud--the creator of psychoanalysis and secular Jew--in a...

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Report copyright infringementby Georgie Harriss (Author)It's Franny's eighth birthday and she's getting her first pet - a cockatiel called Prince Ping Pong.She's always wanted someone to love, and more importantly, someone to love her back. But when Prince Ping Pong starts loving their daughter the wrong way, Joan and Richard are thrown into an absurdist parenting nightmare. They must try to remove the deviant bird while conserving what's left of Franny's innocence. After all, these are her f...

Songs of Hestia: Five Plays from the 2010 San Francisco Olympians Festival

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Report copyright infringementby Stuart Eugene Bousel (Editor)Drama. Featuring plays Nirmala Nataraj, Bennett Fisher, Stuart Eugene Bousel, Claire Rice, and Evelyn Jean Pine. In SONGS OF HESTIA: FIVE PLAYS FROM THE 2010 SAN FRANCISCO OLYMPIANS FESTIVAL, five playwrights adapt some of Western culture's oldest stories to illuminate our present-day concerns with imagination, creativity, curiosity and passion. These are plays that ask the hard questions, that explore our humanity through exploring...

The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality

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Report copyright infringementby Ling Hon Lam (Author)Emotion takes place. Rather than an interior state of mind in response to the outside world, emotion per se is spatial, at turns embedding us from without, transporting us somewhere else, or putting us ahead of ourselves. In this book, Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature and culture centered on the idea of emotion as space, which the Chinese call "emotion-realm" (qingjing). Lam trace...

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Report copyright infringementby D. M. Cummings (Author)Kya Walters had a lot going for herself the looks, the brains and a good man until she ran into the local drug dealer, Michael Mack. Mike was very popular with the women; he had three nice cars, flashy jewelry and all the new styled, brand named clothes, but he had a lot of baggage. Although, he had four baby mama's and six kids, he had a lot of game. He would wine and dine a woman that he was interested in until he stole her heart. Kya g...

Let us Fight for Africa. A Play based on the John Chilembwe Rising of 1915

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Report copyright infringementby Desmond Dudwa Phiri (Author)Let us Fight for Africa is a historical play of the 1915 Nyasaland African uprising led by John Chilembwe. In 1897 the freelance English missionary Joseph Booth took John Chilembwe to America where, through the offices of black American colleagues, he received a three year theological education. He returned in 1900 and founded his own church and school, wrote in the Nyasaland Times he was to make an African a worthy member of the hum...

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Report copyright infringementby Alan C. Dessen (Author)With emphasis on the distinctive effects possible on the Elizabethan stage and the evidence concerning stagecraft found in the late morality plays, Dessen focuses on theatrical techniques not readily apparent to the eye of the modern reader. He stresses that, to appreciate the richness of Elizabethan drama, the modern reader must bring to the text the interpretive skills of the critic, the theatrical point of view of the director, and the...

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Report copyright infringementby Max Barrington (Author)It was a hot day in the Far Northern Coastal Australian Town.The first thing that Mitchell wanted as he walked to the public bar of the sleepy towns hotel was a cool drink.The last thing that Mitchell wanted was an altercation with an angry Australian Aboriginal that resulted in the death of five people. Number of Pages: 252 Dimensions: 0.57 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 19, 2024

Bentley and Me: A Dog Who Changed My Life

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Report copyright infringementby Jill R. Zimmerman (Author), Jeanne Conway (Author)Some dogs are pets.Bentley was something more.from the moment she arrived as a tiny eight-week-old puppy, she became a constant companion, a joyful shadow, and a best friend who filled every day with love.In "Bentley and Me*, Jill Zimmerman shares the story of a beautiful brindle dog who loved tennis balls, car rides, dog parks, stuffed toys, and ice cream treats-but most of all, she loved her person.Through eve...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Dorothy Seera (Author)"They do well those men that live by their most virtuous principles, but how much of sad misfortune is it that they are very few, if even they themselves exist.""The Sublime Casket" is an exploration of the themes of poor governance, betrayal, and shameful pursuit. The playwright paints a picture so evident that we cannot draw our eyes away from it. Vice finds its punishment, virtue its reward, and the lessons a permanent seat in the...

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Report copyright infringementby Bobby Layne Dennis (Author)AFTER MIDNIGHTA Historical Novel Based on the Author's Observations of the Parchman OrdealIn 1965, more than one hundred Black children from Natchez were arrested for marching and sent to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Their disappearance shook a city already divided by fear and segregation.Told through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy who witnessed the events unfold, After Midnight blends lived memory with historica...