Drama

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Templar, Assassination, Trial and Torture

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Report copyright infringementby Nigel Clayton (Author)This book in a novel, whereby 'Song of the Templar' is the same, basic story but written in poetic verse - the covers are almost identical.Bernard de Beauvais is a Knights Templar, accused of many things, including cowardice. We follow Bernard during his trial; through the ages; the Battle of Tripoli, the Battle of Acre, and the Battle of Bannockburn. He's tortured and ransomed, fights like the devil and protects the innocent as though the...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Sutton (Author)Cold fusion, long a dream of nuclear scientists, able to generate enough electricity to power entire cities from water, has at last been achieved. Or so the two scientists in RESTORING THE SUN claim. Loosely based on true events. "In RESTORING THE SUN two scientists claim they have achieved cold nuclear fusion, a process when commercially developed would turn water into energy so efficiently that a small lake could supply the energy need of t...

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Report copyright infringementby A. R. Gurney (Author)INDIAN BLOOD is the story of an adolescent boy trying to stretch his wings in a large and traditional family. "A R Gurney's latest play, INDIAN BLOOD, is like a snow globe for the stage, in this case a memento of wintry Buffalo in the mid-1940s ... Written with delicacy and old-school craftsmanship, INDIAN BLOOD is a modest memory play that is endowed with a measure of emotional heft." -Charles Isherwood, The New York Times "In INDIAN BLOOD...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey M. Jones (Author)Virtually all of the dialogue in this play has been constructed out of source material dating from the year 1950, and what it reveals is an America in which perception and reality are frequently at odds. "Even paranoids have enemies, goes the old joke; Jeffrey M Jones's TOMORROWLAND is a ninety-minute incarnation of that line. The second of his projected trilogy, 'A History of Western Philosophy, ' this piece is a logical sequel to Jone...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Eve Haar (Author)A black comedic look at the parents in Peter Pan. It is set in the present, in an upscale townhouse. Mrs Darling is a socialite and George Darling is a white collar criminal with the U S Attorney's Office closing in. George has decided that he must escape to Switzerland, but his wife refuses to believe that his problems are real. She goes off to receive an award for her work with "brownish" children. George then confides in Nana, his dog ...

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Report copyright infringementby Todd David Gross (Author)Troubled lovers, Roger and Susan, visit rural Vermont to work on their relationship. Possession by aliens was not on their list of problems ... until they got there. A romantic comedy with a science fiction twist. "Susan and Roger, a cohabitating couple with questions about the future of their relationship, have come to visit Susan's younger brother. Tommy, an impulsive recovering drug addict, and his companion Sarah, an older woman and...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Bradford (Author)In 1950, in a small Southern town of Durham, Georgia, Louis, a prominent black businessman, is murdered in the middle of the street. The regulars inside Willy's Cut and Shine Barbershop all witness the murder and watch the murderer casually stroll to his car. The question among the men in the shop, the dead man's brother, the elders, and the young men just returning from World War II, is what is to be done. To this we add a Sheriff who ...

Croesus and the Witch and Hansel and Gretel (in the 1980s)

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Report copyright infringementby Vinnette Carroll (Author), Marie Thomas (Author), Micki Grant (Composer)This collection includes one short and one full-length musical play. CROESUS AND THE WITCH: In this tale based on an African-American fable, Croesus and his brothers are on a search for success and money. They come up with the idea of finding and catching large numbers of deer, which would not only bring them success but would also help the people of the village. On their journey, they are ...

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Report copyright infringementby Len Jenkin (Author)A roller-coaster ride through the American scene, from the Fascination Parlor to Leroy Smiles the Crab-boy, and from the movie set to the tattoo parlor to Frankie the Finn. A concert for actors. "Len Jenkin not only has a vivid imagination, but he also has an artist's command of his craft." -New York Times "Len Jenkin has an unusual talent for reaching into shadowy places in the human psyche and coming up with evocative images." -Journal Amer...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Clarvoe (Author)An American chess master returns home for a defining emotional match with his challenging and unpredictable father, who years ago coached him to success. A taut, true and ultimately forgiving play about the negotiations we all make as parents and children, this intricate drama beautifully delineates the complexity that exists within the strict boundaries of a chessboard or a family. "An interesting mind bender that examines the love-hate...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Sutton (Author)Welcome to Karlovec, a small town that the Soviets had started to build a nuclear plant in, but it was never completed. Now in the post-Soviet era Western firms are desperate to take over and build the plant. They turn their attention to the town's mayor who finds himself courted on all sides. "... a drama of stripping away guilty secrets, of exposing lies and counterfeit identities, of discovering betrayal and of playing games of deceit ... ...

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Report copyright infringementby Megan Terry (Author) "It's tough to imagine 'a comic, gymnastic extravaganza about family aggression, ' but the Omaha Magic Theater has done it. Avant garde playwright Megan Terry's new play GOONA GOONA concerns child abuse as told to Punch and Judy, the story of a nuclear family meltdown is stylized to absurdity... GOONA GOONA may be the best play the Magic Theater has staged." Roger Catlin, Omaha World-Herald "Megan Terry's GOONA GOONA turns out to be a racy,...

The Innkeeper of Jericho and Other Eye-Witnesses from the Beginning

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Liebelt (Author)Long-time scripture performer Philip Liebelt's scripts for liturgical and biblical storytelling, including: The Innkeeper of JerichoZacchaeus, the BackstoryJairus - A Leader of the SynagogueThe Temptations of Jesus according to a former Apprentice DevilA Blind Man sees Jesus enter JerusalemDemos - Former Jailer of PhilippiPhilip's Nephew's LunchNicodemus - a Member of the Sanhedrin - on the first Easter DayRich, Black, Outcast, 'Half-Man'...

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Report copyright infringementby S. D. Nim (Author)"Resonance" is a concise anthology of emotional short stories that plunges into the literary exploration of human emotions. Each tale intricately weaves elements of isolation, loneliness, longing, and solitude, offering a profound reflection on life's complexities. Through stories of betrayal, hope, sorrow, and grief, this collection invites readers to navigate the delicate balance between despair and resilience. Although fictional, the char...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Babe (Author) "Thorstein Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption would find itself cozily vindicated in Thomas Babe's GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING, a new play set in the fin de siecle that also manages to pull the chain of the Charles Keatings, Michael Milkens and other bandits of more recent times. Not that the elusive DAY...is that blunt about it or easy to peg. The author himself has called this sprawling opus 'a little of this, a little of that, part ...

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Report copyright infringementby Henrik Ibsen (Author), Eric Overmyer (Adapted by)Eric Overmyer's remarkable adaptation of Ibsen's PEER GYNT, set in the Pacific Northwest and in South America. "Writing skills unequalled among American playwrights, [a] brilliant wordsmith ..." -Richard Stayton, Los Angeles Herald Examiner "A cosmically inclined theatrical court jester." -Mel Gussow, The New York Times "Overmyer is a dazzling verbal acrobat, as well as a serious student of pop culture. Both ling...

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Report copyright infringementby Karim Khan (Author)A snowwoman from Pakistan - full of songs, hopes, and dreams... As the final days of 1999 draw near, Pakistani migrants, Zoya and Iqra, work side by side in Woolworth's Oxford Cowley branch - anxious and excited for what's to come in the new millennium. At their Christmas staff party, the pair encounter a mysterious new girl - Faiza - who threatens to alter everything they thought they knew about their friendship and their future. Magical, te...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Goode (Author)Before Ebenezer Scrooge learned the true meaning of Christmas, another old miser was haunted by the ghosts of his past, present and future. What happened to Jacob Marley, in the seven years since his untimely death, that could convince him to sacrifice everything to save the one man he despises most? "... [a] rich new holiday confection, MARLEY'S GHOST. Jeff Goode's play is a smart, engaging prequel to A CHRISTMAS CAROL that stirs in some wic...

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Report copyright infringementby Red Shuttleworth (Author)Red Shuttleworth eats tumbleweeds for breakfast. He would rope a few calves before noon if it weren't for a bum shoulder. The West settles down in him like a dog in the grass: the sound of his dialogue, the cadences of his characters, the smartness of their responses to one another. But it's deeper than that. In Rumors and Borders, there's a savage wind off the desert, the hiss of snakes in the rocks, and the faraway whine of a coyote a...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Dobrish (Author)A car crash. Three people dead. One of them naked. It's up to a detective and a police officer to figure out what happened in this supernatural upside-down mystery. "Only the waggish adobe theater company could pull off a light, pleasant show in which everybody dies in a hideous car crash. Playwright Jeremy Dobrish crafts a modern fairy tale in this supernatural comic treat. In separate vignettes, each of the three central characters take...

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Wechsler (Author), Edward Albee (Foreword by)Neil Wechsler's Grenadine has been chosen as the second winner of the Yale Drama Series. The play was selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and contest judge Edward Albee. Grenadine is the fantastical story of a man's quest for love in the company of three devoted friends. Albee writes, "I found it highly original. . . . The questions the play asks and the answers it proposes are provocative; the play st...

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Report copyright infringementby Laurence Senelick (Author), Nikoly Gogol (Based on a Book by)A theatrical extravaganza drawn from Nikolay Gogol's comic epic of greed and gluttony in tsarist Russia. Over one hundred characters can be played with any number of actors from 15 on up. Number of Pages: 126 Dimensions: 0.27 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 15, 1984

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Therraiult (Author)Electricity is the central metaphor and expressive image in this unusual love story which takes place in an electrical repair shop. "It's fun to listen to BATTERY. Daniel Therriault's dialogue is a ripe blend of primitive slang and advanced metaphor, dotted with enough comedy to ward off weariness and pretense. The entertainment value never flags." -Don Shirley, Los Angeles Times "Daniel Therriault's first play, BATTERY, is one of thos...

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Hasty (Author) "The theater is by its very nature a con game. Starting with the playwright and the actors, down to the designer's paper moon and cardboard sea, all conspire to deceive the audience into buying into an illusion. And somewhere backstage is the mastermind of manipulation, the director, pulling all the strings that, if it works, will completely takes us in for two or three hours and maybe, if we're lucky, show us something about ourselves we n...

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Report copyright infringementby Len Jenkin (Author)KRAKEN explores the true-life encounter between legendary American novelists Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1856. Melville, in the midst of a spiritual journey to the Holy Land, stops to visit with his old friend Hawthorne, now the American consul in Liverpool. As they spend the evening together, they discuss and confront their, fears, failures, things of this world and the next, books and publishers, and all possible and impossib...

The Trial of Dr. Jekyll: A Play in Two Acts

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Report copyright infringementby William L. Slout (Author), Robert Louis Stevenson (Based on a Book by)In this adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," William L. Slout focuses on Jekyll's sublimation of his wantonness, and the hypocrisy of his unrestrained involvement in it. He loses control of his better self to the overpowering evil of his baser side. Herein lies the tragedy of the man and his times. A powerful modern version of this classic tale...

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Report copyright infringementby Allan Havis (Author)A factual dramatic account of the advancing history of the Brown v. Wade Supreme Court decision in counterpoint with the personal drama of Senator Strom Thurmond's unacknowledged mixed race daughter, Essie Mae Williams Washington. Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 30, 2005

Plays that Pop!: One-Act, Ten-Minute & Monologues

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Report copyright infringementby Jan Henson Dow (Author)Drama, comedy, romance, and fun all around! From a comic yet telling refiguring of August Strindberg's Miss Julie to a man discovering the daughter he never knew, these eleven Plays that Pop! explore the importance of human connections as we struggle to make the most of life. Along the way, you'll meet poet William Butler Yeats being confronted by his lost past, a woman on edge hiding a terrible secret, an army patrol facing the ultimate ...

Family Frolics, Relief Society Renditions & Sharing Time Skits: A Resource Manual

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Elwell (Author), Sam Christensen (Author), James G. Lambert (Author)FAMILY FROLICS, RELIEF SOCIETY RENDITIONS & SHARING TIME SKITS This collection of 13 skits, sketches, playlets and monologues is specifically designed for use as inservice lessons, Primary Sharing Time, Family Home Evenings, Priesthood, Relief Society or Sunday School lessons, Firesides, Young Mens and Womens classes and meeting nights, and other Ward and Stake presentations. These s...

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Gunderson (Author)A time-jumping tale based on the life and work of Nathan Wolfe, a pandemic expert and virologist that speaks to our current time and beyond.Author BiographyLauren Gunderson has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015 topping the list twice including 2019/20. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernse...

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Rapp (Author)The steel mill has closed in the town of Gompers. While prejudice, poverty, and crime are rampant, there are signs of hope when a Blue Jesus is seen walking on water, a golden greyhound is found under a tree, and riverboat gambling is promised. Rapp's characters use wicked, sometimes brutal, contemporary humor to make the best of their circumstances until he strips away these fronts to reveal the fear and pain in their hearts. Num...

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Report copyright infringementby Dominic Taylor (Author)Jacqueeda needs four dollars and sixty cents to go to her mother's boyfriend's funeral, and buy him a headstone. She needs to make a detour to the racetrack to earn the rest of the money. She is looking for help from her friend Poppy. Poppy is looking for Jacqueeda, because he has learned from the scriptures that are the New York Post that a local Deacon has won the lottery. This transpires on the street corner where the Deacon's Lincoln ...