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Next Year's Man of Steel
Par David Belke. 2012
August 1940, New York. Struggling and opportunistic writer Everett Gardner is given the chance to make a mark in the…
still infant comic book industry. All he has to do is create a hero. But creating a real hero turns out to be much more difficult than he expects. And while badgered by a desperate publisher and partnered with an uncooperative artist, the task might prove to be impossible. Especially with distraction of the artist's intriguing young wife. But heroes can arise in the most unexpected places... A full length play about creativity, collaboration and every day courage.Lust 'N' Rust: The Trailer Park Musical
Par Frank Haney. 2003
Newly Revised! The intriguing loves and heartaches of residents at the Red Bud Mobile Estates in Twister Plaines, Illinois are…
revealed in an appealing story with quirky characters and fourteen original alternative country songs. Can the new manager of the AgriBig Plant find love with the soon to be divorced waitress at Smittie's Diner? Falling for the waitress who serves your patty melt... Telling your boss to go to hell... Living paycheck to paycheck, while you still can... It's Lust 'n' Rust: The Trailer Park Musical!Euripides IV: Rhesus, The Suppliant Women, Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis (The Complete Greek Tragedies #6)
Par David Grene, Euripides, Richmond Lattimore. 1938
Fritz Bennewitz in India: Intercultural Theatre with Brecht and Shakespeare
Par David G. John, Joerg Esleben, Rohmer Rolf. 2016
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz in India between…
1970 and 1994. Joerg Esleben has gathered together many of Bennewitz’ own writings, most published for the first time, in which he reflects on his production of plays by Bertolt Brecht, Shakespeare, Goethe, Chekhov, and Volker Braun. By translating these writings into English, the editors have provided unprecedented access to Bennewitz’ thinking about intercultural work in India. This material is illuminated by explanatory annotations, contextualized commentary, and critical perspectives from Bennewitz’s former colleagues in India and other leading scholars. Through its kaleidoscope of perspectives, Fritz Bennewitz in India offers a significant counter to dominant models of Western theatrical interculturalism.Modigliani
Par Dennis Mcintyre. 1968
In 1916, unable to sell his paintings and unable to work, Modigliani decides to leave Paris. A robbery attempt, aided…
by his painter/friends Turillo and Soutine fails and he seeks money from Zbo, his agent, who informs him he's about to meet Cheron, an influential art dealer. Modigliani's poet/mistress, Beatrice Hastings, tries to convince him to meet Cheron himself. Frightened of failure, he finally agrees only to discover Zbo has given away his best painting. His meeting with Cheron is a disaster and, in a rage, he slashes his paintings and attempts to destroy all the work in his studio. Beatrice prevents this and forces him to realize the paintings are his life. Left alone with no possibilities for success, Modigliani begins work again on a self portrait.Southern Baptist Sissies
Par Del Shores. 2005
Follows the journey of four gay boys in the Baptist Church. Storyteller Mark Lee Fuller tries to create a world…
of love and acceptance in the church and clubs of Dallas, Texas, while desperately trying to find a place to put his own pain and rage. The world Mark creates also includes two older barflies, Peanut and Odette, whose banter takes the audience from hysterical laughter to tragedy and tears. With a theme of religion clashing with sexuality, the play opened to rave reviews in Los Angeles during its original run in 2000 and became the most awarded play of the year, winning the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding LA Theater Production, as well as multiple LA Weekly Theater Awards, Los Angeles Critics Awards, Ovation Awards, Backstage West Garland Awards and Robby Awards.Reception
Par Marsha Sheiness. 1983
This play by the acclaimed author of The Spelling Bee takes place in the offices of Serendipity Publications. Because of…
the absence of the Director of Personnel, Deborah Silver, receptionist, has to deal with two candidates for a job vacancy-- both men, one black and one white-- all the while coping with the various calls which come in. How Deborah handles this difficult job forms the core of this true to life play about the business world. A perfect play for schools!Proceed to Checkout
Par Henry Meyerson. 2009
Cell
Par Judy Klass. 2009
Cell is a murder mystery - to about the same extent that Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is a murder mystery. Lieutenant…
Rodriguez questions Dennis 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. But he was placed in his brother’s care by the courts – and Dennis tried to keep him alive and drug-free. Through flashbacks, we see the fractious relationship between the brothers, and how they interacted with other “suspects,” including Edith, the Jamaican nurse who believed Michael should be allowed to choose to die; Julie, Dennis’ fiancée who hated what Michael was doing to Dennis and to their relationship; and Byron, Michael’s homeless friend with whom he had lived on the streets. Like Oedipus, while looking for the culprit, Dennis learns far too much about himself.Exit The Body
Par Fred Carmichael. 1962
A mystery writer rents a New England house that is the rendezvous point for some jewel thieves. The focal point…
of the set is the closet which opens into a living room and a library. A body found in the closet promptly disappears only to be succeeded by another. The hunt for the jewels reaches a climax at two A.M. when four couples unknown to each other turn up to search. Not since the days of Mack Sennett has there been such an hilarious series of entrances and exits.Any Number Can Die
Par Fred Carmichael. 1965
An hilarious take off on the mystery plays of the Twenties complete with sliding panels, robed figures, wills being read…
at midnight, etc. The idioms, costumes, hairdos, and make up of the period add to the thrills and laughter. Four ingenious murders take place in an island mansion as a pair of elderly detectives set to work on their first case. The ever popular storm, the unexpected guests, the cryptic poem, and the missing fortune all add to the intricate and inventive mystery off which the laughs bounce.Theatre in French Canada: Laying the Foundations 1606-1867
Par Leonard Doucette. 1984
It is only recently that historians of the theatre in French Canada have turned their attention to playwrights active before…
the twentieth century. Their practice had been to trace the roots of theatre to mid-1930s, to the appearance of Father Emile Legault and his troupe, the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent, dismissing what had gone before. In this innovative history, Leonard Doucette sets out deal for the first time with all plays that have survived to 1867 and to link them with the evolution of politics, institutions, and culture in French Canada. The study of theatre has often been handicapped also by the outdated practice of defining the literary-cultural history of a nation by identifying the masterpieces produced in specific periods and then defining other works in terms of what they are not. The surprisingly rich and varied history of theatrical forms in French Canada has just begun to receive the attention it deserves from scholars. Some of the texts and authors referred to in this history are identified for the first time: the materials cited and conclusions drawn are based upon original research in major Canadian libraries as well as the works of published critics and historians. The result is an excellent introduction to the various forms theatre has taken and the problems it has encountered in French Canada.Rockin on the Milky Way
Par Jean Lenox Toddie. 2008
Rockin’ On The Milky Way is a collection of three one-act plays entitled Moon Beams In Mid-Morning, One White Winter…
Night and I Remember Heaven, Of Course. These plays by internationally known playwright, Jean Lenox Toddie, treat the audience to an evening of comedy and drama that celebrates life, love and the tangled relationships of lovers and families. A rocking chair sits center stage in each play. Ten colorful characters range from a middle-age woman sitting in the Florida Everglades with a shot gun across her lap, to a charming male poet who dines on candied locusts and marinated artichoke hearts, to a lovely young mute singing her own soundless song, to a quirky old lady booted out of heaven for bad behavior.A Little Something for the Ducks
Par Jean Lenox Toddie. 1983
Dramatic Comedy / 1m, 1f / Winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Contest and the Princeton Players One Act Playwrighting…
Contest. This is a story of a zestful, youthful courtship. She is 68 and he is 79. They put their moves on each other in a minuet that is a joy to behold. Published with A Scent of HoneysuckleM is for the Million
Par Jack Sharkey. 1971
Comedy / 7-13m, 4-5f / Lenore has been living high on the income from her daughter's million dollar trust, but…
if Meg marries before her 25th birthday she gets the trust and Lenore will be penniless. The wedding is scheduled aboard a Mediterranean bound steamship. Complications abound as Lenore tries to stall the marriage, Meg's secret identity and additional fiances surface, a commercial spy intrudes, and a love mad Athenian is ready to marry mother or daughter. Love potions, a ship that can't decide where it's headed and other zany twists make this madhouse of activity great fun.Let's Murder Marsha
Par Monk Ferris. 1984
A happy housewife named Marsha, hopelessly addicted to reading murder mysteries overhears her loving husband discussing her upcoming birthday surprise…
with an interior decorator. To her ears, though, it sounds like they are planning to murder her! With the assistance of her next door neighbor she tries to turn the tables on them with a poisoned potion. When her own mother shows up for her birthday a day early, Marsha thinks she is in on the diabolical scheme. When her maid's date, a policeman, shows up to take the maid out, Marsha think he is on to her poisoning attempt. Well, finally, just when you would think all this would be cleared up, Marsha's intended victims discover what she has supposed, and decide to teach her a lesson by actually pretending to be murderers. This is a terrific show for family audiences who like their comedy broad and fast and nonstop.David And Lisa
Par Theodore Isaac Rubin, Eleanor Perry, James Reach. 1995
The award winning motion picture has been adapted for the stage with the utmost fidelity. It retells the strange, appealing…
and utterly fascinating story of two mentally disturbed adolescents: David, the only son of wealthy parents who is tortured by his mania against being touched, and Lisa, the waif with a split personality. One of her selves will speak only in childish rhymes and insists on being spoken to in the same manner. The play follows their exhilarating progresses and depressing retrogression during one term at Berkeley School, where they have come under the sympathetic guidance of psychiatrist Alan Swinford and his staff. Fellow students include Carlos, the street urchin; the over romantic Kate and stout Sandra, among others. Laughter, heart break and suspense distinguish this authentic and well told story.Say Uncle, Uncle Silas
Par Tim Kelly. 1991
5m, 9f / Savage murders! Blackmail! Thunderstorms! And yes, Romance! This hilarious spoof of Gothic melodramas suggested by Sheridan LeFanu's…
Uncle Silas is set at Barnum Hogg, a grim edifice that looks like Wuthering Heights after a fire. Ghosts walk where tombstones stick up like swollen thumbs. Here Maud Ruthyn, a young heiress, finds herself menaced by a creepy relative who makes Sweeney Todd seem like a nice guy. He hires a monstrous governess, Madame De La Rougepot, and schemes to force Maud to marry his brutish son, Dudley. However, Dudley has a secret wife so he formulates another plan to get Maud's fortune a nasty (and uproarious) scheme involving deceit and murder. Will handsome Captain Oakley and sophisticated Lady Monica save Maud? Will the mystery of the locked room be revealed? Wonderfully goofy roles and easy production requirements add up to an audience and cast pleaser by the author of Egad, The Woman in White and The Face on the Barroom Floor.Hello, Ma & Other Plays
Par Trude Stone. 1981
comedy / The telephone is the umbilical cord that connects a widowed mother and her grown daughter. Ma patiently responds…
to her daughter's problems with warmth, humor and bite until she is distracted by love and marriage.Par Jerry Colker. 1989
Musical / 9m, 6f / Mail piles up for months while Alex, an unpublished author, slips away to escape anxieties…
over his artistic and romantic problems. When he returns to open the accumulation, each letter springs to life. Alex's girl friend, his family and his best friend-- even those sending bills and hilarious junk mail-- fill the stage with song and dance. This is a wild and wacky musical by the authors of 3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down.