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1000 Airplanes on the Roof

Hwang, David Henry

New American Library

roymusic - drama - monologueall male cast; one characterone malefour parts

90-minute monologue.

A science-fiction music-drama realized by Philip Glass, David Henry Hwang, and Jerome Sirlin.

in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL

1990

Glass, Philip

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2-2-Tango

MacIvor, Daniel

Coach House Press

royrelationships - LGBTQ+ - men all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

'. . . a highly stylized presentation that features clipped, overlapping dialogue and rigidlychoreographed gestures. . . (MacIvor's) observations about the eternal struggle in relationshipsbetween emotional, physical and spiritual need and the assertions of independence easily exceedthe gay context in which they are being played out.'

in - Making, Out / CCO

1992

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27 Wagons Full of Cotton

Williams, Tennessee

Doubleday

royd r a m athree characters; extrastwo male; one femaleone act

1 exterior set.

"Southern degenerate gets work for his cotton gin by burning rival's plantation facilities."

in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL

1958

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27 Wagons Full of Cotton

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

royd r a m athree characters; extrastwo male; one femaleone act

1 exterior set.

"Southern degenerate gets work for his cotton gin by burning rival's plantation facilities."

in - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays / COL

1953

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3:59 AM: A Drag Race for Two Actors

Ramirez, Marco

Playscripts, Inc.

roydramaall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

10 minute play.

Award-winning play about a behind-the-wheel encounter between two men on the edge.

in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL

2009

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3:59 AM: A Drag Race for Two Actors

Ramirez, Marco

Vintage Books


10 minute play.

Award-winning play about a behind-the-wheel encounter between two men on the edge.

in - Plays for Two / COL

2014

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4-H Club

Shepard, Sam

Random House

roydrama - social change - menall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

"Three psychologically crippled roommates revert to meaningless actions and dialogues in face ofsocial change."

in - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays / COL

1986

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4.48 Psychosis

Kane, Sarah

Methuen

roydrama - Britishthree charactersvariable castone act

"What happens to a person's mind when the barriers which distinguish between reality anddifferent forms of imagination completely disappear."

in - Complete Plays (Sarah Kane) / COL

2001

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7 Stages of Grieving, The

Enoch, Wesley

Methune

roydeathall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'Grief at death of Grandmother is catalyst for Australian Aboriginal woman to consider family andfriends who have died young and under unnatural circumstances.'

in - Contemporary Australian Plays / COL

1995

Mailman, Deborah

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90 Days

Meriwether, Elizabeth

Vintage Books

roydrama - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Abby phones her boyfriend Eliot in rehab.


2014

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A3

Bridges, James

Dell Publishing Company

roydramaall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

Description not available.

in - New Theatre for Now / COL

1971

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Abby's Place

Koller, Katherine

AU Press

roydrama - Canadian - Alberta playwright - Albertathree characterstwo male; one femalefifteen scenes

The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In "Abby'sPlace" a dying woman draws emotional strength from a lake that she understands as her finalresting place.

in - Voices of the Land / CCO

2012

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Account Balanced

Bunce, Valorie

Blizzard Publishing

roydramaall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

As her younger female neighbor completes her taxes for her, an older woman settles her other'accounts'.

in - Instant Applause / CCO

1994

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Acetylene

Ramsey, Erik

Samuel French

royAmerican - dramathree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

interior.

A poorly educated woman is enthralled by a rigid, righteous husband who expects precision ineverything and an apple in his lunch box when he leaves for his welding job. The day she forgetsthe apple he has a fatal accident. When visited by her pastor, she wanders in and out of sanity asshe blames herself for her husband's death and hallucinates about being tortured by an acetylene

in - Award-Winning Plays: Volume 2 / COL

1995

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Acorn

Graziano, David

Miscellaneous

roydramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act


in - Dramatics (Nov 1998) / PER

1998

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Acorn

Graziano, David

Smith and Kraus

royromancetwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 setting.

An unemployed carpenter and high school graduate share a clothesline and fall in love.

in - Humana Festival '98 / COL

1998

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Act of Devotion, An

Tannen, Deborah

Applause Theatre Book Publishers

roydrama - Jewishtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Elderly Jewish man and daughter visit Warsaw and explore family history.'

in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL

1995

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Act Without Words I

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

roypantomimeone character playone male or femaleone act

1 set.

"Mime for one player. A man is alternately successful and frustrated in attempts to perform certainactions".

in - Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces / COL

1958

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Act Without Words I

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

roypantomimeone character playone male or femaleone act


in - Collected Shorter Plays / COL

1984

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Act Without Words I: a mime for one player

Beckett, Samuel

Pearson Education

roypantomime - solo performanceone character playone male or female one act


in - Plays Onstage / COL

2006

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Act Without Words II

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

roypantomimeall male cast; two characterstwo maleone scene

1 set.

"Mime for two players. Contrasts actions of the two".

in - Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett / COL

1958

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Beckett, Samuel

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

roypantomimeall male cast; two characterstwo maleone scene1 set.


in - The Art of Drama / COL

1976

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Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

roypantomimeall male cast; two characterstwo maleone scene

1 set.



1984

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Actors

Bromberg, Conrad

Dramatists Play Service

roydrama - actingthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'An encounter between old professional actors and dedicated young novice.'

in - Actors - Two Short Plays / COL

1975

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Adult Child/Dead Child

Dowie, Claire

Methuen Drama

royBritish - monologue - drama - mental healthall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

written without gender in mind and can therefore be performed by either sex.

"A powerful and moving account of the passage of a woman's life from young child - clumsy andemotionally out of place in a spotless well-ordered household - to her years of maturity, as sheprogresses from home to lonely bedsit to psychiatric treatment to what's laughingly termed socialadjustment, still baffled by the rules and values of the adult world ... a strangely exhilarating

in - Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? and Other Stand-Up Theatre Plays / COL

1996

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Affidavit, The

Tiger, Janet S.

Meriwether Publishing

roydrama - World War II - anti-semetism - historicaltwo charactersone male; one female one act

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, an affidavit was required of a person wanting to enter theUnited States as a permanent resident. The affidavit was used to obtain a visa from the UnitedStates, which then entitled the visa holder to apply for an exit visa from his home country. Ayoung Jewish woman wishes to pawn her authentic family heirloom ruby ring worth $10,000 to apawnbroker who will only purchase the ring and pay $650, the exact amount she needs (and heknows it). She needs the money to purchase an affidavit and the pawnbroker purposely holds her

in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL

1987

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Afrika Solo

Sears, Djanet

Playwrights Canada Press

roydrama - Canadian - women - Africanmany characterstwo male; one female (doubling)one act

In Afrika Solo, Djanet Sears follows her roots back 400 years to Africa to find a missing link. In apiece that changes time frames, sings, dances, and collides with pop-culture references, Searsexplores home, heritage, and identity, in this fast-paced, potent play. A Canadian present, anAfrican past; Sears finds herself in both.

in - Afrika, Solo / CCO

2011

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Afrocentric

Odhiambo, David Nandi


royCanadian dramatwo charactersone male; one femalescene one and four of a one act

'The play examines the social, economic and cultural forces which bring a black woman of mixedheritage and a black man together, and the issues which subsequently tear their relationshipapart.'

in - Beyond the Pale / CCO

1996

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After Antietam (or Incident After Antietam)

Angel, Leonard


royCanadian - drama - wartwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"When a Confederate soldier meets a southern woman, the idealism of the Confederacy clasheswith the brutal realities of war."

in - After Antietam / Isadora and G.B. / CCO

1978

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After Miss Julie

Marber, Patrick

Methune

roytragedythree charactersone male; two femaleone act

Adaptation of Strindberg's play 'Miss Julie'. "July 1945. A country house in England. Celebrationsfor the British Labour Party's election victory are in full swing. The lady of the house, Miss Julie,descends into the servants' kitchen to seek out John, her father's chauffeur. A passionatemidsummer night turns to tragedy as they test the limits of their new freedom."

in - Plays: 1 by Patrick Marber / COL

2004

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Agokwe

Fobister, Waawaate


royCanadian - drama - Native peoples - LGBTQ+ - Native playwright - monologuesall male cast; five charactersone male (doubling)one act

"Mike is a hockey player and Jake is a dancer. The boys notice each other at the Kenora ShoppersMall and ultimately connect through a mutual love of movement — when Mike is skating and Jakeis dancing, "like grass blowing in the wind." Playing these and many more characters through theiconic, multifarious persona of Nanabush, the trickster, Waawaate Fobister intertwines the boys'attraction to each other through activities that traditionally separate gender and orientation."Agokwe" (pronounced "agoo-kway; meaning "wise woman" or "Two-Spirited") is a remarkable and

in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO

2013

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Air Talk

Shields, Carol

Blizzard Publishing

royrelationships - dramaall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

'A conversation between two men during an airplane flight about the mysterious Joanna.'


1994

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Airswimming

Jones, Charlotte

Faber and Faber

roydramaall female cast; two characterstwo femalesixteen scenes

"Based on a true story of two young women in 1920s England who have been incarcerated in ahospital for the "criminally insane" for having borne illegitimate children; and who were forgottenby their families and not released until the 1970s."

in - Plays One / COL

2004

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Albert

Jones, Andy

Breakwater Books

roydrama - solo performanceall male cast; one characterone maleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

A man at home alone with his budgie tells a story.

in - Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, The / CCO

2016

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Alien Boy

Scheffer, Will


roymonologues - men - dramaall male cast; one characterone maleone act

A "coming out" story of a thirteen-year-old boy.


2007

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Alien Creature

Griffiths, Linda


roydrama - identity - historical drama - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'Monologue supposedly spoken by the Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwan, who died ofalcoholism in 1987; draws on her writings to tell her life story.'Winner of 2000 Dora Award for Outstanding New Play

in - Voice of Her Own / CCO

2003

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All Men Are Whores: An Inquiry

Mamet, David


roydrama - sexualitythree characterstwo male; one femaleone act (seventeen scenes)

"Two men and a woman reflect on variety and meaning of male sexuality."

in - Short Plays and Monologues / COL

1981

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All My White Sins Forgiven

LaBute, Neil

Overlook Duckworth

roydramaall male cast; two characters two maleone act

The evocative one-act companion play that gives depth and context to All The Ways To Say I LoveYou. In this engrossing two-hander, Mrs. Johnson’s husband, Eric, and his friend Todd banter,shoot hoops, and work their way around to talking some truth about their lives, their marriages,their children, and their own secrets and desires.

in - All the Ways to Say I Love You / COL

2016

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All Saints' Day

Winters, Marian


roydrama - mystery - thriller - Halloween all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"Two lonely derelicts have taken temporary shelter in an abandoned waterfront building onHalloween night. They talk about various ancient customs and meanings. Peter explains that the'Lord of Death' appears at midnight on Halloween to exact retribution for misdeeds. Peter misseshis wallet and accuses John of having stolen it. John denies it. In a struggle Peter attacks John andleaves him lying on the floor. He then discovers the missing wallet and goes to tell John, only tofind him dead. Remorseful and troubled, Peter slides John's body from the window into the water

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1968

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All the Ways to Say I Love You

LaBute, Neil

Overlook Duckworth

roydrama - solo performance - womenall female cast; one character one femaleone act

Mrs. Johnson is a high school English teacher in a loving marriage. As she recounts herexperiences with a favored student from her past, Mrs. Johnson slowly reveals the truth that ishidden just beneath the surface details of her life, in this riveting solo play about love, hardchoices, and the cost of fulfilling an all-consuming desire.

in - All the Ways to Say I Love You / COL

2016

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Auburn, David


roydrama - short playtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Politics and ethics collide when a young woman confronts an older politico about an attack adhe ran against her father years earlier that destroyed the father's career.

in - Outstanding Short Plays / COL

2012

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American Badass, or 12 Characters in Search of a National Identity

Harcum, Chris

The New York Theatre Experience, Inc.

roydrama - political - monologues - voicelarge cast; prerecorded materialone maleone act (twenty-four scenes)

In a dozen monologues, a look at who we are in 2008 and how we may have gotten that way.

in - Plays and Playwrights 2009 / COL

2009

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American Klepto

Moore, Alison

Playscripts, Inc.

roymonologue - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone scene

A young woman and a piece of petrified wood.

in - Snapshot / COL

2003

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American Modern

Glass, Joanna McClelland


royCanadian - drama - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"A highly imaginative evocation of the numbing isolation which besets a couple as they struggleto adjust to urban life. Pat and Mike, an urban couple, find themselves ever more out of touch withthe world in which they must live, and with ever less to hold onto and believe in. He toys with theprospect of suicide, and she with the notion of madness, as they reminisce about the eventswhich have brought them to where they are. Their conversation grows ever more bizarre - andrevealing - as they seek to 'fill the empty spaces', and to fight back, to survive, against the

in - Canadian Gothic and American Modern / CCO

1977

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An Old Story

Shanley, John Patrick


royd r a m atwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A tale of the subtle distinctions between pain and pleasure, fear and exhilaration, necessity anddesire.

in - French Waitress and Other Plays / COL

2014

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Anatomy Lesson

Tremblay, Larry

Talonbooks

roydrama - relationships - monologues - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

A professor dissects and re-examines her long relationship with her abusive, slick,lawyer-politician husband.

in - Talking Bodies / CCO

2001

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And Baby Makes Four

Farmer, Frank


roydrama - LGBTQ+three charactersone male; two femaleone act (three scenes)

A young lesbian's decision to have a child by a father of her choice is thwarted when he refuses todonate to a sperm bank, nearly forcing her to conceive 'conventionally,' much to the annoyance ofher older partner.


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And Then

Arenas, Amelia


roydrama - monologues - womenall female cast; five charactersone femalefive scenes

The five monologues in AND THEN stem from one question: is it possible to empathize with acharacter who has done the unthinkable? Hanadi is a twenty-eight year old Palestinian lawyer whodecides to blow herself up along with twenty-two strangers in a Haifa restaurant. Mary Kay is asixth-grade teacher who falls madly in love with one of her students. Lynndie is a youngAmerican soldier who becomes a torturer in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. Susan is a younghousewife who drives her car into a lake and watchers her two children drown. Leonora is a rich,


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Aneemah's Spot / The Base

Motion (aka Wendy Braithwaite)


roydramatwo charactersone male; one female (can be young adults or adults)one act (two parts)

Strong black accents required.

A man and a woman meet after a funeral to get things off their chests.

in - Give Voice / YCL

2011

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Angel, The

Nelson, Greg

Blizzard Publishing

royCanadian - dramatwo characterstwo male or femaleone act

Someone is late for a meeting with a friend because of an angel sighting.

in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO

1996

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Angels, Laws and Miracles

Kramer, Seth

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - deathtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

this play can also be performed as part of the full-length collection "Special Days".

AJ, living out his final days in hospice care, must come to grips with how he will face death. Withthe aid of his nurse, Winny, AJ finally makes his peace with what's to come and how he will see itthrough.

in - Special Days / COL

2004

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Annie Mae's Movement

Nolan, Yvette


roydrama - biography - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwrightseven charactersone male; one female (doubling)one act

Annie Mae’s Movement explores what it must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, awoman in a man’s movement, a Canadian in America, an Aboriginal in a white-dominant culture ata time when it felt like we could really change the world. Dying under mysterious circumstances, itis still unclear as to what really happened to Anna Mae back in the late 70s. Instead of recountingcold facts, this play looks for the truth from examining the life and death of this remarkableAboriginal woman; that we cannot know the consequences of our actions; that we live on in the

in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO

2008

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Anniversary

Bishop, Conrad


roydrama - anniversary - marital relationstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

The action takes place in the present in the home of a sophisticated young couple celebratingtheir first anniversary.


1987

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Antarctica

Raship, Carolyn


roydrama - Americanthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

In this sometimes surreal fantasia of growing up, Magda and Winnie set out to become the firstAmerican Girls to make an expedition to the South Pole.


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Any Night

Arnold, Daniel


royCanadian - thrillersix charactersone male; one female (doubling)thirty-nine scenes

Anna is a modern dancer who is looking for a new place to live. Technophile Patrick just happensto have put up a sign for a newly available basement suite at her dance studio. These twodisparate individuals will meet, get to know each other, fall in love and become so entwined thattheir destiny, eerily foretold by their pseudo-psychic neighbour, will ultimately provide us withsome clarity as to why they were put together in the first place.

in - Summerworks / CCO

2009

Hahn, Medina

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Apple in the Eye, The

Hollingsworth, Margaret

Coach House Press

royCanadian - drama - marital relationstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"Gemma's attempts to communicate with her husband are repeatedly rebuffed and she survives herunbearable reality by withdrawing into her own fantasy world."

in - Willful Acts / CCO

1985

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Argument, The

Moore, Mavor

Talonbooks

roydrama - Canadiantwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"A domestic spat between a man and a woman, of indeterminate relationship, develops into a warbetween the sexes about different attitudes to the truth."

in - Six Plays by Mavor Moore / CCO

1989

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Aria

Highway, Tomson


royone woman play - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwrightall female cast; many charactersone female (doubling)one act



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Arkadelphia

Williams, Samuel Brett



Bobby returns to his hometown of Arkadelphia, Arkansas after a semester of college in Manhattan.Seeking refuge in two childhood friends, he ends up exposing a secret the small, religious townwould rather keep buried.

in - The Best of American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL

2008

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Art of Sacrifice, The

Clarvoe, Anthony

Vintage Books

roydrama - family relationsall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act (two scenes)

An American chess master returns home for a defining emotional match with his challengingand unpredictable father, who years ago coached him to success. A taut, true and ultimatelyforgiving play about the negotiations we all make as parents and children, this intricate dramabeautifully delineates the complexity that exists within the strict boundaries of a chessboard or afamily.


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Asleep on the Wind

Byron, Ellen


roydrama - comedytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

exterior setting.

"The time is ten years before the time of GRACELAND; the place, a small clearing in Bayou Teche,Louisiana, the "special place" that Rootie refers to in the other play. This is where Rootie and herfavorite brother, Beau, a handsome, sensitive and restless young man of thirty come to talk inprivate and to escape her other brothers, two high-spirited hot rodders who seem to delight in

in - Graceland and Asleep on the Wind / COL

1984

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Assumptions

Bolen, Lynne


roydrama - American - short playthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

... ingeniously blurring reality and illusion by layering the play with actors who are first merelyacting but then turn into actors who are acting actors. The hall-of-mirrors trickery capitalizes ontheater's singular strength - its power of illusion.


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Asteroid Belt

Feldman, Lauren


roydrama - family relationsthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

This play reveals a college student and her parents grappling with fate's challenge of time andspace. The plot takes us through that journey.


2010

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At Home

Bromberg, Conrad


roymarital relationstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Script reading results in husband and wife arguing over their marriage and sex problems.'

in - Actors - Two Short Plays / COL

1975

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At Home (Part 1)

Weller, Michael


roydrama - marital relationstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 interior set.

"To their friends, Carol and Paul are the perfect couple, although at home their marriage isdisintegrating".

in - Five Plays by Michael Weller / COL

1982

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At Land's End

Steinour, Marcus L.

Samuel French

royrelationships two charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Dying woman wants assurances that husband will remarry.'

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Twenty-first Series) / COL

1997

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Attacks on the Heart

Laurents, Arthur

Back Stage Books

roydramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (seven scenes)

This new one-acter focuses upon an unlikely encounter between an American screenwriter and anattractive Turkish widow in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

in - Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents - COL

2004

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Audition Piece

Anderson, Peter


roydramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone scene

"In a bar, a woman talks to a man about the losers she has dated."

in - Rattle in the Dash / CCO

1988

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Auto-Da-Fe

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions


1 exterior

"In revolt against the degeneracy of his section of New Orleans, fanatical man sets fire to hismother's home."


1953

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Autumn Leaves

Bernstein, Julianne

Samuel French


'Two sisters at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., try to come to terms with thedeath of their brother.'

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Sixteenth Series) / COL

1996

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Aye Aye Aye I'm Integrated

Smith, Anna Deavere


roydrama - racism - stereotypes - womenall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

" 'Aye, Aye, Aye I'm Integrated' is set in the children's ward at the Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre.Cyprienne is a physician, following her families legacy. In this short drama, Smith complicates avariety of racial, occupational, and gender stereotypes.

in - Here to Stay / COL

1997

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Back to Berlin

Thiessen, Vern


royCanadian - drama - war - family relations - Alberta playwrightone characterall male cast; one maleone act

Back to Berlin brings us a man who accompanies his aging father on a visit to the city of hisyouth, and confronts his own fears of his father's involvement with the Nazis during World War II.

Nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award for Best Original Script.

in - The Courier and Other Plays / CCO

2006

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Bad Bad Jo-Jo

Herlihy, James Leo


roydrama - horrorall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

'Manic creator of nation's most popular film hero is protagonist who watches in horror as hiscreation comes violently to life in form of two fans.'

in - Stop, You're Killing Me / COL

1969

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Balloon Rat

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roycomic drama - monologue - agingall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

Anna, a young German woman, tells us about the mysterious events that took place in her oldapartment in Munich, where she lives with her little girl and a cat, when a large but demonicallyclever rat seems to be moving around at night among the blown up balloons left on the floor afterher daughter's birthday party. In Anna's increasingly desperate efforts to discover if this rat is realor imaginary, she comes to believe that the appearance of this rat seems to be connected in somemysterious way to her own upcoming 30th birthday. A funny and touching monologue about a

in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL

2005

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Ballycastle

Cahill, Sylvia

Samuel French


'American girl hitchhiking in Northern Ireland offered ride by Ulser boy.'


1997

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Bank and Trust

Lavoie, Kitt

Vintage Books

roydrama - friendship - relationships⌦two charactersone male; one femaleone act

In the midst of a free-falling economy, two old friends – a construction loan officer and the wifeof a building contractor – have no one to blame but each other.


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Bank Street Breakfast

Patrick, Robert

Samuel French


'Couple discuss money on morning when wife goes to work and husband keeps house.'

in - One Man, One Woman / COL

1978

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Baptismal

Tesich, Steve

Samuel French


3 exteriors.

"'Baptismal' is an elegy in a country graveyard - told in flashbacks - about a widow and widowerwho repeat their marriages and marital mistakes to eternity. This is an excellent opportunity fordynamic acting."

in - Touching Bottom / COL

1980

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Barefoot in Nightgown by Candlelight

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydrama - horrorall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

A dim circle of light surrounded by darkness. Three young girls, barefoot in nightgown, speak ina glow like candlelight. Cath is an orphan, sent to a girls' boarding school in the country, a bigold house where she is very lonely until two of the other girls, Alicia and Belle, creep into herroom one night, blow on her face to awaken her, and initiate her into a dangerous midnight gameof Mistress and Slave. They deal out cards, and the one who gets the Queen of Spades is theMistress, the Queen of Hearts the Slave, and the third girl is the Witness. The Mistress gets to


2005

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Basement, The

Pinter, Harold


roydramathree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

area staging

A spinsterish bachelor whose carefully furnished basement flat is invaded late one night by hisformer roommate with a young girl in tow. He is effusive in his welcome to his former roommate.The girl and former roommate strip naked and get into bed, as host, terribly rattled, continues tochatter. The intruders move in permanently, and soon the host's old pictures and bits of sculpture

in - Tea Party and The Basement / COL

1969

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Basement, The

Pinter, Harold



area staging.

A spinsterish bachelor whose carefully furnished basement flat is invaded late one night by hisformer roommate with a young girl in tow. He is effusive in his welcome to his former roommate. The girl and former roommate strip naked and get into bed, as host, terribly rattled, continues tochatter. The intruders move in permanently, and soon the host's old pictures and bits of

in - Tea Party and Other Plays / COL

1969

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Bea and May

Sanchez, Edwin

Vintage Books

roydrama - relationships⌦all female cast; two characters⌦two femaleone act

"Bea and May" is a love story between two women. We open on the wedding of one of them andcome to discover they will not wind up together. - www.jacquelinelawton.com


2014

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Beatty

Koller, Katherine

Blizzard Publishing

roycontemporary - Alberta playwrightthree characters; one voice on tapeone male; two femaleone act

A telemarketer and her invalid mother try to hit the jackpot.


1996

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Beautiful American Soldier

Madden, Dano


roydrama - warthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

Two sisters, unexpectedly lost along a quiet roadside in war-torn Iraq, find an unexpected friendin a man peddling junk. Together, their shattered hearts must find a way to deal with theconsequences of war.

in - The Best American Short Plays - 2005-2006 / COL

2008

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Beautiful View, A

MacIvor, Daniel


roydrama - Canadianall female cast; two characterstwo femaletwelve scenes

"A play about joy and misery, misunderstandings and connections, and how one moment can alterthe whole world; in short, a play about love. A BEAUTIFUL VIEW plays out the story of therelationship between two women, Michelle and Liz—how they came together and how they’vedrifted apart. As Michelle and Liz embark on a journey to find new scenarios for the rest of theirlives, the audience is drawn into their world."

in - I Still Love You / CCO

2006

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Bedtime Story

Kramer, Seth

Playscripts, Inc.

roymonologues - men - parenthoodall male cat; one characterone maleone scene

this play can also be performed as part of the full-length collection Special Days.

Jeff tells his baby daughter Ruby about what it means to become a parent.


2004

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Before Breakfast

O'Neill, Eugene

Random House

roydrama - marital relations - monologuesall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

interior.

"A woman, while preparing breakfast for her husband (heard offstage), complains of her strugglesto make ends meet. The husband, once considered a desirable catch, has steadily degenerateduntil he is no longer good for anything. When his wife has said everything hateful and bitter thatis in her, she subsides into silence. A moment later we know that the desperate man in the next

in - Six Short Plays of Eugene O'Neill / COL

1951

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Before Breakfast

O'Neill, Eugene

Random House

roydrama - marital relations - monologuesall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

interior.

"A woman, while preparing breakfast for her husband (heard offstage), complains of her strugglesto make ends meet. The husband, once considered a desirable catch, has steadily degenerateduntil he is no longer good for anything. When his wife has said everything hateful and bitter thatis in her, she subsides into silence. A moment later we know that the desperate man in the next

in - Plays of Eugene O'Neill 1, The / COL

1955

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Beggar or The Dead Dog, The

Brecht, Bertolt

Methuen

roydramaall male cast; two characters; extrastwo maleone act

'Blind beggar, concerned only with death of dog, unknowingly mocks greatness of Emperor whospeaks with him.'

in - Collected Works: One / COL

1970

translated by Michael Hamburger

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Belly Up

Chafe, Robert

Breakwater Books

roydrama - disabilities - solo performance all male cast; one characterone maleone act (eighteen scenes)

1 interior set.

"A blind man is terrified of leaving his home. But he has a little mouth to feed, and he is quicklyrunning out of fish food. Digital video and an original score play backdrop to this one-man audiovisual feast."


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Bench at the Edge, A

Jannuzzi, Luigi

Samuel French

roydramatic comedy - fantasy - adventuretwo charactersflexible casting (two male or two female or one male; one female)one act

bare stage; running time: 40 min.

A person sits on a bench at the edge of an abyss. In the style of Theatre of the Absurd, this issimply done as a bench on the edge of the apron. Along comes a second person contemplating "aheroic dive." Their repartee, the meaning of where they really are and what they are really therefor, draws out the humour and conflict of the edge. What is the abyss and what are these people

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 6th series / COL

1982

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Bete Blanche

Scollard, Rose

Playwrights Union of Canada

royCanadian drama - surrealismtwo charactersone male; one female (doubling)one act

'A figure in white brings Faye money every night, and a story of the white beasts of corruption thatwomen are hitched to - Innocence, Frailty and Purity. Faye must get control of these beasts if sheis to preserve the autonomy of her soul.'

in - Bete Blanche / Tango Noir / CCO

1991

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Betrayal, The

Gareau, Laurier

NeWest Press

roydrama - Riel Rebellion - Edmonton Fringe Festival all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

No abstract available.

in - Five from the Fringe / CCO

1986

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Betting on the Dust Commander

Parks, Suzan-Lori

Theatre Communications Group

royAmerican - dramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Experimental play about language and marriage. Slide projections.'

in - The America Play and Other Works / COL

1987

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Between

Guare, John


roydramatwo charactersflexible castingone act

Two people share a meal and a past crime.


2015

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Between East and West

Nelson, Richard


roydrama - immigrantstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (eighteen scenes)

1 interior; period - 1983.

A Czech theatre director and his actress wife find difficulties in adapting to new life in theUnited States.

in - New Plays USA 3 / COL

1986

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Between Mothers

Bushkowsky, Aaron


roydrama - Canadian - monologues - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

A woman, drinking and waiting for the phone to ring, analyses her relationships with her mother,daughter and ex-husband who is abusing her daughter.

in - The Waterhead and Other Plays / CCO

2003

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Beuys, Buoys Boys

Garnhum, Ken

Coach House Press

roymonologues - menall male cast; one characterone maleone act

A young man builds his monument for the world. 'High art takes a tumble with schlock, and fromtheir union a different mode of representation is born, a focal point for a new energy, a hopefulportent for the future.'


1992

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Beuys, Buoys Boys

Garnhum, Ken


roymonologues - men - Canadianall male cast; one characterone maleone act

A young man builds his monument for the world. 'High art takes a tumble with schlock, andfrom their union a different mode of representation is born, a focal point for a new energy, ahopeful portent for the future.'

in - Alone, on Stage / CCO

2008

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Big Blue Bird, The

Bushkowsky, Aaron


roydrama - Canadian - relationships - menall male cast; four charactersthree male (doubling)one act

Three generations of men - grandfather, father, and son - come to terms with the missing womenin their lives and find love and compassion.


2003

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Big face

de Vries, Marion

Miscellaneous

roymonologues - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'A poetic monologue about a big-faced woman from the prairies.'

in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 92, Fall 1997 / PER

1997

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Bindle Stiff

Gray, Amlin


roydrama - curtain raiserthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

"Set in 1937, Bertha is a "BINDLE STIFF," or hobo. She has come into the theater in search ofsomeone she calls "Perfessor" (an empty chair in the audience). The Perfessor, a social scientist,hired her for his social research on the lives and habits of hobos. First, Bertha was to relate herown life story: from her childhood in Kansas, to a socialist farm during World War I, to being aprostitute. But recently the Perfessor has asked her to go back on the road and the rails to gathermore information for his book. After three more trips out, however, Bertha is feeling used..."

in - Mickey's Teeth and Bindle Stiff / COL

1992

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Birdbath

Melfi, Leonard

Crown Publishers

roydrama two charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 interior set.

'Set in New York City. Poor poet employed in cafeteria becomes friendly with shy bus girl andmakes a surprising discovery.'

in - Best Short Plays of the World Theatre: 1958-1967 / COL

1968

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Birdbath

Melfi, Leonard

Samuel French


1 interior set.

'Set in New York City. Poor poet employed in cafeteria becomes friendly with shy bus girl andmakes a surprising discovery.'

in - Encounters / COL

1967

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Blind Dancers

Tidler, Charles


roydramatwo charactersone male; one female one act

"...we meet Louisa two years later on 'the morning after' with a travelling jazz trombonist."

-second play in series

1981 Chalmers Award winner

in - Straight Ahead and Blind Dancers / CCO

1981

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Blind Date with Mary, A

Sura

Samuel French

royd r a m athree charactersone male; two femaleone act

This is a play involving a man named Bob who has a blind date with Mary, a supposedlybeautiful woman with whom his friend set him up. But when he shows up at her apartment, hemeets her roommate Susan. The two wait together for Mary’s arrival as Susan reveals to Bob all thenot-so-wonderful things about his blind date. In the end, Bob and Susan go off together for adate while Mary enters alone only to discover that Susan stole her date and planned it from thebeginning.


1989

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Blind Harassment

Sumlak-Langlois, Gordon

Dramatic Publishing Company

roydramathree charactersone male; one female; one male or femaleone act

'(The play) deals with all levels of discrimination and the stereotypes of harassment found insociety when a couple discuss a possible civil suit against men who have sexually harassed othermen.'

in - Best Student One Acts Volume 5 / COL

2000

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Blood Money

Jasudowicz, Dennis

Hill and Wang

roydrama - allegorythree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 interior set.

"Surrealistic allegory. Rich man's vengeance on his adulterous wife and companion whoscornfully flaunt and then cringe before his wealth".

in - New American Plays Volume One / COL

1965

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Blue Door

Barfield, Tanya

Miscellaneous

roydrama - black historyall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

singing.

"Lewis is a sleepless mathematics professor, who inadvertently conjures his ancestors during arestless night of personal and professional crisis. As they prod him with their stories of slavery,Black Power, and academia, he begins to understand what it means to be black, both then andnow. Tanya Barfield’s play is a poetic depiction of one man’s exploration of his history."

in - American Theatre (December 2006) / PER

2006

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Blue Stars

Spencer, Stuart



'Limousine driver offers lonely housewife free trip.'


1995

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Blueberry Waltz

Amberly, Liz

Samuel French

roydramatic comedytwo charactersone male; one femaleone scene

One week after an accident in a Pennsylvania coal mine that trapped men underground, a miner'swife is afraid to move on with life even though her husband was uninjured. His playful, even sillyattempts fail to alleviate her obsessive terror. When she shares what she really thought during hisordeal, her honesty strengthens their relationship. As a favorite song plays on the radio, theydance and know that they can face the future.

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (28th series) / COL

2004

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Bluebirds

Thiessen, Vern


roydrama - Canadian - war - women all female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

Thiessen brings to light the stories of three Canadian nurses who crossed oceans to take care ofothers in the war. Bonding over their duties and patients, the nurses keep up a positiveatmosphere, even as the front line draws closer to their field hospital.

in - Vimy and Bluebirds / CCO

2017

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Blues For My Grandfather

Providence, Tien


roymonologueone characterflexible castingone scene

'A self contained monologue written for performance at an evening of Caribbean voices, thenperformed at the 1995 New Ideas Festival at the Alumnae Theatre. It is a story taken from theheadlines, giving voice to the other side. It highlights the pain, the sorrow and the anger you feelwhen someone you love is shot down.'


1996

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Body Blows

Yhap, Beverly



'Years earlier, Lydia betrayed herself for Jason, sacrificing all ties to her family and culture, exilingherself from the sources of her power. In this country, she is feared as different by everyoneincluding her adolescent daughter. Lately, she has begun to suspect Jason of cheating. Afterlengthly avoidance, they are brought face to face with the rift in their marriage.'


1996

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Body of Water, A

Blessing, Lee

Miscellaneous

roydrama three charactersone male; two femaleone act

Lee Blessing’s dreamlike chamber piece A Body of Water examines the realities of life and lovethrough a multi-leveled study of three people, two of whom are trying to reconstitute theirmemories. The play begins with the man and woman awakening in an unfamiliar house at the topof a hill and surrounded by water, with no idea of who they are or their relationship to each other.A younger woman soon enters and attempts to focus their memories, but she keeps changing herstory, and in so doing alters the realities they are attempting to comprehend.

in - American Theatre (July / August 2006) / PER

2006

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Bogus Babbling with an Elbow: Home on the Range

Renders, Kim

Blizzard Publishing

roymonologue - dramaone characterone femaleone act

Wanda Cash (a.k.a., Ramona Sabone - Urban Jungle Hunter) delivers a lecture on the homeless.

in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO

1998

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Bondage

Hwang, David Henry


roysexualitytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'A look at race and sexual attraction set in Los Angeles S & M parlor.'

in - Trying to Find Chinatown and Bondage - COL

1996

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Bondage

Hwang, David Henry

Smith and Kraus

roysexualitytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'A look at race and sexual attraction set in Los Angeles S & M parlor.'

in - 20/20 ... / COL

1995

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Bone Close to My Brain, A

Dietz, Dan

Smith and Kraus

roymonologue - menall male cast; one characterone maleone scene

A man describes his brother and his tragedy.


2005

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Book of Questions, The

Chafe, Rick

Blizzard Publishing

royCanadian - dramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A couple discuss life's big issues in the bathroom.


1994

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Born Ready a.k.a. Black on Both Sides

Pierre, Joseph Jomo


roydrama - men three characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Two men, who could have been brothers, meet over a gun called Peggy Sue.

in - BeatDown / CCO

2006

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Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Bolen, Lynne


roydramasix characterstwo male; one femaleone act (seven scenes)

A teacher and underage student on a date flee to avoid another student. Later, they fail to providethis student's alibi for a murder he is accused of, and twenty years later, the teacher and theconvicted student meet.


2015

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Bow of Ulysses, The

Berkoff, Steven

Faber and Faber


"Like James Joyce's Finnegans Wake the play is cyclical as it states at the end of the text: fading outas the story continues forever."

in - Steven Berkoff: Plays One / COL

1994

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Box, The

Rosen, Sheldon

New Play Centre with Fineglow Plays

roydrama - relationships - menall male cast; two characters two maleone act

1 interior.

"Two men sharing apartment, closely attuned to one another despite personality differences, playverbal games and mentally manipulate each other as they fantasize about contents of box."

in - West Coast Plays / CCO

1975

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Boys with Cars

Majumdar, Anita


roydrama - youth - women - coming of age - cultureseven charactersone femaleone act

"Boys With Cars" follows Naz, also a classically trained Indian dancer, who dreams of gettingout of small town Port Moody to attend the University of British Columbia. But when Buddy causesa stir over Naz at school, Naz’s university plans begin to crumble quickly.

'The Fish Eyes Trilogy' contains: 'Fish Eyes', 'Boys With Cars', and 'Let Me Borrow That Top'

in - Love, Loss, and Longing / CCO

2015

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Boys with Cars

Majumdar, Anita


roydrama - youth - women - coming of age - culture - solo performance⌦seven charactersone femaleone act

"Boys With Cars" follows Naz, also a classically trained Indian dancer, who dreams of gettingout of small town Port Moody to attend the University of British Columbia. But when Buddy causesa stir over Naz at school, Naz’s university plans begin to crumble quickly.

'The Fish Eyes Trilogy' contains: 'Fish Eyes', 'Boys with Cars', and 'Let Me Borrow That Top'

in - The Fish Eyes Trilogy / CCO

2016

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Brave Hearts

Rintoul, Harry

Coach House Press

roydrama - LGBTQ+all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

After one man punches out another at a party, a third man talks him down and . . .'the relationshipthat gradually develops between the two men is complex, difficult and convincing. . . '


1992

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Break/s, the

Joseph, Marc Bamuthi

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - dance - musicall male cast; one character; musician; DJone characterone act

A travel diary recorded as a dream. A story that keeps circling back to begin 'in the middle', thisplay traces Joseph's journeys around the country and the world as a hip-hop artist crossingcultural lines, and grappling with questions of identity. He teaches in Wisconsin, Cuba andBosnia, has an impromptu performance in Senegal, visits family in South Florida, attends thefuneral of a former student in San Francisco, remembers meeting Jay-Z, and even imagines "chillin'with the Prince" in Minneapolis. With a poet's ear and dancer's grace, he details the struggles of


2009

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Breakfast and Bed

Fox, Amy


roydrama - LGBTQ+ all female cast; two characters; voicetwo femaleone act

In the spirit of experimentation, a woman who considers herself straight, goes home with anotherwoman she met at a party. She wakes up in an apartment with the mother of the woman she pickedup.


2010

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Breakfast and Bed

Fox, Amy


roydrama - LGBTQ+ ⌦all female cast; two characters; voicetwo femaleone act

In the spirit of experimentation, a woman who considers herself straight, goes home withanother woman she met at a party. She wakes up in an apartment with the mother of the womanshe picked up.


2012

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Breaks

Gingras, Rene

Coach House Press

royQuebec - dramaall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

"Pete is a loner in his thirties who wants to write music derived from a fusion of art and science.His quiet life is shattered by the intrusion of his landlord, Dupuis, a prosperous businessman,and Francois, an orphaned young punk who is epileptic and knows that Pete can help him toenjoy the ecstasy that he experiences during his seizures. Pete is forced to forge closerrelationships with Dupuis and Francois, without the two of them meeting. When they do meet inthe last scene, which ends with what may be a fatal confrontation between them, Pete is literally

in - Quebec Voices / CCO

1986

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Bricklayers Poet

Maruzzo, Joe


roydrama - American - lovethree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'Bricklayers Poet' is a play about longing for love. A bricklayer meets a writer in a Manhattan bar.

The play won Maruzzo 'Best Playwright' in the 2007 Turnip Short Festival.


2009

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Bright.Apple.Crush.

Yockey, Steve

Samuel French

roydrama - monologues - murderthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Three monologues intermingle, each character explains what drove them to murder. One man setfire to his house after finding his wife cheating on him in their bed. A woman (a teacher) givespoison apples to all of her students because she just can’t stand them anymore. Another man,physically abused by his lover, ultimately crushes his head in with his boot.

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 32nd series / COL

2008

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Bucket of Moon

Kramer, Seth

Playscripts, Inc.



A "mutual" is a day where two firefighters agree to swap a day off. On September 11th, 2001, JessSullivan stayed home while his brother went in to work their mutual, and then disappeared in theruins of the World Trade Center. Three days after the worst tragedy in New York's history, athunderstorm forces Jess and other rescuers to go home for the first time since the twin towers


2004

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Bugs

White, John


roydrama - family relationsfive characterstwo male; one femaleone act

He starts with the living room of a plain little house, brightened with careful housekeeping andwith the presence, in blushing pink curlers and dress of the lady of the house...Then herblundering son comes home from the 'school' --really a correctional institution where he hasbeen put for accidentally shoving a woman off a bridge, although he dived in vain to save her. The young man is obsessed with bugs, 'huge big bugs', that always come at him just when he istrying to think big things about God or something. His mother and a pitiful weak flower of a girl

in - Bugs and Veronica / COL

1966

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Bunny

Thorne, Jack

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - teenage sexuality - racism - monologue - relationshipsall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

A coming-of-age drama that tackles teenage sexuality, racism, and gang culture. The play's actionis narrated by eighteen-year-old Katie, an ordinary girl from Luton who plays clarinet in theorchestra and is applying for a place at university. When her boyfriend Abe, a black 24 year old,gets involved in a violent street altercation following a perceived racial slight, the situationescalates alarmingly. Katie finds herself in a car riding across the city as Abe and his mates Jakeand Asif attempt a revenge attack. Amidst the baying for blood and the longing for love and

in - Plays: One / COL

2014

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Burlap Bags

Peterson, Len


roydrama - Canadianall male cast; three characters; extrasthree male (doubling is possible)one act

The re-enactment of a suicide's diary, describing the process by which his life becomes painfullyabsurd to him.


1972

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Buses

Nicholas, Denise


roydrama - civil rights, biography, African Americanall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

'Dream play about civil rights revolving around Mary Ellen Pleasant and Rosa Parks.'

in - The National Black Drama Anthology / COL

1995

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Butler's Marsh

Chafe, Robert


roydramatwo charactersne male; one femaleone act

'Thirty years ago Nora's mother disappeared into the small, dense forest of Butler's Marsh. Sheemerged three days later, covered in blood, badly shaken, and completely silent about what hadhappened. Having never been offered an explanation, Nora ventures to Newfoundland for the firsttime to explore Butler's Marsh for herself. She is accompanied by her partner Tim, who is adamantthat she not be left alone. But as Nora's night in Butler's Marsh unfolds, and Tim's good humourwanes, the primary question of what happened to her mother becomes less troubling than

in - Robert Chafe: Two Plays / CCO

2001

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Buttonholes in Silk

Fricker, Gail


roydrama - family relationsall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

'Daughter comes home to England in hopes of discovering and asserting her own identity, and tobreak her estrangement with her mother. The two have not spoken since her emigration toCanada, so she enlists the support of her Grandmother and pushes for a joint holiday andreconciliation.'

in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO

2002

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Call, The

Inge, William


roydrama - phobiasall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

1 interior.

"Man from provincial Billings, Montana comes to New York City and has phobic reaction toeverything."

in - Two Short Plays / COL

1968

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Calm Down Mother

Terry, Megan

Vintage Books

roydrama - women - Avant Garde⌦all female cast; three charactersthree femaleone scene

Avant-garde play. Three women undergo transformations in roles.

in - Plays By and About Women / COL

1974

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Calm Down Mother

Terry, Megan

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.

roydrama - women - Avant Garde⌦all female cast; three charactersthree femaleo n e a c tAvant-garde play. Three women undergo transformations in roles.

in - Eight Plays from Off-Off Broadway / COL

1966

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Can't Stand Up for Falling Down

Cameron, Richard

Methune

roydrama all female cast; seven charactersthree female (doubling)one act

Damage wrought on three women by one boorish, unthinking, man, who never appears in theplay.

in - Plays 1: Richard Cameron / COL

1998

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Cape Enrage

Chiasson, Hermenegilde


royteenagers - dramathree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'Patrick Leger, a teen with a troubled past, has been accused of murdering a buddy from schooland must spend several days in jail while the detective assigned to his case, Victor, interrogateshim and his girlfriend Veronica McLaughlin. The dead boy, Martin, was found at the bottom of thecliff and since Patrick was the last of the group of teens picnicing that day at the cliffs to seeMartin alive, he is fingered as the guilty one pushing him. In the end it is revealed that Martin infact committed suicide, but the prolonged interrogations effect important changes in the way

in - Angels & Anger / CCO

2002

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Capricho

Cruz, Nilo


roydrama - monologue - actorsall male cast; one character; voiceone maleone act

Tale of an actor who has been waiting a long time to perform. He is an understudy, who believeshe is the star.

in - Two Sisters and a Piano & other plays / COL

2007

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Care - Level 4

Hillis, Doris

Blizzard Publishing

roycontemporarythree charactersone male; two femaleone act

Two nursing home aides get caught up in gossip whilst getting a nursing home resident ready forthe day.


1996

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Carota, La

Stahl, Max Edward

Walter H. Baker

nonroyaltydramaall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

'Description not available.'

in - Miniature Plays for Stage and Study / COL

1958

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Cast Iron

Codrington, Lisa

Miscellaneous

roydrama - Canadianall female castone femaletwenty-three scenes

"The story of Libya Atwell, a seventy-five-year-old woman who was originally from Barbados andnow lives in a nursing home in Winnipeg."

in - Canadian Theatre Review Vol. 123 / PER

2005

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Cat Act, The

Nemeth, Sally


royd r a m aall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone scene

When you can no longer care for yourself, how do you feel about your caretaker? And how doesshe feel about you?

in - Sally's Shorts / COL

1995

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Catastrophe

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

royexperimental theatrethree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

"Experimental play within a play about political defiance and uncontrollability of art."


1984

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Cave Painter, The

Hannah, Don

Miscellaneous

roydrama - monologue - women all female cast; one characterone femaleone act

THE CAVE PAINTER tells the story of Dianne, an aging bohemian artist who conjures uppersonal stories of love and tragedy. Everyone close to her has passed away, with the exceptionof her only son who has embraced a life of religious fundamentalism in which she has no place.Instead she finds solace in art amid the imperfect world around her.

in - The Cave Painter / The Woodcutter / CCOTitle:

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Cell

Medley, Cassandra


roydrama - immigration - short playall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

The only jobs left in Flint, Michigan are at a detention center for illegal immigrants waiting tobe deported. Rene has taken in her sister Cerise and niece Gwen, who were homeless, and gottenthem jobs with her at the facility. But Gwen’s soft heart puts her at odds with the detention center'srules against fraternization, and Rene will not let Gwen threaten her job.


2012

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Cerveau Félé 101 / Broken Brain 101

Claude, Nathalie


roydrama - LGBTQ+ - solo performance - womenall female cast: one characterone femaleone act

Running time: 22 minutes; text in both French and English.

Claude experiments with a straitjacket, a loaf of bread, and an imaginary alter ego.

in - Queer Play / CCO

2017

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Chain

Cleage, Pearl


royaddiction - monologues - women - dramaAll female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'This one-woman drama uses physical captivity as a metaphor for psychological addiction in thelife of an African-American teen. Rosa moved up to Harlem with her family from the Deep South.She fell into the wrong crowd and became addicted to crack. Her parents, driven to the point ofdesperation, turn to tough love. They chain Rosa to a radiator in her room. She stays there forseven days, ranting and raving, rationalizing and boasting, trying to charm and bully theaudience into complicity.'

in - The Best American Short Plays 1999 - 2000 / COL

2001

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Chalky White Substance, The

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - American - 20th century - short playall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

1 exterior set.

"Two haggard male figures meet at the edge of a vast canyon, overlooking a dried-out riverbed, ina future where the fallout from unnamed and uncountable nuclear wars continually floats throughthe air. It is the chalky white substance that covers the few inhabitants as they scramble indarkness and fear, fighting for the scarce, but indispensable, resources of water, food, shelter

in - The Traveling Companion and Other Plays / COL

2008

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Change of Venue

Silverman, Judd Lear


roydrama - American - short play - marital relations - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Based on a news story about a man who visited a local bordello only to find that he knew hisintended partner better than he expected. Needles to say, the matter of self-deception abounds inthis play, but so does the matter of regeneration: How might a change of venue create arevitalization of dead-end circumstances?


2013

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Charismatic Death Scenes

Chafe, Robert

Miscellaneous

roymonologue - menall male cast; one characterone maleone act


in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 98, Spring 1999 / PER

1999

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Chateau Rene

Ingraffia, Sam

Samuel French

royAmerican - dramaall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

'Elderly former nightclub owner and small-time gangster, now impoverished, asks old friend andbodyguard to help end his life.'

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 15th / COL

1991

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Cheesecake

Patrick, Robert

Samuel French


'Young couple on drugs realize how different they really are.'


1978

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Chemical Reactions

Foster, Andrew

Smith and Kraus


1 exterior.

Two small time hoods discover their trip to dump means burying man alive.

in - 20/20 ... / COL

1995

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Chicago, Sudan

Joseph, Marc Bamuthi

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - African-Americanthree charactersone male; one female; one flexible (only the male appears on stage; the other two are voices)one act

running time: 10 min.

"This short choreopoem uses movement and verse to unlock a mother's connection between anEast African genocide and a Midwestern homicide. Chicago, Sudan is the first in a series of worksthat culminate in red, black and GREEN: a blues, which theatrically navigates African America'sengagement with the global environmental movement." - Doollee


2012

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Chicks ( a one woman show)

McKeaney, Grace

Samuel French

roygrowing up - advice - monologues - womanall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

1 setting.

Kindergarten teacher lets class know what life will be like in adulthood.

in - Chicks and Other Short Plays / COL

1987

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Child

Nolan, Yvette


roydrama - Canadian - Native peoplesall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

'Two young women, Monica and Monique. Monica is a native, Monique white. Monica sits on thefloor like a child, Monique stands apart from her. They are not aware of each other, but theirstories take up from each other effortlessly, as if they were.'


1996

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Child Object

Tremblay, Larry

Talonbooks

roydrama - Canadian - social issuesthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act (eleven scenes)

With child as a blank page, a man sets about constructing his ideal companion manipulatingpersonality, gender, and body. The child becomes the ultimate consumer good.

in - War Cantata and Child Object / CCO

2014

translated by Chantal Bilodeau

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Chocolates on the Pillow

Hutton, Arlene


roydrama - relationshipsthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

Another take on the theme of deception in romance, benign and otherwise. This one involves afirst-time bed-and-breakfast getaway where two characters are playing roles in a cliched land offaux Victorian decor with fluffy towels, fancy soaps, chocolates and sherry. Do they really want togo antiquing and hiking or are they talking about these things because that's what they think theyshould be doing? From the very first lines it is clear that they are not listening to each other.Disturbingly, a pet teddy bear takes on something of a life of its own as observer and critic,


2012

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Chronicles of a War Child

Kamal. Jazz "Nari"


roydrama - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - solo performance all female cast; one characterone femaleone act (three parts)

Her work as an intersectional feminist of Egyptian descent finds itself at the searching centre ofspeaking truth to power. In these emotional and sometimes angry works, Nari tackles theinsidious regularity of racism, the ongoing burden of sexism, and the cross-cultural experienceof homophobia.


2017

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Cinzano

Petrushevskaya, Ludmila

Nick Hern Books


'Cinzano' describes a spectacular drunken binge by three male friends in a derelict Moscow flat.

in - Cinzano - 11 plays / COL

1991

translated by Stephen Mulrine

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Citrus

Craft, Janis

NeWest Press

roydrama - Canadianthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

"When Richard and his new bride meet up with his twin sister in Spain at the end of theirhoneymoon, the three quickly find themselves in a sticky mess that, strangely, tastes kind ofgood."

in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO

2004

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Claire

Silver, Nicky


roymonologue - women - relationshipsall female cast; one characterone femaleone scene

'CLAIRE finds a beautiful matron who might have walked out of a Noel Coward play. Claire is tryingto recover from an incident that occurred in the morning, an incident that brought home, all toopainfully, the reality that the beautiful world that she called home is gone forever. Shaken andfrightened, she finds peace only while making love with a much younger man, a man who allowsher to forget herself and retreat into a world where "we were children and easily pleased."

in - The Best American Short Plays 1999 - 2000 / COL

2001

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Claposis

Butler, Audrey

Women's Press

roydrama - LGBTQ+ - Canadianall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

Intertwining lives of 3 women - told in reverse.

in - Radical Perversions / CCO

1990

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Clarisse and Larmon

Margolin, Deb

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - deaththree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Two parents react to the news of their sons death, and to the picture that the soldier messengerbrought them, a picture just of his leg.


2008

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Clarity

Tuttle, Korde Arrington

Samuel French

roydrama - solo performanceall male cast; one characterone maleone act

Approximate running time: 10 mins.

Cameron enjoys rough sex. Which is fine. However, in the final moments leading up to hispicturesque wedding on the Georgia state coastline, one particular sexual encounter with hisfiancé demands that he questions his marriage, racial identity, and sexual preferences altogether.

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 41st Series / COL

2017

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Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut

Long, James

Miscellaneous

royCanadian - dramaall male cast; one characterone maletwenty-two scenes

In the summer of 2005, James Long salvaged seven photo albums and travel journals from analley near his East Vancouver home. The collection, complete with detailed captions and letters,documents a family's history between 1950 and 1987, and includes everything from birth noticesto a full eulogy for the archivist's Toy Pomeranian, Mandy. Two years later, a team of collaboratorstraveled in search of the origins of these books, and ran into some serious questionssurrounding the legality and morality of working with found materials.

in - Canadian Theatre Review 142 / PER

2010

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Claws

Havard, Lezley



'Quarreling shrewish, bored wife of apparently weak husband finds his behavior frightening afterhe changes to cat, upon learning that the family cat is dead.'

in - Women Write for Theatre - Victims / CCO

1976

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Cleaning House

Patrick, Robert

Samuel French

roydrama - adolescents - romancetwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Boy and girl in city slum reverse courting roles in effort to deal with anxieties.'


1978

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Cleaning, The

Jonusas, Zilvinas


roydrama - homophobia - suicidethree characters; voiceone male; two femaleone act

The plot of THE CLEANING reveals Vlad - also called Josef K. - who receives a strange messageunder his door. He brings this message to an unknown place. Suddenly he is caught in aspotlight and "The Voice" starts asking him questions. The witness Leni is called. Josef K. knowsLeni as well as Leni knows Josef K. She says that Josef K. should be punished because he is ahomosexual. Leni's accusation triggers Josef K.'s memory. He confesses why he was not able togive Leni her biggest wish in life, a child. Leni is not convinced, but it is too late. The decision by


2010

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Close Friends

Herbert, John

Talonbooks

roydrama - relationships - LGBTQ+all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

1 interior.

"A homosexual couple who could not live together, can also not live apart from each other."

in - Some Angry Summer Songs / CCO

1976

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Cloud Tectonics

Rivera, José

Smith and Kraus

royscience fictionthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 interior.

Man picks up pregnant hitchhiker on stormy night in Los Angeles after which time stops andsupernatural forces take over.


1995

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Coax

LaBute, Neil

Faber and Faber

royrelationships - dramatwo charactersone male one femaleone act

A playwright on a blind date.

in - Wrecks and other plays / COL

2007

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Colette in Love

Mueller, Lavonne


roybiographytwo characterson male; one femaleone act

'Set in 1910. Depicts conflict between Colette's emotional needs and her burning desire to write.'

in - Women Heroes / COL

1986

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Collapsible Model

Dragoiu, Georgeta

Miscellaneous

royhistorical dramathree charactersone male; two femaleone act

'Set in April-November 1917, during the Russian Revolution, when the provisional government isin charge. Olga, Nadia's mother, died in the April revolution.'

in - Dramatics (Oct 2002) / PER

2002

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Color of Heat, The

Zachary, Saul

Chilton Book Company


1 exterior set.

"Middle-aged couple try reviving marriage by observing activities of younger couple".

in - The Best Short Plays 1983 / COL

1966

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Comanche Cafe

Hauptman, William

Samuel French


In the late 1930's outside the seedy "Comanche Cafe", two waitresses pass the time: the older,Mattie recalls a fling; Ronnie, a regretful virgin, plans a bright future...

in - Comanche Cafe and Domino Courts / COL

1989

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Come and Go

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

roydramaall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

"Three women of indeterminate age remember school days and reaffirm friendship."


1992

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Come and Go

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press


"Three women of indeterminate age remember school days and reaffirm friendship."

in - Cascando and other short dramatic pieces / COL

1967

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Come Rain or Come Shine

Mahoney, Jeni


roydrama - family relationshipsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A reflection on the "American Family" in the aftermath of the 2004 elections. The plot finds a momwho doesn't know why it's taken Luke so long to break the news. She's liberal after all. But she'sthrilled that after years away Luke is finally coming home to tell her he's gay. He's even bringinghis new boyfriend, Chris! Chris is his boyfriend, right?


2008

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Coming For A Visit

Josephson, Ben



An old woman sees a passerby and drags him out of the rain. She begins talking to him andquestioning him. She mentions that her son had promised to visit her but had not. He tells herthat his mother wants him to come home for a visit, and like her son, was not considering theprospect. She begins to lecture him and he intends to leave her home, but he changes his mindand puts on her son's bathrobe and humors an old woman, who pretends that it is her son that isvisiting her home.


1987

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Comrades

Vlaskalic, Daniela


roydramaall male cast; four characterstwo male (doubling)one act

Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco dreamt of the land of the free. Leaving their small, Italianvillages, they embarked on the long voyage to the United States, only to encounter a world theynever could have imagined. Controversially imprisoned for murder, both men must fight for theirlives amidst discrimination and public humiliation. Based on actual events, Comrades brings tolife their seven-year imprisonment, and explores the struggles and agonies of two men, tried notfor what they did, but for who they were.

in - The Drowning Girls / Comrades / CCO

2008

Graham, Beth

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Confessions of an Indian Cowboy

Kane, Margo


royCanadian - Native peoples - Metis - drama - Native playwrightall female cast; eight charactersone female (doubling)one act

'Confessions of an Indian Cowboy' is a probing, endearing and sometimes amusing look at thehistory of contact between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and at the communities thatexist in Canada as a result of this contact. This one-woman musical show tells stories of theIndian and Métis, peoples of mixed heritage who have been pushed aside and ignored for wellover a century. Through several distinct characters, Margo Kane explores how the apparent socialand cultural contradictions inherent in being both “Indian” and “Cowboy” are reconciled. The


2008

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Confinement

Wyatt, Rachel

Blizzard Publishing

royCanadian - drama all female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

A mother, confined to a wheelchair, reveals her revenge on her daughter.


1994

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Confluence

Bishop, John


roydrama - sportsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 exterior.

"Two men, one an ex-football player, the other an older, ex-baseball player, meet in the park,reminisce and share how it felt to leave their sport".


1982

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Consultation, A

Chafe, Rick

Blizzard Publishing

roycontemporary dramathree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A judges wife comes back from the dead to inhabit the body of another man's wife, and isawaiting a fair trial for her own murder.


1996

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Conversation Storm

Burkhardt, Rick


roydrama - politicsfour charactersall male cast; three maleone act

In "Conversation Storm", three friends from three sides of the political spectrum argue their waythrough a ticking time bomb scenario, brutalizing their own positions, destroying the linesbetween real and hypothetical, past and future, day and night.


2009

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Correct Address


Samuel French

royd r a m aall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

'Having been barred from funeral by deceased's mother, gay man converses with ghost of loverwho died of AIDS.'


1993

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Counting to Infinity

Posner, Max

Miscellaneous

roycomedy - dramathree charactersone male; one female; one boyshort play

"A boy finds himself stuck on the precipice between childhood and adulthood. As he attempts tobreak away from his loving but overprotective mother, he finds himself both intrigued andcorrupted by the quintessential American male. Counting his way into the confusing world we livein, the boy embarks on a funny, surreal, and solitary journey."

Finalist! 2005 Young Playwrights Festival National Playwriting Competition Semi-finalist! 2005

in - Dramatics Vol. 77, No. 2 / PER

2005

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Country, The

Crimp, Martin

Faber and Faber

roydrama - British - relationshipsthree charactersone male; two femalefive scenes

Who is the comatose woman Richard has found on the roadside? Why has he brought her into hishouse? Exactly who is telling the truth and who is lying? Martin Crimp's play is a spare andglitteringly written dissection of desire and despair.

in - Martin Crimp: Plays Two / COL

2005

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Courier, The

Thiessen, Vern


roydrama - Canadian - war - World War II - Alberta playwrightall male cast; one characterone maleone act

"Spring 1945, occupied Czechoslovakia. David Dyck, a young courier in Hitler's army, mustdecide whether to open a restricted letter and face truth or remain ignorant and risk death."


2006

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Courier, The

Mack, Carol C.


roydrama - politicalall male cast; six characterstwo male (doubling)one act

The play takes place in the wake of 9/11. A professor undergoes interrogation.


2008

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Courting Prometheus

Forbes, Charles

Miscellaneous

royrelationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A quick office date after the night before.

in - Dramatics (Sept 1998) / PER

1998

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Cowboy Island

Shein, Brian

Pulp Press Book Publishers

roydrama - Canadianthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

music.

A theatrical ritual juxtaposing American legend with pagan rite, climaxing with the killing of aking. A new perspective on the myth of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, portraying the pattern ofbetrayal, death and identification of the hunter with his victim.

in - Theatrical Exhibitions / CCO

1972

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Cowboys #2

Shepard, Sam

Random House

roy dramaall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"Two aimless cowboys, at the end of their resources, make feeble attempts at communicating witheach other."


1986

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Crack

Gilbert, Sky

Miscellaneous

royCanadian - drama - drug abusetwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

The play "addresses the addictions faced by two characters, Man and Woman, and the impact ofaddiction on their lives and the lives of those around them."

in - Canadian Theatre Review v. 134 / PER

2008

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Crash

Sinha, Pamela Mala


royCanadian - drama - solo performance - rape - trauma - family relations - griefall female cast; six charactersone femaleone act

After the loss of a loved one, a woman must face the shattering memories of a past trauma."Crash" is the fractured unraveling of memory; a tour de force narrative about family, faith andlove.


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Crates on Barrels

Pownall, David

Oberon Press

roybiography - monologues - menall male cast; one characterone maleone act

'The disciple of the great Cynic, Diogenes, daily risks his life at the bidding of his masters ideas -and in order to preserve his independence from the Athenian state.'

in - Plays for One Person / COL

2003

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Credo

Lucas, Craig

Vintage Books

roywomen - monologues - dramaall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

suitable for high school performances.

Searching for optimism in her darkest hour, CREDO is a woman’s declaration of faith, or what’sleft of it.

in - Plays for Actresses / COL

1997

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Crooked

Trieschmann, Catherine

Smith and Kraus

roydrama - Americanall female cast; three charactersthree femaletwelve scenes


"Coming-of-age drama with sideways glance at evangelical and Sapphic love. 'I mean, the fact thatJesus chose to turn the water into wine, rather than just decontaminating it, proves that drinkingalcohol is not a sin.' Fourteen-year-old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi, an outsider with atwisted back and only her writing to keep her company. When she befriends the hapless

in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2009 / COL

2009

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Crossing

Gatchalian, C. E.

Lethe Press

roydrama - Canadian - family relationstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Crossing explores the tormented, sexually charged relationship between a mother and herteenage son, bound together by guilt and fear over a horrific incident that occurred ten yearsprior.

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Crossing Guard, The

Karasik, Daniel


royCanadian - dramathree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Every day after school, seventeen-year-old Timothy waits at the neighbourhood crosswalk whereyears earlier his older sister disappeared. Every day he crosses the street with Jim, the elderlycrossing guard. It's a ritual Timothy thinks might go on forever, until one day he arrives and Jimis absent. Instead, standing at the crosswalk is a young woman - a young woman who looks a lotlike his missing sister. "The Crossing Guard" is a tender meditation on the limits of fidelity.

in - The Crossing Guard; and, In Full Light / CCO

2011

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Cry Old Kingdom

Augustin, Jeff

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - revolution - war - Haiti - sixtiesthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act (eleven scenes)

"Haiti, 1964. Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s repressive regime has forced once-successful artistEdwin into hiding, turning him into a walking ghost. When Edwin finds a young man building aboat to escape to America, and persuades him to pose for a painting, he finally feels alive again.But with cries for revolution resounding through the nation and the regime’s death squads on theprowl, no one’s life is safe. Sometimes trying to dream and survive forces impossible choices." -actorstheatre.org


2014

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Cubistique

Cone, Tom

Pulp Press Book Publishers

roy⌦drama - Canadian - women⌦all female cast; two characters⌦two female⌦one act"Two women share and dispute their recollections of the past which we see, like a cubistpainting, from several angles simultaneously."

in - 3 Plays by Tom Cone / CCO

1976

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Cubistique

Cone, Tom


roy⌦drama - Canadian - women⌦all female cast; two characters⌦two female⌦one act"Two women share and dispute their recollections of the past which we see, like a cubistpainting, from several angles simultaneously."


1975

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Cure, The

Foreman, Richard


royexperimental playthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'Experimental play about conciousness.'

in - Unbalancing Acts / COL

1992

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Curtains For A Crazy Old Lady

Lazarus, John


royCanadian - dramathree charactersone male; two femaleone act

Because of the impending death of his mother, Murray Greenspan is forced to come to terms withthe fragility of life and previously unspoken thoughts about the relationship with his mother.

in - Homework and Curtains / CCO

1991

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Curve, The

Dorst, Tankred


royCanadian - drama - menall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

"Absurdist drama. Two brothers' livelihoods depend on cars crashing on a certain curve. Atranslation."

in - Three Plays: Tankred Dorst / CCO

1976

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Cyclops, The

Euripides

Washington Square Press

royGreek tragedy - verse playall male cast; extras; chorusthree maleone act

'Greek satyr play in verse. Based on Homer's story of Odysseus' escape from the cave of theCyclops, Polyphemus.'

in - Euripides II / COL

1968

translated by William Arrowsmith

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Cyclops, The

Euripides

University of Chicago Press

royGreek tragedy - verse playall male cast; extras; chorusthree maleone act

"Greek satyr play in verse. Based on Homer's story of Odysseus' escape from the cave of theCyclops, Polyphemus."

in - Euripides II / COL

1969

translated by William Arrowsmith

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Daddy Violet

Birimisa, George

University of British Columbia



in - Prism International / COL

1968

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Daddy's Home

Menchell, Ivan

Samuel French


A teenager and his mother are packing to move out of their house. Daddy is not home. He hasmoved out, leaving his son and wife to deal with feelings of rejection.


1986

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Dadshuttle, The

Donaghy, Tom

Grove Press

roydrama - family relations - LGBTQ+all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

A young man makes a futile attempt to come out and disclose his partner's HIV status to hiselderly father.

in - The Beginning of August and Other Plays / COL

2000

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Daffodils

Guyton, Daniel



A woman helps a man come to terms with his father's memory in a field of daffodils.


2015

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Damage Control

Auburn, David


roydrama - politicsall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"Damage Control" examines a politician and his aide during a moment of crisis.

in - Fifth Planet and Other Plays / COL

2002

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Dance and the Railroad, The

Hwang, David Henry


roydrama - Chineseall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"While on strike two Chinese railroad workers express their feeling in Chinese dance, song andplayacting."

in - Dance and the Railroad and Family Devotions / COL

1983

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Dance and the Railroad, The

Hwang, David Henry


roydrama - Chineseall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"While on strike two Chinese railroad workers express their feeling in Chinese dance, song andplayacting."


1990

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Dance Like a Butterfly

Ravel, Aviva

Simon and Pierre Publishing

roydrama - aging - ethnic - canadianall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

"Tillie, a Jewish octogenarian, reveals vivid memories of her past, and looks forward to thefulfilling days ahead, in a journey that leads us to re-examine our conceptions of old age."

in - Canadian Mosaic / CCO

1995

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Dancing in the Dark

Beim, Norman

New Concept Press

roydramatic comedythree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Jessica and Calvin are in love, and have been married for a number of years. Calvin was woundedin the war, and is sexually incapacitated. Jessica is sometimes driven to seek physical satisfactionelsewhere, but has stuck by Calvin. Their marriage is threatened when Ben Brady, a divorced,world-famous photographer, comes into their lives and falls in love with Jessica.

in - Women Laid Bare / COL

2010

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Dancing on Checkers' Grave

Lane, Eric

Penguin Books

roydrama - relationshipsall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

1 exterior.

Drama set in Long Island pet cemetery. Two teenaged girls - one black, one white - explore theirfeelings for each another.

in - Telling Tales / COL

1993

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Danny and the Deep Blue Sea




In a run down bar in the Bronx, two of society's rejects strike up a halting conversation over theirbeer. Danny is a brooding, self-loathing young man who resorts more to violence than reason;Roberta is a divorced, guilt-ridden young woman whose troubled teenage son is now being caredfor by her parents. Danny seems incapable of tender emotion; while Roberta, is distrustful of menin general. And yet, as their initial reserve begins to melt, and they decide to spend the nighttogether, the possibility of a genuine and meaningful relationship begins to emerge - the first for

in - 13 by Shanley / COL

1992

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Dark Pony

Mamet, David

Grove Press

roydramatwo charactersone male; one girlone act

1 exterior.

"Father relates a mythical tale to his young daughter as they drive home one night."

in - Two Plays / COL

1979

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Dark Pony

Mamet, David

Grove Weidenfeld

roydrama - legend - storytellingtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (one scene)

In the short vignette 'Dark Pony' a father tells a favorite bedtime story to comfort his youngdaughter as they drive home late at night. A foray into the realm of legend, the story of a youngIndian brave and his trusty horse.

in - Reunion & Dark Pony / COL

1979

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Dark Room, The

Williams, Tennessee


royfamily relations - social issues - mental health - teenage pregnancy - youththree characters;one male; two femaleone act

Tragic sketch about an Italian woman and a welfare worker.

in - American Blues / COL

1948

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Dark Vanilla Jungle

Ridley, Philip

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

roydrama - solo performance - monologues - womenall female cast; one characterone female one act

Andrea is seemingly a normal girl. She has her hopes and dreams, spends lots of time thinkingabout boys and has a complex relationship with her mother. But she’s certainly not lucky, partlydown to bad decision making but mainly down to the complete selfishness of those who surroundher. A beautiful and breathtaking new drama about one girl's craving for family and home...andthe lengths she will go to achieve them.

in - Dark Vanilla Jungle and other monologues / COL

2014

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Darling Family, The

Griffiths, Linda

Blizzard Publishing

roy drama - comedy - relationships two characters one male; one femaleone act

"As they face the dilemma of a unplanned pregnancy, this one couple's decision to search beyondtheir trivial self-definitions, to face every thought, every option, becomes a path to healing,courage and growth."

in - Sheer Nerve / CCO

1999

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Date with a Stranger

Vogelstein, Cherie


royrelationshipsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'Manhattan diner setting for exploration of contemporary relationships.'


1995

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Day Shift

Woodward, Meredith Bain

NuAge Editions

royCanadian - monologue - British Columbiaall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'Monologue by widowed waitress in small British Columbia Town.'

in - Escape Acts / CCO

1992

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Dead Wife, The

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydramaall female cast; two characters two femaleone act

Running time: 10 mins.

On her wedding night Laura sits in her nightgown waiting for her husband. His dead first wifeappears to warn her that her groom is a murderer and, preying upon Laura's doubts, fears andterror of mirrors, she plants a deadly seed of suspicion.

in - The Great Gromboolian and Other Plays - COL

1998

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Deaf Day

Ayvazian, Leslie


roymonologue - deafnessone characterone male or one femaleone act

A young mother encourages her deaf son to interact with other children by creating a practice dayat the park. She has to help her son overcome his fear of others teasing him. At the end of the day,the son is charged with determination but still fears the hearing world and requests the next daybe spent at home as a quiet day.


2007

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Deal, The - from"Back Story"

Martin, Jane

Smith and Kraus

roymonologues - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone scene

Monologue by a woman whose life and career have been subsumed by her brothers.

in - Jane Martin: Collected plays - Vol. 2 / COL

2001

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Dealt With

Marchant, Tony

Methuen

roydrama - adolescents - unemploymentall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

1 exterior.

"Set in London. Three teenage boys voice anger and frustration over inability to get jobs."

in - Thick as Thieves / COL

1982

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Dear Mr. Buchwald

Nolan, Yvette


roydrama - Canadian playwright - Indigenous - residential schools three charactersone male; two femaleone act

A very short play based off of playwright Yvette Nolan's own family and experiences.

in - Indian Act / CCO

2018

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Dearborn Heights

Medley, Cassandra


roydrama - short playall female casttwo femaleone act

" In a home-style diner, in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, two young women discover the meaningof racism and friendship, all before lunch is served."

in - 3 by E.S.T. / COL

1997

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Dearborn Heights

Medley, Cassandra


roydrama - short playall female casttwo femaleone act

" In a home-style diner, in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, two young African-American womendiscover the meaning of racism and friendship, all before lunch is served."


1997

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Death Artist, The

Wilson, David Henry

Samuel French


"After making his fortune, a miser is visited by a man assigned to kill him".

in - Are You Normal, Mr. Norman and Other Short Plays / COL

1984

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Death of Balder, The

Flynn, Aiden

Breakwater Books

roydrama - solo performance - mythology - Canadian playwright all male cast; several charactersone male (doubling)one act

Based on a Norse myth, this one-man show offers a journey into the world of gods, giants, andwarriors. The tale is delivered by a timeless storyteller named Munin, as he awaits an epic battlewhich will herald the end of days. As evening sets in the dead of winter, he conjures up a story todeliver him through the dark night that is about to fall. It is the tale of Balder, the apparentlyinvulnerable hero who nevertheless is killed through the deceit of Loki, the Norse trickster.

in - The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays / CCO

2012

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Death of Bliss, The

Tasca, Jules


roydrama - terrorismtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A young Palestinian wife pleads with her husband not to become a suicide bomber.


2006

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Death of Off-Broadway; or, Money (Sieg Heil!) (A Street Play), The

Eyen, Tom

Samuel French

roydramaall male cast; three characters; extrasthree maleone act

This is actually a recipe for a demonstration that could and did occur during a theatre strike.

in - Tom Eyen: Ten Plays / COL

1971

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Decades Apart: Reflections of Three Gay Men

Pulos, Rick


roydrama - LGBTQ+all male cast; three charactersthree male (doubling possible)one act

Examines the attitudes and mores of three gay men living in different places and times in theUnited States. The first character lives in 1970's San Francisco and is a relatively carefree soul.The second man lives in 1980's New York City and is conservative to the core. The final characterlives in 1990's Los Angeles and represents a return to a more carefree and possibly carelessexistence. Upon a closer look, Decades Apart asks: Has anything changed for gay men and womenin the United States? Have you changed?

in - The Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 / COLTitle:

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Deep Jersey

Shengold, Nina

Vintage Books

roydrama - relationship - friendship⌦all female cast; two characters⌦two femaleone act

Thirty years since high school, Lauren and Angie run into each in the checkout lane at thesupermarket at 3:30 am.


2014

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Desdemona

Vogel, Paula


roydrama - feminismall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

"Revisionist version of Shakespeare's 'Othello' with feminist undertones. Desdemona portrayed asfree-thinking strumpet."

in - The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays / COL

1996

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Desdemona: A play about a handkerchief

Vogel, Paula


roywomen; sexualityall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act


in - Amazon All Stars / COL

1996

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Desdemona: A play about a handkerchief

Vogel, Paula

Vintage Books

roywomen; sexualityall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

suitable for high school performances.



1997

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Deserter, The

Beim, Norman

Samuel French

roydrama - warall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

'In deserted French chateau during WWII, young deserter guarded by seargent and visited bypriest, awaits execution.'

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays / COL

1978

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Despair

Havard, Lezley



'The musings of a poverty-stricken, emotionally disturbed woman who has been hospitalized andhas had an abortion.'


1976

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Despoiled Shore, Medeamaterial, Landscape with Argonauts

Muller, Heiner

Performing Arts Journal Publications


1 set.

"Experimental theatre piece incorporating myth, history and autobiography".

in - Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage / COL

1984

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Dialogue Between a Prostitute and Her Client

Maraini, Dacia

Guernica Editions


"A blunt and revealing conversation between a man who seeks solace and fulfillment in the bodyof a woman he does not know, and the intelligent woman who confronts him with the meanings ofhis search."

in - Only Prostitutes Marry in May / COL

1994

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Diamond Cutters

Tipe, David

Playwrights Co-op


Two old diamond cutters about to be replaced by machines reflect upon and refine the memoriesof their youth.

in - Cabbagetown Plays / CCO

1975

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Difference of Latitude

Walter, Lisa


roydrama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+two charactersall female cast; two femaleone act

England, 1811.

Walter wrote the play after being inspired by the real-life accounts of nineteenth-century womenwho had carried on successful careers as military men over extended periods of time. Waltercreates a composite character, Frances, who arranges to be pressed into service and sent off toserve in the War of 1812 as a mizzen-man on His Majesty's frigate Courageous.

in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO

2006

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Difficult Hour, The

Lagerkvist, Par

Macmillan and Company


'Expressionistic drama in which selfish man slowly realizes he, and former hunchback friendwhose one love he stole, are dead.'

in - Masterpieces of the Modern Scandinavian Theatre / COL

1967

translated by Thomas R. Buckman

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Diminished them Augmented

Gallant, Daniel



A mob interrogator confronts a thief and challenges the rules of organized crime.


2015

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Dinosaur Dreams

Widdicombe, David

Icarus Press

roydramaall male cast; three charactersthree malesix scenes

"Memories of the past collide with hopes for the future as two brothers struggling to survive acold winter have both their world and their dreams turned upside down with the arrival of theirlong lost father, who disappeared from their lives more than a decade earlier."

in - The River Lady and Other Plays / COL

2000

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Dinosaurs, The

Herbert, John

Talonbooks

roydrama - relationshipstwo characters; one male; one femaleone act

1 exterior.

"A famous actress and an influential drama critic discuss the role of each in the theatre world andin each other's career."

in - Some Angry Summer Songs / CCO

1976

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Dispatches from Hell

Cooperman, Melvin I.

Samuel French

roydrama - World War IIthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Set in the central dispatching office for the German train system during World War Two, thisriveting drama is about the bureaucratic mentality that makes Holocausts possible. A dispatcher isfrightened to death when an S.S. officer comes to see him, but the officer explains that his job issecure-- if he can devise a plan to transport a large amount of waste product via rail to cleansethe Third Reich of toxins. The dispatcher draws up plans to carry thousands to their deaths,intent only on the logistical problems.


1985

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Dissident, The

Sam, Canyon


royself -awareness - identity - monologueall female cast; twelve charactersone female (doubling)one act

'In 'The Dissident', the Narrator's urge to return to the country of her ancestors is. . . an identityquest; she seeks to find not just a geographic place but a psychological, emotional, psychic, andspiritual place where she feels a deep sense of belonging. In China, she hopes to find the key tounlock some vital part of herself, rendered silent by a society that sees her as "other".'


1996

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Dissonance

Pospisil, Craig


roydrama - romancetwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

The play involves a former musician and the daughter of a just-deceased music teacher. Thesetwo characters are joined together in the most unlikely of circumstances, generating a harmony oftheir own, which, we learn, necessarily involves a certain degree of dissonance to succeed.


2012

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Dock Brief, The

Mortimer, John

Blackie and Son


A seedy unsuccessful lawyer has been waiting for years to make a grandstand defense. He isgiven his chance when he is assigned to defend an innocuous little man who is accused ofmurdering his wife. The man cheerfully admits his guilt; he simply couldn't stand his wife'sconstant joking and laughing. Defense proves absolutely impossible. The trial over, and verdict aforegone conclusion, the lawyer can only beg his client to let him appeal. But the supreme ironyis yet to come; the man is reprieved on the grounds of the ineptitude of his defence.

in - Worth a Hearing / COL

1967

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Dock Brief, The

Mortimer, John

Grove Press Inc.


A seedy unsuccessful lawyer has been waiting for years to make a grandstand defense. He isgiven his chance when he is assigned to defend an innocuous little man who is accused ofmurdering his wife. The man cheerfully admits his guilt; he simply couldn't stand his wife'sconstant joking and laughing. Defense proves absolutely impossible. The trial over, and verdict aforegone conclusion, the lawyer can only beg his client to let him appeal. But the supreme ironyis yet to come; the man is reprieved on the grounds of the ineptitude of his defence.

in - The Dock Brief and Other Plays / COL

1958

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Doctor Galley

Bromberg, Conrad


roydrama - monologueall male cast; one characterone maleone act

bare stage.

"The third play, 'Doctor Galley', is an acting tour de force in which a psychiatrist, substituting as acollege lecturer, launches into a shattering revelation of his own torturing guilt as he acts out hiscomplicity in the destruction of his wife and his professional honor."

in - Transfers / COL

1970

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Doctor's Visit, A

Loewenstern, Mark

Samuel French

roydrama - historicalall male cast; two characterstwo maleone scene

Based on historical legend, this intriguing play takes place in King Richard the Lionhearted's tentduring the Crusades. Sultan Saladin, an adversary with whom Richard enjoys an unusually cordialrelationship even as their armies clash, has sent his personal doctor, Moses Maimonides, to treatthe malaria that is debilitating Richard. This recounting of the tale, one often used to illustrate thepeaceful relationship between Islam and Jew, points to a sober lesson: the faith that nourishesand sustains us also drives us to war, and we have still not found a way to have one without the

in - Off-off Broadway Festival Plays - 27th Series / COL

2003

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Dog Eat Dog

Kelly, Tim



The older man hates dog fights and is tired of the two others who are always bickering at eachother. Therefore he threatens the two boys to fight each other while the dogs watch; reversal of adog fight. If they will not fight each other he will sick the dogs on them.


1987

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Dog, The

Halman, Doris F.

Walter H. Baker

roy dramaall male cast; three characters; extrasthree maleone act


in - Set the Stage for Eight / COL

1923

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Dolor

Corley, Hal

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

roydrama - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (one scene)

simple set.

Two grad students play a game in the bar.

in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL

2016

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Dolorosa Sanchez

Taikeff, Stanley

Samuel French

roytheatretwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Drama student's performance inadvertently dramatizes Aristotlean principles for professor.'


1997

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Doomsday Show, The

MacBeth, George

Penguin Books


singing and dancing.


in - New English Dramatists 14 / COL

1970

Bingham, J. S.

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Dossier: Ronald Akkerman

van Lohuizen, Suzanne

Aurora Metro Press

roydrama - AIDStwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'This play vividly deconstructs the last encounters between a nurse and her patient who is dyingof AIDS - contains a perfect balance of poetic language and simple observant prose.'

in - A Touch of the Dutch / COL

1997

translated by Saskia A. Bosch

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Dot

Waits, Death

Blizzard Publishing

roydrama - deaththree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A cloudy glimpse of death.


1998

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Down and Out




1 interior.

"Poet is protected by his love, who saves his soul."


1992

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Down Dangerous Passes Road

Bouchard, Michel Marc

Miscellaneous

roydrama - AIDS - family relationshipsall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

"Fifteen years to the day after the death of their father, three brothers get together and drive out tothe place where it happened. . . each is facing a crucial rite of passage. In voices that interweave,alternate and play off one another with the exquisite lyricism of chamber music, the brothersreveal themselves as trapped by their father's inability to let his boys grow up, and their owninability to accept him as an adult."

in - Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2000) / PER

2000

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Drag Act

Dowie, Claire

Methuen Drama

royBritish - monologue - drama - LGBTQ+all female cast; one characterone femaleone act

"Drag Act" is a proud and punchy monologue spoken by Rose, a fifty-two year old lesbian whocan’t stand being told how she should dress. She was told by her mother that she should be moregirly and feminine, and now she finds she’s being told that she’s letting down ‘the Cause’ bywearing trousers; she’s sick of people thinking she’s trying to be a man. So she’s reluctant whenher new younger girlfriend Sarah insists they go to a drag club for her birthday, until she realisesthat among the sequins and the feathers are people just like her.


1996

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Drag Queens in Outer Space

Gilbert, Sky


roydrag queens - surrealism - LGBTQ+all male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

'Three drag queens discuss the meaning of life, love and self-realization when one of themdecides to to put on a masculine image to survive in the "outside world".'

in - Painted, Tainted, Sainted / CCO

1996

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Dragonfly of Chicoutimi, The

Tremblay, Larry

Talonbooks

roydrama - monologues - menall male cast; one characterone maleone act

Forty years after a trauma-induced aphasia, a man loses his original maternal French and awakesfrom a dream reinventing his life in English word using French syntax.

in - Talking Bodies / CCO

2001

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Dreamer Examines his Pillow, The



RoyDrama - loveThree charactersTwo male; one femaleOne act

1 setting

"Surreal look at contemporary love between men and women. Three confrontations betweenex-lovers, woman and her father and father and daughter's former lover."


1992

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Dreamkeeper

Sinclair, Bruce

Coteau Books

royCanadian - drama - Native peoplestwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Series of dream sequences regarding past and future of Canadian Indians.'

in - Eureka ! / CCO

1994

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Drowning

Fornes, Maria Irene

Broadway Play Publishing

royAnton Chekhov dramatizationall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

exterior.

"Inspired by Chekhov's short story. Person falls in love with news photo of a woman."

in - Orchards / COL

1987

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Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?

Churchill, Caryl

Nick Hern Books


A man falls in love with America and leaves his wife and children for fifty years of love andadventure with Sam.

in - Plays: 4 / COL

2008

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Drunken Sisters, The

Wilder, Thornton

Samuel French

roydrama - mythologyfour charactersone male; three female one act

Satyr play written to follow the author's work on the life of Alkestis. Apollo, god of the sun tricksthe three sisters of fate into releasing death-hold on King Admetus.

in - The Alcestiad; or, A Life in the Sun, with A Satyr play; The Drunken Sisters / COL

1977

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Dumb Waiter, The

Pinter, Harold



1 interior set; suggested for high school.

"Two professional killers, Ben and Gus, wait, argue, and worry in the windowless basement of anabandoned restaurant for their next assignment".

in - The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter / COL

1962

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Dumb Waiter, The

Pinter, Harold

Methuen





1960

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Dumb Waiter, The

Pinter, Harold

Methuen




in - The Room and The Dumb Waiter / COL

1960

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Dumb Waiter, The

Pinter, Harold

Grove Press

roydrama - murder - deathall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act


Two professional killers, Ben and Gus, wait, argue, and worry in the windowless basement of anabandoned restaurant for their next assignment.

in - Complete Works: One / COL

1962

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Dust

Maghanoy, Jason

Scirocco Drama

roydrama - war - romance - Canadiantwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

An unlikely and disturbing love story. At Abu Ghraib Prison, a female office worker and a maleprison guard meet and fall in love. As her interest and then her work shifts from the office to cellblocks, he grows increasingly uncomfortable with the prisoner abuse he has taken for granted.

in - Gas / Dust / CCO

2011

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Dust

Maghanoy, Jason

Miscellaneous

roydrama - war - romance - Canadiantwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

An unlikely and disturbing love story. At Abu Ghraib Prison, a female office worker and a maleprison guard meet and fall in love. As her interest and then her work shifts from the office to cellblocks, he grows increasingly uncomfortable with the prisoner abuse he has taken for granted.

in - Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2009) / PER

2009

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Dutch Interior

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydrama - monologue - American - betrayal - love - marriage - memoryall male cast; one characterone maleone act

bare stage, simple set; running time: 10 min.; target audience: adult, teen (14-18); suggested forhigh school, community theatre and Fringe groups.

In this unusual monologue, the great enigmatic painter Vermeer becomes completely and perhapsfatally obsessed with the mysterious perspective box he's bought from van Hoogstraten, a littlebox you look in to see a perfectly crafted little world, in which there seems to be something

in - Rat Wives and Other Plays / COL

2009

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Dwarfs, The

Pinter, Harold



divided interior set.

Avante-garde drama. A play without a plot, preoccupied with problem of identity.

in - The Dwarfs and Eight Revue Sketches / COL

1965

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Dwarfs, The

Pinter, Harold

Methuen


divided interior sets.


in - A Slight Ache and Other Plays / COL

1961

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Dwarfs, The

Pinter, Harold

Grove Press


divided interior sets.


in - Three Plays / COL

1962

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Dwarfs, The

Pinter, Harold

Grove Press

roydramathree charactersall male cast; three maleone act



in - Complete Works: Two (Harold Pinter) / COL

1977

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Dwarfs, The

Pinter, Harold





in - The Dwarfs and Nine Revue Sketches / COL

1999

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Dying City

Shinn, Christopher

Methuen Drama

roydrama - warthree charactersone male; one female (doubling)one act

A young therapist, Kelly, whose husband Craig was killed while on military duty in Iraq, isconfronted a year later by his identical twin Peter, who suspects that Craig's death was notaccidental. Set in a spare downtown-Manhattan apartment after dark, scenes shift from theconfrontation between Peter and Kelly, to Kelly's complicated farewell with her husband Craig.Shinn's creepy, sophisticated drama-infused with references to 9/11 and the war in Iraq exploreshow contemporary politics and recent history have transformed the lives of these three characters.

in - The Methune Drama Book of New American Plays / COL

2013

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Dying To Be Thin

Carson, Linda


roydrama - teenagers - eating disorders - canadianall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

1 set.

A look behind locked doors into the secret life of a young teenager battling with the eatingdisorder bulimia.


2003

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Dykes and Dolls

Lowe, Lisa


roydrama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+one characterall female cast; one femaleone act

Coming-out, coming-of-age solo performance. Location: A girls bedroom.

Reflecting the precarious existence of the child who refuses to perform her gender properly,Lowe's fantastic recuperation of the female-gendered icons and symbols for her own perversepurposes calls attention to the coercive ways in which female children are enculturated to bechild-bearers. Full of grotesque exaggerations, Dykes and Dolls works theatrically by carrying


2006

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Early Frost

Stevens, Henry Bailey

Walter H. Baker

nonroydramathree charactersone male; two femaleone act

'Description not available.'


1958

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Early Morning

Lane, Eric


roydrama - mysterytwo charactersone male; one femaleseven scenes

Doris's grandson dies under mysterious circumstances. Detective Diamantini questions Doris toarrive at the truth of what actually happened.


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East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Handy, Peter

Samuel French

roywar - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'A life altering correspondence between an English nurse and a Native American soldier,stemming from their meeting at a field hospital in Flanders during World War I. Music.'


2001

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Easter at the Entree Gold

Minigan, John

StageSource

roydrama - LGBTQall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"Although Peter has been sent by their school’s headmaster to give incapacitated Leverett a ridehome from Montreal, he learns that Leverett, dressed in drag, has a different plan in mind. AsPeter attempts to get Leverett ready to return to the states, the older man reveals the sexual secretthat has caused him to flee their school and kept him from returning on his own. As Peter probes

in - New England New Play Anthology, The / COL

2017

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Ebb-Tide

Fairbairn, A. M. D.

Samuel French

roydrama - Native peoplesthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

"In an isolated Native village lives a young Canadian school teacher, Ann. There are no otherwhite women in the village and but three white men. After three years in the village she yearns toreturn to her own kind but fears to. Billy, a young half-breed, seeks to marry Ann and she istempted to accept him when the thought of becoming a squaw and forever abandoning all hope ofreturning to civilization impels her to turn to Dick (a derelict), one of the three white men, who,stirred by Ann's impassioned appeal to the spark of decency left in him, agrees to marry her and,

in - Plays of the Pacific Coast / CCO

1935

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Eden's Moon

Young, William R.

Borealis Press

roydrama - Canadian - fantasythree charactersone male; two femaleeighteen scenes

A woman lives alone on her self made planet. Her only connection to humanity is through asense-stimulated robot named Viola.

in - New Canadian Drama 8 - Speculative Drama / CCOTitle:

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Edge of Our Bodies, The

Rapp, Adam

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - Americantwo charactersone male; one femaleone act


"Intimate and searingly honest, this play captures a young woman at the threshold of vulnerabilityand experience, achingly articulate about all she can't know or control. Bernadette is sixteen, onthe train from her New England private school to New York City to give her boyfriend some bignews." - Doollee


2012

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Education of Macoloco, The

Silverman, Jen

Samuel French

royd r a m athree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Anessa has given her son Macoloco an arsenal of facts for every occasion, but now Macolocomust teach himself how to become an adult, and Anessa must confront the one thing she hasfailed to learn.


2010

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Edwin

Mortimer, John

Penguin Books

roydramatic comedy three characterstwo male; one femaleone act (two scenes)

Set in post war England. Retired judge questions friend and wife on paternity of son.

in - Edwin and Other Plays / COL

1984

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Elisa's Skin

Frechette, Carole


roymonologues - women - loveall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'Young woman tells delicate tales of love.'

in - Carole Frechette: Three Plays / CCO

2000

translated by John Murrell

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Elzbieta Erased

Guare, John


roydrama - American - short play - actingall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

A haunting theater piece that works its way through the troubled life of a true acting talentsuffering in a world of far more dangerous types of deception, self-generated and otherwise. "Theplay is structured as a two-person narrative, with Mr. Guare and the Polish-born actor OmarSangare standing at podiums as they take turns describing the heady highs and grim lows ofCzyzewska’s career in a kind of running dialectic. This format gives the play the lively texture of adebate on a troubling question: How did a woman of such luminous talent and beauty come to


2013

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Embedded

Leroux, Louis Patrick

Talonbooks

roydrama - Canadian - Francophone - relationshipsthree characterstwo male; one femalethree scenes

part one of Leroux's trilogy about Ludwig and Mae.

Ludwig, trained as an engineer, hasn't been able to find work since graduating. The fact that he issardonic, philosophically inclined, and suicidal hasn't helped in this regard. Mae, on the otherhand, is an actress who has never been out of work. Caught in a relationship of co-dependency,she plays into Ludwig's constant mind games until one day she decides she's had enough.

in - Ludwig and Mae: Three plays / CCO

2009

translated by Shelley Tepperman

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Emma Goldman

Litwak, Jessica


roybiography - monologue - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'Scenes from Emma Goldman's life.'


1986

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Empty Space, An

Villane, Ron

Samuel French


A man in his thirties is about to move and has asked his ex wife to come get some items thatbelong to her. The play contrasts the way each has adjusted to divorce. Judy has accepted thatthey loved each other but were incompatible. Rich tries to recapture the past and is bewilderedwhen his memories become empty spaces.


1983

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Encore

McLean, Dirk


roy romancetwo charactersone male; one femaleact one, scene three

'Loners Adriel, and Sally, both in their late 20's, claim to have sworn off relationships, yet either ofthem would be willing to re-open their hearts if the right person were to come along - especiallywith an invisible spiritual guide ready to nudge them. They have both been invited to a Halloweenparty by mutual friends, Desmond and Carmen, but are bored there. This is their first encounter.'


1996

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Enemies

Leokum, Arkady

Samuel French

roydramatwo charactersall male cast; two maleone act

"An imperious gentlemen dines daily in a restaurant and constantly complains to the waiter abouteverything. He considers the waiter indebted to him because he taught the man his profession.The waiter claims he is now part owner of the restaurant and has other investments. The dinerbegs him for financial help and, when the waiter says it was all a pipe dream, the diner ishumiliated."

in - Friends and Enemies / COL

1966

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Epiphany

Carlino, Lewis John



interior; originally produced in tandem with Carlino's other play "Snowangel".

This is a play about a man who has failed so miserably as a man, that he decides to become achicken, a rooster. His wife, a successful advertising executive, taunts him with memories of hisfailures, memories that include a homosexual experience she witnessed between her husband andanother man. Years have gone by since this occurrence and her husband, driven by his inability

in - Cages: Snowangels and Epiphany / COL

1964

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Escape

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - American - 20th century - short playall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

1 interior set.

"Three convicts monitor a fourth's break for freedom from chain-gang bunkhouse." - Play Index

in - Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays / COL

2005

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Escape from Golf Camp

Shaw, Rebecca

Blizzard Publishing

royCanadian - Alberta playwrightthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Two golf addicts connect at a golf camp.


1994

Wreggitt, Andrew

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Essay

Moscovitch, Hannah


royCanadian - dramathree characterstwo male; one femaletwo scenes

A female student is told to write an essay on an 18th Century military leader. She upsets hertutor by writing about a female leader.

in - The Russian Play and Other Short Works / CCO

2008

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Eukiah

Wilson, Lanford

Miscellaneous

roydramaall male cast; two charactersone male; one boyshort play

"Butch's haunting call for Eukiah to come out of the shadows echoes through an abandonedairplane hangar. What does Eukiah know, and what does he think he knows about a plot to killracehorses? This brooding exploration of power lures us into a dimly lit corridor where truth andtrust lean precariously against one another."

in - Dramatics Vol. 77, No 2 / PER

1991

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Eukiah

Wilson, Lanford

Miscellaneous

roydramatwo maletwo charactersone act

"The play takes place in an airplane hanger. Butch ran into the airplane hanger after Eukiahbecause Butch knows Eukiah heard him and Barry talking about setting the horse stable on fire.Butch tries to reassure Eukiah that he was only being a half wit, that no one would do somethinglike that. At the end of the play Butch snaps Eukiah's neck and tells him never to trust people whendealing with horses."

in - Dramatics - Vol.77, No.3 / PERTitle:

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Eukiah

Wilson, Lanford

Smith and Kraus

roydramaall male cast; two charactersone male; one boyshort play

"Butch's haunting call for Eukiah to come out of the shadows echoes through an abandonedairplane hangar. What does Eukiah know, and what does he think he knows about a plot to killracehorses? This brooding exploration of power lures us into a dimly lit corridor where truth andtrust lean precariously against one another."

in - 20/20 ... / COL

1995

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Evening Education

Elwell, Jeffrey Scott

Samuel French


'Overbearing college professor gets a lesson from canny black janitor.'


2001

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Every Man

Niederman, Michael

Samuel French

roydrama - coming of age - relationshipsthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

A kind of coming of age dream play, Every Man explores the circular patterns of young love andabandonment. 15-year-old Savannah is so fascinated by the stars, she speaks to them. Hermother, Wendy, is concerned about Wendy’s pipe-dreamer behavior and her daughter's growingcuriosity regarding boys. When a young man, Peter, finally shows up for Savannah, Wendyconfronts the young couple, only to find an odd familiarity with Peter. He alludes to a past theymay or may not have had, almost romancing Wendy again, but the painful memory of young


2008

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Everything I've Got

Dobkin, Jess

Miscellaneous

royperformance artall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

Performance art piece. No description available.

in - Canadian Theatre Review, No. 149 / PERTitle:

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Exhibition, The

Gibbons, Thomas



two interior and two exterior sets.

Based on Treves' journal and other documentary material. "Drama of the relationship between JohnMerrick, the Victorian sideshow freak, known as the 'Elephant Man', and his benefactor, SirFrederick Treves, the British surgeon.


1978

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Experiment, The

Ravenhill, Mark

Bloomsbury

roydrama - solo performanceone characterone male or femaleone act

running time: 30 mins.

If you could cure thousands of a fatal disease by experimenting on a single child, would you doit? That’s the question posed by the narrator of this story, their personal complicity in theexperience a slippery possibility.

in - Ravenhill Plays:3 / COL

2013

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Facts

Milner, Arthur


roydrama - murder mystery - Palestine - Canadian playwrightall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act (two scenes)


A murder mystery, set in the West Bank. Palestinian and Israeli detectives try to solve the murder ofan American archaeologist teaching in Ramallah. Inspired by an actual event.

in - Double Exposure / CCO

2016

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Fade to Black

Gillies, David

Blizzard Publishing


An actor, very recently deceased, meets up with the 'stage manager' of the play of life.'


1994

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Fair Affair, A

Polatin, Daria



'(This play) explores the "backwards" relationship of two secret lovers as they attempt to reconciletheir romantic dreams. Based on Chekov's "The Lady With the Pet Dog", this bittersweet love storyunfolds with a timely twist.'


2002

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Fair Rosamund and Her Murderer

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

royrelationships - dramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Romance develops between Henry II's mistress and murderer dispatched to slay her.'

in - Glamorgan and Other Plays / COL

1996

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Falling in Like

LaBute, Neil

Faber and Faber

roymonologues - women - dramaall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

A woman waits for the man she is dating.


2007

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Family Portrait or My Son The Black Nationalist

Caldwell, Ben

Bantam Books

royblack play three characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Otis Redding's plane crash plotted by white man.

in - New Plays From the Black Theatre / COL

1969

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Family Voices

Pinter, Harold


roydrama - monologuesthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

"A series of parallel monologues between a mother and son in the form of letters probably writtenbut never mailed, in which the facade of a happy family gradually disintegrates into a cauldron ofrecrimination."

in - Other Places / COL

1984

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Famine and the Ghost

Halman, Doris F.

Walter H. Baker

roy fantasythree charactersflexible castingone act


in - Set the Stage for Eight / COL

1923

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Fancy Seeing You, Then

Conn, Stewart

Hutchinson Educational


"The last play in the volume is 'Fancy Seeing You, Then' by Stewart Conn, a conversation piece thatleads the eavesdropper up the garden path. Like Murray, we believe that Howatt's breezy flow oftalk is based on a James Bond fantasy; we think he is trying to convince a provincial hick fromFalkirk that he is big-time. Murray will never know what we, and the Waiter, know. The trick isdone in a visual flash; a clever theatrical denouement."

in - Playbill Two / COL

1969

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Faroe Islands

Billon, Nicolas

Coach House Press

royCanadian - drama - monologueall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

A young woman's idealism is challenged by the whale hunt in "Faroe Islands".

in - Fault Lines / CCO

2013

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Fat Man's Wife, The

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - American - 20th century - short play - marital relationsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 interior set.

"New Year’s morning 1938. Vera and her husband Joe, an influential theatre producer, return froma party, at which a young playwright, Dennis, has paid court to Vera. Rather than compromise hisart, Dennis has decided to quit New York for Acapulco and wants Vera to accompany him. But Verasends him away; she is, after all, the fat man’s wife." - Samuel French


2005

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Faust is Dead

Ravenhill, Mark

Methuen Drama

roydrama - gay - British - LGBTQ+all male cast; three characters; chorusthree maleone act

The world's most famous philosopher arrives in Los Angeles and is greeted as a star. In a roundof chat show appearances, he announces the Death of Man and the End of History. When he meetsup with a young man who is on the run from his father, a leading software magnate, they embarkon a hedonistic voyage across America. But in the play's bloody conclusion, they discover thatnot all events are virtual.

in - Plays: 1 / COL

2001

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Fear

Nelson, Greg

Blizzard Publishing

royCanadian - dramatwo charactersflexible castingone act

A person shares philosophies with the other. Neither of them can figure out the results.


1994

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Feathers



roydrama - fantasytwo charactersone male; two femaleone act (one scene)

A couple deals with the departure of their child.


2016

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Feeding the Moonfish

Wiechmann, Barbara

Penguin Books

roydrama - teenagers two characters; extrasone male; one femaleone act

1 exterior.

Young man, haunted by father's suicide, finds comfort with teenager whose mother killed father inself defense.


1993

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Ferryboat

Melfi, Leonard

Samuel French


1 interior set.

"Joey is searching out the Staten Island Ferryboat as it leaves Manhattan. He boldly sits downbeside The Girl and tries to strike up a conversation. When he realizes he isn't getting anywherehe decides to continue on anyway. He tells her all about himself. When the ferryboat is almostready to pull into the docks The Girl finally reacts to Joey, cooly insulting him. He lashes back at


1967

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Fertile Imagination, A

Cole, Susan G.


roydrama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+three charactersall female cast; three female (one black female)ten scenes

"The story of a lesbian couple's quest for recognition of their rights to live as equal, if separate,members of society. In keeping with its aim of carving out a lesbian space, the play capitalizes onthe seductive powers of stage naturalism to legitimize the existence of an idealized lesbian coupleseeking to have a child."


2006

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Fifth Planet

Auburn, David


roydrama - friendship⌦two charactersone male; one femaleone act (forty-four scenes)

"Fifth Planet" charts the friendship between two observatory workers as it waxes and wanes overthe course of a year.


2002

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Film is Evil: Radio is Good

Foreman, Richard


royexperimental dramathree charactersone male; two femaleone act

'Experimental drama about how film effects society.'


1992

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Fin and Euba

Cefaly, Audrey



Fin and Euba are friends and co-workers at a paper mill in Cantonment, Florida. They also sharespace in a rooming house, which they are desperately trying to escape. Unbeknownst to Euba, Finsubmits some of Euba's amateur photos to Life Magazine. Euba receives a reply from Life, but isreluctant to open it for fear or rejection, or worse . . . acceptance.


2008

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Final Placement

Watson, Ara


roydrama - womenall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

unit set.

"The scene is the Tulsa office of a child welfare caseworker. A mother guilty of child abuse isintent on regaining the custody of her son, even though he has been put up for adoption by thecourts. Despite her poverty and ignorance she displays a touching eloquence - and a disquietingmenace - as she attempts to stave off the inevitable".

in - Win/Lose/Draw / COL

1983

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Final Placement

Watson, Ara

Penguin Books


unit set.

"The scene is the Tulsa office of a child welfare caseworker. A mother guilty of child abuse isintent on regaining the custody of her son, even though he has been put up for adoption by thecourts. Despite her poverty and ignorance she displays a touching eloquence - and a disquietingmenace - as she attempts to stave off the inevitable".


1993

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Fire as Bright as Heaven, A

Collins, Tim


roydrama - Americanone characterone maleone act (five scenes)

A one-man tour de force chronicling the past seven years of American upheaval.


2009

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Fireworks

Terry, Megan


roydrama - marital relations - World War IIthree charactersone male; one boy; one girlone act

A father comes home from the Second World War, to find that his wife was living with anotherman. They are getting a divorce and he is explaining it to his two children. He also has found awoman and is going to marry her.


1987

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Fireworks

Terry, Megan

Smith and Kraus

roydrama - marital relations - World War IIthree charactersone male; one boy; one girlone act

A father comes home from the Second World War, to find that his wife was living with anotherman. They are getting a divorce and he is explaining it to his two children. He also has found awoman and is going to marry her.

in - 20/20 ... / COL

1995

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Firing Lines

Cheoros, David

Brindle & Glass

roydrama - journalism - war - women - Canadianmany charactersone male; two female (doubling)thirty-four scenes; one act

running time: approximately 90 min.

Journalist Beatrice Nasmyth covers the First World War and returns to Alberta and enters thepolitical arena.

in - Her Voice, Her Century / CCO

2012

Simonson, Karen

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First Love

Schisgal, Murray


royromancetwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

First Love Last. When Mike left Lucy in the middle of the night without a note or a good-bye, herfaith in true love left with him. Twenty years later, Mike walks back into Lucy's life and thememories come flooding back. No matter how long it's been or how deep the scars are, you neverforget your first love.


2001

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First Miracle of the Boy Jesus, The

Fo, Dario

Oberon Press

roymonologue - comic - dramaone characterflexible castingone act

'A companion piece to "The Tale of a Tiger".'

in - The Pope and the Witch; The First Miracle of the Boy Jesus / COL

1994

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Fish Eyes

Majumdar, Anita


roydrama - coming of age - youth - women - solo performancefour charactersone femaleone act

The Fish Eyes Trilogy contains: 'Fish Eyes', 'Boys with Cars', and 'Let Me Borrow That Top'

"Fish Eyes" is the story of Meena, a classically trained Indian dancer who, despite being obsessedwith Bollywood movies and her dance career, just wants to be like the rest of her high-schoolfriends. When she develops a massive crush on Buddy, the popular boy at school, Meenacontemplates turning down an incredible opportunity to pursue him, even if he barely notices her.


2016

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Flight of Fancy

Felder, Louis

Samuel French

royre la t ionsh ipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Young MBA and middle-aged salesman meet in airport lounge in Portland, Oregon.'


2000

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Flights

Cameron, Susan

Samuel French

royrelationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone scene

Maggie bumps into Carl at the airport. It's been many years and he doesn't even recognize her.Soon they are talking about old times, his several marriages and her one, mutual friends andcurrent happenings. Underlying their banal encounter is Maggie's heart wrenching secret: sheloves Carl and has for years.


2003

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Florentine Tragedy, A

Wilde, Oscar

Penguin Books


A fragment of a play, unfinished. Love intrigue, and violent death in a medieval Florence.

in - Importance of Being Earnest and (6) Other Plays, The / COL

2000

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Florentine Tragedy, A

Wilde, Oscar

Doubleday

royd r a m athree characterstwo male; one femaleone act


in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL

1958

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Flyer (from Roots in Water)

Nelson, Richard

Penguin Books

roy monologue - men - warall male cast; one characterone maleone scene

First scene form Roots in Water. Monologue by Vietnam vet set in 1976.


1993

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Follow the Leader

Libman, Carol

Alive Press

royCanadian - drama - war - menall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

Non representative set.

"Three men, a leader and two followers, build an imaginary war and empire for righteousness."

in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCOTitle:

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Footfalls

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

royexperimental theatreall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

"Invalid mother's offstage voice describes barren life of daughter shut up with her who paces floorseeking further meaning to existence in sound of her own footsteps. Daughter fictionalizes herlife, investing it with sense of mystery."


1992

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For Distinguished Service

Knox, Florence Clay

Walter H. Baker




1958

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Forfeits

Havard, Lezley


roydramathree charactersone male; two femaleone act

'A reunion of two women who had been childhood friends and the husband of one of them,reveals the need for revenge by one of them. A game is played to obtain forfeit, and the forfeit isthe vengence.'


1976

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Forgetting to Remember

Kalleres, Greg

Samuel French

roydrama - relationships - marriagethree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A man awakens to find a strange woman in his bed…only to discover that it’s his wife of 30 years.

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 37th Series / COL

2013

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Former One-on-One Basketball Champion, The

Horovitz, Israel


roydrama - sports - basketballall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

1 exterior set.

"On a city playground middle-aged ex-basketball pro and fourteen-year-old youth match skills ina game of 21 during which they unravel the ironic fate that brought them together".


1981

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Former One-on-One Basketball Champion, The

Horovitz, Israel


roydrama - sports - basketballall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

open stage.

"A provocative and revealing study of a young boy and an older man whose shared interest inbasketball leads on to deeper, and often startling, revelations about other ways in which theirlives have touched, for better or worse, without their intention".

in - The Great Labor Day Classic; The Former One-on-One Basketball Champion /CO

1982

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Fourteen Years

Nagle, Maggie

Blizzard Publishing

roycontemporarytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A paralyzed woman tries desparately to communicate with her husband.


1996

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Fourth Prisoner, The

Wilson, David Henry

Samuel French


"Drama about deprivation and judgement set in prison cell."

in - Are You Normal Mr. Norman and other Short Plays / COL

1985

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Fragment

Voaden, Herman


royscenetwo charactersone male; one femaleone scene

'A study in stylized symbolism. A dramatization of a short story,'The Lady in a Green Dress'.'

in - A Vision of Canada / CCO

1993

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Free's Point

Adams, Philip



"The play recreates the final moments in the life of Michael Oros, who tried to live alone in remotebush south of the British Columbia / Yukon border."

in - Staging the North / CCO

1999

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French Waitress




Ricky and his girlfriend Pamela sit down to an unsettling meal, served to them by a beautiful butunnerving French waitress.


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Friday, 6:32 p.m.

Friesen, Patrick

Blizzard Publishing

roycontemporaryall female cast; one character and extra voicesone femaleone act

A woman battles with an answering machine and her life.


1996

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Friends

Leokum, Arkady

Samuel French

roydramatwo charactersall male cast; two maleone act

"A tutor lives by the sea and from his window he sees the yachts of the wealthy. His charge is aforlorn boy whose parents haven't time for him and who comes from his family's yacht to study.The boy doesn't need to learn; he's going to inherit millions, so why sweat? In truth, they needeach other. The boy has learned to read while pretending otherwise and the tutor is dependent onthe boy for the income to keep himself alive."

in - Friends and Enemies / COL

1966

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From - "The Resurrection of the Daughter: Liliane"

Shange, Ntozake


roywomen - growing up - African Americantwo charactersflexible castingone act

' "The Resurrection of the Daughter: Liliane", a new novel by Ntozake Shange chronicles thejourney of a visual artist from adolescence to womanhood. The prismatic composition of thenovel is derived from two narrative lines (one from childhood and one from adult life); the Psalms,which are from her journal; and a series of dramatic scenes between Liliane and herpsychoanalyst, entitled "Rooms in the Dark", of which dialogues II, IV, V, VI, and VII are includedhere.'

in - Moon Marked and Touched by Sun / COL

1994

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From: "Fires in the Mirror"

Deaver Smith, Anna


roymonologuestwo characters (doubling)one male or femaleone act

A series of interviews presented in monologue form.


1994

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Frugal Repast

Rosen, Sheldon



The play brings to two harlequin figures of Picasso's famous painting to life.

in - Frugal Repast & The Grand Hysteric / CCO

1978

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Frying Pan, The

Mayer, Paul Avila


royIrish playthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 interior set.

"The first part of a triple bill, this often amusing but revealing play captures the sense and spiritof the Irish soul as it tells of a guilt-ridden prude, the wife who represents his 'downfall', and theaffable young priest who is admired by one and loved by the other".

in - Three Hand Reel / COL

1967

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Fugue For Female Voices

Hurley, Joan Mason

A Room of One's Own Press

royCanadian - women - monologuesall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

1 interior.

"Play for woman to characterize five different types of women. In monologue form."

in - Canadian One Act Plays For Women / CCO

1975

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Funny Valentine

Kessler, Ean Miles

Vintage Books

roydrama - wartwo characters (female is Korean)one male; one femaleone act

A seedy back room at a gloomy brothel - Korea, May of 1953.

Charlie, a marine stationed in Korea during WWII, meets Joanna, a young prostitute, at a brothelone night. As their time together progresses we discover Charlie is looking for more than justcompanionship.


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Fur

Cruz, Migdalia



singing.

Beneath a pet shop in the California desert, the owner keeps a feral woman in a cage.

in - Out of the Fringe / COL

2000

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Furies, The

LaBute, Neil

Soft Skull Press

roydrama - relationships - LGBTQ+three characterstwo male; one femaleone act

"Barry has some bad news for his sullen younger lover, Jimmy. He’s facing two people instead ofone, though: Jimmy brought his sister, Jamie, to the lunch meeting." - New York Post

in - Filthy Talk for Troubled Times and Other Plays / COL

2010

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G.C.

Mann, Theodore


roydrama - American - theatrethree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A short play about an encounter the playwright had with actor George C. Scott.


2009

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Gaggle of Saints, A

LaBute, Neil

Faber and Faber


"A young mormon couple separately recount the violent events of an anniversary weekend in NewYork City."

in - Bash / COL

1999

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Game of Inches, A

Griffiths, Linda

Blizzard Publishing

roydrama - monologue - womanall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

1 interior.

Woman reflects on Zen, baseball and sex.

in - Sheer Nerve / CCO

1999

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Game of Patience

Farhoud, Abla


royCanadian - drama - women - Quebecall female cast; three charactersthree femalesix scenes

Two worlds clash when Monique/Kaokab, a successful Canadian author who emigrated fromLebanon when she was a child, approaches her newly-arrived and embittered cousin, Miriam.Miriam has escaped the war-torn country, but she has lost her daughter. The daughter, Samira,appears frequently, perched on bookcases or on a swing above the audience. She reveals throughthe author's voice that she has killed herself in order to live. It is her vibrant spirit whicheventually unites the two women.

in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO

2008

translated by Jill MacDougall

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Game of Patience

Farhoud, Abla


royCanadian - drama - women - Quebecall female cast; three charactersthree femalesix scenes

Two worlds clash when Monique/Kaokab, a successful Canadian author who emigrated fromLebanon when she was a child, approaches her newly-arrived and embittered cousin, Miriam.Miriam has escaped the war-torn country, but she has lost her daughter. The daughter, Samira,appears frequently, perched on bookcases or on a swing above the audience. She reveals throughthe author's voice that she has killed herself in order to live. It is her vibrant spirit whicheventually unites the two women.

in - Canada and the Theatre of War - Vol. II / CCO

2009

translated by Jill MacDougall

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Gap, The

Ionesco, Eugene

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

roydrama - social issuesthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 interior.

"Theatre of the absurd. Though honored by an abundance of doctorates, academician's failure topass second part of baccalaureate examination invalidates all his awards and destroys foundationof his existence."

in - The Art of Drama / COL

1976

translated by Rosette Lamont

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Gentleman Caller

Vaughn, R.M.

Blizzard Publishing


Young drag queen and old married woman share make-up and experiences.


1998

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Get Yourself Home Skyler James

Tannahill, Jordan


royCanadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - gender rolesall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

suggested for TYA touring.

Based on a true story, "Get Yourself Home Skyler James" follows the harrowing journey of a younglesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by fellow soldiers.

Winner! The play is in a collection that won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama,

in - Age of Minority / CCO

2013

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Getting In

Moore, Mavor

Talonbooks

roydrama - men - Canadianall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"A man applies for admission into an organization. His facade and his confidence are shatteredwhen the interview takes an unexpected direction."

in - Six Plays by Mavor Moore / CCO

1989

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Getting it Straight

Pollock, Sharon

Red Deer College Press

roymonologue - Canadian - Alberta playwright - dramaall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

Thoughts of a woman suffering from mental illness.

in - Heroines: Three Plays / CCO

1992

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Getting it Straight

Pollock, Sharon


roymonologue - Canadian - drama - women - mental illness - Alberta playwrightall female cast; one characterone femaleone act



2003

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Getting it Straight

Pollock, Sharon


roymonologue - Alberta playwright - Canadian - drama - mental illnessall female cast; one characterone femaleone act


in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO

2006

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Getting Lucky

Lloyd, Christian


royCanadian - LGBTQ+ - relationships - drama - one actsall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

On Tuesday, September 7th, 2004, at roughly 9:00 a.m., Christian Lloyd found himself wakingup in the most dangerous neighbourhood in New Orleans with someone he didn't remembermeeting. Anything can happen during Southern Decadence weekend! Inspired by true events.

in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO

2006

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Ghost Fragments, The

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roymonologues - women - dramaall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

In this eerily erotic monologue play Naomi, a young woman who finds herself convinced that theold house she lives in is haunted, tries to solve the mystery of the house and of her own darkpast.

in - Gorgons and Other Plays

2009

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Ghost Stories

Evans, Annie

Samuel French

royd r a m aall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

This poignant play is about three young women on a camping trip. Each has a truth to tell andeach has her turn.


1986

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Ghost Story

Ravenhill, Mark

Bloomsbury

roydrama - breast cancer - spirituality - LGBTQ+all female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act


Lisa has breast cancer. Meryl is a healer who believes in the power of positive thinking. As timefolds back on itself and then forwards, Lisa and Meryl trade roles as the healer and the healed,discovering that the world is full of ghosts.


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Ghost Story, A

Pielmeier, John


royhorror - ghost storiesthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 setting; suggested for high school.

Two hikers stranded in an isolated Maine cabin in a blizzard, trade ghost stories with amysterious girl.

in - Haunted Lives / COL

1984

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Ghost Trains

Robinson, Mansel

Thistledown Press

roydrama - Canadian - menall male cast; two characterstwo male (may be played by one person)one act

A man's tribute to his father told in poetry and music.

in - Rock 'n Rail / CCO

2002

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Gideon's Knot

Adams, Johnna

Miscellaneous


A mother and teacher have a wrenching verbal spar over the former's deceased son and a piece ofhis writing.

in - American Theatre (12/01/12) / PER

2012

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Gift of an Orange

Donaghy, Charlene A.


roydrama - American - short playthree characters; musicianstwo male; one femaleone act (three scenes)

a play with music; based on a Tennessee Williams short story, "Gift of an Apple".

"A hitch-hiker down on his luck falls off the beaten path in Tennessee Williams' short story, “Giftof an Apple” (written in1936). Award-winning playwright Charlene A. Donaghy, inspired byimages of a young man’s innocence and an older woman’s voluptuousness has written "Gift of anOrange" in response to Williams' story. The sensual new play with music is set in the wilderness


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Gift, The

De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group


royCanadian - Native peoplesthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A storyteller/actor relates the Frog Monster legend in which Manitoulin Island is created and themedicine pouch of a Nameless Man in the legend spilled over the island. On Manitoulin, whereDe-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre is located, many medicines still grow. The storyteller takes what heneeds from the legend and in performing it invites the audience to do the same. What or who isthe Frog Monster who prevents water from flowing? What is your name?

in - Stories from the Bush / CCO

2009

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Gimmick, The

Orlandersmith, Dael

Miscellaneous

roymonologue - womenall female cast; one character; extraone femaleone act

'Young Harlem woman dreams of becoming writer in Paris like James Baldwin.'

in - American Theatre (Sept 99) / PER

1999

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Girl and The Soldier, The

Van Itallie, Jean-Claude



open stage.

"A girl sings; a soldier speaks of love and war; and a sense of the very nature of our tortureduniverse is poignantly evoked".

in - Seven Short and Very Short Plays / COL

1973

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Glass Box, The

Theatre Terrific


roydrama - disability - sexuality - Canadianthree charactersone male; two femaleone act (twelve scenes)

devised by Kyla Harris, Watson Moy, and Susanna Uchatius.

"The Glass Box" is a pastiche of sketch comedy, dramatic scenes, dance and exciting, climacticmonologues exploring the fact and fiction around the themes of sex and disability. Inspired bythe true life and sex stories of the performers, "The Glass Box" blends and refracts theexperiences and perceptions of three disparate, sexually active people: a 55 year-old, straight,

in - Once More, With Feeling / CCO

2014

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Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah), The

Foreman, Richard

Miscellaneous


"Two bizarre and bumbling lumberjacks find themselves at the edge of a psychic abyss, thoughthey eagerly anticipate the good news that seems hidden in sweet drops of honey left by busybees. As with all Foreman landscapes, however, there is dread hidden inside imagined pleasures,as they encounter a beautiful, irreverent princess who taunts them with the mysteries of sex, deathand desire."

in - American Theatre Vol. 22, No. 4 / PER

2005

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Going to the Chapel

Steele, Donald

Samuel French

roydramatic comedyall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

Minutes before Julie is about to take her fifth walk down the aisle, she and her always at her sideMatron of Honor Jan examine love and life and their friendship - each learning some things theydidn't know about each other, or themselves.

in - Life Support / COL

2006

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Golden Bull of Boredom, The

Yerby, Lorees

Hill and Wang

roydramaall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act 1 interior set.

"Husband and wife make a pact with a young man to relieve them of their boredom asimaginatively as possible and, if thus successful, to murder them".


1963

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Gone the Burning Sun

Mitchell, Ken

NeWest Press

roydrama - Canadian - biography - monologuesall male cast, one characterone maleone act

A compelling portrait of Dr. Norman Bethune, the brilliant medical man who devoted himself tosaving the world in China, Spain and Montreal. Winner! 1985 Canadian Authors' Association Drama Award.

in - Rebels in Time / CCO

1991

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Good Book, The

Anton, Tiffany

Samuel French

roydramatic comedy three charactersone male; two femaleone act

In desperation, Robert turns to the ghost of his dead wife in a moment of great anxiety - hisdaughter's first period. He finds a gift his wife hid in the house for their daughter on just thisoccasion—a book his wife created for Robert and their daughter before she died, a sort of bible towomanhood. Robert talks to his wife in between the awkwardness of trying to do the "right thing,"all while trying not to make his daughter even more embarrassed than she already is. A touchingfamily drama about growing up, featuring three strong Hispanic characters.


2008

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Good Thief, The

McPherson, Conor


roydrama, monologueall male cast; one characterone maleone act

'Monologue by small time Irish criminal.'

"The Good Thief" has a dramatic daring...The writing is terse, lucid and admirably dispassionate.

in - The Weir and Other Plays / COL

1999

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Goodnight Lovin' Trail

Bray, John Patrick


roydramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (two scenes)

This subtle and touching drama takes place at a truck stop diner in West Texas, where twodesperate and lonely strangers find redemption in each other's eyes while discussing a stolenguitar. The play explores raw human emotions and consequences while these two desperatecharacters navigate and come to terms with the choices they've made on the road of life.


2015

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Goods

Elias, Isadore

Samuel French

roydramaall male cast; two characters; extrastwo maleone act

'Cut-throat businessman in garment industry buys cloth from old friend.'

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Sixteenth Series) / COL

1996

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Gothic Tale, A

Pielmeier, John


royhorrorthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 setting; singing; suggested for high school.

A woman obsessed by the idea of being loved keeps a man prisoner in the tower of an islandmansion.


1984

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Graceful Rebellions

Latif, Shaista


roydrama - solo performance - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian all female cast; three characters three female (doubling possible)one act (four parts)

Running time: 50 minutes

Love is a sacred act of grace. Rebellion is the refusal of obedience. Joy is a state of divinity anddestruction. Power is given to those who take. Can a queer Afghan woman identify herself in aoccupied land? Part storytelling, part folklore and myth. Tradition is history repeated. Containsfour monologues: A Wedding for Leili; One Hundred Poppies; What's in a Name?; and Leili in


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Graceland

Byron, Ellen



background music; suggested short play for high school.

'Rivalry between two fanatic female Elvis Presley fans develops into exchange of confidences.'


1985

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Graceland

Byron, Ellen



background music; suggested short play for high school.

'Rivalry between two fanatic female Elvis Presley fans develops into exchange of confidences.'

in - Graceland and Asleep on the Wind / COL

1984

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Gramma

Yi, Maki

Miscellaneous

roydrama - storytellingall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act


in - Canadian Theatre Review (154) / PER

2013

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Gramsci 3: The Doing-to death of Antonio Gramsci

Watson, Wilfred

NeWest Press

royexperimental dramathree characterstwo male; one femaleeleven scenes

'Struggle between Mussolini and Tatiana for Gramsci's freedom from prison are interwoven withscenes representing his calvary as the Stations of the Cross.'

in - Plays at the Iron Bridge / CCO

1989

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Grand Hysteric, The

Rosen, Sheldon



A psychological drama centering on a young man's final meeting with his psychiatrist and atug-of-war among various levels of reality.

in - Frugal Repast & The Grand Hysteric / CCO

1978

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Grappa

McFarlane, Anita

Theatrum Publishing


Published in Theatrum Magazine (Feb/Mar 1994). No further description available.

in - Grappa, The Spider's Feast and Potato Prayers / CCO

1994

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Great Falls

Blessing, Lee

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - family relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

As the play begins, we find a middle aged man in the driver's seat of his car, waxing poetic aboutthe scenery while his angry teenage passenger accuses him of kidnapping her. As it turns out, theman is the young woman's stepfather, no divorced from her mother. Hoping to retrieve somethingof their past together, he's striking out on the open road with his fuming companion. But she'snot going to make it easy for him to find the brand of self acceptance or forgiveness that he hopesfor, instead pushing them to traverse a much more difficult territory.


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Great Father, The

Lodato, Victor

Playscripts, Inc.


A couple discuss what they are seeing in the sky.

in - Snapshot / COL

2003

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Great Nebula in Orion, The

Wilson, Lanford


roydrama - women - friendshipall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

1 interior set.

"This fascinating and brilliantly inventive play details the chance meeting, after many years, of twogirlhood friends. One has 'married well' and the other has achieved a successful career, but, forboth, as their poignant and telling conversation reveals, there is an aching emptiness beneath theelegant veneer of their lives".

in - The Great Nebula in Orion and Three Other Plays / COL

1973

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Green Eyes; or, No Sight Would be Worth Seeing

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - American - 20th century - short playtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"A young couple spending their honeymoon in a hotel in New Orleans' French Quarter wake upone morning to find the "girl's" body covered with mysterious bruises. The "boy;' on a short leavefrom serving in Vietnam, is enraged and blinded with jealously. As they fight - over herevasiveness, his courage or cowardice in war, their fears and expectations for a life together - itbecomes clear that the bruises are no mystery at all." - Samuel French


2008

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Greenland

Billon, Nicolas

Coach House Press


The naming of a new island off the nation's coast mirrors a growing rift between the island'sdiscoverer and his family.


2013

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Growing Up Suites, Parts I and II and Object/Subject of Desire

Dempsey, Shawna


roydrama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+one characterall female cast; one femaleeleven vignettes

The experiences that Dempsey and Millan went through growing up in the bleak suburbanlandscapes of Scarborough and Etobicoke in the 1960s and 1970s.


2006

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Gruesome Playground Injuries

Joseph, Rajiv

Miscellaneous

roydrama - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaletwenty-three scenes

A decade spanning anatomy of a scarred relationship.

in - American Theatre (April 2011) / PERTitle:

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Gruesome Playground Injuries

Joseph, Rajiv

Soft Skull Press

roydrama - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (twenty-three scenes)

A decade spanning anatomy of a scarred relationship. Charts the intersection of two lives usingscars, wounds, and calamities as the mile markers to explore why people hurt themselves.

in - Gruesome Playground Injuries/Animals Out of Paper/ Bengal Tiger at... / COL

2010

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Guards at the Taj

Joseph, Rajiv

Miscellaneous

roydrama - India - historical - friendship - beautyall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act (five scenes)

"In 1648 India, two Imperial Guards watch from their post as the sun rises for the first time on thenewly-completed Taj Mahal—an event that shakes their respective worlds. When they are orderedto perform an unthinkable task, the aftermath forces them to question the concept of friendship,beauty and duty, and changes them forever." - broadway.com

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Guernica

Arrabal, Fernando

Grove Press

roydrama - wartwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"Set during the Spanish Civil War. Basque peasant couple are trapped in the rubble of their home,after airplane bombing."

in - Guernica and other plays / COL

1986

translated by Barbara Wright

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Gulf, The

Cefaly, Audrey

Samuel French

roydrama - LGBTQ+ - friendshipall female cast; two characters two femaleone act


The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast andpolarizing abyss. On a quiet summer evening, somewhere down in the Alabama Delta, Kendra andBetty troll the flats looking for red fish. After Betty begins diagnosing Kendra’s dead-end life withcareer picks from What Color is Your Parachute, their routine fishing excursion takes a violent

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 40th Series / COL

2015

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Gulf, The

Cefaly, Audrey


roydrama - LGBTQ - relationshipstwo characters; all female casttwo femaleone act (one scene)

1 exterior set.

"The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast andpolarizing abyss. On a quiet summer evening, somewhere down in the Alabama Delta, Kendra andBetty troll the flats looking for red fish. After Betty begins diagnosing Kendra’s dead-end life withcareer picks from What Color is Your Parachute, their routine fishing excursion takes a violent


2016

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Gym Teacher

Durang, Christopher



"An overly macho gym teacher addresses a coed class of seventh graders, saying inappropriatethings and eventually forcing the unlucky class to play a game of "bombardment" (hitting themembers of the other team with volley balls), but this time played with bowling balls."

in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL

1998

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Hagoromo

Zeami

Pearson Education

royJapanese Noh play - fantasythree characters; chorus two male; one femaleone act

One spring morning, a fisherman named Hakury?, sets out to go fishing with his companions andfinds a beautiful robe hung on a pine branch at Miho-no-Matsubara. When he attempts to take ithome as a family heirloom, a celestial maiden appears and asks him to return the robe to her. Atfirst, Hakury? refuses to return it. However, he is moved by the celestial maiden, who laments thatshe cannot go home to heaven without it. He therefore decides to give her the feather robe inreturn for seeing her perform a celestial dance. As the celestial maiden in the feather robe

in - Plays Onstage / COL

2006

translated by Arthur Waley

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Haiku

Snodgrass, Katherine

Penguin Books

roydrama - disabilitiesall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

The story concerns a woman who lives with her mentally challenged daughter, who hasmiraculously at brief intervals been "normal". In fact, the daughter, Louise, is sometimessuper-normal, speaking in beautiful haiku poetry, which her mother has recorded and has hadpublished under the mother's name. Then an older daughter, Billie, comes for a visit. Billie onlyknows her sister as hopelessly retarded, and refuses to believe that her mother's poetry hasactually been composed by her sister.


1993

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Halfway

Schwend, Emily

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - family relations - love - addictionall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

"When her sister visits her at a halfway house in East Texas, Kat is desperate to impress andwin Melissa’s forgiveness and love. Eager to reclaim her place in the family, Kat soon discoversthat redemption might be more difficult and complicated than she thought." - emilyschwend.com


2014

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Halloween

Melfi, Leonard

Samuel French


"Luke, thirty, has finally broken away from his parents. He's living in a Manhattan cock-roachinfested furnished room - and he's just been robbed of all his personal belongings, expensivegifts given him mostly by his family. Margaret is the building's cleaning lady and they meetbecause of the robbery and all the cock-roaches. This meeting turns into an afternoon of greatrevelations about each other - very painful and embarrassing truths. But it's an afternoon endingin a temporary form of comfort and understanding human contact".


1967

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Hamletmachine

Muller, Heiner


roydrama - Shakespearetwo characters; extrasone male; one femaleone act

1 set.

"Experimental piece based on Shakespeare's Hamlet depicting history of communism in 20thcentury".


1984

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Hands

Gatchalian, C. E.

The Writer's Collective

royCanadian - drama - family relationsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

"Hands" traces the disintegration of a tormented family.

Short-listed for the Playwriting Award at the 1996 Pacific Northwest Writers Conference LiteraryContest.

in - Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays / CCO

2003

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Hang Up

Minghella, Anthony

Methuen

roydrama - British - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"A very brief telephone conversation between separated lovers."

in - Plays: 2 (Anthony Minghella) / COL

1997

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Harriet

Kenyatta, Kisha

Samuel French

royAmerican - drama - monologue - Black historyall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

interior.

A one-woman dramatization of the life of Harriet Tubman. In this big hearted monologuedelivered by a former slave, Harriet recounts her childhood, her path to freedom via theunderground railroad and her return to lead her family and 300 other slaves to freedom. Her taleis laced with songs and hymns.

in - Award-Winning Plays: Volume 2 / COL

1995

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Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist

Gage, Carolyn

Samuel French

roydrama - historicalall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

'Therapist tries to dissuade the slave Harriet Tubman from attempting escape but ultimatelyprovides advice on how to do it.'

in - Off-Off-Broadway Festival Plays - 23rd Series / COL

1999

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Hate

Goldstein, Joshua

Solomon Press Publishers

roymonologues - men - dramaall male cast; one charactersone maleone act

Monologue delivered by Hitler.

in - Four Plays / COL

1993

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Haunted Host, The

Patrick, Robert

Winter House

roydrama - self realizationall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

1 interior; 3 scenes.

"Two playwrights, one a young houseguest and the other a homosexual, obsessed by ghost ofdead friend, come to self-realizations."

in - Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks / COL

1972

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Haunting Julia

Ayckbourn, Alan

Faber and Faber

roydramaall male cast; three characters; one voicethree maleone act

Julia Lukin was a musical prodigy who committed suicide 12 years earlier. Her father Joe hasnever come to terms with her death and in the Julia Larkin Centre For Performing Studies, hehopes to discover what happened by meeting with a psychic, Ken, and Julia’s boyfriend, Andy,who was the last person to see her alive.

in - Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 3 / COL

2005

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He Came Home One Day While I was Washing Dishes

Biadaszkiewicz, K.


roydrama - wartwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A young man hurries home to tell his mother the good news. It is the news she has dreaded. Shedoes not hurry at all.


2008

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Hearts and Minds

Kraar, Adam



In HEARTS AND MINDS, an idealistic speech teacher strives to touch the conscience of arelentlessly practical student from Russia, by getting him to empathize with other students.Teacher and student end up educating each other about what they are willing to sacrifice for theirvalues.


2010

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Heights

Fox, Amy


roydrama - sexualitythree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Three young New Yorkers face conflicts of sexuality and trust.


2008

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Helen's Necklace

Frechette, Carole


roydrama - Canadiantwo characters (can be played by up to six characters)one male; one femaleone act

"The necklace is irreplaceable. The city is a maze of danger and emotion. Time and reality areslipping through Helen's fingers."

in - Carole Frechette: Two Plays / CCO

2007


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Hell By Fire, Hell By Ice

Halberstadt, MJ

StageSource

roydrama - biography⌦all female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set; period - 1963.

"The painter Elaine de Kooning struggles at the thought of continuing her art career whilepreparing for an ill-timed exhibition of her portrait of JFK, so she calls upon an old enemy to helpseal the deal on a major life decision."

in - New England New Play Anthology, The / COL

2017

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Helter Skelter

LaBute, Neil

Soft Skull Press

roydrama - relationships - marriage - divorce - family relationstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A husband and wife meet to take a break from Christmas shopping in New York. He doesn't knowthat she has already seen him today.


2010

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Her Name is Kathy

de Matteo, Donna



A lawyer is sent to straighten out a young man's story about a car accident he was involved in.


2007

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Here and Now

Yew, Chay

Playscripts, Inc.

roymonologue - mentwo charactersone male; one femaleone scene

A man and woman gaze up at Mt. Rushmore as he reflects on his life.

in - Snapshot / COL

2003

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Here Lies Henry

MacIvor, Daniel


royCanadian - drama - monologues - menall male cast; one characterone maleone act

An idyllic sort of miserable sort of nightmarish sort of story book sort of remarkable sort ofregular sort of story. A man alone in a room with a mission to tell you something you don'talready know.

in - One Voice / CCO

1996

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Here Lies Henry

MacIvor, Daniel


royCanadian - drama - monologues - men⌦all male cast; one characterone maleone act

An idyllic sort of miserable sort of nightmarish sort of story book sort of remarkable sort ofregular sort of story. A man alone in a room with a mission to tell you something you don'talready know.


2008

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Herringbone

Cone, Tom


roydrama - Canadian - musical - men - monologuesall male cast; eleven charactersone male (doubling)one act

"An old trooper softshoes onto centre stage and recreates the 'living legend' of his vaudeville life."

in - Twenty Years at Play / CCO

1990

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Highwire

Shields, Brian

Samuel French


'Corrupt New York City cop leans on Irish bartender to recruit for IRA.'

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Nineteenth Series / COL

1995

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Hindsight

Foon, Dennis

Blizzard Publishing

roydrama - Canadiantwo charactersone male; one femaleone scene

A young woman accuses a man of using his glass eye.


1994

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History K

Lee, Edward Bok

Duke University Press

roysolo performance - women - drama - Korea - prostitutionall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

A haunting monologue of an Asian prostitute named K who allegorically embodies the militaryoccupation in Asia. While she could be of any Asian nationality, K's story can be read as achronicle of the US involvement in Korea's modern history. Written in the style of Samuel Beckett'sone woman plays such as "Not I" and "Rockaby," (this play) shows a woman painfully victimized bythe West's military aggression in Asia. Unable to articulate her existence, K can only showfragmented glimpses of westernization forced onto her both physically and emotionally.

in - Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas / COL

2017

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Home

Cahill, Laura


roydrama - short play - family relationsall female casttwo femaleone act

"A divorced daughter arrives home to live with her mother, after taking off in a van twenty-fiveyears earlier. She not only discovers her now aging mother has troubles of her own, but thatcompromise, and an old house, will make it all work."


1997

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Home Free!

Wilson, Lanford


roydrama - family relationstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Incestuous brother and sister inhabit fantasy world.'

in - Ludlow Fair and Home Free! / COL

1993

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Home Free!

Wilson, Lanford

Hill and Wang


'Incestuous brother and sister inhabit fantasy world.'

in - Balm in Gilead and Other Plays / COL

1965

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Homebound

Callan, Lyndall

Samuel French

roydrama - monlogue - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'Monologue by young woman coping with sea of emotions as she escapes small Texas townand terminally ill father.'


1993

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Homestead

Gowan, Elsie Park

NeWest Press

royCanadian drama - relationships - Alberta playwrightthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'First performed with the title 'The Man Who Wouldn't Fight Back'. Revised version performed withtitle 'God made the Country'. Drama set in 1930 Canada. Married woman, unhappy with life ofhomesteading, has an affair with bachelor neighbor.'

in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO

1992

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Hope Slide, The

MacLeod, Joan

Coach House Press

royCanadian - monologues - womenall female cast, one charactersone femaleone act

"An actress travels back in memory from the present to the mid-sixties, from North Vancouver tothe Doukhobor prison outside the town of Hope, the site of a mountain collapse in 1965. Naturaldisaster becomes a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, and anarchy is examined both as a liberatingsocial force and as a frightening presence in the natural world."

in - The Hope Slide and Little Sister / CCO

1994

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Hope Slide, The

MacLeod, Joan

Coach House Press

royCanadian - monologues - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act


in - 7 Canons / CCO

1994

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Hope Slide, The

MacLeod, Joan


royCanadian - monologues - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act


in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO

2001

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Hopscotch

Horovitz, Israel



"A young man and a young woman meet, apparently by chance, in a park playground overlookingLake Quannapowitt. Their conversation, at first, is casual and impersonal - like strangers meetingfor the first time. But gradually subtle hints emerge, suggesting that the two have indeed knowneach other before and, perhaps, better than either cares to remember. In the end the shatteringtruth of their past relationship is revealed - they are former lovers, now enemies, and bothbearing the scars and bitterness of a shared loss which has done irrevocable damage to them

in - Hopscotch and The 75th / COL

1977

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Hot Rod

Kareken, Jeremy

Samuel French

royre la t ionsh ipsthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

'At the bridal registry in an upscale department store an engaged couple meet a saleswomanwho takes a dim view of marriage, especially theirs.'


2001

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Hour, The

Goodell, Susan


roydrama - crimefive characterstwo male; one female (doubling)one act (one scene)

A suspect and a cop in an interrogation room on the first day of daylight savings time.


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House of Sleeping Beauties, The

Hwang, David Henry


roytragedytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Yasunari Kawabata's visits to bizarre brothel in search of material for story end tragically.

in - FOB and the House of Sleeping Beauties / COL

1982

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House of Sleeping Beauties, The

Hwang, David Henry


roytragedytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Yasunari Kawabata's visits to bizarre brothel in search of material for story end tragically.


1990

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House that Jack Built, The


Scirocco Drama

roydrama - Canadian - relationships - Toronto - Ontariotwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

designed to be presented with 'It's Only Hot for Two Months in Kapuskasing'.

Jack builds a house on the outskirts of Toronto for Jenny, who is reluctant to leave the city. As sheadjusts to their new home, their marriage undergoes a frightening change.

in - Endangered Species / CCO

1988

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How I Learned to Drive

Vogel, Paula

TCG Books

royyoung adult - sexualitytwo characters; three chorusesone male; one femaleone act

Paula Vogel's 'How I Learned to Drive' is a delicately told tale of the sexual awakening of a younggirl under the tutelage of her uncle.

in - The Mammary Plays / COL

1998

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How I Learned to Drive

Vogel, Paula

Wadsworth Publishing Company

royyoung adult - sexualitytwo characters; three chorusesone male; one femaleone act

Paula Vogel's 'How I Learned to Drive' is a delicately told tale of the sexual awakening of a younggirl under the tutelage of her uncle.

in - Plays for the Theatre (8th ed.) / COL

2004

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How She Played the Game

Cooper, Cynthia L.


roybiography, women, monologueall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'Montage of famous and lesser known women athletes and their achievements.'


1986

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Huff

Cardinal, Cliff


roydrama - Native peoples - Native playwright - family relations - solo performance many charactersone male (doubling)one act (one scene)

"Brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father’s abusive whims and theirmother’s recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pulldestructive pranks. Preyed upon by Trickster and his own fragile psyche, Wind looks for a wayout, one that might lead him into his mother’s shadow."

in - Huff & Stitch / COL

2017

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Hum of the Arctic

Hammond, Sarah

Miscellaneous


ten-minute play.

"While flipping through a scrapbook, Claire recounts the story of her deaf mother's intriguingmeeting with a painter many years ago."

in - Dramatics v. 80 no. 1 / PER

2006

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Hunchback of Central Park West, The

Schisgal, Murray



The play reveals a 'deformed' name-recognizable playwright, for the first time in his career,tormented by an interminable spell of writer's block. He is interviewed at length by a spectralentertainment journalist in his Central Park West apartment.


2008

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Hunger Striking

Brennan, Kit

NuAge Editions

roydramaall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

"Sarah's student, Katie, has just died of anorexia. Her death propels Sarah into her own memories,taking her from her present day reality as a high school English teacher into multiple pasts: herown past as an anorexic girl twenty years earlier, her Celtic heritage with its vivid creatures andmythology passed on to her by her father, and the world of the hunger-striking suffragettes at thebeginning of the last century. "

in - Magpie; Having; Hunger Striking / COL

1999

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Hysterical Misogynist, The

Schisgal, Murray


royAmericanthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act



2009

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I Can't Imagine Tomorrow

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - friendship - aging - deathtwo charactersone male; one female one act

The characters "One" and "Two" are the only friends of one-another. They carry out the sameevening ritual of card playing and watching the news on TV in an effort to avoid any realconfrontation. "One's" physical deterioration and approaching death forces her to prepare for theinevitable. "Two" resists this change and his consuming fear of losing "One" leads to an emotionalbreakdown.

in - Dragon Country / COL

1970

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I Chink

Luu, Yung

Miscellaneous

roydrama - monologue - male - Chineseall male cast; one charactersone maleone act

'Yung Luu's third play in his Fringe trilogy, "I Chink" focuses on the experience of an immigrantfamily.'


2002

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I Hate You on Mondays

Miles, Kate

Blizzard Publishing

roycontemporary dramathree characterstwo male; one femalefifteen scenes

This play is a gritty depiction of three young people living in downtown Toronto.

in - Prerogatives / CCO

1998

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I Love This Game

LaBute, Neil

Soft Skull Press

roydrama - American - sports - baseball - family relationsall male cast; one characterone maleone act

“ 'I Love This Game' is a solo piece about a father’s lost perspective on his son’s Little Leaguegame." - profilestheatre.org


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I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - biography - D.H. Laurencethree characters one male; two femaleone act

A play about D.H. Lawrence. There are three characters, Lawrence himself, Frieda and Bertha Brett,and the scene is a sun-porch at a small retreat in the Alpes Maritimes. We see Lawrence at the veryend of his career, in fact the very day he dies, and recognize him as the erratic, inspired,ill-tempered genius who was never able to come to terms with life. Yet he stands revealed here asthe man who, in Mr. Williams' words, "felt the mystery and power of sex, as the primal life urge,and was the life-long adversary of those who wanted to keep the subject locked away in cellars of

in - Dragon Country / COL

1970

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I Wandered Lonely

Schafer, Heldor

Blizzard Publishing


A nurse and patient help the patient get over feeling sorry for himself.


1996

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I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me

McCafferty, Owen

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - unemployment - monologueall male cast; one characterone maleone act

A middle aged man is trying to cope with unemployment.

in - Mojo Mickybo / COL

2002

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I, Claudia

Thomson, Kristen


roydrama - monologue - womenall female cast; four charactersone female (doubling)one act

'Claudia is an official pre-teen, still reeling from her parent's divorce. Her father is gettingre-married, she has a science fair project coming due, and she is in the physical and emotionalthroes of puberty. Finding refuge in the basement of her school, Claudia discovers the pain at thecentre of her brimming child's heart. Some important adults in Claudia's life - her grandfather, hernew father's new girlfriend, and the school custodian - shed light on her situation.'


2003

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I, Claudia

Thomson, Kristen


roydrama - monologue - womenall female cast; four charactersone female (doubling)one act

'Claudia is an official pre-teen, still reeling from her parent's divorce. Her father is gettingre-married, she has a science fair project coming due, and she is in the physical and emotionalthroes of puberty. Finding refuge in the basement of her school, Claudia discovers the pain at thecentre of her brimming child's heart. Some important adults in Claudia's life - her grandfather, hernew father's new girlfriend, and the school custodian - shed light on her situation.'

in - Tonight at the Tarragon / CCO

2011

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I'll Be Home Para La Navidad

Astor del Valle, Janis


royre la t ionsh ipsall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone scene

'While chopping garlic and slicing onions, Cookie, a Puerto Rican lesbian, asks Mami, "Guesswho's coming to Christmas Dinner?" '


1996

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I'm Dreaming, But Am I?

Pirandello, Luigi

Samuel French

roydrama - relationships - Italythree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 interior.

In a dream, the true feelings and suspicions of two lovers are revealed.

in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL

1970

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I'm Not Stupid

Rodriguez, David E.

Penguin Books

roydrama - murderthree characterstwo male; one femalethree scenes

2 interiors.

Woman murders mentally handicapped son and blames son's psychiatrist.


1993

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Iceland

Billon, Nicolas

Coach House Press

royCanadian - drama - monologuesthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

Greed and sex fuel a confrontation between a corrupt real estate agent, an Estonian prostitute anda naive tenant.


2013

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If Betty Should Rise

Demchuk, David

Coach House Press

roydrama - family relations - mental illness - tragedyall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

Monologue material. A young woman relates in bits and pieces the story of her abuse at the handsof her father.

in - Canadian Brash / CCO

1990

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If You Were My Wife, I'd Shoot Myself

Jones, Elinor



'Encounter in Rome between romantic young American actress and cynical bartender.'

in - Three Short Plays / COL

1989

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III

Salvatore, Joe


roydrama - LGBTQ+ - relationshipsall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

Taken from parts of a fifteen year relationship between George Platt Lynes, Glenway Wescott andMonroe Wheeler. The relationship between these great artistic icons of the twentieth century hasstrong cultural implications for an early-twenty-first-century society wrestling with gay marriage,monogamy, and relationship construction. Westcott and Wheeler met in 1919 at the University ofChicago, and they continued to be lifelong companions until Westcott's death in 1987. Wheelerdied in 1988. Throughout this long relationship, lovers entered and exited for both Westcott and


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In Conclusive Woman

Mollenkamp, Julie Rae (Pratt)


roydrama - multimedia - monologues - womenall female cast; one character (on video)one femaleone act

The plot takes us on a journey with award-winning artist/teacher Julie Rae through thecontemporary cultural whirlwind of relationships and power, women and men, subject and object,love and chaos, as she reveals the life of a sexual survivor, fat chick, momma's child, belovedteacher, abandoned wife, failed mother, surgical crash test dummy, fabulous post-forty party girl,and twenty-first-century semi-wise woman.


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In Old Vermont

Mamet, David



"Short theatre piece in which man and woman reminisce about time spent in Vermont."

in - Short Plays and Monologues / COL

1981

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In On It

MacIvor, Daniel


roydramaall male cast; many characters two male (doubling)one act

"A spiraling narrative about a dying man trying to make plans for the end, a pair of lovers tryingto make it work and two men trying to make a play. A world where accidents happen. A story aboutcontrol. A play that keeps its option open."

Winner of the 2001 Village Voice OBIE Award.

in - I Still Love You / CCO

2006

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In Our Name

Hartwell, Elena


roydrama - American - war - womenall female cast; four characterstwo female (doubling)one act (three short plays)

the plays ["The Unraveling", "The Things he Carried", "Waiting for the Light"] can be performedtogether or individually.

A triptych of short, breathtaking one-acts about the ways that the War in Iraq has hit home,especially among young American women.


2008

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In Place

Jacker, Corinne


roydrama - marital relationsthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

1 interior set.

"In Las Vegas to obtain divorces three losers stay on hoping for better days".


1983

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In the Blue

Gill, Peter

Faber and Faber

roydrama - relationships - LGBTQ+all male cast; two characters two maleone act (three scenes)

When Stewart, a hedonistic drifter, and Michael, a timid hospital auxiliary, embark on a love affair,the odds are set against them. For as much as Stewart is assertive and streetwise, Michael isintroverted and awkward. In this two-hander Peter Gill explores the simultaneous attraction andincompatibility of two social worlds.

in - Peter Gill: Plays 1 / COL

2002

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In the Continuum

Gurira, Danai

Smith and Kraus

roydrama - African American - AIDSall female cast; two characterstwo female (one African, one African American)fifteen scenes

"The play dramatizes the devastating problem of HIV/AIDS among African and African Americanwomen, which has reached an all-time high both in the US and in Africa. The two actressesportray numerous characters in two parallel stories that transform women with HIV/AIDS fromstatistical victims in news reports to real people who demand our compassion and attention.Specifically, the play explores the personal journeys of a married Zimbabwean woman and a19-year-old girl from South Central Los Angeles."

in - New Playwrights: The best plays of 2006 / COL

2007

Salter, Nikkole

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Incident at Standish Arms, An

Inge, William

Random House


'After sexual relations with cab driver, divorcée fears detection.'

in - Summer Brave and Eleven Short Plays / COL

1962

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Indian

Ryga, George

Penguin Books

royCanadian - drama - Native peoplesall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians."

in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO

1984

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Indian

Ryga, George




in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO

1975

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Indian

Ryga, George

General Publishing

royCanadian - drama - Native peoples - menall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act


in - The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Other Plays / CCO

1971

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Indian

Ryga, George

Gage Educational Publishing

royCanadian - drama - Native peoplesall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act


in - Cues and Entrances / CCO

1993

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Indian

Ryga, George

Talonbooks



in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO

2004

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Indian Wants the Bronx, The

Horovitz, Israel

Vintage Books

roydrama - violence⌦all male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

open stage w/props.

A disturbing portrayal of the mindless cruelty of two teenage toughs towards a helplessstranger at a bus stop. The stranger is an East Indian who speaks little english.

in - First Season / COL

1968

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Indian Wants The Bronx, The

Horovitz, Israel



open stage w/props.

A disturbing portrayal of the mindless cruelty of two teenage toughs towards a helpless strangerat a bus stop. The stranger is an East Indian who speaks little english.

in - Famous American Plays of the 1960's / COL

1972

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Inside Out

Boyd, Pamela

NeWest Press

royCanadian - drama - monologues - women - Alberta playwrightall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

"A day in the life of a writer and her 18-month -old son."

in - NeWest Plays by Women / CCO

1987

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Instincts

Milligan, Jason

Samuel French

royd r a m aall male cast; two characterstwo male one act

It's 3:00 a.m. on New Year's Day in a jail cell in a small Southern town. Frank and Andy arebeing held on drunk driving-- and possibly manslaughter-- charges. Andy grabbed the steeringwheel while Frank was driving and purposely side swiped a college boy's sports car. Did he die?The atmosphere in the cell becomes increasingly tense. They argue and nearly come to blowsbefore coming to terms with each other and the accident.

in - Southern Exposures / COL

1990

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Interview

Kraus, Joanna


royinterview - conversationtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

The action takes place in two university offices on the Eastern seaboard in the present.


1987

Woodward, Greer

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Interview, The

Oates, Joyce Carol



'Inept journalist interviews man he believes to be world renowned author.'


1995

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Interview, The

Bick, Tamara C.

Miscellaneous


' "The Interview is about a single woman, who is an actress putting on a show. It takes placetoday, her twenty-seventh birthday. It is a series of six monologues.

in - Canadian Theatre Review - No. 77, Winter 1993 / PER

1993

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Interview, The

Gurney, A.R.


roydrama - American - short play - disabilitiesall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

A work commissioned by Theater Breaking Through Barriers in New York City, to be included inan evening of six plays about disability. Gurney reports that he "was struck by the pride andintensity of the actors whose various disabilities gave a special urgency to their performances".What Gurney presents in his short piece breaks through one stereotype by revealing thatcircumstances sometimes labeled hindrances can in fact blossom into decided strengths.


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Intimacy

Haché, Emma


royCanadian - drama - women - Quebecseven characterstwo male; one female (doubling)eleven scenes

running time: 1 hour 30 min.

A caustic portrait of how a couple, Frauke and Alex, met in Nazi Germany. Based on a true story,this sharp satire of the “responsible society” delivers a tale of two people who feel most alivewhen they are inches from death. In this context, illness becomes the best way to protectoneself… but also to reveal oneself.


2008

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Iphigenia in Orem

LaBute, Neil

Faber and Faber

roydramaone characterall male cast; one maleone act

"A Utah businessman confides in a stranger in a las vegas hotel room, confessing to an especiallychilling crime."

in - Bash / COL

1999

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Irene and Lillian Forever

Farmer, Bonnie

NuAge Editions

royCanadian - tragedy - drama - Nova Scotiaall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

'Tragedy set in Nova Scotia. Contentious relationship between poor black women.'

Won the Award for Best Director at the 1986 Quebec Drama Festival.


1986

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Isadora and G. B.

Angel, Leonard



"G. B. Shaw visits Isadora Duncan's studio to see her dance in the nude. She tries to seduce him,but he warns 'what if the child were to have my beauty and your brains?"

in - After Antietam / Isadora and G.B. / CCO

1978

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Island, The

Fugard, Athol


roydrama all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

Celebrates the strength of man's connection to man, even within the dehumanizing confines of aprison cell on Robben Island.

in - Statements / COL

1974

Kani, John

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Islands


Coach House Press

royCanadian - drama - family relationsall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

"Six months after "Alli Alli Oh!" Now living alone, Muriel receives a visit from her widowed motherand her new fiancé. Alli also arrives unexpectedly, and events climax when each womandiscovers ways to relate to past events."

in - Willful Acts / CCO

1985

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It Ain't the Heat, It's the Humility

Huey, Tom


roydrama - black playall male cast; two characters; extrastwo maleone act

1 exterior set.

"Social differences in Southern speech patterns revealed in exchange between retired judge andblack gardener".


1982

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It's A Sin To Tell A Lie

Miller, Jason


roydrama - agingtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Two people, and old man and an old woman, meet in their doctor's waiting room. They begin acausal conversation, and he is soon revealed as a would-be poet and she as a dreamers whofancies that she has had much more in life than is actually the case. But, as they tell ever moreoutrageous fibs to each other, the deeper truth of their essential loneliness emerge - and in a verytouching way they "find" each other and the friendship and concerns of another human being thatthey both need so desperately.

in - Three One-Act Plays / COL

2000

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It's all make believe, isn't it? - Marilyn Monroe

Pollock, Sharon


royCanadian - drama - Alberta playwright⌦all female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

"Marilyn Monroe" and her companion prepare for a visitor.

in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO

2006

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It's all make believe, isn't it? - Marilyn Munroe

Pollock, Sharon

Blizzard Publishing

royCanadian - Alberta playwrightall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

"Marilyn Monroe" and her companion prepare for a visitor.


1994

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Je Me Souviens

Gale, Lorena


roydramatic monologue - women, autobiographyall female cast; one characterone femaletwenty-six scenes

'In this powerful dramatic monologue, Lorena Gale remembers, by reconstructing for theaudience, her childhood and coming of age as an African-Canadian in Montreal.'

Finalist! 2002 Governor General's Drama Award


2003

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Je Me Souviens

Gale, Lorena


roydramatic monologue - women - autobiographyall female cast; one characterone femaletwenty-six scenes

A third-generation Canadian faces a crisis in belonging in Je me souviens. Divided by language,isolated due to her skin colour, and lost in the social and political margins, Lorena Gale’s playshows life through her eyes as she struggles to claim identity and belonging on her own terms.Written in part as a reaction to Jacques Parizeau’s remarks about “ethnics” following the 1995Quebec referendum, Gale’s piece calls into question the rules of identity and place in Canada.

in - Afrika, Solo / CCO

2011

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Jealous



roydrama - love - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"Jealous" pits one couple’s love against otherworldy forces.


2014

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Jewel

MacLeod, Joan


royCanadian - drama - monologues - womenall female cast; one character one femaleone act

"It's Valentine's Day and Marjorie reminisces aloud about the loss of her husband on the OceanRanger and her decision to begin her life anew."

in - Toronto, Mississippi & Jewel / CCO

1987

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Jewel

MacLeod, Joan

Talonbooks

RoyCanadian - drama - monologues - womenAll female cast; one characterOne femaleOne act

"It's Valentine's Day and Marjorie reminisces aloud about the loss of her husband on the OceanRanger and her decision to begin her life anew."

in - The Shape of a Girl / Jewel / CCO

2002

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Jewish Wife, The

Brecht, Bertolt

Grove Press

royJewish - dramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 interior set.

"Set in Nazi Germany. A Jewish wife of a German citizen anticipating trouble, prepares to leavehusband and Germany".

in - The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays / COL

1965

Bentley, Eric

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Joan of Arkansas

Wilner, Sheri

Miscellaneous


'An encounter between two college students in the library.'

in - Dramatics (April 2001) / PER

2001

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Johnny and Rosie

Long, Quincy


roydrama - relationships two charactersone male; one femaleone act

An emotional mobster and his commonsensical moll discuss the possibility of the existence ofnaked pictures of her.


2015

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Johnnyville: An Official Secrets Act

Carnwath, Drew



'In a post cold-war world, where love is the exception and not the rule, no-one is really what theyseem. 'Johnnyville' gives us spies, lies and the search for a lot more than love as three characterstake a surreal spin on the dance floor of deception.'

in - Johnnyville: An Official Secrets Act; and, Total Body Washout / CCO

1998

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Joseph Dintenfass

Mamet, David


royAmerican - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"An older man and a younger woman meet and reflect on the small and constant things in life thatloom large."

in - No One Will Be Immune and Other Plays and Pieces / COL

1994

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Journeys

Peay, Austin


roydramatwo characters one male; one femaleone act

One young girl about to run away from home waits at a bus stop/diner for the next bus. While shewaits, a man returns to this same diner that he ran away from eighteen years previous for the thesame reasons as her.


2015

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Joy

Pelletier, Pol


royCanadian - drama - women - Quebecall female cast; one characterone femaletwo parts

A two-part play for one person in which Pol Pelletier casts a retrospective eye on the yearsbetween 1975 and 1985 when she began her professional career as a theatre artist. Following thestrands of her own career, Pelletier writes a particular kind of theatrical biography. History andfiction combine to form a stunning narrative driven by passionate creativity. 'Joy' is the vividdramatization of a well-known woman artist's life on stage, a documentary testimony to the rise ofa vibrant and distinctive Quebec culture, and an exhilarating theatrical invention.


2008


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Judith: A Parting From the Body

Barker, Howard

John Calder Publishers

roydrama - sexualitythree charactersone male; two femaleone act

1 interior set.

"Drama about sexuality and betrayal of the body. Retelling of Apocryphal story of Judith andHolofernes".

in - The Europeans; Judith / COL

1990

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Judith: A Parting From the Body

Barker, Howard


roydrama - sexualitythree charactersone male; two femaleone act

1 interior set.

"Drama about sexuality and betrayal of the body. Retelling of Apocryphal story of Judith andHolofernes".

in - Collected Plays: Vol 3 / COL

1996

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Jumping

Borden, William


royconversation, marital relationstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

The action takes place on a Minnesota bridge in the middle of winter at the present time.


1987

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June/Moon

Larson, Jack



Just after the first moon landing in 1969, a couple make love in their car.

in - New Theatre For Now / COL

1971

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Just

Schmidt, Trevor

AU Press


A tense yet delicate story told by a woman who comes to a home for young, pregnant girls toadopt a baby. By way of a sensitive dramatic monologue we gradually learn why she has beentroubled for so long as she waits for her husband to meet her.

in - Hot Thespian Action! / CCO

2008

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Just an Ordinary Person

Ryga, George

Talonbooks

roydrama - Canadian all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

A short soul-searching, autobiographical play.


2004

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Justice of the Piece

Monkman, Kent


royCanadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - Native peoples - drag queenall male cast; one characterone maleone act

Kent Monkman returns as his cheeky alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Miss Chief dons thejudicial robes to hold court over a new inclusive nation in this deconstruction of blood quantum,ethnicity and sovereignty. ImagineNATIVE


2013

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Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place

Terry, Megan

Simon and Schuster

roydrama - men - prisonersall male cast; three characters three maleone act

1 interior.

"Three men in prison for murder discuss experiences which may be interpreted as fantasy orreality."

in - Viet Rock and Other Plays / COL

1967

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Keys

Johnson, Falen

Miscellaneous

roydrama - gender-based violence - women - Native playwrightall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

A woman discusses her methods of defending herself against street harassment and violence.Shoe choice, headphones, and keys as weapons all come into play.

in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2016) / PERTitle:

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Kicked

Healey, Michael

Miscellaneous

roymonologue all male cast; four charactersone male (doubling)one act


in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 97, Winter 1998 / PER

1998

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Kid, The

Coover, Robert

Bantam Books

royAmerican - drama - parody - Avant Gardeall male cast; three characters; extrasthree maleone act

1 interior.

"A play about society's need for heroes. It is piety's need for heroes. It is a western indeed, onemight say a mythic western. It is set in a town where it is always high noon and the entirepopulation, which consists only of lawmen, cowpokes and dance-hall girls, spends its time in thelocal bar, drinking cheap whisky and trading obscenities. There is a sheriff - ineffectual but

in - The Great American Life Show / COL

1974

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Killers Head

Shepard, Sam

Random House

roymonologue - men, dramaall male cast; one characterone maleone act

"Monologue by prisoner awaiting execution."


1986

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Kind of Alaska, A

Pinter, Harold


roydrama - identitythree charactersone male; two femaleone act

"A masterly study of a middle-aged woman waking up after 30 years in a coma. In her mind, she isstill 16 and her attempts to fathom the changed world into which she reemerges is not onlypoignant and emotionally charged but, in the end, devastatingly brilliant theatre as well."

in - Other Places / COL

1984

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Kind of Alaska, A

Pinter, Harold

Methuen

roy drama three charactersone male; two femaleone act

suggested short play for high school.

"Woman awakes after twenty nine years in coma induced by sleeping sickness."

in - Other Places: Four Plays / COL

1982

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King, The

Conn, Stewart

Penguin Books

roydramathree characterstwo men; one femaleone act

No abstract available


1970

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Kingdom

Greeley, Meghan

Breakwater Books

roy Canadian playwright - dramathree charactersone male; one female; one girlone act

A nightmarish world where Nora and Scout are held as prisoner by Sir, described as a 'gentle kindof monster.' Scout and Nora are young women who keep each other company as they pass theirdays locked in a bedroom. Greeley explores rituals and trust issues, but what at first appears tobe merely odd is soon revealed to be a type of living hell. The strength and power of ritual lies atthe heart of this play. Sir, the villain, believes he has created a three-dimensional world governedby the daily routines that he has imposed. Greeley effectively explores the psychological

in - The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays / CCO

2012

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Kong

Sneed, Pamela


roypolitical satire - monologue - LGBTQ+one characterone male or femalethree parts

A political tapestry that weaves together current events and trends in cinema, and retells theimportant history of black lesbian and gays in New York City in the early 1990's, who formed aliterary movement akin to the Harlem Renaissance.


2008

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Krapp's Last Tape

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

roydramaall male cast; one character one maleone act

1 interior set.

"Man thinks about meaning of Life and his own life as he listens to tape recordings of hismemories".

in - Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett / COL

1958

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Krapp's Last Tape

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

roydramaall male cast; one character one maleone act

1 interior set.

"Man thinks about meaning of Life and his own life as he listens to tape recordings of hismemories".


1984

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Kuwait

Delaney, Vincent

Smith and Kraus

roydrama - warthree characterstwo male; one femaleone scene

Essentially a two-person play, it is a "captive drama", in which a young soldier holds anews-reporter prisoner, after she has left the unit where she was officially embedded in order tofreely explore the battlezone. Blindfolded and bound, she is unable to see where she is or whatthey're doing (like the society to whom she reports).


2005

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L.A.

Margulies, Donald



In L.A. a washed-up young movie star explains to a willing fan in a bar how he went from ahappy, married young novice to a wealthy, gambling, overnight sensation, and back to a hungry,divorced wannabe who only wants to recapture his original dream of having "enough", and beingmarried for life.

in - Pitching to the Star and Other Short Plays / COL

1993

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Laddie Boy

Ryga, George

Talonbooks


A short sketch of failed human beings, the inevitable consequence of living in a decaying socialorder. A man has just arrived in Halifax and finds himself, allegedly mistakenly, in jail. There heengages in banter with his cellmate, Jess, a local 'rounder' and Bell, a cleaning woman.


2004

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Laddie Boy

Ryga, George

Commcept Publishing Limited

royCanadian - dramathree characterstwo male; one female one act

A short sketch of failed human beings, the inevitable consequence of living in a decaying socialorder. A man has just arrived in Halifax and finds himself, allegedly mistakenly, in jail. There heengages in banter with his cellmate, Jess, a local 'rounder' and Bell, a cleaning woman.

in - Transitions I: Short Plays / CCO

1978

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Land of the Dead

LaBute, Neil

Faber and Faber

roydrama - abortiontwo charactersone male; one female;one act

A couple part after a night together. He goes to the office, she visits a clinic. As events unfold, itbecomes clear that this is not just any ordinary day.


2007

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Land, The Animals, The

Brooker, Blake


royCanadian - drama - Alberta playwrightthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

In an attempt to discover why a forlorn geologist committed suicide, three scientists investigatethe land and the animals of a modern city in the future.

in - Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp and Other Plays / CCO

1993

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Landscape

Pinter, Harold

Samuel French


1 simple set.

"We meet a hired couple, each of whom had once been untrue to the other. Their memories flowsubliminally though their conversations: the things we hear are the things usually left unsaid."

in - Landscape and Silence / COL

1969

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Landscape

Pinter, Harold

Methuen & Co Ltd


1 simple set.

"We meet a hired couple, each of whom had once been untrue to the other. Their memories flowsubliminally though their conversations: the things we hear are the things usually left unsaid."


1970

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Landscape With Pigeons

Owen, Mark

Blizzard Publishing

royCanadianall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

Two mothers from distinctly different social classes, talk about their lives and their sons, whowere lovers.


1994

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Lapine-Moi / Rabbit-I

Claude, Nathalie


roydrama - women - LGBTQ+ - identity - solo performance - Canadianall female cast; five charactersone female (doubling)one act (five parts)

Approximate running time: 16 minutes; text in both French and English

A dream-like excavation of the fragmentary nature of identity within the overlapping sphere of lifeart. Claude plays a rabbit, a hunter, herself, and herself as an omnipotent narrator in ameta-theatrical interrogation of reality and fantasy where the artist realizes that she is both hunterand hunted, both the object of desire and the source of desire.


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Last Chance Texaco

Maloney, Peter

Samuel French


"Last Chance Texaco" is a haunting, lyrical play set in a gas station run by a mother and daughterin a small Texas town. Late one night, a city woman has a flat. Her unusual life intersects withtheirs as they fix her tire. This gripping piece of theatre is an excellent source of monologue andscene material.

in - Last Chance Texaco and Pastoral / COL

1985

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Last Cigarette, The

Fechter, Steven

Samuel French

royre la t ionsh ipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Woman with a past and lonely man meet in last smoking bar in Santa Monica.'


2000

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Last Kiss

Foon, Dennis

Blizzard Publishing


Two people share a moment and a kiss.


1996

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Last Morning (Le Complexe de Thénardier), The

Pliya, José

Banff Center Press


Explores a moment of truth between two women, The Mother and Vido, the servant in herhousehold. Their confrontation takes place in an unidentified country in the throes of civil war.The horror of genocide fills the air. How can generosity or goodness prevail in a world whereneighbours or next of kin will betray one another in their struggle to survive? The two women inthis play have needed each other for very different reasons. Now despite an obvious socialhierarchy, suddenly the tables are turning. This complex situation defines the world in which The

in - Voices from France / COL

2006

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Last Night in the Garden I Saw You



roydrama - love - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"Last Night in the Garden I Saw You" follows one man’s journey over the fence into the house ofa woman he abandoned. Now that he’s returned, will she leave the life she’s built since hisabsence? And if she won’t, will he truly let her live her life without him in peace?


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Last of My Solid Gold Watches, The

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

royd r a m aall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

1 interior

"Aged traveling shoe salesman regrets the passing of his generation with its emphasis on goodquality. Southern dialect."


1953

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Last of the Dutch Hotel, The

Nigro, Don

Samuel French


two chairs.

Early in the twentieth century, on the terrace of a Dutch seaside resort hotel, very late in theseason, Lady de Grey, patroness of the Royal Italian Opera, and Harry Cust, a newspaper editorwho may be her lover, linger at the shore, full of suppressed regrets and dread, endure theministrations of a sinister waiter and observe some unspeakable, ambiguous and possibly

in - Gorgons and Other Plays / COL

2009

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Last Setting of the Sun, The

Garcia, Freddy and Grant, Cynthia

Miscellaneous


" A bilingual piece that shows how a teenaged actor involved himself in theatre, an act thatultimately led to his exile. Beside his comrades, he established his career and a small theatrecompany in the middle of the civil war in El Salvador."


2004

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Last Yankee, The

Miller, Arthur



1 interior set.

'State mental hospital setting for encounter between two visiting husbands.'


1991

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Later

Pownall, David

Oberon Press

roybiography - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'In "Later", an event consumes an individual seeking freedom, as Sonia justifies deserting herfamily to join the Russion revolution.'


2003

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Laughs, Etc

Herlihy, James Leo


roydrama - violence, monologueall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'A lonely middle-aged, bitter denizen of New York's East Village, speaking to unseen friends andhusband, reveals latent violence.'


1969

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Laundry Service

Novick, Beth

Miscellaneous


A young man practices his magic act on an Polish cleaning woman who tries to get rid of a stainfrom her employer's dress.

in - Dramatics, April 2008 / PER

2008

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Leaking from Every Orifice

Dowie, Claire

Methuen Drama

royBritish - drama - monologue - family relations - LGBTQ+all female cast; one characterone femaleone act (two parts)

"Leaking from Every Orifice" is a forthright monologue about motherhood, told by a woman whothinks womanhood is crap, and being a mother is insufferable. The story begins, she tells us,when she was performing Dowie’s own earlier play about gender, "Why Is John Lennon Wearing ASkirt?", and she met an old friend who hated the play. Being a mother and having the capacity tonurture, said the old friend, made everything else unimportant. So "Leaking from Every Orifice" isthe story of how a lesbian became pregnant with a gay man, and struggled through nauseating


1996

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Learning to Drive

Peterson, Ellen

Blizzard Publishing

roydramatwo charactersflexible castingone act

A student and teacher have very different recollections of the same set of driving lessons.


1994

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Leash

Maloney, Peter


roydrama - prisoner - Iraq - monologueall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

Cassie, an American military guard, handles/mishandles an Iraqi captive prisoner.


2006

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Lena and Louie

Melfi, Leonard

Samuel French


1 exterior set.

"Lena and Louie are 'bag people' - bums who carry all their possessions around in shoppingcarts. They are also lovers who meet in Central Park. Tonight, they wait for a catastrophic act ofnature to take place".

in - Later Encounters / COL

1980

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Lessons for an Unaccustomed Bride

Rivera, José

Vintage Books


José Rivera paints an aching portrait of small town life in 1953 Puerto Rico. Two women—a virginand a witch—their belief systems clashing, are brought together by their unexpected bond. -www.jenwineman.com


2014

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Let Me Borrow That Top

Majumdar, Anita


roydrama - coming of age - youth - women - culture - solo performancetwo charactersone femaleone act

"Let Me Borrow That Top" centres on Candice, a girl who appropriates Meena’s Indian dance skillsand bullies Naz after a nasty rumour spreads through the halls of their high school. But like hertwo enemies, Candice shares a passion for Indian dancing, and has just been accepted to theConventry School of Bhangra. Will she leave behind the comforts of home to pursue her dreams?

The Fish Eyes Trilogy contains: 'Fish Eyes', 'Boys with Cars', and 'Let Me Borrow That Top'


2016

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Let Rise

Hopkins, I. B.


roydrama - family relations - alcoholismall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

A mother, sister-in-law and daughter discover similarities in their lives.


2015

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Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night




"Man and woman are transported to the stars during intensely serious conversation."


1992

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Letter Box, The

Di Mambro, Ann Marie

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - Scottishthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

'A short play about a woman who's been thrown out of her flat.'

in - Scot-Free / COL

1990

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Letters From Battle River

Cheoros, David

Brindle & Glass

royhistorical biography - Alberta - Canadian - monologues - midwiferyall female cast; one characterone femaleforty-nine scenes (one act)

running time: 65 minutes.

The adventures of Dr. Mary Percy Jackson as she comes to Alberta from England in 1927 topractice medicine.


2012

Simonson, Karen

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Letters in Wartime

Brown, Kenneth


roydrama - Canadian - war - romance - Alberta playwright - Edmontontwo charactersone male; one femaleseven scenes

"During World War II, Allan, a young RCAF pilot, and Moira, an auxiliary worker at the BlatchfordField in Edmonton, try desperately to maintain their long-distance relationship. But is the printedword enough to keep love alive in a world turned upside down?"

in - The West of All Possible Worlds / CCO

2004

Scriver, Stephen

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Letters to My Grandma

Roy, Anusree


royCanadian - drama - India - social issues - immigrantsall female cast; five charactersone female (doubling)thirteen scenes

"In the haunting "Letters to My Grandma", Malobee unearths letters detailing her grandmother’sfight to survive the 1947 partition of India, which resonates with Malobee’s own struggles tocreate a new life in present-day Toronto. A grand multi-generational tale of hatred, regret, love,and forgiveness, "Letters to my Grandma" weaves the remarkable stories of these two womentogether, inextricably linking their histories and delving into how the hatred bred between Hindusand Muslims in the Old World consumes families in Canada today."

in - Pyaasa and Letters to My Grandma / CCO

2010

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Letty on a Bench

Goldenthal, Jolene



The play takes place in the waiting room of a deserted train station. A conversation between abrother and sister ends with the final line of the play stating, "We thought... we thought... it wouldbe...for always."


2008

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Libretto

Rothstein, Robin

Samuel French

roydrama - relationshipstwo characters one male; one femaleone act

In this tender drama about the transportive and unifying power of art, Douglas and Claire, twostrangers from very different social backgrounds, meet at a performance of Verdi’s Rigoletto. Asthe story of the opera progresses and the beauty of the music overwhelms them, Douglas andClaire soon become the main characters in their own poignant love story, which, like the story ofthe opera before them, crescendos to a heartbreaking conclusion.

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 31st series / COL

2007

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Lies About Vietnam

Taylor, C. P.

Methuen

roydrama - LGBTQ+ - warall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

1 interior set.

"Male lovers' (one British, one American) inability to solve intimate personal problems, reflectschallenge to survive in face of horrors of war".

in - Gay Plays / COL

1986

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Life Support

Steele, Donald

Samuel French

roydrama - family relationsall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

With their father upstairs on life support, two sisters discover over lunch in the hospital cafeteriaa connection they never knew they had, coming to understand and appreciate each other and theirlives like never before as they come to their decision.

in - Life Support / COL

2006

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Lighthouse (Le Phare), The

Fombelle, Timothée

Banff Center Press

roydrama - monologues - men - relationshipsall male cast; one characterone maleone act

A young man, referred to simply as "he", relates his last months on the island where his taciturnfather was the lighthouse keeper. A powerful rendering of this tale of painful solitude, illuminatedby hopeful and idealistic innocence.


2006

translated by Don Hannah and Glen Nichols

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Lillian's Lament

Palmer, John

Blizzard Publishing

roycontemporary - drama - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

An exploration of a mother/son relationship over many years.


1998

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Lily

Nemeth, Sally


roydrama - womenall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone scene

In a small town during World War One, two sisters are banished for the infidelities of a marriedman.


1995

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Listening

Albee, Edward


roydrama - chamber playthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

"The play juxtaposes three characters - the 'Man', the 'Woman', and the 'Girl' - and sifts throughthe tangled relationship which they have evidently shared. The Man is amiable but distant; TheWoman acerbic and bitter; The Girl is perhaps mad - a catatonic who has destroyed her ownchild. Elliptical in form and redolent with evocative overtones, the play weaves together itsstrands of conversation and soliloquy into a meaningful pattern of events - underscoring theinescapable fact that while we may listen we do not always hear, and our lives, for better or worse,

in - Counting the Ways and Listening / COL

1975

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Little Brother: Little Sister

Campton, David


roydrama - science fictionthree characterstwo male; one female or one male; two femaleone act

In the deep shelter where they escaped from the last spasm of global destruction, Sir and Madam(a teenage brother and sister) experiment with the first gropings of love, while Cook, their agedfamily servant and symbol of timeless authority, snores in her chair. Awakening suddenly sheorders them apart, threatening to grind them up for "rissoles" if they don't behave. But the feelingsstirring within them cannot be imprisoned indefinitely. When Cook falls asleep again Sir andMadam resolve to find the door leading outside, away from the restrictions of a life imposed by

in - Little Brother: Little Sister / Out of the Frying Pan / COL

1966

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Little Haunting, A

Abeille, A.K.


roydrama - American - short playtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A supernatural venture ... capitalizing on multiple dimensions of reality and illusion in a way onlythe theater can capture.


2013

Morris, David Manos

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Little Johnny

Schisgal, Murray


roydramathree charactersone male; one female; one male or femaleone act

"We meet two cemetery caretakers, Mary and Tom, who lament the death of their sailor son, LittleJohnny, and decide to create a proper chapel for him by looting the graves in their care. Theproject soon takes them over, reviving the passion which has dwindled between them, and soabsorbing them that when Johnny (who has not drowned) suddenly returns they can no longeraccept him and must drive him away once and for all."

in - The Pushcart Peddlars, The Flatulist & Other Plays / COL

1980

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Little One

Moscovitch, Hannah


roydrama - psychological thriller - family relationstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A chilling psychological thriller, "Little One" is the haunting story of adopted siblings Aaronand Claire - one the definition of normal, the other deeply disturbed and unpredictable - and thestrange lives of their neighbours, a man and his mail-order bride.

in - Little One and Other Plays / CCO

2015

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Lobster Boy

Dietz, Dan

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - family relations - monologues - menall male cast; one characterone maleone act

It’s a story told by a man in his 30s about two young brothers, the younger of whom was bornwithout the ability to feel pain. The older brother hatches a plan to help his sibling learn how toexperience pain –– with tragic and ironic consequences. The story is assisted by a series of slidesthat describe elements of the story being told. So the experience feels like part suspenseful story,part lecture. And, then the question arises, is the older man who is telling the story really theolder brother within the story?


2010

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Lobster Boy

Dietz, Dan


roydrama - family relations - monologues - menall male cast; one characterone maleone act

It’s a story told by a man in his 30s about two young brothers, the younger of whom was bornwithout the ability to feel pain. The older brother hatches a plan to help his sibling learn how toexperience pain –– with tragic and ironic consequences. The story is assisted by a series of slidesthat describe elements of the story being told. So the experience feels like part suspenseful story,part lecture. And, then the question arises, is the older man who is telling the story really theolder brother within the story?


2012

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Logic, The

Arbery, Will

Samuel French

roydrama - friendshipall male cast; two characters two maleone act


Evan and Andrew reconnect on Facebook. While Evan is starting a career in publishing in NewYork, Andrew is incarcerated in a Texas prison. As their childhood friendship starts to resurface,Andrew tries to push through the banality of digital communication to fulfill a plan they had whenthey were kids.


2015

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Long Stay Cut Short, or, the Unsatisfactory Supper, The

Williams, Tennessee



1 interior set.

"A moving sketch about an old servant".


1946

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Long Trip, A

McGeehan, Dan


roydrama - aging - romance - family relationsfour characterstwo male; two femaleone act

An elderly man desperately attempts to connect with his wife one last time before he loses hercompletely to dementia. He tells her the story of when they fell in love and does it so vividly shecan almost see it.


2015

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Losing Sight

Ferguson, Kevin D.


roydrama - disabilities - relationshipsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"Sometimes we lose sight of what matters the most. An artist races the clock to finish a paintingbefore going blind. Haunted by the ghost of his grandfather, he must confront the lostrelationships of his past before he can face his future."


2016

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Loss of Memory

Laurents, Arthur



1 interior set.

"Lonely American's chance encounter with Israeli officer".


1982

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Lou Gehrig Did Not Dies of Cancer

Miller, Jason



Victor Spinelli, a frustrated athlete who now works for his domineering father, finds his greatestsatisfaction in coaching a little league baseball team. He is given to bluster, but beneath this he isboth sensitive and touchingly vulnerable. His relationship with his wife, who is preoccupied withacting in amateur theatre, is growing cool, but he finds a kindred spirit in the mother of one ofhis team members, an abandoned wife who comes by to ask that Victor show more concern for herbench-warmer son. She stays for a drink and gradually, as confidences are exchanged, we sense

in - Three One-Act Plays / COL

2000

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Love


Nick Hern Books


A couple return to her mother's house right after their marriage and discuss their'non-relationship'.

in - Cinzano / COL

1991


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Love and Ladybugs

Schroeder, Lora

Blizzard Publishing


A couple, both living in their own minds, meet each other in a berry patch.


1994

Kowalchuk, Tannis

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Love at Twenty

LaBute, Neil

Faber and Faber

roydrama - monologue - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

A college student veers between idolatry and vengeance.


2007

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Love Lace

Patrick, Robert

Samuel French


'Using their imaginations, man and woman journey to historical and mythical locations in effort toenrich their relationship.'


1978

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Love on the B-Line

Kraar, Adam


roydrama - romancetwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 setting

Romance on the elevated subway platform in Brooklyn.


2008

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Lover, The

Pinter, Harold

Grove Press


1 interior set.

A bizarre play about the necessary titillation and release of sexual tension that a husband andwife have fancifully adopted to enliven their marriage.

in - Complete Works: Two (Harold Pinter) / COL

1977

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Low Level Panic

McIntyre, Clare

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - Britishall female cast; three characters; two male voicesthree femaleeight scenes

"Here is a careful examination of the role of pornography in our society and the way it affectsthree young women in particular. Short scenes show how popular images of women influence theway they are seen by others and the way they see themselves."

in - My Heart's a Suitcase and Low Level Panic / COL

1994

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Low Life

de la Roche, Mazo



A woman who is angry at her unwelcome houseguest, gradually begins to accept him back intoher tiny home.


1978

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Low-lying Fog, A

Yearly, John

Samuel French

roydramaall male cast; two characterstwo maleone scene

bare stage.

Brotherly love is put to a test as Phil and Greg try to determine what really happened on a day thatforever changed their lives. This story of awful mistakes made by good people - and the love thatredeems such errors - unfolds as the two men directly address the audience.


2004

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Luckiest Girl in the World, The

Jairell, Rian



'(This play) examines the people that we, as a society, do not want to acknowledge and thedementia found beneath our culture.'


2001

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Lullaby

Milligan, Jason

Samuel French

roydrama - family relationsall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

Meg is staying with her older sister Eva because her husband left her when their son was bornblind. It's taking Meg several months to get back on her feet and Eva has begun to resentsupporting her and the baby on her grocery check out job. The lid of this pressure cooker blows:pent up anger, resentment, longing, and the wish for better lives is shared-- for perhaps the firsttime.

in - Southern Exposures / COL

1990

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Lunch

Berkoff, Steven

Faber and Faber


Brief encounter between strangers seeking excitement in their bored lives, but refusingcommitment.

in - West And Other Plays / COL

1983

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Lunch

Berkoff, Steven

Faber and Faber


Brief encounter between strangers seeking excitement in their bored lives, but refusingcommitment.


1994

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Lunchtime

Melfi, Leonard

Samuel French


"Avis's bedroom of her duplex apartment in Greenwich Village. She is waiting for Rex to arrive. Hecomes at high noon ready to do his job. He is a furniture refinisher. Avis is rich and beautiful.Rex is poor and handsome. Avis is married and has no children. Rex is married, too; but he has alittle boy. They are both unhappy and they are both lonely and so they decide to do somethingabout it. A modern Beauty and Beast who convince themselves that even the brief memory of theafternoon is better than no memory at all. It is a sad-happy tale".


1967

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Lurker

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydrama - obsessiontwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

2 chairs on a bare stage.

"A man catches a glimpse of a girl undressing in her bedroom window, and gradually becomesmore and more obsessed with her. He lurks in her bushes in the morning, spies on her as shesunbathes in her garden, and one night finds an unlocked window in her house. Unfoldingsimultaneously from the points of view of both characters, this tale of obsession and terror was

in - Something in the Basement and Other Plays / COL

1989

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Madness of Lady Bright, The

Wilson, Lanford


roydrama - LGBTQ+⌦three characterstwo male; one femaleo n e a c t"...traces the mental breakdown of Lesley Bright, an aging homosexual whose past returns tohaunt him with the emptiness of the choices he made."


1966

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Magenta Shift, The

Mack, Carol C.



'Photographer encounters troubled female token clerk in New York City subway.'


1995

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Magic Hour, The

Dobkin, Jess


roydrama - solo performance - Canadian - LGBTQ+ - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act (four parts)

The playwright engages the tipping point between life and art by asking what constitutesperformance to begin with. Invoking the question of when and where things begin and end makesDobkin's practice a balancing act between the real and the performed as she recollects andre-collates the time of her own lived experience.


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Magpie

Brennan, Kit

NuAge Editions


"Bernice is large, middle-aged, and prone to fantasies. Her small town life is disrupted by thearrival of a gifted dance instructor. He is everything she aspires to be, and everything that herupbringing has rejected as frivolous. As a result, her fantasy world escalates into a desperate,croaking lie."

in - Magpie; Having; Hunger Striking / COL

1999

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Maids, The

Genet, Jean

Grove Press

royFrench - tragedyall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

1 interior set.

"Two maids both love and hate their mistress against whom they conspire, even to attemptingmurder".

in - The Maids and Deathwatch: Two Plays by Jean Genet / COL

1954

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Making Contact

Bosworth, Patricia



'Widowed author's suppressed feelings are released by photographer assigned to take herportrait.'

in - the Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL

1991

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Malaysia Hotel, The

Fyffe, Laurie



In the middle of Bangkok, the rundown Malaysia is a traveller’s hotel with a long history. There,on her last night in Thailand, Kris, a Canadian English teacher, is confronted by Molyka, a youngCambodian refugee who makes a strange and seemingly impossible request.

in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO

2008

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Man in a Case, The

Wasserstein, Wendy


roydrama - romance - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"Inspired by "The Man in a Case" by Anton Chekhov. This one-act play takes place in a garden inthe village of Mironitski, Russia, in 1898. An engaged couple, Varinka and Byelinkov, meet in hisgarden on a beautiful afternoon and unfold their personalities and expectations a few weeksbefore they get married. One is inevitably tempted to ask if this couple will be successful in theirmarried life."

in - Seven One-Act Plays (Wasserstein) / COL

2000

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Man in the Case, The

Wasserstein, Wendy


royAnton Chekhov dramatizationtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

exterior set.

"Dramatization of Chekhov's short story. Conservative Russian schoolteacher is unnerved byfiancee's progressive ideas."

in - Orchards / COL

1987

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Man with the Flower in his Mouth, The

Pirandello, Luigi


royfantasy - Italianthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

also known as 'L'uomo dal fiore in bocca'.

'Man soon to die tries to view life as silly and vain but fails.' - Play Index

in - Collected Plays / COL

1987

translated by Gigi Gatti and Terry Doyle

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Man with the Flower in his Mouth, The

Pirandello, Luigi

Miscellaneous

royfantasy - Italianthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 exterior.

Man soon to die tries to view life as silly and vain but fails.

in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL

1970

translated by William Murray

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Marina, the Blush of Life

Magny, Michèle


royCanadian - women - drama three charactersone male; two femaleten scenes

Set in Paris in 1939, 'Marina' is the story of well-loved Russian poetess Marina Tsvetaeva: herstruggles during the October Revolution and against the Communist regime, her exile, her work,her loves and friendships.


2008


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Marriage Proposal, A

La Force, Kimberly


roydrama - relationshipsthree characters; narratortwo male; one femaleone act

The play is about a single mother and a hard-working illegal immigrant, both of whom needsomething other than love from a relationship. The play unfolds as a frank view on the romanticversus practical nature of marriage. Economic necessity rarely finds its way into discussionswhere love and romance should dominate, but it is a consideration that does take center stagewhen people are weighed down by the struggle of day-to-day survival.


2012

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Marvelous Shrine

Brumm, Leslie


roydrama - American - LGBTQ+three characterstwo male; one femaleone act

17-year-old Marvelous isn't sure if he's gay, but he knows he wants to play music. His parentsbattle over his destiny, and nobody wins in this moving drama.


2008

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Mary Agnes is Thirty-five

Elward, James



1 interior set.

"A couple arrive at the girl's apartment after an evening out - he bent on seduction, and shedetermined to preserve her honor. They have both reached the age where loneliness might seemto be a tempering influence, but he has (without really being aware of it) become the predatorybachelor and she (although she still has hopes) the frigid spinster. Their confrontation is

in - Friday Night / COL

1969

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Mary's Wedding

Massicotte, Stephen


roydrama - romance - war - Alberta playwright - Canadianthree charactersone male; one female (doubling)one act

When Mary and Charlie unexpectedly find one another sheltering in a barn during athunderstorm, a tentative love is born. But the year is 1914, and Mary and Charlie must surrendertheir love and fate to the uncertainties of their tumultuous times. A play with a heart as big as theland that serves as its backdrop, "Mary’s Wedding" is a wonderfully tender, poignant story ofinnocent first love and the vicissitudes of fate.

in - Canada and the Theatre of War: Vol. 1 / CCO

2008

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Masada

Milner, Arthur


roymonologue - Israel - historyone characterone male or femaleone act

A visiting Israeli professor delivers a stunning and disquieting lecture about the history ofIsrael.

in - Modern Jewish Plays / CCO

2006

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Masada

Milner, Arthur


roydrama - monologue - Israel - Zionismone characterone male or femaleone act

A visiting Israeli professor delivers a stunning and disquieting lecture on the history of Israel andZionism, and the troubles in the middle east.

in - Singular Voices / COL

1994

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Massage

Berkoff, Steven

Faber and Faber


1 setting.

"Drama examining sexual politics of massage parlours."


1994

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Mathilde

Olmi, Veronique

Banff Center Press


Mathilde returns home to confront her husband after an awful three-month absence. Pierre, thesuccessful oncologist, refuses to believe that their life together has come to an end, despite thescandal of Mathilde's recent affair with a fourteen-year-old boy. Mathilde, the rather self-involvedwriter, admits that a child would have grounded their childless marriage, but she prefers to "liftoff". Can her longing to be swept away by desire be compatible with the need for a deeprelationship that provides the emotional security and creature comforts that allow a writer to write


2006

translated by Morwyn Brebner

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Maud Gonne Says No to the Poet

Rivers, Susan

West Coast Plays



in - West Coast Plays 3 / COL

1978

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Medea Redux

LaBute, Neil

Faber and Faber

roydrama - relationshipsone characterall female cast; one femaleone act

"A woman tells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her Junior High SchoolEnglish teacher."

in - Bash / COL

1999

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Meeting, The

Stetson, Jeff


royAfrican American - civil rightsall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

suggested for High School.

'Meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.'

in - The National Black Drama Anthology / COL

1995

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Meeting, The

Chan, Marty

Miscellaneous

roydrama - Alberta playwright - Canadianall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

'An encounter between a writer and his editor.'


2002

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Memoir

Murrell, John


royCanadian - drama - women - Alberta playwrighttwo charactersone male; one femaleone act - two parts

Sarah Bernhardt's seventy-seventh and last summer.

in - Heroines: Three Plays / CCO

1992

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Memorial Day

Schisgal, Murray



1 set.

"Shows us an unhappy couple bickering over the miseries of their marriage. They vie for theloyalties of the son they have consigned to the backyard well. When they haul him up, his is afinal, uniting sadness - a straw dummy dressed in a soldier's uniform".

in - Five One Act Plays / COL

1965

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Memory of Summer

Inge, William

Random House


'After resort season, emotionally disturbed woman continues swimming until Coast Guard stopsher.'

in - Summer Brave and Eleven Short Plays / COL

1962

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Men and Angels

Kirk, Lynn

Coteau Books


'Wealthy young man and cleaning woman discuss price of not following one's dreams.'

in - Eureka! / CCO

1994

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Men Without Dates

Willis, Jane


roydrama - relationships - menall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

'Drama about two blue-collar workers whose relationship is at a crisis point.'

in - Men Without Dates and Slam! / COL

1985

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Meow

Smith, Val

Smith and Kraus


1 interior.

Two friends who work together meet after work on Fridays to discuss life.


1998

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Merchant of Showboat

Sherman, Jason

Blizzard Publishing

roydrama - contemporaryall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

'A politician seeks to change the script of a play in a businessman's theatre.'


1996

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Métis Mutt

Elter, Sheldon

NeWest Press

roydrama - Canadian - Metis - Native peoplesone characterall male cast; one maleone act

"The hilarious and heartbreaking one-man show that reveals the coming of age of a young Metisactor and comedian growing up between two cultures. Earnest without losing its sense ofhumour, Metis Mutt is an intimate, personal tale that unravels racial issues, and embraces thechoice of life."

in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO

2002

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Millie

Nemeth, Sally


roydrama - monologues - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone scene

The haunting story of one woman's journey through a post-apocalyptic landscape.


1995

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Mina

Park, Kyoung H.


royKorea - solo performance - women all female cast; one characterone femaleone act

Mina struggles with a life that has spiraled out of control. Mina is utterly lost between fourcultures: Peruvian, Korean, Japanese and American. She speaks three different languages in theshort piece, which reads like a long confessional purging. She is a victim of colonialism andglobalization, a survivor who imagines finding herself at the end. She may have no roots she canclaim, but she can dream of happiness and hope for the future.


2017

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Mine Sincerely (Bien à moi)

Savard, Marie


roymonologue - Canadian - women - dramaall female cast; one characterone femaleone act


in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO

2006

translated by Louise H. Forsyth

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Mint Juleps

Pinkowski, James


roydrama - friendshipthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

'Two old friends meet for tea in an out-of-the-way cafe. Through a cryptic exchange, theyuncover the personal mysteries and secrets that time and space have buried in their irretrievablepast.'


2000

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Mirage

Patrick, Robert

Samuel French

roydrama - historical fiction - Americantwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Husband and wife during first year of homesteading in 1860's New Mexico.'


1978

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Misreadings

Beber, Neena

Smith and Kraus

roy dramaall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone scene

1 interior.

Short scene of student teacher confrontation.


1997

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Miss Julia

Strindberg, August

Penguin Books


1 set.

'Social problems of class distinction in 19th century Sweden exemplified in the relations betweenwealthy young woman and her man servant.'

in - Three Plays by August Strindberg / COL

1958

translated by Peter Watts

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Miss Julie

Strindberg, August



1 set.


in - Masterpieces of the Modern Scandinavian Theatre / COL

1967

translated by Evert Sprinchorn

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Miss Julie

Strindberg, August



1 set.


in - Eight Great Tragedies / COL

1957

translated by C. D. Locock

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Miss Julie

Strindberg, August

Random House


1 set.


in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL

1943

Title:

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Miss Julie

Strindberg, August

Doubleday


1 set.


in - Six Plays of Strindberg / COL

1955

translated by Elizabeth Sprigge

Title:

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Miss Julie

Strindberg, August

Bantam Books


1 set.


in - Seven Plays by August Strindberg / COL

1960

translated by Arvid Paulson

Title:

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Miss Julie

Strindberg, August

Winthrop Publishers


1 set.

'Social problems of class distinction in 19th century Sweden exemplified in the relations betweenwealthy young woman and her manservant. Singing and dancing chorus.'

in - Mirrors for Man / COL

1974

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Miss Julie

Strindberg, August



1 set.


in - Strindberg's One Act Plays / COL

1957


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Miss Julie

Strindberg, August

Vintage Books


1 set.


in - The Plays of Strindberg Vol. 1 / COL

1964

translated by Michael Meyer

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Miss Julie

Strindberg, August



1 interior.

Social problems of class distinction in 19th century Sweden exemplified in the relations betweenwealthy young woman and her man servant.

in - Seeds of Modern Drama / COL

1963

translated by E. M. Sprinchorn

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Miss Kentucky

Williams, Allison

Miscellaneous

royfamily relationsall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

A mother and daughter reconcile while the daughter is taking a smoke break from a beauty pagent.

in - Dramatics (Nov 2003) / PER

2003

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Missed Connection

McMullen, Catya

Samuel French

roydrama - relationships four charactersone male; one femaleone act (two scenes)

Two people meet up after one posts a Missed Connections on Craigslist, only to find out theperson they are meeting is not who they expected to see.


2013

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Mister Paradise

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - American - 20th century - short playtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 interior set.

"College girl tracks down forgotten poet, who does not want to be rediscovered." - Play Index


2005

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Mojo Mickybo

McCafferty, Owen

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - friendship - growing up - Irish - Irelandall male cast; seventeen characterstwo maleone act

Mojo and Mickybo relive the summer of 1970 when they were growing up in Belfast, playingheaders, building huts and re-enacting cowboy movies. An unsentimental portrayal of innocencebetrayed by communal hatred.


2002

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Molly and James

Walsh, Sheila

Samuel French

roydrama - writingtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

James Joyce and one of his most famous characters, Molly Bloom, meet in her boudoir. Joyce hascome to plead his case; he wants to use Molly as a character in Ulysses and he needs hercooperation. She refuses, then agrees for ten percent of his royalties. As the play ends, she isdictating the stream of consciousness monologue that ends Ulysses.


1985

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Molly has her say

Bruchac, Margaret

UCLA American Indian Studies Center

roydrama - native peoples - native playwright - spirituality - historyall female cast; two characters; one voicetwo femaleone act (three scenes)

The pieces of paper that make up this play are an attempt to record only the smallest fraction ofthe vital and complicated lives of Abenaki people in contact and conflict with Euro-Americans overthe last 300 years. A woman attempts a research project, with her spirit guide trying tocommunicate to her as she does so. The writer responds to her 'spirit - guide' without hearingher. The spirit is a character from the past, brought into the present to convince Molly Marie toacknowledge how her personal history has been shaped by the past.

in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL

2003

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Monica

Macaulay, Pauline

Crown Publishers

roydrama - mysteryall male cast; three charactersthree male one act

'Bachelor arranging fake suicide in attempt to impress married lover, gets caught in own trap bymysterious stranger.'


1968

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Monk Who Wouldn't, The

Mandel, Oscar

Unicorn Press

royJapanese - folklorethree characters; extrastwo male; one femaleone act

1 exterior; 1 setting.

"Based on Japanese play Kohya-No-Hijiri. A beautiful witch seduces men and transforms them intoanimals, but when a young monk resists her advances, she changes him into an old man."

in - Oscar Mandel Collected Plays Vol II / COL

1972

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Monk, The

Flynn, Aiden

Breakwater Books

roydrama - religion - historicaltwo characterstwo maleone act (seven scenes)

1 interior set.

"Tells the story of an ancient Norse town in the throes of an ideological upheaval. The arrival of aChristian monk and all his crazy, new-fangled beliefs upsets the placid old-world settlers, whoare perfectly content with their old gods."


2016

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Monsoon Season

Vieh, Lizzie

Samuel French

roydrama - solo performanceall male cast; one characterone maleone act


It’s monsoon season in Phoenix, and Danny hasn’t had a decent night’s sleep in weeks. Betweenhis recent divorce, his mind-numbing job in technical support, and the neon sign from the stripclub that glows through his window all night, his grasp of reality is slipping. And things only getweirder when a decapitated body is found near Danny’s job, and Danny develops a fascination

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 41st Series / COL

2017

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Monument

Kane, Honour

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - 9/11two characterstwo male or femaleone scene

Two operators log emergency phone calls during the disaster of 9/11.

in - Snapshot / COL

2003

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Monument, The

Wagner, Colleen


royCanadian - war - dramaall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"A young soldier is convicted of war crimes. Stetko is the boy next door who comes fromrespectable parents and has gotten caught up in the political events of a war he neverunderstood. Like the good son, the good soldier, he obeys his superiors only to find that, at theconclusion of war, he has become the scapegoat for crimes 'everyone was doing'. He is 'rescued'by a woman from the enemy side. 'The Monument' examines the paradox of a soldier today, andthe ambiguities of morality and justice."

in - 7 Canons / CCO

1996

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Monument, The

Wagner, Colleen


royCanadian - war - dramaall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"A young soldier is convicted of war crimes. Stetko is the boy next door who comes fromrespectable parents and has gotten caught up in the political events of a war he neverunderstood. Like the good son, the good soldier, he obeys his superiors only to find that, at theconclusion of war, he has become the scapegoat for crimes "everyone was doing." He is "rescued"by a woman from the enemy side. 'The Monument' examines the paradox of a soldier today, andthe ambiguities of morality and justice."


2009

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Moon People

Ravel, Aviva


royCanadian - drama - relationships - adoption - womenall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

"An adopted teenager confronts her birth mother and through their mutual regret, pain, anger andlove, the two women reach an understanding of one another."

in - Six Canadian Plays / CCO

1971

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Mooncalf

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydark comic drama - monologueall female cast; one characterone female one act

Rebecca, a woman in her seventies, is writing a letter to her son, Ben, although she speaks theletter to the audience. She tells him the increasingly grotesque and horrible story of the very coldnight in which her cow gave birth to a calf, but because her husband Clarence says he won't goout in the cold for a cow, the calf freezes to death, and they are forced to engage in increasinglyunhappy efforts to get the weak cow back into the barn. But the cow keeps staggering back out tobe with the frozen calf, until Clarence, in a rage, goes out to shoot it. But the silver lining, says


2005

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Moonlodge

Kane, Margo


roydrama - monologues - Native peoples - women all female castone characterone act

As a child, Agnes, a Native girl, was snatched from her home and family by the government andbrought up in white foster homes. This is her story of separation and repatriation with herpeople, her culture, and spirituality - her quest for her identity.


1994

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Moonshot Tape, The

Wilson, Lanford


roysexual abuse - monologue - womanall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

1 interior.

In interview with unseen high-school journalist, author tells of her revenge upon stepfather whosexually abused her.

in - The Moonshot Tape and A Poster of the Cosmos / COL

1991

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Moony's Kid Don't Cry

Williams, Tennessee


roy family relationsthree charactersone male; one female; one child (non-speaking part)one act

Short play about a worker, his wife, and child.


1948

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More Than Feathers and Beads

Borst, Murielle


royCanadian - Native peoples - drama - Native playwrightall female cast; four charactersone female (doubling)eight scenes

'More than Feather and Beads' is Murielle Borst's semi-autobiographical one-woman show whichexamines contemporary issues of identity for Native American women. Borst is a champion shawldancer and wrote this theatrical comedy about her experiences competing in pow-wows acrossthe country. As the title implies she finds there's more than feathers and beads to the pow-wowscene.


2008

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Morning Coffee

Stroppel, Frederick

Samuel French


'Unmarried couple separates after five year relationship.'

in - Single and Proud and Other Plays / COL

1993

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Mosaic

Minghella, Anthony

Methuen

roydramatwo charactersall female cast; two femaleone act

A dance text for two women. One speaks but doesn't dance; one dances but doesn't speak.

in - Plays: 2 (Anthony Minghella) / COL

1997

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Motel



roytheatre of the Absurdthree characters flexible castingone act

one interior set.

"The action in this instance is set in a modern, antiseptically stark motel, and underscores thechilling irony of our mindless penchant for defacing and destroying the very advantages whichaffluence and technology have brought us".

in - America Hurrah / COL

1966

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Motel Hélène

Boucher, Serge


roydramathree characterstwo male; one femalethirty scenes

Judith Thompson's adaptation of Serge Boucher's work. From a translation by Morwyn Brebner."Motel Hélène" traces the relationship between a troubled young man, clerking at his father'sdepanneur in a small town outside Montreal and the troubled woman who occupies the apartmentacross the hall.

in - Tonight at the Tarragon / CCO

2011

Thompson, Judith

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Motel: A Masque for Three Dolls (from America Hurrah)

van Itallie, Jean-Claude


roydrama - absurdist⌦three characters flexible castingone act

the third one-act play in "America Hurrah" by Jean-Claude van Itallie.

"The action in this instance is set in a modern, antiseptically stark motel, and underscores thechilling irony of our mindless penchant for defacing and destroying the very advantages whichaffluence and technology have brought us".


1966

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Mothers of Invention, The

Laxdal, Vivienne

Blizzard Publishing

roy contemporaryall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

Three nurses of the future, with no one left to nurse, try to take control of their situation.


1996

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Motifs and Repetitions

Gatchalian, C. E.

The Writer's Collective

royCanadian - drama - lovethree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A racy, comical, and ultimately shattering portrait of young love.

in - Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays / CCO

2003

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Mountain Song

Beerman, Josh

Samuel French


Trisha returns to a childhood home in the mountains of Appalachia, for her father's funeral, onlyto discover her hard mother's buried family secrets. Spending a day locked in a game cat andmouse with her mother, for the soul of her younger sister, she must either destroy the matriarch,or allow a ghost to destroy them all.

Winner! Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival.

in - Off-Off Broadway Plays - 36th Series / COL

2012

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Mountaintop, The

Hall, Katori

Methuen Drama

roydrama - American - civil rights - Martin Luther Kingtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

The night before his assassination Martin Luther King retires to room 306 in the Lorraine Motelafter giving a speech to a Memphis church congregation during the sanitation workers' strike.When a mysterious young motel maid visits him, King is forced to confront his past and the futureof his people. A hauntingly inspiring portrait of King that looks beyond the legend to a manwracked by fears for the civil rights movement that will be his historic legacy.

in - Plays: 1 / COL

2011

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Mozart and Salieri

Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich

Oberon Books

roydrama - tragedy - musicians - monologuesall male cast: three charactersthree maleone act (two scenes)

Verse drama depicts how Mozart's unpredictable genius affected Antonio Salieri.

in - Boris Godunov: The little tragedies / COL

2002

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Muerte en la Menta (Death on My Mind)

Castillo, Raul H.



'After their truck crash, two friends who attempt to smuggle "illegals", now face their own strugglefor life on the Mexico/U.S. border.'


2000

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Mulberry Street

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydrama - monologue - maleall male cast; one characterone maleone act

Ben, a man of 52, remembers his Italian immigrant grandfather's terrifying and hauntingencounters one night outside his village in Italy and again, years later, in a dark stairway onMulberry Street in Little Italy, New York, in the year 1903. See also Nigro's Maddalena andPalestrina.


2009

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Municipal Abattoir, The

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roypolitical satire - American - 20th century - short playthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 exterior set; music; running time: 10 min.

"In a dictatorship, a condemned clerk asks a student the way to the Municipal Abattoir. Thestudent tells him to save himself but the clerk can’t because he’s been a Municipal Employee toolong to disobey. The student changes tack and orders the clerk to shoot the general as hismotorcade passes by. But the clerk is too cowed and asks the audience the way to the abattoir." -


2005

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Murder, A

Inge, William


roydrama - symbolismthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 interior.

"Symbolic drama about truth, centering around man who rents a room in a rooming house anddiscovers a murdered child in a bureau drawer."


1968

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Murderer the Women's Hope

Kokoschka, Oskar

Doubleday

royexpressionist drama - tragedytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 exterior set; speaking choruses of men and women.

"Expressionist tragedy about conflict between man and woman".

in - An Anthology of German Expressionist Drama / COL

1963

translated by Michael Hamburger

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My Left Breast

Miller, Susan


roydrama - monologueall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'Monologue by gay woman about effects of breast cancer on her emotional well-being.'


1995

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My Morocco

Cameron, Ken

NeWest Press

roydrama - Canadian - family relations - Alberta playwrightall male cast; one characterone maleone act

Ken was in Morocco for a week when he called home to let his parents know he was safe. Theywere at the funeral home. His sister had died unexpectedly. The thing is . . . Ken and hisestranged sister had not spoken in two years.

in - Harvest and Other Plays / CCO

2010

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My Own Private Oshawa

Wilson, Jonathan

Miscellaneous

royLGBTQ+ - monologues - menall male cast; one characterone maleone act

'On a GO train from Toronto to Oshawa, a young man returns to memories of growing up gay andthe liberation of his friendship with the Flamboyant Gordon. First produced at the Toronto FringeFestival.'


1999

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My Perfect Heaven

Christenson, Jonathon


roymonologues - men - Canadian drama - LGBTQ+all male cast; one characterone maleone act

'(The play) takes us on a journey of such endlessly expanding imaginary spaces that it eludeseasy categorization. Written originally for a Loud n' Queer festival, "My Perfect Heaven" caves out afantasy space where a queer little farmboy might exist in a new version of prairie gothic.Performed by Joey alone on stage, "painted pale blue from head to toe" and sitting up high overthe stage "in a ,arge barbed wire nest", the piece depends heavily on the images and emotionscreated through the intense lyricism of the spoken lines which recount the adventures of the

in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO

2002

Tremblay, Joey

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My Three Dads

Taylor, John

Killick Press

roydrama - relationships - monologues - men - Newfoundlandall male cast; one characterone maleone act

'The play presents the autobiographical account by the son of Newfoundland-American parents ofhis journey to discover his estranged father who lives in the United States.'

in - Stars in the Sky Morning / CCO

1992

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My Wife's Coat

Overbey, Kellie

Samuel French

roydrama - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone scene

Peter comes into the bedroom at his bon voyage party to get his wife's coat from the pile on thebed, only to discover his mistress wearing it. She wants him to stay with her, but he's packing uphis kids and wife and moving across country for his new promotion. She asks him for one lastrequest before she'll relinquish the coat, not for sex, but simply for him to lie on top of her. Hedoes so for a brief, sad moment, then takes the coat and leaves, as she continues to lie on the pileof coats in despair.


2005

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Mystery School, The

Selig, Paul


roymonologues - womenall female cast; three charactersthree womenone act

Three monologues by women on religion, alcoholism and mental illness.


1997

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Naked Eyes

Imperial, Dean

Samuel French


A drunken woman hits on a man in a bar before he realizes who she is.


2013

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Napolean of the Nile

Seremba, George


roydrama - Canadianthree charactersone male; one female; one boyone act

'The story of three individuals who are part of an exodus from the Sudan; Napolean, a boy of 13who leaves his family and home town and joins up with Mama Aleur, a woman of great resources,and Old Man, whose wisdom and knowledge help them through their journey. Napoleaneventually promises Old Man that he will tell the story of their crossing of the Nile.'


1996

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Narragansett

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydrama - monologueall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

In the year 1874, Ada looks over the rail of a boat in Narragansett Bay and tries to make sense ofher life, obsessively returning in her mind to her experiences twenty years earlier, when she wasgoverness for the children of Nathaniel Hawthorne on a trip to Italy. Memories of her love for theirbeautiful but doomed daughter Una, their demonic son Julian, and of a monstrous hairy creaturelike a huge badger that keeps crawling in her window at night, mix with eerie recollections of theruins of Rome as she attempts to prepare herself for the cold water beneath her. A haunting


2005

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Nazi\Jew\Queer

Achtman, Michael


royCanadian - drama - LGBTQ+ - monologuesall male cast; three charactersthree male (doubling possible)one act

Told in three monologues - a gay man, a neo-Nazi and a Jew tell their stories.

in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO

2006

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Necropolis

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydrama - war, relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Drama set in Eastern European country torn by civil war. Journalist enamoured of young femalesniper.'


1996

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Negotiation

Aronson, Billy

Vintage Books

roydrama⌦two characters⌦flexible castingone act

“Negotiation” is about the way you have to package yourself to make a living.


2014

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Neils Bohr's Pre-amble to a Dramaturgical Theory

Brask, Per

Miscellaneous

roymonologues - menall male cast; one characterone maleone act

'Per Brask's solo closet drama, a posthumous monologue by physicist Neils Bohr about "the wholequantum thing".'


1997

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Nets and Snares


Nick Hern Books


A woman considers the story surrounding her first pregnancy, spent with the father's mother.

in - Cinzano / COL

1991


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New Art Book

Garnhum, Ken

Miscellaneous

roymonologueone characterflexible castingone act

'A picture monologue.'

in - Canadian Theatre Review No.91, Summer 1997 / PER

1997

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New Line, The

Eno, Will

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - monologuesall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

Approximate running time: 10 minutes.

Where’d you get that jacket? You seem pretty good at being human - are you? When you think ofthe world, what do you think of? Come one, come all, for these and other questions.


2018

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New Quixote, The

Frayn, Michael

Samuel French


"We meet a women on the verge of middle-age who has spent the night in her flat with a 20-yearold she met at a party the night before. Well, all right; but now it's Sunday morning and time forher to get on about the business of a new day. But not for a moment. The lad returns with all hisrecordings and books and announces that he has found happiness and has come to roost. He isso sincere and so transported that she is swept along by the tide of his new-found love."

in - The Two of Us / COL

1970

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New Testament, The

LaBute, Neil

Soft Skull Press

roydrama - American - racism - religionall male cast; three charactersthree male (flexible casting possible)one act

"In 'The New Testament,' a writer with a new drama about Jesus tries to have the lead fired fromplaying the Messiah because he is of Chinese descent. The producer just wants to buy off theactor, but the performer is adamant: if Jesus is love, couldn't anyone, regardless of race, personifyhis promise of grace?" - Los Angeles Times


2010

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News Item, The

Olmo, Lauro

E. P. Dutton and Company

roydrama - political - Spanish playthree characters; extrasthree maleone act

"In a totalitarian country, news vendor and his customers are afraid to discuss a news item."

in - Modern Spanish Theatre / COL

1969

translated by M. C. Wellwarth

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Night

Pinter, Harold

Methuen & Co Ltd


1 simple set - interior.

Man and woman in their forties reminisce about the night they met.


1970

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Night (L'Homme gris)

Laberge, Marie


roydrama - Canadian - family relations two charactersone male; one femaleone act

This is a play about a tragic night in a garish motel room. It portrays an impossible dialoguebetween a father who says too much, too loudly and too late, and an anorexic daughter who takesrefuge in silence.

in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO

2006

translated by Rina Fraticelli

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Night Visits

Fill, Simon

Miscellaneous


An intern deals with the last of his patients on a thirty-five hour shift.

in - Dramatics (Mar 2000) / PER

2000

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No One Will Be Immune

Mamet, David


royAmerican - drama - family relationsall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"One friend tries to explain to the other why he stopped a flight from taking off, claiming he lefthis baby behind."

in - No One Will Be Immune and Other Plays and Pieces / COL

1994

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No, Please-

Callaghan, Sean

NeWest Press


"...'So I wrote a play about a society or environment where the people have stretched so far awayfrom any kind of self recognition that they have inverted and become cannibalistic. What happenswhen one of them breaks out of the shell to see herself?' For this he has created a rigidlyregimented futuristic world where the retro '50's characters begin to crack under the strain of theimposed conformity of an "antiseptic" authoritarian society (as in George Orwell's '1984'). Facadescrumble as husband, wife, and lover each give way to some degree of human passion, uncovering

in - NextFest Anthology / CCO

2000

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Nobody Waltzes Carrying a Thirty-pound Underwood

O'Neil, Deborah

Blizzard Publishing

royCanadiantwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

The owner of a second-hand store ingeniously sets a dinner date with an irate customer.


1994

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Nohkom

Greyeyes, Michael


roydrama - Canadian playwright - Indigenous peoples - residential schools - dancethree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

One male will act as the narrator.

"Moving through the visceral history of Canadas Indian Residential school system, the fragilenature of memory, and the exquisite power of dance, Nôhkom is a portrait of resilience and atestament to the potential of forgiveness."

in - Indian Act / CCO

2018

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Norm and Ahmed

Buzo, Alexander

Currency Press

roydrama - racism - Australiaall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

A midnight conversation in Sydney, Australia, between a Pakistani student and a bigotedAustralian workman, who doesn't understand Asians.

in - Three plays by Alexander Buzo / COL

1973

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Northern Song

Voaden, Herman


roydramaall male cast; three charactersthree malethree scenes

'The play dramatizes discussions that the Group of Seven may have had together which led totheir painting expeditions on the North Shore of Lake Superior.


1993

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Not I

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

royexperimental theatre - monologueall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

" Monologue by woman witnessed by helplessly compassionate silent listener. Reveals lovelesslife from orphan childhood to solitary old age and inability to communicate with others."


1992

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Not I

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

royexperimental theatre - monologueall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

"Monologue by woman witnessed by helplessly compassionate silent listener. Reveals lovelesslife from orphan childhood to solitary old age and inability to communicate with others."

in - Ends and Odds / COL

1976

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Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen

Churchill, Caryl

Nick Hern Books

royscience fictionthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Set in the future London, England, a man comes to see his father one last time before heself-combusts.

in - Shorts / COL

1993

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Nothing Immediate

Lauro, Shirley

Samuel French


Suspense builds when two women are thrown together in a motel in Iowa. Sandra, a young Jewfrom New York, is there to be near her dying father. Edna, the proprietress, is a fanaticallyreligious right winger of pioneer stock. Her motel is failing and her only relative is a Viet Namcasualty. Grudgingly, Edna registers Sandra and gradually reveals her deep hostility towards herand the world she represents. An uncanny tension mounts as Edna blames Sandra for hermisfortunes and the play sweeps forward to its menacing conclusion.


1983

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Nothing in the World Like It

Galton, Frances

Samuel French


'Drama about pregnant college junior, her senior boyfriend, and sympathetic cafeteria worker.'


2000

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Number, A

Churchill, Caryl

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - family relations - monologuesall male cast; three charactersone male (doubling)one act

Salter, a man in his sixties, is visited by his 35 year old son, Bernard. Bernard is a clone. He wascloned from Salter's son when the son - also called Bernard - was killed in a car crash that alsotook the life of his wife. Bernard Number Two has discovered that the doctor who did the cloningmade many more copies. Salter then has another visitor - it is the original Bernard who is nowforty years old. Bernard did not die in the car crash. After the crash Salter became dissatisfied withhim and had him cloned thinking that the new son would be better. This Bernard is somewhat

in - Plays: 4 / COL

2008

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Observatory, The

Germann, Greg


roydrama - short play - relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"Running into an old, attractive paramour can cause mixed feelings when you find out she's theone who told your wife about the affair, causing your divorce."


1997

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Occupation of Heather Rose, The

Lill, Wendy

Talonbooks

roydrama - Canadian - Native peoplesall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'Nurse Rose goes north to work on an Indian reserve. Her adventure turns to a painfulexploration of her own fragile cultural identity.'

in - Modern Canadian Plays, Volume II third edition / CCO

1994

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Lill, Wendy

NeWest Press


'Nurse Rose goes north to work on an Indian reserve. Her adventure turns to a painfulexploration of her own fragile cultural identity.'

in - NeWest Plays by Women / CCO

1987

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Lill, Wendy



'Nurse Rose goes north to work on an Indian reserve. Her adventure turns to a painful explorationof her own fragile cultural identity.'


1999

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Odyssey of Ulysses the Palimped, The

Gilbert-Lecomte, Roger

E. P. Dutton and Company

roydrama - surrealismall male cast; three characters; extrasthree malefour scenes

'Surrealistic presentation of the imagined death of Ulysses.'

in - Modern French Theatre / COL

1966

translated by Michael Benedikt

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Off the 401

Thompson, Judith

Miscellaneous


'Judith Thompson's scene from Stolen Lands, Ground Zero's 1995 multi-authored play on thelegacy of 500 years of occupation and resistance.'


1996

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Oh Nest Honest Insanity

Posno, Helen

Blizzard Publishing

roysketchestwo charactersflexible castingone act

'Phase One' and 'Face Two' describe their thoughts about their encounter.


1998

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Ohio Impromptu

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

royexperimental theatreall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"A drama of the interdependency of the two characters, Reader and Listener, as they read andlisten to the story of their relationship."

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Ohio Impromptu

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press


"A drama of the interdependency of the two characters, Reader and Listener, as they read andlisten to the story of their relationship."


1984

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Old Boyfriend

LaBute, Neil


roy solo performanceall female cast; one femaleone femaleone act

A sighting of an old boyfriend reminds a young girl of a tragic text.


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Old Jew, The

Schisgal, Murray



1 set.

"An old Jew sits alone in his shabby room, an old man pouring out his anguish to a group ofimaginary neighbors. Then removing his wig and makeup, reveals himself to be a young,embittered actor".

in - Five One Act Plays / COL

1965

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One Exception, The

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - American - 20th century - short playall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

"An artist named Kyra has had a complete emotional breakdown and shows barely any signs ofrecovery. Now under the care of a friendly nurse, Kyra's greatest terror is to be sent to a mentalinstitution. Just days before she is to be committed, Kyra is visited by Viola, an old friend from theart world who has come looking for a loan. Viola offers only "hilarious" updates and gossip aboutthe successes of all the people who abandoned Kyra to her madness, those who left her alone andnow judge her as the only one from their group to be a failure - the one exception." - Samuel


2008

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One Short Sleepe

Wallace, Naomi

Playscripts, Inc.

roydrama - monologues - men - warall male cast; one characterone maleone scene

An exploration of the human fallout of the Lebanon War of 2007 in the form of a college student'sode to spiders and his younger sister.


2009

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One Word

Garnhum, Ken

Miscellaneous


' "Chairman" and "Walkman" are caught in a maze - trying to get from "a to b".They are in conflict about how to proceed. As the action progresses this conflict increasinglytakes on the quality of one person arguing with himself. "Chairman" and "Walkman" are, in fact,two aspects of the same person.'

in - Canadian Theatre Review No.91, Summer 1997 / PER

1997

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One-armed Man, The

Foote, Horton



When McHenry, THE ONE-ARMED MAN, comes back to his old job to reclaim his arm lost in anaccident, his old boss, C.W., is unsympathetic. The accountant, Pinky, tries to convey just howserious McHenry is, but only when McHenry shows C.W. the loaded gun, and then shoots him, dowe all know how far he will go to become whole again.

in - The Tears of My Sister, The Prisoner's Song, The One-armed Man and... / COL

1993

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Open Admissions

Lauro, Shirley

Samuel French


A black student accepted at City College of New York under the "Open Admissions Plan" forminorities believes his white instructor, Dr. Alice Stockwell, is shuffling him through with "B's"irrespective of the quality of his work while concentrating her efforts on white students. Eager tosucceed and bursting with frustration, he corners her in her office and levels his charges. Theemotionally charged confrontation that ensues shows that they are trapped in different worlds.


1983

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Opening

Kelty, Matthew

Samuel French

roydrama - Hollywood - racismtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

An imagined conversation, inspired by real events. The producer of Gone with the Wind, David O.Selznick, asks Hattie McDaniel to politely decline to attend the premiere of the movie in Atlanta,making sure she’s aware that if she doesn’t comply, she’ll never work again, and hanging anAcademy Award nomination over her head for good behavior. Ultimately, and painfully, shedecides to go along with his request.


2008

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Operators



roydrama - women - relationshipsall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

"Three women are working a northern nightshift. The probing of the youngest leads to disturbingrevelations about the fears and dependencies of the older two."

in - Operators and Bushed / CCO

1981

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Operators



roydrama - women - relationships - British Columbiaall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

"Three women are working a northern nightshift. The probing of the youngest leads to disturbingrevelations about the fears and dependencies of the older two."


1975

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Ophelia

Sanford, Karen

Samuel French


'Drama about religious girl who meets stranger with dubious intentions.'


2000

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Orchids in the Moonlight

Fuentes, Carlos

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - biographical - Mexicothree characters; extrasone male; two femaleone act

1 interior; translated by Sebastian Doggart.

Various aspects of Mexican national character explored in play about actresses Dolores Del Rioand Maria Felix.

in - Latin American Plays / COL

1996

translated by Sebastian Doggart

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Organic Divide

Fulford, Robin

Blizzard Publishing

roydrama - marital relations - LGBTQ+two charactersone male; one femaleone act

Woman in her perfect world discovers her husband is gay.


1998

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Originality

Fratti, Mario

Samuel French



in - Eleonora Duse; Victim; Originality / COL

1978

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Other People's Children

Moscovitch, Hannah


roydrama - relationships - marriage - social class⌦three charactersone male; two femaleone act (ten scenes)

A wealthy young power couple Ben and Ilana hire Sati, a live-in nanny, to care for their babydaughter, but Sati ends up being more than a caretaker, exposing the fragility of Ben and Ilana'smarriage. Is she filling the holes in their relationship, or widening cracks that will shatter theirfamily?

in - Little One and Other Plays / CCO

2015

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Other Player, The

Arno, Owen G.


roydrama - psychological - thrillerall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

"Corlin returns to the prep school where his son, Jeffrey, has drowned quite suddenly in a freakaccident. Guilt-ridden over his possible rejection of his son, Corlin seeks not only to gatherJeffrey's belongings but to find out what his son was really like. He is assured by the school'sheadmaster that Jeffrey was popular and amiable and that he delighted the school with his athleticprowess. But then Corlin is visited in Jeffrey's old room by one of his son's classmates, asomewhat shy and strange boy named Peter Cross. Peter tells Corlin that he has come to the room


1964

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Other Woman, The

Kelly, Casey


roydrama - womenthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

"Study of young girl's transformation to womanhood".


1982

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Other Woman, The

Ives, David



The plot reveals a man visited in the night by his sleepwalking wife. He has a love affair with her,unbeknownst to her rational, waking self.


2008

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Other World of David Wiseman, The

Noble, Dennis

Blizzard Publishing

roydramafive characterstwo male; one female (doubling)one act

A young man who is subjected to his parents faulty attempts to raise him in neutral religiousterritory, imagines that his two grandfathers, one Jewish and one Italian Catholic, agree to acontract on his father's life.


1994

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Our Baby's First Seven Years

Goldstein, Joshua

Solomon Press Publishers

roydrama - monologue - women - cancerall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

Dramatic monologue set in 1950s Washington, DC. Young mother copes with infant son's cancer.

in - Four Plays / COL

1993

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Our Dad is in Atlantis

Malpica, Javier

Miscellaneous

roydramaall male cast; two characterstwo boysten scenes

A deceptively simple two hander about two boys who are left behind to fend mostly for themselveswhen their father crosses the US - Mexico border. It is written in short, episodic scenes thatcharts how two brothers navigate the difficult terrain of everyday survival while they sustaindreams of the US, which seems as far away from them as Atlantis.

in - American Theatre Jul/Aug, 2008 / PER

2008

translated by Jorge Ignacio Cortinas

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Our Father Who Art

Smith, Matt

Miscellaneous

roymonologues - dramathree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'The play is structured as three interwoven monologues with brief passages of dialogue andanswers the question: "What would happen if a man decided that he was God?".'

in - Dramatists - (Oct 2000) / PER

2000

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Out of Body

Cooper, Beverley

Blizzard Publishing

royCanadianall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

A woman who has developed out of body experiences, confronts her friend about her friendsaffair with her husband.


1994

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Out the Window

Bell, Neal

Smith and Kraus


1 interior.

Depicts relationship between wheelchair-bound man and his fiancée.

in - 20/20 ... / COL

1995

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Outside the Box

Wilson, Bo

Samuel French

roydrama - racismall male cast; three charactersthree maleone scene

In a timely piece addressing issues of race and sports, a black father confronts prejudice in theform of a white umpire who earlier that day has ejected the man's son from a youth-leaguebaseball game. Now the father holds some unexpectedly powerful cards, and the umpire mustseek forgiveness. With a cast of three actors and a simple set, this powerful play is well-suited forthe widest range of production circumstances.


2006

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Over

O'Donnell, Darren

Coach House Press


The paranormal in ordinary lives.

in - Inoculations / CCO

2001

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Over There

Ravenhill, Mark

Bloomsbury

roydrama - family relations - ideologies all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act (five parts)

Over There is an intense drama of synchronous disconnection, an allegory of competingideologies set across the Berlin Wall. When the mother of identical twins, Franz and Karl, defectsto the West, she escapes only with Franz, leaving Karl behind. Twenty-five years later, Karlcrosses the border from East Germany to West Germany to find his other half. The two men haveshared experiences, know scraps of each other’s lives and talk at the same time, but the gulf ofideology and upbringing between them is impossible. When the Berlin Wall comes down, the


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Pagan Day

Nemeth, Sally


royscenes - womenall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone scene

The wearing of gazes, the keeping of counsel. The art of seducing the seducer.


1995

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Pair and a Spare

Glickstein, Avi


roydramatic comedyall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

Pair and a Spare begins with one man innocently mistaking another for someone he knows. Theman leaves and the matter seems settled. But the men - One and Two - will soon play out thisscenario over and over until one of them reaches a breaking point.


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Palace of the End

Thompson, Judith


royCanadian - war - dramathree charactersone male; two femalethree parts

Based around the lives of three distinct characters-a young soldier imprisoned for hermisconduct at a prison camp in Iraq, a microbiologist-cum-weapons inspector who exposes thefalse justifications for war and a mother/political opponent of Saddam Hussein-Palace of the Enddetail the reality of the war in Iraq from three unique perspectives.

Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 2008


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Palooka, The

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - American - 20th century - short play - adolescence - agingall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

1 interior set.

"Ambitious young boxer encounters washed-up has-been." - Play Index


2005

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Panther

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydrama - monologue - male all male cast; one characterone maleone scene

In this brief, intense, powerful monologue for a mature actor, it's 1988, and John Rose, who haswilled himself to live to be a hundred years old because he promised his beloved sister Jessie hewould do so, sits on a fallen tree in the woods by the old Pendragon house where he was bornand waits for the panther his sister always warned him about to come and get him. See alsoNigro's other plays Chronicles, Laestrygonians, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and Dreams of aSinister Castle for other chapters in the Pendragon saga.


2009

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Parallax

Hamilton, Denise


royAmerican biography - monologue - womenall female cast; one character; extrasone femaleone act

'Key encounters of Daisy Bates's life juxtaposed with the life of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.'


1986

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Pariah

Strindberg, August



'Drama of intellectual one-upmanship between murderer and blackmailer.'


1969


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Park Angel

Perelson, Isaac N.


roydrama - family relations - self awarenessthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

'When Josh's sister tries to reach out to him he avoids the issues she raises, yet allows a strangerto help him discover his sense of self and guide help him to understanding.'


2000

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Pasque Flower

Pharis Ringwood, Gwen

CTR Publications

royCanadian - drama - farming - Alberta playwrightthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

"Besides its own considerable literary and dramatic merits, 'Pasque Flower' is of interest for itsclose thematic proximity to Gwen Pharis Ringwood's best known works, 'Still Stands the House'and 'Dark Harvest'. For the three plays were not only written and produced in chronological order;their depiction of the relationship between a struggling wheat farmer and his younger wife alsoprogresses and develops from play to play. All three dramas are placed in a prairie depressionsetting."

in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 2 / CCO

1979

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Pasque Flower


Borealis Press

royCanadian - drama - farming - Alberta playwrightthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'Set in Alberta farmhouse. Small gesture from woman's husband pulls her out of depression andanger.'

in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO

1982

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Passer-By, The

Lu, Hsun

University of London Press

royverse play - Chinathree characterstwo male; one girlone act

'Prose-poem in dramatic style about Everyman's searching for truth.'

in - Modern Drama from Communist China / COL

1970

translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang

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Passing Shots

Yafa, Steven

West Coast Plays




1977

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Passport

Elward, James


roydrama - middle age - monologueall male cast; one characterone maleone act

1 interior set.

"Deals with a lonely middle-aged newspaperman, a little worse for drink and sadly convinced ofhis ineffectiveness and failure as a person. Out of his monologue spoken perhaps with theaching desire that someone will miraculously hear, and care, comes a remarkable portrait of aman alone - wanting to feel alive again; but reconciled to an existence without real meaning or

in - Friday Night / COL

1969

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Path With no Moccasins

Cheechoo, Shirley


roydrama - Canadian - women - self realizations - Native peoplesall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

"A young Cree girl endures life at a residential school, and later heals herself. The play raisesissues of identity, discrimination, and self-destruction, but ends positively."

in - Canadian Mosaic / CCO

1995

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Path With no Moccasins

Cheechoo, Shirley


roydrama - Canadian - women - self-realizations - Native peoplesall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

"A young Cree girl endures life at a residential school, and later heals herself. The play raisesissues of identity, discrimination, and self-destruction, but ends positively."


2008

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Patio

Heifner, Jack


roydrama - small town lifeall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

suggested for high school.

"Patio is set in the backyard of a middle-class Texas home. Pearl, the younger sister, is preparinga going-away party for her older sister, Jewel, a beautician who is bored with small town life andis heading off hopefully to the big city. As the two bustle about setting out food and puting updecorations, their conversation reveals progressively more and more of their differences and

in - Patio/Porch / COL

1978

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Peace in Our Time

Cadman, Larry

Samuel French


'Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. scene of confrontation between veteran and draftdodger.'

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Eighteenth Series) / COL

1994

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Peace Replaced, A

Maloney, Brian

Samuel French


A liver transplant recipient is compelled to have a meeting with the grieving Hispanic widow ofhis donor.


2002

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Pearls

Lipner, Nira

Samuel French

royd r a m aall female cast; two charcterstwo femaleone act

'Drama about widow who confronts her late husbands mistress.'


2000

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Penetration

Russell, Lawrence

Alive Press


Interior representative set (kitchen in western farmhouse)

"A mysterious woman arrives at the home of two bachelor brothers, and subtle, peculiar thingsbegin to happen."

in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCOTitle:

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People Are Horrible Wherever You Go

Roche, David

Blizzard Publishing

roy contemporaryall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

Two women in conversation.


1998

Bateman, David

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Perfect Medium, The

Fischer, Eileen


roydrama - Americanthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Oscar Wilde sends messages to Hester Dowden, an Irish journalist and psychic investigator.Mysteries abound - especially so since Oscar Wilde is dead. The play invites audiences toconsider questions of faith, fame, life after death, and the authenticity of psychic investigations.'The Perfect Medium' is very loosely based on Hester Dowden's pamphlet of essays, 'Oscar Wildefrom Purgatory'.


2009

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Period

McBrien, Richard

Samuel French

roydramatic comedy - love - feminism - marriagethree characterstwo male; one femaleone act


No further description available.


1982

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Personality

Wendkos, Gina



'Contemporary hip woman wryly observes New York's social milieu.'


1986

Ratner, Ellen

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Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes

Tannahill, Jordan


royCanadian - drama - monologues - LGBTQ+ - Germanyall male cast; one characterone maleone act

"Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes" chronicles the last hour of Peter Fechter’s life, a teenager in East Berlinshot while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall in 1962 with his companion.

Winner! The play is in a collection that won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama,2014.

in - Age of Minority / CCO

2013

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Phonecall From Sunkist

Bert, Norman A.


roydrama - deathall male cast; three charactersthree menone act

The setting is in a gas station and garage. One of the foremen received bad news via thetelephone. Two men dead, friends of his so he leaves the shop. The boss does not seem to careand all he thinks about is the money he will lose, the fact that he will have to replace the crew witha less qualified crew and the inconvenience of going to funerals. His son is appalled by hisfathers cold and heartless attitude.


1987

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Photographs: Mary and Howard




open stage.

"While their taped voices carry on a random, but revealing, conversation two people regard eachother silently - as still as two photographs".


1973

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Pickle

Junor-Moore, Sheila

Playwrights Co-op

royAlberta playwright - Canadianthree characterstwo female; one maleone act


in - The Suicide Meet / CCO

1977

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Picture

Hailey, Oliver



"Enlisting the help of two fellow students, Jay attempts to re-enact a disconcerting episode fromhis past. The action centers on a photo of a back-country wedding party and the violence whicherupts from the normally placid 'Little David' (impersonated by one of the other students) inreaction to Jay's cruel taunts about the bumpkins shown in the picture. But at the crucial moment,the person playing 'Little David' balks at attacking Jay - so the third student (who has beenassuming the part of Al) steps into the role and sends Jay crashing to the floor."

in - New Theatre for Now / COL

1971

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Picture

Hailey, Oliver



"Enlisting the help of two fellow students, Jay attempts to re-enact a disconcerting episode fromhis past. The action centers on a photo of a back-country wedding party and the violence whicherupts from the normally placid 'Little David' (impersonated by one of the other students) inreaction to Jay's cruel taunts about the bumpkins shown in the picture. But at the crucial moment,the person playing 'Little David' balks at attacking Jay - so the third student (who has beenassuming the part of Al) steps into the role and sends Jay crashing to the floor."

in - Picture Animal Crisscross / COL

1970

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Pigskin, The

Dean, Gabriel Jason

Samuel French

roy drama - monologues all male cast; one characterone maleone act

simple set.

A high school football star and son of a North Carolina preacher has a secret that won’t makedaddy proud–and he’s aching to tell.


2011

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Pillbox Hat, The

Curran, Colleen

Blizzard Publishing

roycontemporary dramaall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

A dubious woman tries to sell her story and a hat supposedly worn by Jaqueline Kennedy on theday of the JFK assassination to a museum curator.


1996

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Pink

Thompson, Judith


roydrama - monologues - women - Canadianall female cast; one characterone femalem o n o l o g u e

A ten-year-old white girl speaks to her dead black nurse.

in - Late 20th Century Plays / CCO

2002

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Pischer

Nusbaum, Ted

Samuel French

roydrama all male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

Devastated by the death of his older brother at the hands of a Palestinian suicide bomber, Elon,a simple-minded Yeshiva student, joins an underground Jewish terrorist cell in East Jerusalem toexact his revenge. Soon after his arrival at the group's secret hideout, Elon is reunited with Sasha,Russian bomb maker and former crony to his older brother, who is calmly wiring the explosivedevice they will use in the morning. However, when the group's charismatic leader – Avram -arrives, Elon slowly puts together the disturbing details of their impending reprisal attack: the

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 31st series / COL

2007

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Pitch, The

Foster, Norm

Blizzard Publishing


A fading movie director pitches an old movie idea to a Canadian production team.


1996

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Plain in the Land of Shinar

Pfeffinger, Eric R.

Miscellaneous


running time: 10 minutes.

Two college students, one from Vietnam, begin to develop a friendship.

in - Dramatics Vol.82, No.7 / PERTitle:

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Play

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press


'A man, his wife, and his mistress, in funeral urns, recall their marriage triangle.'


1984

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Play

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press


"It's the story of man, his wife, and his mistress, and of the suspicions, discoveries, and desires ofeach as they become immured in their reciprocal experiences. Over all is the yearning for peace,for an end to it all."

in - Cascando and other short dramatic pieces / COL

1967

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Playing With Angels

Short, Donn

Blizzard Publishing


Jess and Cal and their marriage.


1994

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Pledge, The

Norman, Victoria

Samuel French

roydrama - deathall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

'Tragedy. Black female college student feeling betrayed by best friend commits suicide.'

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 15th / COL

1991

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Pokey, The

Black, Stephen


roydrama - womentwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 interior.

"Small town Texas jail scenes of famous female rock star's encounter with jailer, a self-containedyoung man immune to her taunts and unimpressed by her popularity."

in - The Pokey and The Horse Latitudes / COL

1976

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Poland




A beautiful woman and a rich man are each looking for something or someone to rescue themfrom their lives. Can they find a safer ground together?


2014

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Polygraph

Lepage, Robert

University of Toronto Press

roydrama - French - Canadianthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'A metaphysical detective story. A murder mystery film-and-play-within-a-play. 'Polygraphpresents a reality in which truths are layered within lies, mirroring and distorting one another inthe deceptions that make up life, art and the technologies we use to help structure them both.'

in - The CTR Anthology / CCO

1996

Brassard, Marie

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Polygraph

Lepage, Robert

Talonbooks



in - Modern Canadian Plays, Volume II (3rd ed) / CCO

1994

Brassard, Marie

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Polygraph

Lepage, Robert

Talonbooks

roydrama - French Canadianthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act


in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fourth Edition / CCO

2001

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Polygraph

Lepage, Robert

Miscellaneous




1990

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Polygraph

Lepage, Robert

Talonbooks

roydrama - French Canadianthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act


in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO

2013

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Poor Shem

Hischak, Gregory

Playscripts, Inc.

roydramathree characterstwo male; one femaleone act (one scene)

simple set; running time: 10 min.

"Of all the things you give in life, none is more precious than your labor. A tiny play about threecharacters and a photocopier."

in - Humana Festival 2014: The complete plays / COL

2015

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Portrait of the Woman as a Young Artist, A

Miroshnik, Meg


roydramafour characters; three voices; puppetstwo male; one femaleone act

In (this play), Mr. Joyce, a fictionalized literary icon in spectacles, and Mr. James, a paranoid,impatient person, inhabit parallel dreamscapes with Leda, a muse who has recently developedcreative ambitions all her own. As the men struggle to maintain control - and sanity - in thefantastical, imploding universe of the play, Leda begins work on her masterpiece: a featherytransformation of mythic proportions.


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Poster of the Cosmos, A

Wilson, Lanford


roydrama - AIDS - monologue - menall male cast; one characterone maleone act

'Homosexual man suspected of killing AIDS afflicted lover makes taped statement in police station.'

in - The Way We Live Now / COL

1990

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Poster of the Cosmos, A

Wilson, Lanford


roydrama - AIDS - crime - monologue - manall male cast; one characterone maleone act

1 interior.

Homosexual man suspected of killing AIDS afflicted lover makes taped statement in police station.

in - The Moonshot Tape and A Poster of the Cosmos / COL

1991

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Potato Girl

Rusch, Christine



Two women sort potatoes in a warehouse factory. They talk. The older woman leaves and herboyfriend enters and hits on the younger girl, who promptly tells the man that she has aboyfriend. The older woman returns and laughs when she hears the younger woman talking abouther man. She doesn't believe her and goes on to say that it is a "crazy, outcast" man she is in lovewith, and calls the younger one "crazy."


1987

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Potato Prayers

McFarlane, Anita

Theatrum Publishing




1994

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Power and the Glory, The

Wilhelm, Le

Samuel French


Alternate title: Windows of the World

'Drama set in elevator. One woman helps another deal with her insecurities.'

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Eighteenth Series) / COL

1994

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Pre-nuptial Agreement

Nemeth, Sally


roymonologue - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone scene

A merciful nurse, in white, like a bride. A soldier with unimaginable wounds and unimaginablerequests.


1995

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Prelude to Death in Venice, A

Breuer, Lee


royexperimental playall male cast, two characterstwo maleone act

1 set.

"New York film agent projects aspects of his fragmented personality via puppet conversingsimultaneously on 2 pay telephones. Abandoning puppet, he concludes with schizophrenicmonologue".

in - New Plays USA 1 / COL

1982

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Property

Diamond, Marc


royCanadian - monologues - menall male cast; many charactersone male (doubling)one act

adapted by D. D. KuglerDescription not available.


2008

Kugler, D. D.

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Property of the Dallas Cowboys

Smiley, Sam


royfootball - marital relationsthree charactersone male; two female one act

A daughter is conversing with her mother in a laundromat and recollects how her husband beather and their child. The daughter is very distressed and emotional. She has left her husband andtaken her child to raise by herself. Her mother condones the wife battery because her daughter'shusband has a steady paycheck. The mother refuses to allow her daughter and grandchild tomove in and live with them. Her daughter flirts with man who comes into the laundromat, simplybecause he has a nice van. She talks to him and he wants to have a date but she refuses. She


1987

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Protest

Havel, Vaclav

University of British Columbia

roydrama - Czechall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

1 interior.

"Set in contemporary Prague. Writer uses logical linguistic evasions when dissident colleagueasks for his signature on petition."

in - The Vanek Plays / COL

1987

translated by Vera Blackwell

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Protest

Havel, Vaclav

Grove Press

roydrama - Czechoslovakiaall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

'Writer uses logical linguistic evasions when dissident colleague asks for his signature onpetition.'

in - The Garden and Other Plays / COL

1978

translated by Vera Blackwell

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Pullman, WA

Lee, Young Jean

Methuen Drama

roydramatic comedy - monologuesall male cast; three characters (flexible casting)three maleone act

In PULLMAN, WA, three ordinary people try (and fail) to give a life-changing self-help seminar. Aplay about what to do if you’re unhappy and everyone around you is kind of an asshole,including yourself.

in - The Methune Drama Book of New American Plays / COL

2013

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Purgatory

Yeats, William Butler


royfantasy - verseall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

1 exterior set.

"Fantasy in verse. Old man relates his life to the son he will murder."

in - W B Yeats: Selected Plays / COL

1964

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Purgatory

Yeats, William Butler

Doubleday

royfantasy - verseall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

1 exterior set.

"Fantasy in verse. Old man relates his life to the son he will murder".

in - The Modern Theatre Volume 2 / COL

1955

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Pusha-Man a.k.a. The Seed

Pierre, Joseph Jomo


roydrama - men - Canadianthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A place where placebos meet everyday needs - a woman is giving birth to a man's child.

in - BeatDown / CCO

2006

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Pyaasa

Roy, Anusree


royCanadian - drama - India - social issuesall female cast; four charactersone female (doubling)nine scenes

set in present day Bengal, India.

"The story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more thanlearning her times tables. When Chaya’s mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give Chaya ajob at a local tea stall, Chaya’s journey from childhood to adulthood begins and ends over tendays. A moving and heartfelt play, Pyaasa illustrates with subtlety and nuanced truth the


2015

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Pyaasa

Roy, Anusree


royCanadian - drama - India - social issuesall female cast; four charactersone female (doubling)nine scenes

set in present day Bengal, India.

"The story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more thanlearning her times tables. When Chaya’s mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give Chaya ajob at a local tea stall, Chaya’s journey from childhood to adulthood begins and ends over tendays. A moving and heartfelt play, Pyaasa illustrates with subtlety and nuanced truth the

in - Pyaasa and Letters to My Grandma / CCO

2010

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Quartet

Muller, Heiner



1 set.

"Experimental dramatization of Choderlos de Laclos novel "Le liaisons dangereuses". Twoaristocrats, obsessed with sex, indulge in masturbatory games in anticipation of their doom".


1984

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Questioning of Nick, The

Kopit, Arthur

Hill and Wang


By playing on his insecure, narcissistic personality, two police officers get Nick to confess tothrowing a basketball game and beating a fellow team member.

in - The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays / COL

1965

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Quick and Dirty (A Subway Fantasy)

Riedy, David

Samuel French


A man meets his match when he attempts to pick up a quick-witted woman.


2004

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Quiller

Cook, Michael

Talonbooks

roydrama - Canadian - monologues - menall male cast; three characters one male (doubling)one act

"As he slowly dies, Quiller carries on a running conversation with God, recalling his life andstruggles with his thwarted sexuality."

in - Tiln & Other Plays / CCO

1976

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Quintessential Image

Chambers, Jane


roywomen - lesbian plays - LGBTQ+all female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

An award-winning photographer, Lacey Lanier, "comes out" in a TV interview with the closetedMargaret Foy. The play uses the apparatus of photography as a symbolic mirror for lesbian(in)visibility. What the famous Lacey was seeing through her pinbox camera, and throughout hercareer, was not what photojournalist judges were seeing when they gave her prizes andscholarships. Lacey is heroic in speaking the truth of her vision, although some readers mayquestion the ethics of her "outing". The self-hating Margaret's glibness trips her and unmasks her

in - Amazon All Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays with Essays and Commentary / COL

1996

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Radio Rooster Says That's Bad

O'Donnell, Darren

Coach House Press

royCanadian - drama - monologueall male cast; one characterone maleone act

Paranoia and psychosis.


2001

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RAGE

Riml, Michele


roydrama - Canadian - high school - murdertwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A high school office, a teacher and a student, and a loaded gun. These are the tense ingredientsof a riveting work by playwright Michele Riml. Raymond, or Rage as he likes to call himself, is aviolent student. Laura, on the other hand is a guidance counsellor, well known for her pacifism.When Laura calls Rage into her office to account for his recent bad behaviour, she suddenly findsherself facing a life or death situation, and a gut-wrenching dilemma. There is a way out, but itmay mean going against everything she believes. This intense drama ponders what makes a

in - Once More, With Feeling / CCO

2014

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Random Acts

Flacks, Diane


roydrama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+one characterall female cast; one female (doubling)one act

Using the persona of the Oprah-like feminist talk-show guru, Antonella Bergman, Flacks invites usto engage with her in the search for meaning in a random universe. To suggest Antonella'sprophetic qualities, Flacks opens the play with an apocalyptic appearance of the Jewish matriarchSarah who became pregnant at the age of ninety. As she morphs into a pre-accident Antonella, weare invited to listen in on one of her inspirational talks and thus become directly implicated inparticipating in her journey.


2006

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Razed by Wolves

McBurney, Phil

Blizzard Publishing

roydrama - family relationsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A son returns to his father's house to retaliate for the abuse his mother suffered.


1994

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Realer Than That

Lavoie, Kitt

Samuel French


After being reunited at a friend’s wedding, a pair of high school sweethearts return to a hotelroom for one last romp – but their reunion is complicated by his recent stint on a reality showand the secret that he shared with the world.


2010

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Really

Drury, Jackie Sibblies

Miscellaneous

roydrama - Americanthree charactersone male; two female twelve scenes

" 'Really', the new play by Jackie Sibblies Drury depicts two women remembering their relationshipwith a young photographer who has died and how the skill of photography can be used to workthrough the past." - New York Theatre Review

2016

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Recensio: a light and dark show

De Santis, Eddie

Samuel French


This inventive piece is about a couple who fell in love as teenagers. Some scenes take placewhen they were young, others portray them as adults. Occasionally, one plays a parent or oneplays one of their children.


1986

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Recluse, The

Foster, Paul

Calder and Boyars


"A frightening vision of crazed old age with a terrifying coupe de theatre in the climax".

in - Balls and Other Plays / COL

1967

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Red Car, Blue Car

Thorne, Jack

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - monologues - guilttwo characters; three extrasone male; one femaleone act

A play about guilt, grief and responsibility. The play is structured as two overlappingmonologues by characters, Phil and Marie, who are linked in a way that isn't immediatelyapparent. What appears to be the story of a couple who met on the internet and lived happily everafter is anything but. What they are in fact recounting is their separate experience of the nightMarie's boyfriend is run over by Phil's car.


2014

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Red Cross

Shepard, Sam

Random House


"Surrealism. Various body ailments suffered by three characters in turn".


1986

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Red Cross

Shepard, Sam

Bantam Books


"Surrealism. Various body ailments suffered by three characters in turn".

in - The New Underground Theatre / COL

1968

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Red Flag at Evening


Nelson Canada

royCanadian - comedy - Alberta playwrightthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

1 set.

'Spinster receives unusual response when she asks her beau of fourteen years his intentions.'

in - In Character / CCO

1992

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Red Flag At Evening


Borealis Press

royCanadian - sketches - skits - Alberta playwright - Canadianthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

1 set.

'Spinster receives unusual response when she asks her beau of fourteen years his intentions.'

in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO

1982

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Releevo

Spencer, David

Methuen

roydrama - marital relations - relationshipsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

"West Yorkshire, 1974. Though only in their twenties, Steven and Julie's marriage is disintegratingbadly. A ceaseless optimist but also a ceaseless drinker, and unable to pull himself out of debt,Steven is driving Julie to the end of her tether. Then we see them six months earlier, when hopewas still alive; but this insight only makes the eventual catastrophe all the more poignant andgruelling. A play that presents its working-class characters and their environment withextraordinary authenticity and humanity."

in - Verity Bargate / COL

1987

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Requiem for August

Posno, Helen

Blizzard Publishing

roysketchestwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Two people, her and him, take audience on a tour of images.


1998

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Respecting the Action for Seduction

Cheoros, David

Brindle & Glass

roydrama - scandal - historical - Alberta - politicalsix charactersone male; one female (doubling)sixteen scenes; one act

running time: approximately 60 min.

The story of the affair between John Brownlee, Premier of Alberta and a married man, andseventeen-year-old Vivian MacMillan which caused his fall from office.


2012

Simonson, Karen

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Retreating World, The

Wallace, Naomi

Miscellaneous

roymonologues - men - booksall male cast; one characterone maleone act


in - American Theatre (July / August 2003) / PER

2003

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Reunion

Mamet, David

Grove Press


1 interior set.

"Fifty-three year old ex-alcoholic is visited in his apartment by his twenty-six year old daughter.In awkward, poignant conversation they seek to establish a relationship after 20 years separation".


1973

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Reunion

Mamet, David

Grove Press


1 interior set.

"Fifty-three year old ex-alcoholic is visited in his apartment by his twenty-six year old daughter.In awkward, poignant conversation they seek to establish a relationship after 20 years separation".

in - Two Plays / COL

1979

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Reunion

Mamet, David

Grove Weidenfeld

roydrama - family relations two charactersone male; one femaleone act (fourteen scenes)

"Reunion" depicts the awkward, tender meeting between a father and daughter drawn together bytheir loneliness after twenty years of separation. Their cautious small talk, filled with evasion andcliché, gradually exposes the terrifying isolation in which they live, and ultimately their greatneed for each other.

in - Reunion & Dark Pony / COL

1979

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Rhiannon

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydrama - American - monologue - betrayal - love - memoryall male cast; one characterone maleone act

bare stage, simple set; period - 19th century; running time: 30 min.

In this powerful longer monologue, Merlin Rhys, a man in his sixties, recalls the mysterious girlhe can't get out of his head, a mad girl with one green eye and one brown. Complex, absorbing,funny, horrifying. Great showcase for an actor in his prime.


2009

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Right Sensation

Orloff, Rich



A woman reveals feelings about her breasts after a mastectomy as she is about to become moreintimate with a new lover.


2015

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Right to Remain, The

Marnich, Melanie


roydrama - family relationsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Peter and Amy clash about their son’s eating a meal, but the subtext is about marital infidelity.While Josh focuses on his computer and Amy focuses on her dinner, Peter challenges them both.They have the stronger hands in this game. Josh has used his computer to locate the other womanin his father’s life, and Amy is ready for a showdown. Josh promises to resume the charade of afunctional family if his father will just say the last digit of the other woman’s telephone number.The father caves in and says the number.


2006

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Rituals

Milligan, Jason

Samuel French


Originally commissioned and produced by New York’s prestigious Primary Stages Company as aresponse to the events of 9/11, “Rituals” is the heart-wrenching tale of Dave and Janie, anupwardly-mobile couple whose lives have been shattered by the death of their young son. Davebrings Pat, his therapist, to their high-rise condo – hoping that Pat can help put a stop to Janie’scompulsive rituals, which Dave fears are causing her to retreat from reality. What begins as anintervention quickly escalates into a heated confrontation … and Dave realizes that rituals may

in - 5 Easy Pieces / COL

2007

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River Lady, The

Widdicombe, David

Icarus Press


"A drifter meets a dishwasher in an all-night diner. She collects marbles from every town she visitsand longs for a better life. He's frustrated by the world he sees reflected back at him throughtelevision and wants to start a religion based on "Planet of the Apes". Together they desperatelytry to make sense of their lives as the night slowly closes in on them."

in - The River Lady and Other Plays / CCO

2000

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Road to Nineveh, The

Wilhelm, Le

Samuel French

royre la t ionsh ipsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'Lonely man and woman meet in snowbound Tennessee restaurant on Christmas Eve.'


1993

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Road, The

Tesich, Steve

Samuel French


3 exteriors.

"Two hitch-hikers meet on the highway; a man leaving the city in disgust and despair and awoman going toward it with optimism and hope for a life she's never had. Just when she cutsthrough his deep-grained cynicism, life deals her a foul blow in this devastating yet humorousfirst act entitled 'The Road'."

in - Touching Bottom / COL

1980

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Roads that Lead Here, The

Blessing, Lee

Smith and Kraus

roydramathree charactersall male cast; three maleone act

No description available.


2004

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Rock Garden, the

Shepard, Sam

Random House


"A woman reminisces about her husband, a man talks of making a rock garden, and a teenage boydescribes his sexual encounters. The final scene was performed as part of Oh! Calcuttta!"


1986

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Rockaby

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

royexperimental playall female cast; one characterone femaleone scene

"A dramatic monologue of a woman sitting in a rocking chair and her recorded voice."

in - Rockaby and Other Short Pieces / COLTitle:

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Rockaby

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

royexperimental playall female cast; one characterone femaleone scene

"A dramatic monologue of a woman sitting in a rocking chair and her recorded voice."


1984

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Romance

LaBute, Neil

Soft Skull Press

roydrama - relationshipstwo charactersflexible castingone act

"A licentious character known only as A is confronted by their ex, the more domestically inclinedB, and before long everything B had thought about their long relationship has been upended.'Romance' is a two-hander written in such a way that any combination of the sexes will do." - NewYork Times


2010

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Rooky Wood, The

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydrama - American - mystery - thrillerthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

period - 1920; bare stage, simple set; running time: 30 min.

In this chilling mystery, Moira is taking a walk in the park at the intermission of a Shakespeareplay and is suddenly filled with the absolute certainty that there is a dead girl in the woods, andInspector Ruffing can't decide if she's insane or if there's something to this. Is the strange manshe met at the play the killer? Or is something darker and more ambiguous going on? A quiet


2009

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Room Inside the Room I'm In, The

Fill, Simon

Miscellaneous

roydrama-relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A young man and a young woman reunite in a Manhattan subway station, after a lengthy timeapart.Suitable for school setting.

in - Dramatics vol. 81 no. 7 / PER

2010

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Rooming House, The

Bromberg, Conrad



simple interior.

"In the second play, 'The Rooming House', a lonely young woman, deserted by her husband,meets a seemingly sympathetic and attractive young man who, at first, appears to embody thewarmth and love she so desperately needs. But the man is a compulsive and twisted liar, whosystematically, and chillingly, sets about stripping her of all self-respect - and hope."


1970

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Rosalie Sings Alone

Demchuk, David

Coach House Press

roydrama - identity - trans-sexualityall male cast; one characterone maleone act

A woman in a job interview gradually discloses who she is.

in - Canadian Brash / CCO

1990

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Rosary



roydramaall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

open stage.

"A nun, riding home on the subway, says her Rosary - and the depth of her personal anguish ispoignantly revealed".


1973

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Rose

Sherman, Martin


roydrama - holocaust - World War IIall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

"A portrait of a feisty Jewish woman and a reminder of some of the events that shaped the twentiethcentury. Rose is a survivor. Her remarkable life began in a tiny Russian village, took her toWarsaw's ghettos and a ship called 'The Exodus' and finally to the USA. We meet Rose sittingShivah, mourning the death of a Palestinian child."

in - A Terrible Truth v. 1 / COL

2003

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Rough for Theatre 1

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press


"Cripple in wheel chair encountering blind man suggests possible companionship. Despitemutual need and desire for human contact, displays of selfishness and cruelty intrude."


1984

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Rough for Theatre ll

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press


"Two men asked by another man to confirm his reasons for wanting to commit suicide examinedocuments relating to his life, personality and feelings."


1984

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Rousseau's Tale

Pownall, David

Oberon Press

roybiography - monologues - menall male cast; one characterone maleone act

'The revolutionary philosopher addresses the Royal Society and demands freedom from sexualguilt.'


2003

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Ruffian on the Stair, The

Orton, Joe

Methuen

roydramathree characterstwo male; one femalefive scenes


in - Crimes of Passion / COL

1967

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Rum For The Money

Stapleton, Berni

Breakwater Books

roydramatic comedy - crime - bootlegging all male cast; three charactersthree maleone act (one scene)

"Set in the 1960s in a small dory on the waters between Newfoundland and St. Pierre & Miquelon,three Newfoundland men are on a rum running mission in the middle of the night escaping anddodging French bullets and then evading RCMP cutters. An eerie night ensues as our three rumrunners question their lot in life as inexplicable happenings engulf them. A Rum for the Moneymelds comedy and drama to perfection."


2016

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Running in Circles Screaming

Mahoney, Jeni



Two women, Lou (Louise) and Heather, meet on the playground: watching the kids, sharingstories of mommy-hood and the workings of the universe, but when Heather shares herdisappointment in having a boy rather than a girl, Lou turns out not to be the soul sister she waslooking for. Heather ends up leaving the playground miffed and snubbed, knowing that her newfriend Lou isn't a fellow mommy at all, but she wishes desperately that she were.


2010

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Runtkiller

Bennett, Carolyn

Blizzard Publishing

roycontemporarythree charactersone male; two femaleone act

A woman attempts to get an arts grant from an agency that employs two people with very differentviews about art.


1996

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Rupert's Birthday

Jenkins, Ken


roydrama - monologue - farmingall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

1 interior set.

"Monologue by a farm woman, centering on her teenage experience of birthing a calf".


1981

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Russian Play, The

Moscovitch, Hannah


roydrama - love - Canadianthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A bittersweet love story of a flower shop girl who falls in love with a gravedigger - but lovedoes not run smoothly in Stalinist Russia.

in - 5 Hot Plays / CCO

2008

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Russian Play, The

Moscovitch, Hannah


royCanadian - drama - lovethree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A bittersweet love story of a flower shop girl who falls in love with a gravedigger - but lovedoes not run smoothly in Stalinist Russia.

in - The Russian Play and Other Short Works / CCO

2008

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Rusty and Rico

Melfi, Leonard

Samuel French


1 exterior set.

"Rusty is a prostitute and Rico, her secret lover, is a successful New York politician. They meet onthe sly in the same place each night in Central Park. On this particular night, however, tragedy,both romantic and violent, strikes".

in - Later Encounters / COL

1980

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Sacred Time

Webb, Brian

Miscellaneous

roydrama - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - monologueone character; dancers; musiciansone maleone act

'Through the media of solo and ensemble dance, live music, voiced narrative and large screenvideo projection, Brian Webb's "Sacred Time" relates two parallel stories of predatory, brutalizingspace. Profound and disturbing connections link the first story of an elk hunt west of RockyMountain House and the second, the stalking of a gay would-be lover in a large city, possiblyEdmonton.'


2002

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Saddam's Lions

Juntunen, Jacob

Vintage Books

roydrama - war - Iraq - African-American⌦two characters (African-American)⌦one male; onefemaleone act

Some things just have to be lived to be understood.


2014

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Saga of the Elk, The

Taylor, Jim

Playwrights Co-op

royAlberta playwright - Canadianmultiple characterstwo female; one maleone act


in - The Suicide Meet / CCO

1977

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Sally's Rape

McCauley, Robbie


roydrama - rape - racism - powerall female cast, two characterstwo femaleone act

'Drama about race, privilege and power with audience participation. Two women, one white, oneblack explore history of rape as tool of oppression.'


1994

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Sand, The

Fyffe, Laurie

NuAge Editions

royCanadian - monologueall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'Wife of business executive learns to belly-dance.'


1991

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Sandalwood Box, The

Wellman, Mac


royexperimental dramaall female cast; two characters; extrastwo femaleone act

Troubled woman reacts to human cruelty.


1997

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Sarah and the Sax

Carlino, Lewis John


roydrama-relationshipstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 exterior; saxophone music.

On a park bench, an old Jewish woman and an antagonistic Negro musician finally come to sharetheir loneliness and compassion.


1962

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Saturday at the Commodore

Munro, Rona

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - Scottishall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'A short solo play from the award-winning author of "Iron," in which an Aberdonian womanremembers a painful teenage betrayal.'

in - Scot-Free / COL

1990

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Scar Tissue

Gomez, Gabriel Rivas


royrelationships - dramathree charactersone male; two femaleone act

A play about hearts in disrepair, both literally and figuratively. At its core, it is a story about loveand loss. It is a story about what damages and eventually repairs the heart. Best intensions goneawry infiltrate lives of good people, leaving regret amidst honest confrontations with thecomplexities that comprise truth.


2012

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Scarecrow

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydramathree charactersone male; one femaleone act

4 chairs on a bare stage.

"A lonely young girl lives with her eccentric mother in an old farmhouse on the edge of acornfield. She meets a strange man under a tree by the creek, and is led step by step into a web oflust and betrayal. Scarecrows are supposed to frighten crows, but the scarecrow in this particularcornfield is something more. A frightening play about desire and recurring seasons of evil, a kind

in - Something in the Basement and Other Plays / COL

1989

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Schoolyard Games

Lazarus, John

Coach House Press

royCanadian - family - youthall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

An unflinching account of the power games that schoolgirls play."Eleanor and Binnie are sisters and as different from each other as they can manage to be."

in - Not So Dumb / CCO

1981

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Schreber's Nervous Illness

Churchill, Caryl

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - mental illnessthree characters and voicesthree maleone act

Based on 'Memoirs of My Nervous Illness' by Daniel Paul Schreber, who spent ten years in mentalinstitutions after being diagnosed with schizophrenia.

in - Shorts / COL

1993

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Score

Bogart, Anne

Smith and Kraus

roydrama - music - composerone characterall male cast; one maleone act

“Score is about a passionate relationship between a man and music. The man in the play is basedupon the conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein. The object of his passion is the music heencountered, played, conducted, wrote, and loved. The conductor is found, perhaps in the middleof the night, amidst the detritus of hundreds of music stands, still in tails, and suddenly ready toengage. Is the audience his musicians? His audience? His friends? All of these? Score is a study ofecstasy, articulation, and genius. It lives in the glorious atmosphere of great music. It honors one


2002

Clarke, Jocelyn

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Scribe's Paradox, or: The Mechanical Rabbit

Feingold, Michael


roydrama - theatrefive charactersthree male; two femaleone act

Drama about theater set in 1895 paris. Playwright is criticized for taking new direction.


1997

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Seabird is in a Happy Place

King, James Gordon

Samuel French

roydrama - solo performance - women - death all female cast; one characterone femaleone act


Seabird is in a Happy Place is the fast-paced, energetic testimony of Seabird, a young woman whopurports to have died and come back to life under the condition that she die once again as soonas the rain stops. Seabird explains how her resurrection coincided with an accidental encounter -a sudden romance that complicated her inevitable return to the state of being dead - and how, as

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays 40th Series / COL

2015

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Seagulls

Churchill, Caryl

Nick Hern Books

RoyDrama - supernaturalThree charactersOne male; two femaleOne act

A woman with the ability to move small objects with her mind is faced with losing her ability.

in - Shorts / COL

1993

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Seance

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roy drama - romancethree charactersone male; two femaleone act

Running time: 10 minutes.

This twisted love story about how desire subverts understanding is based on a true story.

in - The Great Gromboolian and Other Plays - COL

1998

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Séance

Monkman, Kent


royCanadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - Native peoplesall male cast; one characterone maleone act

"Séance" was performed on October 19, 2007 by Kent Monkman at the Royal Ontario Museum(ROM) in Toronto, Ontario. Monkman created the piece in response to being censored from theFirst Peoples Gallery at the ROM during the Shapeshifters exhibition. In her conversations with thespirits of nineteenth-century painters Eugene Delacroix, Paul Kane and George Caitlin, MissChief's costumes grow increasingly larger and more outlandish as the responses of eachsuccessive artist draws more of her ire.


2013

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Second of Pleasure, A

LaBute, Neil



A man and a woman stand at the train station waiting to leave for the weekend. Suddenly thewoman decides that she'd rather not go and it leads to the unraveling of their illicit relationship.


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Second of Pleasure, A

LaBute, Neil


roydrama - relationships - short playtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A man and a woman stand at the train station waiting to leave for the weekend. Suddenly thewoman decides that she'd rather not go and it leads to the unraveling of their illicit relationship.


2012

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Secret Keeper, The

Meyers, David


roydrama - war - deathtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (one scene)

"Ahmad is the groundskeeper at a cemetery in Afghanistan. When a local mother visits thecemetery, she befriends Ahmad and unearths a troubling secret that unites them both."


2016

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See Bob Run

MacIvor, Daniel


roy Canadian - dramaall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

An emotionally disturbed young woman reflects on her life of abuse and confusion as she fleesthe scene where she shot her boyfriend.

in - See Bob Run and Wild Abandon / CCO

1987

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See Bob Run

MacIvor, Daniel


roy Canadian - drama - solo performanceall female cast; one characterone femaleone act



1987

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See Bob Run

MacIvor, Daniel


roy Canadian - drama - monologue - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act



2013

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Self-Accusation

Handke, Peter

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

royspeak-in - dramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A speak-in (autonomous prologues to old plays, used to make audiences aware, orally andwithout action, of their reality). Autobiography of an eventless life.

in - Kaspar and Other Plays / COL

1969

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Senetta Boynton Visits the Orient

Curran, Colleen

NuAge Editions

royCanadianthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

'Woman author, addressing church audience about her world travels, has surprise forcongregation.'

in - Escape Acts / COL

1990

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Shades of Brown

Knazan, Primrose Madayag

Scirocco Drama

royracismall female cast; multiple charactersthree femaleone act

'"Shades of Brown" uses the Filipino immigration experience to explore cultural assumptions,interracial dating, racism and that elusive sense of belonging that we call 'home'."

in - Breakout / CCO

2004

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Shape of a Girl, The

MacLeod, Joan

Talonbooks

roydrama - Canadian - women - bullying - historical - British Columbiaall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

"Without directly mentioning the tragic 1997 beating and drowning of a 14-year-old Victoria girl,Reena Virk, by a group of teens, or the 2000 suicide of Dawn-Marie Wesley, another 14-year-oldBritish Columbia girl, and the resulting criminal conviction of a fellow classmate on charges ofharassing her, The Shape of a Girl shares the sorrow, guilt and fear of bullying. The angst isshared through the voice and experience of Braidie, the play's 15-year-old sole character andnarrator, horrified by a 'monster in the shape of a girl'."

in - The Shape of a Girl & Jewel / CCO

2002

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Shape of a Girl, The

MacLeod, Joan

Talonbooks

roydrama - Canadian - women - bullying - British Columbiaall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

"Without directly mentioning the tragic 1997 beating and drowning of a 14-year-old Victoria girl,Reena Virk, by a group of teens, or the 2000 suicide of Dawn-Marie Wesley, another 14-year-oldBritish Columbia girl, and the resulting criminal conviction of a fellow classmate on charges ofharassing her, The Shape of a Girl shares the sorrow, guilt and fear of bullying. The angst isshared through the voice and experience of Braidie, the play's 15-year-old sole character andnarrator, horrified by a 'monster in the shape of a girl'."

in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO

2013

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Shirt, The

Melfi, Leonard

Samuel French

roydrama - black playthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 interior set.

"Clarence, a young Southern gentleman, has come up for a weekend visit to New York. He meetsTwila, a lovely Negro girl, and her boyfriend, Marcey a young good-looking boy. They become afriendly trio, and go up to Clarence's hotel room to drink. During the evening Clarence takes theirpictures, watches them dance, and shows them a newspaper clipping and photograph of himself.


1967

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Shoe Fly Blues

McNair, Rick

Blizzard Publishing

roycontemporarytwo characters; chorusone male; one femaleone act

A young woman celebrates her first job after high-school with a shoe company.


1996

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Shona

Craze, Tony

Methuen

roydrama - schizophreniathree characters; five voicestwo male; one femaleone act

"'Shona' is a moving and deeply sympathetic case history of a schizophrenic girl, the man whotries to help her and the doctor in charge of her treatment."

1983 Verity Bargate Award-winning Short Play

in - Shona/Lunch Girls/The Shelter / COL

1983

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Shrine in the Fields, The

Motokiyo, Zeami

Wadsworth Publishing Company

roydrama - Noh playthree characters; chorusone male; one female (doubling)one act

The Shrine in the Fields represents one of the five basic types of Noh plays. A "woman play," it isbased on episodes from a famous Japanese novel, The Tale of Genji, in which Lord Genji is thelover of Lady Rokujo (the protagonist of this play) but after a time neglects her. At a festival,attendants on Lord Genji's wife publicly humiliate lady Rokujo then leaves the capital and goes toNonomiya, where her daughter is being prepared to become priestess on Ise (the Sun Goddess).While at Nonomiya, Lady Rokujo is visited by Lord Genji, who begs her to return to him. Although

in - Plays for the Theatre (8th ed.) / COL

2004

translated by H. Paul Varley

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Significant Betrayal, A

Wilhelm, Le

Samuel French

roydrama - self-awarenesstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Drama about woman who turns to uncle who might shed light on her own past.'


2000

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Silence

Pinter, Harold

Samuel French


1 simple set.

"There is a young girl who has few female acquaintances, but does have two male friends, both ofwhom she meets from time to time. The encounters are told in contrapuntal triad, swimming withmemories."


1969

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Silence

Pinter, Harold

Methuen & Co Ltd


1 simple set.

"There is a young girl who has few female acquaintances, but does have two male friends, both ofwhom she meets from time to time. The encounters are told in contrapuntal triad, swimming withmemories."


1970

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Simon's Wife: A Black and Blue Comedy About Relationships

King, Moynan

Blizzard Publishing


Simon's wife loses herself by doing what Simon says.


1998

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Simoon

Strindberg, August


roydrama - historicalthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'Set in Algeria ca. 1890. Arab girl destroys French soldier to avenge lover's death.'


1969


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Sing This

Dashow, Ken



"Star of community theatre group coaxes talented black janitor to join them."

in - Da-Show Must Go On / COL

1996

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Sing to Me Through Open Windows

Kopit, Arthur

Hill and Wang

roydrama - death - agingall male cast; three characterstwo male; one boyone act

music.

Allegory on death. Aging magician puts on a final performance for his friend the clown, and anerstwhile boy admirer.

in - The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays / COL

1965

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Sister Son / Ji

Sanchez, Sonia

Bantam Books

royblack play - monologueall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

1 setting.

Black woman recalls revolutionary struggles in her life.

in - New Plays From the Black Theatre / COL

1969

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Sisters

Kraar, Adam


roydrama - family relationsall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone scene

Rani and Mallika, sisters, are South Asian immigrants living together in New York City. Rani hasjust bailed Mallika out of jail for shoplifting. Mallika tries to deny the seriousness of her situation,but when Rani threatens to cut her out of her life, Mallika is forced to face the ways she's notfitting in, in America. This leads the sisters to a deeper appreciation of what they mean to eachother.


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Six Inch Adjustable

Warmflash, Stuart

Samuel French

royfamily relationsall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

'Older brother tries to prepare younger brother for the future, as they work on an oldmotorcycle after their father's death.'


2001

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Sizwe Bansi Is Dead

Fugard, Athol



1 interior set.

Reveals the perversities of human identity in a country where a man is equal to his passbook.

Nominee - 1975 Tony Award - Best Play


1974

Kani, John

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Ski Lift

Holbrook, Chris



A man tries to commit suicide while riding a ski (chair) lift.


2015

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Skin

Choudhury, Naveen Bahar

Vintage Books

roydrama - relationships⌦two characters⌦one male; one femaleone act

A classic tale of Hip hop wannabe boy meets disenchanted poet girl.


2014

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Slaughter in the Lake

Rivera, José

Penguin Books

roydrama - friendshipall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

1 exterior.

Drama set in Central Park about strained friendship between two middle-aged editors.


1993

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Slight Ache, A

Pinter, Harold

Grove Press


"Symbolic avant-garde play. Couple confide secret thoughts and feelings to silent match-seller"

in - Complete Works: One / COL

1961

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Slight Ache, A

Pinter, Harold

Methuen

royconversationthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 interior.

"Symbolic avant-garde play. A couple confide secret thoughts and feelings to silent match-seller."

in - Plays:One / COL

1961

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Slight Ache, A

Pinter, Harold

Methuen


unit set.

"Symbolic avant-garde play. Couple confide secret thoughts and feelings to silent match-seller."

in - A Slight Ache and Other Plays / COL

1961

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Slight Ache, A

Pinter, Harold

Grove Press


unit set.

"Symbolic avant-garde play. Couple confide secret thoughts and feelings to silent match-seller."

in - Three Plays / COL

1962

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Slivovtz

Nash, Roberick Boyd.

Samuel French


"A young woman from Poland and a man from Latvia who thinks he knows who she is. He carries abottle of Slivovitz in his camera case, and over drinks we learn some of the reasons why both haveleft their homelands."

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Twelfth Series / COL

1987

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Small Things

Pepper, Cary



Hoyt has lost everything. With no job, no money, and no hope that things will are going to getbetter, he's given up and is sitting alone in his apartment cleaning a revolver. He's going to killhimself. But the bell rings, and there stands Drew, who's going door-to-door proselytizing for theAssembly of Hubristic Evangelicals. Hoyt steps aside and invites Drew in, which amazes Drew. Noone's ever let him in before. As the two of them talk, they both find themselves deeply challenged,though in vastly different ways. They are each, in their own fashion, in crisis. And thematically


2008

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Smirnova's Birthday


Nick Hern Books

roydramafour charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Companion piece to 'Cinzano'. Shows their women hitting the booze elsewhere.'

in - Cinzano - 11 plays / COL

1991


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Smudge

Bulmer, Alex

Miscellaneous

roydramaall female cast; two characters; extrastwo femaleone act

'Powerful play about a woman's farewell to her sight.'


2001

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Smudge

Bulmer, Alex

Miscellaneous

roydrama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+three charactersall female cast; three female (doubling)thirty-three scenes

'Powerful play about a woman's farewell to her sight.'

in - Lesbian Plays : Coming of Age in Canada / CCO

2001

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Snow Birds

Tipe, David

Playwrights Co-op

roydrama - Canadianall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

1 exterior set.

Sid and Luke re-establish their friendship on a lonely park bench; a sense of the absurd is a keyto their rapport.


1975

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Snowangel

Carlino, Lewis John



interior; originally produced in tandem with Carlino's other play "Epiphany".

Tormented by the memories of a past love, John comes to Connie, a prostitute, to get her toreenact certain scenes that have etched themselves in his mind and that have become the symbolfor all that was ethereal and beautiful in his life. He makes her wear certain clothing. He appliesmake up to her face, trying to get her to resemble the girl he lost. He feverishly constructs a scene

in - Cages: Snowangels and Epiphany / COL

1964

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Snowbound

Englar, Brent


roydrama - relationshipsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

The play is a conversation turned to art, philosophy, and eventually God which is simultaneouslydramatized in a manner that, in the end, defends love and forgiveness as gifts that defeat hatredand urges for vengeance.


2012

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Soft Voices

Ravel, Aviva

Bastet Books

roydrama - Canadianall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

Two women, formerly best friends, meet after many years of separation. Now in their forties, theirlives are worlds apart: Toby is a devoted housewife and mother; Carol, single and childless, haschosen to devote her life to her career. They play fantasy games, and reminisce, while revealingtheir innermost thoughts, anxieties, and feelings.

in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO

1973

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Soldier's Heart

French, David


roydrama - family relationships - warall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

The sixth play in the Mercer family dramatic cycle. The thoroughly alienated sixteen-year-oldJacob is standing on a railway platform, leaving home. His father Esau, rushes to the station topersuade his son not to leave. Unable to speak of what had happened in the Great War since hisreturn, Esau begins, in halting and tentative language to tell of his comrades and his brother,their training in Scotland, the agony of Gallipoli, and finally the formative events at the battle ofthe Somme at Beaumont Hamel. Esau's answers evolve into stories of pride, foolishness, anger,

in - Canada and the Theatre of War: Vol. 1 / CCO

2008

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Some Prepared Remarks (A History in Speech)

Platt, Jason Gray

Playscripts, Inc.

roydramaone characterflexible castingone act (one scene)

"Colored construction paper. Index cards. A Post-it note. Follow one speaker's life across thespeeches, presentations and toasts recorded on these scraps of paper. Every year seems to go bya little faster, so we promise to keep things brief."


2015

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Something Else

Patrick, Robert

Samuel French


'Couple beginning as different aspects of author's personality fight for their existence.'


1978

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Something Unspoken

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

royd r a m aall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

1 interior

"Southern dowager tries to maneuver the regency in the Daughters of the Confederacy."


1953

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Something Unspoken

Williams, Tennessee

Beacon

roydrama - American⌦all female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

1 interior

"Southern dowager tries to maneuver the regency in the Daughters of the Confederacy."

in - Best Short Plays of 1955-1956 / COL

1956

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Son Who Hunted Tigers in Jakarta, The

Ribman, Ronald



'Fast-talking thief's lies lose credibility and he is shot by intended robbery victim.'

in - Passing Through from Exotic Places / COL

1970

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Songs of Robert, The

Crutchfield, John


roylyrical drama - solo show - folk musicalall male cast; twelve charactersone male (doubling)one act

A folk musical for one performer with a motley cast of characters that tells the story of a lonelyteenager growing up in the mountains of southern Appalachia.


2010

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Sound of a Voice, The

Hwang, David Henry


roydrama - Japanese - folkloretwo charactersone male; one femaleone act


"The scene is an isolated house in the woods where a young woman lives alone. When a youngsamurai appears she offers him food and shelter, and they eventually become lovers. But whilefascinated by his benefactress, the samurai cannot shake a mistrust of her; for she is also able toperform wonders of cookery, horticulture and even the martial arts. In the end it develops that the


1985

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Hwang, David Henry

Penguin Books


"The scene is an isolated house in the woods where a beautiful young woman lives alone. When ayoung samurai appears she offers him food and shelter, and when he decides to stay on theyeventually becomes lovers. But while fascinated by his benefactress, the samurai cannot shake asuperstitious mistrust of her; for all her delicacy and beauty she is also able to perform wondersof cookery, horticulture and even the martial arts (much to his wounded pride). In the end itdevelops that the woman is suspected of being a witch and the samurai has come to seek glory by


1993

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Hwang, David Henry




"The scene is an isolated house in the woods where a young woman lives alone. When a youngsamurai appears she offers him food and shelter, and they eventually become lovers. But whilefascinated by his benefactress, the samurai cannot shake a mistrust of her; for she is also able toperform wonders of cookery, horticulture and even the martial arts. In the end it develops that the


1990

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Sound of Cracking Bones, The

Lebeau, Suzanne


roydrama - war - children - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadianthree charactersone female; one girl; one boyone act (ten scenes)

Original title: Le bruit des os qui craquent.

A piece of reality theatre addressing an issue of international importance and compelling actuality- child soldiers. It traces the flight of two children from the tropical forest where they were beingheld and used by a group of rebels - Elikia, thirteen years old, and Joseph, eight years old - andtheir arrival, after an extremely difficult trek, to relative safety at the childrens hospital in Joseph's

in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO

2010

translated by Julia Duchesne & John Van Burek

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Souvenirs

Riml, Michele

Association of B. C. Drama Educators

roydrama - family relationstwo charactersone male; one female teenagerone act

A sixteen year old girl goes to see her dying father on their old farm, in order to convince him tocome home, and live out his days there.

in - 1984 B.C. Young Playwrights Search / CCO

1984

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Space

Margulies, Donald


roydrama - relationshipstwo charactersall male, two maleone act

"The SPACE in this play of the same name covers what comes between couples, what is out in theuniverse and even time spent between friends. Relating the story of his break-up with hisgirlfriend, one friend reveals to another how space—in whatever form—invades all his thoughtsabout himself and his world."


1993

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Spain

Rubenfeld, Michael



Two buddies test the limits of their platonic friendship, and discover the pitfalls of indecision.

in - 5 Hot plays / CCO

2008

Title:

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Spared

Horovitz, Israel


roydramaall male cast; one characterone maleone act

1 interior set.

"One of four plays comprising: The Quannapowitt Quartet. Man's life passes in review and hereflects on its high and low points as he keeps a gun to his head."

in - Stage Directions and Spared / COL

1977

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Spider's Feast, The

McFarlane, Anita

Theatrum Publishing




1994

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Spittin' Image

Metcalfe, Stephen


roydrama - deathall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

Man visits dead buddy's brother at college and both begin dealing with their grief and loss. Megs,a strung-out truck driver, invades the dormitory room of Bucky, a student at a small Pennsylvaniacollege, to recount his wild adventures on the road. During the course of the narrative, however,Megs's fears about life surface as he recounts the death of Bucky's brother in Vietnam.

in -The Best Short Plays 1987 / COL

1986

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Spitting Slag

Robinson, Mansel

Thistledown Press

roydrama - Canadian - menall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

Story of a disabled miner who is also an addict. Story told with poetry and music.

in - Rock 'n Rail / CCO

2002

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Split Decision, The

Moseley, William


roydomestic relationstwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

There is a man who takes for granted his female lover and companion, because he is caught up inhis work. He is a workaholic. She warns him that one day he will call for her and she won't bethere. He doesn't take her serious until it actually happens.


1987

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Sports Legend

Patterson, James G.

Blizzard Publishing

roycontemporary - baseballall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

A coach cuts an outlandish ball player from the team.


1996

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Springtime

Fornes, Maria Irene


roytragedy - relationshipsthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

'In 'Springtime' (set in 1958), Fornes focuses on the intersection of poverty with sexism andhomophobia in the sad tale of Rainbow's love affair with Greta, a German lab technician.'


1996

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St Joan

Pascal, Julia

Oberon Modern Plays

roydrama - monologues - womenall female cast; one characterone female (flexible casting)one act (twenty-two monologues)

Joan of Arc has, for over five centuries, proved an irresistable and enduring icon for an extremelydiverse group of people both within and without France. St Joan sets the heroine against aremarkable sweep of world history, wittily highlighting the paradoxes and culminating in theParisian National Front rally of 1995.

in - Crossing Jerusalem and Other Plays / COL

2003

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St. Francis Preaches to the Birds

Ives, David


roydrama - theologythree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

St. Francis wakes in a desert to find himself the prospective dinner of a couple of hungry vultureswith whom he engages in theological banter concerning his imminent demise.


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St. George

Porter, J. Paul

West Coast Plays




1978

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St. Valentie's Day Massacre, The

Knee, Alan



1 interior.

Ex-lovers rendezvous in cafe on St. Valentine's Day.


1997

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Stage Directions

Horovitz, Israel



1 interior set.

"One of the four plays of The Quannapowitt Quartet. Estranged brother and two sisters meet afterparents' death; the only communication taking place is via the stage directions".

in - Stage Directions and Spared / COL

1977

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Stand-up

LaBute, Neil

Faber and Faber


A man attempts stand-up comedy.


2007

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Standard Time

Wallace, Naomi

Miscellaneous

roymonologues - menall male cast; one characterone maleone scene

A working class man discusses stealing an old car and love.

in - Dramatics (Mar 1999) / PER

1999

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Standard Time

Wallace, Naomi

Smith and Kraus

roymonologues - menall male cast; one characterone maleone scene

A working class man discusses stealing an old car and love.


2000

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Starf*cker

Pasen, Adam




... theatrical "trickery", "Starf*cker" highlights an unsavory term (starf*cker - obviously chargeddespite the attempt at censorship) and utterly alters its connotation so that by the end of the playthe term reconstitutes itself as a signifier of innocence and integrity. A new reality suggests itselfbefore our very eyes ... the playwright capitalizes on audience predispositions and use the


2013

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Starfishes

Albert, Michael Ross



Involves a lonely youth's encounter with an equally lonely prostitute in a desolate lighthousealong the Nova Scotia coastline.


2012

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Stars

Linney, Romulus

Smith and Kraus


1 exterior.

Present day Manhattan terrace setting for he-she encounter.


1997

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Statements After an Arrrest Under the Immorality Act

Fugard, Athol



Depicts the shattering of two lives under the harsh glare of South Africa's miscegenation laws.


1974

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Statements After an Arrrest Under the Immorality Act

Fugard, Athol

Penguin Books


Depicts the shattering of two lives under the harsh glare of South Africa's miscegenation laws.


1993

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Still Life

Kramer, Seth

Playscripts, Inc.



What do you do when your purpose in life has been stolen from you? One year after Michelle lostall her artwork and the use of her hands in an apartment fire, David must help the former artistfind an answer to this question.


2004

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Still-Love

Patrick, Robert

Winter House

roydrama - lovetwo charactersone male; one femaletwenty-one scenes

1 setting.

"Ill-fated love affair between unemployed writer and woman, told in reverse order."

in - Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks / COL

1972

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Stoop

Wilson, Lanford


roydrama - lifeall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

open stage.

"Both touching and disturbing, it centers on three aging ladies sitting on the stoop of a run downcity brownstone, commenting quietly on the inexorable disintegration of the quality, andpossibility, of life. Their mood is resigned-but terrifying as well-as they accept the ebbing awayof freshness and beauty and the element of hopefulness which was once so easily taken for

in - The Sand Castle and Three Other Plays / COL

1970

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Stormy Waters, the Long Way Home, The

Lovelace, Carey


roydrama - monologues - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone scene

A woman on a chilly, fog-wrapped beach in early morning waits for others. Gradually we realizethings are not the same.


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Story in Harlem Slang (from Spunk)

Hurston, Zora Neale

Penguin Books

roy dramatwo characters; extrasone male; one femaleone act

1 setting; adapted by George C. Wolfe

Dramatization of episode in Zora Neale Hurston's story Spunk, about life in Harlem.


1993

Wolfe, George C.

Title:

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Story of a Sinking Man, The

Panych, Morris


roydrama - monologues - menall male castone characterone act

Nash inexplicably finds himself sinking into a bog with no way out - he is distinctly alone. Hereviews his predicament and his life but he doesn't give up hope of rescue...


1994

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Straight as a Line

Alfaro, Luis


roydramatic comedy - AIDStwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 setting.

Comical British expat moves her gay son to Las Vegas and tries to mother him as he dies of AIDS.


2000

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Strange Fruit

LaBute, Neil

Vintage Books

roydrama - LGBTQ+ - marriage⌦all male cast; two characters⌦two maleone act

The story of two men in love whose plans to get married “the old-fashioned way” are stymiedwhen reality rears its ugly head. - www.zachtheatre.org


2014

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Strawberry Fields

Hollingsworth, Michael

Talonbooks

roydrama - Canadianall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

1 exterior set.

A play about two waifs and a schizoid. "Hollingsworth is a very gentle person, the play exploresuncompromisingly the acid decadence of rock scene followers. Hollingsworth is a romanticnihilist exploring the aftermath of civilization. The circus is over, yet the barren surface of theplay hides infinite energy and frustration. The play is a tour de force that demands daring

in - The Factory Lab Anthology / CCO

1974

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Strawberry Fields

Brofsky, Kevin

Samuel French

roydrama - LGBTQ+⌦all female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

'In a small, hostile Florida town, the nother of a murdered gay is interviewed by a networkcelebrity in preparation for an appearance on her show. Unexpected solidarity.'


2001

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Street Talk

McNally, Terrence


roydrama - theatretwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"...is a confrontational monologue pondering the changes in the American theatre from the sixties- when theatre itself sought to confront, challenge and educate - to today's theatre which seemsonly to give a bigger bang for the buck."

in - Andre's Mother and Other Short Plays / COL

1995

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Strip

Hayes, Elliott

Blizzard Publishing


A man discusses his life and theories as a male stripper.


1998

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Struck Dumb



roydrama - monologueall male cast; one characterone manone act

'Man with aphasia describes his feelings and difficulties with language.'


1992

Chaikin, Joseph

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Studio Portrait

Hutton, Arlene

Samuel French


'Woman having her picture taken reveals that she met the photographer years ago; ruefulacknowledgement of missed opportunities.'


1999

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Subterraneans, The

Kraar, Adam


roydrama - family relations - teenagersthree charactersone male; two femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

A teenage brother and sister have a conversation about life, family, and drugs.


2016

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Suburban Tragedy

Kass, Jerome



1 interior set.

"The action here has to do with a middle-aged suburban housewife who is taking a summercollege course, and the young instructor, also married, with whom she falls in love".

in - Four Short Plays / COL

1967

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Suicide Notes

Williams, Kenneth T.

Signature Editions

royCanadian - drama - Native peoplesthree charactersone male; two femalenine scenes

"The story of a homeless woman who writes suicide notes for random passers-by on the street,the play explores that intense need that writers possess to create; and questions the assumptionsof what actually constitutes credible literature."

in - Three on the Boards / CCO

2007

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Suicide-Site Guide to the City, A

O'Donnell, Darren

Coach House Books

roydrama - Canadian - monologueall male cast; one characterone maleone act

Theatre doesn’t have much relevance anymore. Or so acclaimed playwright Darren O’Donnell tellsus. The dynamics of unplanned social interaction, he says, are far more compelling than any playhe could produce. So his latest show, "A Suicide-Site Guide to the City", isn’t really a show; it’s aninteractive chitchat about memory, depression, and 9/11, a dazzling whirl of talking streetcars,pizza and schizophrenia. And it’s hilarious.

in - Social Acupuncture / REF

2008

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Suicide, The

Fratti, Mario


roydrama - family relationsthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

'A monstrous husband complains to his weak wife about the burden of supporting troublesomemother-in-law.'

in - The New Theatre of Modern Europe Vol. 2 / COL

1964

translated by M.Carra & L. Warner

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Summer at the Lake

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - American - 20th century - short play - family relationsthree charactersone male; two female one act

1 setting.

"Donald, a young author, is becoming restless under the weighty love of his overbearing andmanipulative mother, Mrs. Fenway. When a letter from Donald's father announces that economicnecessity will require selling the family's sumer home and cancelling Donald's summer plans,Mrs. Fenway takes to the chaise lounge and succumbs to the inertia of St. Louis heat. According to


2005

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Summer Ghost, A

Fredericks, Claude

Hill and Wang

roydrama - experimental playthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act 1 interior set.

"Young woman, despairing of life without love, drinks poison when young Telemachus, originallymaterialized via spiritualism, leaves Daddy Jack, a mystic, and her".


1961

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Sunbeams

Mason, Rosemary

Amber Lane Press


1 interior set.

"Confrontation between prostitute and woman social worker results in reversal of roles".

in - Three One Act Plays / COL

1979

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Suppliant Maidens, The

Aeschylus

University of Chicago Press

royverse play - dramaall male cast; three characters; two female choruses; extrasthree maleone act

Greek legend of the Danaides, 50 daughters of Danaus, who fled from Egypt to escape forcedmarriage.

in - Aeschylus II / COL

1991

translated by Seth G. Benardete

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Suppliants, The

Aeschylus

Penguin Books

royverse play - dramaall male cast; three characters; two female choruses; extrasthree maleone act

Greek legend of the Danaides, 50 daughters of Danaus, who fled from Egypt to escape forcedmarriage.

in - Prometheus Bound and Other Plays / COL

1961

translated by Phillip Vellacott

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Surface Tension

Quan, Elyne


royCanadian - monologue - women - Edmontonall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'Elyne Quan's "Surface Tension" is, as its title implies, an ironic exploration of surfaceappearances and the tensions created by the undue importance attached to them. In her particularcase, it is about her growing up in the predominantly white Edmonton of the 1980's. Createdspecifically to address issues of Asian ancestry...'


2002

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Surprise, Surprise

Tremblay, Michel

Talonbooks

royQuebec - drama - women - Canadianall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

"Jeannine has arranged a very surprising surprise party for Madeleine. Laurette phones the wrongMadeleine and ruins her plans."

in - La Duchesse de Langeais and Other Plays / CCO

1976

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Swan Song, The

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Green Integer 140

roydrama - agingall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

Study of a life broken by old age.

in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL

2005

translated by George Malko

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Sweet and Sour Pickles

Galay, Ted


royCanadian - drama - family relations - womenall female cast; two characters two femaleone act

"Olenka, fifty-seven, defies custom when she invites the man she's been seeing since herhusband's death to escort her to a family wedding. Her sister-in-law finds the courage to broachthe subject and in the discussion that follows they reveal early dreams of breaking with tradition,in the process reviving their childhood friendship."

Winner, 1981 Drama Award, Canadian Author's Association.

in - After Baba's Funeral / Sweet and Sour Pickles / CCO

1981

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Swimmer (68)

Wells, Ker

Miscellaneous

royperformance textall male cast; one characterone maleone act

A performance test in progress.

in - CTR No. 145 / PERTitle:

Author:

Publisher:

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Sword Play



roydrama - religion - racismthree charactersone male; one female; one boyone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"In 1962 the city of New Orleans, like many cities across the country, is both embracing andrebelling against racial integration. That fight permeates the Catholic Church, putting MaeveQuinn in the crosshairs. Her struggles are deepened both by her care for a young child and theintrusion of a new priest into the parish she loves. As swords clash, which fight will win: the one


2016

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Sycorax

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydrama - monologues - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

In this unusual monologue play, Sycorax, the witch mother of Caliban on Prospero's Island, triesto explain the world to him and help him defend himself against Prospero and Miranda before sheis herself consumed by her demonic God and lover Setebos. A powerful acting piece for a matureactress.


2009

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Sylvester the Cat Vs. Galloping Billy Bronco

Lynch, Michael

West Coast Plays

roydramaall male cast; two characters two maleone act



1980

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Tale of the Johnson Boys, The

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roydrama - men - coming of ageall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

In this powerful one act, two boys, John and Henry Johnson, tell the true story of their capture byIndians near the Ohio River in the late 1790s, and the bloody and terrible events that resulted. Itis the defining experience of their lives, and the play is a haunting and complex allegory ofviolence, compassion, and ambiguous betrayal.

in - Banana Man & Other Plays COL

2005

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Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen...

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

royd r a m atwo characters; extrasone male; one femaleone act

1 interior

"Woman tries to make her paramour, a drunkard, understand her reasons for wanting to leavehim. Background mandolin music."


1953

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Talking Dog, The

Guare, John


royAnton Chekhov dramatizationtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 setting.

"Dramatization of Chekhov's short story 'A joke', in which a man whispers tantalizing phrases towoman, but never acknowledges that he spoke."

in - Orchards / COL

1987

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Tango Noir

Scollard, Rose

Playwrights Union of Canada

royCanadian - drama - surrealismtwo charactersone male; one female (doubling)one act

'"One of us is dreaming and one of us is going to die." Writer Collette's mysterious and shiftingdream encounter with Mata Hari underscores the danger but also the power inherent inappropriating the Shadow. Women must acknowledge the darker side of their nature if they are tohave the freedom of action.'

in - Bete Blanche / Tango Noir / CCO

1991

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Tape

Belber, Stephen

Smith and Kraus

roydrama - rapethree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

"About the long-term fall-out of a date rape."


2000

Title:

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Target Marketing

Dempsey, Shawna

Miscellaneous

royperformance pieceone characterone femalemonologue

The authors chart the evolution of news into a spectacle for consumption, taking aim at the massmedia which presents pressing world issues as superficial entertainments rather than subjects forconcern and debate. Main character is dressed as a human target.

in - CTR No. 137 / PER

Millan, Lorri

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Tattoo You

Grissom, Lisa Kenner

Samuel French


When two women from the same town, yet with very different backgrounds, re-connect in thebathroom at their 20th high school reunion, their troubled past breaks the cool veneer of thepresent. Some scars don’t fade away.


2014

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Taxonomy of the European Male

Monkman, Kent


royCanadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - Native peoplesall male cast; one characterone maleone act

The description is found in "The noble savage was a drag queen" by Kerry Swanson and refers toa performance at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, ON:"In this performance, Share [Miss Chief Eagle Testickle] arrives on the back of a white horse,resplendent in elaborate headdress, Louis Vuitton and Hudson Bay Company accessories, andcartoonish drag-queen heels. On her way into the gallery space, she entices two young white mendressed in loincloths, who become the subjects of her "taxonomy of the European male." Bringing


2013

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Ten-Dollar Drinks

Pintauro, Joe


roydramatic comedy - actors - rivalryall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

Star, a recent Oscar-winning actress, has reluctantly agreed to meet her old acting friend Bete fora drink. Star knows her old friend is jealous of her success, and through the torturous afternoon,makes her confess it.


2006

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Tennessee




In Mt. Juliet, "Tennessee", a lonely woman with the power of foresight is approached by a youngman wanting to know his future. Knowing one’s future, however, comes with the responsibility ofaccepting it or changing it.


2014

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Terrible Jim Fitch

Herlihy, James Leo



'A down and out disturbed cowboy vainly attempts to justify himself to his lonely, depressed,woman in a dingy New Mexico motel room.'


1969

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Test, The

Caplan, Pauls J.

Samuel French

roydrama - disabilitiesall male cast; two characterstwo maleone scene

On death row, elder inmate Cleveland has taken young, mentally challenged Bradley under hiswing and is trying to teach him to read. When word arrives that Bradley's new lawyer has arrangedfor him to take a mental competency test, Cleveland tries to convince Bradley that this is one testhe does not want to pass.


2002

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Texas Boy

Rideout, George

NuAge Editions

royCanadian - drama - Ontariotwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Drama about adolescence set in 1964 Ontario. Canadian girl and teenager from Texas shareconfidences.'


1990

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Thank You, Miss Victoria

Hoffman, William M.

Hill and Wang


1 interior set.

"Telephone conversations of executive's son as he speaks to business callers, secretary, mistress,father, sexually disturbed woman, and others".

in - New American Plays Volume 3 / COL

1970

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That First Fall

Polatin, Daria

Vintage Books


"That First Fall" is about the first fracture in a friendship between two eighteen-year-old girls, Zoeand Skyler. - www.jacquelinelawton.com


2014

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That Time

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

royexperimental theatreall male cast; one characterone maleone scene

"Old man's face is visible on stage as recorded voices describe memories of childhood, a possiblyinvented love, rejection, loneliness, despair, and decay, ending with recognition of life'stransitoriness."


1992

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That Time

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

royexperimental theatreall male cast; one characterone maleone act

"Old man's face is visible on stage as recorded voices describe memories of childhood, a possiblyinvented love, rejection, loneliness, despair, and decay, ending with recognition of life'stransitoriness."


1976

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Theater I

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

royexperimental playall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

'Cripple in wheel chair encountering blind man suggests possible companionship. Despite mutualneed and desire for human contact, displays of selfishness and cruelty intrude.'


1976

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Theatre II

Beckett, Samuel

Grove Press

royexperimental playall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

'Two men asked by another man to confirm his reasons for wanting to commit suicide examinedocuments relating to his life, personality and feelings.'


1976

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Then

Campton, David


roydrama - nuclear warfaretwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"The hesitant meeting of the last two survivors of the nuclear holocaust. Sitting alone amid awasteland of nuclear destruction, his head covered by a brown paper bag, Phythick laments theloss of all that was, and could have been. Then a girl walks by, her head also covered by a paperbag. They talk: he revealing that he was a science teacher; she that she was 'Miss Europe' . Theyfall in love, but cannot kiss, cannot remove their paper bags for fear of radiation. The bags are acrinkling barrier between them-and perhaps must always be so. Yet can there be hope? Do they

in - A Smell of Burning and Then... / COL

1969

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Therese's Creed

Cook, Michael

Talonbooks

royCanadian - drama - monologues - women - Newfoundlandall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

"A middle-aged Newfoundland widow reminisces about her past as she observes the changingworld of her children."

in - Tiln & Other Plays / CCO

1976

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Thing of Beauty, A

Kray, Charles

National Textbook Company

roydrama - religion - Judaism - World War II - historicalthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

The inspirational, riveting story of an Orthodox Jew who becomes an esteemed Catholic teacherand philosopher, and then, at an advanced age, joins the Carmelite Order of Nuns. The play dealswith the agony of her decision to convert and the intense search for her by Nazi intelligence.Nineteen nuns are held hostage until she is captured and subsequently sent to Auschwitz.

in - An Introduction to Modern One-act Plays / COL

1992

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Thinking of Yu

Frechette, Carole



"A beautifully written, thoughtful and emotional play about a woman who discovers anoverwhelming, and ultimately freeing sense of possibility, when she becomes increasinglycurious about three Chinese students who threw paint on a portrait of Mao in Tiananmen Square.What led to their act of creative rebellion? Where are they now? How do their actions help create anew momentum in her own life?" - EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts

in - Small Room at the Top of the Stairs; and, Thinking of Yu / CCO

2012


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This is a Play

MacIvor, Daniel

Miscellaneous


'A play, about a play, about a play.'

in - Never Swim Alone & This is a Play / CCO

1993

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This is for Aborelia Dominguez

Mojica, Monique


roydrama - Canadian - verse - monologue - Native peoplesall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'On January 12, 1994, a photograph of a Mayan woman appeared on the front page of "TheToronto Star". Her name is Aborelia Dominguez. She comes from the same territory as myhusband, I had been there, I had loved ones there who were afraid of the federal army. We are'Indios', after all. As as Indigenous woman, my memory of genocide is long. It is a grief I cannotyet put down. The annihilation is happening now.'


1996

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This Lime Tree Bower

McPherson, Conor



'Hard-boiled suspense yarn. Three men from small Irish seaside town tell overlapping tales offateful night.'

"A touching ,marvelously entertaining play which tells a gripping tale with assured panache."

in - The Weir and Other Plays / COL

1999

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This Property is Condemned

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions


1 exterior

"Problems of an orphaned teenage girl after death of her sister who had earned a living for themas a prostitute."


1953

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This Side of New York

Svich, Caridad


roydrama - relationships - monologuetwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Two people get lost in a first kiss. Contains two small monologues.


2015

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Thoughts on the Instant of Greeting a Friend on the Street




open stage.

"Two people meet by chance, their conversation moving on two levels: one of idle, surfacecomments; the other of deeper thoughts unspoken."


1973

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Thread Men, The

Dunn, Thomas C.

Samuel French

roydrama - Americanall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

When a psychiatrist becomes trapped in an elevator with a man acting bizarrely, he quickly learnsthat his decisions may have life or death consequences.

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 33rd series / COL

2008

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Three Dogs Barking

Barry, Frank

Signature Editions

royCanadian - drama - thrillerall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

"A cop, a crook, and a shrink, walk into an interrogation room… So opens the file of 3 DogsBarking; a 70-minute thriller that pivots on a false confession and the complex relationshipbetween a cop and a criminal. The drama plays out as psychologist Dr. John St. John tries tounravel the hideous circumstances of Jim Larkin’s past arrests and the link between him and hisrival Constable “Big Ted” Coveyduck."

in - Three on the Boards / CCO

2007

Title:

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Three Dogs Barking

Barry, Frank

Breakwater Books

royCanadian - drama - thrillerall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

"A cop, a crook, and a shrink, walk into an interrogation room… So opens the file of 3 DogsBarking; a 70-minute thriller that pivots on a false confession and the complex relationshipbetween a cop and a criminal. The drama plays out as psychologist Dr. John St. John tries tounravel the hideous circumstances of Jim Larkin’s past arrests and the link between him and hisrival Constable “Big Ted” Coveyduck."

in - The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays v. 2 / CCO

2014

Title:

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Three Monologues

Auburn, David


roydrama - depression⌦all female cast; one characterone femalethree monologues

"Three Monologues" depicts a young woman's solitude.


2002

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Three People

Gurney, A.R.

Beacon


1 interior.

"Involvement of university teacher and wife with their mentally disabled baby."

in - Best Short Plays of 1955-1956 / COL

1956

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Three Questions

Martin, Maurice

Samuel French

roycomic dramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone scene

Franklin is horribly depressed and about to blow his brains out when he receives a call fromBrenda, a 'research specialist" who wants to ask him three questions about his dry cleaninghabits. James's recently deceased wife always handled such things, but Brenda is relentless. Thetwo form an unusual, often hilarious, connection as they trade question for question, his delvinginto her remarkable ability to cope with a recent personal tragedy and hers to fulfill heremployer's quota.


2003

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Thucydides

Elmegreen, Scott

Samuel French


A young soldier and a college student meet at an airport in their hometown, and in learningabout each other’s lives in Iraq and Princeton, each is lead to dramatic new conclusions about hisown.


2010

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Thy Creature Blues

Bunyan, Hector Jay


roydramatic monologueall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'Dr. Jansen, a psychiatrist, is relating to a client the important role her son had played in her lifeand in the world he inhabited prior to his death.'


1996

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Tickets, Please!

Sportiello, Anthony

Samuel French


An angel of death is accidentally sent to collect the wrong soul. When he realizes his mistake, hetries to convince his "almost" victim to take full advantage of her second chance.


2002

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Ticks

Gatchalian, C. E.

Lethe Press


Ticks is the frantic, metronome-accompanied monologue of a self-appointed, disease-strickenmessiah, eager to bring a plague upon the city.

in - Crossing and Other Plays / CCOTitle:

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Ties that Bind, The

Witten, Matthew

Samuel French


Suppose you met a fascinating woman in a singles bar who invites you up to her apartment,where you meet her hostile roommate. The women are lovers who want a child and you have beenchosen to father it. Would you say "thanks, but no thanks"-- or would you do the gentlemanlything and help the ladies?


1986

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Tiln

Cook, Michael


roydrama - Canadian - menall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"Tiln talks his companion lighthouse keeper through the winter and death."


1978

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Time Out

Dashow, Ken


RoyDramaAll male cast; three charactersThree maleone act

"After spending four years on bench, basketball player dreams of on-the-court heroics."


1996

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Tiny Baby

Pfeffinger, Eric R.

Miscellaneous

roydrama - reunionthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

"Susan and Alec attend Susan’s high school reunion with their new baby in tow. An interactionwith a former classmate has Susan wondering if, when it comes to babies, size really does matter."

in - Dramatics, vol. 77, no. 8 / PER

2006

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Tissue

Page, Louise

Methuen Drama

roy drama - women - cancerthree charactersone male; two femalefifty scenes

Louise Page has written, in darting, daring, time-chopping structure, a play about breast cancerin which she has to deal with dominant definitions of femininity in order to probe the pain in theproblem.

in - Plays by Women Volume One / COL

1982

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To Forgive, Divine

Aragon, Joseph

Scirocco Drama

royrelationships, dramathree charactersone male; two femaleone act

'"To Forgive, Divine" challenges the Christian principal of redemption as it affects a mother anddaughter trying to find their way back to each other.'

in - Breakout / CCO

2004

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Tone Clusters

Oates, Joyce Carol


roydramatwo charactersone male; one femalenine scenes

bare stage.

'Middle-American couple's lives are shattered when son is accused of murder.'


1991

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Tone Clusters

Oates, Joyce Carol

Smith and Kraus

roydramatwo charactersone male; one femalenine scenes

bare stage.

'Middle-American couple's lives are shattered when son is accused of murder.'

in - 20/20 ... / COL

1995

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Too Hot to Handle

Hawkins, Jim

Amber Lane Press


1 set; background music.

"Wife's discovery of pornography in husband's closet leads to confrontation and truth aboutfeelings for each other."

in - Three One Act Plays / COL

1979

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Tooth or Dare

Scollard, Rose

Blizzard Publishing

roycontemporary - monologuestwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A pair of entwined monologues from two older adults who find romance at the Golden Age center.


1996

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Top of 16

Dashow, Ken



"At rehearsal for a new play, the scene is fairly physical and must be rehearsed over and over butit only gets worse and worse. When questioned about this, the director begs for commitment...that is until he gets a call saying he's wanted for a bigger show; then he's out the door in a flashand the actors commit to directing themselves."


1996

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Tornado

Jones, Arlitia

Samuel French

roydrama - family relations - sports - footballall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

Hoping to pick a good team, a man tries to buy his son his first football uniform.


2014

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Totem Figures

Dawe, T J

Miscellaneous

roydramaone characterone malemonologue

An autobiographical account of the the author's history as a Fringe writer and performer.

in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 141 / PERTitle:

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Touch: A Play for Two

Demchuk, David

Coach House Press

roydrama - relationships - LGBTQ+all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

Two male lovers discuss pornography in bed.


1992

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Tough!

Walker, George F.

Coach House Press


'Young, single pregnant woman and her girlfriend confront father of child.'

in - Shared Anxiety / CCO

1994

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Tradition 1a

Rice, Howard M.

Samuel French


A man recollects how good life has been to him. Oh, he's had some malignant spots from toomuch sun, but he just goes to the dermatologist again and again to get them cauterized. As littlepieces of him are taken away, he looks into a shoe box of mementos and notes from his wife andchildren and is revivified. One day the doctor asks how long he's had the growth on the back ofhis neck. Be prepared for a heart wrenching experience.


1989

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Trail of the Otter

Miguel, Muriel


royCanadian - Native peoples - drama - Native playwrightall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

multi-disciplinary piece incorporating storytelling, song and dance with set design and videoprojections.

"'Trail of the Otter' is a multi-dimensional, multi-layered story that creates contemporaryTwo-Spirited cultural heroes rooted in traditional cosmologies and teaching stories. This isimportant because the history of the Two-Spirited people has been largely ignored, omitted


2008

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Train Driver, The

Fugard, Athol

Miscellaneous


Two isolated characters in a desolate setting grappling with ghosts of the past, present and thefuture.

in - American Theatre (Sept. 2010) / PER

2010

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Transfers

Bromberg, Conrad



simple interior; suggested for high school.

"The first play 'Transfers' finds a glib radio newscaster interviewing an eye witness to a Harlemriot, only to find himself being held up at knifepoint - with the whole episode being tape recordedfor all to hear. However, the robber is also an amateur songwriter, so the stickup is temporarilydelayed while he and his cohort record one of his creations for posterity."


1970

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Transit

Kooistra, Alison

Miscellaneous

royrelationshipsall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

Two old friends reunite while waiting separate departures in the bus station.

in - Dramatics (Oct 1998) / PER

1998

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Traps

Nolan, Yvette

Miscellaneous

royCanadian - drama - Native peopleseleven characterstwo male; one female (doubling)one act

“ "Traps" is a tough and dynamic play that provides insight into the fears and hopes of the peoplewho were in dispute over the Marshall Decision on Aboriginal fisheries. It has the potential tobuild bridges of respect and understanding among our communities, that we have not seen forgenerations, if not centuries."


2004

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Trash

Monge-Rafuls, Pedro R.


roymonologue - men - dramaall male cast; one characterone maleone scene

In this monologue, a Cuban Marielito describes his struggle to survive in the United States,culminating in a lethal encounter with a homosexual priest.


2000

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Trash Anthem

Dietz, Dan

Smith and Kraus


"A woman's off-the-wall dialogue with the cowboy boots of the faithless lover she killed - and theboots' rebuttal."


2004

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Trash Bag Tourist, The

Williams, Samuel Brett


roydramathree charactersone male; two female one act

The Trash Bag Tourist portrays the relationship between ancient, manipulative Dorothy and herrundown, rodeo clown daughter Molly. They are both stuck in a wheel-less trailer in Arkadelphia,Arkansas when a Katrina victim (Chuck) shows up, threatening their already hostile relationship.Chuck has dreams of getting a FEMA trailer and becoming a professional wrestler, but Dorothyhas other plans. Playwright Samuel Brett Williams finds love in the lowest of circumstances, all thewhile exploring family, race, and the American Dream.


2010

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Traveling Companion, The

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - American - 20th century - short play - LGBTQ+ - relationshipsall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act (two scenes)

1 interior set.

"It not incidental that Williams was seventy when he wrote a short play about the relationshipbetween a younger and an older man - an inexperienced hustler full of sexual potency namedBeau, and an older, insecure writer named Vieux. Emotional and personal compromise can beassumed in a relationship in which one person is a paid "assistant", "secretary"; or "companion",


2008

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Travesty and the Fruit Fly, The

Tipe, David

Playwrights Co-op

roydrama - Canadiantwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 interior set.

An ugly hag and a charming prince change costumes and argue jealously before putting brownbags over their heads and admitting how much they love each other.


1975

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Trench Coat

Lyons, Joe

Miscellaneous


"Mitch has to tell his new bride, Jenny, a terrible secret on their wedding night. She might leavehim, she might kill him, but one thing is for certain, the honeymoon just got reallycomplicated. "Trench Coat" takes a look at the ramifications when we try to avoid hurting the oneswe love." - actorstheatre.org

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Troth

Harrar, William

Blizzard Publishing


A husband and wife, on discovering their spouses are having an affair with each other, decide toblow the whistle.


1994

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Trouble's Just A Bubble

Oberman, Sheldon

Blizzard Publishing

roycontemporarythree characters; two voicestwo male; one femaleone act

A elderly woman's journey on a train.


1996

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True Confessions of A Go-Go Girl

Morley, Jill

Smith and Kraus

roycontemporary - womenall female cast; eight characters two female (doubling)one act

True confessions started out as a journal writings when the author was a go-go girl, bikinidancing in New Jersey bars. The play began as a way to humanize the women who did this job-thewomen who commodified their sexuality for money.

'Dancer's lifestyle provides her with incredible power as well as destructive dependency.'

in - Woman Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1998 / COL

2000

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Truth and Beauty

Chong, Ping

Miscellaneous

royrelationships - dramaall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act


in - American Theatre (Mar 01) / PER

2001

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Try! Try!

O'Hara, Frank

Grove Press

roydrama - war - family relations - contemporary verse playthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'Korean War veteran returns home to find that wife has lover, and that life has no place for him.'

in - Artists' Theatre New York / COL

1960

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Trying to Find Chinatown

Hwang, David Henry

Smith and Kraus

roydrama - identityall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"Lower east side confrontation between two men explores questions of race, ethnicity andidentity."


1996

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Trying to Find Chinatown

Hwang, David Henry


roydrama - identityall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"Lower east side confrontation between two men explores questions of race, ethnicity andidentity."

in - Trying to Find Chinatown and Bondage / COL

1996

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Tuesdays and Sundays

Arnold, Daniel

NeWest Press

royCanadian - drama - historical - romancetwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"Based on an actual love story that took place on Prince Edward Island in 1887. As poeticallyrecreated by Daniel Arnold and Medina Hahn, the play effectively creates two worlds, the limbo inwhich young William and Mary awaken at opening, and the rural community of Margate where theymet and fell in love in 1887. The two worlds are not wholly separate, however. Through languageand memory, the pair recreate their courtship in an economical blend of poignancy and humourwhile still in dream or limbo state which could be one day, or one hundred years, after the story

in - NextFest Anthology / CCO

2000

Hahn, Medina

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Two and Twenty

Parente, Paul.

Samuel French

roycomic dramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"A poetry-obsessed young man and the woman with whom he lived for two years and whom hestill loves meet some time after their breakup and discuss 'Why It All Had To End'. Some scenestake place in the present, while other take place during a more happy time when they both wereless than two and twenty."

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Twelfth Series / COL

1987

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Two of Us, The

Melnyk, Doug

Blizzard Publishing


Two people discuss life and their relationship with the audience, ignoring each other.


1994

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Tyler Poked Taylor

Blessing, Lee

Playscripts, Inc.

roymonologue - maleall male castone characterone scene

In his annual ritual at the foot of Mt. Rushmore, an 18-year-old reveals his erotic presidentialfantasies.

in - Snapshot / COL

2003

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Typists, The

Schisgal, Murray


roydrama - lifetwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

"When Paul Cunningham reports for work addressing postcards for a mail order house, he makesit clear to his fellow worker, Sylvia Payton, that his employment is strictly temporary. Paul andSylvia hit it off well, and as Paul's 'temporary' tenure stretches on from weeks to months to yearsthey become involved in the shared experiences of close daily contact. And, within the short spanof the play, they begin to age and grow gray. While they go on chattering of the important thingsthat have happened to them and of the bright future which will be coming up any day, the futility

in - The Typists and The Tiger / COL

1963

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Un-Settling

Ahuja, Nisha

Miscellaneous

roydrama - colonialism - culture - racismall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

"Do you hear that? In the distance, but like its right underneath us? She’s running from thatrumbling. In White Face. The colonized becomes the colonizer. The settled-on becomes thesettler. Dis-ease settles into the body, heart, mind, and spirit. Until the rumbling erupts, forcingan unsettling. Who is on top? Who is at the centre? And is that really where we want to be?" -nishahuja.com

in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2016) / PER

2016

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Under Control

Jones, Elinor


royfamily relationsthree charactersone male; two femaleone act

'Brother and sister encounter difficulties burying father's ashes.'

in - Three Short Plays / COL

1989

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Unforgetting, The

Dilworth, Alan



Depression-era drama about a BC heiress and the secrets she discovers in her past.

Received the SummerWorks Jury Prize.

in - Summerworks / CCO

2009

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Union Square

LaBute, Neil

Faber and Faber

roymonologues - male - dramaall male cast; one characterone maleone act

A man discusses getting back together with his ex-wife.


2007

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Universal Wolf, The

Schenkar, Joan


royfairy tales, feminism - experimental playthree characters; extraone male; two femaleone act

'Feminist version of Little Red Riding Hood. Slide projections.'

in - Women on the Verge / COL

1993

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Unmarried Wife, The

Cheoros, David

Brindle & Glass

roydrama - historical biographies - photography - romance - Albertafour charactersone male; one female (doubling)thirteen scenes; one act

The passion and photography of Gladys Reeves and Ernest Brown, early photographers inEdmonton.


2012

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Unruly

Dempsey, Shawna

Miscellaneous

roy performance piecethree characterstwo female; one maleone act

An aging superhero , with unusual powers wrestles the notion of super to the ground. The workfeatures a spandex-clad hero, a multi media history of masked avengers and caped crusaders andastonishing feats of bravery.

in - CTR No. 137 / PER

Millan, Lorri

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Upset, An

Auburn, David


roydrama - short playall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

Two pro tennis players, a younger, polite Romanian on his way up and an older, argumentativeAmerican on his way out, are pitted against each other, on and off the court. But they may be morealike than they know, and, like a tennis match, the balance of power keeps shifting.


2012

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Upset, An

Auburn, David

Vintage Books

roydrama⌦all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act (three scenes)Two pro tennis players, a younger, polite Romanian on his way up and an older, argumentativeAmerican on his way out, are pitted against each other, on and off the court. But they may be morealike than they know, and, like a tennis match, the balance of power keeps shifting.


2014

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Urban Tattoo

Clements, Marie


roydrama - native playwright - coming of age - healing - solo performance all female cast; one characterone femaleone act

In telling the story of Rosemarie, a young Native woman who heads to the big city hoping toescape her destiny, Marie Clements draws on the traditions of the Amerindian storyteller and theritual of healing. She revives the traditions by adapting them to a theatrical form where video,photos, music, words and performance beat a chaotic tattoo of a life of disillusionment and awounded psyche.


2003

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Valentine

Thiessen, Vern


royCanadian - drama - family relations - Alberta playwrightone characterall male cast; one maleone act

setting: night, June 1963, Saskatchewan, a farmer's field, the edge of the wood; running time:approx. 12-15 min.

"After a hard working but rich life with his wife, Victor finds himself unprepared for the domesticduty of raising his teenage son alone ..."


2006

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Value of Names, The

Sweet, Jeffrey

Smith and Kraus

roydrama - racism - actorsthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 exterior.

Drama set in present about lingering effect of Hollywood blacklist on two performers; one testifiedagainst the other before House Committee on Un-American Activities.

in - 20/20 ... / COL

1995

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Variations on a Composition in Blue

Grob, Anne V.


roydrama - marital relationstwo characters; voice overone male; one femaleone act (three scenes)

Older art professor and younger art student who married, review their first date during their lastdate.


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Vengeance

Ravel, Aviva

NuAge Editions

royCanadian - dramaall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

'Holocaust survivor, posing as nurse to old woman, seeks to avenge parents' betrayal.'


1987

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Vertical Constellation with Bomb

Suilebhan, Gwydion


roydrama - historical - Second World War three charactersone male; two femaleone act (one scene)

"New York during World War II. A nun, eagerly collecting scrap metal for the war effort, andAlexander Calder, desperate for raw material for a new sculpture, plead with a grieving mother,clutching a crushed tin airplane tightly to her chest. Will she let go? And for what?"


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Video

Nolan, Madeena

ArtBiz Communications

roydrama - weddingsall female cast; one character and a male voiceone femaleone act

A powerful commentary on the emphasis placed on a wedding ceremony.

in - Blade / Job's Wife / Video / CCO

1995

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Visit, The

Foster, Norm

Blizzard Publishing

royrelationships three characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'A young lawyer's overbearing parents surprise him at work.'


1996

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Vito on the Beach

Schwartz, Samuel

Penguin Books

roy drama - LGBTQ+all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

1 exterior.

Homosexual boxer and portrait artist reveal they are HIV positive.


1993

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Vivien

Granger, Percy

Penguin Books

royrelationships - dramathree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

1 setting.

Confrontation between mentally disturbed father and anxiety-ridden son.


1993

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Waffle Doesn't Cure Insomnia, A

Bennett, Erica



the male character is flexible and may be performed by any gender.

The play presents the genuine humanity of two characters whose first impressions may lead anaudience to presume anything but humanity. It's an extended duologue inspired by actualinsomnia experienced by the author and a friend, with Bennett observing, "If there is anysemblance between my love for my friend and the play, it's the love between the characters of


2013

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Wager, The

LaBute, Neil


roydrama - American - short play - disabilitiesthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A work commissioned by Theater Breaking Through Barriers in New York City, to be included inan evening of six plays about disability. LaBute destabilizes audience expectations several timesthrough the course of this short piece, making it uncomfortable throughout to settle on the matterof where we should stand, until the end when standing becomes a sort of joke unto itself.


2013

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Waiting List, The

McCafferty, Owen

Nick Hern Books

roydrama - political - I.R.A. - religion - Ireland - monologuesall male cast; one characterone maleone act

A monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.


2002

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Wake

Widdicombe, David

Blizzard Publishing

roydrama - Canadianall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

Two women have a conversation after a funeral, during which, one of them is healed throughhumour.


1994

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Waking Up

Thomas, Cori

Vintage Books

roydrama - cancer⌦all female cast; two characters⌦two femaleone act

Two women on different continents face breast cancer. A play about what separates us and whatmakes us the same.


2014

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Walking Through Seaweed

Finlay, Ian Hamilton

Penguin Books


Two girls - one wants to go shopping and one wants to walk barefoot through seaweed.


1970

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Wall, The

Wilson, David Henry

Samuel French


"A young couple encounter a wall on which is written 'Wall'. They erase the word and write theirown. The wall becomes a tabula rasa for modern man."

in - Are You Normal, Mr. Norman and Other Short Plays / COL

1984

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Walter

Schisgal, Murray



"The scene is a funeral parlor, where Laura Katz has come to view the body of her late husband,Walter. As it happens, Walter was a chronic philanderer and Laura, as her cruelly funny commentsmake clear, deserted him. It also develops that the funeral director, Norbe, is not above 'playingaround' a bit himself-which offers Laura a chance to repay Walter in his own coin."

in - The Pushcart Peddlars, The Flatulist & Other Plays / COL

1980

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Wandering

Wilson, Lanford


roydrama - life - identitythree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

open stage.

"This brilliantly inventive short play covers the span of a man's life in a matter of minutes. Strikingharmonics of uncanny depth and pertinence through its rapid fire dialogue, the play not onlyconstructs the outline of a human existence, but also catches and illuminates, the essentials of allthat is, or can be."

in - The Sand Castle and Three Other Plays / COL

1970

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War on Terror, The

LaBute, Neil

Soft Skull Press

roydrama - American - war - terrorismtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

A woman reflects on the 'war on terror' after receiving news that her fiancé has died.


2010

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Was Spring

MacIvor, Daniel


roydrama - aging - women - Canadianall female cast; three charactersthree femaleone act

Three women clash over a tragic event in their past. Somewhere in the pain there is love, but whenyou've been betrayed by your own dreams and a lifetime's worth of guilt, can you still find it?

in - Try: Communion, Was Spring, Small Things / CCO

2016

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Waterbabies

LeFevre, Adam

Smith and Kraus


1 interior.

Mother investigates YMCA swimming program for her eleven month old son.


1997

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Waterbabies

LeFevre, Adam

Vintage Books


1 interior; suitable for high school performances.

Mother investigates YMCA swimming program for her eleven month old son.


1997

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Waterhead, The

Bushkowsky, Aaron


roydrama - Canadian - monologue - menall male cast; one characterone maleone act

A monologue by a man reviewing his mother and father's relationship; in particular, a momentwhen his mother is in hospital after a kidney transplant and he discovers his father in arelationship with another woman.


2003

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Watermelon Boats

MacLaughlin, Wendy


roymimeall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

The watermelon boats - hollowed out melons with candles as masts -as well as all other props beimaginary and that the actors mime the use of them. In rehearsal, however, you shouldoccasionally use real, physical props (or substitutes) in order to keep the mimed businessaccurate.

The actors in this play will find it a real challenge to play three different ages believably in the


1987

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Watermelon Boats

MacLaughlin, Wendy

Smith and Kraus

roymimeall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

The watermelon boats - hollowed out melons with candles as masts -as well as all other props beimaginary and that the actors mime the use of them. In rehearsal, however, you shouldoccasionally use real, physical props (or substitutes) in order to keep the mimed businessaccurate.

The actors in this play will find it a real challenge to play three different ages believably in the

in - 20/20 ... / COL

1987

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Way to Miami, The

Steele, Donald

Samuel French

roydrama - deathtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

'Wife reluctant to move because house is her last connection to dead son.'


1999

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Way With Words, A

Gilroy, Frank D.


roydramathree characterstwo male; one femalethree scenes

1 interior set.

'Man hopes friend will help him get his wife back.'


1991

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We Had a Very Good Time

Auburn, David


roydrama - marriage - adventure⌦four charactersone male; one femaleone act (four scenes)

"We Had a Very Good Time" follows a married couple on a journey to a menacing foreigncountry.


2002

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Weird Sisters, The

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roymonologueall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'Monologue by woman who believes her unborn twin sister is living inside her skull.'


1996

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Weird Water

Vaughan, Robert Lewis


roydrama - short playthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

Sinking further into depression after the death of his son Tommy in Iraq, Hal resists his wifeLibby's attempts to help him heal. When Tommy's lifelong best friend Jeff pays a surprise visit hebrings a sense of hope with him, and the family finds a way to move forward.


2012

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Whale Riding Weather

MacDonald, Bryden

Miscellaneous

roy drama - LGBTQ+all male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

"One day while sitting in a basement bar I noticed a man sitting alone - an elegant old queen withsnowy hair perfectly sculpted around his translucent face. His eyes were empty. He remained verystill, holding a brandy snifter while a steady stream of tears flowed down his cheeks. I foundmyself inventing his history, wondering what it must have been like for him growing up gay -maybe in a small village on the east coast. Had he been ridiculed by his peers? Disowned by hisparents? This beautiful, unapproachable man at the bar had literally conjured Lyle, and that day

in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 71, Summer 1992 / PER

1992

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Whale Watch

Curran, Colleen

Blizzard Publishing


A photographer and a environmental activist come to terms whilst inside a whale.


1994

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What Are You Doing in There?

Silverstein, Shel


roydrama - suicidethree characterstwo male; one femaleone scene

A mother and father attempt to get their son out of the bathroom.


2001

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What Did He See?

Foreman, Richard


royexperimentalthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'Experimental play about importance of striving for goals even if they seem unattainable.'


1992

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What Happened When

Talbott, Daniel


roydrama - family relationsall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

Two young men, brothers who have recently been separated, reunite of a night of reminiscenceand truth telling.


2008

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What She Found There

Glore, John

Smith and Kraus

royfantasytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 interior.

After having sex with young man, young woman reveals that a hundred and twenty years ago shetraded places with Alice, who took her place in the Looking Glass World.

in - 20/20 ... / COL

1995

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What Use Are Flowers?

Hansberry, Lorraine

Random House

roydrama - fableall male cast; two characters; extrasone male; one boyfive scenes

singing.

'Hermit, returning to the world after nuclear holocaust, finds the only survivors to be a group ofchildren whom he tries to civilize.'

in - Les Blancs / COL

1972

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Wheelchair

Penman, Margaret


royCanadian - burlesquethree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'An old woman, confined to a wheelchair, is visited by two young men who act out their memories,briefly restoring her youth and helping her to come to terms with her life.'

in - Women Write For Theatre Volume One / CCO

1976

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When Books Come Tumbling Down

Gagnon, Marie-Eve


roydrama - love - family relations - self awareness - Quebec - women playwrights three charactersone male; two femaleone act (twelve scenes)

Original title: La bibliothéque de Constance.

(This play) is the dramatic representation of a normal middle-class family at a moment of crisis.The three family members - parents and daughter- seem to possess everything that prevailingsocio-cultural values tell us are needed to be happy and prosper; a stable relationship, goodjobs, a nice home, a delightful child. Yet, love has difficulty showing itself and speaking inside

in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO

2010

translated by Louise H. Forsyth

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When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn't Want Me

Oates, Joyce Carol


roydrama - family relationships - recollections - monologues - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

A old woman recalls her past, and what happened after she was given away by her mother at anearly age.


2007

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When it Comes Early

Noonan, John Ford


roydrama - brain injurytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 setting.

Husband's memories affected by brain surgery.


1997

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When the World was Green

Shepard, Sam

Vintage Books

roydrama - American - family relations - monologuestwo charactersone male; one femaleeight scenes

"A hauntingly lyrical memory play, "When the World was Green" is steeped in the elliptical, poeticstyle for which Shepard is justly celebrated. Sketched out in just a handful of scenes is a world ofsensual delight, of great journeys to distant lands, and exotic food "piled as high as a mountain,glistening in the sun." But as always, the beauty of Shepard's landscape is only skin-deep. Underthe surface lies a family vendetta that has lasted for seven generations. The play has only twocharacters, an old man who was once a superb chef and a young reporter who comes to interview

in - The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World was Green / COL

2002

Chaikin, Joseph

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Whispering Time, The

Snukal, Sherman



"A young married couple, each obsessed with their own personal problems, wonder whether theirmarriage has come to an end."

in - Perfect Plastic and The Whispering Time / CCO

1980

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White Kingdom, The

Voaden, Herman


royautobiographical dramathree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

'It is an autobiographical play - it is a journey - that summer I satisfied my longing and went toEurope.'


1993

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White Lies

Shaffer, Peter

Crown Publishers


1 interior set.

"A young man comes to a fortune teller, dragging along his friend. He doesn't want his fortunetold, but he wants to bribe the fortune teller to frighten his friend so that he will give up his girlfriend to him. The friend sees through the scheme, and both he and the fortune teller make adiscovery about love."


1968

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White Mice

O'Donnell, Darren

Coach House Press

royCanadian - drama - racismall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"White Mice" examines how racism is nearly inescapable because it has become part of oursociety’s structure and functioning. You may be thinking: “Oh great, another lesson on diversityand understanding.” But you would be wrong. This play is by no means an after-school special.The premise is simple enough: two brother mice living together discuss issues concerning whitemice and mousekind. - The Medium


2001

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White Whore and the Bit Player, The

Eyen, Tom

Samuel French


'Flashbacks recall life of woman committing suicide in sanatorium. Self-image as nun and world'simage of her as a whore are contrasted.'

in - Tom Eyen: Ten Plays / COL

1971

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Who Look in Stove

Jeffery, Lawrence



"In 1928, the bodies of three men are discovered by prospectors. They had starved to death aftermisjudging the migratory patterns of caribou."


1999

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Who Look in Stove

Jeffery, Lawrence

Exile Editions


"In 1928, the bodies of three men are discovered by prospectors. They had starved to death aftermisjudging the migratory patterns of caribou."

in - Who Look in Stove and The Edgar Christian Diary / CCO

1993

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Who You Got to Believe




It is human nature to hold on to and fight for home, even if a structure no longer exists. Forslightly-touched, elderly Kathleen, who returns to New Orleans four and a half years afterHurricane Katrina, a set of forlorn concrete steps epitomizes home. With stubborn resolve sherefuses to leave. She is visited by tender-hearted, elderly Ray who has been helping re-build NewOrleans. He pleads to get her to safety as they struggle with their hope, belief, and the truemeaning of home.


2010

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Why do you Smoke so much, Lily?

Williams, Tennessee

New Directions

roydrama - American - 20th century - short play - mental illness - family relationsall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"Bullying mother driving brainy unmarried daughter round the bend." - Play Index


2005

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Wibbly, Wobbly, Wiggly Dance That Cleopatterer Did

McNally, Terrence


roydrama - relationshipsall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

"...follows a lonely young man and a male hustler during their one night stand. Their meetingleads to a discussion, in detail, about the pros and cons of being with a man or a woman. Onlyone of them has any leanings towards true intimacy. Unfortunately, he isn't the one who is beingpaid, and after his rented partner leaves, he is left to mull over his bitterest feelings."

in - Andre's Mother and Other Short Plays / COL

1995

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Widows' Scarlet

Hooke, Hilda Mary

Longmans Canada

royCanadian - drama - historicalthree characterstwo male; one femaleone act

A widow has some fun with an older man who believes she is a witch.

in - One-Act Plays From Canadian History / CCO

1962

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Wild Turkeys

Nigro, Don

Samuel French

roymonologues - womenall female cast; one characterone femaleone scene

In this short, powerful, poetic monologue, Miranda, age 16, tells of being both fascinated andhorrified by the grotesque wild turkeys that have been coming down from the woods on foggymornings. She has a terrible premonition that they are messengers of death who've come to takethe child that is growing inside her. But this terrifying vision is what helps her decide if she wantsto keep her child.


2005

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Wildwood Park

Wright, Doug

Vintage Books

roydrama - psychological - thriller⌦two characters⌦one male; one femaleone act

A neurotic real-estate agent shows a house filled with unspeakable secrets to a potential buyerwho harbors an almost insatiable thirst for tabloid atrocities.


2014

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Window of Opportunity

Augustine, John



'Unhappy wife learns her close friend and confidante had an affair with husband.'


1995

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Window, The

Marcus, Frank

Crown Publishers

roydrama all male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

'Blind recluse uses hired help to spy and report on activities in apartment of girl who oncerejected him. Voyeurs report on girl's promiscuity sheer fabrication as girl in question has longsince moved and this detailing of woman's infidelities is actually a homosexual's way of striking atthe heterosexual.'


1968

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Wines of Tuscany, The

Alexandrowicz, Conrad

Miscellaneous

royrelationships - LGBTQ+all male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

'A one-act dance-theatre duet for male performers.'


1998

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Winning

Jenkins, Mercilee


roydrama - cancerall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act (one scene)

1 interior set.

A conversation between two friends, one sick with cancer, during an Academy Awards viewingparty.


2016

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Winter Games

Bonds, Rachel

Playscripts, Inc.

roydramatwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (one scene)

1 exterior set; running time: 10 min.

"It's the dead of winter in this small Pennsylvania town, a morning like all the others: the stray catsroam, and Jamie cheerfully prepares to open the bakery. But Mary was up all night. And shealready needs a break."


2015

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Witch's Brew, A

Pielmeier, John


royhorror three characterstwo male; one femaleone actsuggested short play for high school

A boy, his sister and her boyfriend explore farmhouse basement for shallow grave they believe tobe there.


1984

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Witness

Maloney, Peter


roydrama - monologues - menall male cast; one characterone malefive parts

An actor descends into madness.


2010

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Wolf Play

Kiechel, Claire

Samuel French

roydrama - relationships - marriage - communitytwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

Matthew and Juliette’s marriage is tested by their small town’s unusual tradition; this year theancient and savage ritual makes Juliette question her role as the perfect wife and mother.


2013

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Woman Destroyed, The

de Beauvoir, Simone

Methune

roymonologues - women - biographyall female cast; one characterone femalefifteen parts

adapted by Diana Quick

A monologue based on the life of Simone de Beauvoir.

in - Plays by Women: Ten / COL

1994

Quick, Diana

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Woman in a Monkey Cage

Stapleton, Berni


roy dramaall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

'A disturbing story of entrapment and imprisonment. Moving from dancing to music and countingto ten, the play charts this prisoner's efforts to understand her predicament and her unseenwatcher/s.'

in - Voices from the Landwash / CCO

1997

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Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance, The

Glancy, Diane


roydrama - Native peoples - native playwrights - women - spiritualityall female cast; two characterstwo femaleone act

The play is a dialogue / monologue between a grandmother and her granddaughter, both arguingagainst the other for her own way of life. The grandmother talks about stories and the Spirits andthe red deer dress she has made to feel more in tune with Ahw'uste, a mythological spirit deer.The granddaughter talks about the problems of a contemporary life, including her experienceswith several men. The grandmother continues talking about Ahw'uste and the Spirits, who in theend, she realizes, let her down. The granddaughter says she has to look for work, which she can't


2003

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Women in Motion

Margulies, Donald


roydrama - relationshipstwo charactersall female cast; two femaleone act

"Two 'women in motion' work together and take a tropical vacation together, surveying theterritory and the men. When Monica reveals to Libby her crush on a co-worker, Mike, Libby takeslittle interest, but when Libby's island date sours, she interrupts Monica's fling to tell her Mike hasno interest in Monica and, in fact, he gave Libby a long passionate kiss by the copy machine rightbefore this trip. The women travel home in silence."


1993

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Woodcutter, The

Hannah, Don


roydrama - monologues - men - Canadian⌦all male cast; one characterone maleone act

In The Woodcutter, a man walks through the woods alone with only a few sentimental objects inhis pocket. Once at a clearing he unloads his thoughts to the surrounding wilderness, slowlyunravelling a troubled past and coming to terms with the impossible truth of what he’s done.

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Woods, The

Mamet, David

Grove Press

roydrama - Americantwo charactersone male; one femaleone act (three scenes)

Ruth and Nick are two young lovers who spend a night in a cabin in the woods. Both areeuphoric, but love takes them different ways. The sense of being in love turns her outward; shetalks nonstop about many different things surrounding them, but Nick does not seem to care; allhe sees is Ruth and he takes her inside to make love. He turns fretful, fearful; after desire isappeased she becomes the thinnest wisp against a threatening world to him. Her efforts tomaintain their kingdom disintegrate as he turns in on himself. The closeness between them

in - Woods, Lakeboat, Edmond, The

1983

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Work Play, The

Pengilly, Gordon

Blizzard Publishing

roydrama - Canadian - contemporary - Alberta playwrightall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

A young man has a questionable job interview.


1996

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Wounded Do Not Cry, The

Mueller, Lavonne


roydrama - war - nursing - biographicalfive charactersone male; two female (doubling)one act

A play inspired by the life of Frances Slanger, forgotten hero of Normandy. Frances and Irene carefor the wounded under fire. Frances nurses and dies with poetry.


2006

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Wrecks

LaBute, Neil

Faber and Faber


"A man in his mid-50s is mourning his wife's death. People often gossiped about the agedifference between them - she was 15 years older - but Edward Carr didn't care, because "she wasworth loving". He won her from her first husband after a fistfight, and they built a profitablebusiness, which he calls his "kingdom", recovering and renting classic cars (the ostensible reasonfor the title). The sex was always mighty: he never tired of "being inside her". Yes, LaBute's taboodu jour is incest, and the play is a loose adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex."


2007

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Writing's On The Wall, The

Howatson, Rob

Association of B. C. Drama Educators

roydrama - Canadian - political - dialogueall male cast; two characterstwo maleone act

There are two men, each belonging to a different radical group, and are fighting over who willwrite their message, in spray paint, on a wall.

in - 1984 B.C. Young Playwrights Search / COL

1984

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Yagayah:two.womyn.black.griots

Young, Debbie


royfriendshipall female cast; two characterstwo femalesixteen scenes

Traces friendship of two Jamaican women from 1984 to 1998.

in - Testifyin: Vol. 2 / CCO

2003

Belvett, Naila

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Yellow Wallpaper, The

Kuritz, Paul


roydrama - agingtwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

In this adaptation of a Victorian short story, one woman struggles to overcome her growingunease and depression. Her husband's attentions as well as her mounting fear that an unseen "oldwoman" creeps to life behind the yellow wallpaper of her attic bedroom compound the situation asher frenzy feeds upon itself.


2007

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Yes Yoko Solo

Yoon, Jean


roydrama - monologue - women - biography - Canadianall female cast; one characterone femaleone act

A multimedia presentation about Yoko Ono and her life.

in - Love + Relasianships vol. 2 / CCO

2009

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Yi Sang Counts to Thirteen

Rno, Sung


roydrama - Korea - poetrythree characters; chorustwo male; one femaleone act (twenty scenes)

The play takes place in "Seoul as reflected through a certain Mr. Yi Sang's strange and twistedbrain." The surrealist poet Yi Sang died in 1937 at the age of twenty-seven during the height ofJapanese colonial rule in Korea. He is considered a poet genius who has received unprecedentedposthumous recognition. Indeed, he is a mythic character in the Korean literary society. Sung Rnopresents a surrealistic play inspired by translations of Yi Sang's poems that blur literary genresand defy structural rules. Like Yi Sang's poems, Rno's play is more about patterns, juxtapositions,


2017

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You Fancy Yourself

Ardal, Maja

Miscellaneous

roydrama - friendshipall female cast; eleven characters (doubling)one femaleone act

An imaginative girl tries to fit into her new country but discovers how hard it is to stay loyal toher friend in the process.

in - Canadian Theatre Review (12/1/08)

2008

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Your Obituary is a Dance

Cummings, Benard

Smith and Kraus

roydrama - AIDStwo charactersone male; one femaleone act

1 setting.

African American man dying of AIDS returns to small East Texas Town.


1995

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Yowl

Green, Michael

AB collector publishing

roymonologue - men - Canadianall male cast; one characterone maleone scene

Experimental monologue.

in - Dreams of a Drunken Quaker / CCO

1992

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Zac and Speth

Chafe, Rick

Scirocco Drama


A couple relives their past relationship as runaways living in Vancouver.

in - A Map of the Senses / CCO

2000

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Zero Hour

Milner, Arthur

University of Toronto Press

roydrama - prisonerall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

Three men discuss their own dubious situation, drugs and the politcal state of things at a jail cellin San Jose, Costa Rica.

in - The CTR Anthology / CCO

1996

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Zero Hour

Milner, Arthur

Miscellaneous

roydrama - prisonerall male cast; three charactersthree maleone act

Three men discuss their own dubious situation, drugs and the politcal state of things at a jail cellin San Jose, Costa Rica.


1987

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Zimmer

Margulies, Donald


roydramaone characterall male cast; one maleone act

"We meet ZIMMER in the record store where he advises young buyers about the real rock and roll,before their time. He knows it all, and imparts his storehouse of knowledge while relating hisexperiences growing up: the expectations, his family, the friends who freaked out, theexpectations, where he was when Kennedy died, his Bar Mitzvah, his girlfriend, and maybe a fewmore expectations. Always there is the music to tie it together, and tide him over."


1993

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Zoo Story, The

Albee, Edward



suggested for high school; may only be produced by non-professional and college theatres.

"A man sits peacefully reading in the sunlight in Central Park. A second man enters, the antithesisof the first. He is young, unkempt and undisciplined vagrant, where the first is neat, ordered,well-to-do, conventional. The vagrant is a soul in torture and rebellion. He longs to communicateso fiercely that he alternately frightens and repels his listener. He is a man drained of all hope

in - The American Dream and The Zoo Story / COL

1958

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Zoo Story, The

Albee, Edward



suggested for high school; may only be produced by non-professional and college theatres.

"A man sits peacefully reading in the sunlight in Central Park. A second man enters, the antithesisof the first. He is young, unkempt and undisciplined vagrant, where the first is neat, ordered,well-to-do, conventional. The vagrant is a soul in torture and rebellion. He longs to communicateso fiercely that he alternately frightens and repels his listener. He is a man drained of all hope

in - The Zoo Story and The Sandbox / COL

1960

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