Samuel French Charles Fuller Davenport and Smalls In a Louisiana army camp in 1944 Capt. Taylor, the white C.O., has a problem. He commands a black company whose sergeant has been murdered. He is worried the murderer may be a white officer or the local Klan. A black captain, Richard Davenport, is assigned...
Scriptorium Press David Freeman Arthur and Pellinor Arthur is born to Uther Pendragon and Igraine and then taken by Sir Ector to be fostered in the country. He later becomes the king of a leaderless England when he removes the fated sword from the stone. Arthur goes on to win many battles due to his […]
Dramatists Play Service Christopher Durang Lidia and Teddy THE STORY: Amid a tangle of changing identities—and sometimes sexes—the action of the play centers on an American family, the Tammurais, who are traveling aboard the Titanic. Comprised of father, mother, brother and sister (or is she actually...
Dramatists Play Service Christopher Durang Donald and Eleanor THE STORY: Centers on a week in the beleaguered life of Eleanor Mann, housewife and mother, who lives with her religious fanatic husband and three sons; the oldest a pimp and dope pusher; the middle son a flagrant homosexual; and the youngest...
Samuel French Ariel Dorfman Paulina and Roberto Tony award-winning Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman starred on Broadway in this political thriller. Set in an unnamed country that is, like the author’s native Chile, emerging from a totalitarian dictatorship, the play explores the after...
Methuen Drama Shelagh Delaney Helen and Jo It’s chaotic – a bit of love, a bit of lust and there you are. We don’t ask for life, we have it thrust upon us. Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was nineteen, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of […]
Dramatists Play Service Jeff Daniels Angela and Stu THE STORY: Angela Tompkins has a husband, a failing convenience store and a dream of running off to Chicago with her lover, the local banker. In an explosive story that mixes small-town politics, love and betrayal, Angela is forced to face reality when...
Dramatists Play Service Kia Corthron Jerome and Prix THE STORY: Fourteen years in the life of Prix, a Bronx native, from her ruthless girl-gang leadership at sixteen through her coming to maturity at thirty. But children do not become violent in a vacuum: As a small child Prix was raped by her mother’s...
Dramatists Play Service Kia Corthron Jupiter and Prix THE STORY: Fourteen years in the life of Prix, a Bronx native, from her ruthless girl-gang leadership at sixteen through her coming to maturity at thirty. But children do not become violent in a vacuum: As a small child Prix was raped by her mother’s...
Samuel French David Copelin Ma Ubu and Pa Ubu Ubu Rex, David Copelin’s translation of the world’s first absurdist play, Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi, unmasks the savagery just below the surface of “normal” human behavior. The play’s premiere in Paris in 1896 caused a riot....
