Sam Shepard Samuel French Lee and Austin 2 plays This American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert-dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold...
Sam Shepard Samuel French Slim and Shepard This powerful play examines the dangers of ignorance, the power of superstition, and the tendency of the educated to exploit the uneducated. Available in the collection Fifteen One-Act Plays
Sam Shepard Dramatists Play Service Frankie and Jake THE STORY: A LIE OF THE MIND involves two desperate families connected by the marriage of the son of one (Jake) to the daughter of the other (Beth). As the play begins Beth, brain-damaged from a savage beating that Jake has given her, is being tended...
Sam Shepard Samuel French Louis and Pablo Stumbling through Mr. Shepard’s familiar mythical, metaphysical universe are two gumshoes trying to solve the mysterious murder of Niles, a famous jazz musician. Who is the culprit? Who, in fact, is the victim for that matter? A very funny, strikingly original...
Sam Shepard Samuel French Cherry and Geez A one-act cartoonish play about a pampered woman named Miss Cherry who sits around eating chocolates, reading porno novels, and insulting her servants until her boudoir is invaded by a revolutionary on the lam named Geez.
Sam Shepard Dramatists Play Service Drake and Peter THE STORY: The setting is a rundown bar in the Bronx, where two of society’s rejects, Danny and Roberta, strike up a halting conversation over their beer. He is a brooding, self-loathing young man who resorts more to violence than reason; she is a divorced,...
By Anthony Shaffer Stage Plays Elizabeth and Bartholomew An unusual and macabre beginning to this play sets the audience’s nerves twitching well before any dialogue confuses their minds! Norman apparently murders his girlfriend, Millie, and is in the process of disposing of her body when he is interrupted...
by Tom Stoppard Samuel French Guildenstern and Rosencrantz Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s...
by Alex Gottlieb, Tom Taggart and James Reach Samuel French Rochelle and Olga Bill Hastings is hired by the Daily Star as the advice to the lovelorn columnist Aunt Phoebe. Riotous complications ensue when he gets a letter implicating a nightclub owner in a sports scandal. Bill, dressed as Phoebe, goes...
Paula Vogel Dramatists Play Service Bianca and Desdemona THE STORY: Having slept with Othello’s entire encampment, Desdemona revels in her bawdy tales of conquest. Her foils and rapt listeners are the other integral and reimagined women of this Shakespeare tragedy: Emilia, Desdemona’s servant...
