WHERE I COME FROM is a play for young people to perform. There is no over-arching “message” to the piece, rather it is a play which explores the complexities and ambiguities of life. Writing from the Naturalistic tradition of Anton Chekhov (although in a very different era), Nelson uses a richness of texture and subtext to evoke the complicated circumstances of these characters’ lives. Through our exploration of these “places underneath” we have developed an enormous sense of affection for the young people in this play—their ...

Snake Skin:  Alone in the Time Zone Pete and Kerri’s daughter is having a hard time processing the grief over her parent’s death.  Even though there are people who love her, she feels alone.  Emily steals a police cruiser and ends up upside down in a swift creek.  Critically injured and pinned in the wreck, she is dying as the water fills the car.  No one knows where she is.  Can she be saved in time?  Emily’s brother Jacob is withdrawn and his extended family doesn’t know what to do.  When ...

These four plays by Sidney Goldfarb are politically astute and savagely funny, though remarkably compassionate, like a stew cooked up by the Marx Brothers, Groucho and Karl, after years of Zen Meditation. Pursued by the forces of murder and exploitation, ordinary people struggle just to stay alive. The path to liberation is through the human body, at once the arena of conflict and the locus of healing in a culture torn by menace and mayhem. This is a Theater of Incarnation. It is also a Theater of Celebration. Startling invention in language and structure ...

Weaving together key narratives from the popular title, Women and War , this one act collection is perfect for high school and college performances. Through correspondence and monologues, in the style of reader's theater, Women and War: A One Act Play is a short selection of fictional stories based on historical fact, told by generations of Americans impacted by conflict from The Great War to the War in Afghanistan. From housewife to worker, young bride to nurse, mother to widow, an

Elliot Donahey is an  out  young queer boy—artistic, empathic, and full of secret passions. He is a boy seeking protective shadows where he can hide from those who don’t understand him…and to provide him with the means of surviving one more hellish day of high school. When Elliot finds himself in the arms of Marco Sforza, a boy who is made to bask in the light of fame and success, shadows and light take on a whole new meaning. Marco’s rising star as the quarterback of the Mercy High Avenging Angels may come crashing down ...

A hit Off Broadway and later a film starring Russell Crowe, this play by gifted Australian writer David Stevens explores the volatile relationship between an aging widower and his gay son. After meeting in a local pub, Jeff and a young gardener, Greg, hit it off and begin to date. When he meets Jeff 's stubborn, opinionated dad, however, Greg begins to back off. Meanwhile, Dad also has a new flame: a woman he met through a dating service. Put off by Jeff 's homosexuality, prosaic Joyce, too, pul

Rachel wants to run away from home and is unwittingly transported back to 1927 when orphan trains carried destitute city children to the Midwest for possible adoption. This charming show for young audiences by the author of The Phantom Tollbooth focuses on how divisions created by race and class can be overcome with friendship.

The growing popularity of Readers Theatre proves you don’t need scenery or costumes to create a stirring dramatic performance.  This collection of scripts by a nationally-known authority on the subject will add a new theatrical look to your drama program.  Their ease of performance makes these scripts ideal for classroom use, as well.  A variety of stories from the pens of classical and contemporary writers, journalists, and playwrights, all adapted to readers theatre performance, make this text a truly valuable part of any drama library. ...

Descubre el mundo de ocio, diversión, coqueteo, rivalidad, sensualidad, celos y... amor, en el París libertino y alegre de fines del siglo XIX. El autor de esta novela histórica en español es un novelista y dramaturgo francés nacido en París, y destacado miembro de la Academia Francesa . Máximo y Juana, de la provincia, son los únicos que piensan y sienten conscientemente, seguros de su pensamiento y de su corazón. Matilde sabía, ya a los dieciocho años, que ...

Characters: 6 male, 5 female, extras. Length: 35 minutes In this devastatingly funny play by one of America's most popular playwrights of Christian drama, we find an idealistic young man who believes he can start the perfect church. And of course, he runs into a myriad problems: active participation, selection of a pastor, choice of music director, policy on church doctrine, outreach for membership, and so on. Although this easy to produce play is mostly amusing, it does make an impor

Two strangers, a man and a woman, board a San Francisco BART train at 4:30 a.m. They're alone in the car, each is married, both are doing the New York Times crossword.

1 Law 4 All - Vegas This second book in the 1 Law 4 All series dives into the heart of political corruption with a remarkably diverse band of characters. Vegas dances from adventure to adventure beginning with the mysterious disappearance of Mark's twin sister, Janelle. From American Samoa, Kitiona calls on her 1 Law 4 All Foundation pals to investigate. The fledgling 1 Law 4 All Foundation parleys the missing person's report into a web of political deceit. Soon they are confronted with overtones from the American and Asian mobs and a Fast and Furious, ...

A father of newborn identical twins gives the boys the same name, while acquiring another set of twins (who also share a name) to be servant to his sons. What are the odds that a shipwreck will separate them, leaving two pairings of master and servant with identical names? If it's a Shakespeare comedy, it is virtually inevitable. It is also inevitable that these pairs will wind up in the same town, unaware of each other's presence, causing a great deal of confusion. Shakespeare is well-known for deriving comedy from mistaken identity, and here the device ...

1893. After a harrowing journey, recent college graduate Leon Tolinchinsky arrives in Kulyenchikov, Ukraine, to tutor Sophia Zubritsky, nineteen. Her parents, Nickolai and Leyna, inform him the village is cursed, rendering every resident as dumb as a bag of rocks. Leon must educate Sofia in twenty-four hours or fall victim to the curse himself, though teaching her, her parents, or anyone else about anything is just about impossible. To complicate matters, Leon and Sofia fall in love

Drama / 3m, 3f / Finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Drama In 1955, in the redwood country north of San Francisco, a multiracial girl grows up in a predominantly white town whose residents pepper their speech with the historical dialect of Boontling. Found floating in a basket on the river as an infant, Bulrusher is an orphan with a gift for clairvoyance that makes her feel like a stranger even amongst the strange: the taciturn schoolteacher who adopted her, the madam who runs her brothel w

Richard Cuddington offers his readers a new approach to Shakespeare which acknowledges the Bard's stature as England's finest poet and playwright but lays aside the trappings of that greatness to reveal what made him popular with his contemporary audiences and what can still enchant us today - the stories. Here in Easy Reading Verse the author retells the stories of Shakespeare's Comedies with clarity, humour and a modern directness. Readers will meet Shylock demanding his pound of flesh, Jack Falstaff pursuing his 'merry wives', Petruchio taming his Katherine ...

One of the last tragedies written by William Shakespeare, “Coriolanus” is the story of the legendary 5th century BC Roman general Caius Martius, later given the honorary name Coriolanus. Based largely on the biographical accounts of Plutarch and Livy, the play opens amongst riots over grain in which Coriolanus’ contempt for the plebeians of Rome is exhibited. The general is drawn away from the riots to battle with the Volscian army. Following the conquest of the Volscian city of Corioli, he finds himself a hero and turns his ambition to ...

Love Person is a four part love story in Sanskrit, ASL and English in which love transcends sexual orientation, physical attraction, and social structure and rests instead on the ways in which we communicate and how communication bonds or breaks us. The play is structured around four Sanskrit love poems that influence and reflect the journeys of the characters. Free, a Deaf woman in a relationship with Maggie, accidentally falls into a deceptive email correspondence with her sister Vics love interest Ram, a Sanskrit professor. Free and Ram discover a connection ...

This book is a complete study of practical hypnotism. It seeks to explain the science of hypnotism in a simple, straightforward and unambiguous language. The book makes an integral study of the acclaimed ideas and theories of the East. The western thinkers have heavily drawn upon the valuable contemplations of the Indian seers of yore. Having achieved a fine blending of the two strains of scholarship, the book has become a very reliable guide for all types of readership.Dr Shrimali is a widely acknowledged author and his expertise in these fields is beyond ...

At the heart of this book written by the renowned American actor, Ted van Griethuysen, is a fundamental idea: Shakespeare is only what he says and how he says it. How he says it, of course, is poetry, and what poetry is, why we need it, is central to an actor's study of Shakespeare. An actor must do two things at once (1) honor the poetry, and (2) sound like a human being talking. At the same time. It is for directors and theatre designers as well and for anyone, anywhere, who wants to know Shakespeare and his place in knowing the world and ourselves. What ...

Full Length, Comic Drama / 6 m, 8 f, Doubling is possible. Based on the true story of a mysterious Hollywood death, The Cat's Meow offers a fascinating cross section of Jazz Era characters who intersect for one notorious weekend on board William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924. The play was adapted for film in 2002, with a screenplay by the author, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard, and Edward Herrmann. Weekend guests include: Charlie Chaplin, who has been

A hot suspenseful romantic thriller about the life of Vivian Carter; a woman who loved her man more than anything in this world but that would all change when death comes knocking and separates their souls. Vivian develops a threatening disease and almost gives up hope, until she realizes she may have a second chance at life and this time Vivian was going to make it amazing. But could she love another as much as the man she so dearly cherished and lost.