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Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah
By Roger Bennett. 2013
Announcing a smart, daring, original new take on the Torah. Imagine: 54 leading young Jewish writers, artists, photographers, screenwriters, architects,…
actors, musicians, and graphic artists grappling with the first five books of the Bible and giving new meaning to the 54 Torah portions that are traditionally read over the course of a year. From the foundational stories of Genesis and Exodus to the legalistic minutiae of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, Unscrolled is a reinterpreting, a reimagining, a creative and eclectic celebration of the Jewish Bible. Here’s a graphic-novel version of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments, by Rebecca Odes and Sam Lipsyte. Lost creator Damon Lindelof writing about Abraham’s decision to sacrifice his son. Here’s Sloane Crosley bringing Pharaoh into the 21st century, where he’s checking out “boils,” “lice,” and “plague of frogs” on WebMD. Plus there’s Joshua Foer, Aimee Bender, A. J. Jacobs, David Auburn, Jill Soloway, Ben Greenman, Josh Radnor, Adam Mansbach, and more. Edited by Roger Bennett, a founder of Reboot, a network of young Jewish creatives and intellectuals, Unscrolled is a gathering of brilliant, diverse voices that will speak to anyone interested in Jewish thought and identity—and, with its singular design and use of color throughout, the perfect bar and bat mitzvah gift. First it presents a synopsis of the Torah portion, written by Bennett, and then the story is reinterpreted, in forms that range from the aforementioned graphic novel to transcripts, stories, poems, memoirs, letters, plays, infographics, monologues—each designed to give the reader a fresh new take on some of the oldest, wisest, and occasionally weirdest stories of the Western world, while inspiring new ideas about the Bible and its meaning, value, and place in our lives.Othello
By William Shakespeare, Russ Mcdonald, Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller. 2001
The New York Theater Workshop's new production of Othello is coming to Broadway in December 2016, starring Daniel Craig, David…
Oyelowo and directed by Sam Gold. This production is sponsored in part by The Pelican Shakespeare and Penguin Classics. This edition of Othello is edited with an introduction and notes by Russ McDonald and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia.The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With stunning new covers, definitive texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.From the Trade Paperback edition.The Vagina Monologues
By Eve Ensler. 2001
I was worried about vaginas I was worried about what we think about vaginas and even more…
worried that we don t think about them So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas to do vagina interviews which became vagina monologues I talked with over two hundred women I talked to old women young women married women single women lesbians college professors actors corporate professionals sex workers African American women Hispanic women Asian American women Native American women Caucasian women Jewish women At first women were reluctant to talk They were a little shy But once they got going you couldn t stop them P So begins Eve Ensler s hilarious eye-opening tour into the last frontier the forbidden zone at the heart of every woman P Adapted from the award-winning one-woman show that s rocked audiences around the world this groundbreaking book gives voice to a chorus of lusty outrageous poignant and thoroughly human stories transforming the question mark hovering over the female anatomy into a permanent victory sign P With laughter and compassion Ensler transports her audiences to a world we ve never dared to know guaranteeing that no one who reads The Vagina Monologues will ever look at a woman s body the same way againYou Could Die Laughing!
By Billy St. John. 2003
Full Length, Comedy . Characters: 7 male, 8 female . Unit set.. Television mogul Jacque St. Yves invites eleven has…
been comics to his island lodge off the Canadian coast to audition for the central in role his new TV series. It's an opportunity to die for ... and that is someone's intention! Shortly after arriving, the comics find they are stranded along with the pilot of St. Yves's private jet, the attractive flight attendant and the couple employed as housekeeper and handyman. That night, the housekeeper disappears during a violent thunderstorm and her husband drops dead after ingesting candy that any of them could have sampled. Laughs and chills abound until the startling truth emerges and the tension mounts.Paris is Out!
By Richard Seff. 1969
Hortense and Daniel, a married couple of over 40 years, plan to embark on their first European vacation, but the…
two have very different outlooks on travel. Daniel is convinced he will be unimpressed by the other side of the pond. His conditions for the trip are: no Paris, no Venice, no shopping, sightseeing, or speaking in French. Hortense, on the other hand, is full of life and eager to experience Europe fully. When Daniel embarrasses Hortense in front of family and friends, she announces that the trip is cancelled. As her adult children try to convince her to forgive Daniel, Hortense must decide how she feels about the man with whom she has shared a life for 40 years. Daniel, in turn, to save his marriage must show how much he appreciates Hortense.What Is Susan's Secret?
By Michael Parker, Susan Parker. 2011
Characters: 3-7 male, 3-7 femaleFarceInterior The Cider Mill Inn is an old, rustic and somewhat run down country inn owned…
and operated by an endearing elderly couple, Michael and Susan Edwards. At first they appear to be bordering on senility. We quickly learn however that they are very clever con artists, preying on their unsuspecting guests, by advertising huge discounts to various tradesmen. Using an elaborate check-in form with duplicate copies, guests are, in fact, signing a work contract, requiring them to perform various tasks and improvements at the inn. Over the course of three weekends, plumbers, tile layers, carpenters and electricians are recruited to do work they never expected.This unique play offers theatres the opportunity for the other twelve characters (Besides Susan and Michael) to be played by either two males and two females, or twelve different actors, or any number in between. The characters vary from the world's most boring man, (his wife says he's had charisma bypass surgery), to a young couple on their honeymoon. Audiences will fall in love with each of these distinctive characters, but especially the loving relationship between the two main characters, Michael and Susan, so touching that this play might be called a love story, if it wasn't first and foremost a farce.So, what is Susan's secret? On this subject the authors remain silent, preferring instead to let the audience decide on the truth, which of course, in a Parker play, is only revealed in the last few seconds of the show.Wild Mushroom
By Anne Pie. 2008
Comedy / 2m,3f, / Interior / This present-day comedy set in the Bronx, revolves around life in the Benny Scrivente…
family as seen through the eyes of Benny's thirteen year-old son, Joey. Benny is no match for Joey. a gifted, wise-mouthed boy. A widowed postal worker, Benny struggles to raise Benny and his two beautiful daughters, Dodie and Regina, hoping to marry them the old-fashioned Italian way so he can pursue his dream of opening a trattoria. / Sweet, simple-minded Dodie, lacking in the IQ department, (which drives Joey to his wit's end) is already engaged to Mario, a man of questionable character. Sensual Regina prefers to play the field, much to Benny's consternation. Joey, feeling neglected by them all, manages to attract more than just his family's attention. He pens a literary masterpiece that borders on being an exposé. / Enter clairvoyant Aunt Rose, Benny's older sister. She is a true eccentric and Joey's champion. Her constant shower of predictions makes her a perpetual source of irritation to Benny. Proud of her father's cooking, Dodie unwittingly invites the Mafia over for Sunday dinner, which sends Benny into a tizzy. It's Aunt Rose's unorthodox hors d'oeuvres which pack the wallop that results in a happy ending.Hillbilly Women
By Elizabeth Stearns. 1989
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare. 1988
No dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare…
in this compelling tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his “masculinity” by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters’ prophecy and kill his king–and thus, seals his own doom. Fast-moving and bloody, this drama has the extraordinary energy that derives from a brilliant plot replete with treachery and murder, and from Shakespeare’s compelling portrait of the ultimate battle between a mind and its own guilt. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 9-10 at http://www.corestandards.org.]Mariner
By Don Nigro. 1991
This wild epic celebrates the mad obsession and ambiguous triumph of Christopher Columbus. The charming Italian mariner and lover moves…
through the nightmare of his life, loves and struggles against authority and stupidity, confronting the wondrous and terrible fruits of his obsession. He is brought to judgment before the inquisition for the sins of lechery and pride. Kings, queens, mermaids, dead sailors, lovers, princes, fools and even madhouse inhabitants haunt and taunt the compromised hero. This play, commissioned for the 500th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage, is rich in language, action, character and humor as it explores the consequences of exploration, discovery, madness and creation.Ravenscroft
By Don Nigro. 1991
Mystery / 1m, 5f / Simple unit set This psychological drama is a thinking person's Gothic thriller, a dark comedy…
that is both funny and frightening. On a snowy night, Inspector Ruffing is called to a remote house to investigate the headlong plunge of Patrick Roarke down the main staircase. He becomes involved in the lives of five alluring and dangerous women: Marcy, the beautiful Viennese governess with a past; Mrs. Ravenscroft, the flirtatious lady of the manor; Gillian, her charming but possibly demented daughter; Mrs. French, the formidable and passionate cook, and Dolly, a terrified maid. They lead him through a bewildering labyrinth of contradictory versions of Patrick's demise and that of the late Mr. Ravenscroft. There are ghosts on the staircase, skeletons in the closet, and much more than the Inspector bargained for. His investigation leads into own tortured soul and the nature of truth itself. You will not guess the ending, but you will be teased, seduced, bewildered, amused, frightened and led to a dark encounter with truth or something even stranger.Round and Round the Mulberry Bush
By Jean Lenox Toddie. 2010
ComedyCharacters: 4 male, 7 femaleSimple Set Two one-act plays by internationally known playwright Jean Lenox Toddie celebrating with poignancy and…
humor the struggle of the heart to find its way home. Eleven colorful characters range in age from a sassy teen, to a middle-aged professor, to an old woman waiting for a bus. What bus? The bus for which we all will wait.Plays include Did You Hear the Owl Last Night? and Once Again in Glyn Kerrie.Robin Hood
By Don Nigro. 1987
Comedy Characters: 14 male, 8 female (more if desired.) . Unit set.. In a land where the rich get richer…
and the poor are starving, Prince John wants to cut down Sherwood Forest to put up an arms manufactory, a slaughterhouse and a tennis court for the well to do. This bawdy epic unites elements of wild farce and ancient mythologies with an environmentalist assault on the arrogance of wealth and power in the face of poverty and hunger using feeble and insane jesters, a demonic snake oil salesman, a corrupt and lascivious court, a singer of eerie ballads, a gluttonous lusty friar and a world of other grotesque characters out of a Brueghel painting. Maid Marian loses her clothes and her illusions among the poor and Robin tries to avoid murder and elude the Dark Monk of the Wood who is Death and perhaps something more.Pastiche
By Nick Hall. 1978
Romantic Farce. Nick Hall . Characters: 2 male, 2 female. Interior Set . Sir Peter, has planned a dinner for…
two. His companion is Viola, a young chorus girl. But he's forgotten it's his wedding anniversary-- his wife, Lady Alexandra, comes home early and aided by the butler, Medford, turns Sir Peter's evening into a shambles. Medford interrupts the dinner disguised as a policeman-- then Lady Alexandra appears in a Salvation Army uniform-- then Medford in the guise of a gypsy violinist-- and finally the two of them disguised as Sir Peter's parents. Viola-- unlike Sir Peter-- is unaware of their true identity and leaves in a huff. Sir Peter and his wife make up and sit down to an anniversary supper.Quint and Miss Jessel at Bly
By Don Nigro. 2009
DramaCharacters: 2 male, 1 female. Unit Set. Peter Quint is sent by his lifelong employer, the Master of Bly, to…
be the servant in charge of a remote English country house where Miss Jessel has just arrived to be governess to the orphaned children of the master's brother. The ultimately deadly love triangle that results forms a darkly funny and erotic Gothic love story. These are the lovers who haunt Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Quint is brilliant, sardonic and angry, a man of great abilities trapped by birth into a subservient role he hates. Miss Jessel is beautiful, headstrong, troubled, and deeply infatuated with the master. As Quint and Miss Jessel's affair develops, the rivalry between servant and master builds to a frightening and haunting climax.Amber Waves (Full-Length)
By James Still. 2005
Full Length, Drama / 3 m., 3 f. / Unit set. / This acclaimed one act about children in a…
struggling farm family is now available in a full length version that builds on the emotional strengths of the shorter play. See description of the one act version for more information.Play On!
By Rick Abbot. 1980
ComedyCharacters: 3 male, 7 female . Interior Set. Perfect for any theatre group, this is the hilarious story of a…
theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty authoress who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance in which anything that can go wrong does. When the authoress decides to give a speech on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain calls, the audience is treated to a madcap climax to a thoroughly hilarious romp. Even the sound effects reap their share of laughter.Sunsets
By Cliff Harville. 1989
This collection consists of four short plays: George L. Smith (Monologue / 1m), A Silent Catastrophe (One Act / 1m,…
1f / Interior), Sara Hubbard (Monologue / 1f), and Hang Me My Afghan (One Act / 1m, 1f / Interior)Snow Job
By George Eastman. 1973
Comedy / 10m, 4f / Interior / A copywriter is being sent to Montana in the dead of winter. He…
decides to grab a weekend with his wife at their yet unfinished chalet in New Hampshire first. Beginning with his next door neighbor who chooses this weekend for a skiing trip and a stop in visit that never stops and adding assorted uninvited guests, the weekend snowballs with frustrating confrontations. A houseful of people and no place to put them, a raging snowstorm, no hot water and a snow bunny who is after the host are enough to ruin any weekend.Romance Ranch
By Jules Tasca. 1991
Short Plays, Comic/Drama / 4 m, 4 f / Interior / Eight short plays set in the Romance Ranch Hotel…
in Los Angeles examine the idea of romance in the modern world. Included are The Fantasy Bond , Inflatable You , Finding the Love of Your Life , The Man in Blue , Penance , The Dark , Data Entry and Snocky .