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The Woodsman
By Steven Fechter. 2009
Drama / 4m, 3f / Walter is a quiet man who must lead a quiet life. As a convicted sex…
offender fresh out of state prison, he sees no choice. He works in a warehouse. He lives alone. He sees a therapist named Rosen. His only visitor is his brother-in-law Carlos. He also gets visits from a demon in the form of a beautiful Girl. Often brooding by his window, Walter watches children as they head for school. One day Nikki, a tough-talking woman from work, drops by. She doesn't waste time making the first move. Next morning Walter confesses his dark past. But Nikki doesn't run away. Things are looking up – until Walter follows a twelve-year-old girl named Robin into a city park. Nothing happens, but Walter is scared. Then police Sgt. Lucas pays Walter a visit applying some rough intimidation. Walter disappears. A panicky Nikki asks Rosen to help her find him. Walter is back at the park, waiting. When Robin arrives Walter is gently seductive. But the seduction is aborted when Robin reveals a shocking secret. Forced to confront his past, Walter finds the compassion to help and not hurt. In doing so, he grabs a chance for redemption. The Woodsman was made into the critically acclaimed 2004 film starring Kevin Bacon. ”The Woodsman is an interesting, valuable and insightful play...” – The StageHow Green Was My Brownie
By Jack Sharkey. 1972
Comedy / 6m, 5f / Interior / A bit of madness is loose in the Flinder house. Winifred Flinder, supposedly…
just out of the hospital, insists she was living it up in Paris. Her husband thinks she is planning to go into the convent, while their daughter Bonnie suspects both of her parents are nuts. The nurse thinks the neighboring piano teacher is a great pediatric surgeon and the gynecologist gratefully accepts payment for an operation he may not have performed. Add to this a general handyman who insists the brownies have it in for the Flinders, a housekeeper who expects to be murdered in her bed, a neighbor whose purse contains anything from crowbars to teddy bears and an unsolicited appearance by the Headless Horseman and you have this jolly jaunt through a superstition ridden environs where anything can happen and eventually does.Lizards...
By Megan Mostyn-Brown. 2007
Drama / 3m. 3f. / A near-drowning accident sends Phoebe into a tailspin as she turns away from her marriage…
and toward her rescuer. Science teacher Victor loses his job and meets an unusual girl all in one day. While Ronnie is deciding whether to tell her newly single roommate Sebastian how she really feels. Through a masterful web of intertwined storylines and relationships, LIZARDS ... tells the tale of six twentysomethings adapting to stress - and on the brink of change.Mama and Jack Carew
By Hal Corley. 2009
Dramatic Comedy / 2m, 1f / Unit Set In the summer of 1969, Beau Stanley's last hurrah before heading off…
to study architecture in college, doting Mama Lillian vows to help him finally lose his baby fat. Armed with a supply of diet pills and a food-free regimen that includes tearing down a family room wall, 3 a.m. trips to Dulles Airport and blazing, amphetamine-fueled days on the beach, mother and son spend a memorable vacation together. But Beau's weight loss isn't restless Lillian's only project, and in an unguarded moment, she reveals her just-begun affair with a travelling defense contractor, Jack Carew. Once Lillian introduces son and lover, Beau's caught in the oedipal crossfire of a covert and explosive new alliance, forced to cover his Mama's many absences from home. Over the next decade, Jack's repeated pledge to end his own loveless marriage and sweep Lillian away proves a hollow promise. As increasingly beleaguered Beau sacrifices his own independence to help his mother confront her disillusionment and finally, betrayal, parent-child roles are turned upside down. Mama and Jack Carew is a harrowing, oftentimes black-comedic portrait of an unlikely triangle.Oohrah!
By Bekah Brunstetter. 2010
Dramatic Comedy / 4m, 3f / Interior Set / Bekah Brunstetter makes her Off Broadway debut in September 2009 at…
the Atlantic Theatre Company! Ron is back from his third and final tour in Iraq, and his wife Sara is excited to restart their life together in their new home. When a young marine visits the family, life is turned upside down. Sara’s sister is swept off her feet; her daughter Lacey trades her dresses for combat boots, and Ron gets hungry for real military action. In this disarmingly funny and candid drama, Bekah Brunstetter raises challenging questions about what it means when the military is woven into the fabric of a family, and service is far more than just a job. / “The young scribe's talent and potential are obvious in this Southern-basted dramatic comedy about the war mystique as it plays out on the American home front…” — VarietyBy the Name of Kensington
By Jean Lenox Toddie. 1998
Comic drama / 2 m., 2 f. / Simple set. / From the author of A Little Something for the…
Ducks, White Room of My Remembering and Looking for a Better Berry Bush, among others, comes the story of a well bred cricket from London who is dismayed to find himself playing doppelganger to a woman in Appalachia. In this humorous and touching tale of the relationship between an arrogant black cricket with a Bond Street address and a poorly educated young woman who aspires to better herself, this award winning playwright has created two uniquely lovable characters.Song Of Extinction
By Em Lewis. 2010
Max, a musically gifted high school student, is falling off the edge of the world -- and his biology teacher…
is the only one who's noticed. A play about the science of life and loss, the relationships between fathers and sons, Cambodian fields, Bolivian rainforests and redemption. Max Forrestal is going to fail Biology if he doesn't complete a 20-page paper on extinction by 2pm on Tuesday -- but his mother, Lily, is dying of cancer, and school is the last thing on his mind. His father, Ellery, a biologist obsessed with saving a rare Bolivian insect, is incapable of dealing with his wife's impending death, or his son's distress. Max's biology teacher, Khim Phan, tries to figure out why Max is failing the class. Helping Max, however, pushes Khim into a magical journey of his own -- from the Cambodian fields of his youth into the undiscovered country beyond.Spooky Dog & The Teen-Age Gang Mysteries
By Eric Pliner. 2008
Spooky Dog & the Teen-Age Gang Mysteries is an irreverent parody of Saturday morning cartoons - for adults only. Missing…
from a starring performance at a creepy county fair, a pop culture icon (suggested by the audience) can only be located by this familiar gang of teen sleuths: a butch, blond frat boy, an even more butch brainy gal with a trusty flashlight, a hot-to-trot diva in a miniskirt, a spaced-out hippie, and a talking dog. On a campy and comical quest to find their missing friend, they'll face the ghost of a dead country singer, a not-so-psychic fortune teller, and the sinister couple who run the fairground - and that's not all. Even more frighteningly, the Teen-Age Mystery Gang will also confront their own burgeoning sexual desires, tasty dog treats with unexpected side effects, and a surprise penchant for busting a move. Spooky Dog uncovers hilarious, hidden subtext with razor-sharp wit and affectionate homage. You'll never see Saturday morning the same way again!Passing Game
By Steve Tesich. 1978
Passing Game is an exploration of guilt, retribution and disillusionment. Two once promising actors, one white and one black, have…
descended to doing commercials and voice overs. At a seedy, deserted resort, the two engage in increasingly violent basketball games while they plot to do away with their wives reminders of their failure. Unexplained killings have already occurred in the area and the two men hope the murderer will oblige by making their wives his next rifle fodder. Barring that, they make a pact to dispose of each other's wife. Others inhabiting this sinister locale are a creepy, gun toting caretaker, his nasty nephew and the nephew's former girl friend, a natural prey for these two predatory men. Murder does take place, but not the one they've planned.Lusting After Pipino's Wife
By Sam Henry Kass. 1990
This cleverly constructed comedy about the never ending war between the sexes centers around a restaurant owner and his best…
friend. Vinnie and Patsy like to sit around talking about women and about life in general. A favorite topic is the restaurant dishwasher's gorgeous wife. Vinnie can't understand how a nobody like Pipino can have such a wife. In fact, he doesn't understand why women won't give him the time of day, especially tough as nails Lorraine whose friend Rita dates Patsy. Patsy decides he can find success selling shoes on the street and he proposes to Rita. Their wedding is disrupted by a gun welding Lorraine who rescues Rita from the altar, leaving Vinnie and Patsy to speculate and commiserate again about the mysteries of women. Note: This play contains some wonderful monologue and scene material, much of which has been anthologized elsewhere.Gemshield Sleeper & Other Plays for Children
By Richard Slocum. 1988
The Gemshield Sleeper: The Baroness No Ra and her teacher have teleported to the planet Aixes to study its sun.…
They discover a prince locked inside a gemshield. If he is not freed, he will be destroyed when the planet's sun goes supernova. The Baroness must overcome her own fears before she can free him. It's Sleeping Beauty with a futuristic twist. The Fisherman and the Flounder: This story of the magic flounder, the happy fisherman and the unhappy wife is based on the original Japanese version, and it uses elements from Kabuki and Japanese puppet theatre. The wife learns that she must give as much as she takes so as not to upset the balance, but not before she endangers the entire world with her wish to be Lord of the Universe. The Love Song of A. Nellie Goodrock: Little A. Nellie Goodrock works for wicked Simon Lecher to support herself and her dear grandmama. By cheating at poker, Simon Lecher has won the entire Goodrock fortune... everything except Goodrock Park and the monument to the family's good name. Those belong to dear, sweet Nellie. But Simon Lecher must have everything, including Nellie as his bride, or he will send Grandmama and her dog to the boobyhatch. Will Nellie be forced to marrying Lecher or will she be free to follow her heart's desire and marry Danny Dogood?Father's Prize Poland Chin
By Shirley Sergent. 1996
Once upon a time there lived in the heartland of America a farmer who had a successive string of prize…
Poland China hogs and two daughters, one plain and home grown, the other pretty and home flown. A gigolo enters their lives in a most upsetting manner. The plain daughter misconstrues his attentions and tumbles head over heels for the man, his charm and his high shining boots. It's the pretty one, however, who spends her nights entertaining the gigolo and ends up a fool for love with a black eye. The plain daughter intends to lure the gigolo into marriage by sharing with him the deed to the farm. But a third women who has lured father into marriage also has her eye on the deed. A lot of squealing ensues from both humans and hogs when the gigolo is found shot to death and discovered to have been married with children. Who did it? And what's wrong with father? Is he dead or alive? And what has become of the prize hog? It's a rollicking ending to a cleverly funny play. Winner of the American College Theatre Festival XXVI.Boar's Head
By Don Nigro. 2005
This big, colorful, uproariously funny and ultimately moving play tells the story of the Shakespearean characters who meet at the…
Boar's Head Tavern in East Cheap. We see the scenes Shakespeare tells us about but leaves out of HENRY IV, PARTS ONE AND TWO, HENRY V, and THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, , centering on Doll Tearsheet, her unrequited love for Ned Poins, Ned's sister Nell, impregnated by Prince Hal, and Robin, a girl masquerading as a tavern boy, also in love with Ned. Bardolph, Mistress Quickley, Justice Shallow, Pistol, Jane Nightwork and a host of other characters who live at the edge of Shakespeare move to the center in this play, along with Jack Falstaff and a dead Windmill Keeper who might be Shakespeare himself. The language is rich, the characterizations compelling, and the play has a surprisingly powerful resonance of its own. The latest of Nigro's ongoing investigations of Shakespeare and his worlds. See also LOVES LABOURS WONNE, THE GIRLHOOD OF SHAKESPEARE's HEROINES, THE CURATE SHAKESPEARE AS YOU LIKE IT, THE BOHEMIAN SEACOAST and ARDY FAFIRSIN.Tale Of The Allergist's Wife
By Charles Busch. 2004
Comedy / 2m, 3f / Interior / An award winning hit at the Manhattan Theatre Club and on Broadway,The Tale…
of the Allergist's Wife is a radical departure for the well known author of extravagant spoofs like Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach Party. Marjorie Taub, the wife of a philanthropic allergist, is engulfed in a life crisis of Medea-like proportions. Her children are grown, her beloved therapist died recently and her mother, obesessed with bowel movements grates on her nerves. She tries to lose herself in a world of art galleries, foreign films and avant guard theatre, but finds she is barely able to rouse herself from her sofa. Her spirits suddenly soar when a fascinating and incredibly worldly friend from her childhood appears on her doorstep. Lee the savior that infuses Marjorie with life becomes Lee the unwelcome and sinister guest in short order. / Winner of the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award.Sez She
By Jane Martin. 2005
Full Length, Comedy. . Characters: 5 female. Bare stage with chairs. Written to be performed by five actresses, this sequel…
to Jane Martin's last monologue play picks up where VITAL SIGNS left off - in these funnier, stranger days of the 21st century. Reveling in virtues of brevity that include hilarity, surprise and homespun philosophy, these monologues roam the range of contemporary perspective on everything from sexual harassment to sleeping in theaters to the erotic appeals of silence. Whether biking across Massachusetts with 23,000 lawyers or reflecting on the meaning of a Pekinese dog with a picket fence stake through its heart, these characters know how to take the stage and make the most of their five minutes of fame.Remembering Mr. Maugham
By Garson Kanin. 2010
MemoirCharacters: 2 maleRemembering Mr. Maugham is an intimate glimpse into the life of W. Somerset Maugham - one of the…
most brilliant, prolific and secretive writers of the 20th century. This graceful two-character, one-act play adapted by Garson Kanin from his memoir is a treasure trove of private conversations, amusing anecdotes and candid recollections of his beloved friend and confidant. Through decades of friendship, Kanin and Maugham poignantly reminisce about life, art and the unconquerable human spirit.Thinking about the Torah: A Philosopher Reads the Bible (JPS Essential Judaism)
By Kenneth Seeskin. 2016
The Bible is an enduring source of inspiration for the human heart and mind and readers of Thinking about…
the Torah will be rewarded with an enhanced understanding of this great work s deeper meanings Drawing on Western philosophy and particularly Jewish philosophy Kenneth Seeskin delves into ten core biblical verses and the powerful ideas that emerge from them He speaks to readers on every page and invites conversation about topics central to human existence how finite beings can relate to the infinite what love is the role of ethics in religion and the meaning of holiness Seeskin raises questions we all ask and responds to them with curiosity and compassion weaving into his own perceptive commentary insights from great Jewish thinkers such as Maimonides Spinoza Buber Rosenzweig and Levinas as well as Plato Aristotle Augustine Luther Kant and Kierkegaard The Bible is concerned with how we think as well as how we follow the commandments rituals and customs Seeskin inspires us to read the Torah with an open mind and think about the lessons it teaches usThe Myth of the Shiksa: And Other Essays
By Edwin Friedman, Shira Bogart. 2008
A renowned family therapist tackles tricky relationship issues in this heartwarming collection from the author of A Failure of Nerve…
Generational conflict faith crises difficult friendships Edwin Friedman saw every side of the human condition in his years as a rabbi and counselor for better or for worse And his lifelong work with families led him to develop incomparable insight and irresistible wit about what makes us love laugh believe hope and tick The Myth of the Shiksa collects Friedman s most popular powerful essays about human relationships and the daily struggles each and every one of us face From a hilarious encounter with a well-known tempter who is reimagined as a counselor to an emotional exploration of how secrets can affect family dynamics to a charming look at how tradition and modernity can clash in mixed marriages Friedman tackles timeless issues with intelligence and charm creating stories that are both captivating and educational No matter your type of family religion background or status Edwin Friedman s words can provide guidance comfort and joy as you navigate some of life s toughest questionsAs You Like It
By William Shakespeare, Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller, Frances E. Dolan. 2013
The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel 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 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.Animals
By Karen Hines. 2017
‘I used to want a black enamel farmhouse sink. Now, I just want shelter.’ From acclaimed playwright Karen Hines come…
two darkly comic meditations on security, safety, and shelter. Crawlspace is a comic, Kafkaesque monologue about the darker side of home ownership that moves past ‘cautionary’ as it snakes through the brutal battleground of Toronto real estate, decorative twig orbs, and the state of the human soul. All the Little Animals I Have Eaten explores questions surrounding existence, death, and salvation through the perspectives of one sleep-deprived young woman, the ghosts of brilliant authors, some well-heeled professionals, meth-curious lambs, a puppet in a beatnik onesie, tiny vertebrates, glowing arthropods, and other unexpected voices. Praise for the Videofag production of Crawlspace: ‘Karen Hines’s macabre monologue about a real-estate nightmare – and a dead animal stuck in a crawlspace – was all the more terrifying for being true. This was Hines at her most horrifyingly hilarious.’ – Globe and Mail ‘Hines’s clever script, alternately savagely funny and disturbing, is full of facts the author keeps amending, underlining the bait-and-switch nature of the real estate swindle.’ – NOW magazine ‘The kind of story you want to talk about as soon as you get home. Horrifying and enlightening.’ – Mooney on Theatre