Dramatists Play Service David Harrower Ray and Una THE STORY: This intense work was commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival, where it received its world premiere. After years in prison and subsequent hardships, Ray, fifty-six, has a new identity and has made a new life for himself, thinking...
Dramatic Publishing Rebecca Gilman Angie and Clint The Glory of Living tells the story of Lisa, a 15-year-old girl, and her marriage to Clint, an ex-con twice her age. Systematically abused by her husband, Lisa is coerced into helping him commit crimes of varying magnitude, including murder.
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...
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...
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....
Dramatists Play Service Pearl Cleage Frank and Minnie THE STORY: Facing problems ranging from the inevitability of long, cold winters, to the possibility of domestic violence, to the continuing spectra of racial conflict, the women of FLYIN’ WEST include Miss Leah, the old woman whose memories...
