Jose Rivera Dramatists Play Service Woman with Furs and Marisol 2 scenes THE STORY: Marisol Perez, a young Latino woman, is a copy editor for a Manhattan publisher. Although she has elevated herself into the white collar class, she continues to live alone in the dangerous Bronx neighborhood of her childhood....
Jose Rivera Dramatists Play Service Lenny and Marisol THE STORY: Marisol Perez, a young Latino woman, is a copy editor for a Manhattan publisher. Although she has elevated herself into the white collar class, she continues to live alone in the dangerous Bronx neighborhood of her childhood. As the play...
John Steinbeck Dramatists Play Service Curley’s Wife and Lennie THE STORY: Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the “fat of the land,” have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place. Lennie is a man-child, a little boy in the body...
Lib Spry Odyssey Theatre Kalaf and Xi-Wang-Mu The title character, a surpassingly beautiful but cruel princess of ancient China, has declared that she will be the bride of any prince who can answer the three riddles she will propose–but he who fails the trial shall have his head cut off. Calaf,...
Sam Shepard Dramatists Play Service Henry and Amado 2 scenes THE STORY: A disheveled man wakes from a sweat-drenching nightmare, furiously shaking his shirt and pants free of possible small jungle creatures, and hastily dresses to face the utterly dreamlike reality of remote Mexico, a torpid limbo. Henry...
Sam Shepard Dramatists Play Service Shelly and Vince THE STORY: The setting is a squalid farm home occupied by a family filled with suppressed violence and an unease born of deep-seated unhappiness. The characters are a ranting alcoholic grandfather; a sanctimonious grandmother who goes on drinking bouts...
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 Earl and Ray 2 scenes THE STORY: Two antagonistic brothers, Ray and Earl, are brought together after their father, Henry Moss, is found dead in his seedy New Mexico home. Henry was a harassing, arrogant drunk, and his sons have inherited his worst qualities. Ray is determined...
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...
