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...
Sam Shepard Samuel French Louis and Pablo Stumbling through Mr. Shepard’s familiar mythical, metaphysical universe are two gumshoes trying to solve the mysterious murder of Niles, a famous jazz musician. Who is the culprit? Who, in fact, is the victim for that matter? A very funny, strikingly original...
Sam Shepard Samuel French Cherry and Geez A one-act cartoonish play about a pampered woman named Miss Cherry who sits around eating chocolates, reading porno novels, and insulting her servants until her boudoir is invaded by a revolutionary on the lam named Geez.
Sam Shepard Dramatists Play Service Drake and Peter THE STORY: The setting is a rundown bar in the Bronx, where two of society’s rejects, Danny and Roberta, strike up a halting conversation over their beer. He is a brooding, self-loathing young man who resorts more to violence than reason; she is a divorced,...
John Patrick Shanley Dramatists Play Service Danny and Roberta THE STORY: The setting is a rundown bar in the Bronx, where two of society’s rejects, Danny and Roberta, strike up a halting conversation over their beer. He is a brooding, self-loathing young man who resorts more to violence than reason;...
Peter Shaffer Samuel French Dysart and Dora Dr. Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, is confronted with Alan Strang, a boy who has blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion. This very passion is as foreign to Dysart as the act itself. To the boy’s parents, it is a hideous mystery; Alan has always adored...
Peter Shaffer Samuel French Pizarro and Atahuallpa The Spanish expedition under Pizzaro to the land of the Incas told in dazzling spectacle and moral chiaroscuro. After general absolution for any crimes they may commit against the pagan Incas, the conquerors set forth upon the sea. The Inca god is a sun god,...
by George F. Walker Julia and Bernardo 2 scenes The play is set in 1893. Zastrozzi, the master criminal of all Europe and a self-proclaimed atheist, like the character in the 1810 novel and Shelley himself, has focused for nearly three years on the pursuit of revenge against the murderer of his mother,...
