Peter Raby Dramatists Play Service Rochefort and D’Artagnan D’Artagnan and De Wardes THE STORY: Everyone is familiar with the renowned adventures of D’Artagnan and his three fellow musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, as they fight for king and country—with frequent detours involving...
David Rabe Samuel French Al and Chrissy A revised version from the author of Sticks and Bones and Hurlyburly turns his attention to the seedy underbelly of American life. Chrissy is a go-go dancer in the squalid “Boom Boom Room”. Resigned to a life populated by denizens offering little more...
Harold Pinter Dramatists Play Service Ben and Gus The darkly comedic tale of two hit men waiting for the delivery of their next victim.
Harold Pinter Samuel French Aston and Davies “An old bum receives shelter in a cluttered room of an abandoned house. His samaritan is a gentle young man whose kindness is so casual that he seems almost indifferent. Dirty, tattered, unkempt, itching and scratching, the tramp is by turns wheedling,...
John Osborne Dramatic Publishing Jimmy and Cliff The play is about an angry young man, Jimmy Porter, who looks back because he has so little incentive to look ahead. The words pour out of him, a flood of satire and invective. The words are often cruel, but they are also vibrant and colorful. They sting...
Miguel Pinero A Mermaid Dramabook Longshore and El Raheem This powerful drama of prison life is set in a house of detention where a group of young convicts-predominantly black and Puerto Rican-taunt, fight, insult, and entertain one another in an attempt to preserve their sanity and to create a semblance...
Robert Schenkkan Dramatists Play Service Patrick and Michael THE STORY: 1792. Michael Rowen returns home from Louisville with news that Kentucky has become a state and with a young black slave woman he has bought with the idea of breeding a second family. Morning Star fears his treachery, remembering...
Robert Schenkkan Dramatists Play Service Star and Michael 2 scenes THE STORY: THE COURTSHIP OF MORNING STAR. 1776. Into the hut built on his homestead, Rowen takes a wife by kidnapping Morning Star, a young Indian girl whose tribe has been ravaged by smallpox. To keep her from escaping, he cuts the tendon...
James Saunders Samuel French Man and Woman A series of sketches and vignettes. They are brief, witty and pointed. They are love encounters– the games people play. Here is the idiot way quarrels start up, or the way people meet and fence with one another. After Liverpool is not a play, but a suite...
