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 Anthony Shaffer Samuel French Andrew and Milo The ultimate game of cat-and-mouse is played out in a cozy English country house owned by celebrated mystery writer, Andrew Wyke. Invited guest Milo Tindle, a young rival who shares not only Wyke’s love of the game but also his wife, has come to lay claim....
By Anthony Shaffer Stage Plays Elizabeth and Bartholomew An unusual and macabre beginning to this play sets the audience’s nerves twitching well before any dialogue confuses their minds! Norman apparently murders his girlfriend, Millie, and is in the process of disposing of her body when he is interrupted...
Robert Schenkkan Dramatists Play Service Zach and Jesse THE STORY: 1819. Patrick Rowen, as land hungry as his father before him, fights desperately to keep his land before a corrupt judge about to foreclose on the property. As his sons, Zeke and Zach, watch in horror, Patrick trades off everything he possesses...
