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Playwright: Colman Domingo Rights: Samuel French Synopsis: In the Shealy house, Christmas means a time for family gatherings. Only this holiday, Dotty and her three grown children gather with more than the holiday spirit in mind. As Dotty struggles to hold on to her failing memory, her children must fight to balance care for their mother and… Read more »

Playwright: Bekah Brunsetter Rights: Samuel French Cast Size: 1m, 3w, 1m (V.O.) Synopsis: Della makes cakes, not judgment calls – those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down. She… Read more »

Playwright: Sky Gilbert Rights: Playwrights Guild of Canada (start here) Synopsis: Rating: Language: 16+ Adult Content: 16+ Violence: 13+ Pay attention to: Flexibility: All changes must be approved in advance. Production notes:

Playwright: George F. Walker Rights: Contact the playwrights agent renazimmerman@gnaminc.com Synopsis: This play is not an adaptation of Shelley’s Zastrozzi. The playwright read a brief description of this novella in a biography of Shelley, and that provided the inspiration for Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline, something quite different from Shelley’s work. Rating: Language: 16+  (no adult language, but… Read more »

Playwright: Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield Rights: Broadway Play Publishing Synopsis: All 37 plays in 97 minutes! Three madcap men in tights weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter. An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s… Read more »

Playwright: Lanford Wilson Rights: Dramatists Synopsis: The scene is the lobby of a rundown hotel so seedy that it has lost the “e” from its marquee. As the action unfolds, the residents, ranging from young to old, from the defiant to the resigned, meet and talk and interact with each other during the course of one day…. Read more »

Playwright: Caryl Churchill Rights: Samuel French Synopsis: This time-shifting comedy by the author of Top Girls created a sensation with its Off Broadway premiere, directed by Tommy Tune. Both parody and spoof of the Victorian Empire and its rigid attitudes, especially toward sex. There is Clive, a British functionary; his wife Betty (played by a man);… Read more »

Playwright: August Wilson Royalties: Samuel French Synopsis: Peddling stolen refrigerators in the feeble hope of making enough money to open a video store, King Hedley, a man whose self worth is built on self delusion, is scraping in the dirt of an urban backyard trying to plant seeds where nothing will grow. Getting, spending, killing and dying… Read more »

Playwright: August Wilson Royalties: Samuel French Synopsis: It’s 1927 in a rundown studio in Chicago where Ma Rainey is recording new sides of old favorites. More goes down in the session than music in this riveting portrayal of rage, racism, the self hate and exploitation. Rating: Language- 16+ Adult Content- 16+ Violence- 16+ Pay attention to: Use of racial… Read more »

Playwright: August Wilson Royalties: Samuel French Synopsis: Set in 1904, August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean begins on the eve of Aunt Esther’s 287th birthday. When Citizen Barlow comes to her Pittsburgh’s Hill District home seeking asylum, she sets him off on a spiritual journey to find a city in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Rating: Language- 13+ Adult… Read more »