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 »
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged and Revised
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 »
The Hot L Baltimore
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 »
Cloud Nine
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 »
King Headley II
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 »
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
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 »
Gem of the Ocean
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 »
The Art of Remembering
Playwright: Adina L Ruskin Rights: Dramatists Synopsis: Three actresses embody different facets of a young woman who returns home to bury her father. While there, she cleans out her closet, and as she rediscovers objects, memories come tumbling out. Touching on stories as diverse as a feisty Polish-Jewish émigré taking America by storm, an… Read more »
Biloxi Blues
Playwright: Neil Simon Rights: Samuel French Synopsis: When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930’s Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WW II, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital ‘L’ along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot… Read more »
The Foreigner
Title: The Foreigner Playwright: Larry Shue Rights: Dramatists Synopsis: The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by “Froggy” LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time “Froggy” has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome… Read more »