MOST RECENT ARAN PRESS PLAY RELEASES
ANATOLE'S LOVER
by Joe Martin
Cast: An ensemble of 12: 6 men and 6 women. Full-length. Drama. Set; area
staging. The central character of ANATOLE'S LOVER " is an historical
figure, Anatole Deibler, the heir to a family dynasty of executioners who
attempted to break away and start a new life.
Book: $5.00. Royalty - $30-$20.
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BEACHCOMBER AND THE DIVORCEE
by Macabee Dean
Cast: 2 men and one woman, all middle-aged. Comedy. One act.
A retired civil servant whose wife has divorced him to find something called
"fulfillment," has adopted the hobby of picking up lonely RICH
women and showing them a "honeymoon special." He wines and dines
them- at their expense of course- for a month or so and then tells them
that the honeymoon is over. One day he picks up a rich divorcee and a miracle
happens: he falls in love. And
so doe she. Her kids, and the two ex-spouses, try to stop the marriage.
No one is ever too old to fall in love.
Book: $2.00. Royalty - $20-$10.
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A BETTER YOU
by Bob Fuller
Cast: 3 men; 5 women. Two act dark comedy. Set: area staging
No one is particularly upset when Mickey Duda dies while riding the exercycle.
It is bad timing, though. A film crew is on the way to make a 'before' physical
fitness commercial for A Better You, a local physical fitness facility.
It is bad timing, also, for Mrs. Duda, who has just come from her attorney's
office where she has initiated divorce proceedings against Mickey. A despised
dead man is left to ride an exercycle for an entire day while his estate
is liquidated
and saved from Probate. Book $5.00. Royalty - $35-$20.
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BOARDINGHOUSE STEW
by E. E. Smith
See WARTIME RECIPES (below)
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BURNING BRIDGES
by Stephen Avery
Cast: 1 man; 1 woman. Drama. One Act. Set: restaurant terrace.
The latest from Avery, BURNING BRIDGES tells the honest to god truth
about the work the artist has to take to survive while he pursues his craft,
and more, what happens to his relationships when he is honest with himself..
A very easy one act to produce.
Book : $4.00. Royalty - $25-$15.
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CAJUN POKER
by James Brady
Cast: 3 men and 1 woman. Two acts. Tragedy. Set: living room/dining room
After his wife's death, Rufus Theriot, a Louisiana Cajun, dedicates his
life to taking care of his daughter, Camille. Their relationship is disrupted
when Camille gets pregnant and marries Cody, a Nintendo-playing computer
wizard from Wyoming. Having lived the past two decades for and through Camille,
Rufus finds it impossible to relinquish his hold on her. Cody learns that
there's more to Rufus's obsessiveness than the mere need to be overprotective.
Rufus is trying to make Camille's world perfect to atone for a past mistake
which he has kept secret for twenty years. Sex, lies, bribery and blackmail
are used as Rufus and Cody compete for the love and attention of Camille.
It's that competition and the eventual discovery of Rufus's secret, that
leads to the play's surprising ending. Set in New Orleans, the land of voodoo
queens and slot machines, this unique American tragedy shows how secrets
can destroy a relationship and a family. CAJUN POKER premiered at
Rutgers University.
Book: $5.00 Royalty $35-$20.
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CAPTAIN FUTURE VS. THE GAME SHOW
by Roy C. Booth
Cast: 6 men and 5 women.. Farcical comedy. One act. Set: TV studio. A fast
paced surrealistic farce that spoofs TV game shows. A super hero in yellow
tights has been hired to mask as a show contestant to expose the show's
crooked, oily host. CAPTAIN FUTURE was premiered at Bemidji State
University, Minnesota.
Book $2.00. Royalty - $15-$10.
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CARRYING ON
by Bruce Feld
Cast: 1 man and 2 women. Black comedy. One act. Set: office.
Hollywood casting director Ralph Webster has just heard that his parents
have died in a plane crash in South Carolina-"They never lived there.
They died there, but they never lived there." In barges Shelley Dixon,
a brassy actress that is a cross between Bette Midler and Ethel Merman.
Shelley wants Ralph to recommend her for the part of Lady Macbeth, and she'll
do just about anything to get the part. This is a play that tells you what
Hollywood is all about, the true mettle of show biz folk. "My first
choice was CARRYING ON Bruce Feld, never ceases to amaze me with
his sophisticated wit and humorous satirical punning.." - Barbara Eaton,
The Movie Gazette.
Book $1.00. Royalty $10-$5.
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CLEOPATRA AND THE NIGHT
by Bruce Feld
Cast: 4 men and 2 women. Black comedy. Three one acts. Set: area staging.
"These three sharp vignettes from Feld's fertile and mischievous imagination
prove him a dramatist to reckon with." Polly Warfield, Drama-Logue
(April 28-May 4, 1994). Each of these comedies deal with the dark side of
love. In the title piece, two modern day detectives arrive on the dying
Cleopatra of 30 B.C.
and brilliantly manage to trivialize the closing moments of one of the great
romances of all times: "You have the right to remain silent" In
"The $1,000 Goodbye," a male escort service sends the wrong men
to the wrong women, but despite the mismatch, professionals that they are,
they perform. In "Intimate Details" a willfully homeless-by-design
couple make money by renting their son
out to a pedophile. CLEOPATRA AND THE NIGHT premiered at the Actors'
Circle Theatre, Hollywood, California, in 1994. "Bruce Feld's three
one-acts recall Murray Schisgal, Samuel Beckett." L.A. Weekly. "Feld's
writing is rife with sly and subtle humor and wry appreciation of life's
little ironies"Drama-Logue.
Book $3.50. Royalty $30-$20 (all three); $20-$10 (individually).
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CONSPIRACIES
Six plays by Joe Martin
In one volume you can have six of award-winning Joe Martin's best. THE DUST
CONSPIRACY; FORFEIT: A PLAY IN 12 ROUNDS; DECEIT (or CRIME WITH CLASS);
THE RECEIVER and FREEZE. are published separately for production purposes.
This collection is for the reader of good plays. "The six plays in
this well-packaged paperback constitute a splendid introduction to one of
the most exciting playwrights in the country." - Faye Bordy Fears,
Drama-Logue.
Book $14.95. (ISBN 0-9656712-0-8)
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THE DANCER
by Wayne Sheridan
Cast: 5 men and 4 women. One act. Set: A ballet studio.
Clyde, a former Broadway gypsy who danced in the original production of
"A Chorus Line," is now working as a sales associate of a New
York department store. He becomes so caught up in the excitement of the
department store's annual theatrical production that he decides to resign
and return to dancing. His fellow associates try to talk him down to reality.
Book: $3.00. Royalty - $15-$10.
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DESPERATION
by Mark M. Troy
Cast: 1 man, 1 woman and 2 female extras. Black comedy. Set: basement apartment.
Gerald Febermiltz has girls arriving on his doorstep who got his name from
a dating service he signed up with. One date reveals the incompatibility
of Gerald and his dates. Gerald promptly dispatches the ladies and stashes
the bodies in his apartment. Debbie arrives and date number three begins.
The suspense builds-when will and how will Gerald make Debbie
another dead body in his apartment? Surprise ending. (No, Debbie does not
murder Gerald.) Award-winning DESPERATION ran for five months in
Los Angeles to rave reviews, including three and half stars from the Daily
News. The play was nominated for Best Play of the Year. Book: $2.00. Royalty
- $20-$10.
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DIARY OF ADAM & EVE
a dramatic adaption of the work of Mark Twain
by Stephen D. Guschov
Cast: 2 men and 1 woman.
Play consists of Narrator, Adam and Eve. The setting is the Garden of Eden,
which may be designed as simply or as elaborately as one would like.
Book $4. Royalty $30-$15.
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DIDDLIN' IN THE HOLYWATER
by Wayne Sheridan
Cast: Two men and two women. One act comedy. Set: table and chairs. A bit
of Old Irish blarney. Patrick O'Shea, in his mid seventies, while having
a pint with his friends at a popular Belfast pub, tells the story of how
he discovered religion in the shaving mirror. This one is for senior performers
or actors who want to play old folks.
Book $3.00. Royalty $20-10.
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DRIVING BY
by David Budde
Cast: 3 men & 3 women. Poetic drama. Full-length. Set: living room.
"She said a mother losing a son can feel his soul leaving the earth
like a breeze in a shut up room." This one line sets the stage for
an evening haunted by a murdered young man fighting to say goodbye with
a spirit's poetic magic. Killed in a drive by shooting, a youth's last wish
to touch his mother's cheek brings him back to his earthly home supernaturalized
in a dramatic fantasia of other-worldly beings. Ethereal, he knows if he
can turn into a tangible breeze
his mother will feel him. And if he can blow paper toward her maybe one
piece can touch her cheek for the final kiss of a departing child. Only
a Angel Mediator can forestall the Boatman waiting to take the boy across
the river Styx. High pitched poetry. Book: $4.00. Royalty - $30-$20.
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THE ELEVATOR
by Roy C. Booth
Cast: 5 men and 2 women and extras. One Act. Dark comedy. Set: area staging.
The place is Limbo, where souls await to see if they will take the elevator
up or down. It is a bureaucratic bottleneck where a minor saint of the 15th
Century, Saint Francesco Borgia, processes the deceased. Mrs. Anna Horton,
a retired widow and church lady, has just arrived and expects to be speeded
on through
once she realizes where she is and they realize who she is. But who are
the good souls and who are the bad souls? The answer to this question provides
the dramatic tension. "Roy Booth's THE ELEVATOR is another of
the fast-paced micro-plays of which he is a master," Helen Bonner,
screenwriter, reviewing the premier Bemidji State University production.
Book $1.00. Royalty $15-5.
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FREEZE
by Joe Martin
Cast: 2 men and 1 woman. Comedy/drama. Set: back room of restaurant. Carl's
owns a restaurant and is in love with his waitress Suzy, who is not interested
in Carl, but is very much interested in getting a raise. Carl has a unique
way of showing his affection. "You have a lovely neck," he tells
Suzy, but he won't give her a raise. Enter Rafe, who has a mysterious business
deal going with Carl. Rafe insists that Carl give Suzy a raise or the deal
is off.
Originally produced by Warner Cable TV and Pomegranate Productions, this
easy to stage Martin comedy is now for the first time available for stage
performance.
Book: $2.00. Royalty - $20-$10.
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GOD HAVE MERCY ON THE JUNE BUG
by Louis Phillips
Cast: 6 men and 3 women. Comedy/drama. Full-length. Set: boarding house.
It is the summer of 1940. The Basta family runs a boarding house in Kendersonville,
NC. The point of view character is 17 year old Michael H. Basta, who is
trying to stage a play about a June Bug. His sister and mother are supportive.
His father, Morris, thinks Michael is a pansy wasting time. The central
tension, however, slowly builds with the revelation of the love affair of
Michael's mother and their Greek boarder Demetrius. Demetrius wants Mrs.
Basta to run off to Europe with him; an illness prevents her from leaving
at this time. These are real people living in a small town at the out-break
of World War II.
Book $5.00. Royalty - $30 - $15.
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THE GRAND INQUISITOR
by Albert Kirby Griffin
A dramatized version of Dostoevsky's masterpiece. Christ returns to Earth
during the Spanish Inquisition. He is immediately locked up by the Grand
Inquisitor, who comes to the Master in the middle of the night and lectures
Him on how he is upsetting everything by coming back. Book $3.00. Royalty
$20-$10.
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"HELLO, CRISIS CENTER HOTLINE?"
by Shane K. Robertson & Roy C. Booth
Cast 2 men & 1 woman. Comedy. Set: office.
Benton, an idealistic former Peace Corps volunteer is applying for a position
at a Crisis Center Hotline, which is run by Jean, a cold shrewish operator,
and chuck, her boorish equally insensitive co-worker. Book $1.50. Royalty
$15-$5.
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HIS 'n HERS
by J. Robert DuBois
Cast: 2 men & 2 women. Three acts. "a dramatic, romantic, mysterious
comedy." Set: living/dining area.
Roger and Becky Phillips are a young, upwardly mobile couple whose preparations
for an important business dinner are rudely interrupted by their accidental,
and premature, deaths. An incompetent angel took them out prematurely and
tries to put them back again. But Roger winds up in Becky's body and Becky
in Roger's. The R.F. Daily Gazette called HIS 'n HERS "a
hilariously funny play,"
Book $5.00. Royalty - $30- $20.
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LETTERS FROM REBECCA
by Michael Corrigan
Cast: 1 woman & 1 man. Drama. Full-length. Set: stage.
LETTERS FROM REBECCA is a labor of love by one who knew and loved
Rebecca Bruns, a very talented writer who died too young. In letters format,
two young writers convey their thoughts and feelings about the world, writing
and love. Premiering on NPR in March, 1999. "Michael Corrigan has a
gift for capturing and delivering a character's most sensitive, emotionally-telling
moments. The counterpoint of his story against Rebecca's is a seemingly
simple duet that rises to full chords at the end, beautiful and gentle,
and resonating for a long time afterward." -- Sondra Williams, director/actress.
Book $5.00. Royalty $35-20.
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LOVE IN NEW ALBANY
by Tom Eagan Cast: 2 men; 2 women.
Cast: 2 men and 2 women. One act. Farce. Set: chairs.
This farce is for all those whose favorite sport is not chronicled in the sports pages. George, a hardworking husband in his late 20's loses his wife Catherine (mid-twenties), to an ancient geezer, Burt, who roots for no team, but knows well the language of love. A cautionary tale for those who get too wrapped up in sports.
Book: $3.00. Royalty - $20 - $5.
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MAGGIE'S PLACE
by John Coyle
Cast: 9 men and 4 women. Comedy/drama. Three acts. Set: kitchen and parlor.
MAGGIE'S PLACE is a true to life family struggle with the hardships
of farm life vs. religion, respect, and morals. The family has their own
illegal whiskey distillery in their basement and many of their long-time
trusted friends come to "visit". The son is in constant conflict
with his family's praising God and lying .
Book: $6.00. Royalty: $50-25
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MAKING IT UP AS WE GO ALONG
Short plays for and about the theater
by Louis Phillips
Cast: Variable. Aburdist comedies. Three one acts. Set: area staging.
"The Coat" - three actors and the director disccus the faults
of the playwright. "Monday Night in Cleveland" - The Director
questions the audience about the play they have just given rousing applaud
for, a la political "focus groups." Results, the audience ends
up hating the play. "Provinces" - the most absurdist of the three
plays, finds a troupe of performers stranded in a twilight zone in which
they are contracted to perform their play for twenty years.
Book $5.00 Royalty - first performance: $25 for all three or $10 for each.
Subsequent performances: $10 for all three; $5 for the individual play.
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MAN-O-WAR
by Louis Phillips
Cast: 4 men and 2 women. Romantic drama. Two acts. Set: area staging.
A love story of a divorced couple. Set in Columbia, Mississippi in 1947.
The grip of World War II and its insanity is large on the psyches. A struggle
for meaning and dignity.
Book $4.50. Royalty $35-20.
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MEET MR. HAND & A GAME OF RISK
by Peter Gerardo
Cast: Mr. Hand - 3 women, 2 men. One act. Comedy. Set: a corner pub. Risk
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3 women, 3 men. One. act. Comedy. Set: a living room.
MEET MR. HAND: Insecure Gerald meets "blind date" Lucy
at a corner bar, where he is thrown into a panic when the drunken bartender,
Eileen, decides to play "love doctor." To make matters worse,
Gerald and Lucy's right hands (their inner devils) try to sabotage the date-Winner
of The Village Gate's 1992
Short play competition, New York City. A GAME OF RISK: When a newcomer joins
five dysfunctional friends to play a world conquest board game, NBC's "Friends"
meets Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Roommates Dee Dee, Valerie and Fink
are looking forward to a friendly game of Risk with friends Eugene and Vanessa
(and her new boyfriend). but when Eugene hatches a plot to destroy Vanessa's
romance, the evening reaches a "nuclear threshold." - Sold
out 80% of performances during the premier run at New York's Greenwich Street
Theatre.
Book: $3.00 Royalty - $30-20 (both plays); $20-10 (individually).
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MY RED CONVERTIBLE
by Timothy Kevin Perry
Cast: 2 men and 2 women. Comedy. One Act. Set: a car.
Nick, his wife Kelly, and their two best friends decide to "relive"
the excitement of a very special weekend during the summer of '63. They
head off for v-a-c-a-t-i-o-n in Nick's prized convertible. But it breaks
down and strands them in the middle of nowhere. What follows is laughter,
tears, and a new commitment to their marriages. And you can groove to some
of their favorite sensational 60's rock and roll songs too.
Book: $2.50. Royalty $20-#10.
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PARACHUTE LOVE
by Macabee Dean
Cast: 1 man; 1 woman. One act. Set: an office.
A sophisticated foreign correspondent, about 35, meets a 20-year-old beautiful
clerk in the Israeli Government Press Office. They fall in love. They argue
about the ethics of journalism, specifically the contents of his cables
from Israel. He explains that, "news is sold like soap," which
is to say, you gauge the public interest and then you slant your "news
product" to meet popular taste. Truth has
little relationship to the facts; rather truth is what the journalist cables
and what the public wants to believe. An honest journalist might have an
easy conscience; but he will never make a good living. He is sent on an
assignment to Turkey, promising to come back in ten days. He does come back-but
14 years later. She is happily married by now and thanks him with all her
heart for deserting her, letting her settle down with another man. The author
is a long-time journalist in Israel.
Book $3.00. Royalty $20-$10.
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PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS
8 One-Acts of Eros and Death
by Rolando Perez
Cast: Variable. 8 one acts. Comedy and drama. Set: area staging.
From the inscrutable absurdist "I Can't Open It" to the realistic
monologue of "Particles," Perez exhibits a virtuoso ability to
maintain the suspense and create well-defined characters through different
styles of presentation. Several of the plays are minor masterpieces. In
"Day of the Dead," the coming together of a lonely man and a broken
woman in a train station, on an infernally hot day, makes for a disturbing
play about life and eath, in the manner of a Greek tragedy. "Heraclitus'
River," taking its title from the name of the pre-Socratic philosopher,
who said that "you can't step into the same river twice," is a
two-character play about the love and friendship of two women, and how time
irrevocably changes their lives. In "Proper Words" the audience
is schooled in which is more important, words or reality. "The Paranoiac
Machines," is a short absurdist "plaything" about the very
thing that fuels much of American society: fear and paranoia. In "The
Virtual Family," the alienation of human relationships through electronic
technology, takes an interesting and surprising twist. And finally, title
one act, "Playthings," a business executive is treated to a dose
of masochistic pleasure in a brothel to expiate for the damage he does at
work. A rich collection of one acts that make an excellent evening of theatre.
The plays can also be performed separately. Book $5.00. Royalty $30-$20
(all eight);$15-$10 (separately).
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POPCORN
by Louis Phillips
Cast: 2 men and 2 women. One act black comedy. Set: movie theatre lobby.
We are in the lobby of a movie house where Melvin Pilchnik's latest science-fiction
epic, HELL: AN ANALOGUE is sneak previewing to a capacity crowd. In the
lobby are Eleanor Monroe, a fifty-five year old silver-blonde temp worker
in charge of the candy counter; Jones the sixty year old movie house owner
and Morgan Spires, the fifty year old, white haired, producer of HELL: AN
ANALOGUE. Everyone in the audience has been given free
popcorn as an inducement to watch the movie. Things seem to be going well
until Alice B. Coverly staggers out of the auditorium and announces she
and everyone in the theatre has been poisoned- by the popcorn!! A theatrical
attack on the movie biz, POPCORN is guaranteed to keep your audiences
in the theatre rather than moving on to a movie, especially if you don't
give them popcorn.
BOOK: $2.00. Royalty $20-$10.
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POTATOES AND OTHER THINGS
by Jo Sack
Cast: 2 men and 4 women. One act. Mystery. Set: living room.
Kate Morganrood's mother is always home. But the day Kate takes her friend
Sheila to met her, Mother is not there. Kate and Sheila are both modern
business women concerned about their identity and their femininity, and
rebelling against the status quo. Yet they are quite different individuals
and their personalities unwind as they confront what seems to be the mystery
of why Mother is not home.
Book: $3.00. Royalty $15-$5.
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QUARTER INCH PIECE OF GLASS
by Edward Farley Aizen
Cast: 1 man and 2 women. Drama. One Act. Set: patio-beachfront.
Bonnie rushes in to tell Gerry they have just won half of a 6.4 million
lottery prize. But Gerry is on the road to insanity. He's only concerned
with ridding the patio of bugs. When he does talk, it is nonsense: "So
we're millionaire, big deal. I bet 'cha still can't get Jesus to appear."
Most of his rant is anger at the government. Too many laws, too many taxes
and regulations have pushed him
over the edge. Bonnie, a school teacher, chimes in with equal revulsion:
"The government don't care about the children; they want the control,
or the power to control others; regulate their lives" Finally, Gerry
wanders off, deserting Bonnie's plea for salvation through love, and still
sputtering gibberish, seems to find peace staring into the sun with Sunny,
a woman ten years younger than Bonnie.
Book $1.00. Royalty $10-$5.
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QUEEN FOR A YEAR
by Bruce Feld
Cast: 4 women & 2 men. Farce. One act. Set: ballroom stage.
The American institution of beauty pageants is under fire again in this
short one act which has Miss Alabama, Miss New Jersey, and Miss Missouri
pitted against each other in the question & answer portion of the contest.
Beauty may be on the surface, but petty envy and colossal stupidities are
bursting forth with every word uttered. Suddenly, Miss New Jersey burst
into an impassioned speech on
race relations, but the Pageant People recover and the music plays on "QUEEN
FOR A YEAR is a truly awesome one act by one of the most clever contemporary
playwrights of the 90's!" - Barbara Eaton, The Movie Gazette."QUEEN
FOR A YEAR had the audience screaming with laughter." - Maurice
Keller, The Tolucan.
Book: $1.00. Royalty - $10-5.00.
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THE RED BOW TIE|
by Forrest Kleinman
Cast: 3 men & 1 woman. Drama. One act. Set: office.
On the eve of retirement William Stark, Lieutenant General, US Army, gets
a visit from Tony Thanatos, who tells the General he is his substitute barber.
But Tony is much more than a barber; he knows too much about the General's
past than is humanly possible. An articulate, suspenseful, thoughtful critique
of military strategy in the nuclear age. Book: $2.00. Royalty - $20-$10.
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THE RECEIVER|
by Joe Martin
Cast: 3 women. One act drama. Set: empty room in a manor house.
Two sisters battle a reconstruction of their past lives and the interloper
who has managed to come between them. Who is sane? Who is insane?
Book $3.00. Royalty $20-$10.
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RIDDLE OF THREE
by Todd Caster
Cast: 4 men and 4 women. One act. Drama. Set: area staging.
Eddie King is the mayor of Thebes, a not-so-typical town in America's heartland.
Follow Eddie, as he searches for the truth behind a curse that's been plaguing
his town. He recruits such colorful characters as Clyde (his unkempt brother-in-law),
Madame Zena (a local psychic), and Max (an over-the-hill gumshoe) to aid
him in his quest. What he finds is a tightly woven web of
deceit, incest and murder. A creative updated American version of Sophocles'
OEDIPUS REX, RIDDLE OF THREE employs a radio talk show host named
"DJ" as choral commentary on the action.
Book $3.00. Royalty - $20-10.
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SICKS
by Clay Edmonds
Cast sux women. Six one acts. Drama.
Subtitled: An Evening With Six of the Most Notorious Women in History, SICKS
is six monologues by Lizzie Borden, Bonnie Parker, Catherine the Great,
Ma Barker, Queen Mary I, and Squeaky Fromme. SICKS premiered at Studio
Theater 4A in New York City in April, 1996.
Book: $4.00. Royalty - $30-$20 for all plays; $20-$10 per individual monologue.
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SISTER DARK
by Eugene Yanni
Cast: three women. One in 14 scenes. Poetic drama. Set: garden of a convent.
Finally new works by Yanni! (See THE CROWD HEART
above.) Sister Dark and Sister Therese are two novices in a French convent
at an unspecified time. They both talk to God and God talks back to them.
There is an internal struggle of faith in each of them and a struggle for
who will be the new Mother Superior and who should remain in the convent.
This is just the situation. The relationship of the two noices to each other
is the central theme. It is hard to put into words the outline of a Yanni
play. The power is all in the author's poetic madness. It is hard to give
the back outline of a Yanni play. Book $ 3.00. Royalty - $20-$10.
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STAY OUT OF THE SOUTH
by Tom Eagan
Cast: 2 men and 7 women. Comedy. Three acts. Set: living room
After twenty years of married life in New York City, widow Sylvia
has retired to her hometown - a small, quiet, dull Southern city.
Her New York brother-in-law Sam Baker, tired of the hassles of the
Big Apple, is contemplating moving to a small town. Sam Baker has packed
up his family and is headed in Sylvia's direction. To prevent Sam Baker
and family from settling down in her hometown, Sylvia concocts a bunch of
lies for her friends about Sam Baker. When Sam and family arrive they are
greeted with strange behavior calculated to get them to leave town.
Book $4.00 Royalty - $35-20.
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WARTIME RECIPES
by E. E. Smith
Cast: Ensemble of 9 (4 male, 5 female). Two Acts. Comedy/Drama. One set: Dining room of a 1940's boardinghouse.
Only elevn years old in 1943, Edy Martin says she is "going on 13 and big for her age" to get a summer job as a maid in Flora Mumson's boardinghouse in Sacramento, California. In the midst of war and a critical labor shortage, Mrs. Mumson can't be too particular. At the end of the summer Edy will be older and wiser, anyway, as events both comic and tragic are played out around her. WARTIME RECIPES is about how nine diverse character come to care about each other and form a kind of family. Winner of the Gem Award in Oklahoma City and produced there in 1998, the play was first seen at Northern Kentucky University's Y.E.S. Festival in 1989 (as BOARDINGHOUSE STEW). The Cincinnati Post called it "poignant and funny".
Book: $5.00 Royalty - $35-$20.
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