Plays by Author - Michael Weller

Ghost on Fire

Michael Weller

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 4 Female

After showing dazzling promise at school but no success in Hollywood, director Dan Rittman sufered a breakdown and quit film-making Cameraman Neil Toomie, a hilarious, irreverent lapsed Catholic, shows up f...

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The Heart of Art

Michael Weller

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

A struggling playwright is estatic when his play is chosen to be produced at the People's Playhouse, a major Off Broadway theatre run by egomaniacal Arthur Dick Dick's resident playwright has exited with hi...

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Fishing

Michael Weller

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 2 Female

Bill and Shelley, youngish married couple, are living in a Pacific Northwest log cabin. They've already failed at farming so now, they're trying deep sea fishing along with a friend, Robbie They don't have ...

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Beast

Michael Weller

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 2 Female

Two American war veterans, mutilated in a firefight in Iraq, find their way home from a military hospital in Germany Their harrowing and hilarious road trip includes an illegal arms dealer, an Asian pimp, ...

$13

Spoils of War

Michael Weller

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

The author of Loose Ends and Moonchildren dramatises the desperate attempts of a sixteen year-old boy to reconcile his divorced parents, a somber chronicle about disillusionment and about people whose hopes ...

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Cancer

Michael Weller

Used Copy

$19.99

The Ballad of Soapy Smith

Michael Weller

Samuel French Inc

9 Female

"Col." Jefferson Randolph Smith, known as "Soapy" to his friends and foes, is a notorious con man whose reputation has, alas, not preceded him to the Alaska Gold Rush town of Skagway in 1897 This charming g...

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Dogbrain

Michael Weller

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

In this children's play, Six-year-old Nicholas gets into hot water when he invents a non-existent creature called Dogbrain to blame for his bad behavior When Dogbrain materializes (visible only to Nicholas) ...

$13

Lake No Bottom

Michael Weller

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

This comic drama by the author of Moonchildren, Loose ends, Spoils of War and The Ballad of Soapy Smith involves a literary critic and his wife who have retired to an idyllic New England lake. Their weekend ...

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Tira Tells Everything There is to Know About Herself & The Bodybuilders

Michael Weller

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 1 Female

At the outset Tira awaits the arrival of her lover, Edward, who, she admits, bores her When he goes off to retrieve the present he forgot to bring her, she is visited, in turn, by four other and quite dissim...

$13

What the Night is For

Michael Weller

Oberon

1 Male 1 Female

Ten years after the end of their affair in New York, two lovers meet in a hotel room far from their homes. Both are now married, both have children and both have been wondering about the road not taken W...

$14.99

Abroad & At Home & Fishing & Loose Ends & Moon Children

Michael Weller

Theatre Communications

"It's hard to think of a writer who knows his generation better than Michael Weller" ~ Frank Rich, New York Times Michael Weller's early work chronicled American culture as it was taken apart and reformed i...

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Now There's Just the Three of Us

Michael Weller

Samuel French Inc

Perry and Frank are roommates. Perry greatly envies Frank's expertise with the ladies, which he knows all about because Frank has told him Well: enter one Deke. Neither Perry nor Frank knows Deke; but he co...

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Moonchildren

Michael Weller

Samuel French Inc

3 Female

This is the rootless generation of sixties' youth pinpointed. Five male college seniors and their three student cohabitants have no purpose in their lives and no reverence for anything - even love for one an...

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Buying Time

Michael Weller

Samuel French Inc

A prominent law firm in the Southwest suffers a crisis of conscience when caught between the demands of a huge industrial client and a pro bono environmental group The firm's idealistic leader - Bennett Tra...

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