Plays by Author - Romulus Linney

Three Poets

Romulus Linney

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2 Male 3 Female

Three women who were astonishing poets are the subjects of this trio of linked short plays. Ono no Komachi (Japan, 9th century), Hrosvitha (Gandersheim, Saxony, 10th century), and Anna Akhmatova (USSR, 20...

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The Sorrows of Frederick

Romulus Linney

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Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, aged 73, rises in his tent on the morning of a battle. He is bent, snarling, formidable and sardonically funny He addresses his army and rouses it to savage fury, t...

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Holy Ghosts

Romulus Linney

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5 Female

Seeking to retrieve his runaway wife (and the possessions she has taken with her), Coleman Shedman arrives at the rural meeting house of a southern pentecostal sect with a lawyer in tow But his wife, Nanc...

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Klonsky and Schwartz

Romulus Linney

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2 Male 0 Female

The turbulent relationship between struggling writer Milton Klonsky and his mentor, the brilliant poet Delmore Schwartz, is the basis of this engrossing dramaWarm scenes of their deep friendship alternate wi...

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Old Man Joseph and His Family

Romulus Linney

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6 Male 4 Female

Comprised of a series of vignettes, bridged by music and deft changes of scene, the play offers a fresh and colorful interpretation of biblical events and figuresAs the action begins we meet the aged Josep...

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True Crimes

Romulus Linney

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5 Male 4 Female

Logan Novel is a lazy man, given to reading aloud from various "True Crime" magazines which fascinate him. Fortunately for him, he is also very attractive to women and has mistresses who support him Mar...

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Gint

Romulus Linney

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4 Male 5 Female

Gint unfolds like a strange dream, beginning with Pete Gint, a ragged young man in the Appalachian Mountains in 1917 He spends most of his time lying, drinking and getting into trouble. Gint is determined...

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Heathen Valley

Romulus Linney

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4 Male 2 Female

Set in the 1860s, the action of the play centers on the desire of the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina to bring the word of God to a valley so remote and untamed that brothers marry sisters and the peop...

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The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks - FULL-LENGTH

Romulus Linney

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5 Male 5 Female

This is the full length version An Army general and his wife have committed a ritual double suicide during a Halloween party in the officers' club at Schofield Barracks And now an official court of inq...

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El Hermano

Romulus Linney

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5 Male 3 Female

Election Year ~ Set during the final months of the Reagan-Mondale presidential campaign, the action of the play is comprised of a series of lunchtime get-togethers between two young, unattached "yuppies" ...

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Mountain Memory

Romulus Linney

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5 Male 3 Female

The play follows the lives of a family of settlers in the Appalachian Mountains. Father has found a plot of land which pleases him greatly, despite the fact that it is on a mountain slope and not in the mo...

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A Woman Without a Name

Romulus Linney

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5 Male 4 Female

The place is a small American town. The time 1900. As the play begins the characters enter and seat themselves in a semi-circle of antique chairs The last to enter is the Woman, who carries a ledger (he...

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Spain

Romulus Linney

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5 Male 2 Female

Part I, Torquemada, takes place in 1490, in the middle of questioning by the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, Archbishop Tomas de Torquemada, and his two assistants, Brother Puyal and Bishop Acero This day, t...

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Juliet & Yancey & April Snow

Romulus Linney

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6 Male 3 Female

The first play, Juliet, explores the debate between an intense and brilliant young director and his temperamental leading lady about their differing interpretations of Ibsen's Ghosts He wants to do the p...

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Tennessee

Romulus Linney

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3 Male 3 Female

Set in the mountains of North Carolina in 1870, the play deals with a frontier family; father, mother and son, who work long hours to wrest a living from the small farm they have bought from the county ...

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Romulus Linney

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9 Male 1 Female

April, 1945 and the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials against the leaders of Nazi Germany are about to begin Hermann Goering, in the place of Adolf Hitler, leads the accused and with his German counsel, prepar...

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The Death of King Philip

Romulus Linney

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2 Male 2 Female

Set in colonial America, the play tells the story of Mary Rowlandson, who is abducted with her baby son during an Indian uprising that left a dozen New England settlements in ruins At first we meet Mary ...

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Ambrosio

Romulus Linney

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5 Male 2 Female

Freely adapted from Matthew Lewis' eighteenth-century gothic novel, The Monk,Ambrosio,the play, deftly transposes our own contemporary concerns about sexuality, desire and abstinence on to the original nov...

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The Captivity of Pixie Shedman

Romulus Linney

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4 Male 1 Female

Attempting a novel based on his late grandmother's diary, Bertram Shedman, a struggling young writer, is bemused by her extravagant tales and high-flown poetry Trying to sort out the truth of this remark...

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Pops - Six Short Plays

Romulus Linney

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Unified by their shared theme of the myriad aspects of love, the plays are also related by their "musical" titles, which further underscore the author's intention of creating a "pops program" of short and...

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