Plays by Author - Shirley Lauro

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Shirley Lauro

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 7 Female

This drama for a racially and ethnically mixed cast explores equal opportunity in college admissions Calvin Jefferson, a sophomore at an urban college not unlike New York's City College, reads at the fifth ...

$10.99

A Piece of My Heart

Shirley Lauro

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 6 Female

This is a powerful, true drama of six women who went to Viet Nam five nurses and a country western singer booked by an unscrupulous agent to entertain the troops. The play portrays each young woman before, d...

$10.99

The Coal Diamond

Shirley Lauro

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 4 Female

The time is 1955, the place a Missouri insurance company office on the hottest day of the year. It is lunchtime, and four women employees gather for their daily session of gossip and bridge The senior me...

$13

I Don't Know Where You're Coming from at All!

Shirley Lauro

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 3 Female

In this one act play, Britt, the talented but troubled daughter of celebrities, is the school brat She has been selected to solo with the orchestra, but she arrives hours late for a rehearsal The enraged t...

$8.99

The Contest

Shirley Lauro

Applause Books

A naturalistic family comedy/drama centering on a shy young adolescent, Bevvie Sue, caught in the web of her hilarious but powerful mother's fantasies of gaining fame and fortune through complusive contest...

$7.99

Clarence Darrow's Last Trial

Shirley Lauro

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

For the last time in his career, Clarence Darrow pleads in a criminal court of law The story takes place in 1932, set in various places in Chicago and Hawaii, when Darrow with his wife, Ruby, travels to Ho...

$10.99