Plays by Publisher - A

Family Planning

Frank Vickery

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 4 Female

When young Tracy discovers she is pregnant, she doesn't know how to break the news to her solid, dependable mother, to her hypochondriac father or to her boyfriend. Gran, who is permanently ensconced in bed ...

$12.99

The Terrible Tattoo Parlor

Mary Chase

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 4 Female

Linda and Julie, two twelve year olds, delight in calling strangers on the phone and then terrifying them by breathing heavily and chewing ice cubes in their ears One of their victims is Vivian Lucas, a ...

$13

Respect for Acting

Uta Hagen & Haskel Frankel

John Wiley & Sons

This seminal text covers voice techniques, timing, and rhythm It teaches how to establish the identity of a character, how to use physical senses and inner objects, and much more Uta Hagen is an internatio...

$19.99

Moving

Hugh Leonard

Samuel French Ltd

5 Male 4 Female

It is 1957 and the Noone family are moving to a new house in Dublin, ably assisted by the Removal Man who steps in and out of the action commenting on the relationships The second act is set in 1987 when th...

$12.99

Staircase

Charles Dyer

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 0 Female

A complex play concerning Charles and Harry who have lived together as a homosexual couple for years. Charles is terrified by a forthcoming court case and fears exposure to his daughter who is soon to visit,...

$12.99

The Day After the Fair

Frank Harvey

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 4 Female

Based on a short story by Thomas Hardy, this is a tale of an illiterate servant girl who falls in love with a stranger, Charles, and convinces her mistress to write him love letters on her behalf. Through wr...

$12.99

Schemes for Classroom Drama

Maggie Hulson

Trenthan Books

The schemes of work in this book provide clear, coherent, thought-provoking opportunities for drama teachers They outline class lessons rooted in child-centred, humanising theory and practice, to help equip...

$29.99

Captive

Jan Buttram

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

A hilarious take on a father/daughter relationship, this off beat comedy combines foreign intrigue with down home philosophy Sally Pound flees a bad marriage in New York and arrives at her parent's home in ...

$10.99

Departures

John Godber

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 6 Female

The Departure lounges of ten airports across Europe and America provide a backdrop of delays, dangers and frustration as two business executives, Jim and Steve, embark on a journey of self-discovery While th...

$12.99

A Life in the Theatre

David Mamet

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 0 Female

Two actors are seen performing, rehearsing, discussing and arguing over their workIn a series of snippets of plays running the gamut from melodrama to pseudo Chekhov to sheer corn, the two portray the realit...

$10.99

New Beat on an Old Drum

Kurtz Gordon

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 7 Female

When Jane Shaw, a young teacher, arrives to spend the summer at the beach house inherited from her aunt, she finds that her neighbors (four slightly "pixilated" widows) have agreed to sell their land to a...

$13

The Busy World is Hushed

Keith Bunin

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

Hannah, a minister and Bible scholar, finds her faith at odds with that of Thomas, her estranged, wayward son But when an inquisitive young writer hired to assist Hannah with her latest publication learns pa...

$13

The Interview

Peter Swet

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 0 Female

The scene is New York's Lower East Side, the small shop of Abie Moscowitz, an aging Jewish tailor. He is visited by Shannon, an arrogant, brash investigator, who is suspicious as to why Abie wants to incr...

$13

The Roman Actor

Philip Massinger

Nick Hern Books

Domitian, the tyrannical Roman Emperor, wreaks havoc and bloody revenge for his wife's infidelity with Paris, the Roman actor of the title Regarded as Massinger's finest play, The Roman Actor is both a con...

$16.99

The Petrified Forest

Robert E Sherwood

Dramatists Play Service

Gabby Maple is a young girl who wants to see the world, but necessity compels her to work as a waitress in the middle of the Arizona desert Out of the desert comes Alan Squier, a disillusioned sophisticat...

$13

Playhouse Creatures - Acting Edition

April De Angelis

Samuel French Ltd

0 Male 4 Female

The year is 1669 A bawdy and troublesome time Theaters have just reopened after seventeen years of Puritan suppression There is a surge in dramatic writing and the first English actresses appear on stage ...

$12.99

Mercy

Laura Cahill

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

On Manhattan's Upper West Side, Sarah decides to brighten her spirits, and those of her friend Isobel, by throwing an impromptu dinner party Sarah invites Bo, a wanna-be singer who, to the dismay of Isobe...

$13

The Grown-Ups

Nicholas Kelly

Methuen

Very much a play of our times, The Grown-Ups is a gripping examination of the way we live now and the thirty-something preoccupation with status, materialism and what it really means to be a 'grown-up' in co...

$15.99

Splash Hatch on the E Going Down

Kia Corthron

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

Thyme is fifteen, an A student and three months' pregnant. Erry is eighteen, the opposite of book smart and lives with his wife, Thyme, in the bedroom of her parents' Harlem apartment Shaneequa is fiftee...

$13

Alfred the Great

Israel Horovitz

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Alfred Webber visits his old family home where Margaret, his ex-girlfriend of many years ago, and her husband, Will, now live Margaret still carries a torch for Albert, driving Will to extremes of jealo...

$13