Plays by Publisher - P

Holiday for Lovers

Ronald Alexander

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 5 Female

Holiday For Lovers is the carefree story of the Dean family - Father, Mother and twenty-year-old daughter, Betsy - from Minneapolis, who embark on their first European holiday, to soak up some old world c...

$13

Tea and Sympathy

Robert Anderson

Samuel French Inc

9 Male 2 Female

This story of a forlorn boy at boarding school who is hazed by his classmates because he has played girls' parts in amateur theatricals and because he is very sensitive The kidding turns to rumor and finall...

$10.99

Political Theatre during the Spanish Civil War

Jim McCarthy

University of Wales

Jim McCarthy's ground-breaking study rediscovers the forgotten political theatre of the Spanish Civil War Teatro de urgencia is an aspect of Spanish cultural history that virtually disappeared with the de...

$69.99

1949

David French

Talon Books

8 Male 6 Female

Newfoundland joins Confederation in the continuing saga of the Mercer family As recent immigrants to Toronto they see this event both as a new future and as a loss of Newfoundland's culture and independe...

$17.99

True Crimes

Romulus Linney

Dramatists Play Service

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...

$13

The Orphan

David Rabe

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 6 Female

$10.99

After Dinner

Andrew Bovell

Currency Press

2 Male 3 Female

After Dinner is an acutely observed but tender-hearted account of relationships and behaviour set in a suburban pub bistro on a Friday night Since its premiere at La Mama, Melbourne, Bovell's comedy has enj...

$27.99

Flowers for Algernon

David Rogers from Daniel Keyes

Dramatic Publishing

9 Female

"Ingeniously touching and intensely real," wrote the critic of The Baltimore Sun. "Convincing, suspenseful, touching," was the comment of the New York Times critic who concluded his review with the observat...

$11.99

Cops

Terry Curtis Fox

Samuel French Inc

8 Male 1 Female

This gritty, realistic comedy/drama is set in a Chicago diner where three policemen play cruel practical jokes on the few late night customers and tell stories about themselves, fellow officers and the dull ...

$10.99

The Framer

Edward Allan Baker

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 2 Female

A picture frame shop in a southern New England town is the setting for this tragi-comedy in which a dying man toils ceaselessly in order to leave his once-abused wife some postmortem financial security He ...

$13

The Crucifer of Blood

Paul Giovanni

Samuel French Inc

1 Female

The Crucifer of Blood is an ingenious pastiche of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, primarily The Sign of Four Taking place in 1887, it deals with the Agra Treasure stolen 30 years before by two Englis...

$10.99

The Castle

David Fishelson & Aaron Leichter from a dramatization by Max Brod based on Franz Kafka

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 3 Female

By turns sexy, comic and horrifying, this new stage version of The Castle tells the story of a man who decides to fight a monstrous bureaucracy rather than give in to it, attempting and failing to gain ent...

$13

Anne of Green Gables

Sylvia Ashby from L M Montgomery

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 9 Female

This is a straight adaptation of the much-loved tale of red-haired orphan Anne, telling how she charms and overcomes the hostility when she arrives on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in the 1900s

$10.99

Acts of Faith

Marilyn Felt

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

Shi'ite Muslim terrorists have hijacked a jetliner. Ahmed is assigned to guard the plane's one Jewish passenger, an American named Barbara Whereas Ahmed is ready to die for his beliefs, Barbara has no parti...

$10.99

Happy New Year

Bert Shevelove from Philip Barry

Samuel French Inc

Set in the 1930s with songs by Cole Porter, Bert Shevelove's clever Musical adaptation gives new life to Philip Barry's 1928 play Holiday, one of America's most popular comediesIt focuses on hedonistic young...

$10.99

Speculators

Tony Marchant

AmberLane Press

4 Female

It is 7.15 a.m. in the foreign exchange dealing room of a bank in the City of London and the young whizz-kids are all geared up for a day's work making money out of money Deutschmarks, dollars, yen - the ba...

$16.99

Where the Lilies Bloom

Celeste Raspanti from Vera & Bill Cleaver

Dramatic Publishing

7 Male 9 Female

Young Mary Call Luther has spunk, guts, spirit - call it what you will - and she needs them if she's to keep her family together after the death of her father To do this, she has to hide her father's dea...

$10.99

Jerry Finnegan's Sister

Jack Neary

Dramatic Publishing

1 Male 1 Female

Brian Dowd has spent the last 10 years of his life wrestling with an unrequited "something" for his best friend's sister, who happens to live next door But each and every time he's spoken with Beth Finne...

$11.99

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Neil Simon

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 2 Female

This Broadway hit is a homage to the author's early days in show biz when he worked as a junior jokesmith for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows He was stuck in a room with a bunch of the looniest comedy write...

$10.99

Total Eclipse

Christopher Hampton

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 4 Female

A fascinating insight into the friendship between the poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud which takes a look at the bourgeois and artistic societies of the nineteenth century With a moving understanding ...

$10.99