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Another openin'! Another show!
And what could be more exciting than seeing your own name on the program as "Playwright."
When it comes to taking your idea from page to stage, mastering the craft of dialogue and finding your characters the audience they deserve, this must-have guide has everything you need to know for building an applause-worthy script.
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MEATLOAF IN THE MOONLIGHT by David Gallic. Every family has skeletons in their closet. These skeletons are coming out to play. CLAP ON, CLAP OFF by Aiden Levy. A sexually frustrated adolescent tries to lose his virginity to his wholesome girlfriend when his grandmother leaves for a Mensa trip and entrusts him to water her plants. ANYONE, ANYWHERE by Amanda Fleming. Love can happen to anyone, anywhere. BABE, INC. by Rosemary Zibart. In the year 2108,...
63) The Buzz: A Play
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Kyla was once a TV personality. Now she's the dress hanging on the arm of her celebrity popstar boyfriend. When her anti-establishment squatter brother pays her a surprise visit on the night of the biggest music award ceremony of the year, she is forced to confront the life, and lie, she's been living.
The Buzz is a dark comedy exploring the seduction of fame, overnight celebrity culture and the injustices we disregard in favour of our own success....
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This movie The Student and the Professor is about a professor name Johnny Time. He dated his girlfriend named Donna Forman for four years. He asked for her hand in marriage. She accepted his proposal. However, four months before their wedding day, she returns the engagement ring to the professor without giving any explanation. The professor's heart was broken over the experience of being in love with someone and breaking up. He decided he would never...
65) Outta My Head
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'Outta My Head' is a collection of Six Original One-Act plays written by Award Winning Playwright, Eugene Butler. The plays are written in a variety of genres, including Comedy, Romance, Futuristic and Drama. All the plays are Character driven and offer Actors, Directors and Producers the opportunity to open their imagination and create something in their own voices.
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Alan Ayckbourn's play is about a very ordinary teenager called Lucy. With her father glued to the cowboys on the telly, her mother preoccupied with neighbourly gossip and her brother enclosed in his ear-phones, no one wants to know about her place in the school swimming team. So Lucy revives her childhood fantasy friend, Zara, setting a place for her at the very ordinary tea table. This time Zara materializes, bringing with her an idealized father...
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These plays cover one thousand years of the ancient world from the golden age of Athens to 5th century Alexandria. The protagonists are Anaxagoras, Archimedes and Hypatia, scientists, mathematicians, philosophers. All three of them came into conflict with the prevalent views of the time. Anaxagoras maintained that the sun was a big burning rock of the size of the Peleponnesus. He was condemned to death on the charge of impiety. Archimedes, the first...
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A short monologue.
Scene: the present day. It's nearly ten to midnight on Christmas Eve. A hospital radio studio at a medium-sized community hospital near Wigan. 68 year-old volunteer amateur broadcaster ROLAND GOOLE is finishing his program before the station frequency switches to BBC Radio 2 at midnight...
70) Dramatic Works
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Perhaps some day I'll disappear forever,' muses the master-builder Psymmachus in Cyprian Kamil Norwid's Cleopatra and Caesar, 'Becoming one with my work...' Today, exactly two hundred years from the poet's birth, it is difficult not to hear Norwid speaking through the lips of his character. The greatest poet of the second phase of Polish Romanticism, Norwid, like Gerard Manley Hopkins in England, created a new poetic idiom so ahead of his time, that...
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Although he never left his native Kraków except for relatively short periods, Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907) achieved worldwide fame, both as a painter, and Poland's greatest dramatist of the first half of the twentieth century. Acropolis: the Wawel Plays, brings together four of Wyspiański's most important dramatic works in a new English translation by Charles S. Kraszewski. All of the plays center on Wawel Hill: the legendary seat of royal...
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Meurtre, dissimulation de cadavre et jardinage. Comédie dramatique sur le désir, l'obsession et les engrais étranges. Une histoire d'amour à fleur de peau, des attentes frustrées et des graines gaspillées. Le tout fertilisé avec beaucoup d'humour caustique, de sensualité malade et de névroses meurtrières.
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Petits monologues pour femmes est un recueil de textes théâtraux destinés aux actrices et metteures en...
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TED LANGE also known as the Brown Bard, personifies the Renaissance Man Theatre Award he received from the NAACP. A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Lange's career has gained worldwide recognition as a gifted actor of stage and screen, revered director, and prolific writer. Lange has penned twenty-five plays including a black viewpoint on the founding of our nation, The Footnote Historian's Trilogy: George Washington's Boy, The...
75) L'Héritier
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Jean, un quinquagénaire délaissé et négligé, habite dans une petite maison tombant en ruines, à la périphérie d'une mégapole. Il est seul depuis que sa femme Ophélia est partie, il y a 25 ans, sans aucune explication et sans avoir jamais donné de ses nouvelles.
Jean aurait continué son existence sans but, si un beau jour ne s'était présenté à sa porte un jeune homme, Léonard, qui vient pour louer la cabane à cté de la maison.
Celui-ci...
76) The Line
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How did you learn to draw a line that is so ferocious and so supple? There is no question Mademoiselle... You are one of us.
From unexpected quarters in nineteenth century France, a bright new talent emerges: confident, penniless, and a woman. But circumstance is no obstacle to Suzanne Valadon. For the great Edgar Degas, his ambitious protégée proves the biggest challenge of his life.
Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Line premiered at the Arcola Theatre,...
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“The Tragedy at Cambria”, a three-act play written in rhyming iambic pentameter, tells a story of love, deception, and power. In the medieval kingdom of Cambria, aging King John faces a grave decision. His forebearers created extremely strict laws regarding unwed pregnancy, and now a sixteen-year-old girl, Plain Jane, is guilty of being with child. Either Jane or the baby must die. At Queen Beatrice's urging, King John assigns their teenage son...
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HEAVEN KNOWS I'M MISERABLE NOW Is death really the end? Andy Reardon is about to find out, and he's beginning to wish it was. When Andy discovers his number is up, he finds the afterlife is not exactly fluffy clouds, harps and Saint Peter. What will Andy do about his dead wives? He has three of them, all chomping at the bit to see Andy again but none of them quite how Andy remembers. With Jesus Christ and Adolph Hitler dishing out advice, Andy might...
79) Lally the Scut
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The child's down a hole, the mother's up to high doh, the town's up in arms and humanity's down the drain. Uproarious, occasionally macabre and always compelling, Lally the Scut draws a line in the mud for Northern Ireland.They say the child was tempted down with toys and slices of teddy-bear ham.Abbie Spallen's Lally the Scut premiered at the MAC, Belfast, in a Tinderbox production in April 2015.
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For more than 70 years, “The Best American Short Plays” has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights—Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and others—who have gone on to establish award-winning careers.
“The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014” takes a look at our changing times. "Uncertain" seems to be the watchword of today's world, full of surprises, shocks,...
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