Abundance

Abundance PDF Author: Beth Henley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822200055
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Get Book Here

Book Description
THE STORY: Bess Johnson and Macon Hill are mail-order brides who meet while waiting for their husbands to pick them up to start life in a small town in the Wyoming Territory in the 1860s. Bess is a romantic while Macon Hill is exuberant and determi

Abundance

Abundance PDF Author: Beth Henley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822200055
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Get Book Here

Book Description
THE STORY: Bess Johnson and Macon Hill are mail-order brides who meet while waiting for their husbands to pick them up to start life in a small town in the Wyoming Territory in the 1860s. Bess is a romantic while Macon Hill is exuberant and determi

Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart PDF Author: Beth Henley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822202509
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Get Book Here

Book Description
THE STORY: The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried

The Jacksonian

The Jacksonian PDF Author: Beth Henley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822231468
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Get Book Here

Book Description
Jackson, Mississippi, 1964. When his wife kicks him out, respectable dentist Bill Perch moves into the seedy Jacksonian Motel. There, his downward spiral is punctuated by encounters with his teenage daughter, a gold-digging motel employee, a treacherous bartender, and his now-estranged wife. Revolving around the night of a murder, THE JACKSONIAN brims with suspense and dark humor and unearths the eerie tensions and madness in a town poisoned by racism.

The Debutante Ball

The Debutante Ball PDF Author: Beth Henley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822215837
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Get Book Here

Book Description
THE STORY: This stunning comic drama, set in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, begins the morning of Teddy Parker's debutante ball, that archetypal phenomenon in Southern culture known as a maiden's coming out. Teddy's mother, the beautiful and formidabl

Am I Blue

Am I Blue PDF Author: Beth Henley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822200215
Category : One-act plays
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Get Book Here

Book Description


The Wake of Jamey Foster

The Wake of Jamey Foster PDF Author: Beth Henley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822212171
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Get Book Here

Book Description
THE STORY: The scene is a small town in Mississippi, where the family of Jamey Foster, a failed poet and would-be historian, who was kicked in the head by a cow while consorting with his mistress in a pasture, have gathered for his wake. The mourne

The Lucky Spot

The Lucky Spot PDF Author: Beth Henley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822207061
Category : Ballrooms
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Get Book Here

Book Description
THE STORY: The place is Pigeon, Louisiana, the time Christmas 1934--at the low point of the American Depression. Reed Hooker, a compulsive gambler, has won a rundown rural dance hall in a poker game, and hopes that it will make his fortune. Assisted

Desire – Six One-Act Plays

Desire – Six One-Act Plays PDF Author: Elizabeth Egloff
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822236737
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 99

Get Book Here

Book Description
ATTACK OF THE GIANT TENT WORMS. Billy and Clara are nearing the end of their summer vacation on Cape Cod, as their cottage is being devoured by billions of tent-worms. Worse, Billy has just gotten word from his oncologist that there are no more treatment options for his brain cancer. A darkly humorous exploration of which is more terrifying: bugs or death? (1 man, 1 woman.) DESIRE QUENCHED BY TOUCH. In 1950s New Orleans, a black masseur must account for the disappearance of his favorite white customer. People don’t just vanish inside massage parlors… (3 men.) THE FIELD OF BLUE CHILDREN. Everything in Layley’s life is going according to plan. She belongs to the best sorority at her university and has a devoted boyfriend who could easily become a devoted husband. But Layley suspects that there is more to life than stifling conformity. So she signs up for a poetry class in the hopes of expressing herself. There she meets Dylan, a sensitive poet with whom she enjoys a night of passion that opens up a truly revolutionary prospect: living a life of her own. (3 men, 4 women.) ORIFLAMME. Oriflamme (noun): A red or scarlet banner; a knight’s standard; a rallying principle…Sickly Anna Kimball, on her final day, reaches out for, and becomes, all of these. (1 man, 1 woman.) YOU LIED TO ME ABOUT CENTRALIA. Jim, the Gentleman Caller, leaves the Wingfields’ disastrous dinner party to meet his fiancée Betty’s train. The evening won’t turn out the way either of them expected. (1 man, 1 woman.) THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN A VIOLIN CASE AND A COFFIN. Tom and his sister Roe’s childhood comes to a painful end when Richard Miles, who moves in light, arrives in town with his violin in a case. (2 men, 4 women.)

Impossible Marriage

Impossible Marriage PDF Author: Beth Henley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822216971
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Get Book Here

Book Description
THE STORY : The entire action of the play takes place in Kandall Kingsley's beautiful and mysterious garden. Kandall's youngest daughter, Pandora, is to be wed to Edvard Lunt, a worldly artist twice her age. Kandall does not think the match to be at

Monologues for Women

Monologues for Women PDF Author: Beth Henley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780940669208
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Get Book Here

Book Description
Speeches for women from The Lucky Spot, Abundance, The Wake of Jamey Foster, The Miss Firecracker Contest, Crimes of the Heart, Am I Blue, The Debutante Ball and Signature.