Author: Don Nigro
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573627200
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Contents: Tales from the Red Rose Inn Childe Rowland to the Dark Tower Came Lucy and the Mystery of the Vine-Encrusted Mansion Darkness Like a Dream Joan of Arc in the Autumn Warburton's Cook Higgs Field Things that Go Bump in the Night Uncle Clete's Toad Malefactor's Bloody Register Capone
Author: Don Nigro
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573627811
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Author: Don Nigro
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573628825
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Silent film starlet Mary Margaret is alone in her Hollywood bungalow, about to kill herself. A former Shakespearean stage actor, now a drunken silent movie leading man with a bad reputation, calls on her and tries to convince her to face life. In the course of their hilarious conflict, images of the actor's past emerge. His efforts to help Mary Margaret live force him to deal with his own demons and find a way to cope with the terrible secret that eats away at him like the cannibal Laestrygonians in Homer's Odyssey. Funny and rich in character and language, this powerful and unusual love story, part of the Pendragon series of plays, is rich with great audition monologues and scenes. Don Nigro's followers will recognize some of the characters from Chronicles, Anima Mundi, Beast with Two Backs, Autumn Leaves and Dramatis Personae--all plays from his series Pendragon Plays
Author: Don Nigro
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573628115
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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In Greenwich Village in the late 1920s Al, an artist, moves into a rooming house on Macdougal Street and finds himself being pulled deeper and deeper into the lives of its inhabitants. Above him live Mary Margaret, a lost actress from Ohio, and her philandering poet boyfriend, Jem. Al meets Mary Margaret when she comes home drunk one night and blunders into his bed. He falls in love with her. The landlord, McLish, keeps bursting into Al's room to help him with his romance. McLish, a failed writer, has his own troubles: a beautiful but compulsively disloyal wife. And somebody keeps playing "The Saint James Infirmary Blues." Al's attempt to rescue Mary Margaret is the core of this richly atmospheric love story which vividly recreates the world of artists and writers in this era. (Mary Margaret also appears in his Anima Mundi and Laestrygonians.) In Pendragon Plays.
Author: Don Nigro
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573628122
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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In the autumn of 1980, Aunt Liz is trapped in a nursing home in the hilly agricultural country of east Ohio while her niece Becky and Becky's revolting husband try to steal and destroy her farm. Her life is further complicated by a harried but sympathetic young nurse, her nomadic nephew, a bewildered friend, and her sisters cranky Molly and Dorothy, a deaf mute piano player. Memories of her beautiful and long dead Jessie also intrude, as well as her outrageous fellow inmate, Mr. Kafka, who tries to teach her about muskrat traps and immortality. This funny and moving play was first produced with great success at Capital Rep in Albany; it has particularly rich roles for a mature cast. November is part of the author's cycle of Pendragon Plays; fans will recognize some of the characters from other plays in the series.
Author: Don Nigro
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573628511
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: Ian August
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573642425
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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"It starts with a Girl, and then adds a Boy. They meet amidst the colorful aisles of Le Supermarche. They blend well and marry, and move to a little cottage in the country. But the Girl begins to curdle in her milquetoast life, and returns to the market to find comfort and peace. Instead she finds a strange old man, who offers her a recipe for change; a delicious but dangerous solution to her marital woes. A Fairy Tale in Foodspeak, Le Supermarche is the story of cream colored romance and frosty revenge, wrapped in wit and warmth and topped with bits of bacon."--Publisher's website.
Author: Don Nigro
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573627194
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Jane Lamb, an orphan, finds a home at Mrs. Turley's Bunch of Grapes Inn in Boston during the Revolution. The colorful, eccentric and dangerous regulars she encounters there include a demonic roustabout who is a patriot, a traitor or a bit of both; Ophelia, a mad girl who talks to mice, and the Oyster Man, a street vendor obsessed with the Boston Massacre where he received a wound that has scrambled his brains to an alarming degree. Jane learns a vivid lesson about the dark underside of patriotic mythology in this nightmarish world of murder, secrets, betrayal and lunacy. This savagely funny, robust and haunting play is part of the author's series Pendragon Plays.
Author: Megan Mostyn-Brown
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573651137
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Drama / 3m. 3f. A near-drowning accident sends Phoebe into a tailspin as she turns away from her marriage and toward her rescuer. Science teacher Victor loses his job and meets an unusual girl all in one day. While Ronnie is deciding whether to tell her newly single roommate Sebastian how she really feels. Through a masterful web of intertwined storylines and relationships, LIZARDS ... tells the tale of six twentysomethings adapting to stress - and on the brink of change. Performance licensing a
Author: David Johnston
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573629600
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Includes: Along For the Ride: Kerrie and Karl both race for the same cab and agree to share. Their subconscious selves ride along, so the audience hears what they say to each other and what they are actually thinking throughout this charming comedy about love at first sight that just takes a while to blossom. ** A Low-Lying Fog:Brotherly love is put to the test as Phil and Greg try to determine what really happened on a day that forever changed their lives. This story of awful mistakes made by good people ¿ and the love that redeems such errors ¿ unfolds as the two men directly address the audience.**Blueberry Waltz:One week after an accident in a Pennsylvania coal mine that trapped men underground, a miner's wife is afraid to move on with life even though her husband was uninjured. His playful, even silly attempts fail to alleviate her obsessive terror. When she says what she really thought during his ordeal, her honesty strengthens their relationship. As a favorite song plays on the radio, they dance and know that they can face the future. ** The Ferry: A pick-up line ("Are you from Staten Island?") turns metaphysical as a woman from Iowa tries to explain how the world works to an insulated Staten Island native. As she speaks, she reveals her prejudices while he, though limited in perception and worldliness, displays the ability to accept what he sees and meet others on equal footing. The Ferry was commissioned by a benefit for families of busboys, dishwashers and other non-salaried restaurant workers in the World Trade Center. **Leaving Tangier:Cooper, an American expatriate poet, has traveled from Tangier to a rural Southern town with the ashes of Oswin Everett Pickett, a famous writer and notorious gay figure who had been living in northern Africa. Pickett left specific instructions that there be no religious observance when his ashes were returned to America, but his great niece and the local preacher are determined to give him a ¿good Methodist funeral.¿ Pickett¿s great nephew, a young man obsessed with the notorious man¿s works, urges Cooper to tell him about his deceased relative. In return, Cooper suggests that the young man should come to Tangier with him. ** Quick and Dirty (A Subway Fantasy): This steamy and provocative wake-up call for daydreamers toys with a potential liaison on a subway platform. There¿s an attractive woman and a good-looking man. Eyes meet. The attraction is obvious, but where does fantasy end and reality begin.
