Plays, playscripts, drama
Samuel French Ltd A Respectable Funeral
Book SynopsisA Respectable Funeral is one of the first one act plays from the sensitive and humorous pen of Jimmie Chinn. It was presented and performed as a double bill - with one of Mr Chinn''s other plays, From Here To The Library - under the title of Back To Back in Oldham. Both plays can be performed separately or as an entertaining double bill.3 women, 1 man
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Samuel French Ltd You Me and Mrs. Jones
Book SynopsisTwo unemployed teenagers who are uncertain about themselves and the world around them are sent on a quest to find heroes fit to save the day. They encounter a hodge podge of humanity: violent street gangs, cranky religious sects, unscrupulous pop groups, television characters and even a family of vagrants. In this final encounter they appear to find their hero the elusive Mrs. Jones. Unable to persuade her to return with them, they go back to empty handed only to find that their commander has disappeared. Yet all is not lost they have gained knowledge and gone from being Nobody to Somebody.9 women, 10 men
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Samuel French Ltd Top Girls Acting Edition S
Book SynopsisMarlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on maternity and ambition. In a time warp, these ladies are also her co-workers, clients, and relatives. Marlene, like her famous guests, has had to pay a price to ascend from proletarian roots to the executive suite: she has become, figuratively speaking, a male oppressor and even coaches female clients on adopting odious male traits. Marlene has also abandoned her illegitimate and dull-witted daughter. Her emotional and sexual life has become as barren as Lady Macbeth''s.Trade Review""Top Girls" has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert. You can smell life, and at the same time feel locked in an argument with an agile and passionate mind."--"The Sunday Times""A dramatist who must surely be rated among the half-dozen best now writing a playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting."--"New Statesman" "One of our best writers her play is brilliantly conceived with considerable wit to illuminate the underlying deep human seriousness of her theme."--"Spectator"
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Samuel French Ltd Murder in the Studio
Book SynopsisA collection of three radio plays, including a Poirot story, for live performance comprised of Personal Call, Yellow Iris, and Butter in a Lordly Dish.Personal Call sees James Brent haunted by his dead wife when he receives a mysterious telephone call, seemingly from beyond the grave.Yellow Iris marked Hercule Poirot''s debut appearance on radio in which the famous detective is called to the hotel Jardin des Cygnes to solve an old case in which a cold-blooded killer escaped justice and slipped through his fingers.Butter in a Lordly Dish sees eminent prosecution barrister Sir Luke Enderby get his comeuppance in one of Christie''s most gruesome and horrifying murders.
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Samuel French Ltd The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime
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Samuel French Ltd The Albatross 3rd Main
Book SynopsisGene Lacy, a former lobster boat fisherman and proprietor of Lacy''s General Store, is down on his luck big time: he''s ducking creditors, huge gambling debts, and an ex-wife with very expensive tastes. So when Spider walks into his store with a golden lottery ticket in the shape of a rare and valuable dead bird, Gene has a choice to make. He has the connections to help Spider turn his windfall into greenbacks, but there''s one tiny problem, as Gene''s right-hand man - an ex-boxer named Lullaby - is well aware: it''s a felony offence to even be in possession of the bird. As the metaphorical noose tightens, and the threat of a lengthy stretch behind bars hangs over them, so the friendships unravel with a potentially deadly and deadly funny outcome: if there''s honour amongst thieves, somebody forgot to tell these guys.
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Samuel French Ltd Fabric
Book SynopsisLeah has lost her friends, family, career and dignity. Forced to move for a third time following a harrowing court case, she relives painful events in her past as she sorts through all the stuff that has accumulated in her spare room: clothes she doesn''t wear, books she doesn''t read, things she doesn''t need anymore. Leah desperately tries to unpick just where it all went wrong and who or what is really to blame.FABRIC deals with the aftermath of a rape that isn''t believed and confronts the traditional roles still expected of women; questioning how much has changed since the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
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Samuel French Ltd The Grinning Man
Book SynopsisA strange new act has arrived at Trafalgar Fair''s freakshow.Who is Grinpayne and how did he get his hideous smile?With the help of an old puppeteer, his pet wolf and a blind girl, Grinpayne''s tale is told. When word spreads across the capital, everything changes. Desperate to know the terrible secrets of his mysterious past, Grinpayne leaves his true love behind and embarks on a journey into an even crueller world - the aristocracy. The Grinning Man is a fairy tale love story streaked with pitch-black humour, lashings of Gothic horror and swashbuckling adventure. It opened at Bristol Old Vic in 2016 to great acclaim and transferred to the West End''s Trafalgar Studios in 2017 where it achieved cult status and rave reviews.Defies theatrical convention by keeping its hand on its heart and its tongue in its cheek. - The GuardianBlackly comic brilliance. - The TelegraphThe best British
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Samuel French Ltd Mustard
Book SynopsisWhen E meets the man of her dreams, a professional cyclist, love hits her in the pubic bone like a train. For a brief period she is high on life - he''s the answer to her crippling loneliness, her self-harm issues, her non-existent career. But when the cyclist cheats on her and ends the relationship E plummets into a black hole of heartbreak. She turns to her only friend - mustard.
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Samuel French Ltd Private Peaceful A Play For A Small Ensemble
Book SynopsisThe Peaceful brothers, Tommo and Charlie, have a tough rural childhood facing the death of their father, financial hardship and a cruel landlord. Their fierce loyalty to each other pulls them through, until one day they both fall for the same girl. And then the Great War comes.It tells the story of a country lad fighting a war he doesn''t understand for people he cannot respect. We join 18-year-old Private Tommo Peaceful in the trenches as he tells us a story of courage, devotion and sibling rivalry on what may be his last night on earth.Private Peaceful was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, won the Red House Children''s Book Award and the Blue Peter Book Award and is acknowledged by Michael Morpurgo (War Horse, The Butterfly Lion) to be his favourite work. This new, small ensemble version by Simon Reade was commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse.
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Samuel French Ltd The Donahue Sisters
Book SynopsisThe attic of the family home in Ireland, once a playroom, is the setting for this sinister play from the author of Bar and Ger. Awaiting the death of their father, sisters talk about their unhappy lives long into the night. The time comes for a ritual re enactment of a violent incident from their childhood. Departing from the hitherto naturalistic style, Aron imaginatively has the sisters speak and act in unison to create the persona of a young boy. When the ritual is complete, things return to normal and the women seem to have found answers to their problems. Remaining is the uneasy prospect of the past repeating itself. Inventive and mysterious, this play is a challenge to both actors and directors.3 women
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Samuel French Ltd Spun
Book SynopsisSafa and Aisha have been best friends for years. They used to bunk off school, revise for exams together and even went to the same university. But now they''re forging different paths for the first time: Safa to work in the City, and Aisha to teach in Newham. When London is attacked one day in July, Safa and Aisha feel the whole world spinning. As extremes from all sides take hold of the city, can their friendship survive the upheaval?Spun is the exhilarating debut play from Rabiah Hussain. Seen through the eyes of two British Pakistani Muslim girls from East London, this funny and moving drama unravels the makings of a friendship, microaggressions in the city, and the challenge of keeping rooted through unstable times.
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Samuel French Ltd My Dads A Birdman
Book SynopsisAre me feet off the floor yet? Are me feet off the floor? In a rainy town in the north of England, there are strange goings-on. Dad is building a pair of wings, eating flies, and feathering his nest. Auntie Doreen is getting cross and making dumplings. Mr Poop is parading the streets, shouting louder and louder, and even Mr Mint, the head teacher, is getting in a flap. And watching it all is Lizzie, missing her mam and looking after her dad and thinking how beautiful the birds are. What''s behind it all? It''s the Great Human Bird Competition, of course. Who will be the first to fly across the River Tyne?David Almond''s barmy, tender and funny tale about wings and faith, written for the Young Vic to accompany their production of Skellig. It has since been performed many times around the world, and also adapted by Almond into a much-loved, much-translated novel, with illustrations by Polly Dunbar.
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Samuel French Ltd The Boy Who Kicked Pigs
Book SynopsisWhen Robert kicks his sister''s beloved piggy bank, Trevor, out of the window he sets in motion a chain of events that results in the unexpected demise of a local fishmonger. Having developed a taste for blood and sick to death of sneering, imbecilic adults, Robert sets about becoming the real murderer he has always dreamed of being, all the while egged on by the newly-talking Trevor. Meanwhile, in the mind-numbingly boring offices of local paper The Kent Clarion, work experience student Philip Bottering wishes for something, anything to report on - preferably a juicy disaster. Based on the novel by Doctor Who''s Tom Baker, this madly-hilarious, frenetic scream of a show, which includes shark-mauling beach-goers, burning vicars and even waltzing rats, is a multi-rolling masterpiece that tells the gloriously grisly tale of one scoundrel''s attempt at infamy.
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Samuel French Ltd Vespertilio
Book SynopsisSo there''s a theory that we all have a fi nite number of heartbeats. We all have a billion heartbeats to live. Humans, cats, dogs, rats - all our hearts beat at different speeds but we all have the same amount. A clock with a billion ticks.Inspired by the incredible true story of the last greater mouse-eared bat living in Britain, Vespertilio explores the tender romance between introverted bat-enthusiast Alan and Josh, the charming young runaway he meets in an abandoned railway tunnel. As their relationship develops, these two damaged men might fix one another. If only a little. Vespertilio is a story of love, loneliness and bats, an exploration of the difference between merely surviving and truly living.
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Samuel French Ltd Whats Lost
Book SynopsisWinner of the Alfred Fagon AwardDebra wants a simple candle lit remembrance, Lenny is desperate to forget, and activist Alex thinks it''s everyone''s duty to provoke change. Having missed her mother''s funeral, Gina finally turns up a year late. Amid recurring memories, intensifying relations and mixed news reports on escalating knife crime, each walks in and out on each other, struggling to make sense of an increasingly troubled time. A story of two sisters, responsibility, loss and love
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Samuel French Ltd One Good Turn
Book SynopsisBrenda wants Frank to do his exercises, Aoife wants to go to a wedding of all things, Fiona doesn''t know what she wants and Frank is looking for the gun. A comic new play by Una McKevitt, One Good Turn brings us a family on the brink who are keeping the show on the road any which way they can.
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Samuel French Ltd May Queen
Book Synopsisnot what a girl should do.not what a queen would do.well f *ck what a queen would do.May Day in Coventry, 2022. Sixteen-year-old Leigh has been chosen as May Queen. She''s buzzin, as is the rest of the city.The cider is flowing and St George''s flag is flying - but during the day''s festivities something happens. Something disturbing, but maybe... unsurprising.As the year moves on in the City of Peace and Reconciliation, Leigh must face up to the events of that hot May Day, and dig deep within herself to ask - how did she get here? And how does she get out?
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Samuel French Ltd Malindadzimu
Book SynopsisFor Faith and her teenage daughter Hope, it seems as though growing up inevitably means growing apart. So Faith makes the drastic decision to move the family back to her native Zimbabwe to start over. It''s home for her but not for Hope - at least, not on the surface... Will the powers that have drawn them back to their roots help them find each other - and themselves?Mufaro Makubika''s, Malindadzimu is delicate, witty and epic in equal measure - travelling from Nottingham to Zimbabwe exploring a mother and daughter''s search for belonging, their struggle with a multicultural heritage, and a haunting history that cannot be ignored.
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Samuel French Ltd The Border Game
Book SynopsisWhy does living where you''re from have to be such a political act?On a farm on the border, a fence is in need of repair after being destroyed by vandals. When Sinead finds Henry hungover in her field, she ropes him in to help. But rebuilding a fence is more complicated than it seems. What begins as a simple task soon turns to talk of their past, a reliving of old memories, and a relentless competition to come out on top.A timely and powerful reflection on 100 years of the border in Ireland and how it has impacted those who live along it. Inspired by 100 testimonies from real people who live on the border.
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Samuel French Ltd Jacaranda
Book Synopsis''Sometimes it feels so exposing just walking in the village. I told Jimmy toignore it at first, he tried to, but it''s isolating he said, eyes on you, not a wordspoken. Even when you meet their eyes they don''t look away. Like they have aright to, like you''re a spectacle, an object.''Olivia has recently moved into her great-uncle''s farmhouse. She''s not local, butshe knows her way around. Matty is a gamekeeper, but he doesn''t often tellanyone. He''s wary of newcomers.These unlikely strangers find themselves beside a stream on the longest nightof the year.Pentabus and Theatre by the Lake present a brilliant new drama from award-winningplaywright Lorna French that explores loss, love, prejudice, race andbelonging.
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Samuel French Ltd The Height of the Storm
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Samuel French Ltd Gaiman N Ocean at the End of the Lane
Book SynopsisReturning to his childhood home, a man finds himself standing beside the pond of the old Sussex farmhouse where he used to play. When he meets an old friend, he is reminded of a name he has not heard for many years: Lettie Hempstock. And is transported to his 12th birthday, when Lettie claimed that this wasn''t a pond at all, but an ocean...Plunged into 1983, our young protagonist struggles with the ripples of a disturbing event that makes him question his deepest assumptions about his fractured family. Striving to come to terms with his newly unknowable world, together with his new friend Lettie he must reckon with ancient forces that threaten to destroy everything and in turn learn to trust others to find his own feet. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a thrilling feat of storytelling in which fantasy, sci-fi, myth and imagination combine in an adventure that unfolds right here, in our world.
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Samuel French Ltd A Question of Fact
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Samuel French Ltd Sheilas Island
Book SynopsisBonfire night 2019, Sheila, Denise, Julie, and Fay are Team C in Pennine Mineral Water Ltd.''s annual outward bound team-building weekend. Somehow, Sheila has been nominated team leader, and, using her cryptic crossword solving skills, has unwittingly stranded her team on an island in the Lake District.Our intrepid heroines fi nd themselves manufacturing weapons from cable ties and spatulas, and create a rescue fl ag with plastic plates and a toasting fork.Questions are asked; truths are told; dirty washing is aired.Is it possible to build an adequate night shelter with a prom dress and a sleeveless jumper? What is Julie''s husband really up to in Aldi? And why are they on this bloody team building exercise when they could be at a spa?
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Samuel French Ltd City Melodies
Book SynopsisLondon, 2013. Anya, a young Romanian woman, has been in London for several months struggling to improve her English and finds a job as a musicteacher. She moves in with her black British boyfriend Wes, and together they are trying to hold on to Anya''s dream of being a music teacher and Wes''dream of succeeding as a jazz musician. This is their story and of the people they meet, all connected by tragedy to varying degrees. Everyone will bechanged for ever by the events they live through.City Melodies themes concern the fragmented sense of home and the impermanence of life as explored through the experiences of first and secondgeneration immigrants to London. Other themes include the negative repercussions of putting people into boxes based on a prejudiced responseto the unknown. Finally, the theme of persevering despite adversity and pursuing your dream is also explored.The play is composed of a series of interlocking monologues, straight to audience address sections and traditional du
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Samuel French Ltd GirlPlay
Book SynopsisLucy is average, awkward and unassuming. And, when it comes to sex, what she lacks in experience, she makes up for in curiosity. That''s all set to change. On a night of rsts, she opens the door to a world of relationships and sex that she had only ever dreamt about. But, is the reality all she had hoped it would be? GirlPlay is an exploration of love and sex spun out in slam.
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Samuel French Ltd Shewolves
Book SynopsisEver thought you should run the world, even though you''re ''only fourteen and a girl''?Priya and Lou have. And they''re ready to bite back against any adult who doubts them. Armed with a backpack full of Pop-Tarts and a hunger to tackle climate change, they embark on a covert expedition into the wild. But when the wilderness closes in around them, can Lou and Priya overcome their differences to make their voices heard?SHEWOLVES is an uplifting, funny and empowering play about forging friendships when you''re a bit weird, the power of hope and the underestimated smartness of teens.
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Samuel French Ltd Spike
Book SynopsisIt''s 1950s austerity Britain, and out of the gloom comes Goon mania as men, women and children across the country scramble to get their ear to a wireless for another instalment of The Goon Show. While Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers get down to the serious business of becoming overnight celebrities, fellow Goon and chief writer Spike finds himself pushing the boundaries of comedy and testing the patience of the BBC. Flanked by his fellow Goons and bolstered by the efforts of irrepressible sound assistant Janet, Spike takes a flourishing nosedive off the cliffs of respectability and mashes up his haunted past to create the comedy of the future. His war with Hitler may be over, but his war with Auntie Beeb - and ultimately himself - has just begun. Will Spike''s dogged obsession with finding the funny elevate The Goons to soaring new heights, or will the whole thing come crashing down with the stroke of a potato peeler?
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Samuel French Ltd The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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Samuel French Ltd A Single Man
Book SynopsisI make myself remember. I am afraid of forgetting. I will have to forget if Iwant to go on living.California, 1962. College professor George is grieving the death of his long-termpartner Jim. As a middle-aged gay Englishman living in the Los Angelessuburbs, he is an outsider in every way. Haunted by his past and unable tomove forward, we follow him on one very ordinary day. But for George, this isgoing to be a day like no other...A Single Man features in the Guardian''s 100 Best Novels Written in English,where it is described as ''a work of compressed brilliance.'' Known to manythrough Tom Ford''s film, Christopher Isherwood''s masterpiece is now givena wry and compassionate retelling in Simon Reade''s new adaptation for thestage.Powerful and sexy, A Single Man is a darkly amusing study of grief, love andloneliness from the celebrated writer of Goodbye to Berlin, the inspiration forCabaret.
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Samuel French Ltd Third Time Lucky
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Samuel French Ltd Geranium
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Samuel French Ltd Nevilles Island
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Samuel French Ltd The Magicians Nephew
Book SynopsisAdapted from the book by C.S. Lewis. Digory is concerned about his ill mother and about his Uncle Andrew, who seems very strange indeed. When Digory and his friend are tricked by Uncle Andrew into embarking on a series of magical adventures, they are brought into contact with the forces of both evil and good. Digory is set a task, which he completes successfully, and the safety of Narnia and the restored health of his mother are thereby ensured.
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Samuel French Ltd Percival the Performing Pig
Book SynopsisUnhappy about going to London to sing on the stage, Percival Pig plots with his animal friends for a way to get back to the farm.
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Samuel French Ltd Little BoPeep
Book SynopsisLittle Bo Peep looks after Fanny Fairacre''s flock of sheep on Fairacre Farm. The malevolent Lady Sneering is jealous of her relationship with Fanny''s son Freddie, so she instructs the magician Mefisto from Cindy Sparkle''s travelling show to make the pretty shepherdess disappear. Meanwhile Fanny''s gormless farmhand Wally has fallen for the glamorous Cindy. Soon they all find themselves banished to the nightmarish ''Place of the Disappeared'', with no apparent hope of return.Large flexible cast
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Samuel French Ltd Awaking Beauty
Book SynopsisThe Prince awakens Princess Aurora and the eager, happy young couple are about to embark on their first night of passionate love when ugly, unloved Carabosse, the wicked witch, butts in having taken a fancy to the Prince. But which one will be the Awaking Beauty?Trade Review" Imagine a fairytale world meeting a saucy seaside postcard and you have something of the flavour of Alan Ayckbourn's 72nd play ... charming moments and some witty ditties ..." Lyn Gardner, Guardian "... it had me appreciating some wry lyrics, chuckling at some mischievous moments, and humming Denis King's larky tunes." Benedict Nightingale, The Times "Age has not withered his [Ayckbourn's] capacity to innovate... here he brings a boldly experimental eye as well as a musical ear and an archly modern and adult sensibility to the evergreen tale of Sleeping Beauty ... spry, knowing lyrics with potent music by Denis King ..." Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Samuel French Ltd Thrill Me A Musical
Book SynopsisBased on the true story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two 19-year-olds who murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago in 1924, Thrill Me focuses less on the murder itself than on the relationship between Leopold and Loeb. More than 30 years on, the older Nathan speaks at a parole board hearing, recalling the crime and the dynamics of his friendship with Richard, defined largely by their shared intelligence, their passion for Nietzschean philosophy, and their desire for the ultimate thrill. Stephen Dolginoff''s tense, two-character musical drama explores the unusual love story behind the crime of the century.- 2 men
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Samuel French Inc The Miracle Worker
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Samuel French Inc One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Book SynopsisComedy Drama / 13m, 4f / Int. w. inset. Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes with the head nurse, a fierce artinet. Quickly, he takes over the yard and accomplishes what the medical profession has been unable to do for twelve years; he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian talk. He leads others out of introversion, stages a revolt so that they can see the world series on television, and arranges a rollicking midnight party with liquor and chippies. For one offense, the head nurse has him submit to shock treatment. The party is too horrid for her and she forces him to submit to a final correction a frontal lobotomy. Winner of the 2001 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival. Cuckoo is captivating. - the New York Post Scarifying and powerful. - the New York Times
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Samuel French Ltd Cinderella The True Story
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Concord Theatricals The Dying Gaul
Book SynopsisHere is a modern American tragedy about a grieving screenwriter who compromises his ideals to make a small fortune that enables him to climb from invisible poverty into the rarefied seductions and surreal beauty of the Hollywood Hills. Robert's gay lover endured horrific and protracted suffering before Robert helped him to die. Robert's subsequent struggle to come to grips with his own incomprehensible survival and his deep need to find a place in the world that doesn't burn push him into a lush and intoxicating world of sexual ecstacy and intrigue, even as he privately delves into the techniques and teachings of Buddhism for some footing, no matter how tenuous. With breathtaking speed, Robert is caught in a love triangle with a powerful, ruthless and rapacious film producer and his fascinating but woefully under stimulated wife. The lies that Robert perpetrates become inextricably interwoven with theirs each person lying to themselves as much as to their partners and the ones they are betraying. Killingly funny and heart stoppingly elegiac, this play is a thrilling dramatic experience.
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Samuel French Inc A Delicate Balance
Book SynopsisEdward Albee Full Length, Drama Characters: 2 male, 4 female Interior Set This Pulitzer Prize winner enjoyed a stunning Broadway revival in 1996 with George Gizzard, Rosemary Harris and Elaine Stritch. Wealthy middle-aged couple, Agnes and Tobias have their complacency shattered when Harry and Edna, longtime friends appear at their doorstep. Claiming an encroaching, nameless fear has forced them from their own home, these neighbors bring a firestorm of doubt, recrimination and ultimately solace, upsetting the delicate balance of Agnes and Tobias' household. Winner of the 1996 Drama Desk and Award, Best Revival. Powerful...A beautiful play filled with humor and compassion, and touched with poetry...[with] the stature and eloquence of a classic.-New York Daily News A brilliant play.-New York Post An evening of theatrical fireworks.-The New York Times
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Samuel French Inc Kennedys Children
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Samuel French Inc Green Grow the Lilacs
Book SynopsisDrama / 10m, 4f, extras This evocative play charting the rocky romance between headstrong farmgirl Laurey and cocky cowhand Curley in a tale of early America during the settlement of the midwest was the basis of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! Using the colorful vernacular of the period, Green Grow the Lilacs paints a picture of pioneer farmlife with colorful characters and language, presenting a dramatic challenge to professionals and amateurs alike.
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Samuel French Inc Moby Dick Rehearsed
Book SynopsisGenre: Melodrama Characters: 12m, 2f An ingenious idea is employed to accommodate the sweep of this classic story on the stage. A Shakespearean company puts down their rehearsal sides of Lear and curiously take up those of a new play entitled Moby Dick. On the rehearsal stage of platforms, the teasers overhead suddenly become yardarms with sails and a tall ladder becomes a mast. The platforms become the decks of the ship on which the cast sails through the storms and tribulations of the Pequod hunting for Moby Dick. Admirably bold and imaginative. - The New York Post An adventure in theatre going. As I left the first performance I felt myself rather oddly shaky and breathless...There is nothing else anywhere near like Moby Dick in the theatre. - The New York Daily News
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Samuel French Inc Owl and the Pussycat
Book SynopsisFull Length, Comedy Characters: 1 male, 1 female Interior Set In a San Francisco loft, aspiring author Felix focuses his binoculars on a prostitute plying her trade. He complains to the landlord, has her evicted, and finds he has trouble pounding on his door in the form of Doris, not a prostitute but an aspiring model and actress, thank you very much. She figures he owes her a bed for the night, an arrangement that leads to hilarity. Alan Alda and Diana Sands took the roles on Broadway, George Segal and Barbra Streisand on film. The first nighters laughed maniacally.-New York Daily News Animated, vivid, and comic (with) startling intensity and truth.-The New York Times
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