When the pupils of St Winifred’s and St Albert’s arrive for a camping trip at the beautiful Dumsey Meadow, deep in the heart of the English countryside, they find themselves in a spot of bother – there has been a double booking and only one school may camp there.Whilst trying to decide which of them should stay, they become aware of some mysterious things happening around them: What is the peculiar smell in the air? Why is the Farmer always singing? Why do the cows and sheep appear to be laughing? Why did the Dumsey apple harvest fail for the first time in 300 years? And who is the hooded woman with the horrible cackle? With sleuth-like commitment the children attempt to find answers to these puzzling questions.Set in the 1930s with a cast of colourful characters, this is a musical play for mystery lovers everywhere with a flexible performing age range of 8 to adult.
Contains the following songs:It All Comes Back (Opening)Welcome to Our House on Maple AvenueCome to the Fun HomeChanging My MajorMapsRaincoat of LoveRing of KeysDays and DaysTelephone WireEdges of the WorldFlying Away (Finale)Bonus Song: Pony Girl
Song List includes: Beautiful, Candy Store, Fight for Me, Freeze Your Brain, Dead Girl Walking, Our Love is God, My Dead Gay Son, Seventeen, Lifeboat, Kindergarten Boyfriend, Meant to Be Yours, and Seventeen Reprise
When a house party gathers at Gull’s Point, the seaside home of Lady Tressilian, Neville Strange finds himself caught between his old wife, Audrey, and his new flame, Kay. A nail-biting thriller, the play probes the psychology of jealousy in the shadow of a savage and brutal murder. With reflections on suicide, depression and redemption, the play is a layered drama of piercing intelligence.
Social, racial and sexual schisms render the once paradisiac island into a hotbed of discord and bloody violence. Pitcairn vividly explores the conflict between personal freedoms and public responsibilities. Pitcairn is Richard Bean’s brutal telling of the colonisation of the remote island of Pitcairn by Fletcher Christian and the Bounty mutineers. The play charts – with salty humour and growing horror – the spiralling descent of the colony from a new Eden of freedom and equality to a brutal dystopia.
Siblings Bo and Ally are back in thier childhood home in Idaho for the funeral of their father. Their mother Carol has painted the whole house white and is suspected to have been drinking since their father''s death. What Ally and Bo come to find out is that their mother has a method to her madness as she pulls out some home videos of their father just before he died. Called a fusion between realism and the absurd, A Permanent Image is a tense exploration of the distance families put betwe
A weekend in the country spins out of control when jealous wife Maureen makes a reckless accusation about her husband Ian and their old friend Ella. Ella''s husband Peter tries and fails to stop the domestic carnage in this fierce and funny story about the unexpected ease of betrayal and the fragility of marriage.
Anne Washburn is the recipient of the 2015 Whiting Award for DramaLadies and gentlemen, welcome to tech. Around you, a company of 14 is engaged in the very peculiar-and peculiarly impossible-task of making a new play. You''ll have a seat next to the sound designer as he mixes cues. You''ll eavesdrop on backstage gossip as it happens over headset. You''ll watch the director struggle to contain the uncontainable.Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns) took notes during her tech rehearsals over the years. 10
With genomic breakthroughs happening at breakneck speed, we can learn more about what our futures may hold than ever before. But how much should we know? And who gets to decide? Inspired by a recent court case between a Native American tribe and an Arizona University, Informed Consent takes us into the personal and national debate about science v. belief, and whether our DNA is our destiny.
Sports agent Liz Rico has money and an elite client roster but a woman in a man''s industry has to fight to stay on top. She''s worked twice as hard to get where she is and wants to take over the agency that she''s helped build. Enter Freddie Luna, a high school basketball superstar with a troubled past. If Liz can keep this talented yet volatile young star in line, she just might end up making not only his career, but her own as well. But at what price?
Judge Jackie Justice rules over her reality television courtroom with an iron fist, presiding over a three-ring circus of America's most chaotic civil cases. But, when a drop in ratings brings her face to face with the liability of her own love life, the judge must learn to navigate the ludicrous laws of love in this over-the-top courtroom comedy.
Summerland tells the mysterious tale of William H. Mumler, a spirit photographer with a talent for capturing haunting images of the dead from the world beyond the veil - Summerland. Based on true events that didn''t exactly happen this way, Summerland is set in Mumler''s New York studio in 1869 at the height of the American Spiritualist movement. Summerland opens at the peak of Mumler''s career, just as his wildly successful studio trade comes under indictment for fraud. Chief Marshal Joseph Tooker
Samantha is lonely and confined to her bed. Layne is shy and too afraid of the world to journey into it. But when these two thirty-somethings connect through an online dating site, they fall for each other fast and hard. What could go wrong? Considering that they're both pretending to be someone else, the short answer is: everything. When people are free to project any version of themselves they wish, who knows where reality ends and fantasy begins? Our new, digital world is upended in Kingdom C
A young Mexican couple is trapped at a way station when they can''t pay off their debts to the American coyotes who smuggled them across the border.
Jane Haley is the punny voice of the comic strip "King Tot," a three-panel strip about a nine-year-old pharaoh in Ancient Egypt. Jane has just been nominated for the Chuckling Willow, the single most important award for female cartoonists in New England. All seems to be going well until bleak news strikes the Haley household. As Jane tries to hide her coping by working extensively on her comics, her art suffers as her main character tries to find her way through the Land of the Dead to find her
Asian-American twins M and L have given up everything to get into The College. So when D, a one-sixteenth Native American classmate, gets "their" spot instead, they figure they''ve got only one option: kill him. A darkly comedic take on Shakespeare''s Macbeth about the very ambitious and the cut-throat world of high school during college admissions.
Jasper is lost in the living world. When you're failing classes, kicked off the swim team, and your family is on the skids, life can feel like it's going to hell. Yet, in all the disappointment, Jasper has his best friend, Agnes. In one night of teenage passion, Jasper and Agnes consummate a years-long friendship. But in the morning Agnes is gone, telling Jasper to meet her at their cliff. When he arrives there's no sign of his best friend, only a swirling vortex to another world in the water be
A group gathers at a remote ranch in the Texas Hill Country to mourn the loss of a friend they haven''t seen in years. As they mine through their pasts, it may be more than just the loss of a friend that binds them. The past and present begin to blur in Anne Washburn''s haunting exploration of friendship and loss.
In this action-packed samurai story set inside the halls of an all-American high school, Begets: Fall of a High School Ronin tells the tale of Emi Edwards, a high school geekgurl whose fighting to overthrow the cruel shoguns of her school. However in her journey to right wrongs, will her own cravings for popularity and power corrupt her quest to save the school? Will she able to establish a new world order? Or will violence just beget more violence?
When a complaint is filed against one of the 70,000 teachers in New York''s public schools, they''re sent to a Reassignment Center, one of a series of empty offices in the Department of Education Building. There, they sit and wait for their case to be reviewed. Usually for months. Sometimes for over a year.A claim of improper behavior by a failing student lands Evelyn Reid in "the rubber room," where she encounters a group of teachers, some guilty, some not, who have long since lost any hope of
It's 1950, and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. There's just one problem: Both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other's partners as a carefully constructed cover. Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement, madcap classic sitcom-style laughs give way to provocative drama as two "All-American" couples are fo
Love is a Blue Tick Hound is a collection of four one-acts, three of which have received New York premieres, and all of which have won multiple festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada. All four pieces feature challenging roles for women and lend themselves to diversity in casting. Each play has a run-time of approximately 25 minutes and may be licensed individually or collectively (as assembled herein), to comprise a full evening of theater.
The Astonishing and Dangerous History of Mazefield the Frog, Old Folks, and The Lost Girl (or First Chair) were presented as part of Keen Teens 2015, a unique and free educational theatre program, run by the Drama Desk and Obie award-winning Keen Company. Keen Teens seeks to improve the quality of plays written for high school students by commissioning scripts from highly regarded playwrights, and gives students the opportunity to work with professional artists in an Off Bro
Newly discharged soldier Jess has finally returned to her Florida hometown. She brings with her not only vivid memories of Afghanistan, but painful burns that have left her physically and emotionally scarred. Jess soon realizes that things at home have changed even more than she has. Through the use of virtual reality video game therapy, she builds a breathtaking new world where she can escape her pain. As Jess advances farther in the game, she begins to restore her relationships, her life and,
One of Manhattan''s most established play festivals, the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival fosters the work of emerging writers, giving them the exposure of publication and representation.The festival resulting in this collection was held August 2nd - 9th, 2015 at the Classic Stage Company in New York City.From the initial pool of over 1400 submissions, the Final 30 plays were chosen to be performed over a period of one week. A panel of judges comprised of celebrity playwrigh
Victor is a ruthless fashion designer in the 1970s at the top of his game. Esme, his glamorous protégé and muse, is pushed aside when an ordinary Midwestern woman inspires Victor to make his artistry accessible to the masses. A generation later, a woman grappling with a healthy dose of self-loathing must wrestle her own family demons to find her way through the world of fashion that won''t give a woman her size a second look. Skipping back and forth in time, Everything You Touch is a viciously
Eight-year-old Tina Denmark knows she was born to play Pippi Longstocking, and she will do anything to win the part in her school musical. Anything includes murdering the leading lady! This aggressively outrageous musical hit garnered rave reviews during its long Off-Broadway run. Revised in August 2015 to reflect the 2015 Off Broadway production.
Suffocating in rat-infested poverty on the South Side of Chicago in the 1930s, 20-year-old Bigger Thomas struggles to find a place for himself in a world whose prejudice has shut him out. After taking a job in a wealthy white man''s house, Bigger unwittingly unleashes a series of events that violently and irrevocably seal his fate. Adapted with theatrical ingenuity by Chicago''s own Nambi E. Kelley, this Native Son captures the power of Richard Wright''s novel for a whole new generation.
The collection, Theater Masters'' Take Ten Vol. 1 is comprised of the following plays:DONNA''S FIRST BRAZILIAN by Lydia Blaisdell A recent divorcee returns to the dating pool and treats herself to a wax.ENGLISH LESSON by Paula VesalaA Finnish mother teaches her son English. When they keep meeting an old Puerto Rican woman, the only native language they share is the language of loss. THE BATTLE OF CONEY ISLAND by David JacobiNow in "People Heaven," Nicola Tesla and Thomas Edison dea
The collection, Signature in Schools Vol. I, is comprised of the following plays written by Joe Calarco: MY VACATION IN PARIS In the months leading up to the French Revolution Thomas Jefferson's two daughters spend an afternoon with revolutionary and early feminist Olympe De Gouges and her son Pierre learning about the Revolution and questioning their own understanding of the word freedom. With the two girls is their slave Sally Hemings who is faced with a decision regarding her own freedom tha
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