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Once Upon A Playground
by Jack FrakesComedy / 2m, 8f / After tomboys on a playground cruelly reject a girl with a funny nose because she is different, each expresses her inner fear of being different. The girl with the funny nose discovers a boy like herself. He offers friendship, hope and illusion. This comedy portrays the cruelty of youth as a total theatre experience, blending realism with such theatrical devices like stylized movement, choral chants and expressionism.
One-Actmanship: Two Plays by Norm Foster: My Narrator / The Death of Me
by Norm FosterMy Narrator Imagine what would happen if that little voice inside your head—the one that tells you how to behave and what choices to make—suddenly took on a life of its own? For Lacy and Miles, love is what happens, and with hilarious results. The Death of Me When John bargains with the Angel of Death for a second chance at life, he quickly discovers that fixing the mistakes of your past is difficult, and that perhaps his destiny is not yet etched in stone.
One Day More: A Play in One Act
by Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak English well until he was in his 20s. He is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence and Graham Greene. Writing during the apogee of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the British Merchant Navy to create novels and short stories that reflected aspects of a world-wide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul. Amongst his best known works are Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Under Western Eyes (1911), Victory (1915) and The Rescue (1920).
One Flea Spare
by Naomi Wallace“I sat in a theater at the Humana Festival last year, after the closing monologue of ONE FLEA SPARE, unable to move. I had known Naomi Wallace’s work well, having directed an earlier play, and I knew she had tremendous talent and promised to great things. Nothing had prepared me—not my admiration for her plays and for her beautiful, harsh, moving, brilliantly political poetry—for the experience of watching this play, which is in my opinion one of the finest works of dramatic literature written here or in England in the last two decades. Utterly without sentiment but possessed of a very great human heart, ONE FLEA SPARE touches upon many things, class and gender and the pressures of a plague upon internal and external human constructs; and, as I read it, most devastatingly it addresses a tragedy of almost inexpressible dimensions: the consequences of the horrors of biology and Capital on the young. As the play draws to its shattering close I was filled with thoughts of the children of Sarajevo and Rwanda and the slums of America".
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Dale WassermanDramatic Comedy / 13m, 4f / InteriorKirk 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." N.Y. Post."Scarifying and powerful." N.Y. Times.
One-Hour Shakespeare: The Tragedies (One-Hour Shakespeare)
by Julie Fain Lawrence-EdsellThe One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts. This volume, The Tragedies, includes the following plays: Hamlet Julius Caesar Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet These accessible and versatile scripts are supported by: an introduction with emphasis on the evolution of the series and the creative process of editing; the One-Hour projects in performance, a chapter on implementing money-saving ideas and suggestions for production, whether in or outside a classroom setting; specific lesson plans to incorporate these projects successfully into an academic course; and cross-gender casting suggestions. These supplementary materials make the plays valuable not only for actors, directors and professors, but for any environment, cast or purpose. Ideal for both academics and professionals, One-Hour Shakespeare is the perfect companion to teaching and staging the most universally read and performed playwright in history.
One-Hour Shakespeare: The Tragicomedies (One-Hour Shakespeare)
by Julie Fain Lawrence-EdsellThe One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts. This volume, The Tragicomedies, includes the following plays: All’s Well That Ends Well Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice. These accessible and versatile scripts are supported by: an introduction with emphasis on the evolution of the series and the creative process of editing; the One-Hour projects in performance, a chapter on implementing money-saving ideas and suggestions for production whether in or outside a classroom setting; specific lesson plans to incorporate these projects successfully into an academic course; and cross-gender casting suggestions. These supplementary materials make the plays valuable not only for actors, directors and professors, but for any environment, cast or purpose. Ideal for both academics and professionals, One-Hour Shakespeare is the perfect companion to teaching and staging the most universally read and performed playwright in history.
One-Hour Shakespeare: The Comedies (One-Hour Shakespeare)
by Julie Fain Lawrence-EdsellThe One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts. This volume, The Comedies, includes the following plays: As You Like It Love’s Labour’s Lost Much Ado About Nothing Twelfth Night These accessible and versatile scripts are supported by: an introduction with emphasis on the evolution of the series and the creative process of editing; the One-Hour projects in performance, a chapter on implementing money-saving ideas and suggestions for production whether in or outside a classroom setting; specific lesson plans to incorporate these projects successfully into an academic course; and cross-gender casting suggestions. These supplementary materials make the plays valuable not only for actors, directors and professors, but for any environment, cast or purpose. Ideal for both academics and professionals, One-Hour Shakespeare is the perfect companion to teaching and staging the most universally read and performed playwright in history.
One-Hour Shakespeare: The Early Comedies and Romances (One-Hour Shakespeare)
by Julie Fain Lawrence-EdsellThe One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts. This volume, The Early Comedies and Romances, includes the following plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Two Gentlemen of Verona The Tempest The Winter’s Tale. These accessible and versatile scripts are supported by: an introduction with emphasis on the evolution of the series and the creative process of editing; the One-Hour projects in performance, a chapter on implementing money-saving ideas and suggestions for production whether in or outside a classroom setting; specific lesson plans to incorporate these projects successfully into an academic course; and cross-gender casting suggestions. These supplementary materials make the plays valuable not only for actors, directors and professors, but for any environment, cast or purpose. Ideal for both academics and professionals, One-Hour Shakespeare is the perfect companion to teaching and staging the most universally read and performed playwright in history.
One-Hour Shakespeare: More Comedies and Tragedies (One-Hour Shakespeare)
by Julie Fain Lawrence-EdsellThe One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts. This volume, More Comedies and Tragedies, includes the following plays: The Comedy of Errors The Taming of the Shrew Antony and Cleopatra King Lear These accessible and versatile scripts are supported by: an introduction with emphasis on the evolution of the series and the creative process of editing; the One-Hour projects in performance, a chapter on implementing money-saving ideas and suggestions for production whether in or outside of a classroom setting; specific lesson plans to incorporate these projects successfully into an academic course; suggested casting assignments for small to large casts; the how-tos of producing a radio play; and cross-gender casting suggestions. These supplementary materials make the plays valuable not only for actors, but for any environment, cast or purpose. Ideal for both academics and professionals, One-Hour Shakespeare is the perfect companion to teaching and staging the most universally read and performed playwright in history.
One Hundred Indian Feature Films: An Annotated Filmography
by Srivastava BanerjeeFirst Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The One King Lear
by Sir Brian VickersIn the 1980s influential scholars argued that Shakespeare revised King Lear in light of theatrical performance, resulting in two texts by the bard’s own hand. The two-text theory hardened into orthodoxy. Here Sir Brian Vickers makes the case that Shakespeare did not cut his original text. At stake is the way his greatest play is read and performed.
One Man's Vision
by Frederick StroppelSix one-act plays: Designated Driver, Friendly Fire, One Man's Vision, Tangled Web, Tree World and Twenty Years Ago.
One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre
by Steve Ansell Rose Burnett BonczekCan you really write a play that lasts a minute? The one minute play offers a unique challenge to actors, directors and writers: how do you create a whole world, where actors have room to perform and where audiences have a true experience all in 60 seconds? One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre demystifies the super-short-form play, demonstrating that this rich, accessible format offers great energy and variety not only to audiences but to everyone involved in its creation and performance. This handbook includes: An anthology of 200 one-minute plays selected from the annual Gone in 60 Seconds festival. A toolbox of exercises, methodologies and techniques for educators, practitioners and workshop leaders at all levels. Tips and advice on the demands of storytelling, inclusivity and creative challenges. Detailed practical information about creating your own minute festival, including play selection, running order, staging and marketing. Drawing on a wealth of experience, Steve Ansell and Rose Burnett Bonczek present an invaluable guide for anyone intrigued by the art of creating, producing and performing a one minute play.
One More Kiss
by Ethan MorddenEthan Mordden's new entry in his history of the Broadway musical looks at an era that brought us not only the gritty reality of "A Chorus Line" and the brilliantly bittersweet works of Stephen Sondheim, but also the nostalgic crowd-pleasers "No, No, Nanette" and "Annie." It was a time when Broadway both looked to its past, but also to its future and allowed reality to enter. Mordden writes of the last time we ever saw true greatness on the stage of the Broadway musical.
One Night in Miami… (Modern Classics Series)
by Kemp PowersBefore they were icons they were friends. <p><p> The world would come to know him as Muhammad Ali, but on 25 February 1964, a twenty-two-year-old Cassius Clay celebrated his world heavyweight title not by hitting the town, but in a hotel room with his three closest friends: activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke and American football star Jim Brown. To the outside world, they were American icons. But in that hotel room, here were four men who understood each other and their moment in history in a way that no one else could. With the Civil Rights movement stirring outside, and the melody of A Change is Gonna Come hanging in the air, these men would emerge from that room ready to define a new world. <p><p> Kemp Powers's tough talking, in-your-face debut play premiered in LA in 2013 where it won the Ted Schmitt Award for outstanding world premiere of a new play along with three LA Drama Critics Circle Awards, four NAACP Theatre Awards and LA Weekly Theater Awards for playwriting. <p><p> This edition was originally published to coincide with the European premiere at London's Donmar Warehouse in 2016 where it received critical acclaim. It was later adapted into a feature film, released in January 2021.
One Raining, Pouring Morning: An Adaptation of a Nursery Rhyme
by Francisco BlaneNIMAC-sourced textbook
One Toe In The Grave
by Jack SharkeyComedy / 3m, 4f / Interior / Jason Kingsley is treasurer of a billion dollar patent medicine corporation that requires its officers to be married. Jason claims his wife has a rare disease that prevents her from entertaining or attending corporate functions. A cure is accidently discovered in one of the company's patent medicines and Jason's ecstatic boss is arriving any minute with the company doctor to administer the cure and then bask in the publicity. Jason, however, doesn't really have a wife so he cons his fiancee Nicki into pretending to be the invalid. Other impostors appear: friend Poopsie Magruder who initially refused shows up anyhow and Vonga the Jungle Girl was pressed into service by the helpful housekeeper. The cure involves a two inch needle in the armpit and it develops that the disease is contagious, which only complicates the hilarity.
One Voice: House and Here Lies Henry
by Daniel Brooks Daniel MacivorGiving his characters life in a whirlwind of words, Daniel MacIvor showcases his talents as a writer and performer in two of his most celebrated solo shows. Published here for the first time in their newly revised scripts, House and Here Lies Henry seethe with anger and soothe with comedy.In House, Victor drags his audience through his life, his fantasies, his desires, and his recent push to the edge. Here Lies Henry is a story about a man alone on a room with a mission to tell you something you don't already know.
O'Neill: Son and Playwright, Volume 1
by Louis SheafferWinner of the Theater Library Association's George Freedley Memorial Award as the Best Theater Book of 1968. This is the first volume of Pulitzer Prize-winning Louis Sheaffer's monumental biography of America's greatest playwright. Here is groundbreaking information on every aspect of O'Neill's life up to 1920, when he was launched on Broadway with the opening of "Beyond the Horizon." Louis Sheaffer spent sixteen years researching and writing his well-honored biography. For his work on O'Neill Mr. Sheaffer was awarded three Guggenheim fellowships, two grants-in-aid by the American Council of Learned Societies, and a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
O'Neill: Son and Artist, Volume 2
by Louis SheafferThe second volume in the biography of the playwright Eugene O'Neill, O'Neill, Son and Artist brings Louis Sheaffer's monumental biography of America's foremost playwright to a poignant, dramatic conclusion. Together with the previous volume, O'Neill, Son and Playwright, Sheaffer's biography now stands complete as the most authoritative study ever written about the life of Eugene O'Neill. Based on many sources hitherto unknown or inaccessible, in addition to all the established standard sources, this volume catches the turmoil of O'Neill's private life and illuminates how it shaped and haunted his artistic achievements. Sheaffer introduces fresh material uncovered during seven years of research that recounts O'Neill's personal life in intimate, harrowing detail: the deaths of his family, one by one in rapid succession; the bouts with liquor that nearly killed him; his manic temperament and insatiable restlessness; his acute discomfort in the role of father and the disastrous affect it had on his children; his Strindbergian marriage to Carlotta Monterey, characterized by total dependence and often enough deep hatred on both sides; his later illness, which left him unable to write or dictate, but with a mind at the height of its artistic and intellectual powers. From O'Neill's first Broadway success in 1920, Beyond the Horizon, Sheaffer examines the effect of these crises on his career, most notably on the creation of The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night. And he refocuses on O'Neill's past, particularly his relations with his family--"the fountainhead of his passion and power"--as this most private dramatist reveals himself more and more nakedly in his plays, finally baring all in his tragic masterpiece of the "four haunted Tyrones," Long Day's Journey Into Night. Vigorously written, scrupulously researched, compassionate in its treatment of the tormented man who "transmuted private history and secret anguish into art," O'Neill, Son and Artist takes its place beside its prizewinning companion volume as a landmark American biography.
Onionheads
by Jesse MillerFull Length, Drama \ 2 m., 2 f. \ 2 simple exts. \ This soulful play takes a raw, poetic look at the plight of onion farmers on the edge in the 1935 Oklahoma Dust Bowl. The Tidwell brothers and the Bumpinmeyer sisters explore young love, hard times and loss of family as the sky turns black and the onions die. When the sisters leave for Califor nee, a shocking truth hits the Tidwell farm and the boys are left with the relentless dust. Devastated, they follow the girls to the "land of milk an' honey" where, months later in a migrant camp in the grip of the Great Depression, they find the sisters buried in poverty and prostitution. The black secret of the Bumpinmeyer family is discovered. Skins are peeled in layers to reveal the sweet and the sour. Tragically, the dirt on these onion pickers never comes clean; the "land of plenty" grows nothing but the cries of dead hearts and broken Okies. Meanwhile, the devil sits in his shack, laughing. \ Winner of the 1999 American College Theatre Festival.
Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth
by Drew Hayden TaylorThis is the emotional story of a woman's struggle to acknowledge her origins. Grace, a Native girl adopted by a White family, is asked by her birth sister to return to the Reserve for their mother's funeral. Afraid of opening old wounds, Grace must find a place where the culture of her past can feed the truth of her present.
The Only Game in Town
by Frank D. GilroyDramatic Comedy / 2m, 1f / The author of The Subject Was Roses here turns his attention in this play to that fascinating arena of romance and broken dreams known as Las Vegas. The title is a trenchant comment on both gambling and love. The scene opens with a piano player and a chorine entering her apartment shortly after meeting two lonely wayward souls adrift in the world. He, it turns out, is a compulsive gambler just biding his time till he gets the bankroll with which he plans to make his fortune at the wheels, while she has a fixation about unattainable men. While he is waiting for his kitty to grow and she is waiting for her married suitor to come and rescue her, they both fall in love. When the suitor finally arrives, she shows him the gate; and when the kitty finally swells to $3600, the piano player loses it quickly only to hock his watch, start over, and amass the bundle he always knew was his. A fond and humorous romance.
Only Kidding
by Jim GeoghanFull length, comedy / 5m / Three interiors / In this Off Broadway hit, an over the hill comic who is desperate for a shot on a late night TV show has invited a hip young writer to his cottage in the Catskills to help him update his act. They might as well be talking in tongues about what is funny! The second act moves to a seedy club where the mafia connected owner wants aspiring comics to sign a contract giving him a commission on their future earnings. Then the play goes to comedy heaven: backstage at that late night TV show. The older comedian awaits his last chance at the big time and one of the comics from Act 2 is getting his first shot.