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Plays

I AIN'T YO' UNCLE: THE NEW JACK REVISIONIST UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

This play takes Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel and spins it on its ear. Old stereotypes get to meet their creator, as Uncle Tom, Topsy and ...

I HAVE BEFORE ME A REMARKABLE DOCUMENT GIVEN TO ME BY A YOUNG LADY FROM RWANDA

While Simon sits in his writing shed, trying and failing to write the ultimate post-modern novel, Juliette sits in a bleak little hostel room, struggl ...

I KNOW I SAW GYPSIES

This highly theatrical 45-minute script shows the devastating effect of the lack of popularity, the agonies caused by prejudice, the pangs of first lo ...

I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY

Raspanti has extracted a beautiful and moving one-act play based on the poetry created in a concentration camp by the Jewish children of Prague.

I REMAIN...J. AUSTEN

Now, through the power of theatre, Austen is alive and well and living in any place where she chooses to "body forth" at the flamboyant age of 218-goi ...

I SAVED A WINTER JUST FOR YOU

For an honest, hard-hitting evening of theatre, what better excitement than to hear teenagers confront their problems in their own voices? This 90-min ...

I WAS A TEEN-AGE DRACULA

Marlene never willingly misses a horror play on television. She considers herself an authority on werewolves, vampires, etc. When Steve Dracca from ...

I WILL SING LIFE: VOICES FROM THE HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP

I Will Sing Life is a dynamic and highly theatrical collage of creative writing by and interviews with young people who attend the Hole in th ...

I, LIONEL

With his offbeat taste in music, clothes, hobbies and just about everything else, Lionel is not your standard-issue American teenager. His parents, wo ...

THE ICE WOLF

From the East Coast Hudson Bay Inuits comes an exciting, authentic tale of a pale-haired child, exiled by her own people because she was "Anatou—th ...

IF A MAN ANSWERS

Chantal's Parisian mother hands her a dog-training manual as the secret recipe for making a husband happy. "You must treat him like a dog," she warns. ...

IF BOYS WORE THE SKIRTS

Here's a satire on what may happen if women continue to copy the clothes that men wear. According to this play, in self-defense the men may take to we ...

IF GIRLS ASKED BOYS FOR DATES

In this play, the whole dating problem is reversed. George is getting dressed but he can't decide what to wear. His mother helps out with last-minute ...

IF IT'S MONDAY, THIS MUST BE CHRISTMAS!

Itීs finally here! The fifth play in the Harry Monday trilogy! Okay, Harry never could count. Christmas time rolls around and our down-and-out g ...

IF IT'S MONDAY, THIS MUST BE MURDER!

Thatීs right, that same throwback to the 1940s, that same left-foot-in-the-gumshoe from Three Murders and Itීs Only Monday! Is ba ...

IF THE SHOE FITS

It all started when Delores, an unhappy housewife, and George, a shoe salesman, met at Shoe Fantasy and it was love at first shoe-fitting. The only th ...

THE ILLUSTRATED WOMAN

This powerful adult drama deals with the issues of sexual abuse and dissociative identity disorder. Jane Ellen Whitman is a 19-year-old woman living w ...

I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF

Casey O'Hara, a good-looking high school senior, knows what life is all about. It means being cool and laid back; it means just barely getting by; and ...

THE IMAGINARY INVALID

Cranky M Argan imagines he has every ailment there is. He plans to marry his daughter to a dull young doctor so he will always have a physician handy. ...

THE IMAGINATORS

The Imaginators is the story of three children and the power of imagination. Anne and Tim have just moved to a new town. Anne refuses to play ...

AN IMPLAUSIBLE CLAUS

The Ho Ho Hotline has been installed in a retirement home so that children can talk to Santa or Mrs. Claus. Meanwhile, Jensie, with her home computer, ...

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

Oscar Wilde's classic is a delight from the first cucumber sandwich on as Jack's double life catches up with him. The problems are resolved in an extr ...

IMPROMPTU ENTERTAINMENTS

Eight entertainments updated by Bill Majeski needing only brief or no rehearsals, ranging from burlesque radio shows through mock weddings, burle-dram ...

IN SIGHT

Created by the young playwrights of Louisville's Walden Theatre who followed those who wrote the two earlier hits, Glimpses and Rites, this full eveni ...

IN THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS

During the research and writing of her world-changing Silent Spring, Rachel Carson is diagnosed with breast cancer. As she struggles to compl ...

IN THE GARDEN OF THE SELFISH GIANT

Eleven-year-old Maggie Campbell and Susan, her mother, have come to Susan's childhood home to be with Maggie's dying grandmother in her final days. Ma ...

IN THE MIDDLE OF GRAND CENTRAL STATION

It's the crossroads of New York. It's the hub of Manhattan. It's old. It's beautiful. It's dirty. It's a noisy, anonymous, unforgettable point of depa ...

IN THE TANK

Whatීs it like to be peered at by hungry humans? Studied like a microbe under a glass? Or worst of all, chosen to be someoneීs dinner entr ...

THE INCREDIBLE MURDER OF CARDINAL TOSCA

Dr. Alden Nowlan and Dr. Walter Learning came into possession of the papers on which they have based their highly successful play The Incredible Murde ...

THE INEXPERIENCED GHOST

The ghost is real enough when he appears in an old English country home. The only person to see the ghost demands to know by what right he is haunting ...

INNS AND OUTS

These six short plays are perfect fare for anyone who’s had to get through a holiday and a relationship at the same time! Memorial Day ...

INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE

Four students and a young teacher run a magazine at their school. They are all computer experts and have established links with other schools internat ...

INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA (CURRICULUM GUIDE AND TEACHER'S EDITION)

A full year drama course for grades 7 to 12 designed to teach the basics of acting, this book helps teachers focus on building creative skills in thei ...

INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA (STUDENT MANUAL - FIRST SEMESTER)

This manual is three books in one: a textbook, an activity book, and a personal journal. Filled with activities, illustrations, valuable information, ...

INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA (STUDENT MANUAL - SECOND SEMESTER)

This manual takes the lessons learned in the first semester further by showing students how to apply them toward character development, understanding ...

INVENTING MONTANA

Montana Winfield seems to have everything—charisma, fame and a chair in Dickens at a fine university. But he is so driven by it all, that the wife he ...

THE INVISIBLE DRAGON

Everyone was happy because they were trying to make everyone else happy—except the princess. She wasn't happy because all she could think about was he ...

THE INVISIBLE MAN (RADIO MANUSCRIPT)

A young scientist discovers the ability to make himself invisible, affording him a unique and exciting opportunity to study the people around him. But ...

THE INVISIBLE MAN

In this updated version of the H.G. Wells classic, a family running a quiet motel confronts a mysterious scientist who has found the secret of becomin ...

THE IRISH MURDERER

It was a dreadful rainy night when Paddy Noonan knocked on the door at Michael O'Hanlon's cottage in the Northern Irish countryside outside of Ulster. ...

IRON KISSES

Iron Kisses is the story of an American family: a son who made up for being gay by being perfect; a daughter who treats her daughter the way ...

IT HAPPENS EVERY SUMMER

A group of college girls are working as guest editors for the June issue of a New York fashion magazine. Every June, the editor-in-chief of Debutante ...

IT'S A SLIPPERY SLOPE

Within a year, Spalding Gray's existence has been altered by betrayal, love, lust and loss. He marries his long-time companion and divorces her just a ...

IT'S MURDER IN THE WINGS!

Ever try to throw a party an hour after the host has been murdered? It's not as easy as it sounds. As editor of the Wings Publishing Company, Maddie d ...

I'VE HIT AN ICEBERG

In this absurdist comedy, a woman is stunned when she hears the head of iceberg lettuce she's about to turn into a salad ask, "What are you doing with ...