Title:
Author:
4.48 Psychosis
Kane, Sarah
Publisher:
Methuen & Co
2000
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
variable cast
one act
'Fragmentary episodes explore psychotic mind.'
Title:
Acorn
in - Humana Festival '98 / COL
Author:
Graziano, David
Publisher:
Smith and Kraus
1998
Description:
roy
romance
two characters
one male; one female
one act
1 setting.
An unemployed carpenter and high school graduate share a clothesline and fall in love.
Title:
Author:
Act of Ruth, An
Orton, Kimberley
Publisher:
Playwrights Union of Canada
2000
Description:
roy
drama - aging - Alzheimer's disease
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act (72 short scenes)
"Written as a series of delicate and precise living snapshots, this play explores the painful,
fragmented existence of a young woman and her aging mother as they learn to cope with
Alzheimers disease."
Title:
Author:
Agreement, The
Taylor, Douglas
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1967
Description:
roy
drama
two characters
one male; one female
one act
interior set.
Concerned with the special "world" an artist builds to nurture and protect his creativity, this
powerful and illuminating play probes deeply into the agonizing dilemma which must be dealt
with when this hard won freedom is jeopardized. A writer and and an actress are awakened to the
terrifying sterility of their relationship.
Title:
Author:
Ah, Eurydice!
Taikeff, Stanley
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1977
Description:
roy
fantasy - legend - mythology
three characters
two male; one female
one act
"The place is the Underworld, and the first characters we meet are Pluto, and Orpheus, who has
come in search of his lost bride, Eurydice. Orpheus has been told that Pluto will be able to restore
Eurydice to him, despite the fact that she choked on a chicken bone at their wedding reception before they could even fly off on their Bermuda honeymoon. Pluto is glad to oblige, but makes the
proviso that Orpheus must not look back at Eurydice as he leads her out of the Underworld. The
condition is accepted, but Eurydice, a bleached blonde who is not amused by the situation
Title:
Alien Creature
A visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwan
Author:
Griffiths, Linda
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
2000
Description:
roy
drama - identity - historical drama - women
all female cast; one character
one female
one act
'Monologue supposedly spoken by the Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwan, who died of
alcoholism in 1987; draws on her writings to tell her life story.'
Winner of 2000 Dora Award for Outstanding New Play
Title:
Author:
All is Not Gold
Vosper, Frank
Publisher:
Baker International
1931
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
one male; two female
one act
interior set.
A poor fisherman wins the sweepstakes and is all but blinded by the temptations of high society.
The play has certain fabled qualities.
Title:
Author:
Ashes to Ashes
Pinter, Harold
Publisher:
Grove Press, Inc.
1996
Description:
roy
drama - violence
two characters
one male, one female
one act
"Drama about personal and political violence. Husband relentlessly questions wife about her
abusive ex-lover."
Title:
Author:
At A Beetle's Pace
Catron, Louis E.
Publisher:
Samuel French
1971
Description:
roy
drama
two characters
one male; one female
one act
1 exterior set.
The problems of old age are given fresh examination in this play which takes place in some vague
future where science has created a "Utopia" that prevents people from ever getting older and where
death is almost unknown. An old man remains, the last survivor of his generation, lonely,
seeking to carve a place for himself.
Title:
Autobahn
A short-play cycle
Author:
Labute, Neil
Publisher:
Faber and Faber
2005
Description:
one act
relationships
two characters
one male; one female
seven short scenes
Be it the medium for clandestine couplings, arguments, shelter, or ultimately transportation, the
automobile is perhaps the most authentically American of spaces. This provocative collection of
one-act plays set within the confines of the front seat, the playwright employs his signature
plaintive insight to great effect, investigating the inchoate apprehension that surrounds the
steering wheel. Each of these seven brief vignettes explores the ethos of perception and
relationship.
Title:
Author:
Banana Boots
Fennario, David
Publisher:
Talonbooks
1998
Description:
roy
Canadian - monologue
all male cast; one character
one male
one act
"A one-man-show / memoir about Fennario's tour of his famous bilingual play, 'Balconville,' on a
cultural mission to Belfast. Once out amidst the tension-filled atmosphere of working class
communities, Fennario experiences a mutual epiphany of solidarity with 'the troubles' in Ireland
and in Quebec, brought to a head by his soul mate 'Banana Boots,' the stand up Irish comedian
who regales his audience with scathing caricatures of both Ian Paisley and the leaders of Sien
Fein."
Title:
Author:
Bar and Ger
Aron, Geraldine
Publisher:
Samuel French
1980
Description:
roy
drama - family relations
two characters
one male; one female
one act
simple set.
This is the tender, simple story of the growing-up relationship between a sister (the author) and
her younger brother described in realistic and down-to-earth language. Composed of episodic
flashes of dialogue through the years which are linked by the sister's narrative.
Title:
Author:
Basement, The
Pinter, Harold
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1969
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
two male; one female
one act
area staging.
A spinsterish bachelor whose carefully furnished basement flat is invaded late one night by his
former roommate with a young girl in tow. He is effusive in his welcome to his former roommate.
The girl and former roommate strip naked and get into bed, as host, terribly rattled, continues to
chatter. The intruders move in permanently, and soon the host's old pictures and bits of sculpture
Title:
Author:
Beyond Belief
Watts, Irene N.
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1981
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian - supernatural
three characters; extras
flexible casting
one act
"A collage of nightmares: ghosts, werewolves, devils and other creatures from a strange "beyond".
Title:
Author:
Birthday Present, The
Brook, Peter
Publisher:
Dramatic Publishing Company
1969
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
one male; two female
one act
A woman tells a younger woman not to be afraid, then goes into another room. There's a man at
the door, the ex-husband of the younger woman. He's astonished to have been invited to see her
again for it has been several years since their divorce. It is her birthday. Unknowingly, he's also
brought her another present and that is the point of the play. As they fence cautiously, they begin
to see that they might have made it together. Beginning to respond to each other's love, they are
interrupted by the older woman, a psychiatrist who has arranged the encounter as a part of the
Title:
Blood Knot
A play in seven scenes
Author:
Fugard, Athol
Publisher:
Samuel French
1989
Description:
roy
family relationships - racism
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act
1 interior.
Relationship between two South African brothers of mixed blood mirrors racial issues.
Title:
Box and Cox
A romance in real life
Author:
Morton, John Madison
Publisher:
Samuel French
Description:
nonroy
melodrama
three characters
two male; one female
one act
A woman who rents the same room to two men, one to use it by night, the other by day. Her
efforts to keep them apart and the resulting tangle are the very quintessence of the ludicrous.
Title:
Author:
Box For One
Brook, Peter
Publisher:
Dramatic Publishing Company
1971
Description:
roy
drama
all male cast; three characters; extras
three male
one act
The "box for one" is a lonely outdoor telephone booth. A young man goes into the booth, dials a
number and asks if there is a message for him. As he starts to leave, the phone rings. A girl is
calling her boyfriend but obviously she has reached the wrong number. The young man tricks her
into giving him her number but she hangs up on him. The tension within the young man is
beginning to build. Clearly someone is out to get him! He tries other numbers hoping for help but
there's none. He calls the girl who spoke to him before and now he needs her help desperately
Title:
Author:
Breath of Life, The
Hare, David
Publisher:
Faber and Faber
2002
Description:
roy
drama - morality
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act
'Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge." Gaugin's epithet serves as the motto for this moral
tale of two women, both in their sixties, whose lives are interwoven in ways neither of them yet
understands. Madeleine Palmer is a retired curator, living alone on the Isle of Wight. One day to
her door comes Frances Beale, a woman she has met only once, who is now enjoying sudden
success, late in life, as a popular novelist. The progress of a single night comes fascinatingly to
echo the hidden course of their lives.
Title:
Author:
Brontosaurus
Wilson, Lanford
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1978
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
one male; two female
one act
The encounter between a cynical New York antiques dealer and her nephew, who has come to the
city to study theology. As reticent and unemotional as his aunt is loquacious and brittle, the
young man contends that he has undergone a mystical experience - a revelation which is as
unsettling to his aunt as it is fulfilling to him. As though intimidated by his inscrutable reserve,
she grows increasingly voluble, revealing in her wise-cracking chatter the defense which she has
constructed to keep the world at bay - and to mask the innate sensitivity and idealism which
Title:
Author:
Burlap Bags
Peterson, Len
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1972
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
all male cast ; three characters; extras
three male (doubling possible)
one act
The re-enactment of a suicide's diary, describing the process by which his life becomes painfully
absurd to him.
Title:
Author:
Cezanne Syndrome, The
Canac-Marquis, Normand
Publisher:
Theatrum Publishing
Danis, Louison
1989
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian - Quebec
three characters
two male; one female
one act
Description not available.
Title:
Author:
Cherry Docs
Gow, David
Publisher:
Scirocco Drama
1997
Description:
roy
drama - murder
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act
"A neo-Nazi skinhead is charged with murder, and Legal Aid has assigned him to a Jewish lawyer.
Over the course of developing a defense for the skinhead, the lawyer is forced to examine the
limits of his own liberalism, and the demons underlying it."
Title:
Author:
Courier, The
Thiessen, Vern
Publisher:
Playwrights Union of Canada
1987
Description:
roy
drama - war
all male cast; one character
one male
one act
"Spring 1945, occupied Czechoslovakia. David Dyck, a young courier in Hitler's army, must
decide whether to open a restricted letter and face truth or remain ignorant and risk death."
Title:
Cowboy Island
Author:
Shein, Brian
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1972
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
three characters
two male; one female
one act
music.
A theatrical ritual juxtaposing American legend with pagan rite, climaxing with the killing of a
king. A new perspective on the myth of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, portraying the pattern of
betrayal, death and identification of the hunter with his victim.
Title:
Author:
Cut in the Rates, A
Ayckbourn, Alan
Publisher:
Samuel French
1991
Description:
roy
thriller - ghost story
three characters
two male; one female
one act
"When Miss Pickhart visits Ratchet, an illusionist, on official Town Hall business, she discovers a
sinister secret. Alone in the cellar after Ratchet is called away, Miss Pickhart confronts the ghost of
Rosalinda who met an untimely death during the saw-the-woman-in-half trick. The ghost believes
it was not an accident and calls upon Miss Pickhart to release her. To do this, Miss Pickhart must
relive that fateful night and climb into the cabinet. It seems as though she too is to meet a grim
death until the play takes an unexpected twist."
Title:
Author:
Damnee Manon Sacree Sandra
Tremblay, Michel
Publisher:
Talonbooks
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
two characters
one male; one female
one act
Two interweaving monologues on religion and sex from characters who eventually realize that
they have been invented by the author.
Title:
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
An Apache dance
Author:
Shanley, John Patrick
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1984
Description:
roy
drama
two characters
one male; one female
one act
In a run down bar in the Bronx, two of society's rejects, Danny and Roberta, strike up a halting
conversation over their beer. He is a brooding, young man who resorts more to violence than
reason; she is a divorced, guilt-ridden young woman whose troubled teenage son is now being
cared for by her parents. Danny seems incapable of tender emotion; while Roberta, who is still
haunted by the memory of an ugly sexual incident involving her father, is distrustful of men in
general. And yet..."
Title:
Author:
Daughter by Adoption
Hopkins, Beth
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
Joyce, Anne
1981
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian - historical
all female cast; one character
one female
one act
open stage.
A multimedia play based on Susanna Moodie's writings. The famous pioneer authoress' life, from
her English childhood to old age in Belleville, comes alive.
Title:
Author:
Dead Heat
Chadwick, W. R.
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1974
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian - disabled
three characters
two male; one female
one act
1 exterior set.
A hospitalized army officer, confined to a wheel-chair, trains fanatically for a wheelchair
Olympiad. His competitiveness is shattered when a fellow invalid, a former Olympics walker,
accepts his challenge to a race around the hospital grounds, and wins. A play about the nature of
competition.
Title:
Author:
Death of René Lévesqué, The
Fennario, David
Publisher:
Talonbooks
2003
Description:
roy
Canadian - historical - biography - René Lévesque
six characters
four male; two female
one act
The Death of René Lévesque dramatizes the rise and fall of Canada’s most tragic public figure of
the 20th century. Fennario’s deft and subtle characterization of the father of the Parti Québecois,
his re-telling of the compromising political realities which formed both the movement and the
party as Lévesque created it, and the gradual revelation of the fatal flaw which began to undermine
both the man and his dream of a new republic, proceed here with a stately, devastating
inevitability which recall the masterful tragedies of Euripides and Shakespeare.
Title:
December Man, The
L'homme de décembre
Author:
Murphy, Colleen
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
2007
Description:
roy
Canadian - drama - violence
three characters
two male; one female
eight scenes
"A public tragedy shatters a working class family. Struggling to survive the aftermath of the 1989
Montreal Massacre, Benoît and Kathleen do everything they can to help their beloved son Jean
cope with guilt and rage. . .but will it be enough? This searing drama on courage, heroism, and
despair explores the long public shadow that private family violence casts."
Title:
Author:
Diamond Cutters
Type, David
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1971
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
three characters
two male; one female
one act
Two old diamond cutters about to be replaced by machines reflect upon and refine the memories
of their youth.
Title:
Author:
Dispossessed
Ravel, Aviva
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1976
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
three characters
two male; one female
one act
1 interior set.
Many years ago, Roochel was seduced and abandoned by her boss; her emotionally-retarded son
was the subject of his playmates' scorn; Seymour has supported them both for more than forty
years.
Title:
Author:
Dock Brief, The
Mortimer, John
Publisher:
Samuel French
1958
Description:
roy
drama
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act
A seedy unsuccessful lawyer has been waiting for years to make a grandstand defense. He is given
his chance when he is assigned to defend an innocuous little man who is accused of murdering
his wife. The man cheerfully admits his guilt; he simply couldn't stand his wife's constant joking
and laughing. Defense proves absolutely impossible. The trial over, and verdict a foregone
conclusion, the lawyer can only beg his client to let him appeal. But the supreme irony is yet to
come; the man is reprieved on the grounds of the ineptitude of his defense.
Title:
Author:
Down Dangerous Passes Road
Bouchard, Michel Marc
Publisher:
Talonbooks
1998
Description:
roy
drama - aids - family relationships
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act
"Fifteen years to the day after the death of their father, three brothers get together and drive out to
the place where it happened. . . each is facing a crucial rite of passage. In voices that interweave,
alternate and play off one another with the exquisite lyricism of chamber music, the brothers
reveal themselves as trapped by their father's inability to let his boys grow up, and their own
inability to accept him as an adult."
Title:
Author:
Dried Flowers
Cruise, Maryjane
Publisher:
Playwrights Guild of Canada
1998
Description:
roy
dramatic comedy - monologue
all female cast; three characters
one female (doubling)
one act
This poignant comedy follows the compelling story of three women, each one at a critical turning
point in her life. Lil is 49, unmarried and still seeks the approval of her mother. Vi is about to
turn sixty and is searching for new meaning in her life. Iris must decide whether her marriage is
worth saving. None of the women anticipate how the lives of the others will impact her own.
Title:
Duet For A Schizophrenic
A short play in 3 parts
Author:
Johnson, Chris
Publisher:
Pulp Press Book Publishers
1972
Description:
roy
drama
two characters
one male; one female
one act
Contains:
- The Man Who Thought He Was A Gerbil
- Mirrors
- Duet
Title:
Dumping Ground
A play in one act
Author:
Diggs, Elizabeth
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1982
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
two male; one female
one act
open stage.
"A compelling yet warm-hearted study of two indigent citizens who decide to blockade a dumping
site which is threatening to pollute their air and water."
Title:
Dying To Be Thin
Author:
Carson, Linda
Publisher:
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
1993
Description:
roy
drama - teenagers - eating disorders - monologue
all female cast; one character
one female
one act
1 set.
"A look behind locked doors into the secret life of a young teenager battling with the eating
disorder bulimia."
Title:
Author:
Emphysema (A Love Story)
Munsil, Janet
Publisher:
Playwrights Union of Canada
1998
Description:
roy
Canadian - drama
three characters
one male; two female
one act
In 1978, bad-boy British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan interviews his screen idol - the silent film
siren Louise Brooks - now 71 and living in Rochester, NY. Their meetings form a kind of romance
between two sensualists, overseen by the spirit of the amoral Lulu, Ken's fantasy, based on the
character Louise Brooks portrayed in the 1928 silent film "Pandora's Box."
Title:
Author:
Encounter
Jacobson, Ruth
Publisher:
Dramatic Publishing Company
1986
Description:
roy
drama
two characters
one male; one female
one act
This work strongly focuses on the relationship of a young man and woman who shed their past
and rediscover one another in an empty room. With no memory of how they go there and no way
to escape from each other, they find anger, humor, sorrow and joy through their interactions.
Designed as a literary jungle gym, this show encourages actors to find new dimensions and
meanings within the lines. It is a play that can be performed anywhere with a wide range of
possible actor/director interpretations.
Title:
Author:
Exits and Entrances
Fugard, Athol
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
2005
Description:
roy
drama - theatre
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act
EXITS AND ENTRANCES is the story of a relationship between a young man on the threshold of his
career as a playwright and an aging actor who has reached the end of his career on the stage. The
play is based directly on Fugard’s own early formative experiences in South African theatre and
the effect that the legendary Afrikaans actor André Huguenet had on him in shaping his own
vision of theatre. It is a play in which the young man’s optimism and hope balance the despair
and disillusionment of the aging actor. This is a play that celebrates theatre and its abiding
Title:
Author:
Family Trees, The
Stevens, John A.
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1982
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian - family relations
three characters
two male; one female
one act
No description available.
Title:
Author:
Ferryboat
Barlow, Anna Marie
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1971
Description:
roy
drama - romance
two characters
one male; one female
one act
exterior setting; suggested for high school.
"An established favourite for acting classes and play contest use, this gentle and touching play
details the chance meeting of two young people on a ferryboat."
Title:
Author:
Final Play
Lang, William
Publisher:
Dramatic Publishing Company
1977
Description:
roy
drama - war
all male cast; three characters, one extra
three male
one act
"Imprisoned P.O.W. flyers shot down, are struggling against the brainwashing tactics, stress and
confinement, dictated to by a female voice."
Title:
Author:
Fishwrap
Macfarlane, David
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
2005
Description:
roy
drama - monologues - men
all male cast; one character
one male
one act
Sorrows come not as single spies, but in battalions. What if nothing is left in their wake but
newspaper clippings? In an age of insecurity, few have a more tenuous hold on employment than
the freelance newspaper writer. Fewer still have bigger egos. In Fishwrap, comedy and anger,
defiance and lonely bewilderment are woven together in a monologue that continually bursts
beyond the confines of a single character. A writer and his voices mourn the loss of what seem to
be everything.
Title:
Author:
Flounder Complex, The
Damato, Anthony
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1968
Description:
roy
thriller
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act
An interview between a paranoid, nearly-blind old woman and a young girl who answers her ad
for a servant. The old woman's fear of the outside world shows itself, partly through her
revelations about herself. She tells the applicant that she used to suffer from what she called the
Flounder Complex (the flounder has a dreadful fear of death, she explains. It buries itself in the
mud at the bottom of the river and waits to be speared), but claims to have cured herself. The girl
realizes she doesn't want the job after all, and the old woman, terrified because the girl - who now
Title:
Forward to the Right
A play of Joan of Arc
Author:
Green, Lily Ann
Publisher:
Samuel French
1987
Description:
roy
drama - historical
two characters
one male; one female
one act
"Condemned to burn at the stake, Joan of Arc is denied a rosary, a cross or any form of service.
Her sympathetic guard arranges for her to receive last rites. In consequence, he is imprisioned
after Joan's death. He refuses to acknowledge her powers of witchcraft. Like Joan, he will not gain
his freedom at the expense of truth."
Winner of the Best Original Play Award at the Ontario One-Act Play Festival
Title:
Author:
General, The
Morgan, Robert
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1986
Description:
roy
Canadian - drama - relationships
three characters
two male; one female
one act
"The story of an old hermit who acts as a school crossing guard. The community bands together
to try and get rid of him, but as he is not being paid, they can't fire him. Based on a true story."
Title:
Author:
General, The
Petch, Steve
Publisher:
Playwrights Co-op
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian - war
two characters
one male; one female
one act
Description not available.
1973
Title:
Author:
George Johnson is a Son-Of-A-Bitch
Smiley, Charles W.
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1972
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
three characters
two male; one female
one act
1 interior set.
George Johnson, a high school teacher, is confronted by Marianna, a student "more or less"
interested in taking his course. A battle of wits between student and teacher ensures.
Title:
Author:
Gesture of Concern
King, David
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1973
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act
Description not available.
Title:
Author:
Gone the Burning Sun
Mitchell, Ken
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1984
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian - biography
all male cast; one character
one male
one act
A compelling portrait of Dr. Norman Bethune, the brilliant medical man who devoted himself to
saving the world in China, Spain and Montreal.
Winner, 1985 Canadian Authors' Association Drama Award.
Title:
Author:
Good Day
Peluso, Emanuel
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1966
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
two male (one nonspeaking role); one female
one act
"An interview by a sarcastic and independent old lady of an ambitious young man for an
undisclosed position. At the start, the lady is alternately nasty and apologetic, the young man
restrained and polite. As the interview proceeds, the relationship changes and it soon becomes
apparent that the lady is digging beneath the man's sadism. When he sees it too he is ruined. He
is finally hired as a domestic - the ultimate reversal of the dignity he had insisted upon at the
start. In the end all pretense is stripped away, and we glimpse not only the truth about both of
Title:
Green Forms
from Office Suite
Author:
Bennett, Alan
Publisher:
Samuel French
1981
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
one male; two female
one act
Doris and Doreen are comfortably installed in an obscure department of a large organization. It is
a cushy little number: on a normal day the girls keep busy by flirting with nice Mr. Tidmarsh in
Appointments or pursuing their bitter feud (over a wash-basin plug) with Mr. Culiffe in Personnel.
Work is nowhere. However, this is not a normal day and slowly Doris and Doreen realize that
someone elsewhere in the organization has his (or her) eye on them. A shadow falls across their
tranquil lives. Is it redundancy?
Title:
Author:
Gunner's Rope
Benson, Eugene
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act
1 interior set.
Description not available.
1973
Title:
Author:
Haiku
Snodgrass, Katherine
Publisher:
Samuel French
1989
Description:
roy
drama
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act
The story concerns a woman who lives with her mentally challenged daughter, who has
miraculously at brief intervals been "normal". In fact, the daughter, Louise, is sometimes
super-normal, speaking in beautiful haiku poetry, which her mother has recorded and has had
published under the mother's name. Then an older daughter, Billie, comes for a visit. Billie only
knows her sister as hopelessly retarded, and refuses to believe that her mother's poetry has
actually been composed by her sister.
Title:
Author:
Half Hour, The
Helland, Robert
Publisher:
Heuer Publishing Company
1952
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
one male; two female
one act
1 interior set.
'In accordance with a legend young woman whose husband had been lost in a storm on a certain
lake receives visit from spirit of man who had died the same way.'
Title:
Author:
Haven
Penman, Steve
Publisher:
Steve Penman
n.d.
Description:
roy
drama - relationships
three characters
one male; two female
one act
1 interior set
A streetwise teenage girl and her country grandmother must learn to get along and accept each
other's strengths and weaknesses.
Title:
Helen's Necklace
Le Collier d'Helene
Author:
Frechette, Carole
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
Murrell, John, * translator
2003
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
two characters (can be played by up to six characters)
one male; one female
one act
"The necklace is irreplaceable. The city is a maze of danger and emotion. Time and reality are
slipping through Helen's fingers."
Title:
Author:
Here Lies Henry
MacIvor, Daniel
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1996
Description:
roy
Canadian - drama
all male cast; one character
one male
one act
"An idyllic sort of miserable sort of nightmarish sort of story book sort of remarkable sort of
regular sort of story. A man alone in a room with a mission to tell you something you don't
already know."
Title:
Author:
Hope and Fury
Brooks, William Allen
Publisher:
Miscellaneous
2004
Description:
roy
drama - family relations
three characters
one male; two female
one act
Two sisters return home to sort their mothers 'stuff' after her death.
Title:
Author:
I Ain't Dead Yet!
Heide, Christopher
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1985
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian - social issues
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act
1 interior set.
Teenaged Katie is pregnant and alone. Her grandmother Margaret is beginning to show signs of
senility. Together they find the strength to face the future.
Title:
Author:
I Remember Dali When He Was Just a Little Kid and Couldn't Keep His Nose Cl
Russell, Lawrence
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1972
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
three characters
two male; one female
one act
1 interior set.
Description not available.
Title:
Author:
I Rise In Flame, Cried The Phoenix
Williams, Tennessee
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1951
Description:
roy
drama - biography
three characters
one male; two female
one act
A play about D.H. Lawrence. There are three characters, Lawrence himself, Frieda and Bertha Brett,
and the scene is a sun-porch at a small retreat in the Alpes Maritimes. We see Lawrence at the very
end of his career, in fact the very day he dies, and recognize him as the erratic, inspired,
ill-tempered genius who was never able to come to terms with life. Yet he stands revealed here as
the man who, in Mr. Williams' words, "felt the mystery and power of sex, as the primal life urge,
and was the life-long adversary of those who wanted to keep the subject locked away in cellars of
Title:
Author:
In Vitro
Bienvenue, Yvan
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1995
Description:
roy
Canadian - drama
three characters
two male; one female
one act
"Benoit, a born again Christian, has brought his young fiancee, streetwise Isabelle, to an isolated
cabin in order to escape "the world." François is waiting for a pizza when his girlfriend calls from
a clinic to say she's decided to abort their baby. Knocking out the delivery boy and stealing his
car, François drives to the clinic, shoots the doctor, shoots his girlfriend, and places the foetal
remains in a waste basket. As the play starts, he arrives at the cabin asking for a mason jar for his
"son" and some tape to secure the shotgun to his arm. What follows are five days of hell."
Title:
Author:
Indian Wants The Bronx, The
Horovitz, Israel
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1968
Description:
roy
drama
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act
open stage w/props.
A disturbing portrayal of the mindless cruelty of two teenage toughs towards a helpless stranger
at a bus stop. The stranger is an East Indian who speaks little english.
Title:
Author:
Islands
Hollingsworth, Margaret
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1983
Description:
roy
Canadian - drama - family relations
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act
"Six months after "Alli Alli Oh!" Now living alone, Muriel receives a visit from her widowed mother
and her new fiancé. Alli also arrives unexpectedly, and events climax when each woman
discovers ways to relate to past events."
Title:
Author:
Je Me Souviens
Gale, Lorena
Publisher:
Talonbooks
2001
Description:
roy
dramatic monologue - women, autobiography
all female cast; one character
one female
twenty-six scenes
'In this powerful dramatic monologue, Lorena Gale remembers, by reconstructing for the
audience, her childhood and coming of age as an African-Canadian in Montreal.'
Title:
Author:
K2
Meyers, Patrick
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1983
Description:
roy
drama - adventure - men
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act
"The setting is an icy ledge high up on K2, the world's second highest mountain. Two climbers,
Taylor and Harold, are stranded at 27,000 feet and Harold has suffered a broken leg in their
precipitous descent. They have also lost one of their ropes and the remaining one is neither long
or strong enough to serve as a sling to lower Harold to the next ledge."
Title:
Author:
Knots
Laing, R. D.
Publisher:
Penguin Books
1970
Description:
roy
drama - relationships - psychological
two characters
one male; one female
one act
"In a string of ... remarkable insights into the ways human beings behave to one another, R.D.
Laing works out the deadly duologues that silently mar [a] relationship. Love, hate, good and
bad, hoping and fearing, wanting and getting...here are the first elements of the tortuous cat's
cradles and the sad little patterns our minds are compelled to repeat."
Title:
Author:
Lavender Kite, The
Seidelhuber, Gladys
Publisher:
Samuel French
1955
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
two male; one female
one act
1 interior set.
A mid-west town in the late 30's is the setting for this play which puts into conflict the needs and
desires of three people such that tragedy becomes inevitable.
Title:
Author:
Leo
Laborde, Rosa
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
2006
Description:
roy
Canadian - drama - love-triangle - politics - Chile
four characters
two male; two female
one act
running time: 67 min.
"Set in Santiago, Chile, three young friends form a bittersweet love triangle
during the political upheaval surrounding President Salvador Allende’s
assassination. Told through Léo's memories, the play travels through
childhood, first friends and first loves. Passion and poetry weave together
Title:
Author:
Letters in Wartime
Brown, Kenneth
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
Scriver, Stephen
2005
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian - war - romance
two characters
one male; one female
seven scenes
"During World War II, Allan, a young RCAF pilot, and Moira, an auxiliary worker at the Blatchford
Field in Edmonton, try desperately to maintain their long-distance relationship. But is the printed
word enough to keep love alive in a world turned upside down?"
Title:
Life as a Fly
Author:
Matulic, Margaret
Publisher:
Playwrights Union of Canada
1988
Description:
roy
dramatic comedy
all female cast; one character
one female
one act
"A one-woman dramedy profiling the lives of four women through the eyes of a newborn fly
caught on a pest strip."
Title:
Live Bird In Its Jaws, A
Author:
Delisle, Jeanne-Mance
Publisher:
NuAge Editions
translated by Yves Saint-Pierre
1987
Description:
roy
drama - French Canadian
three characters
two male; one female
one act
'A Live Bird In Its Jaws' is about "nothing less than a complete meltdown of Freudian passions
between three characters: the traditional love triangle bent, stretched and twisted into a
kaleidoscope of sexual intrigues".
Title:
Love in a Railway Train
A duologue
Author:
Stayton, Frank
Publisher:
Samuel French
Description:
roy
duologue - theatre
two characters
one male; one female
one act
1 set.
No abstract available
1909
Title:
Author:
Lunch Hour
Mortimer, John
Publisher:
Samuel French
1960
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
one male; two female
one act
A young man an woman meet in a wayside hotel during lunch hour to express their love. In order
to be discreet, he has fabricated a story of marriage, children, distant home, to satisfy the
concierge. The woman is confused when confronted with this fabrication, and as she unravels the
matter in her mind the enchantment of love begins to fade. The room is dilapidated, the concierge
an intruding bore, and it's too cold to take off one's overcoat. The result is that she leaves at the
end of the hour, never to see him again. The bloom of love is dead.
Title:
Author:
Make-Up Artist, The
Wilson, David Henry
Publisher:
Dramatic Publishing Company
1973
Description:
roy
drama - theatre
two characters; one extra
one male; one female
one act
A beautiful young girl is preparing backstage to make up an actor for a role. The actor, young,
brassy and self-confident, is delighted to find such an attractive make-up artist. While she
proceeds impassively with her work, he talks about his great importance while making passes at
her. Unperturbed, she continues her work, always making him a little older. His manner is subtly
shifting from big talk to complaints about his bad luck. Implacably she continues and now the
actor is giving way to self-pity. The relentless make-up artist is now making the actor an unsure
Title:
Author:
Mary's Wedding
Massicote, Stephen
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
2002
Description:
roy
drama - romance - war
two characters
one male; one female
one act
"A bewitching love story in which two young lovers, torn apart by the chaos of World War I, find
that love is stronger than time. This breathtaking tale lingers like a half-remembered dream."
Title:
Author:
Mask For The Dead, A
Lipman, Lillian
Publisher:
Samuel French
1965
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
two male; one female
one act
1 interior set.
The confrontation between a widower and his married daughter over the man's preoccupation
with a certain woman.
Title:
Author:
Mercy Seat, The
Labute, Neil
Publisher:
Faber and Faber
2003
Description:
roy
relationships - drama
two characters
one male; one female
one act
In a time of national tragedy, the world changes overnight. On Sept. 12, 2001 Ben Harcourt finds
himself in the downtown apartment of his lover, Abby Prescott - who also happens to be his boss.
His endlessly ringing cell phone haunts their conversation as Ben and Abby explore the choices
now available to them in an existence different from the one they knew just the day before. Will
Ben let his family know he's alive, or will he and Abby take this chance to create a new life for
themselves?
Title:
Minuet, A
A little play in verse
Author:
Parker, Louis N.
Publisher:
Samuel French
1950
Description:
roy
poetic or verse drama
three characters
two male; one female
one act
1 interior set.
During the French Revolution an aristocratic nobleman and his estranged wife are touchingly
reunited as they both await the guillotine. This classic verse play establishes proof of the innate
nobility of character in certain French Aristocrats who show a type of moral courage rare in any
era.
Title:
Author:
Monster
MacIvor, Daniel
Publisher:
Scirocco Drama
10/19/07
Description:
roy
drama - monologue
all male cast; one character
one male
one act
"Monster begins in the total darkness of a movie theater. After a long silence, someone in the
audience shushes his neighbor and the show begins. Daniel MacIvor transforms himself into a
series of characters whose lives seem eerily related: The young boy who tells the story of the
neighbor lad who hacked up his father in the basement. Alcoholic Al and whiny Janine, the lovers
who quarrel, make up, and decide to marry after seeing a movie. The ex-drunk who dreamed up
the movie, but got no credit because he was said to have stolen the idea from a famous unfinished
Title:
Author:
Monument, The
Wagner, Colleen
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1996
Description:
roy
Canadian - war - drama
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act
"A young soldier is convicted of war crimes. Stetko is the boy next door who comes from
respectable parents and has gotten caught up in the political events of a war he never
understood. Like the good son, the good soldier, he obeys his superiors only to find that, at the
conclusion of war, he has become the scapegoat for crimes "everyone was doing." He is "rescued"
by a woman from the enemy side. 'The Monument' examines the paradox of a soldier today, and
the ambiguities of morality and justice."
Title:
My Name is Rachel Corrie
Taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie
Author:
edited by Alan Rickman
Publisher:
Nick Hern Books
edited by Katherine Viner
2005
Description:
roy
biography - American - monologue
all female cast; one character
one female
one act
Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between a bulldozer
and a Palestinian home? This play tells the story of her short life and sudden death, from the
words she left behind.
Title:
Author:
Needs
Jacobson, Steven M.
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1968
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
two male; one female (non-speaking role)
one act
1 interior set.
This highly original and absorbing short play combines humor, pathos and a chilling sense of
menace in its perceptive study of a young man drawn innocently into the lives of an older
neighboring couple, and forced to fill the needs engendered by their loneliness and broken
hopes.
Title:
Author:
Night With Mrs. Da Tanka, A
Trevor, William
Publisher:
Samuel French
1972
Description:
roy
romantic drama
three characters
two male; one female
one act
For the past thirty-one years Mr. Mileson has been coming to the hotel in the seaside town where
long ago he fell in love with his lost childhood sweetheart, Cynthia. On this occasion, he
encounters the strange Mrs. da Tanka. Could she be Cynthia returned? Mrs. da Tanka, who says
she is waiting for someone who is not going to arrive, manages to trap Mileson in her bedroom
and involves him in a situation combining the ludicrous, the horrifying and the near tragic.
Finally, the truth of his attitude towards Cynthia is forced from him, and throughout he is never
Title:
Author:
Night, Mother
Norman, Marsha
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1983
Description:
roy
drama
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act
Jessie's father is dead; her loveless marriage ended in divorce; her last job didn't work out and
her life is stale and unprofitable. As the play begins Jessie asks for her father's service revolver
and calmly announces that she intends to kill herself. Her mother refuses to take her seriously,
but as Jessie sets about tidying the house and making lists of things to be looked after, her sense
of desperate helplessness begins to build. Jessie's mother can only stand by, stunned, as Jessie
quietly closes and locks her bedroom door and ends her profound unhappiness in one fatal,
Title:
Author:
Not Enough Rope
May, Elaine
Publisher:
Samuel French
1992
Description:
roy
tragicomedy - suicide
three characters
one male; two female
one act
1 interior.
Suicide attempt by lonely young girl in boarding house.
Title:
Author:
Ofay Watcher, The
Cucci, Frank
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1970
Description:
roy
drama - black play
three characters
two male; one female
one act
Rufus is a black 'drifter' who is found one day by Bruce, a young ,white biochemist. Bruce has a
secret potion and is conducting a series of experiments to turn black people into white people!
Rufus seems convinced, goes off to Bruce's apartment, and the forbidding Jekyll/Hyde
transformation begins. Daisy, Bruce's black girlfriend knows something of the dangers involved,
based on the results of previous experiments, but she is a willing and anxious subject and was to
be in Rufus' place on the schedule.
Title:
Author:
Patches
More, Robert
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1988
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian - ethnic
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act
1 interior set.
Two women - one of Scottish ancestry, the other of Ukranian descent - lead solitary lives in a
rural Ontario community. They meet through a mutual interest in patchwork quilting and
embroidery and develop a deep friendship, a bond that allows them to survive a period of intense
personal crisis.
Title:
Author:
Patient A
Blessing, Lee
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1993
Description:
roy
drama - AIDS
three characters
two male; one female
one act
"Commissioned by the Bergalis family to explore Kimberly's case of contracting the AIDS virus, the
playwright becomes part of the story as an essential observer of the story. Lee's encounters with
Kim reflect their relationship in real life as well as "playwright" and "character" in the play. A third
character, Matthew, represents a composite of the thousands of gay men who have suffered in the
AIDS epidemic. As the play recounts Kim's case, spotlighting the media and the political circus
surrounding it, we see all three characters struggle with the debate, and with their innermost
Title:
Person I Once Was, The
A one-act play
Author:
Johnson, Cindy Lou
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1985
Description:
roy
drama - romance - family relations
three characters
one male; two female
one Act
divided set.
"This haunting, lyrically evocative play tells the story of a shy young girl who is suffocating in the
care of her older sister, and the strange, intense young man who offers her the hope of
romance—and escape."
Title:
Author:
Photographic Memory
Martin, Jennifer
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy
Canadian - drama - family relations
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act
No description available.
Title:
Author:
Postcards
Prideaux, James
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1970
Description:
roy
drama
two characters
one male; one female
one act
For thirty years Margaret and Leonardo have sat each day at adjoining desks, writing postcards to
famous people, without ever getting any answers. Having run out of live personages to write to
they decide to address their cards to the famous dead - but, suddenly, much to their
consternation, a reply does arrive. Its effect is shattering, and brings on a poignant revelation of
the unspoken feelings which have, through all the years, lay dormant beneath the calm surface of
their very correct relationship.
Title:
Author:
Pppeeeaaaccceee
O'Donnell, Darren
Publisher:
Coach House Press
2003
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
one male; two female
one act
A vast, imaginative and mesmerizing glide through Life and Power. The play is set in Ephemeral;
three people firmly floating chat - in O'Donnell's inimitable style - about the revolution. Which
revolution? Good question. A gently aggressive meditation, 'pppeeeaaaccceee' examines our
being, asks us what we're doing and reminds us that there are monsters out there. Peace. Say it
slow, stretch it out, make it last forever.
Title:
Author:
Problem, The
Gurney Jr., A. R.
Publisher:
Samuel French
1968
Description:
roy
marital relations - sex
two characters
one male; one female
one act
1 interior set.
A husband and wife get caught in a complicated and perverse spiral of sexual fantasies, which
enables them to keep their marriage alive and vital.
Title:
Author:
Red Key, The
Emery, Charles
Publisher:
Samuel French
1949
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
one male; two female
one act
Karen has come to stay with Nicholas and his mental case sister, Hester. Nicholas and Karen's
fathers were partners on the town newspaper until Karen's father suddenly vanished. In a
confidential mood, Hester claims that a key on a red ribbon in Nicholas's possession opens the
door. And that there is a corpse hidden there! Remembering that it was seven years ago that her
father disappeared, Karen's suspicion increases with intensity as the play gathers momentum and
the red key becomes a symbol of fear and mistrust.
Title:
Author:
Remember Me
Tremblay, Michel
Publisher:
Talonbooks
translated by John Stowe
1984
Description:
roy
Canadian - drama - homosexuality
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act
It has been some time since Luc and Jean-Marc have seen each other, but the wounds from their
7-year love affair are only partially healed. Each of them has current worries as well: Jean-Marc
has realized that he will never be the great novelist he had hoped to become. Luc's father is dying.
During this evening at Jean-Marc's house, the two men dredge up the good and the bad
memories; they confront each other about past injustices; they examine each other's grey hairs;
finally, they confess their fears and disillusionments and they comfort each other.
Title:
Remington
A drama in one act for a single actor
Author:
Aranha, Ray
Publisher:
Plays in Process
Description:
roy
drama
all male cast; one character
one male
one act
1 interior set.
Description not available.
1980
Title:
Author:
Riff Raff
Fishburne, Laurence
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1997
Description:
roy
drama - crime - Halloween
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act
"It's Halloween night, Mike (20/20) and his half brother, Billy (Torch), have retreated to an
abandoned crack den on the Lower East Side, in the aftermath of a drug heist gone sour. Torch
has just killed one of the henchmen of the neighbourhood's reigning drug lord. Having planned
no means of escape, Mike summons his former colleague, Tony, to help them out of this jam.
What follows is a three-way confrontation in which guns are drawn, allegiances are shifted, and
secrets are uncovered. Themes of lost brotherhood and friendship are evident, while the
Title:
Author:
Rouge Atomique
Nash, N. Richard
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1955
Description:
roy
fantasy - drama
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act
These are female characters who love the same man and who sit chatting pleasantly over teacups.
They would speak of kind and gentle matters and would be civilized above all. But war and things
of violence intrude so they turn to French, most civilized of all languages, for "we do not quarrel
in French". But in so saying, they have returned to English and talk while waiting for the phone to
ring, to bring them news of the man they love. As they wait they retell their memories of the man,
and as each grows possessive and envious of the other's part in his life, they quarrel.
Title:
Author:
Scooter Thomas Makes it to the Top of the World
Parnell, Peter
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1982
Description:
roy
drama - death, self realizations
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act
"Death of childhood friend causes man to relive times they spent together."
Title:
Shame the devil
An audience with Fanny Kemble
Author:
Ludlum, Anne
Publisher:
Dramatic Publishing Company
1998
Description:
roy
drama - monologue - woman - biography
all female cast; one character
one female
one act
Late on an October evening in 1850, Fanny Kemble bursts into her Manhattan parlor—terrified
and angry. Her former husband has published an attack on her character and she fears this will
not only damage her personal reputation, but ruin her chances for a new career—she just that
night debuted as a solo reader of plays. To defend herself, Fanny proceeds to tell her story, ...
then she faces the consequences of making public her confirmed opposition to slavery: divorce,
the loss of her children, and the need to earn her own living as a middle-aged, single woman.
Title:
Author:
Shirkers, The
McLellan, C. M. S.
Publisher:
Samuel French
1951
Description:
roy
thriller
three characters
two male; one female
one act
1 interior set.
A shepherd, driven to despair by loneliness and sorrow, stabs his wife and returns to his humble
cabin exactly one year later to find her body, warm and freshly bleeding, precisely where he left it.
Title:
Author:
Shoebox
Matulic, Margaret
Publisher:
Playwrights Union of Canada
1997
Description:
roy
drama
all female cast; one character
one female
one act
"A woman candidly reflects upon treasured mementos she has collected over the years in a
shoebox."
Title:
Author:
Shylock
Leiren-Young, Mark
Publisher:
Anvil Press
1996
Description:
roy
racism - monologue
all male cast; two characters
one male (doubling)
one act
'Shylock is an award winning play about a Jewish actor who finds himself condemned by his own
community for his portrayal of Shakespeare's notorious Jew.'
Title:
Author:
Skirmishes
Hayes, Catherine
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1983
Description:
roy
drama
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act
The scene is the bedroom of a house in provincial England, where a senile old woman lies on her
deathbed, attended by her two-middle-aged daughters. Jean, has stayed at home and has borne
the brunt of her mother's illness, from the first stroke to her present almost total incapacity. The
younger sister, Rita, has long since moved away and returns now only out of a sense of duty.
Their differences and long-standing resentments pour out with bitterness as the two squabble at
their mother's bedside - sure that the old woman is unable to comprehend what they say.
Title:
Author:
Slam the Door Softly
Luce, Clare Boothe
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1971
Description:
roy
drama
two characters
one male; one female
one act
The scene is a suburban living room, where husband Thaw Wald is watching TV, oblivious to the
fact that his wife, Nora, has suddenly appeared, suitcase in hand, with the firm intention of
leaving him. Her request for "severance pay" shocks him to attention, but despite her careful
recital of her reasons for deciding that the time has come to seek her own life - and identity Thaw cannot grasp the thought that his wife could be dissatisfied. To Thaw's disbelief Nora
leaves, but she "slams the door softly", for there is still love between them and perhaps, if both
Title:
Author:
Slight Ache, A
Pinter, Harold
Publisher:
Samuel French
1961
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
two male; one female
one act
unit set; suggested for high school.
"Symbolic avant-garde play. Couple confide secret thoughts and feelings to silent match-seller."
Title:
Snow Birds
A Cabbagetown play
Author:
Type, David
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1971
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act
1 exterior set.
Sid and Luke re-establish their friendship on a lonely park bench; a sense of the absurd is a key
to their rapport.
Title:
Author:
So Who's Goldberg?
del Grande, Louis
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1972
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act
1 interior set.
A young man (who pretends to play the piano) invites another young man (who pretends to have a
limp) to his apartment. Del Grande explores two characters whose neurotic obsessions make them
perfect companions but whose pride drives them apart.
Title:
Author:
Soldier's Heart
French, David
Publisher:
Talonbooks
2002
Description:
roy
drama - family relationships - war
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act
The sixth play in the Mercer family dramatic cycle. The thoroughly alienated sixteen-year-old
Jacob is standing on a railway platform, leaving home. His father Esau, rushes to the station to
persuade his son not to leave. Unable to speak of what had happened in the Great War since his
return, Esau begins, in halting and tentative language to tell of his comrades and his brother,
their training in Scotland, the agony of Gallipoli, and finally the formative events at the battle of
the Somme at Beaumont Hamel. Esau's answers evolve into stories of pride, foolishness, anger,
Title:
Author:
Sound of a Voice, The
Hwang, David Henry
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1984
Description:
roy
drama - Japanese - folklore
two characters
one male; one female
one act
"The scene is an isolated house in the woods where a beautiful young woman lives alone. When a
young samurai appears she offers him food and shelter, and when he decides to stay on they
eventually becomes lovers. But while fascinated by his benefactress, the samurai cannot shake a
superstitious mistrust of her; for all her delicacy and beauty she is also able to perform wonders
of cookery, horticulture and even the martial arts (much to his wounded pride). In the end it
develops that the woman is suspected of being a witch and the samurai has come to seek glory by
Title:
Author:
Station, The
Langley, Rod
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1972
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act
1 exterior set.
A young man attempts to escape his obsessions by catching a train at a station where no trains
ever stop.
Title:
Author:
Strawberry Fields, The
Hollingsworth, Michael
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1973
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act
"Hollingsworth is a very gentle person, the play explores uncompromisingly the acid decadence
of rock scene followers. Hollingsworth is a romantic nihilist exploring the aftermath of
civilization. The circus is over, yet the barren surface of the play hides infinite energy and
frustration. The play is a tour de force that demands daring improvisational aliveness from its
three actors. Is the play a reflection of Canada? "
Title:
Tale of Teeka
a tale for humiliated children
Author:
Bouchard, Michel Marc
Publisher:
Talonbooks
translated by Linda Gaboriau
1999
Description:
roy
drama - family violence - Canadian
two characters
one male; one child
one act
"Rural Quebec in the fifties. A battered child, Maurice has taken refuge in a fantasy world. . . . A
story about hereditary violence, which, like poverty, is passed down from generation to
generation."
Title:
Author:
That Woman
Danis, Daniel
Publisher:
Talonbooks
1998
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
two male; one female
one act
'The story of a woman (her name is never given), sent away from her family by her brother the
Bishop after she is found exploring her sexuality at age seventeen.'
Title:
Author:
There
Cone, Tom
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1973
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act
bare stage.
Two middle-aged men reminisce about their sexual experiences with the same woman on the
same isolated beach.
Title:
Author:
Third and Oak: The Laundromat
Norman, Marsha
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1980
Description:
roy
drama
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act
Late night laundromat setting for exchange of confidences between two lonely women, one
young, one not so young.
Title:
Author:
Thistle Blossoms
Whitlow, Roseanna Beth
Publisher:
Pioneer Drama Service
1992
Description:
roy
drama
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act
'The show examines the relationship that develops between a troubled student and a rigid
university instructor. Their conflict begins as Lisa walks into Jo's classroom on their first day of
spring break. It is their first encounter since Lisa turned in her personal essay assignment - a
work describing her own planned suicide, aborted only by Jo's intervention.'
Title:
Author:
Time Warp
Russell, Lawrence
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
1971
Description:
roy
drama - Canadian
three characters
two male; one female; one baby
one act
Intellectual Eric sets out to purge himself of Dr. Wilson, who pursued him in his sleep.
Title:
Author:
Touch the Bluebird's Song
Catron, Louis E.
Publisher:
Samuel French
1971
Description:
roy
drama
two characters
one male; one female
one act
A young man, who has been in the Navy several years, is visiting his girl friend on her college
campus. Their love is severely tested by changes in both: they've become different people and
must face a question of whether the people they are now can recapture the love which existed
between the people they were. The play's contemporary theme and delicate treatment has made it
popular in high school, college, and community theatres. This is the second play of a trilogy
showing men and women at various ages facing problems of love.
Title:
Author:
Traveler, The
Connelly, Marc
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1939
Description:
roy
drama
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act
1 interior set.
Scene: The smoking compartment of a Pullman Car. Description not available.
Title:
Author:
Tuesdays and Sundays
Arnold, Daniel
Publisher:
Dramatic Publishing Company
Hahn, Medina
2007
Description:
roy
tragedy - relationships
two characters
one male; one female (or two male; two female)
one act
The spirits of William and Mary, a teenage couple, awaken into a void. As they question where
they are, they begin to relive their first meeting at a New Year's Eve social, the initial courtship and
the passions of first love, an unplanned pregnancy, and the guilt and shame of a young man
living in a rural community in which respectability is of utmost importance. Although they try to
nourish their love amidst the confusing emotions and events of their lives, misunderstanding and
fear create terrible consequences, turning William and Mary's romance into stunning tragedy.
Title:
Author:
Turn of the Screw, The
Hatcher, Jeffrey
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
1997
Description:
roy
drama - mystery - family relations
two characters
one male; one female
one act
"This adaptation gives the famous story yet another turn of its own. A young governess journeys
to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children. But she is not their
first governess. Her predecessor, Miss Jessel, drowned herself when she became pregnant by the
sadistic valet, Peter Quint, who was himself found dead soon after under mysterious
circumstances. Now the new governess has begun to see the specters of Quint and Jessel
haunting the children, and she must find a way to stop the fiends before it is too late. Are the
Title:
Author:
Uncertain Samaritan, The
Morse, Jack
Publisher:
Dramatic Publishing Company
Description:
roy
drama
three characters
two male; one small girl
one act
1 exterior set.
Description not available.
1966
Title:
Author:
Vortex
Sheeler, Wade
Publisher:
Samuel French
1997
Description:
roy
drama - American - spiritual
all male cast; two characters; extras
two male
one act
"There are places where the fabric of reality is thin, and one of these is a vortex in Sedona,
Arizona. Here a mysterious shaman collides with a desperate gunman. When the learn trust, they
reveal the secrets of their pasts so that powerful forces of nature and the human spirit can be
tested."
Winner of the Kennedy Center's National One-Act Competition
Title:
Author:
Wacs In Khaki
Steelsmith, Mary
Publisher:
Players Press
1984
Description:
roy
drama
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act
no sets required.
Takes place during World War II or the Korean War.
Title:
Author:
Wade in the Water
Boyd, George
Publisher:
Playwrights Canada Press
2005
Description:
roy
drama - self-awareness
two characters
two male
one act
Nelson Williams Johns is an elderly slave in search of his roots, on an uplifting journey that
begins in Civil War-era Georgia and leads to Sierra Leone. Nelson is forced to choose between a
perilous freedom and the safety of the known on his quest for increased personal and social
consciousness. Filled with lyrical dialogue and nuanced characters, Wade in the Water is a
poignant story that celebrates the beauty of the human spirit.
Title:
Author:
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Bogosian, Eric
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service Inc.
2002
Description:
roy
dramatic monologue - men
all male cast: one character
one male
one act
A meditation on making it to the top of the ladder, on falling off the ladder and on the exhilarating
thrill of the ultimate crash and burn. Bogosian takes us for a ferocious ride through a cavalcade of
colorful characters as he skewers pop culture, conformity, religious hypocrisy and human nature
itself with razor-sharp wit. Whether he’s playing Satan as a modern-day salesman, a Hollywood
producer capitalizing on an airplane disaster, or mocking himself as an obsequious actor
auditioning for a part, Bogosian tackles today’s relevant post-9/11 themes with uncompromising
Title:
Author:
Whale Riding Weather
MacDonald, Bryden
Publisher:
Talonbooks
1994
Description:
roy
drama - homosexuality
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act
"One day, sitting in a tiny little bar, I noticed a man sitting alone - an elegant old queen with
snowy hair perfectly sculpted around his face. His eyes could have been any colour - they were
empty. He remained very still, holding a brandy snifter with great reverence while a steady stream
of tears flowed down his cheeks. I found myself inventing his history, wondering what it must
have been like for him growing up gay. Had he been ridiculed by his peers? Disowned by his
parents? This beautiful, unapproachable man had literally conjured Lyle, and that day Whale
Title:
Author:
Where Have All the Lightening Bugs Gone?
Catron, Louis E.
Publisher:
Samuel French
1971
Description:
roy
drama
two characters
one male; one female
one act
First in a trilogy of plays about male and female pairs from youth to old age, written by a college
playwriting instructor, intended to be produced independently or together. A bright and warmly
nostalgic play about the almost unspeakable poignant wonder of love. Very popular with a wide
spectrum of audiences and producers, in high school, college, and community theatres.
The boy and girl meet, then fall in love by discovering how to "touch" as people, not as sexual
beings. The refreshingly innovative style makes it an ideal actors' challenge.
Title:
Author:
Wobbling Madonna
Frangione, Lucia
Publisher:
Playwrights Guild of Canada
2002
Description:
roy
monologues - women - suicide
all female cast; one character
one female
one act
running time: 30 minutes.
'Frances, a resilient, bird-like prairie mom, arrives at her daughter's crummy little apartment to
wipe the blood off the bathroom walls after a suicide attempt. She tries to find the words to
express her anger and fear and comfort her daughter by telling her about their first Christmas
together.'
Title:
Author:
Woods, The
Mamet, David
Publisher:
Samuel French
1979
Description:
roy
drama
two characters
one male; one female
one act
Ruth and Nick are two young lovers who spend a night in a cabin in the woods. Both are
euphoric, but love takes them different ways. The sense of being in love turns her outward; she
talks nonstop about many different things surrounding them, but Nick does not seem to care; all
he sees is Ruth and he takes her inside to make love. He turns fretful, fearful; after desire is
appeased she becomes the thinnest wisp against a threatening world to him. Her efforts to
maintain their kingdom disintegrate as he turns in on himself. The closeness between them
Title:
Author:
Zelda
Luce, William
Publisher:
Samuel French
1985
Description:
roy
drama
all female cast; one character
one female
one act
1 interior set.
A one-woman play based on the writings of Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald.