Includes adaptations of Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty. These three fairy tale heroines are feisty and funny, written to please a modern audience. Performed internationally, they have delighted audiences around the world.
A Wilderness of Riches , Voices of the Virginia Colony
Poems by Lenny Lianne
Focusing on the historical era of 1600-1624, this collection by Virginia Poet Lenny Lianne sheds new light on characters like John Smith, Pocahontas, the brave women who came as Brides to the Virginia Colony, and most compellingly: Beautiful Virginia itself, the Wilderness of Riches. The reader encounters plants, possum, honeybees, American Indians, bears, cottonmouths and the early 17th century London from which the exploration launched.
Two plays about the survivors of sexual abuse as they come to terms with their stories in group therapy. Meet the men and women who confront or deny what happened to them with humor and with pain. The book offers dramatic male and female versions of the crises faced as people they cope with abuse. Also included is a production history of the plays, with excellent notes by the directors, a facilitator's guide for handling a talkback after the performance, and suggestions for using the plays in the process of training new clinicians. Read more about this book
An American Breeze
By Helen Mondloch
An American Breeze is a comic, class-room tested whirlwind tour through American literary history, accompanied by Study Guides for each chapter. This book provides both students and teachers with an excellent way to laugh and learn together. Classes can perform the six acts intermittently throughout the year, or in their entirety at year's end. They can present the play as a class or in small groups, even pick and choose from the acts-- whatever suits their needs. Read more about this book
A Mirror in Time
By Doris Gwaltney
"Two images reflecting two loves and the time in which they lived." ~from the Preface, "A Mirror in Time" This book is a wonderful series of monologues of romantic--and sometimes not-so-romantic--love between people from our historic past: Will Shakespeare, Edgar A. Poe, Tsali of the Cherokee. Johannes Brahms. Harriet Tubman. General and Mrs. Pickett ...and others.
Here is the Ibsen you haven't seen: Ibsen at his comedic best. In a biting comedy that might have been written for our time, Ibsen pillories everyone from government officials, to small town bureaucrats, to the indolent and avaricious common man. A new look at an old classic, this volume includes excerpts from Ibsen's letters relating to the play and a critical analysis by the author.
Robert P. Arthur has created a contemporary retelling of Phaedra in a compelling and lyrical modern verse format. Also included is Vija's War, a touching verse drama told from the points of view of an older and younger Vija as she experiences the encroaching onslaught of the German military in her native Latvia. Read more about this book...
An Evening with Joyce's Women: the dramatizations of three stories from Dubliners: 'The Boarding House,' 'Eveline,' and 'The Dead.' Ranging from viciously comic to hauntingly melancholy, the women in these plays lived in the early 1900's, repressed by their society, their family constellations, and their religion. But the savagery of a Mrs. Mooney, the quiet humiliation and captiulation of an Eveline, and the wistful, romantic, unrequited dreams of a Greta Conroy reflect the ever present challeges faced by contemporary women, some of whom still survive by wielding corporate
Redemption: Three Parish Passion Plays
by Gerald Gurka
Redemption consists of three stories which bring to life a variety of Biblical characters as they encounter Jesus on the way to Calvary and find redemption. These large-cast plays have been produced at Father Gurka’s church in Pennsylvania and include suggestions for production in parish hall or sanctuary. The characters and situations teach as well as amuse. Read more about this book
I Am the Brother of Dragons
by Gillette Elvgren
The plays in this anthology were written over a period of ten years primarily for youth at the middle and high school level. They deal with social problems and can be catalogued as social action/problem/edu-tainment drama. They were commissioned by two professional companies, the NEW CITY THEATRE and SALTWORKS THEATRE COMPANY in Pittsburgh, PA. They have been extensively toured by these and other companies throughout the country and in Canada.
cleavers; allowing family needs to consume their own futures; or buy binding themselves into unsatisfactory, but "socially acceptable," marital unions.
