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 ($11.95)
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.CLICK here to read excerpts and for EZ Pay Ordering
An American Breeze
By Helen Mondloch ($15.95)
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. CLICK HERE to read excerpts and for EZ Pay Ordering
A Mirror in Time
By Doris Gwaltney ($16.95)
"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 by David H. Klein, ($15.95)
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 ($18.95)
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. CLICK HERE for excerpts and for EZ Pay Ordering
I Am the Brother of Dragons
by Gillette Elvgren ($16.95)
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. CLICK HERE for excerpts and for EZ Pay Ordering.
In the Pastures of the Sun
by D.D. Delaney ($21.95)
a series of plays which celebrate the lunar myths, includes the following: Nativity;
The Candle’s in Your Eye;
The Pears of Heaven;
A Summer’s Tale;
Richard Sumerak’s Summer Vacation;
The Murder of Crazy Horse;
There Was a Stone in Her Sister’s Old Shoe [Ouch!].
Three class-room tested, side-splitting comedies take middle and high school students on a tour of history, culture, geography, and literature. Perfect for stage and classroom. "Something to Believe In": Nick and Nicki, two of Prometheus' freshly formed mortals, discover just how dangerous the world beyond their experience can be. Fortunately, Zeus has ordered Hermes to keep an eye on them. "Return to Venice": Marco Polo, after 17 years in the service of the emperor Kublai Khan, travels from the heart of the Mongol court across pirate-infested seas, through Persia and India, along Silk Road, eventually arriving
back in Italy Polo's long journey is fraught with danger and most of his cohorts lose their way on the trek home. "Mystery of the Pirates Cave": A hidden cave filled with hidden treasure? Or a vortex to an unseen world? Whichever, it is the scene of pirate plots, mermaids meddling, and 20th Century bootleggers. The author providfes copious notes and connections to Academic Standards. CLICK HERE to read excerpts from all three plays and EZ Pay Ordering.
FRANKENSTEIN
by Kathleen McBlair
$12.50
Earlier versions of this adaptation have been performed in school and community theatres since 1980. Audiences love it and scream heartily every time the Creature arrives in the window.
Robert P. Arthur has been twice nominated for Virginia's Poet Laureate: The book includes 4 one-act plays, a selection of his award-winning poems, and "Hymn to the Chesapeake," a play with music. His plays and poems sing with the music of the Eastern Shore watermen whose voices were both his lullabies as a child and love songs. as a young man. This is a must-read for anyone who has waded along, swam in, or dreamed of the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.
These are four simple Nativity plays for the littlest lambs and six Christmas pageants for the flock
Father Gerald Gurka has both written and produced these heatwarming plays and pageants for the Christmas season. Many of his recurring characters who appear in his other plays about the life of Jesus appear.
“Lenny Lianne's compelling poems in Frenzy of Color, Reverie of Line are a testament to the power of Van Gogh's artistry and Lianne’s originality. Simultaneously tender and piercing, compassionate and merciless, they lead the reader to the sublime intersection of artist and audience. Combining the poems with the glorious paintings and
Behind Closed Doors
By Doris Gwaltney ($14.95)
History in First Person: Seven Scenes of Shattered Love.
Dialogues between
Sir Walter Ralegh and Bess Throckmorton
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
Williiam and Catherine Blake
Theodore and Alice Roosevelt
Signumd and Martha Freud
Virginia and Leonard Woolf
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
drawings that inspired them is almost too poignant.” —-Robert P. Arthur, Author of Music of Leaves (The Life of Vincent van Gogh) To learn more or to order, Click Here to read excerpts and for EZ Pay Ordering.
“For most people, death comes behind closed doors… a quiet event, perhaps shared by friends and family…But for some there’s drama, even horror as some commit suicide, are murdered, or executed.” From Author’s Preface Click here ro read excerpts and for EZ Pay Ordering
