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The Whipping Man
3 Male, 0 Female
April, 1865 - the Civil War is over and throughout the South slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated Into the chaos…
The Wicked Lady
6 Male, 6 Female
This is a stage adaptation of the original novel The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Magdalen King-Hall ... Lady Barbara Skelton is beautiful, wild and truly wicked Forced into a respectable…
The Wind of Heaven
4 Male, 4 Female
Dilys Parry, an inconsolable Crimean Widow, lives alone in a village with no joy and no god in her life. She is gradually reawakened to life once a Miracle boy’s influence begins to affect her home…
The Winslow Boy
7 Male, 4 Female
Cadet Ronnie Winslow is expelled from the Royal Naval College accused of stealing, but his father will not accept the judgement and demands an inquiry. When this is refused Arthur Winslow embarks on a…
Theophilus North
4 Male, 3 Female
Spring, 1926 and thirty year old Theophilus North quits his teaching post in New Jersey and embarks on a quest for fun, adventure and his place in the world His used car breaks down in Newport, Rhode Island,…
Three Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - ePlay Download
Large Mixed Cast
Three Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is based on three of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories originally published in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Act One interweaves A Scandal in Bohemia with The…
Three Sisters - ePlay Download
5 Male, 5 Female
Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece The Three Sisters is adapted as a studio drama for American actors in this easily understood and accessible version ... The three young Prozorov sisters live in a large country…
Thunder - A Play about the Brontes
3 Male, 3 Female
In the spring of 1820 the new incumbent moved into the Parsonage at Haworth, North Yorkshire, with his dying wife and six small children. In those times only those with iron constitutions lived beyond…
Thy Brother’s Wife - ePlay Download
3 Male, 2 Female
** 10% Off ** This award-winning play is written in the idiom of 1825 Quaker Nantucket and details the wedding day of Haddie Starbuck 24, a woman twice widowed from whalers It is to the older brother of…
Time and the Conways
4 Male, 6 Female
The Conways are having a party to celebrate Kay’s twenty first birthday. Kay hopes to be a novelist. Hazel, the beauty, anticipates a romantic marriage. Madge wants to reform the world and marry…
Toby
4 Male, 2 Female
Toby is a social outcast in a nineteenth-century European village. Robbed by his best friend, hounded by the authorities and branded a gypsy, his life is somewhat dysfunctional In desperation he hatches…
Tom Jones - FULL-LENGTH
Large Mixed Cast Male, 1 Female
This play captures the skylarking spirit of Fielding’s comic masterpiece, and it’s a hit with high schools, colleges and stock Young Tom Jones, foundling and ward of Squire Allworthy,…
Total Eclipse
7 Male, 4 Female
A fascinating insight into the friendship between the poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud which takes a look at the bourgeois and artistic societies of the nineteenth century With a moving understanding…
Transylvanian Clockworks
4 Male, 3 Female
The author of Ravenscroft investigates the Dracula myth in a powerful, complex, darkly funny and utterly terrifying vampire play unlike any you have ever experienced Set in London and Transylvania in 1888…
Travelling Light
3 Male, 1 Female
In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant,…
Treacherous Snares or The Plumbers Wife - ePlay Download
5 Male, 1 Female
1800 - A year of political turmoil and unrest ... Revolution rocks Europe, Britain is at war with France, the United States has fought successfully for independence A paranoid government faces division…
Trelawny of the ‘Wells’
Large Mixed Cast Male, 8 Female
When actress Rose Trelawny falls in love with the grandson of a snobbish knight she finds that her visit to her lover’s home is a humiliating failure and that she can no longer act. Eventually the…
Trojan Barbie
4 Male, 7 Female
Winner of the 2007 Jane Chambers Award, the Playwrights First "Plays for the 21st Century" Award, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, 2009 A Car-Crash Encounter with…
Trumpery
7 Male, 2 Female
It’s 1858 and Charles Darwin struggles to finish On the Origin of Species and give the world his theory of natural selection He’s also struggling to cope with family illness and his own impending…
Two Planks and a Passion
Large Mixed Cast Male, 4 Female
A beautifully written play set in York in 1392 which tells of the performance of the Mystery plays. For the townspeople the competition to impress the Royal Party is fierce, but the message of the Mystery…
Uncle Vanya
5 Male, 4 Female
A stylish new adaptation of Chekhov’s deeply human story of the relationship between a young woman, her uncle who is in love with her and the doctor who is nursing her dying husband with whom she…
Uncle Victor
3 Male, 4 Female
Winner of the Cort Theatre, Hollywood award for best new play, a fellowship to Sewanee Playwrights retreat, and an American Embassy tour of Budapest, Uncle Victor is a historical comedy inspired by the…
Venus in Fur - Nominated 2012 Tony Awards Best Play
1 Male, 1 Female
A young playwright, Thomas, has written an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Fur by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (after whom the term "masochism" was coined) Thomas is desperate to find an actress to…
