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The Dramatists Toolkit - The Craft of the Working Playwright
This is a practical guide to being a working playwright The author discusses such matters as - the building blocks of playwriting; how characters relate to one another; the differences and similarities…
The Value of Names and Other Plays - Porch & American Enterprise & Stay Till Morning & Berlin ‘45 & Court-Martial at Fort Devens & The Action Against Sol Schumann
Spanning a quarter of a century, this collection of plays demonstrates author Jeffrey Sweet’s eye for the drama of human relationships Sweet works with sensitivity and irony to confront both personal…
Ties
6 Male, 2 Female
Invited by an old friend, who is now a faculty member, to guest-direct a student production at a small Midwestern college, Walker, whose New York theatre career has reached a standstill,…
Responsible Parties
5 Male, 2 Female
The scene is the lobby of the Ventura Oasis Motel, in a rundown section of Los Angeles. The owner, Randolph, is debating whether to tear the building down or turn it into a fast-food franchise. In the…
The Action Against Sol Schumann
5 Male, 4 Female
“Jeffrey Sweet’s deeply felt and profoundly moving new play confronts its characters, and its audience, with a complex moral dilemma Sol Schumann, a devout American Jew and beloved father of…
Stops Along the Way
4 Male, 3 Female
Larry, a teacher, is anxious to break up the recent affair he started with his former student Donna. As Larry drives Donna home to her husband, the play captures the mounting discomfort that follows…
Bluff
2 Male, 2 Female
Emily and Neal are doing fine as a new couple in New York until her brash and vulgar stepfather comes to town for a convention. Gene brings with him all of the contradictions Emily has been trying to bury…
I Sent a Letter to My Love
2 Male, 3 Female
This soul stirring journey of renewal begins on a Maine summer night in 1955. Gwen appears to rent a cottage from Amy and her wheelchair bound brother Stan. She is venturing into a new life following the…
Routed
2 Male, 2 Female
Having recently been let go after a dispute with his employer, Clark is free to take over his son’s newspaper route during the boy’s illness Intending only to fill in for a few days, Clark…
The Value of Names
2 Male, 1 Female
Benny Silverman, a celebrated comic, has revived his career via television after many years of forced inactivity following his having been named on the Hollywood blacklist of the Fifties Now his…
With and Without
2 Male, 2 Female
Shelly and Mark have rented a lake-side house for a week to relax. They are sharing the house with Jill, who waits to be joined by her husband, Russ The fact that Russ does not show,…
After the Fact
1 Male, 1 Female
An old man confronts a young reporter over the errors she has made in his best friend’s obituary “Gave me a special nudge ... and I am tempted to elbow all my peers…. (Sweet has) talent…
