Kongi's Harvest
Dictator Kongi seeks a ceremonial yam from deposed King Danlola to symbolize abdication, while Danlola's heir Daodu grows the prized crop and tribal resistance challenges Kongi's efforts to unify the nation.
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After romantic rejection and a suicide attempt, fifteen-year-old Kordian travels through Europe and searches for purpose. Inspired by the November Uprising, he resolves to assassinate Tsar Nicholas I, but his moral qualms thwart the plot; the drama ends ambiguously.
Korzenie. Drrama wieloaktowe
Lem’s multi-act satire attacks Stalinism and the Soviet cliché of ‘bowing before the West,’ using Soviet-sounding names and a figure of Joseph Stalin. The work was conceived at least in part as a puppet show.
Kowalski
In a Provincetown beach cottage in 1947, Tennessee Williams prepares A Streetcar Named Desire as actor Marlon Brando arrives to discuss playing Stanley Kowalski. Williams’s partner Pancho, director Margo Jones and Brando’s girlfriend Jo are also present as the evening’s personalities clash before Williams casts Brando.
Koštana
Set in Stanković's native Vranje in southern Serbia, the play draws on Serbian folklore and examines patriarchal customs in the late nineteenth century.
Krapp's Last Tape
An aging man listens to recordings he made on earlier birthdays, revisiting his memories and confronting the distance between his past ambitions and present isolation.
Krechinsky's Wedding
A card sharp obtains a large sum from a moneylender by pawning a false diamond, based on a rumor circulating in Moscow society.
Krishnanattam
This temple dance-drama cycle presents Krishna's story across eight plays, from his avatar and childhood deeds through battles, marriage, and ascent to heaven. Performances combine actors, singers, musicians, dance, elaborate costumes, and large puppets.
Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kristina Wong begins sewing masks from old bedsheets and bra straps on her Hello Kitty sewing machine. She quickly organizes the Auntie Sewing Squad, a network of hundreds of volunteers—including children and her mother—working from home to produce masks and address gaps in the U.S. public health system. As the project grows, Wong reflects on the blurred line between mutual aid and cult-like dedication. As demand for masks declines and pandemic restrictions ease, Wong navigates life after leading the group, exploring the challenges of rebuilding personal and communal connections. The performance combines humor and generosity, inviting the audience to witness Wong’s efforts to foster community during isolation while reflecting on the pandemic’s broader social impact.
Kumasaka
A traveling monk is offered shelter by a stranger who asks him to pray for an anonymous soul buried by a pine tree. After revealing his past as a robber, the stranger vanishes. Kumasaka later returns as a ghost and recounts his last fight and death at the hands of Ushiwaka, the young Yoshitsune.
Kunbi Jakki
Jakki, an educated Kunbi denied white-collar work, accepts a loan to marry Puddu on condition that they become Arius’s vassals if he defaults. A corrupt secretary and the devil-like lender threaten the couple, whose faith and resolve defeat them; the play also depicts caste and social reform in Goa.
Kunbi Jakki Part II
Jakki leases a rice field through Roque, Arius’s agent, but pests destroy the crop before payment is due. When Roque sues, Jakki’s lawyer son Caetano argues the failed harvest voids the obligation, and Arius vanishes through a trapdoor after the case turns against him.
Kuolema
In three acts, Paavali watches Death claim his ill mother, then later travels, meets Elsa, and builds a school with the money he receives. When their home burns, Death returns for Paavali in his mother's form; Elsa and the villagers remember his legacy.
Kurama-tengu
At a cherry-blossom viewing, a rough mountain priest drives away the monks and children except one boy, the orphaned young Minamoto no Yoshitsune. Revealed as the head Tengu, the stranger teaches Yoshitsune martial arts so he can avenge his father's death.
Kurrr
Writer Akshar and his wife Pooja have been married five years without having a child, while Pooja’s mother Vandana repeatedly pressures them about parenthood. Their domestic tension changes when a man known as Paddy enters the household, prompting unexpected comic complications.
Kursk
Inspired by the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster, Bryony Lavery’s play places a British submarine on a covert mission in the Barents Sea. After its crew detects the Russian submarine’s explosion, the captain must decide whether to offer aid, confronting the crew with ethical and political questions about intervention.
Kurt and Sid
In Kurt Cobain’s greenhouse, Sid Vicious—possibly returned from the dead—interrupts Cobain’s plan to kill himself. The two musicians discuss fame and their personal turmoil as Sid tries to persuade Kurt to live.
Kwenye Ukingo wa Thim
After Herbert Palla dies, his widow Martha and brother George dispute where his body should be buried: in the modern home or according to the clan's customs. Their conflict exposes the family's strained ties to its community and the consequences of rejecting tradition for wealth and status.
Kyoto
Kyoto is a play by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, produced and acted by Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Good Chance originally in Swan Theatre in 2024, then @sohoplace in 2025. The play dramatizes how Big Oil, having learned about the risk of climate change, use legal tricks and misinformation through their representative Don Pearlman in an attempt to protect their profits. Through the determination of key representatives, an agreement is reached – the Kyoto Protocol.
Kártyázó asszonyok
At a bridge party, Eva is falsely accused of cheating and expelled by the wealthy Renée, who then tries to seduce Eva’s husband. Though he loves his wife, he is tempted by the flirtation, until the couple reject the circle’s intrigues and emigrate to Java.
Körner's Morning
In this verse farce, the overworked Körner tries to prepare a manuscript and be shaved, but a stream of visitors and interruptions consumes his morning until he misses a meeting; he ends by explaining that he had himself shaved.
L'Aigle à deux têtes
On the anniversary of the king's assassination, his reclusive widow shelters Stanislas, a wounded anarchist poet who resembles the dead king and had entered her room to kill her. An ambiguous love develops as they confront the court's political machinations and struggle to remain true to their ideals.
L'Aiglon
Napoleon II, held under guard at the Austrian court of his grandfather, dreams of returning to France and restoring his family's power, but Metternich thwarts his escape and failing health ends his ambitions.
L'Amour médecin
Sganarelle refuses his daughter Lucinde’s wish to marry, so she and her maid Lisette pretend that Lucinde is ill. The doctors bicker over treatments and fail to help; Lucinde’s beloved Clitandre disguises himself as a doctor and prescribes marriage as the cure. The lovers marry through a trick that also secures Lucinde’s dowry, while Sganarelle discovers he has been outmaneuvered.
L'Anconitana
Three young Christians captured by pirates are ransomed by a Venetian merchant and travel to Padua to earn money as beauty consultants. In Ancona, a widow falls for Isotta, who is disguised as a man, and follows the group; in Padua, the travelers become entangled with a courtesan, an elderly married merchant, and their servants, before Isotta and the widow discover they are sisters.
L'Arlésienne
Young Provençal peasant Fréderi loves a woman from Arles, but learns of her infidelity before their wedding. His family tries to save him as he approaches madness, but he ultimately dies by suicide.
L'Assoiffé
Andrei, a visionary misfit, has a promising destiny cut short by a jealous husband.
L'Augmentation
A six-character combinatorial drama follows the branching bureaucratic obstacles a long-serving employee must navigate to meet the department head and unsuccessfully request a raise. The characters embody the flowchart’s propositions, alternatives, hypotheses, choices and conclusions.
L'Entretien entre M. Descartes avec M. Pascal le jeune
Jean-Claude Brisville imagines a dialogue between René Descartes and Blaise Pascal, inspired by a real conversation the philosophers may have had in 1647, of which no details are known.
L'Hôtel du libre échange
The play is about two people who wish to engage in an extramarital affair. They check into a small, discreet Parisian hotel where they wish to spend the night, but complications arise and the couple never manage to exchange as much as a kiss. The play opens in Monsieur Pinglet's office. He is visited by several people, including his neighbour Paillardin's wife Marcelle, whom he persuades to spend the night with him in a hotel in town. Pinglet arranges for his maid Victoire to follow Paillardin's nephew Maxime to philosophy school, as the boy is easily lost on his own. Pinglet's wife Angelique comes on stage to declare to Pinglet that she will not be home for dinner; she has to spend the night out of town. She then shows Pinglet some hotel brochures she has been sent in the mail. She is disgusted by the brochures, but Pinglet is excited and decides to go to the advertised hotel with Marcelle. Mathieu, an old friend of the Pinglets, comes for a visit. Mathieu, who suffers from a speech impediment when it rains, announces that he intends to stay at the Pinglets' house for a month. The Pinglets are horrified, especially at the arrival of Mathieu's four daughters, who also intend to stay there. Angelique initiates an argument with Pinglet in front of Mathieu, which prompts Mathieu to leave. Before leaving, however, he hears Pinglet and Marcelle discussing the hotel they are going to and decides to stay there for the night with his daughters. After this, Pinglet tells Angelique that he intends to eat at a restaurant. Angelique does not want him to eat out alone and so locks him in his office. Pinglet takes out a rope ladder and climbs out of the window. Act Two opens in the Hôtel du Libre Échange, introducing the audience to the hotel owner Bastien and his assistant Boulot. They throw out a guest who has not paid his bill, and he causes trouble by saying he will call the police to ransack the place. Marcelle and Pinglet arrive and order a room. Pinglet tries to persuade Marcelle to get into bed with him but has obviously had too much to drink, and the alcohol and cigar smoke go to his head. He leaves the room to get some fresh air. Paillardin arrives at the hotel, where he is led into a large room. He has been hired by the hotel owner to investigate reports of strange sounds and disturbances which the owner thinks are coming from ghosts. Paillardin leaves the room to get a drink. Mathieu arrives at the hotel with his four daughters, and Boulot, not knowing that Paillardin is already booked into the haunted room, double-books Mathieu into it. Mathieu runs into Marcelle in the corridor. He invites himself into Marcelle's room for tea, and they are doing so when Pinglet comes back. Pinglet manages to make Mathieu leave. Mathieu and his daughters go into their own room, and Mathieu then helps himself to Paillardin's cigars, nightshirt, and slippers, thinking they are gifts from the hotel. When Paillardin arrives back from the café, he is angry to see his belongings gone and concludes that the supposed ghost is just a thief pretending to haunt the place. He goes to sleep in one of the beds. Victoire arrives at the hotel with Maxime, having found one of Angelique's discarded hotel brochures and persuaded Maxime to go to the hotel with her instead of going back to philosophy school. They get a room. The daughters amuse themselves by singing and making "ghost noises", but in the middle of it all Paillardin wakes up and is frightened by them. He goes running through the hotel yelling about ghosts, and the daughters themselves are scared into hysterics by Paillardin unexpectedly appearing in their room. Maxime and Victoire are brought downstairs by the racket and are frightened when they discover Paillardin running around. After trying to hide in Mathieu's room, they exit the hotel. Paillardin tries to get into Pinglet's and Marcelle's room to hide from the "ghosts" and, when he finally succeeds in breaking down the door, Pinglet hides in the fireplace. His face is black from the soot in the fireplace, so Paillardin does not recognise him. At this point the police arrive and arrest everyone. Marcelle, pretending to be married to Pinglet, gives her name to the police as Madame Pinglet. Monsieur Pinglet, on the other hand, tries the same tactic and gives his name as Monsieur Paillardin. Act Three opens in Pinglet's office the next morning, as he climbs in through his window and removes the soot from his face. Paillardin arrives and tells Pinglet of his terrible night and how he now believes in ghosts. He has no suspicion about Pinglet and Marcelle the previous night, but he remembers Marcelle's purple dress. Pinglet quickly tells Marcelle about this, so she can dispose of it. Marcelle gives the dress to Victoire. Angelique is the next to arrive on stage, telling Pinglet in dramatic terms about how terrible a night she has had on a wild carriage journey through the countryside. She is overwhelming in her proclamations of love for Pinglet. Pinglet, however, is unfazed and, when a letter arrives to "Angelique" from the police station, he is quick to use this to his advantage. He confronts Angelique and Paillardin about the letter. Marcelle arrives. At this point Mathieu arrives and tries to talk to the Pinglets about his terrible night. Pinglet, fearing that Mathieu will tell everyone else that they met last night, pushes him into the bedroom. Police inspector Boucard arrives in Pinglet's office, and Angelique and Paillardin try to make him understand that they were not the people in l'Hôtel du Libre Échange. The police inspector does not intend to pursue the case, but is still hesitant to clear their names completely. Mathieu comes into the room and is about to tell everyone about who he met, when Maxime climbs in through the window and sees Mathieu. He does not want to be recognised and so covers his face with Pinglet's soot-stained handkerchief, inadvertently making his face black. When everyone sees his black face, they are convinced he is the man from the hotel. Maxime confesses that he was there with Victoire. Mathieu is then pushed out of the room. Boucard gives 5000 francs to Maxime, money that Pinglet had given the inspector as bail to be released from jail.
L'Idiote
Josefa, a maid found unconscious beside her Spanish lover's body and the gun that killed him, repeatedly changes her account while an inexperienced examining magistrate investigates. He discovers that she is trying to protect her other lover, her wealthy employer, and pursues the mystery despite pressure to obtain a quick confession.
L'Illusion comique
Pridamant seeks the magician Alcandre’s help to discover what became of his son Clindor. Alcandre shows him apparent scenes of Clindor’s life, including imprisonment, escape, and a tragic final act, then reveals that Clindor and the others are actors performing a play.
L'Impromptu de Paris
A metatheatrical drama about the theatre itself, set on a theatre stage.
L'amore delle tre melarance
Prince Tartaglia’s mysterious illness can be cured only by laughter. Pantalone brings the comic servant Truffaldino to court while Clarice and Leandro plot to prevent the prince’s recovery and seize the throne. Gozzi turns the fairy-tale conflict into a satire of rival theatrical styles.
L'École des veuves
In Ephesus, a young widow seals herself in her husband's tomb, intending to die there as an example of fidelity. Her nurse tries to revive her interest in life by drawing her attention to the cemetery guard, while revelations about her late husband unsettle her resolve.
L'Épreuve
Lucidor, a wealthy Parisian, tests whether Angélique loves him or his money by arranging for his valet, disguised as a rich suitor, to ask for her hand.
L'Équarrissage pour tous
On D-Day at Arromanches, a knacker is focused on arranging his daughter’s marriage to a German soldier living in the family home. He invites other children serving as paratroopers in the Red Army and U.S. Army; soldiers from several factions arrive and engage in excess, and most characters end up in the knacker’s yard. The farce satirizes war, militarism, American society, and family.
L'Étourdi ou les Contretemps
Servant Mascarille repeatedly devises schemes to help his master Lelio win Celia, a young woman enslaved for her family's debt, while Lelio's impulsive interference keeps undoing the plans. Celia's identity and family ties ultimately resolve the rival courtships.
L'Île de la raison
Eight shipwrecked French newcomers arrive on an island whose reasonable inhabitants grow to ordinary size as they recognize and correct their faults. The play satirizes vanity, deception, and self-interest through the visitors' changing stature.
L'Île des esclaves
After a shipwreck, two masters and their enslaved attendants arrive on an island where their social roles are reversed. The servants expose their masters’ conduct; the pairs ultimately reconcile and return to their original roles.
LO (or Dear Mr. Wells)
Ten years after leaving school, Laura brings her former English teacher a book she has written about their relationship. The reunion forces both to confront the unequal power behind their shared history.
La Bête
La Bête is a 1991 comedy play by American playwright David Hirson. Written in rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter, the Molière-inspired story, set in 17th-century France, pits dignified, stuffy Elomire, the head of the royal court-sponsored theatre troupe, against the foppish, frivolous street entertainer Valere, whom the troupe's patron, Prince Conti, wishes them to bring aboard. Despite Elomire's violent objections, the company is forced to perform one of Valere's own plays, which results in dramatic changes to the future of Elomire, Valere, and the company itself.
La Cage aux Folles
Georges owns a Saint-Tropez drag nightclub where his partner Albin performs as Zaza. When Georges’s son brings his fiancée’s conservative parents to dinner, Georges and Albin try to conceal their relationship; Georges’s attempts to make Albin appear masculine fail, and Albin must ultimately pass as a woman to protect the couple’s son.
La Calandria
Separated as children, twin siblings Lidio and Santilla each disguise themselves as the other. Their overlapping disguises, Lidio’s affair with the married Fulvia, and a proposed marriage for Santilla drive a comedy of mistaken identities until the twins recognize one another.
La Carreta
A Puerto Rican rural family leaves its farm for San Juan and then the Bronx in search of a better life. Across three acts, the family faces urban poverty and dislocation; Luis embraces industrial work, while his grandfather remains attached to the land. Luis is killed by a factory machine, and the family returns to Puerto Rico for his burial.
La Celestina
Calisto enlists the procuress Celestina to help him pursue Melibea. Celestina and Calisto's servants scheme for money; after the servants kill Celestina, Melibea and Calisto's affair ends in their deaths.
La Colonie
After a conquered group takes refuge on an island, men establish a government that excludes women. The women form their own council and challenge their dependence, though the comedy ends with a promise that their rights and interests will be respected.
La Conférence des oiseaux
Urged on by the Hoopoe, a troubled nation of birds crosses seven valleys to seek its king. As companions abandon the journey or die, the survivors discover that the divine presence they sought is embodied in themselves.
La Cornette
A young wife satisfies both a canon and a young man, aided by the canon's generosity. When her husband's two nephews fear losing their inheritance and denounce her, the valet Finet warns her, and she drives her enemies away.
La Dame de chez Maxim
After drinking too much at Maxim’s, Dr. Petypon wakes with la Môme Crevette, a Moulin Rouge dancer, in his bed. His uncle mistakes the dancer for Petypon’s wife and invites her to a country house party, where the deception spirals through mistaken identities, old romances, and frantic cover stories before the characters find their proper partners.
La Demoiselle de magasin
Orphan Claire arrives in Brussels and finds work at a furniture shop, where the owner initially doubts her abilities. She proves herself as a salesperson and falls in love with Amelin, the owner's son.
La Dispute
An aristocratic prince stages an experiment to determine whether men or women were the first to be unfaithful. Four orphans, two boys and two girls, are raised in isolation and then released together to discover love, sex, and jealousy.
La Double Inconstance
The prince kidnaps Silvia from her beloved Arlequin, intending to marry her. His servant Flaminia uses flattery and disguise to turn each lover toward someone else, and the prince’s revelation lets Silvia and Arlequin end their engagement and marry their new partners.
La Farce de maître Pathelin
Lawyer Pierre Pathelin tricks clothier Guillaume Joceaulme into giving him cloth on credit by feigning illness. When Joceaulme later prosecutes shepherd Thibault l’Aignelet for stealing sheep, Pathelin coaches him to answer only like a sheep; the judge confuses the cases, and the shepherd then uses Pathelin's trick to evade paying his fee.
La Fausse Suivante
A young Parisian woman, promised in marriage to Lelio without having met him, disguises herself as a knight and befriends him. Lelio seeks her help to escape a marriage contract with a countess, but the disguised woman exposes his mercenary plans and asserts her independence.
La Femme qui a Raison
Madame Duru arranges marriages for her daughter Erise and son Damis against her husband's plan to match them with the wealthy Gripon family's children. When her husband returns disguised, the resulting confusion ends with Madame Duru explaining her reasons and the servant Marthe reconciling the couple.
La Galerie du Palais
The comedy follows the love relationships of two couples, Lysandre and Celidee, and Dorimant and Hippolyte, ending with both couples marrying.
La Gioconda
Sculptor Lucio Settala is torn between his wife Silvia and his model Gioconda, whose presence fuels his pursuit of absolute art. After Lucio’s suicide attempt, Gioconda tries to destroy his statue; Silvia saves it at the cost of her hands, and Lucio leaves his wife for Gioconda.
La Haine
Set in Siena during factional conflict, the drama follows Guelph leader Orso and Ghibelline noblewoman Cordelia. After Orso assaults her during the city's capture, Cordelia and her nurse Uberta seek vengeance; Cordelia later shelters the wounded Orso, but her brother poisons her, and the lovers die together as they are married in the plague-stricken cathedral.
La Machine à écrire
In a provincial town, a writer of anonymous letters stirs fear and conflict within an unconventional family: a disengaged father, his daughter, and twin sons, one good-natured and the other recently out of prison. The father's former lover falls for the latter twin, while a police friend operates undercover.
La Maestra
A dead Colombian schoolteacher speaks to figures from her past in a dreamlike sequence. As they recall her childhood and teaching, the play exposes the military violence that led to her death.
La Musica deuxième
Three years after separating, a man and woman reunite to finalize their divorce. As they talk, shared nostalgia and their history draw them together while misunderstandings and betrayals come to light.
La Méprise
Two sisters dress alike and hide their faces behind masks during a walk in a park. Their lover Ergaste mistakes one sister for the other, producing a series of misunderstandings before the sisters disappear together.
La Place royale
Afraid of marriage, Alidor stages a false love affair to make Angélique leave him and conspires with her admirer Cléandre to redirect her. Their plots misfire; Phylis and Cléandre fall in love, while Angélique enters a convent and Alidor gains the freedom he sought.
La Princesse d'Élide
Princess Élide loves hunting and appears immune to love, but a young man wins her over by feigning indifference. The five-act comedy includes six intermèdes with verse and music.
La Prude
Adine returns from abroad disguised as a young man and falls in love with Blanford, to whom she was promised in childhood. Blanford appears to favor Dorfise, a self-proclaimed prude entrusted with his money, while Adine’s disguise and the competing advances produce comic misunderstandings.
La Ronde
Ten linked scenes pass from one pair of lovers to the next, forming a circle of secret sexual encounters across social classes. The work examines sexual morality and class ideology in 1890s Vienna.
La Sagouine
A collection of monologues told by La Sagouine, an Acadian cleaning woman from rural New Brunswick.
La Sainte Courtisane
In the surviving fragment, Alexandrian noblewoman Myrrhina travels to the desert to tempt the hermit Honorius away from religious devotion. After their conversation, Honorius chooses to return to sin in Alexandria, while Myrrhina embraces religion and remains in the desert.
La Silvanire ou la Morte-vive
Silvanire’s wealthy father orders her to marry the rich but foolish Théante, though she loves the poorer Aglante. A jealous shepherd gives Silvanire a magic mirror and she is believed dead; after she revives, he tries to abduct her. Aglante and the other shepherds rescue her, and her parents finally consent to her marriage to Aglante.
La Soeur de la reine
A burlesque parody of Victor Hugo's romantic drama, the surviving scenes portray Queen Victoria's sexual and political intrigues, including her relationships with ministers and a concealed younger sister. The known manuscript preserves Acts 2 and 4, the latter possibly incomplete.
La Sporta
A Florentine comedy about the miser Ghirigoro and his obsession with money, alongside Alamanno’s pursuit of Fiammetta. Romantic intrigue and the trouble caused by greed eventually lead Ghirigoro to declare that he will change his way of life.
La Strada
Gelsomina is sold by her mother to the travelling strongman Zampano. Their journey brings her into contact with a circus performer whose kindness challenges the life imposed on her, in an adaptation told chiefly from her perspective.
La Surprise de l'amour
After being betrayed, Lélio renounces love and withdraws to the countryside, while the widowed countess also refuses to love. Their servants Arlequin and Columbine scheme to bring them together; they fall in love themselves, and the play ends with three couples united.
La Thébaïde
Eteocles and Polynices fight for control of Thebes despite the pleas of their mother Jocasta, sister Antigone, and their relatives. The conflict ends in the deaths of the principal characters.
La Tierra de Jauja
Two hungry thieves trick Mendrugo, a simpleton carrying food to his imprisoned wife, by describing the fantastical Land of Jauja. While one spins tales of a place where food abounds and work is punished, the other steals from Mendrugo’s pot.
La Tosca
In 1800 Rome, opera singer Floria Tosca tries to save her lover, the artist Mario Cavaradossi, from police chief Scarpia. She kills Scarpia after agreeing to his terms, but discovers the promised execution was real and throws herself from the castle.
La Tour de Nesle
Margaret of Burgundy kills her lovers after their nocturnal encounters to prevent them from bearing witness. The five-act, nine-tableau drama is based on the circumstances of the Tour de Nesle Affair.
La Turista
A two-act dramatic play centered on Salem and Kent, with one act set in Mexico and the other in the United States. Its title refers to the illness commonly associated with tourists; some interpretations connect the work to the Vietnam War.
La Veniexiana
Julio, a young man newly arrived in Venice, falls in love with a young married woman. The five-act comedy plays with the distinct Venetian, Tuscan, and Bergamasque dialects spoken by its characters.
La Veuve, ou Le traître trahi
In Paris, the widow Clarice is the mistress of Philiste. His friend Alcidon is in love with Philiste’s sister Doris, who is beloved by Célidan, while an official named Géron is also enamored of Doris.
La Ville dont le prince est un enfant
At a Paris Catholic boys’ school, philosophy student André Sevrais forms a close friendship with younger, rebellious Serge Souplier. A teacher-priest, the Abbé de Pradts, pursues his own concealed obsession with Serge and uses his authority to obstruct the boys’ relationship.
La bola negra
In the surviving opening scene, a wealthy young man tells his father that he sought admission to a prestigious Granada casino. Members voted with white and black balls, and he received the black ball because he is gay.
La cueva de Salamanca
While Pancracio is away, his wife Leonarda welcomes a penniless student and two lovers for a party; when her husband returns unexpectedly, the quick-witted student uses stories and wordplay to help conceal the gathering.
La dama boba
Finea’s large dowry draws suitors who underestimate her. Her lessons and love for Laurencio expose competing expectations of intelligence, education and marriage.
La dama del alba
The personification of Death visits the Narces family four years after daughter Angelica’s disappearance. She fails to claim Martin, who brings home Adela, a would-be suicide who becomes part of the family. When Angelica returns, her past is revealed and Death comes for her, allowing the family to mourn and bury her.
La donna serpente
Fairy princess Cherestani marries the mortal Farruscad despite her father Demogorgon's opposition. Farruscad must never curse her; if he does, she will be transformed into a snake for 200 years.
La enfermedad incurable
Juan, whose chronic epilepsy has led doctors to predict an early death, chooses to live fully; he meets Celina, a record seller, and their friendship develops into love.
La fiaccola sotto il moggio
In an Abruzzese castle in the 1820s, Gigliola seeks vengeance for her mother Monica, whom her stepmother Angizia murdered before marrying Gigliola’s father, Tibaldo. As Gigliola prepares to kill Angizia and then herself, Tibaldo kills Angizia first; Gigliola nevertheless dies from a serpent’s bite, and the family’s decay culminates in her father’s death as well.
La fille du facteur
A solo autobiographical theatrical narrative in fragments follows Josée Thibeault from her childhood as a mail carrier's daughter in Trois-Rivières to life in the Canadian West, reflecting on family ties to wood, paper and place.
La maschera e il volto
After discovering his wife Savina’s infidelity, Paolo sends her abroad and pretends he has killed her. His acquittal brings public admiration, trapping him behind the heroic image he has manufactured.
La piedra oscura
On a night in August 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, a Republican lieutenant and an inexperienced Nationalist soldier confront one another.
La princesse de Navarre
Don Pedro, king of Castile, has taken Constance, princess of Navarre, captive. She escapes in disguise and finds refuge with Don Morillo, where she meets Alamir, who falls in love with her. After Alamir’s army defeats the Castilians, he reveals he is the Duke of Foix, clearing the way for his marriage to Constance.
La putta onorata
A comedy rooted in Commedia dell'Arte, with a large cast that includes the perpetually quarreling gondoliers Nane and Menego.
La pâque socialiste
Factory owner Gilbert Lemoine learns his father had an illegitimate daughter, Micheline, who works in his factory; they share his inheritance and pledge his wealth to workers. After a capitalist rival engineers Lemoine’s arrest, Micheline gives her inheritance to the workers, who reopen the factory and restore his honor.
La sirena varada
A mermaid falls in love with a man named Ricardo.
La vita comincia ogni mattina
Factory owner Giulio Cogliati follows a settled daily routine with his wife Lucia until he falls for Isabel, a much younger Brazilian woman. With two hours to decide whether to leave with Isabel or stay with Lucia, he must choose between a new life and his marriage.
Labour of Love
Over twenty-five years in office, Labour MP David Lyons represents Kirkby-in-Ashfield while political change and personal relationships reshape the constituency and his party.
Laburnum Grove
In order to get rid of his sponging relatives, a man declares to them that he is a master forger. Considerable doubt begins to arise about whether he may actually be telling the truth.
Lace on Her Petticoat
Lace on Her Petticoat is a play by the British writer Aimée Stuart. It takes place in a cottage on an island off the southwest coast of Scotland in the late Victorian era. It premiered at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing before transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End where it ran for 188 performances between 14 December 1950 and 26 June 1951. The original West End cast included Ellis Irving, David Keir, Muriel Aked, Perlita Neilson and Sophie Stewart. A 1951 production at the Booth Theatre on Broadway lasted for 79 performances.
Lackawanna Blues
Lackawanna Blues is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson that premiered in 2001. It was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The play dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna, New York, during the 1950s and 1960s.
Ladies and Gentlemen
Ladies and Gentlemen is a play by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht. The courtroom drama, inspired by a Hungarian play Twelve in a Box by Ladislaus Bus-Fekete, centers on the relationship that develops between two sequestered jurors, Miss Scott and Mr. Campbell, during a lengthy murder trial. The play premiered in Santa Barbara, then ran for two weeks each in San Francisco and Los Angeles, with Helen Hayes and Herbert Marshall in the lead roles. It marked Hayes' return to the stage three years after her lengthy run in Victoria Regina. The Broadway production was produced by Gilbert Miller and co-directed by MacArthur and Lewis Allen. The scenic design was by Boris Aronson. It opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 17, 1939 and closed on January 13, 1940 after running for 105 performances. The play was filmed as Perfect Strangers in 1950.
Ladies in Lavender
In mid-1930s Cornwall, sisters Ursula and Janet find a young Polish violinist washed ashore and nurse him back to health. Ursula falls in love with him as he prepares to pursue a career in America.
Ladies of the Evening
Ladies of the Evening is a play in four acts by Milton Herbert Gropper. It premiered on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre on December 23, 1924. It closed in May 1925 after 159 performances. The production was produced and directed by David Belasco. It starred James Kirkwood as the painter Jerry Strong, Beth Merrill as Kay Beatty, Edna Hibbard as Dot Miller, H. Dudley Hawley as Calvin King, Kay Strozzi as Claire Standish, Vernon Steele as Tom Standish, and Robert O'Connor as Frank Forbes.
Ladies' Night
Jimmy Walters is a married man who avoids many social events because of his strong reaction to women who wear modern fashions that expose their bodies. His wife, Dulcy, is annoyed by his behavior. Their friends – the couples Alicia and Fred, and Mimi and Cort – make fun of him. Fred and Cort believe they can cure his anxieties by taking him to a masquerade ball where he will see many women in scanty attire. On the same evening, Alicia and Mimi will take Dulcy to the Larchmont Baths, which is hosting a ladies night event for women only. The second act begins with the group of men dressed in drag for the masquerade, which has been raided by the police. They flee through the first open window they find, which puts them inside the Larchmont Baths. The men pretend to be women to avoid being discovered, a pretense that is made more difficult by Jimmy's reactions to the many barely-clothed women in the baths. In the final act, the couples return to the Walters' apartment, where the men must explain their presence in the baths. As a result of his adventure, Jimmy is cured of his exaggerated response to women's bodies.
Ladies' Night
A group of unemployed workers develop a male strip show. The comedy follows their attempt to turn the venture into a new opportunity.
Lady Frederick
Irish widow Lady Frederick, deeply in debt, must navigate several suitors with differing motives and the return of a former lover. Her brother’s gambling debts and her own financial obligations complicate the proposals, while she maneuvers to protect her independence and reputation.
Lady Harry
After an aristocrat is murdered, someone impersonates her husband.
Lady Huntworth's Experiment
Caroline Rayward, cook to the Rev Audley Pillenger, vicar of Stillford, is in fact Lady Huntworth. She was married to a drunken and abusive husband and endured eleven years of matrimonial misery before Lord Huntworth divorced her on a spurious charge of adultery so that he could pursue a rich widow. Thrown on her own resources, she has assumed a new identity and made use of her chief talent, which is for cooking. Also in the vicarage are Pillenger's sister, Hannah, and their niece, Lucy. The latter is betrothed, at her family's behest, to Captain Dorvaston, a genial, honest and not overbright officer retired from the Indian Army. He is not in love with Lucy, nor she with him. She loves the Rev Henry Thoresby, her father's mild young curate, and is resolved to marry him despite her family's wishes. The vicar, Gandy (his manservant), and the captain are all much taken with Caroline, and each plans to meet her in her kitchen on an evening when her fellow-servants are absent and the other inmates of the house have gone to a penny reading. After Caroline has discouraged Gandy's hopes, and before the vicar and Dorvaston arrive, a "Mr Crayll" intrudes. He is in fact Lord Huntworth, in his usual drunken state; he has come to ask his former wife to return to him. The reason for his pretended repentance is that he knows – as she does not, until now – that Caroline has come into a fortune. She scornfully rejects his offer and leaves him to sleep off his drunkenness in the scullery. The vicar enters, proposes marriage and is refused. On hearing someone approaching, he takes refuge in the larder. The new arrival is the captain, whose honest admiration touches Caroline. A third arrival – the vicar's sister – sends Dorvaston into hiding in a broom cupboard, where she discovers him and will hear no explanations. The act ends with the Captain, at Caroline's request, carrying out the sleeping Lord Huntworth to put him in a dry ditch at the bottom of the garden. In the last act Caroline appears in fashionable walking-dress, declares her true identity to the vicar and his sister, and takes leave of them. Before she goes, she gives Dorvaston the address "Poste restante, Brussels", where a letter will find her. Lucy and Thoresby return, having been made man and wife; Dorvaston, now free from his engagement to Lucy, joyfully prepares to follow Caroline to the continent.
Lady Inger
Set in Scandinavia during the collapse of the Kalmar Union (1510–1540), the historical drama follows a last struggle to preserve Norwegian independence amid the Reformation and rising national sentiment.
Lady Jane Grey
The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey, often shortened to Lady Jane Grey, is a 1715 tragedy by the British writer Nicholas Rowe. It portrays the brief reign of Lady Jane Grey, a pretender to the English throne following the death of Edward VI and her defeat and execution by Mary I in 1554. The title role was played by the prominent actress Anne Oldfield. The cast also included John Mills as the Duke of Northumberland, Barton Booth as Lord Guilford Dudley and Lacy Ryan as the Earl of Sussex, Colley Cibber as Bishop Gardiner, James Quin as the Lieutenant of the Tower and Mary Porter as the Duchess of Suffolk. Rowe was a staunch Whig and wrote the play in the wake of the Hanoverian Succession where George I had taken the throne ahead of his Catholic Jacobite rival James Stuart, who launched an unsuccessful rebellion later in 1715. Rowe dedicated the work to Caroline, Princess of Wales drawing comparisons between her and Lady Jane Grey as a rightful Protestant heir. Shortly afterwards he was appointed Poet Laureate. It was the final play written by Rowe. Although not his most successful play, it was revived on a number of occasions during the following century. The 1836 opera Giovanna Gray, with a libretto by Carlo Pepoli, was based on the play.
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere suspects her husband is unfaithful and considers leaving him for Lord Darlington. Mrs Erlynne, the woman she believes is her rival, secretly reveals herself to be Lady Windermere's estranged mother and risks her own reputation to protect her daughter's marriage; the Windermeres reconcile while keeping their secrets.
Lady from Edinburgh
Lady from Edinburgh is a 1945 comedy play by the British writers Aimée Stuart and L. Arthur Rose. A Scottish aunt arrives to oversee her family's affairs in Mayfair. It premiered at His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen before transferring to the Playhouse Theatre in London's West End where it ran for 560 performances from 10 April 1945 to 10 August 1946. The original London cast included Dulcie Gray, Sophie Stewart, Ethel Coleridge, Henry Hewitt, Richard Bird and Alan Haines.
Lady in Danger
Monica Sefton, wife of a dismissed reporter, tries to write a thriller to restore the family's finances and accidentally uncovers a Nazi spy ring.
Lady in Danger (Alexander Kirkland U.S. version)
A spy thriller relocated from London to Melbourne and reworked around a Japanese spy ring; Bill becomes an American soldier stationed in Melbourne, and Monica's background is changed.
Laff That Off
Laff That Off is a play in three acts by Don Mullally. It premiered on Broadway at Wallack's Theatre on November 2, 1925. It moved to the 39th Street Theatre midway through its Broadway run in December 1925. It closed in June 1926 after 263 performances. Produced by Earl Carroll and directed by Roy Walling, the play starred Thomas W. Ross as Robt. Elton Morse, a.k.a. "Remorse" and Pauline Drake as Emmy, a.k.a. "Mopupus". Others in the cast included Wyrley Birch as Mike Connelly, Shirley Booth as Peggy Bryant, Alan Bunce as Leo Mitchell, Hattie Foley as Mrs. Connelly, and Norval Keedwell as Arthur Lindau.
Lagna Panchami
A married couple navigates everyday tensions and misunderstandings. The play’s central idea is that marriage joins a person to the many temperaments and moods within their partner; the story opens with a fantasy sequence and treats middle-class married life through comedy.
Lairembigee Eshei
Seven nymphs travel through the world to witness changes in nature and human society. They encounter a king grieving after destroying nature, evade bird catchers and move among lotus stalks that represent human destruction of the natural world; the final image presents peace through seven white umbrellas.
Lakeboat
College student Dale Katzman takes a summer job as a cook aboard a Chicago steel company’s lake freighter. Through conversations with the crew, including veteran sailor Joe Litko, he learns about their shipboard lives and the violent fate of his predecessor.
Lalor of Eureka
Leslie Rees’s historical drama concerns the Eureka Rebellion and its human conflicts.
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