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Clear filtersSet among the performers and crew of a touring vaudeville show, the play follows womanizing performer Rodney Terrill, whose relationships with the show's women provoke conflict. After he assaults Mary Ann, Terrill is murdered; the final act follows the police investigation and the arrest of his killer, engineer Ted Arnold, Mary Ann's brother.
In this court masque, Hercules confronts competing claims of duty and pleasure and, guided by Mercury, finds a middle course in Daedalus; comic anti-masques and court dances frame the action.
Plenty is a play by David Hare, first performed in 1978, about British post-war disillusion. The inspiration for Plenty came from the fact that 75 per cent of the women engaged in wartime SOE operations divorced in the immediate post-war years; the title is derived from the idea that the post-war era would be a time of "plenty", which proved untrue for most of England.
In a one-act kitchen drama, laundress Charity Brown weighs the cost of surgery that might save her gravely ill daughter against her fear of another unaffordable funeral, as a friend and a physician press competing views of care and belief.
D'Arcy Tuck and gentleman burglar Freddy Malone plan to steal jewels from Mrs Hewlett, whom they believe has wronged Tuck's fiancée. Their attempted robbery ends with Simon Veal's accidental death, exposing them to a murder charge; later, they uncover Veal's blackmail of Mrs Hewlett and escape by shifting suspicion onto him.
Robot detective Gesicht investigates a string of murders of humans and robots, each marked by objects positioned like horns. The seven most advanced robots appear to be targets, while the victims are linked to protections for robots’ equal rights.
Athenian Chremylos brings home the blind personification of Wealth and seeks to restore his sight so wealth will go to the virtuous; Poverty argues against the change, whose consequences disrupt human and divine society.
Agorastocles, a young man in love with Adelphasium, plots with his slave Milphio to trick the slave-dealer Lycus. Hanno arrives from Carthage searching for his daughters and discovers that Adelphasium and her sister are his lost children; he also recognizes Agorastocles as his cousin's son. The family is reunited, and Hanno consents to Agorastocles marrying his daughter.
A satirical comedy in which Jonson's exchange with rival playwrights is joined to an argument about poets' moral duties in society, contrasting good poets with pretentious or bad ones.
Set around 1850 in South Ostrobothnia, the play depicts local life and peasants' rebellion against a Swedish-speaking, arbitrary local law officer. The officer also carries associations with earlier oppressive rule and contemporary Russification.
A collective stage work comprising seven ten-minute pieces responding to George Orwell’s Room 101, exploring the idea through separately authored dramatic segments.
Point Break Live! is a parody by Jaime Keeling of the 1991 Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze action crime movie Point Break. Sometimes credited as the first-ever "reality-play", each performance features a new, unrehearsed actor in the protagonist role of Johnny Utah, reading their lines from cue-cards delivered by a production assistant.
At a hotel on a West Indian island, owner Linda Valaine, a former missionary’s daughter and war widow, becomes involved with a young airman, Martin. Her Russian head waiter and lover Stefan grows jealous; after Linda rejects him, he drowns himself, and she responds by arranging to hire a new head waiter.
A bank official who has devoted himself to climbing the financial ladder approaches a coveted vice-presidency, only to realize that the success he pursued may not be what he wants.
Poison Pen is a mystery play by the British writer Richard Llewellyn. In a small English village, a series of poison pen letters cause chaos and suspicion. It premiered at Richmond Theatre before transferring to the West End where it ran for 176 performances between 9 April and 19 September 1938, initially at the Shaftesbury Theatre before moving to the Playhouse Theatre and then the Garrick Theatre. The original West End cast included Roddy Hughes, Walter Fitzgerald, Neville Brook, Jack Allen, Ethel Warwick, Dorothy Black and Margaret Yarde.
John struggles to sustain his relationship with Kay through her changing psychological states. An elliptical timeline explores how love and care endure when one partner’s experience becomes difficult for the other to reach.
This synopsis is compiled from contemporaneous newspaper and magazine reviews. Act I (An apartment in a Russian city.) The setting shows signs of struggle from outside; flames flicker dimly through glassless windows and holes in the walls. From time to time shots are heard: singly, a few together, then in bursts. Podoff has gathered the others to discuss their upcoming mission to America. To hone their language skill, they have agreed to speak only English among themselves. Maria serves them tea; Poldekin has joined the group solely to see no harm comes to her. They discuss the mission, though Poldekin's enthusiasm seems more nuanced than the others ideological fervor. He punctures their assertions about Bolshevism with dry wit. They regard him as an amiable halfwit, and so assign him an easy task: printing propaganda tracts when they reach New York. (Curtain) Act II (Backyard of a New York City tenement.) The group's members have taken separate rooms in a tenement filled with immigrants from many countries. They meet in the backyard, and continue to speak in English, since Poldekin points out it is the least understood language among the building's inhabitants. Poldekin annoys everyone by asking the same question repeatedly: What is America? He confounds his colleagues proposals by pointing out the inherent difficulties, and thwarts any suggestion that Maria carry out her task to assassinate an official. Having heard about baseball, he asks Pinsky to take him to see it. Pinsky, who pretends to be indifferent, agrees. (Curtain) Act III (Same as Act II.) Poldekin reports back to the group on baseball, but his appreciation of it draws rebukes from his colleagues. The others try to convince Blanche to join their cause. Being a social outcast, who names the geraniums in her flower-box after lovers, they feel she should be an easy convert. But Blanche isn't eager to give up what little she has to state ownership. She rejects their arguments, and the commotion draws the attention of Welch. He plys Endechieff with a vile concoction he calls a Brunswick cocktail, and the tipsy bolshevik soon turns tipster. Poldekin realizes he has embraced the idea of America in preference to Bolshivik theory; as he does so, the act ends with a Decoration Day parade, only the flags of which are glimpsed over the top of the tenement fence as they go by to stirring music. (Curtain) Act IV (An apartment in the same tenement.) The police have picked up Endechieff, who fingers the others. They are all brought to Poldekin's apartment. The police intend to charge them with distributing seditious literature. However, they find that instead of Bolshevik propaganda, Poldekin has printed copies of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. Welch and the police are stymied; they release the whole group from arrest and depart. Poldekin argues with the others that America is better run than their own revolution. Maria is convinced, some of the others are swayed. Nicolai is more upset with Poldekin than with Endechieff. He pulls out a pistol and shoots Poldekin. In the original ending of the play, Poldekin dies at this point, with Blanche afterward placing a small American flag on his chest. Tarkington's revised ending has Poldekin only slightly wounded, and he survives to marry Maria. (Curtain)
In 16th-century Rome, orphan Lalage becomes jealous when Castiglione, son of a duke, is betrothed to her ward Alessandra. Lalage persuades Politian, the Earl of Leicester, to avenge her against Castiglione. The surviving melodrama reworks the 1825 Kentucky murder of Solomon P. Sharp, and includes Politian’s proposed suicide pact with Lalage.
Polly's heavy novel reading shapes her ideas of romance and life. Her father plans to marry her to wealthy Ledger, but she prefers Scribble, an attorney's clerk who shares her self-conscious use of novelistic conventions. When they escape, Ledger brings them back, only for the family to discover that the couple has already begun marrying by proclaiming their banns.
Polly, a star bareback rider in a circus, is injured during a performance. The circus leaves town and she is left behind to convalescence at a local minister's house. During her 11-month stay they fall in love but the disapproval of the town folk causes Polly to rejoin the circus. A month later the circus comes back to town and the minister goes to it in search of Polly. This third act of the play recreates an actual circus on stage, complete with animals, during which the lovers reunite. The final star lit tableau scene has the lovers together watching lights of the circus wagons as they disappear over the hills.
Polly, a housekeeper who hopes to study music, helps her shy friend Rex win Myrtle by posing as the glamorous French temptress Paulette. The scheme brings society’s disapproval, but Rex falls genuinely in love with Polly.
Act I (Miss Polly Harrington's parlor, a summer afternoon.) Mrs. Carmody, Miss Carroll, and Mrs. Gregg are sewing and packing old clothes into a missionary barrel. They are aghast at Nancy's free tongue and astonished at Miss Polly's news about her niece coming to live with her. When Pollyanna does arrive, she charms Aunt Polly and Mrs. Gregg a little, but not the others. Pollyanna says there wasn't any black clothing in the last barrel they received, so she lacks mourning clothes. Her father told her to be glad when he died, for he would go to Heaven. She explains the Glad game to them and gets the Aid ladies to try. Spying a doll on a chair, Pollyanna thinks it is for her, but Aunt Polly says no, its for the barrel. Pollyanna then brings in her own gift for Miss Polly, a basket with a tiny kitten and puppy, who she introduces as Sodom and Gomorrah. The ladies become hysterical and Aunt Polly sternly orders Nancy to take away the animals. Pollyanna picks up Aunt Polly's locket and opens it, telling everyone there's a pretty man inside. Aunt Polly grabs the locket and hustles Pollyanna to her bedroom. Aunt Polly confides that Pollyanna was out the window before she could stop her. Pollyanna re-enters the parlor, bringing Jimmy Bean, who she announces is another gift for Aunt Polly. This is the last straw: the ladies are dismissed, Jimmy is told to shove off, and Pollyanna given the rules of the house. She is distressed to learn that Aunt Polly sent for her only out of a sense of duty. Sobbing to herself, she is surprised by Jimmy's reappearance. He explains there's a castle next door with an ogre in it no one ever sees. They decide to explore it but are forestalled by Aunt Polly's scolding. (Curtain) Act II (John Pendleton's Library. Some weeks later.) Pendleton scolds Bleecker over his insistence on having seen a ghost come through the hedge. Dr. Chilton visits, and reminds Pendleton of how the Harrington sisters were once their loves. He informs Pendleton about the new girl who has cured all the hypochondriacs in the village and cheered the truly ill with her "Glad game". He confesses to having sicced her on Pendleton: "Old King Grouch" as she has labelled him. A sudden knocking on a cabinet door, and out pops Pollyanna. Dr. Chilton had told her about the secret passage between the houses, made twenty years before. Pollyanna slowly thaws Pendleton's heart with a fairy-tale she was told by her mother. A king had loved a princess, but they were forced apart by her father. The princess was forced to marry and to save souls, but still loved the king and prayed for him every night. Pendleton is entranced that his long-lost Charity Harrington had still loved him and prayed for him, even though married. He shows Pollyanna a large portrait of her mother, who Pollyanna resembles. Pollyanna is stunned; for the first time her composure breaks, and she cries out to the portrait, "Mother, come back to me! Nobody wants me!" She sobs until Pendleton comforts her, saying she can stay with him if Aunt Polly doesn't want her. Dr. Chilton is alarmed; Polly Harington won't allow it. But even as he and Pendleton debate, Pollyanna reappears, with her hat and suitcase. (Two quick curtains, each opening on a still tableau of Pollyanna and Pendleton embracing, and Dr Chilton beaming.) Act III (Same as Act II. An hour later.) Pollyanna, Chilton, and Pendleton are eating ice cream. Bleecker announces Nancy, who has brought Pollyanna's things. Since Aunt Polly doesn't want her, Pollyanna wants to stay with Pendleton. But Aunt Polly appears and demands Pollyanna return with her. She insists that she wants her niece. As she takes Pollyanna by the hand, her locket falls from its chain. Pollyanna picks it up, opens it and recognizes Dr. Chilton's photo. Aunt Polly refuses to let Dr. Chilton see the locket, but that is enough to convince him. He is delighted she has worn his photo over her heart for twenty years. Later, Pollyanna sneaks back into the library through a window, bringing the basket with Sodom and Gomorrah, who Pendleton reluctantly agrees to keep. Next, Jimmy Bean comes through the window, and Pollyanna beseeches Pendleton to adopt him. As a trustee of the Orphanage, Pendleton agrees to let Jimmy stay until they know each other better. Pollyanna departs, but soon there is a great commotion from outside. A car has struck her. She is brought into the library, where she discovers she can't stand or walk. Pendleton, however, uses her own philosophy to cure her despair. (Curtain) Act IV (Same as Act III. Five years later, a summer evening.) Bleecker and Pendleton are fixing up the library to celebrate Pollyanna's return from Europe, where she has been treated by medical specialists. Jimmy Bean, now James Pendleton, returns from a horseback ride to describe the throng waiting at the train station. Nancy explains though that Pollyanna has come by auto, and will arrive shortly. Dr. Chilton and Miss Polly, now Mrs. Chilton, arrive. They were married in Paris, but like Nancy won't tell Pendleton if Pollyanna is cured. Finally Pollyanna herself comes in, obviously cured. Pollyanna and Jimmy confess their love and agree they are engaged. They kiss, but are surprised by the adults. Pendleton calls for Bleecker to bring in "the menagerie", which he does, carrying a fully-grown Sodom and leading a giant Gomorrah. Pollyanna marvels at their survival and size. They then play the Glad game, with Pollyanna stepping forward last to face the audience and extoll its benefits. (Curtain)
In ancient Armenia under Roman persecution, the Armenian nobleman Polyeucte converts to Christianity despite his wife Pauline and father-in-law Felix. He becomes a martyr, leading them to convert; Pauline rejects Severus, who loves her, and remains loyal to her husband.
The overall setting is laid on Pomander Walk near Chiswick, a residential street of five tiny houses in Queen Anne style, on the bank of the river Thames. For a matinee charity benefit in April 1911, Parker wrote a brief rhyming prologue, delivered by the character of Marjolaine before the curtain rises, which became part of the play thereafter. Act I (Saturday afternoon, 25th May, 1805.) The inhabitants of Pomander Walk are introduced through little interactions. Caroline Thring seeks Pomander Lane to dispense alms, and is sent packing. Baron Otford comes by to ask Admiral Sir Peter to convince his son Jack to marry an heiress. He himself is still pining for his lost love. Sir Peter promises, not realizing he just sent off the pushy heiress. Marjolaine is surprised by Jack, who has rowed up the river. At first standoffish, she agrees to bring him refreshment. He finds the name "Lucy Pryor" in her book, but is laughingly told it is Maman's. The Muffin-Man's bell brings all the inhabitants out to buy his wares. Brooke-Hoskyn and Jack recognize each other; it is apparent the former is actually a servant. Jack greets Sir Peter, who introduces him to the folks, but Mme. Lachesnais faints when she hears his full name. (Curtain) Act II (Saturday morning, 1st June, 1805.) Brooke tells his wife he sent an unsigned letter to Baron Otford about Jack and Marjolaine. His goal is to keep Jack away from Pomander Walk, so Brooke's secret will be safe. A gloomy Marjolaine tries to pump Sir Peter about Jack's service with him at Copenhagen. Baron Otford tells Sir Peter about the letter and Jack's owning up to loving the girl. The Baron made him promise to stay away for a week, which is now up. Madame tries to console her daughter about Jack's broken promise to come back, and ends up telling her about her own broken romance with Baron Otford. Ruth complains to Marjolaine of her sister and Basil's inability to display their affection. Marjolaine tells Barbara to train her parrot to say "Tell Barbara you love her". Madame Lachesnais meets up with Baron Otford at the Gazebo; he does not recognize her as Lucy Pryor at first. She dismisses his concerns, saying her family wanted nothing to do with his. Jack explains to Marjolaine why he stayed away. Together, they waylay Rev. Sternroyd, who agrees to ask the Bishop for a special license to marry. Sir Peter rescues Mrs. Poskett's cat from the river, earning him a warm embrace. Caroline Thring returns, but as she walks past, the open door of each house slams shut. (Curtain) Act III (Monday evening, 3rd June, 1805.) The Moon not yet risen, the Lamplighter lights the Walk's two street lamps. All the inhabitants of Pomander Walk gather for tea outside by the big elm tree. They are sore at Sir Peter for not proposing to Mrs. Poskett, who sits in gloom. Brooke-Hoskyn is thus set to take over leadership of the Walk, but retreats when Baron Otford comes by. Otford informs Sir Peter that Hoskyn used to be his butler. Sir Peter is elated, but decides it would be unfair to expose him. Barbara and Basil are now engaged, Marjolaine's suggestion about the parrot having worked. Eventually Sir Peter's reluctance is overcome and he asks Mrs. Poskett to marry him. Baron Otford and Madame Lachesnais reconcile and agree to give each other a new chance, while giving Jack and Marjolaine their blessing to wed. (Curtain)
An Englishman arrives in Australia and works on a rural Queensland station.
Ollie searches for her missing sister in Manchester and finds that every lead points to Pomona, an abandoned concrete island at the city's center.
A court masque in which costumed satyrs, nereids, fauns and naiads alternately sing Latin verses honoring Mary and Prince James through offerings from rustic gods. The entertainment concludes with characters representing the Orkney Islands.
At Yale during the college’s transition to coeducation, feminist transfer student Claire Hazard wants to join the all-male Whiffenpoofs a cappella group, whose members resist admitting a woman.
The show follows a famous actor under treatment in a mental institution who wonders: did he really kill the actor playing Polonius as he was playing Hamlet, or was it only an illusion?
Popcorn is a 1998 play by English author Ben Elton adapted from his novel of the same title.
Porgy, a disabled Black beggar in Charleston's Catfish Row, tries to rescue Bess, the woman he loves, from Crown, her violent possessive lover, and Sportin' Life, a drug dealer.
Three interwoven monologues portray Kevin, a boy leaving home for the first time; Dermot, a man who begins a job he is unqualified for after being chosen by mistake; and Joe, a widower pensioner who receives a mysterious package. Their stories turn on possibilities that might have happened but did not.
A spinster living in poverty is consumed by memories of a former lover.
A dramatic portrait of Queen Victoria’s life based on her letters.
Ten members of the fictional Riot Club, an exclusive Oxford dining club, hold a drunken dinner in a country pub. As the evening's bullying escalates, they wreck the room and seriously injure the landlord. They agree to blame one member, Alistair, and use their future influence to protect him; weeks later, an MP helps weaken the charge against him.
A Bengali stage adaptation of Animal Farm, the drama uses satire to criticize the communist regime in West Bengal.
Detectives investigate the murder of George Barber and the theft of his brain, while George experiences parallel versions of his life with Joyce. The play ultimately suggests these alternate worlds are discontinuous dreams generated by his brain, raising questions about consciousness, science, and identity.
A broad rural comedy about farmer Dad McQuade’s attempt to sell Possum Paddock to cover his debts. The story’s adaptation follows Hugh Bracken, who pays the debts and discovers a railway will make the paddock valuable.
In 2015, graduate student Dexter discovers a politically explosive play by the otherwise ordinary playwright A. R. Gurney and urges professor Alice to stage it before the government destroys the script. In 2027, the now-married pair describe how their nationwide performances of the lost play transformed society, while the work’s staged seminar also satirizes modern incivility, religion and political life.
Emily Madison provides accommodations for tourists in her rambling old ancestral home on the Boston Post Road in Connecticut. Her sister May and unemployed brother-in-law George live with her. George is obsessed with short-wave radio, tuning in to police calls and foreign stations. Emily's only boarder is Rev. Cartwright, an itinerant preacher who comes and goes. When a young traveling couple, Bill and Celia, stop by to look for a room, Cartwright discourages them. May and George are unable to counter his influence, and the couple departs for a motel with more amenities. Jeeby, a strongly-built taciturn teenager, once more delivers an incomplete and mixed-up assortment of clean laundry, to Emily's consternation. A limousine pulls up to the house, and Dr. Spender enters seeking a room for his patient, a young woman who has been taken ill while travelling. He and Nurse Martin take the Girl to a room, while the chauffeur Matt brings in her luggage. Dr. Spender confides that the Girl is the unmarried daughter of a prominent Episcopalian bishop, hence they don't want to reveal her name. Later that night noises from the girl's room seem to indicate she is giving birth, and soon a baby's cries are heard in the living room. Dr. Spender and Matt depart, leaving Nurse Martin to care for the baby. The infant remains in the room with the Girl, and only an occasional cry is heard from it during the next week. Dr. Spender and Matt return, bringing more things for the baby. The Girl is pronounced well-enough to leave the room, while Emily, May, and George finally get to see the baby boy. The Girl seems restless and uninterested in her infant. She tries to get music from George's radio but it only produces static. Later, George is able to tune into a police call about the recent kidnapping of a baby. Emily, holding a baby doll that Nurse Martin used to calm the infant, suddenly realizes the noise it makes is the same that they have been hearing the past week. The Girl, bored and rebellious, wants to leave. Rev. Cartwright and Dr. Spender, who seem to know each other, warn her against trying to travel so soon. While Nurse Martin holds the baby, the Girl leaves the house, clearly frightened, followed by Matt, while Spender and Cartwright watch. State Trooper Virgil Beamis and his partner Jay visit the Madison mansion, looking for information about the kidnapping. Beamis is suspicious of Cartwright, who looks familiar to him. Since the Girl is gone, Emily claims the baby is hers, which causes amusement to Beamis, on account of her age and unmarried state. The troopers depart, and soon neighbors start dropping in to try and see if the rumors about Emily's baby are true. Mrs. Canby comes calling to borrow corn starch, but really to snoop. May eventually pushes her out, but not before she sees a baby bottle. George, tuning in another police radio call, hears the body of a young woman who was beaten to death has been found on the Post Road. By now, Emily, George, and May realize they are captive in their own home. Emily outwits the kidnappers by hiding the real baby in the washbasket with the dirty laundry with a note for the police. Jeeby takes the basket away, while Emily and May fool the kidnappers by using their own decoy baby doll to make them think its still in its room. The police arrive and arrest the crooks, and the real baby is restored to its parents.
A British soldier mortally wounded in 1917 imagines how his family and acquaintances will respond when the war ends. As a ghost in 1930, he sees that the survivors have learned little from the war; a fellow veteran exposes their indifference, then kills himself. The final scene returns to the trenches as the soldier dies.
In 2029, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is asked to sell his childhood home in Sallynoggin. With his wife serving as Taoiseach and his triplet sons playing in a school cup team, the sale stirs old memories.
A realistic drama based on real events about a femme fatale bent on self-destruction through a frenzy of erotic excess; the play is structured in six tableaux.
In 1901, sculptor Gustav Vigeland is commissioned to create the last official portrait of Henrik Ibsen. The irascible playwright and sculptor clash over Ibsen's legacy and likeness during a series of sittings.
Potash and Perlmutter is a three-act play written by Montague Glass and Charles Klein, based on earlier short stories written by Glass. Producer Albert H. Woods staged it on Broadway, where it opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on August 16, 1913. The play is a comedy featuring the characters Abe Potash and Mawruss Perlmutter, who are business partners in the garment industry. The play was a hit and ran for 441 performances on Broadway. A production in London's West End opened on April 14, 1914, at the Queen's Theatre starring Augustus Yorke and Robert Leonard. By the fall of 1914, Woods had eight road companies presenting the show on tour. According to George S. Kaufman, the success of the play was due to the largely-uncredited staging by Hugh Ford. Kaufman, then a drama critic for the New-York Tribune said of Ford: "He did more than stage it; he built it. So valuable were his services, in fact, that he is said to have been paid a royalty upon the play". The play was adapted as a 1923 movie, also called Potash and Perlmutter. Woods produced several theatrical sequels, including Abe and Mawruss (1915), Business Before Pleasure (1917), His Honor: Abe Potash (1919), Partners Again (1922), and Potash and Perlmutter, Detectives (1926), all written by Glass with various co-authors.
Two performers attempt to compress all seven Harry Potter books into a short theatrical parody. Rapid character changes, improvised exchanges, and an audience game of Quidditch turn the familiar adventures into a comic race through the series.
In 19th-century Aix-en-Provence, a faithful wife is betrayed and driven toward suicide. Giraudoux relocates the Roman Lucretia legend to southern France.
At Christmastide, a poor apprentice stands against the pride and status-seeking of a wealthy merchant household. The merchant’s wayward brother, whose kindness survives his dissolute life, helps awaken him to humility and the value of Russian folk traditions.
A Federal Theatre Project Living Newspaper play presenting ideas in support of New Deal and Works Progress Administration policies, with incidental music.
A drama with comedy and innuendo set at the court of Louis XIV, exploring court intrigue and the events and ideas that led him to take full control of government.
In the East End Cliff, the younger son of a shopkeeper, murders his pregnant girlfriend. His family members attempt to shield him from the law for varying reasons.
On a night train from Chicago to Duluth, a storyteller recounts a murder with supernatural undertones to a listener while two other passengers play gin. The gin player suspects cheating, and a violent altercation brings the separate pairs together.
An ascetic who rejects nature as an obstacle to wisdom helps an orphaned girl; her death teaches him that wisdom comes through recognizing humanity’s place in nature’s cycles, not through renunciation.
A Fleet Street satire on the British newspaper industry of the Thatcher era, following media power and journalism through a fictional white South African press baron modeled in part on Rupert Murdoch.
In a nondenominational room at a British university, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim students have assigned days for prayer. Conflict grows when Jewish students seek more time, leaving Muslim students without their regular Friday slot, while the Christians try to stay out of the dispute.
In 2016, an American student Molly decides to visit her family in France to find her roots and tries to connect with her distant cousin Marcelle. Marcelle's son is the victim of an anti-Semitic attack, causing Marcelle's husband Charles who immigrated from Algeria to decide to move to Israel. This earns the dismay of Marcelle's brother Patrick, as Marine Le Pen's rise in mainstream French politics continues. The play's second story explores how Marcelle and Patrick's great-grandparents suffered loss during the Holocaust in the 1940s.
A woman rebuilds her life after an abusive relationship. Encounters with therapists, friends and support groups explore the practical obstacles, difficult choices and unexpected connections involved in moving forward.
After losing her job, English law graduate Joey visits her estranged father George in New York on Christmas Eve. She falls for Sam, a lively young man she meets on a rooftop, then discovers that he is her father’s caregiver as George’s ability to care for himself declines.
Two men argue over whether a figure is 20 million or higher; the dispute gradually reveals that they are discussing body counts.
A historical drama presenting an episode from the life of composer Richard Wagner.
Peter is a self-conscious employee at a publishing firm who attends a party. There he meets Rita, a seemingly carefree part-time bartender who hopes to be a graphic designer. The two realize a mutual attraction and begin dating. Over time, Rita reveals her fears about the world, and her hesitancy to invest in joy or dreams when she expects bad things are more likely to happen than good. Despite this, she falls in love with Peter and agrees to marry him. Some time later, the two marry. At their wedding reception, they encounter an unknown Old Man who was passing by and wanted to wish the couple good luck. The Old Man asks to kiss the bride before he leaves and Rita agrees, charmed. As they kiss, Rita and the Old Man magically exchange bodies. Confused and disoriented, Rita wanders away, now inhabiting an elderly male form, while "Rita" and Peter embark on a honeymoon in Jamaica. During the trip, Peter is confused by his wife's new personality and inability to remember basic details of her own life. When they return home, "Rita" seems back to her old self and kisses Peter. After the kiss, Peter realizes this isn't his wife and concludes the impostor read Rita's diary to better masquerade as her. Panicked, he demands her return then leaves the apartment. At the bar where Rita worked, Peter sees the Old Man from the wedding reception. They talk and Peter realizes this is the real Rita, who has been living as the Old Man (whose name is Julius). They hope to make another body swap, but discover the Old Man has fled to stay with Rita's parents the Boyles, telling them the marriage is in turmoil and separation is needed. Peter meets Leah, Julius's daughter, and learns the Old Man is a retired widower who has terminal cancer, with maybe a year left to live. As they consider what to do, Peter and Rita live together as a couple again. Rita now appreciates life more deeply, while Peter realizes he loves her despite the shell she inhabits changing how they relate physically. Peter and Rita finally confront Julius, but the Old Man himself isn't sure how to cause the body swap. He came upon their wedding by chance and envied the bride's youth due to his fear of dying. Rita realizes that during their kiss, she had felt envy for the Old Man as well, wishing she could be someone who had already survived into old age despite any obstacles. As the two realize they no longer have the fears they felt that day, Rita and Julius exchange souls again. Julius takes his leave as Rita and Peter reunite.
In 1960 Hamburg, Pete Best shares a room with George Harrison and Paul McCartney as the Beatles play to dwindling audiences at the Indra Club. Paul’s provocative performance attracts a crowd, while George’s arrest over the curfew and an older German woman’s memories of the Nazi past bring the young musicians’ choices into sharper focus.
A comedy that begins as a period piece before shifting into topical, variety-style humor.
Over several days, successful and self-absorbed actor Garry Essendine juggles admirers who try to seduce him, his estranged wife, his employees and a young playwright as he prepares to tour Africa.
During a fictional 1912 suffrage crisis, a disguised Prime Minister and a military general face competing arguments from pro- and anti-suffrage women, while escalating comic disputes force the government to reconsider women's rights.
Pressure is a 2014 play written by David Haig, based on true events that took place during World War II. It centres on the true story of James Stagg and the weather forecasts that determined the date of the D-Day landings as part of Operation Overlord. The personal and military stresses of Stagg, the tensions between the teams with different weather forecasts for the date of the proposed D-Day, and the events of the 72 hours leading up to D-Day are explored throughout the play. It premiered at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh in May 2014, and had its West End premiere at the Ambassadors Theatre in June 2018. The play had its North American premiere at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto in January 2023.
Peake’s stage adaptation adds Frankenstein’s servant Fritz and gives the scientist a community of friends and family. Frankenstein’s creation, a mute Creature, escapes the laboratory; after a series of encounters, Frankenstein shoots it, triggering an avalanche that kills them both.
Simon Bent's biographical play dramatizes the life of playwright Joe Orton, with Orton's lover Kenneth Halliwell also central to the West End production.
Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a play by Isobel McArthur, with songs, based on Jane Austen's novel. The play is designed for a cast of five or six women, After an initial production in Scotland in 2018 and a tour in 2019–20, it opened in the West End in 2021 and toured again in 2022–23. The production won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play.
Pride's Crossing is a play by Tina Howe. It received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play and was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play focuses on 90-year-old Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who as a young woman was the first female to swim the English Channel from England to France. In her introduction to the play, Howe wrote, "For some time now I've wanted to write about the passion of old ladies."
Tessa is a barrister who specializes in defending men accused of sexual assault. After she is sexually assaulted, her confidence in the legal system and its demands for clear evidence from complainants is transformed.
The play tells the story of Kenneth, a 30-something African-American suburban bookstore worker in a fictional suburb of Rochester, New York with an imaginary friend who embarks on a journey of self-discovery. After being laid off from his long-time job, he applies for a job as a teller at Primary Trust Bank.
In a future Britain governed by a Prime Resident and political allies who seek to return citizens to their birth countries, two lovers face possible separation. Conspiracy theorists and religious fundamentalists orbit the political conflict, while the Grief Eaters provide comic interruptions.
A one-performer memoir monologue in which an older Primo Levi looks back on his imprisonment in Auschwitz, adapted from If This Is a Man.
An ensemble of queer and trans performers imagine a future world where Prince George of Cambridge is a gay man. In the process, they interrogate the ways in which power and colonisation play upon their lives and sexualities. The play features a series of fictional, direct-address monologues written by the playwright for the members of the ensemble, and a final monologue based on the real-life experiences of actress N'yomi Allure Stewart.
Hamlet investigates his father's death as his mother marries the new king. Ravi Jain's reworking uses English and American Sign Language to retell the tragedy through a Deaf Horatio and reconsider who can tell this familiar story.
A court masque produced by Anne of Denmark to welcome her son, Prince Henry, during the royal family's stay at Winchester amid London's plague outbreak.
Karl von Ahrmien is an impoverished German prince. He has agreed to marry Daphne Lowell, an older woman that he believes has a large fortune. However, he falls in love with her beautiful, widowed daughter-in-law, Florence Lowell. To escape his promised marriage, Karl fakes his own death, then pretends to be his own "foster brother", who happens to look identical to the prince. In this guise he takes a job as a courier working for Florence. She discovers his true identity, but keeps her knowledge a secret so he will remain in her service. Karl then discovers that the Lowells' supposed fortune is actually the property of one of Karl's own relatives who has died, and it is Karl's inheritance. With all of their secrets revealed, Florence and Karl agree to marry and share the fortune.
Princess Maleine is imprisoned after her father’s dispute with the family of her betrothed, Prince Hjalmar, and escapes after war kills her family. Disguised as a servant in Hjalmar’s household, she finds him promised to another princess; Queen Anne plots her death, and Hjalmar kills Anne before taking his own life.
A stage portrait of Oscar-winning cinematographer Jack Cardiff and his life in film.
Inspired by Edward Snowden’s surveillance revelations, the play examines how governments and corporations use personal information people share and what that means for security.
Matthew and Lisa rehearse a play when the British director Adrian begins an affair with Lisa. Their marriage and the affair are retold in shifting layers of performance, fantasy and therapy, repeatedly making the audience question which events are real. Adrian’s wife Cory appears as a private investigator and may enact Matthew’s imagined revenge; the play’s structure turns deceit back on its characters and audience.
Six people’s private anxieties intersect across 54 quick-cut scenes. Nicola struggles with her disengaged fiancé Dan; estate agent Stewart and his sister Imogen conceal their loneliness; and Charlotte’s work caring for Ambrose’s abusive father draws her into their lives. Their attempts at intimacy and reinvention end in uneasy separation and consolation.
Act 1 Following a brief courtship, Elyot and Sibyl are honeymooning at a hotel in Deauville, France, although her curiosity about his first marriage is not helping his romantic mood. In the adjoining suite Amanda and Victor are starting their new life together, although he cannot stop thinking of the cruelty Amanda's ex-husband displayed towards her. Elyot and Amanda, following a volatile three-year-long marriage, have been divorced for five years, but they now discover that they are sharing a terrace while on their honeymoons with their new and younger spouses. Elyot and Amanda separately beg their new spouses to leave the hotel with them immediately, but both new spouses refuse to cooperate and each storms off to dine alone. Realising they still love each other and regretting having divorced, Elyot and Amanda abandon their spouses and run off to Amanda's flat in Paris. Act 2 After dinner at the Paris flat several days later, Elyot and Amanda use their code word "Solomon Isaacs", soon abbreviated to "Sollocks", to stop their arguments from getting out of hand. They kiss passionately, but the harmony cannot last: whilst Elyot and Amanda cannot live without each other, neither can they live together. They argue violently and try to outwit each other, just as they had done during their stormy marriage. Their ongoing argument escalates to a point of fury, as Amanda breaks a record over Elyot's head and he retaliates by slapping her face. They seem trapped in a repeating cycle of love and hate, consumed by their private passions and jealousies. At the height of their biggest fight, Sibyl and Victor walk in. Act 3 The next morning Amanda tries to sneak away early but is surprised to find Sibyl and Victor there. As they talk, Elyot enters, and he and Amanda start bickering again. It has been decided that neither of the new spouses will grant a divorce for a year, to give Amanda and Elyot time to confirm if this is really what they want. As tempers rise, Sibyl and Victor begin to bicker with each other, defending their respective spouses. Amanda and Elyot realise that Sibyl and Victor are as suited to each other as they are, forgive each other and sneak out, leaving the younger two together. As Elyot and Amanda tiptoe out, Victor and Sibyl have reached the point of mutual violence.
A one-man dramatic monologue follows Thomas “Tommo” Peaceful, a young rural English soldier whose memories of family life and the First World War count down to an execution. In Reade’s stage version, Tommo, rather than his brother Charlie, is shot by firing squad.
An Australian family is divided by the Vietnam War. Hopgood said he wrote from the Australian point of view to examine the national character under stress amid morally unclear issues.
The play is set around the activities and exploits of the fictional Song and Dance Unit South East Asia (SADUSEA), a British military concert party stationed in Singapore and Malaya in the late 1940s during the Malayan Emergency.
A Sanskrit court drama centred on King Udayana and Priyadarśikā, a princess living incognito as an attendant to his queen.
Isa, an orphaned Congolese refugee and former child soldier settled in Brisbane, confronts his past as he prepares to compete for a national boxing title.
Processional: A Jazz Symphony of American Life (1925) is a four-act modernist comedy by the American playwright John Howard Lawson. It was first produced by the Theatre Guild at the Garrick Theatre in New York, opening on January 12, 1925 in a two-month run. Philip Moeller directed while Mordecai Gorelik designed the sets and costumes. Lee Strasberg played the minor role of First Soldier in the production; Sanford Meisner, too, played a minor part. It was revived by the Federal Theatre Project in 1937, at Maxine Elliott's Theatre.
Cut off from his family’s wealth, Edmund returns home and meets a stranger connected to the household. Their arrival exposes contradictions in the family’s ideas about belonging, privilege, and forgiveness.
A group of twenty-somethings in Sault Ste. Marie spend their days drinking in a bar while awaiting the outcome of a friend's murder trial, confronting why people stay in or leave their hometown.
Jewish physician Professor Bernhardi bars a priest from giving last rites to a dying patient, hoping to spare her fear. The ensuing public outcry and trial expose antisemitism and conflicts over religion, professional duty, and Austrian-Jewish identity.
Before the May 1932 elections, in Mamlock's clinic. The personnel and patients in the clinic discuss the political situation. Ruof and Hellpach support Adolf Hitler, while Hirsch and Seidel believe his rise to power will lead to war. Mamlock arrives and forbids conversation about politics in the institute. 28 February 1933. Mamlock's house. Rolf claims the Nazis staged the Reichstag fire; after a heated argument with his father, who disapproves of his political stance, Rolf must move out of the residence. Simon arrives and announces that the SA are searching the clinic for 'non-Aryan' doctors. The government decrees that all communists, pacifists, Jews and other opponents of the new regime will be banned from practicing medicine and holding other offices. Ruoff declares she will not be willing to work under a Jew; Hellpach leaves the clinic to join the SS. April 1933. Mamlock's house. Mamlock is not allowed to enter his clinic by law, while his daughter Ruth is attacked at school. Ruth and Ellen realize that their early, idealistic support of the Nazis was misguided. When Mamlock attempts to talk with Hellpach, who now runs the institute, he encounters a group of SA men who molest him. He returns home a broken man, carrying a Yellow badge. The next day, in the clinic. A new government decree lifts the working ban from all veterans of the First World War. Mamlock and Hirsch return to the clinic. There, Hellpach announces that all 'non-Aryans' who are not subject to the decree will be dismissed. Simon loses his work. Mamlock is revolted by this, and demands justice. He organizes a petition in which he calls upon the government to treat all citizens equally. Hellpach is enraged, and demands from all other personnel to sign an affidavit according to which Mamlock is guilty of various crimes. Mamlock is shocked to see that they all agree to do so – except Ruoff, who rejects her Nazi convictions. He realizes that his friends have abandoned him. Exasperated and despaired, Mamlock tells Inge that she and his son should fight for a better future. Then, he commits suicide.
A tragedy on a mythological subject, written in the dramatic structure of Aeschylean tragedy and in obscure, archaic language.
Prometheus is chained to a mountain by Zeus's agents for giving fire and knowledge to humanity. He recounts his defiance to the Oceanids and Io, foretells events that threaten Zeus, and is cast into the earth after refusing to reveal his secret.
In this fragmentary tragedy, Prometheus endures Zeus’s punishment as a chorus visits him. Heracles kills the eagle tormenting him and frees him; Prometheus foretells Heracles’s labors, while reconciliation with Zeus belongs to the trilogy’s final play.
Prometheus endures captivity under Jupiter and refuses to yield the secret that could secure Jupiter's rule. Asia seeks answers from Demogorgon; he rises against Jupiter, whose power collapses. Prometheus is freed, reunites with Asia and witnesses humanity transformed by love, equality and liberation from tyranny.
The play focuses on Catherine, the daughter of Robert, a recently deceased mathematical genius in his fifties and professor at the University of Chicago, and her struggle with mathematical genius and mental illness. Catherine had cared for her father through a lengthy mental illness. Upon Robert's death, his ex-graduate student Hal discovers a paradigm-shifting proof about prime numbers in Robert's office. The title refers both to that proof and to the play's central question: Can Catherine prove the proof's authorship? Along with demonstrating the proof's authenticity, Catherine also finds herself in a relationship with Hal. Throughout, the play explores Catherine's fear of following in her father's footsteps, both mathematically and mentally and her desperate attempts to stay in control. The play opens with Catherine sitting in the backyard of her large, old house. Robert, her father, reveals a bottle of champagne to help celebrate her 25th birthday. Catherine complains that she hasn't done any worthwhile work in the field of mathematics, at least not to the same level as her father, a well-known math genius. He reassures her that she can still do good work as long as she stops sleeping until noon and wasting time reading magazines. Catherine confesses she is worried about inheriting Robert's inclination towards mental instability. He begins to comfort her but then alludes to a "bad sign" when he points out that he did, in fact, die a week ago. Robert disappears as Catherine dozes off. She awakens when Hal, one of Robert's students, exits the house. He has been studying the hundreds of notebooks Robert left behind after his death, looking for any work that could be published. Catherine assures him that the notebooks are filled with scribbles and nonsense since her father wrote them when he was at his most delusional. Hal, attempting to flirt, invites her to go see his band later that night. Catherine becomes suspicious of him and demands to see what is in his backpack. She roots through it to find nothing but becomes infuriated when a notebook falls out of Hal's jacket. She dials the police while accusing him of trying to steal her father's work and pass it off as his own. He admits that he was sneaking it away but only to give it back to her later as a birthday present. He opens to a page that Robert wrote during a time when he was lucid. In it, Robert writes it is a "good day" and thanks to Catherine for taking care of him and expresses hope for the future. Hal leaves Catherine with the notebook. She begins to cry until she hears police sirens. The next day Claire, Catherine's sister who just flew in from New York, is setting up brunch for them in the backyard. Catherine enters and Claire tries to goad her into idle chitchat as Catherine quietly seethes. Claire declares she is getting married and invites Catherine to stay with her and her fiance in New York. Catherine assures her she will come in January for the wedding, but Claire keeps pressing her to go earlier. When Catherine demands to know why Claire is inundating her with questions, Claire tells her the police came over earlier to check in on Catherine. Catherine admits to calling the police the previous night and tries to explain her altercation with Hal but only ends up sounding unhinged to the dubious Claire. Hal appears and asks to continue his work sorting the notebooks. Catherine lets him inside and Claire drops a hint for Catherine to try flirting with Hal by offering a bagel. Catherine storms into the house. Later that night, after the funeral, Claire holds a party in the house for her friends as well as Hal and Robert's students. Catherine escapes to the porch where Hal finds her and offers her a beer. Hal confesses that he is not so sure about his own mathematical abilities since he considers math to be a "young man's game". Catherine tries to reassure him with a quote from Carl Friedrich Gauss. Hal responds by kissing her, much to Catherine's surprise. He apologizes for trying to steal the notebook and she apologizes for calling the police. They kiss again and Hal asks Catherine if she remembers meeting him years earlier. She says she does and recalls she thought he was "not boring". They continue to kiss. The next morning Catherine sits outside. Hal exits the house and tells her he would like to spend the rest of the day with her. Catherine gives him a key to Robert's desk and tells him to look inside. He goes into the house. A moment later, Claire comes into the backyard, extremely hungover. Catherine, now in a good mood, tries to make nice with Claire. Claire takes the opportunity to continue to push Catherine to move to New York. Catherine asks why she should move to New York to which Claire confesses that she is selling the house. Catherine becomes enraged at the idea and she accuses Claire of abandoning her to take care of their sick father alone. Claire insists that the reason she did so was to keep working to pay for the house as well as Catherine's education. Catherine reveals that she had to quit school to tend to Robert and then accuses Claire of trying to have her committed. Claire admits that she has researched doctors and facilities for Catherine but insists that she was not planning on having her committed. In the middle of the row, Hal appears clutching a notebook, barely containing his excitement. He tells Claire that Catherine is in possession of one of Robert's notebooks which holds a very important proof. Claire asks Catherine where she found it and Catherine tells them she didn't find it—she wrote it. Four years earlier, Robert sits in the backyard. Catherine tells him she thinks he is getting better and he agrees. She blurts out that she has decided to go to college in a couple months, funded by Claire, but promises she will be only a short drive away if he were to need her again. Robert protests and demands to know why she waited so long to tell him. When she points out that he hadn't been well until recently and was, at one point, trying to decode extraterrestrial messages in library books, he becomes upset. Hal interrupts, much to his embarrassment, to present his final dissertation to Robert. Robert assures him they will eventually work out the problem points together, then suddenly realizes he has forgotten Catherine's birthday. He apologizes and offers to take her out to dinner. Catherine invites Hal along but he says he can't go. Catherine shows Hal out and Robert sits down to write a notebook entry, declaring it to be the aforementioned "good day". Resuming the end of the first act, Catherine declares she was the one who wrote the proof and is met with incredulity by both Hal and her sister. The handwriting is very much like Robert's and Hal questions Catherine's mathematical abilities given that she only had a few months' education at Northwestern. Catherine tells him that her real education was living with Robert. When Hal offers to show it to other math experts to confirm the authenticity of the proof, Catherine refuses. She tells Hal she trusted him and then accuses him of having no talent and being past his prime. Hal storms off and Catherine begins to rip the notebook apart. Claire gets it away from her and Catherine runs into the house. The next morning, Hal attempts to visit Catherine and apologize for his behavior. Claire stops him to say Catherine won't talk to her, let alone Hal. Claire accuses him of sleeping with Catherine despite her being unstable. Hal argues that he had no bad intentions and insists Catherine is stronger than Claire thinks. He requests to have the notebook to verify its authenticity with fellow mathematicians. Claire gives it to him and tells him she is taking Catherine with her to New York the next day. She expresses concern for Catherine's future mental stability. Almost four years earlier, Robert sits in the backyard, in the cold and writing furiously. Catherine enters and reprimands him for sitting in the cold with no jacket. Robert tells her it is too hot in the house and that the cold is better for helping him work. Catherine is shocked that he is working again and he assures her that he is sharper than ever. She is ecstatic that his previous mental instability has passed and asks to see his work. He says he would love for her to take a look and asks if she'd like to take time off school to work with him. Before she decides, Robert insists she look at his latest idea and thrusts a notebook into her hands. Catherine glances at it and becomes quiet. She tells him they need to go inside and Robert explodes with fury. He yells at her to read what he has written. She reads aloud, a nonsensical, rambling paragraph mathematically equating winter, books, and the cold. It is obvious that Robert's mind is deteriorating as it had been before. Catherine realizes Robert is descending into confusion and shivering uncontrollably. She tries to take him inside when he asks her not to leave. She promises she won't. Four years later, Claire is in the backyard. Catherine enters with her suitcase. She asks Claire about life in New York. Claire mentions potential schools or jobs for Catherine, who is quick to mock her by making ridiculous demands for a Freudian psychiatrist who will listen as she blames all her problems on Claire. Claire leaves Catherine's plane ticket before storming off. Hal enters and tells Catherine that the proof checks out and apologizes for not believing her. Catherine tells him there is no proving that she wrote it and he can claim it as his own if he wants. Hal tells her he believes she is the one who wrote it and offers to read through it with her. Catherine admits she knows she is like her father but is terrified of becoming like her father. Hal reassures her that maybe she will be better. Catherine opens the proof and begins to talk through it with Hal.
On a summer afternoon in 1953, the Hines family gathers for the last time at its Poconos retreat. Housekeeper Clemma fears the return of the husband who abandoned her; recovering heart-attack patient Burt awaits his former wife. His daughter Josie has ended her engagement but longs for Ray, an aspiring writer who arrives with a model, while a young gangster adds comic confusion.
In a child-oriented retelling of the Proserpine myth, Ceres leaves her daughter with two nymphs, who lose her when Pluto abducts her. Ceres and the nymphs search and appeal to Jove; Proserpine's return to earth is made seasonal by the pomegranate seeds she ate.
At a birthday dinner arranged by boxer Lewis’s mother Rachel, guests include Lewis’s much older boyfriend Tom and his homophobic trainer Mac. Lewis has hidden his sexual identity from Mac, and the evening develops into a comedy of deception and a reckoning with family, identity, and acceptance.
A cash-strapped gig worker accompanies an artificial intelligence agent to the moon to recover the cast, crew and data of an abandoned reality television production. The rescue becomes more complicated when the people they find prefer a seductive virtual world to returning to Earth. Physical theatre, science fiction and body horror explore precarious work, technology and escape.
María de Molina struggles to retain power as regent for her young son against nobles who seek control or marriage to her. She also confronts a plot to poison the child king and later must counter her courtiers' intrigues when her son takes the throne.
When Calidorus learns that his beloved Phoenicium has been sold to a Macedonian officer, his father's slave Pseudolus devises a series of deceptions to free her. He tricks the pimp Ballio and wins a wager from Calidorus's father Simo.
Two princes have been vying for the Princess None-so-fair's affections, but she is interested in neither of them. Princess None-so-fair's sisters are both in love with the princes, who do not return their feelings. The two sisters, envious of the princess, are happy to learn that Mother Woossat, the local brothel owner, is plotting to stage their sister's death; Mother Woossat is experiencing a shortage of customers because large amounts of men continuously fall in love with the princess, and by removing her from the picture, Mother Woossat's business will thrive once more. Mother Woossat enlists the church to convince Princess None-so-fair's father to marry her off to a large white bear, who is actually Mother Woosat's son, Bruin, in disguise. It is believed that Princess None-so-fair has been eaten by the bear, but in reality, she is living happily with Bruin. The pair is eventually separated when Mother Woossat, jealous of her relationship with Bruin, sends Princess None-so-fair to prison. Luckily, the lovers are later reunited when Bruin arrives to rescue her.
Chicklet, a demure teenager who wants a surfboard, has a volatile alter ego named Ann. Their shifts drive a camp comedy that parodies beach movies and Hollywood ideas about sex, psychiatry and motherhood.
New York artist Arthur has a secret involving a pair of socks. His friend Howard tries to help by sending him to psychiatrist Dr. Block, who has taken the socks, until Arthur's fiancée confronts the psychiatrist.
Psyché is condemned to sacrifice, then falls in love with Cupid. After curiosity separates them, she descends to the underworld and dies; Jupiter grants her immortality, and the final ballet celebrates her union with Cupid.
At a family dinner, competing opinions and familiar arguments become a rapidly escalating stream of judgment. Everyday conversation gives way to a disturbing examination of prejudice, conformity, and public outrage.
Bengali-American Ph.D. student Choton brings his African American boyfriend Raheem to his family home in Kolkata to film a queer-archiving project about queer dating in India. The visit draws family and other subjects into questions of intimacy, memory and translation.
News anchor Geoffrey Hammond is caught in a public sex scandal.
A parody of school-of-magic stories follows three students through seven years at the school, from sorting to a confrontation with a Dark Lord, from the perspective of the Puffs.
During the Great Depression, Pullman porters travel aboard the Panama Limited from Chicago to New Orleans.
Three interwoven monologues present a tomboyish rural gas-station worker in County Armagh, the man she desires, and his wife.
Jacob Dunne punches a man with fatal consequences.
Punch without Judy is a 1939 comedy play by the British author Max Catto. After its première at the Q Theatre in Kew Bridge, London, it transferred to New Theatre in the West End where it ran for 33 performances between 5 December and 30 December 1939. The West End cast included Peter Murray Hill, Henry Kendall, Ernest Jay, Basil Langton, Marjorie Rhodes, Elizabeth Allan and Olga Edwardes. The plot was revolved around romance between students living Bloomsbury. The same year the author's successful thriller They Walk Alone had also appeared in the West End. Phyllis Calvert appeared at Q Theatre in the role subsequently played by Elizabeth Allan in the West End. Calvert met her future husband, co-star Peter Murray Hill, during the production and was spotted by Gainsborough Pictures who signed her to a contract.
The Duke of Ferrara returns from war to discover that his wife Cassandra and son Federico are lovers. To avoid a public scandal, he disguises Cassandra as a political enemy and tricks Federico into killing her, then has his courtiers execute Federico.
Eight sixth-form students prepare for mock A-level examinations in a grammar-school library as their school years near their end; the play follows the romantic tensions among them.
Outside a burned family home, an Old Man recounts his family's decline to his skeptical sixteen-year-old son. When a ghost appears in the house, the Old Man kills the Boy in an attempt to free his mother's soul, but the ancestral cycle appears to continue.
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