The Seven Year Itch
An American husband, married for seven years, fantasises about his adventurous past, and future, particularly with "the girl" who moves into his apartment block.
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The Seventh Veil is a 1951 play by Muriel Box and Sydney Box, based on the hit 1945 film of the same title that they had produced. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Brighton before transferring to the Prince's Theatre in London's West End where it ran for 68 performances between 14 March and 12 June 1951. The cast included Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Leo Genn, Ralph Michael, Douglas Jefferies, Derek Blomfield, Dino Galvani and Daphne Anderson. It marked Lom's West End debut.
The Shadow Box
The play takes place over 24 hours in three separate cottages on the grounds of a large hospital in the United States. Within the three cabins are three patients: Joe, Brian and Felicity, who are to live with their respective families as they have reached the end of their treatment. They have agreed to be part of a psychological program where they live within the hospital grounds and have interviews with a psychiatrist. Act One It is morning, and Joe is sitting in the interview area talking to the interviewer. and Steve has no idea of his father’s impending death. Brian takes an aloof approach to his illness; he wants to live each day until the last. Rather than skirt the issues, he confronts them with a dark humor. His young gay lover Mark is with him at the camp. The third family is Felicity and her daughter Agnes. Felicity is "an old woman who drifts between senility and combative lucidness." Her daughter Agnes is "a mousy, browbeaten spinster who tries to keep her mother happy with fictional letters from a daughter who in fact is long dead." It is a normal day for each of these characters; getting to learn their individuality is the heart of the play. The act flows between the serious and the humorous. The first act reveals that each of the three characters is radically different. They are connected by their futures, whether they are terminal or not. As the act ends, Joe and Maggie are beginning to talk, Agnes is struggling to connect to her mother, and Brian and Beverly are dancing. Act Two It is nearing evening. Joe is still coaxing Maggie to come into the cabin, Brian and Beverly are reminiscing, Mark is becoming frustrated by his lover's jollity, and Agnes is beginning to talk to the interviewer. As the act continues, cracks are shown in Brian’s brutal forthrightness about his illness and Mark's feelings about his impending death. Beverly provides some raw insight within her seemingly scattered exterior. Joe and Maggie continue to struggle to have a deeper conversation about their future. Agnes reveals a secret about her sister Claire. We learn that she died some years ago in an accident in Louisiana. Over the past two years, Agnes has been writing letters to her mother from her sister, and the interviewer presents her with some hard questions. More is learned about the characters' lives before they became ill, material that makes their current situation more poignant. By the end of the act, no moral conclusions have been drawn, no one has died, and no one is going to live forever. The audience thinks not about each person's impending death but what to do with this "moment" that each has to live.
The Shadow of Doubt
A nuclear physicist, recently released after five years in prison for breaching the Official Secrets Act, tries to return to his laboratory. Disgraced and friendless, he can find only clerical work and is followed by MI5.
The Shadow of a Gunman
In a Dublin tenement during the War of Independence, poet Donal Davoren lets residents believe he is an IRA gunman, winning the affection of Minnie Powell. After an ambush, a bag of bombs is hidden in Minnie’s room; she is arrested and killed when her captors’ lorry is ambushed.
The Shadow of the Hummingbird
An elderly writer in Southern California, loosely based on Fugard, is visited by his ten-year-old grandson. Their encounter frames Fugard’s personal reflections on childhood, memory and the notebooks that inform the play’s opening scene.
The Sham Lawyer
The Sham Lawyer is a 1697 comedy play by the English writer James Drake. It is also known by the longer title The Sham Lawyer, or, the Lucky Extravagant. The original Drury Lane cast included Colley Cibber as Careless, William Bullock as Sergeant Wrangle, Benjamin Johnson as Homily, Joseph Haines as Spade, William Pinkethman as Famine, Frances Maria Knight as Olympia, Jane Rogers as Florella and Mary Powell as Mrs Vernish.
The Shannons of Broadway
The locale of the play is a small-town hotel with a dining room and barber shop attached, in Sutton, New England. Act I (A shabby old-fashioned hotel lobby. An early spring evening.) The "railroad trade" relaxes in the hotel lobby after their dinner on a snowy day. The railroad supplies its workers with meal tickets to the hotel dining room. Oscar greets Charley, Vance, and Pa Swanzey, while taking down a theater bill: the vaudeville show just folded. Bert comes in late and Minerva blocks him from entering the dining room, but promises he can eat after she goes to the pictures. Emma and Mickey Shannon come in from the cold, but Pa Swanzey will not let them stay because they are "actors". Mrs. Swanzey intervenes to allow the Shannons to warm themselves at the pot-bellied stove. Emma forestalls Nez Davis from getting Chuck Bradford any drunker. The Shannons overhear how Charles Bradford Sr is pressuring Pa Swanzey to sell the hotel and his other property outside town. Bradford shows up to take Chuck home and threaten Nez Davis and Pa Swanzey over the bootleg hooch. Tessie confronts Bradford and Newt Eddy over the invalid lien against the hotel, and a general fracas ensues when Bradford insults her. Emma and Mickey persuade Pa Swanzey to sell them the hotel for $6000, which they had been saving for a farm. Minerva, whom Emma had slapped down earlier for sassing her, is dismayed but the Swanzeys are elated. (Curtain) Act II (Same as Act I, with refurbished lobby. A few weeks later.) Mickey is manning the front desk when hotel guests Eddie and Alice Allen admit they can't pay the room bill. They offer to demonstrate their vaudeville act to establish credit worthiness. It is dismal and the Shannons tell them so. But instead of ejecting the Allens and confiscating their luggage, they offer them jobs as night clerk and seamstress with free room and board. Vance Atkins, impressed with the Shannons generosity, tells them about the planned railroad expansion and new "government flying field" planned for outside of town. He learned from his brother the construction would be north of the river, which is just where Bradford is buying land options. Emma charms Newt and sends him out with a $3000 check to buy up options before Bradford does. Chuck, who has stopped drinking and opposes his father over Tessie, is also sent out to buy options with another $3000 check. The Melody Boys arrive, and are given a corner suite and invited to practice their saxophones in the hotel. Emma, however, has forgotten to get Mickey's buy-in for the land options. When he learns she has given the last of their savings to comparative strangers, he explodes and threatens to leave. (Curtain) Act III (Same as Act II. Next day, early afternoon.) Emma and Mickey have reconciled. Minerva comes crying to Emma; Bert is ignoring her since she is now "in trouble". Emma assures her she won't lose her job or room. Mickey is just phoning Bradford to offer the hotel for sale, as he's convinced their savings are lost. Just then Mr. Albee comes into the lobby. After some initial confusion over his identity, the deflated Shannons perk up when he offers to pay $25,000 for the hotel. He further informs them that all the new projects are going south of the river. Now Vance enters, dragging a fearful Newt, who admits buying the options north of the river with Emma's check, but recording them in Bradford's name. Chuck then comes to confess he second-guessed Emma, and bought south of the river instead of north. Elated, Mickey gleefully pounces on Bradford when he comes to buy the hotel. Mickey scares him with jail for sub-borning Newt, while Chuck threatens him for again insulting Tessie. Bradford repays the money Newt spent for him, and yields to his son about marrying Tessie. Now Bert arrives and is confronted by Emma, who demands he marry Minerva. He refuses until Mickey knocks him down, then relents. With the Melody Boys providing the music, the entire cast goes into a song and dance number: the Shannons are returning to Broadway. (Curtain)
The Shape of Things
A young student’s changing relationship with an art major unfolds as his best friend’s engagement deteriorates, exposing tensions in two contemporary relationships.
The Shape of the Table
A fictional Eastern European nation negotiates a transition from communist leadership toward Western-style democracy. The play makes regional political change personal and centers on the contentious process of negotiation.
The Shark Is Broken
The Shark Is Broken is a comedic stage play written by British playwrights Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon. The play is a comedic exploration of the behind-the-scenes drama that took place during the filming of the 1975 film Jaws, which was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Shaw's father, Robert Shaw, as well as Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss.
The Shaughraun
Fenian fugitive Robert Ffolliott returns to Ireland to marry Arte O’Neale, but a land-seeking schemer and his police informant plot to send him back to Australia. Conn, the comic poacher known as the Shaughraun, helps Robert evade arrest and expose the villains, while the family’s other romances resolve alongside the political conflict.
The Shawl
Miss A seeks advice from John, an amateur psychic, about her late mother’s inheritance. John and his ambitious protégé Charles plan a séance to deceive her, but Miss A exposes their tricks; John then reveals an unexplained detail about her childhood and a red shawl that may be genuine psychic insight.
The She-Gallants
The She-Gallants is a 1695 comedy play by the English writer George Granville. It was first staged by Thomas Betterton's Company at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London. The original cast included Thomas Betterton as Bellamour, John Hodgson as Philabel, John Thurmond as Frederick, Cave Underhill as Sir Toby Cusifle, William Bowen as Sir John Aery, Thomas Doggett as Vaunter, Samuel Bailey as Courtall, Elizabeth Barry as Lady Dorimen, Anne Bracegirdle as Angelica, Elizabeth Boutell as Constantia, Elizabeth Bowman as Lucinda and Elinor Leigh as Plackett.
The Shepherd's Paradise
A long pastoral court masque set in a community devoted to Platonic love, where the unrequited find refuge. A debate over ideal love and marriage accompanies tangled identities, a lost heir's discovery and marriages that favor union over Platonic ideals.
The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet
In a frontier town, the disreputable Blanco Posnet faces trial for stealing a horse. A prostitute's testimony nearly condemns him, but a woman refuses to identify him as the man who lent her the horse to save her dying child. Shaw frames the one-act courtroom melodrama as a religious tract on morality, mercy, and the nature of God.
The Shifting Heart
Set on Christmas Eve in a 1950s Melbourne neighborhood, the play examines racism and its effects through an Italian immigrant family and nearby neighbors; a fence separates hostile neighbors from those who stand with the Bianchis.
The Shining Hour
The Shining Hour is a 1934 Broadway three-act drama written by Keith Winter, produced by Max Gordon and staged by Raymond Massey with scenic design created by Aubrey Hammond. It ran for 121 performances from February 13, 1934, to May 1934 at the Booth Theatre. This was Gladys Cooper's Broadway debut. Raymond Massey and Adrianne Allen were a married couple at this time. The play was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1933–1934. It was adapted into the 1938 film The Shining Hour directed by Frank Borzage and starring Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Margaret Sullavan and Melvyn Douglas.
The Ship That Never Was
A stage pantomime based on the 1834 Frederick escape, a convict-era Australian escape story.
The Shock of Recognition
In this one-act comedy, playwright Jack Barnstable auditions Richard Pawling for a role requiring nudity. The overeager actor’s willingness to strip transforms the audition into an awkward comic encounter.
The Shoe-Horn Sonata
A war drama about Australian nurses during the Second World War.
The Shoemaker
The Shoemaker is a play written by Susan Charlotte, first staged at the off-Broadway Acorn Theater on 24 July 2011. The play was directed by Antony Marsellis and starred Danny Aiello as The Shoemaker, Alma Cuervo as Hilary, Lucy Devito as Louise and Michael Twaine providing Offstage Voices.
The Shoemaker's Holiday
Aristocrat Rowland Lacy disguises himself as a shoemaker to remain in London and pursue Rose Otley, while shoemaker Simon Eyre rises to become Lord Mayor. Meanwhile, returned soldier Ralph reunites with Jane after she is misled into believing he died, and the King pardons Lacy and blesses the marriages.
The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife
After her much older shoemaker husband leaves, his young wife withstands attention from the mayor and other suitors, remains loyal, and opens a café to support herself. The shoemaker returns disguised as a puppeteer and asks her forgiveness.
The Shop at Sly Corner
The Shop at Sly Corner is a 1945 thriller play by the British writer Edward Percy. An earlier version of the work had premiered at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, in 1941 under the title of Play with Fire. The revised version was staged at St Martin's Theatre in London's West End where it enjoyed a lengthy run of 863 performances between 11 April 1945 and 3 May 1947. Actors appearing at various stages in the original West End production included Victoria Hopper, Jean Colin, Joyce Heron, Cathleen Nesbitt, Viola Lyel, Kenneth Kent, Henry Oscar, Jack Vyvyan, Kenneth Griffith, Cyril Chamberlain and Deryck Guyler. Despite its London success, the play was a flop when it opened at the Booth Theatre in New York's Broadway, lasting for only seven performances.
The Shoplifters
Alma and her reluctant accomplice Phyllis are caught stealing from a supermarket. A confrontation with an eager young security guard and his more sympathetic colleague exposes their competing ideas about theft, poverty and fairness.
The Show Must Go On
As a company prepares Macbeth, its theatre director and ensemble contend with a succession of calamities while trying to get the performance on stage.
The Show-Off
The Show-Off is a 1924 stage play by George Kelly about a working-class North Philadelphian family's reluctance to accept their daughter's suitor Aubrey Piper, an overly confident Socialist buffoon. The play has been revived five times on Broadway and adapted for film four times; it is Kelly's most frequently produced play.
The Shrew
Charles Marowitz recasts Shakespeare’s play as a gothic tragedy, removing characters and the Induction, rearranging dialogue, and using the Bianca plot as a modern parallel. Petruchio’s violence culminates in sexual assault and a hollow, prompted delivery of Katherina’s final speech, making the apparent comic ending an image of abuse.
The Shrewsbury Passion
A short community play dramatizing the crucifixion of Christ, presented as an outdoor walk of witness through Shrewsbury.
The Shrike
The play, set in the mental ward of a city hospital, revolves around a theatrical director named Jim Downs, who has been driven to the verge of insanity and suicide by his estranged wife Ann. To outsiders, Ann seems to epitomize sweetness, kindness and graciousness. In reality, she is a bitter, manipulative shrew. Like the shrike, a small predatory bird that kills and impales its prey, Ann seems harmless but her coercion of Jim incapacitates his free will and traps him under her control. Ann married Jim in hopes that he eventually would gain wealth and stardom, and so his lack of success galls her. Her mockery and nagging led Jim to a suicide attempt when he swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. The play opens with Jim's being admitted to the hospital, where doctors manage to save his life. Upon waking, Jim discovers that he is legally trapped in the hospital because the psychiatrists deem him a threat to himself and others and are unwilling to release him. Ann regularly visits Jim at the hospital, supposedly to provide comfort and love, but really to continue her hectoring and manipulation of him. She is able to charm the doctors, who usually accede to her wishes and follow her advice as to what is best for Jim. Jim comes to realize that the only way to secure his freedom is by cooperating with Ann, who has exploited the situation to regain power over her husband. In the end, Jim is released into Ann's care, thus moving from one type of prison to another.
The Shulamite
In the Transvaal, Deborah is trapped in an abusive marriage to farmer Simeon Krillet and falls in love with visiting Englishman Robert Waring. Waring kills Krillet in self-defense, and the lovers conceal the death as an accident before agreeing to part.
The Sibyl
The Sibyl, or The Elder Brutus is a tragedy by the English writer Richard Cumberland. Written but not performed or printed in his lifetime, it was included in the posthumous collections of his works published in 1813. Inspired by the Cumaean Sibyl, it depicts the overthrow of the Roman monarchy. On 3 December 1818 it premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. John Howard Payne substantially reworked the piece for production while Edmund Kean played the role of Brutus. It was performed and published under the title Brutus.
The Siege of Aquileia
In Home's play, the governor of Aquileia is Aemilius, whose son Titus makes a diversionary attack against the besieging army. As Titus is on the point of being overwhelmed, his brother Paulus comes to the rescue, but both are captured, much to the distress of their mother Cordelia. The enemy commander, the usurping emperor Maximin, then threatens to execute the brothers unless their father surrenders, which Aemilius refuses to do despite Cordelia's pleas. Now the enemy messenger reveals himself as Varus, an old friend of Cordelia's, who promises to do what he can to preserve the lives of her sons. Later Varus returns with the terms that they will be spared if Aemilius will give the city up within three days; meanwhile Varus plans to engineer a mutiny among the besiegers. Now Titus is sent to persuade his father to give in, but cannot gain a hearing until he makes it plain that he opposes any such capitulation. When Varus's plot is discovered he is executed, but the troops under his command join those of Aemilius against Maximin, who is killed. Cordelia has at first taken the death of Varus for that of a son, but her relief is short-lived as Paulus enters with the mortally wounded Titus. Finally both parents agree in acknowledging with dignity their "mingled state of triumph, and of sorrow".
The Siege of Babylon
The Siege of Babylon is a 1677 tragedy by the English writer Samuel Pordage. It was originally staged at the Dorset Garden Theatre by the Duke's Company. The original cast included Thomas Betterton as Orontes, Matthew Medbourne as Lysimachus, Thomas Jevon as Eumenes, John Crosby as Ptolomy, William Smith as Perdicas, Henry Harris as Cassander, Henry Norris as Araxis, Mary Betterton as Statira, Mary Lee as Roxana and Anne Quin as Thalestris.
The Siege of Berwick
At the start of the play, Seaton is refusing to surrender the fortified town to the English besiegers. His sons make a sally against them, but are captured. The enemy commander then sends them to Seaton with a message that if he does not yield, one of them will be chained to a pillar and exposed to the arrows shot from the walls. Both of them, however, resolve to return to the enemy camp together. Ethelberta then goes to the English commander, accompanied by Anselm, and makes an unsuccessful plea that her sons should be spared. During the subsequent attack on the town walls, the invaders are driven back and Seaton kills their commander. Afterwards the sons are rescued by Donaldson unharmed.
The Siege of Damascus
The Siege of Damascus is a 1720 tragedy by the British writer John Hughes. It was inspired by Simon Ockley's 1708 study Conquest of Syria, and focuses specifically on the Siege of Damascus in 634. Originally staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with a cast featuring Robert Wilks as Eumenes, Thomas Walker as Daran, Barton Booth as Phocyas, John Mills as Caled, Mary Porter as Eudocia, Charles Williams as Herbis, William Mills as Artaman and John Thurmond as Abudah. it was a success and was revived frequently in the eighteenth century. It was his final work as he died shortly after its premiere.
The Siege of Meaux
The Siege of Meaux is a 1794 historical tragedy by the English writer Henry James Pye. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 19 May 1794. It is set around the fighting at Meaux in the wake of the Battle of Poitiers during the Hundred Years War. The original cast included William Farren as Duke of Orleans, Alexander Pope as Baron St Pol, Joseph George Holman as Earl of Douglas, James Middleton as Captal De Buche, George Davies Harley as Dubois and Elizabeth Pope as Matilda.
The Siege of Numantia
Cervantes's four-act tragedy depicts the Roman siege of Numantia: after peace is rejected and famine destroys hope, the Numantian community chooses death over enslavement, ending with the last youth's suicide and the Roman general's recognition of Numantia's symbolic victory.
The Siege of St Quintin
The Siege of St Quintin is an 1808 historical play by the British writer Theodore Hook. It is inspired by the 1557 Battle of St. Quentin. Its theme of a past Anglo-Spanish victory over the French was in line with British support for modern Spain in the Peninsular War following its invasion by Napoleonic forces the same year. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 10 November 1808. Revisions were made by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and his son Thomas Sheridan, part of the management of Drury Lane. The original Drury Lane cast included Robert William Elliston as Count Egmont, James William Wallack as Theodore, John Braham as Everard, Vincent De Camp as Bertrand, Harriet Siddons as Adriana, John Henry Johnstone as Sir Leinster Kildare, Walter Maddocks as Captain McIntyre, William Penley as Jack, Thomas Cooke as Sergeant Sturdy, John Duruset as singer, Matilda Ray as Rosa De Valmont and Charlotte Tidswell as Margaret. Accompanying music was composed by James Hook.
The Siege of Urbin
To escape an unwanted marriage, Celestina and her maid Melina disguise themselves as men and flee Pisa for the Duke of Urbin’s court. Court intrigue and mistaken romantic suspicions ensue; after Celestina is wounded in battle and her sex is revealed, she and the Duke declare their love.
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window depicts Sidney, an intellectual writer and his wife, Iris, who are in a difficult marriage. Sidney struggles through life in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood as an unsuccessful artist. His ideals cause him to avoid politics and its corruption while facing a painful home life. Iris is a struggling actress who, during the course of the play, leaves her antagonistic husband to enter the television scene. Both Sidney and Iris attack each other's self-confidence through extensive dialogue, despite their affection for each other. Alton Scales is an African-American activist and Sidney's friend who falls in love with Iris' beautiful sister Gloria, a supposed international model. He is able to persuade Sidney to support the candidacy of Wally O’Hara despite Sidney's initial refusal to incorporate politics into his newly established artistic newspaper. Wally is a local reform politician who is appalled by the extensive drug use in Greenwich Village and the surrounding area. Sidney agrees to support him but later learns of O’Hara’s corruption; afterwards Sidney harbors significant hatred for the reform politician. Gloria's idealistic image is shattered when Alton learns that she is a prostitute and not an international model as she and her sister Iris had insisted. Wrought with anguish at the idea of his beloved being used as a commodity, and tying it to the same ideology used to justify the African slave trade (to which he traces his roots), Alton leaves Gloria. In an act of desperation and shame, she dies by suicide. Attributing Gloria's suicide to the campaigning slogans of Wally, Sidney develops a position in opposition to the politician. This creates problems that reconcile Sidney and Iris. The play ends with a scene of Sidney and Iris in a devastated embrace at the loss of Gloria. Iris indicates with her last lines of the play that she wants to come home. Sidney makes a silent agreement that they will figure everything out. Despite the constant dark bickering that the two had throughout the play, it closes while the two are interlocked as the sun rises. The play is presented in various ways through its acts: Act I consists of dialogue, Act II consists of multiple monologues tying together Acts I and Act II, while Act III ends tragically, concluding the play.
The Sign of the Cross
Under Nero, Roman patrician Marcus Superbus falls in love with Mercia and converts to Christianity. Nero’s wife Poppea lusts after Marcus; ultimately Marcus and Mercia choose death in the arena rather than renounce their faith.
The Silence of the Lambs
FBI trainee Clarice Starling seeks information from imprisoned psychiatrist and murderer Hannibal Lecter to help identify Buffalo Bill, who murders and mutilates young women. In exchange, Lecter presses her for details about her childhood trauma.
The Silent Voice
After losing his hearing and discovering that his wife married him from duty while loving his nephew, wealthy amateur musician Montgomery Starr retreats from the world. Watching people in a park through binoculars, he recognizes their distress and secretly sends aid; eventually he sees his wife reject his nephew's elopement proposal and reconciles with her.
The Silver Box
After a silver cigarette box disappears from a politician's home, the investigation exposes the different treatment of his privileged son and an unemployed laborer who admits taking it.
The Silver King
After being drugged at Geoffrey Ware’s home, Wilfred Denver wakes to find Ware murdered. He mistakenly believes himself responsible for a killing committed by a burglar.
The Silver Shield
Two married couples separate after each spouse misreads only part of a letter or document. The wife whose letter was misunderstood becomes enamored of the man whose wife misread his document, creating an intricate comedy of mistaken suspicions and crossed relationships.
The Silver Tassie
Harry Heegan goes to war as if heading to a football match. The four acts move from his youthful athletic heroism to the cynicism and despair of the front, then to bitterness in a veterans' hospital and the contrast between his disability and the lives of noncombatants.
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles: A Vision of Judgement
On a newly emerged Polynesian island, an East Asian princess, a priest and two European couples form a polygamous community intended to create a utopia. Their children lack common sense; when a British clergyman joins the community, scandal leads to a threatened invasion. An Angel of the Lord then brings the Last Judgement, making most inhabitants disappear as useless.
The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs
Having spent much of his life disguised as a man, Dublin hotel butler Albert Nobbs is shocked when he meets a female painter, Hubert Page, who is also living as a man. Upon seeing Hubert's happy domestic situation, Albert resolves to set up a similar arrangement for himself.
The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould
A dark comedy for two actors in which a would-be suicide who fears that evolutionary biology leaves human life without meaning encounters a woman who has also survived a suicidal crisis after a failed romance.
The Sister
The Sister is a 1769 comedy play by the British writer Charlotte Lennox. Premiering at the Covent Garden Theatre, it was based on Lennox's own 1758 novel Henrietta. The original Covent Garden cast included William Powell as Courtney, William Smith as Lord Clairville, Mary Bulkley as Miss Autumn, Sarah Ward as Lady Autumn and John Cushing as Will. However the play was received by a hostile, organised element of the crowd and was withdrawn after one night.
The Sisters
In Parma, proud Paulina aims to marry Prince Farnese, while her gentler sister Angellina longs to become a nun. Bandit Frapolo and his company disguise themselves as the prince and his court, tricking Paulina into preparing to leave with them. The real prince falls for Angellina, who loves the disguised page Vergerio; revelations of identity and family ties resolve the courtships, while the false prince and Paulina are paired.
The Sisters Rosensweig
Sara, who lives in London, is a representative for a major Hong Kong bank and is about to turn 54. Her sisters, Gorgeous Teitelbaum and Pfeni Rosensweig, arrive to help celebrate the birthday. Gorgeous is Dr. Gorgeous with a radio-advice program; Pfeni is a world traveler. Various friends and boyfriends also arrive for the party. In particular, Mervyn, a friend of Pfeni's boyfriend Geoffrey, falls instantly in love with Sara.
The Six Days' Adventure
The Six Days' Adventure; Or, The New Utopia is a 1671 comedy play by the English writer Edward Howard. First performed by the Duke's Company at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London, the original cast included Cave Underhill as Sir Adam Meridith, Matthew Medbourne as Sir Grave Solymour, Henry Harris as Sir Franckman, John Crosby as Featlin, John Young as Polidor, James Nokes as Foppering, Edward Angel as Peacock, Samuel Sandford as Orlando Curioso, Mary Betterton as Serina, Anne Shadwell as Celinda, Jane Long as Crispina, Elinor Dixon as Petilla and Mary Lee as Eugenia.
The Six of Calais
Edward III plans to hang six leading citizens of Calais for resisting his siege, but Queen Philippa pleads for their lives. The king changes his mind, then tries to turn the burgher Peter Hardmouth against the queen; their exchange ends in an unlikely comic rapport.
The Skin Game
The plot tells the story of the interaction between two very different families in rural England just after the end of the First World War. Squire Hillcrist lives in the manor house where his family has lived for generations. He has a daughter, Jill, who is in her late teens and a wife Amy, as well as servants and retainers. He is "old money", although his finances are at a low ebb. The other family is the nouveau riche Hornblowers, headed by the single-minded and rich industrialist Hornblower who throws old retainers the Jackmans out of their home (much to the Squire's disgust), and who plans to surround the Hillcrist's rural estate with factories. Hillcrist wants to preserve the last piece of open land (known as the "Centry") which adjoins their property but he is (as he sees it) tricked out of the land in an auction. The Hillcrists plan to get even with the upstart Hornblower and fortuitously learn a dark secret about Mr. Hornblower's daughter-in-law Chloe who had once supported herself as the "other party" in divorce cases. When he is told the news, Mr. Hornblower agrees to sell the property to the Hillcrists for less than half the auction price on the condition that the family swears to keep the secret, but the news leaks out via the unprincipled Dawker, Hillcrist's agent and Hornblower's enemy. Chloe Hornblower goes to the Hillcrists, begging them to help keep the secret from her husband, who is aware that something is going on, then hides behind a curtain when her husband storms into the Hillcrist home demanding to know the secret. Keeping his promise to Chloe, Mr. Hillcrist makes up a story, but the young Hornblower is not convinced and declares that he intends to end his marriage, even though Chloe is pregnant. Upon hearing this, Chloe runs to the lily pond outside the Hillcrist home and tries to drown herself. She is brought into the house and it is clear that she will live.
The Skin of Our Teeth
Act I is an amalgam of early 20th century New Jersey and the dawn of the Ice Age. The father is inventing things such as the lever, the wheel, the alphabet, and multiplication tables. The family and the entire Northeastern U.S. face extinction by a wall of ice moving southward from Canada. The story is introduced by a narrator and further expanded by the family maid, Sabina. There are unsettling parallels between the members of the Antrobus family and various characters from the Bible. In addition, time is compressed and scrambled to such an extent that the refugees who arrive at the Antrobus house seeking food and fire include the Old Testament prophet Moses, the ancient Greek poet Homer, and women who are identified as Muses. Act II takes place on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the Antrobuses are present for George's swearing-in as president of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Mammals, Subdivision Humans. Sabina is present, also, in the guise of a scheming beauty queen, who tries to steal George's affection from his wife and family. The conventioneers are rowdy and party furiously, but there is an undercurrent of foreboding, as a fortune teller warns of an impending storm. The weather soon transforms from summery sunshine to hurricane to deluge. Gladys and Henry attempt their individual rebellions and are brought back into line by the family. The act ends with the family members reconciled and, paralleling the biblical story of Noah's Ark, directing pairs of animals to safety on a large boat, where they survive the storm and the end of the world. Act III takes place in the ruins of the Antrobuses' former home. A devastating war has occurred; Maggie and Gladys have survived by hiding in a cellar. When they come out of the cellar, Gladys is seen to have a baby. Sabina joins them and is "dressed as a Napoleonic camp-follower." George has been away at the front lines leading an army. Henry also fought, on the opposite side, and returns as a general. The family members discuss the ability of the human race to rebuild and continue after continually destroying itself. The question is raised: "Is there any accomplishment or attribute of the human race of enough value that its civilization should be rebuilt?" The stage manager interrupts the play-within-the-play to explain that several members of their company cannot perform their parts, possibly from food poisoning (as the actress playing Sabina saw blue mold on the lemon meringue pie at dinner). The stage manager drafts a janitor, a dresser, and other non-actors to fill their parts, which involve quoting philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle to mark the passing of time within the play. The alternate history action ends where it began, with Sabina dusting the living room and worrying about George's arrival from the office. Her final acts are to address the audience and to turn over the responsibility of continuing the action, or life, to them.
The Skriker
A shape-shifting ancient fairy befriends, manipulates and pursues Lily and Josie, two teenage mothers. Its broken, punning language and changing forms draw them into a sinister world of love, loss and revenge, while the play explores postnatal psychosis and possession through a dark, fragmentary fairy tale.
The Slab Boys
Set in the Slab Room of a Paisley carpet manufacturer on a Friday in 1957, the play follows apprentice designers Phil, Spanky, and Hector as they banter through the workday. Phil faces rejection from art school and dismissal from the factory, while the group’s teasing of Hector culminates in a failed attempt to prepare him for a staff dance.
The Slab Boys Trilogy
This three-play cycle follows young working-class Scots from a Paisley carpet factory and its staff dance in 1957 into their later lives in 1967 and 1972. It traces the changing fortunes of Phil, Spanky, Hector and Lucille.
The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day
At a St Teresa's Day party hosted by bookie Oola Maguire, her criminal acquaintances must leave their firearms in the hall; tensions rise when her convent-educated daughter returns with two nuns.
The Slave Girl
A Croatian noblewoman orphaned by war is captured by Ottoman pirates and brought to Dubrovnik to be sold. Knight Derenčin disguises himself as a merchant, learns her story, secures her freedom through a marriage proposal, then reveals his identity after their wedding.
The Sleeping Car
During an overnight train journey, anxious new mother Agnes Roberts repeatedly wakes a fellow passenger while worrying about her husband, baby, and long-absent brother. Her husband boards secretly, then mistakes the passenger’s berth for hers; when the brother finally joins them, Agnes and her aunt successively mistake the same Californian for their relatives and acquaintances. The three-part farce turns their mistaken identities and interruptions into escalating comedy.
The Sleeping Prince: An Occasional Fairy Tale
During the 1911 coronation season, young actress Mary Morgan meets Prince Regent Charles of Carpathia. Their initially awkward courtship unfolds amid a political plot against Charles, and the two part with the prospect of reuniting after their respective contracts end.
The Slighted Maid
The Slighted Maid is a 1663 comedy play by the English writer Robert Stapylton. It was staged by the Duke's Company at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London. The cast included Henry Harris as Salerno, Thomas Betterton as Iberio, Matthew Medbourne as Filomarini, William Smith as Lugo, Philip Cademan as Arviedo, John Young as Corbulo, Cave Underhill as Peralta, James Nokes as Gioseppe, Samuel Sandford as Vindex, Anne Gibbs as Decio, Jane Long as Diacelia and Mary Betterton as Pyramena.
The Smell of the Kill
The Smell of the Kill is a play by Michele Lowe that premiered at Cleveland Play House in 1999. A dark comedy about housewives facing marital crises, and then opportunity, when their husbands accidentally trap themselves in a meat locker, opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre March 26, 2002 and ran to April 28, 2002. The cast starred Lisa Emery, Claudia Shear and Jessica Stone, with direction by Christopher Ashley. It closed after 40 performances.
The Sneeze
Michael Frayn’s stage adaptation combines four short stories and four one-act plays by Anton Chekhov into a composite theatrical work.
The Snow Maiden
A verse play based on the Russian folk fairytale of Snegurochka, set in an idyllic kingdom of the Berendei and shaped by a ruler's belief in love, peace and goodwill.
The Soap Myth
Elderly Holocaust survivor Milton Saltzman befriends Annie Blumberg, a young Jewish journalist assigned to cover his demand that museums acknowledge his account of soap made from human remains. Annie is caught between Saltzman’s testimony and historians’ refusal to publish a claim without surviving production records, while Holocaust denier Brenda Goodsen attacks the history itself. The play examines how memory, documentation and denial shape public understanding of the Holocaust.
The Soddered Citizen
London goldsmith Wittworth, a melancholic pursuing Modestina, is treated by Doctor Makewell through an elaborate staged fantasy of Hell, with Modestina and the doctor playing roles in the imagined ordeal. The treatment succeeds, and Wittworth and Modestina are united.
The Soldiers
Marie, a merchant’s daughter, is drawn into affairs with officers whose exploitation and social ambitions leave her disgraced and abandoned. The play criticizes the treatment of middle-class women by soldiers and the social constraints surrounding them.
The Solid Life of Sugar Water
After a stillbirth, Phil and Alice try to reconnect and repair their relationship as they navigate grief, intimacy and recovery.
The Somerset Masque
At a royal wedding masque, Error, Rumour, Curiosity, and Credulity enchant twelve knights and throw the world into discord. Eternity, the Three Destinies, and Harmony enlist Queen Anne to free them with a branch from a golden tree; the released lords dance before the audience and the performance closes with Thames bargemen singing.
The Son
A five-act Expressionist play about generational conflict and a young man's rejection of the world. The Son kills his father and strides over the corpse toward a future he imagines as full of potential.
The Son of Umbele
In a fisherman's household, Joshua becomes caught in a love affair with Duella while coming to know Sumako's son. His conflict with Benko ends in a duel, and Joshua shoots himself.
The Song of Jacob Zulu
The Song of Jacob Zulu is an American play that debuted on Broadway in 1993. Written by Tug Yourgrau, with lyrics by Tug Yourgrau and Ladysmith Black Mambazo and music by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the play is a drama set during Apartheid in South Africa. The play's Broadway production was nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Play, Best Actor in a Play for K. Todd Freeman, and Best Featured Actor in a Play for Zakes Mokae.
The Song of Songs
Shop girl Lily Kardos marries Senator Calkins, but secretly continues to see her ex-lover Richard Laird on the side. Calkins abandons Lily when he discovers her infidelity. Lily then begins a relationship with Stephen Bennett. Stephen's uncle Phineas, aware of Lily's reputation, gets her drunk at a party to reveal the truth about her to Stephen. Her inappropriate behavior causes Stephen to break up with her. In the final act, she returns to Richard Laird.
The Sophy
King Abbas suspects and plots against his son Mirza, then has him blinded. In rage, Mirza plans to kill his daughter, whom Abbas also loves; a courtier betrays both father and son, and each dies by poison.
The Sorceress
A Yiddish play drawing on popular beliefs about witches, with its central female role written for a male performer.
The Soul's Awakening
Hilary tries to bring spiritual ideals into his business, threatening its survival. Johannes and Strader struggle to distinguish spiritual insight from deception.
The Sound Inside
Bella Baird, a solitary Ivy League professor, faces a challenge she cannot manage alone and allies with Christopher, a brilliant and mysterious student.
The Sound of a Voice
A samurai accepts shelter from a mysterious woman in an isolated woodland house. As their intimacy grows, his suspicion that she is a witch clashes with his attraction to her and his fear of her greater abilities.
The Southbury Child
Vicar David Highland’s firm response to a grieving parishioner turns his coastal community against him. As his family also begins to fracture, he faces the loss of his parish position and the convictions that have shaped his life.
The Southern Cross
An episodic dramatic presentation of the events leading to the Eureka Stockade fight, focused on the physical events of the rebellion and the historical figure Peter Lalor.
The Spanish Curate
Two brothers' inheritance dispute entangles a boy whose paternity is challenged, while Violante plots murder and Leandro pursues the married Amaranta. The schemes are exposed, and the characters' relationships are reconciled; a parallel sailor's family dispute is settled by a mock trial.
The Spanish Fly
When a young man arrives at a factory owner's home, the family mistakes him for a suitor rather than the son born from the owner's past affair with a Spanish dancer. The revelation of several men's entanglements with the dancer puts the families' relationships under strain.
The Spanish Friar
A tragicomedy pairs the secret marriage of Torrismond, rightful heir to the Spanish throne, and the usurping Queen Leonora with a comic subplot involving the corrupt Father Dominic and Lorenzo’s pursuit of a woman who is revealed to be his sister.
The Spanish Gypsy
A nobleman abducts and rapes Clara, then later seeks to atone, while a separate plot follows nobleman Don John joining a gypsy troupe to court Pretiosa. The plots converge through mistaken identities, family revelations and reconciliation.
The Spanish Rogue
The Spanish Rogue is a 1673 comedy play by the English writer Thomas Duffet. It was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane by the King's Company. The original cast included William Harris as Don Fenise, Edward Lydall as Don Alonzo, Marmaduke Watson as Don Manuel, Martin Powell as Larasco, John Coysh as Mingo, Philip Griffin as Sanchez, Elizabeth Boutell as Alcinda, Katherine Corey as Teresa and Elizabeth Knepp as Leonella.
The Spanish Tragedy
After the Spanish court fails to punish the murder of his son Horatio, marshal Hieronimo joins Bel-imperia in plotting revenge. They stage a play before the court in which the killers are murdered with real weapons, then Hieronimo reveals his motive and takes his own life.
The Sparagus Garden
Neighbors Touchwood and Striker are justices whose long feud obstructs the love between their heirs, Sam and Annabelle. Sam and his friends conspire to overcome the feud while other schemes at the fashionable asparagus garden target a naïve countryman. The tangled plots end with the young couple’s marriage, an old family secret reconciling the rivals, and the frauds exposed.
The Sparrow
After Ed brings home Evie, whom he met after a one-night stand with his flatmate Tony’s wife, Tony retaliates by employing Evie in a nonexistent business.
The Sparrow
Emily Book returns to high school ten years after surviving a bus crash that killed her classmates. She has unexplained powers that emerge when she is upset, and the town’s grief and suspicion turn against her when she may have caused the disaster.
The Spartan Dame
The Spartan Dame is a 1719 tragedy by the Irish writer Thomas Southerne. It was inspired by a story from Plutarch's Life of Aegis and was originally written as early 1687, but faced a long period of censorship and revision. The Drury Lane managers chose to revive it at a time of tension with the Stanhope-led government Whigs over licensing issues, and may have selected it because its plot subtly allowed them to demonstrate sympathy with the opposition Whigs led by Robert Walpole following the recent Whig Split. The actor-manager at Drury Lane, Colley Cibber appeared as Crites. Other members of the cast included John Mills as Leonidas, Barton Booth as Cleombrotus, Robert Wilks as Eurytion, Anne Oldfield as Celona, John Corey as Agesilius, William Mills as Mandrocles, James Oates as Thracion, and Mary Porter as Thelamia.
The Speakeasy
Set inside a 1920s San Francisco speakeasy, this immersive production follows its staff, performers and guests. Audience members move among the rooms and choose which intersecting stories and scenes to encounter.
The Speckled Band
After one of Dr Rylott's stepdaughters dies suddenly, her sister Enid asks Sherlock Holmes to protect her and investigate the surgeon's attempt to seize their inheritance. Holmes confronts Rylott in a battle of deduction and physical danger, ending when the killer's snake turns on its master.
The Speeches at Prince Henry’s Barriers
The Lady of the Lake and Merlin appear at Merlin’s tomb to condemn the decay of chivalry and prophesy its restoration under Prince Henry. They summon Meliadus, a figure for the prince, and the spirit of Chivalry before the ceremonial combat.
The Speed of Darkness
Joe is a successful businessman and a popular member of his community. He is a Vietnam War veteran. A hero to his neighbors. A construction contractor who has achieved phenomenal commercial success after the war. He is a family man. He has been named South Dakota's Man of the Year. Everything is going perfectly until he meets a fellow Vietnam War vet, Lou. Lou, by contrast, is a total failure, a homeless man who has been shattered by the war. During this unexpected encounter, Lou reveals secrets that threaten to undermine Joe's perfect world. Joe discovers that his daughter is not his own. But what brings their world crashing down is the long-held secret that Lou reveals on how Joe began his rise to success. Joe's fortune was based on a crime. Both Joe and Lou were complicit. They had illegally dumped barrels of toxic waste on the bluffs overlooking the area. The toxins polluted and poisoned the water supply in the region. Lou commits suicide. Joe must come to terms with their illegal act.
The Spoil'd Child
Little Pickle torments his indulgent father and disapproving aunt with practical jokes. A pretended exchange of babies is meant to reform him, but he returns in disguise and turns the scheme against his family, eventually preventing his aunt’s elopement with the fortune-seeking Tagg.
The Sponge Room
In the Natural History Museum, married Colin meets his lover Hilary in secret. Their clandestine meetings expose the tension and intimacy of an affair kept hidden from society.
The Sport of Kings
The Sport of Kings is a 1924 comedy play by the British writer Ian Hay. It ran for 319 performance at the Savoy Theatre in the West End between 8 September 1924 and 13 June 1925.
The Sporting Duchess
A melodramatic horse-racing spectacle built around mortgages and an encumbered estate, a wronged pregnant woman, an impecunious earl, trained racehorses and a villain.
The Sporting Thing To Do
The Sporting Thing To Do is a play by Thompson Buchanan. The play premiered at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on September 4, 1922. Produced by Oliver Morosco and directed by Fred J. Butler, the original cast included Enid Bennett, Edith Lyle, Warner Baxter, Adele Belgarde, Boyd Irwin, Roscoe Karns, Henry Hail, Innis Shearer, Harry Manners, Thomas Galloway, and Chas A. Stevenson. Co-directed by Morosco and Clifford Brooke, the cast included James K. Applebee as Rev. Dr. Clegg, Bertha Belmore as Mrs. Suzanne Clegg, William Boyd as Jack Thornton, Walker Dennett as Colonel Thornton, Mary Fisher as Miss Simpson, Robert Hudson as Thomas Kennedy, Clara Joel as Eleanor Ainsworth, Della Johnson as Mandy, Jack Raffael as Judge McLean, H. Reeves Smith as Jim Loundsbury, Emily Stevens as Jean Thornton, and Ethel Winthrop as Mrs. Thornton. In closed in March 1943 after 40 performances.
The Squab Farm
A satire of the motion-picture industry compares a film studio to a barnyard, while a director searches for an actress to play Eve.
The Squall
This synopsis was compiled from contemporaneous newspaper reviews. The Mendez family, their servants and retainers, are a content group living on their land in the village of Queano, near Granada. During a squall, a fearful Gypsy girl seeks refuge with the family. Her name is Nubi, and she is being pursued by a large fierce-looking Gypsy called El Moro. He is chieftain of her family group and wants to take her back to them, but the Mendez family hides her and claims she went elsewhere. Nubi persuades Delores Mendez to let her stay. She is striking looking, with curly black hair and large gold hoop earrings, which seem to bedazzle Juan Mendez, and Pedro the hired hand. As a servant, she soon proves worthless. She stands about, hands on hips, bewitching the men and urging them on with promises. She drives a wedge between Pedro and Manuella, while bewitching Juan, and even tempting José. She is causing gossip among the village folk with her wanton behavior. Delores is at a loss what to do. If she throws Nubi out, the men might follow her. Delores prays to the Virgin Mary for help, but is appalled to see Juan come out of Nubi's bedroom in the morning. He has given Nubi a valuable necklace for her favors. But El Moro returns, having been secretly summoned by Delores, carrying a large whip. This time the family yields up Nubi when he tells them she deserted her husband and baby. He drags her off by her hair, and the Mendez family tries to regain their previous contentment.
The Square Ring
The Square Ring is a 1952 play by Ralph Peterson. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Brighton before transferring to the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith where it ran for 39 performances between 21 October and 22 November 1952. The Lyric cast featured Liam Redmond, John Moffatt, Rex Garner, Ronald Lewis, Bill Owen, John Colicos, Bill Travers, George Rose, Peter Bayliss, Duncan Lamont, Hugh Goldie and Harry Towb.
The Squatter's Daughter
In 1860s rural Australia, Violet Enderby loves Tom Bathurst, an overseer on her guardian's neighboring sheep station. The guardian's son arranges for bushranger Ben Hall to abduct Violet, while a visiting Englishman complicates the rivalry between the stations.
The Squatter's Son
An Australian bushranger melodrama about a squatter's son.
The Squaw Man
After taking blame for his cousin’s financial scandal, Captain James Wynnegate leaves England and settles in Montana as Jim Carson. He marries Nat-u-ritch, a Ute woman, and they have a son. When an English solicitor urges Jim to send the boy to inherit the Wynnegate estate, Nat-u-ritch fears separation; after she is threatened with arrest, she dies by suicide, and Jim returns to England with their son.
The Squire of Alsatia
The Squire of Alsatia is a 1688 comedy play by the English writer Thomas Shadwell. Alsatia was a nickname for the Whitefriars area of London, deriving from Alsace in northeastern France. A restoration comedy, it was performed at the Drury Lane Theatre by the United Company following John Crowne's Darius, King of Persia. One of the best-remembered roles, that of the shrewish Mrs. Termagant was first performed by Elizabeth Boutell. The play was revived numerous times during the eighteenth century. The original Drury Lane cast included Anthony Leigh as Sir William Belfond, Philip Griffin as Sir Edward Belfond, Thomas Jevon as Belford senior, William Mountfort as Belfont junior, John Bowman as Trueman, Samuel Sandford as Cheatly, George Powell as Shamwell, George Bright as Captain Hackum, Martin Powell as Attorney, John Freeman as Scrapeall, Cave Underhill as Lolpoop, John Verbruggen as Termagant, Frances Maria Knight as Teresia, Susanna Verbruggen as Isabella, Anne Bracegirdle as Lucia and Elizabeth Boutell as Mrs. Termagant.
The Stage Coach
The Stage Coach is a 1704 play by George Farquhar and Peter Motteux. A farce, it is based on the 1680 French play Les Carrosses d'Orléans by Jean de La Chapelle. It was staged at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London as an afterpiece to a revival of John Crowne's The Country Wit. The cast included Thomas Doggett as Nicodemus Somebody, Barton Booth as Captain Basil, George Pack as Fetch, John Freeman as Micher and Abigail Hunt as Dolly.
The Standard of Living
The Standard of Living is a play by James Graham, based on the life of the founding father of macroeconomics and Bloomsbury Group member John Maynard Keynes. Directed by Nicholas Hytner, the world premiere production of The Standard of Living is expected to open at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in September 2026.
The Staple of News
Uncle and nephew Pennyboy compete for wealthy Lady Pecunia while a disguised Pennyboy Cantor watches his family’s conduct. The nephew and his companions visit Cymbal’s News Staple, a satirical news agency, and devise a Canting College to expose the insider language used by special interests. After a villain’s scheme is thwarted and the miserly uncle is mocked into madness, repentance and reconciliation restore the household.
The Star Without a Name
A chance encounter at a provincial railway station brings Mona and Professor Miroiu into an unexpected romance.
The Star of Ethiopia
A large-scale historical pageant traces African and African American history through a prologue and five scenes, from ironworking and ancient African civilizations through slavery, resistance, and a vision of Black achievement.
The Star-Spangled Girl
Two radical roommates publish a struggling political magazine in San Francisco. When former Olympic swimmer Sophie moves next door, one falls for her and hires her to keep the magazine afloat; she instead falls for his friend, straining their friendship and publication.
The Star-Wagon
A fantasy of time-travel. The setting is manufacturing town in Eastern Ohio at what was the present time for the audience in the premiere, 1937. The setting then changes to thirty-five years back in time, 1905, and to a few years before that. Stephen Minch is an inventor and Martha Minch is his wife. A time travel machine is developed, the star-wagon. 1905 is the subsequent time for when the time travelers arrive in the same location, at the dawn of the automobile. The end result of the time traveling the world consist of what is to be, and that is just what happens.
The Starlight Express
In a Swiss mountain pension, the children of a troubled family befriend fantastical Sprites and seek stardust to help the worried adults. Through the children’s secret society and their journey to a star-cave, the adults are led toward sympathy, hope and a renewed sense of wonder.
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