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.
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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.
The Starter
When T.J. proposes to Georgia, she presses him about money and whether he can support their married life. Their romantic conversation becomes a negotiation over work and finances.
The State of Mississippi and the Face of Emmett Till
This docudrama chronicles Emmett Till's life and murder and the circumstances surrounding the crime.
The State of Siege
In Cádiz, a plague personified as a dictatorial officer seizes the city and imposes a rigid bureaucracy. Medical student Diego helps the sick and organizes resistance, while his fiancée Victoria is caught in the struggle. Diego ultimately chooses death rather than allow the plague to keep ruling, and the dictatorship collapses.
The Steamie
On Hogmanay in the early 1950s, women doing their laundry in a Glasgow public washhouse share stories and aspirations.
The Steel of Madrid
Belisa, a noblewoman promised to Octavio, uses steel water to feign illness and escape his attentions; she then meets and falls in love with the commoner Lisardo. To give Lisardo a chance to see her, his friend Reselo pretends to court Belisa's aunt, enraging Reselo's lover Marcela. After misunderstandings and trials, Belisa and Lisardo marry.
The Stepmother
The Stepmother or The Step-Mother is a 1663 tragicomedy by the English writer Robert Stapylton. It was first staged by the Duke's Company, premiering at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre. The original cast included Samuel Sandford as Sylvanus, Thomas Betterton as Filamor, John Young as Adolph, Cave Underhill as Tetrick, Joseph Price as Fromund, William Smith as Crispus, Matthew Medbourne as Capito, Mary Betterton as Caesarina, Moll Davis as Violinda and Jane Long as Brianella.
The Stepmother
When Eustace Gaydon’s late sister leaves her fortune to her orphaned companion Lois, he woos Lois before she learns she is wealthy. A decade into their unhappy marriage, Lois runs a dressmaking business while Eustace controls and mismanages the family finances; her affair with neighbor Peter is exposed when she seeks a dowry for her stepdaughter. Eustace confronts Peter and flees with what remains of Lois’s fortune.
The Steward of Christendom
In a 1932 Irish county home, former Dublin police chief Thomas Dunne moves between his deteriorated present and memories of his career, family, and the 1922 handover of Dublin Castle. The play's recollections culminate in the trauma following Michael Collins's death and the Irish Civil War.
The Still Alarm
A popular fireman melodrama remembered for its climactic spectacle of horse-drawn fire wagons rushing to a blaze.
The Stillborn Lover
Canadian diplomat Harry Raymond is interrogated over a young man's murder. As political leaders try to avoid scandal, Raymond's revelations about his sexuality and knowledge of their secrets threaten a minister's leadership ambitions.
The Stolen Heiress
The Stolen Heiress or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted is a 1702 comedy play by the English writer Susanna Centlivre. The original Lincoln's Inn cast included John Bowman as Governour, Thomas Griffith as Count Pirro, John Freeman as Gravello, William Fieldhouse as Larich, George Powell as Palante, Barton Booth as Eugenio, George Pack as Francisco, Thomas Dogget as Sancho, George Bright as Rosco and Elizabeth Barry as Lucasia.
The Stonemason
Over three years, the Telfair family faces personal and generational strain. Ben Telfair, a 32-year-old third-generation stonemason, narrates the family’s tribulations through monologues, including his decision to leave college and join the family trade.
The Storm
A five-act realistic drama and work of social criticism directed particularly at Russia’s merchant class. Its conflict centers on Katerina and her life within the Kabanov merchant household.
The Storm
A storm wrecks Labrax’s plans and gives two captive women an opportunity to escape. Seeking safety at Venus’s shrine, they turn to the elderly Daemones and his unruly slaves for help.
The Storming of the Winter Palace
This mass spectacle dramatizes the revolutions of 1917 through two opposing stages representing the Red and White forces. Workers organize and charge across the joined stages toward the Winter Palace, where the action ends with the Reds' victory signaled by cannon fire and fireworks.
The Story
Ambitious journalist Yvonne, frustrated by her assignment at a major newspaper, pursues a sensational murder case and fabricates a young Black girl’s confession. The false story brings acclaim before unraveling, exposing the effects of her deception on colleagues and the newsroom’s racial and ethical conflicts.
The Story I Am About to Tell
Set mostly in a crowded taxi travelling to a Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing, the play centers on three survivors’ testimonies: a mother whose son was killed by a booby-trapped Walkman, a man who spent three years on death row for a crime he did not commit, and a woman raped by security police. Three professional actors supplement the witnesses, who perform their own accounts.
The Story of Monsieur Jourdan, a Botanist, and the Dervish Mastalishah, a Famous Sorcerer
In Karabakh, French botanist Monsieur Jourdan’s stories of Paris inspire Shahbaz, nephew of the local ruler, to travel there to study. Shahbaz’s fiancée and aunt oppose the plan and pay the dervish Mastali to destroy Paris by sorcery. When news of revolution and the king’s flight reaches the household, the women believe Mastali’s spell worked, but Shahbaz stays behind.
The Story of the Man Who Turned into a Dog
A jobless man reluctantly becomes a watchdog after the previous dog dies, living in a doghouse and eating dog food for a dollar a day. As he is denied other work and his family is strained, he gradually loses human behavior and speech until he can only bark, exposing the dehumanizing pressures of labor and social exclusion.
The Strangest Kind of Romance
At a boardinghouse, a troubled new tenant known as Little Man develops an unusual attachment to Nitchevo, a cat belonging to the previous tenant.
The Straw
At a tuberculosis sanatorium, young Eileen Carmody falls in love with writer Stephen Murray while helping him pursue his career. As her illness worsens and his improves, he leaves without returning her love; months later he pretends to love her to give her hope, then realizes his feelings are genuine.
The Strike
During the Korean War, Major Gaylord must decide whether to authorize an air strike that could kill a missing 20-man patrol but protect the 500 soldiers under his command.
The Strong Breed
In a village that chooses an outsider as an annual scapegoat, Eman takes the role to spare Ifada, a mute boy, from exile and violence. As the community pursues him, Eman's memories of his own family history and the carrier tradition culminate in his death.
The Stronger
Two actresses—one married and one unmarried—meet in a café. The married woman speaks while the other remains silent, and their reactions and the unseen husband’s presence reveal a psychological contest whose outcome remains uncertain.
The Students of Salamanca
The Students of Salamanca is an 1813 comedy play by the British writer Robert Francis Jameson. It was first performed at the Covent Garden Theatre in London. The original cast included John Fawcett and Maria Theresa Kemble.
The Subject Was Roses
Timmy Cleary returns home from his service during World War II. While he seems to vindicate himself in his father's eyes for surviving the war, his drinking and cursing disturb his mother. Though his parents, John and Nettie, seem to be happy, the peace proves to be a façade. Soon old emotional wounds and unresolved marital problems resurface. Caught in the middle, Timmy feels responsible for their squabbling, but can see no way to resolve their problems.
The Substance of Fire
Holocaust survivor and publisher Isaac Geldhart plans to issue a scholarly six-volume work on Nazi medical experiments despite his insolvent company. His three children, all shareholders, want a commercial bestseller to keep the business afloat, forcing a conflict between family and principle.
The Successful Pyrate
In the play, Avery goes under the name Arviragus, and has made himself a king in Madagascar. He captures the Indian princess Zaida and tries to force her to marry him, but she is in love with a young man named Aranes. There is an offstage fight and Aranes is reported killed; meanwhile, De Sale, who has confided to the audience that he plots to overthrow Arviragus and make himself king, ingratiates himself with Zaida. De Sale's fellow plotters are bumbling incompetents and their plans are easily thwarted, followed by a comic trial scene. It is revealed that Aranes is Arviragus' long lost son, whom he recognizes from a bracelet, and that he is still alive, his friend Alvarez having died in his place. The plotters are executed and Aranes and Zaida marry.
The Successful Strangers
The Successful Strangers is a 1690 tragicomedy by the English writer William Mountfort. The original Drury Lane cast included Joseph Williams as Don Carlos, George Powell as Antonio, William Mountfort as Silvio, James Nokes as Don Lopez, Anthony Leigh as Don Francisco, George Bright as Don Pedro, Cave Underhill as Guzman, William Bowen as Sancho, Frances Maria Knight as Dorothea, Susanna Mountfort as Feliciana and Anne Bracegirdle as Biancha.
The Sugar Syndrome
Seventeen-year-old Dani, recently returned from treatment for an eating disorder, poses online as an eleven-year-old boy and befriends Tim, a man in his thirties with a history of abusing boys. When lonely Lewis threatens to expose Tim, Dani discovers disturbing evidence on his laptop, forcing the characters toward a harrowing reckoning.
The Suicide
A young, unemployed man, Semyon, believes the answer to his problems is to learn to play the tuba. However, his plan fails and he contemplates suicide. Because he is committing suicide he is able to write anything in his suicide letter without fear of reprisal from the government. His neighbour: Alexander Petrovich, decides to make money from Semyon's misery by selling space in his intended suicide note to several bidders. These bidders plan to use Semyon's suicide note to further and advertise their own individual causes. The Intelligentsia, represented by Aristarkh, is the first to approach him and is followed by others representing the Proletariat, the business world, the arts, etc.
The Sullen Lovers
The Sullen Lovers; Or, The Impertinents is a 1668 comedy play by the English writer Thomas Shadwell, inspired by Molière's Les Fâcheux. It was staged by the Duke's Company at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London. The cast included Henry Harris as Sir Positive At-All, James Nokes as Poet Ninny, William Smith as Standford and Edward Angel as Woodcock and Anne Shadwell as Emelia.
The Sultaness
The Sultaness is a 1717 tragedy by the British writer Charles Johnson. It is a reworking of the 1672 French play Bajazet by Jean Racine set in the Ottoman Empire. In common with early eighteenth century plays it places much greater emphasis on the emotional anguish of its female characters than Racine's original. Like other plays set in Ottoman courts there may have been subtle parallels with contemporary British politics, particularly the divisions between George I and his son George, Prince of Wales. More strongly the play references the ongoing Austro-Turkish War and the role of Prince Eugene of Savoy who later that year won a major victory at the Siege of Belgrade. The original cast included Barton Booth as Bajazet, Mary Porter as Roxana, Anne Oldfield as Atalida, John Mills as Acomat and Lacy Ryan as Osmyn. Johnson used the preface of the play to attack the recent comedy Three Hours After Marriage by John Gay and Alexander Pope, provoking a long-standing rivalry. In 1720 it was followed at Drury Lane by another oriental-set drama The Siege of Damascus by John Hughes, which took a more original approach.
The Sum of Us
Widower Harry and his gay son Jeff support each other in their searches for partners. Jeff's relationship with Greg is strained by Greg's homophobic father, while Harry pursues a woman he has met through video dating. After Harry suffers a stroke, Jeff cares for him and reconnects with Greg.
The Summerland Project
After newlywed Amelia Summerland suffers an aneurysm and becomes locked-in, a corporation asks her husband Carter to let it copy her memories and personality into an android body.
The Sun in Aries
A civic pageant celebrates the mercantile values of London through tableaux of Honour and the Drapers' patrons, a Tower of Virtue guarded by personified virtues, a figure whose fortunes were restored by English monarchs, and Phoebus Apollo among the zodiac and wool-bearing sheep. Aries prophesies that the sun will bring gladness to Barkham, and Fame concludes the event.
The Sun's Darling
Raybright, the Sun's child, is given a year to experience earthly pleasures across the four seasons. Led astray by Humor and Folly, he fails to find satisfaction until the Sun warns him to resist them and seek harmony.
The Sunken Bell
Heinrich, a bellfounder, loses his newly completed bell when sprites overturn its wagon and it sinks in a mountain lake. Nursed by the half-child, half-fairy Rautendelein, he falls in love with her, abandoning his old standards and bringing about his wife's death.
The Sunny South
After Matt Morley is swindled out of his inheritance, he leaves England for Australia and finds a gold nugget. Bushrangers led by Dick Duggan attempt to rob the bank where he stores it, but Morley foils them. Duggan later abducts Morley's adopted daughter Babs, who is rescued; Morley and Babs marry, and he regains his English estate.
The Sunset Limited
In Black's apartment, an evangelical ex-convict and an atheist professor debate God, human suffering, and the professor's attempted suicide after Black saves him from a train.
The Sunshine Boys
The play's protagonists are Al Lewis and Willie Clark. Lewis and Clark were once a successful vaudevillian comedy duo known as the Sunshine Boys. During the later years of their 43-year run, animosity between the partners grew to the point where they ceased to speak with each other. Eleven years prior to the events of the play, Al retired from show business, leaving Willie struggling to keep his career afloat. Willie, now an old man struggling with memory loss, reluctantly accepts an offer from his nephew Ben, a talent agent, to reunite with Al for a CBS special on the history of comedy. Willie and Al meet in Willie's apartment to rehearse their classic doctor and tax collector sketch. The reunion gets off to a bad start, with the two getting into heated arguments over various aspects of the performance. However, thanks to the urging of Al's daughter, the two decide to go through with the performance. Willie and Al's dress rehearsal at CBS' studio is derailed by Al's aggressive habit of poking Willie's chest with his index finger and spitting at him every time he says a word that has a "T" in it. One of the running gags in "The Sunshine Boys" involves Willie's resentment over having been constantly poked in the chest by his partner's all‐too‐emphatic forefinger in the course of their countless routines on stage. Willie cries, "I had a black and blue hole in my chest. He gave me the finger for 43 years!" As Al walks off the stage in regret, Willie has a heart attack as a result of his agitated state. Two weeks later, Willie is recovering under the care of a nurse. Upon Ben's recommendation, he decides to move into an actors' retirement home in New Jersey. Al, concerned about Willie's well-being, makes a visit. When the two talk, it is revealed that Al will be moving into the same home as Willie. Neil Simon was inspired by two venerable vaudeville teams. The longevity of "Lewis and Clark" was inspired by Smith and Dale who, unlike their theatrical counterparts, were inseparable lifelong friends. The undercurrent of backstage hostility between "Lewis and Clark" was inspired by the team of Gallagher and Shean, who were successful professionally but argumentative personally. Other sources say this is based on Weber and Fields.
The Suppliants
The Danaid sisters flee forced marriages to their Egyptian cousins and seek refuge at a sanctuary in Argos. King Pelasgus fears both offending Zeus by rejecting them and provoking war by protecting them, so he puts the question to the people, who vote to shelter them. An Egyptian herald arrives to reclaim the women, but Pelasgus drives him away and the Danaids end the play safely inside Argos.
The Suppliants
Mothers of Argive warriors killed outside Thebes seek burial for their sons, whose bodies Creon has forbidden them to recover. Theseus leads Athens against Thebes to reclaim the dead; after victory, the play ends with funeral rites, Evadne's suicide and Athena's prophecy of future vengeance.
The Surrender of Calais
The Surrender of Calais is a 1791 historical play by the British playwright George Colman the Younger with elements of tragedy and comedy. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 30 July 1791. The original cast included James Brown Williamson as King Edward, George Bland as Harcourt, Howard Usher as Sir William Manny, John Bannister as La Gloire, John Powell as Arundel, James Aickin as John de Vienne, William Farren as Ribaumont, Robert Bensley as St. Pierre, John Henry Johnstone as O'Carroll, Henry Erskine Johnston as Old Man, Elizabeth Kemble as Julia, Maria Bland as Madelon and Charlotte Goodall as the Queen. It is set against the backdrop of the Siege of Calais (1346–47) by Edward III during the Hundred Years War. The music was composed by Samuel Arnold. It was the most popular work of the season at the Haymarket. It premiered in Ireland at Dublin's Crow Street Theatre on 23 November 1791. It was revived at various theatres on a number of occasions.
The Surrogate
As their surrogate is hospitalized with complications, Jake and Sameer face a night of uncertainty about their first child. Personal loyalties collide with questions about consent, privilege, and who defines a family.
The Survivors
After the American Civil War, two Missouri cattlemen return to a longstanding family feud over access to water. Suspicions of betrayal during the war push them toward a duel as relatives and friends try to prevent further bloodshed.
The Suspicious Husband
The Suspicious Husband is a 1747 comedy play by the British writer Benjamin Hoadly. It premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre in February 1747. The original cast included David Garrick as Ranger, Roger Bridgewater as Strictland, Lacy Ryan as Frankly, William Havard as Bellamy, Henry Woodward as Jack Meggot, Hannah Pritchard as Clarinda, Elizabeth Vincent as Jacintha and Jane Hippisley as Lucetta.
The Swan
The source for this synopsis is a translation of The Swan made by Benjamin Glazer and published in 1922, while the translation used for the Broadway production was by Melville Baker. One scholar has pointed out while both men adapted multiple Hungarian plays into English, that Baker had been known to work from a French translation, and that such French adaptations were often made from Molnár's own translations of the original Hungarian into German. Act I (Pavilion by the rose garden of Princess Beatrice's Castle. Afternoon.) Dr. Agi has finished a lesson on Napoleon for Princes George and Arsene, who remind their tutor of their mother's antipathy for the Usurper. Princess Beatrice and the boy's uncle, Father Hyacinth, speak with the tutor. Hyacinth is impressed with the tutor's knowledge and athleticism, as he also instructs the boys in rowing and fencing. Princess Alexandra comes in from her daily ride, and Father Hyancinth perceives Agi's suppressed feelings for her. Symphorosa continually updates Princess Beatrice about the castle's guest, Prince Albert, who is still sleeping. Beatrice tells Father Hyancinth about her plans for Alexandra and Albert, and how the Prince so far has seemed indifferent to her. Albert now appears, trailed by his attendants. He too is impressed with Dr. Agi, especially his knowledge of astronomy. While Agi leads the boys away to don their fencing gear, Beatrice suggests Albert may wish to inspect Alexandra's rose garden. But Albert is distracted by Col Wunderlich's talk of a modern dairy farm, and sets off with him and Count Luzen to inspect it. Beatrice is now anguished, for the Prince is scheduled to leave tomorrow. She determines to precipitate his jealousy by having Alexandra invite the tutor to attend that night's ball. Father Hyacinth is alarmed, thinking the scheme unwise and unfair to the tutor. Beatrice is adamant; nothing is more important than the family regaining influence. Alexandra is frozen-faced as she grasps what her mother is asking her to do. But she obeys, and the startled Agi is suffused with unexpected emotion as he realizes the Princess Alexandra is asking him personally to attend the ball. (Curtain) Act II (Reception room of the castle, that evening.) Caesar instructs Alfred on how to serve the private dinner following the public ball. Beatrice hears from Caesar that all courses will be cold, as Prince Albert prefers. Beatrice asks she be served hot tea instead of the cold consommé the others will get. Her nerves are stretched taut, both over the uncertainty of the scheme and the local notables seeing Alexandra associate with the tutor in the ballroom. Princess Alexandra enters, followed closely by Dr. Agi, talking to her of astronomy. She gently chides him for his constant attention, confusing him. Prince Albert and the others come in for the dinner party. Albert tells Beatrice that he has telegraphed his mother, Princess Maria Dominica, to come at once to the castle. Beatrice is overjoyed, for it means the Prince will propose to Alexandra through his formidable mother. It is clear Albert is now aware of Alexandra as a woman, for he begins to patronize the tutor in conversation. Agi, who has never tasted wine nor dined with aristocracy, empties his glass of Tokay in one gulp. To cover up the faux pas, Alexandra does the same. The effects of the heady vintage hit Agi hard, and he soon rises to the bait of Albert's patronizing tone, responding with words that verge on insult. Albert admires Agi's frankness, but his temper is clearly slipping. Beatrice, seeing victory vanishing, becomes overwrought and falls ill. Albert takes her to her room, followed by many others. Agi and Alexandra are left behind with Father Hyancinth, who tries to advise them. Agi knows his position has been lost, but felt intolerably put upon. Albert returns with his attendants; no longer in a mood for tolerance, he berates Agi. Alexandra, in sympathy with Agi's hopeless position, suddenly kisses him. At once, everyone's mood changes; Albert apologises to Agi and withdraws. (Curtain) Act III (Drawing room of the castle, the next morning.) Beatrice encounters Father Hyacinth. She is agitated, both by Alexandra's late night confession to her, and the imminent arrival of Albert's mother by motorcar. Hyacinth reminds her of his warning about trifling with the tutor's emotions. She sends for the tutor but learns he is already packing to go. She goes to greet Princess Maria, as Alexandra enters. When Agi arrives she confesses the scheme to him, but he has already guessed. He will still leave despite her plea to stay, for what was intolerable to him was her kiss, which was plainly from sympathy not affection. Her brothers now come to say good-bye to their tutor. He departs the room with them, as Maria and Beatrice enter. Maria has not yet spoken with her son, so Father Hyacinth informs her of the previous night's doing, in such a way as to secure her sympathy for Alexandra. But it proves unnecessary, for Albert too has interpreted the kiss as did Agi, and still wants to marry Alexandra. He assures Alexandra that their marriage will be one in which love will come in time. (Curtain)
The Sweepers
The Sweepers is a two-act play written by John C. Picardi. A dramatic comedy set in the Italian-American neighborhood of North End, Boston, the play centers around the lives of three women towards the end of World War II. The Sweepers premiered Off-Broadway at the Urban Stages theater in New York in 2002, where it was directed by Frances Hill. In his review of the original production, Lawrence Van Gelder of The New York Times complimented the cast, production values and Picardi's writing, which Van Gelder felt "renders his characters timeless." including a West Coast premiere at the International City Theater in 2008.
The Swisser
In seventh-century Lombardy, the mercenary Andrucho—actually the banished noble Aribert—comments on court politics as Arioldus returns to command the army. The king’s assault on captive Eurinia sparks a conflict over loyalty and justice, while a deception over a sleeping potion nearly destroys two secretly married young lovers; revelations and arranged marriages restore a tragicomic order.
The Sword Sung
Catherine Duncan's verse drama expresses resentment at war's horrors through a morally pointed antiwar treatment.
The Sword of Peace
Two sisters Eliza and Louisa Moreton travel out to British India in search of husbands.
The Syringa Tree
Through the perspective of a young white girl, Elizabeth Grace, this solo memory play spans four generations of an apartheid-era South African community and the relationships between a white family and their Black nanny, Salamina.
The Tale of Fedot the Strelets
When the Tsar orders his royal hunter Fedot to bring impossible items to court, Fedot’s wife Marusya uses magic to save him. After the Tsar tries to take Marusya and gives Fedot an impossible final quest, the hunter finds a powerful spirit and returns to lead a popular uprising against the Tsar, General and Baba Yaga.
The Tale of a Tiger
During China's Long March, a wounded revolutionary soldier is abandoned by his comrades and hides in a cave, expecting to die. A tigress and her cub find him; she nurses him back to health, and the play recounts their comic domestic life together.
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife
Upper West Side matron Marjorie Taub, dissatisfied with her cultural pursuits and stung by her mother’s criticism and her husband’s devotion to homeless people, retreats into a midlife crisis. Her flamboyant childhood friend Lee unexpectedly settles into the Taub home, drawing Marjorie out of depression while affecting her marriage.
The Talents
A Middle English cycle drama featuring a boastful speech by Pontius Pilate, who invokes his dominion and threatens those who oppose him. The passage uses macaronic English-Latin verse.
The Taming of the Shrew
In a play performed as a diversion for the drunken tinker Christopher Sly, Petruchio courts and marries Katherina, a headstrong woman, then uses deprivation and contradiction to compel her compliance. Meanwhile, Bianca's suitors pursue her through disguises and competing offers. At the end, Katherina is the only new wife to answer her husband's call, and Petruchio wins a wager on obedience.
The Tatty Hollow Story
Five men and a psychiatrist gather after seeing graffiti about Tatty Hollow, a former lover each had believed dead. Their clashing memories unfold in overlapping scenes as the glamorous, elusive Tatty appears in their stories and finally as a homeless woman beyond their fantasies.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
In the aftermath of World War II, the island of Okinawa was occupied by the American military. Captain Fisby, a young army officer, is transferred to a tiny Okinawa island town called Tobiki by his commanding officer, Colonel Purdy. Fisby is tasked with the job of implementing "Plan B". The plan calls for teaching the natives all things American and the first step for Capt. Fisby is to establish a democratically elected mayor, chief of agriculture, chief of police, and president of the Ladies League for Democratic Action. Plan "B" also calls for the building of a schoolhouse (Pentagon shaped), democracy lessons, and establishing capitalism through means left up to the good captain's judgment. A local Tobiki native, Sakini by name, is assigned to act as Fisby's interpreter. Sakini, a Puck-like character, attempts to acquaint Fisby with the local customs as well as guide the audiences through the play, providing both historical and cultural framework through his asides and monologues. After receiving many gifts from the villagers, including a geisha named Lotus Blossom, Fisby tries to find local products on which to build his capitalist endeavor. He is discouraged when the villagers can not find a market for their handmade products, items like geta (wooden sandals), lacquered bowls, cricket cages, and casas (straw hats). He is also frustrated when the newly elected democratic government votes to build a teahouse (ochaya) for Lotus Blossom with the building supplies designated for his Pentagon-shaped school. Through the villagers, Captain Fisby starts to see the beauty of preserving their culture and a slower way of life. He agrees to build the teahouse and even lands on a moneymaking product – sweet potato brandy. Soon the Cooperative Brewing Company of Tobiki is churning out liquor by the gallon and selling it to all the neighboring military bases. The gala opening of the teahouse is the moment when Colonel Purdy decides to make his progress inspection and finds Captain Fisby serenading the villagers in his bathrobe with a rendition of "Deep in the Heart of Texas". He is in danger of court martial and reprimanded for misusing government supplies, selling liquor and "not turning the villagers into Americans fast enough". Col. Purdy orders the destruction of all the stills and the teahouse. Sakini and the villagers outsmart the colonel and only pretend to destroy everything, instead hiding everything "quick as the dickens". Their foresight proves fortuitous when Purdy learns that Congress is about to use Tobiki as a model for the success of Plan B. The villagers rebuild the teahouse on stage, and even offer a cup to Col. Purdy in a gesture of goodwill. Like all great comedies, in the end, all is forgiven. The village returns to the rich life they once knew (plus a teahouse, export industry, and geishas), Fisby is touted a hero, and Purdy, we hope will get a brigadier general's star for his wife Grace after all. Set in the time-frame of the aftermath of World War II and U.S. occupation of the Japanese islands, Teahouse of the August Moon is a comedy whose laughs come from the inability of the American characters to understand Tobiki culture and tradition. However, it is not just a story of culture clash. Through the character of Fisby, we see acceptance and the beauty of making peace with oneself somewhere between ambition and limitations. We also learn, like Fisby, that sometimes the better life is had by taking a "step backward in the right direction".
The Temperamental Journey
The play was never published; this synopsis is compiled from contemporaneous newspaper and magazine reviews. Act I (Front patio of the Italian Inn, late afternoon.) Jacques Dupont is discouraged when Dorval, who has purchased some of his prior works at very low prices, decides not to buy any more. His supposed friend Vernon Neil urges him to paint in a more popular style, but Jacques refuses to compromise. Maria Tamburri momentarily lifts his spirits when she gives him $285 from "a gentleman in a motor car" who bought two of his paintings. But Billy Shepherd accidentally reveals there was no sale; Maria gave Jacques her savings and the two paintings are in her room. Jacques gives Maria her money back but tells her to keep the pictures. Hungry, he goes to eat his supper at the inn, but finds that Delphine has already eaten both dinners. She nags him about his inability to sell canvases, comparing him unfavorably to Neil. Depressed, with evening dark approaching, Jacques wanders down to the pier where he leaves his hat and coat, the latter with a suicide note in it. He walks off the pier into the water. (Curtain) Act II (The Greenwich Village studio shared by Dupont and Shepherd, two weeks later.) A body having been found, Delphine has identified it as her husband. Now that he is dead, public opinion on Jacques Dupont's work has reversed. His paintings are esteemed and command high prices. Dorval now regrets not buying the last two works offered him, but Maria refuses to sell them. Billy Shepherd is too sorrowful to attend the funeral, so Fanny Lamont will go instead. The funeral cortège includes an art museum director and other notables. A wreath with the message "Rest in Peace" is in the studio. Delphine asks Fanny to have the florist add a postscript: "Until I Come". Left alone in the studio at last, Billy is surprised to hear someone come in from the bath: It is Jacques! Dupont explains that once in the water he started swimming and couldn't stop. A passing yacht rescued him on its way to Halifax, Nova Scotia. It took Jacques two weeks to make his return to Manhattan. As Billy and Jacques watch the funeral from the studio window, Jacques wants to reveal himself. But when he sees his widow embracing Neil, he decides to stay "dead". He leaves for France instead. (Curtain) Act III (The drawing room of the Shepherd's new home, three years later.) Billy having made a success with composing music, he and Fanny have married and bought a house in Manhattan. Wearing a disguise and calling himself "M. Lenoire", an art collector, Jacques has brought thirty original Dupont canvases to America. He visits the Shepherds, who previously alerted, have assembled some wealthy art patrons to view them, and invited Maria. However, Delphine and her new husband Neil crash the private showing. She has six of Neil's paintings upon which she has forged Dupont's signature. Outraged, Jacques reveals himself, and chaos ensues. The practical Fanny and calm Billy broker a peace agreement: Jacques and Delphine will get a quiet divorce, he will give her some money, then he and Maria will marry and return to France. (Curtain)
The Temperamentals
The Temperamentals is a 2009 play by Jon Marans. It chronicles the founding of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained LGBT rights organization in the United States, and the love affair of two of its founding members, Harry Hay (Thomas Jay Ryan) and Rudi Gernreich (Michael Urie). The title is drawn from the early-20th Century usage of the word "temperamental" as slang for "homosexual". After premiering at The Barrow Group Studio Theater in April 2009, the play began previews off-Broadway at New World Stages on February 18, 2010 and premiered February 28. Producers Darryl Roth and Stacy Shane announced that The Temperamentals would close May 30.
The Tempest
Twelve years after his brother Antonio usurped his dukedom, Prospero conjures a storm that strands Antonio, King Alonso and their companions on the island where he lives with Miranda, Ariel and Caliban. Prospero uses magic to test the shipwrecked group: Ferdinand falls in love with Miranda, while Antonio and Sebastian plot against Alonso and Caliban conspires with the drunken Stephano and jester Trinculo. Prospero abandons revenge, forgives his enemies, regains Milan, frees Ariel and prepares to leave the island with Miranda and Ferdinand.
The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island
Dryden and D'Avenant adapt Shakespeare's The Tempest, retaining much of its verse while changing its language and adding characters. Prospero's daughter Dorinda and Ariel's girlfriend Milcha expand the island's relationships, including a parallel romance between Dorinda and Hippolito.
The Temple Beau
Young law student Wilding abandons his studies for pleasure and courts Bellaria for her money. Other men also pursue her, while her aunts urge opposing views of propriety; the comedy exposes hypocrisy and ends with Veromil marrying Bellaria while Wilding remains unmarried.
The Tender Trap
Charlie Reader lives in a terrace apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, overlooking the Queensboro Bridge. He is a bachelor, a transplant from the Midwest, who has no need to go out and find female companionship... they come to him. At 6pm on a Saturday evening he is necking with one Poppy Matson on his living room couch, when old buddy Joe McCall shows up unexpectedly. McCall is a chemist who has invented a pill to cure the common cold. He's come to visit Charlie to get ideas about testing and marketing it. Charlie welcomes him and introduces Poppy, and later his other girl friends. Joe is astonished at how the girls show up to clean Charlie's apartment, cook him meals, and bring him gifts like fish and cheese. Poppy, Jessica, and Sylvia have good careers but are feeling the urge to get married now that they are in their early thirties. The fourth and youngest girl friend, Julie Gillis, is equally in pursuit of Charlie but won't fall in line with his suggestions. The constant parade of femininity affects Joe, who up till now had entertained no stray thoughts about his marriage. He begins gravitating towards Sylvia, while Charlie finds himself more and more intrigued with Julie. Earl Lindquist finds Joe's pills are worthless, so there's no longer a reason for him to stay, but Charlie, under the press of unexpected competition blurts out a proposal to Sylvia. Aghast, he realizes the only thing to do is proposed to Julie as well. Joe, trying to stave off his return to wife and family, makes a half-hearted play for Sylvia. She forcefully reminds him about his wife, and decides Charlie isn't for her either, and so walks out on both men. Julie, however, has no intention of letting pride get between her and Charlie, and so the play ends with their engagement.
The Tenth Man
In a small Long Island synagogue, elderly Russian Jewish men gather the ten adults required for a minyan to exorcise a dybbuk possessing a member’s granddaughter. They enlist a hungover young man who falls in love with her as the progressive rabbi agrees to lead the ritual.
The Terror
The Terror is a 1927 mystery thriller play by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It is based on Wallace's 1926 novel The Black Abbot. It premiered at the Winter Gardens Theatre in New Brighton, before beginning a run of 246 performances at the Lyceum Theatre in the West End. The original cast included John Turnbull, Felix Aylmer, Franklyn Bellamy, Dennis Neilson-Terry, Carol Reed and Mary Glynne.
The Testament of Mary
Mary recounts her son’s crucifixion and questions the meaning of his death and divinity. The solo monologue presents her as a human mother trying to make sense of her son’s execution.
The Thanksgiving Play
Four well-meaning white theater artists try to create a culturally sensitive First Thanksgiving play for schools. Their rehearsal reveals the contradictions in seeking historical accuracy and respectful Native representation without consulting Native people, while exposing their own biases and performative activism.
The Thirteenth Chair
Act I (The Italian room of the Crosby mansion, New York City, evening.) The play opens just after dinner has finished and the guests are coming into the Italian room. Mrs. Crosby assures Will and Nell everyone is already aware of their impending marriage, but Edward Wales won't congratulate them. He has reason, he tells an upset Will. As the other guests stroll in, Pollock announces the arrival of Rosalie La Grange. Though baited by Miss Eastwood, Rosalie holds her own, disclosing how other mediums do their tricks, and promising tonight will be straight. Helen O'Neill and Rosalie have a brief aside, in which only the audience learns they are daughter and mother. Chairs are placed in a circle for the seance. Crosby has Pollock lock all the doors from the outside. As they sit, Miss Erskine observes they are thirteen. Rosalie is tied hands and ankles to her chair. The lights are turned out; Rosalie moans and speaks in the voice of a little girl. She says Spencer Lee wants Ned to ask who killed him. Edward Wales does, but before an answer comes he shrieks and collapses forward. The light is turned on, and the circle broken. Crosby orders Pollock, standing just outside the room, to phone the police and keep the doors locked until they arrive. (Curtain) Act II (Same, 10 minutes later.) Edward's body has been moved to a settee and covered with a drape. Rosalie is still tied in chair. Inspector Donohue and Sgt. Dunn arrive and are briefed by Mr. Crosby, with pointed interjections by both Miss Eastwood and Rosalie. The settee with the body is taken to another room. Rosalie helps rearrange the guests around the chairs in the order they were during the murder, but she tries to place her daughter Helen away from where Wales sat. Donohue traps Helen O'Neill into confessing her relationship to Rosalie. As no knife has been discovered, Donohue summons Mrs. MacPherson to search the ladies while Sgt. Dunn searches the men, to no avail. (Curtain) Act III (Same, 30 minutes later.) Inspector Donahue now reveals Helen O'Neill's fingerprints match those on items in Spencer Lee's room. Rosalie insists Nell is innocent, and persuades her to reveal who she is protecting. Nell says Helen Trent asked her to recover letters she wrote to Spencer. But Helen Trent flatly denies it, startling Helen O'Neill. Donohue is set to arrest Nell, but Rosalie asks him for time to expose the real murderer. Summoning everyone back to the room, Rosalie goes into a trance. Suddenly the voice of Edward Wales is heard, proclaiming the last to enter is the killer. As that person steps into the room, the knife falls at their feet from where it had been thrown into the ceiling. The murderer then confesses to both crimes. As Dunn removes them, Donohue shakes Rosalie's hand. (Curtain)
The Thracian Wonder
Princess Ariadne and her husband Radagon are cast adrift by her father Pheander, who falsely believes she is unchaste. Separated and living among shepherds under assumed identities, the couple and their grown son Eusanius fail to recognize one another as royal conflicts lead to battle. Their identities are revealed before father and son kill each other, restoring peace and uniting the three couples.
The Three Ladies of London
In an allegorical morality comedy, Lady Lucre and her allies of fraud and usury corrupt London, subduing Love and Conscience. The honest Jewish lender Gerontius contrasts with the Christian merchant who defaults, before Judge Nicholas Nemo attempts to restore order.
The Three Per Cents
The Three Per Cents is an 1803 comedy play by the British writer Frederick Reynolds. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 12 November 1803. The original cast included George Frederick Cooke as Sandy McTack, John Fawcett as George McTack, Joseph Shepherd Munden as Sir Peter Presser, Charles Kemble as Colonel Dorimant, Charles Murray as Major Seymour, Samuel Simmons as Pallet, Charles Farley as Witling, Maria Gibbs as Lady Delamere and Harriet Siddons as Rosalie. The title refers to consols, a form of financial investment in the British national debt which returned three percent interest.
The Three Strangers
The Three Strangers is an 1825 stage melodrama by the British writer Harriet Lee. It was based on one of her own works, Kruitzner, co-written as part of The Canterbury Tales with her sister Sophia. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 10 December 1825. The cast included James Prescott Warde as Kruitzner, Daniel Egerton as Baron Stralenheim, Charles Kemble as Conrad, John Cooper as the Hungarian, George Bartley as Idenstein, William Blanchard as the Intendant, William Claremont as Weilberg, William Chapman as Herman, Louisa Chatterley as Josephine and Julia Glover as Mrs Weilberg. A relative disappointment, the play was performed four times and Lee retired after this.
The Three and the Deuce
The Three and the Deuce is a 1795 English afterpiece with libretto by Prince Hoare and music by Stephen Storace. It was first performed at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 2 September 1795. It was later revived at Drury Lane, and "with great success" by Robert William Elliston. Some sources suggest it was originally not very popular but grew into a very favorably received piece. The piece was known for having one actor play three different roles, the three "Singles". One song in the piece. "Little Taffline", is referenced in the Dickens' novel David Copperfield. The Memoirs of John Bannister published in 1839, provide this summary of the play: Toward the close of the season, (2nd September,) "The Three and the Deuce," a new comedy by Prince Hoare, called forth Bannister's versatile powers. The author has placed in the same inn at Cheltenham three brothers, Pertinax, Peregrine, and Percival Single, not less alike than the Menaechmi of Plautus, or the Antipholises of Shakspeare, but very different in their propensities. Pertinax is studious, grave, sententious; Peregrine volatile, active, enterprising; while poor Percival, a mere idiot, is only permitted to leave home under the protection of an Irish tutor (God save the mark!) named Mac Floggum. Bannister played the three brothers, and preserved, with admirable fidelity, their separate identity. The mistakes and confusion which arise from each being seen separately, and mistaken for one of the others, form an amusing, and sometimes interesting entanglement. Grizzle, a servant of Pertinax, is driven almost beyond his senses at the unexpected sallies of his master; and, at last, Percival is rescued from the stern dominion of Mac Floggum, to undergo a more gentle captivity with Taffline, an interesting little Welsh girl, admirably played by Mrs. Bland. The piece was very favourably received; and Bannister, and, after him, Elliston, acquired great applause in the three Singles. The story was said in contemporary British sources to directly derive from the Spanish comedy Los Tres Mellizos popular in Madrid, though remodeled and made English by Hoare. Italian playwright Antonio Collalto wrote Tre gemelli veneziani (Three Venetian Twins) in 1773, which was inspired by The Venetian Twins (1747) by Carlo Goldoni, but to which the twins were made into triplets., The Collalto play was translated into French by P.-A. Lefèvre de Marcouville as Les Trois Jumeaux Vénitiens, and the Spanish translation upon which Hoare is said to have relied was Los Tres Mellizos.
The Ticket-of-Leave Man
A young man is framed with a forged banknote and imprisoned. After his release, a blackmailer pressures him to join a robbery, but a detective helps him expose the criminals and restore his reputation.
The Tiger and the Horse
A university professor weighing a petition to ban nuclear weapons also faces a chance at promotion to vice chancellor. His refusal to commit himself strains his marriage and family, until a crisis moves him to support his wife’s position at the cost of his academic prospects.
The Tiger and the Moustache
In a solo performance, Saikat Ahamed traces his mother Hashi's life from childhood in the Sundarbans to Britain: born on the day India declared independence, she grows up amid the 1947 Partition and later settles in 1970s Glasgow. The production uses time-jumping storytelling, physical theatre, and song.
The Time Is Not Yet Ripe
During an Australian election campaign, Prime Minister Sir Joseph Quiverton objects to the romance between his daughter Doris and Socialist candidate Sydney Barrett. Doris is drawn into the contest as a “Good Woman” candidate while Liberal and Socialist supporters air competing views; the couple reunite, but the political conflict remains unresolved.
The Time of Your Life
The play is set in Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace, a run-down dive bar in San Francisco. Much of the action of the play centers around Joe, a young loafer with money who encourages each of the bar's patrons in their eccentricities. Joe helps out a would-be dancer, Harry, and sets up his flunky, Tom, with a prostitute, Kitty Duval. The bar is frequented by a number of colorful characters, including a frenetic young man in love, an old man who looks like Kit Carson, and a wealthy society couple. Nick's saloon is based on the café operated by Izzy Gomez in San Francisco, which Saroyan frequented.
The Time of the Cuckoo
Leona Samish, a single American secretary vacationing in Venice, meets Renato Di Rossi, a shopkeeper trapped in a loveless marriage. Though initially shocked by the possibility of an affair, she gradually succumbs to his pursuit.
The Tinker's Wedding
Sarah persuades Michael Byrne to marry her and secures a priest's promise to perform the ceremony for ten shillings and a tin can. After Michael's mother steals the can, the priest refuses to marry them; the tinkers tie him in a sack, free him after his promise not to call the police, and flee under his curse.
The Ton
The Ton is a 1788 comedy play by the Scottish writer Eglantine Wallace. The title is a reference to the Ton, the fashionable social elite. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 8 April 1788. The original cast included Ralph Wewitzer as Lord Bonton, William Farren as Lord Raymond, Alexander Pope as Lord Ormond, Charles Lee Lewes as Captain Daffodil, John Henry Johnstone as MacPharo, Francis Aickin as Villiers, James Fearon as Truffly, John Quick as Ben Levy, Isabella Mattocks as Lady Bonton, Jane Pope as Lady Raymond, Ann Brunton as Lady Clairville, Mary Wells as Clara and Charlotte Morton as Mademoiselle.
The Torch-Bearers
The Torch-Bearers is a 1922 stage play by George Kelly about a housewife who becomes an actress (the original actress became a widow and withdrew) while her husband is away on business, with Act I being the rehearsal at their home, Act II is the show, and Act III is afterwards. The play is in the style of, as is the play within the play, of the Little Theatre Movement.
The Torrents
In a former gold-mining town, a young engineer proposes irrigation-based agriculture as the gold runs out. A new newspaper recruit, Jenny, is revealed to be a woman, challenging the all-male office as the town debates its future.
The Touch of Silk
A French girl marries a former Australian soldier after the First World War. The play was inspired by Betty Roland’s childhood.
The Touchstone
The Touchstone is an 1817 comedy play by the British writer James Kenney. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London on 3 May 1817. The original cast included Charles Holland as Finesse, James William Wallack as Garnish, John Pritt Harley as Paragon, William Dowton as Probe, William Oxberry as Croply, Frances Maria Kelly as Dinah Croply, Sarah Harlowe as Mrs. Fairweather and Frances Alsop as Miss Becky. Its Irish debut was at Dublin's Crow Street Theatre on 16 February 1818. The play was reviewed by William Hazlitt in A View of the English Stage. He wrote it "has been acted here with great success. It possesses much liveliness and pleasantry in the incidents, and the dialogue is neat and pointed" and considered "the character of Dinah Croply, which is admirably sustained by Miss Kelly, is the chief attraction of the piece".
The Tower
In 1850s Hobart, Sir Rodney Haviland’s stepdaughter Amy resents his young new wife and carries on an affair with ex-convict Marcus Knight. As Rodney seeks a politically useful marriage for her, Amy discovers that his adopted son Edwin is Knight’s child, setting the family intrigue toward a violent end.
The Town Before You
Sir Robert Floyer arrives in London seeking a government post and becomes the target of swindlers Fancourt and Tippy, who exploit Tippy's resemblance to a peer. Their schemes intersect with the courtships of Floyer's daughter Georgina and Conway, and of the widowed Lady Horatia and Asgill, whose uncle invents a story of poverty to test her affection.
The Town Shifts
The Town Shifts; Or, The Suburb-Justice is a 1671 comedy play by Edward Revet. It was originally staged by the Duke's Company at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London. It is part of the tradition of Restoration Comedy. The original cast included Philip Cademan as Lovewell, Matthew Medbourne as Friendly, Edward Angel as Leftwell, Henry Norris as Pett, Samuel Sandford as Frump, Joseph Williams as Moses, Mary Lee as Leticia, Elinor Leigh as Betty and Jane Long as Fickle.
The Town-Fopp: or, Sir Timothy Tawdrey
Bellmour loves Celinda but is forced by his guardian to marry Diana. He refuses to consummate the marriage, and it is eventually dissolved so that Bellmour and Diana can marry their desired partners. In a subplot, Sir Timothy Tawdrey attempts to trick Phillis through a mock marriage that proves legally binding.
The Toy
The Toy is a 1789 comedy play by the Irish writer John O'Keeffe. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 3 February 1789. The Irish premiere was at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin on 13 January 1791.
The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus
Tony Harrison combines a modern dramatization of archaeologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt discovering Sophocles' lost satyr-play fragments with a retelling of the satyrs' search for Apollo's cattle. The satyrs' dispute over high art and popular culture erupts into a rebellion against Apollo and the modern world that has neglected them.
The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France
Admiral Chabot refuses to enforce an unjust law despite the King's order. A jealous minister engineers an investigation that finds no wrongdoing, yet the court pressures judges to convict him; when offered a pardon, Chabot refuses because he is innocent and dies of wounded honor.
The Tragedy of Donohoe
A verse tragedy based on the life of New South Wales bushranger Jack Donahue. The source describes the early drama as a romantic, Gothic five-act work of brigands, haunted forests and pastoral figures, with colonial realities partly obscured by its Shakespearean style.
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