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Clear filtersWit & Wisdom is a play conceived and put together by Vivian Gornick and Nora Eisenberg and done by the Colleagues Theatre Company which premiered at the Off-Broadway Arclight Theatre in New York City, New York. It ran from March 5 to March 30, 2003.
Young gentleman Valentine has mortgaged his estate and refuses to marry for money, while his younger brother Francisco loves Isabella, daughter of wealthy widow Lady Hartwell. Valentine’s verbal attacks on women provoke Lady Hartwell into matching his wit; both couples ultimately marry.
Wittypate Oldcraft is cast out by his father to live by his wits and joins a group of con artists who fleece the old knight. Meanwhile the knight’s heiress niece resists an arranged marriage, helps secure a match with her preferred suitor and outmaneuvers the foolish Sir Gregory.
Two sisters navigate courtship and their father’s expectations: Aurora struggles to learn until love awakens her confidence, while the intellectual Marisa seeks an equal rather than a poet who treats her as his muse. Their changing command of language helps them take control of their futures.
A devil offers the residents of an English village their deepest desires in exchange for their souls. Elizabeth Sawyer, ostracized as a witch, refuses his bargain, unsettling both the visitor and the community around her.
A British captain sentenced to death for alleged cowardice entrusts his possessions to a fellow officer, who betrays him and robs his widow and orphan; a Boer attack interrupts the execution and turns the scene into a battle.
A narrator joins an improvised ritual performance beneath a derelict railway station. Among its voices, LG seeks his dead companion and tries to remain with her as the living and dead approach a crossing.
In the first act, department store owner Edward Gilder learns that one of his former sales clerks, Mary Turner, has been convicted for stealing and given a three-year prison sentence. Gilder is pleased because he had asked the judge to make her an "example" to other employees. Turner asks to speak with Gilder before she goes to prison. While Gilder waits for her arrival, his store detective detains another woman, a customer, for stealing. This woman is the wife of a prominent banker, so rather than have her arrested, Gilder apologizes to her and lets her go. Turner arrives and tells Gilder she has been wrongly convicted. Although she says she never stole, she pleads with Gilder to increase the wages of his clerks, so no one who works there will be forced to steal. Gilder rejects her arguments, and she leaves for prison swearing revenge on him for his treatment of her. After being released from prison, Turner sets up a gang that engages in shady activities that are just within the boundaries of the law. She also marries Gilder's son. A member of the gang attempts to rob the home of Turner's new father-in-law at the urging of a police stooge attempting to entrap the gang. When the stooge reveals the plot, the gang member kills him, leaving Turner and her new husband at the scene to be found by the police. It seems that Turner may go to prison again, but she is saved when the guilty party confesses that she had no involvement in the crimes.
In 1969 London, two unemployed actors share a squalid Camden flat. Withnail and Marwood borrow Uncle Monty’s country cottage for a holiday, hoping a break will revive their spirits and stalled careers.
A white mother reflects on the childhood of her biracial, half-Black child in this one-woman performance piece.
The wife of a brutal, alcoholic businessman is accused of poisoning him and struggles to prove her innocence.
After her romance with wealthy shipowner Paratov ends, Larisa agrees to marry the vain Karandyshev, hoping to escape her unhappy circumstances. Paratov returns and rekindles her feelings, only to reveal that he is betrothed to someone else. Humiliated, Larisa rejects the offers of two wealthy men; Karandyshev shoots her, and she forgives him as she dies.
A man plans to assassinate the President of the United States from a building window while keeping a gagged, bound victim as a witness to his sanity; loneliness is one of the play’s major themes.
A murder trial at the Old Bailey alternates with scenes that reveal the lawyers' private reactions. Just as the case appears resolved, new testimony leads to a further reversal, turning the verdict into the beginning of another twist.
Wits Led by the Nose; Or, A Poet's Revenge is a 1677 comedy play by the English writer William Chamberlayne. It was first staged by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. The original Drury Lane cast included Cardell Goodman as Antellus, Edward Lydall as Oroandes, Carey Perin as Zannazarro, Marmaduke Watson as Arratur, Martin Powell as Vanlore, Joseph Haines as Sir Symon Credulous, John Coysh as Dick Slywit and Elizabeth Boutell as Glorianda.
Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are is a 1797 comedy play by the British writer Elizabeth Inchbald. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London on 4 March 1797. The original London cast included John Quick as Lord Priory, Joseph Shepherd Munden as Sir William Dorrillon, Alexander Pope as Sir George Evelyn, William Thomas Lewis as Mr Bronzeley, John Waddy as Mr Norberry, John Fawcett as Oliver, James Thompson as Nabson, Charlotte Chapman as Lady Priory, Tryphosa Jane Wallis as Miss Dorrillon and Isabella Mattocks as Lady Mary Raffle. The Irish premiere was at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin on 12 June 1797.
In post-Napoleonic Moscow, returning idealist Chatsky confronts the conservative Famusov household and its social circle, while discovering that his beloved Sofya favors the calculating Molchalin.
Sketch comedy draws on the experiences of young Greek and other Mediterranean Australians navigating work, family and Anglo-Australian culture. Its performers reclaim a racial slur while satirising ethnic mockery and the pressure to assimilate.
A fictionalized biography follows Thomas Cromwell's rapid rise at the court of Henry VIII from 1500 to 1535, through the political upheavals surrounding the death of Thomas More.
"Wolf", the play's narrator, greets the audience with a monologue on the nature of theater and reality. He tells the audience to imagine he is a wolf, before revealing an Asian boy puppet. The puppet, whom Wolf operates, is the adopted son of Peter, who has also named this child "Peter" after adopting him from Korea. Due to disagreements with his wife, the elder Peter has connected with Robin via an online forum to transfer custody of the child to her and her spouse. After signing the contract, however, Peter is incensed to learn Robin is married to another woman, Ash, protesting as he leaves that his son will not have a father. Despite her own reluctance to accept the adoption, Ash quickly connects with the boy, whose real name is Jeenu, after recognizing they share an aggressive spirit: Jeenu in imagining himself as a wolf (which the narrator "Wolf" represents as his inner voice, largely invisible to the other actors) and Ash's own background as a boxer. Conflict arises within Jeenu's extended family as his new parents disagree over Jeenu's occasionally violent behavior, his reluctance to bond with Robin yet easy connection with Ash, and Peter's attempts to regain custody of Jeenu. Additionally, Robin's brother and Ash's trainer Ryan is suspicious of the boy and believes him a distraction from Ash's boxing career. Peter soon becomes friendly with Ryan and plants in his mind the idea that Ash and Robin are not fit to be parents. When Ash loses a boxing match due to being distracted by Jeenu trying to enter the ring, she tells Ryan of her intention to quit boxing and focus on raising Jeenu. Ryan tries to remove Jeenu from Ash's life by helping Peter to try to get the child back, eventually taking Robin and Ash to court. At the trial, Peter argues that the initial custody transfer was not legal, but Robin and Ash argue Peter is not fit to be a parent given he tried to sell Jeenu online in the first place. Jeenu/Wolf initially cheers on Robin and Ash but soon becomes overwhelmed at the legal language that he does not understand, and when directly asked by the judge who he wants to have custody of him, he is unable to answer, with Wolf leaving the play. In the aftermath, it is revealed that neither families got custody, and that Jeenu is to be taken by the state. The trial has had devastating consequences: it has destroyed Peter's own marriage, Ryan is now estranged from his sister, and Ash tries to share breakfast with an unresponsive Jeenu on their last morning together. Robin makes one last attempt to connect with Jeenu, addressing the lifeless puppet by repeating Wolf's monologue back to it while assuring that she will fight to get him back with all her being. Wolf returns, drawn by her words, and Robin appears to see him for the first time.
Wolf's Clothing is a comedy play by the British writer Kenneth Horne. It premiered at the New Theatre in Bromley in 1958, and the following year enjoyed a run of 61 performances at the Strand Theatre in London's West End. The cast included Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow, Ronald Adam, Patrick Cargill, Angela Browne, Elspet Gray and Viola Lyel.
In a provincial Russian town, wealthy widow Kupavina becomes the target of landowner Murzavetskaya, who schemes to seize her property and marry her to a nephew. Neighbor Berkutov outmaneuvers the plotters while pursuing Kupavina and her fortune.
Woman Is a Riddle is a 1716 comedy play by the British actor Christopher Bullock. Sometimes its title is written as A Woman Is a Riddle. Richard Savage may have assisted with the writing of the play, which draws inspiration from a seventeenth century Spanish work The Phantom Lady by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. In 1788 Woman Is a Riddle was reworked as an afterpiece called The Invisible Mistress performed at Drury Lane. The original Lincoln's Inn Fields cast includes John Leigh as Colonel Manly, Christopher Bullock himself as Sir Amorous Vainwit, Thomas Elrington as Charles Courtwell, William Bullock as Vulture, James Spiller as Aspin, John Ogden as Butler, Jane Rogers as Lady Outside and Letitia Cross as Miranda.
Susan awakes to a man tending to her speaking apparent gibberish, actually misheard English (such as "Squeezy cow, squeezy" really meaning "Easy now, easy"). He is Dr. Windsor (or "octer bin sir"), and Susan suggests she's died and gone where no-one speaks English, and when Bill says "December bee" ("Remember me"), Susan retorts that there are no bees in December. When Bill's language starts to make sense, he explains she knocked herself out with a garden rake. After Bill leaves to fetch a cup of tea, Susan's husband (Andy), lovingly tends to her, joined by daughter Lucy and brother Tony, fresh from the tennis courts. All show concern for her welfare and tease her about the rake. Lucy and Tony fetch the ice, and Andy goes to cancel the ambulance Bill has ordered. When Bill returns, however, it is apparent something is not right. Bill sees a tiny garden, whilst Susan insists her garden is massive, complete with rose-beds, swimming pool, tennis courts and lake. Susan also denies having a sister-in-law or son and becomes more confused when Bill says that her husband has not yet come home. When her real husband (Gerald) and sister-in-law (Muriel) enter, Susan faints. The following day, Susan, dozing in the garden, is woken by Gerald. Now back in tune with the real world, she openly discusses the deadness of their marriage, something Gerald insensitively glosses over. Muriel serves "coffee": ground coffee prepared as one would do instant. Indignantly Muriel points out she tended to her late mother, then late husband (or finished off, as Susan sees it) before digressing into her deluded conviction that her late husband's ghost will return with a message. When Gerald reminds Susan that their son, Rick, is coming for lunch, it transpires that he joined a sect two years ago that forbids members from talking to their parents. He writes, but only to Gerald. Susan, hurt by this, blames this (and Rick's fear of women) on the public school scholarship Gerald bullied him to take. Susan is momentarily distracted by glimpses of Tony and Lucy, before Bill returns to check on Susan, only to be drawn into Gerald's account of the book he's writing on the history of the Parish. Susan therefore takes the opportunity to talk to Lucy, who praises her for her status as a historical novelist, and then informs her (naturally Susan is the first to know) that she is getting married. In the real world, Bill agrees to stay for lunch (Muriel's "omelette surprise", where she mistakes the tea tin for herbs). Gerald makes excuses for the sect, until confessing that Rick is coming to sell the possessions in his room – something that horrifies Susan as this is all she has left of him. Bill offers to act as a go-between so that Gerald and Susan can communicate with their son. When Rick arrives, even Gerald has trouble bringing himself into the house. But before Susan can enter, her imaginary family brings her a sumptuous outdoor banquet and persuades her to dine with them instead. Rick then comes into the garden and, to Susan's surprise, asks her to come inside. As she goes to her son, she collapses again. Susan wakes to find Rick still speaking to her, explaining that he has left the sect he and now has a girlfriend. Her joy, however, is short-lived when she learns they are already married and they are moving to Thailand – her to do nursing, and him to do "odd jobs". He will not even allow Susan to see her, because Rick is embarrassed by the way she acted around past girlfriends. Rick leaves a stung Susan to explain this to Gerald, who says "it's not fair to lay all the blame at your door". They get into a fierce argument, with Susan egged on by Tony and Lucy (by now sitting in on most of Susan's conversations). Lucy tries to console Susan by praising her status as a brilliant heart surgeon. This time, Susan snaps at Lucy to shut up. Lucy runs off in tears, and Susan tries to apologise only for it to be accepted by Gerald. In the sunset of her imaginary world, Andy caresses Susan and forgives her for being angry with Lucy. Susan, now worried by the increasing influence that Lucy, Tony and Andy have on her real life, tries to ask Andy to leave her alone. Andy says they will go when she asks but stays when Susan does so, suggesting she didn't really mean it. The scene becomes unreal, with Andy anticipating everything Susan says, then the voices of Susan and her imaginary family coming out of both their mouths. Back in reality, Susan finds Bill beside her (who fled on mention of a dessert but has now returned). Susan confides to Bill about her hallucinations, and when asked about Rick, tells him a semi-fantasy where he is getting married, and she has met her daughter-in-law to be. Having previously hinted over his own family life – two daughters married to wheeler-dealer stockbrokers and a wife probably cheating with another doctor – Bill reveals how he feels about her, and is about to kiss her when Susan points to Lucy. Bill tries to humour Susan by talking where Susan pointed, but Lucy has already moved away. Tony and Andy arrive, and suddenly, Bill becomes part of her fantasy – now a wheeler-dealer stockbroker poaching rabbits. His is thrown into the lake, leaving Andy and Susan to reminisce on their own wedding day. As he kisses her, Susan weakly protests "Oh dear God! I'm making love to the devil!” At an indeterminate time overnight, Gerald and Rick find Susan sprawled out in the middle of the lawn during a thunderstorm. Gerald tries to bring Susan inside, but she mocks him with an offer of a quiet divorce. It appears that Susan has burnt Gerald's precious book of the Parish, something Susan has no memory of. Then Muriel comes out screaming, having read a message of "Knickers off Muriel". She refuses all pleas to come inside, denouncing Gerald for narrow-minded meanness, Rick as a priggish brat, and Muriel for wanting a phantom pregnancy. Tony appears and opens an umbrella and the storm ends in time for what initially appears to be Lucy's wedding, but Tony and Andy appear to be some sort of race stewards, and Lucy, although dressed as a bride, seems to be taking part in a "brides race". Meanwhile, Bill becomes a clichéd bookie, Muriel is a heavily pregnant French maid, Gerald is an archbishop and Susan's real son Rick (now an odd-job man), to her horror, seems to be the groom for her imaginary daughter Lucy. All kinds of snippets relating to her real-life mesh together as a surrealistic nightmare. Ignoring Susan's protests, they all toast her, acclaiming Susan as precious to them all, demanding a speech. The final shred of reality is when Muriel says "The ambulance is on its way", and a blue light flashes. Susan's speech descends into the same gibberish Bill used at the beginning of the play, and, with a desperate request to "December bee", she collapses a final time.
A British officer and a French dancer meet during the First World War and begin a doomed romance.
Woman's Wit; or, Loves Disguises is an 1838 comedy play by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on the 23 June 1838 with a cast that included James Warde as Lord Athunree, George Bartley as Sir William Sutton, William Macready as Walsingham, John Langford Pritchard as Felton, John Pritt Harley as Clever and Helena Faucit as Hero. Knowles dedicated the play to the writer Samuel Rogers.
Longeville tries to reveal that Leonora is unfaithful to her fiancé Lovemore. Leonora turns the accusation back on him, claiming he is plotting to win her himself, and their rival deceptions multiply until she is forced to confess. A separate comic subplot follows the Rakish family.
Two music-shop proprietors try to hide a young woman staying in one of their homes from their domineering wives, then become entangled in a German espionage plot while serving in the Home Guard.
In a women's prison, an innocent woman framed for armed robbery is brutalized until she emerges as a hardened drug dealer. Her story unfolds among a chain-smoking tough girl, a Southern belle, and the sadistic matron who oversees them.
In Florence, Bianca elopes with the poor Leantio, but his decision to confine her allows the Duke to pursue and rape her with help from Livia. Bianca becomes the Duke’s mistress, while Livia and Leantio begin an affair. A parallel plot follows Hippolito’s incestuous relationship with his niece Isabella. As betrayals surface, a wedding masque erupts in violence and kills the principal characters.
At a garden party in Ealing, two couples struggle to converse while the wives' laughter and talk about their husbands interrupt them. When the women join the men, a confrontation follows; in the second act, the couples' positions reverse as the setting shifts toward a mental hospital.
A Florentine tragicomedy follows Silvio and Belvidere, whose love is tested by her mother’s riddle, a year of exile, a disguised encounter and a war with Siena; a subplot tests the fidelity of Isabella, a young wife pursued by a suitor who proves to be her brother in disguise.
At an Irish girls’ boarding school in the late 1930s, idealistic new teacher Jean Wade unsettles the staff’s close, controlled social world. When the manuscript documenting Miss Connor’s moral deeds is destroyed, suspicion falls on Jean and accusations expose the group’s rivalries, ambitions and isolation.
In Sophocles’ version of the Argonauts’ quest, Medea advises Jason on obtaining the Golden Fleece and kills her young brother Absyrtus inside the palace as the heroes prepare to flee Colchis.
A comedy about three women sharing social lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side: Rhonda has recently split with her boyfriend, Billie is married, and Judy repeatedly dates men who turn out to be gay. The play unfolds in four vignettes.
After a nineteenth-century invasion destroys Owu's male population, the surviving women face grief, trauma, and resistance under the conquering forces. Osofisan reworks Euripides' Trojan Women in the history of the Owu kingdom.
Deianeira, fearing that Heracles has taken a new lover, sends him a robe treated with what she believes is a love charm. The poisoned robe kills him; after learning the truth, their son Hyllus helps Heracles fulfill his final requests as Deianeira dies by suicide.
In a London lodging house, unmarried young mothers and their babies are exploited by the unscrupulous proprietor, Helen Allistair. Vivianne confronts Helen over her baby-farming, is attacked, and ultimately sees justice done.
In a fort during the Red River Resistance, Métis woman Marie-Angelique, Ojibwe trapper Eugenia and European settler Cecelia discuss the fur trade, European influence and Louis Riel. The play shifts between 19th- and 21st-century language and perspectives.
Cass leaves her husband after discovering his sexual fetish involving Barbie heads and takes a bus to Niagara Falls in search of freedom and meaning. Along the way she encounters a suicidal alcoholic, a lonely tour-boat captain, private detectives, and a clown therapist.
Two CIA operatives respond in different ways to the growing role of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence in supplying the Mujahideen for their war against the Soviets.
Three intelligent chimpanzees named Kafka, Milton and Swift share a cage while an unseen scientist tests whether random typing will produce Hamlet. They debate the experiment and attempt to understand or resist it; Kafka ultimately begins typing Hamlet's opening lines.
The play examines the relationship between Frank Lloyd Wright's personal life and architectural work through an ensemble portraying people central to his life, including Louis Sullivan, Ayn Rand, Alexander Woollcott, his family, and Mamah Cheney.
Set in a rehabilitation home at Walter Reed Medical Center, the play follows four young veterans and their families as they try to readjust to life after physical and psychological injuries.
Soldier Franz Woyzeck supports Marie and their child with menial work and medical experiments. As his mental health deteriorates, Marie turns to a drum major; Woyzeck confronts and is humiliated by him, then stabs Marie by a pond. Büchner’s fragment ends with Woyzeck trying to clean the blood from the knife and dispose of it.
The two actors play roles of various black South Africans – a vendor, barber, servant, manual labourer, soldier – receiving the news that Christ (Morena) has arrived in South Africa, where a Calvinist white elite imposes apartheid. Christ's arrival precipitates a crisis, and the government launches a nuclear bomb against the peacemaker. In the ruins, great South African leaders in resistance to apartheid such as Albert Luthuli, former president of the African National Congress, are resurrected. They play dozens of parts that involve them using many skills such as acting, mime, singing and dance. They also create images using a few words and actions
In a solo monologue, Edward Carr confronts his wife’s death and reveals the dark secret that brought them together.
In a one-person performance, Aaron Davidman portrays seventeen people with contrasting backgrounds and viewpoints as he seeks to understand experiences shaped by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, social division and identity.
The play tells the story of the brothers Clive and David Rodingham, who inherit the family fortune upon the death of their father. They then meet business man Charles and his wife Julie, a would-be thriller writer. Charles is anxious to work with the brothers on property deals, and so encourages David, who is also a writer, to co-write a murder story with Julie. It isn’t long before the two concoct the perfect crime, which twisted into a reality.
The play examines William Tyndale's and Lancelot Andrewes's involvement in biblical translation; its title comes from their translation of Jeremiah 31:33 in the King James Bible.
Politician Robert Crawshaw can inherit fifty thousand pounds only if he takes the name Wurzel-Flummery. His family and friends challenge his attempts to reconcile the windfall with his dignity and public reputation.
After a businessman's error leads to bankruptcy and a fifteen-year Italian prison sentence, Ludovic rejoins his family on his brother-in-law's yacht at Cannes. His brother-in-law has arranged the marriage of Ludovic's stepdaughter to an influential young man to restore the family's standing, but Ludovic's prison experience has changed him.
A small-town murder draws a sheriff, a young detective and a university professor into an investigation of secret relationships and ancient magic. The mystery reimagines Baba Yaga as its characters’ accounts of predator and prey begin to shift.
A historical Urdu play about Roman persecution of Jews, adapted from W. T. Moncrieff's 19th-century play The Jewess.
A solo play that reinterprets the Mahabharata from Draupadi’s perspective, presenting Yajnaseni alone in the scenes while retaining the basic conception of her story.
During China’s Warlord Era, unpaid soldier Zhao Da steals his battalion’s payroll and flees into a forest. Lost and tormented by hallucinations, he is killed by pursuers; his fellow soldier Li buries him and escapes with the hidden money.
A celebrated dancer journeys toward Zenkōji and encounters an old woman in the mountains who asks to hear the dancer’s song about Yamanba. Revealing herself as the mountain spirit, she returns in demon form, takes over the performance, and completes the dance before vanishing into the mountains.
The play interweaves the Japanese tale of Yamata-no-Orochi and the Meitei tale of Keibu Keioiba, exploring sacrifice and endurance through the two mythic traditions.
In a provincial European theatre dressing room, Palestinian actor Yasser Mansour prepares to play Shylock. As he reflects on his life in Palestine, discrimination and prejudice in the West, the role gives him a lens on emancipation and the parallels of Jewish and Arab histories.
On Jura, where George Orwell is writing Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell and Cyril Connolly both pursue Sonia Brownell as she grieves a failed relationship. Their conversations draw on school and Spanish Civil War memories while Orwell works through his anger at Stalinist purges; symbolic figures punctuate the action, and after Orwell's death Sonia packs his books wanting to know more.
Yellow Face opens with DHH receiving an e-mail from Marcus G. Dahlman in 2006 about his recent travels in China. DHH reflects on how Marcus disappeared from the public eye. He begins in 1990 with the controversy over the casting of Jonathan Pryce, a Welsh actor, in an Asian role in Miss Saigon as the musical transfers from London to New York City. Although DHH receives a lot of publicity about his protests against the casting and yellow face makeup, especially as the first Asian-American playwright to win a Tony Award (for M. Butterfly), the production of Miss Saigon ultimately continues without changes to the cast. DHH then writes the play Face Value, based partly on the Miss Saigon controversy, and casts Marcus G. Dahlman as one of the lead Asian roles in his play. DHH is at first convinced that Marcus is part Asian but eventually realizes he is fully white. DHH fears he will appear hypocritical for the casting after his protest of yellow face, but is unable to fire Marcus on the basis of his race. DHH has him adopt the name "Marcus Gee" and tells the public that Marcus has Eurasian ancestry as a Jew with Siberian ancestry. Though their deception is successful, Face Value receives negative reviews and closes in previews, losing $2 million. DHH tries to move on, but he later discovers that Marcus has continued playing his role as an Asian in all parts of his life, acting in Asian roles and becoming an activist for Asian American rights. This angers DHH, who views him as an "ethnic tourist". The play further explores DHH's relationship to his father, HYH, and the relationship of the Chinese American community to America. HYH is a successful immigrant who built the Far East National Bank in California. After contributing monetarily to political campaigns, he and others affiliated with the bank, including Wen Ho Lee, are investigated by Senator Fred Thompson, who believes they are funneling money from China to influence American politics. In the course of this, DHH and Marcus are implicated as Chinese collaborators. DHH beseeches Marcus to reveal his true identity as white, deciding he cares more about defending the Chinese American community than hiding his mistakes. Marcus ends his deception, and Thompson's investigation breaks down. DHH's father dies in 2005, having lost faith in the American Dream. DHH and Marcus converse after their e-mails, before DHH admits to the audience that Marcus is an entirely fictional character he created to explore messy questions about race and nationality. At the character’s request, DHH writes Marcus a "happy ending" in which he moves to a small village in China and is eventually accepted into the community there.
Private detective Sam Shikaze is hired to find the missing Cherry Blossom Queen in Vancouver’s Powell Street Japantown. As he investigates, racism and political intrigue lead toward the Hong Kong tongs, while a lawyer, a reporter, and a police captain become involved in the case.
After the Spanish–American War, Walter Reed’s medical commission investigates yellow fever in Cuba. When animals prove immune, Pvt. John O’Hara volunteers to be exposed to the disease.
A wealthy dying woman's relatives gather, unaware that they have all been cut out of her will.
The play follows Alma, a dark-skinned Black woman, and Eugene, a very fair-skinned Black man, from childhood on the South Carolina coast through adulthood in New York. Their friendship becomes a relationship as they confront colorism, class, family and personal tragedy. Eugene’s inheritance and conflict with his father lead to murder and imprisonment, while Alma is left pregnant and ends her pregnancy.
Yentl is a play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Based on Singer's short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" (first published in September 1962 in Commentary magazine and later included in the 1963 collection Short Friday and Other Stories), it centers on a young woman who defies tradition by discussing and debating Jewish law and theology with her rabbi father. When he dies, she cuts her hair, dresses as a man, and sets out to find a yeshiva where she can continue to study Talmud and live secretly as a male named Anshel. When her study partner Avigdor discovers the truth, she is conflicted about pursuing a relationship with him because it will compromise her higher calling. The play focuses on the spiritual equality of women in a segregated Jewish society that does not see women as equals to men, but at the same time prioritizes religion and relationship to God above all else. More generally, the play's conflict is between one's need for self-actualization and the demands of society as well as one's baser desires. Another play of the same name, Yentl, based on the same story, was written by Gary Abrahams, Elise Hearst and Galit Klas, and first produced in Australia in 2022.
Yerma longs for a child, but her marriage to Juan remains distant and childless. Although she is attracted to Victor and later urged to leave Juan, her sense of honor keeps her bound to the marriage. When Juan finally tells her he will never want children, her desperation ends in his death and the loss of her hope for motherhood.
A fictional director discusses a play script with an actor who answers only “Yes” or “No.” The one-act dialogue grew from Greene’s observations of director John Gielgud and actor Ralph Richardson rehearsing The Complaisant Lover.
A documentary-theatre work about the 7 July London bombings, juxtaposing immediate reactions with later interviews and reenacting the recorded testimonies alongside visual and audio footage.
On the day Quebec politician Pierre Gravel is offered the justice ministry, he learns that his son André is a Quebec separatist plotting to destroy a statue of James Wolfe. Father and son argue over political loyalties and motivations, with the family conflict shaped by their shared affections for Louise Gravel.
In a storm-bound manor in 1882, detective Erast Fandorin and his Japanese manservant Masa investigate deaths and a magical fan amid a family’s inheritance dispute. The printed play offers White and Black versions with the same basic plot but different dramatic worlds and details.
A civic cycle of Middle English mystery pageants dramatizing sacred history from Creation to the Last Judgment. York craft guilds organized the plays, which were traditionally staged on pageant wagons at stations around the city.
Falsely accused and rejected by his family, a young man becomes blind from grief and lives as a beggar. His repentant father comes to pray for him at Shitennōji temple in Osaka, where their paths meet again.
Pursued by his brother Yoritomo’s agents, Yoshitsune travels with Shizuka and Benkei while seeking three surviving Taira generals. The generals and their families conceal their identities among merchants, travelers, and monks; their schemes lead to combat, mistaken loyalties, and tragic sacrifices. Meanwhile, a fox spirit disguised as Yoshitsune’s retainer Tadanobu seeks the drum made from his parents’ skins. The conflicts are resolved in a final confrontation, restoring peace.
In a jōruri puppet play set in twelfth-century Japan, Yoshitsune seeks reconciliation with his brother Yoritomo but is offered impossible conditions; the shogunal army ultimately attacks his Takadachi fortress. The story alludes to the 1615 siege of Osaka through the brothers' conflict and the military events.
Ronin Tamiya Iemon murders his father-in-law and conspires with Naosuke to deceive Oiwa and her sister. After Oiwa is poisoned and dies cursing Iemon, her ghost haunts him through his engagement and flight, while the sisters' family seeks revenge.
The story takes place entirely in the home of the Sycamores, a slightly odd New York City family. Grandpa Vanderhof, the family patriarch, is a whimsical old man who keeps pet snakes and hasn’t worked a day in thirty-five years. His daughter, Penny, is a writer of racy melodrama plays. Penny’s husband, Paul Sycamore, manufactures fireworks in the basement with the help of his assistant, Mr. De Pinna, who used to be the family's iceman. Paul and Penny have two daughters: Essie, a candy maker who dreams of being a ballerina, even though she is a terrible dancer, and Alice, an office worker who is relatively “normal” compared to the rest of the family. Also living in the house are Essie’s husband Ed Carmichael, the family’s maid Rheba, and her boyfriend Donald, who works as the family’s handyman. Essie tells Grandpa that some letters have arrived for him from the United States Government, but that she misplaced them. Shortly afterwards, Alice comes home and announces that she has fallen in love with Tony Kirby, vice-president of Kirby & Co. and the son of her boss. Alice tells her family that Tony will be coming over shortly to take her on a date and goes upstairs to change clothes. The doorbell rings. Penny answers the door and greets the visitor, thinking he must be Tony. The man at the door clarifies that his name is Wilbur C. Henderson, and he is investigating Grandpa for his evasion of income tax for the last twenty-four years. Grandpa refuses to pay, stating he never believed in it, and that the government would not know what to do with the money if he did pay it, angering Henderson. Henderson spots Grandpa's pet snakes and flees the house in fear, but not before promising Grandpa that he will be hearing from the United States government. The real Tony Kirby arrives, and Alice is nervous that her family will scare him away. As they attempt to leave for their date, Mr. Boris Kolenkhov, Essie's eccentric Russian ballet instructor, arrives and complains to the family about the Revolution. During this discussion, Alice and Tony make their escape. The rest of the family sit down for dinner. Later that night, Tony and Alice return to Sycamore house. They are deeply in love, but Tony’s attempts to propose are repeatedly interrupted by the various members of the family. Finally, Tony and Alice become engaged to marry. Several days later, Alice has invited Tony and his parents over for dinner the next evening. Alice implores her family to act as normal as possible to make a good impression. Penny has brought actress Gay Wellington over to read over her latest play, but Gay becomes very drunk and passes out on the living room couch. Essie asks Ed to help deliver her candies around the neighborhood, but he is reluctant as he believes he was followed the last time. Mr. De Pinna comes up from the cellar carrying a painting that Penny had started of him as a discus thrower. He asks Penny to finish it and she agrees. She puts on her painting smock and Mr. De Pinna puts on a toga costume. Mr. Kolenkhov arrives and begins Essie's ballet lesson. Ed provides accompanying music on the xylophone. Rheba runs in and out of the kitchen cleaning. In the midst of the chaos, Tony, having forgotten for which night the dinner was planned, appears in the doorway with Mr. and Mrs. Kirby. Alice is incredibly embarrassed. Penny tells Alice not to worry, and insists that the Kirbys stay for dinner. Grandpa tries to keep the party under control for the sake of his granddaughter. Mr. Kirby, a straitlaced businessman, is unamused by Paul’s childish interests. Mrs. Kirby mentions her passion for spiritualism, which Penny derides. During a discussion of hobbies, Mr. Kolenkhov brings up that the Romans' hobby was wrestling, and demonstrates by throwing Mr. Kirby to the floor, angering him. To break the tension, Penny suggests they play a free association game and instructs everyone to write down "the first thing that pops into their heads" after she says certain words. The game seems to lighten the mood at first, but soon sparks an argument between Mr. and Mrs. Kirby after her answers reveal dissatisfaction with their sex life due to Mr. Kirby’s preoccupation with his work. Mr. and Mrs. Kirby order Tony to leave with them immediately, but he refuses. A humiliated Alice decides that their marriage will never work as their families are too different. She ends their engagement and resigns from her job. Before the Kirbys can leave, a group of government agents raid the house. The head G-man tells them that they are all under arrest, and reveals that Ed's notes from the candy boxes, on which he has printed anything that "sounds nice", have threatening and communist phrases written on them such as "DYNAMITE THE CAPITOL" and "GOD IS THE STATE, THE STATE IS GOD". The agents drag Mr. De Pinna out of the basement and report the discovery of massive amounts of gunpowder to the head G-man. De Pinna tries to explain to the agent that he has left his lit pipe downstairs, but is ignored. Another agent brings down the deliriously drunk Gay Wellington from upstairs. The fireworks in the basement go off, lit by the untended pipe, and everyone panics, leaving the whole house in an uproar. The next day, Donald and Rheba sit in the kitchen reading the paper, where the arrests have made headlines because of Mr. Kirby's presence. Both families have been released after spending the night in jail. A distraught Alice has decided to leave for a prolonged trip to the Adirondack Mountains to think things over. When the family forgets to call for a cab, she finally loses her temper, angered that her family cannot be "normal" at all. Tony arrives and tries to reason with Alice, but she refuses him. Mr. Kolenkhov appears with the Grand Duchess Olga Katrina. After discussing the sad fate of former Russian royalty now working menial jobs in New York, the Grand Duchess insists upon going into the kitchen to cook the dinner for the family. Mr. Kirby arrives to pick up Tony, and they get into a heated argument. Tony reveals that he had purposely brought his parents on the wrong night because he wanted his parents to see the Sycamores authentically. He expresses admiration for the love the Sycamores have for one another compared to his emotionally distant father. Grandpa tells Mr. Kirby that he is happy not to be working and posits that Mr. Kirby doesn’t really enjoy his Wall Street job. Tony admits that he found letters Mr. Kirby had written to his own father, expressing desires to be a trapeze artist and later a saxophone player. Grandpa tells Mr. Kirby that he should enjoy his life while he can. Tony agrees, deciding to leave the family business to find his own path in life, and Mr. Kirby finally gives in, giving his blessing to Alice and Tony’s engagement, which Alice accepts. Essie brings another letter to Grandpa from the government stating that he no longer owes them income tax. Grandpa reveals that he had tricked the IRS by claiming he was Martin Vanderhof Jr., and that the Martin Vanderhof they were looking for was his deceased father. This is corroborated because the milkman, who had lived with them prior to Mr. De Pinna, was buried under Grandpa’s name since the family never knew his real name. The play comes to a conclusion as the family, along with Tony and Mr. Kirby, sit down to dinner with the Grand Duchess. Grandpa says a touching prayer, and then they dive into the food.
After a breakup and job loss, Mae, in her thirties, struggles to balance romance with caring for her father, who has aggressive throat cancer. Absurd, often sexualized dreams and a cowboy figure shape her sense of helplessness.
In The Shock of Recognition, playwright Jack Barnstable auditions Richard Pawling for a role that requires nudity and discovers the overeager actor is more than willing to show his stuff. The Footsteps of Doves focuses on Harriet and George, a married couple shopping for twin beds after many years of marriage. George, who is opposed to the change, strikes up a conversation with Jill, a considerably younger fellow shopper who shares his view. In I'll Be Home for Christmas, Chuck and Edith realize how empty their marriage has become as they await the arrival of their adult children. I'm Herbert is a scattered conversation between Herbert and Muriel, an elderly couple with memory problems who try in vain to recall their earlier relationships. After 15 previews, the original Broadway production opened on March 13, 1967, at the Ambassador Theatre. It transferred twice, to the Broadhurst Theatre and then the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, before it completed its run of 756 performances on January 4, 1969. Directed by Alan Schneider, the opening night cast included Eileen Heckart, Martin Balsam, George Grizzard, and Melinda Dillon. Replacements later in the run included Larry Blyden, Irene Dailey, and William Redfield. Costume design was by Theoni V. Aldredge and lighting design was by Jules Fisher. Balsam won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play. Schneider was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play but lost to Mike Nichols for Plaza Suite.
An interactive theatre experience in which each visitor passes through a sequence of unforeseen scenes, sometimes watching and sometimes improvising a part without preparation.
Mrs Clandon returns to England with her three children after eighteen years abroad. Her children unknowingly invite their estranged father to lunch, while dentist Valentine falls in love with Gloria, who rejects conventional romance. A wise waiter called William helps steer the family's comic confusions.
The play starts with President Bush (Ferrell) telling the audience that this is his final farewell to the country. He then makes jokes about his life, such as his college years at Yale, his nickname “Gin and Tonic,” being born in Connecticut, his business that went bankrupt, and the Texas legislation which he as Governor signed into law that designated a day as "Jesus Day." Some of Bush's stories are humorous but false, such as having a sexual relationship with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and being AWOL from the Air National Guard. Bush's Secret Service agent Jerry dances onstage (sometimes with Bush's pilot) while Ferrell is offstage changing costume. Bush confronts a heckler in the third row, who is part of the cast. The play also acknowledges the hard decisions Bush faced during his term, such as deciding to send troops to the Middle East.
Sisters Liz and Delia respond to life-changing news by moving through fifty years of shared memories. Their shifting recollections reveal the affection, friction, and dependence that bind their lives together.
Two television writers work on a script while staying at a castle reputed to be haunted. Strange events and the legend of a tortured monk disrupt their visit.
Major Carlingford and his son conspire against a young scoutmaster, parliamentary candidate and councillor seeking to improve the Thames at Charing Cross.
In 1850 Soho, a broke and restless Karl Marx faces creditors, spies, rival revolutionaries and would-be seducers of his wife. With his writing blocked and marriage under strain, his only hope appears to be a railway job, while his friend Friedrich Engels despairs at his wasted talent.
Set in Vienna during 1809, the historical drama follows Medardus Klähr, whose sister's death and conflict with the Valois family draw him into a doomed struggle involving Napoleon and Helene of Valois.
Young Mrs. Barrington is a 1945 play by the British writer Warren Chetham-Strode. It concerns the return home of a fighter pilot following the Second World War. It premiered at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh before transferring to the Winter Garden Theatre in London's West End where it ran for 140 performances between 11 September 1945 and 3 January 1946. The original West End cast included Peter Hammond, Ivan Samson, Tom Gill, Margaret Barton, Elliott Mason, Joan Haythorne and Leueen MacGrath.
On her birthday, Constance Winthrop and her husband Douglas are already drifting apart. After the death of their child, their separation deepens; the play follows their eventual reconciliation as their hearts overcome the breach.
Young Sinners is a comedic play by Elmer Harris that first premiered at the Morosco Theatre in New York on November 28, 1929. The three act play was first revived at the New Yorker Theatre on April 20, 1931. It was then revived again at the Ambassador Theatre in New York on March 6, 1933. The cast changed during each revival, but Dorothy Appleby played Constance Sinclair in the original and the two revivals. The 1931 film Young Sinners is based on the play.
Young Wives' Tale is a 1949 comedy play by the British writer Ronald Jeans. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Brighton before transferring to the Savoy Theatre in London's West End where it ran for 373 performances between 7 July 1949 and 27 May 1950. The original London cast included Naunton Wayne, Joan Greenwood, Derek Farr, Joan Haythorne and Margaret Scudamore.
At an English public school, shy seventeen-year-old prefect Roger Woodley falls in love with Laura Simmons, the lonely wife of his housemaster. When they are discovered kissing, Simmons threatens to expel Roger; after a confrontation at school, Roger leaves with his father, who offers him a place in the family business, while Roger and Laura part affectionately.
Five London rogues—a pickpocket, pimp, pawnbroker, cheat and whoremonger—join forces to court wealthy orphan Katherine. Fitzgrave infiltrates their circle and uses a masque to expose their crimes; he marries Katherine while the gallants marry the prostitutes who mirror them.
Clare, the second wife in a household, resents the family's happiness, bullies its French maid and behaves so autocratically that the children reject her. Elliott described the family drama as an allegory of totalitarianism, with Clare representing Nazi Germany.
During a televised quiz final, Kizuna Honjo correctly answers before the question is read, then refuses the championship and disappears. His rival Reo Mishima joins another contestant to investigate, retracing the questions and uncovering memories of his own life.
Two sisters revisit the family tragedy that shaped their lives, while their parents relive a bitter argument years earlier. The overlapping conversations expose the damage caused by poverty, repression, and frustrated hopes.
Youth at the Helm (Helyet az ifjúságnak) is a Hungarian-language play by Paul Vulpius, the joint pen name of Ladislas Fodor and, which premiered in Budapest in 1933. The play was also staged in Vienna, Austria in 1933 under the title Hau-ruck using a German language translation of Fodor and Lakatos's play by Hans Adler who also adopted the pen name Paul Vulpius. Adler's German language translation was the source material for two different English language translations of the play: Youth At the Helm by Hubert Griffith (1896–1953), used frequently in the United Kingdom during the 1930s, and Help Yourself by John J. Coman for the work's Broadway production in 1936. The play has also been staged using the titles Jugend voran (Germany) and L'affare Kubinsky (Italy). The play served as the basis for the 1936 film Jack of All Trades starring Jack Hulbert.
In a disused recording studio, small-time criminals Docksey and Jinks hold Dex, a fellow crook, captive and subject him to torture over his role in a murder. Docksey also approaches Dex’s girlfriend Laney, and his effort to make Dex feel remorse develops into a volatile mix of revenge and unexpected attachment.
A new technology can predict the precise moment of a person’s death. When it is introduced into a hospice, a palliative care physician must confront its consequences for patients, medical practice and his own understanding of a life’s value.
A travelling priest is drawn to the ruined villa where Yūgao died. A figure recounts her tragic love for Prince Genji; the figure later returns as Yūgao’s ghost, seeking sympathy and release from her attachment to the affair.
The play traces the friendship between Jain philosopher Shrimad Rajchandra and Mahatma Gandhi, from their meeting in 1891 through their correspondence after Gandhi moved to South Africa. Rajchandra’s teachings of truth, ahimsa, and dharma shape Gandhi’s spiritual and political outlook.
Three young people share a home in Whitehorse through a difficult winter. As news of the Robert Pickton trial reaches them, their relationships and family histories reveal the violence and isolation surrounding their search for belonging.
A carp spirit takes the form of a woman resembling scholar Zhang Zhen's beloved Jin Mudan and seduces him. Guanyin, the Dragon King and judge Bao Zheng join forces to capture the spirit in Guanyin's fish basket.
In Finland amid the political upheavals of 1933, communist organizer Jaakko Susi forms a cell tasked with disrupting the labor movement. A private moral conflict leads to betrayal, his arrest by state police and his death; law student Toivo stands for a patriotic ideal of national unity as war threatens.
Kind-hearted Zack Munning is dismissed by his calculating family, whose struggling business drives plans to exploit a wealthy visiting relative. Zack’s unexpected appeal disrupts their schemes.
The prophet Zangezi lives among animals, plants and gods, speaking words that human beings cannot understand. Khlebnikov's futurist poem-play unfolds across 20 planes and combines varied poetic forms and invented language.
In this two-part verse drama set in Illyria, usurper Emerick imprisons Queen Zapolya and the chieftain Kiuprili; after escape and separation, Zapolya and her son Andreas are reunited, Emerick is defeated, and Kiuprili and his son Casimir reconcile.
Zara is a 1736 tragedy by the British writer Aaron Hill, based on the 1732 French play Zaïre by Voltaire. As in Voltaire's original, Hill's play, set during the Crusades, tells the story of Zara, a Christian slave. The original Drury Lane cast included Susannah Maria Cibber as Zara, William Milward as Lusignan, Theophilus Cibber as Nerestan, Edward Berry as Chatillon, Richard Cross as Melidor and Hannah Pritchard as Selima. The incidental music was composed by Thomas Arne.
Zastrozzi pursues Verezzi, whom he blames for his mother's death, and plots to make the religious artist commit suicide and face eternal damnation. With Bernardo and Matilda, he drives the pursuit through swordplay and deception, while Verezzi's tutor Victor challenges his nihilism.
Zaza, a prostitute who becomes a music-hall performer, is the mistress of a married man. In the original French play, they resume their relationship after her success.
Zaïre, a Christian captured as a child and raised in the Sultan of Jerusalem’s palace, loves Orosmane. On the eve of their wedding, her Christian father and brother learn her identity and arrange a secret baptism. Orosmane mistakes her meeting for an affair, kills her, then dies by suicide when he learns the truth.
A Macbeth adaptation recast in Mauritian Creole and in relation to Mauritian politics.
Zenobia is a 1768 tragedy by the Irish writer Arthur Murphy. It is based on the life of Zenobia, ruler of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria and her defiance of Ancient Rome. The original Drury Lane cast included Ann Street Barry as Zenobia, Spranger Barry as Rhadamistus, Charles Holland as Teribarzus, Francis Aickin as Pharasmanes, William Havard as Megistus, John Hayman Packer as Zopiron and Richard Hurst as Tigranes.
Zero Hour is a 2006 one-person play written and performed by playwright and actor Jim Brochu and directed by actress Piper Laurie. In a biographical reflection on Zero Mostel, Brochu portrays the Jewish actor and comedian giving a fictional interview with an unseen New York Times reporter shortly before Mostel's death in 1977. Brochu's Mostel recounts his life and career; he describes the impact of the Hollywood blacklist on himself and his friends, including his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, as well as his success with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Fiddler on the Roof and the original movie version of The Producers. It won the 2006 Ovation Award for "World Premiere Play." Brochu won the 2010 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.
Harry Philton, a school-leaver drawn to football hooliganism, weighs the violence and dead-end prospects around him against a stable future through an apprenticeship.
Zingis is a 1768 tragedy by the British writer Alexander Dow. It is set during the reign of Genghis Khan. The original Drury Lane cast included Charles Holland as Timur, Francis Aickin as Zingis, John Hayman Packer as Aunac, Samuel Reddish as Zemouca, Thomas Jefferson as Cubla, John Palmer as Zena, Charles Bannister as Nevian, Richard Hurst as Sidasco and Elizabeth Younge as Ovisa.
In this three-act drama, a group of Québécois teenagers smuggles cigarettes into Canada to escape poverty and family hardship. When the police arrest them, interrogation and mutual suspicion turn the group against itself; leader Tarzan confesses to a border guard’s murder, escapes prison, and is shot after reuniting with Ciboulette.
After a 12-year-old Black girl is murdered in front of neighborhood witnesses, her family struggles to secure justice as the community refuses to identify the killer.
Based on the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and Zoot Suit Riots, the play follows Henry Reyna and the 38th Street Gang as Chicano youths are convicted in a murder case, while Henry's brother Rudy is assaulted during the riots. Lawyers and activist-reporter Alice help win the gang's appeal, though the ending leaves several possible futures for Henry.
Scene 1: Zoraida, a female orphan at the court of Egypt, talks to her friend Zulima (daughter of Moralmin, the Governor of Cairo for Almaimon and who grew up with Zoraida) about her worries regarding her parents' past against the rule of Ottoman Emperor Selim the First. She is concealed by his adopted parents and fears that Almaimon will die. Zulima comforts her by reminding her of Almorad's affection to Zoraida as an adopted parent. Scene 2: Moralmin talks to Zoraida is eager to share his rosy expectations for Almaimon reclaiming Egypt. Zulima suggests to Zoraida to join the fight; however, Zoraida suggests for Zulima to pray to Allah to wish the soldiers good luck. Scene 3: Almaimon faces a tough fight and senses the defeat of his army. He worries about Zoraida. Scene 4: Moralmin, now a prisoner of Selim I, is questioned by Selim, and confesses his loyalty for Almaimon despite his capture. He curses the Selim. Scene 5: Osman seemingly shows his loyalty to Selim while secretly seeking vengeance. Scene 6: At the castle, despite Zulima's persuasions, Zoraida has a pessimistic view of the battle and tries to give up, but changes her mind after realizing she does not wish to become a captive. Scene 7: The situation escalates as the betrayal of Almaimon's troops exacerbates the battle on Almaimon's side. Scene 8: Motafar notifies the crew of the princess's escape as well as his support for their escape. Zoraida comes before Selim as a captive and is taken to his harem. Selim tries to steal her heart, which, unbeknownst to him, is what Osman intends to distract Sultan from noticing his plans. Meanwhile, Almaimon is saddened by Zoraida's capture. Almaimon receives a scroll about Osman, which would later help with his mission of liberating Egypt and freeing Zoraida. Almaimon meets Osman and tells him his risky plans: an attack while the guards sleep. Zoraida hears false testimony from Zulima that Almaimon is murdered. Zulima worries that her sire Moralmin is dead. Meanwhile, Selim feels betrayed by Osman for the rescue mission, saying he would be noble. However, Selim decides to trust Osman one more time to persuade Almaimon. Selim returns Zoraida to Almaimon. Almaimon thanks God for their reunion.
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