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Author
Publisher
French
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
Jerry Orbach and Jane Alexander created the roles on Broadway in this urban romantic comedy. A vacant apartment with six rooms and a river view is open for inspection by prospective tenants, and among them are a man and a woman, strangers when they meet. As the last to leave, they find themselves locked in and though both are happily married, discover a mutual attraction as they wait out the long night ahead. -- publisher.
Author
Publisher
S. French
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
Amy and Michael Ruskin are celebrating their fifteenth wedding anniversary and their upcoming divorce. Michael is a reformed television writer turned playwright. Amy is competitive but inwardly insecure The play is structured as a series of flashbacks. After the opening scene, the play goes back in time ten years and recreates the various special occasions which make up marriages: anniversaries, weddings, funerals, play openings and other catastrophes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
Passions flare and tempers rise when three couples cross paths at a country house one weekend. It all begins with the arrival of Reg and his wife, Sarah. They've come to give Reg's younger sister, Annie, a few days' break from caring for their bedridden mother. However, Annie confides that she's seeing someone, not Tom, the single young vet who's pursuing her, but her brother-in-law, Norman. Appalled, Sarah informs Norman's wife, Ruth, and all hell...
68) The nerd: a play
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service Inc
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Comedy. A young architect is visited by a man who saved his life in Vietnam. The guest turns out to be inept, a bumbling "nerd," overstaying his welcome. 2 acts, 3 scenes, 5 men, 2 women, 1 interior.
"Now an aspiring young architect in Terre Haute, Indiana, Willum Cubbert has often told his friends about the debt he owes to Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-GI whom he has never met but who saved his life after he was seriously wounded in Vietnam. He has...
70) Bird in the hand
Author
Publisher
Dramatic Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A man who runs a theme park in Miami dedicated to tropical birds takes us on a tour of his final year in high school. He explains how he came to inherit the park from his father and lose his best friend in the process. The narrator feels caged and out of place, much like the imported birds he cares for. He considers choices he might have made and daydreams about how his life might have turned out differently. A wry comedy full of striking images,...
Author
Publisher
Maunsel and Co
Pub. Date
1913.
Language
English
Description
Moore wrote ten plays, a number of them in connection with his involvement with the Irish Literary Theatre. Elizabeth Cooper was first performed in the Haymarket Theatre in London in 1913. That same year, Moore also adapted his groundbreaking novel Esther Waters as a play. Moore, who was notorious for constantly revising and republishing his work, rewrote Elizabeth Cooper as The Coming of Gabrielle in 1921.
76) Marvin's room
Author
Series
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Bessie attempts to care for her disabled aunt and bedridden father until she is diagnosed with leukemia and must learn to depend on others.
Author
Series
Yale studies in English ; 184
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
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