Uncle Lumpy Comes to Visit ; And, No Time

Uncle Lumpy Comes to Visit ; And, No Time
Author: Laurence Klavan
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1986
Genre: American drama
ISBN: 9780822211891

THE STORIES: UNCLE LUMPY COMES TO VISIT. Philip (known in the family as Uncle Lumpy) is not a happy man: His wife has divorced him; he has no job; and he needs to talk to someone--so he goes to the suburban home of his older brother, Lou. Lou is o

On the Edge

On the Edge
Author: Guy Hibbert
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1987
Genre: Despair
ISBN: 9780822208495

THE STORY: The setting is the rubbish-strewn backyard of Betty's rundown bungalow near a U.S. Air Force base in rural England. Deserted by a succession of lovers, Betty makes ends meet by selling herself to the young airmen, while her current live-

Beyond Your Command

Beyond Your Command
Author: Ralph Pape
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1988
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822201137

THE STORY: The place is a black neighborhood in a small city in New Jersey, the time a hot August afternoon in 1963--the day of Dr. Martin Luther King's march on Washington. Nick Alameda, a fast-talking white vacuum cleaner salesman, has been workin

The Happy Time

The Happy Time
Author: Samuel Taylor
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1952
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822204978

THE STORY: The happy time of the title is the growing up of twelve-year-old Bibi Bonnard, youngest member of a gay, uninhibited French family living in Ottawa. Bibi's father is a good-humored whimsical musician, leader of a vaudeville orchestra,

The Holdup

The Holdup
Author: Marsha Norman
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1987
Genre: Scripts
ISBN: 9780822205241

THE STORY: In 1914 in a remote shack on the New Mexico prairie, two young brothers, Archie and Henry Tucker, await the eventual arrival of a wheat threshing crew. Instead they are visited by The Outlaw, a grizzled, aging gunfighter who has shot h

The Dirty Old Man

The Dirty Old Man
Author: Lewis John Carlino
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1964
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822203124

Muzeeka

Muzeeka
Author: John Guare
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1968
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822207962

THE STORY: As the New York Times outlines, It is done almost as a comedy, yet it isn't quite. Jack Argue is the 'hero,' the middle-class man from Connecticut who works for Muzeeka, a piped-music company that inflicts its bland tunes on all America. He is the man who has made it, who tries to assuage his conscience through hypocritical verbiage. There is a series of episodes-Argue chanting a hymn to a penny, Argue loving his wife, Argue loving a prostitute, Argue fighting in Vietnam. If he could have been wherever he chose to be, he says, he would have chosen to be an Etruscan, one of those ancient people who came and went 'a million years ago,' 'a whole civilization danced out of the earth.' Mr. Guare has written with thought, craftsmanship and beauty. His allusions are poetic-the traffic lights, for instance, that make the streets go from grass to blood.

The Drapes Come

The Drapes Come
Author: Charles Dizenzo
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1966
Genre: Amateur plays
ISBN: 9780822203278

Mary, Mary

Mary, Mary
Author: Jean Kerr
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1965
Genre: American drama
ISBN: 9780822207375

THE STORY: As Howard Taubman of the New York Times describes: You will not be overwhelmed to discover that Mary is contrary and that her trouble is basic insecurity. Seems she had an older sister, a stunner. Oh, the traumatic effect on Mary! In hi

Lullaby

Lullaby
Author:
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 80
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9780573622854