Uncle Lumpy Comes to Visit ; And, No Time

Uncle Lumpy Comes to Visit ; And, No Time PDF

Author: Laurence Klavan

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780822211891

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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 PDF

Author: Guy Hibbert

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780822208495

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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 PDF

Author: Ralph Pape

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780822201137

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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 Holdup

The Holdup PDF

Author: Marsha Norman

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780822205241

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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

Lullaby

Lullaby PDF

Author: Don Appell

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1954

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9780822207078

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THE STORY: Johnny Horton, a truck driver, runs away from home at the age of 38. He elopes to Scranton with Eadie Jackson, a brassy cigarette girl, whom he has met and married all inside of three days. He has done so in an effort to break away from

Best of Friends

Best of Friends PDF

Author: James Elward

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780822201083

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THE STORY: As he had deserted them many years before, the family of Archer Connaught, famous author (and philanderer), receives the news of his death in a plane crash with mixed emotions. His daughter is cool and bitter; his son jumps at the chance

The Happy Time

The Happy Time PDF

Author: Samuel Taylor

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1952

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9780822204978

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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 Great Sebastians

The Great Sebastians PDF

Author: Howard Lindsay

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780822204848

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THE STORY: As described by Chapman in the New York News, the play is an artfully deliberate combination of the legends of Graustark and the writings of George Sokolsky. In it Lunt and Fontanne are a vaudeville combo doing a mind-reading act, and t

Duck Hunting

Duck Hunting PDF

Author: Aleksandr Vampilov

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780822203384

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THE STORY: Constructed out of flashbacks, the play moves backward and forward in time as it probes into the plight of one Zilov, an engineer who has achieved a certain position in the Soviet bureaucracy, but has lost his will to live. He has come t