October 1, 1993
Sex with the Man on the Moon
Characters PONY THE NARRATOR: middle-aged man, originally from the West, but now “citified.” PONY THE YOUNGER: younger version of the Narrator, as he was immediately after Vietnam. Should be sexy, […]
April 1, 1993
From the Living
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. […]
April 1, 1993
From Ambrosio
Cordoba, Spain, 1500. A handsome monk, AMBROSIO, preaches a sermon, saying God made evil so we can freely choose the good. He is visited in his cell by a novice, […]
April 1, 1993
In the Devil’s Bathtub
Characters TERRY McCALLUM, 40 WALTER McCALLUM, 35 LITTLE OTIS BASKIN, 30 Place Upstate. By the side of a pond. Time The Present. Summer. Night. Man turns his back on his […]
April 1, 1993
Family Pride in the 50s: A Comedy of Menace
MISE EN SCENE: Inside a giant TV set of the 1950s. Two families at holiday dinner in the 1950s. Everybody eating, passing food, arranging their minds. Total silence. Excruciation. DOROTHY […]
April 1, 1993
White Money, Part I Snake Eye
Characters ELLA: a woman in her late twenties, early thirties SNAKES: her former husband, 55, a truck driver NERVENE: former wife of Snakes, a lady with a truck Setting A trailer house with […]
April 1, 1993
LITTLE WOMEN: The Tragedy
Conceived by Split Britches Company, scripted by Deborah Margolin, with additional text by Louisa May Alcott and Peggy Shaw, directed by Lois Weaver, and performed by Deborah Margolin, Peggy Shaw […]
April 1, 1993
From a Murder of Crows
PERSONS OF THE PLAY SUSANNAH: a young person with a vision and a hearty contempt for her elders NELLA: her mom RAYMOND: her dad—maybe dead—GEORGIA: her aunt HOWARD: her uncle […]
October 1, 1992
From the Secret Mirror: Four Short Plays
THE CALL Lights up. A man, in his thirties, of moderate height, not overly muscular but implicitly aggressive, addresses the audience. He wears casual clothes, is neither stylish nor poorly […]
July 1, 1992
Battle in the Barn
From the Spanish. TRANSLATOR’S NOTE Mauricio Rosencof, born in 1933, is a Uruguayan playwright of international reputation. His better known works, among them Las Ranas (The Frogs, 1961), and Los […]
April 1, 1991
The Universal Wolf: A Vicious New Version of Little Red Riding Hood. A Faux French Comedy of Menace
A little proscenium stage with red velvet curtains. It sits on the larger stage like a telephone booth or a police box—and carries with it the same sense of endangered […]
April 1, 1991
Brussels Sprouts
Characters ELLIE BURNS—Early Thirties, a College Professor BILLY WESTERMAN—Early Thirties, a Sikh Time Early morning. The present. Place An office in the English Department of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. ELLIE […]