Download or read book Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music And Toys for Men written by Lee Blessing and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOYS FOR MEN: Comedy. Love enters and disrupts the simple lives of two tough beer-drinking Texas blue-collar men.
Download or read book Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Eve Wilfong, who lives over the Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music Bar, is paid a visit by her niece Catherine Empanger, a novice nun who's been asked to leave her convent. It seems Catherine suffers from a curious compulsion to
Download or read book My Uncle Sam written by Len Jenkin and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncle Sam was a novelties salesman who died one night, alone and broke, in a Pittsburgh hotel. But he was also a larger-than-life figure, a mythic hero, to his nephew who now seeks to discover his uncle's true story. His quest is a quixotic and picaresque one, involving a seductive nightclub singer who promises to marry Sam if he can locate his ne'er-do-well brother (who absconded with the proceeds from a robbery), and developing into a series of sometimes funny, sometimes hair-raising episodes as the nephew "becomes" his uncle in his youth and journeys to a remote lighthouse, a rather sinister university laboratory, an opium den, the clinic of a Mexican quack, and a very odd miniature golf course all intriguingly distorted, as though viewed through a funhouse mirror. In the end it is really the landscape of the mind that is explored and illuminated, as the trail leads back to Old Sam and the disquieting knowledge that dreams and reality are, in the final essence, often one and the same, with the "truth" still remaining tantalizingly out of reach.
Download or read book Popkins written by Murray Schisgal and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As the play begins Chuck Popkin, an underpaid assistant editor, is greeted by his wife, Claudia, with the unsettling news that she is leaving him, not for another man but for another woman: Eleanor Lipton in the public relations departme
Download or read book The Theater of Lee Blessing written by Philip Zwerling and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for Pulitzer, Tony and Obie awards, among others, Lee Blessing has shaped American theater over the last 40 years. Tackling subjects like child abuse, racism, sexism and war, as well as baseball, love and religion, Blessing has dedicated himself to investigating and dramatizing both the triumphs and evils of contemporary society. This book examines for the first time all 44 of his plays, and includes one of his unpublished scripts, providing a definitive text on a playwright whose thought-provoking work has been performed around the world.
Download or read book Simply Heavenly written by David Martin and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1959 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The New York Journal-American, called SIMPLY HEAVENLY ...a treat. This story by Langston Hughes, based on his novels about Jesse B. Semple, a Joe Doakes Harlemite, seems...to capture the color and the humor and poetry of these neighbors-to-
Download or read book The Pleasure of His Company written by Samuel Taylor and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1961 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As told by McClain, A somewhat tarnished international playboy returns to the San Francisco home of his former wife to give away their daughter in marriage. He hasn't laid eyes on the girl since she was a sprout and now discovering her
Download or read book Eh written by Henry Livings and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1968-10 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Set in a factory boiler room, with the main prop the boiler itself, a great hiccuping, squealing, roaring, glug-glugging behemoth, the play details the plight of a hardy individualist caught in the over-protective web of mechanized, comp
Download or read book Mr Mrs written by Kevin Wade and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1984 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Sam Dawkins, a successful young portrait artist, is low-key, quietly observant and genuinely in love with Blake Upton, an ambitious, energetic television reporter who is doggedly determined to become a network anchorwoman. Although both
Download or read book Under the Yum yum Tree written by Lawrence Roman and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1961 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Howard Taubman writes:Hogan is the landlord who occupies the apartment next door. He rents the cozy diggings in which the story takes place to women who generally require some sort of solacing. He is a man on the prowl, and is the first
Download or read book Twain Plus Twain written by Bernard Sabath and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: In the first play, SUMMER MORNING VISITOR, a young man of Southern background but Northern sympathies agonizes over which side to join in the growing conflict that will become the Civil War. Befriended by a young Missouri woman whose h
Download or read book Four Plays written by Lee Blessing and published by Heinemann Drama. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology contains four of Blessing's earlier works: Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music; Eleemosynary; Independence; and Riches.
Download or read book Bite the Hand And Mooncastle written by Ara Watson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: BITE THE HAND. The place is the back porch of an old house in a small town in South Dakota, the time the summer of 1947. Reba (in her forties) and April (in her twenties) are two women who, forced to fend for themselves when the local
Download or read book Duel of Angels written by Jean Giraudoux and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1961 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As told by Watts, To express its somewhat moderate viewpoint, it takes us to Aix in the middle of the last century and introduces two ladies of contrasting temperaments. One is so concerned with sexual virtue that she snubs women of les
Download or read book Elm Circle written by Mick Casale and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The action begins in Troy, New York, where Janet Ann, a lonely teenager with a vivid imagination, chafes under the restraints imposed by her blue-collar family. She dreams of becoming a movie star and believes that she is on her way towa
Download or read book Bernadine written by Mary Chase and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main people (according to Chapman) “are seven or eight youths who might be called nice Dead End kids. These lads love practical jokes, hang out in a beer parlor in a Western town, and talk endlessly about females and their conquests over same. But they are sham hoodlums; they are good kids from good families trying to grow up. Their leader is a fascinating young man nicknamed Beau, who has a crazy twinkle in his eye and a supple imagination. When things grow dull with his companions, he cheers them up with tales of the ideal town, where the boys stay downstairs and send their parents up to bed. In his [ideal] town, Sneaky Falls, Idaho…it is the mothers who enlist in the Navy and their sons run around like crazy mailing them packages of cookies. This chap Beau…has invented for the gang the ideal female. She is slinky, sexy and willing, being from Sneaky Falls, where only one word is spoken. The word is 'Yes.' The girl’s name is Bernardine…The only really unhappy member of the crowd is a character named Wormy. Wormy wants to be a big wheel, a conquering male, the way the others say they are—but somehow he can’t make it. His attempts at playing wolf never succeed, and none of the girls in the town will date him. His mother’s watchful affection bores and irks him. In one great, desperate effort to become important in the eyes of his companions, he hangs out in a hotel lobby and makes passes until he succeeds with an older woman who must be at least in her twenties, maybe thirties. Wormy’s adventure is agonizing and funny."
Download or read book Lemons written by Kent Broadhurst and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The scene is the showroom of Beuchel Goodee Motors in a midsized American city, where several of the latest model Edgarand Beamus automobiles are on gleaming display. Also on hand are the fast-talking, commission-hungry salesmen who pedd
