Peter finds his love for Rita put to the test when, during their honeymoom, her soul migrates to the body of an old man dying of cancer

Prelude to a Kiss (Drama, Plume)

Literature & Fiction

Lucas, Craig

Dramas & Plays

Plume

Prelude to a Kiss

After a whirlwind courtship, Rita and Peter marry. Following their storybook wedding, an elderly man congratulates Rita with a kiss. But it is no ordinary kiss. By a quirky twist of fate, the kiss effects a soul switch. Rita finds herself living in the old man's body and the old man in hers. The honeymoon is anything but. To complicate matters, the old man is dying. Peter must think fast to reverse the spell. In a poignant turn, the old man decides to comply, and with another magical kiss, Peter and Rita are reunited.

Dutton

Here is a modern American tragedy about a grieving screenwriter who compromises his ideals to make a small fortune that enables him to climb from invisible poverty into the rarefied seductions and surreal beauty of the Hollywood Hills. Robert's gay lover endured horrific and protracted suffering before Robert helped him to die. Robert's subsequent struggle to come to grips with his own incomprehensible survival and his deep need to find a place in the world that doesn't burn, push him into a lush and intoxicating world of sexual ecstacy and intrigue, even as he privately delves into the techniques and teachings of Buddhism for some footing, no matter how tenuous. With breathtaking speed, Robert is caught in a love triangle with a powerful, ruthless and rapacious film producer and his fascinating but woefully under stimulated wife. The lies that Robert perpetrates become inextricably interwoven with theirs, each person lying to themselves as much as to their partners and the ones they are betraying. Killingly funny and heart stoppingly elegiac, this play is a thrilling dramatic experience.

The Dying Gaul

Humor & Entertainment

Concord Theatricals

Craig Lucas
Full Length, Comedy/Drama
Characters: 3 male, 4 female
Unit set.
A long running Off-Broadway hit by the author of Reckless and God's Heart. Before, during and after a Manhattan dinner party, the guests are revealed with touching comic irony as a cross-section of modern day humanity. The colorful cast includes a narcissistic actor, a parachute instructor, an aspiring songwriter, a secretary and a lesbian couple.
"The function of the piece isn't to narrate the events of this typical New York gathering, it's to angle their disparate fragments into a picture of our life today, of its disconnections and the way in which they mysteriously connect us."-Village Voice 
"An affecting, funny account of a night in some lonely Manhattan lives."-WQXR 
"What Blue Window suggests with the evasiveness of its party chatter and the chill of its most searing monologue is that people are unknowable and life is made up of random pieces of a puzzle that don't fit together the way we think they should."-Newsday

Blue Window A Comedy

DramaCharacters: 3 male, 3 femaleSet Requirement: SimplePrayer for my Enemy was produced Off-Broadway as part of the 2008-2009 Season at Playwrights Horizons.In Prayer for my Enemy, two middle-class families in suburban New York State confront their private demons against the public backdrop of the American incursion into Iraq. As their paths cross in ways that are both comic and terrifying, lies and secrets are at last exposed and an honest, hard-earned redemption is achieved for both."A newly-minted classic." -The New York Times"Craig Lucas's Prayer for My Enemy is a game of hide-and-seek, in which the command of Lucas's writing works as a kind of unspoken promise to the audience: in this series of opaque, impressionistic moments in one family's turmoil, something will be found. The apparent 'enemy' of the title is the bumbling, bombastic Austin Noone, a bipolar Vietnam vet, whose mania has held his family hostage for decades and seems finally to be in abeyance. 'I thank God every day, I hit my knees first and last thing, for this second chance,' Austin, who's in A.A. and six years sober, says. 'I didn't deserve it, but...' The rueful voice of his daughter, Marianne, chimes in. 'We did,' she says.' Prayer for My Enemy ends with an elegiac hymn to devotion, but the play dramatizes a far less comforting thought, one that Austin articulates from his coma. 'Hell is truth seen too late,' he says."-John Lahr, The New Yorker

Prayer for My Enemy

Amélie

Messe, Daniel

Nathan, Tysen

Reckless (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Dramatist's Play Service

The Butler Did It! is a collection of twenty short plays with music written for the One-on-One Program, conceived as a means to create an opportunity for a child to star in his or her own play. Some of the authors included in this volume are Craig

The Butler Did It

Dumas, Charles

Long, Katharine

Reale, Willie

THE STORY: The place is a trendy restaurant in Greenwich Village, empty except for Bill (the pianist) and Walter (the waiter). Three young women, Big Jane, Little Jane and K.C., arrive for dinner, and for the conversation, daydreams and memories wh

Three Postcards (newly revised version).

Craig Lucas and Craig Carnelia

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

After a whirlwind courtship, Rita and Peter marry. Following their storybook wedding, an elderly man congratulates Rita with a kiss. But it is no ordinary kiss. By a quirky twist of fate, the kiss effects a soul switch. Rita finds herself living in the old man's body and the old man in hers. The honeymoon is anything but. To complicate matters, the old man is dying. Peter must think fast to reverse the spell. In a poignant turn, the old man decides to comply, and with another magical kiss, Peter and Rita are reunited.

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Prelude to a Kiss (Drama, Plume)

Prelude to a Kiss

The Dying Gaul

Blue Window A Comedy

Prayer for My Enemy

Amélie

Reckless (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

The Butler Did It

Three Postcards (newly revised version).

Prelude to a Kiss