THE STORY: As the play begins, Ada, the Countess of Lovelace, who was Byron's only legitimate daughter, is writing her will. She is thirty-six (the same age at which her father died) and dying of cancer. While she had been estranged from her father

Childe Byron.

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Heathen Valley.

Humor & Entertainment

For a cast of 10 men and 5 women. THE STORY: Seeking to retrieve his runaway wife (and the possessions she has taken with her), Coleman Shedman arrives at the rural meeting house of a southern pentecostal sect with a lawyer in tow. But his wife, Nancy, is unwilling to forsake the love and protection of her new "husband," the Reverend Obediah Buckhorn, and return to the brutal, hard-drinking Coleman. And when the strapping Reverend Buckhorn himself arrives, it is quickly evident that Coleman will not be able to take her back by force. Rich with atmosphere and the feel of southern rural life, the play blends humor and poignancy as it probes into the circumstances and stories of the various cult members-culminating in a gripping snake-handling scene in which the cynical Coleman, to his own amazement, is himself converted to a true believer.

Holy Ghosts: A Play in Two Acts

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The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks.

THE STORY: An Army general and his wife have committed a ritual double suicide during a Halloween party in the officers' club at Schofield Barracks, and now an official court of inquiry has been convened to investigate their shocking, and apparentl

Sand Mountain. by Linney,Romulus; Linney,Romulus. [1998] Paperback

Sand Mountain.

THE STORY: Set in the mountains of North Carolina in 1870, the play deals with a frontier family; father, mother and son, who work long hours to wrest a living from the small farm they have bought from the county. Unexpectedly an old woman appears, perhaps deranged, and carrying a cowbell and a broken bit of mirror. They offer her food and drink, and she talks of her youth-which was apparently spent on the very farm which is now theirs. Years before, to ward off suitors, the woman had declared that she would only marry a man who could take her to Tennessee, but one man accepted her dare, selling off good bottom land to do so. Now in her later years, she realizes that the new farm which they carved from the wilderness was not in Tennessee at all, but only seven miles distant over the hills. Mingling scenes from past and present, the play is rich both in atmosphere and real emotion as it unfolds its tale of lives lived sometimes perilously but always to the full-and with the indomitable spirit which characterized those who laid the foundations of a great nation.

Tennessee.

THE STORIES: Three women who were astonishing poets are the subjects of this trio of linked short plays. Ono no Komachi (Japan, 9th century), Hrosvitha (Gandersheim, Saxony, 10th century), and Anna Akhmatova (USSR, 20th century) fight for their liv

Three Poets.

THE STORY: Part I, TORQUEMADA, takes place in 1490, in the middle of questioning by the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, Archbishop Tomas de Torquemada, and his two assistants, Brother Puyal and Bishop Acero. This day, the most ordinary of crimes --angr

Spain - Acting Edition

THE STORY: April, 1945. The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials against the leaders of Nazi Germany are about to begin. Hermann Goering, in the place of Adolf Hitler, leads the accused and with his German counsel, prepares his defense. Drug free and health

2 - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

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Childe Byron.

Heathen Valley.

Holy Ghosts: A Play in Two Acts

The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks.

The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks.

Sand Mountain.

Tennessee.

Three Poets.

Spain - Acting Edition

2 - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)