“One has to be wary of one-man shows about historical figures: more often they float on the personality of the actor rather than the quality of the memories themselves. Yet Owen S Rackleff, as a culler of Escoffier anecdotes into dramatic form, distinguishes himself with a rich flow of miscellanea about this legendary French chef of the early part of this century.” Kip Gould, Other Stages 

Escoffier: King of Chefs

Literature & Fiction

Rackleff, Owen S

Dramas & Plays

Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated

This provocative chronicle, interspersed with fantasy sequences from Alice In Wonderland, traces the career of Charles Dodgson (better know as Lewis Carroll) from his first work on the immortal classic, to his near downfall when accused of immorality.

Looking Glass

Sutton, Michael

Mandelberg, Cynthia

Electricity is the central metaphor and expressive image in this unusual love story which takes place in an electrical repair shop. "It's fun to listen to BATTERY. Daniel Therriault's dialogue is a ripe blend of primitive slang and advanced metaphor, dotted with enough comedy to ward off weariness and pretense. The entertainment value never flags." -Don Shirley, Los Angeles Times "Daniel Therriault's first play, BATTERY, is one of those rare efforts by a young writer which reminds you of why you keep going to new plays. Sometimes you actually run across a writer of talent with a play which makes you care about the characters from the opening lines right through to the final blackout. BATTERY is one of those plays. The controlling electrical metaphor proves an expressive image for the sparks Therriault's flashing, punning pen ignites. BATTERY pleases exceptionally." -Tish Dace, Other Stages

Battery

Therriault, Daniel

On the eve of his departure from Paris, Benjamin Franklin and his French contemporaries avoid good-bys by engaging in charades and parlor games. The passions of revolution are overshadowed by the intensity of personal relationships in this structurally inventive play within a play.

Balloon

Sunde Karen

These three haunting pieces have always been one of the most popular titles from Broadway Play Publishing. THE WOMAN WITH 27 CHILDREN and BELLE OF THE BIJOU are monologues. LATE/LATE...COMPUTER DATE is a one-act for two women. All three plays call for simple interior sets. THE WOMAN WITH 27 CHILDREN: Angel lives alone in the house on the hill, built by her now-deceased husband, Vernon, the love of her life. She is utterly lost without him to guide her. He carved so many beautiful things, but the most treasured, were the exquisite lifelike wooden dolls. He presented her with one each Christmas (because she could not have children). Eventually there were twenty-seven dolls treated as real children. Confused and disoriented, Angel sits recalling their life, speaking to the last-carved child as if he were Vernon, telling of the plight taking place the tax people coming to take their home, and the only solution is to sell the priceless dolls to the museum, which tears her apart, because 'you can't sell your own children!' Ultimately, she believes Vernon is back with her, and all his statues are standing once more in the magic circle, and it s time to retire. In the morning, "We'll take all but one child to the museum." LATE/LATE...COMPUTER DATE: Isobel and Veronica, spinster sisters, live alone in genteel clutter. Both are retired from the candy factory, where they spent years as candy dippers. Mama and Daddy died in a car accident, and the insurance money has been metered out over years to give reluctant Veronica the niceties of life ballet lessons, tours, and trips. The last of the money is now financing a computer date for Veronica, who has never had a date, and Isobel feels she should have one date before she dies. On the evening of this first date, all is in a dither. Time passes and shy Veronica returns from her date her computer match never showed up, but she did dance with someone else. This alarms Isobel, who is even more alarmed to hear that the stranger gave Veronica his phone number and wants to take her out. There is a struggle of wills. After Veronica retires, Isobel destroys the card bearing the man's phone number, a final desperate act to keep control of their lives. BELLE OF THE BIJOU: Tonight Belle has come to clean out her movie memorabilia accumulated over the years in the ticket taker booth in the now closed Bijou Theatre. The process reveals her bleak life, dominated by her obsession with the movies and her even bleaker future, with plans to move to Hollywood, taking along her life-size cardboard cutout of Clark Gable. Fear about leaving her ticket booth, her only true reality, overwhelms her.

One Acts and Monologues for Women

Bollow, Ludmilla

A musical presentation of magical and possible events in the lives of two women born in the 19th century.

Mollie Bailey's Traveling Family Circus Featuring Scenes from the Life of Mother Jones

Terry, Megan

Metcalf, JoAnne

This book contains the vocal piano score for two Broadway plays - Croesus &amp; the Witch &amp; Hansel &amp; Gretel. Both plays contain the music with lyrics &amp; the speaking parts. The music is arranged for voice &amp; piano.

Croesus and the Witch - Hansel and Gretel in the 1980's

Thomas, Marie

Grant, Michi

Grant, Micki

Carroll, Vinnette

BUBBLING BROWN SUGAR tells the story of Harlem in the Golden Years. Taking many of the great songs from the era, Loften Mitchell has woven an ebullient tale of a time gone by. This musical, which started a whole wave of Broadway shows by and about black composers, had its beginnings at Rosetta LeNoire's Amas Rep. It then moved on to a lengthy run on Broadway, London's West End, and both national and European tours.

Bubbling Brown Sugar

Mitchell, Loften

LeNoire, Rosetta

This chilling whodunnit is about a woman who runs “Mystery Weekend Tours” at Coldblood Cottage, her ancestral home. Paying guests costume themselves as their favorite crime character and follow a fascinating path of clues, motives, and alibis. When a real murder happens, suddenly it’s not so clear where the game has ended.

Murder Game

Kelly, Tim

This collection includes nine monologues concerned with sexual and domestic issues and female oppression: A WOMAN ALONE, MAMMA FRICCHETONA (THE FREAK MOMMY), WAKING UP, WE ALL HAVE THE SAME STORY, DIALOGUE FOR A SINGLE VOICE, MEDEA PROLOGUE, MEDEA, MONOLOGUE OF A WHORE IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM, and IT HAPPENS TOMORROW. Dario Fo and Franca Rame are Italy's best-known performers, playwrights, and political activists. Award-winning actress and director Estelle Parsons toured this version of ORGAMSO ADULTO ESCAPES FROM THE ZOO, concluding with a triumphant run at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York. A WOMAN ALONE: Maria, a housewife, has been locked up at home by her jealous husband. Come to think of it, all the men in her life have been oppressing her. Good thing she has a gun. MAMMA FRICCHETONA (THE FREAK MOMMY): A mother becomes a gypsy in order to pursue her son who has joined a commune. WAKING UP: A working-class woman prepares for work while taking care of her baby. Meanwhile, her husband sleeps. WE ALL HAVE THE SAME STORY: A woman's double is a doll who says four-letter words to attract men. DIALOGUE FOR A SINGLE VOICE: A young woman invites her boyfriend up to her room. If her father wakes up, he'll cut off the young man's balls with an ax. MEDEA PROLOGUE: An introduction to the monologue MEDEA. MEDEA: A rebellious woman reacts to betrayal by resorting to infanticide. MONOLOGUE OF A WHORE IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM: A prostitute tells her life story to a psychiatrist. IT HAPPENS TOMORROW: A woman relates her story of torture as a political prisoner. "The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose. First of all because we women have been crying for two thousand years. So let's laugh now, even at ourselves. And also because a certain gentleman of the theatre, who knew a lot, a certain Molière, used to say: When you go to the theatre and see a tragedy, you identify, empathise, cry, cry, cry, then go home and say, 'What a good cry I had tonight,' and you have a good night's sleep. The social significance went by like water over glass. But for us to provoke you to laughter ... you have to have a brain, you have to be alert ... to laugh you throw open your mouth and also your brain and into your brain are hammered the nails of reason." Franca Rame "Set at the point where reality and ideology rub up against each other, [these] monologues are vivid, concise and entertaining comments on the female condition ... comic-but-angry, raw-but-precise." The Independent (London) "... buoyant, angry and vitally funny monologues ... the evening becomes a rich human comedy of the sexes. Even as the women rail against their male oppressors, they see the bigger picture their own contradictions and absurdities, the social forces that grind down men and women alike, the whole messy business of living with the alien other gender." Steven Winn, S F Gate "Subversive wit and theatrical extravagance." L A Weekly "Funny and lusty." L A Times

Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo

Franca Rame

Dario Fo

Estelle Parsons

Parsons, E.

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