Betrayal

PINTER, HAROLD

Dramatists Play Service

The Nerd A Comedy (Acting Version)

Shue, Larry

Crimes Of The Heart

Henley, Beth

Am I Blue

Literature & Fiction

Beth Henley

Dramas & Plays

For 2 Men and 3 Women. It is the Catskills, in the summer of 1960. Lili Adler is the troubled twenty-year-old daughter of a wealthy German-Jewish refugee. By the shore of a lake, she meets Nick Lockridge, a golden young man who looks to her as if "nothing ever happened to him." Over the summer, Lili comes to view Nick as her savior, and Nick's fondness for Lili grows; but to Eva, Lili's autocratic mother, Nick is an object of suspicion, and the romance that blossoms between him and Lili is an unfortunate condition that must be indulged before it can be obliterated. Eva knows she will find out something about Nick which will unmask his unworthiness. To find it, she patiently manipulates Nick's revelations about his past to prove him unfit for Lili. By play's end, time, past injuries, and the imperatives of history will conspire to bear out Eva's dictum that happiness exists "but it's for other people."

The American Plan

Richard Greenberg

Cast: 2 Men, 2 Women. As Martin Gottfried outlines: "The president of a large corporation is using the executive suite to house his young mistress, whom he sees once a week. A young man who has sold his factory to the middle-aged romancer is chagrined to find it about to be closed for tax advantages. Directed to the suite by a new secretary, he comes upon the girl, then the wife and finally the president. But the plot takes nice little turns. When the young man meets the mistress she tells him that he was misdirected, that his is not the executive suite but 'a special arrangement-like a scholarship.' Eyeing the diamond necklace she received for a birthday gift, he remarks, 'You must have made dean's list.' When the wife finds them she assumes they are a nice young married couple and between the playful pretense of the two and the older woman's romantic concern for them, Miss Resnik builds a delightful scene...With the completion of the mixed-up quartet by the husband's return, the fun bubbles happily along right through the...two acts-it is a happy comedy with the giddy bubble of champagne." A smash-hit Broadway success, this delightful comedy deals with four very engaging and believable people: a millionaire businessman; his disarmingly innocent mistress; his hoodwinked wife; and an irate victim of his sharp practice; whose paths cross each other under the most unexpected and hilarious circumstances.

Any Wednesday: Acting Edition

Muriel Resnik

THE STORY: Tells of two inspired French comedians, both popular favorites. A beautiful woman, in love with both of them, agrees to build them their ideal theatre. Then the rivalry begins: for she agrees to marry the better actor. In tour-de-force

The Crocodile Smile.

Lee, Robert E.

Lawrence, Jerome

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?.

Don Peterson

A group of friends who came of age in the sixties have a reunion in an old Missouri farmhouse, where their reminiscences reveal shattered hopes, buried resentments, lost dreams, and the unhealed trauma of the Vietnam War.

Fifth of July (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Lanford Wilson

The girls of the garden club : a comedy in three acts

Patrick, John

John, Patrick

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