18 Ergebnisse.

Full Length, Comedy Characters: 5 male, 4 femaleOne integrated int/ext set.John Singer Sargent, an up-and-coming American artist, is eager to collaborate on a portrait that would catapult him and Madame X, the most beautiful woman in Paris, to the pinnacle of society. With its revelations about Madame X's identity and an eyebrow-raising cast of characters, including Richard Wagner, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Sarah Bernhardt, and Dr. Samuel Pozz...

The Vampire Quintet is a deliciously wicked, tongue-in-cheek, good vs. evil romp of Vampire comedies. These farces are outrageous and magical and set in the most exotic cities in the USA: New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles. Rookie vampires going mad from refusing to suck human blood, fairytale spins on Dracula, showdowns between declining starlets and Hollywood producers, and a Voodoo Queen who's buried alive, the collection celebrates the mad...

Love and Hurricanes¿ ¿is the saga of the Dubonnet family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in Louisiana literature, women and children grown fierce from fighting hurricanes inside and outside the family: beautiful, rebellious Kitten, her manchild, Bunky, her mother, the brutal matriarch, Irene, men like Rooster and Quint: proud, tortured and humorous in all their exotic wonderment. Kitten has to weigh her discontent with her des...

Love and Hurricanes¿ ¿is the saga of the Dubonnet family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in Louisiana literature, women and children grown fierce from fighting hurricanes inside and outside the family: beautiful, rebellious Kitten, her manchild, Bunky, her mother, the brutal matriarch, Irene, men like Rooster and Quint: proud, tortured and humorous in all their exotic wonderment. Kitten has to weigh her discontent with her des...

Full Length, Historical Comedy Characters: 3 male, 4 femaleInteriorUncle Victor is a historical comedy inspired by the classic Russian play, Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov. In this version O'Neill takes the structure of Uncle Vanya and some characters and places them on Waverly Plantation in 1899 Louisiana. While the dialogue and characters are typically Southern, the Louisiana story perfectly parallels the situation of turn-of-the century Russ...

Full Length, Southern Comedy CharacterS: 2 male, 4 female Unit Set Blackjack follows an eccentric Southern family as it is squeezed into the close quarters of a Mississippi cruise ship for the New Year's holiday. Kaitlyn is convinced that she is channeling the poet Baudelaire, and certain that her husband is having an affair with a larger-than-life ship entertainer. Irene, the matriarch of the family, suspects a rift in her daughter's marriag...

Wings of Madness Short Play, Southern DramaCharacters: 1 femaleInterior SetSet in a tacky funeral parlor on a highway outside New Orleans, a murdered beauty taunts the audience, exposing her bare unshrouded back, and explaining why she was murdered. Other imaginary characters--her husband and daughter--add an eerie quality to her already surreal tale.Turtle Soup Short Play, Southern ComedyCharacters: 1 male, 1 femaleInterior SetA young woman f...

Full Length, Southern ComedyCharacters: 2 male, 3 femaleUnit setProperty is a contemporary romantic comedy set in a Garden District mansion in New Orleans. Rooster Dubonnet, a young artist suffering from a terminal disease, is dazzled by love. Raised by an imperious society-driven mother, he has fallen in love with a New-Age nurse. Set during Mardi Gras--when a whole tradition of fun, revelry, and prestige seizes the city-- Rooster is caught b...

Full Length, Southern Comedy Characters: 3 male, 2 female Interior The Mississippi Gulf Coast estate of Irene Dubbonet is an unforgetable place to visit, but who would want to live there? All of her relatives, who hope to inherit it! This is a play about manipulation and what happens to family members' dreams when the odds are stacked against them. A cloud of doom hangs over Serenity Manor, until at last, virtue triumphs. Irene's son, the arti...

Charaters: 3 male, 6 female One Interior/Exterior Set A historical drama that explores Edgar Degas' scandalous visit to New Orleans in 1872. Edgar Degas, the French Impressionist painter, is torn between helping his relatives in America and pursuing a career as a painter. Fame and family obligations come to a head when he discovers he is still in love with his sister-in-law, who is now pregnant and blind. As Edgar struggles with his own e...

Short Play, DramaCharacters: 1 maleOne exterior set or bare stageA young writer faces love, death, and the challenges of creating a joyful life. Setting: Rocky coast of Ireland in the 1930's.

Gothic love stories of old New OrleansThese are stories like no others about facing death, love, and an untimely coming to terms. In Sweet Opium, it was a summer like no other in Bay St Louis, Mississippi, the haunt of the idle New Orleans rich. Seventeen-year-old Sissy should have known Hurricane Katrina was coming. Like Sissy, Rooster, 39, in Inside the Rain, faced a rude upheaval on Felicity Street in Garden District, New Orleans. A stage 4...

> Short Play, Comedy Characters: 2 male, 2 female Bare stage w/props. A Southern comedy about mature love found later in life, and the trouble and insight that such discoveries can bring. Though well-warned, Kitten, a runaway housewife, decides to travel with her Tulane professor, Beau, on a train trip through the Louisiana swamp. Their plans are upset when her son, Bunky, in an effort to punish her, shows up as a stowaway on the train. Kitte...

Full Length, Southern ComedyCharacters: 1 male, 3 femaleUnit SetBlaine Ashton, a medical student in his mid-twenties from a prominent New Orleans family, has fallen in love with a middle-aged actress and is getting married, much to the chagrin of his mentally disturbed sister and his eccentric, alcoholic old Aunt. His Aunt forces him to take care of his sister after he's married and all the southern belles in the household are almost too much ...

Character: 1 femaleIn this play, Marilyn confronts voices in her head to validate her life as an actress. She finds in the afterlife that she must audition and interview to get into heaven and that her judges are her enemies and aborted children. Along the way she is confused and intrigued by the signs she must follow to climb her way into heaven. The play explores the multi-levels of complexity of cult goddess Marilyn Monroe--her vulnerabilit...

As playgoers hear the voices in Marilyn Monroe's head and encounter seven visitors to James Dean, they must rethink their relationships with cultural icons. As they ride through a Louisiana swamp in the middle of a hurricane, they must rethink their own lives and losses. O'Neill can somehow enable her audiences to laugh uproariously while re-examining the lies they have been telling themselves. Katherine H. Adams, HUTCHINSON PROFESSOR OF ENGLI...

Sex, money and decadence among the upper classes in 19th century New Orleans and abroad.

Sex, money and decadence among the upper classes in contemporary New Orleans.