Drama Books
When the Siren Cries
Sex, secrets and lies on the America-Mexico border. When a reckless affair destroys her marriage, heartbroken Isobel flees to California wanting nothing more than to rebuild her life. Pursued by two men with secrets to hide, struggling Hollywood actor Ryan and mysterious millionaire Lance, when...
Please Pass the Cream: A Comedy
Please pass the cream: A comedy by Charles Nevers Holmes
Love and tea: A comedy-drama of colonial times in two acts
Miss Boltwood, a despotic spinster, is persuaded to join a band of ladies who have sworn to give up tea and all taxed articles till the Revolutionary War is over. The tea habit is too strong for Miss Boltwood and she drinks it secretly. Her niece, Betty, discovers this and uses the information to...
A day at Happy Hollow School
A day at Happy Hollow School by Lettie Cook Van Derveer
Masks: One-Act Plays of Contemporary Life
The doorway from the public stairs opens immediately upon the living-room without the intervening privacy of a small hallway. The room was, no doubt, more formally pretentious in the early days of the Williams’ marriage; but the relics of that time—some rigid mahogany chairs and stray pieces...
Mary Magdalene: A Play in Three Acts
I have borrowed from Mr. Paul Heyse’s drama, Maria von Magdala, the idea of two situations in my play, namely, at the end of the first act, the intervention of Christ, who stops the crowd raging against Mary Magdalene with these words, spoken behind the scenes: “He that is without sin among...
Thomas Heywood
Thomas Heywood was an English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. He is best known for his masterpiece A Woman Killed with Kindness, a domestic tragedy, which was first performed in 1603 at the Rose Theatre by the Worcester's...
The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer is a play written by Samson Raphaelson, based on his short story "The Day of Atonement". It debuted on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre in 1925. A highly influential movie adaptation was released in 1927, starring Al Jolson.The story: Jackie Rabinowitz, the son of Jewish immigrants...
Obsidian's War
As the grandson and son of founding settlers of a thriving planet on the Imperial rim Gellibrand Obsidian stood to inherit billions, but his heritage also meant he had a manipulative mother with crazy political schemes. To avoid these he turns his back on the fortune to join the sector infantry as...
Life at 21 Lane
Old time playboy, Banjo, is hell bent on tricking his two stepdaughters and his son out of their inheritance. That was after he reappeared soon after their mother’s death and laid claim to her property by moving his other woman and her relatives into the house. He then chased away his two...