Drama Books

A day at Happy Hollow School by Lettie Cook Van Derveer

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

Satirical take on medieval morality plays. 'Chance' narrates the story of how a King tours the country to find a wife; and his encounters with the two women, 'Slut' and 'Tidy.'

1985 - Young Mary Keane is pregnant by a priest when she's taken in by an infamous Magdalene Laundry. 2020 - Businessman Jack Fleming's professional success is marred by personal tragedy and now he to decide what to do with the rest of his life. When by chance he meets the enigmatic Siobhán...

West Berlin 1962 – A veteran of the Italian campaign in 1944 and now an intelligence analyst working for an obscure department within MI6, Harry Male’s job is to separate fact from fiction; truth from lies. But Harry is tormented by recurring nightmares and remains haunted and troubled by...