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Dramatic Plays

Guides for dramatic plays including detailed plot summaries, character breakdowns, video examples, scenes and monologues.

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Paradise Blue

In a strip of Detroit known as Paradise Valley, a man named Blue struggles to keep his father’s...

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Pocatello

A failing Italian restaurant in the small town of Pocatello, Idaho, celebrates “famigilia week” in...

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The River

On a moonless night in August when the sea trout are ready to run, the Man brings his new...

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Saint Joan

Shaw's play is a fictionalized version of the historical life of Joan of Arc. Young Joan, a French...

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stretchmarks

Stretchmarks is a hilarious, heartfelt play about the journey of a lifetime: motherhood! It is the ...

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The Sun

In The Sun, a soldier returns from the WWI front to reunite with his fiancée, only to discover that ...

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Tis Pity She's a Whore

A brother and sister and their forbidden love - this is the premise of John Ford’s dark revenge...

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Top Girls

Set in the early 1980s, Top Girls depicts the lifestyle and life choices of its central character,...

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The Whale

In a run-down apartment in rural Idaho, surrounded by screens and food containers, a six-hundred...

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Yerma

Simon Stone’s modern adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s play, Yerma, tells the story of an...

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4.48 Psychosis

Named for the early morning time that playwright Sarah Kane would wake, 4.48 Psychosis is an...

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4000 Miles

Ninety-one year old political activist Vera Joseph’s solitary existence is entirely shaken when her ...

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