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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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FINE

FINE is piece of drama which enters the lives of Will, a counsellor in a Further Education (FE)...

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Fool for Love

This play takes place in a cheap hotel room. May, Eddie and the Old Man are the main characters....

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Gem of the Ocean

August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle (a series of ten plays each set in a different decade) begins with ...

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Good Hidings

Kate is flying the nest for pastures new. Leaving behind her alcoholic father, older sister, and...

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The Homecoming

Often considered one of Harold Pinter’s most ambiguous plays, The Homecoming explores issues of...

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I Never Saw Another Butterfly

Over 15,000 children passed through the gates of Terezin, a concentration camp 30 miles north of...

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In the Blood

It would be reductive to call In the Blood simply a modern adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s...

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In the Red and Brown Water

The first play in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Brother/Sister Plays Trilogy, In The Red and Brown Water...

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The Insanity of Mary Girard

Based on a true story, The Insanity of Mary Girard is a dark, brooding drama depicting Mary Girard...

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Iphigenia in Tauris

The young princess Iphigenia is being sacrificed to the gods at the hands of her own father,...

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Ivanov

A 35-year-old Russian man named Nikolai Ivanov is having a midlife crisis. He has fallen out of...

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Jitney

Jitney is the eighth play in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle. It takes place in The Hill District...

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