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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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Outside Mullingar

Anthony Rielly and Rosemary Muldoon have grown up next to each other on two farms in rural Ireland. ...

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Overtones

What secret desires do women have? Alice Gerstenberg’s most famous play Overtones gives voice to...

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Peerless

Jiehae Park’s clever and incisive adaptation of Macbeth is a comedy… until it’s not. Peerless...

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Pipeline

Dominique Morisseau’s hard-hitting drama, Pipeline takes a deep look into the American educational...

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The Playboy of the Western World

The Playboy of the Western World takes place over two days in the countryside of Ireland. A young...

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The Plough and the Stars

Ireland is still under the rule of Great Britain, and the Irish people are preparing to rebel. In a ...

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Private Eyes

A husband and wife, Matthew and Lisa, rehearse a play for a British director, Adrian. Adrian...

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Rebel Without a Cause

Jim Stark is once again the new kid in town. He feels detached from everyone, especially his own...

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Ruined

Set in a small mining town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lynn Nottage’s Ruined follows...

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The Second Mrs. Tanqueray

In The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, Aubrey Tanqueray shocks society when he...

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The Shadow of a Gunman

The first of Sean O’Casey’s Dublin plays, The Shadow of a Gunman takes place in May of 1920 during...

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Six Degrees of Separation

When a young and effortlessly charismatic black con man claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier...

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