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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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The Piano Lesson

The Piano Lesson is the fourth play in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle. It takes place in 1936 and ...

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Sweat

It’s the year 2000 in Reading, Pennsylvania and a group of friends go to work at the steel mill and ...

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Agamemnon

Agamemnon, the king of Argos, is returning victorious from the Trojan War. He expects a glorious...

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The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Amongst the rubble of a bombed out village in the Caucasus Mountains, in the Soviet Republic of...

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The Children's Hour

Set in a fictional New England town in the 1930s, The Children’s Hour tells the story of two women...

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Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

Perestroika follows on chronologically and plot-wise from Millennium Approaches. It is a complex...

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The Changeling

One of the finest examples of Jacobean tragedy, The Changeling explores honor and madness through...

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Constellations

Suppose that life exists in a multiverse -- a set of parallel existences that contain infinitely...

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The Flick

In a movie theater near Worcester, MA (called The Flick) -- one of the few that hasn't yet switched ...

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Indecent

Indecent by Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel tells the story of Sholem Asch’s controversial...

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Love, Loss and What I Wore

Adapted from Ilene Beckerman’s memoir of the same name, Love, Loss and What I Wore is a collection...

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The Outsiders

Christopher Sergel’s play is a faithful adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age-novel about rival ...

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