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Possession: A Peep-Show in Paradise
Laurence Housman
Death brings no relief to the small-minded, as three sisters reunite in a Victorian afterlife to resume their petty squabbles over tea-pots, furniture, and family grievances.
The World Above: A Duologue
Martha Foote Crow
A pair of subterranean laborers, shackled by darkness and doubt, risk everything to reach the blinding, beautiful reality of the world above. Their journey is a quiet, ethereal exploration of human connection and the necessity of hope.
Princess Kiku: A Japanese Romance. A Play for Girls
M. F. Hutchinson
A spirited, turn-of-the-century parlor play written exclusively for female casts, blending Victorian sensibilities with a romanticized, theatrical vision of Japan.
The Flutter of the Goldleaf, and Other Plays
Olive Tilford Dargan
An ambitious vision of human potential unites these four brief, ideas-driven plays. Though varied in setting—from a cold New England attic to a lotus-scented Chinese garden, a symbolic dreamscape, and an ancient Greek courtyard—the collection consistently pits visionary thinkers against a world bound by material…
Love's Comedy
Henrik Ibsen
A young poet challenges the hollow, performative romance of his social circle, only to discover that preserving the purity of love may require an impossible sacrifice.
For the parson of Paradise
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
A down-on-his-luck parson, a self-important Shakespearean actor, and two wandering cowboys collide in a small Western town, turning the production of a community play into a genuine disaster. This farce captures the collision between high-minded artistic aspirations and the chaotic, irreverent reality of frontier life.
The Gibson Upright
Booth Tarkington
HOOK When a factory owner hands his business over to his striking employees to prove a point, he discovers that the reality of ownership is far more chaotic than the dream of liberation.
A Night in Avignon
Cale Young Rice
A rejected lover renounces his ideal of pure, chaste adoration in favor of a reckless night of wine and sensual pleasure, only for his beloved to appear at his door to offer her heart just as the revelry begins.
Poor Jack: A play in one act
Unknown
This intimate one-act play imagines the final, melancholy intersection between Shakespeare’s legendary knight, Sir John Falstaff, and the woman he loved in his youth. It serves as a poignant coda to a life defined by excess and artifice.
The daughter of Jorio
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Deep in the stubborn, archaic valleys of the Abruzzi, an innocent shepherd and a hunted outcast become bound by a tragic, transcendent love that defies ancient curses.
The waltz of the dogs
Leonid Andreyev
The Waltz of the Dogs is a claustrophobic, haunting drama about a man who retreats into a private world of cold logic and murderous intent. It is a stark study of isolation, betrayal, and the unraveling of the human psyche.