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Adrian Guthrie: plays & adaptation
Adrian Guthrie has directed more than fifty productions and he has had over twenty-five works for stage produced. In the early nineteen seventies, Adrian started the Claremont Theatre Centre in South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia. He has a particular fascination with the performing arts in Japanese Society. He has been influenced by both traditional and contemporary Japanese theatre. PLAYS OF PURE LAND are short works he has written that explore some aspects of traditional no plays. Adrian set up the Theatre Studies offerings at the University of Western Sydney - Macarthur. He has a Master of Creative Arts Degree and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wollongong. This site contains information, archives and articles/papers and plays/adaptations written by Adrian.
More scripts than you could ever possibly want or need.
This is the site for free information about anything associated with amateur theatre. Also contains a vast array of references to other sites including playwrights and script centre.
An Agency for Emerging Authors
Ray L'Dera is an authors representative, via this site you can browse titles and synopses of plays as well as download excerpts for many of them.
Baie Comeau High Reader Theatre Scripts
A collection of about 30 readers theatre scripts from a school in Canada. All downloadable in PDF.
Baker's Plays - Walter H. Baker Company
A source for all your theatre needs and the hottest new script and book title.
"Bang Bang You're Dead" is a resource for dealing with a broken world that's violent, unhealthy, unfair, and beyond the power of anyone to fix except today's generation. The play is a free gift for students to perform in schools, garages, street corners, parks, houses of worship -- anyplace there can be communication and discovery about how we've made the world's violence our own. And how we can change it. It's about a theater of life. The play requires a minimum of 11 actors, little in the way of production values, and runs 40 minutes. You can download the play and perform it for FREE by following the license agreement and instructions on the DOWNLOADS page. When you schedule a performance, please add it to the PERFORMANCE CALENDAR.
An amazing collection of online texts. Includes many scripts, novels, study guides and more.
I'm a guy from Nebraska...raised in Kenesaw, living in Lincoln. Got a degree in advertising from the University of Nebraska because it was the sensible thing to do. If you ever need to know anything about advertising, don't ask me. I don't remember any of it. Years went by, blah, blah, blah...Finally I got into acting, and after a few years of that, suddenly realized that I could combine that with my love of writing and write plays. (alright, so I'm a little slow).
Bradley Hayward grew up in Oxbow, Saskatchewan, where the overall lack of things to do left Bradley plenty of time to write plays and direct their premieres. His first performed play, Backstage Broadway, won numerous awards at the 1998 SDA Region 1 Play Festival, including Outstanding Achievement in Playwrighting. Since then he has moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. This site has quite a collection of original material.
Bright Star Productions: Plays for the Stage
Stage plays suitable for adults, children and young people written by playwright John Summons. Scripts are suitable for performance in theatres and drama workshops. Many scripts are also suitable for study and performance by drama students in theatre studies courses or for use by drama & English teachers in a classroom setting. JOHN SUMMONS has been writing plays for adults and children for over twenty years. He has been associated with a number of Sydney's leading theatres and was playwright-in-residence at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre. He has been a high school teacher of English, ESL, history and drama and a lecturer in a course for playwrights at Sydney's University of Technology. His publishers include Cambridge University Press (UK), The Dramatic Publishing Company (USA) and Currency Press (Australia). He is a member of the Writers Guild and other international affiliates.
...stageplays for children, young audiences and families. Theatre producers, directors, drama coaches and teachers will find quality scripts for productions of every size, scope and budget.
Classic children's theatre scripts and youth theater plays inspired by literature,
legend, folk and fairy tales. Professionally developed by award winning playwright,
Michele L Vacca. Ideal for full stage production and drama education programs.
collected works: that's the funny thing about art...ben ohmart
Ben Ohmart has had 100s of stories and poems in zines and journals, and had 4 plays produced last year.
A one-act play by Guy Morton. Something completely different: a one-act play about art, existence and deceit.
Dominie is the Australian Agent for Samuel French London and New York, Baker's Plays Boston, Hanbury Plays, Society of Authors and many musicals. Thousands of play scripts are available right now for schools and amateur dramatic societies. Band parts for hire, seasonal suggestions, perusal material available on loan.
Drama - Scripts on the English Server
This directory contains a number of plays, including plays by Aristophanes, Sophocles, Goethe, Jonson, Moliere, Ibsen - and the complete works of Shakespeare, screenplays and discussions of drama and dramatic productions.
Joyce Carol Oates - excerpts from a variety of scripts.
The Dramatic Exchange is a World Wide Web site dedicated to archiving and distributing scripts. They provide a place for playwrights to "publish" and distribute their plays, a place for producers to find new plays they might want to produce, and a place for anyone who is interested in drama to browse.
A list of some scripts available on the web or in print.
Christian drama resource center with scripts, seasonal features, and more
Information about the role of a dramaturg.
A collection of Scripts from TV, Film and other sources. Well worth a visit - especially with the new hi-res interface!
A collection of links to e-texts (electronic texts) available all over the net. From William Adlington to Thomas Wyatt.
English Server Drama Collection
This site contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre. It publishes both classic and contemporary works, and would be delighted to consider your work if you'd care to submit it to our editors for review.
E-script -- the Internet's script writing workshop
Welcome to E-script. In the last year, they've worked with dozens of playwrights, screenwriters, librettists and lyricists from Finland to Venezuela, and across North America, in our unique online workshops.
This site serves the UK and Europe and while visitors from anywhere else are welcome, a better service for you comes from Fox Plays Australia. FOX PLAYS has a free on-line preview service, photos of shows and updated news and reviews.
Welcome to StagePage, home of writer/actor Geralyn (aka "G.L.") Horton. This site offers more than 100 free monologs (new 5/03), scenes, and one act plays (new 5/03) by GLH for actors and directors to use as audition pieces and classroom exercises. Longer dramas and comedies, plus reviews and essays by this passionately opinionated member of the on line theater community, are posted here for reading.
A collection of Notes and other resources related to works by these playwrights (and a tonne of other authors)
An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation.
Grippy’s Idea Plays are available for royalty-free performance, if you are charging no admission fee. These pages include downloadable scripts and information about a range of scripts.
Historical Collection of Scripts
A collection of over 140 folk play texts. It concentrates on the oldest available texts, and their literary and ballad relatives.
A collection of complete scripts written by Geralyn Horton - quite a good selection with short description, length and cast requirements.
It is often said that while classical texts in any language always remain the same, new translations are needed every few generations, a fact that can be seen by the ever increasing number of translations of the Bible, or Dante's Divine Comedy. The same principle holds true of the texts of Noh, and the inclusion here of multiple translations of the same play is of the greatest use, not only to help explicate the meaning of any particular passage, but to show the variety of styles in which translators have attempted to secure their particular sense of the beauty of each play. More than a dozen scripts!
For those of you involved in the arts, I wanted to bring my young playwrights page to your attention. Perhaps the largest resource of its kind on the web, it takes young writers from the very beginning of the playwriting process (e.g. getting ideas, creating characters and settings, conflict) to rewriting to what to do with your finished play. Contains excellent tips on playwriting as well as a selection of plays and monologues.
The Kids In The Hall are a sketch comedy troupe which formed in Toronto in 1984. In 1988, the "Kids" made a pilot episode for a sketch show which was produced by Lorne Michaels. A series followed--five seasons, in fact, aired from 1989-1994, and continues on in reruns all around the world. In 1994, they ended the show and have moved onto other projects. In 2000, the "Kids" reunited for a North American tour. Site contains a collection of comedy skits.
A bookstore of scripts for pantomimes and plays. With one-act-plays, plays for schools and children's theatre groups and panto scripts all on line.
is an award-winning playwright, theatre composer, and poet whose nearly two dozen plays and musicals have been produced in the U.S., Canada, England, and Australia. Her plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing and appear in anthologies by Penguin, Heinemann, and Smith & Kraus. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in journals such as Kalliope, The Cumberland Poetry Review, Kinesis, & Amelia.
Medieval English Drama: Modernized Performance Texts
These texts of The Castle of Perseverance and the N-Town Plays were modernized for performance by the Poculi Ludique Societas of the University of Toronto. The Castle of Perseverance is the quintessential English morality play containing all the elements of the genre while the plays in the N-Town manuscript provide a wide variety of types of Biblical drama from the two-part Passion Play and the plays on the Virgin Mary to well-crafted stand-alone single episode plays such as the Trial of Mary and Joseph and the Woman Taken in Adultery. They are offered here as both performance and teaching texts in the hope that they will allow more people to come to know and love the lively world of the late medieval English theatre.
A collection of work by Paul Kruger - contains background and libretto for several of his original works.
Includes the Wakefield and York cycles - original olde English transcriptons.
He writes with a ready feel for the synthesis of all these elements. I like what I've read because his plays aren't overwritten and they employ an approach to theatre which is very inspiring. When we talk about "performing with mask and puppets" it's difficult to give that form of theatre a name. (Maybe we should hold a competition!) At least with Spence Porter that "form" has recruited a mainstage playwright of the first order -- one who writes contemporary plays and who is not caught up in reprising old techniques
New Theatre Publications On-line
New Theatre Publications is the trading name of the publishing company owned by the members of the New Playwrights Co-operative. Membership to the co-operative is by annual subscription of £10 payable on the 1st October of each year. Members receive regular newsletters giving details of writing opportunities, competitions, courses and other information that is vital to the modern theatre writer. The Co-operative is completely non-profit making, with all income received being used to market the work of its members.
Nottinghamshire Plays & Customs
A database of over 500 records of folk plays and Plough Monday customs from Notts. and adjacent counties. There are indexes to places, and some sources are quoted in full.
NYPD is a free play development lab run by playwrights. Our mission: To aid the playwright’s process in authoring works for the stage. We provide weekly lab meetings, access to tools, structured problem-solving for scripts, a forum for public readings and opportunities to expose theatre companies to high-quality, cutting-edge and performance-tested new works.
This short play compares capitalism and socialism, and then suggests an alternative method. An Australian site maintained by Scot McPhie.
Looking for a challenge? Looking for a showcase piece? Look here!
Online Classical Literature Library
1258 classical fiction and nonfiction e-books. 460 authors linked to 1258 author titles of classic literature. Online philosophy text and etext with e-text of western classics with English translation. Playwrights include Shakespeare, Shaw, Congreve, Barrie, Synge and many more.
Original Works Publishing is a company dedicated to getting new plays into the hands of hungry theatres starved for original work. These are the plays some are afraid to produce and others are dying to do. Every playwright started some where and this is the place where the new breed can be discovered. This is a company for playwrights who have been produced want to be produced again and do not know the next step.
This site has a very large collection of old texts in PDF (Portable Document Format) - the collection includes many old scripts (Ancient Greek, Roman and Shakespeare are prominent).
A commercial organisation proclaiming "America's Premier Publisher of Quality Plays, Musicals, Melodramas and Theatrical Resources for Every Market and Every Audience!". Worth a look for scripts.
Plays and Musicals Search Engine
This site offers the ability to search any play script or musical in print and to put you in touch with the publishers or agents. Should be a very useful tool when fully implemented.
A collection of full-length and one act plays - some of these works are of good quality - especially useful to teachers might be the COLLECTED SKETCHES which is a collection of sketches and ten-minute plays. The file starts with a description of each script.
Online since 1998 and officially launched in 2000, Playscripts.com is a theatrical publishing company dedicated to the promotion, distribution, and licensing of new dramatic works over the internet. Playscripts.com is committed to exploring the full potential of the internet for theatrical expression and communication.
Playscript Library of Children's Theatre Plays
Actually a publishing company flogging stuff - it may be useful to some.
The philosophy of playsonthenet.com is that it offers everyone the chance to become involved. There are so many people in the world with talent that never have the opportunity to be seen or heard!
The playsonthenet.com team encourages everyone to input as much as possible, whether you are a writer or someone who enjoys reading and/or listening to new work. The site is aimed at those who wish to use their imagination to the full. Within the usual bounds of morality, there are no subjects that shouldn't be considered and no leaps of mind and imagination that shouldn't be attempted.
You can be involved by submitting your work to be read and, if chosen by the playsonthenet.com team for recording (more later), to be heard. You can write a short synopsis of the work and also a bit about yourself, so the world can know the real you - a chance to sell yourself to all those producers across the globe. We even ask you to submit a photograph, if you dare !
A collection of scripts and excerpts that have been presented on the children's educational site, Zoom.
The scripts listed below may be used royalty free for class exercises, auditions or for public performances subject to the following provisions:
You must inform the Library WHEN and WHERE you will present the script by using the e-permission form
Performances must not charge admission.
Credit in printed programs or oral introduction should be given to the author and the Weber State University Playwrights' Library.
A collection of links to playwrights and their websites.
Playwriting Seminars Introduction
"You're at the beginning of a professional manual of the playwright's craft, with an inevitable excursion into film. The 211-page site has been called an exemplary use of the Web."
There are three portions of the Project Gutenberg Library, basically be described as:
Light Literature; such as Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables, etc.
Heavy Literature; such as the Bible or other religious documents, Shakespeare, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, etc.
References; such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, and a set of encyclopedia, dictionaries, etc.
"Prompt Copy" Playscript Service
Prompt Copy is a collection of more than 3,500 plays and film scripts collected by LISWA since the 1960's. The collection is broad in its scope and covers Greek tragedy to Restoration comedy, modern classics by Pirandello, Brecht and Pinter, contemporary comedies by Neil Simon, Alan Ayckbourn, Wendy Wasserstein and Ben Elton. Australian drama is well represented, from Jack Davis to David Williamson and Nick Enright. There are over 500 Australian plays in the collection which are listed here in author or title order for your convenience.To learn more about the collection read our media release .
A collection of works and links by Brad Boesen. Disturbed is one of my favourites.
An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799. More scripts, novels, stories and more than you could ever manage to negotiate. Every major author from the era is represented. Early Modern texts published by Renascence Editions are not peer reviewed in the strict sense. While we have done our best to ensure "accuracy" in both the editions and any supplementary matter, we do not represent these texts as scholarly editions per se. Please consider them as non-critical teaching editions which pay an uneven but enthusiastic homage to the type facsimile edition and the diplomatic transcript, suitable for the general reader, for high school and undergraduate teaching, and for casual text searches to aid in the work of graduates and scholars. Graduate students and scholars who base their research on any of these texts may find their work questioned in the academic community, and rightly so. Go to the editions specified by the best authorities in the field for such work.
A Varitey of Stage And Film Scripts Available On-Line. Actually, most of this web site is still under construction. The scripts have all been written, but most of them still need to be formatted. But some of this stuff is actually up. See what you can find. Also links to Richard Nathan's SHAKESPEARE PARODIES
Scenes for High School Drama Students!
Have you ever been searching the web looking for a monologue or a scene that you could perform in your drama class? Welcome to my collection of scenes and monologues that I and some of my friends have written and performed over the last couple of years. I must tell you now that there are no fancy graphics or any other "web enhancers" on this site. Just excellent quality scripts and monologues that are both demanding and a pleasure to perform!
A specialised word-processor for script writing. This is a commercial site, they want to sell you a package. If you need something like this - check it out.
Sizzling Organic Chemistry Dramas!
by Brenna Lorenz Offered here for your enjoyment are four short organic chemistry plays that illustrate reaction mechanisms. These were performed in an actual organic chemistry class. You are free to use them in your class. (If you do, let me know how it turns out). The students wore signs around their necks identifying their parts in the drama. Electrons were drawn on posterboard and exchanged where appropriate. Bonding was illustrated by having the participants hold onto the electrons being shared. Evidence of the versatility of Drama as a teaching strategy.
The source of new and original scripts for film & tv The purpose of The Spec Script Library is to connect those who write scripts with those who source scripts. Created for the local national and international film and television industry this resource is free to all. The Library is the largest of its type in the World. Titles / logs / synopses of spec scripts are catalogued by us interested parties contact the author /agent for further particulars about each script.
Examining the workings of theatre and performance. Dramaturgy resources.
The ELAC Play and Monologue Collection
"The works you will find here have all been contributed by visitors to this site. If they are performed, stage credit must be given to the authors. Other stipulations, such as performance fees, are set by the authors. There is no performance fee for monologues."
"Internet Classics Archive, an award-winning, searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary."
Since 1994 Theatrefolk has been committed to developing original scripts and promoting theatre education. Most of the scripts available on the website were developed for the company.
A workbook for Drama educators and students. THEATERWORDS offers some small solution to educators who need more quality roles for their women students. These plays are free. There is no royalty.
Included are plays already available from publishers and others so new they’re available only from the playwright. All are intended for young audiences, K-12; appropriate age levels are suggested for each script. You can search for information about playwrights and their plays alphabetically or by state. Just click on the map or an alphabet letter below to get started. Then visit our links for more resources on children’s theatre and plays for young audiences.
An Australian site where Patrick Carswell offers some scripts and performances to schools.
Mark Wheeller has written a collection of plays which are both interesting and compelling. Mark Wheeller's plays are ideal for amateur use in One Act Play Festivals. Many are toured professionally throughout the UK and abroad. His well reviewed musicals are ideal vehicles for amateur theatre performances, most having their own fully orchestrated backing CD.
WOMEN'S STUDIES/ENGLISH C92: 20TH CENTURY PLAYS BY WOMEN
The primary purposes of this web site are:
to make you more aware of the existence of a broad range of fascinating plays that have been written by women in the 20th century,
to give you information about where you can go to learn more about 20th century plays by women, and
to give the students of C92 an opportunity to publish the annotated bibliographies and bibliographic essays they prepared as an assignment for this course
a service which provides information, advice and guidance on all aspects of the live and recorded performing industry to writers working in performance mediums. a service that provides information, advice and guidance about writers for all forms of live and recorded performance to anyone interested in working with them.
A commercial site selling scripts. "The Works Of James J. Brunelle" you will find:
-- some good, fun, and smart one-act plays for kids to do in schools, camps, Scout Troops, etc. --ages 8 and up. (4th grade through high school) --special deals for teachers and student
Monologues
MONOLOGUEARCHIVE.COM - monologues in several categories for Men, Women and Children.
Monologues - Listed alphabetically at ELAC
Kevin O'Morrison - a collection of scenes and monologues.
The Monologue Shop - a commercial venture.
Monologue Madness - a device for locating monologues
Frankly Speaking - a stand up comic's routines
Alice in Theatre Land - Monologue suggestions from published scripts - downloads available.
Monologues from the Actor's Source
Monologues - a small collection
Audition pieces - includes monologues and songs.
Acts Of Flight - about a dozen monologues.
Monologues - a good selection
PIONEER WOMAN by Debra Bruch
Playwrights by Surname
Use the following links to locate plays available on the web arranged by authors surname.
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