Category Archives: Plays
The Vortex
Author(s): Noël Coward Noel Coward explores the darker side of the roaring twenties in this...
The Show Off
Author(s): George Kelly Amy Fisher’s parents can’t understand what their daughter sees in Aubrey Piper,...
The Tender Husband: or The Accomplished Fools
Author(s): Richard Steele “The Tender Husband is, as a whole, very amusing; but unfortunately a...
The Wasters
Author(s): Arthur Adams Here we have a serious family drama by Australian playwright Arthur Adams...
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Author(s): Thomas Dekker The Shoemaker’s Holiday is an Elizabethan play written by Thomas Dekker. It...
The Social War of 1900
Author(s): Simon Landis This is the play adaptation of Simon Landis’ The Social War of...
The Twin-Rivals
Author(s): George Farquhar “This comedy was produced at Drury Lane on December 14, 1702. It...
The Three Sisters
Author(s): Anton Chekhov Three Sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged...
The Seagull
Author(s): Anton Chekhov The Seagull (Russian: Чайка, Chayka) is the first of what are generally...
The Times
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero Percy Egerton-Bompas, M.P., and Mrs Bompas have secrets in their family....
The Tempest
Author(s): William Shakespeare Banished from his own lands by a usurping brother, Prospero and his...
The Schoolmistress
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero The second of Pinero’s farces, following the wildly successful The Magistrate,...
The Thunderbolt
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero Called “An episode in the history of a provincial family”, where...
The Time is Not Yet Ripe
Author(s): Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson (1878 – 1943) was an Australian...
The Sea Voyage
Author(s): John FletcherPhilip Massinger Albert, a handsome French pirate, and his crew get shipwrecked on...
The Silver Box
Author(s): John Galsworthy This is a lovely comedy about the theft of a prostitute’s purse...
The Story of the Armada
Author(s): Amice MacDonell It’s the summer of 1588, and all is not well in England....
The Woman’s Prize, or the Tamer Tamed
Author(s): John Fletcher John Fletcher’s comedy (probably written and performed around 1611) is a sequel...
The Serious Family
Author(s): Morris Barnett The hypocrisy of the hyper-respectable social façade maintained by the Torrens family...
The Taming of the Shrew (version 2)
Author(s): William Shakespeare When local drunkard Christopher Sly walks into a tavern, the last thing...
The Way of the World
Author(s): William Congreve The Way of the World is a play written by British playwright...
The Strange Gentleman
Author(s): Charles Dickens Before he became a novelist, Dickens wrote several successful plays. This one...
The Torch-Bearers
Author(s): George Kelly “The cold, historical fact is that at about 9:15 o’clock on the...
The Magistrate
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero The success of “The Magistrate” was immediate, and the Court Theatre...
The Romancers
Author(s): Edmond Rostand By the author of Cyrano de Bergerac, this comic-romance formed the basis...
The Profligate
Author(s): Arthur Wing Pinero ‘Mr. Pinero, in essaying to deal dramatically with a moral problem...
The New York Idea
Author(s): Langdon Mitchell I find it very hard to classify “The New York Idea” under...
The Mikado, Or The Town of Titipu (version 2)
Author(s): W. S. Gilbert In the town of Titipu, flirting is punishable by death on...
The Miser
Author(s): Molière The Miser is a comedy of manners about a rich moneylender named Harpagon....
The Merchant of Venice (version 2)
Author(s): William Shakespeare Perhaps the most controversial of Shakespeare’s comedies, The Merchant of Venice tells...