Rupert's Birthday and Other Monologues


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THE STORIES: In the first monologue, RUPERT'S BIRTHDAY, a farm woman, Louisa, tells of assisting at the birth of her bull calf, Rupert, who was born on the same day as her brother, Orville, and for whom her regard is higher. Filled with poignant in




Best of Friends


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THE STORY: As he had deserted them many years before, the family of Archer Connaught, famous author (and philanderer), receives the news of his death in a plane crash with mixed emotions. His daughter is cool and bitter; his son jumps at the chance




Santa Fe Sunshine


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THE STORY: The place is Santa Fe, New Mexico; the time the late 1950s; and the scene is the adobe house of Gino Bruno, a genial but largely untalented sculptor who believes that, at long last, he has created a masterpiece. His long-time friend, an




Hagar's Children


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THE STORY: The time is Christmas Eve, the place Bridgehaven Farm, a home for emotionally disturbed teenagers. As preparations for the holiday celebration begin, under the guidance of two compassionate and concerned counselors, a young black man cal




Red Rover, Red Rover


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THE STORY: The setting is a comfortable middle-class living room, probably suburban, and the time is early morning. Three couples, after a pleasant party, are preparing to leave for their homes, but the host suggests that, because of the hour, they




Pasta


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THE STORY: The setting is a clean but slightly threadbare apartment in a medium-sized New England city, occupied by Artie and his live-in girlfriend, Roxanne. As the play begins, Artie and his pal Doober are rehearsing the skit (Artie dressed as a




Running on Empty


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THE STORY: As the play begins, Lilly is pondering which of her designer dresses to burn in the fireplace of her chic if sparsely furnished penthouse apartment. The problem is that it is wintertime, the United States has long since used up its fuel




Hamlet ESP


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THE STORY: Embodied here as a drama of what transpires in two worlds--an outer one of external events and an inner one of the mind--the action of the play centers on the second area, and the remarkably complex, exciting dialogue taking place within H




Beyond Your Command


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THE STORY: The place is a black neighborhood in a small city in New Jersey, the time a hot August afternoon in 1963--the day of Dr. Martin Luther King's march on Washington. Nick Alameda, a fast-talking white vacuum cleaner salesman, has been workin




The Hide-and-seek Odyssey of Madeline Gimple


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THE STORY: Madeline Gimple is an orphan who invents herself parents (Hansel and Gretel Gimple) and concocts all manner of outlandish stories about them to convince herself--and others--that they truly exist. She is also set upon by the Balloon Man, a