Click to Purchase this Play on Amazon Pretty Pieces is a powerful one act play about a young man and a young woman who are trapped on the fringes of society in a run-down apartment. They are brother and sister and something horrible happened to them a long time ago. Because of what happened to them, their relationship is doomed. The sister is trying to fit the pieces of their lives together, to figure out what happened to them, to figure out why they are the way that they are. She finds some old pictures and an old report card but these clues are not enough for her to figure out the true horror of their past. The young man tries to forget but he can't. He copes by using drugs and selling his body. The young woman copes by building a psychological and emotional cage which traps her in the apartment. To add fuel to the emotional fire, they are being evicted. The young man has a chance at happiness. He thinks he has found a way out. He is going to leave his sister and move in w...
Purchase Sense and Sensibility on Amazon.com This adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel; Sense and Sensibility focuses on the romantic trials and tribulations of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Though she feels deeply, Elinor is the older, apparently more reserved sister. Marianne is outwardly more passionate and romantic. The play opens with the funeral of the elder John Dashwood, father to Elinor and Marianne. Their half-brother, John, inherits their father's entire estate by law. Although their father made him promise to 'take care' of his half-sisters and stepmother, his greedy and selfish wife; Fanny, easily persuades him that this does not actually mean monetary assistance, leaving his step-mother and half-sisters practically destitute, with no dowry and very little to live on. Elinor falls in love with the awkward and shy Edward Ferrars but cannot reveal her true feelings because he has been promised to another. Marianne recklessly falls in love with the...
Purchase A Little Princess on Amazon.com A Little Princess is Charles Robertson's adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story Sara Crewe is the daughter of Captain Crewe, an officer in the Indian army. He is a widower who decides it is best if he takes her to a boarding school in London. She is homesick for India but she decides to be a brave little soldier and make the best of it. While at the boarding school she is lavished with presents and praise. Tragedy happens when Captain Crewe dies suddenly and penniless. Sara no longer can afford to be a student at the school so the mean-spirited proprietress of the school, Miss Minchin makes her a servant at the school and treats her very badly. When a mysterious gentleman moves in next door, Sara's fortunes are about to change. A great story for all ages.
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