Long-unavailable, Michael Weller's Five Plays is the definitive look at the generation which came of age in the '60s.

Weller: Five Plays

Literature & Fiction

Weller, Michael

Dramas & Plays

Plume

Five Plays

Cancer: a comedy

Faber and Faber Ltd.

Fishing: A drama in two acts

Samuel. French

A dramatic comedy with parts for 7 males and 4 females. Set in the turbulent 1970's, this bittersweet romance by the author of Moonchildren and Spoils of War, starred Kevin Kline at Circle-In-The-Square on Broadway. Paul is a Peace Corps dropout and Susan is in freefall when they meet on a beach in Bali. Later in Boston, they live together and then marry. Separating briefly, then reconciling in a New York penthouse, she has become a successful photographer; he a successful film editor. Paul wants children and Susan does not. Recriminations follow as Paul bitterly denounces her for having had an abortion six months earlier without his knowledge or consent as her birthday celebration turns a shambles. One final, brief reunion is attempted but the couple comes to terms with the failure of their once romantic notions.

Loose Ends: A Play

Buying time: A play in two acts

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

Comic drama / Characters: 7 male, 4 or 5 female
Scenery: Various sets or unit set
After showing dazzling promise in school but no success in Hollywood, director Dan Rittman suffered a breakdown and quit film making. Cameraman Neil Toomie, a hilarious, irreverent lapsed Catholic, shows up five years later with a horror film project he wants his friend to direct. Neil doesn't know that he has a brain tumor and limited time in which to rekindle the spark of old dreams. Dan doesn't realize how turning his back on his talent started a chain reaction in every aspect of his life. Their effort to make a low budget movie brings each to a moment of reckoning and reconciliation. 
"A poignant play suffused with humor.... A witty and rueful elegy for a generation weaned on such high idealism, learning that there are limitations to life." N.Y. Times. 
"We don't have a more fluent playwright than Michael Weller." L.A. Times. 
"Weller manages to cry out from deep inside his generation's soul." Chicago Tribune. 
"Exhilarating." Chicago Daily Herald. 
"Weller's work, one suspects, will outlast most of his more voguish contemporaries." Variety.

Ghost on Fire

Concord Theatricals

Doctor Zhivago is a heartbreaking epic romance set during the final days of Czarist Russia. Raised as an aristocrat Zhivago is a political idealist physician and poet whose life is tossed by the tides of history as he is torn between a life with his close childhood friend and wife and the passionate and mysterious Lara. Zhivago however is not alone in his yearnings for Lara and must compete with both revolutionaries and aristocracy alike to win the heart of the woman he cannot live without.

Doctor Zhivago

Korie, Michael

Simon, Lucy

Romance

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