“One has to be wary of one-man shows about historical figures: more often they float on the personality of the actor rather than the quality of the memories themselves. Yet Owen S Rackleff, as a culler of Escoffier anecdotes into dramatic form, distinguishes himself with a rich flow of miscellanea about this legendary French chef of the early part of this century.” Kip Gould, Other Stages 

Escoffier: King of Chefs

Literature & Fiction

Rackleff, Owen S

Dramas & Plays

Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated

This provocative chronicle, interspersed with fantasy sequences from Alice In Wonderland, traces the career of Charles Dodgson (better know as Lewis Carroll) from his first work on the immortal classic, to his near downfall when accused of immorality.

Looking Glass

Sutton, Michael

Mandelberg, Cynthia

Electricity is the central metaphor and expressive image in this unusual love story which takes place in an electrical repair shop. "It's fun to listen to BATTERY. Daniel Therriault's dialogue is a ripe blend of primitive slang and advanced metaphor, dotted with enough comedy to ward off weariness and pretense. The entertainment value never flags." -Don Shirley, Los Angeles Times "Daniel Therriault's first play, BATTERY, is one of those rare efforts by a young writer which reminds you of why you keep going to new plays. Sometimes you actually run across a writer of talent with a play which makes you care about the characters from the opening lines right through to the final blackout. BATTERY is one of those plays. The controlling electrical metaphor proves an expressive image for the sparks Therriault's flashing, punning pen ignites. BATTERY pleases exceptionally." -Tish Dace, Other Stages

Battery

Therriault, Daniel

On the eve of his departure from Paris, Benjamin Franklin and his French contemporaries avoid good-bys by engaging in charades and parlor games. The passions of revolution are overshadowed by the intensity of personal relationships in this structurally inventive play within a play.

Balloon

Sunde Karen

These three haunting pieces have always been one of the most popular titles from Broadway Play Publishing. THE WOMAN WITH 27 CHILDREN and BELLE OF THE BIJOU are monologues. LATE/LATE...COMPUTER DATE is a one-act for two women. All three plays call for simple interior sets. THE WOMAN WITH 27 CHILDREN: Angel lives alone in the house on the hill, built by her now-deceased husband, Vernon, the love of her life. She is utterly lost without him to guide her. He carved so many beautiful things, but the most treasured, were the exquisite lifelike wooden dolls. He presented her with one each Christmas (because she could not have children). Eventually there were twenty-seven dolls treated as real children. Confused and disoriented, Angel sits recalling their life, speaking to the last-carved child as if he were Vernon, telling of the plight taking place the tax people coming to take their home, and the only solution is to sell the priceless dolls to the museum, which tears her apart, because 'you can't sell your own children!' Ultimately, she believes Vernon is back with her, and all his statues are standing once more in the magic circle, and it s time to retire. In the morning, "We'll take all but one child to the museum." LATE/LATE...COMPUTER DATE: Isobel and Veronica, spinster sisters, live alone in genteel clutter. Both are retired from the candy factory, where they spent years as candy dippers. Mama and Daddy died in a car accident, and the insurance money has been metered out over years to give reluctant Veronica the niceties of life ballet lessons, tours, and trips. The last of the money is now financing a computer date for Veronica, who has never had a date, and Isobel feels she should have one date before she dies. On the evening of this first date, all is in a dither. Time passes and shy Veronica returns from her date her computer match never showed up, but she did dance with someone else. This alarms Isobel, who is even more alarmed to hear that the stranger gave Veronica his phone number and wants to take her out. There is a struggle of wills. After Veronica retires, Isobel destroys the card bearing the man's phone number, a final desperate act to keep control of their lives. BELLE OF THE BIJOU: Tonight Belle has come to clean out her movie memorabilia accumulated over the years in the ticket taker booth in the now closed Bijou Theatre. The process reveals her bleak life, dominated by her obsession with the movies and her even bleaker future, with plans to move to Hollywood, taking along her life-size cardboard cutout of Clark Gable. Fear about leaving her ticket booth, her only true reality, overwhelms her.

One Acts and Monologues for Women

Bollow, Ludmilla

A musical presentation of magical and possible events in the lives of two women born in the 19th century.

Mollie Bailey's Traveling Family Circus Featuring Scenes from the Life of Mother Jones

Terry, Megan

Metcalf, JoAnne

A nightmarish black comedy about a man being operated on by two possibly insane doctors for the removal of his guilt complexes.

The Reactivated Man

Zahn, Curtis

Set in the elevator lobby of a wholesale warehouse in Manhattan, four workers struggle to understand themselves and their world. The author has taken contemporary language and raised it to a new level. Winner in Chicago's Play EXPO competition. Originally co-produced by the Victory Gardens and Body Politic Theaters in Chicago. Produced in New York by the Working Theater at the Henry Street Settlement.

Floor Above the Roof

A theatrical extravaganza drawn from Nikolay Gogol's comic epic of greed and gluttony in tsarist Russia. Over one hundred characters can be played with any number of actors from 15 on up.

Dead Souls

Senelick, Laurence

This book contains the vocal piano score for two Broadway plays - Croesus &amp; the Witch &amp; Hansel &amp; Gretel. Both plays contain the music with lyrics &amp; the speaking parts. The music is arranged for voice &amp; piano.

Croesus and the Witch - Hansel and Gretel in the 1980's

Thomas, Marie

Grant, Michi

Grant, Micki

Carroll, Vinnette

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