After being a shy bachelor for a number of years, Dave (Dad Rudd’s second eldest son) has finally got married. To a “Girl from Town” named “Lily…… Read more “‘Dave Brings Home A Wife’ by Steele Rudd”

Terence’s six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator. NOTE: the main plot elements in Hecyra are quite unacceptable today: Pamphilus…… Read more “‘Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law’ by Terence”

Marcellus, a Roman centurion, is instructed to eradicate the Christians from the catacombs. When he goes to investigate, he discovers the truth about their beliefs and ‘Him…… Read more “‘The Martyr of the Catacombs’ by James de Mille”

From Ancient India to the Far Future, from the palaces of royalty to the servants hall, from comedy to tragedy, from deeply philosophical to farcically entertaining. I…… Read more “One Act Play Collection 11: ‘The Countess of Escarbagnas’ by Moliere”

Norma is a satirical opera published anonymously in the literary magazine Andhrimner in 1851. The play was designed as a dramatic parody of Vincenzo Bellini’s opera Norma, in which the characters…… Read more “‘The Unexplored Ibsen’ by Henrik Ibsen”

“The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle having been ratified … and peace being assured … Louis XIV resolved to give a festival in his favorite gardens of Versailles. Moliere’s…… Read more “‘George Dandin: or The Abashed Husband’ by Henry van Laun”

Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. “I set forth from my office…… Read more “‘Peeps at People – Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup’ by John Kendrick Bangs”

The “Ideal Husband” of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a crime, never had a “past”…… Read more “‘An Ideal Husband’ by Oscar Wilde”

Knowell, an old man – rumor says Shakespeare originally played this part – tries to spy upon the doings of his potentially wayward son. Meanwhile, Kitely, a…… Read more “‘Every Man In His Humour’ by Ben Jonson”

Freely adapted from Lord Byron’s Fragment of a Novel, J.R. Planché’s The Vampire; or, the Bride of the Isles predates Dracula in its depiction of the vampire…… Read more “‘The Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles’ by James Planché”