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 NEW! AviarPress presents original plays and screenplays in the latest easy-to-read EBook-PDF format. Each is ready and available for production. These works are available to download for reading only. Printable versions are provided with the licensing for production and the payment of royalties. Click on the Royalties | Licensing link (below) for more information

All Plays Are Available Only in Read-Only Editions Unless Licensed

Aladdin's Electric Lamp
by Arthur Meiselman
A Fantasy
Setting: Abstract, free-form
Characters: 2 Women, 1 Man

An apparently light, comic fantasy with a strange, sinister undertone that uses a continuous flow of lyric dialogue, time-shifts, backflashes, comedic bits, music and dance..
It is the fable of what makes ROBERT run,
what makes MADELINE rebound, and what makes SHE... she!
Running time: Approximately 50 minutes

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Come In, Stranger,
Out of the Fog
by Rich Yurman
A Play in One Act
Interior setting.
Characters: 2 men, 1 woman

During the December 1962 "killer fog" that blanketed London for 5 days, a man, having lost his way, knocks on a door to seek assistance. He is admitted into the home of a widow whom he takes to be alone. His error! A sinister mystery builds around their mutually inappropriate, inexplicable and threatening behavior. And then... a man appears!
Running time: Approximately 25 - 30 minutes

 

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Even After All These Years
by Nathan Albright
A Play in 24 Scenes
Multi-settings
Characters: 2 Men, 2 Women and Multi Male and Female Characters with doubling possibilities

Set in the Middle East (Israel and Palestine) and paralleling two time lines 2000 years apart, this is a love story and the portrayal of the endurance cultures that survive and abide even in the destructive fires of turmoil. The play is large in scope, provocative in its ideas, and rich in both Biblical and contemporary detail, 
Running Time: Approximately 120 minutes.

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Hello And... Goodbye
by Arthur Meiselman
A Play in One Act
Split-Interior setting.
Characters: 1 man, 1 woman

A duet between a young Gay man with AIDS and a young Straight HIV positive woman who confronts him. When it premiered, it was the first drama of its kind. This is not a play about the politics of social issues. It is a portrait of a relationship. Except at the end, this entire two-character work takes place over the telephone.
Running time: Approximately 60 minutes

 

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Madelin de Rumba
A Show of One
by Arthur Meiselman
Characters: 1 woman and her dummy

What happened? This is what happened. You just... honored your family... you just... respected your culture... you just... did the right thing. Bullshit! It's fear, woo-mahn... it's fear. Afraid not to go to college. Afraid not to take that job. Afraid to go on that date. Afraid not to go on that date. Afraid to fuck. Afraid not to fuck. Afraid to light a candle, close the bathroom door, look in the mirror and say: You... you're me. My eyes to your eyes, you're me. Fear...
Running time: Approximately 45 minutes

 

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Meka and Alexander
by Gregory Walker
A Screenplay
Setting and Time: Urban, Contemporary
Genre: Love story and Action thriller

Hardship-stricken, a Japanese-American family moves into a Black slum and are terrorized by a gang who try to scare them out. The daughter, Meka, meets and falls in love with Alexander, a young black man. Her father is infuriated, but in the heat of battle with the gang, Alexander helps the family and wins their trust.
 

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Loving/Laid/Fucking
Three from "Times In The Garden of Eden"
A Show of One
by Iri Kopal
Setting: Abstract
Characters: 1 Woman, 1 Man

This is a set of three short plays from the 34-play cycle: Times In The Garden of Eden. It portrays a time when there are only two beings in existence - innocent, but aware and in great need of each other.

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The Wafer
by Arthur Meiselman
A Play In One Act
Multiple Selective Setting
Characters: 2 Women, 7 Men

A band of rebels is floundering in their attempt to overthrow a brutal, third-world regime. Though the suppressed population adores and supports the group, the rebellion is failing. The leader, Juan Castia, is haunted by nightmares that underscore his doubt and lack of resolve. In a desperate attempt to spur the rebellion into a full-blown revolution, a decision is made: Castia will allow himself to be captured, to be given up to the authorities who will be forced to martyr him.
Running Time: Approximately 60 minutes. 

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Firedance
A Trilogy
by Arthur Meiselman
Part 1 - Awakening
Multi-Level Interior Setting
Characters: 3 Women, 2 Men

The year is 1976. A rainy, late Autumn Friday in New York. Five brothers and sisters have gathered for the funeral of their mother. Though this was a typical middle-class Jewish family, the passing-on of the parents has opened up the core of threads that binds them together, and the threads are unraveling.What was typical has become bizarre. What was comfortable has become frightening. What was secure has become unstable and chaotic. Against a backdrop of accumulated disillusionment, the 1960's, the Kennedy assassinations, the Vietnam war, the Nixon fiasco, these five place themselves in confrontation with each other and with the world they live in.
Running Time: Approximately 2 hours
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Jody Thomas
Doesn't Want To Die
by Arthur Meiselman
A Play In Two Parts
Split-Level Interior Setting
Characters: 1 Women, 11 Men

What if a death-row inmate, just before the appointed time of execution, manages to grab a weapon and hostages? What does he have to lose? How do you negotiate with him? It is the nightmare of every prison official. Here is a young man, a cop-killer, condemned to death, and now commands his own future. He has twisted the system; there is nothing to negotiate except his own survival. It is the madness of capital punishment.
Running Time: Approximately 90 minutes

Jody Thomas
Doesn't Want To Die
by Arthur Meiselman
The Screenplay based on the play
Setting and Time: Urban, Contemporary
Genre: Drama and Action thriller

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