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Featured Author: Suzan Zeder
Suzan Zeder is one of the most prolific playwrights for young and family audiences, and Dramatic Publishing is pleased to be the exclusive source for her complete body of work. Zeder is the recipient of four Distinguished Play Awards from the American Alliance of Theatre and Education, and her plays have been performed all over the world.
- New titles for 2011 and Anchorage acquisitons
- Complete list of Suzan's titles
Code: DB2
Mystery
Cast: 5m., 3w., with doubling, or up to 13 (8m., 5w.). The Death and Life of Sherlock Holmes is a mystery within a mystery! An action adventure with a touch of Pirandello! This original play by Suzan L. Zeder weaves together characters and incidents from some of Arthur Conan Doyle's best-loved stories and gives them a new twist, as the world's greatest consulting detective... (More)
Code: DB9
Drama
Cast: 3m., 1w., including 2 adults and 2 pre-teen boys. In Doors, a son copes with his parents' divorce. It is the day of his parents' separation. Before Jeff can deal with the impending divorce, he must face and play out his fears and his fantasies with his best friend, Sandy. Although the situation... (More)
Code: IA9
Musical
Cast: 3m., 2w. Suddenly, five adults find themselves in a room somewhere; a room with no windows, no doors and only the vastness of space where the ceiling ought to be. When they begin to find relics from their own childhoods, they discover that the only way out of the room is to journey through ... (More)
Code: MK4
Drama
Cast: 4 to 5m., 4w. with doubling. Set in southern Illinois during the Great Depression, this play is about three outsiders—a foundling girl known only as Girl; a deaf boy, eloquent in the language of his silence; and an eccentric recluse, Mother Hicks, who is suspected of being a witch. The tale, told with poetry and sign language... (More)
Code: O86
Drama
Cast: 2m., 4w. The continuation of the story of Jeff, chronicled earlier in Doors, this dramatization is independent of its predecessor, although a companion production is highly effective. A year after the separation of Jeff's parents, the divorce becomes final. Jeff, his parents and his Grandmother, with whom he now lives, have survived the break-up... (More)
Code: O85
Fantasy
Cast: 5m., 4w., 3 either gender with doubling, or 19 (7m., 6w., 6 either gender) with roles distributed. Dorothy reluctantly accompanies her eccentric uncle on his life-long dream voyage to Australia. They argue during a violent storm and are both blown off the boat to Oz, a land where there is no time. Unwittingly, they activate Tic Toc and time begins in Oz... (More)
Code: PF3
Drama/Comedy
Cast: 10m., 8w., with doubling, or increase the cast number by distributing the 49 roles. At the end of the 15th century the tiny town of Frogsham musters its dubious resources to mount the Corpus Christi play of Noah and the Flood. This medieval play-within-a-play presents a teeming town full of characters who mirror their biblical pageant counterparts... (More)
Code: S1G
Drama
Cast: 2m., 4w. Ellie Murphy lived happily with her widowed father, Max, bowling, eating TV dinners and playing with junk. But now, suddenly, life is different. Max has remarried, and Ellie has a stepmother. Ellie and her imaginary friends, Lana and Frizbee, launch into a fantasy world as Ellie seeks to escape real-life problems... (More)
Code: SW2
Musical
Cast: 2m., 4w. Ellie Murphy lived happily with her widowed father, Max, bowling, eating TV dinners and playing with junk. But now, suddenly, life is different. Max has remarried, and Ellie has a stepmother. Ellie and her imaginary friends, Lana and Frizbee, launch into a fantasy world as Ellie seeks to escape real-life problems... (More)
Code: TL6
Drama
Cast: 4m., 5w., including 1m. The play takes place in the mind and memory of the adult Tuc as he journeys through his childhood from the fever dream that took his hearing, to the language of nature which he shares with his beloved father, to the Deaf school where his mind explodes with the discovery of sign language... (More)
Code: WC9
Drama
Cast: 3m., 1w., 4 either gender with optional extras. Wiley and the Hairy Man is a spine-tingling tale of a boy and his worst fears in the swamp—eventually overcome by Wiley himself. Through rhythm and rhyme, a chorus creates the mystery of the swamp. The magic of this play is not fairy dust, it is soil—the magic of survival, the magic of the earth... (More)
Code: WD9
Collection
Eight of Suzan Zeder's plays, each widely produced and popular, are in this anthology, a collection of her first works for stage. Zeder is one of the most imaginative playwrights of her generation and is best known for the depth and dimension of her child protagonists and the bold handling of contemporary themes and issues. She is theatrically exciting and surprising... (More)
Code: DB2
Mystery
Cast: 5m., 3w., with doubling, or up to 13 (8m., 5w.). The Death and Life of Sherlock Holmes is a mystery within a mystery! An action adventure with a touch of Pirandello! This original play by Suzan L. Zeder weaves together characters and incidents from some of Arthur Conan Doyle's best-loved stories and gives them a new twist, as the world's greatest consulting detective... (More)
Code: D64
Comedy/Drama
Cast: 2m., 4w. Lillian Boedecker Barron is eighty-four years old, vibrant, funny, wise, and recently deceased! During her lifetime Lillian shared a special, long-distance bond with her granddaughter Kelly and suffered an estrangement from her son Windsor, a Colonel in the Air Force, as he moved his family from base to base all over the world. After her death... (More)
Code: D72
Comedy/Drama
Cast: 2m., 4w. (3 w., 1 m., 1 boy, 1 girl.) Lillian Boedecker Barron is 84 years old, vibrant, funny, wise, and recently deceased! During her lifetime, Lillian shared a special, long-distance bond with her granddaughter, Kelly, and suffered an estrangement from her son Windsor, a Colonel in the Air Force, as he moved his family from base to base all over the world... (More)
Code: DB9
Drama
Cast: 3m., 1w., including 2 adults and 2 pre-teen boys. In Doors, a son copes with his parents' divorce. It is the day of his parents' separation. Before Jeff can deal with the impending divorce, he must face and play out his fears and his fantasies with his best friend, Sandy. Although the situation... (More)
Code: IA9
Musical
Cast: 3m., 2w. Suddenly, five adults find themselves in a room somewhere; a room with no windows, no doors and only the vastness of space where the ceiling ought to be. When they begin to find relics from their own childhoods, they discover that the only way out of the room is to journey through ... (More)
Code: MK4
Drama
Cast: 4 to 5m., 4w. with doubling. Set in southern Illinois during the Great Depression, this play is about three outsiders—a foundling girl known only as Girl; a deaf boy, eloquent in the language of his silence; and an eccentric recluse, Mother Hicks, who is suspected of being a witch. The tale, told with poetry and sign language... (More)
Code: O86
Drama
Cast: 2m., 4w. The continuation of the story of Jeff, chronicled earlier in Doors, this dramatization is independent of its predecessor, although a companion production is highly effective. A year after the separation of Jeff's parents, the divorce becomes final. Jeff, his parents and his Grandmother, with whom he now lives, have survived the break-up... (More)
Code: O85
Fantasy
Cast: 5m., 4w., 3 either gender with doubling, or 19 (7m., 6w., 6 either gender) with roles distributed. Dorothy reluctantly accompanies her eccentric uncle on his life-long dream voyage to Australia. They argue during a violent storm and are both blown off the boat to Oz, a land where there is no time. Unwittingly, they activate Tic Toc and time begins in Oz... (More)
Code: PF3
Drama/Comedy
Cast: 10m., 8w., with doubling, or increase the cast number by distributing the 49 roles. At the end of the 15th century the tiny town of Frogsham musters its dubious resources to mount the Corpus Christi play of Noah and the Flood. This medieval play-within-a-play presents a teeming town full of characters who mirror their biblical pageant counterparts... (More)
Code: SJ2
Comedy
Cast: 11m., 5w. (With doubling 9m., 5w. Expansion possible with inclusion of multiple courtiers.) This new translation/adaptation of Moliere's classic comedy, The Miser, is set in the opulent court of King Louis XIV at the palace of Versailles. Moliere and his renowned troupe of actors are set to premiere The Misanthrope before the king and courtiers until Pierre Pomponne, a minor minister of culture, refuses...(More)
Code: SJ3
Comedy
Cast: 11m., 5w., with doubling 9m., 5w., expansion possible with inclusion of multiple courtiers. Zeder has created this 40-minute version of her full-length play with high-school production and competition in mind. This new translation and adaptation of Molière's classic comedy, The Miser, is set in the opulent... (More)
Code: S1G
Drama
Cast: 2m., 4w. Ellie Murphy lived happily with her widowed father, Max, bowling, eating TV dinners and playing with junk. But now, suddenly, life is different. Max has remarried, and Ellie has a stepmother. Ellie and her imaginary friends, Lana and Frizbee, launch into a fantasy world as Ellie seeks to escape real-life problems... (More)
Code: SW2
Musical
Cast: 2m., 4w. Ellie Murphy lived happily with her widowed father, Max, bowling, eating TV dinners and playing with junk. But now, suddenly, life is different. Max has remarried, and Ellie has a stepmother. Ellie and her imaginary friends, Lana and Frizbee, launch into a fantasy world as Ellie seeks to escape real-life problems... (More)
Code: TL6
Drama
Cast: 4m., 5w., including 1m. The play takes place in the mind and memory of the adult Tuc as he journeys through his childhood from the fever dream that took his hearing, to the language of nature which he shares with his beloved father, to the Deaf school where his mind explodes with the discovery of sign language... (More)
Code: WC9
Drama
Cast: 3m., 1w., 4 either gender with optional extras. Wiley and the Hairy Man is a spine-tingling tale of a boy and his worst fears in the swamp—eventually overcome by Wiley himself. Through rhythm and rhyme, a chorus creates the mystery of the swamp. The magic of this play is not fairy dust, it is soil—the magic of survival, the magic of the earth... (More)
Code: WD9
Collection
Eight of Suzan Zeder's plays, each widely produced and popular, are in this anthology, a collection of her first works for stage. Zeder is one of the most imaginative playwrights of her generation and is best known for the depth and dimension of her child protagonists and the bold handling of contemporary themes and issues. She is theatrically exciting and surprising... (More)
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