The online version of a popular reference in libraries since 1949, Play Index lets users search tens of thousands of plays by criteria useful for finding works that match curricula, holiday themes, social issues, historical commemorations, specific genre and style and much more.
The database is also designed to find scripts that match users’ production resources, with searching by number of roles, roles by gender, and grade level. Descriptive annotations also summarize the plot and note musical requirements (chorus, singing, dancing, etc.) and number of sets (scenery, interior or exterior).
- Cites more than 31,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present.
- Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic and historical plays.
- Search for plays by title; author; subject (culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more.
- Limit results to plays with a specific number of male and/or female roles, or size of total cast.
- Search for plays appropriate for preK-6, grades 7-12, and adult.
- Search over 600 monologues for auditions or course assignments.
- Full publication details help you locate each play.
- Links to full text of plays available on the web.
- Updated continuously, with new material added to the database at least weekly.
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