The Available Plays of Arthur M. Jolly

	FULL LENGTH PLAYS
	A Gulag Mouse (1M, 5F) drama. Winner 2009 Joining Sword and Pen Competition A woman's arrival at a Siberian Gulag destroys the intricate web of hierarchy, alliance and treachery among the other four inmates of her bunkhouse.
	Past Curfew (1M,2F) drama.2008 AOPW Fellowship Winner Published by Next Stage Press. Years of bitter conflicts erupt as a single mother and her teenage daughter confront the unspoken issues between them in a night of vicious headgames.
	The Christmas Princess (4M,4F,1U) children's play A new fairy tale - a spoiled Princess must find three magical christmas gifts for her parents if she is to escape an arranged marriage to the world's stupidest Prince.
	ONE ACT PLAYS
	Almost Christmas (2M, 1F) drama A bartender, her boss and a cantankerous customer trade secrets at midnight on Christmas Eve. This play has not yet been produced.
	Courtin' in Georgia (2M,1F) comedy A reinterpretation of Anton Chekhov's The Proposal, set in the south of the U.S. A frail hypochondriac tries to ask his neighbor's headstrong daughter to marry him in spite of a long history of rivalry between their families.
	Mopping the Stage Download this one for free! A writer mops a stage in preparation for a play - while discussing his choices to become an instructor pilot for the U.S. Army at the start of the Iraq War, and his decision to quit to become a writer. And mop stages.
	Thicker than Water. (1M, 1F) drama A young couple cope with love, a possible pregnancy... and an inexplicable puddle of blood.
	TEN MINUTE PLAYS
	After It's All Over (2M, 1F) surreal comedy Available from Original Works Online. A nuclear family in a post-nuclear age struggles to accept the son's decision to go into a completely one-sided battle.
	Bailing Out (1M, 1F) serio-comic An elderly man in a hospice ward for the terminally ill teaches a young nurse the meaning of life.
	Better by Candlelight (1M, 1F) drama Available from Original Works Online. A widower relives the anniversary of his wife's death with a role-playing prostitute.
	Every Battle, Every War (4M) comedy Available from Original Works Online. Four soldiers in a trench in World War One find more to fight about with each other than with the enemy.
	The Bricklayer (1M) drama Download this one for free! A bricklayer talks to his son about the the importance of making each brick square and true, the importance of the big picture, of small parts playing roles in larger issues... as he builds an industrial chimney in a concentration camp.
	The Fine Print (1M, 1U) serio-comic Available from Original Works Online. The Devil tempts an Electrical Systems Engineer with the specs for a new weapons system.
	The Four Senses of Love (1M, 1F) off-beat comedy Available from Original Works Online. A man with no feelings falls for a girl with no taste at a support group for the sensory deprived.
	How Blue is My Crocodile (2F) serio-comic Download this from Two young girls play games that explore and reveal their concerns, while waiting for their father who is returning wounded from a tour of duty.
	Howie's Last Words (1M, 1F) drama Available from Original Works Online. A stuntman returning home late after a fire stunt that went disastrously wrong is confronted by his wife - who wants him to quit the business.
	Tiger in a Cage (1M, 1F) drama Available from Original Works Online. A female psychiatrist gets trapped in a jail cell with a former patient - a recidivist sex offender.
	The Waiting Room of the Gods (2M, 2F) comedy Available from Original Works Online. Three classical personifications of love must cope with a modern interloper.
	RADIO PLAYS
	Courtin' in Georgia A radio adaptation of the one act play.
	Thicker Than Water A radio play broadcast on KSUF and other NPR stations.

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