DBAD pRODUCTIONs
An innovative sideways thinking Production company in the Philadelphia area, specializing in educational programs, bold Theatre, and Aural Entertainment.
An innovative sideways thinking Production company in the Philadelphia area, specializing in educational programs, bold Theatre, and Aural Entertainment.
By Seán O’Casey
A rural irish farm couple argue about who has it harder men or women. They bet on it and switch jobs for the day on the farm.
First produced in 1937, this one act comedy is a step from the usually much more serious and political-minded O’Casey, one of the great irish playwrights.
By Eugene Ionesco
An elderly couple prepares for a meeting of great importance, their main speaker The Orator is on his way and everyone must find a seat.
An absurdist farce from the master of the genre Eugene Ionesco, this play has been reminding audiences of the meaningless of life since 1952.
by Christopher Durang
A mild-mannered nobody finds themselves thrust into a theatrical production of a play that is never named. Durang’s nightmare paradox was created as a curtain-raiser for his hit play Sister Ignatius Explains it All For You since 1981.
By David Ives
Three Chimpanzees find themselves in a room with typewriters tasked with the job of typing until they create “Hamlet”
Two friends meet up in a bar to find that though they’re in the same literal place, metaphysically they are miles apart.
Part of Ives’ “All in the Timing” these two plays have been entertaining crowds since their original production in 1992.
by Edward Albee
A mild mannered gentleman is interrupted from his reading at Central Park by a New York City vagrant, who has just returned from the zoo and is in dire need to discuss his story.
First produced in German with Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape in 1959 it soon was produced off Broadway where it shot it’s playwright into superstardom while winning the Obie for Best Play.
by Susan Glaspell
There’s been a mysterious death in a small town, the local law enforcement goes to investigate, but while they’re wasting their time trying to be important, two of the local ladies set forth to figure out the real truth.
First produced with the legendary Provincetown Players in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in the summer of 1916.
DBaD productions’ one act play reading series will come to you, ACTORS AND ALL, and present to you a full theatre experience. After each play reading, a power point presentation about the original productions of each play will be given by a DBaD member. For more information about plays offered and prices E-mail below