Welcome

Welcome to theatreink - plays by Claudia Haas. Plays suitable for schools, community theatres, touring, and professional theatre are in these pages. I update weekly so please return.

Culling from the world of Shakespeare, Greek Theatre, folk tales and tales of fancy, the plays will take you on many journeys.

Social issues include a play about young people trying to connect after 9/11 (BY CANDLELIGHT) and a one-act play about a school lockdown (PLAY THE HAND THAT'S DEALT).

BY CANDLELIGHT won the 2007 Aurand Harris Play Competition and was a finalist/winner in the 2007 Bonderman Symposium. Other award winners are included. For a complete list, click on the BIOGRAPHY AND AWARDS link.

A vast array of arge cast plays for youth, ten-minute plays for forensics, a play utilizing five actresses over the age of 50 and one-acts are here. A new adaptation of an old classic (PRIDE AND PREJUDICE) is here.

A link to my blog is new. It has to do with working with young performers amd includes observations regarding the wonders of what young performers can do for your scripts.

Below is "what's new in 2008." Feel free to e-mail me! Enjoy the site.

NEW PLAYS AND NEW PUBLICATIONS

NEW PLAYS

JANUARY 2008

The interactive FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE is now here (January 2008). It utilizes a cast of 3 (1m, 1f, 1m or f) and has few set needs (ideal for touring). Find them on the YOUTH PLAYS page. 50 minutes.

MARCH 2008

CIAO, CINDERELLA! This large cast Italian Cinderella is a tapestry of tales set in Bologna Italy in the 1200's. As a troubled girl discovers her connections to a fairy tale, she comes to realize the many meanings of "family." Cast of 21. 70 minutes.

NEXT, ACTOR PLEASE - comic one act (35 minutes) that lets ten actors shine.

APRIL 2008

THE BREMEN TOWN MUSICIANS - Cast of 14 (designed for teens); 50 minutes; few production values

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - Cast of 18 - extras possible

NEW PUBLICATIONS

APRIL 2008

BY CANDLELIGHT to be published by Playscripts

PLAY THE HAND THAT'S DEALT to be published by Playscripts

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (for young performers) published by Playscripts

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST to be published by Brooklyn Publishers