Bloom
Ella is an embittered, pill popping ex-Broadway star with a checkered past and a bad attitude to match. Washed up, broke, and hostile, she takes the only job she can find teaching at a small Appalachian college where she lashes out at her peers, terrifies her students, and antagonizes the Southern Belle who runs the place. But when she falls in love with Joe, a student half her age who is battling leukemia, she is slowly transformed. Using the backdrop of growing a garden as a metaphor for growing one’s self, we follow Ella’s spiritual re-birth as she struggles to “become.” Juxtaposing Ella, who is afraid to live, with Joe, who is unafraid to die this haunting romantic comedy explores the redemptive powers of love, loss - and of life - finally, exquisitely lived.
"Smart, sexy, tender, and compelling, Sybil St. Claire’s Bloom is a laugh-out-loud romantic delight.”
-John Pinckard, Tony award winning Broadway and Film Producer
“Beautiful, honest, compelling, and brimming with hope, in Bloom Sybil St. Claire has unleashed her formidable sense of humor to create a boundlessly entertaining screenplay with real commercial appeal!”
-Susan Kim, playwright, TV Writer, documentarian Author of the stage adaptation of The Joy Luck Club
"Smart, sexy, tender, and compelling, Sybil St. Claire’s Bloom is a laugh-out-loud romantic delight.”
-John Pinckard, Tony award winning Broadway and Film Producer
“Beautiful, honest, compelling, and brimming with hope, in Bloom Sybil St. Claire has unleashed her formidable sense of humor to create a boundlessly entertaining screenplay with real commercial appeal!”
-Susan Kim, playwright, TV Writer, documentarian Author of the stage adaptation of The Joy Luck Club
Maam's Cross (The Family Remains)
Co-written by C. Davie Janes
Meg, Ness, and Finn can’t even make it through their own mother’s funeral without getting into a knockdown, drag out brawl. So when they are sent to Ireland to scatter their mother Maureen’s ashes it’s bound to be anything but easy. Not knowing where to go they follow rainbows at the insistence of their psychic aunt, become convinced they have fallen in with terrorists, lose their mother’s ashes, and find romance in the most unlikely places. But with a little bit of Irish luck the siblings figure out not only where to spread their mother’s ashes but also how to be a family… fulfilling Maureen’s last wish after all in this bittersweet adult comedy.
“Sybil’s work asks questions. Her stories are ones where even the most complicated moments are laced with humor, and where audiences can find a mirror for their experiences. Her work is active, hungry, and suggests hope even in the darkest of times.”
-Laura Schellhardt, Assistant Professor of Playwriting, Northwestern University, Dramatist Guild Fellow, O’Neill recipient, author Screenwriting for Dummies
Meg, Ness, and Finn can’t even make it through their own mother’s funeral without getting into a knockdown, drag out brawl. So when they are sent to Ireland to scatter their mother Maureen’s ashes it’s bound to be anything but easy. Not knowing where to go they follow rainbows at the insistence of their psychic aunt, become convinced they have fallen in with terrorists, lose their mother’s ashes, and find romance in the most unlikely places. But with a little bit of Irish luck the siblings figure out not only where to spread their mother’s ashes but also how to be a family… fulfilling Maureen’s last wish after all in this bittersweet adult comedy.
“Sybil’s work asks questions. Her stories are ones where even the most complicated moments are laced with humor, and where audiences can find a mirror for their experiences. Her work is active, hungry, and suggests hope even in the darkest of times.”
-Laura Schellhardt, Assistant Professor of Playwriting, Northwestern University, Dramatist Guild Fellow, O’Neill recipient, author Screenwriting for Dummies
The Methuselah Project
Co-written and conceived by Phillip Dawkins
In the year 2070, a "cure" for death has been discovered and that cure (the Methuselah vaccine) has changed the world. Perpetual ten year-olds now run the show, and the divide between those who have perpetual life and those who do not grows wider and ever more sinister. When Perpetuals start dying, 60 year-old bioethics Professor, John Oliver is accused of their murder and forced to run - but where and to whom? This futuristic dystopian tale explores the ultimate Faustian bargain, begging the questions, "At what price immortality?"
In the year 2070, a "cure" for death has been discovered and that cure (the Methuselah vaccine) has changed the world. Perpetual ten year-olds now run the show, and the divide between those who have perpetual life and those who do not grows wider and ever more sinister. When Perpetuals start dying, 60 year-old bioethics Professor, John Oliver is accused of their murder and forced to run - but where and to whom? This futuristic dystopian tale explores the ultimate Faustian bargain, begging the questions, "At what price immortality?"
The Cauldron and the Magnolia Tree
The spirited and spiritual chronicle of a group of young women who became sisters, who became wise women and warriors, who became the embodiment of the Goddess, and the creators of circle, a shape which holds all of us equal.
Connected by birth, tested by death, infused with magic.
Inspired by a true story.
Connected by birth, tested by death, infused with magic.
Inspired by a true story.
The Invisible People
In the heart of a child there is always magic and on the eve of Katie's 13th birthday fears and fantasies abound as she struggles to hold on to her childhood, embrace her emerging adolescence, and confront her greatest fear - herself. This new myth for today's child is a coming of age story featuring a strong, female driven ensemble, a bouquet of colorfully eccentric characters, a devoted single mother, and a young girl on the cusp of "becoming." It's a night for music, miracles, and mayhem as Katie dances with enchanted butterflies, learns the "flip and giggle" from her older, more boy savvy sister, celebrates the many virtues of her "blankie" and outwits the monster inside us all.
"Sybil St. Claire knows better than anyone how the theatre works its magic on young people."
-The Gainesville Sun
"Sybil St. Claire knows better than anyone how the theatre works its magic on young people."
-The Gainesville Sun
Incantation
Incantation tells the story of the Frog Prince fairy tale from three different points of view - that of the witch, the princess and the frog. This comedic tale begins with the version familiar to us all with an overly kind Princess, a vain Prince and the ever-present evil witch. The second version, told by the frog, zig zags in an unexpected direction, as the poor Prince is turned into a frog {through absolutely no fault of his own} and then plagued by a horrid Princess who actually wants to kiss him. The third and final version lights up the stage as a beautiful woman with magical abilities turns the Prince into a frog in an effort to help him learn a lesson in love. Ultimately, the Prince learns that a kiss given freely and with love is to be his only salvation, but it isn't the kiss he was given; it's the kiss he must give.
"Filled with humor and the agile verbal play of children, Sybil St. Claire's plays catch fire even on the cool, white page. "
-John Cech, Editor, Children's Literature Review
Eldridge Publishing
"Filled with humor and the agile verbal play of children, Sybil St. Claire's plays catch fire even on the cool, white page. "
-John Cech, Editor, Children's Literature Review
Eldridge Publishing
Woolfie
Blending three well-loved fairy tales-- Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, and Goldilocks and Three Bears--Woolfie takes place in a series of flashbacks as the Wolf must defend himself in the Trial of the Century. Accused of a variety of heinous crimes that include blowing down other people's houses, impersonating grandmothers, and gobbling up little girls, the much maligned and misunderstood Woolfie must defend himself or face dire consequences. This new look at an old tale explores prejudice in its many forms and features such characters as Judge Billy Goat Gruff, Little Bo Peep as the bailiff, gangster pigs, a befuddled attorney, and an interactive panel of jurors. The play builds to a surprise ending using audience participation and a surprise witness.
Eldridge Publishing
Eldridge Publishing
Monologs for Student Actors
This anthology contains fifty monologues selected from the work of contemporary English-speaking playwrights for young students and actors 10 to 24 years. The collection is equally divided between male and female characters, and also contains a variety of pieces for students-of-color. Monologues vary in length from one to two minutes to approximately nine to ten minutes, in order to offer a range of challenges to students for competitive auditions, forensics activities, literary editing, oral interpretation classes, acting studio exercises, and similar applications.
Meriwether Publishing
Meriwether Publishing
Scenes and Monologues of Spiritual Experience from the Best Contemporary Plays
This anthology features the monologue Wake Me When It's Over. Inspired by an idiosyncratic Irish Catholic upbringing and the practice of three-day wakes, Wake Me When It's Over humorously and tenderly explores spirituality through a teenage lens.
The anthology embraces various aspects of spirituality---religious faith, martyrdom, death and afterlife, fate and destiny, mercy, and romantic love. Some of the plays sourced for this anthology include, The Crucible, Doubt, In the Shape of a Woman, Agnes of God, and Angels in America.
Applause Theatre Books