Plays by Dorothy Bryant
Dear Master • Tea with Mrs. Hardy • The Panel
Posing for Gauguin • The Trial of Cornelia Connelly
Sad But Glorius Days • Eros in Love
Dear Master (1991) 
A dialogue in letters based on the friendship between George Sand and Gustave Flaubert.
(a cast of two)
"A splendid achievement"
—San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Area Critics Circle Award Best Script 1991
Domestic drama in the life of Thomas Hardy.
(a cast of seven)
"Admirable. Supple, subtle script makes considerable impact" —San Francisco Chronicle
Lively exposition of the paradoxical life of philosopher/activist/mystic, Simone Weil.
(a cast of five)
"Her pilgrimage is our own." (Robert Coles)
A refreshingly unromantic drama of the actual life on Tahiti of the self-mythlogized artist, introducing the ghost of his amazing grandmother, writer and activist Flora Tristan.
(a cast of three)
"Bryant excavates meaty figures from the past" —San Francisco Chronicle
What began in 1830 as an ordinary American love story became a bizarre international scandal in 1850. The consequences of this trial have lasted, but the memory of it was suppressed by government and church authorities embarrassed by their role in it.
(a cast of eight)
"Guaranteed to offend everyone"
—Joanne Greenberg (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden)
In these four words Margaret Fuller described the short-lived Roman Republic of 1849, the first attempt to unify Italy, limit the power of the pope, and drive out foreign exploiters. Three extraordinary women stood at the center of the struggle. Coming to Rome from three different continents, cultures, and classes, Anita Garibaldi, Cristina Belgiojoso, and Margaret Fuller shared remarkable traits: a commitment to active struggle in the cause of freedom; a dubious, even scandalous relation to men involved in the struggle; defiance of the legally and socially approved role of women. (a cast of three, one set, 90 minutes without intermission)
"Every line evokes authentic history, restoring events that illuminate our own passions " —West County Bulletin
The myth of Psyche (the human soul) and Eros (the god of sexual passion) combines universal elements of fable and folk tales to symbolize a cosmic evolution of love. Based firmly on classical sources, this play offers many broadly written,often comic roles, which may be cast regardless of race, age, ethnicity, or
gender. Ideal for production by college or high school students, or community theater.
(Two acts, sixteen speaking roles plus non-speaking groups of "extras").