Are you looking for produced dramatic plays or new/fairly new dramas that may have had just one production or one staged-reading? One I am thinking of is THE DARKEST ZONE IN THE SEA, a tragedy where the protagonist Pelleas ‘Lee’ DePalma, has unreal expectations and is finally drawn to a tragic decision.

Summary: Thirty-eight years old, he has been married three times — his current wife having just left him. He is obsessed with academic goals that leave little or no room for anything else in his life. Thus, the unreal expectations, pressures over time, and rapidly declining health have pulled him into irreversible frustration and despair. When his first wife calls on him in Act I, Scene 1, concerned over the news of his most recent marital troubles, she tells him that scholastically he has always been trying to prove himself over and over again; that is, he has been "constantly trying to overcome some deficit.” And this is the crux of Pelleas' problems. He tries to laugh it off, but for him it is a truth that will see him to the grave.

It is after Pelleas returns home (Act II) from a sobering doctor's appointment that he has the final fight with his current wife Arleen. Young, self-absorbed, and symbolic of the shallow personality, it is she who ironically hits upon Pelleas' life-long trouble. In essence, he has been trying to make up in his own life for his father's lack of education — a man Pelleas seemingly idolized but was actually ashamed of.   In confronting Arleen when she returns to their condominium to remove the rest of the belongings she claims for herself, their final fight occurs, and by what he learned at the doctor's, carries him through with a tragic decision that we (as the audience/reader) easily foresee in a monologue Pelleas delivers in Act I, Scene 2; that is, the foreshadowing of his suicide. But first he kills Arleen.   


In addition, you might want to go to the following website for those plays of mine (dramas as well as comedies) that have had productions: http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/stockham-linda.html

My drama favorites (and good sellers too!) are "Death of a Salesman," "All My Sons,"  "Twelve Angry Men," and "Trip to Bountiful."  And I agree with "The Boys Next Door" and "The Mousetrap."