Dramatic Publishing has released MIDNIGHT AND MOLL FLANDERS by noted Wisconsin playwright Marie Kohler. The play is loosely adapted from the classic 18th century novel by Daniel Defoe. This is the second play from Kohler’s work recently published by Dramatic Publishing. Her other play, BOSWELL, was published in July 2024. Both plays are now available for theaters everywhere to perform.
Description of the play: Moll Flanders’ mythical drive for love and survival led her on amazing adventures – romantic escapades, multiple marriages, and a career as a notorious London thief. The play begins on the eve of Moll’s execution in Newgate Prison, as she tells her story to the vicar, who is determined to offer her one last, unlikely chance at redemption. The play traces a dual journey of transformation for both Moll and the vicar, who cannot help but be fascinated – and moved – by her amazing story. MIDNIGHT AND MOLL FLANDERS examines the influence of gender, class, free will, and luck in an era as wildly focused on entrepreneurship as our own.
For more information about the play and previous productions, visit: mariekohler.com/midnight-and-moll-flanders
Cost: MIDNIGHT AND MOLL FLANDERS is available for theaters, bookstores, and individuals to purchase directly through Dramatic Publishing. The price is $10.95 per digital script. To purchase the script and for more information on cast, streaming rights, target audience, and approximate running time, please visit the dedicated MIDNIGHT AND MOLL FLANDERS page on the Dramatic Publishing website.
The digital script for her other play BOSWELL can also be purchased through her own BOSWELL page on the Dramatic Publishing website. For more information on the BOSWELL release, visit: mariekohler.com/s/BOSWELL-Publicaton-Press-Release.pdf
In addition to the digital script, both plays will soon be available in playbook format. Please contact Dramatic Publishing for availability.
More information: To stay up to date with Marie Kohler’s other work, including directing and writing, please visit mariekohler.com/contact and sign up for her regular emails.
Marie Kohler is an American playwright, director, writer, and producer. Her plays have been nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (twice), American Theatre Critics Association Best New Regional Play, Playwrights’ Center Lab (finalist), Abingdon Award, Wisconsin Wrights (twice), Todd McNerney Playwriting Award, Charlotte Repertory Theater Award, and Playwrights’ First Award (semifinalist).
Her play BOSWELL received four-star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and ran to a sold-out Off-Broadway run at the 59E59 Theatres (2022). MIDNIGHT AND MOLL FLANDERS, among her other plays, received multiple “Best of the Year” reviews and will soon be published by Dramatic Publishing. Her published plays include A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST (YouthPLAYS) and BOSWELL (Dramatic Publishing).
Kohler co-founded the women-led Renaissance Theaterworks in Milwaukee and served as co-artistic director and resident playwright for 20 years. The Milwaukee Arts Board has named her Artist of the Year and Friend of the Arts. In 2024, Kohler was named a Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.
She received her BA from Harvard University (Magna Cum Laude) and her MA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Kohler has served on the Wisconsin Humanities Board and is currently on the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Arts Board. She is also very involved in environmental activism. Marie and her husband, actor Brian Mani, live in Spring Green and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and have three daughters and eight grandchildren together. mariekohler.com
