| Stephen Gregg has written a wealth of perennially popular plays, including This is a Test, Small Actors, Twitch, Sex Lives of Superheroes, S.P.A.R., Poor Little Lambs, and Sunday Night. He is the recipient of a Jerome Fellowship from The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis; the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award for best ten-minute play; and the International Thespian Society's Founders Award. He writes the Playwright Now blog for the Educational Theatre Association at schooltheatre.org. |
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Comedy/Drama
Various durations
Various cast requirements
$9.99 per book
NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 2 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From the oldest living human with exactly ten minutes left before the end of the world (The Last Woman on Earth by Liz Duffy Adams), to marital advice from Mohandas Gandhi to a truck driver (Gandhi Goes Fishing by Al Sjoerdsma), to ethical discord involving world hunger and cat food (Aisle 17B by John Walch), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Aisle 17B
But Who's Counting
A Free Man in Paris
Gandhi Goes Fishing
God Like a Jumpstart
The John Philip Sousa Workshop
The Last Woman on Earth
The Lessons of My Father
The Miracle of Chanukah
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Comedy
Short, 10-15 minutes
1 female, 1 male, 9 either (11 actors possible: 0-11 females, 0-11 males)
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 2.
Welcome to the staged reading of "Misericordia Quintet," featuring the composer, the conductor, the musicians...and not a single musical instrument in sight. When the last note is read aloud, the armchair critics talk-back with a vengeance.
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Comedy
Short, 20-30 minutes
3 females, 3 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
At some point in their past, the Monroe children noticed that their grandmother only ever tells five anecdotes. Since there are, conveniently, five Monroe children, they've made an annual game out of drawing the stories from her. When a bet raises the stakes of the game, this already twisted pastime gets downright nasty. But it may be that Grandma isn't quite the unwitting mark she appears to be...
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Fantasy
Full-length, 100-115 minutes
5 females, 4 males, 11 either
(9-23 actors possible: 4-17 females, 3-16 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Whit, a seventeen-year-old girl, is yanked into another world where time behaves strangely, and bizarre creatures are out to get her. Whit must befriend a boy named Six and find a way back to Earth before she's trapped in the alternate universe forever.
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