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| Al Sjoerdsma is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award for drama. He has been playwright-in-residence at the Canterbury Stage Company and the Performance Network, both of Ann Arbor, Michigan. His work has been presented in theaters and universities around the country, most recently at the Vital Theatre in New York, and including the Producer's Club in New York, the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, City Theatre in Miami, Milwaukee Rep, Cleveland Public Theatre, the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, the Vortex Theatre in Albuquerque, Northern Kentucky University, Keene State College in New Hampshire, and elsewhere. His award-winning play The 82nd Shepherds' Play was published in the anthology Incisions from Doubleday. Mr. Sjoerdsma is a member of the Dramatists Guild. |
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 10-20 minutes
2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 2.
A nervous truck driver named Bob and a saintly world leader named Mohandas Gandhi spend a quiet morning fishing together. Bob suspects his wife of infidelity, and Gandhi offers him some hard-won advice on love and non-violence.
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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 "Add to Shopping Cart" 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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