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Short, 10-15 minutes
3 males
$30.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of a book called National Pastime.
On the brink of the Civil Rights Movement, Jackie Robinson, the first black player in major league baseball, and Wesley Branch Rickey, the white President and General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, shatter the color barrier in 1947. 215 Montague Street recounts their historic first meeting.
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| --Martin Hernandez, L.A. Weekly |
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Drama
Short, 40-50 minutes
3 females, 2 males (5-15 actors possible: 3-5 females, 2-10 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Looking for a better life for his family and an end to persecution, the father of young Anya and Tanya leaves Russia for New York City, promising he will send for his daughters soon. A year later, the sisters endure a harrowing ocean journey to join their father, only to find he is not at Ellis Island to meet them. Will the family ever reunite? A moving story of what it was like to emigrate to America in the late nineteenth century.
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Comedy/drama
Short, 30-45 minutes
2 females, 2 males, 2 either (5-22 actors possible: 2-10 females, 3-12 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of a collection called Three Classics.
Antigone is charged with the crime of burying her brothers -- even though the war left no bodies for her to bury. Haemon could take over the kingdom if he ever stops playing video games and trying to kill his father. And airline pretzels and huge corporate deals cannot satisfy Erisycthon's hunger. In this postmodern take on Antigone, daily life becomes mythic in the urban non-landscape of malls, highways, and airports.
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 35-40 minutes
3 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Bobby returns to his hometown of Arkadelphia, a small religious community where cursing is banned and Wal-Mart is a way of life. His two best friends are eager to hear about his first semester of college in Manhattan, but something about Bobby is different and even he can't figure out why he feels so out of place. Trying to recapture the bond he and his friends once shared, Bobby ends up exposing a secret Arkadelphia would rather keep buried.
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Comedy
Short, 8-12 minutes
1 female, 2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Comedies: Volume 4.
An ambitious, haughty performer takes out her stress on her piano accompanist while waiting to audition for a well-regarded theatre composer, but when the time comes for her to strut her stuff, things take a turn for the hilarious.
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Drama
Full-length, 110-120 minutes
3 females, 9 males (9-80 actors possible: 2-34 females, 7-68 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Alexander Hamilton can hardly wait to make a name for himself in his adopted country, but his eagerness for fame engenders a rashness that his peers find harder and harder to bear. After thirty years of working brilliantly and diligently to create a new American government, Alex finds himself ignored -- a political has-been. As he has done before, Alex speaks out slanderously, but this time he refuses to apologize, taking the chance to ensure his legacy at the risk of death.
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| "...an absorbing play that transcends being an American history lesson spanning the pre-Revolutionary War Era through Hamilton's death with the Republic's birth pangs chronicled in between. This is not a black and white portrayal: heroes and founding fathers become elusive terms that must be re-examined under new historical filters -- most especially in relation to Hamilton, Burr, Washington and others of that era." |
| --Mark Bly, Director of New Play Development at the Alley Theatre |
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Drama
Full-length, 90-115 minutes
1 female, 7 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Because he's been drinking too much, Dave loses his job as Captain 11, the host of a space-themed afternoon cartoon show for children, and is forced back into a violent, surreal world he had hoped to abandon forever. He and his once-and-former partners in crime Cal and Jocko pursue their less-than-legal pursuits until their nemesis, the mysterious Sorge, returns to the scene. Dave, Cal, and Jocko face a fight to the death...if they're lucky.
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The Cherry Orchard
translated by Nicholas Saunders and Frank Dwyer
from the play by Anton Chekhov |
 
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 110-130 minutes
5 females, 10 males, 3 either (15-18 actors possible: 5-8 females, 10-13 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Faced with the imminent loss of her family estate, Lyubov Andreyevna Ranyevskaya returns to her ancestral home and neighboring cherry orchard to see if she can find a way to save them. She and her family soon discover, however, that there is more at stake than the beloved old house and orchard. Great changes, frightening and exhilarating, for them and for Russia, lie just ahead. This lively, touching, surprisingly funny translation of Chekhov's classic play will delight audiences and actors alike as it illuminates the joys of a new world being born, the sorrows of an old world passing away, and the timeless absurdity of the human condition.
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Comedy
Full-length, 75-80 minutes
5 females, 4 males, 4 either (10-20 actors possible: 5-10 females, 5-10 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Carol is a selfless but lonely veterinarian who can easily reset a dog's broken leg, yet can't mend the broken ties with the people in her life. To compensate, she is cripplingly generous -- allowing her employees to drain her wallet and her sister to run off with the love of her life. Alone in her office on Christmas Eve, Carol is visited by the ghosts of three animals who whisk her on a journey into her past, present, and future to convince her to stand up for herself before it's too late. A Christmas Carol is turned inside-out in this dark comedy with a light heart.
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Drama/Comedy
Short, 10-15 minutes
1 female, 3 males, 3 either (7-10 actors possible: 1-4 females, 3-6 males)
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 8.
When a menacing stranger appears at the door of a theatrical producer's office, the man only has one request: that the producer read aloud a script that the stranger has written. As the "cold reading" unfolds, it becomes clear that the dialogue in the play eerily foreshadows parts of the producer's real life, blurring the line between fact and fiction in this suspenseful yet comedic drama.
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Dramatic comedy
Full-length, 110-130 minutes
2 females, 5 males (6-7 actors possible: exactly 2 females, 4-5 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Boston, 1768. John Adams is a young lawyer newly arrived in town; together he and his wife Abigail seek to contain the growing violence of the patriot rebellion against British oppression -- and to contain scandal in the backstairs romance between John's clerk and Abigail's maid. Adams represents the high-living John Hancock, whose sloop Liberty has been confiscated by the British, only to infuriate Hancock two years later after the Boston Massacre, by representing the British regiment charged with murder for firing on a riotous patriot mob. With clarity and wit, Counsellor Adams breathes life into the people, times, and upheavals leading to the American Revolution.
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Drama
Short, 25-30 minutes
4 females, 4 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Seven high school friends witness their relationships disintegrate after their post-Homecoming game caravan has a mysterious encounter on a deserted highway. Earlier at the game, they played a prank on Walden, a high school outcast who recently relocated from another planet, and they blame him for the accident as they try to piece together the rupture in time and memory loss they have experienced. But Caleb is growing sick of his long-time friends' attitudes, and must make a choice. Told in reverse chronological order, this play explores friendship, estrangement, and the unusual bond of two teenagers who tackle the cost of alienation.
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Don Juan
or, The Stone Guest
adapted by Timothy Mooney
from the play by Moliere |
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Comedy
Short, 35-50 minutes
4 females, 13 males, 6 either (8-25 actors possible: 3-9 females, 5-19 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Hypocrite and reckless libertine Don Juan moves from one intimate conquest to the next, abandoning multiple wives and deceiving countless others. One of his latest victims, the chaste Elvire, has even left the convent for him. As Don Juan's wild ways begin to catch up to him, he is threatened by Elvire's brothers, rebuked by his own father, and repeatedly warned by his sanctimonious servant, but he refuses to believe that he will ever face the consequences of his actions. Scorning naysayers to the point of staging a phony religious conversion, Don Juan ignores the signs, even a statue of a dead man that comes to life, warning him of Heaven's pending retribution.
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Comedy
Short, 28-35 minutes
8 females, 8 males, 5 either (11-24 actors possible: 6-12 females, 5-12 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
In 10,080 B.C., Moknar Mag, the world's oldest caveman, is struck with a vision of the future, where ordinary high school student Marty is shocked to discover his mother is dating a college freshman. As Moknar Mag's story unfolds, the two time periods come together in a madcap tale of love, lust, cheesecake, and Tupperware as Marty tries to keep his mother from falling for someone half her age.
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Farce
Full-length, 100-120 minutes
3 females, 4 males (7-9 actors possible: 3-5 females, exactly 4 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Two amorous male leads, costumes that completely inhibit movement, a writer who insists on communicating through speaker phone, and an actress with stage fright and severe bladder control problems doom the production of A Woman's Song. Actress Barbara Lewis is determined to make the show a success, but what she doesn't know is that this disastrous production was orchestrated by a vengeful person from her past. Will she and her fellow cast and crew members make it out of this train wreck unscathed?
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Eyolf adapted by John Belluso
from the play Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen |
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Drama
Full-length, 65-70 minutes
3 females, 3 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
This stunning and lyrical adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "Little Eyolf," by award-winning playwright John Belluso, is the story of a determined father, his cynical wife, and their crippled child. The father, Alfred, returns from a writing expedition determined to be a better father to his crippled son, Eyolf. Alfred's wife, Rita, is unconvinced that anything will change, and is especially skeptical with the arrival of Alfred's adopted sister, who she views as a rival for her husband's affection. But when the ominous and mystical town legend "Rat Wife" appears, she leaves a tragedy in her wake that makes it impossible for anyone to move forward, without first confronting the demons of their past.
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Fair and Warmer
A Farce of Temperament and Temperature
adapted by Jack Sharrar
from the play by Avery Hopwood |
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Comedy
Full-length, 110-120 minutes
3 females, 5 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Johnny, a mild-mannered banker, gets his heart broken when his wife, Janet, requests a divorce. It's not that he's been a bad husband; in fact, it's just the opposite -- he's too nice and annoyingly predictable. Desperate to win back his wife's affection, Johnny follows the ill-advice of his friend and neighbor, Ralph, to make Janet question his fidelity. Unfortunately for Ralph, Ralph's own wife is the one who volunteers to help Johnny with his scheme. From compromising situations on a bearskin rug to the staggering effects of the "Green Elevator," the most potent cocktail to ever be concocted on stage, this adaptation from the Jazz-Age Broadway comedy hit follows these seemingly mismatched couples as they rediscover why they are together in the first place.
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Comedy
Short, 5-10 minutes
1 female, 2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Small Packages: Collected Short Plays.
A male student tries desperately to get a female professor to share her thoughts on his sketch comedy show. Unfortunately for the professor, his comedy might not be the only thing he's looking for positive feedback on...
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Small Packages: Collected Short Plays.)
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Comedy
Short, 10-15 minutes
2 females, 2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 9.
Two same-sex couples want to get married, but the confusing laws keep changing. As they comically struggle to find an arrangement that will be acceptable to The People, they might just end up right back where they started.
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Drama
Short, 5-7 minutes
2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Small Packages: Collected Short Plays.
Fast-talking Brian spins a ludicrous tale to his professor in an attempt to get an extension on an overdue paper. But the feeble excuses soon turn into an honest conversation as Brian turns to his gay professor for advice about Brian's unhappy, closeted relationship with another student.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Small Packages: Collected Short Plays.)
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Drama
Short, 10-12 minutes
2 females, 2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 1.
It is the early 1980s, the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest is collapsing, and the company town of Valsetz is about to be razed. A young man comes back to see the town for the last time, and to reconnect, momentarily, with his mother and the sister he tried to murder. But like the town, he has gone through major changes.
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Drama
Short, 35-45 minutes
1 female, 6 either (7-15 actors possible: 1-15 females, 6-15 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Three of Edgar Allen Poe's most terrifying tales are given fresh life in this adaptation, designed as a customizable contest perfect for any production group. Which is scariest -- the poisonous resentment of The Cask of Amontillado, the paranoid hallucinations of The Tell-Tale Heart, or the entombed madness of The Fall of the House of Usher? The audience plays judge in this chilling and atmospheric trio.
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 25-40 minutes
4 females, 7 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Achilles and his companion Patroclus are hosting a weekend retreat for various other mythic figures at their country house. While Theseus tells his tales of the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Circe seeks to ensnare the male guests with her magic love-girdle, Ulysses is weighted down by time and memory. Despite toying with the conventions of drawing room comedy and ancient Greek epics alike, The Heroes evokes a timeless sense of loneliness and loss.
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Comedy
Short, 25-35 minutes
2 females, 2 males, 1 either (5-20 actors possible: 2-12 females, 2-12 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
After spending a fateful night together at their senior prom, five "frenemies" reunite at their 10th, 25th, and 65th high school reunions. The prom king and queen, the party guy, the shy girl, and the weirdo find themselves linked through the decades, each one always hoping to prove to the others that they've made it to the proverbial "top." This comedy proves that while high school may only last four years, for some, the desire to outdo their high school buddies never fades away.
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Musical comedy
Short, 18-25 minutes
5 females, 3 males (8-30 actors possible: 5-15 females, 3-15 males)
$7.99 per book
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The classic Cinderella fairy tale is turned upside-down in this pop-infused teenage musical that follows students from two Upper East Side high schools as they gear up for the their annual Springtime Formal. Eddy, a drama geek who writes music, has a chance to go to the ball. But will a song and a temporary makeover, courtesy of a fairy godmothering drama teacher, be enough to win the heart of the most popular girl in school?
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 45-60 minutes
18 females, 25 males, 6 either (12-50 actors possible: 5-24 females, 7-31 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Julian, a soldier in the US Army, left for war quite a while ago and is missing in action, leaving behind his beautiful wife, Lola, and daughters Telly and Tara to deal with everyday problems at home -- smelly suitors, a broken car, and the long and boring Odyssey. But as Homer's epic tale is told to them by a kindly old neighbor, they begin to discover that Odysseus' quest for home echoes Julian's efforts. As the girls seek information on the whereabouts of their hero dad, Odysseus' journey plays out before our very eyes.
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Drama
Full-length, 130-145 minutes
5 females, 5 males (10-13 actors possible: exactly 5 females, 5-8 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Hope for Breakfast intertwines the beloved story of Little Women with what actually went on in the family life of the novel's author, Louisa May Alcott. Living in the intellectual hub of Massachusetts, circa 1840, young Louisa strives to keep her family together and safe from starvation, despite the harebrained schemes of her father, the Transcendentalist philosopher Bronson Alcott, who has sworn off working for money. At points of unbearable tension, Louisa retreats to an imaginary world -- the harmonious family life of her novel, Little Women -- whose publication ultimately leads to a precipitous and ironic rise in her real family's fortunes.
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 90-100 minutes
2 females, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
On the evening of his grandfather's funeral, a high school baseball star named Taylor Green finds his family unexpectedly imperiled. A loan shark arrives to request the payment of $41,000 for the grandfather's gambling debts, and gives Taylor just 24 hours to come up with the money. His family and friends must navigate a maze of loss, deception, and challenges of faith.
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Drama
Full-length, 75-80 minutes
3 females, 3 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
A crippled scientist returns to the small town where he grew up in order to investigate a strange situation which is gaining some notoriety. A young man there was shot in the head seven years ago. By all accounts he should have died, but instead he seems to have developed the miraculous ability to heal other people. Amidst the scientist's search for answers, the boy's whole family, including the boy himself, question their feelings about faith and challenge their beliefs in the existence of miracles.
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Comedy
Short, 25-30 minutes
3 females, 3 males
$40.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of a book called Ibsen Undone.
Hedda Gabler may be a despicable human being who relishes the pain of others, but she's also a vile and loathsome woman who takes pleasure in other people's misery. Inspired by the classic drama by Henrik "The Raging Norwegian" Ibsen, I Hate Hedda is a play that dares to take a classic piece of theatre and turn it into something that you can actually sit through.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Ibsen Undone.)
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Irene and Curdie adapted by Matt Buchanan
from the novel The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald |
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Fantasy for young audiences
Full-length, 65-80 minutes
6 females, 9 males, 10 either (12-35 actors possible: 4-15 females, 7-20 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
When Irene, a young princess, is threatened by a goblin outside of the castle, Irene is suddenly thrown into an evil world of goblins bent on destroying her father's castle. With the help of the young miner named Curdie and a magical great-great grandmother who may or may not be real, Irene must warn the castle of the gathering storm. But will anyone believe her? A tale of fantasy, adventure, and friendship.
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 90-100 minutes
3 females, 3 males (4-6 actors possible: 2-3 females, 2-3 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
With a briefcase filled with children's books, Professor John Jr. Johnson arrives unexpectedly after a long absence to his parents' home, demanding his room back. As the repressed environment of the Johnson home is uncorked, tensions come to a head in the urban apartment of Tessa Thompson, whose parents have lost their home and are trying to claim their daughter's apartment as their own. Alternating between these two opposite and comedic worlds, The Johnsons & The Thompsons converges on the axis of alienation and primal need.
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| --Pam MacKinnon, director |
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 55-60 minutes
3 females, 3 males, 2 either (6-20 actors possible: 3-10 females, 3-10 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Infamous folk tales from around the world come to life as characters act out their stories of creation. From a bickering set of body parts to Paul Bunyan and his beloved Babe, these adapted tales in the tradition of Rudyard Kipling explore the origins of natural occurrences such as the sky and the tides through the eyes of different cultures.
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Comedy
Short, 35-40 minutes
10 females, 3 males, 1 either (9-14 actors possible: 6-11 females, 3-4 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
After being home-schooled all his life, Ariel Carvell (who is not, he insists, named after the mermaid) is excited for his first day of "normal" high school. Unfortunately, his confusing name betrays him again, as Ariel finds himself mistakenly enrolled as the only boy in an all-girls school. To make matters worse, his eccentric, 37-year-old Aunt Lydia decides to enroll as well! Things look bad until Ariel sees the girl of his dreams across the hall and realizes that, with a little luck, life for the only boy in an all-girls school might not be that bad...
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Lark adapted by Romulus Linney
from Willa Cather's novel The Song of the Lark |
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Drama
Full-length, 60-80 minutes
3 females, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
A young piano prodigy named Thea Kronberg finds herself creatively limited by family obligations in early 20th-century Colorado. When a good friend is suddenly killed in a train accident, Thea is imparted with enough money to pursue her piano studies in Chicago. With the unwavering support of her family doctor, and the guidance of eccentric teachers, Thea eventually discovers her true, hidden musical talent -- singing opera. In this beautiful adaptation of Willa Cather's beloved novel, Lark allows the audience to witness the life of a young talent -- from her childhood brush with death by pneumonia, all the way to becoming a celebrated opera star touring the country.
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Drama
Short, 10-12 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 5.
In the middle of the night, Franny gets a call from her young lover, who also happens to be a recent ex-student. He wants to come over, but she has many reasons he shouldn't, including her sleeping children, work responsibilities, and the nearness of dawn. Is his need strong enough to overcome her practicality?
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Drama
Full-length, 60-80 minutes
1 female, 2 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
John and Abbey work at a lonely airport parking lot in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, confined together to a tiny booth. After a rough start, John develops a crush on Abbey, who is recovering from a sexual assault and is less than interested in John's advances. Instead she becomes increasingly obsessed with a wealthy jetsetting customer, whose return to the parking lot she hopes will fulfill her dreams of a better life.
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Comedy
Short, 30-40 minutes
3 females, 5 males, 7 either (11-15 actors possible: 2-12 females, 3-13 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Pirate Captain Jack "Shortfuse" Composure thinks he's gotten the best of a sassy mermaid when she offers him a fortune in exchange for his soul and he gives her an empty canteen instead. But the joke may be on the Captain when his soul turns up in the hands of the dastardly Le Mew and his easily offended group of French sailors. Composure must decide whether to save his treasure and his own motley crew, or risk his life to keep his soul. Loosely based on Thornton Wilder's playlet Leviathan, this short play brings hilarity to the high seas!
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Jazz drama
Short, 10-15 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.
On a late-night subway platform, a single woman encounters a homeless street musician, who may or may not be her schizophrenic first love.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.)
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The Message by Drew Davis
based on the playlet The Message and Jehanne
by Thornton Wilder |
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Comedy
Short, 30-40 minutes
7 females, 5 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
An accidental mix-up at a Parisian ring shop causes a divide between not one, not two, but three bewildered couples in this witty adaptation of Thornton Wilder's playlet The Message and Jehanne. Jealous fiances and clever plot twists abound in a delightful ode to the old-fashioned romantic comedy. Will love triumph? Qui sait?
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The Oblong Box adapted by Robert Mason
Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe |
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Drama
Short, 12-17 minutes
3 females, 6 males, 2 either (9-11 actors possible: 3-5 females, 6-8 males)
$35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe.
While traveling on the SS Independence, Renelle runs into an old friend from college. However, Renelle is surprised to find that Cornelius has not only gone through a change in personality, but is also transporting a very large piece of cargo. Renelle suspects a famous painting, but could the box's contents be something darker?
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe.)
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Odds&Ends
plays from the Odd Fellows Hall
by Nicole Quinn |
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 80-100 minutes
4 females, 3 males (6-27 actors possible: 3-21 females, 3-14 males)
$75.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: Each piece in this anthology can be licensed and performed separately.
A single love story is told by the same couple at three different points in their lives together (Marchen Two by Two); a group of pigeons observe the vivid nature of their human neighbor's love affair (Sideout); six students discuss the results of their failed science project, the planet Earth (Science Project). Odds&Ends is a collection of seven unique small-cast short plays that range from comedic to dramatic to poetic.
To purchase this book of 7 plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
The Spirit is Willing
Sideout
Sandchair Cantata
Relative Time
Marchen Two by Two
Science Project
Fugue
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Comedy
Full-length, 70-80 minutes
9 females, 9 males (13-22 actors possible: 6-11 females, 7-11 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Don't touch that remote! The Pazinskis, America's favorite repressed 1959 Catholic family, are now starring in their own TV show -- on your stage. These two one-acts from the creator of the hit play Over the Tavern are written as TV episodes but designed for live performance. In Episode 1, 12-year-old comedian Rudy is pitted against ruler-wielding Sister Clarissa and faces that most dreaded of all disciplinary tactics: a meeting with the parents! In Episode 2, Rudy gets the whole family involved when he turns a simple act of genuflecting into the moral dilemma of the century. Perform these one-acts as written, or add your own commercials and news breaks for a total evening of family-friendly fun and nostalgia.
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Comedy
Short, 10-15 minutes
2 females, 1 male
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 9.
Dan is perfect: smart, funny, attractive, with a well-paying job. Kitty is swooning and her friend Tina is chomping at the bit for Kitty and Dan to get together. There's just one problem...he might be a Republican.
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Black Comedy
Short, 10-15 minutes
1 female
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 7.
Helene, a lawyer and faithful daughter, defends her decision to remove her mother from a nursing home. As she states her case and recounts her strange care-taking choices, what seems to be a case of toxic sibling rivalry reveals itself to be homicidal dementia.
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Drama
Short, 10-15 minutes
1 female, 5 males, 3 either (9 actors possible: 1-4 females, 5-8 males)
$35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe.
When a possibly scandalous letter is stolen from the Queen, the police suspect the Prime Minister to be the culprit. However, when searches of his house fail to produce any evidence, it is up to Detective Dupin -- the Sherlock Holmes of his day -- to save the reputation of the Queen.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe.)
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Comedy
Short, 30-35 minutes
13 either (13-20 actors possible: 0-13 females, 0-13 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
A free-spirited riff on Thornton Wilder's playlet Proserpina and the Devil, this short comedy follows the antics of Red Pants and Blue Pants, co-performers and partners in crime. As they attempt to present their usual play-within-a-play, personal conflict and costume-related angst keep getting in the way. The meddling of two tricky potion pushers, Peep and Gnarly Carly, doesn't help. Will their trusty spot op Leroy, befuddled stage manager Deborah, and a dose of magic help keep Red and Blue's show on the road, or will everyone get their pants in a twist?
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Drama/Comedy
Short, 35-45 minutes
3 females, 5 males, 7 either (15-30 actors possible: 1-15 females, 2-15 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
In this lyrical, poignant twist on the creation story, God has put the formation of the universe in the hands of Mother Nature. Complete with plants, water, animals, and even humans, Mother Nature (with some help from Father Time), creates a remarkable planet Earth. As she and Father Time observe periods of human life on Earth, conditions on the planet slowly deteriorate. Mother Earth begins to worry -- will Earth and its inhabitants be able to endure change and destruction they brought upon themselves?
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Comedy
Short, 35-50 minutes
3 females, 6 males (9 actors possible: 3-5 females, 4-6 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Brothers Sganarelle and Ariste are entrusted with the upbringing of two orphaned sisters in this fast and funny Moliere adaptation. While Ariste lets his ward, Leonor, have total freedom, Sganarelle keeps his Isabelle locked up in preparation for the marriage he is planning. Still, Isabelle falls in love with Valere, a man she sees passing below her balcony. Through intrepid plotting, Isabelle passes messages to her intended through the unwitting Sganarelle, even dressing up as her loose-behaving sister to trick Sganarelle into supporting her marriage to Valere.
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Dark comedy
Full-length, 60-75 minutes
8 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Brand new in a backward hick town, Randall drags his pretentious younger brother, Malcolm, to what he believes will be an ordinary Boy Scout meeting. Instead, Randall finds himself pitted against five savage but remarkably well-read men, who idolize Malcolm's sweeping command of cinema and literature. Someone is behind the twisted rites of passage that ensue -- but his identity will keep you guessing until the very end.
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Comedy
Full-length, 60-75 minutes
8 females, 10 males, 7 either (20-25 actors possible: 8-15 females, 10-17 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Humans and mutants are at war, and in the suburbs of New York City, young Sarah Shriek discovers a dormant mutant power within herself. After a fight with her mother, Sarah and her brother Donovan run away from home to find refuge with Uncle Toothbrush and a band of other crime-fighting mutants. Meanwhile, the scheming Dr. Invisible and his team of corrupt mutants begin stealing millions from important New York City banks. Will Sarah be able to harness her power in time to stop the villains and prove that not all mutants are evil? A hilarious parody of the X-Men series.
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Parody
Full-length, 100-120 minutes
10 females, 6 males, 8 either (16-32 actors possible: 10-18 females, 6-14 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
When Stevie Bob rolls into town with the young Tony Hopeful, Mulletville is abuzz about the new barber's quick skill with a razor. But things in Mulletville are not always what they seem. The pompous Sheriff Turdspin is determined to thwart Stevie Bob's burgeoning business with the help of doll shop owner Wanda Lovesitts and to keep Tony away from the beautiful Josie Belle. As the annual mullet contest approaches, tensions run high as townspeople begin to mysteriously disappear. A sharp parody of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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Drama
Full-length, 80-100 minutes
3 females, 3 males (6-10 actors possible: 3-5 females, 3-5 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Pip, the spirit of a child yet to be born, is awakened early during a moment of false labor. Within the womb he encounters Quip, the spirit of his half-brother, who died in the same womb twenty years earlier. Quip introduces Pip to a world of uncertainty both inside and outside the womb, the latter through the peep-hole vantage point of their mother's navel. Pip finds himself possessing the mythical omniscience that every child loses at birth, and must choose whether to stay unborn, or to brave the world beyond the womb.
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Drama
Full-length, 100-110 minutes
4 females, 6 males (10-11 actors possible: exactly 4 females, 6-7 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Tam, a woman with cerebral-palsy, is working as a waitress at a diner when her ex-girlfriend JJ returns from Korea unannounced with devastating medical news. JJ wants back into Tam's life, but Tam has already begun to move on with the owner of the diner and his nine-year-old son. Balancing her relationships with her boyfriend, her ex-lover, and her drag-queen brother, Tam wonders if she will ever be able to reconcile her past with her future. Worlds collide in this sensitive, affecting drama that blurs the lines between normalcy and oddity, hope and resignation, memory and reality.
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Drama
Full-length, 110-120 minutes
3 females, 3 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
On the brink of manhood, Allen Porter finds himself faced with a fateful decision: follow in his late brother's footsteps and aim for military heroism, or fulfill his demanding father's wish for him to become the first in the family to attend college. Hoping to make his father happy, Allen gains admission to Stanford. But when his father learns that he was admitted through an affirmative action program, the family is split in unexpected ways.
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Action comedy
Full-length, 90-110 minutes
21 females, 7 males, 12 either (28-43 actors possible: 16-26 females, 5-17 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
The once-mighty Hercules is now a family man, with twelve daughters but no son to carry on the family business of heroism. When a treasure is stolen from under his nose, he kisses his family goodbye and sets off, eager to relive his glory days. But as soon as he leaves, the monsters of his past come after the daughters he's left behind! Now they're off on a rip-roaring adventure to save their family, learn the art of heroism, and prove to their famous dad that girls can kick butt too.
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Drama
Short, 40-50 minutes
3 females, 3 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Set against a primitive landscape, The Unwritten Song features timeless poetry in tandem with music and dance to tell a tale of love and loss over various generations. This collection of small scenes forms a vision of human life and gives voice to the experience of traditional peoples of the world.
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Tragicomedy
Full-length, 90-110 minutes
2 females, 6 males, 1 either
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Some time in the near future, a military processing center in a foreign land comes under attack. The local hospital chief wants the army out of his country, while a reckless army clerk refuses to send anyone home, and the intellectual post commander is too absorbed in watching old movies to do much about anything. A darkly comic tale of war's absurdity.
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