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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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| "Bryan Harnetiaux's sentimental yet enthralling play reveals the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of Dodger president Branch Rickey to desegregate baseball after pressure from the Negro and Communist Party Press, and his tapping of the otherwise outspoken Robinson to be 'the one.'" |
| --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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Drama
Full-length, 115-125 minutes
4 females, 6 males (10-40 actors possible: 4-20 females, 6-20 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Based on actual events, A Bright Swarm of Beetles follows the breathtaking career of the greatest writer of the Soviet Union: Mikhail Bulgakov. From his beginnings in the Red revolution as a nearly homeless opium addict to the dizzying heights of literary stardom, Bulgakov struggles to write in a world fraught with madness and betrayal. After his work is denounced and banned, Bulgakov is offered a chance at redemption by the sinister dictator Joseph Stalin -- but he must choose between his art and his survival. A wild, fast-paced journey through fifteen years of one of the darkest periods of modern history.
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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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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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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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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/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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Mythological Adventure Comedy
Full-length, 80-90 minutes
9 females, 15 males, 12 either
(10-36 actors possible: 4-21 females, 6-27 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Gods and mortals alike are shocked when the scheming Hades kidnaps Persephone from Mt. Olympus and holds her hostage in the Underworld. A pack of vain reporters clamors outside the gates of Zeus's palace to get the scoop, while the Goddess of the Harvest crankily destroys all of the crops in an attempt to win Persephone back. In the midst of it all, two unlikely heroes arise in the form of a young lute player named Orpheus and his bride-to-be, Eurydice, who brave Hades' bizarre kingdom in this clever send-up of Greek mythology.
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Comedy
Short, 35-45 minutes
9 females, 5 males, 8 either (14-22 actors possible: 9-17 females, 5-13 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Desperately searching for love in all of the wrong people, Bill repeatedly returns to the romantic Red Arrow restaurant to carry out his very un-romantic break-ups. But who can blame him when his string of girlfriends includes a hard-core cat lady, a former pageant winner who won't stop wearing her crown, and an attention-starved Lady Gaga? A hilarious look at the art of dumping a dud.
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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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| "In the tradition of Edward Albee's The American Dream, this funny, absurd and evocative play takes the American family, and likely the audience, to task. Altmann's language is at once musical and sharp, making for a searing investigation of our insatiable lust for comfort, illuminating what never seems to dim." |
| --Pam MacKinnon, director |
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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
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
11 females, 5 males, 4 either
(16-20 actors possible: 11-15 females, 5-9 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
When the real Puck appears after a bad rehearsal of a high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, his mischief only makes matters worse. As he meddles with a production filled with drama divas, an over-the-top director, terrible actors, and the cast and crew's own scrapes with unrequited love, chaos descends. Identities are mistaken, spells are cast, and an actor gets transformed into a pygmy hippo -- yet somehow, in true theater fashion, the show manages to go on.
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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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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 "Order this play" 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! America's favorite repressed Catholic family, the Pazinskis of 1959 Buffalo, are now starring in their own TV show -- on your high school stage. Audiences nationwide have embraced 12-year-old wisecracking Rudy as he struggles to get ruler-wielding Sister Clarissa and his high-strung family to lighten up and enjoy life. Now the playwright has created two hilarious Over the Tavern one-act plays, written as back-to-back TV episodes. Capturing all the warmth and humor of the original play, these one-acts have an increased cast size, making them ideal for high schools. Invite other departments from your school to create TV musical themes, commercials and newsbreaks. This cooperative effort makes a total evening of family-friendly fun and nostalgia!
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Comedy
Full-length, 100-110 minutes
3 females, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
After leaving her cheating husband, Bea discovers, to her horror, that her nice Jewish son Hal has secretly been running a sex shop in London's Soho district. When Hal closes up shop for a two-week holiday, his prudish mum insists upon smartening-up the ramshackle store while he's gone. Afraid to lose sales in the meantime, she finds she has a flare for counseling the lonely customers who wander in -- and for selling them sex toys. Surrounded by edible knickers and blow-up dolls, Bea discovers more about sexuality than she ever wanted to know, which may be just what she needs to save her own troubled marriage.
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| "Len Richmond is London's answer to Neil Simon." |
| --London Theatre Review |
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Comedy
Short, 30-40 minutes
4 females, 5 males, 3 either (12-16 actors possible: 4-7 females, 5-9 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Jenna has given Mark a simple task: pass a note to John Stenson. It should have been easy. But when Mark confuses John with Shawn, another student confuses Shawn spelled with a "W" and Shaun with a "U", and so on and so on...it sets off a chain of miscommunications that could lead to World War III. Or not. Probably not. But a series of mishaps and "Who's on First"-esque silliness ensues in a comedy that asks...wait...what was the question again?
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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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Comedy
Full-length, 85-95 minutes
2 females, 2 males (4-11 actors possible: 2-6 females, 2-8 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Love is hard at any age. In Kindergarten, five-year old Sam falls for Stacey, a tough Girl Scout who wants to be a cowboy when she grows up -- just like he does. But Stacey eventually breaks Sam's heart, and instead of growing up to ride the range, he becomes a jaded radio show host. As "Dr. Love," Sam (not-so-secretly) pines for the long-lost Stacey, and dishes out cynical advice to frustrated couples like Mike and Katie, whose relationship has grown stale after 5 years together. When Mike and Katie cross paths with a grown-up Stacey in a TGI Fridays, she is thrust back into Sam's life with hilarious and touching results.
website: www.playdatestheshow.com
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| --Huffington Post |
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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
Short, 45-55 minutes
5 females, 3 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
After years living abroad, Julia Mahood returns home for middle school. No one is more excited to see her than Michael Fish, her childhood friend who remembers everything about her younger self -- even her second grade Halloween costume. When Will, the inarticulate star of the basketball team, begs Michael to help him woo Julia, he agrees. But as Julia falls for Will (who is actually Michael sending her text messages), Michael realizes that in helping his friend, he is also hurting himself. A hilarious update of Cyrano de Bergerac for our modern technological age.
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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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Musical
Full-length, 60-65 minutes
2 females, 3 males, 5 either
(6-15 actors possible: 2-7 females, 3-8 males)
$8.99 per book
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When nighttime comes and the lights go out, there always seems to be something lurking in the shadows. This trio of classic Mercer Mayer stories takes a close look at the things that go bump in the night -- and finds that they're not all as scary as they first appear. Proving that conquering your fears just takes a little effort (and maybe a little food), this delightful musical adaptation is sure to tickle both the young and the young at heart.
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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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Tom Jones adapted by Jon Jory
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Comedy
Full-length, 130-140 minutes
4 females, 5 males (9-27 actors possible: 4-12 females, 5-15 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Abandoned as a child to the care of Squire Allworthy, Tom Jones is now all grown up and launched into the bewildering romantic world. He falls madly in love with the virtuous Sophia Western -- but Sophia's father is determined to keep the two apart. In his pursuit of true love, the well-intentioned Tom finds himself the object of female attention and romantic complication. But will these misadventures permanently jeopardize his chances with Sophia? Adapted from the classic novel by Henry Fielding, Tom Jones is a bawdy and rollicking comedy for the stage that will have the audience in stitches.
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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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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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