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$12.99 per book
Hot Blooded is a collection of 76 monologues, fresh out of the fire: A young couple sleeps through the millennium. A lonely man recounts his first lap dance. A down-and-out clown spills his guts to the kids. This book contains material for men and women of all ages, with quirky and moving characters who endure messy breakups, remember dead pets, drive the big rigs, and more.
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| "There may be hope for the theatre yet. Just when it seems that no one under thirty can be trusted to cherish drama, cultivate the spoken word, or see any picture bigger than the screen of a video game, along come the writers of Youngblood." |
| --Lawrence Van Gelder, The New York Times |
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Drama
Short, 10-12 minutes
2 females
$45.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Trapped in an empty Manhattan subway car that's racing uptown, two women -- one an upper-middle-class New Yorker, and one an underclass, homeless New Yorker -- make contact. Their encounter is terrifying, electrifying, and shocking in this thought-provoking exploration of the class clash between a "have" and a "have-not."
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| "Deeply frightening in its threat of great and imminent danger masked behind the mundane, as a women tries to protect herself from the unknown aboard a subway train." |
| --Theater on the Edge |
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Comedy
Short, 10-12 minutes
1 female, 2 males, 5 either (3-8 actors possible: 1-5 females, 1-5 males)
$35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Comedies: Volume 3.
How to kill your imaginary boyfriend.
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Comedy
Short, 20-30 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Comedies: Volume 3.
Ivy Taylor, a widow of twenty years, and George Thomas, a widower for a year, have always been farm neighbors and friends. But one spring morning George awakens to the sound of Ivy's tractor, and realizes that this is the first morning he hasn't "woken up mad" since his wife died. He spruces up a bit and pays Ivy a call...
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| "Garry Williams' A Blooming of Ivy is a sweet, tender, funny piece about the unexpected possibility of late-in-life love." |
| --Christine Dolan, The Miami Herald |
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Comedy
Short, 45-50 minutes
3 females, 1 male
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
When a woman impulsively leaves her husband she heads to the Jungle Bar, where she pulls two other women into her problems (and into the bathroom) in this comic exploration of love, lust, and neuroses.
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| "Late Night reveals David Riedy as an inspired comic playwright." |
| --Back Stage |
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Comedy
Short, 10-15 minutes
3 females, 1 male (3-4 actors possible: 3-4 females, 0-1 males)
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Comedies: Volume 5.
After a stranger tries to kiss straight-laced Miranda on her way to work, her eccentric co-workers surprise her by celebrating the romantic spontaneity of her assailant. This witty satire explores the good, bad and ugly of the unwanted attention women often receive just by walking down the street.
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Comedy
Short, 8-12 minutes
2 females, 1 male
$30.00 per performance; $19.95 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays.
Liz is looking for true love and Lindy is looking to fix her broken heart, so they head, of course, to Paris. When Liz finds the man of her dreams, Lindy faces a dilemma: can she just let her friend be happy?
Advisory: This play contains a mime.
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Comedy
Short, 25-40 minutes
2 females, 2 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Four college students pair up in every possible combination while trying to figure out who they are, where they're going, and what they're doing on earth. (This play can be performed independently, or as Act I of Light Years.)
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| "In this performance of what is to be the first act of a full-length play in progress, it all works perfectly, and the stunning end leaves you wondering what could possibly happen in the rest of the play." |
| --The New York Times |
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Dark comedy
Short, 40-50 minutes
4 females, 3 males, 1 either (6-8 actors possible: 3-5 females, 3-4 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Somewhere in the American West, there is a gun set to fire at some undisclosed time before the year 2000. In front of this gun is a chair in which thrill-seekers sit, waiting to see if the gun will fire on them. Michael, a teenage runaway from Ohio, sets out to find this legendary chair of death. On the way he meets Valerie, an elderly woman traveling with her possessive, middle-aged son. After Michael finds a kindred spirit in Valerie, he must decide whether to meet what he believes is his rightful fate, or plunge into an uncertain future.
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Comedy
Short, 12-15 minutes
2 females
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 5.
Prior to expiring, a deadbeat ex-hippie sent a memo to his former wives inviting them to his funeral, and two of the women on the rather long list happen to meet at the open-coffin viewing. Neither has many good memories of their former husband, and his current state of near-nudity (save a strategically placed cowboy hat) doesn't exactly help matters. But bad memories or not, it's time for both to find a way to make peace and move on.
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| "A wonderfully wry trip to the funeral parlor... Ms. McKee knows that there are better ways to delineate characters than by giving them windy, emotive speeches." |
| --Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times |
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Drama
Full-length, 140-145 minutes
1 female, 4 males (5-6 actors possible: exactly 1 female, 4-5 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Two geniuses. Two worlds. One maddening riddle. In 1913, a young, self-taught mathematical genius in India named Srinivasa Ramanujan is invited to England to work with G. H. Hardy, a Cambridge professor. But just as mathematics draws these two men from vastly different cultures together, it also possesses the power to destroy them. A riveting fantasy based on real events.
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| "This is one terrific theater evening...a play which grabs you from the beginning and takes you through an often funny, but moving and deeply human experience." |
| --Berkeley Daily Planet |
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Comedy
Short, 10-20 minutes
2 females
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 3.
Auckland, New Zealand, 1979. A cheerfully heavy-drinking divorcee spots her former neighbor's daughter taking a peek around the old neighborhood, having just returned after years of aimlessness abroad. As they sit down for an awkward drink, their hilarious forced pleasantries soon peel away, revealing the long-buried longings and regrets they both carry with them.
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| "Ms. McKee constructs a seemingly innocuous conversation that ultimately lays bare the depths of each woman's heartache and loneliness." |
| --Peter Marks, The New York Times |
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Drama
Short, 15-25 minutes
1 male
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
A recently widowed professor at a nameless midwestern college contemplates returning to Ireland in search of lost love, youth, and perhaps himself. Told via emails, phone calls, and old-fashioned letters, Am Lit is a modern epistolary monologue of loss and yearning.
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| "[Am Lit] is well-handled and moving...the play's final moments -- in which Joe ponders his life while waiting for his flight at JFK -- are very striking." |
| --Matthew Murray, Talkin' Broadway |
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 8-10 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Couples.
After a supermarket pick-up leads to a passionate interlude, a shy young man and a bold young woman don't know what to do next.
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Couples.)
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Comedy
Short, 25-30 minutes
4 females, 1 male
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
A small-town New Zealand parish erupts into zany political and ecumenical antics as the clergyman's wife attempts to control every last detail of the upcoming pageant to celebrate the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth's visit. Their hilariously chaotic meeting takes an even more outrageous turn when church member Bobby Younghusband shows up, with a tale that turns the entire proceedings on end. Could all the rumors about the clergyman and his wife be true?
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| "The 'Far-Flung' packs the dippy, dizzy charms of a Beth Henley play." |
| --Randy Gener, The Village Voice |
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Drama
Full-length, 90-110 minutes
2 females, 3 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
When her late mother's secret legacy -- a large sum of "community" money -- is discovered, 17-year-old Masha does the noble thing and steals it. A comic drama about a second-generation Korean American and her surprising journey of reconciliation.
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| "There is not a false syllable in the eruption of curiosity, rebellion and embarrassment that is Masha's vocabulary. This is one terrifically lovable wild girl." |
| --D.J.R. Bruckner, The New York Times |
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Dark comedy
Short, 35-40 minutes
2 females, 1 male
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.
Mrs. Smith is a funny yet scary alcoholic woman who teaches piano. But something is odd on this particular day. When adult piano student Donna arrives for her lesson she finds "Boy" in a giant bird cage and Mrs. Smith in rare form. Is there no escape?
(This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Augustine's Confessions: Scenes from American Life.)
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