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Farce
Full-length, 80-90 minutes
5 females, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
It's 1942, and two of Hollywood's biggest divas have descended upon the luxurious Palm Beach Royale Hotel -- assistants, luggage, and legendary feud with one another in tow. Everything seems to be in order for their wartime performance...that is, until they are somehow assigned to the same suite. Mistaken identities, overblown egos, double entendres, and a lap dog named Mr. Boodles round out this hilarious riot of a love note to the classic farces of the 30s and 40s.
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| "A rib-tickling good time." |
| --Hap Erstein, Palm Beach Post |
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Comedy
Full-length, 100-120 minutes
3 females, 3 males (6-12 actors possible: 3-6 females, 3-6 males)
$75.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: Each piece in this anthology can be licensed and performed separately.
Incredible Sex is a trio of one-act comedies about love and desire, and the questions men and women face in their twenties. The tone of the plays varies from the deliciously ribald dialogue of Women in Heat, to the touching comic drama of I Didn't Know You Could Cook, to the hilarious fantasy of Mars Needs Women, But Not As Much As Arnold Schecter. (Women in Heat, I Didn't Know You Could Cook, and Mars Needs Women, But Not As Much As Arnold Schecter can also be performed separately.)
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| "Incredible Sex was incredibly funny. Many one-liners and wacky, unpredictable plots. All three one-acts proved to be amusing and enjoyable, causing the audience to laugh out loud fairly frequently. A good time for all." |
| --Off-Off Broadway Review |
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Drama
Full-length, 95-100 minutes
5 females, 3 males (8-24 actors possible: 5-14 females, 3-10 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Seven white men have been found dead along I-95 in Florida. A prostitute is arrested and charged with their murders. The police say she's a serial killer. She claims seven separate acts of self-defense. Inspired by the true story of Aileen Wuornos, Self Defense, or death of some salesmen is a whirlwind seven acts in 95 minutes. The play is fast and furious, shocking and funny, and at its center, a portrait of a very complicated human being. She is complex, charismatic, dangerous, damaged, full of love and anger; above all else, she is alive. An investigation of capital punishment, destitution, violence against (and by) women, and whether a prostitute is considered a person under our justice system, Self Defense gives a long, hard look at an America most of us don't want to admit exists.
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| "Stunning and compelling...raw and bold, brutal and ironic, and full of nagging questions. Whereas the film Monster dealt with the more sensational aspects of Wuornos' Florida killing spree, Self Defense...lashes out at the twisted society that turned her trial into simply another media-driven circus." |
| --Ed Kaufman, The Hollywood Reporter |
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Comedy
Full-length, 70-85 minutes
20 females, 15 males (15-50 actors possible: 8-25 females, 7-25 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Cast out your cockneys and leave that stale fruit cake at home -- enter a world of grits and gravy, red velvet cake, and the occasional glass of sweet tea. This modern spin on a timeless classic captures the sights and sounds of contemporary life in today's South, while maintaining the spirit of Dickens' beloved tale of greed and redemption.
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| "Fast becoming a Jacksonville tradition!" |
| --Florida Times-Union |
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Comedy
Short, 20-25 minutes
3 females, 1 male
$35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Incredible Sex.
When three young women from Ohio vacation in Key West, two of them have extreme (and extremely different) responses when they learn about an erotic adventure the third had the night before. When a man from that night presents all three of them with a daring offer, the women realize they're not in Ohio anymore. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length collection Incredible Sex.)
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| "Very funny. Orloff asks what women want and for his hilarious bonus, answers that question while finding out what (some) men want, too." |
| --Columbus Dispatch |
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 70-80 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Velma and Clyde are uneasy neighbors. Velma, a widowed grandmother, has tended her vegetables in this humid North Florida community for most of her life. Clyde, a gay man out of place here, has recently moved in from New York City after losing his lover and most of his friends to AIDS. The two widows express their growing distrust of one another in a series of alternating monologues, at times tragic and hilarious, until a tacky statue of Michelangelo's David unpredictably brings them together.
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| "Rich with Mairs' vivid dialogue ... humor and hurt, individualism and conformity, and companionship and loneliness are all delicately balanced..." |
| --Dan Broslovsky, The Ithaca Times |
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Comedy
Full-length, 85-95 minutes
2 females, 4 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Sisters Ava and Delmarie live next door to each other in a small town in North Florida. A self-proclaimed hermit, Ava spends her days working on her ceramics, sipping whiskey, and looking after her elderly father, who is doing battle with the early stages of Alzheimer's. Delmarie is determined to provide her sister with some romantic companionship, subjecting Ava to a series of mismatched suitors, disastrous blind dates, and a cocktail party from hell. Ultimately, the play explores the ties that bind siblings and the boundaries they set to maintain some semblance of sanity.
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| "Funny and interesting throughout ... offers a touch of insight into the human condition ... Mairs is fully in command of his craft." |
| --Charlie Patton, Florida Times-Union |
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Drama
Full-length, 60-75 minutes
2 females, 3 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Lisa Shapiro, a member of a new religious group, is kidnapped by two deprogrammers under her mother's hire. Locking Lisa in a Tampa motel room, the head deprogrammer tries to persuade her to reveal the secrets of the group, and of her relationship with the group's leader, Jules. The session soon becomes a psychological battle between Lisa and her captors, who possess some disturbing secrets of their own.
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| "A thought provoking drama of great depth about a subject that can touch families of various socio-economic strata... You'll become totally absorbed in this powerful play." |
| --Jennie Berman, Weekly Scene (Florida) |
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Comedy
Short, 20-30 minutes
2 females, 4 males (6-16 actors possible: 2-12 females, 4-14 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
It's election eve, November 2004, and the gods of heaven and earth have assembled in Florida to exact their revenge on George W. Bush for his theft of the 2000 election. Unless he atones for his sins and appeases the gods, they will continue to plague storm-weary Floridians with hurricanes. Their demand: that he sacrifice his twin daughters Jenna and Barbara outside the Florida Chapter of the League of Women Voters. Human sacrifice comes easy to George, but how will he convince the girls to stick their necks out for him? The Bushesteia is a no-holds-barred retelling of the Iphigenia plays by Euripides and The Oresteia by Aeschylus.
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Drama
Short, 35-40 minutes
2 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
A black man and a white man are fishing together in a small Southern town in 1964. Despite the racial tensions everywhere around them, the two men try to continue their secret friendship, even as one betrays the other.
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| "Rex and Byron are a pair of night fishermen who hooked up in unlikely circumstances years earlier; their language seems coarse, but their bonding -- and limits -- is poignant. Like those of Flannery O'Connor, [Grissom's] epiphanies are a sudden awareness more of shadow than of light." |
| --Washington Post |
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