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Comedy
Short, 30-40 minutes
5 females, 6 males (4-11 actors possible: 2-7 females, 2-7 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Job applicants at Banff Enterprises will do anything to claw their way up the corporate ladder. In a fast-paced series of hilarious interviews, the new recruits try every trick in the book -- from bribery, nepotism, and the Old Boy Network to blackmail, seduction, and mind control.
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| "An almost perfect high school one-act... It's got a large, flexible cast, it allows actors to go a little wild and it's hilarious." |
| --Stephen Gregg, author of This is a Test |
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Comedy
Short, 25-45 minutes
3 females, 2 males, 4 either
(8-12 actors possible: 3-9 females, 2-10 males)
$45.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
The story of Rapunzel told by dueling narrators, with a misunderstood witch, an off-pitch Rapunzel, and an unimaginably stupid Prince.
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Comedy
Short, 15-25 minutes
5 females, 5 males, 1 either (11 actors possible: 5-6 females, 5-6 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Over the course of a blind date, a woman's actions and emotions are guided by allegorical aspects of her personality seated at a nearby table. Which slice of her psyche will seize the evening??
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 30-60 minutes
9 females, 4 males (13 actors possible: 7-9 females, 4-6 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Several singular young people attempt to communicate and evaluate each other as they converse in a coffee shop. The kaleidoscopic scenes range from poignant and nostalgic to heartbreaking and hopeful -- and most often funny.
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Comedy
Short, 35-55 minutes
3 females, 3 males, 4 either
(6-16 actors possible: 3-7 females, 3-9 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Molly is a stubborn advice columnist at a small Boston newspaper. With one particularly reckless letter, she provokes a reader named Bryan to lose his girlfriend. Over the course of this romantic comedy, Molly and Bryan get to know each other better than either would have liked, and grow to like each other more than either would have known.
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Comedy
Short, 20-30 minutes
4 females, 5 males, 2 either (11 actors possible: 4-6 females, 5-7 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
The Right half of Andrew's Brain feels left out of his life, and with the help of the Left half, she tries to convince the other members of the Brain to involve her more. A macho Gland, a really bad vampire book, and an overactive imagination stand in the way of this lobe's dream.
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Drama
Short, 20-30 minutes
2 females, 1 male
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
A young woman, Annie, reveals the story of her confinement in a mental institution. Her past is confusing and mysterious even to herself, and Annie is tortured by memories and doubts concerning a collapsed love.
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Comedy
Short, 15-25 minutes
1 female, 1 male
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
On the night of their 40th wedding anniversary, Harry and Edith banter and bicker while getting ready for a night on the town. Though the air is filled with insults and arguments, a bit of marital bliss might shine through by evening's end.
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| "A fun night of theater!" |
| --Judith Prieve, Contra Costa Times |
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| Will by Lila Louise Nawrocki |
 
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Drama
Short, 45-60 minutes
7 females
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Reaching the end of life, Sarah lives out her memories by talking with her past selves from several pivotal ages. As each scene comes to a close, the voice of the youngest age leaves. Even as Sarah's memories fade, they become part of herself, revealing her human will and ability to maintain hope.
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Comedy
Short, 35-45 minutes
18 females, 11 males, 10 either (15-50 actors possible: 6-46 females, 4-44 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
In order to earn her stripes as a full-fledged deity, Polaris (a demi-goddess) must help Protagonis (the loser kid brother of Odysseus) understand the core social problems of Ancient Greek culture -- including lust, suicide, vengeance, and death by Clorox. With the help of a bunny-hopping Chorus, this fast-paced parody journeys from the divine halls of Mount Olympus, to the blood-soaked courts of Creon and Agamemnon, all the way to the Isolated Nether-Island of Infamous Evil Greek Women.
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Comedy
Short, 25-30 minutes
4 females, 3 males (7 actors possible: 0-7 females, 0-7 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
As graduation looms before the senior class, everyone is trying to cope with The University's admissions machine. Steve is in denial, Sally desperately pads her application, and Kevin enlists at McDonald's as a form of social protest. Only the Girl in the Green Socks seems to have her future and her generation figured out...
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Comedy
Short, 30-40 minutes
2 females, 5 males, 3 either
(5-10 actors possible: 2-5 females, 3-8 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
After an embarrassing confrontation with God over a certain scandalous piercing, an immortal named Artimis is sent to Earth to earn back God's favor. Charged with recruiting a new prophet, Artimis quickly learns how hard it is to find someone willing to take a thankless, low-paying, less-than-glamorous job -- especially when it comes complete with a painful death clause...
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Dramedy
Short, 10-15 minutes
4 females, 2 males (6-12 actors possible: 4-10 females, 2-8 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
At the remote, old-fashioned World's End Diner, a woman named Jill is about to commence work on her first, life-changing assignment: to manage the fate of Emily Hulse. But nothing in Fate Management is easy, and Jill must rely on her colleagues and her instincts to work against fate's unpredictability and make Emily's future a success.
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Dark dramedy
Short, 20-30 minutes
3 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Three men sit impatiently in a room, waiting for a stranger to arrive. All they have are simple instructions: end this person's life. Tempers flare and bodies pile up as the Trips set in...
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Drama
Short, 15-25 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 7.
Dove is obsessed with taking pictures of Izzy, a local boy with autism, because she believes that Izzy can fly with the birds on the beach. Dove's friend Paige, a realist, is frustrated by her idealistic friend's futile quest to capture Izzy's flight on film. When Dove continues to follow Izzy, she ultimately learns a lesson about the nature of magic and the real world.
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Comedy
Short, 30-45 minutes
1 female, 12 males (12-20 actors possible: 0-20 females, 0-20 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Baxter and Jones, executives at a production company, are mortal enemies locked in a never-ending petty competition to destroy each other's careers. After being assigned to produce the worst script ever written, the two are forced into a tenuous partnership to save their jobs -- at the cost of their souls.
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Commedia dell'Arte
Short, 40-50 minutes
1 female, 4 males (5 actors possible: 1-2 females, 3-4 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Amorio, the reckless brother of Leander, has been banished from town, separated briefly from his love Isabella. Today Amorio has snuck back through the gates and has sworn to marry Isabella, but little does he know that only one thing stands in his way: his brother. Unbeknownst to them both, the two brothers are set to marry the same woman. With only days left before both marriages, Amorio and Leander struggle with an idiotic priest, a slow-thinking servant, and the wretched mother of Isabella, only to find out in the end the greatest coincidence of all...
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Comedy/Drama
Short, 25-35 minutes
1 female, 2 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
A boy finds himself stuck on the precipice between childhood and adulthood. As he attempts to break away from his loving but overprotective mother, he finds himself both intrigued and corrupted by the quintessential American male. Counting his way into the confusing world we live in, the boy embarks on a funny, surreal, and solitary journey.
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Absurdist comedy/drama
Full-length, 60-80 minutes
2 males, 1 either (3-9 actors possible: 0-7 females, 2-9 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Two men live inside a world-sized orange, bantering and bickering about rubber trees, barkeeps, and various other amusing topics -- until a scientist from our atomic age appears, instilling nightmare into one of these two men, shattering the bizarre paradise they had created, and sending them on a dark quest for deliverance from fear.
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Drama
Short, 30-45 minutes
4 females, 3 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Frederick and his friends filled their suburban childhood with mischievous tales of their reclusive Italian neighbor, Isabella, and the mysterious golden pot locked inside her house. Many years since those post-WWII days, Frederick remembers the moment he accepted a dare and destroyed the mystery.
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