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Par Don Nigro. 1987
Comedy Characters: 14 male, 8 female (more if desired.) . Unit set.. In a land where the rich get richer…
and the poor are starving, Prince John wants to cut down Sherwood Forest to put up an arms manufactory, a slaughterhouse and a tennis court for the well to do. This bawdy epic unites elements of wild farce and ancient mythologies with an environmentalist assault on the arrogance of wealth and power in the face of poverty and hunger using feeble and insane jesters, a demonic snake oil salesman, a corrupt and lascivious court, a singer of eerie ballads, a gluttonous lusty friar and a world of other grotesque characters out of a Brueghel painting. Maid Marian loses her clothes and her illusions among the poor and Robin tries to avoid murder and elude the Dark Monk of the Wood who is Death and perhaps something more.Par Nick Hall. 1978
Romantic Farce. Nick Hall . Characters: 2 male, 2 female. Interior Set . Sir Peter, has planned a dinner for…
two. His companion is Viola, a young chorus girl. But he's forgotten it's his wedding anniversary-- his wife, Lady Alexandra, comes home early and aided by the butler, Medford, turns Sir Peter's evening into a shambles. Medford interrupts the dinner disguised as a policeman-- then Lady Alexandra appears in a Salvation Army uniform-- then Medford in the guise of a gypsy violinist-- and finally the two of them disguised as Sir Peter's parents. Viola-- unlike Sir Peter-- is unaware of their true identity and leaves in a huff. Sir Peter and his wife make up and sit down to an anniversary supper.Par Don Nigro. 2009
DramaCharacters: 2 male, 1 female. Unit Set. Peter Quint is sent by his lifelong employer, the Master of Bly, to…
be the servant in charge of a remote English country house where Miss Jessel has just arrived to be governess to the orphaned children of the master's brother. The ultimately deadly love triangle that results forms a darkly funny and erotic Gothic love story. These are the lovers who haunt Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Quint is brilliant, sardonic and angry, a man of great abilities trapped by birth into a subservient role he hates. Miss Jessel is beautiful, headstrong, troubled, and deeply infatuated with the master. As Quint and Miss Jessel's affair develops, the rivalry between servant and master builds to a frightening and haunting climax.Par James Still. 2005
Full Length, Drama / 3 m., 3 f. / Unit set. / This acclaimed one act about children in a…
struggling farm family is now available in a full length version that builds on the emotional strengths of the shorter play. See description of the one act version for more information.Par Rick Abbot. 1980
ComedyCharacters: 3 male, 7 female . Interior Set. Perfect for any theatre group, this is the hilarious story of a…
theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty authoress who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance in which anything that can go wrong does. When the authoress decides to give a speech on the state of the modern theatre during the curtain calls, the audience is treated to a madcap climax to a thoroughly hilarious romp. Even the sound effects reap their share of laughter.Par Cliff Harville. 1989
This collection consists of four short plays: George L. Smith (Monologue / 1m), A Silent Catastrophe (One Act / 1m,…
1f / Interior), Sara Hubbard (Monologue / 1f), and Hang Me My Afghan (One Act / 1m, 1f / Interior)Par George Eastman. 1973
Comedy / 10m, 4f / Interior / A copywriter is being sent to Montana in the dead of winter. He…
decides to grab a weekend with his wife at their yet unfinished chalet in New Hampshire first. Beginning with his next door neighbor who chooses this weekend for a skiing trip and a stop in visit that never stops and adding assorted uninvited guests, the weekend snowballs with frustrating confrontations. A houseful of people and no place to put them, a raging snowstorm, no hot water and a snow bunny who is after the host are enough to ruin any weekend.Par Jules Tasca. 1991
Short Plays, Comic/Drama / 4 m, 4 f / Interior / Eight short plays set in the Romance Ranch Hotel…
in Los Angeles examine the idea of romance in the modern world. Included are The Fantasy Bond , Inflatable You , Finding the Love of Your Life , The Man in Blue , Penance , The Dark , Data Entry and Snocky .Par Steven Fechter. 2009
Drama / 4m, 3f / Walter is a quiet man who must lead a quiet life. As a convicted sex…
offender fresh out of state prison, he sees no choice. He works in a warehouse. He lives alone. He sees a therapist named Rosen. His only visitor is his brother-in-law Carlos. He also gets visits from a demon in the form of a beautiful Girl. Often brooding by his window, Walter watches children as they head for school. One day Nikki, a tough-talking woman from work, drops by. She doesn't waste time making the first move. Next morning Walter confesses his dark past. But Nikki doesn't run away. Things are looking up – until Walter follows a twelve-year-old girl named Robin into a city park. Nothing happens, but Walter is scared. Then police Sgt. Lucas pays Walter a visit applying some rough intimidation. Walter disappears. A panicky Nikki asks Rosen to help her find him. Walter is back at the park, waiting. When Robin arrives Walter is gently seductive. But the seduction is aborted when Robin reveals a shocking secret. Forced to confront his past, Walter finds the compassion to help and not hurt. In doing so, he grabs a chance for redemption. The Woodsman was made into the critically acclaimed 2004 film starring Kevin Bacon. ”The Woodsman is an interesting, valuable and insightful play...” – The StagePar Jack Sharkey. 1972
Comedy / 6m, 5f / Interior / A bit of madness is loose in the Flinder house. Winifred Flinder, supposedly…
just out of the hospital, insists she was living it up in Paris. Her husband thinks she is planning to go into the convent, while their daughter Bonnie suspects both of her parents are nuts. The nurse thinks the neighboring piano teacher is a great pediatric surgeon and the gynecologist gratefully accepts payment for an operation he may not have performed. Add to this a general handyman who insists the brownies have it in for the Flinders, a housekeeper who expects to be murdered in her bed, a neighbor whose purse contains anything from crowbars to teddy bears and an unsolicited appearance by the Headless Horseman and you have this jolly jaunt through a superstition ridden environs where anything can happen and eventually does.Par Megan Mostyn-Brown. 2007
Drama / 3m. 3f. / A near-drowning accident sends Phoebe into a tailspin as she turns away from her marriage…
and toward her rescuer. Science teacher Victor loses his job and meets an unusual girl all in one day. While Ronnie is deciding whether to tell her newly single roommate Sebastian how she really feels. Through a masterful web of intertwined storylines and relationships, LIZARDS ... tells the tale of six twentysomethings adapting to stress - and on the brink of change.Par Hal Corley. 2009
Dramatic Comedy / 2m, 1f / Unit Set In the summer of 1969, Beau Stanley's last hurrah before heading off…
to study architecture in college, doting Mama Lillian vows to help him finally lose his baby fat. Armed with a supply of diet pills and a food-free regimen that includes tearing down a family room wall, 3 a.m. trips to Dulles Airport and blazing, amphetamine-fueled days on the beach, mother and son spend a memorable vacation together. But Beau's weight loss isn't restless Lillian's only project, and in an unguarded moment, she reveals her just-begun affair with a travelling defense contractor, Jack Carew. Once Lillian introduces son and lover, Beau's caught in the oedipal crossfire of a covert and explosive new alliance, forced to cover his Mama's many absences from home. Over the next decade, Jack's repeated pledge to end his own loveless marriage and sweep Lillian away proves a hollow promise. As increasingly beleaguered Beau sacrifices his own independence to help his mother confront her disillusionment and finally, betrayal, parent-child roles are turned upside down. Mama and Jack Carew is a harrowing, oftentimes black-comedic portrait of an unlikely triangle.Par Bekah Brunstetter. 2010
Dramatic Comedy / 4m, 3f / Interior Set / Bekah Brunstetter makes her Off Broadway debut in September 2009 at…
the Atlantic Theatre Company! Ron is back from his third and final tour in Iraq, and his wife Sara is excited to restart their life together in their new home. When a young marine visits the family, life is turned upside down. Sara’s sister is swept off her feet; her daughter Lacey trades her dresses for combat boots, and Ron gets hungry for real military action. In this disarmingly funny and candid drama, Bekah Brunstetter raises challenging questions about what it means when the military is woven into the fabric of a family, and service is far more than just a job. / “The young scribe's talent and potential are obvious in this Southern-basted dramatic comedy about the war mystique as it plays out on the American home front…” — VarietyPar Jean Lenox Toddie. 1998
Comic drama / 2 m., 2 f. / Simple set. / From the author of A Little Something for the…
Ducks, White Room of My Remembering and Looking for a Better Berry Bush, among others, comes the story of a well bred cricket from London who is dismayed to find himself playing doppelganger to a woman in Appalachia. In this humorous and touching tale of the relationship between an arrogant black cricket with a Bond Street address and a poorly educated young woman who aspires to better herself, this award winning playwright has created two uniquely lovable characters.Par Em Lewis. 2010
Max, a musically gifted high school student, is falling off the edge of the world -- and his biology teacher…
is the only one who's noticed. A play about the science of life and loss, the relationships between fathers and sons, Cambodian fields, Bolivian rainforests and redemption. Max Forrestal is going to fail Biology if he doesn't complete a 20-page paper on extinction by 2pm on Tuesday -- but his mother, Lily, is dying of cancer, and school is the last thing on his mind. His father, Ellery, a biologist obsessed with saving a rare Bolivian insect, is incapable of dealing with his wife's impending death, or his son's distress. Max's biology teacher, Khim Phan, tries to figure out why Max is failing the class. Helping Max, however, pushes Khim into a magical journey of his own -- from the Cambodian fields of his youth into the undiscovered country beyond.Par Eric Pliner. 2008
Spooky Dog & the Teen-Age Gang Mysteries is an irreverent parody of Saturday morning cartoons - for adults only. Missing…
from a starring performance at a creepy county fair, a pop culture icon (suggested by the audience) can only be located by this familiar gang of teen sleuths: a butch, blond frat boy, an even more butch brainy gal with a trusty flashlight, a hot-to-trot diva in a miniskirt, a spaced-out hippie, and a talking dog. On a campy and comical quest to find their missing friend, they'll face the ghost of a dead country singer, a not-so-psychic fortune teller, and the sinister couple who run the fairground - and that's not all. Even more frighteningly, the Teen-Age Mystery Gang will also confront their own burgeoning sexual desires, tasty dog treats with unexpected side effects, and a surprise penchant for busting a move. Spooky Dog uncovers hilarious, hidden subtext with razor-sharp wit and affectionate homage. You'll never see Saturday morning the same way again!Par Steve Tesich. 1978
Passing Game is an exploration of guilt, retribution and disillusionment. Two once promising actors, one white and one black, have…
descended to doing commercials and voice overs. At a seedy, deserted resort, the two engage in increasingly violent basketball games while they plot to do away with their wives reminders of their failure. Unexplained killings have already occurred in the area and the two men hope the murderer will oblige by making their wives his next rifle fodder. Barring that, they make a pact to dispose of each other's wife. Others inhabiting this sinister locale are a creepy, gun toting caretaker, his nasty nephew and the nephew's former girl friend, a natural prey for these two predatory men. Murder does take place, but not the one they've planned.Par Sam Henry Kass. 1990
This cleverly constructed comedy about the never ending war between the sexes centers around a restaurant owner and his best…
friend. Vinnie and Patsy like to sit around talking about women and about life in general. A favorite topic is the restaurant dishwasher's gorgeous wife. Vinnie can't understand how a nobody like Pipino can have such a wife. In fact, he doesn't understand why women won't give him the time of day, especially tough as nails Lorraine whose friend Rita dates Patsy. Patsy decides he can find success selling shoes on the street and he proposes to Rita. Their wedding is disrupted by a gun welding Lorraine who rescues Rita from the altar, leaving Vinnie and Patsy to speculate and commiserate again about the mysteries of women. Note: This play contains some wonderful monologue and scene material, much of which has been anthologized elsewhere.Par Richard Slocum. 1988
The Gemshield Sleeper: The Baroness No Ra and her teacher have teleported to the planet Aixes to study its sun.…
They discover a prince locked inside a gemshield. If he is not freed, he will be destroyed when the planet's sun goes supernova. The Baroness must overcome her own fears before she can free him. It's Sleeping Beauty with a futuristic twist. The Fisherman and the Flounder: This story of the magic flounder, the happy fisherman and the unhappy wife is based on the original Japanese version, and it uses elements from Kabuki and Japanese puppet theatre. The wife learns that she must give as much as she takes so as not to upset the balance, but not before she endangers the entire world with her wish to be Lord of the Universe. The Love Song of A. Nellie Goodrock: Little A. Nellie Goodrock works for wicked Simon Lecher to support herself and her dear grandmama. By cheating at poker, Simon Lecher has won the entire Goodrock fortune... everything except Goodrock Park and the monument to the family's good name. Those belong to dear, sweet Nellie. But Simon Lecher must have everything, including Nellie as his bride, or he will send Grandmama and her dog to the boobyhatch. Will Nellie be forced to marrying Lecher or will she be free to follow her heart's desire and marry Danny Dogood?Par Shirley Sergent. 1996
Once upon a time there lived in the heartland of America a farmer who had a successive string of prize…
Poland China hogs and two daughters, one plain and home grown, the other pretty and home flown. A gigolo enters their lives in a most upsetting manner. The plain daughter misconstrues his attentions and tumbles head over heels for the man, his charm and his high shining boots. It's the pretty one, however, who spends her nights entertaining the gigolo and ends up a fool for love with a black eye. The plain daughter intends to lure the gigolo into marriage by sharing with him the deed to the farm. But a third women who has lured father into marriage also has her eye on the deed. A lot of squealing ensues from both humans and hogs when the gigolo is found shot to death and discovered to have been married with children. Who did it? And what's wrong with father? Is he dead or alive? And what has become of the prize hog? It's a rollicking ending to a cleverly funny play. Winner of the American College Theatre Festival XXVI.