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DOLL'S HOUSE, A DRAMA Translated by Robert Cole	DRACULA IN LOVE Comedy By Renee Rebman	DYIN' FREE Drama By Troy Shearer	EVEN STEVEN Comedy By Robin Pond	FAIRWEATHER FRIENDS Comedy By Dwayne Yancey
HEAD THAT WOULDN'T DIE Farce By Rand Higbee	MURDER BY ACCIDENT Farce By Joan Sween	SCRAMBLED Comedy By Pat Cook	THREE APOLLOS, THE Farce By Joel Fishbane	TROY: SACRIFICE AND SURVIVAL Tragedy Adapted by Philip Lerman
WHOLLY MATRIMONY Comedy By Kandie Kelley

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	BARBECUING HAMLET Farce By Pat Cook 5 to 6 m, 7 w Script: 68 pages Wouldn't it be great fun to direct William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"? That was what Margo Daley always thought...until she is hired to do just that by the Peaceful Glen Memorial Players in their theater, a renovated funeral home. They DO have a couple of conditions, however. Margo has to make the more...

	IF THE GOOD LORD'S WILLING... Comedy By Pat Cook 4 m, 5 w Script: 68 pages This zany comedy, in the spirit of Kaufman and Hart, centers on Doc, an eccentric old man whose house caters to all sorts of characters. Now a retired judge, he spends his days “enjoying life.” When he’s not flying around the countryside in his balloon or fishing in a nearby dry riverbed, he works on his b more...

	EVERY LITTLE CROOK AND NANNY Comedy By Pat Cook 4 m, 5 w, 1 boy Script: 64 pages Lillie Scones is a sweet retired nanny who runs a boarding house with one resident and "a cat the size of the Louisiana Purchase." Her two friends, Jocelyn and Carmella, help to pass the time by listening to music and gossiping. Then Stuart, an old charge of hers, rents a room. Lillie is tickled to more...

	YOU CAN'T BEAT THE HOUSE Comedy By Pat Cook 4 m, 6 w Script: 68 pages "I've had trouble breaking into a house before but this is the first time I've had problems breaking OUT again!" So moans Merle to his partner, Howie. These two minor-league burglars have really met their match this time, it seems. They decided on a house only to find, after managing to get into t more...

	WHEN BULLFROGS SING OPERA Comedy By Carl L. Williams 3 m, 4 w Script: 72 pages Here is a sweet comedy featuring a social-climbing sister who tries to keep her visiting country sister from embarrassing her among her new society friends. Meet Millicent and Coreen – two girls who grew up in Bullfrog Waller. Millicent is now a big-city snob. Her sister, Coreen, on the other hand, c more...

	MADAM'S BEEN MURDERED... Mystery/Comedy By Pat Cook 7 m, 6 w Script: 75 pages Have you ever wanted to stay in an old, drafty English manor with a serial murderer and a ghost running loose in the dark? Who hasn't? Houndstooth Manor simply abounds with atmosphere. "We're lousy with it," the butler intones as he casts a suspicious eye over the paying guests, wondering who is more...

	LOVE THY NEIGHBOR Comedy By Gary Ray Stapp 4 m, 5 w, 1 flexible, optional 1 boy Script: 75 pages Armed with a sharply judgmental attitude and a pair of binoculars, homeowner Leona Crump is consumed with anxiety over her new neighbors. Will they be California beatniks? Or paroled drug pushers? Or more frightening yet, perhaps someone with children?! Her worst fe more...

	MONEY IN UNCLE GEORGE'S... Comedy By Pat Cook 3 m, 5 w Script: 71 pages When Uncle George invites his whole family up for a weekend of fun at his rustic cabin, he actually wants them together so he can read his will. But between the bequeathing and his rambling stories, George drops the bomb that somewhere on the property is a suitcase holding four hundred and eighty thousand d more...

	ALTAR EGOS Comedy By Pat Cook 8 m, 9 w doubling possible Script: 65 pages The I Do's and Don'ts of an American Wedding "All we want is a simple wedding," agree Mark and Colleen as they get engaged. And their simple wedding stays simple, for about two minutes. Then the families get involved. There's the McMasters, who think the Frobishers are a bu more...

	MARQUIS CROSSING LADIES Mystery/Comedy By Pat Cook 3 m, 6 w Script: 56 pages You think it's easy to write a murder? Just ask the Society for the Arts. They decide to do just that, especially when they find out they have to pay royalties to do someone else's play. "Anybody can write a murder," Emma tells the others, and Opaline immediately begins to try to strangle the ot more...

	TITANIC:TRAGEDY AND TRIAL Drama By Pat Cook Large, flexible cast Script: 64 pages (2012 is the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking.) In Act One, "Voices From the Titanic," the stage comes alive with the passengers and crew who address the audience directly. We see the magnificent, "almost unsinkable" ship through the eyes of both the first class and third class pass more...

	NOODLES Comedy By L. Don Swartz 5 m, 6 w Script: 60 pages Ideal comedy for community theatres! Ned is the 30-ish son of Ma and Pa Boodle whose efforts to introduce girlfriends to his family don't turn out very well. His family is somewhat "colorful"-his mother is a June Cleaver type at her homiest; his father is pretty clueless his grandpa manages a cat more...

	NEW KID ON THE BLOCK Comedy By Pat Cook 3 m, 4 w Script: 71 pages Carl, Lloyd and Parker, three older gentlemen who share a large home, need to rent out their fourth bedroom to help with the rent. Their problem seems answered when Will shows up...except Will turns out to be a lady. While Lloyd and Parker like her and want to vote her in, Carl barks back, "We're not v more...

	FAIRY TALE: THE EVER AFTER Drama By Kevin Stone 5 m, 6 w Script: 76 pages. About 2 hours. The fairy-tale world is under a curse: Sleeping Beauty has insomnia, Snow White is on the verge of insanity, and Cinderella has lost her faith in magic. These and other fairy-tale characters have gathered in a castle for protection from a dragon which threatens to bring their "ever after more...

	SERVICE AT ROCKY BLUFF Anytime Comedy With Music By Scott Icenhower 3 m, 3 w Script: 36 pages. Performance time with songs about 80 minutes Amy Westmond and her husband Floyd, along with his brother and father who comprise a country music group, return to Amy’s home church. They reminisce and catch up on the gossip with Marie, the church’s housekeeper, and Betty, the choir director, who ins more...

	KOLD RADIO, WHITEFISH BAY Comedy By Phil Olson 5 m, 4 w, 1 girl, 1 male voice-over Script: 72 pages KOLD Radio is located in a corner of Carl and Lena's Place for Beer in a small Minnesota town near the Canadian border. Lars Knudsen is the host of a radio show called "Crappie Talk," devoted entirely to ice fishing for crappies. Because it is a somewhat narrow subject, La more...

	HITCHIN' POST Comedy By Pat Cook 6 m, 5 w Script: 59 pages Everybody knows that whatever you need, you can find it at Hurley Squonk's general store, the Hitchin' Post. Run by Hurley himself, who is always behind the counter, this sort of "everything store" serves as a meeting place for the locals. There's Pinch Burdett, who spends all his time hawking more...

	DEAD GIVEAWAY Mystery/Comedy By Pat Cook 1 m, 6 w Script: 68 pages "If there's any skeletons in the closet, I'll find them!" states Angie, who then opens a closet and has a skeleton literally fly in her face. This is one of the many surprises that faces the undercover police woman who just took on a job as a "domestic engineer," hired by Dr. Hugh Bernard to "find ou more...

	CRAZY QUILT CLUB Mystery/Comedy By Pat Cook 1 m, 8 w (or 9 w) Script: 65 pages Veronica Blather is a sweet little old lady who spends most of her time knitting and solving murders, most of which occur whenever she shows up. Understandably she has a problem finding a place to live. When her niece invites her to stay at a retirement home for old knitters, it seems ideal - unti more...

	IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Classic Adapted by Ken Womble Cast: 4 -5 m, 4 w Script: 62 pages. “The ” is Oscar Wilde's most perfect, and most popular, play. Since its premiere in 1895, it has given joy to generations of theatergoers. The play is often called a "comedy of manners," because in the world Wilde knew and wrote about, late 19th century British high society, manners more...

	ALFRED HITCHCOCK TAUGHT.... Mystery/Comedy By Pat Cook 7 m, 8 w Script: 70 pages Maura Milton applies for a bookkeeper's job at the home of one Tyrone Bartholomew. However, she soon finds out there isn't ONE Tyrone Bartholomew but many. The spry old actor flies from one character to another whenever dealing with the outside world - and that world seems to involve secret code more...

	MONEY TO BURN Comedy By Pat Cook 4 m, 7 w Script: 68 pages It's business as usual for Wilson and Associates, a suspiciously funny firm consisting of three flat-broke lady con-artists. They'll do practically anything to meet the rent, from reading horoscopes over the phone to renting themselves out as graveside mourners. One client, a dithering old lady, a more...

	GRANDEST CANYON Comedy With Heart By Burton Bumgarner 1 m, 3 w and flexible extras Script: 75 pages Miss Ida Ingram's dying wish was to have her ashes scattered over the Grand Canyon - no small request for the two remaining sisters, Isabelle and Imogene, as they are elderly and have never before ventured out of South Carolina. Into the picture comes a long-lost nephew, Brand more...

	LUAU FOR KING LEAR Comedy By Pat Cook 3 m, 9 w Script: 72 pages The Peaceful Glen Memorial Players are about to mount a new production, but this time, it's a fight for their lives. It's not just the usual hand-to-hand combat between board members Duncan and Hope for the last donut. This time the company is about to lose their building. According to the late Ar more...

	INSANE WITH POWER Comedy By Scott Haan 3 m, 3 w Script: 67 pages Lois Lancaster is a big-city journalist writing about the current state of mental health facilities. Her research takes her to a hospital populated with a unique group of quirky inmates who imagine they are crime-fighting superheroes. Speed Freak thinks he can run at incredible speeds, while Dim Bulb, the more...

	SCRAMBLED Comedy By Pat Cook 6 m, 8 w Script: 74 pages Purdy, who runs her Showtime Café famous for such dishes as “Fistful of Dollar Pancakes” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Ham,” is getting ready for a food critic, hoping for a great write-up. But that’s the least of her worries when she learns her old boyfriend is back in town. She and Austin made a pledge th more...

	HOLY CANNOLI Farce By John D. Smitherman 4 m, 3 w Script: 62 pages. About 80 minutes. What do you do to prepare for a visit from your parents? Plenty, when you're the daughter of strict Italian Catholic parents who expect to meet your female roommate, who is actually a guy. John was hoping to celebrate his and Maria's two-year anniversary as housemates b more...

TIME TO HEAL	TIME TO HEAL Drama By Burton Bumgarner Multi-racial cast of 7 m, 7 w, 6 flexible Script: 56 pages Jim and Lillian Fowler are having a dinner party to welcome their daughter home from college and meet her fiance. Lillian's brother, Walt, a physician, is also there, even though he and Jim get under each other's skins, especially when Walt needles Jim about more...

	REGISTER HERE Mystery / Comedy By David Meyer 11 m (one non-speaking), 9 w Script: 80 pages A terrible storm is raging, forcing an odd assortment of characters to seek shelter at Moss Manor, a broken-down old inn run by Mother Moss. As fate would have it, this is the night Mrs. Moss' son, Pete, returns from the service to marry his sweetheart, Terri Cloth. Terri's u more...

	MURDER ME, MURDER ME NOT Mystery/Comedy By Bill Springer 3 m, 3 w Script: 79 pages Randolph Gaston has been murdered, and everybody is after the insurance money (including the deceased). The characters we meet are the grieving widow, the girl next door, the family maid, the minister, the French inspector, and the confused boyfriend -- BUT everyone isn't necessarily who they se more...

	EVEN STEVEN Comedy By Robin Pond 3 m, 2 w Script: 52 pages. Full evening. Sarah and Teddy, who used to be a couple and have not seen each other since the break-up, meet by chance. Both pretend to be in relationships that don’t really exist, because neither wants to appear unsuccessful to the other. They agree to get together with their (imaginary) significant ot more...

	NOSFERATU: LEGEND OF DRACULA Horror By L. Don Swartz 21 characters. 6 to 8 men, 8 to 10 women, 1 flexible, 1 boy, 1 girl Script: 76 pages No modern-day monster can equal the chill factor than that of Dracula and his nosferatu, the undead who must feed on the blood of the living to exist. Their lust, shown only in the darkest hours, haunts even the bravest of us mortal souls. Thi more...

	DIS-ORDER IN THE COURT! Farce By Pat Cook 7 m, 6 w, extras as desired Script: 60 pages First came Judge Wapner, then Judge Judy. Now comes Judge Clapham. But his court is a little more, shall we say, colorful than most. People come to court to bring announcements of car washes, to hold quilting bees and to drop off their mortgage payments. And what starts out as just ano more...

	MANDATE FOR MURDER Mystery / Comedy By Pat Cook 5 m, 6 w, extras as campaigners Script: 72 pages Politics can be murder! It's election night and all the friends and supporters of mayoral candidate Matthew Kensington are throwing him a surprise birthday/campaign party. But there's one surprise no one suspects. An aide is found stabbed in the back with the birthday cake kn more...

	FAMILY TIES, LITTLE WHITE LIES Comedy By Gary Ray Stapp 5 men, 5-6 women, 2 boys, 1 girl, 2 extras Script: 72 pages Eddy is a struggling playwright and also a dad in charge of taking care of the house, the kids, and the mother-in-law while his wife works the daytime shift at a fast-food restaurant. And boy, does he have his hands full! The house is a disaster, and as far as taking more...

	CHILD'S PLAY Comedy By Jacqueline Lynch 4 m, 4 w Script: 67 pages Margaret Miller is a self-styled "barracuda" literary agent whose new client, Shane Velasco, star of action films, is expected for dinner and contract negotiations. Her routine business meeting becomes a comedy playground when her associate (and ex-husband) Hank shows up with his own client, Madam more...

	TAKE MY HUSBAND...PLEASE!! Farce By John D. Smitherman 4 m, 3 w Script: 67 pages John and Maria are happily celebrating their first wedding anniversary when Maria's mother, Nicolette, shows up unexpectedly. Nicolette announces that she is divorcing Maria's father, Sal, because he forgot their 27th wedding anniversary. And if that isn't enough to ruin John and Mari more...

	HERE WE SIT Comedy By L. Don Swartz 5 m, 9 w Script: 64 pages Here is an outrageous comedy for community theatres that puts the audience on the hot seat! A series of sixteen, quick-paced scenes illuminate the joys and tribulations of the modern theatre-going experience. In "An Audience of One," a single theatre patron delivers an impassioned monologue to convince more...

	PUTTING ON HEIRS Farce By Michal Jacot 5 m, 5 w, 7 flexible Script: 64 pages Ernestine Webb is overwhelmed by the day-to-day pressures of managing the $77 million Webb fortune. When her slightly senile friend, Miss Pomfrey, visits bemoaning the loss of her beloved gerbil, and the heirs think it's Mother Webb who has died, Ernestine realizes that death is one wa more...

	LOTTIE & BERNICE SHOW Comedy By L. Don Swartz 4 m, 3 w, extras Script: 58 pages Two old grumpy Polish ladies, Lottie and Bernice, become trapped in a television studio by a blizzard and end up taking over Western New York’s favorite morning show “Buffalo Yak.” Well, they do have some help. Two constantly bickering janitors, Hal and Sal, agree to handle the editorials while more...

	MYSTERY WEEKEND Mystery By Billy St. John 9 m, 11 w Script: 72 pages Several guests go to a remote ski lodge for a during which actors, posing as other guests, simulate a murder which the real guests try to solve. The event is barely under way when the host is murdered, the cable car is sabotaged, and the phone lines are cut, stranding everyone with a killer. Sudd more...

	OF MOSS AND MEN Mystery / Comedy By David Meyer 5 m, 5 w, 5 flexible (doubling possible) Script: 74 pages Mr. and Mrs. Moss are the proud new owners of an old abandoned inn which they immediately want to restore and turn into a nightclub. Unfortunately, they're so busy overseeing suspiciously inept repairmen that they pay little attention to the local legend that tells of a more...

	TANGLED WEBBS Farce By Michal Jacot 5 m, 3 w Script: 60 pages The Webbs, a wealthy and eccentric family, are in the midst of preparing for oldest brother Alex's wedding when Donald Webb, a long-lost brother given up for adoption years ago, shows up. Not wanting to split the Webb family fortune with yet another heir, greedy sister Rhonda schemes to oust Dona more...

	CANTERVILLE GHOST Classic Adapted by Pat Cook From the short story by Oscar Wilde 5 m, 4 w Script: 59 pages Hiram and Lucy Otis can't wait to move into their pastoral English manor house...just as soon as the ghost moves out. That's right, Canterville Hall comes complete with a howling, green ghoul, but only if Sir Simon (the ghost) can remember to bring the gr more...

	MISANTHROPE, THE Classic Adapted by Robert Cohen 7 m, 3 w Script: 63 pages. Full evening. Molière’s comic masterpiece centers on the character of the French courtier Alceste and the beautiful young widow Célimène he hopes to marry. But the two have radically different personalities: Alceste is a snob who insists on telling everyone the truth as he sees it, and Célimène more...

	CUT TO THE CHASE Comedy By Pat Cook 6 m, 5 w Script: 68 pages WHAM! The Masked Wonder leaps into the room and fights off four or five henchmen without even wrinkling his cape and then...? Then the Hollywood writers of the Majestic Film Studios have to figure out what he does next. Pop, Tiger Lil, Stu, Howard and Dena are stuck until they meet the latest addition more...

	MURDER OF SCARECROWS Mystery / Comedy By Pat Cook 5 m, 5 w Script: 64 pages Gerald and Cristine Dandridge always give a Halloween party for their friends. This year, however, they're having the party at their country house. It's a nice little fixer-upper with all the conveniences and one haunted scarecrow. At least, that's the story that came with the house. The nigh more...

	NOBODY WILL HEAR YOU SCREAM Mystery By Sam Craig 2 m, 3 w Script: 60 pages Beverly Cain has escaped to an island home to recover following a tragic car accident. She had been driving and her mother, famed Hollywood star Fiona Street, had been killed instantly. Beverly, now confined to a wheelchair, blames herself mercilessly. Unfortunately, her sanctuary is disturbed by her est more...

	INVITATION TO MURDER Comedy By Whitney Ryan Garrity 3 m, 5 w Script: 59 pages Lord and Lady Lexington have picked a rather beastly night to throw a haunted house party in their newly acquired home, Foxworth Manor. Oddly, the guest list appears to be made up of disparate and desperate strangers. There's the pretty secretary, the acerbic gossip columnist, the local ph more...

	CAKES GALORE! Comedy By Laurie Allen 3 m, 5 w, optional extras Script: 44 pages Here's a delicious comedy which can be followed by your own dessert sale or cakewalk. Two older ladies, Helen and Fern, are the force behind the church's program to feed the poor. (Well, actually Helen thinks it is she herself who must do everything to get it done right, with F more...

RADIO RAZZLE-DAZZLE	RADIO RAZZLE-DAZZLE Comedy By Steph DeFerie 3 m, 3 w Script: 58 pages It's a few minutes to eight, New Year's Eve, 1940, at a radio studio and a group of beleaguered employees are desperately trying to put on a live show. It's the most important episode ever of "Invitation to Danger," but everything is going wrong -- the organist and the sound effects man hav more...

	TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW Comedy By Pat Cook with doubling, 7 m, 7 w Script: 68 pages Leo Mintz, a one-time big shot Broadway agent, now represents bird acts, roller-skating kids who recite poetry and flea circuses. However, Leo's problems are just starting when known gangster Louie DeMarco "persuades" Leo to represent his protege with no discernible talent, the lovely Chr more...

	DEATH ALWAYS COMES IN THREES Dark Comedy By Renee Rebman 3 m, 6 w, doubling possible Script: 52 pages A small-town funeral parlor is a hilarious place to visit in this trilogy of one-acts. In "All Laid Out," Mama, who stubbornly clings to out-dated manners and mores, finds being with her two squabbling daughters, the stuffy and pampered Lorena, and the free-spirited Ronnie, more str more...

	WHOLLY MATRIMONY Comedy By Kandie Kelley 2 m, 3 w Script: 51 pages. About 90 minutes. After years of waiting for a traditional marriage proposal, Caroline's had it. When she takes matters into her own hands and plans a "surprise" wedding at her family's vacation home, side-splitting mayhem is set in motion. This wedding, hardly the dream variety, has all the sa more...

	CRENSHAW FAMILY REUNION Comedy By Marc Holland and Michael Davis 6 m, 6 w Script: 52 pages The ill-fated s are always such disastrous affairs that everyone wishes they were orphans. This year young Teddy takes his new wife, Susan, home to meet the clan and winds up kidnapped - along with everyone else - because no one showed up at the last reunion at Aunt Sophie's and s more...

	STAR WITNESS Drama By Billy St. John 3 m, 7 w, 3 flexible parts Script: 74 pages Did Julie Marshall beat her fianceé to death with a fireplace poker? Her attorney, Sam Zangrillis, thinks he can prove her innocent, but District Attorney Adrienne Bancroft, a former friend and colleague of the deceased, is out for revenge. Here's a slick and suspenseful courtr more...

	GHOST DETECTIVE Mystery By Billy St. John 6 m, 9 w Script: 72 pages An international film star is found drowned in the swimming pool at his remote island estate and his houseguests make excellent suspects. But fog prevents the police from getting to the island to investigate the murder so Jeff Burke, a young private investigator serving as a consultant on the star&# more...

	COMMEDIA TONIGHT! Commedia By Jeffrey Smart 5 m, 4 w, extras Script: 63 pages A Commedia dell'Arte troupe invades a town square on market day and performs a hilarious play. In it, two young men and their servant have come to the town to find love. And they do with two young ladies. But their father, an impoverished man, has plans to marry one to his rich, fat fri more...

	ALL'S FAIR Comedy By Pat Cook 11 m, 13 w (with doubling 4 m, 5 w) Script: 68 pages It is time again for the county fair in Flat Rock, Texas! In between the jelly judging, local politicin' and some extraordinary spoon playing, folks can see "Nature's Boo-Boos," an exhibit where teenager Tommy Rogers feels right at home, especially when he tries to do "S more...

	LIGHT IN THE TUNNEL Mystery / Thriller By Juanice Myers 3 m, 3 w, 2 flexible roles Script: 78 pages Valerie Simpson, a suburban housewife, has begun seeing visions of murders, kidnappings, suicides and even family members threatened with impending accidents. But the most incriminating vision may concern someone close to Val herself. She hesitates to go to the police because her hu more...

	DEADLY IMAGE Mystery By Billy St. John 5 m, 9 w, extras Script: 80 pages Billionaire industrialist Wentworth Jefferson invites private investigator Joey (Jo Ellen) Reynolds to a party at his mansion where she meets, and secretly photographs, the people he believes might wish to see him dead. Frozen for a moment, as if caught on film, we meet the suspects: his fligh more...

	FAT OF THE LAND Comedy By Pat Cook 3 m, 7 w Script: 60 pages All the ladies at the Thelma Underwood Health Resort are either trying to date Duncan, the new counselor, or plotting how to get rid of Mr. Loggins, a sinister investor with visions of turning the place into a parking lot. Well, most of the ladies are plotting. Francis is busy mugging the cab driver for more...

BOURGEOIS GENTLEMAN	BOURGEOIS GENTLEMAN Classic Adapted by Robert Cohen Flexible cast: Approx. 10 m, 4 w, extras. Much doubling possible. Script: 68 pages. One of the world's great comedies. The wealthy Monsieur Jourdain hires teachers to train him in the Arts, and succeeds only in making himself appear foolish to everybody but himself. Then he tries to court an elegant Countess, makin more...

	SCARAMOUCHE Classic Adapted by Craig Sodaro From the novel by Rafael Sabatini 10 m, 10 w, 4 flexible, plus extras. Doubling possible. Script: 76 pages All of the drama and adventure of pre-revolutionary France is captured in this action-filled adaptation. Andre Louis Moreau, a young lawyer reared with every advantage in life, vows revenge when his friend Phili more...

	BED, BREAKFAST, & BROADWAY Comedy By Arlen Daleske and Dennis Reece 5 m, 3 w, 1 flexible Script: 42 pages A wacky cast of actors is rehearsing for its big community theatre production of "You Only Die Twice." Marge Cunningham, the author of this "spell-binding murder mystery," runs the Enchanting Dreams Bed-and-Breakfast, which doubles as the community theatre. When she receiv more...

	ASHDOWN-LEE Drama By Hilary Mackelden 14 m, 10 w, 4 flexible, extras Script: 74 pages Rick Burgess and coworkers, Joe and Samantha, are on an outward-bound training weekend, organized by their boss, Rick's father, when they become hopelessly lost in the forest. Through the fog they finally stumble upon a remote little village, . But the villagers are dresse more...

AS YOU LIKE IT	AS YOU LIKE IT Shakespeare Adapted by C. Michael Perry Flexible cast of about 30 Oversized script: 56 pages. About 2 hours. This delightful adaptation updates the action to 20th century New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration! It has been edited for time and archaic expressions, but otherwise the language is the same. The through-line is still very evident as Shakespeare' more...

WINTER'S TALE	WINTER'S TALE Shakespeare Adapted by John Dilworth Newman 13 m, 13 w, and bear, Time Chorus & Musicians Unit Set. Script: 68 pages. About 90 minutes. A beautiful adaptation especially written for secondary school students to perform. Here is the story of good versus evil and the power of time to heal all wounds. Leontes, without warning, suddenly believes his visiting more...

	23 FLIGHTS HOME Drama By Joey A. Chavez 10 m, 15 w, or with doubling 6 m, 6 w Number of script pages: 47 Performance time: about an hour. This is Ruben Delgado’s final day in New York City. He left home eight months earlier to seek his fame and fortune, convinced he could sell his 896-page novel, but all he found was rejection. As he retrieves his single box of pos more...

	HEAD THAT WOULDN'T DIE Farce By Rand Higbee 3 m, 3 w, 2 flexible (one non-speaking) Script: 72 pages. A madman is on the loose and college student Penny, somewhat flighty, has gotten a gun for protection over the objections of her brainy roommate Janice. The objections prove all too true when Penny accidentally shoots her boyfriend, Glen. Granted, his sense of humor often m more...

	MURDER AT HENRY CABOT'S LODGE Mystery with humor By Gil Martin 3 m, 2 w (playing three roles) Script: 56 pages Why would Hollywood soap opera star Ava Eveready check into a decrepit inn like Henry Cabot's lodge on a stormy night when the phone lines are down and the only road to town will soon wash out? Because her calculating husband Robert planned it that way so he could poison her. Al more...

	REAL CLOSE TO BROADWAY! Comedy By Dan D'Amario 4 m, 4 w Script: 59 pages The Midville Community Theatre is financially strapped again! Big Earl, the director, and Bitsy, a longtime volunteer, agree they must find a hit play from the annual contest entries to fund their upcoming season. This year’s finalists include plays from a New Yorker with a big-city attitude; a ner more...

	HANGMAN Drama By A. W. Richardson 3 m, 7 w, 1 flexible, optional doubling Script: 68 pages Mary Beth Langmeyer is charged with first-degree murder after she shoots her husband while he sleeps. She claims he had been physically and emotionally abusive during their marriage, and that she feared for her life if she reported it. The case becomes a battle of pe more...

	MOSS TRAP Mystery/Comedy By David Meyer 8 m, 7 w, 5 flexible parts Script: 65 pages Mrs. Moss and her ever-faithful butler, Rhett, have been struggling to keep Moss Manor open but have finally decided to sell and move on. An unusual assortment of prospective buyers arrive, including ladies from the local preservation society; a toilet paper magnet; and a colorful hill more...

	ACTING RICH Farce By Rob Frankel 6 m, 7 w Script: 62 pages See the butler and maid help the Cummings pack. See the butler and maid escort the Cummings out the door. See the butler and maid turn to each other and embrace because they are actually two aspiring actors, Billy and Wendy, who now have the Cummings estate to themselves! One week of ! Unfortunatel more...

	NEW YORK STORIES Adaptation Dramatized by Nikki Harmon Based on the stories by O. Henry Flexible cast minimum 4 (3 m, 1 w) maximum 37 (28 m, 9 w) Script: 62 pages Here are ten short views of turn-of-the-century New York through the eyes of O. Henry, the master of the twist ending and chronicler of everyday people from young shop girls with enormous dreams to the ne& more...

	JUST A LITTLE CRAZY Comedy By Renee Rebman 2 m, 4 w Script: 63 pages Nola goes back to her parents' home after a disagreement with her boyfriend, Quincy, to sort through her problems in peace and quiet. What she finds instead is a circus of confusion. Her mother is dealing with repairs and redecoration of the house; her father refuses to help and escapes to work more...

	REVENGE OF ICHABOD CRANE Mystery By L. Don Swartz Inspired by the short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving 5 m, 4 w, 6 children Script: 64 pages. Whatever became of that pale, lanky school teacher Icabod Crane after a Headless Horseman threw a pumpkin at him? Ichabod is either really angry at the way he was treated or he's dead. Or, because this more...

	WOMAN IN WHITE Drama Adapted by Craig Sodaro From the novel by Wilkie Collins 11 m, 13 w, 4 flexible, much doubling possible Script: 72 pages It's the late 1800s and young Walter Hartright, on his way to a new teaching position, meets a mysterious woman dressed in white. Terrified, she asks him the way to London and mentions that she once was very happy at the more...

	ONLY VIRGIN IN JUBILEE COUNTY Comedy By Patricia Milton 1 m, 5 w Script: 42 pages. About an hour. In this rollicking comedy two brides-to-be get caught up in a web of lies and half-truths while shopping for their wedding dresses at Tammy Ann Rennert’s One-Stop Bridal Bootique in rural Texas. When an iconic image of the Virgin Mary makes a miraculous appearance on the back of one o more...

DUCKS AT 35,000	DUCKS AT 35,000 Drama By Richard T. Young 2 m, 2 w or 8 m, 8 w All four of the these plays involve a woman and man who are strangers to each other until happenstance causes them to meet in a confined space. Through self-disclosure their lives touch and perhaps change. Each play uses the stage “gimmick” of being able to hear the characters’ thoughts as well as their s more...

	SATURDAY NIGHT at the DRIVE-IN Comedy By Pat Cook 10-15 m, 10-18 w, doubling possible Script: 71 pages It's the 1950s and you're all set for a big night at the drive-in movie! Roll down your car window, hook up the speaker, and hear the movie manager, Mr. Gleason, announce the rules to enjoy yourself, "in the comfort of your own car!" Upcoming attractions are acted out ons more...

	NO KIDDING! Comedy By Scott Icenhower 3 m, 3 w, 1 flexible, 1 boy, 1 girl Script: 56 pages Calvin Rogers is a young husband who has created a fictional daughter so that he can enter various contests through the mail. When a phone call informs him that his daughter has won the grand prize in the Giggle Gardens Theme Park contest, he is overjoyed--until he learns more...

	UNCLE NEDDY'S LAST STAND Comedy By Pat Cook 5 m, 5 w Script: 70 pages "Doing a kiddie TV show is like playing the bagpipes," Uncle Neddy says. "Who knows when you make a mistake?" And whether it is hunting down an escaped snake or sawing a lady in half, he and his sidekick, Skeezix the Clown, have been at it for decades. However, when the new station manager plans to get rid more...

HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK	HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK Shakespeare Adapted by C. Michael Perry 16 m, 4 w + extras Script: 74 pages. About 2 hours. Here is Shakespeare's classic story of , with all of the psychology, guilt and tragedy that one is accustomed to in the original story. Nothing vital has been cut, but the play has been shortened, maintaining an incredible through-line of action. This version sai more...

	MISCONCEPTIONS Comedy/Drama By Michael Vukadinovich 1 m, 3 w Script: 55 pages Two sisters, Claire and Dora, are opposites when it comes to just about everything, and this night is no exception. Claire has spent her day at a funeral, while Dora has been at a wedding. But while Dora complains of not being able to meet anyone at the wedding, Claire admits to running into an more...

	SOMETHING FISHY THIS WAY COMES Comedy By Rita Weinstein 4 m, 4 w Script: 72 pages Harriet Guildenstern, 20-something, has been in therapy for years because she cannot make a decision. The play opens the day before her marriage to Adrian, a strange guy who thinks he has psychic gifts. The mysterious Adrian spends all of his time upstairs behind a locked door, on the phone. Gertrud more...

	JOKER FIRED TWICE Comedy By Pat Cook 5 m, 6 w Script: 74 pages "I wasn't expecting anything to happen," intones detective Ace Baxter, "and that's just when anything CAN happen!" And happen it does, as Ace finds himself in a locked room standing in front of the only exit with a murder victim who was shot in the back ... and with Ace's own pistol. Shadows l more...

	NIGHT WE KNOCKED THE CRITIC DE Comedy By L. Don Swartz 5 m, 6 w Script:66 pages Mickey Chigger, a nasty newspaper critic, turns up dead at the Chestnut Hollow Little Theatre's final dress rehearsal of their latest play. The actors, desperate for a box office success, will go to any lengths to avoid a scandal. And that means - yes! - moving the critic's body from the rest r more...

	MURDER BY ACCIDENT Farce By Joan Sween Cast: 10 men (doubling possible), 6 women. Script: 67 pages. Elaine has had enough. Ralph, her exasperating, risk-taking husband, has got to go. With the help of Pookie, her younger sister; Anthony “Prettyboy” Ferrari, her father; and Rudy Gambruzzo, her father’s personal assistant, Elaine sets out to stage an accident that will more...

	SIX BEDS Drama By R. James Scott 6 m, 2 w, 1 flexible, extras Setting: Hospital ward Script: 32 pages. About an hour. Peter Miller from Chicago, a recent college graduate, is determined to write an account of the pain and suffering caused by the new AIDS epidemic, so he persuades the directors of a clinic to allow him to masquerade as a patient. All goes well more...

	ARRANGED MARRIAGE Comedy By Gary Arms 2 m, 2 w, 1 flexible Script: 42 pages Ronald Schmidt has just left his bride at the altar to attend an urgent meeting at Dr. Shaw's office. Diana Henderson has left her bridegroom at the altar to attend the same meeting. Both hope it's about inheriting the late doctor's fortune, but all that the two strangers find are more...

	DYIN' FREE Drama By Troy Shearer Interracial cast of 4 m, 3 w, 2 flexible, 1 child Script: 61 pages. Cole, a slave, struggles with the prospect of escaping--the personal struggles and danger it would mean for his family. Escape would also mean forgoing all the trust and faith his “owner,” Mr. Jones, had invested in Cole. After much thought, and arguing with hi more...

	ON THE AIR Comedy by Jim Gustafson 15 m, 9 w, doubling possible Script: 75 pages The Depression grips the nation and times are hard...so hard that WISH Radio is flat broke. Dwindling advertisers, unpaid bills and relentless creditors have forced the intrepid WISH cast and crew into their most difficult broadcast--when they sign off for the last time. As if the more...

	TAMING ROMEO Comedy By Tracey Evans 8 m, 7 w, 1 flexible, plus 3 optional roles Script: 74 pages When resident stage manager Kate Ellinger discovers that one-time soap actor Brayden Cole has agreed to play the lead in their production of “Romeo and Juliet,” she finds she has her hands full, not only dealing with a TV star’s ego, but also with the easy-to-panic dire more...

	POETIC LICENSE Comedy By Carl L. Williams 2 m, 3 w Script: 56 pages Martie's idyllic memories of a poet from her college years rise again when he reappears, willing and able to continue the romance. Her regular-guy husband, who'd rather bowl than read poetry, seems a poor match against the dashing, artistic Brook Oliphant. Martie's best friend Janice, wh more...

NOSFERATU-MUSIC/SFX CD	NOSFERATU-MUSIC/SFX CD Music and sound effects CD created by William Neil for the drama "Nosferatu: The Legend of Dracula." A total of 54 tracks including such sounds as wolf howls, wind chimes, hammering, ocean waves, baby cries, alarm bells, etc., and original music as "Dracula's Theme," "Weird Sisters' Theme," "Hunter's Theme," "Asylmn Theme," and ot more...

LEAR SOLO	LEAR SOLO Drama By Brian Marsh 1 m, 1 voice. One Simple set with props & costumes. Script: 29 pages. About 1 hr. "" is a presentation of the Shakespearean play "King Lear," updated with a contemporary slant. The setting is a nightclub as host and owner Ed Lear interweaves a current story with the classic tragedy of bitterness and beauty. Shakespearean verse more...

	HOTEL PICKLE Farce By Sam Havens 6 m, 5 w Script: 68 pages Two young innkeepers, Alex and Rolly, are struggling to make a success of a once-elegant hostelry in the Hamptons, but it's tough, especially with the owner Lucinda Pickle breathing down their necks. Of course it doesn't help that the hotel's permanent resident, Mrs. Prescott, collects pet mic more...

	RIVERBANK CODE Drama By David Kruh 6 m with doubling, 4 w Script: 74 pages It's 1916 and an eccentric businessman, George Fabyan, has sunk three million dollars into a scientific think tank that he has dubbed Riverbank. Here he funds the efforts of equally eccentric men and women in their studies of everything from acoustics to perpetual motion machines and, of more...

	DRACULA IN LOVE Comedy By Renee C. Rebman 6 m, 5 w Script: 60 pages. Raven and Lulu are two young women seeking refuge who become unexpected guests at Dracula’s annual Halloween party. Igor the hunchback and their host, Dracula, seem friendly but chills and laughter escalate as monstrous guests arrive. It becomes clear that Zack the Zombie, Frankenstein, and the mummi more...

	TROY: SACRIFICE AND SURVIVAL Tragedy By Philip Lerman. Cast: 7 m, 11 w. Much doubling possible. Script: 44 pages. About an hour. The terrible waste of war never seemed more contemporary than in these quintessential tragedies by Euripides set before and after the siege of Troy. Far from being “historical dramas,” they speak to any generation embroiled in conflict. We see up close a more...

	THREE APOLLOS, THE Farce By Joel Fishbane 7 m, 6 w, 1 flexible, extras Script: 68 pages New York, 1920. Hanover Brunswick is the man who has everything except the love of his wife…or so he believes. When he learns that his beautiful neighbor Louisiana is marrying a man she’s never met – the soldier Apollo Vladermilk – Hanover plots to disguise himself as Apollo and ma more...

	DRACULA'S WIDOW Thriller By Billy St. John 4 m, 4 w Script: 74 pages In this high-voltage sequel to Bram Stoker's classic vampire tale, Baroness Katarina Stephanowski of Rumania - who is actually the widow of Count Dracula - moves to England in search of fresh blood. She gains entrance to the country home of Dr. Vincent Grant and his daughter, Diana. Attracted to more...

	DOLL'S HOUSE, A DRAMA Translated by Robert Cole 3 m, 4 w, 1 flexible, 2 boys, 1 girl Script: 80 pages. This version breathes new life into the supreme classic by Henrik Ibsen. Of course no one can improve Ibsen's original story of Nora Helmer, living an unexamined life of domestic comfort but being ruled by her husband, Torvald. The foundation of everything she more...

	FAIRWEATHER FRIENDS Comedy By Dwayne Yancey 4 m, 3 w Script: 56 pages Lord Liverpool, a chauvinistic proprietor of a 19th century London newspaper, must deal not only with a wife who’s a suffragette and a daughter who seeks own career, but an old school rival out to embarrass him. The plot concerns a series of dispatches being penned by an adventurer in Africa, which have more...

LAST REHEARSAL,	LAST REHEARSAL, Drama With Humor By Gil Martin 3 m, 2 w Script: 64 pages Eleanor Random is a Pulitizer Prize-winning playwright who has not had a hit in 25 years. Her husband, J.C., has directed all of her plays to date and now is directing her latest, "A Life Forgotten," in a final, desperate attempt to recapture some semblance of their past glory. Unfortunately, they have more...

	BANDITS OF LOVE Comedy By Pat Cook 7 m, 6 w, extras Script: 60 pages Coming to your theatre! All the fast-paced action, all the cockeyed characters, all the romance you'd ever want and still have room for popcorn. Return with us now to those thrilling days of silent movies when anything went and usually took most of the scenery with it. Can B.B. Tackett, one more...

	DON'T UNLOCK THE DOOR Mystery By Sam Craig 2 m, 2 w Script: 64 pages State Senator Tyson Avery, candidate for governor, has received numerous death threats, presumably related to his years as district attorney. As the pursuer draws closer, Avery and his wife, Charlotte, escape to a mountain cabin owned by the family of the Senator's top aide, Clayton Carlson. Once at t more...

CRADLE WILL FALL	CRADLE WILL FALL Mystery By Sam Craig 2 m, 4 w Script: 56 pages A young mother, penniless and desperate, moves to a lonely lighthouse with her infant to escape her rich and possessive husband, a doctor used to getting his own way. So when the baby is kidnapped, it seems so obvious the father is behind it. But like an intricate and suspenseful chess game, there are num more...

	SHENANDOAH AUTUMN Drama By Ronald Amos 11 m, 4 w 1 Exterior with two insets. Script: 64 pages. About 2 hours. In this Civil War drama Charles Knox, a major in the Union army, is in an untenable situation. Two guerilla soldiers, accused of participating in an attack on an ambulance train, have been captured. But these two soldiers are far from being tough killers. One more...

EINSTEIN INSIDE OUT	EINSTEIN INSIDE OUT Drama With Humor By Russell S. Dowd 2 m, 1 w Svript: 71 pages If it's true that someday in the "hereafter" we have to confess our pluses and minuses, then Einstein is in deep trouble. Stalling for time, he invites us to wander through his life with him. In the telling, Einstein gets to count the pluses of his scientific genius by telling us the stories behi more...

ENVY THE MOON	ENVY THE MOON Dark Comedy By Rene Rebman 2 m, 3 w Script: 62 pages Janine, the temperamental half of a totally unmatched set of twins, arrives at her sister's house in the middle of the night, making good on her endless threats to leave her husband. When Arlene and her husband try to explain it isn't a good time for a houseguest, Janine is surprised to find th more...

	CAT AND MOUSE DRAMA By Sam Craig 2 m, 3 w, 1 flexible Nora Marsh has lived with the burden of a father who's been branded a traitor. She has tried to keep their inn, the , running smoothly, but her father's depression and drinking after his return from the World War II European front has made life difficult. Her life begins to further unravel when a new bo more...

	GOING FOR BROKE Farce By Michal Jacot 7 m, 6 w, 3 flexible, doubling possible Script: 76 pages After being part of the richest family in Boston, the adult Webb kids try to adjust to sudden poverty when crazy brother Elwood is given total control of the fortune. But they just don't know how to be poor. They try everything from renting rooms in the mansion to t more...

	AMISTAD CASE Drama By William Baer 21 m, 2 w, 1 g, 1 b, extras Script: 69 pages African slaves being transported by the Cuban schooner Amistad were inspired by their leader, Cinque, to rise up and seize the ship. Instead of gaining freedom, however, the slaves are imprisoned on land where their lives are in balance during the following trials. A tour-de-force i more...

	ATTACK OF THE LAKE PEOPLE Comedy By Pat Cook 5 m, 5 w Script: 64 pages "I wish just once we could have a family get-together without somebody getting tied up!" This plaintive request, yelled at the top of her lungs by Aunt Clarise, gives you a pretty good idea of how family reunions go for this particular gang. Peri has taken her husband Graham to the family lake house to fin more...

TOO FREE FOR ME	TOO FREE FOR ME Drama By Rex Stephenson 6 m, 7 w One Interior. About 90 minutes. Winner of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education award in 1995. Ideal for Black History month observances. The drama is based on an actual trial that occurred in Franklin County, Virginia in 1851. Indiana Choice, a black woman, claims that she and her three children are fre more...

MARK TWAIN DREAMING	MARK TWAIN DREAMING Classic Adapted by James Walker and Carl Farinelli. Flexible casting from 4 to 13 Script: 36 pages. About an hour. "" recreates some of Mark Twain’s best-loved stories as they come to the mind of Samuel Clemens (the real Mark Twain) at night in his bedroom. Clemens describes his Twain persona as a ne’er-do-well who “tells the most outrageous old rascal more...

	GOING BARE Comedy By Mary Jane Taegel 3 m, 2 w Script: 68 pages Dr. Jack Ramsay, an obstetrician/gynecologist, is "," that is, going without insurance coverage to avoid paying outrageous malpractice premiums. When he is hit with a frivolous lawsuit to the tune of $4.2 million, Jack and his devoted wife, Barbara, conspire to get a divorce that puts all their asse more...

	HOOK, LINE AND SINK HER Comedy By Susan Owens 8 m, 6 w Script: 78 pages A pushy mother, a nervous father, a whiny bride, a younger brother too busy eating to ever say a word, and countless other small town characters make this one of the most hilarious weddings you'll ever attend. Gilbert, the young owner of the local grocery store, proposed to Tina right in front of a more...

CAMELOT COURT	CAMELOT COURT Drama By Rita Weinstein 5 m, 4 w Script: 71 pages Corryann Driggers, "sixteen and never been kissed," feels trapped living in the poverty of the trailer park in rural south Florida. When Russian missiles are discovered in Cuba, just 90 miles away, everyone in Corryann's small world begins acting on their fears, missed opportunities, and failed d more...

	BRIDE OF UFORIA Comedy By Whitney Ryan Garrity 4 m, 4 w Script: 75 pages The tranquil charm of a quaint lodge is threatened when a mysterious spacecraft lands nearby. Evil Queen Uforia has come to Earth to capture every able-bodied man and return with them to the waiting Uforian females. Her powerful ray gun is capable of “zombifying” anyone who stands in her path. W more...

	RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT Drama By Mark Fauser and Brent Briscoe 18 flexible parts, doubling possible Script: 48 pages The play takes place during a graveyard shift in a big city police booking room where alleged criminals' mug shots are taken by two cops, a hardened veteran and a rookie on her first night. Some of the "criminals" include an African-American graduate stud more...

THINGS WE COULDN'T SAY	THINGS WE COULDN'T SAY Drama By James Schaap 3 m, 3 w, 1 flexible Unit Set or Found Space. Script: 51 pages. About 90 minutes. The biographer of the story of Berendina (Diet) Eman is interrupted by Diet herself as he begins a lecture about the Second World War and Nazi resistance in occupied Europe. Diet explains that her efforts to hide Jewish people were not unique, b more...