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 DOLL'S HOUSE, A DRAMA Translated by Robert Cole |
 FAIRWEATHER FRIENDS Comedy By Dwayne Yancey |
 IT'S ALIVE! THE HEAD THAT... Farce By Rand Higbee |
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 | SUPERFREAKS Comedy By Scott Haan 3 m, 3 w Script: 66 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | AMELIA EARHART: FLIGHTS... Drama By Will Huddleston Flexible cast of 9 m, 10 w, extras (or as few as 3 m, 3 w) Open stage with props. Script: 46 pages. About 70 minutes. The early history of flight, alcoholism, the pressure of fame, dreams failed and fulfilled, and the never-ending need for courage are the themes of this play. It’s 1932 and Amelia Earhart is on her first gr 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... | |
 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR GRANDPA Comedy By Michal Jacot 4 m, 3 w, 2 flexible Script: 46 pages A cantankerous grandfather, ill-tempered and paranoid, is determined to think that his grandkids, three young adult siblings, are trying to kill him for their inheritance ($642 and a postcard collection). Grandpa doesn't mind shouting it down the halls of his apartment building to aler 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | OTHELLO UNDONE Drama By Deni Fuson 4 m, 4 w, extras Script: 60 pages This richly-textured play weaves the dark energy of one of Shakespeare's most intense plays with compelling, current-day characters and problems. Andreya, a selfish student who gets what she wants by being manipulative and cruel, is affronted when she doesn't get the lead female role fo more... | |
 | HURRY UP AND WAIT! Comedy By Burton Bumgarner 4 m, 4 w Script: 52 pages Waiting in line? Waiting your turn? You don’t have time! Here’s a comedy in six scenes for those who are time-challenged. In the first scene a desperate woman has only 20 minutes to get to the airport to catch her flight and no matter what her beleaguered taxi driver says or does, they remain stuck more... | |
 | CHARLES DICKENS' GHOST STORIES Drama By David John Preece Flexible cast (40+) to a minimum of six (4 m, 2 w) Script: 68 pages. Full evening. Single setting or found space. Beguiled in early childhood by his nursemaid's grim and ghoulish stories, Charles Dickens harbored all through his life a fascination with ghosts, apparitions and chilling coincidence. This play is a coll 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... | |
 | TOMBSTONE TERROR STORIES Dark Comedy By Pat Cook Flexible cast (minimum 6) Script: 60 pages Ever wonder why people whistle in a graveyard? Because it scares away the bogeyman. Here's a little gang of stories that, far from scaring the bogeyman away, invites him in and sets a place for him at the table! Listen, gentle reader, while the Caretaker introduces spooky tales from t more... | |
 | LITTLE WOMEN Drama Adapted by L. Don Swartz From the novel by Louisa May Alcott 7 w, 3 m Script: 76 pages This poignantly-drawn play chronicles the life-changing events of the March family during a turbulent period of the Civil War. Marmee, the loving mother, and Hannah, the loyal housekeeper, steer the family through troubled waters while Father is away ministe 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | DOCTOR JECKYLL, NO PLACE TO... Farce By Pat Cook 5 m, 5 w Script: 60 pages No one could be more meek than poor Henry Jeckyll, scampering to and fro to the whims of both his fiance and his mother. So when he invents a potion to make weak men brave (well, it started out curing seasickness), what better subject to use it on than himself? It not only makes Jeckyll more aggressive, 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | LEGEND OF QUASIMODO, REVISITED Comedy By Stephanie A. Youngman Based on Victor Hugo's novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” 4 m, 1 w, 5 flexible, plus extras Script: 56 pages As the title implies, this fast-paced, lighthearted adaptation takes a few liberties with the original text and focuses on one adventurous day in the life of fiction’s most unfortunate fellow. Here, Quasimod 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | BIRDS THAT STAY Drama By L. Don Swartz 5 m, 5 w, extras Script: 70 pages It is the summer of 1969 -- Vietnam, drugs, and a "Helter Skelter" killing spree. In a world seemingly out of control, five young friends struggle desperately with personal demons. Kyle tries to keep a dead man's promise; Chance is being driven closer to a deadly encounter; Kelly fights 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... | |
 | SCHOOL LIKE OURS Drama By Joe Cherubino 5 m, 5 w, extras Script: 64 pages Chris, an all-American student, is healing. Having survived a shooting at his old school, he is starting to get on with his life. He has moved to a new school and meeting new friends: Allison, a girl with a big heart; Trent, the most popular kid in school with problems at home; and Randy, the more... | |
 | FRANKENSTEIN, TOGETHER AGAIN Comedy By Pat Cook 5 m, 5 w Script: 64 pages Helga Frankenstein figures the best way to get rid of all those nasty stories about the family castle and her relatives is to turn the place into a tourist resort. And her very first guests are vacationing Americans Chandler and Lindsey Page. Lindsey just loves the place but Chandler keeps seeing all sorts more... | |
| GRUESOME STORIES OF POE | GRUESOME STORIES OF POE Horror By Sam Kuglen 3 m, 2 w Script: 46 pages Edgar Allan Poe, his wife, Virginia and his editor, Griswold are frozen in time, endlessly repeating the moment of Virginia's death. Annie and Owen, two contemporary teenagers, enter the condemned building haunted by the trio and get locked in the room where they are unable to see the specters. Annie, more... | |
 | HIGH SPIRITS Comedy By Craig Sodaro 4 m, 6 w Script: 56 pages Cliff Rundle accompanies his on-again, off-again girlfriend Jackie to an old Hollywood Hills mansion where she has been hired to kick a few lingering spirits out of the house. While Cliff claims he's gone along for moral support, he's really scouting the place as a potential site for a pilot ep more... | |
 | AUNT OLLIE'S HOME AWAY.... Comedy By Pat Cook 5 m, 5 w Script: 76 pages Aunt Ollie has been having a hard time keeping her hotel open and her brother, Earl, isn't much help. Ollie has one hope in keeping her "Home Away from Home" open with investor Judith Pomeroy. Unfortunately, before Judith can get a good look at the place, she accidentally gets a generous dose of Earl& 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... | |
 | DORMITORY Drama With Humor By Burton Bumgarner 5 m, 3 w (all play multiple roles) Script: 58 pages On the campus of a small liberal arts college, one has served as a home to students for over a hundred years. The play opens in the present when two college freshmen, Jake and Clay, become roommates during the year before the dorm is scheduled to be torn down. Their story 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... | |
 | RISE OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Horror-Comedy By Sean Abley 4 - 5 m, 4 w Number of script pages: 40. Performance time: about 50 minutes. Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” gets turned upside down in this sequel ... of sorts! Far from the Gothic mood of the original story, this is a broad comedy-mystery with a little bit of the macabre thrown in for more... | |
| IT'S ALIVE! THE HEAD THAT... 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | BEOWULF Classic Adapted by Gayanne Ramsden Flexible cast of 10 or more Script: 60 pages About 90 minutes This adaptation has kept alive the monsters and dragons that inhabited the original poem. However, it is told from the point of view of a Scop (Shope), a teller of tales, who had traveled and fought with . The Scop is now a prisoner of the Saxons and whil more... | |
 | ACTING OUT DRAMA/COMEDY Comedy/Drama by Paul H. Johnson 5 m, 5 w minimum (up to 30 maximum) Script: 52 pages When their teacher doesn't show up, a group of students in a theatre arts class decide to practice their final scenes and monologues. The result is a montage of teenage fears, fantasies, dreams and yearnings. From cheerleader to class nerd, from star athle 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR Comedy By Jacqueline T. Lynch 4 m, 4 w Script: 56 pages From crazy chicken suits to high tea and crumpets, the hilarity never stops in this rollicking farce. Poor Bobby Philips is racing the clock as high school graduation approaches. In addition to his three part-time jobs (including one at Fried Chicken World), his falling grades, and his threatened 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... | |
 | HECTOR'S WAREHOUSE & OTHER GHO Mystery By Daniel S. Kehde 2 m, 2 w Script: 63 pages The problem with many plays where things have to go bump in the night is that things have to go bump. Not in "Hector's Warehouse and Other Ghost Stories." Four friends tell five ghostly stories using the most potent special effect of all: the audience's imagination. Using only chairs and ca more... | |
 | AGATHA CHRISTIE NEVER TOOK TRI Comedy By Jeffrey Smart 3 m, 5 w, 1 flexible Script: 54 pages Janet has come up with the excuse of a party to relieve the tensions between their two trigonometry study groups. During the party the kids play a murder game, pretending that their trigonometry teacher is the victim. The students become edgy because of the parallels between their charact 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... | |
 | NOTHING FOR GRANTED Drama By Dan Shafer 2 m, 6 w, 1 flexible Script: 56 pages Darby is a senior in high school, editor of the school newspaper, and dating the homecoming queen. Everything in his life is wonderful with one secret exception. Darby has been HIV positive since a blood transfusion he received as a child. His friends learn how to deal first with the news of 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | UP THE STAGE OVER Comedy By Robert A. Anderson 2 m, 7 w Script: 56 pages Act I is a play rehearsal at the home of one of the characters, while Act II represents the high school stage with all scenery reversed so that the audience sees only what normally would be back stage. All sound effects are visible; prop table, prompters, stage braces, etc. About every problem a 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... | |
| 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | GRAND ADVENTURES-PIP & MIMSY! Absurdist comedy By Jack Sale 5 m, 4 w, 1 flexible Script: 36 pages. Performance time: About an hour. Follow the adventures of two Victorian street urchins—annoyingly enthusiastic and melodramatic—who still await with joy the return of their missing father after many years. As they gratefully and cheerfully accept their circumstances of foraging and freezing more... | |
 | BEAUTY & BEAST - LEGACY...ROSE Drama By Brian Kral Flexible casting: Minimal 3 m, 3 w. Unit Setting. Script: 58 pages. About 80 minutes. By beginning the play with the arrival of the merchant and his daughter at the Beast's castle, this adaptation of the familiar fairy tale focuses on the many variations on the theme of love. Once the character referred to as “Beauty”' a 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... | |
 | IN THE SPIRIT Comedy By Matthew Carlin 3 m, 4 w Script: 42 pages In this hour-long play, timid and somewhat nerdy Arthur Miller (no relation to the playwright) has inherited a century-old mansion from a distant cousin. On arrival he finds more than he bargained for - the ghosts of three relatives who died there more than 70 years ago, and the ghost of their kille 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
| GET BACK | GET BACK Comedy By Gary Ewing 3 to 4 m, 3 w 2 simple unit interiors. Script: 43 pages. About an hour. A delightful, comic coming of age play for teens. (Or a great trip down memory lane for adults.) It's 1964 and the Beatles are arriving in the U.S. for their debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. Andrea, Libby and Kirk eagerly await their arrival while thei 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... | |
 | NESTERS Drama By Sam Craig 5 m, 5 w Script: 76 pages A magazine reporter interviewing 95-year-old Caddy Miller expects to hear the story of a woman who tended house and stood by her man while they homesteaded. Instead, the reporter finds a real pioneer who carved a place for herself in the Wyoming Territory in the 1880s. In flashbacks we see how young more... | |
| TALES FROM THE ENCHANTED CITY | TALES FROM THE ENCHANTED CITY Fairy Tale By L. Don Swartz with doubling 4 m, 4 w Suggested settings. Script: 48 pages. About 70 minutes. A humorous urban romp through familiar tales by the Brothers Grimm. Everybody is having a bad day in the Enchanted City. Little Theodore Hood's grandmother is gravely ill and he must get a powerful medicine to her as soon as possible. But T more... | |
 | NOT A GHOST OF A CHANCE Comedy By Peter Ray With doubling: 5 m, 4 w, 1 flexible. One interior set Number of script pages: 67 As their family vacations on Cape Cod, Ben and Katie Shelby discover secret passages, stolen money, dangerous hoodlums and the ghosts of two eighteenth-century children, who appear in a flash of smoke during a thunderstorm. Meanwhile, older brother Ro 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... | |
 | ELVIS PRESLEY, STEPSON OF Farce By Buster Cearley 5 m, 4 w Script: 56 pages Dr. Frank N. Stein, the crusty great-grandson of the original monster-maker, has developed a magic clone box for "a brighter tomorrow." But his pretty daughter, Julie, who possesses one hair from the head of the King, wants an Elvis clone! Unfortunately, the guy with blue suede shoes and guitar who more... | |
 | MURDER IN THE 1st PERSON Mystery/Comedy By Nikki Harmon 5 m (one non-speaking), 3 w Script: 54 pages It's a chilly, rainy night at the Stonebridge School for Proper Young Ladies as the English teacher, the home ec. teacher, the athletic coach, the butler, the head of the alumnae and a mafia hit man break into the dean's study to kill him. The trouble is they each find him 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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