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Title: 12:21 PM in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 10th series / COL Author: Hartland, F. J. Publisher: Samuel French 1985 Description: roy comedy - weddings three characters two male; one female one act A hilarious situation is created when a groom goes looking for his best man. The wedding was to begin at noon and it is now 21 minutes after. The best man is sloshed, but the groom refuses to give up on him despite pleas from his annoyed sister to leave the guy to his vodka and come back for the wedding. Title: 21A in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: Kling, Kevin Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995 Description: roy comedy - monologues all male cast; nine characters one male (doubling) one act One actor portrays driver and passengers on Minneapolis bus. Title: 27 Ways I Didn't Say "Hi" to Laurence Fishburne in - Humana Festival 2013 / COL Author: Josephson, Jonathan Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2014 Description: roy comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act One of playwright Jonathan Josephson's favorite movie stars is sitting right across the room, blithely eating a sandwich. There are a million things he'd like to say, but every attempt to make contact is more hopelessly awkward than the last. A hilarious meta-theatrical romp based on actual events (sort of). Title: 2B (or not 2B) in - Things Between Us / COL Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005 Description: roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act suggested for high school. What happens when Franny, heart broken and single, is seduced by a giant Bee who needs a Queen? Title: 2B (or not 2B) in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn Publisher: Vintage Books 2007 Description: roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act suggested for high school. What happens when Franny, heart broken and single, is seduced by a giant Bee who needs a Queen? Title: 2B (or not 2B) Part 2 in - Things Between Us / COL Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005 Description: roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act suggested for high school. What happens when Franny, now a Queen Bee, goes to her ex's wedding, hoping to sting him to death, but ends up under the gift table with the piano player? Title: 4000 Miles in - 4000 Miles / After the Revolution / COL Author: Herzog, Amy Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2013 Description: roy dramatic comedy four characters one male; three female one act (ten scenes) After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other. 4000 MILES looks at how two outsiders find their way in today's world. Finalist! 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Winner! 2012 Obie Award, Best New Play; Winner! 2012 Title: 508 in - The Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 / COL Author: Herzog, Amy Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers Description: roy dramatic comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female one act Two ex-lovers meet in the apartment they once shared on what would be their fifth anniversary for a settling of accounts. What could be a simple, five-minute exchange quickly dissolves into barbs and recriminations. Bridget and Leo know how to get at each other, and they cant resist the pleasure and pain that comes from one last reckoning. Title: Abandon All Hope in - Shel's Shorts / COL Author: Silverstein, Shel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003 Description: roy comedy all male cast; two characters two male one scene 'All and Benny stand before a giant portal. A sign above the portal reads "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here". Benny is more than a little frightened, but Al has no intention of abandoning his hope, as the two debate the precise meaning of the sign.' Title: Acrobats in - Acrobats and Line / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970 Description: roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act open stage. 'Husband and wife acrobatic team feud, threatening to end their dependancy - while they perform.' Title: Adam and Eve on a Ferry in - Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2005 Description: roy comedy - American - 20th century - short play three characters one male; two female one act 1 exterior set. "A comic portrait of D.H. Lawrence as someone who functions as an analyst for repressed women. Embroidering on his porch, Lawrence is visited by Miss Peabody. Adopting a Sherlock-Holmesian intuition, Lawrence divines that spinsterish Miss Peabody was propositioned by a man aboard a ferry, but in her passionate excitement she forgot his name and where they were to meet. Title: Affection in Time in - Israel Horovitz's New Shorts / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Samuel French 2009 Description: roy monologue - women - dramatic comedy all female cast; one character one female one act Introduction to a being not of our time. Title: Ah! But it Sings, But It Sings, Luveena or: Blood Orange in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Boutillier, Fabian Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998 Description: roy comedy - farce - sketch three characters three male one act Three odd gentlemen get carried away. Title: Alan, Betty and Riva in - Bedrooms: Five Comedies / COL Author: Taylor, Renee Bologna, Joseph Publisher: Samuel French 1986 Description: roy comedy - sex - relationships - suicide three characters one male; two female one act (two scenes) Alan gets his mistress Betty to agree to join him in a menage a trois with Riva, a hooker who calls herself a sex therapist. Betty gets cold feet and acquiesces only when Alan convinces her it will help him make the decision to finally leave his wife. Afterward, Betty is depressed and, when she realizes Alan still isn't going to leave his wife, she threatens suicide. Title: Alien Mice in - John Lazarus Shorts / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada Description: roy comedy two characters two male or female one act A deranged lecturer, armed with a bomb, holds the audience hostage while explaining his UFO conspiracy theory connecting the fountains at Versailles with Mickey Mouse. Title: All Cotton in - Shel's Shorts / COL Author: Silverstein, Shel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003 Description: roy comedy all female cast; two characters two female one scene 'Jill is furious because the guaranteed not-to-shrink blouse she has bought shrunk six sizes in the wash, and Rachel, the store clerk, won't give her a cash refund. But Jill, it seems, is a witch, and when she does not get satisfaction, she casts a spell on the store and everything in it.' Title: All in Little Pieces in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL Author: Yearly, John Publisher: Samuel French 2005 Description: roy dramatic comedy all female cast; two characters two female one act Molly's trying to sell a house to Mary, but it soon becomes apparent that Mary not there to buy. The play becomes very engaging as the women talk and get to know each other. It almost seems as if they're made for each other, but the action twists and suddenly Molly realizes that Mary is perhaps not as stable as she seems, in fact, that she's actually rather frightening. Title: Almost, Again in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Brown, Briana Publisher: Signature Editions 2011 Description: roy comedy - relationships - romance - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act (five scenes) " 'Almost, Again' centers on Jack and Ginger, two coworkers at a large, chain bookstore whose shyness, awkwardness and penchant for delightful bursts of earnest nerdiness, immediately draws them together while also creating a sexual tension that both are too hesitant and neurotic to confront. When their first date goes awry, Ginger convinces Jack to erase the encounter entirely from their personal history, to wipe their romantic slate clean and to try the first date again. As the pressure to have the perfect date, create their perfect mood and capture the perfect moment Title: Alt-Visions, Kiss Before Clouding in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Levin, Daniel F. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015 Description: roy comedy - solo performance all male cast; one character one male one act Man in binary coded relationship. Title: Altar Boy Talks to God, An in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998 Description: roy comedy all male cast; two characters two male sketch "Robert, a young man, talks in a friendly way about his days as an altar boy. He then recalls when his nephew got AIDS early in the epidemic and how fundamentalists claimed it was God's punishment. Robert decides to go to heaven and ask God about this. Once there, God seems mean and ornery indeed, and professes to give AIDS to homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and Haitians in a bizarrely unfocused rage. Leaving heaven, Robert feels that whom he met wasn't God but an impostor. Adapted from the 'AIDS Speech' in "Laughing Wild", and rewritten to be performed by 2 Title: Amelia Earhart Was Not a Spy in - Triple Play / CCO Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: NuAge Editions 1990 Description: roy romantic comedy three characters two male; one female one act 'Hilary and Kevin, her homosexual roommate have been living together for five years, but this evening Hilary has invited someone to dinner - her new fiance.' Title: American Century, The in - 20/20 ..
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