Title: 100 Lunches A Gourmet Comedy Author: Sharkey, Jack Sears, Leo W. Publisher: Samuel French 1989 Description: roy romantic comedy six characters three male; three female three acts "Successful mystery playwright Chuck Reynolds has had his plays lauded by all critics except Charity Starr. When she shows up at his home and has the unmitigated gall to ask his expert help in writing a play of her own, Chuck fiendishly insists that their teacher/pupil sessions be held over lunch - with Charity footing the bill - at the most expensive restaurants in New York City. Love blossoms despite the scheming of Chuck's amorous neighbor. Charity's play opens on Broadway and she finds out what it's like to be a target for all her critical confreres. Non-stop fun, Title: 17 Dogs Author: Chambers, Ron Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2002 Description: roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; five characters five male two acts After 40 years of simmering rage, a man betrayed by his former business partner has a chance to exact revenge. Title: 39 Steps, The Author: Buchan, John Barlow, Patrick Publisher: Samuel French 2009 Description: roy comedy - mystery four characters three male; one female two acts Patrick Barlow's adaptation of John Buchan's "The 39 Steps". In "The 39 Steps", a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, "The 39 Steps" amounts to Title: 400 Kilometres Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2005 Description: roy comedy - self-awareness - Native peoples - Native playwrights five characters two male; three female two acts Third play in Hayden-Taylor's hilarious and heart wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Janice Wirth, having discovered her roots as the Ojibway orphan Grace Wabung, and having visited her birth family on the Otter Lake Reserve, is pregnant, and must now come to grips with the question of her true 'identity'. Her adoptive parents have just retired, and are about to sell their house to embark on a quest for their own identity by 'returning' to England. Meanwhile, the Native father of her child-to-be is attempting to convince Janice/Grace that their coming child's future lies with Title: Absent Friends Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1979 Description: roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts 1 interior. "Social comedy. Former friends having tea party to extend sympathy to man whose fiancee drowned discover he has cheerful attitude toward life while they are experiencing marital discord and unhappiness." Title: Absurd Person Singular Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1974 Description: roy comedy six characters three male; three female three acts Three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. First: the lower-class but very much up-and-coming Hopcrofts in their bright new kitchen anxiously giving a little party to their bank manager and his wife, and and architect neighbor. Then, the architect and his wife in their neglected untidy flat. Lastly, the bank manager and his wife in their large, slightly modernized kitchen. Running like a darker thread through the wild comedy of behind-the-scenes disasters at Christmas parties is the story of the advance of the Hopcrofts to Title: Accidental Death of an Anarchist Author: Fo, Dario Richards, Gavin Publisher: Samuel French 1987 Description: roy satire six characters five male; one female two acts The accidental death of an anarchist in police headquarters is investigated by a maniac who so confuses the authorities with his methods that they unwittingly reveal the truth of the death and are punished for it. Title: Accommodations Author: Hall, Nick Publisher: Samuel French 1973 Description: roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female three acts "Lee Schallert, housewife, feeling she may be missing out on something, leaves her husband, Bob, and her suburban home and moves into a two-room Greenwich Village apartment with two roommates. One roommate, Pat, is an aspiring actress, never out of character or costumes; but through an agency mix up, the other roommate is a serious, young, graduate student - male. The ensuing complications make a hysterical evening." Title: Acquiesce Author: Yee, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017 Description: roy comedy - Canadian - self - family - spirituality ten characters three male; one female (doubling) two acts A moving story of tradition, family, and pain passed down through generations. Plagued by the success of his first book and haunted by his past, Sin Hwang arrives in Hong Kong with some unusual cargo and a lot of emotional baggage. Featuring a surreal cast of characters, from a foul-mouthed Paddington Bear to a wisecracking Buddhist monk, this sharply comedic and heartbreakingly poignant tale of self, familial, and spiritual discovery reflects the cycles from which we must all break free as we find our way. Title: Adult Entertainment Author: May, Elaine Publisher: Samuel French 2002 Description: roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts There is a cloud over porn queen Heidi the 'Ho's usually cheery cable TV show. Her guests are wearing armbands to mourn the passing of their employer and mentor, a legendary porn filmmaker. Tired of working for others, this motley group of adult video veterans decides to write and shoot their own extravaganza, an "art" film. The script doesn't live up to their expectations so they bring in a new writer, one who insists they read the classics to prepare for their roles. Unexpected ideas develop as the hilarity escalates bringing the play to a raucous and riotous Title: Affairs of State Author: Verneuil, Louis Publisher: Samuel French 1950 Description: roy comedy six characters four male; two female two acts 1 interior set. To save his own marriage, a retired Secretary of State convinces the Senator with whom his wife is having an affair that marriage even if only appearances, would boost his political career. Title: Affections of May, The Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990 Description: roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female two acts 1 interior set. After being deserted by her husband, a woman suddenly finds herself the centre of attention in a small town. Title: Affluenza! Author: Sherman, James Publisher: Samuel French 2004 Description: roy comedy - family - domestic relations six characters four male; two female two acts AFFLUENZA! borrows classic characters from Restoration Comedy like the cuckolded husband, the coquette, the wily servant, and the fop to create a contemporary comedy of manners. When multi-millionaire, William Moore brings home his new girlfriend, his son and ex-wife are threatened by the potential new heir to the family fortune. Who gets what and who ends up with whom is revealed in this dazzling display of wit and word play. Title: Age of Arousal Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Coach House Press 2007 Description: roy Canadian - suffrage movement - historical - comedy six characters one male; five female two acts approx. running time: 2 hours and 20 minutes "It’s a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire. It’s 1885, and the typewriter and the suffrage movement are sending things topsy-turvy. In the midst of it all, five ambitious New Women and one Newish Man struggle to find their way. Miss Mary Barfoot runs a school for secretaries with Title: Al Cornell Story, The Author: Ballantyne, Bill Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984 Description: roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts 2 interior sets. A second-rate pianist, trapped in fantasies of "hipness" in life and in jazz, is forced to choose between the big chance and his dread of change. Title: Album Author: Rimmer, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1981 Description: roy comedy - college and community groups four characters two male; two female two acts representative set. The play examines the coming of age of two teenaged couples during the turbulent sixties. The language is frank, but funny, as the four struggle with impending adulthood and their awakening sexuality. The action ranges from summer camp, to dormitory bedrooms, to senior prom, with the popular music of the sixties. Title: All for One Author: Weitz, Paul Publisher: Samuel French 1995 Description: roy dramatic comedy five characters three male; two female two acts 'Comic drama set in Los Angeles. Weekend reunion of three childhood friends sabotaged by ambition and unrequited love.' Title: All Restaurant Fires are Arson Author: McManus, Bruce Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2008 Description: roy dark comedy - murder seven characters four male; two female (doubling) two acts "All Restaurant Fires are Arson" is a dark and comic look at our relationship with our own mortality, and with each other, as we struggle to face the inevitable. Tom, and ex-cop in his fifties, and Ron, a philandering priest, have been friends since grade school. Their friendship will never die, but their high school friends and acquaintances can and do. They’re surrounded by deaths, that might be accidents, or might be murder driven by incidents in their