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 past. Title: All the Verdis of Venice
Author: Chaurette, Normand Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy drama - comedy - historical five characters one male; three female four acts
"A play about the megalomaniacal, tragic and passionate world of opera. Surrounded by the director of Milan's la Scala, a retired baritone and the young diva teresa Stoltz, with whom he is very much taken, composer Guiseppe Verdi is forced to write his opera, Don Carlos, for political reasons."
Title: All this Intimacy
Author: Joseph, Rajiv Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy comedy - 21st century - friendship - sex six characters two male; four female two acts
unit set; setting - Brooklyn and Manhattan; suggested for Little Theatre/advanced groups.
Ty Greene is a normal guy with three very big problems. In an unprecedented (for him) run of promiscuity, Ty has managed to impregnate three women in the span of one week: his ex-girlfriend, his 40-something, married next-door neighbor, and his 18-year-old student. In this edgy comedy by playwright Rajiv Joseph, Ty's problems illuminate every triumph and failure
Title: Almost, Maine
Author: Cariani, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2007
Description:
roy romantic comedy nineteen characters two male; two female (doubling, flexible casting) two acts
On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night’s dream. Title: Alone Together A comedy in two acts Author: Roman, Lawrence Publisher: Samuel French 1983
Description:
roy comedy - family relations - Little Theatre six characters two male; four female two acts
interior set.
"About a middle aged couple who children have finally left the nest. They are alone together - but not for long. All three sons come charging back home after experiencing some hard knocks in the real world - and Mom and Dad have quite a time pushing them out again."
Title: Always a Bridesmaid
Author: Jones, Jessie Hope, Nicholas Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2013
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; six characters six female two acts
Also written by Jamie Wooten.
In this hilarious comedic romp, four friends have sworn to keep the promise they made on the night of their Senior Prom: to be in each other's weddings…no matter what. More than thirty years later, these Southern friends-for-life are still making "the long walk" for each other, determined to honor that vow. Libby Ruth, the hopeful romantic with the perfect marriage, believes—in spite of
Title: Amazons and Their Men
Author: Harrison, Jordan Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy dark comedy - World War II four characters two male; two female two acts
The Frau used to direct beautiful films for a fascist government. Now she's trying to make a film that's simply beautiful. The Frau casts herself in the lead role of the Amazon queen Penthesilea, who falls in love with Achilles on the battlefield of the Trojan War. She recruits a man from the Jewish ghetto to play her Achilles. Her own sister, a long-suffering extra, plays all the nameless Amazons killed in the background. With chariot crashes and adoring close-ups, it all has the makings of a glamorous war. But when telegrams start to arrive from the Minister of Propaganda, it Title: Another Two-Hander or Two
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - acting - theatre - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts
"A comedy with a theatrical bent. Kelly deMare is a stage manager with a problem; namely the director. Is Kevin Russ inspired, intriguing or insane? Or is he just an actor/director? About directors, actors, stage managers and designers and what happens when the play becomes personal."
Title: Antigone in New York
Author: Glowacki, Janusz Publisher: Samuel French 1997
Description:
roy comedy - dark four characters three male; one female two acts
"About a homeless Puerto Rican woman who wants to steal the body of her lover from Potter's Field and re-bury it in a New York City park. She and her accomplices, two homeless Eastern European refugees, end up with the wrong body and a myriad of problems."
Title: Any Wednesday
Author: Resnik, Muriel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1966
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
When a businessman is given a company's executive suite for his overnight stay, he stumbles upon the company president's mistress who is living there. When the president's wife is given the key to the suite for a rest from shopping, she stumbles upon what she thinks is a happy couple and invites them to dinner with her husband. True identities are revealed, however, and all concerned stand to lose everything until the young woman decides she does not like being a tax deduction and leaves with the businessman. Title: Apartment 3A
Author: Daniels, Jeff Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000
Description:
roy comedy - romance five characters four male; one female two acts
flexible set.
Reeling from the loss of what she thought was the love of her life, Annie Wilson searches for a reason to hope again with a mysterious next-door neighbor who teaches her what it truly means to be in love forever.
Title: Appetite
Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2000
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - human nature - fantasy - relationships - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
"Sam and Alice accept an invitation to dinner...but who, exactly , are their hosts? Victor and Tanya seem welcoming enough, but as the evening progresses events start to take an hilariously sinister turn...
Title: Around the Clock
Author: Hall, Nick Publisher: Samuel French 2003
Description:
roy comedy all female cast: six characters six female two acts
A medieval German clock with life-sized moving figures of a saint, an angel, a knight and a wicked pagan queen has been acquired by a small American town, and six women want to stage a publicity event: an enactment of the movements of this amazing clock. The relationships among the ladies are nearly as intricate as the clockworks: two have been married to the same man, the young teacher is after another's husband and, of course, the ex-show girl wants to star. Polly, who is hosting a rehearsal, finds having her bossy adult daughter living in her house again Title: Aspirin and Elephants A romantic comedy in two acts Author: Mayer, Jerry Publisher: Samuel French 1992
Description:
roy comedy - Little Theatre - family relations - relationships six characters three male; three female two acts
Here is a hilarious romantic comedy bursting with witty dialogue about a couple who take their two daughters and their husbands on a cruise from Copenhagen to St. Petersburg. Before the boat docks, the course of all three marriages changes drastically and unpredictably in a laugh-filled, comedy that enjoys record breaking runs in theatre after theatre.
Title: Asuncion
Author: Eisenberg, Jesse Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2012
Description:
roy comedy - friendship - racism four characters three male; one female two acts
flexible set.
Edgar and Vinny are not racist. In fact, Edgar maintains a blog condemning American imperialism, and Vinny is three-quarters into a Ph.D. in Black Studies. When a young Filipina woman named Asuncion becomes their new roommate, the boys have a perfect opportunity to demonstrate how open-minded they truly are. Jesse Eisenberg's hilarious and heartbreaking play explores the
Title: Automatic Pilot
Author: Ritter, Erika Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters three male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
A stand-up comic discovers that unhappiness is the source of her creative and comic powers. An expose of modern relationships.
Winner, 1980 Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Title: Baby Blues, The
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 1999
Description:
roy comedy - satire - Native peoples six characters three male; three female two acts
"Drew Hayden Taylor's highly wrought farce of patrimony in a politically correct, post-colonial milieu of 'fancy dancers' of every stripe on the Pow Wow Trail."
Winner of the Alaska State University Playwrights Award.
Title: Baby Sitter, The
Author: Galvin, Randolph W. Publisher: Samuel French 1973
Description:
roy comedy five characters one male; four female two acts
Beth wants their first night out after their baby's arrival to be a big event. Her husband, Roy, who's been celibate for too long wants his own "big event" after the big event. But the baby sitter doesn't show up, so Roy goes for a takeout dinner while Beth lights candles and puts out wine. When Roy returns, Beth apparently angry, rushes past him stating she's going to her mothers. A bewildered Roy worries about caring for the baby, but Babs, the voluptuous 16 year old baby sitter, finally shows up. Roy's relief turns to dismay when Babs assumes the romantic setting is for
Title: Bachelor Pad, The
Author: Galvin, Randolph W. Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
'Workman making repairs in a luxury apartment booby traps electronic devices that activate soft music, bar, etc., when he discovers that his daughter is date of "lover boy" owner of bachelor pad.' Title: Banana Boys
Author: Woo, Terry Aureus, Leon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; five characters five male five acts
Leon Aureus' adaptation of Terry Woo's novel "Banana Boys".
"Banana Boys" is a smart, contemporary and wickedly funny play about five young Asian-Canadian men wrestling with the issues of race, identity and the death of a friend. it is one story, fragmented into five and reconstructed throughout the course of their lives. Banana Boys is a "meditation for the restless" and a call to anyone who has felt out of place in this world.
Title: Bannock Republic
Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011
Description:
roy comedy - Native peoples - Canadian - Native playwright four characters two male; two female (doubling possible) two acts
Find out what yoga, residential schools and the missing thirteenth floors have in common in this comedy by Kenneth T. WIlliams. BANNOCK REPUBLIC reunites the cousins Jacob and Isaac Thunderchild 10 years after the mayhem of THUNDERSTICK, This time a beautiful and vengeful third-part manager will wreak havoc with their lives. Jacob is working as a video journalist and barely clinging to his sobriety. Isaac is now chief of their reserve and trying to get the band out of debt. Destiny Charles, appointed to take over the band's finances, will make Jacob and Isaac
Title: Barefoot in the Park
Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Samuel French 1964
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female three acts
When a conservative young lawyer and his new bride, a devoted but scatterbrained young lady occupy their new high rent attic apartment chosen by the bride, they have to learn to contend with the leak in the skylight, their crazy neighbours, and their great but not irreconcilable differences. Title: Barrel Full Of Pennies, A
Author: Patrick, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1971
Description:
roy comedy - farce six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A young girl, who is embarrassed by her eccentric family, convinces the family to try and appear 'normal' on the day she invites the man she loves to dinner. When this man stands her up, she realizes that she loves her family exactly as it is.
Title: Based on a Totally True Story
Author: Aguirre-Sacasa, Roberto Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2008
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female two acts
A contemporary comedy that moves at the speed of lightning, BASED ON A TOTALLY TRUE STORY chronicles the hilarious, bittersweet misadventures of twenty-something New Yorker Ethan Keene. A semi-successful comic book writer by day (he writes The Flash for DC Comics) and struggling playwright by night, Ethan's world is turned upside down when a veteran Hollywood producer decides she wants to turn one of Ethan's unproduced plays into a big-budget horror movie—possibly starring Nicole Kidman. With that tasty carrot clouding his vision, Ethan
Title: Baskerville A Sherlock Holmes mystery Author: Ludwig, Ken Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy comedy - farce - murder mystery - friendship five characters four male; one female two acts
running time: 120 minutes
Get your deerstalker cap on the play’s afoot! Comedic genius Ken Ludwig transforms Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure. Sherlock Holmes is on the case. The male heirs of the Baskerville line are being dispatched one by one. To find their ingenious killer, Holmes and Watson must brave the desolate moors before a Title: Bastard (Once Removed), A
Author: MacKillop, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
"An Albertan yields his economic power to his Nova Scotia relatives after they lead him via the graveyard to doubt his own legitimacy."
Title: Bat Masterson's Last Regular Job
Author: Ballantyne, Bill Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - western five characters four male; one female two acts
An aging hero of the Old West flails against his fading reputation in turn-of-the-century Manhattan. He is offered a celebrity appearance at a second-rate boxing match and, viewing this as his salvation, he grabs at it passionately. But sports heros have replaced those of the Wild West and the once-dapper gunslinger who made Crazy Horse dance suffers the final humiliation. This is a compelling vision of the human condition.
Title: Bathory
Author: King, Moynan Publisher: Broken Jaw Press 2000
Description:
roy comedy - dark - historical - LGBTQ+ all female cast; four characters four female two acts
" 'Bathory' is a darkly comic portrayal of the life and crimes of the 17th Century's infamous "Blood Countess," Erzsebet Bathory (Elizabeth Bathory) of Hungary. King's hit play blends gothic wonder with black humor while exposing contemporary obsessions with power, female sexuality, and the lure of magic. 'Bathory was both applauded and reviled for laying bare the truth of female violence. Then there's the play's romantic core - a beautifully constructed lesbian love triangle. 'Bathory', like it's Title: Be My Baby
Author: Ludwig, Ken Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy comedy multiple characters three male; three female (doubling) two acts
The play tells the story of John, an irascible Scotsman and an uptight English woman, Maude, both in their late 50s, who take on the journey of a lifetime. They are brought together when his ward marries her niece. Then, when the young couple decides to adopt a new born baby, the older couple has to travel 6,000 miles to California to pick up the child and bring her safely home to Scotland. The problem is, John and Maude despise each other. To make matters worse, they get stranded in San Francisco for several weeks and are expected to jointly care for the helpless
Title: Beau Jest
Author: Sherman, James Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy comedy - romance - relationships six characters four male; two female two acts
"Sarah Goldman is a nice Jewish girl with a big problem. Sarah's parents want Sarah to settle down with a nice Jewish boy - but her boyfriend, whom they have never met, is a waspy account executive named Chris Kringle. To mollify her parents, Sarah has told them that she is dating a nice Jewish boy - a doctor, no less - named David Steinberg. Well, Sarah's parents keep pressing her to introduce them to her beau, so she plans a dinner party for her parents and Dr. Steinberg. Now, she has to find a "Dr. Steinberg."
Title: Bedside Manners
Author: Benfield, Derek Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy comedy - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts
"When Ferris reluctantly agreed to look after his sister's seedy country inn during her holiday, he did not foresee the wild comings and goings that were to burst upon him on a single spring evening. Ferris is engulfed in lies, confusions and bewilderments as he tries to capitalize on preventing the inevitable meetings of husbands, wives and lovers in assorted compromising situations." Title: Bell, Book And Candle
Author: Van Druten, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1951
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
A young witch who is attracted to a man who is engaged to her rival casts a spell on the man which causes him to fall in love with her. The witch ultimately falls in love with the man and must decide whether to give up her powers or her love.
Title: Bella Donna A dark comedy in two acts Author: Copelin, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy dark comedy - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts
Excommunicated by her father's successor as Pope, weary of her husband's infidelities, the infamous Lucrezia Borgia finds passion with Giovanni, a young soldier she meets while both are in disguise. As war looms, the inexorable law of unintended consequences reveals a long-buried secret that tests everyone in the play. Sharp, satiric, full of hot-blooded characters, David Copelin's Bella Donna creates a dramatic world where religious faith takes surprising forms, lies fuel history, and gossip might as well be truth.
Title: Berlin Blues, The
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
A German conglomerate puts up $64 million for a theme park called Ojibway World. Their dream requires stepping on certain native traditions and offers temporary gains for what would be permanent losses of dignity. The Germans display ignorance of the culture, suggesting caribou and Rocky Mountain features, neither of these being indigenous to the Ojibway's region. If one needs an innocuous night of theatre, this can be taken as a series of funny events. Those hoping for something deeper can find allegories and metaphors pointing through history. Title: Beside Yourself
Author: Hall, Nick Publisher: Samuel French 1976
Description:
roy comedy - relationships eight characters two male; two female; doubling two acts
The ultimate mistaken identity comedy! Four actors each play two parts twins. Some married, some single, all amusingly characterized are at a motel for a study of human behavior. What a study! It takes only one twin wanting an extra marital fling to set off a hilarious chain reaction. Not only is there predictable, farcical confusion, but also a stunning surprise. A comic tour de force about who we are now.
Title: Between Yourself and Me
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - romance - Alberta playwright seven characters two male; two female (doubling) two acts
sequel to "The Red King's Dream" and prequel to "The Raven and the Writing Desk".
Determined to help her socially awkward best friend Steven find love, Amy sets him up on one disastrous date after another. But by the time Amy discovers she is actually in love with Steven, it may be too late.
Title: Bingo Babes
Author: Duarte, Isabel Publisher: Samuel French 2002
Description:
roy comedy - women five characters two male; three female two acts
'Two female bingo players under pressure to improve themselves.' Title: Bingo!
Author: Stratton, Allan Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy farce - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
David Pearce, Associate Professor of English, is giving a tutorial to a pretty coed who aspires to the lofty heights of poetical inspiration - and to romance. David is fending her off when the department chairman's wife barges in with plans to make her husband jealous by telling him she is having a torrid affair with David. David is shocked (and worried about his tenure review). He is even more shocked when the chairman arrives, boiling, and finds his wife in one room and the love-smitten coed in another. Matters become hilariously complicated until David finally manages
Title: Bingo!
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
Five classmates come together for their thirtieth high-school reunion. Some see it as a welcome trip home, while others see it as an obligation, and a few never even left. But as the night wears on, the one-time classmates start to reconnect and reminisce. And the more alcohol that’s consumed the closer the friends come to confronting their darkest secrets. Once again, Daniel MacIvor proves to us that just because we’re all grown up doesn’t mean we have everything figured out. His characters are sometimes naive, often crass, but always honest. As they try to
Title: Birds of a Feather
Author: Acito, Marc Publisher: Samuel French 2013
Description:
roy comedy - animals - LGBTQ+ twenty-five characters three male; one female (doubling possible) two acts
cast can be enlarged up to twenty-two actors.
"Birds of a Feather" recounts the story of Roy and Silo, the two Central Park Zoo male chinstrap penguins who partnered, adopted an egg, hatched and raised a chick together.
Winner of the 2012 Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play. Title: Birthday Party, The
Author: Pinter, Harold Publisher: Samuel French 1959
Description:
roy tragicomedy six characters four male; two female one act
'After birthday party for their only lodger, old country couple watch disturbed lodger dragged away from the home by two mysterious visitors.'
Title: Birthday Suite
Author: Hawdon, Robin Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
Geoff Tippett has arranged a special birthday treat for his old stick-at-home friend Bob, whose marriage is fast approaching the rocks. The treat is a hotel room for the night with a very attractive girl called Mimi who happens to be a little late... Add also a shy Kate who anxiously awaits her computer-agency date for the evening-Dick, a psychiatrist who has been shown into the wrong room; Bob's wife Liz, who believes she is dining with Geoff; and, most important of all, a connecting door between the two rooms which has inadvertenly been left unlocked. Comic
Title: Blackpool and Parrish
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1998
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
"A fast-paced comedy about Good, Evil, Destiny, Free Will, Family, and the End of the World. Harry Blackpool is the representative of all that is Evil on the planet Earth. Rachel Parrish represents the Good. After two thousand years of rivalry they are ready to pass their roles to their children. With the Apocalypse due tomorrow at tea time, is there any way to save the world? And doesn't humanity get any say in the matter?" Title: Blacks Don't Bowl
Author: Haynes, Vadney S. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - racism - censorship six characters four male; two female two acts
What do you do when your vision of the world and yourself is shaken to the core? When two Black Montreal artists create a show from images of pimps, thugs and dancehall queens, community leader Frank Simmons is outraged and tries to censor the demeaning images. What else is a man who is highly opinionated—especially about being Black and the Black experience—to do? What Frank does not count on is art’s ability to transform as he is forced to confront himself in a way that is both disturbing and revealing. Little will be the same afterwards for Frank, the artists, and
Title: Blame it on Beckett
Author: Publisher: Samuel French 2012
Description:
roy comedy - American - playwriting four characters two male; two female two acts
Heidi Bishop is a wide-eyed dramaturgy intern, eager to better American drama. What she encounters instead is an endless stream of bad scripts by desperate playwrights and an office filled with cynicism and turf battles, led by her bitterly hilarious boss Jim Foley. When Heidi's efforts to improve things run into unintended consequences, she is forced to confront idealism with reality to save her career, reputation, and relationships.
Title: Blind Dates
Author: Fuerstenberg, Anna Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy comedy - drama - youth - social issues - high school six characters three male; three female two acts
"Young adults attempt to deal with fears of the future, including unemployment, lack of communication, birth control and nuclear war". Title: Bloodline; or, Hanged in Their Own Family Tree A sing-along musical melodrama Author: Dunlop, Richard S. Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy comedy - romantic melodrama four characters two male; two female two scenes
running time: 75 min.
'(The play) is thoroughly modern but with a traditional plot: orphaned, innocent damsel prefers honest young fellow but is pursued by wealthy physician. Everthing's settled by a surprisingly liberated "Granny". It's a satirical delight with a preposterous story requiring outrageous overacting and proper villainy of course.'
Title: Bloody Murder
Author: Sala, Ed Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2012
Description:
roy comedy - mystery - high school eight characters three male; three female (doubling); can be expanded to six male; six female two acts
A group of the usual British murder-mystery types gather for a weekend retreat at the sumptuous country estate of the esteemed Lady Somerset. There's the major who served in India; the inebriated, fading actor; the innocent ingénue; the exotic lady in red; the mysterious Chinese gentleman; the rich dowager aunt; and her faithful maid and worthless nephew. Suddenly, one of them dies of poison! Well, of course. Oh, what fun! But wait … Her Ladyship refuses to summon the police! She says she won't go through all this, again. All what, again? And why were they all
Title: Blues, The
Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female ten scenes
1 interior set.
Four B-movie types play out their tenuous lives in a dingy bar. A pathetic and hilarious account of losers always hoping to win. Title: Boeing-Boeing
Author: Camoletti, Marc translated by Beverley Cross Publisher: Evans Brothers 1967
Description:
roy farce - bachelorhood six characters two male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
A bachelor avoids marriage, yet has the advantages of the institution, by becoming engaged to three stewardesses from three different airlines.
Title: Bomb-itty of Errors, The
Author: Allen-Dutton, Jordan Catalano, Jason Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy musical comedy - adaptation all male cast; twenty-one characters four male (doubling) one act (long)
simple set; running time: 1 1/2 hours; part play and part rap concert.
"The Bomb-itty of Errors" is an award-winning Ad-Rap-Tation, hip-hop theatre retelling of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors". Refreshingly current but retaining the integrity of the original.
Title: Book Club
Author: Da Silva, Kristen Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - friendship - romance six characters three male; three female two acts
running time: 80 min.
Josh joined Book Club to get close to Annie. Small issue: Annie is oblivious to Josh's feelings for her... and she's engaged to another man. When Josh's two buddies - a womanizing trainer and a heartbroken nerd - realize book club is a novel place to meet women, the ensuing gathering makes for a fast-paced comedy about friendship, first impressions, and figuring out what we Title: Bootycandy
Author: O'Hara, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 2014
Description:
roy satire - dramatic comedy - LGBTQ+ twenty-two characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
unit set; period - 1970s to present day.
Robert O'Hara's semi-biographical subversive comedy tells the story of Sutter, who is on an outrageous odyssey through his childhood home, his church, dive bars, motel rooms, and even nursing homes. O'Hara weaves together scenes, sermons, sketches, and daring meta-theatrics to create a kaleidoscope that interconnects to portray growing up gay and black. Robert O'Hara’s
Title: Bordertown Cafe
Author: Rebar, Kelly Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1987
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
In a small family-run "bordertown" cafe, Jimmy faces the most important decisions of his life. Caught between his Canadian mother and his American father, he must decide where he wants to live - and who he really is.
Title: boxhead
Author: O'Donnell, Darren Publisher: Coach House Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters one male; one female (doubling) seventeen scenes
Darren O’Donnell’s acclaimed play [boxhead] is a dizzying journey of ideas. It begins with the premise that young geneticist Dr. Thoughtless Actions wakes up one morning to discover that he has a box on his head. Thoughtless clones himself to create Dr. Wishful Thinking while the disembodied god-like narrator manages to clone himself as well. The two actors provide all four voices. Title: BoyGroove
Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy comedy - music - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male two acts
Jersey Boy meets Altar Boyz, with this look back at the life and times of the world's biggest Boy Band. Dripping with pop culture references, full of infectious melodies, this toe tapping pop culture manifesto explores what happens when young Lance Treble is found in a gay sex scandal, and homophobic rapper Hypetastic makes a meal of it.
Title: Boys
Author: Hickson, Ella Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2012
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female three acts
The Class of 2011 are about to graduate and Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their flat. Stepping into a world that doesn’t want them, these boys start to wonder whether there’s any point in getting any older. How will they find the fight to make it as adults? Before all that they’re going to have one hell of a party. It’s hot and there’ll be girls. Predict a riot.
Title: Bravado
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1988
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy five characters four male; one female two acts
"Little guys Ray and Wes attempt to take control of their lives. The result is a bungled robbery which accidentally escalates into blackmail and hostage-taking." Title: Breakfast with Les and Bess
Author: Kalcheim, Lee Publisher: Samuel French
Description:
roy comedy - domestic relations six characters four male; two female two acts
'Married couple's radio talkshow is cancelled with disastrous effects on marriage and family.'
Title: Breaking Legs
Author: Dulack, Tom Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1992
Description:
roy comedy - gangsters six characters five male; one female two acts
"The action occurs in an Italian restaurant owned by a successful mobster and managed by his beautiful unmarried daughter. When the daughter's former college professor arrive to ask for financial backing for a play he's written about a murder, the fun begins. The three main Mafiosi are intrigued with the idea of producing a play. The daughter becomes enamored of the playwright, who is delighted to have the family's support. His bubble is burst when he discovers, through the 'accidental' death by train of a lesser thug, that his backers are gangsters."
Title: Bullshot Crummond
Author: House, Ron White, Diz Publisher: Samuel French 1974
Description:
roy comedy - farce - detectives five characters three male; two female two acts
"A parody of low-budget 30s detective movies. Teutonic villain Otto von Brunno and his evil mistress crash their plane in the countryside and kidnap Professor Fenton who has discovered a formula for making synthetic diamonds. Bullshot Crummond is called to the rescue. Otto paralyzes Crummond with a fiendish ray. He rams a stick of dynamite in Crummond's mouth which will explode when the next person enters the room. Rosemary enters, but the static electricity in her fur wrap averts the detonation. They sneak into the dungeons where the professor is being Title: Burn This
Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Hill and Wang 1987
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters three male; one female two acts
"The place is a Manhattan loft shared by Anna and her two gay roommates - Robby, who has just been killed in a freak boating accident, and Larry, a caustically funny young advertising executive. As the play begins Anna is recovering from attending Robby's funeral, comforted by her wealthy, well-meaning boyfriend, Burton, whose persistent proposals of marriage Anna finds herself unable to accept. With unexpected explosiveness, Robby's older brother, Pale bursts on the scene. He has come to collect his brother's belongings - but stays on to transform the action of
Title: Butcher's Apron, The
Author: Tidler, Charles Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters four male; two female two acts
open stage.
August Strindberg falls in love with the young feminist theatre critic, Frida Uhl, and they attempt to forge a new kind of marriage wherein the Feminist and the Superman may co-exist as partners, lovers and equals. But through an experiment in alchemy, Strindberg has become two people and his doppelganger is out for blood.
Title: Butler Did It, The A Comedy Thriller Author: Marks, Walter Marks, Peter Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1981
Description:
roy comedy - thriller six characters four male; two female two acts
"The scene is the set where Anthony J. Lefcourt, writer and director, is rehearsing his new play, a classic whodunit with which he hopes to regain all the success which has eluded him in recent seasons. Desperately eager to stimulate his cast to their best efforts, he has deliberately withheld the final scene of the play from them, but his patience is worn thin by the petty jealousies and romantic rivalries which detract from their concentration. In an effort to spur them on he stages the murder of one of the actresses, after which the plot begins to twist and turn with such Title: Butterflies Are Free
Author: Gershe, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1969
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A blind young bachelor who is attempting to declare his independence to his overprotective mother by moving into his own apartment, is supported in his stand by his neighbor, a young divorce actress who believes in total freedom.
Title: Buz'Gem Blues, The
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2002
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - stereotypes - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
The third play in Taylor's ongoing zany, outrageous, often farcical examination of both native and non-native stereotypes. As absurdly claustrophobic as "Gilligan's Island", Taylor is pulling some of our most revered icons - European anthropologists, their native elder informants and their militant young warrior critics - off their pedestals. This is a play about how our ritualized and institutionalized systems of maintaining and policing clichés prevents us from recognizing our common humanity in each other.
Title: Bye Bye Baby
Author: Gasco, Elyse Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Canadian - family relations all female cast; five characters five female twenty-eight scenes
"Inspired by Gasco's award-winning collection of short stories, Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? It's the journey of a young woman, Elle, and her mission to uncover the truth about her birth mother. Elle struggles to make sense of her own life and identity, her complicated relationships with her adoptive mother and her own growing fetus. The audience shares in the intimate realities of Elle's early pregnancy, in her rage at the uncertainty that is her legacy, and in her frustrations as she butts up against the bureaucratic red-tape that provides the only route to her origins." Title: Canada and the Theatre of War v. 2 Contemporary wars Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy - collection - Canadian - war
This second volume of Canadian war drama focuses on plays about contemporary warfare.
includes: Game of Patience - Abla Farhoud (translated by Jill Mac Dougall) A Line In the Sand - Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef The Monument - Colleen Wagner Palace of the End - Judith Thompson Scorched - Wajdi Mouawad (translated by Linda Gaboriau) Man Out of Joint - Sharon Pollock
Title: Caravan
Author: Macdonald, Donald Publisher: Currency Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - friendship six characters three male; three female two acts
Caravan takes a lighthearted look at friendship, age and holidays that you should never have. Five best friends, nudging forty and hating it, take their first holiday together in a caravan. One of them brings along his new and all-too-young girlfriend, who threatens the holiday from the start. In the confined space of a caravan, tensions rise and the laughs begin.
Title: Cariboo Magi
Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2002
Description:
roy comedy - theatre - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
running time: 110 minutes
'A drunken Anglican minister, an avarice saloon owner, a pregnant dancing girl and a man who claims to be the last of the Mohicans form a bedraggled troupe of desperate players. They head north, from San Diego, through the wilds of the Cariboo gold rush to perform a Christmas Pageant for the Theatre Royal in Barkerville, B.C., with hilarious results.' Title: Catering Queen, The
Author: Lawrence, Alison Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Christmas six characters three male; three female two acts
Welcome to Henderson Tessier McGuire & Smythe’s annual Christmas cocktail party, held at the gracious home of managing partner George Smythe and his lovely wife Buffy. It’s The Catering Gig From Hell. Behind the scenes is Melanie, McKinley Catering’s supervisor, plating up hors d’oeuvres and juggling her career as a writer, her ex-boyfriend’s appearance on the arm of a gorgeous young lawyer and her friends’ expectations. Oh, and Cynthia’s there too, an actress not so happy to be wearing the catering bowtie, sniping at their old roommate Timothy, who’s making
Title: Catfish Moon
Author: Sartin, Laddy Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1997
Description:
roy comedy - friendship four characters three male; one female two acts
suggested for high school.
The old fishing pier out on the end of Cypress Lake has just fallen under the magic of another Catfish Moon. It was the favorite hangout for three best friends when they were kids—skipping school, skinny dipping and even experiencing the mysteries of kissing girls. Now Curley, Gordon and Frog are older, and the pressures and problems that come with middle age have eroded the
Title: Cemetery Club, The
Author: Menchell, Ivan Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy comedy - Jewish - relationships six characters one male; five female two acts
"Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to the cemetery to visit their husbands' graves. Ida is sweet-tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene." Title: Centenarian Rhyme
Author: Bernier, Alexis Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
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Title: Chalk Boy, The
Author: Conkel, Joshua Publisher: Original Works 2008
Description:
roy black comedy all female cast; four characters four female two acts
Beneath its boring facade there is more going on in the tiny town of Clear Creek than the opening of the new Taco Bell. Four of the town's local girls are here to take you on a tour of their funny, yet brutal reality. They struggle with faith, friendship, sex, the occult, algebra, and the disappearance of... The Chalk Boy. This is a deathly black comedy that punches as hard as your high school bully.
Title: Chapter Two
Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
unit set.
A man who has recently lost his wife is constantly being set up for dates by his well intentioned brother. One of the dates is an equally reluctant divorcee and the surprise of everyone, the two hit it off. The relationship is full of ups and downs as they try to adjust to past and present lives. Title: Chase Me Up Farndale Avenue, s'il vous plaît!
Author: McGillivray, David Zerlin Jr., Walter Publisher: Samuel French 1994
Description:
roy comedy five characters one male; four female two acts
Le farce français est arrivée à l'Avenue de Farndale! Bubbling et sparkling comme une glasse de champagne, ces femmes formidables (et nearly fatales peut-être?) of the F.A.H.E.T.G.D.S. and leur chef d'étage, Gordon, fizz leur way avec panache et élan (et n'oublié pas de mention éclat), entre un plot unintelligible, un plethora de portes, et un grand range de characteurs. Oo-la-la, le show-stopping moment de Thelma... mais dire quelque chose else would spoilé le surprise - ah quelle suprise! - veritable Le Showbiz avec un grand Z. Vive les dames de Farndale!
Title: Cheaters
Author: Jacobs, Michael Publisher: Samuel French 1982
Description:
roy comedy - family relations - marital relations six characters three male; three female two acts
"Two young people, living together, are confused about the value of marriage. They would seek help from their parents, but they are unaware that their parents are unaware that they are having affairs with the parents of their children's lovers. The children decide an introductory dinner between the families might be apropos to discuss whether loyalty to one another in life is worthwhile anymore. But once introductions are made, it⇡s everyone for himself."
Title: Cheever Evening, A A new play based on the stories of John Cheever Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995
Description:
roy comedy - American six characters three male; three female two acts
"John Cheever, master chronicler of America's post-war angst and alienation, and how it affected a burgeoning suburban class, left a storehouse of dramatic possibilities in his fiction, largely unexplored purely by dint of his chosen artistic medium: prose. In A Cheever Evening, Gurney brings to light these possibilities through his mastery of stagecraft. Adapting no less than seventeen of Cheever's most funny and moving of stories, Gurney probes the affairs of that set of people (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) who once felt in the majority, but soon found themselves Title: Christmas on Mars
Author: Kondoleon, Harry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1983
Description:
roy Christmas - farce four characters two male; two female two acts
"Set in a bright, starkly bare apartment, the action centers on a young couple, Bruno and Audrey, who are planning to marry now that Audrey is pregnant. In order to pay the rent Bruno has invited Audrey's mother, Ingrid, to move in with them, but he has not prepared for the unexpected arrival of his lifelong friend Nissim who, upon learning of the expected birth, announces that he will also stay on."
Title: Claptrap
Author: Friedman, Ken Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy farce five characters two male; three female two acts
'Farce focusing on outrageous events in lives of two roomates, one a failed author, the other a failed actor.'
Title: Clean House, The
Author: Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy comedy - women - political issues seven characters one male; four female (doubling) two acts
"Sarah Ruhl’s comedy about a physician with a cheating husband and a housekeeper who hates to clean."
2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. MacArthur "Genius" Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist. Title: Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (Cor, Blimey!) Author: Johnson, Terry Publisher: Methuen Drama 1998
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female four acts
Filming's not as glamorous as it's cracked up to be. It's a bit of a miserable business of your caravan leaks, your co-star's a manic depressive, and those younger women aren't so young anymore. Carrying on in the great tradition of British comedy, (this) new play takes some familiar faces and gets a bit familiar with them.
Title: Clouds
Author: Frayn, Michael Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1977
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female two acts
representative set.
Two English journalists on assignment to Cuba for rival newspapers find themselves thrown together with an interpreter, a chauffeur, and a guide who takes them to all the proper places to be covered.
Title: Clout
Author: Young, David Publisher: Coach House Press 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy five characters two male; one female (doubling) two acts
CLOUT is an expressionistic comedy; the play takes place inside the head of a dying man on a morphine drip. Lionel K. Biggar, newspaper baron and megalomaniac, and Trent, a burnt-out liberal journalist formerly in Biggar's employ, are kidnapped from a shareholder's meeting by Eve, a shape-shifting terrorist and nemesis. Chained back to back in a dungeon cell, the two men find themselves in a nebulous zone where ideological mind games are the order of the day. The stakes of these games? One man's sanity, and, perhaps, the future itself. Title: Clue in the Fast Lane
Author: Cooper, Beverley MacDonald, Ann-Marie Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - mystery many characters three male; three female (doubling) three acts
"Who's the girl who cracks the case with every Titian hair in place?" It's Nancy Prew, the relentlessly perky teen detective! Nancy's time-travel adventures are the mystery at the heart of Clue in the Fast Lane. Beverley Cooper and Ann Marie MacDonald's script is a witty spoof of Carolyn Keene's popular Nancy Drew mysteries, which generations of 20th-century girls grew up devouring. It's 1955, and Nancy's just completed law school, but her father thinks she's more suited to being a legal secretary than a practising lawyer. She declines a marriage proposal from
Title: Cockeyed
Author: Downs, William Missouri Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy comedy - romance four characters three male; one female two acts
interiors.
Phil, an average nice guy, is madly in love with the beautiful Sophia. The only problem is that she's unaware of his existence. He tries to introduce himself but she looks right through him. When Phil discovers Sophia has a glass eye, he thinks that might be the problem, but soon realizes that she really can't see him. Perhaps he is caught in a philosophical hyperspace or
Title: Cocktail Hour, The
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy comedy - family relations four characters two male; two female two acts
The time is the mid '70s, the place a city in upstate New York. John, a playwright, returns to his family's house, bringing with him a new play which he has written about them. His purpose is to obtain their permission to proceed with production, but his wealthy, very proper parents are cautious from the outset. For them the theatre is personified by the gracious, comforting era of the Lunts and Ina Claire, and they are disturbed by the bluntness of modern plays. And there is also John's sister, Nina, to contend with, although her reservations have to do with the fact that Title: Collaborators
Author: Mortimer, John Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1973
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
When a film producer asks a young barrister who also is a struggling writer to write a film script about his marriage, the writer finds that reality and fiction are often difficult to separate.
Title: Communicating Doors
Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1999
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female full length
"A London Sex-specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her, compliments of a unique set of hotel doors, traveling back in time. She and two women who were murdered in 1998 and 1978 race back and forth in time trying ro rewrite history and prevent their own violent ends."
Title: Consider the Oyster
Author: MacGregor, David Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2013
Description:
roy comedy - love - gender - sexuality four characters two males; three females (doubling possible) two acts
When Gene breaks his leg after proposing to girlfriend Marisa, he begins to feel some odd changes. It turns out the oyster shell that the doctor left in his leg to assist with his healing is causing him to slowly transition into a female -- just the way an oyster does. Can Gene learn to live his life as a different gender, and will he -- or she -- be able to feel the same for his fiancee? "Consider the Oyster" is a funny and surprising exploration of gender and our changeable human nature. Title: Corpse!
Author: Moon, Gerald Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy farce - comic thriller four characters three male; one female two acts
2 interior sets.
Set in London in 1936, this 'whodunnit' farce is about twin brothers. Evelyn, and eccentric out-of-work actor plots to have his wealthy brother Rupert killed. Evelyn engages the genial Irishman Powell, with a shady past, to do the dirty deed. Meanwhile, Evelyn's plotting is constantly interrupted by his love-starved landlady. Things do not go as planned and people are
Title: Country House, The
Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - actors - family relations six characters three male; three female three acts
A brood of famous and longing-to-be-famous creative artists have gathered at their summer home during the Williamstown Theatre Festival. When the weekend takes an unexpected turn, everyone is forced to improvise, inciting a series of simmering jealousies, romantic outbursts, and passionate soul-searching. Both witty and compelling, THE COUNTRY HOUSE provides a piercing look at a family of performers coming to terms with the roles they play in each other’s lives.
Title: Coyote Ugly
Author: Siefert, Lynn Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1986
Description:
roy tragicomedy - family relations five characters two male; three female thirteen scenes
'Son brings wife to rural Southwest to visit his eccentric, hateful family.' Title: Crabdance
Author: Simons, Beverley Publisher: In Press 1969
Description:
roy tragicomedy - Canadian four characters three male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
A tragicomedy in which a lonely woman plays elaborate, ritualistic games with three men forced to play her son, her husband, and her lover.
Title: Credeaux Canvas, The
Author: Bunin, Keith Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2002
Description:
roy tragicomedy four characters two male; two female two acts
"Can art capture the mysteries of the human soul? Keith Bunin explores this age old question with a bittersweet story about three young friends struggling to make ends meet in the East Village. Jamie convinces his roommate Winston, who has a remarkable talent for copying great artists, to forge a work in the style of a little-known French master, Credeaux. If Winston, using Jamie's girlfriend Amelia as the model, can create a Credeaux nude, the group's days of washing dishes in the bathtub will end. As their plan unfolds, more than the mysteries of the body are revealed."
Title: Creeper, The
Author: Macaulay, Pauline Publisher: Samuel French 1964
Description:
roy dark comedy all male cast; five characters five male three acts
"An enthralling psychological thriller set in the mid-sixties, The Creeper begins as a young salesman arrives at the house of a prosperous eccentric Edward Kimberly, in answer to an advertisement for a gentleman’s companion. What follows is a compelling story of elegance, wit and tightening menace." Title: Criminal Hearts
Author: Martin, Jane Publisher: Samuel French 1992
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
In total darkness, a burglar breaks into Ata's apartment. She wakes and claims to have a gun. The burglar turns on a light revealing a luxury apartment totally denuded of furniture. Ata has been cleaned out by her husband. In revenge for his philandering, she slept with his best friend and he took all of the furniture. The burglar, a female grifter, and Ata join forces to take the husband for everything. The grifter and her male partner have lost their "shimmy" the woman who pretends to the mark to have been victimized and it is clear that Ata would make an excellent replacement. She
Title: Criminals in Love
Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female nine scenes
Gail and Junior are young and in love in an urban wasteland. Junior's jailbird dad and his schizo girl-friend get them mixed up in a terrorist plot while William, the drunken philosopher, espouses the meaning of destiny.
Winner, 1984 Chalmers Canadian Play Award and Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 1985.
Title: Crossing Delancey
Author: Sandler, Susan Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy comedy - romance five characters two male; three female two acts
Isabel is a young Jewish woman who lives alone and works in a NYC bookshop. When she is not pining after a handsome author who is one of her best customers, she is visiting her grandmother who lives by herself in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Isabel is in no hurry to get married, which worries her grandmother. The delightfully nosey old lady hires an old friend who is a matchmaker. Bubbie and the matchmaker come up with a Good Catch for their Isabel - Sam, a young pickle vendor. Title: Current Economic Conditions
Author: Zolidis, Don Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2013
Description:
roy comedy - coming of age twelve characters three males; three females two acts
After losing her low-level job in the publishing industry, 26-year-old Lily has no choice but to move back in with her well-meaning but neurotic parents. A series of disastrous interviews and her parents' strict house rules have Lily feeling more like a troubled teenager than an employable young woman -- and the Justin Bieber posters in her old bedroom aren't helping. Will she find a job before she loses both her sanity and her dignity?
Title: Dali
Author: Millan, Jim Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - surrealism six characters four male; two female two acts
"A biographical look at the artist's life, his relationship with Gala, and his obsession with sex and death."
Title: Dangers of VD (Valentine's Day), The
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright - romance - relationships - Canadian six characters two male; four female three acts
Running time: 90 minutes.
Uproarious laughs mixed with social commentary against the background of Valentine's Day. Gramps and Gran yearn for the romance of yesteryear while their daughter-in-law, Paulette, and her husband deal with his lack of interest in sex. Meanwhile, Paulette's daughter is being coached to dress trampily to attract men by her Aunt Jean. A device for great comedy in The Dangers of VD Title: Day in the Death of Joe Egg, A
Author: Nichols, Peter Publisher: Faber and Faber 1967
Description:
roy comedy six characters two male; three female; one girl two acts
1 interior set.
The only way a school teacher can cope with his ten year old daughter, who is a vegetable, is through an ongoing patter of black jokes and skits. His wife overcompensates for the situation through her humanitarian endeavours and the marriage is basically falling apart.
Title: Dead Accounts
Author: Rebeck, Theresa Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2012
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
"Jack's unexpected return throws his family into a frenzy, and his sister Lorna needs answers. Is he coming home or running away? Where is his wife everyone hates? And how did he get all that money? Theresa Rebeck's new comedy tackles the timely issues of corporate greed, small town values, and whether or not your family will always welcome you back. . .with no questions asked." - nytheatre.com
Title: Dead Man's Cell Phone
Author: Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2008
Description:
roy comedy - technology six characters two male; four female two acts
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man with a lot of loose ends. So begins 'Dead Man's Cell Phone', a wildly imaginative new comedy by playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play 'The Clean House'. A work about how we memorialize the dead and how that remembering changes us. It is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed Title: Devil Inside, A
Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000
Description:
roy comedy - mystery six characters three male; three female two acts
flexible set.
Mrs. Slater has waited fourteen long years to tell her son, Gene, the truth. And when he wakes up on his twenty-first birthday, she greets him with the customary banners and good wishes, and then gets to the point. "Your father was murdered. He was stabbed in the back and his feet were lopped off and thrown into a drainage ditch." Thus begins a comic and twisted journey of
Title: Die Mommie Die!
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy parody - mystery - thriller - spoof - family relations six characters three male; three female two acts
running time: 120 minutes; interior set.
A comic melodrama that evokes the 1960’s "grande guignol" films that featured aging stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner. Ex-pop singer, Angela Andrews, is trapped in a hateful marriage with film producer Sol Sussman. Desperate to find happiness with her younger lover, an out of work TV actor, Tony Parker, Angela murders her husband with the aid of a
Title: Dining Room, The
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1982
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is comprised of a mosaic of interrelated scenes - some funny, some touching, some rueful - which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper middle class WASP. Title: Dining Room, The
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1982
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is comprised of a mosaic of interrelated scenes - some funny, some touching, some rueful - which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper middle class WASP.
Title: Dishwashers, The
Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2005
Description:
roy dramatic comedy all male cast; four characters four male two acts
Of all our contemporary urban myths none is more absurd than the fiction of the “classless society,” and Morris Panych’s latest comedy penetrates ruthlessly to the shock and horror of the residue of hardened pesto soiling its porcelain heart. Haplessly determined to have his own miserable authority vindicated, chief dishwasher Dressler presides over the steam-choked basement of an up-scale restaurant, a place of seamless existential drudgery so utterly remote from the light of day that its wage-slaves have no contact with anyone outside. Spouting an
Title: Distance from Calcutta, A
Author: Barry, P. J. Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy dramatic comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
Part of author's Jericho cycle. Comic drama set in 1923. Catholic woman's love for younger learning-disabled boarder leads to heartbreak. Title: Dolly Rockers, The
Author: Craig, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - musical - feminism all female cast; five characters five female two acts
"The year is 1974. The Dolly Rockers, an all-female rock band, set out to meet the oil rich Calgarian who has promised to back them for a record. As the band crosses Canada via seedy hotels, small town bars and high school gyms, they encounter aggressive rival bands, sexist bar owners, drugs, romance, ruthless opportunism and violent internal squabbling."
Title: Don't Dress For Dinner
Author: Camoletti, Marc Hawdon, Robin Publisher: Samuel French 1992
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - farce six characters three male; three female two acts
"In a stylishly converted French farmhouse, Bernard is hoping to entertain his chic, Parisian mistress, Suzy, for the weekend. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to furnish the gourmet delights, is in the process of packaging his wife, Jacqueline, off to her mother, and has even invited along his best friend Robert as a suitable alibi. It's foolproof, what could possibly go wrong...?"
Title: Don't Misunderstand Me
Author: Cargill, Patrick Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
This play relates the complications and misunderstandings that arise when Charles and Margery prepare to entertain Charles' s brother, Robert, and his new wife, Jane, whom they have never met. In Margery's absence, Robert arrives, without Jane, and in the course of conversation Charles reveals that despite his happy marriage he had a brief affaire, whilst in America, with Jaynie, but has successfully covered his tracks by not giving her his English address. Minutes later Jaynie arrives on the doorstep. In a panic Charles passes her off as Robert's wife, Jane, whilst pretending Title: Don't Start Without Me
Author: Rayburn, Joyce Publisher: Samuel French 1972
Description:
roy romantic comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
Arrival of newlywed couple occupying upper story of house precipitates crises in lives of couple living contentedly out of wedlock.
Title: Dream Without Bottom
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001
Description:
roy romantic comedy - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
'Forty years ago Rosalind Downey fell in love with an actor while performing "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Now he's back. Rosy colored memory collides with cold reality against a Shakespearean background in this touching comedy.'
Title: Dream World
Author: Carmichael, Fred Publisher: Samuel French 1964
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A pair of married actors who are each being blackmailed, use their theatrical backgrounds in their fantasies of how they should deal with the blackmailer. They finally get help in the form of their agent who exposes the criminal and saves all parties from grief. Title: Dreamland Saturday Nights
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1998
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - romance - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
"When a die-hard movie fan accidentally meets a film student at the Dreamland Repertory Cinema, will it be true love, or merely an illusion? Desire and film fantasy collide with hilarious and heartbreaking results. With appearances by Bogart, Bette Davis, Astaire and others."
Title: Drinking Alone
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1998
Description:
roy comedy - family relations five characters two male; three female two acts
'Joe Todd hires Renee Duchene to pose as his fiancee so that he can impress his father in this romantic comedy set in the midst of a dysfunctional family reunion.'
Title: Eastern Standard
Author: Greenberg, Richard Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
Four Manhattan yuppies strike up a friendship in a chic uptown restaurant after a bag lady involves them in an altercation. A month later, the four self-involved Manhattanites (three men and one woman), having fallen instantly in love with one another, converge at a seaside residence, hoping to alleviate their shared sense of alienation and purposelessness with a misguided attempt at rehabilitating May, the bag lady who brought them all together. In their pretense at public mindedness, they all seek either an escape from their own problems or redemption from the lives Title: Eat Your Heart Out
Author: Hall, Nick Publisher: Samuel French 1975
Description:
roy comedy - romance five characters three male; two female three acts
Aspiring actor, currently employed as waiter, stages encounters in a sucession of Manhattan restaurants.
Title: Eh?
Author: Livings, Henry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1968
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
An individualist takes a job as a boilerman but refuses to bend to the system. He comes and goes as he pleases, grows mushrooms on the job, and moves his bride in to set up house - all activities designed to frustrate his supervisors.
Title: Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, The
Author: Diaz, Kristoffer Publisher: Samuel French 2011
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - wrestling - politics - friendship all male cast; five characters five male (one non-speaking) two acts
single set; running time: 120 min.; suitable for young adults (14-18).
Mace is a professional wrestler. He's a really good professional wrestler. He's not the champion though - that's the impossible charismatic Chad Deity. When Mace discovers a young Indian-American Brooklyn kid whose charisma rivals that of the champ, Mace decides to get him a job in the company. Only problem is, the boss has a very specific plan for the duo; put them Title: Elaine's Daughter
Author: Simon, Mayo Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1988
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A funny and rueful generational comedy. The combatants are a sweet, sexy, world-wise widow and her intellectual, argumentative, twenty six year old unmarried daughter. Faced with decisions about men, each yearning for love, each trying to teach the other how to live, mother and daughter ultimately come together in an exquisite, unforgettable moment.
Title: Emptygirl
Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1998
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female two acts
running time: 90 minutes
'Timid entertainment agent, Fred, is convinced by his brash underling to sign on a controversial circus side show. His life really becomes a circus when he falls for their headlining act, the Emptygirl, who swallows objects and regurgitates them on command.'
Title: End Days
Author: Laufer, Deborah Zoe Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
Sixteen year old Rachel Stein is having a bad year. Her father hasn't changed out of his pajamas since 9/11. Her mother has begun a close, personal relationship with Jesus. Her new neighbor, a sixteen-year-old Elvis impersonator, has fallen for her hard. And the Apocalypse is coming Wednesday. Her only hope is that Stephen Hawking will save them all.
2008 American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg citation. Title: Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Author: Orton, Joe Publisher: Grove Press 1964
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
The arrival of a good looking young boarder brings on the seductiveness of the landlady, the morality of her brother and the murder of their father who recognizes the young man as his boss' murderer.
Title: Ethan Claymore
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters five male; one female two acts
'With a lot of nudging from a well-meaning friend, and a visit from his recently-deceased brother, a young widower re-enters the world and finds love and laughter.'
Title: Except For Susie Finkel
Author: Manchester, Joe Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy romantic comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
To comply with his father's deathbed wish, a confirmed bachelor marries a woman chosen by his father, then applies for annulment when his father lives, only to learn that he has become attached to his wife. Title: Exit, Pursued by Bard Variations in the key of Shakespeare Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - Shakespeare multiple characters two male; two female (doubling) two acts
A comedic cornucopia of Shakespeare inspired playlets, sketches and poems (with a wee touch of drama) make for a production rich in variety and entertainment value. The twenty scenes turn upside down Shakespearean mysteries, themes and characters. Among other things audiences discover the real reason for Prospero's island exile, the unexpected aftermath of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a backstage conflict mirroring the drama of Othello, the final fate of Banquo's ghost, the sobering tale of Romeo's Apothecary, the insurmountable problems in bringing a bear
Title: Fallen Angels
Author: Coward, Noel Publisher: Samuel French 1958
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
Two best friends, who are now happily married, panic when they learn that a Frenchman with whom they had each had an affair before their marriages, is back in London and wants to see them.
Title: False Servant
Author: Marivaux translated by Martin Crimp Publisher: Faber and Faber 2004
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six characters; extras four male; two female three acts
Love and avarice trample on the finer feelings of love in this subversive take on sexual manners and the cruelties of courtship. The man thinks that marriage is simply a matter of money and property. But just how far should the woman go to prove him wrong? A world of darker meaning lies beneath the wit and verbal exuberance of this translation of Marivaux's great comedy. Title: Fantasies At The Frick; or, The Guard And The Guardess
Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
A young male guard in his first day is so nervous about his ability to meet the requirements that he keeps fortifying himself with pills and cognac. A female guard of long standing reprimands him while encouraging him. She's so immersed in her job she's almost ecstatic about it. A boy and a girl stroll in looking for pickups. They gravitate to each other instinctively. The two guards' tenuous self-control is shakena these two trendily-attired dilettantes achieve a coupling which the guards may sneer at, but which they also envy.
Title: fareWel
Author: Ross, Ian Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - drama - Native peoples six characters four male; two female two acts
"Life is tense on the Partridge Crop Reserve. The Chief is in Las Vegas (again), the band is in receivership, and there's a move on to unilaterally declare self-government. And now that the welfare cheques have gone missing, the people of this fictional First Nation are forced to take control of their lives."
Winner of the Governor General’s Award.
Title: Farndale Ave. Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Soc. Murder Mys
Author: McGillivray, David Zerlin Jr., Walter Publisher: Samuel French - London 1981
Description:
roy comedy - murder-mystery twenty characters one male; five female (doubling) two acts
Every drama group has experienced the horrors of what can go wrong on the night and the ladies of the F.A.H.E.T.G. Dramatic Society are no different, with the possible exception that almost everything that could happen does. The scenery collapses, cues are missed, lines forgotten, and the sound effects take on a strange note at times, as the ladies present their ambitious evening's entertainment with the cunning whodunit, "Murder At Checkmate Manor". And just in case the audience should get bored there's a Film and Fashion Show and a Murder Mystery Quiz complete Title: Fatal Weakness, The
Author: Kelly, George Publisher: Samuel French 1946
Description:
roy comedy six characters two male; four female three acts
1 interior set.
A woman who is very much the romantic, is momentarily upset when she learns of her husband's infidelity but she later decides to give him his freedom in the interests of love and she makes plans to attend his wedding.
Title: Father's Day
Author: Hailey, Oliver Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1999
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six characters three male; three female two acts
Left with their alimony, their children, and neighboring apartments on New York's posh Upper East Side, three divorcees share their loneliness, their often hilarious thoughts on sex and marriage, and their bitter memories of lost trust and closeness. When their ex-husbands arrive for a Father's Day reunion they are all, at first, as civilized and sophisticated as the situation demands—but then the veneer begins to crack, and beneath the fusillade of funny lines their aching emptiness and hurt show through. In the end they face the truth about themselves and the
Title: Featherland
Author: Clarke, Denise Publisher: Red Deer College Press 2004
Description:
roy Canadian - fantasy - love-triangle five characters two male; three female two acts
Cecil and Adele Hyndman are completely devoted to each other and their collection of live birds. They open an avian menagerie in rural British Columbia, and when a magnificent golden eagle arrives, an erotic attraction between Cecil, Adele and the eagle develops into a bizarre love triangle. Title: Filthy Rich
Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters four male; two female nine scenes
1 interior set.
Tyrone Power, reporter, has retired to write a novel when a murder case involving corrupt tycoons and bankrupt politicians bursts through his office door, grabs him by the throat and pulls him back onto the investigative trail.
Title: Finger of Fate
Author: Hendry, Tom Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy historical - Canadian - comedy five characters three male;two female two acts
Meet the citizens of Williamsville, Ontario, in 1969. Farmers Marvin and Alvin are struggling with the idea of cashing in, selling out and taking off for Florida. Meanwhile, Curly wants a big white wedding, but Janine isn’t so sure she’s ready to settle down. While these characters grapple with their futures, what they don’t realize is that destiny has already stepped in to change their lives forever.
Title: First Baptist of Ivy Gap
Author: Osborne, Ron Publisher: Samuel French 2004
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; six characters six female two acts
During WWII, six women gather at the church to roll bandages and plan the church's 75th anniversary; one whose son is fighting in the Pacific; the church's rebellious organist; one who dreams of a career in Hollywood; a shy newcomer with a secret; an influential Baptist with a secret of her own and the pastor's wise cracking wife. One member irrationally blames another when her son is wounded in battle. Twenty-five years later, our "First Baptist Six" reunite. With humor and pathos, these six very different women find comfort, forgiveness and redemption in each other. Title: First Strike
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set
"First Strike" is the post-bomb tale of two couples who have taken refuge in a Mississauga fall-out shelter. The wild comedy does not conceal the fact that there is something very rotten in the Borough of Mississauga, and the whole issue of man's right to survive is called into question.
Title: Fishing for Frank
Author: Lillford, Daniel R. Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
Frank is dead, folks are talkin' and Millie's movin' on. An outrageous comedy about lies, gossip, infidelities and old friends ... who may not be friends at all. A cockeyed look at life, love and trout.
Title: Five @ Fifty
Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - women - comedy - friendship - aging all female cast; five characters five female two acts
Four friends decide to hold an intervention for their fifth friend. But are they really the best people to sing the virtues of abstinence? When Olivia loses control at her fiftieth birthday party, her three best friends decide to intervene once and for all, much to the irritation of Olivia and her lover, Norma. But is she the only one battling a demon? Or do each of these women face an addiction of one kind or another? "5 @ 50" is a raw and darkly comedic portrayal of turning fifty in contemporary society, and of the friendships we can’t live without. Title: Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
Author: Ball, Alan Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1993
Description:
roy comedy - marriage six characters one male; five female two acts
During an ostentatious wedding reception, five reluctant identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly funny, irreverent and touching celebration of the women's spirit.
Title: Flag Day A play in two plays Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2007
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - racism six characters five male; one female two one-act plays
A play in two plays, FLAG DAY examines white/black relations in our society with an unblinking eye. The first play, GOOD, CLEAN FUN, is a darkly funny office comedy pitting two workers—one black, one white—against each other as they try to complete a high-pressure project. The office racism intensifies as we learn that one of them has stolen the other's wife. (2 men.) The second, DOWN AND DIRTY, evokes recent white-on-black and black-on-white killings in the American South. In a style poised carefully on the edge of absurdism, we discover a man dying in a car's
Title: Flick, The
Author: Baker, Annie Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2014
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - theatre - friendship five characters three male; one female (doubling) two acts
Running time: 120 mins +; setting - a movie theatre in Worcester, Massachusetts. Summer 2012.
In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a Title: Fling!
Author: Slade, Bernard Publisher: Samuel French 1979
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A woman finds out that her husband slept with her best friend before they were married and accusations begin fly regarding fidelity / lack of fidelity in their nineteen years of marriage.
Title: Float
Author: Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2013
Description:
roy comedy - holidays five characters all female cast; five female two acts
The industrious members of the Budapest Women's Club (pronounced "Bu-DAP-est") come together for an annual tradition: the crafting of the holiday parade float. But under the surface of this pleasant gathering, the women find themselves grappling with sexuality, betrayal, and their own hard and fast notions of right and wrong. In this ode to the complicated undercurrents of Midwestern morality, you'll meet Marty, Luce, Char, Arletta, and Doodee - five women who face the tests life presents to them with laughter, love, and a lot of fake snow.
Title: Foolin' Around with Infinity
Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy dramatic comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
'Comic drama about angst in the Nuclear Age.' Title: For Love and Chicken Soup
Author: Leiman, Brad Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy tragicomedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
various interior and exterior sets.
Description not available.
Title: Forsooth, My Lovely A new comedy/mystery Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - mystery - murder - Alberta playwright large cast four male; two female (doubling) two acts
running time: 120 min.
Hard boiled detective BIAM Wood faces his most difficult case ever as he travels to Italy to unravel a scandal involving a rich merchant's young daughter. But he soon finds himself drawn into a whirlwind of crime, blackmail and murder with a cast of suspects including Scottish witches, star-crossed lovers, a pack of jesters and strong willed woman people call a shrew. A mystery
Title: Four On A Garden
Author: Barillet, Pierre Gredy, Jean-Pierre Publisher: Samuel French 1973
Description:
roy comedy - sketches six characters three male; three female four acts
1 interior set.
Four sketches situated in an empty apartment reveal major moments in the lives of the apartment's tenants and prospective tenants. Title: Foursome, The
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian all male cast; four characters four male two acts
'Four college chums, home for a fifteenth class reunion, get together for a round of golf. The play, set on the 18 tees of a golf course, follows the four as they relive old times, and catch up on their problems, successes and failures.'
Title: Fox on the Fairway, The
Author: Ludwig, Ken Publisher: Samuel French 2011
Description:
roy farce - golf six characters three male; three female two acts
A tribute from Ken Ludwig to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s, The Fox On the Fairway takes audiences on a hilarious romp which pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club. Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it's a furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers' classics.
Title: Friedman Family Fortune, The
Author: Gow, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relationships - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
(The play) is a drama which focuses on the emotional fallout that results when a publicly adored, iconic, family business passes from the hands of one generation to the next. The play examines with finely detailed psychological realism and wry humour, the intricate relationships that family members have forged with one another; as well as how those relationships are reshaped by the succession of the family's seat of power. Title: From Here to Insanity
Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: William Rosewood Publishing 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female three acts
"A psychiatrist's ex-wife ends up playing hostess to several extraordinary patients with multiple personalities, when the nearby mental hospital burns down."
Title: Full Moon
Author: Krasna, Norman Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
When a young actress hears a rumour that her lover is seeing a younger girl, she creates a sugar daddy out of her father who has come to visit, but regrets it when she learns the rumour is not true.
Title: Galatea
Author: Aronovitch, Lawrence Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2016
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - relationships all male cast; four characters four male two acts
running time: 95 mins.
A modern re-telling of the Pygmalion story that explores the dynamics of relationships and touches on themes such as love, loyalty, infidelity, marriage, class and art. Harry, a painter, invites a young model, Eli, to pose for him. Harry’s attraction to Eli disturbs both Harry’s longtime partner Georgie and Eli’s boyfriend Freddie. The play draws on the parallels and contrasts Title: Gallows Humor
Author: Richardson, Jack Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company 1961
Description:
roy satire six characters four male; two female two acts
Prisoner about to be hanged and hangman both exhibit man's conflicting feelings about order and conformity.
Title: Gasping
Author: Elton, Ben Publisher: Sphere Books Limited 1990
Description:
roy satire - business six characters three male; three female two acts
Satire on heartlessness of market forces. British company sells designer packaged air.
Title: Generation
Author: Goodhart, William Publisher: Samuel French 1964
Description:
roy comedy six characters five male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
A conservative man is determined to like and accept his only daughter's beatnik husband when he visits the couple, but he nearly breaks his vow when he learns that the couple is set on delivering their baby at home by themselves. Title: Geniuses a comedy Author: Reynolds, Jonathan Publisher: Samuel French 1983
Description:
roy comedy - satire six characters five male; one female three acts
A satirical take on "Apocalypse Now"-type filmmaking set in a jungle shack two hundred miles north of Manila where a group of grandiose filmmakers are shooting a war epic, "Parabola of Death". The characters include the latest in a series of writers on the project, a sadistic set designer, a make-up artist specializing in wounds who is obsessed with Hemingway, a boy wonder 'auteur' director who creates chaos, and the producer's bimbo girlfriend who has been flown in to do a thirty second nude scene. An Off-Broadway hit at New York's Playwright's
Title: Gentleman Clothier, The
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
Experienced tailor Norman Davenport has barely opened the doors to his new clothing store in downtown Halifax when Sophie, an exuberant young woman, barges in looking for work, followed by Patrick, a single father who claims to be handy. Hesitantly Norman hires them both to tie up the last few threads before the grand opening. And whether Norman realizes it or not, he needs help getting into the twenty-first century to cater to the current tastes of his customers. When the shop’s first customer, Alisha Sparrow, a friendly, attractive woman, drops in looking for a suit for
Title: Geometry
Author: Wyatt, Rachel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
A comedy of manners set in a private school in which a new teacher arrives and is made to feel welcome, not realizing that he is nothing more than a new toy that will be discarded when the novelty wears off. Title: Gertie Goes Plain
Author: London, Peggy Publisher: Samuel French 1944
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; six characters six female two acts
1 interior set; requires dialect.
A young woman from Brooklyn sprains her ankle while travelling and is taken in by a Pennsylvania Dutch woman and her niece. The woman becomes attracted to the lifestyle and stays while the niece becomes enchanted by the woman from the city and leaves to go to school.
Title: Ghost in the Machine
Author: Gilman, David Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy comedy - mystery six characters four male; two female two acts
"Something lost - a fifty dollar bill - and something found - a musical quote. During the course of a three day visit, two couples - four academics, hosts and guests, spouses and lovers, old friends and a new acquaintance - find themselves, suspecting and distrusting each other over the issue of a lost or possibly stolen fifty dollar bill.."
Title: Gingerbread Lady, The
Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
A bittersweet comedy in which an alcoholic singer tries to stay dried out for her young daughter who is living with her, while at the same time trying to contend with the personal crises of her two closest friends. Title: Girl In The Freudian Slip, The
Author: Brown, William F. Publisher: Samuel French
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set
A psychiatrist who writes a secret fantasy novel about his attraction to one of his patients, is caught in a bind when a friend shows the novel to his wife, his daughter, and the patient in question.
Title: Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2003
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
'As Morris Panych's latest comedy opens, we hear Iris, a precocious girl of ten saying: "These are the last few days of my childhood." The death of her goldfish, she is sure, has been announced by the air-raid sirens during the day's school drill. For Iris there remain a few more days of life in a universe that is inherently ordered, where the spirit of her departed goldfish can, of course, be re-incarnated in a lost and amnesiac drifter given to rhetorical questions of seemingly deep philisophical import.'
Title: Gizmo Love
Author: Kolvenbach, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2010
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; four characters four male two acts
Locked in an office by an unseen producer, Hollywood veteran Manny McCain takes on the assignment of his life: to shape the sloppy opus of a gifted, guileless young writer into the next great crime noir. When Max and Thomas, two career criminals arrive, all hell breaks loose. A reckless comedy, a satire and a valentine, a drama of fathers and sons, and a collision between the real world and the world of our imaginings, GIZMO LOVE is like nothing you've seen before. Title: Glorious! The true story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the worst singer in the world Author: Quilter, Peter Publisher: Methuen 2005
Description:
roy comedy - singing six characters two male; four female two acts
"Based on a true story, Glorious! invites us into the world of Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944), a gregarious soprano who in the early 1940s became the must-see artist in New York. Spinning from charity recitals before groups of devoted friends to extravagant balls, Florence's enthusiasm and joy more than made up for her imperfect pitch. Paying little attention to her critics, 'the first lady of the sliding scale' resolutely restricted her professional performances to an annual recital, yet her unconventional career culminated in a triumphant sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall, New
Title: Good Doctor, The
Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Samuel French 1974
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
various sets; one musical scene.
A composite of Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov created in numerous sketches.
Title: Good People
Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2011
Description:
roy dramatic comedy six characters; voices two male; four female two acts
With his signature humor, Lindsey-Abaire explores the struggles, shifting loyalties and unshakeable hopes that come with having next to nothing in America. Set in Boston's Southie neighborhood, where a night on the town means a few rounds of bingo, where this month's paycheck covers last month's bills, we meet Margaret Walsh, who is facing eviction and scrambling to catch a break. When a friend from the old neighborhood, who is now very successful, moves back to town, Margaret hopes he may be the ticket to turning her life around. Title: Good Things
Author: Lochhead, Liz Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2006
Description:
roy comedy - love - relationships fourteen characters; doubling two male; two female three acts
"Suddenly single again, Susan Love has an old Dad in his second childhood, a daughter in the throes of aggravated adolescence and an Ex who, unfortunately, still has the power to wound. Susan’s response? Speed Dating! Liz Lochhead fashions a Cinderella figure for Fortysomethings and an hilarious comedy about love the second time around."
Title: Goodbye Cruel World
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
Rather than face the disintegration of old age, an aging author decides to commit suicide. He hires a young man to write his autobiography and a lawyer to draw up his will. In the process, love at all ages is examined.
Title: Grass Is Greener, The
Author: Williams, Hugh Williams, Margaret Publisher: Evans Brothers 1960
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
An American tourist stumbles into the private quarters of an English peer's home that is open to the public and meets the lady of the house. The two fall in love and the woman's husband, a usually docile man, decides to fight for his wife by challenging the American to a duel with pistols. Title: Gravel Run
Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
A wildly dysfunctional family plans a small-town wedding for a prodigal daughter who returns home after a five-year absence.
Title: Gringa, La English version Author: Rivera, Carmen Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy comedy - Puerto Rico - identity - Hispanic issues⌦six characters three male; three female two acts
"La Gringa" is about a young woman's search for her identity. Mari-a Elena Garcia goes to visit her family in Puerto Rico during the Christmas holidays and arrives with plans to connect with her homeland. Although this is her first trip to Puerto Rico, she has had an intense love for the island and even majored in Puerto Rican Studies in college. Once Maria is in Puerto Rico, she realizes that Puerto Rico does not welcome her with open arms. The majority of the Puerto Ricans on the island consider her an American – a gringa - and Mari-a considers this a betrayal. If she's a Puerto Rican in the United States and an American in Puerto Rico – Maria concludes that she is
Title: Grotesque Lovesongs
Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
A quirky comedy about a family in Indiana. Pete and John live with their mother and father, a horticulturist. A pretty young woman named Romy is engaged to Johnny, who has just inherited a ton of money from a family friend, Mr. Agajanian. Pete pesters his mother about why Johnny received the entire inheritance until she admits that Mr. Agajanian was Johnny's father. Stunned, Johnny retreats to the greenhouse and finds Pete and Romy making love. After a number of wild discoveries, Johnny realizes that what he wants is to go to Nashville to be a singer of sad love Title: Hand That Cradles the Rock, The
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Samuel French 1972
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
Alexandra is in demand as an interior designer so her husband, Ross, agrees to stay home and raise the baby. An erratic washing machine, baby formula and an increasingly-attractive local nurse bring on housewife syndrome and make him fear for his masculinity.
Title: Happily Ever After
Author: Hayes, Elliott Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
"Moments before his wedding, Tom experiences all the paranoia of a confirmed bachelor. Down the hall, his wife-to-be wonders if she's making the right decision."
Title: Happy Ones, The
Author: Myatt, Julie Marie Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters three male; one female two acts Orange County, California, 1975. For Walter Wells, it’s the happiest place on earth. He has a beautiful wife. Two great kids. A house with a pool. Contentment. Until fate strikes a devastating blow, leaving Walter with no reason to put the pieces of his life back together. He resists attempts to help, especially the unexpected — and unwanted — offer from a Vietnamese refugee named Bao Ngo, who bears his own sadness. Then, across a cultural divide, Walter and Bao find a game to share, a song, a meal and then a way back in this uplifting — and surprisingly funny — new play. Title: Harbour House
Author: King, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy six characters two male; four female two acts
"Four guests weekending in a Vancouver Island 'bed and breakfast' run amok in an hilarious attempt to "get away from it all".
Title: Haunted Through Lounge and Recesses Dining Nook at Farndale Castle, The
Author: McGillivray, David Zerlin Jr., Walter Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy comedy six characters one male; five female two acts
'The ladies of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society make yet another spectacle of themselves, complete with their harrased producer and some extremely vigorous sound effects, in this sinister, spine-chilling mystery of murder and mayhem that is guaranteed to bring the house down - or at least a substantial part of the set.'
Title: Have a Heart
Author: Sherman, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - family relations four characters two male; two female two acts
Gerry is a hyperactive Jewish button importer living in a suburb of Montreal. His father Solly has been 'dumped' in an old people's home, something he refuses to let his son forget. Gerry's daughter Sarah is an adherent to Buddhism. Though he feels fine, the medical establishment tells him there's something wrong with his heart and are talking bypass. In between bouncing from waiting room to waiting room, Gerry decides he needs to finish the extravagant porch he's building which, if worse comes to worse, will be his legacy. Or a place to retire to once doctors Title: Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her
Author: Van Zandt, William Milmore, Jane Publisher: Samuel French 1983
Description:
roy physical comedy - relationships - marriage six characters three male; three female two acts
single set; running time: 90 min.
This wild bedroom farce involves infidelity, double standards, midnight rendezvous and a hungry bear. Danny and Kathy halt their night of sultry passion when Kathy reveals she is dating another man. Paul and Jennifer play a mad slapstick scene of frustration because she is reluctant to cheat on her husband. Bill and Mary, a couple about to celebrate their twenty-ninth wedding
Title: Having Hope at Home
Author: Craig, David S. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy comedy - family relations six characters three male; three female two acts
A sidesplitting look at a family learning to love again. On a winter night in a drafty farmhouse a baby is about to arrive. But modern medicine meets midwifery head on in a torrent of family feuding. As tensions rise between three dysfunctional generations, so does the laughter. It takes a baby to heal the rift in this funny, heartwarming story of forgiveness and hope.
Title: Heat Wave
Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1996
Description:
roy comedy - domestic relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
"Michel Marc Bouchard's 'Heat Wave' tells the story of a family learning how to live again after a three year vigil at the bedside of controlling patriarch Fred Cloutier. Cloutier is still controlling his wife and children from beyond the grave, as the characters deal with guilt complexes created by years of manipulation. But this situation comedy is mainly about love, about May / September relationships, and about appearances and the lies that people tell in order to disguise their true selves and deny their true emotions." Title: Heaven
Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy black comedy six characters four male; two female ten scenes
'Five instantly recognizable multi-cultural characters play out their coincidental relationships in a very contemporary paradise—a park on the outskirts of a city. All of them are, in one form or another, engaged in the "fundamental right" of the pursuit of their own happiness, whether that means acquiring life skills, improving their career prospects, working on their family relationships, increasing social justice in the world, balancing the concerns of crime and punishment, or integrating more closely with what they identify as their own communities. Of
Title: Helen's Most Favorite Day A romantic fantasy in two acts Author: Dunn, Mark Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy romantic fantasy - comedy six characters two male; four female two acts
Helen's Most Favorite Day tells the story of forty-four year old Helen, for whom romantic love has been an infrequent caller. At a trip to the fairgrounds Helen is swept off her feet by a carnie named Jed who gives her one of the nicest, most special days of her life. He gives Helen another gift as well: a "wish" proffered to him by his friend, a mystic. Helen, playing along, "wishes" for the chance to repeat this special day forever. Her wish is granted. And with it comes the direst of unforeseen repercussions. Her family and friends rally to assist Helen by wishing themselves back
Title: Here Lies Jeremy Troy
Author: Sharkey, Troy Publisher: Samuel French 1963
Description:
roy farce five characters three male; two female three acts
interior set.
The play begins with a lawyer who is up for promotion to partnership, when who walks into the picture but an old school chum who makes his living by sponging off classmates, moving from one to another. He blackmails the lawyer into putting him up on the very night the boss is coming for dinner; whereupon the wife leaves. The sponger has discovered that not only is the Title: Here on the Flight Path
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: PUC Play Service 1997
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female (doubling) two acts
'John Cummings is a lonely and divorced back-porch philosopher. Over three and a half years, three very different women occupy the apartment next door. As John reflects on his relationships with neighbours Fay, Angel & Gwen, he shares his unique views on everything from poets to sex.'
Title: Hilda's Yard
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - family relations six characters three male; three female two acts
running time: 120 min.
Set in 1956, it follows the Fluck family through one extraordinary day during which their son loses his job and moves back home, their daughter leaves her husband and moves back home and Sam Fluck, thinking that he and his wife Hilda are empty nesters now and can start to live their OWN lives, buys their first television set. It is a poignant and funny look at how family
Title: Hippo Dancing
Author: Morley, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1955
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
A bullying father and husband learns to accept his family as it is when he realizes that his wife has had an offer from another man and has threatened to leave, and, when he learns that his oldest son can earn a respectable living as a dress designer, and, his youngest son is not a gigolo but in love. Title: Hippopotamus Tea (Hippopotamie) Author: Bombardier, Louise translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1992
Description:
roy comedy - women - seniors all female cast; three female (one male non-speaking role) three female (one female plays the hippopotamus' voice) eleven parts
Two older women disappear with a hippopotamus.
Title: Hold Me!
Author: Feiffer, Jules Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1977
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
Description not available.
Title: Hold Please
Author: Weisman, Annie Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2004
Description:
roy comedy - women all female cast; four characters four female two acts
No men are onstage; but their presence is felt everywhere in this office comedy for the new millennium. Two generations of women, career secretaries in their forties and entry-level assistants in their twenties, gather in a break room for a Heart Talk - an emotional tribunal designed to record and report evidence of sexual harassment. Soon the Heart Talks have a measureable effect. When the new boss arrives, everyone is surprised to learn that she is a young woman, younger than all of them. She immediately institutes an efficiency contest. Whoever can Title: Homecoming
Author: Minogue, Leeann Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2010
Description:
roy comedy - farming - family relations five characters two male; three female two acts
When Jerry Wilson's broken leg spurs him and his wife Marlene to retire sooner than expected, their son Greg comes home from the city to take over the family farm. However, Jerry has difficulty letting his son make the decisions. Tension builds between father and son until Greg finally hits the breaking point, packs his bags, and leaves. Stubborn and proud, Jerry is unable to admit to Marlene or anyone else that Greg is gone. But one lie leads to another, and soon Jerry is caught in an elaborate charade.
Title: Homeward Bound
Author: Hayes, Elliott Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters four male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A comedy of modern manners, Bonnie Beachum's daughter is pregnant, her son-in-law may have kidnapped the children, her son's lover arrives to set matters straight and her husband is calmly contemplating suicide.
Title: Hooters
Author: Tally, Ted Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1978
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
unit set.
Two young men spending a weekend at a beach resort use extremely transparent methods to pick up two young women, who are slightly older than the men. Title: Horowitz and Mrs. Washington
Author: Denker, Henry Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; two female; one boy Two acts
1 interior set.
A prejudiced Jewish widower who is recuperating from a stroke learns tolerance and patience from the kind but firm black nurse who has been hired to work with him in his home.
Title: House of Several Stories A tragedy in two acts of nonsense Author: Boulanger, A. John Publisher: Samuel French 2012
Description:
roy dark comedy - family relations five characters two male; three female two acts
"House of Several Stores," a tragedy in two acts of nonsense, is an absurdist comedy about a dysfunctional family and their Thanksgiving "guests." Bastian returns home for Thanksgiving with news of "joining the service." Mother suggests he join a gym. Bastian's news takes a backseat when his sister, Rissa, suddenly decides that she's pregnant, and though not yet showing, expects to deliver "any minute now". Both children are then bombarded with Mother's news of an older brother that they've never known about, Thom, who has returned home for Thanksgiving
Title: House on the Cliff
Author: Batson, George Publisher: Samuel French 1957
Description:
Roy Mystery - comedy Six characters Two male; four female Two acts
One interior set.
In an old isolated house on a cliff, a young girl who is confined to a wheelchair for psychosomatic reasons is treated by a young doctor who is really her boyfriend in disguise and who will go to any lengths to prevent a separation from the girl because he wants her money. Title: How The Other Half Loves
Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy farce - marital relations six characters three male; three female Two acts
interior sets.
There are three couples in this play, the men all working for the same firm. One of the younger men is having an affair with the wife of the oldest, and when each returns home suspiciously; late one night they invent a story about having to spend some time smoothing domestic matters in the home of the third couple. Of course, the third couple have to show up to put the fat in the
Title: How's The World Treating You?
Author: Milner, Roger Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967
Description:
roy comedy - retrospective six characters three male; three female three acts
representative set.
This play spans twenty years in the life of a schoolmaster from the time of his demobilization from the British army through his engagement to his attempts to make his marriage work as his world falls apart around him.
Title: I Hate Hamlet
Author: Rudnick, Paul Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1992
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - acting six characters three male; three female two acts
"Andrew Rally seems to have it all: celebrity and acclaim from his starring role in a hit television series; a rich, beautiful girlfriend; the perfect New York apartment; and the chance to play Hamlet in Central Park. There are, however, a couple of glitches in paradise. Andrew's series has been cancelled; his girlfriend is clinging to her virginity with unyielding conviction, and he has no desire to play Hamlet. During her initial visit to the apartment, Andrew's agent reminisces about about her brief romance with John Barrymore many years ago. This prompts the real estate agent Title: I Have AIDS!
Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - black comedy - LGBTQ+ - AIDS all male cast; seven characters five male (doubling) two acts
Sky Gilbert's controversial black comedy about AIDS and the gay community. "Prodon is an out-of-the-closet gay stand-up comic whose career has seen better days. His lover Vidor is an interior designer. One day Prodon tells Vidor that he has AIDS. An unflinching examination of modern AIDS politics and of the way AIDS operates not only as a disease but as a cultural force in the socio-political scene today, I HAVE AIDS! will force audiences to not only question their ideas about gay men and AIDS but will start people talking about the current state of gay romance, love
Title: I Take This Man A Screwball Farce Author: Sharkey, Jack Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy romantic farce five characters three male; two female two acts
When lovely young Gideon Hollis a.k.a. Giddy spots an unconscious man in a tank top and shorts lying in Copley Square just after all other Boston Marathon racers have crossed the finish line, she reasons that since nice guys finish last, this must be Mr. Right! She has a helpful policeman tote him to her nearby apartment, shocking her roommate whose fiance is due for a dinner date. When the comatose dreamboat revives and cannot remember who he is, Giddy tells him they are married and regrets her subterfuge when he tries to be a loving husband.
Title: I Was Dancing
Author: O'Connor, Edwin Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1966
Description:
roy comedy six characters five male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
An old vaudevillian returns to his son's home after a twenty-one year absence, only to discover that his son is a complete stranger and wants to send his father to a nursing home, a move which the father fights. Title: If I Were You
Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 2011
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts
The Rodales seem like an ordinary family, but beneath the surface things are beginning to crack. Jill and Mal have lost the spark in their marriage, their son Sam resents his father and their daughter Chrissie has recently become a mum and is dealing with marriage issues of her own. And while they all share advice on how others should live their lives, nobody is really taking it on board — until Mal and Jill see things from a dramatically different perspective, that is. Waking up one morning and finding they have switched personas, Mal in Jill's body and Jill in Mal's, they
Title: Immigrant, The A Hamilton County album Author: Harelik, Mark Publisher: Ballantine Books 1985
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
1909. The year that Haskell Harelik, a nineteen year old Russian immigrant, arrives at port of Galveston, Texas. Far from his native land and struggling with an alien language, Haskell becomes a penny-a-piece fruit pedlar in and around the small town of Hamilton. In the decades that follow, he attains success as a merchant and community leader, and is recognized as a beloved husband, father, and neighbor. This critically acclaimed drama celebrates the immigrant experience.
Title: Impassioned Embraces pieces of love and theatre Author: Pielmeier, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1989
Description:
roy comedy - love - romance six characters three male; three female two acts
Suggested for high school.
Fourteen short pieces that offers a wealth of intriguing possibilities. Dealing largely with the many aspects of love (from the sublime to the ridiculous) and with the trials and terrors that actor's must face, the plays mingle hilarity and poignancy as they explore the problems that romance - and the need for self-expression - can engender. Title: Impolite Comedy
Author: Hayes, Joseph Publisher: Samuel French 1977
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six characters three male; three female three acts
"At a fashionable country home a dinner party comically goes to pieces. A publisher and his wife have invited a young novelist. The publisher's purpose is to get the novelist's new book - as his firm badly needs a best seller. But everything goes wrong. The publisher's mother, an amusing but difficult women, has arrived unexpectedly. Enter, also uninvited, a sophisticated mystery writer who may have had an affair with the publisher's wife. The novelist proves more difficult than reputed and has in tow the girl he's currently living with and with whom he's been fighting
Title: In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe
Author: Overmyer, Eric Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 1989
Description:
roy black comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
Eric Overmyer’s cosmic comedy probes the world of international conspiracy, political paranoia, and intergalactic connections.
Title: Inside the Sand Castle A romantic comedy with improv Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - improv - romance four characters three male; one female two acts
running time: 110 min.
When two brothers recruit a woman to join their failing improv comedy act. It brings not only success, but also romantic entanglements that put everything at risk. The scripted plot is advanced by sets of improvisational performance in this unique, hilarious and touching fusion of two theatrical forms. Title: Jake and the Kid
Author: Mitchell, W. O. Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2009
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters four males; two females two acts
Adapted by Conni Massing from W.O. Mitchell's famous short story collection.
The play is set in 1943, in and around the town of Crocus, where there’s a serious drought in progress. Jake’s boast that he can make rain, challenged by his old neighbour Gate and innocently promoted by the Kid, culminates in a high stakes public display that endangers Jake’s reputation as well as the Kid’s faith in his beloved mentor.
Title: Janus
Author: Green, Carolyn Publisher: Samuel French 1953
Description:
roy comedy - romantic five characters three male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
A man and a woman have spent the past seven summers together in New York collaborating on best selling novels without the knowledge of their spouses. When the woman's husband unexpectedly shows up, the writers find themselves in the difficult position of trying to explain their situation.
Title: Jar the Floor
Author: West, Cheryl L. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2002
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - aging all female cast; five characters five female two acts
A quartet of black women spanning four generations makes up this heartwarming dramatic comedy. The four, plus the white woman friend of the youngest, come together to celebrate the matriarch's ninetieth birthday. It's a wild party, one that is a lovable lunatic glance at the exhilarating challenge of growing old amidst the exasperating trials of growing up. Title: Jenny's House of Joy
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; five characters five female two acts
Jenny runs the best little house of ill repute in her corner of the old "Wild West". But when a tireless young runaway comes begging for a job, the girls at Jenny's house might just have to leave their lingerie behind. A delightful new comedy about the oldest profession.
Title: Joggers
Author: Stratton, Allan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy tragicomedy four characters two male; two female two acts
"A young man, stranded in a blizzard, is chased into the home of Vanessa, a murderous Venus Flytrap."
Title: Jupiter in July
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2002
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - marriage - romance six characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
running time: 110 min.
Donald Springer is fifty-one years old and married, yet he finds himself on a passionate collision course with a woman half his age. Title: Just Between Ourselves
Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy comedy - domestic relations five characters two male; three female two acts
'Domestic comedy. Husband spends most of his spare time puttering in garage, indifferent to fact that wife is being driven to distraction by his possessive, jealous mother who is slowly undermining her both physically and mentally.'
Title: Killer Joe
Author: Letts, Tracy Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy black comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
Killer Joe is hired by the greedy Smith family, a dim witted clan wanting to do away with mother to get her insurance money. Killer Joe decides to bed the Smith daughter as a retainer against his final payoff. Before it's over, nearly everyone is bloodied.
Title: Killing of Sister George, The
Author: Marcus, Frank Publisher: Samuel French 1965
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; four characters four female three acts
Sister George is a famous character in a BBC soap opera series, a nurse who cycles about singing hymns, doing good deeds, and spreading cheer. Because of the struggle for ratings, and because there is gossip of notoriety in her personal life, the BBC decides to "kill her off" by having her involved in an accident. The woman who comes to make the deathblow announcement is rather pleased to see that the gamey gossip about her home life is true, for here she finds the cigar-smoking, gin-drinking, hard-cursing Sister George waited on slavishly by a female Title: Kilt
Author: Wilson, Jonathan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
"The 'kilt' in question belongs to Mac, a young Scots soldier fighting in Africa during the second world war, and is later worn by his grandson Tom for his act as a table dancer in a Toronto gay club. This break with tradition upsets Tom's Scottish dancing teaching mother, and the rift in their relationship comes to a touching and hilarious head when they travel to Scotland for Mac's funeral."
Title: Kimberly Akimbo
Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003
Description:
roy comedy - family relations five characters two male; three female two acts
suggested for high school.
Set in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, KIMBERLY AKIMBO is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition causing her body to age faster than it should. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt, her
Title: Kitchen Witches, The
Author: Smith, Caroline Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
Isobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle are two "mature" cable-access cooking show hostesses who have hated each other for 30 years, ever since Stephen Biddle dated one and married the other. When circumstances put them together on a TV show called The Kitchen Witches, the insults are flung harder than the food! Dolly's long-suffering TV-producer son Stephen tries to keep them on track, but as long as Dolly's dressing room is one inch closer to the set than Isobel's, it's a losing battle, and the show becomes a rating smash as Dolly and Isobel top both Martha Stewart and Title: Knack A comedy in three acts Author: Jellicoe, Ann Publisher: Samuel French 1962
Description:
roy comedy - British - relationships four characters three male; one female three acts
A study of the shifting relationships and power balances among four young people in the 1960s. The play became a major hit, and was filmed and won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
Title: Knickers! A brief comedy Author: Quick, Sarah Publisher: Miscellaneous 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy all female cast; four characters four female two acts
When the residents of a small Canadian town decide that the economy is not just depressed it's virtually suicidal they resort to drastic means to earn a living. Can knickers be the foundation on which their town survives!?
Title: Knock Knock
Author: Feiffer, Jules Publisher: Samuel French 1976
Description:
roy farce six characters five male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
Two old men who have lived together for twenty years are bored with each other so one of them wishes for intelligent company and receives Joan of Arc, who brings all kinds of chaos into the two men's home. Title: Knucklebones
Author: Anderson, Douglas Publisher: Samuel French
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
"When Henny Youngman tells a joke, most people laugh. But Eddie Evans sees a joke as an intricate puzzle, and reduces comedy to brilliant, but dry, mathematical equations. Professor Evans is completing a textbook on the study of probability (knucklebones being the first dice), and he has invited Anne, the department secretary, to his kitchen to help prepare the manuscript. Anne is overweight and romantic; Eddie is gaunt and scientific. Neither has ever been on a date. What are the odds that they will fall in love?"
Title: Last of the Boys
Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2008
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - war - Vietnam - relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
Ben and Jeeter fought in Vietnam, and for thirty years they have remained united by a war that divided the nation. Joined by Jeeter's new girlfriend and her off-the-grid whiskey-drinking mother, these friends gather at Ben's remote trailer for one final hurrah. As the night deepens, the past makes a return appearance, and its many ghosts come flickering to life. This is a fierce, funny, haunted play about a friendship that ends—and a war that does not.
Title: Last of the Class A Comedy in Two Acts Author: Carmichael, Fred Publisher: Samuel French 1976
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female two acts
Two old enemies reunite after forty years to settle an estate left by a deceased classmate which turns out to be a pornographic business. They become involved with a stripper, a small town girl from the Midwest, an underworld character and a scheming bellhop. A running commentary of "Fun City" is provided by off stage voices of a lady of the evening and one of her not too deferential clients as well as radio broadcasts of muggings, suicides, drug raids and other happy events. The two senior citizens get a new lease on life after becoming implicated in a porno Title: Last Of The Red Hot Lovers
Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
A middle-aged man decides that he wants to join in the sexual revolution before it is too late, but as he tries to seduce three very different women in his mother's apartment, he realizes that he is quite happy with his life as it is.
Title: Last Wife, The
Author: Hennig, Kate Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - patriarchy - women - politics - Canadian⌦six characters two male; two female; one boy; one girl two acts
Kate Parr is smart, confident, and passionate: a rising star in a world of intense competition. But her obligatory marriage to Henry is rife with the threat of violence and the lure of deceit; her secret liaisons with Thom, her husband’s former brother-in-law, could send her to an early grave; and her devotion to the education and equal rights of Henry’s daughters is putting an even bigger strain on her marriage. Does Kate risk her life to gain authority in both her relationship and her political career? Which love will she be led to if she follows her heart? And what kind of future is there for her children if she makes a crucial mistake? A contemporary retelling of the
Title: Late Blumer (full length), The
Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters; extras three male; two female two acts
"Vancouver 1967. Blumer takes the ultimate acid trip and sleeps for seventeen years, waking up to find himself in 1984. Can he adjust? Can Vancouver?" Title: Leave of Absence
Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy dark comedy - sexuality - community - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts
The booming bedroom community outside a large Canadian city is blown apart when fifteen-year-old Blake challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. A student at the local Catholic high school, Blake confides in her best friend Tracy that she feels sexually attracted to her. At first encouraged and then rebuffed, Blake is eventually betrayed. Increasingly at risk among her peers, Blake finds the watchful and strict eyes of her Catholic school are no protection. Vulnerable to collectivized hatred, she remains unprotected by the adults who guard her freedom
Title: Leisure Society, The
Author: Archambault, Francois Translated by Bobby Theodore Publisher: Talonbooks 2003
Description:
roy dark comedy - contemporary four characters two male; two female sixteen scenes
"Peter and Mary work long hours; invest money for a retirement they will probably never enjoy; buy things that are supposed to make them happy but that they never use. They obsess about the nightmare engines of Western economic growth: make, earn and have more. Bringing a child into this frightening world; wanting time and space for themselves and their friends; all seem like colossal tasks. Even worse, they seem like acts of resistance or betrayal — against a system that requires everyone to be active, productive and consuming."
Title: Lettice and Lovage
Author: Shaffer, Peter Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy comedy - friendship five characters; extras two male; three female three acts
"Lettice Duffet, expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, lectures as a tourist guide at Fustian House - one of the least stately, least interesting, of Britain's stately homes. Fustian House has so little importance that Lettice begins to embellish the story of its historical past; and, as time progresses, we see her standard lecture grow in theatricality and romance, straying from the facts. Soon, this becomes of grave concern to Lotte Schon, an inspector from the Preservation Trust, who is not at all impressed by Lettice's uninhibited 'history lessons'. Lotte fires Lettice; but, Title: Life and Beth A play Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 2011
Description:
roy dramatic comedy six characters; one male voice; one female voice three male; three female two acts
interior set; room for extras.
It's Christmas, and Beth Timms is mourning the recent death of her health and safety officer husband, Gordon. Beth's sister-in-law Connie and son Martin have come to stay, determined to ensure that she should have a stress-free Christmas, but between Connie's drinking problem and Martin's unspeaking and emotionally volatile girlfriend Ella, their intentions prove to be
Title: Life x 3
Author: Reza, Yasmina translated by Christopher Hampton Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003
Description:
roy comedy - life - relationships four characters two male; two female; voice of a child three acts
"Their fractious six-year-old finally in bed, Henri and Sonia are relaxing with a drink when the doorbell rings unexpectedly…. At the door is Henri's boss, Hubert, and his wife - who have arrived a day early for a dinner party… An important dinner party that Henri had carefully planned to impress Hubert in an attempt to save his flagging career… That was to be tomorrow. Tonight, however, there is nothing at all to eat in the house - apart from some Cheesy Wotsits. So the evening looks set to be as much of a disaster as Henri's job prospects…..unless events can take a
Title: Lips Together Teeth Apart
Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Penguin Books 1992
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female three acts
At the heart of this haunting play is a dramatically incisive portrait of two married couples - the Trumans and the Haddocks. Unfortunately with themselves and each other, they are forced to spend a Fourth of July weekend at the Fire Island house that the brother of one of the women left his sister when he died of AIDS. Though the house is beautiful, it is as empty as their lives and marriages have become, a symbol of their failed hopes, their rage, their fears, and of the capricious nature of death. Acerbic and haunting, "Lips Together, Teeth Apart" probes the stifled Title: Little Footsteps
Author: Tally, Ted Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1986
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relations four characters two male; two female two acts
Ben and Joanie, are an upwardly mobile "Yuppie" couple about to become parents for the first time. As the play begins they are redecorating the dining room of their Manhattan apartment for use as a nursery, an activity which both underscores the impending changes in their lives and reinforces Ben's uneasiness about it. The scene is filled with funny lines as Ben tries to make light of his misgivings, but his fears lead inevitably to dispute and, by the end of Act One, Ben has departed and Joanie suddenly finds herself a single parent-to-be. Later, Ben sneaks in through
Title: Little Hut, The
Author: Roussin, Andre Mitford, Nancy Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1953
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female three acts
1 exterior set
An English couple and the husband's best friend, who is also the wife's lover, are stranded on a desert island where the two men agree to share the woman - an arrangement which works until a native appears who also shows interest in the woman.
Title: Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody, A
Author: Bernas, Ron Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy comedy - mystery - thriller - love - marriage six characters four male; two female two acts
105 minutes; unit set/multiple settings; can be performed by high school students.
This six-character comedy is a spoof of and love letter to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and to stage mysteries in general. It is a one-set, two-act piece featuring witty dialogue and slapstick comedy. The play opens with the rich, bored Matthew promising to kill his rich, bored wife Julia so he can become a jet setter like his friend who recently lost his wife. Julia, who's Title: Little Prince, The
Author: Cummins, Rick Scoullar, John Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1998
Description:
roy fantasy - drama - comedy five characters two male; two female; one child two acts (optional intermission)
"This beloved classic now comes alive on stage in a straight play adaptation of the musical by the same authors. The Little Prince tells the story of a world-weary aviator whose malfunctioning plane stands him on the Sahara Desert. When a mysterious, regal little boy appears and asks him to draw a sheep, the aviator is annoyed and distracted from his crisis - unaware that he is about to have a transforming experience. By learning that 'what is essential is invisible to the eye', the aviator comes to a new understanding of how to laugh, cry and love again."
Title: Living Together
Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1975
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
Part 2 of a trilogy. A woman's plan for an illicit weekend with her brother-in-law goes awry when concerned relatives descend upon her home and work to preserve the good name of the family.
Title: Lloyd's Prayer
Author: Kling, Kevin Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy comedy - parable four characters three male; one female two acts
1 setting.
"...a hilarious comic parable about Bob, the Racoon Boy, and what happens to him when he is rescued from the raccoons who raised him and taught what it means to be human... He is taken from his cage at Mom and Dad's house by an ambitious ex-con named Lloyd, who sees the racoon boy as his ticket to fame and fortune..." Title: Loman Family Picnic, The
Author: Margulies, Donald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1990
Description:
roy black comedy - Jewism five characters three male; two female two acts
music.
The setting is a new "luxury" high-rise apartment with Spanish décor in Coney Island, the home of a middle-class Jewish family struggling to put up a good front even though continually short of cash. The father, Herbie, who sells lighting fixtures, is chronically overworked and underpaid; his wife, Doris, tells herself (and whomever may be listening) that she loves her life—even though, as
Title: London Suite
Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six characters three male; three female two acts
"Comedies set in a deluxe, discreet London hotel - a sedate place until these characters check in. First, in 'Settling Accounts' the hotel suite is occupied by an inebriated Welsh writer who is holding his long-time business manager, caught abscoming to Buenos Aires with he writer's money, at gunpoint. An American widow and her daughter, in England to buy shoes, take over the suite in 'Going Home'. The hotel guest in 'The Man on the Floor' are a married couple from New York who have lost their tickets to Wimbledon and are about to lose their suite to Kevin Costner
Title: Long Weekend, The
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
"The truth and lies of a friendship come to the surface during a weekend visit between two couples. There are plenty of surprises along the way in this comedy of manners." Title: Look We've Come Through
Author: Wheeler, Hugh Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1963
Description:
roy comedy - drama six characters four male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
The intellectual young roommate of a social butterfly becomes friends with a young male prostitute and the strength of the friendship helps the two grow towards maturity.
Title: Look, No Hans A comedy Author: Chapman, John Pertwee, Michael Publisher: Samuel French - London 1986
Description:
roy British - comedy - farce six characters two male; four female two acts
This fast paced, fun filled farce by two masters of the genre enjoyed a successful run at London's Strand Theatre. Peter Fisher is the manager of the West Berlin office of a British car company, where selling British cars is like selling pork chops at a bar mitzvah! He is also an undercover agent for British Security of Industry a role for which he is singularly ill equipped. With his wife Monica due to fly home to England for a short break, Fisher is planning to spend his birthday quietly, but when Monica's plane is delayed she returns home, followed in rapid succession by
Title: Looking
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
Val is an OR nurse, Andy is in the storage business, Nina is a police officer and Matt is the host of a morning radio show. They're middle-aged, single and looking. Val agrees to meet Andy after answering his personal ad in the newspaper and Nina and Matt are coaxed into joining their friends for support. What follows is hilarious, touching and so very true to life. Title: Loot
Author: Orton, Joe Publisher: Grove Press 1967
Description:
roy satire - mystery - comedy six characters five male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
An old woman's death provides an opportunity for her nurse to propose to her husband; her son and lover to hide the money they have stolen in her coffin; her husband to indulge in his love for roses; and the police to exhibit their corruptness.
Title: Love In E-Flat
Author: Krasna, Norman Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
When a young woman discovers that her boyfriend is bugging her apartment, she and her married sister manufacture a romantic situation with an ex-boyfriend that scares the present boyfriend into proposing marriage.
Title: Love Minus
Author: Gallagher, Mary Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
Karla, a would-be novelist, and Nick, a soap opera actor, meet by chance in a park overlooking the Hudson River. Their encounter leads on, in short order, to a rendezvous at Karla's apartment, and the exciting possibility that true love might have come along at last for both of them. But Nick, cautious that real friendship and mutual respect might be dashed on the shoals of physical passion, begins to retreat—leaving Karla confused and hurt. She gets little comfort from her brittle, man-hungry friend, Lydia, who sees sex as an end in itself, and prefers the clandestine Title: Love on the Cusp A comedy in two acts Author: Karshner, Roger Publisher: Samuel French 1976
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six characters three male; three female two acts
Jerry comes unglued when his wife, Eleanor, an astrology nut, informs him they can't have sex for thirty days because her planet is in retrograde. Jerry and his buddy, Marvin, conspire against Eleanor's rip off advisor, Rhoda. When Rhoda arrives, Marvin does a complete flip flop and falls for her. Rhoda advises Eleanor that she's about to be visited by "an overpowering electric influence" - Joe, a handsome TV repairman. Eleanor falls for Joe who Jerry rightly spots as phony. Jerry the super salesman and manipulator deftly maneuvers the situation, rekindles Eleanor's love,
Title: Love Person
Author: Kapil, Aditi Brennan Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships four characters one male; three female four parts
Love Person is a four part love story in Sanskrit, ASL and English in which love transcends sexual orientation, physical attraction, and social structure and rests instead on the ways in which we communicate and how communication bonds or breaks us. The play is structured around four Sanskrit love poems that influence and reflect the journeys of the characters. Free, a Deaf woman in a relationship with Maggie, accidentally falls into a deceptive email correspondence with her sister Vic's love interest Ram, a Sanskrit professor. Free and Ram discover a connection, based
Title: Lusting After Pipino's Wife A Comedy in Two Acts Author: Kass, Sam Henry Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
Vinnie and Patsy like to sit around talking about women and about life in general. A favorite topic is the restaurant dishwasher's gorgeous wife. Vinnie can't understand how a nobody like Pipino can have such a wife. In fact, he doesn't understand why women won't give him the time of day, especially tough as nails Lorraine whose friend Rita dates Patsy. Patsy decides he can find success selling shoes on the street and he proposes to Rita. Their wedding is disrupted by a gun welding Lorraine who rescues Rita from the altar, leaving Vinnie and Patsy to speculate and commiserate Title: Lyons, The
Author: Silver, Nicky Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2012
Description:
roy comedy - family relations - death six characters three male; three female two acts
Ben Lyons is in a hospital where he is dying from cancer. His family gathers around him. They are his wife, Rita, and grown children, Curtis Lyons and Lisa Lyons. Also present is his nurse. Ben is no longer constrained by manners and says whatever he wishes, including expletives. Rita, trapped in a 40-year loveless marriage, now thinks of the future without Ben and plans to re-decorate. Lisa is an alcoholic, who has left an abusive marriage; Curtis, homosexual, has had little to do with his father, who is homophobic. In a getaway from the hospital, Curtis looks at an
Title: MacGregor's Hard Ice Cream and Gas
Author: MacDonald, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - families four characters two male; two female two acts
The MacGregor family patriarch has passed away, but the ground in their desolate prairie town is frozen solid, making it impossible to bury him. In a sudden desperate attempt to make things right, son Jack hijacks the body—coffin and all—up to his attic bedroom and holds his dead father hostage, keeping him cool with containers of their unique homemade ice cream. His mother, Marlene, has taken to pacing in circles in the basement, while his older brother is obsessed with fixing a sign for gas that they never sell. Into all of this walks Missy – gone for sixteen years, and
Title: Mackerel
Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Talonbooks 1979
Description:
roy satirical comedy five characters; cat; voices two male; three female two acts
singing.
250,000 pound mackerel crashes into home of squabbling family on Massachusetts coast. Father's profit schemes lead to a worldwide disaster when he markets rotting fish. Title: Madhouse in Goa, A
Author: Sherman, Martin Publisher: Amber Lane Press 1989
Description:
roy comedy ten characters four male; two female (doubling) two acts
"Webs of personal, political, sexual, social and artistic deception unfold in the indigo nights and bright days of the Greek islands in this two part play. In A Table for a King, which can also be produced as a one act, a writer helps blackmail an unpleasant and uncompromising woman who refuses to relinquish her table on the terrace of a Corfu hotel for the King of Greece. Part Two, Keeps Rainin' All the Time, moves to Santorini where a disparate group of expatriates, including a famous author, face nuclear rain, terrorism and the impending eruption of the volcano. The same
Title: Maggie's Getting Married
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - romance six characters three male; three female two acts
"A touching romantic comedy that follows the pitfalls the Duncan family encounters on the eve of their daughter's wedding."
Title: Making Book
Author: Reed, Janet Publisher: Samuel French 1992
Description:
roy comedy - satire five characters two male; three female two acts
"This hilarious, biting satire centers around a feisty, idealistic teacher whose frustration with textbooks unexpectedly lands her a job as editor of a fifth-grade American history book." Title: Man with the Plastic Sandwich, The
Author: Karshner, Roger Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female three acts
'Unemployed man on park bench encounters three eccentric characters representing hope, wisdom, and reality who give him new purpose and direction.'
Title: Maple Lodge
Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: Samuel French 1999
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
Heather, Dennis and Tara are opening their cottage, Maple Lodge, for the summer and are expecting their formidable mother. The three, a college administrator, a pharmacist and a twice divorced TV anchor woman have been coming to Maple Lodge all of their lives and Tara assures everyone that this summer will be the same as always once this weekend is over. She is wrong. Everything changes with the arrival an exotic stranger. In the meantime, Mother has won a Suitcase Dance to Mexico and will miss the big event Tara is hosting: the raising of a covered
Title: Marriage Go Around, The
Author: Stevens, Leslie Publisher: Samuel French 1959
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
unit set.
A professional American Couple is forced to re-examine their attitudes towards open marriage when the daughter of a Swedish colleague comes to visit. Title: Mary, Mary
Author: Kerr, Jean Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1960
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
A woman visits the home of her ex-husband to help him and their lawyer sort out tax receipts. She meets a neighbor of her husband who is attracted to her and this attraction forces the divorced couple to realize that they made a mistake in splitting up.
Title: Mating Game, The
Author: Hawdon, Robin Publisher: Samuel French 2002
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
Now updated, here is a sparkling and hilarious remake of the comedy that has played around the world since its hit premiere in London. Set in a smart Mayfair apartment full of gadgets with minds of their own, the comedy zeros in on a trendy television personality whose romantic interludes are always interrupted by accidents, fate or his own incompetence. His bedroom fiascos are especially remarkable in light of his reputation as a notorious stud.
Title: Mauritius
Author: Rebeck, Theresa Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy comedy - stamps - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts
Stamp collecting is far more risky than you think. After their mother's death, two estranged half-sisters discover a book of rare stamps that may include the crown jewel for collectors. One sister tries to collect on the windfall, while the other resists for sentimental reasons. In this gripping tale, a seemingly simple sale becomes dangerous when three seedy, high-stakes collectors enter the sisters' world, willing to do anything to claim the rare find as their own. Title: McGillicuddy's Lost Weekend
Author: Roulston, Keith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
"McGillicuddy, the only policeman in town, finds his fishing weekend cancelled due to a kidnapping. His search is hindered more than helped by the kind interference of the town's inhabitants."
Title: Me And Thee
Author: Horine, Charles Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1966
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
An ultra-conservative couple who, on the advice of a psychiatrist friend, decide to cut loose a little.
Title: Medium for Murder
Author: McRae, Murray Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1989
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - mystery four characters two male; two female two acts
"A husband and his mistress hire an actor to play a medium who will bring back the spirit of the rich wife's dead brother to convince her to commit suicide so that they can get the estate." Title: Melville Boys, The
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
Owen and Lee Melville arrive at their uncle's lakeside cabin for a weekend of beer and fishing, but their plans are thrown out of whack by the arrival of two sisters.
Title: Memory of Water, The
Author: Stephenson, Shelagh Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1997
Description:
roy comedy - family relationships six characters two male; four female two acts
'This touching and hugely entertaining comedy provides an insight into the lives of three sisters who are reunited for their mother's funeral. A neurotic maternal type, a paranoid doctor and a bratty youngest sibling recall their childhood, but find that personal grievances have colored their memories, which differ greatly and cause immense friction. . .'
Title: Men Were Deceivers Ever; or, The Curse Of The Ginger Tipple
Author: Hull, Raymond Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1969
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
Description not available. Title: Mending Fences
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy comedy eight characters two male; three female (doubling) two acts
An hilarious, but thoughtful, comedy about love, loss and making the most of a second chance. Harry is a Saskatchewan farmer that sticks to his guns no matter what the consequences. The loss of his family many years ago is just one of many life-altering changes his stubbornness has caused. Gin, an equally headstrong woman, from the neighbouring farm has helped ease his pain, but the past haunts her as well. When Harry's son Drew suddenly shows up after a thirteen-year estrangement, Harry must decide whether he will learn from his mistakes or make them all over
Title: Mick Unplugged
Author: Nelson, Greg Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005
Description:
roy comedy - romance five characters three male; two female two acts
Mitch wants to re-start his life - but will his old pals "clash" with his plans or will they play along? Sparks fly as old friends reunite in this unabashedly romantic and boldly contemporary comedy about the perils of nostalgia, the joy of 80's punk, and how hard it is to tell your best friend that you're in love with them.
Title: Middle Ages, The
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1978
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
"The action takes place in the trophy room of a rather stuffy men's club in a midwestern city. Barney, the son of the club president, is infatuated with Eleanor, a local girl of good background, but she is wary of his wildness, and opts to date, and then marry his stolid brother, Billy. In a series of flashbacks we encounter Barney at various stages of his life: as he runs away to join the Navy during the Korean war; as a campus activist in California; as a graduate student; and ultimately, as a successful producer of porno films. The flashbacks take Barney and Eleanor from Title: Miser of Middlegate, The
Author: Gray, Carolyn Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2014
Description:
roy comedy - farce five characters three male; two female two acts
"Set in modern day Winnipeg, Gray's inspired version of Moliere's classic satire is part sex farce and part screwball comedy. Exploring family, love and money, THE MISER OF MIDDLEGATE sharply critiques our culture obsessed with acquisition and never loses its sense of humour. A cheeky and irreverent romp into the lives of one entrepreneurial Winnipeg family."
Title: Miss Autobody Translation of : Mademoiselle Autobody. Author: Gaboriau, Linda Publisher: gynergy books 1993
Description:
roy comedy - women all female cast; six characters six female two acts
"Led by a savvy group of feminist mechanics, the women of Pompomville thwart a scheme to show porn videos at a local bar. This is the premise of Miss Autobody, the celebrated and hilarious play by the acclaimed Quebec theatre troupe, les Folles Alliees. Miss Autobody accurately depicts the insidious effects of pornography and misogyny, and splits your sides in the process".
Title: Miss Firecracker Contest, The
Author: Henley, Beth Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1985
Description:
roy comedy six characters two male; four female two acts
'Small town beauty contestant hoping to salvage tarnished reputation must cope with eccentric relatives. Dancing.' Title: Mojo
Author: Butterworth, Jez Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1999
Description:
roy comedy - drama all male cast; six characters six male two acts
"Silver Johnny is the new singing sensation, straight out of a low-life Soho clubland bar in 1958. His success could be the big break for two dead-end workers in the bar, if they play their cards right and trust the owner of the place to make a good deal with the local money mogul. Before they can dream what to do with all the money they'll make, the owner turns up dead, Silver Johnny disappears, the second in command takes over the bar and power positions are juggled about." Winner of the 1995 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.
Title: Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl
Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
"A Chinese son must tell his parents he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called Wrath of the Yellow Claw."
Winner of the 1998/99 Elizabeth Sterling Hayes Award for Best New Work.
Title: Mom's the Word
Author: Carson, Linda Daum, Jill Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy drama - comedy - Canadian - family - motherhood all female cast; six characters six female two acts
"Getting together to share their experiences, six woman performers struck upon the idea to write about what they were going through as mothers trying to maintain their careers, their individual identities, and their relationships with their partners. The result is an evening of hilarious stories, bittersweet monologues, poetic reflections and revelatory anecdotes. Touching tales of giving birth to a premature baby are balanced against comic, ribald, rants on diaper soup; whispered, hesitant conversations about sex after children; and the desperate confessionals of Title: Money Matters
Author: Parker, Michael Parker, Susan Publisher: Samuel French 2015
Description:
roy comedy - farce six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set; running time: 2 hrs.
"The late Mr. Hammond spent twenty years printing $20 bills on a printing press he built in the basement of Monet Manor. After his death ten years ago, his faithful retainer George and his daughter Annie, continued the family business for Mr. Hammond’s widow who recently passed away. Contrary to her promise to leave the manor and all her assets to George and Annie, she has
Title: Monogamist, The
Author: Kyle, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1996
Description:
roy comedy - drama - satire five characters two male; three female two acts
Dennis, a forty-something poet who has never lived up to his early promise, has just written a collection of poems concerned with the new relevance of monogamy in 1960s America. And, in a testament to his new philosophy, he's married his longtime companion, Susan, a professor of women's literature at Princeton. So imagine his surprise when he finds Susan in bed with one of her students, the morally ambiguous Tim. Thrown into a mid-life crisis by his wife's infidelity, Dennis ends up in the arms of Sky, a confused twenty-year-old who voted for George Bush
Title: Month of Sundays, A
Author: Larbey, Bob Publisher: Samuel French 1988
Description:
roy comedy - age six characters three male; three female two acts
interior set.
"Jason Robards, Jr. starred in this Broadway comedy about the difficulties inherent in growing old. He played a crotchety old coot named Cooper who has gone into a nursing home rather than become a burden on his family, there to flirt valiantly with the female staff, banter with the other old folks and keep a close check on his 'record of physical deteriorations'." Title: Moon Is Blue, The
Author: Herbert, F. Hugh Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1951
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female three acts
2 sets.
An architect invites a girl he meets on the Empire State Building to his place for a supper which is disrupted by calls from the architect's ex-fiancee and her father.
Title: Moon over the Brewery
Author: Graham, Bruce Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1990
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - coming of age four characters two male; two female two acts
suggested for high school.
A touching, gently humorous study of a precocious teenager's "coming of age," in which fantasy and reality are deftly juxtaposed to heighten the affecting message of the play.
Title: Moonlight and Magnolias
Author: Hutchinson, Ron Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005
Description:
roy comedy - movie history four characters three male; one female two acts
"A hilarious inside look at the making of GONE WITH THE WIND. Film mogul David O. Selznick has just shut down production of his dream movie. The script must be rewritten in five days. He summons screenwriter, Ben Hecht, and pulls director, Victor Fleming, off the set of THE WIZARD OF OZ. The perfect guys for the job. But there's one problem. Hecht hasn't read the book. Locked in Selznick's office, subsisting on peanuts and bananas, this veteran team, with Selznick playing every role, creates the movie masterpiece and rewrites Hollywood history." Title: Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, The
Author: Wiebe, Armin Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
"A preacher should know that in the Bible a man would wear a dress." A comic 'folk play' with a classical music base, THE MOONLIGHT SONOTA OF BEETHOVEN BLATZ follows a farm wife, a carpenter, a midwife, and a musician as they struggle to find fulfillment of their seemingly impossible wantings, drawing on the means at hand on a homestead removed from the stifling customs of the village.
Title: More Fun Than Bowling
Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
'Comedy set in small Midwestern town. Owner of bowling alley ponders life, death, love, marriage and fatherhood.'
Title: Motherlode
Author: Dore, Deirdre Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - comedy - Canadian - relationships - women - family relations six characters three male; three female two acts
"An exotic dancer gives up her baby to her straight-laced sister and biker hubby to raise, then three months later has second thoughts. From playground to strip bar to church to trailer, a traumatic comedy of errors ensues as the sisters battle each other as well as thier own demons to determine who is best suited to be the mother." Title: Mounting Sex in the Afternoon Zone
Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1995
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - relationships - Alberta playwright six characters flexible casting two acts
This play is a farce within a sitcom. Both genres being comedy, the bulimia and adultery issues should in no way be attempted to be played dramatically. . .'
Title: Mr. 80%
Author: Sherman, James Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1987
Description:
roy comedy - romance six characters three male; three female two acts
suggested for high school. Sharon, a no-nonsense young attorney, and Patricia, who is doing her medical residency, advertise for a roommate to help pay the rent of their New York apartment. After a sour experience with Sharon's former live-in boyfriend, the two decide to specify either another woman or a gay male only, which elicits a response from Sam, a struggling young comic, who, with his partner, Jan, is desperate to find an affordable place to live—desperate enough to pose as a homosexual,
Title: Murder Among Friends
Author: Barry, Bob Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy comedy - thriller six characters four male; two female two acts
Take an aging, exceedingly vain actor; his very rich wife; a double-dealing, double-loving agent-plunk them down in an elegant New York duplex and add dialogue crackling with wit and laughs and you have the basic elements for an evening of pure, sophisticated entertainment. Angel, the wife and Ted, the agent, are lovers and plan to murder Palmer, the actor, during a contrived robbery on New Year's Eve. But actor and agent are also lovers and have an identical plan to do in the wife. A murder occurs, but not one of the planned ones. Clever, amusing, and Title: My Chernobyl
Author: Bushkowsky, Aaron Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy comedy - romance five characters three male; two female two acts
A naive Canadian man travels to Belarus to give an inheritance to his father's last remaining relative. While there, he meets his long-lost cousin, a beautiful, young Russian woman, who sets her sights on her wealthy relative as a ticket out of the radiation-blasted country, where cultures and ideals clash with touching and hilarious results.
2008 Victoria Critics' Spotlight Award for Best Professional Production and Best New Play.
Title: My Darling Judith
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1987
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations four characters two male; two female two acts
David Stafford, a men's clothing tycoon, coerces one of his employees into having an affair with his wife Judith, so he can sue her for divorce and marry another. However, when David discovers that his wife might actually have feelings for the underling, he begins to have second thoughts, in this modern comedy of manners.
Title: My Fat Friend
Author: Laurence, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 1974
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female two acts
Vicky, who runs a book shop in Hampstead, is a heavyweight. Inevitably she suffers, good humoredly enough, the slings and arrows of the two characters who share the flat over the shop, a somewhat glum Scottish youth who works in an au pair capacity, and her lodger, a not so young homosexual. When a customer, a handsome bronzed man of thirty, seems attracted to her she resolves she will slim by hook or by crook. Aided by her two friends, hard exercise, diet and a graph, she manages to reduce to a stream line version of her former self only to find that it was Title: My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon
Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - marital relations five characters two male; three female two acts
In the first years of the twentieth century, Evelyn Nesbit, the beautiful, teen-age pin up and chorus girl, was the entrancing center of an explosive and deadly love triangle involving Stanford White, her married lover and the architect of many of the most famous buildings in New York, who liked to push her naked on a red velvet swing, and Harry K. Thaw, the wealthy, manic and demented roller-skating Pittsburgh playboy who married her, beat her with a horse whip, and eventually shot White through the eye socket during a musical performance at the rooftop theatre at White's
Title: Mystery of Irma Vep
Author: Ludlam, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy parody six characters three male; two female; one male or female three acts
'Parody of Gothic melodramas featuring a werewolf, a vampire and an Egyptian princess.'
Title: Nature of Captivity, The
Author: Publisher: Samuel French 2013
Description:
roy dark comedy eight characters two male; two female (doubling) two acts
In part one, a family is run from their home by a settlement of people. In part two, a settlement of people get a surprise guest while simply trying to run a put'upon family from their home.
Winner! 2011 BBC Top Prize of the Americas. Title: Ned Durango Comes To Big Oak
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
"An aging television cowboy star comes to the aid of an economically troubled small town in this funny, sometimes moving play."
Title: Neon Psalms
Author: Strelich, Thomas Publisher: Samuel French
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
The setting of this off beat play is an isolated trailer near Boron, California: site of the world's largest open pit Borax mine. A fragile truce between Luton Mears, a retired heavy equipment operator, and his born again wife Patina is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of their daughter Barbara, a divorcee in her thirties. Lost and bottomed out, she moves home just to get back on her feet and finds herself trapped in a comic but progressively brutal cross fire between Luton who wants her to stay and Patina who wants her to go. This wasteland receives a blast of hilariously
Title: Never Get Smart with an Angel
Author: Tibbles, George Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy comedy - family relations six characters four male; two female two acts
Salvatore lives over his shoe repair shop with his Son, Paolo, who's going to be a doctor. Sal's best friend is Carmine, and they also hate one another. Into this Italian ethnic world Paolo brings Dorothy, of "WASP" descent, whose banker type father Sal detests. World War II arrives Paolo's drafted and secretly marries Dorothy. It so happens Sal and Carmine are rich, through judicious investments, and even own Dorothy's father's bank building. Dorothy, now pregnant, moves in with Sal who now defends her against all comers. There are problems there's tears and there's Title: Next Move, The
Author: Szanto, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy satire five characters three male; two female two acts
"Set in an Army Induction Center, where an overweight, over-age, and overwrought draftee has reluctantly reported for his physical. Confronted by an Amazon-like female sergeant, he tries every evasion he can think of to disqualify himself, but is ultimately shattered by the realization that nothing will stave off the inevitable. His final monologue, a harrowing exposure of bitterness and confusion, reveals the dilemma of a man to whom the meaning and purpose of his country have become unclear".
Title: Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music
Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1990
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - romance five characters two male; two female; one boy two acts
Eve Wilfong, who lives over the "Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music Bar," is paid a visit by her niece Catherine Empanger, a novice nun who's been asked to leave her convent. It seems Catherine suffers from a curious compulsion to yell obscenities at the wrong moment, and even, on occasion, bark like a dog. Roy, an honest if simple fellow from the bar downstairs, wants to court Catherine whether she's a nun or not. Eve feels she should give her niece the benefit of her experiences with men before allowing her to venture back into the mad modern country world.
Title: Nina A French Comedy Author: Roussin, Andre Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female three acts
Description not available. Title: Norman, Is That You?
Author: Clark, Ron Bobrick, Sam Publisher: Samuel French 1970
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
When a man's wife runs off with his brother, he drops in on his son, now living in New York, only to discover that his son is gay.
Title: Not With My Daughter
Author: Christopher, Jay Publisher: Samuel French 1976
Description:
roy comedy - fatherhood six characters three male; three female three acts
Will Gray has a problem when his 18 year old daughter appears at his swinging singles apartment door. Will and his neighbor, a radio DJ named Rip have a penchant for juggling girls like antacid tablets. Poor Will has a go go girl in the living room with her motor running and a devoted young lady in the bed room. Rip has a girl in his apartment already when Will calls on him to entertain the go go girl. Then Will's daughter appears to complicate matters further not only are explanations in order but daughter has problems of her own. How it all is resolved will leave the
Title: Notorious Right Robert and His Robber Bride, The A play Author: Dixon, Sean Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - adventure six characters four male; two female two acts
suitable for school performances: students age 10+; running time: 100 min.
A Bonnie and Clyde tale set in 1930's wildwoods Canada. In the fictional one-horse town of Chickabiddy, Right Robert, a wanna-be bad guy, sets out with his practical-minded brother Blue Jay to rob his way to fame and fortune. He happens upon Jenny Lundy, a poor farm girl with big dreams of her own. Their chance meeting sets them on a bittersweet journey of crime and familial Title: November
Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Vintage Books 2008
Description:
roy comedy - politics five characters four male; one female three acts
It's November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent. Though his staff has thrown in the towel and his wife has begun to prepare for her post-White House life, Chuck isn't ready to give up just yet. Amidst the biggest fight of his political career, the President has to find time to pardon a couple of turkeys — saving them from the slaughter before Thanksgiving — and this simple PR event inspires Smith to risk it all in
Title: Off the Map
Author: Ackermann, Joan Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1999
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; two female; one girl two acts
suggested for high school. Bo Groden looks back on the summer when she was eleven years old and everything changed. Serving as narrator, she sifts through the memories of an unusual childhood spent in the wilds of northern New Mexico where her enterprising parents forged a rich life off the land and the local dump. Desperate to escape as a child, longing for modern amenities and normalcy, now she yearns to go back. This is the summer when Charley, her father, spiraled into depression. Usually
Title: Office Hours
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
"Six separate stories unfold in six separate offices on one Friday afternoon. The stories are all related, though, in this biting look at how people get by in the modern world." Title: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You In The Closet And I'm Feelin' So Sad
Author: Kopit, Arthur L. Publisher: Samuel French 1960
Description:
roy farce - black comedy five characters; extras three male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
Wealthy, overbearing Madame Rosepettle with her stuttering, awkward son Jonathan at her heels, arrives at a posh hotel with a man-eating tropical plant, piranha fish and coffin in tow. Rosalie, a voluptuous babysitter from the couple next door "who never come home" attempts to seduce Jonathan and proves a formidable opponent to Madame herself.
Title: Old Love
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - aging - romance ten characters two male; two female (or) one male; one female (doubling) two acts
The story spans three decades and half a dozen meetings between Bud, a salesman, and Molly, his boss's wife. One of them is smitten from the very first meeting—the other, let's just say—less so. The story is straightforward, easy to follow and funny, often very funny. Canada's pre-eminent comic playwright Norm Foster has written a clever and witty dialogue celebrating the pursuit of love, the kind of love that “makes you breathe just a little bit faster.” Charmingly written, with just a few curse words for effect, Foster's use of one-liner’s serve the script well and has the audience
Title: Old Neighborhood, The
Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Vintage Books 1998
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - autobiographical five characters three male; two female three parts
In these three short plays, a middle-aged Bobby Gould returns to the old neighbourhood in a series of encounters with his past that, however briefly, open windows on his present. In "Disappearance of the Jews," Bobby and an old buddy fantasize about finding themselves in a nostalgic shtetl paradise while revealing how lost they are in their own families. In the comfort of her kitchen, Bobby's sister "Jolly" unscrolls a list of childhood grievances that is at once painful and hilarious. And the old girlfriend in "Deeny", faced with a man she once loved, finds herself Title: On Approval
Author: Lonsdale, Frederick Publisher: Samuel French 1928
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female three acts
2 interior sets.
Two couples who are thinking of getting engaged, spend a month in an isolated house in Scotland to get better acquainted. The members of each couple learn eye opening facts about each other.
Title: On Golden Pond
Author: Thompson, Ernest Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1979
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A gentle comedy depicting the annual summer vacation of an old couple at their cabin at the lake. The couple share their joys and concerns about life, death and their daughter, who comes to visit them with her fiance and his thirteen year old son.
Title: On The Open Road
Author: Tesich, Steve Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - civil war six characters four male; one boy; one girl two acts
"While fleeing a civil war, Al comes across Angel trussed up and waiting to be hung. Al is pulling a cart loaded with art treasures he has salvaged from bombed out churches and museums. He hopes to barter his way into The Land of the Free with them, but the cart has become too heavy for Al to pull. He rescues the brutish Angel to help. On the open road Al teaches Angel about literature, music and art history so that he will make a good citizen. When they reach the border, they are told they must execute a troublemaker named Jesus Christ to earn their freedom. He has Title: On The Verge; or, The Geography Of Yearning
Author: Overmyer, Eric Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 1988
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female two acts
Three Victorian lady explorers set out on an adventure that takes them to darkest Africa, highest Himalaya and Terra Incognita... Heroines to their heart, the explorers can accommodate themselves to any emergency, although they are momentarily disoriented as they approach modern times.
Title: One Flea Spare
Author: Wallace, Naomi Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 1997
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - historical five characters three male; one female; one girl two acts
A wealthy couple is preparing to flee their home when a mysterious sailor and a young girl appear sneaking into their boarded up house. Now, quarantined together for 28 days, the only thing these strangers fear more than the Plague is each other. Definitions of morality are up for grabs and survival takes many forms in this dark, fiercely intense & humorous play. The play deals with the clash of cultural, social, and sexual boundaries.
Title: One For The Road
Author: Russell, Willy Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
Roy Comedy Four characters Two male; two female Two act s
On the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, Dennis makes a last ditch attempt to break away from the confines of his middle class, suburban existence. Imprisoned on Phase Two of a Northern England housing estate, and surrounded by Tupperware parties, Weight Watchers and husband-wife swapping, he tries to revert to his former easy-going way of life. He reaches breaking point when next door neighbors Roger and Jane arrive for his party carrying presents that epitomize the hated way of life. In the end, unable to beat the unyielding interference of Title: One Shoe Off
Author: Howe, Tina Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - marriage five characters three male; two female two acts
"A comedy about marriage, fidelity, adulterous longings, existential panic and the theatre. Leonard is an actor who hasn't worked in eleven years; Dinah is an overworked costume designer who can't dress herself. They have invited their new neighbors for dinner. Tate is an overworked editor who delights in reciting nursery rhymes and his beautiful wife Clio is a movie starlet. Things explode when Parker Bliss suddenly drops in. He is an old friend of the hosts' and a successful movie director. Old memories are stirred and new passions are kindled as vegetables
Title: Only Kidding!
Author: Geoghan, Jim Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; five characters five male two acts
In this Off Broadway hit, an over the hill comic who is desperate for a shot on a late night TV show has invited a hip young writer to his cottage in the Catskills to help him update his act. They might as well be talking in tongues about what is funny! The second act moves to a seedy club where the mafia connected owner wants aspiring comics to sign a contract giving him a commission on their future earnings. Then the play goes to comedy heaven: backstage at that late night TV show. The older comedian awaits his last chance at the big time and one of the comics
Title: Orphan Muses, The
Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1995
Description:
roy comedy - French - Canadian - family relations four characters one male; three female three acts
"Four siblings gather with the idea of "settling" family matters - some of which turn out to be not what they expected. They prepare for their mother to return who abandond them twenty years ago. She is coming on Easter Sunday, which lends a powerful dynamic to this odd assembly in Lac-Saint-Jean. There is a rich replaying of family tradition and rural Quebec religious celebration, modulated by the contributions of four eccentric individuals. The play is set in 1965, in Quiet Revolution of Quebec, offers yet another reminiscence another note of re-play." Title: Orphans, The
Author: Prideaux, James Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
Two eccentric and very wealthy spinster sisters who have never left their hotel apartment in the twenty-five years since their parents' deaths, are suddenly confronted with the outside world when their bellhop tries to rob them.
Title: Other Desert Cities
Author: Baitz, Jon Robin Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relations five characters two male; three female two acts
The play's name refers to a control city guide sign on eastbound Interstate 10 in California, which indicates that the freeway is headed towards Indio, California and "other Desert Cities" (that is, the rest of the Coachella Valley). The play's events occur around the Christmas 2004 holiday, when the family of Polly and Lyman Wyeth gather in Palm Springs, California. Their daughter Brooke Wyeth returns home after six years. Polly's sister Silda is also visiting, out of a time spent in rehab. Polly and Lyman are Republicans, while Silda is a liberal. The sisters co-wrote a series of
Title: Other People
Author: Shinn, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000
Description:
roy comedy six characters five male; one female three acts
Stephen, a struggling playwright and web-site movie critic, invites his ex-boyfriend, Mark, to spend Christmas with him and his roommate, Petra, a poet and stripper. Mark, who's recently completed making an independent film and is fresh out of rehab, begins his life back in the real world by becoming friends with Tan, a street hustler with a penchant for public masturbation. Meanwhile, Petra begins to engage outside of work with one of her customers, a kind, lonely investment banker who'd rather hear her talk than see her strip. In the crucible of a tiny East Title: Other People's Money
Author: Sterner, Jerry Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy satire six characters four male; two female two acts
'Satire on capitalist mentality. Corporate raider attempts to take over moribund mom-and-pop company.'
Title: Our Lady of the Tortilla
Author: Santeiro, Luis Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1991
Description:
roy comedy - family relations six characters two male; four female two acts
suggested for high school.
In one wild weekend, an Hispanic American family threatens to burst at the seams. The college-aged son brings home his WASPy girlfriend; his flamboyant mother goes off in mad pursuit of her straying husband, and the old aunt sees the face of the Virgin in a tortilla—turning their New Jersey home into a suburban Lourdes.
Title: Over the River and Through the Woods
Author: DiPietro, Joe Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1999
Description:
roy comedy - family relations six characters three male; three female two acts
"Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn't mean his family isn't still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family's love to move to Seattle, for a job, wonder his grandparents? Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio, and Emma do their level best, and that includes bringing to dinner the lovely-and single - Caitlin O'Hare as bait." Title: P. S. Your Cat Is Dead!
Author: Kirkwood, James Publisher: Samuel French 1976
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female two acts
This rewritten version takes place in a loft apartment in N.Y.C. on New Year's Eve. Jimmy Zole, a 38 year old actor who has recently been robbed twice - the second robbery relieving him of the only copy of his first novel is merely at the beginning of his run of bad luck. By New Year's Eve, the run escalates to a full gallop. He is fired from a play, his cat is on the critical list, and he catches his girl friend, Kate, packing to leave him. After she is gone Jimmy, on the brink of a breakdown, discovers a burglar, Vito, hiding under his bed - about to rip him off for the third time. Jimmy
Title: Pageant
Author: MacDonald, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female two acts
Cars, pageants and plastic surgery. The isolation of the East Kootenay mountains leads to strange and beautiful acts. A darkly comic tale of beauty, loyalty and redemption. Trudy, Deer Ridge's own beauty queen, comes face-to-face with the broken realities of her dream-life and must turn to a most unlikely source for solace and truth.
Title: Paisley Convertible, The
Author: Cauley, Harry Publisher: Samuel French 1967
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
A newly married couple almost breaks up when the artistic wife's old boyfriend arrives with a wedding gift of some nude sketches of himself by the young woman. Title: Papa Is All
Author: Greene, Patterson Publisher: Samuel French 1942
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female three acts
play uses dialect.
Members of an orthodox Mennonite family are catalysed into rebelling against the father's tyranny when the daughter falls in love with an outsider.
Title: Passion Play
Author: Nichols, Peter Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1981
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations six characters two male; four female; extras two acts
Infidelities by the husband cause a couple to examine their lives through their alter egos.
Title: Passionate Woman, A A Play Author: Mellor, Kay Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy comedy - domestic relations four characters three male; one female two acts
A doting mother finds it hard to accept that her son is leaving the fold to get married. On the morning of the wedding, she retreats to the attic where she relives her long lost youth and a passionate affair she enjoyed before becoming bogged down in a listless marriage. Title: Perfect Party, The
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Nelson Doubleday 1986
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
"Urbane college professor quits job and tries to climb social ladder by hosting the 'perfect party'."
Title: Perfect Wedding A Comedy Author: Hawdon, Robin Publisher: Samuel French 2001
Description:
roy comedy - Little Theatre - romance six characters two male; four female two acts
"A man wakes up in the bridal suite on his wedding morning to find an extremely attractive naked girl in bed beside him. In the depths of a stag night hangover, he can't even remember meeting her. Before he can get her out, his bride to be arrives to dress for the wedding and, in the ensuing panic, the girl is locked in the bathroom. The best man is persuaded to claim her, but he gets confused and introduces the chamber maid to the bride as his date. The crisis escalates to nuclear levels by the time the mother of the bride and the best man's actual girlfriend arrive."
Title: Phoenix Lottery, The
Author: Stratton, Allan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - family relations six characters four male; two female two acts
Edgar Beamish dies, leaving his corporate empire to his estranged son, Junior, who launches a charitable foundation with company assets. Disaster ensues; bankruptcy appears certain. But Junior has a fundraising inspiration, The Phoenix Lottery. It offers its winner instant fame and fortune: the chance to torch a prized van Gogh at a live event, and to sell the story to TV, tabloids and Hollywood. But powerful enemies include the slippery Vatican envoy Cardinal Wichita, the ghost of Junior's father - and the spirit of van Gogh himself. An exploration of art, commerce, and Title: Picking Up Chekhov
Author: Robinson, Mansel Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2007
Description:
roy black comedy - dark comedy - Canadian five characters; extras two male; one female; two girls two acts
"Picking Up Chekhov" is a picaresque black comedy about a two-bit repo-man, his angry ex-wife and their smart-alec teenaged daughter whose lives collide with an enigmatic hitchhiker named Chekhov and a kid with a serious grudge.
Title: Plan B
Author: Healey, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy comedy - political four characters three male; one female two acts
'High-level meetings to negotiate the departure of Quebec from Canada are charged by personal impulses toward seduction and betrayal, union and division, intimacy and distance.'
2002-Dora Award Winner
Title: Play By Play
Author: Patrick, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1975
Description:
roy comedy - verse six characters three male; three female two acts
1 set.
While the actors act out a classical tragedy, the dialogue reveals what they are actually thinking about the play, their characters and the other actors. Title: Play Yourself
Author: Kondoleon, Harry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2004
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships four characters one male; three female two acts
Jean, an ex-movie star who left Hollywood some time ago, lives with Yvonne, her daughter. Their main activities together involve reenacting moments from Jean's old movies, in which she always seemed to play the "other woman." After placing an ad seeking more information about Jean, Selma is invited into their lives. Selma is obsessed with Jean—not with the real one, but with the one on screen—to the point that she hopes to learn how to become Jean. When not submerged in Jean's past, Selma works with Brother Harmon, also a fan of Jean, running a shelter for "the hopeless."
Title: Point of Order, A A comedy Author: Simpson, Ed Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy comedy - Little Theatre six characters four male; two female two acts
interior set.
Ever since the leading employer left for sunny Georgia, times have been tough in Randolphsburgh, PA. The nation's leading importer of overcast. Hoping to create a media event that will turn things around, a committee is organizing the dedication of a statue of the town's only famous citizen, short, bald space shuttle astronaut Dr. Dick Davidson. With three weeks
Title: Polish Joke
Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003
Description:
roy comedy - culture - identity eighteen characters three male; two female two acts
A comedy about ethnic identity and the eternal American search for "roots." Jasiu is a Polish-American who has been taught not to value his own roots, so he decides to make his own roots, reinventing himself first as a sort of non-ethnic everyman, then as an "Irishman." Jasiu's adventures—alternately zany and heartbreaking—take him through a job interview with an Ur-Wasp; to an attempt to become a Catholic priest; to a flower shop where he can't get service because he is weirdly invisible; to a doomed love affair with a Jewish woman; to a wacky Irish Title: Poor Richard
Author: Kerr, Jean Publisher: Samuel French 1965
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
When a charming raffish British poet comes to America, his publisher's secretary tries to help him because she decided years earlier that he would marry her. The poet and the secretary come to terms with themselves in the course of trying to work around the secretary's urge to marry.
Title: Possible Worlds
Author: Mighton, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy Canadian - black comedy six characters four male; two female two acts
"George believes he lives in an infinite number of worlds at the same time. As detectives race to solve a series of murders in which the victims' brains are removed, George falls in love with different incarnations of the same woman."
Title: Prisoner Of Second Avenue, The
Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Samuel French 1972
Description:
roy comedy six characters two male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
A man who is suffering from high anxiety and mid-life crisis begins to find absurdities in everything around him. He suffers a nervous breakdown and with the support of his wife is able to survive it in the face of cloying and clucking relatives. Title: Prisoner of Zenda, The
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy romantic comedy - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
2 interior sets.
A long-lost cousin, the physical double to the rightful heir to the throne of Ruritania, stands in for the drugged Prince to prevent the conniving step-brother from seizing power. A swashbuckling adventure of mistaken identity and high romance.
Title: Private Eyes
Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female or: three male; two female two acts
'A comedy of suspicion in which nothing is ever quite what it seems. Matthew's wife, Lisa, is having an affair with Adrian, a British theatre director. Or perhaps the affair is part of the play being rehearsed. Or perhaps Matthew has imagined all of it simply to have something to report to Frank, his therapist. And, finally, there is Cory - the mysterious woman who seems to shadow the others - who brings the story to its surprising conclusion. Or does she? The audience itself plays the role of detective in this hilarious "relationship thriller" about love, lust and the power of
Title: Private Lives
Author: Coward, Noel Publisher: Samuel French 1930
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female three acts
"Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark, and impulsively elope. After some days of being reunited, however, they again find their fiery romance alternating between passions of love and anger. Into this situation come their aggrieved spouses. There is a roundelay of affiliations as the women first stick together, then apart, as new partnerships are formed. Eventually there is a knock-down-drag-out fight between the spouses which opens the eyes of Elyot and Amanda, who Title: Psychic, The A murder mystery of sorts Author: Bobrick, Sam Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy comedy - murder mystery - thriller six characters four male; two female two acts
running time: 90 mins.
'The Psychic' follows the chaotic life of Adam Webster, a down-on-his-luck writer, who has put a sign in his apartment window, in desperation to make the rent: "Psychic Readings $25." The sign soon draws the interest of the lovely and conflicted Laura, her shady husband, Roy, Roy's mistress, Rita, a gangster named Johnny Bubbles, and ace Detective Norris Coslow. In the
Title: Psychopathia Sexualis
Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy - wedding - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
"Arthur, an obscure young painter struggling in the art world of Manhattan, announces to his self-satisfied friend, Howard, that he is engaged to be married. To whom? asks Howard. The answer is to Lucille, a powerful, attractive, no-nonsense Texas socialite, a kind of wealthy Annie Oakley. But Arthur confides to Howard, there are three problems: 1. Arthur is a fetishist and Lucille doesn't know. He cannot make love without being in proximity to his father's argyle socks. 2. Arthur's psychiatrist, Dr. Block, unable to cure Arthur of his fetish, has stolen said socks. 3.
Title: Pterodactyls
Author: Silver, Nicky Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994
Description:
roy comedy - absurdist - relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
"Pterodactyls is an absurdist black comedy about the demise of the Duncan family. Emma Duncan, a hypochondriac with memory problems, and her orphaned fiancé, Tommy, confront her mother Grace with news of their intended marriage. Disapproving at first, Grace puts Tommy to work as a maid. Shortly after, Grace's son, Todd, returns home and announces that he has AIDS, which sets off a frenzy of denial-spurred activity. The father, Arthur Duncan, reaches out to his son who is more interested in assembling the dinosaur bones he discovered in the backyard. As the wedding Title: Queen Milli of Galt
Author: Kirkham, Gary Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comedy - romance - Little Theatre six characters three male; three female two acts
"Based on a true story. A lovely romantic comedy with a handy supply of humour, this play is a genuinely witty exploration of unexpected love. In 1972, the Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) dies while living in exile at the age of 78. Two weeks later in Canada, an 80 year old woman from a small town named Galt has her tombstone engraved, claiming to be his wife. A young journalist appears at her door, eager for answers."
Title: Rabbit
Author: Raine, Nina Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2006
Description:
roy comedy - women six characters three male; three female two acts
A fiercely funny play about what it's like to be a young woman living, working, drinking, loving and having sex in the 21st century. It's Bella's 29th birthday. Friends and former lovers meet for a drink to celebrate. But as the Bloody Marys flow, the bar soon becomes a battlefield...
Title: Radical Mystique, The
Author: Laurents, Arthur Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy comedy of manners five characters three male; two female two acts
Running time: 120 minutes
In the New York of the late 60's when the term "radical chic" was coined by Tom Wolfe, friends Josie and Janice are arranging a party to aid the Black Panthers' Self Defense Fund. In the process, their complacency is shaken and they are forced to confront things they would prefer to leave alone. Title: Raised in Captivity
Author: Silver, Nicky Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1995
Description:
roy black comedy - love seven characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
"Probably one of Silver's most endearing and quirkiest plays. Sebastian Bliss is a young man who has been an emotional celibate ever since his lover died eleven years ago. Following the funeral of his mother, Sebastian finds himself thrust into situations with other humans against his will. His twin sister Bernadette is completely unstable, her husband Kip is a dentist who hates teeth, his psychiatrist Hillary is a self-mutilating basket case, and his only friend is Dylan, a convicted murderer whom he writes letters to and has never seen. Unconventional is probably the best way
Title: Raven and the Writing Desk, The A quizzical romantic comedy Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - romance - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
A stand alone play that continues the tale of Steven Tudor begun in "The Red King's Dream" and "Between Yourself and Me"; running time: 120 min.
Steven and Amy are in love. And so they've decided to move in together. But can true love survive the crucible of co-habitation? Especially when an intrusive ex-boyfriend enters the picture followed closely by Steven's domineering mother. It's a romantic comedy of accommodation and
Title: Ravenscroft
Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy dark comedy - mystery - thriller - murder⌦six characters one male; five female two acts
period - rural English country, December, 1905; other Inspector Ruffing plays include: Phantoms, Widdershins, Mephisto, The Rooky Wood, Creatures Lurking in the Churchyard, and Demonology. This psychological drama is a thinking person's Gothic thriller, a dark comedy that is both funny and frightening. On a snowy night, Inspector Ruffing is called to a remote house to investigate the headlong plunge of Patrick Roarke down the main staircase. He becomes involved in the lives of five alluring and dangerous women: Marcy, the beautiful Viennese governess with a Title: Ready When You Are, C. B. !
Author: Slade, Susan Publisher: Samuel French 1960
Description:
roy comedy five characters one male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
A retired would-be actress who makes her living by subletting her apartment to travelling actors, sublets to a famous movie star who has walked out of his film and whose very presence jars her into doing something with herself.
Title: Real Estate
Author: Harkin, Allana Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
"Joel, a mystery novelist experiencing writer's block, retreats to the small-town family home that his father built; but the house needs to be sold, and fast! Enter Emma-an incredibly determined realtor -who decides that Joel is as much of a fixer-upper as the house he lives in. With the addition of Joel's soon-to-be-ex looking to get divorce papers signed and her man purse - toting beauty entrepreneur boyfriend in tow, Emma focuses all her considerable energy into developing the curb appeal of the house-as well as its inhabitant. The comedy is sure , the characters are well
Title: Red King's Dream, The
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - bachelorhood - relationships - Alberta playwright four characters one male; three female two acts
prequel to "Between Yourself and Me" and "The Raven and the Writing Desk".
"Stephen Tudor's world is solitary, logical and precise. And that's good. Until a new neighbor moves down the hall. Now Stephen is feeling things he's never felt before. What happens when a man who thinks too much falls in love? A little story of love and logic through the looking glass." Title: Relatively Speaking
Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Evans Brothers 1968
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
2 sets.
A man drops in at the address of what he thinks is his girlfriend's parents' home in order to ask permission to marry the girl. The people he assumes to be the parents are really the girl's former employer / lover and his wife.
Title: Retreat, The
Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters three male; one female two acts
"A film producer is attracted to a young writer's screenplay - about a false Messiah - as as opportunity to recharge his own idealism. The young writer herself ponders big revisions not just to her screenplay but also to her integrity. This is a bracing comedy about deal making and soul searching."
Title: Rexy
Author: Stratton, Allan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - political - biography five characters four male; one female two acts
1 exterior set.
An astute and witty look at PM Mackenzie King, spiritualist and politician.
Co-winner, 1981 Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Winner, 1981 Dora Mavor Moore and Canadian Author's Association awards for best new play. Title: Road to Nirvana
Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy black comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
'Washed up Hollywood producers degrade themselves so that rock superstar will allow them to film her autobiography.'
Title: Rocket Man
Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003
Description:
roy dramatic comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
'Rocket Man is a serious comedy about the road not taken. Donny Rowan has placed everything he owns on his front lawn, along with a sign that reads: Here's my life. Make an offer." He has cut a skylight into his attic and placed his E-Z Boy recliner underneath where he can sit, staring at stars. Somewhere in the universe, Donny believes, is a place where all the roads we never choose converge. Rocket Man explores one man's obsessive desire to find this "parallel world" - and the profound effect of his decision on his family and friends.'
Title: Romantic Comedy
Author: Slade, Bernard Publisher: Samuel French 1979
Description:
roy comedy six characters two male; four female three acts
1 interior set.
Two playwrights try to deny their love for each other for fourteen years of working together and being married to other spouses but eventually their love emerges and they are united. Title: Rose's Dilemma
Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Samuel French 2004
Description:
roy comedy - playwriting four characters two male; two female two acts
running time: 120 minutes; 1 setting
In her beach house in the Hamptons, celebrated writer Rose Stern stands at a crossroads: she hasn't written anything in years and money is getting short. Her former lover, literary lion Walsh McLaren, offers her-from beyond the grave-an opportunity to regain her celebrity and gross millions.
Title: Rough Crossing
Author: Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Faber and Faber 1985
Description:
roy comedy - British six characters five male; one female two acts
"The co-authors, the composer and most of the cast of a musical comedy destined for Broadway are simultaneously trying to finish and rehearse the play while crossing the Atlantic on an ocean liner."
Title: Round and Round the Garden
Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1975
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
Part 3 of a trilogy. A man's attempt to spend an illicit weekend with his sister-in-law is thwarted when he arrives at her home to pick her up and meets his relatives there. Title: Russell Hill
Author: Earle, Chris Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy tragicomedy eighteen characters four male; two female (doubling) twenty scenes
'Inspired by the 1995 Toronto Subway crash, "Russell Hill" is a darkly comic exploration of fate, responsibility and missed signals. Like ghostly faces framed in the windows of a passing train, we catch a glimpse of Torontonians caught in the intersection of life and disaster: all of them sharing a journey, a city, a moment in time.'
Title: Sacred Hearts
Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1989
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
In the midst of a crisis over having given her daughter up for adoption, Bridget experiences a miracle - a sign from the Virgin Mary. Is it a miracle as the townsfolk believe, a psychic occurrence or Bridget's way of dealing with her guilt? Sacred Hearts is a warm, funny, thought-provoking investigation of Faith today.
Title: Sadie Flynn Comes to Big Oak
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three characters two acts
'Convicted husband killer Sadie Flynn is released from prison and decides to get off the bus and make her new home in the small town of Big Oak. Soon after her arrival, strange things begin to happen.' Title: Say Who You Are
Author: Waterhouse, Keith Hall, Willis Publisher: Evans Brothers 1966
Description:
roy farce four characters two male; two female two acts
unit set.
A woman drags her husband out on a cultural evening every Friday so that her friend can have loan of their apartment to visit with her married lover. The husband does not know of the arrangement nor does the lover know that the apartment belongs to people he has not met. When everything is discovered, chaos breaks loose.
Title: Scientific Americans
Author: Mighton, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female twenty-two scenes
1 interior set.
The marriage of two scientists working for the Strategic Defence Initiative crumbles as the mundane and humorous aspects of their lives are contrasted with the monstrous strangeness and importance of their ideas.
Title: Seafarer
Author: McPherson, Conor Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2007
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; five characters five male two acts
It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who⇡s recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to play some cards. But with the arrival of a stranger from the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher. In fact, Sharky may be playing for his very soul. . .."I hope your eye is in. I hope your game is up. Because to tell you the truth, I'd love a run for my money just once. Or maybe you just feel like giving in. Maybe it's a relief to finally be set free from the jaws of God's Title: Sealed for Freshness
Author: Stone, Doug Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy comedy six characters one male; four female two acts
Doug Stone has set his play in 1968 during the heyday of Tupperware parties. Hostess Bonnie invites a group of neighbors over for a party. The guest list: perky, rich Jean, Jean's cranky and very pregnant sister Sinclair, ditzy-blonde Tracy Ann, and new neighbor Diane, who's made quite a career selling Tupperware, but at the expense of her marriage. The mix of personalities and the number of martinis consumed lead to a great deal of absurd high jinks plus revelations of an equal number of secrets and insecurities.
Title: Second Chance
Author: Ravel, Aviva Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
A middle-aged woman leaves her husband to look for love, but discovers that her happiness lies in starting a school.
Title: Second Man, The
Author: Behrman, S. N. Publisher: Samuel French 1956
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female three acts
The play has to do with Clark Storey, novelist, with whom two women are in love. He is determined to marry one of them, and though attracted to the other, he throws her over. The second woman then accuses him of playing her false. The play is essentially a brilliant comedy and is treated in a clever and sophisticated fashion. Title: Second Threshold
Author: Barry, Philip Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1951
Description:
roy comedy - drama six characters four male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
An eccentric man's mysterious illness causes members of his family, including himself, to examine certain decisions they have made regarding their lives.
Title: Secretary Bird, The
Author: Home, William Douglas Publisher: Samuel French 1969
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A man whose wife is leaving him for another man after fifteen years of marriage decides to do the gallant thing and comprise himself with his secretary so his wife can divorce him and save face. Her husband's actions cause the wife to rethink her decision and she chooses to stay.
Title: Self-Help
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy comedy - farce six characters three male; three female two acts
A married couple of second-rate theatre actors cast themselves as nationally renowned self-help gurus. Their lives unravel in a farce as they try to conceal a body and hold on to their falsely won fame. Title: September Tide
Author: Du Maurier, Daphne revised version by Mark Rayment Publisher: Samuel French 1949
Description:
roy social comedy - romance six characters three male; three female three acts
Social comedy about a widow and her daughter in love with the same man.
Title: Sez She
Author: Martin, Jane Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy monologues - women - comedy all female cast; five characters five female two acts
Written to be performed by five actresses, this sequel to Jane Martin's last monologue play picks up where VITAL SIGNS left off - in these funnier, stranger days of the 21st century. Reveling in virtues of brevity that include hilarity, surprise and homespun philosophy, these monologues roam the range of contemporary perspective on everything from sexual harassment to sleeping in theaters to the erotic appeals of silence. Whether biking across Massachusetts with 23,000 lawyers or reflecting on the meaning of a Pekinese dog with a picket fence stake through its heart,
Title: Shakespeare's King Phycus An historical-pastoral-tragical comedy in five act Author: Willmorth, Tom Shakespeare, William Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 2011
Description:
roy comedy - Shakespeare large cast four male; two female (doubling) five acts
All the plots of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Caesar, MacBeth, and Richard III combined in a whirlwind of iambic pentameter consisting of thousands of characters played by 6 actors (…at one point a single actor plays 20,000 Romans). Rumored to be Shakespeare’s earliest work which he later edited into 7 or 8 minor plays. Delight will be found in buckets of wit and fanny-packs of knock-knock jokes. Title: Shellgame
Author: Bankson, Douglas Publisher: Miscellaneous 1968
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
1 exterior set.
Description not available.
Title: Shelter
Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; five characters five female three acts
"A comedy about life and politics in Saskatchewan and the role of women in public life. A widow runs for office to retain her late husband's seat and thereby makes a new life for herself".
Title: Shivaree
Author: Mastrosimone, William Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy comedy - drama five characters two male; three female two acts
The story concerns a young hemophiliac youth named Chandler who has been kept, of necessity, by his mother in a very sheltered sort of existence. Chandler is desperate for contact with the world. He is also highly intelligent; but is supremely naive about the ways of the world. He just doesn't know what to do about his craving for love-until he meets Shivaree. She is another neighbor who supports herself by being an itinerant belly-dancer. She is a true original, and before too long the delightful Shivaree and the innocent Chandler are in love, much to the Title: Shooting Simone
Author: Kaufman, Lynne Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1993
Description:
roy comedy - romance - romantic four characters; optional extras two male; two female two acts
"Act One: Paris 1937. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, make a vow to always be each other's "necessary love." They will have "contingent" love affairs, but nothing that will threaten their primary and equal relationship. Enter Olga. Simone's young country cousin bewitches Sartre, undermines Simone, and very nearly destroys the "writing couple." Simone, naturally, kills Olga - at least on paper. Act Two: Paris 1980. Kate, a young documentary film-maker, who has modeled her life after the great feminist is attempting to resurrect the details of the affair, and to
Title: Shoplifters, The
Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2015
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - social issues four characters two male; two female two acts
In this riotously funny new comedy from Morris Panych, we meet Alma, a seasoned career shoplifter who prefers the five-finger discount over some lousy seniors’ day deal. But it’s not just an empty wallet that leads Alma to a life of petty crime – it’s also her strong convictions about social justice and economic inequality. Along for the ride is Phyllis, Alma’s frazzled accomplice who lacks her mentor’s cool demeanour and snappy comebacks. It’s Alma who does the talking when the pair is apprehended at the grocery store by Dom, an overzealous rookie security guard.
Title: Sick
Author: Dohrn, Zayd Publisher: Samuel French 2012
Description:
roy dark comedy - health issues - marriage - current events five characters three male; two female two acts
A college professor brings a student home to meet his dysfunctional family – a home so obsessed with cleanliness that the real dirt lurks around every corner and behind every sentence. Toying with post 9/11 phobias, this dark comedy plays upon our fears, both real and imagined.
Winner! Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award; Winner! 2008 Dallas-Forth Worth Critics Award, Best New Play; Finalist! 2008/2009 Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition. Title: Silly Cow
Author: Elton, Ben Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
Doris Wallace has everything a tough tabloid columnist could want: a toy boy with a regular supply of Colombian, a pretty personal assistant who might share her libidinous preferences, and the prospect of her own television show. Being sued by an actress for libel is a petty annoyance, but Doris puts her in her place by revealing her ample cleavage as she flirts with the judge and spouts populist bravado. She is ready to celebrate her victory in court when things begin to go wrong: television materials are missing, a pal she double crossed wants revenge, her accountant
Title: Silver Cord
Author: Howard, Sidney Publisher: Samuel French 1955
Description:
roy comedy - family relations six characters two male; four female three acts
2 interior sets.
A possessive mother has such control over her two sons that she is able to manipulate them into working against anyone who may come between the mother/son relationship. One son, however, manages to break free when he realizes that he will lose his wife but the other breaks off his engagement to stay with his mother.
Title: Sinners
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A furniture store owner is found in the arms of a local minister's wife. The situation becomes complicated when he is mistaken for the minister and attempts to flee the scene. Title: Sirens
Author: Laufer, Deborah Zoe Publisher: Samuel French 2011
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships five characters two male; two female (doubling) two acts
When Sam Abrams first fell in love with Rose he wrote her a song which has been covered by every recording artist and translated to every language. It is heard in every elevator and on every cell phone ringtone. And for twenty-five years, Sam has been looking for the creative spark that this first flush of love had inspired in him – to no avail. Sam and Rose are now celebrating their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary with a cruise in the Mediterranean. And while on this cruise, Sam hears the most sublime music ever heard, jumps overboard, and winds up with a Siren. And there
Title: Skin Flick
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
running time: 120 min.
A middle-aged couple try and produce an adult film to earn extra money and soon find themselves very much out of their element.
Title: Sliding for Home
Author: Moher, Frank Reid, Gerald Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three or four male; two or one female two acts
one exterior set; music by Gerald Reid and William Shookoff.
His mother wants him to return to Buffalo, the land of his birth and the local authorities view him as a foreign zealot - a threat to Canada's finest sport - curling. But in this boisterous "comedy with music in nine innings," Charlie Dempsey is a man with a dream. He must bring professional baseball to "Edmonton", Alberta. Title: Small Time
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy black comedy five characters three male; one female (doubling) two acts
Lounge singer Scott Sherman has a gambling problem and it is about to cost him his nightclub unless he and his keyboard player, Marty Birch, break somebody's legs. Holds audiences spellbound as the story involving sex, violence and romance unfolds.
Title: So Many Doors
Author: McBride, Celia Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - grief - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
Two couples are brought together under heartbreaking circumstances. Torn apart years ago by betrayal, they are reunited after their two toddlers are suddenly killed in the same accident. In a support group for bereaved parents, Shayla, Lyle, Linee, and Jed each fight their personal demons in the search for life after the death of one’s child. Set in the vast and remote landscape of Whitehorse, Yukon, playwright Celia McBride plunges into these characters’ painful struggle to find a voice for their grief.
Title: Social Security
Author: Bergman, Andrew Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A young married couple who are both art dealers are disrupted upon the arrival of the wife's goody-goody nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband and her Archetypal Jewish mother. They are there to try to save their college student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. The comic sparks really begin to fly when the mother his it off with the elderly minimalist artist who is Title: Social Security A play in two acts Author: Bergman, Andrew Publisher: Nelson Doubleday 1986
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A young married couple who are both art dealers are disrupted upon the arrival of the wife's goody-goody nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband and her Archetypal Jewish mother. They are there to try to save their college student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. The comic sparks really begin to fly when the mother his it off with the elderly minimalist artist who is
Title: Social Studies
Author: Cooper, Trish Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2016
Description:
roy comedy - immigrants - family relations four characters one male; three female two acts
"When Jackie comes back to her childhood home after separating from her husband, she thinks her biggest problem will be readjusting to life on a smaller bed. She’s surprised to learn, however, that her mother has given that bed away to a Sudanese refugee! Cultural differences, language barriers, and the self-conscious earnestness of good intentions combine to deliver a scathingly comic look at Canadian values."
Title: Some Assembly Required
Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Coteau Books 1995
Description:
roy dark comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
Mom and Dad aren't going to have Christmas this year - or so they think. 'Home for the Holidays - chestnuts roasting on an open fire - jingle bells - I'm dreaming of a white. . . wait a minute! This isn't the Christmas Eugene Stickland had in mind for us and for the wacky, beleaguered members of his 'all-Canadian' dysfunctional family - losers, big time - as they gather around the family tree at gunpoint, under mistletoe strung on barbed wire, and sip eggnog made without milk (try it, its not bad).' Title: Some Girl(s)
Author: LaBute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 2005
Description:
roy romance - comedy five characters one male; four female four parts
Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancee is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side - so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you're a man, it's probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends. And so begins a single man's odyssey through four hotel rooms across the country in search of the perfect woman (whom he's already broken up with).
Title: Somebody / Nobody
Author: Martin, Jane Publisher: Samuel French 2011
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
So you think you want to be famous? So did teen idol and "shark-movie" star Sheena Keener, the darling of the press, the obsession of the paparazzi, and the Goddess of the "E! Channel". But now she can't stand to be looked at anymore and her Godzilla of an agent is on the warpath. When Sheena ends up on the doorstep of naive newcomer Loli, a recent arrival from Flatt, Kansas, it's a wild ride on the road to fame.
Title: Someday
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Fifth House 2016
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Canadian - family relations - Native peoples four characters one male; three female two acts
"Anne Wabung's daughter was taken away by children's aid workers when the girl was only a toddler. It is Christmas-time 35 years later, and Anne's yearning to see her now-grown daughter. When the family is finally reunited, however, the dreams of neither woman are fulfilled. The setting for the play is a fictional Ojibway community, but could be any reserve in Canada, where thousands of Native children were removed from their families in what is known among Native people as the "scoop-up" of the 1950s and 1960s. 'Someday' is an entertaining, humorous, and Title: Song at Twilight, A
Author: Coward, Noel Publisher: Samuel French 1966
Description:
Roy Comedy Four characters Two male; two female Two acts
One interior set.
A bittersweet comedy wherein a comfortable married middle-aged author, famous for his satire, is put to the test by the re-emergence in his life of an old lover, an actress who has in her possesion love letters written by him to the only person he ever truly loved - his male secretary of years past.
Title: Soul Mate
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
For Centuries demons have played the game of offering mortals their fondest wish in exchange for their souls. When Moira Bedham get drawn into the sport, the unexpected choice of her victim may most her more than anyone (or any demon) expected. A high-spirited comedy of demons desire and discovering humanity.
Title: Spare Parts A serious comedy Author: Page, Elizabeth Publisher: Samuel French 1988
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ five characters two male; three female two acts
The plan is for an unwitting college student to impregnate Lois and then disappear, leaving Lois and her female lover, Jax, with a baby. But young Henry is smitten. What began as a private compact between two lesbians becomes a five way struggle as the characters jockey for position around the baby to be until they become a family. Title: Speech and Debate
Author: Karam, Stephen Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2008
Description:
roy comedy - music four characters two male; two female two acts
Three teenage misfits in Salem, Oregon discover they are linked by a sex scandal that’s rocked their town. When one of them sets out to expose the truth, secrets become currency, the stakes get higher, and the trio’s connection grows deeper in this searching, fiercely funny dark comedy with music.
Title: Spinoff
Author: Sharkey, Jack Publisher: Samuel French 1974
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female three acts
"Peter Colton, a bank official, unwittingly comes home with the loot from a bank robbery masterminded by Willy Nicolas, his superior at the bank. Willy, frantic to retrieve the money, enlists Peter's services to help him find it, with the help of Victoria Wicky, Peter's secretary. Meantime, Laurel Colton, Peter's daughter, has found the loot and erroneously supposes it is her father who has robbed the bank, so she enlists the aid of her boyfriend Carlos Ortega, whose uncle is a retired forger of passports, to help her father flee the country. And this is just the
Title: Splits, The
Author: Ritter, Erika Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters three male; one female two acts
An harassed writer tries to sort out her life and men in this witty, perceptive urban comedy. Title: Springtime For Henry
Author: Levy, Benn W. Publisher: Samuel French 1959
Description:
roy farce four characters two male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
A bachelor reforms under the influence of his beautiful, prim secretary but reverts to his original behaviour when the secretary justifies the murder of her husband with the excuse that the husband asked too much when he asked his mistress to tea.
Title: St. Sam and the Nukes
Author: Johns, Ted Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
A nuclear power development has caused controversy in a small Ontario town. The local eccentrics collide with the high-powered engineers, housewives entertain the Atomic Energy Commission and Ontario Hydro works to soften the hearts of the people.
Title: Stage Struck
Author: Gray, Simon Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1979
Description:
roy comedy - mystery four characters three male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
In his younger days, Robert Simon was a first-rate stage-manager in provincial rep. Now he keeps house for his West End actress wife, while amusing himself with lots of little sexual adventures. In fact, a thoroughly happy man. Until one evening, through the clumsy intervention of a psychiatrist, his happiness and his marriage are destroyed. He plans a hideous revenge, both on Title: Standing on Ceremony
Author: Gaffney, Mo Harrison, Jordan Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2013
Description:
roy comedy - marriage - relationships - LGBTQ+ six characters (flexible) three male; three female (doubling) nine short one-acts
Two little words, and suddenly your whole world changes. An A-list lineup of writers offers unique takes on the moments before, during and after "I do." Witty, warm and occasionally wacky, these plays are vows to the blessings of equality, the universal challenges of relationships and the often hilarious power of love.
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Title: Stephen and Mr. Wilde
Author: Bartley, Jim Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - comedy six characters four male; two female two acts
"In 1882 Oscar Wilde arrived in Toronto with his personal valet, Stephen Davenport, a black American and ex-slave. History and fiction, wit and judgement, art and life clash as past events are revealed and two very different men grope toward mutual understanding."
Title: Straight Up
Author: Cheatle, Syd Publisher: Methuen
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female three acts
'Straight Up concerns a young parolee sent by the local priest for rehabilitation to an apparently normal suburban family in South London. Given the willingness of father, mother and teenage daughter all lead to double lives of one kind or another, the explosive effect of his arrival is doubtless inevitable.' Title: Strawberries in January
Author: de la Cheneliere, Evelyne translated by Morwyn Brebner Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female seventeen scenes
'If only life could be like the movies! This fizzy concoction takes the classic ingredients of romantic comedy, love, humour, coincidence and fantasy, and serves them up with a suprisingly touching twist in this tender and witty comedy by an extraordinary new voice from Quebec.'
Title: Stupid Life of the Montagues, The
Author: Bolt, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
"In this 'renovation' comedy, the chic pretensions of modern urban life are exposed when a young couple yields to the temptations of unexpected wealth."
Title: Subject to Change
Author: Tasca, Jules Publisher: Samuel French 1974
Description:
roy comedy six characters two male; four female three acts
"The play concerns the two Bassett sisters, Gertrude is prudish, capable and hardworking. Madeline is completely different, she is sloppy, fat, cunning and sounds like a plumber who has lost his number four wrench. When Gertrude decides to marry, leaving Madeline to fend for herself, the situation becomes traumatic. In an attempt to break up Gertrude's romance, Madeline runs the gamut, making obscene telephone calls to the bridegroom's 80-year-old lush of a mother; outrageously insulting the groom-to-be, sneaking off to New York to trip on LSD, and Title: Sunday In New York
Author: Krasna, Norman Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1962
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female two acts
representative set.
A young woman visits the older brother she idolizes, in New York, hoping to meet nice young men who do not expect her to go to bed with them. When she learns that her brother's girlfriends sometimes stay over, she wonders why she has remained so moral.
Title: Supporting Cast, The
Author: Furth, George Publisher: Samuel French 1982
Description:
roy comedy five characters one male; four female two acts
"Ellen, the wife of a successful author, has recently published a book about her friends - all of whom are spouses of celebrities - about what it is like to be married to Somebody Famous. She has invited them all down to her house on the beach at Malibu to let them read advance copies of the book - and to break the news to them gently that they are shown therein, warts and all. All and sundry almost have apoplexy when the news comes in that the book is to be made into a movie they change their tune and get all excited trying to decide which star will play them".
Title: Swearing Jar, The
Author: Hewlett, Kate Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2013
Description:
roy comedy - music - marital relations four characters two male; two female two acts
Meet Carey and Simon, an otherwise-perfect married couple with a bit of a swearing problem. They're determined to kick the habit by the time their baby is born. Too bad that's not their only problem. Simon has a secret. And Carey has a new friend -- a musician named Owen that she met at a bookstore. With quirky characters, music and gentle humour, this lovely and intricately-constructed story is about meeting challenges head-one and finding hope. Title: Sweet Sue
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1987
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - romance four characters two male; two female two acts
The action of the play is set in Susan's home in a New York suburb—Susan being a romantically-minded, divorced mother of three, and a very successful artist and designer of greeting cards. It is summer and Jake, the Dartmouth roommate of her son, Ted, has taken up temporary residence with Susan while doing house painting to earn money for his college expenses. Susan is drawn to the handsome, lively Jake, while he, in turn, is hopeful of finally establishing a meaningful relationship with a member of the opposite sex—although what he has
Title: Swollen Tongues
Author: Oliver, Kathleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - poetic - comedy four characters one male; three female two acts
"Thomas and his sister Catherine are both receiving instruction on the powers of poetry by their tutor Dr. Wise. While Thomas is more prolific than skilled in his praise of his beloved, Sonja, Catherine is strangely mute. The problem? Catherine is secretly in love with Sonja too, and has taken the liberty of improving her brother's verses and giving them to Sonja under the assumed name - Overripe. The characters discover that no one is without secrets, and that poetry can unlock the door to love in unexpected ways."
Title: Sylvia
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1996
Description:
roy comedy - romantic four characters two male; two female two acts
"Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after twenty-two years of childraising in the suburbs. Greg brings home a dog he found in the park-or that has found him-bearing only the name "Sylvia" on her name tag. A street-smart mixture of Lab and Poodle, Sylvia becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife. She offers Greg an escape from the frustrations of this job and the unknowns of middle age. To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. The marriage is put in serious jeopardy until, after a series of hilarious and touching complications, Greg and Title: Table Manners
Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1975
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
Part I of a trilogy. A woman has planned to go on an illicit weekend with her brother-in-law but is frantically prevented from doing so by her sister-in-law who has come with her husband to look after the sick mother and house.
Title: Taken in Marriage
Author: Babe, Thomas Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1979
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; five characters five female two acts
1 interior set.
While waiting with her female relatives and a singer to rehearse her wedding, a young woman decides that she is not ready for marriage at this point in time.
Title: Talking Dirty
Author: Snukal, Sherman Publisher: Harbour Publishing 1983
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female three scenes
1 interior set.
A comedy of manners in Vancouver's trendy Kitsilano area. Basic human emotions and traditional needs are examined.
Winner, 1983 Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Title: Tent Meeting
Author: Wackler, Rebecca Larson, Larry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1987
Description:
roy comedy - religion - satire three characters two male; one female two acts
Convinced by written instructions from heaven that the poor misshapen creature to which his daughter has given birth is the Messiah, the Reverend Ed Tarbox kidnaps the baby from the Arkansas laboratory where it is being studied, christens it Jesus O. Tarbox, and, with his daughter and son in tow, heads off in their mobile home toward the promised land—which turns out to be Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The Reverend Ed is a bullying, Bible-thumping redneck preacher who may well be the father of the lamentably deformed baby; son Daniel is a slow-witted World War II
Title: That Darn Plot!
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Samuel French 2002
Description:
roy comedy - theatre - relationships - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female two acts
'Mark W. Transom, one of Canada's greatest playwrights, is at the end of his rope. In order to fulfil his contract to artistic director and old friend Jo Harber, he has to create a play in one night or lose everything. Half asleep and half drunk, Transom starts putting theatrical personalities he knows into a simple comedy about putting on a play. As the characters come to life before his eyes, the play seems to be progressing well until, unbidden and without warning, Transom's son appears as a character and the play takes on a life of its own. As the playwright struggles to
Title: Theatre of the Film Noir
Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female twelve scenes
Film noir intrigue in Paris, 1945. A murder that occurred during the liberation of Paris is under investigation. Title: Theft
Author: Chappell, Eric Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy comedy - thriller five characters three male; two female two acts
Imagine returning from a pleasant anniversary celebration to find that your house has been burgled. In this witty thriller, the culprit is still in the house and, for a while, he convinces the returning couples that he is a policeman. Unmasked as the thief, Spriggs reveals that he knows a number of uncomfortable truths that disrupt two seemingly happy marriages and one formerly strong friendship.
Title: There's Always Juliet
Author: Van Druten, John Publisher: Samuel French 1931
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
An English woman and an American man have a twenty-four hour whirlwind romance before the man is suddenly called back to the United States on business. It is only after he leaves that the woman realizes that she should have married him when he asked.
Title: They Came from Mars and Landed Outside the Farndale Avenue Church Hall In time for the Townswomen's Guild's Coffee Morning Author: McGillivray, David Zerlin, Walter Publisher: Samuel French 1988
Description:
roy comedy - spoof five characters one male; four female two acts
"The Farndale Avenue ladies attempt lift-off with their Dramatic Society's unique production of a sci-fi thriller. Needless to say, high-tech effects with reassuringly homely touches and the inabilities of some group members ensure that the cast remains firmly on the ground - some more than others." Title: Third Story, The
Author: Busch, Charles Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy comedy - family relations six characters four male; two female two acts
running time: 120 minutes.
A faded screenwriter in the 1940s woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on a screenplay. The gangster/sci-fi B-movie in their imagination unfolds before us, involving a chic crime czarina, a beautiful but icy lady scientist, and her failed and understandably bitter human cloning experiment. A third story is a Russian fairy tale the screenwriter told her son as a child
Title: Thousand Clowns, A
Author: Gardner, Herb Publisher: Penguin Books 1961
Description:
roy comedy - bachelorhood six characters five male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
A non-conformist bachelor who has raised his nephew for seven years, is suddenly confronted by Social Services. They want to take the boy away form him because he does not qualify as a good guardian.
Title: Thousand Clowns, A
Author: Gardner, Herb Publisher: Samuel French 1962
Description:
roy comedy six characters five male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
A non-conformist bachelor who has raised his nephew for seven years, is suddenly confronted by Social Services. They want to take the boy away form him because he does not qualify as a good guardian. Title: Three Changes
Author: Silver, Nicky Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2009
Description:
roy dark comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
flexible set
Nate and Laurel are a seemingly happy couple living on New York's Upper West Side, busy, content and comfortable—until the surprising arrival of Hal, Nate's long-lost brother. A once-successful television writer, Hal is just out of rehab. He's out of cash and alone in the world. But what seems to be a casual visit, a chance to reconnect, is quickly revealed to be
Title: Tight Spot An improper comedy Author: Tiller, Ted Publisher: Samuel French 1977
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female three acts
Anyone nutty enough to buy an old lighthouse for a summer home is looking for trouble. It comes on the double to a novelist, her estranged TV film star husband and the latest gleam in his roving eye when this unsociable triangle, along with the novelist's globetrotting journalist mother, a baffled editor and a grocery boy find themselves trapped on the top floor during the off season. Suspense spirals and comedy crackles during three days of confinement.
Title: Time and Time Again
Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1973
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
'Staid middle aged man scandalized when employee's beautiful young fiancee falls for his zany brother-in-law.' Title: To Forgive, Divine
Author: Neary, Jack Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1990
Description:
roy relationships - comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
Tongues have begun to wag about the handsome young parish priest Father Jerry Dolan, who has, so they say, been seeing quite a lot of a pretty young parishioner, Katie Cachenko, whom he has known since their school days, when both played in the CYO band. The rumors haven't exactly been scotched by Millie Mullins, Father Dolan's gossipy housekeeper who, with her romantically minded niece, Margaret, has kept all and sundry informed of each bit of possibly damaging grist for the rumor mill. And, as a matter of fact, the situation does seem ripe for
Title: Treasures On Earth
Author: Walden, William Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1965
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female three acts
2 interior sets.
A young man returns in spirit to Earth three years after his death to check up on his wife and sister, both of whom he loved dearly. He is completely taken aback when he learns that his wife murdered him for his money.
Title: Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife, The
Author: Shores, Del Ward, Joe Patrick Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships four characters one male; three female three acts
music by Joe Patrick Ward; lyrics by Sharyn Lane, Del Shores & Joe Patrick Ward
Willi is the trailer trash housewife of the title, not necessarily of her own volition. Her abusive husband won’t let her get a job, one of her children is dead, and the other is verboten by her husband because he’s gay. Her best and only friend, a large black woman who lives next door, worries about her constantly, always concerned that Willi’s husband will end up killing her. A new Title: Tribes
Author: Raine, Nina Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2012
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - communication six characters three male; three female two acts
A penetrating play about belonging, family and the limitations of communication.⌦⌦Billy's family, like every other, is a club, with its own private language, jokes and rules. You can be as rude as you like, as possessive as you like, as critical as you like. Arguments are an expression of love, and after all, you love each other more than anyone in the world. Don't you?⌦But Billy, who is deaf, is the only one who actually listens. When he meets Sylvia, he decides he finally wants to be heard.
Title: True Love Lies
Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - dark comedy - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts
"An audacious and outrageous comedy of bad manners. With the crackle of lightning fast one-liners, acidic exchanges and wickedly witty characters, Brad’s hilarious new play shatters our illusions about the “perfect” Canadian family."
Title: True West
Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Samuel French 1981
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female two acts
Austin, an aspiring Hollywood screenwriter, lives in his mother's house. He is visited by his older brother Lee, a drifting drunk. Enter a trendy film producer. Austin has sold a romantic script to the producer, but Lee convinces the guy to accept his script instead, a contemporary true western. The tables are turned and then turned again, for Lee is not a writer - he can't even type. And, of course, Austin won't help. All these wild reversals produce some brilliantly funny scenes. The play reaches a climax when mom comes home to find her kitchen awash with sheets of paper Title: Tunnel of Love, The
Author: Fields, Joseph De Vries, Peter Publisher: Samuel French 1957
Description:
Roy Comedy Six characters Two male; four female Three acts
One interior set.
A childless couple adopts a baby who is the child of the husband and the adoption agency investigator. When the wife learns of the parentage, she prepares to leave but the couple's love for each other and the discovery of the wife's pregnancy keep them together.
Title: Two and Two Make Sex
Author: Harris, Richard Darbon, Leslie Publisher: Samuel French 1974
Description:
Roy Comedy Four characters; extras Two male; two female Two acts
George is getting into his fifties, his sexual virility nagging at him, one way or another. He is having an affair with twenty year old Jane. His wife, Clare, sensing that something of the kind is going on, fixes up a way of dealing with the situation. Jane has a boy-friend, Nick. The quartet play our their charades in a double setting, the living room of George and Clare's home, and Jane's flatlet. The crossantics, seen separately and simultaneously, are very amusing. Later on, other characters materialize, and there is a mass confrontation, most ingeniously contrived.
Title: Two for the Show
Author: Tremblay, Brian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A romantic comedy in which a married couple, he a talented actor and she a promising artist, move from Vancouver to Toronto and take up residence in a house with a couple of very quirky inhabitants. Title: U. S. A.
Author: Shyre, Paul Dos Passos, John Publisher: Samuel French 1960
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
1 set.
Based on the novel by John Dos Passos. The story of a man's rise in the business world interwoven with sketches of American life in the first three decades of the twentieth century.
Title: Under The Yum-Yum Tree
Author: Roman, Lawrence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1961
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A young girl bargains for a platonic living arrangement with her boyfriend to test their psychological compatibility for marriage, but her experiment is compounded by the attentions paid her by the womanizing landlord.
Title: Valhalla
Author: Rudnick, Paul Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2004
Description:
roy comedy twenty characters four male; two female (doubling) two acts
VALHALLA intertwines two stories: the life of Ludwig of Bavaria, the 1880s Mad King responsible for building a series of storybook castles inspired by Wagnerian operas, and the fictional adventures of James Avery, a wild Texas teenager of the 1940s. These two iconoclasts are tracked from childhood through their deaths, and while they embody separate eras, they are ultimately revealed as time-traveling soul mates. The play explores questions of beauty and madness, as both Ludwig and James pursue lives of operatic passion, bringing them in contact with such Title: Valparaiso
Author: DeLillo, Don Publisher: Scribner 1999
Description:
roy comedy four characters; interviewers; chorus/camera crew three male; three female two acts
A man sets out on an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It turns out to be a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence. This is Don DeLillo's second play, and it is funny, sharp, and deep-reaching. Its characters tend to have needs and desires shaped by the forces of broadcast technology. This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things, in public, before listening millions, that we don't dare to say privately. Nothing is allowed to be unseen. Nothing remains unsaid. And everything melts repeatedly into something
Title: Valued Friends
Author: Jeffreys, Stephen Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy comedy - domestic relations six characters four male; two female two acts
Comedy set in London. Four young people sharing a house trade their idealism for cash when realtor makes them a proposal.
Title: Vampires, The
Author: Kondoleon, Harry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1984
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
Ed, a carpenter turned playwright, has had his would-be masterpiece savaged by his brother, Ian, a drama critic who (upon losing his job) decides he is a vampire—sinking his fangs into his wife's neck and then sending out to the butcher shop for a fresh supply of blood. Ian's decision to "hate everything" does not, however, spare him the wrath of his disgruntled brother, who demands that he recoup the damage from his theatre review by restaging the play for an invited VIP audience. Ed and his wife are also searching for their precocious thirteen-year-old junkie daughter, a quest Title: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Grove Press 2013
Description:
roy comedy - family relations six characters two male; four female two acts
setting: present, lovely farmhouse in Bucks County.
Vanya and his stepsister Sonia have lived their entire lives in their family’s farmhouse. While they cared for their ailing parents, their sister Masha has been gallivanting around the world as a successful actress and movie star, leaving Vanya and Sonia trapped and regretful. Their soothsayer/cleaning woman, Cassandra, keeps warning them about terrible things in the future,
Title: Very Desirable Residence, A
Author: Doucet, Clive Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
"A constant round of vicissitudes threatens to overwhelm a young Ottawa couple in this close-up of modern urban life."
Title: Village Bike, The
Author: Skinner, Penelope Publisher: Faber and Faber 2011
Description:
roy dark comedy - fantasy - romance six characters three male; three female two acts
"Isn't she gorgeous? Hardly been ridden. She's been in the garage just gathering dust". Becky's pregnant and frustrated. But her new husband is more interested in the baby manual than her new underwear, so she turns to the porn stash under the bed. As the summer heats up, a brief encounter sends her speeding downhill towards reckless abandon. A provocative and darkly comic look at fantasy and romance. Title: Violet Hour, The
Author: Greenberg, Richard Publisher: Faber and Faber 2004
Description:
roy tragicomedy five characters three male; two female two acts
A fledgling World War I-era publisher is trying to decide which work to choose as his imprint's first title. He has two manuscripts but lacks the funds to publish both. His difficult decision - whether to publish his lover's memoir or the novel written by his best friend - is further complicated by the arrival of a mysterious machine - a machine that produces pages predicting the future of the play's protagonists, affecting their lives and relationships in haunting and unexpected ways.
Title: Visitor From Charleston, A
Author: Ritter, Erika Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female two acts
After forty-nine viewings of Gone With the Wind, Eva's fantasy world is almost perfect. She manages to destroy a salesman's illusions about himself in a battle of wits before retreating into the character of Scarlett O'Hara.
Title: Waiting for Godot
Author: Beckett, Samuel Publisher: Grove Press 1954
Description:
roy tragicomedy all male cast; five characters five male two acts
1 set.
Two tramps wait by a roadside to keep an appointment with Godot and in the meantime, amuse themselves with games, quarrels, eating, sleeping and meeting travellers. Title: We Can't Pay We Won't Pay
Author: Fo, Dario Colvill, Bill Publisher: Pluto Press 1978
Description:
roy farce five characters three male; two female two acts
1 set; translated by Lino Pertile
Adapted by Bill Colvill and Robert Walker. Set in a working class suburb of Milan, this hilarious and critically acclaimed political farce left-of centres on a housewives' strike against inflationary supermarket prices and the politicisation of their stuffy Communist trade unionist spouses. Their direct action - looting the shelves - leads to immaculate conceptions (and many misconceptions),
Title: We Found Love and an Exquisite Set of Porcelain Figures Aboard the SS Farnd
Author: McGillivray, David Zerlin Jr., Walter Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy comedy - theatre five characters two male; three female (doubling) two acts
'Flushed, and following on from the dizzy heights of their previous successes(?), the stalwart veterans of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society are poised to conquer yet another dramatic idiom. In romantic vein, with their latest production set aboard the luxury ocean-going liner "SS Farndale Avenue" for their excursion into the world of thirties musical comedy à la Noël and Gertie, the ladies prove that the age of elegance, glamour and enchantment is not dead . . .well, not quite anyway.'
Title: We Must Kill Toni
Author: Black, Ian Stuart Publisher: Samuel French 1952
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
When a distant cousin arrives to make her rightful claim on the estate where two brothers have spent all their lives, the two brothers go to great lengths to try to kill her so that they will inherit the place. Title: We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!
Author: Fo, Dario translated by Ron Jenkins Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy political Marxist farce five characters three male; two female two acts
This hilarious farce is set in motion when a housewife comes home with groceries she has swiped as part of a spontaneous community action where 300 women did the same. In her effort to keep her secret from her husband, she hides some of the groceries under her best friend's raincoat. Her husband and his friend the accomplice's husband notice the bulge, of course; but they believe the explanation that the accomplice is pregnant! Hilarity is piled upon hilarity as the characters try to extricate themselves from the mess they have gotten into. Eventually, they all
Title: Wedding Breakfast
Author: Reeves, Theodore Publisher: Samuel French 1955
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female three acts
unit set.
A motherly girl goes to great lengths to help her career oriented sister get a man.
Title: Wedding Script
Author: Hannah, Don Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1986
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female three acts
Winner of the Chalmers Award. "An English rock singer needs to marry in order to avoid deportation, but his girlfriend isn't interested. His housemate decides to help him out while his transsexual landlady oversees the ensuing complications." Title: Weekend Comedy
Author: Bobrick, Jeanne Bobrick, Sam Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
Two couples rent the same Catskills cabin for the same weekend by mistake. One couple is staid and middle-aged; the other free-wheeling and young. They decide to share; and before the weekend is over the youngsters have learned how to add stability to their relationship and the oldsters have learned to loosen up.
Title: Welcome to the NHL
Author: Williams, Alan Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian all male cast; six characters six male two acts
A warmly comic look at the facts, faults, foibles and fallacies of Canada's character and its national sport.
Title: What I Did Last Summer
Author: Gurney, A.R. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1983
Description:
roy comedy six characters two male; four female two acts
1 unit set.
A warmhearted, gently humorous memory play which, in delineating the coming of age of a teenage boy, pinpoints the foibles of the upper middle class society of which he is a product. Title: What the Butler Saw
Author: Orton, Joe Publisher: Samuel French 1969
Description:
Roy Farce Six characters Four male; two female Two acts
One interior set.
When a psychiatrist is surprised by his wife in the midst of his attempt to seduce an applicant for a secretarial position, he goes to great extremes of re-interpreting the situation in order to cover up his behaviour.
Title: When It Rains
Author: Black, Anthony Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2014
Description:
roy satire - relationships four characters two male; two female three acts
"When it Rains" is the story of four people, two marriages, and one increasingly improbable series of events. As misfortune mounts, communication fractures, relationships crumble, behaviour becomes absurd. People sing, get naked, give up, lose control, have sex with strangers. Some kind of God intervenes. Or observes. Or something. Or nothing. "When it Rains" is by turns blackly funny social satire, heartbreaking drama, existentialist graphic novel, and post-modern Job story.
Title: When the Reaper Calls
Author: Colley, Peter Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1999
Description:
roy comedy - mystery five characters three male; two female two acts
" Two young rival academics spend a weekend at a cottage with their wives. One of them plays a trick on the other to prove a point, but the trick goes murderously wrong..." Title: Where's Daddy?
Author: Inge, William Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1966
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female; requires one black actor and one black actress two acts
1 interior set.
A young man believes that he and his pregnant wife should get a divorce and put their child up for adoption because they are too emotionally immature to be parents but the premature birth of the child changes his feelings.
Title: Who's Happy Now?
Author: Hailey, Oliver Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
A boy tries to win love and approval from his father who is too busy trying to maintain a wife and a mistress to be bothered with a son.
Title: Who's On First?
Author: Sharkey, Jack Publisher: Samuel French 1975
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female three acts
Camille is giving a party. Don shows up in a jealous funk about his wife, Alice, whom he suspects of seeing another man. When Alice and Ben have arrived, it turns out their relationship is innocent. But by the time Don realizes this he has already accidentally shot Ben, Alice and even Camille. Camille, not realizing that an antique lamp she bought has supernatural powers, wishes that things might have turned out differently - and that is precisely what happens, as all concerned find themselves back at the party's beginning again - and again - doomed to live that Title: Why Not Stay for Breakfast?
Author: Stone, Gene Cooney, Ray Publisher: Samuel French 1974
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
'George Clarke is a civil servant, once married, now on his own. He lives in a flat in a converted house. The apartment above is inhabited by hippies, and their noise often disturbs the peace. One evening Louise Hamilton arrives on his doorstep. She has had a row with young Davey in their '"pad" upstairs. She is also very pregnant. The clash between the hippy and the square types is at full strength when Louise suddenly starts labour pains. George takes charge, the baby is born, and both it and Louise remain in the flat for the time being.'
Title: Why We Have a Body
Author: Chafee, Claire Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1994
Description:
roy comedy - women all female cast; four characters four female two acts
"At the nucleus is a family of women at odds with the world around them. Private investigator Lili is a lesbian who stalks guys cheating on their wives and romances confused straight women, in this instance, a paleontologist, Renee, headed toward divorce. Lili's sister Mary is mentally unhinged, sublimating all of her Joan of Arc and Ophelia fantasies by holding up 7-Elevens and directing traffic. Their mother, Eleanor, has traded in her maternal hat for the rugged life of an archaeologist-historian specializing in the female brain."
Title: Wild Guys, The
Author: Shaw, Rebecca Wreggitt, Andrew Publisher: Blizzard Publishing
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male two acts
"When four men set off to find an isolated cabin in the forest on a "wildman" weekend, a la Robert Bly, everything that can go wrong does!". Title: Windfall
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
running time: 120 min.
Lottery winners Louise and Walter have withdrawn from society, creating their own safe, comfortable environment. A family crisis forces them out of their retreat and into the real world.
Title: Winter
Author: Allen, Claudia Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1996
Description:
roy comedy - seniors four characters one male; three female two acts
'"Winter" is a funny, lyrical, yet harrowing look at old age. For five years since his stroke, Mark has been confined to a wheelchair. Miriam, his wife of 50 years, has worn herself out caring for him. Their marriage is fraying from the strain. But then the "wrong one" dies first, and Mark finds himself in the nursing home he's always dreaded. Once Mark discovers the worst thing he can imagine - Miriam's death and the home - he is surprised to discover that he can still enjoy the small joys in life. When Dotha, Mark's childhood girlfriend, is admitted to the home, she's so
Title: Woodpecker, The
Author: Williams, Samuel Brett Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2011
Description:
roy dark comedy - family relations - faith - freedom - war five characters four male; one female two acts
It's Jimmy's last day before going to war: he's addicted to glue, his mom is seeing visions in the sweet potato casserole, and his wheelchair-bound dad can and will kick his butt. He turns to a higher power for answers, and finds an Ivory-billed Woodpecker instead. A dark comedy that explores family, faith, and freedom, while blurring the lines between black and white and right and wrong. Title: World's Biggest
Author: Brennan, Kit Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts
"In a wild attempt to attract tourist dollars, the small but enterprising town of Gurkin decides to erect a gigantic pickle to raise community pride and save the town's economy. Unfortunately, there is something rotten about the whole deal."
Title: Writer's Block
Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: B house 2008
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
The play follows a playwright, who after experiencing writer's block, submits a claim to his theatre's insurance company for long-term disability (for writer's block!). His claim gets accepted, and at the same time his muse is released and he writes the best play he's written in years.
Title: Zero Positive
Author: Kondoleon, Harry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1989
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female two acts
As the play begins a young man, Himmer, is trying to console his father on the death of his long-estranged wife (and Himmer's mother) whom neither has seen for many years, but the older man, Jacob, is apparently more interested in his model trains. Himmer then conceives the idea of honoring his mother's memory by staging a verse play, The Ruins of Athens, which she had written in her youth, but, in the meantime, his friend Samantha, a compulsive lover of married men, arrives to inform him that both she and he have tested seropositive for HIV test—which Title: Ziggy Effect, The
Author: Diamond, Marc Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female one act
A funny look at the generation gap between the sixties and the eighties; fanatic lifestyles as survival strategies.
Title: Zodiac
Author: Campton, David Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy comedy fifty-five characters flexible casting twelve scenes
'"Zodiac" could be described as an all-female extravaganza for a mixed cast. Its possibilities are manifold. It was written for the Leicestershire and Rutland Federation of Women's Institutes who first presented it in Jubilee Year, 1977. They wanted a show that could be rehearsed separately and simultaneously by a number of different groups, and that could be brought together for final rehearsals. The script was intended to be as flexible as possible, and cater for as many different talents as possible. All the parts can be played by women: on the other hand over half of them