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Most theatre devotees would agree with Terrence Mann, who said “Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.” We could not agree more, for theatre helps us to understand what it means to be human, while heightening our awareness and stimulating our self-expression and creativity.
Greetings and a warm welcome to the pages of our 2016-2017 catalogue. We could not be more excited for the opening of school and a chance to make a positive difference through the power of theatre. Our aim is to crystalize the choices of high school, middle school, and youth theatre directors who seek the very best drama scripts available. Our wide array of plays, musicals, competition pieces, and theatre resources continue to be sharper, truer, more alive and dynamic than ever.
Brooklyn shines on stage with a full spectrum of unparalleled plays and musicals. It is a thrilling, heart-pumping moment when you find that inimitable show that will cause your theatre troupe to soar to new heights, and we are all about those “Wow” moments! This year, we are showcasing exactly what you asked for: adaptations and classic plays. The buzz is already strong on Michael Fountain’s new offering, Trojan War Confidential (page 102), as well as Marty Duhatchek’s Allan and Lloyd Meet Dracula (page 12). Check out our author spotlight pages for Craig Sodaro and his new twisted adaptation, My Fair Zombie (page 24), Patrick Dorn and his new full length, A California Surfer in Cleopatra’s Court (page 53), and Jane and Jim Jeffries and their new one act play, The Girl in the Red Hijab (page 81). If you prefer classics that stay true to the original, be sure to check out The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Beauty and the Beast, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
In competitive drama, 2015-2016 was an annus mirabilis for Brooklyn Publishers, a year flush with victory at every level, from local all the way up to state and national levels. Competitors put their skills into action during forensics tournaments, and our contest-winning scripts were the perfect vehicle for student success. As the undisputed leader in competitive drama, Brooklyn offers the finest, most noteworthy ten minute monologues and duets on the market. Aside from winning big in tournaments across the country, our ten minute scripts were routinely featured on stage as an evening of ten minute plays. While speech/forensics drama tournaments thrive as an actor’s showcase, it’s vital to have the right script to fit each of your competitors. Equip your students for success this year with ten minute and one act plays that command your judges’ attention!
We are always grateful for your feedback. As such, we would be proud to showcase your organization’s production photos, director’s comments and suggestions, as well as press reviews. These may be submitted online. We would be honored to have you follow us on Facebook and Twitter, simply “like” us at Brooklyn Publishers and follow the road of performances, reviews, and press releases.
I speak for our entire staff and hundreds of wonderful playwrights in saying that we are honored to have you as our continuing customers. At the core, we all believe in the power of theatre to change lives and open doors for young people. My words of sincere thanks to you must remain incomplete, lest my words of gratitude crowd out this year’s plays.
We invite you to come along for the ride, as we head toward exciting, unchartered waters in what will be a momentous 2016-2017 school theatre season!
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FULL LENGTH ONE ACT - COMPETITION & STAGE Allan And Lloyd Meet Dracula Afternoon At The Country House Stalking The Beatles by Marty Duhatschek by Olivia Arieti by Maureen Brady Johnson
A California Surfer In Cleopatra’s Court Dating Curveball The Teacher by Patrick Dorn by Les Hunter, Elana Averbach by Olivia Arieti
Making A Comeback Can Be A Real Death Of The Doorstep Kiss Trojan War Confidential Career Killer by Kamron Klitgaard by Michael Fountain by David Dietz I’m A Princess - Get Me Out Of Here! We Found A Finger My Fair Zombie by Linda Cooke by Kamron Klitgaard by Craig Sodaro Ismene’s Press Conference Zen And The Fear Of Flying The Pharaoh’s Son by Judy Klass by Robert Burns by Martin Follose The Lame Name Club The Girl In The Red Hijab Revolutionary What??? by Scott Haan by Jane and Jim Jeffries by Katelyn Beyke Lemonade Standoff Subway Stories, Or How Not To Do Your Treasure Island Makeover by Jerry Rabushka Homework On The R Train by Thomas Hischak by Kimberly Lew The Mysterious Mystery Of The Lost What Would Happen If... ? Eight Letters True Colors 10-Minute Tales Of Improbability by Salwa and Samah Meghjee by Katherine Dubois by Sean Abley, Amy Seeley, Scott Oken, Randy Wyatt Seen And Heard by Dennish Bush MUSICAL The Love Note The Day Before Christmas The Gift Of The Magi - The Musical by Gail Phaneuf by Ken Jones, Christine Jones, and Jamey Strawn by Beverly Bremers, and Faith Grant TEN MINUTE - COMPETITION & STAGE MONOLOGUE DUET Adam Airline Calamity Sandwich Bags: Wear Them On Your Pants by Krista Boehnert by Joanna Dell by Bradley Walton
The Cashier In Lane 8 Broom Closet Quarantine Sing Like A Sheep by Kelly Meadows by Jerry Rabushka by Christian Kiley
Casual Fights Teddy Bear Picnic I Got An Ugly Teddy Bear From A Claw by Jerry Rabushka Machine At A Family Buffet...Now What? by Olivia Arieti
brook by Bradley Walton Toe Tag: Jane Doe Crisis: My Brother’s Ugly Shirt by Gary Ray Stapp by Bradley Walton I’m Not Normal by Camila Vasquez Toe Tag: John Doe The End Of Sandcastles by Gary Ray Stapp by Claudia Haas Kitten In The Rubble by Jerry Rabushka Epiphany SKIT & PLAY by David MacGregor Lila Vicarious The Betrayed, The Forgotten, And The by Jerry Rabushka For Old Time’s Sake Martins p by David MacGregor by Bradley Walton Poverty Breaking News ub.com by Bobby Keniston A Little Lie by Sam Havens by Bobby Keniston Six Secrets Of Seven Witches The Cleaning by Kelly Meadows Love In A Fish Bowl by Joseph Sorrentino by Deanna Ableser Thank You For Texting Dear Diary by Camila Vasquez Love In The Ravioli Season by Craig Sodaro by Claudia Haas Three Little Words Different Times Love Is More Important Than My by Carl L. Williams by Krista Boehnert History Paper by Kelly Meadows Face The Music Unanswered by Craig Sodaro by Bradley Walton Love, Theatre, And Damn Yankees by Scott Icenhower I’ve Got My Standards Why I Hate My Sister by Craig Sodaro by Kelly Meadows Lucas Dreaming by Stacey Lane The Perfect Diet by Craig Sodaro SKIT & PLAY Living A Real Life My Name Is Tammy Small Talk by Dennis Bush by Jerry Rabushka COLLECTION by David MacGregor
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CINDERSTEIN 2222: THE ZOMBIE CRAMALOT BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD APOCALYPSE BY: LAURIE BRYANT MS HS • 12 females, BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT MS HS • 7 females, 5 8 males, 13 either, 33 MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 17 either, 21 total, males, 12 either, 24 total, doubling 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • total, 4-10 extras, possible, gender 75 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook doubling possible, flexible • 80 minutes • Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per gender flexible • 60 Comedy, Fairy Tales, performance minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: Classics • Script: $8.50 • Notebook February 22, 2222: It’s the Zombie $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Apocalypse! When the dead become living, Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $70.00 per and the living become dead. And the only Royalty: $75.00 per performance thing that can possibly survive... is love. It’s performance Help! The local high the Zombie love story musical comedy A narrator introduces opening soon in a theater near you...just as
STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS school drama teacher the audience to a wrote his own version soon as we finish filming it, which is just as time long past, where of Cinderella by combining the Princess's tale soon as we finish writing it, but that’s only if young academic-minded people were mired in with the story of Frankenstein, but the the Zombies don’t come to life for real. And an educational culture that didn't meet their production is bombing: The Fairy Godmother maybe they already have... needs. Arising from the mass of mediocrity is wants to be called the Fairy Goshmother, Arthur, who assumed his rightful destiny as three new stepsisters must be added to the BLACK HEARTS AND BEARDED King of the Students when, as a lad, he laid cast, several actors quit, and the extras are LADIES hands on Excalibur, a text of extraordinary fed up with being extras. Then, after being BY: RAY SHEERS length that he alone could read. Arthur travels forced to play a girl, one of the boys worries the land in search of other gifted students to MS HS • 16 females, that if his father, an avid sports fanatic, sees join him at Cramalot, a place where they can 10 males, 26 total • 90 him his acting career will be over. Despite the minutes • Comedy • read, write and share ideas—preferably director's explicit instructions that the Prince's Script: $7.50 • without being shut into medieval lockers. Ball scene must be slow and elegant, the cast Notebook Script: Along the way, Arthur and his growing band of speeds it up to super-speed so that the boy $16.75 • Royalty: brothers (and a sister or two, courtesy of Title won't be seen, but the actress playing the $60.00 per IX), are aided by the Lady of the Lake, the Queen is incapable of improvisation and can't performance famous Student-Assistance Counselor, and keep up. When Dr. Frankenstein drops When four rude, are charged by the Supreme Being?The Cinderella's brain and replaces it with a cat's crude, unladylike Superintendent of Schools, with securing the brain instead, this insane production changes ladies take up Holy Grail, an Ivy League diploma. Arthur and beyond even the director's recognition. residency at the his Knights of the Library Table learn many Sweetwater Inn and valuable lessons along the way, and poke ALMOST TREASURE ISLAND claim to be magicians, the lovely inn is turned more than their share of fun at students, teachers, parents, administrators, and, well, BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON upside down. The four are actually the fiendish, thievish Bearded Lady Bandits the state of education in general. (As if it isn't MS HS • 11 females, incognito, and they’re staying at the funny enough on its own.) 10 males, 21 total • 90 minutes • Comedy, Sweetwater Inn along with an odd but Farce • Script: $8.50 • hilarious assortment of other drop-ins, THE BRUNCH CLUB Notebook Script: including Clarissa, a fortune-teller who all-too- BY: KATELYN BEYKE $16.75 • Royalty: accurately predicts doom; Fredrico Vinyofski, MS HS • 3-12 females, 3-12 males, 1 either, $70.00 per a mysterious swindler competing with the performance 7-25 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • Bearded Lady Bandits for financial growth; 75 minutes • Comedy, Parody • Script: $7.50 • Jack and his buddies follow a treasure map to Luna, a maid who eats the occasional fly; Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per a secluded island where a priceless treasure Franklin and Pickles, two likable but lazy performance relatives; Dr. Frankenmirth, an egotistical is supposedly buried. Led by Roger, "Captain What will happen when you leave six high psychiatrist; and Mr. Mimms, a lovable lodger Sir," and entertained by Magician Jeff, the school seniors alone in detention? Will they looking for love in all the wrong places. This is boys arrive to discover that they have only kill each other? Will they turn into flesh-hungry definitely a full house, but family’s family and half of the map. Jack’s sister, Sarah, stole the zombies? Will they unleash plagues upon the when the wealthy, headstrong, and trigger- other half, and she too travels to the island world? Will they do all of the above and happy Aunt Golda arrives to announce her with her friends in search of the treasure. more? Four hilarious scenes show the many sixth marriage, the real trouble begins. Unable to find the riches with half a map, the possible outcomes for six unsupervised girls cook up a plan to swipe the other half students. from the boys, but the boys overhear the scheme and devise a counterplot. In an attempt to scare the girls off the island, the boys find themselves in a cold sweat as they stand face-to-face with the Jungle Man. Several sight gags and laughable characters make this a must-see farce that keeps the audience on course for a fanciful ending!
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THE AGONY AND THE ALIBIS THE DEARLY UNDEPARTED STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS HILARITY: THE LIFE OF TEENS BY: PETER KENNEDY BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT BY: EDITH WEISS ALL • 5 females, 4 HS CT • 5 females, 2 males, 7-9 either, 14-16 MS HS • 7-21 females, 3-10 males, 4-21 either, males, 9 total • 75 total, gender flexible • 100 minutes • Comedy • 14-52 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • minutes • Comedy, Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • 65 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Mystery, Classics • Royalty: $65.00 per performance Script: $8.50 • Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per It's just an innocent omission, a little white lie; performance Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: it's for her own good anyway. When grandma Ten scenes and two monologues explore the $75.00 per refuses to move to a nursing home to make life of teens: The horror of two girls at prom performance room for her greedy relatives, they hold a fake seance so grandpa will tell her she should wearing the same dress and their brilliant When famous leave right away. But what would happen if solution, two lost students on their first day at actress Primavera the seance actually worked, and a stranger a new school, and a guy being dumped for Donna throws a party came over from the other side...and liked it so the lack of a car. From school to family to their and winds up dead, much he never wanted to leave?! social lives and volunteer work, this is a funny it’s up to the guests to figure out the who, and poignant look at situations teens face. how, and why. As the storm outside rages and the body count mounts, the guests must CSI - WONDERLAND ACTING CAN BE MURDER contend with interruptions, shocking BY: WADE BRADFORD BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON revelations, tacky special effects and the MS HS • 6 females, 4 males, 8-13 either, 18-23 arrival of a mysterious visitor. Action and ALL • 8 females, 6 total, 2-6 extras, doubling possible, gender males, 14 total • 90 dialogue are fast-paced, and the surprising flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Mystery, minutes • Comedy, conclusion leaves only one question: Who Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: Mystery • Script: $7.50 gets the movie rights? The cast includes a $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance • Notebook Script: stuffy butler, a social butterfly, a playboy, a When the detectives from Crime Scene $16.75 • Royalty: dotty chemist, an aristocrat of dubious origin, Imagination arrive to arrest Alice, the poor girl $60.00 per a nun who has taken a vow of silence, a part- performance realizes that she will be returning to a place time detective, a very French maid, and a that she had tried to forget. A place that she Dolores Gordon has always dreamed of mysterious stranger. This is a rapid-fire romp wished was just a bad dream. A place called stardom, but the only role she ever seems to through the conventional drawing room Wonderland. Once Alice jumps back down land is that of the understudy. She decides mystery, which is easy to stage and well- that rabbit hole, she gets caught up in a wild the only way she is going to get the lead role suited for ensemble comedy. With shades of and ridiculous murder-mystery. Someone has in an upcoming production is to murder the Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, and "Ten removed the king's head, and the Queen is lead actress, Guinevere Black. Dolores hides Little Indians," this whodunit is sure to please. furious. Alice and the Mad Hatter must find Guinevere’s body in a wooden trunk that is the culprit or suffer the Queen's wrath. Filled used as the centerpiece of the production’s AIN'T SHE SWEET with fast-paced humor and fun-to-stage murder mystery set, but Dolores’ thrills soon BY: CRAIG SODARO fantasy, CSI: Wonderland is certain to please turn to chills when she begins to observe audiences and actors alike. strange things going on among the MS HS • 13 females, 8 males, 21 total • 90 production’s suspicious and dysfunctional minutes • Historical Events and People • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: THE BEEBLEBROX AND BIXLEY cast members. That’s when her worst $65.00 per performance nightmare is realized: Guinevere’s body is TRAVELING CIRCUS AND gone! But who took it? Which cast member is Harriet Gunther's Chicago boarding house for SIDESHOW on to her horrific crime? And is that Guinevere young ladies almost loses its good reputation BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT herself peering through the French doors of in a single night in 1925. Three gangsters MS HS • 4 females, 5 males, 5 either, 14 total, the set? Find out the answers when you read posing as new "help" invade the house 0-10 extras, gender flexible • 90 minutes • this murder mystery that spoofs Agatha looking for a treasure supposedly hidden Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: Christie and Alfred Hitchcock all in one keep- there by Two Ton Tommy, a notorious but $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance now dead gangster. To complicate matters, you-guessing backstage comedy. There's Bobo the Pathetic Clown, whose the world's greatest screen lover and his name pretty much says it all; Leo, the director take refuge in the house to escape tightrope walker, who's afraid of heights; the [NO] VACANCY rabid fans, a would-be writer promises to do Bearded Lady, who is cleanly shaven; and the BY: KATELYN BEYKE anything to find the girl of his dreams, and Fat Man, who's gone on a diet...and these are MS HS • 7 females, 4 males, 7 either, 18 total, father and son tycoons insist on impressing the good acts. Unless the Beeblebrox and gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: as many of the girls in the house as possible. Bixley Traveling Circus and Sideshow can put $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Topping it off, a nosey neighbor is sure on a show so good it will impress a world- $65.00 per performance Harriet is running a speakeasy. Is it any renowned circus critic, they will be forced to The Apple Tree Inn has only been open three wonder several of the girls fall hard for the close their tent flaps forever. Come one, come weeks, and Diane is worried no one will ever intruders? Chicago in the '20s - it's exactly all, to The Beeblebrox and Bixley Traveling check in! But out of the blue, pop star Jordan what made the decade roar! Circus and Sideshow. Wieber shows up and brings chaos with him. How will Diane keep her hotel running smoothly with hotel inspectors, undercover police officers, hoards of Wieber fans, and a dead body all threatening to shut it down?
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ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO AN ALL YOU CAN MURDER BECOMING JULIET ENTER HERE: THE STORY OF A BUFFET BY: DEAN DYER PROM BY: MARISSA DEYOUNG, SABRINA SALAY, MS HS • 18 females, BY: BRADLEY WALTON HANNAH SINGLETON, MATT STEELE, MIKE 9 males, 27 total • 120 STEELE HS • 8 females, 5 males, 3 either, 16 total • 90 minutes • Comedy, minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook MS HS • 12 females, 7 males, 3 either, 22 total, Classics • Script: Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per gender flexible • 120 minutes • Comedy, $7.50 • Notebook performance Mystery • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: Script: $16.75 • $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance Royalty: $60.00 per She calls herself Gor. She's an antisocial performance Goth who hates people, social events, and The Knotting Community College JJ Baker has never any color that's not black...and she just got Cheerleading Team is hosting a Protect the had the chance to put in charge of the prom. Whales fundraiser at IHOFF: The International House of Fried Foods, an all- play a leading role. you-can-eat buffet. Despite a blizzard, the Star actress Madison STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS BABBLE team hopes a large crowd of hungry diners Engers has always BY: BRADLEY WALTON will come out to support the cause. A major been in the limelight, until JJ wins the role of MS HS • 2 females, 21 either, 23 total, 0-10 celebrity might even show up! But not Juliet in the famous Shakespeare play. Her extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 100 everything goes quite as planned. When the hopes for stardom may be in danger though minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook cheerleaders are poisoned, it becomes clear after Romeo literally breaks his leg. JJ and Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per that someone at the buffet is out for murder. her director know the talented rebel Dylan performance But who could it be? The vivacious female would make the perfect Romeo, if they could Brilliant but arrogant, Jack Brennan can talk impersonator? The tattooed bikers? The only convince him he’s actor material! his way around any subject. When a teacher irritable cook? The fashion designer? The Rivalries and romance make this behind-the he disdains recruits Jack onto the forensics love-struck ventriloquist? Santa Claus? His scenes high school comedy a must-see! team, Jack drags aboard an underachieving elf? Or one of the other zany characters class goofball just for spite. But when the floating around the restaurant? Join psychic AMERICAN IDLE: MURDERING goofball blossoms into a talented impromptu Madam Adelina as she attempts to unravel THE MUSIC the mystery with some help from the speaker, Jack must find a new way to stir up BY: RANDALL DAVID COOK trouble, and sets out to dethrone the state audience. This is a fun show for anyone with an interest in mystery, fashion, cooking, ALL • 11 females, 7 males, 18 total, doubling champion current events speaker...who is his possible, gender flexible • 85 minutes • Dark mystery, cheerleading, ventriloquism, other teammate. Comedy, Parody, Mature Theme • Script: $7.50 mystery, Christmas, tarot cards, manicures, • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per motorcycles, mystery and mystery. ASHTON TOWERS performance BY: ROBERT FRANKEL "We're your hosts for 'American Idle: MS HS • 13 females, 6 males, 10-18 either, BARD IN A BOX: THE TAMING Murdering The Music,' the show where the 29-37 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • OF THE SHREW singer who blows the most gets decimated by 110 minutes • Comedy, Parody • Script: $7.50 • BY: RUTH BUCHANAN industry professionals!" shouts co-host Ryan Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per MS HS • 4 females, 7 males, 4 either, 15 total, Seasunk, the hyperactive emcee of the most performance 1-5 extras, gender flexible • 75 minutes • popular talent show in America. As viewers Looking for a shameless takeoff on the Comedy, Shakespeare and the Classics, tune in, the top ten finalists perform live for a Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: popular Austin Powers movie series? Look no lively studio audience and three in-fighting $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance further! Dr. Nogood is on the loose, and judges: Simon Callous, the snooty British international man of intrigue, Ashton Towers, While stranded in an abandoned hunting critic, always ready to dish out a nasty barb; is brought in coffin-like and covered in foil. cabin during a raging thunderstorm, a class of Paula Abominable, the relentlessly perky When he is finally revitalized, he sits up stiffly intrepid students searches for ways to amuse cheerleader turned has-been singer; and and says, “Yeah, baby!” Dr. Nogood’s themselves while they wait for bus repairs. Randy Jackalacka, the monosyllabic, larger- hilarious satellite discussion with the cabinet Stranded with no cell service and nothing to than-life music producer. Victory, however, and Ashton Towers reveals that he is building do but complain, the students and their takes a backseat to survival as death threats —horrors!—a time machine. And guess who exhausted teacher wait for rescue. Then, in a are soon realized and the contestants start he’s got to protect it? Mini-you—a clever cobwebby corner, they stumble upon "The going down, one by one. Wanting the live creation using one actor as the legs and Bard in a Box: The Taming of the Shrew in 60 show to go on no matter what, the ratings- another as the body! Ashton and Nogood minutes or less! BYOD!" (Bring Your Own hungry producer, Joanna, keeps hiding the face-off in the Time Machine, transforming Drama!) While the teacher nods off in the bodies backstage during commercial breaks. from a cowboy showdown to knights in armor corner, the students ransack the house for By show's end, the killer is revealed, and only to cavemen. We even get a tasteful but props before attempting to stage their own one singer of the original ten remains hilarious takeoff on the movie compilation rollicking version of one of Shakespeare's standing, ensuring that the music will continue scenes of words we can’t say. Easy to classic comedies. With no prior experience in to be murdered! produce, with simple settings and flexible Elizabethan drama, it is quite literally casting, Ashton Towers is sure to leave your Shakespeare as you have never seen him audience saying, “Yeah, baby!” before, with many questions, confusions, anachronisms, mispronunciations — and, of course, laughs — along the way.
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BEES ARE IN THE PARK CHAOS IN CAMELOT! BEWITCHED STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS BY: BOBBY KENISTON BY: CHRISTY FREDRICKSON, DONNA RICE BY: CRAIG SODARO ALL • 2-4 females, 2-4 males, 4-8 total, MS HS • 9 females, 7 males, 6 either, 22 total, MS HS • 13 females, 6 males, 1 either, 20 total, doubling possible • 70 minutes • Comedy, 0-6 extras, gender flexible • 85 minutes • gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: Drama • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 Comedy, Farce, Classics • Script: $7.50 • $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: • Royalty: $60.00 per performance Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per $60.00 per performance performance A beautiful park on a beautiful day is the Amity, the new kid at Witchgrove High, is setting for this full-length collection of Take a witch, a monster, noble knights and trying to make new friends by joining the cast interlocking vignettes: A would-be stepdad fair ladies, sprinkle them with magic and what of Macbeth in which she plays a witch. What and a grumpy little girl, an overprotective do you have? Magical, merry mayhem! In the she doesn't realize is that her new home is mother and her special needs son, a teenage kingdom of Camelot, Morgan Le Fay and her haunted by the ghost of Bridget Bascomb, boy trying to tell a girl that he loves her for the bumbling assistants are plotting to get rid of hanged as a witch in 1690. When Amity's dad, first time, and an old couple looking back on King Arthur. But their efforts are thwarted by a who is a doctor being pursued by his very their beautiful life together are characters who crazy ogre named Goric, who is demanding to greedy nurse, gives her an unusual antique make up this richly textured, poignant and know what women really want, and necklace for her 16th birthday, Bridget funny play. This easy to stage play is a strong threatening to eat everyone in the kingdom appears to let Amity know she will now be the opportunity for character study with young until he finds out! Queen Guinevere, trying to resident witch, complete with all sorts of actors, or a perfect piece for community help, makes everything worse by giving a powers. Amity soon finds herself trying to theater. This heartwarming play has magic potion to Lancelot. Will Arthur find the undo the nurse's spell on her dad and to do something for everyone. answer to the ogre's question? Will Lancelot that she ends up asking the advice of great run off with Guinevere? And who will stop lovers like Romeo and Juliet. Unfortunately, Morgan - the sword-happy knights, the man- ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WITH they only complicate matters. A spirited crazy ladies, the minstrel who can't sing, or comedy that finds a teenage girl learning to MONIQUE perhaps Merlin? Find out in this magical romp be comfortable with who she is—even if she BY: AMY BERLIN, ANN BUCCI with easy-to-stage special effects! can cast a spell or two. HS CT • 2-6 females, 2-11 males, 4-17 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: BETTER FOOTBALL THROUGH THE BLOODY ATTACK OF THE $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY EVIL, DEMONIC GIRAFFE BY: MURRAY AUSTIN She’s been fired from her theatre internship, PUPPET - FULL LENGTH her mother has signed an anti-enabling MS HS • 11 females, 7 males, 1 either, 19 total, VERSION agreement, and her therapist is ready to give 1-20 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • BY: BRADLEY WALTON 90 minutes • Comedy, Parody, Farce • Script: up her practice. What’s a girl to do? Armed HS • 5 females, 3 males, 8 either, 16 total, $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: gender flexible • 120 minutes • Comedy • Script: with a gift for making lemons into lemonade, $65.00 per performance Monique has her sights set on New York City. $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Will she succeed on Broadway despite her Chicaloo Chicken cheerleaders (The Fighting $65.00 per performance lack of experience and talent? According to Chicks) Laura, Hannah, and Cheryl have the Rupert, a socially-conscious teenager, sets Monique, reality is overrated, and success is dumbest boyfriends on campus. But when a out to make a documentary titled "Materialism just a state of mind! All’s Well That Ends with quirky science experiment transforms these and the Decay of Morality in Postmodern Monique is an absurdist comedy for anyone dim-witted football jocks into certified Society." He makes the mistake of recruiting who has ever practiced their Oscar geniuses, the lowly Chickens become big- assistance from other students at his high acceptance speech in the bathroom mirror, time winners, and the entire school quickly school and finds his production saddled with a heard the roar of the crowd as they hit the spirals out-of-control. Jordan J. Jawbreaker militant vegan, an obsessive fan of Japanese World Series winning homerun, or imagined calls the hilarious play-by-play action for TFC comics, a redneck self-proclaimed movie their witty repartee during a TV interview. (That's "Tennessee Fried Chicken") expert, and others...all giving him terrible Television, as coaches Murphy and Tanner advice. Rupert's serious documentary soon seek to retain some sanity in what could be THE ACCOUNTANCY degenerates into a cheesy slasher flick called, the Chicaloo Chickens' first ever football "The Bloody Attack of the Evil, Demonic BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT championship. Giraffe Puppet: The Leprechauns Strike MS HS • 2 females, 3 males, 5 either, 10 total, Back." Unfortunately, Rupert has already gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: entered the movie in a documentary film $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: DEATH STALKS A LADY $60.00 per performance BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER contest under its original title. Are you needing a career? Do you want job HS CT • 3 females, 4 males, 4 either, 11 total, 2-5 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • In your production of The Bloody Attack of the security? Peace of mind? Do you want to 110 minutes • Drama, Mystery • Script: $7.50 • Evil, Demonic Giraffe Puppet, you have the make the most amount of money for the least Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per opportunity to film Rupert's movie using your amount of effort? Then the Accountancy is the performance own actors/crew and incorporate it into your career for you! And it comes with an official performance. The screenplay for the movie is A classic film noir with 40s style dialogue, an certificate, suitable for framing. How can I be included within the play script. Downloadable edgy detective, and a host of shady sure that the Accountancy is the right career theme music is also available on our website. characters lurking in the shadows. Nick for you? Because that is the career I Watch a video from the world premiere at Wallace is a private eye. It's a dark and recommend for everybody. And those wise www.brookpub.com. enough to take my advice... all live right here. stormy night. A dame walks in. She thinks her And woe be he who tries anything different. husband is unfaithful and wants him tailed. The Accountancy, a full length comedy. Nick takes the case—and spirals into danger.
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CAST AWAY TO A CALIFORNIA SURFER IN THE CANTERVILLE GHOST SHAKESPEARE'S GARDEN CLEOPATRA'S* COURT BY: CLAUDIA HAAS BY: CLAUDIA HAAS BY: PATRICK DORN ALL • 9 females, 5 males, 7 either, 21 total • 90 MS HS • 8 females, 3 males, 1 either, 12 total, MS HS • 7-12 females, 5-9 males, 12-21 total, minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • gender flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Fantasy 0-30 extras, doubling possible • 90 minutes • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Classics, Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook performance Royalty: $60.00 per performance Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per A rambunctious American family buys a performance An errant computer and a mysterious comet haunted manor in England. But they don't conspire to send three teenagers back to Cowabunga Dudes! Surf's up...in Ancient mind...they don't believe in ghosts. As the Shakespeare's time. The teens soon find Egypt! Totally awesome teen surfer Brody ghost tries to scare the Americans out of his themselves acting in an "olde" version of Morgan is mysteriously transported from a home, he finds the tables are turned—he is Pyramus and Thisbe with Shakespeare's California beach in the 1960s to 41 BC being terrorized by the children in the family! children! Meanwhile back at home, two Ancient Egypt and Cleopatra's court. Brody A spooky comedy with some zany scenes, computer geeks are hard at work trying to introduces hilarious 20th century inventions Oscar Wilde's story is also a sweet tale of the STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS bring their friends back to their own time. like flip flops, Egyptian cotton sheets, and power of love. mummy-style sleeping bags to Cleopatra and her Roman boyfriend, Mark Antony. When BLOCK THAT KICK! Cleopatra's wicked adviser Pothinus and BOX STEPS BY: KELLY MEADOWS ambitious sister Arsinoe attempt a venomous BY: ALAN HAEHNEL MS HS • 11-12 females, 5-6 males, 2 either, coup, Brody saves Cleo and the Romans, MS HS • 1-2 females, 1 male, 3-24 either, 5-27 18-20 total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, then returns home in time to compete in a total, 1-3 extras, doubling possible, gender gender flexible • 80 minutes • Comedy • Script: totally gnarly surfing competition and be flexible • 100 minutes • Comedy, Ensemble $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Cast • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • crowned Boss Kahuna. Inspired by Mark $65.00 per performance Royalty: $65.00 per performance Twain's classic time-travel tale, this action- Why would you want to be a cheerleader? To packed, hilarious comedy boasts a flexible Box Steps comprises 10 ten-minute plays, all get a date? To get revenge? What about just cast, silly but simple costumes and props, linked by a set piece: a refrigerator box. In to be on the squad? No, it couldn’t be that. uproarious gags and jokes, and loads of each play, the box changes - first its position When the school puts out a call for new slapstick humor. The play is a mash-up of the on the stage, then eventually its shape until it recruits, the girls at Blackberry High vie for the goofy “beach party” movies of the Sixties and is nothing but a bunch of cardboard confetti three open spots, while the boys in the film a comical take on the Antony and Cleopatra littered on the stage floor. Each ten-minute class use the auditions as an opportunity to story from ancient history. King Tut is rolling play employs a small cast from 2 to 5, but make a documentary. What nobody’s over in his sarcophagus—with laughter—and actors could easily play multiple roles. The prepared for is how the filming captures the all because there's... “A California Surfer in plays vary in style and tone, but all explore good, the bad, but especially the ugly. Plus, Cleopatra's Court”! the elements of imagination and possibility. we got an inside look at the poor girls who got kicked off the squad – can they put their CHASING CHARMING shattered lives back together? In this comedy, CAUGHT IN THE ACT BY: ALASKA REECE VANCE even football takes a backseat to BY: PAT COOK cheerleading as they all prepare to Block That ALL • 11 females, 7 ALL • 12 females, 5 Kick! males, 18 total • 75 males, 6 either, 23 minutes • Comedy, total, 0-30 extras, Farce • Script: $7.50 • gender flexible • 75 Notebook Script: minutes • Comedy, $16.75 • Royalty: Fantasy, Classics • $60.00 per Script: $8.50 • performance Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Experience the $75.00 per mishaps and missed performance cues of playing Chaos and comedy director and actor ensue when a from auditions to blundering young opening night in this riotous tribute to the narrator discovers that Prince Charming has gentle art of slapstick comedy. A director is been kidnapped by the evil witch Hagragard. blackmailed into directing the next show and The narrator struggles to save her family casting actors for a large production - the only honor while her well-meaning Fairy production in town. Actor hopefuls flex their Godmother mistakenly sends not one, but six acting muscle, stage managers grumble, the fairytale princesses (and Goldilocks) to the sound designer sounds off, and the rumors, rescue. Will a needy dragon, a score of evil gossip and secrets truly-madly-hilariously minions and big princess personalities keep unleash utter chaos in this imperfect, back- this unlikely team from becoming heroes? A stabbingly funny backstage comedy that great comedy the whole family will enjoy. barely scratches the surface.
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THE BELLE OF WEST TEXAS CINDERELLA (FULL LENGTH DEADLY ERNEST STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS BY: CAROL RICE PLAY) BY: DONALD PAYTON HS CT • 4 females, 5 males, 9 total, 0-10 extras BY: MARTY DUHATSCHEK ALL • 8 females, 6 • 75 minutes • Comedy, Melodrama • Script: MS HS • 9 females, 4 males, 13 total • 90 males, 14 total • 90 $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • minutes • Comedy, $60.00 per performance Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Farce • Script: $7.50 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance Notebook Script: When villains Gerald Snively and his sidekick, $16.75 • Royalty: Melinda Mooch, hit Oilwell, Texas, it's rack A hilarious retelling of a great old story! Poor $60.00 per and ruin from start to finish. You had to expect Cinderella, belittled by her stepsisters Oofa performance villains in Oilwell to do things a little and Murkatrina, overworked by her Throughout history, infants have been named differently, and - truly - deplorable! From Stepmother, and no prospect of happiness on “Ernest,” and it’s safe to assume that there is providing poor widow Lizzie Holiday a fake the horizon. Poor Prince Rupert, a mother nothing startling, arresting, or even unusual map to her dead husband’s oil well so they pushing him to marry, a father trying to avoid about the name - except to Henry Gilcrest. It can not only get rich on the oil but also take anymore bruises from his wife, and a faithful starts with a triple-whammy, wherein Henry over her struggling hotel, to keeping apart true steed with the unfortunate name of Daisy. gets fired, his girlfriend dumps him, and his love between our hero, Eddie Allswell, and What's a prince to do? Star-crossed lovers, Aunt Ethel evicts him because he hasn't paid the angelic Belle, these two are evil grumpy sidekicks, unforgettable stepsisters, his rent. Well, jobless, homeless, girl-less, personified. But it’s a melodrama, so naturally and some fairy friends help us laugh all the and clueless, Henry is now forced to spend good triumphs and “all’s well with oil wells.” way to a happy ending. Come join the fun! the night in the park, only to meet Mr. Bumpus, who says that, for the price of all of A CHRISTMAS CHAOS - FULL CINDERELLA AND THE Henry's earthly possessions ($17.83), he will LENGTH BIRKENSTOCKS solve all of Henry's problems. Soon after, BY: MICHAEL WEHRLI BY: JERRY RABUSHKA Aunt Ethel welcomes Henry back, his ALL • 5 females, 4 MS HS • 9 females, 5 males, 2 either, 16 total, girlfriend wants another chance, his boss males, 7 either, 16 0-8 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • gives him a raise and his life could never have total, gender flexible • 80 minutes • Comedy, Parody, Classics • Script: been better. But there's a twist! Every new 85 minutes • Comedy, $7.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: person Henry encounters is now named Farce • Script: $8.50 • $60.00 per performance Ernest. You’ll enjoy each character in this Notebook Script: Why would you send someone to a dance rapid-fire, three-act frolic in one set with a $16.75 • Royalty: clever finish! $75.00 per with glass slippers? They’re so performance uncomfortable! This pop-cultured adaptation of the classic fairy tale begins with an Gadzooks! The Royal AFTER HAPPILY EVER impossible Cinderella terrorizing her sweet Shakespeare AFTER* grandmother and her studious sisters. When Company hasn't BY: AMANDA BURRIS, JULIA GROVE, the prince announces he’s having a ball, they arrived as promised LAUREN OHLER try to keep her home, not out of spite, but for to perform their stirring rendition of "A ALL • 10-15 females, 10-15 males, 20-30 total, fear of embarrassment. Things take a very Christmas Carol." So our intrepid band of doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 minutes • interesting turn when American Idol’s Paula hapless actors and technicians must put Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • Abdul - “Paula Abdaula” shows up as her fairy Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $70.00 per together their own production in only seven godmother. Will Cinderella marry the prince performance hours! What a pity that they are not quite up so her family can have some peace? to the task, even though they give it their all. What happens after the oh-so-brave prince Have you ever experienced backstage slays the dragon, swash-buckles his way into mayhem? Well, you haven't seen anything WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE the castle, saves the damsel in distress and yet! The play focuses on these poor but TARDY BELL RANG? lives happily ever after? Prince Charming gets dedicated thespians doing their best while BY: CRAIG SODARO kidnapped! With the kingdom in panic, the dim-witted Squire Squdge is determined to chaos is all around them: two kids fighting MS HS • 5-17 females, 4-13 males, 9-30 total, find Prince Charming to prove his knightliness over who gets to play Tiny Tim, a confused doubling possible, gender flexible • 105 minutes actor who thinks she's in another show, a • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: to the kingdom. With the help of Lulu, the haughty lead actor, one actor playing both $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance unhygienic and less-than-ladylike town Bob and Mrs. Cratchit, an out-of-control wench, the ever eager duo team up to Eight lively sketches capture life in high director, thrown together props and costumes, interrogate the notorious villains of the school and beyond in this funny, yet insightful, ridiculous scenery, and tons of flubs and kingdom: Nork the Ogre, Rumple, the Wicked play. It provides terrific roles for student actors confusion. Most of the actors in the show play Witch and her two daughters. Squire Squdge along with very easy production requirements. multiple roles in this extremely fast-paced and and Lulu are no closer to finding Charming physical comedy. Even the light and sound than when they had begun. After the unlikely board operators are characters in the show! discovery of Prince Charming, the ultimate The play is a hilarious backstage comedy that fight breaks out between our not-so-classic pokes fun at the classic novel and everything heroes and our timeless villains. Featuring an that can go wrong with a theatrical production. angry mob in search of a witch and an on- going bet between our Story Teller, Fiery Fiend, and Rumple, only the cast of After Happily Ever After can make this new take so dazzling!
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ALLAN AND LLOYD MEET CYRANO: A NOSE BY ANY THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO DRACULA* OTHER NAME HIGH BY: MARTY DUHATSCHEK BY: JEFF MCKILLIP BY: MICHAEL DRUCE MS HS • 3-4 females, 5-6 males, 2-3 either, HS • 5 females, 8 males, 5 either, 18 total, MS HS • 12 females, 6 males, 1-6 either, 19-24 10-13 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 minutes • total, 0-15 extras, doubling possible, gender 75 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Classics, Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per : $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: performance performance $65.00 per performance Join Allan and Lloyd, the Rebel Cows, in their Based on the play Cyrano de Bergerac by In this story of geeks, money, and revenge, latest uproarious adventure, Allan & Lloyd Edmund Rostand, this updated romantic spoiled rich kid Freddy Mondego frames Meet Dracula! Set in 1942. The boys win the comedy stars a small-town sheriff with a big geeky sophomore Billy Milburn for stealing a grand -prize vacation on the radio quiz show, nose who would do anything for the woman test. Billy is expelled from Monte Cristo High Brain Busters, and are whisked away to he loves...even if it means winning her for and disappears from sight. Two years later, Transylvania where accommodations await another man! This play has something for Billy returns to Monte Cristo in the guise of STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS them at Dracula’s castle. With the German everyone - fencing, fighting, comedy, Eddie Dantes, a suave and rich Italian count Blitzkrieg raging across Europe, several romance, poetry and pastries. determined to settle old scores and to win hapless refugees have also found their way over Marcy, the girl he had always been too into the Count’s domain -- including the DADDY'S GIRL shy to ask out. Meanwhile, Monte Cristo has pioneering group therapist Dr. Twist and his declared bankruptcy and the school is to be BY: GARY RAY STAPP entourage of peculiar patients. Vampire sold to the towns richest man, Frederick hunters, Nazi spies and of course, Dracula’s HS CT • 8 females, 4 Mondego. own minion-sidekick, “The Renfield,” round males, 1 either, 13 out a cast of richly drawn characters, each total, gender flexible • 120 minutes • with their moment to shine. Can the Dairy Duo Comedy • Script: triumph over the ultimate evil? I wouldn’t bet $8.50 • Notebook on it –but you can be sure that actors and Script: $16.75 • audiences alike will have a rollicking time Royalty: $75.00 per solving that mystery! performance Meet Benard BURYING THE HATCHETTS Muloovy, proprietor BY: WHITNEY RYAN GARRITY of Maudie’s Diner, ALL • 5 females, 3 the most no- males, 8 total • 90 nonsense cook you’ve ever met. Bernard gets minutes • Comedy • served a full plate of comic chaos when his Script: $7.50 • deceased wife decides to take up residence Notebook Script: as a talking portrait on the diner wall. Enlisting $16.75 • Royalty: the services of an angel, Michael, Maudie $60.00 per hopes to reunite Benard with their long lost performance daughter, Elizabeth. True to his mischievous Aspiring performer nature, Michael delivers two Elizabeths, and Daphne Prescott and Benard’s task is to decide which young ARLENE'S BEAUTY WORLD her faithful maid and woman is his real daughter. This play comes BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT companion, Greta fully seasoned with characters like E.L. - a Gump, have become snobbish restaurant critic after Benard's ALL • 7 females, 4 males, 1 either, 12 total, gender flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Mystery stranded on a deserted road in the English secret recipe, Lizzy - a girl with a split • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • countryside. The ladies soon find themselves personality, a forgetful waitress, a PhD Royalty: $65.00 per performance guests of the cursed Hatchett House, a student with communication problems, a yin- creepy old manor with a peculiar history and yang geriatric duo, a motorcycle mama, and Will Detective Cannon and Officer O'Malley even more peculiar inhabitants. Lord Esmond of course Darlynn, the woman who has been solve the case of the Fruitcake Bomber before Hatchett seems to be highly sensitive to light trying to get Benard to the altar for years, he... or she... strikes again? Could it be one of and noise and deep in mourning for his late because who doesn’t want a second helping the kindly old ladies who gets coiffed at wife, while the rest of the family has morbid of happiness?. In this contest of laughter and Arlene's Beauty World? Or could it be quirks of their own. Daphne may be in for tears, lines are drawn, sides are taken, and Maurice's attempt at stealing the formula for more than she bargained for in this easy to rules are broken as one young lady reveals a Basic Blue? Could it be Chester who's stage, delightfully comedic thriller reminiscent secret and ultimately claims her paternity, but engaged to the owner, Janis? Or could it be of the classic 1960’s horror film. not without a twist... or two. A single set, zany Janis trying to blow up Chester? Whoever it characters, and a heart of gold make this a is, there's no one who can stop the fun at great night out for the whole family! Arlene's Beauty World.
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COOKING CAN BE MURDER EBENEZER! STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER HS CT • 6 females, 5 ALL • 20-30 either, 20-30 total, doubling males, 5-41 either, possible, gender flexible • 85 minutes • 16-52 total, doubling Comedy, Parody, Classics • Script: $7.50 • possible, gender Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per flexible • 75 minutes • performance Comedy, Mystery • Script: $8.50 • Dickens got it backwards: Scrooge was good, Notebook Script: and everyone else was bad! In this wild $16.75 • Royalty: adaptation, Scrooge's business partner sends $75.00 per three spirits to show Scrooge the world is performance absolutely horrible. The Ghost of Christmas Past, a B-movie actor, forces Scrooge to Arrogant James Casanova Valentino Bond is relive old pains. The Ghost of Christmas in the middle of judging a cooking contest Present, a die-hard entrepreneur in a Santa when he (after a dramatic and quite theatrical suit, reveals Scrooge's nephew, Bob death scene) falls over with a thud. It seems Cratchett, embezzling funds. And worst of all, he’s been unmercifully poisoned. Each the Ghost of Christmas Future, a street mime, contestant is suddenly a suspect with a shows Scrooge the potential for suffering motive for wanting this man dead. When around the world. Will Ebenezer Scrooge Detective Biddle shows up out of nowhere, he allow these spirits to ruin Christmas forever? begins his investigation immediately. As he Will Marley return victorious to the questions the suspects, their stories come to underworld? life on stage thanks to a reenactment team that has been provided for entertainment DEATH BY DESSERT value. BY: NATHAN HARTSWICK Once all the stories are told and the detective MS HS • 4-5 females, 4-5 males, 1 either, is ready to place his arrest, an unexpected 9-11 total, 2-5 extras, suspect is brought to light and questioned as doubling possible, well. A guilty party is taken away, another gender flexible • 75 murder occurs, which causes another minutes • Comedy, detective to show up out of nowhere. Then he Mystery • Script: $8.50 falls dead. A zany comedy chock full of puns, • Notebook Script: sight gags and ridiculous situations that one $16.75 • Royalty: could only hope for in a parody murder $75.00 per performance mystery. In New York’s Little Italy, the Donnaducce and GHOSTLY DOINGS ON THE Duccedonni families have been feuding for a generation while operating two competing MENU Italian restaurants that share a common wall. BY: THOMAS HISCHAK At rise, the building’s landlord is dead at HS • 14-26 females, 5-8 males, 19-34 total, center stage, and everyone is a suspect – doubling possible • 70 minutes • Drama • Script: from the old-world Italian grandmother and $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: mafia don grandfather to the passionate chefs $60.00 per performance and bumbling wait-staff. Flashing back in Everyone who works at Ye Olde Dancing time, the story is told by its victim, who Duck Inn is quite familiar with the quiet and alternately narrates and participates in the unassuming ghost of Lucy Dalton. On action. As customers in the restaurant, the occasion, Lucy will wait on guests and then audience can be served a delectable meal disappear without bringing their food, but and may cast their vote for whodunit! Will the other than that, Lucy doesn't cause any murderer be ferreted out? Will the feud ever ghostly trouble - that is, until Haley Caldwell be reconciled? What are the hidden truths? starts working at the tavern and the ghost of This deceptively delicious mystery in one set Ezra Dalton, Lucy's husband, shows up has colorful characters, fast-paced dialogue, looking for Lucy and is convinced that Haley and an interactive story that's to die for! is Lucy. That's when Haley decides it's time to get to the bottom of the ghostly doings at the Dancing Duck.
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FRANKIE AND THE GINGERBREAD BOY BY: BOBBY KENISTON ALL • 8 females, 5 males, 13 total • 75 minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance Frankie is an outcast, the quintessential loner. The only peace she finds is from her baking. One day Frankie decides to bake herself a companion, a perfect love who shares her soul and gives her joy. When her creation follows her to school, the social order of the high school is threatened, and the cruelty STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS Frankie has known reaches new heights. Told by an energetic high school Chorus, this is a play that employs rhythm, dark humor, and high theatricality to tell its gripping story. With nods to “Frankenstein,” the Pygmalion myth, and even the Gingerbread Man nursery rhyme, this play will leave audiences riveted with its poignant tale of love, creation, cruelty, satire and tragedy. Perfect for high school, DIAMONDBACKS AND DIAMONDS IN THE SKY, by Jill Pertler college, and community theater groups DIAMONDBACKS AND DID SOMEONE SAY MURDER? looking for a challenging and rewarding script. DIAMONDS IN THE SKY BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER BY: JILL PERTLER ALL • 8 females, 4 A FLY ON THE WALL MS HS • 8 females, 8 males, 8-11 either, 24-27 males, 4 either, 16 BY: PAT COOK total, 0-9 extras, doubling possible, gender total, gender flexible • MS HS • 9 females, 4-5 males, 13-14 total, flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Drama • Script: 90 minutes • Comedy, doubling possible • 90 minutes • Mystery, Farce $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Mystery • Script: $8.50 • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • $60.00 per performance • Notebook Script: Royalty: $60.00 per performance $16.75 • Royalty: What do you get when you combine a $75.00 per Emma Starling has a vivid imagination. That's wedding with the end of the world? The Carter performance what her psychiatrist Phillip thinks when she family is about to find out. Janie is about to tells him of being involved in bank hold-ups, Care to attend marry Michael Dubois, while Janie’s father, UFO sightings, and dating Donald Trump. "murder night"? Join Bob, seems more intent on preparing for an Such outrageous things simply never happen an array of wacky apocalypse. Add to the mix a lost ring, feuding in Phillip's world until his office suddenly characters as they decorator and caterer, recluse grandma who becomes a nest of loud-mouthed ad men, dine and watch the world's greatest detective, never steps outside the house, rattlesnake- nosy reporters, landlords and frantic calls Rathbone, solve murders right in front of their hunting brothers, a ghostly mother-in-law, a from his fiancé. As if this weren’t enough, the eyes. There's only one catch – anyone can be runaway bride, best man and maid of honor police show up, placing him under the victim, and you're on your own in finishing who haven’t met, but are already in love - and investigation. They want to know about his the evening alive. Designed for a single, all the wonderful, wacky emotions and patients and why? It seems that three other permanent set, Did Someone Say Murder? is mayhem that ensue when two families psychiatrists have been murdered. Is he next? easily managed in the smallest and most prepare to unite when it happens...an asteroid What does he know? Lieutenant Diana informal of spaces. Can Rathbone solve the hits. Is it the end of the world, or just the Palmer thinks he knows more than he's telling mystery before the killer runs out of murder beginning? as she tries to keep a lid on things. This isn’t victims? Can you solve the mystery before easy when she finds her back-up, Officer Rathbone does, or will the killer manage to Calvin Thurlow, on a couch spilling his guts to escape the evening and kill again? Murders, the good doctor. And just when Dr. Phillip false identities, spies, double-crossings, FINALLY clears his office so he can sort tricks, surprises, thrills and a most things out, a suspicious woman shows up in scrumptious lobster dinner propel this mystery need of his guidance. And just to make her to its deliciously shocking ending. Lobster point clear she holds a pistol on him. This optional. could get serious, he thinks. Who is she? What does she want? And just who is killing all the psychiatrists in town? This two act mystery-farce will have you guessing until the last patient confesses. And when it all comes to a head, wouldn’t you just love to be a Fly on the Wall?
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DON'T TRY TO WAKE HIM, DRAMA CAMP AN EMPEROR EXPOSED STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS HAND ME THE SHOVEL BY: CRAIG SODARO BY: DEAN DYER BY: PAT COOK MS HS • 16 females, 10 males, 26 total, 0-5 ALL • 12 females, 8-9 ALL • 13 females, 7 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 males, 20-21 total, males, 20 total • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook 0-10 extras, doubling minutes • Comedy, Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per possible • 100 minutes Mystery • Script: $8.50 performance • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • • Notebook Script: When high school sophomore Peggy Webster $16.75 • Royalty: Notebook Script: $75.00 per is lonely over the summer, her parents have a $16.75 • Royalty: performance brilliant answer: ship her off to drama camp! $60.00 per Though Peggy has no interest in acting, she performance Investigative suddenly finds herself surrounded by drama New Topia is a reporters Livermore teens who all consider themselves to be the country ahead of its and Highwater are next great actor. The camp director insists time. King Joseph IV, determined to get the that Peggy audition for a part in the camp’s Joe to his subjects, Billingsgate Mansion summer production of Comrade Cinderella. believes in a society without separation of spooks on the six o’clock news in a last-ditch Unbeknownst to the campers, the director’s classes. This way of life is working well until effort to save their jobs. Paranoid, they enter greedy relatives are trying to shut down the the arrival of Dardalus, a conman posing as a the dreaded mansion in ghost-catching camp so they pepper the food, torment the royal consultant. With the help of his beautiful wardrobe and full ghost gear. One rat-a-tat-tat campers with poison ivy, and resurrect the accomplice, Vashti, the king’s own haughty sends Livermore running for the exit. Ever try legend of the Hockey Mask Phantom. The and corrupt sister, Crazella, and her idiotic to get a ghost on the six o’clock news? Here’s real drama at drama camp lies behind the twin sons, Dardalus wreaks havoc on New what you get: A ghostswept broadcast with a scenes, as Peggy and her “comrades” go off- Topia, scaring people into giving up their squad of lost cheerleaders, a double-dealing book to ferret out the culprits and keep the freedom and driving out the king's beloved, horror of a movie producer and her secretary, box office open. a couple of convicts trying to stash a body in Eleanor. Despite warnings from Theresa, “the the basement, and a bumbling policeman on dumb prophet of New Topia,” Dardalus the prowl. Nobody can tell the guests from the A CHRISTMAS CAROL convinces the king that there are traitors in ghosts, and shortly after the news, it’s every BY: SANDRA NORDGREN New Topia. He persuades the king to don ghost for himself. Pat Cook gives you all the MS HS • 4 females, 5 males, 5 either, 14 total • “magical robes” that can only be seen by comforts of home in this fast-paced farcical 75 minutes • Comedy, Drama, Classics • Script: those truly loyal to New Topia in order to find ghost hunt with a ghostbuster named Pookee. $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: these traitors. Join Joe, Dardalus, Theresa, $65.00 per performance and the rest of the kingdom for an exciting and adventurous new take on one of history's In this unusually funny and dramatic EXPOSED! EIGHT 10-MINUTE most loved fables. SCENES ABOUT WHAT REALLY adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic HAPPENED Christmas tale, comedic ghosts teach Scrooge that there is more to life than running BY: SEAN ABLEY, MICHAEL BEYER, JENNY ENTER MACBETH KIRKLAND-LAFFEY, AMY SEELEY a business and making money. Through the BY: RUTH BUCHANAN lessons that they teach, Scrooge is brought MS HS • 1-16 females, 1-21 males, 1-2 either, MS HS • 7 females, 7 males, 3-6 either, 17-20 back to his humanity and realizes that the 3-39 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • total, 2-5 extras, doubling possible, gender 80 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • most important thing in this world is loving and flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Farce, Classics Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • caring for people. • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $70.00 per performance Royalty: $60.00 per performance Welcome to EXPOSED! The show that FINDING DON QUIXOTE For hundreds of years, the cast members of reveals the truth behind famous people, BY:* JONATHAN YUKICH Hamlet have toiled through each nightly performance – delivering their lines, sneaking characters and stories. Did Rumpelstiltskin HS CT • 9-17 females, 9-12 males, 0-11 either, really try to steal the princess' baby? Was Mr. 19-40 total, 6-12 extras, doubling possible, about behind tapestries, clutching at skulls, Hyde really Miss Hyde? Was Charles Dickens gender flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Classics betraying one another, falling in love, losing really a frustrated stand-up comic? Was • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • their minds, drowning, stabbing, being Robin Hood's sister really responsible for all Royalty: $75.00 per performance stabbed, and dying – over and over and over again. Night after night, the cycle has never that theft? EXPOSED! examines these stories Sadie Turnipseed is a modern day teenager changed. Until now. With a principal character plus Hansel and Gretel, Peter Pan, Willy trying to find her way in the world. She is missing and half the cast on the verge of Wonka, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. forever changed when she discovers a buried revolt, they must take drastic measures to Written to be either a full evening's worth of copy of the classic Don Quixote. Inspired by keep the script from being shelved and the set entertainment, or each scene broken out for the book, Sadie is able to navigate some of from going dark. With the cast grasping at drama festivals and competitions, Exposed! her own life issues through the example straws to keep their numbers even, they soon Eight 10-minute Scenes About What Really exemplified by the novel's extraordinary and resort to recruiting from other scripts in Happened has something for everyone, both hilarious hero. Paralleling the classical Shakespeare's First Folio, hoping that doing on stage and in the audience! adventures of Quixote's quest with Sadie's so will bring an end to all their problems. Little own contemporary journey, the play is a fresh, do they suspect what further doom awaits. funny, and profound retelling of one of the great masterpieces in world literature.Finding Don Quixote had its world premiere at Dickinson College (PA) in 2009.
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DRACELSTEIN THE EDUCATION OF ANGELS HELGA BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER BY: MATTHEW CARLIN *BY: STEVEN STACK MS HS • 6 females, 2 males, 7 either, 15 total, ALL • 3 females, 6 MS HS • 9 females, 2 males, 7 either, 18 total, gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Classics males, 9 total • 90 2-15 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • minutes • Comedy • 90 minutes • Dark Comedy, Classics • Script: Royalty: $60.00 per performance Script: $8.50 • $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Notebook Script: $65.00 per performance Dracelstein, a horrific vampire-ghost-mad $16.75 • Royalty: scientist-werewolf, reanimates the dead to $70.00 per Helga is mourning. And pondering. And create himself a bride—but he can't stand her. performance mourning some more. And pondering some She smells like an old corpse. Now this more. Her mother is dead from natural causes Nick and Jenna are nefarious fiend seeks a new woman, – or so she thinks, until her dead mother two angels in training someone young and beautiful, so he can put returns as a ghost and tells her the truth: It who are about to be his bride's brain inside her youthful body! was not of natural causes. It was murder. sent back to Earth for When innocent Jack and Jane go through the Now her mother needs Helga to avenge her STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS their final exam. The forest on their honeymoon, Dracelstein sends death. But avenging her would force Helga to problem is that these out his army of ghouls to kidnap them—but take action instead of pondering... all the time. two can’t seem to get along, which leads to a Jane's father, the vampire slayer Dr. Von Perhaps she should just go mad. An pretty competitive situation. When Nick and Helling, has other plans. This monstrous farce uproariously dark comedy that follows Jenna return to Earth, they find Dave, a guy combines elements of Rocky Horror Picture Shakespeare's Hamlet while taking some who is even more mixed-up than they are. He Show meets Dracula and Frankenstein. unforeseen and bizarre twists. Good news... is at the church long before he should be on Guaranteed to be a frightfully good time. everyone still dies. It is a comedic tragedy, his wedding day, trying to decide whether he after all. Along the journey, there are should go forward with the wedding. Throw in betrayals, sword fights, scenes of madness FOR A PAIR OF PROM SHOES a domineering ex-wife and the fact that Dave and laughter, ghosts galore, a love story of BY: JERRY RABUSHKA is the only one that can see the angels... and sorts, a demise non-demise, lots and lots of MS HS • 9 females, 10 males, 17 either, 36 that he can only see one of them... and comic pondering questions without answers, and a total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender situations ensue. There is a serious side to destroyed pillow. Oh, and all the genders flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • this heartwarming play though, as we see have been reversed. Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per Nick struggle to understand why he’s back on performance Earth and perhaps, indeed, why he is an Imagine Sadie’s distress when she finds out angel in the first place. Lively characters and FOR WHOM THE TINKERBELL her mom just donated her unique pair of prom flexible settings allow directors to be as TOLLS - FULL LENGTH shoes to the small overseas nation of creative as they desire. BY: RAY SHEERS Microbia. Frantic, Sadie takes her sister and MS HS • 15 females, friends on an exotic journey to chase down 10 males, 25 total • 90 GENIE-OLOGY minutes • Comedy, her shoes. Turns out, Microbia is a place BY: JERRY RABUSHKA where everything is used goods...the clothes Farce • Script: $7.50 • MS HS • 9 females, 4 males, 2 either, 15 total, Notebook Script: are out of style and the music is old. Sadie gender flexible • 80 minutes • Comedy • Script: $16.75 • Royalty: commits the ultimate crime: she butts in line $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per at the shoe distribution pickup, and winds up $60.00 per performance performance in a foreign prison. Back home, her family Snooks Beacon's cooks up an ingenious scheme to rescue It's the perfect excuse to get out of housework afterlife in an Sadie in this second-hand tale with some first- —or do more of it! Every time Asha scrubs up abandoned theatre rate laughs. a lamp or a vase, a Genie pops out offering to grant her every wish...almost. Rajiv, the first will never be the genie, is determined to teach her "responsible same when he IN THE LIVING ROOM wishing." The second genie is Rajiv's wife, receives a surprise visit from the One in BY: GEFF MOYER Jasminder (or "Jazzy," as she likes to be Charge and she orders him to work the Grim HS CT • 6-23 females, 5-16 males, 2 either, called) still bitter about being housed in a bowl Reaper shift for interfering with the living. If he 13-59 total, doubling possible • 90 minutes • made out of horse dung back in their days in collects the selected souls in less than 48 Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: New Delhi. When Rajiv's mom comes out of hours, he will be allowed to haunt the theatre $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance some old bottle in the kitchen, things really indefinitely; if not, he’ll end up on another In The Living Room is a collection of twelve start to heat up! Soon Asha's got boys fighting sinking ship. Grabbing the death dust, Snooks quirky and fun slices of life, all within the over her, she's doing great in math, and she's is off and running. With two souls in tow, same living room setting. From Metal Heads got genies there to make it all come true. But Snooks inadvertently picks up an extra soul in in Rock 'n’ Roll Heaven to Superheroes Can’t with every wish, if they bother granting it, the park (a mime) and then visits the last soul Lie and Zombie Cheerleaders From Hell, it’s a comes a price. Full of great fun and silly on the list, Ernst Koomquat, who manages to collection of shorts for actors from teens and jokes; you'll think twice before picking up a flush the death dust down the toilet. Short on up. Suitable for performers of all ages, they’re dust rag. time, Snooks runs back to the theatre with the sure to enjoy playing these fun and often souls to find the One in Charge of the One in absurd characters. And all with one simple Charge waiting for him, but the all-powerful living room setting. femme is a forgiving soul. She gives Snooks haunting rights to the abandoned theater, releases Koomquat, and decides a mime is a terrible thing to waste.
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DEATH BY CHOCOLATE THE GRACELANDIA HAPPILY EVER AFTER HOURS STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS BY: CRAIG SODARO BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT BY: RUTH BUCHANAN MS HS • 7 females, 3 MS HS • 5 females, 5 males, 10 total • 75 MS HS • 8 females, 5 males, 13 total • 75 males, 10 total • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • minutes • Comedy, Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Mystery • Script: $8.50 performance Royalty: $60.00 per performance • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Welcome to the Gracelandia, a struggling Every night, your favorite fairy tale characters $75.00 per hotel suddenly thrown into the national clock out of their stories to enjoy some well- performance spotlight when an article in the American earned rest. But they won’t be resting tonight, Enquirer claims the legendary Elvis Disco because tonight, due to an anonymous tip to Nick Noir, private Tapes are hidden somewhere within its the Better Business Bureau, all employees of eye, has fallen on confines. The results are chaotic. Those the Happily Ever After Group must begin hard times after guests that arrive are intent on finding the court-mandated therapy. Despite the botching his last tapes, even if it means tearing the hotel apart professionalism of their psychologist, the first case. Out of in the process...or getting rid of whomever group session goes badly awry. Plunged into desperation and might find them first. Add a little romance to an unexpected quest that requires venturing hopelessness, he is forced to fire his devoted the insanity, and you have Gracelandia. back into the story after hours, members of secretary, Selma. That is, until a call from the Happily Ever After Group find themselves Coco Purvis offers a tantalizing case that just sneaking through The Wood, battling a might pay off for Nick. Coco and her sister, GRITS AND GRAVY rhyming curse, and trying to keep from being Bonbon, run Precious Perks Coffee Shoppe, BY: BURTON BUMGARNER blown up—all while facing their fears and which is known for its signature drink, Death MS HS • 8 females, 5 males, 10 either, 23 total, learning each other’s secrets. In this sideways by Chocolate. Unfortunately, the name came 0-8 extras • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: retelling of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, you’ll find all too true for a fellow named Vinnie the $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: more comedy, more pop psychology, and way Leech, who died while drinking it one month $65.00 per performance more cheese (both literal and figurative) than earlier. Now, business has fallen off, and the In a desperate attempt to save money and you ever bargained for. shop might have to close unless somebody boost ratings the President of the Letz Eat figures out why Vinnie the Leech fell over Television Network, Robert Gourmet sends dead. After a second death under similar his reporters to the small town of Magnolia HEADIN' FOR A WEDDIN' circumstances, Selma plays a psychic who - Blossom, Alabama, to cover the town’s BY: LE ROMA GRETH with the help of her ever-present BlackBerry - annual Grits and Gravy Festival. Held ALL • 10 females, 5 reveals some deep, dark chocolate secrets. annually at the local truck stop, this males, 15 total • 90 Armed with motives, opportunity, and Selma, extravaganza features a pageant with three minutes • Farce, Hillbilly • Script: $7.50 Nick solves the crime and earns the sweet very competitive contestants, whose talents smell of success. • Notebook Script: include taxidermy and putting a Corvette $16.75 • Royalty: engine on a John Deere tractor. Citizens, $65.00 per HIGH SCHOOL SPOOFICAL visitors, reporters, and network viewers and performance actors all combine to tell a truly hilarious tale BY: JERRY RABUSHKA Homer Hollowbone is in love with a big-city of small town quirkiness, network MS HS • 5-7 females, 5-7 males, 4 either, 14-18 debutante named Melissa Dugan, whose mismanagement and fried food. total, 5-15 extras, doubling possible, gender picture he found in a newspaper that was flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Parody • Script: wrapped around some fish. Pretending to be $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: everything he is not, Homer begins a $65.00 per performance HAMLET WITH EXTRA CHEESE BY: MICHAEL FOUNTAIN correspondence with Melissa, telling her that East St. George High School in St. George, ALL • 4-13 females, 7-22 males, 4-14 either, he is a very refined, educated gentleman who Utah is doing the same show as every other 15-49 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • lives in a mansion and who will be vacationing high school in the country: High School 60 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • in Europe over the summer. Trouble brews Musical! Strangely enough, some of the Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per when the lovely Melissa arrives (Homer students planning to audition seem to think performance almost chokes!) to marry the handsome, well- their lives run all too parallel to the characters This play dares to ask the questions educated young man of the letters and in the show...or...do they? When popular jock, Shakespeare was afraid to answer! Lady discovers he’s really a hillbilly, living in an old Zack, finally sees the girl he can't forget...she Macbeth, troubled by bloodstains—why not shack with his dirty, shiftless family. His pa can't remember! His coach finally admits that use Oxy-Clean? What is the Crocodile Hunter merely eats, sleeps and teaches his pet he always wanted to dance! Jeannie, the doing with Cleopatra's asp? Are there no skunk, Gloria, to do tricks, and his sisters songwriter, wants to put her own songs into plans for a sequel to Hamlet? Does this merely sleep. Desperately, Homer tries to the show, but nobody likes them! Perennial witch's outfit make me look fat? Four major keep Melissa from discovering his true musical "stars," Ashley and Tyrone, think plays are wrestled to the ground: Antony and identity, but his efforts hilariously misfire, and they'll get the leading roles, but after Cleopatra, Richard III, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Melissa’s method of revenge is pure down- everyone's high-jinks to stop them, will the Students will learn to stop worrying and love home bluegrass Virginia fun. show actually go on? Folks who know the the Bard when they are introduced to original will enjoy the outrageous parody and Shakespeare using slapstick, vaudeville plot gouges, and for those who haven't seen humor and social satire. the movie? Sit back and enjoy the action!
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HEROES' COUCH HIGHER POWER HOT DAMES, HOT LEAD BY: ROBERT FRANKEL BY: BRADLEY WALTON BY: JIM GUSTAFSON MS HS • 10 females, 6 males, 4-10 either, ALL • 6 females, 3 males, 14 either, 23 total, ALL • 6-13 females, 5-10 males, 5-8 either, 20-26 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • gender flexible • 110 minutes • Dark Comedy • 16-31 total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, 100 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • gender flexible • 65 minutes • Comedy • Script: • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per Royalty: $65.00 per performance $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: performance $60.00 per performance The asteroid should have destroyed all life on See Dr. Jack. See Dr. Jack’s new Time Earth. Instead, it crumbled into nothing and Gangsters and gals and P.I’s abound in this Elevator. See his elevator bring back moments later, there were reports of a flying creative radio drama! Bring back the charm of Abraham Lincoln, Cleopatra, William man sighted all over the East Coast, a man the days of radio with this good old-fashioned Shakespeare, and others to the twenty-first they now call Miracle. In the days that cops and robbers drama set in a radio studio century. Now see Dr. Jill the psychiatrist, as followed, a small handful of people found and performed by actors gathered around these very same characters have trouble themselves with superhuman powers. Some microphones. Catfish King, Private Eye, is adjusting to their new surroundings. See the became heroes, some became villains, some chasing down a crook and maybe chasing STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS result—an insane group therapy session that worked as soldiers for a government hungry Lola, the secretary, too. Corrupt politicians sends the patients on a rampage into the for their talents, and some simply tried to get and mafia gunslingers give him a run for his modern world. Discover what Shakespeare’s on with their lives. Now, exactly ten years money as he tries to crack the case. first poem sounded like, or the only two things later, those who found themselves with Featuring live sound effects and musical these heroes like about our century, or the superhuman powers are being summoned to commercials, this easy to stage show will problems they cause here in the present. This a Baltimore deli by a mysterious woman who surely be a unique night of theatre! is time-travel at its funniest. exposes the raw truth that despite their gifts, they are still painfully human. One more thing, MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S HIGH SCHOOL ELECTION the mysterious woman can see the future and DREAM* the world ends in less than two hours. BY: MURRAY AUSTIN BY: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, ABRIDGED BY MS HS • 11-15 females, 5-7 males, 4-8 either, ROBERT GONZALEZ PH.D. 20-30 total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, HOODWINKED AND HS CT • 18-22 either, 18-22 total, doubling gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Parody, HOODOOED possible, gender flexible • 90 minutes • Classics Farce • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • BY: RAY SHEERS • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance Royalty: $75.00 per performance ALL • 12 females, 7 It's election time at Stargell High, and the males, 19 total, Four frustrated lovers – Hermia, Lysander, candidates are ready. Surfer-guy Dag is too gender flexible • 75 Demetrius, and Helena – facing an angry irresponsible to feed his pet shark, Amber minutes • Comedy • father's (Egeus) arranged marriage plans wants to mandate happiness, Lee will soon Script: $7.50 • enforced by the duke (Theseus), flee their Notebook Script: end the reign of evil "Big Pizza" corporations, home for the nearby forest. At the same time, $16.75 • Royalty: Pam is threatening opposition voters, and $65.00 per a group of village tradesmen gather in that Victor is homesick for Russian politics. In this performance forest to rehearse a play to present to the outrageous parody of presidential elections, Athenian royal court. There they all encounter candidates all agree to play fair. "If there's no The venom-spewing a band of mischievous fairies who, while also mud-slinging, we'll all stay clean." Throw in actress Lulu LaGroux feuding among themselves, proceed to devious campaigns, creative attack ads, is in town, and she’s confound and bewitch both groups. The fairy singing candidates, a dose of truth serum, mad as a hatter! The critics declared her king, Oberon, tricks his queen, Titania, into and voter manipulation, and "fair" becomes a latest film a disaster, and her agent, Maurice falling in love with one of the tradesmen, relative term. Ambrose, wrecked their car killing a farmer's Bottom, who has been turned into an ass by prized heifer, stranding them at Eddie's Cafe the fairy king's henchman, Puck. Oberon, in Backwater, USA. There, Lulu is hounded by HYPNOTIZED! wishing to help the pining lovers couple the press, gawked at by townsfolk who according to their desires, orders Puck to drop BY: MURRAY AUSTIN thought she was long dead, wounded by a a love potion in the lovers' eyes, but Puck's MS HS • 6-8 females, 1 male, 9-17 either, manicurist, poisoned with cranberries, and mistake causes the wrong lovers to fall in 16-26 total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, finally stuffed into a meat locker. She endures love. Chaos and confusion ensues until Puck gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: spontaneous auditions by acting hopefuls and fixes his mess. Oberon and Titania reconcile $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: playful barbs by Ziggy the waiter who will stop $60.00 per performance and the workmen get the call to perform their at nothing to knock the despicable Lulu off her play at court, much to the amusement of the When a group counseling session takes a left crumbling pedestal. Add to this mad duke, the duchess, and the happily paired turn, its members are thrown into a state of concoction a lopsided love triangle, a farmer lovers. A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of panic. Confronted by a band of singing out for blood, a love-struck mortician, and a Shakespeare's most endearing and enduring pirates, a psychotic teacher, the literal mixed-up fortune teller, and you have a comedies, full of magic, love, and revelry. characters of Lost and Found, a million dollar frantically-paced farce full of saucy characters Don't miss this hilarious and heartwarming lottery fiasco, and their own deepest fears, and hilarious hoodwinks! version in 90 minutes. members must chart their own course back to reality. A highly flexible ensemble comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream abridged by that allows separate groups of students to Robert Gonzalez Ph.D. had its world premiere practice most scenes. at the University of Tampa (FL), November 2009.
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE I DON'T HAVE A CLUE IN SEARCH OF THE DODO BIRD STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS DAME BY: CRAIG SODARO BY: MARTIN FOLLOSE BY: CRAIG W. STUMP MS HS • 7-8 females, MS HS • 10 females, 7 males, 1 either, 18 total, MS HS • 12 females, 8-10 males, 4 either, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 12 males, 24 total, 19-22 total, 0-10 60 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook gender flexible • 100 extras, doubling Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per minutes • Comedy, possible, gender performance flexible • 90 minutes • Classics • Script: Professor Livingston is out to prove everyone $8.50 • Notebook Comedy, Mystery • Script: $16.75 • Script: $8.50 • wrong: The Dodo Bird is not extinct. He forms Royalty: $70.00 per Notebook Script: an expedition with his daughter and her misfit performance $16.75 • Royalty: students to search for the elusive bird on an $75.00 per uncharted island in the Indian Ocean. But the Two witty narrators performance island is also inhabited by headhunters. relate this family- When Carol Majumbe, chief of the head-shrinking Obuto, friendly stage Robinson throws an is searching for a husband for his ugly adaptation of elaborate murder-mystery dinner party for six daughter. When Professor Livingston’s group Quasimodo's experiences with his evil friends, no one is surprised to find a stranger is captured by the headhunters, they find guardian, the dazzling gypsy queen, and the hiding in the window box or two cops lurking themselves fighting for their lives, or rather zany nuns of Notre Dame. Frollo's lust for La about—except their hostess. Somewhere their heads. And the only way to survive is to Esmeralda results in Quasimodo's between the Capone caviar and the Ma have one of their members compete for the punishment in the town square and the Barker biscuits, the guests start unraveling hand of the Chief’s ugly daughter. Will their attempted murder of La Esmeralda's Carol’s hysterical 1929 “whodunit” and find a lives be saved? Will they find the elusive husband, Pierre Gringoire. Only Quasimodo's wad of cash stuffed in a trash can. While Dodo Bird? Will the Chief finally find a man for intervention saves La Esmeralda and Pierre Carol’s friends are having the crime of their his daughter? It’s a true island adventure! from the gallows, but a jealous Frollo attacks lives, Carol is baffled. With a little help from the gypsy queen again and tragedy Carol’s youngest daughter, Corky, Carol’s plot deservedly descends upon Frollo. It is the A NEVERLAND CHRISTMAS thickens. Corky (and friends) found $75,000 in King and Queen of France who determine La CAROL the park, hid it in the house, and are now Esmeralda's guilt or innocence and her BY: SHERI FLANNERY VERRILLI being followed by a couple of gangsters, who ultimate fate in this timeless, heartfelt tale. are being followed by a couple of salesmen, ALL • 7 females, 2 males, 12 either, 21 who are being followed by a couple of cops. total, 1-5 extras, HOW THE OTHER HALF DIES What started with dinner and a murder- doubling possible, BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON mystery among friends ends in hilarious gender flexible • 75 ALL • 7-10 females, 5 havoc and heart-pounding fun! minutes • Classics • males, 4-12 either, Script: $8.50 • 16-27 total, doubling Notebook Script: possible, gender MANOR OF DEATH $16.75 • Royalty: flexible • 90 minutes • BY: CRAIG SODARO $75.00 per Comedy, Mystery • ALL • 8 females, 7 males, 15 total • 90 minutes performance Script: $7.50 • • Mystery • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: From the moment Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance $16.75 • Royalty: Peter Pan $60.00 per Newlyweds Rachel and Archie Conrad’s eavesdrops at the performance dream of running a successful mystery book Darling's nursery window and overhears Mrs. store is turning into a nightmare. Three young Darling reading "A Christmas Carol" to her In a desperate thugs have targeted the store “Manor of children, Christmas becomes more spirited attempt to become a Death” and are trying to drive the Conrads out than ever before! Come along on this grand member of Harriet of “their” neighborhood. What’s worse, Rachel holiday adventure as Wendy and her brothers Hammer’s posh country club, Sybil Chasteen finds a body hidden in the stacks of books. accompany Peter back to Neverland to share invites Ms. Hammer to a formal dinner party Turns out, the victim was the gardener of a the story of Scrooge and teach the Lost Boys on the same day that she discovers a dead very successful, but recently deceased author the traditions of Christmas. But if you think body in the trunk of her new car. While Sybil of mysteries who had been scheduled to this sounds like a merry little celebration, well, waits impatiently for the authorities, the speak at Manor of Death. That’s enough for to paraphrase Ebenezer, “bah humbug!” For corpse, nicknamed Mr. X, sits propped up on two lady detectives who zero in on Rachel as while the ever-jealous Tinkerbell sulks at her sofa as the list of murder suspects grows. their prime suspect. However, she and Archie Wendy's presence, wicked Captain Hook and The police, distracted by a few other cases, quickly find out that the author left behind his zany band of pirates concoct an evil finally arrive only to find Sybil’s life spiraling quite a few suspects at his mansion including scheme to sabotage the children's festivities. recklessly out of control in this door- his ex-wife and her new boyfriend, his cook, Now, it's up to Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, the slamming, phone ringing, ridiculously fun his secretary, and his nephew. In order to Darlings, and a comical, Dickens-inspired murder-mystery parody that includes clear her name, Rachel must do some fancy reenactment to show Hook the error of his backstage rim shots and and a backyard detective work and, with the help of some new ways and ultimately save Christmas in wedding. Easy staging and flexible casting. friends, work a little magic to pull the real killer Neverland. out of the hat.
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LADIES, SIGH NO MORE THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY LES MISERABLES BY: THOMAS HISCHAK HOLLOW BY: MICHAEL DRUCE ALL • 8 females, 2 males, 10 total • 90 minutes BY: MARK SCHARF HS CT • 18 females, 20 males, 3 either, 41 • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook MS HS • 3-4 females, total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per 6-9 males, 9-13 total, minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: $7.50 • performance 0-10 extras, doubling Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance Lady Macbeth plays Monopoly with Juliet and possible, gender flexible • 75 minutes • Victor Hugo’s timeless classic dazzles in this shrewish Kate battles Cordelia at Trivial Legends and Myths, Pursuit. Ophelia cuts out paper flowers, and Melodrama, Classics • exciting adaptation that is perfect for high Desdemona sews handkerchiefs. Who is the Script: $7.50 • schools and community theatres. Beginning mysterious man who seems to be so Notebook Script: with Inspector Javert’s opening words, “You interested in the fate of these ladies? Is this $16.75 • Royalty: are free,” Jean Valjean leaves Toulon prison an Elizabethan ladies club, or a literary loony $65.00 per after serving 19 years. Rejected by everyone, bin? Only Dr. Wells seems to know for sure performance Valjean once again turns to theft, only this STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS as she tries to help some of Shakespeare's This new, fresh and faithful adaptation of time he is shown an act of mercy by a kindly heroines figure out their personal problems Washington Irving’s original American ghost priest. Humbled by the priest’s kindness, and bring closure to their theatrical lives. story follows the sometimes comic, Valjean violates his parole and dedicates his When Juliet is asked to reenact her tragic sometimes sad, sometimes scary life to goodness. Meanwhile, Valjean is story, matters get out of hand and all of the misadventures of the new schoolmaster pursued by Inspector Javert, whose relentless ladies are caught up in the act. Staged with Ichabod Crane as he tries to fit into the dedication to the law requires him to bring the either Elizabethan costumes or contemporary enchanted village of Sleepy Hollow and win ex-convict to justice for breaking his parole. clothes in a simple setting, this comedy the hand of the beautiful Katrina. To succeed, ultimately twists and turns its way to a happy he must not only compete for Katrina’s favor LET'S HANG HIM AND READ ending. with the wild and handsome Brom Van Brunt THE WILL but must also survive the chief spirit of a BY: PAT COOK haunted land – the Headless Horseman. LAST SUMMER ALL • 13 females, 6 BY: MONICA FLORY males, 19 total • 90 MS • 8 females, 8 males, 16 total • 90 minutes • minutes • Mystery • Drama, Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $8.50 • Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per Notebook Script: performance $16.75 • Royalty: $70.00 per August, 1987: the last summer of camp for performance sixteen hopeful, soon-to-be ninth-graders. Beautyrest Springs's Things are not going as planned - it rains most prominent (and every day, cabin-mates are fighting, and the hated) citizen, F. counselors are nowhere to be found. When a Mycroft Tanner, did prank goes wrong, it ruins the dance and any himself in. At least, hope of a half-decent Color War. This was that’s what Sheriff supposed to be the best summer, so now Harold Tyred reports, in between his visits what? A play about scheduling your first kiss, with the maid, who was also seeing the trying to be the MVP before the competition gardener, who is sweet on the reporter, who even begins, and finding the possibility of joy really wants the inside scoop on Mycroft’s in the worst of circumstances. death (and his rather plush will). It is up to fat A MEDIEVAL FEAST cat attorney, Lamar Lee Rascal, to unravel this tangled web. He is distracted, however, MURDER IS NONSENSE BY: CLAUDIA HAAS BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD by his run-in with Mycroft’s daffy sister, who MS HS • 25 either, 25 total, doubling possible, he left at the altar some twenty-five years ago. MS HS • 3 females, 3 males, 11 either, 17 total, gender flexible • 60 minutes • Comedy • Script: If you think that's all too confusing, wait until 0-10 extras, gender flexible • 105 minutes • $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $60.00 per performance two people show up claiming to be the same $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance long-lost daughter, the murdered maid’s older It's a hilarious romp through medieval Europe sister puts in an appearance, and a tour guide The world’s greatest detectives are invited to in search of the long lost rose of St. George. starts bringing groups through the scene of the mansion of Virgil Clemons to solve a Accompanied by her cuckoo servant, Kukola, the crime. This riotous spoof is full of soap murder. Each of the detectives’ assistants is Lady Candida meets a vast array of wacky opera-isms and will keep you guessing until missing one of the five senses. During the characters from all over Europe on her the last suspect you suspected is no longer a night, there are several murder attempts adventure. Lord Chaser, Lord Entree, Kukola, suspect. which are thwarted by the lack of one of the Lady Wantalot, Mademoiselle Nez and senses. Then, during a black out the host is Gesundheit are all in the chase! murdered. But who is the murderer? The audience is then sent on a “Clue Quest” throughout the school to gather clues in order to solve the mystery.
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IF THE SLIPPER FITS A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS BY: DAN NEIDERMYER BY: MATTHEW CARLIN ALL • 13 females, 7 CT • 8 females, 7 males, 20 total • 90 males, 1 either, 16 minutes • Fantasy, total, gender flexible • Classics • Script: 110 minutes • $7.50 • Notebook Comedy, Drama • Script: $16.75 • Script: $8.50 • Royalty: $60.00 per Notebook Script: performance $16.75 • Royalty: $75.00 per Four bumbling Court performance Advisors decide it's time the Prince finds An unlikely a princess. They relationship is forged warn the King that in the quirky tourist without an heir to the throne, rebellion could shop called “A Little Piece of Heaven.” break out at any time. They order the King to Restless biker Mike, who works in the shop, command the Prince to find a princess. finds a friend in the sassy elderly Lily, Disgruntled, but following the King's orders, although their relationship certainly doesn’t the Prince attends the Royal Ball and instantly start out that way. But there’s something odd falls for the beautiful Cinderella, who has about this little shop owned by the equally odd been given one magical chance to attend the Elizabeth and Henry. Suspicion and Royal Ball. When the clock strikes midnight, disagreement turn to respect and trust in this Cinderella rushes home, and the Prince is left place where long lost things are finally found. with a glass slipper. The Prince searches the kingdom for his one true love, but ends up MUCH ADO ABOUT MIDDLE crossing paths with six selfish stepsisters and SCHOOL a very bitter stepmother. This fresh new take BY: CHRISTOPHER BURRUTO on the classic Cinderella tale will delight your audiences and give your students a chance to MS HS • 13 females, 11 males, 24 total, 20 act out one of the world's most beloved extras, gender flexible stories. • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook A LITTLE MAGIC Script: $16.75 • BY: WHITNEY RYAN GARRITY Royalty: $60.00 per MS HS • 12 females, 7 males, 19 total, doubling performance possible • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Monica likes Jason, Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance Jason likes Erika, Andrea likes Reilly, This fresh take on Cinderella is set at Reilly is clueless, and Brothers Grimm Memorial High School. they’re all Handsome Noble Crown is still missing his overwhelmed by too much homework, too mother who passed away the year before many tests, pop quizzes, and teachers with while Noble’s father, Principal Crown, tries to nothing better to do than assign essays. And, help Noble move on with his life and ends up unless they have good grades, the principal is having to practice what he preaches. going to cancel the Sixteenth Annual Super Meanwhile, pretty but put-upon Ella Sinders Sweetheart’s Dance Extravapalooza - the secretly pines for Noble. Her dreams of biggest social event of the year! The students dancing with him at Homecoming are cruelly decide that if they can just get their single squashed by the snobby Stepford Sisters, teachers to fall in love, they will end up with Delia and Daisy. Ella enlists the aid of her less homework, their grades will improve, and flamboyant drama teacher, Miss Faye, to help everyone will get to attend the Dance-a- her find the perfect Homecoming costume. As palooza! Unfortunately, it’s one disaster after everyone prepares for the dance, Daisy tries another until the students realize that love is to keep her romance with Harley Quinn a not something that can be manufactured and secret from Delia, at the same time attempting manipulated with love letters, poems, potions, to bring Delia closer to Harley’s friend, Duke. or any other magic except the genuine magic Eventually, all the endearing characters are that comes from the heart. paired off in this charming romantic comedy...and Ella learns a lesson about being herself.
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LOTTO DATE MEDEA IN BLACK AND WHITE BY: JERRY RABUSHKA BY: CHARLES EICHMAN ALL • 11 females, 7 males, 1 either, 19 total, MS HS • 5 females, 4 males, 3-5 either, 12-14 doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 minutes • total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 65 Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: $7.50 • $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance The rodeo! The operaaaaa! High class French cuisine! The bloom of young people in The classic play by Euripides gets a unique love...or not. In Lotto Date, the newest facelift in this "act and a half" adaptation. The television dating game, three romantic story is retold by a chorus of performers who couples have no idea where they’ll be going— "wake up," assemble the stage, perform the or with whom. Their loss is our gain, as the play, and then disassemble the set. Includes couples squirm their way through challenging a unique prequel depicting the voyage of blind dates. While set in several locations, Jason and the Argonauts (with some STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS Lotto Date can be performed easily with memorable sight gags involving a "dragon" simple sets; its fast moving structure allows and a "How's my sailing?" bit). The original many of the cast members to shine in small tried and true plot is, of course, followed ensemble scenes. Witty dialogue and closely, though the typically choral unexpected twists and turns make this an commentary is expressed through the A MID-SCHOOL NIGHT'S audience favorite. So, who will be voted best characters of the "White" and "Black" DREAM couple of the evening? Stay tuned for the choruses, each of whom serves the dual BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD exciting - and surprising - results! function of observer and participant in the HS CT • 12 females, 9 males, 4 either, 25 total, story. Features a simple set, flexible casting 0-5 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • (outside the principals) and brisk pacing. 105 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 MAKING A COMEBACK CAN • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per BE* A REAL CAREER KILLER performance BY: DAVID DIETZ THE PENNY DREADFULS BY: RAY SHEERS It seems that every theater in the world has at MS HS • 4 females, 3 males, 1 either, 8 total • least one or two resident ghosts. The setting 90 minutes • Mystery, Comedy, Drama • Script: MS HS • 16 females, for this play is your school’s theater and the $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: 13 males, 29 total • 90 $65.00 per performance minutes • Comedy, ghosts who haunt it are up to their usual Classics • Script: mischief. When that particularly pesky spirit, Frankie Avonlea—a once-famous child $7.50 • Notebook Peck, jumbles up the commands from his television star—is set to make the biggest Script: $16.75 • master, Cameron, King of the Dead, several show business comeback ever. But when the Royalty: $60.00 per living students in the school become the lights go up, Frankie makes his final curtain performance victims of mixed up love spells causing call – with a huge knife stuck in his chest! It’s In this fast-paced, unplanned but hilarious chaos. The drama up to Jake Bullet, Frankie’s square-jawed, darkly comic play club also suffers the consequences of Peck’s manly man bodyguard, to determine who reminiscent of ghostly magic as they prepare a could have caused Frankie’s star to fall. With Dickens' Oliver Twist, “Shakespearean” play to be performed for the an outrageous cast of hilarious suspects and the Penny Dreadfuls entire school. But just as with Shakespeare, a deliciously twisty plotline, this is one are orphans and runaways who spend their this modern tale of his classic work ends up backstage Whodunnit that will keep your nights and days working for the dastardly as it should; with a happily ever after ending. audience on the edge of their seats and Professor. The arrangement has been very rolling over with laughter! profitable for the Professor until Mad Aggie, a THE PIRATE MEDALLION former Penny Dreadful now disguised as the BY: MARTIN FOLLOSE THE MAN IN SEAT 24, OR THE town lunatic, vows revenge on the Professor for sending him to jail. And revenge was MS HS • 10 females, 7 males, 17 total • 75 UNINVITED GUEST minutes • Comedy, Drama • Script: $7.50 • BY: MARTIN R. COLLIN never sweeter! When the Professor’s bizarre Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per family, who thinks he’s a respectable ALL • 8 females, 7 males, 15 total, doubling performance businessman, comes for an unwelcome visit, possible, gender flexible • 75 minutes • Pirate Captain John Finch has the map to the Comedy, Mystery • Script: $7.50 • Notebook the Professor mysteriously disappears and his cursed Treasure of Captain Kidd. He and his Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per family becomes suspicious. When the performance Professor finally reappears, his desperate misfit crew of lady pirates...yes, ladies...must cruelty shocks everyone. find the treasure, as Pirate Captain Mintel is An irate, rude, and combative theatre patron hot on their trail. Captain Mintel boards (in your audience!) hijacks the cast, the crew, "Over the past decade, I've created well over Captain Finch’s ship to steal the map but and his fellow theatre-goers and winds up 200 characters, but none as evil as the ends up crossing swords with Bobby Ann. stone cold dead at center stage. The Man in Professor and few I care about as much as Bobby Ann manages to win the fight but Seat 24 is a murder mystery, a play-within-a- The Penny Dreadfuls. Mad Aggie is in a class Captain Mintel swears he will return and take play, where a harried and frazzled theatre all his (or her) own. A very atmospheric play the treasure and Bobby Ann’s Medallion. Will director investigates a murder - during a night full of dark humor." - Ray Sheers, playwright Captain Finch and Bobby Ann find the of theatre gone wrong - and realizes that treasure of Captain Kidd? Will they be able to there is more to this evening’s performance break the curse before Captain Mintel shows than meets the eye. his face again?
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A PARTRIDGE IN A PALM TREE THE MISS HIGH SCHOOL U.S.A. MURDER AHOY STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS BY: MEGAN ORR BEAUTY PAGEANT BY: MICHAEL DRUCE ALL • 4 females, 5 males, 9 total • 90 minutes • BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD HS CT • 5 females, 5 males, 10 total • 60 Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: MS HS • 14 females, 6 males, 8-9 either, 28-29 minutes • Comedy, Mystery • Script: $7.50 • $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance total, 0-10 extras • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance It's Christmas Eve and the Partridge family : $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: can't wait to fly south for the holidays...that is, $70.00 per performance The 30-year reunion of Broken-Rattan High until they find themselves snowed in at the Pandemonium breaks out at the local high School takes a dramatic turn when former airport! Poor Jenny Partridge is forced to school beauty pageant when the pageant cheerleaders and sisters, Hollandaise and endure more than the usual family torture: a director hires a couple of dimwitted tech guys Bernaise Soss, plan a killer reunion aboard mother who can't cook to save her life, an to sabotage the contestants. To add to the the cruise ship, Thanatos. Dressed in their old embarrassing dad who thinks he's James confusion, Miss English gets stage fright, Miss cheerleading uniforms, they invite the Bond, and an incredibly annoying little brother Art's father wants her to come home to do her audience to sing along with the hideous whose sole goal in life is to drive people chores, Miss Drama's friends want to get into Broken-Rattan fight song. At the royalty crazy. Now she has to deal with love-struck the act, and Miss Valedictorian recently had a dance, featuring the senior king and queen, Kevin Schneider, the boy who's been writing brain operation. Just as the winner is to be Steve and Valene, someone almost kills her love poems since kindergarten; an announced, the pageant erupts into total Steve with a poison dart intended for Valene. overzealous but lovable security guard with disarray. Audience members judge, and It becomes evident that the killer on board is an itchy trigger finger; a grouchy old airline hilarity ensues. seeking revenge against all of the popular manager, ironically named Mr. Smiley; and people of Broken-Rattan. Accusations fly, (horror of all horrors) Kevin's dictatorial petty jealousies resurface, and old grudges mother, who is determined to Martha Stewart- MORIARTY'S REVENGE are renewed. Murder Ahoy is fast-paced, filled ize the entire airport - and everyone in it! But BY: CHRISTOPHER BURRUTO with outrageous characters and lines, and has somewhere amidst the "Tannen-bomb" MS HS • 3-4 females, 6 males, 10-11 either, several opportunities for audience threats, poisonous strudel, marriage 19-21 total, 0-6 extras, doubling possible, involvement. proposals, and full-body tackles, Jenny gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • discovers that Christmas isn't about where Royalty: $60.00 per performance MURDER AT COPPERSMITH you are; it's about the people you're with. Professor Moriarty has just been sent to INN prison... again. This time he swears bloody BY: DAN NEIDERMYER A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S TEXAS- revenge on his arch-nemesis Detective ALL • 9 females, 6 SIZE NIGHTMARE Sherlock Holmes. What Moriarty doesn't know males, 15 total • 90 BY: BURTON BUMGARNER is that he's after the wrong man! It's a highly- minutes • Mystery, Farce • Script: $7.50 • ALL • 12 females, 9 males, 7 either, 28 total, guarded secret that Sherlock Holmes is Notebook Script: 5-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • nothing more than a cover for the real brains $16.75 • Royalty: 60 minutes • Farce, Classics, Comedy • Script: of the operation - Doctor Watson! Watson has $60.00 per $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: been hiding behind various actors playing the performance $60.00 per performance famous detective for years, and his latest Answering an The Armadillo Flats Community Theater has Sherlock quits just as Moriarty makes his audition notice for never produced what one would call quality escape from behind bars! Who will be the new experienced entertainment. Abigail Yokle is trying to direct Sherlock? Can they catch Moriarty before he actresses for a one of Shakespeare's great comic murders an unsuspecting actor? And is murder-mystery masterpieces, but the budget is limited and Watson really as smart as he thinks he is or is weekend at Coppersmith Inn, three high the rental company sent costumes for every someone else two steps ahead of him? school girls apply wigs and tons of makeup, production except A Midsummer-Night's adopt exotic stage names, and draft three Dream. Yet Abigail is not about to let the POPULARITY impressive theatrical bios. Unfortunately, they wrong costumes and a lack of talent stand in BY: THOMAS HISCHAK might look the part, but they don’t act the part. the way of a bad production. The actors In one word, they’re “lousy!” But Coppersmith appear as characters from the 1920s, the HS • 12 females, 8 males, 20 total, 0-10 extras, Inn is in difficult financial straits, so with 1950s, a cat, a lumberjack, a disco dancer, a doubling possible, gender flexible • 105 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook opening night less than two days away, the sailor and a host of characters from other Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per harried director mindlessly overlooks the fact shows. Locals also use the theater to performance that they can’t act and casts them in major advertise businesses and make political roles—one of which is a male role. What speeches. Other distractions include an Clueless meets Grease in this comedy, set in happens next can only be described as a audience member who forgets to silence a a 1950s high school and loosely adapted from hilarious theatrical travesty: cues are missed; cell phone and a snake that crawls into the Pride and Prejudice, that comically dissects lines are delivered at the wrong times to the theater through a hole in the wall. how much we can trust our first impressions, The lessons these teens learn about love and wrong characters; it rains at the wrong time friendship are as true today as they were in on the wrong people; wrong entrances and Jane Austen's time. This funny, moving play is too early exits plague the play; and as easy to stage and filled with lively scenes and everything else is going wrong, the wrong memorable characters that will delight any person is murdered! audience.
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THE NETWORK MURDER WITH TOMATO ODD DUCK BY: CHRISTIAN KILEY SAUCE BY: CHRISTIAN KILEY MS HS • 6 females, 3 males, 9 either, 18 total • BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER HS • 10 females, 3 males, 5 either, 18 total, 90 minutes • Comedy, Drama • Script: $7.50 • ALL • 13-18 either, 13-18 total, gender flexible • gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per 90 minutes • Comedy, Mystery • Script: $7.50 • $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: performance Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per $60.00 per performance Social networks are everywhere. Although performance Have you ever felt like you don't fit in? That they offer us new opportunities to First came the popular Did Someone Say you are different? Well, that's how Anapal and communicate, they also give us the Murder? Now comes a new hysterically funny her friends feel at Mission High School where opportunity to initiate conflict. Friendships can murder-mystery, as Detective Rathbone Glow and the G-Girls are in charge. be destroyed as quickly as they're created invites the world’s greatest detectives to Encouraged by the school custodian, Anapala online. The Network is a look at the changing dinner and challenges them to solve a decides to audition for Hamlet...a choice that world and the impact that social networks murder. But soon the detectives themselves could change her life for better or worse. Can have on our society. Sometimes funny, are being murdered. Join the sinfully wealthy a girl play Hamlet? Find out as the in-crowd STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS sometimes sad, often with moments of real Horace and Hilda Higgenbotham, the and outcasts fight for social status and human passion and the desire to be heard, pompous Inspector Rupert, the world’s individuality. A student who steals bricks, a The Network reminds us that while social youngest detective, the insolent Cynthia Salt, girl who sleeps constantly, a socialite who networks may be with us for a long while, we and her classless parents, all of whom must believes in social manifest destiny, and a girl must decide how to use them. We must find their way through fake clues, surprises, who actually considers counting the consider that the potential for harsh, derisive, and the appearance of the highly suspicious marshmallows in her breakfast cereal, all and hurtful behavior is now part of our lives Red Herring. merge here. Welcome to Mission High! around the clock. But ultimately we make the Welcome to Odd Duck! final choice. Ultimately, “We are the social network.” MY FAIR ZOMBIE BY:* CRAIG SODARO THE PUNCH LINE MS HS • 5 females, 4 males, 9 total • 90 BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT RADIO RIOT! minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • MS HS • 5 females, 5 males, 12 either, 22 total, BY: JACQUELINE T. LYNCH Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: MS HS • 7 females, 7 males, 1 either, 15 total • performance $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance 80 minutes • Comedy, Historical Events and Sure, robotics scientist Boris Bond has more People • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 Each year for the past seventeen years, on • Royalty: $60.00 per performance degrees than a thermometer. He’s got a cool house, an assistant, and a butler he built this very night, the Hawthorne Hotel has been The time is December 1942, the setting is a himself but, he can’t seem to find a girlfriend. visited by four ghosts, ghosts who cannot rest radio station where "Cowboy Chuck and the In a stroke of genius Boris decides to make until somebody comes up with the punch line Happy Rangers," a children's adventure his own perfect girlfriend. Great plan until to a joke that has yet to be written. But tonight program featuring hero Cowboy Chuck, his Boris’s sister shows up running away from promises to be different, because tonight best gal, his sidekick, the villain, and the romance and his rotten cousin drops in for no Inspector Chromium is determined to rid the announcer all wrapping up an episode. When good reason. It doesn’t take long for hotel once and for all of these sporadic the station manager informs them this locally- everyone’s plans to go awry as someone tries spooks, that is, if none of the other very produced show is about to make its to steal Boris’s work, a cop shows up, and strange guests don’t beat him to it first. The nationwide debut and Life magazine Boris’s “perfect girlfriend” turns into a brain- Punch Line, a full length comedy. photographers are coming to do a story on hungry zombie. Can true love quell this them, they are thrilled, but not about having to craziness? It doesn’t take a genius to figure ONCE UPON A FAIRY TALE - wear the outrageous western costumes that one out! chosen for them. Behind the scenes, FULL LENGTH however, trouble is brewing, as the actor BY: CHRISTOPHER BURRUTO playing the show's villain, who is actually an PHOBIA FACTORY MS • 3 females, 6 males, 10-14 either, 23 total, undercover FBI agent, discovers that the BY: PATRICK DORN doubling possible • 90 minutes • Comedy, station owner is a Nazi sympathizer and the MS HS • 11 females, 5 males, 20 either, 36 Fantasy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per new script they are to perform coast-to-coast performance contains coded secrets on national security minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook about to be broadcast to the enemy. The Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per Once upon a time lived Beullah the Witch and performance confused cast, the bumbling sound effects her more winsome sister, Francine. They man, the prim organist, the show's bickering Can you tell the difference between shrieks of were as opposite as opposite could be. husband-and-wife team of writers all work laughter and screams of fright? Four students Jealous of Francine's beloved daughter, together in true bumbling, patriotic Cowboy visit a prototype “Phobia Factory” at the local Princess Rose, Beullah gives Princess Rose Chuck and the Happy Rangers can-do mall. Using a virtual reality simulation, the an evil curse. Thanks to the curse, Princess fashion to foil the bad guys. teens have a chance to face their fears in a Rose grows up to be a “Royal Pain.” Now, 21 supposedly safe environment...until years later, Princess Rose must get married something goes hysterically wrong with the to be queen. Yet, who will marry such a bad program! With a gender flexible cast, almost apple? None other than Jonathan the meek entirely bare stage set and simple props, assistant (to the assistant) shepherd. But Phobia Factory is fun, easy and economical to before they can live happily ever after, they produce. must overcome Beullah the Witch and a band of bumbling trolls. 24 Best suited for: ALL = All Audiences | MS = Middle School | HS = High School | CT = Community Theatre/College * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS
THE OTHER THREE OUTSIDE IN THE PHARAOH'S SON STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS MUSKETEERS AND THE JEWEL BY: DENNIS BUSH BY:* MARTIN FOLLOSE OF MALTA ALL • 11 females, 8 males, 19 total, doubling MS HS • 9 females, 6 males, 15 total, 1-10 BY: MICHAEL DRUCE possible, gender flexible • 90 minutes • Drama, extras • 80 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • ALL • 15 females, 14 males, 29 total, 2-30 Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 70 $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance performance minutes • Comedy, Historical Events and Outside In traces the lives of 8 teens in Los Madu, the Pharaohs long lost son has People, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Angeles over a 24-hour period. We meet a returned. His untimely return has upset the Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per young woman who ran away from an abusive plans of the Pharaohs daughters for one of performance home, a boy who wants to be a superhero, them to become Pharaoh. They now have to When no one else is available to serve as girls with boyfriend trouble, an artistic boy prove that Madu is an imposter before he's escort for the three daughters of the Spanish whose father and brother are jocks, a girl who crowned Egypt's next ruler. When they find Ambassador and to keep an eye on the gets a text message that breaks her heart, that Madu really is their brother, they solicit priceless Potosi Diamond, those other and a girl whose first kiss involved a Red the help of their cousin, to send Madu into the musketeers, Paris, DJon, and their servant Vine, among others. Through a series of afterlife. After three attempts on his life and Bordeaux, are assigned the duty. In no time, monologues and scenes that are, in turn, with the help of his slave friends, Madu the three young women are kidnapped and offbeat and poignant, the characters find each escapes his sisters attempts only to find out the diamond stolen. Faced with certain other and find themselves. that he isn't the Pharaoh's son after all. execution by order of Cardinal Richelieu and Fearing death if the Pharaoh's daughters find his henchman LeVeque, the three other PAGEANT PERFECT out, he decides to continue as the Pharaoh's musketeers spring into action in an attempt to son, until he learns that he can not marry the BY: KELLY MEADOWS rescue the ambassador's daughters and girl he loves, as she is a slave. Now he is retrieve the diamond. Think The Three MS HS • 24 females, 11 males, 35 total, 0-10 faced with the ultimate decision: become Musketeers meets The Pink Panther, The extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 Pharaoh or marry the slave girl he loves. Maltese Falcon and Indiana Jones in this minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per hilarious swashbuckling romp of conspiracy, performance fake diamonds, and false identities, easily MURDER IS SO RUDE staged in seventy minutes. Plenty of large and We’ve made it through the Stone Age, finally! BY: JERRY RABUSHKA small roles and any number of extras. The newly revamped Miss Western America ALL • 7 females, 6 males, 4 either, 17 total, 0-5 Pageant no longer judges on appearance, but extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 rewards women for their beauty within. The minutes • Comedy, Mystery • Script: $7.50 • ROBIN HOOD pageant is threatened by 17 Western women Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance BY: DAN NEIDERMYER who aren’t afraid to say what's on their mind. MS HS • 2 females, 7 Can Miss California really bribe her way to the Mrs. Corpse has been murdered at an males, 1-4 either, crown? Probably not, if she won’t spit out her upscale dinner party! Mrs. Hostess is 10-13 total, 0-20 gum. Will Miss New Mexico’s competitive scandalized—it will ruin her seating plan. “I extras, doubling family really set her adrift in a lifeboat if she never know what to do with a widow at a possible, gender flexible • 90 minutes • loses? Miss Nevada’s inexplicably in a very couples gathering!” she cries. Fortunately, Comedy, Farce, bad mood, Miss Arizona’s gone crazy, and there’s a detective at the party. He tries in Classics • Script: everyone is very, very hungry. When Miss vain to get information out of a group of $7.50 • Notebook Idaho suggests that beauty still reigns guests who seem to know far too much about Script: $16.75 • supreme, things start to get ugly. murder. His assistant? Officer Newbie. It’s her Royalty: $65.00 per first day on the job, and she’ll do anything to performance PERSEPHONE RULES get a confession. Manners, morality and Experience a fresh murder mesh together in a mystery that will BY: MICHAEL R. MCGUIRE take on the life of Robin Hood, prince of have you laughing your way to life in prison! thieves, through the amusing narrative of MS HS • 4 females, 6 males, 1 either, 11 total, gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: wandering minstrel-troubadour, Friar Tuck, as $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: MURDER WHILE YOU WAIT the legend marvelously comes to life! Meet $60.00 per performance BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT Little John, Robin's right-hand-man, Maid Marian, Robin's sweetheart and love, and Hades has just kidnapped Persephone, ALL • 5 females, 9 males, 3 either, 17 total, 1-5 extras, doubling possible • 90 minutes • Marian's dedicated handmaiden, Cassandra. spiriting her to the Underworld and causing her mother, Demeter, to leave the world Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: Robin Hood will take you through the legend $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance of Sherwood Forest to the robbing of the blanketed in winter...or did he? Maybe Sheriff's men, when Robin Hood dared to defy Persephone set the whole thing up because What? Me? I’m an easy goin’ guy. I don’t care both the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and the she was tired of eternally perfect Olympus, if you lied to me about bein’ able to write despotic monarch King John. With ample "so golden, so glorious, so blah!" Persephone jingles. I don’t care if you’re spreadin’ rumors room to include troubadours, jugglers, jesters, Rules! Adventures of a Teenage Goddess is a that my business organization is less than strolling minstrels, acrobats, and perhaps a zany comedy that tells what really happened legit. Really. I don’t. To show what a nice guy little audience participation, this adaption of a between Hades (who hates his job) I am, I’ll even help you get your cat back from classic tale is sure to please viewers of all Persephone, her tag-along kid sister, Cypher, whichever funeral home it was that catnapped ages! and the rest of those wacky Olympian gods. her. All I’m askin’ is one small favor... that you marry my daughter. Now how hard can that be? You know... ‘till death do you part. And it don’t even have to be that long. I’ll wait.
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PINOCCHIO PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT, ONE OF OUR CLOWNS IS BY: DAN NEIDERMYER EBENEZER (OR, YOU'LL SOON MISSING ALL • 3 females, 8 males, 11 total • 75 minutes BE SINGIN' A CHRISTMAS BY: ROBERT FRANKEL • Fantasy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook CAROL) MS HS • 7 females, 7 males, 14 total, gender Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per BY: ROD HEARN, CATHERINE COOK flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Drama • Script: performance ALL • 13-22 females, $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: A new take on the old classic, Pinocchio talks, 10-20 males, 23-42 $60.00 per performance walks, looks for adventure, and ends up total, doubling While there is comedy aplenty, this full-length getting into big trouble when two foppish possible, gender play is long on drama, humanity, and flexible • 75 minutes • scallywags, Candlewyck and Sterling, latch individuality. Sandy takes a job at the So- Comedy, Classics • onto the stringless, thrill-seeking puppet and Script: $7.50 • Long Travel Agency, owned by Lucy and cart him off to the circus. With a little help Notebook Script: Carlson, who are planning a museum heist from a friendly clown, Pinocchio outsmarts the $16.75 • Royalty: with the threatening and terrifying Grimsley. rapscallions just in time to find himself alone, $60.00 per When the mysterious Samuel Hahmberger STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS afraid, and friendless on the streets at night performance enters and asks Sandy to help him smuggle a with a group of bullies approaching. Pinocchio A Christmas Carol few friends to the island of Sorbay, she very quickly learns that running away from has never been so senses something is different about him but Gepetto to explore the world was very wild, woolly and agrees to make their travel arrangements. dangerous, and when the Blue Fairy saves dangerously fun! Join us for a wild west Inadvertently, she schedules their departure Pinocchio from being chopped into firewood, adaptation of Charles Dickens' most famous for the same day as the heist, which is the Pinocchio vows to return to Gepetto and stay story featuring a gun-slinging, red long same day the hospital aides and police show in school. Simply sparkling, this play is easily underwear-clad Scrooge digging in his up searching for escapees from the local produced on a bare stage with minimal props cowboy boots as he gradually learns the true mental institution. Remarkably, Sandy, and costumes. Production notes also include meaning of Christmas. This fun, past-paced Samuel, and his friends recover the stolen suggestions for spontaneous audience tale is wild with adventure and packed full of museum pieces as Sandy learns that Samuel participation. memorable Christmas ditties and dancing. and his friends are the same patients who escaped from the institution. This is a great- hearted story and a masterwork of fiction. SCARED STIFF SHE WAS ONLY MARGINALLY BY: CRAIG SODARO MODEST MS HS • 11 females, 3 males, 14 total • 90 BY: VERN HARDEN POUND minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook BY: CHRISTIAN KILEY ALL • 8 females, 5 Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per MS HS • 10 females, 6 males, 10 either, 26 performance males, 13 total • 90 minutes • Melodrama, total • 100 minutes • Comedy, Drama • Script: Mild-mannered Jim Smith has an alias. To the Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: world he’s known as Draco Dane, author of $7.50 • Notebook $60.00 per performance the most popular horror novels on the Script: $16.75 • Do you ever wonder what animals are Royalty: $65.00 per bestseller list. But Jim’s tired of cooking up thinking? Well, it would help if they actually performance monsters and scaring readers. He wants to be said what they were thinking. In Pound they himself and write what interests him - like the Or Have You No do say it, and a lot of it! From Paris Hilton's history of fire engines. This terrifies his Shame? Set in the leftovers, to the risks of eating peanut butter, teenage daughters Hannah and Madison into roomy (vacant) Dead these animals will literally say and do hatching a plot to get Jim back in the mood to Moose Lodge, this anything. There is even a West Side Story write more horror. Hannah insists her birthday delightful melodrama face-off between the dogs and the cats! And slumber party with four friends be held at has a myriad of amusing characters, plot the realization that the sudden appearance of Sunnyside Inn, perched high on a cliff at the twists, and exaggerated scenes that your strange jewelry on your collar can shock you, edge of the sea. Bringing along enough props audience will adore. From the harried heroine, really shock you, is only the beginning. Mafia for a horror movie, the girls plan to scare their Marginally Modest, to the villainous Brad cats, a dog having an identity crisis, a cat with dad stiff by introducing him to the ghost of a Apple, to our splendidly honest hero, an obsessive-compulsive disorder, and a hatchet murderess. What they don’t realize is Seymore Stoutfellow, the entire cast has a bunny that thinks it's a Corolla, all add up to that a psychic has already found a ghost at moment to steal the show! Ma Belle fights to an eccentric mix of wonderful climactic chaos. Sunnyside - much to the dismay of the owner save the Dead Moose Lodge from Will any of these eccentric animals get and the nervous old coot who wants to buy repossession and somehow manages to hold adopted? Pound stimulates laughter and tears the place. Soon, ghosts begin appearing off the selfish advances of the lecherous as it looks at their colorful, and at times, futile everywhere and Jim seems to be the only one Judge Jury McBribe. While Granny Fanny is pursuits. who’s not scared stiff. Plenty of silly searching for a husband, Prunehilda fights to characters, loads of action - a great family defend her honor, even though no one is show! threatening it. Willimena Worm falls madly in love with Turkey O’Trot and fills him with moose munchies. And finally Ruben Z. Patsy, undercover judge posing as an inept bumbler, arrives to sentence the guilty and perform the weddings.
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PRINCE CHARMLESS ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRY STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS BY: LAVINIA ROBERTS MEN MS HS • 12 females, 4 males, 13 either, 29 BY: RICHARD GREMEL total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 MS HS • 13-18 females, 8 males, 2-12 either, minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales • Script: $7.50 • 23-38 total, 1-6 extras, doubling possible, Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Farce, performance Classics • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: Prince Charmless is a zany fairy tale comedy $16.75 • Royalty: $75.00 per performance about a charmless prince who favors baking Prince John has decreed that the citizens of and creating culinary masterpieces to fencing, Nottingham pay weekly taxes or face the rescuing damsels in distress, and other typical penalty of death. His decrees are enforced by charming prince activities. His concerned the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. The citizens family makes every attempt to cure him of his think that all hope is lost until they hear word lack of charm, including hiring the flamboyant of a noble hero, Robin Hood of Locksley. and loquacious pageant consultant, Madame Robin Hood, with the help of his merry men Muzette, to give him a crash course on (which are mostly girls) rob from the rich, give charm. His home is soon invaded by a passel to the poor, and save the fair Maid Marian. of putrid princesses, summoned to a ball, This comic retelling of the story includes including Princess Prunella who is allergic to thumb wars, missed cues, and a slow motion REVOLUTIONARY WHAT??? everything, the accident prone Princess fight. BY:* KATELYN BEYKE Pandora, and others. But tragedy strikes as MS HS • 3-4 females, 3 males, 6-7 total, an ogre abducts the princesses. Will Robin Hood and His Merry Men had its doubling possible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Charmless be able to save the day? world premiere at Empire High School in Historical Events and People • Script: $7.50 • Tucson, Arizona. Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per PROM NIGHT performance BY: KELLY MEADOWS ROMEO AND JULIET GO WEST Six students have been forced to work MS HS • 10 females, 6 males, 16 total • 90 BY: AUGUST MERGELMAN together to portray the Revolutionary War in a minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook ALL • 9 females, 7 males, 3 either, 19 total, series of skits. Leonard is a smart guy. Sure, Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per 3-11 extras, gender flexible • 80 minutes • he might be a little obsessed with his grades, performance Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook but that can only work to their advantage, What's more dangerous than having five prom Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per right? But with a ditz, a feminist, a conspiracy performance queen candidates on stage at one time? theorist, a slacker, and an internet obsessed Possibly the fact that no one showed up to Ramona Mae has fallen in love with Joel and freshman working against him, he might have open the school! Yvonne's the most popular he with her, but the biggest obstacle facing a little trouble keeping everyone on track. girl in school, but...no one likes her! She their love is the long-standing grudge between From a gun-toting Martha Washington to Alien thinks she's a shoo-in. After all, she's first flute their fathers, which originated from a hunting invasion plots, this play is full of hilarious fun, in band! Michelina is running on a platform of bet gone sour. Well that, and Joel's mother is and maybe a just little historical information, blackmail—if she loses, she's ready to drop a set on gettin' him hitched to the high-falutin' too. "gossip bomb" on everyone in the school. debutant, Miss Paris. Miss Paris bets Ramona Gretchen got dumped by Garvey, the football Mae's friend, Herman, that he can't find a SANTAPHOBIA captain, because he's too popular to settle on particular flower and gives him Joel's horse to BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD one girl. Now she's stuck going with look for it. But Joel only knows that Herman MS HS • 8 females, 6 males, 14 total • 90 took his horse and so he involves the Sheriff. Dewayne, the class chemistry geek—and he's minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook doing her the favor! When the going gets When it comes out that a bet was involved, Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per rough, both the nerds and the cool kids have the situation gets serious. A hayloft balcony performance to work together to save the evening and scene with Ramona lurking in the shadows, a Yikes! The fear of Santa Claus has taken over even learn something in the process. A witty horse named Tybalt, and an ending that the Gruber family! As a result, they never comedy that will leave you eager to buy more would turn the Bard a shade of red, makes want to see each other again. But Alice, the stuffy prom attire. this western version of the classic tale the perfect adaptation of Romeo and Juliet for Matriarch, has a plan. Relying on their greed, any theatre or department. she offers each of her grown children and SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY their families a portion of her vast estate if BY: CRAIG SODARO they will spend one Christmas Eve with her in MS HS • 6 females, 5 males, 11 total • 90 the Gruber mansion. But the plan backfires minutes • Comedy, Mystery • Script: $7.50 • when each sibling is determined to scare the Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per others away so that they can keep the entire performance fortune for themselves (Scooby-Doo style!). A group of strangers wins a contest for a After a madcap night of booby traps, weekend stay at the home of a widowed sleepwalking, and dressing up as Santa and recluse. No one can figure out what contest his elves to scare each other away, Alice he won and, then, someone is murdered. This must resort to desperate measures to cure quickly turns into a murder mystery where her children so that the family can finally learn everyone is a suspect. You'll never guess the true meaning of Christmas. whodunit.
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PIZZA WARS SCROOGE MACBETH SEASICK BY: MEGAN ORR BY:* DAVID MACGREGOR BY: DAN NEIDERMYER ALL • 4 females, 4 males, 10 either, 18 total, 4 CT • 3 females, 2 males, 5 total • 85 minutes • MS • 15 females, 6 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 100 Comedy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • Notebook males, 21 total • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $75.00 per minutes • Melodrama • Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance Script: $7.50 • performance Notebook Script: Scrooge Macbeth takes the meaning of “the $16.75 • Royalty: After the untimely death of their father (Who show must go on” to a whole new level. Bob, $60.00 per knew a pepperoni could be so dangerous?) Sylvia, Victor, and Renee are the last four performance Berto and Tony Mariano discover that the fate actors standing when a food poisoning Or Cast Adrift in the of Papa Mariano's Pizzeria rests in the hands outbreak sidelines most of the cast on the Sea of Life Without of...a contest? As directed by their father's opening night of the Hartland Community an Anchor. Winslow will, the restaurant is split in half, and the Theatre's holiday production, Shakespeare's P. Downs, III is a brother who makes the greater profit after classic, The Winter's Tale. But that's not the STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS swashbuckling, three months will become the sole owner of only setback: Sylvia has just discovered a exciting, debonair hunk (though his head the restaurant. But in the midst of crazy boatload of red ink in the theatre group's cavity does indeed carry around a lot of empty money-making schemes and even crazier ledger. With impending financial ruin, a space). To Emmymaesue, he is every bit as customers, the two brothers learn not only shortage of cast members, and an expectant dashing as he was the first day they met and how to improve the restaurant, but also how audience just outside the doors, can these then some! But the dastardly Vidor Simon to work together. four amateur thespians concoct some kind of Persellen unleashes a fiendish holiday entertainment in time to save their scheme...unless Emmymaesue agrees to theatre? Thanks to the ensuing violent SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE marry Vidor, Granny Sketchington will be lost collision between everything Christmas and DOOM OF DEVILSMOOR in a blustery midnight snowstorm, Aunt Molly everything Shakespeare, you will never think BY: C.P. STANCICH and Aunt Mona will perish in sub-zero of Shakespeare or Christmas in quite the freezing cold temperatures, and HS CT • 3 females, 7 males, 3 either, 13 total, same way again. gender flexible • 125 minutes • Mystery, Emmymaesue will be tied to the railroad Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: tracks! Emmymaesue’s life is fraught with $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance SCROOGE'S CHRISTMAS serious trouble...could all be lost due to this Sherlock Holmes is back! In London, Holmes BY: KEN JONES tragic turn-of-events? In the fashion of the finds himself reluctantly investigating the ALL • 6 females, 9 males, 15 total • 60 minutes 1890’s vaudeville melodramas, Seasick persecution of Edward Banks, a gentleman • Classics • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: provides grand entertainment as the cast who is being stalked with the message “The $16.75 • Royalty: $75.00 per performance hilariously attempts to foil the sinister plottings of the heartless Vidor Simon Persellen. Doom of Devilsmoor.” When Banks refuses to In Ken Jones' adaptation of Charles Dickens' provide more information about his own classic tale, A Christmas Carol, a group of background, Holmes removes himself from actors portray all the characters of this POETIC LICENSE TO KILL the case. In the meantime, Watson finds Christmas tradition. The ensemble provides BY: EDITH WEISS himself at a house party on a country estate the songs and sounds as the miserly HS CT • 9 females, 5 males, 5 either, 19 total, that includes Banks. Soon a strange parcel Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by the Spirits gender flexible • 70 minutes • Comedy, Mystery arrives, once more threatening Banks with of Past, Present, and Future. This unique • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • “The Doom.” An embarrassed Banks is telling can play to an audience in an intimate Royalty: $60.00 per performance compelled to discuss the persecution, leaving or large setting using nothing but costumes It’s a bad day at the Bide-A-Wee Inn. It begins the houseguests to speculate idly - - until and a few props. This remarkable adaptation with the attack of a rare European Eagle Owl Banks ends up horribly murdered. is perfect for schools and community theatres, and gets worse with three murder attempts on and running at just an hour, it is the perfect the life of Laurence Boothsby, a little known Holmes arrives to assist Watson and the local version for family audiences. Scrooge's poet. From a slingshot to a bag of flour, constabulary. They review the list of Christmas premiered at the University of anything becomes a weapon, and everyone— houseguests/suspects, which includes a Virginia in the Helm's Theatre. After five more a mysterious Countess, a spoiled young detached host, Banks' fiancée, a wily widow full productions at various colleges, the play heiress, a juvenile delinquent, an American with a grudge against the victim, a taciturn was reworked and produced at the University billionaire named “The Ronald” and his two housekeeper, and an adventurer who once of Notre Dame. It has since become a apprentices, and the proverbial butler—is a shared lodgings with none other than seasonal favorite with universities and high suspect. Love triangles, lies, and hidden Sherlock Holmes. Holmes labors to find the schools across the country. motives come to light under the investigation truth about the murder, The Doom of of Inspector Barish, who mixes intelligent Devilsmoor, and the relationship between the detective work with American cop show flair to two, ultimately uncovering the clues that get the would-be killer. unravel all the mysteries in this fun new adventure with Sherlock Holmes.
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SENIOR-ITIS SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SKETCH NIGHT: 10 COMEDY STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS BY: BRADLEY WALTON SPINSTERS OF BLACKMEAD SKITS FOR TEENS MS HS • 1 female, 1 male, 5-9 either, 7-11 total, BY: C.P. STANCICH BY: TIM KOCHENDERFER 0-8 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • HS CT • 7 females, 4 males, 11 total • 120 MS HS • 2-7 females, 16-39 males, 6-35 either, 80 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook minutes • Mystery, Comedy, Classics • Script: 24-81 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: 75 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook performance $65.00 per performance Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance Stevie hates school, has no plans for the Someone is murdering the women of future, and may not even graduate unless he Blackmead Manor, and the fiercely Follow the school day in the form of sketch repeats the English class he flunked the year independent female academic community is comedy. It begins with the principal before. When his guidance counselor hooks reluctant to ask for help from outsiders. When apologizing for some bizarre incidents and Stevie up with a brainy, college-bound tutor Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn setting some unusual goals and proceeds to named Andrea, the two of them establish a into the case, they find their reception as biology class, where a student insists his lab friendship that threatens to develop into sticky as the mystery they must solve. A partner is a frog. At lunch time, a guy's something more, even though they both think servant is found dead, a member of the repeated attempts to hit on the new girl end it would be a mistake. Lorne lives a very Blackmead community is missing, and the with some embarrassing escapades, much to controlled and uptight existence, mostly due great detective uncovers links to his arch the embarrassment of his friends. Then it's on to the fact that he’s allergic to almost every enemy, Professor Moriarty. Is this merely to Driver's Education, where the instructor's food imaginable, and he subconsciously longs another interesting case or a fatal trap for simulations get a little too real. Next, we head to break out of the mold he’s created for Holmes himself? out to football practice, which turns into a himself. Lorne’s best friend, Norman, is beauty pageant, and what curriculum would excited to finally be a senior, but as the be complete without a class on How to Rob a months drag on, Norman’s enthusiasm fades, SHERLOCK HOLMES: JOHN Doughnut Store? Finally, a teacher utilizes the and his apathy threatens to destroy his WATSON'S BODY theater department to prove to some parents friendship with Lorne. Alex is the class BY: C.P. STANCICH that their children don't pay attention in class. president, and his goal is to hatch a senior HS CT • 4 females, 7-8 males, 11 total, 1 extra, Sketch Night is a collection of skits that are prank that will be remembered for years to doubling possible • 105 minutes • Mystery, perfect for teens. come. The problem is, no one else seems to Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook care. They all have one thing in common: Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per They’re seniors. And the only thing standing performance SHHH! BY: DON KING between them and the future…is one more The great detective and his loyal sidekick are year of high school. at odds. While Dr. Watson has gone to MS HS • 8 females, 9 males, 1 either, 18 total • investigate the possible theft of a priceless set 100 minutes • Comedy, Farce, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: SEEKING ASYLUM of emeralds at the London home of Lord and $60.00 per performance Lady Delton, Sherlock Holmes remains at BY: JERRY RABUSHKA Baker Street entertaining his friend, the “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. ALL • 6 females, 4 males, 1 either, 11 total • 80 adventurer, Oscar Dove. Holmes believes his Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” - minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook friend is on a fools errand, but when Dr. Groucho Marx. Pleasant Plains Public Library Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per is in deep trouble, and it will take a minor performance Watson reports findingand then losinga body, Watson, Holmes and Dove are drawn into a miracle to save it. Or perhaps a group of Mark is in the insane asylum—and he loves it! web of murder, larceny and intrigue. The body classic, life-sized books and some ornery He gets tons of attention, makes great friends, turns out to be surprisingly agile, and the teens. Red Lawson, head librarian, has a and always has lots to do. The only problem suspects range from dubious aristocrats, to tough choice to make: Stay and save the is his wife, Rene...she's in the real world, and doubtful servants, to notorious members of library from destruction, or move on to is sick of Mark getting so much attention, so the criminal class. manage Gourmet Gadgets, the brand new she takes the only logical step—she tries to electronics chain next door. Picture classic have herself admitted, too. Here's a world books like Little Women and Moby Dick where one set of delusions is cured by SOMEWHERE ELSE DREAMS jumping right off the shelves to work their another; where real life and infomercial join BY: JEFFREY STRAUSSER “magic” and prove to her and some together for a skewed sense of reality (and ALL • 12 females, 8 males, 20 total • 90 minutes neighborhood teens that books are still product endorsement); where a character's • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: valuable and worth reading. The show offers crazy ramblings make more sense than the $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance actors of all abilities a wonderful chance to folks who live in the "sane" universe. Seeking Ashlee Martin, a young waitress at the All play some memorable characters, including Asylum is a fast-paced romp between American Diner in the town of Jacksonville, Theo the Thesaurus, Webster the Dictionary, imagination and reality, between laughter and located in the heart of east Texas, dreams of Cindy/Cinderella, Scarlet from The Scarlet tears, and in its own way, tells a moving story finding a better life somewhere else. Yet, fate Letter, and more. But will it all fall apart as the on the values of love, friendship, truth and holds her at the diner just a little longer so the books and teens combine forces to influence honesty. cast of zany characters that include a nursing Red’s decision? home escapee, a used lawnmower peddler, a welder who insists on telling corny jokes and a yokel who might have won the lottery can unwittingly create a hilarious chain of events that show Ashlee her “better life” was always right in Jacksonville.
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SNOW WHITE IN THE '70S SOMEWHERE-BETWEEN THE TEST BY: WADE BRADFORD BY: JEFF MCKILLIP BY: CLIFF MCCLELLAND ALL • 8 females, 9 males, 17 total, 10 extras, MS HS • 7 females, 4 males, 24 either, 35 total, ALL • 7-27 females, gender flexible • 70 minutes • Comedy, 4-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 5-19 males, 0-30 Fantasy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook 90 minutes • Comedy, Fantasy • Script: $7.50 • either, 12-76 total, Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per doubling possible, performance performance gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy • Travel back in time with Snow White in this In this dream-like story full of bad puns, Script: $7.50 • classic fable now set in the magical, what's twisted logic and fast-paced philosophic Notebook Script: happenin' land of the disco-crazed '70s. Snow banter, a young girl with an impending $16.75 • Royalty: White hasn't had an easy life - until now. At medical procedure escapes her anxiety into a $65.00 per 17, the orphan recently discovered a wealthy surreal world called Somewhere-Between. performance great-great-great-uncle, Douglas Digger. With the help and guidance of a patchwork Widely hailed as the Unfortunately, soon after she meets her only doll, she navigates the rich and strange reality
STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS best in testing living relative, he dies, leaving her his many where the more things change, the more they parodies! A satire- swanky assets. This doesn't make Douglas' stay the same. Pursued by a frightening entity powered Saturday Night Live-style play that trophy wife very happy, and Lola Golda- known only as Them, the two companions explores the pitfalls and potholes of testing in Digger doesn't just get angry, she gets even. traverse the places that lie between sleep and America. Witness the beginning of testing in When Lola's attempt to poison Snow White awake, dream and reality, concrete ideas and prehistoric times! Become the studio audience goes awry, Snow White ends up in the abstract ideals, to fulfill a destiny she never for a new testing game show! Frighten basement of the disco with seven psychedelic knew existed. audiences with a kung fu test prep, crash-land dwarfs spinning vinyl for the disco above. a national driving test with a sixteen-year-old, They hail Snow White as their chosen one, VIRGIL'S WEDDING - FULL and torture audiences as they wait come to deliver them from their labors, and excruciatingly long (nearly two minutes) for swear to help her in any way they can. The LENGTH BY: EDDIE MCPHERSON the home pregnancy test results! Humor and era that gave us bell-bottoms, ABBA, and satire collide when the "No Child Left Behind" ALL • 12 females, 8 "Three's Company" is back with Snow White fiasco, some people like to call it a mandate, and seven dynamite dwarfs. males, 20 total • 90 minutes • Comedy, captures the essence of what is right, wrong, Farce, Hillbilly • Script: and heinous in American schools today. It's all SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN $8.50 • Notebook here, it's all fun, and it's all available to you for MUMMIES Script: $16.75 • the very low price of two number-two pencils Royalty: $75.00 per BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD and possibly, an itsy bitsy piece of your soul performance in this hilarious sketch comedy. But MS HS • 5 females, 4 males, 16 either, 25 total, remember, "This is only a test." 0-15 extras, gender flexible • 85 minutes • You’re invited to the Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • Script: $7.50 • social clash of the Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per century as Ms. WHEN COWS FLY performance Delainie, a high-end BY: JOHN TISSOT Help! That high school drama teacher, wedding planner, and her assistant are hired to direct a simple ceremony for two of MS HS • 5-13 females, 6-23 males, 0-8 either, famous for disaster-prone productions, is 11-44 total, 6-20 extras, doubling possible, back! This time she has written a sequel to Lickskillit’s favorite lovebirds. Guaranteed a gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Classics her first catastrophe, Cinderstein., but this one promotion if Margaret and Virgil's wedding is a • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • is even worse. As if combining Snow White success, Ms. Delanie invites her boss, Mr. Royalty: $60.00 per performance Wright, to attend. But it’s a wild romp before with the horror story of The Mummy wasn’t Seven new comedies based on fun, classic the nuptials are exchanged. The bride doubts ridiculous enough, the actress playing Snow rhymes. Have you heard about the guy who the groom’s love, the in-laws are decorating is obsessed with kissing, while the actor saw a cow jump over the moon? Maybe the church with Christmas garland, the playing Charming is shy and has never been you’ve heard about Mary who truly grew reverend arrives with notes for a funeral kissed. The Evil Queen can’t get the Mirror to furrows, cockle-shells, and young women in service, and the groom ends up spending the enter on cue, the blind extra and the deaf her garden?! This is an imaginative collection night before the wedding in a lizard trap. The extra have trouble communicating with each of seven, 5-10 minute scenes that turn morning of the wedding is a coordinator’s other, the assistant archeologist is obsessed several fantastical nursery rhymes into reality. nightmare. Too busy with the bride to worry with doing stunts, and all the mummies’ In this hilarious full-length collection, everyday about the groom, the planners try to explain costumes are lost and have to be substituted people interact with the “celebrities” of the the difference between Mr. Wright and “Mr. with toilet paper. On top of these production nursery rhymes we know and love, re- Right." Also available as a musical with music nightmares, the school principal keeps imagining the nursery rhymes as if they were and lyrics written by award-winning composer interrupting to enforce preposterous school current events. rules and force a Danish foreign exchange Allen Koepke. student who doesn’t speak English into the play against her will. When Charming is accidentally knocked unconscious, the actors have to improvise as several of them try to replace him at the same time, changing this insane production into something so hideous that it’s beyond even the director’s recognition. 30 Best suited for: ALL = All Audiences | MS = Middle School | HS = High School | CT = Community Theatre/College * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS
SURVIVOR: EVERY VOTE STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS COUNTS BY: KELLY MEADOWS MS HS • 13 females, 7 males, 20 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance How do you stop a charging rhino? Same as always—take its credit cards! Danger, romance, and...mangoes? Who knows what awaits the contestants in this fast-moving parody of the popular Survivor series as they cope with the elements of nature—junk jewelry, chocolate bars, product placement—it gets wild out there on the savannah! As the game proceeds, contestants face hunger, fierce challenges, the mango lady, and lots and lots of cheating. Series host Pieter Voorhoof tries to fight against the American propensity to make everything stupid, witless and trivial. Quick-witted dialogue and zany characters keep audiences smiling from start to finish. STOCKING STUFFERS, Wester Middle School STOCKING STUFFERS STRANDED! THE WORST PLAY IN THE BY: GEFF MOYER BY: MEGAN ORR WORLD ALL • 4-18 females, MS HS • 4 females, 5 males, 5 either, 14 total, BY: JEFF LOVETT 4-16 males, 2-19 gender flexible • 100 minutes • Comedy • Script: HS • 5 females, 4 either, 10-53 total, $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: males, 9 total • 90 doubling possible, $65.00 per performance minutes • Comedy, gender flexible • 60 Classics • Script: minutes • Comedy • The beauty queen, the grouchy recluse, the $8.50 • Notebook Script: $8.50 • energetic granny, the dimwitted professional Script: $16.75 • Notebook Script: basketball player, the incredibly average Royalty: $75.00 per $16.75 • Royalty: Jane, the obnoxious Survival Scout, the performance $75.00 per presidential candidate who's "Miles Above the Here's the first big performance Rest," and Nelson Peabody, the "Smartest problem: Mrs. Ten-Year-Old on the Face of the Planet"—all Fifteen short scenes Watson produces arrive on a beautiful tropical island only to find create a full evening Shakespeare every out that they've been trapped! In this comedy of family holiday fun. year. She has a love- where Gilligan's Island meets Survivor, the Act One features eight scenes ranging from love-LOVE castaways struggle with hunger, suspicion, Uncle Sam, Easter Bunny, Cupid, Ezekiel the relationship with Shakespeare. King Lear, fiendish mini-pirates, and a delusional pirate Pilgrim, and Hagatha the Witch plotting how Hamlet, Othello... over and over again, year captain. All the while, they are facing their to steal the attention from Santa and his after year. This year, she chooses another greatest test of survival—surviving one holiday, to two female elves discussing their bloody tragedy: Macbeth. Mrs. Watson another. Don't miss this ending; it's got an future goals and testing a variety of water doesn't get it; she just doesn't get it. Not unexpected twist in which everyone can guns straight out at the audience. Act Two surprisingly, the kids have decided to hijack participate! offers seven scenes ranging from a fast- the show and destroy Macbeth with sinister talking Little Matchgirl selling her wares in glee. They completely re-write the play and downtown New York, to the trial of two TEMPORARY HEROES hold secret rehearsals in anticipation of reindeers who “ran over grandma” and a BY: DAVID-MATTHEW BARNES presenting one glorious night of rebellious surprise appearance by Santa himself. When HS CT • 7 females, 3 males, 10 total • 90 mayhem. Shakespeare no more! Just as they all of these wonderful scenes come together, minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook are ready to take the stage, the drama audiences will experience Christmas like Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per teacher announces that scholarships will be never before. performance announced by the local college theatre department after the show tonight. Errrrrr, say This love story set in a coffee shop in the what?! Don't miss this rare chance to see Little Italy section of New York explores the what happens when Shakespeare's darkest blossoming relationships between a waitress tragedy gets hacked by a group of determined named Shelby, a cook named Salvatore, and (and talented) drama students. the colorful characters that enter their lives. Temporary Heroes premiered at the Thistle Dew Theatre in Sacramento.
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TARMAC UNDER THE BIG TOP THE SWITCH BY: JERRY RABUSHKA BY: MARTIN FOLLOSE BY: ARTHUR KRAFT ALL • 6 females, 5 males, 2 either, 13 total, MS HS • 10 females, MS HS • 9 females, 10 males, 4 either, 23 total, 0-10 extras • 65 minutes • Comedy • Script: 8 males, 18 total • 75 gender flexible • 110 minutes • Comedy, Drama $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: minutes • Comedy • • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • $60.00 per performance Script: $8.50 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance Notebook Script: At the airport, two groups of people are $16.75 • Royalty: When Joel, an uptight psychologist, and "stuck" literally a few feet from one another— $70.00 per Bentley, a fun-loving music teacher, decide to one group at the gate, the other on the plane performance switch positions, confusion and chaos are the out on the tarmac—hoping to get to the gate. order of the day. Joel helps a band student The bank is going to foreclose on the Marlow Both groups have been waiting forever! analyze his psychological fear of practicing Little Big Top Circus unless Mr. Marlow can Brandon would enjoy striking up a romance his instrument, while Bentley prescribes music miraculously get the loan repaid in three days. with Kayla, but she already has a boyfriend, lessons to a student suffering from Unfortunately, he has bigger tent problems. one that calls her constantly. Is Akbar really a depression. Joel seats his orchestra in a huge STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS The lion tamer is afraid of lions, the magician terrorist or a victim of profiling? Can wealthy circle for group discussion, the fall concert is claustrophobic, the trapeze artists are afraid Mrs. Milford fake an injury to get personal ends in mayhem, and a boy who threatened of heights, and two burglars just stole the little service? When an employee announces the suicide is saved at the last moment—guess bit of money the circus had saved for the loan. delay will be over in 15 minutes, Kayla by whom! Down and out, the circus performers are informs everyone, "In airport speak, 15 trying desperately to find enough courage to minutes means all night long!" A comedy put on the biggest big top performance of their TEN LITTLE CHIPMUNKS that'll leave you itching to give away those lives and catch the circus crooks before Mr. BY: CRAIG SODARO frequent flier miles. Hawkins, the bank president, closes the MS HS • 10 females, 4 males, 1 either, 15 total circus. Then, Mr. Hawkins’ highly motivated • 90 minutes • Comedy, Mystery, Classics • SWATCH! secretary, Ms. Robwell, hires two bungling Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • BY: JERRY RABUSHKA burglars to steal the money to gain favor with Royalty: $65.00 per performance MS HS • 6-9 females, 5 males, 5-7 either, 16-21 her boss. Step right up for an evening of The laughs, frights, and fights are thick when total, 0-1 extras, doubling possible, gender memorable fun with characters like Tipsy Toe billionaire Thaddeus Thornbury realizes the flexible • 80 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • the Rope Walker, Bertha the Bearded Lady, end of his life is near and invites all potential Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per and a host of other characters. heirs to his secluded mansion on Chipmunk performance Island. These include his sisters, Isabelle and Every color has a characteristic, but what if TREASURE ISLAND Rita, along with Rita's two children; his shifty you were assigned a color and had to live like BY: DAN NEIDERMYER lawyer, Noah; his voluptuous secretary, Holly; it? The Swatch kids have questionable pasts, his grumpy cook and her cookie-loving HS • 3 females, 4 males, 10-11 either, 17-18 but if they can live life one color at a time, it total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 daughter, Coco; and two long-lost country might prep them to return to society as minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • cousins. When all have arrived, Thornbury functional human beings. It’s not as easy as Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $75.00 per reads his will: the last surviving member of the all that – once they get too used to a color, performance weekend party will inherit the entire Thornbury they authorities switch it up. Things change empire. Conveniently, two strangers Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother run an when the Gold kids inherit a fortune from a shipwrecked on the island appear just in time old inn in Western England. One foggy recently passed uncle who’s still on stage to notarize the will and join the familial morning, a pirate on the run ends up at the saying his lines. They stand to pay an awful festivities. Following a toast, poor Thaddeus inn, befriending Jim and pressing into the price for their greed unless the others care promptly dies from rat poisoning. Amidst lad's hand a tattered, old, wrinkled and torn enough to save them. Your audience will thunder and lightning, one by one the piece of paper. Suddenly, a band of cut-throat laugh with these characters’ odd humor, yet potential heirs begin to die, but the murderous pirates show up at the inn, feverishly care about them enough to get involved with plots are foiled in Sodaro's rapid-fire, double- searching for what Jim's been given! With the their deeply dramatic stories. crossing mystery. help of his town's squire, Jim realizes he's been given a secret map to a buried treasure SUNSHINE AND MADAM ZORBA of gold and silver. Onboard the “Hispaniola,” BY: DAVID LABOUNTY Jim learns that the crew they hired are not MS HS • 4 females, 4 males, 2 either, 10 total, sailors but pirates captained by peg-legged gender flexible • 65 minutes • Drama, Comedy • Long John Silver. But Long John Silver and Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • his treasure-stealing pirates are in for an Royalty: $60.00 per performance immense surprise! The treasure they think When Sara awakens in the hospital with a they've found has been stolen by a half- brain tumor, her wild and carefree roommate crazed, hilarious hermit. Easy-to-stage with convinces her she’s been committed to the several opportunities for spontaneous mental ward. Truth be known, Jennifer is also audience participation, Treasure Island sails fighting for her life and is desperately in need both cast and audience from the rain- of a friend. From dealing with awkward family drenched English coast to a steamy tropical members to silly school girl flirtations with the jungle. male nurse, to facing hard new facts, Sara and Jennifer bond in this unusually funny and heart-warming play.
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TREASURE ISLAND STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS MAKEOVER* BY: THOMAS HISCHAK MS HS • 18 females, 18 total, 0-7 extras • 90 minutes • Classics, Drama • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance During a dress rehearsal of Treasure Island put on by the Lofty Elms Academy for Girls, there are two stories being told. One is Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous tale of pirates and buried treasure as presented by the all-female cast under the commanding direction of faculty member Mrs. Pettiford. The other story is the backstage intrigue which includes rivals for student council president, who has and had not been accepted by a college, and jealously over which girl is responsible for breaking up another girl’s romance. Both Stevenson’s tale and the contemporary plot THIS COULD BE MURDER, Williams Field High School, Precious and Patience at Curtain Call are played side by side with confusing and (played by Anessa Pierre and Madison Rinke) from Williams Field High School in Gilbert, AZ. hilarious results.
THIS COULD BE MURDER Whether sisters, mothers, neighbors, or BY: CRAIG SODARO castaways, the women in these eight short MS HS • 10 females, 9 males, 19 total • 90 pieces are deeply intertwined in each other's minutes • Comedy, Mystery • Script: $7.50 • lives. Individually, these plays have delighted Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per audiences across the country, from the performance Boston Theatre Marathon to the Seattle When big-time television producer Noah Lott Fringe Festival. Together, they comprise an drops dead from a little food poisoning (the evening full of laughter and tears that will murder was done in such good taste), Polly resonate deeply in the hearts and minds of Dewett, host of “The Polly-Dewett-My-Way audiences. Show,” resolves to solve the murder and write a book about it for budding detectives: How THE TIGHTWAD To Solve a Murder. First, Polly disables the BY:* EDITH WEISS vehicles to prevent suspects from leaving the HS CT • 3 females, 6 males, 3 either, 12 total, scene of the crime. Next, she identifies the gender flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Classics suspects, a very dangerous step for any • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • budding crime-stopper. With an offbeat staff Royalty: $70.00 per performance of experts, all with motive to topple Lott, Polly Harpagon loves money and where there is decides to throw a “Solve The Murder” dinner money, there is Harpagon. There is also party. All surviving experts are invited to WHO'S IN CHARGE? OR trouble. Harpagon, a wealthy and avaricious attend, including the janitor Verna Broomall RODNEY, THE ULTIMATE GIFT widower, wants to marry Marianne, but and two long arms of the law. After party TO THEATER Marianne loves Harpagon's son, Cleante, and favors are distributed and refreshments BY: E. JACK WILLIAMS sometimes, the heart wants what it wants. served, confusion reigns as two more bodies MS HS • 9 females, 4 males, 5-8 either, 18-21 The entanglements continue. Harpagon turn up and Polly ends up behind bars...in total, 6-20 extras, doubling possible, gender intends to marry his daughter Elise off to an stripes. flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script old and wealthy widower, Signor Anselm, but : $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Elise is in love with Valere, a young man of $65.00 per performance noble birth who is a steward in Harpagon's TIGHTLY BOUND Mr. Wilson, veteran play director, tumbles off household. Hidden identities, banned love, BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE the stage and breaks not only one leg, but and a stolen money box soon cause a HS CT • 4-18 females, 4-18 total, doubling two. Football Coach Perko reluctantly conflagration of laugh out loud comedy and possible, gender flexible • 80 minutes • replaces Mr. Wilson as the play director for knockout fun. Will young love win out? Comedy, Drama • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Pyramus and Thisbe. Josi, the school Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per Maybe. Will the love of family show Harpagon custodian, with a passion for drama, serves performance that money is not the most important thing? as assistant director. Adding to Coach's No. It's Moliere, not Oprah. The bonds of love and necessity run deep in headache is the “unusual” theater group. The these plays, whether it's young mothers trying results are anything but usual when Coach to cope with the pressures of parenthood, two brings his football mentality to directing castaways in a lifeboat trying to stay sane, a Shakespeare. sister saying goodbye before going into space with aliens, or an adoptive mother and birth mother battling over a child they both love.
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THE WIZARD'S MAGICAL WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF...? MISTAKE EIGHT* 10-MINUTE TALES OF BY: JIM HAUN IMPROBABILITY MS HS • 9 females, 7 males, 6 either, 22 total, BY: AMY SEELEY, RANDY WYATT, SCOTT 4-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • OKEN, SEAN ABLEY 75 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook MS HS • 5-17 females, 4-16 males, 0-19 either, Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per 9-52 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • performance 80 minutes • Comedy, Farce • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per What if you came to see a play, but due to a performance disastrous mistake by a 16th century Wizard, you and the entire audience were suddenly Dr. Scientist hosts an evening of What would transported back to his time period? That is happen if? experiments like What if Cinderella exactly what happens in this fun-filled, farcical was a vampire? (Cinderella: Bloodsucker), and fast-paced comedy. The audience settles What if Peanut Butter never met Jelly? STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS down to watch a contemporary play when (Pantry Tales: A Matter of Flavor), What if the suddenly, with lights flickering, eerie sound Three Stooges were rational people? (Stooge effects, moving furniture and a misty fog…the Upgrade), What if the Queen of England was curtain quickly shuts on the "real" play and a robot? (Queen Elizabeth: The Worlds Only seconds later, reopens revealing the chamber WE WISH YOU A MERRY Robot Queen!), What if Cleopatra hosted a of Wizard Corrigan. The Wizard must now SPENDMAS! talk show? (Cleopatras Ancient Egyptian correct his mistake and he has one hour to fix BY: SEAN ABLEY, WAYNE HALL Awesome Talk Show!), What if Winnie the it or the entire audience will be forever stuck MS HS • 4 females, 5 males, 11-24 either, Pooh was a ninja? (The Way of the Bear), in the 16th century. It won't be easy - the 20-33 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • What if 'Free Muffin Day' was a lot more pompous King and his narcissistic Queen are 90 minutes • Comedy, Farce • Script: $7.50 • dangerous? (Free Muffin Day) and What if all making his frantic fix very difficult. With Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per the bicycles in Britain had square wheels? seconds to spare, the Wizard successfully performance (The Square-Wheeled Bicycles of London, returns the audience back to the present time What happens when a giant retail store takes England). This is a great evening of theater, and as such, all is well. Well…almost. The over Christmas and Santa Claus retires to OR you can break out each one-act for drama Wizard sort of made another mistake - a few Florida? In this hilarious holiday satire, festivals and competitions! unexpected passengers came along on the Sprawl-Mart has purchased all merchandising return trip. Oops! rights to Christmas...even Santa Claus! WHERE THERE'S A WILL, Determined to re-brand the holiday THERE'S A MURDER "Spendmas," the evil CEO takes on the brave, THE WACKY WIZARD OF OZ BY: MICHAEL DRUCE the idealistic, the young and mostly brilliant, BY: PATRICK DORN Ann Turner. But can she enlist a happily HS CT • 7 females, 3 males, 0-1 either, MS HS • 5 females, 5 males, 8-32 either, 18-37 retired Santa and a bunch of disgruntled elves total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender 9-10 total, doubling to restore Christmas? With dozens of big, flexible • 60 minutes • Comedy, Parody, possible, gender Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: colorful characters of all ages, and laughs for flexible • 70 minutes • $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance both the kids and adults, We Wish You a Comedy, Mystery • Merry Spendmas! is the perfect large-cast Script: $8.50 • When a twister carries Dorothy and Toto to comedy for your holiday stage! Notebook Script: the Land of Oz, the result is…wacky! Dorothy $16.75 • Royalty: steps out in her ruby crocks and onto a $75.00 per yellow-bricked comical adventure. ZOMBIE LOVE performance Encouraged by a bunch of silly munchkins, a BY: KATELYN BEYKE When ten distant brainy scarecrow, a tender-hearted tin man MS HS • 6-12 females, 6-12 males, 6 either, relatives learn that and a plucky cowardly lion, Dorothy seeks out 18-30 total, gender flexible • 80 minutes • each of them is about the not-too-terribly Terrible Wizard of Oz and Comedy, Mystery • Script: $7.50 • Notebook to inherit a million dollars, wheels begin to confronts the epically aqua-phobic Wicked Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance turn and plots hatch. If someone doesn't make Witch of the West. This fast, funny, and it through the stormy weekend ahead, their contemporary adaptation of The Wizard of Oz A high-strung high school student is directing share will be divided equally among the is filled with jokes, gags, puns and surprises. a new play (Zombie Love) at her school, but others. It doesn't take a mathematical genius nothing is going right. Actors are arriving late to figure out that less is more. As bodies pile or failing to show up at all. The costumer up, the laughs come fast and furiously in this knows nothing about fashion. The extras are ‘whodunnit’ that proves that Where There’s a upstaging the leads, and the assistant is Will, There’s a Murder. secretly in love with her boyfriend. To make matters worse, a jewel thief and the police officers who pursue him are mistaken for extras and cause havoc during the dress rehearsal. Of course, everything works out in the end, because the show must go on.
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ZOMBIE WEDDING VILLAINS AND ZOMBIES THE WWBF STAGE | FULL LENGTH PLAYS BY: JEFF LOVETT BY: BRADLEY WALTON BY: ALAN HAEHNEL HS • 7 females, 5 MS HS • 1 female, 1 male, 8-10 either, 10-12 HS • 4 females, 1 male, 5 total • 75 minutes • males, 12 total, 10-20 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 Drama • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 extras, doubling minutes • Drama • Script: $7.50 • Notebook • Royalty: $60.00 per performance possible • 70 minutes Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per • Comedy • Script: performance Five high school students form WWBF whose $8.50 • Notebook motto and dream is: We Will be Famous. Script: $16.75 • Nine years ago, the world's most powerful Whether as an actress, filmmaker, psychic, or Royalty: $75.00 per super hero went insane. In a deadly battle fashion model, each club member is performance that lasted only seconds, he attacked his determined to capture fame. Just as their arch-enemies in their lair and vanished Ashley has wonderful plans seem to be falling apart, Ally, the club without a trace. Now, with a plague of news! She has finally founder, hatches a desperate scheme to zombies sweeping the globe, the surviving met the man of her launch them all into instant stardom. The villains return to the ruins of their former dreams and can't dramatic conclusion leaves the audience stronghold to mourn the dead, question their wait to introduce him to her friends and family. moved and addresses a vital theme: What is past choices, and confront the future. Best She hastily calls her two best friends, Beth the price of teenagers’ desperate need to be described as a mixture of Watchmen, Titanic, and Summer, to arrange a lunch date for noticed? The Alamo, and Night of the Living Dead, them to meet Bruce. Arriving at the Villains and Zombies will appeal to fans of restaurant, Ashley announces that she's super heroes and horror while engaging the THE WORST PRODUCTION OF getting married in three short days. Before serious-minded theatergoer with flawed and THE SNOW QUEEN EVER Beth and Summer can object, Ashley's fiance very human characters struggling to face the BY: KEMUEL DEMOVILLE enters the restaurant amid a chorus of ends of their lives with dignity, honesty and ALL • 6 females, 5 males, 14 either, 25 total, crashing dishes and screams. Bruce may be love. 1-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • the most wonderful man in the world, but he is 70 minutes • Fantasy, Farce, Classics • Script: also a zombie. Ashley is marrying one of the $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: walking dead. Beth and Summer are stunned. YOU KNOW THE OLD SLAYING $75.00 per performance Ashley reminds her friends of the wedding BY: MICHAL JACOT In this wonderfully imaginative play-within-a- rehearsal and then heads off for more ALL • 2 females, 4 play, student actors are on set to produce introductions. An action-filled play full of great males, 6 total, gender Hans Christian Anderson's classic fairy tale physical comedy and outrageous makeup and flexible • 90 minutes • The Snow Queen. Like all great fairy tales, prop effects. Comedy, Mystery • Script: $7.50 • this play has everything including a self- Notebook Script: absorbed narrator, orphans, talking flowers, THE UNBEARABLE LITENESS $16.75 • Royalty: robber children, guards that occasionally OF BEING TEEN $65.00 per guard, and ditsy snowflakes who all try to help BY: ANGELA HILL performance (and sometimes hinder) Gerda's efforts to MS HS • 1-20 females, 1-10 males, 1-8 either, A traveling theatre group is getting ready to save her brother from the evil Snow Queen. 3-38 total, 0-20 extras, doubling possible, present their play, albeit with much bickering, We're off to many different lands and meet gender flexible • 75 minutes • Dark Comedy, when their star actor is murdered. The victim many different characters to experience what Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: wasn't exactly a favorite with any of the other many consider the worst production of The $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance actors - in fact, they all seemed to hate him. Snow Queen EVER! The world of being a teen - those crazy six As we discover through the course of the years that shape us all. Charlie's on the fringe play, each member of the troupe has a over fringes. Jimmy's reflection is talking motive, means, and opportunity for the back. Annie's in love with Josh Kowalski, murder, but only one is a killer. The audience who's in love with Lisa, who's blonde. The helps determine which of the cast members is mean girls are contemplating charity. Josh is the culprit - first, by asking pertinent questions trying to explain why he's just not that into during special Q and A sessions during the you. Cameron's dealing with divorcing parents play, and then at the end, when they vote for and a chemistry test. Al's just sick of tests. the most suspicious character. The play's five And all the girls are sick of looking at that different endings mean you could put on a page in the health book. Teen life. Teen love. different show every night! Giving actors a It's about laughing at ourselves, teen parents, chance to practice their improv and audience teachers, and even the lunch ladies. With members the opportunity to exercise their flexible roles, genders and scenes, this play detective skills, You Know the Old Slaying...is can be produced as an all-female show or all- a fun murder mystery in true Choose Your male show for a night of learning, laughing Adventure style. and remembering.
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SOMETHING OLD, CRAIG SOMETHING NEW SODARO Adapt! We all do it. Every time we wake up we adapt from unconsciousness to consciousness. Every time we step outside we adapt to sun or rain or snow or any combination thereof. Every time we learn a new skill we adapt ourselves to it. Remember when you first learned to use a spoon? No, way, right? But even then you were adapting, and you’re still doing it every day.
The world of literature is a little like us.
Adapting occurs all the time…though when literature is involved, it’s a bit more like borrowing and modifying or customizing or personalizing.
Some wise individual once said that there’s nothing new in the world. In fact, this sage went on, saying all stories are mere variations of tales that have come before. So much for true originality!
But take heart! If Shakespeare could adapt—and all his plays are based on other sources—then why not me?
I love adapting, particularly turning books into plays. What a challenge! Distilling four hundred pages into two hours in a tight space is a little like putting toothpaste back into the tube. But sometimes it really works. I’ve been privileged to adapt Tale of Two Cities, Invisible Man, David Copperfield, and loads of others.
Those, of course, are straight adaptations—emotions intact. It’s a lot more fun, though, to take a famous piece and wring some humor out of it. That’s why I had so much fun writing My Fair Zombie (found on page 24).
The play has a most distinguished pedigree. I guess Ovid, the famous ancient Greek poet, first wrote the story of Pygmalion the sculptor in his work Metamorphoses. Then in 1762 Jean Jacque Rousseau premiered his operatic version of Pygmalion. George Bernard Shaw, distinguished Irish playwright, wrote his version, also titled Pygmalion, in 1913. The title was changed to My Fair Lady in 1956 when the curtain rose on the classic Lerner and Loewe musical version.
And now Pygmalion has morphed into a nerdy scientist and zombies make an appearance. Nevertheless, as with any adaptation, the heart of the story is there. Boris (Pygmalion) can’t find love, so he decides to create his perfect partner. Bad idea—if he wasn’t so self-centered, he’d see that someone already does love him—and adapt with a big smile on his face!
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CHAOS IN CAMELOT! MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE BY: CHRISTY FREDRICKSON, DONNA RICE DREAM* DAME MS HS • 9 females, 7 males, 6 either, 22 total, BY: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, ABRIDGED BY BY: CRAIG W. STUMP 0-6 extras, gender flexible • 85 minutes • ROBERT GONZALEZ PH.D. MS HS • 12 females, Comedy, Farce, Classics • Script: $7.50 • HS CT • 18-22 either, 18-22 total, doubling 12 males, 24 total, Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per possible, gender flexible • 90 minutes • Classics gender flexible • 100 ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS performance • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • minutes • Comedy, Royalty: $75.00 per performance Take a witch, a monster, noble knights and Classics • Script: $8.50 • Notebook fair ladies, sprinkle them with magic and what Four frustrated lovers – Hermia, Lysander, Script: $16.75 • do you have? Magical, merry mayhem! In the Demetrius, and Helena – facing an angry Royalty: $70.00 per kingdom of Camelot, Morgan Le Fay and her father's (Egeus) arranged marriage plans performance bumbling assistants are plotting to get rid of enforced by the duke (Theseus), flee their Two witty narrators King Arthur. But their efforts are thwarted by a home for the nearby forest. At the same time, relate this family- crazy ogre named Goric, who is demanding to a group of village tradesmen gather in that friendly stage know what women really want, and forest to rehearse a play to present to the adaptation of threatening to eat everyone in the kingdom Athenian royal court. There they all encounter Quasimodo's experiences with his evil until he finds out! Queen Guinevere, trying to a band of mischievous fairies who, while also guardian, the dazzling gypsy queen, and the help, makes everything worse by giving a feuding among themselves, proceed to zany nuns of Notre Dame. Frollo's lust for La magic potion to Lancelot. Will Arthur find the confound and bewitch both groups. The fairy Esmeralda results in Quasimodo's answer to the ogre's question? Will Lancelot king, Oberon, tricks his queen, Titania, into punishment in the town square and the run off with Guinevere? And who will stop falling in love with one of the tradesmen, attempted murder of La Esmeralda's Morgan - the sword-happy knights, the man- Bottom, who has been turned into an ass by husband, Pierre Gringoire. Only Quasimodo's crazy ladies, the minstrel who can't sing, or the fairy king's henchman, Puck. Oberon, intervention saves La Esmeralda and Pierre perhaps Merlin? Find out in this magical romp wishing to help the pining lovers couple from the gallows, but a jealous Frollo attacks with easy-to-stage special effects! according to their desires, orders Puck to drop the gypsy queen again and tragedy a love potion in the lovers' eyes, but Puck's deservedly descends upon Frollo. It is the mistake causes the wrong lovers to fall in CSI - NEVERLAND King and Queen of France who determine La love. Chaos and confusion ensues until Puck BY: WADE BRADFORD Esmeralda's guilt or innocence and her fixes his mess. Oberon and Titania reconcile ultimate fate in this timeless, heartfelt tale. ALL • 7 females, 7 and the workmen get the call to perform their males, 14 total, 0-10 play at court, much to the amusement of the extras, gender flexible duke, the duchess, and the happily paired • 90 minutes • CINDERGIRL Comedy, Fantasy, lovers. A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of BY: STEPHEN HOTCHNER Classics • Script: Shakespeare's most endearing and enduring ALL • 5 females, 2 males, 7 total • 55 minutes • $8.50 • Notebook comedies, full of magic, love, and revelry. Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Script: $16.75 • Don't miss this hilarious and heartwarming Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per Royalty: $75.00 per version in 90 minutes. performance performance Cinderella, called "cindergirl" by her A Midsummer Night's Dream abridged by CSI meets Neverland stepsisters, is on the adventure of her life with Robert Gonzalez Ph.D. had its world premiere in this marvelous Penny, her fairy godmother, whose feisty at the University of Tampa (FL), November merger of comedic temper wreaks havoc on her spells. (She just 2009. mayhem. Murk and turned one of the stepsisters into a heap of Tinker, Fairy Forensics Officers, are vegetables, don't say we didn't warn you!) It's investigating the mysterious murder of Peter LES MISERABLES up to the audience to comfort and soothe Pantaloon's shadow. Their prime suspect is BY: MICHAEL DRUCE Penny's bruised ego, all while trying to get Head Librarian Brenda Brooks, who despises HS CT • 18 females, 20 males, 3 either, 41 Cinderella to the ball. The rest is fairy tale Seuss, Hogwarts, giant peaches, and boys total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 legend and history, well, almost. The who refuse to grow up. As Peter laments the minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: $7.50 • stepmother, a masterful nightmare of a loss of his shadow, Murk and Tink whisk Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per person, and her daughters pursue Cinderella Brenda away for questioning and throw her in performance as Penny asks the audience to make the a lineup with the infamous Captain Sharp. Victor Hugo’s timeless classic dazzles in this sound of the horse's hooves so that Meanwhile, Tink pays the Lab Rats a visit, exciting adaptation that is perfect for high Cinderella can make it home before midnight. only to discover that the culprit could quite schools and community theatres. Beginning This play is a wild ride through comic fantasy possibly be the crocodile. But the croc died with Inspector Javert’s opening words, “You and fairy tale lore. With the help of a days ago from over-eating, so Murk and Tink are free,” Jean Valjean leaves Toulon prison participatory audience (audience members convince Captain Sharp's girlfriend, Penelope after serving 19 years. Rejected by everyone, play the mice, the attendants, and the trumpet Moppins, to go undercover. It is Brenda Valjean once again turns to theft, only this and violin players), Penny makes it through Brooks, however, who makes the startling time he is shown an act of mercy by a kindly each and every entangled spell and magically discovery that Peter's shadow was maliciously priest. Humbled by the priest’s kindness, saves the day! murdered by Never's most poisonous fish, the Valjean violates his parole and dedicates his Red Herring. She also rediscovers love and a life to goodness. Meanwhile, Valjean is love for the classics. pursued by Inspector Javert, whose relentless dedication to the law requires him to bring the ex-convict to justice for breaking his parole.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM OTHELLO - SHAKESPEARE IN HELGA - SHAKESPEARE IN 30 30 MINUTES BY:* STEVEN STACK MINUTES BY: MIKE WILLIS MS HS • 9 females, 2 males, 7 either, 18 total, BY: MIKE WILLIS HS • 6 females, 3 males, 1 either, 10 total, 2-15 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • HS • 1 female, 9 males, 3 either, 13 total, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Classics, Drama • 90 minutes • Dark Comedy, Classics • Script: gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy, Classics Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance $65.00 per performance Royalty: $35.00 per performance The play is simply set in a classroom, using a Helga is mourning. And pondering. And In this condensed version of A Midsummer teacher's desk and some students' desks. mourning some more. And pondering some Night's Dream, the story is centered around The students are part of a class that is more. Her mother is dead from natural causes the play within a play. The action takes place studying the play Othello by William – or so she thinks, until her dead mother in the woods outside of Athens, where we Shakespeare. The teacher and the students returns as a ghost and tells her the truth: It witness the antics of the Mechanicals from prepare the audience by outlining for them the was not of natural causes. It was murder. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. events that have taken place in the play prior Now her mother needs Helga to avenge her These hard-handed men are preparing to to Act Five, Scene II. Once the scene has death. But avenging her would force Helga to perform a play before the Duke on his been set, Othello, Desdemona and Emilia take action instead of pondering... all the time. wedding day. Remember . . . "These men, enter and act out the happenings of Act Five, Perhaps she should just go mad. An have never labored in their minds, till now." Scene II of Shakespeare's Othello. uproariously dark comedy that follows Shakespeare's Hamlet while taking some unforeseen and bizarre twists. Good news... MACBETH - SHAKESPEARE IN AWAITING WONDERLAND everyone still dies. It is a comedic tragedy, ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS 30 MINUTES BY: STEVEN STACK after all. Along the journey, there are BY: MIKE WILLIS MS HS • 3 females, 1 male, 9 either, 13 total, betrayals, sword fights, scenes of madness HS • 5 females, 9 males, 14 total, 1 extra • 30 0-10 extras, gender flexible • 45 minutes • and laughter, ghosts galore, a love story of minutes • Classics, Drama • Script: $6.50 • Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook sorts, a demise non-demise, lots and lots of Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per pondering questions without answers, and a performance performance destroyed pillow. Oh, and all the genders This adaptation begins in Act Two, Scene II of Tonight is Anya's chance to shine. The curtain have been reversed. the original text. Macbeth and Banquo, is about to rise on her adaptation of Alice in generals in the army of King Duncan, have Wonderland, and in her final performance . . . ALICE THROUGH THE just quelled a rebellion. As they journey home, she's playing the starring role. But as she sits INTERNET Banquo and Macbeth are met by witches, alone on the stage, things begin to change. BY: ROBERT FRANKEL who hail Macbeth as the “thane of Cawdor, And the world Anya used to escape to as a and proclaim who shall be king hereafter.” child part Carroll's world, part a world of her MS HS • 9 females, 5 males, 18 either, 32 total, 6-12 extras • 55 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Because of this, Macbeth plots Duncan's own creation suddenly seems all too real. As Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Alice or Anya tries to make sense of this new death and finds an accomplice in his wife, Royalty: $40.00 per performance Lady Macbeth. world, she must also come to grips with the truth about her own. During a freak power surge, agoraphobic college student, Alice, gets catapulted into the THE TAMING OF THE SHREW - Internet! On her quest to return home, she is PRINCE'S LIBERATION SHAKESPEARE IN 30 MINUTES * mistaken for a programming bug and pursued BY: MIKE WILLIS UNION through the Internet by stern-faced Firewalls. HS • 4 females, 11 males, 3 either, 18 total, BY: KARA JELLESMA Her first stop is FaceBook...er...FaceLook, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Classics, Comedy MS HS • 3 females, 4 males, 6 either, 13 total, where she is presented with a zany group of • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • “friends she might know.” Just as a Popup Royalty: $35.00 per performance Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • message befriends her, the Firewalls arrest Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per Alice and whisk her off to the Recycle Bin. Generally, productions of this play omit the performance Induction and Epilogue, however, this Surrounded by Spam, old apps, and bugs, adaptation utilizes the drunken character of The princes are fed up! They are done living Popup helps her discover her User powers “Sly” from the Induction. He is tricked into under the demands of the princesses who and she meets Cookie, the spy, who helps believing that he is a lord and players are only use them to save them from evil step her escape. Together, the new friends race there to perform a play just for him. Action mothers, rescue them from towers, track them against time to find Mom (Motherboard) and then opens in the house of Baptista, father of down using only a shoe, and kissing them Pops (Operating System) at an Internet party the lovely Bianca and the shrewish Katharina. when they're obviously covered in poison where she meets Giggle, Youhoo, YouTuba, Following the original path, the shrew is apple! Well no longer will the princes stand for Tweakers and even an obsolete hippie app! tamed and Sly is awakened to proclaim, this! Well... one prince wont. Join the Prince Alice finally does return home – to a surprise "...thou hast waked me out of the best dream as he goes around, along with an irritated birthday party – and a little more comfort in that ever I had in my life..." dwarf and a distraught narrator, in order to dealing with people. A humorous romp gain the support of all the other princes in the through the Internet, this one-act comedy land. Only one thing stands in his way uses a simple, multi-use set and allows an though... True love. easily expanded cast with new Internet characters if you desire.
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THE WORST PLAY IN THE SPOILER ALERT ALICE IN WONDERLAND - WORLD BY: BRADLEY HAYWARD URBAN EDITION BY: JEFF LOVETT MS HS • 3 females, 2 males, 5 total • 30 BY: BURTON BUMGARNER HS • 5 females, 4 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • MS HS • 3-4 females, 8-23 either, 11-27 total, males, 9 total • 90 Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • 0-6 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • minutes • Comedy, Royalty: $35.00 per performance 40 minutes • Classics, Comedy, Parody • Script: ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS Classics • Script: Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $8.50 • Notebook $45.00 per performance Script: $16.75 • water. When a loud mouth in the front row Royalty: $75.00 per gives away the shocking conclusion to this In this wonderful city version of Lewis Carroll's performance story, the rest of the audience begins to classic story, Alice follows Rabbit down a question their motives. Is it better to know subway tunnel and encounters a host of Here's the first big how a story ends or experience each surprise strange urbanites, including a Rat, a problem: Mrs. as it comes? As this debate wages on, Jack Caterpillar, a Cook, the Queen of Hearts, and Watson produces and Jill suddenly realize they have wasted a Grinning Cat. She also encounters subway Shakespeare every their entire lives fetching water. While Jack passengers and joggers who speak in rhyme. year. She has a love- considers climbing a beanstalk, Jill ponders After a heated courtroom trial in which the love-LOVE what her life would be like on the other side of Knave of Hearts is accused of stealing the relationship with Shakespeare. King Lear, the footlights. How this story turns out is Queen of Hearts grocery cart, Alice returns Hamlet, Othello... over and over again, year anybody's guess. Spoiler alert: it's not how safely to the thriving metropolis. after year. This year, she chooses another you'd expect! bloody tragedy: Macbeth. Mrs. Watson doesn't get it; she just doesn't get it. Not ALLAN AND LLOYD MEET surprisingly, the kids have decided to hijack THE TRUE STORIES OF THE DRACULA* the show and destroy Macbeth with sinister SO-CALLED BIG BAD WOLVES BY: MARTY DUHATSCHEK glee. They completely re-write the play and BY: RICHARD GREMEL MS HS • 3-4 females, 5-6 males, 2-3 either, hold secret rehearsals in anticipation of ALL • 3-6 females, 3-6 males, 6-12 total, 10-13 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • presenting one glorious night of rebellious doubling possible, gender flexible • 45 minutes • 75 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • mayhem. Shakespeare no more! Just as they Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per are ready to take the stage, the drama Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per performance teacher announces that scholarships will be performance Join Allan and Lloyd, the Rebel Cows, in their announced by the local college theatre Little Red Riding Hood, The Boy who Cried latest uproarious adventure, Allan & Lloyd department after the show tonight. Errrrrr, say Wolf, and the Three Little Pigs had it wrong Meet Dracula! Set in 1942. The boys win the what?! Don't miss this rare chance to see when they accused the wolves of being bad. grand -prize vacation on the radio quiz show, what happens when Shakespeare's darkest And now the wolves have gone on strike until Brain Busters, and are whisked away to tragedy gets hacked by a group of determined they can tell their side of the story. See these Transylvania where accommodations await (and talented) drama students. classic tales retold in a new and comical way. them at Dracula’s castle. With the German Blitzkrieg raging across Europe, several THROUGH THE MIRROR hapless refugees have also found their way THE WORST PRODUCTION OF into the Count’s domain -- including the BY: ROBERTO F. CICCOTELLI THE SNOW QUEEN EVER pioneering group therapist Dr. Twist and his HS CT • 2 females, 3 BY: KEMUEL DEMOVILLE entourage of peculiar patients. Vampire males, 5 total • 35 ALL • 6 females, 5 males, 14 either, 25 total, minutes • Drama, hunters, Nazi spies and of course, Dracula’s 1-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • Classics • Script: own minion-sidekick, “The Renfield,” round 70 minutes • Fantasy, Farce, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook out a cast of richly drawn characters, each $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Script: $12.75 • with their moment to shine. Can the Dairy Duo $75.00 per performance Royalty: $35.00 per triumph over the ultimate evil? I wouldn’t bet performance In this wonderfully imaginative play-within-a- on it –but you can be sure that actors and A modern adaptation of Lewis Carroll's “Alice play, student actors are on set to produce audiences alike will have a rollicking time in Wonderland,” this is an exploration of the Hans Christian Anderson's classic fairy tale solving that mystery! drug problem prevalent among youth today. The Snow Queen. Like all great fairy tales, this play has everything including a self- The majority of the play is Aly's first, and last, THE WEIRD SISTERS ON drug trip; the play is her drug-induced absorbed narrator, orphans, talking flowers, robber children, guards that occasionally HOLIDAY hallucination personified by characters from BY: DWAYNE YANCEY Carroll's novel, including Bunnyman (one of guard, and ditsy snowflakes who all try to help ALL • 6 females, 4 males, 2 either, 12 total, the band members), Tommy and Timmy (the (and sometimes hinder) Gerda's efforts to gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy, Parody, band's managers), Mr. H.D. Chips (the tour save her brother from the evil Snow Queen. We're off to many different lands and meet Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: promoter), Cat (a ticket scalper), and the Hat $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Man (a drug dealer). many different characters to experience what many consider the worst production of The The three witches of Macbeth fame try to Snow Queen EVER! relax on the beach, but there are constant interruptions-some Scotland soccer hooligans who seem suspiciously like the characters from Shakespeare's play, fans seeking autographs, and camera-clicking paparazzi.
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SNOW WHITE IN THE '70S THE CANTERVILLE GHOST THE PENNY DREADFULS - ONE BY: WADE BRADFORD BY: CLAUDIA HAAS ACT ALL • 8 females, 9 males, 17 total, 10 extras, ALL • 9 females, 5 males, 7 either, 21 total • 90 BY: RAY SHEERS gender flexible • 70 minutes • Comedy, minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • MS HS • 4-5 females, 5-7 males, 6-10 either, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per 15-22 total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance gender flexible • 50 minutes • Dark Comedy, performance A rambunctious American family buys a Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Travel back in time with Snow White in this haunted manor in England. But they don't classic fable now set in the magical, what's mind...they don't believe in ghosts. As the The Penny Dreadfuls are orphans and happenin' land of the disco-crazed '70s. Snow ghost tries to scare the Americans out of his runaways who work as pickpockets and White hasn't had an easy life - until now. At home, he finds the tables are turned—he is thieves for the conniving Professor. Their loot 17, the orphan recently discovered a wealthy being terrorized by the children in the family! ends up at a pawn shop run by two great-great-great-uncle, Douglas Digger. A spooky comedy with some zany scenes, despicable ladies. Business has been very Unfortunately, soon after she meets her only Oscar Wilde's story is also a sweet tale of the profitable until the mysterious Mad Aggie living relative, he dies, leaving her his many power of love. appears on the scene, seeking revenge. And swanky assets. This doesn't make Douglas' revenge was never sweeter! trophy wife very happy, and Lola Golda- Digger doesn't just get angry, she gets even. BARD IN A BOX: THE BALLAD First, the Professor gets a bottle of potion he When Lola's attempt to poison Snow White OF JULIO CESAR believes will cure his baldness. It does. goes awry, Snow White ends up in the BY: RUTH BUCHANAN There's hair everywhere! Then Scuttlebutt, the basement of the disco with seven psychedelic MS HS • 8 females, 6 males, 3 either, 17 total, leader of the Penny Dreadfuls, gets arrested. ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS dwarfs spinning vinyl for the disco above. gender flexible • 50 minutes • Comedy, Classics Add to this mix, the corrupt Officer Culver and They hail Snow White as their chosen one, • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • the Professor's demanding girlfriend, and the Royalty: $40.00 per performance come to deliver them from their labors, and Professor's about to pull out his hair - all of it! swear to help her in any way they can. The FRIENDS! ROMANS! COUNTRYMEN! Have But everything works out in the end, and the era that gave us bell-bottoms, ABBA, and you ever wondered what would have villains get their due. "Three's Company" is back with Snow White happened had Julius Caesar NOT been killed and seven dynamite dwarfs. when he was stabbed in 44 BC, but instead FINDING DON QUIXOTE had fled to Mexico, hiding out for millennia BY:* JONATHAN YUKICH before returning to exact his revenge? Who AFTER HAPPILY EVER HS CT • 9-17 females, 9-12 males, 0-11 either, AFTER* hasn't! Making use of violence and deception (worthy only of a tyrannical dictator), Julio 19-40 total, 6-12 extras, doubling possible, BY: AMANDA BURRIS, JULIA GROVE, gender flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Classics Cesar gains control of an unsuspecting high LAUREN OHLER • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • school English class. About to perform their Royalty: $75.00 per performance ALL • 10-15 females, 10-15 males, 20-30 total, own version of the the Bard's classic tragedy, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 minutes • the students suddenly find themselves Sadie Turnipseed is a modern day teenager Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • trying to find her way in the world. She is Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $70.00 per confronted with a substitute teacher the likes performance of which they've never seen before. With that, forever changed when she discovers a buried the shenanigans have begun. copy of the classic Don Quixote. Inspired by What happens after the oh-so-brave prince the book, Sadie is able to navigate some of slays the dragon, swash-buckles his way into her own life issues through the example the castle, saves the damsel in distress and DRACELSTEIN exemplified by the novel's extraordinary and lives happily ever after? Prince Charming gets BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER hilarious hero. Paralleling the classical kidnapped! With the kingdom in panic, the MS HS • 6 females, 2 males, 7 either, 15 total, adventures of Quixote's quest with Sadie's dim-witted Squire Squdge is determined to gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Classics own contemporary journey, the play is a fresh, find Prince Charming to prove his knightliness • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • funny, and profound retelling of one of the to the kingdom. With the help of Lulu, the Royalty: $60.00 per performance great masterpieces in world literature.Finding unhygienic and less-than-ladylike town Dracelstein, a horrific vampire-ghost-mad Don Quixote had its world premiere at wench, the ever eager duo team up to scientist-werewolf, reanimates the dead to Dickinson College (PA) in 2009. interrogate the notorious villains of the create himself a bride—but he can't stand her. kingdom: Nork the Ogre, Rumple, the Wicked She smells like an old corpse. Now this THE TEACHER Witch and her two daughters. Squire Squdge nefarious fiend seeks a new woman, BY:* OLIVIA ARIETI and Lulu are no closer to finding Charming someone young and beautiful, so he can put than when they had begun. After the unlikely his bride's brain inside her youthful body! MS HS • 2 females, 4 males, 6 total • 25 minutes • Classics • Script: $5.50 • Notebook discovery of Prince Charming, the ultimate When innocent Jack and Jane go through the fight breaks out between our not-so-classic Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per forest on their honeymoon, Dracelstein sends performance heroes and our timeless villains. Featuring an out his army of ghouls to kidnap them—but angry mob in search of a witch and an on- Jane's father, the vampire slayer Dr. Von Nikitin, a high school teacher of literature, going bet between our Story Teller, Fiery Helling, has other plans. This monstrous farce after pursuing happiness all his life, realizes Fiend, and Rumple, only the cast of After combines elements of Rocky Horror Picture that it can turn out unsatisfying and most of Happily Ever After can make this new take so Show meets Dracula and Frankenstein. all, disgusting. Somehow his expectations fail dazzling! Guaranteed to be a frightfully good time. and neither love nor personal success can overcome the shallowness of routine and mediocrity.
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THE TIGHTWAD THE SNOW QUEEN THE NEW CLOTHES KING AND BY:* EDITH WEISS BY: PATRICIA BARRY RUMBLE THE BANDIT QUEEN HS CT • 3 females, 6 males, 3 either, 12 total, MS • 7 females, 3-5 males, 1 either, 11-13 total, BY: EDITH WEISS gender flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Classics doubling possible, gender flexible • 55 minutes • MS HS • 6 females, 4 males, 3 either, 13 total • • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Drama, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • 60 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Royalty: $70.00 per performance Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS performance Harpagon loves money and where there is performance money, there is Harpagon. There is also This scintillating tale shimmers in a In this retelling of the classic story “The King’s trouble. Harpagon, a wealthy and avaricious dreamscape in the land of ice and snow. It is New Clothes,” King Henry’s kingdom is widower, wants to marry Marianne, but the story of two young friends, Gerda and Kai, bankrupt and the people are desperate. His Marianne loves Harpagon's son, Cleante, and whose friendship is torn apart when Kai's solution is to marry Queen Charlotta, who he sometimes, the heart wants what it wants. heart is pierced by a sliver of the Snow assumes is rich. He assumes incorrectly. The entanglements continue. Harpagon Queen's evil mirror. He follows the heartless Queen Charlotta is eager for the marriage intends to marry his daughter Elise off to an Queen to her Ice Palace. There, Kai is because she’s as poor as a church mouse. In old and wealthy widower, Signor Anselm, but doomed to spend eternity in a world devoid of order to look wealthy, the King spends his last Elise is in love with Valere, a young man of human love and compassion. Only the bag of money on luxurious clothes that, he is noble birth who is a steward in Harpagon's enduring love of young Gerda can save him. assured, have the added benefit of only being household. Hidden identities, banned love, But before she does, she must venture out seen by smart people. No one in the Kingdom and a stolen money box soon cause a into a world filled with adventure. sees the clothes the tailors are busily sewing, conflagration of laugh out loud comedy and and an uneasy silence descends upon the knockout fun. Will young love win out? SLEEPING BEAUTY AND THE kingdom. Who will have the courage to speak Maybe. Will the love of family show Harpagon BEAST truth to power? A wonderful cast of characters that money is not the most important thing? BY: WADE BRADFORD round out this original and hilarious retelling. No. It's Moliere, not Oprah. ALL • 11 females, 6 males, 17 total • 70 SNOW...SORT OF...WHITE ONCE UPON A GRAPEVINE minutes • Fantasy, BY: KEN BRADBURY BY: THOMAS HISCHAK Classics • Script: $8.50 • Notebook MS HS • 6 females, 7 males, 2 either, 15 total, MS HS • 6-19 females, 2-12 males, 8-31 total, Script: $16.75 • gender flexible • 25 minutes • Comedy, Readers doubling possible, gender flexible • 25 minutes • Royalty: $75.00 per Theatre, Fairy Tales • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Comedy, Classics • Script: $5.50 • Notebook performance Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance performance Looking for big This one will fracture your fairy tale. A laughs and big Rumors and gossip spread quickly through a contest-winning reader's theatre play, adventure in a fairy tale forest in this delightful look at how Snow...Sort of...White spoofs the famous tale, kingdom far, far the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the modernizing the play with everything from away? Then look no Wolf gets blown out of proportion each time it Psychotherapist Bob to a dwarf named further than the hysterically astounding best- is retold by a different character. Everyone Weirdy. Does Snow White need therapy? Is selling play, Sleeping Beauty and the Beast. from Rapunzel and the Three Little Pigs to Prince Charming a sexist pig? Why is the Both timely and timeless, this easy-to-stage Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs gets narrator trying to be the star? This is definitely comedy follows the valiant quest of the involved in the comical grapevine. Sure to laugh-out-loud reader's theatre at its best. bumbling but good-hearted Prince Charmless please audiences of all ages and ideal for as he attempts with all his might to save contest use, this short farce even manages to Princess Rose from the Wicked Faerie and teach a simple lesson through its cockeyed ALADDIN her sleep-induced curse. Along the way, humor. BY: DAN NEIDERMYER Prince Charmless meets and befriends an MS HS • 4 females, 4 males, 8 total • 45 adventurous Puss ‘N’ Boots, a snarling Snow minutes • Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: MAC AND BETH White, the helpful Headless Horseman, and a $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: BY: DWAYNE YANCEY very lonely Beast. In the ever-entertaining $45.00 per performance tradition of the Broadway musical, Into the ALL • 4 females, 2 males, 6 total, 1 extra • 25 This wonderful adaptation begins on the Woods, and the smash hit movie, Shrek, minutes • Comedy, Parody, Classics • Script: streets of Arabia where the Sultan's bungling $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: Sleeping Beauty and the Beast turns fairy guards try to catch Aladdin for allegedly $35.00 per performance tales upside down and the result is a lively, kidnapping Princess Adora. He outmaneuvers furiously funny show with a lot of great roles A young couple has just robbed a bank. The them only to meet the all-powerful Court for your whole ensemble and great times for dye pack in the bag of money has exploded, Magician who tricks him into fetching an old your entire audience. covering Beth's hands with ink. Now she and lamp. When Aladdin refuses, the Magician Mac are in a laundromat, trying to clean seals the exit, trapping poor Aladdin inside. themselves, and the money, when suddenly Full of sheer delight, Aladdin offers several things start unfolding an awful lot like fun, small roles with quick dialogue and Macbeth, from the arrival of a Sheriff MacDuff magical intrigue! and three weird sisters with laundry to do. Minimal set requirements, but you'll need some clothes washers and driers.
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TREASURE ISLAND ISMENE'S PRESS FRANKIE AND THE BY: DAN NEIDERMYER CONFERENCE* GINGERBREAD BOY HS • 3 females, 4 males, 10-11 either, 17-18 BY: JUDY KLASS BY: BOBBY KENISTON total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 MS HS • 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • 30 minutes ALL • 8 females, 5 males, 13 total • 75 minutes minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • • Classics, Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook • Drama, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $75.00 per Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance performance performance Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother run an Ismene Kadmos comes from a family that's Frankie is an outcast, the quintessential loner. old inn in Western England. One foggy famous for the wrong reasons – her father The only peace she finds is from her baking. morning, a pirate on the run ends up at the was Oedipus Rex! She has tried to re-define One day Frankie decides to bake herself a inn, befriending Jim and pressing into the herself as a reporter on Thebes TV. But her companion, a perfect love who shares her lad's hand a tattered, old, wrinkled and torn radical sister Antigone wants Ismene to help soul and gives her joy. When her creation piece of paper. Suddenly, a band of cut-throat stand up to their Uncle Kreon, who is stealing follows her to school, the social order of the pirates show up at the inn, feverishly elections, Antigone says. Bob, Ismene's boss, high school is threatened, and the cruelty searching for what Jim's been given! With the tells her that good reporters cooperate with Frankie has known reaches new heights. Told help of his town's squire, Jim realizes he's people in power, to get access. Ismene has by an energetic high school Chorus, this is a been given a secret map to a buried treasure always been quieter than her sister, but play that employs rhythm, dark humor, and of gold and silver. Onboard the “Hispaniola,” maybe Antigone is right; maybe everyone high theatricality to tell its gripping story. With Jim learns that the crew they hired are not sees them as celebrity freaks anyhow, and a nods to “Frankenstein,” the Pygmalion myth, sailors but pirates captained by peg-legged good journalist should make trouble . . . and even the Gingerbread Man nursery Long John Silver. But Long John Silver and Antigone gets radical, and Ismene doesn't join rhyme, this play will leave audiences riveted ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS his treasure-stealing pirates are in for an her. Bob arranges a press conference for with its poignant tale of love, creation, cruelty, immense surprise! The treasure they think Ismene to talk about a new way to "adjust" the satire and tragedy. Perfect for high school, they've found has been stolen by a half- exit polls – and Ismene has a big choice to college, and community theater groups crazed, hilarious hermit. Easy-to-stage with make, when it comes to what she'll say. looking for a challenging and rewarding script. several opportunities for spontaneous audience participation, Treasure Island sails both cast and audience from the rain- FRANKIE AND THE THE ADVENTURES OF ALICE IN drenched English coast to a steamy tropical GINGERBREAD BOY - ONE ACT WONDERLAND jungle. VERSION BY: TAMMY BARTON, GAYANN TRUELOVE BY: BOBBY KENISTON MS HS • 4 females, 3 males, 16 either, 23 total, MS HS • 6 females, 5 males, 11 total, 0-15 doubling possible, gender flexible • 50 minutes • THE GRUFF BILLIES OR WHY extras • 40 minutes • Drama, Legends and Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • HOUSES UNDER A BRIDGE ARE Myths, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per NOT PRIME REAL ESTATE Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance BY: BOBBY KENISTON performance A whimsical romp down the rabbit hole! Join MS • 3 females, 3 males, 1 either, 7 total, Frankie is an outcast, constantly put-upon by Alice as she discovers a magical land full of gender flexible • 50 minutes • Fairy Tales, her peers. She is the quintessential loner. The color, zany characters and lots of fun. Along Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook only peace she finds is from her baking. One the way, Alice meets the mysterious Cheshire Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance day Frankie decides to bake herself a Cat who is forever changing colors and the companion, a perfect love who shares her rhyming Caterpillar who loves to blow his Marty Kidd, the finest real estate goat in the soul and gives her joy. When her creation bubble pipe and say strange things. She goes business, just wants to sell a house to the follows her to school one day, the social order to a very MAD un-birthday party with the Troll family. Unfortunately, Johnny-Ram and of the high school is threatened, and the outrageous Mad Hatter and befriends a Jeanie Gruff (known to the locals as the “Gruff cruelty Frankie has known reaches new paranoid Egg along her journey to find the Billies”), cause so much trouble and wreak so heights. Told by an energetic high school illusive White Rabbit. Wonderland is run by much havoc, that it might just blow the sale! Chorus, this is a play that employs rhythm, the hilarious Queen and King of Hearts who Their father, who is taking a “mental health dark humor, and high theatricality to tell its challenge Alice to an unusual game of day” across the bridge, wants nothing to do gripping story. With nods to Frankenstein, the croquet with two blind moles, Maude and with them, and their poor half-elven nanny Pygmalion myth, and even the Gingerbread Marty, as unlikely score keepers. Throw in a named Mary (of the little lamb fame) is at her Man nursery rhyme, this play will leave zany group of dancing cards and a pair of wits end trying to make them mind. But have audiences riveted with its poignant tale of bumbling brothers, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Johnny-Ram and Jeanie finally met their love, creation, cruelty, satire and tragedy. This Dum, who can't agree on anything, and you match when they meet the formidable one-act version of Frankie and the can see why Alice finds this place so Mamma Troll? This delightful new take on the Gingerbread Boy is the perfect length for high confusing. With her faithful cat, Dinah, Alice classic story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff will school competitions. finally learns the way back home, but she will have children and parents rolling in the aisle never forget her adventures in with clever dialogue, colorful characters, Wonderland...and neither will the audience! audience interaction, and easy-to-sing songs with tunes in the public domain. A joy for all ages!
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THE PRINCESS AND THE SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ALIBIS PIRATES DOOM OF DEVILSMOOR BY: PETER KENNEDY BY: CLIFF MCCLELLAND BY: C.P. STANCICH ALL • 5 females, 4 ALL • 11-15 females, 10-11 males, 21-26 total, HS CT • 3 females, 7 males, 3 either, 13 total, males, 9 total • 75 4-24 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • gender flexible • 125 minutes • Mystery, minutes • Comedy, 45 minutes • Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: Mystery, Classics • ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance Script: $8.50 • Royalty: $45.00 per performance Notebook Script: Sherlock Holmes is back! In London, Holmes $16.75 • Royalty: Margaret would rather play video games than finds himself reluctantly investigating the $75.00 per do her homework, so her Poppa tells her the persecution of Edward Banks, a gentleman performance story of Princess Margaret, whose family is who is being stalked with the message “The When famous kidnapped by pirates. The only way for her to Doom of Devilsmoor.” When Banks refuses to actress Primavera save them is to use the Pythagorean provide more information about his own Donna throws a party Theorem to help the mermaids find the pirate background, Holmes removes himself from and winds up dead, ship, but did she pay enough attention when the case. In the meantime, Watson finds it’s up to the guests to figure out the who, her tutor, Professor Archimedes, was trying to himself at a house party on a country estate how, and why. As the storm outside rages teach it to her? The Princess and the Pirates that includes Banks. Soon a strange parcel and the body count mounts, the guests must is a comic homage to the classic movie, The arrives, once more threatening Banks with contend with interruptions, shocking Princess Bride, but with a purpose: to remind “The Doom.” An embarrassed Banks is revelations, tacky special effects and the children that there are real-life applications for compelled to discuss the persecution, leaving arrival of a mysterious visitor. Action and math. An excellent play to present in the the houseguests to speculate idly - - until dialogue are fast-paced, and the surprising weeks before state-mandated, standardized Banks ends up horribly murdered. conclusion leaves only one question: Who testing! gets the movie rights? The cast includes a Holmes arrives to assist Watson and the local stuffy butler, a social butterfly, a playboy, a SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN constabulary. They review the list of dotty chemist, an aristocrat of dubious origin, houseguests/suspects, which includes a a nun who has taken a vow of silence, a part- MUMMIES detached host, Banks' fiancée, a wily widow BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD time detective, a very French maid, and a with a grudge against the victim, a taciturn mysterious stranger. This is a rapid-fire romp MS HS • 5 females, 4 males, 16 either, 25 total, housekeeper, and an adventurer who once 0-15 extras, gender flexible • 85 minutes • through the conventional drawing room shared lodgings with none other than mystery, which is easy to stage and well- Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Sherlock Holmes. Holmes labors to find the Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per suited for ensemble comedy. With shades of performance truth about the murder, The Doom of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, and "Ten Devilsmoor, and the relationship between the Little Indians," this whodunit is sure to please. Help! That high school drama teacher, two, ultimately uncovering the clues that famous for disaster-prone productions, is unravel all the mysteries in this fun new back! This time she has written a sequel to adventure with Sherlock Holmes. JACK, THE BEANSTALK AND her first catastrophe, Cinderstein., but this one SOCIAL SERVICES is even worse. As if combining Snow White "The world is full of obvious things which BY: JERRY RABUSHKA with the horror story of The Mummy wasn’t nobody by any chance ever observes." - Sir MS HS • 2 females, 4 males, 7 either, 13 total, ridiculous enough, the actress playing Snow Arthur Conan Doyle doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • is obsessed with kissing, while the actor Comedy, Readers Theatre, Fairy Tales • Script: playing Charming is shy and has never been $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: kissed. The Evil Queen can’t get the Mirror to THE FROG PRINCE $35.00 per performance BY: KRISTYN LEIGH ROBINSON enter on cue, the blind extra and the deaf Mom and Jack would get along just fine if it ALL • 7 females, 3 males, 1 either, 11 total, extra have trouble communicating with each wasn't for that pesky social worker who keeps gender flexible • 35 minutes • Fantasy, Classics other, the assistant archeologist is obsessed butting into everyone else's business. To with doing stunts, and all the mummies’ • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance make matters worse, some theatre company costumes are lost and have to be substituted hired a critic who thinks it's his business to with toilet paper. On top of these production In this fresh adaptation of the classic fairy nitpick the storyline. A famine in the land nightmares, the school principal keeps tale, Princess Sofie encounters a frog at a forces Jack to sell the family cow—but at the interrupting to enforce preposterous school well and strikes a bargain with him. When Missouri State Fair? Mom doesn't mind...after rules and force a Danish foreign exchange Sofie breaks her bargain, however, the frog all, when Jack's gone, she can go party. One student who doesn’t speak English into the (who is really a prince under a spell) decides thing leads to another, and while Jack climbs play against her will. When Charming is to go to her father's castle to confront her. His the beanstalk to land in a neighborhood of accidentally knocked unconscious, the actors mission is complicated, however, by the tract-castles, the social worker uses his have to improvise as several of them try to appearance of the wolf from Little Red Riding absence as an excuse to cut the family's replace him at the same time, changing this Hood. Tired of being cast as the villain, the benefits. Mom's still concerned with keeping insane production into something so hideous Wolf decides to hijack this story in order to re- her check coming, until she realizes that that it’s beyond even the director’s create the reputation of fairy tale wolves golden eggs provide for a much higher recognition. everywhere. Can this odd assortment of standard of living, and the poor narrator is characters find their "happily ever after"? trying to douse the critic's constant complaining and just move the story along. Audiences will love the twists, turns, and take- offs of a fairy tale gone nuts.
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SHERLOCK HOLMES IN SHERLOCK HOLMES: JOHN SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE WONDERLAND WATSON'S BODY SPINSTERS OF BLACKMEAD BY: GEFF MOYER BY: C.P. STANCICH BY: C.P. STANCICH MS HS • 1 female, 2 males, 13 either, 16 total, HS CT • 4 females, 7-8 males, 11 total, 1 extra, HS CT • 7 females, 4 males, 11 total • 120 doubling possible, gender flexible • 45 minutes • doubling possible • 105 minutes • Mystery, minutes • Mystery, Comedy, Classics • Script: Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per $65.00 per performance performance performance Someone is murdering the women of Wonderland has been hit with a series of The great detective and his loyal sidekick are Blackmead Manor, and the fiercely thefts: the White Rabbit’s pocket watch, the at odds. While Dr. Watson has gone to independent female academic community is Mad Hatter’s hat, the Caterpillar’s hookah, investigate the possible theft of a priceless set reluctant to ask for help from outsiders. When and the Cheshire Cat’s grin. So the Queen of of emeralds at the London home of Lord and Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn Hearts sends her infamous guards to kidnap, Lady Delton, Sherlock Holmes remains at into the case, they find their reception as bind, and blindfold the famous Sherlock Baker Street entertaining his friend, the sticky as the mystery they must solve. A Holmes and Dr. Watson. When the two rudely adventurer, Oscar Dove. Holmes believes his servant is found dead, a member of the handled detectives arrive in Wonderland, the friend is on a fools errand, but when Dr. Blackmead community is missing, and the Queen demands they find the missing items Watson reports findingand then losinga body, great detective uncovers links to his arch and the thief, but she gives them only two Watson, Holmes and Dove are drawn into a enemy, Professor Moriarty. Is this merely hours (before it’s time for her milk bath) to web of murder, larceny and intrigue. The body another interesting case or a fatal trap for accomplish the task or it’s off with their heads. turns out to be surprisingly agile, and the Holmes himself? So our heroes set off on a fast path to solve a suspects range from dubious aristocrats, to ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS crime that not only has critical items of doubtful servants, to notorious members of Wonderland missing, but has also altered the the criminal class. THIS IS JUST TO SAY personalities of their owners. BY: JULIET BOND MS • 13-14 females, 10-11 males, 1 either, TROJAN WAR CONFIDENTIAL 24-26 total, doubling possible • 50 minutes • SHOWTIME FOR OSCAR - ONE BY:* MICHAEL FOUNTAIN Drama, Mystery, Classics • Script: $6.50 • ACT MS HS • 5-7 females, 4-6 males, 5-6 either, Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $55.00 per BY: RAY SHEERS 14-19 total, 0-5 extras, doubling possible, performance MS HS • 11 females, 8 males, 19 total • 50 gender flexible • 45 minutes • Classics, When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to Legends and Myths • Script: $6.50 • Notebook minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • write poems of apology, an avalanche of Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per performance unexpected responses are set into motion! A performance mystery is solved, a catastrophe is avoided, Scrooge-like Oscar DeWilder is a scathing Trojan War Confidential is a comedic and a life is saved. The driving narrative theatre critic whose reviews are feared adaptation of the Ripped from the headlines focuses on Bonifacio, a child who is bullied throughout the theatre world. He is just as of 1180 BC, Trojan War Confidential tells all! into total anonymity until, years later, an cruel to his housekeeping staff and Claire, his From the Judgement of Paris to the fall of apology poem and Bonifacio's willingness to lovely niece, so they decide to teach him a Troy, the comedic adaptation showcases a forgive, bring him back. This play is an lesson. Claire gets the Piccadilly Players, an contest between three goddesses, the many unsentimental look at bullying, divorce, sibling acting troupe recently lambasted by DeWilder, mommy issues of Achilles, and a Trojan rivalry, first crushes, bravery, friendship and to lend their somewhat dubious talents to the Horse that argues with itself. All the major plot girl power. With a uniquely diverse cast, it's a cause, and the Spirits of Valentines Present, points are covered for use as entertainment or perfect vehicle for theatres to encourage and Past, and Future appear to teach DeWilder a as a classroom activity. promote conversations about bullying. This is lesson he'll never forget. Just to Say: A Play About Apology and SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH Forgiveness had its world premiere at OF A LIFE Mudlark Children's Theater (IL) and was THE WACKY WIZARD OF OZ written in collaboration with Joyce Sidman, BY: THOMAS HISCHAK BY: PATRICK DORN winner of the 2013 NCTE Award for MS HS • 5 females, 5 males, 8-32 either, 18-37 MS HS • 5-14 females, 4-8 males, 9-22 total, Excellence in Children's Poetry and a 0-5 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender Newbery Honor-winning author. flexible • 60 minutes • Comedy, Parody, 30 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance Royalty: $35.00 per performance When a twister carries Dorothy and Toto to A rehearsal at the Centerville Children's the Land of Oz, the result is…wacky! Dorothy Theatre Company is interrupted when six fairy steps out in her ruby crocks and onto a tale characters enter and plead with the yellow-bricked comical adventure. Director and Stage Manager to act out their Encouraged by a bunch of silly munchkins, a stories. Each has been left out of a classic brainy scarecrow, a tender-hearted tin man fairy tale: Cinderella's friendly step-sister, the and a plucky cowardly lion, Dorothy seeks out eighth and oversized dwarf (Shorty) Hansel the not-too-terribly Terrible Wizard of Oz and and Gretel's dense sister, the fourth little confronts the epically aqua-phobic Wicked piggy, Sleeping Beauty's zombie-like sister, Witch of the West. This fast, funny, and and Jasper, the not-so-little bear. As the contemporary adaptation of The Wizard of Oz stories unfold from new points of view, familiar is filled with jokes, gags, puns and surprises. tales get a comic makeover.
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BECOMING JULIET TREASURE ISLAND THE TWELVE DANCING BY: DEAN DYER MAKEOVER* PRINCESSES MS HS • 18 females, BY: THOMAS HISCHAK BY: CLAUDIA HAAS 9 males, 27 total • 120 MS HS • 18 females, 18 total, 0-7 extras • 90 ALL • 14-19 females, minutes • Comedy, minutes • Classics, Drama • Script: $7.50 • 6-7 males, 20-26 total, Classics • Script: Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per doubling possible • 55 ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS $7.50 • Notebook performance minutes • Comedy, Script: $16.75 • Fantasy, Classics • Royalty: $60.00 per During a dress rehearsal of Treasure Island Script: $6.50 • performance put on by the Lofty Elms Academy for Girls, Notebook Script: JJ Baker has never there are two stories being told. One is Robert $16.75 • Royalty: Louis Stevenson’s famous tale of pirates and $45.00 per had the chance to performance play a leading role. buried treasure as presented by the all-female Star actress Madison cast under the commanding direction of King Oakley returns Engers has always faculty member Mrs. Pettiford. The other story from a summit been in the limelight, until JJ wins the role of is the backstage intrigue which includes rivals meeting to find that Juliet in the famous Shakespeare play. Her for student council president, who has and conditions in his castle have grown lax. With hopes for stardom may be in danger though had not been accepted by a college, and the assistance of his diabolical servant, after Romeo literally breaks his leg. JJ and jealously over which girl is responsible for Fiorello, King Oakley devises a strict regimen her director know the talented rebel Dylan breaking up another girl’s romance. Both for his daughters and no longer allows them would make the perfect Romeo, if they could Stevenson’s tale and the contemporary plot to leave the castle grounds. In an effort to only convince him he’s actor material! are played side by side with confusing and break from these harsh rules, the princesses Rivalries and romance make this behind-the hilarious results. fall prey to the desires of Fiorello, who is scenes high school comedy a must-see! orchestrating a deceitful takeover of the SHENANIGANS castle. With the help of their magical nanny, BY:* CINDY MARCUS, FLIP KOBLER the princesses find hope in the Land of the ROBIN HOOD Muses. BY: DAN NEIDERMYER MS HS • 3 females, 2 males, 10 either, 15 total, gender flexible • 50 minutes • Comedy, Farce, MS HS • 2 females, 7 Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: males, 1-4 either, TEN LITTLE CHIPMUNKS $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance 10-13 total, 0-20 BY: CRAIG SODARO extras, doubling A modern update of Moliere's The Impsotures MS HS • 10 females, 4 males, 1 either, 15 total possible, gender of Scapin, or Les Fourberies De Scapin, if you • 90 minutes • Comedy, Mystery, Classics • flexible • 90 minutes • want to get really technical. Vixen is the Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Comedy, Farce, loveable scamp that has a talent for Royalty: $65.00 per performance Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook tomfoolery, monkeyshines and shenanigans. The laughs, frights, and fights are thick when Script: $16.75 • When friends are in trouble, Vixen is the one billionaire Thaddeus Thornbury realizes the Royalty: $65.00 per that manipulates the system, the alumni, and end of his life is near and invites all potential performance pretty much everybody else to make their heirs to his secluded mansion on Chipmunk dreams come true. Even if it means creating a Island. These include his sisters, Isabelle and nearly un-tangle-able series of events that Rita, along with Rita's two children; his shifty Experience a fresh take on the life of Robin threaten to get her expelled. But somehow lawyer, Noah; his voluptuous secretary, Holly; Hood, prince of thieves, through the amusing manages to save the day. This is a high his grumpy cook and her cookie-loving narrative of wandering minstrel-troubadour, octane comic romp that starts at 90mph and daughter, Coco; and two long-lost country Friar Tuck, as the legend marvelously comes never lets up. cousins. When all have arrived, Thornbury to life! Meet Little John, Robin's right-hand- reads his will: the last surviving member of the man, Maid Marian, Robin's sweetheart and weekend party will inherit the entire Thornbury love, and Marian's dedicated handmaiden, HAPPILY EVER AFTER empire. Conveniently, two strangers Cassandra. Robin Hood will take you through BY: FORREST MUSSELMAN shipwrecked on the island appear just in time the legend of Sherwood Forest to the robbing MS • 5 females, 4 males, 9 total • 30 minutes • to notarize the will and join the familial of the Sheriff's men, when Robin Hood dared Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • Script: $6.50 • festivities. Following a toast, poor Thaddeus to defy both the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per promptly dies from rat poisoning. Amidst the despotic monarch King John. With ample performance thunder and lightning, one by one the room to include troubadours, jugglers, jesters, Four pairs of disgruntled fairy tale characters potential heirs begin to die, but the murderous strolling minstrels, acrobats, and perhaps a compete on a game show for the chance to plots are foiled in Sodaro's rapid-fire, double- little audience participation, this adaption of a live happily ever after. Little do they know that crossing mystery. classic tale is sure to please viewers of all the host of the show, the wicked witch, isn't ages! about to let that happen.
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THREE FRACTURED PIGS SHERLOCK HOLMES IN NEVER A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S TEXAS- BY: CHRIS STILES NEVER LAND SIZE NIGHTMARE MS • 14-21 either, 14-21 total, 3-7 extras, BY: GEFF MOYER BY: BURTON BUMGARNER doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • MS HS • 3 females, 5 males, 10 either, 18 total, ALL • 12 females, 9 males, 7 either, 28 total, Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • Script: $6.50 • gender flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, Classics 5-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • 60 minutes • Farce, Classics, Comedy • Script: performance Royalty: $35.00 per performance $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance It seems to be a traditional telling of The Something’s amiss in Never Never Land. A Three Little Pigs: three pigs, three houses, scoundrel has made off with Captain Hook’s The Armadillo Flats Community Theater has one big bad wolf. At least that's the intent of hook and it’s no secret that you need a hook never produced what one would call quality the first narrator. But the second narrator to conquer the deadly seas. With the Jolly entertainment. Abigail Yokle is trying to direct seems to be getting his stories confused and Roger permanently in port, Hook’s pirate crew one of Shakespeare's great comic brings in a house of candy, along with a blind is bored to tears. Idle pirates are depressed masterpieces, but the budget is limited and witch, as well as some random wise-cracking pirates so the bloodthirsty swashbucklers the rental company sent costumes for every birds. And to further complicate matters, the capture two of the world's most famous production except A Midsummer-Night's story is interrupted by the unwanted detectives and smuggle them back into Never Dream. Yet Abigail is not about to let the appearances of a fire marshal, a health Never Land to investigate the crime. With help wrong costumes and a lack of talent stand in inspector and a dentist general? It isn't long from John Darling, Sherlock and Dr. Watson the way of a bad production. The actors before this classic story is way out of whack. meet all of the suspects: Was it the Chief of appear as characters from the 1920s, the The narrators, however, will do everything Indians, the fairies, or the famous Peter Pan? 1950s, a cat, a lumberjack, a disco dancer, a they can to bring it back to the version Will Sherlock and Dr. Watson solve the sailor and a host of characters from other ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS everyone knows and loves. mystery before the pirates make them walk shows. Locals also use the theater to the plank?! Arrrrrgh! All that and more awaits advertise businesses and make political THE VELVETEEN RABBIT in Sherlock Holmes in Never Never Land. speeches. Other distractions include an audience member who forgets to silence a BY: IRENE L. PYNN cell phone and a snake that crawls into the MS HS • 2 females, 1 male, 5 either, 8 total, THE PENNY DREADFULS theater through a hole in the wall. gender flexible • 30 minutes • Classics, Fantasy BY: RAY SHEERS • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • MS HS • 16 females, Royalty: $45.00 per performance 13 males, 29 total • 90 THE THRILLING TALE OF THE This is the classic story of the Velveteen minutes • Comedy, THREE* MUSKETEERS Rabbit and how toys become real. It is a Classics • Script: BY: RICHARD GREMEL $7.50 • Notebook heartwarming, interactive play for children. MS HS • 12-20 females, 8-12 males, 4-10 Script: $16.75 • either, 24-42 total, doubling possible, gender This show was first produced by Attic Players Royalty: $60.00 per flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Farce, Classics in Tallahassee, Florida in 1999. While some performance roles clearly must be either male or female • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $70.00 per performance (Boy, Mother), others (Doctor, Velveteen In this fast-paced, Rabbit, etc.) may be played by either sex. Old darkly comic play Love is hard, especially when you are Horse plays the main narrator and does the reminiscent of D'Artagnan, a lowly royal tailor with 99 most interacting with the audience. Fairy also Dickens' Oliver Twist, problems. The love of his life is being forced interacts with the kids. the Penny Dreadfuls to marry Frederick, the future king of the are orphans and runaways who spend their kingdom, but Fredrick is not marriage nights and days working for the dastardly WHO'S IN CHARGE? OR material. Fredrick is a gamer. Everyone Professor. The arrangement has been very knows that except for his mother, Queen RODNEY, THE ULTIMATE GIFT profitable for the Professor until Mad Aggie, a Anne, who gives the Duke of Buckingham TO THEATER former Penny Dreadful now disguised as the three days to find Fredrick a wife. It is up to BY: E. JACK WILLIAMS town lunatic, vows revenge on the Professor D'Artagnan to find two others to help him stop MS HS • 9 females, 4 males, 5-8 either, 18-21 for sending him to jail. And revenge was the queen and free his love. Those three are total, 6-20 extras, doubling possible, gender never sweeter! When the Professor’s bizarre none other than the Musketeers. If you're flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script family, who thinks he’s a respectable looking for the classic tale of the Three : $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: businessman, comes for an unwelcome visit, Musketeers, this is not the play for you, but if $65.00 per performance the Professor mysteriously disappears and his you're looking for a play full of laughs, Mr. Wilson, veteran play director, tumbles off family becomes suspicious. When the adventure, love, thrills and a few commercial the stage and breaks not only one leg, but Professor finally reappears, his desperate breaks, this show is PERFECT for you! The two. Football Coach Perko reluctantly cruelty shocks everyone. Thrilling Tale of the Three Musketeers had replaces Mr. Wilson as the play director for its world premiere at Empire High School in Pyramus and Thisbe. Josi, the school "Over the past decade, I've created well over Tucson, Arizona. custodian, with a passion for drama, serves 200 characters, but none as evil as the as assistant director. Adding to Coach's Professor and few I care about as much as headache is the “unusual” theater group. The The Penny Dreadfuls. Mad Aggie is in a class results are anything but usual when Coach all his (or her) own. A very atmospheric play brings his football mentality to directing full of dark humor." - Ray Sheers, playwright Shakespeare.
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WHEREFORE ART THOU POPULARITY MORIARTY'S REVENGE ROMEO BY: THOMAS HISCHAK BY: CHRISTOPHER BURRUTO BY: MIKE WILLIS HS • 12 females, 8 males, 20 total, 0-10 extras, MS HS • 3-4 females, 6 males, 10-11 either, MS HS • 4 females, 2 males, 6 total, gender doubling possible, gender flexible • 105 minutes 19-21 total, 0-6 extras, doubling possible, flexible • 20 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Classics : $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS $30.00 per performance performance Royalty: $60.00 per performance A high school drama club has decided that Clueless meets Grease in this comedy, set in Professor Moriarty has just been sent to this year's student-directed play will be a 1950s high school and loosely adapted from prison... again. This time he swears bloody Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. After the Pride and Prejudice, that comically dissects revenge on his arch-nemesis Detective first round of auditions, Tiffany, the director, how much we can trust our first impressions, Sherlock Holmes. What Moriarty doesn't know and Amanda, the stage manager, find The lessons these teens learn about love and is that he's after the wrong man! It's a highly- themselves with one major problem...no friendship are as true today as they were in guarded secret that Sherlock Holmes is Romeo. In desperation, they hold one final Jane Austen's time. This funny, moving play is nothing more than a cover for the real brains round of auditions and are surprised when easy to stage and filled with lively scenes and of the operation - Doctor Watson! Watson has three of the most unlikely Romeos show up memorable characters that will delight any been hiding behind various actors playing the for auditions: Bernard, the school's nerdy audience. famous detective for years, and his latest brainiac, Kenny, who is not only obnoxious Sherlock quits just as Moriarty makes his but also Tiffany's brother, and Erin, a female ONCE UPON A FAIRY TALE - escape from behind bars! Who will be the new transfer student. As the three read a portion of Sherlock? Can they catch Moriarty before he FULL LENGTH murders an unsuspecting actor? And is the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet BY: CHRISTOPHER BURRUTO opposite Phoebe, the school's perfect Juliet, Watson really as smart as he thinks he is or is MS • 3 females, 6 males, 10-14 either, 23 total, one wonders... "Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?" someone else two steps ahead of him? doubling possible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook A CHRISTMAS CHAOS - FULL Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per PINOCCHIO AND HIS FATHER LENGTH performance BY: WILL LEDESMA BY: MICHAEL WEHRLI Once upon a time lived Beullah the Witch and MS HS • 1-3 females, 4-6 males, 14 either, 19-23 total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, ALL • 5 females, 4 her more winsome sister, Francine. They gender flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Drama, males, 7 either, 16 were as opposite as opposite could be. Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: total, gender flexible • Jealous of Francine's beloved daughter, $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance 85 minutes • Comedy, Princess Rose, Beullah gives Princess Rose Farce • Script: $8.50 • an evil curse. Thanks to the curse, Princess Once upon a time, there was....a block of Notebook Script: Rose grows up to be a “Royal Pain.” Now, 21 wood! From this most unusual beginning $16.75 • Royalty: years later, Princess Rose must get married unfolds a whirlwind tale of fantasy and family $75.00 per as young Pinocchio, the most famous puppet performance to be queen. Yet, who will marry such a bad apple? None other than Jonathan the meek of all time, dreams of doing the right things Gadzooks! The Royal assistant (to the assistant) shepherd. But and becoming a real boy. Temptation is never Shakespeare before they can live happily ever after, they far, and soon the well-meaning puppet is in Company hasn't must overcome Beullah the Witch and a band trouble again. All of your favorite Pinocchio arrived as promised of bumbling trolls. moments are here (as well as a few you may to perform their stirring rendition of "A have forgotten about) in this clever, engaging, Christmas Carol." So our intrepid band of and refreshingly traditional take on Collodi's hapless actors and technicians must put ONCE UPON A FAIRY TALE masterpiece. Pinocchio and his Father is a together their own production in only seven BY: CHRISTOPHER BURRUTO touching story of the impertinence of youth, hours! What a pity that they are not quite up MS HS • 5 females, 3-6 males, 11 either, 19-22 the adventurous spirit of boyhood, and the to the task, even though they give it their all. total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 60 transforming power of a father's love. Have you ever experienced backstage minutes • Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: mayhem? Well, you haven't seen anything $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance yet! The play focuses on these poor but THE THREE WISHES OF dedicated thespians doing their best while Once upon a time lived Beullah the Witch and ALADDIN chaos is all around them: two kids fighting her more winsome sister, Francine. They BY: DAVID DIETZ over who gets to play Tiny Tim, a confused were as opposite as opposite could be. MS HS • 3 females, 4 males, 2 either, 9 total, actor who thinks she's in another show, a Jealous of Francine’s beloved daughter, gender flexible • 65 minutes • Comedy, haughty lead actor, one actor playing both Princess Rose, Beullah gives Princess Rose Fantasy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Bob and Mrs. Cratchit, an out-of-control an evil curse. Thanks to the curse, Princess Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance director, thrown together props and costumes, Rose grows up to be a “Royal Pain.” Now, 21 ridiculous scenery, and tons of flubs and years later, Princess Rose must get married What do you get when you take one poor, confusion. Most of the actors in the show play to be queen. Yet, who will marry such a bad lowly street urchin and mix him up with a multiple roles in this extremely fast-paced and apple? None other than Jonathan the meek cunning, dastardly magician? Let's throw in an physical comedy. Even the light and sound assistant (to the assistant) shepherd. But outrageous, fun-loving magical genie and a board operators are characters in the show! before they can live happily ever after, they stunningly beautiful princess, too! The perfect The play is a hilarious backstage comedy that must overcome Beullah the Witch and a band family recipe for fun, adventure and laughter pokes fun at the classic novel and everything of bumbling trolls. in a delightfully hilarious new adaptation of the that can go wrong with a theatrical production. classic tale from 1001 Arabian Nights.
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THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER THE OTHER THREE THE TEMPESTUOUS AND BY: ROY C. BOOTH MUSKETEERS AND THE JEWEL FRACTIOUS SHAKESPEARE HS CT • 5 females, 5 males, 10 total, 6 extras • OF MALTA PROJECT 30 minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: $6.50 • BY: MICHAEL DRUCE BY: EDITH WEISS Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per ALL • 15 females, 14 males, 29 total, 2-30 performance HS • 7 females, 2 males, 4 either, 13 total • 45 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 70 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Voted by literary critics as one of the top 100 minutes • Comedy, Historical Events and Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per short stories of the 20th century, D. H. People, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook performance Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per Lawrence's classic tragedy of a boy's love for performance Thirteen students calling themselves "The his uncaring mother and the unique means he Shakespeare Project" decide to mount a When no one else is available to serve as goes about to get her attention makes for production of their favorite scenes from escort for the three daughters of the Spanish gripping drama, either as a competition piece Shakespeare, as well as a hilarious game Ambassador and to keep an eye on the or as community theatre. Easily suited for show about Shakespeare. As they rehearse, priceless Potosi Diamond, those other simple or complex staging, for long runs or the real-life drama equals and sometimes musketeers, Paris, DJon, and their servant touring, The Rocking-Horse Winner is indeed parallels that of Shakespeare’s scenes. Bordeaux, are assigned the duty. In no time, a proven champion. Costume issues, recalcitrant actors, love the three young women are kidnapped and triangles, and break ups are just some of the the diamond stolen. Faced with certain hurdles the kids must overcome. Finally, in PUCK AND THE PLAYERS execution by order of Cardinal Richelieu and the epilogue, they come together as an BY: MATT BUCHANAN his henchman LeVeque, the three other ensemble. Informative, funny, and full of MS HS • 5 females, 8 males, 3 either, 16 total, musketeers spring into action in an attempt to
ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS authentic, original characters as well as some doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • rescue the ambassador's daughters and of Shakespeare’s most loved characters, this Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook retrieve the diamond. Think The Three Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per show proves the adage: “All’s well that ends Musketeers meets The Pink Panther, The performance well.” Maltese Falcon and Indiana Jones in this A contemporary language take on hilarious swashbuckling romp of conspiracy, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, fake diamonds, and false identities, easily SNOW WHITE: STORY OF A focusing on the story of the rustics and Puck. staged in seventy minutes. Plenty of large and HIP-HOP DIVA A ragtag troupe of tradesmen gets together to small roles and any number of extras. BY: MURRAY AUSTIN put on a play for the Duke. A mischievous ALL • 9 females, 6 males, 15 total • 30 minutes fairy (Puck) takes it into his head to mess with MEDEA IN BLACK AND WHITE • Comedy, Readers Theatre, Fairy Tales • their heads, turning one of their number (Nick Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Bottom) into a donkey during a rehearsal BY: CHARLES EICHMAN Royalty: $35.00 per performance deep in the woods. After a very strange MS HS • 5 females, 4 males, 3-5 either, 12-14 Conceited, wannabe hip-hop diva, Snow encounter with a glamorous fairy queen under total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 65 White, is losing her story to delusional Coach a spell, Bottom makes it home, and the play minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per White, who's set on starting his very own fairy can go on—which it does, very badly indeed. performance tale basketball team. That’s no easy task A fun, fast-paced introduction to when your recruits consist of eccentric Shakespeare's classic. The classic play by Euripides gets a unique facelift in this "act and a half" adaptation. The dwarves, boy-crazy stepsisters, a rapping story is retold by a chorus of performers who mirror, a spell-casting witch, and a fairy ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRY "wake up," assemble the stage, perform the godmother who’s in the wrong story. King MEN play, and then disassemble the set. Includes Henry Vlll has replaced the Woodsman, and BY: RICHARD GREMEL a unique prequel depicting the voyage of now his Highness is aiming for Snow White’s MS HS • 13-18 females, 8 males, 2-12 either, Jason and the Argonauts (with some head. Prince Charming shows up to save the 23-38 total, 1-6 extras, doubling possible, memorable sight gags involving a "dragon" day…if he can only figure out who he's gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Farce, and a "How's my sailing?" bit). The original expected to rescue! Classics • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: tried and true plot is, of course, followed $16.75 • Royalty: $75.00 per performance closely, though the typically choral This Readers Theatre comedy spoof boasts Prince John has decreed that the citizens of commentary is expressed through the an ensemble cast of fun, colorful characters, Nottingham pay weekly taxes or face the characters of the "White" and "Black" with twists and turns to spare. penalty of death. His decrees are enforced by choruses, each of whom serves the dual the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. The citizens function of observer and participant in the CINDERELLA AND THE FAIRY think that all hope is lost until they hear word story. Features a simple set, flexible casting GODMOTHER'S SPELL of a noble hero, Robin Hood of Locksley. (outside the principals) and brisk pacing. BY: EDITH WEISS Robin Hood, with the help of his merry men MS HS • 9 females, 2 males, 7 either, 18 total, (which are mostly girls) rob from the rich, give doubling possible, gender flexible • 55 minutes • to the poor, and save the fair Maid Marian. Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • Script: $6.50 • This comic retelling of the story includes Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per thumb wars, missed cues, and a slow motion performance fight. The familiar story of Cinderella gets a twist when Cinderella herself is responsible for her Robin Hood and His Merry Men had its transformation from victim of her step family world premiere at Empire High School in to young woman. Ideal for an ensemble Tucson, Arizona. approach to performance. 48 www.brookpub.com | order toll free: 1-888-473-8521 * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ROMEO AND JULIET GO WEST RUMPELSTILTSKIN AT THE BY: MARTY DUHATSCHEK BY: AUGUST MERGELMAN DOWNTOWN SEVEN-ELEVEN ALL • 8 females, 4 males, 2 either, 14 total • 80 ALL • 9 females, 7 males, 3 either, 19 total, BY: JERRY RABUSHKA minutes • Comedy, Drama, Classics • Script: 3-11 extras, gender flexible • 80 minutes • MS HS • 2 females, 4 males, 3 either, 9 total, $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook gender flexible • 25 minutes • Comedy, Fairy $65.00 per performance Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per Tales, Classics • Script: $5.50 • Notebook ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS performance Beauty and the Beast delivers the classic Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per story we have come to love with enough new Ramona Mae has fallen in love with Joel and performance twists and characters to keep you interested. he with her, but the biggest obstacle facing The Seven-Eleven at Pine and 17th in Beauty’s two sisters, Babette and Begonia, their love is the long-standing grudge between downtown St. Louis, Missouri has seen its and the Beasts statue servants; Cacciatorri, their fathers, which originated from a hunting share of shadiness, and now it’s the perfect Watson and Mipsy, bring new life to the age- bet gone sour. Well that, and Joel's mother is setting for a new take on the old tale of old story. Beauty’s pet cow Allan – yes, pet set on gettin' him hitched to the high-falutin' Rumpelstiltskin. When he agrees to help a cow -- helps us laugh through the lessons we debutant, Miss Paris. Miss Paris bets Ramona mortgage-poor married couple make their will learn, that what is outside a person is not Mae's friend, Herman, that he can't find a house payment by spinning wheat into gold, as import as what lies within and that it is particular flower and gives him Joel's horse to he starts them on a cycle of dependency— never a bad idea to show kindness to look for it. But Joel only knows that Herman until he demands their first child as payment. someone else. took his horse and so he involves the Sheriff. All this goes down in a dangerous When it comes out that a bet was involved, neighborhood complete with incompetent the situation gets serious. A hayloft balcony A LITTLE PRINCESS criminals, corrupt police, meddling social scene with Ramona lurking in the shadows, a workers, and smarmy salespeople. Bring your BY: EDITH WEISS horse named Tybalt, and an ending that laughs and keep your wallet secure for a new ALL • 13 females, 8 either, 21 total, gender would turn the Bard a shade of red, makes “spin” on an old tale! flexible • 75 minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: this western version of the classic tale the $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: perfect adaptation of Romeo and Juliet for $60.00 per performance any theatre or department. A MID-SCHOOL NIGHT'S Sara, who has spent her whole life in India DREAM BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD with her father, arrives at Miss Minchin's ROMEO, JULIET, AND TOTO, Seminary for Young Ladies. Her life here HS CT • 12 females, 9 males, 4 either, 25 total, brings jealousy from the other children and TOO 0-5 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • hostility from Miss Minchin. There are many BY: BURTON BUMGARNER 105 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 turns and surprises as she grows up, and the MS HS • 5 females, 6 males, 16 either, 27 total, • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance audience will delight in the wonders of the doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • ending. Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook It seems that every theater in the world has at Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per performance least one or two resident ghosts. The setting ROMEO AND JULIET - SIX VERY for this play is your school’s theater and the Movie producer Antonio Ravioli needs ghosts who haunt it are up to their usual BUSY DAYS another movie fast. He hires director mischief. When that particularly pesky spirit, BY: ROBERT WING Jacqueline Quiche and writer Helga Schnitzel Peck, jumbles up the commands from his MS HS • 4-24 either, 4-24 total, 1-20 extras, to come up with a movie in a week. The film is master, Cameron, King of the Dead, several doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • “The Wizard of Weird”. It takes place while living students in the school become the Classics, Farce, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Dorothy and Toto are trying to make their way victims of mixed up love spells causing Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per to the Emerald City to see the Wizard. The performance unplanned but hilarious chaos. The drama story is wrong from the beginning. Dorothy’s club also suffers the consequences of Peck’s Everyone knows the story of Romeo and house lands on a wicked witch in the land of ghostly magic as they prepare a Juliet, but few realize that the "greatest love the Grouchkins. Toto is a talking dog who “Shakespearean” play to be performed for the story of all time" takes place only over six makes a lot of snide comments. Instead of the entire school. But just as with Shakespeare, days. That's right, Romeo and Juliet fall in usual Oz characters, Dorothy and Toto take a this modern tale of his classic work ends up love, marry and die all with within six days of wrong turn on the Yellow Brick Road and as it should; with a happily ever after ending. meeting each other! Romeo and Juliet: Six meet characters from Shakespeare, such as Very Busy Days riotously re-imagines the Romeo and Juliet, Nick Bottom, Caliban, misadvertur'd piteous overthrows of the iconic Hamlet, Macbeth, Banquo, and others. Even THE LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY star-cross'd lovers. Farcically irreverent yet the Baird himself makes an appearance. A OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH... surprisingly faithful to Shakespeare's very funny combination of Shakespeare, L. WHEEL language and storyline, Romeo and Juliet: Six Frank Baum and Hollywood. BY: MATT THOMPSON Very Busy Days blurs the line between ALL • 4 females, 4 males, 8 total • Comedy, slapstick and educational drama the same Classics • Classroom Script: $4.00 (Minimum way Romeo and Juliet blurs the line between order of 10) comedy and tragedy. Fast-paced and fun, this The romantic situation is tense: All of play may be performed by a handful of actors Shakespeare's classic couples are discussing or dozens and dozens. It can also be staged marriage, divorce, kids and how Hamlet simply and affordably - or as elaborately as remodeled the dungeon as a game room. desired! Henry V feels like an outsider until the waitress, Hermia, sits down and Henry smiled because he knew.
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ROMEO AND BEATRICE AND FAST FOOD SHAKESPEARE ENTER MACBETH TOTO, TOO BY: BURTON BUMGARNER BY: RUTH BUCHANAN BY: CLAUDIA HAAS MS HS • 6 females, 3 males, 18 either, 27 total, MS HS • 7 females, 7 males, 3-6 either, 17-20 MS HS • 6 females, 2 doubling possible, gender flexible • 45 minutes • total, 2-5 extras, doubling possible, gender males, 8 total, gender Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Farce, Classics flexible • 35 minutes • Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Comedy, Farce, performance Royalty: $60.00 per performance Classics • Script: Bobby’s Burger Boutique is a fast food joint For hundreds of years, the cast members of $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • with sanitation issues. Susie has tried to keep Hamlet have toiled through each nightly Royalty: $35.00 per her family’s restaurant in business in spite of performance – delivering their lines, sneaking performance horrible food and all kinds of bugs. Just before about behind tapestries, clutching at skulls, the health inspector arrives for an inspection, betraying one another, falling in love, losing Mrs. Quince, a a pest control man accidentally uses their minds, drowning, stabbing, being member of the lemonade instead of bug spray… and the stabbed, and dying – over and over and over "William bugs love it! Added to the chaos are four out again. Night after night, the cycle has never Shakespeare Wrote of work actors who want to perform excerpts changed. Until now. With a principal character William Shakespeare Society" receives a from Shakespeare, a spoiled brat, the owner missing and half the cast on the verge of copy of a play that could possibly be one of of an exotic pet store and his two Peruvian revolt, they must take drastic measures to Shakespeare's earliest works. Thinking this gutter rats named Elvis and Priscilla, and a keep the script from being shelved and the set could be the breakthrough that she needs, variety of unsuspecting customers. from going dark. With the cast grasping at she produces the play. When all that can go Pandemonium reigns as Shakespeare meets straws to keep their numbers even, they soon ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS wrong (costumes delayed, set waterlogged really bad food. resort to recruiting from other scripts in and unusable, a cast of questionable loyalty Shakespeare's First Folio, hoping that doing and talent) does go wrong, it is decided the so will bring an end to all their problems. Little "show must go on," and we are treated to the THE EMPEROR'S NEW do they suspect what further doom awaits. hilarious results. CLOTHES BY: STEVEN SCHUTZMAN CINDERELLA'S FELLA CINDERSTEIN MS HS • 3 females, 6 males, 6 either, 15 total, 0-15 extras, gender flexible • 60 minutes • BY: CRAIG SODARO BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • Script: $6.50 • MS HS • 9 females, 5 males, 14 total • 55 MS HS • 12 females, Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • 8 males, 13 either, 33 performance Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • total, doubling Royalty: $40.00 per performance possible, gender In this comic retelling of the classic story, two flexible • 80 minutes • con men escape jail, with bumbling detectives Sloppy Prince Humphrey has one girl on his Comedy, Fairy Tales, in hot pursuit. Soon they trick the vain, mind - his cyber honey, mybelle. The Queen Classics • Script: fashion-conscious Emperor into letting them thinks otherwise and hires a fairy godmother $8.50 • Notebook create the royal garments for his daughter's to turn her lazy son into Prince Charming so Script: $16.75 • wedding. The garments, they say, will not only he can find a bride. Meanwhile, Cinderella’s Royalty: $70.00 per performance be of the highest possible style, they will have stepmother and stepsister are way jealous of the magical property of being invisible to fools how she attracts more suitors than honey Help! The local high unworthy of their positions. What fun to watch attracts flies. Of course, she is the most school drama teacher fools prove they are not foolish in this land of beautiful girl in the kingdom, though she only wrote his own version super-charged pride and vanity. has texts for her cyber-hunk. Her daffy of Cinderella by combining the Princess's tale siblings hire the same fairy godmother to turn with the story of Frankenstein, but the JACK AND THE BEANSTALK Cinderella into a disaster date so they’ll have production is bombing: The Fairy Godmother a better chance at landing a couple of BY: CHRIS STILES wants to be called the Fairy Goshmother, husbands. It seems like a great plan, three new stepsisters must be added to the MS • 12 either, 12 total, doubling possible, especially when all the ladies in the kingdom cast, several actors quit, and the extras are gender flexible • 30 minutes • Fantasy, Fairy are invited to a dance so Humphrey can pick fed up with being extras. Then, after being Tales, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per a wife. The Prince is a dancing fool and cha- forced to play a girl, one of the boys worries performance chas and jitterbugs his way through every girl that if his father, an avid sports fanatic, sees in the kingdom, but he just doesn’t connect him his acting career will be over. Despite the Three narrators guide Jack through his until Cinderella in T-shirt and flip flops enters. director's explicit instructions that the Prince's adventures with the mysterious stranger, the Appearances are only skin deep, and true Ball scene must be slow and elegant, the cast magic beans, the beanstalk and of course, the love can see through even the cleverest of speeds it up to super-speed so that the boy giant’s castle at the top of the beanstalk. Jack Fairy Godmother’s spells. won't be seen, but the actress playing the finds the giant doesn’t have a golden goose - Queen is incapable of improvisation and can't he has a gaggle of golden geese! And the keep up. When Dr. Frankenstein drops giant is actually the audience. That shouldn’t Cinderella's brain and replaces it with a cat's be a problem, but a strike staged by the brain instead, this insane production changes narrator’s union might make it difficult to get beyond even the director's recognition. through the story. Fortunately, Jack remembers what the first narrator tells him, that fairy tales always have a happy ending.
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THE DAY BOY AND THE NIGHT GROOVE-A-RELLA FRANK GIRL BY: TONIANN GUADAGNOLI BY: JEFF LOVETT BY: MATT BUCHANAN MS HS • 10 females, MS HS • 5-11 females, 5-11 males, 16 total, 1-6 MS • 4 females, 4 males, 8 total, doubling 4 males, 1 either, 15 extras, gender flexible • 60 minutes • Comedy, possible, gender flexible • 50 minutes • Drama, total, 0-8 extras, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook gender flexible • 50 $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS minutes • Comedy, Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per After 145 attempts, mad scientist Dr. Stein performance Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • has finally created the perfect son and names The Day Boy and the Night Girl is a free Notebook Script: him Frank. Frank N. Stein. Frank wants to be adaptation of a George MacDonald fairy tale $12.75 • Royalty: a normal boy, but soon finds out that fitting in about a boy raised never to see darkness and $40.00 per at the local high school is a lot harder than it a girl kept always in the dark. The two performance looks. Frank's quirks attract the affections of children accidentally meet and eventually Lace up your go-go Mary Shelley, another student, but they also learn that they need each other. The story is boots and get ready attract the attention of the school's bullies. framed by a parallel story of two children in a for a new twist on a After being taunted and pushed one too many London orphans' hospital. This is a wonderful classic! Rock and roll singer Johnny Rocket times, Frank finally fights back and ends up in archetypal fairy tale, yet it will be new and needs a date to a big awards show, and his Judge Jenny's court along with someone who fresh for most audiences. Though it can be manager, Max Slick, books him a gig on the thinks he's Johnny Depp. When Frank is done very simply, it also offers creative Dating Game TV show to find the lucky girl. unable to prove either his identity or opportunities for your technical people, The contestants? The insufferable Rella citizenship, it's up to Dr. Stein and Mary to especially your lighting designer. sisters, Prunella and Stella, and their shy rescue Frank from Judge Jenny's courtroom stepsister, Cindy. Too bad Mrs. Rella, Cindy's in this fast-paced twist on Mary Shelly's THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY stepmother, doesn't want her going on the classic story. HOLLOW show and leaves her at home to wax the floor! With some help from a Groovy Godmother BY: MARK SCHARF BARD IN A BOX: THE TAMING and her backup singers, Cindy gets a fab OF THE SHREW MS HS • 3-4 females, makeover and new boots made for walking! 6-9 males, 9-13 total, BY: RUTH BUCHANAN But will the hunky Johnny Rocket choose to 0-10 extras, doubling take her to the awards show? Full of twists, MS HS • 4 females, 7 males, 4 either, 15 total, possible, gender 1-5 extras, gender flexible • 75 minutes • turns and a surprise ending that will keep ‘em flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Shakespeare and the Classics, Legends and Myths, guessing, this show is full of rock ‘n' roll fun! Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: Melodrama, Classics • $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: HISTORICALLY BAD FIRST While stranded in an abandoned hunting $16.75 • Royalty: DATES cabin during a raging thunderstorm, a class of $65.00 per BY: SEAN ABLEY intrepid students searches for ways to amuse performance MS HS • 4-10 females, 4-12 males, 2-9 either, themselves while they wait for bus repairs. This new, fresh and faithful adaptation of 10-31 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • Stranded with no cell service and nothing to Washington Irving’s original American ghost 45 minutes • Comedy, Classics, Fantasy • do but complain, the students and their story follows the sometimes comic, Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • exhausted teacher wait for rescue. Then, in a Royalty: $40.00 per performance sometimes sad, sometimes scary cobwebby corner, they stumble upon "The misadventures of the new schoolmaster On the edge of the Universe, Jenna and Bard in a Box: The Taming of the Shrew in 60 Ichabod Crane as he tries to fit into the Achilles find themselves trapped in the offices minutes or less! BYOD!" (Bring Your Own enchanted village of Sleepy Hollow and win of Millennium Relationship Services. Although Drama!) While the teacher nods off in the the hand of the beautiful Katrina. To succeed, they have never met, and have no idea how corner, the students ransack the house for he must not only compete for Katrina’s favor they got there, this couple-to-be is taught how props before attempting to stage their own with the wild and handsome Brom Van Brunt to avoid the pitfalls of relationships through rollicking version of one of Shakespeare's but must also survive the chief spirit of a crazily comic flashbacks to bad first dates classic comedies. With no prior experience in haunted land – the Headless Horseman. throughout history, literature, and pop culture: Elizabethan drama, it is quite literally Mark Antony and Cleopatra’s disastrous first Shakespeare as you have never seen him date right after the assassination of her before, with many questions, confusions, husband, Julius Caesar; Macbeth and the anachronisms, mispronunciations — and, of future Lady Macbeth, Latonya, meeting for the course, laughs — along the way. first time on the moors; the Blind Date of Frankenstein; George Washington revealing FAIRY TALE PRINCESS GAME his paranoid delusions to Martha; and Uncle OF THRONES Sam and his mail-order bride, a very French BY: CLAIRE WILSON, JIM JEFFRIES, JANE Statue of Liberty. With a flexible cast allowing JEFFRIES for many actors (or easy doubling), this one- MS HS • 8 females, 2 males, 10 total • 55 act comedy is perfect for drama festivals and minutes • Comedy, Classics, Fairy Tales • competitions, or just a great evening of Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • comedy! Royalty: $35.00 per performance It's tough being Snow White in a kingdom full of princesses full of raging jealousies,
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insecurities, mistaken loyalties, rivalries, and dragons and inquisitive nature force him to minions and big princess personalities keep betrayals. Snow White suspects that venture off in search of a dragon that has this unlikely team from becoming heroes? A someone is plotting against her and summons reportedly been terrorizing the countryside, great comedy the whole family will enjoy. her best friend, Belle, to smoke out the much to the chagrin of his worrying parents. assassin and uncover the plot. Find out which What he finds instead is a sweet old dragon HOOD, OF SHERWOOD princess is the un-fairest of them all in this (named Dennis D. Dragon) and three baby BY: ROBERT MAURO family-friendly comedy. all-singing, all-dancing dragonettes, who he quickly befriends. Things seem idyllic until the MS HS • 1 female, 7 Mayoress of the village hires a dragon-slaying males, 8 total, 0-20 DANCING WITH THE extras • 30 minutes • knight to hunt down Dennis – then it’s up to Comedy, Classics • OLYMPIANS Joey to secure a "happy ending." This family BY: LAVINIA ROBERTS Script: $6.50 • musical is loosely adapted from the children's Notebook Script: MS HS • 6-16 females, 3-8 males, 6 either, book, The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth $12.75 • Royalty: 15-30 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • Grahame. With show-stopping numbers and $35.00 per 30 minutes • Comedy, Parody, Classics • Script: tongue-in-cheek lyrics and dialogue, this show performance $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per performance is campy fun for the entire family, carrying a Here's a wacky message of tolerance and friendship. comedy that requires Hold on for a hilarious spoof on the popular only a few props and television show, Dancing with the Stars. a little rehearsing. Instead of Hollywood's elite competing on LITTLE WOMEN Inspired by the story Robin Hood, this Dancing with the Olympians, Greek gods and BY: MATT BUCHANAN hilarious plot deals with a silly bandit, a fair ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS goddesses boogie and swirl their way to the ALL • 8-15 females, 7-11 males, 15-26 total, maid, and an evil prince. And there's enough top. Hosted by Hermes, messenger of the doubling possible, gender flexible • 120 minutes merry men and guards to provide as large or gods and trickster, the show's judges are the • Drama, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook small a cast as desired. You see, it seems nerdy and prudish Athena, goddess of Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance Robin can't quite remember if he and his wisdom, accompanied by her close merry men “rob from the poor and give to the companion, the cheer-leading goddess of Based on the cherished novel by Louisa May rich” or vice versa. This leads to a riotous victory, Nike, surfer dude Poseidon, god of Alcott, Little Women tells the story of the four ransom, a ridiculous robbery, comic chases, the ocean, and motherly Hestia, goddess of March Girls, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as they and even some lively madrigals! the hearth and home. Although a dancing grow to adulthood in Civil War era New competition, relatively little dancing happens. England. The girls endure hardships and Zeus and Hera, king and queen of the privations, and eventually even a tragic loss, CRAMALOT Olympians, don't see the need to dance. but their courage, their love for each other, BY: LAURIE BRYANT Aphrodite refuses to dance with a partner, and the strength of their family bond never MS HS • 7 females, 5 and the evil enchantress, Circe, turned her fade. This adaptation stays very close to the males, 12 either, 24 partner into a pig. Terpsichore, the muse of original text and is especially popular with total, 4-10 extras, dance, can't actually dance, and the Furies those who truly love the book. An evening doubling possible, just showed up to torment the losers. Dancing with sensible Meg, headstrong Jo, quiet Beth gender flexible • 60 with the Olympians is a zany comedy full of and lively Amy makes a wonderful and minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: fun, over-the-top characters and provides an moving theatrical experience for the whole $8.50 • Notebook excellent way to educate students about family. Script: $16.75 • Greek mythology. Royalty: $75.00 per CHASING CHARMING performance THE RELUCTANT DRAGON BY: ALASKA REECE VANCE A narrator introduces BY: MARK BARON, GARY COHEN ALL • 12 females, 5 the audience to a ALL • 5 females, 4 males, 6 either, 23 time long past, where males, 9 total, 0-20 total, 0-30 extras, young academic-minded people were mired in extras • 90 minutes • gender flexible • 75 an educational culture that didn't meet their Fantasy, Classics • minutes • Comedy, needs. Arising from the mass of mediocrity is Fantasy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • Arthur, who assumed his rightful destiny as Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: King of the Students when, as a lad, he laid $16.75 • Vocal/Choral Notebook Script: hands on Excalibur, a text of extraordinary Score: $20.00 $16.75 • Royalty: (photocopying $75.00 per length that he alone could read. Arthur travels allowed) • Piano performance the land in search of other gifted students to join him at Cramalot, a place where they can Score: $30.00 • Chaos and comedy Production CD: read, write and share ideas—preferably ensue when a $30.00 • Rehearsal without being shut into medieval lockers. blundering young CD: $30.00 • Along the way, Arthur and his growing band of narrator discovers that Prince Charming has Production/Rehearsal brothers (and a sister or two, courtesy of Title CD Combo: $50.00 • been kidnapped by the evil witch Hagragard. IX), are aided by the Lady of the Lake, the Royalty: $90.00 per The narrator struggles to save her family famous Student-Assistance Counselor, and performance honor while her well-meaning Fairy are charged by the Supreme Being?The Godmother mistakenly sends not one, but six Set in the medieval fairytale village of Tea ‘N’ Superintendent of Schools, with securing the fairytale princesses (and Goldilocks) to the Crumpet, The Reluctant Dragon tells the tale Holy Grail, an Ivy League diploma. Arthur and rescue. Will a needy dragon, a score of evil of a young man, Joey Bisfick, whose love for his Knights of the Library Table learn many 52 www.brookpub.com | order toll free: 1-888-473-8521 * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS valuable lessons along the way, and poke Cleopatra's Court”! mother didn't die—she escaped! Finally— more than their share of fun at students, thankfully—the kids run off from a family teachers, parents, administrators, and, well, ROBYN HOOD AND HER picnic, but what do they do? Eat a poor old the state of education in general. (As if it isn't witch out of house and home! Do the kids funny enough on its own.) MERRY WOMEN need to go into foster care? Who would have
BY: CELESTE BONFANTI them? Even the narrator has his hands full ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS MS HS • 3 females, 2 males, 2-4 either, 7-9 EBENEZER! trying to stick to this outrageous story in the total, 3-20 extras, doubling possible, gender tradition of the popular Jack, the Beanstalk, BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script and Social Services. ALL • 20-30 either, 20-30 total, doubling : $6.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: possible, gender flexible • 85 minutes • $35.00 per performance Comedy, Parody, Classics • Script: $7.50 • In this fast-paced and funny one-act, we meet THE PATTERN IS BROKEN Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per the thoroughly modern Lady Robyn of BY: IAN STANSEL performance Locksley?the infamous Robyn Hood?and her HS CT • 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • 30 Dickens got it backwards: Scrooge was good, merry band of women: Little Jane, Sister Tuck minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: $6.50 • and everyone else was bad! In this wild and the like. Nothing the evil Sheriff of Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per adaptation, Scrooge's business partner sends Nottingham can do seems to dissuade Robyn performance three spirits to show Scrooge the world is and the gang from their own particular brand Based on the original play by Rand Higbee. At absolutely horrible. The Ghost of Christmas of justice, the redistribution of wealth in favor opposite ends of the marriage timeline, two Past, a B-movie actor, forces Scrooge to of the poor and downtrodden at the expense couples dine at the same restaurant. While relive old pains. The Ghost of Christmas of the rich and powerful. With the help of one couple celebrates their decision to take Present, a die-hard entrepreneur in a Santa Robyn's charming love interest, Master the nuptial plunge, the other struggles with the suit, reveals Scrooge's nephew, Bob Marvin, audiences will delight in watching the fact that their marriage might be too far gone Cratchett, embezzling funds. And worst of all, Sheriff get his just deserts. There is plenty of to save. As the evening continues, we witness the Ghost of Christmas Future, a street mime, direct interaction with the audience and the giddiness of anticipation and the sorrow of shows Scrooge the potential for suffering endless opportunity for flexible casting in this regret. And as the two couples reveal their around the world. Will Ebenezer Scrooge 21st-century feminist update of the classic inner selves, we discover that they may have allow these spirits to ruin Christmas forever? legend. more in common than their taste in Will Marley return victorious to the restaurants. underworld? CSI - WONDERLAND BY: WADE BRADFORD THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO * A CALIFORNIA SURFER IN MS HS • 6 females, 4 males, 8-13 either, 18-23 BY: STEVEN SCHUTZMAN CLEOPATRA'S COURT total, 2-6 extras, doubling possible, gender ALL • 1 female, 2 males, 3 total, 1-5 extras • 25 BY: PATRICK DORN flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Mystery, minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: $5.50 • MS HS • 7-12 females, 5-9 males, 12-21 total, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per 0-30 extras, doubling possible • 90 minutes • $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance performance Classics, Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook When the detectives from Crime Scene One of the creepiest stories ever written, Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per Imagination arrive to arrest Alice, the poor girl performance Edgar Allan Poe's A Cask of Amontillado realizes that she will be returning to a place dramatizes the revenge of the obsessive Cowabunga Dudes! Surf's up...in Ancient that she had tried to forget. A place that she nobleman Montresor against his friend, the Egypt! Totally awesome teen surfer Brody wished was just a bad dream. A place called wine lover, Fortunato. On carnival night in Morgan is mysteriously transported from a Wonderland. Once Alice jumps back down Venice, Montresor lures the tipsy Fortunato to California beach in the 1960s to 41 BC that rabbit hole, she gets caught up in a wild his estate with the promise of a taste of rare Ancient Egypt and Cleopatra's court. Brody and ridiculous murder-mystery. Someone has Amontillado sherry. Down they go into the introduces hilarious 20th century inventions removed the king's head, and the Queen is dank catacombs winding under the mansion like flip flops, Egyptian cotton sheets, and furious. Alice and the Mad Hatter must find until Montresor, feigning friendliness the mummy-style sleeping bags to Cleopatra and the culprit or suffer the Queen's wrath. Filled whole way, finally chains the hapless her Roman boyfriend, Mark Antony. When with fast-paced humor and fun-to-stage Fortunato down and walls him in alive. The Cleopatra's wicked adviser Pothinus and fantasy, CSI: Wonderland is certain to please claustrophobic atmosphere, Montresor's ambitious sister Arsinoe attempt a venomous audiences and actors alike. smiling meanness and Fortunato's growing coup, Brody saves Cleo and the Romans, horror are bound to send chills down anyone's then returns home in time to compete in a HANSEL AND GRETEL IN spine. totally gnarly surfing competition and be crowned Boss Kahuna. Inspired by Mark FOSTER CARE Twain's classic time-travel tale, this action- BY: KELLY MEADOWS packed, hilarious comedy boasts a flexible MS HS • 16 either, 16 total, gender flexible • 25 cast, silly but simple costumes and props, minutes • Comedy, Classics, Readers Theatre • uproarious gags and jokes, and loads of Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance slapstick humor. The play is a mash-up of the goofy “beach party” movies of the Sixties and Hansel and Gretel live with their father and a comical take on the Antony and Cleopatra stepmother at the edge of a deep dark forest. story from ancient history. King Tut is rolling If only they'd get lost, hopes their stepmother. over in his sarcophagus—with laughter—and So does their father! These kids, expelled all because there's... “A California Surfer in from school and forced by the townspeople to live out of earshot, are incorrigible. Their real
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A NEVERLAND CHRISTMAS quite independent and free-spirited to say the GIFT OF THE MAGI - THE CAROL least, dares an emphatic "No!" when the MUSICAL* BY: SHERI FLANNERY VERRILLI Prince demands that she stay in Mintz and BY: BEVERLY BREMERS, FAITH GRANT ALL • 7 females, 2 bake pies exclusively for him. Delightful ALL • 3-6 females, 6-8 males, 0-1 either, 10-14 males, 12 either, 21 complications ensue, including the slaying of total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 total, 1-5 extras, a giant green dragon with horrible breath, minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • doubling possible, before Gina and the Traveling Players Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/Choral Score: gender flexible • 75 continue on their bumpy but adventurous way $20.00 • Piano Score: $30.00 • Orchestral minutes • Classics • to exciting new lands. Score: $30.00 • Production CD: $30.00 • Script: $8.50 • Rehearsal CD: $30.00 • Production/Rehearsal Notebook Script: CD Combo: $50.00 • Royalty: $90.00 per $16.75 • Royalty: EXPOSED! EIGHT 10-MINUTE performance $75.00 per SCENES ABOUT WHAT REALLY performance It's Christmas in New York in 1905. Imagine HAPPENED the excitement of a busy street, bustling with From the moment BY: SEAN ABLEY, MICHAEL BEYER, JENNY shoppers and carolers singing joys of the Peter Pan KIRKLAND-LAFFEY, AMY SEELEY season. Della, a stunning young woman, eavesdrops at the MS HS • 1-16 females, 1-21 males, 1-2 either, strolls along, looking in store windows, a bit Darling's nursery window and overhears Mrs. 3-39 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • saddened that she only has $1.87 to spend Darling reading "A Christmas Carol" to her 80 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • on a gift for her husband, Jim. Down the Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • children, Christmas becomes more spirited street, Jim does likewise; wistfully knowing Royalty: $70.00 per performance than ever before! Come along on this grand that the items in the stores that he would love
ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS holiday adventure as Wendy and her brothers Welcome to EXPOSED! The show that to buy for Della are beyond his means. Yes, accompany Peter back to Neverland to share reveals the truth behind famous people, you have entered a beautiful musical the story of Scrooge and teach the Lost Boys characters and stories. Did Rumpelstiltskin adaptation of O. Henry's, The Gift of the Magi, the traditions of Christmas. But if you think really try to steal the princess' baby? Was Mr. which will thrill and inspire your audiences this sounds like a merry little celebration, well, Hyde really Miss Hyde? Was Charles Dickens year after year. to paraphrase Ebenezer, “bah humbug!” For really a frustrated stand-up comic? Was while the ever-jealous Tinkerbell sulks at Robin Hood's sister really responsible for all With a masterful score, this adaptation is Wendy's presence, wicked Captain Hook and that theft? EXPOSED! examines these stories perfectly written for the stage with sub-plots, his zany band of pirates concoct an evil plus Hansel and Gretel, Peter Pan, Willy drama and intrigue which ultimately reveal the scheme to sabotage the children's festivities. Wonka, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. true heart of this Christmas love story. Easy to Now, it's up to Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, the Written to be either a full evening's worth of produce with a set that can be as spartan or Darlings, and a comical, Dickens-inspired entertainment, or each scene broken out for extravagant as you desire, while offering a reenactment to show Hook the error of his drama festivals and competitions, Exposed! highly flexible cast with opportunities for ways and ultimately save Christmas in Eight 10-minute Scenes About What Really doubling and choral extras. For professional Neverland. Happened has something for everyone, both production rights, please contact Brooklyn on stage and in the audience! Publishers directly at 888-473-8521. GINA AND THE PRINCE OF MINTZ HAPPILY EVER AFTER HOURS HAPPILY NEVER AFTER BY: STEVE LIEBMAN, CHARLES KONDEK, BY: RUTH BUCHANAN BY: AMY ZIPPERER NANCY PATZ MS HS • 8 females, 5 males, 13 total • 75 MS HS • 2-4 females, 1-3 males, 1-2 either, 4-9 ALL • 2 females, 6 males, 5-10 either, 13-18 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • total, 2 extras, doubling possible, gender total, 5-20 extras, doubling possible, gender Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, flexible • 90 minutes • Fantasy, Comedy, Royalty: $60.00 per performance Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: Classics • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance $16.75 • Vocal/Choral Score: $20.00 Every night, your favorite fairy tale characters (photocopying allowed for production) • Piano clock out of their stories to enjoy some well- This three-play collection brings together Score: $30.00 • Production CD: $30.00 • earned rest. But they won’t be resting tonight, classic fairy tales and contemporary dating Rehearsal CD: Free (Free perusal. Return to because tonight, due to an anonymous tip to dilemmas. PrinceU27 follows a young girl as Brooklyn within 30 days of production) • Royalty the Better Business Bureau, all employees of she attempts to negotiate the perils of online : $90.00 per performance the Happily Ever After Group must begin dating when her blind date shows up dressed Children's Book: $13.95 (Hardcover) court-mandated therapy. Despite the as a Disney Prince but with none of the professionalism of their psychologist, the first Charm. The Real World introduces a scripted Based on Nancy Patz's popular children's group session goes badly awry. Plunged into reality TV show for which wicked Snow White, book, this is a sparkling musical fairy tale with an unexpected quest that requires venturing her sweet stepmother, and a really impartial contemporary sensibilities. Gina, a strong- back into the story after hours, members of mirror attempt to realize their original fairytale willed young girl who is a superlative baker of the Happily Ever After Group find themselves roles for the sake of the camera. Happily pies, is determined to go out in the world "to sneaking through The Wood, battling a Never After is an interactive play in which make my way as I bake my pies and wake rhyming curse, and trying to keep from being Cinderella seeks to reconcile different re- each day to a new surprise." Gina, eager to blown up—all while facing their fears and tellings of the original story in an attempt to travel the world, joins a troupe of Traveling learning each other’s secrets. In this sideways rekindle her love affair with her estranged Players and finds herself in the village of retelling of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, you’ll find husband. Mintz, which is ruled by a handsome but more comedy, more pop psychology, and way grumpy Prince. The laws of Mintz prohibit any more cheese (both literal and figurative) than negative utterances and mumblings, but Gina, you ever bargained for.
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BIGGITY BAD AND THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF HAUNTED HAMLET THREE* PIGS USHER BY: STEVE CROSS BY: EDITH WEISS BY: STEVEN SCHUTZMAN MS HS • 6 females, 4 males, 3-5 either, 13-15 ALL • 3 females, 5 males, 7 either, 15 total, 0-5 MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 4 either, 8 total • total, 0-5 extras, gender flexible • 50 minutes • extras, gender flexible • 50 minutes • Comedy, 60 minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Comedy, Farce, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per performance performance performance Heeding the plea of his old friend, Roderick What happens when a bad writer combines Higgelty and Piggelty are two devil may care Usher, William Benson travels to the haunted Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet and throws in a pigs who spend their days avoiding work. House of Usher, where the very stones are pinch of Taming of the Shrew for seasoning? When they are joined in the pen by a third pig, alive with voices of trapped ancestors Chaos and comedy. Wilma Shakespeare, an Hamlet, who is a truffle pig and talks funny desperate for release. There, things are not unpublished romance writer who claims to be (many of his lines are from Shakespeare, the quite as they seem. Roderick's sister, the a descendant of the "Bard," writes her own rest are in Shakespearean style), life changes beautiful Madeleine, seems to die, and tragedy because Will's plays are nothing but drastically on the farm. Things change even Roderick is seized by the paranoid dread of "old-fashioned soap operas." She also more when Buzz the Turkey Buzzard what seems to be an imagined event but one decides to act in her own masterpiece as the convinces Rolf, a tender-hearted and lonely that actually shows itself at the heart- nurse. The only resemblance her play has to wolf, to become "Biggity Bad" and capture the pounding climax of the play. Benson gets a Shakespearean tragedy is that everyone pigs. Run for your life chases plus a surprise caught up and barely survives as the macabre dies in the end—except for her, of course. ending make this a wonderful show for kids. Usher fate finally comes to pass. An Outraged by Wilma's atrocious writing, the adaptation that will delight modern actors and chorus can stand no more: it's time for audiences as it remains faithful to the revenge, Shakespeare style. Easy to stage CINDERELLA (FULL LENGTH and written in rhyme, Haunted Hamlet is fun PLAY) language, atmosphere and psychological insight of the Poe classic tale of terror. and challenging. Shakespeare may roll over BY: MARTY DUHATSCHEK in his grave, but your audiences will love it! MS HS • 9 females, 4 males, 13 total • 90 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • A CHRISTMAS CHAOS - ONE Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • ACT SCROOGE MACBETH Royalty: $65.00 per performance BY: MICHAEL WEHRLI BY:* DAVID MACGREGOR A hilarious retelling of a great old story! Poor ALL • 5 females, 4 males, 4 either, 13 total, 0-6 CT • 3 females, 2 males, 5 total • 85 minutes • Cinderella, belittled by her stepsisters Oofa extras, gender flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, Comedy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $75.00 per and Murkatrina, overworked by her Farce • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • performance Stepmother, and no prospect of happiness on Royalty: $55.00 per performance the horizon. Poor Prince Rupert, a mother When a professional theatre company gets Scrooge Macbeth takes the meaning of “the pushing him to marry, a father trying to avoid stranded across the country, it's up to a rag- show must go on” to a whole new level. Bob, anymore bruises from his wife, and a faithful tag group of local theatre people to throw Sylvia, Victor, and Renee are the last four steed with the unfortunate name of Daisy. together their own version of Dickens' A actors standing when a food poisoning What's a prince to do? Star-crossed lovers, Christmas Carol.The stage manager comes outbreak sidelines most of the cast on the grumpy sidekicks, unforgettable stepsisters, out at the beginning to gently tell the audience opening night of the Hartland Community and some fairy friends help us laugh all the that after only one day's preparation, that the Theatre's holiday production, Shakespeare's way to a happy ending. Come join the fun! show must go on! During the show we meet classic, The Winter's Tale. But that's not the the pretentious narrator, the “professional” only setback: Sylvia has just discovered a actor playing Scrooge, and a myriad of other boatload of red ink in the theatre group's CINDERELLA AND THE ledger. With impending financial ruin, a BIRKENSTOCKS “theatrical types” that theatre companies and audiences will recognize and adore shortage of cast members, and an expectant BY: JERRY RABUSHKA immediately. It quickly becomes apparent that audience just outside the doors, can these MS HS • 9 females, 5 males, 2 either, 16 total, this group is far from ready to put on a show, four amateur thespians concoct some kind of 0-8 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • let alone A Christmas Carol. There are two holiday entertainment in time to save their 80 minutes • Comedy, Parody, Classics • Script: child actors vying for the role of Tiny Tim; theatre? Thanks to the ensuing violent $7.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: collision between everything Christmas and $60.00 per performance there's an extremely flighty and confused crew member who believes she is in the cast; everything Shakespeare, you will never think Why would you send someone to a dance two cast members are very unhappy with of Shakespeare or Christmas in quite the with glass slippers? They’re so each other; one actor who plays both Bob and same way again. uncomfortable! This pop-cultured adaptation Mrs. Cratchit at the same time; and others of the classic fairy tale begins with an who are struggling to make the best of a impossible Cinderella terrorizing her sweet terribly funny situation. Everything that can go grandmother and her studious sisters. When wrong does, but the show ends with the the prince announces he’s having a ball, they actors pleased, the crew proud, and the try to keep her home, not out of spite, but for audience wonderfully entertained! fear of embarrassment. Things take a very interesting turn when American Idol’s Paula Abdul - “Paula Abdaula” shows up as her fairy godmother. Will Cinderella marry the prince so her family can have some peace?
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DR. SOONEY'S MEDICINE SCROOGE'S CHRISTMAS IF THE SLIPPER FITS BY: JENNY COOK, LORRAINE THOMPSON BY: KEN JONES BY: DAN NEIDERMYER MS HS • 5 females, 7 ALL • 6 females, 9 males, 15 total • 60 minutes ALL • 13 females, 7 males, 12 total, 5-10 • Classics • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: males, 20 total • 90 extras • 45 minutes • $16.75 • Royalty: $75.00 per performance minutes • Fantasy, Comedy, Farce, Classics • Script: Classics • Script: In Ken Jones' adaptation of Charles Dickens' $7.50 • Notebook $6.50 • Notebook classic tale, A Christmas Carol, a group of Script: $16.75 • Script: $12.75 • actors portray all the characters of this Royalty: $60.00 per Royalty: $35.00 per Christmas tradition. The ensemble provides performance performance the songs and sounds as the miserly Four bumbling Court Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by the Spirits “Lettin’ the cat out of Advisors decide it's of Past, Present, and Future. This unique the bag is a whole lot time the Prince finds telling can play to an audience in an intimate easier than puttin’ it a princess. They or large setting using nothing but costumes back in!” "If you find warn the King that and a few props. This remarkable adaptation yourself in a hole… without an heir to the throne, rebellion could is perfect for schools and community theatres, the first thing to do is stop diggin’!" These break out at any time. They order the King to and running at just an hour, it is the perfect words of wisdom are spoken by the lovable command the Prince to find a princess. version for family audiences. Scrooge's Sooney Ollis. Audiences of all ages revel in Disgruntled, but following the King's orders, Christmas premiered at the University of comedic scripts with fast-paced, outrageous the Prince attends the Royal Ball and instantly Virginia in the Helm's Theatre. After five more antics and exaggerated characters. Dr. falls for the beautiful Cinderella, who has full productions at various colleges, the play ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS Sooney’s Medicine is made to order. Adapted been given one magical chance to attend the was reworked and produced at the University from Moliere’s The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Royal Ball. When the clock strikes midnight, of Notre Dame. It has since become a this play puts a mountain twist on the French Cinderella rushes home, and the Prince is left seasonal favorite with universities and high classic. with a glass slipper. The Prince searches the schools across the country. kingdom for his one true love, but ends up THE TWELVE DAZE OF crossing paths with six selfish stepsisters and CHRISTMAS A WOLF'S TALE a very bitter stepmother. This fresh new take on the classic Cinderella tale will delight your BY: JEFF LOVETT BY: CHRIS PERKINS audiences and give your students a chance to MS HS • 11 females, MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 3-10 either, 7-14 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 70 act out one of the world's most beloved 10 males, 6 either, 27 stories. total, 0-40 extras, minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • doubling possible, Notebook Script: $16.75 • Piano Score: $40.00 (Includes Vocal Score with rights to photocopy gender flexible • 60 A CHRISTMAS CAROL minutes • Comedy, for cast) • Production CD: $30.00 • Rehearsal BY: SANDRA NORDGREN Classics • Script: CD: $30.00 • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $6.50 • Notebook $50.00 • Royalty: $90.00 per performance MS HS • 4 females, 5 males, 5 either, 14 total • Script: $16.75 • As we all do, Bob Wolf dreams of being 75 minutes • Comedy, Drama, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Royalty: $45.00 per accepted. After being stereotyped in so many performance $65.00 per performance fairy tales, Bob begins a journey of self- It's Christmas-time, discovery and truth. He meets up with Troll, In this unusually funny and dramatic and all Alice wants to who has also been stereotyped but accepts adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic do is sing one of her his new identity without question. Together, Christmas tale, comedic ghosts teach favorite holiday songs, "The Twelve Days of they revisit a few of your favorite fairy tales, Scrooge that there is more to life than running Christmas." But after just a few words, Alice showing what really happened and how Bob a business and making money. Through the realizes that when she sings, the characters is not really the bad guy everyone says he is - lessons that they teach, Scrooge is brought in the popular song begin to come to life. he's just always been at the wrong place at back to his humanity and realizes that the Alice's boyfriend has decided to surprise her the wrong time. Bob, Troll, and their friends most important thing in this world is loving and by sending her all of the twelve gifts show that sometimes we're good at heart - caring for people. mentioned in the traditional carol. With each just misunderstood. Interactive and fun, this verse, Alice unleashes a wacky stream of musical is sure to please audiences of all HEROES' COUCH characters that are far from what most people ages. BY: ROBERT FRANKEL envision when singing "The Twelve Days of Christmas." From Turtle and Dove, two MS HS • 10 females, 6 males, 4-10 either, 20-26 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • attorneys who try to convince Alice to sue 100 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 Santa Claus for invasion of privacy, to • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per milkmaids who have created a union and are performance on strike because of poor working conditions, the play turns the traditional holiday song into See Dr. Jack. See Dr. Jack’s new Time a fast-paced zany collection of characters. Elevator. See his elevator bring back Perfect for middle schools and high schools Abraham Lincoln, Cleopatra, William with large drama classes. Shakespeare, and others to the twenty-first century. Now see Dr. Jill the psychiatrist, as these very same characters have trouble adjusting to their new surroundings. See the result—an insane group therapy session that 56 www.brookpub.com | order toll free: 1-888-473-8521 * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS sends the patients on a rampage into the PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT, favorite topic, aristocracy; blue blood has modern world. Discover what Shakespeare’s EBENEZER (OR, YOU'LL SOON become a true obsession for the egotist man! first poem sounded like, or the only two things BE SINGIN' A CHRISTMAS He has scared away the few visitors that these heroes like about our century, or the CAROL) happened to drop in to their remote country problems they cause here in the present. This BY: ROD HEARN, CATHERINE COOK house, and now the girls are afraid to die old is time-travel at its funniest. spinsters. They see their last chances in ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS ALL • 13-22 females, 10-20 males, 23-42 Dmitry, the handsome bank clerk and in the THE LITTLE MERMAID total, doubling gentle law student, Meier. But will Rashevitch possible, gender ever accept as sons-in-law two young men BY: MATT THOMPSON, THOMAS HODGES flexible • 75 minutes • from the working class? ALL • 8 females, 2 males, 4-14 either, 14-24 Comedy, Classics • total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 75 Script: $7.50 • minutes • Fantasy, Comedy, Classics • Script: Notebook Script: THE GIFT OF THE MAGI $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/Choral $16.75 • Royalty: BY: DAN NEIDERMYER Score: $20.00 (photocopying allowed for $60.00 per ALL • 2 females, 3 males, 5 total • 15 minutes • production) • Piano Score: $30.00 • Production performance Classics • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: CD: $30.00 • Rehearsal CD: $30.00 • $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $50.00 • A Christmas Carol Royalty: $90.00 per performance has never been so Based on the classic short story by O. Henry, wild, woolly and Based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy The Gift of The Magi tells the poignant story dangerously fun! Join us for a wild west tale of the same name, we follow Coral, The of two young, impoverished newlyweds, Jim adaptation of Charles Dickens' most famous Little Mermaid, in her quest to become and Della Dillingham of New York City in the story featuring a gun-slinging, red long human. Curious ambition and a wondering early 1900s, who find themselves on their first underwear-clad Scrooge digging in his heart leads our mermaid to the surface of her Christmas Eve together with little money and cowboy boots as he gradually learns the true world, above the ocean blue. She rescues no gifts. What Jim and Della do on Christmas meaning of Christmas. This fun, past-paced Evan, a sailor, who is later revealed to be a Eve to acquire the money they need to buy tale is wild with adventure and packed full of prince among men. In the name of love, Coral each other presents, shows the true meaning memorable Christmas ditties and dancing. is willing to part from her family, defy her of Christmas. father King Neptune, and even traverse the murky Benthic Underworld of the Sea Witch, JACK AND BELLA, FROM O. Henry, a master at writing short stories all in the name of her heart. This is the classic BEANSTALK TO BROADWAY depicting American life, culture, and ethos, tale about sacrifice, friendship, love and the BY: BOB MAY, KAREN OWINGS, CHAD used as his example for Jim and Della's giving ultimate fish out of water. BRADFORD the magi of ancient times. Within his ALL • 7 females, 7 males, 14 total, 8 extras, bittersweet story of gift-giving, O. Henry gender flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, Classics explained that the magi invented the art of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal giving Christmas gifts and ever since those HIGH /Choral Score: $10.00 (photocopying allowed ancient times, people have expressed their BY: MICHAEL DRUCE for production) • Piano Score: $20.00 • Royalty: sincere love by giving gifts during the holiday MS HS • 12 females, 6 males, 1-6 either, 19-24 $75.00 per performance season. total, 0-15 extras, doubling possible, gender Jack and his cow, Bella, have a show biz act flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script and want to be famous. But Jack has to sell : $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: PATTY'S AESOP ADVENTURE his cow, and that's where the traditional tale $65.00 per performance BY: BRIAN C. BILLINGS, JULIANNA WRIGHT sort of takes over. As Jack takes his cow In this story of geeks, money, and revenge, MS HS • 2 females, 4 males, 4 either, 10 total, through the forest to market, he runs into the 4-10 extras, gender flexible • 60 minutes • spoiled rich kid Freddy Mondego frames Beanman and other children in the forest, Educational, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • geeky sophomore Billy Milburn for stealing a Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretal, Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/Choral Score: test. Billy is expelled from Monte Cristo High Alice, Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Oz. $20.00 (photocopying allowed for production) • and disappears from sight. Two years later, They all play a part in helping Jack with the Piano Score: $30.00 • Production CD: $30.00 • Billy returns to Monte Cristo in the guise of Giant and eventually making Jack and Bella Rehearsal CD: $30.00 (audio clips available Eddie Dantes, a suave and rich Italian count singing stars. online) • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: determined to settle old scores and to win $50.00 • Royalty: $90.00 per performance over Marcy, the girl he had always been too The premiere of Jack and Bella, From Rediscover Aesop's classic tales with a shy to ask out. Meanwhile, Monte Cristo has Beanstalk to Broadway was presented by musical trip to market. Patty the Milkmaid declared bankruptcy and the school is to be Children’s Theatre To Go, Inc. at Reynolds bumps into some of Aesop's most famous sold to the towns richest man, Frederick Performance Hall (AR). animals, including the racing tortoise, the Mondego. country mouse, the city mouse, and a group AFTERNOON AT THE of dancing monkeys. She blames the animals * for spilling all of her milk, but eventually COUNTRY HOUSE realizes that the only person truly at fault was BY: OLIVIA ARIETI herself. The monkeys celebrate her epiphany ALL • 3 females, 3 males, 6 total • 25 minutes • with a rousing bout of "Monkey Bop" Drama, Comedy, Classics • Script: $5.50 • shenanigans and then retreat to Patty's house Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per for an afternoon snack. performance Genya and Iraida are desperate, their father, Rashevitch, never stops talking and his
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MY FAIR ZOMBIE produced on a bare stage with minimal props Pursuit. Ophelia cuts out paper flowers, and BY:* CRAIG SODARO and costumes. Production notes also include Desdemona sews handkerchiefs. Who is the MS HS • 5 females, 4 males, 9 total • 90 suggestions for spontaneous audience mysterious man who seems to be so minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • participation. interested in the fate of these ladies? Is this Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per an Elizabethan ladies club, or a literary loony performance HAPPILY EVER AFTER... bin? Only Dr. Wells seems to know for sure Sure, robotics scientist Boris Bond has more as she tries to help some of Shakespeare's (MUSICAL) heroines figure out their personal problems degrees than a thermometer. He’s got a cool BY: ALLEN KOEPKE house, an assistant, and a butler he built and bring closure to their theatrical lives. MS • 9 females, 5 males, 1 either, 15 total, 0-25 When Juliet is asked to reenact her tragic himself but, he can’t seem to find a girlfriend. extras • 60 minutes • Fantasy, Classics • Script: In a stroke of genius Boris decides to make story, matters get out of hand and all of the $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Director's ladies are caught up in the act. Staged with his own perfect girlfriend. Great plan until Score: $45.00 (full script, production notes, Boris’s sister shows up running away from piano score, vocal score) • Vocal/Choral Score: either Elizabethan costumes or contemporary romance and his rotten cousin drops in for no $20.00 (photocopying allowed for production) • clothes in a simple setting, this comedy good reason. It doesn’t take long for Production CD: $25.00 • Rehearsal CD: $25.00 ultimately twists and turns its way to a happy everyone’s plans to go awry as someone tries (audio clips available online) • Production/ ending. Rehearsal CD Combo: $40.00 • Royalty: $75.00 to steal Boris’s work, a cop shows up, and per performance Boris’s “perfect girlfriend” turns into a brain- hungry zombie. Can true love quell this A fabulous fractured musical perfect for upper craziness? It doesn’t take a genius to figure elementary and middle school students. that one out! Nationally-renowned composer Allen Koepke ADAPTATIONS OF THE CLASSICS magnificently entwines the characters and storylines of "Little Red Riding Hood," LITTLE RED RIDING BOOTS "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," and "The AND COOTER COYOTE: Three Little Pigs" and traverses an array of MASTER OF DISGUISE musical styles to create this musical family BY: BOBBI A. CHUKRAN treasure. Through a series of misadventures MS HS • 3-4 females, 2 males, 1 either, 6-7 and story twisting, various fairy tale total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender characters learn the importance of friendship, flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, trust, and tolerance. Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance A HANSEL AND GRETEL Cooter Coyote the Master of Disguise, uses every trick in the book to snatch Little Red’s CHRISTMAS saddlebags full of food for her sick Granny. BY: JACK DYVILLE Cooter doesn't give up easily and goes to ALL • 3 females, 2 males, 1 either, 6 total, 1 Granny's where there is a hilarious extra, gender flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy, confrontation with Little Red, Horace the Fairy Tales, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Talking Horse, Granny, Sheriff Matt Dillo— performance and a huge cactus patch. This off-beat, quirky western-style story, with a twisty ending. Join this famous brother and sister in 21st century New York City on Christmas! Dad is out of work and Hansel and Gretel’s selfish PINOCCHIO stepmother wants nothing more for Christmas BY: DAN NEIDERMYER than to rid the house of these two children. ALL • 3 females, 8 males, 11 total • 75 minutes She decides to take them off to Manhattan • Fantasy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook and lose them among the throngs of holiday Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per shoppers, but they are befriended by a silly performance Macy's elf, an old gingerbread lady who talks A new take on the old classic, Pinocchio talks, to herself and a policeman! There’s no evil walks, looks for adventure, and ends up witch, after all this is the Christmas season, getting into big trouble when two foppish and there’s certainly no violence. This show is scallywags, Candlewyck and Sterling, latch perfect for children and adults who enjoy a onto the stringless, thrill-seeking puppet and wonderful family play with morals, lessons cart him off to the circus. With a little help and lots of laughs! from a friendly clown, Pinocchio outsmarts the rapscallions just in time to find himself alone, LADIES, SIGH NO MORE afraid, and friendless on the streets at night BY: THOMAS HISCHAK with a group of bullies approaching. Pinocchio very quickly learns that running away from ALL • 8 females, 2 males, 10 total • 90 minutes Gepetto to explore the world was very • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per dangerous, and when the Blue Fairy saves performance Pinocchio from being chopped into firewood, Pinocchio vows to return to Gepetto and stay Lady Macbeth plays Monopoly with Juliet and in school. Simply sparkling, this play is easily shrewish Kate battles Cordelia at Trivial 58 www.brookpub.com | order toll free: 1-888-473-8521 * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: PATRICK RAINVILLE DORN
Patrick Dorn Like the Original, ADAPTATION Only Different
There’s nothing new under the sun, or on the stage.
Playwrights have been adapting source materials into scripts since the dawn of theatre, and the practice shows no signs of letting up…ever! Most playwrights, from the ancient Greeks, to Shakespeare, to the authors of today’s Broadway shows, adapted fictional or historical stories, persons, or events, to devise something exciting and new.
The trick to creating a successful adaptation is to absorb, then transform the source material into something that is uniquely yours, taking into consideration your production resources and audience.
Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” is a dark satire that transports a cunning capitalist from the Industrial Age into the simpler and technology-impoverished Arthurian England.
For my adaptation, A California Surfer in Cleopatra’s Court (found on page 53), I used Twain’s core concept, except that I prefer laugh-out-loud comedies, and wanted my version to appeal to a teenage cast and an audience of their peers and parents. I locked onto Cleopatra’s Egypt, because it also included Mark Antony and his Roman soldiers, the perfect substitutes for Guinevere, King Arthur, and the knights of Camelot. Throw in the goofy and innocent “beach party” movies of the 1960's, and you have a natural suggestion of sand and water, perfect for a shared, open-stage setting, and inexpensive costumes. A tsunami replaced the pivotal solar eclipse scene from Twain’s original,
The title, A California Surfer in Cleopatra’s Court, sounded enough like Mark Twain’s original to be familiar, yet fresh.
I researched both worlds, and loaded the outline with factual and historical “Easter Eggs” to delight the cast and audience. Next, I wrote the dialogue, inserting as many jokes, puns, slapstick gags and action scenes as possible. Natural substitutions such as a comically villainous Grand Vizier to fill in for Merlin, and a tsunami replacing the pivotal solar eclipse scene from Twain’s original, lead the script down its own unique road.
The result is a slap-happy, “retro” comedy that has fun with both time periods, with the added attraction of a “mirrored” cast, so all the actors can have roles in both eras.
A California Surfer in Cleopatra’s Court may seem wildly original at first glance or if you don’t know the original, but even so, I am indebted to and inspired by his original concept, characters and plot.
And that’s what adaptation is all about.
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AND THEY ALL LIVED... THE CASE OF THE MISSING BOOTS AND BITS BY: FORREST MUSSELMAN GOBBLER BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER MS • 5 females, 3 males, 4 either, 12 total, 0-10 BY: MEGAN ORR MS • 16 either, 16 total, 0-5 extras, doubling extras, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy • ALL • 6 females, 7 males, 2 either, 15 total • 90 possible, gender flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per Royalty: $35.00 per performance And They All Lived... is a comedy that takes performance A crime has been committed, and the world's place in Onceuponatime Land, where the evil With nine kids running around, the Parkers greatest detective, Boots the Cat, has been witch has erased all color from the land. are already expert chefs when it comes to the called to the scene. Along with his assistant, Various characters from familiar fairy tales recipe for insanity! Just mix together Eden, Bits the Dog, he has a mere half hour to find a band together and set off on a quest to find the bossy "mother of all"; William, the strong, bicycle thief before the bike is taken to the person who can make the color come silent type; Madeline, with a phone surgically Canada, never to be seen again! Can you back. Little do they know the one who can attached to her ear; Ian, the self-proclaimed help this feline Sherlock Holmes and canine save them is within their midst. Perfect for all Sherlock Holmes; Dani and Derek, the Watson sift through the clues? Winner of the ages! eternally arguing twins; accident-prone Justin; Southwest Theatre Association's "Coleman Kara, the animal rights activist who refuses to Jennings Award for Children's Theatre," BEAUTY AND THE BEAST participate in the "cruel and unusual" tradition Boots and Bits is an interactive mystery- of eating turkey; and Lily, the sweetest little comedy that will keep children intrigued. BY: MARTY DUHATSCHEK marshmallow of all. Then sprinkle it with a ALL • 8 females, 4 males, 2 either, 14 total • 80 crazy grandfather on the lam and a missing A CROWN DOES NOT A minutes • Comedy, Drama, Classics • Script: turkey. The result is a Thanksgiving that the $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: PRINCESS MAKE Parker family will never forget! But in the $65.00 per performance BY: MAUREEN BRADY JOHNSON midst of the wild goose chase—pardon, wild Beauty and the Beast delivers the classic MS • 3 females, 2 males, 8 either, 13 total, 0-10
STAGE | YOUTH THEATRE turkey chase—the Parker kids realize that, story we have come to love with enough new despite the teasing and occasional trying extras, gender flexible • 20 minutes • Fairy Tales, Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook twists and characters to keep you interested. moments, they wouldn't trade their family for Beauty’s two sisters, Babette and Begonia, Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per the world. performance and the Beasts statue servants; Cacciatorri, Watson and Mipsy, bring new life to the age- Princess Lilliana has never, EVER, taken the old story. Beauty’s pet cow Allan – yes, pet THE CHAMELEON PRINCESS crown off her pretty little head. She proclaims cow -- helps us laugh through the lessons we BY: THOMAS HISCHAK that it makes her a REAL princess. But one will learn, that what is outside a person is not MS HS • 9 females, 2-5 males, 11-14 total, day, it sinks to the bottom of the filthy, yucky as import as what lies within and that it is doubling possible • 40 minutes • Comedy • moat. Will the moat dragons fetch it for her? never a bad idea to show kindness to Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Or will the dragons teach her that a crown someone else. Royalty: $35.00 per performance does not necessarily a REAL princess make? Princess Zena has always been smart. More CINDERGIRL than that, she has an uncanny talent for NIGHT OF THE FALLING STARS becoming an expert in any field any time she BY: STEPHEN HOTCHNER BY: CLAUDIA HAAS speaks with someone knowledgeable in that ALL • 5 females, 2 males, 7 total • 55 minutes • area. When she talks with a blacksmith, she MS HS • 25 females, 12 males, 37 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 70 minutes • Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • knows everything about horses and smithing. Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per Fantasy, Comedy, Drama • Script: $7.50 • performance Let her meet a bishop, and she becomes an Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per expert in religion. She is, much to her family’s performance Cinderella, called "cindergirl" by her discomfort, an intellectual chameleon. Bored stepsisters, is on the adventure of her life with with palace life, Princess Zena sneaks out What is the secret of the mysterious stones Penny, her fairy godmother, whose feisty one night and travels the kingdom to find that have fallen to earth? Can they bring temper wreaks havoc on her spells. (She just herself. During her adventures, Zena about a lasting world peace? Four decidedly turned one of the stepsisters into a heap of discovers love and some new insight into her quirky inhabitants of a fantastical Celestial vegetables, don't say we didn't warn you!) It's rare gift. Center are dispatched to Earth to find the up to the audience to comfort and soothe stones and bring them together. Once the Penny's bruised ego, all while trying to get stones (all pieces of one magnificent stone) Cinderella to the ball. The rest is fairy tale JACANDY are together, they will unleash a light of hope, legend and history, well, almost. The BY: FORREST MUSSELMAN peace, and healing to a broken world. While stepmother, a masterful nightmare of a MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 2 either, 6 total, the fantasy explores the notion that peace person, and her daughters pursue Cinderella gender flexible • 25 minutes • Fantasy • Script: may indeed begin on the playground, it also as Penny asks the audience to make the $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: embraces the joys of working together, most sound of the horse's hooves so that $35.00 per performance notably in the farcical play-within-a-play Cinderella can make it home before midnight. What if the whole world were made of candy? where, of course, what can go wrong does This play is a wild ride through comic fantasy Con is the emperor of JaCandy, and his indeed go wrong. and fairy tale lore. With the help of a sweet tooth has made him rotten. He acts like participatory audience (audience members a no-good rascal, but his wife, Jade, has a big play the mice, the attendants, and the trumpet secret that may change everything. A tasty and violin players), Penny makes it through treat for young audiences. each and every entangled spell and magically saves the day! 60 www.brookpub.com | order toll free: 1-888-473-8521 * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC STAGE | YOUTH THEATRE
THE CRONE OF CROPLEY BUGZZZ CSI - NEVERLAND BY: MATT BUCHANAN BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT BY: WADE BRADFORD MS HS • 6 females, 6 males, 12 total, 0-10 MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 14-37 either, ALL • 7 females, 7 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 45 18-41 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • males, 14 total, 0-10 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook 30 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook extras, gender flexible Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per • 90 minutes • performance performance Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: Nothing seems to be going right in the little A country is on the brink of war. The Prince of $8.50 • Notebook town of Cropley. The cows won't give milk, the Stovia has crossed the treacherous Linoleum Script: $16.75 • hens won't lay eggs, and the crops are dying Plains in hopes of taking the bug he loves, the Royalty: $75.00 per in the field—until a mysterious old woman Princess of Frigistan, and escaping to the performance shows up. Does she have magical powers or safety of the fabled Highlands. There, STAGE | YOUTH THEATRE CSI meets Neverland just wisdom? When the town adopts her in beneath the toaster, where no bug cares in this marvelous hopes that she'll cure their ills, they learn that whether your antennae go up or down, and merger of comedic through helping her, they can help each other. the people never empty the crumbs, they mayhem. Murk and A fairy tale about the importance of hope to live in peace forever. There's only one Tinker, Fairy Forensics Officers, are cooperation and the power of helping others. thing stopping them...the entire Frigistani investigating the mysterious murder of Peter army. Pantaloon's shadow. Their prime suspect is The play can also make use of an optional Head Librarian Brenda Brooks, who despises ensemble, thus allowing more performers to DAWGS Seuss, Hogwarts, giant peaches, and boys participate. BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT who refuse to grow up. As Peter laments the MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 6 either, 10 total, loss of his shadow, Murk and Tink whisk FAIRY TALE ACADEMY 0-5 extras • 60 minutes • Drama, Comedy • Brenda away for questioning and throw her in BY: MICHELLE VAN LOON Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • a lineup with the infamous Captain Sharp. ALL • 8 females, 4 males, 12 total • 45 minutes Royalty: $60.00 per performance Meanwhile, Tink pays the Lab Rats a visit, only to discover that the culprit could quite • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: The dogs in Happy Doggy Land Pet Store possibly be the crocodile. But the croc died $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance have a reason to be nervous: Will they get a days ago from over-eating, so Murk and Tink Karen Smith, daydreaming daughter of two good owner or a bad one? And what if they convince Captain Sharp's girlfriend, Penelope buttoned-down accountants, is set to begin at don't get one at all? It's no secret that there Moppins, to go undercover. It is Brenda a new school for high achievers. Instead, she are no old dogs in the pet store. And now, to Brooks, however, who makes the startling finds herself at Fairy Tale Academy, a training make things even worse, there's a cat. Come discovery that Peter's shadow was maliciously school for fairy tale characters. The accent is join the cast of bizarre animals as they decide murdered by Never's most poisonous fish, the on character indeed in this fun-filled play as whether to escape, revolt, or to wait less than Red Herring. She also rediscovers love and a audiences meet Mrs. Christian-Anderson, the patiently for something that may never come. love for the classics. teacher who functions as emcee to a classroom of true characters including a THE FROG PRINCE spoiled dragon, a mall-girl princess, a cranky ONCE UPON A GRAPEVINE BY: KRISTYN LEIGH ROBINSON old crone, a dragon with the temperament of a BY: THOMAS HISCHAK demanding four year-old, a handsome (if ALL • 7 females, 3 males, 1 either, 11 total, gender flexible • 35 minutes • Fantasy, Classics MS HS • 6-19 females, 2-12 males, 8-31 total, somewhat vapid) prince and more. Karen • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • doubling possible, gender flexible • 25 minutes • becomes the heroine of the class project and Royalty: $35.00 per performance Comedy, Classics • Script: $5.50 • Notebook longs to stay at the school permanently. But Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per first, she must get her parents' permission. In this fresh adaptation of the classic fairy performance tale, Princess Sofie encounters a frog at a Will Mr. and Mrs. Smith rediscover their own Rumors and gossip spread quickly through a well and strikes a bargain with him. When long-dormant imaginations? A humorous, fairy tale forest in this delightful look at how Sofie breaks her bargain, however, the frog contemporary twist on classic fairy tales, Fairy the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the (who is really a prince under a spell) decides Tale Academy is a delightful reminder to Wolf gets blown out of proportion each time it to go to her father's castle to confront her. His audiences about the power of imagination. is retold by a different character. Everyone mission is complicated, however, by the from Rapunzel and the Three Little Pigs to appearance of the wolf from Little Red Riding Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs gets HAPPILY EVER AFTER Hood. Tired of being cast as the villain, the involved in the comical grapevine. Sure to BY: FORREST MUSSELMAN Wolf decides to hijack this story in order to re- please audiences of all ages and ideal for MS • 5 females, 4 males, 9 total • 30 minutes • create the reputation of fairy tale wolves contest use, this short farce even manages to Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • Script: $6.50 • everywhere. Can this odd assortment of teach a simple lesson through its cockeyed Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per characters find their "happily ever after"? performance humor. Four pairs of disgruntled fairy tale characters compete on a game show for the chance to live happily ever after. Little do they know that the host of the show, the wicked witch, isn't about to let that happen.
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HIGHLY THEATRICAL TERMS JACK AND THE BEANSTALK THE TWELVE DANCING BY: C.P. STANCICH BY: CHRIS STILES PRINCESSES MS HS • 12-18 either, 12-18 total, doubling MS • 12 either, 12 total, doubling possible, BY: CLAUDIA HAAS possible, gender flexible • 35 minutes • gender flexible • 30 minutes • Fantasy, Fairy ALL • 14-19 females, Comedy, Educational • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Tales, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook 6-7 males, 20-26 total, Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per doubling possible • 55 performance performance minutes • Comedy, This is a fast-paced performance piece for Three narrators guide Jack through his Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • young actors. Taking on various characters in adventures with the mysterious stranger, the Notebook Script: a series of scenelets and monologues, actors magic beans, the beanstalk and of course, the $16.75 • Royalty: explore concepts and definitions in drama giant’s castle at the top of the beanstalk. Jack $45.00 per (hence, "Highly Theatrical Terms"). The result finds the giant doesn’t have a golden goose - performance is an exercise in timing and pace that is both he has a gaggle of golden geese! And the King Oakley returns funny and audience pleasing. giant is actually the audience. That shouldn’t from a summit be a problem, but a strike staged by the meeting to find that narrator’s union might make it difficult to get HOORAY FOR JUSTICE! conditions in his castle have grown lax. With through the story. Fortunately, Jack BY: RENEE CLARK the assistance of his diabolical servant, remembers what the first narrator tells him, Fiorello, King Oakley devises a strict regimen MS • 4-9 females, 6-7 males, 3-6 either, 13-22 that fairy tales always have a happy ending. total, 0-20 extras, doubling possible, gender for his daughters and no longer allows them flexible • 65 minutes • Comedy, Fantasy • Script to leave the castle grounds. In an effort to : $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: I HATE CHRISTMAS break from these harsh rules, the princesses $60.00 per performance BY: MARTY DUHATSCHEK fall prey to the desires of Fiorello, who is Hooray for Justice! parodies courtroom drama ALL • 8-10 females, 0-2 males, 8-12 total, 0-15 orchestrating a deceitful takeover of the STAGE | YOUTH THEATRE and includes familiar nursery rhyme extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 castle. With the help of their magical nanny, characters. Wolf is accused of pushing minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook the princesses find hope in the Land of the Humpty Dumpty off a wall, and the audience Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per Muses. performance is the jury. Humpty's witnesses include one of the King’s Men, Dorky Pig, and the flaky Fairy I Hate Christmas is a big-hearted holiday Godmother, Wanda. Wolf calls two of the comedy that appeals to audiences of all ages. dwarfs to the stand, Sneezy and Doc, as well Frankie Fine and The Misbegottens live in a as Goldie Goose, who gave birth to Humpty. group home for unwanted children, and have The trial builds to a fantastic finish that turns little use for Christmas. Instead of sending all these fairy tales upside down. Santa the usual list of toys, Frankie sends a different kind of letter, "I hate Christmas. Why HOW I SURVIVED CAMP don't you do us all a favor and call the whole thing off?" Meanwhile at the North Pole, two COOTIES of Santa's elves, Rolly and Dingo, have been BY: MEGAN ORR banished to the mailroom: the next step for MS HS • 7 females, 7 males, 14 total, 2 extras • them is out the door. They discover Frankie's 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: $7.50 • Notebook letter and decide that helping her may be their Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per last chance to return to Santa's good graces. performance Working undercover at the group home, they It's every 14-year-old boy's worst nightmare— discover it will take more than Christmas being mistaken for a girl! Now Leigh Rawlins presents to replace a family. And it will take a will have to spend the entire summer on the lot more than good cheer to thaw out the icy girls' side of Camp Still Water, a boot camp Ms. Pincer, who runs the place. Can two of for "troubled teens." Characters include Santa's least wanted save a Christmas that's everything from an incessant chatterbox to a not about what's under the tree? kleptomaniac and an OCD counselor. Despite taunting from the guys and makeovers from the girls, Leigh learns a valuable lesson—that OPERATION TAKE BACK DAD everyone deserves respect. BY: MATT BUCHANAN MS HS • 3 females, 2 males, 2 either, 7 total, gender flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy • Script: A STORY IN PERIL $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: BY: ALAN HAEHNEL $35.00 per performance MS • 6-16 either, 6-16 total, 5-10 extras, gender Mom and the children have almost forgotten flexible • 20 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales • he lives there. Frustrated by their emotionally Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • distant dad's obsession with work, five Royalty: $35.00 per performance children take matters into their own hands and When a character attempts to read from a kidnap him in this zany play with a heart. story, he finds he has made the story expire. An expert arrives to save the day.
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THE GRUFF BILLIES OR WHY LITTLE WOMEN MY DOG ATE THE HOUSES UNDER A BRIDGE ARE BY: MATT BUCHANAN CONSTITUTION NOT PRIME REAL ESTATE ALL • 8-15 females, 7-11 males, 15-26 total, BY: STACEY LANE BY: BOBBY KENISTON doubling possible, gender flexible • 120 minutes MS • 1 female, 3-15 males, 0-8 either, 4-16 MS • 3 females, 3 males, 1 either, 7 total, • Drama, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook total, 10-30 extras, doubling possible, gender gender flexible • 50 minutes • Fairy Tales, Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per flexible • 55 minutes • Comedy, Educational, Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook performance Historical Events and People • Script: $6.50 • Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Based on the cherished novel by Louisa May Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per performance Alcott, Little Women tells the story of the four performance Marty Kidd, the finest real estate goat in the March Girls, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as they Studying for a test on the U.S. Constitution business, just wants to sell a house to the grow to adulthood in Civil War era New will make you fall asleep! In this audience-
Troll family. Unfortunately, Johnny-Ram and England. The girls endure hardships and participation adventure, a young girl does just STAGE | YOUTH THEATRE Jeanie Gruff (known to the locals as the “Gruff privations, and eventually even a tragic loss, that and is surprised to meet George Billies”), cause so much trouble and wreak so but their courage, their love for each other, Washington and Ben Franklin. Even more much havoc, that it might just blow the sale! and the strength of their family bond never surprising is that her dog is now wearing a wig Their father, who is taking a “mental health fade. This adaptation stays very close to the and claiming to be James Madison. My Dog day” across the bridge, wants nothing to do original text and is especially popular with Ate the Constitution utilizes songs, games with them, and their poor half-elven nanny those who truly love the book. An evening and humor to teach students curriculum- named Mary (of the little lamb fame) is at her with sensible Meg, headstrong Jo, quiet Beth based U.S. History and civic responsibility in a wits end trying to make them mind. But have and lively Amy makes a wonderful and memorable and interactive manner. Johnny-Ram and Jeanie finally met their moving theatrical experience for the whole match when they meet the formidable family. THE NAMELESS PRINCESS Mamma Troll? This delightful new take on the BY: MAUREEN BRADY JOHNSON classic story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff will THE LOST ENDING have children and parents rolling in the aisle MS HS • 6 females, 3 males, 14-20 either, BY: BRAD GROMELSKI with clever dialogue, colorful characters, 23-29 total • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: audience interaction, and easy-to-sing songs MS • 7-16 either, 7-16 total • 45 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $35.00 per performance with tunes in the public domain. A joy for all $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance ages! In a quiet kingdom, there is trouble brewing How did the first fairy tale originate? How when a princess is born and her royal parents does creativity continue through imagination? can't agree on a name for her. Should it be a THE LADYBUG AND THE A troupe of Players presents a "story hour," classical or modern name? The search goes BUTTERFLY but when the book is lost, they decide to on for years and years, and just when the BY: EDITH WEISS improvise. After the second tale, the Players young princess is about to turn 16, the story MS • 2 females, 1 male, 5 either, 8 total, 0-5 have only a few minutes left; and must devise takes an unexpected twist. Here's a play that extras, gender flexible • 15 minutes • Comedy, their own ending. They ask young audience sheds a new light on the age-old question, Fantasy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: members to create their own endings and "What's in a name?" $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance submit them to either their parents, teachers Lily, a striped ladybug who loves to knit, or to the company... Suitable for classroom RUMPLESTILSKIN THE R- moves into a meadow that is the home of a use or tour. DAWG, HIP-HOP MINSTREL handsome and arrogant butterfly named Bob. BY: BOBBY KENISTON Since Lily is different, Bob tries to chase her THE MEADOW out, as he has all the rest of the creatures of MS HS • 15 females, 10 males, 1 either, 26 BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT the meadow. When a lovely but perilous total, 5-10 extras • 80 minutes • Comedy, Fairy MS • 8 either, 8 total, gender flexible • 30 Tales, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook butterfly named Babbette enters the picture, Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per Bob loses one of his prized wings and minutes • Comedy, Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance suddenly needs Lily's help in this fantasy for performance young audiences. In this fairy tale with a modern flair, The worst thing about being a distinguished Rumplestilskin desperately wants to be a hip- flower, such as a Poppy, is that there is no hop star. If only his overbearing mother and A LITTLE PRINCESS privacy. No escape. You can't get away from bratty sister, Rumplina, would give him some BY: EDITH WEISS those other annoying plants, especially the peace to work on his rhymes, life would be ALL • 13 females, 8 either, 21 total, gender ones who think there is no difference between great. Meanwhile, Jack, of the beanstalk flexible • 75 minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: being a truly magnificent plant, such as a fame, has squandered all his money on bad $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Poppy, and that of a common weed. But investments in hopes of inventing the folding $60.00 per performance worse than that are the insects. And the worst chair and impressing Stacy, the beautiful Sara, who has spent her whole life in India insects of all are the bees...the killer bees. young storyteller in the village. Stacy finds her with her father, arrives at Miss Minchin's own trouble when her father tells the Seminary for Young Ladies. Her life here obnoxious Prince that she is able to spin brings jealousy from the other children and straw into gold! Throw in a frazzled mother hostility from Miss Minchin. There are many who lives in a shoe, a group of royal turns and surprises as she grows up, and the cheerleaders, a crazy music agent, a shallow audience will delight in the wonders of the teenager, and a bunch of bratty kids, and you ending. have popular stories with modern attitude.
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OLLIE AND STANLEY OWL PRINCE UGLY SIR SADDLESORE AND THE BY: EDITH WEISS BY: MATT BUCHANAN DRAGON MS • 1 female, 1 male, 7 either, 9 total, gender MS HS • 7 females, 6 males, 3 either, 16 total, BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER flexible • 20 minutes • Fantasy, Comedy • Script gender flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, Fairy MS HS • 5 females, 6 males, 1 either, 12 total, : $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: Tales • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • $30.00 per performance Royalty: $35.00 per performance Comedy, Readers Theatre • Script: $6.50 • Blatabilia Blue Jay is tending to her ready-to- What is a real friend? Prince Ugly is a Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance hatch eggs. Fumblus Bumblus Beez has contemporary fairy tale about a young prince tipped a bucket of honey onto the Queen Bee. who is cursed at birth, like Sleeping Beauty— Once upon a time, a beautiful princess was And a lost little owl, Stanley, thinks Ollie is his only this is a very different kind of curse! Poor placed in the top of a tower where she would mother. When Ollie tries to teach him how to Prince William is the ugliest child on the wait for a knight to rescue her—but along hoot, the little lost owl makes every other planet. Children run from his face, and even came a dragon instead! Now, Sir Saddlesore sound in the known universe, keeping all the strong men quail. The spell can only be the Valiant must battle the evil dragon, Drano, animals awake all of the time in this fantasy broken when the prince makes a real friend— to win the girl, save the kingdom, and restore about loyalty and learning at your own pace. but how can he, when everyone is afraid of peace and prosperity to the throne. A wild him? A fun, often zany story about identity comedy with plenty of knights, wizards, and friendship. dragons, serfs, kings, queens, and courtly PINOCCHIO AND HIS FATHER love. BY: WILL LEDESMA MS HS • 1-3 females, 4-6 males, 14 either, PRINCESS INCHWORM 19-23 total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, MEASURES THE OCEAN SPASKETTI gender flexible • 75 minutes • Comedy, Drama, BY: SEAN ABLEY BY: FORREST MUSSELMAN Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: MS HS • 3 females, 2 males, 4-6 either, 9-11 MS • 6 females, 1 male, 4 either, 11 total • 30 $16.75 • Royalty: $60.00 per performance total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook STAGE | YOUTH THEATRE Once upon a time, there was....a block of flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales • Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per wood! From this most unusual beginning Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • performance Royalty: $35.00 per performance unfolds a whirlwind tale of fantasy and family When Tatum thinks there’s a monster under as young Pinocchio, the most famous puppet In the Kingdom of the Overgrown Field, her bed, her toys come to the rescue and plan of all time, dreams of doing the right things Princess Inchworm is keen to use her inch-by- a daring adventure to get rid of the monster and becoming a real boy. Temptation is never inch measuring skills to find out just how large once and for all. A fun and imaginative play far, and soon the well-meaning puppet is in the ocean is. But her father, King Inchworm, for young audiences. trouble again. All of your favorite Pinocchio wants her to give up on her adventures and moments are here (as well as a few you may marry Prince Dandy Longlegs from the TERRIBLE SKUNK BREATH have forgotten about) in this clever, engaging, Kingdom of the Dusty Old Barn. “You’re two BY: BRADLEY WALTON and refreshingly traditional take on Collodi's months old! It’s time to get married and masterpiece. Pinocchio and his Father is a prepare to be the new Queen!” The princess MS HS • 1 female, 1 male, 8-17 either, 10-19 touching story of the impertinence of youth, is determined to show her father, and the rest total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 60 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • the adventurous spirit of boyhood, and the of the world, that she doesn’t have to be Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per transforming power of a father's love. married, and definitely doesn’t have to give up performance adventuring, to be a good queen. With bright, colorful characters, girl power, and tons of Jay is a Star Wars-obsessed teenager who THE SEVEN NASTY wants his classmate Ashley to notice him, and PRINCESSES audience participation, this is the perfect play for young audiences and their parents! he’s not having much luck. But when Ashley BY: EDITH WEISS unmistakably notices the smell of a stink MS HS • 13 females, 2 males, 7 either, 22 total, bomb in the school hallway, Jay figures out 0-5 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • PIRATES what it will take to capture her attention—bad 55 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales • Script: BY: KRISTI THIELEN breath. So Jay stops brushing his teeth. And $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: MS HS • 5 females, 7 males, 1-2 either, 13-14 his breath gets bad. Really bad. So bad that $45.00 per performance total • 55 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • his mother warns him he might turn into a Two witches, Barfette and Hurlish, live with Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per skunk… which is exactly what happens. Then their little witch nephews, Snarfel, Snoggle performance Jay’s toothbrush runs away and hides in the and Snitch, near the castle of Gems. They tell A mischievous five-girl band of pirates lands woods. When he goes off to search for it, Jay the story of the seven Princesses, all of whom on Banana Island, armed with a third of an old encounters a very peculiar rabbit and then desperately want to marry Prince John, and map which should lead them to the Treasure finds himself confronted by a commando unit will stop at nothing to ruin each other's of the Lavender Lady. Little do they know, a of skunks who don’t appreciate him stinking chances. The Princesses each secretly visit band of five-boy pirates, equally quirky, has up their forest. Can Jay find his toothbrush? Is the witches and cast spells against each landed on the other side of the island, with the the rabbit hiding something? Will Ashley ever other. Princess Ruby's face freezes into a same purpose. Both bands of pirates are in notice Jay? Written with kids, teens and phony smile, Amethyst's melodious voice for quite a surprise—they aren't alone on the grown-ups in mind, Terrible Skunk Breath is a croaks like a frog, and would-be ballerina island! Colorful characters, fast-paced whimsical theatrical treat for audiences of all Princess Emerald can't stop dancing like a comedy,lively plot-twists highlight a show that ages! chicken. The nephews, learning a valuable requires only modest props,set pieces. lesson from the witches' peril, become helpful and seek to undo the spells. A fun, clever play for middle school or elementary.
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SLEEPING BEAUTY AND THE SLEEPING WALTER SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH BEAST BY: MATT BUCHANAN OF A LIFE BY: WADE BRADFORD MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 18 either, 22 total, BY: THOMAS HISCHAK ALL • 11 females, 6 doubling possible, gender flexible • 45 minutes • MS HS • 5-14 females, 4-8 males, 9-22 total, males, 17 total • 70 Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: 0-5 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • minutes • Fantasy, $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance 30 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • Classics • Script: Ever wish you could just keep dreaming? Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • $8.50 • Notebook Royalty: $35.00 per performance Script: $16.75 • Walter's dreams are so much more fulfilling Royalty: $75.00 per than his real life that he refuses to wake up. A rehearsal at the Centerville Children's performance Walter dreams a series of increasingly Theatre Company is interrupted when six fairy fantastic triumphs, as his family grows more tale characters enter and plead with the
Looking for big STAGE | YOUTH THEATRE and more concerned that he won't wake up. Director and Stage Manager to act out their laughs and big Finally his sister, Grace, joins him in his stories. Each has been left out of a classic adventure in a dreams to try to "talk him down." But it is not fairy tale: Cinderella's friendly step-sister, the kingdom far, far until Walter learns for himself that real eighth and oversized dwarf (Shorty) Hansel away? Then look no satisfaction comes from trying, not from and Gretel's dense sister, the fourth little further than the hysterically astounding best- winning, that he decides to come back to the piggy, Sleeping Beauty's zombie-like sister, selling play, Sleeping Beauty and the Beast. real world. and Jasper, the not-so-little bear. As the Both timely and timeless, this easy-to-stage stories unfold from new points of view, familiar comedy follows the valiant quest of the tales get a comic makeover. bumbling but good-hearted Prince Charmless THE SNOW QUEEN as he attempts with all his might to save BY: PATRICIA BARRY RUMBLE Princess Rose from the Wicked Faerie and MS • 7 females, 3-5 males, 1 either, 11-13 total, THE TIGER IN THE PIT her sleep-induced curse. Along the way, doubling possible, gender flexible • 55 minutes • BY: JOHN BYRNE Prince Charmless meets and befriends an Drama, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • MS • 7 either, 7 total, gender flexible • 25 adventurous Puss ‘N’ Boots, a snarling Snow Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per minutes • Comedy, Legends and Myths, Fairy White, the helpful Headless Horseman, and a performance Tales • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • very lonely Beast. In the ever-entertaining This scintillating tale shimmers in a Royalty: $30.00 per performance tradition of the Broadway musical, Into the dreamscape in the land of ice and snow. It is Coaxed by a silver-tongued tiger who has Woods, and the smash hit movie, Shrek, the story of two young friends, Gerda and Kai, fallen into a pit, a person’s naiveté makes it Sleeping Beauty and the Beast turns fairy whose friendship is torn apart when Kai's likely he/she will end up as the tiger’s next tales upside down and the result is a lively, heart is pierced by a sliver of the Snow meal. Will a timid rabbit that happens by be furiously funny show with a lot of great roles Queen's evil mirror. He follows the heartless able to save the person? for your whole ensemble and great times for Queen to her Ice Palace. There, Kai is your entire audience. doomed to spend eternity in a world devoid of human love and compassion. Only the SURVIVAL OF UKOCONO BY: CHERYL D. DUFFIN THE WIZARD, THE WITCH, THE enduring love of young Gerda can save him. FAIRY, THE SQUIRREL, AND But before she does, she must venture out ALL • 13 females, 8 males, 21 total, 1-10 into a world filled with adventure. extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 45 THE SOFT, FUZZY SLIPPERS minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook OF DOOM Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per BY: BRADLEY WALTON, RACHEL WALTON SOPHIE AND THE performance MS HS • 2 females, 1 male, 5-8 either, 8-11 ADVENTURES OF ICE ISLAND Once every seven years, the invisible total, 0-5 extras, doubling possible, gender BY: FORREST MUSSELMAN Amazon island of Ukocono becomes visible to flexible • 60 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales • MS • 1 female, 1 male, 8-9 either, 10-11 total, the outside world! For their own safety, and Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • 1-5 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • Royalty: $35.00 per performance that of their unspoiled rainforest, the Ukocono 55 minutes • Drama, Fantasy, Educational • tribe must keep the island safe from intruders. Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • For centuries, Chuck the Wizard has created But when a cast of kooky characters— Royalty: $40.00 per performance wonderful, magical objects, only to have each including three shipwrecked surfer dudes, an and every one destroyed by a witch. When Sophie always wanted to be a superhero. English scientist and her assistant, and a real Chuck’s pet squirrel decides to help out by When her homemade boat travels to Ice estate developer and his lumberjack friend— placing a dangerous “defense spell” on a pair Island, Sophie befriends a group of animals— show up to investigate the mysterious island, of newly-created magic slippers, Chuck is a sassy polar bear, some silly penguins, and the delicate balance of the tribe's rainforest none too pleased. Faced with the job of a hyper-active lemming, among others—in home is threatened. With roles for performers keeping the slippers out of the witch’s hands, order to stop the evil Dark Figure from melting of all levels, Survival of Ukocono is a the squirrel goes to the Fairy Queen for the island. Will Sophie finally be able to make rainforest comedy that will entertain and edify. help…but things don’t go as planned. Never her wish come true? This environmentally- trust a squirrel with anything magic! friendly play is an adventurous comedy and perfect for children and adults alike.
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SKY BABY AND THE BEDTIME SUPER POTATO THIS IS JUST TO SAY STORY BY: MARTY DUHATSCHEK BY: JULIET BOND BY: BOBBY KENISTON MS HS • 3 females, 4 males, 7 either, 14 total • MS • 13-14 females, 10-11 males, 1 either, ALL • 5 females, 4 males, 9 total • 30 minutes • 75 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales • Script: 24-26 total, doubling possible • 50 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Drama, Mystery, Classics • Script: $6.50 • $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance $60.00 per performance Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $55.00 per performance Barry, a would-be stepfather, is very nervous. Super Potato is the story of Jamie and his When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to He is dating Christine, Sky's mother, who has babysitter Teri. Jamie spends most of his time write poems of apology, an avalanche of set aside this special time for Barry and Sky sitting in front of the television watching unexpected responses are set into motion! A to get to know one another. Barry will be in Megalodion while Teri is a computer junkie. mystery is solved, a catastrophe is avoided, charge of telling Sky, who likes to be called They encounter Lloyd the Bovine, who takes and a life is saved. The driving narrative Sky-Baby, her bedtime story. Sky-Baby has them to the Fairy Tale Recycling Center focuses on Bonifacio, a child who is bullied very specific ideas about how stories should (F.T.R.C.) He explains that in this land many into total anonymity until, years later, an be told. She teaches Barry how to raise the of our favorite fairytale characters are simply apology poem and Bonifacio's willingness to stakes and build a character arc, as her waiting for their stories to be retold again. forgive, bring him back. This play is an bedroom transforms into the mythical village Jamie and Teri’s interaction with the colorful unsentimental look at bullying, divorce, sibling of Foxtown, where the houses are made from characters makes for some wonderful rivalry, first crushes, bravery, friendship and grapefruits, and the village is populated by a parodies of some of the most beloved fairy girl power. With a uniquely diverse cast, it's a Nervous Knight, a big giant Monster Person, tales. The fairy tales that are told include: The perfect vehicle for theatres to encourage and magical ladies, and Sky-Baby herself. Along Elves and the Shoemaker, Rumplestilskin, promote conversations about bullying. This is the way, Sky-Baby learns to work well with The Three Little Pigs, The Boy Who Cried Just to Say: A Play About Apology and others, to accept people without judging them, Wolf, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Forgiveness had its world premiere at and comes to terms with her parents' divorce. many others. Several of the audience members will be chosen to be on stage and Mudlark Children's Theater (IL) and was STAGE | YOUTH THEATRE This comedic play teaches valuable lessons written in collaboration with Joyce Sidman, while having a great deal of fun. participate in the action. This unique approach to the production allows your audience to winner of the 2013 NCTE Award for become personally invested in the story! The Excellence in Children's Poetry and a THREE GOLDEN HAIRS play ends with Jamie trying to direct his own Newbery Honor-winning author. BY: AMANDA MURRAY mixed-up version of Goldie Locks and the MS • 5 females, 7 males, 3 either, 15 total, Three Bears. Jamie and Teri are then YOU HAVE TO WEAR GREEN doubling possible, gender flexible • 60 minutes • whisked back home and advised by Lloyd, ON TUESDAYS...AND OTHER Fairy Tales, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook “To make their lives their own story.” Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per BITS OF TEENAGE WISDOM performance BY: DEANNA ABLESER THREE FRACTURED PIGS With a monster, a greedy king, and a quest to MS • 6-32 females, 5-13 males, 0-14 either, BY: CHRIS STILES marry a princess, this adaptation of the 11-59 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • MS • 14-21 either, 14-21 total, 3-7 extras, 40 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Brothers Grimm fairy tale has it all! Several Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per narrators bring the audience along as a young doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • Script: $6.50 • performance man journeys to the Black Forest to pluck Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per A montage of humorous scenes and three hairs from the head of a monster in performance order to marry the princess. Will the host of monologues ideal for middle schools and crazy characters he encounters along the way It seems to be a traditional telling of The lauded by parents, students, school board be able to help him in his quest? Three Little Pigs: three pigs, three houses, members, and school administrations. This one big bad wolf. At least that's the intent of forty-minute show addresses relevant pre- the first narrator. But the second narrator teen and teen issues in a humorous, serious, THE THREE WISHES OF seems to be getting his stories confused and and serio-comedic manner. Note: Scenes/ ALADDIN brings in a house of candy, along with a blind monologues could be cut to accommodate BY: DAVID DIETZ witch, as well as some random wise-cracking specific production needs. MS HS • 3 females, 4 males, 2 either, 9 total, birds. And to further complicate matters, the gender flexible • 65 minutes • Comedy, story is interrupted by the unwanted THE TREEHOUSE Fantasy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook appearances of a fire marshal, a health BY: MAUREEN BRADY JOHNSON Script: $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per inspector and a dentist general? It isn't long performance before this classic story is way out of whack. MS • 2 females, 3 males, 5 total • 30 minutes • Comedy, Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook What do you get when you take one poor, The narrators, however, will do everything Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per they can to bring it back to the version lowly street urchin and mix him up with a performance cunning, dastardly magician? Let's throw in an everyone knows and loves. outrageous, fun-loving magical genie and a It's funny how clearly you can see things stunningly beautiful princess, too! The perfect when you're up in a tree. Jake, Will and Devin family recipe for fun, adventure and laughter are celebrating the first night of summer in in a delightfully hilarious new adaptation of the their brand new treehouse, when a newcomer classic tale from 1001 Arabian Nights. challenges everything. But when a life is saved and a secret is revealed, things just aren't so clear anymore.
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...AND OTHERS 368 FRIENDS - ONE ACT FREAK BY: DENNIS BUSH VERSION BY: ANGELA HILL HS • 4 females, 4 males, 8 total • 30 minutes • BY: BRADLEY WALTON ALL • 10 females, 5 Ensemble Cast, Drama • Script: $6.50 • MS HS • 15-17 either, 15-17 total, doubling males, 4 either, 19 Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per possible, gender flexible • 25 minutes • Mature total, 0-5 extras, performance Theme, Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook gender flexible • 30 minutes • Drama, A journey through the mind and memory of Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Educational • Script: Amanda, a 26-year-old woman, this drama $6.50 • Notebook explores the dissociative identity disorder Laura is shy, quiet, and awkward, with no real Script: $12.75 • (multiple personality syndrome) that resulted social life. But online, she has 368 friends. Royalty: $40.00 per from a trauma she suffered at thirteen. Seven People who care enough to share their lives performance personas female and male struggle for with her. And that's all Laura needs. At least, "I've already been to control. With a mix of terrifying intensity, that's what she keeps telling herself. But as high school, that's quirky humor, and heartbreaking revelations, time goes on, she has more and more trouble like the biggest freak STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS this thirty-minute one-act play will give actors believing it. After her posts about depression show of all." Monique challenging roles to play, directors an go unanswered, Laura announces to her 368 dreads school. The constant torment makes opportunity for creative staging, and will have friends that she plans to kill herself, and waits her feel like an outcast and a freak. She audiences on the edge of their seats. to see if any of them will try to stop her. wishes she could just disappear - and she does. Monique finds herself in a side show - THE 11TH BELOW THE BELT wondering how she got there, why she is BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER BY: DENNIS BUSH there, and how will she get back. This play deals with the issues of bullying and suicide. It ALL • 4-12 females, 2-6 males, 4-11 either, MS HS • 5 females, 5 males, 10 total • 35 10-29 total, 0-5 extras, doubling possible, minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook focuses on choices and consequences. gender flexible • 40 minutes • Drama, Historical Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Though sometimes dark, Freak emphasizes Events and People • Script: $6.50 • Notebook performance that there is always hope. Freak offers many Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per opportunities for acting and creative input Tragedy links ten people who, just like performance from both the cast and crew. animals backed into a corner, lash out when 9/11 changed the world - but how did it they’re trapped. Below the Belt brings change you? Watch the events unfold from together the characters and their stories, like WAKING CHARLIE the point of view of everyday people in a high pieces of a puzzle, to form a complete picture. BY: DAN D'AMARIO school: the teachers, the students, the We’re all witnesses and we all take sides. MS HS • 7 females, 8 males, 15 total • 35 counselors and the parents. They are people minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook who weren't in New York or Washington on Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per that day, but were drastically affected, just like THE ADVENTURES OF ALICE IN performance you, and each has a story to tell. WONDERLAND BY: TAMMY BARTON, GAYANN TRUELOVE Charlie Tarver's suicide was the ultimate cry for attention and act of revenge. A visit from MS HS • 4 females, 3 males, 16 either, 23 total, AFTER HAPPILY doubling possible, gender flexible • 50 minutes • Andy, a kindred spirit with unresolved issues, BY: DENNIS BUSH Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • helps Charlie deal with his emotions and MS HS • 3 females, 3 males, 1 either, 7 total, Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per show him a life that could have been. gender flexible • 35 minutes • Drama, Fairy performance Tales • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • A whimsical romp down the rabbit hole! Join Royalty: $35.00 per performance CELLOPHANE Alice as she discovers a magical land full of BY: CHRIS STILES Inspired by fairy tales, After Happily weaves color, zany characters and lots of fun. Along HS • 2 females, 1 male, 13 either, 16 total, together the stories of seven characters as the way, Alice meets the mysterious Cheshire doubling possible, gender flexible • 35 minutes • they passionately pursue what they believe Cat who is forever changing colors and the Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 will bring them perfect happiness. A sleeping rhyming Caterpillar who loves to blow his • Royalty: $35.00 per performance beauty can be the tragic end to an idyllic bubble pipe and say strange things. She goes Dave, Dana and Adele are three teens with relationship between a young couple in love. to a very MAD un-birthday party with the different attitudes towards technology. Dave A prince can be charming and also a stalker. outrageous Mad Hatter and befriends a hates cell phones. Dana loves a non-existent Through her emotional baggage and jaded life paranoid Egg along her journey to find the online boyfriend. And Adele has realized that experience, a woman can keep herself from illusive White Rabbit. Wonderland is run by the most expensive technology won't being open to the love of a man who is the the hilarious Queen and King of Hearts who necessarily buy you friends. But the three perfect prince for her. A young woman clings challenge Alice to an unusual game of have one thing in common; they are all being to the fairy tales of her childhood, unable to croquet with two blind moles, Maude and harassed by the same group of bullies, find happiness in her life as an adult. A guy Marty, as unlikely score keepers. Throw in a cyberbullies who harass the three over the creates a fairy tale of lies to his girlfriend to zany group of dancing cards and a pair of phone. It is this common thread that will keep his Star Wars collection and other bumbling brothers, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle eventually unite the three to confront their distractions a secret. A dancer whose career Dum, who can't agree on anything, and you problems together. is ended in a horrific way finds solace in Hans can see why Alice finds this place so Christian Andersen’s tale of cursed red shoes. confusing. With her faithful cat, Dinah, Alice Once upon a time... finally learns the way back home, but she will never forget her adventures in Wonderland...and neither will the audience!
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ALADDIN ALIEN FISH AND THE GIANTS FELL BY: DAN NEIDERMYER BY: BRADLEY WALTON BY: TODD FORD MS HS • 4 females, 4 males, 8 total • 45 ALL • 10 either, 10 total, gender flexible • 25 ALL • 5 females, 4 males, 12-15 either, 21-25 minutes • Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 25 $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per minutes • Historical Events and People • Script: $45.00 per performance performance $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance This wonderful adaptation begins on the Cyan is an alien fish who swims through outer streets of Arabia where the Sultan's bungling space. Irving is a friendly space tourist in a And the Giants Fell examines the events guards try to catch Aladdin for allegedly personal flying saucer that looks a lot like an leading up to the September 11th tragedy and kidnapping Princess Adora. He outmaneuvers inner tube. When they both get sucked our reaction to the events. Through four them only to meet the all-powerful Court through a wormhole into a fishing supply sections, we examine the thoughts and Magician who tricks him into fetching an old store, Irving finds himself trying to keep the reactions of the participants and victims of the lamp. When Aladdin refuses, the Magician friendly but not-too-bright Cyan from winding historic event. In the first section, And the seals the exit, trapping poor Aladdin inside. up as an order of fish sticks on the plates of Giants Fell, we examine two families and how Full of sheer delight, Aladdin offers several the store owner, his daughter, and an alien their lives were touched by this tragic event. fun, small roles with quick dialogue and biker. And why are there elves in the In the second section, Reason, we examine magical intrigue! stockroom? how this event affected a woman who has lost her spouse. In the third section, Broken, the ten commandments are used as a template to I REMEMBER ALL THE BASES show how this unexpected tragedy deprived BY: DENNIS BUSH BY: ALAN HAEHNEL many of its victims the chance of repentance. MS HS • 8 females, 3 males, 11 total, doubling MS HS • 15 females, 8 males, 1 either, 24 total, The final section, From Fear to Hope, shows possible, gender flexible • 25 minutes • doubling possible, gender flexible • 35 minutes • how this event brought four individuals from Comedy, Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: the darkness of fear to the light of hope. Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per performance performance In an effort to create the perfect production, ANNIERELLA AND THE (VERY Your first boyfriend? Sneaking out at two in the cast begins by reading the "survey the morning? What do you remember? results" they got from the audience in AWESOME) GOOD QUEEN Through a series of scenes and monologues, response to the question, "What do you want FAIRY COWMOTHER we meet a man who believes his poster of from a play?" Based on these responses, the BY: BOBBI A. CHUKRAN Mick Jagger gives him advice, an angry cast creates a checklist and presents a play MS HS • 6 females, 2 males, 8 total, 6-14 husband walking out on his wife, a girl and meeting all 15 audience requirements. The extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 her memories of her dying father, a sleazy hilarious result is its "short-cheap-educational- minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per guy hitting on his co-workers, and a wedding- safe, non-schedule-interfering, colorfully- performance day farewell, among others, as we discover costumed-interestingly-set, photogenic,
STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS what they remember and what makes them Shakespearean, self-esteem-building, Poor little Annierella is heartbroken when her memorable. combative-musical-repartee-filled, stars-your- step-mother, Eula Gee, tells her that she precious-child, contains-no-scratching-or- cannot attend the Cowpoke’s Ball at the Lazy THE CRABBITS SAVE THE DAY picking-of-the-embarrassing-variety...show!" R&B Ranch with her step-sisters Frizelda Ann, Brizelda Jane and Mozelda Joe. But BY: SAM HAVENS then along comes a hilarious Fairy MS HS • 2 females, 1 male, 7-8 either, 11 total, ANCHORWOMAN: RISE OF THE Cowmother with an attitude the size of Texas doubling possible, gender flexible • 35 minutes • MANGO QUEEN that makes Annierella’s dreams of going to Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: BY: PAUL DILELLA the Ball come true. With the use of an old $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance MS HS • 4 females, 2 males, 7 either, 13 total, watermelon from the compost patch and a Trouble in Drab Town! It’s a sad day when 3-6 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • few enchanted armadillos, Fairy Cowmother King Goaxis tells the Crabbits that he is 50 minutes • Comedy, Parody • Script: $6.50 • gets Annierella to the Ball in style. When she shutting down their little village at midnight Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per finally meets Roy Bob and he falls head over performance because it is just too dull and boring to be part heels in love with her, she learns that of the land of Goaxis. All hope seems lost A crisis hits KDST-Channel 6 News when sometimes it’s best NOT to get what you wish until clumsy Tommy tells Mayor Thread- former station manager Tiny Spinoza returns for in this Texas / western style version of the Clipper that he has a plan to save Drab Town. with his Filipino wife, Exasperanza. Tiny classic tale. The audience will laugh all the Tommy and his friends resolve to find the makes his wife the new program director. She way to the happy but twisted ending. This ain’t Grand RooGoo, the wise enchanter of all changes the set, the theme music, adds your mama’s Cinderella story! Goaxis. Only he can give them the secret they Filipino costumes and make-up, does need to save their dear village. Through the commercials and news coverage, interfering treacherous Winding Woods, the trio sets off with everyone's routine. Fired, a vengeful Troy on its adventure, which is not without Thomas returns to kidnap the former Mango obstacles, mishaps, and assistance from a Queen of the Philippines on air. A SWAT magical friend. Meanwhile, back home, the team arrives. Will Troy be making news in a clock is nearing midnight and the Crabbits are burst of bullets? Will Exasperanza be reunited losing hope. Will Tommy make it back in time with Tiny? Will KDST-Channel 6 survive? If to save Drab Town? you want to find out, don't change that channel!
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ASYLUM THE BABYSITTER'S STORY BY: DENNIS BUSH BY: PETER LANCASTER WALKER ALL • 5 females, 3 males, 8 total • 45 minutes • MS HS • 6 females, 1 male, 7 total • 35 minutes Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: • Royalty: $40.00 per performance $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Set in a state-run mental institution and, at Jane takes a job babysitting little James. Her times, in the minds of the patients, Asylum boyfriend wants her to go to a movie, so her explores the flip side of sanity. We meet a sister Diana comes over to sit with James. former pop star who continues to live like The simple babysitting job becomes a she's in a music video, a girl who was harmed nightmare when their dad's friend Lisa shows by her best friend's boyfriend, a young man up to discuss her relationship with their father. who does operations on stuffed animals and While the girls are talking, a cat burglar himself, a woman who believes she's in the comes in the window. They trip him, and 11th month of a pregnancy, a dessert- thinking he is dead, try to hide the body. This obsessed man with a Barbie voodoo doll, a is babysitting at its worst! STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS lost boy who just wants to go home, and others. Through a tapestry of monologues BAD BLOOD IN THE BOOKSHOP that range from off-the-wall to terrifying, the BY: EDDIE COPE, CARL L. WILLIAMS ARCTIC LIBRARY characters search for their refuge, their BY: BRADLEY WALTON shelter, their sanctuary...their home. HS CT • 3 females, 3 males, 6 total • 30 minutes • Melodrama, Comedy • Script: $6.50 • HS • 3-4 females, 1 male, 5-12 either, 9-17 Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender AT THE BEEP performance flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • BY: STEPH DEFERIE Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Clarice DeLovely, a beautiful young London performance ALL • 1-10 females, 1-10 males, 2-20 total, actress, arrives in Cactus Junction, Texas, to doubling possible, gender flexible • 45 minutes • manage the small bookshop she inherited The school system is trying save energy, and Comedy, Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook from her late father. Little does she know that it’s a cold day in the library. Freezing, actually. Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Sylvester Swineheart (a devious and distant It’s so bad that a teacher brings his class just performance relative) plans to take over the shop and is in to punish them, and the maintenance staff If you like A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, you'll cahoots with crooked Sheriff Hornswoggler, won’t stick around long enough to figure out if love At the Beep, where we follow the lives of who schemes to put the young mummer, there might be some kind of problem. The Skip Allen and Mary Elizabeth Chase through along with her traveling companion, Winifred library staff is stuck there through it all, and messages left on each other's answering Snitwhistle, a grande dame of the British book burning is looking better all the time. machines! From grade school to grave, trace stage, six feet under. Complicating matters the triumphs, disappointments, loves and are a charming book-publishing heiress, Fann ARE WE THERE YET? THE feuds these two friends experience all through C. Free, and the shy and studious Chester G. MORE OR LESS TRUE STORY that miracle of modern technology—the Whilakers, who carries a torch for the lovely OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK telephone answering machine. DeLovely. With many plot twists and turns, EXPEDITION the "good guys" fight their way through a BY: BURTON BUMGARNER AWAITING WONDERLAND tangle of jokes, puns, and show-biz humor to save the day. MS HS • 7-10 females, 6-8 males, 4-6 either, BY: STEVEN STACK 17-24 total, 0-1 extras, doubling possible, MS HS • 3 females, 1 male, 9 either, 13 total, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Farce, Historical 0-10 extras, gender flexible • 45 minutes • BAGGAGE Events and People, Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook BY: CHRISTIAN KILEY Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per HS CT • 3 females, 2 males, 3 either, 8 total, 8 performance performance extras • 20 minutes • Drama, Comedy • Script: Following the American Revolution the Tonight is Anya's chance to shine. The curtain $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: country’s western border ended at the is about to rise on her adaptation of Alice in $30.00 per performance Missouri River. In 1803 President Jefferson Wonderland, and in her final performance . . . So you want to get away and forget your charged his personal secretary, Meriwether she's playing the starring role. But as she sits troubles, do you? Not so fast! Checker will Lewis, with gathering an expedition party and alone on the stage, things begin to change. make sure you have nothing to hide. Any traveling inland across the unexplored And the world Anya used to escape to as a weakness or secret will be exposed. Checker wilderness of North America. Lewis and Clark child part Carroll's world, part a world of her is a special kind of bully who finds the dark took a perilous two and a half year journey of own creation suddenly seems all too real. As corners in people's lives and brings them to discovery from St. Louis to the Pacific Alice or Anya tries to make sense of this new the surface. Will these travelers be able to Northwest. This is the story of the Lewis and world, she must also come to grips with the face their dark secrets and overcome them? Clark Expedition as it might be told by Monty truth about her own. Or is some baggage just too heavy, too Python. cumbersome to carry?
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BARD IN A BOX: THE BALLAD THE BEST PLAY EVER, BEYOND TOLERANCE OF JULIO CESAR GUARANTEED BY: ALAN HAEHNEL BY: RUTH BUCHANAN BY: ALAN HAEHNEL HS CT • 15-45 either, 15-45 total, doubling MS HS • 8 females, 6 males, 3 either, 17 total, MS HS • 2 females, 1 male, 55 either, 58 total, possible, gender flexible • 45 minutes • Drama • gender flexible • 50 minutes • Comedy, Classics doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 Royalty: $40.00 per performance Royalty: $40.00 per performance • Royalty: $35.00 per performance If you don't mind stirring up trouble with your FRIENDS! ROMANS! COUNTRYMEN! Have If you're ready to be highly creative; to have a productions, Beyond Tolerance could be just you ever wondered what would have huge amount of fun with raucous fight scenes, the show for you. Enter the bizarre world of U. happened had Julius Caesar NOT been killed witty dialogue and over-the-top melodrama; to Burnem, "the finest educational institution in when he was stabbed in 44 BC, but instead test your SAT vocabulary readiness; to laugh the world," according to its founder, P.T. had fled to Mexico, hiding out for millennia until you can't stand up; to create a play within Burnem. Here, tolerance and political before returning to exact his revenge? Who a play that isn't really a play; and to be able to correctness are taken to extremes, and hasn't! Making use of violence and deception reply, accurately, when someone asks what Gracious Mary Sensible, the school's newest (worthy only of a tyrannical dictator), Julio show you're working on, "Why, the Best Play student, finds that her old ideas of right and Cesar gains control of an unsuspecting high Ever, Guaranteed!" then this is the script for wrong don't make any sense here. Eventually school English class. About to perform their you. Particularly well-suited for large casts. she learns that conformity to the new order is own version of the the Bard's classic tragedy, not merely encouraged, it is absolutely the students suddenly find themselves BETTY LOU TWINKLE'S required. Noncompliance could mean death. confronted with a substitute teacher the likes This two-time Vermont Regional Champion of which they've never seen before. With that, TABLOID SCANDAL has been praised as a "tour de force" that the shenanigans have begun. BY: BOBBY KENISTON uses "absurdist humor to address a serious MS HS • 4-5 females, 3-6 males, 7-11 total, and disturbing theme." doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • BEFORE WE GO Comedy, Parody • Script: $6.50 • Notebook BY: DENNIS BUSH Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per BIGGITY BAD AND THE performance HS • 6-18 females, 4-12 males, 10-30 total, THREE* PIGS doubling possible • 45 minutes • Drama, Betty Lou Twinkle wants to be a normal BY: EDITH WEISS Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: teenage girl and play soccer. Unfortunately, ALL • 3 females, 5 males, 7 either, 15 total, 0-5 $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance her mother has other ideas. Ever since Betty extras, gender flexible • 50 minutes • Comedy, What does it mean to be a man? Why does Lou was a toddler on “Divas in Diapers,” her Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per the teddy bear go in the freezer? How does a mother has dragged her to every pageant or performance guy who's afraid to be touched end up crowd- reality show she could find, determined to surfing at a concert? What do you do when make her little girl the brightest star in the Higgelty and Piggelty are two devil may care you find out your boyfriend is cheating on world. After winning “America’s Future One- pigs who spend their days avoiding work.
STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS you? Through monologues and scenes that Hit Wonders,” Betty Lou’s mother hires an When they are joined in the pen by a third pig, range from heartbreaking to absurd, we meet obnoxious “Fame Mentor” who claims the only Hamlet, who is a truffle pig and talks funny a boy trying to grow up, an emotional way to stay famous is to have a scandal in the (many of his lines are from Shakespeare, the perfectionist eager to prove she can make it in tabloids. Tired of it all, Betty Lou escapes to rest are in Shakespearean style), life changes the world, a girl who gets kidnapped by her the park to meet with her secret friend who drastically on the farm. Things change even boyfriend, a guy who picks up women at Wal- hides under the bandstand, and appreciates more when Buzz the Turkey Buzzard Mart, a girl with an embarrassing addiction Betty Lou for who she really is. Will Betty Lou convinces Rolf, a tender-hearted and lonely and many others, as we follow their journey find comfort and peace with her secret friend, wolf, to become "Biggity Bad" and capture the through rights of passage and challenges to or is this friend the very tabloid scandal Betty pigs. Run for your life chases plus a surprise survive. Lou’s mother has been waiting for? This ending make this a wonderful show for kids. laugh-out-loud satire targets the very notion of teenage fame, stage mothers, and the CIRCUS BETWEEN THE LINES exploitative nature of the media. BY: DENNIS BUSH BY: RON DUNE HS CT • 8-40 females, 3-9 males, 2 either, MS HS • 4 females, 4 males, 1 either, 9 total • 13-51 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • ACCUSED OF COMEDY 25 minutes • Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook 40 minutes • Drama, Comedy • Script: $6.50 • BY: CARL L. WILLIAMS Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per HS CT • 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • 20 performance minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Every night, Leah wins a pair of tickets to the Based on actual newspaper headlines, Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per circus. Her friends are excited to go until Leah Between the Lines mixes fiction with facts. performance explains that they are living in a nightmare— We meet a celebrity stalker, an unfaithful After comedy has been outlawed in society, her nightmare! It takes some convincing, but husband, a polygamist, a man with a unique two bottom-of-the-barrel comics face trial for eventually they believe her and decide to help gift for his wife, the parents of a missing child committing comedy, along with the young her change the nightmare by confronting the and others, in a series of scenes and woman who broke the law by laughing at terror which comes at the end of her dream monologues that range from heartbreaking to them. Confronted by a stern lady magistrate, every night. The one thing Leah knows for bizarre. There's always more to the story, they discover humor is no laughing matter. certain is that HE will come for her—he will when you read between the lines. most definitely come.
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THE BLOB BRIDGET: A DAY IN THE LIFE BY: JOE MUSSO BY: JERRY RABUSHKA MS HS • 2 females, 1 male, 15-17 either, 18-20 MS HS • 5 females, 1 male, 16 either, 22 total, total, 3-6 extras, doubling possible, gender 1-15 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • flexible • 40 minutes • Comedy, Farce • Script: 40 minutes • Parody, Comedy • Script: $6.50 • $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per $35.00 per performance performance Kim, a genius at science, creates a blob that Smile for the camera! Bridget: A Day in the eats all of the school’s students. Once inside Life takes us on a personal journey with teen the blob, though, the students are not singing sensation Bridget Spoils, as this TV digested. Rather, they are entertained with reality spoof documents her every move from awesome dance music and an unlimited the time she wakes up until the time...well, the supply of chocolate. They are so grateful that time she's driven nuts by the prying, jealous they all get along. Yes, student unity has eyes of the media, her family, and her never been stronger. Why, though, did Kim adoring-yet-annoying fans. At the age of 16, STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS create The Blob? Was it to promote school Bridget Spoils has captured the hearts of teen unity? Or did she have a different motive? girls everywhere with her hits "Oh Baby," "Oh Baby Baby," and "Baby Baby Baby." Into her CLIQUES AND CAFETERIAS life are thrown photo shoots, tabloid stories, a personal entourage, and a boyfriend who just BY: LAURA TOFFENETTI doesn't measure up. All Bridget really wants is MS HS • 14 females, a hamburger from the local Wackyburger. But 14 males, 28 total • 30 watch out...the paparazzi are closing in, and minutes • Comedy • the media circus has just begun! Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: THE BRIGHT SIDE OF BEING $40.00 per performance BLUE BY: CARL L. WILLIAMS A balancing act ALL • 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • 25 minutes • between parody and Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: reality, this show $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance carefully exaggerates a day in the life of the A theatrical manager schemes to keep a modern middle school: boyfriend blues, country music star successful by making him popularity contests, pop quizzes, obnoxious unhappy so he will write more of his chart- cheerleaders, jock rock, rumors, gossip, sit- topping sad songs. But the star is just too down strikes, Dungeons and Dragons, easy-going, especially after he falls in love cafeteria catastrophes, boring classes, boring with a bubbly country singer whose teachers, talent shows, and preparation for cheerfulness may ruin his career! the dreaded standardized tests. This sassy comedy is fast-paced with a host of great one- BROOM VERSUS PEN: A FIGHT liners. TO THE LIFE BY: ALAN HAEHNEL BOMB ART MS HS • 8 females, 1 male, 11 either, 20 total, BY: FORREST MUSSELMAN, SARA doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • HOLMBERG Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance HS • 5 females, 3 males, 8 total, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Dark Comedy • Script: $6.50 • We see the on-going battle between two Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per extremes in Monica's mind: Prag (for performance Pragmatic) and Creta (for Creative). Every What do you get when you mix a splash of time Monica has a writing idea, Creta eccentric family with a dab of innocent screams encouragement while Prag demands neighbor? Bomb Art. This dark comedy paints that Monica get back to work. After all, she's a a vivid picture of a strange family as they single mother with three children and little hunker down in their homemade bomb shelter income—should she be taking time away from with their next-door neighbor. Will they survive her duties to pursue writing, an activity that to see the apocalypse? will almost certainly not bring her financial gain? When Monica's turmoil turns to despair, a Sheriff arrives with an ultimatum: Prag and Creta have ten minutes to decide which one of them will leave...or he will come back and make the decision for them. Ultimately, neither leaves, for the only true solution is balance.
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EXIT BY: RON DUNE ALL • 3 females, 2 males, 2 either, 7 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 25 minutes • Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Five people awaken to find themselves on a stage with no visible exit and no memory of how they got there. While searching for the exit, they find a strange blackness which blocks their view beyond the edge of the apron. They then learn things about themselves which bring them closer to solving the mystery of why they've been imprisoned there. A huge leap of faith may be their only way out.
CAUTION: POLITRICKS BY: ALAN HAEHNEL MS HS • 15-30 either, 15-30 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per performance BUILDER, Menahga Public Schools, Set mostly manufactured out of foam. Messy and hard to see - feel the weight of the blocks. A character steps onto a bare stage and stares, puzzled, at a spot above and behind BUILDER THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO the audience. Another character joins her and BY: ALAN HAEHNEL BY: STEVEN SCHUTZMAN asks, "What are you looking at?" So begins MS HS • 4-13 either, 4-13 total, doubling ALL • 1 female, 2 males, 3 total, 1-5 extras • 25 Politricks, a humorous but thought-provoking possible, gender flexible • 25 minutes • minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: $5.50 • look at the evolution of politics. While the two Comedy, Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per agree they see something, they argue over Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance performance the nature of what they see. Others enter and One of the creepiest stories ever written, are persuaded, by various means, to join The Builder emerges from the rubble and Edgar Allan Poe's A Cask of Amontillado sides. Eventually, the original point of does what seems natural—he builds. The dramatizes the revenge of the obsessive disagreement gets lost; by the screaming
STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS other characters who arrive spend their time nobleman Montresor against his friend, the climax of the play, opposing sides know only criticizing him for his simplicity, but in the end, wine lover, Fortunato. On carnival night in one thing: that their side is good and right, they find themselves left out in the cold. Their Venice, Montresor lures the tipsy Fortunato to and the other side is evil and wrong. Without excuses to do nothing leave them hungry and his estate with the promise of a taste of rare sets, costumes or numerous props, Caution: comfortless, even though the Builder offers to Amontillado sherry. Down they go into the Politricks prompts both immediate help them. dank catacombs winding under the mansion entertainment and long-lasting questions that until Montresor, feigning friendliness the will keep your audience talking for hours after BUTTERFINGER whole way, finally chains the hapless the curtain has closed. Fortunato down and walls him in alive. The BY: ADAM PASEN claustrophobic atmosphere, Montresor's MS HS • 6 females, 5 males, 5 either, 16 total, smiling meanness and Fortunato's growing AFTERNOON AT THE 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • * horror are bound to send chills down anyone's COUNTRY HOUSE 45 minutes • Comedy, Parody • Script: $6.50 • BY: OLIVIA ARIETI Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per spine. performance ALL • 3 females, 3 males, 6 total • 25 minutes • Drama, Comedy, Classics • Script: $5.50 • Move over Austin Powers—there's a new THE END Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per super-spy in town, and his name is James BY: KRISTYN LEIGH ROBINSON performance Bon Bon, International Man HS CT • 3 females, 1 male, 4 total • 20 minutes Genya and Iraida are desperate, their father, of...Deliciousness? When the prototype for a • Drama, Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Rashevitch, never stops talking and his Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per new, top-secret candy, codenamed favorite topic, aristocracy; blue blood has performance "Butterfinger," goes missing, Bon Bon is become a true obsession for the egotist man! pulled back into action to protect the nation. What would you say to your "ex" if you ran He has scared away the few visitors that Along the way, he'll cross paths with an into him? How would that fateful moment play happened to drop in to their remote country outrageous and tasty array of friends—and out? Broken-hearted Rachel indulges her house, and now the girls are afraid to die old foes—like the dastardly villain K. Andy Bars, wounded ego as she works through her spinsters. They see their last chances in the aloof and volatile Her She Kisses, and the break-up and realizes that the time has finally Dmitry, the handsome bank clerk and in the voluptuous air-head, Marsha Mellow. Girls, come to move on. gentle law student, Meier. But will Rashevitch gadgets, and bad puns abound in this ever accept as sons-in-law two young men hilarious melodrama, so strap in for the from the working class? ride...it's time to take a bite out of crime.
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CHIPPED TRUE COLORS CITIZEN'S ARREST BY: FORREST MUSSELMAN BY:* KATHERINE DUBOIS BY: BOBBY KENISTON MS HS • 12 either, 12 total, doubling possible, MS HS • 3 females, 3 total • 20 minutes • MS HS • 14 females, 6 males, 20 total • 30 gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script: Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per $35.00 per performance performance Nicole’s mom had some T-shirts left over from A fast-paced comedy about a variety show her group’s fundraiser: two blue, one red, one Dennis, an average guy, is caught littering by that plays live over the Internet, enlightening yellow. Since they can’t all have the same Dana, a “concerned citizen” who places him its viewers on the subject of love, color, Libby and Tessa think they should each under citizen's arrest. While Dennis attempts relationships and the family unit. Complete be different. Nicole wants blue. Neither Libby to stay friendly about the situation, Dana with a nasty virus and pop-up commercials, nor Tessa think they look good in yellow. stops every passerby to play a part in her the play satirizes society's relationship with Tessa doesn’t like bright colors. Can "citizen's trial." Before he even knows what's computers and questions whether we control something this small break up a friendship? happening, Dennis finds himself facing an the computers, or if they control us. out-of-work actress District Attorney, an ornery office temp Judge, a Jane Austen- STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS CINDERELLA'S FELLA A CHRISTMAS CHAOS - ONE obsessed construction worker Bailiff, and his BY: CRAIG SODARO own coffee shop employee Defense Attorney. ACT MS HS • 9 females, 5 males, 14 total • 55 As the "trial" progresses, a disgruntled tour BY: MICHAEL WEHRLI minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • group becomes the jury. Will Dennis be found ALL • 5 females, 4 males, 4 either, 13 total, 0-6 Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • not guilty at his "citizen's trial," or will he Royalty: $40.00 per performance extras, gender flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, become victim to the will of the people? With Farce • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Sloppy Prince Humphrey has one girl on his plenty of laughs, mild social commentary, and Royalty: $55.00 per performance mind - his cyber honey, mybelle. The Queen a surprise ending, Citizen's Arrest is a perfect When a professional theatre company gets thinks otherwise and hires a fairy godmother competition piece. With twenty lively stranded across the country, it's up to a rag- to turn her lazy son into Prince Charming so characters and one simple set, Citizen's tag group of local theatre people to throw he can find a bride. Meanwhile, Cinderella’s Arrest is easy to stage and a hoot to perform! together their own version of Dickens' A stepmother and stepsister are way jealous of Christmas Carol.The stage manager comes how she attracts more suitors than honey CLEMSON BARTHOLOMEW out at the beginning to gently tell the audience attracts flies. Of course, she is the most BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER that after only one day's preparation, that the beautiful girl in the kingdom, though she only show must go on! During the show we meet has texts for her cyber-hunk. Her daffy MS HS • 3 females, 2 males, 13 either, 18 total, the pretentious narrator, the “professional” siblings hire the same fairy godmother to turn doubling possible, gender flexible • 20 minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: actor playing Scrooge, and a myriad of other Cinderella into a disaster date so they’ll have $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance “theatrical types” that theatre companies and a better chance at landing a couple of audiences will recognize and adore husbands. It seems like a great plan, We interrupt this program to bring you a tragic immediately. It quickly becomes apparent that especially when all the ladies in the kingdom announcement: Clemson Batholomew, this group is far from ready to put on a show, are invited to a dance so Humphrey can pick beloved star of stage, musical legend, Oscar let alone A Christmas Carol. There are two a wife. The Prince is a dancing fool and cha- winning actor, director, writer, and producer, child actors vying for the role of Tiny Tim; chas and jitterbugs his way through every girl baseball hall-of-famer, and the greatest icon there's an extremely flighty and confused in the kingdom, but he just doesn’t connect of pop, has died. We will now analyze crew member who believes she is in the cast; until Cinderella in T-shirt and flip flops enters. Clemson's life and career twenty-four hours a two cast members are very unhappy with Appearances are only skin deep, and true day nonstop for the next three years... Sound each other; one actor who plays both Bob and love can see through even the cleverest of familiar? Join the tribute--but if you want to Mrs. Cratchit at the same time; and others Fairy Godmother’s spells. find something else to watch...well, good luck who are struggling to make the best of a with that. terribly funny situation. Everything that can go THE FACULTY MEETING wrong does, but the show ends with the THE TEACHER actors pleased, the crew proud, and the BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT BY:* OLIVIA ARIETI audience wonderfully entertained! MS HS • 17 females, 11 males, 28 total, 0-5 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 MS HS • 2 females, 4 males, 6 total • 25 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook minutes • Classics • Script: $5.50 • Notebook I HATE LOVE Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per BY: MAIA AKIVA performance performance MS HS • 4 females, 4 males, 8 total • 20 Really. What’s the big deal? It’s only one Nikitin, a high school teacher of literature, minutes • Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook position. One teacher. And it’s not like you’re after pursuing happiness all his life, realizes Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per being fired. Just laid off...permanently. And that it can turn out unsatisfying and most of performance besides, it might not even be you. But it’s all, disgusting. Somehow his expectations fail The characters of Depression, Loneliness, going to be somebody. Will it be the deaf and neither love nor personal success can Pain, Happiness, Faith and Love have to music teacher? The legally blind drivers’ overcome the shallowness of routine and make the decision if Jo will commit suicide education teacher? Or any of the other mediocrity. tonight. How will they decide? What will be equally talented professionals at Roosevelt the outcome of the most important night in High School? Jo's life?
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FAST FOOD SHAKESPEARE ALICE THROUGH THE FRANKIE AND THE BY: BURTON BUMGARNER INTERNET GINGERBREAD BOY - ONE ACT MS HS • 6 females, 3 males, 18 either, 27 total, BY: ROBERT FRANKEL VERSION doubling possible, gender flexible • 45 minutes • MS HS • 9 females, 5 males, 18 either, 32 total, BY: BOBBY KENISTON Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook 6-12 extras • 55 minutes • Comedy, Classics • MS HS • 6 females, 5 males, 11 total, 0-15 Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • extras • 40 minutes • Drama, Legends and performance Royalty: $40.00 per performance Myths, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Bobby’s Burger Boutique is a fast food joint Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per During a freak power surge, agoraphobic performance with sanitation issues. Susie has tried to keep college student, Alice, gets catapulted into the her family’s restaurant in business in spite of Internet! On her quest to return home, she is Frankie is an outcast, constantly put-upon by horrible food and all kinds of bugs. Just before mistaken for a programming bug and pursued her peers. She is the quintessential loner. The the health inspector arrives for an inspection, through the Internet by stern-faced Firewalls. only peace she finds is from her baking. One a pest control man accidentally uses Her first stop is FaceBook...er...FaceLook, day Frankie decides to bake herself a lemonade instead of bug spray… and the where she is presented with a zany group of companion, a perfect love who shares her bugs love it! Added to the chaos are four out “friends she might know.” Just as a Popup soul and gives her joy. When her creation of work actors who want to perform excerpts message befriends her, the Firewalls arrest follows her to school one day, the social order from Shakespeare, a spoiled brat, the owner Alice and whisk her off to the Recycle Bin. of the high school is threatened, and the of an exotic pet store and his two Peruvian Surrounded by Spam, old apps, and bugs, cruelty Frankie has known reaches new gutter rats named Elvis and Priscilla, and a Popup helps her discover her User powers heights. Told by an energetic high school variety of unsuspecting customers. and she meets Cookie, the spy, who helps Chorus, this is a play that employs rhythm, Pandemonium reigns as Shakespeare meets her escape. Together, the new friends race dark humor, and high theatricality to tell its really bad food. against time to find Mom (Motherboard) and gripping story. With nods to Frankenstein, the Pops (Operating System) at an Internet party Pygmalion myth, and even the Gingerbread HOW TO SURVIVE ACTING IN A where she meets Giggle, Youhoo, YouTuba, Man nursery rhyme, this play will leave BAD PLAY WITHOUT BEING Tweakers and even an obsolete hippie app! audiences riveted with its poignant tale of TRAUMATIZED FOR LIFE Alice finally does return home – to a surprise love, creation, cruelty, satire and tragedy. This birthday party – and a little more comfort in one-act version of Frankie and the BY: BRADLEY WALTON dealing with people. A humorous romp Gingerbread Boy is the perfect length for high MS HS • 1 female, 1 male, 9-10 either, 11-12 through the Internet, this one-act comedy school competitions. total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 25 minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook uses a simple, multi-use set and allows an Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per easily expanded cast with new Internet COUNTRY FOLK, performance characters if you desire. LYCANTHROPES, AND It’s a BAD play. There’s a fireman, a princess, EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENTITIES a clown, and a pilgrim. And they’re really, CONFLICT BY: BRADLEY WALTON
STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS really happy. But there’s also a bunny who’s BY: WADE BRADFORD MS HS • 5 females, 2 males, 7 either, 14 total • sad because his mom gave him cereal that ALL • 2 females, 3 35 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook was low in fiber, and now he’s scared she males, 1 either, 6 total, Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per doesn’t love him. A cowboy is supposed to 3 extras, gender performance comfort the sad bunny, but the actor playing flexible • 30 minutes • An alien military commander and his crew Comedy, Educational • the cowboy is so embarrassed by the show abduct werewolves from a prison colony on that he can’t bring himself to say his lines. So Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: the dark side of the moon, only to crash land they skip ahead to the part where Prometheus $12.75 • Royalty: on Earth in the deep, deep American south. takes fire from the heavens and gives it to the $40.00 per Now the werewolves are free, the aliens are unicorns to make chocolate. Then there’s a performance frantic, the locals are curious, and the scene with a guidance counselor, but the A very amusing batteries in the Very Expensive Intergalactic actor is sick, so the pilgrim has to take over, explanation of how Translation Devices are dead. Oops! only he doesn’t know the lines and gives we crave stories in some highly questionable guidance. As the which the protagonist show gets worse and worse, the actor playing EXPOSED experiences all kinds of hardship. the bunny promises he’ll share the secret to BY: DENNIS BUSH surviving the experience without being MS HS • 4 females, 4 males, 8 total • 35 traumatized for life. But first, he’s going to CONVERSATION THERAPY minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per show the cowboy how awful things can BY: BRADLEY HAYWARD performance REALLY get when everything goes wrong in a MS HS • 7 females, 3 males, 10 total • 40 bad play in front of a live audience! minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook The residents of an 8-unit apartment building Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per in New York City's Hell's Kitchen have been performance exposed to a viral agent. Tensions flare, A high school conversation therapy room secrets are shared and chillability is increased turns into a zoo when a group of zany kids while the eight residents are quarantined. attempt to save their beloved teacher's World premiere at North Canyon Theatre position. They try everything, but over the Company (AZ). course of the play it becomes apparent why they're all in therapy in the first place.
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CRAZY SEVENS DANCING WITH THE THE DAY BOY AND THE NIGHT BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT OLYMPIANS GIRL MS HS • 2 males, 21 either, 23 total, doubling BY: LAVINIA ROBERTS BY: MATT BUCHANAN possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy MS HS • 6-16 females, 3-8 males, 6 either, MS • 4 females, 4 males, 8 total, doubling • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • 15-30 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • possible, gender flexible • 50 minutes • Drama, Royalty: $35.00 per performance 30 minutes • Comedy, Parody, Classics • Script: Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook C'mon! You know the rules. You wanna form $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per $40.00 per performance performance your own local union, you gotta have seven groups. Now let’s see, there’s the Elves, Hold on for a hilarious spoof on the popular The Day Boy and the Night Girl is a free Easter Bunnies, Groundhogs, Cupids, television show, Dancing with the Stars. adaptation of a George MacDonald fairy tale Leprechauns, and Tooth Fairies. You know, it Instead of Hollywood's elite competing on about a boy raised never to see darkness and don’t take no mathematician to come up with Dancing with the Olympians, Greek gods and a girl kept always in the dark. The two six. Every time. Now unless you can find a goddesses boogie and swirl their way to the children accidentally meet and eventually seventh group, then quit wastin’ my time. And, top. Hosted by Hermes, messenger of the learn that they need each other. The story is oh, by the way, good luck convincing them gods and trickster, the show's judges are the framed by a parallel story of two children in a STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS other guys that you ain’t all nuts. Crazy nerdy and prudish Athena, goddess of London orphans' hospital. This is a wonderful Sevens...a play in one act. wisdom, accompanied by her close archetypal fairy tale, yet it will be new and companion, the cheer-leading goddess of fresh for most audiences. Though it can be victory, Nike, surfer dude Poseidon, god of done very simply, it also offers creative THE CROSS EXAMINATIONS the ocean, and motherly Hestia, goddess of opportunities for your technical people, BY: RONALD K. BURKE the hearth and home. Although a dancing especially your lighting designer. HS CT • 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • 15 minutes • competition, relatively little dancing happens. Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 Zeus and Hera, king and queen of the • Royalty: $30.00 per performance DEATH OF THE DOORSTEP Olympians, don't see the need to dance. KISS* This drama works on multiple levels as an Aphrodite refuses to dance with a partner, BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD interrogator and his subject discover some and the evil enchantress, Circe, turned her hidden truths about themselves. While they partner into a pig. Terpsichore, the muse of MS HS • 2-6 females, 2-6 males, 4-12 total, process the intense, exuberant, and ultra- dance, can't actually dance, and the Furies doubling possible • 35 minutes • Comedy, Ensemble Cast • Script: $6.50 • Notebook potent cross-examinations, the frustration just showed up to torment the losers. Dancing Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per mounts between the pair. with the Olympians is a zany comedy full of performance fun, over-the-top characters and provides an excellent way to educate students about The doorstep is the most awkward part of a CUFFED Greek mythology. first date. When a guy walks a girl to her door, BY: G. SHERMAN H. MORRISON many important questions stream through HS CT • 3 females, 5 males, 8 total, doubling both of their minds: Does she think I’m possible • 40 minutes • Comedy, Mature Theme DAS BOX attractive? Does he think I’m interesting? • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • BY: CRAIG J. CLARK Should I ask her out again? And the most Royalty: $35.00 per performance ALL • 2 females, 3 males, 2 either, 7 total • 50 stressful question of all-time, will there be a Late one summer night, an unsuspecting man minutes • Comedy, Mystery • Script: $6.50 • goodnight kiss?! It’s hard to foresee the is inexplicably handcuffed to a lamppost in a Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per answer when your date is a professional performance park by a nun and left to encounter a series of clown or a mortician or is obsessed with duck bizarre characters: a man who communicates When a man, late for an appointment with his calls! Death of the Doorstep Kiss explores with extraterrestrial beings through a banana, psychiatrist, asks a stranger to watch his several end-of-the-date goodnight kiss a dominatrix, a burglar, a ghost hunter, an ex- unopened box, the fun begins. Can the situations which grow more disastrous with girlfriend, and a homeless man. Will any of contents of a simple box live up to the dreams each date. Could there possibly be a happy them help him? and expectations of those who rest their ending? hopes on its imagined treasures? Winner of several awards, this wild and delicious EMOTIONAL DISTRESS WE LOATHE OUR CUSTOMERS comedy centers on curiosity, hope, and BY: RON DUNE - ONE ACT VERSION responsibility. BY: BRADLEY WALTON HS • 1 female, 1 male, 6 either, 8 total, gender MS HS • 4-15 either, 4-15 total, doubling flexible • 25 minutes • Drama • Script: $5.50 • possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy WOMEN OF STONE Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • BY: ALAN HAEHNEL performance Royalty: $35.00 per performance HS • 11 females, 1 male, 12 total, doubling Dick and Jane are just minding their own Bailey and Campbell work at an office supply possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Dark business when the positive emotions decide Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: store, and they both love the customers. to go to war with the negative emotions. The $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Specifically, they love to torment them. But problem is that Dick and Jane are the when word comes of an impending visit from In this tragedy dealing with tradition and the battlefield. When the positive emotions gain the district manager, Campbell and Bailey are role of women, a male-dominated society is the upper hand and capture the negative forced to try and behave themselves as they left bereft of all its men. Agatha, an outcast of emotions, Dick and Jane soon learn what it's deal with the most obnoxious bunch of the society, tries to convince her niece, Clara, like when opposites don't exist. customers they've ever encountered. that life even without the men can still have meaning.
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DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL DRACULA'S BOARDING HOUSE THE TWELVE DAZE OF BY: SAMARA SISKIND BY: MATTHEW CARLIN CHRISTMAS MS HS • 12 females, 5 males, 17 total, doubling MS HS • 4 females, 4 BY: JEFF LOVETT possible, gender flexible • 45 minutes • males, 8 total • 30 MS HS • 11 females, Comedy, Parody • Script: $6.50 • Notebook minutes • Comedy, 10 males, 6 either, 27 Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Classics • Script: total, 0-40 extras, performance $6.50 • Notebook doubling possible, Script: $12.75 • Have you ever loved a television show so gender flexible • 60 Royalty: $35.00 per minutes • Comedy, much you wanted to live in it? Don't Touch performance Classics • Script: That Dial gives new meaning to the term, After inheriting his $6.50 • Notebook "reality television," when sibling couch Script: $16.75 • potatoes, Sally and Charlie Brown, find uncle's country Royalty: $45.00 per themselves stuck in the prime time shows mansion, Lou performance they love and adore. Join them on a ride over decides to explore the country estate It's Christmas-time, the airwaves in which they encounter dozens and all Alice wants to of familiar, colorful characters and learn that with his friend, Casey. Expecting to find a palatial mansion, Lou and Casey discover a do is sing one of her television isn't always America's favorite favorite holiday songs, "The Twelve Days of pastime. dilapidated old home with curtains made out of cobwebs and a spooky coffin in the middle Christmas." But after just a few words, Alice of the room. The boys decide to search for realizes that when she sings, the characters DOUBLE TROUBLE ON THE food and a place to sleep and soon discover in the popular song begin to come to life. PRAIRIE they’re being watched by Dracula’s hungry Alice's boyfriend has decided to surprise her BY: SEAN ABLEY wives. This leads to a ravenous romp as Lou by sending her all of the twelve gifts mentioned in the traditional carol. With each ALL • 4-5 females, 4-6 males, 8-11 total, and Casey try to avoid becoming dinner for doubling possible • 40 minutes • Comedy, this group of fanged brides. verse, Alice unleashes a wacky stream of Melodrama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: characters that are far from what most people $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance envision when singing "The Twelve Days of THE DRAFT BOARD - ONE ACT Christmas." From Turtle and Dove, two Identical twins, Timothy and Jimothy Scrubb, BY: GEFF MOYER attorneys who try to convince Alice to sue aren't the smartest brothers in Virginia City. In HS CT • 2 females, 1-2 males, 3-4 total, Santa Claus for invasion of privacy, to fact, they won the Dumbest Twins in the doubling possible • 20 minutes • Comedy • milkmaids who have created a union and are Montana Territory contest. But when Victor Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • on strike because of poor working conditions, Horrible (that's Horr-EE-blay) swoops into Royalty: $30.00 per performance the play turns the traditional holiday song into town and begins killing off the shareholders of The time is March 24th, 1958. Two young a fast-paced zany collection of characters. the Opera House in a plot to replace it with a farm girls have told their parents that they Perfect for middle schools and high schools new development, The Scrubb Brothers must were spending the night at each others' with large drama classes. STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS use their collective smarts to save the theater homes so they could take sneak away and and Miss Mary Sarah Sue Laura's reputation! take the Greyhound into Memphis to see Elvis HAPPILY NEVER AFTER as he departs for the U.S. Army. Camped out BY: AMY ZIPPERER DR. SOONEY'S MEDICINE in a park across from the Draft Board, they BY: JENNY COOK, LORRAINE THOMPSON have their camera ready. Soon they discover MS HS • 2-4 females, 1-3 males, 1-2 either, 4-9 total, 2 extras, doubling possible, gender MS HS • 5 females, 7 the nasty smells of the big city, and that they flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, males, 12 total, 5-10 didn't bring enough food. And one of them Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: extras • 45 minutes • makes an admission that could destroy their $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Comedy, Farce, friendship. Classics • Script: This three-play collection brings together $6.50 • Notebook classic fairy tales and contemporary dating Script: $12.75 • FATALITY dilemmas. PrinceU27 follows a young girl as Royalty: $35.00 per BY: TODD FORD she attempts to negotiate the perils of online performance MS HS • 5 females, 7 males, 5 either, 17 total, dating when her blind date shows up dressed “Lettin’ the cat out of doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • as a Disney Prince but with none of the the bag is a whole lot Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 Charm. The Real World introduces a scripted easier than puttin’ it • Royalty: $35.00 per performance reality TV show for which wicked Snow White, back in!” "If you find On a dark night Charlie makes a defining her sweet stepmother, and a really impartial yourself in a hole… decision to get behind the wheel of a car after mirror attempt to realize their original fairytale the first thing to do is stop diggin’!" These drinking and using drugs. In this play we roles for the sake of the camera. Happily words of wisdom are spoken by the lovable examine the circumstances leading up to this Never After is an interactive play in which Sooney Ollis. Audiences of all ages revel in decision as well as the effects afterward. In a Cinderella seeks to reconcile different re- comedic scripts with fast-paced, outrageous chilling conclusion we realize that there are tellings of the original story in an attempt to antics and exaggerated characters. Dr. some decisions that it is impossible to change rekindle her love affair with her estranged Sooney’s Medicine is made to order. Adapted husband. from Moliere’s The Doctor in Spite of Himself, this play puts a mountain twist on the French classic.
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THE DUCK WHO ATE PANTS BY: BRADLEY WALTON HS • 2 males, 6-10 either, 8-12 total, 1-15 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy, Dark Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance This is a play about a duck who gets drunk on prune juice and eats pants. Seriously. You read it right. The duck gets drunk on prune DRAMA GEEKS, Yorkton Regina High School , Tango juice and eats pants. The characters in the play have a hard time believing it DRAMA GEEKS THE DROWSY PROFESSOR themselves… at least until somebody’s pants BY: BRADLEY HAYWARD BY: B. DWAYNE CRAFT get eaten. And somehow, it gets even MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 6 either, 10 total, HS CT • 10 females, 10 males, 1-6 either, stranger than that. Because the owner of STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script: 21-26 total, 0-1 extras, doubling possible, those eaten pants doesn’t just want revenge, $6.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: gender flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, Award- he wants to call himself the “Pants Avenger.” $35.00 per performance winning Plays • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Only, there’s this other guy whose pants got Nine over-dramatic high school students are eaten, and he wants to be the “Pants asked a question that has confused actors for The greatest mind of science has discovered Avenger,” too. But the duck gets sick off of the generations: To be or not to be? When something world changing, but unfortunately pants he ate, so obviously they were self- knowing the answer becomes the difference he's a narcoleptic who can't stay awake long avenging pants. (It’s okay if you need to read between chic and geek, the stakes are raised enough to tell anyone about it. His sultry that last part again. Go right ahead.) and tempers begin to flare. A couple of jokers secretary, who just happens to have a crush Thankfully, the duck seems to learn a lesson in the tech booth add light and sound effects on her boss, is left to defend his discovery at this point, but unfortunately for him, the to the mix and it becomes every actor for from a zany cast of characters including play is only about two-thirds of the way over, themselves. Will this ensemble figure things bumbling secret agents, a nagging wife, two and things are going to get even freakier in out before it's time to raise the curtain? of the world's creepiest girls scouts and the home stretch. The lawyer is the first of his Nobody knows, but Shakespeare is on the everyone else who thinks that they have a new problems. The army of pants is the edge of his seat... reason to control this important new, yet second. If you like your plays weird, funny, undefined, discovery. This play is a subtly and a little bit dark, The Duck Who Ate Pants political and always hilarious commentary on was written just for you. THE BLENDER how the different parts of society attempt to BY: ALAN HAEHNEL alternately exploit, suppress, hype and HS CT • 4 females, 5 males, 1 either, 10 total, redefine scientific discoveries. HISTORICALLY BAD FIRST 0-5 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • DATES 30 minutes • Dark Comedy, Comedy • Script: BY: SEAN ABLEY $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: THE EDUCATION OF JANET MS HS • 4-10 females, 4-12 males, 2-9 either, $35.00 per performance O'MALLEY 10-31 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • This dark satire of reality programming BY: ALAN HAEHNEL, CHRISTOPHER SACCO 45 minutes • Comedy, Classics, Fantasy • introduces us to Stanley, the host of "the MS HS • 20-30 either, 20-30 total, 0-10 extras, Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • fabulous, live, reality based theatrical venture doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Royalty: $40.00 per performance called The Blender!" Stanley and his Comedy, Educational • Script: $6.50 • Notebook On the edge of the Universe, Jenna and assistants, the Snatchers, bring in unknowing Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Achilles find themselves trapped in the offices specimens—people from various walks of life of Millennium Relationship Services. Although at points of high drama. Stanley's purpose: Even the best students can relate to Janet they have never met, and have no idea how blend ‘em! What would happen, for instance, O'Malley's lament: "Why do I have to know all they got there, this couple-to-be is taught how if you took a pregnant woman having the stuff they're teaching in school? Do I really to avoid the pitfalls of relationships through premature labor pains and stuck her with need it?" In this hilarious comedy, Janet gets crazily comic flashbacks to bad first dates someone about to commit suicide? What sort her answer after being hit in the head with a throughout history, literature, and pop culture: of entertainment might spring from that dodge ball. In one wacky dream sequence Mark Antony and Cleopatra’s disastrous first blending? For Stanley, after all, and after another, she learns how the knowledge date right after the assassination of her presumably for all of America, the only issue she thought was useless could actually earn husband, Julius Caesar; Macbeth and the is entertainment. Human suffering and her a million dollars or keep her from getting a future Lady Macbeth, Latonya, meeting for the conflict? The more the better, as long as it traffic ticket or even save the world from first time on the moors; the Blind Date of doesn't get boring. Trouble ensues, however, destruction! Easily-staged with few props and Frankenstein; George Washington revealing when one of Stanley's snatchers falls in love costumes, The Education of Janet O'Malley is his paranoid delusions to Martha; and Uncle with his specimen and doesn't want her to be pure fun for actors and audience alike. Sam and his mail-order bride, a very French subjected to The Blender. By the end, the Statue of Liberty. With a flexible cast allowing only laughter and cheering will come from the for many actors (or easy doubling), this one- taped audience. The live audience will be in act comedy is perfect for drama festivals and shock, especially when the final indictment of competitions, or just a great evening of the play is aimed directly at them. comedy!
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DEUS EX MACHINA ERNIE'S PLACE THE CHAIR PLAY BY: FORREST MUSSELMAN BY: MATT BUCHANAN BY: ALAN HAEHNEL MS HS • 7-14 females, 1-5 males, 3-10 either, MS HS • 2 females, 3 males, 5 total • 50 MS HS • 15-30 either, 15-30 total, 5-10 extras, 11-29 total, 0-11 extras, doubling possible, minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook doubling possible, gender flexible • 35 minutes • gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy, Parody • Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per Comedy, Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • performance Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per Royalty: $35.00 per performance performance The play tells the story of three children who When the school runs out of room, the must adjust to the change in life occasioned Using a simple analogy, this large-cast one- administration converts the theater stage into by a move. Stella, Louie and Max move from act play explores principles of economics in a a teachers' lounge, complete with a giant pop the city to the suburbs after their parents' fast-paced format. The Chair Play offers a machine located center stage. The theater divorce. They retreat into themselves and are shared wealth of lines, fun moments of hyper- director and the drama club students reluctant to trust or need anyone else. They fast delivery and segments of stage combat scramble to create a play around the pop build a shed in their new backyard and make all in an easy-to-rehearse format of 20 short machine, using famous movies and plays as it their "super secret clubhouse." And when scenes. Easy to stage and a hoot to rehearse, their inspiration along with blatant product they discover a homeless man sleeping in the play also offers great food for thought that placement to pay for the show. This parody is their clubhouse, they wonder what happened will spur important discussions in casts and high energy, fun to do and a proven winner to him. How did he come to be homeless? In audiences alike. with one-act competitions. pursuit of answers, and with the man's abandoned belongings as clues, the children CAUTION: LIBRARIANS AHEAD - THE EMPEROR'S NEW enact, through dramatic play, several possible ONE ACT VERSION scenarios to explain "Ernie's" situation—but CLOTHES BY: BRADLEY WALTON they are really playing out their own worst BY: STEVEN SCHUTZMAN fears about belonging and finding a place in MS HS • 4-16 either, 4-16 total, doubling MS HS • 3 females, 6 males, 6 either, 15 total, the world. "Ernie's" situation ultimately moves possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • 0-15 extras, gender flexible • 60 minutes • the children to open up their clubhouse to Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per everyone. Ernie's Place is a play about Due to budget restrictions, the school is hiring performance reaching out and making connections. just one position for the coming year: a In this comic retelling of the classic story, two replacement for their retiring librarian. The con men escape jail, with bumbling detectives EVERYTHING BUT assistant principals hate conducting job in hot pursuit. Soon they trick the vain, BY: ALAN HAEHNEL interviews, but it's just one position, so things fashion-conscious Emperor into letting them MS HS • 15-58 either, 15-58 total, doubling can't go too badly, right? Alas, things are not create the royal garments for his daughter's possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Comedy so simple, as a taxidermist, an aspiring wedding. The garments, they say, will not only • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • garbage truck driver, and a would-be sword be of the highest possible style, they will have Royalty: $35.00 per performance swallower are just some of the contenders in
STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS the magical property of being invisible to fools The cast of Everything But starts the play by a pool of hilariously unqualified applicants. It's unworthy of their positions. What fun to watch taking a company bow. When no one going to be a very rough day. fools prove they are not foolish in this land of applauds, they comically explain how they super-charged pride and vanity. decided to have all the pleasant parts of a COUSIN AMY'S DINER play—such as the t-shirts, the applause, the BY: JERRY RABUSHKA EXCUSES, EXCUSES costume choices—and none of the unpleasant parts—like the nerve-wracking MS HS • 7 females, 5 males, 5 either, 17 total, BY: ALAN HAEHNEL auditions, the disappointments of the cast list, 0-20 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook ALL • 14 either, 14 total, doubling possible, the memorization. By the time they are done gender flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy • Script: Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: explaining and demonstrating their clever performance $35.00 per performance scheme for doing everything but the play itself, the cast can finally take its bow and Have a seat wherever you like! Cousin Amy's For Norma, hope springs eternal. Even garner, at last, its well-earned applause. Diner will do whatever it takes to make its though she has been assigned to direct a customers happy...or not. Jordan, the group of complete misfits in a theatrical manager, is saddled with two high school project, even though virtually every attempt at GHOSTLY TRINKETS waitresses who prefer gossip and causing organizing them has met with failure, even BY: CHARRON CONTIVAL mischief to doing any actual work. No matter though the curtain has opened and still MS HS • 1 female, 3 males, 4 total • 20 minutes —it's virtually impossible to please this nobody knows what to do, Norma is certain • Drama, Historical Events and People • Script: colorful array of customers...not that anyone something will work out. She is absolutely $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: is trying! When a well-known celebrity shows right while being absolutely wrong. Nothing $30.00 per performance up, will everything go up in smoke? Full of does work out, but by the end of Excuses, An escaped Holocaust war criminal living in zany one-liners and clever twists and turns. Excuses, the audience is rolling in the aisles America must face the ghosts of innocent Oh...and don't forget to tip. over the hilarious events that happen while people he slaughtered. What do they want? nothing is being accomplished. Welcome to Revenge and retribution? Simple Dysfunction Junction, where not getting there understanding? A creepy, eye-opening is all the fun! Perfect for actors of all levels. drama.
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EYE-SPY, PI FAIRY TALE PRINCESS GAME COFFEE HOUSE BY: MAX R. BEVER OF THRONES BY: LEON KAYE HS CT • 8 females, 2 males, 5-15 either, 15-25 BY: CLAIRE WILSON, JIM JEFFRIES, JANE HS CT • 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • 30 minutes total, 0-5 extras • 45 minutes • Comedy, JEFFRIES • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: Mystery, Parody • Script: $6.50 • Notebook MS HS • 8 females, 2 males, 10 total • 55 $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per minutes • Comedy, Classics, Fairy Tales • Amy and Dag meet at a coffee house. They performance Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance laugh, joke, tease and seem perfectly suited Maggie Eye-Spy, our private investigator for one another. Then, time stops and heroine, desperate to prove herself as a true It's tough being Snow White in a kingdom full everyone is frozen - all except for Dag and a blue detective, has followed a getaway car of princesses full of raging jealousies, strange man, Hugh, who claims to be a from a jewel robbery to the mansion of the insecurities, mistaken loyalties, rivalries, and messenger sent to save him from making a richest woman in town, the imperious Miss betrayals. Snow White suspects that terrible, life-altering mistake! Dag has a Mayberry Marblesham. However, when a someone is plotting against her and summons perfect soul mate with whom he has spent police search turns up nothing, it raises the ire her best friend, Belle, to smoke out the many fulfilling lifetimes, only it isn't Amy. of the no-nonsense Sergeant Sharon assassin and uncover the plot. Find out which Surprises and reversals abound in this mind- STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS Snooker. On top of that, Maggie's goofy but princess is the un-fairest of them all in this bending fantasy about coffee and the rest of loyal husband Harry decides to butt into family-friendly comedy. your life. matters. To clear her name and find the stolen diamonds, Maggie goes undercover as a man FALL OF THE HOUSE OF to Miss Mayberry's yearly ball to find the truth, FIGHTING DEMONS with Harry sneaking along, undercover USHER BY: ANGELA HILL dressed as a woman. What ensues includes BY: STEVEN SCHUTZMAN MS HS • 6 females, 5 males, 1 either, 12 total, mistaken identities, lavish dance sequences, MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 4 either, 8 total • 6-11 extras, gender flexible • 30 minutes • and witty silliness. 60 minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per • Royalty: $40.00 per performance performance DRIFT "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a Heeding the plea of his old friend, Roderick thousand battles...then the victory is yours. It BY: DENNIS BUSH Usher, William Benson travels to the haunted cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by HS CT • 5 females, 4 males, 9 total • 40 House of Usher, where the very stones are demons." ~ Buddha ~ Ten teenagers find minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook alive with voices of trapped ancestors themselves trapped and fighting their own Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per desperate for release. There, things are not performance demons. Cindy is hiding a tragic secret, Milton quite as they seem. Roderick's sister, the is fighting OCD, and Cyrus is fighting Among the shadows of the bright lights of beautiful Madeleine, seems to die, and addiction. Alice and Lilah are battling bulimia New York City's theatre district, nine Roderick is seized by the paranoid dread of and cancer, Tabitha has an abusive homeless people search for hope and what seems to be an imagined event but one boyfriend, and Arnold is dealing with abuse meaning. They're not movers and shakers, that actually shows itself at the heart- from bullies. Will is struggling with his parent's they just get moved and shaken. In a world pounding climax of the play. Benson gets divorce, and Jezz is struggling with thoughts that's been turned upside down, they find caught up and barely survives as the macabre of suicide, while Eli is trying to save everyone poetry and pain, with no pity and no shame. Usher fate finally comes to pass. An in a desperate attempt to redeem himself. In adaptation that will delight modern actors and the end, they must choose to stay trapped or DRAMATIC RE-ENACTMENT audiences as it remains faithful to the fight their way to freedom. This play offers an language, atmosphere and psychological BY: JERRY RABUSHKA opportunity for ensemble work and provides insight of the Poe classic tale of terror. strong monologues. It also has opportunities ALL • 8 females, 3 males, 2 either, 13 total • 35 for movement, creativity, and film work, if minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per HOW TO IMPROVISE A PLAY IN desired. performance 30 MINUTES OR LESS The perfect play for airing out dirty laundry - BY: MURRAY AUSTIN FIGMENT literally. In this detective farce, our poor officer MS HS • 1 female, 1 male, 28-48 either, 30-50 BY: DAVE TUCKER tries to uncover the reason behind the death total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 HS CT • 3 females, 1 either, 4 total, gender of Eric's wife, Patrice. Could it have minutes • Comedy, Ensemble Cast, Readers flexible • 20 minutes • Drama • Script: $5.50 • something to do with the fact that she was Theatre • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance playing poker with Eric and his five other ex- performance wives at a family reunion? Now no one is Students from two rival theatre classes have Jill's friend, Liza, has lost touch with reality allowed in or out of the hotel until whoever did each been summoned to perform for the high and developed a new world of imaginary this dastardly deed is discovered. The football school faculty and staff. Unfortunately, they friends. Liza gets help from one of the college team can't get to the big game, and the were each working on a different show. Now psychology professors and is now beginning gardening club can't go strawberry picking! feuding actors must join forces to improvise a to see the difference between fact and And why has the housekeeping crew hidden new play or lose funding for their upstart imagination. Jill, on the other hand, is the body at the bottom of a laundry bin? drama program. This one-act comedy boasts concerned about the strange techniques the What's the best way to get to the bottom of a highly flexible ensemble cast, may be professor is using, so she pays him a this? Stay tuned for a...dramatic re- played on a bare stage, and even concludes visit...and gets a bigger surprise than she ever enactment! with an easy and hilarious acappella musical expected. number.
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FIND ME FOOLISH DECISION THE GIFT OF THE MAGI BY: DENNIS BUSH BY: DAVID BURTON BY: DAN NEIDERMYER MS HS • 4 females, 2 males, 6 total, gender MS HS • 8 females, 4 males, 3 either, 15 total, ALL • 2 females, 3 males, 5 total • 15 minutes • flexible • 30 minutes • Drama, Ensemble Cast • 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • Classics • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • 40 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance Royalty: $35.00 per performance Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Based on the classic short story by O. Henry, An emotional exploration of what lies behind The Gift of The Magi tells the poignant story the facades we show the world, Find Me When Libby becomes desperate to find a date of two young, impoverished newlyweds, Jim weaves together the revelations of six for the big dance, she discovers Stone, a guy and Della Dillingham of New York City in the characters struggling with life-changing with a shady reputation and muscles that are early 1900s, who find themselves on their first events. A victim of abuse learns a lesson that "harder than a rock." Will lovable nerd, Christmas Eve together with little money and puts the power in her hands, a young woman Norman, save the day and win a date with no gifts. What Jim and Della do on Christmas confronts her overwhelming fears, a mother Libby? A witty comedy and a sobering drama Eve to acquire the money they need to buy knows the truth and isn't going to be silent whose anti-drug and alcohol theme packs a each other presents, shows the true meaning anymore, a young man reacts forcefully when wallop, the play's premiere at the Globe of the of Christmas. faced with his sister's mortality, a technology- Great Southwest earned it a showing at the challenged woman discovers where the faulty West Texas Drug Conference. O. Henry, a master at writing short stories equipment really is, and a recently-dumped depicting American life, culture, and ethos, guy longs for what he's never had. At times FRANK used as his example for Jim and Della's giving laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly BY: JEFF LOVETT the magi of ancient times. Within his dramatic, this searing one-act takes us on an bittersweet story of gift-giving, O. Henry MS HS • 5-11 females, 5-11 males, 16 total, 1-6 unflinching journey to the truth. explained that the magi invented the art of extras, gender flexible • 60 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: giving Christmas gifts and ever since those THE FIRST DATE $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance ancient times, people have expressed their sincere love by giving gifts during the holiday BY: KRISTYN LEIGH ROBINSON After 145 attempts, mad scientist Dr. Stein season. ALL • 1 female, 2 males, 3 total, 0-6 extras • 20 has finally created the perfect son and names minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook him Frank. Frank N. Stein. Frank wants to be Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per a normal boy, but soon finds out that fitting in THE FRUITCAKE performance at the local high school is a lot harder than it BY: DWAYNE YANCEY Brad and Delia are on a blind date. Despite looks. Frank's quirks attract the affections of ALL • 4 females, 2 males, 3 either, 9 total, the antics of the inept waiter, Jack thinks it Mary Shelley, another student, but they also gender flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy • Script: seems to be going really well...that is, until attract the attention of the school's bullies. $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: Delia begins to steal things from the After being taunted and pushed one too many $35.00 per performance restaurant. The result is utter hilarity. times, Frank finally fights back and ends up in An extended—and quite dysfunctional—family
STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS Judge Jenny's court along with someone who gathers for a Christmas season tradition: Aunt thinks he's Johnny Depp. When Frank is FIVE EX-WIVES IN ICU Hazel's historically inedible fruitcake. But unable to prove either his identity or before she can bring it out, some of the BY: LINDA THORSEN BOND citizenship, it's up to Dr. Stein and Mary to relatives steal the thing and make a bet on HS CT • 6 females, 1 male, 7 total • 20 minutes rescue Frank from Judge Jenny's courtroom whether they can destroy it. Chaos ensues. • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: in this fast-paced twist on Mary Shelly's Characters include a goth-punk teen, a $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance classic story. science nerd, a tough-talking ex-Peace Corps Five very different women have come from all worker, and a near-sighted aunt. around the United States to be at the bedside GRANDMA ROSIE of Brandon LaPorte in an intensive care unit. BY: JOHN DONALD O'SHEA They have one thing in common—they HOMELESS HARRY married him. Lisa is the host of a local TV talk ALL • 3 females, 1 male, 2 either, 6 total, BY: BRIAN JAMES LANE gender flexible • 25 minutes • Comedy • Script: show who is never surprised when people MS HS • 4 females, 4 males, 2 either, 10 total, $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: doubling possible, gender flexible • 15 minutes • recognize her. Edie married Brandon twice $30.00 per performance and would marry him a third time if she could. Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance Jen is an aerobics teacher whose nervous Rosie, a spry 94-year-old woman, still lives at energy has burned all the fat off her body. home, but her memory is not what it used to Harry is a down on his luck bum...or so Pam is so smart that she can't figure out how be. Rosie is fortunate to have a loving family everyone thinks. Most don't even see him she was dumb enough to fall for Brandon. who frequently looks in after her. Her when they look. To some, he's a culmination And Rosemary is a saint—everybody says so. granddaughter, Sara, is her main support. But of society's problems. To others, he's just an All crammed into the little hospital room, they with Rosie, even the smallest "molehill" can eyesore. Take an adventurous, often agree, "When a man says you're too good for unexpectedly turn into a "mountain." inspirational look at a day in the life of him, believe him!" "Homeless Harry."
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THE GIRL IN THE RED HIJAB GOLDEN GONE GROOVE-A-RELLA *BY: JANE JEFFRIES, JIM JEFFRIES BY: DENNIS BUSH BY: TONIANN GUADAGNOLI 7 females, 3 males, 10 total, 4-15 extras • 35 MS HS • 3 females, 2 males, 4 either, 9 total, MS HS • 10 females, minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook gender flexible • 45 minutes • Drama, Ensemble 4 males, 1 either, 15 Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per Cast • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • total, 0-8 extras, performance Royalty: $35.00 per performance gender flexible • 50 minutes • Comedy, Samira, an outspoken and articulate Muslim A girl disappears and her young life is Fantasy, Classics • girl, gets on the wrong side of a group of explored through the perspectives of her Script: $6.50 • students by challenging them on their family, neighbors and a troubled girl obsessed Notebook Script: assumptions about Islam. Offended, they with the case. This drama examines our own $12.75 • Royalty: nominate her for homecoming court as a way behavior through social media and explores $40.00 per to embarrass her and then follow with a nasty the impact of revenge, reinvention and the performance text campaign. Two of her Christian friends power of delusion. Lace up your go-go must decide whether to just be bystanders, boots and get ready STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS and a new Muslim student, who just wants to THE GREAT NURSING HOME for a new twist on a fit in, must decide if it is time to stand out. This ESCAPE classic! Rock and roll singer Johnny Rocket script explores different prejudices and needs a date to a big awards show, and his BY: NATHAN HARTSWICK misinformation about Muslims in America and manager, Max Slick, books him a gig on the is also another look at bullying in general. HS CT • 5 females, 3 males, 8 total • 50 Dating Game TV show to find the lucky girl. minutes • Comedy, Farce • Script: $6.50 • The contestants? The insufferable Rella Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per GLASS performance sisters, Prunella and Stella, and their shy BY: SAUL ZACHARY stepsister, Cindy. Too bad Mrs. Rella, Cindy's From a locked-down nursing home in the stepmother, doesn't want her going on the HS CT • 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • 35 dead of night, they attempt the greatest show and leaves her at home to wax the floor! minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook escape ever. Join this misfit band of “inmates” With some help from a Groovy Godmother Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per as they hatch a master plan to escape their performance and her backup singers, Cindy gets a fab dreary nursing home and find something far makeover and new boots made for walking! A fatigued matinee idol on the verge of a more important than a baseball game – they But will the hunky Johnny Rocket choose to nervous breakdown comes home one day find their youth. Watch as their best-laid plans take her to the awards show? Full of twists, from his long-running Broadway hit and go awry with hilarious results! This group of turns and a surprise ending that will keep ‘em discovers an audience watching him through characters will charm you as the ringleader, guessing, this show is full of rock ‘n' roll fun! the plate glass window of his high-rise the gossip, the grouch, the airhead, the apartment. An excellent Twilight Zone-style Casanova, and the shy old gal with a play. surprising amount of moxie put their talents to THE GREAT SANTA CLAUS the test. Funny and heartwarming, this single- REINDEER ROUNDUP AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA set, easy-to-produce play is sure to entertain BY: BOB MAY – and to remind audiences of the importance MS HS • 5 females, 3 males, 7 either, 15 total, BY: BOBBY KENISTON of a youthful sense of adventure. gender flexible • 50 minutes • Comedy • Script: HS CT • 2 females, 3 males, 5 total • 30 $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook $40.00 per performance Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per HANK MORGAN: A DAY IN THE performance LIFE Santa's magic sleigh has always been pulled around the world delivering Christmas toys to BY: ALAN HAEHNEL A Good Doctor travels to an Unnamed the good boys and girls by way of sled dogs. Country that is in desperate need of help. He HS CT • 5 females, 2 males, 1 either, 8 total • But the sleigh is getting too heavy for the 40 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook quickly learns that the government of this dogs to pull, so Santa decides they need a country distrusts all Americans, and that he is Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance stronger animal to pull the sleigh each in great danger from the one called Christmas. A dragon auditions for the Peacemaker. After a bombing in the streets, Lillian Morgan has come to watch a play job...after all, he can fly! When Santa decides the Doctor desperately tries to save the life of based on a day in the life of her brother, Hank against hiring the dragon and puts out an an injured girl, only to be apprehended by the Morgan, but the play is utterly wrong. Barely audition call for eight special reindeer, the Peacemaker on suspicion of terrorism. He is one detail is correct, and Lillian, as a former dogs, the dragon, and an annoyed elf band subjected to the questions of a sinister drama teacher and meticulous journal-keeper, together to stop Santa from finding any interrogator and then placed in a cell, alone, cannot bear to have the audience deceived. reindeer...which will stop Christmas. Santa with only his thoughts of life back at home and She interrupts the play and demands it be finally triumphs, but with more and more toys, the girl he tried so hard to save. This dramatic ended. She is adamant, despite the protests even the new-found reindeer get stuck in a fairy tale is an emotional story of what it of the director, the actors, and her brother snowdrift. Seeing the holiday at risk, the means to be good, and the strength we all himself. Only when the actress playing dragon comes to the rescue and saves have within, even when faced with dire Lillian's younger self appears does Lillian Christmas when he teaches the reindeer how circumstances. Perfect for one act play relent, allowing it to continue. But for the show to fly. competitions! to go on, Lillian must actually take a part. By the end of this comedy, she learns that the accuracy of her memories may not be as important as the feelings behind them.
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A HANSEL AND GRETEL HAUNTED BY GOATS A FUNNY WAY OF SHOWING IT CHRISTMAS BY: BRADLEY WALTON BY: JERRY RABUSHKA BY: JACK DYVILLE MS HS • 2 females, 1 male, 3-6 either, 6-9 total, ALL • 3 females, 3 males, 6 total • 25 minutes • ALL • 3 females, 2 males, 1 either, 6 total, 1 doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 extra, gender flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy, Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: • Royalty: $35.00 per performance $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Fairy Tales, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Michelle won't admit she's a victim of teen Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per The atmosphere hanging over an abandoned performance dating violence. How could she—and lose house is terrifying...and highly photogenic. Ryan, the star player on the football team? He Join this famous brother and sister in 21st Cathy drags along her boyfriend and sister to loves her; he's just got a funny way of century New York City on Christmas! Dad is take pictures of the creepy house, but every showing it. It's attention, at any rate, and from out of work and Hansel and Gretel’s selfish stranger they meet tells them that the house a really cool guy. Ryan's got to play "alpha stepmother wants nothing more for Christmas is haunted. By goats. Cathy keeps clicking, male"—impress the guys and keep the girls in than to rid the house of these two children. John wants to leave and Cathy's sister just line. Nothing wrong with it–all the guys do it, She decides to take them off to Manhattan wants a date with John. Looming over all of he says. His friend Steve makes the mistake and lose them among the throngs of holiday them is one very absurd question: Is the of trying to talk sense into him, so Ryan has to shoppers, but they are befriended by a silly house really haunted by goats? do the sensible thing—walk away. Michelle Macy's elf, an old gingerbread lady who talks says it's her fault for making him mad, and to herself and a policeman! There’s no evil HAUNTED HAMLET Ryan's coach tells everyone to stop making witch, after all this is the Christmas season, waves so he can play in the big game. Do the BY: STEVE CROSS and there’s certainly no violence. This show is needs of one "insignificant" girl trump Ryan's perfect for children and adults who enjoy a MS HS • 6 females, 4 males, 3-5 either, 13-15 chance to lead his team to the championship? total, 0-5 extras, gender flexible • 50 minutes • wonderful family play with morals, lessons Told with humor, poignancy and taste, this and lots of laughs! Comedy, Farce, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per play opens doors to discussing a difficult performance topic. HANSEL AND GRETEL IN What happens when a bad writer combines FOSTER CARE Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet and throws in a HOMER'S (AFTER SCHOOL, BY: KELLY MEADOWS pinch of Taming of the Shrew for seasoning? OUT OF THIS WORLD, MS HS • 16 either, 16 total, gender flexible • 25 Chaos and comedy. Wilma Shakespeare, an DANGEROUS AND SCARY) minutes • Comedy, Classics, Readers Theatre • unpublished romance writer who claims to be ODYSSEY Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • a descendant of the "Bard," writes her own BY: STEPH DEFERIE Royalty: $30.00 per performance tragedy because Will's plays are nothing but MS HS • 6 females, 4 males, 10 either, 20 total, Hansel and Gretel live with their father and "old-fashioned soap operas." She also gender flexible • 45 minutes • Fantasy, Legends stepmother at the edge of a deep dark forest. decides to act in her own masterpiece as the and Myths, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook If only they'd get lost, hopes their stepmother. nurse. The only resemblance her play has to Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS So does their father! These kids, expelled a Shakespearean tragedy is that everyone from school and forced by the townspeople to dies in the end—except for her, of course. Homer's a kid who always gives up when the live out of earshot, are incorrigible. Their real Outraged by Wilma's atrocious writing, the going gets tough, which is unfortunate mother didn't die—she escaped! Finally— chorus can stand no more: it's time for because the going just got very tough indeed thankfully—the kids run off from a family revenge, Shakespeare style. Easy to stage - his teachers are aliens bent on devouring picnic, but what do they do? Eat a poor old and written in rhyme, Haunted Hamlet is fun every human on earth...and he's the only one witch out of house and home! Do the kids and challenging. Shakespeare may roll over who can stop them! His daunting after-school need to go into foster care? Who would have in his grave, but your audiences will love it! odyssey home to get help mirrors that of them? Even the narrator has his hands full Odysseus, which Homer just happens to be trying to stick to this outrageous story in the HOLLOW studying. Will Homer get to his parents and tradition of the popular Jack, the Beanstalk, BY: BRADLEY WALTON will they believe him if he does? Can the and Social Services. aliens be stopped before it's too late, or are HS CT • 4 females, 2 males, 2 either, 8 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • we all doomed to be dinner? This is a fun, HARLEQUIN RHAPSODY Drama, Historical Events and People • Script: modern take on that classic story which everyone has experienced - the journey BY: DAVE HUDSON $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance through a myriad of dangers just to HS CT • 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • 30 minutes • reach...home. Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 Teri thought she knew her father. He drank. • Royalty: $35.00 per performance He abused her. He beat her. Until the terrorist A street performer waits for an audience in a attack...the day Teri's father saved a man and SCRATCHING THE SURFACE park. His ex-girlfriend appears but has second died while trying to save another...leaving his BY: DENNIS BUSH thoughts about talking to him and nearly emotionally shattered daughter to decide if he MS HS • 9 females, 7 males, 16 total, doubling leaves. After much hesitation, she finally was more hero or monster, and if the pain he possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Drama • gathers the courage to reveal that she is caused her should still matter. Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • dying and has come to say goodbye. Royalty: $35.00 per performance What are we hiding? Through a series of Full of humor and pathos in appropriate interwoven monologues, Scratching the doses, Harlequin Rhapsody is a sentimental Surface explores the secrets we keep. What drama that will move audiences of all ages. we don't say often speaks volumes. Look into my eyes. That's where you'll find me. 82 Best suited for: ALL = All Audiences | MS = Middle School | HS = High School | CT = Community Theatre/College * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS
HOOD, OF SHERWOOD HOW TO HIDE YOUR ZOMBIES HOW TO MESS UP PRETTY BY: ROBERT MAURO BY: EDITH WEISS MUCH ANYTHING MS HS • 1 female, 7 MS HS • 9 females, 1 male, 9 either, 19 total, BY: BRADLEY WALTON males, 8 total, 0-20 0-8 extras, gender flexible • 55 minutes • MS HS • 1 male, 5-30 either, 6-31 total • 30 extras • 30 minutes • Comedy, Fantasy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Comedy, Classics • Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Script: $6.50 • performance performance Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: Four recovering Vampires are trying to hide a Any worthwhile school play needs to teach $35.00 per group of childlike Zombies they’ve found some kind of lesson, right? When the curtain performance wandering in the hills. They give etiquette, rises, the cast proudly announces that the elocution, and dancing lessons to try and Here's a wacky lesson of this show is right there in the title. humanize their guests; but it is the lessons comedy that requires How to Mess Up Pretty Much Anything. But from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood that saves only a few props and when the principal phones in and demands a the day. No biting, no blood. more socially uplifting theme, no one has any
a little rehearsing. STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS Inspired by the story Robin Hood, this ideas. So the actors plunge ahead with the hilarious plot deals with a silly bandit, a fair FALLEN IDOL original plan, frantically exploring random and outlandish scenarios as they try to figure out a maid, and an evil prince. And there's enough BY: KELLY MEADOWS merry men and guards to provide as large or way they can hold on to their original lesson MS HS • 2 females, 4 males, 2 either, 8 total, and win the principal's approval before they small a cast as desired. You see, it seems 0-5 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • Robin can't quite remember if he and his 40 minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook get kicked off the stage! merry men “rob from the poor and give to the Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per rich” or vice versa. This leads to a riotous performance IF I SHOULD WAKE BEFORE I ransom, a ridiculous robbery, comic chases, Pop icon Leif Hawker has died tragically at DIE and even some lively madrigals! the height of his career. Three students BY: ALAN HAEHNEL mourn; two other students laugh at their pain. MS HS • 6 females, 3 males, 6 either, 15 total, HORROR HIGH When things get ugly, the school tries to stop 3-5 extras, gender flexible • 30 minutes • BY: SEAN ABLEY it, but the principal's "no tolerance" discipline Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: just make things worse. When one of Leif's $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance MS HS • 8 females, 7 males, 1 either, 16 total, fans goes off the deep end, her friends start to 1-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • One by one, Sally's friends start to stutter, and 50 minutes • Comedy, Parody • Script: $6.50 • distance themselves-one even aligns with "the then keel over, seemingly dead. Sally is left Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per enemy!" This entertaining drama still finds alone, frantically dialing a cell phone that has performance humor in its serious situations and brings up suddenly stop working. What is happening? important issues that merit discussion: loyalty This play takes all of those horror film icons of The answer is almost beyond Sally's in friendships, the loneliness of feeling "too long ago - Frankenstein, the Mummy, and the comprehension. Two strange-looking close" to a celebrity, even how our taste in Creature from the Black Lagoon - and creatures, Zog and Zod, enter and inform music can all too often define our position in transforms them into high school teenagers in Sally that her whole life has been an life. An unusual offering! their senior year at Horror High School. Will experiment. The Earth has been destroyed, Georgia the Zombie stop eating brains long and an alien planet collected Sally and a few enough to realize her Bigfoot boyfriend is I DON'T MIND THAT YOU'RE other humans as study samples. unhappy on the football team? Will Blair the UGLY Unfortunately, the committee governing Zog Witch be able to convince Victor Frankenstein BY: BOBBY KENISTON and Zod's experiments has decided to de- fund Sally's simulation. Her life, as Sally knew that his monster isn't just a bunch of used MS HS • 5 females, 4 males, 9 total • 25 parts? Will Nosferata the Vegetarian Vampire minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook it, is over. Zod allows Sally a few minutes to and Larry the Wolf ever be able to convince Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per say good-bye to her reality, then returns to their parents a "mixed" relationship is okay? performance finish closing down the experiment by killing And will Miss Medusa, the computer teacher, Sally. Just as Zod is about to do the deed, Clyde is waiting at “The Only Fancy be able to keep her sunglasses on without though, Zog returns to announce that, in fact, Restaurant in Town,” anxious to propose to turning the entire student body to stone? Sally's experiment has been re-funded—she his beautiful girlfriend, Kira. There is only one Sixteen classic monsters make up the faculty has her life back! But how can Sally continue problem: Clyde is a very average-looking guy. and student body of Horror High! on again, resuming her “normal” life, knowing When Kira arrives, looking stunning, Clyde's that it's all just an illusion? night is thrown into a whirlwind when HOW TO GET THE GIRL everyone in the restaurant wants to gawk at BY: PETER LANCASTER WALKER his bride-to-be. When Kira accidentally makes RITUAL BY: DENNIS BUSH MS HS • 7 females, 2 males, 9 total, 0-5 extras the comment, “I don't mind that you're ugly,” • 25 minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • to Clyde, the night really takes off in an ALL • 4 females, 4 males, 8 total • 20 minutes • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per unexpected direction. Will Clyde marry the girl Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 performance of his dreams, or will his relationship be • Royalty: $30.00 per performance ruined at this wacky restaurant? Including Do pick-up lines and promises really work? “Wrapping it pretty” becomes a disturbing several colorful characters, this one-act What do girls REALLY want? How does a guy directive as eight actors bring a series of romantic comedy is sure to delight and make get the girl of his dreams? Find the answers in deconstructed rituals to a haunting climax. you say, “Awwww,” all at once! this light-hearted comedy.
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND - I'M A PRINCESS - GET ME HUH, LEVEL 12 AND THE URBAN EDITION OUT* OF HERE! GEOLOGICAL HORSES BY: BURTON BUMGARNER BY: LINDA COOKE BY: ALAN HAEHNEL MS HS • 3-4 females, 8-23 either, 11-27 total, MS HS • 4 females, 2 males, 1 either, 7 total, MS HS • 15 females, 9 males, 24 total, doubling 0-6 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 10-20 extras, gender flexible • 35 minutes • possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Comedy 40 minutes • Classics, Comedy, Parody • Script: Comedy, Historical Events and People • Script: • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: Royalty: $35.00 per performance $45.00 per performance $45.00 per performance In this high-energy, flexible play, an ensemble In this wonderful city version of Lewis Carroll's When sixteen-year-old Diana lands a stint as of students gathers to tell the audience how classic story, Alice follows Rabbit down a princess with an online reality show, she they write a paper. They are quick to point subway tunnel and encounters a host of expects it’s all gorgeous gowns and royal out, however, that this is not a "how to," but a strange urbanites, including a Rat, a romance from here on out. But her "how we" — not how a paper should be Caterpillar, a Cook, the Queen of Hearts, and Disneyland dreams become a Game of written, but how they actually do write it. From a Grinning Cat. She also encounters subway Thrones nightmare when she learns that mishearing the assignment to nights of passengers and joggers who speak in rhyme. unless she conceives an heir with a cranky procrastination to begging for an extension, After a heated courtroom trial in which the old stranger she will face the dungeon … or this play comically treats a universal problem: Knave of Hearts is accused of stealing the worse. The reality of this show is that she and homework. Queen of Hearts grocery cart, Alice returns fellow millennials Bernard and Gwen are safely to the thriving metropolis. trapped in the 16th century, unable to return to the lives they thought they didn’t want. Can IF THE SHOE FITS BY: KRISTI THIELEN I WAS A TEENAGE PROM Diana still achieve pampered princess status, or will she risk her fairy tale ending to allow MS HS • 6 females, 1 male, 4 either, 11 total, QUEEN her new friends to live …(wait for it) … happily gender flexible • 55 minutes • Comedy, Fairy BY: SAMARA SISKIND ever after? Tales • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • MS HS • 4 females, 4 males, 8 total • 40 Royalty: $40.00 per performance minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook I'M AN ORIGINAL The classic tale comes alive in a modern Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per treatment with lively twists and turns! Hapless performance BY: KATHERINE DUBOIS Al Wearit tries to save his failing shoe store Welcome to a day in the life of high school MS • 7 females, 5 males, 12 total • 30 minutes • from the clutches of the evil villainess, Petunia senior Chelsea Scott. Chelsea balances the Comedy, Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook P. Leathers, despite the not-so-helpful advice Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per titles of reigning Homecoming Queen, head from his wife, Gladys. Their charming performance cheerleader, and most popular girl ever to daughter, Sandy, is a book-loving girl whose grace the halls of Beverly Hills High, all while Elliot’s contest-winning short story was based bright imagination beckons to five magical maintaining a perfect 4.0 grade point average. on an incident Brooke told him about—in elves. These sprites save the day with some To the naked eye, Chelsea's life seems confidence. Brooke is furious. Jesse thinks spectacular shoes and the evidence that
STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS perfect...but it isn't. She has parents who spoil the dumb quarterback in the story was based reveals Mrs. Leathers for what she really is! A her rather than challenge her, a twisted little on him. He’s mad. Iris thinks the story sounds kind-hearted police officer and a dancing brother who spends his days torturing her, an awful lot like the time someone broke into cobbler round out the cast, which includes and a thick-headed jock boyfriend who her locker and ruined her coat. She’s colorful roles for two young elves. A terrific threatens any other guy who comes within a suspicious. Kevin thinks the story is an awful show for young audiences. twenty foot radius of her. Follow Chelsea on lot like his entry. He’s upset. Lily thinks the her journey to break all high-school story is making fun of something stereotypes and discover that beauty isn't embarrassing that happened to her. She’s IMPACT everything, and popularity isn't always what offended. As Elliot tries to pacify everyone BY: TODD FORD it's cracked up to be. without giving away Brooke’s secret, he digs MS HS • 9 females, 3 males, 12 total, 0-1 himself deeper and deeper into a hole, extras, doubling possible • 50 minutes • Drama, inventing a different “inspiration” for his story Award-winning Plays • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per INSPECTOR FINDOUT AND THE to counter each accusation. LOST CHERRY PIE performance BY: JOHN DONALD O'SHEA, ERIN O'SHEA September 11th is an event that dramatically MS HS • 5 females, 1 male, 1 either, 7 total, HOW SHE PLAYED THE GAME affected us as individuals and as a nation. In gender flexible • 25 minutes • Comedy • Script: BY: CYNTHIA COOPER this series of interrelated scenes and $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: HS • 1-6 females, 1-6 total, doubling possible, monologues we are given the opportunity to $35.00 per performance gender flexible • 60 minutes • Drama • Script: reflect on how this event rippled through our $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: When Mom's freshly baked pie disappears, to lives. Impact expresses our fear, hope and $50.00 per performance ferret out the culprit, she deputizes her son, anger but more importantly poses the Tom, under his pseudonym, Inspector Six spirited women from sports history show question. “What have we learned?” Findout. In the course of the investigation, he how they overcame obstacles, broke records examines all the "usual suspects," which, in and crashed stereotypes: Babe Didrikson, this case, include four uncooperative sisters. Gertrude Ederle, Althea Gibson, Sonia Henie, Eleanor Randolph Sears, Gretel Bergmann. How She Played the Game has been used in high school competency testing in several states.
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THE INTERVENTION IT'S NOT A GOOD DAY FOR JACK, THE BEANSTALK AND BY: MARK BELLUSCI SCHOOL TODAY SOCIAL SERVICES HS CT • 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • 15 BY: ALAN HAEHNEL BY: JERRY RABUSHKA minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook MS HS • 20-80 either, 20-80 total, doubling MS HS • 2 females, 4 males, 7 either, 13 total, Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per possible, gender flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • performance • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Comedy, Readers Theatre, Fairy Tales • Script: Phil is the victim of an all-consuming Royalty: $35.00 per performance $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance addiction. His wife, Janey, is forced to watch What could be more enjoyable for students Phil's decline—until she can stand no more. than a play chronicling the many important Mom and Jack would get along just fine if it So she calls in the heavy hitters: two reasons why school should be canceled? wasn't for that pesky social worker who keeps intervention specialists who have seen the Employing rhyme and several large-cast, butting into everyone else's business. To life-draining effects of this dreaded addiction. action-inviting scenarios, It's Not a Good Day make matters worse, some theatre company They'll do whatever it takes to free Phil from for School Today does just that. Life- hired a critic who thinks it's his business to its powerful grasp. What is this "addiction," threatening scourges, dangerous stomach nitpick the storyline. A famine in the land and will these hard, grizzled intervention gas, and the new, all-purpose Sal MacGrid forces Jack to sell the family cow—but at the STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS specialists be able to save Phil and still be holiday are just a few of the crucial reasons Missouri State Fair? Mom doesn't mind...after home in time for the ballgame? Find out in why school, today, would just not be a good all, when Jack's gone, she can go party. One this quirky comedy. idea. thing leads to another, and while Jack climbs the beanstalk to land in a neighborhood of tract-castles, the social worker uses his ISELMATAINIA JACK AGAINST THE OGRE absence as an excuse to cut the family's BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT BY: WHITNEY RYAN GARRITY benefits. Mom's still concerned with keeping HS • 1 female, 1 male, 17 either, 19 total, 0-10 MS • 8 females, 5 males, 13 total, 1-20 extras • her check coming, until she realizes that extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 25 60 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • golden eggs provide for a much higher minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • standard of living, and the poor narrator is Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per Royalty: $40.00 per performance performance trying to douse the critic's constant A freshly updated version of the classic story complaining and just move the story along. Long live King Steve the 42nd! He already of Jack and the Beanstalk with modern Audiences will love the twists, turns, and take- promises to be better than his predecessor, psychological undertones. Jack is a cheerful offs of a fairy tale gone nuts. King Steve the 41st. After all, he’s been king teen who enjoys running in the meadow with longer. But then, fifteen minutes isn’t very his best friend, a cow. Jack's mother, a bitter LAST LIGHT long, even for Iselmatainia. And if he can widow, sees Jack's optimism as stupidity and BY: MEGAN ORR make it through the afternoon, he has a constantly upbraids the lad. Forced to sell his legitimate shot at the record. Of course, that’s cow, Jack heads to market and encounters ALL • 4 females, 2 males, 2 either, 8 total, a pretty big “if” in Iselmatainia. Maurio the Gypsy. Maurio tricks Jack into gender flexible • 25 minutes • Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: trading his cow for magic beans, infuriating $35.00 per performance ISMENE'S PRESS his mother. Slipping away in the middle of the CONFERENCE* night, Jack discovers a giant beanstalk and Time changes things—that's the difficult realizes the beans actually were magic! Atop lesson young returning missionary Amy BY: JUDY KLASS the beanstalk, Jack encounters a family Campbell struggles with this Christmas. Since MS HS • 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • 30 minutes imprisoned by an ogre. Jack resolves to she left her small town for the mission field, • Classics, Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook rescue the family, best the Ogre and return her mother has been diagnosed with MS, her Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per father has lost his job, and Amy has lost her performance the stolen treasures to the villagers. Along the way, Jack finds courage, self-esteem, his two friends…to each other. Amy begins to Ismene Kadmos comes from a family that's mother's acceptance, and even romance! wonder why she ever left in the first place… famous for the wrong reasons – her father until she realizes how much one little "light" was Oedipus Rex! She has tried to re-define can make. herself as a reporter on Thebes TV. But her LITTLE PLAY OF HORRORS radical sister Antigone wants Ismene to help BY: SAMARA SISKIND stand up to their Uncle Kreon, who is stealing MS HS • 8-14 females, 5-11 males, 13-25 total, JUST REGULAR PEOPLE elections, Antigone says. Bob, Ismene's boss, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • BY: CARL L. WILLIAMS tells her that good reporters cooperate with 40 minutes • Comedy, Parody • Script: $6.50 • MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • 25 people in power, to get access. Ismene has Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per minutes • Comedy, Dark Comedy • Script: $5.50 performance always been quieter than her sister, but • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance maybe Antigone is right; maybe everyone After surviving a chilling fright-night movie sees them as celebrity freaks anyhow, and a marathon, three friends—Sydmour, Taudrey, A loopy family visits a psychologist for court- good journalist should make trouble . . . and Carol Anne—find themselves trapped in a ordered counseling because they created a Antigone gets radical, and Ismene doesn't join slew of slasher films unlike any they've ever disturbance in a restaurant. The incensed her. Bob arranges a press conference for seen. Join the fun in this parody of modern father, the calm but ditzy mother, and their Ismene to talk about a new way to "adjust" the horror films, while our three protagonists impulsive 18-year-old daughter bring grief to exit polls – and Ismene has a big choice to battle crank callers, urban legends, horror the put-upon psychologist. They just want him make, when it comes to what she'll say. icons, and demented dolls, as they try to to certify them as normal, but how can he call make it through to the final credits. them rational when it wouldn’t be rational to do so?
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KEEPERS AT THE EDGE OF THE LADIES DECLARE WHEREFORE ART THOU THE SEA BY: THOMAS HISCHAK ROMEO BY: ANN MARIE OLIVA ALL • 7 females, 0-3 either, 7-10 total, doubling BY: MIKE WILLIS HS CT • 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • 25 minutes possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy MS HS • 4 females, 2 males, 6 total, gender • Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • flexible • 20 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Royalty: $35.00 per performance : $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance Abby, a young lighthouse keeper, is alone It is July 4, 1776 and while the Founding tending her duties when a fierce, unexpected Fathers in Philadelphia are debating the A high school drama club has decided that spring storm begins. She is surprised by two Declaration of Independence, seven women this year's student-directed play will be men, Mr. Trent and Jack. They are "Moon wait in a nearby tavern for the outcome. Betsy Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. After the Cussers." They want two ships, scheduled to Ross experiments with different colors and first round of auditions, Tiffany, the director, return that evening, to wreck so they can lay patterns for the new flag, Martha Washington and Amanda, the stage manager, find claim to the goods that wash ashore. Mr. and Martha Jefferson complain about the themselves with one major problem...no Trent is desperate. He has a dying wife and Quaker food, Abigail Adams follows the Romeo. In desperation, they hold one final three children and will do whatever is Congressional debate on her laptop, Mrs. round of auditions and are surprised when necessary to accomplish the task. Jack is Paul Revere plays solitaire on her iPhone, three of the most unlikely Romeos show up more ambivalent and less ruthless. As the and Mrs. Ben Franklin runs her Underground for auditions: Bernard, the school's nerdy evening progresses, Abby is determined to Railroad operation through her cell phone. brainiac, Kenny, who is not only obnoxious light the lantern for the safety of the men on The women discuss the same things being but also Tiffany's brother, and Erin, a female the ships. Mr. Trent is equally determined to argued at Independence Hall and come to transfer student. As the three read a portion of stop her. That leaves Jack caught in the some insightful conclusions of their own. This the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet middle. wacky and anachronistic look at an historic opposite Phoebe, the school's perfect Juliet, day is as thought-provoking as it is one wonders... "Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?" entertaining. KISS OF DEATH BY: KELLY MEADOWS ONE TOY FOR CHRISTMAS ALL • 7 females, 4 males, 11 total • 35 minutes THE LAME NAME CLUB BY: GEFF MOYER • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: BY:* SCOTT HAAN ALL • 4 females, 2 males, 2 either, 8 total, 1-10 $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance MS HS • 4 females, 3 males, 1 either, 8 total, extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 45 gender flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, Farce • minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Wanna kiss someone's great great great great Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per (or something like that) grandma? What if Royalty: $45.00 per performance performance she's already been dead for 400 years? Bratty 16-year-old Lisa takes her date Carson to the We all have our favorite stories about people This fast-paced, witty play blends zany animal cemetery for a secret kiss goodbye, and they who have been saddled with bizarre and characters with a boy who is fearful that Santa inadvertently stumble upon a reunion of all embarrassing names. Well now, there's help. will not be able to find him. The laughs will STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS her dead relatives. Grandma and Grandpa Witness the origins of a support group for keep rolling as we join a small group of are still fighting, plus there are the coffee people like Carrie Oakey, Paige Turner, and hungry forest animals in a desperate search cousins: Mochalatte, Carmellatte, Jed I. Knight (and all of the names in the story for food on Christmas Eve. In the midst of Cappuccino, Cocoa, and the dreadful Aunt are real names found in past U.S. Census their search, distant bells are heard and a Marilyn! She looks so good, now that records). The only thing these people have in wind-up soldier (mime role) plummets from she's...dead! Finally, delusional Uncle Henry common is that they are all ashamed of their the sky. Albert, the wise owl, concludes the thinks he's the King of England and is terrible names...or is it? strange object is a human toy and should be preoccupied with chopping off whatever taken to the human burrow. Only the bravest heads he can find. (and perhaps most foolhardy) of the animals MAC AND BETH are willing to take the risk of a very dangerous BY: DWAYNE YANCEY trek to the human’s burrow. Meanwhile, a city KYRA'S LEGACY ALL • 4 females, 2 males, 6 total, 1 extra • 25 family is spending a couple of nights in an old, BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI minutes • Comedy, Parody, Classics • Script: rustic cabin built by Father's great $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: grandfather. There is no TV, no Play Station, HS • 9 females, 9 total • 40 minutes • Drama • $35.00 per performance Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • and no neighbors. Joey is very discontent. Royalty: $35.00 per performance A young couple has just robbed a bank. The Furthermore, he is concerned that Santa dye pack in the bag of money has exploded, The girls have all been summoned by Claus will not be able to find him in this snow- covering Beth's hands with ink. Now she and mysterious letters to Kyra's home - but the covered wilderness. Join the adventure as the Mac are in a laundromat, trying to clean letters were all sent after Kyra's death! Kyra's forest animals, and Joey, learn a lesson about themselves, and the money, when suddenly younger sister, Mandy, shares a will in which the comforts of tradition and the meaning of things start unfolding an awful lot like Kyra leaves material possessions, Christmas. Macbeth, from the arrival of a Sheriff MacDuff mesmerizing advice, and shocking secrets to and three weird sisters with laundry to do. her nine dearest friends and family members. Minimal set requirements, but you'll need Intensely emotional, this play provides its some clothes washers and driers. actresses with the opportunity to showcase unique character types with profoundly dramatic scenes. The surprise ending will touch your heart.
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LAUGHING STOCK LITTLE RED RIDING BOOTS THE WASHED UP TEENAGE BY: BRADLEY HAYWARD AND COOTER COYOTE: CELEBRITY SOCIAL CLUB ALL • 5-9 females, 2-8 MASTER OF DISGUISE BY: BRADLEY WALTON males, 3-15 either, BY: BOBBI A. CHUKRAN MS HS • 2 females, 1 male, 6-7 either, 9-10 10-32 total, 1-100 MS HS • 3-4 females, 2 males, 1 either, 6-7 total, 0-1 extras, doubling possible, gender extras, doubling total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 35 minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per flexible • 35 minutes • Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: performance Comedy, Farce • $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Script: $6.50 • Some of them were on television. Some of Notebook Script: Cooter Coyote the Master of Disguise, uses them were in movies. Some of them used to $12.75 • Royalty: every trick in the book to snatch Little Red’s be famous. Some were barely famous at all. $40.00 per saddlebags full of food for her sick Granny. They are teenage actors whose careers have performance Cooter doesn't give up easily and goes to already peaked, and most of them are Michael stands on Granny's where there is a hilarious struggling to accept that their best years are stage wondering why confrontation with Little Red, Horace the already behind them. Today, as they prepare STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS the audience has paid to hear about his Talking Horse, Granny, Sheriff Matt Dillo— to cash in on the last vestiges of their celebrity boring existence. With the help of a madcap and a huge cactus patch. This off-beat, quirky at an autograph show, they will share with playwright, his life story is suddenly populated western-style story, with a twisty ending. each other the truths that they have barely with exaggerated stock characters of every admitted to themselves. sort. One by one, the humdrum people in his LOCKED IN life are replaced by pirates and princes, BY: JIM JEFFRIES, JANE JEFFRIES MIDDLE SCHOOL DATING gunslingers and psychics, clowns and rappers. There's even a Greek chorus along HS CT • 3 females, 3 males, 1 either, 8 total, 1 GAME extra, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Drama • for the ride. As this play-within-a-play unfolds, BY: JENNIFER MCVETTY Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • MS • 6 females, 2 and with a little help from William Royalty: $35.00 per performance Shakespeare himself, Michael begins to males, 3 either, 11 total • 30 minutes • realize his life is only as dull as he allows it to Grace has Locked-In Syndrome, in which a person is completely unable to move but can Comedy • Script: be. $6.50 • Notebook still hear and understand everything around Script: $12.75 • her. Her life is revealed in flashbacks as her LEMONADE STANDOFF Royalty: $35.00 per husband and her father debate whether or not performance BY:* JERRY RABUSHKA to end life-support. MS HS • 3 females, 3 males, 5-7 either, 11-13 Fred and Sally, two middle school students, total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 are interested in dating each other but must minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook LOOKING FOR MR. RIGHT play “the game” to find out if they are “dating Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per BY: CATHERINE RHODEN GOGUEN material.” The game starts with a “history” of performance HS CT • 2 females, 7 males, 9 total, doubling the relationship between boys and girls, then A young girl, her first lemonade stand, happy possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy moves on to a series of challenges such as • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • refreshed customers, all hearkening back to “The Time Is Right,” “Dating Survivor,” Royalty: $35.00 per performance days of your when…wait a minute, that’s not “Perfect Match” and “Date Him or Hate Him.” what’s going on at all! Ada may be eight, but Charlotte Walden wants Mr. Right, and she The show culminates in a huge chase that she’s an astute business woman who won’t wants him right now! After dumping her gets Fred and Sally alone to discover the take any guff. There’s plenty of guff to take, boyfriend because he can't run fast enough to possibilities of dating without playing games. with bullies threatening to kick her stand over, avoid standing her up on their wedding day, joggers who thing she’s overcharging, and Charlotte devises a new strategy for finding a LIES ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL cloying new neighbors trying to spread husband fast. Several suitors show up at the BY: B. DWAYNE CRAFT happiness wherever they go. Full of funny Walden Estate after she places a husband MS HS • 6-23 females, 5-13 males, 6-11 either, wanted ad in the local paper, but will any of one-liners and some great two and three 17-47 total, 0-4 extras, doubling possible, liners too! Cast and audience alike will love them be able to pass all the tests that await gender flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, getting “stirred up” with this play. them? The audience will be rolling in the Ensemble Cast • Script: $6.50 • Notebook aisles as the contestants compete in such Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per zany events as breaking glass with their voice performance MACBAD and disguising themselves to look just like A hilarious look at the perils of beginning high BY: OLIVIA ARIETI Charlotte. This play is full of twists and turns, school. Nick and his friends spend the last HS CT • 4 females, 4 males, 8 either, 16 total, but in the end, only the "Wright" man can win. gender flexible • 25 minutes • Comedy, Classics day of their senior year reminiscing about • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • their freshman experiences. They manage to Royalty: $35.00 per performance cover all of the perils of the first lunch, navigating the hallways, kooky parents and There is no better way to learn about the most dangerous game of all: dating in Shakespeare than to do so with Macbad. This high school. Memories are all relived in is a taste of Macbeth with different and somewhat exaggerated, but always funny hilarious twists. detail.
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MACBETH - SHAKESPEARE IN MARCY AND THE SANDWICH: A SHERLOCK HOLMES IN NEVER 30 MINUTES CAFETERIA DRAMA NEVER LAND BY: MIKE WILLIS BY: ALAN HAEHNEL BY: GEFF MOYER HS • 5 females, 9 males, 14 total, 1 extra • 30 MS HS • 9 females, 6 males, 8 either, 23 total, MS HS • 3 females, 5 males, 10 either, 18 total, minutes • Classics, Drama • Script: $6.50 • doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • gender flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, Classics Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • performance $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Royalty: $35.00 per performance This adaptation begins in Act Two, Scene II of In this satirical comedy, Marcy faces a “major Something’s amiss in Never Never Land. A the original text. Macbeth and Banquo, life decision”: whether or not to bite her scoundrel has made off with Captain Hook’s generals in the army of King Duncan, have sandwich. The cafeteria erupts at her audacity hook and it’s no secret that you need a hook just quelled a rebellion. As they journey home, —some warn her against it, others eagerly to conquer the deadly seas. With the Jolly Banquo and Macbeth are met by witches, await the spectacle. No one is neutral. Betting Roger permanently in port, Hook’s pirate crew who hail Macbeth as the “thane of Cawdor, breaks out, press coverage ensues, advice is bored to tears. Idle pirates are depressed and proclaim who shall be king hereafter.” flies, and Marcy's romantic relationship pirates so the bloodthirsty swashbucklers Because of this, Macbeth plots Duncan's dissolves, all over the fated sandwich capture two of the world's most famous death and finds an accomplice in his wife, decision. After the laughter subsides, detectives and smuggle them back into Never Lady Macbeth. audiences will be left thinking about the Never Land to investigate the crime. With help implications of this cafeteria melodrama. In from John Darling, Sherlock and Dr. Watson THE MAGIC OF MADNESS this age of media saturation and reality meet all of the suspects: Was it the Chief of television, are we really so far from the Indians, the fairies, or the famous Peter Pan? BY: JULES TASCA absurdity represented in Marcy and the Will Sherlock and Dr. Watson solve the HS CT • 4 females, 2 males, 6 total • 25 Sandwich? mystery before the pirates make them walk minutes • Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook the plank?! Arrrrrgh! All that and more awaits Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per in Sherlock Holmes in Never Never Land. performance THE NEW CLOTHES KING AND When Tony visits his wife in an institution, THE BANDIT QUEEN she'll only agree to see him if she can bring BY: EDITH WEISS MELISSA TUNES IN three ladies from her group therapy. Eerily, MS HS • 6 females, 4 males, 3 either, 13 total • BY: DONALD LEWIS these four women, all abused wives, have 60 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • MS HS • 3-6 females, 2-4 males, 5-10 total, bonded together as one. Not only do they Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per doubling possible • 40 minutes • Comedy • finish one another's sentences, but the other performance Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance three almost seem as if they were married to In this retelling of the classic story “The King’s Tony as well. Shocked to discover his wife's New Clothes,” King Henry’s kingdom is Twelve-year-old Melissa lives her life in her newfound strength, he begins to realize the bankrupt and the people are desperate. His room, surrounded by electronics and a sense four of them can see deep into his soul. solution is to marry Queen Charlotta, who he of self- importance. Her single mom? She's
STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS Powerful and eerie, this play allows great assumes is rich. He assumes incorrectly. lucky to get the time of day. But when a range for the actors. Queen Charlotta is eager for the marriage Special News Report interrupts regular because she’s as poor as a church mouse. In programming, Melissa tunes in to dreamland, MANIAC MANOR order to look wealthy, the King spends his last entering a TV show world starring herself. Not bag of money on luxurious clothes that, he is only does she have an annoying sitcom BY: DON LOWRY assured, have the added benefit of only being family, she has humanized electronics that MS HS • 8 females, 4 seen by smart people. No one in the Kingdom give her grief about her lack of a life. The girl males, 12 total • 35 sees the clothes the tailors are busily sewing, wants out — but how? Only after she realizes minutes • Comedy, the show's not just about her does Melissa Mystery • Script: $6.50 and an uneasy silence descends upon the • Notebook Script: kingdom. Who will have the courage to speak awaken to the prospect of stepping outside of $12.75 • Royalty: truth to power? A wonderful cast of characters herself, eager to live life in the real world. $40.00 per round out this original and hilarious retelling. Winner of the Marilyn Hall Award. performance Hired by Mrs. A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE FOR THE MESSAGE Buffington to solve JANET BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER her husband’s BY: RONALD K. BURKE HS • 7 either, 7 total, gender flexible • 15 murder, amateur MS HS • 6 females, 3 males, 9 total • 55 minutes • Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook detectives Alexis minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per Scott and Tabby Ross arrive at Buffington Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per performance Manor to find a house full of possible performance A prophet speaks, people listen...but when suspects, beginning with the malevolent Janet, a high school senior, plans to inform the prophet leaves, his followers are unsure butler, a paranoid maid, a sleepwalking niece, students at an assembly of the contents of Dr. about his message, and when they try to several crooked cooks, a shifty chauffeur, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from interpret it, there's more than a little the eccentric Mrs. Buffington herself. The Birmingham Jail." When she encounters fierce disagreement—there's an outright battle. As testimonies are questionable, and the whole opposition from various sources, Janet must each rival group claims to be the only ones investigation is a highly entertaining romp. work twice as hard to prevail. It's simply a who understand them, we watch the prophet's matter of principle. words become twisted and deformed beyond recognition. A dramatic comment on belief and morality. 88 Best suited for: ALL = All Audiences | MS = Middle School | HS = High School | CT = Community Theatre/College * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS
A TEEN MELODRAMA...LIKE THE LAST STRAW NO SHOW WHATEVER! BY: JIM GUSTAFSON BY: ALAN HAEHNEL BY: BOB WILKINS ALL • 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • 20 minutes • ALL • 11 females, 7 males, 18 total, doubling MS HS • 7 females, 2 males, 2 either, 11 total, Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy 0-5 extras • 45 minutes • Comedy, Melodrama • $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Janet was having a bad day from her morning Royalty: $35.00 per performance shower to the drive home from work. When Virtually every actor has had the nightmare: Twin sisters, Victoria and Vanessa, have she finally went to bed she thought she had the lights come up, the audience is in place, turned 18 and have assumed full control of put it all behind her...until the intruder in her but the actor stands completely unprepared. Goodfair’s School for Socially Challenged apartment woke her up. This home invasion "What show are we doing? What are my Girls. The happy event is tarnished by a was "the one thing" that was one too many lines? Help!" This hilarious one-act puts an number of circumstances. Their air and Janet knew, "This was the last straw!" entire theatre class through that experience. conditioner breaks down and the sisters Somehow, no one quite remembered the date cannot afford to repair it. Students Cherry of the final exam—which was supposed to be Ondatop, Mia Jockette, and Tiffany MIKEY MARTIN'S MAGNIFICENT a culminating performance in front of an STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS Silverspoon want more from the school and MIASMA OF MAYHEM AND audience—until that audience was sitting in are threatening to withdraw if they don’t get it. MACARONI front of them! With no script, no plan and the The sister’s power hungry neighbor, Wilma BY: BRADLEY WALTON threat of a failing grade looming over them, Dippenstik, continues her parent’s efforts to MS HS • 4-12 either, 4-12 total, doubling the class quickly puts together an impromptu buy the school. And finally, their banker, possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy play. No Show will delight your cast and Vincent von Putrid and his cousin, Miss Dee • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • audience with an entertaining overview of the Meaner, pull their financial support and Royalty: $35.00 per performance basics of theatre and lots and lots of laughs! demand full payment of all outstanding debts. Chris’s favorite thing in the world is mayhem- The sisters are about to lose the family loaded entertainment, and he wants to THE MOST POPULAR KID IN business when air conditioner repair man, organize a gladiator arena for the county fair. SCHOOL Dylan Evereddy, and Sam, the janitor, To create a spectacle no one has ever seen BY: SEAN ABLEY discover an evil plan to drive the school into before, he decides to add his second-favorite bankruptcy. Through heroic efforts, they are thing: Macaroni. The gladiators will eat it MS HS • 7 females, 8 males, 15 total, 0-15 able to save the school and reveal that not during battle and audiences will eat it while extras • 45 minutes • Drama, Ensemble Cast • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • everyone is who they appear to be, which is they watch. Chris is convinced that the idea is Royalty: $35.00 per performance like totally awesome!! fantastic and he recruits his friend Nat to help. The two get to work screening prospective Ray Murphy, the student at Capital High School no one really knew or liked, has died. LOST AND FOUND gladiators. While Nat asks bizarre questions he thinks will reveal the true nature of a As the news sweeps across campus, BY: KATHERINE DUBOIS fighter’s inner spirit, Chris finds himself faced suddenly the kid no one remembers has a MS • 3 females, 4 males, 7 total • 25 minutes • with overbearing applicants who have their school full of best friends grieving his passing. Comedy, Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook own opinions on how things ought to be run. Within days of his death, Ray is posthumously Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per transformed into a scholar and a savior, has performance The end result isn’t what either of them expects! the yearbook dedicated to him, and is elected From a lost shoe to a lunchroom tiff with a prom king. He’s now the most popular kid in best friend to a parents’ divorce, a Language school… who isn’t in school anymore. With Arts teacher helps his students negotiate the MIXOLOGY multilayered characters and realistic, truthful landmines of starting middle school in this BY: ALAN HAEHNEL dialogue, The Most Popular Kid In School humorous, touching play. HS CT • 10-30 either, 10-30 total, doubling examines the issues of popularity, how the possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Comedy caste system in high school really works, and • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • our tendencies toward “I knew him!” when it A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Royalty: $35.00 per performance - SHAKESPEARE IN 30 will benefit us the most. This is a great play We begin this tour-de-force with several for young performers who want to flex their MINUTES typical two-person scenes: a waiter and a acting muscles. BY: MIKE WILLIS patron, a marriage proposal, a doctor's visit, HS • 1 female, 9 males, 3 either, 13 total, two people building a complicated machine. A MOST UNUSUAL PENCIL gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy, Classics As the play progresses, though, the scenes BY: RON DUNE • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • get mixed. We hear the same lines, but in Royalty: $35.00 per performance new contexts, making for an often hilarious, MS HS • 5 females, 3 males, 8 total • 25 In this condensed version of A Midsummer always interesting exploration of the adage, minutes • Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Night's Dream, the story is centered around "It's not what you say, but how you say it that performance the play within a play. The action takes place counts." in the woods outside of Athens, where we Dax, an ordinary high school student, finds a witness the antics of the Mechanicals from Doubling and tripling easily possible; genders most extraordinary pencil. When using this Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. flexible. A description of each character is pencil in creative writing class, any character These hard-handed men are preparing to unwieldy, to say the least, because each he creates suddenly comes to life! Who is perform a play before the Duke on his character's function shifts radically from scene real...and who isn't? And does the eraser wedding day. Remember . . . "These men, to scene. work? A most unusual play. have never labored in their minds, till now."
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THE MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY NEWS FLASH: A METEOR IS ON NIGHTMARE OF* THE LOST LETTERS A COLLISION COURSE WITH BY: DENNIS BUSH BY: SALWA AND SAMAH MEGHJEE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL HS CT • 5 females, 4 males, 9 total • 35 MS HS • 5 females, 3 males, 8-10 either, 16-18 BY: CHRISTIAN KILEY minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook total, 1-4 extras, doubling possible, gender MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 9 either, 13 total • Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy, Mystery • Script: 30 minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook performance $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Austin can’t outrun his life. Past and present $45.00 per performance performance mingle painfully in his mind. Memories come Zoe is an assistant to Detective Davis Darvis, A meteor is about to hit your high school! to life, disobedience demands discipline and an incompetent amateur who does not What are you going to do? Run and hide? actions have harrowing consequences. appreciate her talents. When he accepts a Ignore it? Pretend life is a musical and sing Nightmare is a roller-coaster ride through the case regarding an old woman’s stolen letters, your way through it? Become a superhero? subconscious of a troubled young man. His he rejects Zoe’s proposal to help. She teams Confess your love for your longtime crush? abusive parents, traumatized best friend, up with her friend Isaac in a race to solve the Whatever you do, make it quick, because this angry ex-girlfriends and his younger self all case before Darvis does, using her wit meteor waits for no one and it is on its way. play a part in the alarming adventure. combined with Isaac’s botanical knowledge to 10... 9... 8... 7... aid their search. Their adventure brings them across an elderly pro-wrestler, a duck- THE MOST LIKELY PAGES obsessed cult, a knitting gang, and more as NIGHT AND THE BY: BRADLEY HAYWARD they try to find the lost letters. PROOFREADER HS • 8 females, 4 males, 12 total • 40 minutes • BY: RONALD MICCI Comedy, Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per MS HS • 14 either, 14 total, doubling possible, performance NAMELESS gender flexible • 20 minutes • Comedy, Parody • BY: TREVOR POOLE Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Flipping through a yearbook can be a MS HS • 5 females, 5 males, 6-16 either, 16-26 Royalty: $30.00 per performance terrifying experience—especially if you regret total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 An overzealous proofreader snaps and, intent everything you ever did! Kristi and Doug take minutes • Drama, Ensemble Cast • Script: $6.50 a hilarious (and sometimes bittersweet) walk • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per on ridding the world of bad grammar, goes on performance a crime spree. The police are mobilized. Can down memory lane as they flip the pages and anyone stop this (grammar) fiend before he imagine how their classmates turned out. It's Does someone you love ever really leave strikes again? His next victim is rumored to be all fun and games until they take a look at you? A beloved high school student meets an the author of a book called How to Pick up their own lives...and realize what they missed early end on a highway one night. This hard Women Using Bad Grammar. This humorous out on. Winner of many theatre competitions, hitting drama is filled with accounts from the parody of police melodramas features this comedy will be a fun time for all! people who knew the boy the best; his memorable characters while conveying to parents, friends, teachers and girlfriend. They students some of the finer points of grammar. THE NEXT BIG THING STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS weigh in on what made him special and begin Hilarious spoof for stage or classroom BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE the long road to acceptance. performances. ALL • 6-15 either, 6-15 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy, Parody • THE NEW MRS. JONES A NIGHT OF TERROR AND Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • BY: JAMES ARMSTRONG TOFU Royalty: $35.00 per performance ALL • 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • 30 minutes • BY: KELLY MEADOWS Together with their assistant Kelsey, venture Dark Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: capitalists Beckman and Mortimer search for $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance MS HS • 8 females, 4 males, 4 either, 16 total, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script: a device to be the heart of their next business, Sam Jones has a problem. Every time he $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: and the result is a parade of oddball meets a nice girl, things go well at first. Then $35.00 per performance inventors, each certain they've discovered the he brings her home to meet the family and it's What could be scarier on Halloween than next big thing. murder—literally. Mrs. Jones has the hearing strange voices at your door? What if annoying habit of killing off her son's those voices were your parents—checking up girlfriends. Now Sam has met the woman of OMNIPOTENCE AND THE on you after you've been grounded and told WHEELBARROW MAN his dreams, his strong-willed fiancée, not to have any company? Worse yet, what if BY: ALAN HAEHNEL Elizabeth. Before they can live happily ever they're not your parents? With her parents after, he'll have to get her to survive a dinner gone and her younger brothers asleep HS CT • 2 females, 4 males, 6 total, 4-20 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 party with Mother without ending up as the upstairs, Lara's got her own brand of tricks main course. Will Elizabeth meet the same minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook and treats in store! Break out the tofu and Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per fate as Sam's previous girlfriends, or will she decaf, bring over the boyfriend, and call up performance survive to marry him and become the new some girlfriends. But they're not the only ones A bored, egotistical and slightly sadistic Mrs. Jones? You'll keep guessing—and who show up. Witty one-liners fly on narrator seems to think that the audience has laughing—right up to the end. broomsticks through the night as Lara single- come to watch him alone. His demeanor goes handedly fends off witches, ghosts, and from arrogant to miffed to panicked to goblins and keeps her scaredy-cat friends in defeated as control of the play is slowly taken line. Can anything save her from a full-fledged away from him. disaster? Probably not. 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ON THE EDGE ONE AND ALL YOU DON'T HAVE TO FEED A BY: DENNIS BUSH BY: ALAN HAEHNEL CELLO MS HS • 4 females, 1 male, 1 either, 6 total, HS • 5 females, 6 males, 4 either, 15 total, BY: MARTIN R. COLLIN gender flexible • 35 minutes • Drama, Ensemble gender flexible • 40 minutes • Comedy • Script: ALL • 10 females, 5 Cast, Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: males, 15 total, $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance $35.00 per performance doubling possible, Brought together by an extended-family Christian Bean, typical teenage boy in love, gender flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, reunion, six teens find connections where has one objective: to show Janene, his date, Drama • Script: $6.50 they initially see only distance and how much he cares for her. The goal is • Notebook Script: differences. As they confront troubling issues seemingly simple, but the audience gets to $12.75 • Royalty: facing them and their families, they confess watch the hilarious and chaotic interplay of $35.00 per their fears and insecurities. With challenging three of Christian's inner voices: Hormy, Ma, performance characters and compelling dialogue, actors and Girlie. A young man’s worst will take audiences on a journey that will leave nightmare: his own STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS them viewing each other and the world RAPUNZEL AND THE TOWER personal life, around them with a fresh perspective. OF PARTYING mistakes and failures, is brought hilariously to BY: JERRY RABUSHKA the stage in a succession of embarrassing moments orchestrated and revealed by a PRINCE'S LIBERATION MS HS • 9 females, 4 males, 4 either, 17 total, UNION* 0-8 extras • 30 minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Greek chorus of six nagging mothers in his BY: KARA JELLESMA Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: head. Vexed and hounded by finger-pointing failure, nagging guilt, missed opportunities, MS HS • 3 females, 4 males, 6 either, 13 total, $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance and a son’s duties and responsibilities, the doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • It’s not a “hair raising” tale...it’s a “hair young man’s trials result in a playful, comical, Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • lowering” one! When Rapunzel is locked away Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per and paranoid theatrical presentation of a in a tower, her social worker is on hand to performance conscience riddled by a mother’s demand better living conditions. Soon things overprotective love and good intentions. The princes are fed up! They are done living in the tower get so good not only the prince, under the demands of the princesses who but all her friends climb up her hair for some only use them to save them from evil step late night parties! Meanwhile incredulous ONE OF OUR CLOWNS IS mothers, rescue them from towers, track them audience members try to keep this story on MISSING - ONE ACT down using only a shoe, and kissing them track. Will Rapunzel live happily ever after BY: ROBERT FRANKEL, JAY W. PATTERSON when they're obviously covered in poison with a handsome prince, or… is she too ALL • 5 females, 3 males, 3 either, 11 total, 2-6 apple! Well no longer will the princes stand for young for a serious relationship? And why is extras, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy, this! Well... one prince wont. Join the Prince the witch always at Home Depot? In the Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 as he goes around, along with an irritated tradition of Jack, the Beanstalk, and Social • Royalty: $35.00 per performance dwarf and a distraught narrator, in order to Services, this reader’s theater version of Adapted from the full-length play One of Our gain the support of all the other princes in the Rapunzel takes a familiar story to new Clowns is Missing by Robert Frankel, this land. Only one thing stands in his way heights. award-winning one act moves beyond the though... True love. comfortable drama with an emotional honesty ONE COLD AFTERNOON that will bring your audience to cheers, tears, ONCE UPON A FAIRY TALE BY: ALAN HAEHNEL and applause. Sandy lacks all self-esteem, but meets a group of characters that turns her BY: CHRISTOPHER BURRUTO MS HS • 8 females, 7 males, 15 total, 0-10 MS HS • 5 females, 3-6 males, 11 either, 19-22 extras, gender flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy • life around and gives her the confidence to total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 60 Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • wake up tomorrow and start anew. minutes • Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: Royalty: $35.00 per performance $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Ellie sits with her friends, watching a football THE ROT game on a cold, fall afternoon. What could be BY: JACQUELYN PRISKORN Once upon a time lived Beullah the Witch and more normal? Slowly, though, Ellie's reality MS HS • 4 females, 2 males, 6 total, 1-6 extras her more winsome sister, Francine. They shifts. Despite the Narrator's warnings, she • 25 minutes • Dark Comedy, Comedy • Script: were as opposite as opposite could be. begins to see what her friends cannot: They $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: Jealous of Francine’s beloved daughter, are all part of a play. What's more, once $30.00 per performance Princess Rose, Beullah gives Princess Rose Ellie's perception has changed, she can never The dead are not dead and they are now an evil curse. Thanks to the curse, Princess return to her old existence. She must become wreaking havoc in suburban neighborhoods. Rose grows up to be a “Royal Pain.” Now, 21 a narrator herself. Comic, intriguing and These clumsy undead have proven to be years later, Princess Rose must get married suspenseful, One Cold Afternoon uniquely quite annoying, wandering aimlessly with to be queen. Yet, who will marry such a bad explores the nature of contemporary life. awkward stares and knocking over garbage apple? None other than Jonathan the meek cans. On this hot summer day, Blair and Art assistant (to the assistant) shepherd. But want to introduce their families and announce before they can live happily ever after, they their engagement; however, due to a case of must overcome Beullah the Witch and a band The Rot, it will not go smoothly and the of bumbling trolls. zombies aren't entirely to blame.
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OTHELLO - SHAKESPEARE IN THE PATTERN IS BROKEN PLEASE DON'T BE MY DRAMA 30 MINUTES BY: IAN STANSEL TEACHER BY: MIKE WILLIS HS CT • 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • 30 BY: BRADLEY WALTON HS • 6 females, 3 males, 1 either, 10 total, minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: $6.50 • MS HS • 4-14 either, 4-14 total, doubling gender flexible • 30 minutes • Classics, Drama • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • performance • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Based on the original play by Rand Higbee. At Royalty: $35.00 per performance The play is simply set in a classroom, using a opposite ends of the marriage timeline, two The drama teacher has left his job mid-year to teacher's desk and some students' desks. couples dine at the same restaurant. While direct a show on Broadway, and it falls to the The students are part of a class that is one couple celebrates their decision to take co-presidents of drama club to pick which of studying the play Othello by William the nuptial plunge, the other struggles with the their school's teachers will be the drama Shakespeare. The teacher and the students fact that their marriage might be too far gone sponsor for the rest of the year. There's a long prepare the audience by outlining for them the to save. As the evening continues, we witness list of candidates, and most of them have an events that have taken place in the play prior the giddiness of anticipation and the sorrow of ulterior motive for wanting to be in charge of to Act Five, Scene II. Once the scene has regret. And as the two couples reveal their the program, including a PE teacher who been set, Othello, Desdemona and Emilia inner selves, we discover that they may have needs the extra money, a keyboarding enter and act out the happenings of Act Five, more in common than their taste in teacher who wants to stage a tragedy about a Scene II of Shakespeare's Othello. restaurants. student who never took a typing class, and a chemistry teacher who wants to put on a OUR TEACHER IS AN ALIEN PHOEBE'S PHOBIA musical about the clumping properties of cat litter. In an afternoon of hilarious interviews, BY: JEFF LOVETT BY: CHRISTIAN KILEY the two drama officers are about to learn the MS • 8 females, 7 MS HS • 1 female, 1 male, 20 either, 22 total, secret truth about their teachers: They're all males, 15 total, 10 doubling possible, gender flexible • 25 minutes • crazy. A hilarious comedy that indulges extras, gender flexible Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 students' imaginations about what their • 55 minutes • • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Comedy, Mystery, teachers are really like outside of the Fantasy • Script: Phoebe has spent most of her life in an classroom. $6.50 • Notebook institution with her fears as her only Script: $12.75 • companions. The Voices torment Phoebe and Royalty: $35.00 per constantly remind her of her shortcomings. POSI-CHIP POKER performance Will Phoebe have the courage to leave the BY: CHRIS STILES MS HS • 2 females, 1 male, 1 either, 4 total • 25 It's the beginning of asylum when the opportunity presents itself? minutes • Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook what seems like just Or will her fears control her? A wonderful ensemble piece for chemistry-building and Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per another boring school performance year for four middle competition. With the potential for a cappella STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS school students until they meet their strange vocal underscoring and dynamic movement, This drama presents one day in the life of new math teacher, Miss Neila. From the first this one-act is an exciting and rewarding three high school students, serving time in an day of school, the students realize that piece for actors and audiences alike. in-school suspension room: Willie, a something is mysteriously odd about her. She persistent trouble maker, who frequently makes odd noises in class, receives strange REALLY BAD ADVICE spends time here; Marcy, a tough girl who knows nothing but in-school suspension; and phone calls, and actually likes to eat the BY: KELLY MEADOWS school lunch. A perfect middle school Heidi, a top-notch student who has never MS HS • 7-18 females, 5-12 males, 8-18 either, adventure that either’s a figment of their been in trouble until now. Willie and Marcy 20-48 total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, work to initiate Heidi into the world of in- paranoid imaginations or peculiarly true. gender flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: school suspension, teaching her a card game $35.00 per performance with its own set of unwritten rules and its own OUTSIDE IN (ONE ACT set of unwritten consequences. But more VERSION) Tired of people dishing out unasked for importantly, Willie and Marcy are determined BY: DENNIS BUSH advice? High school student Carissa wants a to learn how such a nice girl could end up in career in journalism, but for now she gets the MS HS • 5 females, 3 males, 8 total • 40 trouble. minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook unwanted assignment of writing the advice Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per column at her student newspaper. With hopes performance of being booted out of this job, she decides to THE WEIRD SISTERS ON offer students the absolute worst advice HOLIDAY Outside In traces the lives of 8 teens in Los possible. What she isn’t prepared for is when BY: DWAYNE YANCEY Angeles over a 24-hour period. We meet a they all start taking it! Even an out of control ALL • 6 females, 4 males, 2 either, 12 total, young woman who ran away from an abusive parent-teacher meeting can’t derail Carissa’s gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy, Parody, home, a boy who wants to be a superhero, handiwork-as long as she can keep her Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: girls with boyfriend trouble, an artistic boy identity secret! The wide variety of speaking $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance whose father and brother are jocks, a girl who roles allow for a very large cast, or a smaller gets a text message that breaks her heart, The three witches of Macbeth fame try to cast with many opportunities for doubling. and a girl whose first kiss involved a Red relax on the beach, but there are constant Vine. Through a series of monologues and interruptions-some Scotland soccer hooligans scenes that are, in turn, offbeat and poignant, who seem suspiciously like the characters the characters find each other and find from Shakespeare's play, fans seeking themselves. autographs, and camera-clicking paparazzi. 92 Best suited for: ALL = All Audiences | MS = Middle School | HS = High School | CT = Community Theatre/College * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS
THE PRINCE WHO COULDN'T ROBYN HOOD AND HER THE PRINCESS KNIGHT DANCE MERRY WOMEN BY: MARTIN FOLLOSE BY: MARCIA MARSH BY: CELESTE BONFANTI ALL • 12 females, 11 MS • 15 females, 7 males, 22 total, 0-20 extras MS HS • 3 females, 2 males, 2-4 either, 7-9 males, 23 total • 45 • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • total, 3-20 extras, doubling possible, gender minutes • Farce • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script Script: $6.50 • performance : $6.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Royalty: Notebook Script: $35.00 per performance $12.75 • Royalty: King Egbert and Queen Ethel are ready for $35.00 per their son, Prince Howard, to take over the In this fast-paced and funny one-act, we meet performance kingdom so that they can retire to their time- the thoroughly modern Lady Robyn of This is not your normal, everyday, run-of-the- share in the Bahamas. To find his future Locksley?the infamous Robyn Hood?and her mill sort of kingdom. For the most part, the queen, a ball is planned where there will be merry band of women: Little Jane, Sister Tuck kingdom of Glyndufn is under female rule, and lots of dancing. But Prince Howard has no and the like. Nothing the evil Sheriff of Princess Aurora’s refusal to act like a proper rhythm and hates to dance. Desperate for Nottingham can do seems to dissuade Robyn
15th century lady has King Stefan and Queen STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS help, Prince Howard summons Lord and the gang from their own particular brand Victoria a tad worried. How will they ever find Chamberlain and the dance master of the of justice, the redistribution of wealth in favor a prince for their tomboy princess? But as fate kingdom, Lord Pigeon Toe. Willie Wizard, of the poor and downtrodden at the expense would have it, Prince Durum finds Princess court magician, is called upon to cast a spell of the rich and powerful. With the help of Aurora’s feistiness absolutely adorable. This to bring forth two great dancing teachers— Robyn's charming love interest, Master fun, raucous, and romantic play has a little Mike and Janet, "the dancing duo"—to teach Marvin, audiences will delight in watching the something for everyone. Prince Howard how to move. The night of the Sheriff get his just deserts. There is plenty of ball approaches, and the entire kingdom direct interaction with the audience and gathers to see who will capture Prince endless opportunity for flexible casting in this PROM TICKET Howard's heart on the dance floor. But will 21st-century feminist update of the classic BY: BRADLEY WALTON events take a surprising turn? legend. MS HS • 3 females, 3-4 males, 0-2 either, 6-9 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 35 THE PRINCESS AND THE minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook PROVING I'M NOT A LOSER Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per AND OTHER ASSORTED FAIRLY PIRATES performance DIFFICULT CHALLENGES BY: CLIFF MCCLELLAND Scott's brother, Melvin, stole Scott's prom BY: BRADLEY WALTON ALL • 11-15 females, 10-11 males, 21-26 total, 4-24 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • ticket, sold it on eBay, and dropped it off in MS HS • 1 male, 12 either, 13 total, gender the passenger seat of a '67 Plymouth flexible • 25 minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • 45 minutes • Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Belvedere parked behind a day care center Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • performance Royalty: $45.00 per performance with iron bars on the windows and a taco restaurant of ill-repute next door. Now Scott Margaret would rather play video games than Morgan is not a loser. He’s pretty sure of it. and his girlfriend, Allison, must confront do her homework, so her Poppa tells her the But when his buddy Sage tells him to prove it, Bubbles the security clown, Ruth the taco story of Princess Margaret, whose family is Morgan finds himself facing a pointless social woman, and the mysterious Bob in a hilarious, kidnapped by pirates. The only way for her to challenge from which he cannot back down. madcap quest to track down the stolen ticket save them is to use the Pythagorean Now he must rise to new heights and assert and make it to their prom on time. himself. Or, y’know…fail, and be kind of Theorem to help the mermaids find the pirate embarrassed. Which he’d really prefer to ship, but did she pay enough attention when avoid. The problem is, for somebody who her tutor, Professor Archimedes, was trying to THE WEDDING DOWNPOUR thinks he’s not a loser, Morgan’s having an teach it to her? The Princess and the Pirates BY: BRADLEY HAYWARD awfully hard time proving it. is a comic homage to the classic movie, The HS CT • 10 females, 2 males, 12 total • 40 Princess Bride, but with a purpose: to remind minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook children that there are real-life applications for Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per REMEMBER WHEN math. An excellent play to present in the performance BY: SAMARA SISKIND weeks before state-mandated, standardized Much to Edward's dismay, his wife Diana is testing! MS HS • 11 females, 10 males, 21 total, holding another wedding shower. He makes it doubling possible, gender flexible • 55 minutes • clear he will not be around to see "the Comedy, Historical Events and People • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: REVOLTING CHARACTERS crackling hens gather to gossip and lay a few $40.00 per performance BY: KRISTYN LEIGH ROBINSON eggs." However, Edward's plan goes awry HS CT • 2 females, 3 males, 5 total • 15 when he is forced to host the shower in What if instead of giving you socks, your Diana's absence. The party gets off to a rocky grandparents gave you a book that could minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per start, but after the ladies loosen up, magically transport you through time? Come performance everything falls into place and they end up along for a blast from the past as Tommy and having a marvelous time. With its Jill is desperately trying to complete her Billy Johnson take on the founding fathers, predominantly female cast, made up of roles romance novel...which would be a lot easier flappers, stars from old Hollywood, and ex- large and small (for advanced and beginning to do if only her characters would stop trying presidents on their zany adventure down actors) this hysterical comedy is perfect for to convince her that she's a bad writer. memory lane. Will history come out cool? high school and community theatres.
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PUCK AND THE PLAYERS SAGEBRUSH SIDEKICKS THE PUPPET MASTER BY: MATT BUCHANAN BY: GEFF MOYER BY: DWAYNE JEFFERY MS HS • 5 females, 8 males, 3 either, 16 total, HS CT • 5 females, 4 males, 9 total • 60 MS HS • 7 females, 5 doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • minutes • Comedy, Parody • Script: $6.50 • males, 12 total • 30 Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per minutes • Drama, Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Comedy • Script: performance $6.50 • Notebook Or Gabby Hayes, Where Are Ya When We Script: $12.75 • A contemporary language take on Need Ya! Legendary western hero Skipalong Royalty: $35.00 per Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rafferty needs a new sidekick. His last three performance focusing on the story of the rustics and Puck. have died under unusual circumstances. So Popular high-school A ragtag troupe of tradesmen gets together to Skipalong has his personal secretary, Netti senior Robyn is the put on a play for the Duke. A mischievous Buntline, hold a “Sidekick Contest,” which puppet master, a fairy (Puck) takes it into his head to mess with consists of various “sidekick endeavors” such scheming gossiper their heads, turning one of their number (Nick as: making horribly tasting coffee, running out who creates rumors Bottom) into a donkey during a rehearsal of bullets during a gunfight and throwing his to entertain herself and get revenge. Told deep in the woods. After a very strange pistol at the bad guy, chasing after a villain through the eyes of 12 stereotypical high encounter with a glamorous fairy queen under and losing his britches in the process, making school seniors we see the life altering impact a spell, Bottom makes it home, and the play absurd faces at the taste of a shot of Red gossip has in high school students’ lives. Four can go on—which it does, very badly indeed. Eye, getting loose from a hogtie, and a few separate rumors are spread each with A fun, fast-paced introduction to other “challenges.” But bizarre accidents keep powerful and everlasting consequences. This Shakespeare's classic. causing Skipalong to lose the services of his realistic drama mixes humor with the dark many personal secretaries, resulting in a tie reality that life isn’t always fair and justice is between all four of the scruffy sidekick QUESTIONABLE not always served. contestants. Now Skipalong has to make the BY: ALAN HAEHNEL choice himself, and a few twists are going to MS HS • 32 females, 18 males, 15-50 total, put him in a predicament he never expected. THE ROCKBOUND WELCOME doubling possible, gender flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: BY: ALAN HAEHNEL $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance THE REVOLTING MS HS • 3 females, 2 males, 15-16 either, CHEERLEADERS' HUNGER 20-21 total, 0-20 extras, doubling possible, The National Institute of Testing While gender flexible • 40 minutes • Comedy • Script: Involving Theater (NITWIT) conducts a DRIVE $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: hilarious test-taking experience for the BY: JOHN DONALD O'SHEA $35.00 per performance audience. Through a series of dramatized MS HS • 6 females, 6 males, 12 total • 40 Just like at any high school in America, multiple-choice questions administered by a minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Rockbound High has its groups: the Jocks, quirky set of presenters, we get to see if we Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance the Preps, the Brainiacs. Merriam, a new STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS are truly ready for the high school experience. student, has no trouble with that. But after Nobody fails, because everybody laughs! Having weathered the storm that rose when several comical meetings with various groups' Erin proposed that the Cheerleaders no members, Merriam learns that Rockbound is REALITY CHECK longer provide “snacks and drinks” for the absurdly different. Here, a jock is a jock; a BY: ALAN HAEHNEL football team, and the ensuing coup d'état, brainiac is a brainiac. No mixing, no varying, which ousted Stephanie as Captain of the MS HS • 13 females, 7 males, 20 total, gender no straying from the stereotypes. And Doctor squad and replaced her with Erin, Sarah now flexible • 35 minutes • Dark Comedy • Script: Garrison, the tyrannical school headmaster, $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: proposes that the Cheerleaders organize a likes it that way. When Merriam suggests that $35.00 per performance school-wide “food hunger drive.” When the such rigidity stifles personal freedom, squad concurs, the girls organize the drive well...goodbye, Merriam! The Rockbound As is usual in any high school, students and assign roles. The football team is given express numerous dreams for the future: Welcome gets you laughing and leaves you the role of transporting the donated foods thinking. Monica and Joe begin a romantic relationship; from the parking lot to the Cheerleaders’ the cheerleading squad hopes for a win at practice room for storage. All goes district competition; McKenzie and Jim get swimmingly, until a large donated carton of THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER help from Rita in an attempt to succeed on an salted-nut rolls disappears. Their honor, as BY: ROY C. BOOTH upcoming poetry test. These plans are well as the school’s, being at stake, Sarah, as HS CT • 5 females, 5 males, 10 total, 6 extras • interrupted, though, by mysterious food drive chairman, appoints Erin and Abby 30 minutes • Drama, Classics • Script: $6.50 • representatives from the R.C.C.—the Reality to ferret out the food thief or thieves. Football Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Check Commission. These very business-like players, who are eating-machines, are performance characters issue summons to a mandatory suspected. Voted by literary critics as one of the top 100 meeting: Be there or else! At the meeting, the short stories of the 20th century, D. H. R.C.C. reveals its agenda, to save students Lawrence's classic tragedy of a boy's love for from wasting time and energy on pursuits that his uncaring mother and the unique means he will not come to fruition. Dreams are dashed, goes about to get her attention makes for hopes are squelched, but it's all for the good gripping drama, either as a competition piece of the students. Or is it? Reality Check is a or as community theatre. Easily suited for funny but thought-provoking commentary on simple or complex staging, for long runs or our results-driven society. touring, The Rocking-Horse Winner is indeed a proven champion. 94 Best suited for: ALL = All Audiences | MS = Middle School | HS = High School | CT = Community Theatre/College * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS
A SERIES OF BAD DECISIONS ROMEO, JULIET, AND TOTO, THE PHOENIX BY: DAN D'AMARIO TOO BY: PHILIP VASSALLO MS HS • 3 females, 4 males, 1 either, 8 total, BY: BURTON BUMGARNER HS CT • 2 females, 2 total • 20 minutes • Drama 10-20 extras, gender flexible • 20 minutes • MS HS • 5 females, 6 males, 16 either, 27 total, • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Royalty: $30.00 per performance • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook It is December 11, 2002, fifteen months after After a night of partying, Samuel Collins Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per performance a woman's only child, a college student, was speeds through town, flees from the police, killed in the World Trade Center. The woman and crashes his car into another. Samuel's Movie producer Antonio Ravioli needs lapses into one of her many bouts with surreal trial lays out the facts of the case and another movie fast. He hires director depression, living vicariously through her the series of bad decisions that determine the Jacqueline Quiche and writer Helga Schnitzel image of her daughter's life. A girl, who fates of all involved. to come up with a movie in a week. The film is cannot be seen or heard by the woman, exists “The Wizard of Weird”. It takes place while to the audience as the daughter's spirit, trying Dorothy and Toto are trying to make their way unsuccessfully to reach her mother. Feelings
SEA CHANGE STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS to the Emerald City to see the Wizard. The of maternal guilt and youthful anxiety surface, BY: ALAN HAEHNEL story is wrong from the beginning. Dorothy’s but the girl struggles to release her mother so MS HS • 11 females, 8 males, 30 either, 20-49 house lands on a wicked witch in the land of that they can both move on with their lives— total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 the Grouchkins. Toto is a talking dog who one in the flesh and the other in spirit. minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook makes a lot of snide comments. Instead of the Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance usual Oz characters, Dorothy and Toto take a wrong turn on the Yellow Brick Road and SCHOOL BUS Chaos - that's what Shoshanna's life has meet characters from Shakespeare, such as BY: JOE MUSSO become. Her parents decide to divorce, so Romeo and Juliet, Nick Bottom, Caliban, ALL • 3 females, 3 males, 1 either, 7 total, 5-20 Shoshanna retreats to her Grandmere's Hamlet, Macbeth, Banquo, and others. Even extras, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy • seaside house for refuge over the summer. the Baird himself makes an appearance. A Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • There she finds comfort from the turmoil, but very funny combination of Shakespeare, L. Royalty: $35.00 per performance shortly after Shoshanna leaves to return Frank Baum and Hollywood. Sometimes it's fun to wait for the bus. High home, a hurricane strikes; the storm surge school students wrestle with their sanity and sweeps Grandmere and her house away. OPENING DOORS each other as they wait for the school bus. Now Shoshanna can only see everything, While Elliot intently examines one of his BY: DENNIS BUSH especially school, as a meaningless jumble. tennis shoes and Bixby smells the aftermath, Working with Jill, her therapist, Shoshanna MS HS • 3 females, 3 males, 1 either, 7 total, Cindy, who is nearby reading a textbook, can’t learns to use the rhythms of Grandmere's life gender flexible • 40 minutes • Drama • Script: help but overhear their crass conversation, to free herself from her depression. $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance intermittently underscored by a band Alternating between the realistic conversation member's b-flat scale. What if a longer wait of Shoshanna's counseling sessions and the How do we connect with each other when we for the bus is worse than no bus at all? poetic ways Shoshanna re-orders her life, shut ourselves off behind doors – both real Sea Change is an unconventional, uplifting and imaginary? Opening Doors explores the one-act play. Vermont State One Act relationships seven young adults forge with RUMPELSTILTSKIN AT THE Finalist, 2012. parents, significant others, friends, and DOWNTOWN SEVEN-ELEVEN neighbors, as they struggle to make sense of BY: JERRY RABUSHKA the choices they’ve made and survive with the MS HS • 2 females, 4 males, 3 either, 9 total, ROMEO AND JULIET, TO THE gender flexible • 25 minutes • Comedy, Fairy MAX! emotional explosives hurled at them by others. From absurdly comedic to startlingly Tales, Classics • Script: $5.50 • Notebook BY: TIM BROWNELL tragic, the characters’ journeys will touch and Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance MS HS • 7 females, 8 males, 8 either, 23 total, challenge audiences, and give actors strong, 0-10 extras, gender flexible • 50 minutes • compelling characters to play. The Seven-Eleven at Pine and 17th in Shakespeare and the Classics, Comedy, downtown St. Louis, Missouri has seen its Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance IF ONLY share of shadiness, and now it’s the perfect setting for a new take on the old tale of BY: MIKE WILLIS Three workout trainers bring their special Rumpelstiltskin. When he agrees to help a brand of energy to a pumped-up, modern MS HS • 8 either, 8 total, 0-1 extras, doubling mortgage-poor married couple make their retelling of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of possible, gender flexible • 25 minutes • Drama • house payment by spinning wheat into gold, Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • forbidden love. This muscular trio of narrators he starts them on a cycle of dependency— Royalty: $30.00 per performance take the audience on an extremely (emphasis until he demands their first child as payment. on ‘extreme’) hilarious journey that mashes up Sydney has been in a serious automobile All this goes down in a dangerous the Bard’s famous lines with contemporary accident. Friends and family, gather around neighborhood complete with incompetent references. Every character gets his own her bedside and discuss the accident that left criminals, corrupt police, meddling social soundtrack. The Capulets are greedily her comatose. She tries to communicate with workers, and smarmy salespeople. Bring your carnivorous tycoons and the Montagues are them but they’re unable to hear. Is this the laughs and keep your wallet secure for a new folk-singing vegans. With dance breaks and harsh reality or is it all a dream? If Only she “spin” on an old tale! stage battles, this play will make younger had not been texting while driving. performers fall in love with Romeo and Juliet.
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THE SCRIPT SERIAL KILLER BARBIE SEEN AND HEARD BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD BY: COLETTE FREEDMAN BY:* DENNIS BUSH MS HS • 2 females, 1 HS CT • 4 females, 4 total • 20 minutes • Dark MS HS • 5 females, 5 males, 10 total • 30 male, 3 either, 6 total, Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: minutes • Drama, Historical Events and People gender flexible • 30 $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • minutes • Comedy, Royalty: $45.00 per performance Drama • Script: $6.50 Quirky Cassandra spends her life desperate • Notebook Script: to get in with the popular Debbies. From In a present-day suburban town in the United $12.75 • Royalty: kindergarten through high school, she States and, simultaneously, in Poland in late $35.00 per obsessively attempts to join the coveted 1939 and early 1940, Seen & Heard tells the performance blonde social circle of Debbie, Debby and the stories of two families, and their connection to each other and to an American girl with a Several actors are queen of the WASPY clique, Debbi. After special gift. The evocative one-act play rehearsing a play several failed attempts to fit in, she realizes, if explores how lies can be confused with truth when they find a you can't join them, kill them. A hilarious and and how what we know can determine either script on the stage fast moving dark comedy. the actions we take or the degree to which we that isn't a script of the play but of their lives. It will pretend not to know what we know. turns out that the script reveals exactly what ROMEO AND BEATRICE AND Compelling characters and powerful imagery they are doing at that exact moment and the TOTO, TOO take audiences on a journey of harrowing actors find themselves questioning fate, the BY: CLAUDIA HAAS truths that, ultimately, encourages us to be director and other truisms. MS HS • 6 females, 2 like sparks flying up into the night sky, filled males, 8 total, gender with all the beautiful possibilities of what life ROMEO AND JULIET - SIX VERY flexible • 35 minutes • can be. BUSY DAYS Comedy, Farce, Classics • Script: BY: ROBERT WING $6.50 • Notebook THE SITTING-AROUND-DOING- MS HS • 4-24 either, 4-24 total, 1-20 extras, Script: $12.75 • NOTHING DEAD doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Royalty: $35.00 per BY: KELLY MEADOWS Classics, Farce, Classics • Script: $6.50 • performance Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per MS HS • 1 female, 1 male, 3 either, 5 total, performance Mrs. Quince, a gender flexible • 15 minutes • Comedy, Parody • member of the Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Everyone knows the story of Romeo and "William Royalty: $30.00 per performance Juliet, but few realize that the "greatest love Shakespeare Wrote We know the dangers of the walking dead, story of all time" takes place only over six William Shakespeare Society" receives a but what about the dead that just sit around? days. That's right, Romeo and Juliet fall in copy of a play that could possibly be one of Well, they’re getting bored, verryyyy bored. love, marry and die all with within six days of Shakespeare's earliest works. Thinking this When one of them decides he can’t… uh… meeting each other! Romeo and Juliet: Six could be the breakthrough that she needs, STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS live like this any longer, he joins a group of Very Busy Days riotously re-imagines the she produces the play. When all that can go zombies who are decidedly more active. misadvertur'd piteous overthrows of the iconic wrong (costumes delayed, set waterlogged Turns out, humanity isn’t going to take things star-cross'd lovers. Farcically irreverent yet and unusable, a cast of questionable loyalty lying down. Now who’s in danger – the surprisingly faithful to Shakespeare's and talent) does go wrong, it is decided the living...or the dead? language and storyline, Romeo and Juliet: Six "show must go on," and we are treated to the Very Busy Days blurs the line between hilarious results. slapstick and educational drama the same WHAT WOULD YOU DO? way Romeo and Juliet blurs the line between BY: CHRIS STILES comedy and tragedy. Fast-paced and fun, this WHO'S ON ALPHA? BY: MIKE MCCAFFERTY, MATT THOMPSON MS HS • 3 females, 4 males, 12-17 either, play may be performed by a handful of actors 14-24 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • or dozens and dozens. It can also be staged ALL • 2 males, 2 total • 15 minutes • Comedy • 35 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook simply and affordably - or as elaborately as Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per desired! Royalty: $35.00 per performance performance In the vein of 1960's television science fiction, Pete is on the threshold of a new beginning, THE SERVICE The Captain and First Officer of a large space three weeks from his high school graduation. BY: MIKE WILLIS ship have beamed down to planet Alpha The world is his oyster, he's told, but there are Chevy Nova to investigate the disappearance ALL • 1 female, 1 male, 1 either, 3 total • 20 some problems: He might not graduate, his of their landing party. When the First Officer minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook girlfriend is breaking up with him, his guidance Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per finds a baseball bat on the surface of the counselor has given up on him, and his performance planet, the two crew members banter back parents won't speak to each other. His dad and forth in order to figure out who or what is thinks he's a ghost. And for some reason, The Service is a company that prides itself on on first base! Blending familiar TV characters garden gnomes are becoming an important supplying customized services for all a with sharp-witted dialogue, Who's on Alpha? issue in his life. At the crux of these problems, person’s needs. When a customer enters the is a delightful update on a classic comedy Pete just doesn't know what to do with his life. store requiring dog-walking and childcare routine! Determined to avoid the fate of his services, a bold representative takes underachieving slug of a brother, Pete begins personalized service to a ridiculously new a journey to find the answer to the question, level. "What would you do if you were me?"
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SHERLOCK HOLMES IN WONDERLAND BY: GEFF MOYER MS HS • 1 female, 2 males, 13 either, 16 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 45 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Wonderland has been hit with a series of thefts: the White Rabbit’s pocket watch, the Mad Hatter’s hat, the Caterpillar’s hookah, and the Cheshire Cat’s grin. So the Queen of Hearts sends her infamous guards to kidnap, bind, and blindfold the famous Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. When the two rudely STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS handled detectives arrive in Wonderland, the Queen demands they find the missing items and the thief, but she gives them only two hours (before it’s time for her milk bath) to accomplish the task or it’s off with their heads. SHAKESPEARE AND THE HILLBILLIES, Pinewood Christian Academy, Cast and crew of So our heroes set off on a fast path to solve a Shakespeare and the Hillbillies performed by Pinewood Christian Academy crime that not only has critical items of Wonderland missing, but has also altered the SHAKESPEARE AND THE SHENANIGANS personalities of their owners. HILLBILLIES BY:* CINDY MARCUS, FLIP KOBLER BY: MARCIA MARSH MS HS • 3 females, 2 males, 10 either, 15 total, THE SHOW MUST GO ON MS HS • 10 females, 7 males, 17 total • 45 gender flexible • 50 minutes • Comedy, Farce, (DURING THE ZOMBIE minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per $16.75 • Royalty: $65.00 per performance APOCALYPSE) BY: BRADLEY WALTON performance A modern update of Moliere's The Impsotures MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 9-13 either, 13-17 Granny Murfree, head of the Murfree clan in of Scapin, or Les Fourberies De Scapin, if you total, 1-15 extras, doubling possible, gender the Tennessee Mountains, has one dying want to get really technical. Vixen is the flexible • 25 minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • wish. Before she departs for the Promised loveable scamp that has a talent for Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Land, Granny wants her hillbilly family to learn tomfoolery, monkeyshines and shenanigans. performance and understand the words of William When friends are in trouble, Vixen is the one The school is putting on a play. The Shakespeare – the true sign of an "educated that manipulates the system, the alumni, and rehearsals were plagued with difficulties, but person." Granny's son, Pa Murfree, brings two pretty much everybody else to make their the cast, crew, and especially the director university professors and two students up the dreams come true. Even if it means creating a took the saying "the show must go on" to mountain to teach the Murfree family about nearly un-tangle-able series of events that heart, and they’ve made it to opening night. Shakespeare. As Billie Jean, Granny's threaten to get her expelled. But somehow Now, as the curtain rises, there's a new granddaughter, falls hard for student Andrew manages to save the day. This is a high problem — the zombie apocalypse has when he recites Romeo's speech, the rest of octane comic romp that starts at 90mph and begun. But even though zombies are eating the Murfree family attempts to grasp the never lets up. audience members while the stage manager language of the Bard. Hilarity ensues as the fights off zombies attacking the cast onstage, university "folk" make every effort to educate WINDOWS the performance continues, because the show the comical Murfree family, while Granny BY: DENNIS BUSH must go on! holds onto a secret of her own. HS • 6 females, 4 males, 10 total • 40 minutes • Drama, Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook DATING CURVEBALL SNOW...SORT OF...WHITE Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per BY:* ELANA AVERBACH, LES HUNTER BY: KEN BRADBURY performance MS HS • 3 females, 3 males, 2-4 either, 8-10 MS HS • 6 females, 7 males, 2 either, 15 total, A casting session for a new reality TV show total, 0-1 extras, doubling possible, gender gender flexible • 25 minutes • Comedy, Readers brings together ten teens from New York. flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Theatre, Fairy Tales • Script: $5.50 • Notebook With hidden cameras rolling, secrets are Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per revealed and personalities clash. We meet performance performance the tough kid from Brooklyn, the sensitive girl Did April and Coach’s love for each other This one will fracture your fairy tale. A whose poetry tells the story of what happens really end when they lost the championship contest-winning reader's theatre play, when her brother comes home, the boy game of their softball league? Certainly their Snow...Sort of...White spoofs the famous tale, whose dad is a homeless junkie, the popular love of competition did not! Now, they are rival modernizing the play with everything from girl who takes charge, the rich boy who's in dating coaches who teach four lovelorn clients Psychotherapist Bob to a dwarf named love with his maid, the jock, the sweet to believe in themselves in this fast-paced and Weirdy. Does Snow White need therapy? Is suburban girl and others, as they all compete unreasonably silly game of Curve balls, foul Prince Charming a sexist pig? Why is the for a spot on the show. play, stolen bases and stolen hearts ensure. narrator trying to be the star? This is definitely laugh-out-loud reader's theatre at its best.
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THE TAMING OF THE SHREW - SPOILER ALERT THE BLOODY ATTACK OF THE SHAKESPEARE IN 30 MINUTES BY: BRADLEY HAYWARD EVIL, DEMONIC GIRAFFE BY: MIKE WILLIS MS HS • 3 females, 2 males, 5 total • 30 PUPPET - ONE ACT VERSION HS • 4 females, 11 males, 3 either, 18 total, minutes • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • BY: BRADLEY WALTON gender flexible • 30 minutes • Classics, Comedy Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • HS • 3-4 females, 3 males, 2-6 either, 8-13 • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 Royalty: $35.00 per performance Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Generally, productions of this play omit the water. When a loud mouth in the front row Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per performance Induction and Epilogue, however, this gives away the shocking conclusion to this adaptation utilizes the drunken character of story, the rest of the audience begins to Rupert, a socially-conscious teenager, sets “Sly” from the Induction. He is tricked into question their motives. Is it better to know out to make a documentary entitled believing that he is a lord and players are how a story ends or experience each surprise Materialism and the Decay of Morality in there to perform a play just for him. Action as it comes? As this debate wages on, Jack Postmodern Society. He makes the mistake then opens in the house of Baptista, father of and Jill suddenly realize they have wasted of recruiting assistance from other students at the lovely Bianca and the shrewish Katharina. their entire lives fetching water. While Jack his high school and finds his production Following the original path, the shrew is considers climbing a beanstalk, Jill ponders saddled with a militant vegan, an obsessive tamed and Sly is awakened to proclaim, what her life would be like on the other side of fan of Japanese comics, a redneck movie "...thou hast waked me out of the best dream the footlights. How this story turns out is expert, and others...all giving him terrible that ever I had in my life..." anybody's guess. Spoiler alert: it's not how advice to which he doesn't have the willpower you'd expect! to say no. Rupert's serious documentary soon SNOW WHITE: STORY OF A degenerates into a cheesy slasher flick called VAMP IRE "The Bloody Attack of the Evil, Demonic HIP-HOP DIVA Giraffe Puppet: The Leprechauns Strike BY: BRADLEY HAYWARD BY: MURRAY AUSTIN Back." Unfortunately, Rupert has already ALL • 9 females, 6 males, 15 total • 30 minutes MS HS • 3 females, 2 entered the movie in a documentary contest • Comedy, Readers Theatre, Fairy Tales • males, 5 total • 30 under its original title. The side-splitting short minutes • Comedy, Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • film that results is shown at the climax of the Royalty: $35.00 per performance Ensemble Cast • Script: $6.50 • play. Conceited, wannabe hip-hop diva, Snow Notebook Script: White, is losing her story to delusional Coach $12.75 • Royalty: In your production of The Bloody Attack of the White, who's set on starting his very own fairy $35.00 per Evil, Demonic Giraffe Puppet, you have the tale basketball team. That’s no easy task performance opportunity to film Rupert's movie using your when your recruits consist of eccentric It's finally time for own actors/crew and incorporate it into your dwarves, boy-crazy stepsisters, a rapping Kaitlyn's parents to performance. The screenplay for the movie is mirror, a spell-casting witch, and a fairy meet her super hot included within the play script. Downloadable STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS godmother who’s in the wrong story. King new boyfriend. theme music is also available on our website. Henry Vlll has replaced the Woodsman, and There's just one tiny now his Highness is aiming for Snow White’s detail that might put a snag in their MY PROM DATE WAS A FELON head. Prince Charming shows up to save the introduction: he's a vampire! Kaitlyn does BY: BOBBY KENISTON day…if he can only figure out who he's everything in her power to conceal the fact expected to rescue! MS HS • 4 females, 3 males, 1 either, 8 total, that he's a descendant of Dracula, but that 0-10 extras • 35 minutes • Comedy • Script: becomes an uphill battle when her stern $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: This Readers Theatre comedy spoof boasts parents and dippy best friend keep $35.00 per performance an ensemble cast of fun, colorful characters, referencing topics like garlic and blood drives. Noah doesn't have a date to the prom, which, with twists and turns to spare. Falling in love with a vampire is definitely a according to some, means he is missing out pain in the neck! on one of the great milestones in his life. SNOWED Feeling sorry for himself on Prom Night, he BY: ALAN HAEHNEL STALKING THE BEATLES decides to get dressed up in a makeshift MS HS • 5 females, 2 males, 2 either, 9 total, BY:* MAUREEN BRADY JOHNSON tuxedo (including the bow tie he has to wear 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • MS HS • 4 females, 4 total • 30 minutes • for jazz band), and go out to a fancy 45 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: restaurant, confronting what he's missing Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per performance head-on. After a run-in with a rude waitress, performance he meets Indigo, a girl in a leather jacket and Four friends are sure that the signs are A hundred horrible things are supposed to boots who decides to invite herself to dine favorable and they are destined to meet the happen to Marlene on the last day of school with him. Indigo is a strange, sweet girl, who Beatles. After spending the night outside the before Christmas break. One fabulous event may or may not have just broken out of a hotel where the Beatles are staying, they will save her from all her woes: a huge juvenile detention facility. After Indigo helps argue and encourage each other to believe snowstorm guaranteed to shut down the him deal with a nasty bully, a smitten Noah that their dreams will come true. school. Unfortunately, the blizzard fizzles; asks her to go to the prom. Has Noah finally school is on. Marlene refuses to accept the found the high school sweetheart he's been cancellation of her storm, and she stages a looking for, or will his prom date be escorted protest that lasts the rest of her life. 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STAR TRACKS: THE THE SUMMER CIRCLE THE SKY IS FALLING EXPOSITION MENACE BY: ROB ROZNOWSKI BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER MS HS • 4-8 females, 1 male, 5-9 total, HS CT • 4 females, 4 total • 25 minutes • MS HS • 2 females, 4 males, 10 either, 16 total, doubling possible • 45 minutes • Comedy, Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Improvisation • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Comedy, Parody • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Samantha is informed by her guru, Jill, that Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per The Summer Circle is an award-winning performance the rapture will arrive tomorrow and she and comedy that entertains and educates. The the elect will be taken from the earth in A short time ago, in a galaxy not so far summer season on Circle Lake (a small rental spaceships. Samantha and her sister, Ricki, away...Captain J. T. Smirk and the Starship cottage community in Michigan) provides the have been at odds ever since the tragic death Secondprize beam aboard Luke Nightrider, a perfect opportunity for four young strangers to of their parents, and Samantha realizes that Jet Knight who seeks to rescue his sister from meet and become best friends—even if just she must say goodbye before being whisked the clutches of the Evil Empire and its leader, for the summer. Although they are very into space. Ricki and her grandmother aren't Barf Vapor. Join Smirk, Dr. Spot, R-2 Tattoo, different, the youngsters find their collective surprised by Samantha's apocalyptic news— Chewing Tobacco, and a host of others in this voices through presenting free theatre to local they've heard it from her before, but they go STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS classic confrontation of good versus evil, right audiences each night. This comedy about the along for a wild night of farewells and a versus wrong, and father versus son! importance of friendship and the necessity of surprising visitation. A fast-paced, heartfelt arts education is an endearing audience comedy. TEACHERS ON THE VERGE OF participation charmer. A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN THE VELVETEEN RABBIT BY: BRADLEY HAYWARD SUPERMODELS IN JEOPARDY BY: IRENE L. PYNN MS HS • 10 either, 10 total, 0-20 extras, gender BY: JONATHAN DORF MS HS • 2 females, 1 male, 5 either, 8 total, flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • HS CT • 4-5 females, 1-2 males, 4-24 either, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Classics, Fantasy Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per 4-30 total, 0-20 extras, doubling possible, • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • performance gender flexible • 35 minutes • Dark Comedy • Royalty: $45.00 per performance Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Five high school teachers find themselves at Royalty: $35.00 per performance This is the classic story of the Velveteen the end of their rope…and it’s only the first Rabbit and how toys become real. It is a day of school! From an English teacher with All of the world's supermodels - except for two heartwarming, interactive play for children. mood swings and a math teacher in the guys from Iceland who missed their flight - are This show was first produced by Attic Players middle of a divorce, to an elderly chemistry gathered for the International Convention of in Tallahassee, Florida in 1999. While some teacher with back pain and a geography Supermodels. So when the convention center roles clearly must be either male or female teacher with a whip, the semester gets off to a collapses and traps the entire supermodel (Boy, Mother), others (Doctor, Velveteen rocky start. Add to the mix a drama teacher community in their dressing rooms, can the Rabbit, etc.) may be played by either sex. Old who sleeps on his desk, and it only becomes convention organizers find a way to rescue Horse plays the main narrator and does the a matter of time before one of them snaps. As them? Do they want to? Will the intern take most interacting with the audience. Fairy also the students navigate this bumpy road, they the blame? What would it be like to live in a interacts with the kids. begin to realize it may have been their world without supermodels? behavior that pushed these teachers WHO'S YOUR MUMMY? perilously close to the edge. Will they be able TALENT-TASTIC to make things right before it’s too late, or has BY: GREG MILLER BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT this faculty completely lost its faculties? MS HS • 2 females, 5 MS HS • 9 females, 3 males, 12 either, 24 total, males, 7 total • 40 0-5 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • minutes • Comedy, SUBWAY STORIES, OR HOW 40 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Farce • Script: $6.50 • NOT* TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Notebook Script: ON THE R TRAIN performance $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per BY: KIMBERLY LEW Ladies and gentlemen, young and old, faculty performance MS HS • 1-5 females, 4-5 males, 6-16 either, and staff... Tonight, on this very stage – right 11-26 total, 2-12 extras, gender flexible • 30 before your very eyes...if you dare to leave Professor Pembroke minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook them open – you shall see for the very first has just returned to Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per time ever, acts that no sane student would New York to relax performance ever perform at a high school talent show, after successfully It's the first day of class and Sam has already and no sane audience would ever stay to uncovering the tomb messed up: he totally forgot to write his essay watch. And that only leaves us. Ladies and of King Ramma-Lamma-Ding-Dong. on "Why I Heart New York." Luckily, he has a Gentlemen, without any more delay or further Unfortunately, a notorious Egyptian thief, a long train commute with just enough time to ado, I give you Talent-tastic, the Greatest restless mummy, and his daughter's heartsick come up with something to turn in. But how High School Talent Show that you will see beau conspire to interrupt the Professor's can a writer concentrate when there are tonight. much-needed rest. It doesn't look like celebrity sightings, break dance fights, and Professor Pembroke will be getting peace underground freak outs going on around him anytime soon, but with this kind of — not to mention all the other wackos of New entertainment, who needs a little quiet? York City public transit? Sam's got a subway ride to figure it out.
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THE TEMPESTUOUS AND WE FOUND A FINGER THAT'S MISTER VAMPIRE TO FRACTIOUS SHAKESPEARE BY:* KAMRON KLITGAARD YOU PROJECT MS HS • 4 females, 3 males, 7 total • 35 BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT BY: EDITH WEISS minutes • Dark Comedy • Script: $6.50 • MS HS • 2 females, 3 males, 5 total, 1 extra, HS • 7 females, 2 males, 4 either, 13 total • 45 Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy, Dark minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • performance Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Sophia and Aubrey have a unique hobby: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance performance They like to grow boyfriends in their own How hard could it be to bring the science Thirteen students calling themselves "The special garden. When a local teenage boy teacher back to life? After all, the instructions Shakespeare Project" decide to mount a loses a finger in a vicious dog attack, Sophia are probably on the internet. Scoop out the production of their favorite scenes from and Aubrey search the field until they find it. old brain, plop in the new one. Zap him with a Shakespeare, as well as a hilarious game But instead of rushing it to the hospital for few million volts...what could go wrong...I show about Shakespeare. As they rehearse, possible reattachment, they decide to plant it mean, what are the chances that he could the real-life drama equals and sometimes in an attempt to grow the perfect man, without come back as a vampire? parallels that of Shakespeare’s scenes. all the flaws they’ve come to realize every Costume issues, recalcitrant actors, love other boy seems to have. WITH THIS RING triangles, and break ups are just some of the BY: BRADLEY HAYWARD hurdles the kids must overcome. Finally, in 20 BOOKS IN SEARCH OF A HS CT • 3 females, 2 males, 2 either, 7 total, the epilogue, they come together as an READER ensemble. Informative, funny, and full of gender flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy • Script: BY: BRADLEY HAYWARD $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: authentic, original characters as well as some $35.00 per performance of Shakespeare’s most loved characters, this MS HS • 2-21 either, 2-21 total, doubling show proves the adage: “All’s well that ends possible, gender flexible • 35 minutes • Peter has planned the perfect celebration for Comedy, Dark Comedy • Script: $6.50 • his tenth anniversary. In a valiant attempt to well.” Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per be romantic, he's going to give his wife the performance engagement ring he could never afford years TENNESSEE TV This high school librarian has had enough! earlier. Putting a kink in the situation is his BY: JERRY RABUSHKA After years of watching the same students ask mother-in-law, who has always had it in for ALL • 3 females, 3 males, 6 total, 0-6 extras • for the same books over and over and over him. This is his big chance to prove he's the 30 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook again, she's sick of it. She would much rather perfect husband, but chaos ensues when a Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per know what the students have to say. So she package arrives and is not what he expected performance takes matters into her own hands and —leaving him in a very grave situation. Is it just TV, or is it real life? Follow the Parker embarks on an absurd quest to decimate family as their story unfolds through twenty of the most classic titles in all of literature. SHOWTIME FOR OSCAR - ONE appearances on one tabloid TV show after ACT STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS another. Is Annie Parker really obsessed with BY: RAY SHEERS country music stars and ignoring her THE ZIT PRIZE husband, or are they just making it all up to MS HS • 11 females, 8 males, 19 total • 50 BY: ALAN HAEHNEL get on TV? How will talk show host Reeva minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Squires deal with the way the Parkers MS HS • 16 females, 4 males, 20 total, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • performance humiliated her? What about country star Torry Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Don's problem with women? In this fast paced performance Scrooge-like Oscar DeWilder is a scathing satire, is anyone telling the truth? theatre critic whose reviews are feared Phoebe Whitehead's job, now that she is throughout the theatre world. He is just as dead, is to inspire those who participate in the cruel to his housekeeping staff and Claire, his TENNESSEE TV - TAKE TWO essay contest created in her name back in lovely niece, so they decide to teach him a BY: JERRY RABUSHKA 1918. Phoebe comes to the stage to explain lesson. Claire gets the Piccadilly Players, an ALL • 3 females, 3 males, 1 either, 7 total, 0-6 the difficulties her work entails. Whom of all acting troupe recently lambasted by DeWilder, extras • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • the worthy contestants should she inspire? to lend their somewhat dubious talents to the Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per What form should that inspiration take? And cause, and the Spirits of Valentines Present, performance what if, by chance, the inspired person Past, and Future appear to teach DeWilder a This sequel to the popular Tennessee TV can doesn't actually win? Behind all of these lesson he'll never forget. stand alone or be joined for an evening of fun. complications, Phoebe harbors a deep secret Charlie and Annie Parker appear on talk show —the Whitehead essay contest should never Tennessee Talk to try and save their have been created at all! Ultimately, the play floundering marriage, but it seems host Reeva explores not so much the nature of inspiration Squires is more interested in sabotaging it but the nature of one downtrodden, klutzy but than repairing it. Well, why not? It makes for very loveable character—our narrator, better ratings! As Reeva interferes in the lives Phoebe. of her guests, this fast paced play thrusts the audience into the center of tabloid TV. Is it only TV, or is it real life?
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THE UNDERTAKERS CLUB BY: CON CHAPMAN HS • 3 females, 3 males, 2 either, 8 total • 50 minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance The play follows the offbeat extracurricular activities of a group of five teenagers who perform mock funeral rites. Their group is transformed from an informal and surreptitious band of misfits—The Undertaker's Club—into the Future Funeral Directors, a full-fledged student organization at their high school. Founded by Rowan Wilkinson and Bobby Lazar as a means of STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS honing their skills to prepare for careers in mortuary science, it attracts other disaffected kids whose interest is less professional: Bettina Knapp and Jenny Collins, two girls with an interest in drama who find that they THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT, Washington Middle School don't fit in with the school's theatrical troupe, and Tony, a diffident boy who wants nothing THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE THIS AIN'T HEAVEN, IT'S more than to play the corpse at the group's NIGHT mock funerals. But when Bettina is killed in an SHOOFLY accident, the students are forced to confront BY: MICHAEL DRUCE BY: CRAIG SODARO the subject that they treat so lightly. The MS HS • 6 females, 2 males, 2 either, 10 total, MS HS • 11 females, 7 males, 18 total • 45 Undertaker's Club is a cathartic vehicle that gender flexible • 60 minutes • Comedy, Mystery minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook allows teenagers to imagine what the death of • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per Royalty: $40.00 per performance performance a friend at an early age would mean to them. Ever wonder where Mary Shelley got the idea You’re all invited to the Shoofly County Fair! forFrankenstein? The Browning sisters are Come meet the silliest bunch of folks this side TURN THE PAGE about to find out. Searching for peace and of Dogpatch - greedy Widder McGosh and her BY: DENNIS BUSH quiet in the English countryside, writers three loony sons, Mason, Dixon, and Line; MS HS • 5 females, 3 males, 8 total • 30 Charlotte and Emily Browning lease creepy Dixie Mae McGosh, her sweet-singing minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Fielding Manor, a mysterious old house with a stepdaughter; Silas Stepcrunch, a banker Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per sketchy past. The experience is anything but who’s got both his hands in other folks’ performance peaceful or quiet. There are noises in the pockets; and Witch Hazel, who can cast any As a girl prepares to go to college, she looks night, a snake in the maid’s quarters, and a spell if the price is right. Laugh up a storm back on the story of her life. Her friends monstrous visitor. Someone or something watching the crazy talent show, weep for struggle with letting go and with the transitions wants the sisters out of the house. With the Dixie Mae as her own kin plot against her, they are facing in their own lives. Her aid of the manor’s wacky caretaker Mr. and sigh with relief when you find out who the boyfriend puts on a brave front, but how well Willikers, Mrs. Haggis, an elderly neighbor, mysterious stranger wearing dark glasses is he able to handle the distance between and Professor Fairing, the local historian, the turns out to be. When the curtain comes them? A series of monologues and scenes sisters are determined to uncover the truth down, you’ll want to head right back to that range from humorous to heartbreaking about Fielding Manor. In their search for Shoofly for a second helping of country corn are woven together in this story of hopes and answers, the Browning sisters discover a and ham! dreams and growing up. page from Mary Shelley’s diary that reveals her novel Frankenstein may not have been a work of fiction after all; it may have been PRANKING THE TEACHER CINDERELLA AND THE FAIRY based on events that actually happened in the BY: BRADLEY WALTON GODMOTHER'S SPELL manor. Things That Go Bump in the Night MS HS • 10-16 either, 10-16 total, doubling BY: EDITH WEISS offers up a delightful ensemble of charming possible, gender flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy MS HS • 9 females, 2 males, 7 either, 18 total, characters in a simple to stage production that • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • doubling possible, gender flexible • 55 minutes • Royalty: $35.00 per performance will appeal to both student and community Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics • Script: $6.50 • groups. Mrs. Roadcap gives her students a lot of Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per performance homework, and her first period class has decided it’s time to get even by playing a The familiar story of Cinderella gets a twist prank on her. Unfortunately, they can’t decide when Cinderella herself is responsible for her what the prank should be. But when the bell transformation from victim of her step family rings for class to start and Mrs. Roadcap isn’t to young woman. Ideal for an ensemble there, the students begin to wonder… could approach to performance. their teacher be playing a prank on them?
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TRACKING SANTA CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S ZEN AND THE FEAR OF BY: TIM KOCHENDERFER TOMB FLYING* MS HS • 2-3 females, 8-9 males, 0-19 either, BY: CRAIG SODARO BY: ROBERT BURNS 10-31 total, doubling possible • 55 minutes • MS HS • 5 females, 4 males, 3 either, 12 total, MS HS • 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • 20 Comedy, Farce • Script: $6.50 • Notebook 2 extras, gender flexible • 40 minutes • minutes • Comedy, Farce • Script: $5.50 • Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per Melodrama, Comedy, Farce • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance performance While pulling the old "tracking Santa" gag on Karen Carlson is the kind of woman who Christmas Eve, Channel 8 meteorologist, Eric Archaeologist Tommy Tweedum gets a lot checks the pilot’s credentials when she Embers, discovers the station's new computer more excitement than he bargained for when boards the airplane. Unfortunately, when system has detected what he believes is the he unearths the tomb of King Rottentot. His traveling with her business partner Janice real Santa Claus. The producer sends Phil, a nasty nephew Neville and Neville’s wife, Marshall she forgets to complete her own burned-out reporter, to check out the report, Nelda, have been lying in wait to cash in by flight plan. When she finds out that the plane but Angela, an overzealous fill-in anchor, and inheriting all the treasures in the tomb. They is going down, she’ll do anything to see that Eric sneak out of the station to try and get the pay a shady soothsayer to announce a curse great white tunnel loud and clear. Janice, in scoop. Thanks to a blizzard, a series of car on anyone who touches the tomb. That way, perfect balance and very centered, can crashes, and a hypnotized photographer who when Tweedum and his daughter Tillie turn handle it all until the line is crossed into the thinks he's a chicken, the news team finds up dead, the mummy can take the blame. But spiritual world of her wine collection. themselves stranded miles away from the they don’t count on Tillie’s beau, Willy Wright, station with just hours to go until the coming all the way from Nebraska to be with newscast. Will they find Santa and make the his girl. Nor Willy’s mother following him to TROUBLESHOOTING deadline? Find out in this Christmas comedy. protect her boy. Nor the arrival of Mr. Calisse, BY: BRADLEY HAYWARD a government agent who protects antiquities. MS HS • 6-20 either, 6-20 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • TREASURE Nor Tommy’s lovelorn assistant Della, who will do anything for him. Nor the sudden Comedy, Farce • Script: $6.50 • Notebook BY: DENNIS BUSH Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per appearance of King Rottentot himself! performance MS HS • 4 females, 3 males, 1 either, 8 total, Mistaken identities, corny lines, and a host of gender flexible • 35 minutes • Drama, Comedy, pratfalls keep the audience laughing until the What's the best way to get out of trouble? Ensemble Cast • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Motivational speakers Ken and Barbie have Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per inevitable happy ending. performance just the answer in their latest lecture series, Troubleshooting for Teens. What starts out as TROJAN WAR CONFIDENTIAL With a quirky, light touch, Treasure explores * a few harmless tips for teenagers in trouble, the way we “profile” and judge the people we BY: MICHAEL FOUNTAIN including tap dancing as a way to avoid encounter on our life’s journey. Are we MS HS • 5-7 females, 4-6 males, 5-6 either, detention, quickly turns dangerous when looking for treasure or are we content to find 14-19 total, 0-5 extras, doubling possible, Ken's advice grows increasingly delusional as gender flexible • 45 minutes • Classics, STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS reasons not to get to know people or let them the evening wears on. Barbie's own Legends and Myths • Script: $6.50 • Notebook get to know us? Through four interwoven troubleshooting skills are put to the test when stories, we get a window into the perceptions, Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per performance Ken loses his mind and starts encouraging relationships, and life experiences of eight the audience to take the law into their own compelling characters. This insightful one-act Trojan War Confidential is a comedic hands. Barbie soon discovers that trying to play takes audiences on an entertaining adaptation of the Ripped from the headlines get out of trouble might be more trouble than adventure of discovery, and gives actors an of 1180 BC, Trojan War Confidential tells all! it's worth! opportunity to play intriguing, challenging From the Judgement of Paris to the fall of characters. Troy, the comedic adaptation showcases a contest between three goddesses, the many THE TICK OF THE CLOCK mommy issues of Achilles, and a Trojan BY: RON DUNE WAKE UP AND SMELL THE Horse that argues with itself. All the major plot ALL • 2 females, 2 males, 1 either, 5 total, COFFEE IN YOUR PANTS points are covered for use as entertainment or 10-25 extras • 25 minutes • Drama, Comedy • BY: BRADLEY WALTON as a classroom activity. Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • MS HS • 3-5 either, 3-5 total, 0-10 extras, Royalty: $35.00 per performance doubling possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Being late is not just a past-time for Donald Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: THE YOUNG AND THE Hault — it's a lifestyle. In fact, being late $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance SENSELESS (A TALE OF UTTER STUPIDITY) causes him to lose his job, his girlfriend, his Sometimes, people do bizarre things, best friend, and his self respect. But then, BY: FORREST MUSSELMAN especially when those people are teenagers while in the depths of despair, he meets a under the influence of other teenagers. HS • 2 females, 2 males, 4 either, 8 total • 20 mysterious street vendor who offers him a Today, Logan's best friend talked him into minutes • Comedy, Parody • Script: $5.50 • very special watch. Don soon discovers that Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per putting a diaper on under his pants and then this watch does not tell time, it gives it. With performance dumping coffee into it. Now, Logan smells like the simple push of a button, he is able to coffee and is sort of waddling. And if that Want to make fun of Star Trek, soap operas, freeze time. His newfound power seems to be wasn't bad enough...he's at the mall. melodramas and high school stereotypes? the solution to all of his problems, but of This play combines them all in a wacky course, time has a way of catching up with all parody perfect for high school play of us. competitions or other endeavors.
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THE TRUE STORIES OF THE UNFORTUNATE FORTUNE VERY BAD BIRTHDAY SO-CALLED BIG BAD WOLVES COOKIES PRESENTS BY: RICHARD GREMEL BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD BY: BRADLEY WALTON ALL • 3-6 females, 3-6 males, 6-12 total, MS HS • 4 females, 1 male, 5 total • 40 minutes MS HS • 2-3 females, 1 male, 1-4 either, 4-8 doubling possible, gender flexible • 45 minutes • • Comedy, Fantasy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook total, 0-8 extras, doubling possible, gender Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $6.50 • Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $45.00 per performance Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance performance You can’t have a sleep over without sleeping Little Red Riding Hood, The Boy who Cried bags, PJ’s, and takeout. Chaos is bound to Tammy’s little cousin is turning twelve Wolf, and the Three Little Pigs had it wrong ensue when one of these seemingly close tomorrow. Tammy hasn’t been twelve for a when they accused the wolves of being bad. friends is out for revenge. But first on the solid four years, and she has no idea what to And now the wolves have gone on strike until agenda is Chinese takeout. Included are a buy for a present, but she’s under a lot of they can tell their side of the story. See these few extra and very special fortune cookies. It pressure to make sure it’s something good. classic tales retold in a new and comical way. doesn’t take long to discover that these Now, she and her friend Owen have half an fortune cookies are quite unique. The fortunes hour to figure something out before their ride STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS THE TROUBLE WITH CHEWING are real and very unfortunate. picks them up from the store. Neither of them have any ideas. But other people in the store GUM, OR TESTED, TRIED, AND do, and they are very strange people with TRUE SQUISH very bad ideas. The question is…can Tammy BY: CONRAD DAVIDSON BY: MARIANNE HALES HARDING and Owen come up with anything better? MS HS • 2 females, 3 males, 2 either, 7 total, HS CT • 3 females, 3 total • 40 minutes • Dark gender flexible • 40 minutes • Comedy, Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: Melodrama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance TRIBUNAL $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance BY: ALAN HAEHNEL This quirky, slightly dark comedy charmed Tammy Truelove and Tommy Truespirit are audiences in Seattle's Fringe Festival and HS • 7 females, 8 males, 15 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Drama • model high school students and very much in kept packed houses talking long after they left Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • love. Enter Dean Mean, a new student and the theater. Three sisters, each with her own Royalty: $35.00 per performance evil schemer, who has eyes for Tammy. Dean obsession, struggle to cope with the death of weasels his way into the good graces of their mother, but their pet bug Roger steals The Tribunal kidnaps its victims, drags them Morebore, the English teacher, by playing the show. One of the actresses who to the basement of the school, and subjects dirty tricks in the classroom, sabotaging performed in this show swears she will never them to psychological and physical coercion. Tommy's term paper, and causing a fight. If swat a bug again. "Change your ways," the Tribunal demands, the situation isn't brought back to normal, "or else!" Yet this secret, hooded society is Tammy and Tommy will have to forego their not comprised of thugs and criminals, but of date to the prom. Dean plans to clinch THE VELOCITY OF SIN the top students in the school. The mission of Tommy's downfall by leaving a bomb in the BY: KAMRON KLITGAARD the Tribunal, supported by the administration: superintendent's office and planting Tommy's MS HS • 4 females, 2 males, 6 total • 35 Clean up the school. Make it a place ruled not jacket nearby as evidence of his guilt. Will evil minutes • Drama, Mystery, Fantasy • Script: by the troublemakers, but by those who truly have its day, or will true love find a way? $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: want to be educated. The plan works, too, $35.00 per performance until the Tribunal meets its match in Peter, one of the school's worst offenders, who tries TWO-FACED: A Six people find themselves in a room where everyone is moving at different speeds! Each to blackmail the group into serving his own TRAGEDY...SORT OF character is paired up with a stranger, and selfish desires. This provocative play asks a BY: SEAN ABLEY each character has a loved one in a different difficult question: "Is violence justified to MS HS • 3 females, 4 males, 14 either, 21 total, pair. But each pair is moving at a different achieve righteous ends?" 1-30 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • speed, which leaves the challenge of how to 40 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook communicate. The more they learn about Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $40.00 per WE'RE NOT MAKING THIS PLAY performance themselves, the closer they get to solving the UP AS WE GO - HONEST! mystery of where they are and what's going BY: BRADLEY WALTON Mary Whatsername isn't popular or on. unpopular. She's just invisible. Now it's her MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 3-12 either, 7-16 senior year, and Mary is determined to make total • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • her mark on Generic High School in Your STOP TIME Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance Town, USA. Through sheer force of will she BY: DENNIS BUSH manages to get on both the cheer squad and MS HS • 5 females, 5 males, 10 total • 50 The curtain opens on a performance of the the mathletes team. But trouble is just around minutes • Drama • Script: $6.50 • Notebook drama “Tragic Love.” Problem is, most of the the corner when she's expected to cheer on Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per cast is sick and have been replaced by the the mathletes at the state Demathalon. Using performance stage crew, who barely know the plot, much the conventions of Greek tragedy, TWO- Time is precious. A few minutes of extra time less the lines. They stumble through the show FACED is the perfect comedy for schools with someone can make a world of difference. as best they can, until one of them finally looking for scripts with almost two dozen great Through a series of intertwined monologues decides to take matters into his own hands, roles for girls. The length is also perfect for and scenes, Stop Time explores anticipation, launching the play in a completely unexpected festivals and conventions. innocence, grief, longing, paranoia, scattered direction! mannequins, and a stray human hand.
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CHRISTMAS PIRATES OF THE ONE FOOT OVER A BANANA THAT'S MY STORY AND I'M... BERMUDA TRIANGLE PEEL BY: ALAN HAEHNEL BY: BURTON BUMGARNER BY: BRADLEY HAYWARD MS HS • 11 females, 9 males, 20 total, doubling MS HS • 7 females, 7 males, 8 either, 22 total, HS • 11 either, 11 total, gender flexible • 40 possible, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Drama, 0-5 extras • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script: minutes • Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Comedy • Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $6.50 • Notebook Script: $12.75 • Royalty: Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per $12.75 • Royalty: $35.00 per performance $35.00 per performance performance How long can you stick to your story when The reindeer are out of shape. So, on Welcome to pure insanity! Students prepare your story just doesn't stick? Meg is furious Christmas Eve, the sleigh carrying Santa and for an annual arts competition: Two angry that she didn't get an extension on her English all of the Christmas gifts crashes on a remote sisters paint, three dizzy girls dance, two paper. But as she details her complaint, tropical island inhabited by the descendants goofballs prepare a speech, a little boy plays several classmates realize Meg has left out of pirates. The pirates have never an enormous tuba, and six people trip over crucial points; they feel compelled to set the experienced Christmas first-hand, but they do banana peels! But nothing is as it seems—the record straight. With her version in tatters by know a lot about the outside world because of competition is being hosted by a drive-thru the play's end, Meg has to face the fact that all of the planes and ships that have menu! As contestants compete for a the unfairness she complains about lies not “disappeared” into the Bermuda triangle. The cheeseburger, banana peels appear out of with the facts, but within herself. pirates even have their own television studio nowhere—and everyone could go home a and Starbucks. With Christmas morning loser. Ideal for competition, it's a zany comedy quickly approaching, the pirates help Santa that showcases the talents of your goofiest make his final Christmas deliveries, surprising students! some children who wait up to see Santa. Christmas Pirates of the Bermuda Triangle is THROUGH THE MIRROR an unusual Christmas treat for actors and BY: ROBERTO F. CICCOTELLI audiences of all ages. HS CT • 2 females, 3 males, 5 total • 35 WELCOME TO THE FAMILY minutes • Drama, BY: ALICIA HOISINGTON Classics • Script: $6.50 • Notebook HS CT • 3 females, 3 males, 6 total • 20 Script: $12.75 • minutes • Comedy • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Royalty: $35.00 per Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance performance A modern adaptation of Lewis Carroll's “Alice Meeting the parents is always a tough step to in Wonderland,” this is an exploration of the make during a relationship. Harold is a man drug problem prevalent among youth today. with a chip on his shoulder. When his The majority of the play is Aly's first, and last, STAGE AND COMPETITION | ONE ACT PLAYS daughter, Jenna, brings home her fiancé, Pat, drug trip; the play is her drug-induced to meet the family, things get out of hand. See hallucination personified by characters from what happens when a classic henpecked Carroll's novel, including Bunnyman (one of father meets the man of his daughter's the band members), Tommy and Timmy (the dreams. Will Harold brush Pat aside or band's managers), Mr. H.D. Chips (the tour welcome him into the family? promoter), Cat (a ticket scalper), and the Hat Man (a drug dealer). TEENAGE NIGHTMARE BY: LAURA TOFFENETTI UNSUNG MS HS • 16 females, BY: CHRISTIAN KILEY 10 males, 26 total, doubling possible • 30 MS HS • 11 either, 11 total, gender flexible • 20 minutes • Comedy • minutes • Drama • Script: $5.50 • Notebook Script: $6.50 • Script: $12.75 • Royalty: $30.00 per Notebook Script: performance $12.75 • Royalty: Do you ever feel unappreciated? Well you're $40.00 per not the only one. Welcome to Unsung, where performance you will get a chance to jump out of an Touching on the trials and tribulations of being airplane, be a competitor in a spelling bee, a teen, this one act satire brings teen life and brag about your world-changing center stage in the form of a live news invention. Each of the eleven characters has magazine. Loaded with teen-friendly sketches a moment where they feel ignored and left such as “Shopping With Mom,” “Babysitting a out. What do you do when no one accepts Child Named Moose,” and “Trying to Ask a your friendship request, you lose your dog, Girl on a Date,” it also includes a flashy street and all you can bring to show-and-tell is a interview titled, “Dumb Things Parents, gnarled piece of string? Find your voice and Teachers, and Kids Say.” Find the latest in let it be heard in Unsung. teen fashion, poetry, and of course, advice columns.
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THE 4TH DIGIT BAGEL CLUB AS BAD AS IT GETS BY: GARY RAY STAPP BY: ALISA ROSENTHAL BY: PETER LANCASTER WALKER 2 females, 1 either, 3 total • Comedy, 3 females, 1 male, 4 total • Comedy, Forensics, 3 females, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance per performance (Performance royalty waived performance (Performance royalty waived for (Performance royalty waived for forensics for forensics competition) forensics competition) competition) A mysterious blue box left behind on a park Three women have a Bagel Club. This Daphne and Lucy are having a really bad day. bench piques the curiosity of two women and comedy is about the disastrous day one of They hate sharing a desk and sharing Gina, its contents invoke a verbal game of cat and them chooses to bring coffee, allowing them their new personal assistant. They both try mouse. When a police officer happens by, to reveal their true feelings about the club, showing Gina who is boss, but this may be a declarations of ignorance and innocence are each other, and schmears. very, very bad idea. voiced, but one, or both, or perhaps all three are not who they appear to be.
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THE BALD MOUSETRAP BLANK SLATE BREAKING NEWS BY: HEATHER VIOLANTI BY: KATHERINE DUBOIS *BY: SAM HAVENS 2 females, 5 males, 7 total • Comedy, Mystery, 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • Comedy, 3-7 either, 3-7 total, doubling possible, gender Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: flexible • Comedy • Script Pack: $17.25 $17.25 (Includes 7 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 $14.25 (Includes 4 Scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Includes 7 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per per performance (Performance royalty waived per performance (Performance royalty waived performance (Performance royalty waived for for forensics competition) for forensics competition) forensics competition) Lord and Lady Marlyn try to unravel the It’s the beginning of summer vacation. Adam The KNUT news team attempts to report the mystery of whatever happened to Bobby suggests the best way to prepare for next news but tonight the program goes off in Watson, the adopted son of the American year’s teachers is to forget everything they unexpected directions. The weather philanthropist Nelson J. Wannafeller. The plot learned this year, as teachers love a blank forecaster predicts chickens and the traffic thickens when an inspector from Scotland slate. When Kendra’s magical spell goes awry report is customized for Uncle Doodles. Yard interrupts the Marlyns' tea with questions and makes him forget everything he knows, Sponsors include Sidney’s Suspenders and about Bobby. Then Lord and Lady Marvin pop Chandler and Gabby, who don’t even believe society news reports that Ralph Looper got in for a spot of golf. Will Detective Inspector in magic, have to find a way to set things drunk and fell into the lake. The news is finally Moorgate ever finish his investigation? Will right. over — until tomorrow night! Lord and Lady Marlyn find Bobby? And why does Jenkins (the butler) always cough BOXED IN THE CAUSE sinisterly in the background? Nothing is as it BY: BEN KINGSLAND BY: MARY GRISOLANO seems in this absurdist whodunit, which mixes the prim suspense of Agatha Christie with 3 females, 1 male, 4 total • Comedy, Farce, 4 females, 4 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech overtones of Oscar Wilde. Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 4 $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of THE BETRAYED, THE ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance FORGOTTEN,* AND THE per performance (Performance royalty waived (Performance royalty waived for forensics MARTINS for forensics competition) competition) BY: BRADLEY WALTON It's a tough economy, and Delaney is sure her Unlike its rival, Cheerleading Camp, Protest 1-2 females, 1-2 males, 5-9 either, 7-13 total, boss is planning to give her a pink slip. But Camp has a mission—to train young would- doubling possible, gender flexible • Comedy • her boss can't fire her if she can't find her! be-female activists to shout out against the Script Pack: $20.25 (Includes 13 scripts) • Add When Delaney decides to hide in a cardboard injustices of THE MAN. The mission is a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - box in the break room until the crisis passes, successful—at first. But a combination of an must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: it's up to her long-suffering co-worker Jill to unsettlingly militant instructor, the lack of $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty pretend nothing is going on which would be a focus, the threat of pepper spray and cell waived for forensics competition) lot easier if the box would stay quiet. phone revocation all lead to the inevitable Revolution is brewing in a devastated land. "Protest Camp Coup." The betrayed and the forgotten have banded ABE LINCOLN AND ELVIS together to topple a despotic leader. But when BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER THE a hapless recruiter pitches the cause to a CHEKONSTINESTANISLAVEME vacationing family from a First-World country, 4 males, 4 total • Comedy, Historical Events and People, Forensics, Speech and Debate • YERHOLDSKI METHOD they threaten to bring the revolution to a Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER screeching halt with their cluelessness. Script: $1.00 (Performance royalty waived for 2 females, 1 male, 1 either, 4 total • Comedy,
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CHRISTMAS DETECTOR THE CURE CONUNDRUM DEATH AND TAXES BY: LEON KAYE BY: KEN JONES BY: JOSEPH SORRENTINO 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, 2 females, 4 males, 3 either, 9 total, gender 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Dark Comedy, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 flexible • Dark Comedy, Farce, Forensics, Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $17.25 $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at (Includes 9 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 performance (Performance royalty waived for time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per per performance (Performance royalty waived forensics competition) performance (Performance royalty waived for for forensics competition) forensics competition) "He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows Frank, a struggling actor, is having his taxes when you're awake" - so one parent took out Strap yourself in for this fast-paced hilarious done at Harry's Tax Emporium, which he does an order of protection! That's the age Santa is absurdist short play! The Cure Conundrum is every year. During the course of his time now living in. When he goes on a "Maury the farcical tale of a young scientist who there, Harry receives increasingly threatening Povich"-style TV show and subjects himself to makes the breakthrough that mankind has phone calls from a mysterious person. As a lie detector, many of the Christmas icons been waiting for…he discovers the cure for much as he'd like to, Frank can't extricate get unmasked. Santa explains what cancer. However, he’s not celebrated, but himself from the situation. There are five happened to his workshop (in the age of instead he is attacked and destroyed at every Frankenharry plays, and although they’re not STAGE AND COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE SKITS PLAYS Global warming), why the elves cannot learn turn. An ensemble of actors play all the other really linked, they do make for a fun evening to make X-boxes and must have the toys characters from his disbelieving parents to of entertainment. made in China, and how the aging reindeer fellow scientists, Board of Health officials and an imaginary wife, to a fraudulent priest and prefer to deliver gifts in Florida. The THE COMINGS AND GOINGS OF Christmas detector is a Yuletide Hoot! the world’s worst lawyer. The conspiracy is all laid out for us, and although the effects of AVERAGE PEOPLE what would happen if cancer were cured ends BY: NIKKI HARMON DEATH BY PUBLIC SPEAKING with an absurd conclusion of what the entire 3 females, 1 male, 4 total • Drama, Comedy, BY: LINDA COOKE healthcare industry would do to protect their Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: 3 females, 1-2 males, 2-4 either, 6-9 total, 0-10 own interests. $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Comedy, Readers Theatre, Forensics, Speech ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 and Debate • Script Pack: $17.25 (Includes 9 CURSE THE DARKNESS per performance (Performance royalty waived scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE for forensics competition) Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of 4 either, 4 total, gender flexible • Comedy, Have you ever seen a stranger and purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: (Performance royalty waived for forensics wondered, Could this be the love of my life? $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 competition) In New York City’s Port Authority Bus (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Terminal, a man and a woman eye each other Kaley’s overdose has landed her in the ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 from a distance. They never speak to each emergency room. Now her parents have per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition)) other, but we hear their thoughts. All the while staged an intervention and are sending her off two street people look on, interpreting what to a rehabilitation clinic for public speaking Sometimes the toughest part of any play in a they see completely differently. addicts! In a hilarious ten minute infomercial, festival is getting ready for the next show. the clinic directors present the causes, Four stagehands give it their best shot in this symptoms and hopefully the cure for hilarious stealth comedy about a coffee table, DIFFERENT TIMES oratorical addiction. a candle, love, breakups, theater folk, and set BY:* CARL L. WILLIAMS changes. No festival lineup is complete 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • Comedy, Scenes & without Curse the Darkness. Monologues • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 4 THE CURE scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ BY: PETER LEVY Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • Comedy, AT THE BUZZER purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: BY: STEVEN BERGMAN (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 3 females, 2 males, 5 total • Drama, Historical (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Events and People, Forensics, Speech and A woman working at home on her computer ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 5 becomes frustrated with all the email spam per performance (Performance royalty waived scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ for forensics competition) and telemarketer calls. Longing for the time, Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of back in her mother’s day, when people didn’t purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance Welcome to the world's most outrageous have to contend with such things, she hospital. From trading old magazines for (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) suddenly finds herself beset by door-to-door aspirin to performing appendectomies for sales people. She awakens to a new broken arms, this healing center has a An homage to the families displaced by appreciation for the modern age. shortage of everything - except chaos. When Hurricane Katrina, this play looks at the Mr. Benson arrives to collect his wife, the Williamson family's plight; from two teenagers hospital staff tries to "make him a deal." having to interrupt their basketball lesson to evacuate their home, to the young woman's return to her neighborhood ten years later. Just like her basketball court has changed, so has Taneesha Williamson, through life and deaths.
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ESCAPE THE DISCOVERY EAT A CAN BY: MICHAEL CALLAHAN BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE BY: LEON KAYE 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, 2 females, 5 males, 3 either, 10 total • Drama, 3 males, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy $17.25 (Includes 10 scripts) • Add a Script: scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance performance (Performance royalty waived for per performance (Performance royalty waived (Performance royalty waived for forensics forensics competition) for forensics competition) competition) On their way to market, a cage containing a A man finds a good spot to stand, a A young man happily readies himself to act in rooster and chickens falls off the truck. The comfortable place to call his own. But the rest his first commercial - for dog food. But in a feathered friends face a dilemma: Should they of the world is intent on making him move. last-second change in the script, the young play it safe or...escape! What to do? What to People try bribery, threats, prayer, politics, man must act the part of the dog and "eat a do? even murder to get what he's got. can."
THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU EDINBURGH CASTLE FANGS FOR THE MEMORY NOW BY: JOE MUSSO BY: JIM BAIN, EDDIE COPE BY: KAREN MUELLER BRYSON 3 either, 3 total, gender flexible • Comedy, 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • Comedy, 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per per performance (Performance royalty waived per performance (Performance royalty waived performance (Performance royalty waived for for forensics competition) for forensics competition) forensics competition) Is Edinburgh Castle located in Times Square A dynamic woman runs a one-person casting HMO...PPO...BBC... What happens when an in New York? And incidentally, when was it office in Hollywood, specializing in actors for emergency visit to the doctor's office turns moved here from Scotland? horror films. Her search for the right character into a bureaucratic nightmare? This absurd actor is a hilarious exercise in futility. comedy provides a satirical look at the state ELEVATOR GAMES of the American health care system. BY: SEAN ABLEY FIRST IMPRESSIONS 3 either, 3 total, gender flexible • Comedy, BY: MATT THOMPSON DON'T PLAY GAMES WITH ME Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, BY: MATT THOMPSON $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be 3 females, 1 male, 1 either, 5 total, gender (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 flexible • Comedy, Forensics, Speech and for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at per performance (Performance royalty waived Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 5 time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per for forensics competition) scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of When an elevator breaks down between purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance floors, Barb and Scott are confronted by a A heart-warming play about a guy and a girl (Performance royalty waived for forensics mysterious third passenger intent on turning and their first impressions of one another. As competition) their time together into a series of mind they both break the fourth wall, we get a The English professor plays Scrabble in Latin, games. What are the rules? Who is winning? glimpse into their real thoughts - funny, direct, the housewife doesn’t recycle the paper she And just what is in that lunch bag he holds? and honest.
STAGE AND COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE SKITS PLAYS uses in Pictionary, and the married woman The stakes are raised until all three are fears that she is falling in love with the way literally at each others' throats in this comedy THE GIRAFFE another man plays Monopoly. This is a group for three strong performers. therapy session for board game fanatics. BY: JOE MUSSO 8 either, 8 total, gender flexible • Comedy, THE FRYING PAN Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: DRY WIT BY: KELLY MEADOWS $17.25 (Includes 8 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 BY: LEON KAYE 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • Drama, Forensics, (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 1 female, 3 males, 4 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 per performance (Performance royalty waived Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for forensics competition) (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per Just another boring day at school. In the gym, time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for a giraffe runs amok amongst a bunch of forensics competition) performance (Performance royalty waived for freshmen who have no business harassing an forensics competition) An immigrant high school girl is forced to take orange butterfly. A director is trying to cast a very British 19th action when she realizes that her mother's Century play, and the lead must have the worst enemy is her own father! Sarah is driest wit known to man. One actor is perfect, caught between the kids at school who make but is he white? Or was he previously a Shark fun of her family's culture, and her father at in West Side Story? Wait a minute—maybe home, who refuses to let her take on he's a woman...a comedy about breaking American ways. away from stereotypes. 108 Browse new releases online at www.brookpub.com * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC STAGE AND COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE SKITS AND PLAYS
FRANK AND HARRY: A WALK IN FUNCTIONAL PARANOIA WITH THE GARAGE SALE THE WOODS OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE BY: MIKE WILLIS BY: JOSEPH SORRENTINO TENDENCIES 2 females, 1 male, 2 either, 5 total, gender 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Fairy Tales, BY: BURTON BUMGARNER flexible • Comedy, Forensics, Speech and Comedy, Classics • Script Pack: $14.25 Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 5 2 females, 1 male, 1 either, 4 total, gender scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy flexible • Comedy, Forensics, Speech and for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 4 purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ performance (Performance royalty waived for (Performance royalty waived for forensics Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of competition) forensics competition) purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance Frank and Harry have decided to get out of (Performance royalty waived for forensics Mrs. Williams and her seventeen year-old the city and explore the woods. When Frank competition) daughter, Samantha, are moving to a smaller realizes Harry has devoured all their cookies, Dr. Waverley is a psychiatrist with a big home and agree to have a garage sale to sell which were supposed to be used to mark their problem: her daughter, Little Natalie, drives items that they haven't used or worn in a long trail, the real adventure beings. Just when all her crazy. She returns to work after an time. However, Samantha has had second hope is lost, a house appears. Hilarity ensues “incident” which involved Little Natalie, the thoughts about parting with any of her things. when an Evil Witch, a gingerbread house, and destruction of her office and her being While her mother runs to get change, Sam STAGE AND COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE SKITS PLAYS food allergies cleverly mix into this modern prohibited from visiting the zoo. Dr. Waverley manages to discourage all potential buyers take on Hansel and Gretel. returns to work after a rehabilitation period from purchasing any of her things by and sees her first patient, a man with mild concocting outlandish stories associated with each item. Cursed rollerblades and smelly FREE EXPRESSION functional paranoia. But Little Natalie won’t leave Mommy alone. Soon Dr. Waverley sweaters top the list and will have you BY: LEON KAYE begins to see her harmless patient as a thinking twice about your next garage sale 3 males, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech mobster about to carry out a major crime, and purchase. and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 the doctor evolves into a raving lunatic, scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of inadvertently curing her patient. GLASS SLIPPER, SIZE 8 1-2 purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance BY: JACQUELYN PRISKORN (Performance royalty waived for forensics THE GLASS SLIPPER 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Drama, Forensics, competition) BY: CLAUDIA HAAS Speech and Debate, Classics • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 In the newly formed USA, three delegates 3 females, 1 male, 4 total • Comedy, Forensics, nobly attempt to create new American (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Speech and Debate, Fairy Tales • Script Pack: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 expressions, but it's harder than it seems. In $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived fact, it's pretty darned impossible. This (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for forensics competition) comedy of manners premiered at the Acme ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Theatre Festival (MA). per performance (Performance royalty waived After Ella's terrible break-up with her for forensics competition) boyfriend, Matt, she creates a fantasy version of her ex who fulfills her every romantic EMERGENCY PROTOCOL We all know Prince Charming found Cinderella's glass slipper. But was it dream. When her roommate finally convinces BY: KRISTA BOEHNERT Cinderella he was searching for? Or was it the her it's time to move on, she must face the 2 females, 1 male, 1 either, 4 total, gender other shoe? horrible question: how do you break up with flexible • Drama, Scenes & Monologues • Script an imaginary boyfriend who doesn't want to Pack: $14.25 (Includes 4 Scripts) • Add a Script: leave? $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be THE FOURTH LOCKER ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 BY: MAUREEN BRADY JOHNSON per performance (Performance royalty waived GOOD FOR NOTHING 3 females, 3 total • Drama, Forensics, Speech for forensics competition) BY: DAVID KRUH and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 In the aftermath of a school shooting, scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, students attend a mandatory session with a Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 grief counselor. Told by the characters purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy through intersecting monologues, the horrors (Performance royalty waived for forensics for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at competition) time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per of the day are revealed as little by little the performance (Performance royalty waived for audience relives the terrifying moments with Three graduating seniors confront each other forensics competition) them. Rather than exploring the motivations of during the end-of-the-year ritual of locker the shooter, Emergency Protocol focuses on clean-out. When a dark secret is revealed, the Just another day on a reality TV show. A the survivors. It shines a light on their healing young women begin to realize that it takes mother, father, and son prepare to be filmed process, and their resilience in the face of courage to stand up for what is right, and for the day, but the show is all—for show! tragedy. even though the school year is over, the work They've been set up in a desperate attempt to on their lives has just begun. correct their vain lifestyle.
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THE GREAT PET REVOLT OF HEADS UP LEAVE BRIDGET ALONE 2042 BY: JOE MUSSO BY: JERRY RABUSHKA BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER 3 either, 3 total, gender flexible • Comedy, 2 females, 3 either, 5 total, 0-10 extras, gender 2-3 either, 2-3 total, doubling possible, gender Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: flexible • Comedy, Parody, Forensics, Speech flexible • Comedy, Forensics, Speech and $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 5 Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of per performance (Performance royalty waived purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance for forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics Two birdwatchers cross paths with a third competition) birdwatcher, who happens to be headless. She's got it worse than Britney! Mega-star In the not so distant future, a group of brave The two birdwatchers with heads learn the Bridget and her friend Shanna just want to get cats will reveal their true identities, not as importance of seeing people for who they a cup of coffee, but they're besieged by domesticated wimps, but as alien invaders really are, not how they appear on the paparazzi trying to get unflattering photos and from the planet CAT. This will begin their surface. asking intrusive personal questions. When violent revolt against mankind. Only one thing Bridget demands to be left alone, Shanna gets her chance to steal the spotlight! can stop them from their mission to destroy I'VE GOT MY STANDARDS humanity--a human living today whose BY:* CRAIG SODARO offspring will eventually lead the future human 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Comedy • Script I KNOW WHAT YOU DID AND I'M armies against the cats. Can humanity be GONNA HURT YOU REAL BAD, saved? 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She and her friends must be purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance Theme, Classics perfectly groomed, use a strong vocabulary, (Performance royalty waived for forensics enjoy classical music, and exhibit maturity in Two landmarks in the literary lexicon of the competition) everything they say or do. Kit takes the lesson English language have been seamlessly with a grain of salt, especially when Lauren’s A director of really bad low budget horror amalgamated into one uber-comedic date enters and she sees how they translate movies has just a few hours on a rented conglomeration, making one of the world’s into reality. sound stage to film the sequel to his last really most famous theatrical dramas into something bad low budget movie. The filming is being so...so...utterly fantastical it will explode your done at night and the actors are underpaid brain! HE LOVES ME and exhausted from their day jobs. The van BY: TIM MOGFORD with all of their props and special effects HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILL 3 females, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech parked by a fire hydrant and was towed. The BY: C.P. STANCICH and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 sound equipment is faulty and the scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ cameraman keeps missing the shots. But if 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Comedy, Classics • Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of you’re going to work in bad cinema you’ve got Classroom Script: $4.00 (Minimum order of 10) purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance to start at the bottom. Somehow “I Know What The most creative curtain raiser in the history (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) You Did and I’m Gonna Hurt You Real Bad, of curtain raisers. Friends try to get Part 2” has to be finished, and time is running STAGE AND COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE SKITS PLAYS Shakespeare to loosen up on his special day. For LeeAnn, love seems simple. She likes out. While the Bard wrestles with his latest play, Nate, and as soon as he realizes he has he is beset by well-wishers, prophecies and always liked her too, all will be well. She is an enigmatic warning about silencing blissfully unaware of his indifference and LOVE AND LIGHTNING electronic devices. resists all attempts by her long-suffering BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE friends, Becky and Trisha, to give her a sense 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 HOPELESS HAMLET of perspective. But LeeAnn isn’t the only one who is blind to reality, and it’s time for all three (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy BY: WADE BRADFORD friends to learn the hard lessons of love in this for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per 6 females, 2 males, 1 either, 9 total • Comedy, comedy about high school dating. Classics, Forensics, Speech and Debate • performance (Performance royalty waived for Script Pack: $17.25 (Includes 9 scripts) • Add a forensics competition) Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Zap! Is that a lightning bolt, or are you love- must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: struck? Stan wishes he was still unconscious $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) when his girlfriend, Terri, discovers he has a ring intended for another girl. A young actor playing the "Ghost" in a high school production of Hamlet catches a bad case of stage fright. When he refuses to go on stage, hilarity ensues. A spoof on the Bard's classic tragedy.
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THE ILL COSTUMED ROMEO IT HAPPENED IN HOLLYWOOD THE LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY BY: EDITH WEISS BY: JIM BAIN, EDDIE COPE OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH... 1 female, 1 male, 1 either, 3 total • Comedy, 3 males, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech WHEEL Classics, Forensics, Speech and Debate • and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 BY: MATT THOMPSON Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ 4 females, 4 males, 8 total • Comedy, Classics • Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Classroom Script: $4.00 (Minimum order of 10) must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty (Performance royalty waived for forensics The romantic situation is tense: All of waived for forensics competition) competition) Shakespeare's classic couples are discussing Rehearsing Romeo and Juliet has never been Every songwriter wants to have his work marriage, divorce, kids and how Hamlet funnier. Chris has sewn Brad, her boyfriend published and performed and played non-stop remodeled the dungeon as a game room. playing Romeo, a pair of costume pants that on the radio and elsewhere. But what do you Henry V feels like an outsider until the are far too “poofy” for Brad’s comfort. As he do if your song publisher is a dirty, rotten waitress, Hermia, sits down and Henry smiled listlessly recites his lines while trying furiously crook? It can only happen in Hollywood. because he knew. to flatten his pants, Chris tells him she feels like she’s acting with a “pillow in pantaloons”; HOMELAND INSECURITY
JEB AND THE BANK LOAN STAGE AND COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE SKITS PLAYS and she and Brad break up. But the show BY: STAN JANKAITIS BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER must go on, and through the intervention of 1 female, 2 males, 1 either, 4 total • Comedy, 1 female, 1 male, 2 either, 4 total, doubling Karl, and Shakespeare’s words, they make up possible, gender flexible • Comedy, Forensics, again. Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at LIKE WHITE ON RICE time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per BY: MARK SCHARF per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) performance (Performance royalty waived for 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, forensics competition) Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 When Jeb, a mountain man from the hills, This is the city. And Sunday's on the beat. (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy goes into town for the first time, he's mistaken He's here to protect the public good, and he's for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at for a bank robber. A comedy of mistaken got to stop a crime. But he'll have to get time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per identity, class struggle, and through a criminal, his grandmother, and performance (Performance royalty waived for misunderstanding. forensics competition) several other obstacles to do it. Still, Sunday's the only hope we've got. He's Homeland A 10-minute play written entirely in clichés, it KEEPING SCORE Insecurity. uses everything from worn-out pick-up lines BY: TERRI COLLIN ("What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?") to threadbare quotations from 4 females, 4 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech LAID OFF and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 4 sources as wide-ranging as Alcoholics BY: LAUREN TUNNELL scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ Anonymous and Shakespeare to establish a Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of 4 either, 4 total, gender flexible • Comedy, fleeting romantic triangle between a young purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: woman in a bar and two men competing to (Performance royalty waived for forensics $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 pick her up. competition) (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 This fast-paced comedy takes place on the per performance (Performance royalty waived IN THE TRAP bleachers of a community center basketball for forensics competition) BY: CARL L. WILLIAMS court. A boys' championship game is in In these difficult economic times, everyone is progress. Fun and games become serious 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, making cuts, and that includes playwrights. Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 business when Grandma and three doting The four actors in this play portray lines from (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy basketball moms gather to watch their boys the play that are facing the threat of layoffs as for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at compete. It's the fourth quarter in a close the script undergoes revision. time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per game. Tension is high. Insults fly as we performance (Performance royalty waived for discover that all the "bad sports" are not on forensics competition) the basketball court. LITMUS TEST A mysterious man sitting in a sand trap BY: CRAIG J. CLARK confronts a rich golfer and reveals he knows IN A NEW YORK MINUTE 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, more than he should about the businessman’s BY: MATT THOMPSON Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 corrupt practices and infidelity. In reality a (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy private investigator, he already knows the 3 females, 3 males, 6 total • Comedy, for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at businessman’s wife as an old high school Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per $17.25 (Includes 6 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 classmate. But nostalgia can’t keep him from performance (Performance royalty waived for (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be forensics competition) his mission of justice. ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived While waiting for his date, Jill, to get ready, for forensics competition) Martin engages in a battle of wills with her roommate. Will a roommate's disapproval cost Six individuals from different backgrounds and Martin his date, or will reverse psychology points of origin find friendship in The Big help him? Packed with big surprises. Apple.
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LITTLE SPACES A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN ROUND TUIT BY: BOBBY KENISTON BY: JONATHAN JOY BY: TERRENCE W. WALSH 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, 3 females, 1 male, 4 total • Comedy, Forensics, 6 either, 6 total, gender flexible • Comedy, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy $17.25 (Includes 6 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 performance (Performance royalty waived for performance (Performance royalty waived for per performance (Performance royalty waived forensics competition) forensics competition) for forensics competition) Do you ever feel uncomfortable in cramped Due to a mix-up in Personnel, Willie ends up The public library wants their book back! It’s little spaces? Montgomery does. in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then, twelve years overdue. The fine is huge. And Unfortunately, he finds himself stuck with his Eve shows up and offers him a fresh start in a the borrower hasn’t read it. Judge Lynch girlfriend, Kat, in a claustrophobic waiting new life. This one will keep you guessing presides over ten minutes of laughs and room. Neither one of them know where they through the end. snappy dialog in the County of Over-and- are, how they got there, or where they came Undershot. from. They are given no help from Adele, a MEET SUSIE waitress of some kind, whose constant smile BY: JERRY RABUSHKA ORGAN RECITAL and habit of mixing up words may hide a BY: JERRY RABUSHKA sinister secret. While Kat ponders breaking up 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • Comedy, with Montgomery, he fidgets, fumes, and Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: 3 females, 1 male, 4 total • Comedy, Forensics, $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 remembers why he hates little spaces so Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy much to begin with. This strange, comic ten- ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at minute play is a great piece for building per performance (Performance royalty waived time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per characters, and will leave the audience for forensics competition) performance (Performance royalty waived for laughing and discussing its meaning long forensics competition) It's not the Geneva Peace Conference so why after the final curtain has closed. is Chad so paranoid that Susie will say the Jim takes Karen to the finest restaurant in wrong thing when she meets his parents? I town, and it's the most romantic night of their HOUSEKEEPING mean, how conservative can they be? lives. But when two older ladies are seated BY: LAUREN D. YEE next to them, romance takes a bad turn. It 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Drama, Forensics, MURDER MOST FOUL seems that every time Jim or Karen takes a Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 bite, one of the women starts talking about an BY: DON LOWRY (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy unpleasant medical condition. Will their for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at 6 females, 2 males, 8 total • Comedy, Mystery, romance soar to new heights, or will they be time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: forced to spend the evening listening to an $17.25 (Includes 8 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 performance (Performance royalty waived for "organ" recital? forensics competition) (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Content but dissatisfied housewife Ellen takes per performance (Performance royalty waived MY BROTHER stock of her life and sweeps out the attic of for forensics competition) BY: MIKE WILLIS her mind as she searches for the meaning of Ashley is in directorial hell. Her corpse won't happiness. 4 males, 4 total • Drama, Forensics, Speech lie still, her actors won't stop making up lines, and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 4 and to add to her stress, this murder mystery scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ MACBETH MIXED UP was written by her assistant principal. Forget Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of BY: WADE BRADFORD figuring out whodunit - will Ashley be able to purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance
STAGE AND COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE SKITS PLAYS reconfigure this mess into something (Performance royalty waived for forensics 3 females, 1 male, 4 total • Comedy, Forensics, competition) Speech and Debate, Classics • Script Pack: resembling a play? $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Bobby has the body of a teenager but the (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be THE PERFECT DIET mind of a four-year-old. His younger brother, ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Jimmy, is a normal high school student. BY:* CRAIG SODARO per performance (Performance royalty waived Bobby desperately wants to go to school and for forensics competition) 1 female, 1 male, 1 either, 3 total, gender do the things Jimmy does, but Jimmy finds When two of the witches from Macbeth flexible • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.25 Bobby's handicap to be an embarrassment (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy discover that Witch #3 has fallen into the and a burden. Two street punks try to steal for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at cauldron, they call Rent-A-Witch. time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per Jimmy's money at the bus stop but are Unfortunately, they get a bubbly good-witch performance (Performance royalty waived for thwarted when Bobby comes to his defense. whom they must quickly train to be wicked forensics competition) The two teens realize they are lucky to be before Macbeth arrives! able to claim the other as...my brother. Vlad Drake is trapped in his small hospital room, and all he wants to do is get out so he can get a square meal. Who should drop in to help him? Dietitian Ms. Peabody tries to suggest a variety of healthy choices so Vlad can overcome his anemia. But Vlad knows there’s one sure way, but will Ms. Peabody fall under his spell?
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POOL OF TEARS THE PURSE THE RECKLESS ROMANTIC BY: RACHEL RUBIN LADUTKE BY: JERRY RABUSHKA BY: JACQUELYN PRISKORN 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • Comedy, Fairy 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Dark Comedy, Tales, Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 Mystery, Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived performance (Performance royalty waived for per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) forensics competition) for forensics competition) Alice is trapped in Wonderland. She cries Chet and Shelby Jones face off with a young Faithful maid, Mary has awoken with an when she is tall, and she nearly drowns in her thug, Kolby Dillon, who stole Shelby's purse umbrella fused to her hand. Collateral tears when she is small. Not-Alice wants to be and left her lying helpless in the street. But damage from another one of Master Paul's Alice, and Alice wants to be Not-Alice. Roger who is the real victim here? Kolby, who's fatal marriage proposals. Master Paul must be the Rabbit makes no sense, and Herman the dismayed at having stolen credit cards from married before his 30th birthday, but Mouse is too frightened to be any help. Will stores he doesn't even shop at, or Chet, who somehow his proposals always end in death. Alice ever get back through the Looking finds that the contents of the purse reveal How much longer can his faithful servants,
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RESPONSIBILITY SMALL TALK THE SQUIRE RULES BY: SAM POST BY:* DAVID MACGREGOR BY: EDDIE ZIPPERER 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, 2 females, 2 males, 4 total • Drama, Comedy • 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Comedy, Fairy Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Tales, Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 performance (Performance royalty waived for waived for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived forensics competition) for forensics competition) A recently engaged couple visit a counselor in Dad has a few ideas about a birthday present hopes of resolving the one problem in their A knight and his squire fight over the privilege for his teenage daughter. A CD player? A gift relationship. He is hoping to be made partner of saving the princess. certificate? Nope—she wants a car! He's not in his law firm, and as his wife, she will be about to spend that much on a girl who's expected to make small talk at company STARLETS IN TRAINING never had a job before—at least not until she functions and social gatherings. However, she BY: KELLY MEADOWS brings Mom into the act! has a phobia when it comes to small talk. She just can't do it. Is there any path that will lead 3 females, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 to a happy ending for everyone? SECRET OF SUCCESS scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ BY: JIM GUSTAFSON Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance 3 either, 3 total, gender flexible • Comedy, SO YOU WANNA MARRY MY (Performance royalty waived for forensics Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: DAUGHTER competition) $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 BY: JOSEPH SORRENTINO (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Three talented young actresses are up for the ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Dark Comedy, Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: role of a lifetime...a chance to appear on their per performance (Performance royalty waived favorite soap! But the bigger soap opera for forensics competition) $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be might be why all the contestants are being Wheeling and dealing, cheats and scams, low ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 forced to wait in the same room. Will these pay for long hours. At the firm of Gimble, per performance (Performance royalty waived prima donnas get a chance to read for the Gamble and Gumble, our motto is..."If We for forensics competition) role, or will it be decided by a war of attrition? Can't Beat ‘Em, You Bet We'll Cheat ‘Em." Frank and Marie are meeting with Marie's father, Harry, to ask his blessing on their TABLE FOR THREE engagement. Although Harry says he's happy WRITER'S BLOCK BY: CARL L. WILLIAMS about it, he shows himself to be otherwise BY: MATT THOMPSON whenever Marie leaves the room. When she 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 5-6 either, 5-6 total, doubling possible, gender does, he makes it clear to Frank he'll do flexible • Comedy, Farce, Forensics, Speech (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy and Debate • Script Pack: $17.25 (Includes 6 whatever it takes to prevent the marriage. He for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ may even resort to poison. There are five time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Frankenharry plays, and although they’re not performance (Performance royalty waived for purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance really linked, they do make for a fun evening forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics of entertainment. A timid man dining alone at a restaurant competition) becomes alarmed when a frightened woman The host of Writer's Block is George Bernard SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION joins him, seeking protection from her jealous Shaw. His co-host is the morose Edgar Allan BY: LEON KAYE husband, who suspects her of being Poe. Before a live studio audience, the two unfaithful. How can he protect his dignity, his 3 females, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech STAGE AND COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE SKITS PLAYS chat with intriguing guests William and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 health, and possession of his table from these Shakespeare, Aeschylus and Moliere. All is in scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ intruders, when all he wants is to have a perfect harmony until George Lucas pops on Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of peaceful dinner? the program and shows us the true side of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance "reality." (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) THIS DREAM BY: CHRIS STILES A SHORT HISTORY OF DATING A Greek tragedy begins, but two minutes into the play, the playwright dies, leaving the 2-3 females, 1-2 males, 1 either, 4 total, 0-10 BY: MATT THOMPSON extras, gender flexible • Comedy, Forensics, characters lost in the production. Do they 1 female, 2 males, 1 either, 4 total, gender Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 flexible • Comedy, Forensics, Speech and improvise? Is there a story? Maybe if they can (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 4 remember something about the playwright for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ himself, perhaps they can discover his time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of intentions...and piece together the rest of the performance (Performance royalty waived for purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance play. forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics Four characters share recurring anxiety competition) dreams with the audience: Going to school in Within the format of a dating game television your underwear, taking a test over unfamiliar show, Marc Antony and Julius Caesar clash material, performing in a play you've never over Cleopatra as she makes a grand stage rehearsed, and directing a really bad play. 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TIMOTHY MEYER'S VOMIT WITNESSES BY: KELLY MEADOWS BY: MATT BUCHANAN 2 females, 2 either, 4 total, gender flexible • 1-3 females, 1-4 males, 2-7 total, doubling Comedy, Forensics, Speech and Debate • possible • Dark Comedy, Forensics, Speech Script Pack: $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a and Debate • Script Pack: $17.25 (Includes 7 Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance waived for forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) It's enough to make you wanna...well, you know! When Kara and Trina attend a modern This dynamic series of short monologues from art exhibit for extra credit, they're surprised to seven people who have participated in or find out that the highlight of the display is a witnessed a botched robbery allows piece called "Timothy Meyer's Vomit." The audiences to piece together what actually other exhibit pieces came directly out of the happened, but what's more interesting is the artist’s garbage. Soon they get into a spirited insight we get into the minds of the witnesses. argument with a snooty museum-goer about None of the accounts match, and each one STAGE AND COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE SKITS PLAYS the true meaning of art. Can you call art trash betrays the witness's prejudices. An if it really is trash? exploration of perception, stereotypes, and prejudice, it showcases an actor's ability to play multiple characters and ethnicities. TRADING SCHEDULES BY: CHRIS STILES 2-4 either, 2-4 total • Comedy, Parody, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: GODOT? $14.25 (Includes 4 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 BY: JONATHAN DORF (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be 3 either, 3 total, gender flexible • Comedy, ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: per performance (Performance royalty waived $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 for forensics competition) (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Welcome to the Reality High television ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 network, the only network that exclusively per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) shows reality TV about high schools. The featured show: Trading Schedules, which Finally, the story behind the most famous no- takes the class schedules of Reginald, a show in all of literature. Enter Godot, con valedictorian candidate, and Joey, a below artist, living in a cramped apartment with the (way below) average student, and flip-flops amnesiac Boy, preparing to fleece those two them for a week. Reginald has to work his poor suckers, Vladimir and Estragon, out of way through Automotive Technology and the fortune he believes they have. But a Remedial Algebra, while Joey struggles his knock on the door changes everything. A way through Calculus and Advanced burly enforcer is there to collect on Godot's Placement English. Will either one last debts. The only way Godot can save himself through the week? Both find their new from certain violence at the hands of a schedules full of challenges and surprises. sensitive guy is to pretend to be his own butler. And when the thug decides to wait for WHEN BIRDS CRY Godot to return... BY: MIKE WILLIS 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Drama, Forensics, UNLEASHED Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 BY: CARL L. WILLIAMS (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy performance (Performance royalty waived for for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at forensics competition) time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per Though she'll soon forfeit her life to breast performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) cancer, 38-year-old Mrs. Jenkins has chosen to explore life and find beauty in all living A small-town judge presides over the case of things—especially birds. She has passed this a man contesting the citation he received from philosophy on to her teenage daughter, a female deputy for walking his dog without a Jenna, who shows up after school with her leash. As defendant and accuser squabble new friend, Zac. Surprised to find mother and before the folksy judge, their long-suppressed daughter happy and devoid of bitterness, Zac feelings for each other become unleashed. comes to better understand life, birds, and death through the eyes of Jenna and her mother.
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TRUE LOVE'S KISS YOU DON'T WANT TO MEET MY BY: BOBBY KENISTON DAD 1 female, 2 males, 3 total • Fairy Tales, Parody, BY: CRAIG SODARO Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Dark Comedy, $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be per performance (Performance royalty waived ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived Get ready to see a version of “Sleeping for forensics competition) Beauty” like no other you've seen before! In History teacher Claire Edwards has stayed this ten minute parody, the Prince, a late at parent conferences so she can meet charming, but dim, young man, has doubts with Raul Merrick, the father of one of Claire’s about kissing the fair maiden, who snores and students, Emma. Emma has been having drools in her sleep, while Milo, the Prince's adjustment problems at school, and Claire frantic sidekick, is doing his best to facilitate a feels it’s important to get Emma’s dad on “happily ever moment”. The clock is ticking to board with a plan to help Emma. Emma, break the spell, as Milo does his best to however, warns Claire that she won’t want to convince the Prince to bestow “true love's meet her father. When Claire does meet Raul kiss”. But what about Sleeping Beauty? How Merrick, she finds him pleasant and almost will she feel being awakened by the kiss of a overly cooperative. She’s a bit too naïve to stranger? And will her morning breath be see what’s coming! more than anyone can bear? Expect a lot of laughs in this easy-to-produce fractured fairytale. THE CLEANING BY:* JOSEPH SORRENTINO 2 either, 2 total, 1 extra, gender flexible • WORDS Comedy, Dark Comedy • Script Pack: $14.25 BY: KRISTIN O'MALLEY (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy 1 female, 1 male, 4 either, 6 total • Comedy, for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per $17.25 (Includes 6 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 performance (Performance royalty waived for (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be forensics competition) ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Frank needs a dental cleaning. He saw an ad per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) in a local paper about a cut-rate dentist and he’s decided to give it a try. But things don’t Words tells the story of two characters, Words work out quite so well for him as he tangles 1 and Words 2, as they prepare to leave the with Harry, a semi-psychotic dental hygienist, human mouth. They are encouraged to and the intimidating Herr Doktor. prepare for their departure by Courage, but Fear does its best to hold them back. FACE THE MUSIC BY:* CRAIG SODARO SPITTING IMAGE 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Comedy • Script BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE Pack: $14.25 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: STAGE AND COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE SKITS PLAYS 2 females, 1 male, 3 total • Comedy, Forensics, $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.25 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 (Includes 3 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy per performance (Performance royalty waived for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at for forensics competition) time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for Sixteen year old Lorna has dented the forensics competition) bumper of the family car during a trip to the mall and she’s terrified to tell her father. Older As Ed puts the moves on his beautiful dentist, sister Amelia tries to reason with her terrified he discovers he's the spitting image of the sibling, but eventually gives up, labeling Lorna man she hates. Dental hygiene is hardly the the world’s greatest drama queen. When term to describe this painfully funny comedy. father Harry returns home, he’s furious, and Lorna is sure it’s because of the dent in the bumper. She then learns one of life’s little lessons.
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TWO WOMEN SCENES FOR BONDING MOMENTS: DUETS MIDDLE SCHOOL MANIA: TEENS FOR TEEN WOMEN COMEDY DUOS FOR GIRLS BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI BY: LAURIE ALLEN MS HS • 2-12 females, 2-12 total • 30 minutes • MS HS • 2-12 females, 2-12 total • 25 minutes • MS • 2-10 females, 2-10 total • 25 minutes • Drama, Comedy • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes Drama, Comedy • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes Comedy • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 8 scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • 8 scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per performance (Includes limited performance performance (Rights to produce all scripts) performance (Includes limited performance rights for all skits) rights for all skits) Bonding Moments offers two-person playlets A collection of six mini-one acts, all written in the language that young people This collection of five five-minute comedy approximately five minutes in length, that speak, in the most volatile of times, their teen duos for young and middle teen women will provides teenage girls with challenging years. Plays include: 1. Too Perfect - Stacey bring on the laughs both in the classroom and vehicles to express emotional variety and and Felicia, egotistical teens, both lose the on stage. Duos include: 1. Chances - Karen is character development. Duets include: 1. vote for Student Council President to a "Plain selling raffle tickets, but Mrs. Smith isn't Paying our Respects - Carol and Barbara Jane." 2. Best Friends on Moving Day - Zoie buying her sales pitch. 2. Small Talk - Jan sits stand in line at a funeral parlor at the viewing and Katrin find ways to maintain their "best next to Doris on a bus and strikes up an of a quiet classmate who was killed by a friends" status despite custody battles, uninvited conversation. 3. Breaking Up - drunk driver. They experience a range of distance, and college plans. 3. The Notorious Christy is helping Lisa write a break-up letter emotions from fear to guilt to respect. 2. Haunted Taylor House - Al (Alice) Lowery and to Eric, but Christy can't wait to date Eric
Consequences - Salesgirl Maureen gets her friend Torie break into a house, which herself. 4. Gym Class - Two girls plot to avoid STAGE AND COMPETITION | SKIT PLAY COLLECTIONS younger sister Tina off the hook when she is supposedly has been long haunted by a any and all forms of exercise in physical caught shoplifting. Maureen is torn between ghost. 4. A Friendship Renewed - A rift in education class. 5. Mr. Miller - Holly and Cari sticking up for her sibling or letting her learn Jennifer and Hillary's relationship becomes have come to pay their final respects to the from her mistakes. 3. Surprise Sister - While even more uncomfortable when they are school's cruelest teacher. searching for her biological mother, Stephanie unwillingly paired together for an English meets Leeza, her unknowing younger sister. class project. 5. Taking Sides - The most SHORT CONTEST The moment is tense, yet heartwarming. 4. difficult detail resulting from Rachel and Beth's Freshman Trap - Just when the audience MONOLOGUES FOR TEEN parents' divorce is whether one parent should WOMEN thinks that innocent freshman Josie has been raise the sisters or if they, too, should be split BY: TAMMY GODFREY SULLIVAN manipulated by a senior bully named Marsha, up. 6. Mystery Baby - Samantha and Kelly the scene ends with a surprising twist. Don't find the last thing they ever expect...an MS HS • 6 females, 6 total • 30 minutes • underestimate the underdog! 5. Who's The abandoned infant! Drama, Comedy • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes Loser, Now? - Donna cleverly sets up bigoted 8 scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • Leslie to admit to framing "Ted the Meathead" Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per with the drugs that led to his suspension. BREAKING THE SILENCE BY: JERRY RABUSHKA performance (Includes limited performance Never mess with a girl's stepbrother! 6. rights for all skits) Rambo-Ella - A misunderstanding turns into a HS CT • 6 females, 4 males, 10 total • 25 bonding moment for a pregnant teen. minutes • Drama • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes Monologues include: 1. The Woodblock 8 scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • (Dramatic) When push comes to shove, a Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • loyal sibling takes extreme measures. 2. Prom ANATOMY OF A FUNNY BONE Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per Date (Comedy) Jill thinks she has scored the BY: CHRISTIAN KILEY performance (Includes limited performance date of her dreams...until her date arrives to rights for all skits) HS CT • 11 either, 11 total • 35 minutes • pick her up. 3. Unwanted Flowers (Dramatic) Comedy • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 Domestic violence is an issue that finds its A chilling and disturbing truth is revealed in scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • way into all cultures and all walks of life. This this haunting monologue. 4. Three Cheers for Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • well-researched collection will allow students the Moose (Comedy) Hiding her identity Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per to see how people around the world have the behind a moose costume isn't what the performance (Includes limited performance same issues, yet deal with them uniquely. school's new mascot had envisioned for rights for all skits) Skits include: 1. Bag of Chocolate (1M, 2F) herself (no costume is required). 5. Vivian A disgruntled employee looking for a hungry Lori, a woman who works for a crisis hotline, (Dramatic) A young woman in a mental thief, an actor who can't act, a recovering finds herself unwelcome in a Russian- institution is both troubled and relieved by energy drink addict, a person raised in the American household when she tries to messages from within her mind. 6. Deadbeat mall, a woman who sees the disastrous end intervene between an abusive husband and Dad School (Comedy) A group of newly to all her dates before they even start, a his wife. 2. Bruises Shmuses (2M, 2F) Such a divorced dads take a seminar on how to be Shakespeare-trained burger clown, an thing shouldn't happen in a good Jewish dead-beats to their now defunct families and attention-starved hypochondriac, someone home! Linda tries to hide from the truth that focus entirely on themselves. who detests self-indulgent curtain calls, a her husband abuses her for fear of shaming person who wants their significant other to do her family within the community. 3. Too Much something bad, and a young person who has Tradition (1M, 2F) He's out of work; she just to stop cussing to get a killer spring break got a promotion. It wasn't how things were vacation. Join this comic collection of supposed to be in this country. In this skit, a characters and find out the location of your young woman is forced to find strength to funny bone! cope with a husband who abuses her for her success.
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CIVIL WAR DUOS SCHOOL DAYS - VOL. 2 DRAMATIC GUY-GIRL BY: ANNE HUGHES BY: MARCIA MARSH MONOLOGUES FOR TWEENS HS CT • 2 females, 4 males, 6 total • 30 MS • 13 females, 10 males, 23 total • 25 AND YOUNG TEENS minutes • Drama, Historical Events and People minutes • Drama • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 scripts and 8 scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • MS • 8 either, 8 total • 35 minutes • Scenes & rights to reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • Monologues, Forensics, Speech and Debate • $10.00 per performance per skit • Performance Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 scripts and Royalty Package: $30.00 per performance performance (Includes limited performance rights to reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: (Includes limited performance rights for all skits) rights for all skits) $10.00 per performance per skit • Performance These duos dramatize an important turning Girlfriend and boyfriend problems seem so Royalty Package: $30.00 per performance point in America's history. Duos include: 1. important when they're happening to you, and (Includes limited performance rights for all skits) Midnight Encounter: A Ghost Story (1M, 1F) A no one likes to get dumped. But what about a This collection provides tween and young cleaning lady discovers the ghost of America's friend in need who just found out she's teenage males or females with the opportunity 16th President. 2. Grant and Lee at adopted? And what's up with your buddy's evil to explore a variety of character types in Appomattox (2M) As Lee prepares to stepmom that you just can't figure out? emotional situations. These give young adults surrender to Grant, each general struggles Whether you're worrying about what to be a better understanding of the trials and with powerful emotions. 3. Alan Pinkerton when you get older, or what people will think if tribulations during this period of transition. Interviews a Confederate Spy (1M, 1F) A you don't take a dare, these skits are ideal for unique look at wartime enemies who come the classroom or production. together for a brief and memorable moment. DRAMATIC MALE MONOLOGUES FOR TWEENS CONFESSIONS AND AND YOUNG TEENS GREEN MEANS GO CONSEQUENCES BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI BY: DENNIS BUSH BY: DENNIS BUSH MS • 8 males, 8 total • 30 minutes • Scenes & HS CT • 10 females, 6 males, 16 total, doubling MS HS • 1-7 females, 1-5 males, 1-3 either, Monologues, Forensics, Speech and Debate • possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Drama • 3-15 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 scripts and Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 scripts and 60 minutes • Scenes & Monologues, Drama, rights to reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: rights to reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: Comedy • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 $10.00 per performance per skit • Performance $10.00 per performance per skit • Performance scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • Royalty Package: $30.00 per performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per performance Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • (Includes limited performance rights for all skits) (Includes limited performance rights for all skits) Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per performance (Includes limited performance This collection provides tween and young These characters are on the move. Some by rights for all skits) teenage boys with the opportunity to explore a choice and others against their will. We meet variety of character types in emotional Candor and courage come face to face with a woman whose life unravels, a revolutionary situations. Whatever experience you're guilt and regrets, as fifteen compelling staging a protest at Olive Garden, a girl seeking, expect to find it here. whose trying not to sink under the weight of characters take audiences on a journey of her childhood, a guy with a big ego to mask searing honesty, heartbreak, and unexpected big insecurities, and a dozen other compelling humor. As a collection presented as a LIVING A REAL LIFE characters. showcase or evening of theatre, or as BY:* DENNIS BUSH individual pieces performed in competitions or MS HS • 1-8 females, 1-5 males, 1-3 either, for auditions, the monologues in Confessions 3-16 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • COMEDY DUOS FOR HIGH and Consequences will be thought-provoking 60 minutes • Drama, Comedy • Script Pack: SCHOOL and memorable. $20.95 (Includes 8 scripts and rights to BY: LAURIE ALLEN reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • Performance Royalty HS • 6 females, 3 males, 1 either, 10 total • 25 Package: $30.00 per performance (Includes minutes • Scenes & Monologues, Forensics, DRAMATIC FEMALE limited performance rights for all skits) Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $20.95 MONOLOGUES FOR TWEENS (Includes 8 scripts and rights to reproduce cast AND YOUNG TEENS How do we choose to live our lives? What copies) • Royalty: $10.00 per performance per BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI baggage do we bring to our relationships and
STAGE AND COMPETITION | SKIT PLAY COLLECTIONS skit • Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per MS • 8 females, 8 total • 35 minutes • Scenes & to the situations in which we find ourselves? performance (Includes limited performance Monologues, Forensics, Speech and Debate • rights for all skits) In Living A Real Life, sixteen compelling Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 scripts and characters confront their fears, anger, Duos include: 1. The Quandary (2F) Brooke rights to reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: paranoia and pain. They take audiences on a wants to break up with her boyfriend, but not if $10.00 per performance per skit • Performance journey filled with hilarity and heartbreak. As a it means him hooking up with her best friend, Royalty Package: $30.00 per performance (Includes limited performance rights for all skits) collection presented as a showcase or Julie. 2. Happy Anniversary (1M,1F) When evening of theatre, or as individual pieces thoughtless John forgets another anniversary, This collection provides tween and young performed in competitions or for auditions, the Pam gives him a memory device he'll never teenage girls with the opportunity to explore a monologues in Living A Real Life will be forget. 3. The Men's Club (2M) Mike variety of character types in emotional thought-provoking and memorable. embarrasses himself in order to belong to an situations. These monologues create intense important club. 4. Will Work For Food (2F) performances, which are geared toward girls When Trish and Sharon need money for who are older than mere kids but are not yet concert tickets, they carry a "Will Work For able to be cast as full adults. Food" sign. 5. A New Look (1F,1E) Roxanne needs a new hair style and color. But she hates every color and every style.
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EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL MANIA: TEEN COMEDY PLAYLETS BY: DENNIS BUSH COMEDY DUOS FOR GUYS AND BY: KELLY MEADOWS HS CT • 7 females, 6 males, 13 total, doubling GIRLS MS HS • 4 females, 1 male, 11 either, 16 total, possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Drama, BY: LAURIE ALLEN gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script Comedy • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 MS • 1-5 females, 1-5 males, 2-10 total • 25 Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 scripts and rights to scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • minutes • Comedy • Script Pack: $20.95 reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: $10.00 per Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • (Includes 8 scripts and rights to reproduce cast performance per skit • Performance Royalty Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per copies) • Royalty: $10.00 per performance per Package: $30.00 per performance (Includes performance (Includes limited performance skit • Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per limited performance rights for all skits) rights for all skits) performance (Includes limited performance Comedic skits include: 1. Air Uganda - A Trapped, weighed down, overcome by rights for all skits) young disciple travels thousands of miles to unexpected sadness, and hampered by family Humor reigns supreme in these guy/girl ask her guru the secret of life, but why did she history, the characters in Emotional Baggage comedy duos for early and middle teens. take Air Uganda? 2. Six Characters in Search are struggling to figure things out and lighten Duets include: 1. The New Student - When of Page Two - If the assignment is to write a their load in this series of monologues. Rick asks Amy directions on his first day at one-page play, why is the professor finding so school, the frantic fun begins. 2. Sibling Wars much fault with character development? 3. LOOK DEEPER: A - Susan and Jason are confined to the same Flushed With Embarrassment - There's only MULTICULTURAL COLLECTION room for fighting. With a date in 45 minutes, one bathroom at the coffee house, and Susan has every reason to make up with her someone's been in there a very long time. 4. BY: FRANCESCA SANDERS brother and escape further punishment. 3. Product Analysis - A grocery store clerk HS • 1-3 females, 1-3 total • 30 minutes • Class Talk - Debbie's talkative nature has doesn't approve of her customer's purchases, STAGE AND COMPETITION | SKIT PLAY COLLECTIONS Drama • Script Pack: $12.95 (Includes 4 scripts and has alternate suggestions of her own. 5. and rights to reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: gotten her a detention assignment. When she $10.00 per performance per skit • Performance can't keep quiet in an empty room, her Will Work for Food - A wealthy businessman Royalty Package: $30.00 per performance teacher takes drastic measures. 4. Truth or tries to take home a panhandler and make (Includes limited performance rights for all skits) Dare - A simple game of truth or dare him work for his supper. Can he be serious? threatens to get Melissa dumped by Randy, 6. Well Behind Schedule - Someone at the Who are you? Are you what you appear to who's tired of her games. 5. The Debt - A bus stop isn't following the accepted protocol be? Can people identify you by merely looking teenage boy learns that he owes $30,000. that you're supposed to ignore everyone else at you from the outside? In this award-winning Who is this vicious loan shark? His mom! there. anthology of female monologues, the subject of ethnicity and pride is explored. Though the world may see our heroine as Caucasian, her JUST THE MESSENGER MIDDLE SCHOOL MANIA: spirit tells a different tale. She believes there BY: DENNIS BUSH COMEDY DUOS FOR GUYS is only one race...the human one. Come on MS HS • 8 females, 5 males, 13 total, doubling BY: LAURIE ALLEN this life-changing journey and discover that possible, gender flexible • 40 minutes • Drama, MS • 2-10 males, 2-10 total • 25 minutes • we aren't always what we seem to be. You Drama • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 scripts Comedy • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 will never look the same way at people again. and rights to reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • This anthology of three short plays: 1. I am a $10.00 per performance per skit • Performance Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • Black Girl, 2. I am a Jewish Girl, and 3. I am Royalty Package: $30.00 per performance Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per an Arab Girl, will have you changing your (Includes limited performance rights for all skits) performance (Includes limited performance rights for all skits) mind about who we are and how we should You'll get the message. Loud and clear. With view the world. Any of these pieces can be intensity and style. Everyone is trying to Spark some great laughs with this collection performed by females of any race. control the chaos in their world, even when of five five-minute comedy duos for young and that means keeping a severed human hand in middle teen guys. Duos include: 1. Mistaken SCATTERED MANNEQUINS the freezer. Paranoia plays a part. So does Identity - When the principal calls Anthony cookie dough and a conspiracy theory. Hang down to his office for a little chat, it can only BY: DENNIS BUSH on for the ride. mean one thing...trouble! 2. The Dance - Two MS HS • 8 females, 5 males, 13 total, doubling nerdy guys have trouble finding girls to dance possible, gender flexible • 50 minutes • Drama • with at the school dance. 3. Men Are From Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 scripts and TRUTH ON A SPOON Jupiter - Gregg desperately wants Brittany rights to reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: BY: DENNIS BUSH $10.00 per performance per skit • Performance back...but Nicole is cute too! 4. Fourteen Royalty Package: $30.00 per performance MS HS • 9 females, 4 males, 13 total, doubling Years To Go - Two old men are scared of old (Includes limited performance rights for all skits) possible, gender flexible • 50 minutes • Drama, age until they find a way around their Comedy • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 obstacles. 5. Pathetic Poetry - A poetry In this series of monologues, take a trip scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • assignment confuses Jerry, and David only through the emotional minefield of life. Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • makes matters worse. Childhood traumas linger, love is elusive and Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per confrontation looms large. The characters in performance (Includes limited performance rights for all skits) Scattered Mannequins get knocked down, but they get back up and move on, trying to keep Open wide . . . thirteen versions of the truth the fire in their lives from going out. are coming your way. The umpire of love, unmet expectations, Mary Todd Lincoln, fortune cookie destiny, a foul smell in the air, and more provide a hearty serving of laughter, tears, insight and inspiration.
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A MATTER OF TEEN COMEDY PLAYLETS, TOO SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION INTERPRETATION BY: KELLY MEADOWS BY: DENNIS BUSH BY: MATT HALDEMAN MS HS • 6 females, 4 males, 7 either, 17 total, ALL • 12 females, 5 males, 17 total • 70 minutes MS HS • 2 females, 7 males, 6 either, 15 total, gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script • Drama • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 scripts and rights to scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: $10.00 per Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • Performance Royalty Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per performance per skit • Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per performance (Includes performance (Includes limited performance Package: $30.00 per performance (Includes limited performance rights for all skits) rights for all skits) limited performance rights for all skits) This collection of hot-shot comedy skits picks 17 monologues,from quirky to shattering, we Whether you're an avid reader or someone up where the first left off . . . finding comedy in meet a girl trying to survive an abusive with a short attention span, whether you're a both outrageous and ordinary situations. Skits mother, a writer who's also an ultimate cage child or an adult, A Matter of Interpretation is include: 1. Cinderella Strikes Back (3M) Do fighter, an obsessive-compulsive teen, an sure to make you laugh so hard that milk her stepsisters depend on her just a bit too artistic boy whose father and brother are squirts out your nose.Skits include: Bathroom much? Now they might not make it to the ball! jocks, a traumatized young girl, and an Humor ; In Search of the Perfect Roommate; 2. My Husband's Condition (1M, 1F) Mrs. agoraphobic young woman, among others, as A Matter of Interpretation; Role of a Lifetime Kessler is picking up quite a load of they struggle to control their lives and put their and Two Person Conversation. prescriptions for her husband! He might be pasts in perspective...to survive. sick, but she's just nuts! 3. Three Guys, Two Tickets (3M) Who gets to go to the biggest TEEN COMEDY PLAYLETS: SCHOOL DAYS - VOL. 1 concert of the year? A motivated comedy! 4. BY: MARCIA MARSH Space Case (4E) Colonizing Mars isn't quite THIRD TIME'S A CHARM MS • 12 females, 10 males, 22 total • 25 as easy as it seems. 5. Concerto Non Troppo BY: KELLY MEADOWS minutes • Drama • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes (3E) A musical mix up finds this orchestra MS HS • 6 females, 3 males, 9 either, 18 total, 8 scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • hitting a sour note! 6. Anatomy Class (1M, 2F) gender flexible • 30 minutes • Comedy • Script Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • An uptight student forbids her professor to Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 scripts and rights to Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: $10.00 per performance (Includes limited performance discuss even normal parts of the human body. performance per skit • Performance Royalty rights for all skits) Package: $30.00 per performance (Includes limited performance rights for all skits) An excellent collection of diverse skits for CHRISTMAS SKITS FOR GIRLS classroom or stage. Ever forgotten to do your BY: SHERI FLANNERY VERRILLI Fun drama with laughs to spare in this great homework, found out that a friend got busted MS HS • 8-11 females, 0-3 males, 8-14 total • collection of short skits that finds humor the for having a party, felt like a benchwarmer, or 40 minutes • Comedy, Drama • Script Pack: world over. Comedic skits include: 1. Not at worried about your looks and popularity? $20.95 (Includes 8 scripts and rights to any Price A boorish customer tries to haggle Every kid has, and that's what makes this reproduce cast copies) • Royalty: $10.00 per 2. A Dime's Worth of Difference A fast food collection perfect for young audiences. The performance per skit • Performance Royalty customer doesn't want the combo 3. Do What Package: $30.00 per performance (Includes You Will A big family difference over an estate collection also includes serious topics about limited performance rights for all skits) family relationships, suicide, and juvenile 4. Panic Night Students disagree about delinquency. With hip lingo and fun subject matter, these history 5. The Doctor Won't See You Now An four holiday skits for teens/preteens, may be obstinate nurse observes a waiting room 6. presented together or individually and require The Princess and the Pique This royal young SCHOOL DAYS - VOL. 3 little or no set-up time or props. Includes: 1. lady wonders why there is a pea in her bed. BY: MARCIA MARSH The Christmas Play - Three friends audition MS • 5-30 either, 5-30 total • 25 minutes • for their school's production only to find that Comedy • Script Pack: $20.95 (Includes 8 the "teacher's pet" that didn't audition got the scripts and rights to reproduce cast copies) • best part! 2. A Present for Mom - Two sisters Royalty: $10.00 per performance per skit • discover not only that they bought their mom Performance Royalty Package: $30.00 per performance (Includes limited performance the exact same perfume, but that the present stinks! 3. Christmas Crush - Friends are at a
STAGE AND COMPETITION | SKIT PLAY COLLECTIONS rights for all skits) Christmas party when one discovers to her A study group of five students prepare for horror that her "Secret Santa Admirer" might tests on six famous authors as they discuss be the nerdiest kid in school! 4. Letter to the lives and literature of Edgar Allan Poe, Santa - A babysitter realizes that two kids Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Robert have taken Christmas song lyrics way too Louis Stevenson, O. Henry and Washington literally! Irving. Ideal for the classroom or stage, this collection is especially enjoyable for the student in all of us, as it not only entertains, but educates as well.
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(ALMOST) GOT IT MADE THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS BY: MAUREEN KANE BERG, THOMAS C. BERG BY:* JAMEY STRAWN, CHRISTINE JONES, KEN JONES HS CT • 3 females, 4 males, 7 total • 65 ALL • 6-9 females, 7-9 males, 4-8 either, minutes • Comedy • Script: $8.50 • Notebook 17-26 total, 0-30 extras, doubling possible, Script: $16.75 • Director's Score: $50.00 (full gender flexible • 60 minutes • Fantasy • Script: script, production notes, piano score) • Vocal/ $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/ Choral Score: $20.00 (photocopying allowed Choral Score: $20.00 • Piano Score: $30.00 • for production) • Piano Score: $30.00 • Production CD: $30.00 • Rehearsal CD: Orchestral Score: $30.00 (bass guitar, drums, $30.00 • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: synthesizer; photocopying allowed) • $50.00 • Royalty: $90.00 per performance Production CD: $30.00 • Rehearsal CD: $30.00 • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: In this new holiday musical spectacular, The $50.00 • Royalty: $75.00 per performance Day Before Christmas, there is a flurry of activity at the North Pole. Santa and Mrs. This is the story of Molly’s fearless fight to Claus, the elves, the reindeer, the forest the top of the real estate world with her animals and even the Toys themselves assistant Freddy and her best friend Chloe. prepare for the biggest night of the year! It takes a lot of planning and A musical send-up of office politics, hard work to get a sleigh off the ground and to deliver toys to children corporate scandal, and modern romance, which all leads to fun, around the world, but Santa's team is ready and willing. Or at least surprises, and the requisite happy ending. (Seven cast members; they think they are before a tricky Jack Frost decides to stop the chorus optional.) Christmas festivities with a little comical chaos and calamity. The Day Before Christmas promises to surprise and delight the young, the BRAVE BUCKAROO young at heart and everyone in between. BY: RENEE CLARK MS • 15 females, 11 males, 26 total • 90 minutes • Comedy, Melodrama • GIFT OF THE MAGI - THE MUSICAL Script: $8.50 • Vocal/Choral Score: $20.00 (photocopying allowed for BY:* BEVERLY BREMERS, FAITH GRANT production) • Piano Score: $20.00 (includes drum and bass parts) • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $30.00 (audio clips available online) • ALL • 3-6 females, 6-8 males, 0-1 either, 10-14 total, doubling possible, Royalty: $90.00 per performance gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/Choral Score: $20.00 • Piano Score: A two act musical melodrama perfect for middle school productions. $30.00 • Orchestral Score: $30.00 • Production CD: $30.00 • Rehearsal Hook and Ratface Ragoo are greedy varmints. Dirtbag Scuzz and the CD: $30.00 • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $50.00 • Royalty: $90.00 Casadeech Gang are bottom of the bucket scum. As luck would have per performance it, they all meet in the little Western town of Nowhere, Arizona. Now it It's Christmas in New York in 1905. Imagine the excitement of a busy just so happens that the folks of Nowhere are planning a talent show to street, bustling with shoppers and carolers singing joys of the season. raise money for the hospital. Hook and Ratface, scheming with Dirtbag Della, a stunning young woman, strolls along, looking in store and the Casadeech Gang, plot to heist the show. Enter Wendell windows, a bit saddened that she only has $1.87 to spend on a gift for Wishbone, alias Brave Buckaroo, who fearlessly tracks down the her husband, Jim. Down the street, Jim does likewise; wistfully bandits, rescues the hostage, and recovers the money. Crowd- knowing that the items in the stores that he would love to buy for Della pleasing comedy and toe-tapping tunes will have your audience going are beyond his means. Yes, you have entered a beautiful musical Nowhere fast! adaptation of O. Henry's, The Gift of the Magi, which will thrill and inspire your audiences year after year. BURGERTOWN BY: KEN JONES, CHRISTINE JONES, JAMEY STRAWN With a masterful score, this adaptation is perfectly written for the stage with sub-plots, drama and intrigue which ultimately reveal the true HS CT • 5-14 females, 4-10 males, 9-24 total, 0-9 extras, gender flexible • heart of this Christmas love story. Easy to produce with a set that can 110 minutes • Comedy • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/ Choral Score: $20.00 (photocopying allowed for production) • Piano be as spartan or extravagant as you desire, while offering a highly flexible cast with opportunities for doubling and choral extras. For STAGE | MUSICALS Score: $30.00 • Orchestral Score: $30.00 (includes guitar, bass, drums, flute/alto saxophone; photocopying allowed) • Production CD: $30.00 • professional production rights, please contact Brooklyn Rehearsal CD: $30.00 • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $50.00 • Publishers directly at 888-473-8521. Royalty: $90.00 per performance BurgerTown is a delicious musical comedy set in the Windy City. This is the story of Dan O'Reilly, a timid fry cook who accidentally invents the hottest new craze in the fast-food world, the Triangle Burger. With the mysterious death of BurgerTown's cranky owner, Dan takes the humble BurgerTown restaurant from its lowly place beneath the tracks of the Fullerton train station to soaring new heights, leaving his humble origins behind. In this fun and kooky new musical, our shy hero encounters bad guys, temptation, big business, and burgers. He struggles to hold onto his sanity as he chases his dreams of success in the fast-food industry and romance with BurgerTown's former waitress, Jan. The show is laced with lively characters and a heartwarming message of the triumph of love over greed. Audio clips available online.
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HAPPILY EVER AFTER... (MUSICAL) JACK AND BELLA, FROM BEANSTALK TO BY: ALLEN KOEPKE BROADWAY MS • 9 females, 5 males, 1 either, 15 total, 0-25 extras • 60 minutes • BY: BOB MAY, KAREN OWINGS, CHAD BRADFORD Fantasy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Director's ALL • 7 females, 7 males, 14 total, 8 extras, gender flexible • 45 minutes • Score: $45.00 (full script, production notes, piano score, vocal score) • Comedy, Classics • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/Choral Vocal/Choral Score: $20.00 (photocopying allowed for production) • Score: $10.00 (photocopying allowed for production) • Piano Score: Production CD: $25.00 • Rehearsal CD: $25.00 (audio clips available $20.00 • Royalty: $75.00 per performance online) • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $40.00 • Royalty: $75.00 per performance Jack and his cow, Bella, have a show biz act and want to be famous. But Jack has to sell his cow, and that's where the traditional tale sort of A fabulous fractured musical perfect for upper elementary and middle takes over. As Jack takes his cow through the forest to market, he runs school students. Nationally-renowned composer Allen Koepke into the Beanman and other children in the forest, Little Red Riding magnificently entwines the characters and storylines of "Little Red Hood, Hansel and Gretal, Alice, Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Oz. Riding Hood," "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," and "The Three Little They all play a part in helping Jack with the Giant and eventually Pigs" and traverses an array of musical styles to create this musical making Jack and Bella singing stars. family treasure. Through a series of misadventures and story twisting, various fairy tale characters learn the importance of friendship, trust, The premiere of Jack and Bella, From Beanstalk to Broadway was and tolerance. presented by Children’s Theatre To Go, Inc. at Reynolds Performance Hall (AR). HORROR HIGH: THE MUSICAL BY: SEAN ABLEY, AMY SEELEY, RYAN O'CONNELL GINA AND THE PRINCE OF MINTZ MS HS • 9 females, 8 males, 17 total, 1-20 BY: STEVE LIEBMAN, CHARLES KONDEK, NANCY PATZ extras • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/Choral Score: ALL • 2 females, 6 males, 5-10 either, 13-18 total, 5-20 extras, doubling $20.00 (photocopying allowed for production) • possible, gender flexible • 90 minutes • Fantasy, Comedy, Classics • Piano Score: $30.00 • Orchestral Score: Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/Choral Score: $20.00 $20.00 (includes Bass Guitar and Drums) • (photocopying allowed for production) • Piano Score: $30.00 • Production Production CD: $30.00 • Rehearsal CD: CD: $30.00 • Rehearsal CD: Free (Free perusal. Return to Brooklyn $30.00 • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: within 30 days of production) • Royalty: $90.00 per performance $50.00 • Royalty: $90.00 per performance Children's Book: $13.95 (Hardcover) Everyone was a teenager once. Even vampires, zombies and werewolves. So, Based on Nancy Patz's popular children's book, this is a sparkling where can you find all of these classic movie musical fairy tale with contemporary sensibilities. Gina, a strong-willed monsters in all their teenage glory? Horror young girl who is a superlative baker of pies, is determined to go out in High School! Join Bigfoot, Blair the Witch the world "to make my way as I bake my pies and wake each day to a and Larry the Wolf among many others, as new surprise." Gina, eager to travel the world, joins a troupe of they battle the pitfalls of high school: romance, peer pressure, body Traveling Players and finds herself in the village of Mintz, which is ruled by a handsome but grumpy Prince. The laws of Mintz prohibit image and popularity - all with a B-movie twist! Georgia the Zombie STAGE | MUSICALS can’t stop eating brains, Nosferata the Vampire is experimenting with any negative utterances and mumblings, but Gina, quite independent Vegetarianism, and Victor Frankenstein might be taking science class and free-spirited to say the least, dares an emphatic "No!" when the a little too far. There’s campy fun for all in this ode to classic horror Prince demands that she stay in Mintz and bake pies exclusively for movies of yesteryear, with plenty of modern appeal to keep your him. Delightful complications ensue, including the slaying of a giant audiences screaming...with laughter of course! green dragon with horrible breath, before Gina and the Traveling Players continue on their bumpy but adventurous way to exciting new lands. IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND BY: ETHAN SCHLESSER THE LITTLE MERMAID MS HS • 6-12 females, 4 males, 0-7 either, 10-23 total, 0-10 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 75 minutes • Fantasy, Educational • BY: MATT THOMPSON, THOMAS HODGES Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Director's Score: $50.00 (full ALL • 8 females, 2 males, 4-14 either, 14-24 total, doubling possible, script, production notes, piano score, vocal score) • Vocal/Choral Score: gender flexible • 75 minutes • Fantasy, Comedy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • $20.00 (photocopying allowed for production) • Piano Score: $30.00 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/Choral Score: $20.00 (photocopying Production CD: $30.00 • Rehearsal CD: $30.00 (audio clips available allowed for production) • Piano Score: $30.00 • Production CD: $30.00 • online) • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $50.00 • Royalty: $90.00 per Rehearsal CD: $30.00 • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $50.00 • performance Royalty: $90.00 per performance The fantastical adventure of Jenna, a teenage drama queen, who can't Based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale of the same name, win for losing. When Jenna's younger sister’s birthday party prevents we follow Coral, The Little Mermaid, in her quest to become human. her from spending time with her friends, she embarks on a musical Curious ambition and a wondering heart leads our mermaid to the journey within the turmoil of her own mind. With the help of the surface of her world, above the ocean blue. She rescues Evan, a hilariously funny MC (played by her therapist dad), Jenna comes to sailor, who is later revealed to be a prince among men. In the name of terms with her confusing emotions and navigates the pitfalls of love, Coral is willing to part from her family, defy her father King adolescence. Neptune, and even traverse the murky Benthic Underworld of the Sea Witch, all in the name of her heart. This is the classic tale about sacrifice, friendship, love and the ultimate fish out of water.
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THE LITTLE WITCH OF WICHITA LOVE! AT THE CAFE! BY: BETH MARTIN BROWN, KEVIN KAUFMAN, SANDY SHERMAN BY: KAREN SOKOLOF JAVITCH, JAMES SPICER CONANT ALL • 3 females, 3 males, 2 either, 8 total, ALL • 6 females, 7 males, 13 total, 5-20 extras 0-20 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: $8.50 • • 60 minutes • Fantasy • Audience CD: $8.00 Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/Choral Score: (Fundraising opportunity - see below.) • Script: $20.00 (photocopying allowed for production) • $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/ Piano Score: $30.00 • Production CD: $30.00 Choral Score: $20.00 (photocopying allowed • Rehearsal CD: $30.00 • Production/ for production) • Piano Score: $30.00 • Rehearsal CD Combo: $50.00 • Royalty: Production CD: $30.00 • Rehearsal CD: $90.00 per performance $30.00 • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $50.00 • Royalty: $90.00 per performance Vocal/Choral Score: Photocopying allowed for production. The story begins at Oakwitch Gardens where Queen Witch Hazel has assigned Set against the backdrop of Bonnie's Cafe, each witch/warlock with finding very rare two love triangles collide in the never-had-it- ingredients for her traditional Halloween brew. How rare? So rare that so-good times of the 1950s. This rousing the environment will never be the same. When Katrina, the Little Witch musical by the brilliant Javitch-Conant duo will leave a smile on your of Wichita, arrives without her assigned ingredient, Eastwitch and face and love in your heart with the sheerly original 16-song suite that Westwitch, the Keepers of the Cauldron, trick her into venturing into includes the timelessly titillating "Kissing in Multiples." A romantic the Enchanted Forest in order to gather her forgotten ingredients. On comedy with big 1950's song and dance numbers. her journey, Katrina encounters Armando (an endangered Majorcan Mambo Mouse), the Peek-a-Boo Tree (who preserves and renews the Production grants available for this musical. Call 1-888-473-8521 cycle of life), and the Very Old Man, who is as wise as he is old. for more information. Katrina returns to the Halloween Happening with a new understanding and respect for endangered species, the environment and herself, as well as new ingredients for the brew. Katrina looks to be in a lot of hot THE MADRIGAL DINNER water, until Witch Hazel tastes the new brew and wisely proclaims BY: KEVIN KELLEHER Katrina the Keeper of the Cauldron in appreciation for her new recipe MS HS • 9 either, 9 total, 8 extras, gender flexible • 35 minutes • Comedy, and the lessons she's learned and shared. A memorable musical Farce • Script: $7.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Piano Score: $30.00 experience with audio clips available online at brookpub.com. (photocopying allowed for production) • Royalty: $60.00 per performance Join the royal court of Queen Isabelle CMXLII for a night of frolic and THE LOVE NOTE fancy you won't soon forget! A host of wacky characters spreads the BY:* GAIL PHANEUF fun around thickly as your audience, playing the part of esteemed Renaissance dinner guests, experience non-stop mirth and music in ALL • 8 females, 3 males, 5 either, 16 total, this laugh-out-loud comedy for all ages. Sight gags, slapstick, and 0-45 extras, gender flexible • 85 minutes • Comedy • Script Perusal: $7.50 (For reading mind-wrenching word humor will have you choking on your Boar's only. No Performance Rights conveyed.) • Head. Notebook Script: $16.75 • Digital Musical Pack: $370.00 (Includes: Scripts, Scores, This incredibly versatile show includes original songs as well as CD's, Artwork, Curriculum, and Audition arrangements of standards written for keyboard and/or brass quartet. It Material) • Royalty: $370.00 per performance is also written for SATB with many opportunities for soloists, and every The Love Note ran Off-Broadway at the part in the show can be played either male or female, giving you Actors Temple Theater in New York, NY in unprecedented casting flexibility! September of 2014. MY SON THE ROCK - MUSICAL The Love Note is the tale of Jessie's arrival BY: MARTIN FOLLOSE, CAROL HALL STAGE | MUSICALS at a new and outlandish school where there is a colorful and zany cast MS HS • 18 females, 7 males, 25 total • 90 minutes • Comedy • Script: of characters. The ruthless bullies rule the cafeteria, the unique $8.50 • Vocal/Choral Score: $20.00 (photocopying allowed for production) bookworms stick together behind their books, and the watchful Lunch • Piano Score: $20.00 • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $30.00 (audio Lady wields a mean soup ladle. Meanwhile there is a cute boy named clips available online) • Royalty: $90.00 per performance Peter who looks Jessie's way during math class. Jessie sits alone in her new school cafeteria, but gains some comfort from the tiny pink Once upon a medieval time there lived a chivalrous king and his weak- love note that her mother packs into her lunch bag. As soon as the kneed son, Prince Plucky, in a most contemporaneous castle: they head bully Brittany steals her love note and bites into her tasty discuss women's rights, unemployment, and counting calories right sandwich, Jessie knows she is in trouble. In the musical The Love along with treason, dungeons, and sword-fighting. King Norom is Note, Jessie and her lively friend, Airy, invent a spicy strategy to turning 60 and would like to bequeath the kingdom to his son, but he is overcome the lunchroom bullies who pilfer her lunch and laugh at her worried about Plucky’s leadership qualities. In addition, the witch and precious love note. Bolstered by her ever-growing hunger, and cheeky Mr. Steelson, a close and trusted adviser, are plotting to overthrow the advice from Airy, Jessie decides to take "Hot Lunch" preparation into king and take over the country. The evil duo kidnaps the prince and her own hands. locks him in the dungeon with Princess Alaina. Luckily, Plucky and Alaina break out of the dungeon, fall in love, foil the evil plot, and live happily ever after in a kingdom near you.
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PATTY'S AESOP ADVENTURE THE RELUCTANT DRAGON BY: BRIAN C. BILLINGS, JULIANNA WRIGHT BY: MARK BARON, GARY COHEN MS HS • 2 females, 4 males, 4 either, 10 total, 4-10 extras, gender ALL • 5 females, 4 males, 9 total, 0-20 extras • flexible • 60 minutes • Educational, Fantasy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • 90 minutes • Fantasy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/Choral Score: $20.00 (photocopying Notebook Script: $16.75 • Vocal/Choral Score: allowed for production) • Piano Score: $30.00 • Production CD: $30.00 • $20.00 (photocopying allowed) • Piano Score: Rehearsal CD: $30.00 (audio clips available online) • Production/ $30.00 • Production CD: $30.00 • Rehearsal Rehearsal CD Combo: $50.00 • Royalty: $90.00 per performance CD: $30.00 • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $50.00 • Royalty: $90.00 per Rediscover Aesop's classic tales with a musical trip to market. Patty performance the Milkmaid bumps into some of Aesop's most famous animals, including the racing tortoise, the country mouse, the city mouse, and a Set in the medieval fairytale village of Tea ‘N’ group of dancing monkeys. She blames the animals for spilling all of Crumpet, The Reluctant Dragon tells the tale her milk, but eventually realizes that the only person truly at fault was of a young man, Joey Bisfick, whose love for herself. The monkeys celebrate her epiphany with a rousing bout of dragons and inquisitive nature force him to venture off in search of a "Monkey Bop" shenanigans and then retreat to Patty's house for an dragon that has reportedly been terrorizing the countryside, much to afternoon snack. the chagrin of his worrying parents. What he finds instead is a sweet old dragon (named Dennis D. Dragon) and three baby all-singing, all- dancing dragonettes, who he quickly befriends. Things seem idyllic PIRATE ISLAND-THE MUSICAL until the Mayoress of the village hires a dragon-slaying knight to hunt BY: MARTIN FOLLOSE, CAROL HALL down Dennis – then it’s up to Joey to secure a "happy ending." This MS HS • 6 females, 9 males, 15 total • 90 family musical is loosely adapted from the children's book, The minutes • Comedy • Script: $8.50 • Vocal/ Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame. With show-stopping numbers Choral Score: $20.00 (photocopying allowed and tongue-in-cheek lyrics and dialogue, this show is campy fun for the for production) • Piano Score: $20.00 • entire family, carrying a message of tolerance and friendship. Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $30.00 • Royalty: $90.00 per performance Vocal/Choral Score: Photocopying allowed VIRGIL'S WEDDING - THE MUSICAL for production. BY: ALLEN KOEPKE, EDDIE MCPHERSON ALL • 12 females, 8 males, 20 total • 90 Captain Peach and his not-so-merry band of minutes • Comedy • Script: $8.50 • Notebook pirates are roaming a deserted island in Script: $16.75 • Vocal/Choral Score: $20.00 (photocopying allowed for production) • Piano search of Bluebeard’s treasure. Barbara and Score: $30.00 • Production CD: $30.00 • her not-so-eager castaways get stranded on Rehearsal CD: $30.00 • Production/Rehearsal this same island with little except two CD Combo: $50.00 • Royalty: $90.00 per cameras, 37 rolls of film, a mirror, 30 cents, gum, and Barbara’s trunk. performance With jewels in their eyes, the pirates think Barbara’s trunk is the lost You're invited to the social clash of the treasure, but before they can steal the chest, two natives dance off
century as Ms. Delanie, a high-end wedding STAGE | MUSICALS with it and the chase is on. The pirates are after the natives, the planner, is hired to direct a simple ceremony natives are after the castaways, the castaways are after the natives, for two of Lickskillit's favorite lovebirds. The and this not-so-deserted island is a treasure trove of fun. Audio clips mayhem begins the moment the bride thinks she's promised her love available online. to the wrong man and doesn't stop until the nuptials are exchanged. Your toes will tap and your funny bone will collapse when Virgil and his RACHEL AND RUTHIE friends take the stage. BY: KAREN SOKOLOF JAVITCH ALL • 3 females, 3 total, 1-2 extras, doubling possible, gender flexible • 20 A WOLF'S TALE minutes • Comedy, Drama • Script: $5.50 • Piano Score: $10.00 (includes BY: CHRIS PERKINS vocal lines) • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $15.00 • Royalty: $30.00 per performance MS HS • 2 females, 2 males, 3-10 either, 7-14 total, doubling possible, gender flexible • 70 minutes • Comedy, Classics • Script: $8.50 • Do family bonds transcend time? Is there a special connection that Notebook Script: $16.75 • Piano Score: $40.00 (Includes Vocal Score bridges generations? Rachel and Ruthie answer these questions as with rights to photocopy for cast) • Production CD: $30.00 • Rehearsal they reveal the powerful and touching nature of the relationship CD: $30.00 • Production/Rehearsal CD Combo: $50.00 • Royalty: $90.00 between granddaughter and grandmother. An unexpected per performance juxtaposition in time conveys a story that is heart-warming yet funny As we all do, Bob Wolf dreams of being accepted. After being and surreal yet grounded. This short musical is easily produced with stereotyped in so many fairy tales, Bob begins a journey of self- one set, two characters, and a very memorable song. discovery and truth. He meets up with Troll, who has also been stereotyped but accepts his new identity without question. Together, Production grants available for this musical. Call 1-888-473-8521 they revisit a few of your favorite fairy tales, showing what really for more information. happened and how Bob is not really the bad guy everyone says he is - he's just always been at the wrong place at the wrong time. Bob, Troll, and their friends show that sometimes we're good at heart - just misunderstood. Interactive and fun, this musical is sure to please audiences of all ages.
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(UN)COMFORTABLE SILENCE A.C.C. THE ALLEGORY OF THE CATS BY: DJ SANDERS BY: LAUREN DENSON BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty per performance (Performance royalty waived ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 waived for forensics competition) for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) A lull in a conversation can be comfortable When Gina calls A.C.C. (Automated between friends but awkward with a stranger. Counseling Connection) she meets A student is tutored by his professor, who When two people are uncertain of what AC-7394-11, her personal robot counselor. seeks to impart the truth. Problem is, with this occurred before the silence, motivations Gina quickly realizes that machines have professor, the truth is an elusive commodity. become confused. A humorous test may help needs, too - diabolical, human-enslaving classify the silence, but will they both be needs. From failed relationships to equality in ALMOST comfortable when the conversation stops? the workplace to saving the human race, this BY: KRISTA DALBY This absurd comedy takes the need to read is one phone call Gina wishes she had never the morning paper and the desire for friendly made. 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy, Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a conversation to new heights. Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - ABANDONED must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: 1-800 BY: LAURIE ALLEN $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) BY: JOSEPH SORRENTINO 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 1 male, 1 either, 2 total, gender flexible • (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy She's a secretary with a hunky new boss. Comedy, Forensics, Speech and Debate • for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at He's a young executive with an overly Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per attentive secretary. Almost is the hilarious and Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - performance (Performance royalty waived for heartbreaking story of an office romance that must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: forensics competition) is on the verge of blossoming when fate $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Jill thought her mother died when she was intervenes. waived for forensics competition) five years old. Now, years later, she discovers A simple phone call to an automated banking that her mother is alive but has never tried to ALMOST PERFECT CHERRY PIE system turns into a humorous battle of wits make contact. Will she meet the mother that BY: CHERYL D. DUFFIN between a computer-generated voice and a rejected her? What will she say after all these frustrated customer, leaving us to wonder if years? 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script computers have already taken over the world. Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be The phone voice may be played by a man or ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 a woman. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO BY: JONATHAN MAYER per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) 2 either, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 AIRLINE CALAMITY (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy The perfect girl and a shiny spring day...what BY:* JOANNA DELL for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at more could a boy want? How about the whole 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per enchilada? $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 performance (Performance royalty waived for (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be forensics competition) ALOPACIA PLOT ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 In this new take on Abbott and Costello’s per performance (Performance royalty waived BY: JULES TASCA famous skit, two teenage performers try, for forensics competition) rather unsuccessfully, to rehearse a scene for 2 males, 2 total • Dark Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 “Come fly the friendly skies with us.” That’s a their drama class. What they succeed in (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be popular airline slogan, but with all the new performing is a hilarious scene full of wit and ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 security procedures, cancelled flights, and comedic miscommunication. per performance (Performance royalty waived outrageous airfares, just how friendly are the for forensics competition) skies these days? Exhausted and stressed to a breaking point even before she boards a ALIEN BABY Outlandish but hilarious; you'll be sucked into plane, Katie just wants to get some sleep, but BY: KELLY MEADOWS a world where bald-headed men have bonded that’s not what happens as she encounters 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: together and plan to take over the world. Is one zany character after another on a crazy $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Frank delusional, or has he discovered their COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS misadventure she won’t soon forget. (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be plot on the eve of the revolution? Nothing is ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 quite what it seems in this desperate attempt per performance (Performance royalty waived to prevent the world from being taken by...the for forensics competition) Alopacia Plot. Laura's fascination with murder mysteries and alien children are scaring the library clerk, who's always ready to make snap judgments about her patrons or give away the ending of a mystery novel.
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ANGEL KISSES IN LEFT FIELD ASSAULT TOAST BAGEL BOYS BY: CLAUDIA HAAS BY: BRADLEY WALTON BY: JERRY RABUSHKA 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per per performance (Performance royalty waived $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty performance (Performance royalty waived for for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) forensics competition) A chance meeting in the bleachers high Cary is working on the toaster. But it's not "When Dad gave us the store, I knew I was above left field has profound effects on two broken. See, Cary is improving it. Modifying it. set for life!" Hal loves his Bagel Barn, but his people. Humanity happens in unexpected For home defense. He intends to protect his brother, Brent, would rather be playing the ways. family's safety and belongings with toast. But drums. Under the guise of a TV documentary, not just any toast. Assault toast. All he has to the camera looks in on the brothers' loony ANGEL TRACKS do is get the darned thing to work and relationship. convince his sister that he's not crazy. BY: PAT MORGAN 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 BAAAAAGELS (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy AU REVOIR, NOIR BY: KRYSTLE HENNINGER for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at BY: MARK BELLUSCI 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per 2 males, 2 total • Comedy, Mystery • Script Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: performance (Performance royalty waived for Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 forensics competition) $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be If everything goes as scheduled, Myra will be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived the first woman executed in her state. A per performance (Performance royalty waived for competition) for forensics competition) guardian angel appears in her cell during the final hour before execution. A stirring and It's the end of an era. Technology and modern Good customer service is apparently challenging script. lifestyles are emasculating potential heroes. extremely hard to find in a local town's bagel But one gristled gumshoe refuses to accept shop. The cashier speaks in what almost seems like a different language, but is really ANTHEM FOR A GENERATION the end of his way of life, and plans to save it —one geek at a time. It's a case of old school just an awful accent making it impossible to BY: CAROLYN WEST vs. techno babble in this who-done-what figure out exactly where this character is from. 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 comedic mystery. Will the customer get their bagel or just a (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy morning of frustration? for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per AUTOGRAPH performance (Performance royalty waived for BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER THE BATTLE OF BROWN AND forensics competition) 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: WHITMORE BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER Lee and Gil are the perfect $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS songwriters...without the perfect song. The (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, laughs fly as both attempt to create the next ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Classics • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 best-selling American music masterpiece. per performance (Performance royalty waived scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ for forensics competition) Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Want my autograph? Please? A woman is purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance ANTI-DEPRESSANTS (Performance royalty waived for forensics approached by an autograph seeker who BY: JEFF WEISMAN competition) turns out to be a star herself—or is she just a 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy, Drama, nut trying to avenge childhood wrongs? A The fight is on! Two actors of this generation Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: fast-paced comedy with more than a few face off in a duel to determine who is the $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 surprises. greatest. Their chosen form of battle? (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Tragedy at five paces. Stand back as they ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 out-act each other, finally resorting to the per performance (Performance royalty waived BARBIE AND KEN for forensics competition) deaths of Tybalt, Mercutio, and Othello in fully BY: SANDRA DEMPSEY realized, one-person scenes. A depressed college student and a happy-go- 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy, Parody • lucky clothing store clerk share their half- Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a empty, or half-full, points of view in the waiting Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - CONFLAGRATION room of a therapist's office. must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: BY: J.J. JONAS $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 Performed as part of the University of Iowa's waived for forensics competition) (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy 2008 Ten Minute Play Festival. The world's cutest anatomically incorrect for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at couple are proud parents! But wait - time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for something is amiss in parental paradise! forensics competition) Barbie's back from the delivery room, and Ken's in for the shock of his plastic life! Julia reveals that she accidentally burned down her family home when she was a youth, a secret she has kept for over 30 years.
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THE BEGINNING OF THE END THE BIG BAD WOLF GETS BODY ODOR: THE PROACTIVE OF SHAKESPEARE BUSTED! PEOPLE REPELLENT BY: CLAUDIA HAAS BY: BOBBY KENISTON BY: BRADLEY WALTON 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Fairy Tales, Classics, 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, Classics • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 (Performance royalty waived for forensics per performance (Performance royalty waived per performance (Performance royalty waived competition) for forensics competition) for forensics competition) Two teachers receive a grant to do When the Big Bad Wolf spies innocent Little What do you do when you notice somebody Shakespeare in their middle school. But can Red Riding Hood on her way to her smells bad? Do you risk mentioning it to them they? Shakespeare is being banned! grandmother's house, he gets a whole lot so they can freshen up and save themselves more than he bargained for! After being some embarrassment? But what happens if BERNOULLI EFFECT mistaken for a genetically mutated squirrel, they take offense? Or worse, what happens if the Wolf can't seem to strike any fear into the they tell you…they’re doing it on purpose? BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE heart of our heroine. Does Red have some 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script secrets of her own? Who's afraid of the big, Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: bad wolf? Find out in this delightful ten minute THE BOOKSTORE $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be fractured fairy tale! BY: JOSEPH SORRENTINO ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 per performance (Performance royalty waived (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for forensics competition) BLACK MARKET ARTS for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at When fast-track executive Davis' wife Nikki BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per trades her sports car in for a bicycle and puts 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • performance (Performance royalty waived for the house up for sale, a horrified Davis Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a forensics competition) realizes he's been sucked into the strange Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Frank is stopping by the bookstore to pick up world of...the Bernoulli Effect. must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: the screen-play he ordered. It should be an $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty easy task, except that Harry, the store owner, waived for forensics competition) THE BEST ESCAPE is involved. Nothing is ever easy when he’s Do you like art films? Gourmet coffee? High involved. What Frank doesn’t know is that BY: CAROLYN WEST cholesterol foods? Oh, that's gonna cost you! Harry has never allowed anything to be taken 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: In this insane comedy, you've got to buy all from his store. It’s a battle of wits and wills as $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 those things on the black market. But watch Frank desperately tries to get his screenplay. (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be out—agents are everywhere, waiting to set up ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 There are five Frankenharry plays, and per performance (Performance royalty waived a black market arts sting. And beware— although they’re not really linked, they do for forensics competition) everything is not as it seems. make for a fun evening of entertainment. Ever find yourself in a sticky situation with no way out? Fear leads to desperation as Abby BOXHEAD THE RUSTIC CAN YOU ANSWER MY PHONE? and Gina find themselves in more trouble than BY: CHRISTIAN KILEY THE ALIEN IS CALLING AGAIN they can handle...and only a great idea can 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script BY: KRYSTLE HENNINGER save them. 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BOTTLE OF COLA BREAKING TRADITION BY THE SEA BY: BRADLEY WALTON BY: EDAN SCHAPPERT BY: JERRY RABUSHKA 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: per performance (Performance royalty waived per performance (Performance royalty waived $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty for forensics competition) for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) Two people argue over a simple bottle of cola. A gorgeous female perfectionist meets an Will these two ever agree on anything? Two However, as their argument spills over into uncouth grease ball who falls in love with her. storytellers embark on a simple tale of a the complexities of life, culture, government, The more she backs away from his unctuous woman who "lived by the sea" but can't get and the world, it becomes evident that simple oiliness, the more he tries to curl up around through it without driving each other crazy! things are only as simple as we allow them to her. When she makes a break for it and falls Their loss is our gain, as wordplay and seem. into the arms of a nearby handsome misinterpretation bring one laugh after stranger...another unappetizing shock awaits! another. The next time someone says, "Tell BOTTLED UP Why is it so difficult to find a perfect mate? A me a story," you'll make sure it's set on dry fast-paced parody showcasing actors' land! 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This forensics competition) genie would love to grant him three wishes, Devoid of a real father and abandoned by his Chris bites off more than he can chew when but that becomes difficult when he realizes mother, David was raised by his older brother, he offers to help a technophobe with a that he has no clue what he wants. Leon. When Leon leaves David to find work computer project. Techie wizard vs. computer abroad, the little brother – now in his twenties illiterate, and only one will emerge victorious! THE BOY BOOK – is heartbroken. Fifty years later, after not having seen Leon since they said goodbye, BY: JOHN C. HAVENS C. GREEK David is haunted by thoughts of his brother BY: DJ SANDERS 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: and the choices that kept them apart. A $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 brotherly duo about love, heartbreak, and 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a missed opportunities. COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - per performance (Performance royalty waived must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: for forensics competition) BROOM CLOSET $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for competition) Sue and Julie have discovered a mystical QUARANTINE* book that reveals all of men's secrets. From BY: CHRISTIAN KILEY A student arrives for class to find that he's the how to turn them down on a date to getting 2-3 either, 2-3 total, doubling possible, gender only one enrolled—and the professor seems them to notice you, this book is a miraculous flexible • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 more than a little bit off. He's teaching C. find. (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy Greek. What the heck is C. Greek? This witty for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at comedy examines life in an all new language. time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per BREAKDOWN IN WAKEFIELD performance (Performance royalty waived for BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE forensics competition) CANDY KISSES BY: EDAN SCHAPPERT 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: When two lovable outcasts are locked in a $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 broom closet they discover an unexpected 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be friendship that leads to their "dramatic" Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - per performance (Performance royalty waived escape. 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THE CASKET AND THE A CELEBRITY SIGHTING CASSEROLE BY: JONATHAN MAYER BY: JERRY RABUSHKA 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per per performance (Performance royalty waived performance (Performance royalty waived for for forensics competition) forensics competition) This zany comedy takes fanaticism to the There's a sock swinging from the ceiling fan, extreme! Overzealous Ronnie has waited his and Auntie Ringworm's teeth are coming entire life to meet his favorite movie star/ loose. It's amazing what Wilton notices from dream girl. Lucky for him, today is the day his inside his...coffin? No wonder he's wearing a dream comes true. suit! As the preacher rambles on about "what was his name?" and impatient relatives start THE CENSORED PLAY clamoring for the after-funeral casserole, it BY: DERALD MABBITT, DAVID J. LEMASTER finally dawns on Wilton that he may never see CHEW ON THIS 2 either, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 another dawn. 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Friendship and loyalty can be a for forensics competition) anything to get it...even bring in their secret strong pull, especially for someone who hasn't ever had much of either. Tom has an Generally, people date and afterwards fight, weapon: the French Tickler! interesting idea of both...it means doing but for Bill, a very talkative fellow and Vicky, a everything he wants. Tom selfishly cajoles his rather reserved librarian, it seems to go the CHAIR WARS right-hand man into risking his job by breaking other way round. BY: JERRY RABUSHKA forbidden company rules. 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: CAUTION: LIBRARIANS AHEAD - $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 CHOCOLATE DREAMERY TEN MINUTE VERSION (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be BY: CLAUDIA HAAS BY: BRADLEY WALTON ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • for forensics competition) Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Two agitated young ladies fight over a seat in ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: the laundromat and turn it into wash, rinse, per performance (Performance royalty waived $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty and spin! 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Alas, things are not chocoholism...until a decision is made. so simple, as a taxidermist, an aspiring A CHEAP LAUGH FOR THE garbage truck driver, and a would-be sword INTERNET swallower are just some of the contenders in THE CIGARETTE BY: BRADLEY WALTON a pool of hilariously unqualified applicants. It's BY: DAVID BURTON going to be a very rough day. 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50
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COMPLAINT DEPARTMENT CONFESSIONS OF THE EIGHTH CONJURING GEORGE BY: BOBBY KENISTON DWARF: A BEHIND THE FAIRY BY: BRADLEY WALTON 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy, Forensics, TALE EXCLUSIVE! 2 either, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 BY: BOBBY KENISTON (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at 1 male, 1 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Fairy time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per Tales, Comedy, Forensics, Speech and Debate performance (Performance royalty waived for performance (Performance royalty waived for • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add forensics competition) forensics competition) a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Two ethically challenged high school students Jeffrey Butter just wants to return his cell $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty find themselves in possession of their phone. Unfortunately, the Returns waived for forensics competition) upcoming U.S. History exam. Now that they Department at this store is run by a very Welcome to “Behind the Fairy Tale” with your know the questions, how do they get the bizarre young woman named Helen, who host, Whip Whizzle! Tonight's special guest is answers? Since neither wants to study, they insists on calling it the Complaint Department. none other than the unknown, exiled Eighth opt to summon the spirit of George Mild-mannered Jeffrey just wants to return the Dwarf, known as Conspiracy. According to Washington, instead. Of course, such affairs phone and be done with it, but Helen has Conspiracy Dwarf, the story of Snow White is are a tricky business. If somebody’s not other plans, mainly to goad Jeffrey into not the sweet, kindhearted heroine we all careful, they could get possessed by the spirit complaining by any means necessary. This know and love, but, rather, a conniving former of a cave man or something... ten minute duet sets out to hilariously actress, playing sides in a battle for diamond examine if complaining is actually good for the mine rights between the Evil Queen, Prince soul! COUNTING RITA Charming, and the Dwarfs themselves! Is BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE Conspiracy telling the truth, or is he just a 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: clean-shaven, paranoid dwarf? Is Snow White COMPUTER BUGGED $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 BY: D.B. BRAXTON really the conniving, treacherous villain he (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be claims she is? And where does the Magic 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Mirror fit into all of this? The truth comes out per performance (Performance royalty waived $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be in this hilarious ten-minute fractured fairy tale! for forensics competition) ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 How many lies will Rita tell before she admits per performance (Performance royalty waived the truth? A hilarious take on betrayal. for forensics competition) CONFIRMED SIGHTING BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE Be a doctor…a jet pilot…or a supermodel! 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: Who cares if your pot belly hides your COWEYE: THE HERO ARCHER $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 WITH A DIFFERENCE kneecaps and you haven’t had your own teeth (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be since ‘91. You can be the ultimate babe ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 BY: BRADLEY WALTON magnet…in a computer chat room. per performance (Performance royalty waived 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, for forensics competition) Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack:
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CRISIS: MY BROTHER'S CYRANO DE WALKER AND THE DAY I FOUND OUT I'D UGLY* SHIRT FRIEND BEEN MISPRONOUNCING MY BY: BRADLEY WALTON BY: RONALD K. BURKE STAGE MANAGER'S NAME FOR 1 male, 1 either, 2 total, gender flexible • 2 males, 2 total • Comedy, Classics • Script THE LAST THREE YEARS Comedy, Forensics, Speech and Debate, Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: BY: BRADLEY WALTON Scenes & Monologues • Script Pack: $14.50 $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at per performance (Performance royalty waived Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per for forensics competition) $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be performance (Performance royalty waived for ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 forensics competition) This comedy is a take-off on a scene in per performance (Performance royalty waived Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand, in for forensics competition) Once upon a time, Charlie was given a shirt which Cyrano belittles another actor for his Mr. Bradford is a playwright, high school so ugly that no one would ever dare wear it. lack of creativity when he comments on drama director, and forensics coach. Only now, he’s decided to wear it, because Cyrano's long nose. In this play, a fast-walker Katherine Henninger is his protégé, stage the shirt is so awful that he figures people will in the park (Cyrano de Walker) stops to manager, and captain of the forensics team. pay him money to keep away from them. It’s playfully tease a stranger (Harold) who is He trusts her. He depends on her. He's going strictly a business thing. Charlie’s sister, sitting on a bench enjoying the day. There are to be lost when she graduates. He just found Dana, is horrified by the prospect of her some tense moments when Cyrano refuses to out he's been mispronouncing her name for brother wearing the shirt to school and ruining stop badgering Harold, but eventually these the last three years. her social standing. How far is she willing to two resolve their differences in a most go to avert the crisis of her brother’s ugly unusual way. shirt? DEADLY PERFECTION DADDY'S HOME BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE CRASH POSITIONS BY: ALAN HAEHNEL 2 females, 2 total • Drama, Legends and Myths BY: JONATHAN DORF • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 waived for forensics competition) ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) Diana discovers her sister's deadliest treasure for forensics competition) and greatest peril—a Pandora's box that gives When precocious preschooler Mona is the viewer the most perfect, beautiful, George and Meredith are on an airplane that refused a piggyback ride, she decides her fantastic sight imaginable...once! A second is, they think, in trouble: when you've been "sadly average father" has scarred her psyche glance means death. Can the sisters help warned to get into "crash positions," that's with his attitude. "Your sarcasm could trigger each other resist this ultimate temptation? usually not a good sign. As Meredith becomes an onset of bulimia that will hit when I'm 16." increasingly hysterical, George's efforts to When Mona threatens a session with her very calm her down create comic chemistry expensive psychologist, Daddy has to think DEAR, I JUST WANT YOU TO between these two very different passengers. quickly or suffer the consequences. KNOW...WE NAMED OUR SON AFTER AN OBSOLETE CUSTOMER SERVICE DANCIN' COMPUTER BY: JOSEPH SORRENTINO BY: PAT MORGAN BY: BRADLEY WALTON 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be performance (Performance royalty waived for per performance (Performance royalty waived ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 forensics competition) for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) Ever try to cancel a credit card? Then you’ll Once in a great while, a person from our past Paul and Sydney have just helped their know how much fun Frank will have when he suddenly shows up in the present. For youngest son move out, and Paul feels the tries to cancel his MystiCard. Harry, the Barbara, the return of Jack into her life is the time is right to make a confession…when he customer service representative, will have to worst thing that could possibly happen...or suggested the name “Adam” for their boy, he use all his powers of persuasion to talk Frank maybe the best. out of it. Not only will canceling the card make wasn’t thinking what his wife was thinking. COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS Harry look bad, it will, he says, put his After Paul fumbles through an awkward children—all nine of them—at risk. This play disclosure, Sydney hits the roof when she leaves Frank wishing he’d paid cash for his learns that she unknowingly named her son purchases. There are five Frankenharry plays, after an obsolete home computer from the and although they’re not really linked, they do 1980s. make for a fun evening of entertainment.
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DEATH AND PEZ DEATH OF A SNOWMAN DIBS! BY: BOBBY KENISTON BY: DANIEL GUYTON BY: KEN PREUSS 1 male, 1 either, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama, Forensics, 2 females, 2 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of per performance (Performance royalty waived time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance for forensics competition) performance (Performance royalty waived for (Performance royalty waived for forensics forensics competition) competition) Reggie, the owner of a wonderful Pez dispenser collection, has worked hard all A young girl and her snowman discuss the Intellectual Addie is tutoring her best friend, throughout high school, sacrificing a great afterlife in this existential winter drama. Becky, in the library when a cute boy catches deal of fun to be the perfect student. His life is their eye. A battle of wits, wills, and all mapped out in his mind. And now, all of a "I felt as if my face were leaking, I cried so wisecracks ensues as they banter about fate sudden, the Grim Reaper (or “Necessary much during this piece, but I just let the tears and friendship, compatibility and the Cosmos, Reaper," as he likes to be called) knocks on fall and wiped them away as needed...Death and the DO’S and DON’TS of declaring dibs. his bedroom door! The two of them chat, joke, of a Snowman is probably my favorite..." - and get to know one another, as Reggie Hope Baugh, Indy Theatre Habit DISCONNECT desperately tries to think of a bargaining tool BY: JOHN C. HAVENS to save his life. Could Pez be the answer? DEN OF INIQUITY This ten-minute duet delves into some serious 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a topics, while delivering plenty of laughs. 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: DECISIONS $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) BY: LAUREN DENSON ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived A customer and clerk banter in a shop about 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script for forensics competition) Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: the location of deodorant, only to find that $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Gerald sneaks off from his wife and kids to a they have difficulty communicating. A hilarious ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 shady part of town where he meets Thalia, study of specificity and etiquette ensue while per performance (Performance royalty waived who, for the right price, will satisfy his needs their friendship blossoms. Everything you say for forensics competition) —his creative needs. She runs an illicit studio can and will be twisted as these eccentric After facing a difficult decision at work, David where people go to try that most addictive of characters collide. has lost the ability to make any decision at all. habits—writing. Gerald scrambles to hide his Now Linda, his wife, believes he may be desires when his wife, Maggie, comes DITZIES losing his mind...and she may not be far pounding on the door. A tremendously fun BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI behind. take on the writing life. 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS DEMON CHILD DOG DAY MORNING (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI BY: CLAUDIA HAAS ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: for forensics competition) $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Trixy takes Roxy out driving to prepare for her ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be road test. After a near-accident, the two per performance (Performance royalty waived ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ditzies are left stranded in the woods to face a per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) series of hilarious mishaps. for forensics competition) Little Eddie outwits babysitters Heidi and As Scout, the good-natured, fun-loving dog Lorna during a game of "Good Guy - Bad DESERT ISLAND DISCS Guy" and leaves them tied up. In the style of waits in anguish for the two-legged creatures BY: MATT BUCHANAN Lucy and Ethel, the girls plot their escape. to return home, Socks, the diabolical cat, plans an escape. 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy DUD WARS for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at BY: KEN BRADBURY DEVIOUS DATING time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per BY: DAVID BURTON performance (Performance royalty waived for 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: forensics competition) $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 If you were marooned on a desert island...if ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be there actually is an island in the desert...what, per performance (Performance royalty waived ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 or whom, would you want with you and what per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) would be your number one priority? After two for forensics competition) Sibling rivalry loses perspective as a war guys wreck their boat and end up on an breaks out over clothes, personal A frightening duet about a first date that island, many pertinent questions are possessions, and sisterhood in general. The refuses to say goodnight and leave. This is a answered before they are rescued. weapons of this war...milk duds! dramatic look at the world of dating and its potential pitfalls.
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DON'T NEEDLE ME DUELING PHOBIAS THE ELEVATOR BY: STEVEN VERRIER BY: BRENDA COHEN, JONATHAN MAYER BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 performance (Performance royalty waived for performance (Performance royalty waived for per performance (Performance royalty waived forensics competition) forensics competition) for forensics competition) Bren is in line to give blood for the first time, Edward is a germophobic. Tom is Two people in an elevator learn the and Nat certainly isn't any help. Watch as Nat claustrophobic. When the two meet in the consequences and rewards of acting on plays on Bren's fears, only to have the tables waiting room of the doctor’s office, they try to impulse. turned as the needle draws near. Not for the cure each other with some very faint of heart! unconventional methods. But can their THE ELEVENTH MINUTE phobias be cured? The war of the phobias is BY: MARIKA BARNETT on! THE DRAFT BOARD 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, BY: GEFF MOYER Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: THE DUET SHOW $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • per performance (Performance royalty waived ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - for forensics competition) must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: The greatest ten-minute play in the history of The time is March 24, 1958, and two young, $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty the universe! The only problem . . . it’s one waived for forensics competition) naive Tennessee farm girls have fibbed to minute too long. their parents about spending the night with Want to win a competition? Here's how—an each other in order to camp out in a park award-winning duet-acting team teaches the The Eleventh Minute won the 2006 Audience across the street from the Memphis draft do's, the don'ts, the how-to, and the how-not- Choice Award at the Playwrights' Platform board on the morning Elvis is being inducted to of duet competition. Ideal for forensics, 34th Annual Festival of New Plays. into the Army. Suffering the unusual smells of fundraisers, or fun in the classroom. the big city, not bringing enough food, and THE END OF SANDCASTLES being illegally camped out in a public park in a DUMPING GROUND BY:* CLAUDIA HAAS "not-so-nice section of town," creates an BY: KELLY MEADOWS anxiety neither of these girls have ever 2 females, 2 total • Drama, Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 experienced. While they await the arrival of 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ their teen idol, they discover things about Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of each other that not only surprise them, but ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance could also alter their lifelong friendship. per performance (Performance royalty waived (Performance royalty waived for forensics for forensics competition) competition) THE DRUG PROBLEM Back up your dump truck to the landfill as four Two best-friends-forever are growing up and BY: MONICA BAUER relationships hit the trash heap in the span of in different directions. Alexa thinks she’s 2 females, 2 total • Drama, Comedy • Script 10 hilarious minutes. Lisa dumps Carlos on ready for a more “grown-up” life. Maddie Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: the grounds that he's wonderful, handsome wants to hold on to her childhood a little $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be and fascinating! Carlos doubts her reasoning longer. ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 —she's obviously lying, so he should be per performance (Performance royalty waived dumping her! As he questions her technique, for forensics competition) EXTERMINATING FEAR they explore three other couples who "ended BY: JONATHAN MAYER In this madcap comedy, two women meet at a it" all wrong. Offers many voices and a variety 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script park bench. Money changes hands. Then of accents. Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: comes a bag of pills... Will the undercover cop $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be from the Thin Squad bust the slender, stylish EE-GADS AND LITTLE FISHES ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 woman dealing Thinnies? Or will the Dealer per performance (Performance royalty waived BY: DAVID BURTON discover the identity of this new courier and for forensics competition) send her to be Stuffed? 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Michelle finds David standing atop a chair and Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - cowering in fear of a dead cockroach. must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Together, they work toward conquering $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty David's phobia. But can it be conquered? And waived for forensics competition) with words alone? Exterminating Fear is a Time to break out that new rod and reel. This comedic dissection of all fears and puts to the piece turns it all around and steps into the test the axiom, "The only thing we have to little-known world of the "eatin' sized fish" and fear is fear itself." the temptation of "meals on hooks." 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AN END TO NUCYALER END OF THE MOVIE FAIRY GODFATHER PROLIFERATION BY: BOBBY KENISTON BY: CLAUDIA HAAS BY: JERRY RABUSHKA 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama, Comedy • 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy, Parody, 2 males, 2 total • Comedy, Parody • Script Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Fairy Tales • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance per performance (Performance royalty waived waived for forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) for forensics competition) Derek has had enough. At 17 years old, he Is this a summit meeting or a teenage cat- has suffered heartbreak, the loss of a parent, At a hard time in her life, Aurora meets up fight?! Two world leaders meet to discuss bullying at school, and a thousand other with her fairy godfather. Unfortunately, he is nuclear weapons, but who's to know if they're natural shocks of life, so he has decided to go not interested in granting her any wishes. He mortal enemies or the best of friends? The to the old railroad trestle in his town and jump has problems of his own. He is becoming President of the United States amuses a off into the Great Unknown. That's when he human. foreign prime minister by talking like a meets Kelly, an Angel-in-training, who has teenager and butchering the English been sent to keep him from taking that final FALLEN PRINCESS language, while his bitter adversary admits his leap. Kelly means well, and is (mostly) BY: MARLA SCHWARTZ secret love for American pop culture! At the pleasant, but VERY new at her job, and her same time, they're threatening to blow each methods are best described as unorthodox. 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 This comedy-drama is a perfect piece for other off the face of the planet. At the end of (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be the day, will bombs fly or will they just get forensics competitions or an evening of short ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 tickets to Mamma Mia? A hilarious satire plays! per performance (Performance royalty waived that'll keep 'em guessing from start to finish. for forensics competition) EXTREME EXTERMINATING In this spellbinding drama, Donna is serving EPIPHANY BY: ANN MARIE OLIVA time in an insane asylum, committed by her BY:* DAVID MACGREGOR 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: evil husband. On his return, will he set her 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy, Forensics, $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 free, or does he have ulterior motives? Speech and Debate, Scenes & Monologues • (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - per performance (Performance royalty waived A FARE RIDE must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: for forensics competition) BY: MATT THOMPSON $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Julie, who has a serious case of 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script waived for forensics competition) Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: arachnophobia, is in panic mode as she spots $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be As a long-married couple enjoy their morning a spider in her apartment late one night and ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 cups of coffee, the man reveals to his wife realizes that her regular exterminator is per performance (Performance royalty waived that he had an epiphany recently. Specifically, unavailable because it is Christmas Eve. Dell for forensics competition) he realized that there isn't a single thing in the shows up instead, and both learn something COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS A strong-willed, witty female cab driver deals world that he cares about anymore. about spiders, phobias, and life. with an inept bank robber as they find a little Concerned that he's becoming a psychopath, fun and a little romance in a unique situation. he confides his fears to his wife. Does she still care about anything? Are they both EXTREME FAKEOVER psychopaths? Or is there some other BY: JOHN C. HAVENS FICTIONAL MAN explanation? 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script BY: ANNE HUGHES Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be 2 males, 2 total • Comedy, Classics • Script EVERYTHING MEANS ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: SOMETHING ELSE per performance (Performance royalty waived $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for forensics competition) ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 BY: PHILIP VASSALLO per performance (Performance royalty waived 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: Bob Shallow and Barb Banal host America's for forensics competition) $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 popular reality show, Extreme Fakeover, As a writer struggles to begin his novel, a (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be where "ugly" viewers explain how they've fictional character leaps from the page hoping ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 altered their grotesque appearances to fit in to create a life for himself. Will he exist in the per performance (Performance royalty waived with the established norm of American for forensics competition) world of Shakespeare? As a missionary in popular society. Things go awry, however, darkest Africa? As a sexy Frenchman? As the This alternately comic and tragic duet features when a phone-in caller asks Barb and Bob to writer fights for dominance, our "fictional man" teenagers Mort and Didi, alone at the wake of take a taste of their own medicine. Offers an seeks to become real! their father, a renowned linguist but negligent opportunity to play multiple characters. parent. In trying to assess their father's professional achievement, brother and sister, masters of language in their own right, show that they have inherited their father's gift of communication—and realize they share his sense of isolation.
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FIGHTING WITH MOM FIVE MINUTES OF FAME FLYING THE FRIENDLY SKIES BY: JUDY KLASS BY: MICHAEL SOETAERT BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: 2 either, 2 total, 0-5 extras, doubling possible, 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 gender flexible • Comedy, Forensics, Speech (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per per performance (Performance royalty waived Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of performance (Performance royalty waived for for forensics competition) purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics What happens when a mother finds cigarettes competition) How would you feel if your best friend didn't in her daughter's purse? How should they tell you she was in town? Lynne and Daphne discuss smoking? What happens next? A Tonight at 10:00 p.m. Pacific, 1:00 Eastern, find out when they become seatmates on mother-daughter relationship undergoes crisis it’s the premiere of Season Two of nearly what might be a very long flight. A drama and healing in this examination of social everybody’s favorite show, “Fifteen Minutes of about frayed relationships, for anyone who's issues. Fame”! Where each week randomly chosen ever found and lost a best friend. individuals appear on the show for their Fifteen Minutes of Fame! Only this year we’ll FIRE DAMAGE have twice the contestants and twice the fun. FOOD ON A STICK BY: CAROLYN WEST So be sure to tune in to Five Minutes of BY: BRADLEY WALTON 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: Fame. 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 FOR HERE OR TO GO... ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived BY: JERRY RABUSHKA per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: for forensics competition) In this heartbreaking duet set in a cemetery, a $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 All she wanted was a Popsicle. She never man sacrifices everything for the woman he (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be intended for it to match her outfit, much less ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 loves. But where life and death are attract the attention of a guy who could per performance (Performance royalty waived concerned, some sacrifices should never be for forensics competition) conceivably be the reincarnation of a fashion- made. obsessed Neanderthal. Poor girl. She should If Cora's dating Larry, and Lisa's dating Larry, never have underestimated the power of then why is Larry studying with Becky in the food...on a stick. FIREFLIES library? The bigger mystery is what's in those BY: PAT MORGAN burgers Lisa is serving at her job as a fast 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: food clerk. Do they really ship the meat in a FLIGHT $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 box marked hazardous? As a prisoner of BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be protocol, Lisa can only talk in catch phrases. 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 "For here or to go?" "Would you like a dessert (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy per performance (Performance royalty waived for 99 cents?" This over-the-edge comedy is for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at for forensics competition) guaranteed to make you long for fine dining. time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per When family problems erupt, it's best to let performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) cooler heads prevail. Jim Bottoms, a hothead, discovers a shocking secret. FLOWERS FROM OUR FATHER Sarah leads an odd existence – she sleeps at BY: CARL L. WILLIAMS home, goes to work, and spends every other 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 FIRST DRAFT moment at the airport. Tired of the cares and (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy concerns of the world, she seeks refuge in BY: JOSEPH SORRENTINO for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at this odd cocoon, but her overachieving, highly time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per 2 males, 2 total • Comedy, Dark Comedy, strung big sister, Deedee, can't understand performance (Performance royalty waived for Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: and is determined to drag Sarah back to $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 forensics competition) "normal" life. (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Two sisters clash following the memorial ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 service for their father. The younger sister's per performance (Performance royalty waived FORENSICS MARRIAGE for forensics competition) love for their father makes her resent the emotional remoteness of the estranged older BY: KATHLEEN NELSON Harry is an aspiring playwright and Frank is sister. In the aftermath of their loss, they 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script the main character in his play and in his head. struggle to overcome the breakdown in their Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS As usual, Harry’s having trouble getting his relationship and reach a measure of $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be play written; in fact, he’s having trouble reconciliation. ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 getting it started. When Frank finally gets fed- per performance (Performance royalty waived up with Harry’s procrastination, he steps out for forensics competition) of Harry’s head and into Harry’s life, with Two students are performing a duo for a unsettling results. Forensics Speech Tournament in which their characters get married. Upon consulting the Rule Book, the two students realize they actually are married.
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FOR OLD TIME'S SAKE THE FORGOTTEN ONE GIGOLO IN THE BASEMENT BY:* DAVID MACGREGOR BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: 2 males, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived performance (Performance royalty waived for per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) forensics competition) for forensics competition) A man finishes packing up his belongings as Death comes knocking at everyone's door Having discovered that Colleen's boyfriend is he prepares to move out of the home he has sooner or later. Or does he? Death has also dating the new girl in school, the two shared with his wife for twelve years and to seemingly forgotten what could be the world's young ladies trap, confront, and lock the move into an apartment with his younger oldest living man in this dramatic portrayal of culprit in his own basement. The next step is girlfriend. His wife looks on, trying to figure out endless aging. to decide on the best punishment. how this happened. She would like him to be a monster, but she can’t quite convince FOSTER'S HAT THE GIRL WHO LOVED THE herself that he is. And he would like to blame BY: CARL L. WILLIAMS her, but he can’t quite convince himself that MOON it’s her fault. 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: BY: ANN MARIE OLIVA $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy A FORGETFUL REMEMBRANCE ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at BY: BOBBY KENISTON per performance (Performance royalty waived time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per for forensics competition) performance (Performance royalty waived for 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: forensics competition) $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 A man inherits a hat from a mentally (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be challenged friend. Home from the funeral, the Starla, a freshman in college, has stopped ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 man indulges in a bittersweet reminiscence of attending her classes. Her advisor, Jeri, is per performance (Performance royalty waived what made the friend so very special, while concerned that she will lose her scholarship, for forensics competition) his wife tries to brighten his mood. but that concern dramatically increases when Colin and Mya, an elderly married couple, sit Starla begins piecing together a memory that on a park bench reminiscing about their life FRENCH CAFE could shatter her fragile mind. together. While Colin seems forgetful on a few BY: DAVID BURTON subjects, there is never any doubt of his devotion to his wife. Yet it is up to Mya to 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script A GLORIOUS DAY gently steer her husband into the most Pack: $14.50 (Include 2 scripts) • Add a Script: BY: JOSEPH SORRENTINO $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be important memory of all, the one he has 2 males, 2 total • Comedy, Dark Comedy, ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: chosen to forget. This ten-minute play is per performance (Performance royalty waived about the depth of feeling between a husband $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 for forensics competition) (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS and wife, and is a sad, sweet tale about what ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 it means to accept a great loss. A snobby French restaurant is not the place for a simple country girl to apply for a waitress per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) job. Don't tell this to Christina, however, GHOSTS because this is one job she intends to land. This is another Frankenharry Play. Frank, an BY: BRADLEY WALTON aspiring playwright has finally written what he 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Drama • Script FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS believes is his master work and has been able Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: to get Harry, a theatrical legend in his own $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be BY: LAURIE ALLEN mind, to do a reading. While asserting that all ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: he wants to do is serve Frank and the play, per performance (Performance royalty waived $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 what Harry really wants to do is rewrite the for forensics competition) (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be whole thing and get back to the corner deli for ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Quinn and Hayley want to do something per performance (Performance royalty waived some more coffee and danish. interesting with their Halloween, so they visit for forensics competition) an allegedly haunted house. When Hayley HE'S MINE chickens out, Quinn ventures inside alone and Verna is making her funeral arrangements. BY: ASHLEY WALLACE encounters the ghost of a little girl reliving the The bad news for her family...she's making events that led to her death. When the little their funeral arrangements as well. If you're 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: girl vanishes, Quinn is confronted by the on her bad side, the hereafter may not be so $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 pleasant! (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ghost of the child's mother, and tries to help ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 her come to peace with the night she failed per performance (Performance royalty waived her daughter. for forensics competition) Girls always know when a guy is interested in them... or do they? For Kara and Toni, it's the age-old feminine problem: Does he like you or does he like me? There's only one way to find out!
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GOLDILOCKS ON TRIAL GOOD ENOUGH HANGMAN BY: JERRY RABUSHKA BY: LANEY ROBERTS BY: WILLIAM BORDEN 1 female, 1 either, 2 total, gender flexible • 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 2 males, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 Comedy, Forensics, Speech and Debate, (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy Classics • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of performance (Performance royalty waived for performance (Performance royalty waived for purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance forensics competition) forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) Two very different patients, both inquiring In desperate times, the unlikeliest of alliances about plastic surgery, meet in a waiting room. form. In a brutal period of revolution, Now the three bears are more human than Both are quite determined to go under the Theodore attempts to befriend...his ever, as they’re trying to solve their problems knife. But is it really necessary for either? executioner???? with Goldilocks through litigation. This oft-told Through their conversation, both begin to fairy tale now turns into a thrilling courtroom question their reasons for surgery. drama! After all, no bear wants to come back THE HAPPY HANGMAN from a walk in the woods and find that a little BY: MICHAEL CALLAHAN girl ate his fish head soup. Should Goldilocks GRACE 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • be punished to the fullest extent of the law, or BY: CELESTE BONFANTI Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a should she be rewarded for finding a bear 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama, Forensics, Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - family that’s just as human as the rest of us? Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at waived for forensics competition) GOLF DOCTOR time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per A most unusual hangman consults with his performance (Performance royalty waived for BY: STEVEN VERRIER prisoners prior to their executions. What does forensics competition) 1 male, 1 either, 2 total, gender flexible • one say to the condemned? For this Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 On a park bench, Jeremiah, a young executioner, plenty. scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ runaway, encounters Veronica, an elderly Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of woman wrapped in a quilt of memories. As he purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance hears her story (lovingly recalled through the GROCERY SHOPPING AT THE (Performance royalty waived for forensics HARDWARE STORE competition) patches of her quilt), he finds himself drawn out of his own troubles and into her tale of BY: BRADLEY WALTON With the company golf tournament two days homelessness and family lost. 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • ahead, Jack had better improve his golfing Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a fast. He spots an ad for a free golf lesson and "Lovely, lapidary." - Paul Kolas, Worcester Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - comes running to the Golf Doctor, but is it too Telegram & Gazette (MA) must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: late? It certainly looks that way until a sudden $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty twist of fate gets Jack off the hook. waived for forensics competition) GO FISH What do you say when you work in a store BY: KRYSTLE HENNINGER GOOD COP, BAD COP and a customer wants you to help them find 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • something that you obviously don't carry? BY: JERRY RABUSHKA Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a What do you do when they won't take no for 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - an answer and won't go away? How do you (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: reason with someone who won't be reasoned for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per waived for forensics competition) with? How do you deal with someone who is performance (Performance royalty waived for grocery shopping at the hardware store? forensics competition) Some say college is all about learning, others may say it’s about learning how to Someone stole all the TVs out of the procrastinate. Two college students HELP WANTED Hernandez house! Now, two new cops are demonstrate this theory by playing "Go Fish" BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER sent to question a family that's too instead of doing homework. Eventually, one 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • traumatized to deal with the reality - that they persuades the other to work on a paper about Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a might have to read, or worse yet, talk to each society and birdhouses, while somewhere in Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - other! Will our policemen be able to get the mix an apple gets mutilated. 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HELPING HAMLET THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION, HOUSE-SITTING BY: ALAN HAEHNEL CONDENSED BY: CAROLYN WEST 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama, Classics • BY: JOHN C. HAVENS 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 script) • Add a (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: per performance (Performance royalty waived waived for forensics competition) $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty for forensics competition) Martha is working her first shift as a volunteer waived for forensics competition) Jenny lands the summer job of a lifetime for a teen help line when a potential suicide Two zany announcers act out The History of when she signs on to housesit for a wealthy victim calls in. The boy's depression springs Television from caveman times to the present. couple. With access to a new Jaguar, her own from his father's death and his mother's hasty Whether it's I Love Lucy or confusing modern private pool, and 250 cable channels, what marriage to his uncle. Yes, Martha's very first commercials, this zany duo proves that we can possibly go wrong? Plenty! It's everything call is from Hamlet. Combining Shakespeare can't live without TV. you never wanted in a job. and modern language, this duet offers both comic and dramatic opportunities for its HOW TO MESS UP PRETTY actors. It also drives home the point that HO HO HO across the years, the conflicts and emotions BY: JOSEPH SORRENTINO MUCH ANYTHING - TEN MINUTE facing human beings are universal. 2 males, 2 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech VERSION and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 BY: BRADLEY WALTON scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, HIDDEN TREASURES Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: BY: LAURIE ALLEN purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Performance royalty waived for forensics (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 competition) (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at On Christmas Day, two actors dressed in per performance (Performance royalty waived time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per Santa and elf costumes hit the streets hoping for forensics competition) performance (Performance royalty waived for to beg enough money for a hot meal. As they Any worthwhile school production needs to forensics competition) continually scare away potential donors, their teach some kind of lesson, right? When the Cassie goes to the hospital to visit her fiancé conversation ranges from the weather to how performers take the stage, they proudly who's in a deep coma. Fearing he'll never best to serve cat (baked or fried). In the end, announce that the lesson of this show is right recover, she wants to break off the only a minor miracle saves them from a there in the title: How to Mess Up Pretty Much engagement. Cassie asks a student nurse to hungry Christmas. Anything. But when the principal phones in return the ring and bear the bad news. But and demands a more socially uplifting theme, does the nurse have plans of her own? HORST AND GRABEN IN THE neither one has any ideas. So the actors CONTEXT OF THE UNFINISHED plunge ahead with their original plan, frantically exploring random and outlandish
HIDE AND GO SNEAK COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS MAN scenarios as they try to figure out a way they BY: CRYSTAL SMITH BY: JEFFREY GOLD can hold on to their original lesson and win 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: 2 males, 2 total • the principal's approval before they get kicked $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Comedy • Script Pack: off the stage! (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $14.50 (Includes 2 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 scripts) • Add a Script: per performance (Performance royalty waived $1.00 (Copy for HUNTING GOODWILL for forensics competition) Director/Adjudicator - BY: KELLY MEADOWS must be ordered at When Holly takes a babysitting job, she finds time of purchase) • 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: out the job is not a piece of cake. It's one-on- Royalty: $15.00 per $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 one...the babysitter versus the babysittee. performance (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Performance royalty ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 waived for forensics per performance (Performance royalty waived HISTORY competition) for forensics competition) BY: STEVEN BERGMAN Dierdre and Deanna are having a ball 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: In this short absurdist comedy, Horst, an rummaging through the thrift store $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 until..."that's the sweater I got you for (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be everyman, is waiting for a bus in the middle of Christmas!" Is it an insult...or a bargain? Their ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 the desert. Graben, a manipulative Social per performance (Performance royalty waived Darwinist, approaches Horst and attempts to hunt continues to unearth old treasures and for forensics competition) convince him of the futility of his endeavor. bring back memories both good and very, very dysfunctional. Finally, Deanna finds one A young man and woman meet at a cemetery last item she'd ignored for years...Grandma? —one to pay respects, the other in search of answers. The play, told in one word exchanges, tells how the two strangers become friends as they discover their lives are connected through their parents' "history."
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I DID IT ALL FOR THE I DON'T WANT YOUR PITY...I I'M NOT KEANU REEVES SCISSORS WANT YOUR BROCCOLI BY: CHRISTIAN KILEY BY: BRADLEY WALTON BY: BRADLEY WALTON 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be per performance (Performance royalty waived ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived per performance (Performance royalty waived You know you want to be famous. But at what for forensics competition) for forensics competition) price? What happens when that big break Brenda is being interviewed on a TV talk John is having a bad week. Steve is not. comes and the director thinks you are show about her amazingly long career as a Steve has broccoli. John does not. John someone else? What if she thinks you are high school librarian. But no matter what she’s wants Steve’s broccoli. Is there a limit to how Keanu Reeves? Are you willing to give up asked, Brenda’s answers keep coming back far one person will go to help another? Steve your identity to get the part? Step into the to the same subject…the scissors she had in and John are about to find out. audition and find out in the hilarious comic the library. duet, I'm Not Keanu Reeves.
ICE CUBED I'M IN LOVE WITH MY BY: EDAN SCHAPPERT SMARTPHONE 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script BY: JERRY RABUSHKA Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be per performance (Performance royalty waived ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) Two entities residing on a frozen world are yanked into a frightening outside environment Olsen has trouble getting a date, but suddenly filled with crises and confusion. An he meets several women who give him astonishing look into an environment where everything he wants! Problem is, he can’t tell the unexpected erupts without notice ...with the difference between a real girlfriend and a an ending you won't soon forget. Broadcast computerized voice on his GPS or his smart nationwide by NPR, produced Off-Off phone, When his family disapproves of his Broadway in NYC, and commended in Show new “smart” romance, Olsen runs off to Business newspaper as "top theatre!" Atlanta to be alone—with his mechanical love interest. Can she love him back? Can she I WANT TO MAKE A BUNDT even “access that information?” How will he rebound if the love goes sour? A fun script CAKE with a chance to realize many characters, BY: JERRY RABUSHKA both live and computerized. 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: I'M JUST DIGGING A HOLE IN $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be THE WOODS AT 2 A.M. NO IN THE MIND OF THE ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 REASON. WHY DO YOU ASK? BEHOLDER per performance (Performance royalty waived BY: BRADLEY WALTON BY: DONNAMARIE VAUGHAN for forensics competition) 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script What happens when your daughter becomes Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - victim to Teen Bundt Disorder? Family life $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 takes a dark, yet hilarious turn when the $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty seemingly innocent act of baking a cake per performance (Performance royalty waived waived for forensics competition) for forensics competition) becomes fraught with the fear of the unknown. Turns out this phenomenon is It's 2 a.m. so naturally, Halling is curious as to If you've ever wanted to know what someone sweeping the globe, and a frantic mother tries why her classmate Andrews is digging a hole really thinks when they meet you for the very everything to bring her daughter out of the in the woods on a cold January night. Of first time, then you'll soon have your answer. bundt cult. This piece allows two actresses to course, Andrews eventually has to ask what Two characters handle both their own voices COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS play a variety of interesting roles, plus the she is doing in the middle of the woods at 2 and the subconscious voices within. surprise ending knocks it out of the park! Or… a.m. The tension between them mounts does it? hysterically as they both try to pass off their bizarre actions as casually as possible. Is one of them up to no good?
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IN THE NAME OF THE WASHING INSOMNIA THE INVISIBLE HUSBAND MACHINE BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE BY: BRADLEY WALTON 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be per performance (Performance royalty waived per performance (Performance royalty waived ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for forensics competition) for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived Mary's struggles with the pressure of Iris wants to love every aspect of her for forensics competition) motherhood produce an intense, lyrical, husband, but he comes from a tribe of Don and Fran work for an appliance sleepless night. A wild romp—perfect for invisible men who can't be seen until they die. company, and they have to come up with a anyone who's ever had a hard time falling Her overpowering desire to see his face twists name for a new washing machine. asleep. her mind and emotions. A tragic tale of love Unfortunately, the email attachment and death. containing the product data won’t open and THE INTERN everyone on the design team is playing golf BY: D.B. BRAXTON IT'S A GIRL! with the boss. Don and Fran only know two BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE things for sure: Their deadline is tomorrow 1 male, 1 either, 2 total, gender flexible • morning and the washing machine is red. Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be IN THE WAY purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 (Performance royalty waived for forensics BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER per performance (Performance royalty waived competition) for forensics competition) 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a It's the chance of a lifetime! A young, up-and- Joseph and Mary are desperate to find a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - coming politician gets the opportunity to work name for their daughter. After 21 years of must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: in the state capitol as an intern for a failure to compromise, they finally agree on a $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty prominent senator. This eager student seeks strategy—they'll open the dictionary to a waived for forensics competition) to learn the ropes from the wise congressional page, and somewhere on that page will be the "We study The Way to learn about the insider, but a rocky beginning threatens the name. A loopy, linguistic comedy. universe, to find inner peace, to understand partnership. ourselves...and to bash our enemies in the IT'S NOT BLUE head." In this zany comedy, the master must INTERROGATION BY: JERRY RABUSHKA battle with his rebellious student who uses BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER The Way to make people stomp their own 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: toes, slap their own faces, and bite their own 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be tongues. Can the master overcome the Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 student before ripping himself apart? must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: per performance (Performance royalty waived COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) INFORMATION In a fru-fru store in a fru-fru mall that sells BY: JEFF SCHOENFELD There's been a murder, and they have a "lifestyle" rather than product, a frustrated 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • suspect. Now it's time to find out what he high school student verbally spars with a Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a knows. A series of twists, turns and surprises, sales clerk. Style wins over substance every Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Interrogation is a dramatic game of cat and time in this wacky duet. must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: mouse with life and death at stake. $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) IT'S ONLY POLITICS INTERVIEW WITH AN BY: DAVID BURTON What's worse than a smug telephone operator EXTRATERRESTRIAL who thinks you're insane? With four 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: BY: CONRAD GELLER characters for two actors, this duo tells the $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be story of one brave soul who only wants to get 1 female, 1 either, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 through the baffling system of the telephone $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be per performance (Performance royalty waived information service... Is there really a contact ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for forensics competition) lens store called "Eye Captain"? Does per performance (Performance royalty waived Two girls plan to attend a political rally. While Information really contain any relevant for forensics competition) one wants to further her political causes, the information? While Brooke explores a job opportunity at a other sees the rally as a good way to meet local burger joint, a creature from beyond eligible guys. Perfect for Democrats and fights to conceal her identity from the crafty Republicans alike. teen.
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JENNY AND PETE JUST CLONING AROUND KNIGHT DREAMS BY: CHERYL D. DUFFIN BY: DAVID BURTON BY: KEN BRADBURY 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived performance (Performance royalty waived for per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) forensics competition) for forensics competition) When Pete comes face-to-face with Jenny, Everyone was amazed when scientists cloned As our hero tries to imagine himself winning his longtime secret crush on her leaves him a sheep. As animal cloning becomes a reality, the perfect date, our actors merge into the tongue-tied and nervous. But Jenny is in love can humans be far behind? In this funny duet, world of swashbuckling pirates, brave knights with someone else! Is it unrequited love...or George wakes up from surgery to meet his and more. Can Brad get a date in any simply unknown adoration? clone. Will life ever be the same again? century?
JOB REVIEW KILL THE BUTTER LEAPERS BY: CAROLYN WEST BY: BRADLEY WALTON BY: JONATHAN DORF 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Dark Comedy • Script $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) for forensics competition) It will come whether you like it or not. You Knife. Butter. Knife wants to cut and spread Anne has decided that today is finally the day may go in and never come out. Your heart will Butter. Butter attempts to engage Knife in a to jump and end it all. So has Thomas. When pound, your body will tremble as the boss discussion about existence and destiny. Knife they both end up on the same rooftop and calls you in. It's time for the annual...job wants Butter to just shut up and die. Butter neither is willing to give an inch, who, or what, performance review! won't shut up. Knife has a secret. But so does will really end up over the edge? Offers an Butter. Can Knife really kill Butter? opportunity to play multiple characters. JOCK TALK BY: JERRY RABUSHKA KING OF THE CHICKENS LEDGE 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 BY: DAVID BURTON BY: WILLIAM BORDEN (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be performance (Performance royalty waived for must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 forensics competition) $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty per performance (Performance royalty waived waived for forensics competition) for forensics competition) A radio sports program talks about a bit of everything—except sports. Do you suffer from A newborn chick, safe and secure in his pen, Talk about living life on the edge! Tom and arthritis? Overactive bladder? Is your car a ponders whether to take the advice of a sly Mary go so far as to find love on the lemon? How come all the guests on this show fox and venture out to see the world. Will the ledge...the ledge of a building 41 stories high. seem so adversely affected by what's in the price of adventure be death? Despair turns to delight in this funny and commercials? It hardly seems to matter when charming comedy. the football team has a record of 0-12. Laugh THE KISS THAT WASN'T out loud as our beleaguered host navigates BY: D.B. BRAXTON A LESSON IN CLASS through his uninformed guests and BY: WALT VAIL provocative callers—it's enough to make you 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script pray for a station break! Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at JUMPING per performance (Performance royalty waived time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per BY: WILLIAM BORDEN for forensics competition) performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy, Drama • How could any self-respecting male dump his Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a girlfriend only days before the big dance? Back before Rosa Parks's historic refusal to
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THE LIBRARIAN AND THE JOCK LIFE JITTERS LOVE IN A FISH BOWL BY: BRADLEY WALTON BY: CHERYL D. DUFFIN BY:* DEANNA ABLESER 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama, Comedy • 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) for forensics competition) She's sweet, helpful, and getting up in years. A young bride and a young groom are talking A young man and a young woman who have She's the librarian, and she's also a major sci- through a locked door in the church. Will the known each other since kindergarten are on a fi nerd prepared to use her vast knowledge of wedding go on, or will Cassie break and run, ‘planned’ first date. Over ‘the best fries’ ever, obscure pop culture to put an obnoxious jock driven by instincts brought on by her...life they discuss life in a small town, a graduating in his place when he dares to argue with her jitters? class of 12, and their plans for college and about an overdue library book. their future. In a sweet ending, they agree to A LITTLE LIE decide that not deciding in some manner may in fact be the most helpful answer when it LIES FOR THE HOLIDAYS BY:* BOBBY KENISTON really comes down to it. BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama, Comedy, 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 LOVE IN THE RAVIOLI (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be SEASON* ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 BY: CLAUDIA HAAS per performance (Performance royalty waived per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) for forensics competition) 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Sarah and Jeb are two highly successful Albert, an electrician sent to Setting Sun $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be professionals on their way home for nursing home, walks into the wrong room and ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Christmas, or are they? What happens when finds himself in quite the predicament. Gertie, per performance (Performance royalty waived your secret hidden life is shared by another? an energetic and talkative old woman, for forensics competition) mistakes the poor man for her grown son, Mark and Angela love each other. The only Chip. After catching him up on all the gossip, LIES, LIES, LIES thing standing in their way of “happily ever without letting him get a word in edgewise, after” is the filling in the ravioli. BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE Gertie starts to probe into her “son's” life, and 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script begins to share memories he should know. Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Albert, not wanting to hurt the poor woman's LOVE IS MORE IMPORTANT $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be feelings, does his best to play along, until she THAN* MY HISTORY PAPER ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 wants to give him a priceless family heirloom! BY: KELLY MEADOWS per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) This ten minute duet is filled with laughter, as 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack:
well as some truly tender and poignant $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS When a newly acquainted couple agrees to moments guaranteed to warm your heart. (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be spend five minutes lying to each other, they After all, a little lie on the side of the Angels ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived discover that honesty is indeed the best can't be all bad, can it? policy. This duet is both unique and for forensics competition) challenging as the players lie their way into Calliope will do anything to get out of her each other's hearts. LIVING IN A ROAD MOVIE history paper, but her teacher responds to BY: JUDY KLASS every excuse by adding on more pages. LIFE 2 males, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 Friends, family and faculty can’t force her to (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy crack a book and get started. How can she, BY: MAIA AKIVA for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at when she has a boyfriend and love is more time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 important? To make matters worse, the paper (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy performance (Performance royalty waived for is on the history of algebra, which adds a for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at forensics competition) time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per whole new set of variables into the mix. A fun Trey wants Dad to understand that they can’t performance (Performance royalty waived for duo with lots of characterizations – and forensics competition) go on the way they’ve been living since they another great way to forget about that paper lost their house – sleeping in a van in a for awhile. Mel is the ultimate pessimist and Sara, the neighbor’s driveway. Trey tells Dad that they ultimate optimistic. They are both "stuck" in a should either go to Dad’s estranged brother room for their entire lives. In the room which for help – or move into a homeless shelter. All signifies life, they question their time spent the lying and living in denial about being and the reason for their being. How are they homeless are especially hard on his little supposed to find meaning in an empty room? brother, Scottie. But Dad can’t hear what Trey is saying. Dad wants Trey to keep on pretending they’re traveling cross-country on a fun family road trip; they can teach Scottie about the cities and states they imagine they’re passing through! If only Trey could help Dad regain his grip on reality . . .
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LOVE, THEATRE, AND DAMN LUCAS DREAMING MAJOR MARVELOUS YANKEES* *BY: STACEY LANE BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER BY: SCOTT ICENHOWER 2 males, 2 total • Fantasy, Dark Comedy, 1 male, 1 either, 2 total, gender flexible • 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance per performance (Performance royalty waived (Performance royalty waived for forensics (Performance royalty waived for forensics for forensics competition) competition) competition) Rebecca is trying to remember the good from Set inside the troubled mind of an insomniac, A crime is in progress—but never fear! Major a bad relationship so she can write a tragic this experimental ten-minute play explores the Marvelous has come to the rescue. Thrill as romance novel, when suddenly, her FBI sister psychological landscape of that unsettling Marvelous disarms the petty thief by using his Karen rushes in to save her from... whatever. place between awake and asleep. A tired, but superpowers—telepathy, martial arts, and It seems Karen has man troubles of her own restless Lucas tries to lull himself to invisibility! There's only one problem. The and needs some creative counseling. dreamland with relaxation exercises. The powers are only real in the Major's mind. A Together they realize that musical theatre and personification of Lucas’s racing thoughts twisting, turning, delightfully challenging baseball do coexist and that's the ticket. appears. He desperately pleads for Lucas to piece. stay awake to avoid the beasts that feast that are waiting in his dreams. Succumbing to THE MAN WHO KNEW HIS [email protected] exhaustion, Lucas leaves his subconscious BY: RANDALL DAVID COOK self to do battle alone in his nightmare world. STUFF BY: JULES TASCA 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script This surreal script allows for maximal creative Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: interpretation and has no technical 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be requirements. A version of this play is also (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 available for a cast of two female actors under for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per per performance (Performance royalty waived the title Lucy Dreaming. for forensics competition) performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) Suzette thinks Marcus is waiting to meet her for a pre-arranged blind date. But Marcus acts LUCY DREAMING Wherever he goes in the institution, Roscoe like he has no idea who Suzette is, resulting BY: STACEY LANE carries all of his earthly belongings. Paranoid in this hilarious verbal standoff that provokes 2 females, 2 total • Fantasy, Dark Comedy, of being robbed, he refuses to leave his "stuff" knowing laughs from anyone who’s ever Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) even for a moment. When stopped by a looked for love on the Internet. Produced • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ security guard one evening, Roscoe must Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of multiple times on Off-Broadway and Off-Off make a difficult choice concerning his purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance belongings. A revelation gives the audience Broadway stages, this popular duet play was (Performance royalty waived for forensics also a finalist for the 8-Minute Madness Play competition) insight into his behavior, and why, through his Festival. cloud of illness, he is somewhat correct about Lucy cannot fall asleep. The personification of the world he fears. Lucy’s racing thoughts appears, and the two LOVERS IN THE PARK deliberate whether to stay awake or face the BY: STEVEN GRIDLEY beasts that wait for Lucy in her nightmares. MARILYN MONROE AND PHIL BY: JOYCE DYRECTOR, STANLEY 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script DYRECTOR Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be MADAM AND STEVE 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 BY: STEVEN VERRIER Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: per performance (Performance royalty waived 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for forensics competition) Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be per performance (Performance royalty waived The title is completely innocent. Jean and ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for forensics competition) Broc have never met, and now they're stuck in per performance (Performance royalty waived Based on true events. Marilyn Monroe went to a ten-minute play called Lovers in the Park. for forensics competition) So what now? And who are the "lovers" New York to study with Lee Strasberg at the Following a great cataclysm, Steve and a alluded to in the title? Is it supposed to be Actors Studio, and on her first day in class, young lady (she won't give her name, so he them? But what if this play is a tragedy? Will she was assigned to do a scene with Phil, a calls her Madam) are all that's left of one of them die? This is no good. They've short, 20ish struggling character actor. He is humanity. While Steve talks of replenishing gotta get out of this play. skeptical that she will call, but she does. COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS the earth, Madam would let the human race When she comes over to his apartment to die out rather than hold Steve's hand. An "end rehearse, she looks around at the way he is of the world" comedy that asks the burning living and begins to clean his apartment. As question, "If we were the last two people on they talk and rehearse, we get to know the earth, would you remember to send me a card real Marilyn Monroe and not the image. at Christmas?"
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MARTIAL ARTS MAMA MIND OVER MATTER METATHEATRE BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI BY: EDAN SCHAPPERT BY: DJ SANDERS 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Drama • Script 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: performance (Performance royalty waived for per performance (Performance royalty waived $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty forensics competition) for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) To earn summertime income, Libby becomes Why won't the brain and the stomach 1. A genre of theatre breaking all notion of the replacement cleaning lady for singing cooperate with each other to bring harmony to realism to present a play as simply a sensation, Emerald Machete. After a rude and the human they occupy? Envy, physical and fabricated work by a playwright performed by shocking introduction, Emerald finds that she mental stress, elitism, grumpiness, and actors to an audience. 2. An adventurous new has a lot to learn from her new employee. refusal to face reality—the problems of real comedy about air travel, annoying habits, and life—confront these characters. audience etiquette. 3. Ten full minutes of MEASURING MATTHEW theatrical dogma, societal parody, and audience participation packed into four BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE MISS FORTUNE hilarious scenes! 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script BY: KAREN MUELLER BRYSON Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 MOTHER'S DAY ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be BY: EDITH TARBESCU per performance (Performance royalty waived ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 for forensics competition) Matthew is obsessed with two things: (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be numbers and Jennifer. When Jennifer leaves In this lighthearted comedy, a young woman ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 him, he's driven to the edge of desperation. visits an eccentric gypsy fortuneteller in hopes per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) His salvation rests in the hands of his of learning something about her future. To the neighbor, June, who understands Matthew young woman's surprise, Miss Fortune's When two sisters attempt to honor their more than he expects. A quirky comedy of fortunetelling is not quite what she expected! mother, it's all they can do to keep from killing neuroses. each other. MOMENTS LIKE THESE MENAGERIE BY: DON GOODRUM MOUSE TRAPPED BY: JONATHAN DORF 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script BY: CLAUDIA HAAS 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS for forensics competition) for forensics competition) Moments Like These is the story of John and It's Valentines Day. It should be all romance Mary, who literally bump into each other in an Two graduate students spend the first night in and flowers and chocolate, but instead, airport one Thanksgiving. In that one moment their new apartment and find themselves Tabitha and Sam's roommate is missing. Is of meeting, we follow their lives into one terrorized—by a mouse! What to do? How sleep-deprived Tabitha just being catty, or is possible future, where they grow old together can they trap this runaway rodent? Sam more interested in their absent and have a family and a life. At the end, we roommate than he is in her? Will it be a happy return to two strangers in an airport and MY GUARDIAN ANGEL, THE Valentine's Day, or broken hearts all around? wonder about the choices they either will or Find out in this romantic comedy with a twist. won't make in regard to one another and WAITRESS whether or not the wonderful life we witness BY: EDITH WEISS will happen...or not. 2 females, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) BY: MONICA BAUER • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama, Comedy • MORAL SUPPORT Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a BY: ASHLEY WALLACE purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - (Performance royalty waived for forensics 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 competition) must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at Leslie, a stressed junior executive, stops in for waived for forensics competition) time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per a quick lunch at Healthy Herbs. Before she This unique script is set in the immediate performance (Performance royalty waived for can even eat her good for the soul soup, forensics competition) aftermath of September 11th, when John, a Leslie gets fired and her life transforms, with formerly self-centered ladies' man, vows to Exchanging homework answers can be the help of her very bad waitress and turn his life around and marry within the week. helpful to both parties, but when one person guardian angel Annie. He discovers Betsy, a widow struggling with does all the work, can conflict be far behind? her own tragedy. What will be the most important thing for John when they make an improbable connection?
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MY NAME IS TAMMY NOBODY'S FOOL OF CHESS AND CHICKENS BY:* JERRY RABUSHKA BY: PAT MORGAN BY: JOSEPH SORRENTINO 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 2 males, 2 total • Comedy, Dark Comedy • Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: per performance (Performance royalty waived performance (Performance royalty waived for $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty for forensics competition) forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) Cree and Tammy are sharing space at a Laura is serving a life sentence in the state It’s another night at the chess club and Frank coffee shop; she gets a phone call that’s not penitentiary for a crime that makes little sense and Harry are, as usual, facing each other for her but refuses to simply hang up. Rather to a sane mind. Can the prison psychiatrist across a chess board. The tension mounts as than move away, Cree opts to try to study wrestle some answers from this troubled the game nears its end with Frank apparently next to her but as time goes on she starts to woman? poised to trounce Harry. But Harry has at drive him nuts and eventually pull him into her least one more trick up his sleeve. There are bizarre conversation. NOBODY'S PERFECT five Frankenharry plays, and although they’re not really linked, they do make for a fun BY: MATT THOMPSON evening of entertainment. OFFICER DRAG 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script BY: SANDRA DEMPSEY Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be OFF THE GRID Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 BY: MARK SCHARF per performance (Performance royalty waived $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: for forensics competition) ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived Donna and Reed are on a blind date. As the (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for forensics competition) two strangers attempt to explore each other's ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Muggings are up in the city, and they need personality, their idiosyncrasies become more per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) someone to go undercover and stop the and more glaring. During the verbal recent rash of petty crimes. When a intercourse, we the audience hear each William has a good job, money, food, clothes policeman, undercover as a lady, meets up individual's thoughts through asides as both and a roof over his head; he can take care of with gorgeous Melanie, the results are the good and the ugly appear. In the end, himself and can’t imagine it being otherwise. outrageous! both Donna and Reed ask the question: "How Maddie, who had a job, a house, a car, and a much am I willing to put up with in a cat, is homeless; her job and her money are NEWT GINGRICH VISITS A relationship?" They'll both find out that gone and she knows all too well how easy it is nobody's perfect! to end up on the street. She sits quietly at the RESIDENTIAL YOUTH FACILITY entrance to a metro station in Washington, NOT NEAR OMAHA NOTHING PERSONAL D.C. seeking spare change and is invisible to BY: JONATHAN DORF most who pass by on their way into or out of BY: JUDITH ESTRINE 2 males, 2 total • Drama, Comedy • Script Pack: the station, including William – until one day... $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 Off the Grid addresses living without a net in (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy America and our responsibility to one another. ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at per performance (Performance royalty waived time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per for forensics competition) performance (Performance royalty waived for ON LOCATION forensics competition) Nick and Jason live in a home for troubled BY: JERRY RABUSHKA teens. Growing up hasn't been easy, but with Death drops in on a hypochondriac to help 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script the imminent visit of Speaker of the House of him overcome his fear of—well—of death. Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Representatives Newt Gingrich, are their Death-defying fun. $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be hard-knock lives about to change? New suits ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived have mysteriously appeared on their beds, THE OBJECT FORMERLY for forensics competition) and rumors fly that the Speaker is bringing KNOWN AS POTATO them money, gifts, maybe even decent A well-known director waxes eloquent about BY: BRADLEY WALTON parents. But are the suits really new? And his new movie, while the leading lady why has all the underwear disappeared? 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • interprets it as the biggest nightmare of the Finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a film industry. In this takeoff on the Hollywood Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Heideman Award. movie business, actress Charlene reels from COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance Royalty the disgrace of hiking through the desert in waived for forensics competition) six-inch spiked heels, while the man at the helm insists she find her character without Jamie finds a sealed container hidden away in even a glance at the script. But for the back of the fridge. Sam claims that the $20,000,000 a film, these two will put up with thing inside is a potato and insists on eating it, almost anything. Same story, different but Jamie believes that the potato may have viewpoints, in this comedic clash of titan egos. evolved into a new life form and tries to protect it from Sam.
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NECESSARY EVIL OPEN TO INTERPRETATION PAPER ANGELS BY: MIKE PHELAN BY: KEN BRADBURY BY: CHARLES HALL 1-2 females, 0-1 males, 2 total, gender flexible • 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Fairy Tales, Classics, 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance per performance (Performance royalty waived (Performance royalty waived for forensics (Performance royalty waived for forensics for forensics competition) competition) competition) Brooklyn-born Frank Rice is harboring a Two angels argue outside God's office about This clever spoof on the Hansel and Gretel secret. Marie Quintero of Jersey City is His latest, audacious project: Earth. As they story gets some new looks as the actors give desperate for answers. In the aftermath of reveal their true colors, God delivers a various interpretations: Shakespeare, soap September 11, they will meet and begin a surprising verdict. opera, Dragnet and others. journey of remembrance, self-discovery and quiet heroism. A journey of revelations, this ONE MOM, ONE SPOON OUT OF TIME intense script allows mature actors to explore a range of emotions. BY: JERRY RABUSHKA BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 PAPER BAG (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be BY: JOE MUSSO ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script per performance (Performance royalty waived per performance (Performance royalty waived Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: for forensics competition) for forensics competition) $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be It’s everyone’s fantasy: you don’t like the play The fast pace of modern life engulfs Mary in a ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 you’re supposed to perform, so you make up surrealistic whirlwind as she becomes unstuck per performance (Performance royalty waived something else on the spot! Only in this case from time. Mary struggles to connect with her for forensics competition) it doesn’t come out quite right. Instead of their daughter, Jenna, before it's too late. The clock Cindy, the prettiest girl in her high school scheduled performance, we find that one is ticking in this acting challenge. class, likes going on dates with Roger. The character wants to play violin and be a only problem is she doesn't want her friends gymnast—at the same time, while the other is PAIN to know she's going out with him, so she lamenting that her mother left her family and wears a paper bag over her head when BY: BRADLEY WALTON took the only spoon in the house. This might they're out in public. Roger finally takes a not seem like such a big deal to you, but you 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama, Forensics, stand. probably have more than one spoon. While Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy the drama teacher tries unsuccessfully to turn for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at this show around, Mom shows up on stage— PARK BENCH time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per BY: KRISTYN LEIGH ROBINSON with the spoon. Combine this with a rousing performance (Performance royalty waived for performance of Hey Diddle Diddle and you’ll forensics competition) 2 males, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS be over the moon for this short piece! 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Will you be my w-w- A young witch attempts to practice magic on mother into easing her punishment and w...? I'd like to spend my life with y-y-y...? If her pumpkin. Instead of making it move, she allowing her to go out with friends. A true proposing marriage to a girl is so easy, why accidentally makes it speak. Turns out, the comedy for suck-ups. do men have such a difficult time popping the pumpkin she is trying to put a spell on has a question? Maybe this piece will help you bit of an attitude and is quite pretentious. PRESIDENTIAL RUN understand why. A great romantic c-c- comedy! BY: LEON KAYE PHOENIX FUNERAL DRAFT 3 1 female, 1 male, 2 total, 4 extras • Comedy • BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a PUTTING HER ON HOLD 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - BY: JOHN C. 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Prisoners have been contestant lost the…um…competition. plotting and planning this break for over a Queen Marie, a pampered and very poor year. Now it's the moment of truth, but Shorty Queen, is walking to the castle of her fiance, is fearful of proceeding with the plan. If he King Henry, with her maid Agnes. Along the PLANTING THE MUSIC dares to back out and risk ruining the escape way Agnes finds out the Queen has lied to BY: MAUREEN BRADY JOHNSON for everyone, the true terror will come from King Henry about her poverty. 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama, Forensics, inside the walls...in the form of Hank, the Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 prison honcho. (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy A TEMPORARY HAVEN for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at BY: LAURIE ALLEN
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THE RAFT RETURN TO SENDER THE ROPE SWINGS BY: KRISTYN LEIGH ROBINSON BY: MATT THOMPSON BY: TONI WILSON 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy, Drama • 2 males, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, 2 females, 2 total • Drama, Forensics, Speech Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance waived for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived (Performance royalty waived for forensics for forensics competition) competition) Helen and Steve are on their honeymoon cruise when Steve does...well...something to Wilbur is the post office's latest employee-of- After their mother dies, a pair of sisters meets sink their ship. Amid passing ships and shark the-month, but the strain of the holidays privately for the first time in the backyard of attacks, Helen begins to think she may have begins to take its toll when a customer hits the house they grew up in. Fifteen years have made a serious mistake by marrying him. Wilbur's last nerve and he takes out his passed, and in the ten minutes that pass in frustration in a very unique way. the play, we see what those fifteen years have done to the sisters and if making RECIPE FOR MURDER Return to Sender had its world premiere at amends and healing are possible. BY: JERRY RABUSHKA The Plutonium Theatre in San Diego, 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy, Mystery • California. Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a ROYAL FAMILY Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - BY: D.B. BRAXTON must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS, 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty BOMB! Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a waived for forensics competition) BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Detective Godfrey has a hard time getting any 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty information out of his first suspect, Claudia $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 waived for forensics competition) May Binghamton. After all, she wasn't there (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be when the murder happened. She had to go to ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Don't be spooked by the British accent. It's all the loo—and when she came out, the per performance (Performance royalty waived crazy fun when a Britisher verbally spars with for forensics competition) mistress was dead! But what was she doing in an American. Both know they're right and the loo for almost two hours? And can the A socialite and a Wal-Mart shopper are in line, neither will budge an inch. poor detective collect any evidence? and there's only one ticket left! What to do? Compromise? Tear the ticket in half and SANDWICH BAGS: WEAR share? Or pistols at 20 paces and a fight to THEM* ON YOUR PANTS RUNAWAY the death? Of course not! There's only one BY: BRADLEY WALTON BY: PAT MORGAN way to settle things: Rock, Paper, Scissors, 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: Bomb! 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ROMEO REVISED must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: per performance (Performance royalty waived BY: WADE BRADFORD $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy, Classics, Just because you live in an exclusive Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: Do you find yourself wishing you had a better neighborhood and are driven to school in a $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 way to carry all of your stuff? Do expensive limo doesn't mean you can't run away from (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be designer purses consume half your annual home, but doing so can have extraordinary ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 salary? Haven’t you always wished you could per performance (Performance royalty waived judge other people by the contents of their and even disastrous results. for forensics competition) pockets? What if there was an expandable, Imagine if Shakespeare had decided not to kill portable, personal storage option that RECONSTRUCTING JULIE off his two star-crossed lovers . . . at least not matched everything in your wardrobe? The BY: AARON ADAIR right away. This utterly original spoof on the solution is simple…sandwich bags safety- 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy, Dark Bard's classic tragedy asks the questions: pinned to your pants! Learn all the ways Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 What if Juliet didn't stab herself? 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SAVING SUSAN SECRETS SHE DOESN'T SELL BY: CLAUDIA HAAS BY: WALT VAIL SEASHELLS 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: BY: MARLA CROWE (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at performance (Performance royalty waived for per performance (Performance royalty waived time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per forensics competition) for forensics competition) performance (Performance royalty waived for In this stirring dramatic scene, Susan, a bitter, A haunting piece that reveals the everyday forensics competition) embattled actress who has "been there, and horror of utter hopelessness inflicted on the A play that will keep you guessing to the very done that," makes it her mission to prevent a victims of abuse. This challenging drama end. The play begins with a seemingly young actress from going down the same deals with the unfair burdens saddling one ordinary day and then twists and turns with path. girl's life. mind games that leave the audience with a gasp. Paralysis of body is no match for SCHEDULE-MEISTERS SEND IN THE CLONES strength of spirit, as this mysterious piece provides actors with a smorgasbord of BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE BY: JOHN C. 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This challenging duet explores the performance (Performance royalty waived for dangers of wishing you had a double so you forensics competition) SCORNED could be in two places at once. Helplessly adrift in a lifeboat, Jan and Francine must face the ultimate BY: J.J. JONAS challenge...saving their own skins! Are their 2 males, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 SHAKESPEARE, HORNY TOADS AND BANANA PEELS minds drifting into a slow consuming (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy madness? A strong acting challenge. for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at BY: DAVID J. 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Donna is ready to Originally performed Off-Broadway at the BY: STEVEN VERRIER perform Ophelia, but the director has other Neighborhood Playhouse, Shrinking is what 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • plans. Ever done Shakespeare while tap- happens when Melinda Gardner, a self- Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a dancing or even worse? An auditioner is put involved writer, tries to find a quick fix for her Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - through the ultimate acting torture. must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: depression by visiting Dr. Bontemps, a loony $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty tap-dancing psychiatrist who redefines self- waived for forensics competition) SHE AND HE absorption. Who's crazier? The results surprise in this macabre and wickedly funny A pair of lab partners in biology class face BY: JUDITH ESTRINE duet. failing grades when one of them eats the lab 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: specimen. 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SING LIKE A SHEEP SO WHAT IF LIFE'S A CLICHE? SOUNDS LIKE BY:* KELLY MEADOWS BY: PHILIP VASSALLO BY: PAT MORGAN 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Drama • Script 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived per performance (Performance royalty waived per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) for forensics competition) for forensics competition) Charlene thinks she’s a great singer, but over Clee and Shay are neither here nor there but Charlotte has a secret she's dying to tell her 27 million listeners disagree. After becoming everywhere, our contemplative conscience friend, Patsy, but how to avoid betraying a an internet sensation – as a bad singer who that accompanies all our experiences as we confidence? A game of charades brings out wouldn’t leave the stage – her friend Rikki stride toward desires, steer clear of fears, and the whole story, but where does the game tries to convince her to take lessons. “I’m a escape from inevitable realities. They are not end and the gossip begin in this fast-paced natural!” Charlene protests. But sometimes contrasting characters but complementary comedy? even the most “talented” can use a little ones, completing each other’s thoughts, outside help. Will she take lessons? Will it always with certainty but sometimes with SOUTH MEETS WEST help? An inspirational duo about true sadness or satisfaction or strength. They BY: EDAN SCHAPPERT friendship, with a new take on Mary’s little represent the conscious choices we make, lamb. knowing full well we may regret them yet 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script resigning ourselves to our human fate of Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be exercising our free will. THE SIXTH TIME'S A CHARM ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 BY: DEANNA ABLESER per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) 2 females, 2 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech A SOBERING LAUGH and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI A Southern belle signs up with a computer scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ 2 females, 2 total • Drama, Comedy • Script dating service to find Mr. Right. When she's Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: paired up with a hayseed Western rancher, purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be the fragile beauty explodes with (Performance royalty waived for forensics ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 indignation...until Mr. Wrong of the West gives competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived her an offer she can't refuse! Highlights for forensics competition) Two long time best friends explore online actors' dialect and regional accent skills. dating yet again to find a date for the Junior On the surface, Marla seems like a flake, but Prom. Will their friendship survive Sarah's when she meets Sandy, a cancer victim, SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT sixth attempt at finding Mr. Right? Marla's character takes a surprising twist. 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(Performance royalty waived for forensics waived for forensics competition) competition) Ralph is feeling guilty about eating animals, How would you feel if your stepmother kicked SPIES and he wants to become a vegan. The you out of the house for being too pretty – and BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER problem is, he still loves meat. Ralph figures your father let her? No wonder Snow White he needs to do something so extreme that 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • needs psychiatric help! With her childhood Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a he'll never crave meat again, so he decides to and teen years gone horribly wrong, she is Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - eat his best friend, Bob. Bob doesn't like the finally married to that handsome prince, but it must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: idea, but Ralph is insistent and bigger. Can turns out that Rapunzel is the “apple” of his $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Bob talk sense into Ralph? Can Ralph even waived for forensics competition) eye. Snow unburdens herself to her bite through Bob's sweatshirt? A darkly comic psychiatrist in the hopes that “happily ever They've made contact. Exchanged secret look at dieting gone wrong. after” will make its way to her castle before codes. Traded top secrets. But Agent 62455 Rapunzel does. has been tricked. And now, with spies watching spies who are covering spies, 62455 and AABBCC will battle to the death using a spy's most secret and deadly weapon...the stare!
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SPOILED STANDING ALONE WITH THE STOP TALKING BY: DONNAMARIE VAUGHAN CHEESE BY: D.B. BRAXTON 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 BY: KELLY MEADOWS 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 performance (Performance royalty waived for ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) On the eve of her father's wake, a daughter for forensics competition) A very talkative lady at a bus stop attempts to discovers the truth about her "spoiled" Is there such a thing as too much cheese, or engage another woman in conversation. The childhood. does Chelsea have a controlling mother trying results are both frustrating and sidesplitting. to deny her what she wants most out of life? THE SPOT Cholesterol non-withstanding, cheese is pretty STUCK yummy. Follow Chelsea’s adventures through BY: KEN BRADBURY BY: GARY RAY STAPP snotty cheese merchants, know-it-all cheesy 2 either, 2 total • Drama, Comedy • Script Pack: customers, dodging her frustrated mom, 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be and...do we see a Swiss romance? $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived STICK UP FOR MARS per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) for forensics competition) BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE Got your favorite spot in the world? Here's a 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: A romantic dinner for two becomes anything person who has a spot...and someone else is $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 but romantic when a piece of chicken gets on it! This can only mean one thing...trouble! (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be stuck in the man's teeth and a debate of ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 etiquette vs. comfort pits him against his wife. per performance (Performance royalty waived SQUEEZING THE FRIEND OUT for forensics competition) OF FRIENDSHIP SUDDEN DEATH DEBATING Fiona and Kelly are halfway to Mars, but after BY: JOHN BARTIMOLE LEAGUE a year in space their personalities are wearing BY: JONATHAN DORF 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 on each other. One little Post-It note might be (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy the last straw. 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When - and how - should you performance (Performance royalty waived for name means exactly what it says. He may be say no? forensics competition) good, but will he be better than Marie, the Trapped inside an invalid's body, a brilliant undefeated Senior Slaughterer? Veteran of STAND-IN SISTER patient takes his orderly on a beautiful and sudden death tournaments, her nickname is shocking journey. The conflict mounts as the well-earned. 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The forensics competition) COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS plot thickens when the sisters discover that Birth mother Rain desperately wants to see An ode to mad cow disease, this fast-paced Maggie had a twin. the son she placed for adoption, but adoptive dark comedy will certainly leave its audience mom Marla feels she needs to protect her son spinning. When mad cow disease threatens to from Rain's screw-ups and chaotic life. Can move from Europe to America, there's plenty the two mothers learn to understand each of reason to be concerned. That is, unless other? you're loco to begin with!
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A SUGGESTION TEDDY BEAR PICNIC TEN MINUTES BY: LAURIE ALLEN BY:* JERRY RABUSHKA BY: JONATHAN DORF 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) for forensics competition) Do you want to get married? Engaged? Break A play that’s stuffed full of humor for all ages! Two high school students hide in a up? Karen wonders why her boyfriend has no Remember the old days, when a ball game custodian's closet after two of their commitment, so naturally she dumps him. was a ball game? Now it’s a world-wide media schoolmates stage a Columbine-style Relationships are full of ups and downs, and event where a soda costs ten dollars…and massacre. But after ten minutes of silence both are in this roller coaster ride of a parking? Out of this world. What many people from the other side of the door, is it safe to comedy. don’t know is that this same thing happened come out? to the Teddy Bear Picnic. A nice country THE SWEET SMELL OF FAME outing for just a few teddies turned into a THEATRE BLACKBALL massive global event on a scale too grand to BY: SCOTT HAAN BY: JERRY RABUSHKA continue. Can this squishy tradition be saved? 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy, Finally, the true story, and why smart teddies 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: stay home. $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 A QUICK REVIEW per performance (Performance royalty waived per performance (Performance royalty waived BY: CARL L. WILLIAMS for forensics competition) for forensics competition) 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script When Kelli shows up expecting a fine evening Who would have guessed that you could run Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: at the theater, she's shocked to discover the into the world’s most famous celebrity in a fast $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be only ticket agent on duty has no intention of food joint! Riley’s chance encounter with ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 admitting her. Cameron Colby made this dream a reality. per performance (Performance royalty waived Will Cameron live up to this super fan’s for forensics competition) THEY SHOOT EXTRAS, DON'T celebrity ideals or will The Sweet Smell Of A sensitive playwright confronts the acerbic Fame just stink? theatre critic who savaged her new play. THEY? While crossing verbal swords, they develop a BY: EDITH WEISS SWINGSET new regard for each other and explore the 1 male, 1 either, 2 total, gender flexible • possibility of a changed relationship. A quirky, Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 BY: SAMARA SISKIND witty comedy. scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be TEN EASY STEPS TO (Performance royalty waived for forensics ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 HUMILIATION competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived BY: KELLY MEADOWS A young high school camera man, Bob, is for forensics competition) 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: filming an extras scene on a Hollywood Boy goes to park. Boy meets Girl on swings. $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 movie. As everything goes wrong, the director Boy likes Girl. Girl likes Boy. Girl ends up (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be William has a meltdown while Bob gains in having more in common with Boy than she ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 confidence and gets the girl. could ever imagine. An exploration of finding per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) connections where you least expect them. THIRD ACT AND TEN There are two prizes at this prom: Timothy BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER TEARING DOWN THE WALLS Blake and a vintage 20s dress that's been sitting in the window of a junk store. Angela 2 either, 2 total • Comedy, Classics • Script BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: and Virginia fiercely compete for both, but can $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script they be satisfied if they each get one? Of Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be course not! What good is a dress if you're on per performance (Performance royalty waived ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 a bad date? While each tries to outwit the for forensics competition) other, both of them look for advice on love per performance (Performance royalty waived Think you can do Hamlet? You piece of for forensics competition) and life by paging through the latest teen literary goo--drop down and give me twenty! fashion magazines, finally learning that life Oops! Imagine a do-it-yourself room addition Trying out for Lear? What are you made of, isn't as easy as it looks on the cover. Full of that's accidentally missing doors and actor--let's see three hundred sit-ups. You call surprises and some very interesting turns of windows. When a couple enclose themselves that a soliloquy? You ought to be doing phrase, this play is performed with no direct in their own creation, there's no one around to television sitcoms--give me five laps around interaction. help them. Will handyman Bob Vila show up the theater! What if theater directors with a solution? Not likely! A claustrophobic approached the arts like a football coach? comedy. The answer might surprise you...so get out there and give it your all as an understudy, and let's win one for the Gipper.
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THREE WISHES TOE TAG: JANE DOE TRAPPED BY: JOSEPH SORRENTINO *BY: GARY RAY STAPP BY: SCOTT HAAN 2 males, 2 total • Comedy, Dark Comedy, 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy, Forensics, Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script Pack: (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy Speech and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 performance (Performance royalty waived for time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per per performance (Performance royalty waived forensics competition) performance (Performance royalty waived for for forensics competition) forensics competition) A pair of high school friends prove that Things aren’t looking good as Harry shuffles enrollment in college can be drop-dead funny The elevator lurches to a halt, trapping two through trash, searching for anything that will when they find themselves alone in a room complete strangers alone together. Aside help support his family. That is, until he with a misplaced corpse. Initially mortified, from both of them searching for a way out, the stumbles upon an old bottle. While rubbing they quickly turn their fear into curiosity as two don't seem to have anything in the label, so he can read it, he is stunned they contemplate death, tests, and internet common...or do they? when a genie appears. In true genie fashion, stardom with their misfortunate roommate, Harry is granted three wishes. Will Harry’s Jane Doe. WHEN AMOEBAS ATTACK wishes be selfless or self-serving? The BY: JERRY RABUSHKA answer might surprise you in Three Wishes. TOE TAG: JOHN DOE 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: BY:* GARY RAY STAPP $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 USE OTHER DOOR 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be BY: JERRY RABUSHKA $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for forensics competition) Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be per performance (Performance royalty waived Adventure on the high seas! Well, okay, ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for forensics competition) adventure on a microscope slide. But when per performance (Performance royalty waived A pair of high school friends prove that you’re only one cell, a drop of water is a big for forensics competition) enrollment in college can be drop-dead funny place! Our story starts with the trauma of a Nothing makes you want to open a door more when they find themselves alone in a room planaria getting her head sliced in two by a than a sign telling you not to. But this with a misplaced corpse. Initially mortified, curious biology student. When each half door...this door has a history! One young they quickly turn their fear into curiosity as regenerates, it seems that two heads aren’t man, determined to flout the wisdom of they contemplate death, tests, and internet necessarily better than one. As one head falls society, pays the price for going through, even stardom with their misfortunate roommate, asleep, the other tries to crash an exclusive years down the line. But though he tries in John Doe. amoeba night club. Will she get in… or will the vain, he can't convince others of the danger amoebas attack? lurking behind it. Allows the actors to play teens, children, and adult characters. TOO LATE FOR SORRY BY: LAURIE ALLEN TUESDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: BY: DAVID J. 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Then buckle (Performance royalty waived for forensics up for a contest between the game's most competition) a happy reunion, as Jennifer recalls the abuse he inflicted on her. incredible teams, California Quake and What would happen if your watch sped up, Dayton Death! The Quake have the best and your life raced faster and faster each offense in the game, but they've got to get day? This is the fate of our protagonist, Tim THE WEDDING PRESENT through the Deaths' new Judgment Day Mann, who can't stop clocks from speeding BY: CAROLYN WEST Defense, which places a Humvee, a Chevy his aging process. Tim, thinking he's going 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: S-10, and a Sherman Tank on the defensive mad, finally visits a psychiatrist, who $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 front line. You'll be caught up in the action as pronounces him sane. Has his own behavior (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be the announcers provide play-by-play
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TUNDRA GAMES TWO OLD MEN UNREQUITED BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE BY: D.B. BRAXTON BY: DAVID-MATTHEW BARNES 0-1 females, 1-2 males, 2 total, gender flexible • 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: Dark Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance performance (Performance royalty waived for per performance (Performance royalty waived (Performance royalty waived for forensics forensics competition) for forensics competition) competition) Jed and Ed are two old men who have At a high school dance, the eccentric Mercury Two professional hit men discover they're too everything behind them and nothing to look Jones is locked in a supply room with the soft-hearted for a life of crime. Set on the forward to. Circumstances won't stop these most popular guy in school, Travis Emerson. frozen tundra, Max would have Hickey part wild old men from making obnoxious plans in After confessing that she has had a crush on with his own finger in order to protect their this delightful farce. him for years, Mercury discovers that Travis is fading reputations. A challenging script. not the perfect person that she thought he UNDERGROUND RUMBLINGS was. Unrequited was selected by Love Creek Productions for inclusion in their Winter One- TWICE THE THERAPY BY: EDAN SCHAPPERT Act Series in New York and premiered at The BY: LAUREN DENSON 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • Creative Place Theatre. A powerful play for 1 male, 1 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a high school students, it explores intimate Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - issues that today's teens often face. scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance waived for forensics competition) SUGAR HUNT (Performance royalty waived for forensics BY: KELLY MEADOWS competition) A mismatched pair find themselves in the dark wondering where they are and how they got 2 females, 2 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech Dr. Greene, a psychiatrist, realizes that his there. They look at each other, converse, then and Debate • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 newest patient may be dealing with more than realize they have nothing in common...one is scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ just "inner demons." A Dr. Jekyll has paid grumpy, the other is cheerful. Can the optimist Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Greene for a one-on-one session to deal with get away from the grouch? A poignant ending purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics his emotional problems. So why won't Mr. will take you totally by surprise. Recorded for competition) Hyde just leave him alone?! A modern twist radio broadcast by NPR, produced Off-Off on a classic tale of good versus evil and the Broadway in NYC, and called "a triumph!" by Sometimes you have a craving for something battle within every man. Show Business newspaper. and you have to have it! But why is sugar so hard to find? Our two girls have a nightmarish experience trying to find pure sugar in a world THE TWISTING-TURNING UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE DEATH MACHINE of high fructose corn syrup! Can the natural CENTURY food store help them? What about the coffee BY: ALAN HAEHNEL BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI house? Heroines Chloe and Amber also play COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 an assortment of crass clerks and crabby $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy customers as they frantically search for (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 sweetness. Accept no substitute – this play is time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per the real thing! per performance (Performance royaty waived performance (Performance royalty waived for for forensics competition) forensics competition) Marla desires fun and excitement! Sue wants When her mother is killed in an accident, Kim VENGEFUL INTERLUDE information vital to her love life. Together they has nowhere to turn but to her estranged BY: AMANDA KELLER must face..."the twisting-turning death father and his family. No one knew of Kim's 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 machine." When Marla's information turns out existence, until now...least of all Natalie, her (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy to be less than stellar, will she face her own new half-sister. for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at death at the hands of a betrayed Sue? time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for TIME LAPSE forensics competition) TWITCHER BY: JULES TASCA When Selene sees Dominique, she thinks she BY: J.J. JONAS 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script has gone mad. Perhaps the pills have 2 males, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: affected her mind. After all, Dominique is (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be dead, but that doesn't keep her silent. Was it for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Selene's problem that Dominique couldn't time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per per performance (Performance royalty waived performance (Performance royalty waived for for forensics competition) cope living in the shadow of her perfection? Is forensics competition) this why Dominique turned up dead? Now it's Follow Emit throughout his entire life in this time for two very different, troubled people to A 16-year-old football coach's dream, Colton hugely successful contest script. Discover the bare their souls under extraordinary is as physically and athletically talented as he very essence of man as Emit travels through circumstances...or is it just the pills talking? is full of heart and dedication. Then, one day childhood with Mother, marriage with Emily, he begins to have seizures, and his life is and old age with his nurse. Strong acting is dramatically altered...and so is the life of his required. best friend.
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WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED ABOUT YOU BY: DAVID KRUH BY: ALAN HAEHNEL BY: DJ SANDERS 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: performance (Performance royalty waived for per performance (Performance royalty waived $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty forensics competition) for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) Two corporate climbers have been goaded When Susan wants George to try their new Lights down! Curtains up! Where's the play? into making an arduous climb up a mountain psychiatrist's techniques of transcendental Will there be a performance? It's all as a way to prove their worthiness for oneness, marital chaos is the result. Full of very...experimental! An original and refreshing promotion. To their great relief, they make it to twists and turns, clever wit, and interesting comedy. the top, but their dreams of carpeted offices accents, it's just what the doctor ordered! and private secretaries are shattered when they realize they are the only ones who have WORLD WIDE FANS THE VONHEFFLEHORN survived the climb. Top of the World, Ma will BY: JOHN C. HAVENS THERAPY leave audiences howling as they watch these BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER two yuppies try to figure out how to get back 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • down the mountain. Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: WELCOME TO FLORIDA $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty BY: LINDA E. BAGGS waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script Two overzealous sportscasters take an Gone through psychoanalysis? Still having Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: around-the-world look at strange and rare trouble? Then contact Von Hefflehorn, the $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be athletic competitions. Staring contests and toe insult therapist. By the time he gets through ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 wrestling matches are just two of the per performance (Performance royalty waived with you, you'll be too angry to care about outlandish spectacles that occur in this for forensics competition) anything! challenging, fast-paced comedy. Will Constance Randolph survive her visit to the Florida Dept. of Motor Vehicles? Getting a WHAT WOULD GRISSOM DO? WAITING: AN EXISTENTIAL CRY driver's license becomes nearly impossible BY: LEON KAYE OF DESPAIR when a DMV clerk is determined to test not BY: JOHN OTT only her driving skills but whether or not she 2 males, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Drama • Script can keep her composure. 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And the police $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty won't collect any evidence! Should the connection, they affirm to each other their waived for forensics competition) humanity amid forces beyond their control. teenager take the law into his own hands? Mrs. Cheney accuses her student, Sydney, of cheating when she discovers that Sydney has WHAT'S IN A VACUUM? X MARKS THE SPOT altered a grade and even forged her BY: KRYSTLE HENNINGER BY: JONATHAN DORF handwriting to change the comments on an 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script essay test. We learn, though, that Sydney's 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: alterations are just for herself, and are her Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be way of compensating for her lack of success ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 and positive attention in school. By the end of per performance (Performance royalty waived per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) the conversation, Mrs. Cheney's suspicion of for forensics competition) Sydney turns to admiration. COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS Mo and Zippy are typical tourists. Wedding In preparation for a forensics tournament, a rings on their fingers, but not really married. coach asks his forensics student to vacuum a Wandering middle America looking for the classroom. Will Lisa oblige and perform the "Home of the Burning Bush." In other words, household chore she hates most...or will she they're in a lot of trouble. Can they save their dare to go toe-to-toe with the wily forensics strange relationship before it goes up in coach? smoke?
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TRULY SCRUMPTIOUS WOWSERS WE LOATHE OUR CUSTOMERS BY: PETER LANCASTER WALKER BY: ANN M. PEARSON - TEN MINUTE VERSION 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Comedy • Script 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • BY: BRADLEY WALTON Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a 2 either, 2 total, gender flexible • Comedy • $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Script Pack: $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - per performance (Performance royalty waived $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) $15.00 per performance (Performance Royalty Imagine the problem for a customer in a Something is wrong—terribly, hilariously waived for forensics competition) restaurant if everything the person ordered wrong—when an anxious young patient tries Bailey and Campbell work at an office supply was the living, beloved pet of the wait staff! to find a remedy for an affliction with words. store, and they both love the customers. Would anyone ever eat again? Discover the The patient cannot seem to stop uttering Specifically, they love to torment them. But answer in Truly Scrumptious. nonsense! As the patient explains and when word comes of an impending visit from becomes increasingly agitated, the extremely the district manager, Campbell and Bailey are WHERE'S THAT BRIDGE? confident doctor and willing receptionist forced to try and behave themselves as they attempt to assist the distraught young patient, deal with the most obnoxious bunch of BY: JOSEPH SORRENTINO but unnervingly become afflicted with the customers they've ever encountered. 2 males, 2 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech dreaded disease. Before the end, chaos and Debate, Classics • Script Pack: $14.50 ensues, and the unruly words spill out most This ten-minute version of the popular one-act (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy untidily. Don't miss a word. for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at play We Loathe Our Customers is perfect for time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per forensics duos looking to showcase their performance (Performance royalty waived for talents with a hilarious piece that gives both forensics competition) performers the opportunity to play multiple roles. To their utter amazement, Frank and Harry have landed roles in a community theater production of Julius Caesar but Frank flubs a WHAT THE VOICE WANTS ME line…well, flubs his only line…and is worried TO DO he won’t get cast in a play again. When Harry BY: BRADLEY WALTON tries to tell him not to worry about it, he 2 either, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 mangles a cliché leading to an absurdist (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy argument between them. for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for WHO WANTS A BOYFRIEND? forensics competition) BY: D.B. BRAXTON Danny likes to hurt things. He started out with 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: spiders, then worked his way up to crickets. $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE DUETS (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be When he progressed to mice, he started to ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 feel guilty, but then he heard a voice… per performance (Performance royalty waived encouraging him to do it. Danny listened, and for forensics competition) as the size of his victims gradually increased, so did the rush of hurting them—along with Some people just don't know what they're the guilt that came later. Today, Danny has missing. Gail pleads with her best friend to found an injured dog, unable to run away and find a boyfriend so she won't spend bigger than anything he’s ever tortured Valentine's Day sweetheart-less. YOUR MOTHER'S AGENDA before… tempting him. Danny knows he BY: JERRY RABUSHKA shouldn’t do it, but the voice is there with him, RECOGNITION 2 females, 2 total • Comedy • Script Pack: insistent. Can Danny finally find the strength BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 to resist? 2 females, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: $14.50 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at per performance (Performance royalty waived SONG OF LILLIAN time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per for forensics competition) BY: KEN BRADBURY performance (Performance royalty waived for 1 female, 1 male, 2 total • Drama • Script Pack: What if Romeo and Juliet didn’t know that forensics competition) $14.50 (Includes 2 scripts) • Add a Script: $1.00 their families hated each other? In this play, (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be A chance encounter between an adoptive kindergartners Rachel and Athena come from ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 mother, Allison, and the birth mother of her warring cultures but don’t know it. At age five, per performance (Performance royalty waived child reopens old wounds. How far will Allison their families are on a mission: to get the girls for forensics competition) push Tanya for information? to stop playing and start hating. A A father finds that his mentally handicapped combination of youthful misunderstanding and daughter has been ignored and abused by his their determination to stay friends throws their ex-wife. Mature theme. mothers and uncles off balance, while a combination of humor and odd logic make a strong, yet easily digested statement about unfounded prejudice.
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Jane and Jim Jeffries The Cost of The Price for Standing Out FITTINGFITTING ININ
Bullying isn’t always high profile like “Mean Girls,” but it is an ongoing problem in schools. Sometimes, the dislike is rooted in our own prejudices and misunderstanding of other cultures. More often, if someone doesn’t like you, they tend to take it out on you—and they bring their friends along. And if the bullying goes viral, then it’s an even bigger issue. Still, we all have the ability to steer things in another direction, and sometimes, just one person can make the difference.
The Girl in the Red Hijab (found on page 81) works well as a thought-provoking competition piece or as a stand-alone production that confronts the topic of bullying, stereotypes, and our own prejudices. As the audience gets to know Samira, they find out that, even though she’s Muslim, she’s not all that different from any other teenager. She is outwardly confident but struggles like everyone else to fit in. When she gets on the bad side of the popular crowd, their hidden prejudices erupt, and they begin a campaign of electronic bullying.
This script progresses from the humor of daily life in high school to the serious nature of bullying. More importantly, it challenges the actors and the audience to consider whether they would make a stand or stand silently with the crowd.
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368 FRIENDS - TEN MINUTE ACCUMULATING CATS MISS WONDERLING'S HISTORY VERSION BY: KELLY MEADOWS CLASS BY: BRADLEY WALTON 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a BY: FRANCESCA SANDERS 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama • Script: Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance waived for forensics competition) $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty (Performance royalty waived for forensics Anything for the girl he loves? Does that waived for forensics competition) competition) mean he has to adopt a cat every time he Can you keep a stiff upper lip? Miss Lorne is a lucky guy. He has 368 friends wants to say hello? While Brenda's innocently Wonderling tries valiantly as she teaches online, and anybody with that many friends saving the lives of unwanted felines, Kenneth unruly pupils at a British girls' school. has it good. At least, that's what Lorne keeps is accumulating quite a menagerie taking telling himself. But as time goes on, he has them off her hands. Soon the police are AFTERLIFE more and more trouble believing it. After his involved, and the news media gets in on the BY: LEON KAYE posts about depression go unanswered, action—these cats had better have nine lives 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Lorne announces to his 368 friends that he to survive this kind of mayhem! Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - plans to kill himself and waits to see if any of must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: them will try to stop him. ADAM $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty BY:* KRISTA BOEHNERT waived for forensics competition) 88 KEYS 1 male, 1 total • Drama, Forensics, Speech and Alex, a surfer dude, tries really hard to be cast BY: J.J. JONAS Debate, Scenes & Monologues • Script: $8.75 • as Mercutio in his high school's rendition of 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ Romeo and Juliet. Alex feels he can really Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of understand the part because, like Mercutio, purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: who dies in the play, he almost died in a $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty (Performance royalty waived for forensics surfing accident a few years ago. He tells of waived for forensics competition) competition) his hilarious escapades through the spirit Maggie hates taking her piano lesson; it's the Jared Tindell is on cloud nine when he starts world—playing chess with death, heading bane of her existence - or at least the low dating the girl of his dreams, Jenny Bowen. through a tunnel toward a big bright light that point of her week. But it is only through her After only a couple of dates, Jenny abruptly zaps you like a mosquito, and his strange piano teacher she realizes that limited views stops talking to Jared and gets back together encounter with Adolph Hitler in a storage can prevent full understanding in the same with her volatile ex-boyfriend, Adam. Jared, closet. The afterlife is a scream! way that leaving out notes of a song prevents who is hurt, angry and confused by her choice one from hearing the entire melody. to reconcile with Adam, confronts Jenny about AL LITERATION, PRIVATE EYE breaking his heart. BY: FORREST MUSSELMAN ACCENTS, INC. 1-2 either, 1-2 total • Comedy, Mystery • Script: BY: JOHN C. HAVENS ADDIE AND ME $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ 1 either, 1 total • Comedy, Educational • Script: BY: RONALD MICCI Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - (Performance royalty waived for forensics purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: competition) COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES (Performance royalty waived for forensics $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Limber up your mouth for this one! Follow competition) waived for forensics competition) private detective, Al Literation, as he solves A snotty dialect coach guides students How does an only child cope with the painful the case of Sally’s missing seashells. Could it through an unorthodox training session in loss of her mother? In this poignant possibly be Peter Piper? accents. This bombastic teacher uses monologue, Marjorie has invented an irregular teaching methods to help students imaginary sister whom she now rouses with *Works equally well as a duet script. retain information in this high-energy comedy. the news that she has discovered her mother's beautiful wedding dress in a locked AL LITERATION, PRIVATE EYE: ACCEPTANCE room. Can Marjorie accept the reality that THE CASE OF BLUE BOY BY: CAROLYN WEST there is no wedding dress in that room and BY: FORREST MUSSELMAN that her mother will not return? 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • 1-2 either, 1-2 total, doubling possible, gender Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for flexible • Comedy, Mystery • Script: $8.75 • Add Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time SASSY AND THE BOSS a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: (Performance royalty waived for forensics 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty competition) Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - waived for forensics competition) This is it! The envelope, please! I have the must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Lips still limber? This great sequel to Al $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty answer in my hand. Will I go on to Julliard and Literation, Private Eye delves deeper into the waived for forensics competition) become a famous actor or stay behind and detective's deeds as he decodes the case of live with my parents until I'm 35? Open the When Fiona's boss assaults her at work, she the disappearing Boy Blue. This tough tongue envelope and find out in this insightful comedy finds herself in a "he said, she said" situation. twister works well as a comic monologue or about hope. Ironically, her saving witness is the very girl duet in this fun, forensic folly. Note: Works Fiona has most demeaned. equally well as a duet script.
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ALL SHE CAN EAT BEIN' CRAZY ASHES BY: MONICA BAUER BY: MARC BAGWELL BY: CAROLYN WEST 1 female, 1 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama • Script: and Debate • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance per performance (Performance royalty waived waived for forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics for forensics competition) competition) As Ted welcomes a fellow patient to the ward, Lacey thinks she absolutely must get her best he discovers the walls are closing in around Sometimes the most unlikely objects become friend to lose weight, but a disastrous him. In a world where no one cares, is "bein' dear to us when we no longer have them. “intervention” leads her to a change of heart. crazy" really such a bad thing? Sifting through the ashes of what was once her home, Chris discovers that sometimes AMANDA AS SEEN ON TV memories are the dearest possessions. BY: DONNAMARIE VAUGHAN BY: JIM GUSTAFSON 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, THE BEST THANKSGIVING Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Parody • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 EVER must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be BY: MONICA BAUER $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add waived for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - for forensics competition) Motherhood is normally instinctive, but not for must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: this would-be mother. Happiness is fleeting as Late night TV is a time when the airways open $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty heartache takes its toll in this chilling up to the denizens of modern advertising...the waived for forensics competition) monologue about selfish love. Mail Order hucksters with their irritating “As It’s Thanksgiving morning, and Doris Jean, Seen On TV” commercials. You know the frazzled North Carolina mother of five, THE AMAZING DORIS MAPLES breed: Selling amazing products that claim discovers that her husband, Chuck, is too sick BY: J.J. JONAS your life isn’t worth living unless you “Order to attend the traditional Delbow Family 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add Now for the unbelievably low price of $19.95, Thanksgiving. She sees this as Divine a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - plus shipping and handling.” This fast-paced Intervention, as it keeps Doris Jean away must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: parody captures every promise, pledge and from her crazy in-laws, whose Thanksgiving $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty miracle in the life-changing products you can’t tradition is to eat whatever animal has most waived for forensics competition) live without. recently died on the Delbow Farm. Just when She's an actress...a future star...just waiting to you think things can’t get any crazier, they do, be discovered! Doris, whose fantasies of THE BALD AND THE BEAUTIFUL and the twist at the end will have you thinking stardom exist only in her own mind, suddenly BY: J.J. JONAS second thoughts on Turkey Day. has a chance to make a splash in her small 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a town. But when things turn sour, fantasies Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - THE BIG C appear to be coming true. A humorous check must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: BY: JOHN C. HAVENS $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty on reality. 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama • Script: waived for forensics competition) $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ AND THE BROOM YOU RODE IN A former teenage beauty queen, after being Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of ON caught in the grips of leukemia, finds that purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics BY: JERRY RABUSHKA appearance is a superficial means of self- competition) 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add appraisal and that sometimes loyal friends a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - can be the best survival kit of all. A cancer patient bemoans the isolation of his must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: disease. Yearning to break the tension that $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty AMAZING GRACE pervades his room, he invokes the spirit of waived for forensics competition) BY: BRADLEY WALTON Groucho Marx to amuse himself and his Sabrina doesn't stand a chance against this 1 either, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a angelic nurse. A dramatic monologue that girl! Wouldn't it be great if you could resolve Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - demonstrates the passion of those who all your squabbles by turning your opponent must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: sometimes get written off as "goners." into a toad? Rozelda finds being a teenage $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) witch mainstreamed into public high school in ECSTASY fraught with challenges. How do you get into a Sara died in a car crash. Miraculously, the BY: DONNAMARIE VAUGHAN clique when you have all those warts? How doctors brought her back. After months in a 1 male, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a do you get status when the family car really is coma, she awoke a crippled, child-like Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - a broom? There's only so much a young girl shadow of her former self, and died again must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty can take before she starts to strike back. eight years later without ever having fully waived for forensics competition) When there are so many toads in school that recovered. Asked to sing at Sara’s funeral, classes get moved to a terrarium, the principal one of her caregivers shares a powerful, A young man thinks he can handle the
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MOUSE THAT SAVED THE CEMETERY VANDALISM AND CLEARANCE RACK WORLD THE REGULAR GUY BY: KELLY MEADOWS BY: JOHN C. HAVENS BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics waived for forensics competition) What’s more embarrassing than going back- competition) Imagine three guys playing a prank in the to-school shopping with your mother? How A rowdy American tourist from Brooklyn visits local graveyard and discovering a newly- about when the two clerks are the girl that a London subway and is despondent over not deceased body! Offers an actor comedy, beat you out for the final cheerleading spot, making any friends on the trip. But when a action, multiple characterizations, and a wide and the guy who insisted that under no tiny mouse on the railway platform struggles range of emotions. circumstances would he take you to the to climb to safety, people rally together in dance? With all these people staring her support of their fuzzy friend. CHEERING MY WAY INTO down, Christine finds the very act of trying on COLLEGE an outfit to be fraught with treachery. CAMPAIGN PROMISES BY: JOHN C. HAVENS Everyone judges her by what she wears, and BY: JOHN C. HAVENS 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add no one can agree. Will she be stuck in clothes 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - from the clearance rack? Can she hold on to a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: a “thread” of dignity? Finally, a unique and must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty unplanned solution turns humiliation into $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) triumph. waived for forensics competition) "Babs" is an ultra-peppy cheerleader who can A timid, love-struck girl is about to tell her cheer her way into anything—even college, in COFFEE CRAZED CONFUSION boyfriend the three most precious words in front of the S.A.T. review board. This high- BY: JIM GUSTAFSON anyone's vocabulary: "I love you." Too bad energy comedic monologue shows how far 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add she hears a phone message from another you can get by putting your best pom-pom a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - one of his girlfriends. In this clever comedy, forward. must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: our heroine gives this player a taste of his $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty own medicine and lets him see how it feels CHEERLEADER MEETS THE waived for forensics competition) when he's the victim of a broken promise. GOTH A hard core coffee drinker has to deal with the BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI frustration of trying to get a "plain old, garden THE CASHIER IN LANE 8 * 1 female, 1 total • Comedy, Drama • Script: variety" cup of coffee in the world of designer BY: JERRY RABUSHKA $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ brews in a modern coffee shop. 1 female, 1 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of and Debate, Scenes & Monologues • Script: purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance COLLEGE APPLICANT FROM $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ (Performance royalty waived for forensics MARS Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of competition) BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance
(Performance royalty waived for forensics Self-absorbed, hyper Krista, captain of the 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES competition) cheerleaders, tries out for her first play. After a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - bombing her hysterically funny audition, she is must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: The drudgery of grocery shopping quickly locked in the girls' bathroom with the school's $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) gets better when our speaker lights upon a scariest goth. This monologue allows the really cute cashier in lane eight. She’ll do actress to show multiple characterizations, Picture the world's most bizarre college anything to have him ring up her order, even if comic timing, and unexpected emotional applicant, and you'll meet Tassy Nitrate it means spending the afternoon in a long line variety. Harborschmidt, a bumbling, allergic, trivia and and giving up a chance to check out faster yoga obsessed genius, interviewing for the through aisle seven. But why is this taking so GRIME DOESN'T PAY position of student at renowned Centerton long? Customers are showing him cat BY: KELLY MEADOWS College. pictures, fishing for pennies–it’s almost like 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, the universe is working to keep her meeting Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • THIRTY-ONE WORDS this marvelous young man. When it’s finally Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ BY: PAUL DILELLA her turn, he says the darnedest thing… Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama • Script: purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ RESPONSIBLE (Performance royalty waived for forensics Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of BY: DENNIS BUSH competition) purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance 1 male, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a Heroes and villains collide in a tense story (Performance royalty waived for forensics Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - about pressure washing Abraham Lincoln’s competition) must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: memorial statue in Washington, DC. As Ron Sgt. 1st Class Myers visits a high school to $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty starts getting a little too proud, Cyrus hatches waived for forensics competition) recruit graduating seniors. During the Pledge a plan to stop him – and his pressure washer of Allegiance, he observes that students lack A 14-year-old boy explains what he had to do – in their tracks. Will Ron clean the pigeon the proper respect and understanding. Myers to be responsible in this challenging solo poop off the president, or will he buckle… delays a recruiting pitch to instruct students in piece for a young actor. under pressure? the history and meaning of this important rite.
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COOKING ON THE STREET CRITIC'S CARNIVAL DESIGNATED DRIVER BY: LEON KAYE BY: STEVEN BERGMAN BY: CAROLYN WEST 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a 1 either, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) Yo. Jimmy the Finger has a new show called Told in the style of film noir, famed theatre Millions experience it. But everyone dreads Cooking on the Street, where he makes food critic Sam Beaulieu gives us his latest show it...those horrible flashing lights in your rear that is A—good for you, B—delicious to eat, review. However, there's something very view mirror! When Peter drinks too many and C—can maim or scald a would-be unusual about this particular review, as Sam colas and gets pulled over, can he manage to attacker. So make sure you keep your hands seems to know quite a bit more than one walk a straight line? An arresting comedy! in plain sight at all times. would expect about the cast of this production. Will this information lead to DIRK, THE ANGRY SCOTSMAN COSMETOLOGY CLASS Beaulieu's review of Critic's Carnival being his BY: JOHN C. HAVENS BY: JERRY RABUSHKA last? 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - THE DATING GAME must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: BY: KELLY MEADOWS $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add waived for forensics competition) a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - A sour Scotsman becomes enraged when his An obnoxious high school girl is sent to a must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: beloved bagpipes are stolen from him. Will his week-long cosmetology seminar by her $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty world come crashing down? And how will Dirk waived for forensics competition) mother, who thinks her daughter is beginning entertain his sheep without bagpipes? Side- to look like Catwoman. When our heroine You think this is easy? Poor Babette has to splitting comedy at its most sour. comes into conflict with an assortment of interview three bachelors on The Dating pretentious women, the entire seminar Game—men behind a screen that she can THE DOGMAN threatens to come unglued. Will the instructor hear but cannot see. Since she can't just pick BY: ROBERT FRANKEL regain control? You'll never put on your make- the cutest, she's forced to judge 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a up the same again! on...personality! When her potential dates Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - keep giving her dimwitted answers, she goes must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: COUNTING TO THREE for the jugular. "Bachelor number three, $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty BY: TERRI COLLIN what's the square root of 579?" Can anybody waived for forensics competition) 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add really know for sure? Weren't they supposed A breathless Phillip arrives on the stage to tell a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - to ask easy questions on this show? Stay us about his recent encounter with a vicious must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: tuned for the surprising conclusion! dog. As the story unfolds, he reveals that it $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty was a teacup poodle and that the woman who waived for forensics competition) DAVID IN GOLIATH held the leash put a curse on him. Could that "Before I had kids, I was the perfect mother." BY: PATRICK GABRIDGE be why we begin to notice him hOOWWling Anyone who has children will relate to this 1 male, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a some of his lines and fiercely scratching his light-hearted monologue about the trials and Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - ears?! Ending with his race offstage to find a tribulations of motherhood. This is a witty, must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: fire hydrant, this hilarious monologue will keep fast-paced, true-to-life story that will definitely $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty your audience engaged and laughing right waived for forensics competition) give insight on rearing children. through the end! The spirit of a dying young man tries COYOTE KILLER desperately to communicate with his parents, DRINKING DOWN COOL BY: MATT BUCHANAN who keep unrelenting vigil and refuse to let go BY: JERRY RABUSHKA 1 either, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a of their beloved son. 1 male, 1 total • Drama, Forensics, Speech and Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Debate • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: A WING AND A PRAYER (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty BY: SANDRA DEMPSEY ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 waived for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived 1 male, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a for forensics competition) A young teen's cat is mauled by a wild coyote. Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Determined to avenge his pet, the teen sets must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: What if you could find friendship, self- out on a campaign to kill the coyote. But in $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty acceptance, and social advancement all by waived for forensics competition) order to get close enough to do it, he must twisting open a soft drink? The FreeZola essentially befriend the animal, and in the end A bad aircraft fire has left your face horribly generation promises all that and more, and it his revenge sickens him. This emotional and disfigured, and the Air Force thinks the very works! For a while, “our hero” fends off sometimes shocking monologue is a great sight of you would be bad for morale. But just opposition–medical experts, social activists,
COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES vehicle for showcasing an actor's intensity. when you're at your lowest, a remarkable all of them telling him he’s soft-drinking a path chance encounter rekindles your heart. to disaster. But this is too good to give up! He soon finds out the hard way that everyone is not on his side.
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DRIVING LESSONS DUCK BLIND FAIRY TALES AND LIES BY: CAROLYN WEST BY: SHIRLEY BARRIE BY: KELLY MEADOWS 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) More irritating than the sound of fingernails on A family outing leaves Jenny stranded in the You can tell from the start something's a little a chalkboard... It's the mom voice! When Geri middle of the lake at midnight. She finds strange about this seemingly innocent fairy gets her learner's permit, someone has to sit herself frustrated with the people and events tale set in a castle that sits across the border in the suicide seat! Mom comes to the rescue. that have left her perching in a duck blind, of two former Soviet republics. Is there really Who will lose her sanity first? A comedy with waiting for help to come. a princess trapped in a castle, or just a plenty of drive. schoolgirl confined to her room for bad EARL'S GAS behavior? Now she needs a passport to cross DWARF IN TIGHTS: (FAILED) BY: JOHN C. HAVENS from one room to the next! Or is that just mom HARBINGER OF DOOM 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a inspecting her book bag for contraband? BY: BRADLEY WALTON Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, Fairy must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: FALLING (AND NOT GETTING Tales • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty UP) for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at waived for forensics competition) BY: BOBBY KENISTON time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per A gas station philosopher with a vocal tic and 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add performance (Performance royalty waived for an attitude confronts an arrogant customer. a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - forensics competition) When he realizes he's gone too far, as an must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: When magic surrounds you, all you need to apology, he offers the customer the delicacies $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty do is open your eyes and look around to be of the house: an RC Cola and a moon pie. A waived for forensics competition) awed by it. Unless you're a completely self- real down-home treat. Mildred, by all appearances a sweet, spunky absorbed teenager focused on not being late old lady, is making a commercial for “The Life- for school in order to avoid lunch detention. ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM - Saver Button.” She tells her story about a time Then you do your best to ignore the dwarf HOW I GOT A DATE WITH THE when she fell in her home and couldn’t get up. addressing you as royalty. And the dragon. ZOOKEEPER'S DAUGHTER However, as the story progresses, the And the Pegasus, the griffons, the fairies, the BY: KELLY MEADOWS complications mount with a nosy neighbor centaurs, and all of the other creatures 1 male, 1 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech and her obnoxious grown son, a broken fighting a war around you as you try to walk to and Debate • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 cookie platter, and even a police standoff! school. You really hate it when the day gets (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Perhaps Mildred isn’t as sweet as she off to a bad start. ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 seems? per performance (Performance royalty waived DUELING DOORMEN for forensics competition) THE FAR SIDE OF SPECULON BY: JOHN C. HAVENS Zoo jokes running wild! On the surface, this is BY: JERRY RABUSHKA 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a a very simple boy-meets-girl, but when 1 male, 1 total • Comedy, Fantasy • Script: COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - elephants get involved, it becomes a “big” $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: problem. Our speaker has to learn to respect Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty elephants in order to get the respect of the purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance waived for forensics competition) zookeeper’s daughter. By the time she (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) In this multiple character, high-energy relents, does he even want to go out with her? monologue with numerous accents, the Every actor should have this one in his trunk! Spaceships, interplanetary battles and outspoken Tony, a doorman from Hoboken, beautiful women! No wonder no one believes contrasts with the laid-back Spanish doorman, EVIL WITCH, BIG CITY Jasper as he relates his tale of traveling to Fernando. BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI planet Speculon, long known as a playground 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add of the rich. When word leaks concerning the DVD COLLECTING ZOMBIE: AN a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - brutal nature of the planet’s emperor, three APOCALYPTIC STORY must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: swimsuit models fly out at warp speed to BY: KRYSTLE HENNINGER $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty protest. Thrown into prison, these shapely waived for forensics competition) 1 either, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a ladies are force fed fattening food! How much Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - In this humorous monologue for a teen will America—and the world—risk to save must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: woman, Jenny attempts to give her little sister them? And why aren’t they covering this in $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty the perfect three-year old’s birthday, but history? This monologue must be performed waived for forensics competition) accidentally turns the experience into a to teach the truth about our interplanetary During the zombie apocalypse, one would nightmare. Neither set nor props are needed. past. think a zombie's focus would be primarily on eating people's brains. However, one recently turned zombie discovers the deep need to fulfill its DVD collection rises above its instinct to prey on living victims.
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FELICIA FOR WHO THE BELL, LIKE, GEEK FIGHT BY: ALAN POWELL TOLLS BY: BRADLEY WALTON 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a BY: MARTHA KING DE SILVA 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) A woman shares her fear of living with an waived for forensics competition) Who would win the battle between the Marvel abusive husband and the self-doubt that Being a college freshman is tough. When Comics superhero Daredevil and the prevented her from leaving. After summoning Cindy Deveraux, a gum-smacking, latte- notorious Star Wars bounty hunter Boba Fett? the courage to leave, she is forced to deal drinking Valley Girl decides to contest the More importantly, who would care? Two with the tragedy of losing custody of her child. grade on an English paper, her conversation geeks...that's who! As their heated argument Only through her faith in a higher power and doesn't turn out quite the way she plans. A escalates into a brawl at a crowded comic learning to trust her inner voice can she monologue for anyone who thinks the book convention, an aloof but fascinated survive the darkness and be led back into the CliffsNotes beat reading the real thing. bystander finds himself drawn into the conflict. light. FORENSICS NIGHTMARE GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FINISHING SCHOOL BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI HALLUCINATION BY: JOHN C. HAVENS 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add BY: JERRY RABUSHKA 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Dark Comedy a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance waived for forensics competition) of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics (Performance royalty waived for forensics Imagine "losing it" in front of the competitors competition) competition) and judges during an original oratory A principal of a finishing school for boys has competition. Before hiding in shame, this girl Remember the days when your history an awkward moment telling the parents of a "speaks her mind" to every person in sight! teacher gave you eight weeks to write a paper student that their child has accidentally and you started it eight hours before it was expired! A challenging black comedy about FOREVER, OKAY? due? Time’s growing short for our performer, being driven to your limits and going beyond BY: SANDRA DE HELEN who is fighting off sleep to write a paper about them. 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a Washington crossing the Delaware. What a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - great time for writer’s block! Our actor turns FLATTENED FAUNA...STOP AND must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: over a host of ideas – what about George and EAT $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Martha in a steamy romance? What if BY: JIM GUSTAFSON waived for forensics competition) Washington was so cold and hungry he was 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • Guilt, loneliness, and longing are all raw seeing and hearing things? What if… what if Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for human emotions and struggles. But what if the way to write the paper was to return to Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time you're not quite human? Explore the inner 18th century technology? Better hurry, the of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance turmoil in the life of a vampire. British are coming! (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) FROM FINGERS TO FEATHERS GET YOUR STUPID ON Down in the d-e-e-p South, we've got a BY: JOHN C. HAVENS BY: BRADLEY WALTON restaurant that can't be beat. Their "Roadkill 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, Delicacies" will make your mouth water and Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • your funny bone tickle. Come on down to the must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ Flattened Fauna...stop and eat. $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of waived for forensics competition) purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance YOUTUBE CELEBRITY (Performance royalty waived for forensics Beautiful, with a dream-like quality. A lonely competition) BY: JERRY RABUSHKA female befriends a friendless, overweight boy, You join the forensics team with hopes of 1 male, 1 total • Drama, Comedy, Forensics, and the pair has an unusual ritual on moonlit performing the works of Austen, Twain, and Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • Add a nights...he sits in a tree near her house, and Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Shakespeare, but instead your coach tells they smile at one another. But one special must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: you, “If you want to win…you gotta get your evening, he beckons her to follow him, and he $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty stupid on!” You find yourself performing shares a miraculous secret that transforms waived for forensics competition) scripts about a monkey impersonating a them both forever. Fans! Followers! Comments! Jeb doesn’t rhinoceros, farm animals chugging energy want much, just to be a YouTube Celebrity. drinks, and a sumo wrestler fighting ninja As his story unfolds, the loneliness behind his goats at a faculty meeting. This is not what commentary starts to show through, plus his you wanted. You could drop off the team, but you’re determined not to be a quitter. So you COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES family’s snarkiness shakes him into rethinking his reality. Maybe by commenting on others’ stick it out and hope for the best. But will it behavior, he can face the hard truth about ever get better? himself. This dramatic piece contains many comedic elements plus a wide variety of characterizations. 172 Browse new releases online at www.brookpub.com * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES
THE GIFT OF TONGUES HEALTHY GUY GUMBALL BY: TYLER FREEMAN BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER BY: ELIZABETH C. MYERS 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama • Script: 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty (Performance royalty waived for forensics waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) competition) Through a series of letters, a deranged young When child and parents choose each other as A moving examination of love, laughter, and man proposes that he become the official family, a special bond is created. But the road overcoming life's greatest obstacles with spokesperson for a national sandwich shop. to becoming a functional family is often paved sheer determination. A child is born mute and When the company refuses, he seeks a with pitfalls. with severe facial deformations, but learns to violent but hilarious revenge. speak after reconstructive surgery. Funny, GRIP OF STEEL heartfelt, and ultimately devastating. GUILT BY: JERRY RABUSHKA BY: KRYSTLE HENNINGER 1 male, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a GRADUATION 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - BY: JERRY RABUSHKA Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time He's never seen anything like it! Twenty pull- of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance What do you do when you see something you ups without a break. Can achieving that goal (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) don't want to see? When you can't look away, change his own life? Suddenly, it's clear— and the image sears itself into your brain for muscles are the answer to everything. Ghosts Forget those boring end-of-year speeches— life? How do you live with yourself when your of his past confront him as he tries to acquire graduation reveals exactly what's on the brother is murdered before your eyes, and all his own grip of steel. A poetic monologue. speakers' minds! With three distinct you can do is stand there...and watch? characters for the talented actor: the class A HIGH-SCHOOLER'S GUIDE TO valedictorian who reveals the dirt on THE HABITUAL INSOMNIAC THE PERFECT PROM classmates and teachers; the "popular kid," BY: KRYSTLE HENNINGER BY: KATHY LEMMER, ANDREA LEMMER who spent a lifetime acquiring and 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • 1 female, 1 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech manipulating data on who's "in" and who's Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for and Debate • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 "out;" and the very sorry principal who's all too Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be happy to see these students graduate— of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 whether they deserve to or not. (Performance royalty waived for forensics per performance (Performance royalty waived competition) for forensics competition) GRIEF-STRUCK Chase has a hard time falling asleep at night. Every girl dreams of the perfect prom, but with BY: J.J. JONAS Nothing seems to work. Chase gives into his all the prom disasters out there…where can a 1 male, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a insomnia and refuses to just lay in bed for girl turn? Never fear, Marla has all the Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - hours staring at the ceiling. The Habitual answers and shares her hard earned COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Insomniac follows some of the interesting knowledge in her very own prom guide. Don’t $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty stories that Chase has to offer when it comes waived for forensics competition) worry about the dress, the dance, or the date to his insomnia. as Marla’s solutions keep everyone laughing. Only minutes after leaving his family at But is high school ready for this much insight Christmas, James finds himself standing over HANG UPS into prom perfection? And what about the big his dying brother's hospital bed. The lives of BY: NICOLE DAVIS question…is there life after prom? This his family taken by a drunk driver, James can 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a monolog is a high energy experience in only blame himself for not fulfilling his Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - hilarity, perfect for classroom or competition. brother's last request... "Can I ride with you?" must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty THE HOLLY VS RANDALL WARS LIFESCRIPTS waived for forensics competition) BY: EDITH WEISS BY: J.J. JONAS Laura is a young woman who is working at a 1 female, 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • 1 male, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a local car dealership answering phones in Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - order to help pay her mother’s hospital bills. In (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: the midst of her dissatisfaction with her job, ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty she is confronted with strong feelings per performance (Performance royalty waived waived for forensics competition) for forensics competition) regarding her sister’s preferential treatment Nathaniel, living with his mom and sisters, is and lack of interest in their mother’s health. When Holly Hooper's irascible grandfather going stark raving mad in a world of females. moves in with her family, he wants her to call When he finally gets some alone time with his him "Sir" and doesn't let her watch Sex and father, Dad's new wife and stepdaughters the City. The ensuing war between her show up and steal center stage...and all of grandfather, whom she calls Randall, and Dad's attention. A monologue of despair, Holly, whom he calls Heidi, ends up improving frustration and triumph. Holly's vocabulary, spelling, and leads to a knitting business and the Scrabble wars.
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THE HOMECOMING QUEEN I DON'T LIKE HAM I HATE PIGEONS! BY: J.J. JONAS BY: JERRY RABUSHKA BY: ANNE HUGHES 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) Revenge smells sweet as a bitter woman Don’t you hate it when saying “no thank you” Oh, those lovely pigeons. They coo softly, eat prepares to upstage the former homecoming isn’t good enough? Jenny is a high school girl from your hand, and...leave their mark queen at her class reunion. But will who endures no end of abuse simply because everywhere! When the constant company of unexpected events spoil her chance to be the she doesn’t like ham. Why can’t people leave pigeons threatens our hero's sanity, there's new class star? her alone about it? It gets so bad that she’s nothing left but to do away with them all. A forced by her family to compete in the “Win comedy about getting what we deserve. HOW I GOT A RHINOCEROS Your Man With Ham” cook off at her nearby INTO THE ELEVATOR AT SAKS community center. Armed with a secret family I KNEW A BOY BY: KELLY MEADOWS recipe, she awaits the judges’ decision on her BY: ALAN HAEHNEL 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, family-favorite cheese-filled calorie-laden 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • creamy concoction. Turns out she has a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ secret of her own that makes it a sure-fire must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of winner. Perfect for the actress who likes to $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance “ham it up!” waived for forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) The storykeeper knows her duty: she must I GOT A BALLOON ANIMAL spin comforting tales to help her people forget What could be more ridiculous than a FROM A CLOWN AT A FAST their hardships. She must transport them with rhinoceros in an elevator? Well, try getting it FOOD RESTAURANT...NOW her words. She must preserve the culture of through the china department and women’s WHAT? her tribe through her stories. As she tries to wear first. This freewheeling tale pits zoology BY: BRADLEY WALTON do this for her assembled audience, the against modern theater, as an experimental 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, storykeeper struggles against the terrible director has given the rhino a part in the play. Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • reality of her own life - the death of her son. In This is one ride with a rhino you won’t soon Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ the end, the story she must tell is his. forget. Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance I MIGHT BE DANGEROUS (Performance royalty waived for forensics HOW I GOT MY SUPERPOWERS BY: ALAN HAEHNEL competition) BY: JOHN C. HAVENS 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • You go to a fast food restaurant. There is a Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for clown, he offers you a balloon animal. You Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time accept, not anticipating the balloon animal will Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance change your perception of the world…forever. purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty for forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) In hilarious and dramatic comic book style, I GOT AN UGLY TEDDY BEAR our hero encounters lethal playground foes, FROM* A CLAW MACHINE AT A Chris recognizes that her excuse for cutting poised to tease and taunt. Thrill with FAMILY BUFFET...NOW WHAT? off her friend’s hair is completely lame: She excitement as our challenger confronts the BY: BRADLEY WALTON was bored. What if boredom hits her again? "Cold Shoulder Crew" and defeats evil with 1 either, 1 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech And what if it coincides with some opportunity exaggerated superpowers. and Debate, Scenes & Monologues • Script: much more dire than a sleeping friend and a $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ pair of scissors?! Her frantic energy comes HOW TO BE THE PERFECT Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of from the suspicion that, given the right PARENT purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance circumstances, she could be one extremely (Performance royalty waived for forensics BY: LAUREN D. YEE dangerous individual. competition) 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - You go to a family buffet restaurant. There is REWRITTEN must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: a claw machine, and teetering near the edge BY: KRYSTLE HENNINGER $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty of the prize chute is the most hideous stuffed 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a waived for forensics competition) bear you have ever seen. What if some poor Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - What makes a perfect parent? Olivia finds out child was to win that bear and be traumatized must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty when she vows to mold her spirited daughter for life? Or worse…what damage might be waived for forensics competition) Emily into the perfect child. 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I'LL ALWAYS KNOW WHERE ICE CREAM FOR DINNER JOGGING CAN BE MURDER: A YOU ARE BY: DONNAMARIE VAUGHAN TEN MINUTE CRIME DRAMA BY: MARIAH OLSON 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a BY: JERRY RABUSHKA 1 female, 1 total • Drama, Mature Theme • Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance waived for forensics competition) $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty (Performance royalty waived for forensics As a gossiping, boy-crazy, rock music-loving waived for forensics competition) competition) teenage girl, Carolyn's entire world takes a Want a part in a TV crime drama? How about This solo piece follows a young woman who, giant twist when she discovers she is dying. A all of them? This monologue runs through an devastated in her childhood by being touching monologue about adding spice to entire crime show in ten minutes – no abandoned by her mother and losing her your life. commercials! The actress gets to play all the father to cancer, finds herself in an abusive parts: the jogger who discovers the body, the relationship. This powerful monologue INFOMERCIAL grieving survivors, the tough cops, the explores family relationships and how they BY: ELIZABETH C. MYERS annoying lawyer, and a variety of suspects are passed on to the next generation. 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add from all walks of life. It’s a great opportunity a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - for a talented performer to experiment with a I'M NOT NORMAL must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: lot of characterizations! Full of humor and BY:* CAMILA VASQUEZ $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty twists – you’ll never guess who did it! waived for forensics competition) 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, Forensics, Speech and Debate, Scenes & An American tradition since cable television JOGGING WITH MY WIFE Monologues • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: arrived, the world of infomercials is a happy BY: BRADLEY WALTON $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be place where every cheap piece of plastic 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • per performance (Performance royalty waived really works! Just imagine a completely new Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ for forensics competition) infomercial...where you could market yourself! Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of As a young character reflects on the issues IT'S COLD OUT THERE, MAN purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics surrounding them as they grew up, the truth BY: BRADLEY WALTON becomes clear: normal is overrated. competition) 1 either, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Your wife suddenly decides to train for a 5K. I'M NOT OKAY must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: She wants you to help her. You love your BY: BRADLEY WALTON $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty wife, so you don’t tell her that she’s out of her 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama • Script: waived for forensics competition) mind. Instead, you go jogging with her. You $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ What do you do when you visit your are a good husband. And also, probably, you Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of are an idiot. purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance roommate's family for Thanksgiving, only to (Performance royalty waived for forensics discover that they're a bunch of scary A KITTEN IN THE RUBBLE competition) rednecks, and the bitter cold outside prevents * any chance of escape if they decide to eat BY: JERRY RABUSHKA Three weeks before graduation, two of 1 female, 1 total • Dark Comedy, Forensics,
you? What do you say when they send you COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES Jackie's classmates carried guns into school and Grandpa to the convenience store in a Speech and Debate, Scenes & Monologues • and killed nineteen people. Jackie knew what Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for snowstorm to buy milk for the cheese dogs? they were planning but never told a soul. In Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time How much are you willing to pay for a gallon the five years since, the secret has all but of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance of milk when you're convinced the clerk has a destroyed her. Forcing herself to attend her (Performance royalty waived for forensics loaded shotgun right behind the counter? And competition) first class reunion, she struggles to why on Earth do they even need milk for the understand why she kept silent, while A devastating earthquake pits time and life in cheese dogs, anyway? searching for the strength to finally confess a treacherous tug of war. But a wealthy the truth. THE DEBT woman traveling there on a mission to help the needy finds it most important to rescue a BY: BRADLEY WALTON SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER - small kitten she hears mewing in the THE MIRROR'S TALE 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama, wreckage. In a city where human misery lives Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • BY: EDITH WEISS Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ in every step and every doorway, she 1 male, 1 total • Comedy, Fairy Tales, Classics Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of instructs us on the true meaning of love and • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance rescue. Will the kitten be saved in time? What Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time (Performance royalty waived for forensics about the children and families? As the kitten of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance competition) holds on meekly, what will this bizarre and (Performance royalty waived for forensics appalling woman say next? competition) As if high school isn’t hard enough. Try adding a boy who’s clingy and annoying. To The Mirror from Snow White, realizing that make matters even worse he’s asked you on soon the Queen won't be the fairest in the a date! While agonizing over what to do and land, has a bit of a meltdown that accelerates how he’ll handle rejection, life changing when the Queen asks him if she is more circumstances take place. What will happen beautiful than the dawn. when he saves your life? Will you be able to repay The Debt?
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KNIGHTS ARE ALWAYS BETTER THE LAST PROMISE LILA VICARIOUS BY: ELIZABETH C. MYERS BY: MIA KARR BY:* JERRY RABUSHKA 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add 1 either, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a 1 female, 1 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - and Debate, Scenes & Monologues • Script: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White Nora has grown up with her father's broken competition) never had it so good. In this delightful promises to change from an abusive monster comedy, Jennifer discovers that the modern to a loving dad. When his actions finally send Tune into Lila Vicarious, the girl on TV who day Prince Charming does exist and that her over the edge, Nora decides to make a always does it better. She’ll take someone’s dreams do come true. change for herself and her sister, Lucy. talents that one step further, forcing them to However, her plan ends in disaster and Nora step it up or stay behind. Now she’s got THE LANGUAGE OF A DREAM becomes obsessed with honoring the final everyone doing it, and suddenly the entire BY: JERRY RABUSHKA promise she made to Lucy, while struggling school is playing a high stakes game of being someone else, but losing themselves and 1 male, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a with the terrible question: did her choices Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - cause Lucy’s death? their friends in the process. Our speaker has must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: a choice: should she be perfect at living $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty LIFE AND DEATH OF MEGAFEM somebody else’s life, or go back to her own waived for forensics competition) 9000 flawed self? Plus, the best geometry joke ever! Everyone knows you can’t rewrite history, but BY: ALAN HAEHNEL can you re-dream it? Harold is obsessing over 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a LILY a history paper so much that it’s seeping into Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - BY: MATT BUCHANAN his sleep. During the day, he’s a struggling must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: student, but at night, he’s the king of a people $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a about to head into a decisive and fateful waived for forensics competition) Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: battle. Even his instructor is boggled by his The Megafem 9000 programmable $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty interest in history as Harold suddenly realizes mannequin can do it all: speak in any waived for forensics competition) he can live the dream and win the battle that language, model the latest fashions, even was lost irrevocably so long ago. But perform an intricate dance. This versatile Lily, a mannequin in a dress-shop window, something’s changing! Why is he alive in the machine reaches beyond any intended forms a special friendship with the lonely old 14th century, and why is he dreaming what programming, though, when a virus invades woman who stares through the window at her was so recently his modern reality? her system, moving her from "limited every day. We see the old woman's uneasy simulated autonomy" to "complete actual relationship with her driven daughter, but in LAST OF THE LOTTO LAITY autonomy." She's alive! Just as the Megafem the end, we see some of Lily's spirit in her BY: J.J. JONAS begins to revel in all of her newfound young granddaughter. A gentle story that can be a real showcase for honest emotion, with 1 female, 1 total • Drama, Comedy • Script: sensations and possibilities, a safeguard in $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ her system engages. Moment by moment, just enough humor to balance the sweetness. Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of limb by limb, her brief life ebbs away in this purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance challenging monologue. THE LIMPING WOLFMAN (Performance royalty waived for forensics BY: BOBBY KENISTON competition) CHEMICAL GIRLS 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Heroes are alive and well in the modern BY: JERRY RABUSHKA Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - world, or so discerns a woman whose primary must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty mission is to purchase a lottery ticket for the Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - waived for forensics competition) first time, granting her daughter's solitary must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Christmas wish. $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Eddie just wants a quiet, relaxing three-day waived for forensics competition) weekend at home. Unfortunately, his parents LEGACY A chemistry experiment gone wrong? Or one have signed him up, without his knowledge, to BY: SANDRA DEMPSEY gone really, really right! When a student's be a part of the Boo Crew, a group of folks 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a rebellious extra-credit science project results from his hometown community theater who Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - in a beautiful girl to take to the dance, he put on a Haunted Hayride. His job is to be the must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: thinks he's got it made! After all, she's got no Wolfman. Between uncomfortable clothes, $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty homework, no parents...you'd think he'd get itchy make-up, and a series of mishaps, Eddie waived for forensics competition) an A in chemistry, but the teacher's not begins to think he should have stayed home! Meet a family controlled by an overbearing impressed. Unless he can create the same With the night almost over, the Limping alcoholic. Plunge into the dark world of a girl a second time AND show how he did it, it's Wolfman (you'll see why) figures the night young lady forever altered by a father on the not a successful project but a mere accident. can't get any worse--- until he faces a lawsuit! edge, and a mother lacking courage to "fight The results? A chemistry lab full of young
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LONG TITLES ARE GREAT BUT MATERNITY MAYHEM SERIAL STAR HOW AM I GOING TO BY: KELLY MEADOWS BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI REMEMBER IT FOR THE 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add FORENSICS TOURNAMENT? a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - OR IN SHORT-RED must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: BY: KELLY MEADOWS $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - You have to see it to believe it! A woman In this hysterical comic monologue, Child must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: entrusted to the maternity ward develops a Protective Services is called to school when $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty most peculiar pastime...while her co-workers the nurse becomes suspicious of Brianna’s waived for forensics competition) are distracted by their favorite soap, she takes mysterious bruises, crutches, and stitches. A good title is important in getting you to look it upon herself to switch the identities of her She is forced to admit that the mishaps are all at a play—but what happens to the performer newborn charges. By the year's end, over 700 a result of her obsession with a new reality when the title is longer than the play itself? children have gone home with the wrong set television show called Serial Star. Our speaker is bucking the trend of plays with of parents. To add to the trouble, when the longer and longer titles by picking a speech issue comes to light, all the kids want to be MEETING WITH A MEGASTAR for competition with the shortest title he can part of the richest family in town. BY: JERRY RABUSHKA find: Red. Along with finding a rhinoceros in 1 female, 1 total • Drama, Forensics, Speech the elevator, an elephant in the room, and A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH and Debate • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 reciting the jingle for Bunny Bread, you’ll find BY: JERRY RABUSHKA (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be a great opportunity for a talented actor to 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - per performance (Performance royalty waived portray many different voices and make an for forensics competition) audience laugh out loud. must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Sometimes living our dream can wake us up MADHOUSE waived for forensics competition) to a harsh reality. A high school girl wins a BY: SHIRLEY BARRIE Travis didn't ask for any of it. Well, okay, he contest to have some “alone time” with Jesse 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add did. He joined the army to get away from the Bratburn, the latest and hottest teen idol! a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - folks, and now he's been sent to war. The They’ll fall in love, get married, and all her must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: hassles of home don't seem quite so bad now issues about school, homework, and self- $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty that everything is a life or death situation. In a worth will vanish in a sea of money, waived for forensics competition) place where you don't know who carries a mansions, and Hawaii! When their private Stephanie begrudgingly helps with the family gun, who's your friend and who's your enemy, date turns into a camera crew, news business...running a funeral home! From Travis finds himself face-to-face with an reporters, mom as a chaperone, and a bored scaring away potential boyfriends to having approaching young boy who won't heed superstar, Lauren has to rethink her dream, her hair cut with the same clippers used on orders to turn around. Is the boy hungry, or is and fast. the dead, it seems her "life of weirdom" will this a trap? And how much longer can he wait never end. A humorous look at a not-so- to find out? ALL NATURAL ADDICTION normal teenage life. BY: JOHN C. HAVENS MEAT AND POTATOES 1 either, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES MOM TOOK MY PHONE AWAY BY: KATHLEEN NELSON Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - AND I'M GOING CRAZY! 1 either, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty BY: KELLY MEADOWS Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: waived for forensics competition) 1 female, 1 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty She's got an addiction, and it's all-natural. and Debate • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 waived for forensics competition) (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be She wants to create world unity by giving ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 One character, male or female, describes to people flowers. But first she has to convince per performance (Performance royalty waived the audience his or her passion for keeping the flower store to give her free surplus so for forensics competition) things short and to the point with very little she can "get her fix." A comical look at the Raquel crumbles slowly right before your very extra information - ironically, he or she says strange and wonderful forces that help eyes. This is the horrific story of a young lady all of this in a ten minute monologue that connect people. being forced to live without her smart phone, gives snippets of the character's history. paying the penalty for texting during family TWO THOUSAND ROSES dinner. You’ll watch helplessly as she POST-MORTEM BY: JERRY RABUSHKA regresses to 1965 while all her friends are BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI 1 male, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a gossiping on the latest social media. Will she 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - actually read a book? Do her homework? Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Worst of all, she’s forced to speak to people– must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: waived for forensics competition) face to face. This comedy is NOT for the $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forenscis competition) squeamish! And remember–unlike Raquel, As a young victim of a tyrannical regime lies you can use your smart phone to order this After her grandmother passes away, Sarah on a prison cot, fantasies of freedom take him play! works through her grief in a dangerous beyond his cell to a world of love and a good manner. Following an accident, it is her life. When his mother is imprisoned and grandmother who saves Sarah from death. brought before him, he must talk to save her.
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THE BIG PICTURE MY FORENSICS COACH IS NOT MY MOTHER'S TOUCH BY: ALAN HAEHNEL A JELLYBEAN BY: LAUREN D. YEE 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a BY: BRADLEY WALTON 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance waived for forensics competition) Jason is not photogenic. This is not a mild (Performance royalty waived for forensics Told from her cell in the mental ward, a girl competition) case of a crooked smile or hair that doesn't envelopes us in her life of pain and madness want to cooperate. No, somehow, just at the The forensics coach used to dress in black. as she yearns for the love of her soul-less moment when the shutter clicks, he But one day, that changed. One day, the mother, aching for the precious warmth of her transforms from a normal looking human forensics coach began to wear color. Bright mother's touch. A tragic tale of sweet insanity. being into something hideous. His parents colors. Assorted colors. Like jellybeans. And have given up on getting school pictures; his one of his students can't get the thought out MY NAME ISN'T BRO friends have learned to push him aside when of her head. In fact, the thought is so BY: JERRY RABUSHKA someone wants to take a photo. But what overwhelming that today, she can't even 1 male, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a about the prom? How can Jason go with practice her original oratory speech because Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Meemie, who is enormously gorgeous and all she can think about is sinking her teeth into must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: mind-bogglingly perfect, and avoid the her coach's bright red shirt. She suspects that $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty unavoidable prom pictures? The surprise things are going to end badly. She is probably waived for forensics competition) ending leaves us realizing that there is right. Jake lisps and Reena stutters, yet they're the someone for everyone, even for those whose coolest duo in town. Jake is pierced and photographs should be registered as lethal A SALUTATORIAN'S tattooed and wears weird hairstyles. Funny, weapons. GRATITUDE he can't hold a job. But when Jake decides BY: BOBBY KENISTON you're cool, you're definitely cool! Jake's best MR. WHISKERS 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, friend tells the story of what happens to a guy BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER Parody • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 who can't fit in with the crowd, so instead sets 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be himself up as the leader. But a life designed Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 around being the center of attention starts to per performance (Performance royalty waived Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time fall apart—Jake's family breaks up, and the for forensics competition) of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance novelty of his decorated body begins to wear (Performance royalty waived for forensics After four years of hard work, graduation is off. What's left for a young man who's got a competition) finally here, and James (or Jamie) is about to map of Arizona permanently tattooed on his The narrator's cat says he's Einstein. He give a Salutatorian speech that no one will thigh? A monologue about the value of needs a New York Times crossword and a ever forget! After discussing the importance of friendship and being sensitive to people who Beatles record to complete experimentation gratitude to his fellow graduates, he quickly are "different." on his new Theory of Irrelativity. Is the begins to drop the facade and let his true narrator cracking up, or has Einstein returned, feelings come out, including jabs at the FLUTE FANTASTIC ready to solve nature's most pressing Valedictorian (who happens to be the BY: JERRY RABUSHKA mysteries? Headmaster's son), his own father (who would 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add have bought him a car had he been number a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - NEVER CALL ME A LADY one in his class), and about the "dinosaur" must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: BY: RUSTY HARDING teachers who he feels should have retired $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty 1 female, 1 total • Drama, Historical Events and long ago. Shakespeare once wrote "How waived for forensics competition) People, Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script: sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a Roxette Putnam is up for the biggest event of $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ thankless child." Well, James is going to show her life: playing a solo flute concerto with the Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of the world that a serpent's tooth ain't got local symphony orchestra. Her problem? purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance nothin' on him! (Performance royalty waived for forensics She’s not the only one. A performance competition) competition pits her against two other top MY LIFE AS AN INFOMERCIAL notch performers in a contest run by a snooty Mary Harris "Mother" Jones recounts her life BY: LAUREN D. YEE conductor who doesn’t care about excuses, as a pioneering labor activist. She was 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add only the final result. You’ll bristle at her instrumental in improving the working a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - arrogance, and you’ll laugh at her conditions for children, women, steel workers, must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: characterizations of her fellow combatants. $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty and coal miners throughout the early 20th Does she have it in the bag, or… why does waived for forensics competition) century. She would ultimately become one of the music keep changing? Whether she wins the principal founders of the Industrial Try the new Sauté Chef: it steams, it boils, it or not, this is a great opportunity for a talented Workers of the World, and would work solves every single nasty problem in your life! actress to come out on top. tirelessly for the labor movement until her At least, that's what the box claims. But after death at 93. COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES many years of infomercial gigs instead of acting jobs, Lucy wonders if her life as the infomercial girl is what she really wants.
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MULTIPLE PERSONALITY NOBODY MURDER BY: DENNIS BUSH BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) waived for forensics competition) A community service project for school brings Sometimes the culprit is also the victim. When 17-year-old Georgia face-to-face with the tough girl Pat is arrested, her two other father who walked out on her and her mom personalities reveal themselves to her four years earlier. Struggling with memories psychiatrist. Discover the secret abuse that that weigh her down and make her feel drove Pat, Kaileigh, and Leesha to murder. unworthy of a relationship with her wealthy boyfriend, Georgia is overwhelmed by her A NEW DRESS past on a collision course with her present. BY: JULIE RIGGS 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a NORMALCY Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - BY: BOBBY KENISTON must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - waived for forensics competition) must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Toni is perplexed by a recent dream about her waived for forensics competition) long-deceased father, with whom she had a troubled childhood relationship. As she talks it How do you recover from an unfathomable through to try to discover its meaning, she tragedy? Shana has been sent to a learns something new about herself and the psychiatrist by her father in order to "get back redemptive power of forgiveness. to some sense of normalcy," after her mother's violent murder. Though she wishes THE NEW MAN she could remain silent, her bottled up BY: ELIZABETH C. MYERS emotions come pouring out as she battles 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add with her feelings of anger, grief, and honest a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - bewilderment. How can she possibly feel must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: normal in any way when she loves her $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty mother's murderer? This thought-provoking waived for forensics competition) dramatic monologue is perfect for a Masquerade parties are only for challenging forensic competition piece. Halloween...or so you thought. As Nina plays the dating game, she finds herself wanting to NOT READY! BY: KELLY MEADOWS shed her costume and be herself, but it's so COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES much easier just to conform. An obsessive- 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a compulsive comedy favorite. Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty NO MORE MR. FUNNY GUY waived for forensics competition) BY: JOHN C. HAVENS 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a What's the worst thing a guy can hear when Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - he goes to pick up his date? How about must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: "She's not ready yet!"? Preston's invitation to $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty sit with the family forces him to bear the waived for forensics competition) taunts of her overfed younger brother and to You know the story: girls love him like a try to impress the girl's father, all while they're "brother." He's nice and he's funny, but he grooving to a brutal rerun of America's can't get a date. Well, now Mr. Funny Guy is Funniest Home Videos. Will she ever be putting his foot down: no one laughs until he's ready, or will he have to spend an eternity taken seriously. But when he realizes the girl being polite in the face of adversity? When he's with thinks funny guys are fascinating, he's finally had enough, things take an the serious act goes up in smoke. unexpected—and humorous—turn.
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OOO OOO OOOOOOOO BABY OUR FORENSICS TEAM IS POCKETWATCH LA LA YEAH GETTING NEW UNICORNS BY: MARLA CROWE BY: JERRY RABUSHKA BY: BRADLEY WALTON 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a 1 either, 1 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - and Debate • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of waived for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance A dramatic monologue that shows the for forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) intensity of the family bond, a bond that My Mom and Dad say “Auto-tune is ruining survives, even after death. A Russian military- today’s music!” They won’t let me go to the You’re minding your business in the hall at issue pocketwatch bought at an auction ties Kracked Kookaburra concert – not because school when you hear someone say that the the present with the past. Sometimes we give it’s too wild, but because the music isn’t good forensics team is getting new unicorns. You coincidence credit for circumstances we don't enough. After begging and pleading they never realized that unicorns were real, or that understand. Yet, is it possible that finally make a deal: If I go see our old favorite the school had a forensics team, so the two coincidence is really just destiny? band (with hit songs such as “My Toyota is things together make perfect sense. You love Still Running and Your Ford is in the Shop”) unicorns, so you decide to join the forensics POETIC INJUSTICE then I can listen to Ooo Ooo Oooooooo Baby team as soon as you figure out what forensics BY: JERRY RABUSHKA La La Yeah. When their old music starts to is. As you ask around, you learn about 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • edge out the new, things get wild for me after forensic science, become convinced that the Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for all! unicorns are for dissection, and conclude that Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time it’s up to you to save them! Someone finally of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance ORDERS suggests you misunderstood—that the (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) BY: SANDRA DEMPSEY forensics team is actually getting new uniforms—but you’re too smart to fall for that. 1 male, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a There's nothing worse at an open mike night Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - than having to sit through other people's must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: PEE PIPE material while waiting to read your own. $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty BY: SANDRA DEMPSEY Nothing—except having someone heckle you. waived for forensics competition) 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a If the audience isn't bad enough, the He is sent to keep peace where none exists. Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - cappuccino machine goes off at the worst must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: The locale is one of those forgotten, politically possible moments. Is it mean-spirited, or is it $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty actually revenge? Do some poets need to unappealing places. The order is sure to be waived for forensics competition) horrific, but is it worse to give it or to follow it? rewrite? Do others need to go home and stay One soldier's dilemma. You're learning to fly, training to fight for your there? See for yourself, as we pursue "poetic country. But at 1000 feet, ya' gotta go! What's justice." ORGAN DONOR a flyboy to do? Bail out? Make a cumulus pit BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI stop? Nope. They never dealt with this PIERRE LA problem in flight school. Look out below! A 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a BY: SANDRA DEMPSEY Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - hilarious dilemma in the sky. 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty POVERTY must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: waived for forensics competition) BY:* BOBBY KENISTON $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) As Christine, a young recipient of a heart 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama, transplant, is able to resume her normal Forensics, Speech and Debate, Scenes & He's a looker, he's a smooth, suave talker. Monologues • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: activities, she becomes aware of a special, And he's French!?! Oo-la-la! How the women $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be will flock to him! He'll sweep them off their almost life-like connection with her unknown ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 organ donor. This dramatic monologue gives per performance (Performance royalty waived feet; he'll drive them all wild! And what is the the opportunity to play two different for forensics competition) secret to his success? But of course . . . a characters, Christine and the organ donor great accent! A real tour de farce. April, an average teenage girl, doesn't herself. understand why her Mother “strongly WHEN MATH STUDENTS GO THE OTHER ANIMAL RIGHT encourages” her to volunteer at the local food BAD cupboard every week. She likes to help out, BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI BY: KELLY MEADOWS but the environment makes her sad. When 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add her mother explains why it's important to a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - confront a problem head on, April begins to must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty relive an old memory, long-forgotten, of a $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) terrible encounter in a grocery store when she waived for forensics competition) was just a little girl. This ten minute dramatic Dorabella hates math, but loves her math Breezy Summer defends the other animal monologue confronts the issue of poverty, COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES tutor! Now her problem becomes - what if she right: their right to be fashionable. Is it so and the need to be an active participant in learns it? Then she’ll have to stop seeing her wrong to dye fur lavender, braid a lion's mane, fighting hunger. Perfect for forensics tutor! Find out what happens when good math or clothe an orangutan in order to maintain competitions or a night of monologues. the dignity of zoo animals? students go horribly, horribly wrong.
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QUEEN OF THE WORLD THE REVENGE OF RAINBOW ROSA'S LAMENT BY: ELIZABETH C. MYERS SHEEP BY: SANDRA DEMPSEY 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add BY: BRADLEY WALTON 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, Dark Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 waived for forensics competition) Forget about the normal New Year's per performance (Performance royalty waived Rosa has endured a lifetime of abuse and for forensics competition) resolutions. A young woman decides to go for hatred at the hands of her husband. Her soul broke and become...Queen of the World! Will Rainbow Sheep just wants to be loved. And is gentle and her heart is kind, and the tale of there be some changes? You bet! famous, too. Rich, if possible. But everyone her sad life's journey leaves a lump in the thinks he’s a freak because of his brightly- throat of her audience. RED colored wool. Talk show hosts mock him. BY: KELLY MEADOWS Movie directors don’t want him. Even the ROSIE, THE TEDDY BEAR 1 male, 1 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech scientist conducting unethical experiments in BY: STEVEN BERGMAN and Debate • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 an abandoned bowling alley in Rhode Island 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be hates him. But when Rainbow Sheep is Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 changed forever as the result of a lab must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: per performance (Performance royalty waived accident, his destiny hangs in the balance. $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty for forensics competition) Will he become a force for good, or will years waived for forensics competition) Happy Valentine’s Day…or…is it? A young of rejection lead his polychromatic wooly While lying discarded on the side of the road, man finds himself intertwined in not only one brightness down a darker path? Rosie tells the poignant story of her owner, a serious relationship, but two. Can our little girl with an abusive mother. Rosie was bumbling romantic please his combative and REVENGE OF THE COACH'S the little girl's teddy bear, and even though the competitive girlfriends? How can you go DAUGHTER girl will never return, Rosie loyally waits for wrong with a stuffed red dog and a box of BY: J.J. JONAS her. chocolates? Just wait and see, as this 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add Valentine’s Day has everyone seeing Red. a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - ROY BOB TUTTLE'S SERMON must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: FOR SUCCESS $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty REMOTELY RELATED BY: JIM GUSTAFSON waived for forensics competition) BY: ALAN HAEHNEL 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • Revenge turns to insightful revelation in a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for comedic conspiracy involving the daughter of must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time a football coach who plots and schemes $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance outrageously to thwart the annual television waived for forensics competition) (Performance royalty waived for forensics football marathon on New Year's Day. competition) You, my friends and neighbors, can turn your lives around. Let the words of Honest Roy A normal teen is traumatized when her REVIVAL Bob Tuttle enlighten you and make you the grandfather visits for a week and BY: SANDRA DE HELEN
person you always dreamed of becoming. COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES discovers...the remote control! As Gramps 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a What'll it cost? Only as much as you've got. frantically switches from channel to channel Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - both night and day, our heroine begins to must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: A SMALL, SIMPLE KINDNESS $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty think, speak, and live in the world of television BY: BRADLEY WALTON movies, sitcoms, and commercials. As the waived for forensics competition) 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama, fast-paced world of remote controlled Singing...praying...shouting to the Lord. As Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • television invades her mind, will she lose all Diana May looks back to her happy childhood Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ grasp of reality? Stay tuned. days and the old-time revivals, she realizes Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of that a better world has slipped away. purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance CASUALTIES (Performance royalty waived for forensics BY: SANDRA DEMPSEY SCHMALTZ competition) 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI Every day, we’re surrounded by negativity. Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama • Script: News headlines scream for our attention with must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ ugly stories about terrible things, and social $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of networking enables everyone to complain waived for forensics competition) purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance about everything. It’s easy for small, good They're training the boys to fight for their (Performance royalty waived for forensics things to get lost in the shuffle. But they country. Every mother's son, learning to fly, competition) matter. Because you don’t have to rescue a learning to die. Your boy is one of them. And It is not until after Mrs. Levy dies that Whitney child from a burning building or cure a disease if his name isn't on the list of the dead in the understands her teacher worked her so hard to have a positive impact on someone’s life. newspaper, you can breathe easily for one because she cared. Now Whitney faces a All it takes is A Small, Simple Kindness. more day. A look at one mother's touching deluge of rejection, guilt, and motivation. way of coping with this stressful horror.
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RUN AWAY SAUCY MAMASITA SIX SECRETS OF SEVEN BY: KRYSTLE HENNINGER BY: JERRY RABUSHKA WITCHES* 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama • Script: 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a BY: KELLY MEADOWS $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - 1 female, 1 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: and Debate, Scenes & Monologues • Script: purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ (Performance royalty waived for forensics waived for forensics competition) Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of competition) This standup comic-style piece is delivered by purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance Having a dog can be a wonderful thing, but (Performance royalty waived for forensics Maria, a gutsy Hispanic-American woman competition) what happens if one day, the dog decided to who finally comes to grips with the fact that run? Ever wonder what goes through their she's just too darned lazy to get herself out of What happens when a witch spills her secret minds as they wander down the streets a dangerous domestic situation. Why leave spell? Oh, the usual: intrigue, romance, war, alone? A glimpse into the day when the family her abusive husband when she can sit home suffering… Will Massachusettsburg ever be dog runs away. and watch court TV? There's always the same after a group of meddling witches tomorrow to go to the shelter. Things change cause a princess to reject her princely suitor RUNNING ON EMPTY for Maria when she realizes it's not only her, for a foul mouthed sailor? When one of the BY: J.J. JONAS but also her children's safety at stake. witches is kidnapped, she’s threatened with 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a unspeakable horror unless she gives up her Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - SMITTY AT THE BAT secret spell. Will she give in? We can’t say must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: BY: DAVID J. LEMASTER what might happen…it’s unspeakable! This $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a monologue stirs up a witches’ brew of waived for forensics competition) Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - comedy, romance, and adventure. It is the night before Christmas Eve, and Jen must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: is caught on the road, short of cash and low $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty I WON A GIANT INFLATABLE on fuel after dropping off her daughter with waived for forensics competition) BANANA AT THE STATE her ex-husband. A stranger appears, and a He's a veteran ballplayer who's been FAIR...NOW WHAT? string of coincidences unfold in this humorous benched. His manager wants to waive him BY: BRADLEY WALTON and tender tale of serendipity. from the club. And now he's been called to 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • pinch-hit with the game on the line . . . prove Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for MY LAST MONOLOGUE himself or be gone. Move the runner along, Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time BY: JERRY RABUSHKA like the manager wants, or swing for the of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add fences and make ESPN Sports Center competition) a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - highlights. It all comes down to one pitch. must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: You visit the state fair. You see people who $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty A SENSE OF URGENCY have won giant inflatable prizes shaped like waived for forensics competition) BY: ALLEN AMUNDSEN food. You become jealous and overcome with After brutally lampooning the performances of 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a the urge to prove to the world that you too are her peers, an actress realizes that just about Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - a superior being worthy of acquiring and every contest play she's heard is about a must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: wielding giant inflatable food. After many spoiled teenager telling a family member, "I $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty games and trips to the ATM, you are hope I never see you again," whereupon said waived for forensics competition) successful. Now it is time to experience the family member is...well...never seen again. What if you were to lose all five senses, one rest of the fair as you carry around a giant Suddenly she figures out...her family's going by one? Emily is faced with such a dilemma, inflatable banana that is almost as big as you. to have to give in to her every whim, or she and time is running out. With the help of her can wish them off the planet! free-spirited aunt, she breaks free from an SNIFF oncology clinic in order to bask in the sights, BY: JULES TASCA AFTER AFTERLIFE scents, flavors, and feelings of life before 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a BY: LEON KAYE they're all gone. Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - THE MALE SECRETARY waived for forensics competition) must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: BY: BRADLEY WALTON $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Raymond's entire life has been ruined by a waived for forensics competition) Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - mysterious odor he contracted. Does he really Alex the surfer dude is back after another must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: smell that bad, or has he come up with a hilarious voyage into the afterlife. He meets $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty convenient excuse to mask his personality some unique characters: Lady Di, Mother waived for forensics competition) flaws? In this brisk comedy, you certainly Teresa, and his arch-nemesis, Hitler! An He’s the rarest of rare breeds. A specimen so won't be holding your nose. amazing journey by a righteous and laid-back shocking, so stunning, that he causes fits of dude! extreme discomfort in anymore forced to
COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES confront the reality of his existence. He’s a male secretary, and he’s going out to lunch— with dozens of female secretaries who really wish he wasn’t there.
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SOFT NOISE, HARD LESSON STEALING SAXOPHONES FROM THE TALENT SHOW BY: JOHN BARTIMOLE HOMELESS PEOPLE BY: LAVINIA ROBERTS 1 male, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a BY: JONATHAN DORF 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Dark Comedy Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance waived for forensics competition) of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) In this dramatic piece, a teen learns that (Performance royalty waived for forensics sexual harassment is no laughing matter and competition) Gail Keebler has been upgraded from layout that the psychological cost can be quite high. "You're going to end up stealing saxophones assistant to arts and entertainment reporter from homeless people." When Jake's mother for her high school newspaper, the Viking SOY ANSWER tells him at the tender age of three that this is Shield. An aspiring journalist, she is BY: CAROLYN WEST his fate, what can he do? Can the now disgruntled by the everyday and mundane 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • teenage Jake prove his mother wrong, or is nature of her assignments. She describes and Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for he destined for a life of crime? reenacts the contestants of her school's Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time upcoming talent show. First, there are the of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance TAKE A NUMBER math nerds whose talents range from (Performance royalty waived for forensics BY: EUGENE FERTELMEYSTER converting any number to scientific notation to competition) 1-9 males, 0-1 either, 1-10 total, doubling reciting every element from the periodic table. Fellow creatures of the night, that incessant possible, gender flexible • Comedy • Script: Next is a cheerleader who made a cheer to blood craving can be cured virtually overnight. $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ the Beatles classic "Let it Be". Rounding out There's a fresh alternative that's actually Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of the talent is a goth queen and the school's healthy for you and your entire family of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance most dramatic thespian, who is reenacting vamps. A selection you'll crave. (Performance royalty waived for forensics every death scene in Shakespeare. While competition) Gail's opinion of her classmates' talents is MY TRIP TO THE STATE PEN Revel in this multiple-character speed dating scathing, she realizes how amazing it is to BY: MONICA BAUER comedy where eight not-so-average guys have such a diverse group of students all 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a face the challenge of getting a date. pulling together for a single purpose. Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: *Though written as a monologue, this THANK YOU FOR TEXTING $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty script may be successfully performed with BY:* CAMILA VASQUEZ waived for forensics competition) a cast of 10. 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, Gretchen, a precocious kindergarten student, Forensics, Speech and Debate, Scenes & Monologues • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: wants to please her teacher with the very best TAKING BACK THE WORDS BY: JOHN C. HAVENS $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be Show and Tell story in history. What she ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 comes up with is the surprising, true story of 1 male, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a per performance (Performance royalty waived her trip to visit her older brother Billy in the Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - for forensics competition) state pen. The monologue contains both wild must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Texting while people are giving speeches is comedy and moments of heartbreaking $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competiton) rude, that’s a given. But what’s going on COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES disclosure, as a five year old confronts her inside the performer’s head when they see status as an adopted child in the world's We all say things we wish we hadn't said, but someone texting? This speaker shares their weirdest family. sometimes one incident can seal your fate in a once-in-a-lifetime relationship. Examining insight, and finds a silver lining in the process. STARS the power of words and their effect on those we love, this dramatic monologue is a multi- THANKS FOR NOTHING, ANNE BY: LAUREN D. YEE RICE 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a leveled emotional powerhouse. BY: JERRY RABUSHKA Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: THE TEXT ON THE DRIVE 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty HOME Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: waived for forensics competition) BY: BRADLEY WALTON $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty Amanda's mother was always a shooting star 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama, waived for forensics competition) —brilliant and beautiful—but all from a Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • distance. Amanda reflects on the years after Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ What's worse than a giraffe with a sore neck? her mother left the family to find her own star Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of How about a vampire with bad teeth? A guy purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance on Hollywood Boulevard. This haunting could literally starve to death! The situation (Performance royalty waived for forensics certainly heats up when he tries to explain his monologue explores a mother-daughter competition) relationship as distant and ethereal as the problem to a dentist, who, without a doubt, stars themselves. The school musical opens tomorrow, and the wants to file down those fangs! Anyone want lead performer is driving home from her final to stick their neck out to help this guy? dress rehearsal. Anticipating acceptance at a prestigious arts college in New York, her future seems bright. That is until The Text On The Drive Home.
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THEY'RE REWRITING MY LIFE TORRENT UNANSWERED BY: JERRY RABUSHKA BY: LAURA HENRY BY:* BRADLEY WALTON 1 male, 1 total • Drama, Forensics, Speech and 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama, Debate • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - Forensics, Speech and Debate, Scenes & (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: Monologues • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be per performance (Performance royalty waived waived for forensics competition) ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 for forensics competition) per performance (Performance royalty waived New York City has often been referred to as for forensics competition) If you’re a fictional character, you pretty much "the loneliest city on earth." For Torrent, this live the same story over and over. But what isolation in the midst of people is too much to When Amanda meets Bobby at a student play happens when the author tries to rewrite it? bear. She calls the phone company and festival, she thinks it’s love at first sight. But What if he “writes out” your girlfriend or takes reaches voice mail. The machine doesn't shut afterwards, even though Bobby responds to away some important parts of your life on the off, so Torrent keeps talking...and Amanda’s texts and messages, it never grounds that they’re no longer relevant to your talking...and talking... seems like he wants to see her. Months turn story? On the plus side, maybe in the rewrite, into years, and finally, even though she mom won’t be so distant. Maybe he can finally TRAPPED BY A STROKE doesn’t understand what went wrong, she find out “what happens next.” An unusual ride BY: DEBORAH KARCZEWSKI accepts that they will never be together, and tries to move on. But then Bobby is killed in a as the character Tom starts to wonder what of 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a his life will be saved, changed or deleted. Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - car crash, and Amanda finds herself mourning must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: him all over again, knowing that all of her COLLEGE INTERVIEW $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty questions will now forever go unanswered. BY: JOHN C. HAVENS waived for forensics competition) WATCH IT BURN 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Marcy discovers that her estranged birth BY: BOBBY KENISTON Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - mother has taken her own life, and that the must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: only living relative who can explain Marcy's 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Drama, $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty secret past is her grandmother, unable to Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • waived for forensics competition) Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ speak after a stroke. The actress plays both Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of The pressure of college interviews makes granddaughter and grandmother. purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance everyone nervous. The personal questions (Performance royalty waived for forensics and the in-depth scrutiny of the past make MISSISSIPPI MIRROR competition) most high schoolers tense and quiet—except BY: ALAN HAEHNEL for Chuck, that is. Convinced he can luck his Joey has just confessed to burning down the 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a deserted old elementary school building. To way into any college, Chuck tries to scam, Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - explain such an action, he must go back and cheat and fib his way out of dozens of must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: interviews before realizing the only way to $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty tell the story of his very first time setting a fire. impress an interviewer is to bite the bullet and waived for forensics competition) This chilling monologue, perfect for forensics competitions, gives us a glimpse into the —heaven forbid—be honest! A high-energy, Carmen tries to maintain a sarcastic mask multi-accent, raucous comedy. disturbed mind of a teenage arsonist, and during her therapy session. She tells her may be performed by either a male or female therapist about all of the previous advice- actor. THREE LITTLE WORDS givers she has dealt with in her life, putting on BY:* KRISTA BOEHNERT various accents and attitudes to impersonate TRUCK STOP INCIDENT 1 female, 1 total • Drama, Forensics, Speech her father, her guidance counselor, and her BY: JERRY RABUSHKA and Debate, Scenes & Monologues • Script: previous therapists. As the monologue 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy • $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ proceeds, Carmen's vulnerability shows Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for through as she describes what her ideal purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance Director/Adjudicator - must be ordered at time (Performance royalty waived for forensics therapist would be—a man who looked like of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance competition) her father, but actually loved her. (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) Carrie Klein receives a phone call from the THE WORLD IS FLAT Put together a toothless waitress, a rowdy guy in her life saying he needs to tell her BY: JERRY RABUSHKA something and asks to meet her. Carrie trucker, and a young child who won't stop 1 male, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add a prepares to hear the big news that awaits her singing "I Just Can't Wait To Be King," and Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - what do you get? Chaos! When Dad takes his by getting dressed up and trying to keep calm. must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: family to dinner at a truck stop in the mythical The three little words are spoken. Rather than $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty “I love you” from the lips of her boyfriend as waived for forensics competition) Oxphalia, Mississippi, little does he know it's she’s led the audience to believe, the words an evening of old eggplant, obnoxious Looking up at the world from his back, a “You have cancer” are spoken by her doctor. children, and practically the downfall of young man recovering from an injury has to Carrie has prepared herself to hear, “You’re Southern civilization! With characterizations depend on an International cast of doctors, perfectly healthy.” When the opposite proves including kids, parents, a grizzled old nurses and techies, which gives him pause to true, she’s forced to grapple with the news of waitress, and a burly trucker, this challenging COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES think about what it means to be an American her own mortality. piece will "keep ‘em truckin!" —and gives actors a chance to show off a variety of accents. When things hurt that badly, everything suddenly becomes more important...and twice as funny.
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But on his first blind of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance on stage and speaks about the festival. Why date, he finds that words can get in the way. A (Performance royalty waived for forensics not make the speech fun and off the wall? regular cornucopia of comic and conniving competition) Why not tell the audience they should run to conversation. William Henry Bartholomew Smith knows a the exits if there is a fire, ‘cause only a few of thing or two about value. Why have a dentist them will survive? The emcee speaks about WISPY BOY fix a chipped tooth if you can do it yourself the dirty bathrooms, old fire extinguishers, BY: JERRY RABUSHKA with super glue? But when you can't wipe and the lapse of insurance on the theatre 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a away the excess glue because your paper itself. Your audience will be quite concerned, Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - towels won't tear right, you've got yourself a disturbed - and having a ball! must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: serious problem. (Really, who in their right $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty mind would want to put an asymmetrical piece PSYCHIC HOTLINE waived for forensics competition) of paper towel in their mouth?) But after BY: KELLY MEADOWS She calls him "wispy boy" because it looks confrontations at the retail and corporate 1 female, 1 total • Comedy • Script: $8.75 • Add like the slightest wind would knock him over. levels don't work out as planned, William a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - He's deaf, so they communicate by sitting Henry Bartholomew Smith is forced to must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: together and typing on a laptop. As these two propose a truly drastic measure, one so ill- $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty lonely high schoolers explore love and waived for forensics competition) considered that it will leave your audience togetherness, she slowly comes to realize that laughing in disbelief. When a young girl takes a job at a psychic at home, he's a victim of abuse. If she says hotline, her supervisor gives her one piece of nothing, he'll live in a home that mistreats him. A WAVE IN THE OCEAN advice: "Make something up." But when her If she speaks up, she risks losing the boy she BY: DENNIS BUSH callers start confiding their deepest fears, she loves. 1 female, 1 total • Drama • Script: $8.75 • Add a finds they all stem from the same problem— Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - spending too much time calling the psychic JACOB MARLEY'S LAMENT must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: hotline! Filled with many eccentric characters, BY: BOBBY KENISTON $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty this monologue provides a strong acting 1 male, 1 total • Comedy, Parody, Forensics, waived for forensics competition) challenge. Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • Add a Feeling left behind by her boyfriend as he Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - goes off to college, Chloe turns to her WHY I HATE MY SISTER must be ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: memory box – and the collection of doll body BY:* KELLY MEADOWS $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived for forensics competition) parts it contains – for guidance, inspiration, 1 female, 1 total • Comedy, Forensics, Speech COMPETITION | TEN MINUTE MONOLOGUES and a way to keep her head above water. and Debate, Scenes & Monologues • Script: We all know that Jacob Marley played a large $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ part in bringing about the redemption of I'M STUCK IN A ROUND OF Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' classic SERIOUS DRAMATIC purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance A Christmas Carol. Now hear how the poor (Performance royalty waived for forensics dead man feels to still be walking the Earth INTERPRETATION AND I competition) REALLY HAVE TO PEE shackled in chains while Scrooge is alive and BY: BRADLEY WALTON The family is all agog over budding young well, raking in karma points in a bid for writer Collin Hightower, whose latest work, Heaven! This ten minute monologue gives a 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, “Why I Hate My Sister,” is going to be Forensics, Speech and Debate • Script: $8.75 • wacky spin to this iconic character, and asks Add a Script: $1.00 (Copy for Director/ performed in the upcoming forensics the following question: is a good deed really Adjudicator - must be ordered at time of tournament – by none other than his “hated” its own reward? God bless us, every one! purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance sister Karla. All her protesting can’t keep her (Performance royalty waived for forensics father from forcing her into it. Will she actually WHITE ELEPHANT competition) get around to reciting the piece, or is the story BY: JERRY RABUSHKA What if you drank three large sodas while you behind it, including their Auntie Copenhagen’s 1 either, 1 total, gender flexible • Comedy, were competing in a forensics tournament? argument with a goldfish, much…more… Fantasy • Script: $8.75 • Add a Script: $1.00 What would it be like to sit through a heart- interesting? (Copy for Director/Adjudicator - must be wrenching round of serious dramatic ordered at time of purchase) • Royalty: $15.00 per performance (Performance royalty waived interpretation as your bladder got fuller by the for forensics competition) minute? Worst of all…what if you were the last person in the room to perform? 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ACTING FOR LIFE ACTING IN SHAKESPEARE ACTOR'S CHOICE: SCENES Book: $19.95 | BY JACK FRAKES Book: $16.95 | BY ROBERT COHEN FOR TEENS Of all the arts, drama Acting in Book: $14.95 | BY EDITED BY JASON - with its exploration Shakespeare helps PIZZARELLO of human characters actors at all levels Looking for the and relationships - is develop the skills perfect scene? closest to everyday they need to perform Actor's Choice: life. This textbook on in Shakespearean Scenes for Teens is acting emphasizes plays. Lessons just what you need. this connection and proceed in carefully From hilarious presents the graduated steps from comedy to cutting- fundamentals of simple, single lines to edge drama, this drama and acting short speeches to collection offers 40 techniques in the more difficult, exciting 2-person context of ordinary sophisticated scenes. scenes with plenty of experiences. Arranged sequentially with the A wealth of historical fascinating drama teacher in mind, subjects progress information and insightful descriptions of characters for young from basic stage and acting terminology to Shakespearean times and players bring actors. Unlike other more advanced lessons on acting theories. Shakespeare’s work within the actor’s reach. scene books, the source of every scene is Each chapter includes exercises, activities, easily accessible -- each play is available and carefully selected discussion questions. ACTING SCENES AND through the Playscripts website, where you MONOLOGUES FOR YOUNG can read nearly the entire published script ACTING GAMES WOMEN online for free. From classwork to Book: $17.95 | BY MARSH CASSADY Book: $15.95 | BY MAYA LEVY competitions to auditions, this book has you A former high school and college theatre In this drama covered! instructor who has acted or directed in over resource book, one hundred plays, Marsh Cassady has situations have been AMERICAN THEATRE BOOK OF authored a four-section book consisting of fine-tuned to recreate MONOLOGUES FOR MEN acting games and improvisations to assist the day-to-day Book: $12.95 | BY STEPHANIE COEN students in developing their theatrical abilities. experiences of young This rich selection of Section one includes games for relaxing and women. This fantastic monologue focusing. Section two guides students in the wonderfully material for actors process of discovering new ways of truly diversified collection was selected from seeing themselves, others, and the world of monologues, plays published in around them. The third section demonstrates dialogues, trios, and American Theatre the usage of space to build scenes and create quartets, all of which magazine over the characters from imagination. Section four deal with subjects of last fifteen years. features acting games to assist in the analysis self-discovery, survival in the real world, and This book contains and portrayal of characters from existing daunting decisions, both tragic and trivial. works by nationally plays. All of the essential elements of acting These sixty characterizations will make both recognized and and character development are explored. The performers and audience laugh, cry, and award winning sections may be used in any order to suit your know themselves better. authors Tony needs. This is a great working textbook of Kushner, Edward theatre games and improvisations for acting ACTION! IN THE CLASSROOM Albee, Sam Shephard, Steve Martin, Paula students of all ages. Book: $55.00 | BY DANIEL R. GREENWOOD Vogel, and many others. Ms. Coen is the Today's students are highly attracted to video publications director at the Intiman Theatre in ACTING GAMES FOR and readily engage in any project that Seattle. She is the former managing editor of INDIVIDUAL PERFORMERS incorporates the medium. Students can create American Theatre magazine. Book: $17.95 | BY GAVIN LEVY video content and the software can be taught A student actor or in less than one hour. There is great potential professional to employ student-produced video as an performer will use educational tool, and this book explains and this drama book instructs teachers how to exploit this potential. again and again for This comprehensive work, divided into four self-discovery sections, covers all aspects of video exercises designed production, including foundation concepts, the to enhance acting video production process, equipment review, skills. It is a “doing” and an appendix. book which challenges the actor with every exercise. Twenty-one chapters of superb theatre text that is both functional and inspirational. THEATRE RESOURCES 192 www.brookpub.com | order toll free: 1-888-473-8521 * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC THEATRE RESOURCES
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CHILDREN'S THEATER: A CHARACTERS IN ACTION CHILDSPLAY PARADIGM, PRIMER, AND Book: $19.95 | BY MARSH CASSADY Book: $16.99 | BY KERRY MUIR RESOURCE The twelve chapters A Collection of Book: $61.00 | BY KELLY EGGERS, WALTER of this theatre Scenes and EGGERS reference book Monologues for Although there are many children's theater provide a complete Children. “Childsplay companies located around the world, more overview of every is a very charming parents and educators need to know what a step integral to the and enchanting book significant impact such venues can have on art of playwriting, – and an important the lives of their participants. For anyone from the germination book for children who interested in learning more about these of an idea to its want to act! Not only creative outlets, Children's Theater: A complete can they use this Paradigm, Primer, and Resource serves development into a wonderful collection several purposes. 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BROWN Through their story, this beautiful musical about a sign he saw on the street, and he Classroom Scenes and Monologues features portrays the rhythms of a nation. Tony feels compelled to do something...but what? over 80 challenging roles for middle-school Kushner and composer Jeanine Tesori have Relationships are full of ups and downs, and high-school actors. Funny and serious, created a story that addresses contemporary especially when one person simply-maybe- diverse in theme and style, this anthology will questions of culture, community, race and possibly makes A Suggestion. In Crowded motivate actors to create provocative and class through the lens and musical pulse of Heart, Frank is being enticed by the latest intriguing characterizations. The material the 1960s. candy bar craze, but can willpower win in the reflects the authors' intimate appreciation for end? 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The maid who hates activities include rap, pantomime, charades, a text includes Furth's witty, cutting dialogue cleaning dreams game show, Readers Theatre, TV news, a and Sondheim's brilliant lyrics - especially to about creating the perfect joke, while a doctor mock trial, talk show improvisation, and "Have I Got a Girl for You" and "Being Alive." who treats cancer leaves his heart inside one dozens more, including a "grab bag" of extra A portrait of urban angst that is nonetheless of his patients. This book also includes activities. Assignment instructions and the hilarious. "Company is absolutely brilliant, in Eurydice, Ruhl’s reinvention of the tragic sign-up sheet may be reproduced. Cartoon a triumphant class by itself." - Boston Globe. Greek tale; Late, A Cowboy Song and illustrations throughout. Melancholy Play. 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Reproducible forms, tests, and years in the theater. and covers all drama terms and the essentials handouts are also provided together with a list about a career in theatre. of additional resources. As with the original ENCORE! MORE WINNING book, both beginners and seasoned drama MONOLOGS FOR YOUNG DRAMA PROJECTS FOR THE directors will find this book to be an invaluable ACTORS MIDDLE SCHOOL CLASSROOM aid. Book: $15.95 | BY PEG KEHRET Book: $19.95 | BY REBECCA YOUNG So great were the Sixteen chapters of DUO! reviews and sales for middle school drama Book: $19.99 | BY BOB SHUMAN, JOYCE E. Winning Monologs projects provide HENRY, REBECCA DUNN JAROFF for Young Actors, we alternative ways to The Best Scenes for had to develop this develop theatre skills. Two for the 21st sequel. 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EVERYTHING ABOUT THEATRE FAMOUS FANTASY FENCES (TEACHER'S GUIDE) CHARACTER MONOLOGS Book: $25.00 | BY AUGUST WILSON Book: $22.95 | BY ROBERT L. LEE Book: $16.95 | BY REBECCA YOUNG Foreword by Samuel A convenient teacher's guide that parallels the Starring the Not-So- G. Freedman. Set in original text. This book features quizzes for all Wicked Witch and the Hill District of major units and keys that provide answers more. The Pittsburgh in 1957. and detailed descriptions for evaluating essay Boogeyman is afraid Troy Maxson was responses. Also included are illustrations and of the dark! The never allowed to play diagrams that simplify concepts and define Tooth Fairy hates her baseball growing up specifics. Plus every quiz and worksheet is job! The Wicked because of his color. 'camera-ready' for copying. And every unit is Witch isn't really so Now as a grown man indexed by page number on the contents wicked! One hundred in a changing society, page. fantasy monologues he lets his old anger reveal what burn away his son's EVERYTHING ABOUT THEATRE! characters like chances of playing Book: $19.95 | BY ROBERT L. LEE Cinderella and football. The family It's all here in one Captain Hook might really say if given the finds themselves in a timeless battle to move drama book - a chance. It's fun, it's cool and it's offbeat to beyond hate and grow together. "What makes complete overview of portray the "other side of the story." Fifty boys Fences so engrossing, so embracing, so all aspects of theatre! and fifty girls can choose the fantasy simply powerful, is Wilson’s startling ability to The history, the character of their choice. Each monologue is tell a story, reveal feeling, paint emotion."— crafts, and the art of delightfully preposterous and different. Clive Barnes, New York Post the stage are Sample monologs: Shopping-Compulsive presented in eighteen Cinderella, Desperate Housewife: Mrs. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF easy-to-learn units. Clause, The Just-As-Pretty Stepsister, and Book: $14.99 | BY JERRY BOCK, JOSEPH Theatre history in Arachnophobic Arachnid Man. STEIN, SHELDON HARNICK four parts gives the Based on Sholom text an orderly FAMOUS LAST WORDS Aleichem's Stories structure. Between Book: $15.95 | BY VARIOUS AUTHORS each part are bite-sized sections on acting, It's impossible to One only needs to improvisation, makeup, lighting, props, cheat death, but we open this book to find costumes, and more. Each craft is described, can have a little fun the full text and with exercises where appropriate. A as we shuffle off this complete lyrics for comprehensive theatre arts reference book. mortal coil. this musical theatre Sometimes you just classic, as well as FAIRLY TOLD TALES need a sense of photographs from the Book: $12.95 | BY MICHAEL SOETAERT humor and other original production. For years parents times, you need a have tucked their hand to hold. "One of the great children into bed with Famous Last Words works of the American musical theatre. It is tales of Brothers explores the effects darling, touching, beautiful, warm, funny and Grimm and fables of death, dying, inspiring. It is a work of art.” - John Chapman, from Aesop. No grieving and resilience in 12 ten-minute Daily News wonder so many kids masterpieces. The plays included in this wake up screaming anthology use grace, hope and every once in FIFTY PROFESSIONAL SCENES from nightmares. a while, a cruel sense of humor to achieve FOR STUDENT ACTORS Seriously, what was brilliance. Written by well-known playwrights Book: $15.95 | BY GARRY MICHAEL KLUGER wrong with those such as Bradley Hayward, Carl L. Williams A collection of short guys? Witches eating and Scott Icenhower, these plays are perfect two-person scenes. children, rotten for contest, classroom and performance. This book is a sequel parents making deals with old crones, to Kluger's Original monsters and worse! It’s about time someone Audition Scenes for set the record straight, this collection of 8 ten Actors. It, too, is designed for minute plays does just that and more! THEATRE RESOURCES professional actors, but may be used by student performers who wish to work at a professional level. Actors will find several scenes that can superbly showcase their acting skills. The book is divided into three categories: Comedy, Drama, and Monologues. Most scenes are easily adaptable for use by male or female actors.
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THE FLIP SIDE FOUR BY SONDHEIM FUNNY BUSINESS Book: $15.95 | BY HEATHER HENDERSON Book: $35.00 | BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM Book: $19.95 | BY MARSH CASSADY Sixty-four The complete book A great introduction monologues for and lyrics for four of to comedy. For big teens. Stephen Sondheim's laughs, comedy Short, breezy, and most popular shows relies on provocative, these along with set and exaggeration, monologues are costume designs, incongruity, superb for acting production photos, automatism, exercises, speech, essays, cast lists and character and drama contests credits, awards for inconsistency, or for auditions. Each major productions, surprise, and monologue selected derision. Now a book characterization discographies, and defines and focuses on a topic of much more! Includes demonstrates each of interest to middle school students or high the shows A Little Night Music, Sweeney these devices with twenty-two short sketches school teens. The resource book is divided Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and A and one-act plays. This unique overview of into three sections: The Guys, The Girls, and Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the high and low comedy defines all comedy Both Together. Within each section, the Forum. This book is a richly illustrated genres: absurdism, tragicomedy, farce, and monologues are paired to permit a Sondheim treasury no collection should be melodrama. The different types of comedy are presentation of different opinions on the same without! compared to show the differences of each topic. The two-minute length of most of these form with a discussion of comic devices monologues makes memorization easy. FRACTURED FAIRY TALES FOR preceding each type of comedy and notes for STUDENT ACTORS production preparation following. User-friendly FORENSICS Book: $17.95 | BY JAN PETERSON EWIN for teaching, acting practice and live Book: $19.95 | BY BRENT C. OBERG A variety of fairy tale presentations. The winner’s guide to and fantasy spoofs in speech contests. two sections: Short FUTURE TRANSMISSIONS: Forensics, more five-minute scenes EIGHT SCI-FI COMEDIES commonly known as for two or three Script: $7.50 • Book: $9.95 (perfect-bound) • speech and debate, actors and longer, Notebook Script: $16.75 • First Performance is one of the most ten-minute scenes for Royalty: $65.00 | BY MIKE MCCAFFERTY rewarding and six to twenty actors. An evening of eight beneficial educational science fiction activities available to comedies that students. This combines the textbook is designed uniquely weird with to introduce students the incredibly to individual forensic awesome! These events, such as extemporaneous speaking, FREEING SHAKESPEARE'S character-driven original oratory, and much more. This book VOICE shorts challenge the gives suggestions and guidelines for the Book: $17.95 | BY KRISTIN LINKLATER assumptions that sci- preparation of these events in speech Accredited voice fi is too expensive to competitions. The text also describes each teacher, actor and stage and/or all about event and the experience of competing. director Kristin “spaceships and Students are shown how to select and Linklater goes laser guns.” In Boom!, three scientists try to perform winning materials and how to achieve beyond the deactivate a real “time bomb” that keeps success. techniques blowing them up over and over again. In the developed in her wry Fabulous Facesucker, everyone in the classic text, Freeing future gets their face sucked off, but no one the Natural Voice, to ever asks why. Our Darkest Hour is a chilling a passionate and practical exploration of the tale of Earth's first contact with aliens with a works of William Shakespeare. This book unique twist at the end. The comically makes a point of providing theatre artists with touching The Spark Between Us is about the tools to increase understanding of the companionship in the distant future. And The classical metered language and, as actors, Nacho Effect is an outrageous look at the make Shakespeare’s words come off the choices we make and the nachos we eat. This page and onto the stage the way the Bard collection of short plays uses minimal props intended. and sets, and focuses on the characters and their interactions. Beam Future Transmission up, and bring new worlds to your stage! THEATRE RESOURCES 204 www.brookpub.com | order toll free: 1-888-473-8521 * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC THEATRE RESOURCES
GET IN THE ACT! THE GOD OF CARNAGE GRAPPLING WITH GRAMMAR: A Book: $15.95 | BY SHIRLEY ULLOM Book: $14.00 | BY YASMENA REZA COLLECTION OF TEN-MINUTE Sixty monologs, dialogs, and skits for teens. Translated by PLAYS Laughter is the most effective technique for Christopher Hampton Book: $16.95 • Book/CD Combo: $28.95 • CD: teenage survival. These monologues, Two ostensibly $15.95 | BY DONNA LATHAM dialogues, and short skits give teenage civilized married It would be folly of performers a chance to laugh at the system, couples meet up to course to start their teachers, their parents, and most sort out a playground another unit on importantly, themselves! These are scripts for fight. The son of one sentence structure laughter and pathos. They create an couple has broken without this awareness of the perils of drinking and two of the teeth of the innovative collection driving, teenage parties, smoking, alcoholic son of another. At of ten-minute plays to parents, and much more. This volume first diplomatic help you effectively includes sixty superb short scripts that are niceties are teach adjectives, ideal for speech contests, acting exercises, observed, but as the idioms, pronouns and auditions, variety shows, and classroom use. meeting progresses, many other sentence No special settings, props, or costumes are huge tensions emerge and the gloves come parts to a group of required for performance. off, leaving more than just their liberal students who would principles in tatters. Christopher Hampton’s rather throw grammar (and quite possibly, the "Just for the fun of it, 'Get in the Act!' and translation of Yasmina Reza’s sharp-edged English teacher) out the window. Instead, toss some teen problems and attitudes may come new play premiered at Wynham's Theatre, that "drill and kill" method out the window and into focus." --Shirley Hilderbrand, Eclectic London, March 2008. explore these ten-minute grammar plays in Book Reviews the classroom. THE GOLDEN RULES OF GETTING YOUR KICKS! ACTING GREAT GROUP SKITS: 50 Digital Video - DVD: $34.95 | BY ANDREA Book: $12.95 | BY ANDY NYMAN CHARACTER-BUILDING GIBBS "The book won't tell SCENARIOS FOR TEENS A Beginner's Guide you how to act, but Book: $16.95 | BY LYNN GRASBERG, GINA to Choreography. will tell you how to be OLDENBURG This DVD is an an actor, how to stay Created by experts incomparable sane and succeed in who teach resource for creating any creative position, improvisational an endless number of if you have a dream theater, this resource choreographic and want to make it a for educators and combinations. It reality it'll offer you youth workers includes an properly useful provides new and interactive menu of advice. It's one of creative role-playing eight sections: things those books that exercises that tackle to consider before helps you know a wide range of getting started; laying yourself, ask the right topics. From small the foundation; jumps, turns and kicks; questions, and reminds you to be happy. It is pieces for a few advanced steps; fun steps; figuring our truthful, eye-opening and insightful, reading it people to large-scale formations and staging; sample combinations; feels like getting tips and advice from a friend skits that involve an entire class, this and adding style. This DVD is a must have for down the pub; it is a goldmine of information. guidebook helps educators engage with kids any budding choreographer or director about I'm no actor, but it's one of those books that I'll and helps them engage with each other. to delve into the musical theatre scene. carry with me, return to time and time again Rather than using line-by-line dialogue, the Musical theatre actors also benefit from the because remembering this advice will help me skits are designed as improvisational easy to follow steps and choreography become a better and happier person." - scenarios that give a starting point and let workbook included with this disc. Also Huffington Post kids decide where to go, enhancing their included is a glossary of simple dance terms creativity, self-reliance, and analytical skills. and steps. The dance steps included in this Each skit is designed to be as easy to prepare set were chosen for flexibility in regards to as possible and includes an estimated time, style and ability. Andrea Gibbs has been ways to modify the skit for various age involved in theatre all over the world in such groups, and a list of follow-up questions THEATRE RESOURCES shows as Cats, Starlight Express, and Crazy designed to reinforce the lessons learned. for You, as a performer, choreographer, Also included is information on how to writer, and presenter. (DVD/Workbook facilitate skits, get kids motivated and Tutorial) energized, and build trust. The skits are divided into categories that include imagination, teamwork, communication skills, motivation and leadership, peer pressure and integrity, and conflict resolution.
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GREAT MOMENTS IN THE GREY GARDENS GYPSY THEATRE Book: $16.95 | BY DOUG WRIGHT, MICHAEL Book: $13.95 | BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM, Book: $26.95 | BY BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE KORIE, SCOTT FRANKEL ARTHUR LAURENTS Renowned critic The Complete Book This musical tale of a Benedict Nightingale, and Lyrics of the domineering stage who served as chief Broadway Musical mother’s inadvertent theatre critic for the Grey Gardens is creation of a London Times from based on the 1975 burlesque stripper is 1990–2010, collects film about Jacqueline now available in what he considers Kennedy Onassis's paperback for the the greatest eccentric aunt and first time. This play moments from the cousin. The touching captures a time in our past 2,500 years of musical adaptation country's youth theater. His explores the where money was informative and relationship between tight and dreams entertaining essays former socialite Edith were big. It is the cover and celebrate a Bouvier Beale and coming of age story of a woman who refused vast array of diverse, historical and important her daughter, Little to see the truth of her limitations and let it openings and events. Edie, as they languish in a derelict East drive her from anyone and anything she'd Hampton manor, Grey Gardens. Propelled by ever loved, until finally she finds herself all GREAT SCENES AND the gorgeous score, and intricate lyrics, the alone asking the question, "Why did I do it?" MONOLOGUES FOR CHILDREN Broadway musical has garnered much critical AGES 7-14 praise. HAIRSPRAY Volume One: $14.95 • Volume Two: $14.95 | Book: $16.99 | BY MARC SHAIMAN, MARK BY CRAIG SLAIGHT, JACK SHARRAR GROUP IMPROVISATION ODONNELL, THOMAS MEEHAN Volume One Book: $16.95 | BY PETER GWINN, CHARNA The Complete Book These 85 HALPERN and Lyrics of the hit performance pieces Peter Gwinn and his Broadway musical are drawn from colleagues at the The 2003 Tony dramas, novels, short ImprovOlympic Award® winner for stories, and even a theatre in Chicago Best Musical, personal letter. The have developed "The Hairspray is based assortment is Group Mind" to on filmmaker John diverse, including create a new Waters' affectionately biographies, fiction, awareness in the subversive homage plays, and classics. A mind and spirit of any to his Baltimore youth nice overview group or team. "The and takes place in precedes each of the Group Mind," the 1962. Chubby Tracy offerings. All of the selections are copyrighted Holy Grail of Turnblad is transformed into a teen celebrity and subject to royalties. improvisation, is on a local TV dance program. With her created by a synergy between improv irresistible stage mother at her side, she participants. It's the feeling of being part of a attempts to win the heart of the local Volume Two greater entity that takes teamwork to a new heartthrob and integrate “The Corny Collins The much awaited second volume expands level. Over forty improv games are included Show” at the same time. the compelling dramatic material available for for developing group chemistry: creation, young actors ages 7 to 14. The selections - bonding, dynamics, energy, focus, and more. THE HANDBOOK OF STAGE taken from both contemporary and classic Techniques are discussed for breaking the LIGHTING plays, myths and legends, and fairy tales - ice, agreement, listening, support, teamwork, Book: $42.95 | BY NEIL FRASER, SIMON BENNISON offer a wide variety of styles and themes to and quick thinking. This is a journey of challenge children and their teachers and exploration into the directors. heart of the fascinating world that paints pictures and tells stories with the most basic of all materials—light. In this comprehensive guide, authors Neil Fraser and Simon Bennison bring to a clear and persuasive text a shared expertise and an inspirational joy in their subject. THEATRE RESOURCES 206 www.brookpub.com | order toll free: 1-888-473-8521 * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC THEATRE RESOURCES
THE HANDBOOK OF SET HEAD OVER HEELS HOT SPOTS FOR TEENS DESIGN Book: $15.95 | BY VARIOUS AUTHORS Book: $11.95 | BY KAREN MILSTEIN Book: $39.95 | BY COLIN WINSLOW Ah, love. There is Who said cold This is a nothing in the world readings can’t be comprehensive guide as simultaneously hot? If you want to designing scenery exhilarating, yours to sizzle, this of all kinds for a wide terrifying, comforting, book’s for you! From variety of stages, frustrating and cover to cover, Hot large and small. wonderful as love Spots for Teens From concept to final and all if its offers a wide range of dress rehearsal and variations. Head material to practice performance, it takes Over Heels explores with to master cold you through the every incarnation of readings and nail practical process of love from the your TV commercial turning initial ideas and sketches into final comfortably married auditions. Choose sets that enhance the audience’s elderly couple to the nervous brand-new from female, male, and unisex commercials understanding of the play as well as providing lovebirds. These 12 ten-minute plays will that vary in length, format, and tone so you’re a memorable experience in their own right. make you laugh, sigh, and long for that ready for anything they throw at you. From Many photographs of stage sets designed by special someone. Written by well-known tongue-twisting one-liners about scrumptious the author are included, together with authors such as Matt Thompson, Patrick snacks to public service announcements explanatory illustrations, stage plans, Gabridge and Jim Gustafson, these plays are about the dangers of drugs, this book will help technical drawings, models, and color perfect for your contest, classroom and you be electrifying. Inside you’ll also find renderings for a wide range of productions. performance needs. some valuable tips from industry experts, who reveal what casting directors are looking for HE SAID, SHE SAID: TEN- HEY, GIRLFRIEND and how you can prepare for your best MINUTE PLAYS FOR FOUR, Book: $15.95 | BY KIMBERLY A. MCCORMICK auditions ever. This material is perfect for FIVE AND SIX ACTORS At last. A book of teenage actors and for acting teachers to use Book: $12.95 | BY VARIOUS AUTHORS insightful in the classroom. Bold, persuasive, hilarious, A collection of monologues for girls heartbreaking — it’s all in here, waiting for completely original only! This collection you to bring it to life. With Hot Spots for ten-minute plays! In of monologues deals Teens, you can kiss your auditioning fears Work Sucks, with the dilemmas good-bye and dazzle them with cold readings everyman Brad that teenage girls that sizzle. Braidley, Employee face everyday at #285 at the nameless school, at home, and HOW I SURVIVED HIGH American in general society. SCHOOL Everycompany, Sometimes real life Book: $5.95 | BY MARK KREUTZER, BRETT receives a message events can be funny, KINCAID, JENNIFER SWAN from a chorus of his but more often they Another outstanding collection of four original colleagues that the are difficult. These monologues reflect monologues that make excellent contest company is struggles and triumphs. Sample titles include: pieces. Elvis Lives by Jennifer Swan. A downsizing. Fearing the 'tide of pink slips,’ he Is He Worth it?, Is Our Family Falling Apart?, humorous monologue about a young woman begins his journey to confront the all-powerful Don’t Let My Mother Die, Texting Terror, I with a conspiracy theory about Elvis. Zeush and revoke his faith in the mighty Don’t Want to Move, A Selfish Generation, Television by Brett Kincaid. A lawyer delivers culture of capital. Break the ‘fifth wall’ with Let’s Get Fit, Making the Grade, Will I Ever Fit a closing argument challenging the statement Parasol Universes, as three people confront In?, Does Anyone Know What Loves Means?, that “television is the greatest communicator.” sci-fi twists and turns as they deal with the Negative People, and No One Likes a Bully. The Day I Discovered Women by Mark things they dread the most – themselves! And With each monologue there are discussion Kreutzer. A teenager searches for a girlfriend there’s trouble on Mount Olympus when Hera questions for classroom use. These but finds only eccentric girls who all wind up wants to split from Zeus in My Big Fat Greek monologues are so unique in style they are dead. How I Survived High School by Mark Divorce. From epic divorce to true love in the superb for speech or drama classes and Kreutzer. A typical high school senior making (maybe) comes He Said, She Said. contest use. convinces his graduating class that he is Sally is thrilled by her brief interaction with dying in a search for popularity.
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HOW MUSICALS WORK IMPROVE WITH IMPROV! IMPROV IDEAS: A BOOK OF Book: $26.95 | BY JULIAN WOOLFORD Book: $15.95 | BY BRIE JONES GAMES AND LISTS A practical guide to, A guide to Book: $24.95 | BY JUSTINE JONES and history of, improvisation and This pack contains a musical theatre. character book of games and What makes the development with a lists and a CD-ROM. great shows work, complete improv Generating ideas and why some never curriculum divided from your own improv did. An invaluable into twenty class- group is always best, inside account from a length workshops. but when you need a writer and director of Each workshop source for memory many successful contains carefully jogs and new musicals, jam-packed selected exercises inspirations to keep with great advice, made to help things lively, use this information and students focus on book. It includes more than seventy games exercises designed one aspect of a character’s personality. and lists along with a CD-ROM so that you to help new musicals be as good as they can Students learn how to create characters from may print these lists directly onto labels or get. How Musicals Work is the ultimate guide their own imaginations using solo and pages for student use. Everything is in to what to do and what not to do while getting ensemble pantomime, physicalization, vocal alphabetical order for quick reference. It's all your show together before taking it on the techniques, props, and more. Many ensemble here - the five W's and the big H (how). Three road. sketches are included, along with a final appendixes include information about the improv sketch with enough “roles” for all dramatic uses for games, national theatre HOW TO MAKE YOUR members of a large class. standards and other gimmicks and tools. AUDIENCES FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU IMPROVISATION FOR ACTORS IN PERFORMANCE Book: $23.95 | BY DERYN WARREN AND WRITERS CONTEMPORARY* Veteran acting coach Book: $17.95 | BY BILL LYNN MONOLOGUES FOR MEN AND Deryn Warren helps Far more than simply WOMEN LATE THIRTIES TO you make the best of an overview of FORTIES any script with expert improv comedy, this Book: $16.99 | BY JV MERCANTI advice on acting book helps actors, In this thoughtfully techniques, script writers and curated collection, analysis, and taking comedians learn the actors preparing for risks. You'll find out basics as taught in all an audition or how to go beyond the the major comedy searching for quality obvious and unleash schools. First, the scenes to hone their your most exciting do's and don'ts of the chops will find a self. From Comedy Improv wealth of Shakespeare to soap Commandments. The contemporary operas, her analysis of scenes from such hits concepts that, when material from as When Harry Met Sally, The Green Mile, understood, hit the American and British and Fawlty Towers will show you how to take student like falling anvils: Anvil 1: plays. Almost all of big risks, deepen your choices, perfect your Collaboration -- Working with the 'Group the works are from technique, and get parts. This book will take Mind', Anvil 2: Agreement -- 'Just say Yes', the year 2000 to the recent 2014 Broadway your acting to a new level. Anvil 3: Foundation -- 'Who, What and production of The Curious Incident of the Dog Where", Anvil 4: Exploring -- 'Finding the in the Night-Time, chosen from the point of IMPROVISATIONS IN CREATIVE Game'. Successful improv requires the skill of view of a professional acting teacher, director, DRAMA the actor, the talent of the comedian and the and casting director.Along with covering the Book: $15.95 | BY BETTY KELLER ideas of the writer rolled into one. This book basics of how to match the best monologue to For beginning actors tells how it can all be done for performers or the actor and how to approach the rehearsal of all ages. Students teachers. and performance of a piece, the book will learn both provides a synopsis of the plays, character improvisational and descriptions, and lists of questions specific to structured drama each monologue that will direct the actor using the sequential toward shaping a complex, honest, and workshops and plays thoughtful performance with a strong included in the lesson emotional connection, a clear arc, and plans of this book. playable actions. There is also a brief lesson Improvisations in on appropriate rehearsal behavior and Creative Drama is a preparation. two-part work with fourteen dramatic sketches that can be done in the classroom or as performance pieces. A perfect basic text
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IMPROVISING BETTER INSTANT PERIOD COSTUMES INTRODUCTION TO STAGE Book: $10.95 | BY JIMMY CARRANE, LIZ Book: $19.95 | BY BARB ROGERS LIGHTING ALLEN Why spend a fortune Book: $19.95 | BY CHARLES I. SWIFT A guide for the renting costumes? Everything you always wanted to know about working improviser, Create them yourself theatrical stage lighting but were too afraid to this book will give for less than a day's ask! All the basics are here in this you simple tools for rental price! Adapt comprehensive stagecraft text for students of repairing your them from cast-offs all ages. All of the latest lighting instruments improvisation through costumes without and technical information are described in original and having to sew easy-to-understand and well-defined terms. enhanced exercises. anything! In this book The fundamentals of manipulating the key This book addresses you'll find over 100 (source) light and shadow, intensity and the improviser as a costume designs with balance, changing focus and mood, and more whole, including how photos and diagrams for many period are explained in detail with illustrations. The offstage issues affect characters from Egyptian, Greek, and Roman creative process of expressing emotion, pace, onstage all the way to Punk. These costuming ideas and intent, as well as following cues, plots, performance. Carrane and Allen offer will save you time, money, and deadline and schedules are also covered along with common-sense solutions, some tough love, disasters, giving you precisely the costume the production process of working with and a little inspiration along the way. you want. directors in rehearsal and performance. A valuable resource for anyone working with IN PERFORMANCE INTRODUCTION TO MODERN theatrical productions. 40 illustrations and CONTEMPORARY* DANCE TECHNIQUES photos. MONOLOGUES FOR TEENS Book: $34.95 | BY JOSHUA LEGG Book: $16.99 | BY JV MERCANTI Bringing together all AN INTRODUCTION TO THE In this thoughtfully of the major modern ART OF THEATRE curated collection, dance techniques Book: $26.95 | BY MARSH CASSADY teen actors preparing from the last 80 This is a readable, for an audition or years, this engaging workable text that searching for quality account is the first of deals with everything scenes to hone their its kind. The about theatre and the chops will find a informative artists who make wealth of discussion starts by theatre possible. contemporary mapping the Styles of drama, material from historical staging, production, American and British development of directing and acting, plays. Almost all of modern dance: in the along with all the works are from late 19th century, a new dance emerged—not backstage functions the year 2000 to the recent 2014 Broadway yet known as modern dance—that rejected are defined in detail. production of The Curious Incident of the Dog social strictures and ballet as well. With Theatre history and in Night-Time, chosen from the point of view insight into the personalities and purposes of the business of theatre are covered fully for of a professional acting teacher, director, and modern dance’s vanguard—including Martha the use of both students and instructors. casting director.Along with covering the Graham, Lester Horton, José Limón, and basics of how to match the best monologue to Merce Cunningham—this compilation IT JUST GOT REAL the actor and how to approach the rehearsal provides a comparative approach that will Book: $15.95 | BY VARIOUS AUTHORS and performance of the piece, the book enable students to discern which technique Ready for a provides a synopsis of each play, a character best suits them and dispel the idea that there challenge? This description, and a list of questions specific to is a single, universal modern dance excellent collection of each monologue that will direct the actor technique. There are also ideas for ten-minute plays is toward shaping a complex, honest, and experimentation so that students can begin just what you’re thoughtful performance that has a strong developing an aesthetic sense for not only looking for! All twelve emotional connection, a clear arc, and what is pleasing to their artistic eye, but also shows address a playable actions. There is also a brief lesson for what technical ideas are exciting while myriad of current on appropriate rehearsal behavior and their own body is in motion. Sample lessons social issues ranging preparation. are included for teachers to incorporate the from drug use to THEATRE RESOURCES text into courses. immigration and racism to teen suicide and more! Sample titles include Grace by Celeste Bonfanti, Anti-Depressants by Jeff Weisman and The Frying Pan by Kelly Meadows. The plays included in this anthology are perfect for the director looking to start relevant conversations. It Just Got Real is a perfect introduction to socially-relevant theatre.
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE JUST ME: 100 MONOLOGUES LIGHTING THE STAGE ART OF THEATRE TEACHER'S FOR TEENS Book: $29.95 | BY WILARD F. BELLMAN GUIDE Book: $16.95 | BY PHYLLIS C. JOHNSON Art and Practice, Book: $19.95 | BY MARSH CASSADY A collection of Third Edition. This A readable, workable comedic and thoroughly revised theatre text that deals dramatic monologues and updated edition with everything about with 50 monologues is written for the theatre and the for guys and 50 advanced student of artists who make monologues for girls. lighting design and theatre possible. technology. It goes Styles of drama, beyond techniques staging, production, for creating light plots directing, and acting, and focuses on the along with all art of lighting design. Emphasis is given to the backstage functions, designer's thought processes and the are defined in detail. Theatre history and the collaborative nature of theatrical design, business of theatre are covered fully for the especially the designer-director relationship. use of both students and instructors. The KIDS' COMEDIC Written by Willard F. Bellman, winner of the book is divided into three sections: Part I - MONOLOGUES* THAT ARE United States Institute for Theatre Theatre, Drama, and Place; Part II - The ACTUALLY FUNNY Technology's Founders Award in 1990. Production; Part III - Theatre History. At the Book: $14.99 | BY ALISHA GADDIS end of each chapter is a summary and This book is the questions for in-class discussion. This theatre answer to the text has been classroom tested and updated comedic monologue to be fully adaptable to any teaching needs of kid actors – requirement. Teacher's Guide includes and their parents – suggestions for further reading, in-class everywhere. Kids' discussion topics, and sample exam Comedic questions. Monologues That Are Actually Funny is JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ONE specifically geared ACT COMEDIES for children ages Book: $7.50 | BY RUTH KELSEY, ANN 5-12. Divided into COULTER MARTENS, JEWELL BOTHWELL boy, girl, and gender TULL neutral categories, every piece is guaranteed The White Elephant to be clean, hilariously funny, easy to Comes Home (5W) memorize, and a joy for young actors to One of Sally’s perform. birthday presents is a MAKE IT MYSTERY horrible picture. Sally It features monologues by writers and comics Book: $19.95 | BY CRAIG SODARO gets rid of it, but it who have written for or performed on Ellen, Better by the dozen! returns. Midge Goes Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show, Last This book of twelve to the Movies (5M, Comic Standing, Comedy Central Stage, and royalty-free mystery 4W) Nobody wants to many more. take care of the plays allows you to nuisance kid sister LET'S PUT ON A SHOW! choose from a wide variety of plays to fit who wants to go to Book: $17.95 | BY STEWART F. LANE whatever your the movies. Selma A great book for anyone producing a play or current staging and Goes Psychic (3M, 3W) Selma fancies musical. Mr. Lane guides you through the casting needs may herself a medium but neglects the future. process from idea to ovation, offering how-tos be. They are Yellow Tulips (2M, 4W) Judy loves her new on every aspect of production, including especially workable hat, but sacrifices it for a pot of yellow tulips. picking a show, finding a space, putting for middle schools The Case of the Glass Slipper (6M, 5W, together your creative team, holding and high schools, but Extras) In this amusing mock trial, there is auditions, rehearsing, and bringing a they may be performed by actors of all ages. much excitement over who stole the family production to the stage. Packed with Each of the plays in this drama text has an glass slipper. All non-royalty plays. information that’s crucial to your production’s element of mystery that is often laced with success and sprinkled with entertaining comedy."The Mother Goose Mystery" stories from Mr. Lane’s own experience. features a cast of suspicious nursery-rhyme- quoting characters. In "Queen of Hearts" a young Shakespeare helps solve a crime. "The Clue in the Library" is perfect for a library fundraiser. "Mommy's a Zombie!" is a classic farce. All of the plays are fun to perform on- stage or in the classroom. THEATRE RESOURCES 210 www.brookpub.com | order toll free: 1-888-473-8521 * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC THEATRE RESOURCES
MAKE YOUR SHOW A SUCCESS MEL WHITE'S READERS MASTERING MATH: A Book: $21.95 | BY NICHOLAS GIBBS THEATRE ANTHOLOGY COLLECTION OF 5 TEN-MINUTE From audition to Book: $19.95 | BY MELVIN R. WHITE MATH PLAYS show promotion to A collection of 28 Book: $12.95 | BY ROBERT FRANKEL fundraising and readings Join Alberto and his copywright—an This book contains a friends on his quest essential guide to variety of stories from to become a master! community theater the pens of classical Consisting of five 10 Covering both the and contemporary minute plays, each acting side and the writers, journalists title contained in this production elements, and playwrights that anthology takes an in this guide ranges have been adapted depth look at a from tips on coping for Readers’ Theatre different with first night nerves performance in this mathematical —including personal new collection of concept through the case studies, a full section on health and scripts from a magic of theatre! safety for both the theater group and the nationally-recognized authority on the subject. Learn how concepts audience, and details of funding and taxation. The success of Readers' Theatre proves you like quadratic equations, the Pythagorean It offers details of the international festival don't need scenery or costumes to create a theorem and significant digits can be used in scene, getting charitable status, fundraising, stirring dramatic performance. Sometimes everyday life! Learning math doesn't have to and more. Illustrated with handy guides to called "theatre of the imagination," Readers' be a nightmare! You’ll be a master of math by lighting and staging and containing essential Theatre communicates in a style similar to the the time Alberto is done! resources, this book will enable anyone to golden days of radio theatre. The simplicity of have a successful show. performance makes these scripts ideal for the THE MERCY SEAT classroom. Sample titles include: The Taming Book: $14.00 | BY NEIL LABUTE MAKING STAGE PROPS of The Shrew, The Wind in The Willows and Set on September Book: $37.95 | BY ANDY WILSON Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Also 12, 2001, this play Prop makers included is a section defining Readers' continues Neil everywhere now Theatre as a performance art. LaBute’s fascination have available to with the brutal them a broader range MEN'S COMEDIC realities of the war of products and MONOLOGUES* THAT ARE between the sexes. processes than every ACTUALLY FUNNY In a time of tragedy before. Making Stage Book: $14.99 | BY ALISHA GADDIS the world changes Props is a book for Never before has a monologue book been fast. A man and a anyone involved in written completely by people who are actually woman explore the prop making who funny for a living! choices now wishes to explore the available to them wealth of materials This incredibly hysterical, cutting-edge different from the ones they had yesterday. and techniques open collection of monologues will give an actor the Can one be opportunistic in a time of to them. This highly illustrated guide covers extra bang he needs to land the perfect selflessness? "There is no playwright on the planning, costing, and scheduling; tools and comedic role. Men's Comedic Monologues planet these days who is writing better than safety; working with wood, steel, and clay; That Are Actually Funny features monologues Neil LaBute . . . The Mercy Seat is . . . the making and repairing furniture; painting and by writers and comics who have written for work of a master." - John Lahr, The New finishing; and more. Andy Wilson has worked and/or performed on Saturday Night Live, The Yorker with theatrical companies throughout Britain, Tonight Show, Last Comic Standing, E! including the Royal Shakespeare Company. Entertainment, Comedy Central Stage, and MORE TEN-MINUTE PLAYS FOR He currently teaches propmaking at the many, many more. MIDDLE SCHOOL Guildhall School of Music and Drama. PERFORMERS This book is the answer to the comedic Book: $17.95 | BY REBECCA YOUNG monologue needs of male actors everywhere! This is a collection of short plays for speech and drama
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MIDDLE MANIA! MORE SHORT AND SWEET MORE THEATRE GAMES FOR Book: $19.95 | BY MAUREEN BRADY SKITS FOR STUDENT ACTORS YOUNG PERFORMERS JOHNSON Book: $17.95 | BY MAGGIE SCRIVEN Book: $17.95 | BY SUZI ZIMMERMAN This book is written These sketches with By popular demand, for middle school casts of two to ten we offer a follow-up environments, but the players (mostly 2 to book of theatre ideas could easily be 3) include a wide games specifically for transformed for high variety of topics and young acting school or elementary drama styles. Many students. Written schools as well. The of the skits are comic especially for those chapters consist of for learning comedy who coach seven different technique. Others are adolescent actors, activities: Bag of more dramatic this delightfully fresh Puppets; Mask situations for updated workbook Movement; Solving A students to learn tells you how, when, Mystery: Clan more about what and why of Drama; Giant Puppet Show; "Musical Chairs"; themselves and others. The dialogue is crisp theatre games for young performers. Starter Rock 'n' Roll Playwriting; and Community and easy to perform. The short length of scenes allow first-time performers to ease Building Days. Each promote involvement these skits requires very little planning and onto the stage in baby steps. Spontaneity is from all students. Johnson also provides memorization. They work well in the encouraged along with etiquette and basic curriculum summaries, assignment sheets, classroom and may also be used in a acting principles. The concept of pantomime, and reflections. theatrical setting. Includes an introduction for improvisation, character development, voice teaching students how to audition. Sample and body control are all presented in game MORE ONE-ACT PLAYS FOR titles include Drivers Ed; Homework; Boys, format with exercises. Anyone working with ACTING STUDENTS Boys, Boys; Prom; Un-Reality Show; Don’t young actors in schools or recreational Book: $19.95 | BY NORMAN A. BERT, DEB Tell Mom; TV Addiction; and Compu-Speak. centres will find the book exceptionally BERT They can be staged and directed by the helpful. The success of One- students themselves. Excellent for Act Plays for Acting competition or comedy revue shows. MOVEMENT FOR ACTORS Students prompted Book: $19.95 | BY NICOLE POTTER this follow-up theatre MIDDLE MANIA TWO! Renowned book of 25 Book: $16.95 | BY MAUREEN BRADY movement teachers contemporary short JOHNSON and directors reveal dramas by nationally- Continue the journey the physical skills known playwrights. with more needed for the stage Each play has a imaginative theater and screen. This production time of ten projects for young collection of essays to fifteen minutes, yet performers! This explains the each script is a book will help you Alexander technique, complete work, no use drama to bring the use of cuttings. Twenty- middle-schoolers psychological three playwrights are represented. together in creative, gesture, period collaborative ways. movement, the work MORE SCENES FROM Like the first Middle of Rudolph Laben, postmodern choreography, SHAKESPEARE Mania!, this book Suzuki training, and more, while providing Book: $14.95 | BY MICHAEL WILSON could easily be ready-to-use exercises and approaches for Contains twenty adapted for high school or elementary school actors. Plus, peruse listings of the best cuttings from some of use and will help create a safe space in which movement teachers and schools around the Shakespeare's most students can learn to trust and risk. With country. recognizable plays games like Garage Sale Monologue and for acting and "Simple" Play Production, this is a great follow directing practice. up to Middle Mania. Written by an expert - a drama instructor - More Scenes from Shakespeare provides a great way to get students excited about Shakespeare. By breaking Shakespeare’s plays into small, workable scenes, the book improves students’ interest, enthusiasm, and performance. THEATRE RESOURCES 212 www.brookpub.com | order toll free: 1-888-473-8521 * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC THEATRE RESOURCES
MUSICAL SCENE STUDY GUIDE NEW ONE-ACT PLAYS FOR THE NEW, IMPROVED - THE MUSICALS OF RODGERS ACTING STUDENTS PLAYWRIGHT'S SURVIVAL AND HAMMERSTEIN Book: $19.95 | BY DEB BERT, NORMAN A. GUIDE Book: $29.99 | BY TOM BRIGGS BERT Book: $15.95 | BY GARY GARRISON This guidebook A new anthology of This how-to guide features both comic complete one-act includes inspirational and dramatic scenes plays for one, two, or stories, tricks of the and songs from 10 R three actors. This trade, and & H musicals latest volume in a reassurance, and it (Oklahoma!, series of short play now incorporates Carousel, Allegro, anthologies provides information on South Pacific, The roles for almost any dramatic structure, King and I, Me and mix of students in an writing synopses, and Juliet, Flower Drum acting class. Ranging avoiding the perils Song, The Sound of in mood from serious that can sink staged Music, State Fair, and Cinderella) for the to farcical, this book readings. Garrison purpose of musical scene study work. Each includes 15 scripts fills this edition with scene includes: an introduction to the musical for two actors, five advice on uncovering inspiration, dealing with from which it is taken, a description of the monologues and five three-character plays. criticism, finding mentors and maintaining characters, a note about the preceding Excellent for classes and festival relationships with them, smart self-promotion, dramatic circumstance of the scene, dialogue, competitions, this book not only includes and beating writer's block. Demystifying the stage directions, and piano/vocal score for the scripts, but also contains information on playwriting process, Garrison speaks directly song(s) included in the scene. securing rights and holding rehearsals. to practitioners, offering the lessons of the craft in his trademark blend of honesty, MY FIRST ACTING BOOK: NEW PLAYWRIGHTS: THE BEST humor, and horse sense. So don't just make a ACTING TECHNIQUES FOR PLAYS 2013 living at playwriting, read The New, Improved BEGINNERS Book: $24.95 | BY LAWRENCE HARBISON Playwright's Survival Guide and make a life of Book: $16.95 | BY KRISTEN DABROWSKI The best plays by it. What do actors do? new playwrights this What is an audition season. ON STAGE like? Can I be an Book: $16.95 | BY LISA BANY-WINTERS actor? Dive into this Lights, camera, play! book and find out Kids can have fun what it s like to be an under the footlights actor and tips on how and learn all about to begin. Told simply theater with through words and improvisational pictures, this is a games such as great introduction to freeze, party quirks, and gibberish. Bany- the who, whats, and Winters has a clear and concise way of whys of show business. Perfect for kids and explaining both the activity and its purpose, parents interested in knowing more, whether ON SINGING ONSTAGE making her work a useful source for you are ready to try out acting or just curious. Book: $18.99 | BY DAVID CRAIG ensemble-building games for student-run A terrific take on drama groups and rehearsal techniques for ONCE UPON A TIME: A theatre singing by a adult teachers/directors. Exercises in COLLECTION OF FRACTURED master teacher. puppetry, mask-making, costuming, makeup, FAIRY TALES David Craig knows and set design. Explanations of theatrical Book: $13.95 | BY VARIOUS AUTHORS more about singing in terms are smoothly incorporated into the text. Let the adventure the musical theatre Whether playing alone or in a group, theater begin with these 10 than anyone in this fun is for everyone! fractured ten minute country – which plays. Including probably means the unexpected hip new world. Time and time
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ONE ON ONE - THE BEST OUTSTANDING STAGE ORIGINAL MIDDLE SCHOOL MEN'S MONOLOGUES FOR THE MONOLOGUES AND SCENES SCENES AND MONOLOGUES 21ST CENTURY FROM THE '90S Book: $14.95 | BY KENT R. BROWN Book: $18.99 | BY BOB SHUMAN, JOYCE E. Book: $15.95 | BY STEVEN H. GALE Original Middle School Scenes and HENRY, REBECCA DUNN JAROFF Forty professional auditions from some of the Monologues contains more than 90 roles Covering the best of Broadway, Off- most important contemporary plays and created especially for middle school actors. Broadway, regional, and experimental theatre playwrights of the 1990's that reflect actors' Diverse in theme and style, these challenging since 2000, One on One challenges actors to and students' desires for pieces that are up- and distinctive pieces will motivate young explore the inner self, develop skill and to-date and exciting to perform. Playwrights actors to create memorable characterizations. artistry for auditions, and deliver a knockout include: Albee, Fratti, Kushner, Horowitz, This anthology is equally useful as a resource onstage performance. These monologues – Wilder, Norman, Dresser, Gurney, Rivera, for acting auditions and forensic competitions. sometimes comic, sometimes serious, and Cruz, Friel, and more. Many selections Representative titles include:Foster Gets His often both – tackle issues ranging from race, contain strong language and adult situations Own Demon, The Big Breakup, Geek Secrets, class, gender, relationships and romance to which might be objectionable to some. Making Up for Lost Time, Anna and the Sea coming of age, mortality, 9/11, and the Iraq Monster, Muttface, The Watch Watcher, war. ONE-ACT PLAYS FOR ACTING Sharctoteachergator!, The Garden Dragon, STUDENTS Talkin' Smack, The Underprivileged Club, ONE ON ONE - THE BEST Book: $19.95 | BY NORMAN A. BERT Don't Wanna Be a Rock Star, This Scene Will WOMEN'S MONOLOGUES FOR The plays in this Destruct in Five Seconds, The No Socks THE 21ST CENTURY book are complete Gang, But What If an Alien-Steel-Jaw Came Book: $18.99 | BY BOB SHUMAN, JOYCE E. works, not cuttings, Down From Another Universe and Ate Us HENRY, REBECCA DUNN JAROFF with balanced roles Up? and Who Says I Talk Too Much? Three editors, each written by nationally associated with known playwrights POWER PLAYS theatre, collaborated including: Tim Kelly, Book:* $18.95 | BY LAURIE ALLEN on this book of Megan Terry, and Intense. Poignant. monologues for Stephen Grecco. Moving. Powerful. actresses. What they Excellent for The twenty short discovered, besides secondary and plays in this bravura pieces for university level collection cover auditions, acting forensic abroad spectrum of classes, and study, competitions, we've included sections on dramatic situations, was the pulse of the rehearsal techniques and procedures, as well including revenge, millennial theatrical as a section on other plays by the playwrights abuse, scene. This book whose work is featured in this book. This loneliness, includes the work of over 70 playwrights with anthology offers a variety of performance homelessness, a special introduction that explains how to rights options and is recommended as an eating disorders, choose, practice, and perform a speech for exceptional text for playwriting, acting, and death, and auditions. Comic or serious – or both – the general theatre classes. Norman A. Bert has relationships. With moods ranging monologues are written for young, old, and a Ph.D specializing in dramatic theory and fromsentimental to hard-hitting and from multicultural players by famous names and criticism from the University of Indiana and heart-warming to heart-wrenching, the wide up-and-coming talent. currently chairs the theatre department at varietyof topics provides ample opportunities Texas Tech University where he teaches for actors to explore stunning character THE PLAYWRIGHT'S beginning and advanced playwriting. arcs.These short plays, varying in length from WORKBOOK 8 to 15 minutes, are all set in the present day Book: $19.99 | BY JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALIE THE PERFECT AUDITION and have cast sizes ranging from two to A series of 13 written MONOLOGUE seven. 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Laurie Ibsen and marketing tool that Allen packs an incredible punch into each and Shakespeare - The introduces and every one of these scenes, making these solo performance showcases an actor's short plays ideal for contests, a dramatic piece: listening for talent to agents, showcase, or as a conversation starter on a stories - Terror and casting directors, and specific topic. vulnerability: Ionesco - The point of absurdity: producers. In this creating without possessing: Pinter and book, Glenn Beckett - and much more. Altermen covers every aspect of the monologue audition, from entrance to exit. THEATRE RESOURCES 214 www.brookpub.com | order toll free: 1-888-473-8521 * = New Title BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS LLC THEATRE RESOURCES
PERSPECTIVES PLACES, PLEASE! PLAY DIRECTOR'S SURVIVAL Book: $17.95 | BY MARY KRELL-OISHI Book: $16.95 | BY JOY VARLEY KIT This book of twenty- An Essential Manual Book: $32.95 | BY JAMES W. RODGERS, three relevant scenes for High-School WANDA C. RODGERS for teens deals with Theater Directors: A complete step-by- challenging subject How to Structure and step guide to matter in five Organize Your producing theater in categories of Theater Program - a any school or subjects: 1. Dating, 2. must-have for every community setting. Pregnancy, 3. high-school theater This expansive Control, 4. Family, program. This book theatrical guide and 5. Growing Up. defines the roles of covers the where, Because the everyone in a when, and how for characters are production, from the staff and actors to parent every step of school beyond stereotypes, volunteers. Special chapters address call play production, the student actors are required to reach boards, costumes, lights, sets, tech and dress including play beyond easy characterization. The scenes rehearsals, and budget. Includes a production selection and adaptation, holding auditions, offer a wide variety of styles and an equal timeline to make sure you never run out of casting roles, budgeting, coaching actors, distribution of roles between men and women. rehearsal time. The book includes sample setting up a production team, the rehearsal They may be used as audition pieces, festival pages of audition schedules and evaluation process, publicity, and promotion. If you are entries, or as discussion igniters for sheets, how to prepare a stage manager's thinking of putting on a play in an educational interaction between the actors and the cue book, how to create and manage a setting, this is the book you need! audience. show's costume plot, and much more. PLAY WITH SHAKESPEARE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO STAGE PLAY DIRECTING IN THE Book: $19.95 | BY LINDA BURSON LIGHTING SCHOOL Four assembly-length adaptations of Book: $51.95 | BY STEVEN LOUIS SHELLEY Book: $19.95 | BY DAVID GROTE Shakespearean plays, 13 short scenes, Combining theory Play directing in synopses of nine plays, with questions for and application, this schools requires discussion, plus comprehensive chapters on book provides a talents that are far warmups, improvisations, directing and comprehensive different from performing. The quest for good material for analysis of lighting directing for young performers, in school and out, sooner systems along with community theatre. In or later leads to Shakespeare—wonderful step-by-step ten comprehensive material, full of challenging characters, examples and chapters, the author absorbing themes, exciting plots and eloquent illustrations of the explains the “real language. Play with Shakespeare provides a tools and methods. world” of producing complete design for working with Readers benefit from effective theatre in Shakespearean scenes and plays. For the experience-based tips, techniques, and traps the school plays most often taught in middle and high to avoid in preparing and executing a lighting environment. Using school, Linda Burson has written a scenario of design. Anecdotes illustrate why some his many years of experience with these the complete play, chosen short scenes (four techniques succeed while others fail. This issues, Grote covers analyzing the script, to 11 minutes long) that challenge young book uses practical methods to squeeze blocking, budgeting, rehearsals, building a people's interest, and has suggested flexibility out of a lighting system and presents theatre program, motivating and disciplining improvisations and discussion questions that solutions to common problems. students, and many other school-life realities lead to greater understanding. Then, for times beyond a director or teacher’s job description. when you want a real production that fits into SHAKESPEARE MONOLOGUES a 25- to 45-minute time allotment, she has FOR YOUNG MEN SHAKESPEARE MONOLOGUES developed four "showcase" scripts. Book: $18.95 | BY LUKE DIXON FOR YOUNG WOMEN Fifty fresh speeches Book: $18.95 | BY LUKE DIXON from William Fifty fresh speeches Shakespeare's plays, from William hand-picked for Shakespeare's plays,
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REFLECTIONS ON BECKETT RENT POSTCARD POINTERS TO THE Book: $70.00 | BY ANNA MCMULLAN, S. E. Book: $16.99 | BY JONATHON LARSON PERFORMER WILMER The Complete Book Book: $9.95 | BY BOB MAY Renowned and Lyrics of the What is Postcard international scholars Broadway Musical - Pointers to the offer perspectives on Rent won the 1996 Performer? Just what one of the world's Pulitzer Prize for the title most challenging Drama, as well as suggests...what the playwrights. The four Tony Awards, postcard is to the contributors shed including Best letter (a brief account new light on Musical, Best Book, of important events). Beckett's enigmatic and Best Score for It’s a Cliff’s Notes theater, taking up an Jonathan Larson. version of an acting array of topics. The story of Mark, book. It is a brief, but Included are new Roger, Maureen, to-the-point approach perspectives on Tom Collins, Angel, to the craft of acting. Beckett's use of language and silence, on his Mimi, JoAnne, and It’s a checklist for the veteran actor, and a attitudes toward the body, on those who their friends living in New York City and quick how-to for the beginning actor who influenced him and on those he has struggling to live, love, and pay their rent will wants to learn some of the tricks of the trade. influenced, and on Beckett and the art of self- without a doubt live on. Includes 16 color But at the heart of this book is a brief collaboration. Each contributor places the photographs of productions of Rent from reflection of an actor's thoughts after forty- playwright into a network of genealogies and around the world, plus an introduction (“Rent three years in the theatre. legacies and his work into important historical, Is Real”) by Victoria Leacock Hoffman. cultural, and aesthetic contexts. Together, the SHAKESPEARE FOR AMERICAN essays demonstrate Beckett's impact on PRODUCING THEATRE ACTORS AND DIRECTORS theater, performance, and visual arts during Book: $25.00 | BY DONALD C. FARBER Book: $14.99 | BY AARON FRANKEL the latter half of the twentieth century and Whether you are a Fear grips many serve to open up new directions for Beckett theatrical American actors and studies well into the twenty-first. This is an entrepreneur, directors faced with indispensable volume for anyone interested in investor, attorney, or the opportunity to Beckett, whether scholar, student, or student, and whether perform Shakespeare enthusiast. the production is on live. The challenges Broadway, off of Elizabethan British THE PAST AS PRESENT IN THE Broadway, in stock, speech patterns, the DRAMA OF AUGUST WILSON or repertory, this thought of using Book: $29.95 | BY HARRY J. ELAM JR. standard theatrical verse for hours, the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright August reference work by debate over staging a Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black one of the country's period piece versus Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other leading theatrical "updating" the Bard of Avon-all can cause dramatic works, was one of the most well attorneys tells you everything you need to psychogenic trauma on this side of the respected American playwrights on the know about raising money, obtaining rights, Atlantic. contemporary stage. As the founder of the and bringing a play to the stage. Topics Black Horizon Theater Company, his self- include how to obtain a property, raising In Shakespeare for American Actors and defined dramatic project was to review money, contracts with producers, licensing for Directors, Aaron Frankel defines and asserts twentieth-century African American history by Broadway, and out-of-town theatre. the acting tools by which American actors creating a play for each decade. Theater may freshly and truly illuminate Shakespeare. scholar and critic Harry J. Elam, Jr. examines SCENES FROM SHAKESPEARE He applies these tools to example scenes, Wilson's published plays within the context of Book: $15.95 | BY MICHAEL WILSON discusses director choices, as well as the contemporary African American literature and Due to time execution of those choices. He even in relation to concepts of memory and history, constraints, many addresses myths about what accents are culture and resistance, race and instructors teach most appropriate for Shakespearean representation. Elam finds that each of Shakespeare by characters. Finally, he plunges readers into Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, studying only one of the meaning of scenes, so that they can ignored, or avoided to create a new his many plays. Now, experiment with their roles to best convey experience of the past that questions the with Scenes from those meanings. historical categories of race and the meanings Shakespeare, of blackness. students are able to Frankel's thirty years leading a professional easily study a variety Shakespeare workshop at Uta Hagen-Herbert of his works and Berghof (HB) Studio in New York City gives come to a more him a distinct advantage when addressing complete how directors work with actors doing understanding. 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A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR SCENES KEEP HAPPENING the SCT hallmark of sophistication. MUSICAL THEATRE Book: $15.95 | BY MARY KRELL-OISHI Book: $39.95 | BY LARRY MITCHELL Forty-eight true-to-life SHAKESPEARE ALIVE! After 40 years of scenes for guys, girls Book: $21.95 | BY FREDI OLSTER, RICK producing musicals and mixed casts of 2 HAMILTON for high school, to 4 actors. Written Two-minute university, and semi- as teens speak with monologues for professional theatres, the drama and study, audition, and Larry Mitchell's A emotions of performance by Fredi Practical Handbook adolescence. Olster and Rick for Musical Theatre Themes including Hamilton. Each (Fourth Edition) is the bullying, dating, monologue is leading how-to book driving, clothes, presented in both the in the field. Chapters sports, sibling rivalry, original and a include "Choosing self-esteem, vanity, reworded modern the Musical"; "101 Musicals from Which to jobs, sex, responsibility, drugs and many version. Verses are Choose," containing recommended musicals more. Some scenes are humorous, others grouped by thought, of all difficulty levels; "Duties of the Stage serious. Suitable for classroom or stage rather than poetic Director"; and "Auditioning and Casting the performance. Excellent contest scripts. line. This unique Musical." Used by colleges and universities Includes 5 or 10 minute scenes for girls, guys format helps the actor fully understand and musical educators throughout the United and mixed casts. Shakespeare’s meaning and led Stephen States, A Practical Handbook for Musical Peithman to say Shakespeare Alive! is “one of Theatre's practicality and effectiveness have SCENES THAT HAPPEN the best books of its kind.” made it the “standard of the field.” Book: $15.95 | BY MARY KRELL-OISHI Snapshot SHORT AND SWEET SKITS FOR THE PROP MASTER dramatizations about STUDENT ACTORS Book: $19.95 | BY AMY MUSSMAN life in high school. Book: $17.95 | BY MAGGIE SCRIVEN This guidebook Thirty-four real life These short skits with provides clear scenes for guys and casts of two to six definitions of this girls and mixed casts players cover a wide challenging job in of two to four actors. variety of topics and action, whether you Each is suitable for drama styles. Some are a professional, classroom or stage skits are comic for volunteer or student performance. learning comedy prop master. You will Excellent contest technique. Others are learn how to build a scripts because situations for props department, student actors students to learn how to create props, portray themselves in both the bearable and more about and how to work with impossible situations of teenage existence. themselves and the crew. Chapters Themes include dating, growing up, others. The dialogue include: What Are Props?; The Prop Master; graduation, suspension from school, is crisp and easy to Interacting with Other People; A Successful popularity, parents, siblings, and many more – perform. Very little planning and memorization Work Environment; The Prop Shop; experiences to laugh and cry about. is required to stage these skits. Many may be Collections and Files; The First Steps of the staged readers theatre style. They work well Build Process; Start "Propping"; Rehearsals SEATTLE CHILDREN'S in a classroom and they may also be used in and Performances; Safety; Timeless Tips and THEATRE: SIX PLAYS FOR a theatrical setting. Sample titles Techniques; and Basic Theatre Terminology. YOUNG AUDIENCES include:"Funny Isn't Always Funny", "Gossip Volume Two: $19.95 | BY DEBORAH LYNN Among Friends", "The Principal's Office", and, SHAKESPEARE IN 30 MINUTES FROCKT "The Band and Party Girls". They can be Book: $9.95 | BY MIKE WILLIS In this collection of staged and directed by the students An exciting and unique collection of four six plays from Seattle themselves. It is excellent for competition or adaptations of works by William Shakespeare. Children's Theatre, comedy revue shows. This unique compilation includes A you will find an exhilarating range of Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the THEATRE RESOURCES Shrew, Macbeth, and Othello, giving scripts - from audiences the chance to enjoy the poetry of hilarious comic the original language. The royalty fees on adventures to these works are $30.00 per performance of engaging, each adaptation. challenging drama. There are old favorites given new life for the stage and fresh stories imagined by some of America's most innovative playwrights, but each play shares
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SHORT SCENES AND SIGHT UNSEEN AND OTHER SIXTY COMEDY DUET SCENES MONOLOGUES FOR MIDDLE PLAYS FOR TEENS SCHOOL ACTORS Book: $18.95 | BY DONALD MARGULIES Book: $17.95 | BY LAURIE ALLEN Book: $14.95 | BY MARY HALL SURFACE Exploring themes These scenes take Eleven to fourteen- from childhood to the place in the confines year-olds bring struggles of an artist of school and are unrivaled energy to in contemporary easily staged. The the work of theater- society, this first incredibly believable making. They collection of plays teen characters are demand dramatic displays the full daring, outlandish, material that speaks measure of uninhibited and directly to them--that Margulies’ theatrical creative as they deal captures their achievement. Also with situations everyday-but- includes: Found a exaggerated by their gigantically-important Peanut, The Loman own attitudes, struggles with school, Family Picnic, The perceptions and parents, and friends; Model Apartment and actions. The scenes in this drama text focus that explores their painful wrestlings with the What’s Wrong with This Picture? Sometimes on subjects they know very well – dating, hard knocks and hard choices of these are bitingly funny, as in the parody appearances, egos, fads, crushes, breaking adolescence; and that ignites their desire to Loman Family Picnic, about a young man who rules, broken hearts, failing grades, explore other places and times. This escapes his unhappy family life by imagining embarrassing moments and much more. collection of scenes and monologues, drawn a musical of Death of a Salesman. These are realistic scenes that help the teen from the author's years of experience with Sometimes the plays are surreal, as in the audience and performers laugh at middle-schoolers, offers exciting and Twilight Zone-ish What's Wrong With This themselves. Perfect for classroom practice or outstanding short audition pieces that anyone Picture? about a dead wife and mother. an evening of entertainment. can enjoy. SONGWRITING SO YOU THINK YOU'RE SHOW TIME! Book: $24.99 | BY STEPHEN CITRON FUNNY? Book: $14.95 | BY LISA BANY-WINTERS A comprehensive Book: $17.95 | BY IMMEDIATE GRATIFI- In Show Time!, kids course for beginning CATION PLAYERS learn to become and experienced Anyone can do improvisational comedy - all "triple threat" songwriters and a you need is a sense of humor and a touch of performers, rich source of new fearlessness. The Immediate Gratification developing their skills ideas, inspiration, Players have been improvising at Harvard as singers, dancers, and tricks of the trade University since 1986, and in this book, they and actors through for those who have show you how to do it, too. From honing the more than 80 activities that include imitating a already achieved skills of the craft to presenting your comedy musician or musical instrument, acting out a professional onstage, this book takes you through every song, creating a mirror dance, making standing. This fresh step of the process. Topics discussed include puppets, and more. Along the way, they'll new edition not only mastering an improv scene, nailing an learn about the history of musicals, discover contains all of the audition, and, eventually, storming the stage. musicals about history, and find out how to original volume's cogent advice on how to The Immediate Gratification Players have prepare before the curtain goes up. Perfect write the always-popular genres – the country created the only book about improvisational for teachers, parents, and kids who want song, the ballad, and the love song – but has comedy aimed directly at students - written ways to enjoy themselves on their own or in been revised to include: from a students' perspective. The book also small groups. Several play scripts, a list of features a foreword by comedian Sarah suggested musicals for kids, and a play - Examples of hard rock, acid, heavy metal, Haskins and an afterword by writer/director glossary are included. hip-hop, salsa, and many others Nicholas Stoller, both graduates of the troupe. - Finding a song concept, distilling the hook, choosing a form, adding harmony, and selecting rhythm - An appendix telling how to copyright, computerize, notate, record, and sell your song - Full glossary of musical and songwriting terms
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SOUND AND MUSIC FOR THE instructor. music. THEATRE Book: $36.95 (6 x 9/Third Edition) | BY DEENA SPEAK WITH DISTINCTION: THE SPANISH - ENGLISH PLAY KAYE, JAMES LEBRECHT CLASSIC SKINNER METHOD TO COLLECTION Sound and Music for SPEECH ON THE STAGE Book: $15.95 the Theatre traces Book: $39.99 | BY EDITH SKINNER Hola amigos! Don’t the entire process of Widely recognized as be intimidated by this sound design from the most complete grande collection of initial concept and rigorous text of 10 plays in Spanish through closing night. its kind since it was and English. Whether The book discusses first published in they’re serving the early evolution of 1942, Speak With androgynous aliens, a sound design that Distinction is an disgruntled supports the play, invaluable resource. neighbors, or even from researching It presents a an adventurous sources for music comprehensive study chicken, these plays and effects to of the sounds of are sure to entertain negotiating a contract. It shows how to Spoken English in your students. The organize the construction of the sound design their most important phonetic environments. centerpiece of this collection are the study elements, how the designer functions in a This most recent revision also adds much questions. If you've never included drama in rehearsal, and how to set up and train an material for comparisons of speech sounds; your Spanish class, this is a fun, creative and operator to run sound equipment for a suggestions for accurate, efficient and effective way to immerse your students in the theatrical production. This instructive conversational ways of combining the sounds language. ¡Diviértate! information is interspersed with "war stories" into connected utterance; indications that describing real-life problems with solutions foster a working knowledge of two dialects of SOUND CHECK that sound designers and composers can speech (General American and what Mrs. Book: $16.99 | BY TONY MOSCAL apply in their own work. The new third edition Skinner called Good Speech for classic and The Basics of Sound still retains its focus on aesthetics, elevated texts); and beginning material to and Sound Systems techniques, and process. However, it goes show application of the principles of Good This is a simplified beyond to offer a brand new forum on sound Speech to well-written texts.Some important guide to what can be reinforcement, unique information on additions to the book are the extensive a tricky subject: computer-assisted playback systems, and a Glossary and Index, abundant guides to getting good sound. comprehensive perspective on using pronunciations, new sections featuring such Starting with an easy- technology to build and execute shows. details as the complete “Ask-List” of words, a to-understand program for the elimination of glottal attacks explanation of the SPEAKING OUT: AN of vowel and dipthong sounds, greatly principles and INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC expanded practice material of phrases and physics of sound, SPEAKING sentences, and an updated Chart showing Sound Check goes Book: $19.95 | BY MICHAEL GALLAGHER several levels of phonetic transcription and on to cover amplifiers, speaker hookup, Students need to spelling equivalents in current usage.Speak matching speakers with amps, sound understand that With Distinction can be used in several ways: reinforcement, mixers, monitor systems, public speaking is a as a primary educational textbook for both the grounding, and more. Includes many life skill that will beginning and advanced actor; as a diagrams, lots of illustrations, and a glossary improve their career supplementary textbook for teachers and of audio terms. and relationships with students who have their own methods and others. The book is agenda for study; and as a reference book for SPOTLIGHT divided into four teachers, speech coaches and directors. Book: $14.95 | BY STEPHANIE FAIRBANKS sections: Getting A superb resource for Started, The Basics, SOUND DESIGNER'S speech contests, The Competitive COMPANION acting exercises, Speaking Events, Book: $25.00 | BY BILL RAOUL auditions, or and Honing Your An indispensable reference book for sound audience Skills with Assignments & Activities. In all, designers to help them identify appropriate entertainment. In a
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"nontheatrical" monologues. DVD tutorials included. More details online. SPONTANEOUS PERFORMANCE SPIRIT OF AMERICA: STAGE ACTING TECHNIQUES: Book: $15.95 | BY MARSH CASSADY PATRIOTIC MONOLOGUES FOR A PRACTICAL GUIDE Over 300 improv exercises and theatre MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL Book: $24.95 | BY JOHN HESTER games to develop creative abilities and acting STUDENTS Stage Acting skills. Improvisational theatre involves Book: $11.95 | BY D. TULLAH LIGHTFOOT Techniques is aimed students immediately without having to Spirit of America is at all practicing audition or learn lines and blocking. Instead an inspiring collection actors who wish to they learn to watch, listen, and think on their of patriotic speeches develop a feet. Improv is also a good way to develop and writings ideal for comprehensive confidence, to build characters, and to middle and high working knowledge of understand the various aspects of acting and school speech and dramatic skills. It drama. Many different types of improvs are forensics classes, works from the presented in this theatre text, ranging from the assemblies, and assumption that, serious to the hilarious. All are easily creative performance although talent producible, requiring only simple sets and events. Some of the cannot be taught, the props. Includes exercises leading to widely greatest ability to apply talent varied subjects and genres of improvisation, personalities, from successfully and productively can. from scenes dealing with youth problems to Plato to Ronald situation comedy. Reagan, speak Topics covered: Learn how to be real, natural passionately about the timeless issues of our and truthful. Develop the skills to easily SPRING AWAKENING age: freedom, democracy, individual rights. interpret the intentions behind the text. 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ABLEY, SEAN BUCHANAN, RUTH PHOBIA FACTORY ...... 24 THRILLING TALE OF THE THREE MUSKETEERS ...... 46 EXPOSED! EIGHT 10-MINUTE BARD IN A BOX: THE TAMING WACKY WIZARD OF OZ ...... 44 SCENES ABOUT WHAT OF THE SHREW ...... 51 GRETH, LE ROMA REALLY HAPPENED ...... 54 DRUCE, MICHAEL ENTER MACBETH ...... 50 HEADIN' FOR A WEDDIN' ...... 17 HORROR HIGH: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO HAPPILY EVER AFTER HOURS 54 MUSICAL ...... 131 HIGH ...... 57 GROVE, JULIA WE WISH YOU A MERRY BUMGARNER, BURTON LES MISERABLES ...... 37 AFTER HAPPILY EVER AFTER 40 SPENDMAS! ...... 34 GRITS AND GRAVY ...... 17 MURDER AHOY ...... 23 GUSTAFSON, JIM WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF...? MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S TEXAS- OTHER THREE MUSKETEERS EIGHT 10-MINUTE TALES OF SIZE NIGHTMARE ...... 46 AND THE JEWEL OF MALTA .... 48 HOT DAMES, HOT LEAD ...... 18 IMPROBABILITY ...... 34 BURRIS, AMANDA WHERE THERE'S A WILL, HAAS, CLAUDIA AUSTIN, MURRAY THERE'S A MURDER ...... 34 AFTER HAPPILY EVER AFTER 40 CANTERVILLE GHOST ...... 40 BETTER FOOTBALL THROUGH DUHATSCHEK, MARTY CAST AWAY TO HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY ...... 9 BURRUTO, CHRISTOPHER ALLAN AND LLOYD MEET SHAKESPEARE'S GARDEN ..... 10 HIGH SCHOOL ELECTION ...... 18 MORIARTY'S REVENGE ...... 47 DRACULA ...... 39 MEDIEVAL FEAST ...... 20 HYPNOTIZED! ...... 18 MUCH ADO ABOUT MIDDLE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ...... 60 NIGHT OF THE FALLING SCHOOL ...... 21 BARNES, DAVID-MATTHEW CINDERELLA (FULL LENGTH STARS ...... 60 ONCE UPON A FAIRY TALE - PLAY) ...... 55 TEMPORARY HEROES ...... 31 FULL LENGTH ...... 47 HAEHNEL, ALAN I HATE CHRISTMAS ...... 62 BARON, MARK BOX STEPS ...... 10 BUSH, DENNIS SUPER POTATO ...... 66 WWBF ...... 35 RELUCTANT DRAGON ...... 133 OUTSIDE IN ...... 25 DYER, DEAN BERG, MAUREEN KANE HALL, CAROL CARLIN, MATTHEW BECOMING JULIET ...... 45 (ALMOST) GOT IT MADE ...... 130 MY SON THE ROCK - EDUCATION OF ANGELS ...... 16 EMPEROR EXPOSED ...... 15 MUSICAL ...... 132 BERG, THOMAS C. LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN ...... 21 EICHMAN, CHARLES PIRATE ISLAND-THE (ALMOST) GOT IT MADE ...... 130 MUSICAL ...... 133 CLARK, RENEE MEDEA IN BLACK AND WHITE 48 BERLIN, AMY BRAVE BUCKAROO ...... 130 HALL, WAYNE FLORY, MONICA ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WITH HOORAY FOR JUSTICE! ...... 62 WE WISH YOU A MERRY MONIQUE ...... 9 LAST SUMMER ...... 20 SPENDMAS! ...... 34 COHEN, GARY BEYER, MICHAEL FOLLOSE, MARTIN HARDEN, VERN RELUCTANT DRAGON ...... 133 EXPOSED! EIGHT 10-MINUTE IN SEARCH OF THE DODO SHE WAS ONLY MARGINALLY SCENES ABOUT WHAT COLLIN, MARTIN R. BIRD ...... 19 MODEST ...... 26 REALLY HAPPENED ...... 54 MAN IN SEAT 24, OR THE MY SON THE ROCK - MUSICAL ...... 132 HARTSWICK, NATHAN BEYKE, KATELYN UNINVITED GUEST ...... 22 PHARAOH'S SON ...... 25 DEATH BY DESSERT ...... 13 [NO] VACANCY ...... 7 CONANT, JAMES SPICER PIRATE ISLAND-THE HAUN, JIM BRUNCH CLUB ...... 6 LOVE! AT THE CAFE! ...... 132 MUSICAL ...... 133 WIZARD'S MAGICAL MISTAKE 34 REVOLUTIONARY WHAT??? ... 27 COOK, CATHERINE PIRATE MEDALLION ...... 22 HEARN, ROD ZOMBIE LOVE ...... 34 PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT, UNDER THE BIG TOP ...... 32 EBENEZER (OR, YOU'LL SOON PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT, BILLINGS, BRIAN C. BE SINGIN' A CHRISTMAS FOUNTAIN, MICHAEL EBENEZER (OR, YOU'LL SOON PATTY'S AESOP ADVENTURE 133 CAROL) ...... 57 HAMLET WITH EXTRA BE SINGIN' A CHRISTMAS CHEESE ...... 17 CAROL) ...... 57 BRADFORD, CHAD COOK, PAT HILL, ANGELA JACK AND BELLA, FROM CAUGHT IN THE ACT ...... 10 FRANKEL, ROBERT BEANSTALK TO BROADWAY 131 ASHTON TOWERS ...... 8 UNBEARABLE LITENESS OF DON'T TRY TO WAKE HIM, BEING TEEN ...... 35 BRADFORD, WADE HAND ME THE SHOVEL ...... 15 HEROES' COUCH ...... 56 HISCHAK, THOMAS CSI - NEVERLAND ...... 61 FLY ON THE WALL ...... 14 ONE OF OUR CLOWNS IS MISSING ...... 26 GHOSTLY DOINGS ON THE CSI - WONDERLAND ...... 53 LET'S HANG HIM AND READ THE WILL ...... 20 MENU ...... 13 FREDRICKSON, CHRISTY SLEEPING BEAUTY AND THE LADIES, SIGH NO MORE ...... 58 BEAST ...... 65 COOK, RANDALL DAVID CHAOS IN CAMELOT! ...... 37 POPULARITY ...... 47 SNOW WHITE IN THE '70S ...... 40 AMERICAN IDLE: MURDERING THE MUSIC ...... 8 GABRIDGE, PATRICK TREASURE ISLAND BREMERS, BEVERLY TIGHTLY BOUND ...... 33 MAKEOVER ...... 45 DEMOVILLE, KEMUEL GIFT OF THE MAGI - THE HODGES, THOMAS MUSICAL ...... 130 WORST PRODUCTION OF THE GARRITY, WHITNEY RYAN SNOW QUEEN EVER ...... 39 BURYING THE HATCHETTS .... 12 LITTLE MERMAID ...... 131 BROWN, BETH MARTIN DEYOUNG, MARISSA LITTLE MAGIC ...... 21 HOTCHNER, STEPHEN LITTLE WITCH OF WICHITA ... 132 ALL YOU CAN MURDER GONZALEZ PH.D., ABRIDGED BY CINDERGIRL ...... 60 BRYANT, LAURIE BUFFET ...... 8 ROBERT JACOT, MICHAL CRAMALOT ...... 52 MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM 37 DIETZ, DAVID YOU KNOW THE OLD SLAYING 35 BUCCI, ANN MAKING A COMEBACK CAN GRANT, FAITH BE A REAL CAREER KILLER .... 22 JAVITCH, KAREN SOKOLOF ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WITH GIFT OF THE MAGI - THE MONIQUE ...... 9 THREE WISHES OF ALADDIN .. 66 MUSICAL ...... 130 LOVE! 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SOONEY'S MEDICINE ...... 76 HOW I GOT A DATE WITH FARE RIDE ...... 143 DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS .... 130 THE ZOOKEEPER'S DRACELSTEIN ...... 40 FAST FOOD SHAKESPEARE ... 74 DAY BOY AND THE NIGHT DAUGHTER ...... 171 GIRL ...... 75 DRACULA'S BOARDING FATALITY ...... 76 HOUSE ...... 76 ELEVATOR ...... 142 DAY I FOUND OUT I'D BEEN ELEVATOR GAMES ...... 108 FELICIA ...... 172 MISPRONOUNCING MY DRAFT BOARD ...... 142 FENCES ...... 203 STAGE MANAGER'S NAME DRAFT BOARD - ONE ACT ...... 76 ELEVENTH MINUTE ...... 142 FOR THE LAST THREE EMERGENCY PROTOCOL ..... 109 FICTIONAL MAN ...... 143 YEARS ...... 140 DRAMA CAMP ...... 15 EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE ...... 119 FIDDLER ON THE ROOF ...... 203 DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE .... 201 DRAMA GAMES AND ACTING EXERCISES ...... 202 EMOTIONAL DISTRESS ...... 75 FIFTY PROFESSIONAL DEADLY ERNEST ...... 11 SCENES FOR STUDENT DRAMA GAMES AND EMPEROR EXPOSED ...... 15 ACTORS ...... 203 DEADLY PERFECTION ...... 140 IMPROVS ...... 202 EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES ... 78 FIGHTING DEMONS ...... 79 DEAR DIARY ...... 105 DRAMA GEEKS ...... 77 ENCORE! MORE WINNING FIGHTING WITH MOM ...... 144 DEAR, I JUST WANT YOU TO DRAMA PROJECTS FOR THE MONOLOGS FOR YOUNG KNOW...WE NAMED OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL ACTORS ...... 202 FIGMENT ...... 79 SON AFTER AN OBSOLETE CLASSROOM ...... 202 COMPUTER ...... 140 END ...... 72 FIND ME ...... 80 DRAMA TEACHER'S DEARLY UNDEPARTED ...... 7 SURVIVAL GUIDE ...... 202 END OF SANDCASTLES ...... 142 FINDING DON QUIXOTE ...... 40 FINISHING SCHOOL ...... 172
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SAKS ...... 174 FORGOTTEN ONE ...... 145 (MUSICAL) ...... 131 GOLDEN RULES OF ACTING . 205 HOW I GOT MY FOSTER'S HAT ...... 145 HAPPILY NEVER AFTER ...... 76 GOLDILOCKS ON TRIAL ...... 146 SUPERPOWERS ...... 174 FOUR BY SONDHEIM ...... 204 HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILL ...... 110 GOLF DOCTOR ...... 146 HOW I SURVIVED CAMP FOURTH LOCKER ...... 109 HAPPY HANGMAN ...... 146 COOTIES ...... 62 GOOD COP, BAD COP ...... 146 FRACTURED FAIRY TALES HARLEQUIN RHAPSODY ...... 82 HOW I SURVIVED HIGH FOR STUDENT ACTORS ...... 204 GOOD ENOUGH ...... 146 SCHOOL ...... 207 HAUNTED BY GOATS ...... 82 FRANK ...... 80 GOOD FOR NOTHING ...... 109 HOW MUSICALS WORK ...... 208 HAUNTED HAMLET ...... 82 FRANK AND HARRY: A WALK GRACE ...... 146 HOW SHE PLAYED THE GAME 84 IN THE WOODS ...... 109 HE LOVES ME ...... 110 GRACELANDIA ...... 17 HOW THE OTHER HALF DIES . 19 FRANKIE AND THE HE SAID, SHE SAID: TEN- GINGERBREAD BOY ...... 42 GRADUATION ...... 173 MINUTE PLAYS FOR FOUR, HOW TO BE THE PERFECT FIVE AND SIX ACTORS ...... 207 PARENT ...... 174 FRANKIE AND THE GRANDMA ROSIE ...... 80 GINGERBREAD BOY - ONE GRAPPLING WITH HE'S MINE ...... 145 HOW TO GET THE GIRL ...... 83 ACT VERSION ...... 74 GRAMMAR: A COLLECTION HEAD OVER HEELS ...... 207 HOW TO HIDE YOUR ZOMBIES 83 OF TEN-MINUTE PLAYS ...... 205 FREAK ...... 67 HEADIN' FOR A WEDDIN' ...... 17 HOW TO IMPROVISE A PLAY FREE EXPRESSION ...... 109 GREAT GROUP SKITS: 50 IN 30 MINUTES OR LESS ...... 79 CHARACTER-BUILDING HEADS UP ...... 110 HOW TO MAKE YOUR FREEING SHAKESPEARE'S SCENARIOS FOR TEENS ...... 205 HEALTHY GUY ...... 173 VOICE ...... 204 AUDIENCES FALL IN LOVE GREAT MOMENTS IN THE HELGA ...... 38 WITH YOU ...... 208 FRENCH CAFE ...... 145 THEATRE ...... 206 HELP WANTED ...... 146 HOW TO MESS UP PRETTY FROG PRINCE ...... 61 GREAT NURSING HOME MUCH ANYTHING ...... 83 ESCAPE ...... 81 HELPING HAMLET ...... 147 FROM FINGERS TO HOW TO MESS UP PRETTY FEATHERS ...... 172 GREAT PET REVOLT OF 2042 110 HEROES' COUCH ...... 56 MUCH ANYTHING - TEN FRUITCAKE ...... 80 GREAT SANTA CLAUS HEY, GIRLFRIEND ...... 207 MINUTE VERSION ...... 147 REINDEER ROUNDUP ...... 81 FRYING PAN ...... 108 HIDDEN TREASURES ...... 147 HOW TO SURVIVE ACTING IN GREAT SCENES AND A BAD PLAY WITHOUT BEING FUNCTIONAL PARANOIA MONOLOGUES FOR HIDE AND GO SNEAK ...... 147 TRAUMATIZED FOR LIFE ...... 74 WITH OBSESSIVE- CHILDREN AGES 7-14 ...... 206 COMPULSIVE TENDENCIES .. 109 HIGH SCHOOL ELECTION ...... 18 HUH, LEVEL 12 AND THE GREEN EGGS AND HAMLET . 110 GEOLOGICAL HORSES ...... 84 FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS .. 145 HIGH SCHOOL SPOOFICAL ..... 17 GREEN MEANS GO ...... 118 HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE FUNNY BUSINESS ...... 204 HIGH-SCHOOLER'S GUIDE DAME ...... 37 GREY GARDENS ...... 206 TO THE PERFECT PROM ...... 173 FUNNY WAY OF SHOWING IT . 82 HUNTING GOODWILL ...... 147 HIGHER POWER ...... 18
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I'M A PRINCESS - GET ME OUT OR IN SHORT-RED ...... 177 OF HERE! ...... 84 INTRODUCTION TO STAGE LADYBUG AND THE LIGHTING ...... 209 BUTTERFLY ...... 63 LOOK DEEPER: A I'M AN ORIGINAL ...... 84 MULTICULTURAL I'M IN LOVE WITH MY INTRODUCTION TO THE ART LAID OFF ...... 111 COLLECTION ...... 119 OF THEATRE ...... 209 SMARTPHONE ...... 148 LAME NAME CLUB ...... 86 LOOKING FOR MR. RIGHT ...... 87 INTRODUCTION TO THE ART I'M JUST DIGGING A HOLE IN LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY OF LOST AND FOUND ...... 89 THE WOODS AT 2 A.M. NO OF THEATRE TEACHER'S GUIDE ...... 210 KING HENRY THE FIFTH... REASON. WHY DO YOU ASK? 148 WHEEL ...... 111 LOST ENDING ...... 63 INVISIBLE HUSBAND ...... 149 I'M NOT KEANU REEVES ...... 148 LANGUAGE OF A DREAM ...... 176 LOTTO DATE ...... 22 ISELMATAINIA ...... 85 I'M NOT NORMAL ...... 175 LAST LIGHT ...... 85 LOVE AND LIGHTNING ...... 110 I'M NOT OKAY ...... 175 ISMENE'S PRESS LOVE IN A FISH BOWL ...... 151 CONFERENCE ...... 85 LAST OF THE LOTTO LAITY .. 176 I'M STUCK IN A ROUND OF LAST PROMISE ...... 176 LOVE IN THE RAVIOLI SERIOUS DRAMATIC IT HAPPENED IN SEASON ...... 151 INTERPRETATION AND I HOLLYWOOD ...... 111 LAST STRAW ...... 89 REALLY HAVE TO PEE ...... 185 LOVE IS MORE IMPORTANT IT JUST GOT REAL ...... 209 LAST SUMMER ...... 20 THAN MY HISTORY PAPER ... 151 I'VE GOT MY STANDARDS ..... 110 IT'S A GIRL! ...... 149 LAUGHING STOCK ...... 87 LOVE NOTE ...... 132 ICE CREAM FOR DINNER ...... 175 IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND ...... 131 LEAPERS ...... 150 LOVE! AT THE CAFE! ...... 132 ICE CUBED ...... 148 IT'S COLD OUT THERE, MAN . 175 LEAVE BRIDGET ALONE ...... 110 LOVE, THEATRE, AND DAMN IF I SHOULD WAKE BEFORE I IT'S NOT A GOOD DAY FOR YANKEES ...... 152 DIE ...... 83 LEDGE ...... 150 SCHOOL TODAY ...... 85 [email protected] 152 IF ONLY ...... 95 LEGACY ...... 176 IT'S NOT BLUE ...... 149 LOVERS IN THE PARK ...... 152 IF THE SHOE FITS ...... 84 LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW 51 IT'S ONLY POLITICS ...... 149 LUCAS DREAMING ...... 152 IF THE SLIPPER FITS ...... 56 LEMONADE STANDOFF ...... 87 JACANDY ...... 60 LUCY DREAMING ...... 152 ILL COSTUMED ROMEO ...... 111 LES MISERABLES ...... 37 JACK AGAINST THE OGRE ...... 85 MAC AND BETH ...... 86 IMPACT ...... 84 LESSON IN CLASS ...... 150 JACK AND BELLA, FROM MACBAD ...... 87 IMPROV IDEAS: A BOOK OF BEANSTALK TO BROADWAY 131 LET'S HANG HIM AND READ GAMES AND LISTS ...... 208 THE WILL ...... 20 MACBETH - SHAKESPEARE IN JACK AND THE BEANSTALK ... 62 30 MINUTES ...... 88 IMPROVE WITH IMPROV! ...... 208 LET'S PUT ON A SHOW! ...... 210 JACK, THE BEANSTALK AND MACBETH MIXED UP ...... 112 IMPROVISATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES ...... 85 LIBRARIAN AND THE JOCK ... 151 MADAM AND STEVE ...... 152 ACTORS AND WRITERS ...... 208 JACOB MARLEY'S LAMENT ... 185 LIES ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL .... 87 MADHOUSE ...... 177
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MY MOTHER'S TOUCH ...... 178 BE A REAL CAREER KILLER .... 22 BEAUTY PAGEANT ...... 23 ON STAGE ...... 213 MY NAME IS TAMMY ...... 154 MAKING STAGE PROPS ...... 211 MISS WONDERLING'S ON THE EDGE ...... 91 MY NAME ISN'T BRO ...... 178 MALE SECRETARY ...... 182 HISTORY CLASS ...... 167 ONCE UPON A FAIRY TALE ..... 91 MISSISSIPPI MIRROR ...... 184 MY PROM DATE WAS A FELON MAN IN SEAT 24, OR THE 98 ONCE UPON A FAIRY TALE - UNINVITED GUEST ...... 22 MIXOLOGY ...... 89 FULL LENGTH ...... 47 MY SON THE ROCK - MAN WHO KNEW HIS STUFF . 152 MOM TOOK MY PHONE MUSICAL ...... 132 ONCE UPON A GRAPEVINE .... 61 AWAY AND I'M GOING MANIAC MANOR ...... 88 MY TRIP TO THE STATE PEN 183 ONCE UPON A TIME: A CRAZY! ...... 177 COLLECTION OF MANOR OF DEATH ...... 19 MOMENTS LIKE THESE ...... 153 MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY OF FRACTURED FAIRY TALES .... 213 MARCY AND THE SANDWICH: THE LOST LETTERS ...... 90 MORAL SUPPORT ...... 153 ONE AND ALL ...... 91 A CAFETERIA DRAMA ...... 88 NAMELESS ...... 90 MORE ONE-ACT PLAYS FOR ONE COLD AFTERNOON ...... 91 MARILYN MONROE AND PHIL 152 NAMELESS PRINCESS ...... 63 ACTING STUDENTS ...... 212 ONE FOOT OVER A BANANA MARTIAL ARTS MAMA ...... 153 MORE SCENES FROM NECESSARY EVIL ...... 155 PEEL ...... 104 MASTERING MATH: A SHAKESPEARE ...... 212 NETWORK ...... 24 ONE MOM, ONE SPOON ...... 155 COLLECTION OF 5 TEN- MINUTE MATH PLAYS ...... 211 MORE SHORT AND SWEET NEVER CALL ME A LADY ...... 178 ONE OF OUR CLOWNS IS SKITS FOR STUDENT MISSING ...... 26 MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN ..... 112 ACTORS ...... 212 NEVERLAND CHRISTMAS CAROL ...... 54 ONE OF OUR CLOWNS IS MATERNITY MAYHEM ...... 177 MORE TEN-MINUTE PLAYS MISSING - ONE ACT ...... 91 NEW CLOTHES KING AND THE MATTER OF FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL PERFORMERS ...... 211 BANDIT QUEEN ...... 88 ONE ON ONE - THE BEST INTERPRETATION ...... 120 MEN'S MONOLOGUES FOR NEW DRESS ...... 179 MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH 177 MORE THEATRE GAMES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY ...... 214 YOUNG PERFORMERS ...... 212 NEW MAN ...... 179 MATTER OF PRINCIPLE FOR ONE ON ONE - THE BEST JANET ...... 88 MORIARTY'S REVENGE ...... 47 NEW MRS. JONES ...... 90 WOMEN'S MONOLOGUES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY ...... 214 MEADOW ...... 63 MOST IMPORTANT THING ..... 153 NEW ONE-ACT PLAYS FOR ACTING STUDENTS ...... 213 ONE TOY FOR CHRISTMAS ..... 86 MEASURING MATTHEW ...... 153 MOST LIKELY PAGES ...... 90 NEW PLAYWRIGHTS: THE ONE-ACT PLAYS FOR MEAT AND POTATOES ...... 177 MOST POPULAR KID IN SCHOOL ...... 89 BEST PLAYS 2013 ...... 213 ACTING STUDENTS ...... 214 MEDEA IN BLACK AND WHITE 48 MOST UNUSUAL PENCIL ...... 89 NEW, IMPROVED OOO OOO OOOOOOOO MEDIEVAL FEAST ...... 20 PLAYWRIGHT'S SURVIVAL BABY LA LA YEAH ...... 180 MOTHER'S DAY ...... 153 GUIDE ...... 213 MEET SUSIE ...... 112 OPEN TO INTERPRETATION . 155 MOUSE THAT SAVED THE NEWS FLASH: A METEOR IS OPENING DOORS ...... 95 MEETING WITH A MEGASTAR 177 WORLD ...... 169 ON A COLLISION COURSE MEL WHITE'S READERS MOUSE TRAPPED ...... 153 WITH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL 90 OPERATION TAKE BACK DAD . 62 THEATRE ANTHOLOGY ...... 211 MOVEMENT FOR ACTORS .... 212 NEWT GINGRICH VISITS A ORDERS ...... 180 MELISSA TUNES IN ...... 88 RESIDENTIAL YOUTH MR. WHISKERS ...... 178 FACILITY NOT NEAR OMAHA 154 ORGAN DONOR ...... 180 MEN'S COMEDIC ORGAN RECITAL ...... 112 MONOLOGUES THAT ARE MUCH ADO ABOUT MIDDLE NEXT BIG THING ...... 90 SCHOOL ...... 21 ACTUALLY FUNNY ...... 211 NIGHT AND THE ORIGINAL MIDDLE SCHOOL SCENES AND MONOLOGUES 214 MENAGERIE ...... 153 MULTIPLE PERSONALITY PROOFREADER ...... 90 MURDER ...... 179 OTHELLO - SHAKESPEARE IN MERCY SEAT ...... 211 NIGHT OF TERROR AND TOFU 90 MURDER AHOY ...... 23 30 MINUTES ...... 92 MESSAGE ...... 88 NIGHT OF THE FALLING MURDER AT COPPERSMITH STARS ...... 60 OTHER ANIMAL RIGHT ...... 180 METATHEATRE ...... 153 INN ...... 23 NIGHTMARE ...... 90 OTHER THREE MUSKETEERS MID-SCHOOL NIGHT'S DREAM 49 MURDER IS NONSENSE ...... 20 AND THE JEWEL OF MALTA .... 48 NO MORE MR. FUNNY GUY ... 179 MIDDLE MANIA TWO! ...... 212 MURDER IS SO RUDE ...... 25 OUR FORENSICS TEAM IS NO SHOW ...... 89 GETTING NEW UNICORNS .... 180 MIDDLE MANIA! ...... 212 MURDER MOST FOUL ...... 112 NOBODY ...... 179 OUR TEACHER IS AN ALIEN .... 92 MIDDLE SCHOOL DATING MURDER WHILE YOU WAIT ..... 25 GAME ...... 87 NOBODY'S FOOL ...... 154 OUT OF TIME ...... 155 MURDER WITH TOMATO MIDDLE SCHOOL MANIA: SAUCE ...... 24 NOBODY'S PERFECT ...... 154 OUTSIDE IN ...... 25 COMEDY DUOS FOR GIRLS .. 117 MUSICAL SCENE STUDY NORMALCY ...... 179 OUTSIDE IN (ONE ACT VERSION) ...... 92 MIDDLE SCHOOL MANIA: GUIDE - THE MUSICALS OF NOT READY! ...... 179 COMEDY DUOS FOR GUYS ... 119 RODGERS AND OUTSTANDING STAGE NOTHING PERSONAL ...... 154 MIDDLE SCHOOL MANIA: HAMMERSTEIN ...... 213 MONOLOGUES AND SCENES COMEDY DUOS FOR GUYS MY BROTHER ...... 112 OBJECT FORMERLY KNOWN FROM THE '90S ...... 214 AND GIRLS ...... 119 AS POTATO ...... 154 MY DOG ATE THE PAGEANT PERFECT ...... 25 MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM 37 CONSTITUTION ...... 63 ODD DUCK ...... 24 PAIN ...... 155 MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM MY FAIR ZOMBIE ...... 58 OF CHESS AND CHICKENS ... 154 PANDA-MONIUM ...... 155 - SHAKESPEARE IN 30 OFF THE GRID ...... 154 MINUTES ...... 89 MY FIRST ACTING BOOK: PAPA'S LAST WISH ...... 155 ACTING TECHNIQUES FOR OFFICER DRAG ...... 154 BEGINNERS ...... 213 PAPER ANGELS ...... 155
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...... 89 SOUTH MEETS WEST ...... 159 SHOW TIME! ...... 218 3RD EDITION ...... 221 TEEN SPEAKS: BOYS AGES SOY ANSWER ...... 183 13-15 ...... 223 SHOWTIME FOR OSCAR - STOCKING STUFFERS ...... 31 ONE ACT ...... 100 SPANISH - ENGLISH PLAY STOP RAIN ...... 160 TEEN SPEAKS: GIRLS AGES COLLECTION ...... 219 13-15 ...... 223 SHRINKING ...... 158 STOP TALKING ...... 160 SPASKETTI ...... 64 TEENAGE NIGHTMARE ...... 104 SIGHT UNSEEN AND OTHER STOP TIME ...... 103 PLAYS ...... 218 SPEAK WITH DISTINCTION: TEENS SPEAK: BOYS AGES THE CLASSIC SKINNER STORY IN PERIL ...... 62 16 TO 18 ...... 222 SILENT BATTLE ...... 158 METHOD TO SPEECH ON THE STAGE ...... 219 STRANDED! ...... 31 TEENS SPEAK: GIRLS AGES SING LIKE A SHEEP ...... 159 16 TO 18 ...... 223 SPEAKING OUT: AN STREET TALK: CHARACTER SIR SADDLESORE AND THE MONOLOGUES FOR ACTORS 223 TEMPESTUOUS AND DRAGON ...... 64 INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SPEAKING ...... 219 STUCK ...... 160 FRACTIOUS SHAKESPEARE SITTING-AROUND-DOING- PROJECT ...... 100 NOTHING DEAD ...... 96 SPEAKING TRUTH TO SUBWAY STORIES, OR HOW POWER - THE MIRROR'S NOT TO DO YOUR TEMPORARY HAVEN ...... 156 SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH TALE ...... 175 HOMEWORK ON THE R TRAIN 99 TEMPORARY HEROES ...... 31 OF A LIFE ...... 65 SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT ...... 159 SUDDEN DEATH DEBATING TEN COMMANDMENTS OF SIX SECRETS OF SEVEN LEAGUE ...... 160 COMEDY ...... 223 WITCHES ...... 182 SPECIAL MAKEUP EFFECTS FOR STAGE AND SCREEN .... 220 SUGAR HUNT ...... 163 TEN EASY STEPS TO SIXTH TIME'S A CHARM ...... 159 SPEECHCRAFT ...... 220 SUGGESTION ...... 161 HUMILIATION ...... 161 SIXTY COMEDY DUET TEN LITTLE CHIPMUNKS ...... 45 SCENES FOR TEENS ...... 218 SPIES ...... 159 SUMMER CIRCLE ...... 99 TEN MINUTES ...... 161 SKETCH NIGHT: 10 COMEDY SPIRIT OF AMERICA: SUNSHINE AND MADAM SKITS FOR TEENS ...... 29 PATRIOTIC MONOLOGUES ZORBA ...... 32 TEN-MINUTE PLAYS FOR FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SUPER POTATO ...... 66 MIDDLE SCHOOL SKY BABY AND THE BEDTIME SCHOOL STUDENTS ...... 220 PERFORMERS ...... 223 STORY ...... 66 SUPERMODELS IN JEOPARDY 99 SPITTING IMAGE ...... 116 TENNESSEE TV ...... 100 SKY IS FALLING ...... 99 SURVIVAL OF UKOCONO ...... 65 SPOILED ...... 160 TENNESSEE TV - TAKE TWO 100 SLEEPING BEAUTY AND THE SPOILER ALERT ...... 98 SURVIVOR: EVERY VOTE BEAST ...... 65 COUNTS ...... 31 TERRIBLE SKUNK BREATH ..... 64 SLEEPING WALTER ...... 65 SPONTANEOUS TEST ...... 30 COMBUSTION ...... 120 SUZAN-LORI PARKS ...... 222 SMALL TALK ...... 114 TEXT ON THE DRIVE HOME .. 183 SPONTANEOUS SWATCH! 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Cast Size 2 INTERVENTION ...... 85 JACANDY ...... 60 WE FOUND A FINGER ...... 100 20 BOOKS IN SEARCH OF A JUST REGULAR PEOPLE ...... 85 LITTLE RED RIDING BOOTS WE'RE NOT MAKING THIS READER ...... 100 AND COOTER COYOTE: PLAY UP AS WE GO - MIKEY MARTIN'S MASTER OF DISGUISE ...... 87 HONEST! ...... 103 AT THE BEEP ...... 69 MAGNIFICENT MIASMA OF MAYHEM AND MACARONI ...... 89 MAC AND BETH ...... 86 WHO'S YOUR MUMMY? ...... 99 BONDING MOMENTS: DUETS FOR TEEN WOMEN ...... 117 MY DOG ATE THE MAGIC OF MADNESS ...... 88 WITH THIS RING ...... 100 CONSTITUTION ...... 63 CROSS EXAMINATIONS ...... 75 NEXT BIG THING ...... 90 WOLF'S TALE ...... 133 NEW MRS. JONES ...... 90 HARLEQUIN RHAPSODY ...... 82 OMNIPOTENCE AND THE PATTERN IS BROKEN ...... 92 WHEELBARROW MAN ...... 90 Cast Size 8 LAST STRAW ...... 89 PLEASE DON'T BE MY DRAMA ON THE EDGE ...... 91 ...AND OTHERS ...... 67 MIDDLE SCHOOL MANIA: TEACHER ...... 92 COMEDY DUOS FOR GIRLS .. 117 PROM TICKET ...... 93 ALADDIN ...... 68 POSI-CHIP POKER ...... 92 MIDDLE SCHOOL MANIA: REVOLUTIONARY WHAT??? ... 27 ANNIERELLA AND THE (VERY COMEDY DUOS FOR GUYS ... 119 ROMEO AND JULIET - SIX AWESOME) GOOD QUEEN VERY BUSY DAYS ...... 96 ROT ...... 91 FAIRY COWMOTHER ...... 68 MIDDLE SCHOOL MANIA: SCRIPT ...... 96 COMEDY DUOS FOR GUYS SERIAL KILLER BARBIE ...... 96 ASYLUM ...... 69 AND GIRLS ...... 119 SKY IS FALLING ...... 99 SHORT CONTEST BAGGAGE ...... 69 MONOLOGUES FOR TEEN PHOENIX ...... 95 STALKING THE BEATLES ...... 98 WOMEN ...... 117 BLOODY ATTACK OF THE EVIL, DEMONIC GIRAFFE TWO WOMEN SCENES FOR SUPERMODELS IN JEOPARDY 99 STORY IN PERIL ...... 62 TEENS ...... 117 PUPPET - ONE ACT VERSION . 98 TIGHTLY BOUND ...... 33 TEACHER ...... 73 WHO'S ON ALPHA? ...... 96 BOMB ART ...... 71 VERY BAD BIRTHDAY TENNESSEE TV ...... 100 BURYING THE HATCHETTS .... 12 ZEN AND THE FEAR OF PRESENTS ...... 103 FLYING ...... 102 TROUBLESHOOTING ...... 102 CHRISTMAS SKITS FOR WE LOATHE OUR GIRLS ...... 120 CUSTOMERS - ONE ACT TRUE STORIES OF THE SO- Cast Size 3 VERSION ...... 75 CALLED BIG BAD WOLVES .... 103 CUFFED ...... 75 CASK OF AMONTILLADO ...... 72 VELOCITY OF SIN ...... 103 DATING CURVEBALL ...... 97 Cast Size 5 COFFEE HOUSE ...... 79 WELCOME TO THE FAMILY ... 104 DAY BOY AND THE NIGHT CONFESSIONS AND AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA .. 81 WHEREFORE ART THOU GIRL ...... 75 CONSEQUENCES ...... 118 BOX STEPS ...... 10 ROMEO ...... 86 DOUBLE TROUBLE ON THE PRAIRIE ...... 76 DRAFT BOARD - ONE ACT ...... 76 ERNIE'S PLACE ...... 78 YOU KNOW THE OLD SLAYING 35 DRACULA'S BOARDING EXPOSED! EIGHT 10-MINUTE GIFT OF THE MAGI ...... 80 SCENES ABOUT WHAT Cast Size 7 HOUSE ...... 76 MELISSA TUNES IN ...... 88 REALLY HAPPENED ...... 54 (ALMOST) GOT IT MADE ...... 130 DRAMATIC FEMALE FIRST DATE ...... 80 REVOLTING CHARACTERS ..... 93 MONOLOGUES FOR TWEENS AFTER HAPPILY ...... 67 AND YOUNG TEENS ...... 118 ISMENE'S PRESS SCHOOL DAYS - VOL. 3 ...... 120 BABYSITTER'S STORY ...... 69 DRAMATIC GUY-GIRL CONFERENCE ...... 85 SCROOGE MACBETH ...... 55 BETTY LOU TWINKLE'S MONOLOGUES FOR TWEENS KEEPERS AT THE EDGE OF SITTING-AROUND-DOING- TABLOID SCANDAL ...... 70 AND YOUNG TEENS ...... 118 THE SEA ...... 86 NOTHING DEAD ...... 96 BRUNCH CLUB ...... 6 DRAMATIC MALE LIVING A REAL LIFE ...... 118 SPOILER ALERT ...... 98 MONOLOGUES FOR TWEENS CINDERGIRL ...... 60 AND YOUNG TEENS ...... 118 RACHEL AND RUTHIE ...... 133 SUMMER CIRCLE ...... 99 DAS BOX ...... 75 DUCK WHO ATE PANTS ...... 77 SERVICE ...... 96 THAT'S MISTER VAMPIRE TO EXIT ...... 72 SQUISH ...... 103 YOU ...... 100 EMOTIONAL DISTRESS ...... 75 FIVE EX-WIVES IN ICU ...... 80 TRUE COLORS ...... 73 THROUGH THE MIRROR ...... 104 EXPOSED ...... 74 GRUFF BILLIES OR WHY UNBEARABLE LITENESS OF TICK OF THE CLOCK ...... 102 FALL OF THE HOUSE OF HOUSES UNDER A BRIDGE USHER ...... 79 BEING TEEN ...... 35 TREEHOUSE ...... 66 ARE NOT PRIME REAL ESTATE ...... 63 FALLEN IDOL ...... 83 WAKE UP AND SMELL THE UNFORTUNATE FORTUNE COFFEE IN YOUR PANTS ...... 102 COOKIES ...... 103 I'M A PRINCESS - GET ME OUT GREAT NURSING HOME OF HERE! ...... 84 ESCAPE ...... 81 Cast Size 4 VAMP IRE ...... 98 INSPECTOR FINDOUT AND HANK MORGAN: A DAY IN THE ACCUSED OF COMEDY ...... 70 WWBF ...... 35 THE LOST CHERRY PIE ...... 84 LIFE ...... 81 ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WITH Cast Size 6 LADIES DECLARE ...... 86 HOLLOW ...... 82 MONIQUE ...... 9 HOOD, OF SHERWOOD ...... 83 AFTERNOON AT THE LOST AND FOUND ...... 89 BEES ARE IN THE PARK ...... 9 COUNTRY HOUSE ...... 72 LOST ENDING ...... 63 I HATE CHRISTMAS ...... 62 BRIGHT SIDE OF BEING BLUE 71 BAD BLOOD IN THE MESSAGE ...... 88 I HATE LOVE ...... 73 BUILDER ...... 72 BOOKSHOP ...... 69 OPENING DOORS ...... 95 I WAS A TEENAGE PROM CAUTION: LIBRARIANS AHEAD CIVIL WAR DUOS ...... 118 QUEEN ...... 84 OPERATION TAKE BACK DAD . 62 - ONE ACT VERSION ...... 78 CONFLICT ...... 74 IF ONLY ...... 95 DEATH OF THE DOORSTEP ROBYN HOOD AND HER FIND ME ...... 80 MERRY WOMEN ...... 93 LADYBUG AND THE KISS ...... 75 BUTTERFLY ...... 63 FUNNY WAY OF SHOWING IT . 82 SCHOOL BUS ...... 95 END ...... 72 LAME NAME CLUB ...... 86 GRANDMA ROSIE ...... 80 SENIOR-ITIS ...... 29 FIGMENT ...... 79 LAST LIGHT ...... 85 HANSEL AND GRETEL TENNESSEE TV - TAKE TWO 100 GHOSTLY TRINKETS ...... 78 CHRISTMAS ...... 82 LITTLE WITCH OF WICHITA ... 132 TIGER IN THE PIT ...... 65 GLASS ...... 81 HAUNTED BY GOATS ...... 82 LOCKED IN ...... 87 HAPPILY NEVER AFTER ...... 76 TROUBLE WITH CHEWING HOW TO MESS UP PRETTY GUM, OR TESTED, TRIED, MAKING A COMEBACK CAN MUCH ANYTHING ...... 83 AND TRUE ...... 103 BE A REAL CAREER KILLER .... 22
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Cast Size 11 MY PROM DATE WAS A FELON EIGHT 10-MINUTE TALES OF JACK AND THE BEANSTALK ... 62 98 ALICE IN WONDERLAND - IMPROBABILITY ...... 34 URBAN EDITION ...... 84 MANIAC MANOR ...... 88 ONCE UPON A GRAPEVINE .... 61 WHERE THERE'S A WILL, ANATOMY OF A FUNNY MEDEA IN BLACK AND WHITE 48 ONE TOY FOR CHRISTMAS ..... 86 THERE'S A MURDER ...... 34 BONE ...... 117 MOST LIKELY PAGES ...... 90 OUTSIDE IN (ONE ACT WHERE WERE YOU WHEN CHAMELEON PRINCESS ...... 60 VERSION) ...... 92 THE TARDY BELL RANG? ...... 11 PUPPET MASTER ...... 94 CRABBITS SAVE THE DAY ...... 68 RITUAL ...... 83 WORST PLAY IN THE WORLD . 39 REVOLTING CHEERLEADERS' DEATH STALKS A LADY ...... 9 HUNGER DRIVE ...... 94 ROMEO AND BEATRICE AND TOTO, TOO ...... 96 Cast Size 10 DEUS EX MACHINA ...... 78 SIR SADDLESORE AND THE DRAGON ...... 64 SERIES OF BAD DECISIONS ... 95 11TH ...... 67 FRANKIE AND THE GINGERBREAD BOY - ONE TEST ...... 30 TREASURE ...... 102 ACCOUNTANCY ...... 9 ACT VERSION ...... 74 TIGHTWAD ...... 41 TURN THE PAGE ...... 101 ALIEN FISH ...... 68 FROG PRINCE ...... 61 WEDDING DOWNPOUR ...... 93 UNDERTAKERS CLUB ...... 101 ALLAN AND LLOYD MEET DRACULA ...... 39 HOW TO SURVIVE ACTING IN WEIRD SISTERS ON HOLIDAY 92 VELVETEEN RABBIT ...... 99 A BAD PLAY WITHOUT BEING BEFORE WE GO ...... 70 TRAUMATIZED FOR LIFE ...... 74 WOMEN OF STONE ...... 75 WIZARD, THE WITCH, THE FAIRY, THE SQUIRREL, AND BELOW THE BELT ...... 67 I REMEMBER ...... 68 ZOMBIE WEDDING ...... 35 THE SOFT, FUZZY SLIPPERS BLENDER ...... 77 IF THE SHOE FITS ...... 84 OF DOOM ...... 65 Cast Size 13 BREAKING THE SILENCE ...... 117 KISS OF DEATH ...... 86 YOUNG AND THE ANCHORWOMAN: RISE OF SENSELESS (A TALE OF COMEDY DUOS FOR HIGH LEMONADE STANDOFF ...... 87 THE MANGO QUEEN ...... 68 UTTER STUPIDITY) ...... 102 SCHOOL ...... 118 MIDDLE SCHOOL DATING AWAITING WONDERLAND ...... 69 CONVERSATION THERAPY ..... 74 GAME ...... 87 Cast Size 9 BETWEEN THE LINES ...... 70 DAWGS ...... 61 ONE FOOT OVER A BANANA ALIBIS ...... 43 PEEL ...... 104 CHRISTMAS CHAOS - ONE DEATH BY CHOCOLATE ...... 17 ACT ...... 73 ARCTIC LIBRARY ...... 69 ONE OF OUR CLOWNS IS DRAMA GEEKS ...... 77 MISSING - ONE ACT ...... 91 CINDERELLA (FULL LENGTH BELLE OF WEST TEXAS ...... 11 PLAY) ...... 55 FAIRY TALE PRINCESS GAME PERSEPHONE RULES ...... 25 BURGERTOWN ...... 130 OF THRONES ...... 79 CROWN DOES NOT A PINOCCHIO ...... 58 CIRCUS ...... 70 GIFT OF THE MAGI - THE PRINCESS MAKE ...... 60 MUSICAL ...... 130 SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY 27 DEATH BY DESSERT ...... 13 DADDY'S GIRL ...... 12 GIRL IN THE RED HIJAB ...... 81 SEEKING ASYLUM ...... 29 DRIFT ...... 79 DRAMATIC RE-ENACTMENT ... 79 GRACELANDIA ...... 17 SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE ...... 119 EDUCATION OF ANGELS ...... 16 SPINSTERS OF BLACKMEAD .. 44 HISTORICALLY BAD FIRST FLY ON THE WALL ...... 14 FRUITCAKE ...... 80 DATES ...... 77 SHERLOCK HOLMES: JOHN GOLDEN GONE ...... 81 WATSON'S BODY ...... 44 FRANKIE AND THE HOMELESS HARRY ...... 80 GINGERBREAD BOY ...... 42 HAPPILY EVER AFTER ...... 61 SNOW QUEEN ...... 65 IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND ...... 131 GINA AND THE PRINCE OF SPASKETTI ...... 64 HOW TO GET THE GIRL ...... 83 LADIES, SIGH NO MORE ...... 58 MINTZ ...... 131 SUBWAY STORIES, OR HOW I DON'T MIND THAT YOU'RE LAUGHING STOCK ...... 87 HAPPILY EVER AFTER HOURS 54 UGLY ...... 83 NOT TO DO YOUR MIXOLOGY ...... 89 HOMEWORK ON THE R TRAIN 99 HAUNTED HAMLET ...... 82 KYRA'S LEGACY ...... 86 MURDER AHOY ...... 23 TEEN MELODRAMA...LIKE HOORAY FOR JUSTICE! ...... 62 LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW 51 WHATEVER! ...... 89 OTHELLO - SHAKESPEARE IN IN THE LIVING ROOM ...... 16 LOOKING FOR MR. 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SOONEY'S MEDICINE ...... 76 THE NIGHT ...... 101 FAIRY TALE ACADEMY ...... 61 PROVING I'M NOT A LOSER SNOWED ...... 98 AND OTHER ASSORTED TRACKING SANTA ...... 102 THREE WISHES OF ALADDIN .. 66 FIGHTING DEMONS ...... 79 FAIRLY DIFFICULT VILLAINS AND ZOMBIES ...... 35 HIGHLY THEATRICAL TERMS . 62 CHALLENGES ...... 93
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SCATTERED MANNEQUINS ... 119 DRACELSTEIN ...... 40 DID SOMEONE SAY MURDER? 14 AMERICAN IDLE: MURDERING THE MUSIC ...... 8 SHE WAS ONLY MARGINALLY EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES ... 78 FRANK ...... 80 MODEST ...... 26 BLOB ...... 71 EVERYTHING BUT ...... 78 GREEN MEANS GO ...... 118 SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE BLOCK THAT KICK! ...... 10 DOOM OF DEVILSMOOR ...... 43 EYE-SPY, PI ...... 79 HANSEL AND GRETEL IN FOSTER CARE ...... 82 BUGZZZ ...... 61 SHOW MUST GO ON (DURING FOOLISH DECISION ...... 80 HORROR HIGH ...... 83 CAUGHT IN THE ACT ...... 10 THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE) ... 97 GENIE-OLOGY ...... 16 TARMAC ...... 32 HOT DAMES, HOT LEAD ...... 18 CINDERELLA AND THE FAIRY GREAT SANTA CLAUS GODMOTHER'S SPELL ...... 101 TEMPESTUOUS AND REINDEER ROUNDUP ...... 81 HOW THE OTHER HALF DIES . 19 CLEMSON BARTHOLOMEW .... 73 FRACTIOUS SHAKESPEARE GROOVE-A-RELLA ...... 81 HYPNOTIZED! ...... 18 PROJECT ...... 100 CSI - WONDERLAND ...... 53 HAMLET WITH EXTRA LAST SUMMER ...... 20 TRUTH ON A SPOON ...... 119 CHEESE ...... 17 CYRANO: A NOSE BY ANY LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN ...... 21 OTHER NAME ...... 12 HAPPILY EVER AFTER... Cast Size 14 (MUSICAL) ...... 131 LOVE NOTE ...... 132 HELGA ...... 38 ACTING CAN BE MURDER ...... 7 HEADIN' FOR A WEDDIN' ...... 17 MACBAD ...... 87 IN SEARCH OF THE DODO BIRD ...... 19 AGONY AND THE HILARITY: IF I SHOULD WAKE BEFORE I MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY OF THE LIFE OF TEENS ...... 7 DIE ...... 83 THE LOST LETTERS ...... 90 MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM 37 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ...... 60 LITTLE WOMEN ...... 63 NAMELESS ...... 90 NETWORK ...... 24 BEEBLEBROX AND BIXLEY MAN IN SEAT 24, OR THE NIGHT OF TERROR AND TOFU 90 NO SHOW ...... 89 TRAVELING CIRCUS AND UNINVITED GUEST ...... 22 PRINCE UGLY ...... 64 SIDESHOW ...... 7 ODD DUCK ...... 24 MANOR OF DEATH ...... 19 PROM NIGHT ...... 27 CHRISTMAS CAROL ...... 56 PIZZA WARS ...... 28 MATTER OF PUCK AND THE PLAYERS ...... 94 CINDERELLA'S FELLA ...... 73 INTERPRETATION ...... 120 SHERLOCK HOLMES IN SCRATCHING THE SURFACE . 82 NEVER NEVER LAND ...... 88 COUNTRY FOLK, MOST POPULAR KID IN LYCANTHROPES, AND SCHOOL ...... 89 SHERLOCK HOLMES IN SHHH! ...... 29 EXTRATERRESTRIAL WONDERLAND ...... 97 TAMING OF THE SHREW - ENTITIES ...... 74 MURDER AT COPPERSMITH INN ...... 23 STAR TRACKS: THE SHAKESPEARE IN 30 CSI - NEVERLAND ...... 61 EXPOSITION MENACE ...... 99 MINUTES ...... 98 ONE AND ALL ...... 91 DEADLY ERNEST ...... 11 SWATCH! ...... 32 TEEN COMEDY PLAYLETS: ONE COLD AFTERNOON ...... 91 THIRD TIME'S A CHARM ...... 120 DEARLY UNDEPARTED ...... 7 TEEN COMEDY PLAYLETS .... 119 OUR TEACHER IS AN ALIEN .... 92 THIS AIN'T HEAVEN, IT'S EXCUSES, EXCUSES ...... 78 SHOOFLY ...... 101 PENNY DREADFULS - ONE Cast Size 17 HIGH SCHOOL SPOOFICAL ..... 17 ACT ...... 40 TREASURE ISLAND ARE WE THERE YET? THE MAKEOVER ...... 45 HOW I SURVIVED CAMP PHARAOH'S SON ...... 25 MORE OR LESS TRUE STORY COOTIES ...... 62 OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK UNDER THE BIG TOP ...... 32 PIRATE ISLAND-THE EXPEDITION ...... 69 JACK AND BELLA, FROM MUSICAL ...... 133 WACKY WIZARD OF OZ ...... 44 BEANSTALK TO BROADWAY 131 BARD IN A BOX: THE BALLAD QUESTIONABLE ...... 94 OF JULIO CESAR ...... 70 WHO'S IN CHARGE? OR LITTLE MERMAID ...... 131 RODNEY, THE ULTIMATE GIFT RADIO RIOT! ...... 24 MACBETH - SHAKESPEARE IN COUSIN AMY'S DINER ...... 78 TO THEATER ...... 46 30 MINUTES ...... 88 SCROOGE'S CHRISTMAS ...... 56 DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS .... 130 ZOMBIE LOVE ...... 34 NIGHT AND THE SHENANIGANS ...... 97 DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL ...... 76 PROOFREADER ...... 90 Cast Size 19 SNOW WHITE: STORY OF A ENTER MACBETH ...... 50 ONE OF OUR CLOWNS IS HIP-HOP DIVA ...... 98 BETTER FOOTBALL THROUGH FATALITY ...... 76 MISSING ...... 26 SNOW...SORT OF...WHITE ...... 97 HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY ...... 9 SANTAPHOBIA ...... 27 HORROR HIGH: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO TEN LITTLE CHIPMUNKS ...... 45 MUSICAL ...... 131 SCARED STIFF ...... 26 HIGH ...... 57 THREE GOLDEN HAIRS ...... 66 LIES ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL .... 87 STRANDED! ...... 31 FINDING DON QUIXOTE ...... 40 TRIBUNAL ...... 103 MURDER IS NONSENSE ...... 20 SUPER POTATO ...... 66 FREAK ...... 67 WAKING CHARLIE ...... 67 MURDER IS SO RUDE ...... 25 THREE FRACTURED PIGS ...... 66 GHOSTLY DOINGS ON THE YOU DON'T HAVE TO FEED A MURDER WHILE YOU WAIT ..... 25 MENU ...... 13 TROJAN WAR CONFIDENTIAL 102 CELLO ...... 91 PIRATE MEDALLION ...... 22 HOODWINKED AND WHAT WOULD YOU DO? ...... 96 HOODOOED ...... 18 Cast Size 16 RAPUNZEL AND THE TOWER HOW TO HIDE YOUR ZOMBIES 83 Cast Size 15 ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO OF PARTYING ...... 91 ENTER HERE: THE STORY OF A SHAKESPEARE AND THE I DON'T HAVE A CLUE ...... 19 368 FRIENDS - ONE ACT PROM ...... 8 HILLBILLIES ...... 97 VERSION ...... 67 ISELMATAINIA ...... 85 BLOODY ATTACK OF THE EVIL, SLEEPING BEAUTY AND THE BARD IN A BOX: THE TAMING LET'S HANG HIM AND READ DEMONIC GIRAFFE PUPPET - BEAST ...... 65 THE WILL ...... 20 OF THE SHREW ...... 51 FULL LENGTH VERSION ...... 9 SNOW WHITE IN THE '70S ...... 40 LITTLE MAGIC ...... 21 BEYOND TOLERANCE ...... 70 BOOTS AND BITS ...... 60 SPONTANEOUS LOTTO DATE ...... 22 BIGGITY BAD AND THE THREE BUTTERFINGER ...... 72 COMBUSTION ...... 120 PIGS ...... 70 MORIARTY'S REVENGE ...... 47 CELLOPHANE ...... 67 TEEN COMEDY PLAYLETS, CASE OF THE MISSING TOO ...... 120 ONCE UPON A FAIRY TALE ..... 91 GOBBLER ...... 60 CHRISTMAS CHAOS - FULL LENGTH ...... 47 TREASURE ISLAND ...... 42 OUTSIDE IN ...... 25 CAUTION: POLITRICKS ...... 72 CINDERELLA AND THE PINOCCHIO AND HIS FATHER 64 CHAIR PLAY ...... 78 BIRKENSTOCKS ...... 55 Cast Size 18 POETIC LICENSE TO KILL ...... 28 DANCING WITH THE COOKING CAN BE MURDER ... 13 [NO] VACANCY ...... 7 OLYMPIANS ...... 75 ROMEO AND JULIET GO WEST 49
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