Title: 'Dentity Crisis in - Christopher Durang Explains it all for You / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Avon Books 1983
Description:
roy comedy - dark - mental illness five characters two male; three female one act
suggested for high school.
"Black comedy attacking pretensions of psychiatry. Patient recovering from nervous breakdown finds her identity interchangeable with those of the doctor and her family."
Title: 'Dentity Crisis in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy comedy - dark - mental illness five characters two male; three female one act
suggested for high school.
"Black comedy attacking pretensions of psychiatry. Patient recovering from nervous breakdown finds her identity interchangeable with those of the doctor and her family."
Title: 'Dentity Crisis in - Three Short Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1979
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female one act
"Recovering from a nervous breakdown, Jane is nursed and nagged by her relentlessly cheerful mother, and confused by her oversexed brother - who keeps changing into her father, her grandfather and her mother's french lover. Eventually all (including Jane's psychiatrist, who undergoes a sex change operation and swaps places with his wife) change characters again and become Jane herself - leaving her with no identity at all and pointing up the near impossibility of self-identification in our uncertain times." Title: 1-900-Desperate in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy comedy five characters one male; three female; one child one act
Gretchen, nagged by her mother about her empty love life, calls a romance talk line and finds only other women and one young man named Scuzzy. When a five-year-old child dials by mistake, Gretchen finds his innocent babbling preferable to all the adults.
Title: 1-900-Desperate in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy five characters one male; three female; one child one act
Gretchen, nagged by her mother about her empty love life, calls a romance talk line and finds only other women and one young man named Scuzzy. When a five-year-old child dials by mistake, Gretchen finds his innocent babbling preferable to all the adults.
Title: 2nd Violin in - Israel Horovitz's New Shorts / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters two male; two female one act
At the last minute, a 2nd violin player is told she has to take over for the first violinist, but can't seem to master the solo to be performed. Title: 7 Stories in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fourth Edition / CCO Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy thirteen characters three male; two female (doubling) one act
In this fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play, a man contemplating suicide on a seventh storey building ledge confronts the stories of the people who live inside the building - these "seven stories" lead to a charming and surprising ending.
Winner! 6 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, 1989.
Title: 7 Stories in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy thirteen characters three male; two female (doubling) one act
In this fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play, a man contemplating suicide on a seventh storey building ledge confronts the stories of the people who live inside the building - these "seven stories" lead to a charming and surprising ending.
Winner! 6 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, 1989.
Title: 90 Degrees in the Shade in - Two Plays / COL Author: Labiche, Eugène Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1962
Description:
roy farce - comedy - marital relations - French six characters four male; two female one act
exterior set.
'Host catches guest kissing wife.' Title: Absolutely Free in - Revue Unique / COL Author: Crowder, David Lloyd Publisher: Samuel French 1964
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior.
"Father uses hard sales technique to persuade young man to marry his daughter."
Title: Actor in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Maruzzo, Joe Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters one male; three female one act
A man shows up at a casting office to get a part in a television production, and provides a stellar audition.
Title: Actor, The in - The Carpetbaggers' Children and The Actor / COL Author: Foote, Horton Publisher: Overlook Press 2003
Description:
roy comedy - acting five characters three male; two female one act
This play tells the hilarious and moving story of a young man, bitten by the acting bug, who'll make any sacrifice to keep his dream of a theatrical career from being crushed under the weight of his parents' expectations for him. It's a charming exploration of artistic ambition from one of modern theatre's greatest artists. Title: Actor's Nightmare, The in - Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and The Actor's Nightmare/ COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1982
Description:
roy comedy - spoof five characters two male; three female one act
suggested for High School.
"This hilarious spoof details the plight of a stranger who is suddenly pushed on stage to replace an ailing actor."
Title: Actor's Nightmare, The in - Telling Tales / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy comedy - spoof five characters two male; three female one act
suggested for High School.
"This hilarious spoof details the plight of a stranger who is suddenly pushed on stage to replace an ailing actor."
Title: Actor's Nightmare, The in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female one act
"Make-believe gives way to reality as stranger is forced to take actor's role in confused mix of Coward, Beckett and Shakespeare. Background music." Title: Actor's Nightmare, The in - Christopher Durang Explains it all for You / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Avon Books 1983
Description:
roy comedy - spoof five characters two male; three female one act
suggested for High School.
"This hilarious spoof details the plight of a stranger who is suddenly pushed on stage to replace an ailing actor."
Title: Adventures of Ali and Ali and the Axes of Evil, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Youssef, Marcus Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy satire - Canadian all male cast; seven characters four male (doubling) one act
prequel to "Ali and Ali: The Deportation Hearings".
"An elaborate agitprop theatrical collaboration where the internal contradictions and duplicitous double-speak of the "war on terror" are exposed as the propaganda vehicles for the neo-colonialism of the West that they are. Ali Hakim and Ali Ababwa, refugees from the imaginary country Agraba, attempt to seduce their audience into providing them with food, refuge, security,
Title: Adventures of Ali and Ali and the Axes of Evil, The in - Performing Back: Post-Colonial Canadian Plays Author: Youssef, Marcus Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015
Description:
roy satire - Canadian all male cast; seven characters four male (doubling) one act
prequel to "Ali and Ali: The Deportation Hearings".
"An elaborate agitprop theatrical collaboration where the internal contradictions and duplicitous double-speak of the "war on terror" are exposed as the propaganda vehicles for the neo-colonialism of the West that they are. Ali Hakim and Ali Ababwa, refugees from the imaginary country Agraba, attempt to seduce their audience into providing them with food, refuge, security, Title: Adventures of Captain Neato-Man in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 15th / COL Author: Harris, Timothy Scott Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy American - farce four characters two male; two female one act
'Innocent nerd ends up as side - kick to superhero.'
Title: Al's Business Cards in - Plays and Playwrights 2010 / COL Author: Koenigsberg, Josh Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2010
Description:
roy comedy - American five characters four male; one female one act
When New Jersey Gaffing assistant Al Gurvis accidentally gets his new business cards swapped with those of real-estate agent Eileen Lee, he's mildly annoyed. Little does he know that this tiny mix up has sparked a chain reaction which will ultimately ruin his life. A comedy about waking up from the American Dream. A New York Times Critic's Pick!
Title: Alias in - Blitzkrieg and Other Plays / CCO Author: Wade, Bryan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Lone Ranger four characters two male; two female one act
"While on his way to the Wasteland for a fresh supply of silver bullets, the Lone Ranger suffers an identity crisis but still manages to rescue a woman in distress. Tonto deals with a unique creature." Title: All the Little Animals I Have Eaten in - Animals / CCO Author: Hines, Karen Publisher: Coach House Books 2017
Description:
roy comedy - women all female cast; many characters four female one act
In this play, we follow Frankie, a sleep-deprived grad student and server on the toughest shift of her life, slinging hyper-local food to insurance adjusters, well-heeled plagarists, equine masseuses and other famished professionals. Inspired by the Bechdel-Wallace Test, this play features an all female cast that includes dead writers, lionhearted lambs, and all manner of female organisms. As Frankie tries, between tables, to finish her term paper entitled 'Why Women Aren't Funny", she finds herself haunted by them all in this comedy that is as dark as blackened fugu and
Title: Almost Like Being in - America Hurrah and other plays / COL Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude Publisher: Grove Press Inc. 1978
Description:
roy comedy - spoof - television five characters; narrator three male; two female one act
flexible set
A delightfully acerbic spoof of the unreal world of show business and the fraudulent sentiment from which it is contrived.
Title: Along for the Ride in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (28th series) / COL Author: Hanagan, Jay D. Publisher: Samuel French 2004
Description:
roy dramatic comedy five characters three male; two female one scene
A couple of mismatched strangers, along with their subconscious minds, are forced to share a taxi ride in New York. Title: American Dream Revisited, The in - Life is Short / COL Author: Pospisil, Craig Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005
Description:
roy absurdist comedy four characters two male; two female one act
The American dream is alive and well—if a little twisted—in this absurdist comedy. Somewhere out in a southwestern desert, Jim and Della and their daughter, Chartreuse, decide to ditch Grandpa and leave him there to die. They expect to inherit his money, making their own lives so much more pleasant, but Grandpa has a few tricks up his sleeve. Will anyone get out of this alive?
Title: American Dream, The in - The American Dream and The Zoo Story / COL Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1960
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female one act
1 interior set.
'Satirical comedy attacking family's substitution of artificial for real values in American life.'
Title: American Dream, The in - The American Dream and Other Plays / COL Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1960
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female one act
1 interior set.
'Satirical comedy attacking family's substitution of artificial for real values in American life.' Title: Americansaint in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: LeFevre, Adam Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy comedy four characters flexible casting seven scenes
'Comedy set in Peru, Vermont. Emissary from the Vatican investigates claims of alleged saint.'
Title: Americansaint in - Telling Tales / COL Author: LeFevre, Adam Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy comedy four characters flexible casting seven scenes
'Comedy set in Peru, Vermont. Emissary from the Vatican investigates claims of alleged saint.'
Title: Amorous Adventures of Anatol, The in - Still Laughing: three adaptations by Morris Panych / CCO Author: Schnitzler, Arthur Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2009
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian adaptation five characters three male; one female (doubling) seven scenes
"In Schnitzler's "The Amorous Adventures of Anatol", all female characters are played by one actress, dramatizing that for Anatol, the only victim of our elaborate and conspiratorial theatrical illusion, all women are the same." Title: Angel City in - Fool for Love and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Bantam Books 1984
Description:
roy comedy six characters five male; one female one act
1 set.
"Comedy about debasing of creativity focusing on Hollywood screenwriters."
Title: Angel City in - Fool for Love and Other Plays / COL Author: Shepard, Sam Publisher: Dial Press 2006
Description:
roy comedy six characters five male; one female one act
1 set.
"Comedy about debasing of creativity focusing on Hollywood screenwriters."
Title: Another Way Out in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Langner, Lawrence Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy comedy - satire five characters two male; three female one act
1 interior.
"Satirical comedy. Free love." Title: Appointment, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 20th series / COL Author: Jannuzzi, Luigi Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
'Man bides his time while awaiting his appointment with God.'
Title: April Snow in - Six Plays - Romulus Linney / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1993
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six characters four male; two female one act
Bittersweet comedy about aging writer and women who have figured prominently in his life.
Title: Arabesque in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Gluck, Victor Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy comedy - courtship five characters two male; three female one act
AMORESQUE and ARABESQUE are both comedies of courtship that take place during the same weekend at Margaret Hudson's country house not far from Cambridge, Massachusetts. In ARABESQUE, during the same weekend, at Mrs. Hudson's, another guest is bestselling, self-styled "authoress" Audrey Liston, who writes romantic fiction. She is immediately attracted to Gerald Gardiner, a handsome, athletic scion of a leading Boston family. He, however, is pursuing a flighty, self-willed debutante, who is leading him on a merry chase. Title: Are You Normal, Mr. Norman? in - Are You Normal, Mr. Norman and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Wilson, David Henry Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female one act
A simple toothache ends with the dentist's crucifixion.
Title: Aria Da Capo in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Millay, Edna St. Vincent Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy tragicomedy five characters four male; one female one act
Under the prompting of the masque of tragedy, two shepards interrupt a harlequinade, innocently kill each other and are again superseded by the harlequinade. The handling of poetic speech is vital.
Title: Art of War, The in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - war six characters four male; two female one act (eight scenes)
"An hilarious war between art and artlessness, neo-fascism versus the moral centre." Title: Art of War, The in - The Power Plays / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - war six characters four male; two female one act (eight scenes)
"An hilarious war between art and artlessness, neo-fascism versus the moral centre."
Title: Art of War, The in - Shared Anxiety / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - war six characters four male; two female one act (eight scenes)
"An hilarious war between art and artlessness, neo-fascism versus the moral centre."
Title: As Good as New in - Playbill Two / COL Author: Perry, David Publisher: Hutchinson Educational 1969
Description:
roy comedy - macabre five characters two male; three female one act
"A macabre comedy set in the suburban home of the Pimples, who live in the shadow of imminent catastrophe. While Grandpa toils in the cellar on his corpses, the normal life of the family goes on from one fatality to the next-punctuated by Grandma's frequent trips to the WC to be sick, Mr. Pimple's shattering cough, and June's siren wails of woe. The imperturbable Mrs. Pimble's firm maternal management of affairs is the one rock-steady factor in this grotesque family situation. She has learned to compromise with fate, accepting the simple doctrine that it's never too late to Title: As Night to the Day in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO Author: Ebbs, Dan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters two male; two female one act
Forty-year-old Michael returns home to help his mother who is struggling with memory loss. Over the course of a morning, Michael sees her through the eyes of another and learns that there’s a side to her he didn’t know.
Title: Assembly: A Surreal Self-Improvement Seminar in - Canadian Theatre Review v. 134 / PER Author: Radix Theatre Symington, Emelia et. al. Publisher: Miscellaneous 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - self-awareness - Bristish Columbia four characters two male; two female twelve scenes
"Vancouver-based 'Radix Theatre's collaborative piece is a parody of a self-improvement seminar that promises a "new" you. The production concludes with a buffet of chocolate desserts."
Title: At the Gates of the Righteous in - Four Favourite Plays / CCO Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1949
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy six characters four male; two female one act
interior representative set; 19 century costume; music.
"The misconception that all robbers are against the sacred laws of society is proved false when two young aspiring revolutionaries try to join a band of highwaymen in Upper Canada." Title: Ave Maria in - Pops / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1987
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female one act
"In Ave Maria, a 10th century nun, Hrosvitha, the only female playwright of her time, confronts an outraged monk who is shocked by her contention that love is both spiritual and sensual."
Title: Babel's in Arms in - Lives of the Saints / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"Two blue-collar Mesopotamian construction workers are handed a provocative task: Build the Tower of Babel—or else. How many stones does it take to get to heaven, anyway?"
Title: Babel's in Arms in - Time Flies and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Grove Press 2001
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"Two blue-collar Mesopotamian construction workers are handed a provocative task: Build the Tower of Babel—or else. How many stones does it take to get to heaven, anyway?" Title: Baby Food in - Three One Acts / COL Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2006
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
interior set.
BABY FOOD is a contemporary comedy about an off-kilter couple desperately searching for godparents for their newborn infant. Little do they know that the friends they’ve chosen are less than adventurous diners and on the verge of a divorce.
Title: Bachelorette in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2011 / COL Author: Headland, Leslye Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2011
Description:
roy dark comedy six characters two male; four female one act
Ten years out of high school, Regan, Gena and Katie convene in the luxurious bridal suite of their old friend, Becky, the night before her wedding in New York City. Fueled by jealousy and resentment, the girls embark on a night of debauchery that goes from playfully wasted to devastatingly destructive. Their old fears, unfulfilled desires and deep bonds with each other transform a prenuptial bender into a night they'll never forget. A wicked black comedy about female friendship and growing up in an age of excess.
Title: Bad and the Sick, The in - The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1986
Description:
roy comedy - black comedy - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female one act
Brief psychotic comedy of forbidden love in the gutters and drawing rooms of the Austrian capital. Title: Bad Jews in - American Theatre (April 2014) / PER Author: Harmon, Joshua Elias Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy - family relations - religious four characters two male; two female one act
" 'Bad Jews' is a world-premiere comedy about the holy and the holier-than-thou. Daphna Feygenbaum is a Real Jew - just ask the Israeli boyfriend she met on Birthright. So when her cousin Liam brings home his shiksa girlfriend Melody and declares ownership of their grandfather's Chai necklace, it sparks a viciously hilarious brawl over family, faith and legacy." - nytheatre.com
Title: Bald Soprano, The in - Four Plays by Eugene Ionesco / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene translated by Donald M. Allen Publisher: Grove Press 1958
Description:
roy comedy - satire six characters three male; three female one act
"Comedy satirizing English middle class life".
Title: Bald Soprano, The in - The Bald Soprano and Other Plays / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene Publisher: Grove Press 1958
Description:
roy comedy - satire six characters three male; three female one act
"Comedy satirizing English middle class life". Title: Bald Soprano, The in - Bald Soprano, The and The Lesson / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene translated by Tina Howe Publisher: Grove Press 2006
Description:
roy comedy - satire six characters three male; three female one act
"Comedy satirizing English middle class life".
Title: Bargains in - Miniature Plays for Stage and Study / COL Author: Kester, Katharine Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1958
Description:
nonroyalty comedy four characters one male; three female one act
Description not available.
Title: Be a Good Little Widow in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2011 / COL Author: Brunstetter, Bekah Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2011
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female eight scenes
Young wife Melody has never been to a funeral – until her husband dies in a plane crash. Expected to instantly assume proper widowhood, Melody is left to wonder, what's the right way to grieve? Fortunately, her mother-in-law is a professional. Widow, that is. Under her guidance, Melody must try her best to be a good little widow. A sad comedy about loss and longing. Title: Beached in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 13th series / COL Author: DeLeo, Bernie Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy comedy - relationships five characters two male; three female one act
Two cute girls are at the beach, sunning themselves and discussing their various sexual exploits. They appear to be fast friends until one lets herself be picked up by the other's hunky new boyfriend. She goes off with him to a rock concert and dinner, leaving her friend with nerdy Harvey who finally gets up the nerve to tell Laurie off for being callous and rude and self absorbed. Both Harvey and Laurie achieve an emotional breakthrough of sorts. Talk about coastal disturbances!
Title: Bedtime Stories in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO Author: Kolpak, Diana Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - fairy tales - women all female cast; four characters four female one act
Four women from fairy tales—Cinderella, the Witch who held Rapunzel hostage, the Queen who outsmarts Rumpelstiltskin and Bluebeard’s wife—each tell the story from their own point of view. A unique look at the way women are treated in classic tales.
Title: Beirut Rocks in - Israel Horovitz's New Shorts / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters two male; two female one act
Four foreign students end up waiting in a hotel room to be taken out of Beirut during an army attack. Title: Best Half Foot Forward in - Stay Carl Stay, Best Half Foot Forward, Pillow Talk / COL Author: Tolan, Peter Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1991
Description:
roy comedy - friendship all male cast; four characters four male one act
BEST HALF FOOT FORWARD deals with four men in their late twenties, stir crazy at the end of a week's vacation in a cabin located in the wilds of New Hampshire. Far from women and civilization, their neuroses and insecurities about friendship and masculinity drive them to outrageous acts of competition, culminating with a very frank and funny examination of their anatomical attributes.
Title: Bethany in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2013 / COL Author: Marks, Laura Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2013
Description:
roy dark comedy - American six characters two male; four female one act (twelve scenes)
running time: 90 min.
"BETHANY is a darkly comic exploration of the limits of morality in desperate times. Set in an American exurb wiped out by foreclosures, the play follows Crystal, a financially-strapped woman who discovers just how far she’ll go to regain what she’s lost." - Women's Project Theater
Title: Between Mouthfuls in - Confusions / COL Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1977
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"An unsuccessful seduction attempt." Title: Bill and Laura in - Bedrooms: Five Comedies / COL Author: Taylor, Renee Bologna, Joseph Publisher: Samuel French 1986
Description:
roy comedy - marriage - marital relations - relationships - divorce six characters three male; three female one act
Bill and Laura are divorced. They both get invited to the same dinner party and arrive with their new partners. Left alone for a moment they do what they always do - fight.
Title: Bitterenders in - Double Exposure / CCO Author: Khalil, Hannah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy dark comedy - Canadian playwright - relationships four characters one male; three female one act (three parts)
Hannah’s play Bitterenders, a black comedy about a Palestinian family in Jerusalem who are forced to share their house with Israeli settlers, won Sandpit Arts’ Bulbul 2013 competition and
Winner! 2013 Sandpit Productions' Bulbul Playwrighting Competition.
Title: Bittergirl in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO Author: Griffiths, Annabel Lawrence, Alison and Mary Francis Moore Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters one male; three female one act
Annabel Griffiths is also known as Annabel Fitzsimmons.
'An irrepressibly upbeat comic exploration of abandonment and resilience. It introduces three women, A, B, and C whose somewhat generic man, D, sets the piece in motion by announcing in the first scene that the relationship is over and he is leaving. The women go from shock to grief to anger to relief to vengeance.' Title: Blissful Orphans, The in - Dramatics (April 2015) / PER Author: Schmidt, Kyle John Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
"After their last orphan is adopted, the proprietors of a Dickensian orphanage face an empty nest, a life crisis, and a surplus of whimsical bonnets." - actorstheatre.org
Title: Blitzkrieg in - Blitzkrieg and Other Plays / CCO Author: Wade, Bryan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy Canadian - black comedy four characters two male; two female one act
"The setting is Berghof, Hitler's chalet in the Bavarian Alps. A new look at the personal lives of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, in whose dreams and desires the full impact and brutality of the war is felt."
Title: Bobby Gould in Hell in - Oh, Hell! / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
'Day of reckoning for conniving movie mogul from Speed-the-plow.' Title: Bombastes Furioso in - Burlesque Plays of the Eighteenth Century / COL Author: Canning, George Frere, John Hookam Publisher: Oxford University Press 1969
Description:
roy burlesque four characters; extras three male; one female one act
Burlesque in verse. King and general quarrel over affections of lady.
Title: Book of Leviticus Show, the in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy comedy - religious four characters flexible casting sketch
'Lottie Lu is broadcasting her own public TV access show from a local motel. Based on Lottie Lu's belief in the book of Leviticus, the show's interpretation of the story leads Lottie Lu to today's segment's activities of capturing and putting to death a homosexual and an adulteress. All in a day's devotion to God."
Title: Book of Leviticus Show, the in - Noami in the Living Room / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy - religious four characters flexible casting sketch
'Lottie Lu is broadcasting her own public TV access show from a local motel. Based on Lottie Lu's belief in the book of Leviticus, the show's interpretation of the story leads Lottie Lu to today's segment's activities of capturing and putting to death a homosexual and an adulteress. All in a day's devotion to God." Title: Boor Hug, The in - Feydeau, First to Last / COL Author: Feydeau, Georges Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
Description:
roy farce four characters two male; two female one act
'Early 20th century French farce.'
Title: Born to Be Blue in - Off-off Broadway Festival Plays - 27th Series / COL Author: Bellusci, Mark Publisher: Samuel French 2003
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
This hilarious comedy turns parental guidance on its head. Ron's parents want him to succeed ... at underachieving. They do everything in their power to keep him away from libraries, books and intelligent, motivated young women, and they encourage him to spend his time at monster truck rallies, reading girlie magazines and applying to technical college. Unfortunately, Harvard bound Ron is a born overachiever.
Title: Borrow Me in - Four by Four by Four / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Red Deer Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - thriller - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act
More of a thriller than a comedy, "Borrow Me" wanders through supernatural territory and there is an ominous note present even before murder and betrayal rear their ugly heads. Even so, it's billed as a comedy and there certainly are elements of that as well. Movie producer, Russel Bennet, and his embittered wife, Sharon, have Russel's naive young mistress, Jenny, to dinner. Filling out the party is Gordon, a university friend of the Bennets who is also Sharon's ex-boyfriend. Yes, the possibilities are indeed endless. Title: Bowl of Beings, A in - Culture Clash / COL Author: Montoya, Richard Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1998
Description:
roy comedy - Latino all male cast; four characters four male one act; seven scenes
"Features the tale of the world's first Chicano, Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son, and "The Return of Che" the story of a Berkeley Radical who brings back Che Guevara for a hilarious political update."
Title: Boy Meets Girl in - Seven One-Act Plays (Wasserstein) / COL Author: Wasserstein, Wendy Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000
Description:
roy comedy - relationships five characters two male; three female one act
"BOY MEETS GIRL brings together Dan and Molly, two successful, thirty-something New Yorkers afraid of making a commitment. With the help of their psychiatrists, they finally find the courage to tie the knot under the altar before Her Majesty, the Queen."
Title: Brandy in - Return of the Big Five / CCO Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female one act
1 exterior set.
Sexy, fast, funny action as the Little Guy wins the heart of the Dumb Brunette and the Blonde runs off with the Big Guy. Title: Brannock Device, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Twelfth Series / COL Author: Balian, Rick Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female one act
"What is the mysterious "Brannock Device" - and what does possessing it mean for He Who Possesses It? This is what two CIA gumshoes are tying to find out. Turns out, the Brannock Device is not a top secret bit of Super Science".
Title: Breeches From Bond Street in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female one act
1 exterior set.
'Comedy set in late 19th century Canadian border town. Gambler's mail-order bride arrives.'
Title: Bridal Night, The in - Three Hand Reel / COL Author: Mayer, Paul Avila Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967
Description:
roy comedy - Irish play six characters four male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"The third part of a triple bill. A touching, fragile tale of a slow-witted Irish lad who conceives a deep but hopeless passion for the young schoolteacher who befriends him". Title: Bright New Boise, A in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2011 / COL Author: Hunter, Samuel D. Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2011
Description:
roy dark comedy five characters three male; two female twelve scenes
running time 120 min.
In the bleak, corporate break room of a craft store in Idaho, someone is summoning The Rapture. Will, who has fled his rural hometown after a scandal at his Evangelical church, comes to the Hobby Lobby, not only for employment, but also to rekindle a relationship with Alex, his brooding teenage son, whom he gave up for adoption several years ago. Alex works there along
Title: Brighton Beach Scumbags in - Steven Berkoff: Volume 2: The Collected Plays / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: Faber and Faber 1994
Description:
roy dark comedy six characters four male; two female one act
1 exterior.
Group of British low-class yobs on beach outing exhibit contempt for traditional values.
Title: Broken But Not Torn in - Dramatics Vol. 77, No 1 / PER Author: Frankfurt, Asher Publisher: Miscellaneous 2005
Description:
roy commedia dell'Arte six characters four male; two female (flexible casting) one scene
Amorio, the reckless brother of Leander, has been banished from town, separated briefly from his love Isabella. Today Amorio has snuck back through the gates and has sworn to marry Isabella, but little does he know that only one thing stands in his way: his brother. Unbeknownst to them both, the two brothers are set to marry the same woman. With only days left before both marriages, Amorio and Leander struggle with an idiotic priest, a slow-thinking servant, and the wretched mother of Isabella, only to find out in the end the greatest coincidence of all... Title: Bulgarian Rhapsody in - The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012 / COL Author: Orloff, Rich Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2013
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roy comedy - American - short play - farce six characters four male; two female one act
A hilarious romp somewhat reminiscent of Shaw's comic masterpiece "Arms and the Man". Inspired by a news article reporting post-Communist struggles in Bulgaria, Orloff took the suffering and combined it with simple human resilience, extending the fusion to a farcical extreme. Amid the farcical shenanigans, however, lies a logic of its own. And in the play's absurdity lies a homage to the human spirit, which in this case transcends any sort of sincerely penned treatise or report or news article.
Title: Bums in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 14th series / COL Author: Shaffron, Robert Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy monologues - comedy five characters four male; one female one act
A series of portraits of contemporary nomads, the street people of our world. Broadway Vis is a panhandler who shuffles all around. He says people ask him how come he don't get himself a job; and he replies, Now, I ask you, if I come into your office and ask you for a job, you gonna give me one? Mary, on the other hand, is a bag lady, jealous of the secrets she hides in her bags, secrets she is certain everyone is trying to steal from her. There is also a male hustler, and others, all pungent characterizations, on the mark and deeply moving.
Title: Bunnies in - Best Student One Acts Volume 7 / COL Author: O'Brien, Michael Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2002
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
'A completely fictional play about Hugh Hefner and the beginnings of "Playboy" magazine according to the author's imagination, with no regard for the facts that clearly would contradict this interpretation.' Title: Burden of Self Awareness, The in - Dead Metaphor / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 2015
Description:
roy dark comedy - Canadian - money five characters three male; two female one act (sixteen scenes)
The play has money at the centre of a dramatic conflict of values.
Title: Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female one act
"Chris, a writer, has a business meeting at the Russian Tea Room with a new Hollywood hotshot, Melissa. At the Tea Room, Melissa pitches insane ideas to Chris who can't wait to just leave this meeting. Once home, he tries so hard to write up the idea of a priest and a rabbi who fall in love (and other complications), that they appear to him to help him through."
Title: Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room in - Durang/Durang / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1996
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female one act
"Chris, a writer, has a business meeting at the Russian Tea Room with a new Hollywood hotshot, Melissa. At the Tea Room, Melissa pitches insane ideas to Chris who can't wait to just leave this meeting. Once home, he tries so hard to write up the idea of a priest and a rabbi who fall in love (and other complications), that they appear to him to help him through." Title: Businessman's Lunch in - The Best Short Plays 1985 / COL Author: Quinn, Michael David Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1984
Description:
roy comedy - business five characters four male; one female one act
'Corporate stereotypes examined as three high-powered executives dine in chic restaurant.'
Title: Butcher of Baraboo, The in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2008 / COL Author: Wegrzyn, Marisa Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2008
Description:
roy comedy five characters one male; four female one act
A small-town woman's husband has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and the town gossips suspect that she done it.
Title: Cahoot's Macbeth in - Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth / COL Author: Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"Dedicated to dissident Czech dramatist Pavel Kohout, [the play] is about a performance of Macbeth he and his friends once staged in a living room since the government banned public performances. The action shifts between the bare stage and the police inquiry. The murder and intrigue of Shakespeare's play are juxtaposed with the Czech political harassment." Title: Captive audience in - Lives of the Saints / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
"A cautionary fable tells how Rob and Laura face a menace in their living room: a television that talks back to them and threatens to swallow them whole.
Title: Captive Audience in - Time Flies and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Grove Press 2001
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
"A cautionary fable tells how Rob and Laura face a menace in their living room: a television that talks back to them and threatens to swallow them whole.
Title: Carwash in - An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays / COL Author: Phillips, Louis Publisher: National Textbook Company 1992
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female one act
no description available. Title: Case of the Crushed Petunias, The in - American Blues / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1948
Description:
roy comedy - fantasy - high school four characters two male; two female one act
suggested short play for high school.
A delightful, humorous comedy-fantasy.
Title: Casseroles of Far Rockaway, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL Author: Bauer, P. Seth Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comedy - family relationships four characters one male; three female one scene
Mass confusion reigns as a family finds out just what happens to those casseroles a daughter brought over for her widowed father.
Title: Caught with His Trance Down in - Feydeau, First to Last / COL Author: Feydeau, Georges Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
Description:
roy farce six characters four male; two female one act
'Early 20th Century French farce.' Title: Celebration, The in - The Brute and Other Farces / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Bentley, Eric Publisher: Samuel French 1956
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roy farce - women - banking four characters; extras two male; two female one act
Farce set in office of bank manager. Women disrupt celebration of bank's anniversary.
Title: Central Park West in - American Theatre (July 95) / PER Author: Allen, Woody Publisher: Miscellaneous 1995
Description:
roy comedy - relationships five characters two male; three female one act
'Comedy about adultery and May-September affair on Manhattan's Upper West Side.'
Title: Central Park West in - Death Defying Acts / COL Author: Allen, Woody Publisher: Samuel French 1995
Description:
roy comedy - relationships five characters two male; three female one act
'Comedy about adultery and May-September affair on Manhattan's Upper West Side.' A well to do psychiatrist has just discovered that her best friend is having an affair with her husband. She has invited the friend over for a confrontation after getting thoroughly soused. Meanwhile, the husband is about to run off with a college student. Part of Death Defying Acts. Title: Chiaroscuro in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays / COL Author: Coppola, Louis A. Publisher: Samuel French 1978
Description:
roy comedy - relationships five characters three male: two female one act
'Comedy about misplaced ethnic pride. Love affair between Italian-American and West Indian triggers family reaction.'
Title: Chinese Portrait of an Imposter in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Parenteau-Lebeuf, Dominick translated by Crystal Beliveau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy comedy - identity - women - Canadian - Quebec - women playwrights six characters; voices one male; five female one act (eight scenes)
Original title: Portrait chinois d'une imposteure.
A dramatization of a decisively turning moment in the life of a vibrantly creative artist who must rid herself of delusions and fears and take control of her own ideas, values, visions, and practice. A joyous and compelling theatrical exorcism of many of the demons that beset women working and creating in today's theatre.
Title: Chinese, The in - The Chinese and Dr. Fish / COL Author: Schisgal, Murray Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970
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roy comedy - Chinese - family relations five characters two male; three female one act
"The Chinese laundry is home for the Lee family - father, mother and son, Chester. The older Lees are quite obviously Oriental while Chester (who is usually taken for Jewish) is not - but his questions as to the possibility of his 'real biological parents' are invariably turned aside by the Lees. Chester asks his fiancee (a nice Jewish girl) to meet his family - without telling her they are Chinese - which results in a series of hilarious misunderstandings. The Lees, indignant at Chester's obvious reluctance to be Chinese, have other plans - in the form of Pu Ping Chow, a Title: Christmas in - Return of the Big Five / CCO Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974
Description:
roy comedy six characters five male; one female one act
"A story without words told from the tree's point of view."
Title: Circle Mirror Transformation in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2010 / COL Author: Baker, Annie Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2011
Description:
roy comedy - acting five characters two male; three female one act
This bittersweet play puts four amateurs together with their teacher in a room for a class in acting and life. When four lost New Englanders who enroll in Marty's six-week-long community-center drama class begin to experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart, and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. A beautifully crafted diorama, a petri dish in which we see, with hilarious detail and clarity, the antic sadness of a motley quintet.
Title: Circuit Breakers in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 32nd series / COL Author: French, Arthur W. Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female one act
Danny’s girlfriend Theresa is pretty great, but she’s still an android, and he’s looking for something, well, a little more human. So he invited his co-worker Jordan out to a movie. Theresa recognizes another android when she sees one, and she manages to short out Jordan’s system. Danny’s had enough, so he turns Theresa off, but that just alerts another model from the warehouse, Carmen, to arrive and check on things. She offers a contract for her services to Danny for a fee, but ultimately he decides that all he really wants is a robot that can make a grilled cheese Title: Claire in - Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays / CCO Author: Gatchalian, C. E. Publisher: The Writer's Collective 2003
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
An absurdist, Sartrean meditation on the brutal power structures in relationships.
Title: Cobbler, Stick to Thy Last in - Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media / CCO Author: Hill, Kay Publisher: Methuen 1973
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Nova Scotia five characters two male; three female one act
divided interior set.
Though his wife Faithful isn't quite dead, Standfast, the cobbler knowing she can't last long, has advertised for a new bride. In Nova Scotia in the 1780's, it is the only practical way to get one. Besides, winter is coming and he has a house and six children to be looked after. But Faithful takes a turn for the better just as the local postman arrives with Susannah Comfort, a pleasant lass
Title: Cobbler, Stick to Thy Last in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Hill, Kay Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Nova Scotia five characters two male; three female one act
divided interior set.
Though his wife Faithful isn't quite dead, Standfast, the cobbler knowing she can't last long, has advertised for a new bride. In Nova Scotia in the 1780's, it is the only practical way to get one. Besides, winter is coming and he has a house and six children to be looked after. But Faithful takes a turn for the better just as the local postman arrives with Susannah Comfort, a pleasant lass Title: Cock in - Plays: 1 / COL Author: Bartlett, Mike Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2011
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roy comedy - relationships - LGBTQ+⌦four characters three male; one female one act (three scenes) When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out… Mike Bartlett's punchy new story takes a playful, candid look at one man's sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realize you have a choice. With carefully poised dialectics, Cock explores ambivalence in love and human nature through a nexus of emotions, relations and choices.
Winner! 2010 Laurence Olivier Award, Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.
Title: Colored Museum, The in - Black Comedy: 9 Plays / COL Author: Wolfe, George Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy satire - black - sketches five characters; one extra three male; two female one act
1 set; singing required.
"Series of satirical sketches comment on contemporary blacks."
Title: Colored Museum, The in - New Plays USA 4 / COL Author: Wolfe, George Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1988
Description:
roy satire - black - sketches five characters; one extra three male; two female one act
1 set; singing required.
"Series of satirical sketches comment on contemporary blacks." Title: Come Into the Garden Maud in - Best Short Plays of the World Theatre: 1958-1967 / COL Author: Coward, Noel Publisher: Crown Publishers 1968
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"An awful American social-climbing wife is left by her husband - rich but uninterested in high society - when he decides to go away with a woman who has real class. When he makes this decision, he and his wife are staying at a fashionable private suite in a luxurious Swiss hotel".
Title: Coming Clean in - Kevin Elyot: Four plays Author: Elyot, Kevin Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - LGBTQ+ all male cast; five characters five male one act (seven scenes)
A very funny and acute comedy about the gay life. Looks at the breakdown of a gay couples relationship and examines complex questions of fidelity and love. The play is set in a flat in Kentish Town, north London, in 1982. Struggling writer Tony and his partner of five years, Greg, seem to have the perfect relationship. Committed and in love, they are both open to one-night stands as long as they don’t impinge on the relationship. But Tony is starting to yearn for something deeper, something more like monogamy. When he finds out that Greg has been having
Title: Coming of Mr. Pine, The in - Chicks and Other Short Plays / COL Author: McKeaney, Grace Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy satire four characters one male; three female one act
1 interior.
Satirical look at women's preoccupation with men. Title: Contract, The in - Graduation Suite / CCO Author: Millar, Thomas P. Publisher: Palmer Press 1987
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female one act
"Life is a series of graduations, some reluctantly coped with, some eagerly embraced. Each graduation requires us to leave an old way of being and embrace a new. Each is an opportunity for growth, or a chance for failure. Graduation Suite consists of three one act plays, each of which deals with such a life' graduation. The first play in the series, The Contract, concerns a UBC, live-together couple about to go through a 'common law divorce'. Maybe! If they can get their act together! The Contract, won the Jacksonville University Playwriting Prize."
Title: Controlling Interest in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Rawley, Wayne Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female one act
Demonstrates what can happen when adult professionals indulge their inner children.
Title: Conversations with my Neighbour's Pit Bull in - A Three Martini Lunch / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Red Deer College Press 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters four male; one female one act
"The strange but somehow universally recognisable inhabitants include a pathologically analytical professor of philosophy, Robert Teller, trying to befriend the local canine while dealing with his precocious twelve-year-old daughter, Ellen, and his obnoxious neighbour, Tyler." Title: Crawling Arnold in - Best Short Plays of the World Theatre: 1958-1967 / COL Author: Feiffer, Jules Publisher: Crown Publishers 1968
Description:
roy comedy - satire - spoof five characters two male; three female one act
"A hilarious, perceptive spoof of modern society and its hang-ups... Concerned with a young man in his thirties who has regressed to crawling on all fours in order to be more attractive and conspicuous, the play pokes fun both at the maladjustments of our times and the fumbling hopefulness with which we so often try to cope with them".
Title: Criminals in Love in - Shared Anxiety / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1994
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female one act (nine scenes)
Gail and Junior are young and in love in an urban wasteland. Junior's jailbird dad and his schizo girl-friend get them mixed up in a terrorist plot while William, the drunken philosopher, espouses the meaning of destiny.
Title: Criminals in Love in - The East End Plays: Part 1 / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female one act
Gail and Junior are young and in love in an urban wasteland. Junior's jailbird dad and his schizo girl-friend get them mixed up in a terrorist plot while William, the drunken philosopher, espouses the meaning of destiny.
Winner, 1984 Chalmers Canadian Play Award and Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 1985. Title: Cut! in - Scraping the Surface / CCO Author: Albert, Lyle Victor Publisher: NeWest Press 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - Edmonton Fringe Festival - comedy five characters three male; two female one act
CUT! chronicles a visit to the land of purgatory - a sort of celestial rest home - for characters allegedly cut from famous plays. A lively pastiche of literary jokes starring such neglected characters as Hamlet's elder brother and Stanley Kowalski's mother.
Title: Dark Lady of the Sonnets, The in - Seven One Act Plays / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1958
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female one act
'Shakespeare, on way to romantic rendezvous, encounters Queen Elizabeth from whom he requests endowment of national theatre.'
Title: Daughters of Edward D. Bolt, The in - Green Man and other plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy dark comedy all female cast; four characters four female one act
Four young sisters are trapped for a century in a famous painting by John Singer Sargent, arguing over which if any of them actually slept with the Italian steward on the ocean liner that took them to Italy, and over the relative pleasures and dangers of physical experience, fantasy, self denial and art. Florence believes in experience, Jane in mystery, Mary Louisa in art, and baby Julia has had to go to the bathroom since 1882. This loving tribute to a very great painting is an imaginary journey into the world of the four girls imprisoned in it, and also deals with serious questions Title: Day the Whores Came Out to Play, The in - The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays / COL Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Hill and Wang 1965
Description:
roy satire all male cast; extras (female voices) six male one act
1 interior set.
"Satire in theater of the absurd vein. The very socially self-conscious, middle-class country club committee tries to get eighteen whores off their tennis courts before their wives and children and a visiting country club arrive".
Title: Dead Metaphor in - Dead Metaphor / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 2015
Description:
roy dark comedy - Canadian - political - war six characters three male; three female one act (twenty-two short scenes)
Examines the collision of a politician’s personal and professional lives, complicated by a son’s return from Afghanistan.
Title: Dear Departed, The in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Houghton, Stanley Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
nonroy comedy - satire six characters three male; three female one act
1 interior set.
A clever dramatization of a famous DeMaupassant story about a man who pretended he was dead in order to see what his family thought about him. Title: Death Comes to a Wedding in - The Best American Short Plays 2009-2010 / COL Author: Tracz, Joe Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy comedy six characters one male; five female one act
Based on the Greek myth of Persephone, the "bride of Death" forced to marry the lord of the underworld. As in the myth, the bride, Beth, is an unwilling sacrifice linked to the harvest (plus she has her own Greek chorus of playground girls). But Beth wants more out of life than getting married and dying, so she enlists the aid of the oldest woman in town to escape the engagement.
Title: Death of Me, The in - One-Actmanship / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - death four characters two male; two female one act
When John bargains with the Angel of Death for a second chance at life, he quickly discovers that fixing the mistakes of your past is difficult, and that perhaps his destiny is not yet etched in stone.
Title: Defacing Michael Jackson in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (30th series) / COL Author: Squire, Aurin Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy comedy - teenagers six characters four male; two female one act
Thriller, the Pepsi fire, cocaine cowboys, and a white family moving into a black neighborhood: it's 1984 in a rural Florida town of Opa-Locka and life is about to get a whole lot more confusing for a group of kids who want to be the 'gloved one.' Title: Degas C'est Moi in - Mere Mortals / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female (flexible casting) one act
A man wakes up one morning and decides to be the French artist Degas. The best place to do that is in New York City where he encounters all that makes great art.
Title: Degas C'est Moi in - The Best American Short Plays 1995-1996 / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female (flexible casting) one act
A man wakes up one morning and decides to be the French artist Degas. The best place to do that is in New York City where he encounters all that makes great art.
Title: Degas, C'est Moi in - Time Flies and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Grove Press 2001
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female (flexible casting) one act
A man wakes up one morning and decides to be the French artist Degas. The best place to do that is in New York City where he encounters all that makes great art. Title: Delta Triangle in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 10th series / COL Author: Schwab, Steven Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six characters two male; four female three scenes
This festival winner is actually three short playlets. In the first, Solstice, a young teenage boy and girl sit on a back yard fence with a pair of binoculars, watching the drive in movie nearby. Next comes Clarinet in the Rain, wherein a high school boy tries valiantly to interest his 35 year old female clarinet teacher in something other than music lessons. The final playlet, Something Blue, is an amusing glimpse of a young bride as she prepares to walk down the aisle, with the help of her very pregnant Matron of Honor.
Title: Derailed in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO Author: Sher, Emil Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
'A sharply detailed, often shrewdly comic exploration of collapsing relationships, packaged in a frenetic merger of physical theatre, music and clown. Four frequently manic characters take a train ride and turn tawdry lives into vivid expressionistic extravagance.'
Title: Disruptive, Discursive Delusions of Donald, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 / COL Author: Roderick, Michael Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009
Description:
roy comedy - American five characters two male; three female one act
The theme of the play reflects that moments of indecision can breed the wackiest occurrences. The plot finds Donald having a lot of trouble making decisions in his life, but when Bo and Dayna (two middlemen between heaven and hell) step into the picture, he'll have to make quick decisions as he's thrust into a world with a dead lover, time travel, and a dominatrix obsessed with squeaky toys. As time ticks backwards Donald must decide what's most important, or lose it all. Title: Diversion, A in - Alfred de Musset / COL Author: de Musset, Alfred translated by Peter Meyer Publisher: Hill and Wang 1962
Description:
roy French - comedy - marriage four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior; setting - France, 1837.
"Count realizes value of his faithful wife, after experiencing subtle intrigue by another woman."
Title: Doctor Will See You Now, The in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female sketch
"A raucous Woman Singer, dressed in sequins and boa, keeps bursting into noisy song in a doctor's office. Mr. Wilson is there to see the doctor about an allergy, but the doctor and his nurse insist he has a venereal disease and call up everyone he knows. A public service announcement."
Title: Double Wedding in - Life is Short / COL Author: Pospisil, Craig Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female one act
Deborah is more than a little nervous on her wedding day. Her parents' constant chatter isn't helping. And neither is Deborah's reflection in the mirror, which keeps shouting out her darkest thoughts and worries. Can Deborah calm her fears before her alter ego literally steps through the looking glass and ruins things? Title: Dr. Chekhov Makes a House Call in - Dramatics (April 2010) / PER Author: GeBauer, Judy Publisher: Miscellaneous 2005
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
A short play, in which the good doctor visits a patient and possibly takes home the inspiration for a play.
Title: Dr. Fish in - The Chinese and Dr. Fish / COL Author: Schisgal, Murray Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations four characters two male; two female one act
"Anxious to make their sex life more 'meaningful', a middle-aged couple consult the eminent Dr. Fish, a sex expert whose doctorate happens to be in American history. The wife and the doctor get along swimmingly once she has overcome her reluctance to say certain forbidden words, but the husband, a down-to-earth type, remains unconvinced. The one who finally wins over the husband is Dr. Fish's slightly dotty grandmother - who keeps bustling in with unwanted advice and steaming bowls of homemade lentil soup."
Title: Drinking Companion in - Confusions / COL Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1977
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
"A disastrous fete." Title: Drive-In America in - Best Student One Acts Volume 7 / COL Author: Lanasa, Amy Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2002
Description:
roy comedy - friendship - self awareness five characters one male; three female; one voice one act
'Through their comedic interactions with local enigmatic oddballs, two college-age friends make self-discoveries and examine the true meaning of friendship.'
Title: Earring, The in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Van Dyke, Joyce Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
Portrays cross-cultural misunderstandings between a Russian emigre hotel maid and an American theatrical agent.
Title: Eat Your Heart Out in - Humana Festival 2012 / COL Author: Baron, Courtney Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2013
Description:
roy comedy - American - relationships six characters three male; three female one act
Alice and Gabe are desperate to adopt a child. Nance, a single mom just starting to date, struggles to connect with her teenage daughter Evie. And Evie wishes her best friend Colin could fall for her rather than just trying to fix things. With both humor and aching insight, these lives are woven together in a tale of parental hopes and fears, and of hearts consumed by longing. Title: El Depresso Espresso in - The Best American Short Plays 2001-2002 / COL Author: Cunningham, Laura Shaine Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2007
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
A young man and woman meet in a depression clinic at a strange hospital. Two doctors offer a surprising cure.
Title: El Paso Blue in - Plays by Octavio Solis / COL Author: Solis, Octavio Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing 2006
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
A wild tale of lust and revenge in El Paso. Al leaves his wife in the care of his father as he goes to prison, but soon discovers that she has fallen in love with him. A manhunt ensues.
Title: Election Day in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2008 / COL Author: Tobiessen, Josh Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2008
Description:
roy comedy - politics five characters two male; three female one act
It's election day for a mayoral race in a small town. This play examines with amusing dexterity why we vote the way we do. Title: Elemeno Pea in - Humana Festival 2011 / COL Author: Metzler, Molly Smith Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2012
Description:
roy comedy - American five characters two male; three female one act
unit set.
"When Devon visits Simone for an end-of-summer sibs fest on Martha's Vineyard, she finds her little sister changed beyond recognition. As personal assistant to wealthy and demanding trophy wife Michaela Kell, Simone enjoys a lavish beachfront lifestyle that these girls never could have imagined growing up in blue-collar Buffalo - but is all this luxury really free of cost? Worlds
Title: Elvis of Nazareth in - The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 / COL Author: Huling, Jay Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009
Description:
roy comedy - American six characters five male; one female one act
single unit set.
The yet-to-be-discovered Elvis Presley has an inexplicable foreknowledge of his future life events. As he waits to make a personal recording for his mama's birthday at Sun Record's famed Memphis Recording Studio, he ponders the meaning of his life. And he's torn between making the record or traveling down another road. To his rescue come historic figures from the Bible
Title: Englishman Abroad, An in - Single Spies / COL Author: Bennett, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy British - comedy - spies - politics five characters four male; one female one act
may be performed with "A Question of Attribution" as a double bill; "An Englishman Abroad" and "A Question of Attribution" are collectively called "Single Spies".
Based upon the true story of a meeting in Moscow between noted English actress Coral Browne and notorious spy Guy Burgess, this is a touching portrait of a lonely man torn between his Marxist principals and his ironic longing for contact with the upper class in Britain from whom he Title: Enigma Variations in - Lives of the Saints / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"Zany hijinks as a pair of look-alikes named Bebe W.W. Doppel-gängler solve an identity crisis with the help of Dr. William W. Williams and his nurse Fifi, who may or may not be Aphrodite the Goddess of Love. Or is she a male gym-teacher in a dress?"
Title: Enigma Variations in - Time Flies and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Grove Press 2001
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"Zany hijinks as a pair of look-alikes named Bebe W.W. Doppel-gängler solve an identity crisis with the help of Dr. William W. Williams and his nurse Fifi, who may or may not be Aphrodite the Goddess of Love. Or is she a male gym-teacher in a dress?"
Title: Entertaining Mr. Helms in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy - satire four characters two male; two female sketch
"An extremely conservative father runs a rigid household: the Pledge of Allegiance each morning, his wife does "woman's thing," his daughter gets points for being glad a classmate died of a botched abortion and his son gets in trouble calling sports teams by words with double meanings (instead of Team A and B). They are all happy living in America." Title: Eros At Breakfast in - Four Favourite Plays / CCO Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1949
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy five characters four male; one female; off stage voice one act
Non-representative set.
"'A psychosomatic interlude' which explains the relationship between body and soul. Takes place inside Mr P. S. who falls in love and upsets the daily routine of the internal departments of heart, liver, soul and intelligence."
Title: Escurial in - The Modern Theatre Volume 5 / COL Author: Ghelderode, Michel De Publisher: Doubleday 1957
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; four characters four male one act
Description not available.
Title: Eternal Hydra in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 115, Summer 2003 / PER Author: Piatigorsky, Anton Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003
Description:
roy comedy seven characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
'A woman reveals to a publisher that she has the playwright Carbuncle's lost script.' Title: Eternal Triangle in - Three Hand Reel / COL Author: Mayer, Paul Avila Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967
Description:
roy comedy - Irish play five characters four male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"The second part of a triple bill. Here the scene is a stalled tram car, caught in the cross fire of the 1916 Easter Uprising, and the action details, with warmly Irish humor and sentiment, the chance meeting of a frightened Dublin doxie and the tram conductor who comforts and protects her".
Title: Every Good Boy Deserves Favor in - Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul / COL Author: Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Grove Press 1978
Description:
roy comedy six characters five male; one female one act
"Contrasts the circumstances of a political prisoner and a mental patient in a Soviet insane asylum, to question the difference, if any, between free will and the freedom to conform. The situation, in which the mental patient 'hears' an orchestra, is both chilling and funny as we are introduced to two men who happen to share the same name, are incarcerated in the same cell, and are attended by the same doctor".
Title: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour in - Squaring the Circle / COL Author: Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Faber and Faber 1984
Description:
roy satire - mental health six characters five male; one female one act
1 interior; music.
"Satire set in Soviet insane asylum, contrasting the conditions of a political prisoner and a mental patient." Title: Fancy Footwork in - Fancy Footwork / COL Author: Gallagher, Miriam Publisher: Society of Irish Playwrights 1997
Description:
roy comedy - sports - boxing five characters four male; one female one act
no set.
"Comedy with a stylised boxing fight between Tornado Tom, King of the Ring, and the newcomer, Champion Joe. will Marguerite, his girlfriend, persuade her boxer brother to fix the fight?"
Title: Fancy Meeting You Here in - What If? / COL Author: Hanagan, Jay D. Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy comedy - romance four characters two male; two female one act
Chris is a fellow who may or may not be balding, but is nonetheless sensitive about it. Randy is a gal who may or may not be a little overweight, but is nonetheless sensitive about that. Chris and Randy are subsequently set up to meet for a blind date by some mutual friends. But try as they might, these two people, whose friends think could be just right for each other, just can't quite seem to find any of that common ground.
Title: Fatal French Dentist, The in - Oscar Mandel Collected Plays Vol II / COL Author: Mandel, Oscar Publisher: Unicorn Press 1972
Description:
roy comedy - satire six characters three male; three female one act; two scenes
1 interior; 1 exterior.
"Comedy satirizing American suburbia concerns misunderstandings over dinner invitations." Title: Fear Network News in - Dark, No Sugar / COL Author: Leight, Warren Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2007
Description:
roy satire eight characters three male; three female (doubling) one act
suggested for high school.
"You give us five minutes, we'll scare the bejeezus out of you!"
Title: Fiddleheads and Lovers in - Israel Horovitz's New Shorts / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters two male; two female one act
Two people discuss her past relationship.
Title: Fifth Commandment, The in - Miniature Plays for Stage and Study / COL Author: Steell, Willis Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1958
Description:
nonroyalty dramatic comedy four characters three male; one female one act
'Description not available.' Title: Filthy Rich in - The Power Plays / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - detectives six characters four male; two female one act; eight scenes
"Tyrone Power, reporter, has retired to write a novel when a murder case involving corrupt tycoons and bankrupt politicians bursts through his office door, grabs him by the throat and pulls him back onto the investigative trail."
Title: First Warning, The in - Strindberg's One Act Plays / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Arvid Paulson Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations four characters one male; three female one act
'Husband and wife's marital irritations exacerbated by man's unfounded jealousy.'
Title: Fissures (lost and found) in - Humana Festival 2010 / COL Author: Epp, Steve Hinkle, Corey Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2010
Description:
roy comedy - memory five characters two male; three female fourteen parts
What is memory? Why is it that each time you remember the past, you forget and invent a little more of it? How does a place or a song conjure an experience that you didn't even know you had lost? In Fissures (lost and found), we roam through the fanciful, mysterious territories between recollection and imagination, loss and rediscovery, in a piece that playfully embodies the ever-shifting landscape of memory. The play begins quietly, as a young man searches the audience for the owner of a pair of lost keys, but discovers that the keys are his own. Soon Title: Fit for Feet in - Humana Festival 2003 / COL Author: Harrison, Jordan Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2004
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female one act
"Jordan Harrison's Fit For Feet provides some goofy moments as soon-to-be-married Jimmy gives in to the idea he was Nijinsky and went into his dances, causing shock and dismay to his future wife."
Title: Fit for Feet in - The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004 / COL Author: Harrison, Jordan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2006
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female one act
As her perfect wedding day approaches, Claire is faced with something even more pressing than china patterns—her fiancé thinks he’s famed Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. If this union is to be a success, Claire has to answer one question: will she be fit for Jimmy’s increasingly flashy feet?
Title: Fits and Starts in - Chicks and Other Short Plays / COL Author: McKeaney, Grace Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy satire four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior.
Satirical look at such 20th century pressures as domesticity, procreation, mother love, advertising, even devotion to a dog. Title: Flattering Word, The in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL Author: Kelly, George Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female one act
one interior set.
Mary is married to a rather pompous pastor. Tesh would like to have Mary see his performance in the play that evening, but Mary is convinced the Paster will never consent to take her. Tesh knows that if you tell any adult or child he should be on the stage, you will melt his prejudices with ease. Tesh succeeds, but he is forced to sit through an excruciating performance by one of
Title: Flesh and Blood in - Humana Festival '96 / COL Author: Dewberry, Elizabeth Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy tragicomedy four characters one male; two female one act
"Macabre Southern tragicomedy revolving around adultery and sibling rivalry."
Title: Flying Wolimskies Return, The in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Smilow, David Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - family relationships - circus four characters three male; one female one act
Recounts the history of a less-than-successful family of circus acrobats. Title: Food Chain, The in - Etiquette and Vitriol / COL Author: Silver, Nicky Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1996
Description:
roy black comedy - love five characters three male; two female three scenes
Black comedy set in New York City about love, sex, loneliness and being thin.
Title: Footsteps of Doves, The in - You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running / COL Author: Anderson, Robert Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
"Balsam and Eileen Heckart, who have been wed 25 years, come to a store to pick out a new bed or beds. Should they buy twin beds or a double? They don't get much sales effort from the salesman, Grizzard, for the salesman is a pansy. Into the discussion, uninvited, comes a blonde young thing, Miss Dillon, who wants a big bed because she is all alone."
Title: For Love or Monkey in - A Flea in Her Rear (or Ants in Her Pants) / COL Author: Sardou, Victorien Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1994
Description:
roy farce - love five characters three male; one female; one girl one act
'Farce set in 19th century Paris. Escaped Monkey helps two young people find love.' Title: For the Glory of St. Patrick in - Plays for Great Occasions / COL Author: DuBois, Graham Publisher: Plays, Inc. 1951
Description:
nonroy St. Patricks Day - comedy - youth five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"Teen-age comedy"
Title: For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy comedy - parody four characters two male; two female one act
"In this parody of the 'The Glass Menagerie' the fading Southern belle, Amanda, tries to prepare her hyper-sensitive, hyperchondriacal son, Lawrence, for ' the feminine caller.' Terrified of people, Lawrence plays with his collection of glass cocktail stirrers. Ginny, the feminine caller, is hard of hearing and overbearingly friendly. Brother Tom wants to go to the movies, where he keeps meeting sailors who need to be put up in his room. Amanda tries to face everything with 'charm and vivacity' but sometimes she just wants to hit somebody. "
Title: For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls in - Durang/Durang / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1996
Description:
roy comedy - parody four characters two male; two female one act
"In this parody of the 'The Glass Menagerie' the fading Southern belle, Amanda, tries to prepare her hyper-sensitive, hyperchondriacal son, Lawrence, for ' the feminine caller.' Terrified of people, Lawrence plays with his collection of glass cocktail stirrers. Ginny, the feminine caller, is hard of hearing and overbearingly friendly. Brother Tom wants to go to the movies, where he keeps meeting sailors who need to be put up in his room. Amanda tries to face everything with 'charm and vivacity' but sometimes she just wants to hit somebody. " Title: For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy comedy - parody four characters two male; two female one act
"In this parody of the 'The Glass Menagerie' the fading Southern belle, Amanda, tries to prepare her hyper-sensitive, hyperchondriacal son, Lawrence, for ' the feminine caller.' Terrified of people, Lawrence plays with his collection of glass cocktail stirrers. Ginny, the feminine caller, is hard of hearing and overbearingly friendly. Brother Tom wants to go to the movies, where he keeps meeting sailors who need to be put up in his room. Amanda tries to face everything with 'charm and vivacity' but sometimes she just wants to hit somebody. "
Title: Foreplay, or: The Art of the Fugue in - Mere Mortals / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six characters three male; three female one act
In this play, we find Chuck, a self-styled Don Juan, and his girlfriend on a date at the miniature golf course. When they move to the second hole, a slightly older Chuck II appears with another date. Finally, an even older Chuck arrives with a young date. His latest date doesn't get his jokes, and worse, she's beating him at golf.
Title: Foreplay, or: The Art of the Fugue in - Long Ago and Far Away and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1999
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six characters three male; three female one act
In this play, we find Chuck, a self-styled Don Juan, and his girlfriend on a date at the miniature golf course. When they move to the second hole, a slightly older Chuck II appears with another date. Finally, an even older Chuck arrives with a young date. His latest date doesn't get his jokes, and worse, she's beating him at golf. Title: Foreplay, or: The Art of the Fugue in - All in the Timing (Fourteen plays) / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Vintage Books 1995
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six characters three male; three female one act
In this play, we find Chuck, a self-styled Don Juan, and his girlfriend on a date at the miniature golf course. When they move to the second hole, a slightly older Chuck II appears with another date. Finally, an even older Chuck arrives with a young date. His latest date doesn't get his jokes, and worse, she's beating him at golf.
Title: Forgetting Frankie in - Funny Girls Coping with Boys / COL Author: Evans, Annie Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006
Description:
roy comedy - romance five characters; voice one male; four female one act
Karen attempts to get over her own heartbreak by investigating why a man she's never met asked three different women to marry him.
Title: Forty to Life in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Shengold, Nina Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six or more characters three or more male; three female one act
A woman confronts a police lineup of all the men she has ever dated, with unexpected results. Title: Fourteen Lovers of Ugly Mary-Ann, The in - Nose! Nose? No-se! / COL Author: Amalrik, Andrei Publisher: Harcourt Brace Publishers 1973
Description:
roy satire four characters; extras three male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"When jealous writer steals mistress' old lover letter from chemical engineering student, he is absurdly accused of attempt to undermine Russian technology and forced to prove obedience to authority".
Title: Frenzy for Two, or More in - Stroll in the Air, A & Frenzy for Two, or More / COL Author: Ionesco, Eugene translated by Donald Watson Publisher: Grove Press 1965
Description:
roy farce - comedy - marital relations five characters three male; two female one act
A farce involving a couple who in the midst of an unnamed revolution assault each other both physically and psychically in a rain of insults and counter-insults that isolates them in an absurd domestic comedy that reflects and repeats the outside chaos.
Title: Fugue in a Nursery in - The Torch Song Trilogy / COL Author: Fierstein, Harvey Publisher: Gay Presses of New York 1979
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ four characters three male; one female one act
1 set.
"A continuation of the fortunes of the mismatched lovers in a more complex comedy." Title: Fumed Oak in - Tonight at 8:30 / COL Author: Coward, Noel Publisher: Doubleday 1937
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female one act
"Long-suffering husband's life with wife, daughter, and mother-in-law comes to a head when the husband jauntily announces that he is abandonning the lot of them so that he might enjoy life for the first time".
Title: Fumed Oak in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Coward, Noel Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female one act
1 interior set.
In the middle-class drawing room of amiable and hard-working Henry Gow passes most of the family life surrounding his harridan-wife Doris, his brat-daughter Elise, and his complaining mother-in-law Mrs. Rockett. But Henry is a turned worm when he comes home with a couple of drinks under his belt and a new courage. So he reveals his plans for escape, his long-time saving
Title: Fumed Oak in - Coward - Plays: Three / COL Author: Coward, Noel Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1979
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female one act
1 interior set.
In the middle-class drawing room of amiable and hard-working Henry Gow passes most of the family life surrounding his harridan-wife Doris, his brat-daughter Elise, and his complaining mother-in-law Mrs. Rockett. But Henry is a turned worm when he comes home with a couple of drinks under his belt and a new courage. So he reveals his plans for escape, his long-time Title: Funeral Fore! in - Palliser Suite / CCO Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Frontenac House 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - family relations five characters three male; two female one act
part 3 of a trilogy of plays called "Palliser Suite"; can be produced as a one act or in conjunction with the other two, "Mr. Fix It" and "Second Chance, First Love".
Family is complicated and this is never as clear as in the death of a parent. In "Funeral Fore!", two brothers deal with the death of their father, revelations, competition and laughs. Holed up in a hotel room, funeral planning has never been funnier.
Title: Funny Old Man, The in - The Witnesses & Other Plays / COL Author: Rozewicz, Tadeusz Publisher: Calder and Boyars 1970
Description:
roy farce - political - philosophical five characters; extras four male; five female one act
"'The Funny Old Man' is a touching and moving study of a pathetic old schoolmaster on trial for sexual interference with a little girl: as his testimony progresses, we realize from his 'apologia pro vita sua' and old-fashioned ideas that life has passed him by. It has a Chaplinesque blend of pathos and humour."
Title: G. David Schine in Hell in - Death & Taxes / COL Author: Kushner, Tony Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000
Description:
roy satire all male cast; five characters five male one act
1 setting.
Schine, newly arrived in Hell, meets a number of old acquaintances from the McCarthy era. Title: Glass Darkly, A in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Gilbert, S. R. Publisher: Alive Press
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - men all male cast; four characters four male one act
Non-representative set.
"A man, devoid of name or direction, is summoned to the strange world of bob and dod, mirror images, to regain his identity and his mirror reflection."
Title: Gloucester Road in - Come As You Are! / COL Author: Mortimer, John Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
'Couple and boarder content in their relationship until another boarder arrives on scene.'
Title: Gonna Need To See Some ID in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Latham, Donna Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy comedy - crime five characters three male; one female; one male or female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"Sizzurup? Bombs? A suspicious cashier interrogates customers as they attempt to make purchases." Title: Good Daughter, The in - Breakout / CCO Author: Collins, Ginny Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004
Description:
roy black comedy - women four characters one male; three female one act
'(This play) dives deep into the delicious genre of black comedy, exposing a highly disfunctional family of three women running rum on the prairies.'
Title: Gosforth's Fete in - Confusions / COL Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1977
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"A fate-frought dinner encounter."
Title: Great American Cheese Sandwich, The in - The Best Short Plays 1981 / COL Author: Cohen, Burton Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1981
Description:
roy comedy - satire - family/domestic relations four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"Domestic comedy satirizing the homely virtues of the American family on the farm". Title: Great Slave Lake in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy dark comic drama - mystery four characters two male; two female one act
This long (about 35 minutes, perhaps) one-act is an unusual mystery. Two women, Gretchen and Margaret, sit on their next door front porches in a small Ohio town in the autumn of 1938 and talk about their husbands, both named Clyde, each a brother of the other woman, who have mysteriously disappeared on a fishing trip to Canada a few months earlier. As we listen to their funny, sad conversation, we see upstage the two Clydes in a row boat on Great Slave Lake, and as the play progresses, moving from one conversation to the other, we are invited to gradually put
Title: Guillotine in - Wasp and Other Plays / COL Author: Martin, Steve Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one scene
1 set.
A guillotine salesman hocks his wares to a customer who wants one for self defense. His French maid's efficiency in dusting becomes her undoing.
Title: Half Time at Halcyon Days in - The Best Short Plays 1985 / COL Author: Mack, Carol C. Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1984
Description:
roy satire all female cast; five characters; extras five female one act
'Satiric look at stereotypical "dumb broads" at health spa. Music.' Title: Happy Ending in - Happy Ending and Day of Absence / COL Author: Ward, Douglas Turner Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1966
Description:
roy black play - satire four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"Filled with sharp, satiric thrusts, the play reports hilariously on the plight of two black domestics whose white employers are on the verge of divorce - thereby threatening a cutoff in the household graft which has brought considerable luxury to their lives".
Title: Happy Ending in - Black Drama: An Anthology / COL Author: Ward, Douglas Turner Publisher: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company 1970
Description:
roy black play - satire four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"Satire on black-white relationships, especially how the negro is taking advantage of whites, by way of righting wrongs, at the same time attempting to claim pride and dignity as a race".
Title: Happy Ending in - New Black Playwrights / COL Author: Ward, Douglas Turner Publisher: Avon Books 1970
Description:
roy black play - satire four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"Filled with sharp, satiric thrusts, the play reports hilariously on the plight of two black domestics whose white employers are on the verge of divorce - thereby threatening a cutoff in the household graft which has brought considerable luxury to their lives". Title: Happy for You in - Dark, No Sugar / COL Author: Leight, Warren Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2007
Description:
roy satire five characters three male; two female one act
Five "friends" watch the Oscars on a night their "friend" has been nominated.
Title: Happy Journey, The in - The Mentor Book of Short Plays / COL Author: Wilder, Thornton Publisher: New American Library 1969
Description:
roy farce six characters three male; three female one act
Farce about family automobile trip between Newark and Camden, New Jersey in the 1930's.
Same as: The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, entered in earlier volumes.
Title: Happy Journey, The in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL Author: Wilder, Thornton Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
roy farce six characters four male; two female one act
1 exterior set.
Family automobile trip. Title: Happy Toes in - Witness to a Conga and Other Plays / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press
Description:
roy comedy - mystery - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female one act
Happy Toes is a contemporary comedy with a mystery at its centre. Good friends Tony and Edgar, a pair of recreational runners, become intrigued when a third friend, Alex suspects his wife Janine of a decidedly peculiar form of infidelity. Their efforts to better understand this particular predicament has far-reaching and unexpected consequences involving an affable bank teller, a chamber music concert gone terribly awry, and a startling collection of emotional outpourings, all of which lead to a surprising conclusion with a delicious international twist.
Title: Happy Worst Day Ever in - Dramatics Vol. 83, No. 7 / PER Author: Hutton, Arlene Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy Comedy - peer pressure four characters two male; two female one act
Unlikely 6th-grade friends struggle with self-identity, school cliques, peer pressure and the ever-present power of popular media in this new comedy.
Title: Hardy Boys and the Mystery of Where Babies Come From, the in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
"Frank and Joe Hardy change sweaters a lot and look cute. The word 'sleuthing' excites them, and they're off to investigate what it means that Nancy Drew has a 'bun in the oven'. " Title: Hardy Boys and the Mystery of Where Babies Come From, the in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
" Frank and Joe Hardy change sweaters a lot and look cute. The word 'sleuthing' excites them, and they're off to investigate what it means that Nancy Drew has a 'bun in the oven'. "
Title: Hedges in - Six Canadian Plays / CCO Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy six characters two male; four female one act
"Mr. Esker and Ms Drumlin are two ultra-compatible neighbours, until the mercantile manipulation of a local merchant sets them on a course of destruction, in this parable of Canada's involvement in the arms race."
Title: Hedges in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy six characters two male; four female one act
"Mr. Esker and Ms Drumlin are two ultra-compatible neighbours, until the mercantile manipulation of a local merchant sets them on a course of destruction, in this parable of Canada's involvement in the arms race." Title: Helper, The in - West Coast Plays / CCO Author: Grainger, Tom Publisher: New Play Centre with Fineglow Plays 1975
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy five characters four male; one female one act
No further description available.
Title: Heroes in - Six Canadian Plays / CCO Author: Mitchell, Ken Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - high school four characters three male; one female one act
"Superman and the Lone Ranger find themselves in a battle of egos while awaiting interviews with the "Chief." Lois Lane and Tonto arrive raising banners of Women's Lib and Red Power."
Title: Hieronymus Bosch in - Green Man and other plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy dark comedy five characters three male; two female one act
The great painter Hieronymus Bosch and his wife Aleyt confront their younger selves and a filthy bagpiper in this terminally weird play that brings to life the texture and madness of Bosch's exceedingly bizarre paintings. Loony, grotesque, erotic and sad, wildly bitter farce and out of tune love story, this is Bosch in a Beckett world by way of Finnegans Wake. Title: Home Fires in - Cop-Out and Home Fires / COL Author: Guare, John Publisher: Samuel French 1969
Description:
roy farce - historical five characters; extras three male; two female one act
'Farce set in a funeral parlour on Armistice Day. German family's assimilation into America's melting pot is traced.'
Title: Home Fires in - The War Against the Kitchen Sink / COL Author: Guare, John Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy farce - historical five characters; extras three male; two female one act
'Farce set in a funeral parlour on Armistice Day. German family's assimilation into America's melting pot is traced.'
Title: Home Life of a Buffalo in - Hope is the Thing With Feathers and Two Other Short Plays / COL Author: Harrity, Richard Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1949
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"Living in a cheap hotel are Eddie and his wife and their young son, Joey. They are a vaudeville team who have reached what looks like the end of their futile artistic career. The irrepressible Eddie will not face realities, whereas his wife insists that vaudeville is dead. However Joey needs an education. But his father still thinks of the lad as a future vaudevillian. At last even Eddie is forced to a realization that the future holds nothing for any of them. He therefore prepares an elaborate suicide but, while making plans for this last exit, he gets a marvelous inspiration for a Title: Horticulturist, The in - The Art of Communication / CCO Author: Smiley, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy four characters two male; two female one act
"A man is troubled by his observation that everything and everyone is becoming frigid."
Title: Hotline in - Death Defying Acts / COL Author: May, Elaine Publisher: Samuel French 1995
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female one act
A neurotic woman with enough urban angst to fill a neighborhood calls a suicide crisis hotline late one night. The counselor who gets the call is overwhelmed it is his first night on the job.
Title: House in the Quiet Glen, The in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 3 / CCO Author: Coulter, John Publisher: CTR Publications 1980
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - relationships five characters three male; two female one act
Interior representative set (kitchen)
"Mr. and Mrs McCann arrange for Sally to marry Robert, not realizing she loves his son Hughie. All ends well when Robert gives his blessing to the young people." Title: How Gertrude Stormed the Philosophers' Club in - The Best Short Plays 1987 / COL Author: Epstein, Martin Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1986
Description:
roy comedy - sex - women four characters three male; one female one act
Sanctuary for philosophical males is invaded by a progressive, impassioned female.
Title: How Gertrude Stormed the Philosophers' Club in - 20/20 ... / COL Author: Epstein, Martin Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy comedy - sex - women four characters three male; one female one act
Sanctuary for philosophical males is invaded by a progressive, impassioned female.
Title: How It Hangs in - The Best Short Plays 1987 / COL Author: McKeaney, Grace Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1985
Description:
roy comedy - serious comedy - wife battery five characters one male; four female one act
This is basically a comedy, but with dark undertones. A folksy look at the plight of batterd women in a small Wyoming town. The women are able to laugh at one another and hope for a better life, but only one of them, Girlene, seems able to do something positive with reasonable hope of changing her life. Title: How to Write for TV in - Revue Unique / COL Author: Crowder, David Lloyd Publisher: Samuel French 1964
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female one act
1 interior
"Readers are shown ingredients necessary to make a good television script."
Title: If Jesus Met Nanabush in - 3 Plays / CCO Author: King, Alanis Publisher: Fifth House 2015
Description:
roy comedy - fantasy - native playwright - Canadian four characters two male; one female; one male or female one act (five scenes)
Merging Native and Western traditions, If Jesus Met Nanabush is a and often hilarious cosmological First Contact story. When Jesus turns up at the Champion of Champions Pow-Wow, the first person he meets is Nanabush. Together they form an odd pair. Nanabush is earthy, irascible, fun-loving. Jesus is formal, introverted, a fish out of water. However, as they venture across the back roads, bars and bus depots of Turtle Island, the two will discover that they are not so different after all.
Title: If Men Played Cards as Women Do in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Kaufman, George S. Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy satire all male cast; four characters four male one act
1 interior.
"Satire on women." Title: If Yer Take a Short Cut, Yer Might Lose the Way in - Are You Normal, Mr. Norman and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Wilson, David Henry Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy comedy - theatre of the absurd five characters four male; one female one act
"This absurdist play examines the search for truth in a modern society which provides precious little in the way of clues".
Title: Il Fornicazione in - Four Plays for Coarse Actors / COL Author: Green, Michael Publisher: Samuel French 1988
Description:
roy farce - opera five characters; extras three male; two female one act
'Farce performed as opera. In order to be with her young lover, countess prepares poison mushroom pie for elderly husband. As he is dying husband asks to see wife's lover, whom he recognizes as long-lost son. In remorse both countess and lover eat pie and die also.'
Title: Illegal Playwriting Class, The in - John Lazarus Shorts / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada
Description:
roy comedy - playwriting four characters two male; two female one act
The fiendish plot strangely echoes the principles being taught in the playwriting class within the play... Title: In Search of Justice in - The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt Bentley, Eric Publisher: Grove Press 1965
Description:
roy satire - Jewish - drama six characters five male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"Set in Nazi Germany. Judge is persuaded to give prudent rather than just decision in case of accused Jew".
Title: Indoor/Outdoor in - New Playwrights: The best plays of 2006 / COL Author: Finkle, Kenny Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2007
Description:
roy romantic comedy four characters two male; two female one act
"Indoor/Outdoor is a quirky, warm-hearted romantic comedy that looks at love and relationships through the eyes of a frisky house cat named Samantha. Her owner, Shuman, doesn't always understand her, but he knows he wants her to stay at home. Things get complicated when a wild, handsome stranger shows up at the sliding glass door telling her that the grass is greener in the outside world. Dreams of adventure fill Samantha’s heart, until she’s willing to risk everything for love, only to discover that what she longs for might be in the last place she thinks to look."
Title: Infant Mortality in - Life is Short / COL Author: Pospisil, Craig Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005
Description:
roy dark comedy four characters one male; three female one act
Trish is at the front desk of a hospital when Stephanie comes in carrying a shopping bag from an expensive store. She has something to return. Trish doesn't understand until she looks in the bag and sees a baby. Trish is staggered, but Stephanie can't understand what the problem is. Things get even stranger before the resolution of this black comedy. Title: Intensive Care in - Funny Girls Coping with Boys / COL Author: Evans, Annie Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; four characters four female one act
Mags, Bethany and Caroline's significant men are all in Intensive Care. Now, they need some intensive care.
Title: Intermission in - The Flu Season and Other Plays / COL Author: Eno, Will Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2008
Description:
roy comedy - American four characters two male; two female one act
A wry and subversive look at the nature of theatre and life.
Title: Into in - Taking Liberties and Into / CCO Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy four characters two male; two female one act
'An urban nun, a disaffected youth, a philandering businessmen and a melancholic beauty are caught in a magic traffic jam. They create a unique society amid the chrome and exhaust - but then something begins changing on the horizon ...' Title: Into in - 3 Plays by Dave Carley / CCO Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2003
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy four characters two male; two female one act
'An urban nun, a disaffected youth, a philandering businessmen and a melancholic beauty are caught in a magic traffic jam. They create a unique society amid the chrome and exhaust - but then something begins changing on the horizon ...'
Title: Invention of Music, The in - Martini with a Twist / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female one act
A mismatched pod of whales in the Pacific Ocean contend with identity, love, and interspecies dating. "Three bull whales retreat from their usual oceanic care to a remote portion of the South Pacific to determine how their lives have gone so drastically awry. When a mysterious female orca appears, the already tenuous balance of the lagoon is upset and the facade of control collapses." - Lunchbox Theatre
Title: It's All Relative in - A Flea in Her Rear / COL Author: Labiche, Eugène Michel, Marc Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1994
Description:
roy farce - relationships six characters three male; three female one act
'Fianceé and father discover prospective bridegroom has middle-aged daughter from previous marriage.' Title: Joey-Boy in - Da-Show Must Go On / COL Author: Dashow, Ken Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1996
Description:
roy black comedy four characters flexible casting one act
"Pet parrot not amused by practical joke."
Title: John and Mary Doe in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female sketch
"John Doe introduces his idealized family: his wife Mary, and their three children. His happy portrayal keeps turning truly dark, as he reveals that his wife has been murdered and dismembered by their insane next-door neighbor, Tommy Psycho Babbit. Then he takes it back, say's he's made it all up and everything is fine. Mary looks normal, but from time to time her mouth falls off and her eye pops out. John kills his children in a rage, then says he didn't really. Mary and John go to sleep and hope Dr. Kervorkian comes in the morning."
Title: John and Mary Doe in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female sketch
"John doe introduces his idealized family: his wife Mary, and their three children. His happy portrayal keeps turning truly dark, as he reveals that his wife has been murdered and dismembered by their insane next-door neighbor, Tommy Psycho Babbit. Then he takes it back, say's he's made it all up and everything is fine. Mary looks normal, but from time to time her mouth falls off and her eye pops out. John kills his children in a rage, then says he didn't really. Mary and John go to sleep and hope Dr. Kervorkian comes in the morning." Title: Journey to Gotha in - Alfred de Musset / COL Author: de Musset, Alfred translated by Peter Meyer Publisher: Hill and Wang 1962
Description:
roy French - romantic comedy five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior; piano music; setting - early 19th century France; also known as "It's Impossible to Think of Everything".
"Very absentminded nobleman courts countess who has same failing."
Title: Jubilee, A in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko Publisher: Green Integer 140 2005
Description:
roy comedy four characters; extras two male; two female one act
A celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of a bank.
Title: Jubilee, A in - Chekhov Plays / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Publisher: Penguin Books 1980
Description:
roy farce four characters; extras two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
Description not available. Title: Judaic Park in - Dark, No Sugar / COL Author: Leight, Warren Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2007
Description:
roy satire five characters four male; one female one act
Steven Spielberg pitches Schindler's List to Hollywood executives.
Title: Just a Kommedia in - Canadian Mosaic / CCO Author: Rylski, Nika Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1995
Description:
roy comedy - recollection - Ukrainian heritage nineteen characters three male; three female (doubling) one act
"Staged like a church variety show, this comedic look at growing up Ukrainian in Canada examines the struggle of immigrant children to balance tradition with assimilation."
Title: Key Lime Pie in - 5 Easy Pieces / COL Author: Milligan, Jason Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female one act
The play opens as Charlene, an eccentric young Southern woman, struggles to “recall” all of the key lime pies that she prepared and sold the day before during a small-town bake sale. As it turns out, the ever-irresponsible Charlene was “borrowing” Tricia (her older sister)’s wedding ring when it fell into one of the pies! The situation is further complicated by the fact that Tricia is due at the altar in less than an hour – and she wants her ring back! The two squabbling sisters embark on a frantic crusade to track down the various pies one by one – until at last their search leads Title: Kim's Convenience in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Choi, Ins Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - immigrants - Toronto - Ontario eight characters three male; two female (doubling) one act
Mr. Kim is a first-generation Korean immigrant and the proud owner of Kim's Convenience, a variety store located in the heart of downtown Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood. There, he spends his time serving an eclectic array of customers, catching petty thieves, and helpfully keeping the police apprised of illegally parked Japanese cars. As the neighbourhood quickly gentrifies, Mr. Kim is offered a generous sum of money to sell - enough to allow him and his wife to finally retire. But Kim's Convenience is more than just his livelihood - it is his legacy. As Mr.
Title: King and the Condemned, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL Author: Brenner, Larry Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female one act
Comedy ensues when a troop of actors refuse to perform their poorly written, low budget production, holding the audience captive. When one audience member, Daniel, attempts to leave, the actors force him onstage where he enters their world. Here he must contend with a lustful princess, a brutish guard, an obnoxious clown and an egotistical king. If he can defeat their characters, he will go free; but if he fails, he will be trapped onstage with them forever.
Title: Kissing Sweet in - Kissing Sweet and A Day for Surprises / COL Author: Guare, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1971
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
open stage
" A special program on pollution and conservation, this madcap spoof of TV advertising has been specially adapted and expanded by the author for stage presentation. Antic and wildly funny in its approach, the play offers both a good-humored comment on our national preoccupation with deodorants and hair sprays, and also a sobering revelation of the self-justifying defensiveness Title: Kitty the Waitress in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female one act
"In this giddy comedy, Mr. O'Brien goes to a restaurant on a tropical island, hoping to forget his troubles. His waitress, Kitty, who is French and preposterously seductive, is very suggestive with her body. O'Brien finds Kitty strange, and falls in love with her, but it turns out she is really a cat, not a woman. The hostess of the restaurant sends Kitty to the vet to be put to sleep. O'Brien rushes to the vet, but he is too late."
Title: Kitty the Waitress in - The Best American Short Plays 2001-2002 / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2007
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female one act
In this giddy comedy, Mr. O'Brien goes to a restaurant on a tropical island, hoping to forget his troubles. His waitress, Kitty, who is French and preposterously seductive, is very suggestive with her body. O'Brien finds Kitty strange, and falls in love with her, but it turns out she is really a cat, not a woman. The hostess of the restaurant sends Kitty to the vet to be put to sleep. O'Brien rushes to the vet, but he is too late.
Title: Last Call in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL Author: Pless, Weldon Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
A young female PhD tries to get her noisy, good ol' boy, beer-drinking neighbors to quiet down. Title: Leader in - Trees and Leader / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1963
Description:
roy satire - leadership five characters three male; two female one act
open stage.
"Successfully produced off-Broadway, this biting and satirical study of the paradox of 'leadership' is offered here in a shortened version prepared specifically by the author for nonprofessional production. Moving swiftly to its shattering climax, the play exposes the destructive fears which preoccupy a group of anxious and concerned followers - fears to which their Leader can only
Title: Leonardo's Last Supper in - Collected Plays / COL Author: Barnes, Peter Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1981
Description:
roy satire four characters three male; one female one act
'Greedy, poor mortician and family murder resurrected body of Leonardo da Vinci in order to receive full payment for services. Music, singing, dancing.'
Title: Lieutenant Nun in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2005) / PER Author: Avila, Elaine Publisher: Miscellaneous 2005
Description:
roy comedy - historical six characters; chorus three male; three female (doubling possible) one act
An award-winning spectacle of colonial conquest, bravado swordplay and military gender-bending. Recounts the story of Catalina / Antonio de Erauso (1592-1650) a Basque noble-woman who at age 15, ran away from a convent where she had been training to become a nun, and disguised herself as a man. After passing successfully for several years, "Antonio enlisted in the Spanish Army and travelled to Chile and Peru where she distinguished herself in battle against the Incas and gained a reputation for her quick-tempered, even murderous, Title: Lifeguard in - Blitzkrieg and Other Plays / CCO Author: Wade, Bryan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"A surrealistic encounter between a middle-aged couple and a lifeguard on the beach."
Title: Light Years in - The Best American Short Plays 1999-2000 / COL Author: Aronson, Billy Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
Four college students pair up in every possible combination while trying to figure out who they are, where they're going, and what they're doing on earth.
Title: Like Totally Weird in - Humana Festival '98 / COL Author: Mastrosimone, William Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1998
Description:
roy satire four characters; extras three male; one female one act
1 setting.
Satirical battle of wits between amateur and professional fantasists Manipulative Hollywood film-maker and his wife are held captive by two dangerously demented teenagers. Title: Line in - Acrobats and Line / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female one act
open stage; suggested for high school.
'Theatre of the absurd in which people-like caricatures are grappling for position on an undefineable line, exposing frailty of their lives.'
Title: Line in - First Season / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Vintage Books 1968
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female one act
open stage; suggested for high school.
"Theatre of the absurd in which people-like caricatures are grappling for position on an undefineable line, exposing frailty of their lives."
Title: Line That's Picked Up 1000 Babes (And How It Can Work For You!), The in - Babes and Brides (two one-act plays) / COL Author: Berlin, Eric Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female one act
"In the first of these comedies, . . . six people in a bar are in search of companionship - a one-night stand or a life-long relationship? Benny is employing the title handbook while his friend Alan insists that women don't fall for pick-up lines. There are surprises for everyone at the bar tonight." Title: Little Dragon in - Summerworks / CCO Author: Loughran, Keira Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - identity - China - comedy six characters one male; four female (doubling) one act; twenty-three scenes
The story of Jen McDonald, a Chinese-Canadian student at Queen's University who discovers her Eastern roots. While Jen explores her previously unknown Chinese heritage, she invents a whole mythology for herself to draw strength from; she becomes convinced that she's the illegitimate daughter of Bruce Lee.
Title: Little Lunch, A in - Dramatics (Mar '04) / PER Author: Halvorson, Kristina Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004
Description:
roy comedy - women four characters one male; three female one act
Three friends get together over lunch to discuss investments and end up on a totally different note.
Title: Lives of the Great Waitresses in - Plays for Actresses / COL Author: Shengold, Nina Publisher: Vintage Books 1997
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; four characters four female one act
can also be performed as part of the full-length play 'Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays'; suitable for high school performances.
Four waitresses, each with her own brand of zen, share the secrets of being one of the greats. Title: Lives of the Saints in - Lives of the Saints / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000
Description:
roy religious - comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"A tender and gently comic meditation. Two women preparing a funeral breakfast in a church basement muse on life, death, and the meaning of Polish jokes—and along the way achieve a kind of sanctity."
Title: Lives of the Saints in - The Best American Short Plays 2001-2002 / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy religious - comedy five characters three male; two female one act
A tender and gently comic meditation. Two women preparing a funeral breakfast in a church basement muse on life, death, and the meaning of Polish jokes—and along the way achieve a kind of sanctity.
Title: Lives of the Saints in - Time Flies and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Grove Press 2001
Description:
roy religious - comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"A tender and gently comic meditation. Two women preparing a funeral breakfast in a church basement muse on life, death, and the meaning of Polish jokes—and along the way achieve a kind of sanctity." Title: Lord, What Fools! in - In Character / CCO Author: Pody, David Publisher: Nelson Canada 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - shakespeare - adaptation five characters three male; two female one act; ten scenes
"In 'Lord, What Fools!' (which is based on Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream') a mischievous, Puck-like character, named Punk, magically sets the elements of the story in motion. The title of the play is a quotation from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' in which Puck remarks, 'Lord, what fools these mortals be.' As you will see, the characters in 'Lord, What Fools!' do indeed make fools of themselves - with some help from Punk."
Title: Lost Colony, The in - The Shallow End and The Lost Colony / COL Author: MacLeod, Wendy Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1993
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
"Mr. and Mrs. Lang are vacationing with their daughter Stevie and her boyfriend, Jack. The two couples banter back and forth about where to have dinner, what sights to see and eventually about the states of their relationships. The ideals of the older couple clash with those of the younger's."
Title: Love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa in the Garden in - Five Plays by Lorca / COL Author: Lorca, Federico Garcia translated by J. G. Lujan & R. L. O'Connell Publisher: New Directions 1963
Description:
roy farce - marital relations four characters; extras one male; three female one act; three scenes
3 interior and 1 exterior set music and singing
"Love as conflict of flesh and spirit. Man married to a much younger woman poses as her lover." Title: Love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa in the Garden, The in - 15 International One-Act Plays / COL Author: Lorca, Federico Garcia Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy farce - marital relations four characters; extras one male; three female one act; three scenes
3 interior, 1 exterior set; music; singing. "Love as conflict of flesh and spirit. Man married to a much younger woman poses as her lover."
Title: Lunch Girls in - Shona/Lunch Girls/The Shelter / COL Author: Hart, Ron Publisher: Methuen 1983
Description:
nonroy comedy - women - monologues all female cast; four characters four female one act
"'Lunch Girls' portrays the interweaving lives of four women in a brilliantly sustained sequence of often hilarious monologues."
1983 Verity Bargate Award-winning Short Play
Title: Lux in Tenebris in - Collected Works: One / COL Author: Brecht, Bertolt translated by E. Geisel and E. Borneman Publisher: Methuen 1970
Description:
roy comedy five characters; extras four male; one female one act
'Comedy dealing with the hypocrisy in matters of sex. Man sets up exhibition on venereal disease across from brothel intending to combat immorality, but ends up as partner in the brothel.' Title: Made in Spain in - Verity Bargate / COL Author: Grounds, Tony Publisher: Methuen 1987
Description:
roy satire - women all female cast; four characters four female one act; nine scenes
"Four women, strangers to each other, gather for dinner to await their husbands, who are apparently involved in some shady deal. While they wait the women spar bitchily with each other until a phone call advises them that their men have fallen foul of the law and the women should flee the country. A witty and satirical comedy offering roles for four actresses."
Title: Magic Key to Colorful Conversation, The in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Lynch, Peter Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters and a voice over two male; two female one act
Getting to know other people through eloquent conversation.
Title: Man of Destiny, The in - Seven One Act Plays / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1958
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior
"Comedy set in Italian Inn, 1796. Young Napolean encounters young French woman who has stolen his dispatches and letters." Title: Man of Destiny, The in - Three Shorter Plays / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1968
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior
"Comedy set in Italian Inn, 1796. Young Napolean encounters young French woman who has stolen his dispatches and letters."
Title: Man of Destiny, The in - 15 International One-Act Plays / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior
"Comedy set in Italian Inn, 1796. Young Napoleon encounters young French woman who has stolen his dispatches and letters."
Title: Man of Infinite Sadness, The in - The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Presents / COL Author: Tanen, Brian Publisher: Back Stage Books 2006
Description:
roy comedy - American five characters three male; two female one act
"A comical fantasy that revolves around two very different women in New York City and their encounter with a ceaselessly weeping man on the roof of a downtown office building. The play explores dreams, reality and relationships in a series of startling situations." Title: Marble Arch in - Come As Your Are! / COL Author: Mortimer, John Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
Description not available.
Title: Margin of the Sky, The in - A Teatro Trilogy / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press 2004
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act
'In "The Margin of the Sky" an addled Canadian playwright finds himself unable to embrace the basic tenets of American popular culture in order to create a script for his soap star brother-in-law.'
Title: Married Bliss in - 25 Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville / COL Author: O'Donnell, Mark Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
'Malapropisms abound in conversation between man and woman about to be married.' Title: Mars Has Never Been This Close in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Leight, Warren Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - prejudice all male cast; five characters five male one act
Places a group of outsiders, by race and sexual preference, at a very proper Connecticut wedding.
Title: Matter of Wife and Death, A in - A Slap in the Farce and A Matter of Wife and Death / COL Author: Labiche, Eugène translated by Norman R. Shapiro Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1988
Description:
roy farce four characters two male; two female one act
Eccentric millionaire's proposals of marriage are perpetually frustrated.
Title: Medea in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Wasserstein, Wendy Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy six characters two male; four female sketch
"Medea and her chorus of three women try to figure out if it's appropriate to kill your children to punish your husband. Jason shows up; so does a messenger with news of Lady Teazle; and a deus ex machina comes down from the sky to cheer everybody up." Title: Medea in - Seven One-Act Plays (Wasserstein) / COL Author: Wasserstein, Wendy Co-authored with Christopher Durang Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000
Description:
roy comedy - sketch six characters two male; four female one act
"A sketch co-authored by Durang and Wendy Wasserstein. Medea and her chorus of 3 woman try to figure out if it's appropriate to kill your children to punish your husband. Jason shows up; so does a messenger with news of Lady Teazle; and a Deus ex Machina comes down from the sky to cheer everybody up."
Title: Membranous Croup in - Five One Act Plays by Mark Twain / COL Author: Twain, Mark Tasca, Jules Publisher: Samuel French 1976
Description:
roy comedy - family relations five characters two male; two female; one girl one act
'Adapted by Jules Tasca from Mark Twain's story of an overly protective mother, an overly protective father and a daughter who is coming down with the croup.'
Title: Midlife Crisis of Dionysus, The in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL Author: Keillor, Garrison Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; one female one act
'Greek god of wine confronts middle age.' Title: Midnight Moonlight Wedding Chapel, The in - Babes and Brides - Two One act Plays / COL Author: Berlin, Eric Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female one act
"In 'The Midnight Moonlight Wedding Chapel' Peter and Walter are vacationing in Las Vegas. Peter gets drunk with a cocktail waitress and they decide to marry, enjoy a one-night honeymoon, and divorce the next day. When he wake up is bride has vanished. "
Title: Milk and Water in - Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lillies / COL Author: Howe, Tina Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; six characters six female one act
set in a pool.
The Nursing Mothers’ Water Aerobics class is waiting for their teacher to show up. When she cancels, they take over the class with stunning results.
Title: Milkmilklemonade in - Plays and Playwrights 2010 / COL Author: Conkel, Joshua Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2010
Description:
roy comedy - satire five characters two male; three female one act
A satirical play for adults about gay children, a parasitic twin, an antagonistic grandmother, a depressed chicken, and our growing bodies. Title: Mill Hill in - Come As Your Are! / COL Author: Mortimer, John Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"The wife of a well-to-do dentist is on the verge of having an affair with Peter Trilby, also a dentist. They get a few hours to themselves just before her son comes home from school. But the husband comes home unexpectedly and discovers them in the bedroom. He is furious, and challenges Peter to a duel. Eventually, the wife is saved and Peter having bowed out, goes down
Title: Miss Orient(ed) in - Love + Relasianships vol. 2 / CCO Author: Aquino, Nina Villasin, Nadine Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy comedy - satire - Canadian - racism all female cast; five characters five female nineteen scenes
The authors explore the charged atmosphere of the Filipina Canadian Beauty pageant as three "friends", one born in the Philippines, one second-generation Filipina Canadian and one "fresh-off-the-boat", compete for the title.
Title: Miss Witherspoon in - Miss Witherspoon & Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Grove Press 2006
Description:
roy farce twelve characters one male; four female (doubling) one act
Veronica, a recent suicide, discovers that the one thing worse than the world she left behind is having to go back for seconds. With the help of a black female Jesus and a wizard suspiciously named Gandalf, she must journey from here to eternity and back again to cleanse her "brown tweedy aura" and learn the necessity of re-engaging with life. Title: Mixed Doubles in - Feydeau, First to Last / COL Author: Feydeau, Georges Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
Description:
roy farce six characters three male; three female one act
Couples collide in this comedic one-act when two would-be seducers decide to share a dining room. But are their companions really who they seem?
Title: Money Makes The World Go Around in - Seven Comedies by Marivaux / COL Author: Marivaux Publisher: Cornell University Press 1967
Description:
roy romantic comedy six characters; extras four male; two female one act
'Apollo, in form of a man is deserted by woman he loves and by servant when they are tempted by Plutus and his wealth.'
Title: Moors, The in - American Theatre July/August 2017 / PER Author: Silverman, Jen Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy - satire six characters four female; two male or female one act (fifteen scenes)
Two sisters in the gothic moors vie for power when a governess arrives. Title: Most Massive Woman Wins, The in - The Best American Short Plays 1997-1998 / COL Author: George, Madeleine Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy comedy - women all female cast; four characters four female one act
1 interior.
Four women exchange confidences while sitting in waiting room of liposuction clinic.
Title: Most Massive Woman Wins, The in - Plays for Actresses / COL Author: George, Madeleine Publisher: Vintage Books 1997
Description:
roy comedy - women all female cast; four characters four female one act
1 interior; suitable for high school performances.
Four women exchange confidences while sitting in waiting room of liposuction clinic.
Title: Most Perfect Day, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 22nd series / COL Author: Ernst, Pete Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy romantic comedy four characters three male; one female one act
'Romantic comedy about a man who takes his beloved on a picnic to prove how beautiful she is.' Title: Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach in - Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach /COL Author: Rudnick, Paul Publisher: Overlook Press 1999
Description:
roy comedy - American four characters two male; one female; one baby one act
"A spoof of the anything-goes spirit of public-access cable and, more centrally, a send-up of what Paul Rudnick sees as a growing tendency among gay men to denigrate effeminacy.... Mr. Charles is a swishy throwback to that dark age when an actor made a character seem gay with limp wrists and sibilant 'S'. In the Palm Beach uniform of watermelon-coloured linen pants, lemon-yellow jacket, and polka-dot neckerchief, he materializes as the host of a cable television show, 'Too Gay'. 'Mr. Charles' is a politically incorrect swipe at the orthodoxy or any political,
Title: Mr. Marmalade in - Three Plays / COL Author: Haidle, Noah Publisher: Oberon Modern Plays 2007
Description:
roy black comedy ten characters four male; two female (doubling) six scenes
Lucy is a four-year-old girl with a very active imagination. Unfortunately, her imaginary friend Mr. Marmalade doesn't have much time for her. Not to mention he beats up his personal assistant, has a cocaine addiction, and a penchant for pornography and very long dildos. Larry, her only real friend, is the youngest suicide attempt in the history of New Jersey. MR. MARMALADE is a savage black comedy about what it takes to grow up in these difficult times.
Title: Ms. Canadian Reality in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2016) / PER Author: Bowen, Leah Simone Publisher: Miscellaneous 2016
Description:
roy dark comedy - women - satire - social issues - Alberta playwright six characters one male; five female one act
Ms. Canadian Reality - the only pageant that the contestants win simply by staying alive. Watch as Ms. Single Mother, Ms. Temporary Foreign Worker, Ms. First Nations, Ms. Invisible, and Ms. Young and Pretty play to win Ms. Canadian Reality. Title: Mud is Thicker in Mississippi, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 35th series / COL Author: Allen, Dennis A. II Publisher: Samuel French 2011
Description:
roy dark comedy five characters three male; two female one act
simple set.
In The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi, Dwight gets stuck neck deep in mud and is forced to seek help from the girlfriend he’s been abusive to for years and her overprotective older brother.
Title: My Narrator in - One-Actmanship / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - romance four characters two male; two female one act
Imagine what would happen if that little voice inside your head – the one that tells you how to behave and what choices to make – suddenly took on a life of its own? For Lacy and Miles, love is what happens, and with hilarious results.
Title: My Narrator in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - romance four characters two male; two female one act
Imagine what would happen if that little voice inside your head – the one that tells you how to behave and what choices to make – suddenly took on a life of its own? For Lacy and Miles, love is what happens, and with hilarious results. Title: My Next Husband Will be a Beauty! in - Tom Eyen: Ten Plays / COL Author: Eyen, Tom Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy comedy - satire - absurd four characters one male; two female; one boy one act
'Set in Palm Court of the Plaza Hotel, New York City. Couple undergoing preliminaries toward a third divorce meet orphaned niece who doesn't understand their zany sense of fidelity.'
Title: My Night with Reg in - Kevin Elyot: Four plays Author: Elyot, Kevin Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - AIDS - relationships all male cast; six characters six male one act (three scenes)
Sharply witty and humanely wise drama about gay manners and morals in the age of AIDS. 'My Night with Reg' follows the ups and downs of a circle of gay friends in London over a period of several years, and tackles with brutal honesty the impact that AIDS/HIV had on the gay community during its height in the 1980s, as well as examining the pain of unrequited love and the joy of friendship.
Title: Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage, The in - Lives of the Saints / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000
Description:
roy comedy - mystery five characters three male; two female one act
"A body on the carpet, three ridiculous Masterpiece Theatre-style suspects and a bumbling Scotland Yard detective solve philosophical quandaries as they investigate: Who killed Jeremy Thumpington-Fffienes?" Title: Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage, The in - Time Flies and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Grove Press 2001
Description:
roy comedy - mystery five characters three male; two female one act
"A body on the carpet, three ridiculous Masterpiece Theatre-style suspects and a bumbling Scotland Yard detective solve philosophical quandaries as they investigate: Who killed Jeremy Thumpington-Fffienes?"
Title: Mystery of Attraction, The in - Humana Festival 2002 / COL Author: Meyer, Marlane Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2002
Description:
roy comedy - drama six characters four male; two female one act
"A darkly comic exploration of that primordial force that makes us slow down at the scene of an accident or eavesdrop on a fight in an adjacent motel room. When Ray, an attorney badly in debt to the wrong people, is offered a lucrative, if repugnant case that will require him to break the law, it precipitates a night in which he and his brother, Warren, discover that their catastrophic life choices have less to do with bad luck and everything to do with the mystery of attraction."
Title: Naked West in - Dreams of a Drunken Quaker / CCO Author: Green, Michael Publisher: AB collector publishing 1992
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - men all male cast; eight characters four male (doubling) one act
dancing.
Absurdist exploration of masculinity. Title: Name in - Special Days / COL Author: Kramer, Seth Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2004
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - friendship four characters three male; one female one act
this play can also be performed as part of the full-length collection Special Days.
Four friends from high school gather on Zack's 27th birthday. From pop cultural nostalgia to anxiety over Susannah's first pregnancy, they look at where their lives have taken them and where they might be going next.
Title: News from St. Petersburg, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Orloff, Rich Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; one female; one cow (offstage) one act
Set in 1905 Russia, an aristocratic couple, their servant, and their doctor all have intense responses to a rumor of a people's revolution ending the Tsarist Republic of Russia.
Title: News, The in - The Best of American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL Author: Aronson, Billy Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
Reminds us of the need to say and do things about which nothing can be said or done. In this story, Karen has some really strange news, and as people realize what it is, they start acting really really weird. Title: Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music in - The Best Short Plays, 1984 / COL Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1984
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; two female; one boy one act
1 exterior set.
"Woman living over a rowdy Houston, Texas bar receives visit from niece, a novice nun."
Title: Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music in - Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music and Toys for Men / COL Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1982
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; two female; one boy one act
1 exterior set.
"Woman living over a rowdy Houston, Texas bar receives visit from niece, a novice nun".
Title: Night in - Morning, Noon and Night / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1969
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"Night is for remembrance, as wife, mistress, boy-friend, and other friends recall a cocky squirt, each in his fashion". Title: Night No One Died, The in - Best Student One Acts Volume 6 / COL Author: Overton, Shawn Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2001
Description:
roy comedy - murder mystery six characters three male; three female one act
'Kissinger Wells, unparalled genius and master detective, has been solving a murder every Friday night for 20 years. When invited to the Home of Brevity Witt for a night of dinner and fine wine, all the elements for a classic night of murder seem to be in place, but when the victim shows up without getting killed, it gives Kissinger something he's never had: a motive. A classic murder mystery that ends up being much more.'
Title: Nina in the Morning in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy comedy four to five characters three male; one - two female (flexible casting) one act
"'Nina in the Morning' is a style piece a` la Edward Gorey. A tuxedoed narrator presents Nina, a preposterously narcissistic wealthy woman, attended by her butler, a silent maid, and her three children. The interwoven time-frame juxtaposes scenes from Nina's past misbehaviors with the present morning when she can't seem to get the butler to bring her a cruller."
Title: Nina in the Morning in - Durang/Durang / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1996
Description:
roy comedy four to five characters three male; one - two female (flexible casting) one act
"'Nina in the Morning' is a style piece a` la Edward Gorey. A tuxedoed narrator presents Nina, a preposterously narcissistic wealthy woman, attended by her butler, a silent maid, and her three children. The interwoven time-frame juxtaposes scenes from Nina's past misbehaviors with the present morning when she can't seem to get the butler to bring her a cruller." Title: Nine-Ten in - Dark, No Sugar / COL Author: Leight, Warren Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2007
Description:
roy satire six characters three male; three female one act
A pool of prospective jurors grumble about their plight on the day before 9/11.
Title: Nobody of Consequence in - Martini with a Twist / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female one act
A severed head in a suitcase life support system is given a second chance at life.
Winner! Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama, 1992.
Title: Noon in - Morning, Noon and Night / COL Author: McNally, Terrence Publisher: Samuel French 1969
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"Brings together two men of different sexual constitutions, peppers the situation with a housewife-stripper and boils over with a couple of sadists who throw in whips and chains". Title: Oculist's Holiday, The in - Witness to a Conga and Other Plays / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press
Description:
roy comedy - romance - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female one act
In a pleasant alpine setting, a diverse group of travelers are linked by a shared experience which will haunt them forever after. Set in Switzerland in the early 1930’s, The Oculist’s Holiday is a sort of evocation of the style of F. S. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories of North Americans abroad in Europe. The story revolves around a widowed Canadian teacher on holiday in Lausanne, whose encounter with an emotionally volatile tourist couple has a catastrophic effect on her burgeoning romance with an American optometrist.
Title: OEDI in - The Best American Short Plays 1997-1998 / COL Author: Orloff, Rich Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy comedy four characters; extras three male; one female one act
1 interior.
Comic version of Oedipus story.
Title: Offensive Shadows in - 5 Hot plays / CCO Author: Dunn, Paul Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
What happens when the two sleeping couples in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' wake up?
Winner, Audience Choice Award, SummerWorks 2007. Title: Old Bull, The in - Nine Modern Plays / COL Author: Gilbert, Bernard Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1926
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female one act
'"The Old Bull" is one of several plays which appear in the volume entitled "King Lear at Hordle". It is not one of the author's most serious studies of rural life, but it is a pleasant comedy which plays very well, and Tom Bones, at least , deserves our attention. He is still to be found in the lonelier English farms. His repetitions, his devotion to his bull, his stubborn adherence to one idea, are not mere stage tricks, but characteristics of his class. We should try to appreciate him, for with the present rapid development of the small motor omnibus he and his like will soon cease
Title: Old Flame in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 38th series / COL Author: Gibson, Mira Publisher: Samuel French 2014
Description:
roy comedy - romance four characters two male; two female one act
When a woman runs into her ex-boyfriend in a grocery store, life collides with what really matters.
Title: Old Lady Says No, The in - Landmarks of Irish Drama / COL Author: Johnston, Denis Publisher: Methuen 1988
Description:
roy satire - Irish five characters; speaking chorus; extras four male; one female one act
2 interiors, 2 exteriors; music; singing.
Hit on the head during a performance, an actor becomes delirious and imagines that he is Robert Emmet, Irish patriot and martyr, traveling through contemporary Ireland. Title: Old Soldiers in - The Best Short Plays 1983 / COL Author: Jones, Martin Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1974
Description:
roy tragicomedy - World War II four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior set.
"Tragicomedy focusing on WWI veteran's illusions".
Title: Olives, The in - Spanish Drama / COL Author: Rueda, Lope de translated by Angel Flores Publisher: Bantam Books 1962
Description:
nonroy sketch - comedy - Spanish - family relations four characters two male; two female one act
Quick skit surrounding olives that haven't been grown yet.
Title: One More Day in - Modern Theatre Volume 3 / COL Author: Conrad, Joseph Publisher: Doubleday 1955
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female one act
1 exterior set.
"Insane old sea captain insisting that his son, who ran away to sea as a boy, will return, has picked out a wife for him". Title: Optimists, The in - Tonight at the Tarragon / CCO Author: Brebner, Morwyn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
roy comedy - romance - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
"A weekend in Vegas. The chance for hopes and dreams to come true provides the backdrop for Morwyn Brebner’s humorous look at love. It’s the night before the chapel wedding and the promise of “happily ever after”. Old friends confront their regrets, lies, betrayals and disappointments. Will hope be the elusive wild card?"
Finalist for the 2006 Governor General’s Award
Title: Original Last Wish Baby, The in - The Best American Short Plays 1995-1996 / COL Author: Seebring, William Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997
Description:
roy satire many characters; narrator two male; two female (doubling) one act
Satirical look at contemporary society. Baby born without heart.
Title: Out for Blood in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 86, Spring 1996 / PER Author: Clichettes, The Publisher: Miscellaneous 1996
Description:
roy comedy - women twenty characters one male; three female (doubling) one act
"A psychedelic romp through women's rage." Title: Overruled in - Seven One Act Plays / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1958
Description:
roy comedy - farce four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
'Independently of each other, two husbands meet each other's wife and fall in love. Later both couples discuss situation.'
Title: Pact in - Breakout / CCO Author: Ferber, David Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004
Description:
roy dark comedy - teenagers - suicide five characters two male; three female one act
'"Pact" looks at teenage suicide with a darkly hilarious, disturbing and ultimately hopeful effect.'
Title: Paul's Ghost in - 5 Easy Pieces / COL Author: Milligan, Jason Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters one male; three female one act
Late one night in an Oakland kitchen, in December of 1969, three teenage girls sift through their Beatles albums for “clues” to the supposed death of Paul McCartney. Adopting “witchy” sounding names and lighting candles to create a mystical mood, they stage their own impromptu séance. With trembling voices and a homemade Ouija board, the girls attempt to contact Paul from beyond the grave – which yields surprising results! As it turns out, an unexpected visitor brings insight and healing to at least one girl’s life, restoring a fractured family in the process. Title: Pavane in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 20th series / COL Author: Wiener, Sally Dixon Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy family relations - LGBTQ+⌦four characters two male; two female one act
'Child forever alters lives of two gay couples.'
Title: Petra in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Yarbrough, John Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - travel four characters two male; two female one act (one scene)
What happens when a couple can't agree on whether they once went to Petra? That's the question this dark comedy tries to answer.
Title: Phantom Father, The in - Farces, Italian Style / COL Author: Mas, Raoul Publisher: Persona Products 1978
Description:
nonroy for educational and social service organizations roy for other farce - Italian play six characters four male; two female one act
No abstract available. Title: Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread in - All In the Timing (Six one-act comedies) / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994
Description:
roy comedy - musical parody four characters two male; two female one act
"A parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery."
Title: Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread in - All in the Timing (Fourteen plays) / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Vintage Books 1995
Description:
roy comedy - musical parody four characters two male; two female one act
"A parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery."
Title: Philosopher of Butterbiggins, The in - Nine Modern Plays / COL Author: Chapin, Harold Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1926
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; one female; one boy one act
Description not available. Title: Phone Callers, The in - Revue Unique / COL Author: Crowder, David Lloyd Publisher: Samuel French 1964
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
"Conversations of four people in adjoining telephone booths are simultaneously presented."
Title: Picture Perfect in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (30th series) / COL Author: Goodrich, Harlene Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy comedy - family relationships four characters four male; four female one act
Truth is all in the lighting, the angle, and the eye of the camera; or so Mother would have her family believe. Instead of leaving because her husband and children didn't live up to her expectations, she invented a family that did. Mother’s eye, through the lens of her camera, is ever at the ready to blur the focus and create a picture of a life well lived. Family photos of fish never caught, races never won, prizes never received, crowd the walls and tables of her home. When Daddy packs his bags in an effort to leave the imperfect life that gives lie to the picture perfect
Title: Pizza: a Love Story in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Nineteenth Series / COL Author: Bernstein, Julianne Publisher: Samuel French 1995
Description:
roy comedy - romance five characters three male; two female one act
'Knowing her boyfriend is ready to propose, young woman desparately stalls for time.' Title: Play called the Four PP, The in - Five Pre-Shakespearean Comedies / COL Author: Heywood, John Publisher: Oxford University Press 1966
Description:
roy farce - tudor verse play all male cast; four characters four male one act
'Tudor farcical interlude in verse. Four quacks settle argument about which of their professions is most important in lying contest.'
Title: Play called the Four PP, The in - Medieval and Tudor Drama / COL Author: Heywood, John Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1963
Description:
non-roy interlude - farce - verse four characters flexible casting one act
Discussions between a Palmer, a Pothecary, a Pardoner and a Pedlar.
Title: Play Called the Four PP, The in - Medieval Mysteries, Moralities and Interludes / COL Author: Heywood, John Publisher: Barron's Educational Series 1962
Description:
non-roy farce - verse play - interlude all male cast; four characters four male one act
Tudor farcical interlude in verse. Four quacks settle argument about which of their professions is most important in lying contest. Modernized spelling of speech. Title: Playing with Fire in - Strindberg's One Act Plays / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Arvid Paulson Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy comedy - social class six characters three male; three female one act (21 scenes)
'Husband willing to let wife marry friend, who rejects offer.'
Title: Playing with Fire in - The Plays of Strindberg Vol. 1 / COL Author: Strindberg, August translated by Michael Meyer Publisher: Vintage Books 1964
Description:
roy comedy - social class six characters three male; three female one act (21 scenes)
'Husband willing to let wife marry friend, who rejects offer.'
Title: Post Wave Spectacular in - Humana Festival 2010 / COL Author: Grisanti, Diana Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2010
Description:
roy comedy - relationships all female cast; four characters four female one act
Grisanti’s Post Wave Spectacular is set at a tea party, to which three women have invited their unrequited love’s latest conquest. Title: Pound on Demand, A in - Five One Act Plays / COL Author: O'Casey, Sean Publisher: St. Martin's Press 1958
Description:
roy farce - Irish play four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior set.
A farce dealing with the Postal service.
Title: Power Lunch in - Five One-Act Plays / COL Author: Ball, Alan Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
Over a POWER LUNCH a highly ambitious couple battle for power and control of their relationship even though they've just met. So serious are they that they even use the wait staff as tools of jealousy.
Title: Prague-nosis! in - The Messy Adventures of Dick Piston, Hotel Detective / COL Author: Goode, Jeff Publisher: Baker's Plays 2002
Description:
roy American - comedy - murder - mystery five characters three male; two female nine episodes
running time: 90 minutes.
The 'Dick Piston' plays are short comic murder-mysteries suitable for late-night theatre. Each play is written in 10-minute 'episodes', and each episode has a cliff-hanger ending.
"Piston has a new case when the hotel is infiltrated by Czech jewel thieves and French porn stars." Title: Present Tense in - The Best Short Plays 1984 / COL Author: McNamara, John Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1982
Description:
roy comedy - high school - teenagers six characters; extras three male; three female one act
one interior set.
"Insecure seventeen-year-old boy nervously awaits his date for high school prom".
Title: Prince of Atlantis, The in - American Theatre Vol. 29, No. 6 / PER Author: Drukman, Steven Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
Set in the Down the Lake section of Boston, where the jargon is all their own, and so is the bombast, this tender — and funny — play is all about family, loyalty and love.
Title: Princess Rebecca Birnbaum in - Four Short Plays / COL Author: Kass, Jerome Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967
Description:
roy comedy - high school five characters one male; three female one act
1 interior set.
"The subject under consideration is the plight of a young girl about to attend her first prom - her desire to dress simply, versus the elaborate make-up and trappings pressed on her by well-meaning family and friends". Title: Professional Foul in - Squaring the Circle / COL Author: Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Faber and Faber 1984
Description:
roy satire - mental health six characters five male; one female one act
1 interior; music.
"Satire set in Soviet insane asylum, contrasting the conditions of a political prisoner and a mental patient."
Title: Professionally Ethnic in - Canadian Theatre Review 139 / PER Author: del Rio, Bobby Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy satire - theatre four characters three female; one female one act
The play takes a satiric look at the current, suspect interest in"ethnic" casting among Canada's large theatre companies.
Title: Pronoun 'I', The in - The Traveling Companion and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2008
Description:
roy comedy - American - 20th century - short play five characters one male; four female one act
"A parody of classical forms and contemporary mores, this "short work for the lyric theatre" concerns the reign of haggard old "Mad Queen May" of England. Disguised behind a mask, the hag is actually the young and beautiful "Fair Queen May." Her narcissistic and nearly naked young lover, the poet Dominique, can only begin his terrible poems with the pronoun 'J.' Queen May can only watch as revolt and anarchy bring her reign to an end, but she is energized by the arrival of a "Handsome Young Revolutionary" who steals into the castle to murder her. A campy frolic with Title: Proper Perspective, The in - Who's Looking After the Atlantic? & The Proper Perspective / CCO Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright five characters four male; one female one act
"An hysterically delightful play within a play, which poses the question: 'What is the nature of reality?'"
Winner, Ottawa Little Theatre Playwriting Competition
Title: Puppets in - John Lazarus Shorts / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada
Description:
roy comedy - romance four characters two male; two female one act
A man and a woman meet by chance in a department store, and the audience gets to watch both their inner and outer behaviour.
Title: Question of Attribution, A in - Single Spies / COL Author: Bennett, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy British - comedy - spies - politics six characters five male; one female one act
running time: 75 min.; may be performed with "An Englishman Abroad" as a double bill; "An Englishman Abroad" and "A Question of Attribution" are collectively called "Single Spies".
Based on Anthony Blunt's role in the Cambridge Spy Ring and, as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, personal art advisor to Queen Elizabeth II. It portrays his interrogation by MI5 officers, his work researching and conserving art works, his work at the Courtauld Institute, and his acquaintance Title: Race Play, The in - Israel Horovitz's New Shorts / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy eight characters three male; four female; one girl one act
Discussion that takes place over a running marathon.
Title: Rat Wives in - Rat Wives and Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy comedy - American - betrayal - feminism - love - marriage - friendship all female cast; four characters four female one act
interior set; period - 1900; running time: 60 min.
In this very funny longer one act, four legendary actresses: Mrs Patrick Campbell, Florence Farr, Janet Achurch and Elizabeth Robins, wait backstage on a blustery night in the year 1896 to perform in a famous production of Ibsen's "Little Eyolf". They are having some serious personal problems, they're drinking before the show, there is treachery afoot, and everybody raise their
Title: Ravine, The in - Dead Metaphor / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 2015
Description:
roy dark comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female one act (twenty-one short scenes)
A mayoral candidate earns that his ex-wife is living in a gully nearby and wants to put a hit on him. Title: Red Peppers in - Tonight at 8:30 / COL Author: Coward, Noel Publisher: Doubleday 1937
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female one act
"Doing a song and dance act in a vaudeville theatre are George Pepper and his wife, Lily. But hoofing is not their only talent - they have a positive genius for picking quarrels and insulting co-workers".
Title: Refuge in - Women Playwrights : The Best Plays of 1998 / COL Author: Goldberg, Jessica Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2000
Description:
roy contemporary - tragicomedy four characters two male; two female one act
'Young woman forced to care for ill younger brother and drug addicted younger sister when abandoned by parents.'
Title: Refuge in - Under 30 / YCL Author: Goldberg, Jessica Publisher: Vintage Books 2004
Description:
roy contemporary - tragicomedy four characters two male; two female one act
'Young woman forced to care for ill younger brother and drug addicted younger sister when abandoned by parents.' Title: Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde, The in - The Traveling Companion and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2008
Description:
roy dark comedy - American - 20th century - short play four characters three male; one female one act
interior set.
"Mint lives in the attic of a rooming-house in London. Unable to use his legs, Mint is forced to grab onto giant hooks which hang from the ceiling, and swing from hook to hook to get around. He is sexually abused on a regular basis by one of Mme. Le Monde's many male "children." He is taunted with food that is withheld by his landlady or doled out in stingy amounts. And on this day
Title: Reverse Transcription in - Humana Festival '96 / COL Author: Kushner, Tony Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female one act
A group of playwrights gather at a cemetery on Martha's Vineyard to illegally bury another playwright.
Title: Reverse Transcription in - Death & Taxes / COL Author: Kushner, Tony Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000
Description:
roy dark comedy six characters four male; two female one act
1 setting.
A group of playwrights gather at a cemetery on Martha's Vineyard to illegally bury another playwright. Title: Rewrite in - Rewrite and Frosted Icing / CCO Author: Clark, Stanley Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior.
"Reunion of divorced, middle-aged playwright husband with his lawyer ex-wife is complicated by the latter's secretary, who is also an amateur actress, and her suspicious boyfriend."
Title: Roanoke in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Lew, Michael Schatz, Matt Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
10 minute play; music/lyrics by Matt Schatz.
"Butter churns, hardtack and...musical numbers? This hilarious inside look at the high-stakes, hardcore world of historical re-enactors pits accuracy against exuberance against interoffice politics in the Lost Colony of Roanoke."
Title: Romancers, The in - The Mentor Book of Short Plays / COL Author: Rostand, Edmond Publisher: New American Library 1969
Description:
roy romantic comedy five characters; extras four male; one female one act
1 exterior.
Fanciful variation of Romeo and Juliet theme satirizing romantic naivete of two adolescent lovers who, after wandering independently in search of love, find it together at home. Title: Rosemary in - Rosemary -The Alligators / COL Author: Kazan, Molly Publisher: Samuel French 1959
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations four characters two male; two female one act
1 exterior; singing.
"Vaudeville couple bicker about new baby."
Title: Roz by Any Other Name, A in - The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 / COL Author: Ryback, B.T. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009
Description:
roy comedy - American - love four characters one male; three female one act
Ryback tells Rosalind's story - a character from 'Romeo and Juliet' that Shakespeare gives hardly any notice to, yet acts as the inciting incident for why Mercutio takes Romeo to the Capulet gala, without which Romeo and Juliet would never have met. The plot finds Romeo's ex-lover, Rosalind, just arriving home from the infamous Capulet gala where Romeo meets his new flame, Juliet. Enraged that she was trumped by a Capulet, Rosalind plots with her best friend Vera to win Romeo back. The unexpected appearance of an innocent young poet named Stefano, who has a great
Title: Ruzzante Returns from the Wars in - The Classic Theatre Volume 1: Six Italian Plays / COL Author: Beolco, Angelo Ingold, Angela Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
roy comedy - Italian plays four characters three male; one female two scenes
1 exterior set.
English version by Angela Ingold and Theodore Hoffman. Title: Saint George and the Mighty Bolgiah - A Staffordshire Mumming Play in - Folk Playtexts / COL Author: Publisher: Harrap 1980
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; six characters six male one act
"(This play) is very short , really only a skeleton of a play. It makes a good starting-point because it gives you plenty of opportunity to develop it. The action takes place in the tap room of a village hostelry where one Bolgiah, the local champion, holds sway and challenges all and sundry to mortal combat."
Title: Sand Mountain Matchmaking in - Sand Mountain / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1985
Description:
roy comedy - courtship six characters four male; two female; one boy one act
"An attractive young widow, Rebecca, is wooed by a succession of thoroughly objectionable suitors: the first a conceited stud who is sure that she is physically attracted to him; the second a coarse old farmer who is looking for a compliant slave and who has already buried two wives; and the third a Bible-spouting bore whose last wife deserted him. In desperation Rebecca seeks the counsel of Lottie, a wise old hill woman, who tells her that all is not lost; she can find the right man by posing a simple (if suggestive) question to those who come to court her."
Title: Seeing Someone in - The Show Must Go On, Seeing Someone, If Walls Could Talk / COL Author: Klavan, Laurence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1990
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - short play four characters two male; two female one act
"In SEEING SOMEONE, a young man finds it difficult to shake off obsessive thoughts of his former girlfriend and build a new relationship with her successor because, every time he starts to embrace his current lady, he is immediately besieged with a clear vision (across the stage) of what his old flame is up to and with whom—the latter being a stupid, clumsy lout who breaks her china and pops the buttons off her clothes!" Title: Self Torture and Strenuous Exercise in - The Best Short Plays 1984 / COL Author: Kondoleon, Harry Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1978
Description:
roy comedy - friendship four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
"Writer and his suicidal wife test the patience of their closest friends".
Title: Self Torture and Strenuous Exercise in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL Author: Kondoleon, Harry Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
Carl tells Alvin that he's in love with another woman. "Good for you," says Alvin, who refuses to accept that Carl's wife, Adel, only attempted suicide—she's still alive. The woman Carl loves is Alvin's wife, Beth. But right now, Beth is so drunk she can't get up off the floor, much less run off with Carl, and Adel comes in with bandaged wrists saying Carl has been trying to kill her. These four have some issues to work out.
Title: Sex Comedies, The in - Plays: 1 - Iain Heggie Author: Heggie, Iain Publisher: Methune Drama 2003
Description:
roy comedy - sex fifteen characters four male; two female (doubling) one act (six parts)
Six sleazy sketches about sexual anticipation. The sketches are: The Lodger / The Cake / Total Strangers / The Reading Room / Waiting for Shuggie's Ma / The Education of a Gentle Pervert. Title: Sexual Perversity in Chicago in - Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations / COL Author: Mamet, David Publisher: Samuel French 1977
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
'Sexual fantasies and problems of a couple who meet in a Chicago singles bar.'
Title: Shadow of the Glen, The in - Plays, Poems and Prose / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Dent 1958
Description:
roy folklore - Irish - comedy four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior.
"Comedy based on Irish folk tale. Old peasant feigns death but revives to drive frustrated wife out of his house with carefree tramp."
Title: Shadow of the Glen, The in - An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: National Textbook Company 1992
Description:
roy folklore - Irish - comedy four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior.
"Comedy based on Irish folk tale. Old peasant feigns death but revives to drive frustrated wife out of his house with carefree tramp." Title: Shadow of the Glen, The in - Four Plays and The Aran Islands / COL Author: Synge, John Millington Publisher: Oxford University Press 1962
Description:
roy folklore - Irish - comedy four characters three male; one female one act
1 interior.
"Comedy based on Irish folk tale. Old peasant feigns death but revives to drive frustrated wife out of his house with carefree tramp."
Title: Shame the Devil in - Odd Sequence / COL Author: McMaster, Alison Publisher: New Playwrights' Network 1976
Description:
roy comedy - domestic relations six characters three male; three female one act
interior.
"Domestic comedy about strict Edwardian shopkeeper, whose beleaguered family helps him circumvent customs officer, who suspects father of receiving smuggled goods."
Title: Shifting Gears in - Graduation Suite / CCO Author: Millar, Thomas P. Publisher: Palmer Press 1987
Description:
roy comedy four characters; voices two male; two female one act
"Life is a series of graduations, some reluctantly coped with, some eagerly embraced. Each graduation requires us to leave an old way of being and embrace a new. Each is an opportunity for growth, or a chance for failure. Graduation Suite consists of three one act plays, each of which deals with such a life' graduation. Shifting Gears, the second play, tells the story of a fiftyish lady graduating from a dutiful marriage to a life of computer crime". Title: Ships in - What If? / COL Author: Hanagan, Jay D. Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy comedy - drama - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
While waiting in the bar of a crowded upscale restaurant, a chance meeting leaves Barb and Josh (who are married, but not to each other) wondering "what if?". "What if" we gave up some of the things we love for love? "What if" we should later change our minds? "What if" we had met someone else earlier? "What if" we met them later? "What if" love at first sight isn't love at first sight?
Title: Shock of Recognition, The in - You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running / COL Author: Anderson, Robert Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
interior.
"Silver, a matter-of-fact producer, doesn't like the opening moment of earnest young dramatist Grizzard's play. A wife having breakfast in bed says something to her husband, who is in the bathroom. So he comes out, jaybird naked, and yells to her. 'You know I can't hear you when the water's running.' Silver doesn't think this confrontation is necessary. Grizzard insists the scene is
Title: Show Must Go On, The in - The Show Must Go On, Seeing Someone, If Walls Could Talk / COL Author: Klavan, Laurence Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1990
Description:
roy comedy - short play six characters four male; two female one act
"THE SHOW MUST GO ON, cleverly mixes up sitcoms and real life by presenting us with an ostensibly authentic suburban family in which all the members read their lines from a stilted and hilariously dismal script. Trouble develops when someone shows up who is not in the script. Furthermore, she (the part was supposed to call for a burly telephone repairman) is both fetching and given to improvisation, which throws the others completely. And when the father of the family is lured into trying his hand at "winging it" he ends up being fired and facing divorce from his Title: Sicilian; or, Love the Painter, The in - The Misanthrope and Other Plays / COL Author: Molière, Jean-Baptiste Publisher: Penguin Books 1959
Description:
roy comedy - ballet six characters; extras four male; two female one act
Young girl deceives fiance for love of a rake.
Title: Sideshow of the Damned in - The Eldritch Plays / CCO Author: Woolfe, Eric Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - horror four characters (doubling) two male; two female one act
"Mad scientists, werewolves, would-be necromancers and ghouls... juxtaposed against the quotidian, to great comic effect."
Title: Single and Proud in - Single and Proud and Other Plays / COL Author: Stroppel, Frederick Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female one act
'Young man, woman and 60-year-old grandmother attend singles seminar.' Title: Sink the Belgrano! in - Steven Berkoff: Plays One / COL Author: Berkoff, Steven Publisher: Faber and Faber 1994
Description:
roy satire - verse - war - British nine characters; extras four male; one female (doubling) one act
1 setting.
"Verse satire derived from events of Falklands War about underlying values of English society revealed during the crisis."
Title: Sir Richard Wadd, Pornographer in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: Postoff, Shawn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+⌦all male cast; five characters five male one act
Sir Richard Wadd is a fun-loving, law-abiding, genre-defying showman; an intelligent, proud and unapologetic producer of home-made gay porn with a decidedly literary flair. Assisted by Tristan and Troy, his two dashing and loyal performers, Sir Richard takes his voyeuristic web-cam audience on a wide-ranging romp through the anals [sic] of modern-day cyber-erotica. But when Kevin, a 14 year-old runaway, shows up on his doorstep looking for work (not to mention validation, compassion, and love), Sir Richard’s humanity is suddenly put to the test: the law makes it extremely dangerous for the pornographer to have underage kids anywhere near him, yet
Title: Sistahs in - Testifyin' / CCO Author: Lewis, Sharon Bailey, Maxine Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy comedy - drama - women all female cast; five characters five female one act
'. . . brings together five powerful women for the communal preparation of a meal, but the situation in this home is a charged one. . . The coming together of the five characters parallels the creation of the soup that is the focus of the meeting. Seasoned by various viewpoints, backgrounds, and memories, the result is a flavorful, tantalizing, and filling meal.' Title: Sistahs in - Canadian Theatre Review - Number 83, Summer 1995 / PER Author: Lewis, Sharon Publisher: Miscellaneous 1995
Description:
roy comedy - drama - women all female cast; five characters five female one act
'. . . brings together five powerful women for the communal preparation of a meal, but the situation in this home is a charged one. . . The coming together of the five characters parallels the creation of the soup that is the focus of the meeting. Seasoned by various viewpoints, backgrounds, and memories, the result is a flavorful, tantalizing, and filling meal.'
Title: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy satire - religion five characters two male; three female one act
"Comedy satirizing rigidity of Catholic Dogma. Teaching nun is confronted by former students whose lives she failed to control."
Title: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You in - The Best Short Plays 1981 / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1980
Description:
roy satire - religion five characters two male; three female one act
"Comedy satirizing rigidity of Catholic dogma. Teaching nun is confronted by former students whose lives she failed to control". Title: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You in - Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and The Actor's Nightmare /COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1982
Description:
roy satire - religion five characters two male; three female one act
"Comedy satirizing rigidity of Catholic dogma. Teaching nun is confronted by former students whose lives she failed to control".
Title: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You in - Christopher Durang Explains it all for You / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Avon Books 1983
Description:
roy satire - religion five characters two male; three female one act
"Comedy satirizing rigidity of Catholic Dogma. Teaching nun is confronted by former students whose lives she failed to control."
Title: Skin Deep in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 35th series / COL Author: Dobson, Mary Lynn Publisher: Samuel French 2011
Description:
roy comedy - beauty pageants all female cast; six characters six female one act
simple set.
Just because it’s glitters, doesn’t mean it’s pretty! Told in mockumentary style through the eyes of six pageant-obsessed women, SKIN DEEP is a scathing comedy about the world of child beauty pageants. Title: Slap in the Farce, A in - A Slap in the Farce & A Matter of Wife and Death / COL Author: Labiche, Eugène Martin, Édouard Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1988
Description:
roy farce five characters two male; three female one act
translated by Norman R. Shapiro.
On a dark tram, artist thinks he is petting his dog, but strokes lady's foot, leading to further misunderstandings.
Title: Snap in - Great Short Comedies: Volume 1 / COL Author: Watson, Daryl Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2007
Description:
roy comedy - high school five characters four male; one female (flexible casting) one act
minimal set.
Despite her severe stutter, Susan joins the Clarence Thomas High School Dozens Team, where she must learn to defend herself against merciless and fast-flying "Yo Mama" jokes. As the exhibition battle quickly approaches, the wildly eccentric Coach Latrell uses his tough-love training techniques to help Susan overcome her handicap. The situation seems hopeless until Susan goes
Title: So Unnatural a Level in - Humana Festival 2015 / COL Author: Winter, Gary Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2016
Description:
roy comedy six characters; puppet three male; three female one act
A woman writes a novel in the midst of insurance employees frantically dealing with the aftermath of a storm. Title: So When You Get Married... (The Quando Si Sposa Fund) in - Election Year and So When You Get Married... / COL Author: Byron, Ellen Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1989
Description:
roy comedy - wedding - family relations - Italian four characters one male; three female one act
suggested for high school.
"A lively, warmly humorous, yet very revealing study of the relationship between three generations — grandmother, daughter and granddaughter — which reaches an hilarious crisis point amid the lively hubbub of an Italian wedding."
Title: Soap Opera in - Lives of the Saints / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000
Description:
roy comedy - relationships five characters three male; two female one act
"A washing-machine repairman falls in love with a picture-perfect washer. Should he tell his girlfriend Mabel? Is the washer two-timing him with a dryer? Stay tuned."
Title: Soap Opera in - Time Flies and other short plays / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Grove Press 2001
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
A washing-machine repairman falls in love with a picture-perfect washer. Should he tell his girlfriend Mabel? Is the washer two-timing him with a dryer? Stay tuned.... Title: Sociability in - The Last Straw and Sociability Two Short Plays / COL Author: Dizenzo, Charles Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
1 simple interior set.
"A comedy of manners. Two hypocritical, money-conscious couples visit each other's homes making ascerbic comments, but in friendly tones."
Title: Something Rotten in Denmark in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Eighteenth Series) / COL Author: G. Annie Publisher: Samuel French 1994
Description:
roy farce six characters four male; two female one act
'Farce about 16th century rehearsal of Hamlet with many anachronisms.'
Title: Songs of Love in - Pops / COL Author: Linney, Romulus Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1987
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female one act
"A warmly comic study of two doughty nursing home residents who decide to marry despite the explosive reactions of their children." Title: Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven in - American Theatre (September 2007) / PER Author: Lee, Young Jean Publisher: Miscellaneous 2007
Description:
roy comedy - race - culture - Korea - America six characters one male (white male); five female (four Asian and one white female) one act
"Lee’s 'Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven' takes a warped, humorous look at her cultural heritage. Far from a predictable finger-wagging play, this irreverent new work follows a Korean-American's journey as she explores her romanticized, half-informed understanding of the world. This brutally honest work provokes uneasy, exhilarating and perhaps comical questions about race and culture... just don’t expect any answers."
Title: Sovereignty in - Humana Festival 2006 / COL Author: Jones, Rolin Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2007
Description:
roy comedy - neighbours four characters one male; two female; one boy one act
"Gardening, new neighbors, old neighbors, chocolate—life in the suburbs can be so complicated. A scathing and satiric play about the people right next door."
Title: Speaking of Tushy in - Israel Horovitz's New Shorts / COL Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters two male; two female one act
Two men discuss one's relationship. Title: Speed-the-Play in - Mere Mortals / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998
Description:
roy comedy - spoof six characters three male; three female one act
'Speed-the-Play' is a crash-course send-up of David Mamet, presenting the complete works of the master of scatological dialogue in just under eight, male-bonding minutes.
Title: Speed-the-Play in - Long Ago and Far Away and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1999
Description:
roy comedy - spoof six characters three male; three female one act
'Speed-the-Play' is a crash-course send-up of David Mamet, presenting the complete works of the master of scatological dialogue in just under eight, male-bonding minutes.
Title: Speed-the-Play in - Time Flies and Other Short Plays / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Grove Press 2001
Description:
roy comedy - spoof six characters three male; three female one act
'Speed-the-Play' is a crash-course send-up of David Mamet, presenting the complete works of the master of scatological dialogue in just under eight, male-bonding minutes. Title: Speed-the-Play in - All in the Timing (Fourteen plays) / COL Author: Ives, David Publisher: Vintage Books 1995
Description:
roy comedy - spoof six characters three male; three female one act
'Speed-the-Play' is a crash-course send-up of David Mamet, presenting the complete works of the master of scatological dialogue in just under eight, male-bonding minutes.
Title: Spelling Mistakes, The in - The Italian Straw Hat and The Spelling Mistakes / COL Author: Labiche, Eugène Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1967
Description:
roy farce - comedy five characters four male; one female one act
unit set.
"Caboussat, an elderly agricultural merchant who enjoys taking part in local politics, has great difficulty in spelling and in composing his speeches, and relies completely on his daughter for help in these matters. It does not please him at all, therefore, when an eccentric archaeologist proposes that a marriage should be arranged between his son and Caboussat's daughter. He
Title: Spill and Spell in - Martini with a Twist / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright all female cast; five characters five female one act
A young coed with the ability to smell lies struggles to make new friends. Title: Spit in Yazoo City in - Southern Exposures / COL Author: Milligan, Jason Publisher: Samuel French 1990
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; one female; one boy one act
In Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1945, Army Recruiting Officer William Blane's dull routine of lousy dart throwing is interrupted by a handful of unexpected black visitors, one of which is a ten year old boy named Spit who rushes in looking for his missing brother Buck, who's gone off to the war. Blane discovers that Spit is an only child and has created this story to run away from home. The two form a friendship in which Blane steps forward as a role model for the young boy and Spit teaches Blane, among other things, how to hit a bull's eye.
Title: Spot, The in - Humana Festival 2004 / COL Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005
Description:
roy comedy - politics six characters two male; two female; two male or female one scene
A crew is working on a "truthful" TV spot for a political candidate.
Title: Spot, The in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - politics six characters two male; two female; two male or female one scene
A crew is working on a "truthful" TV spot for a political candidate. Title: Stallion Howl, The in - Open Secrets / COL Author: Wasserman, Dale Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comedy - American six characters three male; two female; one girl one act
running time: 40 min.; "The Stallion Howl" may be joined with "Boy on Blacktop Road" to make a full theatre evening, or may also be performed separately. If together, there is almost a complete overlap of cast.
The subject is retroactive jealousy, specifically sexual jealousy. A seemingly happy couple in the Midwest is subjected to severe strain when the wife is left a large gift of money by a notorious
Title: Stargazing in - New Canadian Drama I / CCO Author: Cone, Tom Publisher: Borealis Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - British Columbia four characters two male; two female one act
1 exterior set.
Two couples search the Vancouver sky for falling stars. Cross-purposed and star-crossed, conversation flows until the morning brings calm and silence.
Title: Stark Naked in - Boulevard Comedies / COL Author: Feydeau, Georges Marowitz, Charles Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2000
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female one act
"Examines the terrors associated with the human body and how they threaten the sang-froid of certain up-tight pillars of respectability." Title: Stay Carl Stay in - Stay Carl Stay, Best Half Foot Forward, Pillow Talk / COL Author: Tolan, Peter Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1991
Description:
roy comedy - romance six characters three male; three female one act
suggested for high school.
In STAY CARL STAY, an invertebrate young woman, dominated and taken for granted by her boyfriend, adopts a dog on the advice of a rather eccentric therapist. Pandemonium ensues when Carl the dog (played by a human actor), who's far better behaved than the boyfriend, learns to dance, talk and win his mistress' heart.
Title: Still Alarm, The in - Fifteen American One Act Plays / COL Author: Kaufman, George S. Publisher: Washington Square Press 1961
Description:
roy comedy - satire all male cast; five characters five male one act
1 interior set.
"Set in the bedroom of a hotel which is on fire. The fun lies in the manner in which it is put out. In the face of most exciting danger, the characters play in the well-bred manner of English drawing room actors. All amenities are preserved, even when two firemen come in. One of these might be called a practicing professional, but the other is an amateur musician. Although the fire under
Title: Still Alarm, The in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL Author: Kaufman, George S. Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
roy comedy - satire all male cast; five characters five male one act
1 interior set.
"Set in the bedroom of a hotel which is on fire. The fun lies in the manner in which it is put out. In the face of most exciting danger, the characters play in the well-bred manner of English drawing room actors. All amenities are preserved, even when two firemen come in. One of these might be called a practicing professional, but the other is an amateur musician. Although the fire Title: Still Alarm, The in - An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays / COL Author: Kaufman, George S. Publisher: National Textbook Company 1992
Description:
roy comedy - satire all male cast; five characters five male one act
1 interior set.
"Set in the bedroom of a hotel which is on fire. The fun lies in the manner in which it is put out. In the face of most exciting danger, the characters play in the well-bred manner of English drawing room actors. All amenities are preserved, even when two firemen come in. One of these might be called a practicing professional, but the other is an amateur musician. Although the fire under
Title: Store, The in - Six Plays by Mavor Moore / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Talonbooks 1989
Description:
roy comedy - murder four characters two male; two female one act
"The manager of a cosmic department store murders a complaining customer who blames the store for every catastrophe in her life."
Title: Store, The in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Bastet Books 1973
Description:
roy comedy - murder - Canadian four characters two male; two female one act
"The manager of a cosmic department store murders a complaining customer who blames the store for every catastrophe in her life." Title: Story of the Little White Bull, The in - Nose! Nose? No-se! / COL Author: Amalrik, Andrei Publisher: Harcourt Brace Publishers 1973
Description:
roy satire five characters two male; two female; one girl one act
1 interior set.
"Customers and salesgirl in toy shop who have never met before act out shifting fantasies involving stereotyped love relationships expressed in cliched dialogue".
Title: Street of Good Friends, The in - Two Short Plays / COL Author: Arno, Owen G. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1964
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; four characters four female one act
'Three vacationing spinster school teachers have arrived in a small Italian town where they are stranded after their bus has broken down. But while Abigail and Grace are philosophic about the situation, Hester - who is irascible and has spoiled their fun from the beginning - creates an enormous fuss. The whimsical Abigail persuades the somewhat more reticent Grace to take a walk with her about the town, but Hester grumpily remains behind. The two wander into a "Street of Good Friends", or the red light district, with humorous results.'
Title: Suitcase in - This and Other Plays / COL Author: Gibson, Melissa James Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2013
Description:
roy comedy of manners four characters two male; two female thirteen parts
The boyfriends of two Ph.D. candidates are trying to talk their way into the women's apartments. Dissertations go nowhere; objects get found; boyfriends won't get lost; love figures in there somewhere. Title: Sunburst in - The Traveling Companion and Other Plays / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New Directions 2008
Description:
roy dark comedy - American - 20th century - short play five characters three male; two female one act (two scenes)
"Miss Sylvia Sails, a famed actress of the American stage who long, long ago chose retirement at the peak of her career ("not willing to decline from it") is awakened at 3:00 in the morning by Giuseppe, a handsome and felonious night clerk at her live-in hotel. It becomes clear soon enough that Giuseppe is after Miss Sails' extremely valuable sunburst diamond ring, but Miss Sails' knuckle is so swollen that the diamond ring cannot be removed from her finger unless her finger is removed from her hand. Held hostage, Miss Sails resists her captors, Giuseppe and his
Title: Sunday Costs Five Pesos in - 15 International One-Act Plays / COL Author: Niggli, Josephina Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969
Description:
roy comedy five characters one male; four female one act
1 exterior set.
A comedy of Mexican village life. A young girl, through jealousy, breaks off with her fiance then, repentant, tries to win him back with the aid of well meaning friends who only manage to involve her in further difficulties.
Title: Sunny Morning, A in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL Author: Quintero, Serafin Alverez Quintero, Joaquin Alverez Publisher: Random House 1943
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
1 exterior set.
Translated by Lucretia Xavier Floyd. This play is a favorite with amateurs since it requires the simplest sets and no accessories. It has to do with an aged couple who years before had been in love. A delightful mixture of sentiment and wit. Title: Swamp Baby and other Tales in - The River Lady and Other Plays / CCO Author: Widdicombe, David Publisher: Icarus Press 2000
Description:
roy comedy - monologues all female cast; four characters four female (doubling possible) four parts
"Fate intrudes into the lives of four different women - an unwanted child who recreates herself in imaginary worlds; a street kid just trying to survive; a lost soul who discovers an unusual infant abandoned in a swamp; and an old woman who reflects upon her past while staring up at the universe."
Title: Switching Places in - Eureka! / CCO Author: Deverell, Rex Publisher: Coteau Books 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - satire four characters two male; two female one act
'A look at the difficulties of teenage sex, pregnancy and single parenthood - with a twist.'
Title: Taffy's Taxi in - Later Encounters / COL Author: Melfi, Leonard Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ six characters two male; four female one act
composite interior/exterior set.
"Taffy is a lesbian New York cab driver. Some of her fares on this particular day include two small-town-honeymooners who become entranced with her life-style, a city couple ready for a sexual threesome and a fellow-lesbian who makes a romantic proposition despite Taffy's open confession of loyalty to her somewhat sadistic lover. It is all up to Taffy". Title: Talk in the Park, A in - Confusions / COL Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1977
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
"Five self-immolated characters on park benches".
Title: Talking Dirty in - The Arts Club Anthology / CCO Author: Snukal, Sherman Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - Canadian five characters two male; three female one act (three scenes)
1 interior.
Comedy examining modern sexual attitudes in which married man on business trip decides he should have an affair.
Title: Talking Dog in - The General of Hot Desire and Other Plays / COL Author: Guare, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1999
Description:
roy comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
unit set.
A man takes his girlfriend hang-gliding for the first time, prompting her to overcome her fears. She does it, and hears him say—in flight—I love you. She doesn't mention it, but glides again and again to hear it. When she realizes it may not be him, she decides it is nature talking, taking on a more profound meaning. But he thinks she can't take a joke and moves on, constantly searching Title: Tattoo in - Jane Martin: Collected plays - Vol. 2 / COL Author: Martin, Jane Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2001
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female one act
Three women want a philandering lawyer tattoed.
Title: Terrible False Deception, The in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO Author: Macpherson, Rafe Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy satire - farce four characters two male; two female four acts
length - 40 minutes.
'A four-act play about a three-act play which it contains within itself. A play which heaps deception upon deception. Deftly performed with simultaneous flair and control, it has the potential to be both highly entertaining and theatrically intriguing. For some groups it may be the hit of the season.'
Title: Test, The in - Seven Comedies By Marivaux / COL Author: Marivaux Publisher: Cornell University Press 1967
Description:
roy romantic comedy six characters three male; three female one act
'Young man tests love of girl whom he loves by introducing his servant to her as a rich man who would make a good husband.' Title: That Other Person in - Three One Acts / COL Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2006
Description:
roy dramatic comedy five characters two male; three female one act
1 interior set.
Tonight is the night Ginge and Kevin are going to tell their respective spouses the marriage-shattering secret they’ve been keeping from everyone. But their bomb-shell gets put on the back-burner when a gorgeous peeping-tom, with secrets of her own, falls in the pool and nearly drowns.
Title: Theatre of the Film Noir in - Shared Anxiety / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1994
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female one act (twelve scenes)
Film Noir intrigue in Paris, 1945. A murder that occurred during the liberation of Paris is under investigation.
Title: Theatre Omaha's Production of 'The Sound of Music' in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998
Description:
roy comedy - spoof six characters three male; three female one act
The director of Theatre Omaha tries to rehearse 'The Sound of Music'. Title: There Shall Be No Bottom (A Bad Play for Worse Actors) in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: O'Donnell, Mark Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - theatre four characters three male; one female one act
Another backstager, includes roles for an actor who skips ahead in the script, another who regularly mispronounces his lines, a seriously over-aged actress, and a hapless stage manager forced onstage to cover a role.
Title: There's No Here Here in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Pospisil, Craig Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy comedy - parody - romance - relationships four characters two male; two female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"Lance moves to Paris to follow his dream of becoming a writer, but his work goes badly. As does his relationship with Juliette, a beautiful Parisian. But a strangely familiar woman at their local bistro forces Lance to dig deeper into himself."
Title: There's No Here Here in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL Author: Pospisil, Craig Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
Lance moves to Paris to follow his dream of becoming a writer, but his work goes badly. As does his relationship with Juliette, a beautiful Parisian. But a strangely familiar woman at their local bistro forces Lance to dig deeper into himself. Title: This in - American Theatre Vol.27, No. 2 / PER Author: Gibson, Melissa James Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
Jane is not okay. She's a promising poet without a muse, a single mother without lessons to pass along. Her dating life's a shambles, and her helpful friends are only helping make things more complicated. This bright, witty, un-romantic comedy captures the uncertain steps of a circle of friends backing their way into middle age.
Title: This in - This and Other Plays / COL Author: Gibson, Melissa James Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2013
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
Jane is not okay. She's a promising poet without a muse, a single mother without lessons to pass along. Her dating life's a shambles, and her helpful friends are only helping make things more complicated. This bright, witty, un-romantic comedy captures the uncertain steps of a circle of friends backing their way into middle age.
Title: This is your Lifetime in - The Best American Short Plays 2009-2010 / COL Author: Hughes, Jill Elaine Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy comedy - women all female cast; four characters; one voice four female one act
A woman is holed up for a time watching Lifetime Television. Title: This Marathon Business in - Sir Herbert is Deeply Touched-This Marathon Business-'Hamlet'.../ COL Author: Stevens, H.C.G. Publisher: Kenyon-Deane 1931
Description:
nonroy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
Description not available.
Title: Three Guys and a Brenda in - Humana Festival 2006 / COL Author: Bock, Adam Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2007
Description:
roy comedy - gender roles all female cast; four characters four female one act
"The three guys agree that Brenda is beautiful, but will the one single guy actually ask her out? A sweet gender-bending look at the courage it takes to simply be a nice guy."
Title: Three Guys and a Brenda in - Great Short Comedies: Volume 1 / COL Author: Bock, Adam Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2007
Description:
roy comedy - gender roles all female cast; four characters four female one act
The three guys agree that Brenda is beautiful, but will the one single guy actually ask her out? A sweet gender-bending look at the courage it takes to simply be a nice guy. Title: Tilt in - New Theatre for Now / COL Author: Schwartz, Joel Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1971
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
Description not available.
Title: Titanic in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy comedy - farce six characters four male; two female one act
"Comedy-farce about zany doings and bizarre fetishes of American family aboard ill-fated liner."
Title: Titanic in - Christopher Durang Explains it all for You / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Avon Books 1983
Description:
roy comedy - farce six characters four male; two female one act
"Comedy-farce about zany doings and bizarre fetishes of American family aboard ill-fated liner." Title: Tokyo Two in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 74, Spring 1993 / PER Author: Baxter, Virginia Gallasch, Keith Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1993
Description:
roy comedy - Japanese culture - radio talk show five characters two male; three female one act
'An Australian hit: Open City's brilliant "tourist thriller" about interculturalism , national identity and love affairs.' Takes the form of a radio talk show.
Title: Tragedy: A Tragedy in - The Flu Season and Other Plays / COL Author: Eno, Will Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2008
Description:
roy comedy - American five characters four male; one female one act
The sun has set over streets of houses, government buildings and American backyards everywhere. The world is dark. A news team is on the scene. Their report: someone left the lawn sprinklers on; someone's horse is loose; a seashell is lying in the grass; dogs run by. The Governor issues excited statements appealing for calm. It is night-time in the world. Everyone's afraid. Everyone doesn't know if the sun, once down, will ever rise again. But there is a witness, and the witness will speak.
Title: Trouble Begins at 8, The in - Twain Plus Plain / COL Author: Sabath, Bernard Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1984
Description:
roy biographical - comedy - Samuel Clemens - Mark Twain four characters three male; two female one act
Second in a series of Sam Clemens one acts.
Sam, after some success as a foreign correspondent, is down on his luck. The setting is a rough-and-ready San Francisco saloon, where Sam meets a rowdy friend from his newspaper days who (with some thought of personal profit in mind) talks him into undertaking the lecture tours that in time were to bring him fame and fortune. Title: Truth About Christmas, The in - Off-Off Broadway Plays - 36th Series / COL Author: Pearle, Daniel Publisher: Samuel French 2012
Description:
roy dark comedy all female cast: five characters five women one act
At a private girls' school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, one student's behavior leads to a series of escalating acts of violence. In the aftermath of the scandal, three mothers and a guidance counselor try to come to terms with their confusion and anger, struggling to understand what went wrong and who can be held responsible.
Winner! Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival.
Title: Tunnel of Love in - Things Between Us / COL Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005
Description:
roy comedy fourteen characters one male; one female; two or three male or female (flexible casting, doubling) one act
Susie, the perplexed heroine of 'Tunnel of Love,' has a bizarre problem. She was born with C.A.V., which stands for Congenital Absence of the Vagina.
Title: TV Special in - Revue Unique / COL Author: Crowder, David Lloyd Publisher: Samuel French 1964
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior.
"Young man is brain-washed into buying a new car on credit." Title: Twisting of the Rope, The in - Three Irish Plays / COL Author: Hyde, Douglas Publisher: International Pocket Library Corporation 1936
Description:
roy comedy - Irish play five characters two male; three female one act
No abstract available
Title: Twitch in - Dramatics (November 2009) / PER Author: Gregg, Stephen Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy - high school four characters two male; two female one act
Nancy and Don, a young married couple, are arguing. Nancy thinks the new neighbors are creepy. She thinks they're watching them. Don thinks she's imagining things.
Title: Two Thieves in a Trap in - Best Student One Acts Volume 5 / COL Author: Gannon, Tom Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; four characters four male one act
'Three guys, a golf course and a judge all converge to create a funny and poignant human tale of fear and adaptation.' Title: Veronica in - Bugs and Veronica / COL Author: White, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1966
Description:
roy comedy five characters four male; one female one act
Two songwriters in search of inspiration.
Title: Victory on Mrs. Dandywine's Island in - The Great Nebula in Orion and Three Other Plays / COL Author: Wilson, Lanford Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1973
Description:
roy comedy - spoof five characters two male; three female one act
1 interior set.
"A high style spoof on comedy in the Oscar Wilde mode, which keeps a delightfully straight face while poking fun at the stilted behavior of its very proper characters. The scene is the sitting room of Mrs. Dandywine's elegant summer 'cottage', where things take a flustered turn at the unexpected arrival of a man who, of course, must be up to no good".
Title: Vile Governess, The in - The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1986
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright six characters two male; four female one act
"An Ibsenesque romp set in Vienna where a bourgeois family's world is turned upside down by the arrival of a terrifying governess and a loveable dog." Title: Voice of the People (a Play in Two Acts) in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko Publisher: Green Integer 140 2005
Description:
roy comedy five characters; chorus four male; one female two acts (short)
A fire chief justifies his work.
Title: Voice of the People, The in - Four Favourite Plays / CCO Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1949
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy four characters two male; two female one act
interior representative set.
"'Intended to amuse but has its roots in truth.' Shorty Morton never does much thinking or writing, but he decides to write a rebuttal to a letter in the editor's column of the local weekly. The result shakes Shorty's uninformed and inflated ego."
Title: Waiting for Gaudreault in - A Collection of Canadian Plays: Volume 5 / CCO Author: Simard, Andre Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - Quebec - farce - men - French all male cast; four characters four male one act
'Deals with a group of house painters who are renovating the facade of a Canada Manpower office. A discussion ensues among them about the weariness of their lives and working conditions.' Title: Wanda's Visit in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995
Description:
roy comedy four to six characters two - three male; two - three female (flexible casting) one act
"Jim and Marsha have been married for 13 years and are feeling a little bored and unhappy. Wanda, Jim's old girlfriend, shows up for a visit, and becomes the guest from hell. Out one night for dinner, all hell breaks loose in the restaurant as a waiter tries to cope on his first day with the confused threesome."
Title: Wanda's Visit in - Durang/Durang / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1996
Description:
roy comedy four to six characters two - three male; two - three female (flexible casting) one act
"Jim and Marsha have been married for 13 years and are feeling a little bored and unhappy. Wanda, Jim's old girlfriend, shows up for a visit, and becomes the guest from hell. Out one night for dinner, all hell breaks loose in the restaurant as a waiter tries to cope on his first day with the confused threesome."
Title: Wanda's Visit in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy four to six characters two - three male; two - three female (flexible casting) one act
Jim and Marsha have been married for 13 years and are feeling a little bored and unhappy. Wanda, Jim's old girlfriend, shows up for a visit, and becomes the guest from hell. Out one night for dinner, all hell breaks loose in the restaurant as a waiter tries to cope on his first day with the confused threesome. Title: Wasp in - Wasp and Other Plays / COL Author: Martin, Steve Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy black comedy four characters two male; two female one act
In the fractured landscape of 50s suburbia, a prototypical white protestant family exists in a dark limbo of expectation and routine. Mom is surrounded by people but deeply alone, dad speaks in delicious platitudes, and the children fear anything new. The play vibrates with satire and dark lyrical irony as the family meanders blindly toward catastrophe.
Title: Waste Disposal Unit, The in - Best Short Plays of the World Theatre: 1958-1967 / COL Author: Brophy, Brigid Publisher: Crown Publishers 1968
Description:
roy comedy - satire six characters three male; three female one act
A satiric look at the "American woman who would rather be a lovely person than be herself".
Title: Waterworks in - Award-Winning Plays / COL Author: Safirstein, E. J. Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters; extras one male; three female one act
'Comic drama about two teens forced to construct illness and death.' Title: We Cannot Know the Mind of God in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Horowitz, Mikhail Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - religion six characters four male; two female (doubling possible) one act
This play presents an odd guessing game between God and Adam and Eve.
Title: Weather Breeder, The in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 3 / CCO Author: Denison, Merrill Publisher: CTR Publications 1980
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy five characters four male; one female one act
interior rep set.
"John Hawley is sure that beautiful weather breeds storms and rejoices when one occurs because it proves him right, even though it appears his crop has been ruined. However, the storm is brief, the harvest is not ruined, and John becomes sour again. Love between daughter Lize and the farmhand Jim is a secondary plot."
Title: Wedding Pool, The in - Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays / CCO Author: Gladstone, Amiel Publisher: Coach House Press 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - relationships - friendship four characters two male; two female one act
"3 dissatisfied single friends start a betting pool to see who will get married first. When one of them starts a relationship, things get interesting." Title: Weird in - The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 / COL Author: Ryback, B.T. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009
Description:
roy comedy - American - family relations - love four characters one male; three female one act
The plot of 'Weird' comes from the three Weird sisters from Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and takes place on the lam in Denmark. Warned by the 'signs', the deeds they committed in Scotland have finally caught up with them, and once again they make plans to flee. One thing; however, stands in their way: their middle sister, Linn. Tired of life on the run, she disavows her sisters, pledging to do anything, even turn them in, if it meant they would no longer have to run away from their past. A knock on the door brings a mysterious traveler into their home, and with him the
Title: West Lethargy in - Plays and Playwrights 2011 / COL Author: Kaliski, Stephen Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2011
Description:
roy comedy - surrealism five characters three male; two female one act (six scenes)
Two couples, both stalled on their journeys westward toward California, form a strange new neighborhood in this wildly inventive, surreal comedy.
Title: What Shall We Tell Caroline? in - The Dock Brief and Other Plays / COL Author: Mortimer, John Publisher: Grove Press Inc. 1958
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
1interior set.
On Caroline's 18th birthday her parents realize they must tell her something: but what? They themselves know very little about life. Father is the headmaster of a small boys' school who treats mother like a good chap. Mother for her part responds good-naturedly to the harmless advances of the assistant headmaster, who is himself well over the hill. Caroline is a strange and silent girl, Title: Who Killed My Bald Sister Sophie? Or, Thank God for Small Favours in - Tom Eyen: Ten Plays / COL Author: Eyen, Tom Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act (as part two of a trilogy)
'Theatre of the absurd comedy set in fun-wax house, Coney Island. Two sisters reveal their sordid backgrounds, and sibling hatred.'
Title: Who's a Good Boy? in - Great Short Comedies: Volume 1 / COL Author: Wood, Anthony Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2007
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female (flexible casting) one act
A canine detective tries to retrieve a mysterious lost ball in this film noir dog show spoof.
Title: Why Hanna's Skirt Won't Stay Down; or, Admission 10¢ in - Tom Eyen: Ten Plays / COL Author: Eyen, Tom Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act (as part of a trilogy)
'Theatre of the absurd comedy set in a fun-wax house, Coney Island. Much jaded prostitute and young narcissist man, have meaningless sexual encounters, but no communication.' Title: Wide Awake Hearts in - Minor Complications / CCO Author: Gall, Brendan Publisher: Coach House Press 2010
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - Canadian four characters two male; two female one act
Four nameless friends - a writer, an actress, an actor and an editor - stumble through the nightmarish landscape of love and infidelity while trying to make a movie about those very things. Reality and fiction blur as all four try to tear everything apart, hoping to wake up to something better.
Title: Widows and Children First! in - The Torch Song Trilogy / COL Author: Fierstein, Harvey Publisher: Gay Presses of New York 1979
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ four characters three male; one female one act
interior; exterior.
"Even more astonishing was this sequel, the story of Arnold and Ed, their lovers, the family they unmake, and the new one they bravely make."
Title: Wild Guys, The in - Four by Four by Four / CCO Author: Wreggitt, Andrew Shaw, Rebecca Publisher: Red Deer Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male one act
one act version.
"When four men set off to find an isolated cabin in the forest on a "weekend, a la Robert Bly, everything that can go wrong, does!". Title: Wild with Happy in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2013 / COL Author: Domingo, Colman Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2013
Description:
roy comedy - satire - family - death - American five characters three male; one female (doubling) one act
WILD WITH HAPPY explores the surreal, bizarre and outrageous comedy that lies in everyone’s search for answers as they try to deal with death and healing when a young man named Gil plans to scatter his mother’s ashes in the place where she was the most happy.
Title: Willa-Willie-Bill's Dope Garden in - Amazon All Stars / COL Author: Terry, Megan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996
Description:
roy comedy - women - lesbian all female cast; four characters four female one act
Four lovers search for the exact spot where Willa Cather wrote in order to 'make love on that hallowed ground.'
Title: Windowmen in - New England New Play Anthology, The / COL Author: Barkhimer, Steven Publisher: StageSource 2017
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; five characters five male one act (seven scenes; can be presented as two acts if needed) 1 set; period - 1980's.
"Windowmen recalls New York in the early 1980s, when the sprawling fish market beneath the Brooklyn Bridge had yet to be "sanitized" by the City, and the pungent early-morning air was alive with quick deals, spicy repartee and big money. For a time, this macho world is a hilariously incongruous place for Kenny, a down-and-out young philosophy student, to be introduced to." Title: Wine in the Wilderness in - Plays By and About Women / COL Author: Childress, Alice Publisher: Vintage Books 1974
Description:
roy social comedy five characters three male; two female one act
1 interior.
Set in Harlem, during the 1964 riots. Negro woman, model for Negro painter, is afraid of falling in love with him, until she discovers that he had wanted an 'ugly and ignorant' model.
Title: Winnetou's Snake Oil Show from Wigwam City in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 68, Fall 1991 / PER Author: Spiderwoman Theatre Publisher: Miscellaneous 1991
Description:
roy parody - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; twenty-one characters four female (doubling) one act
'Spiderwoman Theatre from New York parodies the appropriation of Native spirituality by contemporary Plastic Shamans.'
Title: With A Bullet (Or, Surprise Me) in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL Author: Bray, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - religion - politics four characters three male; one female one act (one scene)
1 interior set.
"Refusing to surrender control of their lives, a staunch libertarian, a female Episcopal priest, and a wounded liberal walk into a bar on New Year's Eve in 1999 to debate love and loss; however, they learn that anyone can succumb to the phrase "it looks like rain." Title: Witness to a Conga in - Witness to a Conga and other plays / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters two male; four female one act
A young gentleman’s attempts to draw connections among his circle of acquaintances produces results charged with gravity and uproariousness in equal measure. It’s a thoughtfully combustible look at living up to the music which invades your life.
Title: Women of Manhattan in - 13 by Shanley / COL Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992
Description:
roy comedy - women five characters two male; three female one act
1 interior; 1 exterior.
"Comedy. Depiction of lives of three Manhattan female yuppies whose financial successes cannot counterbalance their emotional needs."
Title: Woodman and the Goblins, The in - Green Man and other plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1991
Description:
roy dark comedy - folk tale four characters one male; three female one act
A lonely woodcutter finds three eggs in the middle of the dark forest, brings them home, and they hatch into three beautiful young girls who first enchant, then torment and finally destroy him. This scarey, funny and haunting play is based on an old European folk tale. Title: Workshop Script, The (A Cautionary Tale) in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Shave, George Bernard Shiverstick, Bill Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy contemporary - comedy four characters flexible casting one act
A dramaturge, playwright and two actors attempt to get through a reading of the play at hand.
Title: Would You Like a Cup of Tea? in - Four New Comedies / CCO Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - relationships - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act
"A fallen English gentleman and his long-time batman have co-existed in the same flat for years. Their routine lifestyle is interrupted when they awaken to their need for female companionship."
Title: Yes, Mamet in - Great Short Comedies: Volume 1 / COL Author: Casarino, Matt Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2007
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female (flexible casting) one act
Two David Mamet-obsessed writers pitch their play to Reginald, an African-American theatre director. Their work is a derivative doozy -- a compilation of all things Mamet, including con artists, rhythmic dialogue, and lots and lots of profanity. Reginald sees right through their Mametisms and urges them to rediscover their own voices, but the boys find that maybe there's another hero out there to emulate... Title: You're Invited! in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL Author: Canady, Darren Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012
Description:
roy comedy - relationships five characters three male; two female one act
Love in our culture has become something of a commodity that we tend to think has monetary value. Buying love is recognized by many as prostitution, of course, but it curiously seems that money spent on sons and daughters signals familial balance and order, especially in the middle-class suburbia where keeping up with the Joneses has become a money-hemorrhaging marathon that has lost sight of its ultimate goal.
Title: Your Life is a Feature Film in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 17th series / COL Author: Minieri, Alan Publisher: Samuel French 1993
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
'Young man whose entire life has been a film production must struggle to get grip on reality.'
Title: YouTopia in - The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012 / COL Author: Kwak, Chaney Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2013
Description:
roy satire - American - short play five characters three male; two female one act
A look into the not-so-distant future at the self-generated destruction of the idea of the private citizen. Kwak reports: "Originally I tried to write "YouTopia" as a short story, but every draft felt false. I realized that the story I was trying to tell couldn't work without the immediacy of live actors, defying the very idea of the virtual world we're building". Title: Yuppie Ciao in - John Lazarus Shorts / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada
Description:
roy comedy - romance four characters two male; two female one act
A prequel to Puppets, a take-out dinner leads to a breakdown in the young couple's romance. As with Puppets, the audience gets to watch both their inner and outer behaviour.
Title: Zig Zag Woman in - Wasp and Other Plays / COL Author: Martin, Steve Publisher: Samuel French 1998
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
Pushed to amazing lengths to relieve profound loneliness, a waitress magically separates herself into three parts to facilitate her quest for a man. She encounters an old man waiting for true love, a middle aged man who has stopped looking, and a fiery young man who longs for a woman in pieces.
Title: Zig Zag Woman in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Martin, Steve Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
Pushed to amazing lengths to relieve profound loneliness, a waitress magically separates herself into three parts to facilitate her quest for a man. She encounters an old man waiting for true love, a middle aged man who has stopped looking, and a fiery young man who longs for a woman in pieces.