Title: Abigail's Party in - Abigail's Party and Goose-Pimples / COL Author: Leigh, Mike Publisher: Penguin Books 1977 Description: roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts 'Leigh and his actor's take a long, unflinching look at the chromium-plated, leather-upholstered nastiness of the nouveau riche: an exercise made bearable by the terrifying accuracy of their observation and their lethal sense of comedy.' Title: Absent Friends in - Three Plays / COL Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Penguin Books 1979 Description: roy comedy six characters three male; three female two acts 1 interior. "Social comedy. Former friends having tea party to extend sympathy to man whose fiancee drowned discover he has cheerful attitude toward life while they are experiencing marital discord and unhappiness." Title: Absurd Person Singular in - Three Plays / COL Author: Ayckbourn, Alan Publisher: Penguin Books 1979 Description: roy comedy six characters three male; three female three acts Three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. First, the lower-class but very much up-and-coming Hopcrofts in their bright new kitchen anxiously giving a little party to their bank manager and his wife, and and architect neighbor. Then, the architect and his wife in their neglected untidy flat. Lastly, the bank manager and his wife in their large, slightly modernized kitchen. Running like a darker thread through the wild comedy of behind-the-scenes disasters at Christmas parties is the story of the advance of the Hopcrofts to Title: Act a Lady in - Humana Festival 2006 / COL Author: Harrison, Jordan Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2007 Description: roy comedy - gender roles nine characters three male; three female (doubling) two acts setting: 1927 - a very small town in the Midwest; accompanied by accordian. "When the men of a small Prohibition-era town decide to put on a play dressed in "fancy-type, women-type clothes," the whole community is affected: gender lines blur, eyebrows raise, identities explode, and life and art are forever entangled. A thoughtful and exuberant Midwestern fable about the woman in every man, the man in every woman and the power of theatre to uncover Title: Affections of May, The in - The Motor Trade & The Affections of May / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990 Description: roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female two acts 1 interior set. After being deserted by her husband, a woman suddenly finds herself the centre of attention in a small town. Title: After Ashley in - Humana Festival 2004 - COL Author: Gionfriddo, Gina Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005 Description: roy political satire six characters four male; two female two acts This play is a blatant attack on the media and its tendency to glorify victims of tragedy. After the brutal murder of Ashley Hammond by a homeless man her husband hired to work in their house, her son Justin and husband Alden try to rebuild their lives. Their tragedy has thrown them into the public light, and each of them deals with it in a different way. Alden has written a bestselling book about the tragedy, and Justin is now known as “The 911 Kid” because of his heart-wrenching 911 tape reporting his mother’s murder, which has been made public (and later Title: Afternoon of the Big Game in - Deverell of the Globe / CCO Author: Deverell, Rex Publisher: NeWest Press 1989 Description: roy Canadian - comedy seven characters five male; two female two acts "The two most popular weekend pastimes in Saskatchewan are watching the Roughriders play and arguing politics. East vs. west, old vs. young, male vs. female, ideals vs. apoliticism - all take turns being the football in this witty and telling play." Title: Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls in - Humana Festival '99 / COL Author: Iizuka, Naomi Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1999 Description: roy serio-comedy eleven characters five male; two female (doubling) two acts "The lives of strangers and friends, lovers and acquaintances collide in New York, Alaska, and Hawaii. A fantastical picaresque featuring a komodo dragon, a hula dancer, an Incan mummy, many piñatas, and one wild dog." Title: Alphabetical Order in - Alphabetical Order and Donkey's Years / COL Author: Frayn, Michael Publisher: Eyre Methuen ltd. 1977 Description: roy comedy seven characters four male; three female two acts "Set in the library of a provincial newspaper where battle is joined between the forces of order and chaos, between arid organisation in the person of the new library assistant, Leslie, and humane confusion in the person of Lucy, the much-loved resident librarian". Title: Ambush at Tether's End in - The Factory Lab Anthology / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1974 Description: roy Canadian - drama - comedy five characters four male; one female two acts "...develops the serious game of one-upmanship. Here the superior being is Max, the corpse, who has demonstrated his intellectual supremacy through an artfully arranged suicide. His rival, Jobeo, tries to outwit Max by preparing the stage for a rational homicide. Our real concern, however, is with the two pawns of the game, Galt and Bush, little men embodying only the stereotypes of businessman and sportsman. The comic interest lies in watching their patterns of evasion. They are outwitted in this aspect though by Max's parents, the Cranes. When Jobeo flees Title: April in Paris in - Plays: 3 (John Godber) / COL Author: Godber, John Publisher: Methuen & Co 2003 Description: roy comedy - British - travel two characters one male; one female two acts "Bet and Al lead a quiet, humdrum life in their small Yorkshire home until Bet wins a 'Romantic Breaks' competition in a magazine. The prize, a holiday in Paris, represents their first experience abroad and has profound effects on the way they look at the world around them once they return home. They sort out French cuisine, wrestle with their phrase book, and fend off would-be muggers on the Metro in this hilarious depiction of the English abroad." Title: Arms and the Man in - Eight Great Comedies / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: New American Library 1958 Description: roy comedy - classics seven characters four male; three female three acts 2 interior; 1 exterior set. "With the whimsical satire shows the romantic Sergius and 'the chocolate soldier' Bruntschi as without illusions concerning the nature of war. Bruntschi wins Raina; Sergius finds consolation in marrying the maid". Title: Baby with the Bathwater in - Complete Full-Length Plays,1975-1995 / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1997 Description: roy satire five characters two male; three female two acts "Satiric look at parenthood and sex roles in contemporary society." Title: Back to Beulah in - Dramatic (CCO) Author: Mitchell, W. O. Publisher: Macmillan and Company 1982 Description: roy comedy seven characters three male; four female two acts 'Christmas has come just halfway through the critical first year of the new halfway house that Beulah Mental Institute has allowed Dr. Margaret Anders to open on a trial basis. Dr. Anders feels that the healing power of a more normal life outside institution walls can better help the mentally ill Harriet and Betty and Agnes. The experiment has gone well so far and she has reason to be optimistic about what she considers her 'parable of hope'. The need for an infant Jesus for the creche under the Christmas tree shatters that optimism.' Title: Baltimore Waltz, the - a scene from in - The Way We Live Now - COL Author: Vogel, Paula Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990 Description: roy dramatic comedy three characters two males; one female one scene "Dramatic comedy set in Baltimore, Maryland hospital. Imaginary trip to Europe shared by sister and brother vehicle for comments on attitudes towards AIDS." Title: Barefoot in the Park in - The Comedy of Neil Simon - COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Avon Books 1971 Description: roy comedy six characters four male; two female three acts After a six-day honeymoon a spanking new lawyer and his young bride, move into a high-rent apartment that she has chosen. But, in order to enjoy the charming of the apartment, one has to climb six wheezing flights to get to it. Absolutely bare of furniture with bad paint job, there isn't room for a double bed, and an outlandish gourmet who lives in a loft on the roof uses it and the window ledge as the only access to his loft. The situation is enough to break the heart of any stylish lawyer; and indeed it does - on the night he flatly refuses to join his wife in a barefoot Title: Beggars in the House of Plenty in - 13 by Shanley (COL) Author: Shanley, John Patrick Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992 Description: roy comedy - dark, Irish six characters two male; four female three acts 1 interior. "Black comedy about life in dysfunctional Irish Catholic family in New York City." Title: Betty's Summer Vacation in - American Theatre (Dec 99) - PER Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Miscellaneous Description: roy comedy seven characters, group of voices four male; three female two acts "Looking for a little rest and time by herself, Betty rents a summer share at the beach. But Betty's luck turns to delicious lunacy when this sensible Everywoman gets drawn into the chaotic world of some very unsavory housemates-her friend Trudy who talks too much; the lewd, semi-naked Buck, who tries to have sex with everyone; and Keith, a possible serial killer who hides in a room with a mysterious hat box. With sand between her toes, walking a thin line between sanity and survival, poor Betty will leave her summer vacation more terrorized than tan." Title: Beyond Therapy in - Complete Full-Length Plays,1975-1995 / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1997 Description: roy comedy - relationships six characters four male; two female two acts "Bruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy.