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by Gene Stone (Author)George Clarke is a civil servant, a respected member of the Establishment, once married, now on his own. He lives in a flat in a converted Hampstead house. The apartment above is inhabited by hippies, and their noise often disturbs his peace. One evening young Louise Hamilton arrives on his doorstep. She has had a row with young Davey in the "pad" upstairs. She is also very pregnant. The clash between the happy and the square types is at full strength when Louise suddenl...

Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations - Paperback

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by David Mamet (Author)Comedy Characters: 2 males, 2 females Bare stage, movable propsThe Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago "takes funny and painful digs at the fantasies and distances of the contemporary sexual game," according to The New York Times. Two male office workers, Danny and Bernie, are on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970's. Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are lovers as well as roommates. The other couple, Bernie and Joan, seem t...

Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth - Paperback

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by John Patrick (Author), Tom Stoppard (Author)ComedyCharacters: 9 male, 2 female 2 Interior Sets This clever romp is two short plays. In the first, a troupe of English schoolboys (played by adults) speak in a mock language called "Dogg." This hilarious language babbles along until the schoolboys, who are studying Shakespeare's "foreign" language, present an incredibly funny 15 minute version of Hamlet and then encore with a two-minute version The second play, dedicated to dissident Czech dr...

Whose Life Is It Anyway? - A Play - Paperback

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by Brian Clark (Author)Ken Harrison has been so severely injured in a car crash that he is totally paralysed; only his brain functions normally. He is being kept alive by the miracles of medicine, but wishes to die. This he could achieve by discharging himself from hospital but being wholly helpless has to gain the authorities' consent. The play examines the moral and legal aspects of the situation and the reactions of the hospital staff. Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Pu...

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by Anthony Shaffer (Author)An unusual and macabre beginning to this play sets the audience's nerves twitching well before any dialogue confuses their minds! Norman apparently murders his girlfriend, Millie, and is in the process of disposing of her body when he is interrupted by a Sergeant Stenning. The ensuing hunt for the victim and the ghoulish discovery of a head burning in the stove is fiendishly climaxed by the revelation that it is only a dummy. Yet is Millie really dead or not?-2 wome...

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by Thornton Wilder (Author)Thornton Wilder referred to The Alcestiad as "a mixture of religious revival, mother-love-dynamite, and heroic daring-do." In it, he retells the ancient legend of Alcestis, Queen of Thessaly, who gave her life for her husband Admetus, beloved of Apollo, and was brought back from Hell by Hercules. When the brave and confused Alcestis returns from the dead, asking large questions about what matters most in life and how we lead it, we catch more than a glimpse of Emily...

The Water Engine & Mr. Happiness - Paperback

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by David Mamet (Author)In The Water Engine, actors, an announcer, and a sound effects man present a radio play during the 1930s with unerring authenticity. The "play within the play" reveals the story of a young inventor who's found a way to run an engine on distilled water. At first ridiculed, he is courted by crooked lawyers attempting to buy the invention from him on behalf of "certain business interests." After refusing, he is threatened, and when he attempts to give his story to the news...

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by Jim Leonard Jr. (Author)Characters: 4 male, 1 female with doubling Unit Set Winner LA Weekly Award for Best New Play Award-winning playwright Jim Leonard's latest, Battle Hymn, is the story of 16-year-old Martha's epic pregnancy and her incredible search for motherhood, meaning, and love in a war-torn American landscape. After being abandoned by her father, losing her true love and witnessing the horrors of the Civil War firsthand, Martha settles on one incontrovertible fact: She Number ...

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by Samuel Taylor (Author)As the New York Post outlines: "It is set in a real Rome. A Rome you really miss...It is set there because a young, conservative, slightly stuffy American businessman has come to retrieve the body of his father, who was killed in an automobile accident...what it adds up to is grown-up entertainment...so well done and so basically diverting that it can only be taken for the pleasurable thing it is."-2 women, 7 men Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Pub...

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by Buddy Thomas (Author)Comedy Characters: 2 male, 2 female Unit Set From the author of the hit plays Devil Boys From Beyond and The Crumple Zone comes this hilarious one-act about college theatre majors waiting for the cast list for West Side Story to be posted.....and the aftermath. A finalist in HBO's New Writer's Workshop and a Second Place winner at American College Theatre Festival, Spotlight is a fast-paced comedy about the desperate drive to succeed, and delusions that get Number of P...

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by Frank Williams (Author)David Langton, a young man in his mid-twenties returns home, clearly in a state of great agitation. When he hears his parents Joan and Richard, returning from a dinner dance he lies and tells them he has been in all evening. Then his eighteen year old brother, Charles, arrives with the news that there has been a murder on the cliff top. Richard, the editor of the local paper goes out to the scene of the crime with his younger son, to get the story.2 women, 4 men Numb...

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by Hannah Bos (Author), Paul Thureen (Author), George Bernard Shaw (Author)Full Length, Satirical ComedyCharacters: 5 male, 3 female 2 Interior and Exterior Scenes Shaw's satire on war and the professional soldier. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 10, 2011

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by Seymour Matthews (Author)This captivating thriller employs a play within a play theme in a singularly exciting manner. At first, it seems to be the usual "Agatha Christie" type play two couples lured to a remote Italian villa to be murdered one by one. It is only when this play is well advanced that we learn we are watching actors rehearsing their own murder mystery. It is shortly after this, when two of these actors have been murdered in the same manner as the characters in their own play...

Acting: The First Six Lessons - Paperback

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by Beau Bridges (Author), Emily Bridges (Author)Dramatic ComedyCharacters: 1 male, 1 femaleBeau Bridges, winner of three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes, teams up with his daughter Emily Bridges, a recent college grad, to create this stage version of Richard Boleslavsky's 1933 narrative about a dedicated acting teacher who, while instructing a young actress in her craft, gives her valuable lessons for living as well. Over the course of ten scenes, the action moves from the teacher's studio ...

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by Georgee Feydeau (Author), John Mortimer (Translator)The translator of a popular version of Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear scored another success with this acclaimed farce at the National Theatre of Great Britain. More slam bang experiences in mistaken identities and sexual peccadillos, this hilarious story begins with M. Pinglet's efforts to have a fling with Mme. Paillardin, who is terminally bored with her husband. The lovers book a room in a very out of the way hotel which quickly becomes ...

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by Peter Terson (Author)Inspired by a television documentary, Peter Terson's play looks at the world of the North-East England strippers, centring on Wendy and Bernard, a young couple whose lives are up-ended when Wendy turns, reluctantly, to stripping to support the family after Bernard is made redundant. Although Bernard quite happily watches the 'exotic dancers' over a couple of pints at the club, when it comes to his wife it's a different matter.6 women, 4 men Number of Pages: 70 Dimensio...

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by Walter Mosley (Author)> Dramatic comedy Cahracters: 3 male, 2 female A hip and inventive new play by Walter Mosley, best-selling author of more than 25 books and most widely known for his popular Easy Rawlins mysteries, including "Devil in a Blue Dress". Tempest Landry, a street-wise young man living in Harlem, unexpectedly finds himself at the Pearly Gates. When Saint Peter orders him to hell, the quick-witted Tempest refuses to go. A technical loophole forces heaven to send Tempest ba...

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by Arne Sultan (Author), Ray Cooney (Author)George and Linda Harper's 17 year marriage has gone stale, but George doesn't seem to be aware of it. When confronted with the problem, he gets a vasectomy, which solves nothing, so he moves out. Linda rearranges her life by enrolling in self-improvement courses. Trying for an amicable divorce, they agree to use one lawyer and hire their closest friend. When this backfires, George attempts reconciliation by trying to seduce Linda but is interrupted ...

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by Thornton Wilder (Author)This collection of Wilder's most famous one act plays includes, The Long Christmas Dinner, The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, Pullman Car Hiawatha, Queens of France, Such Things Only Happen in Books, and Love and How to Cure It. In these mini-masterpieces, Wilder experiments with techniques and dramatic forms he would later develop in his celebrated full-length works, Our Town, The Matchmaker, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.2...

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by Ken Ludwig (Author)A concert in Ohio in 1934 is jeopardized when the lead Italian tenor falls into a drunken'stupor. So the impresario's diminutive assistant blacks up and goes on as Otello. The tenor awakens, dons his costume, and thence follows a hilarious comedy involving two Otellos, a volatile Italian wife, an outrageous bellhop and a cynical impresario. Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 06, 2015

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by Michael Frayn (Author)This long-running hit starred Sam Waterston on Broadway as an urban architect whose attempts to improve humanity by the environments he creates, only leads to chaos when the high-rise boom goes bust and two close friends are caught in the cross-hairs.2 women, 2 men Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 24, 2015

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by Hugh Leonard (Author)Pizzazz consists of three plays intended solely as entertainment. If they have a theme in common, it is that each one deals with travellers - near Dublin, in Rome and on the Shannon - who are apart from their natural environment. Another quality in common is perhaps suggested by the original composite title Scorpions.-3 women, 2 men Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 01, 1986

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by Baroness Orczy (Author)First performed in 1903, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the most successful play of its day archetypal Edwardian theatre and the precursor of romantic Hollywood historical epics. This adaptation brings to modern audiences the tale of the elusive hero who snatches helpless innocents from death and rescues the Comte de Tournai with the enemy hot on his trail. The Scarlet Pimpernel works in the shadows, his identity unknown even to his immediate followers. So disinterested i...

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by Royce Ryton (Author)Did the daughter of Tsar Nicholas II die with the rest of the imperial family in 1918? Or was she the girl found in an asylum in 1920? This brilliantly executed drama presents the case for and against "Mrs. Manahan" using only four actors Mrs. Manahan, a police inspector who later plays his own son, and a additional actor and actress who play between them thirty parts. Audiences are spellbound by this compelling play with a final surprising twist.-2 women, 2 men Number ...

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by Brian Clemens (Author)This ingenious play opens on two once successful crime-writing playwrights endeavouring to complete a block-buster to pay off their mounting debts - or are they? As the plot develops they realise their full potential - who better to accomplish the perfect murder than themselves? Forbes' nagging wife, Ann, is the perfect victim, especially as she is insured for �200,000. It all seems plausible enough until Forbes' partner mistakenly kills their secretary and a stage-st...

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by Richard Harris (Author)This comedy by the author of Stepping Out is a bitter sweet and perceptive look at the collapse of marriage and the development and decay of an affair. Bob is a do-it-yourself enthusiast kind of guy that longs to be needed. This is why even long after his divorce he continues to visit his former home, despite how much it irritates his new girlfriend, Diana, who doesn't like the competition from his children or his Black and Decker.2 women, 1 man Number of Pages: 74 D...

Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 20th Series - Paperback

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by Luigi Jannuzzi (Author), Scott Elwell (Author), Le Wilhelm (Author)This is a hilarious, light hearted, comedy about Mr. Toemeali who has a 3 oclock appointment with God. In the waiting room he becomes upset when he meets two women who also have 3 oclock appointments. Macho Tomeali tries to manipulate Gods receptionist but only manages to miss God, one of the women. Macho is left to deal with himself in the waiting room. Number of Pages: 170 Dimensions: 0.36 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: Mar...

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by Jim Cartwright (Author)Under the guidance of the rum-soaked wideboy Scullery, we are taken on an evening's tour of a scruffy, depressed road in a small Lancashire town. Moving from street corner to living room, from bedroom to kitchen, we meet the inhabitants of young, middle-aged, and old, glimpsing their socially and emotionally wretched lives, in this sharp, sad, funny, and angry play. Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2014

Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 22nd Series - Paperback

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by William Gadea (Author), Bryan Patrick Moses (Author), Sean O'Donnell (Author)A collection of short plays selected by New York theatre critics, professionals, and the editorial staff of Samuel French, Inc. as the most important plays of the 22nd Annual Off Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival, sponsored by Love Creek Productions. This collection includes: Because I Wanted to Say by Sean O'Donnell, Brothers by William Gadea, For Tiger Lilies Out of Season by Andrea M. Green, The Last Da...

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by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)The comic poet of middle class life, always so very funny, goes deeper and darker in this triumphant play about a housewife named Susan who is married to a boring cleric named George. After getting knocked out by stepping on the tooth end of a garden rake, Susan experiences hilarious hallucinations in which her oppressive and boring everyday life is replaced by a fantasy in which she is an ideal wife and mother with an ideal family. While her real family treats her w...

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by Neil Simon (Author)Full Length, ComedyCharacters: 2 male, 2 femaleInterior Set In her beach house in the Hamptons, celebrated writer Rose Stern stands at a crossroads: she hasn't written anything in years and money is getting short. Her former lover, literary lion Walsh McLaren, offers her-from beyond the grave-an opportunity to regain her celebrity and gross millions. It's not going to be easy and a "ghost" writer is required setting in motion another touching and unpredictable roma Numbe...

They Came from Mars and Landed Outside the Farndale Avenue Church - Paperback

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by David McGillivray (Author)The Farndale Avenue ladies attempt lift off with their Dramatic Society's unique production of a sci-fi thriller. Needless to say, high-tech effects going awry and the limited talents of some group members ensure that the cast remains firmly on the ground some more than others. As ever, the resourceful Mrs. Reece brilliantly circumnavigates pitfalls as she steers the company into orbit and through space to genteel tea on Mars, where the nail biting action is inter...