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- $11.27 – $65.29
Moments of Madness
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 2-9 VARIABLE
Auditions, Classroom Use, Farce, Mental Health Issues, Seniors, Bare Stage, Collection, Colleges, Comedy, Community, Competitions, Doubling Roles
A short play collection by Jack J. Berry consists mainly of short comedies. Berry loves to stand the world on its head. A comedy about attempted assassin John J. Hinkley? Travel from Old Testament to WWII in a matter of minutes? These short plays can be produced as an evening of theater or individually as introductions to meetings and events.
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Off Our Rockers
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 1 - 9 M / 1 - 9 F/ Doubling Possible
Seniors, Variable Length, Collection, Colleges, Comedy, Flexible Casting, Small Cast
This collection of madcap 10-minute comedies appeals to everyone from teens to seniors. Casts include elves, grumpy homophobic neighbors, and a troupe of historical characters come to life.
Read More - $12.95 – $75.00
ABC’s of Memory
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 1 - 50 M or F
Auditions, Monologue, spoken word, Spoken Word Theatre, Variable Length, Reader's Theater
Lianne’s ABCs of Memory touch on cultural milestones such as Elvis, Nancy Drew, Wonder Bread, 9-11, and Ty Cobb, as well as personal memories of family life. These poems both celebrate and mourn America’s past and present.
These are dramatic poems. Life happens. Events occur. Here is an elegy for our American Dream. As such. these poems are naturals for forensics, scene study, and spoken word events.
Read More - $6.97 – $29.95
Original Relocation
- 10 minutes
- 1 Male, 1 Female, Min/Max 2
Fable, Farce, 2-Character, Bare Stage, Comedy
Adam and Eve start the first world war as they negotiate an uneasy peace when they are banished from Paradise. A funny take on the likely conversation after being ejected from Paradise. And of course, there are rules about Apples.
Read More - $11.95 – $89.87
The Don
- 1 - 60 min
- 1 - 50 M or F
Fable, Farce, Bare Stage, Collection, Community, Doubling Possible
41 Plays-On-A-Page convey slices of sometimes fantastical life. Sometimes biting social commentary, sometimes whimsical asides. These short dramas and comedies leave the audience guessing about their own lives and the world around them. William Heyen, National Book Award Finalist and major American poet, has turned his pen to the stage, with stellar results.
Read More - $9.97 – $69.95
Ten After Ten: Ten 10-Minute Comedies
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 2 M/F - 20+ M/ F Doubling possible
Classroom Use, Farce, Seniors, Collection, Comedy
In Ten After Ten, Jack J. Berry uses unique settings to highlight current problems and issues. These short comedies can be performed as a single evening or used separately as part of a larger presentation to underscore a point. Excellent for classroom, church, or senior facility.
Read More - $7.95 – $40.00
Short Plays for Long Lives
- 10 - 60 minutes
Collection, Doubling Possible, Flexible Casting
A collection of six 10-minute plays for seniors and senior theater groups. With mostly senior cast members, these short comedies plays about old people play well for senior groups and senior actors. They may be produced as Readers Theater, or on stage individually or as a group. These are good plays for amdram groups and community theater.
Read More - $9.95 – $50.00
A Touch of Frost
- 20 - 60 minutes
- 2 Males, 1 Female Max/Min 3
School Touring, Simple Set, Touring
Three 20-minute comedies in one act. Wilford, from New York, has just bought and moved to a new homestead in Vermont, but he realizes that his new neighbors may not be from this planet! Mila, her son Klig, and husband Kulerie Klee, live on a farm next to Wilford’s and their adjoining farms are separated only by a stone wall which is beginning to fall apart. What to do? Knock it down? Build it back? – and what are they walling in and walling out? Can be performed by high school, college, university students or groups.
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Going to the Dogs
- 10 minutes
- 1 Male, 2 Females, Max/Min cast 3
Competitions, Simple Set
In this 10-Minute original farce, a free-thinking retired woman, Sylvia, discovers that her deceased husband has been reincarnated as her dog. A surreal and hilarious Fantasy/Comedy by Pamela Steadman. Acting script.
Read More - $9.00 – $30.00
Independence Day
- 10 - 40 minutes
Simple Set
In these three short comedies for seniors by Marj O’Neill-Butler, characters of a certain age struggle against grown children, spouses, or former tormentors to maintain their own psychological and social independence.
Read More - $9.00 – $40.00
Short Shorts for Seniors
- 5 - 60 minutes
- 1+Females 2+Males Max 12 Min 3 (Doubling Possible)
Dramedy, Seniors, Comedy, Community
French fries are outlawed? Animals invade a retirement community? Did we hear polka music? This collection of five short plays for seniors is funny and touching at the same time. These plays by prize-winning playwright and award-winning actress Ludmilla Bollow, illustrate the drama that touches our everyday lives.
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Friends and Relations
- 30 - 90 minutes
- 3+ Males 3+ Females Max 10 Min 5
Flexible Casting, Simple Set
A collection of short comedies for seniors by Evan Guilford-Blake. The short comedies may be performed separately or together by a cast of as few as five or as many as 10. Contains:
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– Old Friends -Two strangers meet on a park bench,
– The Baby – A pregnancy brings new challenges into old relationships
– Strangers in the Night – An older woman meets a younger man on the deck of the SS Sinatra, a recreational cruise ship, somewhere in the Caribbean - $11.00 – $30.00
I Love Jack Kerouac
- 10 - 30 minutes
- 3+ Males 2+ Females Max 8+ Min 3
Doubling Possible
Three short quirky contemporary romantic comedies for senior performers. In the title play, a lonely waitress finds hope through a character strangely resembling Jack Kerouac. In “A Rose, A Cane” an aging couple comes to terms with their declining years. In “Two Roads Diverge”, a Vermont farmer encounters life of the strangest kind during a chance meeting at a fence at his property’s fence line…
Read More - $9.00 – $50.00
ElderPair: Four Senior Courtship Comedies
- 15 - 90 Minutes
- 2+M 2+F Min 2 Max 8
Four one-act comedy plays for seniors by Pat Montley, for the young-at-heart senior community, these plays dramatize a variety of romantic relationships among characters who are determined to live their lives to the fullest. They may be performed as a complete program for the evening or separately as short plays. Running time is about 10 – 15 minutes apiece. Great for senior or retirement communities. Downloadable, printable PDF available.
Read More - $7.95 – $75.00
D. D.The Concise Christmas Carol
- 50 Minutes
- 1 Male (up to 4 possible)
Comedy, Drama, Flexible Casting
A 50-minute condensed monologue adapted from Charles Dickens’ Scrooge. How the ghosts who haunt him, eventually transform a lonely, stingy, bitter old man into a generous, infectiously cheerful humanitarian. D.D. Delaney, a professional actor, playwright, journalist, and poet has adapted the familiar holiday classic for the stage. Written as a monologue, it can also be performed by 4 actors. Ideal for Christmas celebrations, house performances, and readers theater. Downloadable PDF available.
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The Aviators
- 45 Minutes
- 4 Males
Dramedy
Two retired Marine Corps pilots, Rory “Roar” McMahon, and his longtime squadron buddy, Austin “Toad” Campion, conspire to “escape” from the Navy Regional Medical Center in Portsmouth, VA where they have both been admitted with a life-threatening illness. The two characters are opposites in everything except their love of flying. With the help of two old combat buddies, they plan how to outwit the hospital staff in one, last. “impossible” escapade. Great for seniors and community theaters.
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