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Adaptations
Plays Adapted from Shakespeare and Other Classics
Macbeth for Youth a 45-minute 5-actor play for youth
Midsummer Nights Dream (a 45-minute touring adaptation for youth; teen drama groups)
The Tempest (A touring play for young audiences; teen drama groups)
Reverse Hamlet (a one-act Hamlet comedy; great for middle school and teens)
Romeo and Juliet in Fewer Words Words Words (a 45-minute version for teens; ideal for classroom use with roles for every student; variable casting and doubling)
Romeo & Juliet For Youth (for young audiences and teen drama groups)
Poems, Plays, and Pratfalls: An Introduction to Shakespeare (a 2 or 4 actor version; 45 minutes for elementary school)
Shakespeare-On-The-Go (Four 45-minute Shakespeare plays for kids)
Shakespeare After School ( 50-minute Shakespeare composite)
Shakespeare: Playing for Laughs ( 50-minute Shakespeare composite)
An Enemy of the People (full-length Ibsen adaptation)
The Chimes ( full-length Dickens Christmas/New Years story)
The Concise Christmas Carol (Dickens, 50-minute version; 1 – 4 actors)
EveryKid (a one-act children’s comedy about values; based on Everyman)
Oliver Twist (Dickens; full-length comedy; great for classroom use and school play)
Eveline ( James Joyce: Dubliners; one act drama; women’s issues)
The Boarding House (James Joyce: Dubliners; one act comedy; women’s issues)
The Dead (James Joyce: Dubliners; one act drama)
An Evening with Joyce’s Women (James Joyce: Dubliners / f;ull-length)
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer / selected tales / imaginative staging / optional music)
The Hypochondriac (One-act version of Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid)
Frankenstein (a full-length adaptation of the original Mary Shelley novel; great for kids,teens, families and community theaters)
Screwtape Rewired (based on C. S. Lewis; 60-minutes; a demon in search of souls; performed by 1 – 4 actors)
Phaedra (a full-length, poetic, modern retelling of the Racine play; love, lust, and obsession)
Plays Adapted from Fairy Tales and Fables
Cinderella (a full-length adaptation / original characters )
The Moral of the Story (Ibo legend &Aesop’s Tortoise and the Hare;One Act)
The Lovely Red Flower (one act Malaysian folk tale for children; greed vs. industry)
Prince Hedgehog (one act for children; value of education)
Snow White (a full-length adaptation; seven unique dwarves)
Sleeping Beauty (a full-length adaptation from the Charles Perrault original)
The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde; a one-act play for children)
The Snow Queen (Hans Christian Andersen; optional audience participation)
Charming Princes and Wicked Queens (Three full-length fairy tales: Snow White, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty)
Feathers in the Wind (Jewish folk tales; musical; variable cast; the foolish people of Chelm)
Full-Length Plays
A Colonial Christmas (a full-length holiday journey through time; large cast /doubling)
The Chimes (a full-length Dickens Christmas / New Years story)
Best Always, Marilyn Monroe (a full-length original drama)
Brendan’s Journey (a 2-actor full-length tour-de-force)
An Enemy of the People (Ibsen comedy; full-length; environment/ politics)
Hymn to the Chesapeake (a lyrical, full-length, variable cast musical; life and love of watermen and women on Virginia’s Eastern shore)
She’ll Find her Way Home (post-Civil War, African-American family drama)
There’s a Stone in my Sister’s Old Shoe Ouch! (a full-length zany look at life and the after-life a la 1970’s culture)
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer / selected tales / imaginative staging / optional music)
The Unmasking of Yetta Breen (a full-length family drama about aging)
Between Trains (a site-specific, full-length poetic drama; variable casting; optional music)
Sniper (a full-length play in one act; a fictional view of the inner world of a school shooter)
Frankenstein (a full-length adaptation of the original Mary Shelley novel)
An Evening with Joyce’s Women (3 Joyce one-act adaptations; full-length; women’s issues)
Nat’s Last Struggle (a 50-minute 1-man show; Nat Turner confronts his God; great for school performances and classroom readings.)
Nat Turner’s Last Struggle: Finding His Way Home (a full-length, 2-character play in one-act; Nat Turner faces execution; Mother Earth figure; highly theatrical
Phaedra (a full-length, poetic, modern retelling of the Racine play; love, lust, and obsession)
A.N.G.E.L.s. Inc. (a full-length, out-of-this-world Christmas comedy play)
Distant Survivors (a full-length poetic Holocaust drama in one act)
Humans Remain (a full-length, lyrical, award-winning drama; diverse cast; great for schools, community theater; professional stages)
One Act Plays
91366 (a 3-character one-act drama set in a tattoo parlor; 1 teen role / 1 senior role – a Holocaust survivor.)
The Aviators (a 40-minute one act for adults/seniors / WWII vets)
A Chair (20 minutes; seniors/adults)
The Best is Yet to Be (30 minutes for teens/adults/seniors)
Birdwatchers (a one act 2-character drama for adults/seniors)
Campers (a one-act, 2-character comedy/drama for adults)
From the Back Seat (a 40-minute one-act with senior roles; simple set)
The Devil’s Due (a one-act, 3-character drama / adults)
In the Second Place (a 20-minute play for 4 adults)
The Pinch Hitter (a one-act comedy/drama for teens/adults)
Snapshots (a one-act play revealing pivotal points in a 30-year marriage; winner of the Kernoble Prize from the University of Arkansas)
Shadowland (a one-act, psychological drama)
Oregon Fever (a one-act drama; teen romance meets Gold Rush fever)
Inside and Out (a 10-minute play about autism)
Children’s Plays and Youth Theater
Baba Yaga Acts Up (6 short participation plays for children; total 60 minutes)
Cinderella: Boots, Class, and a Li’l Sass (musical to be performed for children)
Herschel & Happy (short participation plays for children; total 60 minutes)
EveryKid (a one-act children’s comedy about values; based on Everyman)
Prince Hedgehog (one act comedy for children; the value of education)
The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde / a one-act play for children; redemption theme)
Talk, The Musical (a one-act music for children about the environment)
Plays, Poems, and Pratfalls: Will Shakespeare, An Introduction (a 2 or 4 actor version; adult performers; 40 minutes; for elementary school)
Social Issue Plays for Youth (30 – 45 minutes)
All Dressed Up ( one-act family drama about teen sexuality)
Dropout ( one-act drama/comedy; diverse cast)
EveryKid (values. based on Everyman)
I Am the Brother of Dragons (a one-act play for teens / drug use and family / simple set)
The Moral of the Story (Ibo legend &Aesop’s Tortoise and the Hare /One Act)
Ophelia Lives! (a 45-minute play for teens / teen suicide)
The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde adaptation; selfishness/kindness)
Lost and Found (sexual identification; bare stage; 45 minutes; for teens)
Talk, The Musical (a one-act musical for children’s theater; the environment)
Three Long Days (a one-act play for teens; peer pressure)
Social Issue Plays for Youth/Adult (60 – 90 minutes)
Group S.O.S. (sexual abuse, molestation; male and female versions; 50 minutes each)
Group S.O.S. ( sexual abuse; Female version only)
Group S.O.S. ( sexual abuse; Male version only)
An Enemy of the People (Ibsen; environment/politics; full-length comedy)
A Cold Day in Hell (1-man show; 50 minutes; assisted suicide)
Sniper (a full-length play in one act / school shootings )
Humans Remain (a full-length play; diverse cast; isolation and civilization; Premiere available
Plays With Senior Citizen Characters
One-Acts & Shorts
(15 – 45 minutes)
A Chair (a one-act comedy; 20 minutes)
Attack at the Pierre-Fontaine (a one-act comedy; seniors performers; 30 minutes)
The Aviators (a one-act drama; 4 males; WWII vets; 30 minutes)
From the Back Seat (a one-act drama; simple set; generation gap; 45 minutes)
Independence Day (3 short shorts for seniors; simple sets; senior actors)
Short Shorts for Seniors (collection of 5 shorts; 10 minutes each; senior actors)
Short Plays for Long Lives (collection of 10-minute plays for seniors)
91366 (a 3-character one-act drama set in a tattoo parlor; 1 teen role / 1 senior role – a Holocaust survivor.)
Senior Citizen Characters (45 – 90 Minutes)
From the Back Seat (a one-act comedy; senior characters; simple set; family issues)
A Cold Day in Hell (a 50-minute 1-man show; pulling the plug on a loved one)
ElderPair: 4 Courtship Comedies for Seniors (4 shorts for seniors about relationships)
Friends & Relations (3 one-acts; senior characters / family audience; 30 minutes each)
I Love Jack Kerouac (3 short plays for seniors)
The Unmasking of Yetta Breen (a full-length family drama about aging)
Musicals & Plays with Music – Adult (full-length)
Hymn to the Chesapeake (a lyrical, full-length, variable cast musical; life and love of watermen and women on Virginia’s Eastern shore)
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer / selected tales / imaginative staging / optional music)
Feathers in the Wind (Jewish folk tales; variable cast; the foolish people of Chelm)
Musicals & Plays with Music – For Kids (30 – 45 minutes)
Cinderella: Boots, Class and a Li’l Sass (one-act spoof; performed by adults or teens
Talk: The Musical (one act for kids; performed by adults or teens; the environment)
Royal Tea (one-act fantasy; performed by adults or teens for kids)
Monologues – Adults 30 – 60 minutes
A Cold Day in Hell (a 50-minute 1-man show; pulling the plug on a loved one)
Behind Closed Doors (14 historical monologues/dialogues; 10 – 20 minutes each; famous couples from Freud to Hitler; great audition/competition material)
Bertha Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (a 30-minute, one-man show with multiple characters)
Mirror in Time (15 historical monologues; includes Harriet Tubman; Will Shakespeare, and Tsali, a warrior on The Trail of Tears; great for auditions, competitions, or an evening of Readers Theater)
Nat’s Last Struggle (a 50-minute 1-man show; Nat Turner confronts his God; great for school performances and classroom readings.)
Screwtapes Rewired (based on C. S. Lewis; 60-minutes; a demon in search of souls; perfomed by 1 – 4 actors)
Biblical or Spiritual Monologues
Spread Your Garment Over Me (15 monologues for women from the Bible; music optional)
For the Least of These (9 monologues; great women from history)
Voices from the Bible: Monologues for Women (16 monologues from the Old and New Testaments)
Monologues for Men: Voices from the New Testament (29 male monologues; includes author’s suggestions on performing monologues
Monologues for Men: Voices from the Old Testament (21 male monologues; includes author’s suggestion on performing monologues
Plays for Holidays & Special Events
Fanny & Manny Tie the Knot (wedding with audience participation; great fund-raiser)
There’s a Stone in my Sister’s Old Shoe Ouch! (a full-length zany look at life and the after-life a la 1970’s culture; Halloween
A Colonial Christmas (a full-length holiday journey through time; large cast /doubling)
A.N.G.E.L.s. Inc. (a full-length, out-of-this-world Christmas comedy play
The Concise Christmas Carol (Dickens, 50-minute version; 1 – 4 actors
As We See Him: A Christmas Cantata (features traditional carols and original poetry)
Lamb’s Tales (10 Christmas skits and plays; roles as young as 4 – 7; ideal for church service)
Frankenstein (a full-length adaptation of the original Mary Shelley novel; great for kids,teens, families and community theaters; Halloween)
Plays with Historical or Social Relevance
Best Always, Marilyn Monroe (a full-length original drama)
Brendan’s Journey (a 2-actor full-length tour-de-force)
An Enemy of the People (Ibsen comedy; full-length; environment/ politics)
Hymn to the Chesapeake (a lyrical, full-length, variable cast musical; life and love of watermen and women on Virginia’s Eastern shore)
She’ll Find her Way Home (post-Civil War, African-American family drama)
A Cold Day in Hell (1-man show; 50 minutes; assisted suicide)
Sniper (a full-length play in one act / school shootings )
Humans Remain (a full-length play; diverse cast; isolation and civilization; Premiere available)
Oregon Fever (a one-act drama; teen romance meets Gold Rush fever)
Scripts for Spiritual Audiences
Brendan’s Journey (a 2-actor full-length tour-de-force)
As We See Him: A Christmas Cantata (features traditional carols and original poetry)
Lamb’s Tales (10 Christmas skits and plays; roles as young as 4 – 7; ideal for church service)
The Chimes ( full-length Dickens Christmas/New Years story)
Screwtape Rewired (based on C. S. Lewis; 60-minutes; a demon in search of souls; performed by 1 – 4 actors)
Spread Your Garment Over Me (15 monologues for women from the Bible; music optional)
For the Least of These (9 monologues; great women from history)
Voices from the Bible: Monologues for Women (16 monologues from the Old and New Testaments)
Monologues for Men: Voices from the New Testament (29 male monologues; includes author’s suggestions on performing monologues
Monologues for Men: Voices from the Old Testament (21 male monologues; includes author’s suggestion on performing monologues
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