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- $9.95 – $90.00
An Evening With Joyce’s Women
- 100 minutes
- 3 Males 4 Females Max 12 Min 4
Community, Flexible Casting, Fundraiser, High School, Middle School
A trilogy of one-act plays, The Boarding House, Eveline, and The Dead
Based on Dubliners by James Joyce; adapted for the stage to allow us to enter the lives of three Dublin women. Dublin society of the first decade of the 20th Century comes to life through the frustrations, fantasies, and follies of Irish women who are also victims and victimizers of their mates.
Read More - $6.75 – $45.00
Campers
- 20 Minutes
- 1 Male 1 Female Max/Min 2
Colleges, Comedy, Competitions, High School
An “outdoorsy” couple on their honeymoon discover what it means to be caught, or bound together in love. This award-winning one-act comedy by B. A. Hite was a First Place winner, Actor’s Theatre; produced by Theatre Wagon of Virginia and Tidewater Community College. Simple set. Easy to stage.
Read More - $11.00 – $95.00
Frankenstein… or The Modern Prometheus
- 120 Minutes
- 7 Males 3 Females Max 13 Min 10 (Doubling Possible)
Drama, Simple Props, Simple Set
A full-length adaptation of Frankenstein. True to the Mary Shelley original, except for a comic servant role, the play depicts the monster Creature with as much horror and sympathy as the original. Excellent for Halloween! Earlier versions of this play by Kathleen McBlair have been performed in school and community theaters since 1980. Audiences love it and scream heartily every time the Creature arrives in the window.
Read More - $11.00 – $75.00
She’ll Find Her Way Home
- 100 minutes
- 2 Males, 3 Females, Min/Max 5
Community, High School, Reader's Theater
A full-length, African-American, post-Civil War drama. The only child of a deceased well-heeled Mississippi slaveholder. Martha Robb views her coming of age full of the adolescent longings and unending horizons promised by the victorious Union Army. and her quadroon complexion. She and her companion, Thomas, could forge different lives, lives absent of the old barriers … if they could only get past her mother.
Read More - $7.00 – $50.00
Snapshots
- 45 Minutes
- 2 Male, 1 Female, Min/Max 2
Competitions, Simple Props, Simple Set
Snapshots is a three-actor touching comedy that captures the high and low points of a 30-year marriage. Maggie ages from 27 to 60’s and Sy, her husband, ages 32 to 60’s. The Man represents various pivotal figures in their lives. Great for competitions, high schools, community theaters. Simple set: 3 cubes and a coat rack.
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Robert Arthur’s Eastern Shore
Musical Drama, Poetic Drama, Colleges, Community, High School, Large Cast, Middle School, Professional
ROBERT ARTHUR’S EASTERN SHORE by Robert P. Arthur, twice nominated for Virginia’s Poet Laureate: The book includes 4 one-act plays, a selection of his award-winning poems, and “Hymn to the Chesapeake,” a play with music. The culture of the Eastern Shore watermen and waterwomen has long been threatened by the erosion of winds off the Chesapeake Bay and a dwindling supply of crabs and “ersters” to be harvested. These poems and plays celebrate that life and allow us, to share the triumph and the pain of finding one’s livelihood and reason for being in an environment that is both beautiful and unforgiving.
Read More - $11.00 – $60.00
Charming Princes and Wicked Queens
Collection
Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White Script Collection
Adaptations, by Mickey Coburn, of three popular fairytales, have been produced, to great acclaim, in children’s theaters, as well as classrooms. These adaptations have unique characters among their more familiar companions to give more casting options and more roles. First produced, then toured, by the Boston Children’s Theatre, directed by Mickey Coburn.
Read More - $9.00 – $70.00
Nat’s Last Struggle
- 60 Minutes
- 1 Male, Min/Max 1
Simple Set
A one-man play by P. A. Wray. Nat Turner confronts his conscience in the afterlife. Nathanial “Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was an American slave who brought about the only direct, continuous slave rebellion (August 1831) in U. S. history. Some regard him as a monster, others as a hero in search of freedom. Which was he?
Great for high school, college, community theater, and readers theater.
Read More - $7.99 – $75.00
Midsummer Night’s Dream for Youth
- 45 Minutes
- 2 Males, 2 Females, Min/Max 4
Comedy, Community, Competitions, High School, Middle School, Minimal Set, School Touring, Simple Set, Small Cast, Teens, Touring
In this one-act adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, four players in a traveling clown troupe wake up one morning to discover that they have been abandoned by the other members of the company. That evening they are required to perform A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM before the local Squire and they have to madly re-invent the play so that it can be done with four clowns.
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Macbeth for Youth
- 45 Minutes
- 2 Males, 2 Females, Min/Max 4
Flexible Casting, Highly Theatrical, Interactive, Large Puppets, Minimal Set, Participatory, Touring
A thrilling one-act adaptation for children of Shakespeare’s harrowing story of the ambitious Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Greed and ambition are emphasized. The role of the Porter is expanded to give more comic relief. The Porter and the Witches serve as intermediaries with the play and the audience. Makes the story fully accessible to a younger audience.
Read More - $5.75 – $50.00
In the Second Place
- 20 Minutes
- 3 Males, 1 Female, Min/Max 4
Classroom Use, Choices, Comedy, Middle School, Simple Props, Simple Set, Small Cast, Touring
A one-act comedy. When a young lawyer finds himself locked into an apartment for rent he was viewing, he becomes increasingly panicked. As he calls for help, various residents of the building come to the door and attempt to rescue him. One voice, however, is especially attractive to the lawyer!
Read More - $9.97 – $79.95
I Am the Brother of Dragons – Script
- 45 Minutes
- 2 Males, 2 Females, Min/Max 4
Classroom Use, Dramedy, Drug Abuse, Mental Health Issues, Choices, Comedy, Community, Competitions, Depression, Drama, High School, Middle School
In this insightful drama by Gillette Elvgren, a family struggles to cope with drug addiction. Highly theatrical, the actors wear the masks that represent the many disguises they all assume in the dance of addiction.
Read More - $11.00 – $70.00
Phaedra
- 90 Minutes
- 4 Males 4 Females Max 15+ Min 9
Drama, Simple Props, Simple Set
A full-length, poetic drama resurrects the love, lust, and retribution of the original Greek legend in modern surroundings. A stepmother’s insatiable desire for her husband’s son destroys a family. Set in a beach house with the sound of drumming waves and ghostly figures of fishwives in the background, this verse play brings the ancient story back to life.
Read More - $9.00 – $60.00
Nat Turner’s Last Struggle: Finding His Way Home
- 50 - 60 minutes
- 1 Male 1 Female Max/Min 2
Simple Set, Staging Design Potential
This one-act, two character play opens during the pre-dawn hours of November 5, 1831. It is the day that Nat Turner, leader of a bloody slave rebellion, will be tried, convicted and sentenced to death. In the predawn hours before the trial a mysterious woman enters to purify the courtroom. Seven days later she is there by the hanging tree when Turner is executed and thrown into the darkness of death – where he fears he has been eternally abandoned.
Read More - $11.99 – $70.00
For the Least of These
- 15 - 90 Minutes
- 1 Male 4 Females Max 4 Min 1
Classroom Use, Monologue, Collection, Competitions, Doubling Possible, Minimal Set, Reader's Theater, School Touring, Simple Props
A Collection of Inspirational Monologues by Gillette Elvgren, this play is a compendium of monologues by great Christian women since the 3rd Century A.D. For the Least of These can be performed by a single actress as a one-woman show, or by several actresses. For the use of single monologues as part of a religious service, send us a message using our Contact Form
Read More - $11.00 – $95.00
An Enemy of the People
- 100 minutes
- 8 Males 4 Females Max 15+ Min 12 (Doubling Possible)
Community, environmental satire, Flexible Casting
Cut but uncensored! This full-length play by Jean Klein is true to the original text which savages corrupt institutions, greedy corporations, arrogant politicians, and our disdain for protecting the environment. This large-cast play can be performed by 10+ actors and plays well for high school, colleges, universities, community and professional theaters.
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