Plays About Love and Finding Love

Discover theater plays about love, modern romantic plays scripts, modern romantic plays, romantic comedy scripts, plays with romantic scenes, love scenes for the theatre stage. Find short romantic comedies, full-length dramatic romance plays for small and large cast community plays.

Romeo and Juliet in Fewer Words, Words, Words

$11.00 – $75.00

This adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” by Robyn Hilt reduces the original but retains the major plot points and beauty of the poetry. A great choice for classroom presentation. All of the major scenes and plot points are intact, as well as the humor of the Nurse and Mercutio. Students take one role and develop that character through analyzing motives and decisions.

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The Dead

$13.70 – $145.00

A one-act play adapted from "The Dead" in James Joyce’s “Dubliners”
During an annual Christmas celebration, Gabriel Conroy has to cope with his doddering aunts, discover the true nature of his relationship with his wife, Gretta, and confront his own academic pedantry. He condescends to the provincialism of his friends, family, and his wife. But a big surprise about Gretta awaits him after he retires for the night.

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The Hypochondriac

$7.97 – $75.00

A one-act, satirical caricature on the practice of medicine, Human nature is revealed and pilloried in this comedy which skillfully skewers the medical profession, a narcissistic patient, and his conniving wife. The Hypochondriac (also known as The Imaginary Invalid) is as germane today as it was in Moliere's France. Easy to produce on stage or in a classroom as reader's theater. (We have special copying rates for classroom use.)

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The Trunk

$9.97 – $50.00

A man is about to board a mysterious train when he is stopped because of the size of his luggage. What is in his trunk that he is so reluctant to part with? And where is the train going? In this 15-minute play, L. Elizabeth Powers bears witness to the fact that it's never too late to take a different path.

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The Unmasking of Yetta Breen

$13.70 – $155.00

A full-length touching and funny 'dramedy' by Mickey Coburn, about a newly widowed woman and her changing relationships with her grown children. Yetta's family expect her to remain 'mama': dependent and indecisive but Yetta has ideas of her own. After years of marriage, she wants to live for herself. But when the suitors begin to appear!!!! Will Yetta be able to emancipate herself from the role of "Jewish Mother"? Even if her new beau is the "likker" salesman? Great for community and regional theaters. Downloadable PDF available.

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