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- $13.95 – $60.00
Shakespeare-On-The-Go: 4 Touring Plays For Young Audiences
Collection, Touring
4 skilfully adapted plays for young audiences: Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, A Midnight Summer’s Dream, and Macbeth. Plays are each around 45 to 50 minutes, are fast-paced, engaging, and make the language more accessible to young audiences, while including both Shakespeare’s original language and theatrical devices. As exciting participatory theater they appeal to elementary school students. With the participatory elements removed, each play’s frame story is producible as a play for teens or for teen drama groups to perform for a younger audience.
Read More - $11.95 – $75.00
A Mirror in Time
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 2-6 M. 2-6 F, Max 12, Min 2
Collection, Simple Props, Simple Set
A series of fifteen enthralling fictional monologues by historical figures. They range from Kate Hogarth’s Dickens’ musing on her husband’s obsession with Queen Victoria (he essentially stalked her) to the recollections of Tsali, a Cherokee warrior, as he recalls the loss of his family on the Trail of Tears, to the recollections of Harriet Tubman on life and love as she forges a trail to freedom. The plays focus on how love and marriage may have changed the course of history.
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Monologues for Men: Voices from the New Testament
- 5 - 60 minutes
- 1 - 12 Males
Simple Props, Simple Set
In these voices from the New Testament, prolific Christian writer Gillette Elvgren portrays not only the Biblical characters one might expect but also contemporary voices struggling with religious issues. A collection of monologues based around characters from the Bible – New Testament. Perfect not only for inclusion in religious services and programs, but also as audition pieces.
For performance of individual monologues, please Contact Us for information
Read More - $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 - $5.75 – $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 - $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.
Read More - $7.00 – $75.00
Shadowland
- 30-45 minutes
- 4M, 3W
Community, Competitions, High School, Simple Set
A one-act haunting drama. The truth becomes increasingly elusive. Pursued by disturbing dreams, Eileen visits her psychiatrist. She may or may not have been in an accident. An accident may or may not have happened. Perhaps even a murder? And who is the Ferryman who comes for Elaine? This play works well for high school competitions and community theater.
Read More - $9.95 – $75.00
Behind Closed Doors
- 15 - 90 Minutes
- 1+ Male 1+ Female Max 16 Min 2
Collection, Simple Props, Simple Set
These historical monologues and dialogues are gripping fictional insights into the psyches of historical married couples. Sir Walter Ralegh and Bess Throckmorton; Marie Antoinette and Louis Xvi; William And Catherine Blake; Theodore and Alice Roosevelt; Sigmund and Martha Freud; Virginia and Leonard Woolf; Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. Performance fees for individual monologues are available.
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 - $5.75 – $45.00
Bird Watchers
- 20 Minutes
- 1 Male, 1 Female, Min/Max 2
In this award-winning play, a shy and precise woman is paired with an outgoing, free-spirited writer in this delightful one act set in a forest during a search for the rare Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Will she succumb to his charm. Can be performed by any ages. Great for community theaters, auditions, and high school competitions. Downloadable, printable PDF available.
Read More - $7.00 – $60.00
The Best Is Yet To Be
- 30 minutes
- 3 Males, 3 Females, Min/Max 6
Emily Mason returns home to live with her son and his family–a wife and 2 grandchildren. They have her rocking chair ready for her. The problem is, she isn’t ready for it. Will her family come around and let her continue the kind of life she is used to leading?
Read More - $7.00 – $75.00
The Devil’s Due
- 45 Minutes
- 2 Males 2 Females Max 4 Min 4
Choices, Competitions, Depression, Mania
In The Devil’s Due, a one-act drama/comedy, an artist, Eric Talmadge, confronts the decline of his aesthetic powers and the possible dissolution of his marriage. In a satiric tour de force, a visitor—possibly a neighboring psychiatrist and possibly a more fearsome presence—offers him a possible way out of his dilemma. Is M. Boudreaux really an unorthodox psychiatrist practicing from his apartment in NYC or does he represent a power other than the mind? And what choice does he give Eric in order to regain his peace of mind and his artistic abilities?
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The Dead
- 40 Minutes
- 1 Male. 4 Females
Simple Set
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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Eveline
- 40 Minutes
- 3 Males, 1 Female
Classroom Use, Father-daughter, Mental Health Issues, Choices, Community, Competitions, Depression, Drama, High School, Reader's Theater, Self-esteem, Small Cast, Touring
A one-act play by David. H. Klein, “Eveline” adapts the story from Dubliners by James Joyce. Eveline is a young woman trapped by society and manipulated by her father and brother. Like too many women, she believes her higher purpose is in service to her family, a belief her father and brother foster–until she meets Frank! Perfect for high schools, colleges and universities, women’s groups, and community theaters. Downloadable PDF available
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The Boarding House
- 40 Minutes
- 1 Male, 3 Females
Colleges, Community, Fundraiser, High School
A one-act play, The Boarding House is a dramatic satire, by David.H. Klein, of the story by James Joyce. Mrs. Mooney, the owner of a boarding house of questionable reputation, exploits the wiles of her daughter Polly and the power of the Church to snare one of her more respectable boarders as her potential son-in-law.
Read More - $7.97 – $75.00
The Hypochondriac
- 45 to 60 minutes
- 7 Males. 4 Females Max 11 Min 11 (Doubling Possible)
Simple Props, Simple Set
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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