| | Excerpt Comedy. By Werner Trieschmann. Based on several disastrous theatrical experiences, Bad Play peels back a tattered curtain to examine the process of putting on a show that is less than good. A stuffy narrator (what bad play is complete without a stuffy narrator?) guides the audience through the whole sorry process. More...
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| | Excerpt Comedy. By Matt Thompson. The local theater is producing Medea. With stopwatch in hand, the exceptionally organized and time-conscious stage manager meticulously micro-manages every minute of the audition process. After a bit of confusion, More...
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| | Excerpt Drama. By Anne V. McGravie. Set in Northern Ireland during the troubles of recent memory, two women, one Protestant and one Catholic, sit down in the outdoor section of a bakery shop. The women don't know each other and sit separately, enjoying a peaceful snack, when a maddeningly illogical and demanding waitress, More...
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| | Excerpt Comedy. By Werner Trieschmann. Cell phones, Facebook, cutting-edge shopping carts—all the latest gadgets that bewitch and bedevil us—are addressed in this comic collection of 10-minute plays. More...
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| | Excerpt Drama/Comedy. By Richard Dresser. It's a perfect spring day at Bowen College. The tight-knit group of off-campus seniors gathers on the roof of their apartment house for a final fling before graduation. The next day families will be arriving More...
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| | Excerpt Comedy/Drama. By Jim Gordon. We hope! We dream! Why not, it's free! And in these eight short plays we see that strange and humorous occurrences may even become reality. In a death row prison cell a condemned man's prayers are rewarded when his comically incompetent attorney is finally exposed. More...
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| | Excerpt Comedy. By Eddie Zipperer. Don't Fear the Reaper follows a day in the life of the Grim Reaper—the day he gets fired. On his first gig of the morning, he's spotted on the doorstep of a young married couple. More...
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| | Excerpt Drama. By Linda Daugherty. Angela has a new boyfriend. C.J.'s romantic, amazingly handsome, and a senior. He sends her flowers. He texts her day and night. Angela's swept off her feet, but her best friend, Jen, is troubled by changes she sees in Angela. At homecoming, Angela shares a dance with her pal Duffy. When C.J., overcome with jealousy, More...
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| | Excerpt Drama. By Paul Elliott. A 55-year-old grandmother sits in her darkened apartment and refuses to answer the insistent knocking at her front door. In fact, this woman has shut herself off from everything except the one person still capable of reaching her, her teenage grandson, Justin. More...
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| | Excerpt Drama. By Linda Daugherty. Eat (It's Not About Food) dramatizes the dangerous and baffling world of eating disorders in girls and boys. Candidly exploring causes and warning signs, the play takes a hard look at the influences of society and the media and tells individual stories of young people struggling with this epidemic More...
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| | Excerpt Comedy/Drama. By Doug Grissom. No performer before or since has had the impact of Elvis Presley, from the first groundbreaking appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" to Las Vegas to Graceland; the magazine American Demographics reports that 84 percent of all Americans say their lives have been touched by Elvis in some way. With the iconic mythology of Elvis as a backdrop, More...
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| | Excerpt Comedy. By Danna Call. In this absurdist comedy, a woman is stunned when she hears the head of iceberg lettuce she's about to turn into a salad ask, "What are you doing with your life?" Flustered and confused (and hungry), she summons a friend More...
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| | Excerpt Comedy/Drama. By Dennis Foon. Kindness offers an unforgettable lesson in compassion and listening to one another. It sensitively captures the reality of children's feelings as it tells the story of three kids, Tessa, Damon and Keegan, as they navigate the small and large catastrophes in their lives. Mr. Foon spent a week interviewing kids in five Winnipeg schools More...
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| | Excerpt Comedy/Drama. By Laura Annawyn Shamas. Six teenagers find their lives are impacted by an intrepid summer school "intensity" touring program centered around key points and places in Abraham Lincoln's life. The action ranges from travelogue More...
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| | Excerpt Comedy/Drama. By Joseph Robinette. Hightower University, an institution so prestigious that even the maintenance staffers hold Ph.D.s, is hosting its annual open house for second-semester high-school seniors. The open house involves several rotating sessions including "The Causes and Prevention of Senioritis." More...
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| | Excerpt Drama. Adapted by Ashley J. Barnard. From the novel by Jane Austen. In 1806, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a baronet, falls in love with Captain Wentworth, despite his lack of fortune and prospects. Against her heart, she is persuaded to break off her engagement by Lady Russell, a close family friend More...
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| | Excerpt Free Poster Drama. By Linda Daugherty. "I'm going to tell you a secret—and I don't want you to tell. The secret is about me—about my life—how it will never be the same again." In this honest and unflinching dramatization of teen-girl angst, a window is opened into the tumultuous and destructive world of girls' bullying. More...
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| | Excerpt Drama/Comedy. Adapted by Ashley J. Barnard. From the novel by Jane Austen. At the dawn of the Regency, two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are thrust into poverty by their brother's scheming and manipulative wife. Reduced to living with their mother in a tiny cottage with their prospects for marriage nearly ruined, More...
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| | Excerpt Comedy. By Lisa Dillman. Neil and Melanie have just bought their dream "starter" home in Shady Meadows, a brand-new subdivision built over a wetland. At first they think they've discovered a paradise—green lawns, friendly neighbors More...
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| | Excerpt Free Poster Drama. By Joanne Koch. Stardust won the 2007 Nantucket Short Play Competition and was deemed by its literary manager as "one of the very best treatments of high-school age issues that I have read." In Stardust, two young people—one trusting, introspective and blind, the other suspicious, defensive and sighted—share a moment of intimacy and conflict More...
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| | Excerpt Comedy/Drama. By David Allan Dodson. Rose is bowling the game of her life—but will her marriage survive it? Her husband, Bobby, is already struggling with an inferiority complex over her latest promotion, and out-bowling him isn't going to help. More...
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| | Excerpt Drama. By Peter Tarsi. A group of strangers meet in a dirty subway station. They have arrived with limited personal belongings, their watches have stopped, and they all claim to be in different cities. Soon they learn there is no way out of the station. More...
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| | Excerpt Drama with optional music. Adapted by Tonya Hays. Original music by Buddy Dubourg and Tonya Hays. Based on the play by Euripides. The Trojan Women is one of the most powerful dramas in all of literature. Widely considered the greatest anti-war play ever written, it remains both timeless and timely, a poignant meditation on the aftermath of battle. This version, ideal for one-act festivals, has won numerous awards. More...
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| | Excerpt Comedy. By Stephen Gregg. Nancy and Don, a young married couple, are arguing. Nancy thinks the new neighbors are creepy. She thinks they're watching them. Don thinks she's imagining things. But why would the new neighbors have cut down the tree between their houses? Why does Nancy keep running into them all over town? And what happened to the previous neighbors, More...
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| | Excerpt Drama with music. By Peter Manos. Walk, Don't Ride! A Celebration of the Fight for Equality chronicles in words and song the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It begins with the Montgomery bus boycott when, after the arrest of Rosa Parks More...
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