Full Length Plays

Never After Happily

Product Code: N94000

Comedy | Farce | Satire
Recommended For: High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 4 to 7m., 7 to 10w., 2 any gender.
Approx. Run Time: 85 min.

Welcome to an enchanted kingdom where all your favorite fairy tale characters have come to retell—NOPE! Scratch that, we're not doin’ that! Ella’s tired of the false promises that never come true in the real world, so she’s writing what happens AFTER. Now, the entire kingdom is rocked as these aging ingénues and neurotic princes try to deal with life after that perfect moment. Part farce, part vaudeville, part SNL, a little Rocky Horror and a wild ride that no one ever imagined after “happily ever after.” Learn More

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The Mysterious Disappearance

By Kirt Shineman.

Product Code: MT3000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 1m, 3w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

It is December 1975, after Christmas, and Agatha Christie must finish her autobiography and the final novel before the new year. Yet, Agatha is fixated on an event in her past when Nancy Neele stole her husband. With Mary Westmacott’s help, they contemplate what it would be like to kill Nancy. Even though Agatha considered murdering Nancy, did she really do it, or is her reality disappearing? Learn More

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Keep on Laughing

By Paul Elliott.

Product Code: K48000

Comedy
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 4w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

The ladies of Exit Laughing are back, but now Connie’s daughter, Rachel, has married her 28-year-old stripper boyfriend, Bobby, and they are expecting twins. Connie, Leona and Millie have been touring the world and having the time of their lives, but one of their adventures has gotten out of hand. Connie has met a man in Paris, and he’s proposed to her. Everyone should be happy, but Rachel and Bobby are not—Connie’s new boyfriend is the same age as Bobby. Learn More

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Unpacking Mother

By Karen Schaeffer.

Product Code: U45000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2w.
Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

Sisters Cassie and Kathryn have had little communication since Kathryn left for college. Upon their mother’s death, Kathryn, long absent, returns home to help Cassie, the primary caregiver, sort through their mother’s hoarded possessions. As they unpack boxes, they encounter their younger selves and unearth truths about their mother’s illness and father’s secrets. Unpacking allows both sisters to exorcise the demons that shaped their adult lives so they can meet on the other side, open to a new relationship. Learn More

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Bonnie and Claire

By Bo Wilson.

Product Code: BM9000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

Sisters Bonnie and Claire have spent their lives estranged. After 45 years, their parents now gone, Claire is forced to move back home with Bonnie, who bitterly resents the intrusion while denying the evidence of her own decline. The sisters' young niece, Zoe, tries to help them while urging reconciliation, but there's a lot of stubborn history blocking the road. With most of the action taking place in cars, this play is a literal journey through the practicalities and the pitfalls of aging, agency and admitting when we need someone. Learn More

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American Association of Community Theatre AACT NewPlayFest Winning Plays: Volume 4 (2020) AN6000

The Cayuga Canal Girls

By Laura King.

Product Code: CS2000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 5w.
Approx. Run Time: 95 min.

Five female childhood friends reunite in their historic hometown of Seneca Falls, N.Y., to lay one of their own to rest. As they struggle to come to grips with the surprising death, they reopen old wounds, face harsh realities and confront the compromises they have made in their lives. But as the day wears on, the women learn that even though into each life some rain must fall, the rain offers a cleansing promise of new possibilities. Learn More

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Eternity

By Michael Cochran.

Product Code: E94000

Comedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 5 to 6m., 4 to 5w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Abe, an angel of death, decides to move a client appointment in favor of getting an ice cream sandwich. The only problem is that his “appointments” are to greet the newly deceased and take them to the next stop. Things quickly spiral out of control when Abe’s repeated attempts to “bump off” his delayed appointment fails, and the real threat of a new “unauthorized life” will occur unless Abe gets everything back on track. A surprise visit from the boss helps Abe rediscover the real meaning of life and death. Learn More

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Finishing School

By Elaine Liner.

Product Code: FF9000

Comedy
Recommended For: College | Community
Cast Size: 2m., 2w., 1 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

This comedy about life’s second act finds older gents Al and Wizzer meeting on a park bench every morning to read and mock newspaper obits. Their daily rituals—shooting the bull about sports, women loved and lost and the many annoyances of aging—are suddenly shaken up by the appearance of a friendly young woman and her flirty mom, and Wizzer pep-talks lonely widower Al to convince him to break out of his self-imposed “quantum of solace” and maybe find love again. Learn More

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Stay With Me Awhile

By Mary E. Johnson and Barbara Means Fraser.

Product Code: S3A000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community
Cast Size: 2m., 4w., 2 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Every milestone in life has a story. But there is one milestone story we seldom tell—the story of our experience of being present for the death of a loved one. Stay With Me Awhile is a compilation of vigil stories from across cultures, religions, political views and socio-economic circumstances that were collected over a seven-year period. Each story was entirely unique, and many of the scenes described were snapshots of lifelong relationships played out as the end of life approached. Learn More

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Distance

By Jerre Dye.

Product Code: DG6000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 3w.
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

Alzheimer’s is taking Irene further away from the people who inhabit her ever-devolving world. Navigating life with Alzheimer’s is a bizarre and endlessly changing process where the past becomes the present, the present becomes the past, and the future remains a terrifying mystery. Meanwhile, life must move on for Irene’s daughter, her in-home health worker and her hairdresser. The further she drifts into memory, the closer these relative strangers become inextricably connected to one another. Learn More

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