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  1. All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play

    All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play

    By Werner Trieschmann.

    Product Code: AC7000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • Middle School | High School | College
    • 3m., 3w., 11 either gender, expandable.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 40 min.
    Based on several disastrous theatrical experiences, this play examines the process of putting on a show that is less than good. We go from the audition—where the director is more worried about roast beef than paying attention to the warm-up exercise, and the neurotic cast pretends to be bacon—to rehearsals—where a passive-aggressive stage manager gives everyone grief. This bad play within a play won't win any awards, but will keep audiences in stitches. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

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  2. She Stoops to Conquer

    She Stoops to Conquer

    By Robert M. Singleton. From Oliver Goldsmith's 18th-century British comedy.

    Product Code: S31000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • High School | College | Professional
    • 7m., 4w. (extras, a total of 10 actors with doubling.)
    • 40 min.
    This adaptation of the much longer original captures the essence of Goldsmith's wit and the flavor of Georgian England while making the complexities of the period easier to grasp and to play for the young actor. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

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  3. Afternoon at Tavern MacTavish

    Afternoon at Tavern MacTavish

    Book by Frances A. Hogg. Adaptation by John Tissot.

    Product Code: AG4000

    • Comedy
    • College | Professional
    • 3m., 2w., extras.

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    • 25 min.
    A family of tourists visits a local tavern in Scotland, enjoying the hospitality of an enterprising owner and his wife. Learn More
    $7.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  4. First On The Rope

    First On The Rope

    By Tim Kelly.

    Product Code: FD3000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College
    • 5w.

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    • 25 min.
    A group of women climbers attempt to be the first to scale a mountain when they learn someone has gone before them. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  5. The Potman Spoke Sooth

    The Potman Spoke Sooth

    By David Fulk.

    Product Code: P41000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • High School | College
    • 6m., 2w. (1 voice.)

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    • 35 min.
    Agatha Christie is spoofed hilariously as a respectable murder mystery turns into a farcical game of illusion and reality. Detective Sergeant Gallagher informs Colonel Winthrop Wiggins and his wife that a notorious "Peanut Murderer" is on the loose. Laughs abound as they engage in a zany intrigue of murders, accusations and arrests. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

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  6. Ralph Roister Doister

    Ralph Roister Doister

    Adapted by I. E. Clark. Based on the play by Nicholas Udall.

    Product Code: RB6000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • Middle School | High School | College
    • 2m., 4w., extras.

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    • 35 min.
    Ralph thinks he is a lady's man and chooses Dame Custance as the lady. But she can't stand the conceited nincompoop. Their tempestuous courtship, complicated by a mischievous meddler and Custance's cute servant girls, rocks the stage in this historically important play. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  7. The Frogs FE3000

    The Frogs

    Adapted by I.E. Clark from Aristophanes.

    Product Code: FE3000

    • Comedy | Satire
    • Middle School | High School | College | TYA
    • 5m., 5w., extras (may include 20 or more).

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    • 40 min.
    An adaption of a classic Greek comedy by Aristophanes, in which Dionysus ventures to Hades in order to bring a playwright back to life. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  9. The Three Old Women's Bet

    The Three Old Women's Bet

    By R. Rex Stephenson.

    Product Code: TR3000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • Middle School | High School
    • 4m., 4w., extras

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    • 30 min.
    This Blue Ridge Mountain folktale comedy is about three competitive sisters who each try to prove their husband is the most foolish. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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