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Complete History of Theatre (abridged) (One-Act Version) Cover CR8000

The Complete History of Theatre (abridged) (One-Act Version)

Product Code: CR8000

Comedy | Farce
Recommended For: Middle School | High School
Cast Size: 2m., 1w., up to 10 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Theatrical greats William Shakespeare, Sarah Bernhardt and Constantine Stanislavsky lead a journey through the history of theatre. Explore Greek theatre, Kabuki, mime, the gladiators of Rome and speculation on the real author of Shakespeare’s plays. Finally, the cast realizes that the playwright hasn’t written an ending, and they have to ask the audience to help! This interactive farce keeps the audience in stitches at every turn! Learn More

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US A Teen History

Book by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus. Lyrics by Flip Kobler. Music by Dennis Poore.

Product Code: U41000

Comedy | Drama | Farce | Satire
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | High School | Community
Cast Size: 8 to 25m., 8 to 25w., expandable, extras as desired.

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Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

This story theatre-style show is a compilation of pieces about the teens who helped shape America. Did you know that the drummer boys in the Revolutionary War were as young as 11? Or that Caroline Pickersgill helped sew the flag that inspired “The Star-Spangled Banner” at 14? This show is incredibly flexible and adaptable to your space and audience, as we encourage you to write your own pieces about the forgotten teens of America. Learn More

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The Complete History of Theatre (abridged)

By Matt Thompson.

Product Code: CR5000

Comedy | Farce
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 2m., 1w., up to 10 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 85 min.

Theatrical greats William Shakespeare, Sarah Bernhardt and Constantine Stanislavsky lead a journey through the history of theatre. Explore Greek theatre, Kabuki, mime, the gladiators of Rome and speculation on the real author of Shakespeare’s plays. Finally, the cast realizes that the playwright hasn’t written an ending, and they have to ask the audience to help! This interactive farce keeps the audience in stitches at every turn! Learn More

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Writer's Cramp (or How Will Shakespeare Got Into Show Biz)

By Larry Glaister.

Product Code: WH6000

Comedy | Farce | Satire
Recommended For: High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 5m., 2w.

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Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

He was born in 1564, but historians lose track of Will Shakespeare until around 1590. This play gleefully jumps in to fill in the gaps of his so-called "lost years." Will is a 21-year-old dreamer, the father of three and quite jobless. His wife is distracted by the amorous attentions of their neighbor. Poverty, lust and gender confusion rock everyone's boat, but, in the end, fortune smiles on the aspiring young poet. Learn More

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Psych

By Lisa Rowe.

Product Code: PL4000

Comedy | Farce
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 4m., 2w., 1 either gender. (Several of the characters may have their genders reversed, if necessary.)
Approx. Run Time: 140 min.

Edward Baxter was a successful psychiatrist until he was framed for murder. Now on the run with an assumed identity and a suspicious new wife, his luck is running out. Edward seeks help from a fellow psychiatrist and a man with inner demons of his own. This play's humor is broad in scope including slapstick, wordplay and a bit of dark humor. Learn More

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Kong's Night Out

By Jack Neary.

Product Code: K44000

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

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Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

This is the story of what happened in the hotel room next to the hotel room where Ann was whisked out of the bed and into the Manhattan night by King Kong. There's always a backstory. There are also mistaken identities, pies in the face, deceit, underhandedness and even a couple of romances. And every moment is meticulously coordinated with the events depicted in the 1933 movie. Learn More

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Artifice

By Anne Flanagan.

Product Code: AF3000

Comedy | Farce
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 4m., 4w.
Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

A story about a struggling artist who dies only to reappear at a sale of his work. A farcical take on celebrity and success and an affectionate tribute to loyalty and love. Learn More

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

By Werner Trieschmann.

Product Code: AC7000

Comedy | Farce
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College
Cast Size: 3m., 3w., 11 either gender, expandable.

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Approx. Run Time: 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

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Romeo and Juliet—Together (and Alive!) at Last

By Sandra Fenichel Asher. From the book by Avi.

Product Code: R71000

Comedy | Farce
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
Cast Size: 7m., 10w., 7m. or w. Expandable to 35 roles.
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Eighth-graders Pete and Anabell are in love, but so shy they can't even look at each other, let alone speak. To bring the two together, their classmates stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet. Learn More

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A Midsummer Night's Dream or The Night They Missed the Forest for the Trees

By Nancy Linehan Charles. Adapted from Shakespeare.

Product Code: MD1000

Comedy | Farce | Satire
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | Community | TYA
Cast Size: 4m., 6w., 9 either gender, extras as desired.

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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

In this rollicking adaptation of Shakespeare's play, teens, fairies, workers and royalty collide in a forest on a summer night, and are bedazzled by a prankster. The fairy queen falls in love with an ass, the teens fall in and out (and in) love with each other, well-meaning goofs stumble into their 15 minutes of fame and fairies weave magic to bring it all to a happy end. Three streetwise storytellers pull the audience at breakneck speed toward the moon-drenched conclusion. Learn More

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