The Boor has been humorously updated and set in the American west. Widower Helen has shut herself away from the world. When Sam, a loud ranch owner, comes to collect on a past-due bill, Helen realizes it's nice to have a man around the house again. Learn More
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10m., 8w., with doubling, or increase the cast number by distributing the 49 roles.
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90 min.
At the end of the 15th century, the tiny town of Frogsham musters its dubious resources to mount the Corpus Christi play of Noah and the Flood. This medieval play-within-a-play presents a teeming town full of characters who mirror their biblical pageant counterparts. It provides a humorous glimpse of 15th-century stagecraft and the timeless panic of performers who must go on before the show is ready. Learn More
Gammer is a widow in a tiny rural Elizabethan English village. She is the proud possessor of a highly treasured needle, but loses it. The entire disheveled village is made up of an array of odd personalities in a turmoil trying to locate it. Learn More
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
The play is a rollicking farce laid in a 16th-century English hamlet. Among its often-patched, seldom-washed inhabitants is Gammer Gurton, a jolly old gossip whose most precious possession is a steel needle. But, alas!—Gammer loses her needle, and the entire village finds itself in a turmoil. Learn More
Adapted by I. E. Clark. Based on the play by Hans Sachs.
Product Code: N74000
Comedy | Farce
High School | College
3 either gender.
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25 min.
Translation of a 16th century play by Hans Sachs, in which a man's foibles are surgically removed in order to relieve his bloated condition. Learn More
