TITLE |
PLAYWRIGHT |
PUBLISHER |
CHARACTERS |
FORMAT |
SYNOPSIS |
1M, 1W |
One Act |
A play about dependency which should be performed by actors who actually are acrobats. |
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Actor's Challenge, The |
Bagdasian/Itte |
Contemporary Drama Service |
9W. 6M |
One-Act |
A potential improvisational theatre opportunity |
Actor's Nightmare, The |
Durang, Christopher |
Dramatists Play Service |
3F,2M |
One Act |
An actor finds himself in the situation all actors fear: he is onstage performing but does not know the play. |
Agatha Christie Made Me Do It |
Cope, Eddie |
IE Clark Pub. |
7M, 3W |
Full |
A mystery comedy about a cop/would-be author who tries to write a murder mystery |
Anne Frank and ME |
Bennet, Cherie |
Dramatic Pub. Co. |
4M, 7W |
Full |
Directly confronts the ignorance of many young people about the Holocaust |
Anne of Green Gables |
Ashby, Sylvia |
Baker's Plays |
9W, 7M |
Full |
A red-headed soul-mate orphan touches the lives of everyone she meets |
Antigone - 1865 |
Willis, Mike |
Eldridge Publishing Co. |
5M, 5W |
One Act |
The classic Greek tragedy is moved to the Civil War period |
Arsenic and Old Lace |
Kesselring, Joseph |
Dramatists Play Service |
3F, 7M, 5N |
Full |
Two spinster sisters and an eccentric brother run an unusual boarding house for homeless men |
Ascension Day |
Mason, Timothy |
William Morris Agency |
5F, 4M |
One Act (Long) |
Campers at a Bible camp pray and play together |
As You Like It |
Shakespeare, William |
IE Clark |
5W, 8M |
One Act |
Portrayal of young people seeking their own way in the world |
Bard!, The |
Fridell, Squire |
Eldridge Pub. Co. |
6+M, 6+W |
Full |
An Enjoyable and approachable introduction to William Shakespeare |
Boyfriend, The |
Wilson, Sandy |
Music Theatre International |
8F, 8M, Chorus |
Musical |
The madcap adventures of young people who are attending school on the French Riviera; Romance is the main objective of most of the characters; a Farce of the musicals of the 1920's |
Boys from Syracuse, The |
Rodgers & Hart |
Rodgers & Hammerstein Theatre Library |
15W, 14M |
Musical |
The musical version of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" |
Cages |
Myers, Walter Dean |
HarperCollins Children's Books |
3F, 4M |
One Act |
A group of teenagers are imprisoned |
Caucasian Chalk Circle, The |
Brecht, Bertolt |
Samuel French |
Large Cast |
Full |
An ancient Chinese/biblical tale in which two women claim the same child |
Cheaper By the Dozen |
Gilbreth, Frank |
Dramatic Pub. Co. |
9M, 7W |
Full |
A founded-on-fact comedy about a large turn-of-the-century family who lives by the book |
Cherry Orchard, The |
Chekov, Anton |
Samuel French |
9M, 5W |
Full |
The story of mortgages, as proud landowners sell off their property to pay debts, then move away to the sound of the destruction of their precious trees |
Children's Hour, The |
Hellman, Lillian |
Dramatists Play Service |
12F, 2M |
Full |
Rumors of impropriety force a teacher out of her school when a vindictive student takes revenge. |
Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, A |
Howard, Jane |
Dramatists Play Service |
large flexible |
Full |
An adaptation of the Dickens tale |
Class Action |
Slaight, Brad |
Baker's Plays |
3-28F, 4-23M |
Full |
A montage play which presents high school in funny and serious scenes and monologues |
Come Blow Your Horn |
Simon, Neil |
Samuel French |
3M, 4W |
Full |
A father's difficulties with rebellious sons reaps hysterical complications |
Comedian, The |
Kelly, Tim |
Baker's Plays |
6M, 6W |
One Act |
The story of Saint Genesius, the patron of actors and theatre |
Comedy of Errors, The |
Shakespeare, William |
IE Clark |
6W, 13M |
One Act |
The always popular, farcical treatment of mistaken identity |
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A |
Fuller, John G. |
Baker's Plays |
6M, 6W |
Full |
A young engineer just out of collect gets knocked out by one of his experiments and finds himself in King Arthur's court |
Crucible, The |
Miller, Arthur |
Viking Press |
10M, 11W |
Full |
A scheming young woman starts a witch hunt in her Puritan town |
Curtain Going Up! |
Johnston, Gregory |
Samuel French |
7M, 10W |
Full |
The story of the production of a high school play with comic lines, believable and amusing characters, and lively action |
Daddy Long-Legs |
Webster, Jean |
Samuel French |
12M, 7W |
Full |
A teen-age orphan receives an anonymous benefactor with whom she communicates by letter |
Dancers, The |
Foote, Horton |
Dramatists Play Service |
5F, 3M |
One Act |
With Valentine's Dayand 1918, part of the Orphans' Home Cycle. |
Diary of Anne Frank, The |
Goodrich, Frances and Albert Hackett |
Dramatists Play Service |
6F, 5M |
Full |
The Frank family hides from the Nazis in an attic with four other Jews who fear capture. Anne keeps a record in her diary. |
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? |
Powers, John |
Samuel French |
5M, 9W |
Musical |
A tongue-in-cheek recitation of growing up in a Catholic school |
Don't Drink the Water |
Samuel French |
12M, 4W |
Full |
Full |
A hysterical story of American tourists stranded in an Embassy somwhere behind the Iron Curtain |
Door Bang |
Hewitt, Leslie |
Eldridge Pub. |
5 flexible |
One Act |
Ever worry about leaving your car in a parking lot? Then here's the play for you! |
Driving Miss Daisy |
Uhry, Alfred |
Dramatists Play Service |
1W, 2M |
Full |
Warmhearted story about an aging Southern lady and the proud, soft-spoken black man who, in time becomes her best friend |
Echoes From the Titanic |
Cook, Pat |
Eldridge Pub. Co. |
15M, 6W |
One Act |
What really happened during the final moments of the Titanic told in by the survivors in this gripping tale. |
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, The |
Zindel, Paul |
Dramatists Play Service |
4F |
Two Acts |
The dysfunctional Hunsdorfer family falls apart when Tillie wins the school Science fair. |
Emma |
Asher, Sandra |
Dramatic Publishing Co. |
9M, 12W |
Full |
Jane Austen steps on stage to narrate her own story in which the characters are moved through ups and downs of life |
Every Seventeen Minutes the Crowd Goes Crazy |
Zindel, Paul |
Paul Zindel |
6F, 8M |
One Act |
The children of a family try to keep it together after their parents abandon them in their middle-class suburban home |
Fame |
Gore, Christopher |
Dramatic Pub. Co. |
14W, 9M |
Full |
The essence of young people and the theatre demonstrated in an exciting theatrical tapestry woven with the stories of kids "paying their dues" in the world of the arts |
Fantasticks, The |
Jones, Tom |
Musical Theatre International |
7M, 10W |
Musical |
The story of the production of a high school play with comic lines, believable and amusing characters, and lively action |
Father of the Bride |
Franke, Carolyn |
Dramatists Play Service |
10M, 6W |
Full |
Father of a bride-to-be survives the stress of pre-nuptial plans and separation anxiety |
Fiddler on the Roof |
Stein, Joseph |
Music Theatre International |
9F, 14M, Chorus |
Musical |
Traditions are broken by the daughters of a Russian Jew when they choose who they will marry. |
Fifteen Minute Hamlet, The |
Stoppard, Tom |
Samuel French |
4M, 2W |
One Act (short) |
An incredibly condensed version of Shakespeare's play |
First Night |
Neary, Jack |
Baker's Plays |
1M, 1W |
Two Acts |
Danny's adolescent crush, now a nun, seeks him out and turns his life around |
Flowers for Algernon |
Rogers, David |
Dramatic Publishing Co. |
10M, 17W |
Full |
The compelling story of a man who became a willing victim of a strange experiment |
Fools |
Simon, Neil |
Samuel French |
3W, 7M |
Full |
Leon's job is to break a town's curse that insures chronic stupidity for 200 years |
Foreigner, The |
Shue, Larry |
Dramatists Play Service |
5M, 2W |
Full |
A painfully shy fellow is encouraged to play "dumb" to avoid talking and hears more than he wants to |
Frank's Life |
Dunn, Mark |
Dramatic Pub. Co. |
3M, 4W |
Full |
Frank is the star of his own soap opera, but, unfortunately, he doesn't know it |
Friends of Julia Dark, The |
Lennox, Art |
Eldridge Publishing Co. |
6M, 5W |
One Act |
Seven teens are questioned regarding the drug-related death of a friend |
Games People Play, The |
Frankel, Rob |
Eldridge Publishing Co. |
Large Cast |
Full |
A collection of sketches poking fun at athletics and athletes |
Glass Menagerie, The |
Williams, Tennessee |
Dramatists Play Service |
2M. 2W |
Full |
A world of illusion splinters like glass as a woman and her daughter are forced to face reality |
Godspell |
Schwartz, Stephen |
Theatre Maximus |
4W, 6M |
Musical |
70s rock version of the Gospel of Matthew |
Grass Harp, The |
Capote, Truman |
Dramatists Play Service |
8F, 9M |
Full |
a trio of friends that find sanctuary from the world in a treehouse are found traitors to society and fall victim to tragedy |
Greater Tuna |
Williams, Sears, & Howard |
Samuel French |
2M |
Full |
Theatrical gymnastics occur as two actors portray a Texan town full of characters |
Ground Zero Club, The |
Schulman, Charles |
Dramatists Play Service |
3F, 2M, 3N |
One Act |
Several people are at the top of the Empire State Building on the eve of imminent nuclear destruction |
Happy Journey, The |
Wilder, Thornton |
Samuel French |
3F, 3M |
One Act(Short) |
A family car trip to visit a sick relative |
Harvey |
Chase, Mary |
Dramatists Play Service |
6W, 6M |
Full |
An imaginary giant white rabbit hilariously wreaks havoc on the lives of the Dowd family |
Here Come the Brides! |
Fisher, William |
Heuer Pub. Co. |
7M, 4W |
Full |
"When a man marries, his trouble begin" - perfectly demonstrated here when a young bachelor takes a wife in a hurry to please his rich uncle |
Holding Out |
Sebeysten, Ouida |
HarperCollins Children's Books |
1F, 1M |
One Act |
A couple discusses the events of a siege involving the U.S. army and a tribe of Native Americans |
Hum it Again, Jeremy |
Okimoto, Jean Davies |
HarperCollins Children's Books |
1F, 3M |
One Act |
A young man deals with his troubled home life by escaping into basketball |
Importance of Being Earnest, The |
Wilde, Oscar |
Samuel French |
4F, 5M |
Full |
A Drawing Room comedy which involves hidden identity and romance |
Impromptu |
Mosel, Tad |
Dramatists Play Service |
2M, 2W |
One Act |
Four actors awaiting stage directions gain an awareness of the real people behind the theatrical facade |
I Never Saw Another Butterfly |
Raspanti, Celeste |
Dramatic Publishing Co. |
2M, 2W |
One Act |
Portrayal of the lives of the children of Terezin, stopping off place for those on their way to Auschwitz |
I Never Saw Another Butterfly |
Raspanti, Celeste |
Dramatic Publishing Co. |
4M, 7W, 4C |
Full |
Portrayal of the lives of the children of Terezin, stopping off place for those on their way to Auschwitz |
I Remember Mama |
Van Druten, John |
Dramatists Play Service |
9M, 13W |
Full |
A young lady's memoir of her mother's sacrifices for her family |
It Runs in the Family |
Cooney, Ray |
Samuel French |
7M, 5W |
Full |
A farce set in a hospital shows a man trying to overcome a serious of professional and familial roadblocks in order to make an international presentation |
It's A Wonderful Life! |
Springer, William |
Eldridge Publishing Co. |
42 speaking roles |
Full |
The wonderful story of a man who finds out what the world would have been like if he had never been born |
J.B. |
MacLeish, Archibald |
Houghton-Mifflin |
11M, 12W |
Full |
An updated version about the life and trials of the biblical Job |
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
Rice/Weber |
Music Theatre International |
Large Cast |
Musical |
The story of the biblical character, Joseph, showing that every coat has a silver lining |
Kaleidoscope |
Bradbury, Ray |
Dramatic Pub. Co |
7M or 7W |
One act |
A fantastic sci-fi thought-provoker about the purpose and meaning of life |
Kokonut High |
Kelly, Tim |
Pioneer Drama Service |
Large Cast |
Two Acts |
A private school on a tropical island guarantees a diploma to every student |
Large Fears, Little Demons |
Malmgren, Darin |
HarperCollins Children's Books |
3F, 4M |
One Act |
A young lady upsets her family by refusing to leave her bed because of what she sees as a prophetic dream |
Laundry and Bourbon |
McLure, James |
Dramatists Play Service |
3W |
One Act |
An understanding wife survives a life a turmoil with a returned VietNam-vet husband |
Line |
Horowitz, Israel |
Dramatists Play Service |
4M, 1W |
One Act |
As group of strangers form a line, a struggle for first place begins, and human fraility is made hilariously real |
Lion in Winter, The |
Goldman, James |
Samuel French |
5M, 2W |
Full |
King Henry tries to keep his kingdom intact, but a battle rages among his potential heirs and his queen as to who will assume control of the throne |
Little Women |
Laurence, Kristen |
Dramatic Publishing |
9W |
Full |
Adapted From Louisa May Alcott's Novel, this is an all-female production |
Lone Star |
McLure, James |
Dramatists Play Service |
3M |
One Act |
Brother is pitted against brother with a happy ending |
Lovesick Computer, The |
Crow, William |
Dramatic Pub. Co |
6W, 4M |
One act |
A science fair project gone awry wreaks havoc in David's life until he provides the perfect mate for "her" |
Making It! |
Brooks, Hindi |
IE Clark, Inc. |
10W, 7M |
Full |
A family play about teenage dreams and problems featuring students to do theatre for fun and those who take it more seriously |
M*A*S*H |
Kelly, Tim |
Dramatic Publishing Co. |
11M, 11W |
One Act |
A take-off on the popular Korean War TV series |
M*A*S*H |
Kelly, Tim |
Dramatic Publishing Co. |
15M, 15W |
Full |
A take-off on the popular Korean War TV series |
Matchmaker, The |
Wilder, Thornton |
Samuel French |
9M, 7W, 4N |
Full |
A rich old merchant hires a matchmaker to find him a bride, and through hilarious circumstances, becomes engaged to her |
Member of the Wedding, The |
McCullers, Carson |
Samuel French |
7F, 6M |
Full |
A pre-teen girl becomes emotionally involved in her brother's wedding |
Midsummer Night's Dream, A |
Shakespeare, William |
William Morris Agency |
4F, 7M, 10N |
Full |
Fairies meddle with the love lives of humans when four young people run away to the forest |
Miracle Worker, The |
Gibson, William |
Flora Roberts, Inc. |
7+F, 5M |
Full |
The story of Annie Sullivan's struggle to teach Helen Keller, a blind, deaf, and mute girl, to communicate. |
Miser, The |
Moliere/Malleson |
Samuel French |
10M, 4W |
Full |
A greedy, selfish old man tries to completely control his daughter's life and gets caught in a web of his own making |
Mousetrap, The |
Christie, Agatha |
Samuel French |
5M. 3W |
Full |
A group of strangers stranded during a snowstorm deal with murder in their midst, revealing the culprit in a typical Christie switch finish |
Murder Ahoy! |
Sodaro, Craig |
Eldridge Publishing Co. |
3M, 3W |
Dinner Theatre |
A ship bound for the site of the "Titanic" is the site of murder, solved with audience help |
Nerd, The |
Shue, Larry |
Dramatists Play Service |
5M, 2W |
Full |
An unwelcomed guest is the impetus for romance between two "friends" |
Next! |
Higbee, Rand |
Eldridge Pub. |
3M, 4W |
One Act |
A show for anyone who has ever discovered that casting a play is not as easy as you might think |
Noises Off! |
Frayn, Michael |
Samuel French |
4W, 6M |
Full |
A play-within-play with a hysterical collection of stock characters and situations that show that theatre really does go on even when the show falls apart |
Number the Stars |
Larche, Douglas |
Dramatic Publishing Co. |
7M, 7W |
Two Acts |
Courage and ingenuity win the day in this WWII story set in German-occupied Denmark |
Occupation Murder! |
St. John, Billy |
Eldridge Publishing Co. |
6M, 9W |
Dinner Theatre |
Rounds of a fictional game show are actually played in this who-dun-it |
Odd Couple (Female Version), The |
Simon, Neil |
Samuel French |
6W, 2M |
Full |
Unger and Madison are at it again, only this time it's the divorced wives |
Odd Couple (Male Version), The |
Simon, Neil |
Samuel French |
2W, 6M |
Full |
A slob bachelor and his meticulous friend try living together after their divorces |
Oleanna |
Mamet, David |
Dramatists Play Service |
1M, 1W |
Two Acts |
A vicious and timely riff on sexual harassment and political correctness |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
Brome, Robert |
Dramatic Pub. Co. |
11M |
One act |
Set in a one-room barracks of a Siberian concentration camp featuring small victories of the human spirit over crushing adversity |
Our Town |
Wilder, Thornton |
Samuel French |
8F, 16M |
Full |
The classic drama which follows the romance of two young people in the town |
Overtones |
Gerstenburg, Alice |
Baker's Plays |
4W |
One act |
Two women as they apear to each other and their inner selves as they really are square off over tea |
Philadelphia, The |
Ives, David |
Dramatists Play Service |
2M, 1W |
One Act |
A young man falls into a "Philadelphia," a Twilight Zone state in which the only way to get what he wants is to ask for the opposite |
Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread |
Ives, David |
Dramatists Play Service |
2M, 2W |
One Act |
A parodic musical vignette with a composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery |
Picnic |
Inge, William |
Dramatists Play Service |
7F, 4M |
Full |
A teenage girl falls in love with the "wrong guy", and scandalizes the whole town. Very 50's. |
Pollyanna |
Sodaro, Craig |
Eldridge Publishing Co. |
6M, 18W |
Full |
A "glad" orphan girl brightens the life of a crotchety shut-in |
Postlude |
McDonough, Jerome |
Baker's Plays |
6W, 7M |
One Act |
Hell on earth as survivors struggle to exist in a post-Armaggedon world |
Present Tense |
McNamara, John |
Dramatists Play Service |
4W, 2M |
One Act |
A boy's worst fears are realized as we experience life through his thoughts, embarassing as they may be |
Pride and Prejudice |
MacNamara, Margaret |
Samuel French |
10M, 16F |
Full |
Elizabeth balks at the accepted women's career -- marriage -- until she gets the man of her choice |
Reindeer Soup |
Pinutaro, Joe |
William Morris Agency |
4F, 4M |
One Act |
A family deals with the death of the mother and being stuck in the Arctic wilderness, and this is a comedy |
Robin Hood |
Blamire, Larry |
Baker's Plays |
19M, 5W |
Full |
A hysterical, sprawling, action-packed drama that retells the story and reinvents the myth of Robin Hood |
Romeo and Juliet...and Hamlet, too! |
Nuzum, Jack |
Eldridge Publishing Co. |
7M, 4W |
Two Acts |
Your favorite Shakespeare characters updated as today's high school personalities |
Room, The |
Cheaney, J.B. |
Eldridge Pub. Co. |
4M, 4W |
One act |
The room - an undefined space, a refuge from the outside world where anyone who enters must determine when and how to step out again |
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
Stoppard, Tom |
Grove Press |
9M, 2W |
Full |
The famous friends of Hamlet give their own interpretation of the tale |
Rose in the Courtyard, A |
Sodaro, Craig |
Eldridge Publishing Co. |
3M, 3W |
One Act |
A Roman father is forced to choose between a governorship and his Christian daughter |
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Rowan & Martin |
Samuel French |
Very Large Cast |
Full |
A series of skits and sketches taken from the popular 70s TV variety show |
Scheme of the Driftless Shifter, The |
Lane, Carolyn |
Baker's Plays |
5W, 4M + |
One Act |
A mixed-up melodrama -- aren't they all? |
Screwtape |
Forsyth, James |
Dramatic Pub. Co. |
7M, 5W |
Full |
Based on the book by CS Lewis, an apprentice devil is instructed by his mentor in hopes of finally receiving full stature after several failures |
Seagull, The |
Chekov, Anton |
Dramatic Publishing |
8M, 5W |
Full |
Deals with a young author and who kills a seagull as a symbol of his unrequited love, only to have the woman return as ruined as was the seagull |
Secret Garden, The |
Norman, Marsha |
Samuel French |
10F, 11M |
Musical |
An orphaned girl goes to live with her uncle, and discovers an ill cousin hidden in the manor |
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
Kasha/Landay |
Music Theatre International |
Large Cast |
Musical |
Backwoodsmen brothers discover the wrong way to go courtin' and still manage to get the girls |
Shooting Gallery |
Horowitz, Israel |
Dramatists Play Service |
2M, 1W |
One Act |
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Small Actors |
Gregg, Stephen |
Dramatic Pub. Co. |
5W, 5M |
One act |
A touchingly humourous story of a desparate girl who tells her parents she got the role of Juliet when she really didn't |
Sound of Music, The |
Rodgers & Hammerstein |
Rodgers & Hammerstein Theatre Library |
13W, 10M |
Musical |
Adaptation of the true story of the VonTrapp Family's escape from Nazi-occupied Germany |
Southern Fried Murder |
St. John, Billy |
Baker's Plays |
5M, 5W |
Dinner Theatre |
The gathering of "vultures" at the reading of a will become suspects in this murder-mystery |
Stand and Deliver |
Bella, Robert |
Dramatic Pub. Co. |
10M, 7W |
Full |
True story of a dedicated inner city teacher who surmounts over whelming odds in his quest to turn his students into whiz kids |
Steel Magnolias |
Harling, Robert |
Dramatists Play Service |
6W |
Full |
A beauty salon becomes the scene of hilarious verbal collisions, freelydispensed advice, and tragedy |
Sting, The |
Rogers, David |
Dramatic Publishing Co. |
15W, 10M |
Full |
Two outraged, small-time con men set out to outwit a powerful mob leader |
Summer and Smoke |
Williams, Tennessee |
Dramatists Play Service |
6W, 8M |
Full |
A love story between a somewhat puritanical Southern girl and a somewhat unpuritanical young doctor |
Sunday Tea with Desiree |
St. John, Billy |
Eldridge Publishing Co. |
2M, 6W |
One Act |
A simple afternoon tea reveals a haunting secret |
Sure Thing |
Ives, David |
Dramatists Play Service |
1M, 1W |
One Act |
Two people meet and find their way through a conversational minefield as an offstage bell interrupts their faux pas on the way to falling in love |
Take Her, She's Mine |
Ephron, Phoebe & Henry |
Samuel French |
13M, 6W |
Full |
Parenting two typical American girls enroute to college, an experience of growing up for both girls and parents |
Taming of the Shrew, The |
Shakespeare, William |
IE Clark |
10W, 10M |
One Act |
An adaptation of the famous work which retains the most cherished parts of Shakespeare's comedy |
Ten Little Indians |
Christie, Agatha |
Samuel French |
8M, 3W |
Full |
Ten statuettes on a mantel seem eerily connected to the lives -- and deaths - of those gathered in a wierd English countrhouse, all of whom end up accused of murder |
There's No Business Like Snow Business |
Haas, Glaudia |
Eldridge Pub. Co. |
14W |
One act |
A troups of stranded female thespians discover the possibilities of performing Shakespeare without their scenery, costumes, or their men |
The Wall: A Pilgrimage |
Stuckey, Jan |
IE Clark |
3W, 3M |
One Act |
A story of "The Wall" and one family who travels long just to touch one of the names |
This is A Test |
Gregg, Stephen |
Dramatic Pub. Co. |
large cast |
One act |
Ticking clocks, voices from nowhere, essay questions in Chinese all work to make this a performance favorite |
Time to Go Home, A |
Thompson, GM |
Dramatic Publishing Co. |
13M, 13W |
One Act |
Written as a vehicle to explore death, this becomes a play about life |
Tuna Christmas, A |
Williams, Sears, & Howard |
Samuel French |
2M |
Full |
The sequel to "Greater Tuna," presented in the same fashion |
Under the Lamplight |
Barrett, Jens |
Baker's Plays |
11M, 5W |
Full |
Very primitive, honest, early-American melodramatic farce |
Universal Language, The |
Ives, David |
Dramatists Play Service |
2M, 1@ |
One Act |
Teacher and student of Unamunda, a wild comic language, have a lesson of hilarious verbal pyrotechnics |
Up the Down Staircase |
Kaufman, Bel |
Dramatic Publishing Co. |
12M, 18W |
Full |
A first year teacher learns the ropes on everything from discipline to romance |
Variations on the Death of Trotsky |
Ives, David |
Dramatists Play Service |
2M, 1W |
One Act |
Shows the Russian revolutionary on the the day of his death trying to understand the axe in his head |
Velveteen Rabbit, The |
Boffey/Pilcher |
Dramatic Pub. Co. |
4M,2W,24 kids |
Musical |
A fairy tale message about taking the risk of loving and being real |
Voices from the High School |
Dee, Peter |
Baker's Plays |
large cast |
Full |
A montage play with music which reflects the experience of modern teenagers. Some of the dialogue is dated in the early 80's. |
Who's on First? |
Gilles, Harold |
Baker's Plays |
2M or W |
One act |
The unparalleled, fast-paced play on words made famous by Abbott and Costello |
World Affairs |
Pfeffer, Susan Beth |
HarperCollins Children's Books |
3F, 1M |
One Act |
A teenage girl finds out about her mother's affair, and tries to deals with her resulting emotions |
Words, Words, Words |
Ives, David |
Dramatists Play Service |
2M, 1W |
One Act |
Recalls the adage that 3 monkeys typing into eternity would write "Hamlet", and asks what the monkeys be talking about |
You Can't Take It With You |
Hart/Kaufman |
Dramatists Play Service |
7M, 7W |
Full |
Star-crossed lovers from distinctly different backgrounds weather the storms of comic interlude between families before reaching a happy ending |