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Alan Haehnel Comedy Characters: 8 female, 4 male, extras, gender and numbers of characters easily manipulated The curtain opens on Cybeline, lost in the dark woods, calling plaintively for rescue as wolves prowl closer and closer All of a sudden, No, no, no! rings out from the back of the theater and a disgruntled, dictatorial director barges down the aisle, furious at the actress, the cast, and the entire crew! She commands, No one leaves the theater until this product

Characters: 9 Female, 7 Male, 12 actors, w/ doubling A refreshing, contemporary telling of the classic story. Stern Marilla and her warm-hearted brother Matthew hoped to adopt a boy to work on their farm. But the orphanage sends young, befreckled Anne by mistake, and their lives will never be the same. Her warmth and wit affects everyone around her - even, eventually, the cold Marilla! We follow Anne through her rebellious years, her transformation into a young woman, and her romanti

Comedy / Characters: 3 females Scenery: ExteriorCan three girls survive their graduation night stuck on a Ferris wheel? Set in 1959, the Dream Wheel breaks down with Miss, Berry, and Colleen at the very top. The girls are forced into states of sheer terror and self-reflection, as they try to make the most of their last night of high school. Facing such frightening prospects as the real world and the abyss below them, these best friends stretch the fabric of their friendship, eventually bec

flexible cast An evening of twenty-five short scenes and monologues. Commissioned by the Tony Award winning American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) In San Francisco, this play has won critical acclaim for its entertaining yet relevant and realistic portrayal of life at a High School. The many diverse scenes collectively make up the play. Although each scene stands on its own, there is a common thread - all of the vignettes deal with situations that take place outsid

Dramatic ComedyEnsemble of 8-16 actors no set requirements This exciting collection of stories from around the world deals with generosity and greed and offers a unique challenge to student actors and director. Each tale is simply and beautifully dramatized using different theatrical techniques. The hilarious Bantu tale, Anasi Finds a Fool, uses story-theatre, while Peter and the Hat, a traditional tale from Puerto Rico, is presented in mime, and Japan's hauntingly

"Comedy, TYA/10 main roles, doubling and extras possible/simple set"--P. [4] of cover.

ComedyCharacters: 7 females Simple SetThe Red Feather Ladies Get Their Man....or do they?! The Red Feather Ladies Investment Club is meeting again at their favorite tea room, The Fancy Frills Tea Room. At their last meeting, they all discovered that they were engaged to the same man, a conniving gigolo. He had been seeing each lady on a different day of the week. Each one planned to get even and came up with a unique way to teach the cad a lesson. They are meeting today to learn the

4m, 6f / ComedyA one-act about a young artist on a journey to create her one great masterpiece. On the way she learns lessons about life, art, flamingos, playing the tuba, Georgia O'Keefe, really fat ducks, monkeys wearing roller skates, and the joy of coloring outside the lines. A strong ensemble, poetic language, and expressionistic visual elements make Masterpiece perfect for students or adults.Winner of the 2005 Wells Fargo Spotlight on the Arts Award for Excellence."Just a lovely piec

High School/Community TheaterWinners of the Baker's Plays High School Playwriting CompetitionBaker's Plays has been an advocate for theater in schools for over one hundred years. In the spirit of that commitment, we offer this playwriting competition for High School students. Plays may be about any subject and of any length. It is our hope that this competition will encourage aspiring high school authors to explore the creative possibilities of writing for the stage.This collection includes the winners of the 2010 competition: Hesperides by Gabrielle Hoyt-DisickKeeping Company by Michael BontatibusSo by Zoë WilsonAlso included is winner of prestigious Fidelity Future Stages' 2010 Billy Elliot Award Winner. This play was selected out of over 1000 applicants in the Northeast Tri-state Region: Navy Blue Tiles by Katarzyna Roszczeda.

Farce Characters: 4 male, 6 female. Interior Set One of the funniest one-acts ever written. Hilarious farce dealing with what happened when Jones and Miss Brown, practical jokers, told each of the guests at their boarding house that Mr. Long, a wealthy visitor, was especially interested in their individual hobbies. Long is told the house is an insane asylum. The results are a riot.

Drama / Characters: 3 male, 2 femaleScenery: interiorUnusually powerful and effective, and gives fine roles for two good actresses. The wife of a strangled farmer is arrested on suspicion. While officers and neighbors are searching the old farmhouse for evidence, two women friends discover a slain canary and a broken cage. This evidence can prove the wife guilty, but by keeping her secret, they free her. An American classic by one of the original members of the Provincetown Playhouse where

TYA/Children's Theatre, ComedyCharacters: 1 male, 10 female, and 2 male or femaleSimple SetThe girls of Fireside Scouts Troop #182 are lost. Their day trip to Yellowstone National Park went terribly wrong, and they don't have a scout leader or a map. To make matters worse, they're at the mercy of a careless narrator who didn't go to the bathroom before the play started. How will they survive the rain and the dark? Can they find something to eat before something finds them to eat? Will their story unravel at the hands of a stalling stage manager and two talking trees? After letting off a few ear-splitting screams, these spunky girls gather their wits and their Fireside Scout Handbooks, and prepare themselves to earn the most difficult merit badge of all: The Red Merit Badge of Courage.

Characters: 5 males, 5 females, optional chorus This is a delightful, audience pleasing, one-set, musical spoof based on Mr. Kelly's enormously popular hit The Butler Did It. Miss Maple, a flaky society dowager, invites a pack of zany detective writers to a spooky house on an isolated island and forces them to impersonate their fictional sleuths. For entertainment, she arranges some "classic" touches - a hairy face at the window, the threat of an escaped lunatic, no communications with the ou

5f, 5m / Dark Comedy, High School/ Community Theatre / Simple setSet in the early 19th century, Murder with Grace tells the story of Grace, who is horrified when her brother is betrothed to Naomi, a shallow, silly girl whom Grace cannot stand to be around. She is loath to think that Naomi will soon be her sister-in-law, and so she and her good friend Beth devise a plan to manipulate Naomi by convincing her that another, much more affluent, young man named Henry is interested in marrying her. T

High School/ Community TheatreThe plays contained in this collection are chosen from the award-winning Boston Theater Marathon. This ten-hour marathon of fifty new ten-minute plays by local authors, each one produced by a different New England professional theatre company, were all performed in one place in one amazing day. In 2000, the BTM received a special Elliot Norton Award for "Enlivening Local Theatre." This fifth edition of this popular play festival is a collection of plays performed

Mystery Characters: 5 female, 3 maleSimple setThis is a mysterious comedy (or a comical mystery) that will have everyone howling with laughter.The eccentric owner of Grey's Hound Mansion has been murdered. The cast gathers at the gloomy mansion for the reading of the will. Lightning lights up the stage as thunder and barking dogs greet the wacky characters that arrive. Each one is a suspect, and each one suspects another. Mixed metaphors and alliterations will have the audien

2f, 2m / Musical, TYA/Jr. High/High School / Simple set Greedy humans exploit the kindness of a magical gnome in this fractured fairy tale based on the Brother's Grimm. An ambitious peasant will say anything to convince the cash-strapped king to marry her lowly daughter, even if it means pretending the girl knows how to spin ordinary straw into priceless gold. Forced to spin or die, the hapless girl begs a lovelorn gnome to save her with his magic. And when her newfound "talent" leads to a royal marriage proposal, the aspiring princess will promise the gnome anything to keep up the deception. Even her firstborn child! Too late, she realizes the only way to break her promise is to guess the identity of the mysterious gnome before her time runs out and her subterfuge catches up with her. "Suffice it to say that author Jeff Goode and composer Jonathan Price...are an astonishingly talented team." -The Bar Harbor Times

7m, 3w, + ExtrasMountains In My Stride is an indelibly American folk play, woven of mythic material, of people caught in the timeless trials of becoming their truest selves - whether in 1830 Missouri or now - facing head-on the need for courage, insight and inspiration to conquer their challenges. Jason Hunt, a veteran frontiersman, slated for Congress, finds his true destiny blocked by his love for Ruth, a young, wavering Bostonian, who demands security outside herself; while Hannah, her cous

Comedy/ 6m, 6f, 2 teen girls, 1 teen boy, and a good-natured minister/ A church sanctuary The mother of the bride has every reason to panic. Three generations of Bower family weddings-three inexplicable disasters. Now, with the church building falling down, half the wedding party AWOL, and the bride's sisters still fighting over what happened at the last family wedding, daughter Jenna's nuptials seem hopelessly doomed. But peacemaking brother Brian is determined to end the sisters' feud-and the family curse. All he needs is to stage a rip-roaring intervention...and pray it turns divine!

Romantic Comedy3-4m, 4fSylvia Goldberg, a respectable retired New Jersey school teacher, brings home more than just souvenirs upon returning from her grandson's wedding in Israel. Sylvie's troubles begin when she realizes that the old teapot she purchased at an outdoor market is actually a priceless relic containing a geriatric genie "Eugene" with a bad back and a penchant for vodka and V8. Keeping Eugene a secret from her three best friends, Mabel, Thelma and Fannie, proves to be nearly as

More Readers' Theatre Scripts for Christmas! See Gargoyles, Plastic Balls, and Soup for previous plays about Timmy, Grandma, and the Gargoyle. All the plays are light hearted and amusing as they each present a nugget of the Christian message to all ages. They are easily staged in a church chancel or on a bare stage with only one or two rehearsals. The plays in this collection are: Sara Elizabeth and the Everything-Just-Right Christmas, 2m. 2f. Bare stage with four stools. Sara learns that Jesus doesn't expect people to be perfect when her elaborate plans for Christmas are spoiled because her family doesn't do everything "just right;" Timmy and the Christmas Strangers, 8 readers - 1m, 1f, 1 child (m) required. The other characters allow for flexible casting. Bare stage with eight stools. Some props and minor set pieces required. During a long flight delay on Christmas Eve, Timmy and the other passengers learn that strangers can be friends you just haven't met yet; Christmas and the Gargoyle and the Big, Big Present, 2m. 1f. 1 child (m). Bare stage with four stools. In this sequel to Christmas and the Gargoyle Who Wouldn't Say Thank You Timmy learns not to count his chickens before they are hatched when his BIG present from the Gargoyle turns out to be not at all what he expected. An "ASYOUWILLREMEMBER" prologue delightfully presents the characters from the previous play for those unfamiliar with it; Timmy and the Alien, 5 readers - 1m. 1f. 1 child (m). 2 flexible. Bare stage except for a low "wall" behind five stools. Santa hat and distinctive make-up for the "alien" required. An encounter with an alien from another planet gives Timmy a fresh appreciation of what Christmas is really about

Three Christmas Plays Many thoughts come to mind when the word Christmas is mentioned. Snowmen, Elves, and Nutcrackers are not only three images fondly connected to Christmas, but a collection of three Christmas plays that illustrate how those three words have become synonymous with Christmas around the world. A DIFFERENT KIND OF NUTCRACKER - Children's show / 8m, 9f, extras / Simple sets It's Christmas Eve, Godfather Hoffmann has some special gifts for Fritz and Marie, including a Nutcracker. As Marie tucks in the handsome prince for the night, the room fills with mice, led by the Mouse King, who seems to be at war with the Nutcracker. Is it all a dream or is the story real as Godfather Hoffmann explains to Marie how the Nutcracker became the way he is. The ballet only tells half the story of Godfather Hoffmann's wonderful toys and the strange adventures of Marie on Christmas Eve, when the toys come to life and she finds herself in another world, where she must save her Nutcracker Prince from a terrible curse. ELSON, THE FIRST CHRISTMAS ELF - Children's show / 9m, 7f / Simple sets Is Christmas about to end? Santa Claus is considering no longer building and delivering toys to the good children around the world. The job has just become too big for him and Mrs. Claus. A call for help is sent out by Mrs. Claus via the reindeer to all dwarfs and elves. Elson wants to be the first to the North Pole to help Santa, but he must first get permission to leave his elf colony. When the Elder Elf refuses permission Elson's Elf Grande goes against the Elder Elf's decision and helps Elson put together an expedition team to the North Pole. Getting there isn't going to be easy as the Elder Elf has also put together a team to beat Elson there. And the evil elfin Spirit, Excy, will have a say in who becomes the first Christmas Elf and whether Christmas will even survive. CRYSTAL AND THE CHRISTMAS SNOWMAN - Children's show / 4m, 3f / Simple sets Lauren is stuck spending Christmas with her father, stepmother, and her half brother and sister. She learns the importance of family from a snow angel, a Christmas snowman, a TV weather man, and Santa Claus.

5m, 9f, + extras, flexible casting / Comedy, High School/ Community Theatre / Unit setPanic Broadcast of 1938 is the story of some bold teenagers and one crazy, confusing night! It is 8 p.m., Sunday, October 30, 1938 -- the night before Halloween in Misty Valley, Pennsylvania. Two optimistic and wide-eyed young women, Margie and June, are waiting in the park for June¿s boyfriend, Andy, to get off work. Both teens have dilemmas: Margie wants to leave town and June doesn¿t know if she should