The Great Choice
Fred Eastman
Samuel French Inc
4 Male 4 Female
Modeled after Sophocles' Antigone, this powerful dramatization of an incident in the next war juxtaposes nationalism and individual conscience
$8.99
American Plays & Musicals - American One-act Plays
The David Show
A. R. Gurney Jr
Samuel French Inc
5 Male 1 Female
The story of David, Bathsheba, et al. of Old Testament fame - but the time's the present and the place is a TV studio where David's about to be crowned Saul doesn't like giving up the crown; David balks at...
$8.99
Bridges Are When You Cross Them
Melvin B. Shaffer
Samuel French Inc
3 Male 2 Female
A comic satire on the cubicled mind of the organized man A family on a sightseeing tour are in San Francisco Father's got it all planned so they can cover the city in a day He does his sightseeing by tele...
$8.99
The Prodigals - Orrin & Sugar-Mouth Sam Don`t Dance No More
Don Evans
Dramatists Play Service
4 Male 1 Female
Orrin takes place in the Philadelphia home of a middle-class, upwardly mobile black familyTheir well-ordered existence is suddenly shaken by the return of the eldest son, Orrin, a junkie and drug pusher w...
$13
Something Different
Michael Scanlan
Samuel French Inc
2 Male 1 Female
This ensemble play tells what happens in a small school and a small town when a boy decides to take another boy to the prom Derek had no idea what the fallout would be, but he certainly couldn't predict tha...
$8.99
The Ledge
Stephanie S. Tolan
Samuel French Inc
7 Male 2 Female
In this one act comedy, Reginald Peabody, CPA, is tired of routine and conformity, tired of feeling unnecessary and unwanted He is on a window ledge twenty floors above the street and is going to jump as so...
$8.99
If Men Played Cards as Women Do
George S Kaufman
Samuel French Inc
4 Male 0 Female
A brilliant satire for men, successfully played in Irving Berlin's "Music Box Revue" The fun is derived from the fact that a group of men at the bridge table speak, behave, and think after the manner in whi...
$8.99
Lepers
Robert G Barone
Samuel French Inc
1 Male 4 Female
A small group of women living on the fringes of society, wrapped in bandages and loneliness, deal with denial and acceptance of being the unwanted They are the embodiment of all those who are alienated: the...
$8.99
A Mad Breakfast
I. M. Gray
Samuel French Inc
4 Male 6 Female
A classic one-act farce from Vaudeville days, set in a boarding house ... Practical jokers Mr Jones and Miss Brown tell each of the Guests that wealthy visitor Mr Long is especially interested in their ind...
$8.99
Living On ...
Lois Roach
Samuel French Inc
2 Male 3 Female
An inspiring play about families and friends, living and loving in the age of AIDS This play has had people laughing and crying everywhere it has played It is an exploration of several families from vastly...
$10.99
Don't Look Down
Jay Folb
Samuel French Inc
4 Male 2 Female
A gust of wind changes Paul Kramer's life when it sweeps his money from a hotel window onto the ledge below in this one act comedy Emboldened by greed and whiskey, he steps out to retrieve it, but can't mak...
$8.99
Three Poets - Akhmatova & Komachi & Hrosvitha
Romulus Linney
Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 3 Female
Three women who were astonishing poets are the subjects of this trio of linked short plays ... Ono no Komachi (Japan, 9th century), Hrosvitha (Gandersheim, Saxony, 10th century), and Anna Akhmatova (USSR,...
$13
The Other Woman and Other Short Pieces - Saint Francis Talks to the Birds & The Blizzard & Moby-Dude or the Three Minute Whale
David Ives
Dramatists Play Service
1 Male 3 Female
Four disparate works demonstrate David Ives' mastery of the short form ... The Other Woman is a dark drama of sexual obsession within a marriage, as Thomas's sleepwalking wife, Emma, becomes his mistress wi...
$13
Steinway Grand
Ferenc Karinthy
Samuel French Inc
1 Male 1 Female
The woman has advertised a piano for sale and the man calls to inquire about it On his second call we begin to sense something is wrong; he is not really interested in the piano By the third call we suspec...
$8.99
Women Must Weep & Women Must Work
Mary Orr
Dramatists Play Service
0 Male
Women Must Weep ~ After years of hardship and suffering the War Between The States is nearing its end and while the Southern women, like their men at the front, are reluctant to admit it, the fate of the ...
$13
The Curate's Play
Nathaniel Banks
Dramatists Play Service
4 Male 2 Female
Arthur Gelb's comments on The Curate's Play as presented at St. George's Episcopal Church in New York City ... "Its intention is to make meaningful, in modern terms, the lovely but remote tableau of the mir...
$13
When Altars Burn
Kay Arthur
Samuel French Inc
0 Male 4 Female
A study of four generations, marked by finely drawn characterizations A child is caught in the conflict between her mother and grandmother, and the crisis is precipitated by her revelation of a long conceal...
$8.99
The Tobacco Club
K T Curran
Samuel French Inc
3 Male 4 Female
As the final bell rings on Friday and the school building empties out, a sullen group of students remain behind They enter Ms Jordan's room to fulfill their eight weeks' detention for smoking on school prop...
$8.99
Doing a Good One for the Red Man & Other Plays
Mark Medoff
Dramatists Play Service
Doing a Good One for the Red Man ~ Selected for inclusion in Best Short Plays, this revealing and bitingly funny play projects still another uncomplimentary aspect of our infamous treatment of the American...
$13
That Was No Lady - That Was a Private Eye
Dennis Snee
Samuel French Inc
3 Male 6 Female
Phyllis Harlowe is her name, and private investigation is her game Her lip gloss is bulletproof She has a landlord who wants the rent, a secretary assistant who's deeply into the soaps, and a frightened ma...
$8.99