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Flexible cast of 15, plus extras if desired"If you see any birthday parties today, let me know. It might be mine," moans the despondent piggy Oinkie to her friends, two hens and a rooster. It's her sixth birthday, but everyone ¿ including her mother, father, and brother and sister, Pigtail and Pigsty ¿ seems to have forgotten. It's no wonder that she cries, "Wee, wee, wee" all the way home. And what about the "little piggy that went to the market," the one who "stayed home," and the ones w

An an orientation camp for new teenage clones, teens are sent to ¿Camp I.M.U.¿ fresh from the lab to make a transition into the world of the ¿Originals¿ who have ordered them made. The newest ¿Copy¿ (a word they prefer to ¿clone¿) to arrive is a very bright and positive teenager named Michael who soon realizes what the other copies in his cottage have known for awhile ¿ that their stay at the camp is much longer than they had thought. Michael befriends a rebellious Copy named Melissa, who does not get along with her Original and refuses to change her attitude in order to please her. She informs Michael, and the other Copies, that she is going to escape from the camp and fight for what she calls ¿copy rights¿. This is a story right out of tomorrow¿s headlines. Not good at math? Have a clone of yourself made from your own DNA, but gifted in math to do your problems for you. Need a spare part for the future? Your clone is a walking talking parts store. Copies explores the heart and soul of clones, bred specifically to do all those things you don¿t want to do.

Poetic drama5m, 3f. Some doubling, 1 Klezmer musician.Dreams are sometimes considered metaphors that help us understand the events in our lives. In this dramatic adaptation of Kafka's novella, Gregor Samsa awakens into a dream in which he finds himself transformed into a cockroach. The Stage Manager "summons" the dream-play while a mime and a musician communicate his thoughts and emotions, invoking a nightmarish atmosphere. Set in early 20th century Prague and written in verse, Thomalen capt

Flexible cast of 16 m and 21 f, or 8 m and 12 f with doublingComedy, Jr. High/High School / Simple setIn a spooky graveyard, the darkly lovely Claudia, a Guardian of Dark Tales, retells famous horror stories much to the delight of her lumpy husband, Igor. As she tells classics such as "Dracula", "Frankenstein", "The Three Werewolves", "Jekyll and Hyde", "The Tragic Tale of the Mummy", and "The Three Witches", the characters come to life. However, the stories are all a bit different than we ex

Comedy/Drama/FantasyFour heart warming Christmas plays, just in time for the holiday!:THE OFFICE PARTY (2m, 1f) - Bill and Joyce meet at a holiday office party, rekindling a love affair that leads to Joyce's living room and the possible early arrival of Richard, the third side of an unresolved triangle.SANTA'S CLARA (2m, 1f) - In the shadows of a Hell's Kitchen bottle redemption center, a fired department store Santa meets a teenage runaway toting a shopping cart of empties and a cynical h

Flexible Cast, 15m, 13f / Comedy / Jr. High/High School / Simple setSwashbuckling pirates, sea battles, buried treasure and a pygmy or two make up the high seas adventure of The Pirate Show! ARG! Set in late 19th century London, Nigel and Virginia Huddersfield, orphaned brother and sister, are living under the cruel Miss Persimmon Crudmudgeon. Fed up with their life, the brother and sister flee. Pursued by Crudmudgeon and her Constable boyfriend, Nigel and Virginia hide in pier side barrels, b

Drama / 9m, 8f + 4 flexible / Single setA ghost! Slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad! A kooky psychic! A haunted house! Dangerous bounty hunters! A dead, poisoned dog in the oven? Just what kind of play is this exactly?The Williams family has not even finished unpacking when they discover that their new house is haunted! Who is the ghost and what does it want? As the family tries everything from Ouiji boards to psychics for help, we learn of the house's original owners - the Jameson f

ComedyCharacters: flexible cast of 12-28 males & Females (doubling possible)This extremely adaptable comedy shows the other side of several familiar fairy tales when two of their biggest villains, the Big Bad Wolf and the Wicked Witch, are brought to trial. Both the Wolf and the Witch have been frolicking from fairy tale to fairy tale wreaking havoc as they try to prevent the general public from living happily ever after. Hear the personal accounts of what happened, told in testimonies and

Comedy / Casting: 3m, 6f / Scenery: exterior Somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the south, there's a place where the bee-hive hairdo is still the rage and Saturday nights are reserved for the tractor pull in nearby Pickler. A colorful collection of good ol' country folk gather 'round for this year's county fair, and there's stiff competition in the arts and crafts category. Faith County enjoyed a thirty-five week run on WLYX and was featured on the television special, "Dateline." "Faith

Dramatic ComedyCharacters: 11 female (possible doubling for a smaller cast)Simple stagingLength: 45 minutesThis collection is filled with winners. Every play is an award winner and has been performed around the country. Each part gives an actress a chance to put in a winning performance. From the quirky characters in Rock, Paper, Scissors to the exercising ladies in Harvesting the Marigold Seeds; from the two caretakers of all the unborn babies in Limbo

Greg CummingsKiss, Then Tell is a series of nine very short romantic comedies written specifically for high school casts and audiences. Kiss, Then Tell is a series of variations on a theme: each of these poignant, bittersweet one act plays begins by discovering a young couple immediately AFTER their first kiss.In Love Bites, a ten year-old girl needs to convince the new kid in school, a lonely ten year- old boy, that sharing a sandwich is NOT like kissing.

Alan Haehnel Comedy ensemble Cast of 30-59 characters bare stage This amazing work by the author of Fourteen Lines is perfect for high schools everywhere. Jane is a teenager of such prowess that, at last count, over thirty-seven thousand people in eighteen different countries wanted to be her. She assembles her friends and followers so that she can retell the story of one of the greatest challenges in her heroic career - the dreaded tale of The Term Paper. Can she

p>George Bernard Shaw.Adapted and abridged by Aurand HarrisComedyCharacters: 3 male, 2 female. Interior SetProbably Shaw's most popular play, Candida recounts the love sickness of young poet Eugene Marchbanks for Candida, wife of the Rev. Morell. At first, Morell is amused; but when he begins to doubt his wife's love, he becomes disturbed and angered. The poet becomes the stronger suitor, Morell realizes his weaknesses and Candida, one of the most remarkable wom

Mystery Farce 5m / 9f / interior June Hunger for is being hounded by Edwina Hyde, a dangerous young woman who is convinced June has stolen the man she loves. Desperate, June heads for the hills, where she encounters a bizarre hillbilly family. They take her in because she looks exactly like Daisy Belle, a relative who has disappeared. Daisy Belle gets a quarterly check from a law firm that always insists on seeing her in person. June agrees to impersonate Daisy Belle because sh

Mystery / Thriller Characters: 8 female (2 male recorded voices) Unit Set: Interior (living room, two bedrooms, and small attic). Set in October 1978, A Night of Dark Intent is the story of six women, who spend the weekend together in an abandoned house. The house, however, is no ordidary home: 13 years prior, it was the location of the grisley Stark chillings, in which young Lenora Stark brutally murdered her parents. Now, as the six women try to unravel the secrets of what

Romantic ComedyCharacters: 7 male, 4 femaleInterior SetSandy, the four-times-married-three-times-divorced owner of a wedding chapel in Las Vegas, has certainly seen her fair share of matrimonies! In the hilarious and heart-warming Four Weddings and an Elvis, we witness four of her most memorable: Bev and Stan, who are getting married as revenge on their exes; Vanessa and Bryce, two arrogant aging stars who are tying the knot as a publicity ploy; and Martin and Fiona, a gentl

Holiday PlayCharacters: 8 male, 13 female, or 11 male, 17 femaleUnit Set.The classic story of A Christmas Carol is given a modern twist and set at West End High School, where the campus "Scrooge" is Meredith Priestly, the most beautiful, most popular, meanest, nastiest girl in school! With uninterested and never present globe-trotting parents, the lead in the school production of Romeo and Juliet and Queen Bee of campus (or so she thinks!) is in need of a reminder of what Chri

101 Winning Monologues for Young Performers Including 101 valuable acting hints! Acting teacher Mark Weston has written a companion to his most successful Winning Monologues from the Beginnings Workshop. After observing his acting students over many years struggling with books that offered speeches and recitations in lieu of monologues, Mr. Weston wrote his true and original monologues for young performers. He is pleased to acknowledge that many young performers have benefitted. For t

Adapted from Moliere by Charles Jeffries and Luis Muñoz Comedy Characters: 8 male, 7 female So virtuous is Tartuffe that every form of pleasure is an abomination to him. Orgon, a rich merchant, is completely duped by the ruse and watches approvingly as the cunning Tartuffe "reforms" his whole family. So besotted is the merchant that he even plans to give Tartuffe his fortune, his house, and finally his daughter! Orgon's wife finally exposes Tartuffe for the rogue he is --

Mystery Comedy Characters: 5 male, 7female. Interior Set When a houseful of sweet little old ladies discover that a handsome bachelor lives across the street, they are delighted. When they learn that he is none other than Detective Dennis O'Finn, of Homicide, they are faced with the problem of how to attract his attention. The answer is simplicity itself: a nice, genteel homicide with a cup of tea as the murder weapon. When a brash young woman reporter begins to suspect the truth,

Characters: 3 male, 6 female. Representational set Shakespeare's characters are forever famous, not only for the beauty of the lines they spoke, but for wit, humor, and joyous humanity! Six of these great women and three extraordinary men meet in a totally contemporary play! Kate and Petruchio, Romeo and Juliet, daring Henry V, plus Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra, combine to produce a mad and merry tribute to the greatest writer of them all!

Characters: 6 male, 5 female, extras. Length: 35 minutes In this devastatingly funny play by one of America's most popular playwrights of Christian drama, we find an idealistic young man who believes he can start the perfect church. And of course, he runs into a myriad problems: active participation, selection of a pastor, choice of music director, policy on church doctrine, outreach for membership, and so on. Although this easy to produce play is mostly amusing, it does make an impor

Adapted and abridged by Harold G. Sliker Characters: 5 male, 4 female This is a skillfully condensed, two scene adaptation with all the flavor of the original. Earnest is a convenient excuse for Jack Worthing whenever he needs to avoid social responsibilities -- but then Earnest seems to take on a life of his own! Minimum of ten copies required for production. ONE-ACT

A Comedy for Children and a Lesson for Adults flexible cast of 2 male & 6 female. Set: bare stage with pieces. Length of Show: 55 minutes King and Queen discover that their son, the Prince, doesn't talk. The pretty young Maiden points out this fact, but they do not listen to her. Consequently, the royal couple put the Prince through a series of probing tests conducted by their three zany wizards. Of course, there is nothing wrong, but by this point, the Prince has lost his confide

Comedy Characters: 6-7 male, 18-19 femaleOne room set"Never fear, Bradley Baxter is here!"When Lady White's diamond necklace disappears after a dinner party, a police detective is called in to find out where the prized possession has gone. The case seems simple enough to Lady White's husband and daughter, but when bumbling detective Bradley Baxter arrives and sends the household into disorder and frustration, the case becomes anything but simple. Neighbors are invited and not a

ComedyCharacters: 4 male, 2 femaleIn the kingdom of Middlefield, there is a tradition. On a princess' sixteenth birthday, she is tied to a rock, kidnapped by a dragon, rescued by a prince and lives happily ever after. But what happens when the prince is too afraid to fight, the princess wants to do the rescuing by herself, and the dragon is nowhere to be found? Adapted from the story by Edith Nesbit, The Last of the Dragons tells a tale of bravery, intelligence and unexpected fr

Characters: 7 male, 5 female, plus minor roles, doubling possibleOne of the most popular children's plays in Great Britain, professionally toured throughout Scandinavia, and the subject of broad-based critical acclaim, this stimulating interpretation reaches out and captures youthful audiences with unprecedented spirit. The timeless story of the wooden puppet who must earn the right to fulfill his longing to be a real boy brilliantly conveys lessons of responsibility and respect for the feeli

One-act play based on the poem "Jabberwocky" from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the looking-glass.'

Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 7 female, 4 extras (women)Scenery: InteriorOrphaned as a child to be raised by his scientist uncle deep in the Canadian woods, Romeo Montague has never set eyes upon a woman in his over twenty-one years. That is all about to change when two Americans - Larry McNeil and Rex Simons - stumble across him in the woods and invite him to visit them in the States. He arrives to find a house full of women, including Larry's two outgoing sisters, Connie and Billie, and

Drama Characters: 2 male, 3 female. One Set This play was produced professionally in New York and London, as well as on television. A young couple arrive at an old house just before a snowstorm isolates them. Since her child's death, the wife has been in a sanitarium and the guilt and tensions of the young couple's tragic loss have all but destroyed their relationship. They try to rebuild their mutual trust, but the wife hears voices and she and the audience see the pale figure of