Play Index

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Adaptations

Plays Adapted from Shakespeare and Other Classics

Macbeth for Youth (a 45-minute 5-actor play for youth)

Midsummer Nights Dream (a 45-minute touring adaptation for youth; teen drama groups)

The Tempest (A touring play for young audiences; teen drama groups)

Reverse Hamlet (a one-act Hamlet comedy; great for middle school and teens)

Romeo and Juliet in Fewer Words Words Words (a 45-minute version for teens; ideal for classroom use with roles for every student; variable casting and doubling)

Romeo & Juliet For Youth (for young audiences and teen drama groups)

Poems, Plays, and Pratfalls: An Introduction to Shakespeare (a 2 or 4 actor version; 45 minutes for elementary school)

Shakespeare-On-The-Go (Four 45-minute Shakespeare plays for kids)

Shakespeare After School ( 50-minute Shakespeare composite)

Shakespeare: Playing for Laughs ( 50-minute Shakespeare composite)

An Enemy of the People (full-length Ibsen adaptation)

Alice in Wonderland (1-act Lewis Carroll adaptation; large cast; combine with Alice: Through the Looking Glass for great evening of comedy)

Alice: Through the Looking Glass (1-act adaptation; large cast; great for stage and classroom; true to original)

The Chimes (full-length Dickens Christmas/New Years story)

The Concise Christmas Carol (Dickens, 50-minute version; 1 – 4 actors)

EveryKid (a one-act children’s comedy about values; based on Everyman)

Oliver Twist (Dickens; full-length comedy; great for classroom use and school play)

Eveline ( James Joyce: Dubliners; one act drama; women’s issues)

The Boarding House (James Joyce: Dubliners; one act comedy; women’s issues)

The Dead (James Joyce: Dubliners; one act drama)

An Evening with Joyce’s Women (James Joyce: Dubliners / full-length)

Canterbury Tales (Chaucer / selected tales / imaginative staging / optional music)

The Hypochondriac (One-act version of Moliere’sThe Imaginary Invalid)

Frankenstein (a full-length adaptation of the original Mary Shelley novel; great for kids,teens, families and community theaters)

Screwtape Rewired (based on C. S. Lewis; 60-minutes; a demon in search of souls; performed by 1 – 4 actors)

Phaedra (a full-length, poetic, modern retelling of the Racine play; love, lust, and obsession)

N a compelling clash between Charles Gilpin, eminent African-American actor and Eugene O’Neill over the use of the N word in Emperor Jones.

Tom and Huck: Breakin’ the Law (based on Mark Twain’s classic; an LGBTQ comedy; a light-hearted comedy with 7 – 9 actors.

A Touch of Frost (3 zany one-acts; out-of-this-world characters in a rural, Vermont setting; based loosely on the poetry of Robert Frost)

Plays Adapted from Fairy Tales and Fables

Cinderella (a full-length adaptation / original characters )

The Moral of the Story (Ibo legend &Aesop’s Tortoise and the Hare;One Act)

The Lovely Red Flower (one act Malaysian folk tale for children; greed vs. industry)

Prince Hedgehog (one act for children; value of education)

Snow White (a full-length adaptation; seven unique dwarves)

Sleeping Beauty (a full-length adaptation from the Charles Perrault original)

The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde; a one-act play for children)

The Snow Queen (Hans Christian Andersen; optional audience participation)

Charming Princes and Wicked Queens (Three full-length fairy tales: Snow White, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty)

Feathers in the Wind (Jewish folk tales; musical; variable cast; the foolish people of Chelm)

Full-Length Plays

A Colonial Christmas (a full-length holiday journey through time; large cast /doubling)

The Chimes (a full-length Dickens Christmas / New Years story)

Best Always, Marilyn Monroe (a full-length original drama)

Brendan’s Journey (a 2-actor full-length tour-de-force)

An Enemy of the People (Ibsen comedy; full-length; environment/ politics)

Hymn to the Chesapeake (a lyrical, full-length, variable cast musical; life and love of watermen and women on Virginia’s Eastern shore)

She’ll Find her Way Home (post-Civil War, African-American family drama)

There’s a Stone in my Sister’s Old Shoe Ouch! (a full-length zany look at life and the after-life a la 1970’s culture)

Canterbury Tales (Chaucer / selected tales / imaginative staging / optional music)

The Unmasking of Yetta Breen (a full-length family drama about aging)

Between Trains (a site-specific, full-length poetic drama; variable casting. will the train come? If so, what happens when it does? Optional music)

Sniper (a full-length play in one act; a fictional view of the inner world of a school shooter)

Frankenstein (a full-length adaptation of the original Mary Shelley novel)

An Evening with Joyce’s Women (3 Joyce one-act adaptations; full-length; women’s issues)

Nat’s Last Struggle (a 50-minute 1-man show; Nat Turner confronts his God; great for school performances and classroom readings.)

Nat Turner’s Last Struggle: Finding His Way Home (a full-length, 2-character play in one-act; Nat Turner faces execution; Mother Earth figure; highly theatrical

Phaedra (a full-length, poetic, modern retelling of the Racine play; love, lust, and obsession)

Angel Band (a compelling, mythic drama of strangers in strange lands; diverse cast; the Blue People of Kentucky; schools, community, professional stages)

A.N.G.E.L.s. Inc. (a full-length, out-of-this-world Christmas comedy play)

Distant Survivors (a full-length poetic Holocaust drama in one act)

Tom and Huck: Breakin’ the Law (based on Mark Twain’s classic; an LGBTQ comedy; a light-hearted comedy with 7 – 9 actors.

Humans Remain (a full-length, lyrical, award-winning drama; diverse cast; great for schools, community theater; professional stages)

Refraction of Light (a full-length dramedy; a Southern extended family threatened by hidden prejudices; 4 actors; diverse cast)

N (a compelling clash between Charles Gilpin, an eminent African-American actor and Eugene O’Neill over the use of the N-word in Emperor Jones.)

PTSD and Me (cast of 1; bare stage; a full-length play in one act based on the poetry of African-American veteran Erika Renee Land as she struggles with being a returning veteran, African-American, and gay.)

Drowning Ophelia (a dark comedy in one act in which Jane battles memories, of a brother she would like to forget. A character who resides in her bathtub and resembles Hamlet’s Ophelia, makes forgetting impossible.)

Rasputin – The Libertine (large cast; historical. From a murky past, Rasputin disrupts Russian society with his charismatic fervor. Despite several assassination attempts, Rasputin survives and thrives. Will nothing rid of us this meddlesome priest?)

Floyd Collins and the White Angels of Sand Cave (large cast; historical. In 1925 Floyd Collins hoped to find another entrance to the Mammoth Caves. He was trapped underground, as a media circus ensued, heightened by a new invention, public radio broadcasts, and ultimately thwarted attempts at rescue.)

Ghosts of Silver Beach Road (a 3-character autobiographical drama in poetry. A young boy struggles to cope with his own mental illness and that of his dysfunctional family. )

One Act Plays

91366 – a 3-character one-act drama set in a tattoo parlor; 1 teen role / 1 senior role – a Holocaust survivor.

The Aviators – a 40-minute one act for adults/seniors / WWII vets

A Chair – 20 minutes; seniors/adults; a couple invents and reinvents their past over the discovery of a chair

The Best is Yet to Be (30 minutes for teens/adults/seniors)

Birdwatchers (a one act 2-character drama for adults/seniors – an older couple tentatively explore a relationship.)

Campers (a one-act, 2-character comedy/drama for adults. Camping is meant to restore a relationship – but does it?)

From the Back Seat (a 40-minute one-act with senior roles; simple set; parents and adult children collide on a road trip.)

The Devil’s Due (a one-act, 3-character drama / adults. An unusual psychiatrist promises to restore a painter’s mental health, but what is the price he asks?)

In the Second Place – a 20-minute play for 4 adults

The Pinch Hitter (a one-act comedy/drama for teens/adults. A woman beset by a demanding family and her worries over her mentally challenged son goes on strike. )

Snapshots (a one-act play revealing pivotal points in a 30-year marriage; winner of the Kernoble Prize from the University of Arkansas)

Shadowland (a one-act, psychological drama – Where does reality begin and illusion end?)

Oregon Fever (a one-act drama; teen romance meets Gold Rush fever. Is this the time for a young man to strike out on his own and how will his intended wife react?)

The Trunk (a 15-minute end-of-life dramedy; magical realism; fantasy; small cast. A man tries to board a train but is prevented by his baggage. Will the porter find a way to help him?

A Touch of Frost (3 zany one-acts; out-of-this-world characters in a rural, Vermont setting; based loosely on the poetry of Robert Frost. Are these the kind of neighbors one should embrace or should they remain divided?)

Inside and Out (a 15-minute play about autism. A mother seeks to reach into the mind of her autistic son. One character is the mind of the boy.

Cell (10-minute comedy for 4 actors, takes us inside connecting and disconnecting calls among 4 different cell phone users. Each looks for answers to the central problems in their lives with hilarious results.)

Digital Disturbances (3 short plays; easy streaming; the distress of neophytes grappling with a digitized world. Includes Cell)

A Slippery Slope (10 minutes; classroom set; A middle-school teacher is in a war zone between two students)

Collections of One-Act Plays

Children’s Plays and Youth Theater

Baba Yaga Acts Up (6 short participation plays for children; total 60 minutes)

Cinderella: Boots, Class, and a Li’l Sass (musical to be performed for children)

Herschel & Happy (short participation plays for children; total 60 minutes)

EveryKid (a one-act children’s comedy about values; based on Everyman)

Prince Hedgehog (one act comedy for children; the value of education)

The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde / a one-act play for children; redemption theme)

Talk, The Musical (a one-act music for children about the environment)

Plays, Poems, and Pratfalls: Will Shakespeare, An Introduction (a 2 or 4 actor version; adult performers; 40 minutes; for elementary school)

Social Issue Plays for Youth
(30 – 45 minutes)

All Dressed Up (one-act family drama about teen sexuality)

Dropout (one-act drama/comedy; diverse cast)

EveryKid (values. based on Everyman)

I Am the Brother of Dragons (a one-act play for teens / drug use and family / simple set)

The Moral of the Story (Ibo legend & Aesop’s Tortoise and the Hare /One Act)

Ophelia Lives! (a 45-minute play for teens / teen suicide)

The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde adaptation; selfishness/kindness)

Lost and Found (sexual identification; bare stage; 45 minutes; for teens)

Talk, The Musical (a one-act musical for children’s theater; the environment)

Three Long Days (a one-act play for teens; peer pressure)

Social Issue Plays for Youth/Adult
(60 – 90 minutes)

Group S.O.S. (sexual abuse, molestation; male and female versions; 50 minutes each)

Group S.O.S. (sexual abuse; Female version only)

Group S.O.S. (sexual abuse; Male version only)

An Enemy of the People (Ibsen; environment/politics; full-length comedy)

A Cold Day in Hell (1-man show; 50 minutes; assisted suicide)

Sniper (a full-length play in one act / school shootings )

Tom and Huck: Breakin’ the Law (based on Mark Twain’s classic; an LGBTQ comedy; a light-hearted comedy with 7 – 9 actors.

Angel Band (a compelling, mythic drama of strangers in strange lands; diverse cast; the Blue People of Kentucky; schools, community, professional stages)

Refraction of Light (a full-length dramedy; a Southern extended family threatened by hidden prejudices; 4 actors; diverse cast)

Humans Remain (a full-length play; diverse cast; isolation and civilization; Premiere available.

N a compelling clash between Charles Gilpin, an eminent African-American actor and Eugene O’Neill over the use of the N-word in Emperor Jones.

PTSD and Me (cast of 1; bare stage; a full-length play in one act based on the poetry of African-American veteran Erika Renee Land as she struggles with being a returning veteran, African-American, and gay.)

Drowning Ophelia (a dark comedy in one act in which Jane battles memories, of a brother she would like to forget. A character who resides in her bathtub and resembles Hamlet’s Ophelia, makes forgetting impossible.)

Rasputin – The Libertine (large cast; historical. From a murky past, Rasputin disrupts Russian society with his charismatic fervor. Despite several assassination attempts, Rasputin survives and thrives. Will nothing rid of us this meddlesome priest?)

Plays With Senior Citizen Characters

One-Acts & Shorts (15 – 45 minutes)

A Chair (a one-act comedy; 20 minutes)

Attack at the Pierre-Fontaine (a one-act comedy; seniors performers; 30 minutes)

The Aviators (a one-act drama; 4 males; WWII vets; 30 minutes)

From the Back Seat (a one-act drama; simple set; generation gap; 45 minutes)

Independence Day (3 short shorts for seniors; simple sets; senior actors)

Short Shorts for Seniors (collection of 5 shorts; 10 minutes each; senior actors)

Short Plays for Long Lives (collection of 10-minute plays for seniors)

91366 (a 3-character one-act drama set in a tattoo parlor; 1 teen role / 1 senior role – a Holocaust survivor; 15 minutes.)

A Touch of Frost (3 zany one-acts; out-of-this-world characters in a rural, Vermont setting; based loosely on the poetry of Robert Frost)

The Trunk(a 15-minute end-of-life dramedy; magical realism; fantasy; small cast)

Senior Citizen Characters
(45 – 90 Minutes)

From the Back Seat (a one-act comedy; senior characters; simple set; family issues)

A Cold Day in Hell (a 50-minute 1-man show; pulling the plug on a loved one)

ElderPair: 4 Courtship Comedies for Seniors (4 shorts for seniors about relationships)

Friends & Relations (3 one-acts; senior characters / family audience; 30 minutes each)

A Touch of Frost (3 zany one-acts; out-of-this-world characters in a rural, Vermont setting; based loosely on the poetry of Robert Frost)

I Love Jack Kerouac (3 short plays for seniors)

The Unmasking of Yetta Breen (a full-length family drama about aging)

Musicals & Plays with Music – Adult (full-length)

Hymn to the Chesapeake (a lyrical, full-length, variable cast musical; life and love of watermen and women on Virginia’s Eastern shore)

Canterbury Tales (Chaucer / selected tales / imaginative staging / optional music)

Feathers in the Wind (Jewish folk tales; variable cast; the foolish people of Chelm)

Musicals & Plays with Music – For Kids (30 – 45 minutes)

Cinderella: Boots, Class and a Li’l Sass (one-act spoof; performed by adults or teens

Talk: The Musical (one act for kids; performed by adults or teens; the environment)

Royal Tea (one-act fantasy; performed by adults or teens for kids)

Monologues –
15 – 60 minutes

A Cold Day in Hell (a 50-minute 1-man show; pulling the plug on a loved one)

Bertha Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (a 30-minute, one-man show with multiple characters)

Nat’s Last Struggle (a 50-minute 1-man show; Nat Turner confronts his God; great for school performances and classroom readings.)

Screwtapes Rewired (based on C. S. Lewis; 60-minutes; a demon in search of souls; performed by 1 – 4 actors)

Monsters (5 short monologues; males; narrators with a twist to the dark side)

PTSD and Me (based on the poetry of African-American veteran Erika Renee Land, a returning veteran, African-American, and gay.)

Canterbury Tales (Chaucer / selected tales are short monologues)

Bible or Spiritual Monologues

Spread Your Garment Over Me (15 monologues for women from theBible; music optional)

For the Least of These (9 monologues; great women from history)

Voices from the Bible: Monologues for Women (16 monologues from the Old and New Testaments)

Monologues for Men: Voices from the New Testament (29 male monologues; includes author’s suggestions on performing monologues

Monologues for Men: Voices from the Old Testament (21 male monologues; includes author’s suggestion on performing monologues

Plays for Holidays & Special Events

Fanny & Manny Tie the Knot (wedding with audience participation; great fund-raiser)

There’s a Stone in my Sister’s Old Shoe Ouch! (a full-length zany look at life and the after-life a la 1970’s culture; Halloween

A Colonial Christmas (a full-length holiday journey through time; large cast /doubling)

A.N.G.E.L.s. Inc. (a full-length, out-of-this-world Christmas comedy play

The Concise Christmas Carol (Dickens, 50-minute version; 1 – 4 actors

Lamb’s Tales (10 Christmas skits and plays; roles as young as 4 – 7; ideal for church service)

Frankenstein (a full-length adaptation of the original Mary Shelley novel; great for kids,teens, families and community theaters; Halloween)

A Pastor’s Tale: The True Story of Silent Night (7 characters; 20 minutes. a play with live music for young actors, telling the story of how the Christmas song “Silent Night” came to be written.

Christmas in Montana (a 10-minute comedy about Christmas Carols and political correctness)

Charles Dickens Presents . . . A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens and his family share the stage with Scrooge in this unique large-cast adaptation; cast of 20 – 60; all ages)

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Plays with Historical or Social Relevance

Best Always, Marilyn Monroe (a full-length original drama)

Brendan’s Journey (a 2-actor full-length tour-de-force)

An Enemy of the People (Ibsen comedy; full-length; environment/ politics)

Hymn to the Chesapeake (a lyrical, full-length, variable cast musical; life and love of watermen and women on Virginia’s Eastern shore)

She’ll Find her Way Home (post-Civil War, African-American family drama)

A Cold Day in Hell (1-man show; 50 minutes; assisted suicide)

Sniper (a full-length play in one act / school shootings )

Humans Remain (a full-length play; diverse cast; isolation and civilization; Premiere available)

Oregon Fever (a one-act drama; teen romance meets Gold Rush fever)

Angel Band (a compelling, mythic drama of strangers in strange lands; diverse cast; the Blue People of Kentucky; for schools, community, professional stages)

Tom and Huck: Breakin’ the Law (based on Mark Twain’s classic; an LGBTQ comedy; a light-hearted comedy with 7 – 9 actors. )

N (a compelling clash between Charles Gilpin, eminent African-American actor and Eugene O’Neill over the use of the N word in Emperor Jones.)

Refraction of Light (a full-length dramedy; a Southern extended family threatened by hidden prejudices; 4 actors; diverse cast)

A Slippery Slope (10 minutes; classroom set; A middle-school teacher is in a war zone between two students)

Scripts for Spiritual Audiences

Brendan’s Journey (a 2-actor full-length tour-de-force)

As We See Him: A Christmas Cantata (features traditional carols and original poetry)

Lamb’s Tales (10 Christmas skits and plays; roles as young as 4 – 7; ideal for church service)

The Chimes ( full-length Dickens Christmas/New Years story)

Screwtape Rewired (based on C. S. Lewis; 60-minutes; a demon in search of souls; performed by 1 – 4 actors)

Spread Your Garment Over Me (15 monologues for women from the Bible; music optional)

For the Least of These (9 monologues; great women from history)

Voices from the Bible: Monologues for Women (16 monologues from the Old and New Testaments)

Monologues for Men: Voices from the New Testament (29 male monologues; includes author’s suggestions on performing monologues

Monologues for Men: Voices from the Old Testament (21 male monologues; includes author’s suggestion on performing monologues

Poetic Dramas and Spoken Word

The Hidden Stream (autobiography; poetry; possible monologues. A Japanese-American poet’s reflection on growing up as a writer and a woman between cultures.)

River Country (a poem-play; the poet’s romance with and marriage to a man who didn’t speak the same language)

Drowning Ophelia (a dark comedy in one act in which Jane battles memories, of a brother she would like to forget. A character who resides in her bathtub and resembles Hamlet’s Ophelia, makes forgetting impossible.)

Between Trains (a site-specific, full-length poetic drama; variable casting. will the train come? If so, what happens when it does? Optional music)

PTSD and Me (cast of 1; bare stage; a full-length play in one act based on the poetry of African-American veteran Erika Renee Land as she struggles with being a returning veteran, African-American, and gay.)

Screwtape Rewired (based on C. S. Lewis; 60-minutes; a demon in search of souls; performed by 1 – 4 actors)

Canterbury Tales (Chaucer / selected tales / imaginative staging / optional music)