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Community Theater Plays for Community Audiences

Discover a range of scripts for plays suitable for community audiences. Browse comedies, dramas, fun adaptations of Shakespeare, fairy tales, classics, spiritual and bible-based plays. There are one-acts, full-length plays and short plays that can be combined to make a longer show. Many are also great for touring theater companies. There are plays for holidays, Christmas shows, Nativity plays, plays for adults, plays for family audiences.

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    Reverse Hamlet

    $11.97 – $55.00
    Is Hamlet all that he pretends to be? Did he really see his father's ghost? Critics for years have argued about how to interpret Shakespeare's Hamlet. This one-act spoof by George Freek suggests some rather unusual answers. The dialogue comically mixes Shakespearean quotes and phrases with contemporary expressions.  
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  • Rich’s Well-Made

    $8.00 – $35.00
    “Rich’s Well-Made”, set in the bathroom, is the second installment in the Playroom series. At its heart, Playroom is a series about exploring the hidden value of everyday spaces, as well as connecting (and reconnecting) with loved ones. Playroom is a theatrical experiment that examines the relationships of the nuclear family against the backdrops of a seemingly normal home.
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  • River Country

    $13.70 – $175.00
    A lilting poem for the stage, follows the passionate meeting of a man and woman who share neither language nor culture, yet fall in love. Through the rhythmic blending of language and song, the play combines poetry and both traditional and original melodies to illuminate this romantic union that ultimately overcomes geography and tradition.
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  • Robert Arthur’s Eastern Shore

    $14.95
    ROBERT ARTHUR'S EASTERN SHORE by Robert P. Arthur, twice nominated for Virginia's Poet Laureate: The book includes 4 one-act plays,  a selection of his award-winning poems, and "Hymn to the Chesapeake," a play with music. The culture of the Eastern Shore watermen and waterwomen has long been threatened by the erosion of winds off the Chesapeake Bay and a dwindling supply of crabs and "ersters" to be harvested.  These poems and plays celebrate that life and allow us, to share the triumph and the pain of finding one's livelihood and reason for being in an environment that is both beautiful and unforgiving.
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  • RTFM

    $8.00 – $35.00
    A lighter & comedic version of "Space Oddity" by David Bowie, where Major Tom is not as prepared as he should be because he doesn't Read The Freakin' Manual (RTFM), as Ground Control nags him to do.
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  • She’ll Find Her Way Home

    $13.70 – $110.00
    A full-length, African-American, post-Civil War drama. The only child of a deceased well-heeled Mississippi slaveholder. Martha Robb views her coming of age full of the adolescent longings and unending horizons promised by the victorious Union Army. and her quadroon complexion. She and her companion, Thomas, could forge different lives, lives absent of the old barriers … if they could only get past her mother.
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  • Short Plays for Long Lives

    $16.97 – $110.00
    A collection of six 10-minute plays for seniors and senior theater groups. With mostly senior cast members, these short comedies plays about old people play well for senior groups and senior actors.  They may be produced as Readers Theater, or on stage individually or as a group.  These are good plays for amdram groups and community theater.
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  • Shorts for All Seasons: America Revisited

    $13.95
    A collection of six 10-minute satires - plays written by the renowned Virginia Playwrights Forum, lampoons the American political and social landscape. From taxes and lotteries, to classroom education and TV talk show hosts, the foibles of present-day America are revealed.
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  • Sniper

    $13.70 – $160.00
    Award-winning full-length drama for 8-10 actors, SNIPER is very loosely based upon the nation's first school shooting in 1975. The drama explores the mind and life of seventeen year old Anthony Vaccaro, who fatally shoots 9 citizens of a small town in upstate New York. Moving back and forth in time, Vaccaro searches his own past and remembers.... Great for high school, college, and community theater and discussion groups.
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  • Spread Your Garment Over Me

    $13.97 – $85.00
    SPREAD YOUR GARMENT OVER ME (Ruth, 3:9) is written as a series of  fifteen monologues and songs. These monologues capture the spirit and character of several women from the Bible and speak to a modern audience. The monologues present issues of faith, religion, and contemporary challenges. Monologues may be used separately as part of a church service or be performed by 1 or more actors as a production. Lead sheets for the music are available. For use of individual monologues, email info@bluemoonplays.com
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  • Talk the Night

    $8.00 – $35.00
    Together, Drake and his grandfather, the dynamic vocal duo, broadcast call-in segments about aliens, werewolves, and all things crypto-zoological, but this particular show is about “time”: lost time, time outs, moments that feel like years,
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  • Ten After Ten: Ten 10-Minute Comedies

    $13.70 – $110.00
    In Ten After Ten, Jack J. Berry uses unique settings to highlight current problems and issues. These short comedies can be performed as a single evening or used separately as part of a larger presentation to underscore a point. Excellent for classroom, church, or senior facility.
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  • The Art of the Duel

    $8.00 – $35.00
    A comedic look at what DUELING would be like if it were legal in the 21st century. The arbiter continues to have a thankless task.
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  • The Boarding House

    $7.95 – $50.00
    A one-act play, The Boarding House is a dramatic satire, by David.H. Klein, of the story by James Joyce. Mrs. Mooney, the owner of a boarding house of questionable reputation, exploits the wiles of her daughter Polly and the power of the Church to snare one of her more respectable boarders as her potential son-in-law.
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  • The Canterbury Tales

    $13.70 – $170.00
    This full-length comedy play with music brings rapid-fire dialogue to an old classic.  With a flexible cast, it is an excellent play for high school performances, college theaters, or community productions.  Elvgren has selected the bawdiest and most satirical tales for this version.  A sense of Chaucer's language is maintained but is made accessible to a modern audience. (Lead sheets available)
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  • The Cat in the Hat Takes Flak

    $8.00 – $35.00
    A tribute to Dr. Seuss and a parody of "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back", where Nick & Sally are savvy enough to call Social Services to deal with both The Cat and the pink snow that he created.
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