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As theatre and forensics season heats up, Brooklyn Publishers is right there with you, providing outstanding plays for every occasion. Whether you're mounting a full-scale school production, competing in one-act competition, or seeking great ten-minute monologues and duets for your speech and forensics classes, we've got you covered. Take a few minutes and browse our amazing selection of plays and theatre resources. Check out our new selections and popular plays, and be sure to e-mail and let us know about your productions. We love to hear feedback from our many valued customers!

You'll find navigating our site an easy and productive experience. Our new Show Finder is a terrific feature that will help you locate plays according to your specific needs. Or you may simply use our menu to browse plays by type or genre. As locating the perfect play for your production is never easy, we invite you to call or e-mail our friendly and knowledgeable staff. We're happy to provide you with personalized service.

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		BEEF JUNKIES Cowgirl is a beef addict. Chicken won't do it. Neither will pork. Not even lamb will give her a fix. And she's running out of cow. There's only one left - in the entire world. When she and her salmon-loving running mate, Cowboy (who may or may not be responsible for the extinction of the ostrich), set their sights on Betty the Bovine, will it be curtains for our four-legged...



		COMPUTER BUGGED Be a doctor…a jet pilot…or a supermodel! Who cares if your pot belly hides your kneecaps and you haven’t had your own teeth since ‘91. You can be the ultimate babe magnet…in a computer chat room.



		GRITS AND GRAVY In a desperate attempt to save money and boost ratings the President of the Letz Eat Television Network, Robert Gourmet, sends his reporters to the small town of Magnolia Blossom, Alabama, to cover the town’s annual Grits and Gravy Festival. Held annually at the local truck stop, this extravaganza features a pageant with three very competitive contestants, whose talents...



		HORROR HIGH HORROR HIGH takes all of those horror film icons of long ago - Frankenstein, the Mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon, etc. - and transforms them into high school teenagers in their senior year at Horror High School. Will Georgia the Zombie stop eating brains long enough to realize her Bigfoot boyfriend is unhappy on the football team? Will Blair the Witch be able to convince...



		KISS OF DEATH Wanna kiss someone's great great great great (or something like that) grandma? What if she's already been dead for 400 years? Bratty 16-year-old Lisa takes her date Carson to the cemetery for a secret kiss goodbye, and they inadvertently stumble upon a reunion of all her dead relatives. Grandma and Grandpa are still fighting, plus there are the coffee cousins: Mochalatte,...



		THE MAN IN SEAT 24 OR (THE UNINVITED GUEST) An irate, rude, and combative theatre patron (in your audience!) hijacks the cast, the crew, and his fellow theatre-goers and winds up stone cold dead at center stage. The Man in Seat 24 or (The Uninvited Guest) is a murder mystery, a play-within-a-play, where a harried and frazzled theatre director investigates a murder--during a night of theatre gone wrong--and...



		SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY A group of strangers wins a contest for a weekend stay at the home of a widowed recluse. No one can figure out what contest he won and, then, someone is murdered. This quickly turns into a murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. You'll never guess whodunit.



		THEY SHOOT EXTRAS, DON'T THEY? A young high school camera man, Bob, is filming an extras scene on a Hollywood movie. As everything goes wrong, the director William has a meltdown while Bob gains in confidence and gets the girl.

Featured Plays

BEEF JUNKIES, by J. Dorf

COMPUTER BUGGED, by D. Braxton

GRITS AND GRAVY, by B. Bumgarner

HORROR HIGH, by S. Abley

KISS OF DEATH, by K. Meadows

THE MAN IN SEAT 24 OR (THE UNINVITED GUEST), by M. Collin

SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY, by C. Sodaro

THEY SHOOT EXTRAS, DON'T THEY?, by E. Weiss

FREE eScript of the Week

ARCTIC LIBRARY - by B. Walton

The school system is trying save energy, and it’s a cold day in the library. Freezing, actually. It’s so bad that a teacher brings his class just to punish them, and the maintenance staff won’t stick around long enough to figure out if there might be some kind of problem. The library staff is stuck there through it all, and book burning is looking better all the time.

Enjoy our diverse selection of top-notch, family-friendly plays. Do you prefer spooky and haunted? Does outrageous comedy float your boat? Care to combine great theatre and fund-raising with one of our terrific dinner theatre plays? Whether it's comedy, drama, murder mystery, holiday-themed, Shakespeare-based, melodrama, or readers theatre, we have that and so much more. Browse our terrific offerings. We have shows to fit every school's taste.