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(MIS)ADVENTURES IN LIVE THEATRE
Comedy • 30 minutes
4 females, 2 males, 13 either (19 total cast)
2-10 extras
SYNOPSIS: Community theatre? What could go wrong! Take a hilarious romp through the staging of an ill-fated and under-funded production of “The Prince’s Tale” as the bossy director, the frantic stage manager, and the backstage “ninja” crew encounter mishap after mishap in their attempt to compete for a desperately needed grant.
...AND OTHERS
Ensemble Cast, Drama • 30 minutes
4 females, 4 males (8 total cast)
SYNOPSIS: A journey through the mind and memory of Amanda, a 26-year-old woman, ...and others explores the dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality syndrome) that resulted from a trauma she suffered at thirteen. Seven personas – female and male – struggle for control. With a mix of terrifying intensity, quirky humor... Read More
THE 11TH
Drama • 40 minutes
4-12 females, 2-6 males, 4-11 either (10-29 total cast)
0-5 extras
SYNOPSIS: 9/11 changed the world - but how did it change you? Watch the events unfold from the point of view of everyday people in a high school: the teachers, the students, the counselors and the parents. They are people who weren't in New York or Washington on that day, but were drastically affected, just like you, and each has... Read More
20 BOOKS IN SEARCH OF A READER
Comedy, Dark Comedy • 35 minutes
2-21 either (2-21 total cast)
SYNOPSIS: This high school librarian has had enough! After years of watching the same students ask for the same books over and over and over again, she's sick of it. She would much rather know what the students have to say. So she takes matters into her own hands and embarks on an absurd quest to decimate twenty of the most classic... Read More
30 HORRIBLE CATASTROPHES OF MIDDLE SCHOOL
Comedy, Ensemble Cast • 55 minutes
3-6 females, 4 males, 3-20 either (10-30 total cast)
0-20 extras
SYNOPSIS: Dodgeball! Flirting! Selfies! The cool bench! Body spray for men! All the Horrors of Middle School! Plus, the usual victims: The nerds, the jocks, the preps, the punkers and many others, team up to demonstrate the “worst” catastrophes of their... Read More
30 PLAYS IN 30 MINUTES
Comedy, Ensemble Cast • 30 minutes
3-10 females, 2-5 males, 5-94 either (10-109 total cast)
SYNOPSIS: An acting class must race the clock to win a bet with their teacher. If they can perform 30 plays in 30 minutes, they’ll have no homework for the rest of the month. If they don’t beat the clock, they have to write a research paper about Shakespeare. Super fast-paced collection providing directors with major casting... Read More
368 FRIENDS - ONE ACT VERSION
Drama • 25 minutes
15-17 either (15-17 total cast)
SYNOPSIS: Laura is shy, quiet and awkward, with no real social life. But online, she has 368 friends. People who care enough to share their lives with her. And that's all Laura needs. At least, that's what she keeps telling herself. But as time goes on, she has more and more trouble believing it. After her posts about depression go... Read More
ABOUT HER
Drama, Ensemble Cast • 30 minutes
2 females, 1 male, 4 either (7 total cast)
SYNOPSIS: When a woman's husband drags her out of a social event, what do you know? When she screams, "Let me go!" and you hear it all the way across the street, what do you do? When you think you know what you think you know, what you think you know isn't what you know. As a young woman tells the story of meeting... Read More
ACCUSED OF COMEDY
Comedy • 20 minutes
2 females, 2 males (4 total cast)
SYNOPSIS: After comedy has been outlawed in society, two bottom-of-the-barrel comics face trial for committing comedy, along with the young woman who broke the law by laughing at them. Confronted by a stern lady magistrate, they discover humor is no laughing matter.
THE ADVENTURES OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Comedy, Fantasy, Classics • 50 minutes
4 females, 3 males, 16 either (23 total cast)
SYNOPSIS: A whimsical romp down the rabbit hole! Join Alice as she discovers a magical land full of zany characters and lots of fun. Along the way, Alice meets the mysterious Cheshire Cat who is forever changing colors and the rhyming Caterpillar who loves to blow his bubble pipe and say strange things. She goes to a very MAD un-birthday... Read More
      
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