Title: 1979

Author: Healey, Michael

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy
comedy - historical - politics - Canadian history
nine characters
three male (doubling, flexible casting)
one act (two scenes)

1 interior set.

"This hilarious battle of wits is based on true events. The year is 1979, and our hero is Prime
Minister Joe Clark: young, idealistic, and stubborn. He’s in his office, deciding if he should put
his first budget before Parliament. He knows that if he does he could lose everything. Everyone
begs him not to do it: his wife, his colleagues… Brian Mulroney, Pierre Trudeau… They tell him he

Title: 2 Across
A comedy of crosswords and romance
Author: Mayer, Jerry

Publisher: Samuel French 2006

Description:

roy
comedy - romance
two characters
one male; one female
one act (full length)

Two strangers, a man and a woman (late 40's to middle 50's) board a San Francisco BART train at
4:30 AM. They're alone in the car, each is married, both are doing the New York Times crossword.
She's an organized, sensible, psychologist. He's a free spirited, unemployed ad exec. She is a
crossword pro, he always quits. When he tosses his puzzle away, she snaps, "Crosswords are a
metaphor for life, those who finish, succeed, those who don't, fail." Now he vows to finish. Why?
He's a competitor and she happens to be lovely. This starts an 80 minute ride described by

Title: Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre

Author: Tremblay, Larry translated by Chantal Bilodeau

Publisher: Talonbooks 2008

Description:

roy
comedy - mystery
all male cast; three characters
three male (flexible casting)
fifty short scenes

Scratch the surface of any story and underneath you will find layer upon layer of fiction
masquerading as fact. The play's main character, Mark Killman - a feared but much admired
director - draws inspiration from Abraham Lincoln's assassination to stage the schizophrenia of
America. He hires two actors to play Laurel and Hardy. Both are to re-enact the assassination,
while he himself plays the iconic role of Abraham Lincoln as a wax figure. Absurd, hilarious and
haunting, Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre is an unforgettable mystery that asks the question:
Title: Act of God, An

Author: Javerbaum, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2016

Description:

roy
comedy
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act

The One with the first and last word on everything has finally arrived to set the record straight.
After many millennia, and in just 90 minutes, God (assisted by His devoted angels) answers some
of the deepest questions that have plagued mankind since Creation.

Title: After The Honeymoon

A comedy in one act
Author: Gyalui, Wolfgang

Publisher: Samuel French 1915

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

One of this century's earlier versions of the battle of the sexes. The purchasing of a simple
brooch inspires newly-weds into sharp-tongued reproach. The play is sly with sophistication.

Title: Alice Through the Past Lives

Author: Russell-King, Caroline

Publisher: William Rosewood Publishing 1988

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

"Alice undergoes hypnotic regression and travels back to uncover her former selves."
Title: Amelia Lives

Author: Shamas, Laura Annawyn

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1987

Description:

roy
comedy - biography - Amelia - monologue
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

Winner of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award for Outstanding New Drama, Amelia Lives
chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of famed American aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Described by the
Denver Post as a "funny, breathless celebration of adventure," this one woman show begins with
Earhart's last flight and traces highlights of her public achievements and private secrets as
precious memories pass before her eyes. Based on the actual events of Amelia Earhart's life,
adventure, excitement, romance and mystery all play a part in this exciting new show which has

Title: Amooooor

Author: Bokor, Pierre

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"As he awaits his execution, Don Juan re-examines his life as myth and man. Marriage is his only
escape from death and his legendary image, but finding a bride is difficult."

Title: And at Night We Dream

Author: Mutch, David

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian - high school
three characters
two male; one female
one act

The daytime worries and guilts of a suburban couple return in the form of frightening sounds, a
strange Dream Man, and absurd situations. Bizarre comedy and underlying horror, suitable for
high schools.
Title: Annoyance

Author: Bobrick, Sam

Publisher: Samuel French 2005

Description:

roy
dark comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act; three scenes

In the first scene, a very annoying man goes to see a woman therapist in the hopes that she will
help him become less annoying. He drives her over the edge. In the second scene, he sees her
husband, also a therapist, and drives him over the edge. In the third scene, he sees both
therapists, who have decided to take drastic measures to rid the world of this most obnoxious
man. Of course it doesn't go as planned.

Title: Art

Author: Reza, Yasmina translated by Christopher Hampton

Publisher: Faber and Faber 1994

Description:

roy
comedy - human nature
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act

"Serge has bought a modern painting for a huge sum of money. Marc hates it and cannot believe
that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate
both sides. If your friendship is based on tacit mutual agreement, what happens when one person
does something completely different and unexpected? The question is: Are you who you think you
are or are you who your friends think you are?"
Winner: Moliere Award for Best Play, Best Production and Best Author

Title: Art

Author: Reza, Yasmina translated by Christopher Hampton

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1996

Description:

roy
comedy - human nature
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act

"Serge has bought a modern painting for a huge sum of money. Marc hates it and cannot believe
that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate
both sides. If your friendship is based on tacit mutual agreement, what happens when one person
does something completely different and unexpected? The question is: Are you who you think you
are or are you who your friends think you are?"
Winner: Moliere Award for Best Play, Best Production and Best Author
Title: Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls, The

Author: Brewin, Jennifer and Leah Cherniak MacDonald, Ann-Marie and Alisa Palmer
Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1999

Description:

roy
comedy - family relations
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

written by Jennifer Brewin, Leah Cherniak, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer and Martha Ross.

"Three sisters return to their family home to grieve their father's death. Throughout the funeral
party, the women take refuge in the attic where they comfort and torment each other with
unfinished business. The emotions rage, tempered only by the search for their mother's long lost
pearls."

Title: Author's Voice, The

Author: Greenberg, Richard

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1987

Description:

roy
comedy - romance
three characters
two male; one female
one act

suggested for high school.

"Smitten with her latest protege, a handsome young writer with a "special voice," a pretty editor
accompanies him to his apartment - the better to see from whence his inspiration springs, and
also to toast their new creative partnership. But while she is captivated by the writer's good looks
and laid-back, low key manner, she begins, increasingly, to wonder (to the audience) at the

Title: Babel Rap

Author: Lazarus, John

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian - high school
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

1 exterior set.

An industrious worker and a contemplative smoker are at work on the Tower of Babel. They argue
about why they're doing it and what will happen when it's finished.
Title: Bad Dates

Author: Rebeck, Theresa

Publisher: Samuel French 2004

Description:

roy
comedy - relationships - women - monologues
all female cast; one character
one female
five scenes

"And then I realize, in this sort of strange, hallucinatory moment, that the bug guy is looking kind
of good, and the things he's saying about bugs are really kind of fascinating and it is then that I
realized that maybe it has been too long since I've been on a date. So confesses a single mother
and self-described restaurant idiot-savant in this thoroughly charming and slyly sweet
one-woman play by the author of The Butterfly Collection and Spike Heels. This idiosyncratic
journey of self-discovery involves the Romanian mob, a Buddhist rainstorm, a teenage daughter,

Title: Balcony Scene, The

Author: Calhoun, Wil

Publisher: Samuel French 1992

Description:

roy
comedy - romance
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Alvin has had it. He sees civilization crumbling around him and wants no part of it. The only
place he feels safe is inside his Chicago high rise apartment, so that's where he stays until Karen
moves in next door. She is a die hard optimist with a high pressure job and a relentless ex
boyfriend who won't take no for an answer. Alvin and Karen meet on their adjoining balconies and
form a friendship that sets their two worlds on a collision course.

Title: Banana Boots

Author: Fennario, David

Publisher: Talonbooks 1998

Description:

roy
Canadian - monologue
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

"A one-man-show / memoir about Fennario's tour of his famous bilingual play, 'Balconville,' on a
cultural mission to Belfast. Once out amidst the tension-filled atmosphere of working class
communities, Fennario experiences a mutual epiphany of solidarity with 'the troubles' in Ireland
and in Quebec, brought to a head by his soul mate 'Banana Boots,' the stand up Irish comedian
who regales his audience with scathing caricatures of both Ian Paisley and the leaders of Sien
Fein."
Title: Bash'd
A gay rap opera
Author: Craddock, Chris Cuckow, Nathan
Publisher: Talonbooks 2011

Description:

roy
comedy - music - Alberta playwright - LGBTQ+ - men
all male cast; many characters
two male
eleven parts

When Jack becomes the victim of a gay-bashing, Dillon sets out on an indiscriminate rampage of
revenge. Realizing too late that two wrongs don't make a right, these star-crossed lovers, wrapped
in each others arms, die in a hail of bullets. Condemned to wander the earth and tell their
cautionary tale forever, their angelic personae TBAG and FEMINEM have enthralled wildly
enthusiastic audiences all over North America with the rap opera rhymes of this tragic tale ever
since.

Title: Bea

Author: Gordon, Mick

Publisher: Oberon Books 2010

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act (eight scenes)

Bea is lively, naughty and full of life. When she asks something of her mother that no parent
would want to be asked, and of her only friend ‘Not Gay Ray’, they are both forced to challenge
the boundaries of their own compassion.

Title: Best Brothers, The

Author: MacIvor, Daniel

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy - family relations - death
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

The Best brothers’ mother dies in a freak accident at Toronto’s Gay Pride Parade, crushed by a
drunk drag queen. As they look to celebrate their mother, they wrestle with the most fundamental
questions of love and family: who did Mom love more and who gets the dog?
Title: Big Black Box, The

Author: Haubold, Cleve

Publisher: Samuel French 1965

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one voice
one act

exterior set.

In this comedy of commitment, the gullible Arnold is lured into conversation with a mysterious
black box which he meets on the street. Cleverly the box tricks Arnold out of his possessions.
Ultimately the box uses these very possessions to catch Arnold himself. Arnold nearly escapes,
but the box plays on his weaknesses to trap him inescapably. A frighteningly funny parable of a

Title: Bless You, Billy Wilder

A play
Author: Belke, David

Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003

Description:

roy
Canadian - Alberta playwright - friendship - comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act (seven scenes)

running time: 75 min.

When a failed screenwriter working to restore an 8 1/2 hour silent movie meets a disconnected
graphic artist who has never seen a movie in her life, they begin a friendship that helps her grow
in confidence and ability. But when he slips into fear and dementia, she is the only one who can
save him. A moving tale of friendship, affection and filmic fantasy.

Title: Bolsheviki
A dead serious comedy
Author: Fennario, David

Publisher: Talonbooks 2012

Description:

roy
dramatic comedy - monologues - men - war - Canadian - historical
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

Set in a Montreal bar on Remembrance Day, BOLSHEVIKI recounts stories from the trenches of the
First World War, as told by veteran Harry "Rosie" Rollins to reporter Jerry Nines. Rosie's
meandering monologue delivers a blistering de-glorification of war as it shifts between his
wartime recollections and the present day. The veteran's clattering, fast-paced description of life -
and death - on the Western Front reproduces the chaotic sounds and rhythms of battle. Rosie
recalls men pissing their pants, losing limbs - and officers "who stayed nice and dry in the deep
Title: Bombshells

Author: Murray-Smith, Joanna

Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2004

Description:

roy
comedy - women
all female cast; six characters
one female
six monologues

may be performed with more female actors or fewer monologues; running time: 90 min.

Joanna Murray-Smith's award winning play about "women on the edge". The six monologues were
made famous by the diva Caroline O'Connor, exposing six women balancing their inner and outer
lives with humour and often desperate cunning. They range in age from a feisty teenager to a
64-year-old widow yearning for the unexpected.

Title: Boom

Author: Nachtrieb, Peter Sinn

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2009

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

"Sex to Change the Course of the World"—A grad student's online personal ad lures a mysterious
journalism student to his subterranean research lab under the pretense of an evening of "no
strings attached" sex. But when a major global catastrophic event strikes the planet, their date
takes on evolutionary significance and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Will they
survive? What about the fish in the tank? And who is that woman pulling levers and playing the
timpani? An epic and intimate comedy that spans over billions of years, boom explores the

Title: Boor, The

Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by Hilmar Baukhage

Publisher: Samuel French

Description:

nonroy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Same as 'The Bear' and 'The Brute'.

Russian landowner in financial straits visits nobleman's widow to demand repayment of loan. She
refuses to pay him and he refuses to leave until she does. He then challenges her to a duel and
finally proposes marriage to her. A very funny piece with wild shifts of emotion.
Title: Bride of the Gorilla

Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey

Publisher: Canadian Playwrights 1974

Description:

roy
comedy - Alberta playwright
three characters
one male; two female
one act

" A divorced couple and the ex-wife's best friend spend an evening together re-opening and
re-patching old wounds."

Title: Brimful of Asha, A

Author: Jain, Asha Jain, Ravi

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2012

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy - Indian culture - cultural differences
two characters
one male; one female
one act

includes 2 recipes and 7 family photos.

In 2007 Ravi Jain had just completed school and was itching to get his feet wet in the theatre
scene. With plans to begin his own company, Ravi has put off marriage for a few years, much to
the disappointment of his mother, Asha, who was getting impatient with Ravi’s non-traditional
approach to life. In this autobiographical story of the Jain family, Ravi recalls a trip to India with

Title: Buyer and Cellar

Author: Tolins, Jonathan

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2014

Description:

roy
comedy - friendship - fame - solo performance
all male cast; one character
one male
one act (one scene)

Simple set.

"Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in L.A., he takes a job working in the Malibu
basement of a beloved megastar. One day, the Lady Herself comes downstairs to play. It feels like
real bonding in the basement, but will their relationship ever make it upstairs? BUYER & CELLAR is
an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs."
Title: Chester, You Owe My Bird an Apology

Author: Lazarus, John

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior set.

A hen-pecked middle-aged man lives with his nagging older sister whose loud-mouthed parrot is
driving him crazy. Inspired by a romance with a strong-willed "other woman", Chester does away
with the bird and becomes a new man. Or does he?

Title: Connie in Egypt

Author: Lemoine, Stewart

Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright
three characters
one male; two female
one act

'Connie is a government librarian who takes an impulse vacation in Egypt in order to get rid of
unused holiday time. Her adventures include a brush with terrorism, a chat with the Sphinx, a
visit with Characters from "Death in Venice", and a romantic interlude in a subterranean tunnel.'

Title: Constant Lover, The

Author: Hankin, St. John

Publisher: Samuel French 1912

Description:

roy
comedy - romantic
two characters
one male; one female
one act

A nostalgic look at romantic love with a tongue-in-cheek delivery.

Title: Courtship
A comedy in one act
Author: Penman, Steve

Publisher: Steve Penman 2006

Description:

roy
comedy - aging - relationships - Alberta playwright
all male cast; two male
two characters
one act

1 exterior set

Two elderly gentleman, one a widower and the other married, meet regularly to observe and offer
"solutions" to the world's problems. At the same time, they provide real insight about loneliness,
aging and relationships.

Title: Crosspatch, The

Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Randolph, Larry

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1973

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

adapted by Larry Randolph; 1 interior set

Anton Chekhov's farce "The Boor" is adapted and set in the American West. Helen Pearson, with
her servant woman Mrs. Hadley, has shut herself away from the world since the death of her
wandering husband. Into the "house of mourning" comes the loud ranch owner Sam Smalley,
demanding payment on a past-due bill. Helen orders him our of the house but he won't budge.

Title: Cul-de-sac

Author: MacIvor, Daniel

Publisher: Talonbooks 2005

Description:

roy
comedy - mystery - murder
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

A riveting show about the death of a middle-aged man in the middle of the night on a dead-end
street. Leonard, the middle aged man; narrates the events leading up to his murder while trying to
understand them himself.

Siminovitch Prize in Theatre Finalist, 2005. Governor General's Drama Award Finalist, 2005.
Title: Cure for Everything, The

Author: Ardal, Maja

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2012

Description:

roy
comedy - women - teenagers - monologue - Canadian
all female cast; ten characters
one female (doubling)
one act

The precocious character who won hearts in the Dora Award winning You Fancy Yourself is back
as a teenager in Maja Ardal's new play. It's 1962, and Elsa's wild new world of sex and rock and
roll is being rattled by some explosive tension that's building on the world stage. Elsa is a typical
fifteen-year-old growing up in the early 1960s. Her world revolves around independence, boys,
and being popular at school, despite growing concerns surrounding the Cuban missile crisis. In
fact, this is Elsa’s opportunity to let loose before the world blows up. Knee-deep in teenage angst,

Title: Curtains

Author: Gonzalez, Gloria

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1976

Description:

roy
comedy - theatre
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"The moment her theatre critic husband returns from writing his opening night review Marcia
knows that something is terribly wrong. And her fears are confirmed when, on the late news, it is
announced that the theatre is dead - and - her husband has been accused of its murder."

Title: Dead

Author: Abolafia, David

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1993

Description:

roy
comedy - death - high school
two characters
one male; one female
one act

When a life is lived on the balance of good and evil, where does the soul go once that life is over?
Jack Martin was such a man, who treated women as dirt but otherwise lived a decent life. His final
destination will be determined by an interview with an afterlife "receptionist" named Delia, who
confronts Jack with both his virtues and atrocities, to form a better picture of the perfect outcome
for a questionable soul. All, of course, hinges on Jack's acceptance of his death and his decision
to move on...but to where? A fast-paced piece with an unexpected ending, this play is sure to
Title: Devil on Stilts, The

Author: Ryerson, Florence Clements, Colin Campbell

Publisher: Samuel French 1937

Description:

roy
comedy
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

No abstract available.

Title: Diaries of Adam and Eve, The

Author: Twain, Mark Birney, David

Publisher: Samuel French 1990

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

adapted by David Birney

First battle of the sexes. Adam doesn't get a chance to name any of the new wonders of creation
because Eve always beats him to it. When asked why she names a bird a "Dodo", her reply is
always, "Because it looks like a Dodo". Eve feels that she too, is an important experiment and she
must chronicle her observations. Among these observations are the discovery of fire, the fact that

Title: Diary of Adam and Eve, The

Author: Twain, Mark Bucci, Mark

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1972

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

bare stage.

Story by Mark Twain. Adaptation by Mark Bucci. First battle of the sexes. Adam doesn't get a
chance to name any of the new wonders of creation because Eve always beats him to it. When
asked why she names a bird a "Dodo", her reply is always, "Because it looks like a Dodo". Eve feels
that she too, is an important experiment and she must chronicle her observations. Among these
Title: Driving Miss Daisy

Author: Uhry, Alfred

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1987

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

A warm-hearted, gently humorous and truly affecting study of the unlikely relationship between
an aging, crotchety Southern lady, and the proud, soft-spoken black man who, in time, becomes
her best friend.

Title: Driving Miss Daisy

Author: Uhry, Alfred

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1988

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

A warm-hearted, gently humorous and truly affecting study of the unlikely relationship between
an aging, crotchety Southern lady, and the proud, soft-spoken black man who, in time, becomes
her best friend.

Title: Drop

Author: Madden, Dano

Publisher: Samuel French 1998

Description:

roy
comedy - science fiction - comic drama
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"Orflong and Zip are the lone dwellers on the planet Gavanuuy. They hunt Kalakazula worms with
their sucknas (plungers) and play Gerfle, an infinite game. When Drop appears, they are fascinated
by this English-speaking creature and the games she brings. The closer Orflong and Zip get to
Drop, the more estranged they become from each other until they can no longer communicate.
'Drop' presents a unique challenge as is is scripted in the Gavanuuyian language spoken by
Orflong and Zip."
Title: Earshot

Author: Panych, Morris

Publisher: Talonbooks 2001

Description:

roy
dark comedy - Canadian - solo performance⌦all male cast; one character
one male
one act

"Doyle has a funny problem: he hears too much. He can hear the most intimate details of the
lives of everyone living in his apartment building.He can tell the temperature of a young
neighbor's bathwater by the resonance of her pipes; he knows where the old lady's teeth are by
the way they rattle in their glass when the appliances turn on; he can hear letters of rejection slip
from slackened fingers and settle to the ground like the crashing leaves of autumn. Doyle blames
his hyper-sensitive condition on a physical abnormality, on a birth defect in his ears. But we're
not sure. Paralysing Doyle with a cacophony of detail and minutiae, 'Earshot' offers us the gift of a

Title: Elephant Song, The

Author: Billon, Nicolas

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy
dark comedy - Canadian
three characters
two male; one female
one act

An eminent psychiatrist has vanished from his office. The last person to have seen him is
Michael, a troubled patient obsessed with all things elephants. Dr Greenberg, the hospital
director, is determined to question Michael, ignoring the head nurse's cryptic warnings. Michael
speaks of elephants and opera—with the occasional hint of murder and foul play. Fraught with
mind games and verbal tugs-of-war, The Elephant Song is a cat-and-mouse game that will keep
you guessing until its haunting conclusion.

Title: Eye of the Beholder, The

A Perspective in One Act
Author: Broadhurst, Kent

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1982

Description:

roy
comedy
all male or all female cast, three characters
three male or three female
one act

suggested for high school.

"The scene is an artist's studio, where two painters, James and Barney, are working from a
semi-nude model, Leon. As the two artists are quite different in temperament and style, it is
inevitable that their interpretations also differ - resulting in a progressively more heated (and
funny) debate about the meaning of art and the superiority of one approach over another. Leon
Title: Fall in Paris

Author: Burke, Scoot

Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011

Description:

roy
comedy - romance - Canadian
three characters
one male; two female
one act

Vacation can be a time to contemplate life's big decisions. Such is the case for Claire and Darren,
troubled lovebirds who must overcome a major relationship deal breaker. So too for Cecelia who
is about to finalize her divorce. Join all three as they're thrown together on the Hot Hot Couples
tour of the French Capital. You'll experience the top tourist attractions of Paris through the eyes of
this hilarious trio in search of love and adventure and maybe even the meaning of life. Fall in
Paris promises an intimate and innovative theatrical journey straight to the heart ... via the

Title: False Starts

A subterfuge of excellent wit
Author: Leroux, Louis Patrick translated by Alexander St. Laurent and Louis P
Publisher: Talonbooks 2016

Description:

roy
comedy - relationships - Canadian playwright
two characters (extras)
one male; one female
one act

also translated by Katia Grubisic

False Starts presents a series of determining moments between two people stuck reliving the same
scene over and over, but in unexpected ways and in different genres (from diary to dramatic
dialogue, film script to sound installation). Their interdependence and fundamental inability to
say how they feel about one another over twenty years – in spite of their eloquence, in spite of

Title: Fat Beckett

Author: Cody, Gab Reis, Rita

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2013

Description:

roy
comedy - adventure - shadow puppets
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act (nine scenes)

running time: 75-90 min; set: a moveable tree.

In this female homage to "Waiting For Godot", two women find themselves trapped in an existential
everywhere. Instead of an endless wait for an absent figure, however, Sophie and Kiki embark on
an eternal search for their little lost goat, Biquette. The pair is fated to travel always together --
gorging on profiteroles, discussing the merits of a festival of vomiting donkeys, and arguing over
Title: Finding Regina

Author: Sperling, Shoshana

Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2003

Description:

roy
comedy - relationships - life
three characters
one male; two female
one act

Clarky has just tried to kill himself, but has ended up instead in the ICU of a Regina hospital. In
the waiting room three of his old friends have gathered - Rae and Annabel flying in from their new
big-city lives, and josh, who stayed in Regina. During a long winter night, the three share
laughter, tears, and some long-concealed truths about themselves and their lives. Frank and
funny, this play explores friendship, survival, and how the past is always with us.

Title: Four of Us, The

Author: Moses, Itamar

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

roy
dramatic comedy - friendship - betrayal
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

running time: 90 min.

What if all your dreams came true...for your best friend? "The Four of Us" follows Ben, whose
first novel vaults him into literary stardom, and his friend David, a struggling playwright, who is
thrilled by Ben's success...and crushed by it. From the dreams of aspiring youth to the realities of
adulthood, this poignant two-man comedy explores friendship and memory, the gap between our

Title: Free Beer

Author: Whyte, Thomas

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

A warm and human comedy about two old people. Cyriack, in his 80's, concocts a scheme to
coerce his daughter Hortensia, and her husband, Reginald, both in their 60's, into sharing his
big, empty house. Cyriack's ploy is to put up a huge sign on the front of Reginald's house reading
"Free Beer".
Title: Fully Committed

Author: Mode, Becky

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2001

Description:

roy
comedy - theatre - monologue
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

This devastatingly funny one act follows a day in the life of Sam Peliczowski, an out-of-work actor
who mans the red-hot reservation line at Manhattan's number one restaurant. Coercion, threats,
bribes, histrionics - a cast of desperate callers will stop at nothing in their zeal to land a prime
reservation, or the right table. Amid the barrage, Sam's got his own needs to contend with - his
recently widowed dad wants him home for Christmas, and he's up for a choice part at Lincoln
Center. While juggling scheming socialites, name-dropping wannabes and fickle celebrities, can

Title: Good Bride, The

Author: Rowe, Rosemary

Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2016

Description:

roy
comedy - solo performance - women - coming of age - religion
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

running time: 90 mins.

Every night from 3pm to midnight, 15 year old Quiverfull Christian Maranatha Graham puts on her
wedding dress and hopes that today will be the day her 28 year old groom Pete comes to claim
her. Daddy, the paster, sent her to the Pullmans’ house to wait until God tells him it’s time for her
marriage. Maranatha is so excited to submit to Pete's godly leadership in marriage and fill his

Title: Goodnight Bird, The

Author: Murphy, Colleen

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy
dark comedy - Canadian
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Lilly and Morgan Beaumont are comfortable in their routine until Parker, a homeless man, lands
on the balcony of their new condo. After scaring the older couple half to death, he pours himself
into the holes of their relationship, agitating them with talk of sex - talk that drives Lilly out into
the night and sends Morgan on the road to another heart attack. (This play) is a dark comedy
about old love and new courage.
Title: Great Career, A

Author: Dizenzo, Charles

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1966

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior set.

A play of comic lunacy which exposes the ludicrous pretence of the world of the business office.

Title: Heart of a Dog

Author: Astle, Robert Limbos, Agnes

Publisher: NuAge Editions 1994

Description:

roy
satirical tragicomedy
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

Robert Astle's highly original one-man show is a dog's -eye view of Russia the Rational based on
Mikhail Bulgakov's corrosive 1995 satire. What emerges is a canine chronicle of privations.

Title: Hearts and Groceries

A one act comedy for two people
Author: Stone, Carol

Publisher: Samuel French 1951

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

"The story of two young strangers who meet in an elevator and exchange philosophies typical of
their natures and environment. Adrianne is entirely satisfied with her ivory towered view of the
world - until she meets Timothy, the grocery delivery boy, who, from an amiable and simple heart,
reveals a heroic philosophy that has time to cast its magic on the surface glitter that is Adrianne
and disturb to the foundations her haughty soul."
Title: Henrik Ibsen: On the Necessity of Producing Norwegian Theatre

Author: Palmer, John

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian - theatre
three characters
two male; one female
one act

In a frenetic monologue, Ibsen speaks to "The Society for the Encouragement of Norwegian
Theatre." A still-timely allegory; the need for Canadian drama is clarified and explained.

Title: Her Only Customer...

Author: McBride, Celia

Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act

A waitress psychoanalyzes her only customer, an uptight business woman with a dark side.

Title: Heretic, The

Author: Murphy, John

Publisher: Talonbooks 2008

Description:

roy
monologues - male - religion - comedy
all male cast; seven characters
one male (doubling)
twenty-five scenes

The Heretic began with a rhetorical question the author posed to himself for a comedy show: "If
there is a God, why would He create us? If He's perfect, all knowing, there's nothing He can gain
from us. He must have been so incredibly bored and lonely, that he created us for his own
entertainment. A dialogue of voices performed by a single actor, the play opens up a discourse
where creation interrogates religion; atheists engage believers; secularists confront theists; in the
context of the most fundamental and naive of theological questions thrown out to a live audience
Title: Heroes
Le Vent des Peupliers
Author: Sibleyras, Gerald translated by Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Grove Press 2005

Description:

roy
comedy - French
all male cast; three characters
three male
four scenes

"In Tom Stoppard's hilarious and poignant translation of Gerald Sibleyras' Heroes, we meet three
World War I veterans who pass their monotony-filled days in a military hospital by engaging in
verbal battles of long-forgotten military campaigns, grumblings about the staff, and reflections on
their lives. Henri is afflicted by a gammy leg, Gustave suffers from agoraphobia, and Philippe
passes out because of a piece of shrapnel lodged in his brain. Their cantankerous camaraderie
becomes strained when Gustave conjures up an escape plan."

Title: House Humans

Author: MacIvor, Daniel

Publisher: Coach House Press 1992

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy
all male cast, one character
one male
one act

"Victor's mother is possessed by the devil. His father is the saddest man in the world. His sister is
in love with the dog. The one he loves does not love him... and he's got nowhere to live."

"House" is stand up sit down one man comedy nightmare about Victor, a man on the edge.
"Humans" is a collection of tiny stories about longing and life.

Title: House Keeper, The

Author: Regan, Morna

Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2012

Description:

roy
dark comedy - thriller
three characters
one male; two female
one act

developed from a short play by the playwright; set in Manhattan in the present day.

A darkly humorous psychological thriller, which explores the nature of possession, inheritance
and corruption, from award-winning playwright Morna Regan (Midden). A woman stripped by
recession of everything she has ever worked for takes a stand in another woman's living room,
only to find she has disturbed a hornet's nest of unimagined proportions.
Title: Hurricane of the Eye

Author: Peluso, Emanuel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1969

Description:

roy
comedy - Theatre of the Absurd
three characters
two male; one female
one act

We are presented with an affluent couple; she is eroding her husband's intellect with inanities; he
is sterilizing her womanly soul with his lack of affection and physical attentions. They are joined
by an uninvited Black visitor, who stays and stays. He announces that he has come to make a
business deal, that he has certain information about the husband, and that the husband will want
to buy his silence. But he never divulges his secret. Ultimately the visitor and his mysterious
secret are rejected, but beforehand there are insinuations, fantasies, moments of warm-hearted

Title: I Fell in Love with an Eel

Author: Thiessen, Vern

Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1991

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"Edward loves Donna. He waters plants for a living. Donna loves Gus. She's a parking lot
attendant. Gus works in a candy factory. He loves the eel. Three people searching for the perfect
relationship."

Title: I'll Eat You Last

A chat with Sue Mengers
Author: Logan, John

Publisher: Oberon Books 2013

Description:

roy
comedy - monologue - showbiz
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

1981. Hollywood. Sue Mengers, the first female ‘superagent’ at a time when women talent
agents of any kind are almost unheard of, invites you into her Beverly Hills home for an evening
of dish, secrets, and all the inside showbiz stories that only Sue could tell… Back in the 1970s,
Sue Mengers represented almost every major star in Hollywood; her clients were the talk of the
town and her glamorous dinner parties were legendary. But by 1981 the glory days were fading.
Her time was passing as a sleek and corporate New Hollywood began to emerge. The phone’s not
Title: Intervention, An

Author: Bartlett, Mike

Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2014

Description:

roy
comedy - friendship
two characters
flexible casting
one act (five scenes)

Simple set.

"A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend. One of them went on
the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeringly drunk. The
other stayed at home, watched TV for a bit, and thought about the future.

Title: It's Called The Sugar Plum

Author: Horovitz, Israel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1996

Description:

roy
farce - relationships
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Zuckerman, a college student, has ran over and killed a young man riding a skate board. As the
play opens he is in his room pasting newspaper clippings into a scrapbook, humming
contentedly, as he listens to a report of the accident on the radio. There is a knock at the door.
Joanna, the fiancee of the dead man, enters in tears of accusation. After her initial tirade it's not
long before they end up in each other's arms and in bed, quarreling over the amount of space
devoted to each of them in the newspaper's report of the accident. Zuckerman's outrage during the

Title: Joke You

Author: Derbyshire, Jan

Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1995

Description:

roy
comedy - women - monologue
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

'As Lily Tomlin does in her best work, this play tells a wacky, surreal narrative with the actress
playing all the parts herself. '
Title: Joke, The

Author: Marks, Sam

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

roy
dramatic comedy
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

It’s 1965 and two comedians, “Steady Eddie” & “Doug the Mug,” knock ‘em dead every night in the
Catskills. Punchlines and cheap shots fly -- on stage and off -- as Doug and Ed battle for the
spotlight over a decade, pushing each other to the cusp of a new direction of stand up comedy.
With their personal and professional lives uncovered at center stage, Eddie and Doug must find a
way to laugh it off while staying at the top of their game. Sam Marks’ THE JOKE takes a look at the
friendship and the rivalry between two comic partners during the golden years of the Borscht Belt.

Title: Kingfisher Days

The play
Author: Coyne, Susan

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

90 minutes.

"The story of a young girl who, while vacationing in the summer of 1963, finds a letter addressed
to her in a stone fireplace. Unable to read at her age, Mr. Moir, a neighbouring cottager articulates
the contents of the correspondence penned by Nootsie Tah, a displaced fairy who details the
events of her mystical world where, among other things, a debate ensues over a move to teach

Title: Ladies Alone

Author: Ryerson, Florence Clements, Colin

Publisher: Samuel French 1937

Description:

roy
comedy
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

Three girls who share an apartment find themselves "dateless" on a Saturday night. They agree
men are bores, and swear they will have one "Ladies Night" every month. Inside of ten minutes two
of the girls have broken their oaths and gone off with the third's only party dress and hat. When
the one and only young man calls up and invites her to go dancing, Peggy solves her problem in
a novel manner.
Title: Landscape With Waitress

Author: Pine, Robert

Publisher: Samuel French 1981

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Arthur Granger is an unsuccessful novelist who lives a Walter Mitty-like fantasy existence.
Tonight, he is dining out in an Italian restaurant which seems to have only one waitress and one
customer - himself. As Arthur selects his dinner he has fantasies of romantic conquest, which he
confides to the audience and to his notebook. While his fantasies take him into far-fetched plots,
the waitress acts out the various characters in his fantasy. Soon, Arthur is chattering and
dreaming away at such a clip that neither he nor we can be entirely sure of his sanity.

Title: Last Train to Nibroc

Author: Hutton, Arlene

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000

Description:

roy
comedy - romance
two characters
one male; one female
one act

suggested for high school.

A funny, touching portrait of two people searching for happiness.

Title: Lauchie, Liza and Rory

Author: Currie, Sheldon

Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004

Description:

roy
comedy - family relations
nine characters (doubling)
one male; one female
one act

'From her wedding day until the day her son leaves for university, Liza lives with sensible Lauchie
while pining for his reckless identical twin brother, Rory. In a series of scenes from liza's life,
Currie evokes an entire east-coast town and keeps us laughing while subtly illuminating the
poignancy in the situation. The play's two actors switch characters at a dizzing pace - playing
parents, siblings, children priests, nuns - to weave the tale of a warm and tightly knit family
coming to terms with the meaning of love and loyalty.'
Title: Laundry and Bourbon

Author: McLure, James

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1981

Description:

roy
comedy
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

1 exterior set.

'Three small town women discuss their lives and marriages which have not been all they have
hoped for.'

Title: Legoland
A vaudeville routine in one act
Author: Richmond, Jacob

Publisher: Talonbooks 2009

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Penny and Ezra Lamb are home-schooled by their parents on a hippie colony near Uranium City
until the police discover it also happens to be the largest marijuana grow-op in Saskatchewan.
"Legoland" is how their pot-smoking elders always described the outside world, and the Lamb
siblings are dying to get there. Once the commune is busted and their parents are sent to prison,
sixteen-year-old Penny and her younger brother Ezra, each seething cauldrons of repression, are
enrolled in a Catholic private school, where they are instant social outcasts. Penny is vulnerably

Title: Life in the Theatre, A

Author: Mamet, David

Publisher: Samuel French 1977

Description:

roy
comedy - theatre - acting - aging
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act (twenty-six scenes)

unit set; running time 90 mins.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-The-Plow, takes us into the
lives of two actors: John, young and rising into the first flush of his success; the other Robert,
older, anxious, and beginning to wane. In a series of short, spare, and increasingly raw
exchanges, we see the estrangement of youth from age and the wider, inevitable and endless cycle
Title: Little Thing, Big Thing

Author: O'Kelly, Donal

Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2014

Description:

roy
dramatic comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

In Nigeria, a frightened child puts an old roll of film into the hands of Dublin-bound teacher
Sister Martha. In Dublin, ex-con Larry, with a wounded backside, has to get out of the city to rob
a convent. Meanwhile, Scarab Oil plans to unleash its new clean fuel of the future. The film roll
Martha is carrying attracts the urgent interest of some very powerful and ambitions people. A play
written for two actors and filled with memorable characters, this is the latest production from the
innovative and outstanding Irish theatre company Fishamble.

Title: Lone Star

Author: McLure, James

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980

Description:

roy
comedy
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act

1 exterior set.

'Comedy about two bawdily rambunctious brothers set in backyard of small town Texas bar. Beer
flows freely as macho type brother relates Vietnam exploits.'

Title: Losing My Marbles

How an actor learnt the hard way
Author: Faulkner, Trader Goodwin, John
Publisher: Oberon Books 2003

Description:

roy
comedy - solo performance - monologues - men - actors
all male cast; one character
one male
one act (ten parts)

'Losing My Marbles' is a series of hilarious true stories from Trade Faulkner's varied life
describing his extraordinary encounters with the great and famous, including Laurence Olivier,
John Gielgud and Vivian Leigh, his involvements with the tearaway, womanising Peter Finch, his
poignant meeting with Picasso and his unforgettable appearance on stage with the great flamenco
dancer Antonio.
Title: Love Mouse

Author: Rosen, Sheldon

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy
farce - Canadian - marriage
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

A whimsical farce about a married couple whose dining room floor becomes a major body of
water. They are swept away accompanied by a mouse/wolf/insurance salesman, and rediscover
one another in the process.

Title: Luba, Simply Luba

Author: Flacks, Diane in collaboration with Luba Goy and Andrey Tar
Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2013

Description:

roy
comedy - life - autobiographical
large cast; musician
one female
one act

Luba Goy, an original member of Canada’s popular comedy troupe, "Royal Canadian Air Farce",
is one of this country’s most beloved comedic actors. In "Luba, Simply Luba," we are invited into
her colourful and astonishing life. From her Ukrainian childhood to high honours at Rideau Hall,
Luba Goy’s journey has been filled with both comedy and tragedy. This one-woman show features
glimpses of Luba at various ages along with forty-plus other characters—including her family and
friends, Canadian prime ministers and other famous personalities, and even a few animals.

Title: Madam Verite at Bath

Author: Palmer, George Alfred

Publisher: Samuel French 1935

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior set.

Lady Pettiwood feels that her husband has been unfaithful and he thinks that she has. Peggy the
maid knows all and resolves the quarrel.
Title: Maker of Dreams, The

Author: Down, Oliphant

Publisher: Samuel French 1941

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

Pierrette silently lavishes on Pierrot her love and care, but laments the fact that he does not return
her affection.

Title: Manikin and Minikin

A bisque play in one act
Author: Kreymborg, Alfred

Publisher: Samuel French 1951

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

An enchanting bisque play depicting two mannequins in a "shop" relating to life and to each other
as they "see" it. They are turned back to back and do not move except for their mouths which
speak in time to a ticking clock.

Title: Marriage Proposal, A

Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Publisher: Samuel French 1942

Description:

Roy
Comedy - farce
Three characters
Two male; one female
One act

Adapted from a Russian story.

This little farce is very popular and one of the funniest ever written. The story tells of the
efforts of a nervous and excitable man who starts to propose to an attractive young woman, but
who gets into a tremendous quarrel over a boundary line.
Title: Math for Actors

Author: Snyder, Emily C.A.

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010

Description:

roy
comedy - teaching - relationships
two characters
one male; one female
one act (one scene)

simple set.

"Math meets mayhem when studious Kate agrees to tutor Keith, an arrogant actor who's more
interested in Kate than in calculus. He shows up late, he's still in costume, and he doesn't know or
care what the angle of inclination is. Answering such burning questions as how many actors it
takes to screw in a light bulb, Math for Actors explores the relationship between art and algebra,

Title: Melody

Author: Kinahan, Deirdre

Publisher: Samuel French 2008

Description:

roy
comedy - relationships
two characters
one male; one female
one act (eight scenes)

"Two lonely souls, a bachelor and a widow, discover that they share many common interests
including classical music, ham and cheese sandwiches and massage parlours."

Title: Memories

Author: Ravel, Aviva

Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2010

Description:

roy
comedy - seniors - Canadian
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

Two senior citizens in a gated community in Florida meet and reminisce about their past.
Title: Mesa

Author: Curtis, Doug

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000

Description:

roy
comedy - relationships - Canada
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

"Paul is asked to drive his wife's 93 year old Grandpa 'Bud' all the way from Calgary to his
retirement trailer in Mesa, Arizona. Paul hopes to find strange, roadside diners and sleep out
under the stars. Bud wants Denny's and Motel 6. Paul and Bud spend five days together,
navigating the predictable turnoffs on the Interstate while discovering their need for each other,
sharing their lives and experiences, their hopes and dreams. This will be Bud's final year in Mesa
and Paul is his chauffeur."

Title: Meyer's Room

Author: Rosen, Sheldon

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act

1 interior set.

In a small shabby room away from it all, three men - Rock Hudson, Madeline and Meyer - share
their fears and fantasies in this surrealistic comedy about disorientation.

Title: Miss Chatelaine

Author: Atkins, Damian

Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1998

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

running time: 75 min.

"miss chatelaine" is a one person, 46 character play about a young man on the brink of
adulthood. George, 20 years old, is preparing for a blind date. Over the course of 75 fast paced
minutes, he evaluates various role models, challenges his own notions of masculinity and
femininity, and gradually finds the strength to clear a space amongst the clutter of adult life to
Title: Mistakes Were Made

Author: Wright, Craig

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2011

Description:

roy
comedy - theatre
two characters
one male; one female
one act

In "Mistakes Were Made", B-list Off-Broadway producer Felix Artifex gets in way over his
fast-talking head when he takes on "Mistakes Were Made", the first world-premiere of his long and
chequered career. "Mistakes Were Made" is a gargantuan epic of the French Revolution which Felix
thinks is going to be his ticket to professional and personal redemption—turns out it's a
croissant-lined highway to hell! But maybe, just maybe, if Felix can pull it all together—things just
might, maybe, work out.

Title: Music for Contortionist

Author: Brebner, Morwyn

Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000

Description:

roy
comedy - monologues - women
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

Valeska Gert - 1930's cabaret star, avante garde performance artist - explains life, love and art
from her own unique perspective. By turns hilarious and moving, Music for Contortionist is a wild
ride.

Title: My Cup Ranneth Over

Author: Patrick, Robert

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1979

Description:

roy
comedy
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act

suggested for high school.

Struggling to succeed as a writer, despite little to show for her efforts but rejection slips, Paula
ignores the ringing phone. Instead her still sleeping roommate, Yucca, a happy-go-lucky rock
singer, is roused to answer it - and, as it happens, the call is for her, anyway. So are the many
others which follow insistently thereafter, plus the TV crew waiting downstairs, and all because
Title: Napalm the Magnificent

Author: Craig, David S.

Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy - monologues
one character
flexible casting
one act

"A three-foot high racing tout called Napalm the Buffoon, who claims to be the older brother of
Jesus Christ, carries the audience on a race towards truth, pain, and the true nature of
entertainment. The audience may be invited to throw buns at the producer's discretion."

Title: Nasturtiums and Cherry Buns

Author: Gallagher, Miriam

Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy
comedy - women
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

"When three women meet in a city centre cafe, their lives interact with startling results."

Title: New Girl, The

Author: McBride, Vaughn

Publisher: Samuel French 1983

Description:

roy
comedy
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act

1 interior set.

Clarissa and Flo are two old ladies who live in an Idaho nursing home. Clarissa is practically
bed-ridden, and Flo is in a wheelchair. Flo is the "new girl". She comes into Clarissa's room to
get acquainted, and a marvelous relationship quickly develops. There is a surprise twist, though.
It turns out, the old ladies take turns being "the new girl" - and today it is Flo's turn!
Title: Nina Variations, The

Author: Dietz, Steven

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

roy
comedy - romance
two characters
one male; one female
one act

'In this funny, fierce and heartbreaking homage to "The Seagull", Steven Dietz puts Chekhov's star
crossed lovers in a room and doesn't let them out. In forty-three variations on their famous final
scene, Nina (a young actress) and Treplev (a young writer), pit their vibrant wit and soaring
passions against one another in a fast-paced tour-de-force of romantic entanglement.'

Title: Nurture

Author: Adams, Johnna

Publisher: Original Works 2013

Description:

roy
dark comedy - family relations - romance
two characters
one male; one female
one act (five scenes)

Doug and Cheryl are horrible single parents drawn together by their equally horrible
daughters. The star-crossed parental units' journey from first meeting to first date, to first time, to
first joint parent-teacher meeting, to proposal and more. They attempt to form a modern nuclear
family while living in perpetual fear of the fruit of their loins and someone abducting young girls
in their town.

Title: Nuttalls, The

Author: Healey, Michael

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

Description:

roy
comedy - family relations - Canadian
three characters
one male; two female
one act

Living on the shores of Lake Huron, Ev Nuttall and her son Ec run a quirky tourist camp. Both
compulsive liars, mother and son teeter between love and hate as they bellyflop into the deep end
of manic domestic discord. Living in relative seclusion, Ev and Ec rely on the kindness of
strangers as they struggle with their own internal and external problems. Ev not only suffers from
agoraphobia, she believes she is dying from a fatal degenerative disease. Ec, who is obsessed
with his eleventh toe (which he has named Toto), is grieving over his estranged fiancée who left
Title: One Day in the Life of Ivy Dennison

Author: Benedict, Stewart H.

Publisher: Samuel French 1966

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

no scenery or set.

Tracing a typical day in the life of a New York secretary; it shows her dealings with her mother,
her closest friend, two of the girls she works with, her boss and her boyfriend. It demonstrates
the degree to which her life is circumscribed by the cliches which determine the course of many
Americans' lives, cliches about religion, politics, education, entertainment and other people.

Title: One Good Marriage

Author: Reycraft, Sean

Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004

Description:

roy
dark comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Steph and Stewart are celebrating their first anniversary. She's an English teacher; he's a
high-school librarian. At the heart of the occasion though, is a terrible sorrow. You see, Steph
and Stewart arrive home from their blissful honeymoon to find that something terrible had
happened... Blackly hilarious and deeply moving, this two hander moves from pathos to humor
and back again as a tragic story is revealed. A vivid portrait of two ordinary people to whom an
extraordinary event has occurred, One Good Marriage speaks to our need for community.

Title: Other Side, The

Author: Dorfman, Ariel

Publisher: Samuel French 2006

Description:

roy
dramatic comedy - war - identity - love
three characters
two male; one female
one act

From the provocative author Ariel Dorfman, comes a powerful, timely new play. In a country at war
for many years, a man and a woman wait. They pass their days confirming the identity of dead
bodies at a hut near the border of the two fighting countries. When peace and a border guard
arrive, chaos ensues. This moving and strangely comic work raises potent questions about war,
identity, and love in our times.
Title: Outside

Author: Fleming, Neil

Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy - love - voodoo
three characters
two male; one female
one act

running time: 55 min.

"Dale has broken into Kranor's apartment, hoping to steal back the shrunken head of her dead
husband. Not only is she followed by Stu, an inert thief, but Kranor comes home early with a plan
of his own. A quirky comedy about love, revenge and voodoo."

Title: Overlaid

Author: Davies, Robertson

Publisher: Samuel French 1948

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

This comedy is concerned with "intellectual and cultural starvation". Pop, an opera buff,
unexpectedly receives a large amount of money, and he decides to live extravagantly in New York.
His daughter considers this selfish and he gives her the money to buy a gigantic tombstone for
the family plot.

Title: Pair of Lunatics, A

Author: Walkes, W. R.

Publisher: Samuel French

Description:

roy
comedy - nineteenth century plays
two characters
one male; one female
one act

The two characters mistake one another for lunatics and the fun that ensues is immense.
Title: Penguin Blues

Author: Phillips, Ethan

Publisher: Samuel French 1987

Description:

roy
comic drama
two characters
one male; one female
one act

A manic alcoholic who knows the score and a nun who denies that she is an alcoholic are at a
rehabilitation center. In the moving climax, she finally acknowledges her problem and takes the
painful first step towards sobriety.

Title: Penquin Blues

Author: Phillips, Ethan

Publisher: Samuel French 1988

Description:

roy
comedy - drama
two characters
one male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

The play takes place in a room of an alcoholism rehabilitation center. The characters are Gordon,
a manic alcoholic who knows the score, and Angelica, a nun who denies that she is an alcoholic.
In the moving climax, Angelica finally recognizes why she is there; and in so doing, takes the
painful first step towards sobriety.

Title: Perfect Analysis Given By A Parrot, A

Author: Williams, Tennessee

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1958

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters; extras (two non-speaking walk-on for men)
one male; two female
one act

1 interior set.

A delightful scene about two fading, overdressed women, members of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the
"Sons of Mars", who hit town for the annual convention. But, in their search for "boys" and a "high
old time", they wind up separated from their party, in a third rate bar, drinking beer, and trying
hard to be cheerful. Each is soon finding fault with the other, and they are resigned to a
Title: Perfect Match, A

Author: Forster, Joan

Publisher: Samuel French 1988

Description:

roy
romantic comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Alison has made a date through a computer dating service and is awaiting his arrival on a snowy
Friday evening. Unbeknownst to Alison, her computer date is delayed by the weather. Meanwhile,
she had previously made an appointment with her cable repair service to have a repairman look at
her T.V. However, since he did not show up when he was supposed to, she cancelled the call. The
repairman, Jeff, was never informed of the cancellation and, dressed for a party he's on his way to,
he decides to make Alison his last cable call, and shows up at Alison's apartment around the time

Title: Phoenix Too Frequent, A

Author: Fry, Christopher

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1981

Description:

roy
comedy - satire - verse
three characters
one male; two female
one act

In this version of the famous "Matron of Ephesus", we have a fresh retelling of the story of a pious
widow - and her maid - who mourns for the death of her recently deceased husband in the tomb
where his bier lies awaiting internment. The maid is not quite so pious, yet both women begin to
suffer the pangs of a self-imposed hunger. There are signs that they are also unhappy over the
loss of male company, but not until a handsome guard appears does the widow begin regretting
her noble experiment in withdrawing from the world.

Title: Postponing the Heat Death of the Universe

Author: Gregg, Stephen

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1986

Description:

roy
comedy - relationships
three characters
one male; two female
one act

Hours ago, Nick lost a scholarship contest. Now he's lying motionless in a dark room and when
Jackie, the winner of the contest, arrives to give him her condolences, she finds his behaviour just
a bit bizarre. She asks him what he's doing and his response, "postponing entropy," only leads to
her next question - "What is entropy?" As the discussion goes on, Nick desperately tries to
convince Jackie that his immobility has nothing to do with losing the scholarship.
Title: Pounding Nails In the Floor With My Forehead

Author: Bogosian, Eric

Publisher: Samuel French 1994

Description:

roy
comedy - monologues - men
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

"This is an anthology of right-on, dead-on monologues that amazingly horrify and amuse at the
same time. It begins with a subway pan-handler and ends with a very hostile man who has an
all-purpose rejoinder to everyone and everything."

Title: Private Ear, The

Author: Shaffer, Peter

Publisher: Samuel French 1962

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

This is a tender account of a rueful romance. The boy has invited to his hovel for dinner a girl he
met at a concert. In the interim he has romanticized her as another Venus, and not to appear
gauche, he has asked his man-about-town friend to coach him. When the girl arrives, she is a
very common sort, who speaks in shopworn cliches. And his hi-fi set doesn't impress her either.
But the boy perseveres. He plays a romantic number and then tries to emulate his friend by
romancing the girl. But in the midst of tenderness he is awkward to the point of clumsiness, and

Title: Public Eye, The

Author: Shaffer, Peter

Publisher: Samuel French 1962

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

This is a continuously funny comedy about a hop-scotch character who at the moment is playing
the part of a private eye for a wealthy accountant who suspects his wife of infidelity. He enters the
accountant's office with a trench coat, a boisterously loud suit and a brief case, all stuffed with
raisins, grapefruit and yogurt, which he is constantly eating. Actually, of course, the wife has not
been unfaithful, but she complains to her husband of being bothered by seeing a very queer jerk
everyplace she goes.
Title: Punch Up

Author: Sandler, Kat

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy
tragicomedy - relationships - mental illness - suicide
three characters
two male; one female
one act (one scene)

1 interior set.

"The Most Pathetic Guy Ever kidnaps the Funniest Man Alive to make the Saddest Girl in the World
laugh. Duncan has always been a pretty boring guy, leading a simple life while working at a bread
factory. Then he stumbles upon Brenda, a sad young woman who’s about to end her life.
Convinced he’s fallen in love, Duncan strikes up a desperate deal: if he can get her to laugh, she'll

Title: PVT. Wars

A comedy in one act
Author: McLure, James

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980

Description:

roy
comedy - war - relationships
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act

"Three G.I.s recovering from Vietnam injuries, while away their time on the terrace of an Army
hospital. Gately, a hillbilly, fiddles compulsively with a disemboweled radio; Silvio, a streetwise,
big-city type, is addicted to "flashing" (even though his sex organs have suffered - he thinks -
irremediable battle damage); while Natwick, a prissy "rich kid" from Long Island, writes letters to
his mother telling her how much he wants to become a close friend of Gately (while omitting
mention of how actively Silvio dislikes him)."

Title: Quo Vadis, Tinker Bell?; or, Where Are the Chinese Comedians of Yesteryear?

Author: Haubold, Cleve

Publisher: Samuel French 1968

Description:

roy
comedy - drama
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior set.

The Very Great Man grants an interview to the lady reporter from one of those "little magazines".
She blithers ridiculously about his wonderful creative gift until he grants her a most unusual
favor, the opportunity to see the world through his eyes. In one startling moment, the reporter
sees a new world, and the audience sees the true face of The Great Man. A combination of unusual
Title: Radiant Vermin

Author: Ridley, Philip

Publisher: Bllomsbury Methuen Drama 2015

Description:

roy
satire
three characters
one male; two female
one act

Jill and Ollie want to tell you about their dream home. Some of the tings they did to get it, you
might find...horrible. Some of the things, you might find ...shocking. But they want you to know
they did it all... for their baby.

This play is a wickedly funny satire about a young couple's desire to give their child everything.
Playfully provocative and viciously sharp, it is a brutal exploration of greed and consumerism,

Title: Resounding Tinkle, A

Author: Simpson, N. F.

Publisher: Samuel French 1958

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior set.

It would be wrong to say nothing surprises the Paradocks, Bro and Middie. It's just that they take
in their stride the things that would surprise us. The elephant in their garden, for instance, has
actually been ordered, but this year the shop has made a mistake and sent the wrong size. The
arrival of Uncle Ted does cause Middie to raise her eyebrows momentarily, for he has become

Title: Resounding Tinkle, A

Author: Simpson, N. F.

Publisher: Faber and Faber 1958

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

It would be wrong to say nothing surprises the Paradocks, Bro and Middie. It's just that they take
in their stride the things that would surprise us. The elephant in their garden, for instance, has
actually been ordered, but this year the shop has made a mistake and sent the wrong size. The
arrival of Uncle Ted does cause Middie to raise her eyebrows momentarily, for he has become
bored with being a he and is now an elegantly dressed young woman. Their social habits are
different from ours and their talk satirizes the life of suburbia, and in the intervals, turns a mildly
Title: Roommates
A one-act play
Author: Orr, Mary

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1989

Description:

roy
comedy - drama
all female cast
two female
one act

open stage.

"This very amusing, and often touching, short play details the chance meeting of two middle-aged
women who, to their mutual surprise, find that they have much more in common than either could
have imagined."

Title: Rosie Learns French

Author: Bolt, Carol

Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1993

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy - relationships - Edmonton
two characters
one male; one female
one act

St. Jean Baptiste Day in Edmonton. Rosie has nothing on but her French language lesson tapes.
She calls her former lover Rog in Montreal. Will he leave her?

Title: Sale by Auction

A comedy in one act
Author: Peach, L. Du Garde

Publisher: Samuel French 1926

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

No abstract available.
Title: Science Fair

Author: Williams, Jeanmarie

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2004

Description:

roy
comedy - high school
all female cast; one character
one female (flexible casting up to five actors)
one act

Kiki, Marcee, Michelle, Jethro, and Gretchen present their high school science fair projects: a
treatise on Social Darwinism, a failed potato clock, the effect of Girl Scout cookie sales tactics on
the rural poor, the effect of violin music on broccoli plants, and the hazards of nuclear energy.
Twelve years later at the high school reunion, Social Darwinist Kiki is the emcee, and the only one
of the original group in attendance -- but we find out, through simultaneous scenes, what has
become of her former classmates' lives. Science Fair presents us with five offbeat kids, up close,

Title: Secrets of a Soccer Mom

Author: Clark, Kathleen

Publisher: Samuel French 1997

Description:

roy
comedy
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

Three engaging women reluctantly take the field in a mothers vs. sons soccer game. They intend
to let the children win, but as the game unfolds they become intent on scoring. The competition
ignites a fierce desire to recapture their youthful good-humor, independence and sexiness,
paving the way toward a better understanding of themselves, their families and changes they need
to make in their lives.

Title: Sexy Laundry

Author: Riml, Michele

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy
comedy - marital relations
two characters
one male; one female
one act

After twenty-five years of marriage, the emergence of love handles and receding hairlines, Alice
and Henry have hit a physical plateau. With a Sex for Dummies guidebook in hand Alice convinces
Henry into a weekend of alone time in the hopes of seducing him and unearthing her inner vixen.
Henry, however, wants to keep things the way they are — comfortable and easy. Exploring every
fantasy from leather to lace, Alice and Henry portray every couple’s desire to grow together but
maintain individuality.
Title: Shooting Star

Author: Dietz, Steven

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2010

Description:

roy
romantic comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

flexible set.

Snowed in overnight at a middle-America airport, college lovers Elena Carson and Reed McAllister
have an unexpected and life-altering reunion. Elena has stayed true to her hippie-ish,
counter-culture path, while Reed has gone predictably corporate and conservative. As the night
gives way to laughter, banter, remembrance and alcohol, Elena and Reed revisit a past that holds

Title: Sibs

Author: Flacks, Diane Greenblatt, Richard

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000

Description:

roy
comedy - family relations
three characters
one male; one female; one musician
one act

“Sibs is an impressionistic exploration, fast and often very furious, of the complex relationship
between brothers and sisters. Anchored in a poignant moment—adult siblings dealing with their
parent’s estate—the play flashes through the many stages of sibling history, from infancy (“This is
my little brother”), through the rich miseries of growing up, the alien landscape of the adolescent
and teen years, and the inevitable confusions of adulthood. Affection, jealousy, curiosity, tender
guidance, us-against-them, deep love and deep hatred: all the cards are brought into play.” –Urjo

Title: Skydive

Author: Kerr, Kevin

Publisher: Talonbooks 2010

Description:

roy
comedy
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

SKYDIVE explores the world of dreams and imagination: the universal human desire to push
beyond our physical imitations and to fly. Having grown apart after a traumatic event in their
youth, two brothers reconnect to fulfil a lifelong ambition to go skydiving. Morgan (a feckless
schemer who has recently reinvented himself as a counsellor) arrives on the doorstep of Daniel (a
housebound agoraphobe), offering to help "liberate" his brother by administering his newly
invented technique of "paratherapy." Skydive was created to be performed by one able-bodied and
Title: Speak

Author: Nelson, Greg

Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1998

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy - political
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"A floundering marriage... a Christian politician... Regina, Saskatchewan. These are the
ingredients of Greg Nelson's sensational new comedy, "Speak". James and Sarah are barely
married, but already they're in trouble. Arriving in Regina from Toronto, Sarah seeks the truth
about her husband's shady past. She encounters Lloyd, a Saskachewan MLA who has all the
answers. Before long, they're all getting far more than they bargained for, as they spiral down
into the seedy and secret side of personal and provincial politics. Full of deception and intrigue,

Title: Spring Alibi

Author: Edwards, Linda Wood

Publisher: Miscellaneous 1996

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian - romance - Alberta playwright - Yukon
two characters
one male; one female
one act

running time: 60 min.; setting: present day Yukon.

Spring in the Yukon! The spectacular view from Marlene's window leads her to some private
discoveries. But other people have windows too. A romantic comedy about voyeurism, food, and
the 8-track tape.

Title: Suppressed Desires

Author: Glaspell, Susan

Publisher: Baker's Plays 1951

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior set.

"Psychoanalysis. Husband and wife."

Title: Talk

Author: Nathanson, Michael

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy
comedy
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

Old friends Josh and Gordon are out for drinks. A great evening is interrupted when a word, the
wrong word, enters their conversation for the first time. 'Talk' is a funny, complex and touching
look at a friendship torn asunder by clashing views about the Middle East conflict, examining
both the power of language and the nature of friendship.

Title: Tangled Skirt, The

Author: Braunstein, Steve

Publisher: Samuel French 2013

Description:

roy
mystery - thriller
two characters
one male; one female
one act

appropriate for high school.

Breathless from running and staggered by a startling incident, Bailey Bryce dashes into a deserted
bus depot in the dead of night desperately clutching a travel bag. He’s glad to be alone; to think
fast, to collect himself, to figure things out before it’s too late. But he won’t be alone for long.
Enter Rhonda Claire, a stunning stranger tightly gripping her own travel bag and frantically

Title: Taste of Empire, A

Author: Sy, Jovanni

Publisher: Talonbooks 2017

Description:

roy
comedy - cooking - colonialism
all male cast; one character
one male
one act (nine scenes)

1 interior set.

"Everything we eat tells a story. In A Taste of Empire, delectable samples from a real-time cooking
demonstration offer food for thought about colonialism and the ethics of modern-day food
systems."
Title: Terminus

Author: O'Rowe, Mark

Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2011

Description:

roy
black comedy - Irish - fantasy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

"A blackly comic vision of Dublin infested with demons, from the author of "Howie the Rookie".
Three people are ripped from their daily lives and catapulted into a fantastical world of singing
serial killers, avenging angels and lovesick demons. Hold tight as the ordinary turns
extraordinary in Mark O'Rowe's urban fantasy."

First Award! 2008 Edinburgh Fringe

Title: Three Little Pigs and Other Capitalist Lies

Author: MacKillop, Larry

Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"A Marxist author of children's books rejects suggestions from his farmer father and an amorous
social worker on what to do with the tonne of bad Nicaraguan coffee in his attic."

Title: Topdog/Underdog

Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1999

Description:

roy
dark comedy
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act (six scenes)

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity. The play tells the story of Lincoln and
Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling
rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering
reality of their future.

Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize.

Title: Tornado Magnet
A salute to trailer court women
Author: Hagen, Darrin

Publisher: Brindle & Glass 2007

Description:

roy
monologues - Canadian - women - comedy - Alberta playwright
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

Dotty Parsons has set her mind to debunking a myth or two about living in a trailer. "No cupboard
will go unopened, no Niagara Falls souvenir cushion will go unturned" in this funny and
heartwarming macaroni and cheese mission to end "Mobile home-ophobia" once and for all.

Title: Two Rooms

Author: Robinson, Mansel

Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Murdoch is a charming, yarn-spinning, old-school, white Canadian cop. His wife is a doctor:
young, beautiful, smart, a Muslim Uyghur - and a suspect. She has a lot to confess. So does he.
Murder, betrayal, politics and the war on terror: a love story.

Winner of the 2010 John V. Hicks Award and the 2010 Uprising National Playwriting Award.

Title: Two's a Crowd

Author: Simms, Willard

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

Filled with a numbing sense of discontent about the purpose of his life, and the tedium of his job
at the travel agency, Jack tells his fiancee that they must get away from it all, find a sanctuary in
the mountains, recapture the feeling of oneness with nature. Perhaps, Mary Anne suggests, he
should just change jobs, try for a managerial position with a larger salary. Why not a better job?
Title: Understudy, The

Author: Rebeck, Theresa

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2010

Description:

roy
comedy - theatre
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Franz Kafka's undiscovered masterpiece in its Broadway premiere is the hilarious and apropos
setting for Theresa Rebeck's exploration of the existential vagaries of show business and life.
Charged with running the understudy rehearsal for the production, Roxanne finds her
professional and personal life colliding when Harry, a journeyman actor and her ex-fiancé, is cast
as the understudy to Jake, a mid-tier action star yearning for legitimacy. As Harry and Jake find
their common ground, Roxanne tries to navigate the rehearsal with a stoned lightboard operator,

Title: Valentines and Killer Chili

Author: Brown, Kent

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989

Description:

roy
comedy - relationships
two characters
one male; one female
one act

"With a face like a "roadmap", beehive hairdo, green fingernails and eyebrows like "two McDonald's
arches" Jackie isn't much to look at, but she sure isn't easy to forget. She jokes and flirts with the
truckers at Big Tom's Pit Stop while serving up her famous killer chili, making it easier for them to
face the empty miles ahead. One Valentine's eve Jason, a chicken hauler, brings her a box of
chocolates as a gesture of friendship. Jackie yells and screams at him and then bursts into tears,
later explaining that its the anniversary of the day that Big Tom ran off and left her..."

Title: Venus in Fur

Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Northwestern University Press 2011

Description:

roy
dark comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

A playwright-director, Thomas, has written an adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's classic

erotic novel 'Venus in Fur', the story of an obsessive relationship between a man and the mistress
to whom he becomes enslaved. At the end of a long day in which the actresses Thomas auditions
fail to impress him, in walks Vanda, very late and seemingly clueless, but she convinces him to
give her a chance. As they perform scenes from Thomas's play, the lines between writer, actor,
director, and character begin to blur. An unsettling drama, a playful comedy, VENUS IN FUR also
Title: Visit from Miss Prothero, A

Author: Bennett, Alan

Publisher: Samuel French 1981

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; two female
one act

one interior set.

Mr. Dodsworth has recently retired. Sitting at home he is contemplating his life and achievements
with quiet satisfaction when there is a sharp ring at the door: his former secretary has come to
ruin it all.

Title: Von Mitterbrink's Second

A comedy of honour in five fits
Author: Belke, David

Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2013

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright
three characters
two male; one female
one act (five scenes)

Count Alaric Von Holtzburg has been insulted and, determined to win back his honour, he has
challenged Klaus Von Mitterbrink to a duel. A duel the Count will undoubtedly win. But things
start to go awry when a young woman arrives claiming to be Von Mitterbrink's second. This starts
a battle of wills that require more in the way of strategy and scheming that swordsmanship. A
rapier witted comedy/drama of scheming and dueling.

Title: We Regret to Inform You

Author: Daheim, David C.

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000

Description:

roy
comedy - satire; theatre
two characters
one male; one female
one act

'In this outrageous satire about professional, not-for-profit theatre, a literary manager and her
envious assistant spend their work hours planning luncheon dates or steaming stamps off return
envelopes accompanying manuscripts submitted by hopeful playwrights. When their theatre loses
federal funding for lack of artistic ambition, they are commanded by their artistic director to find a
'good play', 'something different', in the piles of unread manuscripts. Unused to reading anything
other than a menu, the desperate pair dive into the dusty stacks searching for something that will
Title: What Lies Before Us

Author: Panych, Morris

Publisher: Talonbooks 2007

Description:

roy
comedy - parody - historical fiction
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act

The English Mr. Keating and the Scottish Mr. Ambrose are assistant surveyors camped in the
Rocky Mountains with Mr. Wing, their Chinese coolie, starving as they wait for "the Major", an
American adventurer, to show up and lead their railroad survey party in the nation-building
enterprise called Canada. Of course, the Major never shows up, leaving the rude and uneducated
Keating and the disillusioned and highly schooled Ambrose to engage in an increasingly absurd
dialogue about the meaning of life and both of them, utterly frustrated in their outgoing attempts

Title: When God Comes for Breakfast You Don't Burn the Toast

Author: Apple, Gary

Publisher: Samuel French

Description:

roy
comedy
three Characters
two male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

What do you do when "The Almighty" drops over for a casual breakfast? Harry and Beatrice
Katzman are faced with such a situation. It is a play where the commonplace and the totally
unexpected come together in a flurry of humour and excitement.
The end product is an intriguing and entertaining theatrical experience that's guaranteed to leave

Title: Who Killed Spalding Gray?

Author: MacIvor, Daniel

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy
dark comedy - solo performance - Canadian playwright
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

Sit down, Daniel’s going to tell you a story.

On the weekend of January 10, 2004, American monologist Spalding Gray killed himself by
jumping off the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. That same weekend, Daniel MacIvor was in
California, visiting a psychic surgeon who offered to save his life by removing a spiritual entity
that had attached to him. But what if Spalding’s death had something to do with Daniel’s entity?
Linking these two true parallel stories is fiction derived from Gray’s obsessions and MacIvor’s
Title: William the Bard

Author: Belke, David

Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1997

Description:

roy
comedy - Alberta playwright
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

"A sweetly tragic comedy based on actual historic events. In order to win the respect of his
Shakespearean scholar father, William Ireland becomes one of the world's most prolific and
unlikely forgers."

First produced in 1997 at Varscona theatre, Edmonton.

Title: With Bells On

Author: Hagen, Darrin

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2012

Description:

roy
Canadian - Christmas - comedy - Alberta playwright - LGBTQ+
all male cast; two characters
two male (one tall, one normal height)
one act

running time: 60 min.; setting: an elevator in an urban high-rise, a few days before Christmas.

"With Bells On" is an unconventional Christmas comedy about two neighbours - one a
mild-mannered accountant, the other a giant drag queen on her way to a pageant - who get stuck
in their high-rise apartment elevator.
He is a mild-mannered accountant with persistent bad luck who heads out for his first night of

Title: Woman Who Cooked Her Husband, The

Author: Isitt, Debbie

Publisher: Josef Weinberger Plays 1993

Description:

roy
comedy - relationships
three characters
one male; two female
one act

Kenneth and Hilary have been married nearly twenty years, but as middle age encroaches, Kenneth
finds himself in the arms of another woman. At first, Laura seems to represent everything that is
missing from Kenneth's life with Hilary, but his little fling quickly becomes desperately out of
hand and his world a spiral of lies and deceit. After his initial denials, Kenneth is soon forced to
confront the truth and leaves Hilary for Laura. Only one little problem... Laura can't cook. As time
goes by, Kenneth mourns the loss of Sunday roasts and haute cuisine, and the comforts of a
Title: Workhouse Ward, The

Author: Lady Gregory

Publisher: Samuel French 1909

Description:

roy
farce
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

A ward in the workhouse. Two paupers, Mike and Michael, hurl abuse at each other from adjacent
beds. Mrs. Donohue enters with the object of performing a charitable act for Mike. She desires to
take him from the workhouse and provide a home for him. But Mike asks if Michael may go with
him and, on receiving a reply in the negative, finds fault with the good woman. Mrs. Donohue

Title: Yes, Dear

Author: Graves, Warren

Publisher: Samuel French 1967

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior set.

Youthful parents suddenly feel old when they realize their children are now adults. This is what
happens to John and Marie Grant while they are preparing for the 21st birthday of their daughter.
In the privacy of their bedroom, John reverts to the clown he was as a young man and sweeps
Marie along with him into sheer zest of being alive. They realize that, for each other, they will

Title: You Are Happy

Deux ans de votre vie
Author: Déraspe, Rébecca translated by Leanne Brodie
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016

Description:

roy
French-Canadian - comedy - relationships
three characters
one male; two female
twenty-five scenes

Bridget finds her brother Jeremy in a closet attempting suicide. Again. Determined to help him find
some kind of happiness, she carts around grocery stores looking for his potential wife. Bridget's
search affirms what she already thinks: there are couples practically everywhere. Eventually
finding her way into the aisle with the razor blades, she meets Chloe and her plans to stage a
happily-ever-after are finally set.
Title: You Smell Good to Me

Author: Hendry, Tom

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1971

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

A married man and his mistress are forced to confront the shallowness of their relationship when,
after six years of regular assignations, he fails to show up one Saturday night. This fast-paced
comedy explores each character's strengths and vulnerabilities.

Title: You're A What?!

Author: Matulic, Margaret

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy - thriller
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act

"After a series of strange events, a mild-mannered librarian comes to the conclusion that she is a
werewolf. Her roomie is dragged into the events and both must cope with the absurd revelation."