Title: 12:21 PM

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 10th series / COL

Author: Hartland, F. J.

Publisher: Samuel French 1985

Description:

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

A hilarious situation is created when a groom goes looking for his best man. The wedding was to
begin at noon and it is now 21 minutes after. The best man is sloshed, but the groom refuses to
give up on him despite pleas from his annoyed sister to leave the guy to his vodka and come back
for the wedding.

Title: 21A
in - 20/20 ... / COL
Author: Kling, Kevin

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

roy
comedy - monologues
all male cast; nine characters
one male (doubling)
one act

One actor portrays driver and passengers on Minneapolis bus.

Title: 27 Ways I Didn't Say "Hi" to Laurence Fishburne

in - Humana Festival 2013 / COL
Author: Josephson, Jonathan

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2014

Description:

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

One of playwright Jonathan Josephson's favorite movie stars is sitting right across the room,
blithely eating a sandwich. There are a million things he'd like to say, but every attempt to make
contact is more hopelessly awkward than the last. A hilarious meta-theatrical romp based on
actual events (sort of).
Title: 2B (or not 2B)
in - Things Between Us / COL
Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

suggested for high school.

What happens when Franny, heart broken and single, is seduced by a giant Bee who needs a
Queen?

Title: 2B (or not 2B)

in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

suggested for high school.

What happens when Franny, heart broken and single, is seduced by a giant Bee who needs a
Queen?

Title: 2B (or not 2B) Part 2

in - Things Between Us / COL
Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

suggested for high school.

What happens when Franny, now a Queen Bee, goes to her ex's wedding, hoping to sting him to
death, but ends up under the gift table with the piano player?
Title: 4000 Miles
in - 4000 Miles / After the Revolution / COL
Author: Herzog, Amy

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2013

Description:

roy
dramatic comedy
four characters
one male; three female
one act (ten scenes)

After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks
solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment. Over the
course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each
other. 4000 MILES looks at how two outsiders find their way in today's world.

Finalist! 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Winner! 2012 Obie Award, Best New Play; Winner! 2012

Title: 508
in - The Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 / COL
Author: Herzog, Amy

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers

Description:

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

Two ex-lovers meet in the apartment they once shared on what would be their fifth anniversary for
a settling of accounts. What could be a simple, five-minute exchange quickly dissolves into barbs
and recriminations. Bridget and Leo know how to get at each other, and they cant resist the
pleasure and pain that comes from one last reckoning.

Title: Abandon All Hope

in - Shel's Shorts / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

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

'All and Benny stand before a giant portal. A sign above the portal reads "Abandon all hope, ye
who enter here". Benny is more than a little frightened, but Al has no intention of abandoning his
hope, as the two debate the precise meaning of the sign.'
Title: Acrobats
in - Acrobats and Line / COL
Author: Horovitz, Israel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

open stage.

'Husband and wife acrobatic team feud, threatening to end their dependancy - while they perform.'

Title: Adam and Eve on a Ferry

in - Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays / COL
Author: Williams, Tennessee

Publisher: New Directions 2005

Description:

roy
comedy - American - 20th century - short play
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 exterior set.

"A comic portrait of D.H. Lawrence as someone who functions as an analyst for repressed women.
Embroidering on his porch, Lawrence is visited by Miss Peabody. Adopting a Sherlock-Holmesian
intuition, Lawrence divines that spinsterish Miss Peabody was propositioned by a man aboard a
ferry, but in her passionate excitement she forgot his name and where they were to meet.

Title: Affection in Time

in - Israel Horovitz's New Shorts / COL
Author: Horovitz, Israel

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

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

Introduction to a being not of our time.

Title: Ah! But it Sings, But It Sings, Luveena or: Blood Orange
in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO
Author: Boutillier, Fabian

Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy
comedy - farce - sketch
three characters
three male
one act

Three odd gentlemen get carried away.

Title: Alan, Betty and Riva

in - Bedrooms: Five Comedies / COL
Author: Taylor, Renee Bologna, Joseph
Publisher: Samuel French 1986

Description:

roy
comedy - sex - relationships - suicide
three characters
one male; two female
one act (two scenes)

Alan gets his mistress Betty to agree to join him in a menage a trois with Riva, a hooker who calls
herself a sex therapist. Betty gets cold feet and acquiesces only when Alan convinces her it will
help him make the decision to finally leave his wife. Afterward, Betty is depressed and, when she
realizes Alan still isn't going to leave his wife, she threatens suicide.

Title: Alien Mice

in - John Lazarus Shorts / CCO
Author: Lazarus, John

Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
two male or female
one act

A deranged lecturer, armed with a bomb, holds the audience hostage while explaining his UFO
conspiracy theory connecting the fountains at Versailles with Mickey Mouse.
Title: All Cotton
in - Shel's Shorts / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

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

'Jill is furious because the guaranteed not-to-shrink blouse she has bought shrunk six sizes in
the wash, and Rachel, the store clerk, won't give her a cash refund. But Jill, it seems, is a witch,
and when she does not get satisfaction, she casts a spell on the store and everything in it.'

Title: All in Little Pieces

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL
Author: Yearly, John

Publisher: Samuel French 2005

Description:

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

Molly's trying to sell a house to Mary, but it soon becomes apparent that Mary not there to buy.
The play becomes very engaging as the women talk and get to know each other. It almost seems
as if they're made for each other, but the action twists and suddenly Molly realizes that Mary is
perhaps not as stable as she seems, in fact, that she's actually rather frightening.

Title: Almost, Again

in - Out on a Limb / CCO
Author: Brown, Briana

Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

roy
comedy - relationships - romance - Canadian
two characters
one male; one female
one act (five scenes)

" 'Almost, Again' centers on Jack and Ginger, two coworkers at a large, chain bookstore whose
shyness, awkwardness and penchant for delightful bursts of earnest nerdiness, immediately draws
them together while also creating a sexual tension that both are too hesitant and neurotic to
confront. When their first date goes awry, Ginger convinces Jack to erase the encounter entirely
from their personal history, to wipe their romantic slate clean and to try the first date again. As the
pressure to have the perfect date, create their perfect mood and capture the perfect moment
Title: Alt-Visions, Kiss Before Clouding
in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL
Author: Levin, Daniel F.

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015

Description:

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

Man in binary coded relationship.

Title: Altar Boy Talks to God, An

in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998

Description:

roy
comedy
all male cast; two characters
two male
sketch

"Robert, a young man, talks in a friendly way about his days as an altar boy. He then recalls when
his nephew got AIDS early in the epidemic and how fundamentalists claimed it was God's
punishment. Robert decides to go to heaven and ask God about this. Once there, God seems mean
and ornery indeed, and professes to give AIDS to homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and Haitians in a
bizarrely unfocused rage. Leaving heaven, Robert feels that whom he met wasn't God but an
impostor. Adapted from the 'AIDS Speech' in "Laughing Wild", and rewritten to be performed by 2

Title: Amelia Earhart Was Not a Spy

in - Triple Play / CCO
Author: Curran, Colleen

Publisher: NuAge Editions 1990

Description:

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

'Hilary and Kevin, her homosexual roommate have been living together for five years, but this
evening Hilary has invited someone to dinner - her new fiance.'
Title: American Century, The
in - 20/20 ... / COL
Author: Guyer, Murphy

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

roy
absurdist comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 interior.

Absurdist comedy about son who travels back in time to visit his yet childless parents and inform
them of unexpected disasters ahead.

Title: American Sunset, An

in - Stuffings and An American Sunset: Two Plays / COL
Author: Prideaux, James

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1973

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior set.

"A deflation of the silly snobberies of the 'country club' set".

Title: American Way, The

in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL
Author: Mueller, Lavonne

Publisher: Meriwether Publishing 1987

Description:

roy
satire - political - U.S.A - marital relations
three characters
one male; two female
one act

The First Lady is having a yard sale of most everything in the White House. Originally, she told
her husband, the President, that she would sell only a few meaningless items that belonged to
them. Instead she ransacked the whole house and left their bedroom empty, while the President
was mumbling to himself.
Title: American Welcome
in - The Best Short Plays 1981 / COL
Author: Friel, Brian

Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1981

Description:

roy
satire - theatre
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

1 interior set.

"Satirical sketch. Overbearing American theatrical director explains to speechless European

playwright how his new script is going to be changed 'to communicate with American audiences'."

Title: Amici, Ascoltate

in - Dark, No Sugar / COL
Author: Leight, Warren

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2007

Description:

roy
satire
five characters
two male; one female (doubling)
one act

A son's imminent departure for Iraq prompts his father to examine the fate of men in his family
when sent to war.

Title: Amouresque
in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL
Author: Gluck, Victor

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010

Description:

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

AMORESQUE and ARABESQUE are both comedies of courtship that take place during the same
weekend at Margaret Hudson's country house not far from Cambridge, Massachusetts. In
AMORESQUE, a young girl has fallen in love with an absent minded philosophy professor who
teaches at a men's college ad who is too involved in his studies to notice her. She attempts to
awaken his interest by offering him a philosophical proposition to solve Typical of his thinking,
he deals with it just as he would one of his classroom cases.
Title: Ancient History
in - Polish Joke and Other Plays / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Grove Press 2004

Description:

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

Ruth and Jack, both in their mid-thirties, believe themselves perfectly suited to each other. But
when Ruth suddenly mentions marriage, a subtle but ominous change is felt in their relationship.
At first the mood is light-hearted and filled with brightly humorous lines. Later, no holds are
barred, and the irreconcilable differences that were largely sublimated in the beginning now burst
forth in full fury, leading to a monumental explosion.

Title: Angel at My Door

in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL
Author: Franceschini, John

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

A young woman shows up at a bookstore to prevent the unsuspecting owner's suicide in an

unusual way.

Title: Angela
in - Revue Unique / COL
Author: Crowder, David Lloyd

Publisher: Samuel French 1964

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

interior.

"Two husbands of the same woman describe their late wife in diametrically opposite terms."
Title: Animal
in - Picture Animal Crisscross / COL
Author: Hailey, Oliver

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970

Description:

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

"This humorous, touching and revealing monologue is concerned with an exasperated mother
who attempts to entice her 12-year-old daughter (unseen) out of the tree (imaginary) in which she
has taken refuge. In the course of her brief recital the woman, her daughter, her late husband
(who fell to his death climbing a tree) and the very nature of their lives together are revealed with
startling and affecting clarity and compassion."

Title: Appearances
in - Plays for Actresses / COL
Author: Howe, Tina

Publisher: Vintage Books 1997

Description:

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

suitable for high school performances.

Grace, the ladies fitting room guardian, shows temper when Ivy brings in an excessive number of
garments to try on. After a rocky start, the two women gradually start to collaborate on choosing
the right dress in which to be seen by a special man. They increasingly resemble each other as
both try on dresses. The search reaches a fever pitch when they choose a white dress. Ivy kisses

Title: Appearances
in - Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lillies / COL
Author: Howe, Tina

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

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

suitable for High School performances.

Grace, the ladies fitting room guardian, shows temper when Ivy brings in an excessive number of
garments to try on. After a rocky start, the two women gradually start to collaborate on choosing
the right dress in which to be seen by a special man. They increasingly resemble each other as
both try on dresses. The search reaches a fever pitch when they choose a white dress. Ivy kisses
Title: Approaching Lavender
in - The Best Short Plays 1985 / COL
Author: Crutcher, Julie Beckett

Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1985

Description:

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

'Comedy with dramatic overtones. Tensions mount as two sisters and their soon to be step-sister
allow feelings towards parents remarriage to surface.'

Title: Arabian Nights

in - Humana Festival 2000 / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2000

Description:

roy
comedy - romance - short play
three character; flexible casting
one male; two female or two female; one male
one act

"What happens when an interpreter in a far away Arabian country has some fun with a tourist and
a local? It may just lead to a relationship that transcends language barriers. ARABIAN NIGHTS is a
wild ride through language and love, sparked with touches of magic and packed with good
laughs."

Title: Arabian Nights

in - Lives of the Saints / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2000

Description:

roy
comedy - romance - short play
three character; flexible casting
one male; two female or two female; one male
one act

"What happens when an interpreter in a far away Arabian country has some fun with a tourist and
a local? It may just lead to a relationship that transcends language barriers. ARABIAN NIGHTS is a
wild ride through language and love, sparked with touches of magic and packed with good
laughs."
Title: Arabian Nights
in - Time Flies and other short plays / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Grove Press 2001

Description:

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

"What happens when an interpreter in a far away Arabian country has some fun with a tourist and
a local? It may just lead to a relationship that transcends language barriers. ARABIAN NIGHTS is a
wild ride through language and love, sparked with touches of magic and packed with good
laughs."

Title: Are You Ready?

in - Fifth Planet and Other Plays / COL
Author: Auburn, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2002

Description:

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

The fates of three people drawn to the same restaurant are altered in an instant.

Title: Art of Dating, The

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 20th series / COL
Author: Elwell, Jeffrey Scott

Publisher: Samuel French 1996

Description:

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

'Two lawyers meeting for lunch to discuss their respective clients begin to take interest in each
other.'
Title: At War with the Mongols
in - New American Plays Volume 4 / COL
Author: Heide, Robert

Publisher: Hill and Wang 1971

Description:

roy
farce - tragedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act (six scenes)

1 interior set; music.

"Tragic farce. Couple subsist in room, avoiding Mongol invaders and come to terms with life".

Title: Audition Play, The

in - Israel Horovitz's New Shorts / COL
Author: Horovitz, Israel

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

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

A woman auditions for a play.

Title: Auld Lang Syne or, I'll Bet You Think This Play Is About You
in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL
Author: Creasey, Beverly

Publisher: Meriwether Publishing 1987

Description:

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

Two people meet on a street corner only to recognize each other as former friends/acquaintances.
They begin to recollect on their past, remembering other friends and catching up on their present
situations and niche in the world.
Title: Aunt Dan Meets the Madwoman of Chaillot
in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998

Description:

roy
comedy - parody
two characters
one male; one female; or two female
sketch

Aunt Dan, the title character of Wallace Shawn's 'Aunt Dan and Lemon', has a discussion with
Giradoux' 'Madwoman of Chaillot'. They discuss it all."

Title: Author's Voice, The

in - Telling Tales / COL
Author: Greenberg, Richard

Publisher: Penguin Books 1993

Description:

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

"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
emptiness - even banality - of his conversation. In fact the only time he isn't boring is when he is
quoting poetic passages from his novel in progress."

Title: Autograph Hound, The

in - Lemonade and The Autograph Hound / COL
Author: Prideaux, James

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1969

Description:

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

"The play bases its humor on human and domestic foibles. The wife in this play is a full-blown
eccentric who stands for hours outside every possible celebrity gathering place to get
autographs. One night when she's out, standing in the snow, her husband tears up the treasured
collection housed in three living room filing cabinets, bests her in a strangling contest when she
gets home, sends their daughter out to find her own apartment, and declares a turning point. But
what way will they turn? She's the one, after alll, with the 'thrill of the chase' as she expresses it.
Title: Awkward Silence
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Nineteenth Series / COL
Author: Reiss, Jay

Publisher: Samuel French 1995

Description:

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

'Comedic account of blind date.'

Title: Ayravana Flies; or, A Pretty Dish

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 33rd series / COL
Author: Callaghan, Sheila

Publisher: Samuel French 2008

Description:

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

Frazzled cook Olivia has an idea for a delicious dish, and only a fearful Elephant from an exotic
land can appreciate it—and her.

Title: Babel Rap

in - Six Canadian Plays / CCO
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: Babel Rap
in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO
Author: Lazarus, John

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

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: Baby
in - The Best Short Plays 1985 / COL
Author: Kearsley, Julia

Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1984

Description:

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

'Comedy-drama exploring young English girl's reactions to the onset of puberty and strained
family relations.'

Title: Bachelor Holiday

in - Five One-Act Plays / COL
Author: Ball, Alan

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994

Description:

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

suggested for high school.

In BACHELOR HOLIDAY a mouse, caught in a glue trap, causes three roommates to discuss the
meaning of life, death, yuppiedom, karma and the harsh reality of their place on the food chain.
Title: Back Story: A Dramatic Anthology
in - Humana Festival 2000 / COL
Author: Ackermann, Joan

Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

running time: 90 min.

"Based on characters created by Joan Ackermann. BACK STORY is a 2-character play written in 19
scenes by 18 playwrights. Set in the Berkshires, BACK STORY illuminates various episodes in the
young lives of Ainsley and Ethan Belcher. When Ethan is born during the worst blizzard of the
century, his 2-year-old sister Ainsley nearly sacrifices a toe trying to clear a path for the baby's

Title: Backstreets
in - Vittorio Rossi: Two Plays / CCO
Author: Rossi, Vittorio

Publisher: NuAge Editions 1988

Description:

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

Description not available.

Title: Bad Boating

in - Funny Girls Coping with Boys / COL
Author: Evans, Annie

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

A girl and boy go on a date in a sailboat off the coast of Nantucket…and then the fog rolls in…
Title: Bad Dates
in - Theresa Rebeck: Complete Full-Length Plays v. 2 / COL
Author: Rebeck, Theresa

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2007

Description:

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

"Haley has been single-handedly raising a kid and running a restaurant for five years; it's time to
go out on a date. A hilarious one-woman show that answers the age-old question "Do men and
women really need each other?" with a resounding yes."

Title: Bake Off

in - Humana Festival 2002 / COL
Author: Wilner, Sheri

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2002

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"Last year, the largest cash prize in Bake Off history was awarded to a man; this year, one female
contestant will make sure that the male entrants get their just desserts..."

Title: Bakersfield Mist

in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2012 / COL
Author: Sachs, Stephen

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2012

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

An unemployed bartender living in a trailer park believes the painting she bought at a thrift
store for $3 is really a Jackson Pollock worth millions.
Title: Ballad of 423 and 424, The
in - Dramatics (January 2013) / PER
Author: Pappas, Nicholas C.

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2012

Description:

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

A ten minute play based on Shakespeare's 23rd sonnet.

Title: Ballad of 423 and 424, The

in - Humana Festival 2012 / COL
Author: Pappas, Nicholas C.

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2013

Description:

roy
comedy - American - short play - romance
two characters
one male; one female
one act (seventeen scenes)

running time: 10 min.

When reclusive writer Roderick’s routine is interrupted by the arrival of a new neighbor, Ellen, the
opportunity to change his ritual presents itself for the first time. Will he find the strength to walk
through that door?

Title: Baltimore Waltz, The

in - The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays / COL
Author: Vogel, Paula

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1996

Description:

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

"Dramatic comedy set in Baltimore, Maryland hospital. Imaginary trip to Europe shared by sister
and brother vehicle for comments on attitudes towards AIDS."
Title: Banana Man
in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL
Author: Nigro, Don

Publisher: Samuel French 2005

Description:

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

A table and some chairs. In New York, in the summer of 1964, Buster Keaton appeared in a short
experimental film written by Samuel Beckett. In this play, set in an Italian restaurant in Greenwich
Village that summer, two gentlemen named Sam and Buster attempt to communicate with each
other, with the unlikely help of a chattery young waitress with theatrical ambitions, who mistakes
Buster for Moe from the Three Stooges and Sam for his agent. A funny and moving play about the
quiet, absurd heroism of two apparently very different but very great artists.

Title: Bar Mitzvah Boy

in - Great Short Comedies: Volume 1 / COL
Author: Siskind, Samara

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2007

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

bare stage.

Thirteen-year-old Samuel Rosenbaum is finally a man. It's the day of his Bar Mitzvah and he's
survived reading the Torah, ballroom dancing, and crazy relatives...but will he be able to get the
girl?

Title: Barbarian in Love, A

in - Twain Plus Plain / COL
Author: Sabath, Bernard

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1984

Description:

roy
biographical - comedy - Samuel Clemens - Mark Twain
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Third in a series of Sam Clemens one acts.

The third play finds Sam in Elmira, New York (several years later) and smitten by his best friend's
sister. Proposing marriage, he finds that he must first win over her strait-laced and rather
pompous father—a task which calls on the full resources of his earthy wit and wisdom.
Title: Barefoot Woman in a Red Dress
in - Jane Martin: Collected plays - Vol. 2 / COL
Author: Martin, Jane

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2001

Description:

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

Description not available.

Title: Barry, Betty and Bill

in - The Best American Short Plays 1993 -1994 / COL
Author: Taylor, Renee Bologna, Joseph
Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995

Description:

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

'Estranged husband interrupts wife's date.'

Title: Basement, The

in - Five One Act Plays / COL
Author: Schisgal, Murray

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1965

Description:

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

1 set.

"A serio-comedy study of a man who has estranged himself from his family, and given up all hope
for children, career or money, to pursue the 'noble' (and rather strange) scientific research which,
in sad truth, has yielded only frustration and unhappiness".
Title: Batbrains
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 5th series / COL
Author: Daniel, Barbara

Publisher: Samuel French 1981

Description:

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

Jane Batts is an up and coming fashion designer who lives in a loft with her husband Rico, a
successful artist. Until now, Rico has been paying most of the bills - but Jane has a strong chance
to break out on her own with a series of bat shaped dress designs. First, she must contend with
her old college roommate, a self proclaimed psychic who has arrived in New York to teach
"telepathic lovemaking" - and plans to crash with Jane for awhile. Two fine roles for actresses in
their 20's.

Title: Battling Brinkmires, The

in - The Square Root of Love / COL
Author: Meltzer, Daniel

Publisher: Samuel French 1979

Description:

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

1 interior set.

"Things are not always what they seem in this play about middle-aged couple in Haiti for divorce".

Title: Bear (a tragedy), The

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 35th series / COL
Author: Calvert, E.J.C.

Publisher: Samuel French 2011

Description:

roy
farce
three characters
two male; one female
one act

interior.

In The Bear (A Tragedy), Diane and Everett Feld must negotiate their marriage after the unexpected
result of Everett’s secret hunting excursions comes to light.
Title: Bear, The
in - Chekhov Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Publisher: Penguin Books 1980

Description:

roy
farce
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Same as 'The Boor' and The 'Brute'.

'Landowner tries to collect debt from neighbour in Czarist Russia, but collects young widow
instead.'

Title: Bear, The

in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko
Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

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

A joke in one act, revolving around love.

Title: Bear, The

in - Adapt or Die / CCO
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Sherman, Jason
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

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

running time: 35 min.; adapted by Jason Sherman

A new version of the vaudeville by Chekhov. "Sherman’s adaptation uses modern language to
re-imagine a classic battle of the sexes between a recent widow and a pugnacious creditor. With
Elena Popova mourning for her philandering husband, affecting a theatrical grief that is more
posthumous defiance than genuine suffering, Grigory Smirnoff arrives to collect on a debt owed
Title: Beauty
in - Jane Martin: Collected plays - Vol. 2 / COL
Author: Martin, Jane

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2001

Description:

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

Model and her brainy best friend switch bodies when friend finds magic lamp on a beach.

Title: Beaver Effect, The

in - Hot Thespian Action! / CCO
Author: Stubbings, Mark

Publisher: AU Press 2008

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Two hapless 'Ed Wood' filmmakers try to get a obtain Canadian funding to produce their science
fiction film. The challenge: to convince Denise at the Canadian Film Society to fund the movie,
even though it does not fall under her Canadian content guidelines: "Prairie, Prairie, Prairie, or a
small fishing community of some kind"; "The more wheat farmers and girls in frilly dresses the
better."

Title: Because I Wanted to Say

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 22nd series / COL
Author: O'Donnell, Sean

Publisher: Samuel French 1996

Description:

roy
comedy - recollection, AIDS
two characters
one male; one female
one act

'Woman recalls happy and fond memories of her best friend who dies of AIDS.'
Title: Becoming America
in - Snapshot / COL
Author: Nottage, Lynn

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003

Description:

roy
monologue - men
all male cast; one character
one male
one scene

An instructor teaches emergency response operators to speak American.

Title: Bedfellows
in - Off-Off Broadway Plays - 36th Series / COL
Author: Peltzman, Adam

Publisher: Samuel French 2012

Description:

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

Bedfellows is a short comedy that peeks in on an awkward moment in U.S. history: a night in 1776
when John Adams and Benjamin Franklin were forced to share a bed in a crowded inn. Adams,
cranky and battling a cold, must contend with the free-spirited and ever-knowledgeable Franklin,
who can't seem to stop inventing things. From debating the cause of the common cold to
enforcing the rules of sharing a tiny bed, Adams tries to endure the challenges of snuggling up
with the world's most accomplished man.

Title: Bedtime
in - Plays for Actresses / COL
Author: Gallagher, Mary

Publisher: Vintage Books 1997

Description:

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

suitable for high school performances.

Bedtime tells the story of two young girls coming to terms with several universal issues. It deals
with religion, God, and what forever means.
Title: Before the Eclipse
in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko
Publisher: Green Integer 140 2005

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
two male or female
one act

The sun and the moon sit above the horizon, drinking beer, discussing an eclipse.

Title: Before You Go

in - Dramatics (November 2013) / PER
Author: Saleh, Erica

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2013

Description:

roy
comedy - coming of age
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Soon-to-be college freshman Lydia and soon-to-be high school senior Ben clash and bond in
this brand new play by Erica Saleh.

Title: Best Daddy, The

in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Presents a darkly comic encounter between a girl and her father, whose sense of humor borders
on the sadistic.
Title: Betrothal, A
in - Best Short Plays 1987 / COL
Author: Wilson, Lanford

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1986

Description:

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

'A romantic tale of two lonely and frustrated flower breeders, whose disappointment and
annoyance at having their creations rudely passed over at a flower show, is alleviated by the
momentous realization that the cross-breeding of their two would-be champions should produce
an unbeatable new strain which will surely rock the horticultural world!!'

Title: Bette and Me

in - Seven One-Act Plays (Wasserstein) / COL
Author: Wasserstein, Wendy

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000

Description:

roy
comedy
all female cast
two female
one act

"A musical fantasy in seven scenes. In BETTE AND ME, the author and the legendary Bette Midler
get their hair done, try on make-up, and row a boat on the Hudson River. They finally end up at
Radio City Music Hall, where Wendy rises from the orchestra pit on a half-shell with a blonde wig
and six-foot eyelashes."

Title: Bible
in - Something in the Basement and Other Plays / COL
Author: Nigro, Don

Publisher: Samuel French 1989

Description:

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

set: a park bench.

"In this Victorian children's primer gone berserk, Papa is a Christian censor, and Mama has taken
Annabel and Harry to the park to read them passages from the Bible, and although the steamy Old
Testament story of lust, incest and murder she stumbles upon is not exactly what Mama had in
mind, it gradually begins to hold them all spellbound. This play will infuriate people like Papa,
Title: Big Momma 'n 'Em
in - Black Comedy: 9 Plays / COL
Author: Stickney, Phyllis Yvonne

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997

Description:

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

'One actress portrays five different African American Women.'

Title: Black and Silver

in - The Two of Us / COL
Author: Frayn, Michael

Publisher: Samuel French 1970

Description:

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

interior set.

"A somewhat short but very affecting scene of a husband and wife awakened in the middle of the
night by the baby, and the stumbling efforts to pacify it. They are so out of it that once the
husband panics because he cannot hear the baby breathing in the cradle, which is only
reasonable because the wife has removed it to their double bed. Both likeable and laughable."

Title: Black Cloud Morning New York

in - Sally's Shorts / COL
Author: Nemeth, Sally

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995

Description:

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

The day from hell takes a turn for the better with the discovery of what a jeans pocket holds.
Title: Blueberry Hill Accord, The
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Watson, Daryl

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

The conclusion of a friendship by two teenaged girls takes on the dimensions of the Geneva
Convention.

Title: Bohemians
in - Fancy Footwork / COL
Author: Gallagher, Miriam

Publisher: Society of Irish Playwrights 1997

Description:

roy
comedy - music - Irish - historical
three characters; pianist
two male; one female
one act

no set.

"Theatrical/musical interlude celebrating Michael W. Balfe (1808-1870) and William V. Wallace

(1812-1865). Both composers are conjured up by "Zigeunerin", a hopeful soprano. Highly comic
and colourful joust."

Title: Bolero
in - Time Flies and Other Short Plays / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Grove Press 2001

Description:

roy
comedy - short play
two characters; voice
one male; one female
one act

A woman's world threatens to come apart in the middle of the night, when she and her husband
hear strange sounds and voices coming through their bedroom wall.
Title: Bolero
in - Outstanding Short Plays / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2012

Description:

roy
comedy - short play
two characters; voice
one male; one female
one act

A woman's world threatens to come apart in the middle of the night, when she and her husband
hear strange sounds and voices coming through their bedroom wall.

Title: Bomb Squad

in - Snapshot / COL
Author: Wright, Craig

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003

Description:

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

A man comes to diffuse the bomb that is Mt. Rushmore.

Title: Bookshop Skit

in - In Character / CCO
Author: Cleese, John Chapman, Graham
Publisher: Nelson Canada 1992

Description:

roy
comedy - Monty Python's Flying Circus
two characters
two male or female
skit

"An example of nonsense and exaggeration (two basic ingredients of comedy). It's about a
character every store clerk knows only too well - the unreasonable customer who is always right.
And a character every customer knows - the smug, know-it-all salesperson. John Cleese and
Graham Chapman wrote this now-classic skit in the late 1960s. They were members of the
legendary British comedy troupe, Monty Python's Flying Circus."
Title: Boor, The
in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by Hilmar Baukhage
Publisher: Random House 1943

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: Boor, The

in - Take Ten / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1981

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: Botticelli
in - Apple Pie / COL
Author: McNally, Terrence

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1968

Description:

roy
satire - Vietnam War
all male cast; two characters; one extra
two male
one act

1 simple set.

"Two American soldiers in the wilds of Vietman (or any battle area) are playing an intellectual
guessing game while waiting for a trapped enemy soldier to show himself. They smoke,
reminisce, play their game - and wait. When the enemy soldier appears they coolly shoot him
down and then go on reciting the great names of literature, philosophy and music; their total lack
Title: Botticelli
in - New Theatre for Now / COL
Author: McNally, Terrence

Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1971

Description:

roy
satire - Vietnam War
all male cast; two characters; one extra
two male
one act

1 simple set.

"Two American soldiers in the wilds of Vietman (or any battle area) are playing an intellectual
guessing game while waiting for a trapped enemy soldier to show himself. They smoke,
reminisce, play their game - and wait. When the enemy soldier appears they coolly shoot him
down and then go on reciting the great names of literature, philosophy and music; their total lack

Title: Brimful of Asha, A

in - Love, Loss, and Longing / CCO
Author: Jain, Asha Jain, Ravi
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015

Description:

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

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
his parents in tow, where they ambushed him with a series of prospective wives at every turn.
Conveyed through storytelling, "A Brimful of Asha" is a comedic and heartwarming tale of a family

Title: Brothers
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 22nd series / COL
Author: Gadea, William

Publisher: Samuel French 1996

Description:

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

'Comedy about man who meets woman through personals, but takes her home to date his
brother.'
Title: Brussels Sprouts
in - The Factory Lab Anthology / CCO
Author: Kardish, Larry

Publisher: Talonbooks 1974

Description:

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

An easy-to-take, naturalistic sex comedy about a charming menage-a-trois.

Title: Brute, The

in - The Brute and Other Farces / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Bentley, Eric
Publisher: Samuel French 1956

Description:

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

Same as 'The Boor' and 'The Bear'.

'Landowner tries to collect debt from neighbour in Czarist Russia, but collects young widow
instead.'

Title: Bug Swatter

in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL
Author: Selmeier, Joel

Publisher: Meriwether Publishing 1987

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

The couple are outside and are being annoyed and bitten by mosquitos. They then go on to
compete with each other on stupid little things. At various points they ignore each other as they
are each talking about themselves at the same time.
Title: By a Thread
in - Singular Voices / COL
Author: Flacks, Diane

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994

Description:

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

'Astro-projecting', bluesy grandmothers, irrational fears, and flying paint - welcome to Rose's way
out.

Title: Camberwell House

in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL
Author: Roper, Amelia

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015

Description:

roy
comedy - aging - seniors - solo performance
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

Elderly neighbors Annie and Olive have been friends since they were children. At twenty, they
agreed to "knock each other off" if they were still alive at seventy-five. Now they are seventy-five
and one of them has changed her mind. A tale of old age, murder, and ginger nut biscuits.

Title: Canadian Fact, The

in - Hot Thespian Action! / CCO
Author: Watson, Wilfred

Publisher: AU Press 2008

Description:

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

A Canadian playwright (who no longer writes plays) and a Canadian director (who has never
directed a Canadian play) conspire to produce a "Canadian" play about "the American
bombardment of a lunatic asylum in Hanoi [Vietnam] while Peter Brook was directing a Canadian
telephone directory there." The play deals with themes of nationalism and the theatre while
commenting humorously on playwrights who are too literary and directors who ignore the text.
Title: Cancun
in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO
Author: Kearney, Greg

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian⌦all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

The play concerns two irritable travel agents who try to kill and/or drive each other insane.

Title: Canker Sore and Other Distractions

in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

roy
comedy - marital relations
three characters
one male; two female
sketch

"A man and a woman, previously married, try to reconcile over dinner, but a canker sore and a
talkative waitress ruin everything."

Title: Canker Sore and Other Distractions

in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998

Description:

roy
comedy - marital relations
three characters
one male; two female
sketch

"A man and a woman, previously married, try to reconcile over dinner, but a canker sore and a
talkative waitress ruin everything."
Title: Caracal, The
in - A Touch of the Dutch / COL
Author: Herzberg, Judith translated by Rina Vergano
Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1997

Description:

roy
comedy
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

A comic one-woman play about a teacher whose complicated love life is revealed through a series
of fragmentary telephone conversations.

Title: Cardinal O'Connor

in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998

Description:

roy
monologue - comedy
all male cast; one character
one male
sketch

"Cardinal O'Connor comes to explain briefly why birth control is always, always, always wrong."

Title: Carolan's Cap

in - Fancy Footwork / COL
Author: Gallagher, Miriam

Publisher: Society of Irish Playwrights 1997

Description:

roy
music
all male cast; one character; musicians
one male
one act

no set.

"Interlude celebrating Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738), the great Irish Harper Composer. Carolan
entertains with wit, laughter and conviviality, through all of which flows the genius of his music."
Title: Carpetbagger's Children, The
in - The Carpetbagger's Children & The Actor / COL
Author: Foote, Horton

Publisher: Overlook Press 2003

Description:

roy
dramatic comedy - family relationships - women - monologues
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

In funny, moving, engaging monologues, three sisters spin the tale of their family and an era.
Their father, the eponymous carpetbagger, was a former Union soldier who used his post as
county treasurer and tax collector to amass a Texas plantation of twenty thousand acres.
Preserving that plantation through the vicissitudes of their lives becomes a central issue for his
daughters, Cornelia, Grace Anne and Sissie. With echoes of The Three Sisters and King Lear, THE
CARPETBAGGER'S CHILDREN explores the bonds of a family to the land that has shaped their

Title: Cat-Lady
in - Israel Horovitz's New Shorts / COL
Author: Horovitz, Israel

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

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

A woman describes her human relationships while looking for an injured cat.

Title: Cha-Cha-Cha
in - Dating Games / COL
Author: Wingfield, Garth

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2006

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

A man and woman meet up at a high school reunion... and connect for the first time after twenty
years apart.
Title: Chance Meeting, A
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 15th / COL
Author: Stroppel, Frederick

Publisher: Samuel French 1991

Description:

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

Woman and man liven up their marriage by acting out their fantasies.

Title: Changing Bodies

in - Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp and Other Plays / CCO
Author: Brooker, Blake

Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1993

Description:

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

A surreal and humorous performance that examines personal change.

Title: Charlie Blake's Boat

in - The Best of American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL
Author: Gillis, Graeme

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Man's ex-girlfriend tries to keep him from sailing to Scotland in a boat he built himself.
Title: Charlie the Chicken
in - The Best Short Plays 1983 / COL
Author: Levy, Jonathan

Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1975

Description:

roy
tragicomedy - vaudeville
three characters
two male; one female
one act

one set.

"Vaudeville act featuring woebegone vaudevillian and trained chicken vehicle for comment on
nature of master-slave relationship".

Title: Charming and Rose: True Love

in - Prerogatives / CCO
Author: Burke, Kelley-Jo

Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

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

'Rose, a princess raised by wolves, discusses how she came to murder Prince Charming with her
fairy godmother. The marriage is re-examined through magic, and the willing cooperation of the
defunct prince.'

Title: Charming and Rose: True Love

in - Amazing Plays / CCO
Author: Burke, Kelley-Jo

Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1992

Description:

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

'Rose, a princess raised by wolves, discusses how she came to murder Prince Charming with her
fairy godmother. The marriage is re-examined through magic, and the willing cooperation of the
defunct prince.'
Title: Checkers
in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL
Author: Doerman, Dale

Publisher: Meriwether Publishing 1987

Description:

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

An elderly couple are playing checkers in a park and are talking about the past. Both are forgetful
but not senile. Humorous conversation.

Title: Chee-Chee
in - Pirandello's One-Act Plays / COL
Author: Pirandello, Luigi translated by William Murray
Publisher: Samuel French 1970

Description:

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

1 interior.

Philanderer elaborately tricks prostitute to avoid paying her.

Title: Cherry Blend with Vanilla

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Nineteenth Series / COL
Author: Wilhelm, Le

Publisher: Samuel French 1995

Description:

roy
comedy - domestic relatons
three characters
one male; two female
one act

'Confession from husband's ghost helps widow over prolonged bereavement.'

Title: Chinamen
in - The Two of Us / COL
Author: Frayn, Michael

Publisher: Samuel French 1970

Description:

roy
farce
five characters
one male; one female (doubling)
one act

interior set.

"She has invited a woman and her new hippy boyfriend for dinner with some other guests on the
very night he has invited the woman's deserted husband for dinner. The object is not to let the
estranged husband and wife meet; how to dine in two different rooms alternately in such a way the
either husband or wife is in one or the other room at all times."

Title: Chocolate
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Stroppel, Frederick

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

Presents encounters with a policeman investigating a murder and a suspect who has some very
creative explanations for what seem to be obvious clues.

Title: Chocolate Cake

in - Win/Lose/Draw / COL
Author: Gallagher, Mary

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1981

Description:

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

unit set; suggested for high school

"The play is about two secret gorgers who meet in a hotel room while attending a women's
conference. One is a simple, country mouse, married to a mechanic; the other a brassy city
dweller whose husband is a wealthy businessman. Inevitably their conversation gets around the
their favorite topic - food - but the funnier their exchanges become the more we are made
Title: Chug
in - The Best Short Plays 1984 / COL
Author: Jenkins, Ken

Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1981

Description:

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

"Humorous monologue about will to perserve by man in business of raising frogs".

Title: Citizen Pochsy: Head Movements of a Long-haired Girl

in - The Pochsy Plays / CCO
Author: Hines, Karen

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004

Description:

roy
satire, monologues - women
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

'In (this play), our little muse is in the waiting room at an audit from hell.'

Title: Civilization and its Malcontents

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 14th series / COL
Author: Taikeff, Stanley

Publisher: Samuel French 1989

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

A woman studying nutrition desperately needs help in a music course she is also taking. She
visits the class whiz guy, arms laden with books, hoping to cram with him. She finds that she
knows too little; she can remember Mozart's dates of birth and death, but is totally dumb about
his feelings toward the oboe and clarinet. He, on the other hand, has prepared a small supper for
them and gotten it all wrong, knowing nothing about nutrition. Their confrontations are
dramatically spell binding and cannily illuminating about art and comestibles.
Title: Clair De Lune
in - Pops / COL
Author: Linney, Romulus

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1987

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

"Clair de Lune finds an older, retired couple basking in the solitude of Florida, while reminiscing,
with some regret, about their chronically hell-raising children."

Title: Class Conflict

in - Life is Short / COL
Author: Pospisil, Craig

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005

Description:

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

suggested for high school.

Billy is a shy, sweet six-year old, nervous about his first day of school. His new classmate Megan
Devenaux is a pint-sized lawyer, who considers herself an adult already, and is ready to take her
case to the Supreme Court and then cash in.

Title: Classyass
in - Humana Festival 2002 / COL
Author: Jennings, Caleen Sinnette

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2002

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"A naive college DJ gets more than he bargains for when Big B arrives from the downtown women's
shelter to discuss the complexities of classical music and social responsibility."

Co-winner of the 2002 Heideman Award.

Title: Click
in - Shel's Shorts / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

'Valerie is trying to relax by reading a magazine in the bathtub as Leonard irritatingly sits on the
toilet seat playing Russian roulette. He tells her the bullet he put in might be a blank. She tells him
she switched his bullet with another that may be real. She insists that he finish his game.'

Title: Closet Madness

in - The Best Short Plays 1985 / COL
Author: Schisgal, Murray

Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1984

Description:

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

'Unsuccessful playwright decides pretending to be gay is key to success.'

Title: Closet, The

in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL
Author: Stratford, Aoise

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female (flexible casting)
one act

Kevin's dad has thrown his favorite toy, Bart Sponge, into the back of a closet. There, Bart meets a
toy dinosaur and another toy he can't even begin to identify. Does a supposedly gay toy have a
chance of making it out of the closet?
Title: Closing Costs
in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL
Author: Hutton, Arlene

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

After viewing four hundred apartments, has Harris finally found the right co-op, or simply the
right real estate agent—Alice? Harris must decide if it's time to trade in his artificial fish—and
finally grow up.

Title: Coach Kingston Tells It Like It Is

in - High Sticking / CCO
Author: Brownell, Mark

Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006

Description:

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

running time: 15 mins.

A crazed coach of a peewee hockey team delivers a pep talk to the mild-mannered father of one of
his players.

Title: Come Again, Another Day

in - The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012 / COL
Author: Pepper, Cary

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2013

Description:

roy
dark comedy - American - short play
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

"Come Again, Another Day" has an eerie Pinteresque quality about it, refusing to move very far
from between the walls of the room on the stage. A very unusual encounter in that room leads to
personal assessments of two lives, which Pepper announces, "became a meditation on life, death,
and dying, and how often our lives (and well-being) hang by that precarious, mercurial thread
that can be snapped, cut, or unraveled - or not - at any moment, in so many different ways".
Security, stability, and personal control are perhaps the greatest of our personal delusions,
Title: Comedy of Errs
in - Dramatics v. 81, no. 1 / PER
Author: Leonard, Jim

Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

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

No description available.

Title: Comings and Goings

in - Viet Rock and Other Plays / COL
Author: Terry, Megan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1967

Description:

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

"Comedy. A theatre game, set in cafe wherein actors involve the audience. The theme is
male-female love relationships. Singing."

Title: Common Cause

in - Funny Girls Coping with Boys / COL
Author: Evans, Annie

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006

Description:

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

Owen and Sandy banter and battle over whether or not they're meant for each other.
Title: Conquest of Everest, The
in - The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays / COL
Author: Kopit, Arthur

Publisher: Hill and Wang 1965

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 exterior set.

"Couple blithefully scale Mount Everest with neither the proper equipment nor the technical skills".

Title: Constantinople Smith

in - New American Plays Volume One / COL
Author: Mee, Charles L.

Publisher: Hill and Wang 1962

Description:

roy
farce
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 exterior set.

"Short plotless farce about roles, symbolism, censorship, reality versus illusion, and the antihero
play in today's theatre".

Title: Constituent, The

in - Answers / COL
Author: Thompson, Ernest

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980

Description:

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

1 simple interior set.

"A tough-minded, foul-mouthed old Marine curmudgeon, who is given to writing abusive letters
to his Senator, suddenly finds himself face-to-face with his nemesis. The two men, oddly enough,
find much in common - but then the fur begins to fly again, with hilarious results".
Title: Contract With Jackie
in - Humana Festival '96 / COL
Author: Breslin, Jimmy

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996

Description:

roy
satire - political
two characters
one male; one female
one act

"Short satirical piece on politics and politicians. Congressman visits wife in Atlanta hospital,
1980."

Title: Contract, The

in - Theresa Rebeck: Collected Plays v. 1, 1989 - 1998 / COL
Author: Rebeck, Theresa

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1999

Description:

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

"An actor wins over an agent only when he convinces him that he doesn't care about a contract."

Title: Contractions
in - Plays: 1 / COL
Author: Bartlett, Mike

Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2011

Description:

roy
comedy - British
two characters
one male; one female
one act (fourteen scenes)
" 'Contractions' is an ink-black comedy about work and play: Emma's been seeing Darren. She
thinks she's in love. Her boss thinks she's in breach of contract. The situation needs to be
resolved." - Publisher
Title: Contribution
in - Contributions / COL
Author: Shine, Ted

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970

Description:

roy
family relations - racism - discrimination
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior.

A black grandmother sends her nervous grandson off to join a sit-in. At first it appears that she
is a quiet and aloof black woman who does not meddle with rebellious activities and
demonstrations - but the hilarious, and arresting climax of the play reveals that she has her own
method of helping in the struggle for her people's rights.

Title: Contribution
in - Black Drama: An Anthology / COL
Author: Shine, Ted

Publisher: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company 1970

Description:

roy
black play
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior set.

"Black grandmother in Southern town helps grandson integrate drug stores, in most unorthodox,
indirect way".

Title: Contribution
in - Black Comedy: 9 Plays / COL
Author: Shine, Ted

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997

Description:

roy
family relations - racism - discrimination
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior.

A black grandmother sends her nervous grandson off to join a sit-in. At first it appears that she
is a quiet and aloof black woman who does not meddle with rebellious activities and
demonstrations - but the hilarious, and arresting climax of the play reveals that she has her own
method of helping in the struggle for her people's rights.
Title: Cop-Out
in - Cop-Out and Home Fires / COL
Author: Guare, John

Publisher: Samuel French 1968

Description:

roy
satire - power - American - Avant Garde
large cast
one male; one female (doubling)
one act

'Satire on police power and the way it works.'

Title: Cop-Out
in - The War Against the Kitchen Sink / COL
Author: Guare, John

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996

Description:

roy
satire - power - American - Avant Garde
large cast
one male; one female (doubling)
one act

'Satire on police power and the way it works.'

Title: Cop-Out
in - The Great American Life Show / COL
Author: Guare, John

Publisher: Bantam Books 1974

Description:

roy
satire - power - American - Avant Garde
large cast
one male; one female (doubling)
one act

"Satire on police power and the way it works."

Title: Cornered
in - Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks / COL
Author: Patrick, Robert

Publisher: Winter House 1972

Description:

roy
sketches - skits - comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

1 interior.

"Domestic comedy. Banter between husband and wife leads up to announcing her pregnancy."

Title: Cosmetic Perjury

in - The Messy Adventures of Dick Piston, Hotel Detective / COL
Author: Goode, Jeff

Publisher: Baker's Plays 2002

Description:

roy
American - comedy - murder - mystery
three characters
one male; two female
seven episodes

running time: 70 minutes.

The 'Dick Piston' plays are short comic murder-mysteries suitable for late-night theatre. Each play
is written in 10-minute 'episodes', and each episode has a cliff-hanger ending.

"It's convention season at the Lakeview Hotel and Dick Piston goes after killer clones and topless

Title: Counting the Ways

in - Counting the Ways and Listening / COL
Author: Albee, Edward

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1976

Description:

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

"In a series of blackout sketches, 'HE' and 'SHE' probe into the nature of their love for one another.
Long married, but aware that time has wroght changes in their relationship, the two spar and
thrust at each other in exchanges and reminiscences which are sometimes lighthearted,
sometimes poignant, sometimes almost brutal. In the end a mosaic of experience is constructed,
illuminating the nature of human love and pointing up the gathering indifference which can beset
those who have been perhaps too long and too closely aligned in the sharing of years".
Title: Cowboy Mouth
in - Fool for Love and Other Plays / COL
Author: Shepard, Sam

Publisher: Bantam Books 1984

Description:

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

"Satirical comedy. Cayale kidnaps Slim with the hope of making him a great rock and roll star who
will meet a tragic end. Ironically the speechless Lobster Man fulfills her dream. Music, singing,
dancing."

Title: Cowboy Mouth

in - Fool for Love and Other Plays / COL
Author: Shepard, Sam

Publisher: Dial Press 2006

Description:

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

music, singing, dancing.

"Satirical comedy. Cayale kidnaps Slim with the hope of making him a great rock and roll star who
will meet a tragic end. Ironically the speechless Lobster Man fulfills her dream."

Title: Cowboys, Indians and Waitresses

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 17th series / COL
Author: Shurtz, Raymond King

Publisher: Samuel French 1993

Description:

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

'Comic-drama about nature of war. Vietnam vet challanges Navajo Indian to drunken slug-fest.'
Title: Coyote Strategem, The
in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL
Author: Flores, G.

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

The title refers to the tactics of Wile E. Coyote in the Earner Bros. Roadrunner cartoons. The play
warmly documents a specific instance of immature behavior that - if we really think about it - is
manifest in many of even the most healthy relationships. A critique of our childlike reaction to
adult problems.

Title: Crab Cakes

in - The Best American Short Plays 2005-2006 / COL
Author: Lipkin, Joan

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008

Description:

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

Franklin feels so bad about his role in firing people that he wants to be punished. His choice of
punishment? A little bondage, with his wife using her shoe, as long as she doesn't break the skin
(or her heel). As with all things relational, Franklin's work circumstances affect his wife. This
deceptively light comedy asks what happens when the needs of one half of a long-term
partnership shift? Can the other understand? Can they adapt? and are there any mutual advantages
to these adaptation and change? The play is simultaneously about the challenges of the economy,

Title: Crazy Eights

in - Three One Acts / COL
Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2006

Description:

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

When Connie comes home late one night, she finds her parole officer waiting in her apartment
with a torte and a long list of questions. The interrogation/courting dance that follows is
complicated by the after-hours arrival of Connie’s charming card-playing buddy.
Title: Crazy Eights
in - The Best American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL
Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008

Description:

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

When Connie comes home late one night, she finds her parole officer waiting in her apartment
with a torte and a long list of questions. The interrogation/courting dance that follows is
complicated by the after-hours arrival of Connie’s charming card-playing buddy.

Title: Crazy Love

in - Out on a Limb / CCO
Author: Sklar, David

Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

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

Leo has just been freed from a rocky relationship and is set to restart his life with his new love.
That is until his ex, Rebecca, shows up unannounced to reveal that she is pregnant with their
“love” child. Tension ensues, past grudges are rehashed and both parties stop at nothing to win
back their life, even at the expense of their furniture. Both are forced to take a deep and honest
look into each other’s hearts. Dead baby jokes included!

Title: Creative Developement

in - The Best American Short Plays 1997-1998 / COL
Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000

Description:

roy
satire
two characters; extras
one male; one female
one act

1 interior.

Goddess poses as playwright and confronts creative director of film company.

Title: Creative Developement
in - Things Between Us / COL
Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005

Description:

roy
satire
two characters; extras
one male; one female
one act

1 interior.

Goddess poses as playwright and confronts creative director of film company.

Title: Creatures
in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL
Author: Allard, Janet

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

A secret has just been revealed - what happens next? The comic incongruities that result - a
werewolf is a central character - remind us of the compelling and essential nature of secrets even
among those we love.

Title: Creditors
in - Strindberg's One Act Plays / COL
Author: Strindberg, August translated by Arvid Paulson
Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969

Description:

roy
tragicomedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

'Psychological analysis of feminine parasitism, and of a first husband's revenge, who by

implications influences the second husbands attitude towards the wife.'
Title: Creditors
in - The Plays of Strindberg Vol. 1 / COL
Author: Strindberg, August translated by Michael Meyer
Publisher: Vintage Books 1964

Description:

roy
tragicomedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

'Psychological analysis of feminine parasitism, and of a first husband's revenge, who by

implications influences the second husbands attitude towards the wife.'

Title: Crisscross
in - Picture Animal Crisscross / COL
Author: Hailey, Oliver

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970

Description:

roy
comedy - Passion Play
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

"Described by the author as 'a passion play in 5 minutes', this brilliant short play depicts the
confrontation between a 'Carpenter' and his hippie-like son 'Santa' whose 'thing' is to carry an
empty sack on his back, hoping to fill it and then give everything away. The father tries to
understand his son but he cannot; and the son, in turn, is unable to condone his father's work of
building crucifixes-on one of which he must then impale his own son. If only, he muses, the boy
could have been a carpenter, like his father. It would have been so much simpler for everyone!"

Title: Crossing the Bar

in - God's Spies and Crossing the Bar / COL
Author: Nigro, Don

Publisher: Samuel French 1985

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

'Two old ladies in funeral home react unexpectedly when corpse of male friend comes to life.'
Title: Dalmatian
in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL
Author: Bishop, Conrad

Publisher: Meriwether Publishing 1987

Description:

roy
comedy - farce, high school
all female cast; two characters
one female; one girl
one act

There is a conversation between an assistant principal and a high school student. It is a very
funny farce on the way in which a principal conducts his or her self.

Title: Dance Lessons

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 35th series / COL
Author: Koenigsberg, Josh

Publisher: Samuel French 2011

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

In Dance Lessons, diner employees Sue and Norm get ready for another dreary day of dreary work
in a dreary world — until Norm reveals that he’s secretly been taking dance lessons.

Title: Dance With Me

in - Women Playwrights the Best Plays of 1995 / COL
Author: Reynolds, Jean

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

Comedy about adultery and love triangles.

Title: Daniel on a Thursday
in - Dating Games / COL
Author: Wingfield, Garth

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2006

Description:

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

A guy approaches Daniel in a bar and the games begin... whether Daniel is ready or not.

Title: Darling Family, The

in - 7 Canons / CCO
Author: Griffiths, Linda

Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

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

"As they face the dilemma of a unplanned pregnancy, this one couple's decision to search beyond
their trivial self-definitions, to face every thought, every option, becomes a path to healing,
courage and growth."

Title: Date, The

in - The Best American Short Plays 2009-2010 / COL
Author: Lipkin, Joan

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010

Description:

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

Two gay men, Pun and Zac, at the end of their first date.
Title: David and Nancy
in - Bedrooms: Five Comedies / COL
Author: Taylor, Renee Bologna, Joseph
Publisher: Samuel French 1986

Description:

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

David wakes up with a panic attack. He rushes to his daughter's bedroom and tells her there is an
intruder in the house. She looks and assures him there is not. David then goes through all the
reasons she should not get married to Martin in the morning.

Title: Dawsey Nadgett

in - Dramatics (May 2013) / PER
Author: GeBauer, Judy

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2013

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Charles Dickens and his wife entertain Hans Christian Andersen as a house guest.

Title: Day for Surprises, A

in - Kissing Sweet and A Day for Surprises / COL
Author: Guare, John

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1971

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

"Zany and absurdist in style, this hilarious short play deals with the surprising day on which one
of the stone lions in front of New York's Public Library left its perch long enough to devour one of
the lady librarians. The victim was also the fiancee of a fellow worker-whose grief leads to an
enormously funny recounting of their brief liaison. But, as the satiated lion resumes his
customary perch, consolation is at hand in the form of another lady librarian, and we are aware
that still more surprises are likely to come as life goes on its upredictable way".
Title: Dead Dad Dog
in - Scot-Free / COL
Author: McKay, John

Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1990

Description:

roy
comedy - Scottish - supernatural
all male cast; two characters
two male
sixteen scenes

'A short, witty, comic nightmare in which an unemployed, trendy young Scottish man is dogged
by his deceased father, who was a Hoover salesman in his prime. An offbeat comedy with a
political edge.'

Title: Dead Right

in - Humana Festival 2008 / COL
Author: Jarvik, Elaine

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009

Description:

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

Concerns a minor crisis in a well-worn relationship when one of the wife's acquaintances not only
dies, but is also given a terrible obituary - a slight that launches a spousal argument about
morality, memory and proper proofreading.

Title: Dear Kenneth Blake

in - Things Between Us / COL
Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

A Cambodian woman writes to a homeless man who has been sent to a farm in rural New York,
where he plants tomatoes, breathes "fresh organic air" and gives vent to his hostilities. "Maybe
someday we can meet," the woman says, reading her words out loud. Suddenly, she appears at the
man's barbed-wire fence, having walked 10 miles to the bus stop, bearing offerings of comfort --
shoes, food for him and the rabbit he sleeps with -- and proposing marriage.
Title: Death
in - Four Plays By Larry Fineberg / CCO
Author: Fineberg, Larry

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

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

Max, dying, determines to make his daughter confront reality. The 16 year old boy taking care of
him watches and evaluates ways to live.

Title: Death Amid the Rich and Famous

in - Three Dark Comedies / COL
Author: Beim, Norman

Publisher: Newconcept Press 2007

Description:

roy
dark comedy - suicide
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act

Part of "It Tolls for Thee", a one act trilogy.

A journalist must face up to the suicide of her daughter.

Title: Death of a Mouth

in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO
Author: Wynne-Jones, Tim

Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

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

A janitor and a teacher discuss memory and imagination.

Title: Decadence
in - Steven Berkoff: Volume 2: The Collected Plays / COL
Author: Berkoff, Steven

Publisher: Faber and Faber 1989

Description:

roy
satire
four characters
one male; one female (doubling)
fourteen scenes

Satirical portrayal of decadent life-styles of the British upper classes.

Title: Defacing Patriotic Property

in - Snapshot / COL
Author: Barfield, Tanya

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003

Description:

roy
monologues - male
all male cast; one character
one male
one scene

A man considers plastic surgery to look like one of the presidents on Mount Rushmore.

Title: Delivery
in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO
Author: Shore, Talia

Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

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

The birth of a couple's first child does not go as perfectly as planned.

Title: Devil and Billy Markham, The
in - The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1991

Description:

roy
comedy in verse - monologues - men
all male cast; one character
one male
one scene

'Tall tale of a man who loses bet with Devil but who ultimately outsmarts Satan himself.'

Title: Devil and Billy Markham, The

in - Oh, Hell! / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Samuel French 1991

Description:

roy
comedy in verse - monologues - male
all male cast; one character
one male
one scene

'Tall tale of a man who loses bet with Devil but who ultimately outsmarts Satan himself.'

Title: Devil is in the Details; The

in - The Best of American Short Plays 2004-2005 / COL
Author: Hughes, Jill Elaine

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

The play opens with the gang assassin and his sculptor girlfriend guarding a body in an
abandoned warehouse used by L.A. gangs to dump dead bodies after gang killings. As the play
progresses, though, it becomes clear that the warehouse isn't really a warehouse anymore, and
the dead body the two lead characters dragged in isn't really dead either.
Title: Devil, The
in - Something in the Basement and Other Plays / COL
Author: Nigro, Don

Publisher: Samuel French 1989

Description:

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

interior.

"An old woman is hired to sit with a peasant's dying mother, agreeing to take a lump sum and
stay as long as the mother lives. But the mother perversely refuses to die, until the old woman,
losing money by the minute, is forced to employ a strategy to help her along to heaven.
Suggested by Guy de Maupasant's dark and immensely funny story, this earthy little parable about

Title: Devil's Parole, The

in - Off-off Broadway Festival Plays - 27th Series / COL
Author: Giancoli, Eric

Publisher: Samuel French 2003

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
two male or female
one scene

Simple set or bare stage.

Once every millennium the Devil has a parole hearing with God to see if he will be released from
imprisonment in Hell. This time around the Devil believes he's found a loophole.

Title: Devotees in the Garden of Love

in - The American Play and Other Works / COL
Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1991

Description:

roy
American - drama - satire
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

'Satiric look at courtship, love and marriage.'

Title: Devotees in the Garden of Love
in - 20/20 ... / COL
Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

roy
American - drama - satire
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

'Satiric look at courtship, love and marriage.'

Title: Dewey Decimal System, The

in - Dramatics (Oct 2002) / PER
Author: Bowden, Sarah

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002

Description:

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

'Relationships are discussed and discovered in a college library.'

Title: Dicks, The

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Ninth Series / COL
Author: Feiler, Jules

Publisher: Samuel French 1984

Description:

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

"Two-time Obie Award-winner Kevin O'Connor starred in New York in this hilarious comedy about
two "house dicks" - slang for hotel detectives. Ed, the older one, is exasperated with his new
rookie partner. The kid has no interest in doing what Ed feels is the correct job - peeping through
keyholes, creeping out on the fire escape to take polaroids of the guests (unbeknownst to them of
course) and generally talking the correct lingo (women are "dames" - unless they are "dolls"). Will
Ed succeed in straightening out this mixed up kid?"
Title: Dimwit, or the Retired Captain, The
in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko
Publisher: Green Integer 140 2005

Description:

roy
vaudeville - sketch
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

A scenelet from a non-existent vaudeville sketch. The two discuss what the Captain wants in a
wife.

Title: Dinner Party, The

in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO
Author: Cullis, Rose

Publisher: Signature Editions 2006

Description:

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

The dinner party is a comedy abut the tragic necessity of loss when we make choices in our lives.
Two women in a common-law relationship grapple with lost opportunitys and have an identity
crisis, while waiting for their guests to arrive for a dinner party. Can love matter enough in the
shadow of regret?

Title: Ditch
in - Staging the North / CCO
Author: Kavanagh, Geoff

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

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

"Deals with the Franklin expedition of 1845 from the perspective of two sailors left in a ditch to
make their peace with their culture, their sexuality and each other. The result is a work of
tremendous contemporary resonance, emotional power, and humour."
Title: Divine Fallacy, The
in - Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lillies / COL
Author: Howe, Tina

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

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

"A sister of a model comes to have her picture taken for her new book cover. She has stigmata,
which implies she is Jesus Christ."

Title: DMV Tyrant

in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
sketch

"A man goes to a woman clerk at the Division of Motor Vehicles and tries to get his license
renewed with infuriating results."

Title: DMV Tyrant

in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
sketch

"A man goes to a woman clerk at the Division of Motor Vehicles and tries to get his license
renewed with infuriating results."
Title: Do Not Feed the Animal
in - Shel's Shorts / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

'Ann sits next to Vern on a park bench and notices his tiny box with a sign that reads "Do not feed
the animal". She suddenly becomes irate while wondering what is so special about this mystery
animal to deny her permission to feed it. As she stuffs a croissant in the box, she painfully finds
out.'

Title: Do Over
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 14th series / COL
Author: Stroppel, Frederick

Publisher: Samuel French 1989

Description:

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

A young lady is preparing for a date. A young man awakens on her living room floor-- and
frightens her half to death. It is her date, but he's twenty minutes early, and how did he get in,
anyway? To tell the truth he's not really there; he's miles and years away. He has appeared from
the future to ask her not to keep their date. He knows that their love affair will not work out and
wants to stop it before it begins. The woman disbelieves him but he tells her things that would
otherwise be impossible for him to know. This is a contemporary love story with a marvelous

Title: Does This Woman Have A Name?

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 15th / COL
Author: Rebeck, Theresa

Publisher: Samuel French 1991

Description:

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

"Mel writes the dialogue for Sarah's sex chat-line. Mel hopes one day to become a published
writer and her scripts become more literary but this is not what Sarah's customers want to hear."
Title: Does This Woman Have A Name?
in - Theresa Rebeck: Collected Plays v. 1, 1989 - 1998 / COL
Author: Rebeck, Theresa

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1999

Description:

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

"Mel writes the dialogue for Sarah's sex chat-line. Mel hopes one day to become a published
writer and her scripts become more literary but this is not what Sarah's customers want to hear."

Title: Domestic Violence

in - Single and Proud and Other Plays / COL
Author: Stroppel, Frederick

Publisher: Samuel French 1993

Description:

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

'Perfect wife drives husband away.'

Title: Don't Encourage Him

in - Best Student One Acts Volume 5 / COL
Author: Taylor, Jason

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000

Description:

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

'A hilarious autobiographical one-man show that tells the tale of growing up on a farm in Iowa
with brotherly rivalry to spare.'
Title: Door must be kept Open or Shut, A
in - Alfred de Musset / COL
Author: de Musset, Alfred translated by Peter Meyer
Publisher: Hill and Wang 1962

Description:

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

1 interior; setting - Paris, 1845.

"Nobleman who comes to pay lady a social call ends by proposing marriage to her."

Title: Dora Goes to a Funeral

in - Three Dark Comedies / COL
Author: Beim, Norman

Publisher: Newconcept Press 2007

Description:

roy
dark comedy - death
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act

Part of "It Tolls for Thee" - a one act trilogy.

A woman visits a funeral home on the pretense of visiting the deceased.

Title: Dottie and Richie

in - Things Between Us / COL
Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

At Henny Youngman's funeral, Richie claims he's fallen for Dottie, but Dottie claims she killed
Henny Youngman.
Title: Double Murder
in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL
Author: Klavan, Scott

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

A couple is trying to poison each other but the fundamental parts of their characters get in the
way. The man's diffidence, the woman's assertiveness stops them just at the point of fatal success.
The reason their marriage doesn't work is the reason they can't end it. At sea, in need, they shift
roles and personality traits. The confident woman gets support, the inept man gains confidence.
The result is a congenial atmosphere, a brief emergence of affection. But in celebrating, drinking
their health, they kill themselves.

Title: Dough: The Politics of Martha Stewart

in - Dough: The Politics of Martha Stewart & The Vajayjay Monologues / CCO
Author: Burns, Lindsay

Publisher: B house 2008

Description:

roy
comedy - monologues - women - Canadian
all female cast; nine characters
one female (doubling)
one act

DOUGH: THE POLITICS OF MARTHA STEWART exposes the lives of nine different female characters
as they serve up their recipe for modern “living.”

Title: Dr. Fritz

in - Mere Mortals / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998

Description:

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

Vaudeville reigns as an American tourist in pain seeks medical help from a wacky souvenir seller
named Maria who channels an even wackier German surgeon named Dr. Fritz. The comedy steps
up when the doctor recommends an operation.
Title: Dr. Fritz, or: The Forces of Light
in - Time Flies and other short plays / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Grove Press 2001

Description:

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

Vaudeville reigns as an American tourist in pain seeks medical help from a wacky souvenir seller
named Maria who channels an even wackier German surgeon named Dr. Fritz. The comedy steps
up when the doctor recommends an operation.

Title: Dreamers
in - Shel's Shorts / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

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

'Nick and Ritchie are plumbers trying to unclog a drain, but Ritchie's worried about a dream he
had where he slept with another man. Nick tries to calm his fears. "It's symbolic," he tells Ritchie,
just like the dreams Nick had of sleeping with his wife and daughter.'

Title: Dreamkeeper
in - Fancy Footwork / COL
Author: Gallagher, Miriam

Publisher: Society of Irish Playwrights 1997

Description:

roy
fantasy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

no set.

"A girl's world is changed by a hermit who carries the dreams of the world in a sack. Dreamkeeper
is a surrealist two hander, offering the actors a huge challenge. The play operates on two levels at
the same time: the interior world of the human psyche with its expectations of an ideal world and
the physical level where uninvited intrusions can shatter dreams."
Title: Dreams of a Drunken Quaker
in - Dreams of a Drunken Quaker / CCO
Author: Green, Michael

Publisher: AB collector publishing 1992

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian
all male cast; two characters
two male
three parts

Absurdist comedy with surrealist version of apocalypse and debauchery.

Title: Drop
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 34th series / COL
Author: DeAngelis, J. Michael Barry, Pete
Publisher: Samuel French 2010

Description:

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

Trapped at the top of a roller coaster, two old friends ponder their existence while they await
their fate.

Title: Drowning Girls, The

in - The Drowning Girls / Comrades / CCO
Author: Graham, Beth Vlaskalic, Daniela
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright
all female cast; many characters
three female (doubling)
one act

Bessie, Alice, and Margaret have two things in common: they are married to George Joseph Smith,
and they are dead. Surfacing from the bathtubs they were drowned in, the three breathless brides
gather evidence against their womanizing, murderous husband by reliving the shocking events
leading up to their deaths. Reflecting on the misconceptions of love, married life, and the
not-so-happily ever after, The Drowning Girls is both a breathtaking fantasia and a social
critique, full of rich images, a myriad of characters, and lyrical language.
Title: Duck
in - Shel's Shorts / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one scene

'Burt warns Morgan before entering a low doorway to 'duck' - as the sign says. Little does Morgan
know that there are actual ducks waiting to bite him on the other side.'

Title: Duck Variations, The

in - Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations / COL
Author: Mamet, David

Publisher: Samuel French 1977

Description:

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

"This play dramatizes the old adage that people who talk the most with authority about something
are the ones most likely to know the least about it. Two old men discuss the ways of ducks and
life, making observations that are profoundly hilarious. "

Title: Dumb Wife, The

in - Farces, Italian Style / COL
Author: Dezeuze, Francois

Publisher: Persona Products 1978

Description:

non-roy for educational and social service organizations

roy for other
farce - Italian play
three characters
two male; one female
one act

No abstract available.
Title: Dumpster Dan
in - Dramatics Vol. 76, No. 3 / PER
Author: Wall, Christopher

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004

Description:

roy
comedy - family relations - life change - men - mourning
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

"Sometimes you reach a point when you got to make a change. For Dan's father, it means getting
rid of his possessions and living off the land. Too bad he lives in a city... What's Dan going to
do? Mom's gone. He's got no friends. So he holds his nose and dives in. It's family life. In an
alley."
Winner of SlamBoston! 10-Minute Play Competition, 2004.

Title: Dying Breed, The

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 33rd series / COL
Author: Higgins, Thomas

Publisher: Samuel French 2008

Description:

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

Mark and Paula have had a rather morbid history with pets—the pedigree is long and there are no
survivors—but when it’s revealed exactly why they’ve been so intent on owning an animal and
what happened to their most recent one, they learn something about their own breed that may be
too painful to bear.

Title: Early Worm Club, The

in - Voices of the Land / CCO
Author: Koller, Katherine

Publisher: AU Press 2012

Description:

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

The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In "The Early
Worm Club" Millie realizes a deep sense of belonging to the Alberta parkland and its birds while
searching for her mate.
Title: Eat
in - A Touch of the Dutch / COL
Author: Van Veldhuizen, Matin translated by Rina Vergano
Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1997

Description:

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

"A darkly humorous foray into food, sex and families seen through the eyes of three sisters who
come together to celebrate the anniversary of their mother's death."

Title: Eat Cake

in - Seven Short and Very Short Plays / COL
Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1973

Description:

roy
satire
two characters
one male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

"A biting satire in which an unkempt housewife, absorbed in her TV, is visited by an eccentric
rapist - whose demands are somewhat different from what might be anticipated".

Title: El Clavadista
in - Triple Play / CCO
Author: Curran, Colleen

Publisher: NuAge Editions 1990

Description:

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

'Two school teachers on vacation in Mexico await the latest tourist attraction - el clavadista (the
cliff diver) - and discuss Elvis and life. A Fringe favourite.'
Title: Eleanor
in - High Sticking / CCO
Author: Brownell, Mark

Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian - sports
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

running time: 15 mins.

A teenage field hockey player confesses her sins while waiting out a series penalties on the
sidelines.

Title: Eleanor's Passing

in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL
Author: Bray, John Patrick

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012

Description:

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

A subtle look at three friends who decide to stick together until the end, whenever that may be. It
is a reflection upon life and living made by a new-made widower and his aging friends.

Title: Election Year

in - Election Year and So When You Get Married... / COL
Author: Byron, Ellen

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1989

Description:

roy
comedy - friendship - politics
three characters
one male; two female
five scenes

"A series of lunchtime get-togethers between two young, unattached 'yuppies' during the final
months of the Reagan-Mondale presidential campaign. Rachel, in her mid-30s and apparently
more concerned with food than romance, is both a sharp-tongued cynic and a confirmed liberal;
while her friend Wendy, an incurable romantic recovering from a painful breakup, is desperate to
find another meaningful relationship. Looking for something to do, Wendy offers her services to
the Mondale campaign, whereas Rachel, the supposedly committed Democrat, finds herself
Title: Electric Gunfighters
in - Blitzkrieg and Other Plays / CCO
Author: Wade, Bryan

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979

Description:

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

"Pete and Bob enact Western movie cliches with a TV set's white noise in the background. High
camp comedy about the effect of media on our lives."

Title: Elephant Wake

in - Ethnicities: Plays from the New West / CCO
Author: Tremblay, Joey Christenson, Jonathon
Publisher: NeWest Press 1999

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy - French - monologue - Saskatchewan
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

"Surrounded by empty beer bottles and a zoo of papier-mache animals, the village idiot of a
French-Canadian hamlet in Saskatchewan recounts the history of his community's vanishing."

Title: Emer's Health

in - Romantic Friction and other plays / COL
Author: Read, Michelle

Publisher: Miscellaneous n.d.

Description:

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

A comedy about the health issues delivered from the point of view of Emer Fitzwilliam, a woman
with more money than sense, who has recently become aware of some of the harsher truths of life.
Title: Empire of the Son

Author: Shigematsu, Tetsuro

Publisher: Talonbooks 2016

Description:

roy
comedy - biography - family relationships - Canadian playwright - monologues
all male cast; eleven characters
one male (doubling)
one act

Empire of the Son is an original one-hander that blurs the boundaries between artistic disciplines
and continents. It is a unique theatrical hybrid that combines cinematography with the raw
immediacy of a performance piece intimately connected to real life in real time. Through a series
of audio interviews, playwright Tetsuro Shigetmatsu discovers vast worlds contained within his
emotionally remote father – from the ashes of World War II and Hiroshima to swinging London in
the 1960s and work in broadcasting at the BBC. As the playwright learns about how his own father

Title: Empty Coffee Shop, An

in - Funny Girls Coping with Boys / COL
Author: Evans, Annie

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006

Description:

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

Sally hates Valentine's Day and takes refuge from the hearts and flowers in a Mom and Pop coffee
shop.

Title: Enchanted Mesa, The

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Ninth Series / COL
Author: Maguire, George

Publisher: Samuel French 1984

Description:

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

"Michael and Helen, a married couple in their mid-thirties, have climbed to the top of a mesa
outside Albuquerque to admire the view, camp out, picnic - and discuss their impending divorce.
Former 60's free spirits, Michael still wants to live a life free from the hassle of the workaday
world, while Helen, a professional working woman who is supporting them, is proud of the fact
that she has "grown up" - and embarrassed at the aging flower child she is married to. The couple
still love each other; they just can't live together anymore. Co-winner of the 9th Annual Off Off
Title: End of I, The
in - Sex and Death / COL
Author: Amsterdam, Diana

Publisher: Lillenas Drama Resource 1988

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Description not available.

Title: End of the Beginning, The

in - Five One Act Plays / COL
Author: O'Casey, Sean

Publisher: St. Martin's Press 1958

Description:

roy
farce - family relations - Irish play
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 interior set; includes song with musical score.

"Domestic farce. Irish life".

Title: English Made Simple

in - The Land of Cockaigne and English Made Simple / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995

Description:

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

"A young man and woman meet at a party, and their immediate romantic attraction is translated
into comically unromantic grammar lessons as they struggle to free themselves from the banal
constrictions of party talk.
Title: English Made Simple
in - All in the Timing (Fourteen plays) / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Vintage Books 1995

Description:

roy
comedy - romance - relationships
three characters
one male; one female; one male or female
one act

"A young man and woman meet at a party, and their immediate romantic attraction is translated
into comically unromantic grammar lessons as they struggle to free themselves from the banal
constrictions of party talk.

Title: Escapologist, The

in - Are You Normal, Mr. Norman and Other Short Plays / COL
Author: Wilson, David Henry

Publisher: Samuel French 1984

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"A world-renowned escapologist cajoles a man from Bethlehem into binding him in chains only
to discover that he can't escape alone - or can he?"

Title: Ex, The

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (30th series) / COL
Author: Scheer, Geoffrey

Publisher: Samuel French 2006

Description:

roy
comedy - relationships
all male cast; two characters
two male
one scene

It’s bad enough when a girlfriend comes between two old pals…but an ex-girlfriend? See what
happens when Will and Adam’s trip to Atlantic City gets thrown off by the impending arrival of
Adam’s former love interest in this new comedy by playwright Geoffrey Scheer. This piece
examines the nature of friendship as couched in the language of typical male arrested
development. Will Adam choose lust over friendship? Can Will stop browbeating his friend long
enough to get to the heart of the dilemma? And will anyone be able to survive the arrival of The
Title: Examination of the Whole Playwright/Actor Relationship Presented as Some....
in - Humana Festival 2010 / COL
Author: Kotis, Greg

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2010

Description:

full title: An Examination of the Whole Playwright/Actor Relationship Presented as Some Kind of
Cop Show Parody

roy
comedy - actors - playwrights
all male cast; three characters
three male
one act

The play comedically explores the conflict between a playwright, who has written a terrible play,
and the play’s actors.

Title: Exquisite Hour, The

in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO
Author: Lemoine, Stewart

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

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

A couple form a relationship on a porch in the summer of 1962.

Title: Extensions
in - The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL
Author: Schisgal, Murray

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1991

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

'Show business couple's life revolves around telephone.'

Title: Extra Curricular Activity
in - What If? / COL
Author: Hanagan, Jay D.

Publisher: Samuel French 2006

Description:

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

All Jenn wants, is to be left alone with her lunch and her book. So the last thing that this apparent
Earthling needs is to have some alien, Xenon from the planet Argon, ask to be taken to her leader,
because he has warnings of galactic importance or some other nonsense! Why does this kind of
thing always happen to her?!

Title: Eye of the Beholder, The

in - 20/20 ... / COL
Author: Broadhurst, Kent

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

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: F*cking Art

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 33rd series / COL
Author: Brunstetter, Bekah

Publisher: Samuel French 2008

Description:

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

interior set.

A pretty cheerleader who has her heart set on goodness visits a cancer ridden classmate,
determined to take his virginity.
Title: Failing the Improv
in - Great Short Comedies: Volume 1 / COL
Author: Trieschmann, Werner

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2007

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

A failed TV writer returns to his rural Southern home to teach improvisation at the Delta Arts
Center. In his first awkward class, the teacher gets a few life lessons from his two quirky students.

Title: Failure, The

in - Three Dark Comedies / COL
Author: Beim, Norman

Publisher: Newconcept Press 2007

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Despite all odds a middle aged writer still peruses his goals.

Title: Fairies Are Thirsty (Les Fées ont soif), The

in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO
Author: Boucher, Denise translated by Alan Brown
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian - French - social issues - women
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

Three women - a housewife, a whore, and the Virgin Mary - fight to break out of the stereotypes
in which they've been imprisoned for years.
Title: Fam and Yam
in - The American Dream and Other Plays / COL
Author: Albee, Edward

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1959

Description:

roy
satire
all male cast; two characters
two male
one scene

1 interior set.

''Attack on modern American theatre in the form of interview between a young and a famous
playwright."

Title: Family Names

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Nineteenth Series / COL
Author: Pelonero, Edna

Publisher: Samuel French 1995

Description:

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

'Receptionist encounters husband's mistress.'

Title: Fast Women

in - Many Happy Returns and Fast Women / COL
Author: Reale, Willie

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1983

Description:

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

"A deft and very funny study of "sexual politics" among three young collegiate athletes."
Title: Fat Guy Gets the Girl, The
in - Israel Horovitz's New Shorts / COL
Author: Horovitz, Israel

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

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

Two hotel employees 'get a room'.

Title: Father Clock, The

in - Best Student One Acts Volume 4 / COL
Author: Wykes, Walter

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000

Description:

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

'Two actors and a stage manager are abandoned by their aging director. Now, as the auditorium
begins to fill and the lights dim, they desperately attempt to pull the show together with the help
of two items the director left behind: a prompt book that is cryptic and vague and a grandfather
clock without hands.'

Title: Fathers and Sons

in - Shoreline / CCO
Author: Hannah, Don

Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1999

Description:

roy
comedy - family relations
three characters
two male; one female
four scenes

A tender and funny evocation of one lifelong relationship captured in four movements.
Title: February 14th
in - Special Days / COL
Author: Kramer, Seth

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2004

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

this play can also be performed as part of the full-length collection Special Days.

Valentine's Day sucks, especially when you've lost your spouse or are waiting for divorce papers.
Lois and Gannon, friends since kindergarten, decide to spend the day together only to discover
that they have more between them than shared misfortune.

Title: Feet of Clay

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL
Author: Caudle, David

Publisher: Samuel French 2005

Description:

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

Two men sit out a rainy day in a remote mountain cabin while their wives shop in the town.
Vaughan has been a welcome benefactor to the down-on-his-luck Clay since their recent meeting
at a public pool. But Vaughan's benevolence is motivated by something beyond his desire to help
his fellow man, and he just can't keep it a secret a moment longer. Will Clay have the same desire?
If not, will he at least have a price? And if so, can Vaughan afford to pay it?

Title: Ferry, The

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (28th series) / COL
Author: Hill, Ryan

Publisher: Samuel French 2004

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

A pick-up line ("Are you from Staten Island?") turns metaphysical as a woman from Iowa tries to
explain how the world works to an insulated Staten Island native. As she speaks, she reveals her
prejudices while he, though limited in perception and worldliness, displays the ability to accept
what he sees and meet others on equal footing. The Ferry was commissioned by a benefit for
families of busboys, dishwashers and other non-salaried restaurant workers in the World Trade
Center.
Title: Few Last Words, A
in - Revue Unique / COL
Author: Crowder, David Lloyd

Publisher: Samuel French 1964

Description:

roy
duologue
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Title: Fighting Fear at the Bus Stop

in - John Lazarus Shorts / CCO
Author: Lazarus, John

Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters; voice
two male; one female
one act

A street scene about sexual misunderstanding between strangers.

Title: Final Interrogation of Ceausescu's Dog, The

in - Dark, No Sugar / COL
Author: Leight, Warren

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2007

Description:

roy
satire
all male cast, two characters
two male
one act

Ceausescu's dog is interrogated shortly after the Romanian revolution.

Title: Finals, Touchdowns, and Barrel Kicks
in - Plays for Two / COL
Author: Lawton, Jacqueline E.

Publisher: Vintage Books 2014

Description:

roy
comedy - sports - football⌦all male cast; two characters⌦two male
one act

Evan, a football player, tries to convince his tutor Bobby to write his paper for him.

Title: Fine Coloured Easter Egg, A

in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO
Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen

Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

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

1 set.

'Domestic comedy set in 1950's Alberta. Ukrainian pretends suicide and hides at cousin's house.
When his wife arrives, husband must explain actions.'

Title: Finger food

in - Telling Tales / COL
Author: Shengold, Nina

Publisher: Penguin Books 1993

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

1 interior.

Encounter between food photographer and hand model.

Title: Flatulist, The
in - The Pushcart Peddlars, The Flatulist & Other Plays / COL
Author: Schisgal, Murray

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980

Description:

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

"The 'Flatulist' is a black comedy gem in which Gregory, the son of a once famous comedian,
confronts his father's longtime agent, and pleads for a chance to demonstrate the rather bizarre
'act' which he has perfected. As the two parry and thrust, the deep-seated antagonism which
Gregory feels fo his father's exploiter is revealed, and then, in the surprising finale, suitably
avenged."

Title: For Anne

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 15th / COL
Author: Gruen, Peter

Publisher: Samuel French 1991

Description:

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

'While cleaning out their attic elderly couple discover things neither wanted the other to know
about.'

Title: For-Everett
in - Things Between Us / COL
Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

A bittersweet love story. Two relationships -- in twelve minutes. On a beach.

Title: Forthcoming Wedding
in - West Coast Plays / CCO
Author: Angel, Leonard

Publisher: New Play Centre with Fineglow Plays 1975

Description:

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

"A young woman is about to be married; her father is jealous of her fiance and threatens him. In
retaliation, Rose turns a gun on Papa. A misunderstanding, nothing more, and they exit to the
movies" - Doollee.com

Title: Foul Territory

in - Dramatics Vol. 76, No. 8 / PER
Author: Wright, Craig

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2005

Description:

roy
sports - baseball
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

"Commissioned by Mile Square Theatre of Hoboken, New Jersey for "Seventh Inning Stretch: Seven
Ten-Minute Plays About Baseball", where it received its first performance in August 2003."

Title: Foul Territory

in - Humana Festival 2004 / COL
Author: Wright, Craig

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2005

Description:

roy
sports - baseball
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

A man gets hit in several ways while attending a baseball game with a woman.
Title: Frank Amends
in - Plays for Two / COL
Author: Feiffer, Halley

Publisher: Vintage Books 2014

Description:

roy
comedy - parody - spoof⌦all male cast; two characters⌦two male
one act

"Frank Amends" is about the fateful night when Frankenstein returns, after a long and very painful
separation, to the home of the doctor who created him, with the intention of making his formal
Ninth Step Amends as part of his recovery program in Alcoholics Anonymous. -
aszym.blogspot.ca

Title: Freefalling
in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL
Author: Squire, Aurin

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Two passengers and a stewardess on a falling plane give their moment-by-moment account of
what happens when tomorrow is no longer certain.

Title: Frisky and the Panda Man

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 38th series / COL
Author: Howard, Ross

Publisher: Samuel French 2014

Description:

roy
dark comedy - social issues - environment - animals
three characters
one male; two female
one act

A conservationist struggles to rationalise his feelings for the last female panda on earth.
Title: Fruit Salad
in - The New Underground Theatre / COL
Author: Duay, Grant

Publisher: Bantam Books 1968

Description:

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

"Men love and die between commercials in a television war".

Title: Funeral Parlor

in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
sketch

"A widow is accosted at her husband's funeral by a very inappropriate guest."

Title: Funeral Parlor

in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
sketch

"A widow is accosted at her husband's funeral by a very inappropriate guest."

Title: G.I. Joe Jared, Based On One Really Bad Date
in - Plays and Playwrights 2011 / COL
Author: Witting, Amy E.

Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. 2011

Description:

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

Two women realize the importance of friendship through a random blind date, G.I. Joe tarot cards,
and a couple of vodka sodas.

Title: Gallows Monologue from Sidney Ryan's: "Gunpowder and Blood", The
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Berger, Glen

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

roy
comedy - monologues - male
all male cast; one character
one male
one scene

An assistant stage manager, stricken with stage fright, is thrust into the spotlight to deliver a
ghastly tale of disembowelment and worse.

Title: Garbage Bags

in - Shel's Shorts / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

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

'In this monologue, Sarah sits between monstrous stacks of garbage bags, grocery bags and
cardboard boxes. As she recites her poem of refusing to take out the garbage, the bags move
closer and closer, until she disappears.'
Title: George Johnson is a Son-of-a-Bitch
in - The Art of Communication / CCO
Author: Smiley, George

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

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

"A battle of wits develops when a high school teacher is confronted by a student."

Title: Give Me Shelter

in - Woman Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1998 / COL
Author: Weiner, Wendy

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2000

Description:

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

'Chronicles young woman's desperate, hilarious search for a livable New York apartment.'

Title: Give Us a Kiss and Show Us Your Knickers

in - Glamorgan and Other Plays / COL
Author: Nigro, Don

Publisher: Samuel French 1996

Description:

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

'Young woman entertains her roommate's new boyfriend.'

Title: God's Spies
in - God's Spies and Crossing the Bar / COL
Author: Nigro, Don

Publisher: Samuel French 1985

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

'Testimonials given on live Christian television program are not quite what interviewer expected.'

Title: Gold and Silver Waltz

in - Pops / COL
Author: Linney, Romulus

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1987

Description:

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

"A touching monologue about boyhood and first love in which the sole character is the author
himself."

Title: Gone to Take a ...

in - Shel's Shorts / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

'B.J. is enraged when her employee, Arthur, leaves an explicit sign informing patrons he has gone
to take a ... Well, B.J. can't even say the word - until Arthur pushes his boss to the limit.'
Title: Good Business
in - Best Student One Acts Volume 4 / COL
Author: Gannon, Tom

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000

Description:

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

'Set in Detroit, (the play) is a delightful comedy about crime gone wrong.'

Title: Good Neighbors

in - The Best Short Plays 1981 / COL
Author: Tucker, John Bartholomew

Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1981

Description:

roy
satire - soap opera
two characters
one male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

"Satirical look at television soap operas focuses on adulterous rendezvous planned by soap opera
actress and her director".

Title: Good Time For a Change, A

in - The Square Root of Love / COL
Author: Meltzer, Daniel

Publisher: Samuel French 1979

Description:

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

1 interior set.

"About an executive and her male secretary".

Title: Good Time, A
in - Answers / COL
Author: Thompson, Ernest

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

1 simple interior set.

"A slightly kooky New York career girl is unexpectedly visited by the California highway patrolman
who had stopped her for speeding several years earlier. In return for not giving her a ticket she
had promised him a 'good time' if he ever came to New York - and he is here to collect. However,
things don't turn out quite as she fears".

Title: Gorgons
in - Gorgons and Other Plays / COL
Author: Nigro, Don

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

roy
comedy - actors - relationships
all female cast; two characters
two female
seven scenes

Ruth and Mildred are aging movie stars in the 1960s. They have in their time (the thirties and
forties) been goddesses of the screen, but now both are on the skids and desperate for work.
Mildred is doing obscure theatre under spartan conditions when Ruth comes to her with a film
script she wants them to star in. It's a horror movie called Gorgons, about two insane and
homicidal sisters. Ruth needs another big name like Mildred to get the funding. They have always
been bitter rivals who've fought over roles and men. Ruth has slept her way to the top, while

Title: Grave Encounter, A

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 13th series / COL
Author: Ruffini, Gene

Publisher: Samuel French 1989

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

A young Italian American visits her father's grave every Father's Day to fill Papa in on what's
been happening with the family. This year she is interrupted by Pasquale on his daily visit to his
father's grave. His papa died four years ago and for the past two he has been talking back to
Pasquale, showing particular interest in soap operas plots. Marianna is annoyed that her papa
doesn't talk to her, but she accepts that these things take time. She also takes a close look at the
timid baker and sees that she has finally found a man with whom she has something in common.
Title: Grave, The
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 33rd series / COL
Author: McKinley, Gabe

Publisher: Samuel French 2008

Description:

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

Forced to dig his own grave, a man must come to terms with his place in this world and beyond
before he finishes the job.

Title: Great to see You

in - Theresa Rebeck: Collected Plays v. 1, 1989 - 1998 / COL
Author: Rebeck, Theresa

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1999

Description:

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

"A high-profile career woman visits her supposedly happily married former lover and his
“ding-dong” of a wife after receiving his postcard."

Title: Green Hill, The

in - Time Flies and Other Short Plays / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Grove Press 2001

Description:

roy
comedy - short play
twelve characters; voice
one male; one female; extras
one act

A whimsical piece about obsession and what really matters. Whenever Jake closes his eyes, he can
see himself standing atop a hill that he has never visited before in his life, but for some reason,
he knows it must exist. And here's the twist- it actually does. The surreal story of one man's quest
to find his place of happiness.
Title: Green Hill, The
in - Outstanding Short Plays / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2012

Description:

roy
comedy - short play
twelve characters; voice
one male; one female; extras
one act

A whimsical piece about obsession and what really matters. Whenever Jake closes his eyes, he
can see himself standing atop a hill that he has never visited before in his life, but for some
reason, he knows it must exist. And here's the twist- it actually does. The surreal story of one
man's quest to find his place of happiness.

Title: Greenwich Mean

in - The General of Hot Desire and Other Plays / COL
Author: Guare, John

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1999

Description:

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

unit set

A and B are moving in together. As they unpack, their conversation reveals an excitement and a
lover's trust in the future and in each other. But when an earthquake hits and A grabs onto boxes
instead of B, new light is shed on the relationship. How long can it now last?

Title: Greetings from a Queer Señorita

in - Out of the Fringe / COL
Author: Palacios, Monica

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000

Description:

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

music, singing; 1 setting.

Performance piece combining the author's Latin lezbo comic and Confessions... a sexplosion of
tantilizing tales. Depicts world of lesbian comic.
Title: Groves of Academe, The
in - The Groves of Academe and The Plumber's Apprentice / COL
Author: Stein, Mark

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1982

Description:

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

"A remarkably inventive play which, with humor and rare insight, studies the subtly changing
relationship between a brightly precocious young college student and the professor under whom
he is taking an honors seminar."

Title: Hail Caesar!

in - Plays for Two / COL
Author: Mitnick, Michael

Publisher: Vintage Books 2014

Description:

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

Will sits alone at an expensive restaurant and gives Tali, his waiter, an earful.

Title: Half-Chinx Taking Over the World

in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 110, Spring 2002 / PER
Author: del Rio, Bobby

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters; dancers
two male or female
one act

"Bobby del Rio's hilarious account of bi-racial role models in the entertainment industry.'
Title: Ham and the Ram
in - Canadian Theatre Review (154) / PER
Author: Nolan, Yvette

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2013

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy
two characters
one male; one male or female
one scene

Ram offers to replace Ham's son Isaac as a sacrifice to God.

Title: Hanlon House

in - Voices from the Landwash / CCO
Author: Thomey, Greg Hennessy, Brian
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997

Description:

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

'This deceptively simple one act play is a modest and unassuming look at a moment in the lives of
two very ordinary people, Gary Hanlon and his crabby father, Gus. They spend the entire play
dancing around each other, avoiding conflict, trying and failing to communicate with each other.'

Title: Happy
in - Outstanding Short Plays / COL
Author: Zweibel, Alan

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2012

Description:

roy
comedy - short play
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

Donald travels to Boca Raton to find "Happy" Haliday, a favorite baseball player from his youth,
and to get his signature on a baseball. The ball has been signed by every member of the 1962
Mets except for Happy, whose career was cut short. But when Happy learns the ball will be worth
$28,000 after he signs, and that it's already been sold, will he still sign?
Title: Hard Hat Area
in - Shel's Shorts / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

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

'Pauley and Ed sit on a girder in a construction site. Pauley wears a hard hat, but Ed doesn't. While
Ed eats his lunch, Pauley tries to convince him that he should take destiny into his own hands and
wear a hard hat so as not to be killed accidently or he should kill himself but not just leave it to
chance.'

Title: Harold
in - Seven Short and Very Short Plays / COL
Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1973

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

"Two doctors examine a patient (played dually by an actor and a dummy) methodically
dismembering the dummy to prove that it is in the best of health".

Title: Have a Nice Day

in - Shel's Shorts / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

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

'Ben, Al and Cyrus try to take the symbols for "Peace" and "Have a nice day" and combine them -
believing that both of these ideas can coexist in one symbol. Trying to accomplish this leads to
conflict and a lousy day.'
Title: Heads and Tails
in - Plays for Two / COL
Author: Rhodes, Kelly

Publisher: Vintage Books 2014

Description:

roy
comedy - relationships⌦all female cast; two characters⌦two female
one act

Shawna and Lillian are roommates in the midst of an argument. They ask the audience to hear
both sides and decide who is the crazy one.

Title: Health Class

in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO
Author: Craig, David S. Morgan, Robert
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

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

Two teachers prepare a sex ed presentation for male high school students. Through their
discussions, their own experiences, fears and doubts about sexuality, masculinity and gender
come to the fore, engaging the audience and asking us to look at our own opinions and beliefs
when it comes to sex.

Title: Hearing Aid

in - Plays for Two / COL
Author: Barry, Pete

Publisher: Vintage Books 2014

Description:

roy
comedy - aging - marriage - communication
two characters
one male; one female
one act

"Hearing Aid" is a short two-hander about the woes (and comedic joys) of a nearly deaf elderly
married couple whose communication troubles lead to implausible comic misunderstanding.
Title: Hello, Ma!
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 5th series / COL
Author: Stone, Trude

Publisher: Samuel French 1981

Description:

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

The telephone is the umbilical cord that connects a widowed mother and her grown daughter. Ma
patiently responds to her daughter's problems with warmth, humor and bite until she is distracted
by love and marriage.

Title: Henrik Ibsen: On the Necessity of Producing Norwegian Theatre

in - The CTR Anthology / CCO
Author: Palmer, John

Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996

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: Henrik Ibsen: On the Necessity of Producing Norwegian Theatre

in - Canadian Theatre Review No.14, Spring 1977 / PER
Author: Palmer, John

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977

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 First Screen Test
in - Snapshot / COL
Author: O'Brien, Dan

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003

Description:

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

A vaudeville actress poses for a photograph backstage.

Title: Here we Are

in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL
Author: Parker, Dorothy

Publisher: Doubleday 1958

Description:

roy
farce
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Scene: A compartment in a Pullman car.

A married couple is going on their honeymoon and have a funny discussion.

Title: Here We Are

in - An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays / COL
Author: Parker, Dorothy

Publisher: National Textbook Company 1992

Description:

roy
farce
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Scene: A compartment in a Pullman car.

A married couple is going on their honeymoon and have a funny discussion.

Title: Heritage, Her-i-tage and Hair-i-tage
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Dawes, Adrienne

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

This play explores the relationship between hairstyle and cultural identity in a young biracial
woman.

Title: Heritage, Her-i-tage and Hair-i-tage

in - Great Short Comedies: Volume 1 / COL
Author: Dawes, Adrienne

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2007

Description:

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

This play explores the relationship between hairstyle and cultural identity in a young biracial
woman.

Title: Hero, The

in - The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays / COL
Author: Kopit, Arthur

Publisher: Hill and Wang 1965

Description:

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

1 exterior set.

"Humorous short pantomime with man and woman in desert".

Title: History Lesson
in - Snapshot / COL
Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003

Description:

roy
monologues - women
all female cast; one character
one female
one scene

A tour guide discusses the faces on Mount Rushmore.

Title: Home Section

in - The Best American Short Plays 1995-1996 / COL
Author: Glowacki, Janusz

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1997

Description:

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

1 interior.

Polish immigrants renovate New York apartment.

Title: Homework For Men

in - Homework and Curtains / CCO
Author: Lazarus, John

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991

Description:

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

Murray Greenspan stumbles upon an essay he wrote as a teenager in the 1960's. Through a
series of flashbacks, he reviews his relationship with his father and begins to draw parallels to his
relatiohship with his own son.
Title: Hot 'n' Soft
in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO
Author: Miguel, Muriel

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy
Canadian - solo performance - Native peoples - LGBTQ+ - Native playwright
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

"Hot 'n' Soft" is a lesbian erotica/trickster story created by Muriel Miguel (Kuna-Rappahannock).
After encountering only male trickster stories, Miguel decided to build a piece around a female
lesbian coyote trickster (the Coyote often plays the role of trickster and is usually male). Adding
erotica to the mix, Miguel bases her tale on taboos not normally spoken of in the Native lesbian
community, hair, two-timing, being uncomfortable, and getting older.

Title: Hotel Play, The

in - Israel Horovitz's New Shorts / COL
Author: Horovitz, Israel

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

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

A married man and a woman have just ended a long affair, when the bellhop comes in to take over.

Title: House
in - One Voice / CCO
Author: MacIvor, Daniel

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy
dramatic comedy - monologue - men
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

'House' is stand up sit down one man comedy nightmare about Victor, a man on the edge.
Title: House of Glass
in - A Three Martini Lunch / CCO
Author: Martini, Clem

Publisher: Red Deer College Press 2000

Description:

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

"In 'House of Glass' twelve-year-old Ellen must make amends with her obsessive neighbour Beth
for stealing condoms from her store."

Title: House of the Holy Moment

in - The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 / COL
Author: Pepper, Cary

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009

Description:

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

A one-act dealing with the issues of what makes a church? Who defines a church? How does it
serve us? What is a church’s function? Sound heavy? Not really. This is an irreverent and wickedly
funny play, while at the same time thought provoking. Sparse use of street language is integral
not gratuitous.
⌦Semifinalist in the 2007 Drury University One-Act Playwriting Competition.

Title: How He Lied to Her Husband

in - Seven One Act Plays / COL
Author: Shaw, George Bernard

Publisher: Penguin Books 1958

Description:

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

A humorous and human observation about a husband, his wife, and her lover.
Title: How Many to Tango?
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Eighteenth Series) / COL
Author: Albert, Sandra J.

Publisher: Samuel French 1994

Description:

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

'Romantic comedy about couple who finally meet after having only talked by phone.'

Title: Human Remains

in - Four Plays by Larry Fineberg / CCO
Author: Fineberg, Larry

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

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

Billy, Olive and Jeremy have all loved one another. It has left them confused, lonely and intensely
vulnerable. In the aftermath of Billy's failed suicide, they are forced to recognize their mutual
needs and individual capacities.

Title: Hunter and the Bird, The

in - America Hurrah and other plays / COL
Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude

Publisher: Grove Press Inc. 1978

Description:

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

no set required.

Humorous, fantastic, and yet telling in its perceptions, this brief but arresting exercise in
absurdist style delights and intrigues both by what is said and what is left unsaid.
Title: Hygiene
in - Humana Festival 2011 / COL
Author: Hischak, Gregory

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2012

Description:

roy
comedy - American
three characters
one male; one female; one girl
one act

running time: 10 min.

"Wendy has been sent home from school with a parasite growing out of her head. This rhythmic
display of family dysfunction proves the old adage: the trouble with normal is that it always gets
worse." - Doollee

Title: I am not Batman

in - Humana Festival 2007 / COL
Author: Ramirez, Marco

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2008

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters (one is a drummer)
one male; one male or female
one scene

A street kid with a stomach full of grocery store brand macaroni and cheese fulfills the ultimate
Batman fantasy.

Title: I Didn't Want a Mastodon

in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL
Author: Feiffer, Halley

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015

Description:

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

A couple wrangle over a blown glass mastadon.

Title: I'd Kiss You But . . .
in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO
Author: White, Wendy Ward, Victoria and Diane Flacks
Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

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

Various discussions about the opposite sex.

Title: I'll Be Home For Christmas

in - You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running / COL
Author: Anderson, Robert

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

interior.

"...maintains the light humour of the first two plays, but at the base it is serious and touching as it
shows Mrs. Heckart and Balsam discussing sex education of their almost-adult children, a girl
and boy. Balsam is quite moving when he learns in a letter that his son is cutting adrift from the
parental harbor."

Title: I'm Herbert

in - You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running / COL
Author: Anderson, Robert

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

exterior.

"...about two old , old people sitting on a porch in a pair of rocking chairs and talking. Just
talking - and of course they don't know how funny they are. Each has had one or more previous
marriages and perhaps a few flings, but they are hazy as to details. In fact, they don't know which
one the other one is."
Title: I'm Really Here
in - The New Underground Theatre / COL
Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude

Publisher: Bantam Books 1968

Description:

roy
farce
two characters; extras
one male; one female
one act

1 set.

"Springtime Paris interlude between romantic young American tourist and dashing Latin guide".

Title: IBaby
in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL
Author: Cunningham, Laura Shaine

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015

Description:

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

Woman gives birth to an iphone.

Title: Ichabod Crane Tells All

in - The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012 / COL
Author: Thelen, Lawrence

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2013

Description:

roy
comedy - American - short play - monologue
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

Disturbed by recent onslaughts of campaign advertising, Thelen wondered, "Can someone if they
repeat a lie long enough and loudly enough actually convince others it's true?" Expanding that
question to a matter of history itself, he asks, "Is history what it is, or only what you say it is?" The
play puts the case to its audience, who get to hear Ichabod Crane's masterful spin on an age-old
tale, interrupted by the arrival of the Headless Horseman, who ironically represents the
appearance of that ever-present force that attempts to keep us on the straight and narrow.
Title: Ida Lupino in the Dark
in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL
Author: Nigro, Don

Publisher: Samuel French 2005

Description:

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

A sofa in a darkened room. In this very funny ten minute play, Minnie sits in a darkened room, her
face illuminated by the eerie glow of snow on an unseen downstage television set, surrounded by
junk assembled by her philandering artist husband, creating in her head a bizarre imaginary film,
a combination of many old black and white movies with Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet,
Peter Lorre, and believes that she herself is the film's heroine, Ida Lupino. Minnie's sisters, Sherry
and Caitlin, attempting to understand the reasons for Minnie's apparent nervous breakdown, are

Title: Ideal Exam (A Short Answer to All Lengthy Questions), An

in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko
Publisher: Green Integer 140 2005

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
two male or female
one act

"Condition Sine Qua Non: a very intelligent teacher and a very intelligent student. The former is
malicious and persistent, the latter is invincible. Just as the ideal fire brigade arrives half an hour
prior to the fire, so is the ideal student prepared with his answers half an hour prior to the
questions. For the sake of brevity and to avoid a huge commission, I here state the essence in
dramatic form."

Title: Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye

in - The Great Nebula in Orion and Three Other Plays / COL
Author: Wilson, Lanford

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1973

Description:

roy
farce
two characters
one male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

"This explosively funny and ingenious farce deals with what might have been a seduction - but
while she is all for it (despite her feeble protests) he has eyes only for her telephone. And what he
can't say to her face, floods out readily on the phone, with hilarious and devastating results".
Title: In Bed With Kafka/Kafka in Bed
in - The Best American Short Plays 2001-2002 / COL
Author: Beber, Neena

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2007

Description:

roy
comedy - farce
three characters
one male; two male or female
one act

Kafka is given 6 months to live.

Title: In Paris You Will Find Many Baguettes But Only One True Love
in - Humana Festival 2008 / COL
Author: Lew, Michael

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one scene

Follows the attempt of one brokenhearted woman to be truly happy for a friend who's found the
man of her dreams - a man who happens to be a mime.

Title: In the Spring

in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko
Publisher: Green Integer 140 2005

Description:

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

A tomcat describes his trials in love.

Title: In the Yichud Room
in - Three on the Boards / CCO
Author: Fishbane, Joel

Publisher: Signature Editions 2007

Description:

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

"A young woman mourned by a grieving father."

Title: Inconsolable
in - Israel Horovitz's New Shorts / COL
Author: Horovitz, Israel

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

roy
dramatic comedy
three characters
one male; one female; one girl
one act

A daughter's life sadly mirrors here suicidal mother's.

Title: Inside Out

in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO
Author: Moore, Mavor

Publisher: Bastet Books 1973

Description:

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

A father comes to rescue his daughter from her lover.

Title: Inside Out
in - Discovering Mavor Moore / CCO
Author: Moore, Mavor

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

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

A father comes to rescue his daughter from her lover.

Title: International Stud

in - The Torch Song Trilogy / COL
Author: Fierstein, Harvey

Publisher: Gay Presses of New York 1979

Description:

roy
comedy - LGBTQ+
three characters
two male; one female
one act

platform set; cyclorama and wings.

No abstract available.

Title: Interview, An
in - Death Defying Acts / COL
Author: Mamet, David

Publisher: Samuel French 1995

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
two male or female
one act

An oblique, mystifying interrogation. A sleazy lawyer is forced to answer difficult questions and to
admit the truth about his life and career. The why and where of the interrogation provide a
surprise ending to this brilliant twenty minute comedy.
Part of Death Defying Acts.
Title: Irish Stew
in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL
Author: Pepper, Cary

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015

Description:

roy
comedy - aging - memory - seniors
two characters
one male; one female
one act

An elderly couple have adventures looking for their "Irish Stew", which in reality is an Irish
sweater.

Title: It's a ... Baby!

in - The Best American Short Plays 2005-2006 / COL
Author: Restaino, Cara

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2008

Description:

roy
comedy - monologue
all female cast; many characters
one female
one act

Having a baby without knowing you're pregnant isn't just a blessed event, it's a miracle.

Title: It's Called the Sugar Plum

in - First Season / COL
Author: Horovitz, Israel

Publisher: Vintage Books 1968

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: It's Okay, Honey
in - Off-Off-Broadway Festival Plays - 23rd Series / COL
Author: Brown, Bertha

Publisher: Samuel French 1999

Description:

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

'Clueless mother attempts to have a heart-to-heart talk with her daughter about sexual
preferences.'

Title: It's Only a Minute a Guy

in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL
Author: Franceschini, John

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012

Description:

roy
comedy - dating - romance
seven characters
one male; one female (doubling)
one act

This play takes on the anxieties of a recently divorced woman and her reluctant adventure with
speed dating.

Title: Jails, Hospitals and Hip Hop

in - American Theatre (July 98) / PER
Author: Hoch, Danny

Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998

Description:

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

'Series of monologues lampooning individual vanities, stereotypes and hypocrisy.'

Title: Jane's Thumb
in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO
Author: Burke, Kelley-Jo

Publisher: Signature Editions 2006

Description:

roy
comedy - pregnancy
all female cast; many characters
two female (doubling)
one act

A pregnant librarian addicted to metaphor, has a conversation with her unborn child.

Title: Jiley Nance and Lednerg

in - Things Between Us / COL
Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005

Description:

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

A frustrated actress literally fights her darkest demon during a hospital stay in this uproarious
comedy about the power of the mind.

Title: Joe and Stew's Theatre of Brotherly Love and Financial Success
in - The Best American Short Plays 1999-2000 / COL
Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001

Description:

roy
comedy
all male cast; three characters
two male; one voice
one scene

Joe and Stew await the second act of a show in a community theater, only to find they've survived
an atomic bomb explosion and must now decide exactly what to do with their new world.
Title: Joe and Stew's Theatre of Brotherly Love and Financial Success
in - Things Between Us / COL
Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2001

Description:

roy
comedy
all male cast; three characters
two male; one voice
one scene

Joe and Stew await the second act of a show in a community theater, only to find they've survived
an atomic bomb explosion and must now decide exactly what to do with their new world.

Title: Johan Johan

in - Medieval Mysteries, Moralities and Interludes / COL
Author: Heywood, John

Publisher: Barron's Educational Series 1962

Description:

non-roy
farce - verse play - relationships - interlude
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 setting.

Tudor interlude in verse. Farcical triangle involving henpecked husband, shrewish wife, and
roguish priest. Modernized spelling of speech.

Title: John and Beatrice

in - Carole Frechette: Two Plays / CCO
Author: Frechette, Carole translated by John Murrell
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007

Description:

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

"High above the city, Beatrice sits on the 33rd floor of an office tower waiting for the right man to
respond to her ad. When John appears, the games begin. But if he wins, what then? A play about
the difficulty of connection and the meaning of love."
Title: Joshua Consumed an Unfortunate Pear
in - Humana Festival 2015 / COL
Author: Yockey, Steve

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2016

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters; chorus
one male; two female
one act

A man has procured and is eating an pear that brings immortality, to the consternation of his
partner, and death.

Title: Just Knots

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 34th series / COL
Author: Gorman, Christina

Publisher: Samuel French 2010

Description:

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

An awkward store clerk who sells ‘just knots’ finds his skills—and his principles—put to the
test by a disarming young woman in a ladybug scarf.

Title: Just Thinking

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Eighteenth Series) / COL
Author: Kravitz, Alan H.

Publisher: Samuel French 1994

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

'Jewish boy, not quite bar mitzvahed, fantasizes about his sexual orientation.'
Title: Kerry and Angie
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (30th series) / COL
Author: Sheridan, Gerry

Publisher: Samuel French 2006

Description:

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

A two character comedic play of the depressed helping the depressed…Angie is outrageously
inappropriate while Kerry hides her embarrassment at her friend’s behavior. This play delivers
relentless laughs as two long time friends try to lend each other a helping hand.

Title: King of the Pekinese Yellowtail

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Sixteenth Series) / COL
Author: Brown, Sarah

Publisher: Samuel French 1996

Description:

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

'Duck hunter begins to believe wild tale of his own invention.'

Title: Kiss, The

in - Plays for Two / COL
Author: Levine, Mark Harvey

Publisher: Vintage Books 2014

Description:

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

Dennis asks his best friend Allison to judge his kissing skills. Can he help it if she has to kiss
him to do it?
Title: Kissing Christine
in - Humana Festival '96 / COL
Author: Shanley, John Patrick

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996

Description:

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

'Woman recovering from horrific accident and man in troubled marriage meet for unusual first
date.'

Title: Kissing Christine

in - Missing / Kissing / COL
Author: Shanley, John Patrick

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1997

Description:

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

Larry and Christine meet at a Thai restaurant for dinner. It's a first date, and they know nothing
about each other. In the course of conversation, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary
couple. Christine is a reconfigured person. A couple of years before she fell through an open
trapdoor in a store and landed on her head. As a result of this accident, her face had to be
reconstructed. So she looks different. Pretty, but a different pretty. Even more significantly, she
received a severe concussion which, among other things, changed her personality. She has

Title: Kreskinned - a one act hypnotism comedy

in - The Road to Hell / CCO
Author: Healey, Michael Lynch, Kate
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

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

" 'Kreskinned' is a one act comedy asking the important question, what if you could hypnotize
your partner into forgetting every time you've done something wrong?"
Title: Kyotopolis
in - Beyond the Pale / CCO
Author: Moses, Daniel David

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy
Canadian - dark comedy - monologue - Native peoples
all female cast; one character
one female
one scene

'Who was that woman we saw riding the space shuttle last night, riding it into orbit - and the
obituaries? An Indian Princess? A New Age Shamaness? Or just little Babe Fisher? Even her family
isn't sure anymore. A darkly comic fantasia about the ways we communicate and the future of
Native identity in the Global Village. Ricky Raccoon is just one of the characters she encounters."

Title: Ladies' Man

in - Feydeau, First to Last / COL
Author: Feydeau, Georges

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001

Description:

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

'Young woman gives advice about men to another young woman.'

Title: Lady Grey (in ever-lower light)

in - Thom Pain (based on nothing) / COL
Author: Eno, Will

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2005

Description:

roy
monologues - women
all female cast; multiple characters
one female
one act (two monologues)

running time: 30 min.

"Do you like vocal chords? Do you enjoy trembling? Do you have time for a story or two? Some
vivid images of waving wheat fields, quiet violence, and a version of love?' Welcome to the
extraordinary and mind-expanding world of playwright Will Eno, one compounded in equal
measure of love, loss and whip-lash humour. The thoughts of an ordinary young woman are
Title: Lady of Larkspur Lotion, The
in - 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays / COL
Author: Williams, Tennessee

Publisher: New Directions 1953

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior

"Comedy. Two lodgers, facing eviction from rooming house in New Orleans describe their
imaginary wealth and success."

Title: Last Artist in New York City, The

in - The Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 / COL
Author: Frost, Polly Sawhill, Ray
Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers

Description:

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

Set only slightly in the future, the play concerns a woman artist who finds herself increasingly
alone in New York City. She finally gets her dream email from the New York Times saying they
want to profile her. Have her struggles and sacrifices finally paid off? Or has the real arts action
perhaps gone elsewhere, leaving her behind.

Title: Last Dance, The

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 22nd series / COL
Author: Tattersall, Clare

Publisher: Samuel French 1996

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

'Comedy about woman who places classified ad for a dance partner.'

Title: Last December, The
in - Life is Short / COL
Author: Pospisil, Craig

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005

Description:

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

suggested for high school.

An elderly couple sit at home on a cold winter's night. The old man wants to finish watching his
football game, but his wife is trying to get him ready to go out on some errand. The man is angry
and bitter, and he clearly doesn't want to go. His patient wife listens but gently prods. But there's
more to the old man than meets the eye, and the play ends with surprising sweetness and love.

Title: Last Exit Before Toll

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Eighteenth Series) / COL
Author: Goldstein, Carrie

Publisher: Samuel French 1994

Description:

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

'Woman, unable to pay toll, leaves baby at toll booth as collateral.'

Title: Last Laugh

in - What If? / COL
Author: Hanagan, Jay D.

Publisher: Samuel French 2006

Description:

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

See Patty. Patty is a hot date who likes funny men. Go Patty go. See Gordon. Gordon is a not so hot
date, but he is funny! Go Gordon go! See Patty and Gordon make their way back to Gordon's
apartment, even though it's only their first date. Way to go Gordon. Way to go Patty. You see,
there's something about Gordon that Patty just can't seem to resist... he's just so gosh darn
FUNNY! See Patty laugh. Laugh Patty, laugh!
Title: Last Straw
in - The Last Straw and Sociability Two Short Plays / COL
Author: Dizenzo, Charles

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1970

Description:

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

"This antic and perceptive comedy deals with the encounter between a zany psychiatrist and the
uneasy young man who comes to him for help".

Title: Laundry and Lies

in - The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 / COL
Author: Kraar, Adam

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009

Description:

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

A man obsessed with the truth encounters a woman who is unable to tell the bald truth. Patsy
doesn't lie out of maliciousness or laziness; she lies in order to overcome the sad circumstances
of her existence. George's need to get at the truth so consumes him that is almost drives him
crazy. The manic sparring of these two people leads each of them to a better understanding of
how to reconcile their obsessions with their need for a hug.

Title: Leavin' Cheyenne

in - Forbidden Copy; Leanvin' Cheyenne; and Working Her Way Down / COL
Author: Granger, Percy

Publisher: Samuel French 1982

Description:

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

1 exterior set.

"This insightful comedy is sort of a country/western 'Waiting for Godot'. The play is set around a
campfire out in the desert, where an old trailhand cook and a young cowboy in his first year with
the herd are talking and eating. Granger skillfully contrasts the tired old man who can't find
anything to believe in anymore with the rambunctious kid who believes there is honor in the
Title: Lemonade
in - Lemonade and The Autograph Hound / COL
Author: Prideaux, James

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1969

Description:

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

'Two middle-aged women, seeking respite from doldrums, sell spiked lemonade on well-travelled
highway, and exchange illusions and fantasies to brighten their dull lives.'

Title: Lena's Car

in - Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays / CCO
Author: Gladstone, Amiel

Publisher: Coach House Press 2007

Description:

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

A woman whose marriage is on the verge of collapse reflects on how it got to that point,
harkening back to a youth when things were both more simple and more complicated.

Awarded the Sydney Risk Award for Outstanding Original Script at the Jessie Richardson Theatre
Awards.

Title: Lesson, The

in - Four Plays by Eugene Ionesco / COL
Author: Ionesco, Eugene

Publisher: Grove Press 1958

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters; extras
one male; two female
one act

"Bizarre lesson ends with elderly teacher murdering his young student."
Title: Lesson, The
in - Bald Soprano, The and The Lesson / COL
Author: Ionesco, Eugene translated by Tina Howe
Publisher: Grove Press 2006

Description:

roy
comedy - absurdist
three characters; extras
one male; two female
one act

"Bizarre lesson ends with elderly teacher murdering his young student."

Title: Lesson, The

in - The Bald Soprano and Other Plays / COL
Author: Ionesco, Eugene

Publisher: Grove Press 1958

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters; extras
one male; two female
one act

"Bizarre lesson ends with elderly teacher murdering his young student."

Title: Let There be Farce

in - Best Short Plays of 1955-1956 / COL
Author: Walsh, Norman

Publisher: Beacon 1956

Description:

roy
farce
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 exterior.

"Two women and a thief in the slums."

Title: Life After Hockey
in - Five from the Fringe / CCO
Author: Brown, Kenneth

Publisher: NeWest Press 1986

Description:

roy
comedy - monologue - men - Canadian - Alberta playwright
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

No abstract available.

Title: Life Comes to the Old Maid

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 20th series / COL
Author: Wilhelm, Le

Publisher: Samuel French 1996

Description:

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

'Reclusive old woman visited by young girl with startling memories.'

Title: Life History of the African Elephant

in - Escape Acts / CCO
Author: Martini, Clem

Publisher: NuAge Editions 1989

Description:

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

'Depressed elephant keeper and accident-prone woman discover connection between their tragic
pasts.'
Title: Life History of the African Elephant
in - Martini with a Twist / CCO
Author: Martini, Clem

Publisher: NeWest Press 2012

Description:

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

'Depressed elephant keeper and accident-prone woman discover connection between their tragic
pasts.'

Title: Life Without Gretzky (A Tragedy)

in - High Sticking / CCO
Author: Brownell, Mark

Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006

Description:

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

running time: 20 mins.

A theatrical meditation on the selling of Wayne Gretzky.

Title: Light
in - The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 / COL
Author: Mahoney, Jeni

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009

Description:

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

A spiritual rebirth, under the guidance of a mysterious, self-proclaimed guru, is Helena's

motivation for re-connecting with her childhood friend, and recent divorcee, Abby. But the joyous
reunion is short-lived when Abby discovers that Helena's new path requires her to forget her past
- including Abby.
Title: Lights
in - Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks / COL
Author: Patrick, Robert

Publisher: Winter House 1972

Description:

roy
sketches, skits-comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

1 interior.

"Conversation between artist and woman from gallery. Woman seeks deeper meaning in lightworks
than artist considered."

Title: Limonade Tous Les Jours

in - Humana Festival 2002 / COL
Author: Mee, Charles L.

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2002

Description:

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

"An odd couple? Maybe not. Both Ya Ya, a French woman who hates surprises, and Andrew, an
American who craves them, are in "recovery." Each has recently ended a relationship: Ya Ya with
an older, controlling man; Andrew divorced his wife. They meet at a Parisian cafe. They talk,
among other things, about being "damaged goods". They deny a growing attraction for each other
(due mostly to their ages: she's early spring, he, midwinter). The more they argue against it, the
more they fall for each other."

Title: Lingerie
in - Sex and Death / COL
Author: Amsterdam, Diana

Publisher: Samuel French 1990

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

Description not available.

Title: Listeners
in - Humana Festival 2006 / COL
Author: Martin, Jane

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2007

Description:

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

"A dark and jarringly comic imagining of the Bush Administration’s domestic spying program
taken to its limits as two government agents in suits and ties invade the home of Eleanor Leftwich
after technology has identified her as "a valued citizen who just might be a little cranky." Her
cathartic rant after they allow her to speak directly to "he who, let us say, hears all" is a stinging
enumeration of ruinous fallout from Bush policies. Cheering enthusiastically at Eleanor’s list of
grievances, the audience senses what is foreordained for poor Eleanor after being allowed to

Title: Little Blood Brother

in - Vittorio Rossi: Two Plays / CCO
Author: Rossi, Vittorio

Publisher: NuAge Editions 1988

Description:

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

Description not available.

Title: Little Miss Fresno

in - Win/Lose/Draw / COL
Author: Watson, Ara Gallagher, Mary
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1983

Description:

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

unit set.

"Deals hilariously with two very competitive mothers whose daughters are in the semi-finals of a
local moppet beauty contest. One mother is a gossipy veteran who cooly keeps a score card along
with the judges; the other, a first-timer, is anxious and ill-at-ease. When both daughters win
there is a truce between them - but the finals are still to come".
Title: Little Pezidents
in - Snapshot / COL
Author: Dixon, Michael Bigelow Smith, Val
Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

A couple discusses the relations between a destroyed car, a Pez dispenser and Mt. Rushmore.

Title: Little Something for the Ducks, A

in - A Little Something for the Ducks and Scent of Honeysuckle / COL
Author: Toddie, Jean Lenox

Publisher: Samuel French 1983

Description:

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

'Two elderly people meet by duckpond.'

Title: Lodger, The

in - Amazon All Stars / COL
Author: Schenkar, Joan

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1996

Description:

roy
comedy - women - revenge fantasy
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act

'In short, episodic scenes punctuated by blackouts, two amazon women, April and May, negotiate
among conflicting memories in an attempt to recapture a lost sense of their Amazon history and
mythic past.'
Title: Lonely Impulse of Delight, A
in - 13 by Shanley / COL
Author: Shanley, John Patrick

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992

Description:

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

1 exterior.

"Man in love with mermaid introduces her to his best friend."

Title: Long Time Coming

in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL
Author: Rusiecki, David

Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016

Description:

roy
comedy - relationships
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act (three scenes)

simple set.

Two friends, both stand-up comics, discuss one of the friend's new girlfriend.

Title: Lost Letters of a Victorian Lady, The

in - Romantic Friction and other plays / COL
Author: Read, Michelle

Publisher: Miscellaneous n.d.

Description:

roy
comedy - melodrama
ten characters
two male; one female
one act

Edith Lampton is an extremely naive, guileless character, who through no choice of her own,
becomes embroiled in an international drug smuggling cartel, headed by the notorious Vicar of
Marmsey. Brought up in the Victorian ideal of womanhood, Edith is ill-prepared for the bizarre
adventure she is drawn into, inhabited by such strange characters as Maverick, the cowboy with
the heart of gold and Master Kelly, the Irish intellectual and rebel sympathiser with a penchant for
a good sing song.
Title: Louis and Dave
in - Instant Applause / CCO
Author: Foster, Norm

Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

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

A young man confesses his true nature to his buddy while 'cruising for chicks' on a Saturday
night.

Title: Love and Lather

in - Miniature Plays for Stage and Study / COL
Author: Kester, Katharine

Publisher: Walter H. Baker 1958

Description:

nonroyalty
farce
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Description not available.

Title: Love Mouse

in - A Collection of Canadian Plays, Volume 1 / CCO
Author: Rosen, Sheldon

Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1972

Description:

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

1 interior.

"Comedy of the absurd. Man and wife are trapped in apartment which is without hot water and
electricity, where the dining room is flooded, and a wolf has settled himself. Prologue."
Title: Love of the Game
in - Dark, No Sugar / COL
Author: Leight, Warren

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2007

Description:

roy
satire
three characters
one male; one female; one boy
one act

A star baseball player teaches his son that how you play the game is not nearly so important as
winning.

Title: Loveliest Afternoon of the Year, The

in - Something I'll Tell You Tuesday & The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year / COL
Author: Guare, John

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967

Description:

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

'Absurdist style comedy. Park meetings between lonely girl eager to marry and strange young man
lead to death.'

Title: Ludlow Fair

in - Ludlow Fair and Home Free! / COL
Author: Wilson, Lanford

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1993

Description:

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

'Hysterical young woman tells roommate about relationship with larcenous boyfriend.'
Title: Ludlow Fair
in - Balm in Gilead and Other Plays / COL
Author: Wilson, Lanford

Publisher: Hill and Wang 1965

Description:

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

'Hysterical young woman tells roommate about relationship with larcenous boyfriend.'

Title: Lunch Date, The

in - Dating Games / COL
Author: Wingfield, Garth

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2006

Description:

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

Over Cosmos in a New York City bar, Holly tells Alice the details of a recent shocking event in her
life following her breakup with a longtime boyfriend. Red meat is involved. So is another woman.

Title: M Word, The

in - Five One-Act Plays / COL
Author: Ball, Alan

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994

Description:

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

In THE M WORD two ambitious executives decide that they are good for each other and proceed to
negotiate a future together. As they're so caught up in the corporate lifestyle, this truly is a
negotiation and in the end, they agree to "merge."
Title: Made for a Woman
in - Five One-Act Plays / COL
Author: Ball, Alan

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

The perfect young woman and her perfect young boyfriend in MADE FOR A WOMAN are perfect
examples of the image conscious society in which we live. She has everything and he does too,
and they have each other. All is fine until she feels duped by a case of over-packaging, her world
falls apart, and she decides to take matters into her own hands in a dangerous way.

Title: Major Weir

in - Glamorgan and Other Plays / COL
Author: Nigro, Don

Publisher: Samuel French 1996

Description:

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

'Ghosts of brother and sister executed in Scotland in 1670 for devil worship.'

Title: Make Like a Dog

in - Four Short Plays / COL
Author: Kass, Jerome

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1967

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

"Whimsical and bizarre in mood, this play deals with a childless suburban couple who take turns
making believe they are the dog which the husband wants but the wife won't allow in their
compulsively clean house".
Title: Maker of Dreams, The
in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL
Author: Down, Oliphant

Publisher: Doubleday 1958

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

one interior set.

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

Title: Mamet Women, The

in - Single and Proud and Other Plays / COL
Author: Stroppel, Frederick

Publisher: Samuel French 1993

Description:

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

'Comic power scene between two women written à la David Mamet.'

Title: Man Who Died at Twelve O'Clock, The

in - Fifteen American One Act Plays / COL
Author: Green, Paul

Publisher: Washington Square Press 1961

Description:

roy
farce
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

"A most interesting amusing folk comedy on Negro life. The story here has to do with a young
couple who dress up and make the old guardian of the girl believe he has seen the devil. After
this, he is forced to give up the money he has been unjustly holding, which allows the couple to
get married".
Title: Many Happy Returns
in - Many Happy Returns and Fast Women / COL
Author: Reale, Willie

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1983

Description:

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

"This cleverly understated yet warmly amusing work details the not-at-all-by-chance meeting of a
love-smitten young girl and the young man who had performed his clown act at her birthday
party several years earlier."

Title: March Madness - Shhhhhh!

in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL
Author: Tasca, Jules

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015

Description:

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

What the assistant basketball coach found the head coach doing would destroy their careers....

Title: Marriage Proposal, A

in - An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Publisher: National Textbook Company 1992

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.

A hypochondriacal suitor quarrels with the girl he wants to marry, but she accepts him.
Title: Marriage Proposal, A
in - The Brute and Other Farces / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by Theodore Hoffman
Publisher: Samuel French 1956

Description:

roy
comedy - romance - 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: Marriage Proposal, A

In - The Mentor Book of Short Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Publisher: New American Library 1969

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: Marriage Proposal, A

in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Baukhage, Barrett
Publisher: Doubleday 1958

Description:

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

Adapted from a Russian story.

English version by Hilmar Baukhage and Barrett H. Clark

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
Title: Mary Just Broke Up With This Guy
in - Dating Games / COL
Author: Wingfield, Garth

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2006

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female (cast may be expanded to twenty-three males)
one act

Mary just broke up with this guy she's been seeing for six years. Welcome to the next year of her
life -- as she goes through a bazillion dates from hell.

Title: Matador Love

in - Summerworks / CCO
Author: Brebner, Morwyn

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

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

The blind date from hell.

Title: Match, A
in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL
Author: Bolen, John

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015

Description:

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

Married couple rediscovers love after argumentative date night.

Title: Mathematics
in - Return of the Big Five / CCO
Author: Alianak, Hrant

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

"A play for and about objects, without characters or dialogue, in which a man who comes home
from the office and a woman who has been doing housework get into bed."

Title: Mathematics
in - Western & Mathematics / CCO
Author: Alianak, Hrant

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

"A play for and about objects, without characters or dialogue, in which a man who comes home
from the office and a woman who has been doing housework get into bed."

Title: Me Too, Then!

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 5th series / COL
Author: Dudzick, Tom Smith, Steven
Publisher: Samuel French 1981

Description:

roy
comedy - American
four characters
two male; one female (doubling)
one act

Vera, a woman with a profound dependence on material goods, discovers that there's more to life
than that which one can buy or own. She learns that laughter is the best medicine when she is
finally capable of laughing at herself.
Title: Mere Mortals
in - Mere Mortals / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998

Description:

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

suggested for high school.

'Mere Mortals' eavesdrops on a lunch hour on a girder 50 stories over the street, as three
construction workers share increasingly amazing secrets of their past.

Title: Mere Mortals

in - Long Ago and Far Away and Other Short Plays / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1999

Description:

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

Suggested for high school.

'Mere Mortals' eavesdrops on a lunch hour on a girder 50 stories over the street, as three
construction workers share increasingly amazing secrets of their past.

Title: Mere Mortals

in - All in the Timing (Fourteen plays) / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Vintage Books 1995

Description:

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

suggested for high school.

'Mere Mortals' eavesdrops on a lunch hour on a girder 50 stories over the street, as three
construction workers share increasingly amazing secrets of their past.
Title: Mexico City
in - The Russian Play and Other Short Works / CCO
Author: Moscovitch, Hannah

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

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

A comedy about a suburban Canadian couple on holiday in Mexico City in the 1970s. They
have brought everything with them from Mississauga – cameras, Hawaiian shirts, and their
frustrations with each other – but the city gradually works its transformative magic on them.

Title: Meyer's Room

in - A Collection of Canadian Plays, Volume 1 / CCO
Author: Rosen, Sheldon

Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1972

Description:

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

1 interior.

"Mixture of horror and comedy of the absurd. Three men occupy single claustrophobic shabby
room, two of whom cannot leave. Only Meyer (the 'blind' beggar) is free."

Title: Mickey's Teeth

in - Mickey's Teeth and Bindle Stiff / COL
Author: Gray, Amlin

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1992

Description:

roy
comedy
all female cast
one female
one act

interior set.

"A comic look at the dark side of the life of a former Mouseketeer."
Title: Mineola Twins, The
in - The Mammary Plays / COL
Author: Vogel, Paula

Publisher: TCG Books 1998

Description:

roy
comedy - political satire
six characters; extras
one male; two female (doubling)
six scenes

The Mineola Twins is an outrageous political satire set on suburban Long Island.

Title: Mineola Twins, The

in - American Theatre (Feb 97) / PER
Author: Vogel, Paula

Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997

Description:

roy
comedy - political satire
six characters; extras
one male; two female (doubling)
six scenes

The Mineola Twins is an outrageous political satire set on suburban Long Island.

Title: Miss Kentucky

in - Great Short Comedies: Volume 1 / COL
Author: Williams, Allison

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2007

Description:

roy
family relations
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act

A mother and daughter reconcile while the daughter is taking a smoke break from a beauty
pageant.
Title: Miss You
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Auburn, David

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

roy
comedy
four characters
one male; one female (doubling)
one act

Two couples rearrange via call-waiting.

Title: Miss You

in - Fifth Planet and Other Plays / COL
Author: Auburn, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2002

Description:

roy
comedy - relationships - love⌦four characters
one male; one female (doubling)
one act

Two couples rearrange via call-waiting.

Title: Missing Marisa

in - Humana Festival '96 / COL
Author: Shanley, John Patrick

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996

Description:

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

'Two men discuss woman who loved and abandoned them both.'
Title: Missing Marisa
in - Missing / Kissing / COL
Author: Shanley, John Patrick

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1997

Description:

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

Terry and Eli are friends with a woman in common: Marisa. Marisa was Eli's wife. Then she ran off
with Terry. Now she has abandoned Terry as well. Terry comes to Eli's apartment looking for
Marisa. Did she return to Eli? Eli is not forthcoming. The two men circle each other, combative and
vulnerable. Eli wants friendship. Terry just wants Marisa back. Neither man can get what he wants.
The phone rings. Is it Marisa? Eli won't pick it up. Terry grabs the receiver and says hello. But the
caller hangs up. Eli is baking a chicken. Terry wants to know who's coming to dinner. Eli will not

Title: Mistaken Identity

in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Cooper, Sharon E.

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

roy
comedy - LGBTQ+
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Set in a pub in Leicester, England, a Hindu lesbian and a disarmingly clueless American discuss
their needs and desires.

Title: Mommy (Maman)

in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO
Author: Dussault, Louisette translated by Linda Gaboriau
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy
Canadian - comedy - monologues - women
all female cast; seventeen characters
one female (doubling)
one act

On a bus, halfway between Montreal and Québec City, a "mommy" accompanied by her 3 year old
twins whose exuberance is obviously disturbing the other passengers. She decides to reject her
role as mother-cop. This comedy takes a scathing look at the traditional roles foisted upon
mothers. All the characters, including the twin daughters and the other passengers, are played by
one woman.
Title: Money
In - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL
Author: Calhoun, Matthew

Publisher: Meriwether Publishing 1987

Description:

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

If you wholeheartedly accept the off-the-wall, improbable comic style of Money, you will find
yourselves with a real success on your hands. It takes place in an empty store, where one man
tries to convince the other that the bank does exist, even though it is invisible (for safety
reasons). Crazy plot and conversation.

Title: Monkey Business

in - Four by Four by Four / CCO
Author: Zylstra, Nicole

Publisher: Red Deer Press 2008

Description:

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

In Zylstra’s play, paleoanthropologist Myriam and her young research assistant Horace find
themselves alone in the rainforest, catching monkeys and clashing over their views on evolution,
their philosophies of life and their seemingly unbridgeable age gap.

Title: Motel
in - America Hurrah and Other Plays / COL
Author: Van Itallie, Jean-Claude

Publisher: Grove Press Inc. 1978

Description:

roy
theatre of the Absurd
three characters
flexible casting
one act

1 interior set; part of 'America Hurrah.'

"The action in this instance is set in a modern, antiseptically stark motel, and underscores the
chilling irony of our mindless penchant for defacing and destroying the very advantages which
affluence and technology have brought us".
Title: Mother Figure
in - Confusions / COL
Author: Ayckbourn, Alan

Publisher: Samuel French 1977

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"A mother unable to escape from baby talk".

Title: Mother's Love, A

in - Life is Short / COL
Author: Pospisil, Craig

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005

Description:

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

In a darkly comic monologue, Melissa calmly explains her reasons for taking a parent's natural
desire to protect her child a little too far.

Title: Motherhouse, The

in - Out on a Limb / CCO
Author: Lagrandeur, Tamara

Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

roy
comedy - seniors - religious - Canadian
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

" 'The Motherhouse' recounts the scheming of Sister Constance McMullen after she learns about
the inevitable eviction of the last nuns from the Grey Nuns Motherhouse building." -
thelinknewspaper.ca
Title: Moving Along
in - Public Speaking and Other Plays / CCO
Author: Craddock, Chris

Publisher: NeWest Press 2014

Description:

roy
solo performance - comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright
all male cast; one character
one male (doubling)
one act

Craddock ricochets wildly through the story of his own life — through childhood traumas,
adolescent tragedies, adult triumphs, and frequent philosophical tangents.

Title: Mr. And Mrs.

in - Humana Festival 2007 / COL
Author: Myatt, Julie Marie

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2008

Description:

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

During their first dance as husband and wife, the bride reveals that she married the groom for
his money and the groom admits that he married the bride for her looks. It's all downhill from
there.

Title: Mr. Biggs

in - New American Plays Volume One / COL
Author: Barlow, Anna Marie

Publisher: Hill and Wang 1965

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior set.

"Two eccentric old sisters living together deliberately continue to house body of dead tenant".
Title: Mr. Fix It
in - Palliser Suite / CCO
Author: Russell-King, Caroline

Publisher: Frontenac House 2014

Description:

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

part 1 of a trilogy of plays called "Palliser Suite"; can be produced as a one act or in conjunction
with the other two, "Second Chance, First Love" and "Funeral Fore!".

Mel awakes in his hotel room to find out he isn’t divorced to his ex-wife after all. He has made
such a mess of his marriage. Can he fix it now that he has been given a second chance?

Title: Mr. Foot

in - The Two of Us / COL
Author: Frayn, Michael

Publisher: Samuel French 1970

Description:

roy
sketch
two characters
one male; one female
one act

interior set.

"A tour de force for an actor and actress - and a foot. Seems the man's foot jiggles uncontrollably
at various moments; and the woman enjoys discussing this with a little man who isn't there. An
amusing sketch."

Title: Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Wexel

in - Bedrooms: Five Comedies / COL
Author: Taylor, Renee Bologna, Joseph
Publisher: Samuel French 1986

Description:

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

Mr. Lewis, a widower, invites Mrs. Wexel, a widow who lives in the same Florida senior citizen
center, up to his apartment to see his fish. He then tries to seduce her and though both are in
their eighties, he pursues her as if they were sixteen. When she finally gives in, he's too tired to
do anything.
Title: Mr. Morton Waits for His Bus
in - Dark, No Sugar / COL
Author: Leight, Warren

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2007

Description:

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

An anxious rookie cop babysits a corpse in a studio walk-up on a fourth of July weekend.

Title: Mr. Smitten

in - Humana Festival 2011 / COL
Author: Eason, Laura

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2012

Description:

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

running time: 10 min.

"Anna comes unglued in the veterinarian's office when she discovers her beloved cat is not long
for this world. Strangers find comfort and connection in this surprising comedy about pets and
their people." - Doollee

Title: Mrs. Dally Has a Lover

in - Whisper Into My Good Ear & Mrs. Dally Has a Lover / COL
Author: Hanley, William

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1963

Description:

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

"It has something of the quality of a Dorothy Parker sketch with its keen observations and deft
portrait of a woman in love, knowing that this love cannot last. Mrs. Dally is well into her thirties,
married to a man she despises and carrying on an affair with the teenaged son of a family living in
the same tenement building. Despite its theme and its 'kitchen sink' locale, there is nothing sordid
about Mr. Hanley's play. It has humour and an equal share of pathos."
Title: Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning
in - Five One Act Plays by Mark Twain / COL
Author: Tasca, Jules

Publisher: Samuel French 1976

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

'Dramatization of Mark Twain's story about woman with obsessive fear of thunder and lightning
and her long suffering husband.'

Title: Mrs. Sorken

in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

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

Humorous monologue about theatre.

Title: Mrs. Sorken

in - Durang/Durang / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1996

Description:

roy
comedy
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

"Mrs. Sorken, a middle aged suburban matron is scheduled to give a lecture on the meaning of
theatre, but has lost her notes. Relying on her memory, her comments are dotty, but definitely
endearing."
Title: Ms Canada
in - The Burning of the Cruise: Three one act plays / CCO
Author: Williamson, Hector

Publisher: Hillhurst Press 2005

Description:

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

In the tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd. A play about schizophrenic Peggy, as Ms. Canada,
who is confused about who she really is in our modern world.

Title: My Boyfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Laundry

in - Sandra Shamas: A Trilogy of Performances / CCO
Author: Shamas, Sandra

Publisher: Mercury Press 1997

Description:

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

One woman's experiences and thoughts on life, laundry and men.

First performed at 1986 Edmonton Fringe Festival.

Title: My Boyfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Laundry: The Cycle continues
in - Sandra Shamas: A Trilogy of Performances / CCO
Author: Shamas, Sandra

Publisher: Mercury Press 1997

Description:

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

A continuation of 'My Boyfriends Back and There's Gonna Be Laundry'. A woman's unique
perspective on the events in her life.
Title: My Husband
in - Plays for Two / COL
Author: Rudnick, Paul

Publisher: Vintage Books 2014

Description:

roy
comedy - marriage - LGBTQ+⌦two characters
one male; one female
one act

A Jewish mother wants to marry off her gay son.

Title: My Husband's an Angel

in - Angels & Anger / CCO
Author: Couturier, Gracia translated by Glen Nichols
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

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

'The ironic underpinning of (the play) is evident from the first appearance of Tarzan Mazerole,
middle aged and bearded, "dressed in his wedding suit, shakily playing the wedding march on a
harmonica" and showing the unmistakeable silhouette of advanced pregnancy! Tarzan, who is
described as "your average guy", explains why he let himself get pregnant, in vitro, in order to let
his opera star wife, Jane, pursue her singing career. . . The result is a lighthearted, ironic look at
what motherhood is all about, what being a parent is all about.'

Title: Naomi in the Living Room

in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

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

"Bizarre scene of son and daughter-in-law's visit with mother."

Title: Need for Brussels Sprouts, A
in - The Best Short Plays 1983 / COL
Author: Schisgal, Murray

Publisher: Chilton Book Company 1981

Description:

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

1 interior set; background music.

"Confrontation between hardboiled, disillusioned police woman, and lonely down-at-heels actor".

Title: New-Found-Land
in - Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land / COL
Author: Stoppard, Tom

Publisher: Samuel French 1976

Description:

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

1 interior set.

"Two Home Office officials consider case of American seeking British citizenship".

Title: Next
in - Apple Pie / COL
Author: McNally, Terrence

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1968

Description:

roy
satire
two characters; extras
one male; one female
one act

one simple set; suggested for high school.

"Set in an Army Induction Center, where an overweight, over-age, and overwrought draftee has
reluctantly reported for his physical. Confronted by an Amazon-like female sergeant, he tries
every evasion he can think of to disqualify himself, but is ultimately shattered by the realization
that nothing will stave off the inevitable. His final monologue, a harrowing exposure of bitterness
Title: Nick and Wendy
in - Bedrooms: Five Comedies / COL
Author: Taylor, Renee Bologna, Joseph
Publisher: Samuel French 1986

Description:

roy
comedy - marriage
three characters
two male; one female
one act (five scenes)

A married couple check in for the weekend to attend a two day human potential encounter-type
seminar. In five scenes that take place during the seminar's bathroom breaks, we ride the roller
coaster of feelings they go through before ending where they started at the beginning of the
weekend.

Title: Night Out

in - Snapshot / COL
Author: Kuruvilla, Sunil

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

A man and a woman search for his keys in the snow, in the dark.

Title: No Dogs Allowed

in - Shel's Shorts / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one scene

'Mr. and Mrs. Q are relaxing on a beach at an exclusive club, where a sign clearly "No Dogs
Allowed". Mr. Wills, the manager of the club, confronts Mrs. Q, asserting that Mr. Q is really a dog.
Mrs. Q counters with various fantastical reasons to explain his hairy face, big black nose and
habit of barking.'
Title: No More Medea
in - Flowers and No More Medea / CCO
Author: Porter, Deborah

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990

Description:

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

"Medea meets the Virgin Mary in the afterlife - they embark on a stormy friendship and a whirlwind
tour of life on Earth as it exists for women now. The shopping is better, but has anything else
changed in 5,000 years?"

Title: No Problem
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 13th series / COL
Author: Butterfield, Catherine

Publisher: Samuel French 1989

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

Paula, a goofy aspiring actress, arrives late for a lunch date with her friend Terry. Whereas
Paula is a nervous wreck, Terry is the picture of the cool businesswoman-- until the waiter takes
too long to bring back the steak she returned to the kitchen to be recooked. Terry goes into a
frenzy that makes Paula look positively serene.

Title: No Skronking
in - Shel's Shorts / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

'After reading a sign at the lunch counter counter that prohibits "skronking". Arnold becomes
abscessed and relentlessly interrogates Bertha, a waitress, for its definition. The conversation
goes in circles until Bertha suspects Arnold of having the dangerous potential of being a
"skronker" - whatever that is.'
Title: No Soliciting
in - Shel's Shorts / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2003

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

'Ed, a sign salesman with a sign for every occasion, tries to convince Nellie to purchase one. He
suggests that Nellie and her husband select a sign for every number of occasions. Ed discovers
that Nellie has a lot of issues regarding her husband and he may not have all the signs she's
looking for.'

Title: Noble Savage, Savage Noble

in - The West of All Possible Worlds / CCO
Author: Amstrong, Bob

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004

Description:

roy
comedy
all male cast; three characters
three male
thirteen scenes

Voltaire, Rousseau and a trapper named Pierre le Breton are plunked into the Canadian western
wilderness of 1757.

Title: Nocturne
in - Fancy Footwork / COL
Author: Gallagher, Miriam

Publisher: Society of Irish Playwrights 1997

Description:

roy
music - love
two characters
one male; one female; pianist
one act

no set.

"Interlude celebrating John Field (1782-1837) creator of the Nocturne. His father, Robert Field,
meets Ehkaterina Karaminskova, a capricious beauty, in love with John Field. Dreamy and
enigmatic."
Title: Noonday Demons
in - Collected Plays / COL
Author: Barnes, Peter

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books 1981

Description:

roy
satire
all male cast; two characters, extras
two male
one act

'Satire about pride. Two 4th century ascetic monks challenge each other's holiness and
self-depreciation.

Title: Norm-Anon
in - Dark, No Sugar / COL
Author: Leight, Warren

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2007

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

suggested for high school.

At last there's a support group for adult children of normal parents.

Title: Not To Hong Kong

in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO
Author: Bullock, Michael

Publisher: Alive Press

Description:

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

Interior representative set; exterior rep set.

"Bella and Mendel discuss the ownership of a coat, help their son read a book that hasn't been
written, and discuss the swimming abilities of their invisible dog."
Title: Notes on Akiba
in - Death & Taxes / COL
Author: Kushner, Tony

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000

Description:

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

1 interior.

Two gay Jewish men prepare a Passover seder, with a tongue-in-cheek rabbinical commentary.

Title: Nothing in Common

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Nineteenth Series / COL
Author: Fell Hayes, Jennifer

Publisher: Samuel French 1995

Description:

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

'Successful businesswoman offers to adopt baby born to young woman abandoned by boyfriend.'

Title: Now Circa Then

in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2011 / COL
Author: Mensch, Carly

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2011

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
three parts

A humorous look at the world of historical re-enactors, set in the Tenement Museum in NYC.
Title: Now Departing
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Ninth Series / COL
Author: Mearns, Robert

Publisher: Samuel French 1984

Description:

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

"This amusing co-winner of the Ninth Annual Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival in NYC is set in
the front seat of a flashy cadillac. Frank, who owns the car, is taking his buddy Tommy out to the
airport. Tommy is flying out to see his girlfriend, and Frank proceeds to give him hilarious tips
about how to deal with women. And, he plants seeds of doubt in Tommy's mind - doubt that the
girl cares as much for him as he for her. This hilarious look at male comaraderie is, to coin a
phrase, 'Mamet-esque'."

Title: Number on the Roman Calendar, A

in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL
Author: Johnston, David

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012

Description:

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

If women have more romantic notions about marriage, life after marriage sometimes entails a
female conversion to far more pragmatic matters, including keeping the lid on dreamy, idealistic
husbands. This play looks back to an earlier millenial happening (AD 1000) and follows a poor
but loving couple through their thoughts and actions on the undoubted eve of the end of the
world.

Title: Objects in the Mirror are Stranger Than They Appear

in - Scraping the Surface / CCO
Author: Albert, Lyle Victor

Publisher: NeWest Press 2000

Description:

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

This play sees "Vic" jamming all of his earthly possessions in the back of his 1996 Honda Civic
and setting off on a perilous 1000-mile journey through the Rocky Mountains, in search of a new
life in Vancouver, BC. He may not know where he's going, but he sure knows what he's leaving
behind.
Title: Ogre
in - Talking Bodies / CCO
Author: Tremblay, Larry translated by Sheila Fischman
Publisher: Talonbooks 2001

Description:

roy
satire - monologue - men
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

In this biting media satire; a thoroughly odious character's actions become ever more disgusting
as he begins to believe a hidden camera is recording his every move.

Title: Oh, Baby: Pochsy's Adventures by the Sea

in - The Pochsy Plays / CCO
Author: Hines, Karen

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004

Description:

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

'Pochsy is at the Last Resort, on holiday from her job packing mercury.'

Title: On Lincoln's Head

in - Snapshot / COL
Author: Jensen, Julie

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003

Description:

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

A young woman throws firecrackers of Lincoln's head at Mt. Rushmore.

Title: On the Edge
in - Life is Short / COL
Author: Pospisil, Craig

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005

Description:

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

suggested for high school.

There's a party inside, but Gene, seventeen, stands on the ledge of an apartment building.
Distraught because the girl he loves is making out with someone, Gene is ready to jump. Sammy,
a classmate, discovers Gene on the ledge, but, seemingly unconcerned, mocks him for being
melodramatic. But as Sammy realizes Gene's pain runs deeper than a girl, will she pull Gene back

Title: On the Edge

in - Under 30 / YCL
Author: Pospisil, Craig

Publisher: Vintage Books 2004

Description:

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

suggested for high school.

There's a party inside, but Gene, seventeen, stands on the ledge of an apartment building.
Distraught because the girl he loves is making out with someone, Gene is ready to jump. Sammy,
a classmate, discovers Gene on the ledge, but, seemingly unconcerned, mocks him for being
melodramatic. But as Sammy realizes Gene's pain runs deeper than a girl, will she pull Gene back

Title: On the Injuriousness of Tobacco (1st Version)

in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko
Publisher: Green Integer 140 2005

Description:

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

A lecture on the evils of smoking?

Title: On the Injuriousness of Tobacco (6th and final version)
in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko
Publisher: Green Integer 140 2005

Description:

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

A lecture on the evils of smoking?

Title: On the Moon

in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko
Publisher: Green Integer 140 2005

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
male or female
one brief scene

A scene which did not make it into Lentovsky's fairy-play "A Voyage to the Moon". Two
astronomers observe a bright light on Earth.

Title: On the Porch One Crisp Spring Morning

in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL
Author: Dremann, Alex

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009

Description:

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

10 minute play.

Spy vs. spy, mother vs. daughter, twist-a-minute comedy.

Title: One Minute Play
in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

"Written for a 1-minute play festival at American Repertory Theatre. A young man tells his suicidal,
disparing thoughts to a cheerful woman who chooses to ignore them."

Title: One Minute Play

in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

"Written for a 1-minute play festival at American Repertory Theatre. A young man tells his suicidal,
disparing thoughts to a cheerful woman who chooses to ignore them."

Title: One Naked Woman and a Fully-Clothed Man

in - Sex and Death / COL
Author: Amsterdam, Diana

Publisher: Samuel French 1990

Description:

roy
comedy; monologues
two characters; extras
one male; one female
one act

A woman's musings on a date at the movie theatre.

Title: One Way Street
in - 5 Easy Pieces / COL
Author: Milligan, Jason

Publisher: Samuel French 2007

Description:

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

Originally staged at the Egyptian Arena Theater in Hollywood, this darkly comic piece (reminiscent
of the style of David Mamet) takes place in the back room of a Long Island coffee shop as three
cops covertly cook up the “perfect crime.” Their scheming is at turns edgy, pointed and hilarious.
But can they trust each other? – that’s the question. What begins as a simple burglary plot
escalates into a cat-and-mouse game – and finally into a dramatic confrontation, forcing each of
the men to come to grips with the fact that trust is a two-way street. And, once it’s broken, there’s

Title: Open Meeting, The

in - The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL
Author: Gurney, A.R.

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1992

Description:

roy
avante garde comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

'Fate of missing participant of meeting is revealed in surprise ending.'

Title: Or,
in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2010 / COL
Author: Adams, Liz Duffy

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2011

Description:

roy
comedy - biographical - women
seven characters
one male; two female (doubling)
one act

A comedy about Aphra Behn, the first woman to make her living as a writer.
Title: Our Eliza
in - The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays v. 2 / CCO
Author: Coles, Megan

Publisher: Breakwater Books 2014

Description:

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

The play, by Megan Coles, is the story of Eliza, who could be one of any number of women in
rural Newfoundland, at a time when traditional ways of life are dying and a hard life is becoming
even harder. - The Chronicle Herald

Title: Our Father

in - Summerworks / CCO
Author: Brebner, Morwyn

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

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

Siblings journey to the dying father who abandoned them.

Title: Out of the Flying Pan

in - Little Brother: Little Sister / Out of the Frying Pan / COL
Author: Campton, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1966

Description:

roy
comedy - Theatre of the Absurd - politics
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

Amid fanfares and popping flash bulbs, two diplomats (A and B) meet to engage in a bout of
international bargaining. Their rapid-fire dialogue, while composed largely of outlandish
doubletalk and windy pronouncements, has chilly overtones of the "real thing," as do their
inevitable disagreement and estrangement. Angrily they tear apart the treaty they have signed, and
turn their backs on one another. Sirens wail, guns rattle, and then a cosmic-sized
explosion—followed by a sudden, heavy silence. In the stillness B stalks off the stage, but then a
Title: Outsourced
in - The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 / COL
Author: Shaine, Laura

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009

Description:

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

Max is completely maxed out on all of his credit cards but he is desperate for more cash. He
telephones his latest card supplier to extend his credit and reaches that dreaded modern
phenomenon, the Call Centre. Which country is he calling? Is there a happy end to his crisis?

Title: Outsourced
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Cunningham, Laura Shaine

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

This may be the first play incorporating that staple of modern life, Kimberly the subcontinental
call center operator.

Title: Outsourced
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Shaine, Laura

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

Max is completely maxed out on all of his credit cards but he is desperate for more cash. He
telephones his latest card supplier to extend his credit and reaches that dreaded modern
phenomenon, the Call Centre. Which country is he calling? Is there a happy end to his crisis?
Title: Overlaid
in - At My Heart's Core & Overlaid / CCO
Author: Davies, Robertson

Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1966

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 'op'ry' 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: Overlaid
in - Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media / CCO
Author: Davies, Robertson

Publisher: Methuen 1973

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: Overlaid
in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO
Author: Davies, Robertson

Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975

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 op'ry' 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: Package Deal
in - Single and Proud and Other Plays / COL
Author: Stroppel, Frederick

Publisher: Samuel French 1993

Description:

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

'Battle of wits between film actress and conniving agent.'

Title: Parading with Nell

in - Funny Girls Coping with Boys / COL
Author: Evans, Annie

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006

Description:

roy
comedy - Alzheimer's
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act

George visits her grandmother with some big news and finds grandma wearing a pot on her head.

Title: Park your Car in Harvard Yard

in - New England Blue / COL
Author: Horovitz, Israel

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

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

"Comic drama about last year in life of ailing Gloucester teacher who hires former student, who he
flunked, as housekeeper."
Title: Parrot, The
in - Off-off Broadway Festival Plays - 27th Series / COL
Author: Wilhelm, Le

Publisher: Samuel French 2003

Description:

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

This nostalgic comedy portrays the complicated courtship between two Southern teenagers: a
preacher's son who skips church to meet the daughter of an often drunk, unwed mother. Patsy's
mom has a new pet, an exotic parrot, and Kevin wants to see it. More than that, he wants to be
with Patsy.

Title: Pasquini the Magnificent

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Eighteenth Series) / COL
Author: Ingraffia, Sam

Publisher: Samuel French 1994

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

'Encounter with troubled housewife gives has-been magician new confidence.'

Title: Pastoral
in - Last Chance Texaco and Pastoral / COL
Author: Maloney, Peter

Publisher: Samuel French 1985

Description:

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

"Pastoral" is a perceptive comedy about a city couple temporarily tending a farm. He hates the
bucolic life and is terrified by such horrors as a crowing rooster; whereas she is at one with the
land and the rooster.
Title: Patter for a Floating Lady
in - Wasp and Other Plays / COL
Author: Martin, Steve

Publisher: Samuel French 1998

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

A magician levitates his female assistant, a former lover. He uses magic to give her the freedom he
was unable to bestow when they were together. The trick has an unexpected result: she splits in
two and reveals her utter contempt for him.

Title: Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot, A

in - Dragon Country / COL
Author: Williams, Tennessee

Publisher: New Directions 1970

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 Plastic

in - Perfect Plastic and The Whispering Time / CCO
Author: Snukal, Sherman

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980

Description:

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

"A window dresser and a security guard meet in a deserted shopping plaza. As she arranges her
mannequins and her maintains his official posture the barriers between them crumble, but to
whose benefit?"
Title: Perfect Relationship, The
in - The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008 / COL
Author: Hughes, Jill Elaine

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009

Description:

roy
comedy - American - relationships
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

Three Chicago women attending their weekly New Age relationship support group discover that
they are all involved with the same man. A wacky comedy about the search for the elusive perfect
relationship.

Title: Pete and Joe at the Dew Drop Inn

in - The Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 / COL
Author: Gardner, Lewis

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers

Description:

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

Two men in a bar discuss the 'male condition'.

Title: Philadelphia, The

in - All In the Timing (Six one-act comedies) / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"A young man in a restaurant has fallen into 'a Philadelphia', a Twilight-Zone state in which he
cannot get anything he asks for. His only way out of the dilemma? To ask for the opposite of what
he wants."
Title: Philadelphia, The
in - All In the Timing (Fourteen plays) / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Vintage Books 1995

Description:

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

"A young man in a restaurant has fallen into 'a Philadelphia', a Twilight-Zone state in which he
cannot get anything he asks for. His only way out of the dilemma? To ask for the opposite of what
he wants."

Title: Phoenix
in - Humana Festival 2010 / COL
Author: Organ, Scott

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2010

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

An out-of-character one-night stand spills into 7 weeks, 4,000 miles and 6 cups of coffee as two
strangers question the calculated lives they lead and contemplate the uncertain world that might
be. A sly comedy about how getting off course can put you on the right track.

Title: Phoenix
in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2010 / COL
Author: Organ, Scott

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2011

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

An out-of-character one-night stand spills into 7 weeks, 4,000 miles and 6 cups of coffee as two
strangers question the calculated lives they lead and contemplate the uncertain world that might
be. A sly comedy about how getting off course can put you on the right track.
Title: Phyllis and Xenobia
in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998

Description:

roy
comedy
all female cast; two characters
two female
sketch

"Two strange sisters bicker about who did or didn't kill their mother, and who or who doesn't like
pudding."

Title: Phyllis and Xenobia

in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

roy
comedy
all female cast; two characters
two female
sketch

"Two strange sisters bicker about who did or didn't kill their mother, and who or who doesn't like
pudding."

Title: Physical Therapy

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 24th series / COL
Author: Reynolds, Jean

Publisher: Samuel French 2000

Description:

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

'Comedy about woman who persuades friend to get certain type of physical therapy.'
Title: Piece for an Audition
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Ninth Series / COL
Author: Tenney, Steven Mark

Publisher: Samuel French 1984

Description:

roy
monologue - audition
two characters
one male (non-speaking); one female
one act

Bare stage.

"The fact that this was performed in NYC by an extraordinary actress named Theresa Marsh had
nothing to do with why this piece was chosen a co-winner of the 9th Annual Off-Off Broadway
Short Play Festival. The writing is richly, brilliantly, entrancingly and poetically evocative of the
helplessness actors must feel at the hands of those who can make, or break, their careers. Here, a

Title: Pigeons
in - New American Plays Volume One / COL
Author: Osgood, Lawrence

Publisher: Hill and Wang 1963

Description:

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

1 exterior set; singing.

"Two old women accuse each other of following a third woman. All three squabble like old birds".

Title: Pile, The

in - Six Plays by Mavor Moore / CCO
Author: Moore, Mavor

Publisher: Talonbooks 1989

Description:

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

"An engineer and a businessman buy a pile of something - that lies where the audience sits - and
try to find a use for it."
Title: Pile, The
in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO
Author: Moore, Mavor

Publisher: Bastet Books 1973

Description:

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

"An engineer and a businessman buy a pile of something - that lies where the audience sits - and
try to find a use for it."

Title: Pillow Talk

in - Stay Carl Stay, Best Half Foot Forward, Pillow Talk / COL
Author: Tolan, Peter

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1991

Description:

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

suggested for high school.

In PILLOW TALK, two heterosexual men, Aaron and Doug, are forced to share a bedroom and a
bed in the mobile home of Aaron's dotty old grandmother. Hampered by Doug's phobic fear of
physical intimacy, the characters are forced to examine their feelings about friendship and each
other. As the battle lines are drawn, they get little sleep and a night full of surprises.

Title: Pink Bedroom, The

in - Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays / COL
Author: Williams, Tennessee

Publisher: New Directions 2005

Description:

roy
comedy - American - 20th century - short play - relationships
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

"Extra marital relationship sours." - Play Index

Title: Pink Cadillac Nightmare, A
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 25th series / COL
Author: Wilhelm, Le

Publisher: Samuel French 2001

Description:

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

'Over-extended Mary Kay representative gives a hapless friend a facial and a sales pitch.'

Title: Pith!
in - A Teatro Trilogy / CCO
Author: Lemoine, Stewart

Publisher: NeWest Press 2004

Description:

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

'1931. An epic tale of travel and adventure told with the most economical means. An itinerant
sailor leads a grieving society widow and her stoic housekeeper on an exhilarating and
treacherous journey into the heart of the South American jungle, without ever taking them out of
the living room. With only four chairs and a phonograph, Jack Vail propels Virginia Tilford and
Nancy Kimble from Providence, Rhode Island to New Orleans, Panama, and Ecuador, where
hilarious encounters with explorers, shysters, gigolos, natives, and all manner of tropical wildlife

Title: Play #3
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 31st series / COL
Author: Adams, Harley

Publisher: Samuel French 2007

Description:

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

Is it Ok to talk about your neighbor’s penis? What about his wife’s tits? These questions are
explored in PLAY #3, a series of conversations that examine the nature of the heterosexual male
relationship. Centered around the hallway conversations of neighbors Pete and John, we start at
their initial meeting and end at their climactic fight, and watch them choke each other. By the end,
the play will have you questioning who is crazy and who is sane, and if you yourself are crazy for
laughing at it. The production requires no props or scenery, and the dialogue is a treat for
Title: Play for Germs
in - Shooting Gallery and Play for Germs / COL
Author: Horovitz, Israel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1973

Description:

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

'Having become comfortably ensconced in his victims body, Socrates (a gonorrhea germ) resents
the sudden intrusion of Aristotle (a syphilis germ). Their confrontation becomes a boasting match
as they trade the names of their many famous conquests, but an ominous note is sounded when
they realize how many of their fellow germs have fallen prey to modern medicine. And, while
Aristotle launches a frenzied attack on his latest would be conquest, so do they, as clouds of
lethal "penicillin" billow in, making them choke their last breath.'

Title: Please Have a Seat and Someone Will Be With You Shortly
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Wingfield, Garth

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Two strangers whose psychiatrists share the same waiting room finally break the ice and share the
images they have constructed of each other's life.

Title: Pluck and Tenacity

in - Off-Off Broadway Plays - 36th Series / COL
Author: Shoshan, Daniella

Publisher: Samuel French 2012

Description:

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

One member of an aspiring rap duo decides to go rogue in order to write love songs, thereby
jeopardizing a lifelong friendship and since-snack-time collaboration.
Title: Plumber's Apprentice, The
in - The Groves of Academe and The Plumber's Apprentice / COL
Author: Stein, Mark

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1982

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

"A wryly humorous and often touching examination of what happens when a young apprentice
(female) is assigned to work with a crusty older plumber (male). Especially recommended for
school and contest use."

Title: Pochsy's Lips

in - Canadian Theatre Review - No.75, Summer 1993 / PER
Author: Hines, Karen

Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993

Description:

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

'Writer and performer Karen Hines presents Poschy, a contemporary antidote to the pain and
suffering of living.'

Title: Pochsy's Lips

in - The Poschy Plays / CCO
Author: Hines, Karen

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004

Description:

roy
monologues - female - satire
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

'Writer and performer Karen Hines presents Poschy, a contemporary antidote to the pain and
suffering of living. In this play, Poschy's in the hospital, convinced she's sick because there's a
squid where her heart should be.'
Title: Poison
in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL
Author: Shanley, John Patrick

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

Kenny has seen the depths of Kelly's self-hatred, and he'll never date her again—unless he drinks
a fortune-teller's mysterious potion, which will kill his soul as dead as Kelly's. Can Kelly convince
him to drink the potion? Can she convince herself?

Title: Poochwater
in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO
Author: McPhaden, Mike

Publisher: Signature Editions 2006

Description:

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

A man finds a wallet in a park and tries to return it to its owner - who is suffering with amnesia.

Title: Poodles
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Cale, David

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

A part of his solo show "A Likely Story", the story displays the marital tribulations which ensue
when one partner becomes obsessed with dogs.
Title: Poof!
in - Plays for Actresses / COL
Author: Nottage, Lynn

Publisher: Vintage Books 1997

Description:

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

suitable for High School performances.

What's that heap of smoking ash where her husband used to be. . .a magic trick, the wrath of God
or evil mojo maybe? As two friends work out the boundaries of personal rights and social
consequence, this surprising comedy raises a novel question: Is spontaneous combustion illegal?

Title: Poor Beggar and the Fairy Godmother, the

in - A Flea in Her Rear (or Ants in Her Pants) / COL
Author: Allais, Alphonse

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1994

Description:

roy
tragic farce
three characters
two male; one female
one act

'Tragic farce set in turn of century Paris. Sketch of beggar's state of mind before during and after
encounter with fairy godmother.'

Title: Pops
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Sanchez, Edwin

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

A man reflects on his father's life and his attachment to I Love Lucy.
Title: Porch
in - Patio/Porch / COL
Author: Heifner, Jack

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1978

Description:

roy
dramatic comedy - small town life
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act

suggested for high school.

"In 'Porch', the two characters are an ill and crotchety old woman and her restless, spinster
daughter. As they sit on their ramshackle front porch complaining of the heat, the meanness of
the mother and the aching frustration of the daughter are made vivid through dialogue which,
while frequently funny, is also unerring in capturing the quiet desperation which beset them

Title: Porn Star

in - Public Speaking and Other Plays / CCO
Author: Craddock, Chris

Publisher: NeWest Press 2014

Description:

roy
solo performance - comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright
all male cast; eight characters
one male (doubling)
one act

A mousy small-town librarian is titillated to learn that she has unwittingly become an internet
sensation thanks to an X-rated viral video starring her and her ex-boyfriend (much to the horror
of her mother, a family-values right-wing politician).

Title: Post-its (Notes on a Marriage)

in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Dooley, Paul Holzman, Winnie
Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

An updated version of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, substituting Post-its for Gurney's more
traditional missives.
Title: Prague Summer
in - The Best American Short Plays 1999-2000 / COL
Author: Orloff, Rich

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one scene

Summer 1992: When two Czech men deal with an American corporate woman sporting six legs
and feelers, one finds her fascinating but the other is bugged.

Title: Prelude to Thirty-five

in - Special Days / COL
Author: Kramer, Seth

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2004

Description:

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

this play can also be performed as part of the full-length collection Special Days.

Rae would rather endure nine hours at a train station in a snowstorm with no coat than spend one
more minute at Jay's parents' house. Jay botches the job of running after Rae, and ends up with a
bloody nose. All in all, a strange way to kick off an engagement...

Title: Prettiest Girl in Lafayette County

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Twelfth Series / COL
Author: Milligan, Jason

Publisher: Samuel French 1987

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

interior setting.

"A young woman named Misty is setting up a display of St. Patrick's Day cards in her shop in a
small town in Mississippi when a young man saunters in looking to buy a Valentine's Day Card.
Since it is the day after Valentine's Day, they are all at half price. He chooses his card and
presents it to the abashed salesgirl. Turns out, his buddies have bet him Fifty Dollars that he
Title: Price You Pay, The
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 24th series / COL
Author: Hutton, Arlene

Publisher: Samuel French 2000

Description:

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

'Dark comedy about two boastful women, whose world is turned upside down by a stranger.'

Title: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots

in - Canadian Theatre Review No.64, Fall 1990 / PER
Author: Mojica, Monique

Publisher: Miscellaneous 1990

Description:

roy
parody - Native issues - Native peoples - Native playwright
all female cast; large cast
two female (doubling)
one act

'A cynical, parodic and historical overview of the experience of Native women in the Americas.'

Title: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots

in - Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots / CCO
Author: Mojica, Monique

Publisher: Women's Press 1991

Description:

roy
parody - Native issues - Native peoples - Native playwright
all female cast; large cast
two female (doubling)
one act

'A cynical, parodic and historical overview of the experience of Native women in the Americas.'
Title: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots
in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO
Author: Mojica, Monique

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990

Description:

roy
parody - Native peoples - Native playwright
all female cast; many characters
two female (doubling)
one act

'A cynical, parodic and historical overview of the experience of Native women in the Americas.'

Title: Product
in - Plays: 2 / COL
Author: Ravenhill, Mark

Publisher: Methuen Drama 2008

Description:

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

Olivia is a hot young starlet. Now all she needs is the script which will save her from B movie hell,
a script which balances artistic integrity with blockbuster bucks. James thinks he's got the perfect
pitch - a script which combines a torrid love story with the dark spectre of terrorism and big, big
explosions. If he can only persuade Olivia, he's got the perfect Product.

Title: Proposal, The

in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko
Publisher: Green Integer 140 2005

Description:

roy
farce
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 exterior set; same as 'The Marriage Proposal'

"Hypochondriacal suitor quarrels with the girl he wants to marry, but she accepts him."
Title: Proposal, The
in - Chekhov Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Publisher: Penguin Books 1980

Description:

roy
farce
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 exterior set; same as 'The Marriage Proposal'

"Hypochondriacal suitor quarrels with the girl he wants to marry, but she accepts him."

Title: Proposal, The

in 15 International One-Act Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Publisher: Washington Square Press 1969

Description:

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

1 exterior set; same as 'The Marriage Proposal'

"Hypochondriacal suitor quarrels with the girl he wants to marry, but she accepts him."

Title: Public Servant, The

in - Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2016) / PER
Author: Brewin, Jennifer and Haley McGee McVie, Sarah and Amy Rutherford
Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy
tragicomedy - political - Canadian - autobiographical
nine characters (doubling)
three female
one act (seventeen scenes)

"The Public Servant" is a comic-tragedy about the women who administer the affairs of our
country. Step inside the halls of power as Madge, a young, idealistic and enthusiastic civil
servant, gets ready to write her first official memo. Inspired by interviews with more then 40
federal, provincial, and municipal public servants, "The Public Servant" offers a rare window into a
world so familiar, yet so foreign to many Canadians.
Title: Public Speaking
in - Public Speaking and Other Plays / CCO
Author: Craddock, Chris

Publisher: NeWest Press 2014

Description:

roy
solo performance - comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright
all male cast; six characters
one male (doubling)
one act

An amoral lifestyle guru finds his message of guilt-free self-interest tested when his sex-addicted
daughter is kidnapped by a pair of dangerous thugs.

Title: Pushcart Peddlers, The

in - The Best Short Plays 1981 / COL
Author: Schisgal, Murray

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980

Description:

roy
satire - immigrants
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 exterior set; singing; dancing.

"Satire on immigrant success stories. Two recent arrivals, sitting on the New York waterfront, talk
their way into capitalist enterprise and true love for the poor flower girl whom they will catapult
into Broadway stardom".

Title: Pushcart Peddlers, The

in - The Pushcart Peddlars, The Flatulist & Other Plays / COL
Author: Schisgal, Murray

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980

Description:

roy
satire - immigrants
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 exterior set; singing; dancing.

"Satire on immigrant success stories. Two recent arrivals, sitting on the New York waterfront, talk
their way into capitalist enterprise and true love for the poor flower girl whom they will catapult
into Broadway stardom".
Title: Put Your Best Foot Forward
in - Short Stuff: Ten- to Twenty- Minute Plays for Mature Actors / COL
Author: Brown, Kent R.

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1998

Description:

roy
comedy - senior adult theatre
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act

A mother and her cleaning woman pass some time playing with her daughter's shoes.

Title: Pyg
in - Breakout / CCO
Author: Condo, Rose

Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004

Description:

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

'"pyg" tells the funny and touching story of one woman's struggle with loneliness and the
relentlessly impossible ideals our culture's media imposes on us.'

Title: Queen's Revenge, A

in - Three Dark Comedies / COL
Author: Beim, Norman

Publisher: Newconcept Press 2007

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

An older gay man plots revenge when he is deserted by his younger lover.
Title: Quick Tour of the Monument, A
in - Snapshot / COL
Author: Wright, Craig

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003

Description:

roy
monologues
all male cast; one character
one male
one scene

A guide describes Mount Rushmore.

Title: Quiet Place, A

in - Minor Complications / CCO
Author: Gall, Brendan

Publisher: Coach House Press 2010

Description:

roy
tragicomedy - Canadian
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

Two amnesiacs in a room with no door attempt to solve the puzzle of their own existence while
trying not to kill each other or fall in love. A great reckoning in a little room, this play will take
you from mystery to comedy to tragedy - all with just two men, one chair and a light bulb.

Title: Radio: 30
in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 108, Fall 2001 / PER
Author: Earle, Chris

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001

Description:

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

'A sinister comedy about crumbling confidence.'

Winner - 2001 Chalmers award for best new play

- Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding new play in the Independent
Theatre Division
Title: Raft: An Interlude, The
in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO
Author: Leacock, Stephen

Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975

Description:

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

exterior set.

"Satire of romantic adventures. A 'story tale adventurer -- rafts, rescues and other specialties',
fishes a girl out of the sea and acts in true gentlemanly fashion despite the close quarters to
which they are confined."

Title: Rats
in - First Season / COL
Author: Horovitz, Israel

Publisher: Vintage Books 1968

Description:

roy
black comedy
three characters
flexible casting (adults)
one act

"Black comedy about power struggle between Harlem rat and country cousin from Connecticut."

Title: Rattle In The Dash

in - Rattle in the Dash / CCO
Author: Anderson, Peter

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988

Description:

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

"Carl and Brandon are two young guys who set out on a cross-country car trip from Detroit to
Vancouver in pursuit of a woman, but before long mystery and doubt turn their journey into a
very strange adventure."
Title: Raunchy Dame in the Chinese Raincoat, The
in - The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004 / COL
Author: Noonan, John Ford

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2006

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Two down-and-out roommates - ugly Gino and dapper Harry - compete for the attentions of
Marla, a flashy blonde who enters their shabby lives bound and gagged inside a rolled-up
Oriental rug. Marla, of course, makes a beeline for Gino.

Title: Real Life

in - Revue Unique / COL
Author: Crowder, David Lloyd

Publisher: Samuel French 1964

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

1 interior.

"Mother whose son has embezzled ten thousand dollars tries to help him."

Title: Reality Play

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 38th series / COL
Author: Swaner, Mark

Publisher: Samuel French 2014

Description:

roy
comedy - parody - television
two characters
flexible casting
one act

An actor explores and questions the authenticity of reality television by appropriating its essential
elements in the form of a “play.”
Title: Recounting Our Riches
in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2014) / PER
Author: Martineau, Maureen

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2014

Description:

roy
comedy - political - social issues - social class
sixteen characters
one male; one female (doubling)
one act (twelve scenes)

In "Recounting Our Riches" two street people, Lulu and Baloune, who are trying to recycle
themselves as entertainers, set out to find the answers and, following the circuitous route of the
clown, discover that we need better ways to measure what is really important in life. An invitation
to leave a world of things and enter a world of relationships, "Recounting Our Riches" is the
English translation of the Théâtre Parminou’s "Contes de la Richesse". It is part of a trilogy based
on the works of economist Patrick Viveret and inspired by work by the French theatre company La

Title: Red Carnations

in - Fifteen American One Act Plays / COL
Author: Hughes, Glenn

Publisher: Washington Square Press 1961

Description:

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

1 exterior set.

"A dainty little satire, written with wit, humor and distinction. A boy and a girl and a man engage
in a very amusing trialogue near a park bench. Very easily produced and for light comedy, well
worth doing".

Title: Relationtrip
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 31st series / COL
Author: Rothstein, Sharyn

Publisher: Samuel French 2007

Description:

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

Carrie and her sister Julie board a train bound for a cousin’s wedding with Carrie’s boyfriend of
over two years, Eric. The train has just left the station when their cousin’s friend from college,
Owen, introduces himself and, at Julie’s insistence, joins the group. Good-natured flirtations and
easy-going conversation about marriage, love and relationships turn more personal and
increasingly more intense as Carrie and Eric discover that each has a very different concept of
commitment and Julie and Owen discover they both enjoy Italian food. By the trip’s end, one
Title: Replacement, The
in - Martini with a Twist / CCO
Author: Martini, Clem

Publisher: NeWest Press 2012

Description:

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

A quiet shut-in wrestles with the jealous ghost of his wife. "The Replacement" is the story of
Norman, a widowed man who decides to take the leap back into the dating world. He invites a
woman over for dinner but is surprised that, when she backs out of the date, a replacement guest
shows up at his door.

Nominated! Outstanding New Play. 2003 Betty Mitchell Awards.

Title: Reservations for Two

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 13th series / COL
Author: Goodman, Lori

Publisher: Samuel French 1989

Description:

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

Jim met Anne at a party and has asked her out to dinner. As they are finishing their dessert he
makes his move. Anne appreciates his honesty, but launches into a progressively more out of
control (and hilarious) tirade against the way men-- in general, of course-- try to seduce women.
She gets so carried away that Jim (not that bad a guy, actually) decides he's having dinner with a
crazy and abruptly ends the date, as well as what could have been a promising relationship--

Title: Reverb-ber-ber-rations
in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO
Author: Spiderwoman Theatre

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1992

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

Deals with the persistence of memory across generations.

Title: Rex Morgan, M.D.
in - Theatrical Exhibitions / CCO
Author: Shein, Brian

Publisher: Pulp Press Book Publishers 1975

Description:

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

Experimental play satirizing comic strip Rex Morgan, M.D.

Title: Rider Girl

in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2017) / PER
Author: Sutton, Colleen

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2017

Description:

roy
comedy - football - monologues - Canada
all female cast; nine characters; voice overs
two female (doubling)
one act (fifteen scenes)

running time: 80 mins

A prairie girl is seduced into sports fandom and discovers the rules don't apply to the game.
Loaded with laughs, it's a fast paced, physical, and trash-talking march down the field that will
haul your heart into the game.

Title: Ringrose the Pirate

in - The Gypsy Woman and Other Plays / COL
Author: Nigro, Don

Publisher: Samuel French 1992

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

1 interior set.

1916. The writer Henry James, confined to his bed after a stroke, continues to dictate to his loyal
young typist, Theodora Bosquanet, although much of what he comes up with at this point is a
bizarre and funny parody of his labyrinthine later style that dances on the edge of gibberish. But
suddenly - Eureka! - the great man begins pouring out something entirely unexpected and
Title: Riverside Drive
in - Writer's Block / COL
Author: Allen, Woody

Publisher: Samuel French 2003

Description:

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

"Companion play to Old Saybrook, Woody Allen's other half of Writer's Block. These absurdist
plays take on marital infidelity, in this instance on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where Fred
Savage, a homicidal, paranoid, schizophrenic vagrant ex-copywriter, has been stalking a
screenwriter for weeks, convinced that his prey stole his idea - in fact, his life - to create a
successful movie plot."

Title: RMEO + JULEZ

in - Dramatics (April 2014) / PER
Author: Salomon, Michael

Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

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

"In a modern re-imagining of the balcony scene in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” the
star-crossed lovers in the 10-minute play "RMEO + JULEZ" face challenges the Bard never could
have imagined. Ringing cell phones, urgent text messages and a flurry of e-mails punctuate the
play about relationships in the age of technology." - Wendy Leopold

Winner of 2009 MTC/Dentyne National Student Playwrighting Competition

Title: Rock Scissors Paper

in - Snapshot / COL
Author: Margolin, Deb

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003

Description:

roy
monologues - women
all female cast; one character
one female
one scene

A woman rants about her mother.

Title: Role of Della, The
in - Plays for Actresses / COL
Author: Wooten, John J.

Publisher: Vintage Books 1997

Description:

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

suitable for high school performances.

An eager young actress has her eye set on the role of Della, but can she convince a cold, sarcastic
director that she's right for the part? A riveting and riotous look at the contemporary audition
process, giving new meaning to the term "stealing a scene."

Title: Romance in A Flat

in - Feydeau, First to Last / COL
Author: Feydeau, Georges

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001

Description:

roy
farce
three characters
two male; one female
one act

'Parisian society lady meets her rather odd new piano teacher.'

Title: Romantic Friction

in - Romantic Friction and other plays / COL
Author: Read, Michelle

Publisher: Miscellaneous n.d.

Description:

roy
comedy
four characters
one male; two female (doubling)
one act

Anna has moved to Ireland in order to write a 'proper' novel but she's hardly off the boat before
she's met a man, fallen in love and been jilted. The play is set as Anna wakes up in a drunken
stupor to find two of the characters from her latest 'bodice ripper' large as life in her living room.
The ensuing discussion with the chirpy, cockney maid servant Minnie Crabtree and the dashingly,
heroic Lord Beaston, helps Anna to get her life, not to mention her plotlines, back into shape.
Title: Roosevelt Cousins, Thoroughly Sauced, The
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 32nd series / COL
Author: Lew, Michael

Publisher: Samuel French 2008

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

It’s during prohibition, FDR and Eleanor are still fairly young, stuck in Georgia at a Polio clinic
and getting drunk on illegal moonshine. As they imbibe, Eleanor tries to convince FDR to run for
office. The more drunk they get, the more their comments become absurd and anachronistic, the
author’s voice entering the text making for a very silly romp.

Title: Rosa's Eulogy

in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Strand, Richard

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

A woman delivers a moving eulogy for what she believes to be a stray cat.

Title: Rules of Comedy

in - Humana Festival 2015 / COL
Author: Cotter, Patricia

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2016

Description:

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

Caroline is really, really not funny. Which is why she hires Guy, a stand-up comedian with some
hang-ups of his own, to teach her how to tell jokes. But it turns out that they both have things to
learn from one another, about life as well as laughter.
Title: Run
in - Dating Games / COL
Author: Wingfield, Garth

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2006

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

In a dog run in New York City, dogs sniff one another... and so do humans.

Title: Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife
in - Fool for Love / COL
Author: Shepard, Sam

Publisher: City Lights Books 1983

Description:

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

"This comic operetta takes a distaff view of the Southwest's legendary cowpuncher and his mate
Slue-foot Sue, with irreverent commentary on American heroes and heroics."

Title: Safe Sex

in - The Way We Live Now / COL
Author: Fierstein, Harvey

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1990

Description:

roy
comedy - LGBTQ+
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

'Second play in trilogy entitled Safe Sex is comic argument between two male lovers one of whom
believes the other's safe sex stance is attempt to avoid intimacy.'
Title: Sale, The
in - Short Stuff: Ten- to Twenty- Minute Plays for Mature Actors / COL
Author: Alex, David

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1998

Description:

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

A teacher gives her new pupil a lesson in life and algebra.

Title: Saying Yes

in - Latin American Plays / COL
Author: Gambaro, Griselda translated by Sebastian Doggart
Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1996

Description:

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

1 interior; translated by Sebastian Doggart.

Black comedy set in hairdressing salon about man's inhumanity to man.

Title: Scene at Mt. Rushmore

in - Snapshot / COL
Author: Long, Quincy

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003

Description:

roy
comedy
al male cast; two characters
two male
one scene

In this beautiful, humorous family drama, brothers Bobby and Did contemplate stone-faced
presidents and their momma's memory.
Title: Scent of Honeysuckle
in - A Little Something for the Ducks and Scent of Honeysuckle / COL
Author: Toddie, Jean Lenox

Publisher: Samuel French 1983

Description:

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

'Three generations of women struggle with need for independence.'

Title: Sealwoman and the Fisher, The

in - Fancy Footwork / COL
Author: Gallagher, Miriam

Publisher: Society of Irish Playwrights 1997

Description:

roy
folk tales
two characters
one male; one female
one act

no set.

"The God of Christianity and the old Seagod struggle for a fisherman's soul. The Sealwoman and
the Fisher uses an old Scottish Folk Tale which lends itself to a magical composition where the
theatrical illusion is created by dance, music and mime."

Title: Second Chance, First Love

in - Palliser Suite / CCO
Author: Russell-King, Caroline

Publisher: Frontenac House 2014

Description:

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

part 2 of a trilogy of plays called "Palliser Suite"; can be produced as a one act or in conjunction
with the other two, "Mr. Fix It" and "Funeral Fore!".

Decades later Zelda meets up with her first love, Stanley, a washed up sit com star in the hotel
room. Does Zelda want to re-kindle her romance with Stanley or is something else her first love?
Title: Seduction Duet
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 6th series / COL
Author: Appleman, M. H.

Publisher: Samuel French 1982

Description:

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

bare stage; simple set.

Two insecure singles hilariously try to join the sexual revolution. Cynthia, a computer
operator, returns home from an office party with Matt, an accountant. They discover mutual
interests from saving dolphins, to conversation and reading - about butterflies, overpopulation
and sex. In a wild dance seduction scene - when tequila and Mexican music take over - sparks

Title: Senior Prom

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 10th series / COL
Author: Mearns, Robert

Publisher: Samuel French 1985

Description:

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

On Prom night a couple sit on the terrace. The guy is a young actor from New York who became
friends with the girl when his theatre company played in the town. He once had one line on a
popular soap opera-- which makes him a celebrity at the prom. He is embarrassed-- and reluctant
to tell her that he is not really a star. When he finally does, it doesn't matter. She loves him
anyway. This sensitive, amusing look at young love is perfect for college and high school
productions.

Title: Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse

in - Carole Frechette: Three Plays / CCO
Author: Frechette, Carole translated by John Murrell
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

'Play within a play. Earnest, unemployed young man invites public to witness scenes from his life.'
Title: Sex with the Censor
in - Theresa Rebeck: Collected Plays v. 1, 1989 - 1998 / COL
Author: Rebeck, Theresa

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1999

Description:

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

" 'Sex With the Censor' is about a prostitute’s psychologically complex encounter with a client.
Gender and power relations, yes, but with a sharp emotional edge and a comic inevitability."

Title: She With a Capital Ess

in - What If? / COL
Author: Hanagan, Jay D.

Publisher: Samuel French 2006

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

A simple man with girl problems has a little chat with God about those problems. What do you say
to God? How do you say it? Doesn't He already know the questions? Doesn't He already know the
answers? And what makes Him such an expert?

Title: Shooting Gallery

in - Shooting Gallery and Play for Germs / COL
Author: Horovitz, Israel

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1973

Description:

roy
comedy - avant garde
three characters
two male; one female
one act

suggested for high school.

"Young man in amusement park shooting gallery has spent all his money, neglected his children,
and exhausted wife in effort to hit a mechanical bear, thereby winning goldfish for wife."
Title: Shooting Star
in - Plays for Two / COL
Author: Dietz, Steven

Publisher: Vintage Books 2014

Description:

roy
comedy - romance
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: Shopaholic
in - Four by Four by Four / CCO
Author: Stirling, Glenda

Publisher: Red Deer Press 2008

Description:

roy
comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright
thirteen characters
one male; two female (doubling)
one act

prequel to "Shopaholic Husband Hunt" and "Shopaholic Wedding Bells".

Abigail Adams is an addict, but she isn’t addicted to something nasty like heroin or even booze or
cigarettes. Abbie is a shopaholic, and her addiction inspires more laughs than sympathy. She
can’t go by a mall without picking up a few things. She bemoans the state of her finances, but she
can’t pass up a sale. Her love life is rocky, but she makes up for it by adding something new to

Title: Shoulder Pads

in - Cues and Entrances / CCO
Author: Ravel, Aviva

Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993

Description:

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

'The new rebellious spirit of the sixties and the beginnings of the modern women's liberation
movement are presented in the character of a domineering mother who pretends to be a part of
this spirit. In reality, however, she retains her deeply-ingrained old-fashioned values that focus
on material possessions and social status. She has systematically imposed these values on her
timid, over-protected daughter and hen-pecked husband. In a comic reversal, the tide turns on
the mother, as her daughter and fiancé leave their repressive homes to lead independent lives,
Title: Sid and Elsie
in - Best Student One Acts Volume 6 / COL
Author: Poulten, Bernari

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2001

Description:

roy
dramatic comedy - communism
three characters
two male; three female
one act

'Sid and Elsie are television actors, writers and comedians during the McCarthy era. Sid writes a
show that forces the network to cancel the series, and is forced to appear before McCarthy's
Senate committee.'

Title: Singular Kinda Guy, A

in - All in the Timing (Fourteen plays) / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Vintage Books 1995

Description:

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

A young guy is out on a Saturday night in his best shoes, talking to a girl he's met in a bar. She's
nice, he likes her. But he's got this sort of confession, see. There's something she ought to know
about him. And he's never told this to anybody. You see, on the inside, deep on the inside, he
isn't really a guy at all. He's an Olivetti electric self-correcting typewriter. And he can't even type!

Title: Singular Kinda Guy, A

in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015

Description:

roy
comedy - solo performance - relationships - monologue
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

Mitch is a young guy talking to a girl in a bar. She's nice, but he's got this sort of confession, see.
There's something she ought to know—on the inside, he isn't really a guy at all. He's an Olivetti
electric self-correcting typewriter.
Title: Sinners Three
in - The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas / CCO
Author: Lemoine, Stewart

Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1986

Description:

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

"Brief and psychotic comedy of forbidden love in the gutters and drawing rooms of the Austrian
capital."

Title: Sir Herbert is Deeply Touched

in - Sir Herbert is Deeply Touched-This Marathon Business-'Hamlet'.../ COL
Author: Stevens, H.C.G.

Publisher: Kenyon-Deane 1931

Description:

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

Description not available.

Title: Sister Mary's a Dyke?!

in - Queer Play / CCO
Author: Peña, Flerida

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy
comedy - LGBTQ+ - women - religion - Canadian - solo performance
all female cast; one character
one female
one act (sixteen scenes)

A playful attack on the church and the oppressive educational systems it has spawned. Peña uses
high theatricality ro illustrate her queer vision and empower her characters to be as fully
rebellious as she can dream them. What seems at first to be a coming out story quickly turns into
a fantastical rebellion of comic book proportions. This action-packed play is a fun foray into the
triumph of imagination in the face of oppression - one that culminates in nothing less that a
dramatic overthrow of the Vatican.
Title: Six Dead Bodies Duct-taped to a Merry-Go-Round
in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL
Author: Walker, Lindsay Marianna Moore, Dawson
Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012

Description:

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

The play captures nothing more complicated than a couple of seemingly disparate people finding
each other's humanities.

Title: Skin Deep

in - Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lillies / COL
Author: Howe, Tina

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

set on the R train in New York City.

Daphne, the wood nymph is being chased through the subway system by Apollo. She flies into the
arms of an infamous dermatologist who tries to save her. But can he?

Title: Smell of Burning, A

in - A Smell of Burning and Then... / COL
Author: Campton, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1969

Description:

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

simple interior.

'Satire with symbolism. British married couple at breakfast continue to be absorbed in domestic
trivialities while in the distance explosives are heard and a mysterious gentleman from the
government performs some sinister actions.'
Title: Social Event, A
in - Summer Brave and Eleven Short Plays / COL
Author: Inge, William

Publisher: Random House 1962

Description:

roy
satire
three characters
one male; two female
one act

'Uninvited, snubbed Hollywood couple plan to attend star's funeral.'

Title: Something from Nothing

in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL
Author: Reidy, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

A stranger's intimate gesture on a New York subway causes a couple to reexamine their
relationship, and it causes one person to get punched in the face. Told from all three characters'
wildly different perspectives.

Title: Something in the Basement

in - Something in the Basement and Other Plays / COL
Author: Nigro, Don

Publisher: Samuel French 1989

Description:

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

interior.

"A young married couple move into an old house where their nights are troubled by the young
wife's reluctance to allow the husband to touch her, and her growing insistence that there is
something making increasingly bizarre noises in their dark basement, and gradually their fear
turns into an obsessive struggle and a strange erotic triangle the third member of which lurks
Title: Something to Eat
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Ninth Series / COL
Author: Rhodes, Norman L.

Publisher: Samuel French 1984

Description:

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

"A young urban couple, the proverbial 'Yuppies', just can't seem to settle on where to go out to
eat. Every place that he suggests, she's against. Of course, she doesn't have any suggestions of
her own - she just won't go along with any of his suggestions. Then, she finally agrees to
suggest a restaurant - and every place she suggests does not appeal to him. Eventually, of
course, they are able to make the vital, crucial, earth-shattering decision of where to go get
something to eat. A hilarious outlook at a contemporary 'relationship'."

Title: Song for Me, or Getting the Oscar, A

in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL
Author: Bolen, John

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012

Description:

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

Is honesty always the best policy? If so, then why does love inspire so much deception and such
strange behavior? How could any relationship survive unfiltered when verisimilitude will serve
much better, and get us kissed at night?

Title: Sort of Holiday, A

in - Triple Play / CCO
Author: Curran, Colleen

Publisher: NuAge Editions 1990

Description:

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

'An unlikely romantic comedy about two strangers who clash one afternoon in a small college
library. The spirit of Stephen Leacock, which permeates this play, gently leads the two characters
to a surprising reconciliation.'
Title: Speak Now
in - Special Days / COL
Author: Kramer, Seth

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2004

Description:

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

this play can also be performed as part of the full-length collection Special Days.

It's the biggest day of Casey's life and she's locked on a roof across the street from the church
where her wedding just started. Harold, the guy who got them into this mess, must come up with
a plan to save the day or face the fact that he just ruined Casey's wedding.

Title: Specter
in - Green man and other plays / COL
Author: Nigro, Don

Publisher: Samuel French 1991

Description:

roy
dark comedy - ghost stories
two characters
one male; one female
one act

On a rainy night a young professor drives on a twisted road through the woods near Princeton,
swerves into a ditch to avoid a girl in a white dress, and finds himself stuck in his car with an
outrageous and possibly demented young lady who might want to murder or make love to him, or
both. This ancient ghost story is retold as a funny and frightening play about the relationship of
desire to danger and the perils of relying on the kindness of strangers.

Title: Spelling Bee, The

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays Nineteenth Series / COL
Author: Vassallo, Philip

Publisher: Samuel French 1995

Description:

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

'Encounter between two young men, one black and one white, each victimized by same crime.'
Title: Square Root of Love, The
in - The Square Root of Love / COL
Author: Meltzer, Daniel

Publisher: Samuel French 1979

Description:

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

1 interior set.

"Two college geniuses discover more to life than intellectual pursuits".

Title: St. Nicholas

in - Weir and Other Plays, The / COL
Author: McPherson, Conor

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1999

Description:

roy
black comedy - Irish
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

'Black comedy about obsession, seduction and entrapment. Jaded London theatre critic falls for
beautiful actress.'

Title: Stacy
in - Plays: One / COL
Author: Thorne, Jack

Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2014

Description:

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

In this monologue play, twenty-something Rob tells the story of a confusing couple of days in
which everything in his life seems to have gone wrong. Rob works in a call-centre – a job for
which he claims he is vastly overqualified – and lives in Croydon with his brother. Following an
unexpected sexual encounter with his best friend Stacy the night before, he has turned up at her
house hoping to continue where they left off. But when flatmate Shona arrives first, he makes a
terrible decision that will change the course of his life forever. The play is performed by an actor
Title: Starman, Wish me Luck
in - Short Stuff: Ten- to Twenty- Minute Plays for Mature Actors / COL
Author: Burton, Nicole J.

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1998

Description:

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

A couple of odd characters and a conversation on a park bench.

Title: Starter Home

in - Three on the Boards / CCO
Author: Koller, Katherine

Publisher: Signature Editions 2007

Description:

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

"Vanessa and Wayne are in love and want to move in together. They find the perfect starter home
for rent, but they're not so sure about the landlady."

Title: Statue of Bolivar

in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Lane, Eric

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

Sets an encounter between a self-possessed eighth-grader and a woman of a certain age near the
statue of Simon Bolivar in New York's Central Park.
Title: Streak
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Smith, Tommy

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

roy
comedy - baseball
all male cast; two characters - voice
two male
one act

Presents an on-field encounter between a Hispanic third baseman and an American baseball
coach.

Title: Street of Blood

in - String Quartet / CCO
Author: Burkett, Ronnie

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy
dark comedy - puppet play - fantasy - Canadian
all male cast
one male; puppets
one act

When Mrs. Edna Rural pricks her finger and bleeds onto her sewing, she sees the face of Christ in
a quilt square. As the media and the faithful converge on her sleepy prairie town, a has-been
Hollywood vampire seeking rejuvenation and a karaoke-singing gay terrorist intent on revenge
join the fray. And just as the bloodbath begins, the man in the quilt appears in the flesh to the
odd trio, revealing that the bonds of blood are thicker and stranger than their individual thirsts
led them to believe.

Title: Street of Blood

in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO
Author: Burkett, Ronnie

Publisher: Talonbooks 2013

Description:

roy
dark comedy - puppet play - fantasy - Canadian
all male cast
one male; puppets
one act

When Mrs. Edna Rural pricks her finger and bleeds onto her sewing, she sees the face of Christ in
a quilt square. As the media and the faithful converge on her sleepy prairie town, a has-been
Hollywood vampire seeking rejuvenation and a karaoke-singing gay terrorist intent on revenge
join the fray. And just as the bloodbath begins, the man in the quilt appears in the flesh to the
odd trio, revealing that the bonds of blood are thicker and stranger than their individual thirsts
led them to believe.
Title: Strife Faces Jan
in - Revue Unique / COL
Author: Crowder, David Lloyd

Publisher: Samuel French 1964

Description:

roy
satire
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior.

"Satire on radio and television serial drama."

Title: Stronger, The

in - The Plays of Strindberg Vol. 1 / COL
Author: Strindberg, August translated by Michael Meyer
Publisher: Vintage Books 1964

Description:

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

1 interior.

"Social comedy. Wife vs. other woman."

Title: Student, The

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 34th series / COL
Author: Hoverman, Matt

Publisher: Samuel French 2010

Description:

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

A two-character holiday comedy about a burnt-out, adult education writing teacher who
rediscovers his passion in one of the strangest student-teacher conferences of all time.
Title: Stuff
in - Out of the Fringe / COL
Author: Bustamante, Nao Fusco, Coco
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2000

Description:

roy
satire - revue
three characters; extras
one male; two female
one act

audience participation; music, singing, dancing.

Satirical revue about Latin women, food, and sex - cultural consumption, as practiced by North
Americans and Europeans.

Title: Stuffings
in - Stuffings and An American Sunset: Two Plays / COL
Author: Prideaux, James

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1973

Description:

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

1 interior set.

"Dowdy lady taxidermist forced to choose between love and her career".

Title: Sturm und Drang

in - Steven Berkoff: Plays One / COL
Author: Berkoff, Steven

Publisher: Faber and Faber 1994

Description:

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

No description available.
Title: Subtext of Texting, The
in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL
Author: Howard, Lorin

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012

Description:

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

Puts a contemporary spin on early romantic contacts by reminding us how the advent of new
technologies like texting generates a new language of love not quite sorted out.

Title: Success
in - The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL
Author: Kopit, Arthur

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1991

Description:

roy
black comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior set.

'Author of best seller about depression commits suicide during promotional tour.'

Title: Successful Life of 3, The

in - Eight Plays from Off-Off Broadway / COL
Author: Fornes, Maria Irene

Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1966

Description:

roy
comedy - vaudeville - skits
three characters; extras
two male; one female
one act (ten scenes)

"The Successful Life of 3" playfully examines the intersecting lives and relationships of two men
and the woman they sometimes share. Its characters are nameless archetypes; He, She and 3, who
careen through ten episodic vaudevillian scenes.
Title: Suicide Meet, The
in - The Suicide Meet / CCO
Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey

Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1977

Description:

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

" "The Suicide Meet" was true Canadiana - with all our warts showing. Parts made me squirm with
their truisms - parts made me reminisce briefly - a few parts were sad in their candor... After the
series of skits was over, little sardonic slices of life as crude and unabashed as picking your nose
in public, I realized I felt good, I was entertained." - Shirley Gordon, Radio CKXL, Calgary

No further description available.

Title: Summer in the Country

in - The Brute and Other Farces / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Bentley, Eric
Publisher: Samuel French 1956

Description:

roy
dramatic comedy - death - suicide
all male cast; two characters
two male
one act

Depressed man begs friend for revolver to end his life but his request goes humorously
unheeded.

Title: Summer Morning Visitor

in - Twain Plus Plain / COL
Author: Sabath, Bernard

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1984

Description:

roy
biographical - comedy - Samuel Clemens / Mark Twain
three characters
one male; two female
one act

First in a series of Sam Clemens one acts.

A young man of Southern background but Northern sympathies agonizes over which side to join
in the growing conflict that will become the Civil War. Befriended by a young Missouri woman
whose husband is with the Union forces, he (young Sam Clemens) is introduced to a nosy
neighbor as a long-absent brother and, in this guise, he sends his new friend a witty letter after
Title: Summing Up, The
in - Three Dark Comedies / COL
Author: Beim, Norman

Publisher: Newconcept Press 2007

Description:

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

part of "It Tolls for Thee" - a one act trilogy.

An ageing socialite wants a journalist to ghost write her memoirs.

Title: Super Hot Raven and Raven II: The Ravening

in - Best American Short Plays 2014-2015, The / COL
Author: Gogerty, Megan

Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2016

Description:

roy
LGBTQ+ - spoof
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act (three scenes)

1 interior set.

"A sexy, silly spoof of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," "Super Hot Raven and Raven II: The
Ravening" are two ten-minute plays reimagining the famous poem as a hot lesbian love story
between a poet and a mysterious plumber in a Baltimore Ravens jersey."

Title: Supermarche, Le
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 31st series / COL
Author: August, Ian

Publisher: Samuel French 2007

Description:

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

It starts with a Girl, and then adds a Boy. They meet amidst the colorful aisles of Le
Supermarché. They blend well and marry, and move to a little cottage in the country. But the Girl
begins to curdle in her milquetoast life, and returns to the market to find comfort and peace.
Instead she finds a strange old man, who offers her a recipe for change; a delicious but
dangerous solution to her marital woes. A Fairy Tale in Foodspeak, LE SUPERMACHÉ is the story of
cream colored romance and frosty revenge, wrapped in wit and warmth and topped with bits of
Title: Support Your Local Police
in - Five One Act Plays by Mark Twain / COL
Author: Twain, Mark Tasca, Jules
Publisher: Samuel French 1976

Description:

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

'Adaptation of Mark Twain's story of elephant that roams New York City creating havoc and the
maniacal police chief who cannot catch it.'

Title: Suppressed Desires

in - Thirty Famous One Act Plays / COL
Author: Glaspell, Susan Cook, George Cram
Publisher: Random House 1943

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

1 interior.

"Psychoanalysis. Husband and wife."

Title: Sure Thing

in - All In the Timing (Six one-act comedies) / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994

Description:

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

"...is a classic of contemporary comedy: two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a
conversational minefield as an off-stage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on
the way to falling in love."
Title: Sure Thing
in - Telling Tales / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Penguin Books 1993

Description:

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

"...is a classic of contemporary comedy: two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a
conversational minefield as an off-stage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on
the way to falling in love."

Title: Sure Thing

in - All In the Timing (Fourteen plays) / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Vintage Books 1995

Description:

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

"...is a classic of contemporary comedy: two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a
conversational minefield as an off-stage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on
the way to falling in love."

Title: Surprise
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Levine, Mark Harvey

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

A psychic young man finds the perfect mate.

Title: Surviving Fad
in - Special Days / COL
Author: Kramer, Seth

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2004

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

this play can also be performed as part of the full-length collection Special Days.

Bob and Gloria are two prehistoric lungfish in love, with just one major problem -- evolution. Will
the two fish survive a momentous journey onto land, or will this mean the end of their
relationship, and possibly their very species?

Title: Sweet Room, The

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (30th series) / COL
Author: Ramos, Brandon

Publisher: Samuel French 2006

Description:

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

This play explores the relationship of two young sisters living in New York City as they navigate
the economies and moralities of their lives. What begins as a tale of a lurid date quickly turns into
a quirky debate as Hannah and her older sister Madeline struggle and wise-crack through
would-yous and could-yous. Hannah defends a free-spirit's yearning to experience her life to the
fullest while Madeline seeks to ground herself in her scholastic work and even-keel approach.
Both women's positions are put to the test when an unexpected pizza delivery lays their

Title: Table Top

in - High Sticking / CCO
Author: Brownell, Mark

Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006

Description:

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

running time : 10 mins.

An American, a Quebecois and an English Canadian search for the Holy Grail of table-top hockey:
The Hubbard Cup. A lethally comic piece about guys and hockey and the differences between
Canadians and Americans and Canadians and Canadiens.
Title: Take My Land ... Please
in - The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012 / COL
Author: Richardson, John F.

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2013

Description:

roy
comedy - American - short play - historical
three characters
two male; one female
one act

A meditation and reflection with a decidedly irreverent twist. Splashed with comic anachronism,
this play is Richardson's rewrite of the "bad rap" given to the Native Americans who sold
Manhattan to the Europeans: "I'm convinced there's a deeper truth behind the historical record. My
play is an attempt to set that record straight". It's not entirely clear what record is being set
straight, but it's not a real cause for concern.

Title: Tales of an Urban Indian

in - Darrell Dennis: Two Plays / CCO
Author: Dennis, Darrell

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy
Canadian - dark comedy - Native peoples - Native playwright
large cast
all male cast; one male (doubling)
nineteen scenes

A one-person play that follows the trials and tribulations of Simon Douglas, a young Native man
who moves from his rural reservation to the big city of Vancouver. This dark comedy examines
the issues of race, identity, and assimilation that drive young, Native males to self-destruction.

Title: Tarantino Variation

in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Kramer, Seth

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

roy
comedy - movies
all male cast or; all female cast; three characters
three male or three female
one act

Stages a holdup scene replete with references to the director's movies.

Title: Tears of a Dinosaur
in - Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp and Other Plays / CCO
Author: Brooker, Blake

Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1993

Description:

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

A taut, mischievous meditation on the modern family with mom, pop, adopted son and numerous
dinosaurs.

Title: Teeth
in - Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lillies / COL
Author: Howe, Tina

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

set in a dentist’s office.

It’s Bach’s birthday. A neurotic woman has come to her dentist to have a filling replaced, but
he’s struggling with his own problems.

Title: Tempting Fate, A

in - Best Student One Acts Volume 7 / COL
Author: Stoller, Brad

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2002

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

'A husband and wife discover the relief of turning their life over to fate by using first a coin and
then dice until their quixotic oracle turns them inside out.'
Title: Ten Ways to Abuse an Old Woman
in - Canadian Brash / CCO
Author: Clark, Sally

Publisher: Coach House Press 1990

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

"A black-hearted look at the relationship between a fifty-year-old woman and her mother."

Title: Ten Ways to Abuse an Old Woman

in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO
Author: Clark, Sally

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

"A black-hearted look at the relationship between a fifty-year-old woman and her mother."

Title: Tender Offer

in - Seven One-Act Plays (Wasserstein) / COL
Author: Wasserstein, Wendy

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2000

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one girl
one act

"TENDER OFFER focuses on a distant father and his nine-year-old daughter. When he arrives late
to pick her up from dance class, they discuss their lack of communication and why he missed her
dance recital.
Title: Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, The
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (29th series) / COL
Author: Camp, Jennifer

Publisher: Samuel French 2005

Description:

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

Lillian and Ben are attracted to one another. The only trouble is they've never met. Or even
spoken, for that matter. They've only seen each other in the lobby of the Museum of Natural
History where each, for their own reasons, has been drawn. Once they notice each other, the
unexpected possibility of love begins to take shape as they work up the nerve, over the course of
four weeks, to speak to the other person. Through the use of monologues, imaginary
conversations and a shared dream, this unlikely duo - a video game designer and a literature

Title: Theory of Mind

in - Dramatics (May 2012) / PER
Author: LeZebnik, Ken

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2013

Description:

roy
romance - comedy
five characters
two male; one female (doubling)
one act

Two high school students, one with autism, go out on a date.

Title: Thom Pain (based on nothing)

in - Thom Pain (based on nothing) / COL
Author: Eno, Will

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2005

Description:

roy
monologue - one man show
all male cast; one character
one male
one act

When Will Eno’s one-person play "Thom Pain" opened in New York in February 2005, it became
something rare—an unqualified hit, which soon extended through July. Before that, the play was a
critical success in London and received the coveted Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival.
Dubbed “stand-up existentialism” by The New York Times, it is lyrical and deadpan, both
sardonic and sincere. It is Thom Pain—in the camouflage of the common man—fumbling with his
heart, squinting into the light.
Title: Thread Count
in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL
Author: Soland, Lisa

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012

Description:

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

The play brings together an uppity sales clerk and North Dakota widow and generating a
not-quite-love-at-first-sight encounter that is wacky and romantic at the same time.

Title: Thrift of the Magi

in - Snapshot / COL
Author: Weisman, Annie

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one scene

A couple look for clothes to wear to the evening's party.

Title: Through a Glass Darkly

in - Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lillies / COL
Author: Howe, Tina

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

set in an optometrist’s office.

Things spin out of control when a young playwright visits her optometrist for an emergency eye
exam.
Title: Ties that Bind
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Coble, Eric

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

Portrays the trials and tribulations of modern life as embodied in a Houdini-like magic act.

Title: Tiger, The

in - The Typists and The Tiger / COL
Author: Schisgal, Murray

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1963

Description:

roy
satire - relationships - self realizations
two characters
one male; one female
one act

suggested for high school

Suburban housewife and nonconformist make love after exchanging clichés about conformity and
human communication.

Title: Till Death Do Us

in - The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 / COL
Author: Fiskin, Gene

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2012

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Men and women view things differently when it comes to weddings. The play is a brief
tongue-in-cheek exploration of those differences.
Title: Time Flies
in - Mere Mortals / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998

Description:

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

In 'Time Flies', two lonely but sweet young mayflies meet at a pond and really hit it off.
Unfortunately, Horace and May watch a nature program on this first night out and discover they
have a lifespan of only one day - and their lives are half over.

Title: Time Flies

in - The Best American Short Plays 1997-1998 / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998

Description:

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

In 'Time Flies', two lonely but sweet young mayflies meet at a pond and really hit it off.
Unfortunately, Horace and May watch a nature program on this first night out and discover they
have a lifespan of only one day - and their lives are half over.

Title: Time Flies

in - Time Flies and Other Short Plays / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Grove Press 2001

Description:

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

In 'Time Flies', two lonely but sweet young mayflies meet at a pond and really hit it off.
Unfortunately, Horace and May watch a nature program on this first night out and discover they
have a lifespan of only one day - and their lives are half over.
Title: Time Flies
in - Under 30 / YCL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Vintage Books 2004

Description:

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

In 'Time Flies', two lonely but sweet young mayflies meet at a pond and really hit it off.
Unfortunately, Horace and May watch a nature program on this first night out and discover they
have a lifespan of only one day - and their lives are half over.

Title: Tinka's New Dress

in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 95, Summer 1998 / PER
Author: Burkett, Ronnie

Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998

Description:

roy
comedy - puppet play
many characters
one male; puppets
one act

Description not available.

Title: Tinka's New Dress

in - Alone, on Stage / CCO
Author: Burkett, Ronnie

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy
comedy - puppet play - monologues - men - Canadian⌦many characters
one male; puppets
one act

Description not available.

Title: Tongue, Tied
in - Humana Festival 2008 / COL
Author: Cooper, Thomas

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009

Description:

roy
comedy
six characters
one male; one female; four puppets
one scene

A couple give in to their sock puppets' baser desires (and find a little something in it for
themselves).

Title: Total Body Washout

in - Johnnyville: An Official Secrets Act; and, Total Body Washout / CCO
Author: Carnwath, Drew

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998

Description:

roy
dark comedy
all male cast, one character
one male
one act

'A play which charts one man's journey to the edge of modern madness - and back again -
complete with post cards, x-rays, dreams and large antlered animals.'

Title: Tough Choices for the New Century

in - Humana Festival '95 / COL
Author: Anderson, Jane

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

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

Black comedy about disaster preparedness seminar.

Title: Tough Choices for the New Century
in - 20/20 ... / COL
Author: Anderson, Jane

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

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

Black comedy about disaster preparedness seminar.

Title: Tour
in - Apple Pie / COL
Author: McNally, Terrence

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1968

Description:

roy
satire
three characters; extras
two male; one female
one act

1 simple set.

"An American couple being chauffeured through Italy, imagine themselves to be ambassadors of
good will despite their fatuous, patronizing chatter. Mixed in with their inane comments, to their
driver and others, are references to their son in Vietnam and to the carnage there; but somehow
they remain unable to comprehend the reality of the world they live in - and to be comfortable

Title: Toys for Men

in - Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music and Toys for Men / COL
Author: Blessing, Lee

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1982

Description:

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

1 exterior set.

Description not available.

Title: Tragic Man Despite Himself, A
in - A Tragic Man Despite Himself: The Complete Short Plays / COL
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich translated by George Malko
Publisher: Green Integer 140 2005

Description:

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

A man requests a favor from a friend.

Title: Trapped!
in - Queer Play / CCO
Author: Thompson, Hope

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy
comedy - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - relationships
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act (five scenes)

A play that inhibits the film noir genre to tell the story of a beleaguered and bedridden newlywed.
A critique of gay marriage that stages a camp representation of the regulatory structures it
imposes. Progressive mainstream concepts of freedom result here in a state of mutual entrapment.
Trapped! is a tale of menace and murder in a queer comedic frame.

Title: Traveler, The

in - 24 favorite One Act Plays / COL
Author: Connelly, Marc

Publisher: Doubleday 1958

Description:

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

one interior set.

Scene: The smoking compartment of a Pullman Car.

Subway rider breaks travel pattern by taking railroad train.

Title: Tremulous
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 22nd series / COL
Author: Wilhelm, Le

Publisher: Samuel French 1996

Description:

roy
tragicomedy
all female cast; two characters
two girls
one act

'Tragicomedy about two teenage girls who talk about life while planning their suicides.'

Title: Trick of Fate, A

in - Talking Bodies / CCO
Author: Tremblay, Larry

Publisher: Talonbooks 2001

Description:

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

A man loses a tooth eating a chocolate eclair, then all his teeth, his tongue, a finger, and finally
his head, as his body increasingly abandons its "ordinary" place in the world.

Title: Tridget of Greva, The

in - 24 Favorite One Act Plays / COL
Author: Lardner, Ring

Publisher: Doubleday 1958

Description:

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

one interior set.

All three men are seated in three small flat-bottomed boats. they are fishing.
Title: Trio, The
in - The Best American Short Plays 1997-1998 / COL
Author: Silverstein, Shel

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000

Description:

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

1 interior.

Maestro and cellist meet in restaurant to discuss their relationship, both personal and
professional.

Title: Tropical Depression

in - Natural Disasters / COL
Author: Heifner, Jack

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1985

Description:

roy
comedy
all female cast
two female
one act

"In a slightly seedy resort hotel on a remote Caribbean island, two high-living Texas housewives,
Gloria and Janine, are enjoying a respite from their rich but boring husbands. They are
determined to savor their holiday to the fullest, but nature has other plans. First they get burned
to a crisp by the tropical sun, then a hurricane imprisons them in their tacky room. In between,
however, Gloria defiantly spends a great deal of her absent husband's money on various "art
treasures," while Janine (a former Miss Texas) pays for the favors of a handsome lifeguard, an act

Title: True Author of the Plays Formerly Attributed to Mister William..., The
in - The Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 / COL
Author: Armstrong, James

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers

Description:

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

Full title: The True Author of the Plays Attributed to Mister William Shakespeare Revealed to the
World for the First Time by Miss Delia Bacon.

This play is inspired by the life of nineteenth-century scholar, author, and complete basket case
Delia Bacon. Delia was brilliant - there's no doubt about that - but wrong, wrong, wrong, both in
her scholarship and in her personal life. After traveling across the United States and England,
Title: Twinkle, Twinkle
in - Answers / COL
Author: Thompson, Ernest

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

1 simple interior set.

"A bored housewife who has written a seductive fan letter to her favorite soap opera actor is
dumb-founded to find her hero on her doorstep. Once she (and her husband) have recovered
from their shock (and her husband has gone bowling) their relationship takes on a hilarious
see-saw nature, with the possibility of promised delights left in the balance".

Title: Twister
in - Natural Disasters / COL
Author: Heifner, Jack

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1985

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

"Betty and Roy are apparently the only survivors of a tornado that has destroyed their tiny Texas
town and all their worldly goods. After the initial shock wears off Roy sets about trying to restore
things to what they were, while Betty, suddenly freed from all the junk she owned, wants to move
on and start over. The resulting debate is both hilarious and revealing, as Roy resists the notion
that what they had was nothing great while Betty pours out all her hopes and frustrations that
have been bottled up for years. In the end it is the dream that triumphs."

Title: Two Candidates at a Debate What For to Be the President of the U.S.A.
in - Dramatics Vol. 76, No. 3 / PER
Author: Collective, The

Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004

Description:

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

A political sketch about the stupidity of elected officials and the sham of the public political
process.
Title: Uncle Lumpy Comes to Visit
in - Uncle Lumpy Comes to Visit and No Time / COL
Author: Klavan, Laurence

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1986

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

'Embittered wife and her perpetual loser brother-in-law find both solace and loss in each other's
company causing strains on her marriage.'

Title: Under Duress

in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
sketch

Chris and his friend Stephanie debate global warming. Stephanie's pretentiousness irritates Chris,
but they make up, and Chris composes a letter to the President about the subject. Realizing he
has to go to the post office to buy a stamp, Chris is overwhelmed, but he gathers courage and
goes."

Title: United
in - Dark, No Sugar / COL
Author: Leight, Warren

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2007

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

A young woman meets her brother's new boyfriend who turns out to be her ex-boyfriend.
Title: Universal Language, The
in - All In the Timing (Six one-act comedies) / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994

Description:

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

"...brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of
Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of
hilarious verbal pyrotechnics - and, of course, true love."

Title: Universal Language, The

in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1994

Description:

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

"...brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of
Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of
hilarious verbal pyrotechnics - and, of course, true love."

Title: Universal Language, The

in - All In the Timing (Fourteen plays) / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Vintage Books 1995

Description:

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

"...brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of
Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of
hilarious verbal pyrotechnics - and, of course, true love."
Title: Unseen, The
in - Humana Festival 2007 / COL
Author: Wright, Craig

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2008

Description:

roy
dark comedy - prison
all male cast; three characters
three male
two scenes

Imprisoned by a totalitarian regime and mercilessly tortured for unknown crimes, Wallace and
Valdez live without hope of escape or release. When an enigmatic new prisoner arrives and begins
communicating in code, both men develop new relationships to each other, their captors and
themselves. A darkly humorous examination of faith in an uncertain world.

Title: Unveiling
in - The Vanek Plays / COL
Author: Havel, Vaclav Novak, Jan, * translator
Publisher: University of British Columbia 1987

Description:

roy
satire - Czech
three characters
two male; one female
one act

'Variant title: "Private View". Television satire. Dissident Czech playwright is urged by materialistic
friends to redirect his supposedly futile life.'

Title: Unveiling
in - The Garden and Other Plays / COL
Author: Havel, Vaclav translated by Jan Novak
Publisher: Grove Press 1975

Description:

roy
satire - Czech
three characters
two male; one female
one act

'Variant title: "Private View". Television satire. Dissident Czech playwright is urged by materialistic
friends to redirect his supposedly futile life.'
Title: Up on the Roof
in - A Three Martini Lunch / CCO
Author: Martini, Clem

Publisher: Red Deer College Press 2000

Description:

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

"An unwitting Robert is placed on a rooftop with a dueling couple who must come to terms with
their disintegrating lives and an uncertain future."

Title: Uranium
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Sixteenth Series) / COL
Author: Hunt, Pamela

Publisher: Samuel French 1996

Description:

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

'Girl wants father to return from desert where he wanders in search of wealth.'

Title: Urlicht
in - Bizarre Behavior / COL
Author: Innaurato, Albert

Publisher: Avon Books 1960

Description:

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

There is a young man, about twenty-five, plump, sloppy-looking, in a tattered suit coat and an
ugly tie, and a nun about fifty. She is husky, beefy. She uses, more often or not, a tough,
lower-class accent. She behaves a lot like a truck driver, but can change and act like a nun or a
pathetic old lady. These two meet at a subway platform. They began to talk and the boy talked to
the nun about an opera that he had written. He described it to her (it was modeled after the
disappearance of his mother) and she recognized it and mother and son were reunited.
Title: Vajayjay Monologues, The
in - Dough: The Politics of Martha Stewart & The Vajayjay Monologues / CCO
Author: Burns, Lindsay

Publisher: B house 2008

Description:

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

A satire of Ensler's famous work that questions the role played by The Vagina Monologues in how
and where women see themselves today.

Title: Valedictorian, The

in - The Art of Communication / CCO
Author: Smiley, George

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

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

"A high school valedictorian finds herself trapped in the men's washroom in a bus station."

Title: Valerie of Now, The

in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Hedges, Peter

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

A 12-year-old girl celebrates her menarche.

Title: Valley Forgery
in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL
Author: Montley, Patricia

Publisher: Meriwether Publishing 1987

Description:

roy
satire - farce
all female cast; three characters
three female
one act

Marie Antoinette and Martha Washington converse and begin to fight among themselves, unaware
of exactly who the other one is. It is Fanny Howe who makes the connection for the two.

Title: Vandal, The

in - New Playwrights: The Best Plays 2013 / COL
Author: Linklater, Hamish

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2013

Description:

roy
dark comedy - American
three characters
two male; one female
one act (four scenes)

setting: Kingston, New York; running time: 75 min.

A middle-aged woman meets a strange teen-aged boy while waiting for a bus to take her home.
Who is he really?

Title: Variations On the Death of Trotsky

in - All In the Timing (Six one-act comedies) / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"...shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with
the mountain-climber's axe he's discovered in his head."
Title: Variations On the Death of Trotsky
in - All In the Timing (Fourteen plays) / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Vintage Books 1995

Description:

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

"...shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with
the mountain-climber's axe he's discovered in his head."

Title: Venus in Fur

in - Plays for Two / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Vintage Books 2014

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"

Title: Victoria Station

in - Other Places: Four Plays / COL
Author: Pinter, Harold

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1984

Description:

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

"A brilliantly funny yet eerily chilling dialogue between a bewildered taxi driver (who may have
gone mad) and the exasperated dispatcher who is trying without success, to direct him to a
waiting fare. The driver, who says he has fallen in love with the passenger who is asleep (or
perhaps dead) on his back seat, doesn't seem to know his own location, much less that of Victoria
Station."
Title: Village Wooing
in - Seven One Act Plays / COL
Author: Shaw, George Bernard

Publisher: Penguin Books 1958

Description:

roy
courtship - adult - comedy
two characters; extra
one male; one female
one act

'Eager young woman's successful pursuit of an uninterested man.'

Title: Visions of Grandeur

in - Sally's Shorts / COL
Author: Nemeth, Sally

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995

Description:

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

She becomes herself filming herself. Her life in black and white.

Title: Waiting For To Go

in - The Square Root of Love / COL
Author: Meltzer, Daniel

Publisher: Samuel French 1979

Description:

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

1 interior set.

"Retired plumber who thinks his life is over meets recent widow on plane".
Title: Water Music
in - The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004 / COL
Author: Howe, Tina

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2006

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

The ancient pools of mythic yore reflected the temperaments of the gods and concealed their
unfathomable deeds. Similarly, an Upper West Side health club whips up from its scabby sediment
and detrital depths a palpable figment of an English teacher’s disoriented dream. Straight from her
twelfth grade class, behold! ’Tis Ophelia, Hamlet’s occasional beloved. Equally out of joint in
every age, Ophelia humanizes the chlorinated waters, leavens the teacher’s cynical rage with
exotic poesies, and reminds the lifeguard, Jesus, of the extravagant depths inside his gene pool.

Title: Water Music

in - Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lillies / COL
Author: Howe, Tina

Publisher: Samuel French 2009

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

The ancient pools of mythic yore reflected the temperaments of the gods and concealed their
unfathomable deeds. Similarly, an Upper West Side health club whips up from its scabby sediment
and detrital depths a palpable figment of an English teacher’s disoriented dream. Straight from her
twelfth grade class, behold! ’Tis Ophelia, Hamlet’s occasional beloved. Equally out of joint in
every age, Ophelia humanizes the chlorinated waters, leavens the teacher’s cynical rage with
exotic poesies, and reminds the lifeguard, Jesus, of the extravagant depths inside his gene pool.

Title: Way of All Fish, The

in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: May, Elaine

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

The first part of Power Plays by Elaine May and Alan Arkin, portrays a shift in the balance of power
between a female executive and her secretary.
Title: Way to Miami, The
in - The Best American Short Plays 1999-2000 / COL
Author: Steele, Donald

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

The Way to Miami is the bitingly funny and brilliantly written tale about the wife of a retired couple
having second thoughts about selling up and moving to Miami on the morning the movers are
due to show up.

Title: Wedding Bell Hell

in - Sandra Shamas: A Trilogy of Performances / CCO
Author: Shamas, Sandra

Publisher: Mercury Press 1997

Description:

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

One woman's observations about marriage and her own experiences during her wedding.

Title: Wedding Duet

in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Wilson, Lauren

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

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

Presents the first marital spat of a newlywed couple, literally on the threshold of their new life
together.
Title: Western
in - Return of the Big Five / CCO
Author: Alianak, Hrant

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"A story of love, violence and survival, the dialogue is composed of names of Western movies and
stars."

Title: Western
in - Western & Mathematics / CCO
Author: Alianak, Hrant

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"A story of love, violence and survival, the dialogue is composed of names of Western movies and
stars."

Title: Wet Echo, The

in - The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 / COL
Author: Chapman, Clay McLeod

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2015

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

As wicked as it is witty and weird, Clay McLeod Chapman’s latest sordid story follows a
journeyman who finds more than he bargained for when he explores towards intimate territory.
Title: What Do You Save From a Burning House
in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO
Author: Farmiloe, Dorothy

Publisher: Alive Press

Description:

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

interior representative set.

"A conservative student and his radical wife argue over a demonstration. An analogy for English
and French Canada."

Title: What I Did Wrong

in - Dark, No Sugar / COL
Author: Leight, Warren

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2007

Description:

roy
satire - monologue - relationships
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

A single woman obsesses about the mistakes she made that ended her relationship with a jerk.

Title: What is Making Gilda so Gray? Or, It is Just Depends on Who You Get
in - Tom Eyen: Ten Plays / COL
Author: Eyen, Tom

Publisher: Samuel French 1971

Description:

roy
tragicomedy
two characters; extras
one male; one female
one act (as part three of trilogy)

'Tragi-comedy in Black-comedy vein. Boy meets girl in satire on marriage, which projects it as just
a sad compromise, not the fantasies hoped for.'
Title: What We're Up Against
in - Theresa Rebeck: Collected Plays v. 1, 1989 - 1998 / COL
Author: Rebeck, Theresa

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1999

Description:

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

"Two male colleagues rail against a female co-worker."

Title: What's a Girl to Do?

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 13th series / COL
Author: Hansen, Jim

Publisher: Samuel French 1989

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
one male; two female
one act

Jill has just found out she is pregnant by her boring boyfriend Jack. Mary advises her to marry
the twit, but she is not so sure. When Jill tells Mary she is not going to have an abortion, Jack
realizes what is upsetting Jill and, in his awkward, nerdy way, he proposes. Jill turns him down,
denies she is pregnant, and tells him to get lost. Heartbroken and embarrassed, Jack leaves Jill
with no one to talk to but her unborn child.

Title: Whatever
in - Life is Short / COL
Author: Pospisil, Craig

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 2005

Description:

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

This sly riff on Poe's "The Raven" finds Jessica hallucinating that a talking pigeon has flown into
her apartment. Her friend Liz tries to talk her down, but eventually realizes Jessica isn't suffering
from a combination of too much wine and Benedryl but from her inability to let go of a
relationship that has ended.
Title: When Something Wonderful Ends
in - Humana Festival 2007 / COL
Author: Kramer, Sherri

Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2008

Description:

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

After the death of her mother, Sherry's family home goes up for sale. Sifting through memories
of a seemingly simpler time as she packs up her baby-boom childhood, Sherry begins to connect
the dots between her Barbie collection and America's place in the rest of the world. A touching,
funny, deeply personal and daringly global one-woman, one-Barbie play.

Title: White Elephants

in - Jane Martin: Collected plays - Vol. 2 / COL
Author: Martin, Jane

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2001

Description:

roy
comedy - monologues - women - political
all female cast; one character
one female
one scene

Quick monologue about Republican heaven.

Title: White Liars, The

in - The White Liars and Black Comedy / COL
Author: Shaffer, Peter

Publisher: Samuel French 1968

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"Produced in London and on Broadway as a companion piece to 'Black Comedy'. It featured

Geraldine Page as a fortune-teller to whom a youth comes with his 'buddy' in tow. He doesn't want
his fortune told, but he wants to pretend it's been told. What he really wants is to bribe the
fortune-teller to frighten his 'buddy' so he will relinquish his girl to him. But the 'buddy' sees
through the ruse. All the false biography he had planted with the other fellow comes back through
the fortune-teller, and both he and the fortune-teller make a discovery about love."
Title: Who's Looking After the Atlantic?
in - Who's Looking After the Atlantic? & The Proper Perspective / CCO
Author: Graves, Warren

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982

Description:

roy
comedy - Alberta playwright
two characters
two male or female
one act

"A comic encounter between a psychiatrist and a mildly insane millionaire."

Title: Whole Thruth, The

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Sixteenth Series) / COL
Author: Boyle, Viki

Publisher: Samuel French 1996

Description:

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

'Two women jurors sequestered in hotel room discuss trial.'

Title: Whoppers
in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Twenty-first Series) / COL
Author: Wilhelm, Le

Publisher: Samuel French 1997

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

'Husband and wife engaged in ridiculous arguement while fishing.'

Title: Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?
in - Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? and Other Stand-Up Theatre Plays / COL
Author: Dowie, Claire

Publisher: Methuen Drama 1996

Description:

roy
British - monologue - comedy - LGBTQ+
all female cast; one character
one female
one act (two parts)

Claire Dowie's award winning "Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?" takes us on a comic journey
through female roles and dress codes via "The Knicker Factor", the hell of school discos and
errant sperm in the bedroom - all through the eyes of one young woman wishing to be a Beatle,
or at least a boy. Cleverly dissecting society's attitude to differing sexes Claire Dowie's
understated oratory portrays a forceful plea for understanding and tolerance.

Title: Widows
in - One-Act Plays for Acting Students / COL
Author: Grecco, Stephen

Publisher: Meriwether Publishing 1987

Description:

roy
comedy - women - recollection
all female cast; two characters
two female
one act

Two women meet at a park bench, and discover that they both are widows. They begin to recollect
on their past lives with their husbands.

Title: Wild Abandon

in - See Bob Run and Wild Abandon / CCO
Author: MacIvor, Daniel

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988

Description:

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

A young man's blackly humorous and static observations about life, the universe and his real
mother.
Title: Wild Abandon
in - See Bob Run and Wild Abandon / CCO
Author: MacIvor, Daniel

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988

Description:

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

A young man's blackly humorous and static observations about life, the universe and his real
mother.

Title: Wild Abandon

in - See Bob Run and Wild Abandon / CCO
Author: MacIvor, Daniel

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

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

A young man's blackly humorous and static observations about life, the universe and his real
mother.

Title: Wild Goose, The

in - Four Dogs and a Bone and The Wild Goose / COL
Author: Shanley, John Patrick

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995

Description:

roy
comedy - vaudeville - power - greed
three characters
two male; one female
one act

When the story opens, we find Jameson and Renaldo deciding if they can live together in the
world or not. They tear each other down to gain the upper hand. Jameson shoots Renaldo dead.
Now Jameson can have Ramona all to himself. But Ramona misses Renaldo and nothing is settled
until Renaldo jumps up! Alive again! Now Ramona must choose between them. This presents a
problem since Ramona was just about to hang herself. Jameson shoots her instead—to forego the
grief of a suicide. Soon the wild goose hovers over the scene with its majestic sound and beauty.
Title: Winnetou's Snake Oil Show from Wigwam City
in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL
Author: Mayo, Lisa Miguel, Gloria
Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003

Description:

roy
comedy - native playwright - spirituality - native peoples
many characters
three female (doubling)
one act

Also written by Muriel Miguel and Hortensia Colorado as part of Spiderwoman Theatre; running
time - approx. 80 mins.

Winnetou's Snake Oil Show from Wigwam City is loosely based on the fictional Apache character
Winnetou and his close friend Old Shatterhand, made famous by nineteenth century German
author, Karl May. Spiderwoman Theater satirizes the stereotypes perpetuated by authors like May

Title: Winning Number, The

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Sixteenth Series) / COL
Author: Brown, Sarah

Publisher: Samuel French 1996

Description:

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

'Elderly Texas grandmother is obsessed with playing bingo.'

Title: With or Without You

in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays (Twenty-first Series) / COL
Author: Jannuzzi, Luigi

Publisher: Samuel French 1997

Description:

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

'Woman reluctantly meets devoted admirer in restaurant.'

Title: Woman Stand Up
in - Christopher Durang - 27 Short Plays / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1995

Description:

roy
monologues - drama
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

"A sensitive woman trying to do stand-up comedy has to bring her own laugh track, just in case.
Her self-depreciating jokes turn out to be all too real, as is her pain when she senses the truth."

Title: Woman Stand Up

in - Naomi in the Living Room / COL
Author: Durang, Christopher

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1998

Description:

roy
monologues - drama
all female cast; one character
one female
one act

"A sensitive woman trying to do stand-up comedy has to bring her own laugh track, just in case.
Her self-depreciating jokes turn out to be all too real, as is her pain when she senses the truth."

Title: WOMBmanWARs
in - Moon Marked and Touched by Sun / COL
Author: Jackson, Judith Alexa

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 1994

Description:

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

'Satirical one woman show addresses issues raised by Anita Hill / Clarence Thomas hearings.'
Title: Wooed and Viewed
in - Feydeau, First to Last / COL
Author: Feydeau, Georges

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001

Description:

roy
farce
two characters
one male; one female
one act

'Husband alone while his wife visits her mother, is approached by neighbor to make love in front
of her jealous husband.'

Title: Word Games

in - Sally's Shorts / COL
Author: Nemeth, Sally

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1995

Description:

roy
scene - women - comedy
all female cast; two characters
two female
one scene

Two young women getting stoned, riffing on words and on the memories those words bring.

Title: Words, Words, Words

in - All In the Timing (Six one-act comedies) / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"...recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later
produce 'Hamlet', and asks: what would the monkeys talk about at their typewriters."
Title: Words, Words, Words
in - All In the Timing (Fourteen plays) / COL
Author: Ives, David

Publisher: Vintage Books 1995

Description:

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

"...recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later
produce 'Hamlet', and asks: what would the monkeys talk about at their typewriters."

Title: Work of Art, The

in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO
Author: Dawe, Victoria

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy
comedy - friendship - art
two characters
one male; one female
one act

Neighbours Frank and Annie assemble a found object sculpture in Frank’s backyard and in the
meantime discuss life, love and everything in between. At the end of the day, could it be that what
they’re looking for has been next door all along?

Title: Workout
in - Plays for Actresses / COL
Author: Wasserstein, Wendy

Publisher: Vintage Books 1997

Description:

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

"In the course of a single WORKOUT, an exercise instructor writes on a novel, opens a chain of
departments stores, learns to unravel the double helix, and announces her husband's candidacy
for governor."
Title: Yankee Doodle
in - Pops / COL
Author: Linney, Romulus

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1987

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

"Yankee Doodle finds a tipsy Jesse Grant, son of President Grant, at Windsor Castle and faced with
a humbling slight from Queen Victoria."

Title: Yes and No

in - The Collected Plays of Graham Greene / COL
Author: Greene, Graham

Publisher: Penguin Books 1985

Description:

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

'Young actor auditions for eminent director.'

Title: Yesterday
in - Modern Drama from Communist China / COL
Author: Chang, Pao-hua and Ho Ching-chih translated by Sidney Shapiro
Publisher: University of London Press 1970

Description:

roy
comedy - recollection - China
two characters
two male or female
one act

'Comic dialogue comparing life before "liberation" with life afterward.'

Title: Yodellers - a one act comedy in eighteen scenes
in - The Road to Hell / CCO
Author: Healey, Michael Lynch, Kate
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

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

"'Yodellers' is a one-act comedy in which a male golf reporter falls in love with a lesbian
professional golfer. Will they build a relationship, or will things just turn 'caddy'? "

Title: You Can't Trust the Male

in - The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 / COL
Author: Noojin, Randy

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1991

Description:

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

1 interior set.

'Woman discovers that her mailman has been reading her mail and is romantically interested in
her.'

Title: You Have Arrived

in - Outstanding Short Plays - volume 2 / COL
Author: Ackerman, Rob

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2015

Description:

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

Dan and Kristin are navigating their first date, and fortunately, the other woman with them knows
the way through the confusion into Brooklyn. That would be Cyndi, the GPS system in Dan's car.
Title: You're Him
in - John Lazarus Shorts / CCO
Author: Lazarus, John

Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada

Description:

roy
comedy
three characters
two male; one female
one act

Also a street scene about the sexual misunderstandings between strangers.

Title: Young Love

in - What If? / COL
Author: Hanagan, Jay D.

Publisher: Samuel French 2006

Description:

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

It's been a long time since thirty-nine year old Constance has been on a date, and there seem to
be so many rules! What do you eat? What don't you eat? What do you wear? It's a good thing she's
got her sixteen-year-old daughter Sandra there to help with any questions she might have about,
well, you know... boys!

Title: Your Mother's Butt

in - Five One-Act Plays / COL
Author: Ball, Alan

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1994

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

YOUR MOTHER'S BUTT focuses on a therapist desperately searching for clues to help her seriously
disturbed young patient. As the patient rattles on about shoes and belts, he recalls a dream he
had about his mother, and the therapist thinks she's got her answer.
Title: Your Mother's Butt
in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL
Author: Ball, Alan

Publisher: Vintage Books 2007

Description:

roy
comedy
two characters
one male; one female
one act

YOUR MOTHER'S BUTT focuses on a therapist desperately searching for clues to help her seriously
disturbed young patient. As the patient rattles on about shoes and belts, he recalls a dream he
had about his mother, and the therapist thinks she's got her answer.

Title: Zipless
in - The Best American Short Plays 1993-1994 / COL
Author: Thompson, Ernest

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1995

Description:

roy
satire - romance - marriage
two characters
one male; one female
one act

'Second part of "Valentines for Two Trilogy". Satirical exploration of contemporary marriage.'