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Categorization of Plays

Plays

  For Children

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  Holiday Shows

 

  Comedies for Adults

  • AB Used Cars  – where will a search for the lost 1956 Chrysler Norseman take us?

  • Are We All On Board?  – passengers plot to bilk a cruise ship and a widow on board

  • Article 59  – a comedy of science, the law, two sisters, and their ornery grandmother

  • Challenge Grant  – is the offer of a challenge grant to a theatre as generous as it seems?

  • Cheese Louise  – a comedy of a boyfriend and girlfriend whose sexual role-playing games lead to trouble

  • Chestnut Bluff  – Arsenic and Old Lace meets One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest in a retirement home

  • The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Condensed)  – three actors tackle the works of Dickens, aided by name tags and audience participation

  • The Impotence of Ernest Bean  – The Importance of Being Earnest and Benedick and Beatrice merge in brittle Wilde manner

  • IVF  – a comic whodunit concerning child abuse, making use of life-size puppets

  • Keys and Parrots  – when Mom does props for a community theatre production, it throws the family for a loop

  • Let's Kill Carey Oakie!  – a karaoke comic murder mystery

  • Musicals I Have (and Haven't) Written  – a retrospective of a fifty-year musical theatre non-career

  • The Mysterious Murders on Mookingbird Lane  – can a babysitter break the string of child murders occurring on Mookingbird Lane?

  • Nun of the Above  – a transexual woman explores becoming a nun

  • A Piece of Paper  – the loss of a ketubah complicates the life of a converted Jew

  • Previous Engagements  – from bridal shower to rehearsal dinner, an engagement goes off track

  • A Proper Education for a Proper Young Lady  – a farce in the classic French style, with slamming doors and mistaken identities

  • Santa's Slay Ride  – murders with coal in the person’s stocking – could Santa be the culprit?

  • A Second Lease  – Debbie soon comes to regret donating a kidney to her gangster uncle and giving him a second lease on life

  • Some Nekkid Cowboy  – a political comedy inspired by true-life events in Johns Creek, Georgia

  • Tight Lips  – sexy complications arise in an isolated cabin where where a TV commercial for Glom is being prepared

  • Two Deadly Acts  – murders occurring at Harrington Hall are investigated on a theatre stage by relatives and associates of the deceased

           

  Dramas for Adults

  • 1066  – struggles for control of the English throne in 1066

  • 72  – who is behind cases of pedophile necrophilila?

  • Breaking and Mentoring  – a good influence becomes a bad

  • Charmie  – a father's funeral and a teddy bear dredge up dark memories of the past

  • Clean Up Clowden  – Clowden has been cleared of the homeless – but how?

  • COVID's Metamorphoses  – the myth of Apollo and Daphne in terms of the COVID-19 crisis

  • The Duchess of Pentworth Plantation  – the memories of a sharecropper bring up dark secrets from the past of a plantation's mistress

  • Easier Dead Than Son  – genetic anomalies and abortion restrictions come face-to-face

  • Gay-December Marriage  – is this gay marriage one made in heaven or one based on an earthly hell?

  • Hollow Graham  – dark secrets of the past are revealed during a high school drama club reunion

  • Homeloss  – a couple's life unravels, starting with eviction from their home

  • In a Manor of Speaking  – Pygmalion meets Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in a Southern spinster's mansion

  • The Karen Medea  – a post-World War II adaptation of Euripides' Medea

  • Lacked Lives Shatter  – repercussions of cancel culture and Black Lives Matter

  • Mash Notes  – three female friends read the letters they have written or received over the years

  • Master Duke's Duchess  – the memories of a former slave bring up dark secrets from the past of a plantation's mistress

  • My Mistress, My Slave  – a woman and her slave swap status when captured by Barbary pirates

  • North of Eden  – the life of young James Dean in Fairmount, Indiana

  • Nun of the Above  – a transexual woman explores becoming a nun

  • Politics and Religion  – when conservatives and liberals discuss politics and religion on the lead-up to a wedding, fireworks ensue

  • Resorting to Violence  – murders plague an isolated island resort

  • Righteous  – Holocaust survivors, mother and son, lock horns over a nomination for the Righteous Among the Nations

  • Triangulation  – a fictional solution to an historical Lake Michigan Triangle disappearance

  • We to the Manor Born  – the memories of an estate caretaker bring up dark secrets from the past of the estate's mistress

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  Melodramas

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  Five to Fifteen-Minute Plays

  • Accusations  – years-old accusations ruin a career

  • After a Charming Ball  – dainty Cinderella enlarged

  • Ahm Lett  – a woman scrambles for a job with a hard-boiled detective

  • Alexis, a Lexus  – a parking lot encounter leaves lasting marks

  • Believers' Eve  – Santa meets Death and the Tooth Fairy on Christmas Eve

  • Bell Weather  – if it's not a Halloween party, are these vampires?

  • Blather  – a young woman mourns the "accidental" death of her twin sister as a clueless pastor presides

  • Boys Will Be Boys  – gun rights can be fun rights, if you're on the right medication         

  • Brothers United  – a brother's wedding day visit becomes tragic

  • Calembour  – lovers' word association makes conversation impossible

  • Cleaning Up  – mutual understanding transcends language barriers

  • Down a Slippery Slope  – a pair of hikers find themselves headed dangerously down a slippery slope

  • Duo  – a new vaudeville team combines physical comedy and stale jokes

  • The Farmer and Fortune  – a Middle-Eastern folktale comes to life

  • Fetal Servitude  – heartbeat law affects a woman's life

  • Figs for the Asking  – two women meet at a senior center, and one isn't what she initially appears to be

  • First Class All the Way  – is an airplane experience too good to be true?

  • Frank, Frank, Franks  – surviving loved ones of three famous Jewish victims reflect on their lives as they examine the contents of a trunk

  • The Fume Mitigators  – four insects trapped in a house undergoing fumigation battle for their lives

  • Grimmly Inspired  – a riff on the Grimm Brothers' tale "The Golden Key"

  • He Likes Me for My Brain  – a zombie romance blossoms, then ends abruptly

  • Ho, Ho, HOA  – confrontation with a finicky homeowners’ association president

  • Hope Remains  – two friends discover that hope remains after love has passed them by

  • Hostile Takeover  – families shouldn't run by the same rules as businesses

  • Iamb and You Are Too  – a meet-cute romantic comedy in rhymed verse

  • In the Eye of the Beheld  – can a person be a work of art?

  • Jason Cursed  – the scandals of Jason and Medea reverberate to Mount Olympus

  • John and Norma  – incognito celebrities cherish their anonymity

  • Lesson One  – a teenage drug deal goes bad, with consequences far worse than expected

  • A License to Kiln  – a man learns of his wife's double-dealing as he renews a weapons license

  • A Little Red  – what happened in Granny’s bed between the Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood?

  • Love Link  – a man turns to a female friend for love advice and finds love itself instead

  • Lunée Bin  – a Tennessee Williams-inspired take on Blanche Dubois' immediate fate

  • Meeting Mommy  – after death, a woman reunites with the children she never had

  • Merry Pop-Ins  – which nanny will get the job?

  • Mira, Mira  – a delusional woman attempts to elicit a reaction from a mirror

  • A Monkey on My Back – kicking an addiction is hard, especially when you think you're hallucinating

  • Moving On  – a man confronts his mother's death and his own mortality on a graveyard visit with his wife and children

  • My Dad's Advent Story  – Dad tells a story about reproduction that doesn't apply to Jesus

  • N2O  – is laughing gas the key to a happy future?

  • Neighborliness  – even bad neighbors can always become worse…

  • Nudity  – misspellings wreak havoc in the advertising for an elementary school show

  • Officially Tied  – two competitors vie for one spot serving the dotty justice of the peace for Merriam County

  • On the Morrow  – a couple perishes on the SS Morro Castle in 1934

  • Passing Lane  – a big misunderstanding leaves a woman at a loss

  • The Payoff  – has an envelope with money been given to the expected person?  

  • Renditions  – is it defamation to record a song contrary to the writer’s wishes?          

  • Rexcue Me  – Reba Sue and her Maw are stuck atop their flooded home, bickering and awaiting rescue            

  • River Sticks  – death and ferries don’t mix well

  • Skinny Cancer  – when three estranged sisters meet, watch the fireworks fly!    

  • Ten Minutes to Live  – bouncy fun in the last ten minutes before a suicide bombing        

  • Ternary  – a high school student envisions creating a ternary (base 3) computer

  • Things That Never Were  – Doris' reminiscences show how memories and reality don't mesh

  • Trick Whore Treat  – a Halloween case of mistaken identity occurs when a stripper is expected for a bachelor party

  • Trimmed to Nothingness  – thrifty Christmas traditions confuse a fiancé

  • The Unexpected Guessed  – an early arrival ends with an early departure

  • VanDylized  – which is more exciting in art – an old master or a new master?

  • Voice-Activated  – a human raised in isolation on a spacecraft attempts to interact on Earth

  • Wavering  – two women compare their experiences of love – or is it of death?

  • Who Peed My Pants?  – Olympic Gold Medalist Philip Michaels causes a blue-tinged sensation in the pool

  • Why Are There No Kosher Movers?  – moving a kosher household is fraught with perils

  • "X" Marks the Yule  – not everyone celebrates Christmas, and children who don't often feel left out

            

  One Act Plays

  • Beneficence  – Pirandello meets a benefit luncheon

  • Bread and Butter  – three O. Henry tales come to life as a holiday musical

  • Coffee with Cream and Cyanide  – who slipped the cyanide into the book club's coffee?

  • A Cure for the Common Cold  – given competition from a pharmaceutical company's entrenched products, can a cure for the common cold be marketed?

  • The Diaries of Adam and Eve  – the story of Adam and Eve -- in their own words!

  • The Diarist  – when we sleep, our memories of this life are recorded by the Diarist, who maintains the memories of all the lives we have lived

  • Every Day Is Tuesday  – three single women and one eligible bachelor — what problems could arise?

  • Finite Love  – a native legend comes to life for a tour group

  • I'm Dating Myself  – a woman with undiagnosed blackouts discovers unexpected love notes

  • Karp, ADM  – an assistant district manager with an unrelievedly cheery outlook experiences the worst (and last) day of his life            

  • Nobody Likes a Quilter  – the fabric of a family comes together with a snip

  • One Perfect Day  – getting hitched doesn't always go off without a hitch

  • Salon 9-1-1  – no hair emergency is beyond the expertise of this call center!

  • See Change  – two artists of revolutionary France butt heads

  • Stollen Kisses  – an O. Henry-inspired sequel to Bread and Butter

                

  Monologues

 

One-Minute Plays

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Additional Categorization for Plays

 

  Musicals/Plays with Songs

 

 

Plays with Audience Participation

 

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