Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

She Was Only an Admiral's Daughter

Harold Brooke & Kay Bannerman

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 2 Female

When Polly borrows a friend's flat to meet prospective bridegrooms from a marriage bureau she has little idea what she is letting herself in for. Mistaken identities and a noisy laundry chute result in crazy...

$12.99

The Second Lady

Jack Sharkey

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

Thanks to an idiotic childhood promise, Presidential candidate Andrew Wright is engaged to Bertha Desiree Sprock a lady as lovely as her name His unscrupulous campaign manager convinces Bertha she is the ta...

$10.99

The Island of Slaves

Pierre Marivaux trans Neil Bartlett

Absolute Classics

2 Male 3 Female

Four people, the sole survivors of a shipwreck, crawl out of the sea. Two of them are masters, and two of them are servants; and all four are about to discover what life feels like when the boot is on the...

$17.99

Angel on My Shoulder

Stephen Levi

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

A beautiful young book illustrator is having an affair with her dream man, a ruggedly attractive owner of a demolition company When he announces his intention to leave his family, Donna gets looped and awak...

$10.99

Happy Birthday

Marc Camoletti adapt Beverley Cross

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 3 Female

Bernard has foolishly asked his mistress, Brigit, to his home on her birthday despite the fact his wife Jacqueline is present. He has also invited his oldest friend, Robert and asks him to pretend Brigit is ...

$12.99

Wrestlers

Bill C. Davis

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

Moving back and forth in both time and place, alternating flashbacks with present action, the play illuminates the lifelong rivalry of two brothers who differ radically in attitude and temperament Bobby,...

$13

Five on the Black Hand Side

Charlie L Russell

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

We Were Dancing

Noel Coward

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

In this one act comedy, single Karl and married Louise grow sentimental while waltzing and fall desperately in love When Louise's stodgy husband finds them kissing, she must ask her new lover his name in or...

$8.99

Hotel Paradiso

Georges Feydeau & Maurice Desvallieres adapt Peter Glenville

Samuel French Inc

8 Female

Boniface goes to the Hotel Paradiso to meet Marcelle, Maxime has been enticed there by an amorous maidservant and Cot arrives to investigate the strange noises coming from the drains! Everyone spends the en...

$10.99

On Location

Jerry Rabushka

Brooklyn Publishing

1 Male 1 Female

A clash of the titan egos! In this great duo acting piece, a well known director waxes eloquent about his new movie, while the leading lady interprets it as the biggest nightmare of the film industry. In t...

$7.99

Dedicated to the End

Peter DePietro

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 6 Female

Congressman Richfield is giving his acceptance speech on the eve of his election as Governor of New York when bullets start to fly The intended victim is missed, but not for long His wild, irresponsible so...

$10.99

Coming Apart

Fred Carmichael

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

From the author of Exit the Body and Out of Sight . . . Out of Murder comes a funny, refreshing and delightful romantic comedy which opens with the Kittridges saying simultaneously, "I want a divorce!" Both...

$10.99

Orton - The Complete Plays

Joe Orton

Methuen

Everything Orton ever wrote for theatre, television,and radio in one edition. John Lahr's introduction contains extracts from Orton's candid diary 'I suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profo...

$28.99

Ways and Means

Noel Coward

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

In a bedroom in Mrs. Lloyd Ransome's fabulous villa on the Cote d'Azur are heiress Stella Cartwright and her husband, a gambler, in this one act comedy They are plagued by debts and their prolonged stay at...

$8.99

The Marriage Go Round

Leslie Stevens

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

The Marriage Go Round is an illustrated lecture on the perils of monogamy, delivered alternately by a Professor of Cultural Anthropology at a suburban New York College and his wife who is Dean of Women at th...

$10.99

The Admirable Crichton

J.M. Barrie

Samuel French Ltd

5 Female

It is the Earl of Loam's whim to invite his servants once a month to the drawing room where they are treated as social equals His daughter and friends are forced to serve them much to the distaste of Cricht...

$12.99

Sundance

Meir Z Ribalow

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 0 Female

This one act comedy takes place in a sort of metaphysical wild west saloon The characters include Hickock, Jesse, the Kid and the inevitable Barkeep Hickock kills to uphold the law Jesse kills for pleasur...

$8.99

Having a Wonderful Time - Wish You Were Her

William van Zandt & Jane Milmore

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

This wild bedroom farce involves infidelity, double standards, midnight rendezvous and a hungry bear. Danny and Kathy halt their night of sultry passion when Kathy reveals she is dating another man Paul an...

$10.99

The Love of Four Colonels

Peter Ustinov

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 2 Female

In the conference room of a four-power zone in Germany, four Colonels, representing their respective countries, America, England, France, and Russia, are apparently getting nowhere with their negotiations...

$13

Out of Order

Ray Cooney

Samuel French Ltd

6 Male 4 Female

When Richard Willey, a government junior minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition's typists, things go disastrously wrong in this hugely successful sequel to Two into...

$12.99