Plays by Genre - Farce

We Found Love and an Exquisite Set of Porcelain Figures Aboard the SS Farndale Avenue

David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 3 Female

Flushed by their successes, the stalwart veterans of the Dramatic Society are poised to conquer yet another dramatic idiom: their current production sails the luxury ocean liner SS Farndale Avenue into the w...

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Don't Lose the Place!

Derek Benfield

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 2 Female

Determined not to be let down by another boyfriend, Sylvia decides on an unconventional way of finding a man and timetables several potential lovers to see if they match up. But timetables have a way of goin...

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James Skipworth and the Catfish Colonel

Cy Young

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

A playwright has vowed to shoot himself unless someone agrees to option his play immediately. He appears at the office of producer Helen Osborne, an attractive and highly theatrical woman who is the reigning...

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Varney the Vampire or The Feast of Blood - A Goulish Spoof in Two Acts

Tim Kelly

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 8 Female

This wild and clever spoof is based on a melodramatic novel attributed to Thomas Prest, the creator of Sweeney Todd ... In 1900 weary vampire Sir Francis Varney shows up at an inn in Italy He plans to visit...

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The Glass Mendacity

The Illegitimate Players - Doug Armstrong & Keith Cooper & Maureen Morley & Tom Willmorth

Broadway Play Publishing

3 Male 2 Female

"By combining Williams' three most celebrated dramas, the authors have come up with plenty of powerhouse material for their irreverent magnolia operetta." Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune "In the twisted world o...

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Chase Me Up Farndale Avenue S'il Vous Plait!

David McGillivray & Walter Zerlin Jnr

Samuel French Ltd

1 Male 4 Female

Oo la la! A farce francais to make any frenchman twiddle his moustache! The women of Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society bring a little 'je ne sais quoi' to a door-slamming f...

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They Came from Mars and Landed Outside the Farndale Church Hall in Time for the Coffee Morning

David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr

Samuel French Ltd

1 Male 4 Female

The Farndale Avenue ladies attempt lift off with their Dramatic Society's unique production of a sci fi thriller Needless to say, high tech effects going awry and the limited talents of some group members ...

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What the Bellhop Saw

Billy van Zandt & Jane Milmore

Samuel French Inc

8 Male 4 Female

A nice fellow checks into an expensive suite in New York City's finest hotel, precipitating a fantastic nightmare involving a Salman Rushdie type author, an Iranian terrorist, a shrew like woman, a conniving...

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There Goes the Bride - ACTING EDITION USA

Ray Cooney & John Chapman

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

An extremely funny play about a young girl's forthcoming marriage and attitudes about premarital sex "Had the audience gurgling with delight" ~ London Sunday Times "I found myself surrendering to the c...

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Noises Off

Michael Frayn

Samuel French

5 Male 4 Female

Called the "funniest farce ever written" (NY Post), Noises Off depicts the onstage and backstage antics of a fifth-rate acting troupe touring in a dire sex farce - Nothing OnAct One shows the dress rehearsal...

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The Third Great Coarse Acting Show

Michael Green

Samuel French Ltd

9 Male 5 Female

Michael Green defines a Coarse Acting Show as a "closely observed imitation of stage disaster" and these five plays cover a range of disasters appalling enough to turn any show into a Coarse oneThey are also...

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It Runs in the Family

Ray Cooney

Samuel French Ltd

7 Male 4 Female

Set in a hospital, It Runs in the Family contains the usual assortment of farcical nuts running in and out of doors mistaking everybody for someone else, as Dr Mortimore tries to fend off a paternity suit, a...

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The Bride of Brackenloch! A Ghastly Gothic Thriller?

Rick Abbot

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 8 Female

In this cheerily goofy spoof, new bride Daphne is brought to Brackenloch the day after her husband Jabez Thorngall lost his first bride to the family curse which warns any bride at Brackenloch Manor is doome...

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