Plays by Publisher - P

Search and Destroy

Howard Korder

Dramatists Play Service

2 Female

This is about corporate politics, lies and relationships ... "You know the worst thing a man can do, Mr Carling? He can undertake an adventure. He can misjudge his strength and he can destroy himself" ...

$13

Ebenezer - SENIOR

Malcolm Sircom

Musicline

A Musical Play originally written for school students aged 11 to 18, based on Dickens' A Christmas Carol It is however ideal for Youth Groups and Amateur Groups to perform The Score derives from a wide ran...

$19.99

Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov trans Michael Frayn

Methuen

9 Male 5 Female

As an internationally acclaimed playwright who is also proficient in Russian, Michael Frayn is ideally placed to offer us a wholly accurate yet modern and playable translation of Chekhov's classic playFor th...

$16.99

Mrs McThing

Mary Chase

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 9 Female

"All happens very logicallyA little girl has slipped past the gatekeeper and over the garden wall to play with a lonely and put-upon lad She is quickly shooed out by his mother as 'trash' It just so hap...

$13

Approaching Simone

Megan Terry

Samuel French Inc

8 Male 4 Female

Simone Weil was a French Jewish girl whose death in 1943 was caused primarily by self imposed starvation. The play highlights the development and struggles of her mind and spirit from the age of five until h...

$10.99

A Touch of Spring

Samuel Taylor

Samuel French

7 Male 2 Female

When Diana leaves her husband Sandy in Rome to make arrangements for the transfer home of his father's body, killed in Italy in a car crash, he meets Alison who is on a similar missionIt transpires that Alis...

$10.99

Women Behind Bars

Tom Eyen

Samuel French Inc

1 Female

In this hilarious satire on B movies of the 1950's, Mary Eleanor, an innocent duped into crime, lands in the Greenwich Village Woman's House of Detention which is presided over by a massive matron with a tas...

$10.99

Spud Ferret and the Case of the Missing Hypergyrocopter

Jeff Gallagher

SchoolPlay Productions

8 Male 2 Female

. The Drawing Room of Nobby Charles' Mayfair apartment, some time in the 1930's. As Nobby Charles and his chum Charlie Nobbs wait anxiously for their next adventure, news comes that Britain's latest top sec...

$6.99

Tall Story

Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse

Dramatists Play Service

Suggested by the novel, The Homecoming Game, by Howard Nemerov Thanks to the phenomenal success of its basketball team Custer College has suddenly sprung into national prominence. Alumni contributions ...

$13

Childhood

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

In this provocative, sometimes chilling comedy, Wilder renders a child's-eye view of the grown-up world, as a father, a mother and their three children play a revealing game of make-believe in which the chil...

$8.99

A Man Called Peter

Catherine Marshall adapt John McGreevey

Dramatic Publishing

7 Male 8 Female

Peter Marshall has gathered into his home the young people of the communityHe makes their joys and sorrows his own. His wife knows how ready he is to overtax his strength on behalf of others, but he good-h...

$10.99

The Pleasure of His Company

Samuel Taylor

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 2 Female

With Cornelia Otis Skinner "A somewhat tarnished international playboy returns to the San Francisco home of his former wife to give away their daughter in marriage He hasn't laid eyes on the girl sinc...

$13

Three the Hard Way

Linda Eisenstein

Dramatic Publishing

1 Male 3 Female

Three unconventional sisters, separated by geography and their own history, meet in a Reno motel after the sudden death of their colorful gambler father, Albert As they go through his effects and make fu...

$9.99

Unexpected Guests

Jordan Crittenden

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 3 Female

Harry Mullin comes home to find his wife has left with a door to door cello salesman. If he thinks he'll suffer his misery in solitude, he's very mistaken Within minutes, he has many unexpected guests: a ho...

$10.99

My Sister My Sister

Ray Aranha

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 3 Female

The early life cycle of a girl growing up with her sister and her mother in a lower class black neighborhood, with scenes switching back and forth in time to show her both as she is now and as she was when a...

$10.99

Pageant

Bill Russell & Frank Kelly

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 0 Female

One of the rowdiest farces ever staged, Pageant pits six beauty queens against each other in the Glamouresse annual extravaganza. Miss Texas, Miss Great Plains, Miss Deep South, Miss Industrial Northeast, Mi...

$10.99

The Monkey Walk

John Murray

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

Myra, an uptight intellectual who fears sex, is soon to marry an archaeologist with whom she shares a relationship based more on convenience than emotional involvement Danny, a lonely divorced taxi driver, ...

$10.99

Frank

John Wain

AmberLane Press

7 Male 5 Female

Frank Barber, born in Jamaica, a slave and the child of slaves, was brought to England by a serving officer at the end of his tour of duty, and at the age of about seven became a servant in the strange house...

$16.99

Food and Shelter

Jane Anderson

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Reduced to living in his car, an unemployed factory worker wins a small lottery prize and treats his family to a day at Disneyland They hide in the park to spend a night in the Swiss family Robinson tree ho...

$10.99

The Show Off

George Kelly

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 3 Female

The Show Off was greeted as the most brilliant comedy of character that any American dramatist had produced. This tremendously human and appealing comedy is a rare combination of character, humor and human n...

$10.99