Plays by Publisher - Samuel French Inc

The Increased Difficulty of Concentration

Vaclav Havel trans Vera Blackwell

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

A deft and intelligent comedy concerning a doctor, his wife, his mistress and a female social worker who are confronted with a special computer that interrogates and interviewsThe gaps in our lives cause the...

$10.99

Murder of Crows

Ed Graczyk

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Harley and Jennie Woodson are a quirky elderly couple who live above their combination general store/post office in Wallace, Ohio. Business is not too good; they are just about the last folks left in Wallace...

$10.99

Twilight of the Golds

Jonathan Tollins

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

If your parents knew everything about you before you were born, would you be here? That is the question posed in this entertaining drama All is well when Suzanne Gold and her close New York family discover ...

$10.99

People!

John Patrick

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

Each of these plays used the same cast in different roles. Christmas Spirit is about a happy man about to go on a vacation who is hopelessly depressed by a couple who drop in to wish him Christmas cheer Apt...

$10.99

Sing Out Sweet Land

Walter Kerr

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

Cavalcade of American folk music Walter Kerr 3 major roles plus singers and dancers (doubling possible) Simple sets

$10.99

P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!

James Kirkwood

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 0 Female

Two desperate men, thrown together one New Year's Eve when their lives have crumbled, are willing to kill each other, until they discover that each is the other's only salvation Actor-cum-fledgling writer J...

$10.99

Keep Your Pantheon

David Mamet

Samuel French Inc

0 Female

An impoverished acting company on the edge of eviction is offered a lucrative engagement But through a series of riotous mishaps, the troupe finds its problems have actually multiplied, and that they are ab...

$10.99

Merton of the Movies

George S. Kaufman & Marc Connelly from Harry Leon Wilsin

Samuel French Inc

6 Female

One of the most popular modern American plays, this is a stirring story of American youth, an interesting commentary on motion pictures, and an intensely human study of character Stage directions, diagrams ...

$10.99

Before You Go

Lawrence Holofcener

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

A lonely, mousey girl, a bookkeeper has embraced the cultural revolution by becoming a psychodrama actress One rainy day, she ducks into a Greenwich Village doorway and the boy who offers her shelter turns ...

$10.99

So Nice Not To See You

Fred Carmichael

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 7 Female

Perfect for women's clubs, this comedy solves the perennial problem of what to do when uninvited guest show up at your vacation home An author and her secretary are trying to get some work finished in their...

$8.99

Not So Grim Fairy Tales

Patricia Montley

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

Dylan

Sidney Michaels from Caitlin Thomas & John M. Brinnin

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

Harrigan 'n' Hart

Michael Stewart

Samuel French Inc

Nineteenth century songwriter and vaudevillian Edward Harrigan and his partner, Tony Hart, were the first to integrate story telling, song and dance onstage Here is their story, told with an innovative ble...

$10.99

The Mice Have Been Drinking Again

Cleve Haubold

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Jerry and Julie Reed are a happy young couple living in a small apartment in this one act comedy At least they would be happy if it were not for Roxanne Conch, who lives with them Roxanne is a scatter brai...

$8.99

Widdershins

Don Nigro

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 6 Female

Inspector Ruffing returns in this baffling mystery that was an audience favorite at the First International Mystery Festival in 2007 ... In a peaceful house near the Welsh border, an entire family has vanis...

$10.99

The Fiance

Catherine Keyser

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 3 Female

Public Domain1st Place Winner of the 1996 Baker's Plays High School Playwrighting Contest For Jackie, Diane and Jessica, the arrival of The Fiance is a major big deal Diane's stepsister is getting married...

$8.99

An Overpraised Season

Richard Dunlop

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Numerous problems facing today's intelligent and sensitive adolescents are treated in the 40 minute play, which, in episode form, concerns two boys and a girl; a domineering, religiously fanatic mother; and ...

$8.99

Calm Down Mother

Megan Terry

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 3 Female

In this one act play, three women undergo transformations, beginning with a girl who approaches two Jewish women in a store who are more interested in their allergies than in serving her Suddenly the women ...

$8.99

Strange Bedfellows

Florence Ryerson & Colin Chements

Samuel French Inc

Senator Cromwell - an old line politician who keeps his women under stern rule - has a new daughter in law When he learns Matthew's bride is a feminist leader campaigning for the Women's Rights Bill due to ...

$10.99

November

Don Nigro

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 6 Female

In the autumn of 1980, Aunt Liz is trapped in a nursing home in the hilly agricultural country of east Ohio while her niece Becky and Becky's revolting husband try to steal and destroy her farm Her life is ...

$10.99