Plays by Publisher - Samuel French Inc

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Tom Ziegler

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

Mertle Mae Tucker supports herself, her dad, a canary and a blind cat working as a truck dispatcher Dad was once a Yankee he spent the 1955 season on the bench and then retired rather than be traded to Clev...

$10.99

Prom Queens Unchained

Larry Goodsight & Stephen Witkin

Samuel French Inc

1 Female

Actors and audience interact in a 1950's high school. The lunatic plot, reminiscent of a bad drive in movie, involves competition for prom queen, an alien invader, a science student who turns his right arm i...

$10.99

Parked

Rita Norton Mazza

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 2 Female

Annie, a disheveled divorcee doing her best to nurture three kids on her own, Larry, a successful freelance artist, and Lisa, an unfulfilled suburban mom with aspirations of starting her own business, seem t...

$10.99

Twice Around the Park

Murray Schisgal

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson starred on Broadway in these hysterically funny one acts A Need for Brussels Sprouts finds a middle aged actor hoping to land a TV commercial for pizza by playing opera full bla...

$10.99

The Alto Part

Barbara Gilstrap

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 6 Female

In 1956 in a small town in East Texas, the mother of an adolescent girl seeks to keep her dreams of a singing career alive. Her fantasies are disrupted by her cantankerous landlady and her tough talking, pra...

$10.99

Foiled Again!

Wilbur Braun

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

Heroes, villains, derring do and music abound in this suite of two delightful new musical versions of our most popular one act melodramas: Curse You, Jack Dalton! and He Ain't Done Right by Nell

$10.99

Da

Hugh Leonard

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

Honored with numorous awards, this thoroughly beguiling play is about a son's need to come to terms with his father and himself, paternity, adolescence, the varieties of familial love and the tricks and dist...

$10.99

Bullshot Crummond

Ron House & Diz White & Alan Shearman & John Neville Andrews & Derek Cunningham

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

This parody of low budget 30s detective movies typifies British heroism. Teutonic villain Otto von Brunno and his evil mistress crash their plane in the English countryside and kidnap Professor Fenton who ha...

$10.99

Curst Be He That Moves My Bones

Thomas Hischak

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 7 Female

Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? According to the 19th century literary critic Delia Bacon, just about everybody but the Bard of Avon! Confined to an insane asylum because of her obsession with findi...

$8.99

The Red Peppers

Noel Coward

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Doing a song and dance act in a vaudeville theatre are George Pepper and his wife, Lily They also have a genius for picking quarrels and insulting co-workers When the house musical director, Bert, comes to...

$8.99

A Night in the Theatre

Lawrence Casler

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Margaret and Stanley Locker and their friends, Donna and Walter Pace, are at the theatre for their weekly dose of culture This week's ordeal is Hamlet After they seat themselves with some confusion, the pl...

$10.99

Checkmate

Leslie Sands

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

As this witty and unconventional whodunit opens, British television star Peter Conway arrives home to find his wife Stella dead from a drug overdose Police Sgt. Drummond is assigned to investigate He is pr...

$10.99

The Invention

Merritt Ierley

Samuel French Inc

1 Female

The inventor is Thomas A Edison; the invention, a little known idea of his to build a device for communicating with the next life, a proposal he actually broached in Scientific American magazine Bizarre but...

$10.99

Balcony Scene

Donald Elser

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

Winner of Texas One Act Play ContestWinner, First Place, Massachusetts State Festival "Superior" in Nebraska State Inter-High School Contest In this moving fantasy, set at the funeral of a ne'er-do-well,...

$8.99

Date

Sam Smiley

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 3 Female

This one act play brims with humor and pathos by showing how the touch of life connects the generations As granddaughter Violet prepares for a significant date, Lily steals into the living room Her cruel d...

$8.99

Tea and Sympathy

Robert Anderson

Samuel French Inc

9 Male 2 Female

This story of a forlorn boy at boarding school who is hazed by his classmates because he has played girls' parts in amateur theatricals and because he is very sensitive The kidding turns to rumor and finall...

$10.99

Viva!

Andy de la Tour

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 1 Female

In the delightfully tacky Hotel Intercontinental in the fictional banana republic of Puerto de Oro, a CIA backed dictatorship is under siege by guerillas who are within five miles of the capital Hiding out ...

$10.99

Love by the Numbers

Ernest Joselovitz & Harry Michael Bagdasian

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

Todd Dobson, computer honcho from New York City, is in the small town of Willowdale to install a computer system in Hiram Paige's library He falls head over heels in love with the library assistant. Todd pr...

$10.99

Geniuses

Jonathan Reynolds

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 1 Female

In a jungle shack two hundred miles north of Manila a group of maniacs who call themselves film makers are trying to shoot the war epic Parabola of Death The characters include the latest in a series of wri...

$10.99

Proposals

Neil Simon

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

This memory play delightfully recalls the last time the Hines family gathered at their retreat in the Poconos. That summer in 1953 was one of animated romantic entanglements that overlap on one idyllic after...

$10.99