Plays by Publisher - Samuel French Inc

The Sponsor

Ira Lewis

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 1 Female

The Sponsor explores the demands and limits of friendship, the double face of success and failure, the sometimes tyranny of the weak, and the unavoidable passage of time A prominent stage director is summon...

$10.99

Taking Stock

Richard Schotter

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 0 Female

Alvi and Sam, partners and pals, have run a sporting goods store on New York's West Side for forty years It's Memorial Day and they are taking stock of their inventory and their options. The neighborhood ha...

$10.99

Last Days at the Dixie Girl Cafe

Robin Swicord

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

Jeri Lee is about to close down her Dixie Girl Cafe in a Georgia town. She's a sweet, if slightly dotty, religious fundamentalist who believes she's destined to bear another Messiah and she's going to marry ...

$10.99

The Picture of Dorian Gray - The Play

John Osborne from Oscar Wilde

Samuel French Inc

4 Female

John Osborne has created a brilliant dramatization of this classic about a man who retains his youth while the decay of advancing years and moral corruption appears on a portrait painted by one of his lover...

$10.99

Fathers and Sons

Brian Friel

Samuel French Inc

5 Female

In rural Russia in the mid nineteenth century, a brilliant, anarchic young medical student arrives at the provincial family villa of his best friend, Arkady, for the summer vacation. He wants to despise the ...

$14.99

Sanctity of Marriage

David Mamet

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

This sketch, from one of America's most accomplished playwrights, describes in telegraphic brevity a marriage on the rocks

$10.99

The Boundary

Tom Stoppard & Clive Exton

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 1 Female

Arriving at the library to continue work on his dictionary, Johnson is horrified to discover that the place has been ransacked in this one act comedy Paper is everywhere, so much that the body of his wife, ...

$8.99

Approaching Lavendar

Julie Beckett Crutcher

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 3 Female

While their father is marrying his fourth wife sardonic Jenny and her neurotic sister Abigail wait in a vestibule In this one act play they encounter the spacy ingenue who is to become their step sister Po...

$8.99

The Slave with Two Faces

Mary Carolyn Davies

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

This poignant piece of allegory is set in a wood On either side of a path through the wood stand two Girls expecting to meet Life The First Girl says that Life has two faces He can be beautiful or ugly A...

$8.99

The Wisteria Bush

Jo Vander Voort

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 4 Female

The Wisteria Bush is set in a fictitious small town in Alabama. Coleridge is the kind of town where everybody knows everybody else and most of its citizens have lived there all their lives They venture out ...

$10.99

Watch It

Emily Hayward

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 4 Female

Winner 2005 High School Playwriting Contest A teenage girl's tense relationship with her mother becomes a springboard for her learning to deal with her parents' divorce, and how it affects her relationships...

$10.99

The Establishment at Arles

Barry L. Hillman

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 6 Female

Based on characters created by Guy de Maupassant, this one act comedy gives a vibrant glimpse of life in a French "establishment" of 1888 which is both sad and humorous Candice comes to rescue her friend Yv...

$10.99

Be My Baby

Ken Ludwig

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

The play tells the story of John, an irascible Scotsman and an uptight English woman, Maude, both in their late 50s, who take on the journey of a lifetime They are brought together when his ward marries her...

$10.99

Stolen Identity

Charles Emery

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 5 Female

A young man without roots arrives at the McKee home pretending to be the son they have not seen for fifteen years He isn't out to do any harm; he only wants a home and real folks Complications arise when h...

$7.99

The Form

N F Simpson

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

The story of a willowy little man who comes to an office for an interview He has a long wait, and to kill time he shows the receptionist his photographic collection Finally, the important man arrives and t...

$7.99

The Diviners - A Play in Two Acts and Elegies

Jim Leonard Jr

Samuel French Inc

A slice of small-town life in the '30s, where rain is far more important than electricityWhere religion hangs on even without a church And where everyday toils, like fixing a bicycle, take on an importanc...

$10.99

Things Beyond Our Control

Jesse Kellerman

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

On a rainy Texas night, a cabbie commits hit-and-run. Though they try to forget it happened, guilt draws the driver and his passenger together and seven lives change forever The well-drawn characters includ...

$10.99

Hauptmann

John Logan

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 2 Female

This compelling drama by the author of Never the Sinner begins just moments before the 1936 execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the German immigrant who was convicted of murdering the Lindbergh's baby Wit...

$10.99

Playing Doctor

William van Zandt & Jane Milmore

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

Rob Brewster's parents are very, very proud of their son the doctor. What they don't know is that Rob has used all the money they gave him for medical school to live on as he has pursued his fledgling writin...

$10.99

From Up Here

Liz Flahive

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

Kenny Barrett did something that has everyone worried He wishes he could just make it through the rest of his senior year unnoticed, but that's going to be hard since he has to publicly apologize to his ent...

$10.99