Plays by Publisher - Samuel French Ltd

Carry Me Kate

Rachel Musgrove

Samuel French Ltd

6 Male 2 Female

This one-act comedy begins when Kate and Dave meet at their mutual friend's Tupperware party - a chance encounter that will change the course of their lives forever Cue a disastrous first date, a mini-break...

$12.99

Ladies Who Lunch

Tudor Gates

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 7 Female

Wives of three of the world's richest men meet for lunch to do charity work, but then decide to use inside information from the unwitting husbands so they can play the stock market

$12.99

Men of the World

John Godber

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 1 Female

Preparing for a mystery trip to Scarborough ("she wouldn't book till Dennis told her where we were going") three northern coach drivers pass the time remembering more exciting trips from the past, such a...

$12.99

The Last Gamble

Bill MacIlwraith

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 2 Female

An exciting thriller centred on a Colonel who has never recovered from the loss of his eldest son. His younger son Peter, a corrupt solicitor, hates his father for the resentment he feels. When Peter becomes...

$12.99

The Wind in the Willows

Willis Hall from Kenneth Grahame

Samuel French Ltd

Large cast Musical play dramatising Toad's attempts to evict the wicked Weasels from Toad Hall 15 characters + Extras

$12.99

Aladdin

John Morley

Samuel French Ltd

The pantomime follows the outline of the well known story, and includes a trip to Egypt, adventures with a sinister Mummy and a Ghost, a haughty Fairy and a hint of Ali Baba as well as set pieces such as a m...

$12.99

The Great Santa Kidnap

Roy Chatfield

Samuel French Ltd

It's Christmas Eve and three goblins - Sneergripe, Snottle and Bug - are holding Santa to ransom Now it's up to Tommy and Anna go to the rescue ... Running about 90 mins, the Play is written for adults a...

$12.99

A Tale of Two Cities

Matthew Francis from Charles Dickens

Samuel French Ltd

A moving and exciting adaptation of Dicken's classic story of the English lawyer and the French aristocrat caught up inextricably in the violence and bloodshed of the French Revolution. Played on simple set,...

$12.99

Inheritance

Jill Woods

Samuel French Ltd

0 Male 4 Female

Three sisters gather at the bedside of their dying mother, each with a good reason to hope she dies sooner rather than later

$12.99

The Droitwich Discovery

Nick Warburton

Samuel French Ltd

Four keen thespians search a dusty attic in Droitwich where the young Shakespeare purportedly lived Then the ghost of Terry Shakespeare appears, complaining bitterly of his brother's plagiarism, and obligin...

$12.99

City Sugar

Stephen Poliakoff

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 3 Female

Leonard, a disk jockey, is increasingly disillusioned with the falsity of his job of provding fantasies for his devoted teenage listeners. So frustrated is he that he tries to force Nicola, a contestant in a...

$12.99

A Tomb With a View

Norman Robbins

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 6 Female

A Tomb With A View is set in a sinister, old library presided over by a portrait of a grim faced, mad-eyed old man There, a dusty, lawyer reads a will (involving a vast fortune) to an equally sinister famil...

$12.99

Holiday Snap

Michael Pertwee & John Chapman

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 3 Female

This comic tale of mistaken identity unfolds with real wit and style. A Portuguese time share villa has been double booked without the company representative, myopic tippler Commander "Chitto" Chittenden kno...

$12.99

Frozen - ACTING EDITION

Bryony Lavery

Samuel French Ltd

1 Male 2 Female

One sunny evening, ten-year-old Rhona goes missing Her mother, Nancy, retreats into a state of frozen hope. Agnetha, an American academic, comes to England to research a thesis entitled Serial Killing - A Fo...

$12.99

Why Not Stay For Breakfast?

Gene Stone & Ray Cooney

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 2 Female

Respectable George, once married, now lives alone in a flat in Hampstead underneath a flat inhabited by hippies. One night the very pregnant Louise arrives on his doorstep after a huge row with Davey. The cl...

$12.99

The Little Photographer

Derek Hoddinott from Daphne du Maurier

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 4 Female

Marie finds life with her passionless husband unbearable and so begins an affair with a young photographer with a clubfoot. The infatuation ends tragically, with the death of her lover, blackmail threats fro...

$12.99

The Turn of the Screw

Ken Whitmore from Henry James

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 3 Female

Adapted from the novel by Henry James, this is the story of governess Miss Grey who arrives to take charge of two children only to find the house haunted by the former valet and governess who want the childr...

$12.99

The Final Twist

Ken Whitmore & Alfred Bradley

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 1 Female

Suffering from writer's block, Charlie sees no way of clearing his debts until actor Merlin offers him a commission. Merlin has specific needs - the play must contain the perfect method and alibi for the mur...

$12.99

Round and Round the Garden

Alan Ayckbourn

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 3 Female

Round and Round the Garden is part of The Norman Conquests trilogy, although each Play is complete in itself and can be played as a separate entity Sarah's desperate attempts to have a nice, civilized week ...

$12.99

Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish

David Wood & Peter Pontzen from Michael Foreman

Samuel French Ltd

A topical musical for young people based on the best selling book ... Man destroys his world through misuse and disrespect, only to search for a replacement in the stars In his absence dinosaurs and ani...

$12.99