Plays by Publisher - Samuel French

Born in the Gardens

Peter Nichols

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 2 Female

In a mock Tudor manor gone to seed lives 70 year old Maud and her younger son, forty five year old Mo. She speaks more to the soundless television than to him and he plays New Orleans jazz on his drums An a...

$12.99

Fen

Caryl Churchill

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 6 Female

This remarkable playwright shows still another aspect of her talent in Fen, which takes place in England's fen country and focuses on a gang of women landworkers. The play looks at their work situation and t...

$10.99

Sun Is Shining

Matt Wilkinson

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

Two people, two cultures and two outlooks equal one unlikely love affair told at the breakneck speed of city life. A recovering alcoholic, she is a petite Scottish artist who likes to look at the stars. He i...

$10.99

Imaginary Friends

Nora Ephron & Marvin Hamlisch & Craig Carnelia

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 3 Female

Novelist Mary McCarthy's notorious statement on the Dick Cavett Show calling playwright Lillian Hellman a liar exploded into one of the most famous of all literary feuds. This surreal farce portrays these tw...

$10.99

The Man in the Bowler Hat

A. A. Milne

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

In this one act comedy, a terribly exciting little affair happens in the humdrum life of John and Mary, a tempest in a teapot, but while it lasts - well, it's high comedy, at least for the audience!

$8.99

First Date

J T Elias

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Peter Gillespie, surprised that his daughter is now a young woman, suddenly begins worrying about the kind of boy dating her

$8.99

Waldo and Sons

Andrew McGregor & David Pickthall

Samuel French Ltd

9 Male 5 Female

A lively, fast-paced musical in which Waldo and his travelling troupe arrive to perform an old-time show in Farnley-on-Sea only to find that Magnet, local bully and night-club owner, does not share their en...

$12.99

Sweet Revenge

Francis Durbridge

Samuel French Ltd

6 Male 3 Female

Ross, a happily-married cardiac surgeon, is devastated when his wife announces that she is in love with notorious womanizer Julian Kane When Ross' assistant discovers two vials of lethal cardiac drug missin...

$12.99

Tom Thumb

Paul Reakes

Samuel French Ltd

A hungry giant is advancing upon the Royal Kingdom, and his evil henchman Slither Slugslime has forced the citizens to give up all their food to satisfy his appetite Only Tom Thumb, the King's head gardener...

$12.99

Beyond the Door

Douglas Farr

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

This thrilling suspense play keeps the audience on the edge of their seat from the first minute right down to the closing of the curtain A murderer fleeing from the police wanders into an old house inhabite...

$8.99

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Jeffrey Archer

Samuel French Ltd

3 Female

In the Central Criminal Court the Old Bailey Sir David Metcalfe, distinguished QC and Chairman of the Bar Council, is conducting the most important defence of his career his own Accused of the willful murde...

$12.99

The Cinderella Syndrome

V. Glasgow Koste

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 4 Female

The Cinderella Syndrome has been produced throughout the USA from California to Maine Based on the famous Cinderella story, this play takes it from a slightly different angle and emphasis It's a gentle, fu...

$8.99

Jane Eyre

Willis Hall from Charlotte Bronte

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 8 Female

A complete and enchanting stage adaptation of the fictional tale of the penniless, plain Jane Eyre With simple staging Hall breaks the action up into short interconnected scenes and shares the passages of n...

$12.99

Darling Buds of May

H. E. Bates

Samuel French Ltd

5 Male 6 Female

Scrap-metal Pop Larkin has never paid tax, which cause complications when the Tax Man calls And falls in love with his beautiful daughter ... Set in the 1950s

$12.99

Suddenly at Home

Francis Durbridge

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 4 Female

Glenn Howard thinks he has devised the perfect plot to murder his wealthy wife and implicate her former lover The plan, however, depends on the co-operation of Sheila Wallis, and after an unexpected arrival...

$12.99

Panic Stations

Derek Benfield

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 5 Female

Recreating many of the old favourites from Wild Goose Chase and Post Horn Gallop Derek Benfield produces another hilarious farce concerning Chester Dreadnought Chester buys an idyllic country cottage eager ...

$12.99

Whence

Leo Smith

Samuel French Ltd

1 Male 1 Female

This award winning, cerebral play is set in the future but is very much for our time Driven underground by the "greenhouse" effect on the atmosphere, two people eke out an existence in a wary partnership - ...

$12.99

Dazzle

John Gardiner & Andrew Parr

Samuel French Ltd

5 Male 4 Female

Dazzle, a parody of Star Trek, charts the first voyage of the Star Ship Sunburster One under the control of dashingly handsome (and doesn't he know it) Captain Sam Galatic The mission is to transport Home W...

$12.99

Down an Alley Filled with Cats

Warwick Moss

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 0 Female

Timothy Timmony is the elderly, cultured proprietor of a book shop in a Sydney area that is being redeveloped The bookstore is in the last building still standing. Simon Matthews, an uncultured but not inse...

$10.99

Absent Friends

Alan Ayckbourn

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 3 Female

Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancee so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is mor...

$12.99