Plays by Publisher - Samuel French

Silhouette

Simon Brett

Samuel French Ltd

5 Male 3 Female

An ingenious thriller where Detective Inspector Bruton questions actress Celia Wallis about the murder of her husband Martin Celia is obviously in the clear, but the finger of suspicion points to Neville, t...

$12.99

Family Album

Noel Coward

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

Just back from their father's funeral, the Featherway children cannot pull long faces nor feign regret, in this one act comedy The last one to break into laughter is pious Lavinia, father's companion until ...

$7.99

An Impeccable Larceny

Mara Dresner

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Trouble abounds at the Weddington's country estate and just who is who and what is what is quite the mystery in this farce The Weddingtons attempt to rule the estate in classic fashion, complicated by Lord ...

$10.99

Everyman

Constance Cox

Samuel French Ltd

7 Male

This simplified, modern English version of the archetypal morality play retains the medieval setting Everyman is summoned by Death and learns only Good Deeds and Knowledge will accompany him The most beaut...

$12.99

The Boy Friend

Sandy Wilson

Samuel French Ltd

Set in 1920s Nice, the girls of Madame Dubonnet's finishing school are always singing lively songs and falling in love with forbidden boyfriends! The charming young pupils burst into song at the least prov...

$12.99

Joseph Andrews

P M Clepper from Henry Fielding

Samuel French Ltd

7 Male 1 Female

This is Fielding's satire on "virtue in peril" A young virtuous male is being pursued and tries to keep his honor unsullied for the lovely maiden he wants to marry Pure Joseph is besieged by high and low b...

$12.99

Anastasia

Guy Bolton from Marcelle Maurette

Samuel French Inc

8 Male 5 Female

$10.99

Zooman and the Sign

Charles Fuller

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 3 Female

Zooman is a teenage Philidelphia Black youth who senselessly terrorises Blacks and Whites alikeWhen he kills a 12-year old black girl in a street full of people, the witnesses are too frightened to identify ...

$10.99

Spell #7

Ntozake Shange

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 5 Female

This striking choreopoem is set in St. Louis in a bar frequented by Black artists and musicians. It is another meditation on the irony of being Black in a white world The artists bare their souls in soliloq...

$10.99

Death of a Don

Ronald Myroup

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

Godfather Don Giovanni clings to the traditions of a bygone era. He is at a Louis XIV desk in a room filled with bean bag chairs The tired crime lord must battle a pudgy daughter who wants to be a rock star...

$10.99

Shady Business

Robin Hawdon

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 2 Female

Mandy and Tania are sexy but struggling nightclub dancers living in the heart of London's Soho nightlife, and they face a crisis. Will possessive club owner Big Mack find out about Mandy's affair with Gerry ...

$10.99

Forty Carats

Jay Allen adapted from Pierre Barillet & Jean Pierre Gredy

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 6 Female

This French comedy is about a 40 year old divorcee whose car breaks down in Greece. She is then introduced to the true romance of the country by a winning youth of 22 Back in New York, where she runs a lucr...

$10.99

Getting and Spending

Michael Chepiga

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

A brilliant and beautiful investment banker makes illegal profits of eighteen million dollars from insider trading and uses it to build housing for the homeless Shortly before her trial, she ferrets out the...

$10.99

Safe

Tony Glazer & Anthony Ruivivar

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 1 Female

Five people are coerced into a bank vault during a violent robbery. Camaraderie gives way to conflict as the will to survive spawns paranoia and deception One by one, the captives turn on each other, create...

$10.99

The Bed Before Yesterday

Ben Travers

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 4 Female

Alma is very rich, but she has reached middle age with little else. Twice married, her first and only sexual encounter has left her frigid with the emotional outlook of a spinster. Now she is seeking compani...

$12.99

The Soul of the White Ant

Snoo Wilson

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Bizarre, surreal and comic, this play is about a racial murder in South Africa and its subsequent cover up by the press and the police. Mabel's husband is away so she takes and then shoots a Black lover Rep...

$10.99

Birth and After Birth

Tina Howe

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

A witty and sophisticated satire by the author of One Shoe Off and other popular comedies, this play takes place during a child's fourth birthday party The boy's parents have invited another couple, anthrop...

$10.99

Taxi Cabaret

Peter Mills & Cara Reichel

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

The Taxi Cabaret follows six people in their twenties during their first year in New York City. Scott, an aspiring novelist, discovers that you do not have to suffer to write Mark and Sara test their relati...

$10.99

Time and Time Again

Alan Ayckbourn

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 2 Female

The suburban house of the Bakers' adjoins a recreation field, which is useful since football and cricket play a large part in the story. Peter, who works for Graham, brings his fiancee to the house and Graha...

$12.99

Henceforward

Alan Ayckbourn

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 4 Female

England's comic master is in a black comic mode in this West End hit about our fascination with technology It is sometime quite soon in a steel shuttered, slovenly flat in a no go area of North London where...

$12.99