Plays by Publisher - Al

Just Between Ourselves

Alan Ayckbourn

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 3 Female

Dennis spends his spare time messing about in his untidy garage, indifferent to the fact that his wife is being driven to distraction and beyond by his possessive mother. The hidden tension and antagonisms u...

$12.99

A Very Common Procedure

Courtney Baron

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

New Yorkers Carolyn and Michael Goldenhersch are expecting, but when their child is born prematurely and dies, Carolyn is drawn to the doctor who attempted to save the baby's life An affair between them ens...

$13

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

Night Thoughts & Terminal

Corinne Jacker

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Night Thoughts ~ After having lived alone for many years Dorothy, a chronic invalid, now has Ida staying with her Dorothy is connected to a battery of machines which monitor her bodily functions and sust...

$13

Close the Coalhouse Door

Alan Plater & Sid Chaplin & Alex Glasgow

Bloodaxe Books

7 Male 1 Female

This gritty musical about the coal industry in North-east England is regularly staged by all kinds of theatre companies, from professional to school to amateur The play, adapted from stories by Sid Chaplin,...

$16.99

Aladdin

John Crocker & Eric Gilder

Samuel French Ltd

Crocker & Gilder are recognised masters of the genre, and Aladdin is one of their best A full-length panto, entirely traditional with lots of humour and with its own original and delightful score by Er...

$12.99

Killing Time

Richard Stockwell

Samuel French Ltd

1 Male 1 Female

A chance meeting brings Rick and Jane together at Rick's house in this clever and challenging thriller At first, their conversation seems innocent. Gradually the truth emerges: it is not Rick's house at all...

$12.99

Little Joe Monaghan

Barbara Lebow

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Josephine Monaghan lived her adult life in the West as a man, with no one knowing her real gender A debutante in the east, Josephine has a baby out of wedlock, and in order to support it and spare the ch...

$13

The Waiting Room

Lisa Loomer

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 4 Female

A dark comedy about the timeless quest for beauty - and its cost Three women from different centuries meet in a modern doctor's waiting room ... Forgiveness From Heaven, is an eighteenth-century Chinese wo...

$13

Apocalyptic Butterflies

Wendy Macleod

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

Cooped up in their cramped cottage in a remote part of Maine, Hank and Muriel Tater are beginning to get on each others nerves They have still not agreed on a name for their seven-week-old daughter, Muri...

$13

Cyra and Rocky

Cherie Bennett

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 2 Female

International best-selling writer Cherie Bennett deftly adapts Cyrano de Bergerac in this side-splitting but poignant story, set in modern America The Cyrano character, Cyrana (called Cyra) Berger, is a ...

$10.99

The Boys Next Door

Tom Griffin

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 2 Female

This very funny yet very touching play focuses on the lives of four retarded men who live in a communal residence under the watchful eye of a sincere, but increasingly despairing, social worker. Filled with ...

$13

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Richard Alfieri

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

A formidable woman hires an acerbic dance instructor to give her lessons in her gulf front condo in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida Antagonism between this gay man and this widow of a Southern Baptist ministe...

$10.99

Souvenir

Stephen Temperley

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 1 Female

For more than half a century the name Florence Foster Jenkins has been guaranteed to produce explosions of derisive laughter Not unreasonably so, as this wealthy society eccentric suffered under the delusio...

$13

Sweet Eros & Witness

Terrence McNally

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 1 Female

Sweet Eros ~ is a monologue delivered by a poet, with interruptions, in the form of sobs (at first), muffled protests (at first), and the croaking of a song, 'Plaisir d'Amour' (at the end) The poet, for...

$13

Character Lines

Larry Ketron

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 2 Female

Many years before the action of the play begins, Kit and Linda had shared a life together as they struggled for recognition as writers Now, seven years later, Linda, who has become a successful novelist...

$13

Seven Times Monday

Ernest Pendrell

Dramatists Play Service

9 Male 4 Female

"Seven Times Monday is a perceptive drama of dignity, warmth and honesty This is a play that has few false heroics and is further embellished by the author's keen eye and ear for human behavior and expres...

$13

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

High Cockalorum

Robert Murray

Dramatists Play Service

The time is 1878 and the place is Meanly, Kansas, a little whistle stop on the Santa Fe, which has quieted down of late and wants to stay that way Consequently, the Sheriff, prodded by the local wives an...

$13

Neat

Charlayne Woodard

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 1 Female

In the oral traditions of West Africa and the African diaspora, Charlayne Woodard is a modern-day griot On a bare stage, this magnificent storyteller spins her own exquisite real-life remembrance of her ...

$13