Scripts by Title
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Tartuffe
by Moliere
So virtuous is Tartuffe that every form of pleasure is an abomination to him. Orgon, a rich merchant, is completely duped by the ruse and watches approvingly as the cunning Tartuffe "reforms" his whole family. So besotted is the merchant that he even plans to give Tartuffe his fortune, his house, and finally his daughter! Orgon's wife finally exposes Tartuffe for the rogue he is -- and her husband for being a gullible fool. By the time Orgon sees the light, only the courts can insure justice.
Cast: 8 M, 7 F
Ten Little Indians
by Agatha Christie
Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the bloodbath begins and one by one they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme.
Cast: 8 M, 3 F
That Championship Season
by Jason Miller
Following their annual custom, five men—a high-school basketball coach, now retired, and four members of the team that he guided to the state championship twenty years earlier—meet for a reunion. The occasion begins in a light-hearted mood but gradually, as the pathos and desperation of their present lives are exposed and illuminated, the play takes on a rich power of rare dimension.
Cast: 5 M
The Addams Family
by Marshall Brickman
and Rick Elice
Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family– a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before– keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.
Cast: 6 M, 4 F, + ensemble
The Awesome
80's Prom
by Ken Davenport
All of your favorite characters from your favorite '80s movies are at THE PROM. From the Captain of the Football Team to the Asian Exchange Student, from the Geek to the hottie Head Cheerleader, they're all competing for Prom King and Queen. And just like on American Idol, the audience decides who wins! Travel back in time and join the breakdance circle, or just sit back and watch the '80s drama unfold.
Cast:12 M, 8 F
The Balcony
by Jean Genet
Genet's horrifying vision has aroused violent controversy. Kenneth Tynan called it "a theatrical experience as startling as anything since Ibsen's revelation about syphilis." The setting is a brothel in the midst of a revolution that has wiped out all the real holders of power except the Chief of Police, who now enlists the regular customers to play out the fantasy roles that destiny has denied them. In macabre, climactic scenes, the playwright develops his mocking view of man and society.
Cast: 9 M, 4 F
The Beauty of Queen Leanne
by Martin McDonagh
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative aging mother, whose interference in Maureen's first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that leads inexorably towards the play's terrifying dénouement.
Cast: 2 M, 2 F
The Birds
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by Aristophanes
Undeniably a masterpiece and perhaps one of the greatest comedies of all time, The Birds lends a comic sense to mankind's crazy cosmic and comic dream. All this wish fulfillment seems darkened by death, but somehow the dream quality survives us. The Birds is splendidly lyrical, shot through with gentle Utopian satire and touched by the sadness of the human condition. The ironic gaiety and power of invention never flags, and in no other of his works is the comic vision so comprehensively or lovingly at odds with his world.
Cast: 10 M or F
The Caine Mutiny Court-Marshal
by Herman Wouk
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a court martial has been adapted by the author into suspenseful evening of theatre. A young lieutenant is relieved his captain of command in the midst of a typhoon on the grounds that the captain, Queeg is a psychopath in crisis and commanded the ship and its crew to destruction. Naval tradition is against him, but testimony eventually reveals a devastating picture of Queeg's mental disintegration.
Cast: 19 M
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
by Bertolt Brecht
Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Causasus Mountains of Georgia, and retells the tale of King Solomon and a child claimed by two mothers. A chalk circle is metaphorically drawn around a society misdirected by its priorities. Brecht's statements about class are cloaked in the innocence of a fable that whispers insistently to the audience.
Cast: 39 M, 14 F
The Chalk Garden
by Enid Bagnold
This psychological chamber piece explores the secret world of childhood through the prism of a dyed-in-the-wool British dowager Mrs. St. Maugham and her precocious and equally eccentric granddaughter Laurel. When enigmatic Miss Madrigal is hired as household companion and manager, the two finally meet their match.
Cast: 2 M, 7 F
The Children's Hour
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by Lillian Hellman
One of the great successes of this distinguished writer. A serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youngster starts a rumor about the two women, the rumor soon turns to scandal. As the young girl comes to understand the power she wields, she sticks by her story, which precipitates tragedy for the women. It is later discovered that the gossip was pure invention, but it is too late. Irreparable damage has been done.
Cast: 2 M, 12 F
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
The story focuses upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife's arrest for witchcraft. The farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie—and it is here that the monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. The farmer, instead of saving his wife, finds himself also accused of witchcraft and ultimately condemned with a host of others.
Cast: 10 M, 10 F
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
by William Inge
In a small Oklahoma town in the early 1920s we find Rubin, a traveling salesman for a harness firm, Cora, his sensitive and lovely wife, Sonny, their little boy and Reenie, their teenage daughter. The plot consists of a series of short stories. The play's message is that there is dark at the top of everyone's stairs, but that it can be dissipated by understanding, tolerance and compassion.
Cast: 3 M, 2 F, 3 boys, 2 girls
The Day They Shot John Lennon
by James McLure
The play takes place in the street in front of the Manhattan apartment house where John Lennon was shot to death. Deeply moved and shocked by this awful event, many New Yorkers spontaneously assembled there to pay tribute to their slain idol, and it is from the interwoven stories of a cross section of these people that the author builds his play.
Cast: 7 M, 2 F
The Death and Life of Larry Benson
by Reginald Rose
The whole town is excited about Larry Benson's homecoming. More than that, they're astonished because Larry was reported missing in action on a distant battlefield more than three years ago. Everyone had given up and now he's suddenly coming home! But when he arrives, the young soldier who comes calling "Mom! Dad!" is a stranger. He continues to insist that he's Larry, and only after the buildup of tension and drama does the moment of truth and vindication arrive.
Cast: 5 M, 8 F
The Desert Song
by Otto Harbach and more
French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious “Red Shadow”, a Frenchman. The Red Shadow, his Arab lieutenant, Sid El Kar, and their wealthy host, Ali Ben Ali, discuss the relative merits of the Eastern tradition of love for a harem of women and the Western ideal of loving one woman for life.
Cast: 10 M, 6 F, + ensemble
The Diary of Anne Frank
by Frances Goodrich
and Abert Hackett
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands Anne Frank began to keep a diary on June 14, 1942, two days after her 13th birthday, and twenty two days before going into hiding with her mother, father, sister, and three other people. The group went into hiding in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father's office building in Amsterdam. They remained hidden for two years and one month, until their betrayal in August 1944, which resulted in their deportation going to Nazi concentration camps.
Cast: 5 M, 5 F
The Diviners
by Jim Leonard Jr.
This marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma, and the loss of his mother in the same accident, has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy’s father. The town doesn’t have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach – while he tries to persuade the child to wash.
Cast: 6 M, 5 F
The Dresser
by Ronald Harwood
This bracing, heartbreaking drama is an elegy to a by-gone era. Backstage at a theatre in the English provinces during WWII, Sir, the last of the great breed of English actor/managers, is in a bad way tonight, as his dresser Norman tries valiantly to prepare him to go on stage as King Lear. Unsure of his lines as well as who and where he is supposed to be, Sir is adamantly determined to roar his last. Back in his dressing room after the performance, the worn out old trouper dies, leaving alone his company and the loyal dresser after one final bow.
Cast: 10 M, 3 F
The Effect of Gamma rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
by Paul Zindel
Frowzy, supporting herself and her two daughters by taking in a decrepit old boarder, Beatrice Hunsdorfer wreaks a petty vengeance on everybody around her. One daughter, Ruth, is a pretty but highly strung girl subject to convulsions; while the younger daughter, Matilda, plain and almost pathologically shy, has an intuitive gift for science. Encouraged by her teacher, Tillie undertakes a gamma ray experiment with marigolds that wins a prize at her high school.
Cast: 5 F
The Eight Reindeer Monologues
by Jeff Goode
Are you looking for something different for Christmas this year? Well, this is the script for you: eight reindeer dishing about the real Santa. All those rumors you've heard about him and the elves? About Rudolph's little secret? About Vixen's story that was leaked to the press? All true. Yes, the reindeer finally speak up and - believe us - they do not hold back!
Cast: 5M, 3 F
The Elephant Man
by Bernard Pomerance
The Elephant Man is based on the life of John Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A horribly deformed young man – victim of rare skin and bone diseases – he becomes the star freak attraction in traveling sideshows. Found abandoned and helpless, he is admitted to London’s prestigious Whitechapel Hospital. Under the care of celebrated young physician Frederick Treves, Merrick is introduced to London society and slowly evolves from an object of pity to an urbane and witty favorite of the aristocracy and literati, only to be denied his ultimate dream – to become a man like any other.
Cast: 6 M, 2 F
The Foreigner
by Larry Shue
"Froggy" LeSueur is a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time "Froggy" has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So "Froggy," before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should.
Cast: 5 M, 2 F
The Ghost Story
by Booth Tarkington
George, home from college, wishes to be alone with Ann and, trying to frighten her friends away, tells a ghost story with an unexpected and startling result.
Cast: 5 M, 5 F
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
Amanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura. Amanda strives to give meaning and direction to her life and the lives of her children, though her methods are ineffective and irritating. Tom is driven nearly to distraction by his mother's nagging and seeks escape in alcohol and the world of the movies. Laura also lives in her illusions. She is crippled, and this defect, intensified by her mother's anxiety to see her married, has driven her more and more into herself.
Cast: 2 M, 2 F
The Goodbye Girl
by Neil Simon
The Goodbye Girl turns the film comedy into an adventure about love and commitment. It follows the unlikely romance between Paula, a bitter single mother who has been jilted one too many times, and Eliot, the opinionated actor who shows up – unexpectedly – on her doorstep with a lease to sublet her apartment. It features the same unique humor that has made Neil Simon the most popular playwright in Broadway history. Add a score by Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line) and David Zippel (City of Angels, Disney's Hercules, Disney's Mulan), and you have an instant contemporary classic.
Cast: 3 M, 7 F, + ensemble
The Haunted
High School
by Orville Snap
At Eagle High School it's a tradition to celebrate "Youth's Day" when students and teachers exchange roles. Just before the play's beginning, the principal has been killed by a car. Two other unexplainable accidents occur. And there's strange happenings in the school. A detective is summoned but his bungling efforts only produce fiascos. Events pile up rapidly until the mystery's solved in comedy scenes that'll bring down the house.
Cast: 6 M, 8 F
The Heiress
by Ruth and Augustus Goetz
The background of the play is New York in the 1850s and the basic story tells of a shy and plain young girl, Catherine Sloper, who falls desperately in love with a delightful young fortune hunter. Catherine's lack of worldliness prevents her from realizing that the young man proposing to her is not entirely drawn to her by her charm. Catherine's father, a successful doctor, sees through the fortune hunter and forbids the marriage, but his daughter proposes an elopement that fails to materialize because the young man knows most of her expected fortune will go elsewhere if he marries her.
Cast: 3 M, 6 F
The Hobbit
by Patricia Gray
It's unusual for a modern work to become a classic so quickly, but Tolkien's "ring" stories, which began with The Hobbit, clearly are in this very special category. They stir the imagination and intellect of everyone they touch. Bilbo, one of the most conservative of all Hobbits, is asked to leave his large, roomy and very dry home in the ground in order to set off as chief robber in an attempt to recover an important treasure. It's the last thing that any sensitive Hobbit would want to do, but great benefit eventually results—not only for Bilbo but for all of the Hobbits who inhabit Middle Earth—and the hearts of those children and adults who continue to enjoy this kind of magic.
Cast: approx. 26
The Hobbit a musical
by Ruth Perry
This enchanting musical begins with a song by the greatest of all wizards. And as he sings, we hear the spirited marching song of the dwarves who pour down the aisles and onto the stage, singing bravely as they come. The reluctant Hobbit hero Bilbo Baggins is asked to join the band, for they can hardly hope to succeed as an unlucky thirteen. Bilbo finally agrees to the adventure! They encounter the dangerous trolls, then escape into Goblin country where Bilbo finds a gold ring with magical power. It's a ring of invisibility. Bilbo is cautious and thoughtful but saves them in every crisis, even in the climactic scene with the dragon Smaug.
Cast: approx. 40
The Holding Cell
by K.T. Curran
he Holding Cell is a heart-wrenching theatre production about a young girl names Sky who falls in love with a teenage drug dealer. Exploring the epidemic of prescription drug abuse, this film is a harrowing account of teenage addiction and overdose.
Cast: 3 M, 2 F
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Peter Parnell
The musical begins as the bells of Notre Dame sound through the cathedral in fifteenth-century Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer observes all of Paris reveling in the Feast of Fools. Held captive by his caretaker, the archdeacon Dom Claude Frollo, he escapes for the day and joins the crowd, only to be treated cruelly by all but the beautiful gypsy, Esmeralda. Quasimodo isn’t the only one captivated by her free spirit, though – the handsome Captain Phoebus and Frollo are equally enthralled.
Cast: 9 M, 3 F, + ensemble
The Hunters and the Henwife
by Nicholas Stuart Gray
This fantasy takes place in the magical forest around mysterious Unicorn Mountain, where strange things happen-- particularly, if you make the mistake of venturing into the woods after dark! There are spooky special effects, as well as loads of comic relief! And let us not forget Hemlock, the sorcerer.
Cast: 6 M, 2 F
The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers
by Stephen Metcalfe
Willy Rivers is a rock and roll star who is incredibly famous because he survived an assassination attempt during one of his concerts. His brush with death has made him question the meaning of it all, but he gets no help from the cynical and alienated characters in his life. This most unusual play is a tour de force for an actor. Willy Rivers performs several songs during the play.
Cast: 7 M, 3 F
The Innocents
by William Archibald
This story of unspeakable horror begins when a young governess arrives at an English estate to oversee two precocious, orphaned youngsters. There's also a motherly cook, but these four aren't alone - they're haunted by fears and phantoms and by ghastly shadows. The governess and cook are terrified, but the children are possessed by the spirits and welcome their visitations.
Cast: 1 M, 3 F, 1 boy, 1 girl
The Laramie Project
by Moises Kaufman
In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, beaten, and left tied to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, conducting interviews and creating a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.
Cast: 4 M, 4 F
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
by Stephen Adley Guirgis
Set in a time-bending, darkly comic world between heaven and hell, THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT reexamines the plight and fate of the New Testament's most infamous and unexplained sinner.
Cast: 10 M, 5 F
The Light in the Mill
by D.K. Oklahoma
The time is 1843 and the play opens in pre-dawn shadows when a body is carried on stage and hidden in a storage area of a cloth repair room in a New England textile mill. The intruder flees as a group of millgirls arrive for work, grieving over the recent, mysterious drowning of a co-worker, beautiful Magda Thorn. Magda's seemingly unmoved mother arrives at the mill to demand money from her daughter's supervisor. Then it's discovered that Magda's grave has been robbed and the possibility of her ghost haunting the mill throws some of the millgirls into hysteria. .
Cast: 2 M, 7 F
The Lion in Winter
by James Goldman
Comedic in tone, dramatic in action – the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family, who are locked in a free-for-all of competing ambitions to inherit a kingdom. The queen, and wealthiest woman in the world, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has been kept in prison since raising an army against her husband, King Henry II. Let out only for holidays, the play centers around the inner conflicts of the royal family as they fight over both a kingdom and King Henry’s paramour during the Christmas of 1183.
Cast: 2 M, 5 F