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Real Close to Broadway
==> Full-length stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 4 male, 4 female
==> Winner, 2003 McLaren Comedy Playwriting Festival
==> Published: Eldridge Publishing
Midville
Community Theatre needs to find a hit play from
its annual contest entries to fund their upcoming season.
A submission
by a famous playwright, nepotism and love all conspire to blur ethical boundaries.
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To Have and Too Old
==> Full-length stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 7 male, 4 female
==> Finalist, 2004 McLaren Comedy Playwriting Festival
Rose Brichen and Daisy Nicely feel saddled by their
husband's ailments and want desperately to go on a Mediterranean cruise. When Rose enlists Daisy on a plan to fulfill their
dream, the results are unexpected but may be best for everyone.
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Conclave Buffet
==> Full-length stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 8 male, 3 female
Pope
Peter Paul I has died and Cardinals from the world over gather to elect a new pope. With improved accommodations and new election
rules, can the cardinals stop eating and drinking long enough to win the points competition and become the next pope?
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In My Shoes
==> Full-length stageplay
==> Drama
==> Cast: 7 male, 1 female
==>
Semi-finalist, 2003 Moondance International Film Fest
Can you imagine yourself as a slave in the 18th or 19th century?
Can you imagine yourself on the struggling end of a 300-year civil rights' movement? In My Shoes examines these questions
with ruling class and minority class roles reversed.
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Hanging Chad
==> Full-length stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 4 male, 1 female
Sean
Kennelly is challenging long-time congressman, Sterling Hancock, for his seat. With the help of Ursula Snipe, a brilliant
mathematician, Sean enlists Sterling in a plan to limit the voters to a small, controllable group. Their plan works too well
as the election hinges on only one voter - Chad.
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Southern Exposure
==> Full-length stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 4 male, 2 female
==>
Honor. Mention, 2002 McLaren Comedy Playwriting Fest
William and Carol Grand have their roots deeply planted in
the Georgia red clay. Austerity collides with social stigma when they lose jobs and have to come to grips with their personal
balance sheet. Carol finds creative ways to hold onto her most prized possession but their biggest challenge may be avoiding
scrutiny from old friends, the Trubbles.
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Stage Play Noir - The Case of the Floating Fish
==> Full-length stageplay
==> Comedy/Film noir
style
==> Cast: 3 male, 5 female
A down-and-out private investigator strikes gold when hired by three well-to-do
clients for the same case.
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Bless
Me, Father
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 4 male, 3 female
==> 2nd place,
2002 McLaren Comedy Playwriting Festival
Father John McCabe has come to the end of a long service with the church
of St. Mary's. Filling in to hear confessions one last time, he must expediently deal with the problems of the day while also
coming to grips with the impact he has had on lives past and present.
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Butte v. Beeste
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 5 male, 3 female
==>
Winner, 2005 McLaren Comedy Playwriting Festival
Annabelle Butte always dreamed that one day she would find her
Prince Charming. When she meets Harry Beeste, a struggling tavern owner, and learns that he may be heir to a family estate,
she pushes for a quick wedding. Annabelle, soon disillusioned by a tight budget and a talk with Harry's Aunt Mona, files for
divorce. The divorce hearing details what went wrong while revealing the true feelings and motives of the participants.
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Waking Charlie
==> One-act stageplay
==> Light Drama
==> Cast: 7 male, 7 female
==>
Published: Brooklyn Publishers
Charlie Tarver's suicide was the ultimate cry for attention and act of revenge. A
visit from Andy, a kindred spirit with unresolved issues, will help Charlie deal with his emotions and show him a life that
could have been.
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Surprise
Party
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 2 male, 5 female
==> 2nd place, 2006
McLaren Comedy Playwriting Festival
Velma Hardmann is interviewing a household manager to help with her daughter's
home wedding. Youngest daughter, Dixie, is interviewing a male stripper for big sister Ruthie's bachelorette party. As Velma
mistakingly interviews "Stallion" in the living room, her daughters put prim and proper Nigel Titford through his
paces in the guest cottage. The characters may be in the dark but the audience will follow every misconstrued phrase.
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Rise and Shine, Summer Grove!
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 3 male, 3
female
==> Honor. Mention, 2005 McLaren Comedy Playwriting Fest
Pat White and Pat Gray have come to the
local television set of Rise and Shine, a morning news/entertainment show, to tape a public service announcement for their
groups' national convention of crocheters - called the Happy Hookers. When an accident knocks the news anchors out of commission
just before going live, the two Pats are called on as emergency replacements.
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Amber & Eve
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 3 male, 1 female
A
forensic paleontologist explains the significance of the contents of an amber fossil and its ties to the beginnings of human
life.
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God Bless America,
Too
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 3 male, 1 female
The President of the
United States has decided it is his moral imperative to bring democracy to all reaches of the world. To implement this policy
directive, he has dispersed the entire military to many areas around the globe to maintain and foster peace initiatives. With
the United States devoid of military presence, Canada and Mexico agree to 'peacefully' conquer the defenseless nation. They
will divide the country north and south and meet at the White House where a soon-to-be startled President awaits.
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Spin Cycle
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 2 male, 2 female
A
Washington, D.C. senator and his staff attempt spin control after the senator is stopped by police during a night on the town.
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Unforgettable Love
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 1 male, 2 female
An elderly couple - each
suffering from Alzheimer's disease - retreat into past memories while trying to cope after government cutbacks leave them
with no medical support.
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Persuasion
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 2 males
A college professor plays mind games
with an unsuspecting guest.
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Meat and Greet
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 4 male, 5 female
Four
men and four women gather for a series of speed dates to meet a prospective partner. The audience gets to pick which couples
are best suited for each other.
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Bad Cat
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy - children/teenage
==> Cast: 2 male, 1 female
Horatio is a house cat who has never been outside. One day, while his owners are away, he is visited by Bell, a
neighborhood cat and Screamer, a stray. Horatio shares his accommodations and Bell and Screamer show him life in the outside
world.
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I'll Be Home
For Xmas Dinner
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy - monologue
==> Cast: 1 male
For a
young man growing up in an Italian family, food and the holidays are synonymous. But, when Anthony marries Kristen, he discovers
that all feasts are not created equal and there is no place like home for the holidays.
Based on a true story.
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A
Series of Bad Decisions
==> One-act stageplay
==> Light Drama/Comedy
==> Cast: 4 male, 3 female,
1 either, extras
Samuel Collins is on trial for vehicular manslaughter. During a night of partying, Samuel speeds
through town, is chased by police and crashes his car into another. Samuel's trial lays out the facts of the case and the
series of bad decisions that led to the fates of all involved.
Based on a true story.
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Papa's Last Wish
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 4 male, 3 female
Papa
Fuente's family has come to see him on his last day in the hospital. As his children and grandchildren vie for position in
his will, Papa has his own requests of them and his housekeeper, Lola.
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Surf's
Up, Guantanamo
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 3 males
Abu Babbu has spent
five years in Guantanamo Bay's military detention camp making the best of a difficult situation. His tenth, formal interrogation
entitles him to an advanced technique - waterboarding.
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Finding RO-MANZ
Looking to spice up a potentially boring, annual vacation, Jacki hires a male escort to
the surprise of Catherine and Sarah. After meeting Albert - the escort - the three women decide to use his "services"
for the weekend.
Albert is a warm, sensitive young man who has more in common with older women than young. During
two days at the beach house and a day-long road trip to a funeral, he rekindles a sense of fun, romance and longing in the
women that was missing from their lives for some time.
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The Fiddler's Green
Shelby "Nassau" Newberry is the new golf pro at The Fiddler's Green golf
course and one look at ten-year-old Molly O'Brien, a student with natural ability at the course's summer program, stirs both
his mentoring instincts as well as the reasons for his secretive past. Nassau and Molly's relationship continues to evolve
over the following summers until issues of the day and matters of their own making cause a culmination of suspicion and innuendo.
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The Last Lost Child
A young woman sells her baby.
A national scandal exposes an illegal adoption agency.
A teenager, whose
mother died of a hereditary illness, learns she is adopted and searches for her birth parents.
A young girl struggles
for life while waiting for a kidney transplant.
A reporter, looking to capture past glory, exposes a story that once
again grips a nation.
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