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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
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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. ___________________________
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cast: 2 male
A college professor plays mind games with an unsuspecting guest.
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Meat and Greet
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
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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
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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.
___________________________ A Series of Bad Decisions
==> One-act stageplay
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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
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Cast: 3 male
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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Butt
==> One-act stageplay
==> Comedy
==> Cast: 4 male, 2 female
Mr. Butts has been convinced by his wife to
have his first prostate exam at a teaching hospital. He is assured of sensitive, confidential and professional
treatment that protects his modesty. High School Skits for the 21st Century
==> Series of one-act stageplays
==> Social Comentary/Comedy
==> Cast: varies from small to large Keeping the Faith – Agnes and Louise discuss
faith. Dancing Lung – Anti-smoking message. I am… - A person’s
world shrinks as she is defined more and more narrowly. If I Was God - Two teens discuss the world
as they would make it. gen·o·cide - The UN Security Council
investigates mass killings in Sudafur. Dating (in the 21st Century) -
Two safety-conscious teenagers confront relationships in a dangerous world. ___________________________ Dream
Girl
==> One-act stageplay
==> Romantic Comedy
==> Cast: 1 male, 1 female
George finds an (un)invited houseguest
threatening to come between him and his wife. __________________________________________
S C R E E N P L A Y S
__________________________________________ 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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