Play Index

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Adaptations

Plays Adapted from Shakespeare and Other Classics

Macbeth for Youth (a 45-minute 5-actor play for youth)
Midsummer Nights Dream (a 45-minute touring adaptation for youth; teen drama groups)
The Tempest (a touring play for young audiences; teen drama groups)
Reverse Hamlet (a one-act Hamlet comedy; great for middle school and teens)
Romeo and Juliet in Fewer Words, Words, Words (a 45-minute version for teens; ideal for classroom use with roles for every student; variable casting and doubling)
Romeo & Juliet for Youth (for young audiences and teen drama groups)
Poems, Plays, and Pratfalls: An Introduction to Shakespeare (a 2- or 4-actor version; 45 minutes for elementary school)
Shakespeare-On-The-Go (four 45-minute Shakespeare plays for kids)
Shakespeare After School (50-minute Shakespeare composite)
Shakespeare: Playing for Laughs (50-minute Shakespeare composite)
An Enemy of the People (full-length Ibsen adaptation)
Alice in Wonderland (1-act Lewis Carroll adaptation; large cast; combine with Alice: Through the Looking Glass for a great evening of comedy)
Alice: Through the Looking Glass (1-act adaptation; large cast; great for stage and classroom; true to original)
The Chimes (full-length Dickens Christmas / New Year’s story)
The Concise Christmas Carol (Dickens, 50-minute version; 1–4 actors)
EveryKid (a one-act children’s comedy about values; based on Everyman)
Oliver Twist (Dickens; full-length comedy; great for classroom use and school play)
Eveline (James Joyce: Dubliners; one-act drama; women’s issues)
The Boarding House (James Joyce: Dubliners; one-act comedy; women’s issues)
The Dead (James Joyce: Dubliners; one-act drama)
An Evening With Joyce’s Women (James Joyce: Dubliners; full-length)
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer; selected tales; imaginative staging; optional music)
The Hypochondriac (one-act version of Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid)
Frankenstein (a full-length adaptation of the original Mary Shelley novel; great for kids, teens, families, and community theaters)
Screwtape Rewired (based on C. S. Lewis; 60 minutes; a demon in search of souls; performed by 1–4 actors)
Phaedra (a full-length, poetic, modern retelling of the Racine play; love, lust, and obsession)
N (a compelling clash between Charles Gilpin, eminent African-American actor, and Eugene O’Neill over the use of the N-word in Emperor Jones)
Tom and Huck: Breakin’ the Law (based on Mark Twain’s classic; an LGBTQ comedy; a light-hearted comedy with 7–9 actors)
A Touch of Frost (3 zany one-acts; out-of-this-world characters in a rural Vermont setting; based loosely on the poetry of Robert Frost)

Plays Adapted from Fairy Tales and Fables

Cinderella (a full-length adaptation; original characters)
The Moral of the Story (Ibo legend & Aesop’s The Tortoise and the Hare; one act)
The Lovely Red Flower (one-act Malaysian folk tale for children; greed vs. industry)
Prince Hedgehog (one act for children; value of education)
Snow White (a full-length adaptation; seven unique dwarves)
Sleeping Beauty (a full-length adaptation from the Charles Perrault original)
The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde; a one-act play for children)
The Snow Queen (Hans Christian Andersen; optional audience participation)
Charming Princes and Wicked Queens (three full-length fairy tales: Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty)
Feathers in the Wind (Jewish folk tales; musical; variable cast; the foolish people of Chelm)

Full-Length Plays

A Colonial Christmas (a full-length holiday journey through time; large cast / doubling)
The Chimes (a full-length Dickens Christmas / New Year’s story)
Best Always, Marilyn Monroe (a full-length original drama)
Brendan’s Journey (a 2-actor full-length tour-de-force)
An Enemy of the People (Ibsen comedy; full-length; environment / politics)
Hymn to the Chesapeake (a lyrical, full-length, variable-cast musical; life and love of watermen and women on Virginia’s Eastern Shore)
She’ll Find Her Way Home (post-Civil War, African-American family drama)
There’s a Stone in My Sister’s Old Shoe Ouch! (a full-length zany look at life and the after-life à la 1970s culture)
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer; selected tales; imaginative staging; optional music)
The Unmasking of Yetta Breen (a full-length family drama about aging)
Between Trains (a site-specific, full-length poetic drama; variable casting; optional music)
Sniper (a full-length play in one act; a fictional view of the inner world of a school shooter)
Frankenstein (a full-length adaptation of the original Mary Shelley novel)
An Evening With Joyce’s Women (3 Joyce one-act adaptations; full-length; women’s issues)
Nat’s Last Struggle (a 50-minute 1-man show; Nat Turner confronts his God; great for school performances and classroom readings)
Nat Turner’s Last Struggle: Finding His Way Home (a full-length, 2-character play in one act; Nat Turner faces execution; highly theatrical)
Phaedra (a full-length, poetic, modern retelling of the Racine play; love, lust, and obsession)
Angel Band (a compelling, mythic drama of strangers in strange lands; diverse cast; the Blue People of Kentucky)
A.N.G.E.L.s. Inc. (a full-length, out-of-this-world Christmas comedy play)
Distant Survivors (a full-length poetic Holocaust drama in one act)
Tom and Huck: Breakin’ the Law (based on Mark Twain’s classic; an LGBTQ comedy; a light-hearted comedy with 7–9 actors)
Humans Remain (a full-length, lyrical, award-winning drama; diverse cast)
Refraction of Light (a full-length dramedy; a Southern extended family threatened by hidden prejudices; 4 actors; diverse cast)
N (a compelling clash between Charles Gilpin and Eugene O’Neill over the use of the N-word in Emperor Jones)
PTSD and Me (cast of 1; bare stage; a full-length play in one act)
Drowning Ophelia (a dark comedy in one act)
Rasputin – The Libertine (large cast; historical)
Floyd Collins and the White Angels of Sand Cave (large cast; historical)
Ghosts of Silver Beach Road (a 3-character autobiographical drama in poetry)

One-Act Plays

91366 (a 3-character one-act drama set in a tattoo parlor; 1 teen role / 1 senior role)
The Aviators (a 40-minute one act for adults / seniors / WWII vets)
A Chair (20 minutes; seniors / adults)
The Best Is Yet to Be (30 minutes for teens / adults / seniors)
Birdwatchers (a one-act 2-character drama for adults / seniors)
Campers (a one-act, 2-character comedy / drama for adults)
From the Back Seat (a 40-minute one-act with senior roles; simple set)
The Devil’s Due (a one-act, 3-character drama for adults)
In the Second Place (a 20-minute play for 4 adults)
The Pinch Hitter (a one-act comedy / drama for teens / adults)
Snapshots (a one-act play revealing pivotal points in a 30-year marriage)
Shadowland (a one-act psychological drama)
Oregon Fever (a one-act drama; teen romance meets Gold Rush fever)
The Trunk (a 15-minute end-of-life dramedy; magical realism; fantasy; small cast)
A Touch of Frost (3 zany one-acts based loosely on the poetry of Robert Frost)
Inside and Out (a 15-minute play about autism)
Cell (10-minute comedy for 4 actors)
Digital Disturbances (3 short plays; easy streaming; includes Cell)
A Slippery Slope (10 minutes; classroom set)

Children’s Plays and Youth Theater

Baba Yaga Acts Up (6 short participation plays for children; total 60 minutes)
Cinderella: Boots, Class, and a Li’l Sass (musical to be performed for children)
Herschel & Happy (short participation plays for children; total 60 minutes)
EveryKid (a one-act children’s comedy about values; based on Everyman)
Prince Hedgehog (one-act comedy for children; the value of education)
The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde; a one-act play for children; redemption theme)
Talk: The Musical (a one-act musical for children about the environment)
Plays, Poems, and Pratfalls: Will Shakespeare, An Introduction (a 2- or 4-actor version; adult performers; 40 minutes; for elementary school)

Social Issue Plays for Youth

(30–45 minutes)

All Dressed Up (one-act family drama about teen sexuality)
Dropout (one-act drama / comedy; diverse cast)
EveryKid (values; based on Everyman)
I Am the Brother of Dragons (a one-act play for teens; drug use and family; simple set)
The Moral of the Story (Ibo legend & Aesop’s The Tortoise and the Hare; one act)
Ophelia Lives! (a 45-minute play for teens; teen suicide)
The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde adaptation; selfishness / kindness)
Lost and Found (sexual identification; bare stage; 45 minutes; for teens)
Talk: The Musical (a one-act musical for children’s theater; the environment)
Three Long Days (a one-act play for teens; peer pressure)

Social Issue Plays for Youth / Adult

(60–90 minutes)

Group S.O.S. (sexual abuse, molestation; male and female versions; 50 minutes each)
Group S.O.S. – Female Version (sexual abuse)
Group S.O.S. – Male Version (sexual abuse)
An Enemy of the People (Ibsen; environment / politics; full-length comedy)
A Cold Day in Hell (1-man show; 50 minutes; assisted suicide)
Sniper (a full-length play in one act; school shootings)
Tom and Huck: Breakin’ the Law (based on Mark Twain’s classic; an LGBTQ comedy)
Angel Band (a compelling, mythic drama of strangers in strange lands; diverse cast)
Refraction of Light (a full-length dramedy; 4 actors; diverse cast)
Humans Remain (a full-length play; diverse cast; isolation and civilization)
N (a compelling clash between Charles Gilpin and Eugene O’Neill over the use of the N-word in Emperor Jones)
PTSD and Me (cast of 1; bare stage; a full-length play in one act)
Drowning Ophelia (a dark comedy in one act)
Rasputin – The Libertine (large cast; historical)

Plays With Senior Citizen Characters

One-Acts & Shorts (15–45 minutes)

A Chair (a one-act comedy; 20 minutes)
Attack at the Pierre-Fontaine (a one-act comedy; senior performers; 30 minutes)
The Aviators (a one-act drama; 4 males; WWII vets; 30 minutes)
From the Back Seat (a one-act drama; simple set; generation gap; 45 minutes)
Independence Day (3 short shorts for seniors; simple sets; senior actors)
Short Shorts for Seniors (collection of 5 shorts; 10 minutes each; senior actors)
Short Plays for Long Lives (collection of 10-minute plays for seniors)
91366 (a 3-character one-act drama set in a tattoo parlor; 15 minutes)
A Touch of Frost (3 zany one-acts based loosely on the poetry of Robert Frost)
The Trunk (a 15-minute end-of-life dramedy; magical realism; fantasy; small cast)

Senior Citizen Characters (45–90 Minutes)

From the Back Seat (a one-act comedy; senior characters; simple set; family issues)
A Cold Day in Hell (a 50-minute 1-man show; pulling the plug on a loved one)
ElderPair: 4 Courtship Comedies for Seniors (4 shorts for seniors about relationships)
Friends & Relations (3 one-acts; senior characters; family audience; 30 minutes each)
A Touch of Frost (3 zany one-acts based loosely on the poetry of Robert Frost)
I Love Jack Kerouac (3 short plays for seniors)
The Unmasking of Yetta Breen (a full-length family drama about aging)

Musicals & Plays with Music – Adult (Full-Length)

Hymn to the Chesapeake (a lyrical, full-length, variable-cast musical)
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer; selected tales; imaginative staging; optional music)
Feathers in the Wind (Jewish folk tales; variable cast; the foolish people of Chelm)

Musicals & Plays with Music – For Kids (30–45 minutes)

Cinderella: Boots, Class, and a Li’l Sass (one-act spoof; performed by adults or teens)
Talk: The Musical (one act for kids; performed by adults or teens; the environment)
Royal Tea (one-act fantasy; performed by adults or teens for kids)

Monologues

15–60 minutes

A Cold Day in Hell (a 50-minute 1-man show; pulling the plug on a loved one)
Bertha Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (a 30-minute, one-man show with multiple characters)
Nat’s Last Struggle (a 50-minute 1-man show)
Screwtape Rewired (based on C. S. Lewis; 60 minutes; performed by 1–4 actors)
Monsters (5 short monologues; males; narrators with a twist to the dark side)
PTSD and Me (based on the poetry of African-American veteran Erika Renee Land)
The Canterbury Tales (selected tales are short monologues)

Bible or Spiritual Monologues

Spread Your Garment Over Me (15 monologues for women from the Bible; music optional)
For the Least of These (9 monologues; great women from history)
Voices from the Bible: Monologues for Women (16 monologues from the Old and New Testaments)
Monologues for Men: Voices from the New Testament (29 male monologues)
Monologues for Men: Voices from the Old Testament (21 male monologues)

Plays for Holidays & Special Events

Fanny & Manny Tie the Knot (wedding with audience participation; great fundraiser)
There’s a Stone in My Sister’s Old Shoe Ouch! (full-length zany look at life and the after-life; Halloween)
A Colonial Christmas (a full-length holiday journey through time; large cast / doubling)
A.N.G.E.L.s. Inc. (a full-length, out-of-this-world Christmas comedy play)
The Concise Christmas Carol (Dickens, 50-minute version; 1–4 actors)
Lamb’s Tales (10 Christmas skits and plays; roles for ages 4–7 and up; ideal for church service)
Frankenstein (a full-length adaptation of the original Mary Shelley novel; Halloween)
A Pastor’s Tale: The True Story of Silent Night (7 characters; 20 minutes; a play with live music for young actors)
Christmas in Montana (a 10-minute comedy about Christmas carols and political correctness)
Charles Dickens Presents . . . A Christmas Carol (large-cast adaptation; cast of 20–60; all ages)

Plays with Historical or Social Relevance

Best Always, Marilyn Monroe (a full-length original drama)
Brendan’s Journey (a 2-actor full-length tour-de-force)
An Enemy of the People (Ibsen comedy; full-length; environment / politics)
Hymn to the Chesapeake (a lyrical, full-length, variable-cast musical)
She’ll Find Her Way Home (post-Civil War, African-American family drama)
A Cold Day in Hell (1-man show; 50 minutes; assisted suicide)
Sniper (a full-length play in one act; school shootings)
Humans Remain (a full-length play; diverse cast; isolation and civilization)
Oregon Fever (a one-act drama; teen romance meets Gold Rush fever)
Angel Band (a compelling, mythic drama of strangers in strange lands; diverse cast)