JONATHAN DORF (1971 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Jonathan Dorf
A-Bomb Wedding |
| 1st Produced: | The Haverford School, Haverford, Pennsylvania | 1995 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Ten-Minute Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Two twenty-something strangers, Will and Jennifer, wait in a convenience store for the missing clerk to return. Both have strapped themselves to nuclear weapons and have come to the convenience store to take hostages. Each is in a panic to get married. The clerk never shows-nor do any other customers-and the two leave together, allegedly to search the all-night diner across the street for potential hostages | ||||
After Math |
| 1st Produced: | Edwin Parr High School, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada | 2005 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts Inc | 2005 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Seriocomedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3+ | Female | 3+ |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Most of the roles in the play can be played by actors of either gender. The play requires a minimum of 8-10 actors, and that number is expandable to an almost unlimited number (one could easily use 30-40 or more actors if one wished). Written specifically | ||||
Synopsis: Emmett disappears in the middle of a math class, collected by a man and a woman wearing suits. Where did he go? Why? Through a series of scenes and monologues, those left behind come up with their own explanations for his mysterious disappearance. He's off to his own private rock concert. He was kidnapped by aliens. He was an alien himself. He created a mural that offended the school. A victim of bullies, he engineered his own disappearance. . .and a multitude of other guesses. Slowly we begin to realize that no one really knew him. Who is Emmett, and why is it that no one paid any attention to him until he was gone? | ||||
Beef Junkies |
| 1st Produced: | Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | 2004 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Dark Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Cowgirl is addicted to beef. She and Cowboy, her boyfriend, lie in wait for the world's last cow, Betty the Bovine. When Shepherd, Betty's companion, arrives, Cowgirl tries to make him reveal her meal-in-waiting's location. Instead, he reveals that Betty is pregnant. Cowboy begins to have second thoughts, and he feels guilt over killing the last ostrich some time ago at a zoo. Seeing Cowboy's sudden reluctance, Cowgirl tries to blackmail him--if he doesn't help her, her people will kill the last salmon, which is Cowboy's favorite fish. Cowboy kills Cowgirl, telling her she was dying a slow death with him: "I would have killed you sooner or later. It's the way I am--I use people up." Shepherd, left with the homicidal Cowboy, has no choice but to help him look for the remains of Sal the Salmon so that a good fish doesn't go to waste. | ||||
Ben |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Full-Length Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Ben received a workshop production at Harvard University. It was a third place finalist for the Weinberger Playwright Residency Competition, a semifinalist for PlayLabs and a finalist in the Charlotte Rep new play competition | ||||
Synopsis: Ben, a teen runaway living on the street in Harvard Square, believes that Holly, a local architect, is his mother. To get closer to her, he strikes up an acquaintance with Baxter, a gay man and the owner of the restaurant she frequents. He develops an awkward friendship with Baxter, who is estranged from his own son and lets Ben come around for food after the restaurant closes each day. Ben, irrationally convinced that getting Holly a gift is the key to getting "back" in her life, gets more and more desperate in his attempts to get what he needs to facilitate this reunion. But when it all ends in failure, will he recognize the surrogate father he's found in Baxter? | ||||
Bookends |
| 1st Produced: | Village Gate, New York, New York | 1994 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Dark Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 1 either | |||
Notes: Winner, Green Theatre (UK) New Playwrights Competition and honorable mention, Moving Arts Premiere One Act Competition and Pittsburgh New Works Festival | ||||
Synopsis: A college student's absurdist nightmare about the break-up of his first sexual relationship. Eric, a college freshman, has been having an affair with Susan, his Shakespeare professor. He goes to the library to obtain Cliffs Notes for the paper for which she refuses to give him an extension. Jane, an ex-librarian, takes him hostage and threatens to blow up the library. As the Police Captain outside becomes increasingly and absurdly callous and eventually sets the library on fire with Eric and Jane inside, Eric must confront his own fears and self-doubt as he relives his affair with Susan and deals with the situation inside the library | ||||
Crash Positions |
| 1st Produced: | City Theater Company | 1997 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | 2004 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Ten-Minute Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: George and Meredith are on an airplane that they think is in trouble. They have been warned to get in "crash positions" as a precaution. George tries to reassure Meredith, who expects the worst. The two strangers eventually bond and assume a new sort of position | ||||
Dear Chuck |
| 1st Produced: | Lambton Kent Composite School, Dresden, Ontario | 2003 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Eldridge Publishing | 2003 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Flexible ensemble cast of 10-30+. | |||
Notes: Written specifically for teen actors and developed at the Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Arts Conservatory | ||||
Synopsis: Teenagers are typically caught in the middle--they're not quite adults, but they're definitely no longer children. Through a series of scenes and monologues, we meet an eclectic group of teen characters: a boy trying to retake the kiddie pool at the local swim club, teens meeting with various success in their shopping attempts, the friends of a boy who has committed suicide, a girl trying to keep up with her wealthy private school friends and another dealing with a skinhead classmate. What they all have in common is the search for their "Chuck," that elusive moment of knowing who you are. | ||||
From Shakespeare With Love? (fka Shakespeare in Love?) |
| 1st Produced: | Walnut Street Theatre Outreach Program, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Eldridge Publishing | 2003 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Dramedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Commissioned by the Walnut Street Theatre Outreach Program as a touring show (with a cast of 4). | ||||
Synopsis: Four of the Bard's characters wait for an overdue flight to London. When Romeo reveals that he plans to revenge himself upon Shakespeare, who he blames for ruining his life, by killing him in a duel. The others-Titania, Viola and Antipholus-try to save Shakespeare by convincing Romeo that Shakespeare "does indeed love love." To do so, they recall scenes (excerpts from the actual Shakespearean plays) that show Shakespeare's playful side. Titania, for example, falls in love with Bottom (who wears the donkey head) after Oberon, her estranged husband, enchants her. Antipholus shows Romeo the confusion that occurs when he is mistaken for his twin brother-by his brother's wife. Viola dressed as a man, must carry a Duke's message of love to another woman-even though Viola has fallen in love with the Duke herself. At the very last moment, they succeed in convincing Romeo to spare Shakespeare, and all's well that ends well. | ||||
F-Stop |
| 1st Produced: | City Theater Company, Wilmington, Delaware | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Ten-Minute Dramedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: While parts of their house are repossessed around them, Marla and Perry try to come to terms with the drowning death of their toddler in a water fountain and, in so doing, save their marriage and get their lives back on track | ||||
High School (non) Musical |
| 1st Produced: | Wildish Theatre, Springfield, Oregon | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Springfield Academy of Arts and Academics | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts Inc | 2008 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5+ | Female | 5+ |
| Parts Other: | 6+ | |||
Notes: The play makes use of a largely gender-flexible ensemble, with a minimum cast of 16-18 and no maximum. It runs 75-80 minutes and is suitable for middle school and older. It's entirely possible to perform the play with an entirely adult cast, playing high school students, to comic effect. | ||||
Synopsis: Join Toy Boatin, Gaberella, Shitzu, Cryin and the rest of your favorites as the Roswell High bowling team goes for a state championship, students pursue their dreams of performing in the Winter Muse Cycle and surgical decathletes compete in real live surgery. Toy Boatin is Roswell High's bowling star, but he's longing for more. When surgical prodigy Gaberella transfers in, she's immediately drafted onto the surgical decathlon team. But she too wants more. Will Toy and Gaberella unseat Shitzu and Cryin as the leads in the upcoming Winter Muse Cycle? Even Dad Mom, Toy's best bowling bud, and Failure, head surgical decathlete, have to respect Toy and Gaberella's attempt to follow their dreams. But when they discover that Gaberella's singing voice is so bad that it could mass casualties, what will win out--following your dreams, or preserving life as we know it? | ||||
Jesus at the Taco Stand |
| 1st Produced: | City Theater Company, Wilmington, Delaware | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Dark Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Mary, a waitress at a taco stand and a breast cancer survivor, discovers that the breast she had removed is back, brand-new. The only explanation she can come up with is that a customer claiming to be the Messiah gave it to her in lieu of the traditional tip. But Mary's joy is short-lived, as Jane, her friend and a member of her breast cancer survivors group, tells her Mary can no longer participate in the group. Faced with the loss of her lifeline and Jane's imminent plans to replace her with the Messiah, Mary prepares to take desperate measures | ||||
Last Right Before the Void |
| 1st Produced: | Oak Park High School, Kansas City, Missouri | 2000 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Christian, a teenage boy, hitchhikes along a highway that seems to disappear into a black hole. Is the woman hitchhiking to Alaska on the other side of the road really Medea? Or is she his Mother? Is the man who arrives to join them Elvis, or is it Darth Vader? How many times has Christian's real father committed suicide? When are the aliens landing? Is Christian's real name Jimmy, or is he just a kid having problems with his stepfather? Reality gets seriously bent at the last exit before a highway in Minnesota turns into nowhere. | ||||
Leapers |
| 1st Produced: | City Theater Company, Wilmington, Delaware | 2005 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | 10-Minute Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Anne has decided that today is finally the day to jump and end it all. So has Thomas. When they both end up on the same rooftop and neither wants to have their thunder stolen, who, or what, will really end up over the edge in this dark comedy? | ||||
Menagerie |
| 1st Produced: | City Theater Company, Wilmington, Delaware | 2005 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | 2005 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | 10-Minute Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A missing roommate. An eight year old thief on the loose. Sleep deprivation. A gift of a chicken. It all comes to a head on Valentine's Day | ||||
Milk and Cookies |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Full-Length Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Marge Nancy Reagan Ballmoth goes on the lam after her children poison the cookies they give the drive-through teller at a local bank. She meets up with another fugitive, Bruce, who believes there is a milk conspiracy. They hit the road for Montana in search of the mysterious Rufus, a man they believe can provide them with new identities | ||||
Neverland |
| 1st Produced: | City Theater Company, Wilmington, Delaware | 2001 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Original Works | 2006 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Full-Length Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Semifinalist in the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project and in the InterAct New Play Festival. The same actors play Peter and Wendy from the ages of eight to their mid-forties, and one actor plays all of the other roles | ||||
Synopsis: Eight year old Wendy decides that Peter, almost nine, is "the one" for her. She proceeds to follow him through his life, reinventing herself and reappearing each time he moves on. She's his new neighbor, his juvenile hall reading tutor, his teaching assistant when he finally gets himself together, the new waitress at his favorite diner and an outreach volunteer when he falls apart again. But when the chase takes its toll and Wendy goes to pieces, it's up to Peter to chase her back. | ||||
Newt Gingrich Visits a Residential Youth Facility Not Near Omaha |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Double, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1996 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | 2005 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Dramedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award under the title of Newt Gingrich at Boys Town | ||||
Synopsis: Jason and Nick, residents at a facility for troubled teens, wait for then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to arrive. Jason expects Newt's dinner and photo op visit to change their lives, while cynical Nick wants to resist but can't quite help wanting to believe. Meanwhile, their underwear has disappeared. And when Newt's limousine finally arrives, it's raining, and since the photo op will be ruined, Newt gets back inside and drives away again, leaving Jason and Nick right where they started. | ||||
Now You See Me |
| 1st Produced: | Oak Park High School, Kansas City, Missouri | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | 2004 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Seriocomedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: The cast is expandable to over 22 roles. Written specifically for teen actors and developed at the Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Arts Conservatory | ||||
Synopsis: A teenager (played by a male and a female actor who trade off playing the main character throughout the play until they unite at the end) threatens to blow up a school but is dismissed by school officials and his own parents for not looking the part. At school, the teen is virtually invisible to his schoolmates, who ignore him as they scramble for seats in a crowded class. Even the teen's teacher doesn't respond to him. A trip to the guidance office is a flop, as he doesn't seem to be on anyone's list. Depression sets in, and a psychologist far more intent on her own problems visits the now-bedridden teen. When the teen finally gets up, she is picked out by an unsavory group of new, similarly invisible friends who burn socks in their spare time. Even this group drops her, and one final appeal for help to her oblivious parents fails. It isn't until this moment that the male and female actors share the stage as the teenager, who then returns to school to seek revenge on those who have wronged him/her. | ||||
Pepperoni Apocalypse |
| 1st Produced: | The Haverford School, Haverford, Pennsylvania | 1997 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | 2004 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: It is possible for women to play men in this play | ||||
Synopsis: Terry, Fritz, McHale and Jonah, members of an apocalyptic cult, have sold off most of their earthly goods, sent the women and children to Cleveland and are holed up in their compound to await the end of the world. According to their calculations, it's coming in just a few minutes. They pass the time trying to figure out how it all might end: floods, nuclear war, etc. McHale guesses "chaos," a suggestion pooh-poohed by the others as vague, wishy-washy. They stop the game on that sour note and wait in silence. At the expected moment of doom, there's a knock at the door. A Pizza Delivery Guy arrives with a large pepperoni pizza. The cultists mistake it for the apocalypse and begin to quarrel over it. As they argue, the Pizza Delivery Guy slips out with the box, and mistrust and growing chaos send the cultists careening toward their own personal apocalypse. | ||||
Play's End (fka Foreplay) |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | 2005 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Runner-up, Moving Arts Premiere One Act competition. Can stand alone or play with Ticking and You're Next to form Gunplay, a trilogy of one-acts about a day in the life of the Doe family and their guns | ||||
Synopsis: John Doe, a gun salesman just shy of middle-age, arrives home to find his ten year old son, Johnny, already back from school and playing on the living room floor. As they talk, Johnny slowly comes to the realization that something "sad" has happened, but he can't remember what it is. Johnny tells John about Billy Fireman, a boy who was shot to death at school the week before. Throughout the telling of the story, Johnny continues to be bothered by his repressed memory. As he slowly reconstructs his day, and as John tells him the gun-happy family's own version of the "birds and the bees," Johnny remembers that his brother Jay has been shot, or "stung," as Johnny calls it. | ||||
Shining Sea |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Full-Length Ironic Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Finalist in the InterAct New Play Festival and workshopped at UCLA | ||||
Synopsis: A "family" of three squeegee people tries to survive a self-destructing New York City where two mayors battle it out, the parking authority is running amok, and a Winnebago may be their only hope of salvation | ||||
Stealing Saxophones from Homeless People |
| 1st Produced: | Street Theatre, Canberra, Australia | 2006 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | 2006 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Dark Comic Monologue | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: While originally written for a male, there's no reason why this role can't also be played by a female. Runs 7-9 minutes. | ||||
Synopsis: When your mother tells you at the age of three that you're going to end up stealing saxophones from homeless people, you're saddled with a heavy burden. In Stealing Saxophones. . ., Jake fights a lifelong battle to avoid fulfilling his mother's prophecy. Can he do it? | ||||
Sudden Death Debating League |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Dark Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Louie is confident that he'll notch yet another debating victory. What the freshman doesn't know is that in the sudden death round, the name means exactly what it says. He may be good, but will he be better than Marie, the undefeated Senior Slaughterer? Veteran of sudden death tournaments, her nickname is well-earned. Who will be left standing in the ultimate debating death match? | ||||
Supermodels in Jeopardy |
| 1st Produced: | Del Norte High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico | 2007 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Dark Comedy, 30-35 min | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1-3 | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: All of the world's supermodels--except a couple of guys from Iceland who missed their airline connection--have gathered in one place for the International Convention of Supermodels. So when the convention center collapses, it traps the entire supermodel community in their dressing rooms beneath the rubble. Can the convention organizers find a way to rescue them? Will the intern take the blame? What would it be like to live in a world without supermodels? Will we have to find out the hard way? | ||||
Thank You for Flushing My Head in the Toilet and other rarely used expressions |
| 1st Produced: | Springfield Academy of Arts and Academics, Springfield, Oregon | 2006 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts | 2006 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Dramedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3+ | Female | 6+ |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: The play makes use of a largely gender-flexible ensemble, with a minimum cast of 10-12 and no maximum. It runs 30-35 minutes and has a special support site at www.thankyouforflushing.com | ||||
Synopsis: Achilles and Helen get picked on at school a lot. Achilles has a regular date with a bully who flushes his head in the toilet, and Helen has become so afraid of the girls who ridicule her that she invents reasons to be late. So when cool girl Glinda, their "bully buddy," appears and offers them a way out, they jump at the chance. But when they realize Glinda's solution is to turn them into bullies, they both resist and she sends them back to a school that is even worse than the one they left. Their only means of escape is to try it Glinda's way. But does saving themselves mean becoming the very people who have tormented them? | ||||
This Magic Moment |
| 1st Produced: | City Theater, Wilmington, Delaware | 2001 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Boone is ready to leave the nest and go off to college. He packs his suitcases-which seems particularly heavy with socks-and awaits his ride to the airport, scheduled to arrive at any minute. But Debbie, his mother, isn't ready to let go. Unbeknownst to Boone, she has intercepted his ride and managed to get the poor man wedged into their apartment building's garage door. Boone sees the commotion below their window, as emergency personnel try to get the man out, but Boone has no idea just how important this particular man is: all he knows is that if he misses his flight, he'll miss registration. Meanwhile, there's the question of Boone's missing father, who disappeared at the beginning of the summer. While Boone wonders if he's to blame for his father's disappearance or whether his mother had something to do with it, Debbie does everything in her power to keep Boone from leaving her, even resorting to witchcraft. But in the end, crafty young Boone uses his socks as a rope and escapes the apartment through the | ||||
Ticking (fka Pot Play) |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Dramedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Can stand alone or play with You're Next and Play's End to form Gunplay, a trilogy about a day in the life of the Doe family and their guns | ||||
Synopsis: The gun is missing from the pot on the right rear burner at the Doe house, replaced by an egg. John Doe accuses his teenage son, Jay, of taking it, which Jay denies. John tries to get his younger son, Johnny, to tell him if Jay has taken the gun, and eventually the truth, that Jay took the gun and threw it in the garbage, comes out. John retrieves the gun and tries to force Jay to return it to its rightful place | ||||
Twisting Carol |
| 1st Produced: | The Haverford School, Haverford, Pennsylvania | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts | 2006 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Ebenezer Scrooge, in need of a serious attitude adjustment, abuses his poor clerk Cratchit (who sits in a chair so short he can't even be seen behind his desk), turns down his nephew Fred's Christmas dinner invite, and suggests to a pair of philanthropists that the poor should go play in traffic. He's so self-centered he hasn't even noticed that his deceased partner Jacob Marley's corpse is stuck on the roof and smells awful. That night, he is visited by Marley's ghost-who believes he is the ghost of Bob Marley and has the dreadlocks to prove it-and warned that unless he changes his ways, Scrooge will have hair even longer than Marley's own endless dreads. Marley leaves, and Scrooge is visited by three ghosts: an aerobics instructor, a guy named Bob, and a flasher. They take him on a tour of his Christmas past, present and future, showing him his youth as an apprentice, the Cratchit family's rubber chicken Christmas dinner and their sickly child, Short Tim, and Scrooge's end in an unmarked grave with vendors | ||||
War of the Buttons |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Siggy, part of a collection of monologues by Meriwether Publishing Company | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Full-Length Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Free adaptation of the novel of the same name by Louis Pergaud. Semifinalist in the International Student Playscript Competition, associated with the National Student Drama Festival (UK). | ||||
Synopsis: The youth of a town on the brink of ruin battle the students of a local prep school that is gradually buying up their town, all the while protecting one of their own whose parents have abandoned him | ||||
Wash, the |
| 1st Produced: | ART Institute/Cambridge Cable Television, Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1992 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Dark Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Daniel, a young homeless man, walks into the laundry room of a New York apartment building, where Judith, in her mid-twenties, does her laundry, just like she does every Friday night. He wears his laundry, just like he does every Friday night. Their ritual cat and mouse game, complete with a loaded gun in the hands of the "threatened" Judith, begins. But the rules change when the power goes out. | ||||
Whatever Happened to Godot? |
| 1st Produced: | City Theater Company, Wilmington, Delaware | 2003 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | 2004 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 3 either | |||
Notes: While it was originally written for all actors to be male, it is possible to do the play with an all-female cast, or with the Man and the Boy being female. Godot should only be female if the Man is also female. | ||||
Synopsis: Con artist Godot lives with the amnesiac Boy. He's preparing to fleece his next marks, Vladimir and Estragon, but before he can go, a threatening Man arrives. Evidently, Godot's actions have gotten him in trouble with the wrong people, and the Man is their enforcer. The only way Godot can escape certain pain is to pretend that he is not, in fact, Godot, but Godot's butler. When the enforcer decides to stay and wait for the seemingly absent Godot to return, the real Godot becomes stuck, waiting for himself. | ||||
White Pages, The |
| 1st Produced: | The Attic Theatre Center, Los Angeles, California | 1997 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | 2004 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Dramedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |