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Roy High School

2006

Royal Court Jesters

Brooklyn Publishers2007

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Comedy

8

12

13 Either

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Help! The local high school drama teacher wrote his own version of Cinderella by combining the Princess's tale with the story of Frankenstein, but the production is bombing: The Fairy Godmother wants to be called the Fairy Goshmother, three new stepsisters must be added to the cast, several actors quit, and the extras are fed up with being extras. Then, after being forced to play a girl, one of the boys worries that if his father, an avid sports fanatic, sees him his acting career will be over. Despite the director's explicit instructions that the Prince's Ball scene must be slow and elegant, the cast speeds it up to super-speed so that the boy won't be seen, but the actress playing the Queen is incapable of improvisation and can't keep up. When Dr. Frankenstein drops Cinderella's brain and replaces it with a cat's brain instead, this insane production changes beyond even the director's recognition.

Roy High School

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Royal Court Jesters

Brooklyn Publishers - Under the pen name Ron Dune

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Thriller/Suspense

One Act

4

4

1 Either

Good Festival or Competition Play, class project or night of one acts.

Every night Leah wins a pair of tickets to the circus. Her friends are excited to go until Leah explains to them that they are living in a nightmare - her nightmare! It takes some convincing but eventually they believe her and decide to help her change the nightmare by confronting the terror which comes at the end of her dream every night. The one thing Leah knows for certain is that he will come for her - he will most definitely come.

Roy High School

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Royal Court Jesters

Brooklyn Publishers - Under the pen name Ron Dune

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If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
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comedy

One Act

1

1

6 Either

Good Festival or Competition Play, class project or night of one acts.

Dick and Jane are just minding their own business when the positive emotions decide to go to war with the negative emotions. The problem is that Dick and Jane are the battlefield. The positive emotions take the upper hand when they capture the negative emotions and leave Dick and Jane to only experience the positive. They soon learn what it's like when opposites don't exist.

Roy High School

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Royal Court Jesters

Brooklyn Publishers - Under the pen name Ron Dune

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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

Mystery/Drama

One Act

2

3

2 Either (Small Parts)

Good Festival or Competition Play, class project or night of one acts.

Five people awake to find themselves on a stage with no visible exit and no memory of how they got there. While searching for the exit, they find a strange blackness which blocks their view beyond the edge of the apron. They then learn things about themselves which bring them closer to solving the mystery of why they've been imprisoned there. Eventually, they decide that the only way out is to jump into the blackness.

Roy High School

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Royal Court Jesters

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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

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Comedy

6

10

16 Either

Every character in the play except Harry and Hallie are extremely fat. The actors should wear stretchy material for their costumes in order to put as much stuffing in as possible. It needn't look realistic either. Strange bulges will make it all the funnier. Another Note: Yes, I too wondered if those who are more portly than others would be offended by this play, but as I, the author, am a bit rounder than I should be, was not offended I decided to give it a shot. It turned out that the biggest laughs and the biggest compliments came from the heftier audience members. The bigger the audience member the bigger the compliment.

The citizens of Fat City are fat. So fat the mayor decides to hold a contest to see who can make them thin. But when a likeable conman and his anorexic assistant wanders into town the citizens forget all about the contest when he offers them "Fat Be Gone" pills, the miracle pill that will make them all thin for just a small price. Jefferey, the town inventor, sees through this scam and continues with an invention to make them all thin. Things are going well until he falls in love with the anorexic assistant.

Roy High School

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Royal Court Jesters

Brooklyn Publishers - Under the pen name Ron Dune

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If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
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Comedy/Halloween/Audience Participation

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4

12

11 Either

he cast is highly flexible. Some characters are played by audience members which is completely optional. If the audience participation is not desired, then actors can play these parts. If being produced by a school, the names of the characters could be changed to the real names of teachers, administrators, janitors, and students at the school.

After being humiliated again by Miss Hazel, a sadistic school teacher, the students decide it's time for a little payback in the form of a fake Halloween party to take place at their teacher's house. The plan works perfectly until they find out that Miss Hazel is not who, or what, they thought she was.

Roy High School

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Royal Court Jesters

Heuer Publishing LLC, 2006

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If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
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Comedy/Mystery/Audience Participation

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2

2

6 Either, 8-20 Clue Characters

This is written as an Audience Participation Play in where the audience will be asked to search out Clue Characters to find clues that will lead them to find the villain. It is specifically written for schools or other venues in which there are other locations outside the theatre where the audience can hunt for clues. It is written to be flexible with a large cast of either Male or Female actors and a very simple set.

Welcome to the ridiculous world of Invisomercial, the play that gleans laughs from the tacky world of television infomercials and their absurd sales techniques. This play features a live infomercial for John Toepeel's latest invention, Invisospray, a spray that makes you invisible. The play audience becomes the audience for John Toepeel's infomercial when a disgruntled inventor steals the spray and uses it to escape and hides somewhere in the school. Seduced by a fast-talking pitchwoman, the audience soon finds itself searching for clues that will lead them to the whereabouts of the evil inventor with outrageous claims that he invented Invisospray. The team that finds him is the winner. The cast is large with many flexible parts: 10 actors (2W, 2M, 6 Either) for the play and 8-20 gender-flexible actors for the Clue Quest. The set design is simple with two chairs and five tables.

Roy High School

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Royal Court Jesters

Brooklyn Publishers - under the pen name Ron Dune

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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

Comedy/Mystery/Audience Participation

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4

6

3 Either, 7-15 Clue Characters

This play is an audience participation play in where the audience leaves the theater and searches the school for clues, then return to the theater to watch the conclusion which solves the mystery.

The F.B.I. has tracked an alien into a diner where there are nine suspicious characters. After some strange and unexplainable events, the audience is charged to find which character is a Martian. They are then sent on a Clue Quest throughout the school to gather information and figure out the mystery. The audience then returns to the theatre to watch the conclusion of the play which reveals which character is the Martian.

Roy High School

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Royal Court Jesters

Brooklyn Publishers

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If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
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85-90 minutes comedy

Youth Audience

6

14

8-9 either

The entire cast will love this play because they will each feel like at some point in the play they are the lead. Directing the play is very easy. We put the entire production together in seven 1½ hour class periods. Costume Considerations: Very simple. The costumes mostly consist of clothes that exist in a high school already. Prom dress, band uniform, P.E. clothes, etc. Miss art does create a dress out of soda pop cans. For productions the name of the play is changed to include your school name and the year.

Pandemonium breaks out at the local high school beauty pageant! Everything starts out okay, but when the pageant director hires a couple of dimwitted tech guys to sabotage the contestants, mayhem ensues. To add to the confusion, Miss English gets stage fright, Miss Art's father wants her to come home to do her chores, Miss Drama's friends want to get into the act, and Miss Valedictorian recently had a brain operation. t's like a pageant at an insane asylum! Just as the winner is to be announced, the pageant erupts into total disarray. Audience members judge, and hilarity ensues

Roy High School

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Royal Court Jesters

Brooklyn Publishers - Under the pen name Ron Dune

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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

comedy

One Act

3

5

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Good Festival or Competition Play, class project or night of one acts.

When Dax, an ordinary high school student, finds a most unusual pencil, the characters he writes with it in his creative writing class suddenly come to life, for real!

Roy High School

2001

Royal Court Jesters

Encore Performance Publishing

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Comedy/Thriller/Mystery/Audience Participation

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3

3

3 Either, Plus lots of Zombies

This play has a unique format in that it can be just a one-act play with a running time of about 35-45 minutes or an audience participation play and Clue Quest with a running time of 90-120 minutes. There are two different types of Characters: The play characters and the clue characters. The Clue Quest and Clue Characters are explained in detail with in the script. However, the basic format is a thirty minute play on a stage then the audience members are sent out of the theatre to look for clues where they interact with the clue characters. Once they find the clues they try to solve the mystery. They then return to the theatre to watch the conclusion and the solution to the mystery.

A group of college students dig up a corpse as a fraternity prank but the dead get upset and rise from the grave, trapping them inside the mausoleum. Which character has the power to stop the zombie menace? It is a great fundraiser for schools because of the large cast and low cost of production.

Roy High

2004

Royal Court Jesters

Encore Performance Publishing, 2005

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Comedy/Adventure

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12

12

Doubling or Extras possible

The leads & heroes are mostly females but the cast includes 12 males and 12 females, but doubling is possible and adding extras is possible. We did the play with 34 actors. Some parts could be either male or female.

The story takes place on an anonymous beach, outside of an anonymous town, in an anonymous country. The townsfolk are suddenly seized upon by a band of Evil Male Pirates (Led by the Evil Pirate King) during the town picnic. Just as they are all about to be made to walk the plank they are rescued by a band of Good Female Pirates (Led by the Good Pirate Queen). The Bad Guys vow revenge but are foiled each time because "The good guys always win." The Pirate King finally figures this out and does something the Good Guys would never expect. He hires a "Good Guy" to fight the Pirate Queen. The play ends in a final humorous battle of good vs good and has plenty of romance for all. The play is appropriate for all ages.

Roy High School

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Royal Court Jesters

Brooklyn Publishers - Under the pen name Ron Dune

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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

drama

One Act

2

2

1 Either, 10-25 Extras

Good Festival or Competition Play, class project or night of one acts.

Being late is not just a past time for Donald Hault, it's a lifestyle. In fact, being late causes him to loose his job, his girlfriend, his best friend, and his self respect. But then, while in the depths of despair, he meets a mysterious street vendor who offers him a very special watch. Don soon finds out that this watch does not tell time, it gives it. With the simple push of a button he is able to freeze time. His new found power seems to be the solution to all his problems, but of course, time has a way of catching up with us all.

Roy High School

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Royal Court Jesters

Heuer Publishing LLC, 2006

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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

Comedy/Adventure/Audience Participation

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4

6

2 Either, 20 Clue Characters

Set: Very Simple - an empty stage with five points of entrance: Up Left, Up Right, Down Left, Down Right, and Up Center. This can simply be done with curtains. 10 chairs. 1 single bed

A group of strangers are summoned to the mansion of Colonel Jock Muckhousen for the reading of his will. After introductions, Mr. Muckhousen's lawyer tells the group that they have to spend the night in the haunted mansion to "win" the treasured inheritance. Through exceptional rational powers, they all realize at the same time that someone or some ghost is going to try to scare them out of the inheritance so they each devise a plan to rid the mansion of the other guests and become the last man standing. This sets up the audience participation element with an evening "Clue Quest" in which the audience is ushered out of the theatre by one of the characters to find the hidden key to the treasure. The first team to locate the key by solving the "Clue Quest" riddles wins the treasure. Of course, the "Clue Quest" is optional; the play could be performed as a one-hour play.

Roy High School

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Royal Court Jesters

Big Dog Publishers

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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

Comedy/Thriller/Audience Participation

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2

4

20 Either, Extra Zombies

This play has a great audience participation clue quest.

When a movie crew starts to film a new zombie movie in rural graveyard, a local band of gypsies curses them for desecrating sacred ground. The curse causes the dead to really rise from the grave. No one can tell the real zombies from the actor zombies and to make matters worse a bunch of redneck locals form a mob to destroy everyone. Finally, all the living band together against the undead and learn that to send the zombies back to the grave they must perform a counter curse. But to perform the counter curse they need to find several items. They enlist the help of the audience members and take them on a Clue Quest to find the items outside the theatre somewhere in the school. The problem for the audience members is that the halls of the school are filled with zombies who want to feast on their flesh. If the audience members can collect the items without being touched by the zombies they may return to the theater for the final act and help send the living dead back to the grave.

Roy High School

2005

Royal Court Jesters

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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

Comedy/Thriller/Audience Participation

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5

6

3 Either, Plus lots of Zombies

This play has a unique format in that it can be just a one-act play with a running time of about 35-45 minutes or an audience participation play with a running time of 90-120 minutes. There are two different types of Characters: The play characters and the Quest zombie characters. The Quest is explained in detail with in the script. However, the basic format is a forty minute play on a stage then the audience members are sent out of the theatre to look for chemicals where they interact with the zombie characters. Once they find the chemicals they return to the theatre to watch the conclusion.

When Karen's friends visit her during her first night of working at the Mortuary two of them accidentally embalm themselves causing a strange chemical reaction within their bodies. With more of their carelessness they spread the infection to the dead bodies causing them to reanimate. Zombies stock the group as they try to find an antidote to the infection. The audience is then asked to help find the chemicals needed to stop the zombies. Audience members interact with the zombies while they try to find the chemical antidote outside of the theatre.