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Alleyway Theatre, NY, USA >>>

2004

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Brooklyn Publishers

2006

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comedy

One Act

2

2

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Notes: Winner of the Maxim Mazumdar Contest.

Synopsis: In the near ridiculous future, when comedy has been outlawed, two bottom-of-the-barrel comics face trial for committing comedy, along with their accomplice, a young woman who broke the law by laughing at them.

Country Playhouse Black Box, Houston TX

2001

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I.E. Clark Publishing Co.

2002

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Mystery

4

4

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Notes: written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams

Synopsis: When Dame Agatha visits Texas to research a new novel, someone in her rented house turns up murdered. Agatha sets out to find the killer among her weekend houseguests, all of whom had possible (if sometimes implausible) motives.

Branch County Community Theatre, Coldwater Michigan

2006

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Norman Maine Publishing, FL

2007

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Comedy

3

4

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Synopsis: Four writers of different types of fiction (mystery, romance, detective, and literary) gather at the country home of a reclusive and slightly addled heiress to compete for a $100,00 grant.. A timid secretary and a respected literary critic evaluate the writers, leading to the discovery no once present is really who he or she seems to be.

Encore Theatre, Houston TX

2006

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Brooklyn Publishers

2006

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melodrama

One Act

3

3

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Notes: written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams

Synopsis: Clarice DeLovely, a beautiful young London actress, arrives in Cactus Junction, Texas, to manage a small bookshop that she inherited from her late father. Little does she know that Sylvester Swineheart (a devious and distant relative) is planning to take over the shop and is in cahoots with crooked Sheriff Hornswoggler, who schemes to put the young mummer six feet under, along with her traveling companion, Winifred Snitwhistle, a grande dame of the British stage. Complicating matters are a charming book-publishing heiress, Fann C. Free, and the shy and studious Chester G. Whilakers, who carries a torch for the lovely DeLovely. With many plot twists and turns the "good guys" fight their way through a tangle of jokes, puns, and show-biz humor while saving the day.

Main Street Theatre, Houston TX

1999

Scriptwriters/Houston

Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA

2007

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comedy

Ten min

2

3

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Notes: Winner of multiple contests, produced off-off-Broadway. Published as part of "It's All an Act," along with two other short Williams plays.

Synopsis: Three seniors on the front row of a little theater disrupt the play with their incessant comments, questions, noisy candy wrappers, and occasional snoring. How long can an actor take it before he explodes?

Pasadena Little Theatre, Pasadena TX

2003

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Brooklyn Publishers

2006

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Melodrama

4

5

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Notes: written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams

Synopsis: Villainous Victor Vomitus runs a music publishing company in 1899 St. Louis and keeps a songwriter chained in his basement, trying to come up with a prize-winning song for the Exposition. A rich young man meets a poor young woman searching for her long-lost father, and they become entangled with Victor, a crooked commissioner and his foolish family, a dancehall girl, and a crazy old river rat named Bessie.

Theatre Southwest, Houston TX

1998

Festival of Originals

Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA

2007

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comedy

One Act

3

2

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Notes: Published as part of "It's All an Act," along with two other short Williams plays.

Synopsis: The estranged family members of a dying Shakespearean actor gather around his bedside and squabble over long-held grievances, prompting the semi-comatose thespian to respond with appropriate lines from the Bard.

Harbor Playhouse, Corpus Christi TX

2004

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Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA

2004

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Melodrama

6

6

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Synopsis: A young showman tries to assemble a dance act to save his parents' failing restaurant in 1899 California. A conman shows up with three dancing girls and a scheme to cheat two old prospectors out of their newly refound lost gold mine.

Producer's Club, The Royale Theater, NY

2006

Phare Play Productions

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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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Harbor Playhouse, Corpus Christi TX

2006

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Pioneer Drama Service

2005

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melodrama

One Act

3

3

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Notes: written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams

Synopsis: Adora Winsome, a lovelorn widow, is stuck with a cluttered workshop after the death of her husband, an unsuccessful inventor who left them nothing but a strange "talker box." She and her beautiful daughter Charmaine have sent for a patent application for the apparatus, but they don't know a thing about it. Frankie Fixitt, the lab assistant, lends a helping hand. After all, he is secretly in love with Charmaine. But what good is the patent application if the talker box is in the clutches of greedy landlord Gustav Guttermost and his flirtatious confederate, Ima Foxx? The two villains barge in to collect the rent and steal the valuable invention while they're at it. Of course, their efforts are thwarted when Cashin DeVault, the dashing banker-and Adora's old flame-arrives just in time to catch Ima and Guttermost red-handed. Love and justice prevail, as it should be!

Pasadena Little Theatre, Pasadena TX

1998

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Norman Maine Publishing, FL

2006

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90-120 minutes

Comedy

4

3

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Synopsis: With the help of a toupee salesman, Steve and Jerry, two lonely balding bachelors, find a perfect toupee with which to attract women. The only problem is that they don't have enough money to buy it. Desperate for hair, they purchase a used toupee that was repossessed from a dead man and decide to time-share the toupee by taking turns wearing it. The new toupee gives Steve and Jerry a confidence boost, and they soon meet two lovely ladies. Romance is in the air until both girlfriends show up at Jerry and Steve's house at the same time. With two bald men and just one toupee, things get a bit hairy for Steve and Jerry.

Harbor Playhouse, Corpus Christi TX

2006

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Brooklyn Publishers

2007

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Melodrama

3

3

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Notes: written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams

Synopsis: Here's a fast-moving melodrama about dastardly doings in a run-down professional theater in Sagebrush, Nevada. The evil theater owner Rance Bottomgard schemes to make ailing magician Alexander the Great disappear so he can steal both his act and his lovely daughter Loverly. He fools the magician's fading-rose assistant Carrie Meebak into helping set up a fatal stage trick. Before all is lost, heroic and love-struck young stage manager Will Powers, aided by dim-witted Nurse Krenk, rush to the rescue.

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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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Synopsis: Don't trust a man in a fuzzy costume who claims he only broke into your home to leave presents.

Stages Theatre, Houston TX

2002

Scriptwriters/Houston

Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA

2007

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comedy

Ten min

3

1

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Notes: Winner of multiple contests, produced off-off-Broadway. Published as part of "It's All an Act," along with two other short Williams plays.

Synopsis: Everything goes wrong on opening night as four actors persevere despite a drunk in the tech booth, a slipping dress, a gun that doesn't fire, and a sneezing corpse.

Country Playhouse Black Box, Houston TX

2002

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Norman Maine Publishing, FL

2007

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Comedy

5

7

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Notes: written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams

Synopsis: When a mudslide blocks the main highway, the dilapidated Hotel Horace in the town of Swampy Corners gets an unexpected influx of guests, including a British world traveler, a high school teacher and her two students, and a female fugitive, who tries to hide from the local sheriff, who is courting the hotel's widowed owner.

Fort Bend Theatre, Stafford TX

2002

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Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA >>>

2006

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two act

Comedy

2

3

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Notes: Winner of the Fort Bend (TX) Theatre New Play Contest.

Synopsis: Martie's idyllic memories of a poet from her college years rise again when he reappears, willing and able to continue the romance. Her regular-guy husband, who'd rather bowl than read poetry, seems a poor match against the dashing, artistic Brook Oliphant. Martie's best friend Janice, who also knew the suave poet when he was a teaching assistant, is drawn to Brook again as well, especially now that she is recently divorced. Suddenly, their nostalgic used-to-be's contend with the ordinary here-and-now until the women meet one of the professor's current students. They discover that Brook uses the same old poem to romance all his lady friends and students. Will they separate his iambic from his pentameter or, at the very least, have him arrested for the reckless used of a concealed poem? Ultimately Martie realizes the four rhyming lines Tom writes are much sweeter than Brook's poetic license will ever be.

Brazos Valley Troupe, Bryan TX

2005

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Brooklyn Publishers

2006

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comedy

Ten min

1

1

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Synopsis: A sensitive playwright confronts the cynical drama critic who savaged her new play. While exchanging barbs, writer and critic learn more about each other in the course of a changing relationship.

Backdoor Theatre, Wichita Falls TX

2003

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Norman Maine Publishing, FL

2007

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Comedy

6

4

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Notes: Winner of the Backdoor Theatre New Play Project and the Hill Country Playwriting Festival's People's Choice Award. Produced off-off-Broadway.

Synopsis: Residents of Spitwhistle, Texas hold a cowboy poetry festival to bring business to their dying town. A PBS crew arrives to film the contest as the young guns aim to beat legendary cowboy poet Boone Hawkins. The outcome determines who stays, who moves on, and who just keeps on dreaming.

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Brooklyn Publishers

2007

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melodrama

One Act

3

5

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Notes: Winner of the Backdoor Theatre New Play Project and the Hill Country Playwriting Festival's People's Choice Award. Produced off-off-Broadway.

Synopsis: The beautiful young heroine's dear mother (the watchmaker's widow and jewelry store owner) is falsely accused of participating in a human- smuggling ring, and what's more, she is accused by the stalwart young hero who is the object of her daughter's desire! The villainous import/export merchant, who keeps importing and exporting the same suspicious grandfather clock, tries to frame the widow and make time with the heroine, only to see his plans upset by his own assistant (a femme fatale with an eye for the hero) and a South American gentleman who makes a surprise appearance, along with two formidable-looking women "customers" who have been casing the store.

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Big Dog Publishing, FL, USA >>>

2006

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Melodrama, 30 min

One Act

3

3

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Notes: written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams

Synopsis: Caution: The humor in this play may be a bit dry. Set in Tarantula, TX at the turn of the last century, a humble well-digger, Hardrock Flint, and his soon-to-be son-in-law, Gus, have set out to strike it rich by digging wells, but all they've found so far is a lot of dirt. Meanwhile, the exceptionally evil Sly Snookerall has hatched a heartless scheme to steal the well-digger's homestead, send him to the poorhouse, and then marry his beautiful daughter, Dolly. Hardrock better find a way to dig himself out of this one, or he's going to end up at the Last Roundup Retirement Home!

Midland Community Theatre, Midland TX

2002

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Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA

2004

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Comedy

3

4

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Notes: Winner of the McLaren Memorial Comedy Playwriting Competition in Midland, TX.

Synopsis: Country sister Coreen comes to visit big-city highbrow Millicent on the very night she's entertaining a society couple. To conceal her embarrassing background, Millicent passes Coreen off as an actress immersed in a new role. Conceits and deceits abound before down-home honesty prevails.