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The Rest-In-Peace
Retirement Home
by VERN HARDEN
A satire of the old and feisty
Cast: 10 to 16F, 5M, flexible
Playing time: About 40 minutes, 1 act
Order #R-R353 Script: $5.75
Order #R-RP100 Royalty: $40/performance
Large Cast One Act Plays
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It’s pretty deadly at the Old Folks’ Home until Larry
wins the lottery. Or at least that’s the way the women
hear it. They need a “good sense of rumor” to keep life
interesting when they’re not searching for their teeth.
The old ladies flirt with old farts, are insulted, then
whomp the grumps with their canes. These old cronies
can barely walk, hear, or remember what they do. Teen
players have fun portraying the crotchety actions,
voices, expressions, and the freedom to be someone
else. This version of The Old Folks has funny
situations and hilarious one-liners. This play can be
used for contests or stage performance. Simple set,
costumes, and makeup make this show a guaranteed
exercise in laughter.
Very Moliérey
by CINDY MARCUS and FLIP KOBLER
A teen comedy with updated
Moliere-like characters
Cast: 15F, 10M
Playing time: About 60 minutes, 1 act
Order #R-R364 Script: $5.75
Order #R-RP108 Royalty: $40/performance
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Trinity, the school paper editor, is a pious hypocrite
(Tartuffe) who won’t print Molly’s story about cutting free
lunches for poor kids. Like Moliére, Molly wants to expose
hypocrisy and abuse of power, of which there’s no shortage
at her school. Plus she wants a journalism scholarship. To
get her article in the paper, she has to deal with a dumb
jock, his vain girlfriend, rival “gangs,” and Trinity’s flunkies.
The “fourth wall” with the audience is comically broken at
key moments to the horror of a student who’s a Moliére
impersonator. An annoying talking stage hand simply sets
the scenes throughout by becoming the background using
signs, props, vocal sound effects, and more with hilarious
results. From hip-hop lingo to Moliére’s poetry and prose,
this play will challenge and delight student actors and their
audiences. Another great script from two of Disney’s
former writers.
Becoming Shakespeare
by CHARLIE LOVETT
An ensemble comedy about
the boy playwright
Cast: 10F, 9M, 7 M or F
Playing time: About 45 minutes, 1 act
Order #R-R362 Script: $5.75
Order #R-RP106 Royalty: $40/performance
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How did young Shakespeare become a playwright? This
play answers that question in the funniest way possible. His
professor sends the arrogant young boy with his classmates
to do summer theatre at the Ball and Chain Inn in Shottery.
But Will doesn’t want to write a play for these losers. He
claims to have invented the words dwindle, lonely, pious,
dog, and Wikipedia. The student actors don’t like his crazy
ideas about a Henry VI trilogy, Julius Caesar, or starcrossed
lovers. They want dancing and juggling, or a girl
and dog swept away by a tornado. Will is rude, but Anne
Hathaway falls for his love poetry and schemes to tame
him into marriage. Then Will writes a play about it that’s
seen by an agent who invites him and his troupe to
London. And the rest is history. Will reveals that his
observations of the people at the inn taught him human
nature and how to write about it. A fun and entertaining
way to introduce Shakespeare to student actors and
audiences. Classic quips and quotes throughout the play.
Easy to stage with only two sets.
Hovel, MD: Fairy Tale Doctor
by JANE and JIM JEFFERIES
A parody of fairy tale characters
Cast: 7F, 10M, 1 F or M,
with doubling: 6F, 5M, 1 F or M
Playing time: About 75 minutes, 1 act
Order #R-R366 Script: $5.75
Order #R-RP110 Royalty: $40/performance
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The world renowned fairy tale diagnostician, Dr. Hovel, is
having a bad day. He’s got Hansel and Gretel with type 2
diabetes, Tom Thumb who needs massive doses of growth
hormone, dwarves with identity issues, the Gingerbread
Man with a yeast infection, and a wolf that needs a
grannyectomy. Hovel tells Geppetto that Pinocchio should
be a politician and to return for regular nose jobs. The
fibromyalgic Pea Princess really just has a tiara cutting
circulation to her head. Snow White periodically jumps out
of her coma to recite nursery rhymes. Dr. Hovel thinks
she’s a Canadian with SAD until the witch is dragged in.
She’s really his mother who works for big pharma and is
testing a sleep drug on Snow White. Similar humorous
appearances are made by Red Riding Hood, the Emperor
(no clothes), and more. Lots of funny lines and dialogue will
keep your audience in stitches. Easy to stage.