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Shakespeare
In The Wrong Hands |
A
limited time offer.
For a limited time we are offering
"The Real Problem," "Ruby Of Elsinore" and "The
Case Of The Tale Told By An Idiot" for a combined price of
$25 under the title "Shakespeare In The Wrong Hands."
You are invited to read excerpts from these three
comedies.
Excerpt from
"Ruby Of Elsinore"
Excerpt from "The
Case Of The Tale Told By An Idiot"
Excerpt from "The Real
Problem"
Normally you'd have to purchase each of these
plays separately. With this offering you save $5 off the total price.
These three plays make up a comedy trilogy sending up Shakespeare's
Hamlet, MacBeth and four of the Bard's leading ladies.
Also, for a limited time we are reducing the royalty
rate if all three plays are produced as a single production.
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characters trapped in a one act play try to break free while working
out their relationship in a scenario that keeps getting re-written.
(Two character play)
(1 man, 1 woman)
"Bruce Kane's script crackles with gentle humour."
CBC News
"Thanks for your brilliant play – the audience loved it!"
Rebecca E. (Becky) Grewer
Medicine Hat Musical Theatre
Winner - 2011 Cambridge Drama Festival, UK
Winner - One Act Play Festival, Medicine Hat, AB - Canada |
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a land where "beauty is only skin deep - thank God" a "woman of
a certain age" takes drastic action when she learns that she's been
surpassed in the looks department by her sexy stepdaughter as the
tales of "Sleeping Beauty" and "Snow White" get rolled into a 90210
facelift in this funny one act play.
Finalist - Macra National Drama Festival,
Ireland
Winner - East Division
All England Theatre Festival
"Best Comedy"
"Went down a storm." Corofin Dramatic
Society, Ireland |
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| A slovenly and indecisive
Hamlet, a marriage bent Ophelia, an oversexed Gertrude, a power
hungry Claudius and a revenge seeking Ghost let their hair down
to Ruby, Elsinore's hairdresser with attitude in this award winning
one act play..
Winner - "2007 All-Ireland
One Act Play Competition"
Winner -2009 Adjudicator's Prize
Rosebowl Drama Festival - Cyprus
Winner - "Most Original Contribution" 2008 Cork,
Ireland
Youth Drama Festival
Winner - "2008 Macra Na Feirme National Drama Finals"
- Ireland
"'Recontrahamlet,' the comedy that Shakespeare
did not write...reaches its highest point in the sequence 'Ruby
of Elsinore' by Bruce Kane"
Sergio Velarde
Founding Member -Association of Peruvian Theatre Critics and Research
"...we won the Adjudicator's prize for Artistic
Originality and my actress playing 'Ophelia' won the Adjudicator's
prize for acting achievement (equivalent to best supporting actor/actress
prize). The Adjudicator even described the production as "a breath
of fresh air". Most importantly everyone enjoyed our production -
from the actors to the audience and we had some wonderful feedback.
Julie James
Woodlands Drama Group
Harrogate, England
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| A comedic look
at all the things that make modern romance so much fun including
infidelity, emotional masochism, envy, bad sex, letting go and getting
caught in this well reviewed one act.
10 quick takes on the dating game... the sketches
move quickly and devastatingly".
Los Angeles Dramalogue
“Opposites” is more than just a play; it’s
a fully involved experience."
City Pulse, Lansing, MI
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Shakespeare's famous
balcony scene goes slightly askew when a fleeing Casanova shows up
to turn Romeo from a lover to a seducer under Juliet's balcony.
(2 males, 1 female)
Read
A Review |
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In a comedy about love
and men, Juliet gets conflicting advice from the ever loyal and romantic
Desdemona, whose husband Othello still suspects her of having an affair;
“Taming of the Shrew’s” Katherine, who claims that “all men are pigs”;
and, finally, the head of Henry VIII’s late wife Anne Boleyn, who
believes women should be free to pursue their appetites… in spite
of her present condition
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This funny one act
takes place within the fevered imagination of a man in a romantic
crisis, as a confused dentist is tormented by three fantasy women
who represent his uptight fiancee, an oversexed wish fullfillment
bimbo and his whip cracking ex-wife.
(1 man, 3 women)
"...a psychologically brilliant and funny piece
of work!" - Marsha M. Morgan, Associate Professor of Theatre, Park
University
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The sexy and suggestive
computer voice of a high tech automobile becomes jealous of the new
owner's girlfriend and threatens to destroy his life in this very
contemporary one act script..
(15 minute play)
(1 male -
2 female voices - 1 male voice) |
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The audience becomes
part of the show in this one act play as a young man engages some
of the female attendees as well as the three areas of his brain
that affect sex and love while trying to find the girl of his dreams
in this funny and off-beat one act play.
(4 Males - 6 Females
2 female roles can be double cast)
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Four friends
participate in a dance of shifting romances, friendships and betrayals
in this one act play.
(Running time 15-16 minutes)
(2 males, 2 females, 2 off-stage voices)
..."I Can Explain," by Bruce Kane, is a short
American play on the same theme, more implicit, but also more extravagant
and just as funny!"
Claude Vedder
Strasbourg
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Cinderella and
Juliet commiserate about romantic love, happily ever after and what
went wrong with their marriages in this much performed ten minute
play.
(10 minute play)
(3 women)
"I wanted to tell you that I fell in love
with the play at first reading, and still can't get enough of it.
My cast of three delightful young women love performing it. Your
dialogue flows so beautifully that there is never a problem with
lines, and the audience reaction is great."
JoAnn Katz
Township Theater Group, NY
"Writer Bruce Kane cleverly puts a modern spin on the old stories
that make them less fairy tales and more every day life.
Vermont Times
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With a reptilian
bartender acting as matchmaker, the future of the human race looks
anything but promising when a sophisticated Eve meets the hunky but
dim Adam over apple margaritas at the Garden of Eden Bar & Grill
in this audience pleasing ten minute play.
(10 minute play)
(2 Males, 1 Female)
"We staged a cabaret-style season of your plays
and the whole concept was enthusiastically received…the audiences
particularly enjoyed "In the Beginning" and "Cindy & Julie."
Bernie Maxwell
GRAPA
(Griffith NSW Australia)
Winner - Audience Favorite
Actors Refuge Repertory Theatre |
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A man who claims to be inept
around women successfully hits on hits on them by telling them why
he doesn't find them attractive in this very funny ten minute play.
(10
minute play)
(1 Man - 2 Women) |
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What happens between the moment
a woman insists a complete stranger answer her cell phone and the
moment she invites him home.
(7-8 minute play)
(Two character play)
(1 male - 1 female) |
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An egotistical super
hero has difficulty consummating a liaison with the sexy and eager
wife of his super hero rival until he reveals his true identity in
this laugh filled ten minute play.
(10 minute play)
(Two characters)
(1 man, 1 woman) |
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| What happens when
a recently divorced woman of a certain age decides to plunge back
into the dating scene? Read the results in this sharply pointed
and funny ten minute play script as our self-involved heroine encounters
three typical males. The strong, silent type who never speaks (Frankenstein),
the all gentlemanly one minute and all hands the next type (The
Wolfman) and the one night stand who's gone before the sun comes
up (Dracula).
"MARJORIE: (breathlessly) Now I know
why they call you Vlad... the impaler."
(10 minute play)
(1 female - 3 males) |
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| A stage actress refuses to do
a nude scene only to become insanely jealous when the director decides
to replace her with an imaginary actress that is stealing her thunder.
(1 female, 2 males, 1 male or female)
(6-7 minutes) |
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Romance and commitment
get turned inside out when two emotional masochists form a relationship
based on mutual rejection.
(10 minute play)
(Two character play)
(1 male, 1 female)
"...If I tell you that the text has been inspired
by Bruce Kane’s Masochism Tango , it should give you some idea of
the nature of the verbal exchanges. If Woody Allen or Mike Nichols
and Elaine May had gone in for movement theater, they might have talked
like this."
Allan Ulrich © VoiceofDance.com 2007 |
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Evey wonder how
those super hero movies make it to the big screen? This hilarious
short play takes you behind the scenes as a sexy, tough talking female
superhero with a chip on her shoulder negotiates the sale of her life
story to the movies.
( 7-8 minutes)
(Two character play)
(1 female, 1 male) |
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| A wife and a mistress
want what the other has... until they get it in this unusual ten
minute play in which the characters only address the audience and
not each other.
(one male, two females)
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He thinks he's being
honest and direct. She thinks he's just taking her for granted. A
relationship between two people taken with their own sense of emotional
honesty and openess quickly falls apart from a lack of emotional honesty
and openess in this very funny two character play.
(Two character play)
(1 male, 1 female) |
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It's a matter
of trust betrayed when an open marriage almost collapses over the
husband's revelation that he's never been unfaithful in this topsy
turvy ten minute play.
(10 minute play)
(Two character play)
(1 male, 1 female) |
PLAYS
THAT RUN LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES |
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A baseball/softball
catcher uses the rules of grammar to drive opposing batters crazy
in this short one act script.
(4 characters) |
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| A young couple
try to explain where it all went wrong when she kept changing and
he never did.
(1 male - 1 female)
ONE ACT PLAYS & MONOLOGUES
www.kaneprod.com
www.oneactplaysandmonologues.com
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| A
snippy stage manager gets carried away in his/her instructions to
the audience regarding proper behaviour during the performance of
the play to follow. This short monologue can precede any production.
"The evening began with a dramatic plea, written
by Bruce Kane. This friendly chastising rant was witty and humourous,
and vocalized most theatergoers’ pet peeves to a tee."
Bancroft This Week, Ontario, Canada |
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| In
this delightful and funny monologue, the legendary Prince Charming
takes center stage to talk about the expectations, pressures and disappointments
that come with being every woman's "dream come true." Along
the way the Prince talks about his ex-wives Rapunzel and Snow White
and that beautiful girl he met at the ball who disappeared at the
stroke of midnight. |
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| An
insecure and paranoid playwright talks about writing and women two
things he seems to know little about in this unusual comedy monologue. |
| Female Monologues
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| Ophelia
dishes on the royal family while explaining why she has to marry Hamlet
or die. Featured in "Audition Monologues
For Young Women" contemporary audition pieces for aspiring
actresses. Assembled by Gerald Lee Ratliff for Meriwether Publishing. |
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(1 minute monologue)
A woman fantasizes about the stranger
of her dreams in this one minute monologue. |
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All
Ireland One Act Play Festivals 2008
Crooked Wheel Productions won the following awards:
Ballymahon - Best play, Best Actress, Best Moment in Theatre-Overall
Cavan - Best Play, Best Actress
Carrigallen - Best play, Most entertaining Play-Overall
Maudebaum - Best Play
Manorhamilton - Best Play, Best Actress
Winner Audience Appreciation Award
Cambridge, UK Drama Festival
Tough talking, hardboiled detective Justin
Thyme travels to 11th century Denmark to find out who whacked Hamlet's
old man and runs into a king named Claudius who wants him dead,
a prince named Hamlet who doesn't know what he wants and a dame
named Ophelia who wants everything including Thyme in this award
wining one act send up of both Hamlet and the hard boiled detective
genre.
Listen
to complete audio production of "The Case Of The Prince Formerly
Known As Hamlet" |
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| Justin Thyme, the
hard boiled fictional detective, gets burned by an old flame by
the name of Lady MacBeth, when he's hired to find out who zotzed
the King of Scotland in this hilarious one act send up of Shakespeare's
famous play.
Winner - Warwickshire All England Theatre Festival
- Abbey Players
Winner - Adjudicator's Prize - Warwickshire One Act Plays Festival
- Abbey Players
The Case of The Tale Told by an Idiot - a Justin
Thyme Mystery' went down a storm at the festival. The audience laughed
from the first line and even stopped the play on several occasions
by clapping!
Vivien Devereaux
Mold Drama Works
‘The Case of the Tale Told By An Idiot’ by Bruce
Kane, a send-up of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, which guarantees a laugh
a minute."
Limerick Independent.
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Nobody is what
they seem when Justin Thyme, fictional detective, heads to Sherlock
Holmes country to find his client frightened to death by a four hundred
year old hound the size of a Buick and a list of suspects that includes
the slow witted heir to the murdered man's fortune, his butler, a
butterfly collecting twit and a beautiful woman who immediately casts
her spell over our detective.
"THYME:
For a British dame she was alright. Hair the color of strawberries.
Peaches and cream complexion. Eyes like blueberries and for lips...
two red delicious apples. I couldn’t tell if I was fallin’ for her
or just low on vitamin C." |
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| Thyme travels to Transylvania
to find out why the country has experienced a sudden shortage of virgins
where he meets the delicious Molly only to lose her to the mysterious
and sinister Count Dracula in this no holds barred send up the Dracula
legend. |
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Thyme searches for
the killer of his old pal William Jefferson Dumpty whose murder
may be linked to the the long ago disappearance of a gorgeous young
dame. Thyme’s investigation reacquaints him with the "seen
it all" Rapunzel, Dumpty’s main squeeze with whom our
intrepid gumshoe has had a long simmering love-hate relationship;
Veronica Virago, who gives wicked stepmothers a bad name; B.B. Wolfe,
the local crime lord; not to mention a sexy frail named Bo Peep
and another who slinks in and out of Thyme’s life wearing
a “little red riding hood” – a very little red
riding hood. |
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| With
a hip hop style Roman Chorus providing narration, Julius Caesar's
wily number one slave Colitus tries to guide his thick and lustful
master through the jealousies and power grabs that threaten his
rule. In this bawdy two act plays about the folks who ran the Roman
Empire - right into the ground, the luscious Cleopatra, the ambitious
Brutus, the lean and hungry Cassius and the dim witted Marc Antony
all make plans to knife Caesar in the back while Colitus maneuvers
to keep his master safe just along enough to gain his own freedom.
"This hilarious play had a hip-hop chorus and a
riotous cast..."
Louisville Voice Tribune
Listen to complete original audio production.
This is the abridged 35 minute version of the full length play.
Both the full length script and the abridged version are available
for production.
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