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- Regional One Act Play Festival, Medicine Hat, AB - Canada
Two
characters trapped in a one act play try to break free while
working out their relationship in a scenario that keeps
getting re-written.
(1
man, 1 woman)
"Thanks for your brilliant play
– the audience loved it!"
Rebecca E. (Becky) Grewer
Medicine Hat Musical Theatre
Recent
Productions
John Carroll University
U. of Central Missouri
U. of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Kyogle Theatre Society-Canada
Woking Drama Festival
Thompson Rivers U.
Tagora Theatre Group, France
Adelphia Theatre Club, UK
Terrace Little Theatre Co.- Canada
Rice University
Northern Michigan U.
Concord Academic Student Theater, NH
Sandgate, Theatre, Brisbane, Australia |
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Winner
- East Division
All England Theatre Festival
In
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 tale of "Sleeping Beauty"
gets a 90210 facelift.
Recent
Productions
Rennsalear Polytechnic Inst.
Southend Drama Festival, UK
Bishop Ready High School
Eastern High School, NJ
Canfield High School, OH
Hinsdale School, IL
Lebanese American University, Beirut
Daniel Hand High School, CT
The English Theatre Group, Strasbourg (France)
Belmont High, MA
Abbey Park High School, Canada |
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| Winner
- "2007 All-Ireland
One Act Play Competition"
Winner -2009 Adjudicator's Prize
Rosebowl Drama Festival - Cyprus
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 Elsinore's hippest
hair dresser.
Winner
- "Most Original Contribution" 2008 Cork, Ireland
Youth Drama Festival
Winner
- "2008 Macra Na Feirme National Drama Finals"
- Ireland
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"'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
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"...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
Recent
Productions
Malthouse Players, Ireland
Goderich Theatre - Canada
The Burnavon - Ireland
Theatre Prelude - Lima, Peru
Dewdney Players, Canada
Crestwood Preparatory College
Ballaly Players, Ireland
Abbey College, Ireland
The English Theatre Group, Strasbourg (France)
Harrogate Theatre, UK
Meeting House Players, CT
Rathfarnham Theatre Group, Ireland |
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| Vignettes
investigating the premise that the seeds of all disastrous
relationships are sown at the very begining.
"10
quick takes on the dating game... the sketches move quickly
and devastatingly".
Los Angeles Dramalogue
Reviews
from the recent production in Spain
"The bed scene was wonderful.
The script has been a fantastic discovery."
Christian Machio ( journalist and theatre reviewer)
"The
dynamism and the acid humour caused the enthusiasm in the
audience."
RTV Cardedeu (local TV Station)
View
photos from Scla'ka Si Teatre, Spain
Recent Productions
Teatrul Metropolis - Romania
Attic Theatre
Fresno Fringe Festival
St. Bonaventure U.
Shaking Fist Productions
Betchworth Festival, UK
Network Theatre, London
The Living Room, Taipei
Aqualuna, Peru
West Coast Ensemble, L.A.
Scla'ka Si Teatre, Spain
Actors Nausea - Germany |
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| Facing
a mid-life crisis, a man calls on his reluctant conscience,
in the form of his leather clad, whip cracking ex-wife,
for help in choosing between his prudish fiancee and a nubile
fantasy woman who only exists in his imagination.
One
Act Play - 1 man, 3 women
"...a
psychologically brilliant and funny piece of work!"
- Marsha M. Morgan, Associate Professor of Theatre, Park
University
Recent
Productions:
Montgomery Playhouse
Park University
Latrobe Theatre Company
University Central Missouri |
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A
man has to deal with the three warring areas of his brain
that affect sex and love while trying to find the girl of
his dreams.
4
Males - 6 Females
2 female roles can be double cast
Productions:
Pasadena
City College |
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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
Read Second Review
Recent
Productions:
Friends University
Pasadena College
Arden Club Theatre
Harry Ainlay High School
Winter Springs Performing Arts
GRAPA, Australia
Theatre On A Shoestring
Lee University
Pass Area Players
Network Theatre, London
Rialto Theatre, TX
West Liberty State College
Baradene College, New Zealand. |
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| "Sex
And The City" meets Shakespeare when Juliet gets conflicting
advice from “Othello’s” romantic Desdemona,
“Taming of the Shrew’s” man-hating Katherine
and Henry VIII’s man-loving but still beheaded wife
Anne Boleyn.
(5
females)
Recent Productions:
Freeport Community Players
Pasadena College
The Ballaly Players
Illinois State Univ.
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BOOKS,
DVD's, EXTRAS |
A
recipe-filled memoir about loss, recovery and finding yourself
through food.
An
Amazon February 2008 Pick Of The Month Book Selection
.
Order
here. |
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Cinderella
and Juliet commiserate about romantic love, happily ever after
and what went wrong with their marriages.
(3
women)
Read
A Review
Read Second Review
Recent
Productions:
Oregon
State U.
Sonoma State U.
The Repertory Co.
Milligan College
Reynolds H.S.
Stepping Out Theatre Co. (AUS)
Tagora Theatre Group, France
Lincoln Middle School, WA
Berea High School, OH
Lander University
Meeting House Players, CT
Siegel
High School, TN
Eisenhower
High School, IL
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GRAPA,
Australia
VSA Arts of Florida
Ballaly Players,Ireland
North Hennepin Coll.
Vilseck Bavarian Arts Guild
Pass Area Players
Oakland City University
Tagora Theatre Group, France
Hillsdale High School, CA
Rialto Theatre, TX
U. of Wisconsin, River Falls
Sauk Theatre, MI
Eisenhower High, Yakima. WA |
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| Winner
- Audience Favorite
Actors Refuge Repertory Theatre
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.
(
2 Males, 1 Female)
Recent Productions:
Gordon
College
GRAPA, Australia
Firestone Theatre
Sonoma State U.
Tennesse State U.
Chesapeake Theatre
Pass Area Players
Network Theatre, London
West Liberty State College
Ripon College
Sauk Theatre, MI |
Stepping Out Theatre Co. (AUS)
Attic Theatre
Actors Refuge Repertory Theatre
Freeport Community Players
Theatre On A Shoestring
Jesuit College Prep
Lakewood Theatre Guild
U. of Indianapolis
Friends Univ.
Great
Neck South High School, NY
Parkway Central High, MO
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"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) |
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A
man uses his so-called ineptitude around women to successfully
hit on them.
(1
Man - 2 Women)
Recent
Productions:
Western Oregon U.
Rialto Theatre, TX
Pasadena City College |
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What
happens between the moment a woman insists a complete stranger
answer her cell phone to talk to her ex and the moment she
invites him home.
Pass
Area Players
Queen Anne's
County High School, MD
Pasadena City College
(1
male - 1 female) |
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Two
masochists form a romantic relationship based on mutual rejection.
(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
Recent
Productions:
West Wave Dance Festival
Coffee Creek Playhouse
Rice University |
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Four
friends participate in a dance of shifting romances, friendships
and betrayals.
..."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
(One
act comedy -2 males, 2 females, 2 off-stage voices)
Recent Productions
FEATS Festival, Strasbourg, France
Pasadena
City College
Comments
from Europe's Tagora Theatre Group |
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An
actress agrees to do an on-stage nude scene only after becoming
jealous of of her non-existent replacement.
(1
female, 2 males, 1 male or female)
Running
time approximately 6 minutes
Productions:
Oregon State U.
Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill,
MA. |
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A
wife and a mistress want what the other has... until they
get it.
(one male,
two females) |
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While
bending the truth to an on-line dating service, a vain, recently
divorced, self centered woman recalls her recent "monstrous
dating" encounters with a - strong, very silent type
(Frankenstein), the all gentlemanly one minute and all hands
the next type (Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde) 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."
(One
Act Comedy - 1 female - 3 male)
Productions:
Bancroft Theater Guild
(Read
review) |
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A
pompous and self important super hero's sense of inadequacy
gets in the way of a liaison with the sexy and eager wife
of his super hero rival.
(1
man, 1 woman)
Productions:
Indio Performing Arts Center
Southwestern Oregon College |
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A
relationship between two people taken with their own sense
of emotional honesty and openess quickly rises and falls from
a lack of emotional honesty and openess when the subject of
sex is introduced into the conversation.
Productions:
Actors Refuge Repertory Theatre
(1 male, 1 female) |
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An
open marriage almost collapses when the husband admits he
hasn't been sleeping with anyone.
(1
male, 1 female)
Recent Productions:
RAF Lyneham Theatre Club
GRAPA, Australia
Stepping Out Theatre Co. (AUS)
The Black Cow Theatre Company - Delhi, India |
| Plays
that run less than 5 minutes |
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A
baseball/softball catcher uses the rules of grammar to drive
opposing batters crazy.
(
4 characters)
Recent Productions:
Eureka High School, MO
Belmont High School
Hebron Academy, ME |
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What
looks like an intense confrontation between a couple facing
a break-up over his infidelities turns out to be something
quite different. Think cellphones in public places.
Recent
Productions:
Pass
Area Players
(1
male - 1 female) |
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 With
a hip hop style Roman Chorus providing narration, Julius Caesar
tries to prevent the luscious Cleopatra, the ambitious Brutus,
the lean and hungry Cassius and the dim witted Marc Antony
from knifing him in the back in this bawdy romp about the
folks who ran the Roman Empire - right into the ground.
Listen
to San Francisco's "One Act Players" original audio
production. (mp3)
(This is the abridged 35 minute version created just for
this audio production.).
Both
the full length script and the shortened version are available
for production. |
Listen
to MP3 |
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Comedy-mysteries
written
for the stage
The
adventures of Justin Thyme, Fictional Detective. Hard boiled
with a side of irony, Thyme takes on the toughest, dirtiest
cases in English literature.
MYSTERIES
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All
Ireland One Act Play Festivals 2008
Crooked Wheel Productions
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.
"The
Maltese Falcon" meets "Hamlet."
Productions:
Pasadena City College
Cambridge Theatre Festival-UK
Crestwood Preparatory College
Listen to San Francisco's "One Act Players" original
audio production |
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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.
'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
Recent Productions:
Mold Drama Works - UK
Insight Theatre Group, Ireland
Marion County High School, GA
Wednesday Players, Ireland
Theatre Colwyn, Wales
Kiltullagh Hall, Ireland
Sauk Theatre, MI
The Earl Inn. Galway, Ireland
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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."
Recent
productions:
West Valley High School,Alaska
Meeeting House Players, CT |
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Thyme
comes face to fangs with Count Dracula while investigating the
loss of the entire virgin population of Transylvania.
AC
Reynolds High School. NC
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Monologue-Male
or Female |
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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. Can precede any production.
Recent
Productions:
Regina Theatre, Canada
Central College
Indio Performing Arts Center
Bancroft Theatre Guild
GRAPA, Australia
Network Theatre, London
Rialto Theatre, TX
Sauk Theatre, MI
(Read review) |
Male
Monologues |
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Prince
Charming gives the lowdown on his ex-wives Sleeping Beauty,
Snow White and Rapunzel, wicked stepmothers-in-law and the
perils of trying to fulfill every woman's fantasy.
Read
A Review
Read Second Review
Recent Productions:
Freeport Community Players
Theatre On A Shoestring |
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An
insecure and paranoid playwright talks about writing and women
two things he seems to know little about.
Recent
Productions:
Terrace
Little Theatre Co. - Canada |
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1
minute monologue
The trouble with a woman who keeps changing.
(Read
the companion monologue "Dolores On Jeff" further
down this column)
Recent
Productions:
Lemon Bay Playhouse, FLA |
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A
manifesto for men saddled with dorky names.
Recent
Productions:
Terrace Little Theatre Co.- Canada
Freeport Community Players |
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1
minute monologue
A formerly
married man compares single life to a used car. |
Female
Monologues |
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Ophelia
dishes on the royal family while explaining why she has to
marry Hamlet or die
Recent
Productions:
Terrace
Little Theatre Co.- Canada
Mullen High School
North Hennepin College
Network Theatre, London
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A
sexy superhero rants about sexism among the caped crusader
set, her fling with Superman and her non-negotiable demands
for selling her life story to the movies.
Recent
Productions:
Terrace Little Theatre Co.- Canada |
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1
minute monologue
The trouble
with dating a man who's taste in women keeps changing.
Recent
Productions:
Lemon Bay Playhouse, FLA |
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1
minute monologue
A
woman fantasizes about the stranger of her dreams.
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