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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)
"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
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
York Mills Collegiate
Institute, Canada
Carleton College, MN
Nenagh Players, Ireland
Antigonish, NS, Canada
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Finalist
- Macra National Drama Festival,
Ireland
Winner
- East Division
All England Theatre Festival
"Best Comedy"
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 tales of "Sleeping
Beauty" and "Snow White" get rolled into
a 90210 facelift.
Recent
Productions
Rennsalear Polytechnic Inst.
Southend Drama Festival, UK
Bishop Ready High School
Eastern High School, NJ
Canfield High School, OH
Newfound Regional High,
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
Mountbellew, Ireland
North Branch High School
Limerick, Ireland
County Cork, Ireland
Hotchkiss School, CT
Hanford High School, WA
Crown Point High, IN
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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
- "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
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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
Trim Drama Group, Ireland
Vagabond Theatre, Canada
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
Anglo Cypriot Theatre,
Cyprus
Irondale HS, MN
Seaton Town Hall, Devon UK
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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.
"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
Recent Productions
Lansing Civic Theatre
Framingham State College,
MA
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
Sleepy Theatre Company,
Woking, Surrey, England
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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
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.
Virginia Renaissance Faire
Pomona College
Parkway West High, MO
Montgomery Blair High, MD
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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 interacts with the women in the audience as well as
the three 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
U. of British Columbia
Miami High School
Bentley University
Shippensburg University, PA
Trinity Valley School, TX
US Naval Academy
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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.
James Hargest School, NZ
Okotoks, CA
Seaton Town Hall, Devon UK
Alverno College
The Nightingale School,
NY
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Cinderella
and Juliet commiserate about romantic love, happily ever after
and what went wrong with their marriages.
(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
Read
A 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 a">
Eisenhower High School, IL
Lebanese American University, Beirut
Ursuline Academy, New Orleans
Mahtomedi, MNM
Irondale HS, MN
Summerhill Community Centre, Meath, Ireland
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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
Hillsdale High School, CA
Rialto Theatre, TX
U. of Wisconsin, River Falls
Sauk Theatre, MI
Eisenhower High, Yakima. WA
Lompoc Civic Theatre Francis Howell North High School.
MO>
Township Theatre Group, NY
Tochet High School. WA
Township Theatre Group, NY
St. Charles Borromeo Catholic School,
FL |
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- 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.
(10 minute play)
(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
Clinton County Civic Theatre, IN
Mississippi College
Belmont High School, CA
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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
James Hargest School
, NZ
Edmonds-Woodway High
School. WA
Arkansas Tech University
Washington High School,
OH |
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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.
(10 minute play)
(1
Man - 2 Women)
Recent
Productions:
Western Oregon U.
Rialto Theatre, TX
Pasadena City College
Tochet High School. WA
Calgary, Alberta |
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An
egotistical super hero has difficulty consummating a liaison
with the sexy and eager wife of his super hero rival.
Listen
to Deluxe Audio Theatre Production
(10 minute play)
(1
man, 1 woman)
Productions:
Indio Performing Arts Center
Southwestern Oregon College |
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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.
(15 minute play)
(1
male - 2 female voices - 1 male voice)
Boston University
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A
woman, who's recently plunged back into the dating scene,
recalls disastrous encounters with 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)
Productions:
Bancroft Theater Guild
Lakeland College, WI
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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.
Pass
Area Players
Queen Anne's County High School, MD
Pasadena City College
Broughton, UK
(10
minute play)
(1
male - 1 female)
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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 the audience seems to love.
(1
female, 2 males, 1 male or female)
( Running
time approximately 6-7 minutes)
Productions:
Oregon State
U.
Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA.
Dwight-Englewood School - NJ |
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Two
masochists form a romantic relationship based on mutual rejection.
(10 minute 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
Recent
Productions:
West Wave Dance Festival
Coffee Creek Playhouse
Rice University
Trinity College, CT
Broughton Drama Group, UK
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Four
friends participate in a dance of shifting romances, friendships
and betrayals.
(running
time 15-16 minutes)
(One
act comedy -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
Recent Productions
FEATS Festival, Strasbourg, France
Pasadena
City College
Middletown High School
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A
sexy, tough talking female superhero with an inferiority complex,
negotiates the sale of her life story to the movies.
(running time 7-8 minutes)
(1
female, 1 male)
Concord, NH
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A
wife and a mistress want what the other has... until they
get it.
(10 minute
play)
(one
male, two females)
Corcoran High, Syracuse
Thespo Festival, Mumbai |
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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.
(10 minute
play)
(1
male, 1 female)
Productions:
Actors Refuge Repertory Theatre
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An
open marriage almost collapses when the husband admits he
hasn't been sleeping with anyone.
(10
minute play)
(1
male, 1 female)
Recent Productions:
RAF Lyneham Theatre Club
GRAPA, Australia
Stepping Out Theatre Co. (AUS)
The Black Cow Theatre Company - Delhi, India
Rep East Playhouse, Newhall, CA
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High
School
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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
Frankfort Christian Academy, KY
Hudson, Quebec |
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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
Harbour View High School, Canada
(1
male - 1 female) |
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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) |
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Read
first 20 pages
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.
"This
hilarious play had a hip-hop chorus and a riotous cast..."
Louisville Voice Tribune
Listen
to original audio production.
(This is the abridged 35 minute version)
RECENT PRODUCTIONS
Gingerwoods, Prospect KY
Lebanese Theatre, Beirut
Both
the full length script and the abridged version are available
for production. |
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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.
M
YSTERIES
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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
Sayville Players Theatre Laboratory
Harlington, UK
Bedford, United Kingdom
Gordon Tech High School,
Milwaukee
Bedfordshire Drama Festival,
UK
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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
‘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
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
Punches
Hotel, Limerick, Ireland
Palestine High School, OH
Gordon Tech High School,
Milwaukee
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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
North Hardin High
School, KY
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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.
"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
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
Mooresville, NC
Londonderry, Northern Ireland
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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.
It's not easy being the Prince.
Read
A 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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A
manifesto for men saddled with dorky names.
Recent
Productions:
Terrace Little Theatre Co.- Canada
Freeport Community Players |
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
Seaton Town Hall, Devon UK |
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1
minute monologue
A
woman fantasizes about the stranger of her dreams.
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 Justin
Thyme becomes Hard Case, Fictional Detective in these narratives based
on the Justin Thyme plays. Purchase
your copies today in book form or for your Kindle.
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