Full-Length Plays

SYNOPSIS

The setting is a front porch, Autumn, late evening in the Florida panhandle. Fin and Euba are friends and co-workers at a paper mill in Cantonment, Florida. They also share space in a rooming house, which they are desperately trying to escape, due to the tyrannical landlady who has a penchant for strict rules and tacky yard art. Unbeknownst to Euba, Fin submits some of Euba's amateur photos to Life Magazine. Euba receives a reply from Life, but is reluctant to open it for fear or rejection, or worse…acceptance. Fin and Euba sit on the porch drinking, smoking, flicking ashes into a coffee can, and contemplating their lives and their plans for escape.

AWARDS

• BEST PLAY: Strawberry One-Act Festival
• BEST OVERALL PRODUCTION: VTA Community Theatre Festival
• WINNER: University of Maryland Baltimore County 10-Minute Play Festival
• BEST OVERALL PRODUCTION: Maryland One-Act Festival
• BEST OVERALL PRODUCTION: Eastern States One-Act Festival
• 2ND PLACE: Nantucket Short Play Festival
• FINALIST: Impact Theater One-Act Festival
• READING: Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival
• READING: Ensemble Studio Theater Directorfest

SAMPLE

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BUY

The purchase price for a bound copy of Fin and Euba is 4.95 per copy. Royalty fee is $25 per performance.

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SYNOPSIS

Mill Town Girls (Florida gulf coast, circa 1986) explores the earlier lives of the two eponymous characters of Fin and Euba. The play exposes the family dynamics of a lonely Baptist preacher, an eccentric Home Economics teacher, and two strong-willed and struggling young women, learning to come to terms with their lives and prospects. It is intended to be one in a canon of work describing the inhabitants of the small mill town of Cantonment, Florida.

AWARDS

N/A

SAMPLE

MISS V
Ned.

NED
Hmn?

MISS V
I have a serious question for you.

NED
OK.

MISS V
Do you think it's possible that a person could live almost an entire lifetime make-believing like all she ever needed was not much more than God and pretty purses?

(beat)

NED
Come again?

MISS V
How can I put this? Billy Ruthcoe.

NED
Billy Ruthcoe.

MISS V
Two years ago, famous incident, Brother Herbert was guest pastor over at 1st Baptist. Billy Ruthcoe, you remember, got so carried away in the moments just after he was baptized, he just couldn't contain himself and he made like he was climbing out of the water to go and dry off…but instead of doin that, he turned around and came running back and did a full out cannonball into the baptismal font.

NED
You want to do a cannonball into the baptismal font?

MISS V
No. No - yes! Yes, I do! That’s exactly what I want to do.

NED
You want the keys to the church...

(Pause)

MISS V
That is just like a man. I don’t want you to give me the keys to the church Ned. I want you to sit quietly and make all your sandwiches and look up from time to time with a knowing expression and shake your head in agreement or say I know it, I know it... or just maybe listen quietly and when it’s your turn to talk just mirror back to me once in a while what I’ve said, so I can let it go, is that too much to ask?

NED
Couldn’t I just give you the keys...

BUY

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SYNOPSIS

What's not to love about a pasture party? Four high school friends celebrate their 20-year reunion around a bonfire in Stucky's back forty. The tales get taller, the ATV gets a work-out and the girls wonder where in the world it all went wrong.

AWARDS

N/A

SAMPLE

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BUY

The purchase price for a bound copy of Cottonwood is 4.95 per copy. Royalty fee is $25 per performance.

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SYNOPSIS

Max, a successful college science professor, and Albert, a concert pianist, have been out of touch since their abrupt breakup six months ago. When Max sees Albert at the local bakery and contacts him, the professor finds that the pianist has been living in the back room of a local piano store in a mall. They attempt to figure out the wrong turn in their eight-year relationship and the consequences of the professor’s discovery that Max had been cheating with one of his students.

AWARDS

• BEST ACTOR: Northern Virginia One-Act Festival

SAMPLE

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The purchase price for a bound copy of Piano Man is 4.95 per copy. Royalty fee is $25 per performance.

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SYNOPSIS

Marisol, a worn out waitress, and Roberto, a dishwasher, alone in a diner at 1am.

AWARDS

• Winner: Eastern States One-Act Festival 2010
• Winner: Maryland One-Act Festival 2010
• Winner: Silver Spring Stage One-Act Festival 2010
• Finalist: Nantucket New Works Festival 2010
• Finalist: Emerging Artists Theatre EATFest 2010

SAMPLE

MARISOL
Oh, yeah, and that’s another thing. Let’s talk about that. Garrincha. Why do you call me that?

ROBERTO
Is it a problem?

MARISOL
Uh, yeah, it is. The whole kitchen is saying it now, thanks to you.

ROBERTO
Garrincha! The most famous footballer in all of Brazil, aside from Pele of course.

MARISOL
Of course!

ROBERTO
(interrupting)
I call you Garrincha, out of respect. He was a survivor, and so are you.

MARISOL
He died of chirrhosis of the liver! In his fifties.

ROBERTO
How do you know this?

MARISOL
I Googled.

ROBERTO
Googood?

MARISOL
GOOGLED! I don’t like it.

ROBERTO
Bella. This is upsetting to you?

MARISOL
Yes. Yes, it is upsetting to me Roberto.

ROBERTO
If you want me to stop I will stop.

MARISOL
Thank you.

(pause)

ROBERTO
I cannot.

MARISOL
Yes you can.

ROBERTO
No.

MARISOL
Roberto.

ROBERTO
No.

MARISOL
Why not?

ROBERTO
It is how I see you.

MARISOL
As a drunk, middle-aged, dead soccer player?

ROBERTO
Yes-No bella!!!

MARISOL
Then what?

ROBERTO
Two years ago, you come into work, you’re upset, you have a new pair of eh, brown eh... pantelone...eh...trouser. You say to me, Roberto...look at my feet. I say, OK. And I look at them. And you say... do you see anything unusual? I say... No...I see two feet. You say to me, Roberto! Clearly! My left leg is shorter than my right. And I say to you, Marisol, this is ridiculous, your legs, they are the same. And you give me this look in your eye.... (seeing Marisol’s scowling face) That one right there, that’s the one...and you slam down the tray and walk away, and we never speak on it again. But I remember. I keep in my mind. And then it came to me.Garrincha. He was known for his drinking, yes, but more than this, he had the one leg, six centimeter shorter than the next, and still he became a legend.

MARISOL
Are you serious?

ROBERTO
A legend!

MARISOL
OK...as much as I adore that comparison, and I do, I really love that... umn... I am not a legend, Roberto. I am a waitress with a dirty apron and aching feet -

ROBERTO
(overlapping)
Dai! Non dire cazzate.

MARISOL
...and pasta in my hair, Roberto!!! Do you see this?

BUY

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SYNOPSIS

Kendra and Betty are bass fishing in a flat bottom boat in Elmore Cty, Alabama.

AWARDS

• n/a

SAMPLE

BETTY
You could be a mortician. (pause) What?

KENDRA
Mortician?

BETTY
Only because I know how much you like dead people.

KENDRA
What?

BETTY
Yeah, that's how come you watch that show all the time, with the Y incision.

KENDRA
Dr. G. is not a moritican, she is a medical examiner—that's a good one actually, write that down—and I don't watch it for the dead people, I told you that already.

BETTY
Have you got a crush on Dr. G?

KENDRA
(annoyed beyond reason)
JUST WRITE IT DOWN!

BUY

The purchase price for a bound copy of Kendra Loves Betty is 4.95 per copy. Royalty fee is $25 per performance.

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SYNOPSIS

It's Bill's first day of work as an intern in the crazy workroom of a local political campaign, where Gina, an Italian-American mother of four, is having morning sickness and raving about her husband's ineptitudes. Meanwhile, Gerald is holding his breath, hoping for news about a long-awaited adoption possibility for him and his partner.

AWARDS

N/A

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The purchase price for a bound copy of Bill, New Guy is 4.95 per copy. Royalty fee is $25 per performance.

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SYNOPSIS

DAD, in an effort to restore some dignity to his name and to the face of war, hires ED, an embedded reporter to chronical his son's deployment to Operation Spud. Despite DAD's best efforts to stage the moment perfectly, the final “photo of the year” is anything but dignified.

AWARDS

N/A

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The purchase price for a bound copy of Freedom Fries is 4.95 per copy. Royalty fee is $25 per performance.

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SYNOPSIS

After the previous night’s drinking bet goes terribly wrong, Cal is left to stand out on the Main Street Pier in nothing but a Speedo that is two sizes two small. Things go terribly wrong when his Speedo begins to cut off his circulation. Penny is just in time to save the day.

AWARDS

N/A

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The purchase price for a bound copy of Speedo King is 4.95 per copy. Royalty fee is $25 per performance.

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SYNOPSIS

Bob: And then when I saw you in person, I thought... I thought... you looked like some angel... I wanted to... well, I wanted to not fuck it up, basically.

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What remains... after the blow-up...after the break-up... after the storm? A second date proves more than a casual meeting, when Bob and Betty try to make a new start.

AWARDS

• FINALIST: Run of the Mill Theater "Variations on Fear"
• FINALIST: Theater Limina Summer Shorts Festival
• FINALIST: New Jersey Rep's Theatre Brut Festival
• 3RD PLACE: Pregnant Chad New Plays Festival

SAMPLE

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BUY

The purchase price for a bound copy of stuck is 4.95 per copy. Royalty fee is $25 per performance.

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