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The Last Comedienne
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Community Theatre Plays is proud to share these royalty-free play scripts and are looking forward to more entries in the near future. The first is Chris McKerracher's The Last Comedienne.
Special thanks to playwright Sharon Reichert who has generously agreed to add her one act piece, "Inaccurate Conceptions" which is found below.
Performance Details
The Last Comedienne is a one act play for four actors (3F, 1M) with an approximate running time of 35 minutes.
Plot Summary
Three female comics vie for the $100,000 prize in the National Comedienne Joke-Off. Between their 5 minute gigs they share why they do comedy and what the prize would mean to their lives.
Cast
Brock Benton - Master of Ceremonies
Fanny "Granny" Foote - A beloved, long time comic on "the circuit".
Mercedes Ellington - Bitter veteran of the circuit wanting to escape it.
Eleanor Brown - Newcomer to the circuit hoping to jumpstart her comedy career.
Setting and set
Perfect for The Fringe or other festivals, the set consists of just three chairs. The only props needed are a mic and a slice of pizza (optional).
The play is set in modern times somewhere in North America.
Link to The Last Comedienne
Hard Time
All about being there for a friend
Prim PTA secretary-treasurer Lisa and her BFF Carol, out clubbing, get arrested over an altercation and encounter a "lady of the evening" while in jail awaiting bail.
Setting
A female holding cell in the local police station
Cast
Rose: Bitter lady of the evening
Lisa: Housewife out on the town and a wee bit tipsy
Carol: Friend of Lisa. Also tipsy.
Jailer: A bland employee of the jail.
Link
Hard Time Performed by the Springline Radio Players
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The Garage Sale of Amazing Items
A sweet story ideal for every age group
A mysterious elderly woman holds a garage sale which changes the lives of everyone who visits.
Setting
The story takes place in the modern era. The stage has tables set up on either side piled with garage sale items. The play begins with an older woman, Nan, walking up to the garage. She is wearing very old fashioned clothing.
Cast
Nan: An extremely sweet, elderly woman in vintage clothing.
Keith: Rough-hewn. Desperate.
Sally: A young university student
Tessa: Middle-aged woman. Preoccupied.
Peg: Suburban housewife wanting more from her marriage
ary: Peg’s husband trying to do better
The Nature of the Beast
by Chris McKerracher
Great laughs galore in this look at gossip. As four women come and go in a doctor's waiting room, they each talk about the others who are absent.
Cast
All four roles, Pat, Karen, Fran and Alexa are for older adult women.
Set
The set can be as simple as a few chairs and a coffee table or end tables with magazines or as elaborate as a full doctor's waiting room.
Note
You can change the names of the characters in your production if it will appeal more to your target audience for any reason, poling fun at friends, for example!
Inaccurate Conceptions
by Sharon Reichert
Ms. Reichert is an Alberta-based playwright who loves all thngs theatre including writing, acting and directing. She is the recipient of the Best Director award in the 2018 Alberta Drama Festival Association provincial competition.
Story
Four friends (three females and one male) discuss romance, break up and honesty in the new millennium.
Approximate run time is 20 minutes.
Cast
Joanne - Neatral friend
Angela - Owen's girlfriend
Lisa - Interested in Owen
Owen - Wants to dump Angela for Lisa... or does he?
Setting
The play is set in a modern living room in the afternoon.
Suicide Cop
by Gretchen Elhassani
Gretchen Elhassani is a stay-at-home mom of two teenagers living in North Carolina. For most of her life she has been a secretary for non profit education oriented organizations. She is currently helping many wonderful non profits secure grant funding, and helping others achieve their dreams of publication through ghostwriting services.
Her favourite saying, "If I'm not writing, I'm cooking!"
The Suicide Cop Story Line
yanna has a side hustle, she tries to rescue suicidal teens she meets online. Her first week at a new school, Ryanna falls for a girl who is being bullied by an ex-boyfriend. Without hesitation, Ryanna goes all in to rescue Ava from herself."
About the Play
The play is written for high school, but could comfortably be produced by young adult actors. There are 7 female and two male roles.
Themes being explored include LGBTQ issues, teen suicide, and family drama.
Good Benches Good Neighbours
About Olivia Arieti
A US citizen, with a degree from the University of Pisa, Olivia lives in Torre del Lago Puccini, Italy, with her family. Her plays have been published by Heuer Publishing, Brooklyn Publishers, Desert Road Publishing, JAC Publishing & Promotions, Independent Playwrights, Green Room Scripts, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, Drama Note Book, Lazy Bee Scripts, Smith Scripts, Off The Wall Plays. FLIGHT ATP12 was produced by Gulfport Community Players, FL, JUST FOR YOU, by Blue Box Productions, NYC, CONTEMPTUOUSLY IN LOVE, by Ciona Taylor Productions, NYC; her one minute works by Gi60 Screaming Media Productions NYC, UK, Spare Change Theatre, NYC and Eclectic Theatre Company, FL. UP NORTE and NIGHT INTRUDERS, finalists in the R.J. Flores Short Play Reading Series had staged readings in NYC. THE TEACHER, an adaptation of A. Chekhov’s story, “The Teacher of Literature”, was produced at the Viaduct Theatre, Chicago, for the Neapolitans’ Off-Chekhov Festival. SOMETHING IN COMMON was produced by Spokane Radio Theatre, WA. UBU EMPEROR appeared in mgv2_78/ubu/10_14, AWOL, Soldiers Art Academy, London, 2021.
Her poems and short stories have appeared in several literary magazines and anthologies in the USA,UK, AU.
The Crimson Cap Ladies Men's Night
A Zoom Play in One Act by Chris McKerracher
The Crimson Cap Ladies are shaking up their Official Outings with their first Men's Night.
This play is available in two versions. The first features four male and four female roles while the second offers roles for 6 women and four men.