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  • Lawbreakers - A Fast and Furious History of Women's Suffrage - Diana Grisanti

    Lawbreakers! (a fast and furious history of women’s suffrage)

    Written By: Diana Grisanti
    Length: 60 minutes
    Cast Size: 6-19 actors (suggested casting: 5F, 1M)
    Genre: Comedy
    Synopsis:
    A pair of feuding modern-day stepsisters wake up at the Akron Women's Rights Convention of 1851, and find themselves on a whirlwind journey through US history. As they face the challenges of each time with fascinating suffragists, abolitionists, and freedom fighters like Sojourner Truth and Ida B. Wells, the young women must decide what they really believe and what kind of world they want to stand...
  • Instructions for Hugs - Stage Partners

    Instructions for Hugs

    Written By: Patrick Greene
    Length: 30-35 minutes
    Cast Size: 7-25 actors (suggested casting: 1F, 20 any)
    Genre: Comedy
    Synopsis:
    After isolating at home for what feels like forever, Sunny is finally ready to go out into the world again to see a friend’s play. Except...maybe she’s not. Maybe she has forgotten how to do simple things like smile, and greet a friend, and hug someone. Maybe she should just stay inside on her comfy couch, and eat beef jerky with Brandon, the embodiment of her need to isolate. Fortunately for...
  • It's Vaudeville! - Stage Partners

    It's Vaudeville!

    Written By: Mike Swift
    Length: 30-35 minutes
    Cast Size: 6-17 actors (suggested casting: 2F, 2M, 13 any)
    Genre: Comedy
    Synopsis:
    In this revue-style show in the spirit of American Vaudeville, the laughs keep rolling. Everyone gets a turn in the spotlight when the host Kurt loses his scene partner Rose mid-show. Kurt talks to comics, clowns, doctors, coppers, gangsters, and jokesters of all kinds while looking for Rose. A bawdy, fun play for groups big and small, It’s Vaudeville! brings back the silly wordplay and charm of...
  • The Art of Being Vague - Stage Partners

    The Art of Being Vague

    Written By: Peter Bloedel
    Length: 30-35 minutes
    Cast Size: 10-30 actors (suggested casting: 3F, 4M, 3 any)
    Genre: Comedy
    Synopsis:
    Colby learns from a young age that he can find success by being vague with the people in his life. Colby’s “art" of being vague continues to grow throughout his life as he convinces his classmates he’s cool, persuades an interviewer he’s best for the job, and rises to the top of the top. Although this seemingly fantastic art initially brings him great success, it ultimately comes at the...
  • Refresh: Short Plays for Long Distance - Stage Partners

    Refresh: Short Plays for Long Distance

    Length: Short Play Collection. Each play is 10-20 minutes.
    Cast Size: 10-20 actors (suggested casting: 6F, 5M, 9 any)
    Genre: Dramedy, Comedy, Drama
    Synopsis:
    Building a relationship over a virtual platform can be...difficult. In this collection of short plays written for virtual performance, young theatre makers explore the space that exists between us, our screens, and the person on the other side. Imagine an app that lets you talk to dead people or realize you are a character in a play. That is ending. Very soon. What if you were partnered for an on-...
  • The Pandemic That Didn't Define Them (a monologue play) - Stage Partners

    The Pandemic That Didn't Define Them (a monologue play)

    Written By: Emily Hageman
    Length: 30-80 minutes (Monologues are 5-8 minutes each)
    Cast Size: 4-16 actors (suggested casting: 1F, 15 any)
    Genre: Comedy, Drama
    Synopsis:
    A collection of monologues inspired by the hearts of young people. Each piece feels immediate and intimate as characters wrestle with the timely situations we all face. Some of the monologues are about the pandemic, some aren't, because while our kids lived through a historical event, it's not who they are.
  • Fake News! - Stage Partners

    Fake News!

    Written By: Werner Trieschmann
    Length: 30-40 minutes
    Cast Size: 10-18 actors (suggested casting 5F 4M, 9 any)
    Genre: Comedy
    Synopsis:
    It’s time for another nightly edition of KFKE’s Newstime, your nightly real news leader despite the accusations that KFKE is fake, fake, fake. News anchors Rusty and Sandy serve up only the hottest real news including an interview with an unfrozen cave man, a revealing expose on the mysterious Illuminati, and a prospector mining for gold. Stay tuned for the weatherman, Bob Deepmantan, who clai...
  • Captain Theatre Nerd and the Magnificent Techies

    Captain Theatre Nerd and The Magnificent Techies

    Written By: Jon Jory
    Length: 30-35 minutes
    Cast Size: 15-40 actors (suggested casting: 10F, 10M)
    Genre: Comedy
    Synopsis:
    Let Captain Theatre Nerd take you on a whirlwind tour of the history of theater from ridiculous melodramas to sweeping musicals. Everything on stage happens just as it's supposed to, except when it goes horribly and hilariously wrong. Actors on strike, indecisive directors, wrong cues and costumes... But the show must go on! Right? Leave it to the techies to save the day. 
  • Angela and Angie and Cynthia - Stage Partners

    Angela and Angie and Cynthia

    Written By: Patty MacMullen
    Length: 10-15 minutes
    Cast Size: 3 actors (3F)
    Genre: Dramedy, Comedy
    Synopsis:
    A friendship between three young women is tested in this unexpected play exploring race relations and how some only see what they want to see. This play is part of the short play collection It's Her Say and can be licensed separately or as part of the collection.
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