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script about marrying outside your culture

IRISH JACK – FAMILY COMEDY-DRAMA SCRIPT ABOUT MARRYING OUTSIDE YOUR CULTURE

It was an evening like any other in the Goldberg household as Papa, Momma, Gram, and the children, Joe and Miriam, settled down to eat their supper. Papa was his usual content self, Momma cooked an
outstanding meal as always, Gram was as curious and as talkative as ever and the kids were taunting each other as per the norm. Then Joe got up from the table, a few seconds after he had just sat down.
He told Papa he was going to quickly grab some cigarettes. He told Momma he would be right back.

He never returned. Three years later his family discovers that he is alive, well and performing as an Irish comedian. Joe Goldberg (Jewish Joseph Goldberg) is posing as an Irishman. They cannot believe it.

In this drama, with but seven scenes, the Goldberg’s must come to terms with the loss of their child who is far from dead, the acceptance of things foreign to them but a part of his identity and a new meaning to the word
family.

This is Irish Jack O’ Reilly; lost but not wandering in this family comedy – drama script.

Performance History

Battle Lake School, MN, USA – 2016

Author: Tim Brown

Genre: Comedy- drama play script about marrying outside your culture

Cast: 4M 5F

Ages of the actors: Young couple up to grandparent age

Suitable for: All ages

Length: Thirty five minutes

Set: The living and dinning rooms in the Goldberg apartment
The Four Clover nightclub. Time 1955.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – actors must achieve tension of family conflict realistically

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Copyright © June 2016 Tim Brown and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other cultural family dramas for you to enjoy:

Memory Palace – family drama about a beloved family home being sold and the memories it contains
Family exercise – short family drama in free verse
The Scepter has departed – Drama around the wars in this wars

Comedies, One act plays

Squawk – thirty minute comedy script

June 1, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

THIRTY MINUTE COMEDY SCRIPT

SQUAWK – THIRTY MINUTE COMEDY SCRIPT

In this thirty minute comedy script, Patience Warriner is trapped in a recurring dream that she cannot escape. What is real ? She doesn’t know anymore, but the one constant thing is her hatred of the seagulls who continually inhabit her area and whose squawking, excreting presence regularly sets off her car alarm, wakes her up and drives her to the brink of insanity, or perhaps even beyond it ? The play is set on a night where she is awoken, yet again, by squawking seagulls, while her younger partner Albert sleeps like a baby. As the car alarm goes off she is so angry she storms outside and, from noises heard, it is obvious that she has thrown a stone at them and a gull has dropped from the sky, landing on her car, setting her alarm back off. Patience comes back in, sheepishly climbs back into bed and in no time the bedroom is an Avian Court of Law, and she is on trial for the unlawful killing of Sidney the Seagull.

She then wakes up to find herself back in the normal world. But was it a dream? When she comes home the next day to find her partner is having an affair and the same seagulls return to her flat as well, everything becomes a lot weirder. An off beat comedy that’s ‘for the birds!’

Squawk was runner-up at the 2015 Somerset Drama Fellowship Original Play writing Competition.

PERFORMANCE HISTORY

Players on The Isle of Lewis, UK – 2018
Bold as Brass Productions, Stoke on Trent, UK – 2020

Author: Troy Banyan

Type: One act play

Genre: Thirty minute comedy script

Length: 30-35 minutes

Cast: 3M 3F (one of the M parts is a voiceover only)

Ages of the actors: Adult, from young to fifty something

Suitable for: All ages

Set: The set is a simple one. It is a bedroom with a double bed – preferably with metal head and foot boards – running from centre back to mid centre stage. Downstage left is the door that leads into the rest of the bungalow. Upstage left is a door that leads into ALBERT’S walk-in wardrobe. In between this door and the left side of the bed is his bedside table. Downstage right is a door that leads into the en suite bathroom. Upstage right is a door that leads into PATIENCE’S walk-in wardrobe. In between this door and the right side of the bed is her table, with mirror at its back. In the wall behind this table is the curtained window.

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – the actors play multiple parts including birds so would need to be good physical comedians.

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Copyright © June 2016 Troy Banyan and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other Off Beat Comedies you may enjoy:

In the Drink – offbeat comedy for 1M 1F – it’s all in the drink, dahling!
What’s on your mind? A comedy of the absurd
The Heirs – British comedy about the bizarre final wishes of a dying old lady

Comedies, One act plays

Street Theatre – ten minute comedy for three actors

May 26, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

STREET THEATRE – TEN MINUTE COMEDY FOR THREE ACTORS

Picture it: A cafe and a typical couple sitting at a table waiting to be served. A beleaguered and bored waitress who wants to take their order. Sounds pretty normal, right? Well – she’s (the female half of the couple) just been to improv theater class and the cafe is about to become her new stage, much to the astonishment of the other diners, the embarrassment of her partner and the confusion of the waitress in this ten minute comedy.

Read about playwright Morley Shulman. Other best selling comedies (Naked – one act comedy about the pitfalls of internet dating) by Morley.

Production History

Seattle Pacific University, USA – 2016
Menomonie High School, WI, USA – 2016
Gnosall Players, Staffordshire, UK – 2017
Bethel University, TN, USA – 2017
North Carolina Central University, NC, USA – 2021
Dudley College, United Kingdom – 2022
Nicolet High School, WI, USA – 2023

Type: Ten minute comedy

Genre: Comedy

Cast: 1M 2F

Ages of the actors: The couple is in their late twenties, the waitress can be of any age.

Suitable for: All ages

Length: Ten minutes

Set: A typical cafe with a table and chairs for two and menus

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – a fun easy ten minute play that audiences will enjoy

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Copyright © May 2016 Morley Shulman and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other ten minute comedies for you to enjoy:

Hossback – a satire with cowboys in the Old West
Yoo Hoo, Mister Solomon – ten minute comedy script for two older people
Holiday Shorts – collection of ten minute plays for the holidays

Children's, Comedies, Skits, Teens

Launching a Kid’s Comedy Club – book of skits

May 13, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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LAUNCHING A KID’S COMEDY CLUB – BOOK OF SKITS

Launching a Kid’s Comedy Club is a full length book that not only contains over 100 pages of skits for you to enjoy and act out, but also step by step instructions for just about anything related to drama and kids. From how to make basic costumes and props, including useful links, to how to video and use movie maker to edit your videos, how to write your own skits, how to act out skits as well as how to launch a kid’s comedy club! (Obviously)

Each skit comes with a basic props list (with easy to find things you have at home or can easily make) and stage directions and most of the skits are written for a few actors at a time, so that everyone involved can take part.

Written by one of our bestselling skit writers, Lois Corcoran, this book is great for those who are just looking for a set of skits to perform at their club, church group or school, and also for those people more into drama, props and script writing.

Because this is actually a whole book and not a script, it will be available in digital format as usual, but can also be ordered as a printed version for your bookshelf.
All profits from this book will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Included in the book:

Airport Insecurity

Are We There Yet?

Belly and the Beast

Cinder-Smella

Doctor Duplicate

Dr. Joker & Mr. Hide-and-Seek

Face-blech Skit

Freezin’

Froggy Prince

Geezer of Oz

Genie Skit

Grin-Smoke

Hairy Plumber

Hiding

Jack and the Beano

Juleo & Romiet

Law Firm Commercial

Little Shack in the Back

Nasty Drew

One Hot Knight

Orphan Antsy

Prince and the Poor Schmuck

Ripe Van Wrinkle

Rob-and-hide

Robinson Clueless

Santa Skit

Sure-thing Homes

Snow Bank and Some Vertically Challenged People

Start Wreck

Tame Sawyer

Tar-zit

Tex Mex

Thanksgiving Skit

Three Little Hogs

Time Machine

Wheel Make a Fortune

Wrinkle-Stilson

MINI-PLAY – Chronicles of Blarnia

Author: Lois Corcoran

Type: Book of skits

Genre: ”How to” books, comedies, skits, drama club

Length: Each skit in the book is about 3-4 minutes long and there is one longer play in four scenes, which is about 10 minutes long. There are 100 pages of skits and the rest of the book is instructional.

Suitable for: Kids (children), teenagers, drama class, drama teachers, schools, church groups, scouts and family gatherings.

Read an example of one of the skits, Orphan Antsy

Excerpt from the book – giving kids the confidence to act with Ice Breakers

Excerpt from book about basic costumes and home made props

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Buy the 200 page printed book for How to Launch a Kid’s Comedy Club for $24.95 (shipping not included)

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Copyright © 2016 Lois Corcoran

Read some of out other skits by Lois:

Call of the Riled – short skit for Thanksgiving
One fine day in the operating room – medical skit
Handsome and Griddle

Comedies, One act plays

Matter Matters – ten minute comedy for two actors

May 1, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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MATTER MATTERS – TEN MINUTE COMEDY FOR TWO ACTORS

In this ten minute comedy for two actors, desperate to defeat a playwriting deadline, the team of Hugh and Emma strike terror in their own hearts to get the creative juices flowing again. When these two writers strike or take meetings, they sharpen their pencil wits over which stories are tried-and-true and those that can’t miss. If that doesn’t work, they risk banter whilst barely remembering how to fly a biplane.

Read about playwright James Kent. Other ten minute plays (Why shoot your husband?) by James Kent.

PERFORMANCE HISTORY

Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA – 2016

Author: James Kent

Genre: Ten minute comedy for two actors

Type: Ten minute plays

Cast: 1M 1F – two actors

Ages of the actors: Late twenties to forties

Suitable for: All ages

Length: Ten minutes

Set: Black box theatre. An image of a biplane projected at the back is an additional extra to aid the audience understand what is happening

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – the script is easy but there is a lot of physical comedy that goes with it.

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Copyright © May 2016 James Kent and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other ten minute comedies of a similar Off the wall genre for you to enjoy:

Hossback – an off the wall cowboy comedy
The Dane – ten minute comedy about an audition for Hamlet
Odin Visits Christ – short comedy for people who like to see the funny side of religion

Comedies, One act plays

The Coming of Jed Crest – one act British plays

April 18, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

THE COMING OF JED CREST – ONE ACT BRITISH PLAYS

Oh! The possibilities of believing everything you hear!

Let him who hath understanding reckon the word of the Lord: that the Second Coming shall reveal the fate of the world. The fate of the world will lie in the hands of the One born of a mildly successful rock star and she who runs a cafe.

Foretold by the papers that yellow and recounted by a customer who is not the most generous in his consistent purchases of a cup of tea, Kerry could not be bothered by Colin’s story of the day, in this one-act play… until she hears of the link between her mother, Pat and a man known as Jed Crest. In less than thirty minutes, Kerry discovers the wonder of hearing an unbelievable story whose elements are so incredible that to believe them would be confirmation that she’s mental and at the same time perfectly sane.

After all, a casual conversation has eliminated the notion that Kerry is just a girl who works in a cafe as one who might actually be an integral part of the Second Coming and could very well be the Second Coming itself.

Other plays – Behind the nets – a period drama, by author Peter Pitt.

Author: Peter Pitt

Type: One act British Plays

Genre: British comedy

Length: 25 minutes

Cast: 3M 3F

Ages of the actors: Four in their fifties to sixties, one in her forties and one in her twenties

Suitable for: All ages

Set: An old fashioned café. A door opens on to the street, and there’s another exit, to the kitchen, behind a serving counter. The shop window and door are partly covered with curtains.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – characterization

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Copyright © April 2016 Peter Pitt and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other one acts we thought you’d enjoy:

For Never, not always – comedy about your almost husband dumping you at the altar – for the best man.
Waiting – the battle to get to the toilet in the long long queue goes intergalatic!
Am I good, a lovely comedy for 2F and 1M about a teenage boy and his older attractive neighbour who accidentally gets her dress stuck in her tights

Comedies, One act plays

Well I never – comedy sketch for three women

April 9, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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WELL I NEVER – COMEDY SKETCH FOR THREE WOMEN

In this comedy sketch for three women, two gossiping busybodies sit in a cafe discussing the recent and tragic passing of a man they both knew. In between glasses of wine and them talking, his character, which basically started out as close to angelic, is torn to shreds as they natter on. But the two busybodies don’t even have a clue what they are doing to the poor dead man’s reputation. A funny sketch for two older woman and 1N (waitress/waiter.)

Read more about playwright Keith Passmore. Other plays Deliverance – play about Joan of Arc by Keith.

Production History

The Music Hall Society, Cambridgeshire, UK – 2016
Mad on Main, SK, Canada – 2018
Ingham Theatre Group, Queensland, Australia – 2018

Author: Keith Passmore

Type: Sketch, short one act comedy script

Genre: Comedy sketch for three women

Cast: 3F but could be done with 2F 1M

Ages of the actors: Two middle aged to older ladies and one any age

Suitable for: All ages

Length: 7 minutes, seven minutes long

Set: A restaurant or cafe with a table and chairs

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – easy funny sketch

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Copyright © April 2016 Keith Passmore and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other short comedy sketches for you to enjoy:

Bob – minute comedy sketch about an ignoramus in an art gallery
Read about it – comedy sketch about two middle aged people meeting at a bus stop
Ye’ll vote for me – short Irish political skit

Comedies, Plays in 2 acts

Moose tracks – a dark comedy script

April 6, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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MOOSE TRACKS – A DARK COMEDY SCRIPT

Skyler Pressman is bringing her new boyfriend Johnny to meet her grandparents, who raised her like a daughter. The only thing Skyler forgot to mention to Johnny was that he is actually “Boyfriend #9” and that the other eight ex-boyfriends disappeared under mysterious circumstances just after meeting Skyler’s overly-protective grandfather Harvey, the retired dentist and outdoor enthusiast/hunter. Can Johnny win the approval of Harvey before the night is over or will his head end up as just another trophy on the wall, right next to a peculiar moose? Find out in Moose Tracks, the new comedy adventure by Mark Aloysius Kenneally.

Moose tracks received an honorable mention in the 2015 McLaren Memorial Comedy Play Writing Competition.

Moose Tracks was recently performed by the Rosetown Community Theatre. See production pics and read a little more about the production.

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

George Westinghouse College Prep, IL, USA – 2018
Cisco College, TX, USA – 2021
Clarinda High School, IA, USA – 2022

Read about playwright Mark Kenneally. Other plays (Ribbit – a comedy about a teenage girl looking for a real life prince) by Mark.

Author: Mark Keneally

Genre: Dark comedy script

Type: Two act dark comedy

Length: 120 minutes (Two hours)

Cast: 3F 2M and a moose

Ages of the actors: Three older actors, two in their twenties and the voice of the moose

Suitable for: All ages

Set: Three room set: a dining room stage right, a living room next to it center stage and an office next to that stage left in a lavish, overly-ritzy, yet extremely old-fashioned mansion. A car is also needed, but can be imagined.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – fun play with nice characters

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Copyright © April 2016 Mark Kenneally and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Other full length dark and zany comedies on Off The Wall Plays:

Death’s no laughing matter – comedy about an actress who strikes a bargain with death
Pirate appreciation day – comedy script about moderrn day pirrates. Arrgh!
The Heirs – British comedy script about a dead old gal and her will that spites everybody

Comedies, One act plays

The Dane – ten minute comedy plays

March 28, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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THE DANE – TEN MINUTE COMEDY PLAYS

Two stuck up veteran actors are waiting for the final audition for the part of Hamlet. They are waiting on a third actor, who just happens to be the young handsome lead for a well known local medical drama. When he arrives, it becomes apparent that the young actor actually knows very little about Shakespeare (But he did some in high school.) At first, the the two veterans are not amused, but then they decide to mess with him, thinking that he would never get the part, being so unskilled. However, their plans go awry when it turns out that the director plans to give the part to the handsome young actor in spite of all that, because he thinks it will attract an audience. And that on top of that, he wants them to help the young actor get the part.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Reading School, Reading, United Kingdom – 2017
Massanutten Military Academy, VA, USA – 2017
Waukee High School, Friday Night Live, IA, USA – 2017
Green Place Theatre Company, Glasgow, Scotland, UK – 2018
The College of William and Mary, VA, USA – 2019
JFed Players Community Theatre Ensemble, CA, USA – 2021

Author: James O’Sullivan

Type: Ten minute comedy plays

Genre: One act comedy script

Cast: Written for 4M but can be 3M 1F

Ages of the actors: 2 middle aged, one young, 1 any age

Suitable for: All ages

Length: Ten minutes

Set: Three chairs are required

Level of difficulty: 5/10 – a funny, easy play that plays on characterization

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Copyright © March 2016 James O’Sullivan and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other ten minute comedies:

Barred – short one act play about drunk people outside a bar
Gray matters – monologue by the guy who runs your brain for you
Insurance on the line – ten minute comedy scripts

Comedies, Plays in three acts

The Heirs – British comedy script

March 25, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

THE HEIRS – BRITISH COMEDY SCRIPT

Margaret Hubbard is rich; painfully and decadently rich. Mrs. Hubbard is also dead and according to her will she is determined to drive her husband crazy (one last, exquisite time) with a to-do list that would have him claim the will’s contents only upon the doings on the list being completed. In fact, the rest of those on the receiving end of said will (who are interestingly enough mostly Hubbard
Manors’ staff) may only receive their inheritance should Mr. Hubbard succeed. This is a story we have seen time and again: what adversity can teach the hero about themselves, when they commit to taking on the challenge and the tricky consequences thereof. It’s a story about our hero, Jeremy Hubbard, husband to a recently deceased dragon and how he endeavours to fulfil his destiny and
claim what is ‘rightfully’ his – a temptingly sumptuous inheritance, of course. Our hero faces the dragon beyond the grave with the help of the staff and the fire-breathing lizard’s lawyer. And the
lesson? It begins and ends as the story does; with insatiability.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Wabash Area Community Theatre, IN, USA – 2017

Read about playwright Jean Blasiar. Other comedies (Am I good?) by Jean.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Genre: British Comedy Script

Type: Four act play

Cast: 2F 4M (mains)

Ages of the actors: Adult – all ages

Suitable for: All ages

Length: Two and a half to three hours

Set: A room with a high ceiling and one large window without curtains. A coffin stands in the room. The coffin is then removed at the scene change to make way for a coffee table with chairs, some bookshelves and decorations such as potted plants.

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – length. With four acts it is up to the director’s discretion if they allow interval between acts, however this play has had a successful run.

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Copyright © March 2016 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other full length zany and British comedies:

Holiday island – comedy about a bunch of typical British holiday makers
Murder and other fun things – off the wall whodunit
Don’t say you’re Harry – farce in two acts

Comedies, One act plays

Nothing personal, just business – funny one act script

March 20, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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NOTHING PERSONAL, JUST BUSINESS – FUNNY ONE ACT SCRIPT

In this funny one act script for eight actors, Reginald Forester, billionaire lives the life others only dream about. He has a faithful wife, a beautiful young daughter, an affair on the side and a house boy who works for him without having to pay him a cent because of a debt his father owed him. He seems to have it all. Except for the fact that his wife is actually a raving alcoholic, his affair is in reality a paid hooker and his daughter is having an illicit affair with the house boy and plans to spend the rest of her life with him, instead of the very wealthy man her father has chosen for her.

Things all start to unravel after a seemingly innocent poker game in which Reginald lets a secret slip out – the fact that he has lied to his houseboy for years about the debt and that he owes him nothing, and has in fact been ripping him off for years. His reason – it’s nothing personal of course, just business.

Production History:

The Little Seed Theatre Company, Queensland, Australia – 2016

Read other one act comedies (The Mayhem Motel) by Landen Swain.

Author: Landen Swain

Genre: Funny one act script

Type: One act play

Length: 30-40 minutes

Cast: Eight actors, 5M 3F

Ages of the actors: Two in their twenties, parents middle aged, small parts any adult age

Suitable for: All ages

Set: The sitting room in an elegant house

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – timing

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Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about Nothing Personal, Just Business

Like this play? Other funny one act comedies for a medium cast:

A cut above the rest – farce in one act
Over my dead body – award winner about two ghosts who won’t be evicted
You do what you can – parody on Macbeth

Comedies, Crime, Plays in 2 acts

Human Rat Lab – Hit Comedy Script about an Unconventional Private Eye

February 28, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

HUMAN RAT LAB – HIT COMEDY SCRIPT ABOUT AN UNCONVENTIONAL PRIVATE EYE

Extorting big business? Yes! Writing ‘them’ a damning blackmail letter? Of course!
Demanding hundreds of thousands from this ‘seedy’ corporation? Naturally, it should be easy. But that is not the case when Valerie Ann Bennett, head of said company, hires a
private detective to find the culprit before he brings her pharmaceutical empire down to its knees. Unconventional, unconvincing, and un- everything really, Charles Picket would not be
Ms. Bennett’s first choice for a P.I. were it not for the discretion he organically provides.
Throw in his cleaner, and a struggling stuttering actor as his associates and this case looks like it could very well implode in Ms. Bennett’s face. In fact it does indeed implode. But not
in a way she ever suspected in this hilarious hit comedy script.

Human Rat Lab has had a successful run and received rave reviews in France. This is a burlesque comedy in the lines of Lucille Ball and Jerry Lewis in their best days.

“You have a staggeringly good ear for dialogue. The words fairly crack along. And you have a good eye/mind for the “memorable scene” – I mean things like the marvellous Spanish nurse scene, and the crazy Viagra fuelled scene.” – Robert Jarman, Co-founder and director of Hobart’s highly successful Blue Cow Theatre and recipiendary of the Federation Medal for his services to Performing Arts in 2002.

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

Playmasters Theatre-workshop, PA, USA – 2018

Read about author Bruno Lacroix. Other comedies (Lofty Larceny – a two act comedic farce) by Bruno. Bruno Lacroix is a member of the playwright’s guild of Canada.

HUMAN RAT LAB – HILARIOUS COMEDY SCRIPTS

Author: Bruno Lacroix

Type: Two-act comedy

Genre: Hilarious hit comedy script

Cast: 2M 2F

Ages of the actors: Adult actors

Suitable for: Suitable for all ages

Length: 90 minutes long

Set: A private detective’s office. On the garden side (stage left), there is a door that opens into a kitchenette. The main entrance is in the middle. On the hallway side (stage right), there is a window, and a bathroom door.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – character driven script

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Like this play? Other crime scripts for you to enjoy:

Ralph – a one act funny whodunit
The Investigation – award winning drama whodunit
The mysterious death of Christine Wilde

Comedies, One act plays, Teens

Awaiting Patients – comedy for high school festivals

February 24, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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AWAITING PATIENTS – COMEDY FOR HIGH SCHOOL FESTIVALS SET IN THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE

It’s a typical evening in the local doctor’s office and the reception is packed full to the brim with the its share of typical (and atypical) patients. There’s the heavily pregnant lady, demanding Nutella and cantaloupes, her flustered fiance, the seventy seven year old guy who just wants to find the bathroom, the suburban housewife and off course, the local oddball, Tom, who has made it his duty to hit on the air headed receptionist.

There’s only one thing missing and that’s “Cartwright,” the next patient on the doctor’s list. Company policy dictates that the doctor has to wait for any patient that is running late for up to an hour. And so the doctor waits. As does everybody else stuck behind him in the queue.

Tensions and frustrations run high in this off beat comedy by Chris Cartwright. ‘Awaiting Patients’ first premiered at Eastview High School in Apple Valley, MN. It opened on May 23rd, 2014 and was directed by Christopher Cartwright.

Further Performance History

Socastee High School, SC, USA, 2016
Fulton High School, IL, USA – 2016
New Hampshire Festival – Kearsage Regional High School, USA – 2017
Holy Rosary Convent, Johannesburg, South Africa – 2017
Jefferson High School, OR, USA – 2017
Stagefright Drama Group, Jersey, United Kingdom – 2017
Hermitage High School, VA, USA – 2017
Simsbury High School, CT, USA – 2017
Golden Windmill Historical Society, IL, USA – 2018
St. Stephen High School, NB, Canada – 2018
British International College, Bryanston, South Africa – 2018
Little Rock Christian Academy, AR, USA – 2018
Nairobi Institute of Music and Performing Arts – Nairobi, Kenya – 2019
Agoura High School – CA, USA – 2020
Snowy Mountains Grammar School, New South Wales, Australia – 2020
T.C. Williams High School, VA, USA – 2021
Bishop Chatard High School, IN, USA – 2021
Bishop England High School, SC, USA – 2022
Farmington High School, UT, USA – 2022
Conotton Valley Union Local Schools, OH, USA – 2022
Holy Rosary Convent, EDENVALE, SOUTH AFRICA – 2022
Indianola High School Theatre Department, IN, USA – 2022

Author: Christopher Cartwright

Genre: Comedy for high school festivals

Type: One act play

Cast: Cast of 8. 3F, 3M, 2N (one is a one liner part)

Suitable for: High school drama festivals

Length: 40 minutes

Set: A small waiting room in a doctor’s office. This is your typical
waiting room – chairs placed uncomfortably close together, end tables with obviously fake plants, etc. There is a receptionist’s desk upstage right and a door upstage center next to the desk.

Level of difficulty: 6/10

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Contact Off the Wall Plays with any queries about Awaiting Patients

Like this play? Other off beat one acts suitable for high school performance:

If God ate fried chicken – one act comedy script
Thank you for shopping Hoochum’s Bargain basement – funny thriller script
The game of life – one act for 6 actors

Comedies, Crime, Plays in three acts

Murder and other fun things – off the wall whodunit play script

February 21, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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MURDER AND OTHER FUN THINGS – OFF THE WALL WHODUNIT PLAY SCRIPT

Murder is the mischief in this grand tale, when a burglar wanders into the Von Cash household but does not make it out alive (lucky for him if you ask me). The butler, the chef, the gardener, the maid,
the clairvoyant and even the madam of the house, Ms. Chattel Von Cash herself (an outrage if you ask her, darling), are all suspects when Detective Schenectady takes it upon himself (poor
unsuspecting sod) to investigate the case.

Old money meets new money madness as the detective discovers this will not be a routine examination of the events of this one day. From the body popping up in different locations within the house itself, to the chef insisting upon using it as his next main ingredient, Schenectady has to defy the amazing obstacles set before him by the extreme
personalities who run the Von Cash mansion. When the culprit is exposed, all hell not so muchbreaks loose, as explodes into something Von Cash would dread to see on her carpet, darling.

Truth will out! But don’t expect to love the consequences, darling.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Badhuis Theater, Almere, Netherlands – 2023

Author: Geoffrey Stoddard

Genre: Off The Wall Whodunit play script, comedy

Type: Three act play

Cast: 4M 3F

Ages of the actors: Adult

Suitable for: All ages

Length: 3 hours

Set: Changes with the acts.

Act one: A living room. Center stage sits a couch with a coffee table before it. Right center is a small round table with two chairs on either side of it. Up right is a tall bar.

Act two: Operating Room. A table sits in the middle of the room horizontally with a body upon it, face up, the head on the right end.

Act three: Living room

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – the length of the play.

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All in the past – murder mystery play set in 1930’s Shanghai
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Comedies, Skits

One fine day in the operating room – short medical skit

February 14, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

short medical skit

ONE FINE DAY IN THE OPERATING ROOM – SHORT MEDICAL SKIT

In this short medical skit, set in the operating room, a team of incompetent medical staff including a surgeon, nurse and anesthesiologist and of course the unfortunate patient are being filmed for a brand new live television show, “Operation TV. ” Although viewers are warned that the show may be a bit ‘too intense’ for some people, it seems that operation TV is a success because no one likes watching a doc mess up more than a live TV audience.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A VERY SHORT SKIT AND THE WHOLE SCRIPT IS JUST 1 PAGE LONGER THAN THE SAMPLE SCRIPT

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Orchard Valley Middle School, NJ, USA – 2019

Read about playwrights Lois and Kelly Corcoran. Other skits ( Disharmony commerical) by Lois and Kelly.

Author: Lois and Kelly Corcoran

Genre: Short medical skit

Type: Skit

Cast: 2M 1F 2N

Ages of the actors: Any age

Suitable for: All ages

Length: 3-4 minutes

Set: An operating room. A table for the patient to lie on is a minimum. Some normal tools – hammer, screwdriver are needed.