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SEIZE THE CROWN – A COMEDY ABOUT COMMUNITY THEATRE

Had the local Theatre Group spent as much time rehearsing (in this comedy about community theatre) as they did:

- Arguing about their last performance
- What their next play should be
- If their director, Joyce, is living in luxury
- Discussing Ted (the resident clown) and why he’s even in the Group
- Taking way too may breaks
- Fawning over their newest member (Rita’s) experience and training
- Discussing Rita’s dad who’s in jail
- Contemplating bowel movements
- Mocking the name of the new play they’d be performing
- Quarrelling over the stage directions involving a love scene
- Gossiping over Tim’s operation on his, uh, member
- Arguing over who won’t be playing the gay character and
- Considering a change in leadership
……they would have had the time to really pay attention to Game of Thrones and they would have seen Rita coming (figuratively). And for that matter, they would have seen her brother Colin, coming too (literally). Tourettes or not Colin had a point to make and in a game like this, he had to make it.
You want a dramatic exit? You’ve got one!
Author: Toby Hill
Type: Two-act comedy play
Genre: Comedy about community theatre
Cast: Ensemble cast 7F, 6M
Ages of the actors: Various. All adult. From 19 – 60 years of age
Suitable for: Adults only to perform and watch
Length: Sixty minutes
Set: A rehearsal room, actually an empty restaurant with chairs arranged around tables. The Theatre Group have collected a dozen chairs together to form a meeting point.
Level of difficulty: 7/10 – it is a comedy but there is a buildup of tension toward the end of the play that needs to be conveyed across
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Like this play? Other British full length comedies for you to peruse:
A Queen and three slaves. British farce with Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and three very Essex slaves
Holiday Island – British comedy about typical holidaymakers

LOVELY TO LOOK AT – COMEDY ABOUT COMMUNITY THEATRE

In community theatre, every actor is the star of the show… or rather every actor has convinced themself of this ‘fact’. In Lovely to Look At, a comedy about community theatre, poor Marvin, the director, has to deal with the egos, the ‘I’m better than these community theatre amateurs’ nonsense and general ‘joy’ that actors drag with them onto every, single production. It’s supposed to be the first rehearsal: the rehearsal that sets the tone, the beginning of a beautiful thing, the match that sets the world on fire but for the last twenty minutes there has been zero rehearsing. Zero. None. Nada.

No doubt creative juices have flown but it seems all the actors have committed to a session of fake discoveries over the phone (Leandra) boozing (Leandra, primarily) and getting fired and rehired in less than five minutes (you got it: Leandra once more). Alright so when it comes to this production, Leandra is the problem but it soon becomes clear that she may lead the way to the solution and embody it (the way that only an actress can) soon enough.

An actor’s work is never finished but your patience may be.

Lovely to look at won a playwriting competition at STAGE LEFT (Salida, Colorado) and was produced by Stage Left in 2016. Read other plays – Nietzche’s nose – comedy about a dysfunctional family by playwright George Freek.

Author: George Freek

Type: One act comedy

Genre: Comedy about community theatre

Cast: 2M, 4F

Ages of the actors: Twenties to Forties

Suitable for: Teens up

Length: Thirty to forty minutes

Set: Marvin’s home – a living room with sofa, coffee table, chairs. A door to the left is an entranceway, and one to the right leads to bedrooms, a washroom, etc. There is a portable bar, near rear center

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – characterization.

Like this play? Other plays about community theatre:

He’s Behind You – a community theatre whodunit comedy
Foulweather friend – two act dark comedy about resurrecting the dead so they can be your audience for your community theatre show!
The Safety officer – one act comedy about a community theatre show going wrong in a very bad way