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A Smell of Burning

A Smell of Burning

2 Male, 1 Female

David Campton Published by Dramatists Play Service

  A married couple sit at the breakfast table, clucking over bits of gossip in the newspaper and bickering about whether the eggs are properly done In the distance, explosions are heard, and then…

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A Sometime Thing

A Sometime Thing

2 Male, 1 Female

James Lineberger Published by Samuel French Inc

Ed encourages the affections of the widow, Emma, only to steal her savings. It helps that Emma is attracted to his young son, Eddie who doesn’t know his father is a thief When Emma catches Ed trying…

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A Storm In the Dorm

A Storm In the Dorm

2 Male, 9 Female

J.D. Drake Published by Baker's Plays

    It is 2:00 A.M. in a college campus somewhere in a quiet, peaceful college town But it doesn’t remain peaceful and quiet for long when a reluctant groom-to-be and his not too helpful…

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A Storm Is Breaking

A Storm Is Breaking

1 Male, 1 Female

Jim Damico Published by Samuel French Inc

This is a portrait of a boy who has been following an ant along the sidewalk for several hours. It is a picture that is hard to put out of your mind, and its intimations leave lasting thoughts The boy…

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A Story of Chelm

A Story of Chelm

Large Mixed Cast

Linda Gaye Shapiro Published by Samuel French Inc

When some heavenly machinery malfunctions, half a bag of foolish souls is dropped in the town of Chelm, in this one act comedy They come to life and become obsessed with raising money to build a bathhouse…

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A Tantalizing

A Tantalizing

1 Male, 1 Female

William Mastrosimone Published by Samuel French Inc

This intriguing mystery by the author of The Woolgatherer is about the attempts of a young woman to save a tattered and crazy old man she has dragged in off the street Like Rose in The Woolgatherer, she…

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A Way With Words & One-Act Plays

A Way With Words & One-Act Plays

2 Male, 2 Female

Frank D Gilroy Published by Samuel French Inc

A Way With Words - M2,F1 Life long friends, a writer and an accountant, meet for lunch once a year when the writer visits New York. The writer always asks how the accountant's wife is and he always replies…

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A Young Lady of Property & Six Other Short Plays - The Dancers & The Old Beginning & John Turner Davis & The Death of the Old Man & The Oil Well

A Young Lady of Property & Six Other Short Plays - The Dancers & The Old Beginning & John Turner Davis & The Death of the Old Man & The Oil Well

Horton Foote Published by Dramatists Play Service

In A Young Lady of Property Wilma, a lonely girl of fifteen, lives with her aunt. Her mother is dead, and her father, who is weak and not too reliable, goes out with a Mrs Leighton, a woman of whom the…

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A is for All - Animal Keepers & Assembly Line & All Saint`s Day

A is for All - Animal Keepers & Assembly Line & All Saint`s Day

Marian Winters Published by Dramatists Play Service

    “It is about the reception room of a veterinarian to which come poor and rich with ailing animals. It is a sensitive play, a commentative play, with some wit, some discernment, some…

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Abstinence

Abstinence

2 Male, 3 Female

Lanford Wilson Published by Dramatists Play Service

  The place is the front hall of a very chic Manhattan apartment, where the hostess, Winnie, is giving a party for one of her pet charities — in this case, Liars Anonymous A late arrival, who is intercepted…

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