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Lo and Behold!

Lo and Behold!

John Patrick Published by Samuel French Inc

A Nobel Prize winner has lived for years on a meager, unpalatable diet, to favor an ailing heart This lack of much heart has made the philosophy of his books coldly cynical. After signing a will that leaves…

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Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays

Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays

John Patrick Shanley Published by Dramatists Play Service

In THE RED COAT, a teenage boy in the Bronx lays in wait outside a party for a girl he hardly knows. His mission, which he accomplishes with touching if halting effectiveness, is to tell her that he loves…

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Everybody’s Girl

Everybody’s Girl

8 Male, 2 Female

John Patrick Published by Dramatists Play Service

As the critic of the Miami Times describes Everybody`s Girl and its central character: “Vivian Vance is the key to the plot. She plays a kookie ‘widow’ living in a town called Harmony…

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The Hasty Heart

The Hasty Heart

8 Male, 2 Female

John Patrick Published by Dramatists Play Service

The Hasty Heart tells of a wounded Scottish soldier whose last few weeks of life, spent in a convalescent ward of a hospital in the Orient, are changed by the sympathetic treatment his fellow patients…

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Everybody Loves Opal

Everybody Loves Opal

8 Male, 3 Female

John Patrick Published by Dramatists Play Service

Opal Kronkie, a middle-aged recluse, lives in a tumbledown mansion at the edge of the municipal dump. The general disarray of her establishment is aggravated by the fact that Opal collects things—anything…

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The Dancing Mice

The Dancing Mice

7 Male, 5 Female

John Patrick Published by Dramatists Play Service

    The setting is a laundromat in a poorer section of a large city, a gathering place for the diverse characters who live in the neighborhood As these very different people come in contact,…

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AnyBody Out There?

AnyBody Out There?

7 Male, 3 Female

John Patrick Published by Dramatists Play Service

Poor Oliver Pankey is a born loser; his landlady charges him when someone else breaks his window; his fiancee leaves him for a married man his boss at the bank then cuts his pay when he asks for a raise;…

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Cellini

Cellini

7 Male, 2 Female

John Patrick Shanley from Benvenuto Celleni Published by Dramatists Play Service

The play chronicles the life of the original “Renaissance Man,” Benvenuto Cellini, the sixteenth-century Italian sculptor and man-about-town Cellini’s masterwork is the magnificent Perseus,…

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Roman Conquest

Roman Conquest

6 Male, 3 Female

John Patrick Published by Samuel French Inc

This is the love story of two American girls living in the romantic city of Rome in a garret at the foot of the Spanish steps One of the world’s richest young women takes her less fortunate friend…

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It’s Been Wonderful

It’s Been Wonderful

6 Male, 4 Female

John Patrick Published by Dramatists Play Service

Married to a successful stockbroker and comfortably ensconced in a lavish Long Island mansion, Paula Reid is nevertheless bored — until the success of her novel suddenly catapults her to celebrity status…

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Defiance

Defiance

5 Male, 1 Female

John Patrick Shanley Published by Dramatists Play Service

This is set on a United States Marine Corps base in North Carolina in 1971 Two officers - one black, one white - are on a collision course over race, women and the high cost of doing the right thing This…

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The Gay Deceiver

The Gay Deceiver

5 Male, 2 Female

John Patrick Published by Dramatists Play Service

Having decided to “come out of the closet,” David returns to his parents’ Florida home with his lover, Butch, determined to reveal his homosexuality But while his mother, Julia, and his…

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The Curious Savage

The Curious Savage

5 Male, 6 Female

John Patrick Published by Dramatists Play Service

Stepchildren commit delightful Mrs. Savage, recently left ten million dollars by her husband to “sanatorium” hoping to she’ll see sense and abandon her generous altruism But Mrs. Savage…

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The Savage Dilemma

The Savage Dilemma

4 Male, 6 Female

John Patrick Published by Dramatists Play Service

              Depressed and world-weary, after extensive travels, the reputedly wealthy Mrs. Ethel Savage returns to the sheltered precincts of The Cloisters, seeking…

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The Enigma

The Enigma

3 Male, 2 Female

John Patrick Published by Dramatists Play Service

    Stuart Pearson, a young computer operator, lives in terror of the “tiger” who has moved in with him, but he gets little sympathy from his airline pilot friend, Phil Rittenhouse,…

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A Barrel Full of Pennies

A Barrel Full of Pennies

3 Male, 2 Female

John Patrick Published by Dramatists Play Service

In the household of Adonis Samaritan, cab driver and lover of mankind, all homeless creatures, dogs, lame ducks and people — are welcome Much to the distress of daughter Alicia, who wishes she didn’t…

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A Bad Year For Tomatoes

A Bad Year For Tomatoes

3 Male, 4 Female

John Patrick Published by Dramatists Play Service

Fed up with the pressures and demands of her acting career, the famous Myra Marlowe leases a house in the tiny New England hamlet of Beaver Haven and settles down to write her autobiography She is successful…

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Where’s My Money?

Where’s My Money?

3 Male, 3 Female

John Patrick Shanley Published by Dramatists Play Service

Marriage and its discontents are the subject of this surreal comedy. When Celeste, an out-of-work actor who’s cheating on her boyfriend with a married man, runs into Natalie, whom she hasn’t seen in years,…

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The Big Funk - a Casual Play

The Big Funk - a Casual Play

3 Male, 2 Female

John Patrick Shanley Published by Dramatists Play Service

A series of self-revelations opens the book of life on the characters, drawing their view of life. From here we watch them interact: Omar throws knives for a living and muses about the state of the world.…

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Beggars in the House of Plenty

Beggars in the House of Plenty

3 Male, 3 Female

John Patrick Shanley Published by Dramatists Play Service

Johnny is the youngest and most sensitive of three siblings stranded in a surreal Irish Catholic household lorded over by their father, a butcher from the Bronx, and their mother, a chipper, hope-mongering…

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Missing/Kissing Missing Marisa & Kissing Christine

Missing/Kissing Missing Marisa & Kissing Christine

3 Male, 2 Female

John Patrick Shanley Published by Dramatists Play Service

  Missing Marisa ~ Terry and Eli are friends with a woman in common: Marisa. Marisa was Eli’s wife. Then she ran off with Terry. Now she has abandoned Terry as well Terry comes to Eli’s…

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People!

People!

2 Male, 1 Female

John Patrick Published by Samuel French Inc

Each of these plays used the same cast in different roles. Christmas Spirit is about a happy man about to go on a vacation who is hopelessly depressed by a couple who drop in to wish him Christmas cheer…

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Love Nest for Three

Love Nest for Three

2 Male, 1 Female

John Patrick Published by Samuel French Inc

Three one act plays reveal amorous events in different apartments on the sixth floor of a New York building. The actors play different roles in each apartment In Decisions a girl who has been living with…

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It’s a Dog’s Life

It’s a Dog’s Life

2 Male, 1 Female

John Patrick Published by Samuel French Inc

The Gift: When a couple receive news that they are to receive an inheritance they are all aflutter until their legacy turns out to be a small dog named King Kong. It turns out, though, that the dog’s…

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