Samuel French: 40 books

Satire / 5m, 2f (doubling, flexible casting possible) / Modular sets / Inspired by a true story, Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist is an absurdist look at the life of Senator Strom Thurmond. After fathering a child with his black maid as a young man, the extremely white Strom Thurmond became one of the...

Comedy / 7m, 3f / Interior / Seething with political and religious scandals, this comedy revolves around the failing presidential campaign of "Honest" Gabby Sandalson, a regular guy whose integrity has all but crippled his bid for the White House. His sleazy campaign manager trumps up an implausible sex scandal to garner votes, a scheme that gloriously backfires.

1f / Biographical monologue / Tea at Five captures the fiery spirit of Katherine Hepburn in a one-woman show that recounts her journey from a well-heeled Yankee childhood to winner of four Oscars. Ensconced at her beloved Fenwick home, Ms. Hepburn reflects on the dizzying heights and emotional lows...

15m, 6f, extras / This is the original six-act version which has been produced thousands of times by professional and amateur companies.

Comedy / 3m, 3f / Interior / Without apologies to Oscar Wilde, this delightful comedy dares to fill us in on what happened to Gwendolyn, Cecily, Jack and Algernon after the final curtain of 'The Importance of Being Earnest'. It is 1933 and Algy and Gwen have been married and living a cozy middle class...

Four Comedies / 1m, 1f / 4 Simple Interiors / This full length evening portrays four preludes to love from youth to old age, from innocence to maturity. It is best when played by a single actor and actress. In The Square Root of Love, two genius level college students discover that Man or Woman does...

Comedy / 4m, 5f / Interior / Senator Douglas is running for President on a "morality" platform, but when his wife Lois leaves to attend a conference in Chicago he does not hesitate to invite Veronica, his secretary and lover, over. Finding her unavailable, he has an escort agency send voluptuous...

Farce / 3m, 6f / Interior / A California billionaire has bequeathed all of his assets to his only daughter Constance - except the 22-million-dollar yacht he wanted Josephine to have, a 25 million-dollar art collection left to Rene and some priceless antique automobiles willed to Marjorie. Constance...

Comedy / 3m, 2f / Interior / A young couple from Pennsylvania checks into a posh New York hotel to fill their weekend with bliss, only to have it filled with strangers. Timothy and his wife have inadvertently booked the same honeymoon suite as Frankie and Wanda, an older couple from New Jersey. After...

Farce / 8m, 4f / Interior / A nice fellow checks into an expensive suite in New York City's finest hotel, precipitating a fantastic nightmare involving a Salman Rushdie type author, an Iranian terrorist, a shrew like woman, a conniving bellboy, an incompetent F.B.I. agent, a nubile celebrity mad maid,...

Young Jean Lee, OBIE award-winning playwright and director who has been called “the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation” by The New York Times and “one of the best experimental playwrights in America” byTime Out New York, presents her early work in this collection of three...

The latest in the popular monologue series, these monologues run the gamut, from broken-hearted boyfriends, to job interviews gone wrong, to frustrated mothers and revengeful sisters. Includes monologues for men and women. Perfect for auditions.

They may be mother and daughter yet they are strangers to each other, still refusing to face what really happened that day. No wonder they cannot move on with their lives. It takes another stranger, Cassiel, a passing fisherman to help them disentangle the weeds that are drowning them. But Cassiel...

Burlesque, Comedy, Short Play \ 8m, 7f \ An insane discussion of the age old problem: "are teachers driven nuts or are teachers nuts to begin with?" Moving, unperturbed, in a veritable bedlam of a classroom, and accepting the most insane answers as logical and academically correct, Miss...