JEFF GOODE
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Plays by Jeff Goode
Anger Box |
| 1st Produced: | Cherry Red Productions, Washington DC; Green Thursday Theatre Project, Tucson | 2003 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Anger Box | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 1-10 any gender | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Anger Box, a collection of new monologues by Jeff Goode, takes a fucked-up, funny look at the Big Question -- you know, the God Question -- and the bizarre conclusions people sometimes draw. Does anyone believe in God . . .really? Do we get a last meal after death row? How did God think to call himself God? Why do Arab chicks wear all those tarps? Does anyone understand why homosexuals are homosexual? Is it wrong to love Satan? Is it wrong to love Santa? Is it wrong to want to fuck the pope? And what is up with Carol-Ann, anyway?!!! | |||||
Dead Poets |
| 1st Produced: | The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor ME | 1990 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Music by Jonathan Price; Book by Jeff Goode; Lyrics by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe | |||||
| Synopsis: | On the mystical Road of Life, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe wrestle with Fate and with each other through their poetry (set to music by award-winning composer Jonathan Price). | |||||
Dick Piston, Hotel Detective in 'Cosmetic Perjury' |
| 1st Produced: | Grande Prairie Live Theatre, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Messy Adventures of Dick Piston, Hotel Detective" Baker's Plays, New York, 2001 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | film noir | Spoof | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | A murder-mystery serial-comedy with gratuitous sex and violence and a cliffhanger ending every 10 minutes | |||||
| Synopsis: | Hotel detective Dick Piston goes after killer clones and topless co-eds run amuck at a genetics symposium. | |||||
Dick Piston, Hotel Detective in 'Larry and the Werewolf' |
| 1st Produced: | Pantechnicon Artworks / Bailwick Repertory, Chicago | 1995 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 2006 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | film noir | Spoof | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | A murder-mystery serial-comedy with gratuitous sex and violence and a cliffhanger ending every 10 minutes | |||||
| Synopsis: | The investigation of a routine hotel suicide puts detective Dick Piston on the trail of a werewolf, a night nurse, and a 2000 year old Roman Centurion. | |||||
Dick Piston, Hotel Detective in 'Murder By Midnight' |
| 1st Produced: | Reality Aside Theatre, New York | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Film noir spoof | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Hotel detective Dick Piston has less than ten minutes to solve a brutal murder for a nude widow, or risk losing her case to the day shift. A ten-minute mystery. | |||||
Dick Piston, Hotel Detective In 'Prague-nosis' |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Messy Adventures of Dick Piston, Hotel Detective" Baker's Plays, New York, 2001 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | film noir | Spoof | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | A murder-mystery serial-comedy with gratuitous sex and violence and a cliffhanger ending every 10 minutes | |||||
| Synopsis: | Bungling hotel detective Dick Piston returns in a case that finds him caught between a beautiful international jewel thief, and a sexy multi-national porn star. &Which is probably not the worst place to be caught. | |||||
Dracula Rides Again |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre of the American West, Republican City NE | 1995 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 2005 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Halloween Western | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 8-12 any gender | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | When Doc Frankenstein and the Count fall for the same showgirl, you're in for an evening of showdowns and hoedowns that could turn Tombstone into a ghost town. Family entertainment in two acts. And the Mummy dances. | |||||
Eight, The: Reindeer Monlogues |
| 1st Produced: | Dolphinback Theatre Company, Chicago | 1994 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Bakers Plays,New York, 1997 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Dark comic monologues, (Christmas) | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A dark, dark Christmas comedy. Scandal erupts at the North Pole when one of Santa's eight tiny reindeer accuses him of sexual harassment. As mass media descends upon the event, the other members of the sleigh team demand to share their perspectives, and a horrific tale of corruption and perversion emerges, which seems to implicate everyone from the littlest elf to the tainted Saint himself. With each deer's confession, the truth behind the shocking allegations becomes clearer and clearer . . . and murkier and murkier. | |||||
Elephans |
| 1st Produced: | Summer Festival of the Arts, Southwest Harbor ME | 1995 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Encore Performance Publishing, 2004 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | young audiences | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10-50 any gender | |||||
| Notes: | Book and Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music by Larrance Fingerhut | |||||
| Synopsis: | On the lonely planet of Eleph, where language was never invented, the mango-loving Elephans learn to communicate without words. | |||||
Elf, The |
| 1st Produced: | Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Iowa City | 1987 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10-20, depends on doubling | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Raymond Roberts is a typical American husband with a job and a mortgage, a wife and three kids. Raymond is also an Elf. And when his old responsibility of saving the world comes calling, can he find time to save his own family? | |||||
Escape From Eldorado |
| 1st Produced: | The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor ME | 1990 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 7-12, depends on doubling | |||||
| Notes: | Book & Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music by Jonathan Price | |||||
| Synopsis: | Claudette and her bungling partner-in-espionage Claude are assigned to dispose of an obsolete germ warfare virus. But their infectious charge escapes from its test tube and goes on a killing spree - taking the lives of countless men, women, children, and people-who-aren't-even-in-the-play. And if finding a cure for an incurable disease seems tough, Claudette's biggest challenge will be defeating the sadistic Narrator who unleashed the killer germ on humanity. | |||||
Ham/thello |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | Washington Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Baker's Plays, New York, 2008 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | A new play by William Shakespeare (& Jeff Goode) | |||||
| Synopsis: | Shakespeare's greatest villain, Iago, has his hands full when he tries to convince Prince Hamlet to murder his new step father. . . the Moor Othello. | |||||
In Real Life |
| 1st Produced: | Summer Festival of the Arts, Southwest Harbor ME | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | young audiences | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10-50 any gender | |||||
| Notes: | Book and Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music by Larrance Fingerhut | |||||
| Synopsis: | A musical about children living in a fantasy world of samurai and wizards created by their parents to protect them from the "real" world. . .And what happens when they find themselves in Chicago. | |||||
Lear's Labour's Lost |
| 1st Produced: | Attic Theatre center, Los Angeles | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | 978-0-87440-224-7 | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | A new play by William Shakespeare (& Jeff Goode) | |||||
 | Shakespeare's bloodiest comedy, a romantic tale of parricide and sibling treachery. King Lear divides his kingdom and swears off women in hopes of spending more time with his books - but when the untimely visit of the Princess of France allows Lear's fellow scholars to fall in love with his three beauteous daughters, the courtly romance that ensues could tear the nation apart. | |||||
Lesbian's Last Pizza, The |
| 1st Produced: | C'est Destine / Bailiwick Repertory, Chicago | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Original Works Publishing, Los Angeles, 2006 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | One-woman show | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A young woman, dying of AIDS, tries to order takeout from a homophobic pizzeria. | |||||
Love Loves a Pornographer |
| 1st Produced: | Circle X Theatre Company, Los Angeles | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 2008 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Comedy of Manners | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 1 butler | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Lord Loveworthy has a problem. His only daughter is soon to be married. And the only way to pay for her wedding is to blackmail the priest who's seducing his wife. | |||||
Marley's Ghost |
| 1st Produced: | Circle X Theatre, Los Angeles; Rogue Theatrics, Columbus OH [concurrent] | 2003 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 2005 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Drama (Christmas) | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | 3 ghosts, 1 child | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Before Ebenezer Scrooge learned the true meaning of Christmas, another old miser was haunted by the ghosts of his past, present and future. What could have happened to Jacob Marley, in the seven years since his untimely death, that would convince him to sacrifice everything to save the one man he despises most of all? | |||||
Narcissus & Echo |
| 1st Produced: | The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor ME | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Original Works Publishing, Los Angeles, 2006 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Book & Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music by Larrance Fingerhut | |||||
| Synopsis: | A romping, risque musical version of the Greek and Roman myths. The story of the ill-fated love of Narcissus and Echo takes an unusual twist when Narcissus is duped by the devilish love-god Cupid into believing he is a Lesbian. In the fiercely heterosexual world of the philandering Zeus and his nymphs, Narcissus is forced to struggle with the thorny questions of his own sexuality, even as he fends off the amorous advances of the lusty Hera, the nymphomaniac Daphne, his true love Echo and the insatiable shape-shifting Zeus himself. . . .But is Narcissus man enough to resist the feminine wiles of his own seductive reflection? | |||||
Poona the Fuckdog and other plays for children |
| 1st Produced: | Trap Door Theatre, Chicago; Open Circle Theatre, Seattle | 1999 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | ow-poona | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | NOT a play for children | |||||
 | These outrageous 'Fairy tales for Grown-ups' are not for the easily offended! Poona, our ingenuous heroine, meets up with aliens, talking shrubs, and mealy-mouthed salesmen in her quest to find someone to play in her big pink box. Nothing is sacred in this raucous assault on the power of language. | |||||
Portrait of the Virgin Mary Feeding the Dinosaurs |
| 1st Produced: | Dolphinback Theatre Company, Chicago | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | - | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 2 other | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Visual, intellectual and emotional roller-coaster which deals with sexual, religious and artistic exploitation. A tour of the Louvre leads to telling the story of Leonardo DaVinci's sexual assault on the Mona Lisa and how it led him to paint an encounter between the Messiah's mom and the Elvis of dinosaurs. (Plus tap-dancing Jesus, cappucino-swilling tyrannosaurs . . .and the the devil himself leads us into temptation.) | |||||
Princess Gray and the Black/White Knight |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | as "Don Quixote and the Black Knight" Meriwether Publishing, Colorado Springs CO, 2003 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | comedy | Young Audiences | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10-40 any gender | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The White Knight and the Black Knight go to war for the love of Princess Gray. But will the hapless peasants of three war-torn nations survive their fairy tale romance? | |||||
Ring Cycle! the Musical |
| 1st Produced: | The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor ME | 1994 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Book & Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music by Larrance Fingerhut | |||||
| Synopsis: | Four actors & a feisty sock puppet attempt to perform Wagner's entire 15 hour opus in 90 minutes. But can this quarrelsome quartet destroy the universe before they destroy each other? | |||||
Romeo & Julius [Caesar] |
| 1st Produced: | Washington Shakespeare Company, Washington DC | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Baker's Plays, New York, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | A new play by William Shakespeare (& Jeff Goode) | |||||
| Synopsis: | Shakespeare's newest tragedy of love and hate crimes. Controversy reigns in ancient Rome when a popular openly-gay emperor takes as his lover the son of a homophobic arch-rival. Hate begets hate as a very public bashing/assassination leads to civil war and murder-suicide. | |||||
Rumpelstiltskin |
| 1st Produced: | The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor ME | 1990 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN | 978-0-87440-314-5 | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Book & Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music and lyrics by Jonathan Price | |||||
 | Greedy humans exploit the kindness of a magical gnome in this fractured fairy tale based on the Brothers Grimm. An ambitious peasant will say anything to convince the cash-strapped king to marry her lowly daughter, even if it means pretending the girl knows how to spin ordinary straw into priceless gold. Forced to spin or die, the hapless girl begs a lovelorn gnome to save her with his magic. And when her newfound talent leads to a royal marriage proposal, the aspiring princess will promise the gnome anything to keep up the deception. Even her firstborn child! Too late, she realizes the only way to break her promise is to guess the identity of the mysterious gnome before her time runs out and her subterfuge catches up with her. | |||||
Seven Santas |
| 1st Produced: | Unknown Theater, Los Angeles; AndHow! Theater Company, New York; Houses On The Moon, New York | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Dark comedy (Christmas) | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Companion piece to "The Eight: Reindeer Monologues" | |||||
| Synopsis: | Scandal erupts at the North Pole when the most powerful man on Earth is sentenced to rehab for a minor traffic violation. But when he finds himself in a detox program run by the estranged Mrs. Claus, Santa's desperate struggle to conceal the truth about his arrest, uncovers another sordid secret that could mean the end of Christmas-as-we-know-it. | |||||
Ubu in America |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Ubu Plays" Baker's Plays, New York, 1997 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | comedy | Young Audiences | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10-50 any gender | |||||
| Notes: | The Ubu Plays are a trilogy of raucous children's plays based loosely on characters in Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" | |||||
| Synopsis: | To escape his sequel, Ubu moves to America to become the opposite of a King. . . and ends up underthrowing the government! | |||||
UBU: a play for children |
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Ubu Plays" Baker's Plays, New York, 1997 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | comedy | Young Audiences | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10-50 any gender | |||||
| Notes: | The Ubu Plays are a trilogy of raucous children's plays based loosely on characters in Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" | |||||
| Synopsis: | The stupidest person in the Kingdom accidentally becomes the King. A wacko revolution ripped from today's headlines. (Whoops, I mean yesterday's cartoons!) | |||||
UnXmas Story, The |
| 1st Produced: | C'est Destine, Chicago | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Christmas | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | On a not-so-silent night, in a little town called Bethlehem, a greedy King and an irritable Shepherd, come to know the true meaning of UnXmas. | |||||
Where's Ubu? |
| 1st Produced: | Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Boston; Summer Festival of the Arts, Southwest Harbor ME | 1997 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Ubu Plays" Baker's Plays, New York, 1997 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | comedy | Young Audiences | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10-50 any gender | |||||
| Notes: | The Ubu Plays are a trilogy of raucous children's plays based loosely on characters in Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" | |||||
| Synopsis: | When Ubu doesn't show up for the rebellion, his fans are forced to destroy the world without him. | |||||
Who Killed Cock Robin |
| 1st Produced: | The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor ME | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Book & Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music by Jonathan Price | |||||
| Synopsis: | At the funeral of Cock Robin, a fight breaks out among the mourners about the handling of Cock's murder investigation. At the urging of nearby audience members they decide to reenact Cock Robin's last days to uncover the truth. | |||||
Your Swash Is Unbuckled |
| 1st Produced: | Rage Theatrics, Iowa City | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Baker's Plays, New York, 2008 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Stage Combat | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Each fight: 2-4 combatants | |||||
| Notes: | This unique collection of playlets can be used to create a full night of entertainment, as well as in the classroom for teaching stage combat techniques. Of special note is that these combat scenes contain roles for both male and female actors. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Short plays about piracy, brigandry, and heartrobbery combine tongue-in-cheek wordplay with swashbuckling swordplay and daring-dont's in stories revolving around pirates, maidens and rascals of all shapes and sizes. | |||||