The Playwrights Database
Buy Plays with Doollee
Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk
AbeBooks.com
Stageplays.com
amazon.com
amazon.co.uk
amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template
2 Guys From Sardinia
Synopsis:
A microbiologist from Sardinia Ohio is asked to perform a hit. A hitman from Sardinia Italy to give a lecture on algae
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Short play
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page
At Heaven's Door
Synopsis:
Three people waiting at Heaven's door to be let in. The male has been there for fifty years whilst his life is being reviewed
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: doubling
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page
Candy Apples
Brenda Apple stays at home looking after her mother. Her two sisters do not help. Suddenly they both change their minds
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
Damora Books (Kindle) -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 4 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page
Caught Off Guard
Synopsis:
Swiss Guard Lukas Seifert is accused of shooting his commanding officer and his wife
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Drama
Parts:
Male: 7 Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page
Earth To Ellen
Recently widowed staunch Republican Ellen invites her two grown up children to stay with her for Christmas. Nancy her daughter has split up with her husband and now has a boyfriend - but she does not want to tell her mother. Son Scott works on a liberal newspaper in New York. Nancy's boyfriend turns up. Nancy tells her mother that he is Scott's lover. Then Scott's boyfriend arrives
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
Damora Books (Kindle) -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
comedy Gay full length
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page
Fantasy Horticultural Society
Synopsis:
Three house husbands are tired of their wives giving them more and more housework. They decide to rebel and set themselves up as an escort agency for the older woman. So their wives do not find out they call themselves: "The Fantasy Horticultural Society"
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Short play
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page
Half Mile Project
Synopsis:
Late 1980s Rocco and long time partner Fred live in a New York brownstone. They are amused by their eccentric neighbours. Then Fred is diagnosed as HIV+
Notes:
Based on the memoir "Half Mile Miracle" by Pamele Inzerillo; Rocco Piacente
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Gay full length adaptation
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 5 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page
Life Don't Give You No Overs
Severely injured in a football game Billy Hannover is in the trauma room being artificially kept alive. His mother is away on a business trip and they are waiting for her to return. In the waiting room are members of Billy's family and the family of a Black American - Jonah who is 17 like Billy. Jonah desperately needs a heart transplant. Billy's father arrives and says that they can take his son's heart. When Billy's mother hears of this she reuses to allow it - especially as the person from the hospital referred to taking of his organs as "harvesting"
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
Kindle; Damora Books 2014 -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Drama
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 7 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page
Long Live The Dead Pope
Synopsis:
Thirty-three days after being elected Pope Mark Peter is dead. Is it a coincidence that next day he was to meet the men controlling the Vatican Bank and sack them all?
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Drama
Parts:
Male: 7 Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page
Rebel In The Ranks
Synopsis:
Two priests in a diocese try to organise the other priests into a priests' association. The bishop thinks that this might hinder his climb up the hierarchy so he wants to put a stop to it
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Drama
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 1 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page
Restore Hudson River Oysters
Synopsis:
Esther into matchmaking hitches her son Jonathan up with Alex. After a year there is a marriage proposal - but not between the two young men
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Gay one act
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page
Take Your Seat
Synopsis:
Four passengers get on board a transporter. Despite no other seats being taken they are told they must sit in their allocated seats
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Short play
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page
Truth Pants
Dr Carl Anderson's wife and four children are shot dead at a restaurant
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
Damora Books (Kindle) -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Drama
Parts:
Male: 7 Female: 3 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page
Yola's 90th Birthday
Synopsis:
Yola and her sister are in an old people's home. Yola has always ruled the roost and Elvira was happy to stay in her shadow. It is Yola's 90th birthday and a party has been arranged. The maintenance man upsets Elvira and in an untypical burst of temper she kills him. Then the guests start arriving
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
-
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Drama
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page