Ordering Plays - Theatrefolk

Chicken. Road.
by Lindsay Price
Drama, Experimental Form, Issue-Based
30 Minutes, 1M+1W+13 Either
Why did the chicken cross the road? Why is the sky
blue? What’s two plus two? Why did he kill himself?
A group of teenagers grapple with unanswered
questions as they struggle to understand why
someone would run out on to the highway in front of
semi. Especially when that someone seemed to have
it all.
Here’s a chicken. Here’s the road. There’s the other
side. What do you do when there is no answer?
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $65.95, Rights: $40.00, Video: $40.00
tfolk.me/p223
Discovering Rogue
by Christian Kiley
Drama, Character Study
30 Minutes, 2M+4W+6 Either
Rogue has the best beachfront property ever. Right
on the ocean – location, location, location. Her home
happens to be a cardboard box but she doesn’t mind.
Others, though, mind very much. They want Rogue
to leave the beach. Now. But she isn’t budging. Rogue
isn’t just running away from home; she’s running
away from herself.
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $58.95, Rights: $40.00, Video: $40.00
tfolk.me/p221
Drum Taps
adapted by Lindsay Price from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Experimental Form, Issue-Based, Movement-based
35 Minutes,
Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me?
Did you seek the civilian's peaceful and languishing
rhymes?
The poems in Drum Taps represent Walt Whitman's
firsthand account of the Civil War. See the words,
the emotion, the blood come to life in this theatrical
adaptation. This is not your traditional readers
theatre or poetry recital. This is flesh and bone words
breathed to their fullest humanity. This is struggle
and pain. This is confusion and contradiction. This
is war.
Book: $8.95, PDF: $7.95
tfolk.me/p154
Drum Taps (Small Cast Version) (2M+3W)
Rights: $40.00, Photocopy: $27.95, Video: $40.00
Drum Taps (Large Cast Version) (6M+14W)
Rights: $40.00, Photocopy: $87.95, Video: $40.00
Emotional Baggage
by Lindsay Price
Character Study, Experimental Form, Movement-based
30 Minutes, 4M+4W
This is the most unique play we sell. It's based
solely on action and has no dialogue. Suitable for
performance and in-class work, the play focuses
on non-verbal storytelling through mask and
movement.
Seven strangers meet in a train station. Instead of
luggage, they all carry their "emotional baggage."
They must confront themselves and one another.
Everybody carries emotional baggage with them.
What's yours?
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $37.95, Rights: $40.00, Video: $40.00
tfolk.me/p32
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Epic Adventures in a
Rinky-Dink Art Museum
by Ken Preuss
Comedy
35 Minutes, 5M+7W
HS/MS
“I can’t do this assignment. Art is the most boring thing
in the world.”
Who says art is boring, especially when there’s
romance and mystery in the air? A group of high
school students reluctantly visit a small town art
museum to complete a creative writing project.
But there’s more to the eye than a couple of paintings.
There’s the legend of Vanishing Valerie, the obsession
of love-struck Kaitlin, the mystery of why Duncan
would try to eat a clay apple, and who is that woman
wearing the not-so-great disguise? “Though the art
saw it all, it remains on the wall, silently hiding the
truth…”
A wonderful character-driven comedy.
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $57.95, Rights: $40.00, Video: $40.00
tfolk.me/p230
Flaky Lips
by Lindsay Price
Drama, Experimental Form, Issue-Based
45 Minutes, 2W
Winner of TADA! Theater's 2003 One-Act Playwriting
Competition in New York!
Two young women live in separated societies. One
skin colour on this side. One skin colour on that side.
They have never seen what the other looks like, until
circumstances throw them together.
They must choose whether to perpetuate the myths
about the other side or to seek out the truth. Are their
differences only skin-deep?
Perfect for two advanced-level actresses of any race.
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $13.95, Rights: $40.00, Video: $40.00
tfolk.me/p44
Floating on a Don't Care Cloud
by Lindsay Price
Experimental Form, Issue-Based, Movement-based
40 Minutes, 3M+5W+7 Either
Flick, Flick, Ahhhhhh…
Jamie Peel is a pothead. He lives in his own world, a
bubble, a cloud that calls his name and reaches out
to him.
His sister TJ has watched him slowly drift away and
doesn't know what to do. Is she overreacting? Is it in
her imagination? Should she tell somebody what she
sees? Will Jamie ever talk to her again if she does?
Will everyone see her as a snitch? Is it just pot?
An emotional tightrope between a sister and a
brother and what really happens in the world of
teenage marijuana use.
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $65.95, Rights: $50.00, Video: $50.00
tfolk.me/p132
Free - Version 1
by Lindsay Price
Drama
45 Minutes, 4M+7W+1 Either
Real to life drama with a shocking twist.
Two teenagers come across an abandoned picnic. A
sign in front of the picnic says, FREE FOOD.
Promisetown has been in dire straits ever since the
local factory closed two years ago. The townspeople
attempt to divide the food fairly, but end up
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struggling to reconcile their belief systems with their
greed.
A stranger appears out of nowhere, offering to solve
their problems, but ends up altering the town's course
forever.
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $53.95, Rights: $50.00, Video: $50.00
tfolk.me/p9
Free - Version 2
by Lindsay Price
Drama
45 Minutes, 3M+9W
You have two versions of Free to choose from!
This play tells essentially the same story as Free
- Version 1 with the majority of roles rewritten
for women. This change has a distinct effect on
the relationships between the characters and the
dynamics of the plot.
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $53.95, Rights: $50.00, Video: $50.00
tfolk.me/p10
The Fried Kobassa
by J. Robert Wilkins
Comedy, Mystery
40 Minutes, 2M+9W
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Inspector Kapusta will leave no stone unturned to
find the camp cook's missing kobassa. Okay, maybe
he'll leave a couple of stones unturned. Okay, maybe
he's a pretty bad detective but that just makes the play
all the more hilarious.
A light-hearted romp with the funniest of all the red
meats at its centre: FRIED KOBASSA!
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $49.95, Rights: $50.00, Video: $50.00
tfolk.me/p104
Hansel and Gretel
by Shirley Barrie
HS/MS
Classical Adaptation, Movement-based, Young Audiences
56 Minutes, 2M+3W+2 Either, Percussionists and Puppeteers
Hansel and Gretel is an inventive retelling of the
Grimms' classic tale. Students are given an exciting
opportunity to play on stage using puppetry,
percussive rhythms, twists in language, and unique
characterizations. It's a play for young audiences that
stretches the skills of the performers.
Gretel is afraid of many things, especially the woods.
Hansel delights in teasing his little sister, but when
they are left in the forest, he is determined to protect
her.
They are taken in by a friendly witch, who lives in
a magical candy house but who is not at all what
she seems. The tables are turned and Gretel has to
conquer her fears in order to save her brother.
Book: $6.95, PDF: $5.95, Photocopy: $33.95, Rights: $50.00, Video: $50.00
tfolk.me/p54
The Haunting of Chip
Lake Lodge
by J. Robert Wilkins
Comedy, Mystery
60 Minutes, 2M+4W
Four high school seniors, Amy, Jennifer, Stephanie
and Justin, arrive at a country lodge for their prom.
But things go askew from the start. They show up at
the wrong lodge, their car won't start, the phone goes
dead, and disco music plays inexplicably. The lodge
is haunted!
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