Burning Up the Stage: Monologues, Audition Pieces and Short Scenes for Actors from Six to Seventy
Product Code: B87000
Over 80 different works including monologues, dramatic scenes and comedy sketches.
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We now have many scripts available in a digital format for perusal, classroom use and performance! If you don't see a particular title you are looking for in this list, please complete this brief Digital Script Request Form.
PLEASE NOTE:
Digital scripts are intended for online use only and CANNOT be printed. Digital scripts must be paid for in full before they can be downloaded. After payment is received, you will be able to download the digital file from your online account. Digital scripts ordered using a school purchase order (PO) will download only after payment via check, credit card or wire transfer has been made. Please see the full list of Frequently Asked Questions for more information.
Product Code: B87000
Over 80 different works including monologues, dramatic scenes and comedy sketches.
Learn moreProduct Code: TA9000
Approx. Run Time: 105 min.
Three unconventional sisters, separated by geography and their own history, meet in a Reno motel after the sudden death of their colorful gambler father, whose ghost is looking on while they make his funeral arrangements.
Learn moreProduct Code: L90000
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.
Aurelio and Anita, an elderly Mexican-American couple, prepare their home to receive guests celebrating Las Posadas. This traditional Christmas custom involves the entire neighborhood reenacting the Holy Family's journey seeking shelter. Filled with music and nostalgia, Aurelio and Anita recall their first encounter. They transform back magically. We see them fall in love and get engaged, only to face El Nino, Anita's former fiancé. He takes exception to an "Americano" wooing away his girl. El Nino is a Mexican macho who won't accept defeat. So Aurelio and El Nino face off in a Mexican showdown where eating spicy "chiles" will win the hand of Anita.
Learn moreProduct Code: E40000
Approx. Run Time: 60 min.
Mallory McKay is a precocious child of divorce who hasn't seen her mother in more than two years. Judith McKay, a renowned paleontologist and director of a museum, has spent most of her career pioneering a search for the yet-to-be-proven existence of the largest dinosaur ever known—the Megamaiasaurus. Mother and daughter then set out on an adventure during which they discover not only the existence of Meg, but also the existence of their own previously extinct relationship.
Learn moreProduct Code: B25000
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.
This play combines all of the raucous hilarity of a Feydeau farce and a classic Mack Sennett comedy. The action takes place in Holy Family Rectory where Fathers Richard and Charles preside over the merriment.
Learn moreProduct Code: C95000
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.
An author with no desire to have children must decide where the rest of his life will lead after moving to Maine and finding himself inundated with women who want him.
Learn moreProduct Code: V28000
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.
After her husband runs off, Penelope wins the lottery and is inundated with suitors, but still holds onto the love for her husband.
Learn moreProduct Code: MA8000
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.
Harry's back! That's right, Harry Monday, that Sam Spade wannabe in the trench coat and gumshoes, is hot and on his latest case. As he investigates a triple murder at Restful Glen Psychiatric Annex, he learns that all the inmates have multiple personalities. And the three murder victims are all the same guy!
Learn moreProduct Code: F66000
Approx. Run Time: 110 min.
Before there was Truman, there was Frank! Frank is the star of his own soap opera, Frank's Life. Unfortunately for poor Frank, he doesn't know it. Nor does he realize that his wife, his mother, his sister, and best friend are all actors. But the elaborate deception can't last much longer. A darkly funny allegory about an everyman who learns that he has lost title of his very life. In the end, as Frank reclaims his humanity, the actors who surround him discover theirs as well.
Learn moreProduct Code: IC7000
Approx. Run Time: 20 min.
In this adaptation of the famous English folktale, we see Jack, an energetic young man who is about to ask the girl he loves to marry him. But when he meets her family, he is flabbergasted. They are faced with a problem that's so simple a little child could solve it—but they can't. "How silly can people be?" Jack wonders. If he can find three other people as silly as his sweetheart's family, he will return and marry her. This lively play portrays his search for three sillies. He finds them, and their stories make a hilarious play for audiences of all ages.
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