A DAY AT THE CAFÉ
Dramedy
7 F, 6 M
She’s a vegan. He owns a poultry plant. What happens between them and with other characters at the coffeehouse.
Lots of folks come to Angie’s coffeehouse including a lifeguard, a health food store owner and her gorgeous daughter, a male nerd, a female nerd, an Orthodox Jew, a teacher, a businessman, a biologist, and an old flame. And of course there’s a waitress, and Angie, a vegan who becomes interested in a new visitor who owns a chicken slaughterhouse. They each have their stories.
A coffeehouse
Running time 1 hour 50 minutes
THE BILLY CHRONICLES
2 M, 2 F, and 4-8 flexible
Comedy
Black box set
Running time 1 hour 40 minutes
In this whimsical play, 17 year old high school junior Billy Harrington, clean-cut, smart, popular, and captain of the school Huckle-Buckle team, learns that his girlfriend Joannie is pregnant.
As Billy works through how to handle the problem of his girlfriend being pregnant, he reflects on events in different years of his life, from age 2 to 16. The play interweaves Billy in the present with Billy in the past, as he remembers events such as his second birthday, or the time he had an imaginary friend named Pumpkin, or when he had painful boils on his butt, or when he got lost at the shopping mall, or when he befriended an old man who wanted Billy to take him places he could not travel to himself.
THE COFFEEHOUSE PLAYS
This is a compilation of several of my one act plays which all take plays at a coffeehouse.
This collection consists of seven unrelated one-act plays. All take place in the present at a coffeehouse. They range in length from about twelve to twenty minutes. Three of the plays — Stung, Heavens, and especially How To Handle A Blind Date – have strong comedic elements. Four plays — Waitress, Toys, Copernicus, and The Hole — are dramatic.
The age range over the various plays is 25-60+. Six roles are female, four male, and one either. Four plays – Waitress, Heavens, Copernicus, and The Hole — are monologs.
The plays need not be done in the order presented here. And it’s permissible to present just one or some of the plays.
THE PLAYS AT THE PARK
This collection consists of six unrelated one-act plays. All take place in the present at a park. They range in length from about seven to twenty minutes.
The age range over the various plays is 25-60+. Three roles are female, six male, and one either. Three plays – Heavens, Copernicus, and The Hole — are monologs.
The plays need not be done in the order presented here. And it’s permissible to present just one or some of the plays.
None of the characters are in more than one play, although in production it is possible to cast the same actor in multiple plays.
