Age on Stage®: Comedies for Readers Theatre Volume I

Description

Drena Heizer
Ten 10-minute comedies

BEST SELLER! From chuckles to guffaws, this collection of ten 10-minute comedies is a laugh-fest all the way. Sparked with funny characters and humorous situations, lively dialogue, sudden surprises, and just the right touch of charming goofiness, these plays are great fun for audiences and performers alike. The book is printed in large type.

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Volume I Includes:
The Rehearsal
2 men, 2 women, 1 either
A theatre group is rehearsing a melodrama, reading from a handwritten script written by the director, with terrible penmanship. The actors try to decipher the script, but the audience also chuckles at the interplay among the characters. The actors eventually depart from the script and everything falls apart. Click here to read a FreeView

What’s On TV has been performed online!

What’s on TV?
1 man, 2 women, 2 either
Four TV shows collide in a channel-surfing frenzy where dating tips, gardening advice, pet training, and cooking recipes mix into one gloriously chaotic conversation.
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Santa Flunks Retirement
3 men, 1 woman, 1 either
Santa tries to quit the Christmas game, but between tech-savvy kids, diva reindeer, and a Fairy Godmother who looks more like a myth-ter, retirement turns into a full-blown fiasco. In the end, Santa learns superheroes don’t retire—they just get fat and keep on sleighing!Click here to read a FreeView

The Elevator Misadventure
3 men, 2 women
Five people are trapped between floors in a department store elevator. Most are strangers to each other, and one is pretty strange all by himself. They make an interesting group as conversation takes place among them. Thinking they might die in the trapped elevator, two of the people divulge personal secrets but come to regret it later. Click here to read a FreeView

The Meeting
1 man, 1 woman
In a retirement community, two very forgetful old dears find themselves seated next to each other at dinner, and a goofy conversation ensues. There are chuckles and laughs all along, with a surprise ending! Click here to read a FreeView

The College Reunion
2 men, 2 women, 1 either, plus introduction
Marvin and Lucille go to Marvin’s college reunion, where they encounter unremembered classmates and a wacky professor. After committing one faux pas after another, Marvin is confronted by an angry Lucille, who has made an assumption about one of Marvin’s relationships…not an enchanted evening!

The Dr. Jill Show
3 men, 3 women
A spoof of the Dr. Phil Show. Dr. Phil always helps the people who come on his show—but Dr. Jill always manages to turn everything into a disaster. Click here to read a FreeView

The Blathersons Give Back
1 man, 1 woman
A parody of the old radio comedy The Bickersons, the characters are a long-suffering husband and his shrewish wife. The wife receives a Christmas gift from her Aunt Hetty, who every year has sent a bad homemade fruitcake, so she doesn’t even bother to open it–with totally surprising consequences. Click here to read a FreeView

Side Effects
5 women
In a doctor’s waiting room we have five women, one of whom is habitually cantankerous. This is a spoof of pharmaceuticals with bizarre side effects, together with an account of disasters after breaking an e-mail chain letter, and a mysterious stranger who answers a phone that never rings. Click here to read a FreeView

A Slight Misunderstanding One of the most performed plays in Senior Theatre!
4 women plus introduction
A woman is adopting a puppy, but two friends misunderstand something overheard and think she is adopting a baby. The conversation in a restaurant is a comedy of errors. Click here to read a FreeView

For Royalty and Scripts for your cast and crew, call us.

• Two options for scripts:
  
  • Download a PDF and make as many copies as you need for your cast and crew. $15 per play.
  • Receive scripts in the mail. They are printed in black and white on 3-hole punch paper for easy insertion into binders. Price varies.
• Royalty per performance:
  • Grants permission to perform. Royalty is required whenever a performance or dress rehearsal takes place in front of anyone who is not in your cast and crew, even if you don’t charge for admission. $15 per performance of each play.

Click here to see Drena’s other best seller: Age on Stage®: Comedies for Readers Theatre, Volume 2