We offer a collection of full-length, one-act, and short plays, available for production in your theater. Below each playwright, you'll find a list of their works which link to synopses and character breakdowns of each show.
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The Constitution of Caitlin Dempsey Breathing Room No Worse for the Wear Beginnings Rockabye Bullet |
Separation Anxiety Do They Expedite There? Meeting God on a Tuesday Morning Parallaxis Holiday Idols Charlie Dog Hard Stop |
Chasing Ozymandias White Russian Take Two |
Theatre Daedalus Catalog
Scripts are listed in alphabetical orderChasing Ozymandias
Full length play, 3 M, 4 W
Synopsis: A self-proclaimed "professional vagabond", T. Paul Sinclair has finally come home after a ten-year absence to try and finish his last attempt at a great novel, only to find that no matter how far you run, the past will catch up with you. His quest for greatness—his "chase for Ozymandias"—is the least of his worries compared to his family. His mother is quite possibly crazy, his kid sister is quite possibly a genius, and his grandfather just happens to be the author of the greatest book of the past century. Lives collide as dark secrets of the Sinclair family, hidden for years, finally emerge, leaving nobody unscathed as T. Paul must at last come face to face with the greatest challenge of his life.
Run Time: approx. 1:52, plus intermission.
Do They Expedite There?
One-act play, 1 M, 1 W
Synopsis: It's Christmas Eve. The knife is under the tree. The cops are on the lawn. And Ray and Laura are running out of options in this dark comedy where a college jock, wrongly accused of murder, takes his country-club girlfriend hostage to buy some time. Determined to get them both out of the country and see herself ransomed for a respectable figure, Laura plays up her hostage status while coaching Ray in the fine art of kidnapping. Her game seems to be going according to plan until a startling discovery makes Laura realize that the accusations might not be wrong and that Ray might not be playing.
Run Time: approx. :35
Meeting God on a Tuesday Morning
One-act play, 2 M 1 W
Synopsis: Late for a meeting on a Tuesday morning, the last thing power attorney Jack Clark expected was to end up dead. And even more jarring, he didn't expect to be welcomed to the afterlife by a case-worker named Morty. Kicking around in a heavenly waiting room that oddly resembles his apartment, Jack is forced to come to terms with the man he was and the person he is, getting some help from someone who probably knew him the least, yet seems to understand him the most. With the help of Morty and their inexplicably shared secretary Hanna, Jack readies himself for the biggest meeting of his life.
Run Time: approx. :40–45
Separation Anxiety
Full length play, 3 M, 2 W
Synopsis: It's early on a cold morning sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas and Quinn Murphy finds himself stranded in Denver, waiting for a flight to take him to the funeral of one of his best friends, Bailey Palmer. Quite content to stew in his grief, he is befriended by a woman named Lily Cameron whose brutal honesty brings out the truth about his friendship with Bai. Waiting for Quinn back home is his other best friend, Jess Duncan who has come to the home of Bailey and his grieving father in search of answers about her friend's mysterious death and forgiveness for what she did to him. The play follows these two stories on the morning of the funeral as the people who loved Bailey most, grapple with the possibility that the accident which killed him might have been something else---something Bailey wanted. The entire morning is interspersed with memories from the last days of Bailey Palmer, flashbacks that reveal truths which Quinn and Jess aren't ready to face and show us that on some level, separation is a state of mind.
Run Time: approx. 2:00, plus intermission.
Take Two
Two related one-act plays. May be performed together or separately.
These sister plays explore the nature of relationships between people, and the many different and sometime conflicting layers that comprise a relationship of any type. Thematically related, the two plays examine the notions of second chances, redemption, and the basic human need for love.
"Last Call" — 4 M, 1 W — This one set play takes place in a Cleveland apartment. Kirby Bowman, bachelor extraordinaire, is about to get married in fourteen hours to his fiancée Nicole. He and three of his groom's party stagger back to the apartment of Kirby's best man Andy Lunsford to recover and prepare for the wedding. Kirby seems to be on track for the wedding until a knock at the door announces an uninvited guest: Renee Duval, the ex-girlfriend that broke Kirby's heart years ago. Renee has sought out Kirby and has a proposition that will shake him to the very core. There's more to Renee's appearance—and Kirby's friends—than meets the eye, however. Personal agendas wage battle with good intentions on every front. Will Kirby make the right decision on the biggest day of his life? Or is this the Last Call for any kind of life he really wants to lead?
Run Time: approx 1:00.
"The Brass Ring" — 2 M, 1 W — This play takes place in a downtown Columbus apartment and in a city park. Charlie Sampson is a driven young man dedicated to passing the Foreign Service Exam and becoming a diplomat, traveling the world on a constant adventure. His beautiful and talented girlfriend Sandra Sawyer poses a minor problem: she does not want to leave Ohio at all. When Sandra gets accepted to the doctoral program at prestigious Chase College in Cleveland, the battle lines appear to be drawn. The appearance of a feisty old man who manages to invite himself to Thanksgiving dinner tilts their relationship on its ear, however. He has a few secrets of his own that, when divulged, could change both Charlie and Sandra's lives forever.
Run Time: approx. :45
White Russian
Full length play, 7 M, 1 W
Synopsis: It is the summer of 1919 and Russia is gripped by a civil war that will affect the world for decades to come. On the western edge of the Siberian frontier, the Red Army has captured a lonely outpost. The fort's commander, a brutal White Russian general loyal to the deposed tsar, has been betrayed by his own aide and imprisoned in his own dungeons. The general is still a dangerous man, as the new commander, an idealistic young Red Army colonel, is soon to find out. Caught in a stalemate of war, the general proposes a radical solution: a game of chess between him and the Colonel, with their very lives as the stakes. Together they battle not only each other, but demons from their past. The nature of power and its affect on the humanity of those who wield it is explored from the opening moments of the play to the final throes of the endgame, and a victor is at last decided...but at what price?
Run Time: approx. 1:53, plus intermission.