Samuel French

This humorous and well-crafted play for an all-female cast deals with the class divisions of Edwardian England and is set before the Old Age Pensions Act was passed in 1908. It skillfully depicts the...

In this deeply moving and astutely observed play, we hear two monologues from two members of a family in a small, closely-knit, North of England town. In Act 1, Leslie, who has lived with his mother...

A Doll's LifeAuthor: Larry Grossman|Betty Comden|Adolph GreenPublisher: Samuel FrenchPublication Date: May 25, 2022Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/MusicISBN-10:...

By the Tony-award winning authors of Falsettos, here is an energetic, sardonic, often comical musical about a composer during a medical emergency. Gordon collapses into his lunch and awakes in the...

Albert finds himself dominated by his mother. At an office party he is mercilessly teased by his colleagues and arrives home, his temper rising. When his mother nags he attacks and leaves her, gets...

Hell is other people, and Mary lives with Mother and Uncle Henry. In Mary's dream, her mother and uncle have murdered twenty three people and now the Devil arrives to exact retribution. He puts an...

...these sketches of humorous scenes from American life include some of Thurber's most celebrated and insightful satires: The Night the Bed Fell, Gentlemen Shoppers, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty...

Described as "a feminist revue in the best sense" with a range of music including blues, torch songs, rock and easy listening.Author: Joan Micklin Silver, Julianne BoydPublisher: Samuel...

Through a blend of sketch, satire, avant-garde theatre and a dose of drag, Ain't No Mo' answers the incendiary question: What if the United States government offered Black Americans one-way plane...

A one-act pantomime, a 'potted panto-parody in rhyme', on a well-known theme - with a difference.Author: Cecil Raymond CookPublisher: Samuel FrenchPublication Date: Feb 20, 2015Number of Pages: 38...

Enter the topsy-turvy world of Wonderland, where fantasy reigns and the rules of reality disappear. Artist Manuela Adreani offers a breathtaking interpretation of Lewis Carroll's remarkable story,...

Anthology of British Tongue-TwistersAuthor: Ken ParkinPublisher: Samuel FrenchPublication Date: March 06, 2015Number of Pages: 62 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0573090289ISBN-13:...

Blithe SpiritAuthor: No?l CowardPublisher: Samuel FrenchPublication Date: January 01, 1968Number of Pages: 92 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0573606145ISBN-13: 9780573606144

The Land of Nursery Rhyme is not the happy place it once was: the subjects are quarrelsome, no-one from the Land of Childhood visits them anymore and there is a general atmosphere of gloom. Their...

Company Come is a play for two men and two women. Martha apparently lives alone in her remote farmhouse, visited occasionally by Mary Lee, her nearest neighbour. But is she in fact alone? First...

Middle-aged assimilated American Charlie returns home to his native Dublin to sort through and come to terms with his relationship to this thoroughly beguiling, maddening presence in his life: "Da"...

The Blands want to open a restaurant, but they need cash. Suppose they lure weirdos to their apartment to kill and rob them? Soon, they are a financial success, but disposing of the bodies is a...

The semi-autobiographical, riotous account of stage-struck young David Kolowitz, originated on Broadway by Alan Arkin, working as a delivery boy in a sewing machine factory. Denying his parent's...

Dolly and Clara arrive at Castle Drackenberg, unaware that danger lurks behind every corner, for the castle's owner, Count Drackenburg, is a vampire! This play combines every traditional element of...

The legend of Iphigenia, sacrificed by her father King Agamemnon to the goddess Artemis in order to free the becalmed Greek fleet in the port of Aulis is here made more accessible for contemporary...

In France, 1940, an unlikely pair team up to evade the approaching Nazis. Little Jacobowsky, a Polish Jewish intellectual, has been one step ahead of the Nazis for years. Stjerbinsky is an...

Totally insane. And totally hilarious. You all know the story of Hamlet--but never has a plot line been followed by such gleefully drunken footsteps, singing all the way! can you envision Horatio as...

Author: A. R. Taylor, W. Ernest CossonsPublisher: Samuel FrenchPublication Date: Jan 20, 2016Number of Pages: 30 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 057302099XISBN-13: 9780573020995

Housekeeper WantedAuthor: Philip King, Falkland L. CaryPublisher: Samuel FrenchPublication Date: Mar 01, 2016Number of Pages: 40 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/DramaISBN-10:...

The disappearance of a young boy casts suspicion on his newly-hired au pair, as well as on the wealthy parents who have hired her. As the parents seek revenge upon one another, the young au pair is...

Two plays which can be performed either separately or as a double-bill.Author: Caryl ChurchillPublisher: Samuel FrenchPublication Date: Dec 20, 2022Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In The Importance of Being Earnest Jack Worthing discovers every obstacle has been removed from marriage to Gwendolen. Or so he believes. Gwendolen's mother, Lady Bracknell, confesses her own bizarre...

Two women scientists, living hundreds of years apart, explore the meaning of love, motherhood, family, art and science in this contemporary comedy. Legacy of Light juxtaposes the story of ?milie du...

From the skilled author of The Belle of Amherst and Barrymore. Julie Harris starred on Broadway and in the national tour as Baroness Karen Blixen, aka Isak Dinesen, author of Out of Africa and Seven...

Author: John MortimerPublisher: Samuel FrenchPublication Date: Mar 20, 2015Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 057302149XISBN-13: 9780573021497