An abridged version of James’s JANE AUSTEN IN 89 MINUTES with optional scenes to extend its length.
In this uproarious, clever, engaging comedy, narrator Jane Austen and a madcap cast of ladies and gents deliver condensed versions of all six of Jane Austen’s beloved novels at a lightning pace, including modern day zingers about Austen’s fame—and fandom. Jane Austen enthusiasts will be delighted, although no knowledge of her work is required to enjoy the play, which basks in the glory of Austen’s major works, while also poking fun at their pitfalls—a hilarious and loving homage to the celebrated English writer whose insightful wit and romantic stories are treasured across the world today.
Been unemployed too long? Welcome to a very special office of the Unemployment Bureau! Here you will work with two very special unemployment counselors to place you into a job today. It may not be a job you are qualified to do, or a job that’s safe for anyone to do, but you will have to do it. Because if you can walk, you can work!
The play also concerns domestic terrorism, strippers, and weaponized hummingbirds.
Provocative, hilarious, and unexpectedly tender, CITYSCRAPE is a new play that dares to ask: does sharing a vibrator collection make you officially co-dependent? Roommates Kitt and Kat are willing to do anything for the sake of their art… even if it means destroying the friendship that keeps them afloat. A love letter to surviving your first year in New York, CITYSCRAPE examines what it means to truly be “seen” by another person—and what happens if the version of ourselves that’s reflected back is an egocentric monster.
UNCOMMON SENSE weaves together the stories of four characters living on the autism spectrum—Dan, Jess, Moose, and Lali—as well as their families and friends. The play reveals our desire to connect, our universal challenges with “difference,” and the lengths to which we go for the people we love.
PASS THE BUTLER is a British drawing room satire, wrapped in a slapstick murder mystery inside a soap opera parody. Sir Robert Charles is the UK’s Minister of Defense and next in line to be Prime Minister. Unfortunately, he’s all but dead, following a massive heart attack and surviving only on life-support machines. Lady Charles wants to put him out of his misery—not to mention save on the ghastly electric bill, which is already overdue. She plans a “switching off ceremony” only for Sir Charles to be murdered when someone else pulls the plug. Fortunately, a police inspector is already in the house pretending to be a journalist. It’s that sort of comedy!
In this uproarious, clever, engaging comedy, narrator Jane Austen and a madcap cast of ladies and gents deliver condensed versions of all six of Jane Austen’s beloved novels at a lightning pace, including modern day zingers about Austen’s fame, fandom, movies, and TV series. Jane Austen fans will be delighted, although no knowledge of her work is required to enjoy the play, which basks in the glory of Austen’s major works, while also poking fun at their pitfalls—a hilarious and loving homage to the celebrated English writer whose insightful wit and romantic stories are treasured across the world today.
TRW is pleased to offer this exceptional and diverse collection of monologues, thoughtfully selected from the rich tapestry of plays we are proud to publish.
These outstanding monologues come from an eclectic group of contemporary playwrights, each with distinctive voices and styles — comic and dramatic, experimental and naturalistic, traditional and innovative — and written for a wide array of characters.
In this book, we know you’ll find monologues that are perfect for your auditions and theater classes.
Pablo and Owen thought they were in for a simple double date with two women they’d just met at a bar. Instead, under the cover of night, something ancient is watching them. Something hungry.
For Pablo, the darkness hides more than just nerves—it holds a past he’s spent years trying to outrun. When the Chupacabra emerges from the shadows, the night turns to terror, and their evening spirals into a desperate fight for survival. But this is no ordinary monster. It is hunger and grief. It is guilt and memory. It is the thing Pablo has feared facing ever since the night he lost his little brother.
As the creature closes in, the men must confront not just the beast, but their own buried truths—about where they come from, what they want, and what they are willing to do to stay alive. Because sometimes, the most relentless monsters are the ones we carry inside.
TRW is pleased to offer this exceptional and diverse collection of monologues, thoughtfully selected from the rich tapestry of plays we are proud to publish.
These outstanding monologues come from an eclectic group of contemporary playwrights, each with distinctive voices and styles — comic and dramatic, experimental and naturalistic, traditional and innovative — and written for a wide array of characters.
In this book, we know you’ll find monologues that are perfect for your auditions and theater classes.
A delightful and hilarious entertainment awaits all in this gathering of absurdly inspired short plays. These tales of life and love feature shamelessly zany characters and locales and are full of twists and surprises—from a radio station in rural Arkansas with Bubba, a long-time on-air personality who realizes he may have gone too far when he spills some of the town’s juiciest secrets, to a year-round Christmas shop where the overworked proprietress slowly unravels as she attempts to train a new crew of seasonal ‘elves’. You’ll travel back in time to meet three sisters in the tiny town of Fayro, Texas, who are reeling from a huge family secret being revealed just minutes before Lady Bird Johnson rolls into their community for a whistle-stop picnic. Then brace yourself for a quick descent into an unusual locale—hint: it’s really hot down there—for a wickedly explosive men’s support group with Napoleon and Nero as they welcome a newbie into their ranks. Back in a slightly cooler climate—Florida—you’ll get to know a group of wise-cracking husbands who regularly gather on the benches at a discount department store as they wait for their wives to shop ‘til they drop, and watch their extreme reactions to a wife joining their group on the bench for the first time. Not to mention visits with two women having big trouble controlling a giant balloon in a nationally televised Thanksgiving Day parade, a man delivering a singing telegram who has a badly timed mid-life crisis, and a party planner desperately trying to buoy spirits during a gathering for a destination wedding on a disaster-plagued tropical isle. With all that, you have the ingredients for a delicious buffet of comedic delights. With no set required, this easy-to-produce show is perfect for smaller stages. As this flat-out funny Jones Hope Wooten comedy proves, when it comes to life and love, we’re all just sitting ducks!
