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| Title | Author | Publisher | Year | Copies | Cast | Genre | Timing | Notes |
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| Title | Author | Publisher | Year | Copies | Cast | Genre | Timing | Notes |
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| After Magritte | Tom Stoppard | Samuel French | 1971 | 1 | M3 F2 | Farce | Short | |
| A Game of Bridge | Peter Redmond | 1988 | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Alarm Call | Sheila Hodgson | Samuel French | 1983 | 1 | F7 | Play | ||
| Anyone for Tennis | Gwyn Clark | Samuel French | 1981 | 5 | M2 F2 | Farce | Shortish | |
| A Tomb with a View | Norman Robbins | Samuel French | 1978 | 11 | M4 F6 | Comedy Thriller | ||
| Bedroom Farce | Alan Ayckbourn | Samuel French | 1977 | 1 | M4 (young, 60) F4 (young, 50s) | Comedy | Full length | |
| Black Chiffon | Lesley Storm | Doollee | 1949 | M3 F4 | Play / drama | |||
| Blithe Spirit | Noel Coward | Samuel French | 1941 | 1 | M2 (40, middle age) F5 (young, 45, middle age) | Improbable Farce | Full length | Charles Condomine, whose first wife Elvira has been dead for seven years, has been reasonably happy with his second wife Ruth. After he invites Madame Arcati, a local medium, to conduct a seance at their home, Elvira returns from the dead. Determined to get Charles to herself forever, she arranges several "accidents", one of which culminates in Ruth joining Elvira. Now plagued by two jealous squabbling spirits, Charles bids them both farewell and his two wives are left petulantly tearing the house apart. |
| Brave Bugler, or Up The Khyber Pass The | Harry Austin | Samuel French | M4 F1 + 1M | Comedy | 12 | Period 1890s | ||
| Cafe Society | Ayshe Raif | Samuel French | 1983 | 5 | F4 | Play | 4 short scenes | |
| Captain Carvallo | Cannan Denis | Abe Books | 1951 | 1 | M5 F2 | Comedy | 3 acts | |
| Cash on Deliverance | Peter Redmond | 1980 | 5 | 5 | Comedy | |||
| Cat Among the Pigeons | Duncan Greenwood | 1957 | 2 | M4 F5 | Comedy | 3 acts | ||
| Cavern The | M2 F3 + others | Horror | One act | |||||
| Cinderella | Michael Green | Samuel French | 2000 | 3 | M3 F6 or M1 F8 | Comey | Short | Part of Coarse Acting Strikes Back |
| Coarse Acting Strikes Back | Michael Green | Samuel French | 2000 | 3 | Comedy | Four short plays - Trapped; Oedocles, King of Thebes; Pride at Southanger Park; Cinderella, | ||
| Come into the Garden Maude | Noel Coward | Samuel French | 1966 | 1 | M2 (28, 55) F2 (late 40s, early 50s) | Comedy | Short | For years the affable Verner Conklin has placidly endured his ill-humoured wife, Anna-Mary. When one of her dinner guests falls ill she is left with thirteen at table; she orders Verner to dine in their suite. He has excellent company in Maud Caragnani. When Anna-Mary snappishly tells Verner to go away Verner complies — with Maud. |
| Confusions (five interlinked short plays) | Alan Ayckbourn | Samuel French | 1977 | 11 | M3 F2 (minimum cast) | Mostly comedy | All evening | These five short plays deal riotously, but with sharply pointed undertones, with the human dilemma of loneliness; a mother unable to escape from baby talk (Mother Figure), a disastrous fête (Gosforth's Fête), an unsuccessful seduction attempt (Drinking Companion), a fraught dinner encounter (Between Mouthfuls) and the final play, A Talk In The Park, sums up, with five self-immolated characters on park benches. |
| Costa Del Packet! | Anthony Booth | Samuel French | 1975 | 3 | F5 | Farce | ||
| Count Ferdinand von Finklestein's Fabulous Freak Show and Circus | Jack Burgess | Lazy Bee Scripts | 2007 | 3 | M2 F1 + 2 | Comedy | 10 - 15 | |
| Double Trouble | Michael Brett | 1963 | 1 | M4 F6 | Comedy | Full length | 3 scenes | |
| Education of Meg The | June Harnby | Samuel French | 1983 | 1 | M3 F8 | Play | ||
| Every Knee Shall Bow | Bernard A. Wall | 1 | 12 speaking, 1 lady, <> 15 tableaux parts | Nativity play for young children | ||||
| Fish Out Of Water | Derek Benfield | Samuel French | 1956 | 1 | M4 F5 | Comedy | Full length | Revised version available |
| Flesh Game The | Rae Shirley | Samuel French | 1985 | 11 | M1 F6 | Comedy | A comedy for women about slimming | |
| Forty Winks Beauty | Richard Tydeman | Samuel French | 1956 | 4 | M5 F7 | Panto | Mini panto | Needs updating |
| Full Treatment, The | Michael Brett | 1967 | 1 | M5 F6 | Comedy | 3 acts | ||
| Good/Sauce for the Goose | Peter Redmond | 7 + 5 | 7 | Farce | ||||
| Green Eye of the Little Yellow Dog The | Harry Austin | Samuel French | M6 F1 | Comedy | 20 | Period 1882 (late Victorian) | ||
| Happy Journey to Camden and Trenton The | Thornton Wilder | Samuel French | 1931 | 5 | M3 F3 | Play | ||
| Hobson's Choice | Harold Brighouse | Samuel French | 1916 / 1943 | 1 | M7 (26, 30, 50s, elderly) F5 (20s, elderly) | Comedy | Full length | |
| Husbands Supplied | Falkland Gary | 1939 | 8 | M1 F7 | Comedy | Short | 1 act | |
| If You'll be Glad, I'll Be Frank | Tom Stoppard | Samuel French | 1969 | 1 | M7 F5 | Light | Short | Open stage |
| Incredible Vanishing, The | Denise Coffey | Abe Books | 1973 | 1 | M8 F2 | A play for young people | ||
| Joining the Club | David Tristram | Samuel French | M1 F1 | Comedy | Flying Ducks Production | |||
| Kind Cousin | Janet Allen | 1954 | 2 | M2 F5 | Play | 2 acts | ||
| Last of the Brylcream Boys | Paul Gator | New Playwrights Network | 1 | F3 + 2 | Comedy | One Act | ||
| Last Tango in Little Grimley | David Tristram | Samuel French | 7 | M2 F2 | Comedy | Flying Ducks Production | ||
| Lighthouse Keepers Daughter | Muriel & Richard Eldridge | Samuel French | 1 | M3 F2 + 1 | Comedy | Only the Narrator speaks, the other actors mime. | ||
| Little Lights of Kimberley The | Harry Austin | Samuel French | M4 F1 | Comedy | 16 | Period 1882 (late Victorian) | ||
| Little Red Whittington | Richard Tydeman | Abe Books | 1960 | 1 | M2 F2 + 6 | a crazy mixed-up pantomime of a minidrama | Short | |
| Looking for Rosy | Leonard Morely | NewPlayrights Network | 1980 | 5 | 5 | Comedy | Out of print? | |
| Love by Appointment | Anthony Lesser | Doollee | 1965 | 2 | M4 F5 | Comedy | ||
| Mantrap | Paul Reakes | Samuel French | 1985 | 7 | M3 F2 | Thriller | ||
| Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn | Constance Cox | Samuel French | 3 | M5 F9 | Melodrama | Short Length | Period Victorian | |
| Maurice (Dancing) | Michael Snelgrove | Samuel French | 1983 | 10 | 16+ | Comedy | ||
| Murder at Worthy Towers | Wendy Gomm | 1 | Out of print | |||||
| Music Hall Miscellany | edited by Michael Kilgarriff | Samuel French | 1977 | 4 | Comedy | Four riotous routines :- The Molecatcher, Who will man the lifeboat, The tram track tragedy, The master and the maid. | ||
| Neck of the Woods | Paul Gater | A | 1 | M2 F1 | Comedy | One Act | ||
| Nellie's Nightlights | Harry Austin | Samuel French | M4 F3 | Comedy | 42 | Period 1902 | ||
| Noble Spaniard, The | W. Somerset Maugham | Abe Books | 1909 | 1 | M4 F5 | Farce | 3 acts | An amusing farce as an impetuous wooer challenges all and sundry to duels of honour. Romantic and charming, this play carries us back to the days of crinolines and velvet collars. |
| None The Wiser | Anthony Booth | Samuel French | 1970 | 6 | 7 | Comedy | Out of print? | |
| Oedocles, King of Thebes | Michael Green | Samuel French | 2000 | 3 | M2 F6 or M4 F4 | Comedy | Short | Part of Coarse Acting Strikes Back |
| Paper Chain, The | Falkland L. Cary & Ivan Butler | Abe Books | 1953 | 1 | M3 F6 | Drama | 3 acts | |
| Plaza Suite | Neil Simon | Samuel French | 1969 | 1 | M3/2/2 F1/2 | Comedy | 3 acts | The comedy consists of three separate plays all occurring in the same hotel suite, and all parts can be played by separate artists. In the first play, Visitor from Marmoneck, a middle-aged couple re-visit the hotel room of their honeymoon –but the arrangement does not end as romantically as might have been expected. Visitor from Hollywood recounts the meeting of two old flames and what can happen under the influence of repeating magic Hollywood names. The last play, Visitor from Forest Hills, tells of a mother and father and their daughter who has locked herself in the bathroom and refuses to come out for her wedding. |
| Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner, The | David Wood | Samuel French | 1972 | 1 | M6 F4 | Play | Full length | A musical play or children. The insects in the garden are overshadowed by humans – the Big Ones. Infuriated by constant 'spraying', Slug, Greenfly and Maggot call for rebellion and ruination of the garden. The others oppose this, and war is declared. The garden goes to ruin, and the Big Ones decide to build a garage on it. The insects combine forces to restore the garden to its original beauty and thus preserve their home. |
| Pride At Southanger Park | Rupert Bean | Samuel French | 2000 | 3 | M5 F4 | Comedy | Short | Part of Coarse Acting Strikes Back |
| Rhyming Christmas Carol | Richard Coleman | Lazy Bee Scripts | 2004 | 4 | M4 F3 + 6 | Panto | 15 | |
| Rose King of Gisors The | Neil Fetton | New Playwrights Network | 1 | M2 F5 | Comedy | Period 1880 | ||
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | Samuel French | 1967 | 1 | M14 F2 | Comedy | Full length | |
| Round and Round the Garden | Alan Ayckbourn | Samuel French | 1975 | 1 | M3 F3 | Play | Full length | Third play in the Norman Conquests trilogy |
| Sailor Beware | Philip King and Falkland Cary | Samuel French | 1955 | 2 | M4 F5 | Comedy | Full length | |
| Shadows of the Evening | Noel Coward | Samuel French | 1966 | 1 | M2 (28, 50s) F2 (45, 50) | Play | Short | |
| Spring and Port Wine | Bill Naughton | 1958 | 1 | M4 (18, 23, 30, 50) F4 (19, 25, middle age, 47) | Comedy | Full length | ||
| Temptation Sordid or Virtue Rewarded | Winifred Phelps | Samuel French | 1960 | 2 | M2 F3 | Melodrama | ||
| The Recco | Falkland L Cary | 1953 | 1 | M2 F3 | Suspense | One act | ||
| There's No Business … | Derek Lomas | Evans Brothers | 1968 | 18 | 9 | Comedy | Out of print? | |
| This Village I know | Tom Piggott | Samuel French | 1 | F6 + 1 | Play | A play for women | ||
| Tinder Box The | Hans Christian Andersen | 14+ | Adapted by Mary Howarth and Peter Redmond | |||||
| Too Soon for Daiseys | William Dinner and William Morum | Abe Books | 1964 | 1 | M5 F3 | Comedy Thriller | 2 acts | |
| Trapped | Michael Green | Samuel French | 2000 | 3 | M3 F6 | Comedy | Short | Part of Coarse Acting Strikes Back |
| Virtuous Burglar The | Darious Fo | Samuel French | M4 F3 | 6 | M4 F3 | Comedy | Short, 1 act | One of several plays in Dario Fo, Plays:1 |
| Waiting for Gillian | Ronald Millar | Doollee | 1954 | 1 | M5 F4 | Play | Full length | |
| When the Old Cock Crows | Joe Corrie | Abe Books | 1948 | 1 | M2 F3 | A Rural Comedy | One act | Very dated. |
| Wimbledon Fortnight | Patricia A May | NewPlayrights Network | 6 | 6 | Comedy | Out of Print? |
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