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actor98
Walk-On Joined: 9/07/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 6 |
Posted: 9/07/08 at 1:55am |
You may want to try The Dining Room by A. R. Gurney. Small cast 3 M 3 F, basically all you need is a dining room table. Very funny with some really touching scenes as well. We did it to great response.
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Acting is the art of speaking in a loud clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture-Alfred Lunt
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Chris
Walk-On Joined: 9/19/08 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 9/19/08 at 1:36pm |
What do you mean by small-cast?
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mrlloyd23
Walk-On Joined: 9/16/08 Online Status: Offline Posts: 7 |
Posted: 10/02/08 at 2:19pm |
Our Town is a good choice. Lots of parts and you can include teenagers, adults, and children. Also since it's a simple set and all the props are pantomimed it keeps costs low. It's always a crowd pleaser.
You could always consider writing your own script as well. I worked with a community theatre a few years ago we wrote a three part soap opera- it included lots of local colour. It was quite low on the scale of artisitic merit, but the community ate it up.
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John Luzaich
Celebrity Joined: 2/24/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 174 |
Posted: 4/09/09 at 12:17pm |
ChrissyB, take a look at Death By Chocolate, by Paul Freed.
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John
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Doc Theatre
Walk-On Joined: 4/10/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 4/14/09 at 7:50am |
Here is a great play suggestion for everyone - especially in these times! We did it and it paid for itself in the first three days! It even served to fund a rather expensive show now scheduled for October. The Faery's Kiss is a romantic comedy, low budget, cast of eight (more if you want extras). The reviews and audience reactions were wonderful - many even saw it twice duing its two-week run. We even may reprise it in a year or so as a fundraiser!
The royalties are low and it comes with lots of extras. I've copied and pasted the synopsis below:
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'The Faery's Kiss' is a modern stageplay in the old folktale tradition!
Thomas is the new owner of a rural coastal cottage. He inherited the house from a grandfather he never knew. Everyone says the place is haunted. He finds that the place in inhabited by a woman named Fay Sprite. She appears to Thomas as an attractive adult woman who is naturally mischievous, sexy and has a delightful personality... but she is not the girl of his dreams! She may look normal but she is a powerful Faery - and she doesn't want him there! Usually only he can see her. She keeps his head in a spin while he is trying to fit in with the townspeople of a new country. Also, she is trying to protect a secret that others are trying to steal - knowing this new owner may be duped by them. The story has been extremely well researched in Faery Lore and Legend. The tale has all the traditional elements of Celtic folktales: love, magic, elements of the bittersweet, mystery, humour and good triumphing over evil - all the things that have made storytelling so famous for a millennium! Goto: http://faeryskiss.angelfire.com
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GoWithTheFlo
Walk-On Joined: 6/13/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 6/13/09 at 7:49pm |
You might consider this: http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4031&PID=21481#2148
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Jo Norland
Walk-On Joined: 5/22/09 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 6/14/09 at 1:28am |
Check out my one-act, 'Mothers Have Nine Lives', which can be viewed free on http://www.singlelane.com/proplay/mothers.html.
Nine very different women explore the highs and lows of modern motherhood. Cast -- 3-12 (it works well with each actor taking on multiple roles and with adults playing the roles of children). It premiered off Broadway, and has had a number of commercially successful productions since
Good luck making-theatre-happen!!
Jo
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WrenCharlie
Walk-On Joined: 4/23/09 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 6/29/09 at 1:33pm |
Trust me on this one: Check into doing the show "Dearly Beloved." It is written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten. It is a Southern comedy full of laughs and - other community theatres will echo this -- it is a box office it. There are also two sequels, "Christmas Belles" and "Southern Hospitality." I've directed both and they were phenomenal hits.
Learn more about the shows at www.joneshopewooten.com
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Dough Boy
Walk-On Joined: 3/20/06 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 6/29/09 at 2:58pm |
To add to WrenCharlie, Don't forget Dearly Departed which is the prequel...or original. which ever one you want to call it to Dearly Beloved. Fuuny too.
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