Cinderella and Juliet commiserate about romantic love, happily ever after and what went wrong with their marriages.

(One Act Comedy - Three women)

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Recent Productions:
Oregon State U.
Sonoma State U.
The Repertory Company
Milligan College
Reynolds High School

With a reptilian bartender acting as matchmaker, the future of the human race looks anything but promising when a sophisticated Eve meets the hunky but dim Adam over apple martinis at the Garden of Eden Bar & Grill.

(One Act Comedy - 2 Males, 1 Female)

Recent Productions:
Gordon College
GRAPA, Australia
Firestone Theatre
Sonoma State U.
Tennesse State U.
Chesapeake Theatre

"We staged a cabaret-style season of your plays and songs – the whole concept was enthusiastically received…the audiences particularly enjoyed "In the Beginning" and "Cindy & Julie." We are aiming to do it all again towards Christmas."

Bernie Maxwell
GRAPA
(Griffith NSW Australia)

Two masochists form a romantic relationship based on mutual rejection.

(1 male, 1 female)

"...If I tell you that the text has been inspired by Bruce Kane’s Masochism Tango , it should give you some idea of the nature of the verbal exchanges. If Woody Allen or Mike Nichols and Elaine May had gone in for movement theater, they might have talked like this."

Allan Ulrich
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Recent Productions:
West Wave Dance Festival
Coffee Creek Playhouse

Four friends participate in a dance of shifting romances, friendships and betrayals.

..."I Can Explain," by Bruce Kane, is a short American play on the same theme, more implicit, but also more extravagant and just as funny!"
Claude Vedder
Strasbourg

(One act comedy -2 males, 2 females, 2 off-stage voices)

Recent Productions
FEATS Festival, Strasbourg, France

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An open marriage almost collapses when the husband admits he hasn't been sleeping with anyone.

(1 male, 1 female)
Recent Productions:
RAF Lyneham Theatre Club

A man and woman who might have been perfect for each other meet at exactly the wrong time in their lives... or is it?

(1 male - 1 female)

What goes through the mind of two people involved in a one night stand that is going nowhere.

(1 male, 1 female)

An insecure super hero has trouble completing a liaison with his rival's wife.

(One act comedy - 1 man, 1 woman)

Upcoming Production
Indio Performing Arts Center

An actress refuses to play her scene in the nude only to become jealous of her replacement, who, it turns out, does not actually exist.

(One act comedy - 1 female, 4 males , 1 role either male or female)

Productions:
Oregon State U.

A relationship between two people taken with their own sense of emotional honesty and openess quickly rises and falls from a lack of emotional honesty and openess when the subject of sex is introduced into the conversation.

(1 male, 1 female)

A single woman recounts her dates with Frankenstein, The Wolfman and Dracula while bending the truth to the on-line dating service with which she's registering.

(One Act Comedy - 1 major female & 5 small male roles)

Recent Production
Bancroft Theater Guild

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What looks like an intense confrontation between a couple facing a break-up over his infidelities turns out to be something quite different. Think cellphones in public places.

(1 male - 1 female)

With a hip hop style Roman Chorus providing narration, Julius Caesar tries to prevent the luscious Cleopatra, the ambitious Brutus, the lean and hungry Cassius and the dim witted Marc Antony from knifing him in the back in this bawdy romp about the folks who ran the Roman Empire - right into the ground.

(This is the full length, unabridged version)

"The Case Of The Prince Formerly Known As Hamlet"

Winner
Audience Appreciation Award
Cambridge, UK Drama Festival

Tough talking, hardboiled detective Justin Thyme travels to 11th century Denmark to find out who whacked Hamlet's old man and runs into a king named Claudius who wants him dead, a prince named Hamlet who doesn't know what he wants and a dame named Ophelia who wants everything including Thyme.

"The Maltese Falcon" meets "Hamlet."

Productions:
Pasadena City College
Cambridge Theatre Festival-UK
Crestwood Preparatory College

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"The Case Of
The Tale Told By An Idiot"

Justin Thyme, the hard boiled fictional detective, almost gets burned by an old flame by the name of Lady MacBeth, when he's hired to find out who bumped off the King of Scotland.

Recent Productions:
Mold Drama Works - UK

"The Case Of The Really Big Dog Of The Baskervilles"

"Film noir" meets Sherlock Holmes when Justin Thyme, the hard boiled fictional detective, is summoned to the fog shrouded moors of nineteenth century England to discover his client dead and a list of suspects that includes the heir to the murdered man's fortune, a slow moving butler, a butterfly collector, a beautiful woman who isn't what she seems to be... and a four hundred year old dog, the size of a Buick.

Recent productions:
West Valley High School, Fairbanks, Alaska

A snippy stage manager gets carried away in his/her instructions to the audience regarding proper behaviour during the performance of the play to follow. Can precede any production.

Prince Charming gives the lowdown on his ex-wives Sleeping Beauty,Snow White and Rapunzel , wicked stepmothers-in-law and the perils of trying to fulfill every woman's fantasy.
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An insecure and paranoid playwright talks about writing and women two things he seems to know little about.

1 minute monologue

The trouble with a woman who keeps changing.

(Read the companion monologue "Dolores On Jeff" further down this column)

A manifesto for men saddled with dorky names.

Ophelia dishes on the royal family while explaining why she has to marry Hamlet or die

A sexy superhero talks about sexism among the caped crusader set, her fling with Superman and why only Julia Roberts can play her on screen.