Bruce Kane Productions presents a collection of original comedy plays designed for theatres, drama groups, schools, and community productions. Each evening-length collection offers audiences a variety of characters, situations, and styles ranging from Shakespearean parody to romantic comedy and theatrical satire.
Love and Other Natural Disasters
A wildly entertaining evening of comedy plays exploring romance, relationships, misunderstandings, and the many unexpected disasters created by love.
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Stages – A Full Evening of Theatre Comedy
Step into the spotlight with Stages, a delightful evening of short comedy plays that celebrate the colorful characters who bring every theater to life—onstage and off. From seasoned actors to hopeful amateurs, a scene-stealing invisible understudy, a frazzled director, a stage manager keeping the chaos at bay, a blocked writer and her mischievous muse, even a pair of singing stagehands—no one escapes the drama (or the laughs). And, of course, no show would be complete without the most vital part of any theater... the audience. Full of wit, warmth, and backstage mayhem, Stages is a love letter to the magic of live performance and the unforgettable people who make it happen.
AmazonI, Colitus – A Roman Farce
A fast-paced comedy set during the final days of Julius Caesar. A clever slave - Colitus Ventriculitus - attempts to guide the great Caesar in and around the watchful eye of his wife Calpurnia and the schemes of Cleopatra, Brutus, and Cassius in this wild historical farce.
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Hardboiled Hamlet – Shakespeare Meets Film Noir
When the King of Denmark fears for his life, he summons hardboiled private
eye Richard Shamus—ace investigator of the F.B.I. (that’s the Fictional Bureau
of Investigation). But before Shamus can get any answers, the king turns up
dead, leaving behind a single demand: find his killer and help his reluctant
son, Prince Hamlet, settle the score. With no witnesses, a ghostly client who
won’t stay quiet, and a brooding prince who couldn’t care less, Shamus is in for
the toughest case of his career. His prime suspects? The cunning, live wire
Queen Gertrude, her power-hungry new husband and former brother-in-law Claudius,
and the alluring Lady Ophelia—a femme fatale with an agenda of her own. As lies
pile up and the bodies start falling, Shamus realizes one thing for certain:
something is definitely rotten in the state of Denmark. A sharp-witted mashup of
Shakespearean drama and noir detective fiction, Hardboiled Hamlet is a
thrilling, darkly comedic
whodunit where the Bard meets the mean streets.
Shakespeare in the Wrong Hands
Beloved Shakespeare characters including Hamlet, Romeo, Juliet, Lady Macbeth, and others appear in unexpected comic situations that would surprise even the Bard himself.
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