What are the best play scripts you would recommend?

Question

I'm on the play committee for a small community theatre and I'm looking for suggestions of plays to read and propose to the committee. After exhausting the list of plays I'm familiar with, I scanned the Sam French catalogue for ideas, but I don't have 100's of dollars to spend buying scripts to read. Does anyone have suggestions for plays you have read/ directed/ acted in that you could recommend? Usually we look for a cast of 10 or less; the community seems to lean more toward comedies, but we have done some dramas and musicals as well.

Answer 1

Over the River and Through the Woods---it is a fabulous play!!
Blithe Spirit---a classic and great
You Can't Take it With You--lots of action and fun but a classic
The Boys Next Door--GREAT
Crimes of the Heart
The Invisible Dragon--SO MUCH FUN

Too name a few!!!

Answer 2

Have you tried any of the "Tuna" Plays. "Greater Tuna" A Tuna Christmas" and "Red White and Tuna" The shows only have 3 characters, all men who play all the parts, some women. These are very funny fast pased shows. They are a great crowd pleaser. These shows take a ver talented cast and crew.

Answer 3

NOISES OFF. The most fabulous piece of comedic theatre ever written. A work of genius, and with an extremely small cast.

Answer 4

I did a play called Father's been to Mars... its from the 50's.

first run through it seems kinda dorky. but with the right people its really cool.

you kinda have to play with the script in some parts.

dalzel & mitzman are the writers.

Answer 5

Don't pay for the scripts. Tell the school which scripts you want to purchase and tell them to reimburse you, or, give the school the information and let a teacher buy the scripts.