"Eggshells" is a play set in a young University in Ngaza, a fictional province in Kenya.First year students are just about to begin their studies when they notice an abominable stench issuing from within the lecture room...Diabla, the once virtuous lady, turns dangerously carefree and the perfidy that follows her life, together with her bosom friends', leaves theatregoers drop-jawed.

Bill Johnson uses reviews of Romeo and Juliet, The Heidi Chronicles, Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, and The Iceman Cometh to teach the art and craft of writing powerful plays. Using these plays, he shows how new playwrights can learn the craft of writing for theater from masters of the stage.Bill is author of the website, A Story is a Promise, where he writes about popular novels, films, and plays. He's also the author of A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling, a popular h...

This play for children to perform is humorously based on the book by Robert Louis Stevenson. There are the usual characters such as Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver; and then there are others, such as Long John's Parrot, Poly-Narrator who takes on several small parts, and some strangely-named pirates. As Poly-Narrator says, "Avast there. A'fore we can present our little presentation, we must have a disclaimer. This here presentation of Treasure Island is based on the book by Robert Louis S...

Daylight Saving's Time is a new policy in the corporation of Time, and the hour Two is not happy. She loses her hour to hour Three for nothing. So, she decides she will not take it and travels up the corporate ladder to do something about it. She goes to Summer, Winter, Spring, and even Annual to get someone to listen to her. She will not have her hour handed over to Three just in the name of progress.

With the doors locked, the windows welded shut, and MetaNet.com's water cooler empty for days, poor Roger has done the unthinkable—he drank the tap water. Now the Department of New Media is short-handed and behind schedule, plus there's a dead body cluttering the hallway. But Roger will be remembered fondly—especially by the lucky employee who manages to swipe his ergonomic keyboard.The surviving employees plot for survival and escape, under the close inspection of Dirk, the new Vi...

A slam dunk! In this large-cast comedy, Cinderella has to answer the "Magic" question to get the Prince in this fun one-act stage play for performance or classwork.

A kitbag of unconventional stories that capture a slice of the lives of quirky couples in prose and snappy dialogue. A feisty married pair return to familiar ground to rekindle romance. Veteran actors respond to a challenge to find the magic of Hepburn and Tracy. Supermarket shoppers overcome preconceptions of the boundaries of friendship over a bottle of sauce. Ambitious real estate entrepreneurs try to separate the fire from the smoke of a deal. A forest preserve provides the playground ...

Down in the desolation of the desert of MedicanBow, Wyoming standing off depression and different verisations of the dark night of the soul. four characters nurse there troubles away with coffee, cigarettes and over done under done to luke worm steaks at the Virginian motel. a tragic comedy of the battle of over the sexes, with in the femanist mind set of the new man. a nonwyoming tail of wyoming.

These two children's plays, royalty-free comedic fairy tales, Alice in Cyberland and The Emperor's New Clothes, may be performed by actors of all ages, featuring audience participation.

The two short plays in this book deal with the topic of aliens--although they make only one true appearance. "Aliens! 3 Miles, Turn Left" is a monologue by a man who, one night, found aliens in his backyard, and reacted as many humans would--by killing them. But what to do with the bodies? Roadside show place! "Abducted!" is a one-act play about the investigation into the disappearance of two children, whose mother claims they were abducted by an alien spacecraft. The detective on the case...

Jesse Williams has all the answers to all the questions, but what happens when a life-changing incident turns those answers to questions?----Despite the hand that life has dealt Jesse, he always felt under control. He was the one who decided his own fate. After the incident, Jesse is different, his life is different, and his ex-wife Desiree has certainly noticed. Can Jesse handle how he now sees things or will the old Jesse return? ----We all battle something or someone. We battle against ...

In 1848 Henry David Thoreau, a young man of twenty-one, met and fell in love with Ellen Sewall, a young woman aged seventeen. This play, From Lake Walden, With Love, is based on what is known of their relationship.