Books published by Samuel French Ltd

The story of "Puss in Boots" is combined with "Cinderella" in this play. With outrageous characters, jokes, and a fast-moving plot, this is suitable for both large and small-scale production.

K.O. Samuel's adaptation of Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood - a pantomime.Large flexible cast

A modern morality play wherein Michael and Tom, petty thieves, are interrogated by a Man and and a Woman who wish to be rid of a certain man. They send the thieves to spy on him but Michael runs away rather than betray him. Tom informs but later regrets his action. Both are taken out to die on either side of the man.|1 woman, 3 men

Ben finds himself transported to the Land of Dotties. He discovers he can only return home if he lights up the Five Magic Stones. The Rhythmic Dice, the Joker, the Master crossword and Jigsaw each present Ben with a puzzling test which he must complete in a time set by the King. This delightful play by Carol Younghusband is a funny and exciting tale with a moral, for performance to children aged 4 to 9.|Large flexible cast

An original, highly-imaginative and stimulating entertainment for children, whether as actors or members of the audience. Based on the classic characters created by Edward Lear's verse set to music adapted from traditional folk tunes.-Large flexible cast

The television drama department is short of performing space. Director Guy's drama is shunted into a small room and he is beset with problems. The cast come to loggerheads but after a 'calming' break return to find their space double-booked by would-be contestants on an idiotic panel show. When the Head of Drama drops into the rehearsal the drama turns into a farce...12 women, 5 men

Long retired from the operatic stage, the famous soprano, Tryphosa Swan, is still a force to be reckoned with. Impulsive, imperious, and incredibly rich, she has only one regret in life. Abandoned as a baby, she has never known who her real mother was. An unexpected clue prompts her to confide in her only close friend, Marianne, who advises her to let sleeping dogs lie. But Tryphosa has never taken advice and hires a genealogist with unexpected results. Her uneasy relationship with her two daughters deteriorates, and when, in an act of pique, she decides to change her will yet again, the grim spectre of Death appears. And the killing doesn't stop.4 women, 2 men

Forming the first part of the David Hare Trilogy (which also comprises of Murmuring Judges and The Absence of War) Racing Demon focuses on the Church of England. A disparate body, the Church now finds itself attracting unwanted publicity, wracked by the dissension of its members on matters of doctrine and practice and at odds with the government. In this climate the Reverend Lionel Espy and his team of clergymen struggle to make sense of their mission in South London, as the arrival of a zealous young curate intensifies their personal and professional problems.3 women, 8 men

Baron Victor Von Frankenstein, bored with his attempts to give life to the lifeless, has turned his attention to curing the supposedly incurable! In a grim castle in the Carpathian Mountains he and his long suffering wife Elisabeth, the unsavory hunchback Ygor, the Valkyrian Frau Lurker and the Monster play host to various mysterious and menacing denizens of the night (invited or otherwise) who visit the Baron to beg him to rid them of their vices. But this challenge, although a welcome diversion for the headstrong young scientist, proves to be no picnic ... more of a living nightmare! A highly entertaining wise cracking comedy horror!-4 women, 6 men

When Brian takes up jogging, his wife Hilary is not surprised. She has often told him he should exercise more after all the business lunches he consumes. But when Brian is ostensibly running round the park, he is, in fact, spending a couple of hours with his girlfriend, Wendy, in his good friend George's flat. The arrangement works well for some time, for while Brian is visiting Wendy, helpful George knows that there is no danger of his own dalliance being discovered; for the object of his affection is Brian's wife, Hilary! It is all plain sailing until George's wife Jessica returns too soon from a business trip to America and puts the cat among the pigeons.-3 women, 2 men

John Garrard is a successful manufacturer who is driven by a compulsion to use and consume the world and the people around him. He is briefly intensely curious about everything he comes across, particularly other people's worlds: their religious beliefs, their sexual and artistic yearnings and their feelings about him. During one climactic night amid the hectic activities of a trade fair in Germany, it looks as if he will be forced to turn his sharp eyes upon himself and come face to face at last with silence and darkness.2 women, 11 men

Paul Reakes' pantomimes include many original twists to the familiar stories, with plenty of audience participation. They can be staged as simply or as elaborately as desired. Choice of music is left to the director.Large flexible cast

Combines the traditional tale of Mother Goose with spirited songs and dances (to be chosen by the director). Plenty of opportunity for audience participation, led by irascible Billy, Mother Goose's son. Fun packed action centers on the wicked squire's bailiffs and Priscilla, the Magical Goose, instantly endears herself to all. And Fairy Harmony succeeds in helping good overcome evil and happiness prevails once more.-3 women, 1 man, 7 women or men

The audience are taken back to Nursery-rhyme land for this lively pantomime of adventure, comedy and magic with all the traditional favourites: the good fairy, Georgie Porgie, Old King Cole, and his scatty Queen Mattiwilda, Dame Sprightly and her son Tom, who rescues the Princess from the naughty Knave of Hearts and his not-so-naughty villains Buckett and Spade.-Large flexible cast

A fairy tale in which a strange little man saves a miller's daughter from death by spinning straw into gold and demands her first born child in exchange. He will only allow her to keep her if she can discover his name.

Lady Isabel is cunningly seduced by the villain into believing that the clandestine meetings of her husband and another woman are for romance rather than business. In despair, she abandons home and children, only to come back in later years disguised as a governess to her own children and to die in her husband's arms in heartbroken penitence and forgiveness.-5 women, 4 men

In this rich and humorous portrayal of eighteenth-century rural life, Geoffrey Beevers remains true to George Eliot's original novel. Adam Bede, a young carpenter of integrity, loves Hetty Sorrel, a pretty and self-centred dairymaid, who herself dreams of Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire. Arthur cannot resist seducing her, and their passion has tragic consequences for the whole community.|3 women, 3 men

From the nationally recognized Educational Theatre Association's Thespian Playworks competition come four short scripts - all created by high school-aged playwrights! Included in this volume are: The Actuality of Henri by Jacob Sellars The Christian Soothsayer by Aaron Robertson The Crib by Steve Rathje Houdini Will Die by Sage Voorhees

This High School Edition of See Rock City & Other Destinations is a contemporary musical about connections missed and made at tourist destinations across America. A wanderer believes his destiny is written on rooftops along the North Carolina Interstate. A young man yearns to connect with intelligent life in Roswell, New Mexico. A woman at the Alamo steps out of the shadow of her grandparents' idealized romance to take a chance on love. Three estranged sisters cruise to Glacier Bay t

Eleven short animal plays which may be done individually or in combination with any of the others.

This collection contains a harrowing tale of the later lives of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, two girls obsessed by a movie contemplating homicide, a couple doomed to rehearse their tragedy on the stage of a theatre for eternity, a dark little play about the relationship of leprechauns to cannibalism, the tale of Peter Rabbit told from the point of view of the very disturbed Mr McGregor, a third rate horror movie villain lamenting his life on a zombie island, the end of the observable univers

In this wild sex farce, Vanessa's marriage to Cooper has grown stale. She wants excitement and passion. He merely wants to provide for her the best way he knows how: fishing. While Cooper is out at sea, Vanessa receives a visit from a mysterious traveling salesman with a bag full of danger. And he's not the only one new in town: a ravenously horny giant squid and octopus have settled in under the dock, ready for whomever comes their way.

Listed in Out Magazine's Top-10-Stage-Plays of 2012! In Wolves, two men's folie à deux overtakes their small apartment and spills out onto city streets. When ex-boyfriend Jack brings a strange man home to woodland-obsessed Ben's apartment, the Narrator can barely keep a lid on the looming violence. This "deconstruction" of the Little Red Riding Hood story is a darkly comic, predatory fairy tale for adults that explores the conflation of sex and fear in modern culture, the comfort of lava la

After Anthony's father passes away, old family members are reunited after not having been on the best of terms for over a decade. This is a hilarious take on all of the fun characters that show up at a funeral home. This is a sequel to Anthony J. Wilkinson's 'My Big Gay Italian Wedding, ' and including some of the same characters

Winners! 2012 Baker's Plays High School Playwriting Competition Baker's Plays has been an advocate for theater in schools for over one hundred years. In the spirit of that commitment, we offer this playwriting competition for High School students. Plays may be about any subject and of any length. It is our hope that this competition will encourage aspiring high school authors to explore the creative possibilities of writing for the stage. This collection includes the winners of the 2012 competition. Includes: A Study of Limits by Emily Cutler - 1st Place Entropy Increasing in a Closed System by Justin Krasner-Karpen - 2nd Place Forsooth! by Connor M. Foley - 3rd Place

Boots, a girl who wears yellow rain boots even when it's not raining, and a boy called Eggs take a journey through memory and imagination following the sudden death of their friend, Peter. As Eggs dreams of asking Boots to the upcoming Favorites Dance, Boots loses herself in a world of fallen leaves, consumed by her quest to remember the last words Peter said to her before he died. The Swing of the Sea is a play about growing old without aging that examines the way fantasy and memory conv

Winner! 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Best Play Winner! 2013 Drama Desk Special Award for Significant Contribution to Theatre Winner! 2013 GLAAD Media Award, Outstanding New York Theatre Nominee! 2013 Drama League Award, Outstanding Production of a Play Nominee! 2013 Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play Nominee! 2013 John Gassner Award, Oustanding New American Play On the outskirts of Mormon Country, Idaho, a six hundred pound recluse hides aw

A forty-year-old mother, depressed after her birthday, goes on a prescription drug and chimichanga binge while her daughter and her daughter's BFF plan to lure her back home. In the meantime, the girls' fathers are keeping a secret of their own.

It's the day of the grand fete in Merrydale, and Willard "Wiggles" Wigglesworth has brought his hot air balloon along to give rides to the townsfolk.