Books from Samuel French

  • Departure: A Play
    By Stephen Smith

    Stranded in an airport lounge during the inevitable delay of a holiday flight to Spain, Rosemary - "I m a one-parent family, you see" - and her carbon-copy, not-very-bright daughter, Mandy, draw the reluctant Dennis and Shelia Tippit into a ...

  • The Playwright's Companion, 1991: Submission Guide to Theatres and Contests in the U. S. A.
    By Mollie A. Meserve, Mollie Ann Merserve

    The Playwright's Companion, 1991: Submission Guide to Theatres and Contests in the U. S. A.

  • How the Other Half Loves: A Comedy
    By Alan Ayckbourn

    National Theatre, Louis A. Lotito, managing director, Michael Myerberg, Peter Bridge, and Eddie Kulukundis in association with Lawrence Shubert Lawrence present Phil Silvers, Sandy Dennis in "How the Other Half Loves," a comedy by Alan ...

  • My Very Own Story: A Play for Children
    By Alan Ayckbourn

    Due to an unfortunate triple booking, three storytellers, Peter, Paul and Percy, arrive simultaneously each to tell his own story.

  • Wolf at the Door: A Play
    By Alan Ayckbourn, Henry Becque

    Wolf at the Door: A Play

  • Shock!: A Thriller
    By Brian Clemens

    Air hostess Maggie, who lives in a converted windmill, has invited Ann and Terry, her latest pilot, to celebrate her birthday.

  • Grand Hotel: The Musical
    By Robert Wright, Luther Davis, George Forrest

    Grand Hotel: The Musical

  • Mary and Inner Healing
    By Gloria Hutchinson

    Mary and Inner Healing

  • Laying the Ghost: A Play
    By Simon Williams

    Margot Buchanan is a witty ex-actress in a retirement home.

  • The Collector
    By David Parker

    The Collector

  • What's a Teen to Do?: Developing Helping Skills with 14 to 16 Year Olds
    By John A. Flanagan

    I asked Clare in the school cafeteria on Tuesday guess so , ” she replied tentatively . We got our trays and sat down at an empty table . I figured no one would join us because of Clare's aloofness . I was glad when no one did because I ...

  • Tom Kitten and His Friends: A Play with Songs
    By Beatrix Potter, Adrian Mitchell, Stephen McNeff

    An adaptation of four Beatrix Potter stories: The Story of Miss Moppet; The Tale of Two Bad Mice; The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit; and The Tale of Tom Kitten.

  • Blood Brothers: A Musical
    By Willy Russell

    Musical drama / 5 male, 3 female, plus small chorus Scenery: Interiors/ExteriorsBlood Brothers, by the author of Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, is ahauntying rags to riches tragedy of our...

  • Prin: A Play
    By Andrew Davies

    While Prin lords it over one and all, one and all are making plans to be free from her. Prin emerges as a character whose noble ideals are doomed by her arrogant insensitivity.3 women, 3 men

  • This is where We Came in: A Play
    By Alan Ayckbourn

    Fred is waiting for the show to start. The Players arrive: Nell, Bethany, Talitha, Jenkin, Albert and a strange mechanized creature, Kevin on Keyboards. They tell Fred that they are...

  • Improbable Fiction: A Comedy
    By Alan Ayckbourn

    Six aspiring authors meet on a winter's evening to discuss their work. Among them are writers of historical romances and children's literature who are finding it difficult to start writing,...

  • Body Language: A Play
    By Alan Ayckbourn

    There is an awful accident at a cosmetic surgery clinic; overweight reporter Jo and glamour model Angie are beheaded by a helicopter. But never fear, infamous surgeon Hravic knows exactly...

  • Murder for Two
    By Kellen Blair, Joe Kinosian

    "Officer Marcus Moscowicz is a small town policeman with dreams of making it to detective. One fateful night, shots ring out at the surprise birthday party of Great American Novelist...

  • Caught in the Net: The Sequel to Run for Your Wife : a Comedy
    By Ray Cooney

    Farce / Characters: 4 male, 3 femaleScenery: Unit setThe sequel to Run for Your Wife finds the bigamist taxi driver John Smith still keeping his two families in different parts...

  • Relatively Speaking: A New Comedy
    By Alan Ayckbourn

    Relatively Speaking: A New Comedy