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Act Your Age

A Musical Farce for your mature cast described as " a rare combination of wonderful new music, belly ache humour and farce." Celebrity Sanctuary is a clinic that offers relaxation for A Listers. It has however, fallen on hard times. When  the owner, receives a call from “...

Alice In Downunder Land

A delightfully unique Australian story combing the timeless tales of Alice in Wonderland, Mary had a Little Lamb, and Waltzing Matilda. Set in the Australian bush and performed entirely by children; the story is designed to appeal to an audience of pre school and primary school age children....

Barbecue

Barbecue is a play about many things including the Australian cultural ritual, the “barby”. It is intended to be performed in a space where audience members can feel they are an integral part of the event. Sausages (or other inexpensive goodies) are cooked on a gas barbecue throughout...

Barney's Fair

If you’re Irish, come into the parlour... so goes the old song... If you’ve ever encountered Murphy’s Law, if you enjoy Irish songs, Irish jokes and Irish logic, you’ll really enjoy Barney’s Fair! The story unfolds as an Irish family, aided and abetted by the befuddled...

Bondi Legal

A comedy thriller described as Erin Brockovich meets the Castle, based on a true story. Hapless anxiety prone lawyer Brad Pitt ( no relation )  turns up to fill in for the day for a lawyer on holiday and is thrust unprepared into a complex case where a mother is suing a chemical...

Boy's Own Mcbeth

  Boy’s Own McBeth toured Australia and the US from 1979 until 1982. It was the longest running Australian written musical ever..staged with more than 600 performances and was only eclipsed in the 1990’s by The Boy From Oz. What the critics said.... “A combination of Welcome...

Cinderella Meets the Mother-in-law

Prince Charming and Cinderella arrive back at the palace after their fairy-tale wedding. Cinderella is shocked to learn that the search for the missing glass slipper was instigated by  Prince Charming’s mother, Queen Imelda, who has a shoe fetish. The  magic slippers are confiscated...

Crazy Ladies

An outrageous comedy. Five school friends stage their own reunion after 25 years apart. Friendships are rekindled, secrets are revealed, a janitor is kidnapped! Cast: 5 Female / 1 Male Length: Two Acts (110 minutes) Genre: Comedy Synopsis... Pamela Browne has organized a 25 year reunion for her...

Cruise Club

  Set sail for adventure on the cruise of a life-time to Bermuda aboard the beautiful Costa Lotta.  But it’s not all smooth sailing.  Someone is trying to poison the passengers and nobody knows who will be next.    Will they make it through the Bermuda Triangle? Will...

Dame Agatha's Greatest Case

Murder mystery spoof.  An eccentric selection of the rich and famous meet at Brandling Hall for a 1930's country house weekend as guests of Sir Redvers and Lady Bertha. Before anyone has had time to settle in a cabinet minister is murdered  'totally without any warning'. Fortunately the...

Dating: Adults Embracing Failure

 Every relationship fails until one doesn't. The trick is to find that special one. The same combination of humour and heart that made ​I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change​ a regional hit will have audiences falling head-over-heels for this sketch comedy concoction. In a series...

Death & Taxe$

“Death & Taxes” is a madcap financial farce set in the very topical world of insurance and  investments. It’s a crime story, ghost story and hilarious comedy. Featuring dodgy deals, a potty psychic, a fishy tax inspector, a nutty cop, murder, mayhem and a hairy yak!

Don't Get Your Vicars in a Twist

A  fast-moving farce about , a senior church warden who has let the empty vicarage to a travelling theatre company for a murder mystery weekend to pay for his daughter’s extravagant wedding. Mistaken identity, other forms of misunderstanding, cross-dressing, drunkedness and general chaos...

Hacienda del Toro

Think, three amigos, hot chilli, salsa, tequila, burritos, enchiladas. Hidden treasure, bad Spanish accents, culture clashes, misunderstandings and much mirth as everyone comes together to have a good time at the Hacienda del Toro.   A few things still need to be attended to, top of the list...

Haunted Halloween

A comedy  with interpolated Halloween Music. Act One is set in a costume hire shop, at Halloween. Act Two is set in a Nightclub. The action is continuous. Crystal, a young widow, owner of a small costume hire business, has asked her sister Abigail, who has some psychic powers, to try to...

High Hopes

High Hopes is a comedy set around air travel. It displays the humour and trauma of checking in, sitting next to unpleasant passengers, rude flight attendants too busy with their own love interests and a captain who jumps ship!! And on top of all that the plane becomes hijacked by a trio of...

Hott Property

Matt Byrne’s Hott Family bursts the Real Estate bubble, as white-shoed Red Hott, world-weary wife Smokin’ Hott, would-be model daughter Pipin’ Hott and her sleazy ambitious fiancé Terry Trott, try to find the right property for four very different couples! It’s an all...

How to Train Your Husband

This madcap comedy addresses an issue close to every woman's heart –how to train your husband! Sound impossible? Not when you have a legendary Husband Trainer living right next door. The play follows the adventures of three generations of the Smith family as they attempt to turn their men...

Jest at the West

Comic cowboy send up of the American Wild West. The Silver Slipper is in financial trouble on account of the drought. Maggie May and her girls have tried to diversify, but there isn’t much to do to stimulate new business. Little White Dove and Father O’Malley have tried their best to...

Jest Call Me A Cowboy Two Act or The Cowboy Show One Act

Although “Jest Call Me Cowboy” has been written as a sequel to  “Jest at the West”..... This is a separate story, which just happens to begin where  “Jest a the West” ended.              ...

Jungle Juice

An undiscovered tribe's reaction to the arrival of three people from the outside world. When the plane lands on the island beach, out of fuel and hopelessly lost, the two rock stars and their press agent can think only of returning to civilisation. The island has a severe man shortage and the...

Lady Godiva

Medieval maidens, men in tights, a saucy serving wench with amorous designs on the young master. Lady Godiva has her hands full with a daughter expelled from boarding school, a son who just can’t make up his mind and a husband who delights in taxing the peasants unmercifully! The Friar from...

Life's a Bitch

Life’s a Bitch is a comedy about sibling rivalry, love and dogs. It is a contemporary play, set in a small country town. Kevin does not particularly like dogs, but he has been asked to look after his niece’s dog – Deena for a few weeks, while she prepares for her wedding. ...

Love or Lassos

Follow the adventures of our hero Rock Hard as he battles against the villainy of Whiley J Whiplash who will do anything to get his hands on the bar Lazy J Saloon. Can Penelope Pureheart find her true love? Will Sean O’Reilly ever find a new wife to replace his long lost Martha? Will Belle...

Mad Sisters

Mad Sisters is an uplifting and joyful comic romp that reminds us just how wonderful and truly mad our sisters can be. Daphne adores her sister Anne. To Daphne, Anne is beautiful, successful and smart - all the things Daphne longs to be. Anne on the other hand wants nothing to do with her sister...

Menopause Made Me Do It

It has been ten years since the last reunion of the Crazy Ladies.  Menopause has arrived and the ladies are crazier than ever. The mission is to convince Kay, the gun totting tom-boy, to marry Shaun (the guy she once kidnapped and held accountable for the sins of all men). Hilarious......

Murder Afoot

The action unfolds in the Drawing Room of wealthy factory owner Titus Platt’s rather stately home somewhere in 1930’s England. Titus is murdered and Inspector Bullock of the Yard is sent for. When he starts to investigate there are many suspects: the son, Malcolm; his sister Penny; her...

Murder on the Menu

Sophia has been conned into buying a derelict theatre. Now with crushing bank loan payments to make and no money, the jobless Sophia decides to defy the odds and dig her way out of her financial mess by reopening the theatre as a cafe. Her already dire situation worsens when she soon discovers that...

My Husband's Nuts

Barbara's husband is missing on the family farm. When Jack finally returns he is a nervous wreck and will not leave the house. He is suffering from Agri-phobia (the fear of agriculture)... and is convinced that he is Hiroo Onoda - a Japanese soldier holding out on an island after world war Two....

My Inlaws are Outlaws

  Annie discovers her in-laws are outlaws... and her mother in-law has hired a mad group of assassins to kill her! How will Annie, a mild mannered Librarian, outwit the best of the Italian, Russian and Irish contract killers? This is outrageous, laugh out loud, comedy at its best. Cast:...

Opportunity Knocks

The play, a comedy in two acts,  is set in a charity run opportunity shop.  Upstairs, over the shop, (Off stage) live two younger women, Madge and Carol. These ladies are exotic dancers at the Pink Pussy by night, and by day they run a very successful phone sex business, which the opp...

Outback Debutante Ball

  The play is set in a Public Hall of a small outback town.  The hilarious efforts of the hall committee, and some of the local characters, as they set about overcoming seemingly impossible obstacles, to achieve their objective, demonstrates the tenacity and ingenuity of outback folk...

Over Paid Over Sexed Over Here

It’s mid 1942 and Australia is at war. As our able bodied men fight overseas a sleepy seaside Aussie town is about to experience an invasion by the Americans. The arrival of the yanks brings much needed excitement for the ladies, but for the local lads there are three big problems with the...

Phantom of the Music Hall

  A Traditional Music Hall.... With a difference! A Phantom who doesn’t like pantomime is residing in the old White Chapel Theatre.  The cast are rehearsing Cinderella. The efforts of the various characters in trying to convince the ghost that Cinderella is a Melodrama and not a...

Round the Houses

With divorce proceedings pending, Helen and Simon Simpson instruct estate agent, Simon Allcock to find a buyer for their house. Instead, the unscrupulous Simon decides to use their empty property for romantic assignation with his secretary, Felicity. His carefully laid plans are dashed though, by...

Sailing South

  A tall tale of a Tall Ship,somewhere between farce and pantomime.             A rollicking romp of improbable proportions, set on the high seas, on the way to Australia. The Honourable Judge Eustace McDonald is horrified to find...

Shaz and Nick's Big Greek Wedding ( Dim Toula)

Not just an outrageous comedy. This is an event as a Greek Grandmother comes back to haunt her grandson  NICK Kakamanospillipapadimiopoulis,at the worst possible time. "I am a Greek. I am a dead Greek. I am a dead Grandmother who is a Greek. Today is my favourite grandson’s wedding...

Shenanigan's Wake

Seamus Shenanigan has recently died, the most likely cause being liver failure. It was his wish that "his mates from the boozer" should send him on his way in a manner that befitted his life. This wake is a most suitable send off. His "boozer mates" unfortunately are the...

Silly Old Buggers

 The hit production of the 2009 Melbourne Comedy Festival. “A delicious look at aging. A warm, poignant and very amusing blend of songs and pithy dialogue performed by a talented cast. I highly recommend the show for all age groups!” Alan Fletcher, ‘Neighbours’ actor...

Stand and Deliver

So funny it will split your stitches.  A 'behind the scenes' look into the world of the maternity ward. Join sex-mad nurse Lindsay Walker, and the four ladies on C Ward. The...

Stiff

Suspenders, death by misadventure and unorthodox embalming techniques feature in this zany, quickfire comedy. "Judging from the reaction of the sold-out opening night crowd, who laughed from the first line to the last, Phillips has nothing to fear." New Zealand Herald. "...Farce in...

Strudelfest

Set in Australia, in a tourist resort.   Bavarian buffoonery as bikers invade a local festival.  Heidi the milkmaid and Schultz , the lovable gardener enter into the spirit of the festival with some slap dancing and a sausage stuffing competition, with the help of some audience...

That's Your Funeral.

  Middle aged Harvey and Marj have been to see a fortune teller, and Harvey is mistakenly under the impression that he is likely to meet an early demise... Once the situation has been resolved, and he realizes that he is in no immediate danger, Harvey becomes interested in the actual expenses...

The Great Divide

The lives of a well-to-do lawyer and his love-starved wife are turned upside down when a lively young Greek couple move in next door and immediately want to replace the dividing fence with a massive brick wall. The conflict escalates when the dispute ends up in court and each woman leaves her...

The Hardcase Hotel 2

Welcome back to The Hardcase Hotel - the hotel for the rich and famous whose bad behaviour has seen them banned from the great five-star hotels of Europe. Three months have passed since the scandal of Walter Buckley’s murder with a fish fork.    The months have not been kind to the...

The Jailhouse Frocks

Shattering dimwitted Officer Dwayne’s tranquil evening at the Birchwood County police station is interrupted by the arrests of three unlikely women; the mayor’s wife in a state of complete alcoholic breakdown, the local mad cat-lady looking for somewhere to stay out of the rain, and a...

The Last Resort

The comedy,  is set in the foyer of a retirement village complex.  he residents are all active middle aged people who enjoy a busy social life. They are planning a concert to raise funds for a week away on a bus trip for some sightseeing and a little gambling at the Casino. Vanessa...

The Old People are Revolting

The Old People Are Revolting! is a mad cap comedy about seniors seeking revenge! The residents of the Sunshine Retirement Village have had enough: they're revolting! Fed up with being ignored, and relegated to the sidelines of life they've decided to prove to the world just how dangerous seniors...

The Pirate Prince

  Hamish, the Scottish Pirate King, has returned to the Caribbean Island after twenty five years absence,  to dig up his buried treasure and retire. Imagine his horror when he discovers a building has been erected on the exact spot where the treasure is buried. His plan is to either buy...

The Supermarket Sisterhood

  As if the daily skirmishes with farcical customers and the dim-witted men in their lives, wasn't enough, the women who operate the checkouts at the Discount Co supermarket are now facing a new boss and the prospect of losing their jobs to newly installed automated checkout aisles. If the...

True Blue Aussie Review

A medley of music, monologues, skits and short scenes loosely set  at the time of the local Agricultural exhibition and Rodeo or Show in any large city of Australia. You may like to set your review at the local golf club, or race meet. Anyplace where salesmen, jockeys, rodeo riders,...

Twas the Fight Before Christmas

  Think your family is complicated? Meet the most dysfunctional family you can imagine as they try to navigate Christmas.   Peace on earth and good will to all men? Not likely!   Ever since her husband died, Mary’s horrible adult children have been ruining Christmas.  ...

Uncle Jack or Golden Wedding

“The play is set in a church hall where the Fortieth Wedding Anniversary of Harold and Maude Connolly is about to be celebrated. Their two married daughters, Claire and Lorna are setting the table as Harold arrives with the news that their mother, Maude has just been seen leaving town, with...

Understanding Women

Mike, Dave and Julian spend a weekend in a garden shed determined to break an age-old mystery. Armed with a case of beer, a box of girlie magazines and a holy book they are going to "understand women". What they discover is not quite what they expected. Understanding Women is a comedy...

Viagara Falls & The 70 Year Old Virgin

A colourful cast of characters collaborate and connive in this hilarious tale of misplaced unisex Viagra pills resulting in mishap and mayhem of “afflicted” residents in Serenity Gardens Retirement Village, Cemetery Road. So, take a new-age, three time divorcee and bride-to-be gran, her...

Wedding of the Century

"The Wedding of the Century is Devon Williamson at his funniest. Laughs come thick and fast, be warned your sides will ache." Bay of Plenty Times. Sister Dorothy, a 99-year-old nun, is visited in her nursing home by a 'Goth Girl' school student. She tells the cheeky student that not only...

Where There's a Will

Where there is a will there are relations – goes the saying. In this riotous comedy dry eyed mourners turn up to for Edie Puddiphat’s funeral with a will saying they are the sole heir to her millions – but the old lady has outwitted the vultures.

Wink at the Sphinx or The Egyptian Show

  An adult fairy tale, of Arabian nights, with just a touch of spice.   A Riotous romp through the old Bazaar in Cairo.   The Pharaoh’s daughter Fatima’s betrothed Prince has been kidnapped by a band of feral gypsies. She must now marry the evil old court physician, Tut...

You Don't Have To Be Jewish

First released as an album in 1964.the best sketches and songs from You Don't Have To Be Jewish and follow up recordings are now available for the first time as published play scripts. Fifty quick-fire sketches including the classic 'The Reading of the Will', "The Diamond' and 'The Ballad of...