"Magnificent works like those by... Doug Brook..." -- Good Times
"A clever piece... a pithy comment on the power of entropy." -- Monterey Herald
"An enigmatic non-linear bit of romantic comedy" -- The Register
"The play enthralls with an unending parade of fascinating factoids and little-known history." -- Metro Silicon Valley
Produced Scripts | Unproduced Scripts
For details on a script, click its title. All titles are available for production.
Ten-Minute Comedy/Drama | Two people go from hate to love, then follow the same course in reverse back to hate. |
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Full-Length play | The stories of seven remarkable women who helped shape California. |
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Ten-Minute comedy | Celia reacts to Tom's marriage proposal, but all is not what it seems. |
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Saturday Night Six-Pack | Six Ten-Minute Plays | New play readings of six short plays |
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Lot in Life | Long One-Act Comedy | A modern retelling of Lot's story, as related by Lot's wife |
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Ten-Minute Comedy | What really happened when two Jews walked into a bar... |
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Full-Length Comedy/Drama | Five vignettes that loosely flow from birth (a trial of Eve), to death ("What Happens Next"), interspersed with a man trying (failing), to propose over a romantic dinner. |
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Full-Length Comedy | Two one-act comedy thrillers; both turn the murder-thriller form on its ear. |
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One-Act Comedy | On his sixteenth birthday, Peter is haunted by the girl he likes, by his sister, his best friend who's nuts about her, and his newly incarnated conscience. |
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Original Synergy (formerly This Week's Agenda) |
Full-length comedy | The unabridged seven days of creation from Genesis, as actually carried out by a committee of the Almighty and his right brain, left brain, ego, superego, id, and (starting day six) his feminine side. |
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Intermission | Ten-Minute play | At intermission of The Nutcracker, a couple realizes they might too be at an intermission, and decide how to see if they'll come back for the second act. |
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Taking Back the Stage | Ten-Minute comedy | Two gunmen lie in wait for an approaching stagecoach, while two audience members talk, use a cellphone, unwrap candy... |
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Lying in Wait | Ten-Minute Comedy | A woman is in labor, the father is a wreck... But there's more to it than that. |
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Alas, No More | Short One-Act Whimsical Comedy | A girl's innocent naivete is pushed. Imagine Matt and Luisa from The Fantasticks on a park bench waiting for... something. |
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Mortal Synergy (formerly Another Week's Agenda) | Full-length comedy | The committee is back, coming up with the ten plagues to use against Pharoah in Egypt. After gaining freedom for the Israelites, they must write the Ten Commandments. |
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Fiddler on a Hot Tin Roof | Full-Length Musical Comedy/Satire | Fiddler on the Roof turned on its ear. |
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Bat Out of Hell | Full-Length Musical Drama | A woman looks back on being the first love of a young outcast, how she left him, and how twenty years later she lingers in his mind as he still searches for his place in the world. |
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Rear Window | Full-Length Thriller | A laid up photojournalist thinks he's witnessed a murder across his courtyard. Who believes him? Was there a murder? |
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Work In Progress | Murder mystery | A man writing his first play, which has eerie similarities to events that then happen to his wife and friends. |
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