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Comedic Plays

Guides for comedic plays including detailed plot summaries, character breakdowns, video examples, scenes and monologues.

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The Motherf**ker With the Hat

Jackie, a former drug dealer, has just been released from prison and is living with his high school ...

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Comedian Steve Martin’s absurd comedy of historical fiction, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, has Albert ...

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She Stoops to Conquer

One of the eighteenth-century’s most enduring comedies, She Stoops to Conquer takes a comedic,...

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Boeing Boeing

A hit comedy similar in vein to Shakespeare’s comedies of merry misadventures and mistaken...

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The Graduate

Benjamin Braddock is a confused young man. Having spent four years achieving a brilliant scholastic ...

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Greater Tuna

Greater Tuna is a comedy about a small town in Texas named Tuna, Texas' third smallest town. The...

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Black Comedy

Struggling sculptor Brindsley Miller and his fiance, Carol, are having a party with the aim of...

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Crossing Delancey

In Susan Sandler’s warm and tender comedy, Crossing Delancey, we meet Isabelle Grossman, who is...

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In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play

It is the 1880s, and Dr. and Mrs. Catherine Givings live in a beautiful, seemingly sensible...

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Love, Loss and What I Wore

Adapted from Ilene Beckerman’s memoir of the same name, Love, Loss and What I Wore is a collection...

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

A blustering theatre director and his egotistical cast are in the midst of a rehearsal when a...

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Women of Manhattan

Bille, Judy, and Rhonda are friends and successful women living in New York City. However, one...

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