Digital Scripts
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Queen Victoria’s Tea Room is a heart-warming and hilarious look at embracing change at every stage of one’s life. Over tea. Next to a sex shop.
Running time: 80 minutes
Cast Size: 2M, 2F
Taking Care of the Browns is a hilarious and heart-warming romantic comedy about family, friends, and dead house guests and a reminder that some old-fashioned things are worth keeping.
Running time: 80 minutes
Cast Size: 2M, 2F
Winner of three awards at the Eastern Ontario Drama League One Act Play Festival, “Dear Ray” is an actor’s dream, an emotional rollercoaster that brings audiences to their feet after every performance.
Running time: 60 minutes
Cast Size: 1F
Doctor Shelia Shuman is one of the world’s leading experts on happiness, but she’s stuck in Rosewood. On Christmas Eve. At the Elk’s Hall. In a blizzard. With Earl. It’s the last place on earth she wants to be. She’s not very happy at all. She’s not the only one who’s stuck in Rosewood. Dianne is stuck at the Gas Bar…about to give birth. That’s okay, though, she’s got Tim from the cattle farm to help her. He’s done this before. When it comes to giving birth, Tim knows the ropes. Christine is stuck at the Rosewood Model Railroad Club on a bad date with Brian. Two sad Santas are stuck with each other. Esther is stuck at the funeral parlour with Carl, her late ex-husband. Rose is stuck, too. Carl is also her late ex-husband. It seems everyone is stuck where they don’t want to be until, suddenly, they all discover that they’re in the right place. In Rosewood. At Christmas.
“I laughed more at this play than I have ever laughed at any play I’ve read before. And I’m surprised to be saying that because I’m a tough audience. I laughed at the ‘urinal’ line and it just kept going from there. When I’m reading someone else’s play—a play I am critiquing—I make notes. If it’s a comedy I write down the funny lines so I can remember them. I filled three pages of my notebook with your lines. This play is a cross between Garrison Keillor and Andy of Mayberry.
Thank you for the laughs.” – Norm Foster
Running time: 70 minutes
Cast Size: 4F, 2M
Casting Note: 13 roles for 6 actors plus additional recorded voices
This collection of eleven short plays is an ideal resource for community theatres looking to enter a one act play festival or thinking of including an evening of one act plays in their season. With cast sizes from one to eight and running times from 25 to 55 minutes, it’s sure to contain something for everyone:
Maybe Flowers
The Friends of Freddie Sullivan
The Allies Are Coming
Tea with Roger
The Black Chair
The Green Thumb Gang
A Room for Rent
The Man in 2B
The Rosewood Art Society, established 1903
The Consultants
Dear Ray
Keaton Lowry is a storyteller and one-time “city fella” who has moved to a little cabin where the river bends, churning out a monthly syndicated magazine column called “Where the River Flows.” He travels to town by canoe when he has to, reluctantly, and his columns often take aim at the people he meets there. That’s okay, the people in town often take aim at Keaton – quite literally when Vern Easley has his shotgun handy. Keaton writes about life on the river with warmth and humour, until – like the river – things take an unexpected turn.
Where the River Flows is a unique hybrid. It is both a dramatic reading (for the most part) and a one-man play, only the last 350 or so words are delivered by the actor from memory. For this reason, the play can be produced with little rehearsal and a short production schedule, making it ideal for short runs or “one-night-only” productions.
Tales From the Tavern is a hilarious one-man small-town comedy. It’s a delight for every audience and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for any actor. You’ll meet Earl and Otis and Len. Clendon and Phil. All three Stanleys. The Sweeney brothers and their sister LB—who might just be the best damn hockey player the town of Rosewood has ever seen.
Rosewood is every small town. The town you grew up in or passed through or know someone who lived there back in the day. It’s the town where the main street is called Main Street, where there’s one café and one tavern and one bakery and one bank – one funeral home, too, and that’s only open when Dougie the undertaker isn’t busy being Dougie the Mayor.
“Stanley’s is…well…it’s where our stories get told. Grandad’s and Pop’s and Clendon’s and mine. This place…this tavern…this is Rosewood.”
Rock Bottom Lodge is a secluded getaway on Rock Bottom Lake, somewhere in Northern Ontario. The fishing is good. The Friday Night Fish Fry is famous. It’s quiet…except for the people. There’s Mel and Shirley, they’ve been arguing for years. Josh and Kate. They grew up together until Josh went away. He was fifteen. She was fourteen. Now he’s back. Natalie’s back too, Josh’s ex-fiancée, with Binky her Shih Tzu. And then there are the guests. The Hendersons in Cabin Three and the Hendersons in Cabin Four. The Andersons in Cabin Five and the Andersons in Cabin Eight. Rabbi Wasserman. Todd. The newlyweds…Stanley and Peggy. Stanley doesn’t like fish. He’s also allergic to trees.
Rock Bottom is a rollicking, ninety-minute, romantic comedy about straying from the path. Especially when there are bears.
ROCK BOTTOM was first produced on April 17, 2025, by River & Main Theatre Company at Theatre in The Wings in Belleville, Ontario, directed by Lisa Spence.
Genre: Comedy, Romantic Comedy
Acts: 2
Run time: 90 minutes
Cast size: 5 actors
Male roles: 2
Female roles: 3
Twelve Acts of Christmas began as one single act of Christmas, a 10-minute play that was performed as part of Christmas at The Wings, a seasonal variety show produced in Belleville in December 2022. That grew into Three Acts of Christmas which grew into Four Acts of Christmas by the time it was first produced for the stage at Theatre in The Wings in Belleville in December 2025 when Christmas in Room 207, Orange Christmas, The Roasting Pan, and We Three Kings were performed to eight sold-out, enthusiastic audiences.
The pieces in this collection are meant to be produced either as a standalone evening of theatre, with three or four or five of the pieces performed at one time; or as parts of a Christmas variety show with a piece or two to be performed along with music and, perhaps, other short seasonal plays.
Some of the pieces work well as staged readings. Others work best when fully produced. The main thing is to have fun with them.
Running time: 2-25 minutes
Cast Size: 1-4