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Arch Brown’s Plays
have been published in 3 Books:
LOVE PLAYS, 10 MEN 20 YEARS, &
FREEZE!
1. Love Plays
Includes:
The
Bottom Drawer
LIVING Arrangements
PANTHEON
Brut Farce
2.
10 MEN 20 YEARS
Includes
DOUBLETALK
Frank Lee,
My Dear
News
Boy
Ships
That Piss in the Night
Pas de Cinq
Sex Symbols
SAMSON
Seeing Red
Comebacks
Peace by
Peace
3. FREEZE!
is the published version of Arch Brown’s Prize-Winning
Comedy. |
ALL Plays are listed with details below.
The Bottom Drawer
A Family Loss, A Letter
Found: A cruel mother simply won’t let her son forget… even
after she’s dead.
“A very scary memoir play
about a family warped in a web not one of them even understands.
The ending will blow your sox off!”
“A family portrait of very
subtle Madness”
Two Acts. 1 Living-room set
and a small separate area with 2 chairs.
3 men, 40 to 70, 2 women, 20 & 70. |
Living Arrangements
A Snapdragon, A Bird of Paradise, A Faded Rose, A Pansy, and
A Tigerlilly must face a new way to live or an eviction.
“It’s funny, serious, and romantic, a kind of ‘who-is-it’ for
the White-Hatted Folk.”
Two Acts. 1 two-part set of a brownstone apartment living
room and it’s terrace.
2 Men, 30’s, 3 Women, 30, 50, & 80 |
Brut Farce
A Bedroom Farce for: 4 Actors, 8 Characters and 103 Costume
changes. Set in the sexually-wild late seventies.
Each man plays his own love interest as he flies off one exit
and enters through another.
“A hysterical ride through a mad, mad, mad, mad, world.”
“Fast-paced and clever. It’s an actor’s dream… witty and
outrageous.”
Two Acts. 1 set of a fussy living room with 5 doors and an
armoire.
4 Men, 30’s to 40’s |
PANTHEON
A comic take on the shenanigans of the judges making holy
decisions before the “Pearly Gates.” A Babbling Buddha, A
Vamping Virgin, A Goulish Goddess, A Senile Saint and Hadrian’s
Hero hang in Heaven’s Hallowed Halls.
“An enjoyable romp with gods from many religions in 130 AD.
It’s funny and serious and timely, in these times of religious
fervor.”
One Act. 1 set of the anteroom before ‘The Gate.’
4 Men, one Asian, and 3 Women, one Hispanic. |
A college student struggling with sexual identity and a parent
running for office on a very conservative ticket. Sound
familiar?
“News Boy delivers comedy as fresh as today’s headlines and
as timeless as love.”
“This playwright is the new gay Neil Simon.”
Can be done in one or two acts. 1 set of a high-end loft
apartment in a major city.
5 Men, 2 either/or. (The politician and the newscaster can be of
either gender.)
Can be presented in one evening with the One-Act version of the
following. |
SEX SYMBOLS
A man about to find international fame is tripped up by an
interviewer, with a fixation about truth: Lies, Lust, Love, or
Libel?
“A lesson about never being sure who’s faking and who’s not.
The nerd and da hunk are very funny as they try to make some
sort of human contact.”
One setting of a corporate-owned hotel suite.
Available in one-act or two-act versions. (The one-act is all
men, the other is 3 Men, 1 Woman, and 1 either/or.) |
DOUBLETALK
Milt has his lover out, Rod has his feelers out, Jean Has his
leathers out and Sam has his lenses out: A gay-ole sex farce for
today.
Two Acts. 1 Set with 5 doorways. 6 Men, 20’s to 40’s (One
plays both himself and his own twin brother.) |
Two One-Acts:
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Frank Lee, My Dear
A Graduate Student is renting a new apartment while being
stalked by a classmate and by a crazed and drugged street. And,
it’s a Comedy: of Violence and Vaporub!
“Brown’s Frank Lee character is so real he’s terrifying, as well
as sympathetic. Not an easy thing to write or play!”
One Act. 1 Set of a ground-floor apartment in a large
building.
6 Men, 20’s to 40’s.
Written (but not necessary) to be presented with the play below.
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Ships that Piss in the Night
A Married man has rented a small apartment so he can satisfy
his urges (Which prove difficult to satisfy!)
“Eddie’s 3 tricks are a very odd assortment, but equally funny:
A cute, sexy and demented comedy.”
“A fetish-fantasy for someone. Is it Brown’s? Or Brown’s
boyfriend’s?”
One Act. I set (Same as previous)
4 Men, 20’s to 40’s (3 are characters from the previous One-act) |
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For The Love of Sam!
Three 1-acts celebrate the loves,
and the losses, of Sam (and of Milt).
These 3 plays are meant to be
mounted together.
Pas de Cinq and Samson can be
performed individually.
Comebacks cannot stand alone without the
first two.
Pas de Cinq needs 5 Men, Samson needs
3 Men (2 from Cinq), Comebacks needs
all 6. |
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Seeing Red & Peace by Peace are the
final two plays of the Cycle and turn from comic to
tragic: some of our friends die, some mourn, some go
wild, and one intruder foolishly attempts to search
for the truth.” |
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| Two One-Acts that can be mounted
together or separately. One open set can be
used for both with simple additions of furniture and
art. Or they can have more realistic settings.
“You feel helpless and angry as you watch people
just trying to be strong. It hurts way deep down and
only gets worse. Brown is very clever and hiding
what’s yet to come.”
“All the plays are full of the surprises we all
go to the theatre to seek out. Bravo” |
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 FREEZE!
WINNER of the 1998 Eric Bentley New Play Competition
A Fledgling Flasher, a Paramour Parent, a Repugnant Republican,
and a Vituoso Virgin are ICEBOUND in a cabin with a Murderous
Misfit.
Two Acts. 1 Set of a cabin interior w/a L.R., B.R. and Porch.
4 Men, 1 girl,16, 1 woman, (plays an actress/narrator who plays
three other parts.) |
All 3 Books, plus the Two-Act version of News Boy
Are available by emailing
TnTclassics@aol.com,
as well as from
Amazon.com,
BookSurge.com and
BarnesAndNoble.com
The Two-Act version of SEX SYMBOLS, and two unpublished plays,
Church Island Woman and Variations on a Scheme,
are available directly from the playwright.
For rights and royalty information on
any of the plays Click Here.
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