The Available Plays of Arthur M. Jolly

	FULL LENGTH PLAYS
	TRASH(2F) drama. My latest play. Winner of the 2011/2012 Joining Sword and Pen competition! In TRASH, two estranged sisters clash when they attempt to recover their mother's dying message - a letter that has been thrown out with the trash and now resides in a municipal dump
	A Gulag Mouse (1M, 5F) drama. Winner 2009/2010 Joining Sword and Pen Competition, 2010 Off Broadway! competition, Finalist 2010 Woodward/Newman Drama Award. Published by Next Stage Press. A woman's arrival at a Siberian Gulag destroys the intricate web of hierarchy, alliance and treachery among the other four inmates of her bunkhouse.
	Past Curfew (1M,2F) drama.2008 AOPW Fellowship Winner Published by Next Stage Press. Years of bitter conflicts erupt as a single mother and her teenage daughter confront the unspoken issues between them in a night of vicious headgames.
	The Christmas Princess (4-5+ M,4-8+ F) children's play Published by Youth Plays. A new fairy tale for all ages - a spoiled Princess must find three magical christmas gifts for her parents if she is to escape an arranged marriage to the world's stupidest Prince.
	ONE ACT PLAYS
	Almost Christmas (2M, 1F) drama A bartender tries to get money from her boss and a cantankerous customer to fund a trip to kill her father. This play premieres in February 2012.
	Bailing Out (1M, 1F) serio-comic A fisherman with a troubled past reveals the secret of life to a jaded nurse in a hospice.
	Courtin' in Georgia (2M,1F) comedy A reinterpretation of Anton Chekhov's The Proposal, set in the south of the U.S. A frail hypochondriac tries to ask his neighbor's headstrong daughter to marry him in spite of a long history of rivalry between their families.
	Mopping the Stage Download this one for free! A writer mops a stage in preparation for a play - while discussing his choices to become an instructor pilot for the U.S. Army at the start of the Iraq War, and his decision to quit to become a writer. And mop stages.
	Thicker than Water. (1M, 1F) drama A young couple cope with love, a possible pregnancy... and an inexplicable puddle of blood.
	TEN MINUTE PLAYS
	After It's All Over (2M, 1F) surreal comedy Available from Original Works Online. A nuclear family in a post-nuclear age struggles to accept the son's decision to go into a completely one-sided battle.
	Bang! (1F,2M) comedy A jealous husband shoots his wife's ex-boyfriend before the curtain even rises in this surprising comedy.
	Bath Time is Fun Time. (4 Either) comedy Available in the book The Unsaddest Factory's Ten Minute Play Festival. Four bath toys face an existential crisis - they hate water! Easily castable, family friendly... I wrote this play as a children's play, and found myself getting deeper into the angst of these poor inanimate objects questioning their entire existence.
	Better by Candlelight (1M, 1F) drama Available from Original Works Online. A widower relives the anniversary of his wife's death with a role-playing prostitute.
	Every Battle, Every War (4M) comedy Available from Original Works Online. Four soldiers in a trench in World War One find more to fight about with each other than with the enemy.
	The Bricklayer (1M) drama Download this one for free! A bricklayer talks to his son about the the importance of making each brick square and true, the importance of the big picture, of small parts playing roles in larger issues... as he builds an industrial chimney in a concentration camp.
	Doing the Math (1F) drama Download this one for free! A hyper intelligent girl - borderline Asperger's Syndrome - discovers her father may not be the man she thought. This play won the 2012 MonoSlam Competition at the Secret Rose Theatre, Los Angeles.
	Fallen to the Communists (1F,1M) comedy Awkward humor abounds when a widower tries to cope with his 12 year old daughter's first period.
	The Fine Print (1M, 1U) serio-comic Available from Original Works Online. An extremely persuasive devil convinces an uptight engineer to build a diabolical electrical circuit for a new weapons system.
	The Four Senses of Love (1M, 1F) off-beat comedy. A man with no feelings falls for a woman with no taste at a support group for the sensory deprived.
	How Blue is My Crocodile (2F) serio-comic Download this from Two young girls play fantastical games while waiting for their wounded father to return from a tour of duty.
	Howie's Last Words (1M, 1F) drama Available from Original Works Online. A stuntman, home late after a fire stunt that went disastrously wrong, confronts the wife who wants him to quit.
	If You Could Go Back... (3 M or F) comedy Life, death, violence, Adolf Hitler, assassination, living in Mom's basement... you know - a comedy.
	Of Rats and Men (3F or 2F,1M) serio-comic What's worse - a dead rat in the toilet or a dead husband in the kitchen? Is there a difference?
	The Secret of Jarlsberg (1F,1M) comedy A young couple fight over money, responsibility and the world's most perfect fondue. This play includes my secret recipe. Don't tell anyone.
	Tiger in a Cage (1M, 1F) drama Available from Original Works Online. A female psychiatrist gets trapped in a jail cell with a former patient - a recidivist sex offender.
	The Waiting Room of the Gods (2M, 2F) comedy Available from Original Works Online. Three classical personifications of love - Venus, Eros and Cupid - are surprised by the arrival of Erectile Dysfunction.
	What the Well Dressed Girl is Wearing (2F) comedy What happens when Jennifer asks her friend Sandra to pick out her outfit for her date with the guy Sandra's been obsessed with for years?
	Zombified (3M) comedy Zombies make the best employees! A CEO creates the world's most cost-effective workforce with the help of some voodoo powers. I wrote this short play from an early draft of a feature screenplay I wrote a couple of years ago and shelved. I've now finished a complete re-write of the feature screenplay, and it's going out as "based on the short play"... I think I plagiarized myself.
	UPCOMING PLAYS
	Interception (2F) comedic drama Two women, out on the back porch while their husbands watch the game, confess to betrayal, adultery - and worse. Dark humor, a nice little O'Henry twist at the end. I like this one.
	Dragged Out (2M) drama A senator discovers his gay lover is out to blackmail him for far more than money. This is my first play to deal with overt politics, and my second with LGBT issues. I'm hoping to see this one produced for the discussion it provokes. This play contains adult language, strong sexual themes and possible nudity (depending on the staging).
	RADIO PLAYS
	Courtin' in Georgia A radio adaptation of the one act play.
	Thicker Than Water A radio play broadcast on KSUF and other NPR stations.

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