The Available Plays of Arthur M. Jolly

	FULL LENGTH PLAYS
	TRASH (2F) drama. Winner of the 2011/2012 Joining Sword and Pen competition, Semi-finalist for the 2012 O'Neill Playwrights Conference. 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.
	A Very Modern Marriage (2M, 1F) comedy. Selected for the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Semi Finalist for the 2013 Eugene O'Neill Theatre Conference, top ten finalist for the nuVoices for a nuGeneration New Play Festival. Matthew and Tina's marriage is already on the rocks when Tina's friend Christopher moves in with a secret agenda to get Tina out of the picture and steal Matt's heart once and for all.
	ONE ACT PLAYS
	Almost Christmas (2M, 1F) drama A bartender tries to get money from her new boss and a cantankerous regular customer to fund a trip to kill her father. Merry Christmas!
	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. Available from Smith & Kraus. 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 Available from YouthPLAYS. 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.
	Uncle Yahya Ruins the Wedding (2 M, 2F, 1 any) political comedy The arrival of a crazy uncle threatens to destroy the perfect wedding - and the entire audience.
	The Waiting Room of the Gods (2M, 2F) comedy Available from Original Works Online. Three classical personifications of love - Venus, Erato and Cupid - are rudely surprised by a modern interloper - the spirit of Erectile Dysfunction!
	What the Well Dressed Girl is Wearing (2F) comedy Available from YouthPLAYS. 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.

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