Fresh Brewed is a collection of eleven plays, all of which take place in a coffee bar, all of which use the same set of two small tables and four chairs, and all of which can be performed by two male and two female actors in various combinations from a monologue to two quartets. If all of the plays are performed in one evening, there should be no black outs between plays. Simply changing the composition of the cast can signal the audience of movement between plays. On the hand, each play is written so that it can be performed as a stand alone work. If done as a unit, I suggest the following...

Comedy / 10 Death Affirming Plays, Sketches and Monologues DOG YEARS (2, gender neutral) If dogs years are seven to one of Man...arf. COMRADES (2m) What are comrades for if not to try to cheer each other up in a time of distress? Dostoevsky would appreciate the irony. THE SUITCASE (2m, 2f) Bereavement maybe painful, but be sure to have your credit card. THE STRUGGLE (1m) The sound of the beeeeeeeeep means dinner is off. LUCKY MAN (2m, 1f) Mr. Smith might have been cured had he survived the autopsy. REHEARSAL (1m, 1f) A long rehearsal for a one shot performance. PUMPS (1, gender neutral) There...

Comedy / 1m, 2f / Unit Set Helen's life became complicated after her husband Murray's stroke and her sister Gladys's revelation, wanting to set the record straight in case Murray should die, that she and Murray had been having an affair. Helen suspected Murray was no angel when she married him. After all, as a stand-up comic he was always on the road and she knew comics could be loose cannons. Helen knew she was trading the risk Murray would bring to any relationship, let alone marriage, for the excitement of the gamble. While Helen might have been willing to adjust to Murray and his new...

Dramatic Comedy / Characters: 2 males, 2 females, doubling possible Anne and Don, married ten years, are on vacation in Florida. As the play begins, Anne is inanely chattering on about beaches, seagulls and garbage dumps. Don, fed up with Anne's incessant chatter, walks away leaving Anne, much to her surprise, sitting on the beach alone. Don has gone to visit his friend Jim, a man of little insight but great obsession about golf, to tell him that he has left Anne. Jim, in turn, has just returned from a golfing vacation to discover his wife, Sandy, has apparently left him. George, a seagull...