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Lively plays for live people

Chapter 1: LIVELY PLAYS.
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A collection of short stage pieces written for easy presentation, combining comedies, farces, a temperance sketch and a monologue. The scripts emphasize brisk action, comic misunderstandings and contrived situations—including twin confusions, romantic entanglements, practical jokes and a duel—populated by vivid stock characters and domestic foils. Each play supplies explicit stage directions, simple set and prop lists and flexible casting to suit amateur or local companies, with lengths ranging from brief farces to multi-act comedies that prioritize stage business and lively dialogue.

LIVELY PLAYS.

CONTENTS.

Page
Topp’s Twins, comedy, four acts 5
Patsy O’Wang, farce 77
Rejected, farce 107
The New Woman, comedy, three acts 133
Only Cold Tea, temperance sketch 165
A First-Class Hotel, farce 179
Madame Princeton’s Temple of Beauty, farce 193
A Dude in a Cyclone, farce 207
It’s all in the Pay Streak, comedy, three acts 219
The Cobbler, a monologue 261

Copyright, 1895, by T. S. Denison.