Stage Play Legalities

[dave_c]

Say if a insignificant local amateur stage company or a school wanted to do a stage production of a famous play, film or musical. How would one go about making the production officially approved and legit so it wont be proscecuted for plagiarism?

[marwel7]

The publisher Samuel French may be able to help you with this.

[Buenchico]

As Marwel7 states, Samuel French is the company which licenses performances of most well-known plays:
http://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk/sf/Pages/ roy-agents.html

Chris

[Quizmonkey]

French's are only one of many publishers of plays.

Any published play not out of copyright will have a warning in its first few pages that states that it is illegal tp perform the play publicly without permission and a licence. It will then give the address to apply to to obtain this licence. If approved you can expect to pay around �50 a night for the licence (obviously this varies from play to play).