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2 Across - A Comedy of Crosswords & Romance
1 Male, 1 Female
Two strangers, a man and a woman (late 40s to middle 50s) board a San Francisco BART train at 4:30 AM They're alone in the car, both are married and both are doing the New York Times crossword She's an…
24 Hours AM
This first half of 24 HOURS AM consists of twelve short plays covering the hours of one am to twelve noon Ranging widely in mood and style, from zany humor to touching sentiment to near tragedy, the plays…
24 Hours PM
In this second portion of 24 HOURS, the plays deal with events taking place during the hours of One PM to Twelve Midnight Again the range of subjects and people represented is as broad and diverse as the…
3 by E.S.T. - The Observatory & Dearborn Heights & Home
1 Male, 3 Female
The Observatory ~ Running into an old, attractive paramour can cause mixed feelings when you find out she’s the one who told your wife about the affair, causing your divorce (1M, 1W) Dearborn Heights…
5 Easy Pieces - 5 One-act Plays
This great value Collection offers 5 one act plays by accomplished playwright Jason Milligan ... Rituals - M1,F2 Originally commissioned and produced by New York’s prestigious Primary Stages Company as…
8 Tens @ 8 Festival - Thirty Award-Winning One Acts from Santa Cruz Festivals I-V
This innovative and wildly popular annual theater event features the work of West Coast playwrights in a format which is excellent for scene study and directing projects Comedies, dramas, traditional,…
90 in the Shade & Dust in Your Eyes
M4 or M6 Male, F2 or F6 Female
90° in the Shade It is the custom of Hector Pomadour to invite his friends to his home on Sunday for lunch and skittles On this occasion, one of them has run into another gentleman on his way and has invited…
A Bag of Green Apples
2 Male, 1 Female
Patricia, a young woman of twenty, returns to the scene of her childhood - her aunt Ester's beach house She hopes to learn from her aunt, who raised her, answers about her past so that she can better understand…
A Brief Period of Time & Two Eggs Scrambled Soft
1 Male, 3 Female
A Brief Period of Time The place is a small southern town which Candy left ten years earlier to go to college and then seek her fortune in the wider world; while Billy, her high school sweetheart, stayed…
A Case of Belonging
A Devil and an Angel are on stage, battling over a man who is about to expire They're a couple of very modern representatives of that undiscovered country who know all the tricks, put-downs, comic hassles…
A Danish Soap or The Danes of Our Lives
7 Male, 6 Female
Wishing to regain his popularity, Shakespeare gets permission to return to earth in order to make a box office smash out of his most popular hit Hamlet - as a soap opera! And why not? It already has everything…
A Dead Man’s Apartment & Face Divided & Rosemary with Ginger
3 Male, 2 Female
A Dead Man’s Apartment ~ Lonnie, a married but lonely truck driver, and Nickie, his mistress, a married but lonely hardware store clerk, meet twice a week in an apartment to talk and kiss They have…
A Fool’s Audition
3 Male, 0 Female
What if you had to try out for the role of entertainer for a cranky king who will behead you if you don’t get the job? Winner of the Great Platt River Playwrights Festival
A Galway Girl
1 Male, 1 Female
A couple sit at opposite ends of a table reminiscing about their life together Each has a point of view and they rarely address each other directly. They are young to begin with, then middle aged, then…
A Great Career
1 Male, 2 Female
The action takes place in a sparsely furnished office. At one desk sits a womanish man (George), at another a mannish woman (Zelda), and at the third a young girl (Linda) who is so fed up with office…
A Hillbilly Christmas Carol - No Royalty
3 Male, 4 Female
Christmas Eve has come to the Ozarks. Widow Hinckley is closing in on Joshua, a lazy, bad-tempered mountaineer She brings him a bedraggled Christmas tree in hopes of softening him up, but Joshua hates…
A Limb of Snow & The Meeting
1 Male, 1 Female
“A Limb of Snow ~ the shorter play, is the one that is simply superb; it is also totally original, unlike anything in the contemporary manner It takes place in a cabin in the High Sierras in…
A Little Something for the Ducks & A Scent of Honeysuckle
Winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Contest and the Princeton Players One Act Playwrighting Contest It tells the story of a zestful, youthful courtship - she is 68 and he is 79 They put their moves…
A Mad Breakfast
4 Male, 6 Female
** 10% Off ** An hilarious one-act farce set in a boarding house ... Practical jokers Mr Jones and Miss Brown tell each of their guests that wealthy visitor Mr Long is especially interested in their individual…
A Marriage Proposal
2 Male, 1 Female
This one act play uses either Modern or Russian costume This little farce is very popular and one of the funniest ever written The story tells of the efforts of a nervous and excitable man who starts to…
A Merry Regiment of Women
3 Male, 6 Female
Shakespeare’s characters are forever famous, not only for the beauty of the lines they spoke, but for wit, humor, and joyous humanity! Six of these great women and three extraordinary…
A Modest Proposal
1 Male, 1 Female
Although John and Mer have worked to create the ideal liberated relationship (and even love each other), they are growing apart Then John arrives at Mer’s apartment unannounced, late at night and…
A New Sunrise
2 Male, 2 Female
Two charming, eccentric elderly ladies arrive on the porch of the local funeral home with the intention of dying there by drinking wine laced with poison “We thought the town could…
A Pair of Lunatics
1 Male, 1 Female
In this one act play, two characters mistake one another for lunatics and the fun that ensues is immense
