One Act Plays

Things Can Always Be Worse!

Product Code: TB5000

One-act Play

Cast Size: 30 roles for a minimum of 8 actors. may be further expanded.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Rich with Jewish tradition, this is the story of an argumentative family living in a tiny hut who, following a Rabbi's advice, bring their animals into the hut.

Learn more

Script use

Available Formats

Print Script

$9.95

In Stock

Digital Script

$9.95

(Unprintable)

Min. Royalty Rate: $50.00/perf

Apply for rights

Save for later

add to compare

Learn more

Smoke

By Louis Greenstein.

Product Code: SD6000

One-act Play

Recommended For: College Theatre

Cast Size: 1m.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A disquisition on cigars, memory and the Sabbath.

Learn more

This title is a part of a collection.

Voices From Ariel: Ten-Minute Plays Reflecting the Jewish Experience

View Collection

'Til Death Do Us Plots

By Julianne Bernstein.

Product Code: TB4000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 1m., 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

Newly divorced and "dead" Art and Lucille are stuck for eternity and some everlasting "kvetching" in a double coffin.

Learn more

This title is a part of a collection.

Voices From Ariel: Ten-Minute Plays Reflecting the Jewish Experience

View Collection

In Spite of Everything

By Hindi Brooks.

Product Code: I64000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A mother and daughter renew each other's faith while trapped in a Tel Aviv apartment during an Iraq scud attack.

Learn more

This title is a part of a collection.

Voices From Ariel: Ten-Minute Plays Reflecting the Jewish Experience

View Collection

An Interview With a Scapegoat

By Louis Greenstein.

Product Code: I63000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 2 either gender

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

In this clever Midrash biblical interpretation, a reporter is taken to task when she tries to get her story on the hottest goat in the wilderness!

Learn more

This title is a part of a collection.

Voices From Ariel: Ten-Minute Plays Reflecting the Jewish Experience

View Collection

The Foot Peddler

By Vivian Green

Product Code: F65000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 1m.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A bumbling peddler tells of selling his wares in 19th-century Pennsylvania.

Learn more

This title is a part of a collection.

Voices From Ariel: Ten-Minute Plays Reflecting the Jewish Experience

View Collection

The Ger (The Convert)

By Leslie B. Gold and Louis Greenstein.

Product Code: G72000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 1m., 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A recent convert tries to rally support from family and friends.

Learn more

This title is a part of a collection.

Voices From Ariel: Ten-Minute Plays Reflecting the Jewish Experience

View Collection

The Tiger Turned Pink

By Angela Randazzo.

Product Code: TB8000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Elementary School | Dinner Theatre

Cast Size: 6 or more actors. Roles may be played by adult of child actors of either sex.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Toby, a young tiger who turns pink whenever he blushes, is captured and displayed in a circus until audience interaction helps Toby put his escape plan into action.

Learn more

Script use

Available Formats

Print Script

$9.95

In Stock

Digital Script

$9.95

(Unprintable)

Min. Royalty Rate: $40.00/perf

Apply for rights

Save for later

add to compare

Learn more

Aesop's Clinic

By John Tissot.

Product Code: AG3000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | TYA | Touring Group

Cast Size: 1m., 7 either gender.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

This title suggests how Aesop happened to write his famous fables. Lively, colorful characters (two foxes, a crow, a tortoise, a hare and two moles) come to Aesop to tell about their adventures: the tortoise and the hare had a race, the fox tried to reach some grapes high on a vine but failed, and so on. The adventures become the fables that we all love so well.

Learn more