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One Act Plays


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The Overcoat

By Tim Kelly. Based on Nikolai Gogol's story.

Product Code: O20000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre
Cast Size: 4m., 4w. (5m., 3 to 4w.)

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

In 19th-century Russia, a humble clerk in the Ministry of Legal Records, Akaky Akayevich, scrapes and saves to purchase a handsome new overcoat. The garment, trimmed in cat fur, transforms him into a person who matters. When the overcoat is stolen by a ruffian, Akaky is driven nearly mad and dies of pneumonia. But wait! Akaky refuses to accept his fate. He returns from the grave and takes out his anger by snatching fine overcoats from the backs of good citizens!

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A Time to Go Home

Product Code: T97000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 5m., 7w. (Extras.)

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This unique look at dying

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Arrivals

By Jerome McDonough after "The Rivals " by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Product Code: A60000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 6m., 6w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

One of literature's most enduring classics has been lovingly remodeled for young contemporary audiences. Although the characters are all younger and their names have been changed, all the rich plot elements still abound.

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Trip's Cinch

Product Code: T39000

One-act Play
Cast Size: 1m., 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

In this caustic and wry play, Ms. Nagy gives us both the truth and the lie about this random meeting of two people and the politics of sexual pursuit.

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A Promise Is a Promise

By Barbara Poggemiller. Music by Holly Harris. From the story by Robert Munsch and Michael Kusugak.

Product Code: P72000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | TYA
Cast Size: 2m., 2w. (or 1m., 3w., 4 children, Multicultrual.)

Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

A Promise Is a Promise, a very special story adapted from an Inuit legend, is a lyrical and powerfully imagistic piece. Using audience members, storytelling, masks, puppets, music, and dance, this wonderful winter's tale will cast its spell.

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Rappaccini's Daughter

Product Code: R55000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre
Cast Size: 3m., 2w.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

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She Stoops to Conquer

By Robert M. Singleton. From Oliver Goldsmith's 18th-century British comedy.

Product Code: S31000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Professional Theatre
Cast Size: 7m., 4w. (extras, a total of 10 actors with doubling.)

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

This adaptation of the much longer original captures the essence of Goldsmith's wit and the flavor of Georgian England while making the complexities of the period easier to grasp and to play for the young actor.

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The Great Theatre of the World

By Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Adapted by Adrian Mitchell.

Product Code: G57000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre
Cast Size: 4m., 2w., 2 either gender.

Limited Streaming Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

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Hubie's Best Friend

Product Code: H68000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 2m., 1w.

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Approx. Run Time: 20 min.

Hubie is the hardworking intellectual college student, and his roommate, Alvin, is the girl-loving, girl-chasing jock. Hubie decides to create a fictitious girlfriend and make Alvin fall in love with her, but he falls for his imaginary girl himself.

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Old Goat Song

Product Code: O53000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 1m., 3w.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

Bill has lost the great love in his life, but a young waitress so reminds him of his lost love that he finds himself falling in love with her. When he begins to pay attention to and spend money on the young women, his old sister becomes jealous because certain affections are not going to her and afraid that she won't inherit brother Bill's considerable estate. The conclusion is sad but happy at the same time.

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