One Act Plays

Class Act

By Michael Elkin.

Product Code: CA7000

One-act Play

Recommended For: College Theatre | Senior Theatre

Cast Size: 1w.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A widow registers for everything from cooking to clowning at the local Y.

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

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Concerned Citizens

By Violet Gunter and Bob May

Product Code: C17000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Senior Theatre

Cast Size: 4w.

Approx. Run Time: 5 min.

Yolanda hasn't seen the neighbor in several days, and is afraid she may have died.

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Short Stuff: Ten- to Twenty-Minute Plays for Mature Actors

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Conversation at Night With a Despised Character

By Friedrich Durrenmatt.

Product Code: C32000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 2m.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

A man entertains a long awaited visitor, knowing he would come sooner or later but not knowing in what disguise he would appear. The visitor presents himself as the executioner for totalitarian state, but it is Death that speaks.

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Cornbread and Beans

By Earl Reimer

Product Code: C56000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Senior Theatre

Cast Size: 1m., 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 15 min.

A set-in-his-ways widower and a free spirit are set up on a blind date by an online dating service.

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Short Stuff: Ten- to Twenty-Minute Plays for Mature Actors

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Don't Encourage Him

By Jason Taylor.

Product Code: D76000

One-act Play

Recommended For: College Theatre

Cast Size: 1m.

Approx. Run Time: 20 min.

This hilarious autobiographical one-man show tells the tale of growing up on a farm in Iowa with brotherly rivalry to spare.

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Best Student One Acts: Volume 5

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Dragon Flies

By Joseph Waechter.

Product Code: D77000

One-act Play

Recommended For: College Theatre

Cast Size: 6m., 2w. (extras)

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

A dark comedy of mature themes, this play examines the difficulties and absurdities of growing up in a not-so-normal family.

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Best Student One Acts: Volume 6

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Drive-In America

By Amy Lanasa.

Product Code: D79000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 1m., 3w.

Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Through their comedic interactions with local enigmatic oddballs, two college-age friends make self-discoveries and examine the true meaning of friendship.

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Best Student One Acts: Volume 7

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Episode on an Autumn Evening

By Friedrich Durrenmatt.

Product Code: E16000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 4m., 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

An amateur detective visits a novelist. He's noticed that the 21 murder mysteries the novelist is famed for just happen to coincide with 21 unsolved actual murders—and the novelist just happened to be in the vicinity at the time of each murder.

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