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The Father Clock

By Walter Wykes.

Product Code: F75000

One-act Play

Recommended For: College Theatre

Cast Size: 2m., 1w.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Two actors and a stage manager attempt to pull a show together after their director disappears, but keep getting distracted by the notes in the prompt book.

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Best Student One Acts: Volume 4

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Fall From Grace

By Jason D. Martin.

Product Code: F78000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 2m., 3w. (extras)

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

A dying climber fights demons, both real and imagined, on the icy flanks of a dangerous Alaskan mountain.

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A Fair Affair

By Daria Polatin.

Product Code: F77000

One-act Play

Recommended For: College Theatre

Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Based on Chekhov's short story "The Lady With the Pet Dog," this bittersweet love story explores the "backwards" relationship of two secret lovers.

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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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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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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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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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Dancing With Strangers

By Sandra Fenichel Asher.

Product Code: D59000

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Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre

Cast Size: 2 to 3 m., 3 to 6 w.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

For each of the teenaged main characters in this trilogy of short plays, life is an intricate and often confusing dance: partners join in and depart for reasons that are not always clear, altering the rhythm and mood for better or worse.

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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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