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I have written a number of plays for play festivals, as well as read through hundreds of plays on the internet, and I realized there is gap in the publishing industry where good authors struggle to get their plays published. So I have created an online play publishing company that will publish and sell plays!

court case drama script

A DEEP RURAL TRACT – COURT CASE DRAMA SCRIPT

A DEEP RURAL TRACT is a full-length drama about a Mississippi family, the McMillans.

Mississippi Cotton farmer, Wilbur McMillan stands accused in the death of his wife, Lurene. A controversial 1979 trial takes place in a Townsey, Mississippi courthouse. The court has to decide if Lurene McMillan died accidentally or if Wilbur McMillan willfully shot his wife of many years.

Willis McMillan blames the father for the death of their mother. His outspoken accusations cause tension to be thick within the McMillan family. Bo, second oldest of the five siblings handles the situation quite differently from Willis. No one knew of his uncertainty concerning what occurred that day on the farm when the mother died as a result of gunshot but to get to the truth he conducted a secret investigation into his mother’s death.

Read about playwright Loretta Moore. Other plays by Loretta Moore.

Author: Viney Loretta Moore

Genre: Court case drama script

Type: One act play

Length: One hour

Number of actors: Eight, 5M 3F

Ages of the actors: Adult 30’s to old age

Set: There are two sets – the courtroom and the family farm kitchen

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – accents which must be maintained.

Read a Sample of the Script

Cost is $6.50 for this new digital play script. Just Click Shakespeare!

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about A Deep Rural Tract

Copyright April 2104 Loretta Moore and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Others like it:

Trailer Trash – drama for four actors
Early liberty – two act drama plays
Great land – a journey of discovery. And Elvis

Comedies, One act plays, Sci-Fi

Goddle – Sci-fi comedy script

April 13, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

GODDLE – SCI-FI COMEDY SCRIPT

In the not too distant future two earthlings crash land on a planet remarkably similar to Earth. They learn from two natives that the planet, Goddle, is inhabited by a race similar to humans but more developed due to the existence of a substance called Goddlemite. Goddlemite allows the inhabitants of Goddle to communicate telepathically by channelling their thoughts. The unwelcome intrusion by the Goddlians into the minds of the Earthlings leads to much confusion and romantic innuendo, eventually leading to animosity between the Earthlings and Goddlians.

However, the Earthlings learn that Goddlemite can also be used as a power source for their crashed space ship and they hatch a plan to steal Goddlemite so they can return to Earth. Without the power of Goddlemite to read each other’s mind the Goddlians struggle with the need to speak to each other but eventually manage to make their feelings known. When the Goddlians confront the Earthlings about the theft of the Goddlemite, they come to realise that they don’t need the power to read each others’ minds. The Earthlings are able to depart with the power source they need and the Goddlians must learn to cope with the new communication method that involves talking.

Read about playwright Revelly Robinson. Other plays by Revelly Robinson.

Author: Revelly Robinson

Genre: Sci-fi comedy script

Type: One act play

Length: Forty Minutes, 40 min

Number of actors: Four, 4, 2M 2F

Ages of the actors: 20s-40s

Suitable for: All ages

Set: The crash site of a spaceship. The door of the spaceship should open and it should be jungle where it crashed. A second scene takes place in which there is a raised black podium.

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – interactions between characters

Read a Sample of the Script

Cost is $6.50 for this digital play script. Just Click Shakespeare!

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about Goddle

Copyright April 2014 Revelly Robinson and Off The Wall Plays Publishers

Like this play? More sci-fi scripts

Explain the handcuffs – a time travelling adventure
2093 – action filled sci-fi screenplay
An ordinary man – a comedy about being a werewolf

Comedies, One act plays, Romance

Two Cats, No Dogs! Ten minute romantic plays

April 2, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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TWO CATS, NO DOGS! TEN MINUTE ROMANTIC PLAYS

In this award winning romantic comedy script, a man and a woman find themselves at an art gallery, viewing a red (very red) painting. They get chatting to each other and, superimposed on their ‘chit chat’ are their thoughts – that they really and truly like each other and wish that the other would like them back. Their personal thoughts also intrude on what they’re trying to say to each other which leads to the sort of stuttering that happens when people are trying to impress each other. A lovely, funny two-hander script for one man and one woman of any age.

Read more about award winning playwright Terry Roeuche. Read But I’m French – also by the same author.

TWO CATS, NO DOGS

…was produced in the United Kingdom in 2016
… won second place in the 2003 Porter Fleming Writing Competition sponsored by the Greater Augusta (GA) Arts Council.
… selected for the 2002 Second Annual Pregnant Chad New Plays Festival, Stormy Weather Players in New Windsor, NY.
… was selected for the 2001 StageRight Production’s Off-Off Broadway one-act play festival.
… awarded “Best Play” in the 1999 Turnip Theatre Company 15-Minute Play Competition, New York City.
… was selected for the 1999 Theatre Charlotte (Charlotte, NC) One-Act Series.
… was selected for the 1999 New Play Festival at Converse College, Spartanburg, SC.
The Old Nick theatre, Gainsborough, UK – 2019
American School of Dubai – Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 2020
Nirak Films, Warwichshire, UK – 2020
Micro Theatre on Broadway, PA, USA – 2023

Two Cat, No Dogs! is one of a series of short plays collectively known as “Ugly Art.”

REVIEWS:

Redditch Advertiser, Worcesterhire, England
Produced by Mouthpiece Theatre, Worcestershire, England 2004
“Putting on a theatre performance is always a risky business. You don’t know whether the audience will turn off the telly and risk the chance of a waster evening. Mouthpiece Productions remedies this by taking theatre to the people. And if has certainly deliver the goods with its latest festival offering – Ugly Art… The show was a treat – a performance of this quality is worth traveling to watch. The show was light accessible and above all, very entertaining.

Sumter Item, Sumter, South Carolina
Produced by Urban Theater of Sumter 2004
“Three large canvases (blue, yellow and green) one bench and a small table displaying several wine glasses set the stage for “Ugly Art,” written by last year’s South Carolina playwright’s winner Terry Roueche… The play itself is sophisticated dialogue, evoking laughter through seven vignettes that explore a variety of topics – marriage, control, snobbery, fidelity and artistic talk…

Author: Terry Roueche

Genre: Ten minute romantic plays, romantic comedy

Type: Short one act plays

Length: Ten minutes

Number of actors: Two, 2, 1M 1F.

Ages of the actors: Any adult age

Suitable for: All ages

Set: Simple black box set with a single red painting

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – a nice two hander play for 1F 1M

Read a Sample of the Script

Cost is $10.50 for this award winning digital script

Cost is $15 for the printed script. Reduced costs with multiple copies, please inquire.

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about Two Cats, No Dogs

Copyright April 2014 Terry Roeche and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other ten minute comedy scripts

Insurance on the line – ten minute cynical comedy script
The Wingman – ten minute comedy scripts
Road Rage – a tense sharp comedy script

Dramas, One act plays

Waiting for Nelson – South African plays

March 30, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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WAITING FOR NELSON – SOUTH AFRICAN PLAYS

“Sometimes, life isn’t simply black and white.”

It has been 40 years since the 1976 Soweto Uprisings. Set in post apartheid South Africa, 21 years after the first ever democratic elections, the production centres on a couple who are faced with issues directly associated with issues that have historically, that currently and will probably affect future South Africans: RACE.

This play places a magnifying glass on a topic that still dominates societal discourse in this day & age – the colour of the next person’s skin. The aura and significance of the year 1994 came with many promises – many of which haven’t been fulfilled. The ‘race issue’, however, is one that every human being is capable of contributing towards solving, through simply undergoing a change in ways of thought – we just haven’t realized this yet. Waiting for Nelson is an important production that delivers a fresh avenue to be explored in the quest of achieving the sacred idea of a ‘rainbow nation’, through planting a seed of confrontation, change and redefinition.
When the theatre confronts us with brutal situations where ‘the life mask cracks and falls away’ it can expose an ‘intimate layer’ which returns us to common human truths.

After having its debut at the Roodepoort Theatre as part of the 2014 Youth Arts Festival (where the show won best drama of the festival), it went on to be performed at The South African State Theatre as part of the annual Youth Arts Festival, on the Fringe Programme. The show then went on to be performed to a sold out audience at The Market Laboratory later that same year. It was also read at the 2015 ASSITEJ/IATA annual Youth Theatre and Dance Festival at Artscape. After being performed at the first ever East London Arts Festival and being invited to the DUT’s Courtyard Theatre in 2016 as well as being selected to be a part of the SA Shorts II: #2MINUTE NOODLES, an initiative by UJ Arts and Culture, supported by Wordfest and the National Arts Festival where a 2 minute version of the show was read at the 2017 National Arts Festival, this provocative in your face production is ready to entertain you beyond your wildest imagination! This show is not a mirror of society, but rather a hammer with which to shape it.

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

Brescia House School, Johannesburg, South Africa – 2019

Read more about playwright Mbasa Tsetsana

Author: Mbsasa Tsetsana

Genre: Political drama script, South African plays

Type: Full length one act play

Number of actors: Eight, 8

Ages of the actors: Young adults 20’s-30’s

Suitable for: PG 14 – language

Set: Simple – Stage with a table and chairs

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – the energy involved in this type of play is always very high.

Read a Sample of the Script

Cost is $8 for this award winning script.

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about Waiting for Nelson

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Copyright March 2014 Mbasa Tsetsana and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other topical South African and African American Plays

Faith – an abused woman’s story in one act
The Pen – South African play script about love, reality and fantasy
The Pump Room – a post apartheid play

Dramas, One act plays

Trailer Trash – drama for four actors

March 23, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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TRAILER TRASH – DRAMA FOR FOUR ACTORS

Trailer Trash – a drama for four actors revolves around the complicated relationship between two long term residents of a trailer park, five times divorced Roxanne and prim Doris, who lost everything in a fire the previous year and who has been forced to live in an old school bus because she has nowhere else to go.

When the landlord announces that he is going to evict Doris from her bus, Doris turns to Roxanne for help. This drama builds on the evolving relationship between the two women and shows that it is when times get tough that people find out who their real friends are and who to turn to.

An excerpt from ‘Trailer Trash’has been published by Brooklyn Publishers under the title of “A Temporary Haven”. The play also received a production at the American Theatre of Actors in New York City.

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

The Forst Inn, WI, USA – 2023

Author: Laurie Allen

Genre: Drama

Type: One Act Play

Length: One Hour

Number of actors: Four, 3F 1M

Ages of the actors: Late thirties up to eighty years old but this play could very well be tackled by a mature cast with ease.

Set:
The living room and kitchen area of ROXANNE’S mobile home in a small West Texas town. It’s cluttered with clothes, beer cans, trash, etc. It appears that nothing has been put in its proper place for months. There’s a ragged couch, scratched coffee table and a mismatched chair. In the kitchen there’s a dirty refrigerator, stove and a small kitchen table.

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – a drama revolving primarily round two main female actresses.

Read a Sample of the Script

Cost is $7 for this previously produced digital play

Buy a Performance License for this play

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about Trailer Trash

Copyright March 2014 Laurie Allen and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Have a look at similar hour long one act dramas:

The Visit – French Family Drama
Blasphemous Rumours – tongue in cheek drama – set in hell
Riding a Peacock – American family drama

Comedies, Crime, One act plays

Murder and a show – whodunit comedy

March 19, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

MURDER AND A SHOW – WHODUNIT COMEDY

Murder and a Show is the story of Eric, who is married to Aubrey, who is dumb as bricks, and Tom, who is married to Trixie, who thinks she knows everything about everything. These two neighbors have devised a plan to have both wives killed at Aubrey’s birthday party. Eric has hired a theater troupe to come perform a murder mystery dinner theater at their apartment, only what Aubrey and Trixie don’t know is that one of the actors is really an assassin there to kill them. Everything goes south when one of the actors turns out to be Eric’s mistress and one of the other actors winds up dead instead of the two wives. While the actors try to figure out who killed Jay, Eric and Tom try to figure out who didn’t kill their wives and why. And to make matters worse a nervous police officer shows up because of report of gunfire in the area. Tensions mount as everyone at the party scrambles to find the murderer while trying to convince the police that nothing is wrong.

This whodunit comedy show was produced and performed at Theatre 29 in Twentynine Palms, California in 2001 and was presented as a dinner theater experience. Read more about best selling playwright Mike Maxwell.

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

On Deck Players, Yuma, AZ, USA – 2017
Chugiak-Eagle River Senior Center, AK, USA – 2018
Woodbine High school, IA, USA – 2022
Diva LasVegas, NV, USA – 2022

Author: Mike Maxwell

Genre: Whodunit comedy

Type: One act play

Length: Sixty minutes

Number of Actors: Nine actors 9 (10) 5F, 4M

Ages of the actors: All adult, ages 20-60

Suitable for: All ages

Set: The William’s apartment. The front door is located stage left. There is a closet stage right. There are two bedrooms. One is upstage right and one is upstage left. There is a couch center stage. There is a counter and a mini-fridge located stage right, upstage of the closet. There is a phone on the counter.

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – a play with fun, over the top characters

Read a Sample of the Script

Cost is $7.50 for this previously produced digital play. Just click Shakespeare!

Buy a performance license for Murder and a Show

Copyright March 2014 Mike Maxwell and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other medium length one act comedies:

Cancelled – award winning 1940’s farce
Internet love story and farce
Missing the Mark – when you’re the conman – and you get conned
The Mistress of Wholesome – a comedy where the mistress takes on the wife

Crime, Dramas, One act plays

The Investigation – Ten Minute Drama Scripts

March 16, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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THE INVESTIGATION – TEN MINUTE DRAMA SCRIPTS

Essalyn Tompkins has been hearing strange noises in her house ever since her husband mysteriously died in a car accident. Out of desperation, Essalyn has come to consult a psychic, bringing her friend Claude with her for moral support. But what will happen when the psychic reveals what actually happened?

The author will allow workshopping of this script. Read more about playwright Evan Guilford Blake.

Production/award history

PRODUCTIONS:

Pleasure Ridge Park High School, Kentucky, USA (2023)
Sir Winston Churchill High School, Alberta, Canada (2019)
North Hawaii Players, Hawaii, USA (2018)
Maret School, Washington, DC, USA (2017)
Dragon Lady Players, Syracuse, NY (2009)
Blacktown City Community Theatre (Seven Hills, NSW, Australia) (2008)
Carrollwood Players, Tampa, FL (2006)
Panoply Arts Festival, Huntsville, AL (2005)
Colonial Playhouse, Aldan, PA (2004)
Lebanon (PA) Community Theatre (2003)

AWARDS:

Winner, 2003 Lebanon (PA) Community Theatre Playwriting Competition
Winner, 2005 Panoply Arts Festival Competition

Author: Evan Guilford-Blake

Genre: Murder mystery

Type: Ten minute drama scripts

Number of Actors: Four 4

Ages of the actors: Late twenties and up

Suitable for: All ages

Set: Simple – a psychics lounge/living room with a table and a deck of cards.

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – A nice piece for community theatre with an easy build of tension and a surprising twist at the end.

Read a Sample of the Script

Cost is $11.00 for this award winning best selling script

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about The Investigation

Copyright March 2014 Evan Guilford Blake and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Read other crime scripts:

Two Many Witnesses – a courtroom drama script
The Mysterious Death of Christine Wilde – young actres with a promising career murdered
Parlor City Noir – a film noir whodunit

Children's, Plays in three acts

A Fairly Tall Adventure – Adventure Plays for Kids

March 9, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

A FAIRLY TALL ADVENTURE – ADVENTURE PLAYS FOR KIDS

Children’s Comedy/Fantasy. Cindy and Jack Reiley spend an evening at home with their step-sitter (a substitute baby sitter). Jack makes a board game for them to play and, as they play, they notice strange things happening; fairy tale characters appear, spells are cast, and it seems the only way to set things right and get rid of the unwanted house guests is to finish the game before their parents come home. An adorable cast of unusual characters make this an exciting comedy the whole family will love.

Read about playwright Richard Van Den Akker.

Production History:

Actors of Tomorrow, North Carolina, USA – 2016
Fairy Tales Theater, MS, USA – 2019

Author:Richard Van Den Akker

Genre: Plays for kids, adventure play script

Type: Full length play

Length: One and a half hours

Number of actors: 9-13. Up to 10 girls, up to 5 boys

Ages of the actors: All can be played by children.

Suitable for: All ages, aimed at children

Set: The play is set in the living room/den of a middle income family. There is a couch, a few chairs and a low coffee table down center. There is also a door to outside, a door to the bedrooms, and a door to the kitchen. There is a sewing machine and a phone off to one side.

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – a nice play aimed at older primary school children or younger middle school children.

Read a Sample of the Script

Cost is $9.00 for this digital play script. Just click Shakespeare!

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about A Fairly Tall Adventure

Copyright March 2014 Richard Van den Akker and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? More plays for children!

Adventures of Moe Joe and Snowy in Lochloosa
Wandering Bard’s Tale – children’s fairytale in one act
A Manger Carol – one act nativity play

Crime, Dramas, Plays in three acts

Parlor City Noir – whodunit script

March 6, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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PARLOR CITY NOIR – WHODUNIT SCRIPTS

It is the 1940’s – the era of hard boiled detectives and gangsters. Nick Holliday, PI and his girl Friday Dora Chase are hired by a grieving widow to find the murderer of her husband, an art gallery owner named Peter DeLucci. But as Nick and Dora soon find out there is nothing routine about this case, as they run afoul of a Numbers Racketeer and a shadowy underworld figure calling themselves the Sicilian all leading to an ending that is sure to surprise.

Endless Mountains Theatre Company November production of Parlor City Noir has been nominated for nine awards including Best Drama, Best original Production and Best overall production.

Further Performance History:

University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom – 2017
Eydon Players, Daventry, UK – 2019

Read about playwright David Schmidt.

Author: David Schmidt

Genre: Whodunit, Crime

Type: Three act whodunit script

Length: Two Hours

Number of Actors: 8, eight actors. 4M 4F

Suitable for: All ages

Set: A 1940’s style detective’s office. A large wooden desk and swivel chair are CENTER. An old chair for clients sits in front of the desk. A sofa is set against the right wall of the office. A metal filing cabinet and a coat tree can be found in another corner. On the desk is a name plate that reads NICK HOLLIDAY, PI. A window with the reversed inscription SILVER SHIELD INVESTIGATIONS NICK HOLLIDAY PI painted on it looks out upon the city. A door connecting the outer office to the detective’s office bears a frosted glass pane with the reversed inscription NICK HOLLIDAY, PRIVATE DETECTIVE on it. A bottle of scotch and two glasses are set on one corner of the desk. A bulletin board cluttered with wanted posters and other papers hangs on one wall of the office.

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – a great amdram play with fantastic audience reviews

Read a Sample of the Script

Cost $8.00 for this previously staged digital play with great reviews

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about Parlor City Noir

Copyright March 2014 David Schmidt and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? More like it:

Mysterious death of Christine Wilde
Ralph – a who killed the parrot(and the wife) bizarre mystery
Jack Masterson and the Case of absurdity – a who stole it comedy

Comedies, One act plays

If God Ate Fried Chicken – Short Comedy Plays

February 26, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

IF GOD ATE FRIED CHICKEN – SHORT COMEDY SCRIPTS

If God Ate Fried Chicken is the story of Father Seacrest and Sister Blanche, secretly out on a date together to a chicken joint. Little do they know that fate has other plans for them, as uninvited outing guests begin showing up one after another, ending in the two of them hiding in the kitchen of the restaurant, and the police being called. By the end of it, all, it’s going to take a little divine intervention to keep things going even further south.

Read about playwright Timothy Starnes.

Dedication: “This script is dedicated to the one-and-only Savanah Jillani, whose winding, farcical stories of her own homeschooling inspire much of the aesthetic of the work. While as far as I know she’s never accidentally held-up a fried chicken restaurant, it all does not seem too far off, however, a bit unlikely though, seeing as she’s a vegetarian.”

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Lake Forest High School, IL, USA – 2017

Author:Timothy Starnes

Genre: Short Comedy Scripts

Type: One Act Plays

Length: Fifteen Minutes, 15 min.

Number of Actors: Eight minimum but more can be used

Ages of the actors: Some teenagers and up.

Suitable for: All ages

Set: A counter at a typical fried chicken outlet

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – easy script – crowding onstage.

Read a Sample of The Script

Cost is $10.00 for this digital American play script. Just Click Shakespeare!

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about If God Ate Fried Chicken

Copyright February 2014 Timothy Starnes and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Read some other short comedy scripts:

A Blind Date – short romantic comedy script
But I’m French – short black box stage comedy script
Insurance on the line – ten minute comedy scripts
Meeting Meryl – theatre of the absurd
Road rage – a tongue in cheek short comedy

Comedies, Dramas, Plays in 2 acts

Tranquility Disturbed – two act comedy drama scripts

February 21, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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two-act comedy drama scripts

TRANQUILITY DISTURBED – TWO ACT COMEDY DRAMA SCRIPTS

In this interesting script that can be played either as a drama, a comedy or a mixture of both, Barbara, an eighty nine year old woman who is dying, is now living with her daughter, son in law and teenage granddaughter. Barbara is very old and is beginning to show signs of dementia. Stewart has lost his job and is stuck at home having to look after Barbara. Lindsey, his wife is frazzled and frustrated and also desperately worried about her mother.

The family is desperate to find a solution to the huge mountain of debt that they have found themselves in since Stewart lost his job. Tensions run high and having to care for Barbara seems to just make Stewart’s life more stressful than ever.

Author Mark McQuown is a produced award winning screenwriter.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Tarleton State University, USA – 2016

Author: Mark McQuown

Genre: Comedy Drama scripts

Type: Two act play

Ages of the actors: One older F, M and F 40’s-50’s, teenage F.

Suitable for: PG 10 -language

Set: The set is a stylized version of Lindsay and Stewart’s home which mainly consists of a higher, middle platform with a dining room table and chairs and two smaller, lower platforms which are Lindsay’s sewing room and Stewart’s writing room.
Stewart’s writing room has a couch a chair and small computer table with computer.
Lindsay’s sewing room is mainly a mess of costumes and costume pieces on a bed.

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – because the play can be played as either funny, serious or a mix of both, differentiating genres and playing to the audience can be interesting.

Read a Sample of the Script

Cost is $6 for this digital play script

Contact off the wall plays with any queries about Tranquility Disturbed

Like this script? Read some of our other comedy dramas!

Blasphemous Rumours – a satirical drama. Set in hell
The Condition – one act comedy drama set about a series of mental patients
You do love me, don’t you? A comedy thriller in one act

Action, Plays in three acts

Return to Vardia – Three act adventure play for large cast

February 12, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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RETURN TO VARDIA – THREE ACT ADVENTURE PLAY FOR LARGE CAST

‘Return to Vardia’ is A Fantasy in the form of a quest. Three young archaeologists stumble upon the remains of a palace of a lost tribe in Dacia, now known as Romania, and seek to discover the meaning behind the discovery of the chalice of Vardia. The story of Vardia is told by Marlinus, the timeless ‘wizard’ and the past is brought to life. It has a very large cast for performance by 10 -13 and 14-16 year old students for audiences aged 9 to ageless!

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Spag Bol Productions – Ferny Grove School, Queensland, Australia – 2021
REACH Homeschool Group, MI, USA – 2023

Read about playwright Keith Passmore.

Author: Keith Passmore

Genre: Adventure

Type: Three act full length play

Number of actors: The play has 77 parts but many can be doubled up. Minimum cast size 35

Ages of actors: Children to adult

Suitable for: All ages

Set: The scenes in this play may be staged simply or elaborately. The use of lighting is important, particularly in the mountain and forest scenes in order to suggest mood and the environment. In the first production polystyrene was used to create rocks, damaged wall sections were and the rubble in Act One Scene 1 and Act 3 Scene 3. Complete polystyrene pillars, approximately 4 metres in height, were positioned in all scenes, but were moved Far L and R in the Eastern Pass and forest scenes to allow more access and space for the BIRDS and MOUNTAIN PEOPLE. Standing decorated hinged flats were used to suggest locations, but this is a matter of choice.

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – length of the play

Read a sample of the script

Cost is $6

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about Return to Vardia

Like this play? Read some of our other action and adventure plays and screenplays:

Jack Masterson and the case of absurdity – two act teen farce
The Dragons of Spring – medieval comedy adventure for teens
The Wizard of Odd – pantomime version of the Wizard of Oz

Dramas, One act plays

The Any Key – Monologues for Men

February 8, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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THE ANY KEY – MONOLOGUES FOR MEN

Bad things happen to everyone. Sometimes it’s your fault, and sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes you can blame other people for your problems and sometimes you just can’t. People tend to ignore the warning signs in life, and then bad things happen that they should have see coming. But what if there was a magical key that we could push, that would make it all unhappen so we could do it over?

Read about playwright Chris Welzenbach. The author will allow workshopping of the play to accommodate place names and because couriers often use light motorcycles (motos) rather than bicycles.

Author: Chris Welzenbach

Type: One act monologues for men

Genre: One act drama

Length: Seventeen to Twenty Three minutes according to previous performances

Number of actors:One

Suitable for: PG due to language

Set: Single Barstool, black box theatre

Level of Difficulty 6/10 – style is quite conversational

Read a Sample of the Script

Cost is $5.50 for this digital monologue for men

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about The Any Key

Like this play? Have a look at some of our other monologues:

Guy meets Girl – a one man comedy routine about the pitfalls of dating
In the hut – funny Irish monologue for men

or our other Topical Dramas:

Family exercise – short family dramas – when a family’s life falls apart
Twenty first century stomp – a rap drama in two acts

Dramas

Early Liberty – two act drama plays

January 29, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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EARLY LIBERTY – TWO ACT DRAMA PLAYS

“Life is about paying attention to the right things,” but what happens when the people and places you consider safe aren’t? What is “safe” and who spells “Home”?

When Mark Haywood follows the beacon into Lighthouse Cove nothing is what it seems. But if Mark’s world is falling apart—despite increasingly-frantic efforts to keep it together, then the hotel proprietor and his family need a special kind of rescue from each other. Just what will it take for Selma to grow up and for Mark to wake up? Can these dueling opposites save the hotel and find a way to be together? Set in 1985 on the Atlantic shore, Early Liberty explores the limits and boundlessness of love and hope, and the darker side of what it means to dream.

Early Liberty is a play about false fronts and true love, about crossed wires and yardsticks we never measure up to. This dramatic love story is especially relevant now, especially as regards women’s status, and the parallels between the idealized Reagan Era and the “world as it is today” to reveal that “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”

Early Liberty was produced at Texas State University (Lab Theatre) January 31-February 3, 2013.The play has already been workshopped but the author is open to minor changes, authorized in writing. Read more about playwright Rita Anderson

Rita and Early Liberty have both been recently featured as the cover story in Baring Her Soul for a living – Hill Country View.

Author: Rita Anderson

Genre: Drama, two-act drama

Type: Full length drama plays

Number of Actors: 4M, 4F

Ages of the actors: All adult, 20s-60s.

Set: An out-of-date hotel in Norfolk with a nautical theme. First day of Spring.

Suitable for: All ages

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – much of the play is carried by a conversation between two people.

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Comedies, Plays in 2 acts

God Help Us – Dark religious comedy scripts

January 22, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

GOD HELP US – TWO ACT COMEDY

It turns out Nietzsche was wrong: god isn’t dead; he’s just been tied up at a meeting – a cosmically long meeting – at the Galactic Council. Now’s he’s back and bucking harder than ever to George-Jefferson his way out of his middle-manager post in a third-rate galaxy. As god works to polish his Milky-Way resume, one nasty, black smear threatens to doom his ladder-climbing plans: the atrocities perpetrated by the inhabitants of third planet from its sun in a rinky-dink solar system – all with his supposed seal of approval.

As god speeds through Earth’s CliffsNotes from his two-thousand year absence, he decides this planetary stain on his cosmic ledger cannot stand. His solution is simple: eliminate the problem by erasing Earth from his bottom line altogether. One snag in his divine business plan is the obscure DaVinci Clause which states god cannot wipe Earth from his spreadsheet until every inhabitant renounces their faith in him. So, he sets out to disabuse his fans of the myth of his benevolent nature – with extreme prejudice.

“God Help Us” recently received a two-performance staged reading at Fierce Backbone theater in Los Angeles and was also selected as the featured play by the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights for its New Works Lab (Eclectic Company Theater). This “DOGMA” styled religious dark comedy may be offensive to sensitive readers.