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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!

THE WINDOW – A one act about marriage

In this one act about marriage, Howie and Sheila have been happily married for about two years and are the typical young upper middle class couple, who go to the gym, eat right and know what they want from life. What Howie wants is to to go the theater, but what Sheila wants, is to knock a big hole into the wall where a painting of Howie’s is, so that she can have a window there instead.

This turns into a domestic spat, which isn’t helped by the arrival of Sheila’s hick cousin, Geri (Jerry), a know it all relation who has come to stay with them.

Leonard has written about a dozen full length plays and somewhat more one act plays. Some have won prizes: full length plays “Laramie, Equal Rights” and “Clara” won awards at the Shoreline Readers Theater, 2009 and 2010, in Washington State. “Road Rage” and “Apartment 4G” won in the 2010-2011 “Ink to Boards” One-Act Play Competition at Wildfire Arts. Several plays have been produced locally in the Seattle, Washington and in New York are others have been read at writers’ workshops, and some at festivals.

The author will allow workshopping of the play, subject to the right of refusal and he must be notified through us of any suggested modifications two weeks in advance.

Author: Leonard Goodisman

Type: One act play, one act about marriage

Genre: Comedy, drama-comedy

Length: Fifty to sixty minutes

Ages of actors: Two in late 20’s, one any age

Number of actors: Three, 3. Either 2M 1F or 2F 1M

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – it’s a character driven dry comedic piece

Set: Simple – an upmarket lounge or sitting room. The painting can be real or imagined.

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Cost is $6.50 for this play by award winning writer Leonard Goodisman

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Other plays by award winning writer Leonard Goodisman Read more about author Leonard Goodisman.

Like this one act about marriage? Fancy something different? Check out these plays that focus on relationships.

Arcanum – a one act comedy about friends and love
What’s on your mind? A comedy of the absurd
Aldous remembers – a sweet romantic drama play
Taylor – a four act play about the loss of a spouse

Copyright July 2013 Leonard Goodisman and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Action, Children's, Comedies, Plays in 2 acts, Romance, Teens

The Dragons of Spring – two-act comedy script for teenagers

July 9, 2013 Demmer Dewan 2 Comments

THE DRAGONS OF SPRING – A TWO-ACT COMEDY SCRIPT FOR TEENAGERS

In this two-act comedy script for teenagers, King Bob is informed by the ‘Queen for a day,’ his wife, that it is high time that their daughter, Clementine was married, being at the ripe of age of fifteen. Clementine, however is, desperately in love with Claudius, the castle plumber. In an effort to ensure that she marries someone of noble blood, the King and Queen issue a Royal Decree stating that anyone who kills the local dragon will win 5000 pounds. (And in small print,”Marry the Princess Clementine.”)

two-act play script for teenagers

When the Princess Clementine hears about this, she is determined that her true love, Claudius, the plumber shall be the one to slay the dragon and so she drags the unwilling Claudius and her maidservant to the forest to slay the dragon. However, her younger sister is determined that Clementine shall be married, to whoever, so that she can get her Clementine’s bedroom. So she drags her maidservant off to the forest to slay the dragon, and to pin it on one of the local elderly knights sent by the King to perform this errand.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Home School Academy Drama Club, USA – 2022
Dramatic Repertory Association for Music and Arts, MS, USA – 2023

Author:Richard Van Den Akker

Genre: Adventure fairytale for younger teens

Type: Two-act play

Length: One hour and ten minutes

Number of actors: 16-20, sixteen to twenty 12M, 5F, rest anything

Level of difficulty: 7/10 Easy script and quite funny. There are special effects but how to make them is well described by the playwright in a separate document

Set: There are four scenes and three sets – the throne room, the village green and the woods. these can easily be accomplished with backdrops and minimal furnishings.

Read more about playwright Richard Van Den Akker.

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Copyright July 2013 Richard Van Den Akker and Off The Wall Play Publishing

Like this play? Looking for something different?

Sleeping Beauty – the modern day pantomime

After ever after – a fairytale musical for high schools

The condition – a humorous look at an the inhabitants of an insane asylum

Missing the Mark – a farce in 2 acts where 2 on artists get conned!

Dramas, One act plays, Teens

Someone to Remember – One Act Teen Drama

June 30, 2013 Demmer Dewan 1 Comment

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SOMEONE TO REMEMBER – ONE ACT TEEN DRAMA

Someone to Remember is a one act teen drama that follows Jean, a young teen, who sees a ghost named Morgan. Together, they set out on daily “jobs” to prevent others from taking their lives. From friends to enemies, the pair takes on any challenge, with Jean testing the intentions of others.

But what happens when Jean is the one thrust into a world of mystery, where he/she is left to unravel the secrets that revolve around the enigmatic appearance of Morgan?

This is Jean’s story – a psychological drama and dark journey into the depths of human nature and free will that begs the question: who’s next?

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Norfolk State University – VA, USA – 2018
Norfolk State University – VA, USA – 2021
St. Mary’s Catholic School, TX, USA – 2023

Author: Ash Crestfelt

Type: One act play

Genre: Teen drama, one act teen drama

Length: Thirty minutes

Number of actors: Five all can be either sex.

Ages of actors: One young teen, three older teens, one adult.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – achieving the tension in this drama

Set: A house with a kitchen area, needs at least a table and some chairs. A blank space with a ledge/box to climb on.

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Copyright June 2013 Ash Crestfelt and Off The Wall Play Publishers

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Rebecca, The Child – a one act teen play about peer pressure and growing up
Family exercise – a short one act family drama with a teen and adult cast
Anna, alone – a one act drama about a girl with multiple personality disorder
Shriek, the fairytale – a full length funny musical fairytale for middle and high school

Dramas, Play in four acts

A House Divided – a civil war play in four acts

June 26, 2013 Demmer Dewan 1 Comment

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A HOUSE DIVIDED – A CIVIL WAR PLAY IN FOUR ACTS

This period drama in four acts is set around the time of the American Civil War. It looks at the lives of ordinary Americans, as well as that of the President and his wife. It examines how the war affected everyone, from the common soldier, the President and his family, to the Sioux Indians and Negroes now fighting in the war that was meant to free them. And although many people were crying out for an end to the war, it continued to its inevitable conclusion. For once events were set in motion, it became as impossible to stop, as it was possible to justify.

Author: Sterling Cullipher

Genre: Period drama, civil war play

Type: Four act play

Length: Two hours

Level of Difficulty: 8/10 – the Old English can be challenging for some actors and audiences

Number of actors:Twenty Nine (29) 18M, 11F

Ages of actors: All Teen to old age

Set: Various – A few offices, a bedroom, a hospital and a field.

Read more about playwright Sterling Cullipher

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One act plays, Teens

Rebecca, the child – a short one act for teenagers

June 20, 2013 Demmer Dewan 1 Comment

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one act for teenagers

REBECCA, THE CHILD – A SHORT ONE ACT FOR TEENAGERS

Rebecca and her friend, Claire are seventeen and at a point in their lives when they feel that they should ‘be adults’ and do the things that adults do. Claire has met a couple of guys who she says would be happy to ‘help them out.’ But Rebecca is unsure whether she is ready for the experience. A short one act for teenagers and high school students that deals with the subject of peer pressure and growing up.

Author: Timothy Tarkelly

Genre: Teen drama

Type: Short one act for teens

Length: 5 – 7 minutes.

Actors: 2F, two teenage girls

Ages of actors: Mid to late teens

Set: Simple – a public phone and the idea of it being on a street somewhere

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – a short easy play for teenage girls

Timothy Tarkelly is a student at Fort Hays State University where he studies theater and English. He has had stories published in anthologies such as Cover of Darkness and Zombie Tales, and has had stories featured in online publications such as Apocrypha and Abstractions, microhorror.com and, dailylove.net.

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Copyright June 2013 Timothy Tarkelly Off The Wall Play Publishers

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Bob – a 5 minute comedy skit
Shriek – teen musical comedy with 2 wicked witches, three princesses and a bottle of ketchup
Wandering Bard’s tale – fairytale in one act for younger teens
A three act play set in Olde England for high school students

Comedies, Plays in 2 acts

Heir to a Misfortune – a short two act farce

June 16, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

HEIR TO A MISFORTUNE – A SHORT TWO ACT FARCE

In this short two act farce, Arthur Aldenbrooke has recently passed away leaving behind his three daughters and a large fortune. His oldest daughter, Violet, is sweet and innocent, while his younger daughters, Christa and Lynn are greedy trouble-makers. Nigel Wentworth, Arthur’s attorney, shows up with the sealed will of the late millionaire with instructions to read it in front of a small handful of people. One of those people being Arthur’s secret lady friend Gabriella, who is evil to the core and only wanted Arthur’s money right from the start.

Gabriella brings her idiot boyfriend Guy along for support in her scheming. As soon as everyone arrives Christa and Lynn plot to steal the real will and replace it with a false one. Meanwhile, Guy and Gabriella have their own intentions of stealing the will. The only problem is that since the will was in a sealed envelope, Hazel, the delightfully unintelligent maid mailed it. And to make matters worse, Erica, a young woman with a vendetta against the late Mr. Aldenbrooke shows up with a gun demanding money for her own father’s death which she claims Arthur was responsible for.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

This show was produced and performed at Theatre 29 in Twentynine Palms, California in 2001 and was presented as a dinner theater show.
The Friends’ School, Tasmania, Australia – 2018
Iroquois West High School, IL, USA – 2018
Private staged reading, FL, USA – 2020
The White Mountain School, NH, USA – 2020
Five Towns Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, UK – 2020
White River High School – WA, USA – 2021
Inner West Drama, NSW, Australia – 2021
Monroe Central Jr-Sr High School, IN, USA – 2021
St Columba College, South Australia, Australia – 2021
Wayland Community Players, NY, USA – 2021
Community center for English Speakers in Netanya, Israel – 2022

Author: Michael Maxwell

Genre: Comedy

Type: short two act farce (alternatively one act farce with 3 scenes)

Length: Sixty 60 minutes

Suitable for: All ages

Ages of actors: Early twenties to any age

Number of actors: Eight, 8 6F 2M

Set: The Aldenbrooke Estate. The main entrance is on the stage left wall. A hallway leading to other parts of the house is on the stage right wall. There are stairs leading up and off stage right on the center stage back wall. There is a couch center stage and a chair stage right of that. There is an end-table stage left of the couch. Other furnishings are up to the director.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – achieving the element of farce

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

Best selling plays by Mike Maxwell include Jack Masterson and the case of absurdity, Missing the Mark and other plays including I should tell you and The Wandering Bard’s Tale. Screenplays include Once a Pirate and 2093,” and Darkest Before Dawn.

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Copyright 2010 Michael Maxwell and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this two act farce? Looking for something different?

Don’t say you’re Harry – a two act farce with diamonds, jewel thieves and a minister.
Foulweather friend – a two act dark comedy about raising the dead
Nuns- a two act satire where rebellious nuns run riot

Dramas, One act plays

Blasphemous Rumours – a hellish tongue in cheek drama in one act

June 12, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

BLASPHEMOUS RUMOURS – A hellish tongue in cheek drama in one act

Meet Shelby – he’s the general manager for hell. It’s his job to welcome the new recruits, and assign them. Unfortunately hell is running out of space and so….the new recruits are given one last chance. If they can prove why they don’t belong in hell, they will be free to go. Each new recruit is given a T-8 form to fill out, submit and then the wait begins in this drama in one act.

Blasphemous rumours follows three sets of recruits, from the stoner teen killed at the Greenday concert to the God Fearing Southern minister’s wife – they’re all there and ready to prove they’re worthy. Or not….

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Azle High School, TX, USA – 2021
Hobart High Theatre, IN, USA – 2022
Monaghan Dramatic Society, Monoghan, Ireland – 2023

Author: Agustin D. Martinez

Genre: Drama, full length one act drama play

Type: Full length one act play

Length: Just over an hour

Suitable for: PG 10.

Ages of actors: 16 to 50 or middle aged

Number of actors: Eight 8 actors, 4M 4F

Set: Simple. There are no visible walls. Two hanging window frames on USL and USR. A black backdrop is all that is seen through and around the frames. the audience sees a comfortably furnished room with a writing desk, chairs but no bed. Silk plants decorate the room, giving the room dimension, and a tropical, relaxed atmosphere, as that of a cozy hotel room, cheaply furnished.

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – the characters themselves have good stage directions Playing them realistically and not over the top is the challenge.

The play must be produced as it is written. Read more about author Agustin D. Martinez

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Copyright June 2013 Agustin D. Martinez Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this script? Want something different? See these other off beat dramas and comedies.

Death of a Gerbil – a one act dark comedy about waking up to find you’re dead
You do love me, don’t you? A funny but scary one act thriller about bringing that new boy home to meet the folks…
The Appointment with God – drama in one act about a mysterious life and death phone call
War Stories – a three act cop drama where some cops go bad

Comedies, Crime, Plays in 2 acts

Clown Car – a Whodunit play script in two acts

June 9, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

whodunit comedy script — Suffer Fools Gladly, Stetson University, 2009, Photos courtesy of Ken McCoy, Ph.D.

comedy about clowns — Suffer Fools Gladly, Stetson University, 2009, Photos courtesy of Ken McCoy, Ph.D.

CLOWN CAR – A Whodunit play script in two acts

In this whodunit play script, dozens of circus clowns pile out of a car. One doesn’t. Thus begins the new murder mystery comedy by Mark Aloysius Kenneally. Artie and Nick are two detectives who thought they had seen it all. But they find out that when you’re interrogating suspects like Chuckles, Pozo, and Backwards Bobo… clowns can turn out to not only make you laugh, but also… drive you crazy. Who killed Bubbles? And why? Join Artie, Nick and Doctor Amy Harris-Talmun, the police psychiatrist, as they try desperately to solve the most bizarre, challenging, surprising and humorous murder mystery they’ve ever investigated.

CLOWN CAR, under the previous title, SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY, received its first staged reading at The Players Theatre in in Sarasota, FL. July, 2007. Then had a staged reading at Ten Grand and a Burger in New York City, September, 2007. It had a staged reading at the DeLand Theatre Festival, DeLand, FL in January, 2008 and another Staged Reading in Midland, TX in August, 2009 (It was a finalist in the 2009 McClaren International Comedy Playwriting Contest). SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY received its World Premiere Production at Stetson University, DeLand, FL in September, 2009.

Further Production History:

Liberty Lake Community Theatre – WA, USA – 2016
Okaw Valley High School, IL, USA – 2017
Oakbrook Preparatory school – SC, USA – 2018
Starlighters II Theater, IA, USA – 2018
Little River School, KS, USA – 2019
Lake Air Montessori, TX, USA – 2021
Circle Theatre of Barnwell, SC, 2022
Pennwest Edinboro University, Alpha Psi Omega Gamma Kappa, PA, USA – 2023

Author: Mark Aloysius Kenneally

Genre: Crime,Whodunit, Comedy

Type: Two act play

Number of Actors: 4M, 5F.
The roles of the clowns have been written with the intention that they all be played by one Actor and one Actress with minimal costume and wig changes to heighten the confusion and frustration as it builds throughout the play. However, it is recognized that individual producers, such as school and community theatre groups may wish to expand the cast size by having these roles be played by different actors and actresses, or have some of the roles played by actresses rather than actors or vice versa. This decision is entirely permitted by the author and is left up to the individual producers.

Ages of actors: One policeman in his thirties, and one male and female character each in their thirties. The clowns can be of any age.

Set: Various different rooms at a police station in any “small town U.S.A.” and at the big top circus. The sets should be suggested with as simple set pieces as possible. Many of the locales can simply be suggested with lighting changes and/or with as little as a table and a few chairs as set pieces.
Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – especially if the same actor is playing multiple roles

The author will allow workshopping of the script. Read more about playwright Mark aloysius Kenneally.

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Copyright June 2013 Mark Aloysius Kenneally Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Or others like it?

Jack Masterson and the case of absurdity – a whodunit comedy farce in 2 acts
Ralph – a bizarre monty python who killed the parrot whodunit
The mysterious death of Christine Wilde – a period piece drama murder mystery
What’s on your mind – a comedy of the absurd(and the loony bin)

Comedies, One act plays

The Wingman – a ten minute comedy script

June 5, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

THE WINGMAN – A TEN MINUTE COMEDY SCRIPT

In this fast paced ten minute comedy script, Walt Henry takes out young and shy Paul Jameson to a local nightclub, supposedly to woo and groom him for a big new position in Walt’s new company. He makes young Paul his ‘Wingman’ for the night and hints at Paul retaining this coveted position in the future as well. Walt Henry talks the talk and walks the walk and seems cocky and confident. But is Walt really who he seems to be?

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Eastlake High School Drama, FL, USA – 2017
Canberra Academy of Dramatic Art, Australia – 2017

Author: Brian Mitchell

Genre: Comedy, dry comedy

Type: One 1 act play

Length: Ten minute comedy script

Number of actors: Three 3, 2M, 1F, two men one woman

Ages of actors: 20’s-30’s aged twenty to late thirties

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – simple script, funny lines, easy set

Set: Can be an empty stage or anything that would give the illusion of a nightclub or bar

The author will allow workshopping of this script. Read more about playwright Brian Mitchell.

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Copyright June 2013 Brian Mitchell Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this script? Want something different? See these other short comedy scripts in our selection:

A blind date – a best selling short one act comedy about two misfits trying to get together
Bob – a 5 minute comedy skit about a play audition
Road rage – a tongue in cheek short comedy
Guy meets Girl – a one man comedy about the thoughts in a typical guy’s head

Comedies, One act plays

Cancelled – award winning one act farce

May 29, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

In this one act farce, set in a studio in a radio station in the 1940’s, the cast of a popular radio show are held hostage by one of the show’s sponsors, Monty Navoli, who is furious that the show has been cancelled, and who also, unfortunately, appears to be a member of the mob. When it is discovered that the producer of the show, Walter St. Paul, has taken Monty Navoli’s money and spent it himself, Monty threatens to shoot him unless the show goes on air one last time. It all falls hilariously apart as the actors struggle to produce a whole show with only a few pages of script, no sound man and a gun pointed at their heads.

The play was selected as a finalist in Riant Theatre’s 2008 Strawberry One-Act Festival, and placed second in the Little Theatre of Alexandria’s 2009 one-act playwriting competition.

Performance history:

Meadville Community Theatre – 2015
Great River School, MN, USA – 2017
Iver Heath Drama Club, Buckinghamshire, UK – 2018
The Fenn School, MA, USA – 2019
Moruya Red Door Theatre Company Inc, NSW, Australia – 2019
Mississippi School for Mathematics & Science – MS, USA – 2019
Buck’s Rock Camp, CT, USA – 2019
IMCOM G9 Army Entertainment, Bavaria US Army Base – 2019
Salterton Drama Club, Exeter, United Kingdom – 2020
Bow Valley High School, Alberta, Canada – 2020
St Francis de Sales College, SA, Australia – 2020
Pulaski County High School Drama Club, KY – USA – 2021
Diva Las Vegas & Company, NV, USA – 2022
Rightway Club, WI, USA – 2022
Plymouth Congregational Church, KS, USA – 2022
Port Huron Civic Theatre. MI, USA – 2022
Rocky Hill Country Day School, RI, USA – 2023

Author: M. Robert Grunwald

Genre: Comedy, farce

Type: One act farce

Length: Fifty minutes 50 min

Suitable for: All ages

Number of actors: Eleven actors and 4 non speaking policemen. 9M 2F as the main characters

Ages of the actors: Various – twenties to seventies, 20s-70s

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – acting one part in real life and another ‘on the air’

Set: The Los Angeles studio of a radio show, 1940. Six microphones stand at front stage right, a sound effects station is at stage left. The walls are soundproofed appropriately, and an ON-AIR light hangs above a door at the back of the studio. There is a long table at the back.

The author states that the play should be produced unaltered. Read more about playwright M. Robert Grunwald

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Copyright 2008 M. Robert Grunwald Off The Wall Plays

Like this script? Read some of our other one award winning and best selling one act comedies:

A cut above the rest – a one act farce – two jewel thieves ‘attempt’ to steal the fabulous Devonport diamonds

Naked – a one act play about internet dating and ‘not being quite yourself online’

The love of cheesecake – 2 slightly frumpy adults try to get their love lives back on track with hilarious consequences

Arcanum – a one act comedy about friends and love

Comedies, Plays in 2 acts

Foulweather Friend – a two act dark comedy

May 24, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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FOULWEATHER FRIEND – A TWO ACT DARK COMEDY

Foulweather Friend, a two act dark comedy, is set in a forgotten hamlet in 1957 Vermont. The town is slowly crumbling around its last remaining living inhabitants. A community theatre company persists in producing plays even though most of the subscription audience are in the graveyard and might, to be fair, require they be exhumed. (At the very least they’ll have a full audience that way.) They are in the process of rehearsing their latest play, “Foulweather Friend,” when a mysterious young playwright, Pegeen Dalrymple, arrives in town. But is she who she says she is? And what does she want? Family issues collide with the supernatural including Druidism in this full length play.

Author: James Kent

Genre: Dark comedy

Type: Full length play, two act dark comedy

Length: Two and a half hours

Number of actors: Eight, 8, 5F 3M

Ages of actors: One late twenties, one late thirties, rest early fifties to early nineties

Suitable for: All ages

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – much of the humor depends on the zany older characters

Set: In Act One we are introduced to a pond, then a community stage brimming with props and set pieces. In Act Two the characters are only in the graveyard. Drop dead silence is punctured by sounds of crickets, cicadas, birdsong and by lightning and thunder.

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Dramas, One act plays

Restaurants at Beautiful Times – one act drama for four actors

May 19, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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RESTAURANTS AT BEAUTIFUL TIMES – ONE ACT DRAMA FOR FOUR ACTORS

In this one act drama for four actors, the stage and the actor’s lives are divided into the ‘restaurant’ and the ‘place where the food is prepared.’ Jean and Myceneaus live and work in the place where the food is prepared. They have never known another existence, and theirs is grim existence at best. Their only interaction is with the head waiter who liaises between both sides of the stage – both worlds, as it were. This one act drama for four actors compares the worlds of the very rich and the very poor, and plays on the fact that neither side has any no idea what happens on ‘the other side.’ The play has been produced in Las Vegas by the Nevada Conservatory Theatre and in New York by Working Man’s Clothes thus far.

The author would request that he approves/disapproves any dialogue changes or renaming of characters, but genders may be altered at the theatre’s discretion. Read more about David McGinnis

Author: David McGinnis

Genre: Drama

Type: One Act Play

Suitable for: All ages

Number of actors: four, 4

Ages of actors: Middle aged actors

Set: Simple. A table, a chair, a rope hung from the fly/ceiling/rafters, and some clutter in Jean and Myceneaus’ area.

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – achieving tension and maintaining it

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Biography, Dramas, One act plays

Disney in Deutschland – drama play about Hitler + Walt Disney

May 15, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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DISNEY IN DEUTSCHLAND – DRAMA PLAY ABOUT HITLER + WALT DISNEY

In August, 1935, Walt Disney and his wife Lillian were invited by the League of Nations (in Paris) to receive a prize for the international popularity of Mickey Mouse. As this was Walt’s first holiday in years, he suggested they make it a tour of Europe. The well-known animator was invited by dignitaries of all sorts, including Mussolini. The Volkische Beobachter, the official newspaper in the new Nazi Germany, welcomed Disney as ‘a hero against the Jews of Hollywood,’ and it is recorded that he met with Hitler in Munich. What they said at their meeting, and precisely where it happened, is still unclear, but Disney was known to have admired Hitler back in the US, even attending bund rallies in support of the Nazis. (See DISNEY’S WORLD by Leonard Mosley, and other sources). Disney also expressed antipathy toward the growing union movements in the Hollywood studios, calling them a Jewish conspiracy. And indeed, in 1938, Disney invited Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to Hollywood, where her visit was roundly boycotted by other studio heads.

The Neutschwanstein Castle (referred to in the play) was designed by Ludwig of Bavaria in the 1860s, to celebrate the music dramas of Richard Wagner. This castle’s design is remarkably similar to the Sleeping Beauty castle used in most Disney theme parks to this day; and it was one of the Fuhrer’s favourite places. ‘Disney in Deutschland’ is a full length one act biography based on these very events. Warning: Because of the nature of the play about Hitler and Walt Disney, the characters it contains do make some anti Semitic remarks and references, which may offend sensitive readers.

Author: John Powers

Genre: Biography, Drama play about Hitler

Type: Full Length One Act Play

Length: 1.5 -2 hours

Suitable for: All ages

Ages of actors: 30’s to late 40’s, thirty to late forties

Number of actors: Six, 6 4M, 2F

Set: Simple – long elegant table upstage centre, projection of the Alps upstage through the windows and a model of ‘The New Germania’ – the new capital of the Third Reich they were designing in the foreground.

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Action, Dramas, Plays in three acts, Teens

Peter’s Dream – a three act play for high school

May 9, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

PETER’S DREAM – A THREE ACT PLAY FOR HIGH SCHOOL

In this three act play for high school, Peter’s family is about to lose the cottage they have lived in all their lives to their wicked uncle, Marmaduke. Marmaduke believes that his dead brother’s fortune is hidden somewhere in the cottage grounds and will do anything to get hold of it. He is aided by three slightly stupid louts whom he uses to do his dirty work for him and who threaten Peter’s aunt with violence in order to force her to leave. Peter’s family’s prospects seem bleak, until Peter receives a mysterious scroll in a dream that will help solve his family’s problems. With the help of the plucky “Angel,” they set about finding the hidden treasure and getting their revenge on the wicked Marmaduke. With a cast of twenty one, this play is ideal for middle and high school productions.

Author: Keith Passmore

Genre: Adventure, period piece

Type: Three act play for high school

Length: Two hours

Number of actors:Twenty one (21) but some parts can be done by more than one actor

Suitable for: All ages, a family audience

Set: The inside of a cottage, a bar, and an office, as well out outdoors. Much can be done with a few simple furnishings.

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – an exciting easy, fun filled adventure script

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Cost is $5

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After Ever After – a fairytale musical for schools

May 4, 2013 Demmer Dewan 2 Comments

musical for schools

AFTER EVER AFTER – A FAIRYTALE MUSICAL FOR SCHOOLS

After Ever After is a full length fairytale musical play that would be suitable for middle school or older primary school pupils. It has a large cast based on popular characters from literature. In ‘After Ever After,’ the ‘baddies’ have been send to Dungeon,’ the rehabilitation centre for ‘the baddies, ‘ and the ‘goodies’ are living out their happy lives in Camelot. Unfortunately things are not going as smoothly as they could hope – the baddies are plotting their revenge and escape from rehab, aided by the evil Claude Frollo, who runs the rehabilitation centre. They plan to attack the ‘goodies’ and take over Camelot. Who will win this final battle between good and evil?

“Carnivals of the Heart,” a young amateur theatre group based in Somerset-West, performed AEA in December 2011. The play contains songs from popular music and popular animated movies.The musical rights for these songs would have to be purchased from the relevant local musical licensing authority or the songs substituted. The authors will allow workshopping of the play with their permission, but the title is not to be changed.

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

Monkayo College of Arts, Sciences and Technology, Compostela Valley, Philippines – 2017
Alternative School in Keaau, Hawaii – 2018
Kambala, Sydney, Australia – 2022

Read more about Pilar Pringiers-Spinnox and C.J. Opperman

Authors: Pilar Pringiers-Spinnox and C.J. Opperman

Genre: Fairytale Musical for schools in two acts

Type: Two act fairytale musical for schools

Length: 1-1.5 hours

Suitable for: All ages

Number of actors: 40, Forty

Ages of actors: 10 and up

Set: On one side of the stage is ‘the Dungeon’ and on the other side is ‘The village,’ and in between is the forest. Pinocchio’s bedroom is set up at the side. A table with 2 chairs is set up at the other side with the Dete and Huntsman, writing the story.

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 crowd control and placing the characters on the stage