Category Archives: Dramas

Serious plays with deep meaning.

GREAT LAND – A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY – a two act drama romance

It’s the summer of 1977 in Chicago, USA. Renata, who works at the local bar, coerces one of the regulars, Nicky into taking Danny, a disabled kid who works at the local bar as well and who is a die hard Elvis fan, to Graceland to meet the King himself. The play follows their journey from Chicago down to Graceland and their subsequent discovery that Elvis has recently passed away before Danny could meet him. They find that, although they did not get to meet The King, they have learned a lot more about themselves and each other along the way.

There is some text-based workshopping of the script allowed. Any changes need to be approved by the author and no one – at any time – can claim authorship or ownership of the work.

Author: Paul Barile

Genre: Epic, drama romance

Type: Two act play

Length: 90-100 minutes

Number of Actors: Eleven, 11. 6-8M (two doubles) 3F

Ages of the actors: Late twenties to early sixties. 20’s-60’s. The three main characters are in their 20’s-30’s

Set: The set is a collection of large gray wooden boxes that are moved into place to fit the scene. There are three barstools that can be placed as needed as well. There is a large easel upstage left. Whenever a character enters to begin a new scene, the sign on the easel denotes where they are.

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – Because of few scene changes and the conversational style of the play, keeping the interest of the audience is paramount.

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Copyright January 2014 Paul Barile and Off The Wall Plays

Like this play? Have a look at some of our other romantic dramas we have in store:

Taylor – a four act play about losing love and finding it again

Aldous remembers – a romantic drama about losing your memory of the person you love.

Dramas, One act plays

The Visit – French drama plays

December 24, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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THE VISIT – French Drama Plays

Catherine and Jean are awaiting the arrival of their son, Didier, who left the family home ten years ago. A curious couple who never cease to spy on each other, to destroy without ever really understanding each other. The memory of Catherine’s first husband, who died as a deportee, has poisoned their life. The return of Didier will exacerbate the situation: hurt, misunderstood, he too has accounts to settle …

The Visit has been performed in French on 10 and 11 October 1992 at the St. Louis theatrical festival in France. Read more about playwright Denis Emorine.

Author: Denis Emorine

Genre: French Drama Plays

Type:One Act Play

Length: 45-50 minutes

Number of Actors: Three, 3 actors, 2 M (one older, one young), 1 F (older)

Ages of the actors: 1 young M and two middle aged to older parents

Suitable for: All ages

Set: A living room with photographs on the walls

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – it’s a heavy drama. to try to capture the nervousness and aggression and bring it to a climax

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Cost is $ 6 for this previously performed drama script

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Copyright December 2013 Denis Emorine and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Have a look at some other family dramas

Riding a peacock – African American family drama
The Gold Locket – family drama about a mysterious face in a gold locket
Two brothers – a family saga about Alzheimer’s

Dramas, One act plays

Verbal Prostitution – Psychological Drama Plays

December 15, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

psychological drama plays

VERBAL PROSTITUTION – PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA PLAYS

When Connie Lattimore goes for an interview for the Hostess Position at one of the city’s up and coming restaurants, she discovers that she was at high school with the man who owns the restaurant chain. Times have changed and Connie, who was once a cheerleader and the most popular girl in school is looking for employment with the very man, Lonnie who once idolized her back in high school. However, Lonnie hasn’t let go of the past at all. In exchange for money, Connie allows him an hour of her time to talk about the past. But instead she finds that Lonnie is hell bent on humiliating her. A tense drama for four actors in which the power shifts continually throughout the play.

Author: Mick O’Brien

Genre: Psychological drama plays

Type: Full length one act play

Length: Eighty minutes

Number of Actors: Four – two main parts, 1M, 1F and two small F roles. Male role unattractive, all three F roles attractive.

Ages of the actors: Main roles late thirties 30’s, other two F twenties to early thirties

Suitable for: Adults only

Set: An office, nicely furnished.

Level of Difficulty: 8/10 – quite wordy and tension must be taken up and down with two characters on stage only.

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Cost is $6.50 for this digital script

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Copyright December 2013 Mick O’Brien and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Read some of our other psychological drama plays:

The Devil Dances – a sexual psychological drama

Dramas, One act plays

The Pen – South African play scripts

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THE PEN – SOUTH AFRICAN PLAY SCRIPTS

The Pen takes audiences on a trip into the mind of young playwright, Sipho, in the throes of writing a new play. Beset by writers block, the playwright is drawn into a relationship with Thandi, his Muse. Lured into a seductive journey, the boundaries between fantasy and reality become blurred as he begins to live in an increasingly illusionary world dominated by his sexy, assertive writing Goddess.

His girlfriend Pinky, innocently drawn into his tender reverie, suffers as she begins to understand the depths of his passion for Thandi, Pinky’s attempts to resuscitate their romance are frustrated by the fact that, unbeknownst to her, her rival in love is an ethereal siren, the perfect woman, the stuff of every man’s dream. Or is she?

“The Pen” was nominated as the best new play for the Naledi Awards in South Africa in 2010. Read more about playwright Monde Mayephu.

Author: Monde Mayephu

Genre: Drama, love story

Type: One Act Play

Length: One hour, 1 hr

Number of actors: Three, 3, 1M, 2F

Suitable for: PG 13 – descriptions of sex.

Ages of the actors: Young, 20-30’s

Set: The action takes place in a room full of books. Upstage centre there is a door leading to the bedroom and one door downstage left to enter the room.

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – creating the difference between fantasy and reality.

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Cost is $7.50 for this previously staged digital play and award nominee

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Copyright November 2013 Monde Mayephu and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other South African Plays to choose from:

The Simple Hard – South African Drama Plays
the Pump room – a post apartheid drama play
You do love me, don’t you – a funny but scary psycho thriller in one act

Action, Dramas, Plays in three acts

Victims of the Forest – Scary Medieval Plays

November 11, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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VICTIMS OF THE FOREST – MEDIEVAL PLAYS

This Medieval tragedy is based partly on and inspired by ‘The Pardoner’s Tale’ from ‘The Canterbury Tales’ by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Set in the 14th Century in the south west of England, the action is sparked by the burning of an alleged witch in the fictitious village of Breenham, Joe’s bid to avenge the killing of his best friend and the deception and greed of the killers, who flee to the forest. The play also revolves round the poaching of deer by a banished monk, the formidable Gert and her sons, the eventual demise of Joe and some of his companions and the ultimate dramatic event in the forest.

Read about playwright Keith Passmore. Other plays by Keith Passmore.

Author: Keith Passmore

Genre: Tragedy

Type: Three act drama play, medieval plays

Length: Two to two and a half hours. 2-2.5 hours

Number of actors: 24-33 – some can double up

Ages of the actors: Young teens to old

Suitable for: PG 10 (violence)

Level of Difficulty: 8/10 – a longish script that needs to hold the audience’s attention.

Sets: The forest, a cottage, an ale yard

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Cost is $5.50 for the digital play script

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Copyright 2012 Keith Passmore and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Read more like it

Wandering Bard’s Tale – a fairytale in one act

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

After ever after – musical fairytale for schools and amdram

Dramas, One act plays

Six Accusers – Christian One Act Plays

November 3, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

Christian one act plays

SIX ACCUSERS – CHRISTIAN ONE ACT PLAYS

Jack Forrestor, Harvest Grain Sales Rep, is on trial for being a Christian. He is found guilty when Mr Dedmon, the malicious Prosecuting Attorney, examines the testimony of six witnesses. Yet things are not as they seem – far from it.

The author will allow workshopping of the play.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Gateway Christian Church, MO, USA – 2018

Playwright: Barbara Tuttle

Genre: Christian Play

Type: Christian One act Plays

Length: 30 minutes, half an hour

Cast: 10, Ten. 8M 2F

Ages of Actors: Adult

Suitable for: All Ages

Set: A Courtroom. Props: gavel, Judge’s podium with nameplate, chair for Judge, chair labeled “Accused,” chair labeled “Witness ,”1 or 2 benches for witnesses, handcuffs, inheritance paper.

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 The characters are easy to play

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Copyright November 2013 Barbara Tuttle and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Read some of our other plays about Faith and religion

John Paul excluded from Paradise – a drama script about faith

The Appointment with God – a one act family drama

A Manger carol – a funny nativity play for all ages

Dramas, One act plays

Riding a Peacock – African American Family Drama

October 27, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

African American drama script

RIDING A PEACOCK – AFRICAN AMERICAN DRAMA SCRIPT

RIDING A PEACOCK is a play about life as it affects two young successful African/American families. One family rises from the “Ghetto,” and the other comes out of the Black elite. The play’s focus is upon an aspiring writer named Joyce Withers. Joyce yearns to make a full time living as a writer, but struggles with how to become one. Her first novel, written when she was a young woman, was aptly entitled, “Riding a Peacock,” signifying a journey to freedom on a bird’s back. For Joyce, writing means freedom and a chance to truly be herself. This play is the journey of how she accomplishes that and how her family grows. As much as it is powerful with interpretations of life, RIDING A PEACOCK is packed with incredibly lively characters and humor. A contemporary African American drama script.

Author: Viney Loretta Moore

Genre: African American Drama Script

Type: One Act Play

Length: Fifty minutes, 50 minutes

Number of actors: Seven, 7, 4F, 3M

Ages of actors: Twenties to Fifties

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – characters each tell their stories.

Set: Two sets – one is a nice suburban home outdoors and the other is a corporate office.

Read about Playwright Viney Loretta Moore

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Cost is $6 for this previously produced play

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Copyright October 2013 Viney Loretta Moore and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Want to read others like it?

Faith – an abused woman’s story in a one act play
The Appointment with God – a one act family drama
The Simple Hard – South African drama about living with HIV AIDS

Dramas, Plays in 2 acts, Romance

The Laughing Cow – a two act drama script

October 23, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

THE LAUGHING COW – A TWO ACT DRAMA SCRIPT

This two act drama script lets the audience into the lives of people working for, associated with and affected by Gurnsey TV, the company whose logo is ‘The Laughing Cow.’ From the lowly assistant working for one of the top executives who just wants to get somewhere, to the guy who believes that they stole his idea and used it to make a successful series, to the fading actress who has an affair to get a part, everyone is part of the wheel that turns Gurnsey TV. But the golden cow that is Gurnsey TV is a very hungry cow, that needs feeding….

‘The Laughing Cow’ premiered in Los Angeles at the Meta Theatre in May, 2012 and received LA Weekly’s Pick of the Week.

Read more about playwright Jessica Abrams.

Author: Jessica Abrams

Genre: Drama

Type: two-act play, two act drama script

Number of Actors: Sixteen, 16, 8M 8F

Ages of the actors: Early twenties to any age

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – building a dramatic climax

Set: The sets are extremely spare, and should be movable by either the
actors themselves or outside help with minimal effort and without losing the rhythm of the play. For example, the offices should have one element that sets one apart from the other.

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Cost is $10 for this ‘pick of the week’ play

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Copyright October 2013 Jessica Abrams Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Have a look at some of our other plays like it:

A Contemporary Christmas Carol – a modern day Scrooge set in a Los Angeles Talent agendy
Aldous Remembers – a love story about remembering the person you are in love with
Why Affairs Happen – a Bollywood style stage play set in a hospital

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Dramas, One act plays

When the Devil Come Knockin’ – ten minute drama scripts

October 9, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

WHEN THE DEVIL COME KNOCKIN’ – TEN MINUTE DRAMA SCRIPTS

When the Devil come Knockin’ – is a ten minute drama script about the broken relationship between an alcoholic father and his son. It revolves around years of abuse and alcoholism. Charles and Darius must learn to forgive and to love each other in order for them to move on with their lives.

This play was first produced by Lee University’s English/ Literature Department Fringe Fest 2013 under the direction of Stacey Isom.

Author: LaDarrion Williams

Genre: Drama

Type: One-act play, ten minute drama scripts

Number of Actors: Two male actors, 2M, two men

Ages of actors: One late teens-20’s, other 40’s up.

Suitable for: All ages

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – showing the level of hate and love in one person that exists in these relationships

Set: Easy, simple a bare apartment with a table and a bottle of liquor on it.

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Cost is $6 for this previously produced play

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Copyright October 2013 LaDarrion Williams and Off The Wall Plays

Like this play? Have a look at our other short one act plays!

An empty chair – the fight inside the mind of a comatose man
Family Exercise – short one act drama about the day when they learn daddy has had an affair
Someone to remember – a disturbed teenage girl has to deal with loss in her life

Comedies, Dramas, One act plays

Stag – two-hander drama (poignant comedy) script for two actors

October 2, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

STAG – A TWO-HANDER DRAMA (POIGNANT COMEDY) SCRIPT FOR 2 ACTORS

Two Englishmen are out of place, out of time and dangerously low on vodka…

In this two-hander drama script, two old friends, John and Davvo, stage a reunion after a lapse of 10 years in a hotel room in an East European city. John is on the brink of marriage while Davvo, his best man, has embraced a life of carefree debauchery. They find the battered charm of the city they remembered has evaporated, replaced by rampant consumer capitalism and belligerent British stag-nighters. At the same time, they’re painfully aware of the death of their own youthful idealism and John’s ambivalence about his impending marriage.

Over the course of an evening, they probe each others’ insecurities, finally agreeing to spend a “lost weekend” together, during which their friendship is tested to crisis point.

The producer and playwright Giles Morris was inspired to write Stag when returning to a small ex-Soviet capital after 10 years and seeing that while the city had been transformed by globalization, the ex-pat community were largely unaltered.

‘Stag’ was produced at the Courtyard Theatre, London, in October 2011.

“A concoction of sharp humour and tension that challenges our ideas of romance and commitment, security and freedom. Both actors give excellent performances in a bold play that will leave you talking and thinking for many nights afterwards.” www.remotegoat.com

Author: Joseph Hawkins

Genre: Two-hander drama script

Type: One act play

Length: Seventy minutes

Number of actors: Two, 2M. Voices offstage.

Ages of actors: Two men in their late thirties to early forties.

Suitable for: PG 14 (Language)

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – building a climax and tension between the two actors and it’s quite wordy.

Set: A hotel room in a minor capital city in Eastern Europe. There are twin beds with a coffee table between them, and large, curtained windows to the rear. A television set, a cracked mirror, tumblers and an ashtray. Overall, the décor is extremely dilapidated, in Soviet style, with heavy floral patterns in brown, beige and red and cheap dark wood. Dim electric light.

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Copyright October 2013 Joseph Hawkins and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Have a look at some of our other dramas for small casts

Two brothers – a two hander play about two bothers dealing with a parent with Alzheimer’s
The Mysterious death of Christine Wilde – a whodunit about a young actress who was murdered

Dramas, Plays in 2 acts

The Faun – a drama play about Michelangelo

September 29, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

THE FAUN – A DRAMA PLAY ABOUT MICHELANGELO

In this drama play about Michelangelo, the young Michelangelo, who is a bit of an unwashed misfit, is given one month to make progress at his art school, or his father will remove him from the school and make him an apprentice at the wool guild. Michelangelo is desperate to remain at the school and so he begins to carve discarded pieces of marble in secret. When the ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de Medici takes an interest in him, he shows him his newest acquisition, a carved statue of a faun. Michelangelo discovers that he can hear the faun, who inspires him to create a great statue out of the marble, which changes his life forever.

Read more about playwright Gilbert Sarabia.

Author: Gilbert Sarabia

Genre: Alternative historical drama

Type: Full length two-act drama play

Length: 100 minutes, one hundred minutes

Number of Actors:Twenty one, 21, 13M, 8F

Ages of actors: Teens to elderly

Suitable For: All ages

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – bringing the characters to life

Set: There are three basic scenes – one, the sculpture garden; two – the dining room in Michelangelo’s home and three – Lorenzo’s study.

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Cost is $5.50 for this new play

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries relating to The Faun

Like this play? Have a look at these other alternative histories and dramas

And all his songs were sad – a musical drama about the life and works of irish songwriter Sean McCarthy

Disney in Deutschland -a drama about the relationship between Hitler and Walt Disney

Lies you can’t make up – a dram script about JFK”

Dramas, Plays in 2 acts

Lies You Can’t Make Up – a drama script about JFK

September 16, 2013 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

LIES YOU CAN’T MAKE UP – A DRAMA SCRIPT ABOUT JFK

Two-to-eight actors portray galvanizing characters in this drama script about JFK, and who he was and what he represented. The play is non-linear with flashbacks and flash forwards. The characters are taken from history of the twentieth century and various facts are put forward about their interactions with each other, some true and some fictional. The real question is – Which are facts and which are fiction?

At indicated times the characters speak as a unified voice, and may be considered a Greek chorus — which initiated fervent non-linear mantras and morality tales about the complexity and inherent corruption of giving birth and rebirth to democracy.

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Like this play? Take a look at our other festival type plays

Family exercise – a short one act family drama in free verse
The Condition – a one act insane asylum piece
Twenty first century stomp – a rap drama about the recession and how it affected people’s lives

Action, Dramas, One act plays

Clear as Clear – a one act cowboy dramatic play

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CLEAR AS CLEAR – ONE ACT COWBOY DRAMATIC PLAY

‘Clear as Clear’ is a one act drama about five cowboys at the turn of the century who get to playing a game of cards to pass the time as there is a blizzard outside. As they play, they recall the past and how things have changed at the turn of the century USA, how the war affected them, and how they treated the Indians that used to live there. The plain where they live once teemed with rivers of buffalo and Indians, and now there is only silence. Each man comes to terms with what he has done in the name of progress in this one act cowboy dramatic play.

Read more about playwright David Greenberg.

Author: David Greenberg

Type: One act cowboy dramatic play

Genre: Drama

Length: Forty five minutes

Number of actors: Five male actors (5M)

Ages of the actors: Middle aged to about sixty

Set: Simple – a room in a cabin with a table, chairs, a door and places to sleep

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – the script is interesting and the action builds toward the end. Challenge – portraying believable turn of the century hardened cowboy characters.

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Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about Clear as Clear

Like this play? How about some of our other historical plays?

A House Divided – a civil war play

Disney in Deutschland – explores the possible relationship between Hitler and Walt Disney

Comedies, Dramas, One act plays

Following Dogs – two hander one act plays

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two hander one act plays

FOLLOWING DOGS – A POIGNANT COMEDY – TWO HANDER ONE ACT PLAYS

In this bittersweet comedy for two actors, Jack, a thirty to forty-ish year old guy, who has just lost his job as a janitor believes that he has finally found the secret to health and happiness. Jack becomes obsessed with his new found ‘elixir,’ cooking up jars of the stuff and drying it in his kitchen. This new found obsession, coupled with the fact that Jack is terrified of having kids, because of years of abuse at the hands of his father, results in his wife leaving him.

Marty, his wife’s brother, believes in Jack, and knowing that Jack loves his wife dearly, and vice versa, tries to cure Jack of his obsession and repair the rift in his marriage. This two-hander one act play is strictly a drama, but written in a very witty way, which allows very touchy subjects to be spoken about with humor and understanding.

Author: Tim Garvin

Genre: Drama or poignant comedy

Type: Two hander one act plays

Length: One hour

Number of Actors: Two, 2M

Ages of Actors: Late twenties to early forties

Set: A shabby, fairly barren apartment. At right is a stove, a sink, a counter top with a toaster, a table with three chairs. There are two doors, at the back and at the side. A few prints are tacked to the wall—flowers, landscapes, a painting or two. In the center of the stage are two chairs, one well padded, the other straight-backed and wooden. Beside the well padded chair is an end table. On the stove is a covered pan.

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – the dialogue flows well, but the actors will need to focus on the interaction between the two characters.

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Cost is $5.50 for this new digital play script

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Like this play? Other two-handers we stock:

Naked – a two-hander about the pitfalls of internet dating
Two brothers – a two-hander about dealing with a parent with Alzheimer’s
A Blind date – a short comedy about two misfits getting together

Dramas, One act plays

John Paul Excluded from Paradise – a drama script about religion and faith

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JOHN PAUL EXCLUDED FROM PARADISE – a drama script about religion and faith

In this drama script about religion and faith, the Pope, John Paul who has died, approaches the pearly gates of Heaven accompanied by Michael. However, when he gets there, he is shocked to find that he is not allowed to pass through the gates by Peter. When he asks why, all the questionable things he used his power to do are called into question, and that, despite his great faith, these actions have led to him being excluded from paradise. This play brings up the question of faith, and belief and puts forward the point that, no matter how great your faith or how strongly you profess your faith, it is the work a person performs while they are alive that really count. It’s purpose is to get the audience thinking about the purpose and focus of faith, using the charismatic but controversial figure of John Paul II as the catalyst.

The author will allow workshopping of the play. Read more about playwright Mark Anthony

Author: Mark Anthony

Genre: Religious drama

Type: Full length one act play

Length: One hour, 1 hour

Number of Actors: Four, 3M, 1F

Ages of Actors: One elderly, the others can be of any age

Suitable for : All ages

Set: Simple – a large desk and a chair

Level of Difficulty: 8/10 – the play is basically a discussion and the challenge of the actors will be to keep the attention of the audience.