Category Archives: One act plays

plays in one act usually between 25-35 minutes long

one act adult comedy about therapy

DON’T SHRINK ME – ONE ACT COMEDY SCRIPT

In this one act comedy script, we meet Gerald, a therapist with an unconventional approach to his sessions. We also meet his three newest patients: Sarah, a sexaholic suburban housewife who has been having affairs for years, Henry, an about to be new father with a taste for women’s underwear and Jade, who’d rather break up with her boyfriend than lose the chocolate she really craves. And then there’s Gerald’s therapist…

Another one act comedy from best selling playwright Ashley Nader. Other plays by Ashley.

Author: Ashley Nader

Genre: Comedy

Type: One act comedy script

Cast: Five 3M 2F

Ages of the actors: Three middle aged, two younger

Suitable for: PG rates due to sex topics discussed

Length: 25-30 minutes

Set: Split between Gerald’s home and his office. If need be, the home part could be performed in front of the curtain with the office behind. It’s at the director’s discretion.

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – easy conversational style writing, slightly embarrassing topics to discuss.

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Copyright ©January 2015 Ashley Nader and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other one act comedies that we stock:

A Beatle’s Story – play about the Beatles and how they formed
Waiting – very funny comedy about being stuck in the queue to go the loo with an oddish gent
The Chicken or the egg – political satire script

Dramas, One act plays

When Summer dies of Shame – one act drama for three actors

January 18, 2015 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

WHEN SUMMER DIES OF SHAME – ONE ACT DRAMA FOR THREE ACTORS

A bloody Civil War has been raging in the fictitious country of Carthinia. One of the many atrocities committed during the war was Colonel Ivan Karovitch’s rape of a young Carthinian girl, the murder of her boyfriend and her parents. The rape victim takes refuge in a convent where she gives birth to a daughter Natalie. When just a few months old Natalie is adopted by an English couple and brought to the UK.

Ivan flees to the UK and begins a new life here. He marries and runs a flower shop with his English wife revealing nothing of his past to her. They have a daughter Jessica. When Jessica’s mother dies, her father Ivan comes to live at Jessica’s house in an annex. Ivan retires and spends his days tending his allotment and the garden.

Natalie visits Carthinia and finds her birth mother who tells her about the rape and that she must track Ivan down and ensure he’s brought to justice. Natalie is focused on the crime and is oblivious to the implications of her existence being a result of the rape. Natalie enlists the help of a journalist and Ivan’s army photograph and details of his crimes appear in an edition of the Guardian. Ivan sees the article and suffers a seizure and is taken to hospital. They can’t find anything physically wrong with him but it is decided he is unable to look after himself and he is put into a nursing home.

Natalie who is a trained nurse and already working in a care home, traces Ivan through Jessica’s Facebook page, and she then takes up a vacancy at the nursing home where Ivan is being looked after

The play is set in Ivan’s room in the nursing home. The play opens with a short introductory scene – set in the present – three weeks after Ivan has committed suicide. We then flashback to the day before Ivan’s suicide and the story of the events leading up to his death unfolds. In the final scene we are back in the present and this is when the increasingly confrontational relationship between Natalie and Jessica reaches its climax.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Shetland County Drama Festival, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK – 2017
French-American International School, CA, USA – 2019

Read more about playwright James Chalmers. Other plays by James.

Author: James Chalmers

Genre: One act drama

Type: One act play

Cast: Three, 3 – 1M (non speaking) 2F parts

Ages of the actors: M 50-70 years, F 20-40 years – one older than the other

Suitable for: All ages

Length of play: 20 minutes

Set: Ivan’s room in the nursing home with an armchair.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – although there are 3 actors, thi is in essence a duologue for two conflicting F parts.

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Copyright ©January 2015 James Chalmers and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other short one act drama scripts that we stock:

The mysterious death of Christine Wilde – whodunit stage murder mystery
Two brothers – a duologue about dealing with a parent with Alzheimer’s
Choices – South African teen drama

Children's, One act plays

Puppet show – a short play for children

January 14, 2015 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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PUPPET SHOW – SHORT PLAY FOR CHILDREN

In this short play for children, a child loses his or her new teddy bear and enlists their older sibling’s help to find it. There are three versions of the play – one with all girls, one with all boys and one with a mixed cast. The short play is ideal for junior or primary school for children aged 7-11 years of age. The play has been previously produced.

Read more about playwright Evan Guilford Blake. Other children’s plays by Evan.

Author: Evan Guilford-Blake

Genre: Children’s play

Type: Short one act play

Length: Five 5 minutes

Cast: Three – two younger and one older child. The script is available for either an all boy, all girl or mixed cast.

Ages of the actors: Ages 7-11

Suitable for: Children

Set: A bedroom shared by the twins. It has two beds, a desk, at least two chairs and a closet. The closet door may be suggested rather than actual.

Level of difficulty: 5/10 – a nice interactive children’s piece. The most difficult thing may be moving the set itself.

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Copyright © 2002 as an unpublished dramatic work by Guilford-Blake Corp

Like this play? Other children’s plays that we stock:

A fairly tall adventure – adventure play for kids
Adventures of Mojoe and Snowy in Lochloosa – kids play set in the alligator filled swamps of Florida
Aladdin – comedy script

Comedies, One act plays

Lonely heart – one act comedy about a scam

January 8, 2015 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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LONELY HEART – ONE ACT COMEDY ABOUT A SCAM

In this one act comedy, Duncan, a pig farmer from rural Australia arrives at the Australian consulate in Europe with evidence that bis brother, Bill has disappeared and that he is sure he has been kidnapped by his so called internet ‘girlfriend.’ At first they don’t believe him, but when they receive a ransom note, things start to get serious. When Bill’s daughter, Lauren arrives on the scene and mentions that her father is a millionaire; that Duncan hates him and is deep in debt, it starts to looks like a con that Duncan has been planning all along. But is it really….

Lonely Heart was a runner up at the Noosa Arts Theatre One Act Playwriting competition 2009

Production History

Protea Stage, Kempton Park, South Africa – 2017
The Merry Mellows, New South Wales, Australia – 2022

Author: S. Tighe

Genre: Comedy

Type: One act play

Cast: 5, 4m 1F.

Ages of the actors: Two (1M 1F) are young, the rest middle aged up

Suitable for: All ages

Length: Forty minutes

Set: The office of the Consul-General which is a little drab and tired.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – tongue in cheek humour which relies very much on characterization

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Copyright © January 2015 S. Tighe and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other Australian comedies that we stock:

The chicken or the egg – a political satire script set in rural Australia
Nuns – two act satire about rebellious nuns running riot
Virtual frenemies – two online rival gamers meet on a plane

Comedies, One act plays, plays 10-25 minutes, plays for four actors, Romance

Love in the Time of Tourette’s – one act romantic comedy

January 4, 2015 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

one act romantic comedy

LOVE IN THE TIME OF TOURETTE’S – ONE ACT ROMANTIC COMEDY SCRIPT

One act romantic comedy for a cast of four, 2M 2F. Celeste’s parents are desperate to get her married off as soon as possible because of her Tourette’s syndrome. Much against her will, they have invited over a young man to meet her in the hopes they they will hit it off. Will he turn out to be Mr Right, or Mr POOPY!!!!?

Read more about playwright Morley Shulman. Other comedies by Morley.

Author: Morley Shulman

Type: One act play

Genre: One act romantic comedy

Cast: 4 2M 2F

Length: 15 minutes

Ages of the actors: 2 middles aged, two early twenties

Suitable for: All ages. The worst word used is ‘bugger.’

Set: A typical suburban living room with a table for biscuits

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – a character piece

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Copyright ©January 2015 Morley Shulman and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Others like it:

An ordinary man – a comedy about a guy who is rather tired of being a werewolf
Death of a gerbil – dark comedy about waking up dead, and not knowing how you got there
The chicken or the egg – a political satire

Comedies, One act plays, Skits

Yoo Hoo, Mister Solomon – ten minute comedy scripts

December 31, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

Yoo Hoo, Mister Solomon – ten minute comedy scripts

In this short comedy sketch, Mister Solomon is busy enjoying his tea and his Mozart in his upstairs apartment, when he is interrupted by Mrs Castle, who comes (bearing slightly dry cake) to make him a proposition that he won’t forget!

Other plays by Jean Blasiar.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Genre: Ten minute comedy scripts

Type: Comedy sketch, comedy skit

Cast: Two actors, 1M 1F

Ages of the actors: 50’s up. Script for older actors

Length: Ten minutes

Suitable for: All ages

Set: A living room of a single older man with two chairs, a table, stereo and a cabinet

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – a gently funny script

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Cost is $7.50 for this digital script

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Copyright © December 2014 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? More ten minute comedies in stock:

Road rage – tongue in cheek short comedy play
God’s visit – when God visits Bob in his apartment
Two cats, no dogs – award winning ten minute comedy

Comedies, One act plays

The Safety Officer – one act comedy for 7 actors

December 27, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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THE SAFETY OFFICER – ONE ACT COMEDY FOR SEVEN ACTORS

In this one act comedy, a fire has occurred backstage of a theatre just before a play is about to be presented – actually, the fire has already been put out (They think.) The theatre management’s unsuccessful efforts in trying to conceal the incident results in one of the company’s actor’s (Rex) being sent onstage in an effort to quell any possible unrest amongst the audience (he pretends he is the Theatre’s Fire Officer). But instead he uses the opportunity to lambaste the play’s producer (Gerald) and another actor (Rodney). … In an effort to get him offstage, an actress (Carol) is sent on in order to try to persuade him to get off. Rex is in love with Carol, but she does not reciprocate his feelings – she in fact loves Rodney. Happenings onstage result in Rodney dashing on in an effort to assault Rex. … Another actress (Monica) later gets involved, as does Gerald. … The play ends with the cast about to dash offstage after hearing the sirens of fire engines pulling-up outside the front of the theatre.

Production History

Builth Wells Community Arts Society, UK – 2016

Author: Thomas Baines

Genre: Comedy

Type: One act comedy

Cast: 7 5m 2f. The two male fireman can also be played by women.

Ages of the actors: Twenties to middle aged

Suitable for: All ages

Length: 25 minutes

Set: A BACKDROP: The bottom centre part of which is black over an appreciable area where it appears to have been scorched by a fire. This and surrounding areas of the stage floor are damp and there are small pools of water on the floor in the vicinity. A fire has obviously been recently dampened down.

THE STAGE CURTAINS are called for in the plot.

TWO FAIRLY LARGE FIRE HOSES – being rolled up (the flat fire services type – not garden hose).

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – there is a lot of physical comedy and there are many sound effects in the script

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Copyright ©December 2014 Thomas Baines and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other one acts with a cast of seven:

ESPN, B.C. – teen action comedy script
Joined at the hip – South African comedy script
Missing the Mark – when you’re the con artist – and you get conned
What’s on your mind – comedy of the absurd

One act plays, Romance

Ugly art – One Act Romantic plays

December 11, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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UGLY ART – ONE ACT ROMANTIC PLAYS

Set in an art gallery, ‘Ugly Art” explores the relationship between a man and a woman. When an ex boyfriend of Rebecca’s calls out of the blue and leaves a message to meet him at an art exhibition, her curiosity is piqued and she goes along, taking her husband, Michael with her. The painting of a dancing woman and her revelations about her previous relationship bring into context how Michael and Rebecca feel about each other and where their relationship is going.

Read about award winning playwright Terry Roeche. Other two handers by Terry Roeche

Reviews

Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Canada

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Edmonton Fringe Festival 2009
Produced by Dreamscape Theatre, UK
Melfort Amateur Dramatics – SK, Canada – 2018
Nirak Films, UK – 2020

5 out of 5 Stars

“Art is a subjective creature. One gallery patron sees a monochromatic masterpiece; another sees nothing more than red paint… Back and forth goes the dialogue like a piping hot potato, keeping our attention for the full 75 minutes… It’s a hoot, but perhaps it’s because we catch a glimpse of ourselves in each couple that Red Wine & Canvas resonates so strongly.

The State Newspaper names Ugly Art Best of 2001 in South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
Produced by Chapin Community Theatre 2001

“It ran for only three says, but “Ugly Art,” at Chapin Community Theatre, was a thought-provoking, moving, and occasionally funny series of playlets set in an art gallery filled with monochromatic paintings… “

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 he 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…

Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina
Produced by BareBones Theatre 2000

“What a surprise to walk into “Ugly Art” the season-closer by the Barebones Theatre Group, and find it fresh and funny… One-acts plus monologue last a crisp 90 minutes…

ENGLAND – Mouthpiece Theatre
Ugly Art 2005
Ugly Art as Red Wine & Canvas 2008

CROATIA – Dreamscape Theatre (UK)
CANADA – Dreamscape Theatre (UK)
LOS ANGELES – Drama West
The Old Nick theatre, Gainsborough, UK – 2019

Author: Terry Roeche

Genre: One act romantic plays

Type: One act play

Cast: 1M 1F

Ages of the actors: Adult any age

Suitable for: All ages

Length: 15 – 20 minutes

Set: Black box theatre. A square red painting on an easel or on the wall.

Level of difficulty: A conversational piece with movement 6/10

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Cost $10 for this award winning previously produced play

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Copyright © December 2014 Terry Roeche and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other one act romances:

Naked – a one act romantic comedy about the pitfalls of internet dating
The Window – one act about marriage – and a window
Aracanum – one act play about friends and love

Dramas, One act plays

One act play – award winning one act plays

December 8, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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ONE ACT PLAY – AWARD WINNING ONE ACT PLAYS

One act play won the Lace Market New Writing Competition in Nottingham UK (2014)

We are greeted by a middle aged couple in bed, roused from their slumber by Dvorak’s New World symphony, synonymously paired with Hovis to us Brits, bedecked in nightcaps that even Mrs Bennet would shy away from. Broad Yorkshire accents start the piece right from the off, each character’s monologues displaying to the audience their ideas of culture. The woman describes Les Miserables and the benefits of beards, the man speaks of the latest production of Two Gentlemen of Verona.

The stereotypical Northernisms continue with talk of whippets, flat caps and pipes, peppered with ‘by gums’ and ‘by ‘ecks’. That is until one of the characters shatters the fourth wall by pointing out the audience sitting in front of them. Thus the play starts to descend into unfamiliar territory. The characters discuss the existence of their creator, i.e the playwright himself. Growing ever more bold in their gestures towards their maker they dare to dream of a world outside the bed they woke up in. Even their dreams are clichés, dropped into their head by the writer, with talk of a house in the mountains by babbling brooks.

The dialogue descends into a sort of stream of consciousness ramble we might find in Joyce, about how they have come to exist and the basic differences between masculinity and femininity. This mirrors one of the woman’s first remarks at the beginning when she says that only a man could have created such a cruel existence. Here is when the play reaches its climax, a cruel twist at the end proves the woman right when they come to escape…

Author: Matt Fox

Genre: One act comedy-drama

Type: Award winning one act plays

Cast: Two: 1M 1F

Ages of the actors: Adult (middle aged)

Length: 30 minutes

Set: A couple in a bed with fake legs (pillows)

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – engaging the audience and keeping their attention in this dialogue driver play

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Cost is $10 for this award winning one act play

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Copyright © December 2014 Matt Fox and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Comedies, One act plays, Skits

A Christmas Carol, Too! – Christmas skits

December 1, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

Christmas skits

A CHRISTMAS CAROL, TOO! – CHRISTMAS SKITS

In this very short skit for the holidays, ‘I’m a Sneezer Stooge’ is visited by three ghosts – the ghost of Christmas past, who doesn’t really do anything (because they don’t have enough money for special effects), the ghost of Christmas presents, covered in bows and the ghost of Christmas yet to come, who, well, actually does what he’s supposed to. Christmas skits for six actors. Other skits for the holidays by Lois and Kelly Corcoran. Read more about Lois and Kelly Corcoran.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS SKIT TOTALS 1.5 PAGES ONCE PURCHASED WHICH EQUATES TO THREE MINUTES.

Author: Lois and Kelly Corcoran

Genre: Christmas Skits

Type: Skit, short one act play

Cast: 6 – at least 2M, rest can be either gender

Suitable for: The whole family

Length: 3 minutes

Set: No specifications, black box theatre

Level of difficulty: 5/10 – short with few lines to learn

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Copyright © December 2014 Lois and Kelly Corcoran and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this skit? Other skits and holiday plays that we stock:

Trolls stole the North Pole – children’s musical Christmas play
God’s visit – short funny skit about God coming round to visit unexpectedly
Art Talk – comedy skit for 3 actors
Bob – 5 minute comedy skits

Comedies, One act plays

Don’t Bank on it – one act comedy plays for 5 actors

November 26, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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DON’T BANK ON IT – ONE ACT COMEDY PLAYS FOR 5 ACTORS

In this zany one act comedy for five actors, 2M and 3F, it’s the fifth anniversary of the chairman of The Bank, Alfred Shipman, and he is anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Board, in order to commence celebrating his anniversary. He’s even written the speech himself, just in case. All that needs to be done in the final hour before they arrive is that Roger Hirsh, the vice-president has to put the final touches to the report that Alfred needs to give them. Things start to go downhill when Alfred’s wife, Anita, arrives an hour early from the airport bursting with news that she just has to tell someone; anyone. Then the money grabbing wife of one of his ex employees arrives as well, demanding compensation. They have to get rid of her, finish the report and a whole lot more before the hour is up. Will they make it?

Read more about playwright George Freek. Other plays by George.

Author: George Freek

Type: One act comedy plays

Genre: Comedy

Cast: 5 actors, 3F 2M

Length: 30-40 minutes

Ages of the actors: Adult, middle aged

Suitable for: All ages

Set: The office of the chairman of The Bank

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – achieving comedic chaos

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Like this play? Other one act comedies:

Stirred, not shaken – James Bond style black comedy
Virtual frenemies – when online gaming rivalry meets in real life
A manger carol – one act nativity play

Dramas, One act plays, Romance

Yvette – a period drama romance script

November 12, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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YVETTE – PERIOD DRAMA ROMANCE SCRIPT

Yvette is eighteen, and she is a mystery. Nobody can make out whether she is a charming youngster or a wretched jade. She belongs through her mother, a high-class courtesan, as well as through her manners and her customs, to the vortex of the most rapid life of 19th-century Paris. Yet, she lives in that atmosphere of infamy with a calm and triumphing ease as if she suspects absolutely nothing of her mother’s profession, which is either wonderfully profligate or entirely artless. She allures and excites men and at the same time acts like an impeccable virgin. If she is not the most complete monster of astuteness and perversity, she certainly is the most marvelous phenomenon of innocence that can be imagined. Only, this young lady belongs neither to society, nor to the tradesmen’s class, nor to the common people, and she can never enter any of these ranks by marriage. She has only one possible career, a life of pleasure, and she cannot escape her fate.

Author: B. K. de Fabris

Type: One act play

Genre: Period piece, period drama romance

Cast: 13 – 10m 3F, 12 dancers

Ages of the actors: Late teens to middle aged

Length: 80 minutes with scene changes

Suitable for: All ages

Set: Various locations on Paris, both indoors and outdoors.

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – scene changes

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Like this play? Other period pieces on Off The Wall Plays

A house divided – civil war play in four acts
Boise, USA, drama about the homosexuality scandal in 1950’s Boise, USA
Peter’s dream – three act play for high school

Biography, Dramas, One act plays

Frida and Diego – Play about Frida Kahlo

November 5, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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FRIDA AND DIEGO – PLAY ABOUT FRIDA KAHLO

A good portion of the art world is getting ready to mark the 60th anniversary of Frida Kahlo. Frida and Diego is a biographical play about Frida Kahlo and her husband, Diego Rivera. The tempestuous artist was not always easy to love, but her husband, Diego, loved her dearly throughout their two marriages. This story is about their love.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Abilene Community Theatre, TX, USA – 2019
Franklin G Burroughs – Simeon B Chapin Art Museum, SC, USA – 2022

Author: Tony Broadwick

Genre: Biography of Frida Kahlo

Type: One act play

Length: 40 – 50 minutes

Cast: Requires two females and one male.

Ages of the actors: Adult

Suitable for: PG 12 – language

Set: a 1940’s apartment bedroom. There is a bed with a vase and some flowers in it on a bedside table.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – portraying a character that actually existed.

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Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about Frida and Diego

Like this play? Other biographies that we carry

Lies you can’t make up – drama script about JFK
Disney in Deutschland – biography about Walt Disney and his relationship with Hitler
And all his songs were sad – play about life and works of Sean McCarthy

Dramas, One act plays, Romance

Uncovered – romantic drama script

October 29, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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UNCOVERED – ROMANTIC DRAMA SCRIPT

A man and woman have been living together in a small Chicago apartment. She has been working to pay the bills while he works on a novel, but he’s developed writer’s block, and it’s been eating away at his confidence, and lessening her attraction to him. The rift has gotten to the point where she’s been spending most of her time at a friend’s place.
He goes to see her at work and watches her in a different light as she floats around her restaurant interacting with the customers. Then they go out for drinks, and their passion is rekindling.

We hear them as they ascend the stairs to their apartment, bumping against the walls as they release from each other’s embrace long enough to unlock the door.

Inside we watch as they work out their relationship, one that began with a mutual love of books, one helped to be put back together – and almost taken further apart – by the books in their life.

Performance History

Winthrop University, SC, USA – 2017
Alphabetti theatre, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK – 2019

Author: Greg Urbaitis

Genre: Romantic drama script

Type: One act play

Cast: 1M 1F

Ages of the actors: Late twenties to mid forties

Suitable for: PG 14 language

Length: 25-30 minutes

Set: Set in an apartment’s bedroom in Chicago, at dusk. The sun is going down and the street lights are coming on. There is a window at the back of the apartment, and one can see city streets through it

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – Two handers are always challenging but the conversation between the two actors is light and interesting to follow

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Like this play? Other romantic drama scripts we stock:

Aldous rememebers – romantic drama plays
Enter Love – original modern musicals
Taylor – full length romantic drama about finding love again

Children's, Musicals, One act plays

Molly and the Magic Phone – musical for children

October 26, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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MOLLY AND THE MAGIC PHONE – MUSICAL FOR CHILDREN

This is a one act musical for children. Written with age eleven and under in mind – although it is suitable for children up to around fifteen years old. A serious story with touches of comedy – with scope for being directed in a number of different ways – the emphasis being on participation for the children and entertainment for a young or adult audience.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Country Players, Nelson, New Zealand – 2018

Author: James Chalmers

Genre: Musical for children

Type: One act musical

Cast: Minimum of 10 and up to 15 children

Ages of the actors: Age 11 and under but ages of up to 15 would work

Length: 25 – 30 minutes

Suitable for: Children and the whole family

Set: No set required although the play might benefit from being performed in front of some plain flats – possibly decorated lightly with graffiti. At the front of the stage on either side – are tables for the cards carrying the text messages. The Presenters pick up cards from one side – walk across the front of the stage holding the words up for the audience to read – then they place the cards on the other table. They wait there until the next text message is to be displayed – and they walk back across the other way with the appropriate cards. The words should be on both sides of the cards because the messages are cues for the actor playing the part of Molly.

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – a nice play suitable for a small drama class

Like this play? Other plays for kids:

The Poetry Machine – plays for children
Adventures of Mojoe and Snowy in Lochloosa
Dreidel – Jewish Children’s plays