MEDIUM LENGTH ONE ACT PLAYS – TWENTY FIVE TO FORTY MINUTES

MEDIUM LENGTH ONE ACT PLAYS

PLAYS 25-45 MINUTES: MEDIUM LENGTH ONE ACT PLAYS

Medium length one act plays between 25 and 45 minutes long. If you are searching for a play that is closer to an hour long, please have a look at our hour long plays.

A Castle:Broken Apart drama for a cast of 3

A Cut Above the Rest – Farce in one act

A Less Expendable Husband – one act comedy for three women

A Love, never forgotten – comedy – drama for mature actors set in a retirement home

A Manger Carol – a Nativity Play for kids and teens

A Man’s home – one act American drama

A major for Dixie comedy about running for mayor

A NOT so dark and stormy night!  A (Okay, we actually know who did it) Whodunit Melodramatic Comedy

A Payment Unkind – one act about sexual exploitation in the entertainment industry

A Puzzle for two – a philosophical play

A Tale of Two Balconies – modern Romeo and Juliet meet the old versions in this comedy

Agatha the ugly – period drama about friendship

Alan Grimaldi and the 183 – a comedy about finding that you’re dead. 

Alien research – funny play for primary school children

Antigone – Greek Tragedy script

ANYONE can Dance – British award winning romantic drama about Soulmates

Apparitions – Ghostly drama in one act about a fateful accident

Ascorbic Acid Freak – dark comedy about HIV in the 1980’s

Attic Antics! Farcical Comedy set in a school

Awaiting patients – comedy for high school festivals

Boy-1 – science fiction play for teens

Breakdown Point – a Very Psychic Comedy

Buckingham’s Palace – a comedy about friends and family for a mostly senior cast

Butterfly Kisses – a drama about a family pushed to the edge by a kidnapping

Call me Stan – a dark comedy about the ‘not so ideal’ boyfriend

Cancelled – an award winning one act farce set in a 1940’s radio studio

Chicken salad – drama for two women

Choice – hard hitting British drama scripts

Conned to DEATH!! A play about a fake psychic medium that goes awry

Crawl to be Kind – A comedy about a Missing Spider

Crossword – British award winning play about murder

Cyborg with Rosie – a robotic sci fi comedy

Dead on Stage – comedy about high school drama club

Death of a Gerbil – award winning one act comedy about waking up to find you’re dead, really.

Dinner at Dario’s – romantic gay comedies

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

Don’t think she won’t – a comedy about getting your old boyfriend in to do your husband’s life insurance policy.

Empty Places of the Heart – family romantic comedy script about love and moving on

Extra Lessons – a high school one act comedy where the boy kisses the teacher

Exquisite Anxieties – Seven Slivers of Suspense – A Collection of Bone Chilling Short Scripts – Scripts vary from 10-30 minutes

Faith – an abused woman’s story in one act

Falling Together – a Christmas Drama about a family in crisis

Final Conversations – award nominated short drama about the last morning a son spends on earth

First to see the lights go on -drama about postnatal depression

Foreign gifts – powerful play for teens/young people about communism and capitalism

Frida and Diego – play about Frida Kahlo

Friends and Family – teen drama script

Friends Like Us – a Halloween play about an Ouija Board

Getting this close – teen romantic comedy for high school

Goddle – sci-fi comedy scripts

Goon today -Funny fairy tale script for older teens and adults

Happy Wife – a drama about newlywed infidelity

How we saved our homeroom teacher – children’s play about their teacher being kidnapped by an evil wizard

In tents – one act about bullying

In the Rubble of Paradise – World War 2 Cabaret Musical

Irish Jack – drama comedy about marrying outside your culture

Is this seat taken? Award winning British one act comedy drama

It’s a Small World! Literally – children’s comedy about a microscopic world, a meteor and fighting the bad guys

Ivy – children’s play about finding a way home to your family

Jack and the Beanstalk – pantomime!

Jinxed – insane one act comedy script

Joined at the hip – South African comedy scripts

Jumping the league – comedy about a priest who doesn’t want to be

Lady T – one act drama for high school and drama college

Lateral Sinking – Comedy about a Television Quiz Show

Le Shaggy dog – award winning comedy set in wartime France

Lonely heart – one act comedy about a scam

Love is a stranger – British one act about forbidden love

Lovely, dark and deep – one act sci fi drama about a man’s journey to another world

Lovely to look at – comedy about community theatre

Mack to the Past – 30 minutes ‘Shakespeare meets Back to the Future’ comedy for teens

Madrababes – fun filled one act musicals

Mirror – play for younger teens

Molly and the magic phone – musical for children

Moonlight Preludes – spine tingling ghostly drama romance

Mortality – a comedy about hearing that you’re going die

Myth II – Heroes and Halfwits – a comic look at Greek Mythology

Nana and Paige – poignant comedy about escaping Lockdown

North Fork – when two brothers love the same girl – it causes a rift in the family that may never heal

On How to Accommodate Marlo’s Frying Pan – one act comedy for a cast of 5

On The Rebound – Drama romance for the over sixties. Because you’re never too old to fall in love

No Year’s Eve – comedy about the world ending on New Year’s Eve

Nothing personal, just business – funny one act script

Now boarding – one act comedy for 3 women on a plane

On Golden Wings – play about composer Guiseppe Verdi

Once Upon a Term – play for children age 5 to 12

Over my dead Body – award winning funny ghost story about 2 ghosts who won’t be evicted

Parturition – a drama about doing just about anything to get a baby

Prelude to Macbeth – award winning modern Shakespeare play

Rag-Na-Rock! Loki, at the local high school, is about to start a war to end all wars and it’s up to the kids and 1 teacher to stop him

Road toll – one act drama for 4 actors

Sarah wants the moon – one act period comedy scripts

Save Our Souls – Short Comedy (Suitable for kids and teens) set on board a ship

Say What? Hilarious Adult Comedy about Dating

Second Time’s a Charm – senior romantic drama

Six Accusers – Christian one act plays

Six days till Sunday – one act play for teens and amdram

Someone to remember – a one act teen drama

Squawk – thirty minute comedy about a recurring dream. Or is it an avian nightmare?

Starline 117 – a man is found waiting at the airport for a flight that will never come…

Stirred, not Shaken…. farce in one act with the usual dead body

Stumped – a British comedy about cricket

The 27 Club – one act drama for three women

The Actors – a comedy about the afterlife

The Appointment with God – a one act family drama

The Baby – period drama about a difficult pregnancy

The Best Policy –

when your spouse dies and you think he’s been having an affair

The Box – one act drama script

The Death of Donald Trump – Contemporary American one act drama

The Fourth Wall – teen one act adventure comedy

The Frankenstein Factory – sci fi drama about letting a murderer go free in a new body

The Girl in the Lavender Glasses – children’s play about being different and magical!

The Gold Locket – family saga about a mysterious romance in the past…

The Henderson Hall Horror – one act horror script

The Last Evening on Earth – a Dystopian Drama Script

The Last Voyage of the Albatross – ghost story about an ill fated ship based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe

The M.A.D. – a comedy about getting out of high school tests, forever!

The Pendragon Sacrifice – award winning play about Merlin and King Arthur

The Pied Piper of Hawaii (Trouble in the wild west)

The Play’s the thing – one act about an (almost) perfect murder

The Poetry Machine – a play for children

The Smith Mountain Hunting Club – when the new guy in your hunting club is not what he seems

The Tell Tale Teacher – Award winning children’s adventure comedy play

The things that happen in New York – drama about a young couple losing their apartment

The three unwise men – spoof nativity play

The Vicar, The Four Thousand Year old Demon and the Cup of Tea

The WAITING……………. room. Character based comedy about a doctor’s waiting room

The Welsh Matchstick – a biography of Johnny Owen’s last fight

The Wish – a comedy about three teenage boys and a somewhat unusual genie

The Wrong side of the Road – teen drama about a fatal accident

Things that go by the Board – Comedy about Home Owner Associations

Thirty Deep – American one act comedy about a taxidermist and an unusual request

This Seat’s Taken – one act romantic comedy about OCD

Three’s a crowd – drama about a love triangle between a girl and two gay guys

Treasured Planet – children’s play about saving the ocean

Teamwork – A Play for Teens 

Uncovered – romantic drama script for 1M 1F

Ursula – fairytale about a princess who escapes her imprisonment in a castle by turning into a bear

Used hearts – romantic drama script

Villains incorporated – award winning Teen one act

Virtual Frenemies – a funny one act about online gaming rivalry

Who I am – Play for Teenage Girls

Who Killed Santa? Film Noir Comedy Spoof

You can try it – comedy about a maybe murder, a seance and getting married

You Do Love Me, Don’t You – a Scary Psycho Thriller in One Act

Zombies in the Staffroom – detention has never been so fun. Or so deadly…

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