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FAUSTO e` MEFISTO – FUNNY FAUST SCRIPT

In this funny Faust script, Faust, a writer of philosophical comedies with a stable job (he has tenure) and a good life is approached by the devil in the form of a small black dog called Mafisto. He immediately offers him whatever his heart desires, in return for his immortal soul. Faust finds it kind of difficult to concentrate, really as the dog insists on playing patty cakes with him the entire time. But just what does Faust think is worth his immortal soul?

Who was Faust?

”Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend, based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480–1540).

The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. “Faust” and the adjective “Faustian” imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term.” – Source – Wikipedia.

Read other comedy plays by James Campbell – Jumping the League – a comedy about a cussing priest who really shouldn’t be one.

Author: James Campbell

Type: Short one act play

Genre: Comedy, Theatre of the Absurd, Funny Faust Script

Length: 5-6 minutes

Cast: This play can be performed by one actor and a puppet with the voice of the dog being done offstage or possibly with two actors onstage, the one dressed up as a dog.

Ages of the actors: Adult

Suitable for: All ages

Set: Faust’s home

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – getting the dog’s character correct.

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Copyright © 2014 James Campbell

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Comedies, One act plays

The Dane – ten minute comedy plays

March 28, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

ten minute comedy plays

THE DANE – TEN MINUTE COMEDY PLAYS

Two stuck up veteran actors are waiting for the final audition for the part of Hamlet. They are waiting on a third actor, who just happens to be the young handsome lead for a well known local medical drama. When he arrives, it becomes apparent that the young actor actually knows very little about Shakespeare (But he did some in high school.) At first, the the two veterans are not amused, but then they decide to mess with him, thinking that he would never get the part, being so unskilled. However, their plans go awry when it turns out that the director plans to give the part to the handsome young actor in spite of all that, because he thinks it will attract an audience. And that on top of that, he wants them to help the young actor get the part.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Reading School, Reading, United Kingdom – 2017
Massanutten Military Academy, VA, USA – 2017
Waukee High School, Friday Night Live, IA, USA – 2017
Green Place Theatre Company, Glasgow, Scotland, UK – 2018
The College of William and Mary, VA, USA – 2019
JFed Players Community Theatre Ensemble, CA, USA – 2021

Author: James O’Sullivan

Type: Ten minute comedy plays

Genre: One act comedy script

Cast: Written for 4M but can be 3M 1F

Ages of the actors: 2 middle aged, one young, 1 any age

Suitable for: All ages

Length: Ten minutes

Set: Three chairs are required

Level of difficulty: 5/10 – a funny, easy play that plays on characterization

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Copyright © March 2016 James O’Sullivan and Off The Wall Play Publishers

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Comedies, One act plays, Romance

But I’m French – one act romantic comedy plays

January 7, 2014 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

one act comedy plays

BUT I’M FRENCH – ONE ACT ROMANTIC COMEDY PLAYS

Charles is convinced that he’s actually French – to the extent that he speaks in a French accent, and talks garbled ‘French’ to total strangers that he meets. This annoys his girlfriend, Penelope to no end. When he befriends two confused French girls and talks to them in ‘French,’ Penelope is embarrassed and begs him to stop. But Charles won’t be deterred and thinks he knows a way to convince Penny that he is in fact French.

‘But I’m French’ is the 2009 winner of the Little Fish Theater’s – Pick of the Vine Play Contest. San Pedro, California. It was also selected for Lee Street Theatre’s SIX IN THE CITY 10 Minute Original Play Festival 2009 Salisbury N.C. It won first place in the 2007 Porter Fleming Writing Competition sponsored by the Greater Augusta (GA) Arts Council and was selected for Barestage Theatre’s “Six 15s @ Eight” New Plays Festival 2005.

Further Production History

Parish Episcopal School. Texas, USA – 2016
South Albany High School Theater Arts, Oregon, USA – 2016
Infinite Imagination, Alberta, Canada – 2017
Darien High School, CT, USA – 2018
Mehlville High School, MO, USA – 2019
Nirak Films, Warwichshire, UK – 2020
Jesuit Philelectic Society, Jesuit High School, LA, USA – 2021
South Tama County High School, IA, USA – 2021

Read more about playwright Terry Roueche.

Author: Terry Roueche

Genre: One act romantic comedy plays

Type: One act play, two hander play

Length: Ten to Fifteen minutes

Number of Actors: Two, 1M, 1F

Ages of the actors: 20’s – 30’s.

Set: It can be set anywhere as it is a conversation.

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – a fun, easy place that will be enjoyed by the audience and actors alike.