Final Conversations is about a Mother’s regret, wanting to roll back time to attain one perfect moment, one real conversation with her Son before he’s accidentally killed. The set up is simple: one day before school Mother suddenly “knows” that Son has an hour to live. With a “kitchen sink” approach, she attempts to change fate, using comedic often absurd methods to reach Son, none of which alters destiny or brings peace in this play for drama school.
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Final Conversations is about a Mother’s regret, wanting to roll back time to attain one perfect moment, one real conversation with her Son before he’s accidentally killed. The set up is simple: one day before school Mother suddenly “knows” that Son has an hour to live. With a “kitchen sink” approach, she attempts to change fate, using comedic often absurd methods to reach Son, none of which alters destiny or brings peace in this play for drama school.
Bad things happen to everyone. Sometimes it’s your fault, and sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes you can blame other people for your problems and sometimes you just can’t. People tend to ignore the warning signs in life, and then bad things happen that they should have seen coming. But what if there was a magical key that we could push, that would make it all unhappen so we could do it over again? Would we make the same choices or would we learn from our mistakes? A male monologue spanning approximately twenty minutes.
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THREES takes a comic spin on the urban legend: “All actors die in threes.” The play looks at what happens to three actors who are former classmates from Juilliard, whose careers took very different turns. One has had a career as an action hero in numerous movies and is a household name, one has had what she thinks is a brilliant avant garde stage career and the other, well, she’s done dog food commercials and won herself a lifetime supply of dog food. The trio meets up, again, at The Advance Obituary Office – where the obituaries are written BEFORE they die, after their fifteen-minutes of fame has faded and the gig is up. THREES is a dark comedy set in an obituary office with a film noir meets sci-fi tone.
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This experimental, short comic drama is a thought-provoking, Ionescu-like political play that mars the line between Man and Media. The fourth wall becomes especially dynamic in this amusing drama, in its role as a television screen, flashing across the eager, dumbed-down faces of a seemingly typical American family waiting for dinner, on a Sunday, after church in a small town we’re all somehow familiar with. Here they sit, this seemingly typical American family, each making wild accusations about the audience—who unwittingly takes on the role of the Media in all its forms—as this family tries, like they do every Sunday, to talk to each other by talking about everything else in this American one act play that breaks the fourth wall. (read full description below) THIS IS A DIGITAL SCRIPT
Samantha and Joe, a 30-something couple, fall into a discussion one night – what if they had met at different points in their lives? What would they have been like, and how would they have reacted to each other as small children, or as teens, or university students? Would they have fallen in love, or at another age would they just have been wrong for each other?
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Michael is a lonely undertaker in his early 30s. Hannah, is…WAS 25 and dead on his table. They shared a connection in life and now it seems in death too. As Michael prepares Hannah’s body, he reminisces on their relationship that has spanned almost a decade. This two-hander is dark, at times funny and quite strange. The memories of our lives through our interactions with others, have the potential to create an imprint so deep and strong it can change how they see the world. What would one do for a final kiss, or touch, or memento mori?
But nothing is really certain in this play – not even their relationship beyond this dark room. British poignant comedy.
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A handsome older teen is dared by his friends to get the pretty young teacher to kiss him in this play about student teacher relationships.
You’ve heard of the 27 club, right? The place where the talented young people of our world go to die. Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison….to name a few. All died aged 27 and all were talents the world won’t forget. But what about those people with just as much talent who die, but miss the 27 club cut off? Where do they go? It turns out to be a dentist’s office. Until Amy Winehouse arrives, thinking she should be at the 27 club…
This experimental, short comic drama is a thought-provoking, Ionescu-like political play that mars the line between Man and Media. The fourth wall becomes especially dynamic in this amusing drama, in its role as a television screen, flashing across the eager, dumbed-down faces of a seemingly typical American family waiting for dinner, on a Sunday, after church in a small town we’re all somehow familiar with. Here they sit, this seemingly typical American family, each making wild accusations about the audience—who unwittingly takes on the role of the Media in all its forms—as this family tries, like they do every Sunday, to talk to each other by talking about everything else in this American one act play that breaks the fourth wall.
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AMERICAN PLAYS – AMERICAN STAGE PLAY SCRIPTS These American plays are written for American audiences, and reflect the ups and downs of coming from one of the biggest countries in the world. We do have other plays written by Americans that do not appear on this page, as they tend to be more international in … Continue reading American Plays – Contemporary American plays →
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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PLAYS BY TITLE AND AUTHOR Our list of plays by title. To see our list of plays listed by author or playwright, please have a look at our Plays by author or playwright page A A Beatle’s story – Morley ShulmanA Blind Date – Elliot BakerA Castle:Broken Apart – James Hanson … Continue reading Alphabetical List of Plays by Title and Author →
TWO HANDER SCRIPTS – PLAYS FOR TWO ACTORS Plays for two actors, plays for a cast of two. Play length varies from short skits to full length plays. We have plays for all male casts, all female casts and also 1M 1F. Have a look! A Blind Date – a short one act romantic comedy … Continue reading TWO HANDER SCRIPTS – PLAYS FOR TWO ACTORS →