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The love of Cheesecake – Comedy One act play for Adults

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THE LOVE OF CHEESECAKE – COMEDY AND ONE ACT PLAY FOR ADULTS

In this one act play for adults, Molly, a slightly tubby housewife is rather desperate because she feels that the spark has gone out of her marriage to the very predictable Arthur and she doesn’t know what to do about it. She feels that her relationship has become loveless and all the frustration she has built up comes pouring out. She ends up pouring her soul out to her best friend and neighbour, Fran.  Fran comes up with an idea to help Molly and Arthur out and reignite the flame and passion in Molly and Arthur’s staid relationship.  She sends her to a therapist who sets them tasks for each other. This includes everything from body food (which goes well) to a stripper pole (which doesn’t) ending with side splitting consequences in this hilarious adult comedy.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

University of Pretoria Department of UP Art, Pretoria, South Africa – 2018

The author will allow work shopping of this on act play for adults.  Ashley Nader is a small play festival award winning playwright.   The Love of Cheesecake won best play, best original script, best actress and best supporting actress in the Franklin  players festival of one act plays which is a national play festival held annually in South Africa. Ashley’s play My Middle Name is Angry is another award winning play featured on “Off The Wall Plays.” Read more about  playwright, Ashley Nader in our About the Authors section.

Author:  Ashley Nader

Genre: Adult comedy

Type: One act festival play

Length: 20 (twenty minutes)

Number of Actors:  2 F (female)  1M (male)

Ages of the actors: Any age from thirties till seventies

Set: Simple –  kitchen come lounge – a single sofa, and a table with fruit  and juice.

Level of difficulty:  7/10 – an easy script with a conversational feel. Maintaining the humor throughout is the only challenge.

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Copyright  July  2012 Ashley Nader Off The Wall Plays

 

Why affairs happen – a Bollywood hospital drama script in one act

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WHY AFFAIRS HAPPEN – a Bollywood Hospital Drama script for stage

A typical Bollywood style hospital drama script for stage, set in the emergency room of a remote island hospital,  with all the epic genres of comedy, drama and romance, rolled into one.  The  play follows the lives of various doctors as well as their families and loved ones, set in the emergency room of the hospital. When a well known German specialist visits and subsequently helps out at the hospital, it seems to be fate, as he intervenes and saves the life of a young boy with severe head injuries.

When the handsome Doctor  Basheer meets the provocative and lovely Noor Jahan, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, she falls instantly in love with him and wants to marry him. The marriage goes ahead as her father promises him money  if he marries her. But Doctor Basheer has a secret – he is already married to another woman on the mainland and they have a child – a small boy together. The wedding goes ahead as planned as all seems as if it is well, until his wife decides to visit him!

This hospital drama script will appeal to and is aimed at community and mainstream theatre groups from India and the surrounding countries. It could also possibly be adapted for television.

Author: Jayaprakash Raghavan Pillai

Genre: Hospital Drama script

Type: One, 1 act play

Length: One and a half hours

Ages of actors:  All ages, large cast, main actors 20s to 60s.

Number of main actors:  3M, 3F

Set:  Emergency room with beds, operating theatre and two offices.

Level of  difficulty:  8/10 – complicated set with many changes. But can be simplified by the players if they wish.

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Copyright  27th June 2012 Jayaprakash Raghavan Pillai and Off The Wall Plays

 

Guy meets Girl – a one hander comedy routine or show

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GUY MEETS GIRL – A ONE MAN COMEDY ROUTINE OR SHOW

Guy meets girl is a one act comedy routine for a single male actor.  It follows a day in the life of  an ordinary guy, thinking ordinary guy thoughts, and whose thoughts inevitably turn to the opposite sex and how to, er, impress them.  For all those women out there who actually want to know what that guy they are meeting in a bar is actually thinking, and for those guys out there, who, well know it anyway.

Author: Dewan Demmer

Actors: 1M

Ages of actors:  20s-50s

Genre: Comedy routine, one act comedy monologue

Type: 1 act play monologue, comedy

Length:  20 -25 minutes

Level of difficulty: 7/10  – a good actor needs to hold the audience’s attention.

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Copyright March 2012 Dewan Demmer Off The Wall Play Publishers

 

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Bob – 5 minute comedy skits

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BOB – 5 MINUTE COMEDY SKITS

A 5 minute comedy skit about a guy called Bob, who goes to audition for a part in a play. Bob appears to be extremely nervous, and possibly even slightly retarded, but his audition is greatly helped by his patient friend, Anne. A very funny skit, with a nice twist at the end.

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Author : T. J. Edison

Length: 5-7 minutes

Genre: 5 minute Comedy Skits

Type: One Act Skit or Play

Characters: 1M, 4F

Suitable for: All Ages

Ages of Actors:   1 F in 20s, 3F slightly older women,  1M thirties up.

Level of Difficulty:  6/10. Keeping a straight face!

In “Bob,” the poem he recites may be changed, as long as the results are the same.

There should be no other alterations in the original script.

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Copyright May 2012 T. J. Edison Off The Wall Play Publishers

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A Wolf by the Ears – Irish comedy script in one act

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A WOLF BY THE EARS – IRISH COMEDY SCRIPT

When someone sets fire to Dinny Gallagher’s hay, Sergeant Marty McAteer needs to find a convenient culprit to blame. (Because, although it was an accident, Dinny Gallagher has always been “good” to the police) He decides to arrest the local Poet Hughie Doherty, because Doherty has always rubbed him up the wrong way, with his fancy rhymes that poke fun at people, and he needs to be taken down a peg or two. But it turns out that some real criminals are at large in the district….

Read about Irish playwright Mattie Lennon. Other plays by Mattie Lennon.

Author: Mattie Lennon

Genre: Irish comedy script

Type: One act play

Cast: 5M, 1F

Ages of actors: 20s to early forties

Length: 30 minutes

Suitable for: All Ages

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – maintaining the feel and humor of the play

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Copyright Mattie Lennon 2005 Off The Wall Plays

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Extra Lessons – A Poignant Comedy play about student teacher relationships

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EXTRA LESSONS – A POIGNANT COMEDY PLAY ABOUT STUDENT TEACHER RELATIONSHIPS

When Jared’s friends dare him to kiss Miss Maya, their young and attractive English teacher, Jared takes the bet and enrolls in private extra lessons with Miss Maya in order to attain his goal. But he finds out that there is a lot more at stake than merely a kiss and that Miss Maya is, in herself, an insecure and vulnerable young woman. This play deals with the consequences of student teacher relationships in a sensitive manner. A play about student teacher relationships.

Actors: 2M (teens 18 yrs), 4F (1 teen, 1 young attractive, 1 older teacher and the headmistress)

Genre: Poignant Comedy

Suitable for: All Ages

Ages of actors: 3 teen, 1 twenties, 2 middle aged to older

Type: 1 act play

Set: A classroom setting and then an office setting.

Difficulty: 6/10 – making the characters believable

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Copyright March 2012 Jenny Schmidt Off The Wall Play Publishers

 

Chatter – a romantic comedy script + a case of mistaken identity.

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CHATTER – ROMANTIC COMEDY SCRIPT

When a couple, Albert and Aimee meet and fall in love in a chatroom, they get engaged and plan to get married.  It seems too good to be true. Only thing is… they haven’t actually met in real life. So when Albert flies out from the UK to meet his true love, and borrows his brother’s mobile phone, things take an hilarious turn when the wrong people end up meeting each other in this romantic comedy script!

Author: Anton Krueger

Characters: 4F, 2M

Type: One, 1 act

Genre: Romantic Comedy Script

Suitable for: All Ages

Set and difficulty: 7/10 Technically challenging. The play is accompanied by an animated backdrop which adds technological communication as another character. From the start, a chat-room text streaming across the back becomes “animated” in that the graphics embody and articulate emotion, tone and so on. At another
point, cell-phone calls zigzag across the space and SMS messages scoot through the ether; cartoonishly bouncing about the parameters of the stage before finding their destinations in
other phones. Occasionally these could even head out over the auditorium (if such a thing can be done) breaking through the fourth wall. Although it is not entirely impossible to imagine the play being performed without these technological elements, they may add an
element of spectacle to its delivery.

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Copyright Anton Krueger 2008, Licensed by Dalro, South Africa.

My Middle Name is Angry – an award winning comedy script in one act

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MY MIDDLE NAME IS ANGRY – AN AWARD WINNING COMEDY SCRIPT

In this award winning comedy script, Alice and Janet, two sisters are thrown together to share an apartment. They are very different. Through out their lives they have shared similar struggles and day to day issues (work, love, parents, death etc). Yet each one shows it in a different way. Alice tries to help Janet with her anger and frustrations ending in hilarious outcomes that make Janet question her soul and who she is.

Awards:

My middle name is angry won Best play and best supporting actress at the Franklin and Friends festival in 2012. 

Performance History:

Franklin and Friends Festival, Roosevelt Park – 2012
Edinboro University’s Diebold Center for the Performing Arts – 2015
Rushen Players – Isle of Man – 2016
Clonaghadoo Drama Group, County Laois, Ireland – 2019
Squid Inc Theatre, Tasmania, Australia – 2023

Read more about playwright Ashley Nader.  Other plays by Ashley Nader

Author: Ashley Nader

Genre: Comedy, Award winning comedy script

Type: One act (1 act) Play

Characters: 2 F

Ages of actors: Twenties Up

Length: 20 Minutes

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – achieving the humor in the lines

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Copyright Jan 2012 Ashley Nader Off The Wall Play Publishers

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A Blind date – short one act comedy scripts
But I’m French – award winning ten minute comedy scripts

Arcanum – One Act Comedy about Friends and Love

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 ARCANUM – one act comedy about friends and love

A group of friends that meet everyday for lunch in the park may prove to be a bit too much for the new guy at the office to handle, as they discuss everything from movies and food, to love and loss. This character driven comedy is sure to delight all those who enjoy good humor and wit in this one act comedy about friends and love.

Author: James Chisholm

Actors: 5M, 1F

Ages of Actors: Five in their 20s-30s, 1 older M tiny part few lines only

Genre: Comedy

Length: 20-25 minutes

Type: One Act Play

Difficulty: 6/10 – achieving a climax in the play

Suitable for: All Ages

Set: Simple – a park bench, dustbin, lamp post and a easel for ‘doc’

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You do love me, don’t you? A Scary Psycho Thriller in One Act – scary plays

 

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“YOU DO LOVE ME, DON’T YOU?” – A DARK COMEDY CUM SCARY PSYCHO THRILLER IN ONE ACT – scary plays

Peta-Ann brings the love of her life, Leon home to meet her family for the first time.   Her parents, Robert and Glenda are naturally skeptical about a boy Peta swears is “the one” when she has only known Leon for a few short weeks. Leon is everything a girl would dream of in a guy – polite, attentive and extremely loving towards Peta. So loving, in fact, that he doesn’t want anything to get in the way of their happiness…..

A new scary psycho thriller play by our award winning author, Claire Linda Demmer, about really getting to know the man you love…………..before taking him home. The play starts off as a comedy, then depending on how it is directed, abruptly transitions into a psycho thriller or alternatively, a dark comedy.

Production History

The Franklin Players one act play festival, Roosevelt Park – 2012
Texas A & M University, TX, USA – 2016
Toele High School, Utah,USA – 2016
Miami, Florida, USA – 2016
Windham High School, Maine, USA – 2016
National University of Singapore, Singapore – 2016
Theatre 370, MA, USA – 2017
St. Peter the Apostle school, Alberta, Canada – 2017
Lincoln High School, NE, USA – 2017
Durban University of Technology, KZN, South Africa – 2017
Southridge School, BC, Canada – 2017
Bullis School, MD, USA – 2017
Stratford Secondary School, ON, Canada – 2018
Regina Little Theatre Society, SK, Canada – 2018
Winthrop University Theatre and Dance, SC, USA – 2018
Holy Redeemer Catholic Jr/Sr High School, Alberta, Canada – 2019
Westville Theatre, Durban, South Africa – 2019
Eagle Point High School, OR, USA – 2019
Spotlight Drama Group, Galashiels, United Kingdom – 2019
Del Sol Academy – Las Vegas, NV, USA – 2019
Hastings College, NE, USA – 2020
Indian Springs School, AL, USA – 2021

Central College – IA, USA – 2023

 

Author: Claire Linda Demmer

Characters: 5, (2M, 3F)

Ages of Actors: 2 middle aged, 2 twenties, 1 teen

Length: 35 minutes

Genre: Thriller,Dark Comedy, SCARY PLAYS

Type: One Act Play

Level of Difficulty: 8/10 – achieving, building and maintaining tension through the play

Suitable for: PG 12

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Copyright December 2011 Claire Demmer Off The Wall Play Publishers

 

Jack Masterson and the Case of Absurdity – a two act teen farce

 

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JACK MASTERSON AND THE CASE OF ABSURDITY – A TWO ACT TEEN FARCE

In this two act farce, Jack Masterson has just started a private detective agency with his friend Lisa and they are awaiting their first case when Miss Lovely walks through their door in need of assistance.  It seems that a priceless family heirloom of Miss Lovely’s has gone missing and she needs Jack to find it for her.  Jack gladly accepts the case and starts by checking out the scene of the crime and questions Miss Lovely’s maid, Yvette and her obnoxious neighbor Sandra Moody.

Jack comes to the conclusion that his old nemesis, Professor D. Veous must have some information on the whereabouts of the missing heirloom.  While Jack goes off to question the Professor at his headquarters underneath the local Happy Hamburger Hut, Lisa goes down to Club Shady to question some of the local thugs about the theft.  While there she runs into Jack’s biggest rival Detective O’Malley who decides to help her out questioning the criminal element.  What heirloom could possibly worth so much trouble?  With three different endings it could be anything!!!

Author: Michael Maxwell

Characters: 18 (12F/6M)

Genre: Comedy, Two act Farce, TWO ACT TEEN FARCE

Type: Full Length Stage Play in 2 acts

Length: 90 Minutes

Suitable for: Any ages

Ages of Actors: Teen and Up

This show was produced and performed at Theatre 29 in Twentynine Palms, California in 2001 and was presented as a Summer Youth Play.  It was also nominated for Best Original Writing in 2002 by the Desert Theatre League of Palm Springs.

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

Maranatha Baptist University-Music and Drama Camp, WI, USA -2017
Towson High School, MD, USA – 2017
Tallulah Falls School, GA, USA – 2019
Carrollwood Players, FL, USA – 2019
White Oaks Secondary School, ON, Canada – 2021
St Columba College, SA, Australia – 2022

Michael Maxwell has been writing plays for the past 10 years and has written 13 plays and  had 11 of them produced both domestically on the community theater level and internationally at schools for English language programs. He has also written close to 60 “Saturday Night Live” style skits for a live sketch comedy show that performs in the Inland Empire.  His show “Like Clockwork” won the Desert Theater League of Palm Springs’ Best Original Writing Award in 2001.

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Copyright October 2011 Off The Wall Play Publishers

Luke Warm – a bizarre one act “superhero beats villain” comedy script

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LUKE WARM – SUPERHERO COMEDY SCRIPT

WARNING: MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME READERS

In this superhero comedy script,  Luke Warm (Crime Fighting Machine) and his non-gender-specific sidekick (Mike
Alpha November), have been tasked with thwarting the diabolical villain Canto Knees, and his non-gender-specific sidekick (Vanilla Sheik), before they destroy the southern hemisphere with a giant laser cannon. They are assisted by Little Miss Buffet
(Private Dick), a black sidekick housekeeper (Mavis), and an Extra. Featuring Russians, cuckoo clocks and a speech impediment, Luke Warm will make your nose bleed in this superhero comedy script.

Author:Brett Baxter

Characters: 2M, 2F, 2N, 1 extra

Genre: Superhero comedy script

Length: 25 Minutes

Ages of Performers: Twenties Up

Suitable For: PG advised – contains some offensive content

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – getting stereotyping correct

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Copyright August 2011  Brett Baxter and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Naked – a One Act Romantic Comedy Play about the Pitfalls of Internet Dating

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NAKED – One act romantic comedy Play about the Pitfalls of Internet Dating!

Once upon a time two people met on the internet. Only… they really wanted to impress each other…and so…they embellished… a little. And then they met at a coffee shop. This is the play about meeting that special someone you haven’t quite told the whole truth to.  A nice two-hander, one act festival play for stage.

‘Naked’ won best runner up play in the Franklin Players festival of one act plays in April 2012 as well as best actor and best set.

Production History

Franklin and Friends Festival, Roosevelt Park, South Africa 2012
EADS festival, Edenvale, South Africa, 2012
Pine Tree Players, Canmore, Alberta, Canada, 2016
Sturgis Area Arts Council, SD, USA – 2017
Black Box Theater, Las Positas College, CA, USA – 2018
Village Green theatre co, Queensland, Australia – 2018
River Valley Players Association, AB, Canada – 2019
Dew Drop Inn, Little Theatre, Co. Kildare, Ireland – 2019
TC Williams High School, VA, USA – 2019

Author: Morley Shulman

Characters: 1M, 1F

Genre: One act Romantic Comedy play

Suitable For: PG 14

Ages of Actors: Late 20’s up

Type: One Act Festival Play

Length: 20 Minutes

Set: Simple – a coffee shop

Read more about playwright Morley Shulman. Other full length comedies by Morley Shulman. Other one act dramas by Morley Shulman.

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Copyright August 2011 Morley Shulman and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play?  Have a look at some of our other one act comedies:

A Blind Date – a best selling one act comedy about two misfits who go on a blind date
My Middle Name is ‘Angry’ – a two-hander one act comedy for two women
Stirred, not shaken – an award winning one act black comedy
The Window – a one act play about marriage (and windows)

101 Ways to Dump Someone in Five Minutes – five minute comedy skit

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101 Ways to Dump Someone in Five Minutes – five minute comedy skit

When you want to break up with someone, and they just don’t get it, how do you do it? A short skit for everyone who has ever dumped or been dumped by that idiot they once liked. A five minute comedy skit.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

St. Joseph High School, ALBERTA, CANADA – 2018
Earlham High School, IA, USA – 2019

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Author: Damien Darr

Characters: 1M, 1F

Length: 5 minutes

Genre: Comedy

Suitable for: All Ages

Ages of Performers: Teens to early twenties

Level of Difficulty: 5/10

Type: Comedy Skit – One Act

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Copyright © August 2011 Off The Wall Play Publishers

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