Name: Not your Usual Tales - A Collection of One Act Horror Plays
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NOT YOUR USUAL TALES – COLLECTION OF ONE ACT HORROR PLAYS

Not Your Usual Tales is a collection of one act horror plays, five in total, each of which has only four characters or less, that aren’t likely to be found in most of the play selections available. These are unusual plays that range from a young man contemplating suicide that is remarkably humorous considering the subject matter, to a monster in the basement, to a teenage girl put to a test by a Biblical being, to a family in a post apocalyptic world, to a couple carrying out a role play that goes a tad too far. They may be produced separately or as an evening of entertain- ment with an intermission in between, so the audience may talk about these unusual tales and their subject matter which I guarantee will encourage conversation afterwards. Enjoy!

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Cleansing Acts premiered at the LaBute New Theatre Festival
and was performed by the St. Louis Actors Studio in St.
Louis, Missouri and was the winner of the RFT Best of 2013.

Something in the Basement premiered at the Independence City
Theater in Independence, Missouri, and was part of a larger production titled, The Other Side.

Starting Over was selected for a reading at the Midwest
Dramatists Center Ten-Minute Play Conference and the
screenplay adaptation of Starting Over won 1st Place in the
Bare Bones Film Festival for Best Short Screenplay Drama.

The Game premiered at the North Park Playwright Festival inSan Diego, California.

The screenplay adaptation of The Test was placed as a Quarter-Finalist in the 2022 Cordillera International Film Festival and was a Semi-Finalist in the 2021 Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest.

A Staged reading of the first scene of Cleansing Acts:

https://lafeedbackfilmfestival.com/2023/04/08/wildsound-1st-scene-cleansing-acts-by-carlos-perez/

The above is a link to the trailer for Something in the Basement, one of the plays in the collection.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Award winning plays by Carlos Perez
Nominations they have received

Author: Carlos Perez

Type: One act Plays

Genre: Collection of One act Horror Plays, drama, thriller, sci-fi

Cast: Three of Four Characters in each play

Suitable for: Some are suitable for adults only, some may be performed by older teens as well

Length: 10-15 minutes each play, 75-80 minutes in total

Set: A Bathroom with a bathtub, a living room, an outdoor area by water, a park with a bench

Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – these are situational character based plays, in the genre of horror, thriller and science fiction, which means the characters must be portrayed as normal people in very unusual situations