PLAYS FOR FIVE ACTORS
Plays for five actors, both dramatic and funny.
DRAMA
A Clean Break – sci-fi teen drama
- Cast 4M 1F
- Length 15-20 minutes
Anna, alone – one act drama about a girl dealing with multiple personality disorder
- 4F 1M
- Length 25 minutes
Apparitions – Ghostly drama in one act
- 3M 2F and an offstage voice
- length 30 minutes
Calpurnia’s Misfortune – Ten minute Quirky Comedy
- Cast mains 2M 1F plus up to 5 non speaking extras
- Length 10 minutes
Clear as Clear – a one act cowboy drama
- 5M
- Length one hour
Cold War – American one act drama about the war on fraud by ordinary people
- Cast: 2M, 1F, 2N
- Length 10 minutes
Daughter like you – family drama about coping with the loss of a child
- 2M 3F
- length 2- 2.5 hours
Dislocations – drama about an African American man lost in the wrong place at the wrong time
- 4M 1F
- Length twenty minutes
Dreidel – Jewish children’s plays
- 2M 2F 1M/F
- Length 12-15 minutes
Ejected – two act comedy about a video store
- Cast of 5 4M 1F
- Length 100 minutes
Family exercise – a short one act drama
- 3M 2F
- Fifteen minutes
Fervan Cerato Does Not Exist – political drama set in a dictatorship
- Cast 3M 2F
- length 40 minutes
God’s Madmen – Drama horror about the human condition set in an asylum
- Cast 3M 2F
- Length 75 minutes
Judge Chewout – courtroom comedy skit
- Length 3 minutes
- Cast 5
Lies You Can’t Make up – a drama script about JFK
- Anything from 2 to 8 actors
- Length 2 hours
Little Miss Muffet: The Official Skit
- Cast of 4-5
- Length 1-2 minutes
Losing an Angel – short supernatural drama about demons
- Cast 1M 1F 3N
- Length 15 minutes
On How to Accommodate Marlo’s Frying Pan – one act comedy for a cast of 5
- Cast 2F 3M
- Length 40 minutes
Ooze Monster – Drama about Mental Illness and Unleashing the Monster Within
- Cast 3M 2F
- Length Eighty Minutes
Someone to remember – a one act teen drama
- 2M 2F 1N
- Length 30 minutes
The astounding works of Simon Trout – hilarious teen one act
- Cast 3M 2F
- length 45 minutes
The Baby – period drama about a difficult pregnancy
- Cast 4M 1F
- Length 30-35 minutes
- Cast 4M 1F
- Length 75 minutes
The Easy Lovin’ Blues – award winning drama
- 2M 3F
- Length 75 minutes
The Group Session – play about multiple personality disorder
- Cast 5F or 1M 4F
- Length 10-15 minutes
The Henderson Hall Horror – one act horror script
- Cast 3M 2-3F
- Length 25-30 minutes
The Lads – Drama about Irish Americans – a modern folk tale
- Cast 4M 1 Narrator
- Length 45 minutes
- Length 30 minutes
- Cast 3M 2F
The Mysterious Death of Christine Wilde – who did kill the lovely Christine?
- 4F 1M
- Length 20 minutes
The Play’s the thing – one act about an (almost) perfect murder
- 3M 2F
- Length 30 minutes
The Wilting Press – when a flower represents your encounter with a helpful stranger
- Cast 1M 4N
- Length 20 minutes
War Stories – a 3 act cop drama
- 4M 1F
- Length two hours
The Restaurants are Screaming – award winning period drama play
- 4M 1F
- Length 20-25 minutes
Twenty First Century Stomp – a drama in rap in two acts
- 3M 2F
- Length 2 hours
Ursula – fairytale about a princess who escapes her imprisonment in a castle by turning into a bear
- 3F 2M
- Length 25-30 minutes
COMEDY
343 Union Street – comedy set in Brooklyn
- Cast 4M 1F
- Length 15 minutes
A House of Dolls – script about a crazy man obsessed family
- 4F 1M
- Length ten minutes
Aboard Disorder – Short satire about Mental Disorders
- Cast 4F 1M
- length 5-7 minutes
- Cast 3M 2F
- Length 60 minutes
Bob – a comedy skit in 5 minutes
- 1M 4F
- Length 5 minutes
Corpse. All Inclusive. A Russian comedy about faking your own death
- Cast 3M 1F 1N
- Length 100-120 minutes
Cupid’s Bad day – skit for Valentine’s day
- 2M 3F
- Length 4 minutes
Disharmony commercial – short comedy skit about a dating agency
- 4M 1F
- Length 2 minutes
Don’t Bank on it – one act comedy for 5 actors
- 3F 2M
- Length 30-40 minutes
Don’t Knock – comedy thriller script
- 4M 1F
- Length 25 minutes
Don’t Shrink Me! – one act comedy script
- 3M 2F
- Length 20-25 minutes
DUMPED! – hilarious political satire about Donald Dump (mixed media)
- Cast 2 actors on stage, 3 to 8 on video and numerous unseen voice actors
- Length 60-75 minutes
Empty Places of the Heart – family romantic comedy script about love and moving on
- 3F 2M
- Length 35 minutes
Foreign Therapy – tongue in cheek political comedy script
- Cast of 5 Could be 4M 1F or a mix of 2-3 M and 2-3F
- Length 15-20 minutes
Guilty Party – whodunit three act farce script
- 1M 4F (or 5M)
- Length 1.5- 2 hours
He’s a Nervous Nellie – absurd comedy script
- 3F 2M
- Length 25 minutes
Hell Froze over – comedy script about sports taken a BIT too far
- 4M/F and a variety of callers that can be played by one actor or many
- Length 10 minutes
It’s Never too late! Comedy about coming out of the closet
- Cast 3M 2F
- length 15-20 minutes
Lawyer Skit – short skit set in the courtroom
- Cast 5 – either gender
- Length 1.5 minutes long
Le Shaggy dog – award winning comedy set in wartime France
- 3M 1F 1 narrator
- Length 25-30 minutes
Life of a Salesman – funny play for a cast of 5
- Cast 4M 1F
- length 10 minutes
Lonely heart – one act comedy about a scam
- Cast of 5 4M 1F
- Length 40 minutes
Meeting Meryl – short comedies, theatre of the absurd
- 2M, 3F
- Length 15-20 minutes
- Cast 3M, 2F, however each actor with smaller parts plays multiple parts. In total there are actually 9F 4M parts
- Length 90 minutes
Mom’s Kitchen – comedy set in a restaurant where they treat you like your mother does
- Cast 2M 2F 1N
- Length 10 minutes
- 3F 2M and a moose
- length 2 hours
Murder in the Asylum – absurd whodunit script
- 3M 2F
- Length Twenty minutes
Nietzche’s Nose – comedy about a dysfunctional family
- Cast 4-5M, 1F
- Length four act play
One Fine Day at the Car Dealership – comedy sketch about drivers who think they own the road
- Cast 4M 1F but can easily be anything from 1F 4F
- Length 7-10 minutes
One fine day in the operating room – short medical skit
- 2M 1F 2N
- Length 4 minutes
Read about it – comedy when two middle aged widowed people meet at the bus stop
- 3M 2F
- Length ten minutes
Reverse Psychology – a comedy about being afraid of getting FIRED!
- 3F 2M
- Length 60 minutes
Ribbit – award winning comedy script about believing in fairy tales
- 3F 2M
- Length 2 hours
Sarah wants the moon – one act period comedy scripts
- Cast 2-3M 3F
- Length 30 minutes
Scream – one act apocalyptic suspense thriller
- 3M 2F
- Length 45-50 minutes
- Cast 3M 2F
- Length 10 minutes
Stirred, not Shaken…. – a comedy about fiances, martini’s and dead bodies
- 3M 2F
- Length 35 minutes
Stumped – a British comedy about cricket
- Cast 3F 2M and an optional commentator
- Length 25-35 minutes
Tail End Charlie – family drama about PTSD and mental illness set in post WWII America
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- Cast 4M 1F
- Length 90 minutes
Tea for Terror – dark comedy about the very real terrors of tea addiction
- Cast 3F 2M
- Length 10 minutes
- Cast 4M 1F
- Length 75 minutes
THE Little THINGS – A small COMEDY ABOUT THE HUMAN penis
- Cast 3M 2F
- Length Ten minutes
The Operation – short skit about Siamese (conjoined) twins
- Cast 5 any gender
- Length 1-2 minutes
The Sweet Spot – Physical comedy about mobile/cell phone reception
- Cast 5-6 actors
- Length 7-10 minutes
The Warhol Institute for the Forgotten Famous – comedy about ‘Wannabe A-lister’ group therapy
- Cast 3F 2M
- Length 90 minutes
Threes – a dark comedy set in an obituary office
- Cast 3F 2M
- Length 60 minutes
Wedding Flour – skit about a homophone misunderstanding
- Cast 3M 2F
- Length 3-4 minutes
Who I am – Play for Teenage Girls
- Cast: 5F
- Length: 25-40 minutes
Who..you..me..someone –
funny – the whodunit where someone definitely did it!
- Cast 3M 2F
- Length 20-25 minutes
Woke Coffee – a comedy about being OFFENDED!
- Cast 1M 1F 3N
- Length 7 minutes
You Do Love Me, Don’t You? – a funny but Scary Psycho Thriller in One Act
- 2M 3F
- Thirty Minutes
Plays for five actors.