PLAYS FOR FIVE ACTORS

PLAYS FOR FIVE ACTORS

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

The Captain of a Creative Ship – psychological dramedy about an audition and what lengths people will go to for a part

  • 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

The Last Voyage of the Albatross – ghost story about an ill fated ship based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe

  • 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

Becoming Strangers – a lonely cabin in the woods and three very ‘helpful’ strangers? A dark comedy about not knowing people, really

  • 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

Genealogy (Digital script) – comedy about DNA testing

  • Cast of 5 (2F 3M)
  • Length 80 minutes

Genealogy (Printed book) – a comedy about DNA and family heritage!

  • Cast of 5 (2F 3M)
  • Length 80 minutes

Guilty Party – whodunit three act farce script

  • Cast:1M 4F (or 5M)
  • Length 1.5- 2 hours

Grudges – An American Political Satire

  • Cast:  3M 2F
  • Length: 90 Minutes

Grudges – An American Political Satire (PRINT BOOK)

  • Cast:  3M 2F
  • Length: 90 Minutes

He’s a Nervous Nellie – absurd comedy script

  • Cast: 3F 2M
  • Length 25 minutes

Hell Froze over – comedy script about sports taken a BIT too far

  • Cast: 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

Keeping Right. The New, mostly fake, Swedish Screwball Comedy (Digital Script)

  • Cast 3M 2F
  • Length 90 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

  • Cast: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

  • Cast:2M, 3F
  • Length 15-20 minutes

Mom’s Kitchen – comedy set in a restaurant where they treat you like your mother does

  • Cast 2M 2F 1N
  • Length 10 minutes

Moose Tracks – a dark comedy about a series of missing boyfriends. And a fly, sorry moose on the wall…

  • 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

She’s a Pill – ten minute dark comedy about a thirteen year old who tries to kill her mom’s boyfriend

  • 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

    • 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

The Captain of a Creative Ship – psychological dramedy about an audition and what lengths people will go to for a part

  • Cast 4M 1F
  • Length 75 minutes

THE Little THINGS – A small COMEDY ABOUT THE HUMAN penis

  • Cast 3M 2F
  • Length Ten minutes

The Oracle (Digital) – dark comedy about office politics and the office GOD

  • Cast 3M 2F
  • Length 110 minutes

The Oracle (PRINT) – dark comedy about office politics and the office GOD

  • Cast 3M 2F
  • Length 110 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 can try it – comedy about a maybe murder, a seance and getting married

  • 3M 2F
  • Length 30 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.

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