PLAYS FOR FOUR ACTORS
A selection of plays for four actors, both comedies and dramas.
DRAMAS
Aldous remembers – a drama about love
- 2M 2F
- Length 80 minutes
Behind the nets – one act 1930’s period drama script
- 3F 1M
- Length 20-25 minutes
Bench Buddies – play script for four mature actors
- Length 10 minutes
- Cast 2M 2F
Butterfly Kisses – a drama about a family pushed to the edge by a kidnapping
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 30 minutes
Dark Matters – a play about the demons of Depression and Mental Health
- Cast 4 actors any gender
- Length 6-8 minutes
Exquisite Anxieties – Seven Slivers of Suspense – A Collection of Bone Chilling Short Scripts
- Cast 1-13 actors depending on the script
- Scripts vary from 10-30 minutes
Eye to Evil Eye – drama about a prison vist to a serial killer
- Cast 2F 1N (and 1 voice)
- Length 20 minutes
Family Play – play about growing up in a dysfunctional family
- Cast 3F 1M
- Length 60 minutes
Friends and Family – teen drama script
- 2M 2F
- Length 25 minutes
Friends Like Us – a Halloween play about an Ouija Board
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 25 minutes
Is this seat taken? Award winning British one act comedy drama
- 2M 2F
- Length 40 minutes
It’s a Good Fang – ten minute dark comedy
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 10 minutes
Lies You Can’t Make up – a drama script about JFK
- Anything from 1M 1F to 8 actors
- Length two hours
Little Miss Muffet: The Official Skit
- Cast of 4-5
- Length 1-2 minutes
Love, Norman – drama about suicide, family and all that comes with it
- Cast 3M, 1F
- Length 90 minutes
Mr Fluffy is missing – short skit about a missing pet
- Cast 3F 1M
- Length Two minutes
One Hot Knight – comedy skit for 4 actors
- Cast of 4
- Length 3 minutes
Pigeons – the story of a potential millionaire in 2 acts
- 2M 2F
- Length 100 minutes
Restaurants at Beautiful times – a one act drama for four actors
- 4M
- Length 15-20 minutes
Road toll – one act drama for 4 actors about a road death
- 2M 2F
- Length 35-40 minutes
Second Time’s a Charm – senior romantic drama
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 40 minutes
Shall we Dance? Award winning short comedy about learning to dance
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 10 minutes
Sindication – one act commentary on modern society that breaks the fourth wall
- Cast 2M 2F plus up to 4 voiced
- Length 15-20 minutes
The Back Seat – drama about college rape
- 2M 2F
- Length 120 minutes
The Box – one act drama script
- 4M
- Length 35-40 minutes
The Chair – a short one act drama about an unexpected heirloom
- 2-4 actors 1M 1F mains (2 offstage/recorded voices 1M 1 F)
- Length 10 minutes
The Comfort of Concrete – one act drama about a missing girl, presumed dead
- Cast 3F 1M
- Length 15 minutes
The Investigation – award winning short drama script
- 2F 1M 1N
- Length 10 minutes
The Mirror – a collection of ten minute plays by an award winning author
- Cast of two to four
- Length Collection of ten minute plays
The Pub Sitters Reunion – Revenge is a Dish best served COLD…
- Cast 3M 1F
- Length 60 minutes
The things that happen in New York – one act drama about a young couple losing their apartment
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 35-40 minutes
The White Feather – British drama about the Great War
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 1 hour
Three months to the day – LGBTQ drama
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 60 minutes
Trailer Trash – a drama for four actors
- 3F 1M
- Length 1 hour
Verbal prostitution – a psychological drama for four actors
- 3F 1M
- Length 80 minutes
COMEDIES
30 silly skits – a month of short skits for kids and teens
- Length 1-4 minutes
- Cast size averages round 4 per skit
A Smart Alec and Two Idiots walk into a Closet – short one act comedy script
- Cast 3M 1F
- Length 10 minutes
A Tale of Two Balconies – modern Romeo and Juliet meet the old versions in this comedy
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 25 minutes
An ordinary man – a comedy about being rather tired of being a werewolf
- 3M 1F
- Length Thirty Minutes
Alma – ten minute comedic character piece for a female actor
- 1F (main) 1M (voice OS) 1M 1F single line in the audience
- Length 10 minutes
Attorney skit – we’ll get what you paid for!
- 4 actors any gender
- Length Two minutes
Barred – short one act for 4 actors
- 2M 2F
- Length 7 minutes
Boy’s Night out – comedy sketch about a super secret high school club
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 7-10 minutes
Call me Stan – a dark comedy about the ‘not so ideal’ boyfriend
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 25 minutes
Calpurnia’s Misfortune – Ten minute Quirky Comedy
- Cast mains 2M 1F plus up to 5 non speaking extras
- Length 10 minutes
Confession Air. A ten minute comedy set on a crashing plane
- Cast 3F 1M
- Length 10 minutes
Cream Gravy Piled River: Satire about cooking shows
- Cast 2M 2F or 3M 1F
- Length 15 minutes
Death of a Gerbil – dark comedy about waking up dead
- 3M 1F
- Length Thirty Minutes
Dinner at Dario’s – romantic gay comedies
- 4M
- Length 35-40 minutes
Down by the River – romantic comedy script
- 2M 2F
- Length
Family Separation – comedy sketch about parents separating..from their kids
- 2M 2F
- Length 7 minute sketch
For never, not always – one act comedy scripts
- 3M 1F
- length 20-25 minutes
Frederick J. Prescott – one act funeral home comedy
- cast 3F 1M
- Length 10 minutes
Hossback – a satire with cowboys in the old west
- 4M (4F)
- Length 10 minutes
Hot air – romantic comedy scripts about bringing excitement (literally) into a marriage
- 2M 2F
- Length 2.5 hours
Human rat Lab – hit comedy script
- 2M 2F
- length 90 minutes
Juleo and Romiet – skit on Romeo and Juliet
- Cast 4 2M 1F 1N
- Length 3 minutes
Learning to Fly – comedy about an unconventional grandma
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 10 minutes
Love in the time of Tourette’s – one act romantic comedy for 4 actors
- 2M 2F
- Length 15 minutes
Man Con. A comedy about Men. Real Men
- Cast 4M
- Length 10 minutes
Mink – comedy about animal rights activists ‘liberating’ a mink farm
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 20 minutes
MarriageSSSS – a comedy about just that
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 100-120 minutes
Moan Alone – A Zombie Comedy!!
- Cast 2M 2FM
- Length 60 minutes
Mom’s Kitchen – comedy set in a restaurant where they treat you like your mother does
- Cast 2M 2F 1N (offstage cook may be played by hostess)
- Length 10 minutes
- Cast 3M 1F
- Length 75 minutes
Nana and Paige – poignant comedy about escaping Lockdown
- Cast 3F 1M
- Length 40 minutes
Nothing to die for – dark comedy drama about affairs, murder and revenge
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 2 hours
Nuns – a two-act satire about rebellious nuns running riot
- 4F
- Length 80 minutes
Out on a date – short romantic comedy
- 2M 2F/1M 3F
- Length 7-10 minutes
Parents – comedy about typical primary school parents
- Cast 2M 2F and an offstage voice
- Length 15 minutes
Pulling off petals -a short drama about waiting for a lost love
- 2M 2F
- Length 15 minutes
- Cast 1M 1F 2N
- Length 10-15 minutes
Say What? Hilarious Adult Comedy about Dating
- Cast 3F 1M
- Length 30-40 minutes
Shapeless – a full length one act satire dealing with eating disorders
- 3F 1M
- Length 90 minutes
Slim Fat Commercial – skit about weight loss fads
- Cast of 4
- Length 2 minutes
Sock Hops, Recorders and Owl Pellets – Tips on Surviving the 4th Grade
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 45 minutes
Sticky – short farcical comedy about a cheating husband
- 2M 2F
- Ten minutes long
Strip me to the bone – a one act sex comedy about a bachelorette party gone wrong
- 4F
- Length 20-25 minutes
Take my wife, please! A funny and farcical sex comedy
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 100 minutes
Temp Work – ten minute comedy about a sleazy boss
- 1M 3F
- Length 10 minutes
The Apartment Sitter – one act comedy for 2M 2F about a missing cat
- Length 15-20 minutes
- Cast 2M 2F
The Banalities – British comedy about philosophy
- Cast 4M
- Length 20 minutes
The Chicken or the Egg – a political satire
- 4M
- Length 15-20 minutes
The Dane – ten minute comedy script about a Hamlet audition
- 4M but can be 3M 1F
- Length 10 minutes
The fence – ten minute comedy about relationships
- 2M 2F
- Length 10 minutes
The First Thanksgiving a short thanksgiving comedy sketch
- Cast 2M 1F plus optional turkeys
- Length 3-4 minutes
The Girl who Didn’t Exist – one act drama for 4 actors
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 15 minutes
The Surprise – a short comedy play about a botched proposal
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 10 minutes
The Wish – a comedy about three teenage boys and a somewhat unusual genie
- cast 4M
- Length 25-30 minutes
Thirds – suburban satire about 3 sisters dividing a house they’ve inherited. Literally.
- Cast 4F
- Length 100 minutes
Thirty Deep – American one act comedy about a taxidermist and an unusual request
- Cast 2M 2F
- Length 40 minutes
Tranquility Disturbed – a comedy drama in two acts
- 3F 1M
- Length 70-80 minutes
Vet Skit – short skit set at the vet
- Cast of 4
- Length 1-2 minutes
Virtual Frenemies – a funny one act about online gaming rivalry
- 2M 2F
- Length 30 minutes
You’re never too old – three act comedy script
- 2M 2F
- Length 1.5 – 2 hours – three act play