TWO HANDER SCRIPTS – PLAYS FOR TWO ACTORS

two hander scripts plays for two actors

TWO HANDER SCRIPTS – PLAYS FOR TWO ACTORS

Plays for two actors, plays for a cast of two. Play length varies from short skits to full length plays. We have plays for all male casts, all female casts and also 1M 1F. Have a look!

A Blind Date – a short one act romantic comedy

  • 1M 1F
  • Eighteen minutes long

A Famed Life – ten minute comedy about a personal servant leaving her very needy boss who cannot cope without her!

  • Cast 2F
  • Length 10 minutes

A field of Glory – American Civil War Drama

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 75 minutes

A Gift – ten minute drama play for two male actors

  • 2M
  • Length Ten Minutes

A Likely Story – five minute comedy filler

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 5 minutes

A Mother’s Ransom- Gritty British drama set in the 1960’s

  • 1M 1F 1 voice off stage
  • Length 60 minutes

A Puzzle for two – a philosophical play

  • 2 characters
  • Length 30 minutes

A Saucy Tail – a short punny skit for two

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 3 minutes

A Visit During Covid – comedy about being stuck at home during the Corona virus outbreak

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 15 minutes

A Walk in the Park – five minute romantic drama for seniors

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 5 minutes

Adam and Yoshi – award winning poignant American comedy

  • Cast 1M 1F and 1 offstage voice
  • Length 90 minutes

Alexa. A short funny script for two male actors about an Alexa

  • Cast 2M
  • Length 5 minutes

All there is – British one act drama about a father and son relationship

  • Cast 2M
  • Length 40-45 minutes

Anne then Some – play about teen friendship and love

  • Cast 2F
  • Length 10-15 minutes

ANSWER THE QUESTION! A Comedy about Personal Data

  • Cast 1M 1F but flexible
  • Length 10 minutes

ANYONE can Dance – British award winning romantic drama about Soulmates

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 35 minutes

Becoming Disappeared – short eerie sci fi script for 2M

  • 2M 
  • 8-10 minutes long

Believe – ten minute play scripts about psychic powers

  • 1M 1F
  • Length ten minutes

Benny and Boris – ten minute poignant comedy for two mature actors

  • 2M
  • Length 10 minutes

Black Man – short comedy sketch about race

  • Cast 2M and a few non speaking roles
  • Length 3-5 minutes

Blind Date. A romantic drama about dating – Blindfolded!

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 20 minutes

Blind Date – 20 minute comedy for two actors

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 20 minutes

Blind Date: The Aftermath. When the date’s over, is it really?

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

Boykie and Girlie – a drama about a failing relationship

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 70 minutes

But I’m French – a one act romantic comedy for two actors

  • 1M 1F
  • Length Twelve minutes

By Faith – Christian Skits

  • Cast 2M
  • Length 1.5 minutes

By the Way – comedy about renting a room

  • Length 10 minutes
  • Cast 1M 1F

Call of the riled – short skit for Thanksgiving

  • 2N
  • Length 3-4 minutes

Cash for Christ – dry satire about religion

  • Length just under ten minutes
  • Cast 2M

Chauffeur Driven – Short British drama about a spoiled teenage boy

  • Cast 2M
  • Length 7 minutes

Cheeky – short one act comedy about a butt that’s damn cheeky

  • Cast 2M similar looking
  • Length 10-15 minutes

Chelsea and Me – a short comedy about a cat lady and her lady cat

  • Cast 2F
  • Length 8 minutes

Chicken, airbags and wors – South African comedy scripts

  • 1M (as F) 1F
  • Length 20 minutes

Chicken salad – drama for two women

  • Cast 2F
  • Length 25-30 minutes

Crossword – British award winning play about murder

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 25-30 min

Don’t Tell – a comedy about newlyweds

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 10 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

Family Planning – Two person sketch about planning family reunions

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 5 minutes

Fausto e Mefisto – funny Faust sketch

  • Cast 1-2 actors
  • Length 5-6 minutes

Final Conversations – award nominated short drama about the last morning a son spends on earth

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 30 minutes

First to see the lights go on -drama about postnatal depression

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 35 minutes

Foreign gifts – powerful play for teens/young people about communism and capitalism

  • 2F
  • Length 25-30 minutes

God’s visit – funny script about when you say ‘Oh God,’ and she appears!

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 8 minutes

Ham and Eggs – ten minute melodrama

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

Happy Wife – a drama about newlywed infidelity

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 30 minutes

Hikers – one act for 2M. Where a chance encounter on a mountainside can change the course of your life forever

  • 2M
  • Length 10-15 minutes

Home – romantic one act drama for two actors

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 15 minutes

In the Drink – one act melodrama plays 1M 1F

  • 1M 1F
  • Length fifteen minutes

Insurance on the line – ten minute comedy plays

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

Jars – drama about love between two women

  • Length 10 minutes
  • Cast 2F

Kate the Ultimate and Jane the Invincible:Earth’s Last Inhabitants – Short Superhero Comedy

  • Cast 2F
  • Length 10 minutes

Letters of Love – romantic couple drama – one gets sent to war and these are the letters they write

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 6-7 minutes

Lies You Can’t Make up – a drama script about JFK

  • 1M 1F at minimum
  • Length two hours

Life on the Line – when an old T Shirt’s life is about to end, two shirts hatch a plan to help him escape the line!

  • Cast 2M
  • Length 10 minutes

Lost Property – comedy about Superman, who has lost his clothes

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

Marvin’s Fetish – gay drama for two actors

  • 2M
  • Length 45-60 minutes

Matter Matters – ten minute comedy for two actors

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

Maya from Madurai – a drama about drugs

  • Cast 2M
  • Length 10 minutes

Memory Junk – award winning British drama about the world, Post Covid Pandemic

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 15 minutes 

Merman on the Brink – dark comedy about having a mental breakdown

  • Cast 2M
  • Length 10 minutes

Most Likely to… A Comedy Sketch about Expectations

  • Cast: 2M
  • Length: 5 Minutes

My Child – a short drama about a baby both wanted and unwanted

  • 2F 1 teen 1 adult
  • Length 7 minutes

My Middle Name is Angry – a two-hander comedy in one act

  • Cast: 2F
  • length: Twenty minutes

Naked! A One Act Play about Internet Dating

  • Cast: 1M, 1F
  • Length: 20 minutes

New Life – a Comedy about Reincarnation

  • Cast: 1M 1F
  • Length: 60 Minutes

Nights – funny musical Arabian Nights

  • Cast: 2F
  • Length: One hour long

Not funny, people! Comedy about entering a competetion that you’ll win when you’re dead!

  • Cast: 1M 1F
  • Length: 5-10 minutes

Odin and Christ – short comedy for the non religious

  • Cast: 1M 1F
  • length: 10 minutes

On Golden Wings – play about composer Guiseppe Verdi

  • Cast 2M
  • Length 30 minutes

On Holiday – a Play about Blame and Covid

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

One act play – British award winning one act

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 30 minutes

One Fine Day at the Vet – comedy sketch about a nutty client

  • Cast 1M 1F or 2F
  • Length 8 minutes

Parkside – Short Gay drama for two actors

  • Cast 2M
  • Length 10 minutes

Parturition – a drama about doing just about anything to get a baby

  • Cast 2F
  • Length 30 minutes

Passing – poignant comedy about growing old together

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

Pillow Talk – a dramatic monologue/duologue for 1/2F about abuse and murder

  • Cast 1/2F
  • Length 6 minutes

Ralph – a whodunnit comedy

  • 2M
  • Length 20 minutes

Ratboy – failed superhero comedy script

  • Cast of 2 – either 2M or 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

Repertory Theatre – hilarious two-act comedy about trying to get a play staged

  • Cast 2M (but 3 characters)
  • Length One hour

Rhetorical – one act couple drama

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

Road Rage – award winning tongue in cheek 10 minute comedy

  • Cast: 1M, 1F
  • Ten minutes

Roots and wings – award winning two hander drama for two men

  • Cast: 2M
  • Length 25 minutes

Salesman by day – Two Act British Drama about casual sex

  • Cast: 1M 1F
  • Length: 100 Minutes

Sexbot – a sci fi drama about a young female robot who takes on the identity of a human to defeat an empire

  • Cast: 1M 1F
  • Length 90 minutes

Six days till Sunday – one act play for teens and amdram

  • Cast: 3M 1F
  • Length 30 minutes

So…What do you think of the band? A Collection of ten light hearted short plays for teens and adults

  • Cast 1-3 actors per comedy sketch or 20 (13F 7M) if all plays are produced
  • Length 20-25 minutes in total or 1-3 minutes per sketch

Some Unfinished Chaos – Award winning poignant comedy about the relationship between a failing writer and his protege

  • Cast: 1M 1F
  • Length One hour and forty five minutes

Stag – a two-hander drama script for two men

  • Cast: 2M
  • Length 70 minutes

Stranger Times – play about being made to take a Vacation

  • Cast: 2F
  • Length 7-10 minutes

Stumps – female driven dramatic LGBT play

  • Cast: 2F
  • Length 15-20 minutes

Sunday in the park with Phil – short two person skit about true love – in any form!

  • Cast: 2M
  • length 5 minutes

Surprises – short one act drama for two women

  • Cast: 2F
  • Length 10-15 minutes

Survivors include – one act teen drama about teen suicide

  • Cast: 2M
  • Length 10 minutes

The Appointment – A Comedy about Counseling

  • Cast: 1M 1F
  • Length: 10 Minutes

The Appointment – ten minute comedy about customer service

  • Cast: 2
  • Length: 10 minutes

The associate – short drama script about the effects of infidelity in a marriage for two actors

  • Cast: 1M 1F
  • length: 7 minutes

The Best Day of your Life – a very UNROMANTIC romantic comedy

  • Cast: 1M 1F
  • Length: 90 minutes

The Bowl of Soup – a play about her. She’s leaving him and he’s eating a bowl of soup. Award winner

  • Cast: 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

The Chair – a short one act drama about an unexpected heirloom

  • Cast: 2-4 actors 1M 1F mains (2 offstage/recorded voices 1M 1 F)
  • Length 10 minutes

The Cost of Love is not Immune to Inflation – a Snowman Comedy

  • Cast: 2M
  • Length 10 minutes

The Death of Donald Trump – Contemporary American one act drama

  • Cast: 1M 1F or 2F
  • Length 38 minutes

The Duel – ten minute knightly comedy for two actors

  • Cast: 2M
  • Length 10 minutes

The Eater of Dreams – when your dreams become your reality and your ultimate nightmare

  • Cast: 2M
  • Length 7 minutes

The Encounter – romantic drama for two actors

  • Cast: 1M 1F
  • Length 10-15 minutes

The happy hornbill – play script about spousal abuse

  • Cast: 1F 1 child
  • Length 10 minutes

The Lie – short comedy about lying and then some for two actors

  • Cast: 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

The Life we Lived – British poignant comedy about a love that endures past death

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 60 minutes

The Makeover – comedy about seeing an old flame again

  • Cast: 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

The Mirror – a collection of ten minute plays by an award winning author

  • Cast:  (2 to 4) two to four
  • Length Collection of ten minute plays

The Ship has sailed – ten minute drama about asking her out, way too late

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

The Storyteller – a play about forgetting your anniversary!

  • Cast 1M 1F and one cameo M (if you wish)
  • Length 10 minutes

The Test – comedy about taking a pregnancy test

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 20 minutes

Trump: I’m not a RACIST! skit

  • Cast 2
  • Length 2 minutes

Two Brothers – a two hander one act play

  • 2M
  • Length 15 minutes

Two Cats, no Dogs – award winning ten minute comedy for two actors

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 12 minutes

Two cousins and a Pizza – Italian American ten minute comedy play

  • Cast 2M
  • Length 10 minutes

Two Peas – short comedy sketch about twins

  • Cast 2F
  • Length 4-5 minutes

Uncovered – romantic drama script

  • 1M 1F
  • 25-30 minutes

X’s and O’s – five minute comedy sketch for seniors

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 5 minutes

101 Ways to Dump Someone in Five Minutes

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 5 minutes

Waiting – short romantic comedy about a blind date

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

Waiting – the battle of the sexes in the queue to go to the loo for 1M 1F

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 20-25 minutes

Wall Flower house – a play about conquering agoraphobia

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 20 minutes

What was That? A Comedy about Camping

  • Cast 1M 1F and 1 offstage voice
  • Length 10 minutes

When summer dies of shame – one act drama for three actors

  • 2F 1M (non speaking)
  • Length 20 minutes

Who’s There? A Short play about dementia

  • Cast 2F
  • Length 10 minutes

Wilson – one act dark comedy/drama duologue for 1M 1F

  • 1M 1F
  • length 15-20 minutes

Yasmina, Cloris and Gordafarid – three monologues by women in wars

  • Cast – 1 to 3 women
  • Length 18 minutes in total but 6 minutes per monologue

Ye’ll vote for me – short Irish political skit

  • 2M
  • Length 4 minutes

Yellow Roses – ten minute romantic comedy script for two actors

  • Cast 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

Yoo Hoo, Mister Solomon – ten minute comedy scripts

  • 1M 1F
  • Length 10 minutes

You wanted to see me? Comedy sketch about being late for work

  • 2M or 1M 1F
  • Length Seven minutes

We hope you enjoyed our selection of plays for two actors.

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