PLAYS 25-45 MINUTES: MEDIUM LENGTH ONE ACT PLAYS
Medium length one act plays between 25 and 45 minutes long. If you are searching for a play that is closer to an hour long, please have a look at our hour long plays.
A Castle:Broken Apart drama for a cast of 3
A Cut Above the Rest – Farce in one act
A Less Expendable Husband – one act comedy for three women
A Love, never forgotten – comedy – drama for mature actors set in a retirement home
A Manger Carol – a Nativity Play for kids and teens
A Man’s home – one act American drama
A major for Dixie comedy about running for mayor
A NOT so dark and stormy night! A (Okay, we actually know who did it) Whodunit Melodramatic Comedy
A Payment Unkind – one act about sexual exploitation in the entertainment industry
A Puzzle for two – a philosophical play
A Tale of Two Balconies – modern Romeo and Juliet meet the old versions in this comedy
Agatha the ugly – period drama about friendship
Alan Grimaldi and the 183 – a comedy about finding that you’re dead.
Alien research – funny play for primary school children
Antigone – Greek Tragedy script
ANYONE can Dance – British award winning romantic drama about Soulmates
Apparitions – Ghostly drama in one act about a fateful accident
Ascorbic Acid Freak – dark comedy about HIV in the 1980’s
Attic Antics! Farcical Comedy set in a school
Awaiting patients – comedy for high school festivals
Boy-1 – science fiction play for teens
Breakdown Point – a Very Psychic Comedy
Buckingham’s Palace – a comedy about friends and family for a mostly senior cast
Butterfly Kisses – a drama about a family pushed to the edge by a kidnapping
Call me Stan – a dark comedy about the ‘not so ideal’ boyfriend
Cancelled – an award winning one act farce set in a 1940’s radio studio
Chicken salad – drama for two women
Choice – hard hitting British drama scripts
Conned to DEATH!! A play about a fake psychic medium that goes awry
Crawl to be Kind – A comedy about a Missing Spider
Crossword – British award winning play about murder
Cyborg with Rosie – a robotic sci fi comedy
Dead on Stage – comedy about high school drama club
Death of a Gerbil – award winning one act comedy about waking up to find you’re dead, really.
Dinner at Dario’s – romantic gay comedies
Don’t Bank on it – one act comedy for 5 actors
Empty Places of the Heart – family romantic comedy script about love and moving on
Extra Lessons – a high school one act comedy where the boy kisses the teacher
Exquisite Anxieties – Seven Slivers of Suspense – A Collection of Bone Chilling Short Scripts – Scripts vary from 10-30 minutes
Faith – an abused woman’s story in one act
Falling Together – a Christmas Drama about a family in crisis
Final Conversations – award nominated short drama about the last morning a son spends on earth
First to see the lights go on -drama about postnatal depression
Foreign gifts – powerful play for teens/young people about communism and capitalism
Frida and Diego – play about Frida Kahlo
Friends and Family – teen drama script
Friends Like Us – a Halloween play about an Ouija Board
Getting this close – teen romantic comedy for high school
Goddle – sci-fi comedy scripts
Goon today -Funny fairy tale script for older teens and adults
Happy Wife – a drama about newlywed infidelity
In the Rubble of Paradise – World War 2 Cabaret Musical
Irish Jack – drama comedy about marrying outside your culture
Is this seat taken? Award winning British one act comedy drama
Ivy – children’s play about finding a way home to your family
Jack and the Beanstalk – pantomime!
Jinxed – insane one act comedy script
Joined at the hip – South African comedy scripts
Jumping the league – comedy about a priest who doesn’t want to be
Lady T – one act drama for high school and drama college
Le Shaggy dog – award winning comedy set in wartime France
Lonely heart – one act comedy about a scam
Love is a stranger – British one act about forbidden love
Lovely, dark and deep – one act sci fi drama about a man’s journey to another world
Lovely to look at – comedy about community theatre
Mack to the Past – 30 minutes ‘Shakespeare meets Back to the Future’ comedy for teens
Madrababes – fun filled one act musicals
Mirror – play for younger teens
Molly and the magic phone – musical for children
Moonlight Preludes – spine tingling ghostly drama romance
Myth II – Heroes and Halfwits – a comic look at Greek Mythology
Nana and Paige – poignant comedy about escaping Lockdown
On How to Accommodate Marlo’s Frying Pan – one act comedy for a cast of 5
On The Rebound – Drama romance for the over sixties. Because you’re never too old to fall in love
No Year’s Eve – comedy about the world ending on New Year’s Eve
Nothing personal, just business – funny one act script
Now boarding – one act comedy for 3 women on a plane
On Golden Wings – play about composer Guiseppe Verdi
Once Upon a Term – play for children age 5 to 12
Over my dead Body – award winning funny ghost story about 2 ghosts who won’t be evicted
Parturition – a drama about doing just about anything to get a baby
Prelude to Macbeth – award winning modern Shakespeare play
Road toll – one act drama for 4 actors
Sarah wants the moon – one act period comedy scripts
Save Our Souls – Short Comedy (Suitable for kids and teens) set on board a ship
Say What? Hilarious Adult Comedy about Dating
Second Time’s a Charm – senior romantic drama
Six Accusers – Christian one act plays
Six days till Sunday – one act play for teens and amdram
Someone to remember – a one act teen drama
Squawk – thirty minute comedy about a recurring dream. Or is it an avian nightmare?
Starline 117 – a man is found waiting at the airport for a flight that will never come…
Stirred, not Shaken…. farce in one act with the usual dead body
Stumped – a British comedy about cricket
The 27 Club – one act drama for three women
The Actors – a comedy about the afterlife
The Appointment with God – a one act family drama
The Baby – period drama about a difficult pregnancy
when your spouse dies and you think he’s been having an affair
The Box – one act drama script
The Death of Donald Trump – Contemporary American one act drama
The Fourth Wall – teen one act adventure comedy
The Frankenstein Factory – sci fi drama about letting a murderer go free in a new body
The Girl in the Lavender Glasses – children’s play about being different and magical!
The Gold Locket – family saga about a mysterious romance in the past…
The Henderson Hall Horror – one act horror script
The Last Evening on Earth – a Dystopian Drama Script
The M.A.D. – a comedy about getting out of high school tests, forever!
The Pendragon Sacrifice – award winning play about Merlin and King Arthur
The Pied Piper of Hawaii (Trouble in the wild west)
The Play’s the thing – one act about an (almost) perfect murder
The Poetry Machine – a play for children
The Smith Mountain Hunting Club – when the new guy in your hunting club is not what he seems
The Tell Tale Teacher – Award winning children’s adventure comedy play
The things that happen in New York – drama about a young couple losing their apartment
The three unwise men – spoof nativity play
The Vicar, The Four Thousand Year old Demon and the Cup of Tea
The WAITING……………. room. Character based comedy about a doctor’s waiting room
The Welsh Matchstick – a biography of Johnny Owen’s last fight
The Wish – a comedy about three teenage boys and a somewhat unusual genie
The Wrong side of the Road – teen drama about a fatal accident
Things that go by the Board – Comedy about Home Owner Associations
Thirty Deep – American one act comedy about a taxidermist and an unusual request
This Seat’s Taken – one act romantic comedy about OCD
Three’s a crowd – drama about a love triangle between a girl and two gay guys
Treasured Planet – children’s play about saving the ocean
Uncovered – romantic drama script for 1M 1F
Ursula – fairytale about a princess who escapes her imprisonment in a castle by turning into a bear
Used hearts – romantic drama script
Villains incorporated – award winning Teen one act
Virtual Frenemies – a funny one act about online gaming rivalry
Who Killed Santa? Film Noir Comedy Spoof
You Do Love Me, Don’t You – a Scary Psycho Thriller in One Act
Zombies in the Staffroom – detention has never been so fun. Or so deadly…