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Shady Ladies – situational comedy script

SITUATIONAL COMEDY SCRIPT

SHADY LADIES – SITUATIONAL COMEDY SCRIPT

Jim and Jerry are best buddies. Jim’s a once successful Sitcom writer and Jerry, a Los Angeles Special Forces Police Lieutenant assigned to combat the evils of prostitution which causes him to suffer “anxiety attacks” from the stress in this situational comedy script. The cure? Watching a major sports event on TV with his buddy and a six pack.

Unfortunately for the comedy writer, his buddy could not have chosen a worse time to arrive on his doorstep.  The writer is (he hopes) expecting a very attractive young lady he met on a limo coming in from the airport, who is also a writer and hoping to work her way into script writing.  He extended the invitation to her (presumably) to help her “break into the business”.

Luckily she doesn’t arrive until after Jerry leaves and turns out to be a beautiful, but innocent young woman. They get to chatting about life, Jerry and his little “problem”.  The writer admits that he hasn’t worked in some time due to writer’s block as he’s waiting for the inspiration for a new series. The woman suggests to Jim that a sit com based on his friend’s profession busting prostitution rings in L.A., could be hilarious.

The two friends take the idea on board and soon the series is written and they see themselves on the road to riches and fame. Inflated by his success, Jim shares the script with his young protege, as a lesson in professional script writing, only to find that she vanishes, along with his script.

But who exactly was she and have they been duped all along?

Other farcical comedies by playwright Jean Blasiar – Sticky – a cheating husband gets caught out!

Author: Jean Blasiar

Type: Two-act play

Genre: Comedy

Cast: 4M, 3F

Ages of the actors: All adult

Suitable for: PG 12 – mentions of call girls and their activities

Set: The upscale two bedroom home of Jim Balsac, once successful television scriptwriter; living room complete with bar, sofa (facing audience; back to front door of apartment), comfortable chairs (facing each other), stereo, liquor cabinet, sculptures, arty type cocktail table, lamp and end tables; round table with laptop and two straight back chairs, upstage left; modern art on every wall, large window with view back stage center; one bedroom and bath stage left with door, other bedroom and bath stage right through an archway and hall.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – farcical paranoia

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Cost is $6.50 for this play with a staged reading

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Copyright © May 2019 Jean Blasiar and Off the Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other farcical full length comedies you may enjoy:

Take my Wife, please – two act comedy script
The Rat Trap – large cast comedy about a dying man, his pots of money and his final wish

Waiting… Ten Minute Short Romantic Play

SHORT ROMANTIC PLAY

WAITING… TEN MINUTE SHORT ROMANTIC PLAY

He’s going on a blind date. To the library of all places? She’s told him very little about herself, just that she’s interested in art, books, museums, and classical music. He has no idea what she looks like at all. So when he tentatively approaches a woman reading and mentions that he is on a blind date and waiting for someone, they get into a conversation. She helpfully points out that although he thinks he’s good looking, he really could dress better to impress this girl. He replies he just wants a girl without a nose ring he could take home to meet his mother. Various women entering the library are examined to see if they could be the woman he is waiting for. In the end – who does it turn out to be?

Waiting… was chosen for the Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase September 2017.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Type: Ten minute play, one act

Genre: Romantic comedy

Cast: 1M, 1F

Ages of the actors: Adult young to young middle aged

Suitable for: Teens up to perform and all ages to watch

Length: Ten minutes

Set: A desk at the local library

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – lines flow well, easy conversation. Staging and movement.

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Copyright © January 2019 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other romantic plays for you to enjoy:

A Blind Date – one act comedy about two misfits trying to go on a blind date
Chatter – one act comedy about a case of mistaken identity
Down by the River – short romantic comedy. With twins!

The Makeover – Ten Minute Comedy Play about an old flame

ten minute comedy play

THE MAKEOVER – ROMANTIC TEN MINUTE COMEDY PLAY ABOUT AN OLD FLAME

Although the years have passed, Doug has always retained a passion for Judy, his old high school flame. Although far from perfect in her own eyes, in Doug’s eyes Judy was the epitome of perfection from the tips of her chubby toes, past her cuddly waist to her pug nose. And today she’s back in town with Doug anxiously waiting for a chance to meet up with his old flame. Who knows what could happen? Maybe this time he’ll take the chances he didn’t last time…
But when ‘Judith’, a willowy vision, walks through the door, Doug just doesn’t know what to say.. Or do! Ten minute comedy play script about an old flame.

Read other plays – The Mirror – a collection of Ten Minute Plays by American playwright Jean Blasiar.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Mercy High School, MI, USA – 2020

 

Author: Jean Blasiar

Type: Ten minute comedy script

Genre: Romantic comedy script

Cast: 1M 1F

Ages of the actors: Twenties to Thirties

Suitable for: All ages to watch and adults to perform

Length: Ten Minutes

Set: Doug’s bachelor apartment

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – a simple easy to perform fun script

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Copyright © September 2018 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other fun ten minute comedies for two actors:

Down by the River – ten minute comedy script
Matter Matters – ten minute comedy set on a biplane
Yoo Hoo, Mister Solomon – romantic comedy for an older couple

The audition – funny short play for a cast of three about an audition

short comedy for 3 people

THE AUDITION – FUNNY SHORT PLAY FOR A CAST OF THREE – ABOUT AN AUDITION

It’s always nerve wracking going to audition for a part in a play. Getting the words right, coming across the way you think the directors want you to come across. And when they simply look bored, its ten times worse. So when Misty arrives at her audition and they give her just ten minutes to prepare, she wants to scream. Until she finds out she has to. Scream, that is. Scream as though her audition depended on it. It does. A funny short play for a cast of three.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Ham Sandwich Theatre, MB, Canada – 2018
Offbroadway childrens theatre – GA, USA – 2019
Landon School, MD, USA – 2021
Micro Theatre on Broadway, PA, USA – 2023

Read about playwright Jean Blasiar. Other plays – Sticky – a short farcical comedy about a cheating husband by Jean Blasiar.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Genre: Comedy, sketch

Type: Funny short play for a cast of three

Cast: 2F, 1M

Ages of the actors: Two middle aged, one in her twenties

Suitable for: All ages to watch and teens up to perform

Length: 5-7 minutes

Set: Six folding chairs are in the back of the room. On a desk, stage right, is a pile of “sides” for the audition. A sign above the “sides” says, “Take one.”

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – a good pair of lungs

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Copyright © May 2018 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other plays about auditions you may also enjoy:

Gorgeous – a one act comedy about the worst audition in the world
Bob – minute comedy sketch about a slightly retarded man going for an audition. Or is he??
Matter Matters – two writers in a biplane trying to come up with script ideas

Bertie – One act play for a cast of Three

one act play for a cast of three

BERTIE – ONE ACT PLAY FOR A CAST OF THREE

Marcia Jameson, divorcee has put up an advert for a room mate in her local paper. What she’s looking for is company – someone to go shopping with, to the theatre with and generally be a friend. When she receives an answer to her ad, she’s happy but quickly a bit put out to find that her prospective tenant is in fact an older man in his fifties called Bertie. Despite Bertie’s assurances that they’ll get on like a house on fire, she’s hesitant to accept him initially and then decides to give him a chance in this one act play for a cast of three.

Bertie quickly moves in and makes himself at home. A little too quickly, perhaps, but then he does come with impeccable references. Marcia’s best friend, Shelly is at first surprised, then suspicious, but when Bertie wins her over by promising to invite a famous friend who is well known in the art circles to Shelly’s exhibition, she welcomes him with open arms.

Bertie is everything Marcia needs and more. Helpfully cooking for her when she’s late at work, mixing her drinks, clearing out her garage within a day of moving in. He’s too good to be true.

Or is he…..?

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Norfolk State University, VA, USA – 2021
Saint Leo University, FL, USA – 2021
Pittsburg State University, KS, USA – 2021

Read about playwright Jean Blasiar. Read other suspense thrillers by Jean – Scream – one act apocalyptic suspense thriller.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Genre: Thriller, drama

Type: One act play

Cast: Three – 2F, 1M

Ages of the actors: Both women late thirties, Bertie in his fifties

Suitable for: Adult actors, could be played by an older cast. Whole family can watch it.

Length: Twenty minutes

Set: The home of Marcia Jameson. Actual room not noted, likely a living room but can be at director’s discretion.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – building just a slight sense of unease throughout the play.

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Copyright © March 2018 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other thrillers for you to enjoy:

Don’t Knock – comedy thriller script about a guy holding a burglar hostage in his apartment
The Promise – drama thriller about an ordinary man and his sick wife. Or is she?
No ordinary man – an interview with a serial killer whose ulterior motives end up costing the detective dearly

A likely story – five minute comedy filler

five minute comedy filler

A LIKELY STORY – FIVE MINUTE COMEDY FILLER SKETCH

In this five minute comedy filler, Miss Hastings is summoned to the manager’s office after a series of unfortunate events starting with the purchase of twelve expensive cashmere sweaters with tiny buttons. Now the very same twelve expensive cashmere sweaters with tiny buttons result in a chain of events leading to amoungst other things a colleague copping a feel of Miss Hasting’s breast, a large spider, a sexual harassment suit and a run on the store with a mass return of the same cashmere sweaters.

Now what has Miss Hastings to say for herself?

PRODUCTION HISTORYIndependent Production, Naples, FL, USA – 2018

Read about playwright Jean Blasiar. Other short comedy plays – “Read about it” by Jean.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Type: Five minute comedy thriller, one act, comedy sketch

Genre: Comedy, sketch

Cast: 1M 1F

Ages of the actors: M – 40’s, F 20-30’s

Suitable for: All ages to watch and adults up to perform

Length: Five minutes

Set: A desk and chair and a carpet in front of it. A typical office

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – comedic reactions

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Copyright © December 2017 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other comedy sketches and fillers:

Hell Froze Over – one act comedy sketch about sports
Would you let me finish? Skit for two women
The Duel – Ten Minute Comedy Sketch

The mirror – a collection of ten minute plays

collection of ten minute plays

THE MIRROR – A COLLECTION OF TEN MINUTE PLAYS

Intended as an evening of dinner theatre or for a charity performance, this collection of ten minute plays combines six stories which are linked by a common theme: A mirror. Old, tarnished and apparently priceless. We follow the journey of the mirror through the evening. From the burglary where the burglar steals it for his wife, to the thrift shop where the wife (who never really liked it anyway) dumped it, to the purchase of the mirror by a rich old lady, certain of its value and antiquity. The old lady passes away and then the mirror gets bought from her estate by a young girl. We then see the mirror in the girl’s apartment, in a shop front window at a travel agent and finally getting sold by two homeless people who are convinced they’ve just pulled off the biggest scam of their lives.

Bar the short introductory piece, each play stands well on its own. rare collection by best selling and award winning American playwright Jean Blasiar. This play is available both in digital and printed format.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Johnson High School, TX, USA – 2022 – THE PLAY ‘MOVING ON’

Read about playwright Jean Blasiar. Other plays by Jean – Sticky – ten minute farcical comedy about a cheating spouse

Author: Jean Blasiar

Type: Collection of ten minute plays

Genre: Comedy

Length: In total around sixty minutes. The introduction is about 4-5 minutes long and the remainder of the plays are approximately ten minute each.

Cast:

Robbery: 2M
Thrift Store: 2F (1M non speaking)
Moving On: 1M 1F
Am I Good: 2F 1M
Read about it: 3M 2F
The Intruder: 1M 2F

Ages of the actors:

Robbery: Adult
Thrift store: 2 middle aged, 1 middle aged to older
Moving On: 1 young F, 1 young M
Am I Good: 1 middle aged, 1 young woman, 1 teenage boy
Read about it: 2 older M and F, 1 younger M and F, 1 older M
The intruder: 1 young F, 2 older M and F

Suitable for: All ages

Set: There are small scene changes between each play. The sets are a follows: The interior of a house at night, a thrift store, an apartment (empty), an apartment (normal), outside a travel agents and the deck of a ship, anywhere outside.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – the plays are fun and easy to perform and are well written. Take care not to over complicate sets or scene changes could make the evening longer.

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Copyright © October 2017 Jean Blasiar and Off the Wall Play Publishers

Like this anthology? Read other plays from anthologies and full anthologies:

Art Talk – comedy sketch for three actors
The Dark Chronicles of the Golden Raven Society – horror anthology
But I’m French – comedy for 1M 1F from “Ugly Art”

Sticky – ten minute farcical comedy

ten minute farcical comedy

STICKY – TEN MINUTE FARCICAL COMEDY

In this ten minute farcical comedy, Phil is cheating on his wife with a gorgeous blonde who he is meeting in a local restaurant. He has also just gotten a big promotion at work, which may be due to the fact that his wife is also the boss’s daughter. When Phil goes over to greet a work colleague, Jim (who is out with his own wife celebrating their anniversary) before meeting his yummy blonde and the boss walks in, Phil has to improvise, and fast. So he chooses the traditional route. Under the table.

Sticky was chosen as one of eight plays to be produced at the King’s Short festival of One act plays in Nova Scotia on June 16, 17 and 18 2017.

Read about award winning playwright Jean Blasiar. Other ten minute fun one acts – The Intruder by Jean.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Type: One act play, ten minute plays

Genre: Ten minute farcical comedy

Length: Ten minutes

Cast: Spoken parts: Four 2M 2F. Non spoken parts can include waiters who carry the table, the boss, his wife and the blonde, and other diners, but at the director’s discretion.

Ages of the actors: Adult

Suitable for: All ages to watch, adults to perform.

Set: A restaurant. Minimum: One small table with white tablecloth to the floor, two chairs.

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – fun easy play for the actors and the audience.

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Like this play? Other ten minute comedies:

A Famed Life – comedy about a servant leaving her impossible boss who won’t let her go
Matter Matters – off kilter comedy about two writers trying to find inspiration in the skies
Hell Froze over – what happens in the world of sports when hell actually does freeze over

The Outlaws – comedy about THE IN LAWS

comedy about the in laws

THE OUTLAWS – COMEDY ABOUT THE

IN LAWS

When good in laws go bad, it gets ugly!

Meet Jill and Michael; an average young couple who plan to get married soon – next month to be precise…but not if Jill’s father Dick and her grandfather Henry can stop it. You see they are not too
fond of Michael. They are not too sure what it is they don’t like about him, perhaps his soon-to-be profession (you see dear Michael’s studying theology) or maybe it’s his bishop for a father, Tom,
and/or his equally bishop-y wife, Connie. In two acts, Henry and Dick are dead set on taking this marriage down and soon enough, Tom ends up joining forces with them. With their wives Beth,
Emily and Connie caught in the middle, every single parental figure in this comedy about the in laws is taught a lesson they should very well know by now: young love, it cannot be stopped.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Fond du Lac Community Theatre, WI, USA – 2021

 

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Other comedies – The Heirs – British comedy script by Jean.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Type: Two-act play

Genre:  Comedy about the in laws, comedy about religious in laws

Cast: Main Characters: 4 – M, 4 – F

Ages of the actors: Adult, 2 young, 4 middle aged, 2 older

Length: One hour

Suitable for: All ages

Set: A living room/den, kitchen and a patio. 

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – character based and situational comedy

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Copyright © May 2017 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other one hour comedies we think you’d really enjoy:

The Mayhem Motel – two act American farce
Nights – comedy musical Arabian Nights
I should tell you – comedy in two acts

A Gift – ten minute play for two actors

ten minute play for two actors

A GIFT – TEN MINUTE PLAY FOR TWO ACTORS

Two young men meet on a train in this ten minute play for two actors. One is an earnest young man on his way to propose to his girlfriend, the other is a cynical loner who advises the first to escape marriage while he can. The advice falls on deaf ears and the earnest young man goes on his way leaving the loner with a delightful twist in his tale in this comedy-drama.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Léman Manhattan Preparatory School, NY, USA – 2020

 

Read about renowned playwright Jean Blasiar. Other plays by Jean: Yoo Hoo Mister Solomon – Ten minute Jewish comedy for an older couple.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Type: One act, short one acts, ten minute plays

Genre: Comedy-drama, dramatic comedy

Cast: 2M

Ages of the actors: Approximately 30-40 years of age

Suitable for: All ages

Length: Ten minutes

Set: Simple – two chairs facing each other and a window to represent the cabin on a train.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – static if both actors sit for the entire play

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Copyright © December 2016 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other ten minute plays for a cast of two actors:

But I’m French – ten minute romantic comedy
Hikers – sci fi play about a chance encounter on a hillside that can change your life forever
Road Rage – ten minute sharpish comedy play

 

The Intruder – script about homeless people

script about homeless people

THE INTRUDER – SCRIPT ABOUT HOMELESS PEOPLE

Comedy script for three actors in which two homeless people outwit a young student journalist who is patronizingly trying to interview them for her studies. Cleo and Caesar are long dwellers in their home, the local park and are in the ”import export business,” as they put it – they find junk and sell it as antiques. When a young journalist arrives with a blanket, coffee and some breakfast bars in order to ‘interview them about their lives,’ the two are rude at first, and then decide to have a little fun with her.

Other full length comedies by Jean (The Heirs – three act comedy about the bizarre last wishes of a dead old lady. Read about playwright Jean Blasiar.

Performance History

Annapolis Area Christian School, USA – 2016
American International College. MA, USA – 2018
Goshen College, IN, USA – 2019

Author: Jean Blasiar

Type: One act comedy script

Genre: Comedy script about homeless people

Length: Ten minutes

Cast: Three actors – 1M 2F

Ages of the actors: One around twenty years, the others undetermined but may be slightly older

Suitable for: All ages

Set: Some sleeping bags and a shopping trolley with a mirror and other junk in it.

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – short easy play for three actors

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Copyright © July 2016 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other ten minute comedies for three actors:

A Beatle’s Story – play about the Beatles and how they formed
Thank you for shopping Hocchum’s bargain basement – comedy thriller script
The love of cheesecake – adult comedy in one act about a couple trying to rekindle their sex life

 

The Heirs – British comedy script

British comedy script

THE HEIRS – BRITISH COMEDY SCRIPT

Margaret Hubbard is rich; painfully and decadently rich. Mrs. Hubbard is also dead and according to her will she is determined to drive her husband crazy (one last, exquisite time) with a to-do list that would have him claim the will’s contents only upon the doings on the list being completed. In fact, the rest of those on the receiving end of said will (who are interestingly enough mostly Hubbard
Manors’ staff) may only receive their inheritance should Mr. Hubbard succeed. This is a story we have seen time and again: what adversity can teach the hero about themselves, when they commit to taking on the challenge and the tricky consequences thereof. It’s a story about our hero, Jeremy Hubbard, husband to a recently deceased dragon and how he endeavours to fulfil his destiny and
claim what is ‘rightfully’ his – a temptingly sumptuous inheritance, of course. Our hero faces the dragon beyond the grave with the help of the staff and the fire-breathing lizard’s lawyer. And the
lesson? It begins and ends as the story does; with insatiability.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Wabash Area Community Theatre, IN, USA – 2017

Read about playwright Jean Blasiar.  Other comedies (Am I good?) by Jean.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Genre: British Comedy Script

Type: Four act play

Cast: 2F 4M (mains)

Ages of the actors: Adult – all ages

Suitable for: All ages

Length: Two and a half to three hours

Set: A room with a high ceiling and one large window without curtains. A coffin stands in the room. The coffin is then removed at the scene change to make way for a coffee table with chairs, some bookshelves and decorations such as potted plants.

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – length. With four acts it is up to the director’s discretion if they allow interval between acts, however this play has had a successful run.

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Copyright © March 2016 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other full length zany and British comedies:

Holiday island – comedy about a bunch of typical British holiday makers
Murder and other fun things – off the wall whodunit
Don’t say you’re Harry – farce in two acts

Gray Matters – short funny monologue

short funny monologue

GRAY MATTERS – SHORT FUNNY MONOLOGUE FOR A MALE ACTOR

In this short funny monologue written for a single male actor, the headquarters of THE BRAIN are occupied by a single young man, all dressed in gray, whose job it is to guide a typical young guy’s BODY through his days and nights. The young man, of course, is all knowing (and a know it all!) and takes his job very seriously from reminding him how many brain cells he has just lost with his recent alcohol binge to the name of the girl he met the other day. All in a day’s work for a busy know it all brain! A funny monologue idea for high school or college drama class.

Read more about playwright Jean Blasiar. Other funny plays by Jean.

Author: Jean Blasiar

Genre: Comedy, monologue

Type: Short funny monologue

Length: 5-10 minutes depending on how fast it is performed

Cast: 1M (could possibly be played by a female actor as well)

Age of the actor: A young man

Set: A young man is sitting in a desk chair with rolling casters behind a semi circular desk. He is dressed all in gray and wearing earphones and a mouthpiece. Beside him is a monitoring device similar to the heart/blood pressure gauge machines on wheels in hospital rooms. On the desk is a laptop, a calculator and an answering machine. On the wall behind him is a calendar.

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – the set will need a few minutes to set up

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Like this play? Other monologues for you to consider:

Finding my Root – a South African long dramatic monologue for a female actor
The Any key – longer drama monologue for a male actor
Guy meets girl – romantic funny monologue about dating

Scream – one act suspense thriller

one act thriller

SCREAM – ONE ACT SUSPENSE THRILLER

The power is out as Mary Jones enters her kitchen early one morning to prepare breakfast.  She and her husband will discover from their neighbors that what looks like a meteor shower has not only knocked out all electricity but batteries as well as cars and all electrical items.

How long this blackout will last is one of many terrifying realizations as the neighbors try to go about the task of maintaining order (protecting the neighborhood) and taking care of daily necessities (how will they cook, how long before the freezer contents go bad, how extensive is this power disabling celestial occurrence, what about the children away at school, what about world peace).

Doug Jones, seeking that all elusive Pulitizer winning story realizes that this is a golden opportunity.

There is nothing normal about the next few hours as the neighbors try to plan ahead.  The women are quick to want to share what they have with the others on the street; the men cautious about survival.

Herb Smith, the self appointed policeman, envisions robbers from a nearby housing complex about to descend upon them.  As he readies his guns to secure his property as well as his neighbors, a young man who has escaped from a gang related incident in the housing complex is desperately seeking a place to hide.  Mary Smith, alone and frightened, is his victim.

The true traits of the neighbors (Mary, Doug, Sally and Herb) not only come to the fore in this crisis but determine who will survive and who will not.

SCREAM was a finalist in the Tennessee Williams One Act Play Competition in 2014.

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

University of Urbana, OH, USA – 2017

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Author: Jean Blasiar

Genre: Suspense thriller play script

Type: One act play

Cast: 3M 2F actors

Ages of the actors: Four middle aged to older and one teenage boy

Suitable for: PG 8

Length: 45-50 minutes

Set: Home of Mary and Doug Jones, specifically the kitchen/office.
Office is set up with a FAX, computer, monitor, wireless phone, (2) lap tops, a partner’s desk, chairs with knee holes facing each other
Kitchen is very modern, all electric: stove, ovens, dishwasher, microwave, coffee pot, toaster. Small color TV on counter
Small round table and four chairs
Door stage left to rest of house
Door upstage center to driveway with window, top half
Window over sink looking out onto the driveway and house next door.

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – building up to the climax in this suspense thriller

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Like this play? Other suspense thrillers in stock:

Becoming disappeared – short eerie sci fi script
Victims of the forest – medieval scary plays
The Dark Chronicles of the Golden Raven Society – ghost story script

 

Read About It – ten minute comedy scripts -when a middle aged couple meet at a bus stop

ten minute comedy scripts

READ ABOUT IT -TEN MINUTE COMEDY SCRIPTS

Sweet romantic comedy about two middle aged widowed people who meet at a bus stop.  Herb is minding his business at the local bus stop, when he is interrupted by Hilda, who strikes up a conversation, much against Herb’s will.  Hilda notices things. For example, she notices the mirror  in the window of the local travel agents is a trick mirror, making people look thinner than they are and showing them on holiday, enjoying themselves.

She also notices that Herb is a recent widower which is great as she is a widow!

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Kenai Players, AR, USA – 2019
Johnson High School, TX, USA – 2022

Other one act comedies (Am I good?) by Jean Blasiar

Author:Jean Blasiar  

Type: Ten minute comedy play script

Genre: One act play

Cast: Cast of 5 actors 3M 2F

Ages of the actors: Cast two young, two middle aged, one older actor

Suitable for: Suitable for all ages

Set: Bus stop and the deck of a ship.

Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – nice fun play with easy dialogue. Character driven.

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Copyright © September 2015 Jean Blasiar and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other one act comedy plays for you!

Yoo Hoo, Mister Solomon – ten minute comedy scripts
A Blind Date – two misfits meet each other for a blind date!
For never, not always – comedy script about that guy who actually speaks up at your wedding