In this one act drama script, a large box becomes the centre of attention at a bus stop. Who owns it? What is inside? The curiosity of the people waiting at the bus stop unfortunately leads to the death of an unbalanced man, who has threatened the two other characters in the play. The Box is a challenging play for the performers and an intriguing one for audiences.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Noble High School, ME, USA – 2019 North Catholic HS, PA, USA – 2022
When Connie Lattimore goes for an interview for the Hostess Position at one of the city’s up and coming restaurants, she discovers that she was at high school with the man who owns the restaurant chain. Times have changed and Connie, who was once a cheerleader and the most popular girl in school is looking for employment with the very man, Lonnie who once idolized her back in high school. However, Lonnie hasn’t let go of the past at all. In exchange for money, Connie allows him an hour of her time to talk about the past. But instead she finds that Lonnie is hell bent on humiliating her. A tense drama for four actors in which the power shifts continually throughout the play.
Author: Mick O’Brien
Genre: Psychological drama plays
Type: Full length one act play
Length: Eighty minutes
Number of Actors: Four – two main parts, 1M, 1F and two small F roles. Male role unattractive, all three F roles attractive.
Ages of the actors: Main roles late thirties 30’s, other two F twenties to early thirties
Suitable for: Adults only
Set: An office, nicely furnished.
Level of Difficulty: 8/10 – quite wordy and tension must be taken up and down with two characters on stage only.
ANNA ALONE – a one act drama script about a girl dealing with multiple personality disorder
Set in a psychologist’s office, Anna alone is a drama about a girl who has multiple personality disorder caused by physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her mother. The play deals with her confronting the issue of her mother’s death so that she can come to terms with who she is.
All the different ‘sides’ of Anna’s personality can be played by various different actresses – the interplay between them is the fascinating part of this one act drama script.
Anna alone performance history:
The Roial players, USA, 2016 Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland,2016 Cedar Falls High School, USA, 2017 The Gregory School, AZ, USA, 2017 Lakewood High School, FL, USA, 2017 Pearland High School, TX, USA – 2018 Holy Rosary School, Edenvale, South Africa – 2018 Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa – 2018 Independent Production, Victoria, Australia – 2018 John Hopkins Middle School, FL, USA – 2018 LA Matheson Secondary, British Columbia, Canada – 2018 Wilson High School, PA, USA – 2019 Santa Barbara City College Theatre Arts Dept., CA, USA – 2019 West Delaware Schools, IA, USA – 2020 Westville Theatre, KZN, South Africa – 2020 Alabama State University, AL, USA – 2020 St Francis de Sales College, South Australia, Australia – 2020 Crystal River High School, FL, USA – 2020 Cabaret Theatre at Rutgers University, NJ, USA – 2021 Erie High School, CO, USA – 2022 Magnet Academy for Cultural Arts Theatre Department, LA, USA – 2022 Friends University, KS, USA – 2022
St. Roch Catholic Secondary School, ON, Canada – 2022
H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program, VA, USA – 2022
Author: Cat Coxon
Genre: Drama
Type: One 1 act play
Length of Play: Twenty to twenty five minutes
Characters: 4F 1M
Ages of actors: 1 middle aged M, 2 young (teens to twenties), 2 any age.
Suitable for: 12 up
Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – keeping the tension
Set: Simple – a psychologist’s office with a couch big enough for 3 people and a desk and chair for the doctor.
