THE GAME OF LIFE – ONE ACT COMEDY PLAYS FOR 6 ACTORS
It’s the game of life. And there are rules. First, you need to get a job. Then you need to find a girl, get married and procreate. It’s also important to apologize to the girl when she’s wrong. It’s actually fundamental. If you get this all right, then you’ll have played the game of life and if you’re lucky, you’ll win! But when Milton tries to start the game of life at the local bus stop, it doesn’t go as well as he had planned…
Production History
Grayslake North High School, IL, USA – 2016
Vista Grande High School, NM, USA – 2017
The Roial Players, Michigan State University, MI, USA – 2017
Author: Christopher M. Connors
Genre: Comedy for festival or high school competition
Type: One act comedy plays
Cast: Cast of Six 4M 2F
Suitable for: Script Suitable for All ages
Length: Script twenty minutes long
Set: A bus stop. Simple set – a bench is all that is needed
Level of difficulty: 6/10 – easy play for actors of all ages.
In this award winning romantic comedy script, a man and a woman find themselves at an art gallery, viewing a red (very red) painting. They get chatting to each other and, superimposed on their ‘chit chat’ are their thoughts – that they really and truly like each other and wish that the other would like them back. Their personal thoughts also intrude on what they’re trying to say to each other which leads to the sort of stuttering that happens when people are trying to impress each other. A lovely, funny two-hander script for one man and one woman of any age.
…was produced in the United Kingdom in 2016 … won second place in the 2003 Porter Fleming Writing Competition sponsored by the Greater Augusta (GA) Arts Council. … selected for the 2002 Second Annual Pregnant Chad New Plays Festival, Stormy Weather Players in New Windsor, NY. … was selected for the 2001 StageRight Production’s Off-Off Broadway one-act play festival. … awarded “Best Play” in the 1999 Turnip Theatre Company 15-Minute Play Competition, New York City. … was selected for the 1999 Theatre Charlotte (Charlotte, NC) One-Act Series. … was selected for the 1999 New Play Festival at Converse College, Spartanburg, SC.
The Old Nick theatre, Gainsborough, UK – 2019
American School of Dubai – Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 2020
Nirak Films, Warwichshire, UK – 2020
Two Cat, No Dogs! is one of a series of short plays collectively known as “Ugly Art.”
REVIEWS:
Redditch Advertiser, Worcesterhire, England Produced by Mouthpiece Theatre, Worcestershire, England 2004 “Putting on a theatre performance is always a risky business. You don’t know whether the audience will turn off the telly and risk the chance of a waster evening. Mouthpiece Productions remedies this by taking theatre to the people. And if has certainly deliver the goods with its latest festival offering – Ugly Art… The show was a treat – a performance of this quality is worth traveling to watch. The show was light accessible and above all, very entertaining.
Sumter Item, Sumter, South Carolina Produced by Urban Theater of Sumter 2004 “Three large canvases (blue, yellow and green) one bench and a small table displaying several wine glasses set the stage for “Ugly Art,” written by last year’s South Carolina playwright’s winner Terry Roueche… The play itself is sophisticated dialogue, evoking laughter through seven vignettes that explore a variety of topics – marriage, control, snobbery, fidelity and artistic talk…
Author: Terry Roueche
Genre: Ten minute romantic plays, romantic comedy
Type: Short one act plays
Length: Ten minutes
Number of actors: Two, 2, 1M 1F.
Ages of the actors: Any adult age
Suitable for: All ages
Set: Simple black box set with a single red painting
Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – a nice two hander play for 1F 1M
If God Ate Fried Chicken is the story of Father Seacrest and Sister Blanche, secretly out on a date together to a chicken joint. Little do they know that fate has other plans for them, as uninvited outing guests begin showing up one after another, ending in the two of them hiding in the kitchen of the restaurant, and the police being called. By the end of it, all, it’s going to take a little divine intervention to keep things going even further south.
Dedication: “This script is dedicated to the one-and-only Savanah Jillani, whose winding, farcical stories of her own homeschooling inspire much of the aesthetic of the work. While as far as I know she’s never accidentally held-up a fried chicken restaurant, it all does not seem too far off, however, a bit unlikely though, seeing as she’s a vegetarian.”
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Lake Forest High School, IL, USA – 2017
Author:Timothy Starnes
Genre: Short Comedy Scripts
Type: One Act Plays
Length: Fifteen Minutes, 15 min.
Number of Actors: Eight minimum but more can be used
Ages of the actors: Some teenagers and up.
Suitable for: All ages
Set: A counter at a typical fried chicken outlet
Level of Difficulty: 6/10 – easy script – crowding onstage.
