One Act Plays

Ghosts in the Machine (One-Act Version)

Product Code: GD9000

Comedy | Drama
Middle School | High School | College and Adult
Cast Size: 7 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

It begins after lunch on Melissa’s phone. Someone she doesn’t know is texting her looking for a drug hook-up. Soon, eight very different high-school kids are getting bizarre texts from numbers they don’t recognize—budding romances, bitter rivalries, even violent threats. What’s going on? And what if it’s not people connecting with other people via their phones … but phones trying to connect with other phones via their people? A one-act digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter. Learn More

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Driving

By Werner Trieschmann.

Product Code: DG8000

Comedy | Drama
Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 1 to 16m., 4 to 19w., 15 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Ginny is an almost 16-year-old-girl with straight As and a bright future in front of her, but learning how to drive appears to have stalled her on the side of the road. Instead of getting behind the wheel, she pins her hopes on computer-driven cars and oh-so-friendly ride-sharing services. Instead of being independent and free, Ginny is driven around by her angry, speeding mom or her goofy, slowpoke father. Will Ginny finally overcome her issues and start Driving? Learn More

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Polly Wants a Curtain Call

By Victoria Sayeg.

Product Code: PM5000

Comedy
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2m., 6w., 14 to 23 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

One day, in the midst of a ship-looting-gone-wrong, Pauline, the Shakespeare-reciting, gluten-intolerant parrot flies away to pursue her acting career in Pollywood. When the pirates discover that she has run away, they experience an awakening and determine that it is not too late to change their scoundrel ways, which leads them directly to Aargaholics Anonymous! Learn More

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

By le Clanche du Rand.

Product Code: L54000

Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 1m., 1w.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This two actor play is a very unique adaptation of the classic tale, full of action, the resurrection of Aslan, and many other scenes found in the original story. Learn More

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Alien Equation

By Annie Maccoby and Jeff Church.

Product Code: A45000

Comedy
Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 6 boys., 6 girls, 1 adult.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Max (a modern day Einstein, bored with school, and with his mind on the cosmos) discovers there may be more adventure in math than meets the eye! Learn More

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An Open and Shut Case

By John Mattera.

Product Code: A24000

Comedy | Drama | Farce | Melodrama | Satire | Tragedy
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults
Cast Size: 5m., 5w.
Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Young, handsome Harold married the elderly, wheelchair-ridden Elizabeth for her money. Now Harold plans to murder her and inherit all that money, hiring a nurse, a housekeeper and a cook to help him with the job. Learn More

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Babes in Gangland or The Godmother

By Dutton Foster.

Product Code: B69000

Farce | Melodrama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults
Cast Size: 5m., 4w. (may be done with 3m., 6w., or 4m., 5w.)
Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

This melodramatic farce, marked by puns, double entendres, asides to the audience, and other absurdities, is a comic tour de force. A perfect contest one-act with no elaborate set requirements. Learn More

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Brooding and Dangerous

By Daniel Fenton.

Product Code: B91000

Comedy | Farce
High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults
Cast Size: 2m., 2w.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Eccentric, outspoken Mrs. Getz wastes no time in pegging her new neighbor, Sid. And she's right. Young, ambitious Sid has been promised a new job at the local bank. Are things finally going to go right for Sid? Unfortunately, not anytime soon. Learn More

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The Cay

By Dr. Gayle Cornelison. From the book by Theodore Taylor.

Product Code: C90000

Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2m. (voices.)
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Eleven-year-old Phillip is rescued at sea and cared for by a huge, very old, black man named Timothy. Phillip learns that the color of one's skin does not determine a person's worth in the world. Learn More

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The Dinosaur Play

By Steve and Kathy Hotchner.

Product Code: D17000

Drama
Young Audiences | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2m., 2w. (1 either gender.)
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Entering the last age of the dinosaurs, the children gather around an egg and help it hatch. Making friends with a rough triceratops, they protect the newly formed family, and defeat the hungry T-Rex. Learn More

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