One Act Plays

A Thousand Cranes

Product Code: T80000

Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults | Praise Groups
Cast Size: 1 to 2m., 2 to 3w., up to 2 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This is the true story of 12-year-old Sadako, who learns that she has "radiation sickness," or leukemia—an effect of the Hiroshima bombing that happened 10 years ago. Her wish is to be healed by the gods by folding 1,000 paper cranes, but she dies before she can finish. Her friends and classmates finish folding the cranes and build a monument to honor her and all the children who were killed by the atom bomb. Learn More

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Radium Girls

By D.W. Gregory.

Product Code: RD2000

Comedy | Drama
High School | College and Adult
Cast Size: 5m., 5w. May be expanded to 30 or more.
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

In 1920, factory girls are exposed to the poisonous effects of Radium used in the paint for watch dials. The company hides their knowledge of the issues with Radium to continue their pursuit of profits, but the Radium Girls fight for justice. Learn More

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The Fifth Sun

By Nicholas A. Patricca.

Product Code: F53000

Drama
High School | College and Adult
Cast Size: 8m., 5w.
Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

This experimental one-act play combines elements of ancient tomb rituals, Mayan temple dramas and medieval morality plays into a contemporary dramatic structure in which a human being ultimately embodies the moral voice and vision of his people. Learn More

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The Make-Up Artist

By David Henry Wilson.

Product Code: M13000

Comedy | Tragedy
College and Adult | Senior Adults
Cast Size: 1m., 1w. (1 extra.)
Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

A young, brassy and self-confident actor is delighted to have an attractive make-up artist. At first he makes passes at her and brags, but then begins to talk about his bad luck as she transforms him into an unsure old man. Learn More

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Within the Shadows

By Scott Shallenbarger.

Product Code: W76000

Drama
High School | College and Adult
Cast Size: 1m., 1w.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Steven and Sandra, exceptionally close friends who spent four wonderful years in college together, are seeing one another for the first time in a year, but Sean, Steven's closest friend and Sandra's fianc Learn More

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Tuesdays & Sundays

By Daniel Arnold and Medina Hahn.

Product Code: TG5000

Drama
High School | College and Adult
Cast Size: 1m., 1w. (or 2m., 2w.)
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Inspired by a true story that took place in 1887, a teenage couple tries to nourish their love amidst confusing emotions and events, but misunderstanding and fear create terrible consequences and a stunning tragedy. Learn More

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Coffee With God

By Kal Wagenheim.

Product Code: CE4000

Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults | Praise Groups
Cast Size: 3m., 1w. or 2m., 2w. The role of God may be played by a man or woman.
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

A man is enjoying coffee and a bagel at his favorite New Jersey diner when God, carrying a laptop computer, enters, sits next to him and seems to know all about him. Learn More

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Flashback!

By Alice Wilson. Additional materials supplied by Louis Moloney, Johnny Saldaña and Rachel Winfree.

Product Code: FB4000

Comedy
Young Audiences
Cast Size: 3m., 3w.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

An exuberant revue using mime, dance and song to celebrate the world of the contemporary child. Learn More

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Goodbye Marianne

By Irene Kirstein Watts.

Product Code: G98000

Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2m., 2w., 1 boy, 2 girls, or 3 minimum (1m. 2w.) with doubling.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

A true story of the author's childhood experience of hope in a time of terror. Set in Nazi Germany in the days following the Night of Broken Glass. Learn More

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This Is Not a Pipe Dream

By Barry Kornhauser.

Product Code: TL9000

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

Based freely on the work and early life of surrealist artist René Magritte, this is an unorthodox adventure in theatrical form. Here is the story of young René who wants to be an artist, a notion dismissed by his father as "a pipe dream." Encouraged by his mother, before her untimely death, the boy begins his quest. He follows his vision into the delightfully absurd magic-realism of his famous paintings. Learn More

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