One Act Plays

The 146 Point Flame

Product Code: OA7000

Drama | Tragedy
Middle School | High School | College and Adult
Cast Size: 1 to 7m., 4 to 12w.
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Based on the historic 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, this piece illuminates the definition of human courage. Four young women share their dreams, thoughts, fears and feelings about their ultimate destinies. Vincenza shares her last night on Earth with romance, smiles and dancing. Tessa celebrates her life with a story about her brother and mother. Sisters Lena and Yetta meditate on the strength and endurance of moving from Russia to America and the parallels of moving from life to the afterlife. Learn More

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Oh Freedom! The Story of the Underground Railroad

By Peter Manos.

Product Code: OA4000

Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2 to 10m., 2 to 10w., up to 10 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This play combines stories of men and women of the Underground Railroad who were active in the fight against slavery. Famous participants like Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe and other lesser-known heroes are included in this tale that celebrates a time when Americans were at their courageous best, supporting one another, regardless of background, ethnicity or gender. Learn More

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Cyrano de Bergerac

By Tonya Hays. Adapted from the play by Edmond Rostand.

Product Code: CQ7000

Drama
High School | College and Adult
Cast Size: 5m., 5w., at least 4 gender neutral.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Cyrano is besotted with the lovely Roxane, and yet, because of his enormous nose, he believes that he can never truly win her, so he lives with this painful secret of unrequited love. He befriends the handsome Christian and helps him woo Roxane with elegant love letters, living his love vicariously through Christian. This passionate adventure takes us on a journey through the streets of Paris, the battlefield of Arras and the peaceful convent, where this beautiful story reaches its exquisite but heart-wrenching conclusion. Learn More

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I Never Saw Another Butterfly

By Celeste Raspanti.

Product Code: I33000

Drama
Middle School | High School
Cast Size: 2m., 2w., extras.
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

This is a beautiful and moving one-act play based on the poetry created in a concentration camp by the Jewish children of Prague. Learn More

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A Thousand Cranes

By Kathryn Schultz Miller.

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 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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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 Fourth Wise Man

Book by Joy Chaitin, Sarah Stevens and Marilyn D. Anderson. Music arranged by Joy Chaitin and Sarah Stevens-Estabrook. Based on The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke.

Product Code: F09000

Melodrama
Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages) | Praise Groups
Cast Size: 10 to 20m., 10 to 20w.
Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Musical version of the tale of the fourth wiseman, who chooses to help others rather than give his gifts to the baby Jesus, thereby learning the true meaning of Christ-like love at the first Christmas. Learn More

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Just Desserts

By Norma Cole and Naneki Elliott.

Product Code: J35000

Drama
Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Senior Adults
Cast Size: 2w. (3, may be expaned to 5 w.)
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Set in a rural Kentucky home near the end of the 19th century, this poignant drama recalls the era after the Civil War when women in Kentucky took action against the injustice of English common law regarding property rights, wages, and possessions. Learn More

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