One Act Plays

A Virtual Whodunnit

Product Code: V47000

Comedy | Drama | Satire
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 5m., 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Preston Sterling is hosting a Zoom meeting with his family and closest staff to celebrate his birthday. The bitter old billionaire is bullying everyone once again when—ZZZZZT! Sterling is electrocuted through his phone. Enter Rockford Sloan, homicide detective. Through a series of Zoom conferences, Sloan questions the usual suspects, all of whom had a motive. With three possible endings, every performance means you’ll never be sure whodunnit. This show can be performed virtually or onstage. Learn More

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Romeo and Juliet or The Old "You-Know-I-Really-Love-You-But-My-Father-Really-Hates-You" Blues

By Nancy Linehan Charles. From William Shakespeare

Product Code: R74000

Drama | Melodrama | Tragedy
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | TYA
Cast Size: 4m., 4w. (plus 21 either gender.)

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

No one can remember why Romeo and Juliet's families hate one another, but the feud continues on. Tracking the star-crossed lovers, and the downward spiral of a courtship to its horrible conclusion, the story tellers fire off comments of premature marriage. Learn More

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All Out

By John Zodrow.

Product Code: AA8000

Comedy | Drama | Farce | Satire | Tragedy
Recommended For: College | Community
Cast Size: 6m., 4w., 6 to 7 extras.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

To what extremes will the game show contestants go to win a prize of $100,000? This play is about lack of ethics and what people will do for money. Learn More

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Othello or Tracking the Green-eyed Monster

Adapted by Nancy Linehan Charles. From Shakespeare.

Product Code: O63000

Drama | Melodrama | Tragedy
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | TYA
Cast Size: 8 to 11 principles plus as many soldiers and senators as desired.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

A mesmerizing tale of the good guy who takes a very wrong turn, and changes his life forever. The moral of the story, choose your friends wisely, and let go of false pride before it destroys you. Learn More

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Macbeth: A Kid's Cautionary Tale Concerning Greed, Power, Mayhem and Other Current Events

Adapted by Nancy Linehan Charles. From Shakespeare.

Product Code: MB8000

Comedy | Drama | Melodrama | Satire
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | TYA
Cast Size: 15+ either gender, expandable to include all.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This dramatic adaptation, sprinkled with comedic commentary, is a winner for elementary, middle, and early high school. Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy is told within a lively and humorous story-theatre frame. Macbeth and his Lady covet the crown while witches, ghosts, kings and soldiers sweep across the landscape, carving out the battle between good and evil. Shakespeare characters speak the Bard's words, while storytellers fill in plot and comment wryly on the escalating action. Learn More

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Pandora's Revenge

By Pat Cook.

Product Code: P64000

Comedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Just what sort of package has Marvin Hanover opened, he wonders, as he tries to sell insurance to Miss Thorndyke. First, she really isn't Miss Thorndyke—she's Ida Simpkins, and she doesn't actually live at the address she gave him over the phone. She seems to have more questions for Marvin than he ever saw on any application. Panicked by the evening news and her rundown neighborhood, she grills Marvin like a hamburger patty. Lines fly fast and ferociously in this cat-and-mouse adventure with Marvin wondering just who's the cat and who's the mouse. Learn More

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The Tolstoy Story Play

By V. Glasgow Koste.

Product Code: T84000

Comedy | Drama | Farce
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | TYA
Cast Size: Flexible.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Inspired by Tolstoy's tellings of Russian folktales a century ago, this play is an ideal ensemble piece with a fresh blend of vaudeville, commedia, realism, farce and poetry. Learn More

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In Other Words

By Sharon Elizabeth Doyle.

Product Code: IB3000

Comedy | Farce | Satire
Recommended For: College | Professional | TYA
Cast Size: 6 either gender, with option to add more.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Ideal for either in-school or theatre performances, this title is designed to stimulate the creative actor and delight the child in all of us with human cartoons. Join Professor Fleetfoot and his madcap friends on a zany exploration of communication. Learn More

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A Ghost for Rosanda

By Herman O. Ammann.

Product Code: GB5000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | TYA
Cast Size: 2m., 6w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Four teenage girls spend the night in a rundown old house to help conjure up ghost stories, but they get more than they had bargained for. Learn More

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Recalculating

Product Code: RF2000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 1 to 2m., 3 to 5w.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Financially strained art dealers Libby and Beth take an automobile ride across a big city to a rendezvous during which they appear engaged in the illegal sale of stolen fossils. Their trip is comically punctuated by the unctuous female voice of the GPS unit on the dashboard, which begins to make cryptic remarks that seem less concerned with geography and more with the course of Libby and Beth's lives, ultimately leading them to make a significant decision. Learn More

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