One Act Plays

The Tale of La Llorona as Told by Consuelo Chavez

Product Code: TX5000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | Community | TYA
Cast Size: 2m., 3w., 1 to 2 any gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

A group of lifelong friends who are also eighth graders prepare for what they believe is their final time celebrating Halloween together. Unfortunately, the weather is undermining their trick-or-treating plans. The friends reveal they are afraid that going to high school will break up their group. As a distraction, they begin to tell scary stories. When one story becomes more real than imagined, they realize the experiences they’ve shared connect them all together, and they are determined to remain friends for life. Learn More

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The War of the Worlds

Product Code: WK5000

Comedy | Drama | Satire
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 2w., 6 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

During the morning video announcements at Grover's Mill High, something not of this Earth crash lands in the football stadium. Inspired by Orson Wells’ radio broadcast, this modern adaptation is designed to be rehearsed and performed live online. Through a series of Zoom calls, our morning-show hosts find themselves covering the biggest story in human history. Martians have landed and are taking over the Earth. Can our group of scrappy high-schoolers survive the invasion? This show can be performed virtually or onstage. Learn More

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A Virtual Whodunnit

By Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus.

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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Hamlet and Zombies!

By Will Averill.

Product Code: HH7000

Comedy
Recommended For: Middle School | High School
Cast Size: 5m., 2w., 13 to 33 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Something is rotting in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet may be the only one who is on to it. With the help of Horatio and Laertes, Hamlet solves the mystery of his mother’s marriage to his uncle, observes his father’s transformation from king to zombie king, saves his love, Ophelia, and fends off both the Norwegians and the zombie hordes. This adaptation is perfect for those who are looking for a spooky retelling of one of the Bard’s classics with lots of fun and a little bite. Learn More

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Ghosts in the Machine (One-Act Version)

By Eric Coble.

Product Code: GD9000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School
Cast Size: 7 either gender.

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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, seven 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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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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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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Haunted Houses

By Kathryn Schultz Miller.

Product Code: H57000

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

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Four friends enter an abandoned, dark mansion and begin to tell their personal stories of rejection, hazing, isolation and threats of abuse. Learn More

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Abra Cadaver

By John Mattera.

Product Code: A28000

Comedy | Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College
Cast Size: 3m., 2w.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Jack and his girlfriend, Christine plot to kill Jack's wife, Marie. Christine tells Marie about it and the two plot to kill Jack. But wait Learn More

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