One Act Plays

The Cop and the Anthem

Dramatized by Marc Bucci. From the story by O. Henry.

Product Code: C33000
- Comedy
- Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages)
- Cast Size: 5m., 8w.
- Approx. Run Time: 40 min.
In this adaptation of O. Henry's story, Lemuel T. Thwackbusher, an inhabitant of New York's park benches during the summer, tries unsuccessfully to get arrested so that he can winter in a warm prison. Learn More
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You, the Jury

By Anne Coulter Martens.

Product Code: Y12000
- Drama
- Middle School | High School | Family (all ages)
- Cast Size: 7m., 5w. (extras.)
- Approx. Run Time: 45 min.
Bill is accused of theft at his job and witnesses called to testify are contradictory. This jury play has unusual audience appeal in that audience members are summoned as jurors and their verdict actually does determine the trial outcome. Learn More
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All Out

By John Zodrow.

Product Code: AA8000
- Comedy | Drama | Farce | Satire | Tragedy
- Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults
- Cast Size: 6m., 4w., 6 to 7 extras.
- 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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Out of Order

By Cherie Bennett

Product Code: O65000
- Comedy
- Middle School | High School
- Cast Size: 2w.
- Approx. Run Time: 10 min.
Zoey is at a school dance and runs into her ex-boyfriend. She goes into the bathroom to call one of her friends and has a run in with Eve - of "Adam and Eve" fame - who has been living in the air ducts since she was kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Learn More
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The Ransom of Red Chief

Adapted by Brian Kral. Based on O. Henry's short story.

Product Code: R90000
- Comedy
- Young Audiences | Middle School
- Cast Size: 2m., 1 boy.
- Approx. Run Time: 45 min.
This adaptation of O. Henry's classic story about two kidnappers who fall prey to their young victim combines historical fact and entertaining fancy. Learn More
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Gammer Gurton's Needle

Adapted by I. E. Clark.

Product Code: GB2000
- Comedy | Farce
- Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults
- Cast Size: 5m., 5w.
- Approx. Run Time: 35 min.
The play is a rollicking farce laid in a 16th-century English hamlet. Among its often-patched, seldom-washed inhabitants is Gammer Gurton, a jolly old gossip whose most precious possession is a steel needle. But, alas!—Gammer loses her needle, and the entire village finds itself in a turmoil. Learn More
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'Hoods

By Jerome McDonough.

Product Code: HE5000
- Drama
- Middle School | High School | College and Adult
- Cast Size: 12 to 20 actors, flexible.
- Approx. Run Time: 40 min.
Young people tell about the harsh reality of gangs, drugs, warfare and death on the streets of the "hood." Learn More
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Lantern In The Wind

By Tim Kelly.

Product Code: LH5000
- Drama
- High School | College and Adult | Senior Adults
- Cast Size: 3w.
- Approx. Run Time: 30 min.
A former partner of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid gives an interview to a magazine reporter leaving some doubt about the fate of one of the famous robbers. Learn More
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Lost In Tumblerock or, They Took the Wrong Road

By Katie Reed.

Product Code: LJ9000
- Comedy | Melodrama
- Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults | Praise Groups
- Cast Size: 7m., 8w., extras.
- Approx. Run Time: 45 min.
This comic melodrama is complete with rowdy ranch hands and beautiful French cancan dancers and will have the audience cheering the heroes and booing the villains. Learn More
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Suspect to Change

By Will Humble.

Product Code: S1D000
- Comedy | Melodrama
- Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults
- Cast Size: 2m., 3w.
- Approx. Run Time: 35 min.
It's a case of mistaken identity when a woman is taken to the hospital after a car accident. Confusion reigns as everyone attempts to sort out what crimes may have been committed and by whom. Learn More
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