One Act Plays

Aunt Leaf

Product Code: AF7000

Drama
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Cast Size: 3 actors, gender flexible. Expansion possible.
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

It is 1910. An 11-year-old girl is sent into the woods by her widowed great-aunt to look for the ghost of her dead husband. The girl brings back made up stories to cheer up the old woman and soon comes to believe her own stories are true. The shared adventure, both dangerous and hopeful, serves as a dual passage for the child into adolescence and the old woman into a more peaceful death. Learn More

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Selkie

By Laurie Brooks.

Product Code: SW7000

Drama
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Cast Size: 3m., 4w.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

In Scotland, selkies transform into lasses on Midsummer's Eve and dance on the beach. This play chronicles the story of a 16-year-old who discovers a pelt that unlocks the mystery foretold. Learn More

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Heubner the Reluctant

By Alan Haehnel.

Product Code: H87000

Drama
Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2m., 12w.,10 either gender. (May also be done with an all-female cast.)
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

A starving beggar's disturbing dream follows him into wakefulness when he is told he is "The Chosen." Although he tries to deny his destiny and run from his duty to save his village from an evil army, a secret from his past reveals how he through the gift of storytelling, can indeed be "The Chosen." Learn More

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Boid & Oskar

By Elizabeth Wong.

Product Code: BA7000

Comedy | Drama | Tragedy
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Praise Groups
Cast Size: 2m., 2w. (plus many gender-neutral ensemble roles; may be done with 3m., 3 w. with doubling.)
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Inspired by Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince,this play is a hip, humorous and heartwarming parable about sacrifice and the lessons of true friendship. Prince Oskar is the spirit of a shiny, red, classic Corvette convertible—without a care in the world. But, placed as a monument high above the city, he alone sees the suffering below—a young girl conflicted by feelings of inferiority, a young boy without a home living in the streets, a writer who has lost the desire to write. With the help of a wise-cracking sparrow named Boid, the prince makes it his mission to help the townspeople. Learn More

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The Happy Prince

By Elizabeth Wong.

Product Code: H82000

Comedy | Drama | Tragedy
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 3m., 5w. (plus 2 either gender, or 4m., 4w. with doubling, plus extras.)
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This spiritually compelling play tells the story of a migrating swallow who befriends a prince made of stone. Together, they learn the lessons of friendship and sacrifice. 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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The Red Rose

By le Clanche du Rand. Based upon Beauty and the Beast.

Product Code: R42000

Comedy | Drama
Young Audiences | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2m., 1w.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This play is an innovative, entertaining, and emotionally relevant treatment of the Beauty and the Beast theme for modern audiences using marks, mime and sound. Thematically it concerns itself with what lies below the apparent surfaces of people and events, as well as with the journey of learning how to love. Learn More

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Canterbury Tale From The Wife of Bath

Adapted by Herman Ammann from Geoffrey Chaucer.

Product Code: CK2000

Comedy
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Cast Size: 5m., 7w.
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

A knight of the round table must solve a riddle or lose his life. Learn More

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Frankenstein

By John Mattera and Stephen Barrows.

Product Code: F31000

Drama | Melodrama | Tragedy
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults
Cast Size: 5m., 1w. (1 creature.)
Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

This version of the classic thriller catches the essence of Mary Shelley's novel and builds to a climax with an unexpected twist. 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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