One Act Plays

Polly Wants a Curtain Call

Product Code: PM5000

Comedy
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2m., 6w., 14 to 23 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

One day, in the midst of a ship-looting-gone-wrong, Pauline, the Shakespeare-reciting, gluten-intolerant parrot flies away to pursue her acting career in Pollywood. When the pirates discover that she has run away, they experience an awakening and determine that it is not too late to change their scoundrel ways, which leads them directly to Aargaholics Anonymous! Learn More

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Paper or Plastic: The Ice Storm

By Werner Trieschmann.

Product Code: PL9000

Comedy | Drama | Satire
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: Up to 2m., 2 to 5w., 9 to 14 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

As an ice storm approaches, Sarah, a cashier, is hastily given—maybe tricked into?—the job of assistant manager She is happy about the promotion until she realizes that with great power comes even more grocery store insanity. There are stubborn customers, unruly kids, the cane-wielding head of Skybell Ice Cream, striking baggers and a mysterious figure known as "El Diablo." Will there be anything left on the shelves? Will Sarah survive? The answers and laughs are in the forecast of this play! Learn More

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Little Scrooge

By Patricia Barry Rumble. Based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Product Code: LL4000

Comedy
Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2 to 4m., 3 to 7w.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

In this extremely creative, kid-friendly adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic, The Ghost of Christmas Past (a surfer dude), the Ghost of Christmas Present (a beautiful spirit with an attitude) and the Ghost of Christmas Future (an eerie figure in white) help young Eben Scrooge to discover the true meaning of Christmas. Learn More

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Hell's Cafeteria

By Werner Trieschmann.

Product Code: HF1000

Comedy | Satire
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2m., 3w., up to 25 with extras, either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Superstar cafeteria chef Rodney "Rotten" Disposle is ready to make life miserable for everybody in another season of "Hell's Cafeteria" as he hosts the competition to find the best (worst) high-school cafeteria manager in the country. The strange contestants he has in this go-round are sure to give him fits! Will a winner for be announced? Will anybody make it through lunch? Learn More

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Interrupting Vanessa

By Colleen Neuman.

Product Code: ID4000

Drama
Young Audiences | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2m., 2w.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Vanessa lives with her mother, who seems too busy to listen to her and calls Vanessa's beloved collection of stuff a "pile of junk." Vanessa uses her stuff to create inventions and to make up stories. Learn More

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Aunt Leaf

By Barbara Wiechmann.

Product Code: AF7000

Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults
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
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
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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hard 2 spel dad

By Linda Daugherty and Mary Rohde Scudday.

Product Code: HA9000

Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Praise Groups
Cast Size: 3m., 5w.
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Hope triumphs in this story about the loss of self-esteem, isolation and risky behaviors that too often accompany learning differences. Learn More

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The Great Alphabet Adventure

By Julia Flood.

Product Code: GA1000

Comedy
Young Audiences | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 1m., 1w., 3 either gender with doubling, or up to 9 (1m., 1w., 7 either gender).
Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Two friends enter a fantasy world of books and imagination after the power goes out. They discover that reading can be fun after all. Learn More

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Jesse and Grace: A Best Friends Story

By Sandra Fenichel Asher. Developed from the poetry of Sandy Asher and David L. Harrison.

Product Code: J46000

Comedy
Young Audiences | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 1m., 1w., 2 either gender, plus puppets; may be expanded to a total of 21 m. and w. without puppets.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Jesse and Grace have been best friends since birth, almost 10 years. It never mattered that Jesse is a boy and Grace is a girl. But now they're in fourth grade and their classmates begin a routine of nonstop teasing. Denial only makes things worse. Before long, the two have stopped speaking to each other. Each goes in search of a new best friend and soon finds that no one else fills the bill quite as perfectly. Jesse and Grace finally discover that, "A best friend is the best kind of friend of all." Learn More

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