One Act Plays

Clever Rachel

Product Code: CQ9000

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

Rachel has a reputation as a clever girl who can figure out answers to the most challenging riddles. But the traditional roles of men and women don't allow for women to be intellectuals. When Jacob, the smartest boy in town, challenges her to a contest of wits, somehow they both win and find something that neither had beforea friend. Learn More

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Polly Wants a Curtain Call

By Victoria Sayeg.

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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The Princess Who Lost Her Hair

By Jeremy Kisling. Based on the story by Tololwa Mollel.

Product Code: PL7000

Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2m., 2w., 3 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Princess Kalendi refuses to help a bird, who turns out to be very powerful. He brings a drought upon the earth and takes the princess' hair, a symbol of prosperity to her people, from her head. A beggar helps the princess regain her dignity and kindness as they work together to appease the bird with a selfless act that restores the kingdom and the princess' hair. 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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Farmageddon and the Undercover Crop

By Victoria Sayeg.

Product Code: FF6000

Comedy
Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 1m., 1w., 20 to 24 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Everyone loves a good crop circle—that is, everyone but world-renowned peanut planter Farmer Carter. He is devastated to learn his entire year's yield of peanuts has been damaged by someone—or something—just a day before the circus comes to town! With the help of his wife and their junk-food-addicted twin daughters, Farmer Carter hires a private investigator to get to the bottom of this perplexing peanut puzzle. 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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The Hundred Dresses

By Ralph Covert and G. Riley Mills. Based on the book by Eleanor Estes.

Product Code: HH1000

Comedy | Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 3 to 5m., 5w.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Wanda, a second-grader, wears a faded blue dress every day, but she tells her classmates that she has a hundred dresses at home. Soon Wanda's classmates make a game of teasing her about her hundred dresses until she doesn't come to school one day, leaving just an empty seat. As feelings of guilt overtake the children, they decide they must find out what happened to Wanda and make amends for the way they treated her. Bullying, friendship and forgiveness are touched upon in this adaptation. Learn More

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Oh Freedom! The Story of the Underground Railroad

By Peter Manos.

Product Code: OA4000

Drama
Young Audiences | Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 2 to 10m., 2 to 10w., up to 10 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This play combines stories of men and women of the Underground Railroad who were active in the fight against slavery. Famous participants like Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe and other lesser-known heroes are included in this tale that celebrates a time when Americans were at their courageous best, supporting one another, regardless of background, ethnicity or gender. Learn More

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Wanda the Psychic Wombat

By Victoria Sayeg.

Product Code: WH7000

Comedy
Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 4 to 11m., 6 to 13w., 7 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Wanda is the last psychic wombat on Earth, and she is struggling to run her fortune-telling business. She considers selling her shop to some shady-looking businesspeople, but a mysterious wombat helps her discover that things aren't always as they seem and that, with a little help from her friends, she just may be able to change what's in the cards. Learn More

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Why Mosquitoes Buzz

By Jeremy Kisling. Adapted from the folktale.

Product Code: WH3000

Comedy
Young Audiences | Middle School | Family (all ages)
Cast Size: 1 to 3m., 1 to 4w., 2 to 4 either gender.
Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Mosquito sets off a chain reaction of panic in the rain forest that ends with Rooster forgetting to wake the sun. The great god strips Mosquito of her voice and only allows her to buzz until she receives forgiveness from all living creatures. To this day, almost all earthly creatures find her buzzing annoying and try to eradicate the pesky mosquito. Learn More

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