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Product Code: A49000

One-act Play

Cast Size: 2m., 1w.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Through the interlacing of monologues, we examine the lives of three people. J.J. Myers, a single parent in his 40s and recently widowed, William, an executive also in his 40s, and Jennifer, in her 30s. Winner of the 1988 Great Plains New Play Festival.

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Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son

Adapted by Vaughn McBride from the story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Product Code: G50000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Professional Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 2m., 1w. (1 boy.)

Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

A writer achieves fame and fortune when he allows himself to be drawn into the quick money world of Hollywood. He leaves the wife who stood by him in hard times and marries a screen sex goddess. Now he must try to regain his own integrity.

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Smile

By David Campton.

Product Code: S96000

One-act Play

Cast Size: 5w.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

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The Trial of Goldilocks

By Joseph Robinette.

Product Code: T81000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 14 to 20+ any gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This exciting one-act comedy examines the familiar fairy tale from three points of view: the traditional, the Bears', then Goldilocks'. Guilty or innocent? From the opening moment, when three vendors attempt to hawk souvenirs among the audience, to the surprising verdict from the jury—and a "happily-ever-after" conclusion—this play, performed completely in verse, is both unique and enchanting.

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Once Upon A Broomstick

By Sylvia Ashby.

Product Code: O92000

One-act Play

Cast Size: 6+ actors, either gender, flexible.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

A witch attempts to use her powers to get a young apprentice to fall in love with her. He is drawn to the maid instead, causing near disaster until a wizard intervenes.

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The Jewel in Papa's Crown

By E.P. Conkle.

Product Code: J60000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 6w., 1 either gender.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Five daughters gather to hear their father's will read in this folk drama about love versus greed.

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The Killers

Based on the story by Ernest Hemingway. Adapted by Bryan Harnetiaux.

Product Code: K21000

One-act Play

Cast Size: 9m., 3w. (Flexible.)

Approx. Run Time: 20 min.

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Sex Lives of Superheroes

By Stephen Gregg.

Product Code: S92000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 1m., 2w., 3 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Elenor, Michael's date for the evening, is appalled to find that he copes with his frustrations by giving fantasy lectures about the sexual habits of comic book heroes, and the two seem mismatched until Elenor reveals her own obsession.

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The Great Pandemonium

By Pat Cook.

Product Code: G61000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre | Senior Theatre

Cast Size: 4m., 5w.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

The play is Shakespeare's Richard III, and the night before it opens, the cast, crew and high-school drama coach run a hilarious, problematic tech rehearsal. Mr. Nusthorp has to contend with a militant assistant director, several missing actors who were grounded for teepeeing the principal's house and a prop lady who quits every chance she gets. Its all a bit more than he can take!

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