The Voice of the Phoenix
Carol Parkinson
Samuel French Ltd
A music journalist is a devotee of a renowned opera singer But when she begins writing a biography of the late diva she discovers some very unpalatable truths ... One-act
$12.99
Plays by Genre - One Act Plays
Juliet & Yancey & April Snow
Romulus Linney
Dramatists Play Service
6 Male 3 Female
The first play, Juliet, explores the debate between an intense and brilliant young director and his temperamental leading lady about their differing interpretations of Ibsen's Ghosts He wants to do the p...
$13
The Last Straw
Charles Dizenzo
Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 0 Female
"A young man answers a newspaper advertisement offering a happier life. A 'doctor' alone in a shabby, empty office and a boy full of failure and malaise have a confrontation that is short, sweet and funny ...
$13
Coffee with God
Kal Wagenheim
Dramatic Publishing
2 Male 1 Female
In Coffee With God a man is enjoying coffee and a bagel at his favorite New Jersey diner when God, carrying a laptop computer, enters, sits next to him, and seems to know all about him Their conversation ra...
$10.95
Vortex
Wade Sheeler
Samuel French Inc
2 Male 0 Female
There are places where the fabric of reality is thin, and one of these is a vortex in Sedona, Arizona Here a mysterious shaman collides with a desperate gunman in this one act play When they learn trust, t...
$8.99
Harlequinade
Terence Rattigan
Samuel French Ltd
The play opens with Arthur and Edna Gosport rehearsing the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet They are making last-minute preparations on opening night, while bickering good-naturedly about lighting level...
$12.99
One Up
Alice Orndorff
Samuel French Inc
3 Male 4 Female
The political science class from Wichita Falls is in Washington to observe the wheels of government in this one act comedy The "buddy" system that dictates hotel roommates finds Sally and Joy, an ill matche...
$8.99
Election Year & So When You Get Married
Ellen Byron
Dramatists Play Service
1 Male 5 Female
Election Year ~ Set during the final months of the Reagan-Mondale presidential campaign, the action of the play is comprised of a series of lunchtime get-togethers between two young, unattached "yuppies" ...
$13
The Flounder Complex
Anthony Damato
Dramatists Play Service
0 Male 2 Female
"Damato's protagonists are a paranoid, nearly blind old woman and a young girl who answers her ad for a servant. During the process of the interview, the old woman's fear of the outside world shows itself...
$13
Best American Short Plays 1999-2000
Glenn Young - editor
Applause Books
The plays are ... Light Years by Billy Aronson & Chain by Pearl Cleage & The Milling Crowd Dies by David Dozer & Prague Summer by Rich Orloff & Joe and Stwe by Jacquelyn Reingold & First...
$16.99
Too Much Punch For Judy
Mark Wheeller
Salamander
2 Male 2 Female
A hard-hitting documentary play, based on a tragic drink/drive accident that results in the death of the passenger while Judy, the driver, escapes unhurtRuns about 50 minutes CAST M2,F2 with doubling or...
$14.99
The Undefeated Rhumba Champ
Charles Leipart
Dramatists Play Service
The scene is a hospital room where, Archer, a young veteran and amputee, is bent on seducing his prim and proper nurse. He feels that his self-esteem as a man (which has been undermined by the loss of his...
$13
Last Panto in Little Grimley & Brenton Versus Brenton
David Tristram
Flying Ducks
5 Male 5 Female
The long overdue sequel to the popular Last Tango in Little Grimley sees Gordon, Margaret, Joyce and Bernard tackle the Christmas pantomime with predictably hilarious results Like its predecessor, as well as...
$10.99
The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie
Albert Innaurato
Dramatists Play Service
3 Male 2 Female
Benno Blimpie is an enormously fat and desperately unhappy young man who is literally eating himself to death Rejected by his coarse family, and a world which holds him in contempt, Benno watches bitterl...
$9
Stolen Identity
Charles Emery
Samuel French Inc
2 Male 5 Female
A young man without roots arrives at the McKee home pretending to be the son they have not seen for fifteen years He isn't out to do any harm; he only wants a home and real folks Complications arise when h...
$7.99
A Great Career
Charles Dizenzo
Dramatists Play Service
1 Male 2 Female
The action takes place in a sparsely furnished office ... At one desk sits a womanish man (George), at another a mannish woman (Zelda), and at the third a young girl (Linda) who is so fed up with office wo...
$9
Egyptian-Arabic One Act Plays - A First Reader - Not English language - Arabic only
Karl-G Prasse & Katrine Blandford & Elizabeth A Moesstrup & Imam El-Shoubary
Museuam Tusculanum Press
Written in Arabic, this is meant to be a First Reader in Egyptian-Arabic drama for European students Each of the five short plays has its own peculiarities and dialect, but each is presented in both Arabic ...
$49.99
The Death of King Philip
Romulus Linney
Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 2 Female
Set in colonial America, the play tells the story of Mary Rowlandson, who is abducted with her baby son during an Indian uprising that left a dozen New England settlements in ruins At first we meet Mary ...
$13
Dumping Ground
Elizabeth Diggs
Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 1 Female
The scene is the road leading to a dumping site used by a local chemical company. Monica, a young divorcee who works as a cleaning woman to support her family, and Clayton, a widower who runs a feed store,...
$13
Designer Genes
Kent R. Brown
Dramatic Publishing
1 Male 2 Female
It is the not-too-distant future - Dolly the Sheep is old news and gene enhancement is all the rage ... Seven years ago, Wesley and Marian's son, beset with a multitude of inherited maladies, died a tra...
$10.95