Plays by Genre - One Act Plays

Ashes to Ashes and Other Plays

Harold Pinter

Dramatists Play Service

This Collection of short plays includes ... Ashes to Ashes - a man interrogates a woman about her lover and involvement in wartime atrocities. The woman is haunted by appalling memories - genocide, deportat...

$13

Contributions

Ted Shine

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 2 Female

Plantation deals with a rich and racist plantation owner awaiting the birth of his first son - who proves to be black The startling revelations which follow lead to blackmail, mayhem and sudden death, al...

$13

Bridal Terrorism

Billy Rosenfield

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Lionel anticipates a quiet afternoon in the park in this one act comedy Just as he settles on a bench with a book, an armed woman in a wedding gown approaches with her bridal retinue May has booked the chu...

$8.99

Lost and Found

Peter Maloney

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

On a stormy New Year's Eve, at the end of a fancy party, Leo loses his umbrella and finds love He is a shy, neurotic young man who at first refuses to be cheered up by Jeannie, a shy but well adjusted eleme...

$8.99

The Shiny Red Ball

Cleve Haubold

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 0 Female

Charlie and Johnny wander in to do a day's work At a signal, they don their buyer and seller suits to play out a hilarious game of trading for a shiny red ball in this one act comedy Each tries every trick...

$8.99

The Monkey's Paw

Brainerd Duffield From W W Jacob

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

W W Jacob's classic about a mummified monkey's paw that bestows three wishes on its new ownerA married couple first wish to test the efficacy of the talisman Their second wish brings their dead son back f...

$8.99

The Drunken Sisters

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 3 Female

Wilder's conception of the satyr that followed Euripides' Alcestis in ancient Greek festivals Apollo ventures into the land of the three sisters of Fate who control the threads of each man's life and here, ...

$8.99

Poor Aubrey

George Kelly

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 3 Female

When Amy Piper receives a visit from an old girl friend her husband, Aubrey, tries desperately to impress the visitor in this one act comedy This is his usual way He is flattered by her compliments on his ...

$8.99

The Signet Book of Short Plays

M Jerry Weiss

Signet Classics

This introduction to the ever-evolving tradition of American theater includes 12 works from such noted writers as Horton Foote, William Saroyan, Shel Silverstein, Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, and T...

$4.95

Chicken!

Mark Wheeller

Salamander

It’s Christmas. Tammy and Chris, cousins and best mates, are both thrilled to get cool new bikesGive or take the odd unworn cycle helmet everything is great That is until one morning when Chris has a punct...

$14.99

Freud's House

Laurence Klavan

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 1 Female

Eric and Sharon went to high school together; now, twenty years later, they meet again during a service at a Manhattan synagogue He is a struggling model and substance abuser in a shallow relationship wi...

$9

The Space Couple

Edan Schappert

Brooklyn Publishing

1 Male 1 Female

Two astronauts, a man and a woman who constantly bicker with each other, are picked to go on an extraordinary space trip. When the man has to give up the controls because he's scared, the woman takes over ...

$7.99

Effie's Burning

Valerie Windsor

Samuel French Ltd

0 Male 2 Female

Effie, who has lived in mental institutions since the age of thirteen, has been admitted to hospital with severe burns Treating her is Dr Ruth Kovacs, who finds in Effie's extraordinary story of injustice a...

$12.99

Alice in Love

Dana Yeaton

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

A timely, contemporary play about the powerful feelings and forces that drive a young girl's decision about when to become sexually active Alice in Love was winner of the 1993 Vermont State Drama Festival ...

$8.99

The Shirkers

C M S McLellan

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

A shepherd, driven to despair by loneliness and sorrow, stabs his wife and returns to his humble cabin exactly one year later to find her body, warm and freshly bleeding, precisely where he left it REVIEWS ...

$8.99

Power Plays - Three One-Act Plays

Elaine May & Alan Arkin

Samuel French Inc

Consists of The Way of All Fish, Virtual Reality and In and Out of the Light, three short plays about the collision of wills that were an Off Broadway comedy sensation starring the authors, Elaine May and Al...

$10.99

Acrobats & Line - Two Plays

Israel Horovitz

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 1 Female

Line ~ One by one a group of unacquainted people come together to form a line for some unnamed, upcoming event. The first to arrive is a burly, beer-drinking, sweat-shirted "middle American;" then an alie...

$13

Out of Our Father's House

Paula Wagner & Jack Hofsiss & Eve Merriam & Ruth Crawford Seeger & Daniel Schrier

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 3 Female

Based on Eve Merriam's Growing Up Female in America, this moving play is drawn from the diaries, journals and letters of women: a schoolgirl - founder of the Women's Suffrage Movement, an astronomer, a labor...

$8.99

The Dullsville Mystery

Kim Esop Wylie

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 8 Female

Dullsville a town on the brink of terminal boredom But when a crime of teenage angst explodes, the town is catapulted into an epic whodunit Who can fathom this most heinous of crimes? How can anyone in t...

$8.99

The Darkest Hour

Charles George

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

This is one of the most powerful stories ever condensed into a one act play. It tells the story of young John Madison, within four hours of his execution for murder, having been found guilty on circumstantia...

$8.99