Category: One Act Play
TO THE PASSER BY | Fiorella Ruas | Play
To The Passer By a monologue by Fiorella Ruas A homeless bi-gender street entertainer called JO-JOE does a cartwheel by a wall. Falls. Lifts themselves up. Backs up. Bends down to pick up two juggling sticks. Throws […]
Pals | M Sean Dowd | One Act Play
Act I Scene III The Three Witches Portend What is to Come Dedicated to “PALS,” the Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society originally established to save lands in the Niagara Fruit Belt and now growing in Southern China and Batam Island. Witch 1 When shall we greet greed again? When gardens gone they know […]
BARABBAS | Tom Byrne | One Act Play
It is the evening before their crucifixion. Sling and Smiley (who never smiles) stare forward and Jesse is in a corner deep in prayer. Their dungeon is forbidding. The formal names of these men are Saul ben Isaac (Sling), Ezra ben Abraham (Smiley), and Jeshua ben Joseph (Jesse/Jesus). Sling This can’t be! I’m remembering […]
Learning To Fly | Leon Kaye | Play
LEARNING TO FLY a ten-minute play SYNOPSIS: An elderly woman wants to take flying lessons SETTING: Minimal. Couch and table. TIME: The present. CHARACTERS: GRAM – Late 60’s, unassuming PHIL – teenage athlete LEE — Bitter, 40’s. GAIL – Twenties, rational but self-centered (Couch center and arm chair […]
The Devil Is In The Eggs | Karen Siff Exkorn | Play
CHARACTERS DIANE A vibrant married woman in her 60’s–Joe’s wife JOE A somewhat jaded married man in his 60’s–Diane’s husband DIANE (60’s) and JOE (60’s) have been married for 35 years. They’re seated at the kitchen table. JOE has a big bowl of hard boiled eggs and is making deviled eggs. […]
No More Flowers | Dana Hall | One Act Play
PRODUCTION Minimal set. A couch, painting, easel. The Black Iris can be indicated, replicated, or projected- all artistic interpretation welcome. REVELANT HISTORY Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American modernist artist. She was known for her painting of skyscrapers, landscapes, and monumental flowers, which were a combination of realism and abstraction. Unbeknownst to O’Keeffe, her […]
Eureka| Edward Lee | Play
Lights up on a laboratory. Everything state of the art, cold, clean, clinical. A workstation with desktop computer on top of it is roughly centre stage, while downstage, near stage left there is the suggestion of a door (the frame, nothing else) SCATTERSCREW stands at door, keeping watch. BRIARTAPE sits at a workstation, laboriously two-finger-typing […]
She Wears the Rainbow on her Waist|Adeola Juwon |One Act Play
CHARACTERS Dewunmi: A village maiden. Funmilade: A village maiden – Dewunmi’s friend. Dare: A young man – Dewunmi’s admirer. SCENE The early hours of a Saturday morning, two young women are on their way to the only borehole in the village of Alara. They have only their wrappers on. […]