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characters, a man and a woman, trapped in a one act play try to
sort out their relationship while dealing with a scenario in which
their lines are constantly re-written.
23
pages
Two characters
One man- one woman. |
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| In
a land where "beauty is only skin deep - thank God" a "woman of
a certain age" takes drastic action when she learns that she's been
surpassed in the looks department by her sexy stepdaughter as the
tales of "Sleeping Beauty" and "Snow White" get rolled into a 90210
facelift in this funny one act play.
25
pages
7 characters
3 females - 4 males (smaller male roles can be double cast)
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A bittersweet story that moves back and forth in time as a couple
accidentally reconnect ten years after sharing a passionate but
shortlived relationship.
24 pages
4 characters
2 females - 2 males |
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| Winner
All Ireland One Act Play Competition
A slovenly
and indecisive Hamlet, a marriage bent Ophelia, an oversexed Gertrude,
a power hungry Claudius and a revenge seeking Ghost let their hair
down to Ruby, Elsinore's hairdresser with attitude in this award
winning one act play.
18 pages
6 characters
3 males - 3 females
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| A
comedic look at all the things that make modern romance so much
fun including infidelity, emotional masochism, envy, bad sex, letting
go and getting caught in this well reviewed one act.
33 pages
17 characters
7 women - 10 men
(Many opportunities for double casting) |
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"In
a comedy about love and men, Shakespeare's Juliet gets conflicting
advice from "Othello's" Desdemona, "Taming of the Shrew's"
Kate and, finally, just the severed head of Henry VIII's late wife
Anne Boleyn."
17 pages
Roles for five females. |
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Shakespeare's
famous balcony scene goes slightly askew when a fleeing Casanova shows
up to turn Romeo from a lover to a seducer under Juliet's balcony.
12 pages
3 characters
2 males - 1 female |
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This
funny one act takes place within the fevered imagination of a man
in a romantic crisis, as a confused dentist is tormented by three
fantasy women who represent his uptight fiancee, an oversexed wish
fullfillment bimbo and his whip cracking ex-wife.
18
pages
4 characters
1 male - 3 females
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The
sexy and suggestive computer voice of a high tech automobile becomes
jealous of the new owner's girlfriend and threatens to destroy his
life in this modern one act script.
16 pages
4 characters
2 male - 2 females |
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The
audience becomes part of the show in this one act play as a young
man engages some of the female attendees as well as the three areas
of his brain that affect sex and love while trying to find the girl
of his dreams in this funny and contemporary one act play.
15 pages
8 characters
4 males - 4 females |
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Four
friends participate in a dance of shifting romances, friendships
and betrayals in this modern one act play.
15
pages
6 characters
3 male - 3 females
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| Monologue-Male or Female |
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| A
snippy stage manager gets carried away in his/her instructions to
the audience regarding proper behaviour during the performance of
the play to follow. This short monologue can precede any production.
2
pages
1 character
Male or female |
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Cinderella
and Juliet commiserate about romantic love, happily ever after and
what went wrong with their marriages in this popular ten minute
play.
9 pages
3 women |
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With
a reptilian bartender acting as matchmaker, the future of the human
race looks anything but promising when a sophisticated Eve meets the
hunky but dim Adam over apple margaritas at the Garden of Eden Bar
& Grill in this audience pleasing ten minute play.
12 pages
3 characters
2 males - 1 female |
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A
man who claims to be inept around women successfully hits on them
by telling them why he doesn't find them attractive in this very funny
ten minute play.
8 pages
3 characters
1 male - 2 females |
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A woman relives her most
disastrous post divorce dates while lying to an on line dating service
she's trying to register with.
10
pages
7 characters
1 female - 6 males |
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What happens between the moment an angry woman demands a complete
stranger answer her cell phone and the moment she invites him home
in this modern one act play for two people..
6 pages
2 characters
1 female - 1 male |
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An egotistical super hero has difficulty consummating a liaison with
the sexy and eager wife of his super hero rival until he reveals his
true identity in this laugh filled ten minute play.
7 pages
1 female - 1 male |
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| A
stage actress refuses to do a nude scene only to become insanely
jealous when the director decides to replace her with an imaginary
actress that is stealing her thunder.
4
characters
2 male - 1 female
1 male or female
Roles
for one female, two males and one male or female. |
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Romance
and commitment get turned inside out when two emotional masochists
form a relationship based on mutual rejection.
7 Pages
Roles for one female and one male.
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Ever
wonder how those super hero movies make it to the big screen? This
hilarious short play takes you behind the scenes as a sexy, tough
talking female superhero with a chip on her shoulder negotiates the
sale of her life story to the movies.
7 pages
Roles for one female and one male. |
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It's
a matter of trust betrayed when an open marriage almost collapses
over the husband's revelation that he's never been unfaithful in
this topsy turvy ten minute play.
7 pages
1 male - 1 female. |
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A wife and a mistress want what the other has... until they get
it in this unusual contemporary ten minute play in which the characters
only address the audience and not each other.
7 pages
2 females - 1 male
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A
baseball/softball catcher uses the rules of grammar to drive opposing
batters crazy in this funny short play.
3 pages
4 characters
male or female |
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young couple try to explain where it all went wrong when she kept
changing and he never did in this short play for two people.
4 pages
2 characters
1 male - 1 female
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With
a hip hop style Roman Chorus providing narration, Julius Caesar's
wily number one slave Colitus tries to guide his thick and lustful
master through the jealousies and power grabs that threaten his
rule. In this bawdy two act play about the folks who ran the Roman
Empire - right into the ground - the luscious Cleopatra, the ambitious
Brutus, the lean and hungry Cassius and the dim witted Marc Antony
all make plans to knife Caesar in the back while Colitus maneuvers
to keep his master safe just along enough to gain his own freedom.
57
pages
10 characters
chorus that doubles in smaller roles
Listen to complete original audio production.
This is the abridged 35 minute version of the full length play.
Both the full length script and the abridged version are available
for production. |
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Tough talking, hardboiled detective Justin Thyme travels to 11th
century Denmark to find out who whacked Hamlet's old man and runs
into a king named Claudius who wants him dead, a prince named Hamlet
who doesn't know what he wants and a dame named Ophelia who wants
everything including Thyme in this award winning one act send up
of both Hamlet and the hard boiled detective genre.
38
pages
18 characters
Opportunities for double and triple casting
Listen to complete audio production of "The Case Of
The Prince Formerly Known As Hamlet" |
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Justin Thyme, the hard boiled fictional detective, gets burned by
an old flame by the name of Lady MacBeth, when he's hired to find
out who zotzed the King of Scotland in this hilarious one act send
up of Shakespeare's famous play.
25
pages
12 characters
6 male - 6 female |
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Nobody is what they seem when Justin Thyme, fictional detective,
heads to Sherlock Holmes country to find his client frightened to
death by a four hundred year old hound the size of a Buick and a
list of suspects that includes the slow witted heir to the murdered
man's fortune, his butler, a butterfly collecting twit and a beautiful
woman who immediately casts her spell over our detective.
27 pages
10 characters
7 males - 3 females |
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It's
a Grimm case of murder when Thyme searches for the killer of his
old pal William Jefferson "Humpty" Dumpty. Thyme suspects
the murder may be linked to the disappearance of a gorgeous young
dame. In search of the culprit, Thyme’s list of suspects grows
to include the beautiful, tough talking Rapunzel; Veronica Virago,
a woman who gives wicked stepmothers a bad name; B.B. Wolfe, the
local crime lord; not to mention a sexy frail named Bo Peep as well
as another dame who slinks in and out of Thyme’s life wearing
a “little red riding hood” – a very little red
riding hood.
32 pages
13 characters
8 women - 5 men
Opportunities for double casting |
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Thyme travels to Transylvania to find out why the country has experienced
a sudden shortage of virgins. No sooner does he arrive then his
old friend Igor tells him him that the man who summoned him is dead,
meets the delicious Molly, takes refuge in an eerie castle, meets
its master Count Dracula, gets locked in a cell, loses Molly, goes
on a bender, recovers only to find Molly has become an undead bride
of Dracula. Will Thyme defeat the immortal vampire? Will he rescue
Molly? And will our intrepid gumshoe escape a fate worse than death
when Molly proposes they marry and move to the suburbs?
30 pages
15 characters
7 males - 8 females |
Female
Monologues |
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A
woman fantasizes about the stranger of her dreams in this one minute
monologue.
1/2
page
1 female |
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Ophelia
dishes on the royal family while explaining why she has to marry
Hamlet or die.
4pages
1 female |
| Male Monologues |
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In
this delightful and funny monologue, the legendary Prince Charming
takes center stage to talk about the expectations, pressures and
disappointments that come with being every woman's "dream come
true." Along the way the Prince talks about his ex-wives Rapunzel
and Snow White and that beautiful girl he met at the ball who disappeared
at the stroke of midnight.
4 pages
1 male |
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An insecure and paranoid playwright talks about writing and women
two things he seems to know little about in this unusual comedy
monologue.
4 pages
1 male |
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