One Act Plays

In Spite of Everything

By Hindi Brooks.

Product Code: I64000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A mother and daughter renew each other's faith while trapped in a Tel Aviv apartment during an Iraq scud attack.

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An Interview With a Scapegoat

By Louis Greenstein.

Product Code: I63000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 2 either gender

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

In this clever Midrash biblical interpretation, a reporter is taken to task when she tries to get her story on the hottest goat in the wilderness!

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The Foot Peddler

By Vivian Green

Product Code: F65000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 1m.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A bumbling peddler tells of selling his wares in 19th-century Pennsylvania.

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The Ger (The Convert)

By Leslie B. Gold and Louis Greenstein.

Product Code: G72000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre

Cast Size: 1m., 2w.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A recent convert tries to rally support from family and friends.

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The Tiger Turned Pink

By Angela Randazzo.

Product Code: TB8000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Elementary School | Dinner Theatre

Cast Size: 6 or more actors. Roles may be played by adult of child actors of either sex.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Toby, a young tiger who turns pink whenever he blushes, is captured and displayed in a circus until audience interaction helps Toby put his escape plan into action.

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Aesop's Clinic

By John Tissot.

Product Code: AG3000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | TYA | Touring Group

Cast Size: 1m., 7 either gender.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

This title suggests how Aesop happened to write his famous fables. Lively, colorful characters (two foxes, a crow, a tortoise, a hare and two moles) come to Aesop to tell about their adventures: the tortoise and the hare had a race, the fox tried to reach some grapes high on a vine but failed, and so on. The adventures become the fables that we all love so well.

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A Different Drummer

By Patsy McKay-Jones.

Product Code: DD4000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 20+ actors, flexible.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Nine vignettes expose the feelings of young people who are treated cruelly for being different.

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Boys' Play

By Jack Heifner.

Product Code: B88000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Touring Group

Cast Size: 2m.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Through talk of sex, school, sports, families and the telling of ghost stories, Tom tests Joe's allegiance to him and eventually asks Joe to help him leave his current life behind. This play examines teenage friendship, sexuality and teen suicide.

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Do Not Go Gentle

By Suzan Zeder.

Product Code: D72000

One-act Play

Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Professional Theatre | TYA | Senior Theatre

Cast Size: 1m., 3w., 1 boy, 1 girl.

Limited Streaming Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

After her death, Lillian discovers that she cannot "move on" until the rifts between her son and granddaughter are somehow mended. When Windsor and Kelly come home to settle her affairs, they discover that the walls of her house have been painted with wild murals. As they unravel secrets of the paintings, the two make astonishing discoveries about themselves and a special relationship between Lillian and a neighborhood child.

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The Fourth Wise Man

Book by Joy Chaitin, Sarah Stevens and Marilyn D. Anderson. Music arranged by Joy Chaitin and Sarah Stevens. Based on The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke.

Product Code: F09000

One-act Play

Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | High School | Touring Group | Praise Group

Cast Size: 10 to 20m., 10 to 20w.

Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Musical version of the tale of the fourth wiseman, who chooses to help others rather than give his gifts to the baby Jesus, thereby learning the true meaning of Christ-like love at the first Christmas.

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