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The Summons of Sariel

The Summons of Sariel

By Magdalene Kessie.

Product Code: S57000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Praise Group
Cast Size: 3m., 9w.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

Just outside Eternity, the Soul of a girl meets the Clay and the Spirit. She longs to return to Earth where the doctors are working to save her.

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A Tempting Fate

A Tempting Fate

By Brad Stoller.

Product Code: TE3000

One-act Play
Recommended For: College Theatre
Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

A husband and wife discover the relief of turning their life over to fate by using first a coin and then dice to make all decisions. Eventually, the quixotic oracle turns their lives upside down.

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Best Student One Acts: Volume 7

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There Was A Bigness

There Was A Bigness

By Erik Ramsey.

Product Code: TC1000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Senior Theatre
Cast Size: 2m.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A liquor store clerk has inherited the shop from his deceased father, and now has to deal with one of the regular customers, a functional alcoholic.

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Short Stuff: Ten- to Twenty-Minute Plays for Mature Actors

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A Thousand Words

A Thousand Words

By Marianne Sexton-Kelley.

Product Code: TC9000

One-act Play
Recommended For: College Theatre
Cast Size: 3m., 4w.

Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

A teenage boy who cannot speak is the focus of love and concern in this portrait of life in a community where people care deeply about the fortunes of others.

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Best Student One Acts: Volume 5

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Two Thieves in a Trap

Two Thieves in a Trap

By Tom Gannon.

Product Code: TC8000

One-act Play
Recommended For: College Theatre
Cast Size: 4m.

Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Two men who enjoy unusual bets play an afternoon of golf together, and the stakes are particularly high.

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Upright

Upright

By James Hilburn.

Product Code: U26000

One-act Play
Recommended For: College Theatre
Cast Size: 3m.

Approx. Run Time: 20 min.

Two homeless men find themselves in trouble when one of them steals from a local drug dealer.

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Best Student One Acts: Volume 4

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Where's Your Stuff?

Where's Your Stuff?

By Daniel Brenner.

Product Code: W85000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 2m., 1w.

Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

A young man who has given up his faith is haunted in the middle of the night by the spirit of his long-departed bar mitzvah coach, Cantor Birnbaum.

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Voices From Ariel: Ten-Minute Plays Reflecting the Jewish Experience

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Requiem

Requiem

By Jerome McDonough.

Product Code: RB8000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 12 to 15 actors, flexible.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

The call to war is relentless and takes nearly everyone until a mother deprives them of more fodder for their killing machine.

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The Three Old Women's Bet

The Three Old Women's Bet

By R. Rex Stephenson.

Product Code: TR3000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | Touring Group
Cast Size: 4m., 4w., extras

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

This Blue Ridge Mountain folktale comedy is about three competitive sisters who each try to prove their husband is the most foolish.

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The Narrenschneiden or, The Fool-ectomy

The Narrenschneiden or, The Fool-ectomy

Adapted by I. E. Clark. Based on the play by Hans Sachs.

Product Code: N74000

One-act Play
Recommended For: High School | College Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group | Dinner Theatre
Cast Size: 3 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

Translation of a 16th century play by Hans Sachs, in which a man's foibles are surgically removed in order to relieve his bloated condition.

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