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One Act Plays


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Hogmanay

Hogmanay

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.
Hogmanay

Product Code: HJ2000

One-act Play
Recommended For: College Theatre | Community Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 2m., 4w.

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

As Ben and Molly prepare to celebrate Scottish New Year alone in their Oak Park home, an ice storm causes an automobile accident outside, and Molly and Ben end up as impromptu hosts to the accident victim Wallace, their next-door neighbor Sharon, their daughter Lizzy, and Wallace’s daughter Amy. Both the older and younger characters are forced to face the issues brought on by aging, which they muddle through with humor. Despite their regrets from the past and fears for the future, love endures.

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Recalculating

Recalculating

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.
Recalculating

Product Code: RF2000

One-act Play
Recommended For: College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 1 to 2m., 3 to 5w.

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Approx. Run Time: 35 min.

Financially strained art dealers Libby and Beth take an automobile ride across a big city to a rendezvous during which they appear engaged in the illegal sale of stolen fossils. Their trip is comically punctuated by the unctuous female voice of the GPS unit on the dashboard, which begins to make cryptic remarks that seem less concerned with geography and more with the course of Libby and Beth's lives, ultimately leading them to make a significant decision.

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Steering Into the Skid

Steering Into the Skid

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.
Steering Into the Skid

Product Code: S4W000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Community Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

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Approx. Run Time: 25 min.

In 12 short scenes from New Year’s Day to New Year’s Eve, Amanda and Tim, both in their 60s, face the changes wrought by advancing age and the gradual realization of Tim’s advancing dementia, forcing each character to adjust to new demands on their imperfect but loving marriage.

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Stuck in the Middle With You

Stuck in the Middle With You

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.
Stuck in the Middle With You

Product Code: S4V000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Community Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 1m., 1w.

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Approx. Run Time: 20 min.

Sheltering in place at their home in a small city, John and Allie contend with the difficulties—serious and comic—of isolation caused by a dangerous virus, as well as facing intimations of their own mortality and middle-class privilege.

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Continuum of Care

Continuum of Care

By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston.
Continuum of Care

Product Code: CT8000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Community Theatre | Senior Theatre | Touring Group
Cast Size: 2m., 2w.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

Retirees Louise, a former middle-school principal, and Albert, a former university professor, cope with the growing challenges of aging and the well-meaning efforts of their daughter Eleanor, an attorney, to have them move out of their home and opt for residence in an assisted living community.

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Glorious Gail

Glorious Gail

By Max Bush.
Glorious Gail

Product Code: GA9000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 2m., 3w.

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Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

Gail is awakened on the beach by her boyfriend at 9 o'clock in the morning. But she can't remember how she got there, or who wrote those words on her, or what happened last night. Then photos of her begin to appear on the web.

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The Three Old Women's Bet

The Three Old Women's Bet

By R. Rex Stephenson.
The Three Old Women's Bet

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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Requiem

Requiem

By Jerome McDonough.
Requiem

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 Narrenschneiden or, The Fool-ectomy

The Narrenschneiden or, The Fool-ectomy

Adapted by I. E. Clark. Based on the play by Hans Sachs.
The Narrenschneiden or, The Fool-ectomy

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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Downhill

Downhill

By Eric Coble.
Downhill

Product Code: DC6000

One-act Play
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College Theatre
Cast Size: 5 either gender

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Approx. Run Time: 10 min.

How does a distant corporate executive having a bad day threaten to ruin the coloring plans of a little girl in elementary school? Downhill comically explores the inevitable flow of fear and impatience, and what, if anything, can be done to halt it.

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