Bright Interval
Cherry Vooght
Samuel French Ltd
$12.99
Plays by Genre - One Act Plays
Open Secrets - Darby
Katy Darby
Samuel French Ltd
1 Male 2 Female
Tobias, struggling to pay tuition fees as he finishes his doctorate in moral philosophy, works as a chef in an unpopular tapas bar His girlfriend, Casey, is a waitress and T-shirt entrepreneur manqué who ne...
$12.99
Death
Woody Allen
Samuel French Inc
In this one act comedy, a maniacal killer is at large and Kleinman is caught between conflicting factions with plans on how to catch him Kleinman, a logical man in a mad world, is indecisive and insecure; h...
$7.99
Good Night Caroline
Conrad Seiler
Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 2 Female
At 2 a.m. a burglar climbs into Caroline's and Alfred's bedroom, and hides in the closet. Caroline excitedly calls to Alfred. He must search the house at once She rings for the maid but Selma, terrified,...
$13
Slow Memories
Barry Litvack
Dramatists Play Service
1 Male 3 Female
Martin, "an ordinary man with ordinary memories," lies in bed with his wife, Susan, struggling to clarify and comprehend the illusive memories that fill his mind Out of the shadows his mother appears, sp...
$9
Auto-Destruct & The Rhesus Umbrella
Jeff Wanshel
Dramatists Play Service
Auto-Destruct is "the story of a man who robbed the Bank of Mexico and married a gas station attendant" To be sure, there's a bank robbery; a double-cross; a get-away scene; and a passel of sneaky, slimy...
$13
Funeral Tea
Pat Wilson
Samuel French Inc
0 Male 4 Female
Mrs Ellis, the English lady who caters small weddings and funeral teas, says she usually serves boiled ham, "but seeing as 'ow this is my first cremation, I didn't think boiled 'am would be appropriate" A...
$8.99
Diary
Marcia Ann Shenk
Samuel French Inc
1 Male 1 Female
This suspense one act play explores the thin line separating reality from fantasy Jenny returns to her apartment and finds a strange young man waiting for her who knows every detail of her life The clue to...
$7.99
The New Girl
Vaughn McBride
Samuel French Inc
0 Male 2 Female
Clarissa and Flo live in an Idaho nursing home Clarissa is practically bed ridden and Flo, the "new girl," is in a wheelchair She enters Clarissa's room to get acquainted and a marvelous relationship quick...
$8.99
In Fireworks Lie Secret Codes
John Guare
Dramatists Play Service
3 Male 2 Female
The scene is a penthouse terrace on Manhattan's West Side, where a group of friends had gathered to watch the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks display on the Hudson River As they sip wine and call out the...
$13
Nasty Things, Murders
Arthur Lovegrove
Samuel French Ltd
0 Male 4 Female
In this one act drama four ladies in the Home for Retired Gentlewomen are upset when their TV breaks down at the climax of a real life murder drama As they talk about the murder, to the horror of three of t...
$12.99
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
Tom Stoppard
Samuel French Ltd
4 Male 2 Female
The world's most famous play in 15 zany minutes ... Following his success with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the author continues his association with H...
$12.99
The Establishment at Arles
Barry L. Hillman
Samuel French Inc
0 Male 6 Female
Based on characters created by Guy de Maupassant, this one act comedy gives a vibrant glimpse of life in a French "establishment" of 1888 which is both sad and humorous Candice comes to rescue her friend Yv...
$10.99
Women's Project & Productions - Rowing to America and Sixteen Other Short Plays
Julia Miles - editor
Smith & Kraus
Founded in 1978 by Artistic Director Julia Miles, Women's Project & Productions places women playwrights at center stage
$24.99
Fumed Oak
Noel Coward
Samuel French Inc
1 Male 3 Female
Subtitled An Unpleasant Comedy in Two Scenes, this one-act play comes from Coward's Tonight at 8-30 In the middle class drawing room of amiable and hard working Henry Gow passes most of the family life surr...
$8.99
Third and Oak - The Pool Hall
Marsha Norman
Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 1 Female
The scene is a rundown pool hall next door to the laundromat; the time, again, is shortly after 3 A.M., Shooter, a successful young black disc jockey, stops by to visit the owner, Willie, a bosom friend o...
$13
Bartok as Dog
Patrick Tovatt
Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 2 Female
Parsons, still lacking direction at the age of 35, attempts to "re-enter the mainstream" although he wants a night job so that the days will still be free to pursue his avocation of photography As the pl...
$13
Sleeping Beauty & Smoke
Laurence Klavan
Dramatists Play Service
4 Female
Sleeping Beauty Takes place in Malcolm Harrington's brand new condominium on Staten Island, which he shares with his delightfully kooky girlfriend, Louise Louise, who wants to decorate the apartment with...
$13
Rouge Atomique
N. Richard Nash
Dramatists Play Service
0 Male 2 Female
There are two characters, the Wife and the Woman, who love the same man and who sit chatting pleasantly over teacups. They would speak of kind and gentle matters and would be civilized above all But war ...
$13
The Brute and Other Farces
Anton Chekhov & Eric Bentley - ed
Samuel French Inc
A great-value Collection of all the farces of the great dramatist In The Brute Mrs Popoff, widow of a landowner, has vowed never to remarry and abjures the company of men forever Then Smirnoff, one of her...
$10.99