Short one act play pdf

One act comedy plays including the award winning comedy "Ruby Of Elsinore", the Roman farce "I, Colitus," the much performed two hander "Caught In The Act" and other off beat scripts about modern relationships.

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A collection of five short plays that take place in and around the theater, told from the point of the view of the audience, a writer, an invisible understudy, two characters trapped in a script going nowhere and a couple with conflicting memories of how an audition lead to much more than getting the part.

An evening of five short comedy plays that have fun with some of the most well know Shakespearean characters in newly created situations.

A bittersweet romantic comedy that moves back and forth in time as a couple accidentally reconnect ten years after sharing a passionate but shortlived relationship in this one act play.

2 women
2 men
2 actors
30 minutes

With his three ex-wives providing a running commentary, Prince Charming tries to figue out why marriages to Rapunzel, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty all fell apart.

5 women
1 man
25 minutes

Winner of the All-Ireland One Act Play Competition.

A freewheeling and bawdy farce in rhyme and verse about Julius Caesar,Cleopatra, Marc Anthony, Brutus, Cassius and all those other zanies who ran the Roman Empire. right into the ground by a writer who claims to have been there.

5 males
2 females
Minimum 3 actors to play all other roles.

Most recently performed by Shakespeare Orange County, CA starring Robert Hays (Airplane), Brent Spiner (Star Trek, Next Generation), David Denman, (13 Hours), Mercedes Mason (Fear The Walking Dead),, Jamie McShane (Bloodline), Gita Reddy (Zootopia), Patrick Fabian (Better Call Saul), Matt Corboy (The Descendants)and Eve Gordon (Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves)

Two characters trapped in a one act play find it difficult to sort out their relationship when their lines keep getting re-written in this popular two person one act.

1 male
1 female
25 minutes

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 Anne Boleyn.

5 women
15 minutes.

A deep dive into that black abyss known as the "male brain" to find out why and how men and women relate and more importantly don't relate.

5 Males
4 Females
20+ minutes