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Acting Scripts with Two Female Actors
Acting Scripts with two female actors include comedy, drama, dramedy, one-act scripts, short scripts, full-length play scripts, and plays with music.
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Daddy’s Silhouette
- 10 minutes
- 2F1M
From her earliest memory, Quiana, an African American woman in her twenties, is desperate for the love of an absentee father, which carries into her adulthood. Her fear of abandonment bleeds into her marriage to Tommy, an easy-going seaman, who demonstrates saint-like patience with his wife’s chronic daddy issues.
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Papito
- 10 minutes
- 2F1M
Simple Set
Papito is a ten-page short play addressing parentification, specifically how a young man who grows up without a father assumes the partnership role with his mother and has difficulty establishing a healthy partnership with a significant other. The narrator, Zoe, is that significant other who is frustrated with her domineering mother-in-law and her husband who refuses to establish needed boundaries for his mom.
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The Legacy of an Invisible Father
- 10 minutes
- 2F2M
flexible cast, Simple Set
“The Legacy of an Invisible Father” is a 10-min drama within Monique Franz’s play series “Legacy of a Father.” The short play highlights one woman’s futile attempt to locate a father through a private investigator. Angela’s lifelong loss of a father figure is further complicated by her biracial identity and her struggles with an unloving mother. Within the script, Angela must come to the terms that fate hadn’t been cruel to her at all, that maybe the absence of her father was the heavens working in her favor.
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Unlocked Doors
- 10 minutes
- 0M2F
Simple Set
“Unlocked Doors” is a 10-min drama within Monique Franz’s play series, “Legacy of a Father” , and touches on the impact of incest for one woman. Christine, a wife and mother in her thirties, is losing her faith and has hit an emotional wall due to the past sexual abuse of her father. Decades after the abuse, Christine is challenged to aggressively take back the control robbed from her as a child.
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Legacy of a Father
- 80 Minutes
- 2-9 VARIABLE
Collection, Doubling Possible, flexible cast, Simple Set
“Legacy of a Father” is a collection of seven dramatic and comedy one-act plays inspired by real one-on-one, personal interviews conducted by the playwright, Monique Franz. The series addresses a fatherless theme and deals with absentee fathers and the absence of what a father traditionally provides.
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Playroom
- 110 Minutes
- 2F-5F, 2M - 5M
Simple Set
Playroom is a series of comedies created by the author as a way to explore the short play and “one act” format, one setting (and one evening) at a time. An otherwise ordinary family, the characters of Hinton’s Playroom are thrust into extraordinary, supernatural, and preternatural circumstances.
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Patres Familias
- 20 Minutes
- 2M/0F Max/Min 2
Simple Set
“Patres Familias” is the sixth installment in the Playroom series, and this one finds Rich just off of his back porch, stealing some time (and some beer) with his neighbor.
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Dinner With Osmina
- 20 Minutes
- 2-3F, 2-4M
Simple Set
“Dinner with Osmina” is the seventh installment in the Playroom series, and it finally features the whole family in one place! The anticipation of a nice family dinner bringing everyone together explodes because of an unexpected guest.
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All the Year
- 10 minutes
- 2F2M
Simple Set
Where has the time gone? The eighth and final installment of Hinton’s Playroom series, “All the Year”, is set in the living room – one decorated for every big day on the calendar.
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The Straight Dope
- 10 minutes
- 2F2M
Simple Set
Jeff, a college student who, in his words, “has honorable intentions, a good future, and works out 3 times a week” asks his friend Bob for advice on women after he learns that Veronica can’t stomach him. He wonders if he’s asked the right person when he discovers that Bob doesn’t even know how Marvin Gaye died. Alicia puts it all into perspective.
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A Dark Day for Hinkley, J.
- 10 minutes
- 2F1M
Simple Set
John Hinkley Jr. (attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan) must use his newly-learned coping skills to deal with the news that the “love of his life”, Jodie Foster, is not “playing on the same team” that he’d always assumed she was.
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Floyd Collins and the White Angels of Sand Cave
- 120 Minutes
- 3-7M/2-3F - MAX 50+/MIN 7
Colleges, Community, Doubling Possible, Drama, Edgy Play, Highly Theatrical, Large Cast
In Kentucky, caves were popular tourist attractions and a source of revenue. In 1925 Floyd Collins hoped to find another entrance to the Mammoth Cave, He got trapped undergound for two weeks and a frantic media circus ensued, heightened by a new invention, public radio broadcasts.
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Numbers Have Feelings
- 10 minutes
- 1M/4M or F
Fable, Farce, Young Audience, Fantasy, Middle School
What if numbers could feel? Does a number feel diminished when it is subtracted? Originally written for a math-tutoring business open house, this short script is perfect as a classroom or meeting diversion.
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