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- $7.97 – $40.00
This’ll Only Take a Second
- 30-45 minutes
- 1 F
Classroom Use, Competitions, Depression, Simple Set
As Miranda prepares to go to sleep, she recounts the events of her day—and her life—through a series of imagined and surreal interactions with her parents and psychiatrist.
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PTSD & Me
- 60 - 90 minutes
- 1 F
Monologue, Poetic Drama, Bare Stage, Community
A one-woman play script consisting of a collection of poetic monologues, that is irresistibly lined with head-bopping rhythms and palpable poetry, is Spoken Word Poetry at its best. Lays bare the horror and humor of war.
Read More - $12.95 – $75.00
ABC’s of Memory
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 1 - 50 M or F
Auditions, Monologue, spoken word, Spoken Word Theatre, Variable Length, Reader's Theater
Lianne’s ABCs of Memory touch on cultural milestones such as Elvis, Nancy Drew, Wonder Bread, 9-11, and Ty Cobb, as well as personal memories of family life. These poems both celebrate and mourn America’s past and present.
These are dramatic poems. Life happens. Events occur. Here is an elegy for our American Dream. As such. these poems are naturals for forensics, scene study, and spoken word events.
Read More - $11.00 – $60.00
The Hidden Stream
- 15 -90 minutes
- 1 F
Monologue, Poetic Drama, Reader's Theater
A moving, insightful autobiography combining poetry and reflection reveals the emerging life and art of a poet.
Read More - $10.80 – $79.98
Monsters
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 1-6M; 1F; Min 1, Max 7
Auditions, Monologue, Poetic Drama, Variable Length, Bare Stage, Collection, Highly Theatrrical, Reader's Theater
Seven contemporary monologues that take the audience into a roller coaster ride of the psyche from predators to bizarre takes on the afterlife. Featuring an electric chair experiment, missing body parts and a weird scientific experiment to name a few. Great solo performance ideas.
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Dreams of Glass
- 40 Minutes
- 1 F
Monologue, Colleges, Community, Competitions, Teens
A one-woman short play with comedic and dramatic elements. Daisi Dickie, a young woman with dreams of becoming a clairvoyant and a changer of lives discovers her power to influence her own life.
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Short Plays for Long Lives
- 10 - 60 minutes
Collection, Doubling Possible, Flexible Casting
A collection of six 10-minute plays for seniors and senior theater groups. With mostly senior cast members, these short comedies plays about old people play well for senior groups and senior actors. They may be produced as Readers Theater, or on stage individually or as a group. These are good plays for amdram groups and community theater.
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Voices from the Bible: Monologues for Women
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 1 - 12 Females
Bare Stage, Flexible Casting, Simple Set
Read MoreThese 16 fictional monologues by Gillette Elvgren are based on women in the Bible. They range from the profound and moving to the comic and even sassy. Find the biblical characters you would expect: Mary, Mother of Jesus; Mary Magdalene; and Martha. Add to that the Witch of Endor and Claudia, the wife of Pilate and you have a vibrant mix of voices, both serious and comic. This collection of monologues can be performed as an evening or individually as a portion of a church or school event. - $9.95 – $50.00
Monologues for Men: Voices from the Old Testament
- 10 - 60 minutes
Bare Stage, Flexible Casting, Simple Set
These voices from the Old Testament are perfect for Christian solo drama performances. Also with voices of contemporary men of faith, struggling or affirming their beliefs bring modern issues to life. Perfect for inclusion in virtual church services and programs, and also as audition pieces. For performance rights for individual monologues, please contact us.
Read More - $11.95 – $75.00
A Mirror in Time
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 2-6 M. 2-6 F, Max 12, Min 2
Collection, Simple Props, Simple Set
A series of fifteen enthralling fictional monologues by historical figures. They range from Kate Hogarth’s Dickens’ musing on her husband’s obsession with Queen Victoria (he essentially stalked her) to the recollections of Tsali, a Cherokee warrior, as he recalls the loss of his family on the Trail of Tears, to the recollections of Harriet Tubman on life and love as she forges a trail to freedom. The plays focus on how love and marriage may have changed the course of history.
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Monologues for Men: Voices from the New Testament
- 5 - 60 minutes
- 1 - 12 Males
Simple Props, Simple Set
In these voices from the New Testament, prolific Christian writer Gillette Elvgren portrays not only the Biblical characters one might expect but also contemporary voices struggling with religious issues. A collection of monologues based around characters from the Bible – New Testament. Perfect not only for inclusion in religious services and programs, but also as audition pieces.
For performance of individual monologues, please Contact Us for information
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Short Shorts for Seniors
- 5 - 60 minutes
- 1+Females 2+Males Max 12 Min 3 (Doubling Possible)
Dramedy, Seniors, Comedy, Community
French fries are outlawed? Animals invade a retirement community? Did we hear polka music? This collection of five short plays for seniors is funny and touching at the same time. These plays by prize-winning playwright and award-winning actress Ludmilla Bollow, illustrate the drama that touches our everyday lives.
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Screwtape Rewired
- 60 Minutes
- 1 Male, 0 Female, Min/Max 1
Drama
This one-person show was inspired by C.S. Lewis’ classic offering, The Screwtape Letters, and features the demon SCAPEGLOAT, as he instructs a mélange of demons in the finer points of how to bring a couple of humans, Christie and Charlie, into his hellish domains. A distinctly Christian point of view.
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Robert Arthur’s Eastern Shore
Musical Drama, Poetic Drama, Colleges, Community, High School, Large Cast, Middle School, Professional
ROBERT ARTHUR’S EASTERN SHORE by Robert P. Arthur, twice nominated for Virginia’s Poet Laureate: The book includes 4 one-act plays, a selection of his award-winning poems, and “Hymn to the Chesapeake,” a play with music. The culture of the Eastern Shore watermen and waterwomen has long been threatened by the erosion of winds off the Chesapeake Bay and a dwindling supply of crabs and “ersters” to be harvested. These poems and plays celebrate that life and allow us, to share the triumph and the pain of finding one’s livelihood and reason for being in an environment that is both beautiful and unforgiving.
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For the Least of These
- 15 - 90 Minutes
- 1 Male 4 Females Max 4 Min 1
Classroom Use, Monologue, Collection, Competitions, Doubling Possible, Minimal Set, Reader's Theater, School Touring, Simple Props
A Collection of Inspirational Monologues by Gillette Elvgren, this play is a compendium of monologues by great Christian women since the 3rd Century A.D. For the Least of These can be performed by a single actress as a one-woman show, or by several actresses. For the use of single monologues as part of a religious service, send us a message using our Contact Form
Read More - $9.00 – $60.00
A Cold Day in Hell
- 50 Minutes
- 1 Male 0 Female Max/Min 1
Community, Simple Set, Touring
A Cold Day in Hell portrays one man’s effort at resolving his despair at his dilemma of having a hospitalized, comatose wife, apparently with no hope of recovery, and grown children who seem to him to be self-absorbed and detached from his plight.
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A tour-de-force single-character play by author Jan Quackenbush, its actor, Michael Liscio was awarded a 1988 Los Angeles Dramalogue Award in a long-running production by the California Cottage Theatre, 1988-1991.