One-Act
One Act Play Scripts & Musicals
One act plays less than 60 minutes running time. A 1 act play script is written to be performed without an intermission. You will find one-act plays for middle school, high school. Discover one act comedies, one-act dramas, one-act dramedies, one-act Fables, one-act Fairytales, one-act Farces, one-act Satires, one-act Plays with Music. Find one act play scripts suitable for college, community groups, seniors groups, spiritual communities, professional theatres and touring theater companies.
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Accident
- 30 minutes
- 2F
Community, Competitions, Diverse Cast, Prejudice, Simple Set, Small Cast, Tolerance, Touring, Trust
Two women, one white and one black, meet as a result of an accident involving one of their sons. In this pre-trial. they each make unexpected discoveries that reveal the role that race and gender play in our society.
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AND SARAH LAUGHED: A Musical Comedy in One Act for A Solo Female Performer
- 60 Minutes
- 1 F
Farce, Monologue, music lead sheets included, Comedy, Participatory
In And Sarah Laughed: A Musical Comedy in One Act for A Solo Female Performance, a single actress emceeing a wedding reception delivers a comic glimpse into the world of women as they navigate to find their own place in a man’s world.
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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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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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The Yellow Brick Road Trip
- 10 minutes
- 1M / 3F 4 Max/Min
Fable, Fairy Tale, Farce, Community
A very different Dorothy lands in Oz to find some romantic interest from one of the Munchkins and a conflict over language and meaning from the Good Witch.
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Doctoring Justice
- 10 minutes
- 2M/1F/1M or F
Comedy, High School, Simple Set, Small Cast
A man commits triple murder and his lawyer is stricken with guilt at the realization that “success” means his client will get three meals a day and cable TV for the rest of his life.
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A Pastor’s Tale – The True Story of Silent Night
- 15 minutes
- 1 - 5F; 2-7M; Max 7; Min 7
Comedy, Simple Props, Teens
A one-act Christmas comedy – a play with live music for young actors, telling the story of how the Christmas song “Silent Night” came to be written. Set in Oberndorf, Austria in 1818, the play is staged with live guitar in a Readers Theatre format. Memorized historical vignettes are combined with a straight-forward Christmas reading. But it soon goes “off-book” as student readers question the truth of the text they’re reading, and they end up squabbling on stage among themselves. Just when their performance seems doomed, Josef Mohr remembers a short poem he had been writing—Silent Night.
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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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A Touch of Frost
- 20 - 60 minutes
- 2 Males, 1 Female Max/Min 3
School Touring, Simple Set, Touring
Three 20-minute comedies in one act. Wilford, from New York, has just bought and moved to a new homestead in Vermont, but he realizes that his new neighbors may not be from this planet! Mila, her son Klig, and husband Kulerie Klee, live on a farm next to Wilford’s and their adjoining farms are separated only by a stone wall which is beginning to fall apart. What to do? Knock it down? Build it back? – and what are they walling in and walling out? Can be performed by high school, college, university students or groups.
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