Best One Act Plays

Author : Jason Pizzarello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0981909973

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Random Acts of Comedy by Jason Pizzarello Pdf

Home of the most popular one-act plays for student actors, Playscripts, Inc. presents 15 of their very best short comedies. From a blind dating debacle to a silly Shakespeare spoof, from a fairy tale farce to a self-hating satire, this anthology contains hilarious large-cast plays that have delighted thousands of audiences around the world. Includes the plays The Audition by Don Zolidis, Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit by Jonathan Rand, 13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview by Ian McWethy, Darcy's Cinematic Life by Christa Crewdson, The Whole Shebang by Rich Orloff, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Fifth Period by Jason Pizzarello, Small World by Tracey Scott Wilson, The Absolute Most Cliched Elevator Play in the History of the Entire Universe by Werner Trieschmann, The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet by Peter Bloedel, Show and Spell by Julia Brownell, Cut by Ed Monk, Check Please by Jonathan Rand, Aliens vs. Cheerleaders by Qui Nguyen, The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon by Don Zolidis, 15 Reasons Not To Be in a Play by Alan Haehnel

Author : Sam Shepard
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780345802767

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Fifteen One-Act Plays by Sam Shepard Pdf

Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume: Ages of the Moon Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley Short Life of Trouble The Unseen Hand The Rock Garden Chicago Icarus’s Mother 4H Club Fourteen Hundred Thousand Red Cross Cowboys #2 Forensic & The Navigators The Holy Ghostly Back Bog Beast Bait Killer’s Head

Author : Deb Bert,Norman A. Bert
Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : IND:30000087935379

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New One-act Plays for Acting Students by Deb Bert,Norman A. Bert Pdf

This latest volume in a series of short play anthologies compiled by Deb and Norman Bert provides roles for almost any mix of students in an acting class. The plays range in mood from serious and heavy to dark or satiric comedy to farce. The heart of the book includes fifteen scripts for two actors. Also included are five monologues and five three-character plays. The playwrights are icons of the American avante garde, writers who have contributed much to regional theatre over recent years. An excellent resource for classrooms and festival competition use.

Author : Mary Carolyn Waldrep
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486112527

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Twelve Classic One-Act Plays by Mary Carolyn Waldrep Pdf

This collection of royalty-free plays contains classics by well-known playwrights: Glaspell's Trifles, Synge's Riders to the Sea, Strindberg's The Stronger, plus works by Aristophanes, Chekhov, Yeats, Barrie, and others.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486112060

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Five Comic One-Act Plays by Anton Chekhov Pdf

Humorous gems by one of the masters of modern drama: The Anniversary, An Unwilling Martyr, The Wedding, The Bear, and The Proposal. For students, general readers, and amateur and professional theater groups.

Author : Molière
Publisher : Frederick Ungar
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036189616

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One-act Comedies of Molière by Molière Pdf

These are the best of Moliere's masterful one-acts, blending broad farce and pointed wit to express his never-ending delight in human foibles. But Moliere is more than just the "master of the laugh," for behind the comic gestures of these matchless rogues, tight-fisted masters, possessive lovers and elegant ladies lurk fears, insecurities and their consequences. Includes: The Jealous Husband, The Flying Doctor, Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed, The Imaginary Cuckold, The Rehearsal at Versailles, The Forced Marriage, The Seductive Mistress.

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822217058

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Seven One-act Plays by Wendy Wasserstein Pdf

THE STORIES: In BETTE AND ME, the author and the legendary Bette Midler get their hair done, try on makeup, and row a boat on the Hudson River. They finally end up at Radio City Music Hall, where Wendy rises from the orchestra pit on a half-shell w

Author : Nilo Cruz
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822219794

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Night Train to Bolina by Nilo Cruz Pdf

THE STORY: The play is set in Latin America in the mid-eighties, in an unidentified country, during the guerilla warfare. Threatened by starvation and abuse, two children flee their rural village for the city. Dancing on a fine line between innoc

Author : Israel Horovitz
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1968-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822205688

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The Indian Wants the Bronx by Israel Horovitz Pdf

THE STORY: An East Indian gets lost on his first day in New York as two teenage punks find him waiting at a lonely bus stop. He cannot understand English, and the boys have some fun with him-at least it starts out as fun. But little by little, as the minutes go by and the bus doesn't come, they get bored; then annoyed; then vicious. It is the very pointlessness of their brutality that makes the play-with its awful final image of the Indian jabbering into a dead phone-so disturbing. We are convinced that this is exactly what would happen at this particular bus stop on this particular night; we see, again, that violence in the big city is as much a child of ennui as of anger. And, as the nightmare spell of the play takes hold, and the boys torture their victim with increasing relish, we are brought to a shocking awareness of how thin the veneer of civilization can be-of how close beneath the surface of all men lurks the primitive impulse to hurt and humiliate those whose very helplessness and inability to communicate can only frustrate and enrage.

Author : Colin Dolley,Rex Walford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474213899

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The One-Act Play Companion by Colin Dolley,Rex Walford Pdf

The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill. Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Albee and Tennesee Williams. There are also lesser-known writers with plenty of material to offer, yet sourcing one-act plays to perform is notoriously hard. This companion is the first book to survey the work of over 250 playwrights in an illuminating A-Z guide. Multiple styles, nationalities and periods are covered, offering a treasure trove of compelling moments of theatre waiting to be discovered. Guidance on performing and staging one-act plays is also covered as well as essential contact information and where to apply for performance rights. A chapter introducing the history of the one-act play rounds off the title as a definitive guide.

Author : Tennessee Williams,Terrence McNally
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811219208

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The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays by Tennessee Williams,Terrence McNally Pdf

This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811216209

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Mister Paradise and Other One-act Plays by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time.

Author : Christopher Durang
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822214482

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Naomi in the Living Room & Other Short Plays by Christopher Durang Pdf

THE STORIES: NAOMI IN THE LIVING ROOM. Naomi, when visited by John and Johnna, her son and daughter-in-law, is alternately friendly and insulting. Johnna copes her best, but when John changes his clothes to look like Johnna, things start to unravel

Author : Kathryn Schultz Miller
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0871290049

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A Thousand Cranes by Kathryn Schultz Miller Pdf

Author : Diane Flacks,Richard Greenblatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106011382378

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Sibs by Diane Flacks,Richard Greenblatt Pdf

Sibs is an impressionistic exploration, fast and often very furious, of the complex relationship between brothers and sisters. Anchored in a poignant moment_adult siblings dealing with their parents' estate--the play flashes through many stages of sibling history, from infancy through the rich misery of growing up, the alien landscape of the adolescent years, and the inevitable confusion of adult years.