Download or read book New One act Plays for Acting Students written by Deb Bert and published by Meriwether Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Fifteen American One act Plays written by Paul Kozelka and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 1961 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of plays by such authors as: Christopher Morley, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gerge S. Kaufman, Booth Tarkington, Zona Gale, and Stephen Vincent Benet, among others.
Download or read book The Apartment Complex Seven One Act Plays written by William Inge and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: MARGARET’S BED. Elsie picks up Ben at the symphony and brings him back to the apartment she shares with Margaret, who is away for the night. Ben assumes that this is a prelude to sex, but truly Elsie is just desperate for Ben to sleep in Margaret’s empty bed, because she has a pathological fear of sleeping in an empty apartment. (1 man, 1 woman.) THE KILLING. Mac meets Huey at a bar and brings him home to his apartment to share a bottle of whiskey, but this isn’t the kind of pick-up you might think. Mac, who is a religious man and fears damnation, hopes to convince Huey, who does not believe, to kill him. (2 men.) THE POWER OF SILENCE. Teachers at the same school, Emma and Louise have been receiving mysterious phone calls, and when Emma answers, no one speaks. Louise is less disturbed by the calls, but they make Emma frantic, and she is sure that one of her students is responsible. After several silent calls, someone rings their door buzzer repeatedly. But who’s there? (2 men, 2 women.) PRODIGAL. Terry is a troubled teen who’s been arrested multiple times and is on probation. In fact, if his mother won’t let him stay with her, Terry has to turn himself in and go back to “the farm.” Nancy has a chance at a new life with a new husband, though, and she can’t handle her son anymore. But her decision has dire consequences for others. (1 man, 2 women.) THE CALL. Joe has traveled to New York City from Billings, Montana for a Shriners-like convention and parade, but he is weighed down by his sense of failure and fear of a changing world. He can’t even bring himself to stay with his successful actress sister and her husband in their tony apartment, preferring to drag his heavy suitcase to find a hotel room on a low floor. (2 men.) THE LOVE DEATH. Byron is a successful writer, living alone in a well-decorated apartment, who makes a series of calls to his mother, friends, and the critic who gave his last book of short stories a terrible review to let them know that he is about to commit suicide. (1 man, voices.) MOVED-IN. The super of the apartment complex, Mr. Flicker, is leaving, and the board has offered his job to Carlton. But Carlton, an African American who struggled to get admitted to the complex in the first place, isn’t sure he wants to take the job and give up the hate he feels for many of his fellow tenants. (2 men, 1 woman.)
Download or read book American Blues written by Tennessee Williams and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1948 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: MOONY'S KID DON'T CRY. A short play about a worker, his wife and child. (1 man, 1 woman.) THE DARK ROOM. A tragic sketch about an Italian woman and a welfare worker. (1 man, 2 women.) THE CASE OF THE CRUSHED PETUNIAS. A delightful, hum
Download or read book One act Plays for Acting Students written by Norman A. Bert and published by Meriwether Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 23 short length plays for a cast of one, two, or three. 5 minutes acting time for each character. Performance times vary from 8-15 minutes.
Download or read book 15 American One Act Plays written by Paul Kozelka and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twelve Classic One Act Plays written by Mary Carolyn Waldrep and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Magic Tower and Other One act Plays written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Download or read book Random Acts of Comedy written by Jason Pizzarello and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Twenty Contemporary One Act Plays written by Frank Shay and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Fifteen American One act Plays written by Paul Kozelka and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One act Comedies of Moli re written by Molière and published by Frederick Ungar. This book was released on 1975 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Study Course in American One act Plays written by Ethel Theodora Rockwell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twenty Contemporary One act Plays American written by Frank Shay and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great American one act plays written by Murray Schisgal and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twenty Contemporary One act Plays American written by Frank Shay and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twenty Contemporary One act Act Plays written by Frank Shay and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
