Five Comic One-Act Plays

Five Comic One-Act Plays
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0486112063

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.

Five One-act Plays

Five One-act Plays
Author: Alan Ball
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1994
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822213680

THE STORIES: The perfect young woman and her perfect young boyfriend in MADE FOR A WOMAN are perfect examples of the image conscious society in which we live. She has everything and he does too, and they have each other. All is fine until she feels

Take Five

Take Five
Author: Westley M. Pederson
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1983
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780871292681

What happens when the technicians haven't finished the set yet, but it's opening night, an audience member gets a phone call from his wife (on the mistakenly live phone on stage), and a stagehand gets recruited to take the place of a missing actor?

Random Acts of Comedy

Random Acts of Comedy
Author: Jason Pizzarello
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780981909974

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

Bob

Bob
Author: Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2012
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822226673

THE STORY: BOB chronicles the highly unusual life of Bob and his lifelong quest to become a Great Man. Born and abandoned in the bathroom of a fast food restaurant, Bob energetically embarks on an epic journey across America and encounters inspir

All in the Timing

All in the Timing
Author: David Ives
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 337
Release: 1994-11-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 067975928X

The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" and "fraud" comes out as "freud." At once enchanting and perplexing, incisively intelligent and side-splittingly funny, this original paperback edition of Ives's plays includes "Sure Thing," "Words, Words, Words," "The Universal Language," "Variations on the Death of Trotsky," "The Philadelphia," "Long Ago and Far Away," "Foreplay, or The Art of the Fugue," "Seven Menus," "Mere Mortals," "English Made Simple," "A Singular Kinda Guy," "Speed-the-Play," "Ancient History," and "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread."

5-Minute Plays

5-Minute Plays
Author: Lawrence Harbison
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781495069246

The plays in this volume of 5-Minute Plays are geared toward adults. Some are comedic, some are dramatic, some are realistic in style, while others are more unconventional. Their length makes them perfect for scene work in class. A few of the plays are written by playwrights who have established quite a reputation with their full-length plays, such as Don Nigro, Lee Blessing, Y York, and Sheila Callaghan. But most are by what I call exciting up-and-comers, such as Nicole Pandolfo, Merridith Allen, Andrew Biss, Adam Kraar, Stephanie Hutchinson, Judy Klass, John McKinney, Scott C. Sickles, Graham Techler, Eric Grant, Deanna Alisa Ableser, Kerri Kochanski, Lisa Bruna, and Grace Trotta.