Thirty Famous One-act Plays

Thirty Famous One-act Plays
Author: Bennett Cerf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 650
Release: 1949
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

The playwrights range from Strindberg to Coward & Saroyan in the anthology that also includes biographical sketches.

Introduction to Modern One-act Plays

Introduction to Modern One-act Plays
Author: Marsh Cassady
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1991
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

The one-act play occupies a special niche in the history of modern theatre, attracting major talents like Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell, Terence Rattigan, James M. Barrie, and J. M. Synge, Dorothy Parker and George S. Kaufman. In this collection, 'An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays, ' Marshall Cassady, veteran writer and teacher, has assembled seventeen complete one-acters by these and other famous writers.

Sixteen Public Domain One-Act Plays by Modern Authors

Sixteen Public Domain One-Act Plays by Modern Authors
Author: Booth Tarkington
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1592241867

This fine selection of 20th century plays includes contributions from Robert Emmons Rogers ("The Boy Will"), Booth Tarkington ("Beauty and the Jacobin"), Ernest Dowson ("The Pierrot of the Minute"), Oliphant Down ("The Maker of Dreams"), Percy MacKaye ("Gettysburg"), A.A. Milne ("Wurzel-Flummery"), Harold Brighouse ("Maid of France"), Lady Gregory ("Spreading the News"), Jeannette Marks ("Welsh Honeymoon"), John Millington Synge ("Riders to the Sea"), Lord Dunsany ("A Night at an Inn"), Stark Young ("The Twilight Saint"), Lady Alix Egerton ("The Masque of the Two Strangers"), Maurice Maeterlinck ("The Intruder"), Josephine Preston Peabody ("Fortune and Men's Eyes"), and John Galsworthy ("The Little Man"). All of these plays may be staged free of charge in the United States (and possible in other countries--check your local copyright laws for details).

Sweet and Twenty

Sweet and Twenty
Author: Floyd Dell
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2022-06-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Published in 1921, this volume comprises fifty representative one-act plays of the modern theater, selected from the dramatic works of contemporary writers worldwide. The work meets a long-felt demand for an accessible collection of the most premium plays created by art theaters all over the world. It is a whole repertory for a little theater, a volume for studying the contemporary drama, a representative collection of the world's finest short plays. This volume includes famous: Belgium play The Intruder by Maurice Maeterlinck; German play The Tenor by Frank Wedekind; British play Mary's Wedding by Gilbert Cannan; Indian play The Judgment of Indra by Dhan Gopal Mukerji; Italian play The Rights of the Soul by Giuseppe Giocosa; American play The Shadowed Star by Mary MacMillan; French play Francoise's Luck by Georges Porto-Riche and many more.

Play it Again!

Play it Again!
Author: Norman A. Bert
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1993
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Twenty-five contemporary one-act plays by nationally known playwrights designed to fit many needs. Includes plays for one, two, or three actors with a playing time of 10 to 15 minutes with about 5 minutes acting time per character. Each play is a complete work--no cuttings-- and are of contest caliber.

Play the Scene

Play the Scene
Author: Michael Schulman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2004-12-07
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780312318796

A collection of over a hundred scenes and monologues from plays from the Elizabethan period to contemporary Tony Award winners.