New One-act Plays for Acting Students

New One-act Plays for Acting Students
Author: Deb Bert
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2003
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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.

Twelve Classic One-Act Plays

Twelve Classic One-Act Plays
Author: Mary Carolyn Waldrep
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-03-12
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0486112527

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.

Seven One-act Plays

Seven One-act Plays
Author: Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2000
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822217053

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

The One-Act Play Companion

The One-Act Play Companion
Author: Colin Dolley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-01-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474213898

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.

The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays

The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2011
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780811219204

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."

Fifteen One-Act Plays

Fifteen One-Act Plays
Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0345802764

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

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

One-act Plays for Acting Students

One-act Plays for Acting Students
Author: Norman A. Bert
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1987
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780916260477

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.

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.

Six One-Act Plays

Six One-Act Plays
Author: Stanford
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1983
Genre:
ISBN: 9788125002888

Containing plays by Chekhov, James Barrie, Sacha Guitry, W. W. Jacobs and Margaret Wood, this book provides an introduction, exercises, notes and stage directions which will be extremely useful to student performers.