New One-act Plays for Acting Students
Title | New One-act Plays for Acting Students PDF eBook |
Author | Deb Bert |
Publisher | Meriwether Publishing |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Drama |
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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.
Five One-act Plays
Title | Five One-act Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Ball |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
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
Twelve Classic One-Act Plays
Title | Twelve Classic One-Act Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Carolyn Waldrep |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
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.
One-act Plays for Acting Students
Title | One-act Plays for Acting Students PDF eBook |
Author | Norman A. Bert |
Publisher | Meriwether Publishing |
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.
The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays
Title | The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
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."
Random Acts of Comedy
Title | Random Acts of Comedy PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Pizzarello |
Publisher | |
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
Introduction to Modern One-act Plays
Title | Introduction to Modern One-act Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Marsh Cassady |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill/Glencoe |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Drama |
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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.