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Rescuing Bear
Category:
One-act Comedy
Audience:
Family, all ages
Cast
Breakdown: 2f, 2m
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
10 minutes
Synopsis :
Susan and Charlie
were content with having two dogs until Clara calls them looking
to place a hurricane Katrina rescue (Bear) who has been in a
kennel for a year after the storm. The dog is a pedigree
Brittany Spaniel, and looking at his picture, is a stunning
animal. The couple are moved by Bear's sad story and agree
to adopt him. But when they get the dog home, they
discover that he has multiple illnesses and that he can barely
stand. He also looks nothing like the picture Clara sent
to them. They wrestle with whether or not to send the dog
back, but soon fall in love with him and decide to keep him.
Wedding Bell
Jitters
Category:
One-act Comedy
Audience:
Family, all ages
Cast
Breakdown: 2f, 2m
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
10 minutes
Synopsis :
Brandy is getting
married and nothing is going right. Her father, brother,
and fiancé have been arrested and now the wedding is getting off
to a late start. While Brandy waits with her mother for the
family lawyer to bail the three men out of jail, an ex-boyfriend
shows up with a private investigator's report that reveals some
juicy details about the groom.
A Father's
Legacy
Category:
One-act Drama
Audience:
Family, all ages
Cast
Breakdown: 2f, 2m
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
15 minutes
Synopsis :
Cliff's life is
moving way too fast. He marries Heather after only knowing
her for three weeks. Shortly after, his ex-con father dies, leaving
him a dusty old house and few memories of his father.
Cliff decides to live in his dad's house to try to get to know
the old man. When a stranger shows up at the front door
who claims to be his father's lover, he runs for the scotch.
Baby Talk
Category:
One-act Comedy
Audience:
Family, all ages
Cast
Breakdown: 3f, 2m
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
15 minutes
Synopsis :
Dana is nine months
pregnant and believes that she should be the one to decide who
comes to the delivery room. Her husband, Nathan, doesn't
understand why his mother shouldn't be there. Nathan is
afraid to tell his mother that she will not be welcome at the
birthing event. Dana cooks up a scheme to teach Nathan a
lesson.
Crying Over
Jack
Category:
One-act Comedy
Audience:
Family, all ages
Cast
Breakdown: 2f, 1m
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
10 minutes
Synopsis :
Tracey has no reason
to keep on living. Her ex-boyfriend, Jack, is getting
married and her "beloved" sister is a bridesmaid in the wedding.
Although she dumped Jack over a year ago, she is now convinced
that he was the love of her life and that breaking up with him
was a huge mistake. She keeps a gun in the drawer of the
den coffee table and she ponders whether this is a good time to
use it.
The Perfect
Penance
Category:
One-act Comedy
Audience:
Family, all ages
Cast
Breakdown: 1f, 1m
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
10 minutes
Synopsis :
Father Tom has been
hearing Catherine’s confession three times a week for two years
and he is bored out of his gorg. She always confesses the same
old sins and he’s tired of the whole mundane experience. He
decides it’s time for a change, and asks Catherine to discuss
the reasons behind her dull and repetitious list of sins. But
when Catherine accepts the challenge and begins telling Father
Tom more about her life, he gets much more than he bargained
for.
Husband of My
Dreams
Category:
One-act Drama
Audience:
13 and older
Cast
Breakdown: 1f, 3m
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
15 minutes
Synopsis :
Linda wakes up in her
ex-husband’s bed and can’t remember how she got there. She is
horrified, and to make matters worse, Jason insists that she is
still married to him and that her marriage to her current
husband, Mick, never took place. Is she dreaming? She can’t be.
Jason must have drugged her and kidnapped her. She hopes that
Mick will come to rescue her soon.
Birthday
Surprise Hell
Category:
One-act Drama
Audience:
Family, all ages
Cast
Breakdown: 1f, 1m
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
10 minutes
Synopsis :
Daryl has tried to
surprise his wife, Roz, for her birthday many times before.
But this time, it would be different. He makes sure that
everything is in place. It’s going to be a wonderful party. But
his neighbor, Jackson, becomes impatient with entertaining the
guests at his house, so he launches a surprise of his own. When
Jackson breaks into the house looking for the champagne, Roz
thinks he’s a burglar and reaches for the baseball bat in the
closet. Daryl tries everything to distract her, but in the end,
it’s Roz who pulls off the biggest surprise of all.
Good Grief
Category:
One-act Drama
Audience:
Family, all ages
Cast
Breakdown: 3f, 1m
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
20 minutes
Synopsis :
Eleanor Hale is
struck by a car while walking to a business luncheon. She finds herself
staring into the face of a stranger named Pete. Is she lost?
Probably. She asks Pete for directions to the restaurant, but he
tells her that she has arrived at “The Resort,” because she is
no longer breathing. That’s right, she is dead.
She must now complete processing before moving on, and that
means that she must pass through stages of denial, anger,
bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Eleanor, thinking that
this is a bad joke, tries to walk away. But what is it about
this man that has her captivated? He seems to know things about
her that… no that’s ridiculous. She can’t be dead. Or could she
be?
The
Intervention
Category:
One-act Drama
Audience:
Family, all ages
Cast
Breakdown: 2f
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
10 minutes
Synopsis :
Dawn is ready to participate
in the intervention that she’s certain will save her Aunt
Ethel’s life. The entire family is to congregate at Dawn’s
house to launch the deed. Aunt Ethel will expect that she is
attending a dinner party, although this will be a party of a
different sort. But the surprise is more Dawn’s than her
aunt's. None of the participants show up and Dawn is left to
wrestle with her Aunt Ethel’s alcoholic behavior on her own.
Snoring,
Not Me
Category:
One-act Comedy
Audience:
Family, all ages
Cast
Breakdown: 2f
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
10 minutes
Synopsis :
All Martha wants to do is
watch a simple television show. But Ma is snoring so loudly
that the television could not be heard if you crawled into the
speaker. A simple nudge should wake her up and solve the
problem. But that turns out to be a mistake. Ma is not about
to sit peacefully while Martha enjoys her entertainment. Not
when Ma has so much on her mind.
Where
Time Is Money
Category:
One-act Drama
Audience:
Family, all ages
Cast
Breakdown: 2f
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
15 minutes
Synopsis :
Kimberly is on her way to
a business meeting when her car breaks down leaving her stranded
in a deserted town in the middle of nowhere. Well, the town is
not exactly deserted. One lone resident, Bernice, runs the deli
and the gas station/mechanic shop. Perfect! Get something to
eat while the car is undergoing repairs. Except the legal
tender in this abandoned town is time, that is time subtracted
from your life span. A roast beef sandwich and a diet coke will
cost her forty-five minutes. The car will be forty years. Of
course, Kimberly believes Bernice to be suffering from some sort
of dementia, so she agrees to humor her. Kimberly quickly
learns that the true cost of time may be her life.
The
Mother of Invention
Category:
One-act Drama
Audience:
Family, all ages
Cast
Breakdown: 2f
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
10 minutes
Synopsis :
Sister Margaret has a
secret. A visit from a stranger threatens to unveil her hidden
past. Brook is looking for her birth mother, and she approaches
Sister Margaret with one question, “Are you my mother?” Will
the sister embrace her daughter that she surrendered many years
ago? Will she confront the demons of her past? And if Sister
Margaret can’t do that, how will Brook handle the rejection?
To
Life after Death
Category:
One-act Drama
Audience:
Family, all ages
Cast
Breakdown: 2f
Set:
Unit set
Run time:
10 minutes
Synopsis :
Janet Branson knows that
her husband is cheating on her. She has always known it. There
have been many women, but her husband has in the past moved on
after a short time. But this time, Janet fears the worst. This
time he may not come back. So it’s time for a plan, and Janet
has a good one. She’ll pose as an FBI agent to get into
Miranda’s house. From there, the murder should be a simple task
to accomplish.
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