ONE ACT PLAYS
SURRENDER
SAMUEL FRENCH OOB FEST
FINALIST
In a love-starved age of
green-less summers,
two childhood sweethearts re-discover each other and, on the exact spot inside the same park, resume the picnic that was violently interrupted 60 years earlier.
(1F; 2M; 20 minutes)
WGAE #163365
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FORECLOSURE
SAMUEL FRENCH OOB
NANTUCKET SHORT PLAY &
STRAWBERRY NYC FESTS FINALIST
3o years of living have finally taught Faith to believe that anything is possible, but saying goodbye to the life's she's learned to love may be the hardest lesson of all.
(1F; 4M; 20 minutes)
WGAE #163365
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A CONCORD THEATRICALS title.
(1M; 3F; 20 minutes) WGAE #IR03602-00
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SANTA COMES TO
THE KING DAVID
SAMUEL FRENCH OOB FEST FINALIST
It's Christmas Eve.
A distraught woman wanders onto the Brooklyn Bridge, encountering what she thinks is a leaper dressed in a Santa suit, discoveing instead a bittersweet story of unfulfilled dreams, unconditional devotion a Kris Kringle who makes an annual visit to a Jewish nursing home, and the crazy possibility that two broken hearts can indeed make one whole!
Published in 4 X'MAS,
George Cameron Grant's collection of Holiday one-acts and monologues.
STAIRWELL
Charlie carries Lucy,
his ailing childhood
sweetheart, back to the deserted tenement stairwell where they first professed their devotion,. An intruder disrupts the couple's sentimental journey, with a stark reminder that the loveless New World reality they've tried to escape has no intention
of letting anyone go.
(2M; 1F: 15 minutes)
WGAE #1213529
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SANTA'S CLARA
In the dingy shadows of a Hell's Kitchen redemption center, a fired department store Santa meets a teenage runaway toting a shopping cart filled with empties and a cynical heart full of nightmare-shrouded sugar plum memories. But tonight, more than bottles may get redeemed!
Published in 4 X'MAS,
George Cameron Grant's collection of Holiday one-acts and monologues.
A CONCORD THEATRICALS title.
(1F; 1M: 20 minutes)
WGAE #IR03602-00
"A TOOL FOR HEALING! Brazen, benevolent and beautiful."
-Donna Finn, Principal, Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, Astoria, NY
"THE PERFECT PIECE for the classroom or for production. If you love theatre because you believe it can change the world, please consider PUSH!" -Paul Milisch, Drama Teacher, East Madison HS, Wisconsin
PUSH
SAMUEL FRENCH OOB &
STRAWBERRY NYC FESTS FINALIST
•ONE of the TOP 10 ANTI-BULLYING & LGBTQ+ TEENS SHOWS! -Breaking Character Mag
•TWO of the TOP 6 MONOLOGUES FOR TEENS!
-Denise Simon, BACKSTAGE
What would it take to push your child over the edge? Eve, a 16 year-old girl, has fallen asleep in the darkened, dingy corner of a deserted subway station, not far from the platform edge where Billy, her 18 year-old brother, chose to leave this world, and where she’ll soon struggle
to find the reasons
NOT to follow him.
ONE BULLIED CHILD IS ONE TOO MANY!
A CONCORD THEATRICALS title.
(1F; 1M: 3 girls; 3 boys;
1 M or F; 35 minutes)
WGAE #1224407
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MINTS
BEST PLAY WINNER!
Manhattan Rep Theatre
Secret Theatre
Official
UNITED SOLO Participant
Marti English's first audition in a lifetime turns into one woman's tribute to a timeless love.
Part of the
ACTS OF LOVE evening of one acts.
(1F: 16 minutes)
WGAE #103802
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A CONCORD THEATRICALS title.
(4F; 1M: 15 minutes) WGAE #IR03602-00
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BALLS
SAMUEL FRENCH OOB FEST FINALIST
Five Christmas balls sleep side-by-side in post-season bliss, when four are awakened by the bitter quarreling of their owners. Stunned by the crushed, seemingly deceased condition of their fifth companion, they desperately try to invoke Peace on Earth before the raging battle reduces them all to five neat piles of shattered, seasonal glass.
Published in 4 X'MAS,
George Cameron Grant's collection of Holiday one-acts and monologues.
THE LOVERS KISS
BEST PLAY WINNER!
Think Fast Festival 2018
An online dating site matches Wendy and Ted. Result? A match made in heaven that creates a hell on earth. True love can be murder.
"PROVOCATIVE, unnerving, thought-provoking and Albee- esque, it's one of those memorable one act plays that grabs you and never lets go." -Angela Hatcher, OC Syndicated Critic
Part of the WELCOME TO THE FUNHOUSE collection of horror one acts.
(1F; 1M: 15 minutes)
WGAE #I304151
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SACRIFICE
Romeo was done with Emily, but Emily wasn't through with him.
A "ghosted" story that proves hell hath no fury like innocence scorned!
"Like having a TWILIGHT ZONE episode on stage! Expertly written, loved by audiences who filled the theater, SACRIFICE is just the kind of show our Festival is designed for." -John Chatterton, Founder & Executive Producer, MITF, NYC
Part of the WELCOME TO THE FUNHOUSE collection of horror one acts.
(2F; 5M: 30 minutes)
WGAE #1209920
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PHILENA, THE LOVER
OF MANKIND
Philena, a 70 year-old
long-legged saucy dame
who still looks dynamite and isn't afraid to flaunt it, must share her one-bedroom apartment with her almost 50 year-old recently divorced daughter Caitlin, who clearly wants to stay as far away from the maternal tree that’s always been her greatest source of embarrassment.
But tonight they must be on their best behavior - it’s first date night for both of them.
Part of the L'IMAGE collection of one acts.
(2F; 1M; 20 minutes)
WGAE #147766
THE BICYCLE BELL
A horrifying dream startles Joey and his date Jess out of
a deep sleep, spinning their first magical night together into a hellish trip down memory lane, where they encounter an
unexpected visitor from a childhood nightmare.
Part of the WELCOME TO THE FUNHOUSE collection of horror one acts.
(1F; 2M: 15 minutes)
WGAE #1305213
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WELCOME TO THE
FUNHOUSE
It's breakfast time for Bobby and his parents Betty and Brad, but there's more on the menu than pancakes, and much, much more beneath the smiling mask that Bobby hides behind. You can take the boy out of the nightmare, but can you take the nightmare out of the boy?
Part of the WELCOME TO THE FUNHOUSE collection of horror one acts.
(4M; 2F: 25 minutes)
WGAE #1305551
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