Looking for a One Act play.
Looking for a One Act play.
#1Looking for a One Act play.
Posted: 9/11/11 at 4:28pmI am a senior at WKU and I am looking for a one act play to direct in the spring. Last year I directed Facing East, by Carol Lynn Pearson. A friend brought that play to my attention because our school library doesn't really have a great selection. The only requirement is that it has to be 90 minuets or shorter. Any help would be appreciated.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#2Looking for a One Act play.
Posted: 9/11/11 at 4:37pm"Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You" by Christopher Durang is a goodie. Along with some great pieces by Woody Allen, Lanford Wilson and Tennessee Williams. All have some really wonderful one-acts worth looking at.
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#2Looking for a One Act play.
Posted: 9/11/11 at 4:53pmDoubt, God of Carnage are 2 that clock in around 90 minutes
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#3Looking for a One Act play.
Posted: 9/11/11 at 4:54pmI've read "Sister Mary" as well as "An Actors Nightmare", but Durang is done a lot here in acting classes so I might not get away with it. Any titles in particular? We did Woody Allen's "God" a few semesters ago.
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Shows in the 2010 Season for me. 101 Dalmations tour - Jan 24th, Xanadu Tour - Mar 9th and 10th, Wicked - May 14th, Legally Blonde - June 12th:::::::Upcoming - South Pacific, Young Frankinstein (Two Cities) Rock of Ages (Two Cities) Shrek (3 Cities) Les Mis, DreamGirls, Spring Awakening, Color Purple, and 9 to 5!
#4Looking for a One Act play.
Posted: 9/11/11 at 4:59pm
Any other specifics on which you can elaborate? Would you prefer a comedy or a drama? How large of a cast do you want, and what kind of breakdown (skewed male or female, or an equal number of both)? Looking for something contemporary or older?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 9/11/11 at 04:59 PM
#5Looking for a One Act play.
Posted: 9/11/11 at 5:09pmI'm looking for a smaller cast, 4 -7, 8 at the most. Gender, I'd like to keep around the same number of each, 3M 5F, vice versa. As far as the Comedy or Drama, The last show I directed was a drama, so I'm leaning towards Comedy, BUT, above anything, I want to do a show that leaves people wanting to come back to the theatre.
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Shows in the 2010 Season for me. 101 Dalmations tour - Jan 24th, Xanadu Tour - Mar 9th and 10th, Wicked - May 14th, Legally Blonde - June 12th:::::::Upcoming - South Pacific, Young Frankinstein (Two Cities) Rock of Ages (Two Cities) Shrek (3 Cities) Les Mis, DreamGirls, Spring Awakening, Color Purple, and 9 to 5!
mpd4165
Leading Actor Joined: 8/6/09
#6Looking for a One Act play.
Posted: 9/11/11 at 6:05pm
A book series that my directing class had great success with was "The Best American Short Plays of..." These go back to the 90s to today. It's a great series that has a good mix of comedy and drama. Some titles included:
Crazy Eights by David Lindsay-Abaire (I directed this one).
Heights by Amy Fox
The Grand Design by Susan Miller
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Fin and Euba by Audrey Cefaly
You'll see Quiera Alegria Hudes, David Ives, Durang and others in these books as well.
#7Looking for a One Act play.
Posted: 9/11/11 at 6:34pm
I directed S.P.A.R. by Stephen Gregg my senior year. It's a very funny piece that I would recommend to just about anyone.
I'm posting the link below in case you want to check it out.
S.P.A.R.
daredevil
Featured Actor Joined: 8/17/05
#8Looking for a One Act play.
Posted: 9/13/11 at 11:40amThe Playwright Richard Greenberg had three one acts produced at Ensemble Studio Theater in the mid-eighties. The first was called Life Under Water, a moody but well written piece for about seven actors many of them young. The name of the second escapes me, but it was also very good, for a basically young cast. The third, The Author's Voice is a very funny piece for three young actors. You might want to check those out; they are probably published in an anthology of Greenberg's plays, or other one act anthologies.
