The One-Line: After learning that the winning plays in the one-act play competition are always tragedies, the local high school drama teacher writes her own tragedy to compete with, but the production turns comically tragic.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: 20 Cast members + Extras
7 Female
3 Male
10 Either
Optional Extras
Set: A bare stage
Running Time: 50 minutes
If you would like to read or produce this play for free, contact me at [email protected]
I can also provide a letter of royalty if you want to use it in a one-act competition or festival.
Synopsis: After being pressured by the principal to win the one-act play competition trophy, the local high school drama teacher studied the winning plays of the last ten years and came up with a list of qualities the judges want to see in a one-act play. She believes the play must be a fresh, modern, classical, tragedy, with cute girls. But above all, it must be extremely dramatic, with crying and screaming and absolutely no comedy! So, over summer vacation she wrote her own one-act, incorporating all of these elements and believes that she has come up with the perfect winning play. However, her student-actors have their own ideas of what the perfect play should be like. Among other mishaps, the actress playing the bad guy memorizes her blocking backwards, the side kick decides to chop onions on stage to make himself cry dramatically, the grim reaper costume is switched with a Tinkerbell costume, and one stage-frightened actor replaces himself with a puppet, changing this fresh, modern, classical, tragedy into the director’s real-life tragedy.
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Cast: 20 Cast members + Extras
7 Female
3 Male
10 Either
Optional Extras
Set: A bare stage
Running Time: 50 minutes
If you would like to read or produce this play for free, contact me at [email protected]
I can also provide a letter of royalty if you want to use it in a one-act competition or festival.
Synopsis: After being pressured by the principal to win the one-act play competition trophy, the local high school drama teacher studied the winning plays of the last ten years and came up with a list of qualities the judges want to see in a one-act play. She believes the play must be a fresh, modern, classical, tragedy, with cute girls. But above all, it must be extremely dramatic, with crying and screaming and absolutely no comedy! So, over summer vacation she wrote her own one-act, incorporating all of these elements and believes that she has come up with the perfect winning play. However, her student-actors have their own ideas of what the perfect play should be like. Among other mishaps, the actress playing the bad guy memorizes her blocking backwards, the side kick decides to chop onions on stage to make himself cry dramatically, the grim reaper costume is switched with a Tinkerbell costume, and one stage-frightened actor replaces himself with a puppet, changing this fresh, modern, classical, tragedy into the director’s real-life tragedy.
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