Plays & Publishers
NOTE: Even though a play is published by one of the endorsed publishers, this does NOT mean that every play on these publishers' lists is "automatically approved" for entry in the UIL One-Act Play Contest. If the play you are considering does not appear on one of the approved lists which follow, then it must be submitted to the office of the State Drama Director for the play appraisal committee's approval prior to the December 14 deadline.
"Various Dramatizations" or from "Recommended Publishers" does not mean that plays which are by nature dramatic monologues, duet acting scenes, reader’s theatre, musical theatre or which are predominantly narration, choral speaking or not interactive may be used. Please check carefully.
Directors are not required to submit plays on the approved lists for approval. However, if you are planning to do a play that IS NOT already on one of the approved lists, you will need to SUBMIT YOUR PLAY FOR APPROVAL
An Approved List of Short Plays for Contest 2018-19
The following plays are approved provided they comply fully with Section 1033 (c) (1) (H) Standards. Directors shall eliminate profane references to a deity and obscene language or scenes from the approved production. Directors shall revise or reject all material within approved plays which in any way fails to meet these requirements. The administration of the producing school is charged with the responsibility of assuring that the director complies with these requirements and that the play does not offend the moral standards of the community. When a script and production are examined and approved by the administration of the producing school, the production is eligible for presentation at any contest site. These plays must also meet all other requirements of the One-Act Play Contest Rules.
In addition to those listed, all other plays written by Chekhov, Ibsen, Molière, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene O'Neill, Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus (translations only), and Shakespeare (cuts from original text only) are approved. This blanket approval does not include any adaptations of these authors' works unless they appear on the Approved List as such.
Title (alphabetical) | Author | Publisher | Type | Cast |
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Act Three, Scene Five | Terry Ortwein | Baker | Comedy | 1m-4f |
Actor’s Nightmare, The | Durang | Dram Play | Drama | 2m-3f |
Actors | Conrad Bromberg | Dram Play | Drama | 2m-1f |
Admirable Bashville, The | G. B. Shaw | Approved Publishers | Comedy | 9m-2f |
Affected Young Ladies, The | Molière | French | Comedy | 6m-3f |
After Midnight, Before Dawn | David Campton, | French | Drama | 2m-4f |
Afterwards | Geraldine McGaughan | French | Drama | 3m-1f |
Alice! | Lewis Carroll Adapted by Dennis Maganza | Internet Script | Comedy | Large flex. |
All Good Minds | Robert Wells | French | Drama | 10m-2f |
All In Disguise | Traylor & Elrod | Dram Pub3 | Comedy | 4m-2f |
American Dream, The | Albee | Dram Play | Comedy | 2m-3f |
American Sunset, An | Prideaux | Dram Play | Comedy | 1m-2f |
And Jack Fell Down | Richard Weaver | Clark | Drama | 2m-1f |
Anne Frank and Me (short version) | Cherie Bennett | Dramatic | Drama | 4m,7w |
Anne of Green Gables | Various Adaptations (Various Adaptations) Cannot be Predominantly Narration | Approved Publishers | Comedy | |
Antic Spring | Robert Nail | French | Comedy | 3m-3f |
Any Body for Tea? | C.B. Gilford | French | Comedy | 3m-6f |
Apollo of Bellac, The | Jean Giraudoux | French | Comedy | 9m-3f |
April Fish | Ted Pezzulo | Dram Play | Comedy | 6m-5f |
Aria Da Capo | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Baker | Drama | 4m-1f |
As You Like It | Shakespeare, adapt. Clark | Clark | Comedy | 6m-4f |
Asylum | Jerome McDonough | Clark | Drama | 15m/f-flex |
Attempted Murder of Peggy Sweetwater, The | Ruston & Semerano | French | Comedy | 7m-4f |
Audition is Over, The | John Kirkpatrick | French | Drama | 6f |
Bald Soprano, The | Eugene Ionesco | French | Comedy | 3m-3f |
Banker’s Dilemma, The | Cleve Haubold | French | Comedy | 2m-2f |
Barber of Seville, The | Beaumarchais, adapt. Clark | Clark | Comedy | 6m-4f |
Bathroom Door, The | Gertrude E. Jennings | French | Comedy | 3m-3f |
Bauble for Baby, A | E. P. Conkle | French | Comedy | 1m-3f |
Beauty and the Beast | All Versions | All Versions - Must Not Be An Adaptation | Drama | |
Beggar’s Opera, The | Knight & Jeffries | Baker | Comedy | 8m-7f |
Bernice Bobs Her Hair | Brooke | Dram Pub | Drama | 7m-6f |
Betrothed, The | Jerome McDonough | French | Drama | 1m-2f |
Bocon | Lisa Loomer | Dram Pub | Drama | 2m-4f |
Booby Trap or Booby in the Trap | Ed Monk | Playscripts Inc | Drama | 8m,9w |
Boor, The | Anton Chekhov | French | Comedy | 2m-1f |
Box and Cox | John Morton | French | Comedy | 2m-1f |
Boy Meets Girl | Wendy Wasserstein | Dram Play | ||
Bridal Night, The | Paul A. Mayer | Dram Play | Drama | 4m-2f |
Browning Version, The | Terrence Rattigan | French | Drama | 5m-2f |
Brute, The | Anton Chekhov | French | Comedy | 2m-1f |
Cagebirds, The | David Campton | Dram Pub | Drama | 8f |
Cain: A Mystery | Lord Byron | Clark | Drama | 4m-4f |
Calabasas Street | Jose Cruz Gonzalez | Dram Pub | Drama | 2m-4F |
Candid | Michael Scanlan | Baker | Drama | 3m-3f |
Candida | G. B. Shaw, adapted by Aurand Harris | Baker | Comedy | 4m-2f |
Candle on the Table, A | Patricia Clapp | Baker | Comedy | 4f |
Canterbury Tale from the Wife of Bath, A | Herman Ammann | Clark | Comedy | 5m-7f |
Case of the Crushed Petunias, The | Tennessee Williams | Dram Play | Comedy | 2m-2f |
Cat’s Away, The | Cleve Haubold | French | Comedy | 3m-2f |
Cave Cat, The | Ford Ainsworth | Dram Pub | Comedy | 4m-5f |
Chairs, The | Eugene Ionesco | French | Drama | 2m-1f |
Chamber Music | Arthur Kopit | French | Drama | 2m-8f |
Charity Case | Ford Ainsworth | Clark | Drama | 4m-flex |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Various Adaptations (Non Musical) | Approved Publishers | Comedy | |
Charlotte’s Web | Joseph Robinette | Dram Pub | ||
Chastening, The | Richard Weaver | Clark | Drama | 3m |
Chee-Chee | Pirandello | French | Drama | 2m-1f |
Childhood | Thornton Wilder | French | Comedy | 2m-3f |
Christmas Carol, A | Various Adaptations (Various Adaptations) Cannot be Predominantly Narration | Approved Publishers | Drama | |
Clara’s on the Curtains | Arthur Lovegrove | French | Comedy | 10f |
Clevinger’s Trial | Joseph Heller | French | Comedy | 6m |
Comedy of Errors, The | Adapt. B.I. Payne, Globe Version | French | Comedy | 11m-5f |
Comedy of Errors, The | Adapt. Cecil Pickett | Clark | Comedy | 15 flex |
Comedy of Errors, The | Adapt. Robert Singleton | Dram Pub | Comedy | 10m-5f |
Comedy of Errors, The | Adapt. Jeffries & Knight | Bakers | Comedy | 10m-5f |
Confederate Letters | Barre Gonzalez | Internet Script | Drama | |
Cop and the Anthem, The | O. Henry | Dram Pub | Comedy | 5m-7f |
Corfu by Night | Barre Gonzalez | Internet Script | Drama | |
Crosspatch | Larry Randolph | Dram Pub | Comedy | 1m-2f |
Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand adapt. Clark | Clark | Drama | 5m-5f |
Dancers, The | Horton Foote | Dram Play | Drama | 3m-7f |
Dark Lady of the Sonnets, The | G. B. Shaw | French | Drama | 2m-2f |
Dark Road | Laura Lundgren Smith | Playscripts, Inc. | Drama | 8 f, 3 m, 1 either (9-26 actors possible: 9-20 f, 0-6 m) |
Day It Rained Forever, The | Ray Bradbury | French | Comedy | 3m-1f |
Dear Departed, The | Stanley Houghton | Public Domain | Comedy | 3m-3f |
Dear Papa | Jack Blacklock | Baker | Comedy | 1m-4f |
Death of the Hired Man, The | Gould | Dram Pub | Drama | 2m-2f |
Demons of Fleet Street | Jerry Ayers | Internet Script | Drama | |
Devil and Daniel Webster, The | Benet | Dram Pub | Comedy | 6m-1f |
Diary of Adam and Eve, The | Bucci | Dram Pub | Comedy | 2m-1f |
Do Not Go Gentle | Zeder | Dram Pub | Comedy | 2m-4f |
Doctor in Spite of Himself, A | Molière, adapt. by Aurand Harris, Anchorage | Anchorage (2) | Comedy | 9m-10f |
Doctor in Spite of Himself, The | Molière | Clark | Comedy | 6m-3f |
Doll’s House, A | Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Albert Pia | Dram Pub | Drama | 3m-3f |
Double Date | Florence Ryerson | French | Comedy | 3m-4f |
Dracula: The Death of Nosferatu | Nichols | Dram Pub | Drama | 5m-1f Flex |
Dragon of the Winds | Carson Wright | Dram Pub | Comedy | 9m-6f |
Ed Opus (Rex) | Gleason | Dram Pub | Comedy | 6m-1f-x |
Eden Echo, The | Ruth Angell Purkey | Baker | Comedy | 1m-4f |
Egad, What a Cad | Anita Bell | French | Comedy | 3m-4f |
Emperor’s New Clothes, The | Various Adaptations | Approved Publishers | Comedy | |
Emperor’s Nightingale, The | Dan Totheroh | French | Comedy | 9m-3f |
Episode on an Autumn Evening | Durrenmatt | Dram Pub | Drama | 4m-2f |
Even the Hater | Albert Johnson | Baker | Drama | 2m-1f |
Evening for Merlin Finch, An | Dizenzo | Dram Play | Comedy | 4m-3f |
Everyman | Anonymous | Approved Publishers | Drama | 11m-6f |
Everyman | Adapted by V. Egermeier | Dram Pub | Drama | 4m-5f |
Farewell to Galatea | Ford Ainsworth | Clark | Comedy | 2m-4f |
Fashion | Anna Cora Mowatt, adapted by Aurand Harris | Baker | Drama | 5m-4f |
Feathertop | Maurice Valency | Dram Play | Comedy | 7m-3f |
Fifth Sun, The | Patricca | Dram Pub | Drama | 8m-5f |
Finders-Keepers | George Kelly | French | Drama | 1m-2f |
Five in Judgment | Douglas Taylor | Dram Play | Drama | 7m-1f |
Flattering Word, The | George Kelly | French | Comedy | 2m-3f |
Flowers for Algernon | David Rogers | Dram Pub | Drama | 4m-1f |
Foiled By An Innocent Maid | Fred Carmichael | French | Comedy | 2m-4f |
Forgotten Door, The | Gregory Falls | Anchorage (2) | Drama | 20-flex |
Form, The | N. F. Simpson | French | Comedy | 2m-2f |
Fourteen Lines | Alan Haehnel | Bakers/French | Comedy | 6m-6f |
Freeway, The | O. B. Rozell | Clark | Drama | 3m-6f |
Friends | Arkady Leokum | French | Comedy | 3m |
Frogs, The | Aristophanes | Clark | Comedy | 5m-5f-x |
Gammer Gurton’s Needle | Mr. S., Master of Arts | Clark | Comedy | 5m-5f |
Gazebo For My Lady, A | Bill Majeski | Dram Pub | Comedy | 3m-2f |
Gift of Tenyin, The | John Tumpane | Dram Pub | Comedy | 2m-6f |
Girl Called Opal, A | Robert Lindsey Nassif | Samuel French | Drama | |
Girl in the Mirror, The | Bruce Jacoby | Dram Pub | Drama | 6m-5f |
Gloria Mundi | Patricia Brown | French | Drama | 2m-4f |
Going to Pot | G. Feydeau | French | Comedy | 3m-3f |
Gold Fever | Grauer & Urquhardt | Anchorage (2) | Comedy | 4plus-flex |
Golden Grotto | Cleve Haubold | French | Comedy | 4m-6f |
Good-Bye to the Clown | Ernest Kinoy | French | Comedy | 3m-3f |
Great Expectations | Charles Dickens (Various Adaptations) Cannot be Predominantly Narration | Approved Publishers | Drama | |
Great Pandemonium,The - CONDITION: the character of Oz must be a judgable, visible, onstage character rather than a voice | Pat Cook | Dram Pub | Comedy | 4m-5f |
Hamlet | Adapted by Pia | Dram Pub | Drama | 8m-2f |
Hamlet (Jeffries and Munoz) | Shakespeare, adapted by Jeffries and Munoz | Internet Script | Drama | |
Happy Journey to Camden and Trenton, The | Thornton Wilder | French | Comedy | 3m-3f |
Happy Scarecrow, The | I. E. Clark | Clark | Comedy | 6m-5f |
Harlequin Holds the Bag | Grote | Anchorage (2) | Comedy | 4m-2f |
Her Senior Year | Cody Moree | Clark | Drama | 3m-5f |
Heritage of Wimpole Street, The | Robert Knipe | Baker | Drama | 2m-3f |
History of Tom Jones, The | adapted by Dennis Maganza & Luis Muñoz | Clark | Comedy | 8m-7f |
Hobbit, The | Adapted by Edward Mast | Dram Pub | Drama | 5m-5f |
Hooray for Adam Spelvin: He is Perfect | Cleve Haubold | French | Comedy | 2m-4f |
Hopes and Words and Ordinary Things | Ronald Burke | Dram Pub | Comedy | 4m-4f |
House of Atreus-3 plays: Hecuba, Agamemnon, Elektra | Burton Crane: Euripides Aeschylus Sophocles | Baker | Drama | 5m-5f, 10m-4f, 3m-6f |
I Never Saw Another Butterfly | Raspanti | Dram Pub | Drama | 4m-7f |
I Remember You | Alvin Boretz | Clark | Drama | 2m-2f |
I’m a Fool | Christopher Sergel | Dram Pub | Comedy | 4m-4f |
Importance of Being Earnest, The | Wilde, adapted by Clark | Clark | Comedy | 5m-4f |
Importance of Being Earnest, The | Wilde, adapted by Sliker | Baker | Comedy | 5m-4f |
Importance of Being Earnest, The | Wilde, adapted by Aurand Harris | Anchorage (2) | Comedy | 5m-4f |
Impromptu | Tad Mosel | Dramatists Play Service | Comedy | 2m, 2f |
In the Shadow of the Glen | J. M. Synge | French | Drama | 3m-1f |
Inexperienced Ghost, The | Taylor | Dram Pub | Comedy | 5m-5f |
Infancy | Thornton Wilder | French | Comedy | 3m-2f |
Inner Circle, The | Patricia Loughrey | Baker | Drama | 2m-2f |
Inside Al | David Baker | French | Drama | 3m-2f |
Interview | Jean-Claude Van Itallie | Dram Play | Drama | 4m-4f |
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte (Various Adaptations) Cannot be Predominantly Narration | Approved Publishers | Drama | |
Jar, The | Luigi Pirandello | French | Comedy | 8m-3f |
John Turner Davis | Horton Foote | Dram Pub | Drama | 7m-4f |
Just Another Day | Arthur Lovegrove | French | Comedy | 1m-4f |
Kamikaze Kate | John Summons | Dram Pub | Comedy | 2m-4f |
Kentucky Marriage Proposal, The | Alice H. Houstle | Dram Play | Comedy | 1m-2f |
La Dispute | Marivaux, trans. by Wertenbaker | Dram Pub | Comedy | 5m-5f-x |
La Llorona | Jules Tasca | French | Drama | |
La Llorona Llora | Silvia Gonzalez S. | Dram Pub | Drama | |
Ladies in Waiting | Michele Palermo | French | Comedy | 1m-4f |
Ladies of the Tower | Tim Kelly | Dram Pub | Drama | 9f |
Lafayette #1 | Mandy Connor | Playscripts, Inc. | Drama | 8M - 7F can be expanded |
Las Soldaderas | Nelly Cuellar Garcia | Eldridge Play Publishers | Drama | |
Last Act Is a Solo, The | Robert Anderson | French | Drama | 2m-1f |
Lesson, The | Eugene Ionesco | French | Drama | 1m-3f |
Let Me Hear You Whisper | Zindel | Dram Play | Drama | 5f-flex |
License,The | Pirandello | French | Comedy | 6m-1f |
Lie, The | Vaughn McBride, adapted from Kurt Vonnegut | Dram Pub | Drama | 3m-1f |
Lily Daw and the Three Ladies | Perry | Drama Pub | Drama | 3m-7f |
Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe,The | Joseph Robinette | Dram Pub | Drama | flex |
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The | C.S. Lewis, adapt. Don Quinn | Dramatic Publishing | Drama | 15 flex |
Little Match Girl, The | Herman Ammann | Clark | Drama | 8m-12f |
Little Prince, The | Rick Cummins & John Scoullar | Dram Pub | Drama | 3m-2f |
Little Princess, A | R.N Sandberg | Dramatic | Drama | 7m,9w |
Little Princess, The | Nancy Seale | Anchorage (2) | Drama | 5m-18f |
Liza and the Riddling Cave | John Urquhart | Anchorage* | ||
Long Christmas Dinner, The | Thornton Wilder | French | Comedy | 5m-7f |
Long Road Home, The | Earl Reimer | Baker | Drama | 4m-4f |
Long Stay Cut Short, The | Williams | Dram Play | Drama | 1m-2f |
Look Who’s Playing God | Albert Johnson | Baker | Comedy | 2m-2f |
Lottery, The | Brainerd Duffield | Dram Pub | Drama | 8m-5f |
Louder, I Can’t Hear You | Gleason | Dram Pub | Comedy | 3m-3f |
Love is a Hot Fudge Sundae | Stephen Hotchner | Dram Pub | Comedy | 5m-6f |
Love Knot, The | Michael McFaden | Clark | Comedy | 4m-3f |
Lovers In Midsummer, The | McMahon | Dram Pub | Comedy | 5m-4f |
Macbeth (abridged) | Larry Nehring | Playscripts Inc | Drama | |
Magic Flute, The | Jane W. Rogers | Dram Pub | Drama | 24-flex |
Magic Well, The | Herman Ammann | Clark | Comedy | 6m-8f |
Magician’s Nephew, The | C. S. Lewis, dramatized by Aurand Harris | Dram Pub | Drama | 3m-3f |
Man in the Bowler Hat, The | A. A. Milne | French | Comedy | 4m-2f |
Maria | Jules Tasca | Baker | Drama | 4m-2f |
Marriage of Figaro, The | Beaumarchais | Clark | Comedy | 6m-4f |
Marvelous Playbill, The | Tim Kelly | Dram Pub | Comedy | 4m-8f |
Medea | Euripides adapt. Garcia | Playscripts | Drama | 2m, 13f |
Medicine Show, The | Virginia G. Koste | Anchorage (2) | Comedy | 5m-flex |
Merry Wives of Windsor, The | Jefferies & Knight | Baker | Comedy | 6m-5f |
Mice Have Been Drinking Again, The | Haubold | French | Comedy | 2m-2f |
Midnight Caller, The | Horton Foote | Dram Play | Drama | 2m-5f |
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A | Adapted by Aurand Harris | Anchorage (2) | Comedy | 4m-9f |
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A | Adapted by Cecil Pickett | Clark | Comedy | 4m-9f |
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A | Adapted by Henry Thomas | Baker | Comedy | 13-flex |
Mimsy Were the Borogoves | C. C. Taylor | Dram Pub | Drama | 2m-3f |
Mr. Flannery’s Ocean | Carlino | Dram Play | Drama | 3m-5f |
Much Ado About Nothing | Jerome McDonough | Baker | Comedy | 7m-7f |
Narrenschneiden, The | Hans Sachs | Clark | Comedy | 2m-1f |
Nasty Things, Murders | Arthur Lovegrove | French | Drama | 5f |
Necklace, The | Jay R. Gould | Dram Pub | Drama | 1m-3f |
Neighbors, The | Zona Gale | Baker | Comedy | 2m-6f |
Nicholas and Smike | Charles Jeffries and Luis Munoz | Internet Script | Drama | |
No Count Boy, The | Paul Green | French | Comedy | 2m-2f |
No Fading Star | Celeste Raspanti | Dram Pub | Drama | 3m-4f |
Noah and the Great Auk | Bix L. Doughty | Anchorage (2) | Drama | 1m-5 animals |
Noodle Doodle Box | Anita & Alex Page | Baker | Comedy | 3-flex |
Now That April’s Here | James Reach | French | Comedy | 2m-4f |
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An | Christopher Sergel | Dram Pub | Drama | 4m-3f |
Of Poems, Youth, and Spring | John Logan | French | Comedy | 4m-5f |
Of Winners, Losers, and Games | O. B. Rozell | Clark | Drama | 7m-7f |
Oil Well, The | Horton Foote | Dram Play | Drama | 5m-3f |
Old Beginning, The | Horton Foote | Dram Play | Drama | 7m-4f |
Old Lady Shows Her Medals, The | J. M. Barrie | French | Comedy | 2m-4f |
Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens (Various Adaptations) Cannot be Predominantly Narration | Approved Publishers | Drama | |
Once Upon a Playground | Jack Frakes | French | Comedy | 2m - 8f |
Open Window, The | James Fuller | Dram Pub | Comedy | 1m-3f |
Orphans, The | Nancy Camche | French | Drama | 3m-3f |
Other Son, The | Pirandello | French | Drama | 5m-6f |
Out of Control | Michael Scanlan | Baker | Drama | 3m-2f |
Outcasts of Poker Flat, The | Edwards | Dram Pub | Drama | 4m-3f |
Overtones | Alice Gerstenberg | Public Domain | Comedy | 4f |
Party, The | Robert Flaherty | French | Drama | 1m-3f |
Passing of An Actor | Willard Simms | Dram Play | Comedy | 3m-1f |
Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction | G. B. Shaw | French | Comedy | 4m-2f |
Patchwork Quilt, The | Rachel Field | French | Comedy | 2m-5f |
Persephone | Ford Ainsworth | Clark | Drama | 9m-6f |
Phaedra | Jean Racine | Clark | Drama | 3m-5f |
Phony Physician, The | Thomas Hischak | Baker | Comedy | 5m-3f |
Picnic on the Battlefield | Fernando Arrabal | French | Drama | 5m-1f |
Pinballs, The | Betsy Byars, dramatized by Aurand Harris | Anchorage (2) | Drama | 3m-2f |
Pink Lemonade for Tomorrow | Ruth A. Purkey | Baker | Drama | 2m-2f |
Point of View, A | David Campton | Dram Pub | Comedy | 5f |
Pot Boiler, The | Alice Gerstenberg | Clark | Comedy | 5m-2f |
Potman Spoke Sooth, The | David Fulk | Dram Pub | Comedy | 6m-2f |
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen (Various Adaptations) Cannot be Predominantly Narration | Approved Publishers | Drama | |
Proposin’ | Richard Slocum | Baker | Comedy | 1m-2f |
Quazimodo! | Adapt.DavidKoren | Dram Pub | Drama | 3m-3f |
Quiet, Please | Howard Bauermann | Dram Play | Comedy | 3m-4f |
Rabbit Who Wanted to Be a Man, The | Tasca | Baker | Comedy | 4m-2f |
Ralph Roister Doister | Nicholas Udall | Clark | Comedy | 2m-4f-flex |
Rebuttals | Joseph Fedorko | Baker | Comedy | 3m-1f |
Requiem | Jerome McDonough | Clark | Drama | 4m-3f-x |
Rest in Peace | Pat Cook | Dram Pub | Comedy | 4m-3f |
Rhinoceros | Ionesco | French | Comedy | 11m-6f |
Riders to the Sea | John Millington Synge | Baker | Drama | 1m-3f-x |
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi | Susan Carle | Dram Pub | Comedy | 4m-4f-flex |
Rise and Shine | Elda Cadogan | Baker | Comedy | 2m-2f |
Riverview, Tape 23 | Colleen Newman | Dram Pub | Comedy | 3f |
Robin Goodfellow | Aurand Harris | Anchorage (2) | Comedy | 6m-6f |
Rocking Horse Winner, The | Fuller | Dram Pub | Drama | 5m-4f |
Room, The | Harold Pinter | Dram Play | Drama | 4m-2f |
Rose For Emily, A | Joseph Robinette | Dram Pub | Drama | 5m-4f |
Rude Mechanicals, The | Ed Graczyk | Anchorage (2) | Comedy | 9m-1f |
Saga of Katy, The | Ronald Burke | Dram Pub | Comedy | 4m-5f |
Sandbox, The | Edward Albee | Dram Play | Drama | 3m-2f |
Scapino! | Frank Dunlop & Jim Dale | Dram Pub | Comedy | 6m-3f |
School for Husbands, The | Molière | Clark | Comedy | 7m-3f |
Scrimmages | Joseph Fedorko | Baker | Comedy | 2m-1f |
Second Best Bed | Tim Kelly | Dram Play | Comedy | 8f |
Second Shepherd’s Play, The | adapted by Aurand Harris | Anchorage (2) | Comedy | 4m-3f |
Secret of Freedom, The | MacLeish | Dram Play | Drama | 9m-1f-x |
Sending Down the Sparrows | Laura Lundgren Smith | Playscripts | Drama | 7m-4f-6flex |
Separate Peace, A | Tom Stoppard | French | Comedy | 2m-4f |
Shall We Join the Ladies? | J. M. Barrie | French | Drama | 8m-8f |
She Stoops to Conquer | Goldsmith, adapted by Clark | Clark | Comedy | 6m-3f |
She Stoops to Conquer | adapted by Aurand Harris | Anchorage (2) | Comedy | 6m-4f |
She Stoops to Conquer | adapted by Robert Singleton | Dram Pub | Comedy | 7m-4f |
Sheep Thief, The | Ford Ainsworth | Clark | Comedy | 4m-3f-x |
Shining Mountains, The | Dale Wasserman | French | Comedy | 9m-1f |
Short Walk After Dinner, A | Cleve Haubold | French | Drama | 1m-2f |
Shut and Bar the Door | Tom Gray | Baker | Comedy | 4m-2f |
Sicilian Limes | Pirandello | French | Drama | 2m-3f |
Sing To Me Through Open Windows | Kopit | French | Drama | 3m |
Sisters McIntosh, The | Richard Corson | French | Comedy | 1m-2f |
Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil | Walker | French | Comedy | 9m-2f |
Skinflints & Scoundrels | Suzan Zeder | Dram Pub | Comedy | 11m-5f |
Small Actors | Stephen Gregg | Dram Pub | Comedy | 5m-5f |
Small World of Millie Mclvor, The | Ronald Burke | Dram Pub | Comedy | 3m-4f |
Some of My Best Friends Are Smiths | David Campton | Dram Pub | Drama | 5f |
Song for Coretta, A | Pearl Cleage | Dram Play | Drama | 5f |
Sparkin’ | E. P. Conkle | French | Comedy | 1m-3f |
Stages | Jerome McDonough | Clark | Drama | 10-flex |
Steadfast Tin Soldier, The | Herman Ammann | Clark | Drama | 5m-6f |
Still Life With Iris (short and long versions) | Steven Dietz | Dramatic | Drama | 5m,4w |
Still Stands the House | Gwen P. Ringwood | French | Drama | 2m-2f |
Story of Chelm, A | Linda Gaye Shapiro | French | Comedy | 11m-4f1 |
Stranger With Roses | John Jakes | Dram Pub | Drama | 4m-2f |
Summer People, The | Duffield | Dram Pub | Drama | 4m-3f |
Summons of Sariel, The | Kessie | Dram Pub | Drama | 9f |
Sunday Costs Five Pesos | Josephine Niggli | French | Comedy | 1m-4f |
Sunny Morning, A | Quintero | French | Comedy | 2m-2f |
Suppressed Desires | Susan Glaspell | Baker | Comedy | 1m-2f |
Take Five | Westley M. Pederson | French | Comedy | 4m - 2f |
Tale That Wagged the Dog, The | Kelly | Dram Pub | Comedy | 1m-4f |
Taming of the Shrew, The | Shakespeare | Dram Pub | Comedy | 5m-3f |
Taming of the Shrew, The | Charlotte Brown | Clark | Comedy | 11m-4f |
Tartuffe | Molière, adapt. by Burleson | Dram Pub | Comedy | 5m-5f |
Tartuffe | Molière, adapt. by Jeffries & Muñoz | Baker | Comedy | 8m-7f |
Tell-Tale Heart, The | McMahon | Dram Pub | Drama | 4m-2f |
Terezin Promise, The | Celeste Raspanti, Adapt. F. Thomas | Dram Pub | Drama | 4m-4f |
Terrible Meek, The | Charles Kenedy | French | Drama | 2m-1f |
The Trial of Goldilocks | Joseph Robinette | Dram Pub | Comedy | 15+ Flex. |
Theophilus North | Thornton Wilder, Matthew Burnett | Samuel French, Inc. | Comedy | 4m, 3f |
They’re None of Them Perfect | Sophie Kerr | French | Comedy | 6f-x |
This Is a Test | Stephen Gregg | Dram Pub | Comedy | 13-15 flex. |
This Way toHeaven | Douglas Parkhirst | French | Comedy | 2m-2f |
Thousand Cranes, A | Kathryn Schultze-Miller | Dram Pub | Drama | 2m-3f |
Three Pills in a Bottle | Rachel Field | French | Comedy | 4m-4f |
Ticket to the City, A | Donald Elser | French | Drama | 4m-3f |
To Burn a Witch | James Bray | Dram Pub | Drama | 4f |
To Destroy You Is No Loss | Dorothea Bonneau, adapted from Joan Criddle | Dram Pub | Drama | 6m-12f |
Toby Show, A | Aurand Harris | Anchorage (2) | Comedy | 3m-4f |
Tracks | Peter Tarsi | Dramatic Publishing | 4m, 6f | |
Tricks of Scapin | adapted by Aurand Harris | Anchorage (2) | Comedy | 7m-3f |
Trifles | Susan Glaspell | Baker | Drama | 3m-2f |
Trysting Place, The | Booth Tarkington | Baker | Comedy | 4m-3f |
Turandot (Maganza) | Adapted by Dennis Maganza | Internet Script | Comedy | Large flex. |
Twelfth Night | adapted by Cecil Pickett | Clark | Comedy | 5m-2f-x |
Twelve-Pound Look, The | J. M. Barrie | French | Drama | 2m-2f |
Two Bottles of Relish | Edward Darby | Dram Pub | Comedy | 2m-2f |
Two Crooks and a Lady | Eugene Pilot | French | Drama | 3m-3f |
Two Fools Who Gained a Measure of Wisdom | Tim Kelly | Dram Play | Comedy | 1m-3f |
Ugly Duckling, The | A. A. Milne | French | Comedy | 4m-3f |
Underground Venus | Tim Kelly | Dram Pub | Comedy | 3m-3f |
Unknown Soldier, The | Warren Frost | Dram Pub | Drama | 3m-3f |
Up the Rent | Tim Kelly | Dram Pub | Drama | 3m-8f |
Valiant, The | Hall and Middlemass | Baker | Drama | 5m-1f |
Victoria at 18 | Tim Kelly | Dram Pub | Drama | 2m-7f |
Voices | Richard Lortz | Baker | Drama | 2m-3f |
Volpone | Ben Johnson adapt. by Jeffries & Knight | Baker | Comedy | 7m-5f |
Waiting for Lefty | Clifford Odets | Dramatist Play Service | Drama | |
Waiting for the Bus | Ramon Delgado | Baker | Drama | 2m-2f |
Wall Hanging, The | Barbara Milne | Dram Pub (3) | Drama | 1m-2f |
We All Fall Down | Barre Gonzalez | Internet Script | Drama | |
Welcoming, The | Mary Bill | French | Comedy | 10f |
When Altars Burn | Kay Arthur | French | Drama | 4f |
When the Fire Dies | Romona Mather | French | Drama | 1m-4f |
When You’re By Yourself, You’re Alone | McKinney | French | Comedy | 4m |
White Room of My Remembering | Jean L. Toddie | French | Drama | 2m-4f |
Why Do We Laugh? | Stephen Gregg | Dram Pub | Comedy | 4m - 4f |
Wild Strawberries | Jerry Ayers | Internet Script | Comedy | Large flex. |
Wiley and the Hairy Man | Suzan Zeder | Anchorage (2) | Drama | 3m-1f-x |
Wishin’ Tree, The | Haubold | French | Comedy | 8f |
Woman Called Truth, A | Sandra Fenichel Asher | Dram Pub | Drama | 3m - 3f expandable |
Women of Troy, The | David Grote | Dramatic | Drama | 10m,12w |
Wooing of Lady Sunday, The | Pezzulo | Dram Play | Comedy | 5m-7f |
World of Sholom Aleichem, The; Tale of Chelm, A; Bontche Schweig; High School, The | Arnold Perl | Dram Play | Comedy, Comedy, Drama | 5m-3f, 7m-4f, 7m-3f |
Yellow Boat, The (Competition Version) | David Saar | Anchorage | Drama | 4m-3f |
Young Lady of Property, A | Horton Foote | Dram Play | Drama | 3m-6f |
4m-3f3m-4fx - Extras
1 - Double casting necessary as per Section 1033 (c) (2) (C)
2 - Reduced royalty not available
3 - These plays are still available for production, though they are no longer listed in the Dramatic Publishing Company catalogue.
4 - Out of print - available in manuscript.
Note: Dramatic monologues (any play that is written for only one onstage actor) are not eligible for entry in the one-act play contest. [Section 1033 (c) (1) (F)].
Permission must be obtained from the League to make "off-stage voices" judgeable characters in the One-Act Play Contest (e.g., The Shadow Box, Voices, Voice of the Prairie, etc.), and they will be approved only if such characters appear in view of the audience. Adding or changing characters listed in the acting edition of an approved play is restricted by Section 1033 (c) (2) (C). Permission usually cannot be obtained to produce scenes from or acts of any full-length play by Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Ketti Frings, David Mamet, Elmer Rice, Peter Shaffer, Neil Simon and Peter Weiss. The same is true of Thornton Wilder, V. Glasgow Koste and Eugene Ionesco except those on the approved short list which are under review.