One-Act Play Collection 020

Here, in our 20th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from pure fantasy, historical, farces, and dramas. All short gems to make you laugh, cry, think, or all three. (NOTE: Louise Saunders died in 1965 and Floyd Dell died in 1969. Their plays are not PD for listeners in Europe and/or Australia, and other countries which observe copyright of author's death +70 years.) - Summary by ToddHW

Cast list:

1. Comus by John Milton. BC for this play is alanmapstone

The Attendant Spirit: WendyKatzHiller

Comus: Greg Giordano

The Lady: Jenn Broda

First Brother: Algy Pug

Second Brother: Larry Wilson

Sabrina, the Nymph: Agnes Robert Behr

Narration: Alan Mapstone

2. Matchmakers by Annie Eliot Trumbull. BC for this play is jennlea
Mr. F. Harrington Courtenay, a banker: Greg Giordano

Mr. Aaron Fithworth, a young man with a hobby: Tomas Peter

Mrs. Evangeline Rodney, a designing widow: Inkell

Miss Henrietta White, Mrs. Rodney’s niece: Jenn Broda

Stage Directions: Agnes Robert Behr

3. The Proposal by Anton Pavlovich Chekov. BC for this play is Inkell

STEPAN STEPANOVITCH CHUBUKOV, a landowner: Larry Wilson

NATALYA STEPANOVNA, his daughter, twenty-five years old: Jenn Broda

IVAN VASSILEVITCH LOMOV, a neighbour of Chubukov, a large and hearty, but very suspicious landowner: ToddHW
Stage Directions: Inkell

4. The Knave of Hearts by Louise Saunders. BC for this play is ToddHW

The Manager: ToddHW

Blue Hose: Rapunzelina

Yellow Hose: Shickey

Herald: Sylphwyld

Pompdebile the Eighth, King of Hearts: HelloCentral

The Chancellor: Greg Giordano

The Knave of Hearts: Michael Faze

Ursula: Agnes Robert Behr

The Lady Violetta: Winnifred Assmann

Boy: Sylphwyld

Stage Directions: Larry Wilson

5. Ibsen Revisited: A Piece of Foolishness by Floyd Dell (1887 – 1969). BC for this play is Winnifred
NOTE: Dell died in 1969. This story is not PD for readers in Europe and/or Australia, and other countries which observe copyright of author's death +70 years.

Stage Directions: Agnes Robert Behr

The Maid: ShrimpPhish

The Stranger: Greg Giordano

A Voice: Winnifred Assmann

6. Alfred the Great by Thomas Arne. BC for this play is alanmapstone

Alfred, King of England: Adrian Stephens

Eltruda, Queen of England: Winnifred Assmann

Prince Edward: Greg Giordano

Corin, a shepherd: Larry Wilson

Emma, a shepherdess: ShrimpPhish

First Spirit: Agnes Robert Behr

Edith: dc

Chorus/Narration: Alan Mapstone

7. A Sunny Morning by Serafín and Joaquín Alvarez Quintero, translated by Lucretia Xavier Floyd. BC for this play is Rapunzelina

Doña Laura: Sylphwyld

Petra, her maid: ShrimpPhish

Don Gonzalo: stepheather

Juanito, his servant: Greg Giordano

Stage Directions: Inkell

8. The Sub-Contractor, from Over the Footlights by Stephen Leacock. BC for this play is Winnifred

Dump: Larry Wilson

Vamp: ShrimpPhish

Slump: Greg Giordano

Simp: Agnes Robert Behr

Narrator: Winnifred Assmann

9. The Clod by Lewis Beach. BC for this play is Inkell

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