One-Act Play Collection 021

Here, in our 21st collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. There are two plays from the 1700s, Congreve's "Judgement of Paris" and Handel's "Esther"; the remaining plays come from the early 1900s, with the whole collection bookended by a pair of one act plays by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero. All short gems to make you laugh, cry, think, or all three.

(NOTE: Floyd Dell died in 1969, so the play "A Long Time Ago" is not PD for readers in Europe and/or Australia, and other countries which observe copyright of author's death +70 years.) - Summary by ToddHW

Cast lists:

1. A Seat in the Park by Arthur Wing Pinero. BC for this play is toddhw
A Mr. Postlethwaite: Greg Giordano
A Miss Beechcroft: ShrimpPhish
Stage Directions: Larry Wilson

2. Two Slatterns and a King: A Moral Interlude by Edna St. Vincent Millay. BC for this play is BrianFullen
The King: Alan Mapstone
Chance the Vice: Larry Wilson
Tidy the false Slattern: ShrimpPhish
Slut the true Slattern: Tomas Peter
Stage Directions: Brian Fullen

3. The Judgement of Paris by William Congreve. BC for this play is alanmapstone
Paris: Brian Fullen
Mercury: Greg Giordano
Juno: ShrimpPhish
Pallas: Inkell
Venus: Christine Rottger
Chorus/Narration: Alan Mapstone

4. A Long Time Ago by Floyd Dell. BC for this play is ShrimpPhish
Stage Directions: Christine Rottger
The Old Woman: Winnifred Assmann
The Fool: Greg Giordano
The Queen: ShrimpPhish
The Sailor: Brian Fullen
The Prince: Brize C

5. The Babylonian Captivity by Lesya Ukrainka. BC for this play is Inkell
Eleazar: Greg Giordano
The Old Man: Brize C
The Youth: Bogdana
Samarian Prophet: Tomas Peter
Jewish Prophet: Larry Wilson
First Levite: Brian Fullen
Second Levite: heljar
Third Levite: Alan Mapstone
A Man: ToddHW
A Woman: mleigh
First Mother: Lynette Caulkins
The Girl: ShrimpPhish
The Child: dc
The Old Woman: Winnifred Assmann
A Mad Woman: Agnes Robert Behr
The Father: Valentin Roberts
Old Man: Alan Mapstone
Another Old Man: ShrimpPhish
A Little Boy: ShrimpPhish
An Overseer: Brian Fullen
Stage Directions: Inkell

6. Bargains in Cathay by Rachel Field. BC for this play is BrianFullen
Miss Emily Gray, an ambitious salesgirl: ShrimpPhish
Jerry O’Brien, a delivery boy: Brian Fullen
Miss Doty, official guardian of the book department: April6090
Thompson Williams, a poet, also of the men’s wear department: Tomas Peter
Miss Bliss, a lady with memories: Agnes Robert Behr
Mr. Royce, a floorwalker: Greg Giordano
A Gentleman from New York: ToddHW
Stage Directions: Inkell

7. Lithuania by Rupert Brooke. BC for this play is Rapinzelina
Stage Directions: Inkell
Stranger: Greg Giordano
Mother: Agnes Robert Behr
Daughter: ShrimpPhish
Father: Alan Mapstone
Young Man: Tomas Peter
Vodka-Shopkeeper: Brian Fullen
Vodka-Shopkeeper's Son: Rapunzelina

8. A Morality Play for the Leisured Class, A Satire. BC for this play is BrianFullen
Soul: Greg Giordano
The Presence: Agnes Robert Behr
Stage Directions: Brian Fullen

9. Esther by George Frederick Handel…