Twelve Classic One-Act Plays

by Mary Carolyn Waldrep (Editor)

From high school drama students to community theater actors, performers everywhere are looking for inexpensive material to entertain audiences. This collection of a dozen royalty-free, one-act plays provides the perfect solution.
Classic dramas include Aristophanes' The Birds, J. M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, and Eugene O'Neill's The Moon of the Caribbees. Other works include August Strindberg's The Stronger, Susan Glaspell's Trifles, Louise Saunders' The Knave of Hearts, and Oscar Wilde's A Florentine Tragedy, in addition to plays by Molière, Anton Chekhov, William Butler Yeats, James M. Barrie, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Genres: Plays, Classics

226 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 17, 2010

Reviews

[Pippa · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent collection of traditional scripts for theatre. It includes Aristophanes 'The Birds' (would a modern audience have the subtlety to get this?... I'm not sure), Chekhov's brilliant 'The Proposal' and many that are not so well known, but equally good. Thoroughly enjoyed this.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are some wonderful plays in this book. Because they are classics, we found that most of the plays in the book were available for free on-line. This was perfect, because it allowed us to read them together as a family.