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The following is a list of my one-act plays. If you are interested in reading any of them, write me at: albigorn@optonline.net.
COMEDIES
IT’S ABOUT FORGIVENESS (Herman 60+, Myrna 60+)
A man seeks out his wife in Heaven and explains in order to be permitted to stay, he needs her forgiveness for what he did to her on earth – murdering her. 15 minutes.
Winner: 2005 Havemeyer One-Act Play Competition in Greenwich, Conn.; 2006 Strawberry Festival in NYC; 2013 Aery 20-20 Festival in Garrison, NY; Finalist in the 2014 All-England Theatre Festival
VERBATIM (Marlene 25-40, Andy [either gender, any age], Reese 25-40)
Marlene hires a court reporter, Andy, to make a verbatim transcript of the fight she’s about to have with her husband, Reese. 20 minutes.
Winner: 2005 Dubuque Fine Arts Players National One-Act Playwriting Contest, Dubuque, Iowa; 2004 FirstStage One-Act Play Competition, Los Angeles, Cal.
Verbatim and The Rub (see below) were finalists in the 2009 AACTfest National Theater Festival in Tacoma, Wash.
THE RUB (Marieke 20-40, Jeff 20-40)
Marieke confides in new co-worker Jeff that she dreamed about him the night before. Jeff says he dreamed about her and they come to realize they had the exact same dream. This continues each day for the following week, the dreams reflecting their changing relationship. 20+ minutes.
With Verbatim a finalist in the AACTfest National Theater Festival in Tacoma, Wash. The Rub was a finalist in the 2000 Nantucket Short Play Competition, Nantucket, Mass. and the 2006 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival
DOUBLE DATE (Joan, Paul, Randy, Michael – all approximately the same age, 20-40)
Paul meets Joan at a bar on a blind date. Randy is stretched out unconscious on the bar next to her. As Paul and Joan talk, depending on where the conversations goes, Joan goes unconscious and the much more flirtatious Randy comes to life. They go back and forth until Michael shows up. 20 minutes.
DEARTH OF A SALESMAN (Helen 30+; Ralph 40+)
Helen is having trouble getting her (offstage) boyfriend to stay awake long enough to break up with him. Ralph, a salesman, knocks on her door and after an epic struggle Helen finally allows him in to demonstrate his product, the Environmental Reorganizer (a broom) which eventually has rather surprising powers. 20+ minutes.
COMING OUT PARTY (Sally, Deirdre, Natasha, 30+, a man 30+)
At a party, Sally refuses to leave the room with the coats despite Deirdre and Natasha’s best efforts. They want to set her up with an eligible bachelor but she’s still getting over being dumped by her husband, Carter. Eventually a man comes in the room and it looks like they’re hitting it off. But… 20 minutes.
WISHES (Abe 60s, Ellie 60s, Wishgal – any age, can be a Wishguy)
Abe comes to and realizes there’s a stranger in his house who is in the middle of granting him three wishes. He has one left but doesn’t remember the first two. His wife, Ellie comes in and the two of them at first attempt to get rid of the Wishgal but eventually come to believe her. However, their constant bickering prevents them from coming to agreement on what the last wish should be. 15 minutes.
THE DATE DINGER (Carol 30s, Randolph 30s, Euclid any age, can be Euclidia, a woman)
Carol and Randolph are on a blind date but because of their mutual terrible histories with dates have agreed to a professional date chaperone to ease them through it. 15 minutes.
REGRESSION (Cameron, Claudia 20+, Dr. Darvi, 60+)
Claudia won’t agree to marry Cameron until he goes through a past life regression analysis with Dr. Darvi, so she can check out what kind of a husband he’d been in his former lives. 15 minutes.
A NAME BY ANY OTHER NAME (Claude, Barbara – any age, older works nicely)
Something like an outtake from an Oscar Wilde play, Claude calls Barbara Martha and then refuses to take responsibility for having forgotten her name. 10 minutes.
TELL ME A STORY (Tessie 8-10, Daddy 30s, Valsworth – can be almost any age)
Daddy reluctantly comes to read to his daughter and when they start reading a book about a knight called Valsworth, he shows up for real in her room. 15 minutes.
WAITING FOR DINGLEMAN’S COMET (Hennie, Tom mid 30s, Shane [their daughter] 13)
Shane insists that her parents accompany her on a summer’s night to view Dingleman’s Comet. While there, the rift in their marriage becomes apparent, but as they wait and watch, they being to see a way back. 15 minutes.
YOU DON’T KNOW ME (Josh and Maureen, mid 30s)
Maureen meets Josh for lunch but he doesn’t recognize her as the Maureen he knows and she keeps calling him Roger. 15 minutes.
DREAM LOVER (Floyd and Lucy 30+, Dr. Knudnich 50+)
Floyd and Lucy are enjoying an evening of sex like they’ve never had until Lucy begins to question how it’s even possible. After awhile, she becomes convinced that it’s all a dream and they then have a fight about whose dream it is until Dr. Knudnich unexpectedly shows up to set them straight. 15 minutes.
STRAIGHT PLAYS
PARADISE ENOW (Franklyn 30, Jesse 30)
Outside a concert hall, Franklyn meets Jesse and the two start to get close until he reveals that he is one of the protesters picketing her mother’s abortion clinic. They decide to try dating anyway and become a couple, until an unexpected event brings their relationship to a crisis point. 40 minutes.
OTHERTOWN (Alex [f] 30, Toby [m] 28).
Alex and Toby were child stars on a show called Othertown until the show was abruptly cancelled in its fifth season. Alex became estranged from the family and only comes back to her old family house on the death of her mother. Toby shows Alex the Magic Couch on which they traveled back and forth to Othertown on the show and when she sits on it, mysterious things happen. 30 minutes.
LETTING GO (Betsy and Zach, 20-30)
Betsy shows up at her ex-boyfriend Zach’s house on her birthday, uninvited. She convinces him to let her stay and the two of them go through a photo album he had prepared as a birthday present for her before she left him, the photographs becoming flashbacks of their relationship. 40 minutes.
A FAMILY AFFAIR (Clare and Jon, 20-30, Russell and Nell, 50+)
Clare brings her fiancé to meet her parents, only to learn that he is the child of an affair her father had. 20 minutes.
THE EX FACTOR (Delia, Oliver, Sylvia, all 30ish)
Oliver wants to move in with Delia, but before she commits she wants to know more about his ex-wife, Sylvia. He describes their relationship in a series of flashbacks and Delia is baffled how he could have ever had any kind of relationship with, much less marry, someone like the coarse, unsophisticated, blue-collar Sylvia. She finally decides to meet Sylvia herself to try to understand it. 30 minutes (more of a dramedy than a drama).
GIRL WITH GUITAR (Sonya 60+, Judy 18 to mid 20s)
In alternating scenes we see Judy taking care of her senile grandmother, Sonya, and then in flashback we see the events surrounding Sonya’s painting a portrait of Judy some years before. 30 minutes.
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