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30 More One Acts

The Magic Well
Comedy | Cast: 4 to 8m., 6 to 10w. | Simple set | Run time: 35 min. | Code: ML3000
Here is another delicious mixture of fairyland fantasy and modern social realism. King Cole
is un-merry because he has three daughters of marriageable age—and no prospective
sons-in-law to take them off his hands. A professional hunter comes to rid the kingdom of a
dragon, but the local environmentalist thinks dragons should be protected as an endangered
species. There’s a well with magic powers and a frog. An Old Hag is troubled with inflation—
the price of lizard tongues has gone out of sight! There is humor in the villagers’ reactions
to all this. By Herman Ammann.

The Marvelous Playbill

Comedy | Cast: 4m., 8w. | Bare stage with props | Run time: 30 min. | Code: M20000
A down-and-out theatrical producer in 16th-century Spain plays on the vanity of the Castilians
by announcing The Marvelous Playbill, an entertainment so unusual that only a pure-blooded
Castilian can see it. The announcement brings people pouring in. Actually, there is no show.
Chanfalla tells them what they are seeing. At first, they’re all struck dumb by the realization that
they aren’t pure-blooded since they see nothing. Soon human vanity is at work and they’re all
telling outrageous lies. From Miguel de Cervantes. Adapted by Tim Kelly.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Comedy | Cast: 4 to 7m., 6 to 9w. | Simple set | Run time: 35 min. | Code: MM3000
In this adaptation, we see and clearly understand the family spat between Oberon and
Titania and the manner in which this conjugal disagreement affects the efforts of a group
of tradesmen rehearsing a play. We delight in the antics of the mischievous Puck. We laugh
at the ineptness of the Rustics in trying to stage their play. We chuckle at Bottom’s desire
to play every role—and we howl with delight at Bottom’s ass’ head and Titania’s infatuation
with the monster. The graceful style of this play is highly effective. Adapted by Cecil Pickett.
Based on the play by William Shakespeare.

Mirrors
SURREAL PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA Drama | Cast: 3m., 3w. | Area staging
Run time: 40 min. | Code: M53000
This play begins with a man spending an ordinary evening in his ordinary home with his
ordinary family. Then a psychiatrist enters. The man, it seems, is not at home but in a hospital.
His family, we learn, is dead … or are they? After the doctor leaves, the man’s wife returns to
ask if he is still fantasizing that his family is dead. His wife, it seems, is real … or is she? When
she leaves—at play’s end—the man and the audience must decide which reality is the real
one. By John O’Brien.

The New Margo
Drama | Cast: 5w. | Unit set | Run time: 30 min. | Code: N84000
After her friend disappears days before their freshman year of college and an impostor
shows up claiming to be her, Delta tries to convince their friends of the switch. She knows
that something terrible has happened to the real Margo, and she desperately needs
to outsmart the new Margo in order to keep the same thing from happening to her. By
Stephen Gregg.