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32 More One Acts

Paper or Plastic: The Ice Storm
Comedy | Cast: Up to 2m., 2 to 5w., 9 to 14 either gender. | Simple set
Run time: 40 min. | Code: PL9000
As an ice storm approaches, Sarah, a cashier, is hastily given—maybe tricked into?—the
job of assistant manager. She is happy about the promotion until she realizes that with
great power comes even more grocery store insanity. There are stubborn customers, unruly
kids, the cane-wielding head of Skybell Ice Cream, striking baggers and a mysterious figure
known as “El Diablo.” Will there be anything left on the shelves? Will Sarah survive? The
answers and laughs are in the forecast of this play! By Werner Trieschmann.

Paper or Plastic?
Comedy | Cast: 6m., 6w., 3 either gender. | Single set | Run time: 40 min. Code: PB5000
For her first job, teenage Sarah thinks she’s easily qualified to check out customers at her local
grocery store. At least it has to be better than serving up greasy fast food, right? But she isn’t
prepared for the assistant manager who refuses to deal with unruly customers or her crazy
co-workers who put on camouflage to hunt down stray grocery carts. All Sarah wants is the
answer to the simplest question in the world: Paper or plastic? By Werner Trieschmann.

The Perfect Ending
Comedy | Cast: 9 to 11m., 12 to 16w., 2 either gender. | Simple set | Run time: 45 min.
Code: PL8000
Mother is well on her way to having the perfect dinner party, but one thing stands in her way—
the end of the world as we know it! Join her as she juggles all types of zany, unexpected
guests in an attempt to maintain a perfect house and to be the absolute perfect hostess,
right up until the very last moment. Will the world come to an end, or will Mother get to have
her perfect dinner party? By B. Dwayne Craft.

Persephone
Comedy | Cast: 10 to 15 actors, flexible. | Unit set | Run time: 45 min. | Code: PH6000
This comedy retells the myth in which Hades, god of death, kidnaps Persephone, goddess
of life and spring. But while Persephone is usually presented as the sad-eyed queen of the
underworld, here she is a happy breath of spring that makes life glitter wherever she is—
even in Hades. In addition to the comic conflicts surrounding the situation, however, there
is a deeper theme of the relation of life and death. This coupling is significant, since life and
death are in fact inseparable, inevitably linked together. In this insoluble link there is also a
hint of the nature of real love. By Ford Ainsworth.

Polly Wants a Curtain Call

PERFECT FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL Comedy | Cast: 2m., 6w., 14 to 23 either gender.
One ext. set | Run time: 45 min. | Code: PM5000
One day, in the midst of a ship-looting-gone-wrong, Pauline, the Shakespeare-reciting,
gluten-intolerant parrot flies away to pursue her acting career in Pollywood. When the
pirates discover that she has run away, they experience an awakening and determine that
it is not too late to change their scoundrel ways, which leads them directly to Aargaholics
Anonymous! By Victoria Sayeg.