About One-Act Play
The one-act is the short story of the theatre — a single sustained action, usually in a single setting, often hinging on one decision. The one-acts in this archive are useful equally for performance (where they work as a teaching form, an audition piece, or an evening's bill in their own right) and for reading, where their concision exposes the dramaturgy more clearly than longer plays do.
All one-act plays in the archive (24)
- La Tontine — by Alain René Le Sage
- Rada: A Drama of War in One Act — by Alfred Noyes
- The Duke of Gandia — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Shakspeare's Mental Photographs — by Anonymous
- Swan Song — by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress — by Bernard Shaw
- The Forfeiture — by Charles Rivière Dufresny
- Introduction to the Dramas of Balzac — by Epiphanius Wilson
- The Illustrated Works of Friedrich Schiller A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions — by Friedrich Schiller
- Der Tag"; or, The Tragic Man — by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
- Riders to the Sea — by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
- In the Shadow of the Glen — by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
- The Little Dream: An Allegory in Six Scenes — by John Galsworthy
- The Little Man: A Farcical Morality in Three Scenes — by John Galsworthy
- The Disguising at Hertford — by John Lydgate
- Signora Fantastici (A Dramatic Proverb) — by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël
- For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque — by Oscar Wilde
- Madame Aubin — by Paul Verlaine
- The noble lord — by Percival Wilde
- The reckoning — by Percival Wilde
- The Second-Story Man — by Upton Sinclair
- The Land of Heart's Desire — by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
- The Hour Glass — by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
- A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) — by William Shakespeare