Funny 2 Person 10 Minutes Plays

2-Character

Scripts for Plays with 2 characters

2-Character play scripts are 2-handers with two roles for male or female actors. Scripts for plays needing 2 actors with multiple roles. Plays have either a man and a woman, one male actor and one female actor or two male actors or two female actors.

Find 2-person short plays, comedies, dramas.

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A Dark Day for Hinkley, J.

by Jack J. Berry
- 10 minutes
- 2F1M
Simple Set

John Hinkley Jr. (attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan) must use his newly-learned coping skills to deal with the news that the "love of his life", Jodie Foster, is not "playing on the same team" that he'd always assumed she was.

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$8.00 – $35.00
A Dish Best Served Cold – A Revenge Fantasy in 10 Minutes

by Jean H. Klein
- 10 minutes
- 2M; Max/Min 2
Auditions, Classroom Use, Mental Health Issues, 2-Character, Colleges, Competitions, Highly Theatrrical

A man is lied to when he volunteers for a psychological experiment on the role of pain in learning. His experience leaves him scarred. Twenty years later, he confronts the psychologist who conducted the experiment. To inflict revenge? T0 get an apology? Does he even know why? Do we?

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$7.97 – $35.00
Original Relocation

by Jack J. Berry
- 10 minutes
- 1 Male, 1 Female, Min/Max 2
Fable, Farce, 2-Character, Bare Stage, Comedy

Adam and Eve start the first world war as they negotiate an uneasy peace when they are banished from Paradise. A funny take on the likely conversation after being ejected from Paradise. And of course, there are rules about Apples.

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$6.97 – $29.95
The Don

by William Heyen
- 1 - 60 min
- 1 - 50 M or F
Fable, Farce, Bare Stage, Collection, Community, Doubling Possible

41 Plays-On-A-Page convey slices of sometimes fantastical life. Sometimes biting social commentary, sometimes whimsical asides. These short dramas and comedies leave the audience guessing about their own lives and the world around them. William Heyen, National Book Award Finalist and major American poet, has turned his pen to the stage, with stellar results.

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$11.95 – $89.87
Backwards from Winter

by Juanita Rockwell
- 60 Minutes
- 1 Soprano; 1 Electric Cello
Musical Drama, Poetic Drama, Bare Stage, Small Cast

Backwards from Winter is a modern opera, a "monodrama for soprano, electric cello, computer, and video." Composed by Douglas Knehans with libretto by Juanita Rockwell, is the story of a young woman who loses her lover in a fatal accident. The story is told in four scenes – one representing each season.

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$8.95 – $9.95
Inside and Out

by Jean H. Klein
- 10 minutes
- 1 Male, 1 Female. 1 M or F. Max 3, Min 3
Competitions, Fantasy, Simple Set

This 10-minute poetic play dramatizes a mother's attempt to reach inside the autistic mind of her young son. Characters include Jonah, the boy, his mother, Jonah's mind. The play is a great change of pace in an evening of short plays and as an introduction to discussion groups and classes in social work and mental health settings.

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$7.99 – $30.00
Plays, Poems and Pratfalls: Will Shakespeare, An Introduction

by Evan Guilford-Blake
- 45 Minutes
- 1 or 2 Males, 1 or 2 Females
Audience Participation, Comedy, Drama, High School, Middle School

A 45-minute introduction to various works of The Bard. Written to be performed by 2 or 4 actors within a single class period. ideal for ages 8 – 12. Includes excerpts fromA Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, As You Like It, and one of the sonnets: number 18. Printable PDF available

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$7.95 – $40.00
Monologues for Men: Voices from the Old Testament

by Gillette Elvgren
- 10 - 60 minutes
Bare Stage, Flexible Casting, Simple Set

These voices from the Old Testament are perfect for Christian solo drama performances. Also with voices of contemporary men of faith, struggling or affirming their beliefs bring modern issues to life. Perfect for inclusion in virtual church services and programs, and also as audition pieces. For performance rights for individual monologues, please contact us.

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$9.95 – $50.00
Shorts for All Seasons: America Revisited
- 10 - 60 minutes
- 1 Male 1 Female Max 6 Min 2
Flexible Casting, Simple Set

A collection of six 10-minute satires – plays written by the renowned Virginia Playwrights Forum, lampoons the American political and social landscape. From taxes and lotteries, to classroom education and TV talk show hosts, the foibles of present-day America are revealed.

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$13.95
Campers

by B.A. Hite
- 20 Minutes
- 1 Male 1 Female Max/Min 2
Colleges, Comedy, Competitions, High School

An "outdoorsy" couple on their honeymoon discover what it means to be caught, or bound together in love. This award-winning one-act comedy by B. A. Hite was a First Place winner, Actor's Theatre; produced by Theatre Wagon of Virginia and Tidewater Community College. Simple set. Easy to stage.

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$6.75 – $45.00
Nat Turner's Last Struggle: Finding His Way Home

by P. A. Wray
- 50 - 60 minutes
- 1 Male 1 Female Max/Min 2
Simple Set, Staging Design Potential

This one-act, two character play opens during the pre-dawn hours of November 5, 1831. It is the day that Nat Turner, leader of a bloody slave rebellion, will be tried, convicted and sentenced to death. In the predawn hours before the trial a mysterious woman enters to purify the courtroom. Seven days later she is there by the hanging tree when Turner is executed and thrown into the darkness of death – where he fears he has been eternally abandoned.

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$9.00 – $60.00
A Chair

by B.A. Hite
- 20 Minutes
- 1 Male, 1 Female, Max/Min 2
2-Character, Aging, Competitions

In this one-act, 2-character play, by B.A. Hite, a couple in their sixties. are considering renting an apartment occupied by a "famous" person recently deceased. A chair left in the empty apartment triggers old marital conflicts. We meet them in the living room of the empty rental apartment. Jackson, the husband, is unimpressed and can't see the attraction.

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$5.70 – $30.00