One-Act Plays by Nicholas Conti

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Alessandro

Finalist in the 'Dawn:-Lights Up' contest, Cuneen Arts Center.

AuthorNicholas Conti
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. The Narrator is intended to double as The Count.
Run time Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A one-act romp set in 1682. Written in a style somewhere between Melodrama and Restoration Comedy! (American English.)
Synopsis The tale of Alessandro Stradella, musical lover. (That's musical lover as in 'musician and lothario', not as in 'fan of Rogers and Hammerstein'.) His affair with his pupil, Contessa Maria Cortese, sparks the wrath of her husband - just one of the enraged cuckolds Alessandro has left in his wake.
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Mirror, Mirror, on the WallAuthorNicholas Conti
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run time Around 40 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play, a haunting - on the edge of Melodrama. Single interior set - a house in Salem in the 1940s. Characters are all adults but could be within the grasp of teenagers.
Synopsis A couple move into a new home in Salem, only to find that they are not alone...
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The Merry Women of Windham

Winner in the Nov. 2005 Gettysburg College (PA.) World Premiere One Act Play Festival. Performance by Trinity Drama Group placed second in the Confined Category in the Balbriggan One Act Festival 2009

AuthorNicholas Conti
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run time Around 65 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Black comedy set in a modern American suburb. One-act, single set.
Synopsis A Garden Mystery or 'Victoria's Secret'... The women of Victoria's Garden Club devise novel ways of dealing with problems in their domestic relationships. All the solutions are permanent, though they require a fair amount of digging, and Victoria's garden contains some unusual plants. All the club members are blissfully contented until the digging and the ceremonial chanting is brought to the attention of a local policewoman, who comes to investigate...
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