One-Act Plays

You might think the definition of a one act play would be easy (just count the acts), however sometimes playwrights create very short plays which they split into two acts (usually murder mysteries where the writer wants to prolong the suspense!)

We have therefore opted for a very broad definition of the one-act category to include any play which might be expected to occupy half an evening's entertainment. (Generally, this is an item of up to seventy-five minutes duration, and usually it has very few changes of set.) Since we have set the lower cut-off limit of full-length plays at 60 minutes, there is a clear overlap!

We have set the lower limit of one-act plays at 20 minutes - anything below that fits into the Short play / 10-minute play / Sketch / Skit category.

If you want something of a specific length, then use the maximum and minimum run-time parameters in your search.