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One Act Plays
Step into a stage where everything happens at once: comedy snaps, tragedy strikes, and a single conversation can change a life. This bookshelf gathers one-act plays that move with lightning speed, from sharp farce and biting wit to lyrical dreamscapes and haunting loss. Each curtain rises on a world complete in itself—and drops before you’ve caught your breath.
55 Audiobooks
The Post Office
by Rabindranath Tagore
Chitra, a Play in One Act
by Rabindranath Tagore
Echoes of the War
by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
First Plays
by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta
by Bernard Shaw
St. Patrick's Day; Or, The Scheming Lieutenant: A Farce in One Act
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Birds
by Aristophanes
Becket and other plays
by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
Riders to the Sea
by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
Aria da Capo
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Second Plays
by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
The Flutter of the Goldleaf, and Other Plays
by Olive Tilford Dargan, Frederick Peterson
Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
by August Strindberg
The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, With a Memoir by Arthur Symons
by Ernest Christopher Dowson
The Pretentious Young Ladies
by Molière
Die Juden Ein Lustspiel in einem Aufzuge verfertiget im Jahre 1749.
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Angels and Ministers, and Other Victorian Plays
by Laurence Housman
The noble lord : a comedy in one act
by Percival Wilde
Plays
by Susan Glaspell
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
by Bernard Shaw
In the Shadow of the Glen
by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
How He Lied to Her Husband
by Bernard Shaw
The Little Man: A Farcical Morality in Three Scenes
by John Galsworthy
The Harlequinade: An Excursion
by Dion Clayton Calthrop, Harley Granville-Barker
The Countess of Escarbagnas
by Molière
Die Tugend auf der Schaubühne oder: Harlekins Heirath; Ein Nachspiel in einem Aufzuge
by Justus Möser
One Day More: A Play In One Act
by Joseph Conrad
Washington Square Plays
by Lewis Beach, Alice Gerstenberg, Edward Goodman, Philip Moeller
Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce
by Bernard Shaw
Four Short Plays
by John Galsworthy
The Jewel Merchants: A Comedy in One Act
by James Branch Cabell
Overruled
by Bernard Shaw
Six Short Plays
by John Galsworthy
Peace
by Aristophanes
Swan Song
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Plays by August Strindberg: Creditors. Pariah.
by August Strindberg
Miss Civilization: A Comedy in One Act
by Richard Harding Davis
Rada: A Drama of War in One Act
by Alfred Noyes
Duty, and Other Irish Comedies
by Seumas O'Brien
Plays of Gods and Men
by Lord Dunsany
New Comedies
by Lady Gregory
Plays by August Strindberg, Second series
by August Strindberg
Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act
by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Apthorp) McFadden, Raymond MacDonald Alden
The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces
by John Kendrick Bangs
Five Little Plays
by Alfred Sutro
The Hairy Ape
by Eugene O'Neill
War Brides: A Play in One Act
by Marion Craig Wentworth
King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays
by Floyd Dell
Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband
by Molière
The reckoning : a play in one act
by Percival Wilde
Press Cuttings
by Bernard Shaw
The First and the Last: A Drama in Three Scenes
by John Galsworthy
Makers of Madness A Play in One Act and Three Scenes
by Hermann Hagedorn