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