> I'm in the process of writing a one-act play. I'll submit it next sememster when they pick which ones to produce. But I've never written a play before and was wondering if anyone knew what characteristics a one-act play should have. I know the conflict needs to be introduced quickly, but is there anything else in particular? Google wasn't much help.
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> Ga"'Look at the sunset. It just amazes me... that big ball of fire spinnin' around us through the sky.'"halia


I was in three one-act plays in High School. They were for the Drama classes I had that year. (I had Drama twice and we had to do one-acts for our final project in each class) plus I was in the Drama club, which did the third One-act. Yeah, so anyway...

In the Drama club one-act we did "An Actors actions" which is a drama. Naturally. It was very serious. It also won us third place at State, if I remember correctly. (It was a Looooong time ago) ;) Basically it was a bunch of disjointed scenes that didn't really have anything to do with each other, except that the all dealt with insecurity. I played a girl who thought she was ugly. No wise cracks, please. :-p The point is that she THOUGHT she was ugly, but actually wasn't. So there.

The one-acts I did for class were fun, though. Both were comedies. (actually, one was a melodrama, which I LOVED. heh) It was "Tied to the Tracks" and was an old western hero/villian/damsel in distress play. The other was "Mrs. Patterson's $5,000 Dog is Dead" which was as stupid as the title suggests, but hey, I was just the butler. (I did it, by the way.)

Anyway, I guess my point is that they were all completely different. You can have fun with it, or you can do something completely serious and make a point that you want to make.

Ti'I'M UGLY!'cia

(Hey, it was my first line, ok!)