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This site describes 5046 one-act plays using four or fewer actors, making available unpublished and published scripts by worldwide playwrights in multiple languages and various media. Small-Cast One-Act Guide Online is a free resource for playwrights, actors, agents, directors, dramaturgs, producers, publishers, students, and librarians. It encourages the publication, perusal, production, payment of royalties, and preservation of scripts.
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"What's the point of a play that no one ever sees?"
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Anyone seeking permission to read or use these plays can e-mail, telephone, or write a playwright or agent and should first give a clear, adequate self-introduction and present all pertinent information about intentions.
Small-Cast One-Act Guide Online encourages paying living playwrights. Remuneration for script use enables them to continue their creative output. A handy chart explains free use of scripts through public domain. Another chart amplifies conditions.
Playwrights should read News Flashes for addresses to send scripts for production or publication or competition.
Librarians have a special theatrical role: that is, to keep scripts available for stage and study. For this, librarians can e-mail individual playwrights for archival copies. Or, playwrights can donate their scripts to libraries for archiving.
Are you available? The staff of this site seeks help to research, format, and upload citations from a backlogged six thousand items. Willingness to use Wiki tools and a general knowledge of dramatic literature are prerequisites. A graduate theatre degree is ideal but not required. Contact lwheniford@gmail.com.
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