Category Archives: Plays
Magic: A Fantastic Comedy
Author(s): G. K. Chesterton George Bernard Shaw goaded the already successful essayist and novelist Chesterton...
One-Act Play Collection 002
Author(s): Various This collection of eight one-act dramas features plays by Eugene O’Neill, George Bernard...
Octavius
Author(s): Marcus Minucius Felix This ancient Roman dialogue plays out as a religious debate between...
Paul Jones
Author(s): Alexandre Dumas Dumas’s play talks of American Naval Hero John Paul Jones’s romantic entanglements...
Patience (Bunthorne’s Bride)
Author(s): W. S. Gilbert A comic operetta which is a satire on the themes of...
Night Off; or A Page From Balzac
Author(s): Augustin DalyFranz von Schönthan There are a number of subplots going on in this...
One-Act Play Collection 021
Short-form theater offers a rare window into dramatic history, squeezing high-stakes tension, sharp social critique,...
Old Scrooge
Author(s): Charles Augustus Scott Charles Scott prepared this dramatic version of Dickens’ Christmas Carol in...
Our American Cousin
Author(s): Tom Taylor Our American Cousin is an 1858 three-act play by English playwright Tom...
Medea (Version 2)
Author(s): Lucius Annaeus Seneca Medea is a fabula crepidata (Roman play with Greek subject) of...
One-Act Play Collection 006
Author(s): Various This collection includes ten one-act plays by David Belasco, Arnold Bennett, Hereward Carrington,...
Pollyanna, the Glad Girl: A Four-Act Comedy
Author(s): Catherine Chisholm Cushing Miss Polly Harrington is not at all pleased to be taking...
One-Act Play Collection 012
Author(s): Various Here are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from a...
Miss Civilization
Author(s): Richard Harding Davis Miss Civilization, a one act comedy, tells the story of a...
One-Act Play Collection 011
Author(s): Various Here are 10 one act plays offered by various groups of Librivox readers....
One Day More
Author(s): Joseph Conrad A one-act play. Eccentric (crazy?) Captain Hagberd has been waiting for years...
Madame Pepita
Author(s): Gregorio Martínez Sierra Madame Pepita is a dressmaker in Madrid with an inherited fortune...
Pseudolus: or, The Cheat
Author(s): Titus Maccius Plautus About two dozen comedies of the Roman playwright Plautus have survived...
One-Act Play Collection 015
Spanning three centuries of dramatic literature, short-form theatre captures raw human emotion and sharp comedic...
One-Act Play Collection 014
Author(s): Various Here, in our 14th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment....
Makeshifts & Realities
Author(s): Gertrude Robins First performed in 1908, Makeshifts and Realities follow the sisters Caroline and...
Mollentrave on Women
Author(s): Alfred Sutro Mollentrave has written a “Love Doctor” book for men entitled “Mollentrave on...
One-Act Play Collection 004
Author(s): Various This collection of twelve one-act dramas features plays by James Allen, John Kendrick...
Midsummer Night’s Dream (version 4)
Author(s): William Shakespeare Even people who claim to hate Shakespearean comedy have to admit that...
Rollo’s Wild Oat
Author(s): Clare Kummer Rollo Webster, slightly eccentric, has a consuming ambition to play Hamlet. Escaping...
Pleasant Commodie of Faire Em, the Miller’s Daughter of Manchester, with the Love of William the Conquerour
Author(s): William Shakespeare By Shakespeare? Almost certainly not, but 1) it was found in a...
Mr H
Author(s): Charles Lamb Mr H is a farce that was first performed at Drury Lane...
Mice and Men
Long before John Steinbeck captured the tragic struggles of the American Dust Bowl, playwright Madeleine...
Modern Monologues
Author(s): Marjorie Benton Cooke The monologue is a character study in little; the apotheosis of...
One-Act Play Collection 001
Author(s): Various LibriVox’s One-Act Play Collection 001 includes one-act plays in the public domain read...