One Acts!

I have to direct a one act next fall, and I'm looking for a killer comedy with a fairly large cast (6-15 people, somewhere in there). If anybody has any suggestions from experience, throw them out! Any help would be appreciated.

I've already looked at/seen:
Hard Candy
Take Five
This is a Test
David Ive's Plays

Thanks!

Updated On: 6/18/03 at 11:24 AM

I found it.

TARTUFFE : A One-Act Play from Moliere
by Noyce Burleson
The Dramatic Publishinc compnay.

The show runs at just under 40 minutes.

Here is the cast breakdown ::
Madame Pernelle
Elmire
Dorine
Damis
Mariane
Cleante
Monsieur Orgon
Valere
Tartuffe
Officer Loyale

There is an optional prologue that takes place on a stage before a perfomance of tartuffe. the Breakdown for that is::
1st Actor (Valere)
2d Actor (Damis)
3d Actor (Orgon)
1st Actress (Madame Pernelle)
2d Actress (Mariane)
3d Actress (Dorine)
Moliere (Tartuffe)
Madama Moliere (Elmire)
Stagehand (Cleante)

we actually dicussed that during rehearsals. LOL.

no problem. Another good one is Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got The Will? It is a comedy for 3 men and 5 women and it is full length, but we did for a competition and cut it down to 40 minutes. It is about a family in a small texas twon who come back together when their father is dying from a series of progressive strokes. there is the old man who is dying, his elderly mother in law, his beautucuan daughter who never laft home, his divorced daughter who is trying to becaome a singer and her hippee boyfriend, his preacher's wife daughter, and his drunk son and his overweight wife. It is very funny, but very touching. There was a REALLy bad screen version made in the early 90s. The stage version is A LOT better.

LOL. That one is a RIOT!

My favourite one act play is The Browning Version by Terrence Ratigan. Very Upper Class English, so a nice challenge perhaps. There's about 6 people if I remember rightly.