Straight Plays with 1 M, 1 F Character

My friend ellen and I are looking for straight plays with a 1 M 1 F cast (ok if more if designed for actors to play multiple characters).

We are in the 18-20 age bracket. We would perform it in the lab theatre here at UT. Age appropriate roles would be idea, but since this is a college theatre experience, any plays would be great.

Right now the only one I can think of is An Infinite Ache.

I stage managed "The Diaries of Adam and Eve" -- 1m, 1f.

Jack and Jill

by Jane Martin

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I agree with Jack and Jill by Jane Martin.

Keep in mind that you'll need 4 or 5 techies who come on stage to give the actor/actress props, help them change on stage, etc.

Love Letters has been done to death though.

Birdbath is also very good. Very dramatic.

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea - same

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

Greenwich Mean

Funeral Parlor

The Nina Variations

Oleanna

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Wait wait...
I think THE FOURPOSTER has 3 characters...
There is a narrator, if I'm not mistaken, as well as the couple.

But I'm talking with Mary_Ethel the Secretary of Trivia over here, so I'm probably wrong.

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The Sea Horse by ???
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley
Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune by Terence McNally

If you can swing one other male, This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan is a perfect piece for your age range.
Talk To Me Like The Rain, and Let Me Listen a one-act by Tennessee Williams

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Updated On: 10/20/04 at 11:53 AM

And here's a synopsis I've found. I also believe that there is a bit of homosexual subtext going on for the male character:

Set on the front porch and in the living room of a conservative Texas home, the play tells the story of two teenagers whose sexual awakening has been severely hampered by the fundamentalist fervor that runs like power lines through the Bible Belt. A comic first scene, set on the porch of Whitney's home, details his attempts to seduce the puritanical Carlyle after he's just been elected president of the Youth Ministry at the Church picnic. Carlyle coyly refuses his advances, citing everything from teen pregnancy to hellfire and damnation as reasons to abstain. In a dramatic second scene, Carlyle seeks Whitney's help after she has been the victim of a sexual assault. Rather than face the grim reality of her experience, Carlyle transforms the attack from an act of violence to a vision of glory, in which the bodies of her assailants become the angels torn from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and the alcohol they forced upon her becomes the blood of Christ. As Carlyle's delusions grow, Whitney must convince her of the unfortunate truth. Together they struggle to wed their simplistic religious doctrine with the often painful complexity of the real world.

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I'm not sure if this is the right name of the play (Guido knows it) its called the Red Door

or something to that effect---its very good for young people

"Philip...with one L"

One woman, one man, full length. Still fairly unknown, but probably not for long.

SURE THING, by David Ives.
no doubt.
-d.b.j-

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Same Time Next Year, The Owl and The Pussycat or even Greater Tuna (written for two males but just as easily works for a mixed cast).