Act Now: Award Winning One Act Plays

by Eileen Enwright Hodgetts

Six Award Winning One Act Plays for actors and directors looking for something new and different. Each of these plays has received one or more awards in national competitions, and offers something to delight audiences and challenge the actors.In Visitors a battered woman believes that she has been visited by aliens, who will one day return and rescue her from her drab life. Mario’s Fingers set in a rundown bar, presents a unique take on disease and disability. In Twilight, a young girl falls off her bicycle and into the arms of a very special ghost. A Candle For Elvis is a delight for actors and audience as Elvis is released by the aliens who sucked him up to examine his brain. War Brides is a tender remembrance of World War 2, and For All the Saints is an all-out fantasy as stained glass saints meet up in a London basement. Simple sets, some costuming, and royalty free for schools, colleges, and community theatre groups.

168 pages, Paperback

Published January 29, 2015

About the author

Eileen Enwright Hodgetts is a much traveled writer. Brought up in England and Wales, she has also lived and worked in South Africa and Uganda. Eileen and her husband, Graham, now make their home in Baden, PA. Eileen’s life experiences allow her to use exotic backgrounds for her novels and to understand how an adventure can begin with just one small incident. For ten years she directed a humanitarian mission in East Africa as an employee of Christ Church at Grove Farm in Sewickley, PA. and her whole family continues to be involved in Uganda through the Ugandan Gold Coffee project bringing coffee to the United States and returning the profits to Uganda to be used for drilling water wells. She writes historical fiction from Arthurian sagas to World War Two murder mysteries. The major movie "Unsinkable", currently in production, is based on her national award-winning stage play "Titanic to all Ships". Her latest work "The Girl on the Carpathia - A novel of the Titanic" reflects over twenty years of research into both the US senate hearings and the British inquiry into the sinking.

Reviews

[Pippa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a really excellent collection of scripts. I thoroughly enjoyed reading them... well, with the possible exception of Mario's Fingers...

Recommended for all aspiring playwrights, and for groups who are looking for one-act plays to perform.