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This one is hillarious. It doesn't take as much set wise. It would take a LOT of work for the leading man. He basically has to play two completely different characters. It has a cast of 9 with a small chorus. If we did this one, we would have to do some recruiting. This is a musical.
Apocalyptic Butterflies
Cooped up in their cramped cottege in a remote part of Maine, Hank and Muriel Tater are beginning to get on each others nerves. They have still not agreed on a name for their seven week old daughter, Muriel refuses to accept motherhood and housework as a full time occupation, Hank is having an affair with a busty checkout girl at the local IGA store, and, to top it all off, Hank's father has dumped a load of totem poles in their front yard, hoping to jar Hank out of his "traditional thought patterns." In fact, a general shaking-up is what Hank and Muriel need if they are to overcome the resentment and constant bickering which have beset their young marrige, and in a series of wildly funny scenes, that is exactly what they get. It all comes to a boil when Muriel catches Hank in the arms of Trudi, his supermarket bimbo, but as things can't get worse they actually (and miraculously) get better, much to the bemusement of Hank's delightfully eccentric parents. In truth, Hank and Muriel really do love each other, and somehow Hank's infidelity and the anguish he feels when he is found out mark a change for both of them, leading to their joint recognition that, to find the happiness that has eluded them thus far, they must seek out the "transcendence" that they know can yet transform and enrich a marriage well worth saving.
There is a cast of 2M and 3W
(That's from the site, dramatists.com. I haven't actually seen or read this play. Let me know your thoughts.)
At Long Last Leo
This is another one I haven't read. Here's what dramatists.com had to say about it:
Leo Beagle has recently completed a 638 page manifesto on harmony for humanity, which he hopes will be the impetus for the next major social movement for the world. Arriving hom ro his family, which includes his depressed mother, philandering father, confused sister, introverted nephew, and a neighbor who has always been in love with him, Leo tries to test his principles on this group. The only problem is...he can't get them to read the manifesto. Leo's visit does, however, bring change to the family. Although Leo's mother accuses him of being "addicted to hope," the play's moving ending suggests that the desire to save the world and the need to dream is born with each new generation.
There is a cast of 2M, 3W, and 1 boy
Email me! Don't just tell me in passing. (I have the worst memory on the face of the earth.)
the only exception i have found is a competition for orriginal one acts.
I've got a yes from Rie Knoll. Is anyone else interested?