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The 30-minute large cast one-act play Robin Hood: Naught in Nottingham 

along with the 20-minute large cast one-act play Cake for the Queen (It says 15 minutes but it's really 20 minutes)

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Hans Offenfrish
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-09-2025 13:57
From: Fred Pinto
Subject: 2 One Acts for Middle School Production

Hello Fellow Thespian Teachers,

I am looking for 2 one acts for a Middle School performance with 18 girls and 4 boys; of course I am open to any gender bending casting.  I just wanted to get input on 2 plays that would work well together rather than random plays.

I hope your year is going well!

Cheers,

Fred

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Mr. Fred Pinto Choir/ Drama/ Musical Theatre Teacher & Director

200 South Elm Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (310) 229-3665 ext. 1102

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Two of the four short plays in this adaptation that I was a part of could work for you and your students:

THE ODYSSEY, OEDIPUS, AND OTHERS or GREEK STORY THEATRE

https://www.playscripts.com/play/1612

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Rosalind Flynn
Head of the M.A. in Theatre Education
Director, The High School Drama Institute
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
drama.cua.edu/graduate/MATE
drama.cua.edu/summer
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-09-2025 13:57
From: Fred Pinto
Subject: 2 One Acts for Middle School Production

Hello Fellow Thespian Teachers,

I am looking for 2 one acts for a Middle School performance with 18 girls and 4 boys; of course I am open to any gender bending casting.  I just wanted to get input on 2 plays that would work well together rather than random plays.

I hope your year is going well!

Cheers,

Fred

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Mr. Fred Pinto Choir/ Drama/ Musical Theatre Teacher & Director

200 South Elm Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (310) 229-3665 ext. 1102

bvms.bhusd.org

"Unleashing Every Learner's Potential"

Follow us at @bvms.bhusd

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MASTERCLASSES by Patrick Greene & THE CAST LIST by Pizzarello & Natale would work well together.

Also HOW (NOT) TO BE A WIZARD and WILL YOU BE MY NEMSIS? is a fun combo.

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Brendan Conheady
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-09-2025 13:57
From: Fred Pinto
Subject: 2 One Acts for Middle School Production

Hello Fellow Thespian Teachers,

I am looking for 2 one acts for a Middle School performance with 18 girls and 4 boys; of course I am open to any gender bending casting.  I just wanted to get input on 2 plays that would work well together rather than random plays.

I hope your year is going well!

Cheers,

Fred

--

Mr. Fred Pinto Choir/ Drama/ Musical Theatre Teacher & Director

200 South Elm Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (310) 229-3665 ext. 1102

bvms.bhusd.org

"Unleashing Every Learner's Potential"

Follow us at @bvms.bhusd

Confidentiality Notice: This email, including any attachments, may contain confidential or legally protected information intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank you for supporting student privacy and school district confidentiality standards.

Not sure if the numbers are what you are looking for, but we did Brief Interviews with Internet Cats and The Internet is Distract--Oh Look a Kitten as a set of One Acts. That was tons of fun. 

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Elneeta Timmons
Teacher
AZ
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-09-2025 13:57
From: Fred Pinto
Subject: 2 One Acts for Middle School Production

Hello Fellow Thespian Teachers,

I am looking for 2 one acts for a Middle School performance with 18 girls and 4 boys; of course I am open to any gender bending casting.  I just wanted to get input on 2 plays that would work well together rather than random plays.

I hope your year is going well!

Cheers,

Fred

--

Mr. Fred Pinto Choir/ Drama/ Musical Theatre Teacher & Director

200 South Elm Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (310) 229-3665 ext. 1102

bvms.bhusd.org

"Unleashing Every Learner's Potential"

Follow us at @bvms.bhusd

Confidentiality Notice: This email, including any attachments, may contain confidential or legally protected information intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank you for supporting student privacy and school district confidentiality standards.

Not one acts, but Theatrefolk has two vignette plays that I enjoyed putting on with middle schoolers, and I could see them working well together. They are both by Lindsay Price - Box and Hoodie.

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Patty Profitt
Napa High School
CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-09-2025 13:57
From: Fred Pinto
Subject: 2 One Acts for Middle School Production

Hello Fellow Thespian Teachers,

I am looking for 2 one acts for a Middle School performance with 18 girls and 4 boys; of course I am open to any gender bending casting.  I just wanted to get input on 2 plays that would work well together rather than random plays.

I hope your year is going well!

Cheers,

Fred

--

Mr. Fred Pinto Choir/ Drama/ Musical Theatre Teacher & Director

200 South Elm Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (310) 229-3665 ext. 1102

bvms.bhusd.org

"Unleashing Every Learner's Potential"

Follow us at @bvms.bhusd

Confidentiality Notice: This email, including any attachments, may contain confidential or legally protected information intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank you for supporting student privacy and school district confidentiality standards.

Hello,

 I thought I responded to this request last week, but I don't see it. There are two one-act musicals available on Teachers Pay Teachers. (They could, conceivably be done without the music, or with abbreviated versions.) Variable gender casting is easily done as long as there are a couple of males available. Each play is about 50 minutes long with music. Without, of course would be much shorter. Recordings are available to incorporate the music. Check out The Frog Prince and The Magic Fish by Jan Callner.  Don't let the names fool you. They are quite sophisticated retellings of the Brothers Grimm tales.

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Jan Callner
CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-16-2025 11:20
From: Patty Profitt
Subject: 2 One Acts for Middle School Production

Not one acts, but Theatrefolk has two vignette plays that I enjoyed putting on with middle schoolers, and I could see them working well together. They are both by Lindsay Price - Box and Hoodie.

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Patty Profitt
Napa High School
CA

Original Message:
Sent: 10-09-2025 13:57
From: Fred Pinto
Subject: 2 One Acts for Middle School Production

Hello Fellow Thespian Teachers,

I am looking for 2 one acts for a Middle School performance with 18 girls and 4 boys; of course I am open to any gender bending casting.  I just wanted to get input on 2 plays that would work well together rather than random plays.

I hope your year is going well!

Cheers,

Fred

--

Mr. Fred Pinto Choir/ Drama/ Musical Theatre Teacher & Director

200 South Elm Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (310) 229-3665 ext. 1102

bvms.bhusd.org

"Unleashing Every Learner's Potential"

Follow us at @bvms.bhusd

Confidentiality Notice: This email, including any attachments, may contain confidential or legally protected information intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank you for supporting student privacy and school district confidentiality standards.

Last year our middle school did two school-themed shows: Miss Nelson is Missing and The Ransom of Elverna Dower. In both plays students deal with difficult teachers, but in very different ways.  In Miss Nelson,  the students are in elementary/middle school; in Elverna Dower, high school.  Both teachers go missing and both shows have surprise endings. The audience loved both shows and the students had fun learning to play a number of very interesting characters.

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Peggy Matanic
Wilbur Wright Middle School Theater Company Director
Munster High School
mjmatanic@munster.us
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-09-2025 13:57
From: Fred Pinto
Subject: 2 One Acts for Middle School Production

Hello Fellow Thespian Teachers,

I am looking for 2 one acts for a Middle School performance with 18 girls and 4 boys; of course I am open to any gender bending casting.  I just wanted to get input on 2 plays that would work well together rather than random plays.

I hope your year is going well!

Cheers,

Fred

--

Mr. Fred Pinto Choir/ Drama/ Musical Theatre Teacher & Director

200 South Elm Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (310) 229-3665 ext. 1102

bvms.bhusd.org

"Unleashing Every Learner's Potential"

Follow us at @bvms.bhusd

Confidentiality Notice: This email, including any attachments, may contain confidential or legally protected information intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank you for supporting student privacy and school district confidentiality standards.