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24 Favorite One Act Plays

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The book was very cool. In fact it was so kooky that I could not put it down. I was able to use it in all of my eighth grade classess. I am a language arts teacher at Turlock Junior High, and it was extremly easy to find a 'cool' play that related to what we were learning at the time. I have been using this book for about 10 years now, and I have never grown old of it. My class this year has recently used it to put on a few short plays for the rest of the school.

I've had this book thrust upon me as a student over the past 7 years in middle and high school from Drama, English and Language teachers. It is a really good book- the plays vary from being abstract and bizarre to being thoughtful and introspective. If you're a student looking for a good quick play, a teacher looking for something to get your students to do, if you're just looking for some quick quirky one act plays- this is it.

Totally worth it!

Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmill provide 24 favorite one act plays by a large variety of playwrights and plays. I know I only have 23 plays right here but I'll revise it later.
Playwright: Play
1.Tennessee Williams 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
2.Lady Gregory Spreading the News
3.Anton Chekhov A Marriage Proposal
4.John Millington Synge In the Shadow of the Glen
5.William Butler Yeats Cathleen ni Houlihan
6.Lord Densay The Jest of Hahalaba
7.Susan Glaspell Trifles
8. Thornton Wilder The Happy Journey
9. A.A. Milne The Ugly Duckling
10.George Kelly The Flattering Word
11.Ring Lardner The Tridget of Greva
12.Eugene O'Neill The Moors of Caribbees
13.George S. Kaufman The Still Alarm
14.Stephen Vincent Benet The Devil and Daniel Webster
15.Jean Girandoux The Apollo of Bellan
16.Arthur Miller A Memory of Two Mondays
17.William Inge Glory in the Flower
18.Sir Noel Coward Hands Across the Sea
19.Dorothy Parker Here We Are
20.Lucille Fletcher Sorry, Wrong Number!
21.Sir Terence Rattigan The Browning Version
22.Oscar Wilde A Florentine Tragedy
23.Mark Connelly The Traveler

This wasn't what I expected. The choice of plays, with a few exceptions, was bland and poor.

I bought this book as a possible choice for a text for a university-level EFL course, but I found the material (with very few, and short, exceptions) to be of little interest and really quite dated.

Cannot find the Table of Contents for this book anywhere! Not here, not on the publisher's site. Just what plays would I find? And how long are they? One-act could be 5 minutes or an hour.

I would order it if I knew what the heck was in it. I'm a HS drama teacher. Can someone use Amazon to send me the TOC?

Thanks.