10 Original Scenes from Plays for 3 Actors

10 Original Scenes from Plays for 3 Actors shares published script material that may be used by acting students and drama teachers in class.

Need more 3 person scenes? Another good resource on our site is 3 Person Play Scripts for Actors — you will find a solid collection of scenes for three actors there.

Where can I find scenes for three actors?

Monologue Blogger has loads of play scripts that feature only three characters within the story. The 3-person scripts featured below cover a spectrum of dramatic and comedic pieces that are most suitable for three actors.

The Attic

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Maureen, Mundy, Onya
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: Maureen lets her brother Mundy know that Onya is going to be staying with them.
• Scene Snippet: “Mundy, now you know better than to go around asking questions that don’t concern you. (To Onya.) This here’s Mundy, my brother.” ~Maureen
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Wild Card

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Rebella, Wanda, Gracie
• Duration: 12 Minute Play Script
• Description: Wanda confides in Rebella about her difficult sister Gracie, but Gracie overhears them talking.
• Scene Snippet: “For no reason. Or like she’ll have a reason, but it’s twisted. I took her off the register ’cause it gives her anxiety. She can’t do two things at once. It’s the pills she’s taking –” ~Wanda
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Way Back When

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Neil, Hank, Leonard
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: BNeal arrives at his agent’s office in Hollywood to find out that he’s been pushed out of a role he desperately wants.
• Scene Snippet: “I mean, no one could find you, right, Hank? And I was waiting in the wings, and the opportunity was there, so I took it.” ~Leonard
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Night Flower

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Ben, Eva, Adel
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: Adel gets woken up by her mother and new guy she’s seeing during the middle of the night.
• Scene Snippet: “No, but YES. I’m fine. I have work in four hours. Why the hell are you making so much noise?” ~Adel
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The Dancing Man

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Max, Bree, The Dancing Man
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: Max and Bree are driving across country when they hear a knocking inside their car’s trunk.  They discover a man tied up in rope, whose only desire is to dance.
• Scene Snippet: “And that’s the sound that could have caused this man to forget his f’kn name?” ~Max
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Them Candles

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Darla, Kendra, Sam
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: Darla does not want her daughter Kendra going out because she’s been pushing herself too far in spite of her illness.
• Scene Snippet: “Why did you do this to me, Mom? I’m meeting Sam tonight!” ~Kendra
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A Shade or Two Darker

• Genre: Period Drama
• Characters: Lyndon, Gertrude, Lion
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: A one-act eplay about a family that confronts their own inner weaknesses with one another in the face of society.
• Scene Snippet: “Time…there is no time…we have to go on living, until we run out of time. Loathing about is not what I want to see my son doing.” ~Lyndon
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Even the Color Blue

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Johan, Mother, Father
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: Johan is faced with the need to come out to his parents, but the problem is that his father is ill, which causes a terrible conflict with his mother.
• Scene Snippet: “You’re a pharmacist now? What kind of medicine are we talking? What drugs are we talking about? Those pills you take? You wanna make your father a pill popper like you?” ~Mother
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Tina, Hank, Hank, Tina

• Genre: Comedy
• Characters: Marv, Hank
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: Hank rushes to his brother’s aid when he learns that his life is being threatened, but the circus has only just begun.
• Scene Snippet: “The slightest negative mood sets her off on a whirlwind of sadness and gloom. Takes days to snap her out of it. (to Tina) Tina, baby, how are you?” ~Marv
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Skylar

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Skylar, Lenora, Jerome
• Duration: 10 Minute Play Script
• Description: Skylar has been searching to locate his mother to no avail.  While his friend Jerome has been helping him, Jerome has also found a woman named Lenora that he could be falling in love with.
• Scene Snippet: “He’s got some form of epilepsy…he hasn’t been properly diagnosed, but we think that’s what it is.” ~Jerome
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