11 Short Stories from Theater Play Scripts

11 Short Stories from Theater Play Scripts shares a group of 1-act stage plays about ten minutes in duration.

There are times when you find a story nugget, such as a short story, a monologue, or a one-act play, and it moves you entirely.

Where can I find drama play scripts 10 minutes long?

On Monologue Blogger you will find an enormous archive collection of 10 minute drama scripts that cover a wide range of subject matter and genre. You will find plays that are dramatic, comedic, farce, historical drama, mystery drama, tragedy, fantasy, absurdist and psychological drama pieces.

10 minute plays are a tremendous way to exercise your acting craft and exciting to see performed.

We’ve carefully selected this group of one-act plays to provide you with a versatile range of material to work on. Each play comes with its own monologue.

Read the full monologue to give yourself context on the play script.

To The Lake

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Barb
• Length: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Barb believes that she was a crocodile in a past life because she keeps having dreams of being one.
• Excerpt: “I recall two incidents that are hard to ever forget. One where I ate a man’s arm and another when I got caught in a net, and I was rolling around inside this net, but it would only get tighter and tighter.” ~Barb
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Killing You

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Pete
• Length: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Killer teases and tampers with the mind of someone they have kidnapped and plan on killing.
• Excerpt: “Why?  Why can’t I kill you?  I have no feelings for you whatsoever.  I don’t know you.  We’ve never met.  So strange.” ~Killer
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Extra Garlic

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Mario
• Length: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Mario opens up to a customer about why it matters to him that he cooks the way he cooks in his own kitchen.
• Excerpt: “I’ve lost everything I put my love into, but this, this is different, this kitchen will never leave me. It gives me purpose.” ~Mario
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Paper Ink, Flesh Bone

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Richard
• Length: 1-2 minute monologue
• Description: Luna is recovering from her addictions inside a private care center, but that doesn’t stop her from coming down on the caretaker.
• Excerpt: “Now, in order to survive, we had nothing left, mind you..I turned to Henley Wellington. We struck a deal. His son James is to marry our daughter in exchange for shares in a legitimate business wherein we own seventy percent.” ~Richard
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In the Murk of Night

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Edith
• Length: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Edith explains to her son that she feels she should have taken more risks throughout her life.
• Excerpt: “I’ve wasted my life and any time I’ve ever had on raising you to be cold, rotten, and careless… such as you’ve turned out. I jumped, before I could die; just once, I jumped, and I made it.” ~Edith
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In the Face of the Beast

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Father Lewis
• Length: 1-2 -minute monologue
• Description: Father Lewis casually presents to Willa the path she must take in order to avoid definite danger.
• Excerpt: “It is good to have the spirit in you. I sense that the events that have unfolded could have wounded you in some capacity. I sense that although you are of strong fiber, Willa, there is a shadow of doubt that seems to follow you. That you are walking along a fine edge that may have cracks deeper than you know.” ~Father Lewis
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The Correct Source

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Dillard
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Dillard makes a proposition to Ewen about performing a terrible deed.
• Excerpt: “I know you specialize in death, so I approached you. I saw what you did to Becky years ago; I knew what you did and where you left her body. I followed you and saw the entire episode play out over the course of weeks.” ~Dillard
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Fade To Black

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Gram
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Gram opens up to a friend of his about the difficult relationship he has had with his two sons.
• Excerpt: “Why am I so unfit to be happy? It’s like I have two people living inside this relic of a shell…there’s the man I’d like to be and the man I actually am…I can never aspire enough to be that other guy, but damn it I know he’s in there somewhere cause he won’t let me breathe.” ~Gram
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In the Wake of Smoke

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Daphne
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Daphne talks to Morrison about how trapped she feels and wishes they would do something crazy.
• Excerpt: “Where are the days of us breaking things, throwing things, grabbing each other, bashing it all against the silence?! I hate this place! It makes me sweat. Don’t you get it?” ~Daphne
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Woman with Wings

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Kelton
• Length: 1-2 – minute monologue
• Description: Kelton confesses that his life feels mundane and purposeless.
• Excerpt: “A woman, a very fine woman, a friend I’ve known for quite some time, has changed. The way she talks, the way she walks…not gone, no, not gone, but yet gone…vacant, but existing…eyes of love..lost..anger…fear..yet still possessing kindness. It all pains me so…” ~Kelton
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Nameless Grace

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Colette
• Length: 1-2 – minute monologue
• Description: Colette explains in confidence to Dr. Baum that she has been secretly seeing her former lover.
• Excerpt: “I am beside myself. I am not myself because I don’t wish to be. (Beat) I have seen him… Walter… I’ve been to the garden, where we once loved, to bring comfort to myself by facing myself.” ~Colette
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The Dance

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Chester
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Chester tries to figure out a path forward in order to bond on a deeper level with the woman he loves.
• Excerpt: “You don’t make sense to me, and maybe you never will. (beat) We’ve been dating for just about three months now, and all you’ve done is lead me on. You’re always distracted by something else whenever we go out.” ~Chester
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Midst of Summer

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Mama
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Mama refuses to accept the woman that her son wishes to marry.
• Excerpt: ” Ever since the first day I met her. I knew something wasn’t right with that girl. Sure, you were all smiles and giggles, taken aback by the looks of her.” ~Mama
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Snowdrift

• Genre: Drama
• Character: Trudy
• Length: 1- minute monologue
• Description: Trudy shares a story from her past about how she helped her drunk father up a flight of stairs.
• Excerpt: “I remember him having to put his arm around my shoulders to keep his balance. Each step we took seemed like forever; he kept holding on, never letting me go, and then something happened; it must have been only for a few seconds;” ~Trudy
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Drenched to the Bone

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Miles
• Length: 2- minute monologue
• Description: Miles admits to his ex-girlfriend how much he’s been missing her.
• Excerpt: “So; I was watching you from outside, but that wasn’t enough, I wanted to hear you talk, see you behave, have you look back at me, just so I can feel something again…been hard to feel anything anymore; I’m sorry, I had to tell you the truth.” ~Miles
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Using Drama Monologues and Scenes from 1 Act Plays

1 Act Plays are a powerful way to study your craft as an actor or adapt short works for short films and theater productions.

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