20 Published Plays with Small Casts

20 Published Plays with Small Casts features handpicked short story narratives that only need two actors to perform on stage.

Explore titles from our Published Plays featuring small casts where we’ve kept things budget friendly for production.

Where can I find published plays with a small cast?

Monologue Blogger is a performing arts resource with a large collection of small cast plays for actors, directors, and drama teachers to work from.

Sometimes you may need a play script with a small cast of characters for acting class study (two-handers) or you are looking to stage a production with a limited budget in a small theater.

Either way, Monologue Blogger has you covered.

Extra Garlic

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Mario, Sorrino
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Mario’s longtime friend visits him at his restaurant during after-hours for a meal, but tries to give Mario instructions on how to make his food.
• Monologue Snippet: “When I see people finish their meal, and they’ve got that feeling of…fulfillment, there’s no greater reward I could ask for. It keeps me going over here, what else I got going for me?” ~Mario
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Faces on the Edge of Spring

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Jeanne, Franco
• Duration: 2-minute monologue
• Description: Jeanne has given way for her belief in her boyfriend that he loves her enough to change his deceitful ways.
• Monologue Snippet: “I want the unknown, yet the faithful. The adventure, yet the safety. Spontaneity, yet certainty. You are none of those things. You are too much of a coward to be a man I can look up to.” ~Jeanne
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I’m Sorry You’re So Beautiful

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Amanda, Jake
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Two up and coming actors playing on Broadway begin seeing one another behind the scenes but things quickly get in the way of their work.
• Monologue Snippet: “All I want to be thinking about is my character, our production and have my focus be entirely on that and now things with you have gotten completely out of hand.” ~Amanda
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Figure of Speech

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Leonard, Gary
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Leonard would love to sell his business to his friend, but his friend isn’t giving him a fair bargain.
• Monologue Snippet: “This is what you do, gettin’ second thoughts about this now…Some days I wonder if it’s all worth it. Why do I kill myself fer it?” ~Gary
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Stranger in the Room

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Andrea, Mother
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Andrea has just transferred to a new private school, but after her first day, she wants to go back home.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’ve never felt anything like it, it was eerie and there was a moment of silence loud enough that you could the hear a bird pecking at the window” ~Andrea
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White-Tailed Spider

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Littia, Brian
• Duration: 1-2 -minute monologue
• Description: Littia approaches the man who has been following her and invites him for his final cup of coffee. 1 woman, 1 man.
• Monologue Snippet: “Shh, shh, don’t try to move. You have already been stung. It’s impossible. The drug has already taken its promised effect. Understand I have made your life surreal.” ~Littia
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Too Late for Barking

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Sal, Frank
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Frank asks his father if he could take over the bar business and his father Sal doesn’t take him seriously.
• Monologue Snippet: “If I knew you’d come full circle I’d a saved a hell of a penny and invested it into my own ideas and been a helluva lot further than where I ended up” ~Sal
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String of False Starts

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Henry, Harry
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Henry has a go at his brother for always being lazy and never taking action.
• Monologue Snippet: “Look at yourself. Look where you are…you happy? Living home with mom with no direction for your own life. No girlfriend, no friends and now you’ve quit the first good job you ever had.” ~Henry
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Even The Color Blue

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Johan, Mother, Father
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• 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.
• Monologue Snippet: “I just want to be accepted for who I truly am, not for who everyone thinks I am.” ~Johan
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Nightfall

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Betsy, Henry
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Betsy makes a decision that causes her what could be the beginning of much grief and regret.
• Monologue Snippet: “He’s honest. That’s his trouble. Doesn’t know when or even how to keep his mouth shut.” ~Betsy
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Manic Situations

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Lula, Sally
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Sally tries to offer another helping hand to her troubled sister Lula. 
• Monologue Snippet: “As if to say that having a baby is my cure to life? I been through this life, backwards and forwards, I’ve drawn circles and swung from vines, I’ve jumped through the air and marched through hurricane clouds…I know…I know what’s out there…expect me to be somebody’s momma?” ~Lula
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Bottom of the Ladder

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Ray, Lex
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Lex and Ray wait at the beach in the blistering heat because they are desperate to sell camera lenses to a stranger for money.
• Monologue Snippet: “I tried to pull him up but I wasn’t strong enough…finally, he gave out, he became lifeless and all I could do was look down at him, until the train reached its destination, hours later…it was, it was the worst thing I’d ever seen.” ~Ray
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Yell, Kick, and Scream

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Gallagher, Orion
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Gallagher and Orion have a meeting to discuss the possibility of working with someone for hire, which segues into touching on philosophy and back again.
• Monologue Snippet: “Scared. I’ve just been so scared lately. I’ve never had such pressure. Go for these walks, long walks, hour walks. Pond, by my house. Same sh’t. Relaxes. Somewhat. The ducks…ya know.” ~Gallagher
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Treat Me Nice

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Corinne, Mother
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Corinne doesn’t get along with her mother.  They live together.  Just the two of them.  They are masters at pushing one another’s buttons.
• Monologue Snippet: “I’m not, you know, some worker that you’ve hired to cook and clean.  I am your daughter.  I don’t feel like I’m your daughter, but I am, I guess.” ~Corinne
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Of Distance Run

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Clark, Pedro
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Clark and Pedro bury their father, but only one of them receive an inheritance.
• Monologue Snippet: “Didn’t he want me to do something? Have some part of him with me…at least give over the truck. He could have—we would have—” ~Clark
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Willy’s Eyes Light Up

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Janet, Mother
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Janet talks with her mother about the difficulty of raising her son as a single mom.
• Monologue Snippet: “Maybe it’s wrong of me to make some stuff up or elaborate on the truth but I think it’s important for a young man his age to see his father in that light…no?” ~Janet
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Before The Light Went Out

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Samuel, Roisin
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Samuel needs to find the courage to emotionally support his family in need, despite coming from a broken home.
• Monologue Snippet: “I needed to tell her before the light went out, but I couldn’t, you see, not for the way we been treated, you see…not for the way we were raised all those years…less than wounded animals” ~Samuel
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The Face of a Great Actress

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Amber, Cody
• Duration: 1-2-minute monologue
• Description: Amber isn’t happy with all the attention her husband Cody gives to their daughter and fears it’s spoiling her.
• Monologue Snippet: “Because you spoil her rotten. She has more stuffed dolls than I’ve ever seen. We could open up a toy store at this point Cody. ” ~Amber
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The Typed Manuscript

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Edwina, Jessica
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Jessica visits recluse writer Edwina Fletcher who has not published a novel in over twenty years but has been continuously writing.
• Monologue Snippet: “I hadn’t the time, nor did I have the courage to humiliate myself as such. Either you’re too naïve or too ambitious. I’m leaning toward naïve, but you did keep on with me for almost a year. That shows some chutzpah, I would think.” ~Edwina
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Hotel Lobby

• Genre: Drama
• Characters: Davide, Carlotta
• Duration: 1-minute monologue
• Description: Davide talks to Carlotta about a previous client he once had that never accepted his trust, or affection.
• Monologue Snippet: “Resistance. I don’t mind a healthy challenge, but if my subject is too resistant, where I feel as though I have to do some convincing, then that’s a sign that she isn’t ready.” ~Davide
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