About the Plays:

Some great pieces for scene work or performance.

The acclaimed Samuel French Off Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival in Manhattan (commonly referred to as OOB) is America's leading short play festival. The annual OOB Festival originated in 1975 and has since attracted US and international short plays that may be up to 15 pages in length from countries like Canada, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.

Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 12th Series is a collection of short plays selected by a panel of judges that included New York playwrights, artistic directors, and industry leaders as the most important plays of the 1987 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival. Winning authors include: Jason Milligan, Rick Balian, Paul Parente, and Roderick Nash.

The Prettiest Girl in Lafayette County is a one-act comedy by Jason Milligan: Misty is setting up a display of St. Patrick’s Day cards in her shop in a small town in Mississippi when a young man saunters in to buy a Valentine. Since it is the day after Valentine’s Day, they are half-price. He chooses a card and presents it to the abashed girl. (Cast: 1 female, 1 male)

The Brannock Device is a one-act comedy by Rick Balian. What is the mysterious "Brannock Device" – and what does possessing it mean for He Who Possesses It? This is what two CIA gumshoes are trying to find out. Turns out, the Brannock Device is not a top secret bit of Super Science. This is a hilarious satire of spy movies and CIA bungling. (Cast: 1 female, 4 male)

Two And Twenty is a one-act dramatic comedy by Paul Parente. A poetry-obsessed young man and the woman he lived with for two years and still loves meet after their breakup. They discuss Why It All Had To End. Some scenes take place in the present, while others happen during a happier time when they both were less than two and twenty. (Cast: 1 female, 1 male)

Slivovitz is a one-act drama by Roderick Boyd Nash. At a table in the bar of the Munich airport two expatriates, a young woman from Poland and a man from Latvia, meet. He thinks he knows who she is. He has a bottle of Slivovitz in his camera case and, over drinks, they reveal some of the reasons why both have left their homelands. (Cast: 1 female, 1 male)