Comedy Scenes for 1 Man and 1 Woman
Peter Pan
by J.M. Barrie
Wendy discovers Peter, helps him sew on his shadow then he persuades her to go to Neverland with him. Not a particularly funny scene but categorized here because of it's fantastical nature.
Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music
by Lee Blessing
Catherine is taking a break from the convent to discover life, staying wither her aunt who owns the bar, Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music. She is on the roof of the bar reading and waiting for what she suspects might be a date when she is interrupted by her cousin Jason who is trying to drop a potted plant from the roof onto his stepfather's head. He attempts to flirt with her, which Catherine finds shocking. She ends up slapping him and he ends up crying. Then they can have a real conversation.
Sweet Charity
by Neil Simon
Charity and Oscar, total strangers at the moment, get stuck on an elevator. Oscar panics and Charity calms him down. This is the start of a relationship.
Big Time
by Keith Reddin
Young upwardly-mobile business people. Fran is spending time with Peter while Paul is out of town. She was just proposed to by Peter so she's not very patient with Peter's complaints. The key to this scene is to make it sound natural while Fran accidentally starts talking about Paul.
Away
by Micheale Gow
In Austrailia, Tom and Meg have been performing in A Midsummer Night's Dream all summer. Now the summer is over, Tom presents Meg with a gift and attempts to awkwardly flirt. It's delightfully uncomfortable as he repeatedly says the wrong things. You don't need an Australian accent, but there is some Australian slang that may be unfamiliar. Hint: "I nicked it" means "I stole it." He didn't steal it.
Sure Thing
by David Ives
Betty and Bill meet by chance in a restaurant. Their conversation is continually reset by the use of a ringing bell, starting over when one of them responds negatively to the other. The bell can be rung by a third character or by a sound effects person, or by the Betty and Bill themselves. The script is the complete one act play. You will need to choose which lines you will remove to get it below 6 minutes.
Rumple Shmumple
by Megan Gogerty
In this updated scene from the classic fairy tale, the queen, who must guess Rumplestiltskin's name, instead uses a variety of mind games, reverse psychology and feminist arguments to get Rumple to give up the quest for her child.
Harvey
by Mary Chase
Veda's brother Elwood is best friends with a 6 foot invisible rabbit named Harvey. She goes to a psychiatric hospital to have her brother committed, not because the rabbit isn't real, not because she believes Elwood is crazy, but because she finds the presence of the rabbit very upsetting to her social life. While speaking to Dr. Sanderson, Veda reveals that she believes that Harvey is real as well, causing the doctor to have her committed instead.
Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music
by Lee Blessing
Eve Wilfong, who lives over the "Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music Bar," is paid a visit by her niece Catherine Empanger, a novice nun who's been asked to leave her convent. It seems Catherine suffers from a curious compulsion to yell obscenities at the wrong moment, and even, on occasion, bark like a dog. Roy, an honest if simple fellow from the bar downstairs, wants to court Catherine whether she's a nun or not. Eve feels she should give her niece the benefit of her experiences with men before allowing her to venture back into the mad modern country world. What follows is not simply comic and well-observed, but romantic and affecting as well.
Three scenes from this play are:
1) For two women: Catherine explains her predicament to Eve.
2) For one man one woman: Eve's son Jason walks in on Catherine while she is reading and tries to hit on her, even though she is older than him...and his cousin. The result is less creepy and more pathetic.
3) For one man one woman: Roy convinces Catherine to dance with him.
A Mustache and a Mattress
by Nancy Gail-Clayton
A mustachioed mattress salesman and a potential customer negotiate a sale while flirting in some unusual ways.
Script
A Mustache and a Mattress
by Nancy Gail-Clayton
A mustachioed mattress salesman and a potential customer negotiate a sale while flirting in some unusual ways.