If you are looking for a one-act play to produce, check out my stage version of Edgar Allan Poe's classic horror, The Tell-Tale Heart ! Based on Poe's frightening short story, this play retains the horror found in his original work. PLAY SPECIFICATIONS: • Title: The Tell-Tale Heart • Author: Bradley Nies • Publisher: Next Stage Press LLC. • Format: Available in physical paperback or digital script download • Retail Price: $10.95 for physical version; $7.95 for digital version • Category/Genre: Horror/Psychological Thriller • Cast Size: 2M 2F (Adding a company of asylum inmates possible) • Running Time: 50-60 minutes (Cutting is permissible) In the New York City Asylum for the Insane in 1843, Eliza Clemm tells the story of how she murdered her father, Edgar Clemm. In doing so, she desperately insists that she is not insane and beseeches the audience to understand her reasons for the crime. As she is repeatedly told by others that the asylum is where she belon...
Written by famed playwright, Eugene O'Neill, More Stately Mansions was an unfinished work that was never supposed to be produce on stage. Even though O'Neill clearly stated in his will that the play was to be destroyed after his death, his widow authorized the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre to turn the work into an producable show that opened on Broadway on Halloween night, 1967. The legend of this play states the production was plagued with difficulties from the beginning due to the angry ghost of O'Neill. The play received mixed reviews, and it remains one of Broadway's most painful plays to sit through. Sources Internet Broadway Database. "More Stately Mansions." 2001-2026. www.ibdb.com. Accessed 22 October 2026. New York Theatre Workshop. "More Stately Mansions." 1997. www.nytw.org. Accessed 22 October 2026. Willis, J. (1968). Theatre World: Season 1967–1968 (Vol. 24). New York: Crown Publishers.
