One-Acts Written for (or Edited for) High Schools 
La Mouche, © 2002 by Stephen Bittrich
3 men, 11 pages long, simple restaurant set--perhaps only a table and chair.
La Mouche takes place in a French restaurant in New York. The jumping point is the old cliché of a man finding a fly in his soup...with some new twists.
On a personal note, I think this may be my strongest one-act.
Brain Sucking, © 1992 by Stephen Bittrich
2 men, 7 pages long (though it plays close to 15 minutes), simple set.
Brain Sucking takes place on a back porch in South Texas. One man recounts his tale of alien abduction, while also relating some rather tasteless recent behavior toward his fiancée.
Brain Sucking was a finalist in the Actor's Theatre of Louisville's "10 Minute Play Contest" in 1994. It was one of the few ten minute plays (out of about 1800 submissions) to be chosen that year to be produced at their Victor Jory Theatre, December, 1994. It was directed by William McNulty with the following cast:
Greeley........Dustin Longstreth
Ed.............Eric Shephard
Brain Sucking was published in the April, 1995 issue of "Dramatics" magazine, a magazine geared toward theatre educators. It was recently expanded into a full-length play, called Home of the Great Pecan.
Cowboy South of Houston - edited for High Schools, © 1995 by Stephen Bittrich. (Revised Draft/Feb 1999)
1 man, 1 woman, 9 pages long, simple set.
Cowboy South of Houston takes place in an avant garde art gallery in Soho (Manhattan). A cowboy tourist wonders into the gallery and gets more than he bargained for when he meets up with a Soho native.
There is a version of Cowboy South of Houston for adult audiences.
The Queue - edited for High Schools, © 1995 by Stephen Bittrich. (Revised Draft/Feb 1999)
2 men, 1 woman (the woman's part is only 2 lines at the end), 10 pages long, simple set.
The Queue takes place in the waiting room of a New York casting director. One obnoxious actor does his best to ruffle his fellow thesbian before the big audition.
There is another version of The Queue geared toward an adult audience.
Corybungus - edited for High Schools, © 1993 by Stephen Bittrich (Revised Draft/Dec 1999)
1 man, 1 actor (man or woman), 7 pages, simple set.
Corybungus is, according to a loony bookstore customer, a word mistakenly excluded from the voluminous Oxford English Dictionary. Chaos ensues when the customer tries to return a supposedly defective "OED." This fast moving skit is a nod to the "Bookshop" sketch done by Monty Python.
There is another version of Corybungus geared toward an adult audience.
Bee - edited for High Schools, © 2005 by Stephen Bittrich (Revised Draft/June 2006)
1 man, 2 women, 11 pages long, simple set--a chair and special lighting.
In the future, a man is called in for questioning when his companion disapears.
There is another version of Bee geared toward an adult audience.
